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Vol. CXXXVII—No. 114
Friday, November 8, 2013
columbiaspectator.com
Military
official
speaks to
veterans
Mudd to
undergo
major
renovation
BY DANIELLE SMITH
Columbia Daily Spectator
Chairman
of the Joint
Chiefs stresses
education
The Seeley W. Mudd
Building will undergo major
renovations next semester, including the installation of new
glass walls and redistribution of
study space.
School of Engineering
and Applied Science Vice
Dean for Academic Programs
Soulaymane Kachani announced the changes at the
Engineering Student Council
meeting last week.
BY EMMA BOGLER
of reclaim that space, and reassert ourselves and remap our
communities.”
LaDuke said that she wanted to bring awareness to the
destruction that oil fracking
has caused to Native-American
land and political rights of
Native Americans.
“Its interesting to be called
The highest-ranking official
in the United States military
told Columbia student veterans on Thursday that a college
education was key to transitioning service members to civilian life.
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
of Staff Martin Dempsey met
with about 50 students at the
Teatro in the Italian Academy
ahead of Veterans Day on
Monday.
“Columbia is a school I’ve
admired from afar,” Dempsey—
who is the chief military adviser to the president, secretary
of defense, Homeland Security
Council, and National Security
Council—said. “I couldn’t
get in here back when I was
applying.”
Columbia has more than 600
veterans on campus—a sharp
increase from the 250 who attended in 2010. The University
has made an effort to send admissions officers to military
bases and welcomed the Naval
Reserves Officers Training
SEE NAC, page 3
SEE MILITARY, page 2
“We will end up
with a different
building.”
—Soulaymane Kachani,
SEAS vice dean for
academic programs
JUSTIN CHAN / SENIOR STAFF WRITER
MAPPING COMMUNITIES
Many of the brick walls will
be replaced with glass, and an
unused staircase will be removed, creating sight lines
through the building and making
the Teachers College façade visible from campus. The ornamental columns near the front of the
building will also be taken down
to create more usable space.
Beyond the aesthetic changes, the Engineering Library will
be removed and the seating
SEE MUDD, page 3
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The opening reception of Native American Heritage month featured performances and speeches.
Native American Heritage month kicks off
BY SAMANTHA
PERLSTEIN
A steady drumbeat filled
Lerner Party Space last night
as about 120 students and
faculty kicked off Native
American Heritage Month.
The opening reception for
the annual celebration featured activist Winona LaDuke,
a former vice presidential candidate for the Green Party, as
the keynote speaker, lending
the event an environmental
focus.
Sponsored by the Office of
Multicultural Affairs and the
Native American Council, the
event explored indigenous
rights to land and Native activism through its monthlong
theme: “Fractured Lands:
Reconfiguring Indigenous
Spaces.”
The organizers of the event
said it was important for indigenous people to reconnect not
only with their land but also
with one another.
“These lands in which we
live in, they are no longer
our lands,” Megan Baker, CC
’14 and co-president of NAC,
said. “It’s a way for us to kind
Research institute adds ‘sexuality’ to name
BY SAMANTHA
PERLSTEIN
No one can accuse the
Institute for Research on
Women, Gender, and Sexuality
of being stuck in the past.
The research institute,
which focuses on the study of
gender issues, formally added
sexuality to its name on Oct. 25
after gaining University Senate
approval.
Sociology professor Alondra
Nelson, the director of IRWAGS,
said the goal of the name change
was to make students and faculty aware of the institute’s dedication to sexuality and queer
studies, and reflect the shifts in
its curriculum.
“We have—for the last few
years—a growing emphasis on
research and sexuality studies,
including work in queer studies and queer series, as well as
some attention on masculinity
studies,” Nelson said. “It was
surprising that the rich curriculum that we had developed,
and the rich programming that
we had developed in sexuality studies, that the students
couldn’t or didn’t see it.”
For IRWAGS, the name
change reflects ongoing work
at the institute and also represents an evolution of it, with a
shift in focus from only women
to a focus on gender differences
and sexuality.
“We are changing the name
in order to reflect what already
happened within our curriculum and the way we think about
gender studies and the whole
field,” anthropology professor
and former IRWAG director
Lila Abu-Lughod said. She said
that the name change was also
intended to make the institute’s
work more visible.
The institute, which was
founded by late English professor Carolyn Heilbrun, was modeled after similar departments
at peer institutions like Harvard
and Yale.
However, Columbia’s program stood apart for its focus on
women and gender, while most
peer institutions focused their
research on women, according
to Abu-Lughod.
The program studies “how
gender structures power, how
SEE IRWAGS, page 2
TAKING OFF
DAVID BRANN / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
UNFINISHED BUSINESS | City Council member Gail Brewer argued that pleasing both bikers
and merchants is an important component of the bike lane discussion.
CB7 delays vote on bike lane study
BY AVANTIKA KUMAR
Spectator Senior Staff Writer
Following nearly two hours
of energetic discussion and
public testimony, members of
Community Board 7 delayed
a vote calling for a study of a
new protected bike lane on
Amsterdam Avenue.
At Wednesday night’s crowded full board meeting, so many
attendees signed up to testify
that the resolution did not reach
a board vote. It will be voted on
at the December meeting.
The resolution, which passed
in the transportation committee earlier this month, calls
upon DOT to consider a study
for a street redesign that would
increase Amsterdam Avenue’s
“safety, aesthetics, and efficiency for all users.” Currently
Amsterdam is the only fourlane, one-way thoroughfare on
the Upper West Side and has
injury and death rates almost
double those of surrounding
northbound avenues, according
to board members.
The resolution suggests that
DOT is also considering a reduction in the number of travel lanes
and installing pedestrian islands,
dedicated loading zones, and left
turn lanes. These changes would
mirror changes on Columbus
Avenue, which extended its
southbound bike lane this summer almost the length of Central
Park, following a months-long
debate.
A majority of attendees testified in favor of a protected bike
lane on Amsterdam. Supporters
maintained that it would make
the avenue safer, create a
more livable streetscape, and
SEE BIKE LANE, page 3
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You can’t teach a young
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On Saturday, the Lions will face the
Crimson at Baker Field. After last
weekend’s blowout loss at Yale, the
Light Blue, led by freshman QB Kelly
Hilinski, will look for its first victory.
Sports columnist Peter Andrews
once again reminds us about the
football team’s shortcomings with
a detailed breakdown of last week’s
plays.
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Yorkers and Columbians who each
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the end of November.
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AROUND THE IVIES
Cornell loses $200K
worth of horse semen
BY JINJOO LEE
Cornell Daily Sun
JUST DO IT Lisa Huang and Perri Callaway, both BC ’16, spearheaded the effort to reinstate Open Gym Hours after Barnard canceled them last semester. This semester will operate on a reduced schedule and offer time slots on Thursdays and Sundays.
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Barnard reinstates Open Gym Hours after cancellation
BY ABBY ABRAMS
After Barnard quietly canceled its open gym hours last
semester, students will once
again have the chance to use
the gym at night on a trial basis.
This semester, Open Gym
Hours—which involve informal games of volleyball, basketball, indoor soccer, and
other sports—will operate on
a reduced schedule. The hours
began on Thursday with an
introductory night from 6 to
8:30 p.m., and starting next
week, they will take place on
Thursdays from 5 to 9 p.m. and
Sundays from 3 to 7 p.m.
The turnaround is due to
two dedicated Barnard sophomores who have worked with
the administration to reopen
the gym in the face of budget
cuts to Barnard’s physical education department.
Last semester, Perri
Callaway and Lisa Huang, both
BC ’16, were enrolled in a basketball class to fulfill Barnard’s
PE requirement when their instructor, Tavius Cheatham, told
them he was getting laid off.
Cheatham, the former director of recreation at Barnard,
was one of two full-time staff
members eliminated from the
PE department last year, along
with a one-year position that
was not renewed. He explained
to the students that because the
PE department would no longer have anyone who “knew
sports,” Open Gym Hours were
ending.
Over the past year and a
half, Barnard’s PE department
has undergone a restructuring
in response to budget cuts,
most notably reducing the PE
requirement from two semesters to one.
“Due to resulting staffing
changes, and also taking into
consideration the limited participation of Barnard students,
a decision was made to scale
back the recreational sports
program, including intramural
sports and Recreation Hours,”
Barnard Provost Linda Bell
said in an email.
While students were officially notified of the change
in Barnard’s PE requirement
in April 2012, the administration did not send out any notice
about ending Open Gym Hours.
“A bunch of the girls in our
class had gotten together and
had been playing volleyball
on Tuesday nights,” Huang, a
Spectator arts and entertainment multimedia deputy editor, said. Cheatham “told us
they were ending the program.
We were really upset, so we
sent President [Debora] Spar
an email, and we got a meeting
with her.”
The students said their
meeting with Spar was productive, and she promised to
help them reinstate Open Gym
Hours.
“We went in with all these
arguments prepared, and she
completely agreed with us; we
didn’t even need to use them,”
Callaway said. “It seemed like
she didn’t even know what had
happened. She put us in contact with Provost Bell, and then
I spoke to her over the summer,
and she also agreed.”
Callaway and Huang followed up with Bell when
they returned to campus this
fall, and she told them that
Barnard had made allocations
for a new part-time position.
Corey Young, hired last week,
is Barnard’s new recreation
coordinator.
Young will hold a part-time
position—he will supervise
Open Gym Hours but won’t
teach any gym classes.
Callaway and Huang said
that last semester when they
used the Open Gym Hours,
there were about 15 students
playing volleyball and five to
10 playing basketball on a typical night.
“All it took was
raising our voice
to say this is
important to us.”
—Lisa Huang, BC ’16
“The really cool thing about
basketball was that the staff
play too, so we got to know
them. Often security guards
would come over and join us,”
Huang said. “For right now,
they’re going to focus on volleyball, basketball, and indoor
soccer, but that’s not to say it
won’t expand in the future.”
Other Barnard students interviewed this week said that
while they were not aware that
Open Gym Hours had been
canceled, they would be interested in taking advantage of the
renewed program.
“I might go and play basketball with my roommates,”
Raney Shattuck, BC ’16, said.
“It’s a cool opportunity to play
because we don’t get to do that
outside so much because we’re
in the city.”
As in the past, Open Gym
Hours are available to Barnard
students, faculty, and staff as
well as Columbia College and
School of Engineering and
Applied Science undergraduates. Last year, Callaway said
that her group of friends who
played volleyball was probably
half Barnard students.
“Barnard’s PE facilities
have limited capacity and resources, making it difficult
to provide access to more of
the University community.
However, we will be monitoring usage, and should space be
available, we would be open to
revisiting our policy if there
was adequate interest from a
group that’s not currently included,” Lisa Northrup, chair
of Barnard’s PE department,
said in an email.
Despite their initial concerns, Callaway and Huang
said they were impressed by
the administrators’ responses.
“I was very surprised. They
were so helpful and encouraging,” Callaway said. “The fact
that they’re hiring someone to
organize it is more than we expected—we just wanted them
to let us keep the gym open.”
“All it took was raising our
voice to say this is important
to us,” Huang said. “We’re just
really lucky this has all worked
out so well.”
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Name change reflects changes in institute curriculum
IRWAGS from front page
it works in literature, how
in works in the world,” AbuLughod said. “There was something really important analytically to understand in the world
about the difference between
genders, between men and
women, masculinity, femininity,
but those were not necessarily
tied to men and women.”
Since 1998, the institute has
hired more faculty members
and added more course options,
trying to follow the direction
of the gender studies field as a
whole to include sexuality.
“This work is a kind of
growth area for the institute,
but it also reflects the intellectual revolution of feminist studies more generally,” Nelson said.
Last year, a group of
Columbia College students
pushed for a specific queer
studies concentration, citing a
need to broaden the academic
offerings to include discussions
on sexual identity.
Though IRWAGS does not
yet offer an explicit concentration in queer studies, it has
increased its sexuality course
offerings over the years—including a course on race and
sexuality—and encourages students to focus their courses on
queer studies if they so choose.
YUE BEN FOR SPECTATOR
INTERSECTIONAL | Lila Abu-Luhgod, an anthropology professor and former director of
IRWAG, said that the institute added “sexuality” to its name to bolster its visibility.
Taylor Clarke, CC ’14, said
she was glad to be a women’s
and gender studies major and
was happy to see the institute
expand.
“The IRWAGS faculty seem
committed to including queer
focuses and topics in their
courses, even when those
courses are not specifically on a
topic in queer or sexuality studies,” Clarke said.
The institute’s evolution also
includes an increased emphasis on international issues, with
new course offerings and the
involvement of many IRWAG
faculty members with the
Center for the Study of Social
Difference’s Women Creating
Change project, which was established last semester to examine women’s issues abroad.
“We do not want to think
only about America and only
about white American middle
class women,” Abu-Lughod
said. Her work with the project focuses on gender in Muslim
societies.
Despite the changes, for
Nelson, the goal of IRWAGS has
remained the same since its establishment: to guide students
in many different directions
from which they can pursue
their studies.
“We will continue to work on
forms of social inequality, social
justice, social inquiry—more
generally around women and
feminist issues—but also around
issues of globalization, trauma
and memory, science and technology studies, queer studies,
and the like,” Nelson said.
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Cornell is liable for destroying more than $212,000 worth
of semen it collected from a
Stanfordville, N.Y. woman’s
horse, a jury said Monday.
Lynn Reed, owner of Fox
Run Farm LLC—an equine
breeding and equestrian training facility in Millbrook, N.Y. —
filed a notice of intent to sue the
University, Cornell’s College of
Veterinary Medicine, and the
Cornell University Hospital
for Animals in January, according to The Journal. Reed
alleged that the University
was liable for destroying 212
units of semen collected from
a Holsteiner horse, a German
warmblood, in 2004.
Reed’s attorney, Anthony J.
Siano, told The Journal that the
veterinary staff harvested the
horse’s semen and then stored
it in a “defective cryogenic storage tank,” destroying the samples. In 2005, when Reed tried
to collect the semen samples,
Cornell staff found out that the
samples had been destroyed
and sent her a check for $2,045.
“Ms. Reed has fought for
nearly nine years to redress
the harm done to her business by Cornell and its personnel,” Siano said to The Journal.
“What they destroyed was
unique, valuable, and nothing
in the proof at trial established
that Ms. Reed could replace
what Cornell destroyed.”
The University has less
than two weeks to file motions
to overturn the jury’s decision,
according to The Poughkeepsie
Journal.
The University declined to
comment regarding the case.
“In general, we do not comment on ongoing litigation,”
said John Carberry, director of
Media Relations.
After a week-long trial,
the jury of Dutchess County,
N.Y., decided to award Reed
$212,841.83.
This article was originally
published in the Cornell Daily
Sun on Nov. 7, 2013.
Students question future
of military at discussion
MILITARY from front page
Corps back to campus in April
2012 after a 44-year ban.
Dempsey called education
“the key to a successful life”
and fielded questions from
students about how a post9/11 G.I. Bill could help service
members go to school.
“Over the next four years,
we’ll have the challenge of
transitioning about 150,000
men and women back into civilian life,” Dempsey said, adding that it’s a task only made
more difficult by the challenging economy. “We’re going to
have to have to do something
extraordinary.”
Dempsey said that the
military is trying to create a
bill that provides veterans
with “a constellation of benefits, both direct and indirect
compensation.”
“We have a choice, I have a
choice, to take this thing on or
ignore it, and I want to tell you
that we are going to take it on,”
Dempsey said.
Some student veterans
voiced concern about how the
economy and the prospect of
federal budget cuts are impacting the military.
“You’ve probably heard
some military leaders say that
the state of our economy is the
greatest threat to our nation’s
security right now, but I’m not
in that court,” Dempsey said
in response to these concerns.
“National power is an aggregate of diplomatic, economic, and military capabilities,
and if one of those powers is
weakened, then so is the entire
structure.”
Still, he acknowledged that
the manpower costs of an
all-volunteer army may not be
sustainable over time.
“This profession enjoys
about a 78 percent approval
rate, and that’s probably too
high,” Dempsey said. “So when
we make mistakes—about our
budget, about our conduct,
about sexual assault—it’s exacerbated by a sense of trust.”
“The way to ‘keep our honor clean’ is to tell the truth, to
expose our mistakes with candor and honesty to our civilian
leaders,” he added.
Attendees said they appreciated Dempsey’s straight talk
and felt at home at Columbia.
Brandon Anderson, Business
’14 and a veteran infantry officer in the United States Army,
said Dempsey understood that
the military should be “held accountable for starting two wars
when we were only capable of
fighting in one theater.”
Former Marine Corps officer Kelley Gasper, CC ’09 and
SIPA ’15, noted that Columbia
has become drastically more
accommodating towards its
veterans, citing the return of
ROTC to campus.
“When I was here as an undergrad, I would get dirty looks
when I wore my uniform,” he
said. “So to see events like this
is awesome.”
“It’s how it’s supposed to
be,” Gasper said. “Those days
are past.”
Chris Ustler, SIPA ’15 and
a former squadron operations
officer in the Army, agreed
that Columbia treats its veterans well.
“I have friends at other
schools, and you hear a lot of
horror stories,” Ustler said.
“It’s not like that here.”
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BIG MAN ON CAMPUS | Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Martin Dempsey met with students on campus Thursday.
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Heritage month focuses on mapping communities
NAC from front page
BIKE LANE GANG Thomas DeVito, an organizer for pro-biking
group Transportation Alternatives, speaks at the meeting.
|
Majority of attendees
favor protected bike lane
BIKE LANE
from front page
encourage bike traffic along the
store-lined avenue.
“We should be claiming this
space not only for our pedestrians, for people who could use
the area for street fairs, for anything we can because the bottom line is, it is our space, as opposed to people trying to transit
through our neighborhoods,” said
Eric Whalen, an environmental
advocate.
“We need to use our
bike lanes more. We
need to make sure
they’re safe.”
—Gail Brewer,
City Council member
City Council member Gale
Brewer urged residents of the
Upper West Side to make more
use of the current Columbus
Avenue bike lane, which she
said was doing a “great job,”
and to engage businesses in the
conversation.
“We need to use our bike lanes
more. We need to make sure that
they’re safe. And then we need to
make sure that the merchants are
happy,” Brewer, who was elected
Manhattan borough president
Tuesday night, said. “That’s the
most important, along with using
the bike lanes.”
Others said they thought it
could increase congestion, make
it more difficult for emergency
vehicles to travel quickly, and
present challenges for seniors.
Upper West Side resident
Emily Margolis said she had spoken to two firemen at the 100th
Street station that afternoon.
“I asked if they had noticed
any change in travel time on
Columbus Avenue after the bike
lanes were installed,” Margolis
said. “They said yes; they had had
difficulties at times getting places
because of the narrowed lanes.”
Thomas DeVito, an organizer for pro-biking group
Transportation Alternatives,
told Spectator that though he
was disappointed by the meeting’s outcome, he was “heartened
and optimistic” to see the poise,
intelligence, and passion of those
who testified in favor of the lane.
“They’re energized about it,”
DeVito said, adding that residents
of the Upper West Side would
continue to petition and reach
out to local businesses.
avantika.kumar
an activist,” she said. “I really
am wondering why it is you are
called an activist, when you
really just want to be able to
drink the water.”
“We are asking for the right
to live according to the traditions that the creator has
passed on to us,” she said.
She said that the United
States has become hooked on
fossil fuels out of greed.
“The challenge is if you
are an addict, which is what
we are collectively as a society, you do a lot of bad stuff
and hang out with dealers,”
she said, adding that the same
motivation has led to negative
public policies.
LaDuke ended her speech
with the idea of happiness and
how best to attain it.
“We need our nations to rethink what happiness is, ’cause
if we think that our happiness
is going to be emulating corporate America or emulating
things in this society, we are
probably not going to get too
happy over the long haul.”
Beyond the speeches,
the event also featured performances from Samsoche
Sampson, who played the flute
and danced the traditional
hoop dance, and indigenous
hip-hop artist Frank Waln,
who performed original songs
based on his life on a reservation in South Dakota.
Waln described how outsiders have told stories
about Native Americans for
generations.
“Now we need to tell our
stories,” he said.
The monthlong celebrations coincide with NAC moving forward with its proposal
to place a plaque on campus
recognizing it as Lenni Lenape
land. A petition distributed
last semester has garnered
over 1,000 signatures, and last
week, the Columbia College
Student Council passed a resolution in support of the plaque.
Students at the event said
that they appreciated the
Study spaces to be added to Mudd lounge
MUDD from front page
capacity in Carleton Lounge
will be doubled, with part of
that seating allocated to a quiet
study place.
“We will end up with a different building,” Kachani said.
“I’m pretty sure when you see
the space, you’ll be very happy
with it.”
The renovations, which are
set to begin in the spring, are
scheduled to be completed by
the end of 2014, Kachani said.
Because construction will not
break ground until the end of
the spring semester, there will
be minimal disruption to students, he said.
Rushal Rege, SEAS ’14 and
ESC vice president of student
life, said that the changes are
a sign of positive growth in
SEAS.
“Carleton Lounge changes
will provide engineering students with a more modern space
that promotes collaborative
work,” Rege said. “The construction will use the space we have
more efficiently and allow for
more seating in Carleton Lounge
and the rest of the lobby.”
“Mudd is, in fact,
the architectural
symbol of our
school, and the
better it looks, the
better the school
does.
—Rushal Rege,
SEAS ’14, ESC vice
president of student life
Rege added that the additional seating in Carleton will
offset the loss of seating in the
library.
“Mudd is, in fact, the architectural symbol of our school,
and the better it looks, the
better the school does,” Rege
said.
SEAS students in Mudd this
week were divided about the
changes to the building and said
Mudd had been eclipsed by the
Northwest Corner Building library
as their preferred study space.
“The library is always crowded, and I think more study space
is needed,” said Melis Duyar,
a second-year Ph.D. student
studying earth and environmental engineering, who did not
support the changes. “If we can
use the one in NoCo, that’s okay,
but I think one is needed in this
building.”
“I think it’s perfect,” Yuhan
Zhou, SEAS ’16, said of the proposed changes. She added that
the lounge was too crowded
most times, especially during
lunch, and the library was “too
noisy and too cold, especially in
the winter.
Zhou also noted, “The space
is too small. I like to study at the
library in NoCo.”
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RECONNECTING | Top: Performers beat a drum at the ceremony. Bottom: Sara Chase (l.) and Megan Baker, both CC’14 and co-presidents of the Native American Council, speak at the reception.
range of perspectives.
Sara Chase, CC ’14 and
co-president of NAC, said
LaDuke “brought something
to Columbia’s campus that
students can benefit from
hearing.”
“I was actually surprised
by the amount of people that
came considering the size of
c a l l i n g
the Native American Council,”
said Kyle Sebastian, CC ’16.
“Not many people know who
they are.”
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D
espite the fact that I somehow have two midterms
assigned for next week, we are
now well past the midpoint of
the semester. Around this time
last year, I was desperate to get
out of here and begin my jourLEO
ney abroad in Latin America.
SCHWARTZ
In about a month, it will be the
one-year anniversary of when
Rationalizing
I began my trip. Everyone
the Irrational
expects the transition back
from being abroad to be an
incredibly difficult one, but to be honest, it’s hard to
imagine that time away from here ever happened. I
came back to the U.S. around June and spent the summer mostly bumming around New York sleeping on
friends’ floors and working in the economics department. Then school began, and I was right back in the
routine as if I had never been out of it. And now we’re
here, inexplicably, three weeks past the midpoint of
the semester.
Everyone thinks that the scariest
part of graduating is finding a job,
but I think it’s the opposite.
After talking with friends from abroad and friends
here who went abroad, the experience of returning
has been largely the same: It seems like it never really happened, or at least that the experience exists in
some hazy subcompartment of our brains from which
we can recall it, as we would a happy place. My theory for why this occurs is that our minds are just horrible at reconciling really dissonant experiences. We
try to meld everything into one consistent timeline of
familiarity, and keep moving in that direction. Even if
we ourselves claim not to and try our best to avoid it,
our brains love routine, and our brains always overrule our delusions (or create them).
Which is hard, because my main takeaway from
abroad is that I hate the routine, as much as I find
myself constantly sinking back into it. I feel like I’m
constantly in battle with inertia. When you’re living
in another country, even if you find yourself slipping
into routine and comfort, you have to go do something like get a haircut. By the time you’re trying to
explain to the barber, in Spanish, what a buzzcut is
(which seems like it should be a pretty simple thing
to do), you realize, that try as you might, achieving
full familiarity is virtually impossible. I came back to
Columbia, and after about a day of transition, I was
right back in the swing of things. It seemed like I had
never left.
I’m terrified of the routine. Everyone thinks that
the scariest part of graduating is finding a job, but I
think it’s the opposite. The threat of stability is what
keeps me up at night. Our first two years in college
are when we’re at our most idealistic about what the
future can hold. By October of senior year, everyone
who once had high hopes of going to live in a hut
in the Himalayas after college to administer polio
vaccines and meditate with a yogi every morning
is either readily employed by Morgan Stanley or at
least desperately in the second round of interviews
with McKinsey. The need for routine and stability
slowly creeps up and inevitably consumes all of us.
For example: The people who, in September, promised themselves they would make elaborate homemade Halloween costumes but, by the end of October,
found themselves among the hordes in Ricky’s shelling out $70 for angel wings and a halo.
I’m past my post-Contemporary Civilization buzz
when I was convinced that the only real goals in
life are happiness and self-realization. I’m slightly
more realistic now, to the point where I understand
that some degree of income will be necessary after
I leave the bubble of Morningside Heights. But I’m
not quite at the point of applying for consulting jobs.
I still hold onto memories of what freedom from
routine feels like, of waking up early in the morning
in Patagonia to go serve breakfast at the lodge I was
working at, and of walking out to the ocean, the only
person awake for miles and miles.
But Columbia students are indoctrinated enough
with ideas of ambition and stability that even such
memories can’t keep them going. Coming back this
summer, in a momentary panic, I applied for some
fall internships, eventually accepting a position at a
political consulting firm in the city. My semester has
been filled with 9-to-5 days of morning commutes
and staring at computers.
For fall break, my suite rented a cabin up in the
Northeast Kingdom of Vermont about 20 miles from
the border of Canada, spending the weekend hiking,
grilling, visiting breweries, and making fires. The
weekend was the first I’d had since the summer when
my time abroad didn’t seem like a distant and vague
memory. We came back Tuesday night, and the next
morning I woke up bright and early to make the commute downtown. I walked down to the platform and
shoved my way into the first subway car that came,
packed like a can of sardines. Everyone looked as miserable as I felt. Not even the graduate with the most
prestigious position at the most prestigious bank in
the most prestigious city could delude himself into
thinking this is the good life.
Leo Schwartz is a Columbia College senior majoring in
political science and Latin American studies. Rationalizing
the Irrational runs alternate Fridays.
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BY MIKHAIL KLIMENTOV
On Wednesday, a panel discussed LGBT activism at the
Sochi Olympics. However, some students who attended
felt that the panel had failed to cover “ways in which the
Sochi Olympics could be used to expose LGBT abuses and
to help people living in Russia.”
The simple response to this is that there is no direct way
for the Western world to “help” people in Russia, short
of transporting them out. Many, including Stephen Fry
and Pussy Riot, support boycotting the Sochi Olympics.
However, this would only hurt LGBT athletes, turning their
sexuality into a criterion that bars them from participating,
while creating a divide between LGBT and heterosexual
athletes. Others have taken to boycotting Russian vodka,
overlooking the fact that vodka, like many products in this
day and age, is produced and manufactured in a number of
countries that don’t always reflect the product’s origin or
marketing. Smirnoff is owned and produced by a British
company. Stolichnaya is produced in Latvia.
There is no relationship between
Russia and the U.S..
A boycott as the protest of choice against Russia’s antigay legislation betrays a fundamental misunderstanding
of Russia. A boycott assumes that the issue at hand is a
piece of legislation that can be reversed, after which the
problem somehow becomes less of a problem because it
is no longer codified. Admittedly, a boycott or a petition
is the most that can be done by students, and the effort
is admirable. Boycotts are often great catalysts for discourse. However, no boycott, no matter how successful,
can change the ideological stance of the overwhelming
majority of citizens in a country as large as Russia.
According to the Pew Research Center, only 16 percent
of Russians think that homosexuality should be accepted by society. The legislation banning “gay propaganda”
passed 436-0, with one abstention. With these numbers
in mind, participating in or advocating for a boycott of
Russian vodka or of the Sochi Olympics shows profound
naiveté and self-indulgence, and is thus ultimately ineffective. A boycott ignores the power the Russian Orthodox
Church possesses as Russia’s moral arbiter. It ignores
countless existing pieces of legislation in Russia that limit
LGBT rights, including a 100-year ban on gay pride parades. Perhaps most importantly, it ignores the dramatic
differences between Russia and the Western world and
the depth of anti-Western sentiment present in Russia.
I spent much of my summer in Russia. One day, when I
was driving home with a family friend, a BBC News host
on the radio remarked that Russia’s anti-gay legislation
would increase tension between Russia and the U.S. Our
family friend, a Russian journalist, dryly remarked, “There
is no relationship between Russia and the U.S.”
My friend’s comment is reflective of the general attitude toward the West in Russia. Reporters for “Vremya,”
Russia’s Channel One news show, frequently editorialize
about the West, making sardonic comments about imperialism and hypocrisy.
The documentary “The Russian Soul,” directed by
Andrew Hamilton, GS ’13, describes how Russians denounce the term “democracy” for its Western connotation but agree with its general tenets when not presented
with the actual word. In his recent op-ed about Syria for
the New York Times, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin
wrote, “It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to
see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.”
This is nothing if not an attempt to knock the U.S. down a
peg, something Putin does with relative frequency.
Hypocrisy is one of the recurring Russian criticisms
of the West. While I’d be hard-pressed to call the U.S. deliberately hypocritical, it wouldn’t hurt to reflect on what
changes we can make within our own borders before shifting our gaze abroad. We go to school in a country where
same-sex sexual activity was made legal nationwide in
2003 (10 years after Russia). To this day, we are shocked
when 10 members of the Republican Party actually vote in
support of a bill to ban discrimination against gay workers.
Barack Obama is our first president to take a strong proLGBT stance in office (only doing so in 2012). Gerald Ford
is still the only Republican president to speak in support
of LGBT rights, having done so in 2001.
I am not advocating that we forget about the struggles
of the LGBT community in Russia. However, as Columbia
students, our best chance at success requires that we
acknowledge a reasonable scope for the change we can
bring about. Russia currently resembles a Section 28-era
U.K., or the U.S. twenty-five years ago. However, to make
the U.S. the standard toward which countries strive in
regards to LGBT rights, our goal has to be to fight the
abuses perpetrated within our own country, where we
have the voice and (if you choose to be optimistic) the
power to do so. To help those living in Russia, we must
first help citizens here. Our disgust with Russia’s human
rights environment must energize us and remind us that
we, too, have a long road ahead.
The author is a Columbia College sophomore. He is an
illustrator for Spectator.
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Women’s soccer to close
season against Harvard
BY ROBERT MITCHELL
Spectator Staff Writer
TALENTED TINARI | The Lions, led by first-year midfielder Andrew Tinari, will face the Crimson on Saturday. Harvard, after falling
to Yale in its Ivy opener, has won four consecutive Ivy matches. The Lions tied with Yale, 3-3, last weekend.
Men’s soccer to face first-place Harvard in home finale
BY MUNEEB ALAM
The men’s soccer team (8-43, 1-1-3 Ivy) has its home finale
on Saturday, hosting first-place
Harvard (6-7-2,
4-1 Ivy).
The Crimson,
men’s
which was in
soccer
second-to-last
place in the Ivy
standings before conference play started,
opened conference play with a
loss to then-last-place Yale. But
Harvard has since won four Ivy
games in a row—all 2-1—and
stands on the brink of clinching
its first Ivy title since 2009. It can
clinch on Saturday with a win over
Columbia and a draw between
Princeton and Penn, which both
trail Harvard by two points.
Columbia, with a win a week
ago, could have kept itself in the
Ivy title race. Instead, it fell behind
2-0 to Yale and needed a late rally
to get a 3-3 draw. First-year midfielder Ron Zori characterized the
team as being “naive” in the first
half.
Slow starts have been a concern for the team throughout
the season. The Lions have outshot their opponents 87-79 in first
halves, but they have been outscored 11-6. Over second halves
and overtimes, meanwhile, the
Light Blue has posted a 124-86
shots advantage and a 19-8 edge
on the scoreboard.
Columbia has been able to post
results at home throughout the
season, though. With its win over
Sacred Heart on Wednesday—another game in which the team was
better in the second half than in
the first—the Lions ran their home
record this season to 5-0-3.
Harvard comes off a midweek
win of its own, squeaking by Holy
Cross 1-0, as forward Oliver White
became the 13th different player
to score a goal for the Crimson this
season. Harvard’s balance extends
all the way into its net as well, as
goalkeepers Evan Mendez and
Brett Conrad have split time.
Kickoff is at 7 p.m. on Saturday
at Rocco B. Commisso Soccer
Stadium.
muneeb.alam
Women’s soccer (8-5-3, 1-32 Ivy) will close out its season
on Senior Day with a tilt against
first-place
Harvard (11-3-2,
6-0 Ivy), which
women’s
clinched the Ivy
soccer
League championship last
weekend.
After picking up their first
conference win in a 3-1 rout
against Yale, the Lions must
prove their mettle against a
tough Crimson squad. There
were several positives to take
away from the Yale contest.
Overall, the offense, which
has looked stagnant at times
against Ivy opponents, has
picked up dramatically in the
final stretch of play. The Lions
have scored at least two goals in
each of their last four contests,
three of which came against
Ancient Eight rivals.
In the game against Yale, the
team demonstrated the diversity of its offensive attack with
three different players putting
up points. For the year, five offensive players have at least four
goals. The passing attack, averaging 85 assists going into the final contest, provided the Lions
with a bevy of different looks
that proved effective.
The defense, which gave up
seven goals in its previous two
Ivy contests, looked again like
the dominant force that has
rattled off six shutout performances on the year.
The Crimson’s offense
showed some chinks in the armor early in the season. Harvard
started the year on a 0-3-1 skid
but has not suffered a loss since.
In each of its conference matchups, the Crimson has scored at
least two goals, including a 7-2
rout of Cornell in Ithaca.
After that horrific start,
Cornell’s two goals represent
the most given up in a single
game by Harvard. In 16 games
played, it has allowed just 13
goals. Forward Margaret Purce,
who has earned five Ivy League
Player of the Week nods, has led
Harvard’s movement to the top
of the conference.
With a total of 11 goals and
four assists, Purce presents a major threat for the Lions’ defense.
It is also a tough day for the
Light Blue on Senior Day, regardless of the result. A total
of eight players on the team,
including offensive mainstays
Beverly Leon and Natalie Melo
and defensive stalwarts Chelsea
Ryan and Shannon FitzPatrick,
are in their final season.
As a team with a good deal of
veteran presence and leadership,
the Lions will need that continuity and chemistry if they hope to
complete the upset bid over the
Crimson.
The final game of the year
kicks off this Saturday at 4 p.m.
at the Rocco B. Commisso Soccer
Stadium.
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physical, fast team.”
On offense, Harvard has a dynamic, balanced attack from quarterback Conner Hempel and running back Paul Stanton. Hempel
missed two games due to injury,
but is still third in the league with
11 touchdowns passing. Stanton
comes in second in the league
with 10 touchdowns rushing, averaging 97.1 yards per game on the
ground.
For the Light Blue, first-year
Kelly Hilinski will once again begin the game under center. But
that doesn’t mean he’ll be there
the entire time.
“If he performs at the level he’s
capable of performing, then he’ll
stay in the game,” Mangurian said.
“If he doesn’t perform, then we’ll
make a change. But he is the starter. He’s taken the starter reps, and
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that will continue until we reach
a point where we say that we just
don’t feel that that’s the best thing
for the football team.”
Hilinski completed just two of
his eight passes for 14 yards at Yale
last week before being benched
in favor of sophomore Trevor
McDonagh.
“Trevor competes with him
every day and is putting as much
pressure as he can on him, and
that’s the way it’s supposed to
be,” Mangurian said. “This isn’t
something you give somebody. It’s
something that they’ve earned.
It’s something they have to fight
to keep.”
And regardless of Harvard’s
strengths, Columbia’s primary objective remains to execute consistently in order to be
competitive.
“I know they’re a good football team, but we’re really
KIERA WOOD / SENIOR STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BIG EAST | The Lions will need linebacker Brian East and the
rest of its defense to step up even if they want to stop Harvard.
concerned about how our players
play. I think that’s been the number-one thing we have to concern
ourselves with—if we play well,”
Mangurian said. “Everybody has
to do their job and do it absolutely
the right way, and that’s it. That’s
what we’re focusing on.”
Kickoff is slated for 12:30 p.m.
Saturday at Robert K. Kraft Field.
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TOUGH D |
The Lions, led by senior defender Shannon FitzPatrick, will aim for two consecutive Ivy victories this weekend.
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Other
Ivy Games
Brown at Yale
Having won two in a row, Brown will face
Yale in New Haven on Saturday. While the
Bears have a slightly better overall record,
both teams stand 2-2 in Ivy play.
Princeton at Penn
The first-place Tigers will face the Quakers,
last year’s champions, on the road on
Saturday. Penn has defeated Princeton six
consecutive times, including last year’s 28-21
victory.
Cornell at Dartmouth
After falling by only three points for
the third time this season last weekend,
the Big Green will host the Big Red in
Hanover on Saturday. Cornell has not
won an Ivy game yet.
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2:
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3:
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4:
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5:
Carolina at San Francisco (-6.5)
6:
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Andrews
(21-21)
Muneeb
Alam
(15-27)
Columbia
CLB
Princeton
[must not
use strong
language]
Indiana
St. Louis
1
2
3
Carolina
Alabama
The Light Blue has struggled at the
quarterback position this year. Neither
Kelly Hilinski nor Trevor McDonagh
has been effective for the Lions. Hilinski, who’s averaging only 62.6 yards per
game and only tallied 14 against Yale,
will start on Saturday and will need to
step up big time for the Lions.
Stop the Crimson O
The Crimson has been very effective on
offense this season. Harvard quarterback
Conner Hempel ranks third in the Ivy
League with 11 touchdowns, even though
he missed two games due to an injury.
Running back Paul Stanton ranks second
in the Ivies with 10 touchdowns. He’s also
averaging 97.1 rushing yards per game.
Play consistently
According to head coach Pete Mangurian, the Lions have failed to stay consistent on the field after bad plays or drives.
To defeat Harvard, which has won four
Ivy titles in the past 10 years, the Light
Blue will need to be more consistent and
not lose focus when things go bad.
BKN
STL
SF
LSU
FRIDAY
FIRST DOWN
POINTS
COLUMBIA
7.5
40.5
COLUMBIA
Yards Gained
524.8
HARVARD
409.1
Alex
Bernstein
(22-20)
Melissa
Cheung
(27-15)
Sigh
Columbia
Crimson
Columbia
Princeton
Princeton
Go,
Pittsburgh!
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
SF
’Bama
Let’s
keep it
rolling.
Indiana
St. Louis
San Fran
37.9
27.1
AGAINST
Yards Allowed
Princeton
HARVARD
FOR
Rebeka
Cohan
(18-24)
Ali, will
Quakers
you go to
Barclays
another
Nets
Fuck Crysby
game
SF
with me?
Kate
<3
PTN
Boo
Harvard.
Better play from QBs
PAGE 7
COLUMBIA
HARVARD
Daniel
Radov
(18-24)
Nothing
to see
here.
Crimson Tide
Volleyball looks for first win since season midpoint
Indiana
Pittsburgh
Carolina
LSU
176.0
429.0
Ryan
Young
(26-16)
Ryan
Turner
(24-18)
Gold Pants
CU
Penn
Quaker Oats
It’s
actually
+36.5
(!!!), still
easy
money.
Nets
Blues
Go,
Lions!!!
Jay-Z
Pittsburgh
49ers
SF
LSU
LSU
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Under Glance, women’s
basketball to open at LIU
BY ERIC WONG
The volleyball team (5-14,
3-7 Ivy) continues to look for
its first win in the second half
of the season,
with matches
against Yale
(15-4, 9-1 Ivy) volleyball
and Brown
(9-12, 5-5 Ivy)
this weekend.
The Lions are in
the midst of a four-game losing
streak, winless since Brown at
home back on Oct. 18.
Head coach Jon Wilson attributed some of the recent
struggles to the youth of his
team, giving critics a reminder
that his athletes face the same
challenges that all students do.
“The focus at
practice has been
slippery all year.”
—Jon Wilson, head coach
“The focus at practice has
been slippery all year, and not
sustained over long periods of
time,” Wilson said. “It was particularly slippery during exams and midterms. If we had a
more balanced team with more
veterans, the veterans in the
past handled exam weeks better than underclassmen, and so
the overall effect on the team
was greater than if we had a
few more juniors and seniors
around to carry the load.”
Wilson hopes that the team
can find the energy to have one
last push in the final two weeks
of the season.
“I talked to the team today,
and we had such great zeal and
innocence and intensity during preseason, and once school
starts, it’s hard to keep that,”
Wilson said. “But I said that
we’ve got eight, nine, 10 days left
in the whole season, let’s see if
we can work our way back into
that kind of focus and intensity
YOUJIN JENNY JANG FOR SPECTATOR
NEED TO WIN First-year Kesi Neblett and the Lions have struggled in the second half of the season. The Light Blue is in the middle of a four-game losing streak that goes back to Oct. 18.
|
and really make this a fun thing.”
One area that the Lions are
still looking for improvement
in is the endgame. The Lions
found themselves ahead during the critical moments against
Princeton but could not find
ways to close out the game.
“During practice, we’re making sure when we have rough
moments, we come back from
it,” first-year Kesi Neblett said.
“The big thing last week is that
we’d be neck and neck in the 18s
or the 20s, and so we’ve been
remaking that here. We’ll play
from 18-18, 20-20, 18-22, and the
down team will have to come
back. Because we’re in those
situations a lot.”
Yale is coming off a 3-2 loss
against Harvard, the team’s first
loss in 23 Ivy League matches,
dating back to Nov. 12, 2011.
“I think we’re definitely the
team that can give Yale another upset, too,” Neblett said. “It’s
definitely coming from us to focus on how we can support each
other and help each other, and
making sure that we have our
teammates’ backs because that’s
the only way we can beat them.”
After Yale, the team must
sustain its energy to find a result against Brown. Since the
two teams last played, Brown
has won two of its four matches,
while Columbia has yet to register another win.
The Lions start their match
at Yale on Friday at 7 p.m. and
play at Brown on Saturday at
5 p.m.
FILE PHOTO
BIG BRADFORD | The Light Blue, led by senior forward
Courtney Bradford, will face LIU Brooklyn on Saturday.
The Columbia women’s
basketball team will tip off
its season opener at LIU
Brooklyn on Friday. Playing
for the first time under new
head coach Stephanie Glance,
the Lions will take on the
Blackbirds, to whom they
have dropped four of their last
five contests. Columbia, led
by seniors Courtney Bradford
and Taylor Ward and sophomore Sara Mead, will return
to Levien Gymnasium for
the home opener on Sunday
against San Francisco. The
Light Blue will try to beat
the Dons for the first time in
program history.
— Catie Pellerin
GAMEDAY
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 • PAGE 8
COLUMBIA (0-7, 0-4 Ivy)
vs. HARVARD (6-1, 3-1 Ivy)
SATURDAY, 12:30 p.m., Robert K. Kraft Field
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QB TROUBLE | The Lions have struggled behind first-year quarterback Kelly Hilinski, who started the season as the Lions’ third-string playcaller and completed only two passes for 14 yards last weekend.
Football hosts Harvard, continues search for first win of year
BY MYLES SIMMONS
The football team (0-7, 0-4 Ivy) will
once again try for its elusive first victory
of the season on Saturday against Harvard
(6-1, 3-1 Ivy).
With a zero still in the
win column, head coach
Pete Mangurian said this football
week that reviewing last
week’s film was a painful
process, but the week’s
practices have still been good and physical.
Part of that comes from the coaches setting
a standard for play and refusing to lower
it no matter what the results have been.
“If you asked our team would I be the
same way right now if we were 7-0, the
answer would be yes,” Mangurian said
on Wednesday. “You’ve got to be able to
come in here and do your job every single week regardless of what happens the
week before. Obviously that’s hard to do
when things are going the way they’re going, but it is the goal and it is what we’re
trying to do.”
To solve that, the Lions need to be consistently strong in their technique for every
play. Mangurian said that one of the team’s
problems has been players’ tendency to
ad-lib when the game starts to turn in the
opposition’s favor.
“That’s not how you get out of a hole,
it’s how you create a bigger hole. But it’s
human nature to try to want to do something different instead of going back and
doing what you’re supposed to do correctly,” Mangurian said. “It’s hard to do—it’s
hard for any of us to do, to live by that standard. But that’s where we are.”
On Saturday, the Lions will line up
against a Crimson team that has won four
Ivy titles in the last 10 years with a consistent, effective system led by head coach
Tim Murphy.
“They’re just a really good football
team—I think everybody knows that,”
Mangurian said. “Coach Murphy has been
there for 20 years, and to be honest with
you, defensively they’re playing the same
stuff they did 20 years ago.”
Men’s basketball hosts Maryland-Eastern Shore in season opener
BY ELI SCHULTZ
The men’s basketball team will
kick off the season on Saturday when
the Lions take on Maryland-Eastern
Shore at home in Levien
Gymnasium.
Coming off a dismen’s
appointing last-place
finish in 2012-13, basketball
Columbia enters the
season in search of a
new core, following the
graduation of a talented senior class that
featured All-Ivy guard Brian Barbour.
The youthful Light Blue squad, featuring a trio of talented sophomore guards,
a very young frontcourt, and not a single
senior, will face a physically talented
opponent in its first test of 2013-14.
win, they will need to find a way to slow
down Columbia’s backcourt.
Led by sophomore guards Grant
Mullins, Maodo Lo, and Isaac Cohen,
who will all probably start on Saturday,
the Lions have a lot of depth at the
guard position.
Despite their limited experience at
the college level, Lo and Mullins especially have already proven that they
can make a big impact. Mullins was the
team’s second-leading scorer and a twotime Ivy League Rookie of the Week
as a first-year, and Lo had a couple of
very impressive games late in conference play. Cohen also showed signs of
promise last season, in particular as a
facilitator and ball-handler.
According to Smith, junior center
Cory Osetkowksi and first-year forward
Luke Petrasec will likely round out the
starting five this Saturday.
Given their youth, there may be even
more question marks than usual going
into the Lions’ opener.
“It’s always the first game,” Smith
said. “It can go a lot of different ways.
So hopefully our nerves are settled and
we do a good job.”
eli.schultz@columbiaspectator.com
One of Harvard’s most prominent defensive players is lineman Zach Hodges.
The defensive end came in second in the
Ancient Eight last season with nine sacks
and is second in the league this season with
5.5. Overall, Harvard is third in the conference with 22 sacks.
“They’re big, and they’re deep,”
Mangurian said. “They’ve done a good
job of recruiting. They’ve got good players. They’ve got a system, and they’re a
SEE FOOTBALL, page 6
the slate
volleyball
friday, nov. 8
at Yale, 7 p.m.
New Haven, Conn.
saturday, nov. 9
at Brown, 7 p.m.
Providence, R.I.
men’s soccer
saturday, nov. 9
vs. Harvard, 7 p.m.
Rocco B. Commisso
Soccer Stadium
women’s soccer
saturday, nov. 9
vs. Harvard, 4 p.m.
Rocco B. Commisso
Soccer Stadium
swimming and diving
saturday, nov. 9
vs. Harvard, 12 p.m.
Uris Pool
“It can go a lot of different
ways. So hopefully our
nerves are settled and we
do a good job.”
football
saturday, nov. 9
vs. Harvard, 12:30 p.m.
Baker Field
—Kyle Smith, head coach
men’s basketball
“They’re very athletic,” Columbia
head coach Kyle Smith said of MarylandEastern Shore. “They’ll get after it on
the offensive glass, they’ll press some,
they’ll play some zone, they’ll do some
things—they’ll use their athleticism, so
it’ll be a big challenge for us that way.”
The Hawks are coming off a difficult
season of their own, one in which they
finished 2-26 and tied for last place in
the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference.
In order to start their season off with a
saturday, nov. 9
vs. Maryland-Eastern Shore,
7 p.m.
Levien Gymnasium
women’s basketball
friday, nov. 8
at LIU Brooklyn, 7 p.m.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
FILE PHOTO
MONEY MULLINS | The Lions, led by sophomore guard Grant Mullins, who earned the honor of Ivy League Rookie of
the Week twice last season, will look to improve upon last season’s last-place finish, starting on Saturday at home.
sunday, nov. 10
vs. San Francisco, 2 p.m.
Levien Gymnasium
Weekend
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Writers scramble to pen novel in 30-day competition
BY BRENDAN DONLEY
Ask novelists about their craft, and they may talk of patience
and excruciating hours, weeks, months, and even years of solitude. But an annual competition challenges writers to pen a
novel in a mere month. For the last eight days, there’s been a
self-imposed challenge: a 50,000-word burden. For some, it
is a revived New Year’s resolution squeezed into 30 calendar
days, named as if it were a holiday itself: National Novel Writing
Month, or NaNoWriMo.
“Dear Burgeoning Novelist,” an email sent to past participants began, “I’m writing to tell you I need you...I’ve been swirling around in the breathtaking labyrinths of your unconscious
mind for a while now, and I’m itching to leap into the world.
The only way I can come out, though, is if you commit to writing me in November.”
As the instructions say on the event’s website, to win is simply to hit the word count. For those answering the latent novel’s
call, there’s no competition to be found in the NaNoWriMo
community—only mutual encouragement.
“It’s really just an exercise in getting words on the page,”
Devon DeSimone, BC ’15, said. “I tried previous years, but there
were always midterms and papers. This is going to be the year
that I hit 50,000 words.”
NaNoWriMo encourages writers to navigate away from
the typical terrain of manic isolation and push past the agony
of writer’s block. During the month, participants can gather to
share their progress at write-ins held around New York and
the rest of the country.
***
As of midnight on Thursday, 288,889 writers were officially
signed up to participate. Many are New Yorkers, including
DeSimone and a handful of other Columbia and Barnard students, who are hosting their own write-in later this month,
similar to others held around the city in a variety of locales–
some as unique as a Tribeca Whole Foods.
Alexis Camp, an organizer of New York write-ins since
2004, said she’s met novelists ranging from a 13-year-old girl—a
NaNoWriMo veteran who’s been participating since the third
grade—to a woman who traveled from the Netherlands in order
to join the New York community that has grown up around
the event.
Forums on the event’s website include listings for write-ins,
which are usually scheduled in cafés and restaurants. Volunteer
coordinators post announcements for official kick-off events
like this Saturday’s Writing Marathon, which will be held in
the East Village bar Kingston Hall and livestreamed online. Its
tagline is: “No word count left behind.”
At write-ins, participants are reminded to forget about editing. That can come later—quantity, not quality, is the name
of the game.
“People who come to the write-ins actually tend to record
a higher success rate than those who don’t,” said Camp, who’s
one of five municipal liaisons around the city. “One thing we’ll
do is a ‘word sprint,’ where we set a timer for 10-15 minutes,
everyone puts their head down and writes, then they call out
at the end their word count.”
However, even those participants who are declared winners don’t end up finishing their novels by the end of the
month. Narrative arcs are left unconcluded, loose ends remain
untied, and the prose is often too raw to be considered a finished product. But for most would-be novelists, that doesn’t
matter.
“The great thing about this whole idea is that I don’t necessarily have to take what I write so seriously, knowing that I can
just edit later on,” DeSimone said.
And those who lose? Well, there’s always a silver lining to
be found.
“One year I wrote 23,000 words on the last day and just
fell short of the 50,000, at a point where I was still in school,”
Camp said. “Every paper I had to write after that point was a
piece of cake.”
For anyone not too burned out by the rigor of putting pen to
paper for 30 days, December and the following months provide
the space for crafting and editing. Though publication is not
the goal, more than 250 NaNoWriMo novels have been published by traditional means, including bestsellers such as Sara
Gruen’s “Water for Elephants” and Erin Morgenstern’s “The
Night Circus.”
These instances of commercial success are the exception.
NaNoWriMo carries little influence in the publishing world,
due in large part to the volume of unfinished and unpolished
submissions. According to Keith Kahla, an executive editor
of St. Martin’s Press, the NaNoWriMo crop yields hardly any
commercially viable works.
“National Novel Writing Month has little intersection with
mainstream publishing,” he wrote in an email. “And while I
think it must have an impact on the writers, it’s tough to draw
a straight line between National Novel Writing Month and
mainstream publishing houses.”
Although Kahla praised NaNoWriMo as a great way for
writers to get started, he also said that one month of writing
alone is unlikely to bring a novel much success.
“Once someone finishes their novel they have to revise
SEE NANOWRIMO, page B3
This Weekend in $35
Inside…
GRAPHIC ILLUSTRATION BY LEILA MGALOBLISHVILI, KAREN NAN, AND RYAN VELING
1. Museum of Arts & Design (free, p. B2)
2. Baron Vaughn ($15.00, p. B3)
3. ‘The Tempest’ ($20, p. B4)
WEEKEND
PAGE B2
Subway survival
stories
I
’ve seen a lot of things in
New York. I’ve seen even
more on the subway: Two hipsters carrying on a conversation
and a framed painting as the
2 train crosses into Brooklyn;
SARAH
a man riding the 1 looking to
“end world hunger” by collect- BACHU
ing change in a Starbucks cup; a
woman taking her birth control Fas hi on
after it fell on the floor of the 6
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train.
Like many out-of-towners,
I was christened as a New Yorker on the other
end of a turnstile. Raised in a sleepy suburb
of Chicago, I knew little about riding trains.
As their parting gift to me, my family did not
give me money for a Metrocard. They gave me
hand sanitizer in case I touched any part of the
subway.
With this kind of hypochondriac fear brewing, you’d think I’d hate the subway once I got
here—and you’d be absolutely right. It started
with hating the person with swine flu next to
me; he seemed to think that covering a cough
was merely a suggestion. Soon, my fear evolved
to include the strange man who rubbed against
me more than a rowdy drunk guy at the Heights
and the constant fear that someone would steal
my bag if it wasn’t in my lap. Before I knew it, I
had more neuroses than Woody Allen—and he’s
a New Yorker, so he has plenty.
As one who doesn’t hail from the tri-state area
or Washington, D.C.—where I hear the subway
system is impeccable—I remember being a little
anxious the first time I swiped my Metrocard. I
mean, who doesn’t remember their first time? I
swiped it so fast that I had to swipe it again.
Like many Barnard girls, my first time was
during NSOP. We were going to the New York
Aquarium (roughly 21 miles away) but the only
way we could get there was an almost two-hourlong subway ride. Who wouldn’t have their
doubts about that?
I felt claustrophobic as we took the 1 train
to Times Square. As I would learn later, the 1 is
Broadway’s equivalent of a bullet train, filled
with 20 more people than a car can comfortably
allow, but without the speed. It was hell under
earth. And of course, in 10 minutes, someone
was coughing on me. The ride greatly improved
once we transferred to the Q. In fact, I believed
I had found heaven below earth when I realized
that some trains were air-conditioned. I mean,
my dorm wasn’t even air-conditioned, so I felt
like I was living the good life.
Even so, I was relieved when we arrived at
the aquarium... until I found out that it was
pouring. I was wearing a white shirt and black
bra (spring break, wet T-shirt style), and a jog
was required to get to the aquarium. This did
not add up to a happy trip for my fellow Barnard
students, and I—who had only wanted to find a
little Nemo, not swim with him—found myself
running with the others through the rain back to
the safety of the subway. As we shivered under
the air conditioning vents, deciding where the
best stop would be to get some lunch, I looked
out the window at my new city. Maybe the subway and I would make it.
We are a little rocky sometimes, but I’m glad I
have the subway. Often, it gives me a snapshot of
the crazy, scary New York that used to intimidate the midwestern girl in me. But every once
in a while, I experience something that makes
me fall in love with the city all over again.
Sarah Batchu is a Barnard College sophomore and an associate page design editor for
Spectator. Fashion Realist runs alternate
Fridays.
New York Comedy
Festival
Best
of
It’s no secret that New York is home to some of the best comedians working today—
from Jerry Seinfeld to Louis CK to the cast of “Saturday Night Live.” This weekend,
the talents of New York’s funniest will be out in full force, with shows across the
city. From Tobias Fünke to some relatively unknown comedians, it’s all on display
this weekend. —EMMA FINDER
Baron Vaughn
New Mexico-born Baron Vaughn is almost too
relatable. He’s not sure how he feels about the
term “black nerd,” since it’s one people often
apply to him: “The only thing I’ve ever been
able to really get into, like as an activity, as
a hobby ... is naps.” He’s performing Friday
at 10:30 p.m. at the Upright Citizens Brigade
Theater in Chelsea.
Breakout Artist
Comedy Series
Carolines on Broadway will host several comedians, including rising stars Mark Normand
Michelle Wolf, at the highlight event of their
breakout artist comedy series. You may not
know Normand and Wolf, but their stage personas would have you thinking they’ve been
at the mic for 20 years.
David Cross
If you’re itching to attend a Tobias Fünke lecture on analrapy (or a performance of “You’re
a Bad, Bad Man” from “Annie Get Your Gun”),
you’re out of luck. Fortunately, the “Arrested
Development” actor David Cross will be answering questions at the Paley Center for
Media tonight at 8:30 p.m.
Jim Jefferies
If Louis C.K. were Australian and more crass,
he would be Jim Jefferies. Beyond offensive,
Jefferies is brutally honest about topics
ranging from sex to religion. You’ll be shaking
your politically correct head and trying not
to laugh at jokes you’d never think of—or at
least never say out loud. Jefferies performs at
Carnegie Hall on Saturday at 8 p.m.
ILLUSTRATION BY LESLEY THULIN
Neighborhood Watch
By Netana Markovitz
Graphic by Burhan Sandhu
DIZZY’S CLUB COCA-COLA
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10 Columbus Circle, #5 in the Time Warner Center.
Located at the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center
in the Time Warner Center, this is the perfect location for a classy night out. Even if you are not a jazz
aficionado, the club’s incredible view of the city and
delectable menu items—such as its raspberry chocolate
cake—make it accessible to all. Jazz giants like Christian
McBride and Ted Nash frequent its stage.
BUS CIR
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NOVEMBER 8, 2013
Although touristy, Columbus Circle has a lot
to offer if you do it right. With restaurants and
boutique jazz clubs, Columbus Circle is the
place to be, whether you’re looking for a posh
night in the city or a fun afternoon.
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Free with a CUID, this museum is a hidden gem in New
York City. It currently features an exhibit called “Out
of Hand,” which focuses on innovative technologies
in art such as 3-D printing, digital knitting weaving,
and machining. Be sure to check out the artists’ Open
Studios on the sixth floor, where you can converse with
artisans as they craft their masterpieces. Though pricey,
the museum store also offers an incredible array of jewelry, home goods, and purses. Even if it’s just to window
shop, be sure to stop by.
1796 Broadway
Right next door to Maison Kayser, this
gelateria is the perfect place to go for
dessert or hot chocolate. Featuring flavors such as nocciola (hazelnut), pistacchio, and mint chocolate chip, this is a
great way to satisfy your sweet tooth for
fewer calories than regular ice cream.
w. 58th st.
NOVEMBER 8, 2013
WEEKEND
PAGE B3
YouTube’s musical
potential
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COURTESY OF MAGNOLIA PICTURES
LIVE AMMO | Saoirse Ronan stars as Daisy, a girl trying to stay alive and deal with her emotions during World War III in “How I Live Now,” a film
adaptation of Meg Rosoff’s acclaimed novel. Director Kevin Macdonald said he wanted to focus on Daisy’s experience as an insular character.
‘How I Live Now’ film captures teen angst during World War III
BY ALEXANDRA WARRICK
Director Kevin Macdonald’s film adaptation of
the thrilling World War III novel “How I Live Now”
explores the teenage female experience in the midst
of wartime.
The lush and heart-stopping adaptation of Meg
Rosoff’s acclaimed novel follows Daisy (Saoirse
Ronan), a self-proclaimed “fucking curse,” as she
crosses the pond from America to the United
Kingdom. With her fringed leather jacket, ripped
tights, bleached hair, and kohl-rimmed eyes, moody
and malcontent Daisy refuses conformity in both
appearance and attitude. But her terse, bristly façade slips a little when she meets Eddie (George
MacKay), with whom she has an instant connection. Daisy considers herself broken, and Eddie,
a strong, sturdy, kind boy who we see healing an
injured hawk, is a prime candidate to fix her. Their
dizzy romance takes place against the backdrop of
the brutality of World War III.
It was the novel’s “original[ity] in story and style”
that attracted Macdonald.
“A friend of mine gave it to me to read. I thought
it was a very beautiful book,” he said in an interview
with Spectator. “I didn’t necessarily know I was going to turn it into a film ... I just read it for pleasure.”
Macdonald also had strong opinions about
Daisy’s character and her difficulties relating to
others, who he says is “unhappy and feels unloved.”
“She doesn’t know how to love other people.
Part of her unhappiness is that she is infected by the
endless stream of things that she is told to do and
not to do by women’s magazines and her friends.”
The film illustrates this with a seething voiceover that hisses overlapping Cosmopolitan headlines (“Why Do Men Pull Away?”) and generalized
abuse (“You’re disgusting, you know that?”).
The film makes a specific statement about the
tribulations of the teenage female experience,
enhanced by celebrated playwright Penelope
Skinner’s involvement in the project. It also shows
a harrowing side of war, according to Macdonald,
who points to an “undercurrent of sexual violence”
after the start of the war, something he said filmmakers rarely capture.
The film boasts an eclectic soundtrack, which
Macdonald picked himself. “The first part of the
film is bucolic and romantic, and I wanted to evoke
a sense of the magic of the English countryside and
the folk culture of England,” Macdonald said.
To achieve this effect, he employed the dreamy
indie soundtrack of Nick Drake and Sandy Denny.
As the action picks up and Daisy and her cousins
fight for their lives, Macdonald said the music “becomes more electronic, more alienating.” For this,
he turned to composer and Mercury Prize nominee
Jon Hopkins.
The film features strong performances from its
young cast, most notably Harley Bird, who plays
Piper, and Tom Holland, who portrays her adventurous brother, Isaac. When asked about the challenges and rewards of working with young actors,
Macdonald laughed and promised there were only
perks.
“It’s almost uniformly rewarding to work with
young actors. They brought an innocence to the set
which infected the whole crew,” he said. “It sometimes felt like a holiday camp and I was the camp
commander.”
arts@columbiaspectator.com
Eminem album features the 41-year-old spitting hate like a teen
BY HENRY GREEN
Upon its first day of release, Eminem’s new
album, “The Marshall Mathers LP 2,” has already
had its first three singles break into the Billboard
Top 20. Eminem continues to enjoy popularity
compared to his early 2000’s contemporaries—50
Cent, Nelly—as they become fodder for pop-culture jokes. Of course, 50 Cent and Nelly were
about more than just rapping—they were about
melodies and choruses, things Eminem has never
given much thought to (except for his collaborations with Dido and Rihanna).
“The Marshal Mathers LP 2” is packed with
genuinely dazzling rapping. Eminem still flows
with the wonderful intricacy of an underground
MC from the 1990s, and his rapping prowess still
stands out in today’s hip-hop landscape—though
at times for its less desirable aspects. The album’s
production was handled almost entirely by Rick
Rubin and is a throwback to the heyday of the
’80s, when the Beastie Boys and Run-D.M.C.
rapped over big guitar riffs and classic rock
samples. The sound of “The Marshall Mathers
LP 2” may be regressive, but Rubin’s work gives
Eminem the space he needs to perform his verbal acrobatics while reinforcing the aggression
of his lyrics.
Speaking of aggression: like the first “Marshall
Mathers LP,” the new album is full of vitriol. The
targets are not new: women, gay people, fans
who won’t leave him alone, and bullies. On the
“Marshall Mathers LP,” Eminem said many incendiary, insensitive, and even offensive things. Back
then, however, there was always the suggestion
that he didn’t really believe the things he was
saying—that he was toying with the segment of
his audience that didn’t get it, winkingly playing
up the dangerous image he had been awarded by
parents groups across America.
The album was released at a time when
Eminem was the most controversial artist in
America, and part of its allure was in how daringly it played with public perception—was
Eminem really a sociopath, or just a trickster?
The record seemed to imply that he was just playing around. That didn’t make what he said any
less likely to hurt the targeted groups of people,
but it did mean that we felt like we could justify
listening to it.
When Eminem says the same things in 2013,
however, they feel inexcusable. He’s no longer the
most controversial artist in America—he’s barely
controversial at all. He has no relevant persona
to play with. He is simply being homophobic and
misogynistic, seemingly for no reason at all.
The same can be said for the overwhelming
anger that pervades “The Marshall Mathers LP
2.” Why is Eminem still like this? On the first
“Marshall Mathers LP,” he was reacting to being thrust into sudden superstardom, to feeling like he couldn’t trust his family, and then to
having his privacy invaded everywhere he went.
His anger was noxious, but at least it felt genuine and perhaps even understandable given his
circumstances.
On this album, he seems almost desperate for a
reason to revive that rage, more than once jumping back in time and rapping from the perspective
of an angsty teenager. His stories about getting
bullied are effective, but not effective enough to
make me forget that Eminem is now 41 years old,
and can think of nothing better to rap about than
how much it sucks to get bullied in high school.
The anger no longer feels justified or even real—
just a pose that he knows how to articulate, maybe
the only one.
The one time he seriously examines life as a
41-year-old is on the song “Headlights,” an apology to his mother, who has been a target for most
of his career. Like many Eminem songs, it suffers from a fantastically terrible chorus—sung,
inexplicably, by the lead singer of fun.—but the
verses are disarmingly gentle, even if they occasionally veer into the saccharine. He talks about
being embarrassed by “Cleaning Out My Closet,”
the 2002 spleen vent against his mother that
became one of his biggest hits: “at the time I
was angry / Rightfully maybe so ... That song I
no longer play at shows and I cringe every time
it’s on the radio.”
This is Eminem reevaluating life as a middle-aged man, and it feels like the honest, compassionate thoughts of a real human being.
But “Headlights” is a stand-alone, an island in
the endless ocean of anger that pervades “The
Marshall Mathers LP 2.” It is followed by “Evil
Twin,” where Eminem makes a joke about wanting to roast chicken heads, and “Baby,” in which
he compares himself to a baby that will beat you
up if you put him in a corner. Eminem is still commercially viable enough to keep making songs like
these forever, but I for one have no interest in listening. Rapping at an elite level at 41? Inspiring.
But rapping with the vitriol of a teenager at 41?
That’s just no way to live.
ith all the hype surrounding the YouTube
Music Awards, it’s clear that
YouTube is trying to raise
its stake in the music business. What’s received slightly
DAVID
less hype, however, is that
ECKER
YouTube is also rumored to
be developing a subscription
Sl ig htly
music service. YouTube is a
one-of-a-kind platform that
O ffKey
has changed the way we find
and listen to music, but it doesn’t seem to
have any inherent advantage when it comes
to music streaming. Hosting one awards show
is a publicity stunt, but creating an entirely
new service requires a serious commitment
of time and capital. Why, at this critical point
in its growth, would YouTube be turning its
attention to an entirely new service, instead
of using those same resources to outcompete
rival video services? The answer, I believe,
requires a look at the shared history of music
and YouTube.
YouTube has always had a somewhat conflicted relationship with the music industry:
While it can certainly be used to help sell records and tickets, it is also a haven of leaked
songs and bootlegged concerts. More than
any other service, it has contributed wholeheartedly to the “new normal,” in which
music is free and can be summoned from
wherever your phone has more than two bars.
It has also, however, been at the center of
many industry happenings, which has led to
increased record sales that would not have
survived on their own steam.
To complicate things even more,
YouTube holds the key to offering the extra something that the
music industry needs in order
to thrive.
Case in point: You remember seeing the
“Wrecking Ball” video, but it’s doubtful you
remember the iTunes debut of “Bangerz”
with as much zeal. For eight years now (has
it only been that long?), YouTube has helped
the music industry generate buzz while simultaneously working at what seems like
cross purposes to create a world of disposable media.
To complicate things even more, YouTube
holds the key to offering the extra something
that the music industry desperately needs
in order to thrive. As the mp3 (or AIFF, for
my audiophiles out there) becomes increasingly disposable, it falls on other aspects of
the business to generate revenue, whether
from live performances, bonus content, or
increased interaction with fans. Because
YouTube is an interactive site that constantly
combines the aural and the visual, it can work
wonders for artists attempting to build their
fan bases. Even at its best, however, the integration of video, music, and fan interaction is
frustratingly limited.
The potential is there, but we have
only barely begun to tap into it. As I write,
YouTube has revealed essentially nothing about its new service, but one can only
hope it will be a step in the right direction.
YouTube has a lot to gain from the large music presence that is currently making money
off its platform; provided that everybody
plays fair, the music industry has a lot to gain
from formalizing its already strong relationship with YouTube. As a cynic, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that this arrangement
could potentially become a one-way transfer:
with YouTube capitalizing on all of its music
connections and the music industry suddenly
losing its ability to freely promote itself. As a
music lover, however, I’m hopeful that both
parties involved in that deal are smart enough
to realize that—if one of them is shafted—it
will hurt the other in the long run. A world
without a vibrant music industry will damage not only the future of music but also the
future of YouTube. Something tells me that
YouTube know this, and hopefully this deal
and all future deals will reflect it.
David Ecker is a Columbia College junior. Slightly
Off Key runs alternate Fridays.
NaNoWriMo: Creating community through creative competition among writers
NANOWRIMO from page B1
and expand it, query and interest an agent, and that
agent then has to submit it,” he said. “The ones that
make it over all those additional hurdles might land
on my desk.”
***
For most NaNoWriMo writers, there’s no time
to worry about what will land on a publisher’s desk.
There’s only time to write, to discover a story, to push
onward against a stubborn word count. Many writers
may not know until mid-November exactly what story
they’re writing.
“I have my basic characters and I have the premise
of my plot,” DeSimone said. “But I don’t have as much
in between planned out. I’m interested to see where
they’ll end up.”
Lauren Hirata, a NaNoWriMo writer from New
York, puts herself in a similar boat, having leapt into
November with little planning prior to day one.
“My novel will be some kind of chick lit, somewhere from young adult to ‘50 Shades,’” Hirata said,
“But I really don’t know where it’s going at this point,
which is super exciting but also terrifying.”
“It can be as structured or as unstructured as you
want it,” said DeSimone. “There are a lot of people
who just sit down with only a vague idea or character,
but I know one girl who has literally been planning the
entire month of October what she’s going to be doing.”
With or without pre-planning or post-NaNo publication goals, writers have to find a way to hit 50,000
words, somehow juggling the responsibilities of the
college workload, kids, or work.
“The question ends up being ‘What are people able
to put aside?’” Camps said. “If they have children, you
can’t put away your children for a month. Part of it
is learning to deal with those things that get in the
way–being able to turn off the TV and spend the next
two hours writing.”
For the small cohort of Columbia and Barnard
writers tackling NaNoWriMo, staying on pace might
not always be feasible. When she lived in Pakistan in
high school, Sauleha Kamal, BC ’15, participated in the
event with a friend, but regretted the fact that she’s
been stifled since coming to college.
“Ever since I got to college I’ve only seriously written when I’ve taken a writing class,” she said. “Other
things just end up taking priority.”
For Kamal, it’s mostly been a problem of timing.
“November’s really not a good month for it,” she
said. “For college students, I think summer would be
better.”
***
Surviving NaNoWriMo can seem like an impossibility, especially for students, and many participants
find strength not in some solitary zen but instead from
the community they established online and through
official write-ins.
On the site’s forums, writers can sign up to work
with a “NaNo Mentor,” someone to turn to with
anything from motivation to narrative problems.
According to Camp, others will make a “writing nemesis,” who can be a fun, trash-talking rival pushing for
the highest word count. “I have two this year,” said
Camp. “I think they’re beating me.”
Besides the official events, the history of New
York’s writing scene seems to trickle inspiration down
to participants.
“New York City is teeming with writers,” Hirata
said, “It’s really inspiring to see strangers posted up
in coffee shops with their laptops.”
And whenever this year’s peers aren’t enough,
she’ll just look back a few decades.
“At some point, I want to go write in a
coffee shop and pretend Allen Ginsberg
will show up and bounce ideas with me.”
***
Luckily, history (and Ginsberg) aside, New York
is still home to a lively and rich literary scene that
NaNoWriMo writers and general bookworms
can draw inspiration from. This weekend alone,
McNally Jackson will host prolific authors Ben
Lerner and Geoff Dyer, crime enthusiasts can hunker down with Housing Works’ International Crime
Book Club, and the famed KGB will continue its
weekend tradition of regular readings with an open
mike Friday night and scheduled fiction readings
the next two nights.
And even after those events are nothing more
than crossed out scribbles in a date book–even after
November ends and NaNoWriMo draws to a close–
there are still books waiting to be written.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2013
Flipside
Guide
‘The Tempest’
American Ballet Theatre dazzles with
mixed repetoire
BY ALEXANDRA VILLARREAL
From tutus and technique to shipwrecks and Shakespeare, American
Ballet Theatre’s mixed repertoire boasts a majestic array of colors, perspectives, and ideas, allowing for an innovative examination of concepts
in motion. Dance veterans and up-and-coming artists share the stage
to foster a sensitive and insightful collaboration that starts slow, but
showcases new dimensions within the company that’s bringing ballet
into the 21st century.
The glowing experience had started off slow at first, given that
the first act on the playbill was a mediocre rendering of Balanchine’s
“Theme and Variations” that defies traditional trends toward simplicity and demands that the audience focus on line and precision instead
of costumes and sets. Polina Semionova dances the principal role, and
her Bolshoi training is evident: Neither she nor her corps de ballet
implements Balanchine’s tight and structured style, and each movement is distinctly Russian. Semionova’s partner, Cory Stearns, also underwhelms with a lackluster performance, which is refined but lacks
the persona that is so intrinsic to ABT’s leading men. It is soloist Yuriko
Kajiya who brightens the piece with dynamic épaulement that strays
from tradition in the most stunning manner—she elevates Balanchine’s
piece to new artistic levels.
The night becomes significantly more exciting with “Clear,” choreographed by Houston Ballet’s Stanton Welch. Center Stage’s Sascha
Radetsky stars in this contemporary ballet, which demonstrates the
tremendous capacity of ABT’s male corps. He embodies professionalism
and skill with his gorgeous and complex dancing and shares a poignant
pas de deux with Paloma Herrera, who proves phenomenally on point
in this explorative interpretation of sight. The curtain closes over a
stunning final tableau: She bends in a port de bras backward over his
arm, a spotlight drawing attention to the intimate pose.
But the true spectacle is Alexei Ratmansky’s “The Tempest,” premiering this season with ABT. Based loosely on the original Shakespeare
play, this depiction employs a comedic plotline, gearing the ballet emphatically toward a modern audience. Marcelo Gomes—celebrated
for his portrayals of a Rothbart in “Swan Lake”—is a powerhouse as
Prospero. His control is immaculate, and his stamina is remarkable;
there is no question that he is ABT’s most energized and engaging
personality. Daniil Simkin plays the ideal Ariel, a spirit-creature whose
lively nature adds fun and vivacity to the choreography. Contrastingly,
Herman Cornejo rolls on the floor as Prospero’s deformed servant
Caliban. Cornejo obviously enjoys his part, embracing baseness and
filth. Finally, Sarah Lane is breathtaking as Miranda, and Joseph Gorak
as her lover Ferdinand exudes youth and freshness as the perfect prince.
Although Balanchine may not complement ABT, the company succeeds with two other strong works that reveal its dancers’ elegance
and nuance. “The Tempest” is especially worthy and wonderful, reenvisioning classical ballet and coupling creativity and history for a
remarkable outcome.
The American Balley Theatre’s mixed rep shows run through Nov. 10
at the David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza (at 63rd Street).
Tickets start at $20.
alexandra.villarreal@columbiaspectator.com
‘Matangi’
M.I.A.’s junior albums fails to satisfy
expectations and her abilities
BY KATIE MCMAHON
M.I.A.—simtaneously Sri Lankan and British, a pop diva and an
electronic beatmaster, a dirty rapper and a childlike vocalist—has
made her art and her living from the compelling mixture of contradiction. Her meteoric rise in the late noughties exploited an
ironic, don’t-give-a-damn, outsider sensibility. Her strident debut
album “Arular,” which was released in 2005, was a critical—if not
financial—triumph. However, 2007’s “Kala” threw a spanner in the
works of corporate America’s pop machine and its identikit, lipsyncing automatons. M.I.A.’s dissonant, surprising, sometimes angry, sometimes playful sound was the result of a uniquely satirical
attitude toward modern electronic pop, her celebrity status, racism, drugs, gang violence, mainstream rap, and the global economy.
Sadly, the protracted delay in the release of her third album,
“Matangi,” proved to be the portent that critics hoped it wouldn’t
be. With her third album, M.I.A has lost her cutting edge and, to
some degree, the outsider perspective that made her cool.
The cross-cultural and novel sound of her former breakthrough hits (think back to 2007 and the brilliant summer anthem “Paper Planes”) is overplayed in “Matangi.” The album
is supposedly inspired by and named for the Hindu goddess of
spoken word and music, and while she claims that this is her
“spiritual album,” she doesn’t let us forget it. The first track,
“Karmageddon,” displays a thoughtless cultural theft—complete
with corny fake sitar intro—that seems to be more for the sake
of expediency than spiritual empathy, and it sounds all the more
like an empty pastiche for it.
It doesn’t get any better with the title track, in which subtle
and evocative Sri Lankan influences from M.I.A.’s glory days are
replaced by overused beats that are fished out of the back of some
production archive and paired with rhymes that might generously
be described as cringeworthy. Apparently tribal-sounding yelps
are the background to a drone of “Preach like a priest/I sing like a
whore” and “I’m school of hard knocks,” in a song reminiscent of
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SWEET HOUSE | Among the offerings at the new Maison Kayser location in Columbus Circle is the tarte aux abricots et pistaches,
which features apricots and pistachio pieces to offer a variation on a traditional French tart.
Maison Kayser
New Columbus Circle location shows
off bakery’s tasty offerings
BY YVONNE HSIAO
The Maison Kayser in Taiwan is arguably where my interest in
French cuisine was first piqued. My mum fed me my first baguette
from this bakery’s outpost in Taipei after I had a particularly bad day
at school. I remember trying to break off the tip—I almost cut myself
on the crust—and the surprise of the soft, chewy center. The simple
bread’s combination of textures and nuanced taste won me over. This
summer in Paris, a friend and I visited the Maison Kayser on SaintGermain. Though I wondered if it was selling out, visiting a chain store
in the middle of Paris, the macarons and yeasty baguette proved to be
well worth the expansion of our waistlines that afternoon. With two
favorable experiences in this bakery, I would say that the new location
at in Columbus Circle met my expectations once again.
The New York location has a different selection than in Paris or
Taipei, which shows how Maison Kayser pays attention to the location of its stores and its effect on the types of bread can be baked.
Although I find the taste of whole-wheat baguettes a bit strange—I
mean, if you’re going to be eating processed food, you might as well
go all out and enjoy a white baguette—Maison Kayser tips its hat to
the health-conscious in New York with its selection of nut-crusted
bread. The baguette that I got was how I think baguettes should always be: Not too yeasty, but the air bubbles inside that indicated an
appropriate amount of live yeast was used. The exterior was crunchy
and golden, and at the same time the inside was moist, chewy, and soft
so that it felt almost like biting a marshmallow. Properly salted and
lightly dusted before being baked, the baguette was spot-on. It’s the
only place in New York so far that I’ve found a baguette to my liking.
The croissant, however, was mildly disappointing. The puff pastry
didn’t seem to rise very much, and the pale crescent seemed to have
been egg-washed only once, but in the wrong places, pooling in the
crevices so that it held down the butter and kept the layers of dough
from expanding. Though I did go at 4:30 p.m. and the bakery had been
what the final number in the musical “Annie” might have sounded
like had its protagonist chosen to pursue a career in pole dancing.
The contradictions between trashy Americana and Eastern spiritualism are just too vast. M.I.A.’s violent gangster persona and her
“poor girl done good” narrative just don’t mix.
“Only 1 U” and “Warriors”are similarly overproduced and under-conceptualized. The former attempts to be a statement of
adamant self-belief, but it comes off as brash and narcissistic,
which is bound to happen when an artist belts “there’s only 1
U” and “ding ding ding ding ding” over a trashy, heavy beat for
three minutes. It’s increasingly reminiscent of the musical temper tantrum “When I Grow Up” by the Pussycat Dolls. The long,
meditative om on “Warriors,” alongside more faux-sitar, leads
abruptly into another beat-heavy and angry shouting match of
a song; Production effects compete with M.I.A’s own vocals for
which can sound more obnoxious. Yet both these tracks—which
are at least danceable, depending on level of intoxication—pale in
comparison to the insipid “Come Walk With Me,” which is possibly the first R&B, electronic, crooning love ballad ever attempted.
Those wondering why it is the only such composition in existence
can listen to the track.
open since 7 a.m., I’m not convinced that it’s a good excuse.
For dessert, I sampled the tarte aux abricots et pistaches.
Obnoxiously labeled in French, it was generously decorated with
roughly chopped pistachio bits and it looked like it was dunked in a
pleasantly tart neutral glaze. The presentation was perfect, except for
the filling spilling out slightly over the edges. The seedless, peeled,
sugar-marinated apricots were chewy with a bit of bite, and not overly
sweet. Still, it was overall a sweet pastry that even a non-dessert person like myself could finish.
Eric Kayser’s stores have proved good since my childhood on three
different continents. Somewhat surprisingly, of the New York French
bakeries that I have tried, most are, in my opinion, chains; I don’t have
a problem with this, as long as they uphold consistent quality and
provide customers with products made from top-notch ingredients,
as Maison Kayser does.
Maison Kayser is located at 1800 Broadway (at 58th Street).
yvonne.hsiao@columbiaspectator.com
YVONNE HSIAO FOR SPECTATOR
BERRY TASTY | The tarts at Maison Kayser are tasty and make
the bakery a chain restaurant worth checking out.
previous 13 songs.
The most frustrating aspect of “Matangi” is that it’s not difficult to detect flashes of M.I.A.’s mischievous former brilliance
within these tracks. The politically charged lyrics of “Bring the
Noize,” the truly great EDM beat behind “Boom Skit,” and countless other tiny moments belay a talent that has not disappeared
but has been smothered by disputes with the record label, overproduction, and perhaps the curse of success itself. Knowing
M.I.A, the unadulterated horror of “Matangi” could all just be
an expensive, self-sabotaging joke at the industry that she both
hates and participates in. After all, to top it all off, the queen of
contradictions is streaming the album in full on YouTube. But it
sometimes seems doubtful whether M.I.A would be able to give
“Matangi” away.
“Bad Girls” is by far the standout track of
the album, striking the perfect balance
between sexy club tune and self-knowing
hip-hop cool. The only catch is that we’ve
heard it already as a single release... two
years ago.
Thankfully, “Come Walk With Me” is a turning point for
“Matangi” and “aTENTion,” reflects some of the clever wit and
downright weirdness that once denoted M.I.A.’s hallmark biting
pop irony. “Bad Girls,” is by far the standout track of the album,
striking the perfect balance between sexy club tune and self-knowing, hip-hop cool. The only catch is that we’ve heard it already as
a single release... two years ago.
The album undoubtedly improves and develops toward its end.
The penultimate track, “Know it Ain’t Right,” is actually good, with
a sad and edgy chorus refrain seeming to mock the efforts of the
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M.I.A.’s third studio effort falls far short of her abilities.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2013
2013 Ivy Season Timeline
Graphic by Ryan Veling
Jan. 19
at Cornell (L 68 - 54)
Despite senior Brittany Simmons’
impressive game, the Lions still lost.
Though the teams entered the half
tied at 37-37, Cornell pulled away in
the second half to nab the win.
Feb. 1
vs. Penn (L 52 - 40)
Despite an energetic first half in
which they amassed 31 points,
the Lions could not sustain their
aggressive play and ultimately fell to
the Quakers.
Jan. 26
vs. Cornell (L 71 - 64, 2 OT)
Columbia overcame a 12-point
deficit to force this thrilling game
into double overtime but was unable
to avenge its previous week’s loss to
the Big Red.
Feb. 2
vs. Princeton (L 87 - 41)
After some early shot clock issues
leading to a stoppage of play, the
Lions could not keep pace with the
dominant Tigers, who more than
doubled Columbia’s score.
JANUARY
Jan. 26
vs. Cornell (L 66-63)
Cornell went 25-29 from the freethrow line en route to a 66-63
victory at Levien.
BY KETHAN RAO
2
Feb. 15
vs Brown (W 62 - 51)
The Lions ended their string of Ivy
losses with a triumph over Brown
that also secured head coach Paul
Nixon the women’s basketball
program record for wins.
FEBRUARY
Jan. 19
at Cornell (W 67 - 58)
Columbia opened Ivy League play
with a road victory behind a doubledouble from Mark Cisco. It was the
first time the Lions had won a road
game to begin Ivy League play since
1993.
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Feb. 9
at Dartmouth (L 62 - 52)
Despite mounting a comeback that
cut Dartmouth’s 17-point lead to
just four points with 3:25 left in the
game, the Lions could not finish the
job and would have to wait another
week for their first Ivy win.
Feb. 1
at Penn (L 62 - 58)
Miles Cartwright’s jumper broke
a tie with 30 seconds to go as Penn
dropped Columbia for its second
straight loss.
Feb. 2
at Princeton (L 72 - 66)
Columbia recovered from a slow
start, but lost its third straight close
game against the Tigers. Maodo Lo
scored a career-high 16 points.
Feb. 8
vs. Dartmouth (L 60 - 57)
Alex Mitola’s late layup, steal, and trey
lifted the Big Green over Columbia in
a disappointing game at Levien.
Feb. 10
vs. Harvard (W 78 - 63)
Steve Frankoski scored 27 points as
Columbia drained three after three to
defeat the Crimson in a rare Sunday
contest, which had been delayed due
to incliment weather.
Led by seniors Brian Barbour and Mark Cisco, Columbia came into the season with high expectations. Though
they were voted to finish third in the preseason media poll and had a strong nonconference run—including a signature win at Villanova—the Lions ended up last in the league with a 4-10 record in Ivy play, finishing 10-16 overall.
Columbia’s biggest win in the Ancient Eight came Feb. 10 over Harvard, when the Light Blue shot 52.9 percent
from behind the arc to come away with a double-digit victory.
The Lions had another dismal season, going 5-23 overall and 3-11 in conference play. Their two
nonconference wins came over Fairleigh Dickinson on Nov. 18 and St. Francis on Dec. 11. The
Light Blue suffered through a nine-game losing streak between its win over St. Francis and its
victory over Brown in February—a span of over two calendar months. Head coach Paul Nixon
was fired immediately following the conclusion of the season.
Feb. 16
vs. Yale (L 62 - 43)
The Lions were not able to
capitalize on the previous day’s win
over Brown, suffering through long
scoring droughts in a loss to the
Bulldogs.
Feb. 22
at Princeton (L 98 - 36)
The Lions were not even
competitive in a blowout loss to
Princeton. They surrendered more
than a third of their points off
turnovers.
March 1
at Yale (L 66 - 49)
Though Amara Mbionwu pulled
down a season-high 10 rebounds,
Columbia fell 66-49 to Yale. The
Bulldogs had three players with
double-digit points.
March 2
at Brown (W 58 - 55)
Columbia notched its second win
of the season over Brown in an
exciting game. Senior Tyler Simpson
posted 26 points on the night.
Feb. 23
at Penn (L 66 - 48)
Despite hitting five three-pointers in
the first half, the team faded in the
second half to give Penn a doubledigit win.
March 8
vs. Harvard (L 61 - 44)
Despite another strong, 19-point
game by Simpson, the Lions
fell to Harvard. The Crimson
outrebounded the Light Blue 46-31
in the contest.
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BY MADELEINE STEINBERG
March 9
vs. Dartmouth (W 48 - 39)
The Lions rang in Senior Night
in style, posting a 48-39 win over
Dartmouth thanks to big nights by
Miwa Tachibana and Simmons.
March 12
at Harvard (L 71 - 26)
In their season finale, the Lions were
blown out yet again, closing 2013 with
a loss on the road in a game that was
rescheduled due to Winter Storm
Nemo.
MARCH
Feb. 15
at Brown (L 58 - 55)
Brown’s Matt Sullivan hit a threepointer with 10 seconds left, and
John Daniels missed a layup at the
other end as Columbia, lacking a
point guard due to injuries, fell to
the Bears.
Feb. 16
at Yale (L 75 - 56)
Yale shot 62 percent en route to an
easy victory over the shorthanded
Lions in New Haven.
Feb. 22
vs. Princeton (L 65 - 40)
The Lions struggled offensively at
home, falling to Princeton for their
third straight loss.
Feb. 23
vs. Penn (W 58 - 41)
Grant Mullins scored 18 points
to lead the Light Blue over the
Quakers, snapping its three-game
losing streak.
March 1
vs. Yale (W 59 - 46)
The Lions defeated Yale at home to
improve their Ivy record to 4-7. Lo
had 20 points, three assists, three
blocks, and two steals in the win.
March 2
vs. Brown (L 65 - 40)
Brown’s Tucker Halpern nailed a
late three to drop Columbia. The
Bears outscored the Lions 41-27
in the second half for a comeback
victory.
March 8
at Harvard (L 56 - 51)
With Brian Barbour finally able
to play significant minutes, the
Lions managed a halftime lead
but couldn’t hang on, losing their
penultimate game of the season.
March 9
at Dartmouth (L 64 - 58)
Dartmouth used an early 11-0
second-half run to erase Columbia’s
halftime lead and win the season
finale in Hanover.
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Rosenberg will be
key factor for CU
BY ELI SCHULTZ
The men’s basketball team will enter the season with a number of proven
young guards and a young, largely untested
frontcourt.
As one of the most experienced players
on an otherwise young team, junior forward
Alex Rosenberg could be the guy that ties it
all together for Columbia.
Rosenberg played a lot of minutes for the
Light Blue both as a first-year and as a sophomore. He also gained valuable experience
this past summer playing for gold medalwinning Team USA at the Maccabiah Games
in Israel. In addition to his experience, the
6-foot-7 junior gives the Light Blue a lot of
versatility. He has played both power and
small forward for Columbia, and offensively he is an effective distributor and capable
scorer, both in the post and on the perimeter.
According to head coach Kyle Smith, the
Lions will be counting on Rosenberg to contribute at both the three and the four this
season.
“Alex will play both spots,” Smith said.
“He’s another facilitator and he’s a good,
well-rounded guy, too.”
Rosenberg’s offensive versatility has
helped him put together a solid résumé in
his first two years. After averaging 7.2 points
per game as a first-year, Rosenberg was the
Light Blue’s third leading scorer as a sophomore, averaging 9.5 points per game. He also
played a major role in two of Columbia’s biggest wins last season, scoring a career-high
21 points in the win at Villanova and contributing 13 points in the victory over Harvard,
making him the Light Blue’s second leading
scorer in that game.
On the defensive end, Rosenberg’s length
makes him a major asset in any zone scheme.
But according to Smith, Rosenberg also
has his shortcomings on the defensive side
of the ball, particularly when he’s playing
in the post.
“We relied on him to play too many minutes as a four last year—and he’s good, he’s
a matchup nightmare on the offensive end,”
Smith said. “But when we get over 12-15 minutes with him defensively I think we lose
something rebounding-wise.”
How much the Lions play Rosenberg
down low will likely depend on how well
the team’s four first-year big men adapt to
the college game. But Rosenberg says he has
worked hard on his post game, should the
Lions call on him to play extended minutes
Smith begins
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GUNS N’ ROSES | Junior forward Alex Rosenberg, who played in Israel over the
summer, will be a big part of the Light Blue frontcourt this season.
as a power forward.
“I’ve worked a lot in the post this year,”
Rosenberg said. “So I think you’ll see a different side of me, instead of just driving off
the top of the key or whatnot.”
Sophomore guard Grant Mullins also
indicated that Rosenberg will be one of
the guys the Lions will rely on to fill the
void left by the graduation of center Mark
Cisco, the team’s leading rebounder in
2012-2013.
“Collectively I think we’ll need to fill
the rebounding gap from Cisco,” Mullins
said. “I think [sophomore forward] Zach
En’Wezoh, [junior center] Cory Osetkowski,
and Rosenberg will have a big part in that,
and they’ve shown it in practice already.”
Rosenberg’s experience playing overseas may also help him take the next step as
he enters his third season in Morningside
Heights.
“I played with some professionals,
against professionals, with professionals,” Rosenberg said. “And having been in
that mindset of how hard they work, how
they train their bodies, just working on
different aspects of your game, I think it’s
definitely helped me a lot. I feel a lot more
comfortable.”
Both in the post and on the perimeter,
the Lions will be counting on Rosenberg to
play an integral role. With the Maccabiah
Games and another offseason under his belt,
Rosenberg says he’s ready for the challenge.
“I feel like my game’s developing a lot
in all areas, and it’s definitely helped, seeing what other guys have done to get to that
level,” Rosenberg said. “I think I’m almost
there. I’m going to keep trying for it.”
eli.schultz@columbiaspectator.com
Bradford stepping
up as team leader
BY MUNEEB ALAM
Head coach Kyle Smith enters his
fourth year on the bench coming off his
first losing season at Columbia. After a
15-13 (6-8 Ivy) first season, the last two
conference seasons have been disappointing for the Smith-led Lions. They’ve
had a combined 19-11 nonconference
record but only an 8-20 Ivy record,
thanks to untimely scoring droughts and
injuries. After last season’s bigger-lineup
experiment didn’t work out as planned,
Smith said he expects this year’s team to
be smaller and more mobile on defense.
He has reworked the team’s offense to fit
a group of guards that no longer includes
graduated point guard Brian Barbour
and a frontcourt that no longer includes
graduated bruising center Mark Cisco.
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BY CATIE PELLERIN
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QUEEN OF THE COURT-NEY | Senior
forward Courtney Bradford was one
of three players voted to be part of the
women’s basketball team’s new “leadership unit.”
Change is in the crisp autumn air, as
the women’s basketball team prepares for
its 2013-2014 season. While transitioning
to a new coach and a new system for the
new year, the Lions can continue to rely
on the steady production and leadership
of senior forward Courtney Bradford.
“She’s consistent in how she practices, the effort that she gives, and getting
more consistent in how vocal she is,” head
coach Stephanie Glance said. “She sets
the tone, she sets the standard, and it’s
great when you have a team leader who
does that.”
Like Glance, Bradford’s teammates
recognize her leadership abilities, recently voting her captain. (The team has
done away with the traditional title of
captain, opting instead to call Bradford,
along with sophomore guard Sara Mead
and senior guard Taylor Ward, part of a
“leadership unit.”)
Mead praised Bradford’s contagious
energy.
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The Rookies
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WOMEN’S
Jeff Coby
Position: Forward
Height/Weight: 6-8 /
220 lbs.
Hometown: Pembroke
Pines, Fla.
Accomplishments: Played
on U.S. junior team in
Russia in summer 2011. Helped lead Choate Rosemary Hall to state runner-up in
senior year.
Chris McComber
Position: Forward
225 lbs.
Hometown: Nepean,
Ontario, Canada
Accomplishments:
Earned bronze medal at
2011 FIBA World Championships with
Canadian U16 team.
Carolyn Binder
Position: Guard
Height: 5-9
Hometown: Scarsdale,
N.Y.
Accomplishments: Holds
Rye Country Day School
record for points and assists, with 2,034 and 736, respectively.
Tori Oliver
Position: Forward
Height: 6-0
Hometown: Manassas,
Va.
Accomplishments: Won
two Washington Catholic Athletic Conference
championships—as a sophomore in 2011
and a senior in 2013.
Kendall Jackson
Position: Guard
Height/Weight: 5-8 / 160
lbs.
Hometown: Union City,
Calif.
Accomplishments: Led
Suffield Academy in
Connecticut to Class B championship in
senior year with 12 points, six assists, and
3.9 rebounds per game.
Luke Petrasek
Position: Forward
205 lbs.
Hometown: Eart Northport, N.Y.
Accomplishments:
Helped lead Northport
to Long Island Class AA title and N.Y.
state semis with 18 points, 11 rebounds,
and five blocks per game as a senior.
Carolyn Gallagher
Position: Forward
Height: 5-10
Hometown: New York,
N.Y.
Accomplishments: Scored
over 1,000 points in her
career at Archbishop
Malloy, averaging 19 per game as junior
and 20 as a senior.
Devon Roeper
Position: Forward
Height: 6-3
Hometown: San Diego,
Calif.
Accomplishments: Holds
all-time record The Bishop’s School for scoring
and rebounding, with 1,542 points and
1,167 boards in her high school career.
Ara Talkov
Position: Guard
Height: 6-0
Hometown: Swampscott,
Mass.
Accomplishments: Won
Northeastern Conference South title in 2012.
Named Northeastern Conference all-star
as a junior and senior.
Conor Voss
Position: Center
Height/Weight: 7-1 / 245
lbs.
Hometown: St. Cloud,
Minn.
Accomplishments: Earned
defensive player of the
year honors at St. Cloud Cathedral for his
strong performance in his senior year.
Projected
Starting Five
Maodo Lo,
Guard
Sara Mead,
Guard
Luke Petrasek,
Forward
Amara Mbionwu,
Forward
Grant Mullins,
Guard
Cory
Osetkowski,
Center
Isaac Cohen,
Guard
Taylor Ward,
Guard
Graphic by
Regie Mauricio
and Ryan Veling
Miwa Tachinaba,
Guard
Courtney Bradford,
Forward
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Glance ready to
revamp Lions
BY KYLE PERROTTI
The women’s basketball program believes it made a serious step in the right
direction this offseason by hiring veteran
coach Stephanie Glance.
The athletic department brought in
Glance in March after deciding not to renew the contract of former head coach
Paul Nixon, who led the Lions to just
eight wins in 56 games over the last two
seasons.
And now Glance is thrilled to have the
unique chance to coach in the Ivy League.
“I look at it as a great opportunity. Any
time you take over a program it depends
on what you’re going into,” she said. “Our
players are very coachable, and they work
very hard.”
Glance brings to the table more than
25 years of coaching experience at the
collegiate level, including stints under
legendary coaches Pat Summitt, head
coach at Tennessee, and the late Kay
Yow, who was inducted into the Women’s
Basketball Hall of Fame in 2000.
With the Light Blue, Glance is focused on building a solid program from
the ground up. She said she is thrilled
with how hard the team has been working to learn her system and improve their
execution.
“Every single day is like a learning
overload for them, and to their credit, I
feel like they have done an unbelievable
job,” Glance said at Media Day. “They
have really embraced our staff and
they have been learning different drills
and different systems, offensively and
defensively.”
The players have been receptive to
Glance’s enthusiasm and her push to
change the team’s culture.
“Coach Glance is very encouraging,
but very intense at the same time,” said
senior Courtney Bradford, who was the
Lions’ top rebounder last season. “She expects the best out of us because she knows
we are great.”
It’s not just Glance who is new, but the
entire assistant coaching staff, which believes Glance’s willingness to take an active role in the players’ lives is what separates her from the rest of the pack.
“She is going to care about these
kids every single day, and not just for
two hours a day,” assistant coach Sheila
Roux said. “She cares about their lives,
the classroom, the organization, and what
they’re doing with their families. That is
something that, when you get to know
her, really stands out.”
Roux is taking on the role of recruiting
coordinator for the team, where she will
work closely with fellow assistant coach
Ginny Boggess to scout the kind of talent that the squad will need to win down
the road. Additionally, on the court, she
will be working with the guards, strengthening their skill sets. Before coming to
Columbia, Roux worked with Glance for
three years at Illinois State.
“Sheila is great on the court,” Glance
said. “She can do many things, and that’s
GLANCING AT THE FUTURE | New head coach Stephanie Glance will try to
turn around a team that has won just eight games over the last two years.
what I love about this staff. Everyone has
that ability.”
Boggess came to Morningside Heights
to work in Glance’s system for the first
time, but she brings with her 11 years of
collegiate coaching experience.
“Ginny Boggess is a person I did not
know prior to coming to Columbia, and
she came recommended from people I
know through the profession,” Glance
said. “So we interviewed her, offered her
the job, and she’s been great.”
Bradford has enjoyed working with
the new staff thus far.
“Coach Boggess and Coach Roux have
different personalities, but they both
bring something that the team needs,”
she said. “Coach B is very inspirational
and uplifting, and she is always available,
and Coach Roux can be a bit harder and
say, ‘Here is what I need you to do.’”
Glance and her staff said they are excited to have the opportunity to change
the Lions’ style on the court and the way
they work toward success.
“We are going to play to our strengths,
and wherever people can score the best
is where our offense will get them to,”
Glance said. “I am a person that had great
mentors, and I learned a lot about the
game. And so the people that I worked
for—Kay Yow and Pat Summitt, in particular—they didn’t have set systems and
plug people into it. They built systems
around the personnel they had.”
The Lions have bought into Glance’s
system and are looking forward to implementing it this season.
“She’s working to our strengths,” sophomore guard Sara Mead said. “She is very
good at seeing what we are all best at, but
she also realizes what we need to work
on, and that is what she is building the
offense around.”
Although Glance knows there is a lot
of work to do to turn the program around,
she is looking forward to the challenge.
“I took over a program at Illinois State,
where I followed a person who had won
28 games the previous two years,” she
said. “Coming to Columbia is a different
situation, and I like the opportunities that
lie within that.”
Bradford emerging as team leader in final season at CU
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“She’s a spark plug for our team,” she
said. “She has a great presence on the court
and off the court. She is very strong and finishes well underneath the basket. We can
definitely count on her.”
The team has come to rely on Bradford’s
low-post play. In the 2012-2013 season she
led the Light Blue with 166 rebounds, 62
of which came on the offensive end, to
rank sixth in the league. And she’s looking
to continue crashing the boards in the upcoming season.
“In practice, coaches always talk about
playing to your strengths, and I definitely
think for our team, and for me personally, that means playing in the low post,”
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Bradford said. “Going out and playing
as hard as I can and playing as best as I
can includes scoring and rebounding for
the team, getting as many rebounds, getting as many easy put-backs on offensive
rebounds.”
With hopes of averaging a doubledouble this season, Bradford worked with
Tommy Sheehan, Columbia’s director of
strength and conditioning, over the summer, improving her fitness as well as focusing on her low-post moves. She anticipates
that these workouts will pay off not only in
her individual stats, but also where it really
matters—in the win column.
“For me to have a good year means the
team will also have a good year,” she said.
Glance sees improvement not only in
Bradford’s basketball abilities but also in
her understanding of the game and her role
as a leader.
“We can have very candid conversations
about her leadership and her potential as a
leader and her potential as a player,” Glance
said. “That’s a great indication of growth to
me, that you can sit and talk to your head
coach very candidly about our current situation, where she is as a player, as a leader,
and discuss how we are going to improve
in both of those areas.”
Bradford credits much of her success as
a leader to her teammates.
“This is a great group of girls,” Bradford
said. “They make my job as a leader easy because I feel like everyone on the team understands their role. Everyone communicates
so well on and off the court. I think we all
hold each other accountable.”
With such strong team chemistry,
Bradford has high expectations for the
Lions in the upcoming season.
At the top of her list? “Always going after that Ivy League Championship. That’s
always what we want, that’s always our
goal,” she said. “Being over .500 as a team
this year—that’s a huge goal. Just winning a
lot more games, a lot of on-court cohesion
and playing well.”
If Bradford can lead her teammates to
such success under the guidance of Glance
and the new coaching staff, then the biggest
changes in Columbia’s women’s basketball
program might still be yet to come.
Backcourt depth
key for Lions
BY STEVEN LAU
The setup of this season’s storyline
for the men’s basketball team lies in
stark contrast to that of 2012.
A year ago, the Lions were widely
seen as contenders for the Ivy League
title with a roster anchored by four seniors, including star point guard Brian
Barbour and center Mark Cisco.
But reality fell far short of expectations, and by the end of the season—despite a few glimpses of greatness, like
wins over Villanova and Harvard—the
team found itself four games under .500
and dead last in the Ivy League.
This November, as the Light Blue
gears up for the start of the 2013-2014
season, the team sports a lineup without seniors and bears a last-place preseason ranking.
Despite the team’s youth, the Lions
point to their experience and depth, especially in the backcourt, as factors that
will help them outdo the low expectations of outside observers.
“We have a young group that actually has a lot of experience of playing
minutes,” head coach Kyle Smith said.
“Even though we didn’t finish up the
way we’d like last year, we had some
nonconference success, and a lot of
those guys that participated in that are
returning.”
Having all started a significant number of games last year, sophomores
Grant Mullins and Maodo Lo and junior captain Steve Frankoski will likely
anchor the backcourt. But for the three
guards, this year will vary notably from
last year.
For Mullins, this season is an opportunity to step back into the role of
point guard—occupied by Barbour last
year—that he was used to playing in
high school.
“Coming in here, it was actually different for me to play off the ball, so now
I’m kind of going back to the thing I’m
more used to,” Mullins said.
Mullins also enters this season having played on the Canadian
Development Team over the summer,
an experience that he said has given
him a boost in confidence.
Lo showed himself to be one of the
fastest players in the conference last
season when flashing through the lane.
According to Smith, Lo’s improved ball
handling will be important this season, as will the fact that Lo is fitting in
better on the team.
“As a freshman, it’s very hard to adjust,” Lo said. “I came from Germany, so
I was also adjusting to a whole different
type of basketball. Now I’ve understood
what this basketball is about, and I’m a
lot more comfortable this year.”
Frankoski, a lights-out shooter from
beyond the arc with the third-highest
three-point field goal percentage in the
league last year, has a significant obstacle to overcome: A wrist injury has had
him in a cast since September.
While Smith said that Frankoski
is the undisputed emotional leader of
the team and that he expects the New
Jersey-raised guard to be back in stride
by the time conference play starts in
January, it is uncertain how the team’s
on-court character will shape up before then.
Part of this uncertainty stems from
the fact that there are at least three
other backcourt players in a position
to contribute minutes: sophomore Isaac
Cohen, first-year Kendall Jackson, and
junior Meiko Lyles.
Though Cohen started only one
game last year, Smith repeated throughout the season that he had the potential to become a regular contributor. According to Smith, Cohen made
big strides in the offseason with his
ball handling, which will help offset
Barbour’s absence, and he is expected
to be in the starting five when Columbia
kicks off the season on Nov. 9.
“We’re still evolving a little bit, and I
think the more comfortable Isaac gets,
the more you want him making plays,”
the fourth-year head coach said.
Jackson, the only guard in the Lions’
recruiting class of 2017, is the team’s
shortest player, coming in at 5-foot-8.
Though small, Smith said Jackson is
very quick, and as the only pure point
guard on the roster, he gives the team
a different look.
But the real X-factor of Columbia’s
backcourt may be Lyles.
After taking a year off due to personal reasons, Lyles is returning to
the team amid much speculation from
outsiders as to how he will impact the
backcourt.
Lyles is a proven shooter, hitting
more than 46 percent of his field goal
attempts in the 2011-2012 season,
and despite some rust, Smith said he
FILE PHOTO
FROM HIGH TO LO | Sophomore guards Maodo Lo (top) and Isaac Cohen (bottom), along with sophomore Grant Mullins, will give the Lions a lot of firepower in
the backcourt.
expects Lyles to log minutes early on.
“What we need from him is his
shooting ability, for sure,” Smith said.
The combination of Mullins, Lo,
Frankoski, Cohen, Jackson, and Lyles
will likely allow the Lions to make up
for the production lost in Barbour’s departure. Though co-captains Frankoski
and Cory Osetkowski will be Columbia’s
most visible leaders, it remains to be
seen how the Light Blue will fill in the
gap left by Barbour, Cisco, and classmate Dean Kowalski’s graduation.
In addition to his role as captain,
Osetkowski will be a big factor on
the court. He and fellow junior Alex
Rosenberg are the only returning frontcourt players who have played significant minutes. That means the Lions
will often look to sophomore Zach
En’Wezoh and their four first-year big
men in their rotation.
And fans won’t have to wait at all to
see one of the newest additions to the
team in action, as Smith said this week
that 6-foot-10 forward Luke Petrasek
will likely start the Nov. 9 opener. At
just 205 pounds, Petrasek will need to
put on weight to battle effectively in
the paint, but the first-year from Long
Island has shown promise.
Last season, fatigue from back-toback games and second-half breakdowns that led to close losses were
often chalked up to inexperience and
youth. Though the Lions remain a
young team, they have experience all
around and considerable depth in the
backcourt, which Smith hopes will
make a difference come conference
play in January.
steven.lau@columbiaspectator.com
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The teams and where they’re going
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Yale*
Dartmouth*
Harvard*
Penn*
Princeton*
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
East Lansing, Mich.
Portland, Ore.
Portland, Ore.
Portland, Ore.
Levien Gymnasium
Elon, N.C.
Levien Gymnasium
Lewisburg, Pa.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Hamilton, N.Y.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Ithaca, N.Y.
New Haven, Conn.
Providence, R.I.
Princeton, N.J.
Philadelphia, Pa.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Hanover, N.H.
Boston, Mass.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
9:00 P.M.
5:00 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M.
2:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
TBA
7:00 P.M.
6:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
1:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
Portland, Ore.
M4, M5, M6
W6, W7
Hanover, N.H.
M28, W22
Boston, Mass.
M29, W21
Hamilton, N.Y.
M14
Women’s Schedule
W1
W2
W3
W4
W5
W6
W7
W8
W9
W10
W11
W12
W13
W14
W15
W16
W17
W18
W19
W20
W21
W22
W23
W24
W25
W26
W27
W28
Fri., Nov. 8
Sun., Nov. 10
Fri., Nov. 15
Fri., Nov. 22
Sun., Nov. 24
Fri., Nov. 29
Sun., Dec. 1
Wed., Dec. 4
Sat., Dec. 7
Mon., Dec. 9
Sat., Dec. 21
Sat., Dec. 28
Mon., Dec. 30
Sun., Jan. 5
Sun., Jan. 18
Sat., Jan. 25
Fri., Jan. 31
Sat., Feb. 1
Fri., Feb. 7
Sat., Feb. 8
Fri., Feb. 14
Sat., Feb. 15
Fri., Feb. 21
Sun., Feb. 23
Fri., Feb. 28
Sat., Mar. 1
Fri., Mar. 7
Sat., Mar. 8
LIU Brooklyn
San Francisco
Lafayette
Cal State Fullerton
Farleigh Dickinson
Portland
Portland State
Saint Francis
Colgate
Iona
Kennesaw State
Lehigh
Bryant
Stony Brook
Cornell*
Cornell*
Yale*
Brown*
Princeton*
Penn*
Harvard*
Dartmouth*
Brown*
Yale*
Dartmouth*
Harvard*
Penn*
Princeton*
East Lansing, Mich.
M3
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Levien Gymnasium
Easton, Pa.
Levien Gymnasium
Hackensack, N.J.
Portland, Ore.
Portland, Ore.
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Levien Gymnasium
New Rochelle, N.Y.
Kennesaw, Ga.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Ithaca, N.Y.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Boston, Mass.
Hanover, N.H.
Providence, R.I.
New Haven, Conn.
Levien Gymnasium
Levien Gymnasium
Philadelphia, Pa.
Princeton, N.J.
7:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
8:00 P.M.
12:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
7:30 P.M.
10:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
4:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
2:00 P.M.
4:30 P.M.
2:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
1:30 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
7:00 P.M.
Ithaca, N.Y.
M19W16
New Haven, Conn.
M20, W24
New Rochelle, N.Y.
W10
Hackensack, N.J.
W5
Lewisburg, Pa.
M10
Easton, Pa.
W3
Brooklyn, N.Y.
M13, W1, W8
Princeton, N.J.
M22, W28
Elon, N.C.
M8
Levien Gymnasium
M1, M2, M7, M9, M11, M12, M15,
M16, M17, M18, M24, M25, M26,
M27, M30, M31
W2, W4, W9, W12, W13, W14,
W15, W17, W18, W19, W20, W25,
W26
Philadephia, Pa.
M23, W27
Kennesaw, Ga.
W11
Men’s Roster
Providence, R.I.
M21, W23
Women’s Roster
No.
Name
Pos.
Ht.
Wt.
Yr.
Hometown
No.
Name
Pos. Ht.
Yr.
Hometown
1
Coby, Jeff
F
6-8
220
Fr.
Pembroke Pines, Fla.
1
Ward, Taylor
G
5-7
Sr.
Oregon City, Ore.
Mead, Sara
G
5-7
So.
Winchester, Va.
2
Cohen, Isaac
G
6-4
210
So.
Orlando, Fla.
2
3
Mullins, Grant
G
6-3
175
So.
Burlington, Ontario, Canada
00
Tachinaba, Miwa
G
5-4
Jo.
Los Angeles, Calif.
4
Jackson, Kendall
G
5-8
160
Fr.
Union City, Calif.
11
Binder, Carolyn
G
5-9
Fr.
Scarsdale, N.Y.
Talkov, Ana
G
6-0
Fr.
Swampscott, Mass.
5
Frankoski, Steve
G
6-2
175
Jr.
Florham Park, N.J.
12
11
En’Wezoh, Zach
F
6-8
220
So.
Kennewick, Wash.
13
Roeper, Devon
F
6-3
Fr.
San Diego, Calif.
12
Lo, Maodo
G
6-3
180
So.
Berlin, Germany
15
Stachon, Lizzy
C
6-3
Jr.
Des Moines, Iowa
Gallagher, Carolyn
F
5-10
Fr.
New York, N.Y.
13
Rosenberg, Alex
F
6-7
215
Jr.
Short Hills, N.J.
21
15
Petrasek, Luke
F
6-10
205
Fr.
East Northport, N.Y.
24
Owusu, Crystal
G/F 5-10
Jr.
Oxnard, Calif.
21
Springwater, Noah
G
6-3
175
Jr.
San Francisco, Calif.
30
Patton, Kayla
G
5-10
So.
Fountain Hills, Ariz.
Ramsey, N.J.
32
Mobley, Campbell
F
6-1
Jr.
Nashville, Tenn.
Oliver, Tori
F
6-0
Fr.
Manassas, Va.
20
Quinn, Paddy
G
6-1
175
So.
22
Lyles, Meiko
G
6-3
190
Jr.
Nashville, Tenn.
32
23
Osetkowski, Cory
C
6-11
258
Jr.
Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
6-1
Jr.
Bowie, Md.
McComber, Chris
F
6-8
225
Fr.
Nepean, Ontario, Canada
Mbionwu, Amara
Santucci, Nicole
F
32
34
44
C
6-4
Sr.
Beaverton, Ore.
St. Cloud, Minn.
51
Bradford, Courtney
F
6-1
Sr.
Alpharetta, Ga.
52
10
Voss, Conor
C
7-1
245
Fr.
Around the League
Harvard only Ivy returning Princeton enters season as
without question marks
heavy favorite again
BY MUNEEB ALAM
The defending champion Crimson
is the runaway favorite to three-peat.
Harvard returns with all major contributors save guard Christian Webster, and
regains 2012 first-team All-Ivy forward
Kyle Casey and 2012 second-team AllIvy guard Brandyn Curry from yearlong
absences. With depth both up front and
along the perimeter, Harvard is a matchup nightmare for Ivy foes.
The Tigers finished only a game out
of first in 2013 but look poised to take a
step back in 2014 after the graduation
of star forward Ian Hummer. Although
Princeton returns four starters, including
versatile forward Denton Koon and guard
T.J. Bray, it will need to make significant
adjustments after struggling in the few
minutes of each game when Hummer was
on the bench.
Led by senior Austin Morgan, the
Bulldogs rode their depth to a thirdplace finish in 2013. Now, junior trio
Armani Cotton, Javier Duren, and Matt
Townsend, boosted by the return of guard
Isaiah Salafia, who replaces Morgan as
the veteran guard on the roster, give Yale
a good chance to finish in the top half of
the conference for the 13th season in a
row.
The Bears will try to rely on first-team
All-Ivy guard and Columbia bugaboo Sean
McGonagill and a strong frontcourt, led
by reigning Ivy Defensive Player of the
Year Cedric Kuakumensah, for another
top-half finish. Although Brown should
do well inside, its outside game will likely suffer after the graduations of guards
Matt Sullivan and Stephen Albrecht.
The Quakers return their entire roster from last season, and will likely again
look to guards Miles Cartwright and Tony
Hicks, forward Fran Dougherty, and center Darien Nelson-Henry to carry the
team. A guard-heavy roster means that
Penn needs the latter two to stay healthy.
Dougherty was injured for much of last
season, but when healthy, he and NelsonHenry were effective at both ends of the
floor.
The Big Red has many shoes to fill this
season. Cornell will be without six of its
top seven in minutes played from last season—including injured first-team All-Ivy
forward Shonn Miller—with sophomore
sharpshooter Nolan Cressler as the only
returnee. A new-look team may surprise
some opponents, but more likely, the Big
Red will find it difficult to string together
wins after losing so much talent.
The Big Green is very young for the
second year in a row, with 12 of 15 players
either sophomores or first-years. Guard
Tyler Melville, the only senior, cemented
his spot in the lineup after a strong finish
to the season, joining Columbia-killing
guard Alex Mitola and junior forwards
Gabas Maldunas and John Golden.
muneeb.alam
BY TRUDI PATRICK
With three consecutive Ivy League
championships under their belt, the
Tigers are again the preseason title favorites. Princeton concluded the last
campaign 22-7 overall and ran its cumulative four-year Ivy record to a staggering 54-2. Its sole concern is finding a suitable replacement for Niveen
Rasheed, one of the best players in Ivy
history.
The sole team to defeat Princeton
over the past four years was Harvard.
The Crimson will return two 2012 AllIvy performers in Christine Clark and
Temi Fagbenle. Clark ranked only behind Rasheed in points-per-game average, while Fagbenle ranked ninth.
Fagbenle also ranked third in rebounds
per game, earning the Ivy Rookie of the
Year award.
Penn moved up in the ranks from two
consecutive fourth-place finishes in the
preseason poll to finishing third in the
2012-2013 season. The Quakers return
three standout players: three-time AllIvy scoring machine Alyssa Baron, AllIvy honorable mention Kiera Ray, and
Kara Bonenberger.
Yale also returns with a principal
player, 2011 Rookie of the Year Sarah
Halejian, this season.
Cornell and Dartmouth concluded
the season fifth and sixth, respectively,
while Columbia and Brown tied for seventh place in the league.
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KIERA WOOD, DEPUTY PHOTO EDITOR
ALISON MACKE AND MYLES SIMMONS, SPORTS EDITORS
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SAMMY ROTH, EDITOR IN CHIEF
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