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Garrett Expands Graduate Student Support,Funding

Vice Provost Departs Day Hall After Upper Level Shake-Up

By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Editor

In her first address to the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly in McGraw Hall Monday, President Elizabeth Garrett announced several initiatives to promote graduate student diversity, create new graduate student housing, provide workers’ compensation to injured graduate and professional students and increase funding to graduate students.

Garrett’s initiatives include more than doubling the funds available for student childcare grants, increasing the minimum stipend research interns receive to be equivalent to that of teaching assistant stipends and reducing sixth and seventh year doctoral student tuition to $3,500 per year.

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Presidential presentation | President Elizabeth Garrett addresses the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly yesterday.

Passion Pit Set to Perform for Homecoming Band will energize Barton Hall for second time in September concert

By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

Indie pop band Passion Pit

will take the Barton Hall stage on Sept. 19 for this year’s Homecoming concert, the Cornell Concert Commission

announced Tuesday.

With dance floor hits and playful tunes such as 2008’s “Sleepyhead” — which helped VICTORIA GAO / SUN FILE PHOTO

Sleepyhead | Passion Pit frontman Michael Angelakos performs in Barton Hall in November 2011.

propel the group to mainstream success — and “Take a Walk,” Passion Pit has played popular music festivals such as Coachella, Governors Ball and Lollapalooza in recent years.

Formed in 2007, Passion Pit consists of frontman Michael Angelakos and live band Chris Hartz, Aaron Harrison Folb, Giuliano Pizzulo, Pete Cafarella and Ray Suen. The band released their debut E.P., Chunk of Change, the same year and their first full-length album Manners in 2009.

This year’s homecoming concert will mark the group’s return to the Hill, as they also played in Barton Hall in November 2011.

Electronic artist Robert DeLong, who released his first full-length album in early 2013, will serve as the opening act.

Tickets for the 2015 Homecoming Concert will go on sale starting Thursday at 9 a.m. for students and the following day for the general public on the Cornell Concerts website, according to a CCC press release.

Annie Bui can be reached at me@cornellsun.com.

Laura Brown, who has served in the office of the provost since 2009, left her post as senior vice provost of undergraduate education Monday following an administrative “reorganization,” according to a statement sent by Provost Michael Kotlikoff to Brown’s colleagues.

In his statement, Kotlikoff said Brown’s departure will help “better align [the office’s] resources with the needs of fac-

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ulty, students and the academic mission of the University.” He also expressed gratitude to Brown on behalf of President Elizabeth Garrett.

“President Garrett and I are grateful to Laura for her service over the past six years,” he wrote. “She has been an innovator and a leader and, together with all of you, has been a tireless advocate for undergraduate education, diversity and faculty teaching.”

Both Kotlikoff and Garrett have only recently assumed their new positions. Garrett, who began her post as president on July 1, appointed Kotlikoff as provost on July 16.

Kotlikoff, formerly the dean of Veterinary Medicine since 2007, assumed office Aug. 1.

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Proposed Campus Grocery Sees Progress, Students Say

Team behind Anabel’s Grocery will offer budgeting,cooking classes to students this semester next February. However, beginning this semester, the team will host budgeting and cooking classes to teach students how to live healthier lifestyles.

“We notice that peoples’ food literacy, cooking ability Students behind Anabel’s Grocery, the proposed student-run campus grocery store on campus, have signed and budgeting skills aren’t up to par with what we need to with the Center for Transformative Action — a company have 21 healthy meals a week,” Hendricks said. “We hope that provides fiscal sponsorship to non-profits — to man- to teach students health[ful] lifestyle skills through our age their finances and will begin offering programs on budgeting, cooking and nutritional programming this semester.” healthful and affordable eating this semester.

The proposed grocery store would reduce prices for The team, which aims to provide subsidies for food insecure students, estimates a February 2016 opening in food insecure students. Emma Johnston ’16, executive vice Anabel Taylor Hall pending Student Assembly and admin- president of the S.A. and co-founder of the grocery, istrative approval. The project was denied last April after explained why she believes this is necessary for the Cornell community.

President Emeritus David Skorton “I think that given the ristabled the resolution, despite Student “Given the rising cost of tuition ... ing cost of tuition and other Assembly approval. making sure that students have costs of receiving an education, According to Anke Wessels, executive director of the Center for Transformative access to food that’s health[ful] is making sure that students have access to food that’s health[ful] Action, the grocery store has “become a so important.” and affordable is so imporproject” of the organization, and thus tant.” will become “financially and fiduciarily Emma Johnston ’16 However, some community responsible” for all of the grocery store’s members are concerned with activities.

“We are responsible for handling all of [the grocery how the grocery store would discern who would require store’s] financial transactions, for holding the insurance for subsidies without having access to financial aid records.

Johnston said Moffat and Hendricks worked with faculthe project, for handling any payroll if there are employees ty from the College of Human Ecology and the and providing mentorship,” she said.

Laurel Moffat ’16, executive co-director of the grocery Department of Nutritional Sciences to discern who is food store, said the center’s role will be beneficial to the organi- insecure.

“It’s better in some ways that it doesn’t come from the zation as they possess a 501(c)(3) non-for profit status.

“It will make sure we’re fulfilling the requirements nec- financial aid office; there are people who feel as if they do essary to maintain a non-profit status,” Moffat said. not get financial aid but still struggle with food insecurity,” “Because we signed with them, we have access to their non- Johnston said.

Johnston said the grocery’s non-profit status will help profit status and can operate as a non-profit on campus the store keep its costs low. and collect donations.”

“As a non-profit, we can still charge a small markup on According to Moffat, the next steps to making the vision of the grocery store a reality is gaining funding for our goods, like most grocery stores do, but the price of our the project. Next week, the team will present their resolu- goods will be lower to start with without taxes and with tion at the Student Assembly meeting, where they hope to low labor cost,” she said. “We will be relying on volunteers gain their “prime funding source” from the Students and work study.”

Matthew Stefanko ’16, co-founder of the grocery, said Helping Students fund.

“The resolution asks for $360,000 from Students that while the team is “basically ready to go,” the new Helping Students funds to go toward the grocery store,” administration has to approve the plan.

“We still have to get approval from President she said. “That would cover the cost of the renovation to make the space usable and then there are additional funds [Elizabeth] Garrett, Stefanko said. “Skorton and [former] built in to cover marketing, programing costs and other Vice President Murphy booted the conversation to the next administration, which makes sense, because they didn’t startup costs.”

Rob Hendricks ’16, executive co-director of the grocery want to make a major decision right before they left,” store, said if the resolution passes, the store may open by Stefanko said.

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Hendricks said that after a summer of making plans for the store, the Sept. 10 proposal will be “completely different in terms of depth and detail” from April’s proposal.

“We have a comprehensive marketing plan, comprehensive programming [and] purchasing plan [and] all these different things in place that a lot of grocery stores don’t have until a month or two until they’re open,” he said.

“The vision that we had that was so compelling last April ... we made into a reality this September. And I think that the Student Assembly and the student body are going to see that.”

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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Simeon’s Owners Work Toward Reopening After Tragedy

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

More than a year since a truck crashed into the building where it was housed, Simeon’s on the Commons — a restaurant located on the corner of State and Aurora streets — is steadily working towards reopening.

On June 20, 2014, a truck driver lost

control of his car carrier vehicle and crashed into the restaurant, The Sun previously reported. Beyond the structural wreckage, numerous employees and bystanders were injured and Amanda Bush — a Simeon’s bartender who was pregnant at the time — was killed.

In the time that has passed, the owners have been rebuilding Simeon’s. Co-owner Rich Avery, who runs the restaurant along

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Road to recovery | The owners of Simeon’s on the Commons hope to reopen the restaurant at the beginning of next year.

with Dean Zervos, said that though it takes time to work through the emotional effects of the death of “a coworker and friend,” the loss has served as an impetus to keep going. “[There’s] also been a real big motivation to reopen because of the accident and because of the loss,” he said.

Avery said that within the first two weeks of September, people can start to see workers “putting the front of the building back together.”

Avery said he is hopeful that the restaurant will be ready to reopen “sometime soon” after the new year, which could be as early as February, but adds that “we will have a much better idea of our timeline by Oct. 1.”

The design plans they have drawn up include changes to the original building, which was first constructed in 1871 and which has housed the restaurant since 1975, according to the Simeon’s website.

Shen Properties LLC, which owns the building, has decided to construct luxury apartments in the building’s upper level and to install an elevator shaft, according to Avery. He said these components shaped the parameters of how Simeon’s could use the new space. While some iconic elements, such as the marble-topped bar, will be conserved in the new space, changes include a relocated entryway that opens to the interior of the Commons as well as a second-level dining area.

The new layout, according to Avery, will “make it much more comfortable for our guests.”

Although he foresees some Simeon’s loy-

alists balking at the changes, Avery said he believes they will ultimately see the new interior as a reinterpretation of the original space.

“People will come in and will be able to see where we kept some of the old and added some new,” he said.

Throughout this entire process, the “great outpouring” of support from the Ithaca community has been pivotal, according to Avery. “The mayor was outstanding in rallying people and in fundraising for Amanda’s child and family,” he said.

He is also thankful that none of the workers suffered financially because of the accident, attributing this to the goodwill of the restaurant community, which offered jobs to Simeon’s employees in the interim period, and to Tompkins County Trust Insurance Agency.

“We had a great insurance policy that has enabled us to stay in that space,” he said. “They [Tompkins] did a phenomenal job with us in terms of making sure we were protected.”

Avery and business partner Zervos met at culinary school at the Rochester Institute of Technology. They worked separately in industry jobs around the country until 2007, when they decided to buy Simeon’s.

“We’re really happy that we do business in Ithaca,” Avery said. “We couldn’t have chosen a better community to open up business.”

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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strategic plan the GPSA developed in 2013 — also said she used the plan and graduate student feedback to guide many initiatives on issues ranging from mental health and wellbeing to services for students with families.

“Under the leadership of Dean [Barbara] Knuth, who is here tonight, along with Vice President [Ryan] Lombardi, we will continue to make progress in implementing this [strategic plan],” Garrett said. “It has influenced my thinking about priorities going forward.”

‘Advancing a Diverse Student Population’

In recognizing the importance of “advancing a globally and locally domestically diverse student population,” Garrett said she would ensure the continuation of existing programs that foster diversity as well as the creation of new programs.

“Programs like the Graduate and Professional Schools Toward New Destinations initiative continue to improve the experience of graduate and professional students’ diverse identities, through networks, fellowships and building communities,” she said.

In addition to promoting global diversity through programs, Garrett also announced several initiatives to benefit graduate and professional students with families as they also “contribute diverse perspectives” and are “an important group of students.”

By more than doubling the funds available for student child-care grants — raising the annual budget of those grants from $100,000 to $250,000 — Garrett said this will both increase the maximum amount of grant money a graduate student can receive and enable the grants to assist more students.

Working on ‘Critical’ Housing Needs

Following her discussion on maintaining and promoting diversity among graduate students, Garrett announced the creation of new graduate student housing.

“My team and I are committed to working with the GPSA to create an inclusive and rewarding [graduate and] professional student living environment,” she said. “Most immediately, I am working now with my team to work on critical housing needs.”

According to Garrett, since the University’s Maplewood

Park Apartments — a graduate student housing facility located near the Veterinary School — is closing, the University is currently collaborating with private partners to create new graduate-student housing at the Maplewood site and to develop additional housing in the East Hill Village.

Covering Workers’ Compensation

Garrett also addressed complaints and questions raised by graduate students who were concerned in past years about receiving workers’ compensation if injured on the job at Cornell.

“The University has made it a priority — in terms of institutional resources and administrative attention — to satisfy concerns about workers’ comp[ensation] for graduate students who are injured while engaged in activities on the University’s behalf,” she said. “If a graduate student is injured at Cornell and that injury meets the New York State workers’ comp[ensation] issue eligibility requirements, that student will be covered by workers’ comp[ensation].”

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vice provost of undergraduate education in 2013, and has served as a member of the Cornell faculty since 1981. She is set to return to the College of Arts and Sciences to resume her teaching and research after “a well-earned sabbatical,” according to the statement.

The Office of the Vice Provost of Undergraduate Education oversees several programs in all seven of Cornell’s colleges — including the new student reading project, Cornell Abroad, the office of internal transfers and the Learning Strategies Center — according to the office’s website.

While Brown is set to assume a different role at Cornell, Kotlikoff did not specify whether her former position will be elminated.

“Senior Vice Provost John Siliciano has agreed to oversee Laura’s responsibilities on an interim basis while we undertake a careful review of the office,” he said.

Prof. Paul Sawyer, English, expressed “great pity” for Brown’s departure, calling her tenure as the senior vice provost of undergraduate education “legendary.”

“For many of her associates at Day Hall and elsewhere, her sheer ability to make things

Increasing Funds, Decreasing Tuition

In response to concerns about “declining external funding,” Garrett announced that the University will be returning to a single required minimum assistantship stipend rate for teaching and research assistanceships beginning this semester.

“We are removing the differential between the assistanceship stipend rates for teaching assistants and research assistants, increasing the research internship stipend minimum to be the equivalent of the teaching assistanceship minimum,” she said.

Garrett also said the University will continue to focus on supporting doctoral students’ academic success and degree completion by “expand[ing] the number of University fellowships,” through a new initiative to enhance fellowship awards students receive from external sources “if they are somewhat less than Cornell’s original amount.”

“You should not be penalized when you secure funding from external sources, we should celebrate that success with you and we intend to,” she said.

Sixth and seventh year doctorate students will also receive “a significant drop” in tuition, Garrett announced.

“Effective immediately this semester, the reduced tuition [for sixth and seventh year doctorate students] is now $3,500 per year,” Garrett said.

happen, to recognize the potential in her colleagues and to govern collaboratively and with humanity were unprecedented in their experience at Cornell,” Sawyer said. “As such, she's been a role model for young women; I can attest she's had much to teach men as well.”

Similarly, Professor Emeritus Isaac Kramnick, government, who was the first vice provost of undergraduate education when the post was created in 2001, said he believes it is “very important” that the position is preserved rather than eliminated.

“It was created … so that there would be someone in the central administration to oversee the then President Rawling’s commitment to making Cornell ‘the best research university for undergraduate education in the country,’” he said. “The need is still there.”

Sawyer also stressed that Brown was well praised by her colleagues, and that her departure is an unfortunate circumstance for Kotlikoff.

“Professor Brown had exceptionally strong support and devotion from many colleagues,” he said. “It’s a great pity that the new Provost won't have the benefit of [her] ability and vision.”

Andrew Lord can be reached at dlord@cornellsun.com.

Advancing Professional Development

Finally, Garrett said that she was committed to preparing graduate students for their future careers.

“We know from self-reported data that half of Cornell Ph.D. graduates receive an academic position. The other half enters careers in business, government, non-profit sector and other spheres,” she said.

She explained that Cornell is participating in the Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training program, which is funded by the National Institutes of Health and designed to help graduate programs determine which fields are most effective in supporting Ph.D.s pursuing multiple career paths.

“My own background was one that entered a lot of different environments before I went into teaching — including public service at various levels — and entering teaching only seven years after I received my doctorate in law.”

Garrett also said that when traveling and meeting with alumni, she was struck by how Ph.D. graduates remain very committed to Cornell and willing to assist current students in their career progress.

“Going forward, we will devote additional funding to support student engagement with alumni including during alumni reunion weekend and through targeted seminars and workshops and formal networking events,” she said.

She added that the University is also making an effort to help graduate and professional students establish meaningful interactions with the University’s trustees, gain career insights from them and, in turn, enhance the trustees’ understanding of the graduate student experience.

Continuing Shared Governance Efforts

Garrett, who opened the meeting by praising Cornell for its “excellent quality of both graduate students and professors, closed the meeting by emphasizing Cornell’s commitment to meaningful shared governance.

“Of the Ivy schools, seven have no voting members in grad[uate] school governments,” she said. “At Cornell, at the end of last academic year, the general committee of the graduate school voted to change their two non-voting graduate student positions into voting members.”

“In the end, what I want you to hear from me is that your educational experience here is important to us,” she said.

Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun.com.

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Get Your Freak (Folk) On

few weeks ago, Joanna Newsom’s announcement of Divers — her first album since 2010’s twohour-long tour de force Have One On Me — was packaged with a concomitant video for the record’s first single, “Sapokanikan.” In regular Newsomian fashion, the track is spatially sprawling, lyrically referential, instrumentally opaque and as thick, delicious and medieval as fresh churned butter. Hell, its opening two lines dare to slap down the rhyme “...Ozymandian / ...Sapokanikan” (the first word referring to Shelley, the latter to the ancient indigenous site on top of which now rests Greenwich Village). If there’s another musician currently making music who has the gumption, talent and brainpower to craft a track even remotely resembling “Sapokanikan,” I’d love to hear her. Really, if it wasn’t for the fact that Newsom has been oozing sounds like this for more than a decade, I’d be tempted to say that it was unprecedented. But alas, by the time she released her first full length, The Milk-Eyed Mender, in 2004, she was already squarely boxed in with a handful of luminous peers (Animal Collective, Devendra Banhart, CocoRosie) under the loosely coagulated tradition of freak folk.

On the surface, it seems like these disparate weirdos were doing something completely unfounded. Sure, they were taking mild cues from history’s more eccentric acoustics — the alternate name for the style (New Weird America) is a direct reference to a description of the United States as documented on Harry Smith’s immortal anthology — but integral aspects of the form, like Newsom’s youthful squeal or C o c o R o s i e ’s Guest g e n re - b e n d i n g Room experiments and tiptoes into the realm of avant garde, seem unprecedented.

That is, until you step back and realize that no idea is truly new; of course these freaks had something to look back to — it was just buried and forgotten deep in the doldrums of your local record store owner’s annals.

Flashback to the mid ’60s: Folk music has just undergone a veritable re-explosion in the United States and Great Britain. Spawned by an ardent group of Bohemians in Sapokanik … err, Greenwich Village in the late ’50s, the folk and blues of the Depression’s hillbilly America has been reappropriated for a mass audience. Pop acts like Burl Ives and the Kingston Trio are taking traditional songs to the pop charts, rockers are adopting the tradition, folkers are crossing over (the Byrds and Bob Dylan, respectively) and the more eccentric members of the scene are massaging the tradi-

tion out at its edges (the Incredible String Band, Holy Modal Rounders). Still, these masseurs are all trotting down JOANNA a decidedly psychedelic path, NEWSOM which the freak folks of 40 years later would not end up wholly adopting.

Rather, the seeds of New Weird America lie serenely in the upturned palms of two unwitting sonic masseuses who, thanks to the industry’s desire to score another Joni Mitchell or Laura Nyro, got the chance to shake off their inhibitions and record a record each in the first few years of the ’70s: Vashti Bunyan and Linda Perhacs. Bunyan, who was born in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1945, was discovered by the Rolling Stones’ manager in 1965, and recorded a few standard singles in the mid ’60s. By the late ’60s, she was traveling across England in a horse and buggy, searching for a musical commune supposedly founded by Donovan.

Although she never found the commune, the trip allowed her to write a collection of songs that would eventually turn into her first album, 1970’s Just Another Diamond Day. Populated only by her childlike whisper, lushly strummed guitars and the occasional quirky flourish by a subdued horn or coy flute, the album lilts and dances through 14 short tracks, each sounding only tangentially related to the folk of the time; Diamond Day sounds like Bunyan landed in the Middle Ages with only a tape recorder and a residual memory of what music was in the ’70s, and this was her last testament before succumbing to feudalism.

Perhacs, a dental hygienist living in California, released her record, Parallelograms, in 1970 as well. At first listen, it begins to sound like an average stab at ’70s folk rock; at least until you start to really listen and realize that “Chimacum Rain,” for example, glides along, propelled by hushed vocal counterpoints and a flowing undercurrent of a strum, like nothing else from the time, and that the unwitting reservedness of tracks

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like “Dolphin” hides an underlying psychedelic experimentation uncommon to any other mellow folk cut from this same cloth.

Despite each record’s brilliance, both were relegated to complete obscurity almost instantly. Devastated by Diamond Day’s failure, Bunyan quit music altogether and committed the rest of her life to motherhood.

Perhacs, jaded by Parallelograms’ lackluster sales, returned to dentistry and so remained for almost 40 years.

Their records were forgotten and their legacy hazy, until, in the early aughts, they were rediscovered. The few units of their discs that had sold began demanding huge prices from collectors, and their music, as if by chance, mattered again. Both records were re-released on C.D. in 2004 and 2005, respectively, coinciding perfectly with the initial bustles of the freak folk trend.

Folksy eccentrics began taking hints from these newly unearthed discs, and it shows: Newsom’s childlike whelps on Milk-Eyed Mender are just rehashings of Bunyan’s redolent chirps and idiosyncratic divulgences in tracks like CocoRosie’s “Japan” are simply different stabs at the spacious experimentalism of a cut like “Parallelograms.”

The happiest and most cyclical part of this saga is that with the advent of the freak folk movement, not only were Bunyan’s and Perhacs’ ideas unearthed, but their persons were as well. Bunyan was brought back into the studio in 2005 with Animal Collective to play on their E.P. Prospect Hummer, and Perhacs was revived to sing backing vocals for Devendra Banhart.

Subsequently, both artists recorded new albums, neither of which are brilliant but both of which are nostalgically heartwarming.

So, in the context of new albums, “Sapokanikan” and extended harp-induced indulgences, here’s hoping that in recording Divers, Joanna Newsom remembered what inspired her and her cohorts one decade ago.

Because while Divers is certainly too high profile to be forgotten and rediscovered down the road, I’d bet that Newsom hopes to be venerated 40 years from now in the same vein as her soft-spoken progenitors.

Troy Sherman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Arts Around Ithaca Within Our Gates

Talib Kweli

7:15 p.m. on Wednesday at Cornell Cinema

7:00 p.m. on Thursday on the Commons

Still reeling from the deep wounds caused by Chicago’s devastating 1919 race riots, the country was presented with Oscar Michaux’s Within Our Gates. A revolutionary silent film that touched a very raw nerve and clashed with censors nationwide, Within Our Gates portrayed the hardships of sharecroppers, complete with rape and lynchings. The film will be screened for free at Cornell Cinema with live piano accompaniment by Philip Carli and an introduction from Prof. Samantha Sheppard, performing and media arts.

— Mike Sosnick

Talib Kweli, equally well known for his work as one half of Black Star (alongside Mos Def ) and his later solo material, has established his rightful place in the hip-hop canon as an immensely gifted rapper, lyricist and social commentator. On Thursday, Ithacans will have the rare opportunity to see the bonafide legend perform, as the Brooklyn native will grace the new Commons with a free show as part of the CFCU Summer Concert Series.

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here are lots of things that make to pin “Trump-bow’s” early success on his America great: apple pies, democ- off-field antics. It’s not so much Trump’s racy, the great state of Maryland, playmaking ability or substantive policy the list is practically endless. However, proposals that attract the attention, but there are two elements of our culture that the off-hand and controversial remarks we place on the highest of pedestals, phe- he makes that fuel his passionate fan-base nomena that have achieved mythological and rabid media following. Expect Mr. status in our collective understanding of Trump to follow a path similar to Mr. Americanism: football and our presiden- Tebow. There will be one surprising tial election. The first is a contest that upset in the playoffs — perhaps he will pits several dozen enterprising billion- win Iowa.

Everyone will be forced to confront aires against one another in a heady spectacle of brazen overconsumption, exten- the legitimate possibility of a President sive media coverage and endless looping Trump. And then he’ll crash and burn in videos documenting every action of the the next round and be sent off to New competitors. The other is run by the York City where he will languish in mediocrity before signing a lucrative teleNational Football League.

There are, of course, differences vision deal. He will wear a ten thousand between the race to the Super Bowl and dollar suit and laugh as his former comthe race to the White House. One is petitors continue to concuss themselves annual, while the other is quadrennial on live T.V. Four years later, he will (nominally, though, as it seems like elec- return (Trump 2020 anyone?), perhaps tion season never ends). One is decided on the Philadelphia Eagles, perhaps at in vast arenas in front of millions, while the Republican National Convention, the other takes its final breath in the pri- but this time he will be treated like the vacy of the voting booth. However, sideshow he actually is.

Opposite from Mr. Trump, Hillary despite these rather superficial deviaClinton lines up under tions, there are quite a center.

Clinton few striking similarialready has two ties between the game Normally the media decades of playing of football and the experience, and while game of presidential portrays the she didn’t win the politics. presidential election Heisman (and thus Normally the the Heisman media portrays the as a horse race, but I avoids curse), she did win the presidential election as a horse race, but I believe that to be an lesser known but still prestigious Maxwell believe that to be an oversimplification of Award — awarded to oversimplification of the process.

In the process ... It is not the best player in college football. She’s essence, all a horse has a very nuanced or had a very successful to do to win is run — career, and she’s by far usually in a straight complex premise. the most experienced line — at a faster pace player on the field; than all of the other she’s the active iron horses. It is not a very nuanced or complex premise. Perhaps a man for quarterback starts, and she’s better representation of the intricate elec- made it to the Super Bowl before, not tion process is good old American grid- once, but twice — Senator and Secretary iron football, and seeing as there are of State.

Yet for some reason, America is relucroughly the same number of declared presidential candidates as there are NFL tant to accept her as an elite quarterback. teams, it is comparison I believe to be Yes, First Lady Senator Secretary “I’m a Cool Mom” Hillary Clinton is one Eli particularly apt.

At the heart of the football team is the Nelson Manning. Always living in the quarterback, or in this case, the candidate shadow of her perfect-in-every-way partrunning for president. Everything runs ner, William Peyton Manning Clinton, through the candidate, and the success or Hillary, despite all of her successes, strugfailure of the team, regardless of outside gles to overcome a steady stream of oppocircumstances, will almost always fall on sition, including but not limited to: the quarterback. It’s not coincidental that interception rates, disappearing email of the 58 league MVP awardees, 37 of servers and questionable running abilithem were quarterbacks. The quarter- ties.

As both a Democrat and an avid back/candidate is the heart and soul of the operation, and so we’ll focus on them Giants fan, my feelings towards Clinton and Manning are quite similar. Do I have for the moment.

Businessman/reality show host/brand complaints? Yes. Are there multiple salesman/professional caricature Donald episodes of head-to-wall bashing?

Trump is currently running for president. Absolutely. But at the end of the day I According to many reputable polling love Eli Manning and I love Hillary sources, he’s winning for president as Clinton — because for all of their faults, well. Indeed, The Donald is putting up they get the job done, they’re cool under some very nice stats, and his draft stock pressure and I wouldn’t want anyone else has risen significantly since he entered helming the Big Blue. Let the haters hate. the race. Let’s call Mr. Trump the Tim In the end all that matters is who wears Tebow of this election. He is having a the ring. fantastic college career. He leads the polls everywhere from deeply conservative Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Alabama to independent-minded New Sciences. He may be reached at Hampshire, and by wide margins as well. jrubashkin@cornellsun.com The Jacobin appears That being said, many have been quick alternate Mondays this semester.

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OPINION

Alex Davies | Have I Got News for You?

Hebani Duggal | Teach Me How to Duggal

And You? How Was Your Summer?

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f I had a couple hundred dollars for every time I’ve heard an exchange begin with these questions, I might actually be able to afford this year’s tuition increase. And if I had a couple more for every time I’ve heard a handful of the same answers, I might be able to afford that additional $350 health fee. Better yet, if the Daily Sun decided to pay me for every article I wrote, I might even be able to afford half my textbooks this year (or maybe half a textbook?). Anyway, regardless of how often it makes its way into my columns, my point here is not actually my frustration with the always increasing amount of money I seem to be giving away to Cornell and its administration. Rather, since coming back to campus, I’ve been genuinely curious to know how everyone’s summer has actually been.

Has been it good, guys? Was it too short? Or maybe too long? How about your summer activities — was your summer internship as productive as it’s going to sound on your resume? Or was it not everything you told yourself it would be when you interviewed for it? If there’s one thing I’ve noticed during my time at Cornell, it’s that our summers matter.

What we do during our time away from the Hill is often taken as a reflection of the people we are; our goals, our ambitions, our capabilities manifest themselves in the activity we choose to engage in during the months we spend away from campus.

It doesn’t surprise me to know that to some people, I am judged most by how I chose to spend my summer. Cornell is a competitive place, whether you’re applying to clubs or hunting for a job (or trying to get into a frat party). Summer activities are generally accepted as potential resume builders, so the competitive nature of internships and the significance they are assigned is not groundbreaking in any way. What never fails to surprise me, however, is the largely accepted notion that a summer activity is only as valuable as the bullet points it adds to your resume.

Take, for example, a recent New York Times article that came out describing the positive effects working as a bank teller over the summer

Am I saying that everyone should drop everything and work at a pretzel shop for two months?

Not exactly. could have on the average college student. “I personally believe that everyone should work in the service industry at some point in their lives,” says Chris Lanser, the associate dean of admission at Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Conn. “I think it engenders respect for others, by virtue of the position you find yourself in, which is not a position of power and is a position that other people feel like they can abuse.” While well written, with a strong argument and clear points in favor of the author’s point of view, the article would easily be shrugged off by most college students.

Everyone knows working as a bank teller at Citibank isn’t as valuable as their internship program, right?

The summer before college, I worked at an Auntie Anne’s. For those of you unfamiliar with fine dining establishments, Auntie Anne’s is a pretzel shop — think Wetzel’s Pretzels, but better tasting cinnamon nuggets (in my extremely unbiased opinion). My parents thought I was insane. I thought I was insane. But after four summers of high school spent on resume building, all I wanted was a paid summer job. I went in expecting to gain nothing but some extra cash and some free pretzels, and I came out learning far more than I had in my four years interning or researching or shadowing. I might be able to take a derivative, but did that mean I could open an oven without losing an extremity or deal with an angry customer with far too many crying toddlers? Not in the least.

My time working alongside people that could not care less about the bullet points on my resume or “a time when I handled pressure well” was a time during which I learned skills that helped me I was able to carry into my more formal internship this past summer. While my (fairly subpar) pretzel-making skills are probably not going to be put to use any time soon, attention to detail, patience, and most importantly, the ability to never treat people as if you are more capable than them simply because they have a different skillset than you are skills I am not sure I could have learned in a more traditional internship setting.

Am I saying that everyone should drop everything and work at a pretzel shop for two months? Not exactly. It doesn’t take much to know resume builders are important, if not necessary, and they undoubtedly have value that goes beyond what they add to your resume. Many people can happily say their more formal summer internship taught them skills they will carry with them as they move forward in school and otherwise.

But this doesn’t necessarily invalidate the host of other summer jobs out there. Each one has something to teach you, if you keep an open mind going in. What has always been most important to me is the fact that I grow from any experience, good or bad, that I face. In the end, after everyone has finished competing for the most impressive summer internship, the highest paying summer internship, the one with the most networking options, a summer experience is only what you make of it.

Hebani Duggal is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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The Democrats, The Donald and Their Dastardly Deal

t is little secret that Donald change its spots.

Hillary Clinton beating him Trump’s meteoric rise has More intriguing are reports by sizable margins. Trump the Republican Party run- that Trump spoke with Bill simply does not, at least right ning scared, fearful of the Clinton shortly before his now, have enough reach outdamage he is doing to GOP campaign announcement. side white, moderate/conservchances in the 2016 presiden- Aides to both men said that ative Americans. Even a tial election. Trump’s superi- Clinton encouraged Trump to Clinton campaign scandalized ority complex, arguably the seek the Republican nomina- by some email-Benghazilargest among many in the tion. Why would Clinton want Lewinsky ménage à trois Republican field, drives him this? .. All we’re clear on is that would most likely beat the to make statements that steal “Trump makes deals.” man with the mirage atop his the sensationalist spotlight If Donald Trump really is a head. Even Bernie Sanders from the usual right-wing dar- Democratic double agent, how comes out on top against lings. He has leveraged the does he benefit his collabora- Trump in polling. attention garnered by his tors? Well, if he were to run as Independent of any pact comments (about Mexicans, an independent, he would with the Democrats, Donald women and how rich he is) to destroy Republican chances of Trump is now the most powerpresent himself as a crusader victory. By siphoning off both ful man in U.S. politics. While against political correctness registered Republicans and the presidency may be out of and the weakness of main- conservative independents, he reach, he has the choice of stream politicians. will fracture the party base, all dropping out and shoveling Donald Trump’s racism and but ensuring the election of a support onto someone (possimisogyny have tarnished the image of a Republican Party that had hoped to expand At the root of Trump’s destructive its appeal to minorities power is the fact that his and women. To some extent, his comments supporters are not a distinct group influence perceptions of the GOP and hinder within the Republican masses. its attempts at greater outreach. The success of his jingoistic message pre- Democratic president. Having bly Ted Cruz) or ensuring sents a deadly threat to 2016 refused to rule out an indepen- Democratic victory.

GOP aspirations — an inde- dent bid, Trump’s gun is Whichever path he takes, The pendent Trump campaign loaded.

Donald has done Democrats a would strip off conservative At the root of Trump’s huge (or should that be ’uge?) voters in swing states, destructive power is the fact favor by further entrenching stonewalling the Republican that his supporters are not a their advantages among nominee’s chances. distinct group within the minorities. As annoying, Trump’s threat invites con- Republican masses. The immature and unbearable as sideration of the following sce- Donald embraces Republicans you are, Mr. Trump, perhaps nario. Imagine this: Donald of all stripes (except Hispanics) you are what is needed to Trump is not running to and enjoys top polling num- “Make America Great become president (Frank bers among most key conserv- AgainTM.” Underwood turns in his grave) ative demographics. His As an endnote, allow me to but rather to deliver victory to straight-talking strategy and further speculate and suggest the Democratic Party in the lack of beltway exposure have something that would explain general election. Aside from won him support from voters all this. Bill and Hillary (I preblackening the Republican fed up with slippery statesmen fer the more succinct and brand in the eyes of minorities, and government gridlock. In sophisticated Billary) Clinton Trump can guarantee battleground states like Florida have a long history of scandals.

Democratic success running as and Ohio, this wide appeal From infidelity to impropriety, either an independent or as the would almost certainly strip the two have been accused of Republican nominee. away enough Republican votes many dirty dealings. Maybe Before proceeding, allow to tip the scales in Democrats’ Donald Trump is another dirty me to protect myself against favor. deal of epic proportions (I, litigation at the hands of The On the other side of the hear he, uh, “makes deals”).

Donald. I am not saying that coin is the scenario in which Maybe Clinton has promised Trump is doing this, simply Trump is the Republican him something in exchange for that he might be. Treat this nominee. Because of the helping secure her the presipiece like Garcia Marquez threat posed by an indepen- dency. Maybe a tidy little law meets Politico. The supposi- dent Trump campaign, the change (lowered tariffs on gintions of this opinion column, likelihood of him being the ger hairpieces). Or maybe the like Donald Trump’s hair, may nominee is not as low as many supreme massage that Donald or may not be real. However think. While he may not be Trump’s ego is currently receivconvincing this may be, it is the most electable candidate, ing is reward enough. just speculation. securing him within the party Is this scenario inconceivIt is not beyond the realm fold would avoid Trump split- able? Maybe, maybe not. of possibility that Donald ting the Republican vote, Think about it. But remember Trump is a donkey in ele- allow the party establishment this is an opinion column, so phant’s clothing, especially to moderate his message, and don’t go telling middle after considering his donations force voters to rally around America that their darling to Democrats and his previous one nominally conservative Donald has been found colludpositions on abortion and option. Bad, but not damn- ing with the enemy. Just that health care. Yes, he may have ing. he might be. changed his views, but today’s While safer than an insurRepublican voters are a tough gent independent, a Alex Davies is a junior in the College of crowd for someone who invit- Republican bloc unified Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ed Hillary “The Great Satan” behind Donald Trump looks ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News Clinton to his wedding. A true unlikely to win in the general For You? appears alternate Tuesdays this Republican leopard doesn’t election. Current polls have semester.

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the team was unable to secure a win against Siena. “[I am] disappointed that we did not generate a goal from a good number of chances, and disappointed that we did not get a positive result from a match in which we easily produced the most chances, hit the woodwork several times and did enough to win,” he said.

Between the first and second games of the weekend, something changed for the Red. Scoring opportunities became actual goals, and the women were much quicker on their feet.

“Our possession and ability to use different areas of the field on Sunday was the main difference in the two matches,” Farmer said. “I also think that the time we spent in training on Saturday with [assistant coach Dwight] Hornibrook finishing many, many balls helped in the technical aspects of our finishing on Sunday.

There we a number of quality shots against Loyola that required quality saves from their goalkeeper that don’t show up on the score sheet but demonstrated a better ability to get shots on goal overall.”

Moving forward, Farmer said he would like to work on the transitions from the midfield into the front end, as well as the timing of runs in order to receive balls well from the defensive half.

However, the fact that Cornell has yet to be scored on in two games speaks highly of the defensive unit and its ability to stay tight and

aggressive in the back end of the field.

“Our defense was great this weekend,” Fischer said. “I think two shutouts speaks to that. One thing we need to work on is scoring.

We have to score goals to win games; it’s that simple.

We focus a lot on possession, and it works well for us, [but] we just need to be more aggressive when it comes to capitalizing on those goal scoring opportunities.”

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length his reasons for retiring at an unusually young age. He talked about his other passions — like writing and traveling — that he wanted to pursue and his feeling of accomplishment — winning a Super Bowl and making long-lasting relationships all accompanied by a hefty paycheck. Finally, he reflected on the change in “culture” in the league.

Mendenhall’s first two reasons make sense — he’s a person just like the rest of us, entitled to live his life in the way he chooses, and he’s definitely achieved success in terms of football. But it was his last reason — the change in “culture” — that was eye-opening. He remembers a league in which “…the role of the blocking tight end was acknowledged; running backs who picked up blitzing linebackers showed heart; and the story of the game was told through the tape, and not the stats alone.” He contrasts these sentiments with today’s NFL, a league in which, among other differences, “… success and failure for skill players are measured solely in stats and fantasy points.”

Of course, Mendenhall was making a generalization. My father, for example, doesn’t know what fantasy football is.

He grew up watching the St. Louis Cardinals — the football team — in the ’70s and considering that computers weren’t, well, invented yet, I have a feeling that Cardinals’ fans weren’t exactly concerned with quarterback Jim Hart’s fantasy football value. My dad still watches his beloved Rams every Sunday — he just doesn’t care about fanta-

sy football. Mendenhall’s point, though, is certainly relevant, just not to most of my father’s generation.

Fantasy football is huge today. Major hosting websites like Yahoo! and ESPN have given rise to millions of fantasy football owners who live and die by their fantasy football teams.

In recent years, websites like FanDuel and DraftKings have popularized Daily Fantasy Sports, in which a user can draft a new team everyday. These sites dish out millions of dollars per day.

Fantasy football has a major impact on the NFL today. And while there are many positives to the growth of the fantasy sports industry, so too are there less discussed negatives. The NFL itself is among the beneficiaries of fantasy football. For example, say the Chiefs are playing the Raiders on Thursday Night Football in December. Aside from Chiefs’ and Raiders’ fans, this game seems pretty dull to an average football fan. But the Chiefs have Jamaal Charles — a top fantasy football running back — so many serious fantasy football users will tune into the game to see how Charles performs, and thus, the NFL gets more viewers.

On the other hand, because fantasy football deals mainly with skill positions — quarterback, running back, wide receiver — the other positions are not factors. This is what Mendenhall was talking about in his letter: how skill position players are viewed as hugely important compared to the other, non-fantasy relevant positions. In reality, the offensive line is vital in the NFL and defense is half of the entire

game.

Mendenhall went on to note that with the rise of social media, player-fan interaction is more possible than ever. Say Jamaal Charles tears his ACL and is out for the rest of the season. Fantasy football owners with Charles on their team will be devastated because of the impact his injury will have on their fantasy team. Then people can log onto Twitter and vent their anger, and, as Mendenhall points out, berate the player himself with profanity and ignorance — the consequences of which will be shielded by the protection of a computer screen.

And that’s where the objectification is evident. Texans’ running back Arian Foster — a Pro-Bowl running back — suffered an injury in 2011. He posted this on twitter following the injury: “4 those sincerely concerned, I’m doing ok & plan 2 B back by opening day. 4 those worried abt your fantasy team, u ppl are sick.”

Fantasy football, although it is a game, deals with human beings — people like you and me — who do have lives off of the football field, suffer major injuries and so forth. Rashard Mendenhall provided a humanizing perspective into his life, and as a big fantasy football guy, I like to reread Mendenhall’s letter as draft season approaches. These are people, not objects programmed to accrue stats for our fantasy football teams. Out of respect to fellow human beings like Rashard Mendenhall, this simple idea should never go unrecognized.

Ben Shatzman can be contacted at bshatzman@cornellsun.com. Calling the Shatz appears on Tuesdays this semester.

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The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

WomenTop Loyola 2-0,Play to Draw With Siena

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

Watching a shot bounce off of the crossbar is frustrating.

Subsequently watching a second shot bounce off of the

crossbar is excruciating. The Cornell women’s soccer team opened up its 2015 season with a game against Siena on Friday and, with 31 minutes left in the second half, two shots fired within mere seconds of each other both hit the woodwork.

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Dynamic defense | Senior Brenna Mockler and the rest of the women’s soccer team played two matches over the weekend, holding both opponents scoreless.

“It was beyond frustrating,” said senior co-captain Shanay Fischer. “Watching the ball hit the crossbar twice in a row is the worst. I’m sure it’s even more frustrating for the player who took the shot because in your head you’re thinking ‘that could have been a goal if I had hit it differently.’”

The game ended in a scoreless draw. However, by Sunday afternoon, the Red was able to bounce back and finish on the offensive side of the field. In a 2-0 win against Loyola, sophomore forward Paige DeLoach and freshman midfielder Jessica Ritchie — referred to as J.R. by her teammates — were able to score two goals and earn the win for the Red. According to head coach Patrick Farmer, Ritchie’s goal was well-deserved.

“To see J.R. get [the goal] was really excellent, because she constantly works very hard and works to get herself in productive areas of the field,” he said. “That is what allowed her to get the touch on the ball that resulted in the goal, and it builds confidence in everyone to see a player score through her ‘normal’ playing habits.”

Farmer also said Ritchie and DeLoach were not the only two players to watch this past weekend. Amongst the returners, senior Brenna Mockler and junior Ellie Crowell had a strong weekend at midfield and senior Charlotte Tate and junior Kailey Joyce were able to keep up a tight defense. The freshmen on the team also proved their skills, with solid performances from Carolyn Ruoff up front and Zoe McCormick in the back, who was able to secure a starting spot and all 90 minutes of playing time in both matches.

While there were a lot of positives to take away from the weekend, Farmer said he is still somewhat disappointed that the team was unable to secure a win against Siena. “[I am] disappointed that we did not generate a goal from a good number of chances and disappointed that we See W. SOCCER page 11

The Perils of Vande Berg Ready for First Season Fantasy Sports New volleyball head coach takes over program after three years as assistant R VOLLEYBALL

ashard Mendenhall retired from the NFL in March 2014. Only 26 years old, Mendenhall had just completed a fine season for the Arizona Cardinals. It was a nice bounce-back year for a running back who had suffered serious knee injury two seasons prior.

So it came as a surprise when Mendenhall decided to hang up his spikes after six seasons in the league. A year later, 49ers’ linebacker

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz Chris Borland, fresh off a standout rookie campaign, announced his retirement from the league at age 24. Borland cited concerns about the long-term impact of head trauma that comes with being a professional football player.

As fans debated whether Borland’s decision was “soft” or smart, Rashard Mendenhall’s early exit became seemingly forgotten. And Mendenhall’s reasons for retiring were totally different — although equally intriguing — from those of Chris Borland.

In a letter titled “Why I Retired At 26,” published in the Huffington Post, Mendenhall expounded on his decision to leave the NFL. Mendenhall discussed in length his reasons for retiring at an unusually young age. He talked See SHATZMAN page 11

By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSKY

Sun Staff Writer

Though head coach Trudy Vande Berg may be the new head coach of the volleyball team, she is certainly no rookie to the game, nor to Cornell. Vande Berg coached as an assistant for the Red the past three seasons and has spent the last six months as head coach preparing her team during the offseason, recruiting eight new freshmen and strategizing for the 2015 schedule.

Sophomore Chelsea Sincox praised the work Vande Berg has done for the team over the past six months. “[She has] already done a really great job this past spring and this preseason,” Sincox said.

Originally from Wisconsin, Vande Berg played at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she had an outstanding career, setting records for most blocks in a single match and across an entire season.

Ten years later, she still ranks in the top ten for most career kills, aces and digs.

Between graduation and her first year as part of the Red, Vande Berg gained invaluable experience coaching all over the country. She served as Director and coach for two club teams in Wisconsin, the Starlings and Sky High Milwaukee. In 2000, Vande Berg moved south and coached at a Division II program in North Florida, where she trained an

Vande Berg has a lot of fresh talAll-American. She also coached three club teams in and around ent to work with; the roster is made up of eight freshmen and eight Jacksonville.

She moved back to Wisconsin to upperclassmen. Despite this crop of help coach the nationally-competi- new players, the Red can count on tive University of Wisconsin Badgers. Vande Berg’s experience to help bring In 2004, she was instrumental in Cornell back to the top of the Ivy leading the team to victory against Minnesota and Hawaii, both of which were ranked No. 2 in the “I’m very excited for nation at the time. everyone to see this Vande Berg then spent team play.” four years with Duke, where she helped the Blue Trudy Vande Berg Devils reach the NCAA tournament four times and take the ACC crown in 2006. League. Since her own graduation, Moving again, this time from North Vande Berg has served on the staff of Carolina to Iowa, Vande Berg was an eleven different volleyball teams. assistant at Iowa State University. She “I’ve learned and worked with also coached the club team, Team amazing and successful coaches,” Iowa Ice, which reached the Premier Vande Berg said. “I’ve observed a lot Volleyball League championship of things that I want to focus on as a twice, winning the title in 2013. head coach. I’m very excited for During her time with Iowa State, everyone to see this team play. I Vande Berg coached Caitlin know they are excited and proud of Mahoney, a current Cornell assistant the work they have done as well.” coach.

Senior Brittany Kalepa said she is In her time with the Cornell, confident in Vande Berg’s ability.

Vande Berg served under previous “We are very excited to have head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose for Trudy as our head coach,” Kalepa three years, before taking over the said. “She brings a strong coaching reins as head coach last March. A background into this program. Her front row player herself, Vande Berg passion and commitment to this prowas key in recruiting Macy Wilson, a gram has been driving us as a team to middle blocker, and worked with reach our full potential.”

2014 graduate Rachel Depagnier, who was selected to the second team Olivia Mattyasovsky can be reached at omattyasovsky@cornellsun.com.

All-Ivy Team.