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Rawlings Urges Undergrad Curriculum Review

Interim president urges C.U.to promote‘liberal education’

By STEPHANIE YAN

These foundational courses would focus on information necessary for all students, including statistics, data science and critical thinking. Rawlings also raised questions about whether these Interim President Hunter Rawlings called on Cornell faculty classes should be only encouraged or mandated for students, and to re-examine the University’s undergraduate curriculum, stress- if all of the University’s colleges should aim to offer a liberal eduing the need to teach students to “think for themselves” and use cation. “intellectual and moral reasoning.”

“I leave these as questions, not answers,” he said. “At the curIn his opening remarks at the Faculty Senate’s September rent time I do not think it is possible to answer them because the meeting, Rawlings faculty of Cornell called 2016 a has not, to my “At the current time I do not think it is possible to answer “good year” to disknowledge, opined [these questions] because the faculty of Cornell has not ... on Cornell’s cuss the subject.” undergraduate Rawlings also opined on the subject.” offerings, citing stressed that his Interim President Hunter Rawlings both the College of comments were Arts and Sciences’ suggestions and current initiative to review its curriculum and his personal inter- not demands, calling the curriculum “a faculty matter,” and est in promoting liberal education. emphasizing that his interim appointment means he will not Several faculty members agreed upon the need for discussion, have a long-term role in curriculum changes. raising concerns over decreasing numbers of Arts and Sciences Prof. Charles Van Loan, computer science, then introfaculty members, paired with an increasing student focus on duced the senate to new features on the Dean of Faculty “careerism.” website, which he remodeled over the summer “to make A “number of faculty members” have shared their interest in everything much more visible and democratic and participromoting courses geared toward all Cornell undergraduates, regardless of college or major, Rawlings said.

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Changing course | Interim President Hunter Rawlings requested faculty input on a core curriculum.

ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 12-YEAR-OLD?

Tween Enrolls in Engineering College

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Senior Editor

Jeremy Shuler ’20 was 12 years old when he started classes at Cornell this fall, but he grew up seeing the campus during annual visits to his grandparents’ Ithaca house. A few years ago, he recounted, his parents took him to a stargazing night at the Fuertes Observatory on North Campus.

“It was a cold night, and both the host and Jeremy were particularly interested in star distances at the time,” recalled Andy Shuler ’97, Jeremy’s father.

Jeremy, who had just turned 1 0 , started argui n g w i t h the host about a particul a r

JEREMY SHULER ’20 AND HIS PARENTS

star. The two disagreed on the star’s the side. exact distance from Earth and kept Jeremy appears at first glance like a going back and forth on the num- typical pre-teen, often offering short, ber of light years. shy answers to questions and twisting “Were you right?” I asked around in his chair as we talk. It Jeremy.

“Well, yeah,” he “Once he sets his mind, it’s really hard replied, laughing. “I to persuade him not to do something.” was using more recent data.”

Harrey Shuler *** Jeremy Shuler has had a lot of practice being wasn’t until the conversation turned right. He learned to read both to math and science that he began Korean and English when he was to speak with the authority one 17 months old, mastered algebra at might expect from a 12-year-old four, calculus at seven and then — genius. When he did, though, he when he had progressed past the easily eclipsed everyone in the point his mother could instruct room, including his parents — two him — started teaching himself aerospace engineers.

He has always been miles ahead more advanced math out of books.

He has spent the last few years tak- of his peers academically, but it was ing online high school classes while about three years ago when it working on number theory, quantum mechanics See 12-YEAR-OLD and coding projects page 4 o n

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C.U. Holds Steady in U.S. News University Rankings Earning a score of 85 out of 100, Cornell University was ranked the nation’s 15th best university on the U.S. News & World Report 2017 list — representing a standstill at last year’s rating.

The famous rankings focus on “academic excellence,” and incorporate factors including freshman retention rate and the rate at which students graduate within a six-year time span, according to U.S. News.

O t h e r important scoring criteria include ethnic and economic diversity, as well the number of international students in attendance at a given college.

The press release said that “overall, the rankings emphasize student outcomes — including graduation and retention rates — which carry the most weight at 30 percent.”

Cornell’s placement on the U.S. News rankings has been fairly consistent for the past few years, hovering around 15th or 16th place for the past four years, but has dropped several spots since 2008, when it was ranked at 12th.

This year, Cornell ranked last among the Ivies, one spot behind Brown University, and tied Rice University, University of Notre Dame and Vander bilt University.

Cornell a l s o ranked well in several other lists published by U.S. News this week. In categories “Best Undergraduate Engineering Programs” and “Best Business Programs,” Cornell ranked 9th and under “Most Innovative Schools” Cornell was rated 14th.

— Compiled by Molly Kluger

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‘Urchin’Art Challenges Perception

perceive isn’t the color and the shape but what you can do with it.

“A chair affords sitting,” O’Donnell explained.

“Like a real Urchin, you can look at it, but it’s best “Once you start to make it part of an aggregated skin not to touch it,” said director of the Masters of and start to twist it and turn it upside down, it doesn’t Architecture Program Prof. Caroline O’Donnell, on her afford sitting anymore. This means that if you cancel out the first perception, then you start to be able to look new Arts Quad exhibit. at it in different ways.”

O’Donnell created the exhibit, Lai added that the team aimed to “Urchin (Impossible Circus), with the “The idea is that when rid the chair out of its typical lifestyle help of Christopher Morse ’17 and connotation and create a “different John Lai ’17 as a part of the Cornell you see it from afar, it cultural understanding of it.”

Council of the Arts’ 2016 Biennial seems like a designed “How can we take a chair and celebration. The exhibit — installed object.” morph it into something that’s more on the arts quad this past weekend — than a chair?” he asked. attempts to transform 500 plastic Prof. Caroline O’Donnell The exhibit took a year and a half lawn chairs into a living organism. of planning and construction to com“The idea is that when you see it plete, O’Donnell said. The team from afar, it seems like a designed object,” O’Donnell said. “As you get closer, at some arranged the chairs in different ways, experimenting point you realize that it’s just a plastic chair that you’ve with various connectors. The structure was also modalready sat in 100 times. You have to resolve these two eled with computer-generated images; designers were even able to see the structure in a three-dimensional virdifferent perceptions in your mind.”

The idea for the display originated in theory of affor- tual reality with goggles before it was built.

“It was kind of a back and forth between the digital dance — a term coined by perceptual psychologist James Gibson — according to O’Donnell. The theory posits that when you see an object, the first thing you See URCHIN page 5

By SHAUNA CHEATHAM

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Homecoming Weekend Will Feature New Festivities Next weekend’s homecoming festivities will now include two new events — a series of campus art exhibitions and a virtual 5K run for Cornellians all over the globe — according to the University.

Cornell will also open a welcome tent for alumni and parents in a parking lot by Schoellkopf Field, the release said.

Traditional events, including the annual fireworks, laser light show and Big Red Fan Festival, will proceed as planned, according to the University. Cornell football will play Yale at 3 p.m. in its homecoming game on Saturday.

The Africana Studies and Research Center also plans to dedicate its original site during the weekend’s festivities and will show a free screening of the documentary Agents of Change at Willard Straight Hall.

However, this year’s celebrations will not feature a homecoming concert, as Barton Hall is closed for construction.

— Compiled by Stephanie Yan

Political Union Debates U.S. Involvement in Syria

By JOEL LANGSTEIN Sun Contributor

Prof. Matthew Evangelista, government, sparked discussion about whether the United States should be involved in the Syrian Civil War at a debate in Anabel Taylor Hall Tuesday.

Evangelista — who is the director of Cornell’s Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies — described the conflict between the rebels and the Syrian government, saying the United States is providing weapons for small rebel groups in Syria to defeat the dictator Bashar al-Assad.

However, he stressed that some of the groups who oppose al-Assad also oppose the U.S. The old adage — “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” — is not applicable in this case because some of the groups who believe the U.S. must defeat al-Assad are considered terrorists as well, Evangelista said, referencing the Kurds in Turkey as an example.

“The U.S. wants to support Kurdish fighters as most effective in combatting ISIS, but that complicates relations with its NATO ally Turkey, whose government considers the Kurds terrorists,” he said.

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Syria stress | Prof. Evangelista discusses the U.S.’s role in the Syrian conflict.

Evangelista added that the U.S.’s primary without knowing where they end up and goal should be to “first do no harm.” engaging in warfare without having a realis“My view is that the United States should tic long-term plan or idea of how the situanot be bombing a sovereign country without tion will be resolved,” he said. a declaration of war, funneling weapons While there are diplomatic and humani-

tarian causes for the United States to advance in Syria, Evangelista explained that, overall, the U.S. is doing “more harm than good” in the region.

Instead, Evangelista said he believes the U.S. should pursue alternative solutions, such as working with Russia and the United Nations Security Council to achieve a peaceful solution to the conflict. He added that the U.S. has a “moral obligation to accept Syrian refugees.”

Students and members of the Cornell Political Union — who hosted the debate — engaged in a spirited debate about the issue, offering a variety of viewpoints.

Some students argued that the U.S. should pull out of Syria; others insisted that the absence of an external presence in the region would only deepen the conflict.

The Cornell Political Union promised to create a resolution based on the results of the debate. The vote ended in a tie, with 22 students supporting Evangelista’s stance and 22 students opposed to it. The Cornell Political Union will publish the resolution on their website tonight.

Joel Langstein can be reached at jal534@cornell.edu.

Prof Develops New Strawberry Variety,‘Archer,’After 15 Years

By ALANA SULLIVAN Sun Contributor

After 17 years of testing, tasting, harvesting and waiting, Prof. Courtney Weber, horticulture and plant breeding, finally released his latest strawberry variety — the Archer — on Monday.

Weber said the Archer is the eighth berry variety he has developed at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva since coming to Cornell in 1999.

He has developed three raspberry varieties and four other strawberry varieties, the most recent being the Walker variety — currently being sold under the name Purple Wonder — and the Herriot, both released in 2012.

Weber said the Archer has been in the making since the very beginning. “[Archer’s] actual seed was developed in 1999 but not planted until 2000, so it’s been kind of a long haul for this one,” Weber said.

“It was selected in 2001 and finally released in 2016, so 15 years.”

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New strawberry in town | The ‘Archer’ is Prof. Courtney Weber’s eighth berry creation.

Although Archer’s development took the longest to develop of any of his berry varieties, Weber said any berry project requires a significant time investment.

Breeding begins with one seed, which yields one plant, according to Weber. One year later, that single plant produces 10 to 20 daughter plants called “runners.” A year after that, the runners are planted and after yet another year, their fruit is able to be collected. The process is then repeated multiple times.

“Each time you do that you take a couple of years to go through the process and each time you want to look at the fruit again to make sure everything is going well,” Weber explained. “You want to check [the strawberries] in the field in different locations to make sure there’s not some disease out there you haven’t seen.”

However, even with constant attention, things can go wrong. Weber stressed the need to breed seeds that can withstand adverse conditions.

“We want to have some confidence when we release [the seed] to the growers that it will have the ability to grow in many different locations and climates where it varies from year to year,” he said.

Resistance to insects and disease in particular is allocated significant attention throughout the testing process. Weber said that his team ensures the plants are diseasefree by testing them in the lab.

“We can test them for various diseases to make sure that when we send them to people and various growers we’re not sending out anything that could be detrimental to their farms,” Weber said.

Beyond its hardiness and resistance to insects and disease, what makes the Archer so remarkable is its extreme size and strong, sweet flavor, according to Weber. “[Archer] stood out from the very beginning because it has very large fruit,” Weber said. “So of course that’s something that catches the eye very easily.”

Oftentimes, there is a tradeoff between size and taste. One of the biggest challenges fruit breeders face is creating large fruit that also tastes good.

“When we tasted this one it was a very high-flavored berry,” he said. “When we get that combination [of size and taste], that’s very exciting to see.”

Alana Sullivan can be reached at ads299@cornell.edu.

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Cornell’sYoungest Student Ever Starts Classes 12-YEAR-OLD

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became clear that Jeremy would earn his high school diploma before he turned 13. The Shulers were then left to figure out how to go about enrolling the youngest Ivy League student on record.

Jeremy’s mother, Harrey Shuler, said she and Jeremy’s father had to use a paper form to

“Some people just [come up and say] ‘You’re the famous boy, right?’ and take the selfie and walk away.”

Harrey Shuler register him for the SATs because he was too young to make an online College Board account.

Jeremy was also too young to register for the Common App, so they sent individual applications to each college to which he applied. They even had to submit his Free Application for Federal Student Aid in hard-copy — they are looking forward to next year, when, as a 13-year-old, he can create an online account and save his parents some paperwork.

Armed with a 2320 on the SATs, Jeremy applied to several schools and was accepted to Cornell and the University of Texas at Austin. Ithaca, close to a branch of his father’s company and already familiar to the family, seemed like the perfect place to relocate from their Texas home.

“We’ll see how I feel during the winter, though,” Andy Shuler added. *** A slew of media articles published over the summer have raised Jeremy’s profile dramatically, to the point that he was a recognizable figure to many students

by the time he started classes. However, he seemed unfazed by the attention, saying only that it has been “pretty interesting” and that he enjoys it.

During the first two weeks of the semester, Jeremy’s mother walked with him to class to help him get his bearings.

She said she was surprised at the number of students who wanted selfies with her son. “Some people just [come up and say] ‘You’re the famous boy, right?’ and take the selfie CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR and walk away. I thought it was kind Boy genuis | Harrey Shuler said she first realized that her son was unsually advanced when he was 17 months old and taught of rude,” she laughed. himself to read Hangul. She later quit her job to homeschool him full-time.

“But some people From that point on, Andy solve it — he understands the would introduce themselves and few summers at math circles and math camps, he said he is used to Shuler said he and his wife had to equation as a whole. talk to him.”

After graduation, Jeremy plans constantly scramble to keep Jeremy admitted that he has being the youngest in the room. to pursue an advanced degree, and Jeremy challenged.

“We couldn’t more homework than he expect*** Harrey Shuler said her first get him books fast enough,” he he predicts he will eventually land ed, but he said he finds the material manageable (although he hint that her son was unusually said. They decided homeschool in academia. He said his ultimate added that, since he finished BC advanced came when he was 17 would be the best way to ensure goal is to unify quantum mechantheir son had access to a curricu- ics and number theory.

Calculus three years ago, he has months old.

“Once he sets his mind, it’s “I was writing an email to my lum tailored to his unusual learnhad to refresh himself on some of the content). He has fallen into a friend, and I was using Hangul, ing pace, so Harrey quit her job as really hard to persuade him not to steady routine: he wakes up in his which is the Korean alphabet, and an aerospace engineer and started do something,” Harrey Shuler teaching Jeremy full said. family’s downtown *** time. apartment, takes a bus to Having spent a few summers at math In his first semester, Jeremy is For a few years, campus, alternates circles and math camps, he said he is Jeremy fixated on astron- taking 17 credits spread across between Okenshields used to being the youngest in the room. omy. Then, when he was physics, engineering, math, comand Risley for lunch and five, he read Journey puter science and linguistics. He can now confidently Through Genius: The said he misses being able to sleep navigate campus on his Jeremy was curious about that,” Great Theorems of Mathematics own.

Even with his quasi-celebrity she said. “So I wrote down all the by William Dunham and entered “He’s into symmetry. status, Jeremy Schuler seems to consonants and vowels, and then I a math phase that has yet to end.

His mother thinks he picks up have adapted to college life at least made the sound.”

When there’s a function, The next day, she found mathematical concepts so quickly as well as the typical 12-year-old there should be an adapts to middle school. While he Jeremy confidently reading because he has an innate underspends nights and weekends at Hangul. Once he realized English standing of equations. “He’s into inverse function.” home or traveling around the syllables worked the same way as symmetry,” she explained. “When Harrey Shuler Finger Lakes region with his par- Korean ones, he almost immedi- there’s a function, there should be ents, he has made a couple of good ately taught himself to read an inverse function.” While most friends in his classes and enjoys English, too. He was able to read of us have to follow a set series of talking to friendly students full books on his own by the time steps to solve a math problem, in for homeschool but is otherwise Jeremy can intuit it; he doesn’t just completely comfortable in the around campus. Having spent a he turned two. classroom setting. His professors have treated him just like any other student, and both his engineering academic advisor and the University administration have gone through pains to ensure that he transitions smoothly.

Going from homeschool to a first-year engineering student’s workload, Jeremy has less time for his hobbies than he used to. Still, he said he tries to finds time between classes to work on a couple of projects: a dungeon-themed video game and a random map generator.

Confused by the latter term, I asked him to explain what a random map generator does.

“It makes a random map,” he responded.

Pressed for more, he explained that the program allows a user to input several parameters and then maps out one hemisphere of a fictional planet.

“Oh, okay,” said his father, a systems engineer for Lockheed Martin, catching on. “So you input how much is sea, how much is land and how rocky it is, or something?”

“Not quite,” Jeremy said, smiling but hurried, already eager to move on to talk of his game. “It’s more complicated than that.”

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun.com.

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world and the physical world,” O’Donnell explained. She added that the production of the structure took approximately six weeks and was installed over a two-day period with the help of about 40 volunteers from the department of architecture.

O’Donnell said the original intention was for people to go inside the “Urchin.”

However, the City of Ithaca struck the idea down.

“The inside is incredibly different,” O’Donnell said. “It’s like being in an empty auditorium or church — it’s really peaceful. That’s pretty different from the outside which is more aggressive.”

However, Morse struck a different tone, saying that not being able to go inside the exhibit instead reflects the idea of empathy — the theme of this year’s CCA Biennial.

“When you’re forced to think more carefully about what it would be like to be inside rather than actually experience it inside, you’re projecting yourself into an imaginary person and you’re trying to understand it from that person’s point of view,” Morse said.

“The impossible circus has to do with the aggregation and rotation of the chairs, and the impossibility of occupancy as the chairs are translated upward,” Lai said.

O’Donnell said the team had to modify parts of the exhibit on site. Virtual reality does not account for gravity, so it could not do all their planning for them.

She added that it has been “really interesting” to hear people’s reactions to the exhibit. “[The exhibit] has been provoking people to think about art,” O’Donnell said.

“What does it represent? Does art have to represent something? What is the role of art in the University setting? Pretty interesting questions [were asked] by people who are just walking by.”

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Morphing perceptions | The ‘Urchin’ is a part of the Cornell Council of the Arts 2016 Biennial celebration and is installed on the Arts Quad.

The theme of this year’s biennial is abject and object empathies, according to the University. Twelve new projects by Cornell faculty and students will be presented between Sept. 15 and Dec. 22.

Shauna Cheatham can be reached at snc59@cornell.edu.

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patory.”

The changes include making transcripts and resolutions available from meetings available online, descriptions and contact information for senate committees and a “stay informed” page that provides information on initiatives like the re-evaluation of

the academic calendar.

“The whole message here is that you can pay attention and be as involved as you want,” Van Loan said.

Finally, the senate discussed selection criteria for a new university librarian, who will replace Carl A. Kroch University librarian Anne Kenney in April 2017.

A committee has been created to fill the position and is currently identifying candi-

dates within and outside of Cornell, according to Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.

“We’re certainly looking for a librarian who will both be attentive to traditional book collections and someone who is looking forward, to digital archives in curation,” Ritter said.

She added that a candidate should also have connections to library systems world-

wide.

“We need to have someone who is both very attuned to the needs and interests of faculty, and someone who has an international and national profile who is connected to some of those broader networks of conversation,” Ritter said.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Save the Audio Jack!

s long-time readers (i.e my parents) might know, I take music pretty seriously. Usually, this has alienated my friends who chalk it up to another one of my pretentious behaviors and usually that’s a fair assumption. Because, realistically speaking, it doesn’t matter if you’re listening to your favorite artist on CD or streaming it, at 320 kbps or lossless quality, with openbacked headphones or five-dollar earbuds. If you’re enjoying the music, then you’re enjoying the music, no two ways about it.

However, you do have to be able to listen to the music to begin with.

Which brings us to Apple. In what was widely considered a bad move (to quote Douglas Adams) Apple has decided to completely remove the 3.5 mm audio jack from the iPhone 7. You know, the thing that lets you listen to music with virtually any headphone set? The thing that facilitated the white-earbud-on-black-silhouette aesthetic featured so heavily in Apple’s early advertisement campaigns? Well, it’s gone now.

If All that remains on the business end of the world’s most iconic smartphone is the little eight pin lightning port, which will now serve all input and output functions.

Consider what this means. If you listen to music on your phone at all, you’re now out of luck with the new model. If your car has only a 3.5 mm input, you can now longer play music with your phone. Yes, a pair of compatible earbuds (sorry, “earpods”) will be shipped with the iPhone, so you can use them with the new phone until they inevitably break after a month of use.

However, you are completely out of luck if you want to use any other set of wired headphones than the ones Apple provides, because there is not a single third party headphone manufacturer that uses lighting connectors for audio input since it’s proprietary technology.

But wait, Apple has announced that they will ship a lightning port to 3.5 mm input adapter with every iPhone 7, so problem solved right? Not really, because first, is there anyone who would prefer an adapter to no adapter? Less is always best. And second, this is still a step down from previous models because you can’t charge your phone and listen to music at that same time. There is a dongle for that, but guess what, it’s $40. So, essentially you can pay $40 to do something that every other smartphone is capable of doing right out of the box.

I’ve heard two arguments for the removal

of the audio jack prior to the iPhone 7’s announcement. One, it will slim down the phone. Short answer, it doesn’t. The iPhone 7 is almost exactly the same thickness as the iPhone 6 (a couple of millimeters thicker in fact). I’m not even sure who wants a thinner iPhone anyhow, I feel as if I could snap my 5s just by having it in my back pocket and sitting down. Second, it will lead to higher quality and more efficient audio. This won’t happen, because getting the same volume will require the exact same amount of power as older models used. Personally, I can’t tell you if a lightning port is any better at transferring an audio signal, but the digital-toaudio converter won’t be much different and so the signal will remain unchanged. Not to mention that Bluetooth headphones are never better quality than a comparable wired set simply by virtue of a less reliable wireless signal.

This is a business move by Apple to phase out the 3.5 mm jack, pure and simple.

they can effectively kill the audio jack, then they can charge for adapters or simply dominate the headphone market for people who use Apple products.

If they can effectively kill the audio jack, then they can charge for adapters or simply dominate the headphone market for people who use Apple products. That is, unless you want to drop $100 plus for a Bluetooth set (and who doesn’t want something else to charge?). Remember, the lightning port is proprietary technology; no other company can use it without Apple’s licensing. And I can guarantee you they will not include an adapter with the iPhone 8 if this catches on.

It’s a slow game they can afford to play. And how long until Samsung and Microsoft decide to create their own proprietary ports?

Unless you want to live a life of endless adapters, it will be the death of headphone universality.

Adapters are cheap, yes, but why should we as consumers be forced to use them?

There is no upside to lightning ports as a replacement for the humble audio jack. The only way to stop the phasing out of the audio jack as an industry standard is to boycott the iPhone. If you need a new smartphone, consider getting Android. Otherwise simply listening to music may become much more trouble than it should be.

Soren Malpass is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at skm94@cornell.edu.

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6900 Ho Plaza | Guest Room

Eat Up M

en, the bar is set so low for you when it comes to sex with women, it is concerning.

Honestly, pleasing a woman is too damn easy — all you have to do is make her orgasm. Most of the time, you don’t even need to make a woman cum multiple times, because other men are so shitty at sex, the poor girl will most likely be delighted to have cum at all. And, contrary to popular belief, making women cum is actually not that hard if you invest a modicum of time and effort into the endeavor. I can get myself to orgasm in five minutes, and, if my female friends are telling the truth, I am not the exception.

So, how do you get a girl to orgasm violently while screaming your name?

Very simple: You eat her pussy like it is the last thing you will ever taste and you finger her with gentle persistence.

Time to tell you a story so you will believe that I know my shit and follow my good advice. The first time I fucked my boyfriend, we’d both been drinking at a party in someone’s dorm when I asked him if he wanted to come to my room for some mac

and cheese. He said yes, and it happened — my first one-night-stand.

The more women I tell this story to, the more I realize how atypical my experience with a one-night-stand was. For one thing, I’ve been dating the guy for

for so long, I eventually started to feel bad for him — and then began wondering why the fuck I should feel bad for him and focused on enjoying myself.

Still, he had to put a solid 20 minutes of vigorous effort into getting me off, and

I find other women are shocked by the fact that my boyfriend, despite my insistence that this was completely unnecessary, went down on me with gusto. two years, which goes to show miracles do happen, I guess. But mostly, I find other women are shocked by the fact that my boyfriend, despite my insistence that this was completely unnecessary, went down on me with gusto. Let me repeat this — this total stranger went down on me, unasked, because he wanted to blow my fucking mind.

Well, let me tell you, he succeeded.

This sex god of a man went down on me

he was perfectly happy to, insisting that I needed to have an orgasm before sex could start. By the time he was done, we were both completely drenched, and I was ready to have the most mind-blowing sex in human history. By the time the night was over, Boyfriend had eaten me out two more times, and his back was covered in the long, jagged marks my fingernails had scratched while I came on his dick again and again.

I share this not because I want to brag that I get regularly fucked by a guy who’s basically the Olympian champ at fucking, but because I know not all men are like this. My first partner acted like going down on me was the biggest sacrifice a person could make, and so after a certain point, I stopped asking him to eat me out and became resigned to the hell that is unsatisfying sex. Too many women have nodded understandingly when I’ve shared this. Men, you really don’t need to do much to impress women. Do you want to be a good fuck? Do you want a girl, two and a half years after the fact, to think back on that one time you fucked her and unironically refer to you as a sex god? If so, you are going to have to grow up — and eat up. Ask your girl how she wants it. Ask her how you can make her scream. And for god’s sake, increase your stamina — women prefer it when sex lasts longer than five minutes.

6900 Ho Plaza is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

The Duchess | Between the Sheets

We Share More Than the Living Room A

very important piece of advice you’ll receive at It started with little things: picking on each other tongue. Pulling my bra down, he began inspecting some point in your life is “don’t live with your for words we used, inside jokes, catching each other my breasts, nibbling on my nipples and I moaned significant other too soon in the relationship.” staring... Then longer conversations in each other’s softly. I was off my feet before I knew it, lying back Understood. There are several reasons for this. If you rooms, him helping me with my work, walks outside on my bed. I opened my eyes as he pulled his shirt off break up it will be awkward, you’re with each other so to look for Pokémon… And of course that one time over his head. As he tossed it under the bed I reached many hours of the day that, especially at the early we took a shot too many and I decided to challenge forward and unbuckled his pants, pulling them down stage of the relationship, it can get borto reveal Mickey Mouse boxers — I knew ing, you’ll get distracted, pooping with he was the one who left them in the dryer them in the apartment is awkward, etc. last week…

So then what happens if you start, It took me a couple of seconds before I muttered He flipped me over and I realized we accidentally (I swear), fucking your were going for reverse cowgirl. Of course roommate. Hear me out. I realized at the a quiet ‘hey.’ Part of me was praying he was my I knew this was his favorite position from start of sophomore year that I’d be homethe conversation I had with one of the roommate’s boyfriend, but it slowly settled in less junior year, so I rushed to find roomgirls he hooked up with on Tinder when mates on Cornell’s Facebook group. she sat in our living room nervously waitthat I was already developing a crush Luckily I got a message soon to meet up ing for him to wake up the morning after. with some people and quickly signed my Despite the angular challenges cowgirl on my roommate. lease for next year. I only, however, met poses, I did my best, and then we were three of the four people I’d be living with. thankfully back to basic Cosmo stuff I All I knew about the fourth roommate could actually keep up with. was that he was a quiet engineer. Junior Point of all this being that this is the year rolls around and I moved into my apartment, ‘him to find my hidden tattoo. I thought I’d make kid I have to eat Sunday brunch with, who has to see unpacked and am sitting in the living room minding him struggle a little more so I flipped off the light me with my retainer in, hair all over the place as I my own business when a 6’3”, jaw-dropping, oh-my- switch in my room leaving only my fairy lights to rush out of the house for my morning classes. BUT god-how-is-this-person-not-on-TV kind of hot guy guide him. I leaned back on my dresser as I smirked also the guy I get to innocently walk around wearing walks in. I’m talking biceps, triceps, shoulders, back, at him. He neared me and kissed my neck hard as he nothing but a towel, or no bra or pants since after all, pecs, abs (and all the other muscles I don’t know the flipped me around tracing my upper back with his well, he’s my roommate... And that’s an innocent names of or that they even existed) protruding from fingers and pulling down my shorts as he slid down relationship, right? the off-white t-shirt he’s wearing. “Hey there!” It my body slapping my ass and kissing the back of my took me a couple of seconds before I muttered a quiet thighs. I started giggling as he flipped me back hey. Part of me was praying he was my roommate’s around and started inspecting the front of my body. The Duchess is a student at Cornell. Comments can be sent to associboyfriend, but it slowly settled in that I was already He pulled my shirt up above my head and drew each ate-editor@cornellsun.com. Between the Sheets appears periodically bra strap down as he traced my collarbone with his this semester. developing a crush on my roommate.

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Tyler Alicea ’16 | Guest Room

Revisiting‘The Road toIthaka’ T

he sky was clear on the bright, sun-filled morning just a year ago when Cornellians gathered on the Arts Quad to celebrate the start of the next chapter in Cornell’s history. During Homecoming, the community met for the inauguration of our 13th president, marking the closing celebrations of our sesquicentennial year. With the statue of Ezra Cornell looming in the background, Elizabeth Garrett stood strong, detailing her vision for Cornell at home and abroad.

Just months later, over 1,000 Cornellians gathered at the same site, but now on an overcast afternoon. Facing toward Andrew Dickson White this time, we gathered in silence as the chimes rang commemorating President Garrett’s time on the Hill. Some held back tears. Others embraced. Many stood seemingly lifeless, contemplating the tragedy facing our campus after she lost her battle with colon cancer on March 6.

At President Garrett’s inauguration, I’m certain no one considered that within a few short months, she would become the first Cornell president to pass while holding office. What many of us saw instead was an inspirational leader ready to challenge many of the structures that defined Cornell for years. In the few short months she was president, she presented decisions that some Cornellians found controversial, from the introduction of the College of Business to refusing to commit to divestiture from the fossil fuels industry. What stood out, however, was her commitment to be radical and progressive, ideals Cornell’s founders instilled in the University’s identity.

In her inaugural address, Garrett referenced the poem Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy, describing the journey to the many Ithakas in our lives. With her words now a year behind us, reflecting upon her vision for Cornell remains just as imperative as we seek to evaluate the priorities of Cornell moving forward. I hope to consider some of the ideas she spoke of last year in this column.

Garrett began discussing the role of the faculty, stressing the need for diverse viewpoints, teaching methods and lived experiences. Much of this, to little surprise, remains germane.

Given recent flashpoints of racial tensions in the last few years and the polarizing political discourse this election season, the faculty and staff should be equipped to have meaningful conversations to engage diversity, inclusion and social justice across all of the disciplines. Doing so will not only benefit our community, but will enable Cornellians to tackle some of the greatest challenges facing contemporary society, including injustice and inequality. Additionally, given last year’s study that found 96 percent of political contributions from Cornell faculty members gave to Democratic campaigns between 2011 and 2014, considerations to ensure Cornell’s teaching force is politically diverse should be examined to allow a variety of ideas in academia.

She further commented on the University’s motto, “any person … any study,” arguing that we should embrace the “spirit of any study” by focusing energy on disciplines that build upon the excellence of a Cornell education, rather than teaching literally every study. As the community has dialogues about what future curricula will become — the College of Arts and Sciences aims to undergo these conversations this year, for example — we ought define what “any study” means in the 21st century. What will the role of study abroad and Engaged Cornell be on the undergraduate experience? Should there be a diversity requirement for all students?

Which programs should Cornell offer? Which should it not? By no means am I qualified to answer these questions alone, but discourses including faculty, students and alumni must be had to identify answers to questions like these and more.

Cornell Tech — arguably one of the most ambitious and stimulating developments in Cornell’s recent history — was also highlighted. Garrett stressed that the new campus should be connected with our home on the Hill and argued that skills addressing the challenges of today should be emphasized in Ithaca, New York and around the world. With the Roosevelt Island campus set to open next year, the tech campus provides a number of opportunities that should be seized and touted by Cornell.

As Garrett described, “our academic community must be bold in our ambition,” and these new partnerships provide a clear path to continue its quest to further its role as a global institution.

The few interactions I had with President Garrett readied me for a new period in Cornell’s history that I hoped to experience as an alumnus (and little did I know this time last year, as a graduate student). I won’t pretend to have known President Garrett well, but I was fortunate enough to cross paths with her during her time here, from interviewing her when the Board of Trustees announced her appointment to meeting with her through my role as Editor in Chief of The Sun. I was left speechless when I heard she died, the day after I finished my term as an editor. Tragically, I realized I covered her time with the Big Red as a reporter and editor from start to finish.

Nonetheless, we must continue to honor and remember her legacy.

One year later, President Garrett’s vision for Cornell still lives.

Undoubtedly, her time in Day Hall affected this University in tangible ways, but we must continue the fight with the same passion and empathy Garrett brought, “traveling to the many diverse Ithakas that await our discovery.” If the previous presidential search is any indication, the Cornell community could soon learn who will be the next person to helm this institution. However, as we examine the many journeys to Ithaka, we should do so as a community, acknowledging the freedom and responsibility that is engrained in the Cornell identity.

Tyler Alicea is a graduate student in Computing and Information Science. He completed his undergraduate degree at Cornell in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences in May 2016 and served as the editor in chief and managing editor of The Sun. He may be reached at tra37@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Sarah Zumba | Zumba Works It Out

What’s an Ally?

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n its simplest definition, an ally from being wrong or doing some- ers who may be suffering from a is someone who another per- thing problematic. I try to be different kind of oppression. Even son can trust and count on respectful and kind to everyone, if I’m in a group of other Latinx despite them not fully understand- but that doesn’t mean I exist with- people, it doesn’t mean that people ing what it’s like to be in a certain out fault. I don’t, and can’t, know can get away with saying problemposition. An ally advocates and everything; I’m learning everyday. atic things because we’re all comassists a marginalized group that Everyone has the potential to say ing from similar ethnic backthey are not a part of. For example, or do something that could easily grounds. a white person who advocates for “discredit” their allyship to a comA lot of the time when I have racial justice can be considered an munity. It is also important to rec- interacted within groups consistally to people of color. The defini- ognize when people do get upset ing of people of color, people have tion of ally is rather simplistic in when someone says something still said racist or misogynistic concept, but is much more com- wrong, it is for a reason. Whatever things. I have had men of color plicated in practice. People often was done, usually has some kind talk down to me, talk over me and find themselves messing up when of impact on the person or group talk to me without space for my their actions coincidentally work involved. People may react with own input. This has happened to against the supposed title they however their feeling, which is me multiple times claim.

Calling yourself or someone Calling yourself or someone else an ally is just an else an ally is just an identifier identifier word; what really matters the most is word; what really your actions and reactions. You can call yourmatters the most is your actions self anything you want, but it definitely and reactions. doesn’t mean it’s accurate.

You can call yourself anything you want, but it definitely doesn’t completely valid. within these first few weeks of mean it’s accurate. Anyone can say As an ally, it is a person’s job to school alone. Just because you are that they are an ally, but that does- listen and take in what is being someone from a marginalized n't really mean anything if they said, even if it’s emotionally community, does not mean you still do shitty things. If you claim expressed criticism. Again, because don’t have to be considerate of that title, then at the very least you an ally is unable to fully under- other people. If someone comshould extensively think about stand a person’s perspective, they ments on a cisgender straight what that exactly means to you have no idea where what they are man’s masculinity taking up too and more importantly, how you saying is coming from. Despite the much space in a conversation, the can assist a community in a way idea of a “good ally” and a “bad response should not be instantly that is respectful and beneficial. ally” being questionable, there is defensive and upset. The response Many times, this is where allyship definitely a good and bad way of should be to consider why that can easily fall apart. responding to criticism. As stated might have been said and maybe If, as an ally, you are imposing before, an ally should be listening; ask the person who said it what your own beliefs and ideas on a but if someone is instantly defen- they might have done wrong. If a group you are not a part of, that sive and upset after someone man who claims to be an ally to isn’t really okay. It is up to you to expresses how they feel, then that women or femme presenting peotake a step down from your plat- is a huge problem. Someone’s reac- ple still doesn’t seem to get it and form of privilege and let others tion is almost always indicative of continues to express how upset he speak because you don’t know their sense of entitlement and their is about, then that is an issue. where they are coming from. It own struggle of not being the cenThere are all kinds of issues isn’t your place. This is also impor- ter of attention for once. A good that can come up in regards to tant in order to ensure that the example of this is when someone allyship because there are so many same oppressive ideals are not makes a white person joke and a different people that face different being perpetuated. If we continue white person, who is supposedly kinds of struggle. Knowing your to prioritize the same voices, noth- isn’t racist, gets offended. That place and being respectful towards ing will ever change. kind of difference between con- people with experiences you’ll The most important thing to cept and practice just doesn’t add never have is a good thing to keep remember about allyship, no mat- up. in the back of your mind, which is ter what the community you’re This is not just relevant for what I personally try to do. acting as an ally for, is that there is white people acting as allies to no such thing as a good ally people of color, but also relevant Sarah Zumba is a junior in the College of because everyone can easily make a within communities of all margin- Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mistake. Even though I’m writing alized communities. We cannot sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out this article, it doesn’t exempt me focus on ourselves and forget oth- appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Juicing: A Fatty Fad Diet

By MIKAYLA KUYKENDALL Sun Contributor

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know you’ve all seen it: the brightly-colored liquid being sipped through a straw, in a clear cup so that this colorful concoction can be shown off properly, of course. This liquid is the product of juicing. Juicing is a new trend in dieting that involves taking some fruit or vegetables and putting them into a juicer that removes all the pulp and leaves you with juice. You see Kylie Jenner on the cover of a tabloid drinking something green, and it seems like a great idea — you get to throw in the celery you would never actually eat but without all the stringiness. It also seems like a pretty solid plan to lose weight or “detox” your body of the Big Mac and cookies ’n’ cream milkshake

you had for lunch the day before, all while providing your body with essential nutrients. And who doesn’t throw back a glass of orange juice when that first sneeze of a month-long cold hits?

While these juices retain some of the nutrients from the fruits or vegetables in them, they’re stripped of all of their fiber during the juicing process.

According to registered dietitian Jaimette McCulley, the fiber is what helps give us the feeling of fullness so that we’re not ravenous after only having three glasses of juice in a day, and end up blowing our whole juicing plan on Pizza Hut’s $5 Flavor Menu.

Two pizzas and cheesy breadsticks would just add onto the calories from the glass of orangeapple-carrot juice that usually has as many calories as a regular soda.

Besides keeping us feeling full,

fiber slows down the process of sugar entering the bloodstream so that the body doesn’t experience an insulin spike and subsequent “crash” we have all felt after chugging four Red Bulls the night before a prelim. Plus, fiber keeps our gastrointestinal tract running smoothly and efficiently. As for the body detoxifying itself, that’s what the liver is for. And the kidneys. And the lungs. And the pancreas. Basically, that’s what your body is for. It is made to fight against foreign substances that could possibly cause it harm.

So juicing isn’t really doing anything for your body that your body can’t already do for itself.

Besides all the sugar and some nutrients that are in most fruit juices (even with vegetables included), there isn’t a whole lot of anything else. As already mentioned, there isn’t any fiber, but

there’s neither fat nor whole lot of protein, either. These macronutrients also contribute to that feeling of fullness that we need to avoid consuming three days’ worth of calories at once because we’re so hungry. In addition to keeping us feeling full, fat and protein are sources of energy, which we all need, considering every location on Cornell’s campus is uphill.

Honestly, we’re all probably better off drinking tea or fruitinfused water if we need a beverage that’s got a little extra flavor but doesn’t send our insulin levels through the roof. If you’re thinking about giving the fruit-infused water a try, I recommend taking the peels off of citrus fruits. The peels of lemons, limes, oranges and grapefruits tend to make the water unbearably bitter when left in for too long.

The gold standard, of course, would be to eat the whole fruit or vegetable. This way the fiber stays intact, plus your body will get all of the nutrients that the produce has to offer. Smoothies are also a good choice because you can throw a ton of stuff in a blender, and you can’t even taste some of it. So go ahead and chop some kale and blend it up. Add milk or yogurt to get the fat and protein.

Maybe add some kind of nut butter if you’re into it. All you bodybuilders out there can add protein powder for a solid postworkout snack. I’m a huge fan of banana, peanut butter and skim milk. Whatever you prefer, don’t forget the clear cup and the straw.

Mikayla Kuykendall is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at mpk77@cornell.edu.

Collegetown Cooking: Tuna Stir-Fry

By AUSTON LI Sun Contributor

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s college students, we run into a lot of issues when it comes to food. Do we order in delivery, cook on our own or eat at a dining hall?

We run into a lot of time, supply and financial constraints. When I stayed over summer in Ithaca, I found that cooking was often far too time-consuming.

I’m a pescatarian, so if I want to eat something involving seafood, I need to spend hours of preparation on things like defrosting and cleaning the fish, and I need to acquire a bounty of supplies like ginger, spices and other curing ingredients. It was just really difficult to manage my food and budget — until I came up with the idea to use canned tuna.

Typically, we think of tuna in the context of tuna salad or tuna steaks. But tuna is actually an extremely versatile ingredient. I prefer to think of canned tuna as the seafood version or ground pork or turkey: they can all be utilized in an array of stir-fry dishes.

The dish I’ve managed to develop with canned tuna is a basic stirfry with onions, cabbage and canned tuna. It’s a versatile dish that pairs well with any type of grain staple.

The ingredients list is pretty bare: cabbage, onions, canned tuna, salt and pepper.

My favorite part about this dish is that no oil is necessary, if you choose a brand of canned tuna that’s stored in vegetable oil. In general, one can of tuna works well with a whole onion and a quarter head of cabbage.

The stir-fry does well with smaller pieces of vegetables, so I typically dice the onions and cabbage into tiny chunks, roughly the size of a penny. After you open up the tuna can, all the prep work is

done.

You’ll want to use a medium size pan over high heat. You can use the lid of the tuna can to strain in the vegetable oil directly to the pan. Once the pan heats up, toss in the onions and a pinch of salt and lower the heat to medium. As the onions turn yellow to golden brown, stir in the drained tuna can and continue mixing.

After about a minute, pour the cabbage into the pan. There’s a few tricks involved with cooking in the cabbage. The first is to sprinkle a little salt and flip the cabbage to the bottom of the pan. You can also cover the pan with the lid to help the cabbage release some of its juices. With all the ingredients in the pan, season the dish to taste and continue cooking until the cabbage texture is to your liking.

With that, the college-style tuna surprise is done. If you’re feeling adventurous, spruce up the dish by adding diced carrots, mushrooms or even an egg at the

end. The stir-fry on its own is very tasty, but you could also use eat it on a sandwich or toss it with some

noodles or rice. My favorite variation is with mushrooms, cheese and rice.

Auston Li is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at al884@cornell.edu.

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Izzy Bizu A Moment of Madness Epic Records

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O Jessie Weber Once in awhile, an artist appears who produces exactly what you were looking for. The pop music scene has been overly blessed with strong female leads, from any of Ariana Grande’s continuously multiplying tracks (I love her and Nicki Minaj, but “Side to Side” is a bit much for me to get out without wincing a bit — “wrist icicle/dick bicycle?”

Really?) to any of the pure gold that Rihanna and Beyoncé rain down on us. I’d been craving someone with a bit of a different sound for a while and around last spring ran into Izzy Bizu’s “White Tiger,” off her 2013 EP Coolbeanz. This track is liquid happiness and believe me, it makes a much better alarm then your AT&T default track “Spring Morning.”

With a minimal rhythm of piano and percussion by her side throughout, it feels about as wholesome as watching How to Train your Dragon with your grandma (which is a 10/10 would recommend, by the way). It’s clean in lyrics and in production, it’s light, it’s substantial and it leaves you feeling the same as the track comes to a close.

Bizu has a voice that can range from throaty to lilting, but never with so much depth as Bettye Swann and Ella Fitzgerald, whose influence is obvious in Bizu’s debut album A Moment of Madness. The album, released on the September 2, is brilliant and not too simple. The accompaniment at any given moment echoes the styles of James Brown, the Black Keys and Maroon Five to meet Bizu in a perfectly-balanced middle.

“White Tiger” is a clear stand-out of the album, but Bizu created another layer of balance by placing the other major standout as the penultimate. “Mad Behaviour” sounds like it wants to save your soul.

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Although these are the stand-out tracks, the entire album creates a picturesque kind of beauty that touches down on various reworkings of jazz, funk, and pop without losing its own sense of identity. “Glorious” and “Hello Crazy” harken to the Black Keys’ 2010 album Brothers, while “I Know” could be nestled in with James Brown’s “The Boss” without seeming displaced. Trails of Amy Winehouse’s ’68 version of “Valerie” sink into the tracks “Skinny” with uplifting lines like “Skinny skinny skinny/ get down on the floor/ don’t be shy you blow my mind,” and “Gorgeous.” A Moment of Madness touches on each of these styles and then lights off, so the album never feels like it’s copying anything, but rather paying homage.

Bizu has so many conversations with herself within this album. “Diamond” gives a response to her EP’s track “Fool’s Gold” as she asserts “You’re the type that never rusts/ You’re more than just gold dust/ You’re a diamond in the rough.”

She analyzes real or fictional people who matter to her in almost every song. In “Gorgeous,” she pleads to her one-person audience, “everyone around you just adores ya/ you don’t like what you see in the mirror/ at least if you go take me with you.” To the backing of the strangely fairy-like chorus (in line with the lyrics in the first verse) and too-clipped keyboard of

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Julia Curley Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, a “post-punk super group,” plays the kind of music that makes you want to be a roadie, a groupie, a super fan. They sound like an older, alternative Adele: refreshingly soulful. Skeleton Tree, their new album released on September 9, carries the weight of a universal conscience.

Nick Cave patches together old lyrics in a new way that resonates in your ear drums, makes its way into your cerebrum and sends a cascade of interneurons down toward your heart. Skeleton Tree is irresistible from its first echoing electric chord. Cave sings, “with my voice/ I am calling you.” I’m captivated and Cave knows it. His first track calls in his listeners from every end of the Earth, as he pulls from his deep, otherworldly voice. The vocals transition within the first track from complacent speaking to deep pleading. And, quickly, Cave’s listeners blindly follow. The cyclical echoing behind Cave’s voice swings from a conscious outer layer to a deeply deprived inner membrane unfulfilled by pop’s predictable linearity. The lead singer’s last name captures the tone of his music. Cave’s words and his band’s chords seem to bounce off the walls of some unvisited cavern and come back out at the hesitant listener, begging them to enter. The first track hypnotizes Cave’s audience.

The second track wakes you back up to “exactly where [you’re] born to be.” Song two feels right. It perfectly

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answers the ambiguity set forth in track one. Cave hits every note with a natural combination of passion and distance like remembering a sad story that doesn’t quite hold the same hurt anymore. It’s the sound of a break up that no longer pulls on your heartstrings. It’s satisfying and relieving and understanding.

Together, eight tracks culminate on Skeleton Tree to tell a story of time. After bringing you in and showing you where you’re meant to be, “Girl in Amber,” paints a vision of what happened between now and then. Between track one and track two, the tone changes drastically. In “Jesus Alone,” Nick Cave acts as God and beckons all types of people to come into his world and hear his philosophy. In “Rings of Saturn,” he sings along with a more lively melody that needs not compel you to listen but that simply compliments a listener’s conscious mood and attitude. The third track molds together the two ends of Cave’s spectrum and explains the inner ground, the space between, the means by which the music moves you. Cave says it and it’s fact: “Some go and some stay behind/ Some never move at all.” “Girl in Amber” combines elements from both the first two tracks. It describes the ache between the hurt and the forgiveness. It drips with a feeling of desperation and echoes the most formative moments of our lives. “Girl in Amber” is the reason why Cave can play “Rings of Saturn” with a blissful detach-

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“Lost Paradise,” Bizu mourns several kinds of loss with her father, crying out first “I know it’s hard to find piece of mind/you can’t ride two horses at the same time” before dissolving into “My daddy was hanging on zip wire dreams/I begged him to wake but all he wanted was peace/and I don’t blame him for a second he had four ribs broken/half a tongue left and no kidney to show.”

“Circles” in turn comes back to echo “Lost Paradise,” pushing again imagery of a crumbling self and will to live, “Jumping and I’m cutting at the rope/don’t try and stop me I am rotten to the bone.” She spaces these two tracks with others, like “Glorious,” in which the upbeat music betrays what’s happening in the lyrics; Bizu is acknowledging that someone she loves is moving away from her and towards someone else. The track evolves from her singing “It’s obvious/ it’s glorious,” to a rather intentional “she’s glorious,” as she narrates “you’re treading water/ in my eyes” which I will hold is a perfect way to describe crying in front of someone who matters to you.

A Moment of Madness, in its totality, is a work of art. Put it on, turn it up, and give yourself over to it—you’ll be better for it if you do. I would have been happy to keep waking up to “White Tiger” in the mornings, but A Moment of Madness brings all sorts of new moments into the mix. Bizu is certainly an artist to watch out for moving forward.

This review was originally published in its entirety on September 13. It can be viewed at www.cornellsun.com.

Jessie Weber is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jweber@cornellsun.com.

ment. “Girl in Amber” is the process. “Girl in Amber” is the grit. “Girl in Amber” is the not giving up. The next five songs soulfully elaborate on this middle ground.

Despite the obscurity in Cave’s subject matter, his words make sense to any unknowing listener’s ears because he sings them, or often speaks them, with an emotional sonorousness.

Like the wailing of an animal, Cave’s album resonates with audiences because it touches a natural nerve. He enters our subconscious in his first song and plays along our human sympathy as the track list progresses. It plays out as a negotiation with pain. Track one is the unknowing mistake — the trigger. Track two is the moving on. Every track that follows is the struggling through. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds prove in Skeleton Trees that most of life is this unsettled confrontation of fate — the not quite right, the making do, the carrying on. There’s the hurt — song one — there’s the restoration — song two — and there’s the healing.

Nick Cave stands out to me like the opposite of every singer to come on American Idol. He shows off his talents without moving from harmony to screeching scream just to prove the range of his abilities. Cave bests them all by barely singing. He speaks like modernity’s omniscient narrator. He proves the power in prose. His album speaks to human suffering throughout the seasons. The music moves listeners through its resonant sounds and powerful words rather than calculated transitions from falsetto to shout. Nick Cave ingeniously shows how people move into suffering and somehow emerge on the other side. Like the student’s that walk through Ithaca’s foliage in the fall, our nature undergoes a cycle. The skeleton tree recovers in the spring, flourishes in the fall and then circles back to nakedness in winter. Our minds and bodies echo these transitions. Cave’s combination of lyrics and instruments reverberates off human ears toward our inner-workings. Skeleton Tree, as an album, sounds like the days of our lives through an expansive lens. It captures the circling back and fourth, the angst, the forgiveness and the carrying on.

Julia Curley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun.com.

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Sharknado 4 Is Fin-tastic

BY AMY LIN Sun Staff Writer

It’s been five years since the last Sharknado hit. Astro X has saved the world from the utter destruction of sharknadoes. By stabilizing the atmosphere, they have ended severe weather, ensuring that the debilitating events of global warming are not felt by the people of the Sharknado universe. Fin (Ian Ziering), the protagonist in charge of making questionable decisions and pulling living people out of sharks, is living pleasantly in Kansas with his young son, finally free of his dangerous past at the start of Sharknado 4: The 4th Awakens. He even leaves his standoffish disposition behind for a full few minutes when he sees his son.

Well, for the first two and a half minutes at least.

Fin and his niece, Gemini (Masiela Lusha), head to Las Vegas for a reunion with Fin’s older son, and it immediately seems as if there’s a storm brewing. For the past five years the sharks must have been practicing their aim, as they’ve significantly improved the accuracy and frequency of their attacks. They’ve achieved mastery in darts, horseshoes and cornhole, as they impale, consume, and slide into whatever is in their way. One major point of growth throughout the Sharknado series has been the increase in number of shark attacks. While only a few random bystanders were hurt by sharks in the first movie, dozens were randomly smacked by sharks in Sharknado 4.

Overall, the film is plagued by inconsistent characterization and cinematography, and also by the expectations that

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the franchise created for itself. While the inconsistencies in characterization have been consistent in Sharknado movies, many didn’t seem intentional, and thus their comedic value is lost. Perhaps the biggest disappointment is the lack of

space travel. With an extraplanetary cliff hanger and name alluding to Star Wars viewers naturally hoped for a sharknado in space. Aside from a brief mention of Fin’s dad’s lunar excursion and a few tiny Star Wars references, the film is devoid of space. Maybe the budget didn’t allow for a space themed movie or maybe the writers realized that you can’t have a tornado without an atmosphere; a true disappointment either way.

News coverage of the sharknadoes starts early, and it seems that Al Roker

(as himself ) is always ready to share more of the pseudoscience that the writers have concocted to explain the storms. The news bursts appear too often to work as cameos, but too aggressively reference the real world to be part

cameos were understandable, they were hilarious, but the scenes were often awkward and unamusing. Gottfried’s cameo was one that really added to the movie.

Everyone knows his distinctive voice, and he had a meaningful part in telling the story. Most of all, it was preposterous that voice of the little bird from Aladdin (yes, that’s why his voice sounds familiar) is reporting live on a sharknado.

The ludicrous little bits and pieces of action make Sharknado 4 incredible and irritating.

Sharknado is fun because it’s so frustrating. There’s fun in the frustration of watching a terrible movie, and in complaining about it with your friends. Whether it’s a great cameo from someone totally out of place or a brand new type of ’nado, there’s always something utterly bizarre coming at the viewer.

Sharknado is a saga defined by poor quality. In the fourth installment, it outdid itself, in both good and bad ways. In built upon the previous movies, had plenty to laugh at and still even more to complain about. However, much of Sharknado 4 remained less than great. Sharknadoes can be pushed COURTESY OF SYFY only so far, and the series’ creators of the Sharknado universe. They are a bit are reaching their limit. We will likely tiring and lose their entertainment as fail to see a sharknado in space, but who soon as they lose their shock value. knows what else the writers may spin Gilbert Gottfried’s cameo as an NBC out. While the prospects for future reporter, however, is perhaps the biggest Sharknado plots and expansions are highlight of the entire film. cloudy, at least there was an outrageous The Sharknado franchise has had cliff hanger serving as a remnant of hope mixed results with cameos. Many for the future. appearances promote unrecognizable “celebrities” known only to niche audiences. Several cameos referenced the Katie Sims is a freshman in the College of Arts given actor’s background, however and Sciences. She can be reached at obscure they might be. When the kms425@cornell.edu.

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or about a day now I’ve been entertaining writing an article about moshing: some kind of article-y feminist critique of or spatial-political inquiry into the act of a kinetic mass of bodies violently jumping up and down, and deliberately slamming into each other. I annoyed my friends when I asked them if they thought I should do so. “Mosh pits! What an interesting phenomenon,” I thought. “Wow! What a good column topic! Very Fraught! Many layered social and gender politics there!”

But I have never been in a mosh pit. So, to avoid that particular brand of cutesy ignorance and pedantic pathologizing of a culture I don’t participate in, I’ll leave the space of a column about moshing to someone/anyone who a.) semi-regularly inhabits mosh pits and b.) engages a perspective somewhere in the vast space between the belief that moshing is the salvation from the crippling boredom of the postmodern condition (depressed kids don’t need Prozac, just a good, healthy mosh) and that it’s a feminist nightmare and girls who like to mosh are like girls who like to give blowjobs (a statement constituting an actual feminist nightmare).

I do, however, have a body, which has been at some punk shows; although I’ve

never quite figured out what to do with it or how to inhabit it there. As I mentioned, I don’t know much about mosh pits but I’m pretty intimate with their sides, corners and edges. So, I can write a column about the feelings and sights that collect and breed in those cobwebbed crevices between the mosh-pit and the basement wall. For most of my show-going life, I have felt massively self-conscious in show-spaces, an anxiety that has had a serious rivalry with my general enjoyment of live music.

What to cover my body in?

Agonizing.

It has felt like no amount of black or floral or Objectivity corduroy or denim, no Bites pair of clogs or combat boots could melt me comfortably into the crowd. My body, even tucked in those dark corners, felt too big and too boring, not angled enough, my haircut too typical, my modest nose piercing, corny, the hands in my pockets, transparent and performative.

The dancing always particularly mystified me. Moshing might not be a feminist nightmare, but it is one of mine: to be shoved, elbowed and bashed around by a bunch of strangers in a ritualistic act of consensual violence, all under a deafening wall of noise. When you are

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standing on the side of a mosh-pit, options for movement are pretty limited (your spatial awareness working doubletime to make up for all the people around you having deliberately abdicated theirs). Non-moshing possibilities include stationary lurching, hands-inpockets while head-bobbing, foot-tapping, limp-arm-pumping, phone-checking-but-not-too-much (very hard to pull off ), a kind of hip-patting as a more apathetic clapping alternative, jumping up and down in one place, and putting your arm around a friend and lurching (not very cool at all, but one of the most redeeming, I think). I’ve yet to really nail down a scene-acceptable, physically and emotionally satisfying dance style that is fun, but won’t accidentally send me headlong into a mosh pit.

The most occupying thing about the view from the edge of the mosh pit is the lurking feeling like I’m not really there at all. Dislodged from the dominant experience and memory of the show and the night; as passive as the walls or furniture, looking in from the outside, spectating the spectators. Peripheral and incidental, not instrumental to the event or to the scene, but still not anonymous; still subject to the scene’s gaze and judgment. Maybe the moshers think of themselves the way I imagine; a part of something authentic and unshareable and superior. Or maybe at the heart of all of this is a fragile, non-moshing china doll of an ego that is irked not to be the center of attention.

What I do know is that the edge of the mosh pit is a fertile grounds for an uncomfortable collision of a slew of personal insecurities and looming social pressures, to which I am keenly attuned.

Figuring out how to dress, move, and occupy my body is challenging on a daily basis, a conundrum almost comically exaggerated under the dim lights of a house show, where I feel hypervisible, and yet unseen.

I wanted to write a column about moshing. But what I really wanted to write about was not moshing; and the way periphery and illegibility can feel; and the mess of loving and hating one experience so deeply. As I go to more shows and spend more time on the edges of mosh pits, I learn and forget and relearn again, a little more firmly every time I walk into a dirty basement, that there is no one way to go to a show.

Maybe you’re lucky, and it never occurred to you that there was. But if you’re like me, concerts are about discomfort and performance; but also about being affected together by sound.

That might look and feel like a mosh pit, or like the corner of the basement.

Being in these spaces doesn’t come naturally or elegantly or cooly to all of us. I guess existing has a learning curve, especially at punk shows.

Jael Goldfine is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com. Objectivity Bites runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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After Close Loss,Cornell Looks to Lock Haven

By SARAH PETERS Sun Contributor

Cornell field hockey fell short to Stanford on Tuesday, losing 1-0. The women hope to end their two-game losing streak against Lock Haven on Sunday.

Stanford (2-4, 1-1 America East) is ranked 14th in the NCAA Division I standings; Cornell (3-2, 0-0 Ivy) is ranked 19th. This was the two teams’ first matchup since 2002, when the Red defeated the Cardinals, 4-1.

In the first half, Stanford came out strong, scoring on Cornell in 29th minute.

The Red maintained its composure and held the Cardinal scoreless for the remainder of the game.

“Stanford is a good program, they have good position,” said coach Donna Horibrook. “This is the type of competition we want to get the team to continue to grow.”

Despite the close defeat at the hands of such a strong opponent, Hornibrook said the team is “at a point where we are not satisfied with close performances.”

“We want that win and we are really disappointed that we didn’t get it,” she said.

Following the game, Hornibrook stressed that she hopes the team will capitalize on similar opportunities moving forward.

“I thought we had a solid game,” Hornibrook said. “But we didn’t get the job done in terms of finishing the play off.”

Senior co-captain Sam McILwrick

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Looking to capitalize | Junior captain Sam McILwrick and the Red will try to do a better job executing on scoring chances this season. agreed with the head coach, commenting that while the team generated chances, the Red failed to take advantage to score goals.

“We had some good flow,” McILwrick said. “But … [we] weren’t connecting on the execution side.”

Cornell plans to continue maintaining its defensive force while increasing the tempo at which their game is played. The intended result is to increase the Red’s scoring opportunities.

Junior goalkeeper Kelly Johnson said she was impressed at the women’s overall control during the game.

“I think [the game] went really well,”

she said. “Even when we got scored on I think we maintained our composure.”

This resiliency is a strength that the women have been showing throughout the season and will bring to the field during their upcoming game against Lock Haven (3-1, 0-0 A10).

Continuing the season’s tradition, Cornell’s bench contributed to the game greatly. Hornibrook said, “I think [players are on the bench are] going to be a key to our success — no doubt about it.”

One of the stars coming off the bench is senior midfielder Elizabeth Horak. Despite only playing 72 minutes, she has scored

two goals for the Red, good for third on the team.

Undeterred by the loss, the Red is continuing its strategy for its upcoming games.

The women will focus on using their strengths — defensive poise, ball tempo and fitness — to take on the Bald Eagles.

Lock Haven is ranked 33rd in the NCAA Division I standings, 14 places below Cornell. However, the women are not letting rankings affect the game plan.

“We need to make sure we are mentally in the game,” McILwrick said.

The Bald Eagles are a high scoring team, averaging five goals per game, making them the second highest average scoring program in NCAA Division I field hockey. That offensive firepower was on display in the team’s first two games, when they scored a combined 16 goals.

Johnson said she believes that by refocusing on the Red’s core strengths, the team will be able to combat the high-powered offence.

“Something we try to focus on … is keeping the movement on in the back,” Johnson said. “I think we stepped away from that a little more [on Tuesday]. I think that is always something we can work on.”

As the season is just kicking off, the Red is confident and excited for its upcoming games.

Cornell takes on Lock Haven Sunday at 2 p.m. on the road in Pennsylvania.

Sarah Peters can be reached at sp987@cornell.edu.

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improved this past offseason. We made a lot of growth the past few weeks and it’ll be nice getting into a game this weekend.”

On top of practices and workouts, the Red scrimmaged against some schools already this year to get back in the gameday mindset.

“What was great was that two weeks ago we went down to Schenectady, so it was really like the same thing,” Sullivan said. “You get there after a two and a half to three hour drive, get in the locker room, get ready to go and go play.

We had great results there and it will show dividends this Saturday. We saw that we can do it.”

One key difference in this year’s tilt is the void left by some key Cornellians from graduation and injury. At the linebacker position, J.J. Fives ’16 is now an alumnus and Miles Norris will likely be out for the season after suffering an achilles injury at the beginning of the year.

“Those are two huge loses,” Weber said.

“But we still have a solid core group, some guys who have played a decent amount of games.

We take the same mindset every day, just work

to improve the linebacker group and defense as a whole.”

The Red’s quarterback will also take on new face, as Archer and his staff have elected to start sophomore Dalton Banks after an impressive offseason. He replaces Robert Somborn, who started all 10 games during the 2015 campaign. “[Banks] took the open depth chart competition very seriously and performed very well in the spring,” Archer said. “He can make all the throws on the field. He is a football junkie, always watching tape and preparing. He does a lot of nice things and will go out there as the starting quarterback. We’ll see how he does in a real game situation.”

With the offseason slowly fading away, Cornell has honed its skills and will put a renewed sense of belief to the test this Saturday night in Lewisburg.

“Right now it’s about maning those emotions to make sure we’re all good with our assignment and execution and to realize the ball goes in the air Saturday at 6 p.m.,” Archer said, eager to get a season underway.

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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consistency and execution this weekend,” Pannullo said.

“We've had success offensively against Navy in the past and

“We’ve had success against Navy in the past and we’re looking to build upon that.”

Senior Robert Pannullo we're looking to build upon that success Saturday. Navy always has a strong defense, but we know if we take care of our jobs we can have success against them.”

On the defensive side,

You just may find what you’re looking for

Filling the void | Key players such as J.J. Fives ’16 and Miles Norris will not be in the Red’s lineup this year.

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in The Sun classifieds.

Cornell will have to focus on keeping the Midshipmen’s stellar ground attack in check.

Last year against the Red, Navy totaled 248 total rushing yards, with an average of 4.5 yards per carry. “[Navy is] a very good running team,” Guccia said.

“Their running back, their quarterback and one of their receivers … ran very well last year. We know that each year they refurbish their offensive line so … they are going to be strong in that aspect.”

The Red had not overcome Navy since 2006. But Cornell may be due for a win this time around.

Cornell will square off against Navy at 1 p.m.

Saturday on Schoellkopf.

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

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FOOTBALL

Cornell Eager to Face Familiar Foe, Bucknell After totaling two wins in two seasons, Red seeks redemption as 2016 campaign begins

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With the kickoff of a brand new season for any team comes a hopeful outlook and a thirst for redemption.

This feeling is especially true for Cornell football — a team with two wins under its belt in as many seasons.

“I think we’re ready to play,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

“It’s definitely a long process, especially being at an

Ivy League where you don’t play until two weeks after everyone else,” added senior captain and tight end Matt Sullivan. “We’re ready. We used the five weeks the best we could. In my four years, at least for the offense, we are the most prepared we’ve ever been, prepared to win games.”

By preparing for a new season, the Red has also been prepping to face a familiar foe in Bucknell, whom they have played 56 times in team history. A revived spirit of readiness will come to center stage on the road this

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Ready to roll | Senior tight end Matt Sullivan and the Red have made the most of their offseason and are ready to show a new spirit when they take on Bucknell on the road.

weekend against a Bison team that went 4-7 (1-5 Patriot) this past season.

The biggest ques- “We used the five weeks tion question for the best we could ... we Cornell and Bucknell’s next meetare the most prepared ing is the health of we’eve ever been.”

Bucknell’s senior quarterback R.J. Senior Matt Sullivan Nitti, who has started the past two seasons. In the last game between the two teams, Nitti threw for 174 yards, two touchdowns and completed 61 percent of his passes against the Red’s third best pass defense in the league.

In his second game of the season, the Bison quarterback went out with an injury against Duquesne, but his status for Saturday is uncertain.

“With [Bucknell], it’s the question of who is going to play quarterback,” Archer said. “[Nitti’s] a super kid, a tough kid. His brother played for us here when I was assistant. I know if there any way he can physically play he’ll do it.”

Even with Nitti’s questionable status, Archer knows there are plenty of players to look out for on Bucknell’s roster.

“They return a big, physical offensive line,” he said.

“Will Carter, their receiver, is a real deep ball threat.

And on defense they pride themselves on taking the ball away and they have done that very well their first two games. This year we have to play each play, stay in the now, and get our jobs done.”

Facing Bucknell for yet another season, the team feels it has done enough this offseason to reclaim a win against the Bison.

“It’s been a nice preseason,” said senior captain and See FOOTBALL page 15

SPRINT FOOTBALL

Sprint Football Seeks Upset Vs.Navy in 2016 Opener

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The 2016 season marks the 10th meeting since Cornell sprint football last defeated Navy. However, the group’s chance to break the losing streak will come this Saturday when the Red takes on the Midshipmen to open the season.

Senior quarterback Robert Pannullo and the team believe they can surprise their opponent this weekend.

“Playing Navy in the first game of the season gives us an advantage because we've had extra time to prepare,” Pannullo said. “In the past we've played them late in the season and gone into the game banged up, so opening up with them certainly has its advantages.”

Week one also represents an opportunity to find a quality team possibly on their heels and rusty.

“Hopefully by playing [Navy] first we find them a little on the rough end, not having [played] any other games,” said co-head coach Bart Guccia.

Still, Guccia acknowledges that the contest will be one of Cornell’s biggest tests this season. “[Navy is] probably one of the two best teams in the league and playing them first [is not much different] than playing them last,” he said.

Cornell will face Navy this year with much more experience than the last. The

2016 squad has retained 18 of 22 returning starters this year, so the team already has established chemistry even before the first game.

“The team is really optimistic going into the season … we have very high expectations,” Pannullo said. “The upperclassmen have a lot of experience that will be extremely important for us to build upon this year.“

The Red must try to use their past experience — and only their past experience — to prepare for Navy.

“We don’t know if they have changed any of their schemes, both offensively and defensively,” Guccia said. “There are no scout tapes on scrimmages they’ve had. We are [planning] based on what we’ve seen in the past few years. We plan on attacking them the way we did last

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Familiar faces | Senior quarterback Robert Pannullo will play alongside 17 other returning players when the Red takes on Navy.

year.”

Navy, too, does not possess current scouting tapes of the 2016 Cornell team.

Both teams will have to prepare in other ways.

Despite the lack of study material, Pannullo and his offense are not expecting many surprises from Navy.

“Our biggest strength is that we'll be able to control the defenses we based on our formations,” Pannullo said. “They've been pretty consistent in the defensive looks they’ve shown over the past three years, so we have a good idea what we're going to see Saturday.”

Guccia added that Army and Navy “don’t go out and trick you with schemes.” “They don’t change what isn’t broken,” he said.

The Red lost to Navy, 35-14, last season. Aside from focusing on Navy, Cornell will have to make sure they don’t set themselves back in order to put up a fight this time around.

“Our biggest [focus] is trying to cut down on mistakes offensively — penalties, mental mistakes and execution,” Guccia said.

Consistency will key for the Red. If the Red begins to falter, it will be tough to comeback against a stout defense such as Navy.

“I think the offense needs to focus on See SPRINT FOOTBALL page 15