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C-Town Landscape Transforms With Redevelopment Projects Multiple developments begin to rise as others see completion

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Senior Writer

ABOVE: BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR RIGHT: COURTESY OF CITY OF ITHACA

Build me up, buttercup | Above: Construction begins on Collegetown Crossing on College Avenue. Right: A rendering illustrates the 327 Eddy St. project, which will extend all the way up to the former site of Pixel Lounge.

In the absence of local hotspots such as Pixel Lounge and the Chapter House, and with a number of new construction projects completed or underway, the Collegetown landscape has been the home to many new development changes since last semester.

Steve Fontana’s 327 Eddy Street development, Josh Lower’s ’05 Collegetown Crossing and Pat Kraft’s new Kraftees building recently broke ground on new projects. Fontana plans to open Dryden Eddy Apartments, which displaced Pixel Lounge and Club Sudz, in August 2016, with a complex featuring an on-site fitness room, laundry machines and air conditioning, among other amenities.

Kraftees has temporarily relocated to 313 College Ave. after construction began on a new building at 205 Dryden Rd. in June. Plans for the new building, known as Dryden South, include Kraftees in a retail space on the bottom floor, beneath five floors of residential apartments.

Meanwhile, Lower’s long-awaited mid-rise, Collegetown Crossing, is slated for a June 2016 completion. Leasing space

on the bottom floor, Greenstar Cooperative Market will open in July 2016, and leases will begin mid-August.

While much development is underway, some Collegetown construction projects are now complete. This semester, Lambrou Real Estate moved the first tenants into a threeapartment expansion to its building at 114 Catherine St. The building, Nick Lambrou argues, is modest in respect to what the new zoning laws — which sparked the increase in construction — allow.

“Just because the zoning says something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do,” Lambrou said. “I think it’s better the way it’s constructed.”

Additionally, the house at 202 Eddy St. saw completion this summer. A fire destroyed the original, historic 11-person building in March 2014, and according to Lambrou, the new property stands as an exact replica of its predecessor.

“Nobody got hurt, thank God, but we had to go through the process of reconstructing,” he said.

Calling the building almost unique in a neighborhood where most new construction is on apartment complexes, Lambrou said he is proud of the house’s design. He also said See COLLEGETOWN page 5

Common Council Adopts C.U.Holds First Spartan Race Competitors show strength,speed and skill at event Plan for Future of Ithaca

By EMILY FREIDMAN

housing prices for Ithacans.

“Ithaca [should have] an adequate supply of safe, accessible and affordable housThe Ithaca Common Council ing available to all residents, regardless of approved Plan Ithaca, a blueprint for the their life circumstances or special needs,” growth and development for the city, dur- the goals within the plan state. “The city is home to a range of housing a meeting last ing options, including Wednesday.

“These are ideas, different levels of affordThe first comprehenand we can pursue ability and housing sive plan since 1971, types, in each neighborPlan Ithaca attempts to the ones we want hood.” outline the trajectory of The plan states that the city’s growth for the to use.” over time Ithaca’s “neighcoming years. The origiborhood character [will nal plan had been George McGonical be] preserved and amended 14 times since (D-1st Ward) enhanced” and “green its adoption. space surrounding the city “Local conditions that affect Ithaca, however, as well as [will be] preserved to minimize sprawl.”

Still, some at the Common Council national and global trends, have changed dramatically since the adoption of the meeting last week remained concerned 1971 plan, resulting in the need to prepare about an increased population density a new comprehensive plan that addresses affecting property value and sprawl.

“As [Ithaca] become[s] more dense, present-day issues at the local level,” the property value goes up, every piece of plan’s background states.

Additionally, the plan expresses the importance of maintaining affordable See ITHACA page 5

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Crawling, sprinting and muscling through 15 mystery obstacles tested the 3,000 competitors, who received bananas, a protein bar and “bragging rights” for their efforts in Saturday’s Spartan Race, the first

held at Cornell.

The overall winner, Daniel Stark, finished the three mile race in 33 minutes and 13 seconds.

The female winner, Kaylie Lamica, finished in 43 minutes and 24 seconds. The top three men and women all received prizes.

Elite races began at 9

a.m., and different heats started continuously until 2:30 p.m.

Competitors were able to register either as an individual or with a team.

Wendy Woods ’18 participated as part of a team which included members of her sorority.

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We are Sparta | Over 3,000 members of the community competed through the difficult obstacle course Saturday on East Campus.

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Snap story | The Cornell Store advertizes its social media presence, encouraging students to add their account on Snapchat.

number one mental health problem that college students face these days.”

Kim said he believes many students do not explicitly express these troubles to faculty and the administration because they think “nothing could have been done and [do] not want to offend anyone.”

On the new website, professors get a digest email every four hours about the unread messages on the website, so that they can focus on other important interactions with other faculty members and research partners with-

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Cornell Continues to Expand Its Social Media Presence Will continue to use platform to reach prospective students

By DANIEL ZIMMERMAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s social media outlets have gained over 900,000 followers since 2013 and the University plans to continue shaping its online and social media presence, according to Vitaliy Darovskikh, Cornell’s chief new media officer.

“Social media is evolving on a daily basis, and we continue to learn and adapt as those changes occur,” Darovskikh said. “Because our social media presence expanded quickly, we had to think about creating appropriate resources to manage the different platforms.”

Cornell’s online presence has expanded in the past several years, and now including Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Snapchat, Instagram and Storify account, according to Darovskikh.

Cornell Admissions also uses various social media platforms including Twitter to interact with prospective students through question and answer sessions about the application process and life at Cornell, Darovskikh said.

According to Tara Bubble ’00, associate director of web and electronics communication in the Undergraduate Admission Office, the social media strategy for the Admissions’ Office revolves around “engaging prospective students where they are in the admissions process.”

“We’ve seen the social media landscape change so rapidly that we invest our efforts in engagement and content,” Bubble said. “This affords us the ability to not be tied to any one social media outlet, instead pulling our student’s social media experience together with the use of hashtags.”

To prevent confusion with other Cornell related social media, Darovskikh said the University works to keep up with the changes in

how people use social media.

“Social media is subject to the same level of scrutiny as any other communication we send,” Bubble said. “Since social media evolves so rapidly, we’re always learning about new ways to engage with prospective students. We do our best to learn the nuances of each social network before we strategically dive in.”

Bubble said social media can also help prospective students develop a sense of what it would be like to attend the University, whether or not they can visit the campus.

“A decade ago, we communicated with prospective students passively through our websites and print pieces, as well as actively through email, telephone and in person,” Bubble said.

“Since the infusion of social media into our communication efforts, we are strategically engaging students, highlighting the nuances of Cornell, Cornell traditions and in many ways bringing campus to life for students, some of whom may not have the ability to visit.”

According to research from Kaplan Test Prep, an increasing number of admissions offices research their applicants online. Kaplan’s 2013 data reported that 31 percent of college admissions officers have “visited an applicant’s Facebook page or other social networking page to learn more about them.”

Cornell, however, does not review or monitor social media systemically as a part of the admissions process, Bubble said.

“It is possible that an individual case may come to our attention, but this would be an exception rather than the rule,” she said.

The admissions office is currently working on a project #VisitCornell where prospective stuSee SOCIAL MEDIA Page 5

The Department of Biological and Environmental now uses Engineering ProfessorInTouch, a new website designed to facilitate professorstudent communication. About 300 students have already signed up, predominantly BEE undergraduate students since last week’s launch.

“ProfessorInTouch is different from email in that it is specifically for professor-student communication,” said Elliot Kim ’16, the website’s creator.

“ProfessorInTouch is In this new system, students can search and view different from email in that it is profiles of professors and specifically for professorare able to see whether those professors looking student communication.” for research assistants.

When students send mesElliot Kim ’16 sages, they can specify information like the purpose and urgency of the mes- out sacrificing student communication, according to Kim. sage.

“It is a little early to judge Kim, who created ProfessorInTouch last semester, how the professors and students said he felt motivated to address are feeling about the system as inefficiency of the current email the site was implemented just system as soon as possible to more than a week ago,” Kim help Cornell students “strive and said. “I have not heard any negflourish.” He said he worked ative feedback from either stuwith Aditya Agashe ’17, Eliza dents or professors yet, though.”

According to Kim, adminisWeaver ’17 and Joshua Kim grad on the technical aspects of the trators in the College of College of project, like building the plat- Engineering, Agricultural Life Sciences, and form.

“It is not shocking to me per- ILR were very supportive of sonally that students have expe- ProfessorInTouch.

“Some are interested in seeing rienced trouble with communicating with professors via email,” how this rolls out in the Department of BEE for this Kim said.

According to an independent semester and have kindly student survey conducted by encouraged me to reach out Kim and his team, about 70 per- again in this winter if we are succent of the 104 respondents said cessful so that we can work out they had experienced trouble the bigger scale implementation emailing professors and 80 per- for spring 2016,” he said.

Kim said even students outcent said they had felt stressed about sending an email to pro- side of BEE have already expressed their interest in the fessors.

Kim said the most worrisome new website.

“Having a centralized place finding of the survey was that most students said they felt anx- for students and professors to ious when professors were not in communicate is much better than using CMail,” Wyatt touch with them via email.

“This is a serious problem,” Nelson ’16 said.

Kim said, “as The New York Times recently published an Andrew Lee can be reached at article saying anxiety is now the alee@cornellsun.com.

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Collegetown’s Landscape Continues Ithaca Approves To Change With New Development New Plan for City’s COLLEGETOWN

Lower said he believes that students at Cornell “have it in their blood to be competitive and that is what they do with finding apartments.” Other reasons are external and he is confident he could win an Ithaca Pride of Ownership relate to recouping the costs of investing in property and award — an award the city bestows to property owners who construction, he said. have developed properties in ways that enhance the neighbor“It’s difficult to create housing in Ithaca,” Lower said. hood’s appearance.

He added that it took Urban Ithaca, his company, five years Beyond its exterior aesthetic, Lambrou explained that to get approval for Collegetown Crossing, adding hundreds the design was carefully thought out to appeal to his clien- of thousands of dollars to the project costs that ultimately tele. Unlike apartments, which have “a different dynamic,” get factored into rent prices. according to Lambrou, “houses Lower said property taxes are are where people like to have also significant; although “Over the next five years the population Collegetown fun.” This sentiment inspired comprises less than him to designate the basement a of Collegetown will increase as property 1 percent of the city’s area, it party room. “The rest of the pays 11 to 12 percent of the owners construct new buildings.” house can stay preserved and the property taxes, according to action can happen down there,” Lower, who does not foresee Josh Lower ’05 he said. these trends reversing.

Lambrou, whose family has Rising costs notwithstanding, been in business in Ithaca since the 1950s, said he has seen Lower said he is optimistic about Collegetown’s future.

Collegetown evolve over the years. When the drinking age “Over the next five years the population of Collegetown was raised to 21, he said he saw nightlife businesses suffer, will increase as property owners construct new buildings to and as on-campus housing became more expensive, he meet the demand for housing near campus,” he said. noticed students were seeking to live elsewhere.

Lower also said he believes that the “cool,” “funky” and However, the surge in demand led to rent hikes in “vibrant” culture of Collegetown — where “Cornell Collegetown, a source of frustration for many students.

University intertwines with the city” — will continue to “This is a complicated matter,” Lambrou said, attribut- make it desirable to students. ing higher rents to a confluence of external cost factors. “It’s Similarly, Lambrou said he believes Collegetown is movnever gotten less expensive to build, so that increases rent.” ing in a positive direction for students. He said the landMoreover, the city continues to increase property taxes. lords are increasingly vying for student’s rent, and the com“The city’s got it down perfect,” Lambrou said. “They petition is driving them to invest more in their properties. make the landlord the fall guy.”

“Cornell is a great place,” Lambrou said. “It’s time for Lower, who has been involved in local real estate for 10 the housing to catch up to all that.” years, said he has also witnessed these changes. He attributes the rent increases to similar causes: student competition, Talia Jubas can be reached property taxes and other government fees and regulation. at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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Competitors were able to register either as an individual or with a team.

Wendy Woods ’18 participated as part of a team which included members of Alpha Epsilon Phi, her sorority. Their team competed together to raise money for charity, as part of Spartan’s “Race for a Reason” program.

Woods said she does not think she would have had as much fun if she had not run with her teammates.

“We stuck together, and we helped each other through the obstacles,” she said. “We helped each other get through it.”

The Spartan organization emphasizes the fact that all competitors in both the elite and noncompetitive heats are timed. “If our courses do not kill you outright, our clock will. This is not just a ‘trail run’ or any old ‘mud run,’ it is a race,” the Spartan website says. “Most anyone can manage

10 miles and some obstacles, but we present you with the ability to hit the course hard and see how you rank.”

The race held at Cornell was one of more than 120 Reebok Spartan races that take place globally each year. While some obstacles are present in most Spartan races, others vary based on the terrain and the venue. Some signature obstacles include mud, barbed wire and rope climbs. If a competitor is unable to complete the obstacle, they are forced to perform 30 “penalty burpees” before moving on.

According the Spartan website, they do not release any information about the size, number or types of obstacles on a given course. “There [will] be obstacles to catch you off guard. Curve balls, so to speak.

Get over it. We’re here to rip you from your comfort zone,” the Spartan website says.

The Cornell Spartan race included some of the typical obstacles, as well as a tractor pull, a memorization test and hurdles.

Woods said she believes the

hardest part of the race for her was the “bear crawl” obstacle, which consisted of rolling under wires.

“You were covered in dirt and your knees hurt,” Woods said.

“There was dust everywhere. It was crazy.”

Danielle Eiger ’18, another competitor in the race, said she was not surprised by the difficulty of the obstacles even though she did not know what they would be before starting the race.

“I just tried not to think about it,” Eiger said. “There was just a lot of climbing and a lot of crawling.”

Despite the challenging nature of the course, Eiger said she was glad that she participated but does not know if she would sign up again.

“I can’t believe that I did it, especially because if [the race] was something I heard about, I would think ‘wow, I would never do that,’ but I did,” Eiger said.

Emily Friedman can be reached at efriedman@cornellsun.com.

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students can combine their visit with Cornell on social media platforms.

“This will add a social dynamic to the visit experience by encouraging prospective students to connect with each other

and broadening Cornell’s reach through the visitor’s own social networks,” Bubble said. “It will also offer students who are not able to visit the ability to see campus from an entirely new and authentic perspective.”

Darovskikh said he believes the global

online presence of Cornell will lead to a collection of stories around the world.

“Social media will continue to grow as interactions become more valuable,” Darovskikh said.

“On our established social platforms, we expect to see more student generated

content, visual storytelling and video streaming, tailored content for mobile usage, customer service to prospective students and much more.”

Daniel Zimmerman can be reached at dzimmerman@cornellsun.com.

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property is worth more money, and that makes it more difficult for working people to pay their taxes on these fluctuating value properties,” said Alderperson George McGonical (D1st Ward). “So I would argue that this densification could actually lead to sprawl, because people can’t afford to live here anymore and so are moving out to the country.”

He added that he believes Ithaca should continue to prioritize serving as a central community in Upstate New York.should be that Ithaca should continue to serve as a central community in upstate New York.

“I think what this plan could do more of is look into positive aspects of being a regional hub,” he said. “Because commuters buy things in February, unlike tourists. And people from

“I think what this plan could do more of is look into positive aspects of being a regional hub.”

George McGonical (D-1st Ward) Elmira come to Ithaca and enjoy it, then they go home. I think those are good things.”

The plan’s section on emphasizing Ithaca’s role as a commercial center said it was important that Ithaca maintain its pull on the communities around it.

“The city’s role as the economic, social and cultural center of Tompkins County has been strengthened by attracting and retaining a larger proportion of the County population, reversing a half-century trend of population loss to the county,” the plan said.

J.R. Claiborne (D-2nd ward) said he was grateful to the authors of the plan because it began a dialogue about the future of the community.

“I think one thing this plan has done is it starts a public conversation which tells us that the bones are here; we’ll get the structure built,” he said.

He also expressed his hope that Ithaca could continue to have the feel of a small town.

“I don’t have much of a problem about growth, but I do have to say that I am nervous.

I come from a small town, so I like living in a small town,” he said. “I am hoping that we are able to take what’s here and really move forward, to make positive changes in our city.”

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said he believes the plan was an important step toward positive change in Ithaca.

“The way to make that adjustment is to adopt something like this,” he said.

Though the plan received some praise for how it addressed issues facing the Ithaca community in the future, McGonical said he appreciated the flexibility of the plan.

“I come to appreciate the fact that this is not the Ten Commandments,” he said. “That these are ideas, and we can peruse the ones we want to use.”

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More Than the BEAR Walk CORNELL HELD THE SECOND-EVER Being Engaged and Responsible (BEAR) Walk last week in an attempt to foster a greater sense of community within Collegetown among Cornellians, Ithacans and local business owners. Throughout the event, undergraduate and graduate students filtered through the resource fair and had the opportunity to learn about community relations. While we laud the efforts made by the University and the City of Ithaca to ease the seemingly strained relationship between off-campus students and full-time residents, more work should continue to be done to solve the problems facing the neighborhood.

Town-gown relations and the problems that arise within college towns cannot be solved in a single event, no matter the positive intentions. Expecting an annual event like the BEAR Walk to have a lasting effect on the perennial need for students to become engaged and responsible members of the Collegetown community, we believe, is unreasonable. In trying to improve the Collegetown experience for students and full-time residents alike, all involved parties — Cornellians and Ithacans — must recognize that addressing these issues requires a more comprehensive plan.

Student Assembly President Juliana Batista ’16, who spoke at the event as part of the organized program, drew an important comparison between North Campus and Collegetown. “The further South you moved on campus — the more the communities become fragmented and stratified,” she argued. We agree. Outside of individual houses and apartments, the Collegetown community remains nonexistent. Attempts to foster productive relationships between students and full-time Ithaca residents should be followed by the formation of effective student-to-student communities, much like those ideally fostered within many on-campus houses.

The residential experience in Collegetown and other off-campus locations is dramatically different from that of on-campus living. To encourage stronger residential relationships among off-campus students as well as with Ithacans, everyone must make a concerted effort to developing and maintaining a system of resources and a process for productive dialogue. By engaging residents of Collegetown throughout the year, the University and the City of Ithaca can work to develop long-term solutions to the current state of a fractured offcampus community.

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would absolutely love to unfriend any meaningful confrontation, but my uncle on Facebook, as I’m sure the consequences are profound. you would too. He posted a status First, this type of separation makes about the death of Eric Garner which me unprepared to mount a strong implored his friends to, “consider the defense when my beliefs are tested. other side,” has shared a distressing These are not challenges made by the number of articles that report “what hackery of comments sections or the the liberal media isn’t telling us” and strawmen of insular arguments, but last week, he publicly endorsed The by thoughtful and intelligent voices Hairricane™, Donald Trump. For that comprise the best opposition. For three years, I’ve had to endure the all the arguments made by today’s perpetual migraine of his opinions. online writers, not enough deal with It’s been a minefield of frustration what the others are saying. When we that could only be alleviated by us do peer over the fence, voices rise and cutting our cyber ties. And it would rhetoric devolves into the same tired be so easy. But as much as it pains me and grating ad-hominem and adto say it, consuming his opinionated absurdum attacks. detritus might be the best thing I can The second, and more divisive do for myself, at least from the com- result of this trend is that we misidenfort of my own couch. tify certain beliefs as fringe opinions.

News and opinion are incredibly At Cornell, loud conservative voices territorial. At this point, one can be so are few and far between, meaning in selective in what he or she consumes our community, many conservative that their political opinions sit on the beliefs functionally fringes. This is not define the facts to true of the nation. which they are At Cornell, loud conservative Arising as a result is voices are few and far exposed. I could, this feeling, which I for example, take have trouble shaking, between, meaning in our the time to regularthat any strongly concommunity, many ly watch Fox News. servative stance is just I would learn some conservative opinions sit on an outlier; not worth legitimate things considering. I feel the fringes ... The truth of pressured to believe that otherwise, to my knowledge, that people who hold the matter is that tens of would have these opinions lack millions of people hold remained one of decency, or are simply Mr. Rumsfeld’s these ideas and values, and unable to understand “ U n k n o w n a complex world. The for me to cast them all Unknowns.” truth of the matter is However, to watch that tens of millions aside as unintelligent or Fox is to also conof people hold these sume copious sup- unkind is both ignorant and ideas and values, and position, partisan for me to cast them all counterproductive. reporting and aside as unintelligent other absurdities or unkind is both produced by a well funded and well ignorant and counterproductive. It insulated echo chamber. serves no collective interest to label To be sure, this is all true of the lib- the opposition as the exception to reaeral MSNBC as well, albeit with a dif- son. ferent flavor. Instead of a fiery anger, But back to my uncle, whom I bespectacled anchors deliver an aloof swear is really the subject of this coland indignant partisanship, but I am umn. His contributions to my newsmuch more inclined to spend time feed, maddening as they are, constithere. It’s a more soothing indoctrina- tute one of the best opportunities I tion. have to grow as a productive thinker This segregation of opinions is a while still living on a college campus. dangerous trend. We are confronted The links he posts are a reminder of with things that make us angry, but how millions of people have chosen to the extent to which this happens is see the world. They are pages in a entirely up to us. Entire websites can book I would not have otherwise be defined by a mostly-unchallenged opened. Each photo and article propolitical ideology that one will vides opportunities to advance a genencounter within them, and very uine dialogue, even if it all happens often do so themselves (see inside my head. At the very least, they Everydayfeminism / youngconserva- can be a reminder of how much distives). The same can be said of the agreement is bred in a functioning titles of many articles, which are sim- democracy. To be clear, I would not ply short-form renderings of the expect anyone to subject themselves author’s conclusion, occasionally with to violent or bigoted remarks on the phrases “you won’t believe,” or social media. But for the rest, leave a “why X is [BLANK].” The result is space in your mind for the absurd and that, should I be so inclined, it is pos- upsetting, because it may just be the sible for me to read thousands of world we happen to live in. words without ever encountering a sentence that makes my blood boil.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the And many of us do. It’s very easy to College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached browse the same websites, share arti- at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table cles with the same people and avoid usually appears alternate Mondays this semester.

CORRECTION A Sept. 4 news story, “‘Say Her Name’ Event Centers on Women as Subjects of Violence,” referred to the women who were the topic of the event as ‘female victims.’ In fact, this term is an inaccurate representation of the people who are often subjects of racialized violence — including trans women — and thus has been changed to ‘women victims.’

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Annie O’Toole | Trustee Viewpoint

Back-to-School Energy W

elcome back to Cornell! The beginning of the Cornell school year has a special energy. You are likely enjoying the warm weather, making friends, engaging in classes and joining clubs. You may have a list of all the things you want to do in Ithaca this year.

Maybe you are a new student on campus looking forward to spending several years here, with plenty of time to explore the curriculum and the community. Or maybe you have already spent some time at Cornell, but are trying to fit in everything you haven’t gotten around to in previous years because time got away from you.

This is the time to harness that energy and ambition, and use it to propel you forward into an intellectually stimulating and socially satisfying school year.

I recently heard Cornell described as a vibrant city, where a student can find living essentials (housing, dining, transportation, police services), rich academics (1,600 faculty, 14 colleges and schools, almost 80 formal major fields of study), culture (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell Cinema, Schwartz Performing Arts Center) and community (over 1,000 student organizations, 64 sororities and fraternities, program houses, athletics).

We are so lucky to spend a few years in this “city,” where the

Sign up for that class you’ve eyed in the course catalog that’s outside of your major or graduate field; It may open you up to a new way of thinking, a different career path, or simply an exceptionally enjoyable and interesting semester. student is at the focus of all of these services. Take advantage of all that Cornell and Ithaca are offering you, and start doing it now!

Pursue that initiative that you think could make our community a better place. Find other students who are interested in the issue, talk with student leaders (you can always reach out to me) and administrators about how to make it happen and start taking steps to achieve your goal. Many of the most effective and influential projects and organizations on campus were conceived of and executed by students.

Sign up for that class you’ve eyed in the course catalog that’s outside of your major or graduate field; It may open you up to a new way of thinking, a different career path or simply an exceptionally enjoyable and interesting semester — and do it today!

Today is the last day for undergraduates to add classes.

Attend that lecture that sounds interesting even though it’s outside your area of expertise. You may learn something new, make an important personal connection or develop another academic or personal interest.

Join — or create — that club that is a little different from what you normally spend your time on. You will broaden your personal Cornell community and feel more connected with your peers.

Get outside! Take those hikes, swims or bike rides around campus and Ithaca — go to the Cornell Plantations, Beebe Lake, East Hill Recreation Way, Treman State Park or Buttermilk Falls (to name just a few).

You have the opportunity now to start on a path toward a rewarding academic year.

Trust me, if you don’t start now, the energy and ambition you feel around you will start to fade as classes get difficult and the weather gets colder. But if you get in the habit now of exploring, learning and opening yourself up to new experiences, you will keep it up even when the year becomes more challenging.

I am now in my seventh, and last, year of higher education.

I’m giving you this advice because when I look back, I realize that taking advantage of energy, ambition and passion has served me best.

When I skipped performances, lectures, games and other events because I thought I was too busy or stressed, I have regretted it. When I took a class just because it was supposed to be an easy “A,” I was disappointed and bored.

But when I was open to new opportunities, I found the greatest success and sense of accomplishment. These different experiences have shaped my personality, my interests and my goals. They have made me stand out in job interviews. They have kept me consistently interested and content in my environment.

I hope you will not let this special time of year pass you by without stepping outside of your comfort zone. Opening up and trying new things will enrich your time at Cornell, and will enrich our Cornell community.

Have a great year!

Annie O’Toole is a third year student at Cornell Law School, and the graduate student-elected trustee. She can be reached at ado29@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears on alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “The New York State Police are professionals, qualified to deal with felonies.

Rape is a felony, you know, not a violation of Cornell’s ‘rules.’ It sounds like this new Special Victims Unit is a great idea. Frankly, it’s about time.”

Nancy McEwen Re: “New York Creates Special Victims Unit for College Campuses,” News published September 2, 2015

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Conspiracy Theories And Donald Trump A

s the Summer of Trump Americans. So, what does this recognition. draws to a close, the mean? In the short term, it Furthermore — and perhaps Donald continues to lead means that the Republicans are more importantly — Trump the field of Republican con- putting themselves on track to remains the benefactor of an tenders for the 2016 presidential lose another presidential election. unprecedented field of nomination. The latest national Remember the Republican Republicans vying for the nomipoll, conducted by Monmouth autopsy report commissioned by nation. In previous elections, University, places Donald Trump Republican National Committee candidates like Herman Cain at 30 percent — 12 points higher Chairman Reince Priebus after and Newt Gingrich were than the next leading candidate, the defeat of Mitt Romney in squeezed out of the race after Ben Carson, and 22 points high- 2012? The report — issued to Party figures coalesced around er than Jeb Bush. Trump — who address the self-diagnosed prob- Mitt Romney. Typically this has previously identified as a lems of intolerance within the would — and still might — hapDemocrat and supports policies Party — contained warnings pen with Jeb Bush. But with 17 such as the Affordable Care Act such as, “it will be increasingly declared Republicans seeking the and higher taxes on the wealthy difficult for Republicans to win a nomination, the Establishment — has turned the presidential presidential election in the near wing of the GOP must wait for nomination into an episode of Veep.

Think about it: A Democrat enters the Trump — who has previously identified as a GOP presidential Democrat and supports policies such as the race to sabotage the Republicans and Affordable Care Act and higher taxes on the skyrockets to the top wealthy — has turned the presidential of the polls by insulting immi- nomination into an episode of Veep. grants and women.

Another candidate responds to this movement future … If our Party is not wel- the field to narrow before uniting against immigration by calling a coming and inclusive, young behind a single candidate; and if proposal to build a wall spanning people and increasingly other multiple Establishment-like figthe United States-Canada border voters will continue to tune us ures — think Bush, Marco a ‘legitimate’ idea. The supposed out … we must embrace and Rubio, Scott Walker, John front-runner, Jeb Bush, is so busy champion comprehensive immi- Kasich — run lengthy campaigns trying not to be another gration reform.” into 2016, Establishment supRepublican establishment failure In the long run, it means that port may remain splintered that he is actively employing and meaningful immigration reform across different candidates. hyping the endorsement of one may be a long way out. Clearly, Republican elites should have of the biggest Republican estab- not all Republican candidates are real concern for this possibility. If lishment failures of all time in hostile towards immigration and you look at Jeb Bush’ interaction Eric Cantor. And who put the ones who are most likely with Trump as a proxy for GOP Donald Trump the Democrat up won’t be around come next Establishment interaction with to all of this? Well, of course Bill November. But if a sizeable bloc Trump, it’s evident that Trump Clinton orchestrated the whole of Republican voters remains will not be silenced by traditional thing just to throw the election to committed to anti-immigration methods. You can’t embarrass a his wife who is stuck in neutral, rhetoric, it may prove politically man with no shame, you can’t battling only the most mundane treacherous to propose the com- suffocate his media coverage, and of political controversies. It’s prehensive reform necessary. As attacking him only makes him almost too good to not be true. long as Trump’s poll numbers stronger.

Eventually, the Trump’s ‘Make America Great keep rising with every insult Republican brass will have to Again’ slogan even goes great hurled at minority groups, immi- merge behind a single candidate, with Selina Meyer’s nonsensical gration reform remains stalled but as long as Establishment sup“Continuity with Change.” and the aforementioned port remains fractured and their Conspiracy theories aside, Republican autopsy report looks candidates languish in the polls what Trump’s campaign truly increasingly prophetic.

— and there’s no reason to exists to prove — whether intenWhile the 2016 election believe that will change in the tionally or unintentionally — is remains over a year away and fac- near future — get ready to spend that American populism is alive tional candidates typically catch a couple more months debating and well. Opposition to immi- fire as the seasons change before Trump conspiracy theories. gration amid a changing national quickly flaming out — see Rick identity is a staple of populism Perry, Herman Cain in 2011 — Forken is a senior in the College of on the right and has only been Donald Trump has two intangi- Jake Human Ecology. He may be reached at reinforced by an economy strug- bles not enjoyed by all candi- jrf285@cornell.edu. My Forken gling to provide tangible recovery dates: money to sustain his cam- Opinion appears alternate Fridays this for middle and working-class paign and near-universal name semester.

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BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Those who do not want to read a hundred words of hemming and hawing about getting to review the work of a personal idol should skip down a paragraph. For, despite my despising of hero worship, I fear I cannot really review “So It Goes” — a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s 1980s felt-tip drawings in the Class of 1953, Moak and Schaenen Galleries — without allowing my reverence for his writing to seep in.

Reading an artist’s works never equates to reading their mind.

But the drawings that comprise “So It Goes” — the drawings of which were lent to the Johnson Museum by Vonnegut’s daughter, Nanette — appear to be just so, well … Vonnegut.

His works feature curving, contorting lines, probing eyes and motifs that have appeared previously in Vonnegut’s illustrations. “So It Goes” most notably fascinates the viewer, however, by combining the felt-tip drawings with information about Vonnegut’s life.

Through the biographical displays, curators Nancy Green (Gale and Ira Drukier Curator of European and American Art, Prints & Drawings, 1800-1945) and Michele Wick (’82, Research Associate/Lecturer in Psychology Smith College) explore features of Vonnegut’s childhood, adolescence and war career that likely factor into his art. In one text, Vonnegut states that he began to draw at home because “artists and art supplies were around the house all of the time.” The same nonchalance that marks Vonnegut’s writing style also elevates his drawings.

Minimal combinations of circles form gaping, evocative eyes.

The most memorable drawing from the exhibit depicted a shrouded, baby-like figure sitting on a chair. Three quick marker smudges alone created its eerie face. Despite working in a different medium, Vonnegut still conjures up bizarre, but welcoming, scenes.

Some drawings could have represented Vonnegut’s literary settings — the desolation of wartime Dresden or the rocky cliffs of San Lorenzo. Vonnegut’s usage of line alone could warrant an entire review. Two-dozen lines seem to interlace at random until facial features make the neck and face, which the

lines form, apparent. In another drawing, a flurry of short, wispy lines show a mustache blown backwards, as if by a breeze. Even with sparse markings, Vonnegut evokes a huge amount of structure and motion.

Due to their simplicity and prominent usage of lines, Vonnegut’s drawings also possess a technical appearance.

Speculation might lead one to think of Vonnegut’s architect grandfather and architect father, or perhaps his own chemistry major and job as a General Electric clerk, but I promised to not attempt mind reading. Technical motifs, however, should not be conflated with rigidity. The lines in Vonnegut’s drawings flow and twist more than they constrain anything, seemingly ready to slide off the paper at a moment’s notice.

Vonnegut’s treatment of eyes alone is engrossing. Lower lids sag as if waterlogged, and pupils dilate to comical widths. One drawing shows an entirely opened eye, like a fried egg, marked by a button-black pupil. The pupil emits a single thin line that terminates in one of Vonnegut’s recognizable asterisks. The asterisks, too, appear in Vonnegut’s signatures on most drawings.

A few fascinating works also deviate from Vonnegut’s tendency to depict faces or landscapes of some sort. One drawing features a long, thin, twisting “s”, followed by the word “leep.”

In a most base way, Vonnegut evidences his ability to take an innocent, straightforward word and coax it into something strange, confusing and surreal.

Another contains a first letter that is so engorged and multi-colored that it becomes unreadable, followed by the phrase “uit.” Vonnegut occupies the same space in many of his drawings, residing right on the cusp where the recognizable and nostalgic devolves into surrealism and the grotesque.

Another biographical display quotes Vonnegut as saying, “A lack of seriousness has led to all sorts of wonderful insights.”

The same nonchalance pervades Vonnegut’s writing, a sense that he works diligently but not obsessively, seeking to reach contentment and solidness before he achieves greatness.

Without wandering too far into mind reading, the included texts seem to imply that Vonnegut would scoff at any attempts to classify his art as successful or unsuccessful, evocative or dull, instead maintaining that it simply is what it is. The exhibit also

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COURTESY OF NANETTE VONNEGUT

“Untitled,” ca. 1980s, Felt-tip pen on paper

includes a bench built by Vonnegut that bears the, very fitting, Henry David Thoreau quote: “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” Vonnegut brought the same attitude to his drawings, harnessing his propensity for diagrams and technical figures, love of the subversive and ability to transform the bizarre and grotesque into the welcoming and lovable.

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

Orson Welles: A Retrospective at Cornell Cinema later moving on to a more speculative realm as still unfulfilled predictions were shown. So, nothing truly remarkable, especially considering this was late-period How do you go about reviewing a movie that is widely Welles in a work-for-hire serving as mere narrator for a hailed as the best picture of all time? You don’t. Citizen cheap production. But if you couple a ten-year-old`s Kane, which opened a semester-long Orson Welles cente- impressionable mind with Welles’ grandiose persona nary retrospective at the Cornell Cinema last week, may ,you may begin to understand why the memory stuck.

That same persona was the driving force of Welles’ have its share of flaws and even seem dated in some aspects, first feature and it’s also why he got to do it in the first but what has kept it in such high regard among critics and spectators for so long isn’t merely what is comprised in the place. Coming from East coast theater and radio, he was offered an unprecedented deal from RKO pictures two hours of film.

Much of it has to do with the stories and myths that sur- to basically write and direct whatever he wanted. After round it, mainly those centered on Welles, the ultimate coming up with Kane, he never managed to complete COURTESY OF BLOG SPOT Hollywood outsider, a character so colorful it threatens to another project in America on his own terms again. It’s not so much because Welles disregarded filmmaking overtake any appreciation of the artwork itself.

8) starring Anthony Perkins that stands on its own with a I couldn’t have been more than ten or eleven years old and narrative conventions (and never mind the William maze-like atmosphere and sets that could well have been when I first came upon the thunderous voice and kingly fig- Hearst imbroglio, that’s a red herring), but mainly because designed by M.C. Escher. Welles himself would also play a ure of Orson Welles. This was on a New Year’s Eve, one of he centered everything on himself as true artists inevitably few other Kafkaesque characters such as the titular Mr. those times when you get to stay up late and catch whatev- do, alienating editors and producers who he was supposed Arkadin (Oct. 3 and 4) and Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil er sleep-inducing film someone expertly decided to program to work with.

(Oct. 24 and 25), but his most popular role as an actor came In Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson from his small part as Harry Lime in Carol Reed’s The Third for the loneliest night of the year. He was the host of a documentary of sorts that depicted the predictions made by Welles, a new documentary by Chuck Workman that was Man (Sept. 26 and 27).

16th century prophet Michel de Nostradamus, along with also screened last week at Cornell Cinema, Welles tells the Welles’ finest hour wouldn’t come, arguably, until F for historical facts that would serve as proof of their accuracy, story of being asked by an Italian waiter if he ever did anoth- Fake (which closes the cycle on Nov 21 and 22), his poster film after Citizen Kane. The documentary, modern documentary essay on art forgery, that ends up which mostly does a poor job demystifying being a fake in itself. After decades of auteur work, Welles COURTESY OF LIFETIME TV Welles, goes on then to list his various subse- decides to deconstruct (pardon my French) the whole quent entries. Of these, Cornell Cinema will notion of authorship in a movie that bears the same strucshow the few American productions that ture of a magic trick. With as deep a voice and as large a Welles did manage to put together and even if physique as he would ever sustain, Welles draws from a the final cut wasn’t his one can’t dismiss The number of examples not the least from his own body of Lady from Shanghai (Sep 5 and 6), The work, in a frantic exercise in exposition to correlate art and Magnificent Ambersons (Sep 12 and 13) and deception. How much of that correlation applies to his Macbeth (Sep 19th) as minor works. They all career, perhap, as we have a chance to view it all throughout showcase Welles’ mastery of theatricality and the Fall, we then might be able to tell. his obsession with tragedy and dark humor.

His European films, though, dig even deeper into the farcical and the absurd. Fittingly he Bruno Costelini is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He shot a version of Franz Kafka’s The Trial (Oct. can be reached at bgcostelini@gmail.com.

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EMILY KLING Sun Staff Writer

It was the cartoonist Scott Adams who once said, “nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.”

Similarly, nothing seems to inspire movies, time and time again, quite like revenge either. But actor, writer and now director Joel Edgerton shows us with his directing debut, The Gift, (which he also wrote and costars in) just how fresh, complex and riveting a revenge plot can be.

The Gift follows married couple Simon (Jason Bateman) and Robyn (Rebecca Hall) who have just moved from Chicago (Robyn’s home-state) to California (Simon’s home-state) as part of his job relocation. While shopping to decorate their new home, a modern see-through residence complete with long hallways and extra rooms, they run into Gordo (Joel Edgerton), a previous classmate of Simon’s. While Simon seemingly doesn’t recognize Gordo right away, they exchange numbers and agree to catch up.

While Simon clearly has no intentions of contacting Gordo, Gordo seems to have quite a different impression of their encounter. Having overheard Simon and Roby’s address as they ordered furniture for delivery, Gordo drops off a welcoming gift at their doorstep along with a note. And so begin “the gifts.” After a series of unwelcome visits and other peculiar offerings from Gordo, Simon tells him to back off. Then, after a few more less-friendly gifts, including a note in which Gordo writes to Simon that he had been willing to “let bygones be bygones,” Robyn realizes there must be more to the story than just a pushy past classmate overstaying his welcome.

And that is all I’m going to say about the plot. This is one of those films where the less you know the better, as the many reveals unfold gradually — keeping you hooked from start to finish. However, the many twists and turns come not only in the form of plot progression, but also through better understanding the characters as the film progresses.

Part of what makes this film excellent is that Edgerton creates characters that are interesting and

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complicated rather than flat puppets, simply used to move the plot forward. Robyn in another movie would just be a modern woman: fashionable and successful.

And while she is most certainly both of those things, in this film she is also struggling to create a family and clearly suffering from social anxiety — in some moments, coming accross as aloof and in others, as nervous and uncomfortable. Simon, a star in high school, on the brink of “making it” in the business world now, is not made to please an audience but rather forces the viewer to think deeply about how people change, if they change and if that matters.

And then there’s Gordo. Gordo is painfully polite in speech, but pushy and awkward in behavior. Having been nicknamed “Gordo the Weirdo” by Simon back in school, the motives behind his insistence on befriending Simon and Robyn are unclear. But part of what makes Gordo so great, is that, weirdly enough (as he is probably the least similar to the average audience member of all the film’s protagonists)he is totally relat-

able to anyone who has ever been wronged or bullied.

The secondary characters also add to the story as well. These characters include the neighbors, Simon’s coworkers and chiropractor. In this film these people, like the main characters, never felt like throwaways used to move the plot forward, but rather integral to the world of the story and the themes Edgerton was asking the audience to consider.

Sometimes I fear that revenge plots are fun only in experience but boilerplate at their core. For The Gift, however, this was not the case. The film pushes boundaries in terms of the revenge plot narrative, as Edgerton changes the pace of the story as new information is revealed. In other words, the story isn’t formulaic. You go in expecting a fun “neighbor from hell” film, and you leave undecided about who in the story is the truly scary one.

Emily Kling is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekling@cornellsun.com.

Lessons From Sylvia Plath

here’s this line in Annie Hall that I never really got — ironically enough — until I got to college. Pretty far into the throes of the film, Woody Allen, playing Alvy Singer, throws out this little in-passing quip about Sylvia Plath where he says, "Sylvia Plath: interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college girl mentality.” Sexist? For sure. And for a long time I thought it was stupid and unnecessary until I realized that I had been lost in the college girl mentality.

Let me back up for a second — it wasn’t really a college girl mentality I was lost in and I still think that part of Allen’s joke is crap.

College girls are not to be blamed for romanticizing suicide as some sort of sacrifice for art. It was a creative worship mentality. In talking about “tortured writers” I would say the dumbest, least enlightened junk about how, “yeah it’s sad they died tragically and all but, like, their depression helped with their art and without their art the world would somehow be less,” completely romanticizing their death as some sort of tradeoff for the art they produced. The way I talked about it, mental illness was just a cross to bear if you were a writer or any sort of creative type because in the end, the absence of a book or poem or painting could somehow be greater than the loss of the person who created it.

When I think about that — about how I used to imagine the connection between mental illness and creativity — I get really mad. It seems stupid to me, now, to put mental illness on some sort of pedestal because of the notion that it allows artists to be artists. Obviously

there’s no denying the correlation between the most tortured of us and the ability to create art.

There are tons of actual scientific studies that confirm the connection, as well as a Wikipedia article literally titled “Creativity and mental illness,” and we all know that Wikipedia acts as a litmus test for legitimacy in the 21st century.

On top of that we trade stories wrapped in the mythos of the tortured artist — anecdotes about Hemingway or Fitzgerald or Plath or Cobain or Basquiat — that somehow confirm that to be brilliant is to be depressed. To be the least bit significant in your field is to be at war with yourself on a daily basis.

But that’s a simplification, and there is nothing I want to deconstruct more than that idea.

First, it’s just wrong. Most depressed people are not actually productive while actively

Mary Jarvis Guest Room depressed. In an interview with David Foster Wallace’s father after the writer’s death, it was revealed that Wallace had suffered from depression for decades, and it was only the antidepressants he was taking that allowed him to be able to write. It was after going off the drugs that his depression returned in full force and he committed suicide in 2008. Wallace’s depression is what ended his career — it’s why we no longer have new books of his to read or new essays or

new great ideas COURTESY OF BLOG SPOT that we wished we had come up with ourselves.

Perhaps his suffering, to an extent, provided access to a different way of seeing the world, but it wasn’t what made him great. He was great because he was brilliant, because he could take that way of seeing the world and do something with it. Depression didn’t make him that way, depression only made him depressed.

The second thing is, in thinking that way about mental illness and creativity, we erase the very human toll of suffering from something as soul-consuming as mental illness can be.

I’ve seen it play out. I’ve visited friends who sat in paper pajamas in hospital rooms, and I’ve searched through their things to find sweatpants without the strings so they could have something more comfortable to wear. I’ve called their parents to say, “Yeah you should come now they really need you” when what I wanted to say was “I need you. I don’t know what to do and I can’t do this anymore.” It’s terrifying to see people you care about like that.

Wouldn’t the children of Sylvia Plath have given anything to have their mom around?

Who am I to talk about her as if I’m offering her up for the things she produced? Would I

have ever talked about the people I cared about in such an offhand way? Does a body of work really justify suffering, or even death?

Obviously not everyone thinks about the connection between mental illness and creativity like I did, with all the nonchalance of talking about someone having double-jointed elbows.

Like the mental illness made them great writers, and they weren’t just great writers with mental illness. And maybe the reality is that I’m the only person who ever thought that way. But if I’m not, if there are others who, like me, denied the nuances of the connection between creativity and depression or anxiety or whatever, we need to stop. It doesn’t help anyone, least of all the great artists that we love.

Mary Jarvis is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at marymjarvis@gmail.com. Guest Room appears every Tuesday this semester.

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16 Wheel spokes, geometrically 17 “Am I supposed to take this seriously?”

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With Kelly’s Offensive Brilliance, C.U. Begins Standing in Bradford Ready for a Big Season New Season Serena’s Way? SHATZMAN

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I’ve noted before that I am a lifelong Rams fan who grew up outside of Philadelphia. I watched every game that Sam Bradford played professionally. And because all of my friends are diehard Eagles fans, there was a lot to discuss. Since the trade was made, I have made my opinion clear that Bradford, if healthy, will be a Top-5 quarterback in Philadelphia, under Chip Kelly.

I understand that the “if healthy” part of that sentence induces worry, but while fans are quick to say that Bradford is made of glass, doctors believe the chances of him re-injuring his knee are slim. Yes, anything can happen, but if Bradford plays the entire season, he will be elite, and the Eagles will be next to the Seahawks as

favorites to win the NFC. The Eagles have a good offensive line: the reason an average quarterback like Nick Foles was able to succeed in Philly was because of the offensive line (see Foles’ 27/2 TD/INT ratio in 2013, when he had like ten minutes to make decisions in the pocket).

Bradford is exactly what the Eagles need. He is a strong-armed playmaker who can make all of the throws. Chip Kelly knows how to score points. Both Nick Foles and Mark Sanchez were able to throw for 300 plus yards on a regular basis in Chip Kelly’s offense. Replace them with Sam Bradford, and the Eagles offense could be ‘Greatest Show on Turf ’–esque.

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

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confident that if the team can perform better then victories will be on the horizon for the squad.

“We need to execute our press well, and we need to execute our playing style and technical abilities,” Heck said. “We know that if we do our game plan effectively and play the way we can then we can beat any team in this country.”

Jessica Brofsky can be reached at jbrofsky@cornellsuncom.

Her Big Sister

New York looks to end playoff drought NEW YORK (AP) — No reason for any extra practice after this performance by Serena Williams.

Plus, it’s not as if she needs to study too hard to figure out how to deal with her next opponent.

Playing the best she did during this U.S. Open as she chases a calendar-year Grand Slam, Williams set up a quarterfinal against older sister Venus by making only six unforced errors in a 6-3, 6-3 victory over 19th-seeded Madison Keys on Sunday.

Looking ahead, No. 1 Serena described No. 23 Venus this way: “It’s like playing a mirror.”

Serena took only 68 minutes to dismiss Keys, a 20-year-old American with formidable serves and forehands who simply was outplayed.

Already a winner of the past four major tournaments, including last year’s U.S. Open, Serena is trying to become the first tennis player to win all four in the same season since Steffi Graf in 1988.

Asked why it’s been so long since anyone else pulled off a true Grand Slam, Serena paused for effect, smiled and answered: “I don’t know why it took me so long.”

Standing in the way at the moment is Venus. This will be the 27th all-Williams match over their long and successful careers, and Serena leads 15-11, including 8-5 at majors. Each has beaten the other twice at the U.S. Open, with Venus winning the 2001 final and Serena the 2002 final.

“It’s about, of course, forgetting that she’s playing Venus,” said Serena’s coach, Patrick Mouratoglou.

Venus, at 35 the oldest woman in the tournament, was on court even less time than her sibling on Sunday, overwhelming 19-year-old qualifier Anett Kontaveit of Estonia 6-2, 6-1 in 50 minutes.

Venus, of course, knows full well the challenge that awaits Tuesday.

“What else can you do, except try to win the point and hope she doesn’t hit an ace?” said Venus, who lost in the third round or earlier at each of the past four U.S. Opens.

The sisters’ mother, Oracene Price, said she wouldn’t attend the quarterfinal.

As for whether Venus will be in a tough spot — hoping to win, yet also well aware of what her sibling is pursuing — Price said: “I know it’s going to be hard, because I know (Venus) wants (Serena) to get it.”

Another women's fourthround match scheduled for Sunday was scratched when 25th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard withdrew with a concussion, two days after slipping and falling in the locker room. That allowed Roberta Vinci of Italy to advance to the quarterfinals against Kristina Mladenovic.

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SPORTS

After Seven Months of Offseason,NFL Kicks Off Thursday Football is almost back, and with it comes storylines, gossip and, of course, more brilliant Green Bay offense

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t’s that time of the year again, folks, when Sundays go from mediocre to unbelievable. The NFL is back. Below I will take a look at some storylines to follow heading into the first week of the 2015 season.

The Jimmy Graham Effect

Jimmy Graham is an athletic, touchdown-catching machine. Because of the reputation Graham earned himself in New Orleans, many were quick to label his trade to the Seahawks as a definite win for Seattle: The two-time defending NFC champions needed to acquire a big-time pass-catcher for Russell Wilson, who, despite throwing to a weak receiving corps, still posted elite numbers in 2014. The Seahawks need a guy like Jimmy Graham. But they paid a hefty price to get him. Seattle dealt All-Pro center Max Unger, along with a first round pick, in return for Graham. Unger is a dominant lineman, and if healthy, New Orleans should have among the best offensive lines in the league. For a quarterback like Drew Brees, pocket protection is arguably the most important factor in what determines his success: the couple of extra seconds that Brees will have to throw will far outweigh the value of Jimmy Graham. If Graham can stay healthy — he battled a shoulder injury throughout last season — he could be the missing piece to Seattle’s offense. The Saints, on the other hand, travel to Arizona on Sunday to face a Cardinals team that ranked 29th in the league in passing yards allowed last season. Look for Drew Brees to have a monster week and a monster year.

No Jordy Nelson, No Problem

After the Packers’ second preseason game, Aaron Rodgers spoke with the media.

He was visibly disappointed.

Jordy Nelson, the Packers’ top receiver, and Rodgers’ go-to target, had torn his ACL in what Rodgers called a “meaningless” game. Rodgers had a point: The preseason serves as a tuneup for Week One, in which teammates compete for roster spots in live game action.

For a proven tandem like Aaron Rodgers and Jordy Nelson, the preseason couldn’t end sooner. Football is a game full of injuries, and the preseason is no different — besides the fact that the games do not count.

Nelson will miss the entire season, leaving the Packers without 98 catches, 1,519 yards and 13 touchdowns worth of offense.

But with Aaron Rodgers under center, the Packers offense will be just fine. Fresh off of his second league MVP award and a 38/5 TD/INT ratio, Rodgers will be forced to throw to other, less proven players, but for him, it won’t be a problem. As long as he is protected, Rodgers will make plays and score touchdowns. The NFL is a “next man up” league: when a player goes down, another steps up. Green Bay will look to second-year receiver Davante Adams to fill the void. The 53rd selection in the 2014 draft, Adams showed lots of promise in his rookie season as the Packers’ third receiver, posting two games with more than 100 yards receiving — one of which came versus Dallas in the Divisional Playoffs. Green Bay also signed receiver James Jones, who played for the Packers from ’07 to ’13, adding experience to a young receiving corps and a reliable pair of hands for Rodgers to target.

Jordy Nelson is a tremendous football player, but the league MVP is supposed to make his teammates shine, and that is exactly what Aaron Rodgers is going to do.

defense. They managed to win games with great defense and lackluster offense. So when Ryan was named head coach of the Buffalo Bills — a team that ranked fourth in total defense in 2014 — he knew the expectations he would be facing. In his introductory press conference in January, Ryan said, “fourth in the league is probably a little disappointing, to be honest with you. Because that’s not where my expectations are. I know we’ll lead the league in defense. That’s just the way it goes.”

Confident? Yes, but rightfully so. Ryan has always been a confident, outspoken coach, but he’s also a coach dedicated to winning, and a man who his players have been known to adore. He knows what Buffalo expects of the 2015 Bills, and I trust Ryan to succeed. The Bills’ issues, however, are on the other side of the ball. They traded for LeSean McCoy in the offseason, but their offensive line is a major question mark.

Buffalo’s 2013 first round draft pick, quarterback EJ Manuel, lost the starting job to Tyrod Taylor, the Ravens’ backup for the last few season, who has started one game in his career. Points will be at a premium for the Bills. But Rex Ryan promised excellent defense, and his word will be tested in his debut on Sunday, as the Bills take on Andrew Luck and the Colts’ high-powered offense in Buffalo.

Sam Bradford + Chip Kelly = Points

Sam Bradford’s skill has never been in doubt. He was considered a special prospect coming out of Oklahoma and was selected with the first pick in the 2010 NFL Draft by the Rams. In St. Louis, Bradford showed flashes of brilliance. Playing behind a terrible offensive line, surrounded by no-name receivers, Bradford put up solid numbers and won Offensive Rookie of the Y e a r .

B r a d f o r d ’s issue, of course, is his health. Over his five-year Calling the Shatz career, he’s played just two full seasons. He missed all of last season after tearing the same ACL that he tore in 2013. The Rams, unwilling to risk another injury, traded him to Philadelphia.

Ben Shatzman

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egular football season is almost here. The pre-season is always exciting, but nothing compares to actual Sunday Night Football. And though the games can be fun to watch, the pre-season games are not exactly the best demonstration of how the actual season is going to play out. None of the teams actually use their star players — it is more of just a try-out for the new ones. Still, the drama from preseason is enough to keep football fans entertained until the real deal. This pre-season was no different. The release of Tim Tebow from the Philadelphia Eagles and the overturning of Tom Brady’s suspension and that whole deflate-gate nonsense was only part of the of drama surrounding the NFL. One of the more unusual stories, and an uplifting one at that, is the story of how Jarryd Hayne, a star from the rugby league in Australia, will be a player in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers.

The 27-year-old joined the team last spring but made it through the last round of cuts to join the 49ers 53-man roster. As a rugby player, Hayne spent nine years (from 200614) with the the Parramatta Eels. He played in 176 matches, contributed 419 points and was the recipeint of the Dally M Medal, the award for the best player in Australia’s National Rugby League. Though he had achieved stardom in Australia, he was determined to follow his dreams of becoming a player for the NFL. Hayne even took a $4 million pay cut just to come to the NFL. In an interview with ESPN, he expressed how touched he was by his home nation’s support of his NFL dream. “I don’t think words really describe how great it is to see so many people support me, all the Aussies,” Hayne said during the conference call. “Australia is such a sporting country that we’re very proud of where we’re from. To see so many people get behind me and everyone over here in America obviously just

having fun and chasing dreams, I can’t begin to thank them. And I thank everyone back home for their love of sport.” His nickname “Hayne the Plane” has transferred seamlessly from his rugby to football career, in his ability to shrug off opposing players down the field.

Hayne left the National Rugby League in the fall of 2014 to pursue his dream of playing in the NFL and signed a three-year contract with San Francisco in March as an undrafted free agent. Tom Rathman, running backs coach for the 49ers, worked with Hayne on the nuances of foot-

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay ball and said that during the early pre-season games, he was convinced that the team would benefit from Hayne.

Over just the past three weeks, Hayne has racked up some very impressive stats. Hayne carried 10 times for 58 yards, caught a pair of passes for 17 yards and returned three punts for 43 yards in a win against the Chargers, and in Week 2 he rushed for 54 yards on eight carries and returned three punts for 84 yards against the Dallas Cowboys. Hayne’s preseason total of 175 rushing yards on 25 carries was second in the NFL, behind the Detroit Lions’ Zach Zenner. His 7.0 yards per carry led the league, and his 163 yards on 10 punt returns ranked third. This was enough to earn him a spot on the official roster, and to already make a splash in the NFL before season even starts.

So this year look out for “Hayne the Plane” out on the field to see how this Australian rugby star can tackle America’s favorite game.

Sophia Scazzero is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at sscazzero@cornellsun.com.

Rex Ryan’s Buffalo Debut

Rex Ryan breathes defense. Under Ryan, the Jets were known for their hard-nosed

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Brandon Marshall and the rest of Gang Green will kick off the 2015 NFL season with a clash against the Cleveland Browns this Sunday.

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Red Wins First Two Games of Invitational,Drops Third MICHAELA BREW / SUN SPORTS PHOTO EDITOR

Cornell defeats Iona and William & Mary over weekend, then falls to host West Point

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assists. Sophomore Chelsea Sincox had 22 digs, a career record.

Against Iona College, the team continued its The volleyball team traveled to West Point, momentum from the first match. The players New York this weekend to play its first matches won in three straight games against the Gaels, 25of the season facing the College of William & 14, 25-20, 26-24. Though Cornell only needed Mary and Iona College in the Black Knight three games to dispatch Iona, the numbers for the Invitational. The team closed the tournament Red were still impressive. Eight different players with a match against Army, had kills, led by freshman Carla the host of the invitational.

Sganderlla who had nine of her CORNELL @ ARMY Cornell was 2-1 on the own. Once again, Phelps kept 0 3 weekend, winning 3-2 the offense moving, putting up against the Tribe, and in Game: 29 assists.

2ND 3RD 1ST three straight games Army The invitational concluded 25 26 25 against Iona. In the third Cornell 14 20 24 for the Red with a third match, match the Red fell in three this one on Sunday against the games to Army.

Army Black Knights. Army won in three straight “The first game we played against William & games, 25-23, 25-13, and 25-20. Once again Mary went really well,” said junior Macey Sganderlla had an outstanding game, hitting Wilson. “We had a rocky start, which was expect- double digits in kills in just three games, finishing ed since that was the first time we had really with 12 kills for the match against Army. Wilson played together, but then we were able to really continued to consistently connect on her opporcome together as a team and show ourselves what tunities with a .312 hitting average. we are really capable of.”

Though the tournament ended on a loss, the The Red and the Tribe went back and forth in the Red has good reason to feel confident moving first four games, with Cornell winning the second forward, according to Wilson. This marks the and fourth. The Red was able to finish off William first time since 2007 that the team started the sea& Mary, 15-12, in the fifth game. Tied 11-11 after a son with two straight wins.

Cornell time-out, Wilson gave the Red some much“We, of course, have things that we need to needed momentum to finish the match. work on,” Wilson said. “But we have a lot of conSophomores Emily Wemhoff and Kit fidence in ourselves and what we can accomplish Mccarty both had double digit kill records, while after this tournament.”

Wilson had 10 kills for an impressive .364 kill percentage. Wilson’s classmate Alyssa Phelps set Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at for Cornell, and finished the first game with 42 omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com.

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Way up | The volleyball team played in the Black Knights Invitational in West Point, New York, winning its first two games before falling to Army.

MEN’S SOCCER

Men Lose to Lafayette in Opener Despite Early Goal out of reach. We play all the way to the end no matter what the score is.”

In the end, the Red lost to Lafayette.

Just six minutes into the men’s soccer Heck said the team was not surprised by team’s new season, junior Madison Heck the game or the team they faced; they scored a goal. Unfortunately, the early knew it was going to be a fight, but the goal would prove to be the only goal of results remained a disappointment. the game for Cornell, as the Red lost 2-1 “It was an evenly played game at the to Lafayette. end there, but we got edged out by a “It was a great team goal,” Heck said. goal,” Heck said. “[In Division 1], you “It was their always have to throw-in on “The game is never over and never out expect everyour side, and body to be on they tossed it of reach. We play all the way to the end, the top of in. We cleared no matter what the score is.” their game. it out, and JJ And we needBlack got pos- Jaro Zawislan ed to play up session of it, to that level ran it up the that we know field, gave it to Tommy. He passed it to that we can play at which is very high.”

Chris who passed it across the box, and I Zawislan said the team has some just finished it off.” improvements to work out and impleHe said the goal energized the team ment. The coaches are trying to balance but did not change the way they contin- their practices between letting the players ued to play. recover physically during their quick “We have a high energy team and a turnaround before their game against high energy game plan so we are always Lehigh today at 7 p.m. and making cruon a rush like that,” said Heck. cial adjustments on the field.

Head coach Jaro Zawislan said the “We had shorter training sessions on team does not try to focus too much on the field and we also focused on video what has happened in the past. Instead sessions and practical aspects of the the players keep their attention on what game,” Zawislan said. “On Saturday, we remains in the game. went through the game the day before, “Our team stayed the course. We and Sunday we started to focus on always say that we don’t get too high on the next opponent.” highs and too low on lows,” Zawislan In these times, too much trainsaid. “The game is never over and never ing can be counterproductive, so

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Zawislan said he is trying to strike a good balance.

“The execution part on both sides of the ball has to improve and get sharper and that’s what we are working on,” Zawislan said. “We felt that we created enough opportunities to score more than one goal, so we learned we have to get sharper in the box. Also on the defensive side of the ball, we strive for shutouts in the games and giving out two goals are two too many.”

It is in these times, not within the bounds of an official game, that the real coaching is done, according to Zawislan.

“Eventually you have to give the game of soccer back to the players,” Zawislan said. “It’s a players’ game.

Based on what they see, they have to make a decision, and we trust our players that they see the right thing and make the right decision quickly. Vision, decision, execution.”

Even though the team kept pressing and playing consistently, there were a couple moments that led to the loss.

“In the game of soccer sometimes it comes down to a couple of

critical moments in the game,” Zawislan said.

One critical moment came in the last couple of minutes when one of Cornell’s players, sophomore Jonathan Cullom, got a shot past the goalkeeper.

Although some people believed the ball was a goal, the referee deemed that it didn’t cross the plane of the goal.

Heck remained See M. SOCCER page 15

Starting strong | Junior Madison Heck’s early score wasn not enough to carry Cornell over Lafayette.

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