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Ithaca took home the top spot as the best college town in the United States by the website Schools.com. | Page 3

Despite a last place pick in the Ivy preseason poll, football boasts confidence heading into 2017. | Page 28

Sun writers take on the best — and worst — of the summer. | Page 18

Solar Eclipse to Darken Ithaca

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

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14th president | Pollack’s official installation ceremony this Friday will begin on Ho Plaza and later move to the Arts Quad.

C.U.Prepares for Inauguration Two day ceremony comes after Pollack technically started in April

By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Staff Writer

As students filter into their dorm rooms and apartments, President Martha E. Pollack, former provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, faces her own inauguration as Cornell’s 14th president this Friday.

Though she technically assumed the presidency on April 17, 2016, Pollack’s inauguration will be a two-day event on August 24 and 25. All inauguration events are free and open to the public, with no RSVP required, according to the inauguration official website run by the Inauguration Steering

Committee.

Kicking off the inauguration will be “A Festival of Scholarship” on August 24 from 4:30 - 6 p.m. in the Physical Sciences Building atrium. Works will be shared by undergraduate, graduate and professional students from across Cornell’s colleges, as well as from Weill Cornell Medicine and Cornell Tech in New York City, according to the University.

Following the festival, an academic symposium, “Universities and the Search for Truth,” will be held in Bailey Hall from 6:30-8 p.m. A faculty panel will debate different methods of communication and the University’s role in infor-

Sexual Assault Charges Dropped repairing our lives,” said Eaglin’s mother Clara Eaglin.

Although Eaglin no longer The sexual assault charges faces criminal charges, he will not brought against former Cornell be able to return to Cornell. After basketball forward Xavier Eaglin his arrest, Eaglin was dismissed ’19 in March 2016 have been dis- from the basketball team and banned from campus. missed.

He spent seven days in After more than a jail before he was year had elapsed since bailed out by his parthe charges were filed, ents and then returned Eaglin successfully home to Texas, where moved to have his he has since continued charges dismissed in education at a local April 2017. All photos junior college. of him and fingerprints The alleged assault, taken after his arrest EAGLIN ’19 which drew widewill be destroyed or returned to him, and all records of spread media attention, came his arrest will be sealed, according within weeks of sexual assault charges against Wolfgang to court documents.

Eaglin was charged and arrest- Ballinger ’17. In April, Ballinger ed by Cornell University Police was sentenced to six years of proDepartment on March 6, 2016 for bation.

The Tompkins County District charges including first degree rape and criminal obstruction of Attorney’s office did not immedibreathing or blood circulation. ately respond to a request for comThe alleged sexual assault took ment. place in February of that year.

“We are just thankful justice Anna Delwiche can be reached at prevailed and that we can start adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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On Monday, August 21, the sun will briefly be engulfed by the moon in a solar eclipse that will be visible from coast to coast in the United States.

“The eclipse is caused by the shadow of the moon hitting the Earth,” explained Prof. Gordon Stacey, astronomy. “The shadow of the moon is, of course, always there. The moon is going around the Earth, the Earth is going around the sun, and there’s always a shadow behind the moon. And if the moon happens to go directly between the Earth and the sun, that shadow will hit the Earth.”

Professor Phil Nicholson, astronomy, said that solar eclipses occur about twice a year somewhere on Earth, but because the eclipse path is typically very narrow, it is uncommon for them to occur in any particular spot.

“So they are quite See ECLIPSE page 4

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Eclipse | People will be gathering outside the Fuertes Observatory to help others enjoy the eclipse safely.

Move-in day

By ANNA DELWICHE

Sun News Editor

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Kevin Rodin ’19 helps a student move in before the start of the school year during Orientation Week.

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ORIENTATION WEEK EVENTS Today

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Walking Tours of Olin, Kroch and Uris Libraries 10 a.m., Uris Library

Mark Catesby: Naturalist In North America Exhibit 8 a.m. - 5 p.m., Mann Library Lobby

Get Started with Library Research at Cornell 11 a.m., Uris Library Veterans Colleague Network Group Monthly Meeting Noon - 1 p.m., 163 Day Hall Site Improve Web Accessibility Service Training 1 - 2:30 p.m., 120 Maple Drive, Ithaca Introduction to Academic Libraries in the U.S. 2 p.m., 106G Olin Library User Experience Special Interest Group 2 p.m., 102 Mann Library Fine Arts Library Tour 4:30 p.m., B56 Sibley Hall

Getting Started With Blackboard Workshop 10 - 10:45 a.m., Johnson Museum of Art Cornell Jazz Ensemble Auditions 4:30 - 10 p.m., B21 Lincoln Hall Fine Arts Library Tour 4:30 p.m., Fine Arts Library, Rand Hall Churchill Scholarship Information Session 4:35 - 5:30 p.m., 103 Barnes Hall CORINNE KENWOOD / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Free Showing of Beauty and the Beast For New Students 9:20 - 11:30 p.m., Willard Straight Theatre

Library research | Students can learn about using databases and Cornell’s library catalogue in Uris Library today.

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Ithaca Receives Recognition As Number 1 College Town

By AELYA EHTASHAM Sun Staff Writer

Students at Cornell may be pleased to find out that they are not only at one of the best universities in the world, but also the best college town, according to two separate recent rankings.

Cornell was recognized as the 14th best in the world from QS World University Rankings, while Ithaca took home the top spot as the best college town in the United States by the Schools.com.

According to schools.com, a website dedicated to being a “hub” for higher education topics, the town consistently “ranks in the top third of all schools in our rankings” and ranks sixth in affordability. The parameters of college towns were defined as towns with less than 150,000 people, and the website looked at 170 communities.

Schools.com looked at factors beyond those that only affect current students — Ithaca’s high ranking can be attributed to its low cost of living for graduates who stay in Ithaca after they leave as well as its public school system.

The website also praised the “quality education” in Ithaca, adding that “students come together for uniquely Ithaca

events.”

This is not the first time Ithaca has been esteemed as a college town — in 2014, Business Insider ranked it as the fourth best college town.

“Ithaca is the perfect mixture of giving students everything they would want in a college experience and offering seemingly endless opportunities to explore a unique local culture,” read another Business Insider article.

In June, Cornell was ranked also as 14th in the world for 2018 by QS World University Rankings, which gave it an overall score of 90.7 out of 100.

QS bases rankings academic reputation, citations per faculty, student-to-faculty ratio, employer reputation, international faculty and international students, according to its website. Academic reputation weighs the most heavily at 40 percent on the overall score.

Cornell’s ranking with QS comes as an improvement from the 2017 ranking of number 16, as well from the 2015 ranking as number 19.

Aelya Ehtasham can be reached at aehtasham@cornellsun.com.

Taking home the prize |

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Ithaca was named the best college town in the country by schools.com, which looked at 170 communities nationwide.

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Bouncing to victory | Beta Theta Pi fraternity brothers will host a fundraiser with a bouncy castle in attempts to break a world record.

Frat to Bounce to Set World Record Beta to host fundraiser with bouncy castle

By ANGELA CHON Sun Staff Writer

Eight brothers from Beta Theta Pi Fraternity will take turns bouncing in an inflatable bouncy castle on the Arts Quad on September 1 in an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for the longest team marathon on a bouncy castle.

The event also aims to raise funds to fight against sexual violence, according to a fraternity press release.

The event, called “Betas Bounce Against Sexual Violence,” will begin at 6 p.m., and the brothers will try to break the current record of 43 hours of bouncing.

“Both brotherhood and philanthropy events are central to any fraternity,” said David Navadeh ’19, chapter treasurer and event organizer. “But they don't often overlap. While we want to grow stronger as a brotherhood by breaking a Guinness World

Record together, we also want to benefit our community by donating proceeds from our record attempt.”

Record rules require that at least one member bounces at all times, no member bounce for more than four hours at one time,

“I couldn’t think of a better way to attempt a record than with some of my closest friends.”

David Navadeh ’19 the entire event must be videotaped, and timekeepers and witnesses are present throughout the duration of the bouncing. Five minutes of rest for every continuously completed hour of bouncing is also permitted.

“It's been a goal of mine to be a See BETA page 5

Pollack Calls for University to ‘Remain Resolute’ After Charlottesville

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun News Editor

Following the events in Charlottesville this past weekend, Cornell President Martha Pollack sent a statement to students condemning the action by white supremacist groups as “antithetical” to both the nation and the University.

“The white supremacists’ support for racism, anti-Semitism and raw hatred is vile and antithetical to what this nation and Cornell stand for,” Pollack said in the email.

In this condemnation, Pollack recalled Cornell’s founding statement as an institution for “any person,” saying that “we remain resolute in our commitment to addressing bigotry whenever it arises on our campuses or within our communities,” Pollack’s statement read.

Pollack also encouraged students to “to take a moment and specifically reach out to those who continue to be targeted” in order to “let them know that they are a valued part of our Cornell community.”

Within his leadership role,

Student Assembly president, Jung Won Kim ’18 acted to reflect his support for students affected by the events in Charlottesville, both at University of Virginia — where much of the violence took place — and at colleges nationwide.

Kim signed a statement in solidarity along with more than 50 undergraduate student body presidents across the country in an effort to “to not only support the Student Body at the University of Virginia but to make clear our advocacy for the victimized and marginalized students on all our campuses,” the statement read.

“College campuses are spaces that students should be able to call home. Not places of violence, hate, and racism,” the statement read. “We will continue to support students and universities in their peaceful resistance to violence, racism, white supremacy, bigotry, and acts of terrorism on our own campuses and beyond.”

Like Pollack, Kim said that it was “fitting” given Cornell’s mission “to send[s] in support of students at UVA against hatred, against bigotry and against violence like this.”

“For Cornell students, I think

it’s very important and meaningful because — I’m a minority myself — we have a lot of minority students on campus, people who might be affected by these kind of things,” Kim said. “I thought it was very important that our student body also steps up and

joins other student body presidents of other institutions in signing in solidarity with the students at UVA and the people of Charlottesville.”

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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Solar Eclipse to Darken Ithaca Skies Cornell to

Thunderstorms threaten to overshadow eclipse viewing in Ithaca ECLIPSE

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rare by human standards, but they are common astronomically in the sense that if you count them happening anywhere on Earth, they are fairly regular phenomena,” he said.

This year, the eclipse path will start in Oregon and make its way across the country to South Carolina, according to the NASA website. Viewers along this “path of totality” will be able to see a total solar eclipse, in which the entire sun will momentarily disappear during the day, while other regions in the U.S., including upstate New York, will only be able to witness a partial eclipse.

“Unlike the total eclipse, which only lasts for a couple of minutes in totality, the partial eclipse lasts for almost three hours, so it’s quite a slow and gradual process and you don’t have to be observing at a particular moment to see it, but that also means it won’t be very apparent unless you’re actually looking at a picture of the sun,” Nicholson said.

About 70 percent of the sun will be blocked when the eclipse reaches its maximum in Ithaca. The eclipse is expected to begin at 1:17 p.m., will reach its maximum at 2:38 p.m. and will end at 3:54 p.m. However, according to The Weather Channel, there is a 45 percent chance of scattered thunderstorms in Ithaca at 2 p.m.

the sun whether 1 percent or 100 percent is visible.

“I think most of us learned as children from an adult in our life that you should never look directly at the sun,” Dittman said.

“Instinctively, we close our eyes rather than look at the sun. When we hear that 70 percent of the sun is going to be blocked [with] the moon passing in front of it in Ithaca, New York, intellectually we may think that changes what we’ve known since we were little children about looking at the sun. However, the amount of light that comes from 30 percent of the sun is still more than enough to cause damage to our eyes.”

Dittman said that according to the Review of Optometry, "No definitive medical treatments [for solar retinopathy] currently exist."

If someone were to accidentally or purposefully happen to look at the sun on Monday, Cornell Health recommends prompt consultation with an ophthalmologist, a physician who specializes in eye care and vision.

“Don’t risk it for a second, don’t risk for five seconds,” Dittman advised. “Know these other ways to experience the eclipse safely.”

What are safe ways to experience the eclipse?

A few ways to view the eclipse safely include using special certified solar viewing glasses, making a pinhole camera, using welding glasses listed at #14 or higher, watching the eclipse on TV or Why pay attention? online, or looking at a projection of sunlight through the leaves of The experience of viewing even a partial eclipse may provide a trees. wonderful boost to one's mental health, and Cornell Health cliniIn addition, representatives from the Cornell Department of cians highly recommend it, according to Sharon Dittman, director Astronomy and the Cornell Astronomical Society will be gathering of community relations at Cornell Health. outside Fuertes Observatory to help people enjoy the eclipse safe“It’s rare that we have a moment when we are ly. experiencing something at the same time,” she said.

“We’re expecting people “That sense of participating in something bigger “It’s rare that we have a moment where will come out to the observathan yourself that doesn’t come along more than a we are experiencing something at the tory on North Campus just couple times in a lifetime for most of us can really because they tend to do that same time.” lift the spirit.” during celestial events, and In addition, Zachary Murray ’18, president of we will have some small teleSharon Dittman the Cornell Astronomical Society, said that taking a scopes set up to project few moments to observe the eclipse could change images of the sun so people the way that one might think about perspective in space. can come and see them,” Nicholson said.

“I think the cool thing about eclipses is that when you look at Karen Perez ’19, outreach coordinator for the Cornell the sky it’s very 2-D, everything kind of looks like the same dis- Astronomical Society, said that Fuertes Observatory itself will not tance from you,” he said. “When you go to see an eclipse, it really be open because hundreds of people are expected to show up and forces you to think of space in a 3-D way because one thing is everyone will not be able to fit in the observatory. However, there physically moving in front of the other. I think that’s a really cool will be volunteers outside the observatory passing out the special perspective shift.” solar eclipse glasses.

“We will have volunteers, several professors from the astronomy What will we see in Ithaca? department and Astronomy Society members, on the grounds of In Ithaca, people will be able to see the sky darken slightly dur- the observatory passing out eclipse glasses and we will have teleing the day while the eclipse is occurring. scopes and binoculars with solar filters,” she said. “So our main “I mean, it won’t get as dark as it would during an overcast day purpose will be to distribute those solar eclipse glasses and explain in Ithaca, for example,” Nicholson said. “So we can still walk to the public how to view the sun safely and answer any questions around campus even on an overcast day without a flashlight they might have.” because it gradually gets dark and your eyes dilate and just to the There will also be a viewing event in Stewart Park. lower light levels. And the same thing happens during a partial eclipse. Because it happens slowly, your eyes adjust to it. I think What is a total solar eclipse? you wouldn’t even notice it if you didn’t know it was happening, if As compared to a partial solar eclipse, Nicholson said that a you didn’t keep a watch on the sun in some form.” total solar eclipse will be obvious to anyone in its path because the Stacey added that the whole sun finally winks out in a matter of seconds and sun will appear crescentis completely gone for a couple of minutes. shaped during this time, “You wouldn’t even notice it if you didn’t “You basically go through a whole night-time cycle know it was happening, if you didn’t something that will be of twilight and nighttime, and the birds go to sleep and reflected by the spots of animals change, things like that, and the sun reappears keep a watch on the sun.” light coming through the a couple of minutes later and it’s like dawn,” trees.

Nicholson said. “It’s like going through a whole nightProf. Phil Nicholson “In Ithaca, what you’ll time cycle in five or ten minutes or so with all sorts of see that’s going to be interesting changes in the atmosphere and the sky. So strange is, even if you’re not aware of the eclipse, if it’s sunny, look- apparently the whole physical experience of it is awe-inspiring.” ing in the trees where there’s little spots of sunlight coming Stacey described the experience of viewing a solar eclipse during through the leaves, you’ll see spots on the ground that are not cir- at the moment of totality as “primal,” and recounted a story of the cular, but they have crescent shapes,” she said. “That is actually the time he witnessed a total solar eclipse in Manitoba, Canada in image of the sun made by effectively a pinhole camera. So that’ll 1979 during his final year of college. be kind of cool and kind of weird.”

“I mean it’s scary because the sun is gone,” he said. “You see the sun blocked and you see this halo, which is gorgeous, suddenly What are the risks in viewing the eclipse? come to light, and that’s the corona, and you feel kind of nervous.

People who plan to observe the eclipse must make sure to take And that’s the point where you can actually look at the sun, necessary precautions in order to protect their eyes from damaging because the whole photosphere, which is the very intense part, is sun rays. blocked, and so then it’s safe.”

“You can’t really feel injuries to your eyes, so something could “But there is no time in Ithaca this year where it is safe, just to be going wrong and you wouldn’t know it until late,” Murray said. emphasize once again,” he added.

As tempting as it might be to witness the eclipse without proper In order to see a total solar eclipse again, Stacey will be going to protection, it could lead to temporary or permanent blindness.

Omaha, Nebraska on Monday.

“The lenses in our eyes act like a magnifying glass, one that is “Once you’ve seen one, you realize how different it is from a five times more powerful than a handheld magnifier,” Dittman partial eclipse and you want to see more,” he said. explained. “Remember the experiment that shows a typical handFor those who will not be able to witness the total solar eclipse held magnifier focusing the sun’s light to burn holes in paper? this time around, Stacey said that there would be another solar That’s what happens when you look at the sun without eye protec- eclipse in seven years, on April 8, 2024, in which the path of totaltion.” ity will include upstate New York.

“You focus the sun’s light on the retina, burning holes in light“It’s funny, I told my wife it was a once in a lifetime experience, sensitive photoreceptor cells, causing solar retinopathy, a condition and then we’re going all the way to Omaha to see this, we’re also that can temporarily blind you, lead to missing spots in your seeing relatives there, and then it’s like ‘Wait there’s another one in vision, or even cause permanent blindness,” she added. seven years,’” he said.

Dittman continued to explain that even though the sun will be blocked during the eclipse, it is sufficiently damaging to look at Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun.com.

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mation sharing.

Pollack’s official installation will be held on Friday, August 25, from 2-4 p.m. The event will begin on Ho Plaza and move to the Arts Quad.

Faculty and University leaders, including former Cornell presidents, will be in attendance.

After Pollack’s installation ceremony on August 25, a street fair will be held on the Arts Quad from 4-5:30 p.m., featuring musical performances and food vendors from both the Cornell and Ithaca communities.

A Presidential Search Committee was created after the death of President Elizabeth Garrett in March 2016.

Former Cornell University President Hunter R. Rawlings III was chosen to serve as interim president until Pollack took her place as president earlier this year.

After the Presidential Search Committee nominated Pollack, The Cornell University Board of Trustees unanimously elected her the next president on November 14, 2016, The Sun previously reported.

Pollack served as a faculty member at the University of Michigan since 2000, and she was appointed to her most recent role there in 2013. As chief academic officer and chief budget officer, she was responsible for Michigan’s academic and administrative programs and institutions, serving a student population of over 43,000.

Pollack’s major interests as an academic include artificial intelligence, with a current focus on designing technology to assist the cognitively impaired. She has been honored several awards for her research publications as well as for her professional service.

Katherine Heaney can be reached at kheaney@cornellsun.com.

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Guinness World Record holder, and I couldn't think of a better way to attempt a record than with some of my closest friends,” Navadeh said.

The brothers started talking about the idea in February, and the application for the event was approved by both the university and the national chapter in late July.

“Since then we've been planning the logistics of the event so we can collect as many donations as possible,” Navadeh said.

The brothers invite members of the school community to bounce with the brothers for $2.

Along with the proceeds from snacks and drinks sold at the event, funds will be donated to the Advocacy Center, which fights sexual violence and abuse.

“While only the team of eight brothers can actually be

Guinness World Record holders, we encourage the entire Cornell community to support this cause by joining us for even just a few minutes,” Navadeh said.

The team of brothers has spent a lot of time planning “the best method for trading off bouncing shifts, but we know this will get tiring,” Navadeh said.

“We'll be armed with snacks and energy drinks to keep us alert, but we certainly don't underestimate how strenuous this will be,” he added.

The main goal of the event for the brothers is to define their time as Betas.

“Each class of brothers wants to leave their own legacy, and we want to be remembered for engaging both our brotherhood and community in new ways,” Navadeh said.

Angela Chon an be reached at achon@cornellsun.com.

C.U. Tech Strikes Deal With Citigroup Bank to reside on Roosevelt Island campus

By RACHEL WHALEN Sun News Editor

Cornell Tech has struck a deal with Citigroup for the bank to become the first in its industry to have a presence on the Roosevelt Island campus this September.

Citi will reside in a building called The Bridge, a center for startups, established companies and academics on Roosevelt Island. Citi has leased 10,900 square feet of space in The Bridge, according to a recent press release.

Citi’s Head of Operations and Technology Don Callahan noted the benefits of the partnership for Citi.

“Co-locating in The Bridge with companies, entrepreneurs and students will create an energized environment that fosters innovation and enables interaction with a wide range of emerging talent,” he said in the release. “As a firm headquartered in New York City, we are excited to be a part of this initiative with Cornell Tech that will develop and strengthen the City’s technology talent and industry.”

Citi is the second tenant to sign on with the established company programs at The Bridge, following Two Sigma Investments, which announced its partnership with the University in January.

Though Citi may be at the forefront in signing on with the established companies of The Bridge, it is far from the first company to be involved with the development of the campus.

In May 2012, Google donated 40,000 square feet in Chelsea so

that Cornell Tech could launch prior to the opening of the Roosevelt Island campus, according to The Bridge’s website.

In February 2015, Verizon donated $50 million for the Verizon Executive Education Center, and in October 2013 Cornell Tech announced collaboration with such corporate and media giants as Tumblr, Facebook, and The New York Times for its Connective Media degree.

In its partnership with Citi, Cornell Tech students will learn about cyber security, data applications and the use of technological products in professional banking applications, according to the press release. 70 to 80 Citi employees will work in The Bridge.

“Collaborations like this one will bring The Bridge and the entire campus to life this fall.”

Don Callahan Cornell Tech Dean Dan Huttenlocher said in the press release that providing the students the opportunity to problem solve with a company such as Citi was “part of Cornell Tech’s lifeblood.”

“Collaborations like this one will bring The Bridge and the entire campus to life when we open on Roosevelt Island this fall,” he said.

Rachel Whalen can be reached at rwhalen@cornellsun.com.

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NYS Dive Team Finds Dead Body of Cornell Student in Gorge

Cornell community mourns loss of Winston S. Perez Ventura ’22, who drowned while swimming

By RACHEL WHALEN and DREW MUSTO Sun News Editor and Sun Senior Editor

The man found dead in the Ithaca Falls gorge on Saturday evening was an incoming Cornell

student born in the Dominican Republic who made headlines in the fall of 2016 when a video of him reading his college acceptance letter was posted online.

Raised in the Bronx, Winston S. Perez Ventura ’22 drowned in

the gorge while swimming, Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, said in a statement.

“He was an exceptional person who would have contributed greatly to our university commu-

Terror in Spain

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In the aftermath of the fatal terror attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils, the relatives of the men who carried out the attacks assemble in the center of Ripoll, Spain on August 19.

nity,” Lombardi said of the archi- someone had gone into the tecture student. gorges to swim and had not come Perez Ventura’s mother told out.

ABC News in 2016 that she The IPD was the lead agency brought her son to the United in the search, though the New States when he was nine so that York State Police had dispatched a he could get a good education. helicopter and a dive team to help Her son would become a find the missing person. The member of the first ever freshman Cornell University Police class at Democracy Prep Harlem Department and the Ithaca Fire Department were High School, also aiding the according to ABC search.

News. His high “He was an Chief of Police school classmates his exceptional person Peter Tyler issued a celebrated who would have statement in the Cornell acceptance, which was captured contributed greatly IPD media release urging people to in a video that made to our university follow the signs regional headlines. posted around the The New York community.” gorges.

State dive team Ryan Lombardi Ithaca “The recovered the stugorges are so, so dent’s body in the beautiful but they Ithaca Falls gorge around 7:20 p.m. Saturday after a can be very dangerous if folks search for a missing person had don’t obey the posted signs,” he been issued earlier in the after- said. “The signs are in place for no other reason than to keep folks noon.

A search for a missing person safe when they enter our gorges.” had been underway since about 2:33 p.m. Saturday, when the Rachel Whalen can be reached at Ithaca Police Department was rwhalen@cornellsun.com. dispatched to Ithaca Falls near Drew Musto can be reached at Fall Creek Drive on a call that dmusto@cornellsun.com.

Judge Halts Suspension After Student Alleges ‘Perverse’ Title IX Outcome

By DREW MUSTO

pleted, a decision Faughnan called “arbitrary and capricious.”

A Cornell spokesperson, Lindsey A student found guilty by Hadlock, confirmed in April Cornell of sexually assaulting that McGrath was no longer and retaliating against a female employed by the University. student could be back on camMcGrath is also at the center of pus in the fall because a judge the other open Title IX case. temporarily barred the But Doe’s newest lawsuit University from suspending makes cutting claims about the him. fairness of Cornell’s Title IX Cornell handed the male stuinvestigation at a time when the dent a two-year suspension in Title IX process is under scrutiMay, and a University appeal ny from the Department of panel upheld the punishment on Education.

Wednesday, leaving the Doe alleges both student, who is in the This suit is the second claim filed in less that Cornell arbitrarily Class of 2020 and is prejudicially than four months alleging that Cornell and referred to as John Doe, departed from its own with a notation of guilt did not act properly in a Title IX policies and that on his transcript. The Cornell’s findings of investigation. student sued Cornell guilt are unsupported the next day, arguing by the available evithat the University dence. Doe is asking departed from its own policies properly in a Title IX investiga- the court to vacate Cornell’s and that there was a lack of sub- tion. findings of guilt and its suspenstantial evidence to find him The new Doe case arises from sion. responsible.

Doe’s lawsuit rehashes similar a Friday night party in 2016.

Doe and a female student complaints made by other stuaccused each other of sexual dents regarding Cornell’s Title yeah, we’ve been around assault within a week of that IX process, including that the awhile... process does not allow the same night.

The male student said the protections as the legal system, The Cornefemale student, who is referred such as the right to confront Daily to as Sally Roe, forced him to one’s accuser.

Doe said the three-member have sex without his affirmative Sun consent. Roe said she was too University hearing panel did not since ask his accuser certain questions intoxicated to consent to sex.

1880 The same judge already sided that may have weakened her case with the plaintiff and against the and that he specifically requestUniversity in a related case earli- ed it ask. Cornell does not give er this year. In January, parties in Title IX the right to Faughnan ordered the confront each other, so students University to investigate Doe’s can only question each other by claim that Elizabeth McGrath, suggesting questions to the hearone of the Title IX investigators ing panel.

Doe said the panel never who investigated his case, had discriminated against him dur- addressed what he says are inconsistent claims by the ing her investigation.

At first, Cornell refused to female student, such as the investigate this plaintiff ’s dis- amount of alcohol she drank — crimination complaint until the Doe says she first told a police Title IX investigation was com- investigator she didn’t drink

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On Friday, Tompkins County Justice Eugene Faughnan temporarily stayed the suspension while he considers the merits of Doe’s case against Cornell.

Doe’s attorney, Alan Sash, said the judge recognized the immediacy of the case and acted quickly so that Doe could be back at school in time for the fall semester.

This suit is the second claim filed in less than four months alleging that Cornell did not act

“that much,” then later told the panel her level of intoxication was “in the death range” — and whether she was in pain after the sexual encounter.

The male student also asserted that another Title IX investigator, Kareem Peat, improperly excluded evidence from the investigative record and that McGrath had a conflict of interest because of his discrimination claim.

During the Title IX hearing, which Doe was watching remotely, Cornell’s audio and video equipment failed, prompting the student to send eight emails within five minutes to the Title IX Office asking for the AV functions to be restored.

In Doe’s suit asking the judge to vacate Cornell’s punishment, he said the evidence in the case does not support the panel’s “perverse and bizarre” decision.

Four witnesses who saw Roe before she and Doe had sex gave varying accounts of her state, ranging from “completely fine”

Doe alleges both that Cornell arbitrarily and prejudicially departed from its own policies. to “a little bit drunk” and to “very drunk.” The witness who said Roe was “very drunk” appeared to walk back the comment months later, saying he “fe[lt] like [Roe] was drinking but I didn’t know as to what level of intoxication she was.”

The hearing panel credited the witness’s earlier assessment that Roe was “very drunk,” saying his memory likely eroded in the eight months that passed between the night and the day

he testified that he “didn’t know as to what level” Roe was intoxicated.

Another two witnesses actually entered the room where the two students were having sex at different times, both saying they did not discern that anything inappropriate was occurring.

Roe was found unconscious in the bed where the two had sex after the encounter. It is unclear exactly how much time elapsed between the end of their sexual activities and Roe’s being found unconscious, but evidence from text messages and witness accounts suggests a maximum of 30 minutes passed, with some estimates putting the elapsed time at 17 minutes.

Roe’s state after the encounter tended to support her telling of the story, the panel found, and it rendered Doe’s story doubtful. Doe maintains that Roe’s condition worsened significantly after the sexual encounter ended.

The panel slapped on a second guilty finding against Doe. It found that the male student accused the female student of sexual assault as “a tactical maneuver and in bad faith.” The panel said the male student, in claiming that Roe had initiated sex without his affirmative consent, had put Roe “through the proverbial wringer” and that it constituted retaliation, prohibited by Cornell policy.

Doe said he filed the allegedly retaliatory complaint on the advice of his lawyer after he discovered Cornell’s definition of sexual assault.

Faughnan has ordered both parties to appear in Tompkins County Court in September.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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By MEG GORDON Sun Staff Writer

Over a year ago, Officer Colin Toland and his family were told he had less than a year to live due to ependymoma, a type of brain cancer.

This month, however, Ithaca Police Department’s youngest officer celebrated his 10th birthday.

At 10 years old, it is Colin’s eighth year fighting cancer, and his sixth year in Ithaca with his mother Tamiko Toland ‘90 and his father Ian Hayward ‘04.

“I was talking to Colin about his birthday and what he wanted to do and he said, ‘I want to have an egg hunt,’” said Officer Colin’s Mother, Tamiko Toland.

“We have about 300 plastic eggs around the house, and that’s only my cold stash. So it soon became a matter of collecting more eggs and figuring out what else we could do with them, with some of Colin’s other favorite holidays. So we just decided to celebrate them all.”

The party was held from noon to 5 p.m. on June 18, a few days after Colin’s birthday, June 12. All of his favorite holidays — Christmas, Thanksgiving, Halloween, Easter and Valentine’s Day — were incorporated into the theme.

“The Fourth of July was not included,” Toland said with a laugh. “Colin hates the Fourth of July, so we figured, well all right, we have enough as is.”

After 200 people came to Colin’s Hello Kitty-themed party at their home last year, the family decided to move the location of the party this year to Stewart Park to include more members of the community.

“Many of our friends have come together to make this a truly epic gathering with plenty of activities, entertainment, prizes and crafts for children and adults throughout the entire time,” read the event’s Facebook page.

The spirit of community and resiliency have followed Colin in his 10 years as a student, as a cancer patient, and most recently, as a police officer.

Not too long after his treatment at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Colin attended a community barbecue in Ithaca, where he met John Barber, retired Chief of the Ithaca Police Department. At the barbecue, Barber told Colin about the possibility of becoming a police officer. Colin, however, due

to his hearing deficit, misunderstood it as a promise to let him join the department immediately.

“Colin was asking the Chief all sorts of questions,” Toland said.

“They were both talking and Colin kept asking ‘When can I start?’ He really thought the Chief was offering him a job. It was amazing, actually. You take that ball, and he just ran with it completely.”

The IPD officially swore Colin into the position on September 12, 2016. Since then, he has been doing SWAT training, making visits to the 911 center, and touring other agencies as a member of the IPD, Toland said.

“It’s been great, watching him come back to himself,” Toland said. “He was more introverted when he was so sick. He was flying really low to the ground last year, which was strange because he’s usually so talkative. Now he’s back to talking and he’s engaged.

He’s got more road. He keeps getting more road.”

In fact, despite being told his tumor was inoperable and his cancer was untreatable, Colin is now eligible for a checkpoint inhibitor trial that was approved on June 23. He will be looking at infusions every two weeks in NYC, with minimal side effects, according to his official Facebook page.

“He’s a comeback kid,” said Cameron Yates ’18. “It’s been great getting to come back and meet Colin, and watch him come back to his baseline.”

The bond between Colin and Yates formed just over six months ago, and has been strengthened by their shared experiences.

When Yates was four, he was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia. During his treatment, the chief of the Fairfield Police heard of his desire to become a police officer and began sending patrol officers to his house.

“My experience with cancer was very different,” Yates said. “I was pretty young, my treatment was straightforward, and I was responding well. My memories from that time aren’t really even about being sick, but getting to be a police officer.

Like Colin, Yates was given a swearing-in ceremony before the Memorial Day Parade, which he got to participate with the FPD. The current deputy chief of the FPD is involved with Colin’s story and sends him care packages from the police department as well.

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“It’s funny, the similarities between us,” Yates said. “Colin and I actually grew up in Connecticut pretty close to each other. It’s strange, I don’t know, I just haven’t heard of anything similar ever happening to anyone else. I enjoyed my time with the police force, but as I got older, I’d ride in the parades, and just kind of stopped. It’s amazing what people did for both of us, but the lengths people go for Colin—it’s all really something special.”

Due to his involvement as an EMT with both Cornell University Emergency Medical Service and Bangs Ambulance, Yates has been able to show Colin an extra dimension of emergency response.

Members of Cornell EMS have paid Colin a visit and have given him a tour of the facility, in addition to sending him care packages.

“It’s kind of cool, getting to be in the reverse position,” Yates said.

“Now I’m doing what they did for me in a way. I think I get more out of it than he does sometimes.”

Colin was also able to attend the Cornell University Emergency Medical Service end-of-year banquet as a guest of honor, where he reminded the attendees “to never, ever give up.”

“When he was little, he wanted to be an army guy,” Toland said.

“He used to want to be everything. He wanted to be every single profession. But during one of his radiation treatments last year, he started talking about how he

wanted to become a police officer.

I don’t know if it was related to some of the civil unrest right now or not. But it was something he really wanted to do.”

For Colin, being a police officer is more than just a job.

“I like helping people. I can’t stop crime, but I like helping people as a police officer.”

Colin Toland “I like helping people,” Colin said. “I can’t stop crime, but I like helping people as a police officer.”

Speaking about his favorite parts of the job, Colin mentioned how last December he was able to arrest the Grinch. In a video posted by Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 on Facebook, Colin is shown reading the Grinch his Miranda rights, checking all the boxes, and “taking him downtown.”

“It was a great experience,” Toland said. “The whole department has really embraced it.

Colin feels that he does help people when he does this. He’s so into it, and it gives him a sense of purpose.”

In fact, because his experience with IPD was not “one and done,” Colin has also been able to speak at the Badge of Honor Policeman’s Ball, attend a Stop DWI event at the Watkins Glen International raceway, and walk

in the Ithaca Festival Parade.

This past year, Colin has been able to return to school on his own volition. He stays in class for as long as he can, and he goes home as soon as he wants to, his parents said.

In addition to attending class, Colin remains active by tutoring students in first grade, an activity that his mother jokes “makes him a man of many jobs.”

“He’s 10, and he’s doing his thing. He’s self-actualized as a person, satisfied to have a career and help people. There are plenty of adults who never really reach that place.”

As for the future, Colin plans on returning to school in September, continuing with the activities he loves, all while undergoing continued treatment for his disease.

“In a lot of ways, he’s still a kid,” Toland said. “He’s very fastidious, going up and down the stairs, moving around a lot, even biking through the hospital. He loves peanut M&Ms and pineapple juice. He’s still Colin.”

Colin’s family intends to continue bridging his experiences with the Ithaca and Cornell communities.

“I think people really enjoy Colin’s spirit, I think it really resonates with people,” Toland said.

“And at the end of the day, he’s tough, but it’s not the toughness that you see — it’s the light.”

Meg Gordon can be reached at mgordon@cornellsun.com.

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An exercise in freshman folly

ear Class of 2021, welcome to Cornell! Now that you’ve made it here, four wonderful years are awaitin’. Although it might require a little blood, sweat and tears, I’m sure you’ll look back fondly at your first year in university as a senior — hopefully more so than I did mine!

In case you’re feeling a little bit uneasy about starting in a new place, allow me to share a story about about a time not too long ago…

Once upon a time, it was my freshman year. And things got curious.

Let me start with a disclaimer that my mother is sincerely a lovely woman. She is quite the worrier, though in the end I know she has the best intentions in mind when she does the things she does — but it was this great, albeit overprotective woman who decided to do something rather odd my freshman year.

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Being a naive freshman and unaware of the Taser laws that varied across states, I chuckled at my mother’s gift and threw the Taser to the bottom of some drawer in my room, the thought of using it never even crossing my mind.

I suppose it’s kind of excusable since she comes from a third world country where it’s not uncommon to see sequesters, murders and ransom notes.

However, she had the strange notion that the charming Cornell campus (an environment rather distinct from that of a third world country) would be an extremely dangerous and sinister place for a naive young lady like myself. Thus, the first care package I received from her my freshman year consisted of a single item: a Taser.

Before discussing how this item was even permitted to go through our university mail system (I’m looking at you, Appel), let me make you aware of the legality of Tasers in the United States.

Private ownership of Tasers is illegal in five states: Connecticut, Hawaii, New Jersey, Rhode Island, and, as luck would have it, New York. In these states, possessing a Taser would result in a misdemeanor for said owner.

Being a naive freshman and unaware of the Taser laws that varied across states, I chuckled at my mother’s gift and threw the Taser to the bottom of some drawer in my room, the thought of using it never even crossing my mind. I told my friends and roommate how funny it was that my mom had sent it to me.

My roommate didn’t find it so funny.

She was already fairly tense, having found it difficult to adjust to having a roommate and transitioning from home and to school. Of course, she didn’t tell me any of that, and I only found out when I received a call one fine autumn evening

from the Cornell University Police Department. Apparently, my roommate thought individuals with depression would be more likely to use Tasers on their unsuspecting roommates. (Spoiler alert: they’re not.)

As requested by CUPD, I went straight to Barton Hall to hand in my Taser and set up a meeting with the J.A. Once there, the J.A. was pretty understanding of what had happened. Nevertheless, as per Cornell University policy, I still needed to be reprimanded for having what was considered a weapon on campus.

Thanks to my mother’s wonderful first care package and my roommate’s unfounded misgivings, I received my first J.A. — one accompanied with the requirement of taking P.E. 1515: Introduction to Handgun Safety, fulfilling 20 hours of community service, a two-year probationary period where another J.A. incurred might result in suspension, and a permanent note on my transcript notifying potential grad schools, med schools or law schools that I had a dangerous weapon on campus during my undergraduate years.

Meeting these requirements wasn’t too hard. The first requirement was dismissed since I didn’t actually have a handgun and I was already involved in community service events around campus. Mostly, I was grateful that my roommate hadn’t contacted the Ithaca PD, where I would have likely been charged with a misdemeanor for a goofy misunderstanding. It became a pretty amusing and absurd story to share, and this rather eccentric occurrence had a big impact on the rest of my years at Cornell.

Perhaps the moral of my freshman year story is that there ought to be reforms about what is considered a “weapon” on campus (I find it somewhat unsettling that pepper spray results in the same repercussions as a handgun) or reforms within the J.A. system. Perhaps the moral of the story is to make sure your mother isn’t allowed to purchase Tasers or that roommates ought to be more communicative. But I’d like to think the moral of the story is that whatever odd scenarios are presented to you at Cornell, you can always turn them around and make the very best of them.

Perhaps the moral of the story is to make sure your mother isn’t allowed to purchase Tasers or that roommates ought to be more communicative.

There are so many plentiful opportunities at Cornell that I’m certain you’ll find your niche, so don't worry about making mistakes or having to explain a your silly freshman J.A. violation to graduate schools. You can get through it; you’ve already made it this far. You’ll have a marvelous four years, I’m sure of it. You’re a Cornellian, after all.

Hadassa Jakher is a senior at Cornell University.

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

For Happiness, Stop Romanticizing A

couple of weeks ago, I was gazing out at Washington, D.C. from the roof of my friend’s apartment. A few friends and I had spontaneously decided to venture up the many flights of stairs to watch the sun set over the Potomac, the light ever so slightly powdering Georgetown with a touch of rouge. We leaned precariously over the edge, our arms dangling down and the wind whipping our hair in our faces. The air was heavy with humidity. We smelled rain. We didn’t know each other that well, having picked up some interesting personalities along the way, like a nineteen-yearold D.J. from Germany who was in D.C. for a showcase. Someone with an acute sense of the vibes in that moment had the confidence to put on some Marvin Gaye. We pretended to be good dancers until it started drizzling and we decided it was time to take our impromptu party inside.

Yeah, none of that happened. I spent my summer mostly pretending not to know the barista at Starbucks who went to my middle school and trying to get more Fitbit steps than my dad. My summer sure as hell wasn’t plucked from a John Green novel. I didn’t have wild adventures with my idiosyncratic friends, each of whom has a very specific quirk (e.g. Jessica Applebottom collects baby shoes and doesn’t use the letter “g.” She’s random and the main character is in love with her.) and I definitely didn’t meet any German teen DJs along the way.

My summer was fun. It was also stressful and I cried in my car about not knowing anything about my job a few times. Crying about telecommunications is pretty pathetic, but dancing without a care in the world with Gerhard the DJ sounds cool. It sounds like I’m both aloof and spontaneous, and that I’m making the most out of every moment by connecting with real people. I’m really living, and I’m living the life of a young, intriguing thinker: carefree, poetic, colored in soft pastels.

Delicately balancing aloofness while simultaneously trying for just the right pinch of candor is exhausting.

Last year, I wrote my final column on being confined by collegiate coolness. After a summer refreshingly spent hanging out with my wonderfully uncool parents, I still stand by what I said: Delicately balancing aloofness while simultaneously trying for just the right pinch of candor is exhausting. It’s not worth the effort. It’s difficult, but more liberating, to attempt to find your authentic, comfortable self without toeing the line altogether. Instead, be vulnerable enough to fail, and fail hard. I also wrote that young adulthood, and college specifically, is the perfect time for this kind of vulnerability. The transience means audience costs are low; if someone thinks you’re stupid or weird or whatever it is you’re afraid of being, it really doesn’t matter. You will probably never see them after you get your degree.

Vulnerability and authenticity come hand-in-hand, and young adults often incorrectly conflate them with romanticized scenes from a Fox Searchlight film or a Wombats music video.

Vulnerability and authenticity come from shedding the idealism surrounding a supposedly cool young-adult experience. I am immediately suspicious of my sentimentalist classmates, the people who insist on living like a romanticized model of an intellectual or artist by reading Proust outside Goldwin Smith or laying in tall grass while playing the banjo and looking at the stars. This self-serious artistic lifestyle seems disingenuous to me. These wild adventures are never as spontaneous as they seem, and the volume of ex post reportage on said adventures only makes their authenticity more suspect.

So, as 5000 eighteen-ish-year-olds find themselves haphazardly plopped in the smelly dorms of North Campus with nothing but a lanyard and the opportunity to blaze their own trail, I suggest doing things you enjoy, rather than things you think you should enjoy in order to be a thinker or an artist or a whatever. Don’t delude yourself into thinking you’re not itchy in the tall grass from which you’re banjo-playing and stargazing because you think you need to have a carefree romanticized experience to truly live. Maybe you’ll meet Gerhard and have that romantic scene on the roof of an Arlington high rise, but you probably won’t without counterfeiting it. As you become a young adult, appreciate life as it develops organically; you’ll connect with people more deeply and do the things you’ll enjoy. When difficulties strip you of your rose-colored glasses, you’ll be fine. It’s the beauty of living as a realist: Life, sans romanticization, is truly wonderful and truly difficult. Appreciate it all, and never stop trying to be vulnerable and authentic on your own terms.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Jaqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

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hen I was a freshman, every reputable national newspaper had a 40 yearold writing about how to “do college” correctly and effectively. And while crumbs of their advice were useful, I also felt like the prescriptions for how to act and perform were more stressful than anything else. There’s no one-size-fits-all way to be a student at Cornell, but if I could go back and give my freshman self some advice, it would pretty much go as follows: Give everyone you meet at least three chances before you decide if you like them or not. For the first few days, the first few weeks — even the first whole semester — everyone is trying to figure things out, and it doesn’t hurt to just be a little patient. As freshmen, you are constantly making first impressions. There are the ones you are prepared for: the first time you meet your roommate, your professors, the people in your hall.

But besides that, you have no idea if the person you sit next to in the dining hall is going to be your best friend, an acquaintance, or another one of the hundreds of randoms that you’ll probably never talk to again. If you’re human, you’re not “on” all the time — sometimes you’re going to be a little quiet, tired and boring. Give yourself a break, but also cut other people some slack.

The girl who seems standoffish might be having a bad day, and the guy who is really extra about going out in Collegetown is probably just overcompensating. Try not to hastily decide that anybody you meet is any one thing: annoying, rude, snappy, boring. People that you would have never gravitated towards in high school are going to become your second family here, you just have to be open-minded and patient enough to find them and meet them in various contexts.

Go to office hours and raise your hand in class (if you have something to say). I hardly raised my hand first semester of freshman year; all of my classes felt so big and everything everyone said sounded so important. I thought that, if I didn’t have

More Than Orientation anything genius or novel to add, I shouldn’t raise my hand — even when there were questions I knew the answers to. This was, in retrospect, so stupid. You’re 18 (or 19, or whatever, you’re young, we’re all young). Even the smartest kids don’t have a constant stream of profound answers and contributions running through their head at all times. If you have something to say, raise your hand. Hell, get an answer wrong and feel dumb. But at least contribute. You did a lot of work to be here and to sit in these classes.

Really be here, if that’s what you want. The longer you take to get in

more in that time than I could have possibly imagined, and that you’re probably headed for a similar experience.

If you haven’t already bought a winter coat, get one that is a little too big and goes down past your thighs. If you had UGG boots in middle school, dust them off and bring them back with you after Thanksgiving: you’ll be happy to have them on late-night runs to Nasty’s and whatnot. Not to shade RPCC, but Appel is my favorite dining hall on North Campus. If you take a picture at a frat party, you don’t really need to inlcude the

The girl who seems standoffish might be having a bad day, and the guy who is really extra about going out in Collegetown is probably just overcompensating. the habit of speaking up, the scarier it becomes. My advice would be to hit the ground running because that’s one thing I wish I had done.

Go to the Commons. If you’re a freshman, you have a free TCAT bus pass, so definitely take advantage of that when things on campus get redundant. Gimme Coffee and The Shop are both awesome coffee places to sit in and do work, especially if you feel like not being surrounded by Cornell people for five minutes. State Street Diner is nice, too. Hawi Ethiopian is by far my favorite restaurant in Ithaca, and Cinemapolis shows good movies in cozy theaters.

Unless you’re from Westchester or New York City or someplace similar, odds are people here don’t know you yet. Take advantage of that, if you want to. I have never been one to pull the whole “reinvent yourself” thing (perhaps for lack of creativity) but if that is something you are into, you are in the perfect place to do it. As a junior, I’ve only been here for two years, but I can say that I’ve learned

Instagram location stating which frat you were at. You can, but you don’t have to. When you do laundry, you technically have to separate lights and darks… but in my experience, nothing happens when you don’t. If there’s something you don’t know how to do — whether it’s makeup for going out or literally using a washing machine — YouTube is your friend.

Take advantage of your time here. It may be cliche, but I feel like I just blinked and now I’m a junior, blowing by the halfway mark on my time here at Cornell. Whenever I pass by the hotel I stayed in on the night before freshman move-in, I’m struck with both the residual stress from the nervousness of coming here and the insanity of how quickly time has passed since then, and how sweet it has all been. Keep an open mind, go with your gut, and don’t take yourself too seriously.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com.

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OPINION

Lorenzo Benitez | Not A Cop

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mpathy expands when people decide that some If it is morally wrong to discriminate against a person Even self-interested Westerners ought to recognize aspects of identity are not as consequential as once for being Black, or a woman — after all, none of us vol- how economically favorable it is for them to welcome thought. Our ability to overcome racism depends untarily chose our “race” or gender — then why do the immigrants. Much evidence refutes the stereotype of on recognizing, in the words of Martin Luther King, Jr., people of developed nations continue to discriminate immigrants as job-stealing slobs, revealing instead a porthe difference between the color of one’s skin and the against others based on geography? None of us chose the trait of hard-working strivers eager to carve out an indecontent of their character. Our ability to overcome sex- patch of dirt on which we were born, and so it is increas- pendent existence. Michael Clemens, a senior fellow at ism depends on recognizing that neither biological sex ingly arbitrary to assess one’s worthiness to enter, work the Center for Global Development, estimates that all eliminating all barriers on nor socially-prescribed gender international movement would determine one’s ability to care increase increase world GDP by for patients, manage a business 50 to 150 percent, indicating or oversee a government. that such an elimination could Indeed, human empathy potentially double the size of grows each time we recognize a the global economy. new facet of our identity, once To complement economic thought significant, as arbiconcerns, the cultural offerings trary. of immigrant-friendly policies We should therefore be are easily apparent; the benefit troubled by the disproportionof globalization most taken for ate importance society contingranted is the broad spectrum ues to assign to something else of human ingenuity on display ultimately inconsequential: in this country’s cosmopolitan where you are “from.” Across centers — whether it be the gift the world, nations continue to of different cuisines to try, exclude individuals on the music to listen to or simply basis of their nationality. We people to befriend. see this not only in the nationProponents of stricter immialistic backlash against immigration policy often cite gration fuelled by the belief national security concerns, but that individuals born elsesuch consternation is grossly where are less deserving of a overstated. The overwhelming place in a developed nation majority who wish to enter the that currently defines Western West are eager to become abidpolitics, but more fundamening participants in the social tally, in the systematic restriccontract of liberal democracy, tions placed on incoming perhaps to an even greater migration. Developed nations extent than Americans themhave always been reluctant to TODD HEISLER/THE NEW YORK TIMES selves: statistically, an immiwelcome anyone but the most grant is less likely to commit a skilled of laborers into their Swearing In | Hoffman Gleidson, from Brazil, closes his eyes as the national anthem is played during a crime than a natural-born counfold, regarding people beyond naturalization ceremony at One World Trade Center in New York. Aug. 15, 2017. terpart. Fears of terror might their borders as admissible and exist within a space like the United States using this justifiably lead to more rigorous scrutiny of incoming insofar as they have something to offer economically.

Even skilled foreigners hoping to work in the United criteria. You're not American because you worked the migrants, but the principle that recognizes everyone’s States can only pray that the annual lottery distributing hardest for that claim. You’re American because, to bor- equal right to exist in a space still holds, accounting for the limited number of H-1 work visas unfolds in their row a term frequently used by your own Warren Buffett, improved security measures.

In spite of the recent political turmoil, gridlock and favor. And if it does, the systematic exclusion doesn’t you merely won the “ovarian lottery.”

And so, at least philosophically, one is hard-pressed to posturing of this nation, people of the world continue to stop: I, as a foreigner, am not entitled to the same constitutional protections afforded to Americans, in spite of defend the status quo. For example, if you and another migrate to the United States. Yours is a nation founded your Declaration of Independence’s confident pro- person were in a situation that required the two of you on Enlightenment ideals: not on a religion, nor an ethnouncement that “all men are created equal.” Along to distribute limited resources between yourselves, nei- nicity, but the simple notion that those willing to parevery step of the way, long-standing sovereign mecha- ther of you would invoke where you were born as ticipate in the social contract of a liberal nation are welnisms consistently privilege those who are already com- grounds to a superior claim. So, irrespective of whether come to exercise their liberty. The fact that many paratively privileged, according to the good fortune of the distance between your birthplaces is a few miles or a Americans claim their birth in America as a justification their assigned geography. This is evident across all cor- few thousand miles, the principle governing your equal for their exclusive right to being in America is, at the end ners of the globe: in Australia’s inhumane off-shore claims to limited resources remains consistent. Even in of the day, profoundly un-American. detention of refugees, in the pro-Brexit desire to purify the event that the other person has resources derived Britain’s cultural make-up and in the anti-globalist con- from his own locale, it would be unfair of him to deny Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Not a Cop tempt for the offshore relocation of industrial manufac- you the necessary aid simply for being from a different appears alternating Mondays this semester. Lorenzo can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com. turing. place as where those, say, bananas are from.

Letter to the Editor

Enough with Trump and awe: local action against Trump’s trans discrimination To the Editor: Last week, Donald Trump announced that he doesn’t want transgender people serving in any capacity in the military.

For myself, and many others who are trans, non-binary and gender non-conforming, serving in the military isn’t at the top of our list of priorities. Many of us would rather see the military budget spent on human services: inclusion should look like access to jobs, housing, healthcare and other basic human needs.

Nevertheless, when the president targets us, every trans and gender nonconforming person, regardless of military status, is dehumanized and made even more vulnerable to the violence we navigate every day.

But this isn’t a plot twist for the Trump Administration. It’s exactly what we should expect, another swing in the ongoing assault on the dignity, well being and fundamental rights that we, our neighbors, our friends, and our col-

leagues deserve. Today it was the transgender, non-binary and gender nonconforming community. Yesterday, it was immigrants. Before that Muslims. Before that millions that depend on Planned Parenthood. So how do we start acting like we expect this and stop the cycle of shock and despair that keeps us immobilized?

Fortunately, within the scope of the county government, there are two big opportunities to move proactively and progressively to protect our community and break out of playing defense.

First, Tompkins County has a New York State constitutional right to pass an anti-discrimination law creating a Fair Hearing Board which would handle human rights complaints related to jobs, housing, and discrimination in places of public accommodation on the basis of all federal and state protected classes, as well as additional local protections.

So why does a county level law matter? Aren’t state and federal laws enough?

In fact, until 2008, the State Division of Human Rights had an agreement with the Tompkins County Office of Human Rights to enforce the State’ Human Rights Raw. But, when the agreement between the county and state expired, the number of human rights complaints dropped annually from around forty to almost twenty. That change wasn’t because discrimination stopped overnight, but because resolving human rights complaints through the state can take years, during which time complainants can lose their jobs, homes, and experience escalated violence. When you experience those conditions, a multi-year legal fight doesn’t always seem worth it.

A county law matters, and it’s more important than ever under the administration of Donald Trump.

The second opportunity comes in the form of four major upcoming Tompkins County administrative vacancies: Director of the Department of Social Services, Tompkins County Planning

Commissioner, Tompkins County Administrator, and the Director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. For each of these positions, it is essential that our community publically calls for cultural competency, experience working with diverse communities, and a professional track record of working in human rights as core qualifications in hiring for these essential county positions. These qualifications have equal importance to technical job skills; viewing them as secondary is not a mistake our community can afford to make.

It’s time for Tompkins County to live “Diversity through Inclusion” — the county motto for hiring. In other words, to make equity, inclusion and diversity a core value in every decision we make.

Otherwise, we’ll be stuck on the defensive, in a constant barrage of attacks from a federal government that cares little for our community members who are the most marginalized.

Reed Steberger ’13

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Sound and Storytelling: Dunkirk

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

So I’ve been trying to write this review without swearing but uhhh… holy shit did this movie floor me. If you’re one of those people who reads only the first couple lines of a review: go see Dunkirk. It’s breathtaking.

And that’s the first thing I need to harp on — Dunkirk is beautiful. There were more than a couple of takes in this movie where I couldn’t help but think director Christopher Nolan and director of photography Hoyte van Hoytema were just showing off, flexing their cinematographic muscles.

Such stunning shots coupled with the film’s overbearing atmosphere of anxiety generating cognitive dissonance.

French beaches become graveyards; blue skies rain fire; a skip across the English Channel becomes insurmountable. Nolan makes alluring postcards read “war is hell.”

Dunkirk is based on Operation Dynamo, the evacuation of 338,226 Allied troops from France after they were beaten back and surrounded by German forces at the beginning of the Second World War. The movie begins with British troops on the beaches coming to the realization that although England ia just miles across the water, they would likely never reach its shores. Germans closed in from every side, their air force terrorized soldiers huddled on the beaches with regular bombing runs.

With such high stakes and tension, you might expect grandstanding speeches and Herculean feats typical of war movies. However, in unconventional fashion, Nolan has crafted a film in which dialogue and characters are of relatively little importance. Dunkirk is almost entirely about the spectacle of the historical event. All three of Dunkirk’s timelines weave together to build on the feeling that the scope of the event was bigger than any character’s story.

The first of these stories takes place over the course of one week on the beaches surrounding “the mole,” a deep-water pier. We see the events from a perspective of various British soldiers, one of them played by Harry Styles (who wasn’t nearly as distracting as I thought he’d be), and a commander played by Kenneth Branagh. As the tension builds, we see these characters descend into hopelessness.

Dunkirk’s second point of view is that of a British civilian, played by Mark Rylance, crossing the Channel with his son Peter (Tom Glynn-Carney) and his son’s friend, George (played by Barry Keoghan), in a small boat in order to try and help the doomed troops in France. This segment contains much of the film’s emotional development and speaks volumes to the inspiringly resilient spirit of the British populace during wartime. Unlike the first portion, Rylance’s journey occurs during one day.

The final story arc follows a British fighter pilot Farrier, played by Tom Hardy, and spans just one hour as he flies

across The Channel to try and take some pressure off his suffering comrades.

Despite their differences, all three stories are intertwine perfectly as Nolan cuts back and forth, synchronizing their escalations until all three conclude at once. I can’t remember ever letting out a sigh like I did at the end of this movie. If nothing else, Dunkirk is one of the most affecting films I’ve ever seen, and a large part of that is COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHERS Nolan’s masterful blending of plotlines. A lesser director simply couldn’t have pulled this off. Hell, I’m not sure any other director could’ve pulled this off. After I saw Baby Driver, I said something about Edgar Wright being one of the best directors working today and, don’t get me wrong, Wright is certainly one of the most innovative, but this is different. Nolan has proved again that he’s a master of storytelling.

In a lot of ways, Dunkirk is antithetical to what we’ve come to expect from action flicks. Not only is Dunkirk a historically accurate and light on dialogue World War II film, but it’s also told from three different points of view, each of which occurs within its own time frame, and it has teenagers flocking to the theater! Dunkirk isn't just awesome, it's genre redefining.

The things we can see, like the film’s aesthetic and action, come at the audience directly, while sound gets at us more sneakily. The result is the same — we’re affected by both, but our relationship with the two varies. Dunkirk is about tension, and Nolan’s use of sound in the film is what made that tension so central to the movie’s success.

If you see Dunkirk in theaters (which you absolutely should), you won’t just hear it with your ears, you’ll feel it in your bones. This movie is seriously loud. Every gunshot startled me. The screams of British Spitfire fighter planes dogfighting overhead shook me in my seat. I found myself terrified as wounded and dying soldiers called out for help. All of this chaos on top of Hans Zimmer’s soundtrack kept me on the edge of my seat and I couldn’t help but feel that’s exactly where Nolan wanted me.

In a recent interview with Stephen Colbert, Kenneth Branagh said that after a screening with Dunkirk veterans, the men joked that the movie was louder than the actual battle.

I suppose that after movies like Inception I shouldn’t be sur-

prised that Nolan and Zimmer can make a serious racket, but Dunkirk took it to another level.

Nolan also crafts the ever-present tension, funnily enough, through silence. Sure the gunshots and planes are deafening, but Dunkirk has shockingly little dialogue. The audience have no choice but to hang on to the few spoken words. Nolan has worked stunningly expressive performances out of his actors, such that even without speech viewers have no problem relating to them. The characters’ silence only serves to reinforce the crushing weight of their predicament and make the previously mentioned loud noises even louder.

This movie isn’t for everyone. Those offended by loud noises and violence will find themselves in sensory overload, but even then that’s an effect Nolan was striving to create. We see characters in the film suffer from shell shock, and it’s no mistake that Dunkirk is setup to elicit a lot of those same emotions in the viewer. Those, accustomed to run-of-themill action movie tropes will find this movie atypical, but maybe it’s just the kick in the pants they need to start expecting more from their trips to the cinema. Sure, Dunkirk is a wartime thriller, but it’s certainly not asking anyone to turn their brain off for two hours.

In this movie, Christopher Nolan has crafted not only a fitting tribute to one of the most miraculous military operations in modern history, but also a new standard for how tension and storytelling can be incorporated into action films.

This summer as a whole has been pretty great for cinema, but movies like Dunkirk remind me why I fell in love with going to the movies.

Nick Smith is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nks53@cornell.edu

A Dim Start to the Dark Universe

BY ZACHARY LEE Sun Staff Writer

The onslaught of reviews toward Universal’s newest monster flick The Mummy are as malicious as they are creative. “The Mummy should have stayed buried” and “It’s a movie best kept under wraps” are some of the insults in a series of horrendous comments that have given Alex Kurtzman’s picture a 16 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. With the release of Wonder Woman the week prior and audience fatigue for shared cinematic universes, The Mummy’s by-the-book execution of its characters and obvious attempts to world-build, instead of telling a cohesive stand-alone story, represented everything wrong with the “traditional” summer blockbuster. It is quite clear why the film was critically panned. But The Mummy is not quite the “nail in the coffin” that the critics have been saying it is. Even at its most absurd, it is anchored by a consistent performance from Tom Cruise and a handful of impressive action sequences. If nothing else, The Mummy leaves viewers in anticipation for

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what is to follow.

The Mummy takes place in the modern day, where Sergeant Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) and his friend Chris Vail (Jake Johnson) discover a hidden tomb that holds Princess Ahmanet (Sofia Boutella), an Egyptian princess who killed her father in order to become the Pharaoh and gained supernatural powers through Set, an Egyptian god. After Nick accidentally releases her from captivity, he must work with archaeologist Jennifer Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) and the mysterious Mr. Jekyll (Russell Crowe) to stop Ahmanet before she destroys the world.

Before critiquing The Mummy for being a subpar stand-alone picture, suffering from a stuffed plot and exposition overload, understand that it was designed to be a puzzle piece and launchpad for Universal Pictures’ “Dark Universe,” a shared consortium of cinematic monster films that will feature the likes of Frankenstein’s monster, the Invisible Man, the creature from the black lagoon and the Wolfman. It is interesting how Kurtzman slowly introduces monster mythology into a contemporary setting. Kurtzman is able to make the lacon-

ic and double-pupiled Egyptian antagonist terrifying and spooky, rather than cartoonish. The sandstorms in Iraq are captured in all their power and splendor, and it is fascinating to see the intricate detail of Ahmanet’s burial place, from the aged hieroglyphics to the towering Anubis statues.

Unfortunately, similar to Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, so much work was put into making the cinematic universe that the characters were largely left underdeveloped. Cruise plays his role of Nick Morton with an Ethan Hunt audacity coupled with the witty charm of Indiana Jones, though it is nothing that viewers have not seen before. Johnson’s character is meant to provide comic relief, but the humor misses more often than it hits. Crowe gives a standout dual performance as Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Although Crowe’s Henry Jekyll is less enigmatic and more of an exposition tool, his brief appearance as Mr. Hyde was devilish and appropriately terrifying. And though Annabelle Wallis got a promising start — being witty and headstrong — she, unfortunately, ends up being a side piece to Cruise’s character. Ironically, while Boutella channels a macabre aura as the mummy,

this incarnation of the character lacks any reason to stay (and is grievously over-sexualized.)

This lack of charisma is The Mummy’s chief issue and a problem that Universal must rectify for the Dark Universe to succeed. In The Mummy, Universal relies too much on its star power instead of crafting a compelling villain and supporting cast. The story would have been much more cohesive had a backstory been given to Princess Ahmanet, but Alex Kurtzman put the camera on Cruise every time.

Universal has cast notable A-listers like Javier Bardem, Johnny Depp and Dwayne Johnson for Frankenstein’s monster, the Invisible Man and the Wolfman respectively. But, those actors should be just one component of the films’ success, not the sole reason like Cruise is in this film. Despite these shortcomings, as a predictable blockbuster that requires a forgiving heart, The Mummy is enjoyable, especially if seen as a sacrificial lamb for Universal’s shared universe.

Zachary Lee is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zjl4@cornell.edu

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Oh Baby...

BY NICK SMITH Sun Staff Writer

“How to explain this movie in a nutshell?

Well, Baby drives the car. But music drives Baby.” That’s what director Edgar Wright had to say about this film on the opening page of the soundtrack booklet. Yes, I paid money for a physical copy of the soundtrack, a C.D. with 30 songs on it. Suffice it to say, if you’re looking for a contrarian, negative review of Baby Driver, go watch some hack on YouTube lashing out for more followers.

However, I’m gonna knock out my gripes with the film early on, so we can focus on the fun stuff. As you’ll see, this film borders on being above reproach. There are only a couple things that come to mind as minor flaws.

First off, the plot lacks some of the complexity we’ve come to expect from high budget works. Baby Driver is an original and standalone piece, so it has to create its own universe and can’t rely on an overarching narrative from prequels. To its credit, the film does not try to cram too much into its two hour runtime. In short, the story of Baby — our main character — is simple yet compelling.

Without spoiling anything, the plot is as follows: Baby is forced into being the getaway driver for a heist gang and wants out, a sentiment amplified by his feelings for a girl.

Baby needs to finish one last job to finish

paying off his debt, but things go wrong.

I suppose the aforementioned YouTube hacks could say that the main bit of character development, the relationship between Baby and Debora, feels a little sparse. The couple goes from their first encounter to being hopelessly in love in an alarmingly short period of time. But, as I scramble to defend what I think is the best movie of 2017 so far, I’ll assert that their relationship is perfectly expressive of the two characters’ dispositions: musical, idealistic and desperate.

That’s about as negative as I can get here.

Because of its “simple” plot, Baby Driver doesn’t have room to make a lot of mistakes.

With that out of the way, we can get into the good stuff.

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I grew up playing the earlier Grand Theft Auto games, and like any aspiring (virtual) criminal, I always wanted to do more than just boost cars. When GTA V, the most recent installment, let me brazenly rob banks and cause daring police chases, my more villainous urges were finally given an outlet more wholesome than picking on the family cat (sorry Cheese). I’ve always had a thing for

cars — it’s why I put hundreds of dollars into gaudy upgrades for a second hand Mitsubishi I picked up when I was 16. So when TriStar Productions put Edgar Wright behind the wheel of a getaway driver film, my ticket was sold. I’ve been a fan of Wright since the Cornetto trilogy. Quite frankly, his new film is just him getting the long leash he deserved — and he delivered.

Despite what we’ve come to expect from action movies, the acting is great! Not only is the supporting cast fantastic — Kevin Spacey, Lily James, Jon Hamm, Eliza González and Jamie Foxx all turn in rock solid performances as expected — but Wright was able to get a surprisingly outstanding showing from Ansel Elgort, who you might know from The Fault in Our Stars and the Divergent series. I hadn’t liked Elgort all that much before this film, but he played this role to a T. Now you might be thinking, “Baby Driver doesn’t sound that great.” And at this point in the review you might be right… but I’ve yet to mention the music and that’s the real feature of this movie.

Baby has tinnitus, a constant ringing in his ears (or a “hum in the drum” as Kevin Spacey’s character so eloquently puts it), stemming from the aftermath of a car accident that killed both his parents. As a result, Baby’s always listening to music on his various iPods to drown out the noise and keep himself focused, and that’s the same music we hear throughout the film.

Whatever Baby is listening to is what we’re hearing in the theater. Not only that, but every scene in the movie is quite literally set to the music. Just as Baby is “driven” by his music, the film is moved by it. Baby sings

along with the tracks, his car slides to guitar riffs and lyrics appear in the movie world in real time. The music alone influences this film just as much, if not more than, any single character. In fact, it’s what the movie is all about.

More often than not, the characters and the plot take a backseat to the jaw dropping musical integration. Every single detail in this film is hammered to rhythmic perfection.

I’ve now seen the movie multiple times and on my third viewing I was still in awe of how perfectly Wright executed this idea. It’s just so good! I’d love to relate what the director did here to something we’ve seen in another film, but I’ve never seen anything like it.

Baby Driver is truly a master class in technical filmmaking. The movie is refreshingly antithetical to other box office hits in recent years. It shuns exposition and doesn’t beg for a sequel. It leaves little room for imaginative interpretation. What you see is what you get, and what you see (and hear) is astonishing.

On his website, Wright wrote that he’s been working on this movie for the last four years. What I can say is that 1500 days doesn’t seem like enough time when considering how intricate the finished product is. Baby Driver sings Wright’s meticulous attention to detail. He is playing on another level here. If nothing else, Wright has made a movie worthy of his increasingly-respected name.

There isn’t a scene I’d cut. There isn’t a scene I’d change. Baby Driver is a masterpiece — and hopefully a gateway to seeing a whole lot more from Wright.

Nick Smith is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nks53@cornell.edu

The Emoji Movie Is a Smiling Pile of Poo

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

I tried. I really did. I went in with an open mind. “This could still be like The Lego Movie,” I told myself. “Just give it a chance.”

It turns out we were right all along.

The Emoji Movie, from Sony Pictures Animation, was written and directed by Anthony Leondis. Eric Siegel and Mike White joined as co-writers. To these men I ask, what compelled you to birth this? The Emoji Movie is a joyless movie, replacing world-building with ads and giving us characters flatter than their real-life emoji counterparts.

The movie opens at a schoolyard where human teenager, Alex (Jake T. Austin), receives a text from a girl he has a crush on. As he tries to formulate a reply, we zoom in to his phone to see the city of Textopolis. In this world, each emoji has to be their one “thing” their whole life. Crying emojis need to always be sad, laughing emojis need to always be happy, and so on. We’re then introduced to Gene, voiced by T.J. Miller, who’s supposed to be a “Meh” emoji. The problem is, he doesn’t seem able to control his expressions, and his first day on the job he messes up everything. The head of the texting department, Smiler (Maya Rudolph), holds a meeting where it’s decided Gene should be deleted. Gene then tries to escape, running into Hi-5 (James Corden). Together, they decide to find a famous hacker named Jailbreak (Anna Faris) who can take them to the Internet and reprogram Gene’s code to make him normal again. It’s a race against time though, because if it’s not fixed, then Alex will erase his phone.

I want to start with what I did like about the movie. The animators did their jobs well. When Textopolis is introduced, there’s a lot going on in the background. The movement looks good and smooth enough. The designs leave much to be desired though, since most of the background characters are just their respective emojis with little dot eyes and long arms and legs attached. For what they were given to work with, the animators did a good job at capturing movement. I also found a couple of good gags. The old-fashioned emoticons (like “:)”) were depicted as the elderly citizens of the world, which I found clever. Other than that… there was little else.

Now, for what you probably came here for. To start from the top: the setup of this entire movie is ridiculous!

Apparently, when a human selects an emoji from their touchscreen, the order is sent down to a massive complex where there’s a huge finger-shaped scanner. All the emoji citizens line up in their little boxes. If they are chosen, the scanner then takes a snapshot of them. That picture is then sent up to appear in the text box. It’s such a roundabout way to send

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There’s also the world they live in. Gene has two parents, and it is revealed in the movie that he inherited his multifacial malfunction from his father who had hidden it all these years. Does that mean emojis have children? It’s Gene’s first day on the job. Does that mean his father is retiring? Do emojis age and then die? Did Gene have to qualify for the job? There’s so little explanation here that it leaves me more confused than anything else.

And then there’s the world outside Textopolis. We peek into different apps where activity is going on. When Gene and his allies jump into them to do stuff though, the app suddenly opens on Alex’s phone causing disruptions. But why did the other apps humming with activity not cause any disruptions? Also, they say they have to go through different apps in order to reach their destination. It very clearly shows, though, that they can simply walk around them! Sure, you could say the anti-virus robots would get them… but the robots find them inside the apps anyways. Just save time and make a break for it!

Now, getting down into the “characters”. First of all, the dialogue in the movie is badly written and poorly delivered.

No high schooler actually says to another, “Play it cool, just send her an emoji.” The poor delivery only trims any potential impact the decent lines have. As for the characters themselves, they’re all really bland. Gene says he wants to fit in, but he can’t due to his varied expressions. Later in the movie though, it shows that he can modify them just fine! Hi-5 is flat-out obnoxious: think Animal House-style frat bro.

And then there’s Jailbreak. T.J. Miller has stated before that he believes this movie sends “a feminist agenda, but not in a preachy way.” Well, he’s wrong on both counts. Of the few “feminist” things Jailbreak says, they’re so out-of-place that they come across as annoying. For example, when she was explaining the way to the cloud, Gene ends up finishing her sentence in excitement. She immediately reprimands him, saying “Men are always taking credit for women’s ideas!”

Now that’s a pretty solid point, but he was just excited about what she was saying. He didn’t try to steal her idea at all.

Not to mention, after being built up to be a “strong female character”... she ends up falling in love with Gene. She abandons her dream to be free in the cloud so she can come back home and be his princess, complete with a princess costume. For a movie touted to have such feminist ideas, I don’t see very many here.

Which brings me to the romances. Yes, romances. Plural.

Gene and Jailbreak are one, and it’s so forced and formulaic that I felt my eyes roll back in my head. Gene’s parents also have a short subplot where they get angry with each other over what they should have done about Gene. Eventually, they make up, and sit on a beautiful Parisian street in Instagram to make googly eyes at each other. Yes, it’s as grat-

ing and sickening as it sounds. The fact that they’re both “meh” emojis, and thus have to have zero tone in their voices at all times, doesn’t help them any capacity.

Then there’s the human, Alex, and his crush, who he manages to win over by the end of the movie. The big climax has him finally send her an emoji, which is Gene making many different faces. She then comes and talks to him, saying “I like you’re one of those guys who can really express his feelings.” If she thinks sending an emoji is opening up, then I feel like this relationship will not last.

The climax also left me utterly baffled. Essentially, Gene convinces Alex not to wipe out his phone by showing his multiple expressions. First of all, that didn’t work the last time he was scanned with multiple expressions. Second, sure he had a cool new emoji, but from Alex’s perspective, his phone was still randomly pulling up apps. Erase away! Third, Smiler tries to stop Gene by having him finally erased. Other emojis remark that she’s being unreasonable and excessive.

Apparently, the script forgot that they were seen at the meeting where they decided to erase him in the first place! Fourth, all the emoji clap and cheer for Gene at the end. He’s hailed as a hero. Apparently, they all forgot that he was the one who nearly got them all killed in the first place, and then made the problem worse by going on his little adventure! If he had done literally nothing, the world would be going along much more peacefully.

Did I mention the crass product placement in this movie?

Just Dance, YouTube, Spotify, Candy Crush, Facebook, they all make appearances. In fact, when the Twitter bird comes in to save the day, I just about rolled my eyes to the back of my head. It’s not like Wreck-It Ralph, where the licensed products were relegated to cameos and minor roles. These are things essential to the story and shoved in your face. Very unpleasant.

Finally, the jokes. I mentioned there were a couple good gags. Cherish them, because most of the humor revolves around “Hey, we have a character named Poop!” It’s not clever, it’s not funny, it’s just joyless.

That’s what you should take away here. The Emoji Movie was utterly joyless. The animators and in-betweeners did their job, but the designs just aren’t good and the script is utterly atrocious. The touted messages get totally lost and garbled. Only one thought echoed in my mind after seeing this: I could have used my eight dollars to go see Dunkirk again. Heck, I could have spent my time to pop Inside Out into the disc player! In fact, that’s what I’d recommend for you.

The Emoji Movie has come and gone. Now let’s pretend this never happened.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu.

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By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

The long-storied rivalry between Cornell men’s hockey and Boston University will get a new chapter this coming Thanksgiving weekend in the sixth installment of Red Hot Hockey, taking place at Madison Square Garden in New York City, the respective athletics departments announced Thursday.

“We are very excited to return to Madison Square Garden for another year of this fantastic event,” Cornell head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said in a press release. “Red Hot Hockey is something that everyone around our program awaits with great anticipation, and it’s amazing that it’s remained such a prominent event in college hockey for 10 years.”

Cornell and B.U. last took part in Red Hot Hockey in 2015, when the Red and Terriers tied 3-3. The Red is yet to win in the ongoing series and has not captured the Kelly-Harkness Cup — named after former coaches of each school, Jack Kelly (B.U.) and Ned Harkness (Cornell) — which was introduced in 2013. The Red lost in 2007, 2011 and 2013, and the teams tied in 2009 in addition to 2015.

Almost every Cornell season since 200708 has featured a game at Madison Square Garden — in 2008-09 there was no professional stadium game, and in 2010-11 the team played at the Prudential Center instead.

Last season, Cornell downed New Hampshire 3-1 in the Frozen Apple.

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Thanksgiving special | The sixth installment of Red Hot Hockey between Cornell and Boston University will take place this Thanksgiving weekend at Madison Square Garden.

The game in NYC is always a great way for alumni from both universities to see their teams in action, Cornell Athletic Director Andy Noel said.

“Red Hot Hockey at Madison Square Garden is [three] months away, but alumni and fans of Cornell Hockey are already making plans to attend,” Noel said to Cornell Big Red. “At reunion weekend, many alumni specifically mentioned the annual battle at MSG and I was delighted that enthusiasm is

building so soon.”

Tickets for the highly-anticipated matchup are on sale at starting at noon on Friday, and are available at the through Ticketmaster, the MSG website and the respective fan sections. Cornell students can get tickets for a discount at the ticket office at Bartels Hall.

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell basketball’s David Onuorah ’17 announced his plan Tuesday evening to use his final year of eligibility to play at the University of Connecticut as a fifth-year senior. Onuorah will be eligible to play immediately.

The 6-foot-9, 230 pound forward played in one game during his senior campaign, starting in the Red’s season opener of the 2016-17 season against Binghamton. Onuorah accounted for four points, five rebounds and one block in his 20 minutes of action. But injury would cut the game, and the season, short for Onuorah, who went on to take a redshirt year for the remainder of the season, preserving one more year of eligibility.

Onuorah averaged 5.0 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.6 blocks per game, and shot 51 percent from the field during his junior year, good for ninth in the league in rebounds and third in blocked shots. During his three-year career, Onuorah averaged 3.4 points, 4.7 rebounds and 1.4 blocks while playing 20.8 minutes per game.

Despite non-stellar statistics on the offensive side, Onuorah believes that he is a force to be reckoned with on the defensive side.

“I play hard, I play with a lot of effort and energy,” Onuorah told the Hartford Courant. “I like to rebound the ball, I like to block shots, and play defense and protect the rim. I’m very active on the defensive end.”

Onuorah graduated this past spring with a degree in Applied Economics and Management.

The Ivy League does not allow

postgraduates to play on varsity teams, a rule that forced Onuorah to look elsewhere to use his final year of eligibility.

Onuorah looked into

Georgetown, in addition to UConn.

According to the Hartford Courant, Onuorah visited UConn last week and then visit-

ed Georgetown after. Onuorah went to Instagram Tuesday night to announce his plans to continue his playing career.

“I really felt a strong connection with the coaches [at UConn],” Onuorah told the Courant. “I could sense the hunger around the team, I could feel it, and it was a good thing to feel. It was a tough decision, but I just felt that UConn was the best fit for me.”

Onuorah follows in the footsteps of Shonn Miller ’15, who also played at Cornell for his undergraduate years before using his final year of eligibility to play at UConn. Onuorah and Miller were teammates in

“I was a tough decision, but I just felt that UConn was the best fit for me.”

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Injury bug | David Onuorah ’17 recorded four points, five rebounds and one block in last season’s opener. However, his senior year campaign was cut short by injury.

Ithaca, and Onuorah said he reached out to Miller during the decision making process.

“I definitely talked to Shonn, and he told me about the program and the coaching staff, and it made my decision easier, knowing that he had a good experience,” Onuorah said.

UConn is in need of big men after three forwards and one center all left the program during the offseason. Onuorah’s veteran experience has already created chatter about major minutes for the fifth-year player, and perhaps even working his way to a starting position for the Huskies.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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The Rise of Student Run Sports Management

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Often times, the on-court allure of sporting superstars shadows much of the behind-the-scenes work of their agents. But when it comes to essentially every activity off court, the sports agent remains king, and with the emergence of the Essential Exposure Management Group, Cornell may have the next big sports management firm budding in its own backyard.

The newly founded EEMG is the brainchild of four seniors who are all either past or present student-athletes of the Cornell football program: Trey Duncombe, Jeremiah Shaw, Sean Scullen and Jelani Hoyte-King.

The quartet started in August 2016, and the company has expanded quickly through an effective way of engaging with clients — the fact that they are athletes themselves.

“We’re not lawyers, we’re not doctors, and we’re not businessmen,” Duncombe said. “We’re just four college students, but we [have become successful because] the way that we built our company is unique from others in the industry.”

This “uniqueness” which Duncombe points to is a reference to EEMG’s personability and diversity in firm services. As student-athletes — Duncombe is a former Red cornerback, while Shaw, Scullen and King currently play at the linebacker, safety and defensive back positions, respectively — the four have looked to utilize their experience in order to build a real connection with prospective professional athletes.

In fact, the emphasis placed upon building personal connections with clients can be seen within the business model of EEMG. A foundational feature of the firm lies

within its ability to meet all necessities of clients — whether that may be the traditional contract review, or a less-orthodox demand for help in picking out new clothes for an interview.

“We manage professional athletes but a little bit beyond what a normal sports agent handles,” Duncombe said. “We handle every aspect beyond just negotiation: plane tickets, new clothes … our biggest selling point is basically if he needs someone to do his daughter’s homework, we have a guy for that.”

In addition to its personable approach, EEMG also differentiates itself from competitors through its wide ranging network of professional teams and, of course, through its pricing.

“Our prices are the lowest in the industry without a doubt,” Shaw said. “Our athletes also aren’t limited to contracts within their specific sport, but their wealth can grow well beyond that because of the financial planners and investors we have in our network.”

A particularly notable connection which EEMG holds within its network is former Seattle Seahawks running back Shaun Alexander. And who better to approach for assistance getting into the world of football than a three-time Pro-Bowler, former MVP and NFL Hall of Fame candidate?

“Shaun … [has] been a great resource in helping us out with networking with agents and players,” Duncombe said. “In the [sports management] industry, if you don’t know people, you don’t have a chance, so he’s been a great help in that aspect.”

The beginnings for EEMG can be traced back to a time when the founders of the firm ventured onto Europlayers.com — a social media website designed to help football players seek overseas playing opportunities

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New Age Jerry Maguires | EEMG hopes to become a major force in the sports agent market through its personable and allencompassing services.

on a semi-professional level. Appalled by the way players were representing themselves, the EEMG founders received their first taste of management interacting with users on Europlayers.

“There were guys looking for different tryouts, and we got the idea that we should start representing them because they just weren’t doing it right,” Shaw said. “We started reaching out to them, had some success, and

“We’re just four college students, but we [have become successful because] the way that we built our company is unique from others in the industry.”

Trey Duncombe ‘18 from there things just grew to the point where now we’re working at the professional top-tier level.”

Starting with mainly amateur and semi-professional players, the quartet quickly garnered success in representing players and moved into the professional market. “[After] sending out tapes for a few of the guys, [we] got some replies from people saying [they] had talent to really make it in the NFL,” Duncombe said. “[After] that, we decided to shift our entire focus more towards professional leagues [and] started talking to more NFL teams and organizations, where we were able to build a NFL network with top level companies.”

With the shift to a more professional-oriented market, the founders of EEMG began reaching out to top level sports agencies for requests to work together.

However, they would soon receive several unexpected responses.

“There was a lot of hostility and fear,” Shaw said of the responses from established firms.

“The rest of the sports management world was clearly threatened by us and we had absolutely no idea why,” Duncombe added.

But with a closer look at their operations, the founders of the firm said they began to realize the cause of all the hostility they received: the appeal of their student-athlete background was viewed as a potential threat for traditional sports agents.

“We started realizing the advantage in already being student-athletes: already knowing how athletes think and operate,” Duncombe said. “The sports agents over there clearly saw [us] as a threat to be very profitable without being corrupt and with low prices to the player.”

With the realization of the advantage that they held within the sports management world, Duncombe, Shaw, Scullen and Hoyte-King took a leap of faith and founded EEMG last year. And while the firm is in its new stages, there is much optimism heading forward.

That is, after balancing it with exams and football practice.

“We’re still pretty new and building a client base right now, but we’re very excited for what next year holds,” Duncombe said.

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.

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at linebacker; Ben Rogers and Marshall Deutz at receiver; Matt Sullivan at tight end; and Chris Fraser at punter have all departed from the program.

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Archer acknowledged the gaps the graduates leave, adding that other positions are also up for grabs in preseason camp.

“There are holes certainly to fill de to graduation and some positions that are

going to really need to be shored up at training camp,” Archer said. “But [we’re] just excited to get going and take another step with this program that we are building in Ithaca.”

Cornell will, however, be aided by the return of two-time captain Miles Norris for his final year of eligibility after sitting out the 2016 year due to a preseason injury, along with rising senior safety Nick Gesualdi — a unanimous All-Ivy firstteam selection and third-team Associated Press FCS All-American last season — among others.

Rounding out the rest of the media poll is reigning co-champion Penn in third with five first-place votes, Yale in fourth, Dartmouth in fifth, Brown in sixth with a single first-place vote and Columbia in seventh.

Cornell’s season kicks off Sept. 16 on the road in the program’s first matchup with Delaware.

News Around the League

Yale head coach Tony Reno announced that rising sophomore Kurt Rawlings will

start at quarterback for the Bulldogs.

Rawlings had five touchdowns and two interceptions in four games last season.

Offensive weapon John Lovett of Princeton will miss part of the 2017 season due to injury, head coach Bob Surace announced Aug. 8th. Surace said Lovett

“We’re just excited to get going and take another step with this program that we are building in Ithaca.”

Head Coach David Archer ‘05 played with an injury throughout last season, but underwent a successful surgery ahead of the upcoming year.

Lovett is a reigning All-American and Bushnell Cup recipient, which goes to a player voted on by coaches as displaying “outstanding qualities of leadership, competitive spirit, contribution to the team, and accomplishments on the field.” He

accounted for seven touchdowns in Princeton’s 56-7 win over Cornell last season.

Ivy Rules Changes

Early in the coach’s teleconference Tuesday, Jim Maconaghy, coordinator of football officials, laid out a few rules changes the league will adopt in the 2017 season.

First, no defensive player who runs forward from beyond the neutral zone may leap or hurdle in an obvious attempt to block a field goal try.

Second, illegal horse-collar tackles will extend beyond just grabbing the shoulder pads and include takedowns by back of the jersey around the nameplate area.

And third, if a coach enters the field of play to protest a call, his team can be assessed a 15-yard unsportsmanlike conduct penalty. Any additional infractions will result in the coach being ejected from the contest.

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Golden throw | Rudy Winkler ’17 secured the fourth national track and field championship in Cornell history with a throw of 243 feet, 2 inches.

Winkler Claims NCAA Throw Title

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

From May of 2016 to now would be more appropriately referred to simply as “The Era of Rudy.”

In that span, former Cornell men’s track and field thrower Rudy Winkler ‘17 has led his team to an Outdoor Ivy Heps title (nearly a second this past month), competed in the 2016 Olympic games in Rio, traveled to Texas to compete in indoor NCAAs this past March, was named The Sun’s top senior male athlete of the year and graduated from an Ivy League university.

And to cap it all off, on June 7th, he became the fourth Cornellian in program history to secure a national championship in at NCAAs in Eugene, Ore. Competing in his third straight national championships and dealing with injury, Winkler persevered and hurled for a whopping 243 feet, 2 inches in the hammer throw — nearly two feet more than the next competitor.

“I’m finally getting to the point where I can compete with

it and feel good competing, but it’s still not quite there,” Winkler told the Associated Press on his recovery from injury.

Injury or not, Winkler is still a champion. The golden throw came in the final first-round attempt for Winkler. Along with a national championship, the throw grants him first-team AllAmerican honors in the hammer throw, as well as the fifth AllAmerican award for his career.

Winkler joins Charlie Moore (1949 – 440-yard run; 1951 220-yard hurdles), Rayon Taylor (2007 triple jump) and Muhammad Halim (2008 triple jump) as Cornellians who have secured national championships in track and field. Halim and Winkler both competed in Rio the previous summer, though neither medalled.

Winkler was not the lone Cornellian at NCAAs. Senior runner James Gowans placed 17th overall in the 1,500 with a time of 3:45.387 in his heat. It was not enough to qualify the New York native for finals.

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Despite the undefeated year, Kerber noted the tough competition the team went through en route to the championship, surely to continue in the coming years.

“On the competitive side it was an extra tight year in the league — all the perennial leaders of the league we fielding very

strong crews and some daft crews that were able to upset some of the traditional power houses in the regular season dual races,” he said. “This competitive aspect and parity among the league teams provide a lot of opportunity for all teams year after year. It is refreshing but brings out the best in all of us.”

Jack Roscoe can be reached at jroscoe@cornellsun.com.

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Milliman: We Need to Be Playing Better Lacrosse Now at helm after Kerwick’s resignation, interim head coach Peter Milliman looks to resteer program

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Cornell men’s lacrosse is at a critical point in its legacy. It has been 20 years of conference titles and NCAA tournament appearances since the team had back-to-back losing seasons like the Red had in 2016 and 2017.

For a team that prides itself on its winning tradition — one that has captured three NCAA championships and dozens of conference titles — these past two years have been black marks on a decorated history. But not long ago, Cornell was a giant in the collegiate lacrosse world.

And the quest to get back on top comes with a new coach.

Peter Milliman, who in May was named interim head coach for the 2018 season after Matt Kerwick resigned, knows the time is now for Cornell to ascend back to national stardom. With so much young talent and so much promise across the roster, the upcoming season will be about finally putting it together.

“Our biggest area of focus is going to be playing better lacrosse,” Milliman said in his first interview since being named head coach. “I think our guys are excited and motivated to take a step forward. I don’t think we have been a very good team the last couple years, and that doesn’t fly at Cornell.”

Looking to get Cornell back on top, Milliman enters his new role with a wide array of past coaching experiences. A year before coming to Cornell in 2014, Milliman was an assistant at Princeton. Before that, he was in a head coaching role for Division II Pfeiffer, where he earned conference Coach of the Year honors twice, and assistant

stints at RIT and Siena.

Even before coaching, Milliman was a three-time Division III All-American at Gettysburg, taking part in two national title games before winning a Major League Lacrosse championship with the Rochester Rattlers in 2008, when he was an assistant at RIT.

“I don’t think we have been a very good team the last couple years, and that doesn’t fly at Cornell.”

Interim Coach Peter Milliman “I would say that I have a great desire to be successful and I really want to serve the guys on the team and give them the best opportunity they can have to be successful,” Milliman said of how his past experiences could help his next. “I think this is the best program in college lacrosse, this is a great opportunity to lead some of the best young men in the game.”

In his time at Cornell as an assistant, Milliman has taken on a big role as the recruiting coordinator. Those efforts have paid off handsomely.

Milliman brought in the first ever No. 1 Inside Lacrosse prospect, Jeff Teat, who just finished 2017 as the highest scoring freshman in program history with 72 points, passing Rob Pannell ’13. Teat was ranked the No. 3 freshman at the mid-season point this year, behind TD Ierlan of Albany and eventual Ivy League Rookie of the Year Michael Sowers of Princeton.

Fellow Cornellian Brandon Salvatore came in at No. 12 on that list.

Teat and classmate Connor

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Milliman’s message | Peter Milliman has seen the team struggle the past couple years. Now as the interim head coach, he hopes he can lead the young talent back to the winning ways that are typical for the Red.

Fletcher combined for 104 points to become the highest scoring freshman duo on program history. As just freshmen, the duo finished the season No. 1 and 2 in team scoring.

Even before the promising class of 2020, Milliman brought in six U.S. Lacrosse AllAmericans with the class of 2019 — the most for Cornell since 2009. Of that class, Clarke Petterson just wrapped up a 32point season to earn himself AllIvy honorable mention.

But despite the talent, Milliman noted the need for his team to be able to close it out in tough situations — such as the games against Virginia and Penn this past season. In both cases, Cornell held the lead as the game was winding down, but the Cavaliers and Quakers both pulled it out in the end with one-goal victories.

Had those two games gone the other way, the conversation about Cornell’s 2017 campaign would be much different — one

about a winning season.

“We don’t have a lot of experience on the roster in the wins column,” Milliman said. “Now, we have guys who have played a lot more minutes, we have a lot of returning starters. … The biggest challenge is going to be the experience of winning games and how to win close games in tough situations, and that’s going to be something that we try to build.”

Of the older talent, such as defender Jake Pulver, who just finished his junior year as captain, and Christian Knight, who intends to return to Cornell in 2018 after missing his entire junior season, Milliman will look for them to impart their wisdom to hopefully flip games like Virginia and Penn.

“I think we have a really great senior class,” he said about the class of 2018. “I am excited about them, I think they are as committed as any group that I’ve ever worked with and they’re dedicated to make Cornell successful and you can’t ask for anything more from them.”

Milliman has one year guaranteed at the helm of Cornell, as a search for a full-time replacement will come at the end of the 2018 season, though Milliman has not been excluded from the running.

No matter the potential limit on Milliman’s time as head coach, he has one goal in mind: fully develop the young talent and change the current tide of a storied program.

“I don’t think anything past this year is relevant in my life,” he said. “I’m excited to win the Ivy League … I’m excited to play Yale, I’m excited to get on the field and start practicing.”

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Archer undaunted | Instead of taking the Ivy League preseason poll as a slight, head coach David Archer ’05 hopes to use it as motivation for his team heading into the season.

Archer Unfazed by Poll’s Last Place Ranking Preseason rankings project Red will finish last in Ivy League for third consecutive season

By ZACHARY SILVER

Archer says another last place preseason selection can help motivate the team to once again defy the destiny foreseen by voters.

“After that vote it’s meaningless as soon as the ball goes in the air,” he said in a leagueDespite coming off the most successful campaign under head coach David Archer wide preseason teleconference Aug. 8th. “It is something that will motivate a lot of guys ’05, Cornell football has been selected to finish last in the Ivy League preseason poll for on our team to go out and prove people wrong. We will certainly use that to our advanthe third straight year. tage.

Cornell garnered 36 points off votes from select media “I think I have a group of guys that know winning is well members — just two shy of seventh place Columbia and 16 “It is something that will motivate a lot within their grasp and they want to take it.” points higher than the team’s 2016 total (20). Reigning co- of guys on our team to go out and prove While the team has increased its preseason stock since champion Princeton and Harvard were selected as title before the 2016 season, the blossoming of quarterback people wrong.” favorites with 120 points each.

Dalton Banks and running back Chris Walker — both enterThe Red is coming off a 4-6 season, which included a 3ing their junior years — was not enough to propel the team Head Coach David Archer ’05 0 start to the year followed by a five-game losing skid and out of the basement. The duo helped give Cornell the fourthsplit decisions in the final two matchups. Two of Cornell’s highest scoring offense in the Ivy League last year, while the four wins were against Ivy rivals — a 27-13 homecoming win over Yale and 42-40 deci- defense lagged behind at No. 7. sion on the road against Columbia.

Cornell has also lost several key players to graduation. Most notably, Jackson Weber Preseason polls are not everything, though, as Cornell tied with Columbia for a sixthplace finish last year after being selected to finish last.

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ROWING

Rowers Win Gold to Claim 3rd National Title Since 2014

By JACK ROSCOE Sun Staff Writer

At the 115th IRA Regatta in Gold River, Calif. the Cornell men’s lightweight crew squad earned a first place finish, capping off an excellent season which saw the top varsity boat go undefeated.

Over the last four years, the team has been undefeated in three seasons, winning three national titles in the process. With the 2017 title, the team is experiencing its best stretch since winning three titles from 2006-08.

“I am particularly happy for the senior class and all the athletes on the squad — working for and leaving a very sweet legacy,” said head coach Chris Kerber.

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Era of dominance | The Red edges out Penn and Yale at the 115th IRA Regatta to claim its latest gold medal. The team has now won three national titles and gone undefeated three times in the past four years.

The lightweights have won the IRA title in six of the last 11 seasons, and seven times overall since the event was added in 1990.

In the race, the “I am particularly happy Red led after a close start, but by the 500for the senior class and meter mark, Cornell all the athletes on the and Penn were ahead squad – working for and of the rest of the field by two-thirds of a leaving a very sweet boat length. By the legacy.” halfway point, Cornell’s lead had Head Coach Chris Kerber extended to seven seats. The Red held off a burst by the Quakers near the end of the race to win by three seats in a speedy time of 5:40.172.

Penn got silver with 5:41.087 and Yale took the bronze in 5:43.072, barely edging Harvard (5:43.321) at the finish line. Princeton, finishing with a time of 5:45.778, and Columbia (5:45.976) rounded out the field.

In the other lightweight races, the coxswain-less varsity four got bronze in the Grand Final, finishing behind crews from Harvard and Princeton, while the varsity four got third in the Petite Final.

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