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Eric Schulman ’17 describes how Facebook is going to sell your political affiliation for money. | Page 11
Without Jeff Mathews ’14 under center, the Red has a new look under head coach David Archer ’05. | Page 32
Lawsuit Against Univ. Over 2010 Gorge Death May Proceed,Court Rules Witness said student fell in gorge after attending party, according to police By TYLER ALICEA
University was shielded from liability due to a law that “grants a special immunity to owners … from the A lawsuit charging the University usual duty to keep places safe” when with negligence after a sophomore individuals use the land for specified student fell to his death into a gorge recreational activities, including hikin 2010 will not be dismissed, the ing. appellate division of the New York Ultimately, the New York State State Supreme Court ruled July 17. Supreme Court denied Cornell’s The parents of Khalil King ’13 motion in August 2013. The sued Cornell in University then August 2012, just “I can’t imagine how a appealed that two years after decision. parent would feel after their son suffered The appellate a “skull and ver- dropping their [student] off division of the at an Ivy League ... and tebral fracture” Supreme Court, after falling into then to lose [that] student.” however, agreed the Fall Creek with the previous Leland T. Williams Gorge on Aug. court, arguing 28, 2010 while that Cornell did walking along a trail behind the Phi not establish that King was hiking Gamma Delta fraternity house. under the law the University claims Steven King and Alexis Mercedes protects it at the time of his death. Godfre, Khalil King’s parents, claim In addition, Cornell also claimed in their lawsuit that Cornell did not that since the dangers of the gorge provide adequate lighting, warnings were “open and obvious,” the or signs about the dangers of the University was not responsible to gorge or barriers preventing gorge warn of any hazards. access. The appeals division, on the Cornell attempted to have the other hand, again agreed with the case dismissed, according to court documents, arguing that the See LAWSUIT page 4 Sun Managing Editor
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Bags, boxes and bulletin boards | An orientation leader helps a first-year student move into his dorm room on Friday.
Officials: Class of 2018 to Increase ‘Positive’Campus Environment By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor
As members of the Class of 2018 prepare for their first week of classes, officials say the new students — who are the most selective and diverse class in University history — are likely to give Cornell its most “positive and productive” learning environment to date. Cornell’s Class of 2018 accepted only 14.2 percent of applicants — the lowest admission rate in University history — from its record setting pool of 43,037 applications, according to the University. Additionally, 42.9 percent of freshmen self-identify as students of color, a
2.1 percent increase from last year. According to Associate Vice Provost A.T. Miller, a diverse pool of skilled students will help to enrich the campus environment in multiple ways. “With such a fantastic pool of extremely well-qualified individuals, we can produce a class with the spectacular level of diversity that will provide the most positive and productive learning and research environment,” Miller said. International students — who come from 50 countries around the world — also comSee 2018 page 5
At Convocation,Skorton C.U.Bhangra Performs on National Television Addresses New Students By ANNIE BUI
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Addressing new students and parents, President David Skorton told Cornellians at Convocation Saturday to take advantage of what Cornell has to offer. Skorton began by welcoming the newly-arrived first-year and transfer students, noting that the Class of 2018 is the most selective and most diverse class in University history. “For me, and for many of us on the campus, today is the most optimistic day of the year because with your arrival the University is
renewed,” he said. “With all the wonderful skills and perspectives you, our newest students, bring to the campus — I have no doubt that we’ll be an even stronger university going forward.” In honor of Cornell’s sesquicentennial, Skorton compared the incoming students to Cornell’s very first class in 1868, who sat for examinations in Ithaca before the University opened for enrollment. “Those judged qualified … were, like you, a diverse and interesting group,” Skorton said. “Some were, See SKORTON page 4
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Shake it out | Members of Cornell Bhangra perform in the fall of 2012.
Millions of viewers nationwide who tuned in to NBC’s America’s Got Talent August 12 were treated to the high-energy moves and music of Cornell Bhangra. Dressed in a vivid array of colors, members of the dance troupe, which performs Punjabi folk dance, performed a 90-second routine that was followed by a standing ovation from the crowd, as well as positive reactions from the show’s judges during the week three quarterfinals of the show. Cornell Bhangra had garnered the highest number of votes in an online poll following their performance in the The Today Show’s “Today’s Got Talent” competition on July 23, allowing them to enter America’s Got Talent See BHANGRA page 4
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Memorial for Berggren’90 MAT ’93 to be held on campus on Sept.21 in Sage Chapel By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor
Prof. Kathy Berggren ’90 MAT ’93, applied economics and management, died July 24 on her way to the airport in Portland, Oregon after a attending a conference, according to University officials. She was 46. In 1993, Berggren began her 20-year long tenure as a senior lecturer for Cornell’s communication department, teaching Communication 2010: Oral Communication and Communication 3980: Issues in Teaching Communication, according to her University profile. In 2013, Berggren left the communication department to join the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Many Cornellians, including communication student Kevin Milian ’15, said Berggren was an “integral part of professional and personal development” for students in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “Most CALS students take Oral BERGGREN Comm to fulfill a requirement, so everyone remembers the teeth-pulling initial difficulty of public speaking in class,” said Milian, who is also a columnist for The Sun. “[Berggren] took the shy, quiet kids and made them into award-winning speech givers and refined the skills of our bolder classmates. At the core of an eloquent public speaker is confidence, and she helped strengthen that in all her students.” Department of Communication Chair Prof. Katherine McComas said she was “deeply saddened” by the news of Berggren’s death. “Kathy was an important part of our department and worked with almost every student in Communication as an instructor for COMM 2010 or as an advisor,” McComas said. “This is a terrible shock to us all.” Kathryn Boor, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, added that the college was “shocked and saddened by the abrupt loss” of Berggren. “While Kathy may have been tiny in physical stature, she lit up any room with her warmth and sparkling personality,” Boor said in a statement. “She touched so many lives, on our campus, in our community and well beyond. She truly cared about her fellow citizens, and it showed in her words and deeds. Along with our entire university community, I will miss her.” Berggren served as an advising coordinator, internship coordinator and faculty advisor to various student groups on campus, including the Association for Women in Communication and the Touchtones a cappella group, according to her University profiles. She was also a co-chair for the agriculture college’s diversity committee and a fellow for the Center for Outreach and Engagement. Upon transitioning to the Dyson School in spring 2013, Berggren was tasked with developing a new introductory class in management and communication that would incorporate both writing and speaking principles, The Sun previously reported. She designed a course — AEM 2700: Management Communication — from scratch with seven former students in fall 2013 that was first offered in last semester In 2011, Berggren won the Clarion Award, a national award that honors excellence across all communications disciplines, according to a University press release. Berggren was awarded for her curriculum design of Communication 2010. Berrgren is survived by her children and husband Martin, a systems administrator for Cornell Computing and Information Science. A memorial service will be held on campus on Sept. 21 at 1 p.m. in Sage Chapel. University Resources:
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Students and parents attend the Dump and Run sale — where pre-owned items are sold to students moving in each August — at Helen Newman Hall Saturday.
Former C.U.Scholar Arrested for Reportedly Groping Woman on Flight By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
A former Cornell visiting scholar was arrested after groping a woman’s breast on a flight from Tokyo, according to federal prosecutors. Eun-jong Lee, a 47-year-old Ithaca resident, was charged with abusive sexual conduct when he arrived at Newark Liberty International Airport Aug. 10, according to The Associated Press. He was a visiting scholar who worked in the Department of Design and Environmental Analysis in the College of Human Ecology from April 2013 to March 2014. He appeared in court at the U.S. District Court in Newark on Aug. 11, according to the AP. If convicted, Lee could face up to two years in prison. During the United Airlines flight from Tokyo to Newark, Lee was seated next to a female passenger who fell asleep during the flight, according to a
complaint filed by Special Agent Mary Anne Flippo of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Later, the victim awoke to find Lee’s hands on top of her shirt, touching her breast through her clothing, according to the report. He then touched her neck and attempted to “place his hand down the front of the victim’s shirt.” After the woman asked Lee to stop touching her, he “quickly got up from his seat and walked toward the restroom.” The woman then reported the incident to a flight crew member. Joel Malina, vice president for University Relations, said in a statement on August 12 that Lee’s “privileges at Cornell have been suspended and his future with the University will be assessed as the facts of this matter are confirmed.” Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
Report:Cornell Ranked 11th Best University in the World,Ninth in Nation By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
Cornell University is the 11th best university in the world and the 9th best in the United States, according to a report from the Center for World University Rankings. This year’s ranking marks an increase in rating for the University, which was rated as the 13th best university in the world last year by the CWUR. Harvard University took the title for best university in the world for the third year in a row. The CWUR — based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia — used a total of eight indicators, including quality of teaching, quality of faculty and alumni employment, to rank the world’s top 1,000 universities in its report. Dartmouth College and Brown University are the only Ivy League schools that did not appear in the top 15 on the list. Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Ezra’s legacy | Cornell was ranked 11th best university in the world by the Center for World University Rankings. Pictured above is Goldwin Smith Hall, the home of the College of Arts and Sciences.
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C.U.Must Provide a‘Safe Skorton:‘Take Intellectual Risks’ At convocation speech,Cornell’s president encourages new Campus,’Attorney Says students to make the most out of their four years at the University LAWSUIT
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Supreme Court and said that it could not be determined whether “the cliff’s edge was visible and obvious or presented a latent, dangerous condition necessitating an appropriate warning.” In a brief statement, the University said that “the matter will now proceed to the next stage of litigation.” “The University does not ordinarily comment on pending litigation and so has no further comment at this time,” said Joel Malina, vice president for university relations. Police documents obtained by The Sun in October 2010 revealed that King’s fall into the gorge occurred after he attended parties in Collegetown and on West Campus and was reportedly inebriated, which The Sun reported did not appear in the original lawsuit against Cornell. At a house party in Collegetown on Friday, Aug. 27, 2010, a then 17-yearold Cornell freshman told police that he and King spoke “for a good portion of the time” while at the party. “He told me he was [smoking] but he did not tell me what, when or where he had smoked,” the witness told police. Later at around 3:30 a.m., King and his friend were walking past the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity — also known as “Fiji” — when King began running. “[King] was by the side of the [Fiji] building when he started to motion to
me to back up,” the friend told police. “[King] then started running at me and said in a quiet voice, ‘run, run.’ I thought that maybe because of the way he said it that he might have seen an animal and did not want to scare it.” After this point, both he and King began to run across the McGraw Place parking lot to the wooded trail behind Fiji, according to police documents. Upon their arrival at the opening of the trail, the friend said he stopped while King continued running down the trail towards Stewart Avenue. “I called for him to stop, but he didn’t,” the friend said in a statement to police. The following evening, a Cornell student reported to Cornell Police that King was missing, The Sun reported in 2010. Authorities began to search for King and discovered his body at the bottom of the Fall Creek Gorge around 1 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 29, 2010. In 2012, King’s parents’ attorney told The Ithaca Journal that he thinks “Cornell has been casual about protecting the students.” “The school has a duty to provide a safe campus,” Leland T. Williams, the attorney, said. “I can’t imagine how a parent would feel after dropping their loved one off at an Ivy League school and then to lose their student at some point in their career at Cornell.” Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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ties to connect with your professors work best for you,” Skorton said. “Make it a goal that before you leave Cornell there will be at least like you, a diverse and interesting group,” four professors — one each year — who Skorton said. “Some were attracted by the know you very well.” University’s then-radical openness to people of Skorton next talked about Cornell as a all races, creeds, and economic circumstances “caring community” and called upon the stuand by its emphasis on practical studies as well dent body to take proper measures for their as the liberal arts — characteristics that are own safety and welleven stronger in Cornell's being and that of those current culture.” around them. “College is a time to Though this first class “Membership in our was entirely men, rang- discover what excites you caring community means ing from the ages 15 to that if you experience aca... and to take some 30, Skorton noted that demic or personal chalthere were several from lenges, you don’t have to intellectual risks.” abroad — representing struggle through them Canada, England, Russia President David Skorton alone,” he said. and Brazil — and that “Membership also means many of them “went on looking out for others and to distinguished careers in science, politics, helping them get assistance when they need it. education, art, literature and other fields.” Remember, it is a sign of strength to ask for Skorton also gave advice regarding how to help.” remain involved and balanced at Cornell He closed his speech by giving advice to while also pursuing intellectual passions. parents about letting their children go, set“You — or your parents — may expect ting expectations and keeping in touch with you to have one clear, straight path to a their children. degree and, subsequently, a career. And many “There is no doubt that the college years of you will,” Skorton said. “But college is a can be tumultuous, and it is sometimes hard time to discover what excites you, to learn to let go — at least it was for me,” he said. about subjects far outside your major and to “But the fact that your sons and daughters are take some intellectual risks.” at Cornell means you and they have done Skorton stressed that students should con- well and that they are ready for this next nect with faculty by asking questions during step.” and after class and making use of programs such as West Campus dinners with professors and the “Learning Where You Live” initiative. Noah Rankin can be reached at “Take advantage of whatever opportuni- nrankin@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
Cornell Bhangra Team Draws Praise From Judges BHANGRA
he said. “We were all a little nervous, but as soon as the music started, we just started having at its quarterfinals stage. The fun.” group had originally auditioned According to Ashley George for America’s Got Talent, but did ’16, a member of the team and not continue with auditions public relations director, performbecause of academic conflicts. ing on the stage at Radio City The team was unable to secure Music Hall was a childhood one of the five spots in the semi- dream come true. final round dur“Every other “A dancer could never year my family ing the week three quarterfi- dream of a better place and I [would nals results show come] to watch to be.” August 13. the Christmas Judge Howie Spectacular and Ashley George ’16 Mandel said he our closest seats t h o u g h t we ever booked Bhangra’s America’s Got Talent were in the first balcony. Now I performance was exciting, yet was on the stage,” she said. “A unexpected. dancer could never dream of a “What I love is when people better place to be.” always mix it up a bit,” he said. The team trained for the “You opened what your culture is America’s Got Talent performance to a wider audience.” for around a week from 8 a.m. to Howard Stern said the group 5 p.m. daily, according to Kapoor had a “distinct advantage” despite and George. its late entrance into the competiGeorge added that the experition. ence of performing on national “We’ve never seen you before television brought a sense of unity … it’s the first time, it’s very excit- and cohesiveness to the team. ing,” Stern said. “If you go “We went from simply being through, it would be interesting just another competing dance to see if you sustain this type of team to being representatives of excitement.” the South Asian culture and our Armaan Kapoor ’15, co-presi- style of dance to the American dent and co-captain of Bhangra, audience,” she said. “You can said performing in front of mil- imagine the unifying effect of that lions was “simply surreal.” change.” “Radio City is one of the most prominent stages to dance on, Annie Bui can be reached at and it was a blessing being there,” abui@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
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prise approximately 10 percent of the freshmen student body, Miller added. “We can cultivate [different] perspectives, life experiences, intellectual and cultural approaches and interpretations and backgrounds,” Miller said. The University’s motto of “any person, any study” was reflected in the diverse background of this year’s freshman class, Vice Provost Barbara Knuth said in a University press release. Members of the Class of 2018 also come from all corners of the country — residents from every state except North Dakota are represented in the freshmen class — according to the University. Miller added that this diversity helps foster “We can cultivate [different] growth at the University by introducing students perspectives, life experiences, to new experiences. intellectual and culture “Catalytic encounters approaches ... and for our faculty, students and staff are more likely backgrounds.” when there is the broadest possible range of A.T. Miller diversity among those at Cornell,” Miller said. In addition to being more selective, students in this year’s incoming class have been awarded higher amounts of need-based financial aid, according to a University press release. The average need-based financial grant increased by $1,946 for this year’s freshmen, according to the University. This aid increase comes in conjunction with a $1,920 across-the-board tuition increase for all undergraduate students for the 2014-15 school year. “We don’t want folks admitted to Cornell to pass up the opportunity to join our academic community for financial reasons,” Miller said. Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Aides to the Palestinian president said Sunday that he will soon appeal to the international community to set a deadline for Israel to end its occupation of lands captured in the 1967 Mideast war and make way for an independent Palestinian state. President Mahmoud Abbas was expected to unveil his proposal as part of a “day after” plan following the current war in the Gaza Strip, likely at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership on Tuesday, said the aides, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the plan has not yet been made public. Abbas is plotting his move even as the fighting continues to rage. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned Sunday that the 7week-old military campaign in Gaza would stretch into September — despite growing anger among residents in southern Israel over the military’s inability to halt rocket and mortar fire out of the Palestinian territory following the death of a 4year-old Israeli boy over the weekend. In new fighting Sunday, the Israeli air force flattened a seven-floor office building and severely damaged a shopping center in southern Gaza, signaling a new escalation. Palestinian officials said 13 people were killed in Israeli airstrikes, bringing the death toll to more than 2,100 Palestinians since fighting erupted on July 8. Sixty-eight Israelis have also died, all but four of them soldiers. With no end in sight to the fighting, Abbas has been searching for ways to assert himself on the international stage. He is seeking a foothold back in Gaza, which was captured from his forces by Hamas seven years ago, and is eager to show the Palestinian public he is working to end the fighting and lead the Palestinians to independence. One official said that Abbas has grown disillusioned after two decades of failed efforts to reach a negotiated peace settlement with Israel. He said the Palestinians want a “fixed date” for an Israeli withdrawal from lands claimed by the Palestinians and a timetable for establishing a Palestinian state. In an interview on Egyptian television over the
weekend, Abbas said he would soon present his plans to Arab, American and European leaders. “It is an unconventional solution, but I will not declare a war on Israel. It is a political and diplomatic solution,” he said. He declined to elaborate, saying only that he would tell the United Nations in an address next month that the Palestinians want independence immediately. “Otherwise, this opportunity will be lost forever,” he said. An aide to Abbas said the plan would include an appeal to the Security Council, whose resolutions are legally binding, to call for an end to Israel’s occupation of lands captured in the 1967 Mideast war. The Palestinians seek the West Bank, east Jerusalem and Gaza for their state. Israel captured all three areas in 1967, though it withdrew from Gaza in 2005. With Israel opposed to a withdrawal to its pre1967 lines, it will likely seek U.S. help in thwarting the bid. The U.S. has historically vetoed Security Council resolutions seen as unfavorable to Israel. The Palestinian official said that if this happens, the Palestinians will then begin the process of joining the International Criminal Court, where they could pursue war crimes charges against Israel. The Palestinians were accepted as a nonmember state by the U.N. General Assembly in 2012, a status that allows them to join international bodies, including the International Criminal Court. Israeli officials see a Palestinian bid to join the court as a hostile act — as well as a serious threat. Israel strongly opposes Palestinian attempts to pursue independence at the United Nations, saying it is an attempt to circumvent the negotiating process. Netanyahu’s office declined comment on the latest Palestinian plans, saying it wanted to receive details officially. Speaking to his Cabinet Sunday, Netanyahu said the public must show patience and warned the operation could go into September.
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Ithaca Airport Receives Over $2M for Travel Improvements “This is great news for the passengers and pilots.”
By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
The Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport will receive $2.16 million in federal funds that will help improve wait times, U.S. Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) announced August 1. The airport will use the funds to expand the terminal apron, which is where parked planes are stored, loaded or unloaded and boarded, as well as purchase new snow removal equipment, according to Schumer’s office. “This is great news for the passengers and pilots who fly in
Bob Nicholas and out of our Southern Tier airports every day,” Senator Schumer said in a statement. Bob Nicholas, manager of the airport, said that the grants will make travel “significantly more efficient, especially during the winter.” “I’d like to thank the senator for all of the work he does on
behalf of Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport,” Nicholas said. The announcement of federal aid comes more than a year after an announcement that the airport’s control tower would close due to the sequester in early 2013. While many were concerned about potential flight delays, airport officials learned in June 2013 that the tower was reinstated. The Elmira Corning Regional Airport also received federal dollars totaling $720,000, which will be used to purchase a “critical aircraft rescue and firefighting truck,” according to a press release. Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
Ed Helms Tells Class of ’14 to‘Be Fools’ By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor
A previous version of this story was published online May 25. Although fictional Cornell alumnus Andy Bernard was not present at Senior Convocation on May 24, the actor who played Bernard — Ed Helms — told Class of 2014 graduates to always be fools. “As you look ahead and ponder your lives after four years of extensive learning — having been taught by some of the greatest minds on the planet, studying late nights for endless exams and essays — please remember to be a fool,” said Helms, who is also known for his role in The Hangover trilogy. Helms stressed the importance of “acting free and foolish,” drawing from his past experiences as a rising actor and comic. As voiceover actor during the 90’s, he said he went to thousands of auditions
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Ever heard of it? | Ed Helms delivers the Senior Convocation speech in May to the graduating Class of 2014.
fying choice.” Despite his love for his job at The Daily Show, Helms said he “jumped off the cliff,” moved to Los Angeles and accepted the role as Andy Bernard. “I foolishly took the role of Andy Bernard, and it completely changed my life,” he said. “After six episodes, I became a permanent cast member and was not only employed for eight weeks, but for eight wonderful years.” Helms also reflected on Andy’s final line on The Office, where he says, “I wish there was a way to know you’re in the good ol’ days before you’ve actually left them.” “[This] got me thinking: What are ‘the good ol’ days,’ “I contend that good ol’ days when do they happen and why?” he said. “I contend are marked by relatively high that good ol’ days are levels of foolishness. Case in marked by relatively high levels of foolishness. Case in point: College.” point: College. It’s one of the great incubators for Ed Helms foolishness.” Helms said he thinks it uates to be fools who “would is important for graduating studeliberately” scare themselves, dents to fight conformity and cynadding that such behavior provides icism, in light of what he said was the most “potent catalyst” for the dissipation of “vitality and curiosity” possessed by college stugrowth. Helms was a correspondent on dents upon their graduation. “The world will tell you that it’s The Daily Show for four-and-a-half years when he received a call from time to grow up and leave those his agent regarding an offer to play foolish, youthful diversions the role of Andy Bernard on The behind,” he said. “But don’t fall for that. I’m here to tell you those Office. “I was feeling pretty peachy … foolish diversions are the real necbut there was one big problem,” he tar of life. Put up a fight. Be a said. “Andy’s entire arc on the fool.” show was only scripted to last eight episodes — that’s [only] eight weeks of work. Suddenly this Annie Bui can be reached at exciting possibility was just a terri- abui@cornellsun.com. but failed to successfully book the majority of them. “How many of [the auditions] did I actually book? Maybe one percent,” Helms said. “The rest — the 99 percent — went up in smoke.” However, Helms said the large number of auditions he went to eased his transition into a showbusiness ritual, which eventually became “second nature” for him. “When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment,” Helms said. He said it is important for grad-
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Three Killed,Four Injured in Random L.A.Attacks
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Three people killed and four others injured within the span of an hour Sunday in the northern suburbs of Los Angeles were victims of random attacks that may have been carried out by the same gunmen, police said. Witnesses spotted two men in a tan- or gold-colored SUV at two of the three crime scenes in the San Fernando Valley area Sunday morning, Sgt. Frank Preciado, a police spokesman, said. While the victims appeared to be randomly targeted, investigators determined that the same type of weapon was used in the attacks and the manner of the shootings
seems to be similar, he said. “It’s a major threat,” he said. attend church was struck by gunfire at 5:50 a.m. in San The Los Angeles Police Department committed a lot Fernando. Preciado said a 20-year-old woman was of resources to investigate the shootings, he said, and killed. Four others were injured; one of them was hospiadded that talized in grave condition. “Witnesses spotted two men in a tan- or goldauthorities About 40 minutes later, a man were releaswas fatally shot at a Sylmar park. colored SUV at two of the three crime scenes.” ing inforThen 15 minutes later and less mation than 5 miles away, a woman in her Sgt. Frank Preciado about them 50s was found dead with a gunshot in hopes of wound to the head. getting the public’s help in finding the suspects. The shootings took place in the San Fernando Valley, In the first attack, a family of five riding in a car to about 30 miles north of downtown Los Angeles.
Five Family Members Killed in SingleVehicle Crash on Long Island Highway BABYLON, N.Y. (AP) — A woman, her three children and their grandmother were returning home from a family gathering when their car veered off a Long Island highway, crashed into a tree and burst into flames, killing all of them, authorities said Sunday. Myriam Lebrun, 37, was traveling on the Southern State Parkway toward Brooklyn just before 11 p.m. Saturday when her Honda Accord left the westbound lanes near Exit 38 in Babylon and smashed into the tree, state police said. All five family members in the car died. State police identified the other victims as 68year-old Moise Yolande, 14year-old Marcus Jeanty, 9-year-
old Marcel Jeanty and 8-yearold Kayla Jeanty. It was unclear why the car veered off the road. “It looks like a combination of speed and we’re investigating the possibility of alcohol,” lead state police investigator Charles Knapp said. Emergency responders and witnesses described heavy fire, with flames shooting into the sky. “The front of the car was pretty much engulfed in flames,” Robert Cabano, North Babylon first assistant fire chief, told Newsday. He said one passenger was found outside the car. Thomas Bennett told CBS New York that he stopped his
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car, ran to the crashed vehicle and “tried to pull the body away from the fire, but it was too heavy.” He added, “And then the car was in flames and started popping, so everyone backed up.” On a quiet, tree-lined street in Brooklyn, a gentle breeze kept swinging open the front screen door of the family's semiattached, two-story brick house in the Flatlands neighborhood. A hula hoop leaned against a porch wall. A neighbor, Sarah Hogart, stood in front of her door, looking across the low, brick partition they shared. “I just found out what happened; I’m so shocked,” Hogart said.
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Parole Denied Again For John Lennon’s Killer
NEW YORK (AP) — John Lennon’s killer was denied release from prison in his eighth appearance before a parole board, correction officials said Friday. The decision on Mark David Chapman by a three-member board came after a hearing Wednesday, the state Department of Corrections said. Chapman fired five shots on Dec. 8, 1980, outside the Dakota apartment house where Lennon lived on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, hitting the ex-Beatle four times in front of his wife, Yoko Ono, and others. He was sentenced in 1981 to 20 years to life in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder. An attorney for Ono said Friday that she had no immediate comment. The panel wrote to the 59-year-old Chapman that it concluded that if released, “you would not live and remain at liberty without again violating the law.” It added: “This victim had displayed kindness to you earlier in the day, and your actions have devastated a family and those who loved the victim.” At his previous hearing in 2012, Chapman described how Lennon had agreed to autograph an album cover for him earlier on the day of the killing. “He was very kind to me,” he said. After that, “I did try to tell myself to leave. I’ve got the album, take it home, show my wife, everything will be fine,” he said. “But I was so compelled to commit that murder that nothing would have dragged me away from the building.” At a 2010 hearing, Chapman recalled that he had considered shooting Johnny Carson or Elizabeth Taylor instead, and said again that he chose Lennon because the ex-Beatle was more accessible, that his century-old apartment building by Central Park “wasn’t quite as cloistered.”
Hasidic Village Sues to Block Upstate New York Casino ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A Hasidic Jewish village has mounted a legal challenge seeking to halt a casino proposed for Orange County in upstate New York, arguing that officials in nearby communities failed to consider the environmental impacts of the project when they signed on in support. The lawsuit filed by the village of Kiryas Joel alleges that the proposed Live! Hotel and Casino in South Blooming Grove would burden the local sewer system and generate traffic, noise and other negative impacts for the surrounding area. Kiryas Joel is a community of 23,000 about 50 miles north of New York City. In the lawsuit the village notes that its population is mostly Hasidic, and that casino gambling is “contrary to the religious beliefs of this community.” The suit seeks to halt the project and annul agreements between casino developers and officials in South Blooming Grove and the town of Blooming Grove. Developers looking to win one of four available upstate casino licenses are required to gain approval from the host communities. Cordish Companies and Penn National Gaming are the developers behind the proposal, one of several competing for an upstate casino license. “As a policy matter, we do not comment on litigation, but we are extremely disappointed at the Village of Kiryas Joel’s effort to try to deny jobs and important new tax revenues to South Blooming Grove,” Penn National said in a statement. Messages left Friday afternoon with officials in South Blooming Grove, Blooming Grove were not immediately returned.
Nursing Home Employee Admits To Stealing Patients’ Drugs ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) — A New York nursing home worker has admitted to stealing prescription drugs from elderly patients by substituting similar looking pills in their place. Authorities say Deborah Cleveland of Rochester was a medication technician at the Heather Heights Assisted Living and Memory Care Facility in Pittsford when the thefts occurred. State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said Friday that the 42-year-old stole about 650 pills, including 230 oxycodone pills from one victim. Cleveland pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of attempted fraud in Pittsford Town Court. She's expected to receive a sentence of probation and four weekends in jail when she is sentenced in October.
Gunfire Wounds Man in Syracuse SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Police in Syracuse are investigating a drive-by shooting that send a 27-year-old man to the hospital. Police say Anthony Hopper of Syracuse was shot in the leg and hand shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday. He was taken to Upstate University Hospital for treatment of his wounds. Hopper told officers he was walking with three other men when he heard six shots and felt pain in his leg. Witnesses said the shots came from an older model black Jeep Cherokee.
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A moment of silence | A woman prays at the makeshift memorial where Michael Brown was shot dead by a police officer, in Ferguson, Mo., Friday.
Protesters, Police March Peacefully in Ferguson FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A diverse group of protesters, many of them children, marched peacefully Saturday as calm prevailed for a fourth straight day in the St. Louis suburb where an unarmed black 18-year-old was shot by a white police officer, setting off more than a week of unrest. Several community activists walked side-by-side with police officers in uniform as they walked down one of the main streets in Ferguson that had been filled with armored vehicles and officers in riot gear less than a week ago. “I think some of the frustration is dying down because more information is coming out,” said Alana Ramey, 25, a St. Louis resident who joined the afternoon march. “I think there is more action going on. People are being more organized and that is helping.” By late Saturday night, just a few dozen peaceful protesters remained, with an even more sparse police presence along the threeblock stretch of West Florissant Avenue that had been the site of the heaviest unrest. Unlike other nights, the street remained open to traffic. A St. Louis County police spokesman reported one arrest for destruction of property, though an Associated Press reporter observed a second arrest. The protesters included a dozen students and recent graduates of Harvard University who arrived in Ferguson after a 20-hour drive. The Harvard contingent chatted amicably with Missouri Highway Patrol Capt. Ron Johnson, who commended their passion and encouraged them to remain civically active. “When we go back to our communities, there’s a Ferguson near us,” said the Rev. Willie Bodrick II, 26, of Roxbury, Massachusetts, a youth minister and recent graduate of Harvard Divinity School. The images of well-armed suburban police officers confronting protesters in Ferguson with tear gas and rubber bullets after the Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown by Ferguson Officer Darren Wilson prompted widespread criticism of how local law enforcement agencies have used federal grants to obtain military gear from the Pentagon. President Barack Obama ordered the White House to conduct a review of those programs after calling for more separation between the nation’s armed forces and civilian police.
California Earthquake Causes Damage, Injuries NAPA, Calif. (AP) — The largest earthquake to hit the San Francisco Bay Area in 25 years struck before dawn on Sunday, sending scores of people to hospitals, igniting fires, damaging historic buildings and knocking out power to thousands of homes and businesses in California’s wine country. The magnitude-6.0 quake, which ruptured water mains and gas lines and damaged some of the region’s famed wineries, sent residents running out of their homes in the darkness. Three people — including two adults and a child — were critically injured. Dazed residents too fearful of aftershocks to go back to bed wandered through Napa’s historic downtown, where the quake had shorn a 10-foot chunk of bricks and concrete from the corner of an old county courthouse. Boulder-sized pieces of rubble littered the lawn and street in front of the building and the hole left behind allowed a view of the offices inside. College student Eduardo Rivera said the home he shares with six relatives shook so violently that he kept getting knocked back into his bed as he tried to flee. “When I woke up, my mom was screaming, and the sound from the earthquake was greater than my mom’s screams,” the 20-year-old Rivera said. While inspecting the shattered glass at her husband’s storefront office in downtown Napa, Chris Malloy described calling for her two children in the dark as the quake rumbled under the family’s home, tossing heavy pieces of furniture for several feet.
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n the domain of music, an overture opinions of all sorts. Two months later, is an introduction to something the bitterness is still simmering but more substantial. It also determines somehow truce has superseded violence how the rest of the orchestral piece to some extent. Ukraine is still strugplays out. I could not think of a better gling and West Africa is battling an analogy for summer. It disguises the international health emergency. most significant episodes with its char- Germany won the World Cup and Kim acteristic lightness of being. The tran- Jong-un threatened America because of quil, wistful afternoons of summer are James Franco. It has been an eventful, more deceptive than we know. We unprecedented summer, and clearly, we think we are tuning out of the regular- still don’t have all the answers. ities of life, but we are never as well However, I cannot help but think that tuned in. Before you know it, summer the end of summer presents the world is over and you have changed more with a sense of optimism and anticipathan you think you have. I hated the tion and the rare opportunity to start thought of being in an unfamiliar envi- again. It’s true that as summer comes to ronment for my summer, without my a close, it almost feels like it was a bubfriends and family around. I anticipat- ble. It is also true that the months to come will not resemble ed days of absolute the months that were misery. But after in any manner whatsotwo months have It has been an eventful, ever. But we’ve all flown by, I realize unprecedented summer, learned something or that we are so com- and, clearly, we still don’t the other and that is fortable with life as have all the answers. both subtle and indeliwe have known it ble. It is almost time to that we do not real- However, I cannot help but take those rose-tinted ly risk getting out think that the end of the of our comfort summer presents the world shades off and face the world with all of its zone, doing things with a sense of optimism realities again. The we would never otherwise — cook- and anticipation and the rare idea is to not return to the real world empty ing, for instance. I opportunity to start again. handed but with the used to burn everywarmth the summer thing from popcorn induced in us. We had time to stop to bacon in May. We are forced to fend for ourselves running and think about ourselves and without the reassuring, familiar faces the world. This clarity is what makes we know way too well. We realize that me optimistic. Despite the quagmires we can still become friends with every fourth country seems to be stuck strangers, and that our closest friends in, good things will happen. The idea is were once strangers too. We are not to preserve the sunshine in the months constantly worrying about keeping up to come. We are already better people with exemplary standards and are liv- than we were three months back and ing the way Kurt Vonnegut ’44 would the state of affairs across the world will have all Cornellians live — “The real resonate the change too- one step at a troubles in your life are apt to be things time. Summer revived us and I cannot that never crossed your worried mind, wait to see how the home stretch of the kind that blind-side you at 4 p.m. 2014 works out for me, you, and the on some idle Tuesday” (ironically rest of the world. I hope everyone has appropriated from the ‘sunscreen’ an incredible semester ahead. Welcome back! speech). This summer started with an escalation of the confounding IsraeliAditi Bhowmick is a junior n the College of Arts Palestinian conflict. Children were and Sciences. She may be reached at abducted and killed. Social networks abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings and political forums exploded with appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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Emma Court | Order in the Court
It’s Okay To Not Be Okay
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s we’ve grown older, back to school has come to mean more than new boxes of No. 2 pencils and agonizing over that crucial first day of school outfit. For returning upperclassmen, it means joyous reunions with old friends and favorite CTB bagels. For new students, it’ll be an initial blur of new people, new places, the pangs of homesickness and the joys of all-you-can-eat dining halls. New and old students alike, though, are all subject to the same set of expectations about college: the best four years of your life. Where you make your best friends, learn a lot, discover yourself and understand the world better. Party. Have fun. Change your opinions. Meet your life partner. Yes, you will stay up with friends on a couch until 5 a.m. eating Insomnia cookies and debating which characters on Sex and the City you all are. Yes, you will skip class to question the purpose of the Oxford comma and linger on the Arts Quad discussing Romantic poetry. Yes, you will have crazy, rowdy, unbelievable nights where nothing makes sense until everything does. Yes, there will be access to world-class research materials, professors who are top in their fields, and friends who are top in your heart. And yes, you will learn about the world and about yourself in such a way that one day, you will understand that these ideas are not just vague platitudes. Everyone will tell you that these things are true. But they will not insert that key word: usually. Fresh off of O-week, with golden light bathing campus, the grand old academic buildings more like temples of wisdom than the homes of all-nighters and all your friends more carefree and stress-free than you’ve ever seen them, life seems a lot like the glossy college brochures that stacked up on your living room coffee table. It is a version of reality as carefully filtered and scripted as college tours, as self-selected as our Facebook and Instagram feeds, and as cast in the idealized light of nostalgia as the college memories of our elders.
This isn’t about being a caring community — though that’s certainly part of it — but about a more open and honest development of the idea of college itself. Cornell is a place with a tremendous amount of opportunities for growth, learning and happiness. But is also a place you can get lost and where you can feel like you shouldn’t feel the way you do. To believe that college is a glossy, Photoshopped brochure is to set you – really, all of us — up for failure. It is okay not to be okay, and it’s something we need to say much earlier to each other and much more often than we’re saying it now. This isn’t about being a caring community — though that’s certainly part of it — but about a more open and honest development of the idea of college itself. It’s about acknowledging that being here means we have access to some tremendous things, but that we can’t always be tremendous ourselves, nor should we try. We cannot compare ourselves to the utopian version of college we had in high school. Not every day will be the best day of your life, where you make a new best friend, where you learn a lot, discover yourself, understand the world better, party, have fun, change your opinions and meet your life partner. There will be some days that don’t have any of those things. It took until pretty late in my college career for my friends and I to start sharing with each other the not-so-good times of college. And anyone who’s been to college has had these experiences, though they’re not part of our collective college consciousness: falling asleep crying. Feeling like you didn’t fit in, or like you were unable to live up to your, or other peoples’ expectations. Feeling like different parts of your identity couldn’t coexist peacefully. Like you made wrong decisions, didn’t take enough risks, took too many. The blunt, hard truth of it is that while college is a good time, it’s not always a good time. For every night you stay up until 5 a.m. eating Insomnia cookies on a couch and giggling with your friends, there will be as many — or more — that are miserable and sleep deprived. Cornell is a wonderful place to be challenged. That is why we are all here. And if you’ve done something right in your four years, you will feel challenged — a lot. Being upfront about college as enriching and exciting and also really hard may not have the peppy generic sheen of a well-practiced tour guide, and may not inspire the kinds of reactions that are, well, really fun to inspire. But it is the only way for us to ensure future generations are fully taking advantage of Cornell in a way that doesn’t put them over the edge. When you’re not okay, say it. When you are okay, say it too. Either way, it’s okay. Emma Court is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at ec598@cornell.edu. Order in the Court appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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Comment of the day “So some kids are out, doing nothing wrong, and realize they are being followed by someone who is neither dressed as police officer nor driving a marked car, and they begin to run. Police shouldn't have the ability to chase down anyone they want just because some criminal activity occurred in the city that day. This doesn't look like it has to with race, and yes, The Sun is sensationalizing, but this is symbolic of overreaching police.” Guest Re: “Ithaca Police Sergeant Pulls Gun on Four Unarmed, Minority Teens,” News, published August 15, 2014
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‘Greetings From Pakistan’ W
hen I got there’s a company antee at least one bilan email ready to sell them. lion dollars in growth this sum- This company knows by selling political mer with the subject contact information ads during election “Greetings from and political prefer- years, it would. Pakistan,” I thought I ences of 85 percent of Facebook would douwas being solicited. I Americans, and their ble its net profit marwasn’t though. A main business is gins if it didn’t kill a Pakistani freshman, using data to place quarter of its gross who I traded emails retailers’ ads — it’s profits in research with about a column called Facebook; and development, I wrote about Israel maybe you’ve heard turning the data it and Palestine, sent of them? People are owns into sales. me another emailed surprisingly open Selling political ads me about the conflict about politics on wouldn’t be the first this summer. The Facebook. Most peo- time Mark exchange stood out ple share their politi- Zuckerberg sold out because of the ease cal affiliation on their — he didn’t want ads with which this kid profile. Even if they on Facebook to begin found me on don’t, everyone even- with — but that’s Facebook after read- tually likes a political certainly not how ing the column. It page or writes one of things have turned got me thinking; we probably leave political footWhether we like it or not, prints all over the place, and its Facebook will lobby users based only a matter of on their data. But, it would be time before positive if Facebook wasn’t so activists pay comopaque, and political finance panies to follow these footprints wasn’t so partisan. with precision advertising. Retailers already those opinionated out (Retrospective use precision ads; paragraph statuses I Spoiler Alert to The lobbyists eventually usually forget about Social Network, the will too. During the (Let’s be real, who movie about 2012 presidential scrolls through their Facebook by Aaron election, lobbyists newsfeed to read Sorkin). spent somewhere about underpriviWhether we like it between one and two leged children in or not, Facebook will billion dollars (Take a Africa?). The thing is, lobby users based on second to ponder Facebook doesn’t for- their data. But, it what you could buy get about that infor- would be positive if with the money spent mation. Facebook wasn’t so spamming Ohioans Facebook hordes opaque, and political with Mitt Romney all the information it finance wasn’t so parads). Yet, online ads can and will eventu- tisan. If it wasn’t for accounted for less ally start monetizing the “Greetings from than one percent of on it. It will need to Pakistan” email, I that spending — turn its data into wouldn’t have looked despite the fact that sales revenue to meet into an organization they’re more effective growth expectations. called Parent’s Circle. when compared to Generally, Facebook They're an organizaTV ads. grows by about three tion of Palestinians The amount spent billion each year, but and Israelis who lost on online precision sustaining that kind family members in ads will undoubtedly of growth isn’t easy. If the conflict and want rise considering Facebook could guar- to end the violence. I
can’t help but wish that Facebook would peak my interest in organizations like Parent’s Circle — like that students’ email — instead of Collegiate Sun (as much as I like seeing their ads in my newsfeed; I’m never planning on buying cheap Cornell branded sunglasses). But, unfortunately, the biggest contributors to political coffers tend to be the most extreme (or, Stephen Colbert, who is also extreme but for some reason I’m okay with the fact that his political action committee raised a million dollars in 2012). But I guess you w o u l d n’t spend millions in political ads if you thought people agreed with you. Also, Facebook’s advertising practices are about as transparent as campaign finance itself. Get your computer and try to find an ad on Facebook; I bet you can’t. If only Parent’s Circle’s, instead of Sheldon Adelson or the Koch brothers’ super PACs, paid for Facebook ads. Eric Schulman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT This Girl, Lucy, Knows a Thing Or Two
ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Staff Writer
Lucy is an exhilarating liberation from sense — a slender, manicured middle finger to anyone who carped about Gravity’s jetpack physics or reassessed their love for a movie after watching one of those “Everything Wrong With...” videos on YouTube. To say this movie has plot holes or is “so dumb” is to say nothing critical at all; those are platitudes, facts, technical specifications. Watch Lucy on its own terms and enjoy a rare collision of 21st century style and themes with old-school, no-nonsense narrative economy. It moves faster than you can think and it's all over in — have I mentioned? — 90 minutes. Scarlett Johansson is Lucy, a pretty much average, intellectually at least, American studying abroad in Taiwan. When we first meet her she is in the middle of some boring back-and-forth with her boyfriend until — being the scumbag his wiry beard and tinted shades telegraph him to be — he handcuffs a mysterious suitcase to her wrist, for immediPHOTOS COURTESY OF UNIVERSAL PICTURES
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ate delivery to a Mr. Jang (Choi Min-sik, of Oldboy fame). thematically. This is a movie about a woman who evolves to Jang's henchmen knock her out, surgically insert the con- attain a divine plane of omniscience, and better she do tents of the case — a bag of blue crystallized drug called things impossible, bizarre and batshit crazy and leave us CPH4 — into her lower tummy and, for added macho scratching our heads than … not. On Letterboxd, Jake awfulness, one of the goons gropes her while she is Mulligan writes chained in a dingy room. Since she is a strong eloquently, and Lucy female protagonist, she wards him off, but since this soberly, of how is also a screw-the-patriarchy kind of action flick, he this is one of the Directed by Luc Besson retaliates by kicking her in the abdomen. The bag only true "superStarring Scarlett Johansson, hero movies" inside her leaks and an animated camera flies through her arteries as blue crystals spill into her ever made. I'm Morgan Freeman bloodstream, lighting up like fireworks and sending all on board, and her into a convulsive, floating fit. But she survives, my only annotaand Lucy 2.0 is born. tion is that ludiFrom this point on, Lucy does not waste a single crous genre fare gesture, glance or step. The drug in her system fuels such as this may her brain to reach its untapped potential — to go be the only proper beyond our brain's paltry efficiency, which Professor vehicle for cinematic explorations of divinity: The only way Norman (Morgan Freeman, Hollywood's go-to for making to do it right is for it, in the end, to not fit together so neatly, nonsense sound smart) hypothesizes sits at 10 percent. In and better have fun doing so than harden our theater seats the midst of this initial action, director-producer-writer-ani- into pews. morph Luc Besson (Leon: The There are also car chases (note, plural) where coupes Professional, The Fifth Element) cross- screech across asphalt on their sides and taxis catapult with cuts to Norman lecturing before a a flick of Lucy's wrist. But what makes Lucy good cinema rapt university audience (i.e., us) and Transformers 4, Michael Bay's undeniable talents aside, about the possibilities of using 20, 40 just a headache? Brevity is the soul of wit, and so Besson's and eventually 100 percent of the quick cuts keep action scenes short, breathless, lethal. And human brain. Telepathy, extrasensory because of this tactical precision in the editing room, and a perception and other powers he relatively conservative (or perhaps unnoticeable) use of speadmits belong in the realm of science cial effects, Besson maintains a sense of plausible reality in fiction could be tapped into, and sure spite of all the implausible going-ons. You will laugh enough Lucy wields all these and throughout, and rest assured that is intended. more as she avenges her kidnapping, If I am overrating Lucy at all, it is because I am considerquarantines the rest of the world's ing it in the context of Hollywood movies today, and espeCPH4 supply and, I don't know, cially their norms for screenwriting. The industry now valattains the infinite sum of universal ues the likes of Damon Lindelof, Roberto Orci and Alex knowledge. References to 2001: A Kurtzman, who suffocate any momentum their stories Space Odyssey abound, and rarely stumble upon with relentless qualifiers, asides and blatant does an action film overreach so spec- exposition so to keep the plot hole warriors on IMDb at bay. tacularly. In the end, movies like Prometheus, Mission: Impossible — Besson throws Ghost Protocol and the new Star Treks are overlong, pedantic everything at us and, yes, still rife with all sorts of lapses in character motivawith his hyper- tion and logical continuity. Action cinema just takes itself so montage style. seriously these days. Footage of cheeThere's a moment in Lucy that takes place in an airplane tahs stalking prey, bathroom, and it comes out of nowhere. I love that the laundry machines movie made no attempt to explain it or incorporate the and dividing cells power she attains until the very end — and even then, only pop up sporadi- implicitly. This movie is uncut, color-coordinated nonsense cally for associa- revolving around an ass-kicking, super-genius heroine. tive, not quite Three makes a trend, for Scarlett Johansson's last three subliminal effect. projects, outside of those in the contractually-obligated It's a bit much, Marvel machine, mark a conscious redefinition of her but then so is the image. Objectified and fantasized over more than most, she whole movie. The has now played three non-humans in a row with Her, Under leaps of logic — the Skin and Lucy. Once the drug takes in this film, she to say nothing of remarks in soulless monotone how she no longer feels fear, the laws of pain or desire: "All ... humanity is fading." Besson fixates on physics — her with many loving close-ups, but for once you feel she enhance the has found a director and a project that meets her on her own film's kineticism, terms. naturally, and Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He even make sense, can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.
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Introducing the Fall 2014 Arts Columnists A RIELLE C RUZ - D EATH B EFORE D ECAF @ariellec4: “Beyoncé is the only study music that never gets old.”
C ALVIN PATTEN - PATTEN PENDING “Life is rainbows and extra sprinkles and puppies.”
Arielle Cruz is a senior Communications major, fresh back from a semester in Argentina, fueled by Diet Pepsi and her roommate’s Netflix password. Bright-eyed and bushy-haired, as a former Arts editor (and Bromer’s better half ), A-Cruz is a Jack of all trades and plans to write abouts music, television and movies. Death Before Decaf will appear alternate Mondays this semester.
EVAN NEEDELL - NEEDELL IN A CRAPSTACK @EvanNeedell: “Last night I dreamt that I tried to become friends with Drake, but he tripped, landed on his face, and died. #NoNewFriends” Evan Needell is a senior Communications major and a new columnist for the Arts Section. He refused to write a bio. He was born on June 7, 1993. He is a fan of the Knicks. When he was a freshman, he lived in Mary Donlon Hall. The first time we met he was eating a burrito during Prof. Mike Shapiro’s “Psychology of Entertainment Media.” He’s going to write about movies and stuff. Needell in a Crapstack will appear alternate Fridays this semester.
A LICE WANG - P ROFANITY P RAYERS @alicewang00: “Wow this is embarrassing but I literally just don’t understand this level of candy crush” Alice Wang is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences, has been writing Profanity Prayers for six semesters, and recently came up with the brilliant idea of hot Cheetos nachos. Alice is probably the coolest and most elusive Arts columnist. Despite her rampant potty-mouth, she is exceedingly articulate about the rap industry, fine art and food television. If you meet her, will you tell her that we’re cool too? Profanity Prayers will appear alternate Thursdays this semester.
JULIA M OSER - C ARROT TOP C ONFESSIONS @juliamoserrrr: “Disappointed no one has set video of bear walking on hind legs to ‘Walk Like a Man.’ Frank Valli makes a good news story great.” Julia Moser is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and is a little bit pissed that she is no longer the only red-headed Arts columnist. After returning from a semester-long hiatus in Edinburgh, Scotland, Julia and Carrot Top Confessions are back, with a fierce love for British television and all comedy. Carrot Top Confessions will appear alternate Wednesdays this semester. SAM BROMER - THERE’S NO PLACE LIKE BROME @sam_bromer: “I prefer to rant at confused passersby 140 characters at a time.”
Sam Bromer is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences, a former Arts editor, and a recent intern at The Colbert Report, where he learned Stephen Colbert’s personal coffee order and succeeded in turning the rest of the Arts section into a gaggle of jealous hags. A little brother of the Arts section and a new brother in Llenroc, Sam plans to write about music, dead celebrities and his own neuroses. There’s No Place Like Brome will appear alternate Mondays this semester.
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Calvin Patten is a senior bio-engineering major. He is probably currently in Duffield, drinking coffee, reading blogs and procrastinating. His relevant interests center around music, but also venture into some film and television. He apologizes in advance for inevitably mentioning Kanye in every single column. Patten Pending will appear alternate Fridays this semester.
JAEL GOLDFINE - OBJECTIVITY BITES @jaelgoldfine: “what’s the half-life of a playlist?”
Jael is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences and used to wear her hair in braids. This is her first semester as an Arts columnist and she plans to discuss contemporary fiction, poetry and the literary industry with energy, humor and positively no snobbery. Jael impulsively hates anyone who follows through on starting P90X and has a passion for three-dimensional bread. Objectivity Bites will appear alternate Fridays this semester. Z ACHARY Z AHOS - A LOVER’ S QUARREL WITH THE WORLD @zacharyzahos: “My least favorite boy band is Muse.”
Zachary Zahos is a junior College Scholar, president of the Cornell University Program Board and granddad of the Arts section. He spent his summer watching black and white movies and writing Letterboxd reviews that made his editors feel stupid. In his sixth semester as an Arts columnist, Zach plans to “lighten up” and grapple with what constitutes good film criticism. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World will appear alternate Wednesdays this semester.
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his past July, I managed to overcome self-doubt and long browser loading times long enough to enroll online for the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre’s introductory course on improvisational comedy. I decided to take the class mostly because there was no reason not to do so. My summer internship’s mid-summer hiatus coincided precisely with the dates of the course, and the only alternative plans I had in mind boiled down to a few variations on sitting, lying down and staring at things. Coming in, I had two main reser vations. The first was that, as someone without any performance experience, getting up on a stage without any prepared material and trying to make people laugh was absolutely terrifying. Second, I wondered just what exactly I planned on taking away from the course. When I told family members that I would be taking a comedy class, I was usually met with incredulous stares — and I didn’t really blame them. The concept of an “accredited” improv school seemed completely absurd, even through UCB, whose alumni have gone on to find success just about everywhere in television, film and online (see SNL, 30 Rock, The
Colbert Report, Broad City and any other show that might be vaguely classified as comedy, for some examples). Two weeks later, these concerns were gone. My class’ final performance went smoothly, and I had been given the opportunity to act like a complete idiot in front of a large group of people. More importantly, though, I began to recognize that the techniques we used to become funny and engaging onstage applied There’s No Place strangely well to the Like Brome real world. There are three basic stages of an improv scene. In the first, the performers establish the scene’s base reality — answering who the characters are, what they are doing and where their scene takes place — by agreeing to and building upon any information their dialogue reveals. Once this reality is established, those onstage must recognize the first unusual thing about the reality they create. Finally, the performers work together to heighten and explore this strange detail. For a scene to have any success at all, a performer must make sure to: • Listen intently to every bit of information put forward, no matter how seemingly
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mundane. • Avoid the impulse to correct, deny or ignore others’ ideas. • Remain entirely in the present, no matter how easy it may be to revert to discussing the past or speculating about the future. • Commit to inhabiting someone else’s worldview. • Play to the top of his or her intelligence by reacting truthfully and honestly to even the most absurd premise or situation. Broken down in this way, it’s not difficult to see where skills learned in an improv course might apply elsewhere. Take, for example, modern Alzheimer’s care. A recent episode of This American Life surrounding the subject of “magic words” included the story of Karen and Mondy, a couple with years of acting experience. When Karen’s mother Virginia was stricken with this disease, she and her husband had found it impossible to try to keep Virginia grounded in reality without making her angry and confused. But, inspired by an Alzheimer’s webpage that included the improv mantra to “step into the world” of the man or woman afflicted by the disease, the two began to agree and build upon the things that Virginia would say, rather than contradict them. If she declared that monkeys were out in the yard, the two would not react with
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anger and consternation, but instead, would pretend to see them, too. Improv’s “Yes, and” principle has also been used to great effect in the world of advertising. As Seth Stevenson wrote in an article on the subject for Slate, “Improv … requires excellent listening skills, rewards those who shed their inhibitions and leap into the middle of the group dynamic, and offers valuable lessons about the wisdom of shrugging off setbacks.” Improv workshops have become commonplace in office environments and on work retreats. For better or worse, it has emerged as a useful tool to improve productivity. More broadly, it is clear that alongside the obvious benefits of improv — being “funny,” thinking on one’s feet, and speaking publicly — it provides a forum to practice important, but often overlooked, basic life skills. But what do I know. I spent my precious time and money on a comedy class. Sam Bromer is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com. There’s No Place Like Brome runs alternate Mondays this semester.
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Schwartz Injures Foot; Jets Release Six Players;Roster Now at75 Giants O-Line Struggles
EAST RUTHERFORD, now is having a short memory,” N.J. (AP) — It’s time to start Richburg said. “If I make a misworrying about the New York take, I’m able to clap it off and then just go to the next play and Giants’ offensive line. With two weeks to go until not let it affect me. “I think that’s something that the season opener at Detroit on Sept. 8, the unit is undergoing a sometimes can hurt players. You major change in the wake of know they get hung up on makguard Geoff Schwartz’s foot ing a mistake and it hurts them, injury. The free agent dislocated it carries on play by play. I think a toe in Friday night’s preseason I’m doing a good job of forgetwin over the Jets, and it is likely ting about it and just playing that the high-priced free agent is fast and continuing.” Schwartz, who left the Chiefs going to be sidelined indefiniteto sign a four-year, $16.8 milly. Second-round draft pick lion contract with the Giants, Weston Richburg replaced was not made available to Schwartz at left guard at practice reporters on Sunday. He saw a on Sunday, but the concern isn’t foot specialist over the weekend. Walton said that it was hard whether he can do the job. s e e i n g The conSchwartz go cern is “You want as much down, but across the consistency as you can with the line board in a needs to s e a s o n the personnel. With rotating, c o m e where the that doesn’t change the together and Giants (4-0) straighten are revampexpectations. ” things out in ing the line. Rashad Jennings practice. Guard Chris “We’re in Snee retired the NFL, it’s at the start of training camp. Fellow guard next guy up,” Walton said. Kevin Boothe was lost to free “Everybody is ready to go and agency and tackle Will Beatty is we have to be on the same returning after breaking his page.” Richburg isn’t going to be right leg in the final regular-seahanded the job. Veteran John son game last season. Newcomer J.D. Walton is Jerry, who started with the starting at center after missing Dolphins the past two seasons, the past two seasons with a and Dallas Reynolds, who startmajor ankle injury. That leaves ed with the Giants late last seasecond-year pro Justin Pugh as son, also will get a look from the the only returnee with no bag- coaches. Jerry started at right guard in gage. It’s not the type of experience practice on Sunday because relaone would hope to have on the tively inexperienced third-veterline which is adjusting to a new an Brandon Mosley, who offense under coordinator Ben replaced Snee, was experiencing McAdoo. In the past three pre- some back issues. “This is why you are here,” season games, the first-team offense has scored two touch- said Jerry, who has battled a knee problem in training camp. downs. “You always want consisten- “You are here to compete for a cy, obviously, in your play,” half- job. Jobs are always open.” That said, Jerry has been back Rashad Jennings said Sunday. “You want as much impressed by Richburg. “He’ll be fine,” Jerry said. consistency as you can in the personnel. With rotating, that “He’s a tough young guy, very doesn’t change the expectations. smart, very competitive. He’ll It doesn’t change how we com- definitely be fine.” municate. Everybody’s capable of getting the job done. That’s just something that’s a part of football and we’re going to knock that wall down.” The new line will get a short test Thursday in the preseason finale against the New England Patriots (2-1) at MetLife Stadium. The first team usually plays only a series or two before turning its attention to the opener. It’s doubtful that coach Tom Coughlin would change plans to get the line more action. Having Richburg in the starting lineup against the Lions would not be a surprise. While drafted as a center out of Colorado State, Coughlin and line coach Pat Flaherty have given him plenty of work at both guard positions in recent weeks. He played well after Schwartz was hurt in the second quarter and was in the lineup when the Giants scored a touchdown late in the second quarter against the Exp. 12/23/14 Jets. “What I’m doing best right
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Chad Young. Ford’s release was a mild surprise since he was listed as the Jets’ top kickoff returner. He was signed in April after having limited action last season in Oakland. Ford had three catches this preseason. “Jacoby had been given a lot of opportunities,” coach Rex Ryan said. “I still think he has a chance. ... There seemed to be some struggles.”
Saalim Hakim and Clyde Gates are the top candidates to replace him as New York’s kick returner. “We just felt that we had better options on this football team for our current situation right now,” Ryan said. “For his benefit, to have an early release like this may provide him an opportunity to maybe catch on with another team. We feel that the guys that we kept, we felt better about.”
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NEW YORK (AP) — Brian McCann began the day on the bench and ended it all wet, soaking up his best moment in pinstripes. McCann lined a pinch-hit, three-run homer with two outs in the 10th inning Sunday that gave the New York Yankees a 7-4 victory and a three-game sweep of the Chicago White Sox. “It just shows you that he had stayed ready all day. Mentally, he was ready,” New York manager Joe Girardi said. Ichiro Suzuki had a two-run single and Mark Teixeira hit an RBI double for the resurgent Yankees, who rallied against All-Star ace Chris Sale en route to their fourth straight victory following a 2-7 slide. Desperately chasing a playoff spot, they finished a 4-2 homestand against two losing teams by getting their second game-ending hit against Chicago in three days. Carlos Beltran doubled off Jake Petricka (0-3) with two outs in the 10th, and Chase Headley was intentionally walked. McCann, batting for backup catcher Francisco Cervelli, laced a full-count changeup over the 314-foot sign in the right-field corner. A fired-up McCann pumped his fist and shouted as he rounded first base, then threw down his helmet when he approached a swarm of happy teammates at home plate. Two buckets of liquid were dumped over his head. Someone even slapped a pair of sunglasses on his face. “I don’t know what was going on. I just know that was an amazing moment I’ll never forget,” McCann said. “Walk-off home runs don’t happen in your career every day. So when you hit one, I’m going to enjoy every minute of it.” McCann joined the Yankees as a prized free agent last offseason, signing an $85 million, five-year contract. But his first year in New York hasn’t been easy, and he’s hitting only .235 with 15 homers and 54 RBIs. “Just so exciting. He’s such a great presence in the clubhouse,” Yankees starter Chris Capuano said. “To watch him have that moment was great.” Avisail Garcia hit a tying homer in the ninth for the White Sox, who have lost a season-high six in a row and 13 of 17 overall. Chicago has dropped its last eight games at Yankee Stadium since winning on June 29, 2012. New York scored four unearned runs off Sale in the sixth to take a 4-3 lead, capitalizing on an error by left fielder Dayan Viciedo. Sale walked two batters and hit rookie Zelous Wheeler on the leg with a first-pitch breaking ball, forcing in a run. “Things just kind of unraveled for me,” Sale said. “That stuff is going to happen. You have to find a way to get through that.” Suzuki capped the outburst with a two-run single, making him the first left-handed batter to drive in a run against Sale since Minnesota star Joe Mauer on Aug. 17, 2013, according to STATS. After striking out his first three times up, Garcia led off the ninth with a home run against Yankees closer David Robertson, who had converted 22 consecutive save chances since June 5 — the longest active streak in the majors. David Huff (3-1) threw a called third strike past slugger Jose Abreu with two on to end the top of the 10th. “I was trying to throw a ball there,” said Huff, who didn’t want to give Abreu anything to hit. “I was missing some spots, in a good way.” Alexei Ramirez hit his first career leadoff homer and Conor Gillaspie had a two-run shot for the White Sox.
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pared to shoulder the load. “Whatever the coaches ask me to do I will do,” he said. “I hope that with the two years of experience that I will be a leader for the team this year, especially on the offensive side of the ball.” The shifting of the offensive mindset from pass first to run will likely cause a trickle down effect to the quarterback position as well. As Mathews’ primary backup for two seasons, junior quarterback James Few is slotted to take over the starting role. In four games last season, Few was a model of efficiency, completing 15 of 19 passes. But he is also more mobile than Mathews was, with 13 carries and one rushing touchdown in 2013. While the offense will be reimagined under a new offensive coordinator and with new personnel, there are concerns on the other side of the ball to deal with as well. Cornell finished second to last in the conference in total defense last season, and lost two stalwarts on the defensive line — linebackers Tre’ Minor ’14 and Brett Buehler ’14. Archer mentioned that of his eight seniors who were members of their original recruiting class four years ago, only one is a lineman. This means that both sides of the line of scrimmage need to be developed. According to Hagy, while the defense did struggle last year, part of the blame falls on the shoulders of the offense. “Our offense didn’t always help them because we would lose the time of possession battle, so our defense was on the field way too much last year,” he said. “We expect our offense to help out the defense this year and
sustain some longer drives to give the defense a break.” With that in mind, defensive coordinator Jared Backus has placed an emphasis on getting the ball back in the hands of the offense, giving them the opportunity to sustain those longer drives that Hagy mentioned. Senior safety Rush Imhotep and fifth-year senior defensive lineman Justin Harris will both play integral roles in keeping the defense in that mindset. “Some of our defensive drills focus on taking the ball away and our coaches know that each and every play we are going to protect the ball on offense and take it away on defense,” Shapiro said. The questions still linger as the football team begins to focus on its September 20 opener against Colgate, but for Archer this is year two — a chance to start fresh and tackle those questions head-on. “I don’t have a crystal ball and so I pretend not to,” Archer said. “Win or lose you kind of move on and the most important thing is the next play and the right now.” Archer has the full support of his team, which respects him as one of their own, a coach who has been through the system and understands it on a personal level. That much, at least, is unquestionable. “There have been a lot of changes since last fall with some key players graduating, but we are going to continue to work as a team with the help of coach Archer and our position coaches to be the best we can be,” Shapiro said. “And, as coach Archer always says, the winning will take care of itself.” Scott Chiusano can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Chodas added that it is important for the team to stay in shape over the summer because of how quickly the season gets moving. “Coming into preseason fit is a must because we have a fitness test right away, and then we can move on to the more enjoyable elements of playing,” he added. Head coach Jaro Zawislan has supplemented his squad with the addition of five freshmen and two sophomore transfers. Freshmen Allen Capo, Jonathan Cullom, Tommy Griffin, Mitchell Meyer and Eric Nuss compose the Class of 2018. All five freshmen have been involved with US Soccer Development Academies at some point. Sophomore transfers Zach Bialik from Rutgers and Steven Bienfait from Wofford round up the new additions. “Character is a huge part of recruitment for our team. Our team culture is extremely welcoming and all of the newcomers are settling in comfortably. Each of them has their own unique personality, but they all fit into the team dynamic very well,” Chodas said of the new recruits. The Red will need these underclassmen to develop quickly, because some key players from last year’s squad have departed. Goalkeeper Kurtis Teskoski, defenders Jake Kirsch
and Jake Rinow and midfielders Stephen Reisert and Benjamin Williams all graduated in 2014, as well as Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Patrick Slogic, who signed with the Rochester Rhinos. The Red hopes that the new recruits will add to the team’s goal scoring abilities, with Cornell only hitting the back of the net 16 times in 17 games last season, as opposed to the 2012 Ivy League winning side which netted 39 times in 17 games. Daniel Haber, now on loan to Cypriot of Ayia Napa F.C., scored 18 of those goals. “We did score fewer goals in the latter stages, but we have a different team this year with more experience up top, and we look to build off our three goal last game against Columbia,” Chodas said. Chodas rounded off with a message of appreciation to all supporters of the team. “We love the support of the fans and followers at Cornell and elsewhere. We are working hard day in and day out so we can impress on game days and have one of our best seasons yet,” Chodas said. “Thank you to all who do follow our team and hopefully many of you come out to Berman Field to support us.” Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at hyousefi@cornellsun.com.
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Individuals Find Success At Various Summer Venues S enior forward Shonn Miller joined the European Goodwill tour over the summer, playing with other collegiate athletes in Belgium, the Netherlands and England. He teamed up with five other Ivy League athletes on the Global Sports Academy Squad. Senior pitcher Brent Jones of the baseball team was drafted to the Arizona Diamondbacks in June, and was recently promoted to Class A ball after posting a 3.90 ERA with the Hillsboro Hops. Six of his teammates also earned AllStar nods on their respective summer league teams. Cornell rowers senior Kate Roach and junior Greg Davis both won medals for the U.S. at the Under 23 World Rowing Championships. —Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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Showing goodwill | Senior forward Shonn Miller traveled abroad to participate in the European Goodwill tour over the summer.
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he football team made some changes to its coaching staff, adding Roy Istvan as the offensive coordinator, and Aaron Klein as the Director of Football Operations. Matt Kerwick was named the
men’s lacrosse team’s head coach, and Peter Milliman earned the title of associate head coach, but will remain the defensive and recruiting coordinator as well. Chris Kivlen was also named an assistant coach following three seasons as the head
coach at Montclair State. He will assist on both sides of the field for the Red this season. The lightweight rowing team brought in some homegrown talent, naming Bill Brumsted ’11 as an assistant coach.
The women’s sailing team, formerly a club sport, made the jump to varsity status over the summer, naming Brian Clancy as its head coach for the upcoming season. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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Mixing it up | Head coach David Archer ’05 — now in his second season — brought some new talent to his staff.
Cornell TeamsTakeTalents Abroad A fter a successful 2014 campaign for the men’s ice hockey team, the Red took a summer trip to Italy and Switzerland for a series of exhibition games. The squad played three games in four days, concluding that stretch with a shootout loss to HC Ajoie after regulation finished in a 2-2 tie. Junior forward John Knisley and sophomore forward Jeff Kubiak netted for the Red. Senior defenseman Joakim Ryan scored the only goal of the shootout. Prior to that loss, the icers defeated HC Red Ice Martigny and the GCK Lions from Zurich. Sophomore defenseman Holden Anderson scored twice in those two matchups, as did sophomore defenseman Patrick McCarron. Incoming freshman Maddy Sroufe of the volleyball team was also abroad this summer, playing at the European Global Challenge, which took her to France, Italy and Croatia. Sroufe was named to the All-tournament team. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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year senior and Division I all-time scoring leader Rob Pannell ’13, and the Red’s lowest ranking in the Inside Lacrosse Face-Off Yearbook Preseason Poll in over a decade (17th), Kerwick was asked to step in as interim head coach. “[Kerwick] was really the centerpiece of us rallying around each other and having the season we did last year,” said senior defenseman Jordan Stevens. “I will always remember that and I think everybody on the team will. His positivity, and his ability to get us going, moving forward after last year.” With Kerwick piloting the offense and Milliman managing the defense, Cornell rattled off nine consecutive victories to begin the 2014 season, becoming the last unbeaten team left in Division I men’s lacrosse. “[O]ne of the experiences that sticks out in my mind was one of our bigger wins, against [No. 2] Virginia,” Milliman said. “We weren’t projected to win the game, but we came out with a good game plan and we weren’t executing in the first quarter. And coach [Kerwick] really did a good job settling guys down and putting their heads in the right place and then turned the game into a very competitive one. I think our game plan really started to come out and our players’ ability to perform was really what stepped up and separated it, and I think I would attribute that a lot to the direction and the leadership that coach Kerwick brought that day.” Kerwick graduated from Hobart College in 1990 and
played professionally in the Major Indoor Lacrosse League from 1991 to 1996. He has held coaching positions at Hobart, Randolph-Macon, Penn, Alfred, Jacksonville and Georgetown. Kerwick is a natural fit at Cornell — both his mother and father attended the University. He will now be responsible for building on a 2014 season that began in doubts, ended with a heartbreaking 8-7 loss at Maryland in the NCAA Tournament, but included a share of the Ivy League title and big upsets in between. “[J]ust some continuity is going to be great,” Stevens said. “We’ve had a lot of turnover by the senior class so far ... and it’s going to be good to have some consistency.” Stevens and the defense will enter a second season under the tutelage of coach Milliman, who won a Major League Lacrosse title in 2008 as an attackman/midfielder for the Rochester Rattlers. Milliman held assistant coaching positions at RIT and Siena before becoming the head coach at Pfeiffer for four seasons. “It’s great to have Milliman back,” Stevens said. “He’s a great time to have around the locker room. He’s really fun, but he gets down to business when he needs to. He really is an incredible coach. He’s kind of like a rising star in the coaching world.” Milliman also spent a year on the Princeton staff before coming to Cornell in 2013. Given that the Tigers were pursuing Milliman as an offensive coordinator around the time of his departure, his current role as the Red’s defensive coordinator might come as a surprise. For Milliman it has been an opportunity to showcase his knack for player development on either side of the field, and a perfect fit for the Red’s
control-the-tempo philosophy. “I think as a defensive concept we’re going to try to work on our matchups and directing and controlling an offense rather than kind of sitting back and just protecting the goal,” Milliman said. “Our guys like to get out and play a bit and we can play on the perimeter a little more than other teams. I think it’s an exciting style of defense.” Kerwick and Milliman’s emphasis on hustle helped the Red to a 559-450 ground ball advantage over opponents last season. That again will be stressed as preparations for the upcoming season begin. “We try to push the offense into uncomfortable situations and hopefully that works out for us,” Milliman. “That’s what we’ve been working on this past year and that’s probably the direction we’re going to start off with going into this fall. ” Milliman’s official title is in memory of George Boiardi, a Cornell lacrosse player who was tragically killed after being struck in the chest with a lacrosse ball during a game against Binghamton in 2004. “It’s an incredible honor to have the title of Associate Head Coach, but I think more importantly the honor of representing the Boiardi family in that position,” Milliman said. “I think it’s a huge position in the Cornell community and the lacrosse community and it’s one I’m very proud to have, and [I’m] excited about being the defensive coordinator.” Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.
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Questions Linger On Brink of Year Two for Archer By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor
With two straight Ivy wins to close out last season, the Cornell football team stamped an exclamation point on a 2013 campaign that had been disappointing up to that point. But as second year head coach David Archer ’05 acknowledged, the start of the 2014 season will be punctuated a little differently: with the question mark. How does a team that passed for almost three quarters of its offensive sets bounce back from the loss of its star quarterback? How does a defense that ranked second to last in the conference improve after graduating its two most accomplished linemen? Can a young and inexperienced roster produce in the Ivy League? These are questions that Archer and his new staff have been answering in spring practice and will continue to answer in the coming weeks. Question one has been on the minds of any Cornell football fan ever since Jeff Mathews ’14 started to spark the interest of NFL scouts. It meant someday he would be gone, leaving a gaping hole in an offense that would have to be severely revamped. That time has come, and Archer’s first move was to bring in a new offensive coordinator, Roy Istvan. “Coach Istvan has really come in and emphasized the importance of a balanced offense,” said senior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro. “Last spring and all throughout training
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Carrying the load | Junior running back Luke Hagy was the team’s leading rusher last year, and will be an important part in bringing a new running mentality to the Red this season.
camp we have really been focusing on running the ball and allowing our success on the ground to make the defense vulnerable in the passing game.” But success on the ground has been hard to come by in the past. In Mathews’ four-year tenure at the helm of the offense, Cornell finished dead last in the conference in rushing offense every year. Only once in those four years did the team run for more than 1,000 yards. While a testament to the trust the Red put in Mathews’ arm, this also means the team will need to look for other options. One of those will be junior running back Luke Hagy, on whom Archer will
rely heavily for the bulk of his offense. “We think he is very talented, both in the run game, in the pass game, in the pass protection,” Archer said. “He does all three things you need a tailback to do. So he’s the complete package in that regard and we’re really focused on utilizing him.” Senior running back Ahmad Avery and junior running back Tanner Wrout also impressed Archer in training camp, and will be important complements to Hagy, who is preSee FOOTBALL page 29
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Red Finds‘Cohesion’ Early On During Preseason Workouts By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Staff Writer
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Triumphant Return | Matt Kerwick was named the lacrosse team’s head coach, and Peter Milliman earned the title of associate head coach.
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Kerwick,Milliman Make Return to Lacrosse Staff By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer
Following an 11-5 season in which the Red ascended as high as second in the USILA national poll, Cornell lacrosse has brought back its two key leaders for the upcoming year. 2014 interim head coach Matt Kerwick was named the Richard M. Moran Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse this June, followed by the announcement of defensive coordinator and recruiting coordinator Peter Milliman’s return as the Mario St. George Boiardi ‘04 Associate Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse in early July. “It is truly an honor to be named the Richard M. Moran
Head Coach of Men’s Lacrosse at Cornell,” Kerwick said. “To have an opportunity to coach at one of the most prestigious universities in the world with one of the country’s most storied lacrosse traditions is what I’ve always aspired to do.” Kerwick and Milliman’s return solidifies a staff that faced its share of uncertainty heading into last season. A 2013 offseason controversy resulted in the eventual departure of Ben DeLuca ‘98, who had just months before guided the Red to an NCAA Final Four appearance. In the wake of losing fifthyear senior and Division I allSee M. LAX page 31
The men’s soccer team starts the 2014 season in the Midwest, marking the first time the Red has played in the region since 2007. Cornell kicks off by facing the Louisville, followed by a game at Xavier. “Playing in the Midwest will be exciting and different, but just like when we went to the West Coast two years ago, we will be focused on getting positive results,” said senior captain Peter Chodas. “Louisville and Xavier are tough opponents, so starting off strong will be crucial.” Cornell begins its Ivy League season in October, facing off with UPenn. The Red was crowned Ivy League champion in 2012, “We hit the ground but dropped to running pretty quickly.” sixth last season with a Peter Chodas record of 2-41. According to Chodas, the Ivy League schedule will once again play an important part in the team’s objectives for the season. “Every year the team is different and winning the Ivy League is definitely a goal, but we always focus on getting a positive result in the next game on our schedule so we can put ourselves in playoff contention,” Chodas said. Cornell will play a total of 17 games this season and will commence its home campaign on Wednesday, September 10th against Lafayette. The Red will also participate in the fourth annual CU Inaria Classic, which includes games against Siena College and Fairleigh Dickinson. The Red is already well into its preseason training due to restrictions placed upon the team by the Ivy
League. “Our preseason is shorter than other teams' due to Ivy League rules, therefore we hit the ground running pretty quickly,” Chodas said. “It only takes a few days for our team, particularly the newcomers, to get on the same page and become a cohesive group.” See M. SOCCER page 29
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Boot camp | Senior captain Peter Chodas and the Red have been working hard during a short preseason.