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Fighting in Gaza Prompts Heated Rallies at Cornell

By MANU RATHORE Sun Senior Writer

As Israelis and Gazans fire missiles at each other in the Middle East, hundreds of Cornellians took to Ho Plaza Monday for dueling demonstrations in support of each side of the conflict, bringing with them flags, chants and barbs of their own.

Emotions ran high as the two groups tried to get the attention of a crowd of bystanders with passionate speeches, huge banners and loud cheers. While members of the Cornell “We are gathering here because Israel Public Affairs C o m mittee we stand for Israel’s right to observed a moment defend itself against terror.” of silence for victims on both sides Emily Schlussel ’13 of the border, Students for Justice in Palestine read out the names and ages of Palestinians — including infants — killed in the missile strikes on the Gaza Strip.

Although SJP alleges that the Cornell University Police Department unfairly forced them to leave Ho Plaza, police maintained that their actions were justified, as the organization “didn’t file a use of University property form” as CIPAC did, according to CUPD Chief Kathy Zoner. “[CIPAC] had rights to the space and they asked [SJP] to move out,” See RALLY page 4

News Sandy Service

A group of more than 50 Cornell students travelled to Queens, N.Y., this weekend to lend a hand in Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. | Page 3

Opinion Conflict in Middle East

In letters to the editor, Jonathan Abraham ’13 and Eli Shaubi ’13 disagree over escalating Israel-Palestinian clashes.

RYAN LANDVATER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Public discourse | Hundreds of members of the Cornell community turn out on Ho Plaza Monday for dueling political demonstrations held by pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian campus groups. The rallies by the opposing sides, held to raise awareness about escalating conflict between Israel and Gaza, grew heated.

Despite Dangers,Students Abroad in Israel Safe

By LAUREN AVERY Sun Staff Writer

Of the two Cornell undergraduate students studying abroad in Israel this semester, one was forced to seek shelter during an air raid last week and the other has been relocated to a city further from the Gaza

Strip, a site that has been the target of Israeli missile strikes. Still, the two students are safe and the University is monitoring the situation, according to Alexis Santi, coordinator of travel safety for Cornell Abroad.

But continued clashes in the region could jeopardize the future of study abroad

Arts Is This Thing On?

Natalia Fallas ’14 deems Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s Sunday night show at Cornell interactive and, at times, off-putting. | Page 8

By CAROLINE FLAX

Sports

Sun Senior Writer

Number One

The Cornell women’s polo team scored a first place win at the Bill Field Invitational at Oxley Sunday. | Page 16

Sports Lucky 13

The Cornell women’s cross country team came home with a 13th place finish at the NCAA championship Saturday. | Page 16

Partly Cloudy HIGH: 50 LOW: 28

See ABROAD page 4

Students Lament Closing Of Suspension, Beebe Bridges During Installation of Nets

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opportunities in Israel, he said.

Santi said that both students are “concerned” about the ongoing conflict and have been following the recent events as they unfold in Israel.

FIONA MODRAK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Thou shalt not pass | The Suspension Bridge, which connects North Campus to Central Campus, will be closed from Nov. 28 to Jan. 2.

When students return from Thanksgiving break, those who live on North Campus will be in for a surprise: Both the Suspension Bridge and the Beebe Lake footbridge will be closed for much of the last week of classes and the entire finals period.

Starting Nov. 28, the Fall Creek Suspension Bridge will be closed for more than a month, until Jan. 2, according to a University special conditions update. The Beebe Lake footbridge will also be closed starting the beginning of

December, according to John Keefe, project manager.

The closures are the result of the the University’s decision to install nets on and under seven campus and city bridges. After years of debate over how best to deter suicides committed off the bridges, the University approved plans in January to replace the black fences that currently act as barriers, with nets.

Construction on the two bridges comes in addition to work on the Beebe Dam foot bridge, which has been closed for repairs since Nov. 12. The See BRIDGES page 5

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Today

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Daybook

1 • Student Creative Writing

By Andrew Boryga Above the casket there’s a television –– a 60-inch flat screen projecting a slideshow of pictures. Tinted baby ones, with Shayla’s hair short and cropped. Graduations, a communion, theme parks with her friends, birthday parties at Skate-Key and McDonalds, Thanksgivings and Christmases. In each one the wide smile that attracted me to her in the first place shines. One I remember well, appears and lingers a moment longer. It was taken the night I met her in front of the Soundview Community Center. She was 18 and wore a lavender crop-top and snug denim capris. There was a party thrown by local high school grads, trying to break in as entrepreneurs.

They hosted weekly parties every summer at community centers in various projects, targeting the inbetween crowd. The 17 year-olds with no fake, the 18 year-olds too scared to go to real clubs and the 20, 21 and sometimes 22 year-old guys looking to prowl.

They’d pass out flyers in crowded high school hallways, grimy train stops and bodegas bedazzled with Camel Light, Budweiser and five-minute quickie phone-sex ads. My boy EJ’s one of them. I deal with him on my errands so he hooks me up whenever he spots me stuck in line. “King, King, my man. What you doing out here with these plebeians? Get inside, find you some lovin’.”

That night, I slunked in and wound my way through faceless low ceaser fades, buzz cuts and afros in long tshirts, and baggy jeans grinding up on colorful blouses and dresses. I caught a glimpse of Shayla in a far corner.

She was short, nicely built and I didn’t know her. But, I knew her friend Tanisha. I leaned and kissed T on the cheek and she got fussy about how I stopped talking to her after graduation. “Graduation was two months ago,” I said, turning to Shayla and smiling, “she gets so worked up doesn’t she?”

“Don’t talk to my friends,” Tanisha snapped.

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Student Creative Writing • 2

The Life of Kings

Today

SING

DAYBOOK

How about you be cordial and introduce us?”

“You can cordially kiss my ass.”

I held Shayla’s hand for too long, taking in her smile and almond eyes. “Did you go to Clinton? Your face isn’t familiar.” T mumbled something about me being a player then crossed her arms. The exchange sent Shayla into a fit of chuckles, and that laugh, after the smile. A rich cadence lingered beneath it, forcing you yourself to smile. “Let him be,” she said to Tanisha, who gave me a look before parting to another sliver of dance floor.

“She’s a nut, huh?” I said, as we watched her leave.

Shayla nodded in approval and said they’d had the same babysitter as kids. I apologized.

“Are you hitting on me? King,” she asked.

“It’s a nickname.”

“It’s childish.”

“It’s not something I call myself.”

“It’s something the ladies call you, right?”

“My last name is Kingsley.” We paused for a moment and I felt charmed by the sassy, direct, kind vibe I got from her. “Do you dance, Shayla?”

“I do.”

“Would you like t––” “I don’t. Not with people I don’t know, King.”

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C.U. Students Give Aid to Sandy Victims in Queens

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By TYLER ALICEA Sun Staff Writer

A group of more than 50 Cornellians went to The Rockaways in Queens, New York, this weekend to volunteer with relief efforts in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy.

After the storm devastated regions along the east coast, Diana Cheung ’13 and Luke DeFisher ’13 decided that they wanted to help people who are rebuilding after the destruction. Over the last few weeks, they helped plan the trip.

After her mom agreed to pay for a charter bus to transport student volunteers from Ithaca to Queens, Cheung contacted various student organizations about the trip — resulting in “random groups of students just coming together,” Cheung said.

While there, volunteers helped remove debris and clear out basements, among other tasks, at about 30 damaged homes.

Luke Nicholson ’14 said he was shocked by the amount of work that remained to be done in the areas most affected by Sandy.

“I couldn’t believe how bad the conditions were,” Nicholson said.

He described one of the basements that he worked in as one of the “worst environments” he had ever been in, and said that at one point, volunteers had to discard the remains of a dead dog that was left behind by its owner.

Many of the areas that were affected included retirement communities, and volunteers told stories about some residents who had injured their backs while cleaning up damage after the storm.

“People that are there are trying to salvage their own stuff, but it’s too much for them,” said Richard Pongvitayapanu ’13, one of the volunteers.

According to volunteer Andrew Degatano ’13, many of the residents are still trying to live their lives and “be as normal as possible.”

However, the storm’s damage has made it difficult for those living in areas where the ocean rose approximately five feet above its normal levels. Some volunteers had to shovel away sand that had built up along the side of one house, according to Nicholson.

Residents in the area also told volunteers that insurance companies had refused to cover some of the cost of the damages, prompting homeowners to pay for the necessary repairs out of pocket, Nicholson said.

“Homeowners really need the volunteers,” Morris McGinn ’15, a student volunteer, said.

Despite the grim conditions, Nicholson said that “everyone maintained a positive

Easy as pie

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Cleaning house | In the Rockaways in Queens, New York, this weekend, Cornell students lend a hand to homeowners whose houses were badly damaged by Hurricane Sandy.

attitude” throughout the trip.

Many of the volunteers agreed that the experience was positive, and some are eager to return to the area to give additional support.

“Volunteering is a reminder that everyone is human,” Degatano said. “No matter who you are or where you come from, we will always need help at some point.”

Although only a handful of students were able to make the trip to The Rockaways, many Cornellians, including members of Dilmun Hill Student-Run Farm, members of the Alpha Zeta fraternity and various professors, helped by lending supplies such as wheelbarrows and shovels for the volunteers to use this weekend.

“I’m really impressed how all the Cornell students helped out. We didn’t have to bring a whole busload down, but there is strength in numbers,” Cheung said.

While they were out of town, volunteers stayed at the Nuestros Niños Child Development preschool in Brooklyn, according to Cheung.

Cheung said she will be returning to The Rockaways this upcoming weekend over break with Cornell alumni, as well as the following weekend with another group of student volunteers.

“I think the greatest thing you can give is your time,” she said. “There is so much to be done.”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com.

Grant Will Fund C.U.Mentor Program $220,000 in federal aid will help minority students earn Ph.D.’s

By NOAH RANKIN

the McNair program directly stimulates the production of knowledge and the vibrancy and resilience of Starting in Spring 2013, Cornell overall intellectual activity in all sorts will use a $220,000 federal grant to of academic fields,” Miller said. “We help minority undergraduate stuall understand our world better dents who aspire to attend graduate when we know it from more angles. school prepare for doctorate proHaving the program on our campus grams. means that Cornell is doing its part The funding comes from the to stretch the boundaries of exposure U.S. Department of Education, and thinking, making everyone's which has given 194 institutions in education richer.” the U.S. and Puerto Rico grants to Smith said he is eager to see how provide students with mentors. initiatives such as the McNair Under the initiative, called the Scholars Program — along with McNair Scholars Program, Cornell other diversity-related efforts — will hopes to mentor about 15 shape the future of educasophomores and 10 juniors “We could easily see quite a few more tion. each year, according to A.T. “Diversity is something Miller, associate vice programs ... start here, grow here.” that is very difficult to provost for academic diverdefine,” Smith said. “I think Ulysses Smith ’13 sity initiatives. something that we underThe program intends to stand is that in an educahelp “low-income individutional institution, it is greatals, first-generation college students dents and faculty mentors — could ly important to have a full range of and individuals with disabilities to be especially effective in aiding ideas … I think we could easily see progress through post-baccalaureate underrepresented students. quite a few more different programs studies,” according to Barbara “It’s difficult a lot of times for like McNair start here, grow here.”

Knuth, vice provost and dean of the underrepresented students to overBy increasing the diversity of stugraduate school. Miller said there are come particular social or structural dents in graduate schools, the proabout 400 students in each class who barriers,” Smith said. “The goal of gram may also lead to a stronger will be the first person in their fami- this program is to start you off dur- presence of underrepresented profesly to attain a bachelor’s degree. ing your undergraduate years so that sors at colleges across the U.S., Knuth said that statistics show you can take these seminars … They Miller said. there is a disproportionately small set you up with faculty advisors, they “The program is meant to build percentage of racial minorities set you up with individuals who are and diversify the pipeline for faculty enrolled in higher education pro- interested in what you want to for the nation,” Miller said. “Cornell grams. is a major source of Ph.D. scholars research. It’s a great start.”

To help combat this trend, the In addition to helping students for the world. Since Cornell has benMcNair Scholars Program gives stu- connect with professors, the McNair efited from receiving graduate students stipends to pursue research program aims to bring a larger scope dents who have been in McNair proover two summers support to con- of diversity into the graduate and grams, it is great for us to produce duct research during Cornell’s acade- doctorate spheres, according to such students.” mic year and funding to cover fees Miller. for graduate school applications, “By bringing in a wider range of campus visits and interviews for life experience and varied perspec- Noah Rankin can be reached at Ph.D. programs, according to Miller. tives to those who pursue Ph.D.’s, nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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RYAN LANDVATER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

In the Statler Food Labs Monday, members of the Hotelies Serving Society bake apple pies to donate to the Salvation Army for Thanksgiving.

Emergency responders were dispatched to handle a gas leak at Schuyler Place between State and Seneca Streets Monday morning after a gas main broke, The Ithaca Journal reported. Ithaca Fire Chief Tom Parsons told The Journal that the main was accidentally severed by digging during construction work in the area.

Public officials and community members gathered at the Hangar Theatre in Ithaca Sunday for a farewell reception for former U.S. Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D), who represented the city in Congress for 20 years before retiring with the end of his term this month.

— Compiled by Rebecca Harris

Ulysses Smith ’13, vice president of diversity and inclusion for the Student Assembly, said the McNair program seems like a “promising” effort to help underrepresented students pursue graduate school.

“The number of minority individuals who obtain Ph.D.’s is much lower than [the rate for the] majority [of] students,” Smith said. “Part of the goal of this program is to increase the number of people who have the opportunity.”

Smith said that the networking aspect of the program — which establishes relationships between stu-

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Pro-Israel, Pro-Palestinian Groups Clash on Middle East RALLY

ing from Israeli occupation.” “[Our goal] right now is to get the University to condemn the Israeli actions in Gaza,” she said. “There was an official complaint filed Koppelman said. “We see no reason why this that [CIPAC] had booked the space and [SJP] institution shouldn’t conform to the ideals of didn’t rent the space. So it’s just matter of who human rights and humanitarianism that other filed for the space.”

American institutions usually do.”

However, according to Emily Koppelman For members of CIPAC, the display brought ’13, treasurer for SJP, CUPD officers harassed together the “Jewish community and pro-Israel SJP protesters and tried to subdue their demon- community” to advocate Israel’s right to defend stration. itself, according to Rebecca Haft ’13, president of “We actually had a couple of police officers Cornell Hillel. come and harass us as we were making our “There have been rockets fired into Israel speech on Ho Plaza with our megaphones. from Gaza for months and years,” she said. “After [They] actually tried to subdue us and move us, escalation, we feel that Israel has the right to which we didn’t do until we decided that we defend itself and no one deserves to live in a comwanted to move,” she said. munity where they are constantly barraged by Koppelman also said she felt like members of rockets.”

CIPAC were trying to subdue the voices of SJP Yet, according to Carl Gelderloos grad, a members during the demonstation.

Palestine supporter, CIPAC’s argument was “a “[CIPAC] tried to get us to be silent us on our little disingenuous,” as it overlooked “underlying own campus,” Koppelman said. structural causes.”

Emily Schlussel ’13, co-president of CIPAC, “Their main point is about the rockets. They said she was disappointed by what she called the will talk about thousands of rockets fired or milUniversity’s late response to CIPAC’s complaint, lions of rockets under Israelis under the range of as police watched for half an hour before evicting these rockets, but they never mention how many SJP protesters. people these rockets have killed,” he said. “Since “I was disappointed with the University for 2004, 26 [Israelis have died]. More Palestinians not upholding their policy [of removing unregis- citizens have been killed, by more than twice that tered groups] number, in the past reserved from week alone.” spaces and other “We support the liberation of Palestine However, congroup’s lack of territories that are occupied by Israel.” stant rocket fire for respect for our the past 11 years by reservation and Emily Koppelman ’13 Gazans has built-up a our event,” she case for Israel’s selfsaid. “Other than defense, according to that, I was glad to see that a lot of people care on Shaubi. campus.”

“I think it is important for us, as Americans, CIPAC held the event, “Display of Solidarity to realize that Israel has had an average of three with Israel,” to defend Israel’s right to self- rockets fired at it every day,” he said. “That’s as defense, Schlussel said. many times as we hear a chimes concert at “Israel has been under fire from rockets from Cornell.”

Hamas-controlled Gaza, which has been targetSchlussel echoed his sentiment. ing Israeli citizens,” she said. “We are gathering “Israel withdrew from Gaza as a statement of here because we stand for Israel’s right to defend peace and has since received a constant fire of itself against terror.” missiles. So instead of creating a thriving state, For 30 minutes, however, CIPAC’s display they went and destroyed all positive infrastrucwas met with an equally vociferous protest from ture and turned it into a launching pad,” she SJP. Tensions rose amid shouts of “Free said. “Hamas is a terrorist group, and they can’t Palestine” and “No more money for Israel’s continue what they are doing.” crimes,” as SJP protested the recent attacks on Koppelman pitched SJP’s cause as a “grassthe Gaza Strip by Israel, according to root [movement] and activism against corporate Koppelman. politics.” She said SJP has garnered over a short “We support the liberation of Palestine terri- period of time from a racially and religiously tories that are being occupied by Israel right diverse group of people at the University. now,” she said. “We know that this occupation is “The base of our support is not a homogeillegal under several international laws, as is this nous community,” she said. “If you saw the current attack on the Gaza Strip, which is being crowd of the pro-Israel demonstration, they are sold as self-defense.” completely homogenous.”

Eli Shaubi ’13, co-president of CIPAC said he The difference in the two events is parallel to was upset that the other side of the protest did the situation of Palestine, Koppelman said. not heed his request for a moment of silence. “[CIPAC] put flags on the Arts Quad. We “I was a little disappointed that [SJP] didn’t don’t have the resources to do that,” she said. “It’s stop for the moment of silence that we had for the same parallel structure, as the Palestinians both Israelis and Palestinians killed and injured. don’t have the resources that they need in the Besides that, I think it is great that both sides had United States or the international community to a chance to express themselves,” he said. put up such a resistance, which is why we have to During the demonstration SJP handed out get involved.” literature, requesting “a statement from the Cornell administration condemning the Israeli assault on Gaza Strip and that Cornell immedi- Manu Rathore can be reached at ately divests its portfolio from companies profit- mrathore@cornellsun.com.

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Univ.: Continued Violence Could Jeopardize Cornell’s Israel Study Abroad Prog.

ABROAD

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We have spoken to them individually and [to] their universities,” Santi said in an email. “Their trips have changed and been adapted due to what is happening in the Middle East.”

The students are studying at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva and Tel Aviv University. According to Santi, the student at BenGurion University was relocated this week to another city as a precaution.

Jeremy Roberts ’14, who is currently studying at Tel Aviv University, said Monday that he heard sirens Thursday evening — almost immediately after he had contacted his parents to assure them that the attacks were occurring nowhere near the city.

“We all sprinted to the shelters …We heard two booms in the distance, and there was a lot of commotion among the students in the dorm area,” Roberts said. “After about 15 minutes, everyone … headed back to their rooms to read Twitter feeds and live updates of news sources, and assure all their friends on Facebook that they were alive and thankful to be so.”

Santi said security has increased on the Tel Aviv University campus and throughout the city of Tel Aviv in response to the recent clashes. The nation’s turbulent history gives it “time-tested experience with preventative measures, security training and bomb shelters,” he said.

For the Cornell students studying abroad, Santi emphasized that safety is a top priority.

“The universities that Cornell students are studying at handle conflict and security better than anyone,” he said. “We also have someone who is highly competent working on the ground there to help our students and to keep communication with everybody.”

Roberts said that he has maintained contact with Cornell and that Cornell Abroad has been supportive throughout the conflict.

“Cornell Abroad has contacted me and let me know that I will be forced to go home only in the most extreme scenario, where it would not be safe or productive to be in Tel Aviv,” he said. “In addition, the Cornell coordinator for students abroad in Israel, Rivka Sillam, has kept in touch with me daily to hear how I’m holding up, provided updates she may have and offered me to stay over for safety.”

Roberts said he intends to remain in Israel until his program ends in January — but noted that he has become more cautious in light of the recent events.

“Though my life has continued on as per usual, there have still been some changes in my mindset,” he said. “I am struck with fear just hearing ambulance sirens … On radio stations, I hear ‘Tzeva Adom’ — Code Red — and know that somewhere, people are running for cover.”

Cornell Abroad is closely monitoring the current situation in Israel, Santi said. He noted that while it is too soon to know how the conflict will develop, continued violence in the region could compromise Cornell students’ ability to travel and study abroad in Israel in the future.

“It is hard to get a good feeling for how things are changing day to day there, so we need to look forward to how we will ensure the safety of our students involved in similar programs in the spring,” he said.

“If the violence continues, and especially if Israeli troops move into Gaza, then I believe that it is safe to say that we would consider revising our policies around student travel to Israel.”

Still, Santi said that five students have already applied to travel to Israel this spring, and that several organizations are planning trips to the region during winter break and spring break.

Santi urged students who are planning on traveling or studying abroad in Israel to be aware of the potential risks and to continue following the situation as it develops.

“We’re concerned, and we want to make sure that if there is any person who is planning on doing solo travel over there or if there are any administrators who have plans to go to Israel, that we can support them,” he said.

Rebecca Harris contributed reporting to this article.

Lauren Avery can be reached at lavery@cornellsun.com.

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Students Delayed by Bridge Closing BRIDGES

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Beebe Dam foot bridge will reopen Thursday, according to the University special conditions updates.

Several students said they are apprehensive about the pedestrian bridges being closed as the end of the semester approaches.

Kimberly Bernstein ’15, who lives near North Campus, said that the Suspension Bridge is a more direct way for her to get to her classes across campus.

“My classes are so far away, [and] it will take an extra 10 minutes from where I live to get to the Engineering Quad,” Bernstein said. “I understand that the nets are important, but it’s really inconvenient.”

George Schnaars ’16, a North Campus resident, added that he feels more cut off from Central Campus.

“Due to the closing of [the Beebe Dam foot bridge], it is harder to get to class because I have to go out of my way and it takes longer,” Schnaars said Still, others said that, although they are inconvenienced by the closures, they understand the importance of the net installations.

Manuela Rios ’16, who said she now has to walk across the Thurston Avenue bridge and around Bailey from her dorm on North Campus rather than take the Beebe Dam foot bridge, dismissed the temporary disruption in her daily commute to class.

“I thought that although taking the [Thurston] bridge was temporarily inconvenient, it was for an important purpose that will ultimately help the campus for longer than its construction annoyed the campus,” Rios said.

Matthew Laks ’15, echoing Rios sentiments, said he believes the nets are in students’ best interest.

“The long term implication of having a means restric-

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tion system in place far outweighs the temporary aggravation caused by construction,” Laks said. “The safety of students should always be the main concern at hand."

Installing the nets is usually a “two-week ordeal,” according to Keefe, who said that most of that time is dedicated to establishing the supporting structures for the nets, rather than installing the nets themselves.

“It’s funny, the mesh systems, they all go down in about a day — it is preparation of the bridges and the support structures that take a majority of the time,” Keefe said.

But for net installation on the Suspension Bridge, which is expected to take about a month, the net structure is more complex, according to Keefe. Of the seven bridges that will soon have nets, the Suspension Bridge is the only one on which the net will wrap around, rather than hang underneath, the bridge. “[That net] is a much different thing. It is basically a sock — we call it a sock — that kind of wraps around the bridge, versus the mesh systems underneath the bridge,” Keefe said.

Even after the pedestrian bridges reopen, the fences will not be taken down until safety systems are installed and tested, Keefe said. These systems, he said, will provide a warning to CUPD in case an individual falls into the nets.

“For safety reasons, each bridge has a set of what we call thermal imaging cameras which focus on the mesh system, and until we get those installed, commissioned, and ensure proper reporting, to CUPD, we cannot take the fences down because its not a complete system,” Keefe said.

Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com.

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Israel, Hamas Trade Fire and Tough Truce Proposals

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel and Gaza’s Hamas rulers traded fire and tough cease-fire proposals Monday, and threatened to escalate their border conflict if diplomacy fails. No deal appeared near.

An Israeli airstrike targeting a Gaza media center killed a senior militant and engulfed the building in flames. The Israeli military said the Islamic Jihad were using space there as a command center.

Gaza fighters fired 95 rockets at southern Israeli cities, nearly one-third of them intercepted by an Israeli missile shield.

A total of 38 Palestinians were killed Monday. Two more Palestinians were killed in airstrikes past midnight, bringing the death toll since the start of Israel’s offensive to 111, including 56 civilians. Some 840 people have been wounded, including 225 children, Gaza heath officials said. Three Israeli civilians have been killed and dozens have been wounded.

Over the weekend, civilian casualties in Gaza rose sharply after Israel began targeting the homes of what it said were suspected militants.

Two such strikes late Monday killed five people — a father and his 4-year-old twin sons in northern Gaza and two people in the south, medics said.

Jamal Daloo, who lost his wife, a son, four grandchildren and five other members of his family in an attack Sunday, sat in quiet mourning Monday next to the ruins of his home, his face streaked with tears.

“The international public opinion witnessed the facts,” he said, speaking as his 16-year-old daughter, Yara, was still missing under the rubble being cleared away by bulldozers. “This does not require my words.”

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Two years ago this month, President David Skorton called on the Cornell community to unite in an effort to make the Cornell Child Care Center “widely recognized as an excellent program, serving with distinction and professionalism the needs of our campus community.” CCCC families, Cornell HR professionals and Bright Horizon’s Ithaca-based staff put much time and effort into meeting that goal.

Their hard work has paid off in several ways. For instance, in May 2011 CCCC received accreditation from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC). This is early education’s highest mark of quality, achieved by less than 8 percent of child care centers nationwide.

While no one model for child care is a perfect fit for everyone, it is clear that CCCC meets a need at Cornell. A series of parent surveys reflect a very high level of satisfaction by CCCC families. We are proud of the quality service the center provides to the faculty, staff and students who entrust their children to its care. We are committed to continually improve the services we offer our community.

Hannah McGough ’15 Elizabeth Sowers ’15 Yasmin Alameddine ’16 Ryan Landvater ’14 Zac Peterson ’14 Rebecca Harris ’14 Liz Camuti ’14 Dani Abada ’14 Zach Zahos ’15 Caroline Flax ’15 Henry Staley ’16

Drowning Out Discourse on Gaza

ON MONDAY, STUDENTS REPRESENTING two very conflicting interests met on Ho Plaza to express their competing views on the current violence raging in Israel and Gaza. What ensued was a sloppy, cacophonous and overwhelmingly frustrating affair that did both sides a disservice.

Students supporting Israel stood in a circle of whirling flags and blue posters. They stood by the Cornell store and spoke through a P.A. system in the direction of Willard Straight Hall. Directly in front of the Israeli students, students supporting the Palestinians stood and spoke through a bullhorn, also in the direction of the Straight. The protesters’ amplified voices mashed against each other and filled the plaza with mostly inaudible garble for the better part of an hour.

For the hour or so the event lasted, barely a moment passed where each side did not simply try to outdo the other when it came to who could be the loudest, angriest and most alienating presence on the plaza. As a result, neither side was heard.

Two groups, fighting over the same small bit of land, arguing over who had the proper permit allowing them to be there, zealotry abounding. Sound familiar?

We are not naive; we understand that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not one that engenders reasoned discourse. However, we implore both sides to stop trying to shout over each other and consider that radicalism does little more than turn observers off to both sides.

We would be shocked if a single student’s mind was changed today.

The students supporting Israel brandished Hillel sanctioned signs reading, “Wherever we stand, we stand with Israel.” The students’ statements, however, made it exceptionally clear that “wherever we stand” really did not mean much more than that they stood in unquestioning support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s military action.

Those signs made clear that the many students who are opposed to the Israeli government’s actions, but are otherwise supporters of Israel and its people, are not welcome in the greater Jewish presence on campus.

Furthermore, the Israeli supporters’ insistence that they stand for “peace,” a constant theme in their chanting, is tenuous at best.

Israel’s stated objective is to halt the rocket attacks Hamas is firing. One would be hard pressed to find a legitimate observer of this conflict who believes that the current violence will yield any such result in the medium or long-term future of the region. As Jeffrey Goldberg, a steadfast supporter of Israel, wrote last week of the conflict with Hamas, “There is no way out of this militarily [for Israel].” Today’s bloodshed will only beget tomorrow’s bloodshed.

However, the Palestinian supporters, while being less unified in their messaging were similarly indulgent in the display of demagoguery.

Students brandished a large banner decrying Zionism, denouncing the very notion of Israel’s right to exist, a sentiment as frustrating and unproductive as any displayed on the other side of the protest.

Hamas is as guilty an actor as any in this conflict. They launch rockets indiscriminately and shelter their fighters in civilian populations. We find little sympathy for those who argue against Israel’s aggression without recognizing the culpability of Hamas in this conflict.

They are a terrorist organization whose missiles force innocent Israelis to spend days upon days tortured by the screams of air raid sirens.

Both sides of Monday’s protest treated Cornell to a display of why the conflict in Israel feels so especially hopeless right now. It would be foolhardy to ask either side to listen to each other; opinions are too hardened for that. But please, as observers who see this conflict in shades of gray, and not black and white, at least let us listen.

Taking time to dissent On any given day, my government sends $8.76 million in military hardware to Israel’s military. So let’s be clear, on most days, as I go about my routine of classes, meetings and research, my support flows without question to support the overwhelming military might of Israel, which uses the same F-16s, M1A1 Abrams tanks, Predator Drones and Naval Guns to defend itself. Just as certainly as I pay for my morning coffee at the cafe, I silently agree as millions are sent to Israel’s defense.

However, when these same weapons are turned on a weak people, dispossessed of their land, forced to burrow in tunnels like rats to get basic necessities, their children given no option to be educated, get jobs and to express their economic and political rights to self determination, when multiple generations from 81-year-old women to children and infants are killed simply because some family member of theirs might be a “militant,” when these bombs from American-made planes are used to destroy news organizations’ buildings to chill their reporting of these events and when one people claims for itself the right to live in peace while denying this right to their neighbors, I dissent.

For one hour, I stood in solidarity with the innocent children, women and men of Gaza. Not with Hamas, but with the innocents who have died. Because my money pays for the instruments of their death, and my president ignores our collective complicity in allowing Israel to use our weapons to kill innocents, I dissent. Because in the time it takes me to drink my morning coffee that I buy for $3.65 at the cafe, my government sends $365,000 to arm Israel. Every day, no questions asked. And, in the one minute it takes to sip my latte, $6,000 is sent to buy Israel bombs. Enough to buy one bomb dropped by an F-16, which can turn three generations into charred flesh called “collateral damage.”

Because every other hour, my silence is tacit agreement with my government’s policy, for at least one hour, I must dissent.

Jonathan Abraham ’13

A call for peace in Israel and Gaza Three rockets a day. That is the average number of rockets that have fallen on Israel from Gaza since 2001. That is the number of times you and I hear a chimes concert at Cornell.

Over the past year alone, 700 rockets have fallen on Israel prior to the November 14 escalation. On November 14, Israel made the difficult decision that “Enough is enough.” The source of the violence needs to be dealt with. Like all countries, Israel has a right to defend itself from incessant attacks. That day, it hit 20 military sites, killing Ahmed Jabari, military chief of Hamas, the internationally-recognized terrorist organization responsible for the rocket attacks.

Of course, collateral damage is inevitable in such a situation and civilians will be hurt, despite Israel’s heavy precautionary measures to minimize civilian casualties. That is painful to see. As a proud Israeli and American who is desperate for peace, I cringe each time I hear of another death. Both sides suffer from the conflict, and I pray for the day that it ends. But every country has a duty to protect its citizens.

Hamas’ stated goal is the annihilation of the Jewish state. In its charter, Hamas rejects all negotiations with Israel, and does not accept Israel’s very existence. Hamas’ rockets are fired aimlessly, targeting civilian populations, with the sole purpose of terrorizing Israeli civilians. Through its actions, Hamas endangers both Israelis and Palestinians. Israelis and Palestinians want peace, and Hamas’ terrorism is counter-productive to supporting the Palestinian people.

In 2007, Hamas staged a military coup, removing the former Palestinian leadership and killing 118 Palestinians, increasing their military presence and eliminating the moderate Palestinian leadership in Gaza. Hamas does not represent the Palestinian people’s aspirations for peace and normal life. As a supporter of peace in the region, I stand

by Israel’s right to defend itself against Hamas rocket fire and call for an end to Hamas’ aggression against Israel. In order to move forward toward peace, military aggression must be renounced.

Yesterday, a group of students stood at Ho Plaza in solidarity with Israel, promoting peace. We unequivocally reject any and all of Hamas’ attempts at sabotaging the peace process by engaging in terror and rejecting all previous agreements between both parties. Israelis have the right to live without rocket attacks, and it is the duty of the Israeli government to ensure that they do so. Similarly, Palestinians in Gaza deserve a more peaceful and free life, and Hamas is failing to provide them with that, through its reckless shelling of civilian populations, rather than accepting the Jewish State and seeking to live alongside it. I pray for the day that both Israelis and Palestinians can enjoy security, freedom and peace in their respective homes.

Eli Shaubi ’13

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Festering Under the Flare-Ups A

s I watched my browser’s Israel-Gaza tab grow bloodier every hour this weekend, I was persuaded to abandon my determined avoidance of breaking stories in these columns. In most cases, the facts tend to be unclear and propaganda machines are running at full speed. Predictions are a fool’s errand. The smallest revelations can undercut 800 words of speculation on the morning after. Gaza is different, and any clumsy ceasefire that Messieurs Morsi and Erdogan may have cobbled together last night changes none of what I have to say. This conflict marks another milestone in the eroding influence of the Palestinian National Authority. It also marks another shift in the status quo ante for any future negotiations, further diminishing any hopes for effective Palestinian self-government.

The tragically bizarre nature of the IsraeliPalestinian conflict is evident from a look at the divergent fortunes of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority just this November.

Hamas might have lost its military commander, Ahmed Jabari, to an Israeli airstrike but it has lost little leverage over the agenda. For those who regard Hamas as unquestionably a terrorist organization and endorse Binyamin Netanyahu’s plans to exact a “heavy price from Hamas and the terrorist organizations,” this is problematic. The death of Jabari did little to cripple Hamas and the bombings of Gaza are doing little to hurt its legitimacy.

Netanyahu is still able to use Hamas’ violence and rocket firing to explain air strikes that kill dozens of innocent Gaza residents. It is still the villainized Hamas that is courted by thirdparty negotiators in Cairo and indirectly, through a hitherto undisclosed Israeli negotiator who flew to talk to the Egyptians on Sunday.

Contrast this with the sinking relevance of Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority, now attracting the ire of West Bank Palestinians frustrated by its inaction over Gaza. Anxious

to not irk Israel, Palestinian Authority policeman are reported by The Guardian as detaining protesters, telling them that “You’re making a problem for the [Palestinian Authority].” No matter the contents of any ceasefire that might be signed, this flare up will produce another assault on the legitimacy of a Palestinian entity willing to constructively engage Tel Aviv. Hamas’ demands to lift Israel’s land and sea blockade on Gaza will be seen as directly championing the cause of 1.7 million exhausted and impoverished Gaza residents. Abbas, meanwhile, will be seen preparing for a bid for “non-member State” status at the United Nations, where the Palestinians have repeatedly been duped and disappointed.

When the dust settles in Gaza, the conflict will take one additional step back to an era of an Arab-Israeli conflict. The conflict in the decades after 1947 was dominated by conflicts between Arab states such as Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq, and the State of Israel.

Only very slowly did custodianship of the movement pass into the hands of Palestinian representatives. Through a combination of demonstrated incompetence by the Arab states in 1967, Egypt’s desire to disengage and sue for separate peace in 1979 and a steady moderation of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s agenda in the 1980s and early 1990s, the PLO gained in international stature. In 1994, Israel signed a Declaration of Principles with the PLO in Oslo, recognizing it as an entity that Tel Aviv could negotiate with.

Since Oslo, however, the tale of the conflict has mainly been one of an increasingly marginalized moderate Palestinian voice.

Israeli policy, including the manner of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Gaza withdrawal in 2004-05, contributed to the emboldening of Hamas and the concomitant weakening of the Palestinian Authority. American actions contributed to the diminishing of Palestinian

concerns in equal measure as well. President Obama’s statements on this week’s violence are indicative. He reiterated Israel’s right to self-defense and claimed that a solution without military escalation would be “preferable.”

I contest neither of those ideas but I do question the perfect conflation of Hamas with Palestinian interests. President Obama took care to mention his talks with regional leaders like President Morsi and Prime Minister

binational state, were buried in the 1960s.

With the Camp David Accords and the subsequent Egypt-Israel peace treaty, any realistic hopes for complete Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza diminished. The Oslo Accords did indeed give the PLO recognition but did not mention Palestinian statehood. Now, with every successive escalation, the focus of international efforts turns to deescalation, a return to that tenuous peace of

Kirat Singh Evaluating the Discontents Erdogan. He seemingly had not engaged in equally detailed talks with Abbas or chose not to mention them.

The issue is not of the Palestinian Authority’s perfection or infallibility (in no way is that Fatah-led body a perfect solution to the conflict). It is an issue of recognizing a plurality of Palestinian voices and taking care to endorse those that have extended olive branches in the past. Instead, Egypt and Turkey will facilitate an Israeli-Hamas peace.

Come November 29, Mr. Abbas will return with another endorsement from the General Assembly, where the Palestinians already enjoy wide support albeit to little avail.

Irrespective of the new contours of this “peace,” Palestinian ambitions of self-governance will take another hit. I choose those words carefully because the status quo generates no plausible scenarios for viable Palestinian statehood. That status quo has evolved to continually restrict options available to the Palestinians. Hopes for a single,

earlier weeks.

That peace, however, is no satisfactory endgame for millions of Palestinians. In Gaza, the ceasefire will involve a return to an economically crippled existence for its residents.

One more statement by a sitting American President offering nearly unqualified support for Israeli retaliation has entered the diplomatic record. Innocent Palestinians remain perfectly equated with those who lob missiles into Israel. A cessation of violence remains desirable; more innocent people do not need to die in Gaza City or in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. This, however, is a plea to negotiators to avoid yet another blow to legitimate Palestinian demands and the factions that make them.

Kirat Singh is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at ksingh@cornellsun.com. Evaluating the Discontents appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

The Promise of Progress For Transgender Acceptance M

y family had a private Thanksgiving dinner in southern Maine today. Every year we each say what we are thankful for before starting dinner. This year I started by saying I was thankful that we are all together, safe and in good spirits. I said I was thankful that Jonas and Nicole are doing well in their new school, a safe and accepting school that is teaching its student body that being transgender does not have to be a big deal.

Kelly was next and she reminded us of

his new school and for the help that we have received from others this past year.

Nicole was the last to speak, which is unusual. She is very outgoing and strong willed. She was thankful for our new home, her new school and all that we had accomplished this past year. She said I am so happy to be able to totally be who I need to be again. I am thankful for all of help that the Gay, Lesbian Advocacy & Defenders (GLAD), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and others around the

Wayne Maines Guest Room the hard work that has been done this past year by our friends, our allies in the GLBT community and the many people that we have never met who provide support for transgender youth.

Our children were born identical twins boys. But today we are raising a wonderful son and a beautiful daughter.

They are 14 years old, ninth graders.

Jonas is somewhat shy and would rather stay out of the limelight. As always he is first to recognize family as the most important thing to be thankful for over the holidays. He very much misses being with family and his friends from his old school. Next he said he was thankful for our new home,

country have done to support transgender people.

As I watched my family pass food around the table I thought how nice it was to no longer watch my children struggle, to no longer worry every moment whether our secret would be discovered and to no longer obsess about their safety at school.

But I also reminded myself to not get too comfortable. Having just participated in Transgender Remembrance Day this past week brought me back to reality.

Transgender Remembrance Day is a day that recognizes all of the transgender people that have been murdered this past year. It is a reality that pushes me to continue to pro-

vide educational opportunities that will help advance transgender rights and transgender protections.

Nicole started advocating for equal rights very early in life. She openly attended school as a transgender girl in the fifth grade. Unfortunately she was quickly identified as someone to fear. The discrimination, harassment and bullying were intolerable. We had to move our children to a new town and a new school to protect their safety. Both had to go stealth, a burden that no person should have to shoulder at such a young age. It was work of a few with opposing views that changed our family forever.

I am a Cornell Alumni, Class of 1985. I often check in to see how Cornell is doing and tonight after dinner I had a few moments to do so. I came across “The Cornell Daily Sun Burning Question: Transgender Sensitivity on Campus.” I was very happy to see the resolution to make all campus bathrooms gender neutral. I was proud that my alma mater was stepping up to the plate. I called Jonas and Nicole away from their video game to join me. They have heard me speak with great pride about my years at Cornell, I thought what a great opportunity to show them why I love this university.

They were busy with their game and did not respond and I am glad that they did not. I was deeply saddened to hear some of the positions taken by the students interviewed and was even more upset by of some the comments that followed. There is still a great deal of work to do.

I also want you to know how proud I am that the Student Assembly is taking

proactive measures to support transgender people. I hope you will continue to move forward with your efforts. Cornell has always been on the forefront of change. The changes you are making will benefit my daughter and her friends as they prepare to follow in your footsteps.

My classroom is my home. Watching the twins grow and listening to my baby tell and show me that she is a girl has transformed me in so many ways. Your community will benefit from the same exposure. If your classmates had a chance to meet Nicole, or to take the time to meet with one of their transgender classmates, they will benefit for the experience.

Soon Nicole and her transgender friends will be stepping on to your campus, demanding equal rights, expecting the same privileges that many of the students in the video now take for granted.

I left Cornell many years ago with a variety of life tools. I am now using these tools to help my children grow. Tools that include enjoying hard work, how to gain knowledge, fighting for what is right to get ahead and of course tradition. Tradition that helps us remain strong during the hard times. My children started to learn about Cornell traditions at an early age and they have faced a number of hard times. They are learning to have a strong voice, to lead and to help change the world.

Wayne Maines graduated from Cornell University in 1985. He may be reached at wayne.maines@maine.edu. Guest Room appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Are We Rec rding?

BY NATALIA FALLAS Sun Staff Writer

Bailey Hall sparkled with camera flashes and red recording lights Sunday night as film and television actor, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, stopped in Ithaca on his “hitRECord On the Road” Tour. The show, sponsored by the Cornell University Program Board, was shrouded in mystery, as most of the audience came not knowing what to expect from the night beyond the “collaborative” aspect. One thing that everyone did know was how much they loved JGL, either from his days on 3rd Rock from the Sun or as the lovable, heartbroken Tom in (500) Days of Summer. But judging by the number of hands that went up when asked, not as many knew about his hitRECord project.

Launched in 2004 with his late brother, Dan, hitRECord.org started as a site where the two shared their own short films and projects. Then, in 2010, they opened the site to the public to collaborate on a plethora of projects that have since become short films, books, exhibitions, etc. Now, with the tour, Gordon-Levitt is taking the online experience of collaboration live. The show is a mix of screenings, discussion, creativity, and, as he later revealed, a prototype for a potential television show.

So, Joe started the night off with a call to arms. He called for everyone to record the show and take pictures from his or her seat to get more than the typical four angles of a television show. He even re-did his entrance so as to make sure that everyone was recording — really? This led to the first topic for discussion, which was the road.

Throughout the show, a topic of discussion would crop up and GordonLevitt would have the audience tweet in their responses. He would pick his favorites (usually three of them) and bring those people on stage to elaborate on their answers. On the subject of the road, the top picks tended to reflect on the road less traveled based on “The Road Not Taken” poem

by Robert Frost and individual aspirations. Other tweetinspired discussion topics included loops and the Occupy movement. For the most part, Cornellians tended to be witty and insightful, even if they were secretly aiming to get on

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stage with the Hollywood star. At the same time, JGL did repeatedly interrupt them, even admitting that he likes to talk about himself. And, boy, did he do so throughout the night.

Whether by mentioning his short stint as a student at Columbia University or his shameless plug for the films he has starred in over the past year, JGL never failed to remind us of who he is.

As for the true interactive element of the night, the audience participated in existing collaborations already on the website. Each segment began with a quick screening of some of the finished collaborations, such as Mademoiselle Noir for the Outsiders project. The film included art, story and music submissions from various artists on the website that was later edited by another. Right after each showing, JGL would take the stage and recruit individuals for a project. The first instance was a music video for the song “Electric Loss” by HitRECord collaborator, Metaphorest. In a Bailey Hall-wide dance-off, he picked some dancers who were talented and some who were simply more animated to get up on stage. He did not, however, have to call out those with bad moves — sorry to that “frat boy” who had to endure the audience’s “OOOOOHHH” in response to his putdown. I do have to commend JGL for trying to grab people from throughout the theater by calling out two dancers from the balcony instead of just those in close proximity to the stage. And nothing could top the dancing panda and duck that joined at the end of the video. We later found out that the panda was added to the rider (a contract listing the stipulations and equipment needed for the show) to make sure CUPB was paying attention. Good job, CUPB! Other collaborative endeavors included acting out one of hitRECord’s Tiny Stories (that did not go as well as JGL had hoped) and singing a loop which called any and all to the stage to join in. The audience was even treated with his less-

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er-known music talents, as he played piano and sang to close the night. Who knew that the actor moonlighted as a singer?

Unfortunately, not everyone could fit on stage and some were turned away. Regardless, the singing loop was impressive (some voices stood out among the rest) and you could still participate from your seat. And then, that was it. He just simply said his goodbyes and was out, pushing through the crowd on stage to get back, presumably, to his trailer.

In general, a night on the road with hitRECord was quite the artistic journey. This may have come as a disappointment to the more reserved — many of whom did not know that they would be called to participate in the show. Others took to the interactive show immediately; the chance to create and be silly with a big name actor is not something that most people can claim.

But while the project itself is unique, albeit ambitious, the actor himself fell flat. His rude or mean quips to certain audience members were unnecessary. He also seemed to think loftily about his project, as though everything that came out of it was so innovative or wonderful. There were a few duds, such as Strawberry Bootlaces which was made infinitely better with Stoner Bootlaces. Both told the same story of a binge on strawberry licorice but the latter from a funnier standpoint of a person extremely high.

His last minute addition of the Occupy movement discussion on its anniversary felt contrived and hypocritical.

First, he is advocating this collaborative, creative movement through a website that the average person would not have the capital to create. And, if you research the website, you will find that the projects, which are eventually mass distributed, go 50/50 on the profit intake — that is 50 percent for the company and the other 50 percent shared evenly among the collaborators, which includes quite a few people. That seems a bit shady for someone advocating on behalf of the 99 percent. Second, although I tend to agree with the 99 percent as a concept rather than a financial tally, celebrities who talk negatively about the one percent always seem backward.

Especially, when that celebrity admits that he does not know enough about the topic. Either way, it was a strange interjection to the evening. So, whether you liked the show, the host, etc., all is on record. That is, if you remembered to hit record.

Natalia Fallas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at nfallas@cornellsun.com.

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Talk Trash & Mellow Out

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JAMES RAINIS Sun Senior Editor

As part of what seems to be a conscious effort by Dan Smalls ’92 to diversify his offerings at Ithaca’s hallowed (or, in the case of Castaways, hollowed out) performance spaces, The Haunt welcomed rap duo Mellowhype and hardcore punk revivalists Trash Talk this past Friday as part of their explicitly named Trash Wang Tour. While the affiliates of infamous hip-hop collective Odd Future are not what you would call an intuitive pairing, their respective styles share some serious similarities: themes of apathy, a sense of rambunctiousness and a preoccupation with violence (sonic, lyrical and otherwise). The crowd was young, hip and, quite evidently, stoned; T-shirts emblazoned with upside-down crosses were common; and one mustachioed audience member insisted on grinding with a blonde girl who may have very well been in high school. Tipper Gore would have been terrified.

To call Trash Talk’s brutal hardcore ‘nostalgic’ would betray the group’s own inventiveness. As evidenced by new album 119, the band’s pummeling attack is economical and filled with starts and stops, giving prospective headbangers whiplash. Prefaced by that Ithaca College rapper who really

needs to let the audience know what his name is, Venue’s sound was bound to shock the venue. When Trash Talk finally took the stage, its initial delivery literally left the audience stunned. It wasn’t until frontman Lee Spielman beckoned for us to “get this shit going” that The Haunt transformed into a maelstrom of flailing limbs. Despite the brevity of its songs, the band was able to maintain its infectious momentum for 45 minutes, leaving fans out of breath and stinking of something mighty fierce. Having attended far too many Ithaca shows devoid of any crowd involvement whatsoever, Trash Talk’s energetic set, along with their propensity for joining the violence in the pit, was a heady reminder of the visceral and physical impact punk music can still elicit.

Even if Trash Talk had not bulldozed the stage mere minutes prior, my expectations for Mellowhype’s set were high. I had seen Hodgy Beats and Left Brain as part of the Odd Future ensemble before, and it remains one of those sets that I recall as if it were yesterday. It was a veritable riot both onstage and off, as life-affirming as it was life-threatening. Still, that last show belonged to Tyler the Creator: leading the chants of “Kill people, burn shit, fuck school!” and stage-diving with a broken foot, he was the ringmaster of Odd Future’s family circus. Hodgy and Left Brain fell to

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the background; would a show with them at the fore fall flat?

As if he knew intrinsically how to answer, Left Brain shattered any doubts the moment he dived into the simmering crowd, which soon erupted into a full-on boil.

While Left Brain mostly played hypeman (on the records he plays a large role in production), Hodgy Beats revealed a range and ability that belayed his supporting roles on Tyler and Earl Sweatshirt’s solo albums. The unhinged, multifaceted rapper many of us were introduced to during his performance of “Sandwitches” alongside Tyler on Fallon proved that he was nobody’s sidekick. Even Left Brain, who may have ceded most of the verses to his comrade, proved himself more-than-capable, offering a baritone substitute for Hodgy’s quick-spit delivery on tracks like “F666 the Police.” While the set ran rather briefly, it was as expected: chaotic, profane and humorous. As the backlash against Odd Future’s alleged sexism dies down, we are able to take them for what they are: a confederacy of damned talented rappers who can put on a show as chaotic as any hardcore outfit. As a wise man once said, they’re rad as fuck.

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

Breaking Down DAVEEN KOH Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

At a disused department store in 2001, workers in blue boiler suits fed trays of impeccably catalogued objects into a colossal shredding machine. The artist Michael Landy looked on, seemingly impassively, as all his possessions — from his father’s sheepskin coat to David Bowie records — were obliterated. Break Down, the title of Landy’s seminal installation, suffices as a theme for the pair of plays the Readers’ Theatre will present this December. The Mercy Seat, playwright Neil Labute’s theatrical response to the 9/11 attacks, tackles inconvenient truths as characters contemplate discarding their former lives and selves. Garbage becomes a running joke in Donald Margulie’s Obie Award-winning work Sight Unseen, which revolves around the obscenities of the contemporary art world.

It can be hard not to look back in anger. Labute, who “specializes in nasty” (as a 2002 New York Times review puts it), concocts an especially venomous tale of a man (Tony Simione) hiding in his mistress’ New York City apartment on September 12, 2001. As Ben’s phone rings unbearably, his boss and mistress Abby (Artistic Director Anne Marie Cummings) urges him to pick up the call, presumably to let his family know that he is safe. But Ben, who narrowly escaped death after detouring from his office at the World Trade Center to see Abby, has a more nefarious plan. He wants to fake his death so that he can painlessly (or so he thinks) leave his family and start a new life with Abby. Of course, things are never quite so simple.

The intensity of the play is both unnerving and disarming. Conversation quickly dissolves into a brutal shouting match as weighty, moral questions take on an almost tangible presence in the small room. Even Abby’s enquiries about cheese (a potent symbol of petty inconveniences) begin to sound treacherous, as the couple

grapples with the disturbing reality of its imminent deed. The two clumsily attempt to quantify their own unease; as Abby questions Ben at a particularly heated moment, “On a scale of one to 10, how does your shitty feel?” Watching the actors, under Bryan VanCampen’s direction, weave together this turbulent exchange is unforgettable, to say the least.

The philosophy of art is not new territory for the Readers’ Theatre; last season’s staging of Yasmina Reza’s Art gleefully dissected art appreciation. But Sight Unseen, directed by Associate Artistic Director Tim Perry, goes further by giving the artist a voice and delving into the integrity of art. Jonathan Waxman (Matt Winberg), superstar artist and Brooklyn-born Jew, is due to open a mid-career retrospective at a prestigious London gallery. He decides to pay a visit to his former lover Patty (Effie Johnson), an archaeologist who resides in a secluded farmhouse with her British husband Nick (Scott Whitham, a landscape architect who teaches at Cornell).

Multi-instrumentalist Nate Marshall’s lively harmonica soothes transitions between otherwise uneasily juxtaposed scenes.

Garbage is, unexpectedly, a central motif. Patty and Nick are overjoyed at their serendipitous discovery of a Roman rubbish dump. Patty radiantly recounts her days of sifting through bags of ancient trash and explains to Jonathan that everything about a culture can be deduced from its trash. This is all very interesting since Nick derides contemporary art as trash.

He refuses to see Jonathan’s paintings as more than badly rendered “pornography.”

Jonathan, of course, vehemently protests.

But his patience is rapidly consumed as Nick’s questions become more pointed: If the work of art fails to move the viewer, is it the fault of the artist or the viewer? Is it wrong or ludicrous to spend thousands on “sight unseen?” As Nick prods more deeply into the contemporary art world, the appreciation of art increasingly looks like a paltry and banal exercise.

Questions of assimilation and foreignness anchor the play. Already shaken by the night’s misadventures, Jonathan is further disoriented by a convoluted interview with a poised German art critic (Siouxsie Easter) who speaks thickly accented but impeccable English (Jonathan repeatedly marvels at her superb command of the language). Their disparate ethnicities accentuate the palpable tension; an irritable Jonathan accuses the critic of anti-Semitism when she labels his work “Jewish,” and the interview falls apart.

In Patty’s memento box is a college-era photograph of the former couple posing playfully at a Halloween party.

Scrutinizing Jonathan’s gaudy costume, Nick hazards somewhat bitter but hilarious guesses, including pimp and jester. The real answer comes as a surprise — a tourist. This revelation recalls Jonathan and Patty’s earlier banter about expatriate life. Patty insists that England is her home, but Jonathan senses something amiss. He observes that Patty has retained her natural accent, and that she has married a man she does not love so that she can stay in England. We are inclined to agree as we glimpse the vivacious, young Patty the day she met Jonathan and modeled for his painting. By the play’s conclusion they are both tourists, foreign to each other.

It was interesting, watching one play in Artistic Director Anne Marie Cummings’ living room and hearing the echoes of another rehearsal from upstairs. I felt like a character in Hitchcock’s Rear Window or

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art collective Mioon’s 2011 video installation Lead Me to Your Door. All around me, there were other dramas unfolding in other rooms, of which I was only dimly aware. We hesitate to recognize the drama in our lives. As an old Okkervil River song suggests, “it’s just a life story, so there’s no climax.” But the monumental is experienced on a human scale, and, too often, we fail to see that.

The Mercy Seat opens on Dec. 7, while Sight Unseen opens on Dec. 8. All performances will be held at The Space, next to Green Star. For details, visit www.thereaderstheatre.com.

Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Knicks Return to Right Formula, Start Strong

NEW YORK (AP) — This is how the New York Knicks used to play, before the franchise tumbled into mediocrity and misery.

The superstar wants to be more than just a scorer. The role players are committed to being good defenders and better teammates. The old guys play the game with an old-school mentality. The coach holds everyone accountable for stopping his man, no matter who he is.

Yes, these Knicks are doing everything it takes to be a contender.

“We’re playing for something, guys,” coach Mike Woodson said. “We’re trying to stay at the top, we’re trying to win our division, and host first round at home.”

The Knicks used to have similar lofty

interim basis last March. He told Carmelo Anthony to come back in better shape, sent Amare Stoudemire out to expand his game, and asked for veteran players to fill the numerous holes that were on the roster.

The Knicks were ridiculed when they assembled the oldest team in NBA history, adding players such as Jason Kidd, Marcus Camby and Kurt Thomas before Woodson lured the 38-year-old Rasheed Wallace out of a two-year retirement. But look around the locker room, Wallace said Sunday following an 88-76 victory over Indiana. Tyson Chandler and Camby have been Defensive Players of the Year, defense has always been Woodson’s specialty and some of the newcomers’ strength, so apparently the Knicks knew what they were doing.

“We’re trying to stay at the top, “It’s just a matter of time before everyone buys into it, and we’re trying to win our division.” once we all do, it’s going to be hellacious,” Wallace said.

Mike Woodson At 7-1, the Knicks are off to their best start since winning goals, but that was long ago. Expectations their first seven games of the 1993-94 seahad fallen so low that when the Knicks son. The 1990s Knicks were beloved in finally won a playoff game last spring, New York, a rugged team built around snapping an NBA-record, 13-game post- Patrick Ewing that worked its way toward season losing streak that lasted more than the top one defensive stop at a time.

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Miami eliminated New York a couple president Donnie Walsh and D’Antoni of nights later, and the Knicks spent the cleaned up the mess, but neither stayed offseason building a team they felt could long enough to finish the job, and compete with the Heat on the court, even D’Antoni and Anthony couldn't make things work last season before the coach if not in the headlines and highlights.

Woodson was given the job full-time resigned.

Anthony seems dedicated to doing after replacing Mike D’Antoni on an

more this season, defending bigger players while sliding into the power forward spot in the injured Stoudemire’s absence, even diving into the second row trying to save a ball he had batted away in a victory over Philadelphia.

“With the team I have, everybody knows I can score the basketball, that’s a no-brainer,” Anthony said. “But for me to be able to go out there and say today I’m going to lead my team, I’m going to defend, I’m going to help out, I’m going to sacrifice something out there on the basketball court, that was my motivation,

especially coming off of last season and the season before last. To approach this season as a new beginning for me. My focus is extremely high right now.”

Woodson’s response to Anthony's defensive light going on?

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“Everybody’s supposed to play defense. I mean it’s not just the star. If you’re committed and you’re all about team, you’re supposed to play defense when you’re out there. Everybody. It’s a team effort.”

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Men’s Squad Falls In Semifinals of Home Invitiational POLO

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arena and was replaced by freshman Devin Cox. Following the delay, Eldredge scored a penalty shot to bring the game to 8-4, and Cox saved several goals in a row, once by chasing down a UVA player and twice by clearing the ball from in front of the goal.

A three-goal spree by the Cavaliers, however, had the Red down 11-4 with two minutes remaining in the second chukker. Unfazed, the Red began to claw its way back.

Eldredge scored another penalty shot, then a backshot from Cox sent the ball to wide-open senior captain Ali Hoffman, who galloped down the field alone to tap in another goal.

Eldredge’s next goal was followed again by Hoffman, whose shot in the final minute from

three-goal lead, its first advantage of the game since the opening minute. A final goal for the Red ended the game with a 2016 victory.

“I expect every game against UVA to be this close,” David Eldredge said. “They’re a very good team, we’re a good team.”

Kailey Eldredge added that because the team was behind so early, this game required a different mentality than the last game against UVA. “You have to focus on not letting the pressure get to you cause you’re down five goals or something,” she said. “I was really glad our team was able to stay calm and work together and make that kind of comeback because that can be really difficult.”

Although the men didn’t reach the finals, they put forth a strong effort during the Invitational. The Red opened the tournament with an easy 28-13 win over Skidmore, a team it had beaten 19-17 in its season opener.

The win sent them into a match-up with Colorado State, one of the top teams in the nation.

Similar to the women’s championship game, the match started slowly for Cornell.

Colorado State jumped out to a five goal lead within the first few minutes, but the Red was able to fight its way back to end the chukker down by just a few goals. The Red then dominated play in the second chukker and ended the half leading the Rams, which junior captain Nik Feldman called “a boost of confidence.”

The back-and-forth contest continued in the third and fourth chukkers, with the Red nearly forcing a tie in the final seconds. In the concluding moments, with Colorado State ahead by one, Cornell was awarded a penalty shot from the Rams’ zone. The shot nearly went in, but the ensuing play was controlled by the Rams, ending the Red’s chances of hammering in an equalizing goal.

Despite the loss, the game gave the Red hope for the national tournament. Colorado State faced defending national champions UVA in the Invitational final but lost in the final ten seconds, a game mirroring the match between the Red and the Rams.

“Between the top three teams, anybody can really win [the national title] this year,” Feldman said. “We’ll all be looking over our shoulders.”

“I was really glad our team was able to stay calm and work together and make that kind of comeback because that can be really difficult.”

Kailey Eldredge behind the half-line dribbled in for two points and wrapped up the half with the Red only trailing 11-9.

“We just didn’t really get our game going at the beginning, we were kind of discombobulated a little bit,” said head coach David Eldredge ’81. “My thought was, we’re just going to keep at it and see what happens … I had never given up on them and they had the ability to come back and they managed to do that. The major turning point was when Ali Hoffman hit the two-pointer — that really kind of gave us a shot of adrenaline and really woke us up and got us going really well.

When that went in, that made it real to the girls that we are in this.”

Despite the momentum from the five-goal spree at the end of the second chukker, the game slowed down considerably in the third chukker as UVA was unable to stay out of foul trouble. The Red tallied several goals off of penalty shots but ended the chukker still down by two.

The Red finally broke the game open in the third chukker behind strong play from Cox. UVA scored in the opening seconds, but Eldredge tapped in the rebound off a shot from Cox to bring the game back to within two. Cornell scored again, then Cox blasted in four straight goals to give Cornell a

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Kellner and Sorna Finish All-American

exceeded her expectations this season.

“Coming into school in right behind her was Kellner in August I knew we were going to 34th (20:12.8), followed by have a strong team,” she said. junior Devin McMahon in “Even knowing that, this team 123rd (20:56.1), junior Emily has exceeded my expectations.

Shearer in 140th (21:03.4), and To blow away the other Ivy the last scorer for the Red was League teams and qualify for freshman Caroline Kellner in the national championships, it was an amazing feeling.”

171st (21:16.1).

Smith, reflecting on the With finishes in the top 40, entire season, was proud that “That’s been my goal the whole his team had competed hard season, and it feels amazing to all season long. “[The season] accomplish.” was great,” he Katie Kellner said. “I don’t think any of us both Kellner and Sorna ran wanted to see it end. It was an well enough for All-American amazing journey. Going to the Honors. Kellner was very national meet as a team really happy to have the honor of fin- demonstrates what a great team ishing the season as an All- they were. They achieved their goals all year. They competed American.

“I was so happy,” she said. hard all season. It was true at “That’s been my goal the whole the national meet, and it was season, and it was such an true all season.” amazing feeling to accomplish that.”

Furthermore, Kellner spoke Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached about how much the team has at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

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Women Earn Victory by Tight Margin on Sunday SQUASH

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out a tight, 5-4, win over rival Stanford on Sunday.

Sophomore No. 1 D a n i e l l e Letourneau defeated Stanford’s Pamela Chua to even the score of the match at four all; the deciding point then fell to freshman Abbey Foster at the No. 3 spot.

Foster was able to withstand the pressure, earning an, 11-7, 11-4, 11-1, decision over Stanford senior Julie Koenig to win the match for the Red. Though there were some nerves in her first official college match, Foster’s plan

to remain levelheaded and focused played a role in her success this weekend.

“I’m glad that it’s over — it was a bit nerve wracking,” she said. “[My strategies were] basically to stay calm and play good squash, which for me means to hit good length shots, make sure all my shots are going where I want them to be.”

Though there were not many negatives to take away from her play in the round robin, Foster mentioned that the three matches showed her how significant the warmup is in relation to

performing well in college squash.

“What I took away from the weekend is that the warm-up is a really important part of getting ready for my matches — I guess everyone’s matches,” Foster said.

“When you get a good warm-up in, you get focused, and you play a lot better.

Both the men and women have a weekend off before they head down to New York City on December 2nd to open the Ivy League season against Columbia.

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Red Falls to Penn And Princeton Teams prepare for what is next

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

On Saturday, the Cornell men and women’s Swimming and Diving team traveled to Sheerr Pool at Penn to continue the Red’s regular season Ivy meets. In a tri-meet against both Penn and Princeton, the Red was unable to solidify a win against either opponent. On the men’s side, the Red was defeated by the Tigers, 211-87, and to the Quakers, 207-93.

On the women’s side, the Red fell short to both teams as well. With a final score of 190-90 against Penn and 18883 against Princeton, the Red looks to bounce back after break and will return with the Ithaca College Invitational in two weeks.

“Even when we realized the score would not turn out in our favor, we still continued to cheer each other on, keeping our heads in the meet,” said sophomore Bethany Douglas. “This perseverance that we showed at Penn will be carried through to Ivies and allow us to get through any opposition we may face.”

According to Douglas, The Red looks to keep momentum moving forward in a positive direction and improve upon this weekend’s times at the next meet in Ithaca.

“We're ready. We swam fast at this meet last year and we plan to step up to the plate again,” she said. “Colgate will be attending this year which is different than last, but we beat them in season last year so hopefully they will help us

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Just keep swimming | Cornell traveled to Philadelpha, Pa. this weekend for a tri-meet against Penn and Princeton. The men’s squad was topped by both, losing to the Quakers, 207-93 and to the Tigers, 211-87.

be motivated but we will still stay on top.”

On the men’s side, although not the results that it had hoped for, the Red did have a strong performance in the diving portion.

“The diving portion of the meet was really where we gathered a lot of points for Cornell, especially against Penn, the team we were specifically competing against,” said senior diver James O’Neil. “Against Penn, Jon Zollo and I got 1st and 2nd on both boards, respectively, putting the team in a nice lead against Penn at the start of the meet.”

According to O’Neil, because it is still so early in the season, the effect of of the team’s intense training has not fully hit yet.

“I think it just might take a little longer before we start

Red Beats Binghamton, Earns Title at New York State Collegiate Wrestling Championship

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Young and fresh | Freshman midfielder Jenna Cantor scored Cornell’s only goal of the day, as the Red fell 5-1 against Princeton this past weekend.

On Friday night, Cornell wrestling breezed past Binghamton at the Friedman Center. The Red won eight out of ten total matches to beat the Bearcats, 30-7.

The dual between the two teams opened with the 125 lbs. weight class where freshman Nahshon Garrett took down Binghamton’s Patrick Hunter and won the matchup with a 14-1 major decision.

Sophomore Bricker Dixon followed for the Red and won with a 6-2 decision, giving the Red three points.

In the 149 lbs. class, junior Ryan Dunphy fell against No. 4 Bearcat Donnie Vinson due to a 10-2 major decision. For 157, freshman Chris Dowdy came out on top against Binghamton’s Joe Chamish

with 4:12 left in riding, winning a 5-0 decision.

One of the day’s highlights came from senior No. 1 three-time NCAA champion Kyle Dake who took on Adam Lepkowski in the 165 lbs. class. To start it off, Dake shot off the whistle with a single leg takedown. He was able to turn Lepkowski for back points and take a 9-0 lead. Lepkowski chose to start the second at neutral and once again Dake shot off right at the whistle and took him down. He racked up two more back points before pinning Lepkowski.

Freshman Duke Pickett also won the 174 bout thanks to a 13-3 major decision. Freshman Craig Scott took on Cody Reed at 184 and narrowly won, 6-4, in a back-and-forth battle. Sophomore Billy George fell to No. 8 Bearcat Nate Schiedel in 6-3 decision. For the heavyweights, senior Stryker Lane won in 4-0 decision.

Cornell then continued a jam-packed weekend as it hosted the New York State Collegiate Wrestling Championships and eventually won the title as a team thanks to four individual champions and 10 place winners for the Red. In his rookie season, Garrett was named the Most Outstanding Wrestler of the Tournament after taking the individual win at 125 lbs. He went 5-0 for the weekend in the tournament and also came out victorious in the Binghamton matchup. This week he was also named the EIWA Co- Wrestler of the Week, sharing the honor with Lehigh’s Joey Napoli at 157 lbs.

Garrett has started the season with a 10-0 record that includes six bonus wins so far. He also won the crown at the Binghamton Open last weekend.

Junior Mike Nevinger, sophomore Jace Bennett and Scott all won their respective weight classes as well in the tournament. Dowdy took second at 157 lbs. as well.

In the B bracket for the tournament, Dunphy, junior Michael Alexander and sophomore Jacob Aiken-Phillips all won their respective weight classes for the Red. Junior Josh Kennedy at 133 lbs. made history with the fastest fall in Cornell history by pinning Yeshiva’s Michael Baruch in 10 seconds. The record was formerly held by Troy Nickerson ’10, who pinned an opponent in 13 seconds on Jan. 17, 2009.

The Red will return on Sunday when the team heads to the Journeymen Northeast Duals where it will face up against Drexel, Oklahoma University and Central Michigan University in Albany.

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to see all the strength work we are doing transition to the pool,” he said. “But once we do, I think we will see a lot more success, closer meets, and more wins for our record.”

After a few disappointing losses, O’Neil feels that the Red now has some extra motivation to improve.

“I think that this loss will make us all work a lot harder to perform better at Ivy Championships,” he said. “Our dual meet record does not have to correlate to how we do at Ivies. We can lose all our dual meets, yet still do great at Ivies. We just need to keep our focus and train harder.”

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

D’Agostino Earns Nomination for Senior CLASS Award On Wednesday Nov. 14, senior defenseman and tri-captain Nick D’Agostino was announced as a nominee for the Senior CLASS Award.

D’Agostino is one of 20 national candidates. To be eligible, the student athlete must be a senior that plays in Division I. Candidates are selected based on their achievements in four areas of excellence — community, classroom, character and competition.

D’Agostino is one of four ECAC players to be nominated for the award this year, along with Harvard’s Danny Biega, RPI’s Nick Bailen and St. Lawrence’s Kyle Flanagan.

D’Agostino — a seventh round pick in the 2008 NHL Draft — has been a crucial piece to the Red defense throughout his years on the hill. He has racked up a number of accomplishments to date: he received the Dan Ratushny Award as a freshman and was named to the ECAC Hockey All-Rookie Team in 2010. Last season, he served as Cornell’s only alternate

captain and posted career-high eight goals, 20 assists and five game-winning goals.

These statistics earned him spots on the AllIvy League Second Team and All-ECAC Hockey Second Team selections.

The Ontario native is also an important piece to the Red’s special team units. Last season he scored six power play-goals and plays on Cornell’s penalty kill. This Red penalty kill has been ranked top-10 in the nation two of the past three years.

D’Agostino has also accomplished a lot off the ice, including strong grades, honor societies, community service and more.

The Red hockey program is not a stranger to the Senior CLASS Award.

D’Agostino joins defenseman Keir Ross ’12, who earned one of five spots as a First Team All-American last year, and forward Colin Greening ’10 who won the award in 2010.

— Compiled by Dani Abada

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CROSS COUNTRY

Red Finishes13th at NCAA Championship

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

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Racing to victory | The women’s cross country team earned a score of 385 points at the NCAA Championships, which led them to 13th place among a field of 31 teams.

SQUASH

Squads Undefeated at Home Over Weekend

By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer

Together, the men’s and women’s squash teams served up a 7-0 weekend at the Cornell Round Robin, each squad staying undefeated on the Red’s home courts. On Friday, the men earned a 6-3 win over the University of Western Ontario, the team’s toughest match of the weekend. The next day, the Red lost only one match to Williams before defeating its opponent, 8-1, and then went on to consecutive 9-0 victories over Hamilton and Stanford.

Senior co-captain Nick Sachvie was 4-0 this weekend at the No. 1 spot, but he was not the only member of the Red to remain undefeated during the tournament.

“Most people were undefeated on the weekend except for a couple, so everyone played pretty well,” said Sachvie. “There were a couple of matches that stood out for us — one of our freshmen [Graham Dietz]

against Western. We already sealed the deal with five wins, but he was down 2-0 in games and came back and won in the fifth to make it 5-3 for us.”

While the Red certainly had a strong weekend, Sachvie noted that the squad still has some work to do as the season progresses.

“All of our hard matches are coming up next semester, so I’m sure the team can get better prepared for those and train a little harder in the off-season,” he said.

Sachvie added that in terms of confidence, the Cornell Round Robin was “definitely a good start for the season, especially the guys who haven’t played that much on the team in the past and the freshmen. It’s good to get some wins under their belt.”

The women were equally as successful as the men this past weekend, earning 9-0 wins over Williams and Hamilton on Saturday before closing See SQUASH page 14

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Make way | Sophomore Danielle Letourneau won a crucial victory over Stanford’s Pamela Chua to even up the score of the team’s match. The Red ended up winning.

After a strong campaign the entire fall, the 2012 season for the women’s cross country team culminated in an invitation to compete for the NCAA Championship in Louisville, Ky. on Saturday for the first time since 2001.

The Red took its talents down south and concluded the season with a 13th place finish in the Nation.

Women’s cross country coach Artie Smith ’96 spoke about the experience of being in that kind of environment.

“It was a great experience for our team,” said Smith. “They were really excited to be there. The environment was awesome. Everyone toes the line at the same time, and you get to run against the top individuals and top teams at the same time.”

Senior co-captain and individual Heps champion Katie Kellner enjoyed being surrounded by such a strong field of competitors.

“It was really neat,” she said. “The

first night when we got there, they had a banquet for all the teams. It was such a great experience being around so many great runners.”

However, when Kellner crossed the finish line, she began to realize that her Cornell cross country career had come to an end.

“It was a weird feeling,” she said.

“This is it, this is the last time that I’m going to run a cross country race in a Cornell uniform. It was the perfect place to be too, and it was the perfect way to finish my cross country career.”

Smith said that the Red was pleased with its performance at the meet.

“We’re not disappointed,” he said.

“We’re happy that we were so competitive.”

At the end of the race, with a score of 385 points, the Red finished 13th in a field of 31 teams. For the second time all year, junior Rachel Sorna was the Red’s top finisher in 32nd place (20:12.0) in the 6K course. Following See X-COUNTRY page 14

POLO

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Riding away with the win | Junior captain Kailey Eldredge tallied up seven goals on Sunday, when the Red defeated UVA.

Women Earn First at Invitational

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Staff Writer

The women’s polo team captured first place and the men also fared well in the Bill Field Invitational held this past week at Oxley Equestrian Center. The women came from behind to eke out the championship win against UVA, while the men missed out on an appearance in the finals after a narrow loss to Colorado State.

Although the tournament began on Wednesday, Cornell didn’t face an opponent until Friday afternoon, when the women’s team stomped on UMass, 28-6.

The Red last faced UMass for its season opener in October, which ended in a 37-1 blowout for Cornell.

Saturday’s match against the University of Kentucky proved to be much closer.

The women defeated the Wildcats by nearly 20 goals in October, but Kentucky was missing one of its starters for that game. This time around, the Red came away with a 20-12 win, buoyed by an eight-goal advantage following the first chukker.

“They were definitely stronger than when we played them earlier in the season,” said junior captain Kailey Eldredge. “I was really glad to have some good competition pushing us.”

The win against Kentucky sent Cornell into the finals, where it faced defending national champions UVA, a team it had beaten in a shootout earlier

in the season.

The championship game started slowly for the Red. After tallying the first goal, the Red fell behind, 3-1, following the Cavaliers’ twopoint shot. Cornell and UVA traded goals until another two-point shot gave the Cavaliers a 6-3 lead after the first chukker.

UVA started strong in the second chukker, scoring two goals within the first minute. The game was halted for several minutes, however, after a nasty collision on the wall sent Cornell starting freshman Anna Winslow and her horse to the ground. Winslow, who suffered several bruises but was otherwise unharmed, managed to walk off the See POLO page 13