The women’s hockey team has gotten off to a fast start on a season that already has all the indications of becoming a special one. The Red (5-3-0, 5-1-0 ECAC) currently sits in second place in the ECAC and is ranked seventh in the nation.

Less than a month into the season, the Red has five key league victories –– among them a 2-0 shutout win over first-place Clarkson (12-2-1, 6-1-0 ECAC).

Sophomore forward Catherine White can always be counted on to demonstrate a prominent role on the women’s ice hockey team. This past weekend, for example, White scored one goal during both games, and tallied an assist in Saturday’s game against St. Lawrence.

With a 29-6 romping of Skidmore College on Wednesday, the men’s polo team has improved to 6-1 on the season. With the Red’s only loss coming to Virginia, Cornell has beaten the likes of Cowtown Polo Club, Yale, UConn, Harvard, UConn again and Skidmore. The team has yet to be defeated at the place it calls home –– the Oxley Equestrian Center –– where it awaits Texas A&M and Virginia later this weekend.

The Red continues to show that skill and experience can overcome athletic disadvantages. On Wednesday, Cornell defeated UMass on the Minutemen’s home court. The Red (2-0, 0-0 Ivy) used superior execution and shooting ability in overcoming noticeable disadvantages in quickness and athleticism against its Atlantic 10 foe.

The men’s hockey team leads the country in scoring with an average of 4.40 goals per game. Tonight, the Red’s sizzling offense will be put to the test against Ivy League foe Princeton, which is riding a three-game unbeaten streak into Lynah. Tomorrow night, Cornell will host Quinnipiac in a battle of the top-2 scoring teams in the NCAA.

It was an unsuspecting Friday night when I got the text-message, “Come see 2012! It will be fantastic!”

“Questionable,” I thought to myself.

Already almost two months old and nearing the end of its big-screen stint, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story calls attention to an ongoing epidemic: the delusion of American government about unrestrained free enterprise. As expected, Moore’s portrait is maddening.

Towards the end of my first year of law school I, like most of my classmates, attended a meeting in preparation for the writing competition. The writing competition is used for the law journals at Cornell to select their associates for the next year. At this meeting all the journals gave a brief presentation and distributed a handout providing information on their journal; during the presentation for one of the journals, I noticed that when they formed they originally funded themselves with a bake sale. This struck me as an excellent idea, and I decided I wanted to start my own law journal, The Cornell Journal of Space Law, which I would fund by selling cookies shaped like rocket ships, the sun, etc. (if this idea failed it was suggested to me that I should solicit Richard Branson for funds). While I never followed through with this idea, I do actually remain very interested in space law as a field, and many law students still approach me to discuss or joke about space law.

A public hearing concerning regulatory measures for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing for the local Marcellus Shale natural gas resource was held at the State Theater in Ithaca last night, the topic of discussion: the draft of the Supplemental Generic Environmental Impact Statement (dSGEIS).

Claude Lévi-Strauss, often referred to as “the father of modern anthropology,” was renowned in life for his unifying theories and sociological bridging between tribal and “civilized” cultures. The French anthropologist, who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 100, was honored in a panel discussion of his life’s work yesterday in the Kroch Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.