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I.C. Student Fatally Stabbed on C.U.Campus

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The Ithaca Police Department is opening a homicide investigation after one of two Ithaca College students stabbed on the Cornell campus was pronounced dead at Cayuga Medical Center.

Family members identified Anthony Nazaire, 19, as the Ithaca College student who was killed. The second student, who was injured but survived, has not yet been identified.

Cornell Police found the two men stabbed in front of Olin Hall, while responding to a report of “The Ithaca Police a large fight at approxDepartment is leading a imately 1:57 a.m. on Sunday. After arriving team of several local the scene, first law enforcement agencies at responders began medwho are engaged ical treatment and later located the weapon in the investigation.” and secured the area.

Nazaire was transIthaca Police Department ported to Cayuga Medical Center for “treatment of serious injuries.” He was later pronounced dead, according to the Ithaca Police Department. The other was flown to Upstate Medical Center with nonlife-threatening injuries and later released.

“A homicide investigation is currently underway,” a

Ithaca in mourning | Ithaca community members are mourning the loss of Anthony Nazaire, 19, a sophomore at Ithaca College who was killed early Sunday morning in front of Olin Hall.

release from IPD states. “The Ithaca Police Department is leading a team of several local law enforcement agencies who are engaged in the investigation.”

Entering his sophomore year studying business administration at Ithaca College, Nazaire had just returned from a summer spent working on Coney Island, his cousin Channelle Nazaire told The Ithaca MATT HINTSA / SUN FILE PHOTO

Voice. The victim lived with his family in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. He is survived by his parents and three younger siblings, The Voice reported.

According to IPD, the New York State Police Forensic Identification Unit is processing the crime

Dean of Students Candidate Addresses Diversity Concerns

By DAVID BROTZ Sun Staff Writer

Plantations no more? | The Plantations director has announced he will recommend that the Board of Trustees change the name of the Cornell Plantations (seen above) to the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

Cornell Proposes Plantations Name Change

‘Botanic Gardens’ called more accurate alternative

By PHOEBE KELLER and REBECCA BLAIR Managing Editor and Sun Senior Editor

Last November, members of the group Black Students United demanded that the University acknowledge the racial connotations of the name Cornell Plantations and apply a more inclusive term to

Cornell’s gardens and arboretum. On Thursday, the director of the Plantations an nounced that he will be recommending the Board of Trustees rename the 3,500 acre area the Cornell Botanic Gardens, because the word “plantations” does not reflect its biodiversity.

BSU’s original demand for

the name change came as part of a series of grievances over what they said was a campus culture that is “not conducive to the overall success of of students of color.” While the University did acknowledge that its exploration of alternative names aimed to See PLANTATIONS page 4

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we hadn’t moved, I probably wouldn’t be standing in front of you, interviewing for this role or doing the work that I do today.”

Pendakur listed three mottos that he said would be integral to his work at Cornell — “relationships make the world go around,” “social justice work is a marathon and not a

Dean of Students candidate Vijay Pendakur laid out his vision for inclusive diversity dialogue at an open forum Friday, stressing that he would be a dean for “all students,” and accommodate different opinions on minority issues.

Pe n d a k u r described his path to Cornell, saying “Students are out his immigrant parin front of us on a ents’ move from lot of these issues.

India to Chicago was critical to the I am able to learn formation of his worldview. He also from my students.” remembered growVijay Pendakur ing up in faculty housing at Northwestern University, sprint” and “keep students at where his father was a junior the center, always.” faculty member.

“Students are out in front of “[Time in Chicago] was an us on a lot of these issues,” Penimportant part of my story, dakur said. “I am able to learn and part of what draws me to from my students, about the this opportunity at Cornell,” rapidly-evolving nature of transhe said. “So many of my for- inclusion politics that they’re betmative years were spent in ter at than me. It’s an inspiring such an intellectually rich ...

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Feel the beat | Founders of Specdrums Matthew Skeels ’15 M.Eng. ’16 (left) and Steven Dourmashkin ’15 (right) plan on producing their musical instrument rings in larger quantities this year.

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

As Cornell kicks off a new semester, many students have more than schoolwork and socializing in mind. For entrepreneurs and startup owners Brian Schiff ’18, Micah Green ’18, Steven Dourmashkin ’15 and Daniel Abaraoha ’18, the new semester means new opportunities for continued product development enhancement.

Troubled by perceived gaps in the transportation industry across American college towns, information science major Schiff and two other students founded RedRoute, Inc. in 351A Court Hall in 2015 as a ride-hailing app for college students. Schiff said that following the company’s acceptance into eLab and initial beta launch in spring 2016, RedRoute raised six figures in seed stage capital.

According to Schiff, RedRoute currently operates in the Ithaca community and is due to expand into Syracuse University later this fall following a contract with the largest

“Finding investors is all about tapping into your network, and that competition introduced me to some key people.”

Micah Green ’18 transportation operator in Syracuse. Schiff called the upcoming Syracuse launch and increased ridership this fall “a great start to the 2016-2017 school year.”

“Early ride numbers suggest penetration surpassing even the best weeks from last spring,” Schiff said. “Aside from fine tuning smaller issues that are still lingering in the platform, the Cornell student led startup is focused and excited to launch the much-anticipated social aspect of the platform.”

Frustrated by the difficulty of transporting his drum set over long distances, mechanical engineer Dourmashkin and mechanical and aerospace engineer Matthew Skeels ’15 M.Eng. ’16 initially developed Specdrums in 2014 as a wristband to help drummers play drumbeats on black and white surfaces. Specdrums are now capable of detecting over a thousand unique colors and are worn as rings that can be connected to smartphones to produce music.

In April 2016, Dourmashkin and Skeels successfully entered their product into Rev’s Hardware Accelerator, a division of business incubator Rev Ithaca Startup Works.

“When we finished the [Rev’s Hardware Accelerator program] on Aug. 12, we arrived at final electrical and mechanical designs that are fully manufacturable,” Dourmashkin said. “Now we are going through the process of speaking with manufacturers to be ready to produce the rings in larger quantities.”

Because each handcrafted ring currently takes around three hours to assemble, only about 10 finished products have been produced so far, Dourmashkin said.

Dourmashkin said that the Specdrums app, available for both Android and iOS, is being beta tested by 20 people.

Dourmashkin and his team plan to host a Kickstarter campaign next month to provide funding for the outsourcing of manufacturing with the goal of producing around 500 rings — enough to lower the price enough to make selling feasible.

Dourmashkin also said that he plans to eventually develop additional products, including a Specdrums “foot-pedal” that allows users to tap colored surfaces with their feet.

“We are currently focusing on our just rings, but there are other products we envision in the future,” he said. “We want to develop a suite of app-connected musical wearables that transform color to sound, as part of our vision of making music accessible to everyone.”

An entrepreneurship major at Cornell, Green founded Maidbot in February of last year to provide safe and costefficient automated solutions to the hospitality industry.

Green, who has experience working as a hotel attendant, developed their first product “Rosie” as an automated floor cleaning system. Green said he plans to eventually create products for larger tasks as well.

“We are still focused on cleaning the floors with our first product, but many ideas have sprung from customer interviews that we will dive into in the coming years,” Green said.

“Building a functional hardware product typically takes years, but because of our incredible team of brilliant engineers, we have been able to ‘break records’ and bring a product to potential clients much faster. Many iterations and improvements have been implemented, but the team understands the importance of perfection before rushing to the next product.”

Green said that although Maidbot had been able to attract some “incredible” angel investors early on, after Maidbot was named an Entrepreneurial Eight team at nationwide Student Startup Madness finals in March 2016, many new investors have become interested.

“Finding investors is all about tapping into your network, and that competition introduced me to some key people who helped us raise a substantial amount of funding,” Green said.

Green added that this year they plan to roll out pilots with large hospitality companies and “are very excited to partner with them to validate our value propositions.”

Abaraoha, a sophomore in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, previously told The Sun that he could not afford to buy expensive brand name sneakers when he was younger. In January of 2015, Abaraoha began establishing the Vita Shoes company as an affordable, philanthropy-driven shoe brand, selling almost 200 pairs of sneakers by the start of Aug. 2016.

“Right now, Vita has sold over 180 pairs of sneakers, and with it, have risen [sic] over $300 of funds that we’ll be using to donate supplies to our first partner, Austin Street,” Abaraoha said. “Our manufacturing costs are only about nine dollars, but I had to make a large order initially and sell off sneakers so that I can clear that startup cost — as of today, we’ve made enough revenue to cover the costs and actually make profit.”

Abaraoha said that he primarily uses social media and word of mouth to expand and advertise his business. He said he plans to expand his company’s brand image next year and to increase the number of available sizes and colors for his sneakers.

“I’m currently in the process of trying to get an ethical and Eco-friendly production method for our sneakers, which will take some time but I’m very excited about,” Abaraoha said. “For the rest of the year, I’m just hoping Vita can grow our number of sales so that I’m able to get a huge amount of supplies for Austin Street; we’ll make our donation around the holidays.”

Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun.com.

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Damn Daniel | Founder of Vita Shoes Daniel Abaraoha ’18, who couldn’t afford expensive name brand shoes, plans to increase production of his philanthropy-driven product.

Inaugural C.U. Downtown toWelcome Cornellians to Ithaca

By MOLLY KLUGER Sun Staff Writer

The inaugural C.U. Downtown Event, featuring live music and entertainment by student performance groups, will welcome new Cornellians to the Ithaca Commons on Saturday.

C.U. Downtown will run from noon until 4:30 pm, and there will be food, tours, raffles, a scavenger hunt, and opportunities to take advantage of discounts at the local businesses, according to a press release.

The event will feature a non-stop schedule of music and entertainment from about 20 Cornell student groups, including C.U. Jazz, Last Call, The Touchstones and Raas, according to Margherita Fabrizio, Director of Tatkon Center for FirstYear Students.

“These are jaw-dropping acts and it’s fun and amazing to see these high-energy performers, who are also full-time students” Fabrizio said.

The event’s goal is to encourage students to take advantage of opportunities off-campus, and to realize all that Ithaca has to offer, according to

the press release.

Fabrizio proposed the event last winter to the Downtown Ithaca Alliance which, she said, “embraced it enthusiastically.”

Fabrizio and the DIA hope it will be a way to bring the Cornell and Ithaca communities closer together.

“I have always been interested in better connecting Cornell with the City of Ithaca and thought for a long time that we could do a better job orienting students to the off campus community,” Fabrizio said.

Stressing the proximity of the rest of Ithaca to Cornell, she added, “I

would like students to realize downtown Ithaca is a short walk or bus ride away and that being off campus can provide a much needed respite from the stress of student life.”

C.U. Downtown is open to new and returning students, staff, faculty, and the greater Ithaca community. It is organized by Carol Tatkon Center, in partnership with the Ithaca Downtown Alliance and Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit.

Molly Kluger can be reached at mkluger@cornellsun.com.

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and powerful moment, when I can listen and learn, by keeping students at the center.”

Pendakur also presented a few concrete plans on how he would propose to improve student centers, prepare Cornell’s graduates to enter the workforce and improve campus climate.

He stressed that advocacy and resource centers must work collaboratively with students, rather than working “for” them. He also suggested helping recently graduated students prepare for life after college and spoke about the need to elevate dialogue on campus inclusion.

Pendakur stressed that he would consider all students when make decisions as dean, noting that his role would extend beyond aiding minority students.

“If I say ‘The dean’s focus area is diversity and inclusion,’ the unspoken thought in many people’s minds is ‘Oh, so he’s here for only the marginalized students,’” he

explained. “So we have to undo that, because that is a Pendakur responded by explaining that his approach deeply problematic framework. If we’re going to fix this, to diversity dialogue is nuanced and aims to balance the it’s got to be everyone’s conversation.” virtues of including all community members in discusJulia Montejo ’17, vice president for diversity of inclu- sions and ensuring that marginalized members feel their sion, expressed concerns about Pendakur’s approach of voices are heard. including all members of the “There is a deep need to community in a discussion have this dialogue in spaces about issues of diversity and “It’s an inspiring and powerful moment, where dominant group meminclusion. when I can listen and learn, by keeping bers are not, because that is one “I’d like to hear more on face of the dialogue that has to students at the center.” how that kind of approach happen,” he said. “There are and philosophy still puts the [also] really important needs for Vijay Pendakur concerns of minority stuthe dialogue just with dominant group members in the room.” dents, students of color, Pendakur was the first of three finalists to hold an underrepresented students, LGBTQ-identifying students and students with disabilities at the forefront,” Montejo open forum for the position of Dean of Students. The said. “Underrepresented students feel really afraid to next forum will take place on Monday. speak up and oftentimes those with more privilege in the room are more likely to take up more vocal and physical David Brotz can be reached at dbrotz@cornellsun.com. space.”

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find a term that “fits the mission, vision, values and brand” of Cornell, most of their reasoning was focused on the semantic implications of the word “plantations” as it relates to plant life.

“A botanic garden is all about showcasing the rich diversity of the plant kingdom. How can you have a plantation that is a botanic garden? It’s a non sequitur,” said Christopher Dunn, the Elizabeth Newman Wilds Director of Cornell Plantations, who said he has spent the last two years exploring the possibility of a name change.

The University also pointed to the length of the plantation’s brochure as evidence of the need for a name change. Printed over a photo of what the University’s press release called “an idyllic scene of marsh reeds flowing into a meadow and anchored by a majestic oak,” the Cornell Plantations logo is followed by a line reading “botanical gardens – arboretum – natural areas.” An apt name would require no such additional clarification, the release said.

BSU President Emerita Samari Gilbert ’17 said the organization’s members are all “all really excited” about the announced name change effort. “A name change has been a long time coming and generations of Cornellians will benefit from a more accessible space,” she said.

Renee Alexander ’74 associate dean and director of intercultural programs, student and academic services and advisor to BSU called Dunn a “change agent” and praised his collaborative work with members of the Cornell community in pursuing a change at the plantations.

“He identified key stakeholders, started a listening tour, asked critical questions and methodically began to put a plan together,” she said. “For all the right reasons — and there are a number of them — we will move forward with a rebranding campaign that positions Cornell as a progressive and thoughtful institution that is sensitive to all constituents’ needs.”

The administration said that

this past January, a survey was distributed to thousands of “supporters” of the Plantations, seeking feedback on the desirability of a rebranding effort. According to the University, three quarters of all respondents and approximately 80% of faculty, staff or Advisory Council respondents supported a name change. Most respondents preferred the name “Cornell Botanic Gardens,” the University said.

Dunn said that he communicated with parties including Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life; Renee Alexander, associate dean, student and campus life and Black Students United in working to amend the Plantation’s title.

However, the University’s release only briefly mentions the “emotional response” of some students to the name of the plantations, which some say conjures images of slave and share cropping economies.

Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, sought to bridge the gap between acknowledging the area’s biodiversity and seeking to accommodate students who find the plantations’ title offensive, saying the rebranding not only “respects the richness of this great natural and scientific resource, it shows our full respect for the diverse and highly valued community of students.”

The release also noted that the leadership of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Employee Assembly and Interim President Hunter Rawlings have all voiced support for the name change.

“The name Plantations requires constant explanation, and just doesn’t fit a botanic garden and the scale of the work we do,” Dunn said.

Boor plans to present the proposed name change to the Building and Properties Committee of the Board of Trustees in early September. He expressed hope that the name will be permanently changed to the “Cornell Botanic Gardens” by October.

Phoebe Keller can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Student Assembly Says It Receives ‘Too Much Money’

Members debate allocations to committee budgets, use of flexible special projects fund

By ANNA DELWICHE Sun Staff Writer

Although the Student Assembly’s operating budget contains about $2,000 more than in the previous three years,

how this increased funding should be allocated was the subject of fierce debate at the group’s first meeting of the year Thursday.

This year’s budget, proposed by Diana Li ’17, V.P. Finance, and Matt

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Budget business | Student Assembly Executive Vice President Matt Indimine ’18 introduced the operating budget at its first meeting of the year.

Indimine ’18, Executive V.P., was particularly controversial due to disagreements about how much to gift to Special Projects.

Many members pushed for an increase in this portion of the budget — which is a more flexible fund than the committees — and called for corresponding decreases in most committee budgets, many of which went partially or mostly unused. Some voiced calls to cut many of these budgets by as much as 50 percent of the proposed amount.

Richard Wang ’18, an Arts and Sciences representative, suggested putting more money in the Special Projects fund rather than giving more to committees because most of the committees spent as little as a quarter of what they were given last year.

“How in good conscience do you think the S.A. is going to spend [these increased funds]? he asked. “Are people going to throw this money away?”

Defending her proposed budget, Li warned against cutting committee budgets in favor of increasing the Special Projects fund, saying that committees will not be able to gain students’ interest without the funding to be able to reach out to them.

“If your committees do as much as they should be doing, if communication is doing as much outreach as possible, then they should be spending $2,000,” said Maha Ghandour ’17, Director of Elections. “These are the expectations of what a fully functional committee should be doing.”

However, some were worried about increasing the Special Projects fund

because many students do not know how to work and communicate with S.A. members and this particular fund, “tends not to be well publicized [to students],” said President Jordan Berger ’17.

Other members argued that this increase in the Special Projects fund would encourage community involvement in Student Assembly.

“What we really want is [to improve] the Student Assembly’s rep on campus and we need more student buy-in. The way we get that is increasing the amount that we have for Special Projects,” said Traciann Celestin ’19, Minority Liaison at Large. “Let’s look at the audience, no one is here. No one is really actively interested in Student Assembly because SA is not doing enough for the community.”

Despite the disagreement in regard to specific budgets for committees and Special Projects, the majority of Student Assembly members agreed that the S.A. had been allocated more money that it actually needed.

“Our budget is to help the Student Assembly function as efficiently as possible given the money that has already been allocated to us,” said Indimine. “I agree that they allocated too much money to us.”

Student Assembly voted to table the resolution and continue discussion at their meeting next week. Their deadline to approve the budget is the end of their second meeting of the year.

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

Ithaca Student Killed First-Year Students Reflect on O-Week In Front of Olin Hall Critique dorm arrangements, praise social events STABBING

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Continued from page 1 “In the meantime, I hope you will hold these students—along scene and witness interviews are with their families, friends, classunderway. mates, and professors—in your Police are continuing to investi- thoughts and prayers at this difficult gate this incident and “attempting and tragic time,” said Ithaca College to obtain detailed suspect informa- president Tom Rochon. tion,” according to a CUPD crime Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 alert sent to Cornell students at called the incident a “horrible approximately 3 a.m. Police ask that tragedy” in a Facebook post and anyone with information about the promised to share more information crime contact the Ithaca Police as it becomes available.

Department.

Ryan Lombardi, Cornell’s vice Nazaire was entering his sopho- president for student and campus more year at Ithaca College and had life, also issued a statement this just returned from a summer spent morning expressing thoughts and working on condolences” to Coney Island, the family and his cousin “There is nothing more friends of the vicChannelle tims. important than the Nazaire told Lombardi said safety of our The Ithaca that the Ithaca Voice. The vicP o l i c e community.” tim lived with Department will his family in investigate the Ryan Lombardi the Flatbush crime with assisneighborhood tance from the of Brooklyn. He is survived by his CUPD and other law enforcement parents and three younger siblings. agencies. He also said police memAn updated release from the bers have concluded that at this Ithaca Police Department on time there is no ongoing threat to Sunday afternoon revealed that the campus. stabbing took place after the conclu“There is nothing more imporsion of an event at Willard Straight tant than the safety of our commuHall, which hundreds of students nity; as such, this incident is deeply attended. disturbing,” Lombardi said. “Please Several altercations broke out as be sure to take care of yourselves students left the hall, and video sur- and each other throughout the veillance shows that several coming days.” bystanders recorded the incidents on their phones, the release said. The Sun News Department can be There were also several cars driving reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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Nearly a week after firstyear students said goodbye to their families and moved into their dorm rooms for the first time, many reflected back on their initial encounters at Cornell and expressed excitement about the beginning of college.

Jessie Liu ’20 said that while she thought that a lot of freshmen on North Campus were nervous at the beginning of O-Week, meeting her classmates and residential advisor helped her feel more comfortable. “[O-Week] was exciting, and I feel like there was a lot of nervous excitement building up to move-in day, but once I was there I got to meet my roommate and my suitemates, and I feel like it was a lot easier to settle in than I thought it would be,” Liu said.

Although many students were excited about starting their four years at Cornell, some expressed frustration at

the conditions of their dorms.

Joseph Yang ’20 said his triple in a Low Rise was “a little bit crowded” and hot without air conditioning.

“I wish there [were] more bathrooms in the dorm,” Yang said. “In my suite there is only one shower and another toilet. There are seven 18year-old men using one bathroom. It’s crowded.”

While some students were dissatisfied with their living arrangements, others commented on how much they enjoyed orientation events like game and movie nights. “[Cornell’s freshman programs] have been pretty helpful,” Sam Frey ’20 said. “I get a lot of emails, the teachers help out a lot. Everything’s been pretty good and organized, and the orientation schedule’s helpful.”

Kate DeWinter ’20 said she appreciated the opportunity to meet people and explore campus at the different events offered this week. “[O-Week] kept us really busy at first, so you weren’t ever sitting in your dorm,”

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DeWinter said. “Honestly, I thought it was pretty well organized.”

Managing to meet other freshmen in the same major was another helpful part of the week, according to Aaron Harbach ’20. “[I felt more comfortable] when I started meeting kids who had the same major as me and wanted to do the same things with their life,” Harbach said. “[I met them] by chance, on the way to an O-Week event. It’s a very sociable environment and it’s nice to get to meet a bunch of new people easily.”

Thatcher Mowry ’20 added that although the campus seemed intense and “competitive,” he believes his classmates will also be supportive.

“Everyone’s so smart that it kind of makes you smarter,” Mowry said. “I just feel that everyone will be there for you if you need anything.”

Rebecca Even can be reached at reven@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT September Concerts Preview Fanclub Collective Presents: Painted Zeros, Bethlehem Steel, Izzy True, Benjaminto Monday, Sept.5, 8 p.m. location tba Fanclub Collective has built up a reputation over the years for bringing up-and-coming artists to the coziest of Cornell’s various basements, and their first show of this semester doesn’t look like it’s going to disappoint! On September 5, join Painted Zeros, Bethlehem Steel, Izzy True and Benjaminto for a night of wholesome, shoegazing fun. The evening will be kicked off by Ithaca natives Benjaminto and Izzy True. The first will ease us into the night with some mellow instrumentation, and the second will start ramping up our energy levels as they play one of their last shows in Ithaca. Tickets will be $5 at the door, and the location will be announced on the event’s Facebook page in the coming days.

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G-Nome Project Wednesday, Sept. 7, 9 p.m. at the Haunt What kind of music could “Israeli Livetronica” possibly be? If you want to find out, you should check out G-Nome Project. They’ve been filling bills in their home city of Jerusalem and building a name for themselves as one of Isreal’s hottest live music acts.

But don’t assume that you’ll be out of place at their show at the Haunt even if you’ve never heard of a single band from Israel: G-Nome wants you to be rest assured that fans from any anywhere and any background will be at home among the good vibes and hardcore dance moves at any one of their concerts.

of Montreal will be gracing the stage of the Haunt for their second consecutive year. If last time around was any indication of how their upcoming performance will be, get prepared for a rollicking array of the best ’60s music you’ve ever heard from a band formed in the ’90s. But that won’t just be all: especially since fellow Athens, Ga. native Ruby the RabbitFoot will be opening up, expect gobs and gobs of synthpop, dance-rock, party music and experimental flourishes. I’d wear something colorful, if I were you.

Saved by the 90s Friday, Sept.23, 8 p.m. at the Haunt

of Montreal Wednesday, Sept. 14, 8 p.m. at the Haunt

Pig Destroyer, Secret Cutter, Bleak, Human Overdose, Escuela Saturday, Sept. 10, 7:30 p.m. at the Haunt

For almost 20 years, Pig Destroyer has been one of the United States’ premier grindcore acts. When it comes to their concert at the Haunt on September 10, you can go to be shocked. You can go to bang your head. You can go to be disgusted. You can go to COURTESY OF PIG DESTROYER be rocked.

You can go ironically.

You can go wholeheartedly. You can go to let the blood rush to your head. You can go and forget about hearing anything for the next few days. The moral of the story is, you should go to this show. Especially considering the opening lineup — Pennsylvania grindcore threepiece Secret Cutter, Syracuse death-sludge rockers Bleak, Binghamton hardcore noise-makers Human Overdose and Ithaca’s own deathly Escuela — this is a metal show you won’t want to miss. After the concert, you’ll surely be a number of things, but disappointed will not be one of them.

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Philadelphian singer/songwriters Free Cake and Ithaca locals Imperials will round out the fantastic lineup.

Lake Street Drive released their first LP a decade ago while New England Conservatory of Music students. The quartet has since honed their eclectic mix of soul, motown and roots rock influences. Queer punk duo PWR BTTM are already amassing a dedicated following and putting on blow-out live shows.

PWR BTTM played to a hyped, intimate crowd at Cayuga Lodge last year and the dynamic duo will hopefully bring the same effusive, enthralling energy to the State.

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From Fish to Fur to Frankfurters: Animation in Summer 2016

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he summer box office is the cinematic equivalent to a gladiator battle. Studios put out their best work and compete for millions of audience dollars. It is no different in the animation realm. Over the past few months, we have seen a vast offering of animated releases from both major and minor players.

Each studio took their best shot and put out some great movies … and some real stinkers.

On June 8, Finding Dory hit theaters. The sequel to the acclaimed Finding Nemo comes 13 years after the original, with Andrew Stanton returning as director and writer. Viewers were excited, but nervous, to see how the adventure would continue.

Luckily, Pixar delivered a solid movie and a worthy successor to the original. The animation is excellent, as one can always expect from Pixar.

Meanwhile, the plot delves deep into Dory’s story as she seeks her family. It has a Memento-like feeling as Dory pieces together her past from the characters she runs into and the scattered bits of memory that well up in her mind.

The film speaks to parents and caregivers of children with mental handicaps, with an emotional payoff. Now, Finding Dory certainly does have a couple of flaws: A few characters were wholly unnecessary. The conclusion felt drawn out, with a Return of the King-style of “Is this the ending?

Nope, there’s more!” feeling.

However, most of the new characters felt necessary, and if I have to reach to a story’s pacing to find a transgression then I think it’s a strong film. On the whole, Finding Dory bodes well for the upcoming string of Pixar sequels.

Next: The Secret Life of Pets, released July 8 and the latest installment from Illumination Entertainment. For those unfamiliar, Illumination is most wellknown for their first film, Despicable Me, and the minions that have since flooded toy aisles and social media. Secret Life was a test for Illumination: since 2010’s Despicable Me, they have not put out a fully original animated film.

Hop was mostly live-action, The Lorax was an adaptation and since then they’ve milked Despicable Me for all it’s worth and more. A lot rode on Secret Life, and … it did alright. It certainly lacks the charm of Illumination’s first movie, it’s not particularly original and sometimes the characters’ actions make little sense. On the whole though, it was energetic and mainly painless to watch. It offered a fair share of fun laughs and on the whole the execution went well. The animation had just the right amount of style.

Illumination proved they can hold their own — but they also proved they’re not displacing Disney any time soon.

On July 22, Ice Age: Collision

Course hit theaters. If you haven’t been keeping track (and I don’t blame you), bear in mind that this is the fifth Ice Age movie from Blue Sky Studios. This was also the worst animated film to be released this summer by far. The franchise has been steadily declining in quality for some time now and, true to its name, Collision Course hit rock bottom. The charm of the original has been traded for jokes so low-brow that they’ll make a 12-year-old groan.

Instead of a compelling plot, we have so many parallel arcs that I have to pause and count them.

My current count sits at six, not including the compulsory Scrat filler. Yet, with so much going on,

pletely intellectual, but it made a couple of valid points that I pondered for a day or two.

While I wasn’t won over by the obscene humor, there were some gags that I found clever, including a fourth wall joke at the very end that had me rolling with laughter. In the end, I was shocked to find myself liking the movie more than I disliked it. Please keep in mind that this is coming from someone who detests things like South Park and Family Guy. Certainly it was hard to stomach, but there’s something of value underneath. If you’re keen on political incorrectness, and if lewd food sounds like a hilarious punchline, then by all means Seth Rogen has what you’re looking for. Otherwise, you can pass on this film and not really miss much.

On Aug. 19, Laika Entertainment released Kubo and

David Gouldthorpe Guest Room nothing really happens. One arc only gets two scenes — the introduction and conclusion — and has no other screen time; the characters involved in it make no effort to resolve it, and yet it’s solved for them. Many characters are entirely useless and annoying.

The physics of the environment make the Looney Tunes seem realistic, and while the animation on the whole is technically welldone, the visuals sometimes delve into the downright horrifying.

One character uses poison ivy as a tissue, and the results were so unpleasant to see that I had to look away. With a relatively poor box office performance, we can only hope that this is the end of the franchise.

On Aug. 12, we had a very unusual release: Sausage Party, directed by Greg Tiernan and Conrad Vernon. While there have been R-rated animated films in the past, we haven’t seen a popular adult CGI film released and produced on this scale. Sausage Party is the brainchild of Seth Rogen, Jonah Hill and Evan Goldberg, and it shows. Starting from the double entendre title, the movie never lets up with its crass and crude humor. About 90 percent of the gags revolve around the premise of “Haha, cartoon food is cursing and having sex!” Now, it may be my tastes, but I found this flood of vulgarity inherently dull. Fbombs aren’t a magic bullet to inject humor into any situation — unless of course, you are targeting middle schoolers. That being said though, the film was far more enjoyable than I anticipated.

The storyline actually held together and was well-crafted.

The animation was nothing special, but it certainly flowed smoothly and got the job done.

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The story focuses on Kubo, a young boy, trying to avoid the grandfather who stole one of his eyes. From there the plot follows a traditional hero’s journey à la Joseph Campbell. Kubo brims with a poetic atmosphere, and the

visuals are breathtaking. The plotline is neat and tidy, the characters well-built and the conflict intense and real.

In any case, summer 2016 brought strong performances, major slip-ups and a couple of big surprises. Unfortunately this rundown doesn’t count in The Little Prince, which got a release on Netflix, and which I haven’t had a chance to see yet. Nevertheless, the industry chugs on!

David Gouldthorpe is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu.

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Confessions Of a Pokemon Master

appy Monday, Cornell! If the information. Understanding the game semester’s first Monday has got takes a few patient hours of trial and you down, you can always error.

However, Pokemon Go does a really think about your summer. Everyone has fun stories about their summer! I know good job encouraging players to meet I do; this summer I became a Pokemon each other. There are strength in numbers when battling Pokemon. Friends master — a “Pokemon Go” master.

If you haven’t heard of Pokemon Go, make finding rare Pokemon easier chances are you don’t have cell service because you can split up to find them. under that rock you can’t play the game Rare Pokemon are also more likely to under. Pokemon Go is like being a spawn when you play with friends Pokemon trainer in real life, if being a because of the game’s spawning algoPokemon Trainer consisted of staring at rithm. It’s also just more fun to play y o u r phone and t r i p p i n g The most rewarding experiences I’ve o v e r t h i n g s . had with technology involve other The game consists of people. Pokemon Go leverages the exploring a social aspect of technology. That is the virtual w o r l d secret to Pokemon Go’s success. superimposed on the real one using your phone’s GPS chip. with other people. When you play with Pokemon Go got people talking friends, you can climb waterfalls and about augmented reality — overlaying have adventures.

Even though the game play is more the real world with a virtual one. But, I think Pokemon Go isn’t a lesson in aug- repetitive than a Nickelback song, the mented reality. Pokemon Go succeeded way the game brings people together is really fun. There is something incredibecause it brings people together.

Technology gets a rap for promoting bly satisfying about seeing other people antisocial behavior and I understand invested in the game. During one of my why. However, the most rewarding favorite moments playing the game, I experiences I’ve had with technology didn’t even have the app open. At my involve other people. Pokemon Go local bank, a Pokemon gym, a car leverages the social aspect of technolo- pulled up and five kids go out. They gy. That is the secret to Pokemon Go’s started frantically swiping their phones (The gesture for a pokemon battle), hisuccess.

Pokemon Go leveraged the fact that fived each other and left — you can technology isn’t used in a vacuum. only imagine what they were doing. I Within a week, Pokemon Go had more was with my brother and we started downloads than Twitter. I can’t speak laughing.

Pokemon Go’s lesson is that technolfor everyone, but I know what sold me was watching other people play. I was ogy is social. Believe it or not, my comblown away when my brother and I puter science classes are always my most found four cars parked at the town social. They inevitably require group library, a Pokemon hotspot — two work because dividing up the projects hours after the library closed. with friends is vastly easier, and more Sometimes there aren’t four cars in the rewarding, than doing them solo. lot when the library is open. You can Wednesday night on my way home from class, I made friends with another only assume what was going on.

Playing Pokemon Go alone is actual- Pokemon Go player. We were being disly a joyless grind. It is just a clone of crete, but gave ourselves away through Niantic’s first mobile game with an interaction in the app. The way Pokemon copy-pasted. It doesn’t do Pokemon Go, and technology in generaugmented reality well, but had a head al, brings people together is key. That’s start in the real world because of child- my schtick and I’m sticking too it! Stay hood nostalgia — there’s a reason tuned this semester for more.

Millennials make up the majority of players. Moreover, by trying to simplify Pokemon for casual players, Niantic, Eric Schulman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellthe game’s developer, made the game sun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate more confusing by leaving out key Mondays this semester.

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

An Inauguration A

ccording to my revision history on Google docs, I’ve written and rewritten this column twelve times. At this point, hitting command + A followed by the delete key is deeply embedded in my muscle memory, and sometimes my fingers nervously twitch in those exact strokes. If I were in a TV show, the camera would show a wastebasket full of crumpled-up papers, then it would follow a trail of more crumpled papers until my desk space appeared in the frame, peppered with (you guessed it) even more crumpled up papers. I would be sitting at the desk with my head in my hands, my hair just messy enough to show that I had been working all day, but neat enough that I’d still reel in sufficient Nielsen ratings.

I’ve been obnoxiously referring to this as my “inaugural column” to my friends, who, in turn, immediately stop talking to me. I’m insufferable, but my anxieties are understandably valid: The first column sets the tone for my future writing, doesn’t it?

I have to introduce myself, my opinions on discourse and my writing, and I have to do it damn well or else risk someone named “Big Red Mama Bear ’88” putting me on blast in The Sun’s online comments.

The UChicago letter has taught me that, paradoxically, good writing comes from listening. Argumentative deafness doesn’t just make for bad writing, it’s also fundamentally dangerous. It is — as in UChicago’s case — often based on vanity or stubbornness, and it is often counterproductive.

I keep getting distracted. Most recently, I’ve been distracted

by The University of Chicago’s letter to their incoming freshman class. In the letter, the university explains that their commitment to free speech means there will be no cancelled speakers or “trigger warnings” on their campus. In the so-called era of political correctness on college campuses, UChicago wants their students to know that they won’t succumb.

The intellectual foundation of letter, much like its choice of Calibri as the font, is fundamentally lazy. The dismissal of platitudes like “safe space” and “trigger warning” is easy, and doing so serves only to pander to the growing sect of contrarian neoenlightenment thought without tackling these ideas at their core. The University blindly dismisses contemporary, non-universal rules for university discourse in an effort to patronize students at Less Enlightened Universities who are, in UChicago’s eyes, complete intellectual weenies.

This is not intended to be an indictment of the contention that some of the new rules for academic conversations are harmful, or that they can be considered censorship. I see the merits of those arguments, and — for now — I agree with many of them; there is, all in all, a valid debate to be had. But the harm in UChicago’s statement isn’t just that it makes lazy arguments against these new rules of discussion, but that it has predetermined those rules for its students.

Is it not hypocritical to denounce the suppression of free speech while simultaneously suppressing what could have been a free debate on campus dialogue? Is the UChicago student body composed of rowdy children who need guidance in how to think and interact? Are they not capable of deciding their own rules of discussion? Why is it necessary for the university administration to constrict how individuals communicate with one another?

What on earth does this have to do with my anxieties regarding my first column?

This whole UChicago fiasco showed me precisely how I want to frame my own writing, how I want to draft my rules for discourse. The UChicago letter has taught me that, paradoxically, good writing comes from listening. Argumentative deafness doesn’t just make for bad writing, it’s also fundamentally dangerous. It is — as in UChicago’s case — often based on vanity or stubbornness, and it is often counterproductive.

All in all, I want my column, and all the rest of my writing, to be a space for listening. I want to listen to you, to others, to our decisions and our feelings. I hope we can listen to one another.

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

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Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

On Not Having an Opinion A

t times, it feels like we as always had sound bites that I reward people — with terms people are the product felt confident repeating when like “genuine” and “consistent” of hundreds of inter- these subjects came up, and I — when they take a stance and secting opinions, and that didn’t feel shy or divisive when stick with it. This kind of these are the building blocks I spoke my mind. Rather, I felt rigidity is how a lot of really that construct our character, informed, like having a confi- important conversations are or, at the very least, our politi- dent opinion gave me some started, but ideological flexical identities. kind of intellectual ethos, bility (or just tolerance) can I have plenty of opinions — grounding me in a larger con- also be credited with the same probably too many. Right now, versation. Looking back, how- outcome. off the top of my head, I can ever, regurgitated reels of popThis past summer was a think of about six different ular opinions are often acts of long one, in terms of politics things that I find to be kind of laziness in themselves, and and tragedy. Our nation began prickly, that I want to talk occasional silence is where we (and developed) many imporabout, write about or start could all truly show some dis- tant conversations, but it conversations about. Like the cipline. wasn’t easy, and we aren’t done. fact that, on my first day of Cornell was the one of the With Brock Turner bringing work this summer, on the same first places I ever really the criminal justice system into Metro line I took into D.C. “changed my mind” on any- question on behalf of the every day, a woman was raped thing fundamental, and it all extremely privileged, and the at 10 a.m. in broad daylight, happened while scrolling Black Lives Matter movement and the media gave it less through The Sun. Not in an bringing the same system into attention than the construc- article, but in the deep depths question on behalf of the distion work being done on that of the comments section, on proportionately targeted, even transit system. Or the fact that my own piece. the most apolitical people Merrick c o u l d n’t Garland help but still hasn’t chime in For my first column, the winning opinion here on these gotten a confirmanational is none. I think in the media frenzy of crazy tion hearconversastories, public figures and controversies, we’ve t i o n s . ing. Or the existence of in stepped off the foundation of public discourse, Early student the sumdebt as a and have forgotten the essential importance of, mer, I symbol of asked a sometimes, beginning with no opinion at all. our nation’s friend failure to what she create an thought accessible system of higher The comments were a stew and she just said, “I don’t education. Or waning collec- of what felt like personal know.” Granted, six hours later tive interest in the Flint water attacks and essay-form she texted me paragraphs on crisis. And then, of course, responses, and while I her outrage, but in the meanthere’s Donald Trump. But I’m shrugged off some of the time she was figuring out not going to write about any of responses in an “agree to dis- where she stood, apart from this right now. For my first col- agree” mentality, and stopped Facebook posts and clickbait umn, the winning opinion reading them altogether after a articles. You don’t see that very here is none. I think in the while, I’d be lying if I didn’t much anymore. media frenzy of crazy stories, admit that some of what peoWith the Internet we’ve public figures and controver- ple said in opposition to my developed this insatiable sies, we’ve stepped off the article was right — or, at the hunger for drama and informafoundation of public discourse, very least, interesting. It was a tion, and with that, I would and have forgotten the essen- bit embarrassing to see my argue our attention span has tial importance of, sometimes, points disputed, but it was also shortened, making us yearn for beginning with no opinion at really important. All I could the instant gratification of all. really think was, “I hadn’t con- receiving a black-or-white Before I came to Cornell, sidered that.” Of course, my answer. And while clean-cut lacking an opinion made me general stance didn’t do a 180, opinions do exist and can be of feel lazy and thoughtless, so I but I started allowing myself to great quality, they risk being started to view it as essential to bend in some places I had sloppy if constructed on take a stance on things that never been willing to bend, impulse. The best opinions caught popular attention. and have since held onto a bit come from neutral states, when Guns? Dangerous. Voting? of that adopted perspective. one makes a labored effort to Civic duty.

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In life, and particularly in gather facts, and most imporIneffective. And while I still college, conversation is curren- tantly, to listen. hold diluted versions of these cy, and strong opinions transconvictions, I’m kind of con- late into valuable commodi- Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore the College of Arts and Sciences. She cerned by how little knowledge ties. A “good argument” or a in may be reached at originally went into discover- strong point tends to garner jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The ing them, and how impulsively more respect than a timid Dissent appears alternate Mondays this they were subscribed to. I’ve reminder of facts, and we semester.

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countries,” he said. “The village is 19,000 people all representing their country. It was such a cool immersion of sports, athletics and competition.”

Seeing all the events in Rio, Karwoski was able to truly understand what he and all the other athletes there had done.

“You see all these people, and while they weren’t doing what you were doing for the past four years, everybody was working just as hard,” he said. “You start to appreciate that level of commitment; it was surreal.”

“It still has not really set in that I was just at the Olympics” Karwoski and his boat-mates even found themselves interacting with some of the world’s greatest.

“We were walking to dinner one night and Michael Phelps was walking out,” he said. “And we just sort of walked past him and said, ‘hey,’ and he said, ‘sup guys.’”

“And he is an incredible athlete, let alone one of the greatest Olympians of all time and he is just a normal guy, wearing the same gear we are grabbing the same food.”

While being at the Olympics is an experience and accomplishment on its own, there was one great task at hand: winning.

Placing fourth, Karwoski and Team USA did not have an incredible first heat.

However, a resurgence came in the Repechage when his boat came in first place, putting Team USA in the finals. But

Karwoski boat did not get the result they had hoped for, coming in fourth place overall in the men’s coxed eight.

“We did not finish where we were aiming for,” Karwoski said. “You come to the Olympics to win. And then if not, you get a medal. Fourth place obviously was not where we wanted to be.”

Karwoski is accepting of the result, albeit disappointed, and understands what happened.

“We did not have our best race when we needed to execute,” he said. “You knock as many practice exams out of the park as you

“It still has not really set in that I was just at the Olympics.”

Alex Karwoski ’12 want, but when it comes to take the final exam, if you stumble and don’t do as well as you want, well then you are probably not going to pass the course.”

And to say the least, Team USA did not knock it out of the park after what was a great Repechage prior to that final race.

Karwoski’s boat competed against Poland, the Netherlands, Great Britain, Germany and New Zealand. Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands got gold, silver and bronze, respectively.

oao Moutinho slipped the ball to Eder. The Portuguese striker dribbled and fired a seemingly harmless strike from twenty-five yards out. French goalkeeper Hugo Lloris, one of the world’s best, normally saves

on the goalkeeping position.

The first key element of goalkeeping is the significance of mistakes. “Being a goalkeeper is like being the guy in the military who makes the bombs- one mistake and everyone gets blown up,” Bournemouth keeper Artur

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The Beautiful Game nine out of 10 shots from that distance. Yet, two crucial, unlikely occurrences happened at the same time. First, and most crucially, Lloris was leaning to his left. Secondly, Eder struck a beautiful shot to Lloris’s lower right. Lloris shifted his weight and dove, but the ball was already by him and nestling in the net. Eder’s goal would be the only goal of the 2016 European Championship final.

Such is the life of Lloris and any other goalkeeper; one slight mistake can outweigh the rest of the game. In that one moment, Lloris failed at the keeper’s only task: keep the ball out of the net.

While one can describe the goalie’s job with those seven words, one could write books about the position, covering different players, techniques, and parts of the job. In a break from the usual English league analysis, this week I am writing a primer

Boruc said. In a game like soccer where one goal means so much, a goalkeeping mistake changes the game. Plus, there is a range of possible mistakes, from giving up easy rebounds, to the ball slipping out of the keeper’s hands, to deflecting a shot into the net.

The first person to be blamed for a conceded goal is usually the keeper. Often, just a few mistakes can cause the team’s own fans to be upset with the goalie, and no player is closer to the crowd than the keeper. The American goalie Brad Friedel sums it up, “For a goalkeeper, there is no hiding place.”

If a goalkeeper avoids these major mistakes, they can become locked in as the team’s starting goalie. This leads to the next key challenge for goalies: the preference for one starter. Often, clubs like to have three goalies, in the case of an injury to one or even two of them. While the third

keeper is usually a youth team involved in the passing himself member, the second keeper sits or executing a goal kick. on the bench for most matches, Sometimes, he prepared for a usually only playing in cup shot, but Portugal fired wide or matches. These can be few and their chance fizzled out. Only far between during the course of three times during the game, a season, which leads to backup when Portugal put a shot on targoalies being out of match prac- get, was Lloris called into action. tice and unhappy. The classic One of these times, he was conflict is the manager’s prefer- caught leaning the wrong way ence for a quality backup in case and Eder’s shot flew past him. of injury, but a lack of quality The key moments of the game keepers who are willing to be a for goalkeepers are few and far backup for an entire season. This between, so goalkeepers often can have a surprisingly large have to make their most impreseffect; look at Newcastle United sive saves after 10 minutes of last season for an example. The standing there. The Lloris examPremier ple shows how League difficult it can club’s nor- Legendary goalie Oliver be for a goalie mal goalie Kahn was right when to be on top of Tim Krul their game he said “goalkeepers after long perisuffered a season-long ods of little need an element of injury, and action. insanity.” the poor G o a l play of pastkeepers are a his-prime special breed. second-stringer Rob Elliott and One minor mistake can lead to a the unproven youngster Karl goal and change the game.

Darlow contributed to the team’s Backups lack match fitness and relegation season. Because one are unhappy at the lack of goalie starts most of a team’s matches. During games, they games, backups struggle when don’t touch the ball for long given a chance and are unhappy stretches and have to make stunwhen they sit on the bench all ning saves. Legendary goalie season.

Oliver Kahn was right when he Going back to the Euro final, said “goalkeepers need an eleHugo Lloris faced a total of three ment of insanity.” shots on net over two hours of soccer. The rest of the time, Kevin Linsey is a third year columnist. He Lloris watched the action, as can be contacted at klinsey@cornellsun.com.

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“We didn’t get into a great rhythm,” Karwoski said. “We weren’t sending the boat cleanly away together and that cost us some significant energy usage in the first couple of minutes of the race.”

“Great Britain, Germany and the Netherlands had too great of a lead, too much traction in the water, and we were not able to muster anything heroic,” he continued. “And that’s just how it sort of finished.”

Nevertheless, Karwoski’s involvement with rowing will not end there, as the former member of the Red and Team USA will return to Ithaca this fall. Karwoski was recently hired by the men’s heavyweight rowing team as an assistant coach.

“I am excited to join the team and help in any capacity,” Karwoski said.

“Recruiting, with current athletes, is my main focus, and seeing what I can bring to the team after being away for four years, but obviously having that undying love for what Cornell rowing and Cornell University did for me, has done for me and continues to do for me.”

Karwoski’s desire to give back has pulled him right back in. Despite his penchant for Cornell and Ithaca, he was not entirely sure about coaching. But after talking to the coach and players, Karwoski felt that at the very least he had to try because at his core, rowing is his true passion.

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From the Red to Rio: Karwoski’s Path to Olympics Rower draws on success at Cornell to finish fourth at Rio de Janeiro games

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One place short | Karwoski and the USA men’s coxed eight boat finished fourth in the finals in Rio, falling one place short of the podium.

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

In August, former Cornell heavyweight rower Alex Karwoski ’12 competed in the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro representing the United States of America, where his boat placed fourth overall in the men’s coxed eight.

Karwoski’s story begins in Ithaca.

Karwoski found himself at Cornell in the Engineering School in his second year of college, after spending his freshman year at Trinity College.

“I was super lucky,” Karwoski said. “I still think they made a mistake in the admissions office … I think they put my

name down by accident.”

Karwoski competed as a heavyweight rower at Cornell and in the Olympics.

However, his rowing career began in the lightweight boat.

“Initially I started as a lightweight rower,” Karwoski said. “After about a month, I realized that I wasn’t going to be able to lose the 15 pounds necessary to be a lightweight [and] I asked if I could join the heavyweight team.”

He started on the J.V. squad and worked his way up to the varsity team, where he found his place.

“I settled in with a great group of guys,” he said. “The team was awesome.”

He also praised his coach, Todd

“I was invited to join the training cenKennett, who still leads the Red’s heavyter in Princeton with the national team,” weight squad today.

A lot of Karwowski’s challenges and Karwoski said. “The luck continued for accomplishments did not come in the another few years, and I found myself in form of rowing, but rather up on the hill. Rio which is pretty incredible.”

While the Ivy League has its own merHe credits graduating as one of his greatest accomplishments at Cornell given the its, competing on the Olympic stage is a completely different world. school’s intense academic rigor.

“The Olympics are nuts,” Karwoski “I would be up early with practice and then spend more or less all day in said. “In college, they would poll the Hollister or Duffield studying,” he said. crews, and they would go ‘Harvard ready, Cornell ready…’ and [then] you get to “It never came super easy to me.”

The rower’s greatest accomplishment on the water happened at the very “You just start to appreciate beginning of his Cornell career. Coming from a that level of commitment; Division III school with it was surreal.” significantly less talented rowers than Cornell, joinAlex Karwoski ‘12 ing the Red was quite a daunting task at first.

“I found myself out-gunned in terms the World Championships for rowing of strength and size and speed,” he said. and [they would go] ‘Germany ready, “But I kept my head down … and we fin- Great Britain ready.’”

“That hits you, as, ‘Woah, I am repreished sixth at the national champisenting a small contingency of the United onship.”

“It wasn’t so much about how we fin- States, but I get to wear the red, white ished that season but more of being a part and blue and represent,’” he continued.

“Then going to the Olympics is about of that boat.”

His rowing career took another leap in that times 25.”

For Karwoski, the opportunity to be his senior year at Cornell.

“I got invited to the U23 [USA around the best of the best in so many National Team] after my junior year [and] different sports in Rio was quite spegot cut,” Karwoski said. “Then, I was cial.

“Everywhere you go, there all these invited again my senior year and made it.”

After working nine months at a board- different athletes, all these different ing school, the recently graduated See KARWOSKI page 11 Karwoski got the call.

CROSS COUNTRY

Smith Includes Ivy Title in List of Goals for Season

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Staff Writer

“Just keep improving and moving forward.” That is the philosophy of 18-year veteran head coach Artie Smith ’96 of the women’s cross country team.

In just two weeks, Cornell’s 46 member squad will head down to State College, Pennsylvania for its first meet of the season.

In the 2015 campaign, the women had flashes of greatness – winning several competitive meets and spending time in the nation’s top 30 of over 300 Division-I schools.

“There were a lot of great things last year… I mean being in the top 30 in this sport is a big deal,” Smith stated.

Certain steps along the way leave the team hungry for more, though. A disappointing sixth CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN place finish in FILE PHOTO Ivy championships, which

Familiar squad | Despite losing three key runners, the majority of the Red’s core scoring group is returning for the season.

they had won in two of the previous four years, and Captains Taylor Spillane, Jackie Katzman and a long offseason served as great motivation over the Delphi Cleveland will captain the team and are summer. expecting big seasons. Numerous freshmen additions “We didn’t have the results we wanted in the also look to contribute as soon as possible. championship part of the season, but there were When asked about goals for the season, the head still many good things to go off of from last year,” coach tried to stay on message. “We want to create an Smith said. environment where each women on the team is The majority of the team competes as distance improving and moving forward competitively. I’ve runners on the track and field team in the spring, a always felt that if we have a deep and talented team – unit coach Smith is in charge of. As a result, which we do – and if they’re all getting better since a most of the runners get to compete for the year ago, then we’ll have great success.” whole academic year. Watching first hand, He did point to Ivy Heps as a tangible measure of Smith was impressed by his runners’ spring- the team’s success, though, and like every year, their time performances and goal is to win the Ivy is confident they will carry “We were in the hunt last year, so if we League. over into the fall.

“We’re aspiring to win “This past track season keep getting better we’ll be even more Heps this season,” Smith we really got to see some said. “We also expect to see in the hunt this year.” breakout performances ourselves competing in the for the distance runners,” national championships Artie Smith ’96 Smith noted. “I think come November.” Cornell that their cross country will likely need to be in the performance last fall and the track season last national top 31 in order to make this happen. spring is a really exciting indication of where the Again, it all comes back to improvement this seateam will be this year.” son. “We were in the hunt last year, so if we keep getOver the summer, Cornell lost several key run- ting better we’ll be even more in the hunt this year,” ners; Caroline Kellner, Kristen Niedrach and Smith said.

Claire DeVoe all contributed in a big way for the The women begin competition on September 10, Red. Nevertheless, much of the core scoring group at the Spiked Shoes Invitational in University Park, has returned for this season. “With all due Pa. respect to our former seniors, the returning group was probably the main core of the Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com. team,” Smith said.