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University to Launch Africana Ph.D.Prog.

Degree will be first of its kind in NYS

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

After years of development, the College of Arts and Sciences announced last week that Cornell will offer a Ph.D. program in Africana studies — the first program of its kind in New York State.

The Ph.D. program marks a milestone for Africana studies, which underwent significant restructuring when the University announced in 2010 that the formerly independent Africana Studies and Research Center would be folded into

the College of Arts and Sciences. The announcement was met with immediate backlash from Africana students and faculty, despite the University promising it would increase Africana’s budget by more than 50 percent over five years.

As part of the increased budget, the University has been able to develop and now announce the future launch of its Ph.D. program.

The program, which is projected to enroll 20 to 25 students over five See AFRICANA page 5

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Africana studies at Cornell | The University announced in 2010 that Africana studies, formerly housed in the Africana Studies and Research Center, would be folded into the College of Arts and Sciences.

Students Stage Flash Mob at McDonald’s Cornell Pays Tribute To Nelson Mandela

By MEI XIN LUO Sun Staff Writer

Joining dozens of other fast food locations nationwide, the Cornell Organization for Labor Action held a flash mob at Ithaca’s McDonald’s Thursday, dancing to Aretha Franklin’s “Respect” and demanding that the fast food chain raise its minimum wage to $15 an hour.

The demonstration was just the latest in a series that has called attention to what protesters say are crippling wages in the fast food industry. Groups such as Fast Food Forward and Fight for 15 have gained

momentum in their fight since November 2012, when 200 workers held a one-day strike at more than 20 restaurants in New York City.

Allison Considine ’17, a member of COLA, said she participated in the demonstration because the current wage for fast food workers is “unacceptable.”

Another COLA member, Michael Ferrer ’16, said he felt it was important to show support for fast food workers’ cause in the City of Ithaca.

COLA members collaborated with the Tompkins County Workers’ Center to spread the word about the event. Pete

Meyers, director of the TCWC, said that he was “really happy” with the turnout — noting that there were “quite a few community members here to support the action.”

One group of people was notably missing from the action, however: fast food workers.

“The downside of the event is that there really were no workers involved. As a workers’ center, I think we’re positioned to plow up the ground in terms of getting workers involved with the workers rights hotline,” Meyers said.

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By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Cornellians say antiapartheid icon Nelson Mandela, who died Thursday at the age of 95, has left behind an indelible legacy as a civil rights activist.

Imprisoned for nearly three decades for resisting South Africa’s apartheid system, Mandela is best remembered for dismantling the institutionalized racism that tore his country apart for decades. After being released from jail, he insisted on forgiving those who imprisoned him, setting an example for South Africa that grew to be embodied by the name “Rainbow Nation.”

Elected the country’s first black president in 1994,

Mandela continued to fight for social causes throughout the rest of his life — meeting with celebrities to raise awareness about HIV, developing programs to combat rural poverty and fundraising to help youth attend schools.

South African student Christina Mosalagae law said she was floored when she learned of Mandela’s death.

“When I heard the news, I thought, ‘it’s crazy,’ because there are moments in life when you will always remember — and here I was in my room at Cornell, the furthest possible place away from South Africa,” Mosalagae said.

She added that although she initially wished she were back See MANDELA page 4

ALANA Granted More Funding

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

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Show some R.E.S.P.E.C.T | Students from the Cornell Organization for Labor Action stage a flash mob at the McDonald’s on Triphammer Road as a way to demand that fast food workers receive higher wages.

The African, Latino, Asian, Native American S t u d e n t s Intercultural Programming Board will receive $14,175 more a year in byline funding than previ-

ously recommended by the Student Assembly appropriations committee, the Student Assembly voted on Thursday.

In a 19-3-0 vote, the S.A. approved giving ALANA — which helps fund multicultural organizations — $108,675,

rather than $94,500 a year. While the group had argued that an increase in funding was necessary for it to support its organizations, the appropriations committee initially argued that ALANA See FUNDING page 5

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12:20 - 2 p.m., Kaufmann Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series: Michael G. French ’76, MPS ’78. Philadelphia Wings 1:25 - 2:15 p.m., Alice Statler Audirorium, Statler Hall C.U. Music: Cornell Chorale 8 p.m., Sage Chapel Condom Couture Fashion Show 8 - 10 p.m., Clark Atrium, Physical Sciences Building

News, “International Student Enrollment Soars at Cornell University,” Wednesday Speaking about the growing presence of international students on campus “I think international students make great contributions both in and outside the classroom. They have very strong academic backgrounds and make a great contribution to all of our research endeavors. As globalization continues, our domestic students have to be able to work with people from all over the world.”

Brendan O’Brien, director of the International Students and Scholars Office News, “Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 Reflects on Leadership,” Tuesday Speaking about his experience as the underdog in his 2012 congressional race “I took nothing for granted. To us, this was our guerilla warfare style campaign. There are people throughout history, like Rosa Parks, who are single individuals that were able to make a tremendous difference without being a person in power ... We took up that kind of mentality as well. Because we had to fight that unconventional battle, the one thing we had to do was have more volunteers than anybody.”

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Sports, “Crowning a Champion, Wrestlers Set Sights on NCAAs,” Thursday Speaking about his last season with the 2012 - 13 Cornell wrestling team “The past two years have been very exciting for me personally, finishing with All American honors at the NCAA tournament. I’m really looking forward to going through my last season with this team and hopefully finishing my career on top of the podium at the NCAA tournament in March.”

Annual Town-Gown Awards 9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m., Morrison Hall Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg 9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Level 2B, Kroch Library

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Opinion, “Don’t Make an Exception for ALANA,” Thursday Speaking about the Student Assembly decision to slash ALANA funding “We are trying to fill the void of cultural spaces for our communities on campus ... we are trying to make everyone on this campus feel safe. Our budgets are reflections of the vast realities of our missions. Our operations are necessary to the safety of a large portion of the student body, and to expect us to adhere to the same guidelines that regulate byline-funded groups like the Slope Day Programming Board or Athletics and Physical Education is absurd.”

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Heading to D.C., Mayor of Ithaca Talks Job Growth

Glass ceiling in academia

At summit,high-tech manufacturing discussed

By ANNIE BUI Sun Senior Writer

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Prof. Elsa Murano, nutrition, Texas A&M University speaks about challenges and opportunities for female university leaders in Mann Library Thursday.

C.U.Students Mentor Young‘Buddies’

By LINDSAY CAYNE Sun Staff Writer

Earlier this week, Cornell students said goodbye to students from the Caroline Elementary School who they had mentored throughout the semester — handing out holiday gifts and candy as the students piled out of the buses.

The students are part of Cornell’s chapter of College Mentors for Kids, a national nonprofit organization designed to stress the importance of higher education and cultural awareness to low-income children. During the semester, students from the Caroline Elementary School came to Cornell to participate in educational activities with upperclassmen who acted as their mentors.

The organization was launched at Indiana University in 1996 and has now spread to 23 colleges across four states.

According to Andrew Wald ’16, marketing director for College Mentors for Kids, the Cornell branch of the organization started this year with a $20,000 donation from the Sigma Pi fraternity’s education fund.

After ClubFest, College Mentors for Kids at Cornell received more than 100 applicants. Today, it has 35 mentorbuddy pairs. Some of the activi-

ties this year included a scavenger hunt across campus and a trip to Schoellkopf Field, Wald said.

“Most of them love sports, but to see how they’re played on a university level and to see the size of the stadiums really got them excited,” he said.

One of the main goals of College Mentors for Kids is to provide buddies with the opportunity to interact with older students while on a college campus, according to Steven Forman ’16, general manager for College Mentors for Kids. “[Buddies] are able to hang out and really develop a bond with older people,” Forman said.

The organization also aims to promote higher education among young students, according to Jasmine Khayami ’17, one of the mentors.

“I definitely think we are making a difference for these kids. By buddies coming to the campus and seeing college life, hopefully, they will be more likely to consider higher education as an option for their future,” she said.

“Whether or not they choose higher education in their futures, I think the experience they’ve gained from having a mentor and coming to campus will be something they will remember.”

In addition to helping their buddies, Cornell students also gain “a great leadership opportu-

nity and community service act” from serving as mentors, according to Jacob Laufer ’15, president of Cornell’s College Mentors for Kids.

“It is such a valuable experience on both ends; we end up learning just as much as they learn from us,” Laufer said.

Khayami said she thinks the program is a “rewarding” experience for mentors and buddies.

“Just seeing how excited they are to see their mentors or do whatever activity we have planned proves just how much they love coming here,” she said.

Although Laufer said the program has benefited the Cornell community, he added that there is still room for improvement.

Students hope to work on bettering communication within the organization in future semesters, as well as potentially expanding its efforts, Laufner said.

“The program has potential to be a staple in this community and to expand to other elementary schools,” he said.

Wald echoed Laufer’s sentiment, saying he wants to expand this program because of the benefits to the young buddis who participate.

“We know it can affect more kids,” Wald said.

Lindsay Cayne can be reached at lcayne@cornellsun.com.

Burning Question

Joining mayors from around the country, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 headed to Washington, D.C. earlier this week to attend the “Mayors Manufacturing Summit” at the White House, according to a City of Ithaca press release.

Myrick took to social media Wednesday to announce his departure, tweeting, “I’m headed to the White House tomorrow.

One of 20 mayors invited to a manufacturing summit.”

As part of the trip, Myrick collaborated with other local officials selected from across the country to discuss ways to invigorate high-tech manufacturing in communities like Ithaca. The summit is part of new manufacturing initiatives and collaborations introduced by the White House this week, according to a City of Ithaca press release.

During the summit, mayors engaged in discussion about manufacturing as a central component of President Barack Obama’s Middle Class Jobs Agenda, the press release said. The Obama administration hopes to spark middle class job growth

As part of the trip, Myrick collaborated with other local officials selected from across the country to discuss ways to invigorate high-tech manufacturing in communities like Ithaca. through measures such as “rebuilding American infrastructure,” “strengthening America’s manufacturing communities” and “creating good manufacturing jobs” within the country.

Myrick said in the press release that having the opportunity to present a “community-based agenda for advanced manufacturing” to the President and his team would be valuable.

“This is … important to cities like Ithaca, which is not only an established hub for manufacturing jobs, but also a partner with higher education institutions like Cornell University and Ithaca College, who have made programs like nanotechnology, advanced energy, technology innovation and materials engineering a key part of their educational role in the new economy,” Myrick said.

Myrick also said he was pleased to be part of the group invited by the White House to take on the issues of manufacturing and community revitalization, according to the release.

“I look forward to sharing Ithaca’s ideas with the Obama Administration’s manufacturing and economic policy team,” Myrick said Wednesday.

Department of Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker and Gene Sperling, director of the President’s National Economic Council, were among many top Obama Administration officials and leading private sector manufacturing innovators who were part of the summit, according to the press release.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

Black hole revelations

Now that classes are over and finals are approaching, how are you going to spend your time?

“Watching lots of new TV shows. Who actually studies during study week?”

— TV Junkie ’16 “Cooking gourmet meals, taking yoga classes, folding origami ... anything but study.”

— Senioritis ’14 “How I normally spend my time — not like I went to class to begin with.”

— 2 Kewl 4 Skool ’15 “Counteracting heavy drinking with yoga, meditation and sleep. #nofinals.”

— Life’s Good ’14 “Walter White. I need someone who knocks for my issues.”

— Breaking Bad ’16 –– Compiled by Tyler Alicea

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Prof. Jonathan McKinney, physics, University of Maryland, speaks on the topic of “Radiating Accretion Disks and Relativistic Jets From Rotating Black Holes” in the Space Sciences Building Thursday.

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Cornell Remembers Mandela

resistance. He also refused to accept an offer to be released from prison in 1985, saying, “What freedom am I being offered while the organizain her home country, she soon realized she would tion of the people remains banned?”

That model of resistance, negotiation and not necessarily be at Cornell today had Mandela activism Mandela practiced still inspires people not led South Africa to democracy.

“If we hadn’t grown up in the Rainbow today, Boehme said.

“He advocated for peace, for empowering othNation, I wouldn’t be here. We could have gotten into a civil war, we could have been a com- ers, for equality, for freedom, and he did it in a pletely different South Africa … but one person nonviolent way through an era and regime that stood at the precipice of the moment and said was so violent and oppressive,” Boehme said. “He he would do something different from everyone is a constant reminder of the work we have left to else,” she said. “What integrity — it humbles do — a modern example for people at Cornell and across the world that by doing it the me.”

The feeling of indebtedness is one James Mandela way, change is possible.”

The way Mandela fought Spanjaard ’14, who hails from for democracy is something Port Elizabeth, South Africa, that will cement his legacy in said he relates to. Young “Mandela stands as the years to come, said South Africans “owe a the ideal of what a Selam Gebre ’14, former tremendous amount to president of Black Students Mandela,” he said. working South Africa United.

“We grew up with oppor“Nelson Mandela will tunities we wouldn’t have had, should look like.” always be remembered as a even in small things like the James Spanjaard ’14 man of freedom, love and friendships we have today … unity,” she said. and so I draw a lot of inspiraPresident David Skorton tion from that,” he said.

“Mandela stands as the ideal of what a working joined students in remembering Mandela Thursday, saying he was an icon to “all who value South Africa should look like.”

Even after his death, Mandela will “without a the freedom and dignity of all human beings — doubt be a man whose legacy will forever be a man who left the world in a much better place remembered,” said Simon Boehme ’14, a Truman than he found it.”

“His legacy is one of committed leadership in Scholar who volunteered at the African Leadership Academy in Johannesburg last sum- the most difficult of circumstances, unwavering and courageous opposition to injustice and determer.

Whether it be for the South Africans he mination to forge progress and reconciliation out helped unite or younger generations who barely of the harsh conflicts of the past,” Skorton said in remember the apartheid, Mandela continues to a statement. “On behalf of the entire University serve as a role model for social justice activists, community, I extend our sincere condolences to Mr. Mandela’s family and to the people of South Boehme said.

Although violence routinely erupted on both Africa, whose loss is most profound.” sides of the apartheid movement throughout the 1950s, Mandela initially tried to persuade the Akane Otani can be reached at African National Congress to practice nonviolent managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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should have its budget cut because it had not been fiscally responsible.

In addition to ALANA, the Student Assembly Finance Commission and Big Red Bikes also received increases from lower appropriations’ recommendations, SAFC increasing from $1,190,295 to $1,203,120 and Big Red Bikes increasing from no funding to $13,500. Overall, the 2014-2016 Student Activity Fee will be $3,186,000 — $236 per student — annually, a three percent increase from last cycle’s $3,091,000. The fee will go toward supporting 29 organizations.

Though the vast majority of the assembly voted to approve ALANA’s $94,500 recommended allocation on Nov. 21, most of the members believed that an allocation of $108,675 — which is still a decrease from last cycle’s $118,125 — would be more fair for the organization.

“ALANA’s one of the few organizations that actually attempts to fix the campus climate issues,” said Jevan Hutson ’16, LGBT liaison atlarge for the S.A. “I don’t think there is another organization on campus that can do what ALANA does, and now is not the time to give them less money. It’s important to step back and understand the perspective, weighing objective numbers versus what ALANA actually does on

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years, will have two tracks that students can choose from — “historical, political and social analysis” and “cultural, literary and visual analysis,” which will be studied in context of a specific geographic area the student chooses to concentrate in, according to a University press release.

Africana studies professors are “extremely pleased” with the establishment of the program, according to Prof. Noliwe Rooks, Africana studies, interim director of graduate studies for the ASRC. Rooks said she credits the University and its support in creating the program.

“None of this would have been possible without the faith, good will and support of the administration at Cornell, from the offices of the President, Provost and Dean of the Faculty and the efforts of Graduate School dean and her staff,” Rooks said in an email.

She also said collaboration between faculty in the ASRC were instrumental to the program coming to fruition.

“It’s important to keep in mind that over the five or so years since the faculty in Africana formed a Ph.D. special committee, the faculty in our unit have collectively strategized, planned and worked hard to shepherd the degree through to this conclusion,” she said. “As a result, this is a victory that we all share.”

Currently, there are only 10 doctoral programs in Africana studies in the country, making Cornell’s program an “important contribution to the field,” the University said in a press release.

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

campus.”

However, Geoffrey Block ’14, VP of finance for the S.A. and chair of the appropriations committee, said he thought that the S.A.’s quick discussion over the allocation amendment wrongfully trumped the large amount of time the appropriations committee took to come to its recommended amount.

“I think this was a mistake. I think [the assembly] caved to political pressure,” Block said.

Matthew Henderson ’16, CALS representative and member of the appropriations committee, said he understood the motivation behind amending the recommended allocation. At the same time, he said, he did not think the amendment was necessary for ALANA to function properly in the next funding cycle.

“I think the increase is valid for all of the new communities and all of the groups in the Umbrella Programming Fund, but I really hope it doesn’t go to waste,” Henderson said. “I think they could have done a lot of the new things that they wanted with more efficient spending.”

ALANA Vice President Olivia Obodoagha ’15, however, called the amended allocation a “relief.”

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Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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According to a recent study by the University of California at Berkeley, more than half of fulltime fast food workers who work for 40 hours a week or more do not earn enough to sustain themselves, often having to rely on public assistance programs to cover basic needs.

The study also shows that more than 52 percent of families of front-line fast food workers are enrolled in one or more public assistance programs.

Considine said she hopes the flash mob showed fast food workers that they have strong community support for their cause.

“It’s important to let people working in the fast food industry know that there is a community that stands with them and that a

living wage is a moral wage,” she said.

Ferrer said this was COLA’s first local action for this campaign this year.

“It has been really exciting to see such a great number of groups

“It’s important to let people working in the fast food industry know that there is a community that stands with them and that a living wage is a moral wage.”

Allison Considine ’17 coming out and showing support and winning campaigns,” he said.

Mei Xin Luo can be reached at mluo@cornellsun.com.

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PHOTOGRAPHY BOARD Chris Phare grad Susmit Goyal grad Chrystal Lu grad Oliver Kliewe ’14* Ryan Landvater ’14* Zac Peterson ’14 Dylan Clemens ’14* Kyle Kulas ’14 Andy Johnson ’14 Liz Camuti ’14 Seyoun Kim ’14 Alex Fang ’14 Lisa Gibson ’14 Monique Hall ’14 Lowell George ’14 Enouch Newkirk ’14 Connor Archard ’15*

Kelly Yang ’15* Matt Munsey ’15 Zach Wu ’15 Ivory Wang ’15 Tianze (Peter) Pan ’15 Chritian Karakachian ’15 Jeevan Gyawali ’15 Omari Powell ’15 Xiaoyue (Mandy) Guo ’15 Monica Suh ’15 Bella You ’15 Michell Feldman ’15 Yixin Lu ’15 Alex Hernandex ’15 Jevan Hutson ’16 Michelle Fraling ’16 * Denotes Senior Staff

Melody Stein ’16 Rula Saeed ’16 Blair Sullivan ’16 Yichen Dong ’16 Saurabh Mittal ’16 Sonya Ryu ’16 Mandy Teng ’16 Ovais Tahir ’16 Samantha Briggs ’16 Jessica Jiang ’17 Haewon Hwang ’17 Jessica Jiang ’17 Nikhita Dunov ’17 Alice Pham ’17 Kelly Yu ’17 Rina Kang ’17 Anamaria Toledo ’17

CORRECTIONS A Dec. 4 science article, “Peer Review: Anthony Maers ’13 Challenges Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity,” incorrectly said that Richard Furnas is a University professor. In fact, he is a teaching associate in the mathematics department.

A previous version of a Dec. 5 news article, “Department Chairs Say No Preparation Enough for ‘Demanding’ Role,” misspelled Prof. Mabel Berezin’s name and incorrectly identified Prof. Ross Brann as “Robert” Brann. The errors have been corrected.

An article in a Dec. 5 sports supplement, “Growing a Champion,” incorrectly said Dylan Realbuto will join Cornell’s wrestling team next year. In fact, Realbuto is currently a freshman member of the team, and his younger brother Dylan will be attending Cornell next year. The article also incorrectly said assistant coach Mike Grey is ranked eighth in the country, when in fact, it is his brother Mark Grey who attained that ranking.

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OPINION

HEY, IT’S FRIDAY. WE, THE SUN COLUMNISTS AND EDITORS, HAVE SPENT 2013 MAD AS HELL — SO, FOR OUR LAST ISSUE OF THE SEMESTER GET READY FOR US TO ...

CONTRACTUAL OBLIGATIONS When I go home, literally the only thing I want to do is sit on my couch and watch TV. And yet somehow, this always devolves into long, stressful talks about what I'm doing with the rest of my life with relatives I don't even know. Winter break plan: draw up a contract of “allowed holiday conversation topics.” Don’t talk to anyone until they sign it.

— S.B. WHERE IS THE LOVE? Walmart Black Friday videos are the reason evolution is still just a theory. When did holidays become less about family and friends, and more about buying more stuff that nobody even needs? Where’d the love go?

— R.L. ENOUGH WITH THE QUESTIONS Last kvetch of the semester? I wish. Life is a kvetch. One big kvetch. One ginormous overwhelming K-V-E-T-C-H — M.R.

A FRIENDLY REMINDER Slamming doors, using the over-powered hand dryer and working out in the dorms is not cool at 8 a.m. To those who live around me, please stop these sinister actions next semester. I barely sleep as it is.

— N.R.

TO THE 131ST: Right when I started to enjoy oranges and writing about parking this year, you stopped making me eat oranges and assigning me stories about City parking. What's up with that? (It’s OK though.

You’re all chill.)

— T.A.

Rudy Gerson |

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STAR PUPIL The professor of a class everyone blatantly surfs the interwebs in asked us to print all our notes from

the semester and bring them to class on the last day, which means printing all the lecture slides. Ha. Haha. Good thing that’ll only be 9 cents a page... times about a thousand.

— R.E. ART IMITATES LIFE I can’t believe I’m listening to a girl tell me art can be broken down into evolutionary terms of sexual selection. She believes art’s primary usage is to help attract mates.

The first caveman painted horses not out of awe, but want of a girlfriend.

— D.Z. SUBCONSCIOUS KVETCHING Today, when talking to a columnist, I quoted Spring Breakers to describe the end of my time as an editor at The Sun. While, I’m not sure why exactly this happened, I feel it is indicative of some subconscious low point. Were this low to be brought to the forefront of my mind, it would undoubtedly be kvetch-worthy.

— L.C.

Rooting Around

Eulogy for the Opinion Column

nsert introduction with a hook ’n’ a thesis] The written word is dead. Presently useless, writing no longer has a critical force. Writing, rather than inspiring, immobilizes in its very inception. Today, the written word relegates its content to mere cultural artifact by its very form, only turned over in the classroom, never taken to the streets.

[Insert evidence for the historical changes that have created present conditions] But, this hasn’t always been the case. There was a time, a glorious, romantic and beautiful time when words inspired people to believe in alternatives to the present situation. With the power to galvanize action and oppose the status quo, books were read for more than mere entertainment or intellectual development. Philosophies and theories that governed the world at the time weren’t perceived as irreversible, but as only the temporary opinion of some, not all.

[Insert case example] In 19th century Europe, owning a copy of Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto could get a kid kicked out of his or her home. What book could you own today that would get you kicked out of your house? Scratch that, can you really “own” anything that would be cause for alarm? Perhaps al-Qaeda’s online magazine, Inspire, would do the trick, but I don’t know who’s reading virulent propaganda on how-to terrorism while still living at home.

[Insert evidence for today’s uniqueness] No, today is a bit different. The written word has been killed by modernity’s new communication technology. The Cloud has opened its skies to infinite opinions, drenching books and the written word in a torrential downpour, soaking the pages and wiping away any of their potential authority. The raison d’être of art has always been to envision an alternative to the limitations of the present. And I’m not just talking about the overtly political books of the

Situationist International and their anti-capitalist brand of leftism. Fiction, too, is dead.

[Insert case example] Take Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom for example. A novel that provides a socio-political critique of America’s idolization with the national symbol from which the book’s title is derived. Franzen topples contemporary conceptions of freedom, liberty and the pursuit of happiness with critical force. If any book should stir discomfort and give readers the pause needed to critically react to society, it’s this book.

Yet, Freedom has gotten an Obama stamp of approval and a spot on Oprah’s Book Club, the pinnacle of commercial

We are stuck, stuck in a time of antiquated expression, on the verge of a monumental shift. success and a practical guarantor for a work to dominate any Top 10 Purchased List. How is it that a truly threatening and critical work receives the approval of the system that the work itself is critiquing? That the established institutions endorse such work only typifies the hollowness of its form.

[Expand on the case example to explain a broader phenomenon] Critical work would and should give authorities pause because of the reaction in the populace. But the populace is in a state of inactivity, in which writing inspires no practical threat to the status quo (because its form is dead).

Rather, we invert our gaze and look to the sheer quantity of today’s writing as the perfect indication of a healthy and

thriving democracy, instead of the qualitative variation that makes one idea sensibly better than another. Writing that does not inspire action, only indicates the death of democracy. Writing once furthered the democratic ideal, but now, the actual action necessary to reclaim the democratic process is shut down. And today, physical action is the only way to achieve monumental political shifts.

[Insert commentary on counter-argument] This is not to say politically-inspiring writing doesn’t exist. Quite the opposite — complaints and dissent are, in fact, endless. We hold the infinite freedom to realize our thoughts and energy in the Cloud — the tumbling, tweeting, online networks of our unregulated millennial blogospheres. But we are caged in paralysis from this form of expression. That energy that was once spent having conversations in the public domain, that effort once needed to physically vocalize ideas, those thoughts that required another to realize, now need nothing more than a screen and an internet connection to discharge.

[Conclude the argument] We are conditioned to an endless inundation of information that paralyzes us. So, we are stuck, stuck in a time of antiquated expression, on the verge of a monumental shift. Perhaps video and and mixed media are the next great equalizer. I doubt it. No political change will come from the Internet.

[Insert solution] We need direct action, collective action, public action.

“On what?” you may ask. The better question may be “Why?” We don’t know until we try it.

[Insert contradiction] But, that still begs the even better question, “Why the hell am I even writing this?”

Rudy Gerson is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached a rgerson@cornellsun.com. Rooting Around column runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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The Sun’s Top 10 Films of 2013 Blue Jasmine

Mud In a shocking turn of events, Matthew McConaughey became a legitimate actor this year. Of the several successful films McConaughey starred in, Mud (directed by Jeff Nichols) stands out as a brilliant story of adventure and friendship. Though McConaughey leads with the title role as the rugged, fugitive ex-boyfriend of Reese Witherspoon, the heart of this movie comes from the breakout child actors, Tye Sheridan and Jacob Lofland. When the two best friends find Mud living in secret on an island in the Mississippi River, they help him repair an abandoned boat so that he can escape with the hope of everlasting love. Set in Arkansas, this movie captures both the spirit and struggle of the American South. And its story, reminiscent of Mark Twain’s, is action-packed, realistic and romantic — all at once.

Nebraska has yet to open in Cinemapolis, or really anywhere outside New York or L.A. But for us few coastal elites who caught this film over break, we knew this funny, multi-layered portrait of Middle America belongs on any list of the year’s top movies. Ditching George Clooney for Bruce Dern, Hawaii for Interstate 25 and color for black-and-white, director Alexander Payne still manages to emerge with a film as beautiful as anything he has ever made. The story of a senile old man (Dern) who rides with his crestfallen son (Will Forte) to claim a million dollars from a baloney sweepstakes has little in the ways of action and packs precisely one punch, no more. In lieu of quick cuts and spectacle, Payne and screenwriter Bob Nelson offer us a minute look at life, with its many disappointments and many more reasons to keep on living. Nebraska ends on an uplifting note, guaranteeing many return visits down the road.

Short Term 12 Few films this year felt as alive as Short Term 12. First-time writer-director Destin Daniel Cretton debuts with a feature filled with fresh air, and takes a painfully sincere look at the horror and the joy of hurtling through adulthood. As chief caretaker Grace, Brie Larson is a revelation to watch.

Equally as good are John Gallagher Jr. and the two lead teenagers, Kaitlyn Denver and Keith Stanfield. Short Term 12 reinvents what a coming-of-age story and a rehab movie can be by scrapping all traditional tropes in favor of something else: a genuine connection between troubled teens and the troubled twenty-somethings who care for them, that is ardently and unapologetically human.

Frances Ha When Woody Allen’s Manhattan was released in 1979, audiences were impressed by its freshness, by how true the film’s language was similar to the young, cosmopolitan lingo heard around the namesake island. In 2013, we have Frances Ha, written by Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig as a document of the language of today’s talkative New York City apartment dwellers. Frances Ha could better be named Brooklyn, the Millennial response to Generation X’s Manhattan. However much the film is attune to current trends and sub-cultural tropes, it also engages film buffs for its retroactive references (albeit retroactivity is a contemporary sub-cultural fashion), including Leo Carax’s Bad Blood, David Bowie and T. Rex on the soundtrack, music from French New Wave classics. They would be proud of what they inspired here.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

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While Blue Jasmine was promoted as yet another quirky Woody Allen comedy, and the popularity of Allen’s two previous films, To Rome with Love and Midnight in Paris, drew large crowds to see his it, the film told a different sort of tale than audiences expected. For one, rather than a neurotic, Allen stand-in for a protagonist, Cate Blanchett plays a woman on the brink of collapse. The result is a tragic, but also highly amusing, film that focuses on a particularly dysfunctional family in the context of our nation’s economic collapse. Besides Blanchett’s stellar performance, Alec Baldwin, Sally Hawkins, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Skarsgard and Louis C.K. all contribute tremendously to the film’s success.

12 Years a Slave 12 Years a Slave was unrelenting. By that, I mean that it is both incredibly powerful and without any real moments of true relief or satisfaction (and in this way the narrative of the film mirrors its subject matter). 12 Years is a heartbreaking film that tells the story of how fragile a life of a black man was in America. I can’t imagine this is a film I would rewatch many times due to its unrelenting sadness and scenes of physical and psychological torture, but it is an important film to see as it offers a pretty accurate, grim picture of what a slave’s life was like without the usual “Hollywood” edge. Chiwitel Ejiofor plays Solomon Northrup and connects on profoundly with the film’s audience. He embodies the complexities of his character as someone who must grapple with two identities — a free man and newly captured slave.

Nebraska

Before Midnight Oh, my heart. The Greek Pelopennese seems like an unnecessary expense when your movie covers the possible dissolution of a couple’s marriage.

Like, really, you can do that in Philly or Miami, maybe. Under the direction of Richard Linklater, Before Midnight shows us the pretty and the mundane of classical Europe, as our lovers, played by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy (who both wrote the script with Linklater), stroll down cobble streets, talking all the while. There’s little more than talking to be had here, but it’s introspective and at times devastating back-and-forth, instantly relatable while just a little better phrased than the drivel you or I get away with. As the third in a trilogy spanning 18 years of story and real time, Before Midnight achieves something cinema has never seen before: To capture, in bite size portions, the pleasures and pains saddled with long-term relationships. You'll love it, or you and I have some talking (and walking) to do.

Fruitvale Station Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival, Fruitvale Station, directed by Ryan Coogler, is a raw and striking portrait of the life and death of a young black man in Oakland. The film’s real resonance lies in its relevance — a unique trait in an age of superhero movies and period pieces. Released not long after the acquittal of George Zimmerman, this film has had a profound effect. It not only strikes the attention and sympathy of its undoubtedly enthralled audience, but also provides commentary on the public perception of an often-hidden dark side of modern day America. This was a small, modest production that turned heads in a major way.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, starring Jennifer Lawrence, is a must see. Things seem to have changed in the Districts of Panem since the last film, when both Katniss and Peeta emerged victors of the Hunger Games. The people, now inspired by Katniss’ insubordination to the Capital, start performing civil acts of disobedience and violence. This second film is a perfect balance of fast-pace action, romance and suspense, making the almost two and a half hours go by very quickly. Catching Fire is undeniably better than the first Hunger Games film, and some could even argue that this film deserves a higher place on this list.

Gravity Alfonso Cuaron’s first film since Children of Men immerses you so thoroughly in outer space that for all 90 minutes of Gravity, you will find yourself gasping for air. Breathtaking is the word to describe this movie’s camerawork, which inspires a Spielberg-like sense of awe. Revolutionary technology was put to use in its filming to suspend Sandra Bullock in the vast empty plain above the Earth, with audience in tow, as her metaphorical strife, being cut off from the world, threatened to drag her to her death.

Working with masterful cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki, Cuaron achieves a look that makes for a one-of-a-kind theater going experience. We want to survive just as much as astronaut Ryan Stone in the pitch-black darkness, and her struggle is empowering.

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Sun Spotlights: Danny Bernstein ’14

COURTESY OF DANNY BERNSTEIN

In honor of the premiere of Company Saturday at the Schwartz, The Sun spoke to the play’s director and biggest fan

BY ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Breaking into the theatre industry is a frightening prospect for almost every collegeaged actor and dramatic writer hoping to enter the game — but not for Danny Bernstein ’14.

At least, not anymore. A senior music major, Bernstein has lost most of his inhibitions about going into “show business,” though it has taken him a while to do so. When Bernstein first entered Cornell he was a double major in music and psychology — psychology being his safety net and intended major — but he has since dropped psychology … twice.

Now, after some reassurances from the right people, he is moving at full speed toward his dream: writing musicals for Broadway.

At first glance, Danny is small, maybe 5’5”, dark haired and automatically friendly. He has a self-conscious air about him, speaking just a bit too quickly and emphatically, but after we talked for a few minutes it was clear that Bernstein is far from timid — he has no reason to be. During his three-and-a-half years at Cornell, Danny has directed a play every year, even as a freshman; won the HeermansMcCalmon playwriting competition two years in a row; and played piano for a slew of impressive theater actors and actresses. He is also having his original, full-length musical produced at the Schwartz Center next semester. Those I’ve spoken to at Cornell only sing his praises (no pun intended) and the

Schwartz center set aside the Flex Theatre, for his upcoming show. Oh, and he is a prodigy on the piano.

All of these things put together could make for an ego the size of Les Miserables, but Danny handles his talent humbly, for the most part.

Whenever I mention his talent he confirms it shyly and politely — he gets the praise a lot.

Even though Bernstein has shed most of his fear about going into the biz, he understands what a gamble it is. However, as he says, he “has a plan” for his future.

When Bernstein first entered Cornell he was a double major in music and psychology — psychology being his safety net and intended major — but he has since dropped psychology … twice.

Bernstein began the first of his estimated 10,000 hours on the piano at age three, when he first crawled over to the family instrument.

“I’m one of those kids,” he laughed.

After witnessing their toddler’s inherent interest to the piano, his family realized that they would have to start giving him lessons.

Yet it wasn’t until he stopped taking lessons and started practicing for 10 to 20 hours a week on average after that, developing his talent by playing songs by ear.

After a while, Bernstein could hear a song a few times and “understand it,” he said. As he explained, he did so it without sheet music or aids: “I hate [sheet music]; it makes me sad,” he said dejectedly over our table at CTB. This is probably because has never really needed it, though he has been working to get better at sight reading in more recent years. The skill has definitely come in handy. Once when he was sitting in on a master class in New York, Donna Vivino (Young Cosette in the original production of Les Miserables, and Elphaba standby for Wicked on Broadway at the time) forgot her sheet music and the accompanist wasn’t able to play for her without it.

Bernstein, who had heard the song she was planning to sing many times before, however, hardly needed sheet music, and had no problem playing for Ms. Vivino. He took over on the piano for the song and had one of his more memorable brushed with a Broadway star when she introduced herself to him afterwards and said he was great. Suffice it to say that Bernstein is an anomaly, both among his peers and the music and PMA departments. In fact, entering the game ahead of the curve has left some Cornell professors a little unsure what to do with him — the student who is somehow always doing well without really having to try.

Fun fact: Bernstein isn’t the only musician in his family. His great-grandfather was the writer behind the popular children’s song “I Scream You Scream” and an inductee to the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

After pushing him a bit to tell me more about his piano playing, I jokingly made a

(very original) Rain Man reference to which he responded, “I always tell people that and they’re like, ‘wow you’re impressive,’ or like, ‘Do you have Aspergers or something?’ and it’s like, I can be good at something without having something wrong with me!”

He gets the question less at Cornell than he did in his home town, but it is still frustrating for him to deal with — not that he spends much time thinking about it. Right now Bernstein is spending his mental energy thinking about his musical, Far From Canterbury, which he wrote himself and is currently helping cast. Once this project is finished, he will start preparing for his hopefully-not-too-starving-artist years.

As reassured as Bernstein is about going into theater, it is clear that he is not the norm.

Life seems to come to him as simply as music — he can observe and replicate success with relative ease. That not-just-lucky streak will likely be what makes the difference between being a “Pianist for Hire” or writer of the next off-Broadway upstart.

Arielle Cruz is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

Dallas Buyers Club : The Drugs Are Free MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Since he starred in The Lincoln Lawyer almost three years ago, Matthew McConaughey has reinvigorated his career in a totally unforeseen and shockingly effective way. Once known for spewing lifeless romantic comedies like Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Fools Gold and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, the 44-year-old actor has lately made a new name for himself and reinvented how he is perceived within the Hollywood community.

He’s also changed the way many moviegoers feel about him, including me. You’ve got to hand it to him; in the past three years alone he’s taken on enough interesting roles to satisfy a top-notch character actor for a decade.

He was a riot as a determined county prosecutor in Richard Linklater’s Bernie, made Jeff Nichols’ Mud one of the best films of the past summer and stole the show alongside Channing Tatum in Steven Soderbergh’s Magic Mike. In my favorite performance of his recent revival, he gave southern genteel charm and swinging-dick menace to the titular character in Killer Joe. As a crooked lawman and part time assassin with zero empathy, he carried both the satire of Tracy Letts and the kinetic energy of William Friedkin brilliantly. From then on, I was convinced he was a worthy choice to lead the cast of Christopher Nolan’s upcoming sci-fi epic Interstellar. Alas, he had yet to deliver his finest performance.

That came in the form of a homophobic AIDS victim in ’80s Texas who hatches a scheme to sneak unapproved drugs across the U.S. border, where they are distributed secretly in “buyers clubs.” As Ron Woodruff, McConaughey finally has the role that could get him an Oscar. His character is temperamental and wildly reckless when it comes to sex — yet displays a prickly affection for the homosexuals he comes to work with. Director

Jean-Marc Vallee’s frank handling of every scene in days to live. “Ain’t noththe film helps evoke a character arc that veers not ing out there can kill toward sentimentality, but toward a genuine Ron Woodruff in 30 change of heart. Woodruff is ideal material for days,” says a hysterically McConaughey, who lends him his effortless Texan pissed-off Ron, as he swagger and compliments it with his most flounces past the doctor nuanced, complex work yet. (In fact, and embarks on a way McConaughey shed 50 pounds to play the gaunt to treat himself.

HIV victim — dedication, check). It’s a rich and FDA-approved sometimes highly amusing transformation to watch in Woodruff, and one that earns every ounce of its emotional heft.

Dallas Buyers Club The second foremost character in the Directed by Jean-Marc Vellée movie is Rayon, a transgender woman played in another Oscar-worthy turn by Starring Matthew Jared Leto. When the operation of sneakMcConaughey ing HIV medication into the States begins, Raydon first becomes a begrudging Woodruff’s best customer and then becomes his closest ally and business associate in the managing of the buyers club.

Leto, who has not appeared in a film in six years AZT almost kills Ron, and after getting wind that and is perhaps better known as the frontman of doctors down in Mexico have something else, he Thirty Seconds to Mars, deserves props just for takes a trip south of the border to stock up. taking a transgender part as his rebound role. He Dressed like a priest with a trunk packed to the is believable, lovable and authentic in a tricky and brim with the new, unapproved but more effective potentially controversial part. Those of you who drugs, he returns to Texas and forms the Dallas have seen Requiem for a Dream or Mr. Nobody Buyers Club. Membership is $400 a month — know that Leto picks work in unusually distinc- and the drugs are free. The incensed FDA does tive films; here, he gives us his best yet. everything it can to try to shut the club down, but Rounding out the main cast is Jennifer it appears nobody can do that to Ron Woodruff.

Garner, who plays a doctor who becomes It is a kick and a thrill — and emotionally affectWoodruff’s good friend and sympathizer in his ing in the best possible way — to watch Ron get quest to acquire and disseminate effective drugs to over his homophobia as he learns to get along with HIV patients. The romantic scenes between the HIV patients who are the lifeblood of his busiGarner and McConaughey, who played her love ness. A boozing, gun-toting hick like him isn’t interest in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, are exorbi- used to embracing the homosexual or the transtantly more textured than the ones in that film — gender, but that’s exactly what he comes to do. and more honest by a country mile. Garner’s Dr. That his arc feels so natural is a credit to the Eve Saks first diagnoses Woodruff with HIV assured and sincere direction of Canadian filmbefore her boss Dr. Sevard (Denis O’Hare) tells maker Jean-Marc Vallee. He makes us care deeply him his blood platelets are shot and he has 30 about Woodruff, who outlived the doctor’s diag-

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nosis by seven years before dying in 1992.

Likewise, we care equally about the unlikely best friend who finally gets him to loosen up. There is not a mawkish touch in any shot of this movie; Vallee has wisely decided to let the characters and their actions speak for themselves. The scenery of the film is also unmistakably Texan; having such a clear backdrop serves the story well. Most of all, Vallee has a talent for finding the humor and the levity within an overwhelmingly sad, painful scenario. Alexander Payne and David O. Russell are among the other directors who have a knack for this. Even as we watch the movie knowing these characters are AIDS victims and are all but certain to die, we are always kept tremendously entertained by their ride.

This year has given us precious few movies that are simple on the surface but contain a great deal of humanity underneath. This special breed of film doesn’t shout its messages in your ear. It simply shows you their story and invites you to have an emotional response. When one comes across a film as funny, honest and mature as Dallas Buyers Club, it is nothing but a welcome surprise.

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

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Prepares for Last Home Game of 2013

By NIKITA DUBNOV Sun Staff Writer

While most Cornellians were enjoying Thanksgiving with their families at home, the men’s basketball team was on the road fighting for its first victory of the season. The Red took a trip to visit the Broncos of Western Michigan and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame.

Both contests were marked by close games at the half.

However, the Red was unable to stay competitive in the second periods of both games. This led to two more losses on the Red’s record.

Cornell did take some positives from the games. The Red had some major performances that may give hope for the team going forward. Most notably, senior guard Nolan Cressler once again proved to be the Red’s most consistent and efficient scorer, as he led the team with 27 points against Western Michigan and 17 against Notre Dame. Additionally, freshman guard Robert Hatter secured his second Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor after posting impressive stat lines that showed his versatility and wellroundedness on the court in both games.

Next up on the Red’s schedule is a Saturday afternoon home game against St. Francis at 4 p.m. The Red Flash will come to

Newman Arena with a 1-7 record. Out of all the chances the Red has had to overturn its season with a victory, Saturday’s matchup presents the most opportunity for success.

The Red will be coming off a six-day break from play, while St. Francis will be playing its second game in two days. The extra rest and practice that Cornell has had over the past week will certainly add cohesion to the Red’s game plan. Additionally, St. Francis is currently on a six-game losing streak. Although Cornell has yet to win a game, the Red has faced elite teams from around the region and beyond. On the flipside, St. Francis has been losing in blowout fashion to average teams so far this season.

The Red’s play in recent contests does not truly reflect its winless record. The team has played great basketball in the first half throughout the season. Recurring second half breakdowns on defense and a reliance on the three-point shot later in games has led to the team’s struggles. However, it seems as if an individual player is able to step up and make a big statement in every game.

Saturday’s game will also be the last one the Red plays at home in 2013. A loss would lead to Cornell’s first 0-10 record in over 100 years. The players are trying to make sure that the team can end the year at Newman on a high note.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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Heating up | Freshman guard Robert Hatter secured his second Ivy League Rookie of the Week honor.

Full Week of Rest Fuels Icers Beardless Ellsbury Betrays Players deal with additional challenge of finals week M. HOCKEY

“In reality it shouldn’t change it at all,” Bardreau said. “But I think guys are going to be that much more antsy to get out think we’re going to need to pay attention there and give it everything they’ve got for to detail, follow our systems to a point, 60 minutes instead of having to play two and I think if we do that we’ll come out games, so hopefully we bring a little more on top.” and can get a quick start and have a full 60 Recent schedule quirks will give the this time.”

Red a much-needed week of rest and The men’s icers have their minds on preparation. Schafer’s team is coming off more than just the Raiders, however. With of a stretch of three games in five days — finals week quickly approaching, Schafer bookended by an earlier four game road emphasized a need to adjust practice strattrip and last week’s trip to the Garden. egy as players become more “mentally This weekend, however, the Red will not spent” heading into mid-December. For be playing on Friday night, leaving the the players, the balancing act can be diffiteam more time to get cult but rewarding. ready for Colgate.

“I came to Cornell “You prepare for “I think guys are going to because I know hockey one team — you don’t be that much more antsy to doesn’t go on forever. have to worry about Academics are a big two,” Schafer said. “So get out there and give it part of why I’m here,” that makes it that everything they’ve got for Bardreau said. “So I much easier for the 60 minutes.” think it’s something coaching staff — we you’ve got to pay a lot don’t have to break Cole Bardreau of attention to. But at down two teams going the same time I think into the weekend.” it’s not something you The additional time off could heighten can use as an excuse — you’ve just got to the stakes of what will be the 146th all- push that much harder to bear down and time meeting in the historic rivalry. pay attention to details and focus on the “It’ll be extremely intense, but they ice and in the classroom.” usually are,” Schafer said. “Saturday is a Following the conclusion of this weekday where you’re coming off of injuries, end’s game, the Red will take a break for guys are beat up ... You’ve got two weeks finals before travelling to the Florida to recover, you lay it all on the line and we College Classic to take on the University don’t play again until December 28th.” of New Hampshire on Dec. 28th.

Bardreau also said that the lack of a second game this weekend should not make much of a difference, except to give the Chris Mills can be reached at team some extra motivation. cmills@cornellsun.com.

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“Individually, the toughest tournaments before conferences and Nationals are the Vegas Invitational, and the Southern Scuffle,” senior Chris Villalonga said.

Last year, the Red placed third with 104.5 points following Missouri and Ohio State. The differential between

the three top teams was 20 points.

“Well, besides Nationals where we can all accomplish our goals, going to Las Vegas is always a blast and being from Texas, I hope to watch the nationals finals rodeo that will be going on there in our free time,” junior Jace Bennett said.

This year, the Red will be one of 33 teams to compete at

the tournament, including top teams like Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State and Oklahoma.

The competition will be the last for the Red for the fall semester before Cornell returns in 2014 for the Southern Scuffle on Jan. 1 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ed was a change of face, literally, for him to be accepted in by Yankee fans.

They seemed to easily forget his stateseason, but DiMaggio’s 56-game hit- ment in 2005: “There’s no way I can go ting streak was too great an achieve- play for the Yankees, but I know they’re ment to overcome. It seemed that going to come after me hard. It’s defieverything was going the Yankees way. nitely not the most important thing to They had already won 10 World Series go out there for the top dollar, which since the Ruth trade, and every time the Yankees are going to offer me. It’s Boston got a glimpse of what it would not what I need.”

I guess it was what he needed. And be like to be a champion, their hopes it is, in fact, this very thing that has gotwere squandered.

The two teams met in the modern- ten in the way of rivalries that used to era postseason for the first time in 1999, bring people to the ballpark in full with the Yankees taking the series 4-1 force. Baseball is a business now. As despite a stellar pitching performance much as players say that the money from Pedro Martinez, who outdueled doesn’t make a difference, once it is former Boston star Roger Clemens in dangled in front of them, all allegiances his team’s only win. Martinez would be are thrown by the wayside. Babe Ruth the face of the Boston organization for was sold to the Yankees. Now, organithe next few years, and when the two zations are selling themselves to the teams met again in the 2003 ALCS, he players. An article in the New York was at the center of what would become Times Thursday said that Robinson one of the most intense meetings Cano wants to be in New York. But if a between the two teams. In the fourth sufficient contract from another team inning of game 3, one of the most mem- were to come his way, I’m sure the Yankees second baseorable brawls in man would be able to baseball history Babe Ruth was sold to the part ways with the broke out, culBronx, even if his agent minating in Yankees. Now, organizations is Jay Z. Ellsbury has M a r t i n e z are selling themselves to done just that, and in throwing Don the modern era of baseZimmer onto the players. ball, it is no longer a surthe ground as prise. Good for Jacoby. the Yankees bench coach charged at him with alarming agility for a man of his He left a championship team to join a age and girth. Aaron Boone’s walkoff decrepit Yankees organization where his homerun would eventually give the speed will slowly deteriorate until he is Yankees the series win in game seven, an exceedingly mediocre 36-year old and the Red Sox would go home empty outfielder. But he has a $ 153-million dollar contract to keep him young. handed once again.

When Damon was interviewed on Everything changed in 2004, though, when the Sox motored past the the repercussions of the Ellsbury trade, Yankees in the ALCS after overcoming he said, “Yeah, it’s going to be tough at a 3-1 series deficit for the first time in times, but he’s a good enough player baseball history. In an almost anticli- that the fans are still going to respect mactic World Series, Boston swept the what he gave to Boston and what he’s Cardinals with ease. And just like that, going to give to New York.” As well the curse was broken. And it seems that they should. But don’t call it a rivalry the ancient rivalry was torn at the seams anymore. The days of Don Zimmer being thrown to the floor, of Goose at the same time.

When Damon was sent to the Gossage being spat on at Fenway Park, Yankees immediately after helping of Rudy Giuliani being vilified on the Boston to its first World series in 86 front cover of the Post for saying he years, it had the potential to be a sec- would root for the Red Sox in the 2007 ond coming of the Ruth saga. But the world series, are over. After all, there’s a story did not play out. The same ten- new mayor in town. And he’s a Red Sox sion just was not there. Obviously, fan. almost every Boston fan wanted to crucify their formerly beloved centerfield- Scott Chiusano can be reached at er. But it seemed that all Damon need- schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S HOCKEY

Colgate Visits Lynah in Third Place Showdown

Icers look to stay hot in ECAC play, riding three game conference streak

By CHRIS MILLS BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Sun Staff Writer

With one final conference game on tap in the 2013 calendar, the men’s icers are looking to extend their three-game ECAC winning streak heading into the New Year.

The No. 15 Red (7-4-1, 4-3-1 ECAC), on the heels of a 3-2 loss to Boston University at Madison Square Garden in the Red Hot Hockey Classic, will play host to rival Colgate (7-7-1, 5-3-0) this Saturday at 7p.m. in a matchup with significant ECAC implications. Colgate and Cornell rank third and fourth in the conference standings, respectively.

“Colgate’s always a tough game for us,” said junior forward Cole Bardreau. “They play a hard-nosed game.”

Bardreau and the Red will have their hands full with a young and feisty Raiders squad. Colgate’s five leading points scorers — featuring 2012-2013 ECAC All-Rookie

Team chemistry | Junior forward Cole Bardreau said he and his fellow linemates have gelled on a personal level this year.

Team nominee Kyle Baun — are all sophomores, but what the Raiders lack in college experience, they’ve made up for in wins — claiming five of their past seven games.

“They’re always a team that’s good in transition,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86, who worked alongside current Colgate head coach Don Vaughan when both were serving as assistants for the Red in 1988.

“They’ll get up and down the ice — they’ll

make plays. They pack it in around the front of the goaltender. They make it very difficult to get shots through to the paint and get them into the net.”

The Red will counter the Colgate defense with an improving offensive line that peppered Boston with 39 shots last weekend.

After failing to outshoot an opponent for the first eight games of the season, Cornell has now held the shot advantage in three of

the past four contests.

The sophomore class is to Colgate’s front line what the junior class is to Cornell’s. The Red’s third-year forwards Madison Dias, John McCarron, Brian Ferlin, Cole Bardreau and Joel Lowry will look to take advantage of a Raiders back line that had allowed at least three goals in five consecutive games before holding Brown to a single score last weekend.

“I feel good to get back with my linemates and I think we have great chemistry going and things are working out right now so hopefully it keeps going,” Bardreau said, attributing the line’s recent gelling to “all being juniors and living with each other since we were freshmen.” “[W]e know each other not only on the ice but on a personal level too,” Bardreau added. “So that ... helps out there and we’ve been able to read each other pretty well.”

Facing a well-coached and disciplined Colgate team — the Raiders rank 17th in fewest penalty minutes committed — will give the front line an additional challenge this weekend.

“They’re a hard-working team, which obviously makes it really hard for us,” Bardreau said. “So it’s something that I

Don’t Call It A Rivalry Anymore

WRESTLING

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Staying on top | Senior Stryker Lane and the Red look to stay undefeated this weekend in the Vegas Invitational.

After Strong MSG Showing, Wrestlers Head to Las Vegas

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

After eating turkey and spending quality time with loved ones, the Cornell wrestling team headed to one of the biggest stages in the country, Madison Square Garden. The Red competed in the Grapple at the Garden against the University of Illinois and the University of Maryland Sunday where the Red took down both teams.

Standouts for the squad in the second match of the day were senior Mike Nevinger, who won by decision over Steven Rodrigiues — becoming the 20th wrestler for Cornell to secure 100 careers wins — freshman Brian

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Realbuto who won by decision room and work tirelessly to over No. 15 Zac Brunson and improve themselves each and senior Stryker Lane who won every day. You know it’s a good by decision over his Fighting thing when your freshmen are inspiring to the other members Illini opponent.

“This year we have many of the team. There is no doubt in my mind many freshthat these man step“You know it’s a good guys will step ping into the starting line- thing when your freshmen up in a big way and help up. Mark are inspiring.” us reach our Grey, Brian goals as a R e a l b u t o , Mike Nevinger team.”

D y l a n To finish Palacio and Gabe Dean have all come out out the strong fall start, the Red and proved themselves in big has been preparing for a tough ways. They all have huge poten- bracket at the 32nd Cliff Keen tial and are capable of big things Las Vegas Invitational on Dec. 6 this year,” senior Mike Nevinger and 7 in Las Vegas, Nev. said. “They all are extremely See WRESTLING page 15 hard workers in the practice

t is not the first time the controversial crossover from the Boston Red Sox to the New York Yankees has been cemented in a loss of facial hair. Outfielder Jacoby Ellsbury’s signing of a seven-year, $ 153 million contract with the Yankees on Monday will likely mean he will be leaving behind his comparatively pathetic beard attempt in Boston. Though it feels like a lifetime ago, Johnny Damon did the same eight years before when he chopped off a full head of hair in order to assimilate

Ruth was dealt to the Yankees in 1919. Whether or not Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold him in order to finance the production of a Broadway musical will probably never truly be known, but Frazee’s ulterior motives aside, the Curse of the Bambino was born. There had been fifteen World Series prior to the move, and the Red Sox had won five of them. It would be another 86 years before that would happen again. Meanwhile, the Yankees took over the title as baseball’s elite, amassing 26 rings

Scott Chiusano Who’ s on First? into a city that took him in, for the most part, with open arms.

But have Ellsbury and Damon, Wade Boggs and Roger Clemens and everyone else dating back to Babe Ruth that has made the transition from Red Sox great to Yankee old-timer, left something more than facial hair behind? After hearing about this most recent episode in the saga of such a timeless rivalry, my friends and I wondered if it could even be called that anymore.

It all started almost 100 years ago, when the legendary Babe

before the Sox could finally break the streak.

Ruth went on to become a Yankee legend, and as the Bronx stadium came to be known as “the house that Ruth built,” the Great Bambino’s time in Boston became an afterthought. This was just the fuel to the fire. When Ted Williams lost the AL MVP race to the Yankees’ Joe DiMaggio, Boston fans were furious. Williams had hit .406 that year, the last player ever to hit over .400 in a See CHIUSANO page 15