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More student groups affected, fewer diversity proposals required for funding

Diversity and Inclusion Plans last year, this year’s number has increased due to an amendment made last spring.

“This year the purview of USB has increased to Tier 2 and This article is part one of a two-part series regarding changes to Tier 3 [SAFC-funded] organizations, which have 80 to 100 the Student Assembly’s United Student Body initative. Read The organizations,” Tayal said. “Last year approximately 30 organizations submitted DIPs.” Sun tomorrow for the second part.

USB has also “streamlined its implementation,” accordDue to suggestions from various student groups, United Student Body — the Student Assembly initiative passed in spring ing to Tayal, making the Diversity and Inclusion Plan form shorter and more accessible to complete.

2013 that requires several student groups to outline Read tomorrow’s Sun Initiatives are to be broken down on Diversity and Inclusion Plans to receive funding — the Diversity and Inclusion Plan sheet has undergone several changes for this semester. for more about the by three principles: Composition, According to Shivang Tayal ’16, vice presiupdated United engagement and inclusion, Tayal said. dent of Diversity and Inclusion and International Liaison for the S.A., these changes include Student Body initiative. Though every organization must put forth three proposed initiatives, they adding Tier 2 and Tier 3 SAFC-funded organican be of any combination of the zations to the list of groups affected by USB, reducing the number of “Diversity and Inclusion Plan” items principles.

According to Tayal, these changes were implemented that must be enumerated by each group and creating a task force under the Student Assembly Committee for Inclusion and because leaders of various organizations found the preDiversity Initiatives to evaluate these plans in face-to-face meet- vious format of USB to be subjective, resulting in ings with group leaders.

According to Tayal, while only the byline-funded and See USB page 5 Performance-tier SAFC funded organizations had to submit

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Cornell Police: No Charges Filed Cornellians Sign Petition Against Student Accused of Rape For Internship Stipends

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

A Cornell student accused of rape was referred to a University Title IX coordinator last month, according to the Cornell University Police Department.

At the request of the victim, police will not pursue criminal charges against the student, according to CUPD Chief Kathy Zoner, who said the details of the case

could not be revealed because it is still active.

The rape reportedly occurred on Oct. 26, 2013 on West Campus at South Baker Hall, according to police. Zoner said the victim came forward about the attack in July and the alleged perpetrator was referred to Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 — who is the Title IX coordinator for student

Kim ’16: Univ. has responsibility to low-income students

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Hand to the sky

By AIMEE CHO Sun Senior Writer

A group of Cornellians have been circulating an online petition that asks the College of Arts and Sciences to provide stipends for students who have unpaid summer internships.

The University has a “crucial responsi-

bility” to help and support students with internships, according to Danyoung Kim ’16, the author of the petition. She added in the petition that she believes internships — many of which are unpaid — are “vital” to students’ career development.

“Currently, [the arts college] offers

YouTuber, Sex Educator Laci Green toVisit Cornell importance of safe sex and consent, according to the event’s Facebook page.

According to the page, Twenty-four-year-old “[students should] brace YouTuber Blogger Laci [themselves] for lots of Green — host of Sex+, laughs, useful information YouTube’s most-viewed you never knew you needed, sex education show — and an all-around fun will give a “crash-course” night.” on healthy sexual experiGreen’s YouTube channel mentation during colhas over 980,000 sublege at Cornell this GREEN scribers as of Monday month, the Cornell Women’s Resource Center an - night. Additionally, five million people from more than 100 countries nounced Friday.

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C.U. Students Will Attend NYC Climate March

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By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Senior Writer

A group of student organizations and community partners have collaborated to subsidize a bus to New York City to allow students to attend the People’s Climate March on Sept. 21.

The event is anticipated to be the largest climate march in history, according to the People’s Climate March website.

Participants will march to demonstrate support of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon’s anti-global warming petition.

“In September, world leaders are coming to New York City for a UN summit on the climate crisis,” according to the event’s website.

“UN Secretary “We must all act together General Ban Kito manage the risks of moon is urging climate change to demand governments to support an ambibold political action.” tious global agreement to dramatiMaria Jiang ’16 cally reduce global warming pollution.”

Maria Jiang ’16, manager of Cornell’s Green Revolving Fund — a fund that “capture[s] energy cost savings for reinvestment in campus sustainability projects,” according to its website — is helping organize buses from Cornell to New York City to transport students interested in participating in the rally.

“This is about students coming together from diverse backgrounds to show that we must all act together to manage the risks of climate change and to demand bold political action,” Jiang said.

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Cornell students audition for Break Free — the University’s only co-ed Hip Hop group — in Willard Straight Hall Monday afternoon.

Many students signed up for buses immediately after the event was announced, according to Cole Norgaarden ’17, co-president of KyotoNOW!, Cornell’s student-run climate justice and fossil fuel divestment organization.

A 55-person bus was filled in less than a week, and a second 39-person bus was secured in response to the enthusiasm. Ten seats remain on the second bus as of Monday, Norgaarden said.

According to Jiang, the Center for Transformative Action has also subsidized thousands of dollars in cost for students to travel to the event as a result of a joint fund between Sustainability Hub and KyotoNOW! Jiang added that the event is made possible because of the Protestant Cooperative Ministry, who has “worked fervently to secure our two buses,” Jiang said.

According Norgaarden, KyotoNOW! has a history of

helping Cornell students participate in various environmental movements across the country.

“We organized busloads of students and faculty to attend the ‘Forward On Climate’ March at the White House in 2013, which was in protest of the Keystone XL tar sands oil pipeline, as well as climate justice convergences in Pittsburgh and New York City,” Norgaarden said.

Norgaarden added that he believes it is important to transport students to the rally in order to demonstrate that youth believe in the importance of climate change reform.

“It is crucially important to engage and amplify youth voices on issues of climate change and justice because we are uniquely affected by its impacts,” he said.

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Prison Reform Project Creates New Research Branch

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Prison Reform and Education Project — a student organization created last fall — has reorganized this semester by creating a branch to research issues relevant to prison reform, according to its co-founders.

Matt Clauson ’15 and Garrison Lovely ’16 founded the organization — formerly named The Redemption Project — in fall 2013 after the two said they discovered there were no other student groups on campus dedicated to prison reform. “[The group initially] focused almost exclusively on solitary confinement reform in New York

State,” Lovely said.

Clauson — who said solitary confinement is a major issue in the state’s correctional system — added that the organization channeled most of their advocacy efforts into lobbying to pass the Humane Alternatives to LongTerm Solitary Confinement Act, an act that challenges isolate confinement, last semester.

“We thought that was a great opportunity to engage in meaningful advocacy to contact various members of the New York State legislature, get their position and lobby them to support the bill,” he said.

This year, PREP has expanded its focus with a new research branch that aims to broaden the

scope of issues that the organization tackles, according to Lovely.

“We’ve always been pretty focused on the advocacy area, but the limitation we found was that prison reform is a broader issue when you bring in education and when you bring in minority targeting through sentencing,” he said.

By increasing the range of issues the organization researches, Lovely said PREP hopes to increase interest amongst students who “were not familiar” with solitary confinement. He added that research and making information on prison reform more readily available is another way the group could make an immediate impact.

With this new focus on research, Clauson — who will lead

the research branch — aims for the group to reach out and partner with faculty members who are already engaged in research on prison reform, produce a blog on the PREP website and write a research paper at the end of the semester. “[I hope to] develop a community of students who are interested in engaging in meaningful dialogue about the prison system,” Clauson said.

One of the main advocacy events that PREP will be organizing this semester is the Behind Bars Campaign, which will begin on Sept. 22. According to Lovely, PREP will build a solitary confinement cell on Ho Plaza in an effort to “raise awareness on the solitary

confinement experience, garner interest in our organization and to really get [students] involved and engaged in this subject.”

Lovely said he believes this was an important cause that Cornell students were often isolated from, and he hopes that the Behind Bars event would make the issue of prison reform a “part of campus dialogue.”

“It’s an area where there are very few advocates,” he said. As “[With prison reform,] you can’t play to the innocence, you have to play to the idea that there are universal human rights that should be respected.”

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

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Champion of change | Amber Aspinall ’17, programming chair of the Prison Reform and Education Project, discusses the organization’s goals Monday in Goldwin Smith Hall.

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seven scholarships and fellowships specifically for summer activities,” the petition states. “These grants, however, have a narrow set of requirements that disqualifies many needy students.”

Kim said she was inspired to write the petition after she had difficulty finding funding for her unpaid internship this past summer.

“I was offered an internship at an economics think tank, but I couldn’t accept the position unless I received outside funding,” she said. “The first place I looked to for help was Cornell. While there were a few scholarships, I was ineligible for them because they discriminated by the nature of internships.”

Kim said she eventually found funding outside the University from her private high school.

“I thought first, it is unfair that I have an advantage over students who did not attend high schools that can offer stipends, and second, if my high school could have such a program, it’s incongruous that a university like Cornell would not have the resources to do something similar,” she said.

The petition, which was created on Thursday, currently has approximately 100 signatures, according to Kim. She added that the petition

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was addressed to the arts college for logistical reasons.

“Cornell has different policies for each of its colleges, so I thought it would be more practical to focus on just the College of Arts and Sciences,” Kim said. “Hopefully, this initiative will spread to all of the colleges.”

The amount of funding the arts college would provide, if any, would most likely be “very small” due to budget problems, according to Kim. “I understand we don’t have an abundant amount “It’s a positive thing when of money to spare in the students on campus voice budget. That’s why the stipends would not cover their concerns instead of the entirety of students’ livbecoming complacent.” ing costs, but would be there just for partial supEmma Johnston ’16 port,” she said.

One possible option for funding the stipends is the Students Helping Students fund, which gives out grants to low-income students who have unforeseen or emergency circumstances regarding family, property or health, according to Matt Henderson ’16, Student Assembly vice president for internal operations.

“This endowment has been underutilized over the last several years,” Henderson said. “The Financial Aid Review Committee has looked for additional uses for some of the funds in the past, but we were unable to come up with an unmet need that would be a good use of the money.

Henderson added that he believes the petition appears to be a “good match” for the University’s surplus funds and needs of low-income students.

“The main problem … is that several students from low-income families are forced to forego unpaid internships because of the inability to afford the travel and housing costs,” he said. “This problem isn’t unique to [the arts college].”

Kim adds she plans on emailing the petition soon to Gretchen Ritter ’82, dean of the arts college, and setting up a meeting.

“I am already in conversation with the College of Arts and Sciences representatives in the S.A. The next step might be to reach out to alumni who would be interested in supporting this initiative, but that will depend on what direction the Dean has in mind,” Kim said.

Emma Johnston ’16, arts and sciences representative for the S.A., said she “[doesn’t] think it’s a far-fetched goal” to set up a stipend system.

“I think it’s easy for a lot of us to agree that the stipends are needed but to make them a reality will require finding funding within our budget, fundraising or ideally both,” she said. “It’s a positive thing when students on campus voice their concerns instead of becoming complacent.”

Johnston said she feels that internships are important because getting a job in the future “is not just about getting your degree.”

“What if you can’t work an unpaid internship because you had to work a paid job, and five years down the line this is the only thing that separates you from another applicant?” she said.

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.

Slows Fire In Calif.

Nat’l Park Y O S E M I T E NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — Cooler weather on Monday slowed the spread of a wildfire that forced the helicopter evacuation of dozens of people from the famous Half Dome rock in Yosemite National Park.

“We were pleasantly surprised with high humidity and scattered showers throughout the morning,” said Kari Cobb, a park ranger. “So anytime you have weather like that it’s going to help suppress fire activity.”

The fire, which had burned about 4 square miles of timberland, wasn’t threatening any buildings. The park remained open, but some campsites were closed.

About 120 firefighters and 11 aircraft fought the blaze, which may have erupted from embers of a fire sparked by lightning several weeks ago, officials said.

Firefighters had monitored and controlled that fire before winds and temperatures increased on Sunday.

On Sunday, 100 people were evacuated from Little Yosemite Valley, and 80 to 85 were removed by helicopter from the top of 5,000foot Half Dome.

Rachael Kirk, 26, of Oakland, said she and two friends had reached an outcropping about 400 feet below the summit when they saw the fire explode out of control.

From the outcropping, called the subdome, hikers must climb a board-and-cable stairway up the rock face to reach the top.

Kirk, who was hiking to Half Dome for the first time, said she didn't want to go up the cables, but a park employee insisted.

“He said there was no way to land the helicopter except on top of Half Dome,” Kirk said. “That was the moment everyone felt scared.”

“One woman freaked out,” she said. “They gave her a makeshift harness and helped her out on the cable.”

Kirk said the climb and the airlift weren’t something she wanted to repeat.

“It was a once-in-alifetime experience, but I don’t think I’ll do it again,” Kirk said.

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S.A.Restructures Inclusion Initiative Accused Student New task force will aid student groups in outlining diversity plans Referred to Title IX Coordinator USB

tier groups that we worked with the very first year — and threw this idea past them and they were very supportive of the new idea,” Tulsky said. “And the touch-base meet“fluff ” in their Diversity and Inclusion Plans rather than ings we had in the second semester were much more proinitiatives that were specific in nature. ductive than the review process we used in the fall. We “In USB evaluations from byline groups, many found effectively just took our improvised plan from the spring the previous format subjective and said it needed more and institutionalized it within the USB framework." structure,” he said.

Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean and director of According to Noah Tulsky ’16, previously vice presi- Intercultural Programs, said she agreed that United dent of diversity and inclusion on the S.A., this semester Student Body’s more streamlined approach would be prothe Diversity and Inclusion Plans task force will meet ductive for student organizations. with every organization affected by “The foundation of USB is still United Student Body to make sure intact; however, I think that the S.A. that each diversity and inclusion plan “These initiatives take time. has wisely fine-tuned their is tangible and productive.

They take years, actually ... approach,” Alexander said. “I think “When legislation was first passed they decided there were probably too … [USB] followed the structure of an The key is to stay focused many moving parts and that reduccampus-wide initiative adopted by the ing the number of proposals and and adjust accordingly.”

Cornell administration called making them more strategic in line Towards New Destinations,” Tulsky with its goals would produce better Renee Alexander ’74 said. “This spring we amended that results.” structure to better fit our operational Alexander added that though the needs. The difference now is that University has improved greatly in groups are not only going to write a plan and receive terms of composition over the past decades, it will take feedback but they will actually meet face-to-face with more time to fully achieve engagement and inclusion, members of the DIP task force before submitting the something she believes requires winning the “hearts and plan.” minds” of people on campus.

According to Tulsky, the task force will be trained by “These initiatives take time. They take years, actually.

Cornell diversity staff so that they can “respond better to We are often very anxious to produce concrete, measurgroups’ different needs and situations.” able results,” Alexander said. “The key is to stay focused “The idea is that the process will be smoother and and adjust accordingly. We are discussing the very same more transparent,” Tulsky said. “We just want to encour- thing on the Towards New Destinations level. It’s not age that face-to-face interaction where groups will actual- about how many balls you have in the air, it’s really about ly sit down and talk to the task force, so there is more of people taking the time to come up with meaningful, wellan interplay of ideas, rather than the sort of banal paper written, doable proposals.” version where they write something and the task force Before the form is due on Oct. 6, there will be a series writes something back.” of informational meetings about USB’s requirements, According to Tulsky, most student groups that he met according to Tayal. with last semester were supportive of this change.

“Last semester, I met with all of the different groups — all the different byline-funded and SAFC performance Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Green Will Talk Consent, Safe Sex at Sept.19 Event GREEN

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view her videos on a monthly basis.

“Sex is awesome,” Green said on her website. “It’s fun, it feels good, it’s a way to connect with others, to connect with ourselves and it’s how our species continues.”

Green — who graduated from

University of California-Berkeley in 2011 — also hosts a sex education series for Planned Parenthood and a special for the Discovery Channel, according to her website.

The event, which will take place in 132 Goldwin Smith Hall, is free and open to the public.

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reports — on Aug. 27.

Reported sexual assault cases are referred to a Title IX coordinator rather than Cornell’s judicial administo trator,according University policy 6.4, which deals with discrimination, harassment and sexual assault and violence. For student cases, individuals are referred to Grant, who is also the judicial administrator.

Still, despite going through Grant, Zoner said the procedure is different than being referred to Cornell’s judicial administrator.

Zoner said that while the University and federal agencies have encouraged victims to report sexual assault cases, she said there are “good reasons why someone might not want to report.”

“It’s not unusual for victims of sexual assault to delay reporting or seek any legal remedy for an

assault,” Zoner said, adding that bringing such cases to light can have an emotional toll.

In addition, Zoner said victims who report sexual assault are often faced with a “very prolonged and difficult journey.”

“It can also take a long time for a case to come to conclusion, and a person’s focus on school, life and their energies can be sucked up by that,” Zoner said.

She added that the University is aware that the rate of sexual assaults is higher than the number of reports received by Cornell.

“Cornell Police, along with our University partners, are working hard to change the perceptions around reporting sexual assault to reduced the burdens to holding perpetrators accountable,” Zoner said.

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United against Islamophobia To the Editor: Re: “THROWDOWN THURSDAY: Islamophobia and Racism,” Opinion, Sep. 4.

Last week, The Cornell Daily Sun published an op-ed, “Islamophobia and Racism” by Julius Kairey, which we consider to be an unacceptable expression of Islamophobia at Cornell. We do not claim that “Islam [should] not be critically examined like other value systems” and indeed would have welcomed an informed critique of Islam as a belief system. However, the author of this article unfortunately descends into a plethora of selective and irrelevant armchair observations about “goings-on in the Islamic world,” which he then collectively portrays as reflective of Islam and Muslims as a whole. This is not only highly misleading but is also an insulting attack on anyone who identifies as Muslim. Muslims’ values can certainly not be encapsulated by a handful of surveys of ‘the Islamic world’, and we deplore the value judgment that the author places on our beliefs without providing a “well-grounded criticism of Islam as a religious ideology”.

While Kairey correctly notes that “[not all] Muslims believe in such values and practices,” he goes on to conflate certain practices in the ‘Muslim world’ with the values and belief system of one billion people who inhabit almost every country in the world. His use of divisive terms such as ‘our values’ and ‘our society’ while implicitly referring to Muslims as the other, is an incredibly alienating attitude that we frankly do not expect in a pluralistic community such as Cornell’s.

We condemn Islamophobia in the United States and on the Cornell campus. We hope that this article has not legitimized Islamophobia in the eyes of the Cornell community. Islamophobia is, and should be, as unacceptable as racism.

Saim Chaudhary ’17, President, Islamic Alliance for Justice Omer Syed ’16, President, Muslim Educational and Cultural Association Qurrat Ahmad ’15, President, Committee for the Advancement of Muslim Life Gina Nauman ’15 and Amna Chaudhry ’16, Co-presidents, Pakistani Students Association Fahmida Rashid ’16 and Anika Alam ’15, Co-presidents, Bengali Students Association Ammar Busheri ’16, President, Arab Students Association Mohammad Radiyat ’15, President, Asian Pacific Americans for Action Syed Ali Khan ’15, Minority Representative for the Student Assembly Keanu Stryker ’16, Cornell Organization for Labor Action Emad Masroor ’17, Students for Justice in Palestine Ihsan Bashir Kabir ’14 Antoine Saint-Victor ’16 Danny Qiao ’15

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t’s true, I do. Get in touch with me one of the best orientation weeks of all and, for a small fee, I’ll tack them up time. I wouldn’t change a thing about my all over your walls. It’ll make you feel O-week even if I could. While my high like you truly belong here at Cornell, and school friends were sitting through cliché your roommate will love them too, I hypnotist shows at their colleges, my promise. And while I’m stabbing tiny school was giving out free breakfast at holes in your walls, we can introduce our- midnight. And yes, Tapestry was really selves and talk about things neither of us late at night and we all slept through will ever remember in a week or so — like most of it, but at least we aren’t forced to where we’re from and what college we’re take a required course on community in and our majors. Doesn’t sound like building. And if all else failed, there was your idea of a fun time? Well, maybe ori- always chocolate milk in the dining halls entation isn't for you either then. to remind us why we came here.

Of course, everyone’s orientation expeBut while the best thing to do during riences are different. It would be a mis- O-week may have been to allow yourself take to assume that orientation was a to be swept up in the craziness of it all, week of forcefully the best thing to fun activities for take away from everyone in the O-week might be But while the best thing to do to remember that same way that it would be a mistake during O-week may have been it was only a week. to assume that oriOf all the people entation was a to allow yourself to be swept I’ve been introweek of lifelong to and up in the craziness of it all, the duced friendships and exchanged names laughs for everybest thing to take away from O- with, the only one. people I’ve cared week might be to remember But, like most enough to rememother things, there ber are the people that it was only a week. is a certain middle I met in entirely ground that many random situapeople seem to tions. Like the girl agree with when it comes to O-week: it I usually get lunch with? We almost wasn’t real life. Between the insanely long burned down Balch Hall together (by lines at the Big Red Blowout (I think accident) the first week of the semester. that’s what it was called) and the even And the most memorable times I’ve had longer wait at Schoellkopf (how the hell all week are the ones that 1) I can actually do you pronounce this) Field for the remember and 2) make me excited to Class of 2018 picture, O-week activities spend the next four years here. O-week lacked a sort of substance. They pulled us represented a transition for me, a week into a little freshman bubble, where for me to take in everything new and to everyone smiles while making meaning- get pumped about finding the things I less small talk and people pretend to care genuinely care about. Moving on from Ofar more about your major than you ever week means moving onto the rest of my will. Orientation was safe; it was a time college experience and taking on what that allowed us to get comfortable with Cornell really has to offer. the campus, the people and of course, the many acronyms. But it wasn’t real. It did- Hebani Duggal is a freshman in the College of n’t prepare us for the college that hits as Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal soon as the first week of classes begins.

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Deon Thomas |

It’s Not Me, It’s You

The NFL: Domesticated Nonsense

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no longer understand the actions of the NFL, the Ravens, nor the fans. On February 15, Ray Rice domestically abused his fiancé and later a video was released that showed him dragging her unconscious body out of an elevator. He was only suspended for two games whereas his peers who got caught with marijuana in their blood streams were suspended for an entire season. The fallout was met with arguments that Palmer, Rice’s fiancé, not only had forgiven Rice but had also gone on to marry him afterwards. Furthermore, a disgusting argument arrived on the scene that she had even provoked him into reciprocating with violence. After facing backlash from fans and media outlets, Roger Godell admitted the punishment did not fit the crime and instituted much stricter policies for domestic abuse. However, please note that it took upset fans for him to see the “wrong” in domestic abuse.

On Monday morning, a video was released to the public of what actually took place in the elevator. The video depicts Rice punching his then fiancé in the face twice and knocking her unconscious. This caused the Ravens to drop Rice from the team and the NFL to suspend Rice indefinitely, rather than the initial suspension of two games. I find this change in his status absolutely ridiculous for multiple reasons. To even begin, I will have to suspend my belief that both the NFL and the Ravens organization had seen this video far before Monday. I would be very surprised to find out that the resources of the NFL were not able to get their hands on this video before it was released to the general public. Even if I were to believe such a fact, I continue to

In my opinion, this video does very little in changing the facts of the case. Any action the NFL and the Ravens take now should be the same actions that were taken upon the facts known on February 15. blame the NFL because that simply means they didn’t look hard enough or even worse did not want to uncover the video because it could only tarnish their image further.

I am extremely disappointed in the NFL for basing their decision not on the actions of the players but the potential reactions of the fans. It seems as if they could care less what their players do as long as there is no chance of us finding out.

A lot of people are finding themselves further disgusted with Rice and his fiancé, however I find it hard to agree with them.

When someone drags a girl as she lays unconscious out of an elevator when they were the only two on it and later admits to domestic abuse, what the hell could have possibly happened?

It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that he hit her! So when I look around on social media and see you expressing distaste towards his actions I must also question yours. Were you ignoring the facts of the case? Were you a huge fan of Ray Rice and believed that he could do no wrong? Simply what were you thinking? In my opinion, this video does very little in changing the facts of the case. Any action the NFL and the Ravens take now should be the same actions that were taken upon the facts known on February 15.

Nonetheless, I must ask myself “who am I kidding?” This is the same country where there is a whole Twitter account dedicated to retweets of girls claiming that Chris Brown can beat them up “anytime”. One such tweet reads “I swear to God, Chris Brown can beat me anytime. He is just to dam sexy [sic].” Am I forced to assume that Ray Rice simply was “sexy” enough to get away with it? It also seems as if it is simply impossible for celebrities to actually get into any legal trouble over domestic abuse. Chris Brown’s savage beating of Rihanna led to community service and probation, Ray Rice’s charges were dropped, and Solange’s videotaped assault on Jay-Z simply led to jokes and laughter. I truly believe that domestic abuse needs to be met with far more outrage in the future.

However — for those of you who think its funny to laugh at it in the time being — if this travesty unfortunately takes place in your own friend group or even family just remember it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com. It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “If the movement had actually come from there, you might actually have a point. Unfortunately, Adam Baldwin coined the hashtag #gamergate and @ninouh90 was the one that started #notyourshield.”

Massacred Re: “BROMER | Super Ninten-d’oh: Thoughts on #Gamergate” Arts and Entertainment, published September 7, 2014

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Jimmy’s Tale of Leasing In Collegetown

ur story begins student housing for off campus, this issue of with the tale of sophomore, junior and an accelerated and irreguJimmy the hypo- senior students. In the lar Collegetown leasing thetical junior, a rosy- Fall of 2013, there were cycle deleteriously affects cheeked young lad who over 10,000 sophomores, a gargantuan number of has only recently moved juniors and seniors who Cornellians. Collegetown into his new Eddy Street could be vying for living becomes the de domicile, ready to take on approximately 2,770 beds facto norm for upperclassthe gilded streets of in on-campus housing. men students, and the Collegetown. A first-year Since Cornell does not Collegetown leasing marCollegetown denizen who release exact class sizes, ket should be regarded managed to rustle up a the number of sopho- almost as an extension of few friends last fall to mores, juniors and seniors University housing. lease the same house, is approximate, but pulled Landlords should recogJimmy’s excitement to from data released by the nize that they are renting waste the fleeting days of University. The number to students, and the leassummer away on the of beds includes West ing cycle should absolutepatio of CTB and to sam- Campus dorms, other ly not begin before classes ple the finest yogurts, teas upper-level residence do. and salads at the newly halls, Program Houses Thankfully, the City opened Teatime eatery and co-ops. Although the of Ithaca has recognized knows no bounds. Just as number does not include this truth and attempted Jimmy is hanging his students living in fraterni- to better align the leasing poster that wittily por- ty or sorority houses (a cycle with the collegiate trays Bluto from the clas- popular option for Greek- academic year. On June 5, sic film Animal House affiliated sophomores), it’s 2013 the Ithaca Common wearing a sweatshirt that quite clear that a large Council amended the city proclaims, “College,” number of students are code with the much-disJimmy’s housemate and forced to seek housing in cussed rule that essentially best friend (we’ll call him Collegetown. requires that landlords Timmy) walks in with In fact, many of our give 60 days notice before some troubling news. peer schools who guaran- renewing the current “Hey, Jimmy.”

“Yeah, Timmy?”

“I just got an mass email from our land- Almost immediately after moving in, lord to all of their Jimmy and company need to make a few tenants, it says that we should consider decisions: namely, whether they enjoy whether we want to living together and whether they resign our house want to live in the same house. since they’re starting tours on Monday.”

Anyone who has had tee housing for all four rental agreement, showany experience with the undergraduate years (as ing the residential unit to Collegetown leasing cycle compared to Cornell’s prospective new tenants has likely had an interac- two guaranteed years) or entering into a rental tion similar to Jimmy and have a much higher per- agreement with new tenTimmy’s. It’s extraordi- centage of students who ants. narily common for the live on campus. Compare In theory, this policy is most highly sought-after Cornell paltry 57% on- intended to give Jimmy houses and apartments to campus living rate with and his friends plenty of be signed during the first four-year guaranteers time to settle into their few weeks of school, Harvard (98 percent), new home before tours when most students Princeton (97 percent), start stomping through. return to campus. As a Stanford (91 percent) and However, in practice, result, almost immediate- MIT (90 percent) as well landlords can very easily ly after moving in, Jimmy as fellow two-year guaran- notify their tenants with and company need to teers Yale (88 percent) 12-month leases starting make a few decisions: and Dartmouth (86 per- in June as soon as the namely, whether they cent). Clearly, off-campus lease begins, rendering enjoy living together and housing at Cornell is far the policy essentially whether they want to live more ubiquitous than at worthless. (Side note: A in the same house their other similar institutions. wiley landlord can even senior year.

Keeping in mind the sneak in a waiver of this This issue of an accel- figure that 43 percent of privilege into a leasing erated leasing cycle affects Cornell undergraduates contract; always read a huge number of Cornell (approximately 6,189 stu- your contracts, unwitting undergraduates because dents, according to the college students). of the limited amount of Fall 2013 numbers) live Furthermore, the policy

creates a fragmented leasing market, where houses and apartments with 12month leases are snapped up as soon as students return Far Above Cayuga’s Waters, while their 10-month lease counterparts (starting in August) do not go on the market until October.

This creates further housing uncertainty at the precise time when students are reacclimating to the Hill.

Although the City’s requirement of 60 days notice before another lease can be signed is clearly well-intentioned, it only achieves its intended purpose of delaying the Collegetown housing crunch in the case of 10month leases that start in August. There is essentially no effect on leases that begin in June or July.

Therefore, in order to safeguard the interests of the vast number of students who seek off-campus housing in Collegetown, the City should retailor its policy to affect all properties typically leased to college students.

Creating a policy that enforces October (or an even later time) as the month that properties are toured and leases are signed would establish a less frantic leasing marketplace. Granted, there would still be groups of harried Jimmys running to leasing offices, flapping checks in-hand. But they would be Jimmys who had diligently and thoroughly explored their options, had determined who exactly to live with and, ultimately, had experienced less stress through the much more relaxed and fair process.

David Fischer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Calvary Arrives PHOTOS COURTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIGHT

SEAN DOOLITTLE Arts and Entertainment Editor

“Do not despair, one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.”

Those familiar with the musings of St. Augustine or, much more likely, the works of Samuel Beckett, will no doubt recognize the above quote which introduces Calvary.

The quote concerns itself with the two thieves crucified atop Calvary (or Golgotha, what have you) alongside Jesus, one penitent and one impenitent. To St. Augustine, our fates are almost entirely left up to chance, and whether or not we are saved or damned is out of our control; embracing destiny is the only option.

Beckett cited the quote as a major influence in writing the enigmatic Waiting for Godot, the play that kickstarted the “Theatre of the Absurd” movement and put the Irish playwright on the map. In the play, Vladimir and Estragon find themselves hopelessly meandering, searching without reason, for Godot, for purpose, for God, for meaning.

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Caught in a cycle, the characters never achieve anything; The film becomes the cinematic equivalent of Clue, things just happen. with the audience following Father James as he attends to Thus is the ongoing theme of Calvary, John Michael the many members of his church, an outrageous cast of McDonagh’s second directorial outing following 2011’s sociopaths and cynics, each as resentful and full of hatred as The Guard. McDonagh, much like his brother Martin the last. None of these characters are realistic in the slightMcDonagh (writer and director of some of the best black est; everyone is an absurd caricature or stereotype of some comedies of the past decade ever, includsort, from the ing In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and my condescendCalvary personal favorite, The Pillowman) is no ing, numb stranger to the absurd and the tasteless. A Directed by John Michael McDonagh surgeon to the clear lineage can be traced between the banker with Starring Brendan Gleeson, Chris works of the McDonagh brothers and too much their pioneering countryman, Beckett. money, time O’Dowd, Aiden Gillen While Beckett and both McDonagh’s and classic past work have more or less equally balpaintings on anced the humor with the darkness, his hands. To Calvary is often much more gallows than some, this gallows humor. But that isn’t necessarily a comes off as bad thing. cliché or glib, Father James Lavelle (Brendan but the twoGleeson) is the virtuous backbone of a quaint, Irish village. dimensionality of each suspect is a hallmark of Theatre of Or, at least he tries. Now, in the wake of the Absurd. Father James is the only “real” character, facing the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse temptation and doubt at every turn, but reaffirming his scandals of the 1990s and 2000s, not a faith in forgiveness and the members of this parish. single one of Father James’ parishioners Admittedly, the sheer number of characters does detract at seems to appreciate the role of the some points from the narrative’s flow — it would have been Church or religion, though they con- a stronger film with, say, four or five less characters. tinue to more or less respect the priest The plethora of characters is not wasted, however. Each for his good advice. Between his own character has at least one two-hander scene (another playful losing battle with sobriety, his relation- absurdist reference) with Father James, and these sequences ship with his estranged daughter and allows McDonagh’s sharp script to really come to life. Of his failure to keep the town on the particular note is a sardonic monologue about a boy who is straight-and-narrow, Father James turned deaf, mute and blind by an anaesthesiologist, delivkeeps at his vocations, trying to make a ered by Game of Thrones’ Aiden Gillen with his typical difference.

Littlefinger grin. The script only serves to point fingers and That is, until he is delivered an ulti- distance the cast of deranged villains from our hero, but it matum one Sunday during a routine does so with such sour humor that we almost forget to hate confession: “I’m going to kill you, them.

Father,” says a shadowed man, “not These points aside, the film is worth your time and because you’re a bad priest, but because money solely on the monolithic performance of Brendan you’re a good one.” The mans means to Gleeson. Gleeson carries the entire film on his shoulders, murder Father James in appearing in just about every scene at the top of his game. one week’s time as Sure, he isn’t as bombastic as he was in, say, In Bruges or revenge for years of sex- Edge of Tomorrow, but his muted, resigned compassion and ual abuse at the hands ceaseless faith and hope in humanity create one of the most of a different priest, to sincere performances on film this year, all the more surprissend a message of sorts, ing given the absurd caricatures that make up the rest of the a pound of flesh, to the cast. Seriously, Gleeson is good. I’m feeling an Academy Church. Father James Award nomination. recognizes the voice of During a particularly heartwarming scene, Father James his intended killer, but walks along side a lost young girl, searching for her father. refuses to give him up When the pair finally meet up with the frantic father, Father to the authorities, James is implicitly labelled a pedophile. This man — a good choosing to go about man, a holy man — is stripped of all agency to do good. No life as usual: If he is longer can the shepherd guide his flock to salvation on their meant to die, he will own accord. He is left, a relic of the past, coping with a new, meet it with dignity. secular world, forgiving those who want no part of him and Much like the thieves atoning for the sins of others. Maybe we don’t need the atop calvary, he refuses Catholic Church after witnessing the atrocities committed to despair or presume under its watch, but, if Calvary is any indication, the world his fate. He simply lives. definitely needs more men like Father James.

The famous Godot refrain “Nothing to be Sean Doolittle is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com. done” comes to mind.

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Two titans of West Coast music come together for a song on the upcoming You’re Dead! release. One is Flying Lotus, whose 2008 album Cosmogramma changed the instrumental hip hop world in the same vein as DJ Shadow’s Endtroducing… and J Dilla’s Donuts. The other is Kendrick Lamar, who released good kid, mA.A.d city, has exposed the mainstream to finely constructed and narrative hip-hop in the same way Snoop Dogg and Nas did. Do they change the world of hip-hop again? Not particularly. But do they spit fire? Without a doubt. Kendrick loses himself as he raps about contemplations of life and death, looking back to his younger years and the prospect of his corporeal demise. He’s vulnerable in his lyrics, reminding himself “They say that Heaven’s real / Analyze my demise I say I’m super anxious.” And Flying Lotus compliments the heavy and unanswerable subject matter with a beat based in otherworldly funk and a Thundercat baseline line that no mortal can replicate. It all comes together cohesively, though Kendrick’s part feels all too brief, to garner excitement for You’re Dead! And judging by the guest list of this record, like jazz funk legend Herbie Hancock and frequent collaborator Niki Randa, it ought to be a good one.

Flying Lotus ft. Kendrick Lamar “Never Catch Me” Warp Records

Brendan Murphy

Brendan Murphy is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at blm238@cornell.edu.

Danish outfit Iceage is synonymous with chaotic, noisy, anarchistic punk that borders on overt sloppiness. Lead vocalist Elias Bender Rønnenfelt historically wailed and moaned with reckless abandon over slightly off beat, rapid-fire guitars and bass.

“Forever,” a single from Iceage’s upcoming Plowing Through a Field of Love LP, adds a sludgy bass riff and meandering guitars, lending an extra dose of darkness to the band’s already heavy sound. The slower pace gives Rønnenfelt’s raw vocals a new sincerity and passion that was absent from Iceage’s more speedy work. While before they could have best been described as angry and riotous, the vocals on this single instead drip with emotional exhaustion. This lamentation builds to a head with the help of off-kilter strings and horns, a first for the formerly guitar-centric group. Still affably sloppy but significantly more complex, “Forever” continues the trend started by Iceage’s last single, “The Lord’s Favorite,” toward ‘80s-influenced post-punk approached with somber creativity.

Iceage “Forever” Matador Records

Mike Sosnick

Mike Sosnick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornell.edu.

Born to Run Die: Pop Music’s American Roadside

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ven more-so than by Coca-Cola, cherry pie, Hollywood, Little League, Beyonce and Jay-Z’s marriage, the home turf of Mormons, the birthplace of the modern, fucked-up brand of democracy, America is a country that is defined by the idea of the road.

Interstates were Manifest Destiny for the 20th Century and R.V.s were the new American dream. America the Beautiful, meant to be seen and snapshotted, or meant to be wandered across and mourned.

Nabokov’s 1958 novel describes Humbert Humbert and Dolores Haze (Lolita)’s escape across America in vivid detail, and though the scandal of the novel overshadows its predilection with Americana, it takes only a surfacelevel re-read with the shock warn off to see it: We had been everywhere. We had really seen nothing. And I catch myself thinking today that our long journey had only defiled with a sinuous trail of slime the lovely, trustful, dreamy, enormous country, that, by then, in retrospect, was no more than a collection of dog-eared maps, ruined tour books, old tires and her sobs in the night — every night, every night — the moment I feigned sleep.

The American road narrative then, is a narrative of spoil, of the destruction of virgin territory — the commodification of beauty, the scattering of those for whom connection is of the most vital importance. On Born to Die — music and videos, both — Lana Del Rey casts herself as a 21st Century Lolita. Del Rey’s narrative is a 21st Century reading of Lolita and Americana because it as once both more empowered and more disillusioned. Lolita is dubbed a “nymphette” by Humbert Humbert and part of the tragedy of her ruined childhood is his insistence that she ruined it herself, that she seduced him, when we know that hers was an innocence stolen. On Born to Die, Del Rey truly is the nymphette that Humbert describes, willfully seductive and whispering, “I was in the winter of my life, and the men I met along the road were my only summer” — not innocent, but determined.

In the video for “Ride,” Del Rey is part beauty pageant blues-singer, part motorcycling cow-girl and part “self-styled, gangsta Nancy Sinatra.” She croons the chorus mostly while bent over a pinball machine by a leather-ban-

danna-wearing, mustachioed, relic of a man, whose beer belly fills the small of her back. It’s a borderline disgusting image and its play on romanticism is undeniably sickening. But why, exactly?

Perhaps because Del Rey’s American roadside is all beautiful landscape and ugly people — belying the implication that if you’re still seduced by Americana, you’re doing something wrong. Del Rey is begging for something, same as these men — and while what they see in her is their dream woman from 50 years ago, what she sees is a “full-time daddy, hot or cold,” who will let her live her twisted American fantasy without question: “Drink all day and we talk ’til dark, that’s the way the road dogs do it — ride ’til dark.”

In their recent supplement on Del Rey, The New Inquiry writes that they “believe” in her conception of America, “because all that glorious Americana takes its cues from somewhere, right? There exist long stretches of open road flanked by desert and mountain and surf.

There exist giddy poems about the individual, uniquely American spirit.”

The open road is the only thing there is love about America, she seems to say. Well that, and the artists who came before her who under-

penned lyrics that were meant to be the antidote to blind patriotism and the end of misplaced pride, American popular culture has done its work to contort them into poster children for the very thing they despise.

E.g. invited to perform at the Super Bowl, dolled up for the cover of Rolling Stone. “Glory Days” would soundtrack every sports bar in America. “Born in the U.S.A.” is the stuff of the seventh inning stretch.

But in 1982 came Nebraksa and in 2014 came Ultraviolence.

Springsteen’s most artistic and least commercial work was almost exclusively about the uniquely American criminals of the highway — murderers, thieves, desperate blue collar outsiders. Revolving around “The Misfit,” Flannery O’Connor’s All-American serial killer, who targeted a three-generation family in a station wagon as they attempted to take a pilgrimage back to the antebellum South, Springsteen created an accessory to murder whose only defense is “a man turns his back on his family, well he just ain’t no good,” a 19 yearold serial killer (based on the true story of Charles Starkweather) and a lonely nobody who can think of no candidate for his final absolution aside from the state trooper in the other lane. William Ruhlmann called it “one of the most challenging albums ever released by a major star on a major record label.”

In her cover story interview for Rolling Stone, incidentally, Del Rey expresses the doubts she had about recording Ultraviolence, mentioning off-hand that she was only convinced after someone on her production team reassured her — by reminding her that Springsteen had made Born in the U.S.A. for

Guest Room Kaitlyn Tiffany stood as well as she. On top of the Lolita embodiment, Del Rey expresses admiration of the classic American musical talents — Elvis, Cash, Cobain, Springsteen. She begins “American,” with, “Springsteen is the king don’t you think, I was like, hell yes, that guy can sing,” and delivers a tongue-in-cheek-patriotism chorus that the Boss would be proud of: “Be young, be dope, be proud. Like an American.” I mean, if that’s not the 2012 version of “I’m a cool rocking daddy in the U.S.A.,” then I don’t know what is.

And while Del Rey and Springsteen both

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the radio and then made Nebraska for himself (they got the chronology wrong, but no matter, the speech did its job I guess).

Ultraviolence is the same album as Born to Die … only better. The faceless Springsteenpep-talk is palpable in a collection of 11 songs that takes Del Rey’s dreamily sardonic portrait of America and ups the ante by confessing her desire that it all be real. “You are invincible,” she sings to no American in particular, “I can’t break through your world ‘cause you live in shades of cool … I’m one of many bonnies blue.” Ultraviolence does for suburbia what Born to Die did for the highway — pulls classic imagery and twists it into tragic, sexy, simulacra. Instead of “I’ve got a war in my mind ...

I’m tired of feeling like I’m fucking crazy,” Del Rey leans into it: “Get a little bit of bourbon in ya, get a little suburban and go crazy … You’re fucking crazy.” You are.

To me, the album reads like a clarification as loud and brash as Nebraska — it wasn’t the landscapes that made America beautiful to Del Rey, it was its “fucking crazy” freedom and the uniquely repulsive and seductive nature of life here— on our roads and among our people.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs Tuesdays this semester.

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Sabres owners, Donald Trump among names ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — At least three ownership groups, including Buffalo Sabres owners Terry and Kim Pegula, submitted formal bids to buy the Buffalo Bills on Monday.

A prospective candidate could be identified by the end of the week.

Four people familiar with discussions revealed that information to The Associated Press. They spoke on the condition of anonymity because the sale is being conducted privately.

The other groups submitting bids were led by New York City real estate mogul Donald Trump, and a Toronto group led by rocker Jon Bon Jovi. The bids were submitted to Morgan Stanley, the banking firm overseeing the sale process on behalf of late owner Ralph Wilson’s estate.

Three of the people said the estate issued purchase agreements to at least four groups, and potentially five. The other groups’ identities are not known, and it’s unclear if they submitted bids.

The purchase agreements are formal documents that are negotiated separately by each of the parties and Proskauer Rose, the legal firm representing the estate. The agreements are binding documents that outline the terms and conditions of the sale.

Once those agreements were completed over the past week, the only outstanding question left was for each group to determine its bid price.

The franchise was last valued by Forbes to be worth $935 million.

But the sale price is expected to exceed $1 billion because NFL franchises rarely go on the block.

The Bills are on the market after Wilson, the Hall of Fame inductee and franchise founder, died in March.The Cleveland Browns were sold for close to $1.05 billion two years ago. The Miami Dolphins sold for an NFL-record $1.1 billion in 2009, but their deal also included their stadium.

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On the run | New York Jets running back Chris Johnson breaks through the Oakland defense during Sunday’s win over the Raiders.

Despite Win, Jets Remain Disappointed With Play FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — The New York Jets were not really in the mood to celebrate their season-opening win over the Oakland Raiders.

Sure, Rex Ryan was happy to be 1-0 and saw some positives. He also knows the Jets should’ve cruised instead of holding on for a 19-14 victory Sunday.

“There are a lot of things that we need to get better at,” Ryan said Monday. “You’re in a great spot, especially when you’re coming off a victory that if we get these things cleared up, how much better it could’ve been and not leaving ourselves vulnerable like that.”

The Jets were called for 11 penalties, quarterback Geno Smith had two turnovers and there were handful of missed opportunities.

Those mistakes stuck out in what should have been an easy win, particularly when the Jets outgained the Raiders 402-158, including outrushing them 212-

25. New York also held the ball for nearly 10 minutes more than Oakland.

“Quite honestly, you watch the tape, we dominated the game,” Ryan said. “I mean, it’s almost 3to-1 in yardage, dominated up front and I think that’s where it started. The quarterback, there are so many positive things when I look at Geno.”

That’s why it was a bit frustrating to the Jets that they allowed the Raiders to stick around. If not for Greg Salas recovering an onside kick with 1:21 left, Oakland would have had a chance for a last-minute winning score.

That would have brought about lots of doomsday remarks, especially with Aaron Rodgers and the Green Bay Packers up next and coming off a loss to Seattle.

Next Sunday’s road game kicks off a particularly rough stretch in which the Jets take on some highpowered offenses, including Chicago, Detroit, San Diego, Denver and New England.

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Rowland Earns Spot on All-Tournament Team VOLLEYBALL

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goals for this season is to win every game that goes to five sets and we were proud to accomplish that. That game ignited a fire and we’re ready to take on the rest of our season.”

While not necessarily the team’s best volleyball of the weekend, Batie-Smoose is still proud of her players’ tenacity.

“It was not the best volleyball match to watch but we finished strong and at this point in the season that

is all that matters,” she said.

The team looks to refine its skills as it moves ahead, especially in the area of defense and blocking. Wilson, whose main responsibility on the court is hitting and blocking in the front row, acknowledged that blocking was an area of weakness that the team definitely seeks to improve.

While the team looks to progress collectively after this weekend’s tournament, one Red player individually had a strong weekend and earned her place on the alltournament team. Rowland, who strictly plays in the back as a defensive specialist (libero), was able to earn

Cilic Wins U.S. Open Over Nishikori “Both of us were pretty nervous in the first set, NEW YORK (AP) — Unable to play in the U.S. Open a year ago because of a doping suspension, especially,” Cilic acknowledged. “When we got ourselves going, it was a bit better.”

Marin Cilic is now the tournament’s champion.

Nishikori stunned No. 1 Novak Djokovic in the Croatia’s Cilic won his first Grand Slam title by beating Japan’s Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-3, 6-3 on semifinals, and this was the first Grand Slam final since the 2005 Australian Open Monday at Flushing Meadows, without Djokovic, Federer or using 17 aces — including four Rafael Nadal, who won the U.S. in one game — and the same “Both of us were pretty Open in 2013 but is sidelined powerful groundstrokes that nervous in the first set, now by a wrist injury. That trio helped him eliminate Roger especially.” had won 34 of the past 38 major Federer in the semifinals. titles, but this was the second of “This is (from) all the hard Marin Cilic this season that eluded them. work in these last several years — Some, including Cilic, had and especially this last year,” Cilic said during the on-court ceremony, when he seen Stan Wawrinka’s victory at the Australian Open kissed his silver trophy and collected a check for $3 in January as an indication that the next tier was about to get a crack at the hardware. million.

Twelve months ago, Cilic missed the U.S. Open The 14th-seeded Cilic prevented the 10th-seeded Nishikori from becoming the first man from Asia to while serving a four-month ban after testing positive for a stimulant at a tournament in Germany in May win a major singles championship.

“Sorry I couldn’t get a trophy today,” Nishikori 2013. The International Tennis Federation initially sought a two-year punishment, but Cilic wound up said, “but for sure, next time.”

There hadn’t been a matchup between players with a shortened suspension on appeal. He said he making their Grand Slam final debuts at the U.S. ingested the substance unintentionally via a glucose Open since 1997. Lopsided and lasting less than two tablet bought at a pharmacy and calls the process that led to his penalty unfair. hours, this hardly qualified as a classic.

New England at Bottom Of AFC East, For Now NEW YORK (AP) — Yes, the NFL tends to mess with your mind. So here’s something football fans haven’t seen in a long time: New England alone at the bottom of the AFC East standings.

Don’t count on it lasting much longer.

To say the Patriots have owned the division for a dozen or so years is to undervalue the achievements

by Tom Brady and company.

They have crushed the Dolphins, Jets and Bills pretty much since Brady stepped behind center early in the 2001 season. A season that concluded with the first of three Super Bowl titles in four years, incidentally.

With the exception of struggling in its trips to Miami (6-7 in games Brady has played, including Sunday’s defeat), New England has been in another galaxy from the rest of the East.

It is 16-9 overall against the Dolphins since 2001 — excluding 2007, when Brady was injured — 17-6 vs. the Jets (plus 1-1 in the playoffs), and an almost unfathomable 22-2 against Buffalo.

While it’s unwise to overreact to anything other than key injuries that occur in Week 1, that’s particularly true in the case of the Patriots. What’s a bit unsettling is that Brady sounded a lot like a panicky fan after the 33-20 loss.

“You can’t play the way we played today and think we’ll win a

game this season,” he said.

“There’s nothing that’s positive to really take from it. The things that we were doing, I think this is a good way and a good example of if we do the things that we did today, you'll get beat.”

True. But also true is how effective the Patriots are at fixing their ills. Bill Belichick isn’t the longest-tenured coach in the NFL because of his fashion sense or his chattiness.

Although the Patriots have been at the center of some troubling issues away from the field — Aaron Hernandez’s murder case and the videotaping scandal that drew huge fines in 2007 — their performance between the sidelines generally has been impeccable.

Concentrating on how they have not won a Super Bowl since the 2004 season also ignores the fact they have gone to two more since then, including an unbeaten regular season before losing to the Giants in early 2008.

Since beating the Eagles for that third crown, New England has gone 110-34 in the regular season — including 11-5 in 2008 behind Matt Cassel, a record not good enough to make the postseason. They won the AFC East in all but 2008.

They also are 9-8 in the playoffs in that span, which doesn’t sound so great. But how many franchises wouldn’t take playing in 17 postseason games over the past nine seasons?

25 digs during the Red’s game against Rutgers, which moved her career total up to 930 digs. The senior now holds a place in the top-10 for Cornell volleyball in this statistic. While Rowland is excited about her personal victory, she is also proud of her team.

“It feels really nice to be recognized for my efforts, but I think everyone on the team worked really hard and did some great things this weekend,” she said.

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Red Crushes Colgate,Drops Game to Albany

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

The field hockey team split a pair during its opening weekend games, starting the season with a convincing 90 victory over Colgate in Hamilton before falling to

Albany, 2-1, in a close competition on Marsha Dodson Field. The victory over Colgate tied the school team record for Red goals in a game, which had previously been set in 2006 against Saint Francis and again in 2008 against Bryant.

In the shutout against Colgate, 10 Cornell players

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Margin of victory | The Red’s 9-0 win over Colgate tied the team’s existing record for goals in a game. Seven different players tallied during the match, while 10 recorded points.

received points while seven players scored. Junior Marisa Siergiej and sophomore Elizabeth Horak each had two goals, while freshmen Gabby DePetro, Krysten Mayers and Katie Carison and juniors Katie Garrity and Stephanie Eggertson each tallied one goal on the day.

DePetro, Garrity, senior Ann DiPastina, junior Taylor Standiford and freshman Isabel Josephs each had at least one assist.

“I think our strengths are in our passing game and our ability to transfer the ball quickly and attack up the wings,” DePetro said.

The Red defense also contributed to the victory, only allowing one shot in the second half, saved by freshman Kelly Johnson.

“I think our work ethic and our technical skill and discipline [set] us apart from the Colgate team,” DePetro said.

Following this impressive showing, the Red geared up for the home opener versus Albany, in the end narrowly falling to the evenly matched competitor after taking an early lead.

The faceoff was incredibly close, with Cornell edging Albany in shots (13-12) and corners (9-7), while Albany recorded more saves (6-5).

The Red jumped to an early lead in the sixth minute, courtesy of Siergiej off of a penalty corner. Albany equalized in the 16th minute, again off of a penalty. With just over three minutes left in the game, Albany scored a final goal to secure the win.

A yellow card in the final minutes had Albany one player down, and Cornell earned two penalty corners to equalized; Albany keeper Maxi Primus, however, made the final two saves to hold off the Red. The Red will continue its season at Lehigh on Sept. 12 and on Sept. 14 against No.18 Delaware.

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun.com.

Rice’s Actions Point Red Heads Into Home Tournament To Flaws of System Event will be first home tournament program has hosted in 19 years W. SOCCER

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football.

Even more upsetting is the report by the Huffington Post that revealed that the same judge and prosecutor who granted Ray Rice access to the pre-trial program are prosecuting a single mother from Philadelphia who “carried a gun into New Jersey without realizing her permit didn’t apply there.” So, the football

It certainly appears that way.

The point is, Roger Goodell is not at fault for originally imposing a lenient punishment on Ray Rice, but the legal system — the aforementioned judge and prosecutor — are to blame.

Goodell simply issued a punishment consistent with prior domestic violence issues in the league. Had Rice received, say, two years in jail for the matter, Goodell wouldn’t have had to punish Rice

Roger Goodell is not at fault for originally imposing a lenient punishment on Ray Rice, but the legal system — and the aforementioned judge and prosecutor — are to blame. star who clocked his fiancée avoids any serious legal problems, but a single mother of two was offered a plea deal that she declined, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer, because the deal “…would have given her a 3.5 year sentence,” and instead “…decided to go to trial in October, hoping a jury would use some common sense and not send a working mother of two to prison for not knowing New Jersey’s gun laws.” And by the way, this occurred after the judge refused to accept her into the same first-time offender program that Rice was placed in. Superstar treatment for the NFL superstar?

whatsoever, or at least until he was released from incarceration. Unfortunately, the legal system is quite flawed. It is up to people like Superior Court Judge Michael Donio and New Jersey D.A. Jim McClain to implement fair punishments for all criminals, no matter the status of the individual.

When comparing the cases of NFL running back Ray Rice and single mother of two Shaneen Allen, it appears that the legal system isn’t as fair as we’d like it to be.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@ cornellsun.com.

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play,” Zaidel said. “We had to travel almost the entire day, making playing harder.”

This showed as both teams struggled to find their feet in the first half, with only one shot going on target from either team; in the 34th minute freshman Meera Dheer found the target but the shot was saved. Despite this sluggish start, the Red hit its stride in the second half, with sophomore Meera Marhoefer and Growney both forcing the Marist keeper into fine saves.

Shortly after, the deadlock was broken as freshman forward Paige DeLoach sent the ball high into the net in the 59th minute.

weekend at home when it hosts the Cornell Classic at Berman field. The four-team tournament is the first home tournament the Red has hosted in 19 years. The two opponents Cornell will face are the Virginia

Military Institute, who it plays on Friday, and Temple University, who it will face on Sunday.

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

“Going into our home tournament, we definitely need to work on our speed of play.”

Kailey Joyce The win meant Cornell finished its opening weekend with consecutive clean sheets for the first time since 2005.

Despite the wins, there is much that the Red can improve on, according to Joyce.

“Going into our home tournament this weekend, we definitely need to work on our speed of play,” said Joyce. “Teams can always improve the speed of play and with more game experience and this week of practice will definitely help ours.”

Cornell is back in action this

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Shutout start | Cornell’s back-to-back shutouts to open the season were the first time the Red has started with two clean sheets in nine years.

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Red Earns One Weekend Win

Spikers top Siena, fall to other three opponents

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This past weekend, the volleyball team began its season with a little bit of a disappointing start. The Red faced four teams in the Seton Hall tournament, including hosts Seton Hall, Siena College, Rutgers and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, but were only able to snag one win against Siena.

With a crop of new Cornell players stepping onto the court for the first time, the team took this weekend as an opportunity to settle itself back into the game and feel out the team dynamic in an actual game setting. Sophomore middle hitter Macey Wilson acknowledged that while the team started off on shaky ground, this weekend served as a learning experience.

“Since this was our first time playing together, one of the biggest things that we will take away from this weekend is the chemistry and growth that we were able to have over the course of our four matches,” she said.

Head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose is optimistic that the team will continue to improve throughout the season, despite some disappointing matches this weekend.

“We are very young and will get better with that every week as the team gets used to playing together and playing at this level,” she said.

Senior libero Natasha Rowland echoed this sentiment.

“Of course there is always a lot of nerves during the first match, but we continued to improve all weekend and it feels really good to have some matches under our belt,” she said.

Even in the midst of opening weekend jitters, however, the Red was still able to earn a win against Siena. The Red fought hard through a five-set match and ultimately was able to pull out a win late in the game. This victory was

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Five-set fight | After taking the first game against Siena, the Red lost the next two but won the final two games for a five-set victory. especially exciting since the overall win hinged on the final fifth set. Sophomore setter Alyssa Phelps mentioned this success as a motivational force moving forward.

“Our five set win against Siena was a huge victory for us. We knew we could put up a fight and it was really exciting to win our first match together,” she said. “One of our See VOLLEYBALL page 13

WOMEN’S SOCCER

C.U.Opens With Two CloseVictories Red scores in overtime for dramatic win in season-opening match

By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

The women’s soccer team got its season off to a perfect start, recording victories over the University of Massachusetts and Marist College.

The season started on Friday away at Massachusetts, with the Red scoring in the 110th minute to win 1-0. Two days later, Cornell travelled again to Marist, once more winning 1-0.

“Winning both of our first two

games and both away is a big step for our team,” sophomore defender Kailey Joyce said. “It puts us in a good place in preparation for our season and gives us a lot of confidence.”

The opening half of the game against Massachusetts was a tense affair, with Cornell taking time to get up to speed while UMass dominated territory. Massachusetts built on this advantage in the second half, coming close to scoring from a corner in the

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One and done | One goal was all the team needed in each of its games, as the defense posted back-to-back shutouts to help the squad to two 1-0 wins.

last fifteen minutes. Sophomore keeper Kelsey Tierney, who made six

“We pushed through to the last minute.”

Morgan Zaidel total saves for a third career shutout, held out to send the game to overtime.

“It was their fifth game and our first,” junior defenseman and midfielder Morgan Zaidel said. “But we did not give up at the end. We pushed through to the last minute.”

Cornell’s never-let-die spirit showed through right to the end as junior forward Caroline Growney scored in the 110th minute, giving the Red its eighth all-time win over UMass and its second debut win in as many years.

The Red built on this win going into Sunday’s match against Marist, producing a solid defensive performance where goalie Tiernay only needed to make one save.

“On Sunday we had to get up really early and travel to Marist to See W. SOCCER page 15

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Reflecting on Rice, The League and the Flawed Legal System The Baltimore Ravens released star running back Ray Rice yesterday. The NFL dropped a second hammer on the 27-year-old by changing the length of his suspension from the two games that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell originally handed him to “indefinitely.” Rice’s professional football career is now in serious jeopardy.

The shocking news stems from a February domestic violence incident at an Atlantic City casino involving Rice and his then-fiancée Janay Palmer. The altercation resulted in the arrests of both Rice and Palmer, and, a month later, the indictment of Rice on third-degree aggravated assault. Goodell suspended Rice for just two games, a decision that received harsh criticism. Some even called for Goodell’s resignation. Outside of football, Rice, who originally faced what could have been a three to five year jail sentence, got off the hook. A New Jersey judge placed Rice in a pre-trial intervention program for first-time offenders, and the Ravens star avoided incarceration.

But despite backlash surrounding Goodell’s decision, the matter seemed to have ended. Rice was to miss two regular season games and participate in an intervention program, and that was that. At training camp, Ravens’ fans greeted Rice with a standing ovation. It appeared as though many had forgiven — or at least put aside — his off-field issues. That is, until yesterday.

TMZ, the website that had originally posted a video

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz of Rice dragging his fiancée’s body out of the casino elevator, released more footage today — footage that very well may have put the nail in the coffin in regards to Rice’s NFL career. The revealing video shows Rice punching Palmer, knocking her out cold, and then dragging her motionless body out of the elevator. You have to see it to believe it. And that was the case for the NFL. The league claimed not to have seen the footage until its release today. Upon seeing the video, both the Ravens and the league took to action: the Ravens cut Rice, and the NFL suspended him indefinitely.

The whole situation seems fishy. It seems improbable that TMZ could obtain footage from the casino elevator, but that the NFL Commissioner could not. And while many are pleased with yesterday’s decisions, why only after seeing the video were these punishments handed down? Seeing it as opposed to hearing it certainly makes a difference, and that was proved today by Rice’s release and his indefinite suspension.

But there is one overarching issue that remains, one that takes precedence over all parts of the story: Ray Rice was able to commit domestic assault with hardly any legal consequences. Again, did the judge and prosecutor fail to obtain the damaging footage from the elevator that TMZ, of all sources, was able to acquire? It makes no sense. Such revealing evidence related to a criminal procedure would surely be handed to the court, right? And if the court did in fact see the video, then why in the world was Rice accepted into a program that enables the accused to avoid trial? It couldn’t possibly because of Rice’s celebrity status, could it?

Heck, Plaxico Burress served two years of incarceration for accidentally shooting himself in a nightclub. If Ray Rice had been sentenced to time in prison, Goodell would never have had to discipline Rice at all — at least for a long time — because he would not have had the See SHATZMAN page 15