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demands to Kent Hubbell ’69, dean of students. The demands included calls to form an “anti-racist joint task force,” require “all faculty and staff to undergo ongoing anti-oppression and social justice trainings” and “take responsibility to end racism and stop putting this responsibility on students.” Although some students criticized the University for what they saw as its inadequate response, Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president of student and academic services, also stressed the importance of dialogue, saying it would be helpful to know which students administra-
Amid a rise in living costs in Tompkins County, Cornell employees received between a three to 3.5-percent raise for the last three years of their new four-year contract, which was approved this summer. All employees also received a wage increase of 46 cents per hour during the first year of the new contract, according to Jack Kaminsky, presi“We do not even have dent of the UAW Local enough of a raise [to 2300. Meanwhile, the wage match the] cost of living.” a full-time worker in the Pattie Gordinier county had to earn in 2011 to afford the cost of living — $11.67 per hour — rose five percent from 2010, according to the Alternatives Federal Credit Union. The University and the United Auto Workers Local 2300 — the union that represents the majority of Cornell employees — settled a tentative agreement on June 29, a day before the previous employee contract expired, according to Alan Mittman ’71, director of the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations. Employees in the two lowest wage rates received slightly higher wage increases by percentage, Mittman said, to reflect the fact that they are on “the lowest edge of the wage scale.” Despite the raises, Pattie Gordinier, lead coordinator of facilities services in Cascadilla Hall, said the new contract does not increases wages “nearly enough” to meet employees’
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Marching for change | Cornell and Ithaca College students, as well as Ithaca residents, march from the Sigma Pi fraternity to Day Hall on May 16 to demand the University to take responsibility to end racism.
Univ.Defends Response to Racial Attack
Administrators say Cornell must focus on issues, not ‘debate of words’ By JINJOO LEE Sun Senior Writer
Although some students say the University has not addressed the demands made following a racial attack that occurred on campus in the spring, some administrators said they have found it difficult to do so because the protesters’ list of demands was unsigned. On May 6, an individual unaffiliated with the University threw beer cans and hurled epithets at black students passing by the Sigma Pi fraternity. Following the attack, outraged protesters marched from the fraternity to Day Hall on May 17, presenting a list of 11
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A new Cornell Outdoor Education course will provide leadership training to members of the Greek system. | Page 3
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Barebones Living
The Sun sits down with Adriana Wong ’14, who led a simple lifestyle working in a rural Indian village this summer. | Page 3
Opinion Better Together
Nikhita Parandekhar grad describes the best way to work in groups. | Page 7
Arts Marked for Failure
Patricia Kim ’14 pans the recently-released film Branded. | Page 10
Sports High Hopes
The Big Red football team hopes to prove victorious in this weekend’s football game against Fordham University. | Page 16
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Grad School Appoints New Asst.Dean of Student Life Cornell’s Graduate School announced Thursday that Janna Lamey will serve as its next assistant dean of student life. Lamey –– currently a manager of the Graduate Education Program at the College of Veterinary Medicine –– will start serving in her new position on Oct. 8, according to Barbara Knuth, vice provost and dean of the graduate school. As assistant dean, Lamey will focus on “the big picture of student well-being,” according to Jan Allen, associate dean for academic and student affairs. Lamey’s position has been restructured in light of increased efforts over the past several years to “provide topquality graduate and professional student services,” Allen said. Lamey will delve into issues — such as fostering a sense of graduate community, promoting social-academic
balance and aiding stress management — more rigorously than assistant deans have been called to in the past. “While the Graduate School focuses primarily on the academic experiences and academic life of the graduate students here, we recognize the importance of all the areas of a graduate student’s life and experience, whether that’s social or cultural,” Allen said. Along with being responsible for programming activities and events, launching initiatives and serving as a liaison during crisis, Lamey will also be involved in determining the needs of graduate and professional students and obtaining feedback from them on programs already in place. “For the first bit, I’m planning on taking some time and really diving into meeting with graduate students and professional students and finding out what their issues are,” Lamey said. According to Lamey, meetSee DEAN page 4
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Students protest the practice of removing sharks’ fins Thursday by dressing up the statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad in snorkeling gear.
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News, “Provost Approves Divisive Calendar,” Thursday
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Speaking about the algorithm used to create the new academic calendar “The algorithm is brought up as a solution to a lot of problems. It’s brought up as a way to reduce the stress that students have. The problem is that the algorithm doesn’t take into account things like papers and projects where you’re not in the system, and that’s a serious concern.” Geoffrey Block ’14, at-large representative for the Student Assembly
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News, “New York State Official: Landlords, Students Must Be ‘Reasonable People’,” Wednesday Speaking about the rights and obligations of tenants and landlords “All terms are negotiable … Just cross out a section and change it if it’s different for your particular circumstance.” Michael Danaher, assistant attorney general of New York State Opinion, “Eyes on the Street: The Importance of Civic Responsibility,” Monday
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Speaking about the community’s responsibility in light of the recent sexual crimes on campus “If we all conducted our lives with a sense of responsibility to the place in which we live and the people we live with, perhaps our communities would be stronger. Especially in the ever-transient world of college, fostering a stronger civic responsibility to people who live within a space could be transformative.” Katerina Athanasiou ’13
Opinion, “The Novelty of Romance,” Thursday
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Speaking about the role of romance in college relationships “I think Cornell lacks romance, and I’m not even going to prescribe that we all romance it up a little bit. … We might be happier with a little more romance, but I think we’ve all resigned ourselves to wait for the ‘real world’ where everyone is nicer.” Morgan Bookheimer ’13
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‘Eye-Opening’ Outdoor Education Class Will Train Leaders in Greek System
By SARAH CUTLER Sun Contributor
As the Greek community continues its efforts to address President David Skorton’s mandate to end “pledging as we know it,” Cornell Outdoor Education is offering a new course this year to train Greek students to be effective leaders. The “Cornell Student Leadership Academy: The Fraternity and Sorority Experience” — also referred to as the Greek Leadership Academy — seeks to train officers of Greek chapters in a variety of skills to “help them make tough decisions,” said Amy Kohut, program head and director of the Cornell Team and Leadership Center. It will also help them “create a positive environment for new members,” said COE Executive Director Todd Miner. According to Miner, although COE has worked with the Greek system in the past, previous programs focused primarily on training new members. The Greek Leadership Academy will instead emphasize educating officers of Greek chapters, he said. “In the past, we’ve worked with new members, but then it was several years before they were their chapters’ leaders, so we lost some of the impact,” Miner said. “This will get the Greek community to where it should be and where it will be.” COE ran a pilot of the course in 2011, which was met with positive feedback from the 28 students from 14 different organizations who participated, Kohut said. Students can earn one physical education credit for participating in the first semester of this year’s course, which will officially launch Oct. 15. During the fall semester of the program, students will attend weekly three-hour meetings in which they will explore topics such as group dynamics, culture and power, according to Kohut. A professional leadership coach will also provide participants with oneon-one coaching, she said. During the second half of the program in the spring, participating officers will be given the option of taking their chapter’s new members to the Hoffman Challenge Course — a Cornell-owned ropes course — for team-building activities. “COE is an outdoor education program, but it’s also very heavy on experiential learning,” Kohut said. “We try to highly impact a couple of people in the
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hopes that they’ll impact many.” Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D ’94, vice president of student and academic services, said that the University financed last year’s pilot program in full and covered 75 percent of the cost this year. Participating Greek chapters covered the remaining costs of the program. Interfraternity Council President Chris Sanders ’13 said that changes to the Greek system over the last year increased the need for the University to improve education for chapter officers. “The program helps student leaders deal with change to the Greek system. There was need for more robust training,” Sanders said. “This program will arm chapter leaders with more knowledge, and members will get to know each other better. They’ll have a network of people going through the same situation that they know they can rely on.” Greek students leaders involved in the Leadership Academy expressed satisfaction with last year’s pilot, as well as optimism over the course’s ability to educate chapter officers as they enter the new member recruitment period in January. Luke Grosvenor ’14, president of the Sigma Chi fraternity, spoke highly of his experience in the pilot program. He said he has urged other members of his chapter to take the course this year. “I think this program will supplement Greek leaders’ skills, but also will change them entirely,” Grosvenor said. “A lot of Greek leaders start without a lot of experience. I learned a lot of stuff [in the program] I had never thought of before. It was really eye-opening in some ways.” Tom Hirschfeld ’13, a member of the Delta Phi fraternity who was involved in the creation of the new course, said that despite its small size, he believes the program is a step in the right direction toward solving key problems with Greek student leadership. “The big problem with Greek leadership is that it’s focused on execution, not on leadership development,” Hirschfeld said. “Cornell doesn’t do a great job training leaders; it just gives people leadership positions. [Leadership Academy] is a small program in the grand scheme of things, but we’re providing leaders with the tools they need.”
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Members of Design Connect, a group that works on architecture projects in the community, recruit students to join their organization.
Students dressed up in their best business wear to interact with potential employers at the Career Fair on Tuesday and Wednesday. If you had the resume, smarts and contacts to land your dream job, what would it be? “Ice-cream-taster by day, mattress-tester by night.” — Sloth ’14 “A butterfly ... or unicorn.”
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Students’ Stories ‘Toilets ....who needs those?’ pre-med says after summer in rural Indian health center By LEAH JARRETT Sun Contributor
This article is part of students’ stories, a series profiling students across campus. This summer, Adriana Wong ’14 traveled a few thousand miles from her home of Los Angeles, Ca., to Kenchanahalli, India — spending eight weeks in the rural village working at a primary health care center. Wong, a pre-med student majoring in Spanish with a minor in global health, has been a member of the Cornell University Emergency Medical Service since her freshman year. Her interest in medicine led her this summer to the Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement Program, a program in which student volunteers work to improve the quality of health care in rural areas of India. Wong spent her first two weeks in India in the city of
“Depending on the day, we Mysore, taking classes with 18 other Cornell students on gender would go on mobile clinic rides studies, issues in women’s health in the tribal communities in the and Indian history and culture. forest,” Wong said. “Many of Afterward, students relocated to these indigenous communities begin working at individual have not been touched by civihealth centers in the state of lization until 20 years ago. As a result, they are untouched by Karnataka. Wong’s placement was in the influences of colonialism and village of Kenchanahalli, where depict a very different [picture] of what we think she was assigned to Indian life should general practice for be.” ayurveda medicine, Wong said that, or traditional Indian throughout the medicine. summer, she saw A typical day in how important it is the village was like a to bring medicine to “9-5 job,” Wong remote villages, said. “We would where people might wake up for mornWONG ’14 not otherwise be ing yoga each day and a bowl of sweet or savory able to access necessary care. “The tribal communities rice. Our offices were surroundmaintain traditional forms of ed by farm-land and wildlife.” As part of her job, Wong medicine, and are not enthusiasshadowed traveling doctors who tic about seeking medical help practiced ayurvedic and allopath- when they need it,” Wong said. ic medicine, a method of treating “That is why the mobile clinic disease with remedies that treat rides are so important. It brings or suppress particular symptoms. doctors and hospitals to them.”
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Working with the tribal communities, Wong said, also made her realize the importance of being open-minded when working with patients who want to use alternative forms of medicine. She said she was inspired by the doctors with whom she worked, especially Dr. Bindu Balasubramaniam, who practices obstetrics and gynecology. “Dr. Bindu taught me that doctors do much more than just curative work,” Wong said. “They can establish social change by educating their patients and encouraging families to get involved in their health care.” Wong said living in India initially proved to be an adjustment. “At first, it was hard to get used to such a slow and stressfree pace of life, but then I realized that it is easy to live without the things that you need,” she said. “Toilets … who needs those?” She also said her experience showed her a simpler way of liv-
ing. “I love the bucket shower. Did you know the average 10minute shower uses 50 gallons of water, but a bucket shower uses two gallons?” Wong said. For Wong, returning back to the United States was “a shock.” “I built relationships with the doctors and immersed myself in a lifestyle abroad,” she said. “We lived on the grounds, so every night I would go over to the doctor’s family for dinner, cook traditional meals and play with their daughter.” Through Facebook, Wong said she has stayed in touch with the doctors she met in Kenchanahalli. She said she hopes to return to India in the future. “To be a practicing doctor in the United States, you need to have some kind of foreign perspective to accept other attitudes about medicine,” she said. Leah Jarrett can be reached at lyj2@cornell.edu.
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ing individually with students and faculty for feedback will be an ongoing and important aspect of her position. “It will be almost constant engagement with graduate students,” Allen said. Lamey has ten years of experience working with graduate students at Cornell. Before she came to the University, she also worked with professional students in the Family Medicine Residency Program at East Carolina University in Greenville, N.C. Lamey said her favorite part of the job “is working with the students, to be honest with you.” “It’s been really an honor to get to know them and to be able to help them along the way,” she said. Lamey is a “jack of all trades” in her current position but, as assistant dean of student life, she will have the opportunity to “hone in on student activities and life,” she said. Lamey said she will partner with other offices on
campus in order to create a “culture and environment that supports graduate and professional students.” Mitch Paine, president of the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, expressed enthusiasm about Lamey’s appointment. As the GPSA continues to look strategically at issues that affect graduate students across campus, Paine said that “we really want to work with the Graduate School.” Paine added that the new hires of Lamey, as well as Allen, will help set a direction for collaboration between the GPSA and the Graduate School. He said that he is “very excited” to work with a full staff at the Graduate School. Lamey, too, shared her “personal enthusiasm” for the future. “I’m really committed to making this a better place for all,” Lamey said. “I’m looking forward to it. It’ll be a nice challenge.” Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun.com.
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needs. “I don’t believe that they gave us enough,” she said. “We do not even have enough of a raise [to match the] cost of living.” Given the recession’s impact on Cornell employees, Kaminsky said wage increases were “probably the number one concern” for the union. “During the last contract, the University was experiencing hardship due to the market collapse,” Kaminsky said. “We wanted to make some ground on the wages, which we did.” Although the union negotiated wage increases, Gordinier said that they are not sufficient. They are an important factor in why she does not support the terms of the new contract, she said. Kaminsky, however, said that “in general, the bargaining unit members were pretty happy about the contract, as the vote to ratify has shown.” Still, the contract guarantees the University that employees will not strike, which is “different from other contracts” negotiated by unions across the globe, according to Greg Halkiopoulos, an employee at the Amit Bhatia Libe Cafe. “My opinion about the whole contract is very negative,” he said. “Here, the workers are not allowed to strike.” Another change resulting from the negotiations is that the University has extended its employees’ contracts, which will last four years instead of the three it previously covered. Kaminsky said employees’ contracts were extended to try to provide them more job security. “With not knowing what’s going on with the economy and the country, we were looking for a bit of a longer contract just for security,” Kaminsky said. Mittman said that throughout the negotiations for the new contract, negotiators also discussed career development and increased workload –– issues that many employees addressed in a University-wide survey in 2011. “We talked a lot about [career development] and we reemphasized the University’s commitment to the
[Community Learning and Service Partnership] program,” Mittman said, referring to a University program that helps employees learn English, acquire computer skills and prepare to pass the GED test. A sub-council representing employees of the School of Hotel Administration also raised concerns about fair workloads, Mittman said. “[The negotiations] included some work on the room assignments for housekeepers [at the Statler Hotel] in order to try to make that as reasonable as possible given the business requirements,” he said. Additionally, negotiators agreed to give priority to former employees applying to new positions at the University after taking a leave of absence for a short-term disability. Whereas previously, if an employee had to take a leave for more than six months, he or she would lose his or her job, under the new contract, the University will give special consideration to such employees re-applying for jobs, Kaminsky said. “What the University and the UAW agreed to was that people who lose their positions in that way would be able to apply to the University, and based on their past work record … be considered higher than someone who has had no work experience at Cornell,” Kaminsky said. Although the University and the UAW settled several issues throughout the negotiations, the parties decided to postpone deciding how to fairly handle summer employment for Cornell employees — some of whom, Kaminsky said, are laid off when there are fewer jobs in the summer and winter. Overall, Kaminsky and Mittman agreed that the negotiations were “smooth” and “in good faith.” “We came to a fair and equitable agreement after good faith bargaining that agreed upon by the University and the membership,” Mittman said. But according to Halkiopoulos, the contract is “too employer-friendly.” Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.
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tors should be responding to. “If I read the list of demands, I can see what they [the demands] are, but it’s tough to know who you’re working with,” Murphy said. But Anna-Lisa Castle ’13 –– workshop co-chair for the Women of Color Conference, which discusses issues of gender and race –– said the list of demands was intentionally left anonymous “because it was a collective effort.” “We were clear about what we wanted and the people who were there the day of the demonstration were not anonymous, by any means. We were unanimous,” Castle said. Furthermore, in the wake of two reported sexual assaults and two bias incidents that have occurred on campus since the incident at Sigma Pi, student leaders said administrators have failed to respond to any of their demands. Ashley Harrington ’13, an advisory board member for the Women’s Resource Center, said in an email that the University’s response was reactive, not proactive. “Unfortunately, it has become quite clear that the administration takes reactive measures to save face after bias incidents occur,” she said, referring to the various campus-wide discussions organized by the University after the attacks. In their list of demands, protesters also asked the University to eliminate the word “diversity” from its lex-
icon and replace it with “anti-oppression.” Instead of complying with this demand, the University, Castle said, has kept its focus on diversity, rather than anti-oppression. She said existing programs –– such as the University Diversity Council and the “Intergroup Dialogue Project” –– are not synonymous with the creation of an “anti-oppression task force” or “anti-oppression training,” as the protesters had demanded. While both the Intergroup Dialogue Project and the University Diversity Council represent instances in which the University reacted to the bias incidents, “these programs do not appear to have anything to do with the demands we put forward,” Castle said. But Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of students and director of intercultural programs, said that it would be crucial to look forward on issues rather than concentrate on the word used to express concerns. While “we can wordsmith all we want,” it is important to focus on “what are we going to do to get people to change, how do we educate people [and] how do we diminish bias and oppression,” Alexander said. Murphy agreed, saying, “to just have that debate of words … I don’t think is productive.” Alexander said she is working toward increasing dialogue among student leaders and organizations. On Saturday, she led the first meeting of a leadership roundtable to address the incidents of racial bias and sexual assault that have occurred on campus in recent weeks. Alexander stressed that students leaders need to devote their efforts to addressing the string of attacks that have
occurred on campus. “We have problems on [campus] that stretch far beyond diversity or Greek [issues],” she said. “Look at the sexual assault problem. We don’t know if it’s one person or two people [out there], but there’s a sense of anxiety on campus among women. So what do leaders have to say about that? What can we do?” A.T. Miller, associate vice provost for academic diversity initiatives, who worked to organize the Intergroup Dialogue Project, emphasized the importance of bringing the community together in the wake of such incidents. “It impacts all of us when these things happen,” he said. Still, student leaders said they are hoping for more direct action in response to the demands they drafted. “While these initiatives are perhaps a sign of good faith, the limited reaction that the University has had does not even attempt to disturb the status quo, and it won’t matter how much time or money Cornell spends on ‘diversity initiatives’ until they are willing to do just that,” Castle said in an email. Harrington agreed, saying that it is crucial for the administration to be proactive in making changes. The administration must try to examine all of its work through an intersectional lens, she said. “Much of the senior administration comes from a place of social privilege, and they have failed to unpack that,” she said. Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.
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On Wednesday, Provost Fuchs announced to the Faculty Senate that the Calendar Committee Recommendations, passed through the Faculty Senate last May despite significant student opposition, were accepted. I respectfully dissent. Today, I write solely from my position as one of two undergraduate students who were members of the University Calendar Committee. The Committee was formed in the Fall of 2010 to “explore whether revisions to the calendar could help to alleviate student stress.” Funny then that the Committee ignored the overwhelming student consensus that the changes would do little to ameliorate, and could potentially increase, student stress. I am upset and dismayed about the changes to the Calendar. The University will reduce the study period before exams, hold exams throughout Saturday (in the past, only language exams were offered on Saturday) and has eliminated Senior Week for the Class of 2014 and beyond. The benefits to students? A two day break in February that is placed less than a month after classes begin and the elimination of the half day of class that exists on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break. While the physical changes are a detriment to both current and future Cornellians, most significant to the decision is the lack of importance the administration and specifically, the Committee, gave to the concerns of students. Over 2,000 students signed a petition decrying the changes, presidents from student groups ranging from Cornell Minds Matter (who know a thing or two about mental health), to the IFC to Hillel, over 60 in total, all signed on in support against the changes. At the end of the Spring semester, The Student Assembly, with the support of Class Councils, Senior Week, and many other student organizations passes Resolution 47 which simply asked for the Committee to hold off the vote on the changes until the start of the Fall semester to allow students to fully evaluate the calendar. Even this request went unheeded. I fear that in order to bring the agonizingly long process to a conclusion, the Committee did not adequately attend to its original purpose of alleviating student stress. Quite frankly, the Committee’s decision to proceed, even with both undergraduate representatives opposed to the plan, undermines the need for any student input into the Committee. I can imagine of no purpose, other than show, to allow students to sit on the Committee while simultaneously ignoring their position. What does it say about the administration’s decision making structure when thousands of students decry the changes and yet those voices are ignored? What does it say about the Committee when it is so focused on enacting change that they refuse to extend a multi-year process for a summer to allow for further consideration? Time will one day heal the wound to the relationship between student leaders and the administration that was caused by this decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the effects of the calendar changes on student mental health, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is students’ confidence in their ability to effect change and partake in a productive dialogue with the administration. Geoffrey Block ’14
Any Person, Any Investment Bank This week, many students roamed campus dressed in their business casual best, trying to impress future employers at the career fair. Despite their snazzy outfits, many still seemed distressed and exhausted. The Sun sat down with Cornell’s legendary founders Ezra Cornell and A.D. White to try and solve this troubling dilemma. THE SUN: Hey A.D. and Ezra. EZRA CORNELL: Oh hey, lowly Sun reporter. Sorry if I seem groggy. I just can’t get any sleep anymore with all you students keeping up at night by blasting “Call Me Maybe” from your Collegetown porches. SUN: Sorry about that. It’s been a bit of an issue lately. Council members have been trying to find solutions but no one really knows what to do about it. Any ideas? EZRA: Yes, actually. When I founded Cornell, we used to put unruly Cornellians in stocks in the center of the Arts Quad. If they continued to be obnoxious, we tied them to a tree and left them for the bears. Touchdown was pretty ravenous in his heyday. A.D.: Yeah, Touchdown has really let himself go these days. Now all he does is walk around campus high-fiving unsuspecting freshmen and skating around the ice during hockey games looking like a fool. SUN: Well, one of the solutions to this problem that has been proposed is moving drinking to a place in the Ivy Room called the Bear’s Den. EZRA: Hell yeah! That’s exactly what I am talking about. A den full of bears! Genius! Why didn’t we think of that A.D.? No Cornellian will ever embibe alcohol ever again! A.D.: Sorry to burst your bubble, Ezra. The Bear’s Den is a pub, which means that it serves beer. EZRA: Gah. What a joke. SUN: Speaking of a joke, how about those calendar changes? EZRA: Yawn. You aren’t doing a good job of keeping me awake here. Next question. A.D.: Whoa, Ezra. No need to be so grumpy. These are important changes. Though in my day, we didn’t have so many breaks at all. The only breaks we got were when the snow piled up so high we couldn’t get out the door. Fall break?! Nonsense. EZRA: Yeah, but look at all these Cornellians walking around like zombies. They need their time off. A.D.: They weren’t just like zombies. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen actual zombies walking around campus. It tripped me out. I thought we were the only undead that roamed this campus EZRA: Oh, silly A.D., those aren’t the undead. Those are just Cornell students on the way to the career fair. It happens every year. Hoards of Cornell students mindlessly wandering up to campus to try to nail an investment banking position. A.D.: ... where they can continue their zombie lifestyle by eating the brains of middle-class Americans. I knew that’s what you had in mind when you founded Cornell, Ezra. Any person, any investment bank.
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Page Two on the Case Of Problem-Based Learning
year ago I wrote a column about problem-based learning, in which I said that I thought it was a conceptually brilliant teaching strategy but maybe didn’t live up to all of the hype that surrounds it. Two semesters later, I think it’s time to re-evaluate. To recap, problem-based (or case-based) learning is a strategy in which instead of attending lectures on a topic, students work together in small groups (“tutor groups”) to figure out real medical cases and learn key concepts in the process. The cases are divided into several pages, and we analyze one page at a time. The first page generally introduces the patient and the primary problem. We write down all of the facts on the whiteboard, identify the problems, come up with possible explanations for why the problems are happening, think of a plan of action and identify learning issues that we need to research further. The next time the group meets, we spend around an hour talking about the learning issues from the last time before proceeding with the case. My complaint last year was that the amount of resources that were available to us for our learning issues was overwhelming. Every book said something in a slightly different way and I thought that it took too much time to find the “right” answer, especially when there were also lectures to review and labs to prepare for. I think what I’ve learned over the past year is that there is rarely a “right” answer to most things. There are certainly wrong ones, but beyond that there are generally several different ways to do / learn about / categorize any one thing. Looking at learning issues this way not only makes them more fun, but also makes tutor group much more rewarding. In addition to me becoming more comfortable with the processes, there are a handful of important differences in the tutor groups right now compared to the beginning of last year. First of all, first semester of first year is about learning normal anatomy, but not necessarily learning why things work the way they do (physiology). The end of first year and now, how-
ever, are all about physiology. Besides the fact that personally I remember things infinitely better when I know why they work rather than only that they work, I think problem based learning is much more conducive to learning mechanisms than facts. When the case presents a cat in respiratory distress, you want to know why her lungs are doing what they’re doing, not what the structure of her lungs are. Realistically you have to know the latter to understand the former, I’m just saying that I feel like I retain more information from physiology tutor groups than the anatomy ones. Another key difference is that in anatomy, we learned the same facts several times — in tutor group, in lab, in lecture, etc., but in physiology the lectures are sparser and tutor group seems to be an inherently more important part of the curriculum. It’s a little nerve-racking because you never really know to what depth you’re expected to know the material, but it’s also somewhat liberating because you’re free to go into as much detail as you want in order to learn something better. We’ve also started concept mapping this time around, which is when we set aside time at the end of the case to make a large flowchart that links together all of the things that we’ve learned during the case. Research suggests that concept mapping and problem based learning are supposed to go hand in hand, but it was never something that my anatomy tutor group really ever did. I think it makes a big difference in helping to tie everything together. I’ve been finding that when I’m in the hospital or on externships I learn an incredible amount from specific cases. So I’ll remember for a long time what lymphoma looks like and how it’s treated because I saw it in Shiloh the golden
retriever — I definitely retain it a lot better than just learning about lymphoma in class (although if I were to learn about it in class after seeing Shiloh then I would be thinking about Shiloh in class and would remember it even more). There’s still a little bit of disconnect with this phenomenon when it comes to tutor group cases because we never get to see what
Nikhita Parandekar Hoof in Mouth the animals physically look like. I can’t remember all of the names of the cases, but I can, however, remember almost all of the problems they had much more clearly than I would have been able to otherwise. So in summary, it’s taken me a year but I think I’ve finally figured out how to make the most out of tutor group, through a combination of a little growing up and a few inherent modifications to the whole process. Either that or I’ve just been a student for so long (wouldn’t this be 18th grade?) that I’m finally starting to analyze learning as a process instead of just seeing school as a means to an end.
Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.
The Problem With ‘Need Aware’ International Admissions O
ver this past summer, Cornell abruptly announced that it will cut back on undergraduate financial aid by lowering the ceiling of the loan-free income bracket from $75,000 a year to $60,000. This is the direct result of the University deeming the current financial aid program to be no longer “sustainable” as the expenditure has consistently grown annually since the financial aid initiative back in 2008 under the tenure of Provost Biddy Martin. It could have been devastating
many of us, that would mean getting deeper into debt, and it will take us extra months and even years to pay off that extra amount. Yet, can you imagine having to pay every dollar of tuition for all four years of your undergraduate career? As a matter of fact, that’s what 80 percent of international students here at Cornell do every semester, not getting a penny from the financial aids office. And no, it’s not because our families make over $200,000 a year or have some enormous assets like the richer half of the
Don Oh ’14 Guest Room news for the half of the Cornell undergraduate population who were receiving need-based grants from the University, yet fortunately, they were able to find relief reading the “fine print” that assured no change on current financial aids for continuing students. This was a smart move on the administration’s part for they probably wouldn’t want to provoke campus-wide protests. Entering students, on the other hand, may have felt some sweat trickling down their backs, since the new financial aid program may decrease their aids. For
“American” students at Cornell who are not eligible for any aid. Obviously some international students are very well-off, but most of us do not receive any aid despite our moderate income simply because we made a deal with the “devil” upon our admissions to Cornell. Most of you are probably very proud to attend this institution which advertises itself as open to “Any person … any study” and its need-blind admissions that enables competent applications from any financial background to gain admissions. Well, it turned out that it’s only half-true. While Cornell’s motto and its egalitarian
ideal is very much in practice for American students or those with green cards (permanent residency). For international students, it is not need-blind, but “need-aware.” Universities throughout this nation have created this tricky term to lure more international applicants, but what this policy entails is that when international applicants display any financial need, the system makes those applicants compete for a very limited amount of financial aid designated for international students. If you are not selected as one of those few outstanding applicants, you cannot be admitted to the University even if your qualification is on par with other admitted students, for the U.S. government requires a proof of sufficient finance in order to attain the student visa, F-1. Since you have declared your own lack of funding by applying for financial aid, we have no choice but not to grant you admissions, the University likes to say. Now, the catch is that the criteria for selecting aid recipients include geographical diversity. Cornell’s undergraduate international student population is highly polarized with the two most common nationalities comprising almost two thirds of international populations. (Korean students make up 30 percent, Chinese students make up 29 percent). Because I had no eye-catching record of some international Olympiad award or such, and without any geographical advantage, I could have been easily replaced with another Korean student with lot more money and perhaps, a slightly lower test score. I do admit coming from Korea, a
highly-developed, fully democratic nation, I probably still could have attended a decent institution back home, though certainly not of the same caliber as Cornell. On the other hand, for students coming from Africa, it would be lot more challenging to find an institution that compares to Cornell. At the end of the day, however, it is not my fault that I’m Korean. I did not choose to be born in East Asia and put myself in an inherently more competitive environment. What enables this flawed system to continue and has allowed universities to keep taking advantage of international students, however, is ironically enough, our own academically-oriented East Asian culture. Nevertheless, it should be appalling to all of us that this institution which supposedly celebrates diversity of every form and has the single most egalitarian motto of all higher learning institutions has “strategically” targeted our culture and has taken advantage of it. Cornell has a huge number of Asian students. Yes, it is also due to the fact that Cornell has a very renowned reputation in Asia, in some cases even higher than institutions that would normally be considered more prestigious than Cornell in the U.S. Yet, the question lingers. Does Cornell really welcome Korean and Chinese students or is it simply interested in our money?
Don Oh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art, and Planning. He may be reached at do95@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semster.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Branded to Fail BY PATRICIA KIM Sun Contributor
shifts in screen aspect ratios make up the remainder of an unnecessary first act. For it says too much and communicates much too little. Just as all “We eat shit and shit shit.” Nothing short of poetry, this is hopes of understanding the film seem to be lost, it Misha’s take on Branded’s cheerless dystopia that is its vision starts to fall into rhythm. Kinda. Misha, advertisfor future Russia. And he has a rather excellent point. A point ing genius, starts an extreme makeover show starthat would be even more excellent if he was referring directly ring the generic fat, unattractive, low self-esteemto the film itself, for that is all the film is — a vision. A god- rat-haired-pathetic excuse for a woman that such awful, nauseating mess of what almost feels like a hallucina- makeovers require. His partner is producer Abby tion, this film fails in all the areas that good movies succeed in. Gibbons (Leelee Sobieski), and things quickly heat It’s shot in some truly heinous photography that relentlessly up. Why? Because the film needs him to take on infects every second of the film and has us begging for even the illusion of being three-dimensional; to have an automobile make-out session that can be just a brief shot of a clear blue sky. snipped into the movie trailer; to have him have someone to An explanation is in order. Branded opens in the streets of the gray, miserable gloom talk to, someone to be rescued by when lying unconscious that has unofficially become the portrait of Soviet Russia. An with his ass bare to the winds on the grassy plains of a desoagitated, young Misha runs down the street, presumably on late cow farm. But I digress. The reality show tanks, as he his way to board a train. We never find out, for he is struck by unknowingly falls victim to an elaborate scheme by a fast food lightning. He is then approached by a woman, possibly part mogul on a mission to make ‘fat’ the new look. Misha is devastated. He runs to herd cows in the wildergypsy — she’s got the cloak and the nose and the gratuitous ness, and Abby pops in for just long enough to toss predictions — who in a hilariously uninspired line (“What are you, some tells him that he will Branded sort of Buddhist?”). She leaves, he stays. He sleeps. accomplish great He gets up, sees the cows, axes the red one, slops things. Because if Directed by Jamie Bradshaw, himself with the blood, strips down, conks out on there is anything that Aleksandr Dulerayn the grass, wakes up and then all of a sudden — sees precipitates greatness, Featuring Ed Stoppard, the truth. The truth behind advertising. it is winning the For the first time, the film starts to matter. Or unlikely odds of getLeelee Sobieski rather, is expected to matter. A film entitled Branded, ting struck by lightstarring familiar corporate giants (Yepple, GiantSoft, ening and living to be The Burger) as villains, carries the responsibility to tell us told that consequential greatness lies ahead. The scene shifts. We see grown-up Misha (Ed Stoppard) in something insightful about marketing and the corporate the middle of traffic, looking as strained as if he’d been dri- world, and it teases up such expectations in the trailers. ving while battling severe constipation. Really, it’s just a lot of Expectations that are beaten down to a trough in the chaos of guesswork, because the film does astonishingly little to explain the previous acts and shattered when the film finally lets on Misha’s actions and circumstances. It is one of those rare films that it really has nothing interesting to say on the matter. Instead, it gives us monsters. Monsters that each represents where the first five minutes kindly let us know exactly what’s in store for the remaining two hours. Confusion, chaos, frus- a namesake brand. Monsters that are festering Seussian caricatration, nausea and hilarity — the kind of hilarity that laughs tures dug up from the gutter — flatulent, psychedelic globs that hurt the eyes and retch unpleasantly as they leech off peoonly at the absurdity of it all. A blur of jumbled scenes, flimsy characters and random ple’s materialistic desires and fight amongst each other as they
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grow. It’s not really a metaphor because it’s rather too literal. It’s more of a children’s illustration, and an ugly one at that. Either the filmmakers envisioned a general room of dimwits to be instructed in Marketing 101 with pictures, or they hoped to cover the overwhelming emptiness of the film with flashy visuals. Either way, it’s insulting. The irony of is that the misleading marketing villainized in the film is the very means by which it attempts to lure an audience. Movie trailers are nothing but advertisements that need not and do not tell the truth; despite what the filmmakers may think, we all know this. Yet, it is a sad day indeed when a film becomes hypocritical to its own message by being so, well, bad, when the trailer would suggest otherwise. Unless of course, the entire film was intended to be a metaphor. A metaphor for the sad product of a capitalist world. A world in which advertisements in all their flash and glitter promise to bring us happiness in perfume bottles, iPads and movie tickets. A world in which the happiness is fleeting, filling us with an unquenchable void, for there is no substance in the modern material world. And as we try and fail to fight the emptiness within, we fall into a cycle of want, need and disappointment, increasingly falling into an inexplicable depression that only — Oh never mind. The movie sucks. Watch something else on Friday night. Patricia Kim is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pjk87@cornell.edu.
You’ve Got to Hide Your Words Away BY MARISSA TRANQUILLI Sun Contributor
reading commences, we are introduced to the true author of Jansen’s book, an old, unnamed man played by Jeremy Irons. The Old Man then proceeds to tell Jansen his story. A flashback introduces us to our author as a younger man — naturally named The Young Man. Played by Ben Barnes, this Man branches into the 186th plotline of the film, relaying his story through the aged version of himself to Jansen, whose story is thus recited by Hammond to an audience of students and all of which is transmitted through pixels and gigabytes onto a multiplex movie screen before a very confused audience. At this point, the film actually attempts to build substance behind this overly complex facade. We are no longer simply dealing with
Have you ever woken from a dream and found yourself still carrying it around for the rest of the day? The dream has passed, but you carry it on the tip of your brain like some version of yourself that could have been real but simply slipped into oblivion as you awoke. As I left the theater after watching The Words, I felt this itch within my brain: a confusion as to what was real and what wasn’t. The film’s trailer presents a clichéd plotline: Author Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper) cannot get his own work published and resorts to plagiarizing the unpublished work of a man 60 years his senior. Of course, this comes back to bite him and he is faced with moral issues, guilt, blah, blah, blah: nothing out of The Words the ordinary or too unpreDirected by Brian Klugman, dictable. The only thing that Lee Sternthal kept me from bolting out of the theater during the first hour Featuring Bradley Cooper, was the confusion nagging at Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde me from the first scene. The entire movie is narrated via a book reading by author Clay Hammond woe-is-me Jansen and his unrealistically sup(Dennis Quaid). To be honest, the constant portive wife, Dora (Zoe Saldana). The postinterruption of Quaid’s irritating voice breaks World War II story set in Paris reverts to a the movie’s flow and jars the audience. This softer, Technicolor-esque visual palette, finalflagrant, awkward voiceover was so bizarre ly bringing real issues to the table. After the that for the first hour I kept asking myself: first monotonous hour, Klugman and Where does he fit in during all of this? Sternthal give us characters we actually care As the second segment of Hammond’s about and begin to blur the line between fic-
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tion and reality, character and person. The characters themselves, as authors, begin to question the reality of their worlds: “You have to choose between life and fiction. The two are very close, but they never actually touch,” stresses Hammond. The film lacks a moving soundtrack, standout performances or any noteworthy cinematography. What it does have is a story ― in fact, it has several ― and though it may at points feel like the Inception of the literary world, it speaks with a strong voice to anyone who takes the time to enjoy the arts. It asks us all where our lives end and our world around you. Present to demonstrate the distinction are Dora, Celia (Nora Arnezeder) and Daniella (Olivia Wilde). These women represent the opposite of the fictional world: they are the real life that the three authors have and must choose whether to fight for. The stories of these women do not intersect, but each must look beyond the romanticism of life and face humbling conclusions. As time passes, each character must come to terms with the fact that stories go beyond the page. Finally, they are forced to confront the choices they have made and who
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they face those consequences with. The movie is not spectacular: The pacing drags and there are no stylistic gems to write home about. This film’s only merit is that unlike all the other mindless drone films in the world, it makes you think — far more than is necessary in fact. A surgeon general’s warning should precede the opening credits. True to its attempt at sophistication, morality and true love do not necessarily win. Though the majority of the film lack depth, there is a final message to all who try to hide away in fiction: Life gets in the way, even for those who choose to avoid it. Marissa Tranquilli is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mmt62@cornell.edu.
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plastic trees and plexiglass BY TOM MOORE Sun Staff Writer
Walking through Milstein Hall makes me feel like a hippie lost in a space station. Judging by Maria Park’s new exhibit in Milstein Gallery, I’m not the only one. The exhibit, entitled Shelf Life, was created in response to Milstein's architecture, and it, like the rest of Milstein, is far, far away from the green planet that surrounds it. Shelf Life presents the viewer with the world of man, teetering on a sterile white shelf as it dismembers the natural world at right angles. It is effective and it is brutal. Upon entering the gallery, I am presented with four identical white shelves, one on top of the other. The shelves hold evenly spaced objects: balls of paint (green, white, blue), solid plastic cubes (green, white), a row of plastic LEGO trees and bushes. Everything is in order, laid out with mathematical precision, ready for assembly. It brings me back to long days spent surrounded by LEGO, breaking the world up into indestructible little blocks and reassembling them to suit the purposes of the present game. Everything here suggests a tree. But nothing here is a tree. On the opposite wall hangs a painting of two humans passing through a garden. I consult the gallery guide and check the materials: acrylite on Plexiglas. I look closer. Like so much else in this gallery, this is another reconfiguration of plastic. Little
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fragments of colored plastic, arranged in a particular way and attached to a larger piece of transparent plastic. Plastic is a petrochemical. That is to say, it is derived from petroleum, which is what happens when dead plants and animals lie in the earth for a long time. Derived, somewhere along the line, from an actual artist seeing actual humans walk among actual plants, these bits of plastic have come a long way. We have done with the image hanging on the wall that which is characteristically human: We take the world presented to us, flatten it out, smash it up into its component parts, mold it together into a shape which works for us (a tool, a toy, a building, a work of art) and put it on the shelf. Look at it. Scratch our heads. Appreciate it. It’s beautiful, I guess, and a certain kind of exciting, just like Milstein Hall, in its way, is exciting. We worship innovation for its own sake, and Milstein is nothing if not an innovative configuration of concrete, metal, plastic and glass. That dome with the plastic bubbles on it is ... cool? I’m not sure it’s quite
the hang-out spot the architects imagined it would be, but hey, at least it’s different. Is it a beautiful building? Meh. It’s innovative, and it’s quite energy efficient, but I would hesitate to call that concrete labyrinth a thing of beauty. Those massive slabs of concrete, those sheets of brushed metal — they were mountains once, sacrificed, like so much of Planet Earth, at the altar of innova-
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tion. Shelf Life sits at the heart of this bittersweet monument to mankind’s LEGO-set mentality. Explicitly created as a response to the architecture of Milstein, the gallery serves as an exaggerated parody of the building’s cold, crazed modernity. The second room of the exhibit, like the first, is framed by sterile white shelves holding chopped up
bits of the world. Atop each shelf sits a series of books: Thoureau’s Walden, a number of works by John Muir, a guide to the trees of North America. Each series of books is bookended on either side by a plastic cube covered with abstract, fragmented junglescapes. The books are, of course, printed on paper, the flattened-out-smashed-upremolded form of the rainforests suggested by the bookends. It’s an elegant and a horrible joke, these naturalists sitting on shelves in a space-age gallery. Thoureau and Muir become, like me, hippies lost in a space station. Shelf Life scares me. It does what art does best; it forces us to confront the paradoxes and contradictions of our lives which are so difficult to put in words. These uniform shelves, always suggesting nature but always deeply unnatural, tell the story of Planet Earth under the hands of innovative primates, our perspectives profoundly limited by the straight lines and cubes into which we carve our world. They tell the joke of hanging nature up on a gallery wall like a fresh kill. Most of all, they ask a question. What is the shelf life of such a world? What is the expiration date of nature on a shelf? And what will we do once the whole thing goes rancid? Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com.
The New Femme Fatale
s fall approaches, so does a new season of primetime television. How I’ve missed curling up on Wednesday nights with my roommate and a bag of PopChips, waiting for the newest episode of Modern Family. When I don’t feel like going out, I like sitting on my bed on sleepy Saturday nights in pajamas, and watching the new episode of Saturday Night Live. Nothing cures a week of classes and work and general debauchery like a cup of tea and a T.V. show guaranteed to make you smile. Looking through the list of comedies set to hit our computer screens this fall, there’s a single word that comes to mind: awkward. From Jess of New Girl to Mindy in The Mindy Project to the show actually entitled Awkward, I keep seeing female characters who are emotionally strong and socially awkward. These women are strange and amazing and leading casts with top ratings. They are much more than the klutzy friend, they are the klutzy femme fatales. Whenever I hear that term, femme fatale, I think of Old Hollywood. I think of Rita Hayworth and Barbara Stanwick — beautiful women who know what to say to a man and always happen to be in the right place at the right time. Women who have complete confidence and know how to get what they want. Women who make men fall collar over coat-tails. The image of this allpowerful woman in my head used to be the Jennifer Anistons, the Julia Roberts. That image is starting to change. The women that women look up to now are Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Zooey Deschanel — relatable, a little quirky, and far from perfect. It seems like nowadays the protagonist of choice is the awkward female. Last fall we met Jess of New Girl played by Zooey Deschanel, the queen of quirky indie naivete. A few years ago we fell in
love with Tina Fey in 30 Rock as the socially disastrous Liz Lemon. After a few episodes we learned to love just about everyone in Parks and Recreation, even the abrasive April played by Aubrey Plaza. Women like these women and the characters they play. The ones who are smart, quirky, a little odd, but somehow still have it all, but to my suprise we’re not the only ones noticing. Maxim’s list of hottest women in 2012 for example includes Zooey Deschanel, Emma Stone (both are in the Top 10), and Alyson Hannigan. Complex.com’s list mimics Maxim’s and adds Aubrey Plaza of Parks and Recreation and Alison Brie of Community to the group. Don’t get me wrong, these women are very attractive, but looking at the list I can’t help but wonder about a few things. First, I’m wondering if anyone in Trillium is looking over my shoulder and judging the random girl flipping through Maxim’s Top 100. Second, I’m wondering how Zooey Deschanel beat out the likes of Sofia Vergara and Olivia Munn. Fortune Cookie Okay Zooey is big in Fridays the Hollywood and Hulu communities this year along with Aubrey Plaza and Alison Brie, but did these women really make the list because they are the hottest or because they play characters that guys find attractive too? We’re talking Olive from Easy A, the quick witted ingenue who any girl would want to be friends with, but couldn’t get to date.
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We’re talking about Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Pie, who was book smart but in the first season of Buffy stood in front of a guy she had a crush on and stared, mouth agape until he finally walked away. I can’t help but think this new mixture of confidence and awkwardness is the modern version of female confidence and strength. These women are the new queens of television, the klutzy femme fatales. The beau gauche. As I curl up watching T.V. in my zip-up footie pajamas, all this gives me hope. I would love to be Rita Hayworth. At the mention of her name my 93-year-old uncle still calls her his girlfriend. But let’s get real, that will never be me. I have at least eight bruises on my right shin just from the number of times I tripped over air this week. I think I’m fine with that. I’d rather be a Liz Lemon. Arielle Cruz is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. Fortune Cookie Fridays appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Red Sets Sights on Ivy League Championship Title FOOTBALL
Continued from page 16
ing off the first .500 season since 2007 and projected to finish third in the Ancient Eight — without a greatly improved offensive line. After surrendering 49 sacks in 2010, the men up front allowed only 30 last year and gave Mathews plenty of time to set the Ivy single-season passing record. “[The offensive line] has definitely been one of the biggest things for us over the past couple of years,” Savage said. “It’s so important — protecting the QB, giving the receivers more time in their routes [and] opening up holes for the running backs. It’s everything.” The Cornell defense, meanwhile, enters the season with uncertainties that the club must address to win its first-ever outright Ivy League Championship. The Red lost arguably its three best, all-Ivy defensive players from 2011 in cornerback Rashad Campbell ’11, linebacker Brandon Lainhart ’11 and defensive end Zack Imhoff ’11. The secondary is the biggest question mark, as the first line has combined for zero collegiate starts and includes freshmen cornerbacks Jarrod WatsonLewis [Oceanside, Calif.] and Kendall Brown [Carson, Calif.], whom junior middle linebacker and defensive co-captain Brett Buehler praised. “We think this year we’ve got a lot of athletic freshmen, especially defensive backs,” said Buehler, whose 68 tackles in 2011 were the most of any returning Red player. “A couple times last year we got beat by the deep ball. If we can shut down the deep ball and stop the run, there shouldn’t be a team that can beat us.”
Austin also noted that big plays, especially between the 20’s, nullified the unit’s strong red-zone defense. Despite gaining 407.7 yards per contest — roughly the same number the prolific Red offense produced — Cornell opponents scored on only 67 percent of their trips inside the 20-yard line. “[The defense] was pretty good in scoring territory, but not everything outside of that area,” Austin said. “We’ve got to quit giving up the big plays and get teams more in third-andlong. We have to be better in first-down defense … We’ll be a little bit more aggressive defensively and put a little more athleticism on the field.” Former safeties coach Kim Dameron took over as defensive coordinator in the offseason and implemented a simplified scheme to try to ease the personnel changes. Buehler believes the new tactics will create a far more active and versatile Red defense, particularly against the Rams, who netted 312 yards in a 28-13 loss to Villanova last Saturday. Fordham senior quarterback Ryan Higgins threw for 123 yards and a touchdown, while sophomore backup quarterback Michael Nebrich ran for 107 yards and a score — the second Ram signal caller in history to rush for over 100 yards. “[The new system] gives us a lot of different ways to put pressure on players from different angles — pressure coming from all different parts of the field,” Buehler said. “It gives us a bunch of different looks and gets in the head of the other team … We should put up just as good of numbers defensively as our offense does, especially this week.” Senior linebacker and special teams captain Michael Hernandez also pledged that the Red defense would not let the offensive production go unrewarded in 2012.
“I think as a team we don’t want to be too reliant on the offense to win us games — we want to be able as a defense to hold our own,” he said. “We don’t want to be known only as a high-scoring offense, but a hard-hitting defense as well. I think we’re definitely going to do that, especially with the new schemes.” Another crucial departure for the Red that cannot be overlooked was the graduation of kicker Brad Greenway ’11, who hit 13-of-15 field goals and all 36 extra points in 2011 and led Cornell in scoring four straight years. Junior John Wells will attempt to fill Greenway’s shoes, but the loss of an exceptional kicker at the Football Championship Subdivision level is a big blow that could alter the Red’s strategy when threatening to score. Since 2007, Cornell is 4-1 in season-openers and 14-31 in all other contests. The Red hopes to continue the former trend when the team finally begins its 2012 campaign tomorrow afternoon. Although Cornell will not be the very last Division I team to kick off its season, as it has been in four of the last nine years, the two-week lag behind most squads leaves the Red players quite eager to get going in live action. “It’s time to play, and I think our guys are ready to play,” Austin said. “It’s a long camp [and] guys have worked hard. Just listening to them talk and the way they’re practicing, I know they’re anxious to just get down there and play the game.” Quintin Schwab can be reached at qschwab@cornellsun.com.
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SPORTS
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Farmer Changes Culture of Team By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The women’s soccer team is waiting for its big break to turn the season around and accomplish its goal — to go over the .500 mark. In order to do that the team needs to start capitalizing on prime scoring opportunities, as well as adding a few notches to the ‘W’ column. “The biggest challenge is going to be … getting that first win. It’s kind of hard to switch from a losing streak to a winning one,” said sophomore defender Sydney Cetrullo. “If we can get on the right track, we can be good to go.” This season has already been different for the Red (0-5). The team welcomed first-year head coach Patrick Farmer, who has been working diligently to implement changes, not just in the physical game play of the girls, but in the mental arena as well. “With our new coach, one of his main focuses has been to change the culture of our team … [head coach Patrick Farmer] always tells us to run harder,” said junior tri-captain Tori Christ. “It sounds so simple but it’s so true. If you think you are working hard to a ball but you actually run that much harder, it’s going to make a difference. He is changing the tactical and the physical aspects of the game too … He believes in us.” Cornell played on Wednesday afternoon against Binghamton at the Bearcats Sports Complex, where it suffered a 2-1 loss. The game looked promising as senior forward and tri-captain Maneesha Chitanvis scored her first goal of the season; however, the Red was unable to capitalize on the initial momentum. The team opened the second half of the game by scoring early, with Chitanvis’s goal coming in the 49th minute to give Cornell a brief lead. Freshman forward Caroline Growney claimed an assist off the goal — awarding her her
TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO
New approach | Under the new leadership of first-year head coach Patrick Farmer, the women’s soccer team is developing a new approach to the game, as well as redefining its overall soccer culture.
first collegiate point. About three minutes later, the Bearcats struck back with a goal off of a corner kick and in the 61st minute Binghamton capitalized again and claimed the win. “I think that it is good that we have been outplaying our opponents but just haven’t been able to score [enough],” said junior midfielder Rachel Nichols. “I think we just need to focus on finishing and grabbing opportunities. We need to just keep working hard as a team across the field, every single position.” The Red has its season home opener at 4 p.m. on Friday at Berman Field, where it will play against Sacred Heart University. “I think that everyone is more committed, more focused and really excited about starting over [this year],” Cetrullo
said. “They are more excited at the beginning of the season than they ever were last year.” Cornell will hit the road once again on Sunday to play against the LaSalle Explorers in Philadelphia, Pa. “I think it is going to be important that we come in focused and with confidence,” Christ said. “It’s a lot of physical. Being ready to go from the start to finish by playing the full 90 minutes and staying strong the whole time.” The team will then embark on a three-game stretch in five days, before it heads into the beginning of Ivy play with a game against Columbia on Sept. 21. Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.
Players Find Identity in Playing Soccer, Live for Love of Game M. SOCCER
Continued from page 16
played UVM four times in its history, with the Catamounts winning three of those matches. The record with the Wofford
Terriers is even smaller, with the Red only ever playing them once. The team will be benefit though by the fact that it is playing at home. “Once the game starts and the stands start to fill, you’re playing for your school and your
friends and yourself and your team and it completely changes the dynamic and the mood,” Reisert said. “It’s your time to shine and your time to prove yourself.” There’s nothing else that the players would rather be doing this weekend then represent-
ing Cornell soccer, according to Haber. “Honestly, this is what we all live for,” he said. “Our identity is Cornell soccer players.” Alex Gatto can be reached at agatto@cornellsun.com.
ROUND
1
DANI ABADA
SCOTT ESTHER ANNIE RUBY CHIUSANO HOFFMAN NEWCOMB PERLMUTTER
LAUREN RITTER
UINTIN SCHROEDER Q SCHWAB
JEFF STEIN
HALEY VELASCO
CORNELL AT FORDHAM
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
FORDHAM
CORNELL
FORDHAM
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
HARVARD VS SAN DIEGO
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
SAN DIEGO
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO
PENN AT LAFAYETTE
PENN
LAFAYETTE
PENN
LAFAYETTE
LAFAYETTE
PENN
PENN
PENN
LAFAYETTE
PENN
PRINCETON AT LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
PRINCETON
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
LEHIGH
ALABAMA AT ARKANSAS
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
ARKANSAS
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
ALABAMA
KANSAS STATE VS NORTH TEXAS
KANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE
NORTH TEXAS
KANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE
NORTH TEXAS
KANSAS STATE
LSU VS IDAHO
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU
IDAHO
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU
LSU
GIANTS VS BUCCANEERS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
BUCCANEERS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
N.Y. JETS AT STEELERS
STEELERS
N.Y. JETS
STEELERS
N.Y. JETS
STEELERS
STEELERS
STEELERS
STEELERS
N.Y. JETS
N.Y. JETS
VIKINGS AT COLTS
COLTS
COLTS
VIKINGS
VIKINGS
COLTS
VIKINGS
VIKINGS
COLTS
COLTS
VIKINGS
LAST WEEK
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
TOTAL
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
0-0
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FOOTBALL
C.U.Starts Season at Fordham By QUINTIN SCHWAB
reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year and junior offensive co-captain Jeff Mathews, the engine of coordinator Jeff Fela’s well-oiled offensive machine. The Cornell football team looks to pick up where The Red averaged 341.5 passing yards and 31.3 it left off last year amid high expectations when the points per game last season, including 110 in consecRed plays its first game of utive wins over Columbia the 2012 season against and Penn to end the year. Fordham tomorrow at 1 Fordham has limited its p.m. in the Bronx, N.Y. first two opponents to Third-year head coach only 77.5 passing yards Kent Austin and staff rally per game, but fifth-year several returning starters senior wide receiver Shane and 31 freshmen to Jack Savage — the Ivy leader in The Ivy League newspapers held Coffey Field for the receptions, yards and their first annual preseason football poll; eighth-ever meeting touchdowns in 2011 — is each school submitted two ballots. between the two clubs, confident that the Red will Votes: Team: which the Red hopes will break down the Rams be the first chapter of a defense and resume its HARVARD 124 (13)* historic season. high-scoring habit. PENN 106 (1)* Fordham, on the other “We definitely want to hand, aims to rebuild after build off those last two CORNELL 98 (2)* a 1-10 season, although games that we had. We’re BROWN 75 the Rams (1-1, 0-0 Patriot going to spread the ball YALE 65 League) already matched around and try to put up their 2011 win total with a that same type of yardage DARTMOUTH 47 55-0 shutout over — that’s our expectation,” COLUMBIA 32 Division II Lock Haven said Savage, who is part of PRINCETON 29 two weeks ago. Fordham’s a superb trio of wide most recent glory days receivers along with senior *Number of first-place votes came when current and offensive co-captain Arizona Cardinals starting Luke Tasker and senior quarterback John Skelton completed 802 passes for Kurt Ondash. Each of the three finished with over 9,923 yards and 69 touchdowns — all school records 800 receiving yards last year. — from 2006 to 2009, including a 420-yard, fiveEven with Mathews’ talent and several playmakers, score effort in a 39-27 victory over the Red at the Red would not be in its current position — comSchoellkopf Field in Oct. 2009. See FOOTBALL page 14 Cornell now boasts an elite quarterback itself,
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Ivy League Sports Writers Football Preseason Poll
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So it begins | The Cornell football team has been working hard throughout the preseason, focusing on achieving its goal – winning the Ivy League Championship outright for the first time ever.
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MEN’S SOCCER
Red Hosts Annual C.U.Inaria Classic
By ALEX GATTO Sun Staff Writer
The men’s soccer team will play two home games this weekend in the C.U. Inaria Classic, pitting itself against the University of Vermont Catamounts on Friday night and the Wofford Terriers on Sunday at midday. The Red — the only team that is currently undefeated in the Ivy League — has continued to view the season as an individual set of games to be played one at a time. “The fact that we’re 4-0 isn’t even crossing our minds,” said junior midfielder Stephen Reisert. “We’re taking the game like we’re 0-0.” A key reason cited by Reisert for the team’s success has been its ability to view every game one at a time and to not focus on future successes. Reisert cited the level of intensity in practice as indicative of this mindset; according to him, not a single player has slacked off or lost sight of each weekend’s game, since the team began its win streak four games ago. “Everyone’s still working really
hard, trying to make each other better,” said junior striker Daniel Haber. “I think we’re all playing for each other; it’s great to be playing for the guy next to you.” Haber cited the performance of other teams as part of the reason why Cornell works so hard. While in preseason it is tough to make accurate assessments of how individual teams are playing, as the season goes on it becomes increasingly easier to view a team’s playing style and the potential of its players. As such, every game becomes harder to win because the other team has had more time to learn and understand the opponent. “We’re always trying to fix the things that went wrong because the teams we’re playing in the future will have tape on us and will be better than the teams we’ve played in the past,” Haber said. “When the lights get turned on, it’s a battle.” The Cornell team will not have a great deal of information on the teams that it is playing this weekend. The Red has only See M. SOCCER page 15
FIELD HOCKEY
Squad Still in Search of First Win of Season, Victory Over Penn By SHAYAN SALAM Sun Staff Writer
The field hockey team will play its first Ivy League game of the season on Saturday, when it hosts Penn at midday. The upcoming match will be an opportunity for the Red (0-4) to get its first win of the season, after a tough series of mainly road games against out-of-conference opponents. In recent history the series has been on Cornell’s side, with the Red winning five of the last seven games against the Quakers (3-2). Penn comes to Ithaca after hav-
ing lost two straight games to Appalachian State and Rider. The Quakers main offensive threat consists of Julie Tahan, Amelia Cohen and Julie Hitti, who have 5 goals, 4 goals and 3 assists, respectively. In net, Penn is anchored by sophomore goalie Carly Sokach. The Quakers will be looking to have a repeat of last year's matchup, where they were able to defeat the Red, 10, in Philadelphia, Pa. Meanwhile, the Red has spent this week practicing hard in preparation for the Ivy opener, according to senior co-captain Paige Mollineaux.
“We’ve been even more focused in practices this week than before, just because it is the first Ivy game,” she said. This will begin a period in which the Red will play each of its seven Ivy foes once over the next month and a half, along with six additional out-of-league opponents. The philosophy in practice has shifted as the team prepares for the onslaught of games. “We’re moving into what [head coach Donna Hornibrook] calls ‘Part B’ of the season. ‘Part A’ was to get us ready for our Ivy play,” Mollineaux said. “We played some
pretty talented teams and now we're getting ready to play Ivy games.” Such strong opposition at the beginning of the season could prove to be exactly what the Red needed in order to have a good opening streak of league play. In practice, one of the biggest areas that the Red focuses on is to make sure that the entire time is maintaining a high level of mental involvement in the face of early season adversity. “I think the biggest challenge right now has just been to make sure that everyone has stayed
focused and mentally prepared,” Mollineaux said. “In our next games, we don't want to forget about our losses, but rather not spend time focusing on the negativity of losing.” By focusing on the positive parts of the game during the losses, such as strong communication and a staunch defense against Penn State — a game in which the Nittany Lions’ high-powered offense was only able to score during penalty shots instead of regular play. Shayan Salam can be reached at ssalam@cornellsun.com.