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News It’s Getting Hot in Here
Using satellite imaging, Cornell researchers have discovered that climate change is causing ice fields in Southern Patagonia to rapidly melt. | Page 3
Opinion Value of a Degree
Pausing to reflect on the past years of her education, Deborah Liu ’13 asks herself what a Cornell education has really given her. | Page 7
By KAITLYN KWAN Sun Staff Writer
the public face of student activism for which it once provided a literal and figurative platform, several Cornell professors said. “It’s hard to explain to your generation, but there was a time when, every day, there would be some kind of public theater of politics in front of the Straight at lunchtime,” said Prof. Isaac Kramnick, government. “The stump [was] a sort of free speech corner. You didn’t need a permit; you didn’t need to go to the Dean of Students’ office to get permission
Though some students expressed enthusiasm about the increased study space offered by the School of Hotel Administration’s newly-opened, $3-million student learning center, others complained that the center poses several inconveniences and is too noisy to study in. hotel The school, using a “The digital age is donation from well established, and the J. Willard and this facility was Alice S. Marriott Foundation, created for our next combined the generation.” World Atrium, George B. MalProf. Steven Carvell lory ’54 Student Lounge and Nestlé Hospitality Library to create the new learning space, named the Marriott Student Learning Center. Professors in the school said they hope the center will improve students’ access to technology and enhance collaboration between students. “We designed the new Marriott Learning Center to provide students with a broad range of studying and engagement spaces,” said Prof. Steven Carvell, hotel administration, associate dean for academic affairs. “Students are using library facilities differently now. The digital age is well established, and this facility was created for our next generation of leaders to maximize their Cornell educational experience.” Still, not all hotel students said they liked the changes. The additional study space and digital
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Opinion American Violence
Tom Moore ’14 examines both the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks and unrest in Libya, suggesting that Americans look carefully at violence — both perpetrated abroad and domestically. | Page 7
Arts Ritter Rocks
Josh Ritter brought his folk, blues and rock jam to The State Theater on Saturday, filling his set with a contagious energy. | Page 9
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All the world used to be a stage | During the 1969 Straight Takeover, C. David Burak ’67 speaks from “the stump,” the remaining portion of an American elm tree that became an impromtu political soapbox and message center. Professors recently lamented the absence of campus political theater.
Political Theater Disappears From C.U.Campus,Profs Say By REBECCA HARRIS
Party Like It’s 1996
The men’s soccer team emerged out of its weekend game with its best season start since 1996. | Page 16
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For years, a large tree stump outside of Willard Straight Hall served as a political soapbox for students to deliver rousing speeches on the most pressing issues facing the country. Now, in its place, a faded plaque rests on a small boulder, hidden amid a patch of shrubbery. Out of sight, the 25-year-old memorial goes unnoticed daily by hundreds of passersby — a relic of the past, forgotten much like
StudentsVie to Become First Homecoming Champion By LIANNE BORNFELD Sun Staff Writer
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Many will enter. One will win. The first-ever Homecoming Champion competition kicked off Sunday, with nine contestants sparring in the first two of five challenges in a week-long battle to win the new title. Champion hopefuls — five male and four female students nominated from the Class of 2013 — will participate in events throughout the week designed to test, among other attributes, their “intellectual, athletic and musical prowess,” according to the Homecoming
Steering Committee’s Facebook page. The winner will be announced Friday night at a fireworks and laser lights show at Schoellkopf Stadium. In addition to being crowned Homecoming Champion, the winner will receive $500 in cash, a $100 bar tab, an iPad, $100 to spend at The Cornell Store, an advertisement in The Sun and a co-D.J. spot on WVBR’s radio show, according to the committee’s Facebook page. The idea for the competition had been considered beginning last spring and was brought to fruition under the guidance of James Feld ’13, vice
president of programming for the committee, according to Geoffrey Block ’14, the committee’s president. “Originally, [the Homecoming Steering Committee] thought about doing a Homecoming king and queen kind of competition, but then the administration didn’t want just a popularity-based thing,” Block said. Instead, the Homecoming Steering Committee decided to assess competitors in a greater variety of subjects through tasks ranging from chalkings and rock-climbing to a scavenger hunt and a test on Cornell trivia.
“We wanted people who were active in the community and who represent what Cornell is. They’re fun people who love the school,” Block said of the contestants. On Sunday, the competitors took to the Lindseth Climbing Wall in Bartels Hall, where they competed in timed trials in a race to the top of the wall. “I think tonight was successful: We got a great turnout,” Feld said Sunday. “Everyone seemed to be having fun. The competitors enjoyed it, and whether [they] made it to the top of the wall or they didn’t,
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By Jacob Kose ’13 Dearest Sage, After our text conversation last night I had a hilarious idea for your roommate to write a note to whomever she hires to be her dog walker, but I’ll get to that later. After much sincere heartfelt deliberation, hours of thorough research, six cray-pas sketches, which, should you like to see them, I will share, as well as careful consideration of which books you’d requested to look at, I’ve concluded that we shouldn’t have sex/make love in the library in forty-five minutes. I know we haven’t talked about the various scenarios other than the plan to build a fort—which is inaccurate by the way: forts have four walls and a ceiling; this would be more of a bivouac—by stacking the complete Oxford English Dictionary, and Encyclopediae Britannica, because who would suspect panting flesh and guttural oohahhs to emanate from such a bivouac. but this seems to me the very problem. (Certainly logistics has only made for proper foreplay among UPS employees who tear off their repressive brown uniforms to reconstitute overnight shipping, by which I mean the six sketches I have enclosed, each of a different position in which you’ve requested I rail you, are meant purely to illustrate the utter implausibility of what you’ve called “my graduation present to myself, with you,” and not as foreplay). Having conducted considerable reconnaissance and careful research between studying for finals in the stacks last night, I would like you to consider the following difficulties: 1. Given the approximate height of eighteen inches between metal shelves, you might receive a deep impression eighteen inches above your lower back or below your shoulders, depending upon whether you tried to sit on a shelf or support yourself with your arms.
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Were the shelves to cut across your back, I would feel terrible; I never once asked when you had your most recent tetanus shot. 2. We could bring a chair in from one of the sixth floor carrels but that would, as you’ve already put it “ruin everything.” 3. The distance between aisles is exactly three feet and three inches. The average proportion of one’s foot-to-hip height over her hip-to-head height is usually fifty-five to forty five, and you’re five-six, so your hip-to-head height is thirty inches. That leaves nine inches for my torso, which is between seven and eight inches thick, and for you to hold on to something so that you don’t hit your head on a book, lest it be hard-covered. Even if we were to angle forty-five degrees and give ourselves fifty-five inches to maneuver (39 x sqrt2 = 55.15; your body would be the hypotenuse of this bookshelf—aisle—you right triangle) the torque that makes for ideal stack sex would likely injure us, and perhaps many books as well. You could certainly just grab your own knees instead of a shelf, but sources I’ve spoken to have found that demeaning and one said “You’ll knock her over for sure.” 4. I don’t consider the floor an option, even if it’s just my knees and your shoulders, with a pillow for your head of course. I have never once seen janitorial staff mop the floors in the stacks, and were I to walk through the library with a yoga mat the librarians would practically shut down the building to catch us. 5. We could certainly stand the entire time, my front on your back and you holding onto a dictionary with each hand, Aa-Ag in one and Xu-Zz in the other as you’d requested, without ever changing positions, but I doubt either of us would get off. I’d ask you to put your arms around my neck, wrap your legs around mine, and put your feet on the shelves behind me, but you intimated in a drunk text six early-mornings ago that having your butt held for a while makes you self conscious, and often distant... Students can send poetry and fiction submissions to jkose@cornellsun.com.
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ILR Worker Institute Opens in New York City
By CAROLYN KRUPSKI Sun Staff Writer
The Worker Institute at Cornell — a forum in New York City created to allow researchers, students and educators to collaborate on research and training on contemporary labor issues — officially launched on Wednesday. The institute, an extension of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, aims to work with labor unions and nongovernmental organizations to research labor issues. One of the institute’s major points of focus will be to create workplaces that are more sustainable. “We hope to culminate and expand the ILR School’s current initiatives in these areas,” said Lara Skinner, associate director of research of ILR’s Global Labor Institute. “It’s not a matter of whether we address these issues, but how.” Some of the key issues that studies conducted by the ILR school have previously addressed include environmentally friendly transportation, efficient building
“It’s not a matter of whether we address these issues, but how.” Lara Skinner designs and renovations to reduce workplace waste. The institute will expand research in these areas, ILR staff said. “Mainstream discourse pits labor against environmentalists, and we try to overcome this,” Skinner said. “Workers want to create a just society in general,
which includes the environmental component.” Currently, Skinner — who is conducting research that is being used by the institute — is working on a climate jobs plan for New York State that will address the state’s commitment to reducing emissions as it attempts to transition to an economy with low carbon emissions. Skinner’s study explores how minimizing greenhouse emissions will affect jobs within the state. The institute will also provide education and training for workers and employers, Skinner said. “Workers know how to improve their workplaces better than anyone else. When we work with worker organizations, our goal is to give workers a voice in their workplace,” Skinner said. Some students also expressed support for the institute’s goal of improving workplace sustainability. “The institute is a place for students interested in sustainability and ILR; it shows how these things relate,” said Susanne Donovan ’13, a student representative for the institute. Additionally, Casey Sweeney ’13 supported the institution’s goal of teaching students about sustainability. “Moving forward, there is a ton of opportunity for students to see sustainability more broadly and incorporate these efforts into their time at ILR,” Sweeney said. “It is important to make work and life more sustainable in general.”
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A student gives blood on Monday in Willard Straight Hall’s Memorial Room as part of Cornell’s Homecoming Blood Drive.
The Planning and Economic Development Committee unanimously approved a proposal from the Public Art Commission to create a mural titled “Love Conquers All” at its meeting Wednesday. The mural will be created by local artist Sean Chilson, who will paint it on the concrete wall facing the ground-level parking lot of the garage, according to the Ithaca Times. The Ithaca Journal reported that a 50-year-old Candor man, Mike W. Hulochak, was charged Wednesday with criminal obstruction of breathing. Hulochak was accused of trying to choke a person during a domestic dispute, according to The Journal.
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C.U. Researchers: Glaciers in Patagonia Melting Rapidly
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The Perito Moreno glacier, pictured above, is one of 48 glaciers fed by the Southern Patagonian Ice Field — an area that is rapidly melting, according to Cornell researchers.
By OLIVIA DANG Sun Contributor
That the glaciers in Earth’s polar region are melting may seem like old news, but a recent study by Cornell researchers shows that climate change is rapidly melting the seldom-studied ice fields in Southern Patagonia, too. The region’s glaciers are melting at a rate that has almost doubled over the last 12 years,
according to the study, which was conducted by research associate Michael Willis, Andrew Melkonian grad and Prof. Matthew Pritchard, earth and atmospheric sciences. The researchers found a large shift in the rate at which the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, located at the southern tip of South America between Argentina and Chile, was melting. “The rate of volume change
for the ice field as a whole from 2000 to 2012 was about 50-percent faster than the rate found previously by other authors between 1975 and 2000,” Willis said. The ice field is the world’s second largest temperate field. Because the temperature of the ice field is near freezing point year-round, its glaciers are temperate relative to much colder polar glaciers, and the field is never completely frozen. As a
consequence, “climate change signals at the Patagonian ice field are fairly subtle” compared to their polar counterparts, according to Willis. Even so, the effects of climate change on the ice fields seem to have become more dramatic in recent years, researchers said. Some of Southern Patagonia’s glaciers are losing up to 20 to 30 meters of thickness per year, Pritchard said. Over the last 10 years, he said, a glacier labelled HPS 12 lost 450 meters, or 1,350 feet, of ice — about the height of the Empire State Building. Because the ice fields are mostly unpopulated, it is unclear what the direct impact the melting will have on humans. However, the melting of the glaciers has a significant impact on the amount of water they feed into nearby reservoirs, which in turn greatly influences communities in the region, Willis said. Willis said that researchers suspect the melting may be contributing to the increasing occurrences of “glacial lake outburst floods,” which take place when lakes fed by glaciers suddenly release all their water over an extremely short time period. Although the floods are difficult to predict and monitor, Cornell’s study “may help focus some attention on the problem,” Willis said. The external impact of the melting of the ice field is difficult to assess without field experi-
ments, according to Willis. Still, he said, Cornell researchers gathered thousands of data points using remote sensing and satellite imaging — technologies that allow researchers to collect information about objects without coming into physical contact with them. By using a new technique that involves “stacking” more than 100 high-resolution maps of the ice field on top of each other, the team created and analyzed how the glaciers’ elevation changed over time, according to Willis. Stacking the maps was akin to creating “a thick stack of pancakes, with the oldest map on the bottom and the newest map on the top … [and] the edges of the pancake being perfectly aligned,” Willis said. The team used the time series — a collection of elevation points measured over regular time intervals — to figure out the rate at which the surface of the glaciers was changing at each point. The team hopes that, in the future, it will receive additional funding to study more temperate ice fields and conduct field experiments. “We’re interested in doing research in Alaskan ice fields, which are similar to the Patagonian fields in latitude, geography and temperature,” Pritchard said. Olivia Dang can be reached at oyd2@cornell.edu.
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New Learning Center Has Students Compete for Title No Books, Laptop Rental HOTEL
the new learning center useful. “It’s a lot more open and spacious, and there are more places for people to do integration came with a cost, they said, not- work,” said Meaghan Moran ’14, who ing that the center has no books. Carvell works at the center as a front desk monitor. said they were moved to Catherwood “Whereas before, there was just a small area, now there’s more table space and outlets Library in Ives Hall. “I feel like it’s less beneficial than it was everywhere.” Moran said that the center’s expanded before just because there are no books in [the center], and that’s the main reason why space and study rooms have been particularI used to use it,” said Becky Mackey ’14, a ly useful for group work. “[Hotel students] do a lot of group prohotel school student. “Now, I have to go to jects, so they put in more meeting rooms the ILR library just [to get my books].” [and] big spaces Hotel student where people can Ceres Andrieu “Now, I have to go to the ILR library just gather,” Moran ’14 said that the said. “A lot of new learning [to get my books].” people have been space, although Becky Mackey ’14 using them … intended to Clubs love them increase students’ access to technology, fails to meet stu- since you can fit 16 or 20-some odd people in the club room out there. Even our smalldent demand for computers. “It’s a cool space, but it still needs more est one fits five people.” Additionally, Moran said she thinks the computers,” Andrieu said. “When it’s really space will become quieter once students busy, everyone’s using them.” Compounding this problem, hotel stu- begin using the student lounge, which dent Rachel Towne ’14 said, is that the recently re-opened. Hotel student Izzy Fratt ’14, who, last library does not currently offer a laptop rental service like it did last year. If students week, said she goes to the learning center need to borrow a laptop, they have to make every day, agreed. “It’s a lot louder, but I bet that will the trip over to Catherwood to do so, she change once the lounge opens up,” she said. said. According to Carvell, the hotel school is “Right now, it kind of makes you feel like currently surveying students to decide you’re in an airport lounge … They’re even which services — such as laptop rentals — going to start selling food and coffee here to offer in the future, but that they had not soon.” come to any decisions yet. Despite the complaints of some hotel Kaitlyn Kwan can be reached at students, others said that they have found kkwan@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
they all tried their hardest.” There were approximately 50 people — comprised of each competitor and up to 10 of his or her supporters — present at the event. Members of the Cornell University Wind Ensemble played tunes such as “Give My Regards to Davy” on kazoos during portions of the competition, according to Block. Andrew Robbins ’13 won the rock-climbing challenge, scaling the wall in 25 seconds. Robbins’ early victory did not deter other contestants from saying what they would do if they won the competition. “My birthday is on the 24th, so it’s right after Homecoming. It would be really cool, having a bar tab when I’ll finally be 21 … But I don’t even care too much about the prizes … I kind of just want the title more than anything else,” Kelly Wilcox ’13, another contestant, said. Brandon Taylor ’13, another competitor, also had ideas of what he would do if he won the competition. “I’ll donate some of the money to the Paul Schreurs Memorial Program down at the Ithaca Youth Bureau,” Taylor said. “I know a lot of people down there could really use some of the money.” Another contender, Corey Reed ’13, said that he would probably share the prizes with his supporters if he won. “I think that I should be champion because I’m just a regular person from the [College of Agriculture and
Life Sciences], and I’m proud of who I am. I’m proud of the campus and everything that it involves,” Reed said. With the chalking and rockclimbing competitions completed, only the scavenger hunt, the Cornell trivia bowl — in which contestants will be tested on their Cornell history — and karaoke night remain. “I’m most excited for the sing-off Thursday night,” Feld said of the karaoke event. “A lot of [the competitors] have already come up to me and told me that they’re not the greatest singers. But that’s only a portion of it — there’s also theatricality.” The Homecoming Steering Committee has seen significant online interest in the competition, Block said. With the competition still in its infancy, the Homecoming Steering Committee’s attitude has been one of, “throw an event and see how it goes,” Block said. In view of the strongly positive reaction to the event, the Homecoming Champion competition will “definitely, for sure” become a part of Cornell Homecoming tradition, Block added. The other participants in the Homecoming Champion competition are Ariel Aicher ’13, Nick St. Fleur ’13, Peter Jacobs ’13, Sheila Garcia ’13 and Tajwar Mazhar ’13. St. Fleur is also the science editor of The Sun, and Mazhar and Jacobs are staff writers on The Sun. Lianne Bornfeld can be reached at lbornfeld@cornellsun.com.
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… It was sacred.” As the 2012 presidential election rapidly approaches, Kramnick is not alone in noting a lack of visible activity on Cornell’s campus — an indication of a decline in public political engagement, students and professors said. While many, particularly current student politicos, said campus activism has merely been displaced to a digital sphere, others lamented the disappearance of the tactile, physical interaction that was epitomized by the stump in front of the Straight. In a series of interviews with The Sun, some traced the steady decline of visible student activism back to the 1970s, when students destroyed the iconic stump a few months after the end of the Vietnam War. Faculty hired at the beginning of the 1970s, just before the stump’s demise, recalled arriving at Cornell on the tail end of what Prof. Theodore Lowi, government, called one of the “most tumultuous times” in the University’s history. When nationwide opposition to the Vietnam War ratcheted up in the late 1960s, Cornell students followed their peers at colleges across the country in staging massive anti-war and anti-draft demonstrations. “With the things that were happening in that period, Cornell got hot,” Lowi said. “I was amazed to see how fiery [student] mobilization was in the last few years of the 60s.” When Congress voted in 1973 to repeal the draft, the discontinuation of the contentious policy “pulled the steam out of most University students,” Lowi said — but the reaction
“went too far the other way.” Years later, when the U.S. launched two overseas wars in 2001 and 2003, in Afghanistan and Iraq, respectively, Cornell’s student body hardly stirred, according to Kramnick. “We have been at war now since 2003 in Iraq, and right after 9/11 there was Afghanistan, and there’s been a deafening silence on campus, since the beginning,” Kramnick said. “There was the occasional anti-war protest in ’03, ’04, but they were principally faculty, very few students.” Kramnick said he continues to be shocked by the “decline of the public nature of political activism” among students at Cornell — particularly with less than two months remaining until election day. “You have no public theater of politics around the war, which is [unusual] for students. You have no public theater … about the presidential election,” he said. “I don’t understand why womens’ groups on campus aren’t mobilizing, why students of color aren’t mobilizing.” But according to Prof. Mary Beth Norton, history, presidential elections have rarely elicited much visible enthusiasm from students. “In my experience here at Cornell, national elections such as the current one have not especially excited students on campus,” Norton, who began teaching at the University in 1972, said in an email. She added, however, that students may be participating in political activity behind the scenes, through volunteer work or off-campus involvement. Other students and professors said that, despite an apparent lack of campus-wide activity, student activism has not
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shifted out of the public sphere. Instead, they say, it has moved out of the physical one — from tree stump soapboxes to Twitter accounts. “I think a lot of people are on a virtual soapbox,” said Alex Pruce ’13, first vice chairman of the Cornell Republicans. He cited social media as a factor in the declining visibility of political excitement over the last few years. Cornell Democrats President Jessica Palmer ’13 echoed Pruce’s sentiments. “The world has evolved since the last presidential election [in 2008]. We have Twitter, we have Facebook, we have all this technology [such] that a lot of political action happens now in the cyberworld,” Palmer said. Kramnick mused on whether the establishment of a virtual network has siphoned student dialogue away from the public forum and shifted it to an online platform. “One wonders whether … a casualty of [technology] has been the public nature of politics, in which we come together as a community … to argue and scream at each other, in a fairly civil way, about politics,” he said. “The virtual community … seems to negate the need for the actual coming together in political debate and political discussion.” Lowi suggested that the academic rigor of the University may also account for what he called a sense of “malaise” on campus. Activism may be low among the current Cornell population, he said, because students are simply too busy to partake in it. Rebecca Harris can be reached at rharris@cornellsun.com.
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Condemning Misuse Of Research Funding
A RESEARCHER AT WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE cheated the federal government by misusing and then lying about funding intended for HIV/AIDS research, three federal appeals court judges said in a unanimous ruling issued Sept. 5. It is disappointing that this researcher both lied about the use of the funding and that Cornell has yet to admit responsibility or apologize for the transgression. The decision comes in the face of strong evidence that Cornell researchers used money from the federal government for uses other than HIV/AIDS research. The court found that of all 165 of the patients that researchers saw, only three were HIV positive. Additionally, several fellows testified that much of the research that they performed under the grant program had no relation to HIV or AIDS at all. It is reprehensible that Cornell would take advantage of funding and use it for other purposes. Cornell researchers have compromised the trust that the National Institute of Health placed in it to pursue meaningful research and jeopardized future research grants from the institution. It is disappointing that even after this court ruling, Cornell has yet to apologize or release a statement about the incident. In order to maintain a strong relationship with the NIH and ensure future funding, Cornell must admit responsibility. It is concerning that Cornell has jeopardized such an important revenue stream for the medical college as it advances its mission. In 2010 alone, Weill Cornell Medical College received $113 million in NIH grants. These grants are critical to maintaining high quality research and instruction. In the grand scheme of all of the funding it receives, accepting responsibility and paying approximately $855 thousand in damages is trivial. Cornell was not the only party that lost in this situation; the biggest losers are the ones who this critical research in HIV and AIDS would have benefited. Instead of racking up large legal fees defending the use of this funding, Cornell could have used this money more productively to further advance research that would help to prevent and cure this debilitating disease. Cornell must ensure that steps are taken in the aftermath of this ruling to ensure that grants are used appropriately and apologize for this particular research gone awry.
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South Hill sympathizing To the Editor: Re: “Das Politically Correct,” Arts & Entertainment, Sept. 17 Maybe the writer who was surprised to discover Cornell has “numerous alt-rap fans” when Das Racist performed at Appel Commons two years ago wasn’t the right guy to send to review their show at Ithaca College this weekend. He seems to have headed to South Hill determined to find something — or everything — wrong with the experience, from the venue he seems to have had trouble finding on his second visit there, to the show’s lack of punctuality to a set list that left out a fan favorite. As a Cornellian, I came to grips pretty quickly with the idea that Uris Hall and Uris Library might be different places, and that Schwartz Auditorium might not be in the building that says Schwartz Center on the outside. By using his confusion over the location of I.C.’s Emerson Suites as a cudgel to attack our neighbors on South Hill, Mr. Rainis shows an unnecessary, unneighborly, and unbelievable lack of class. He could easily have had fun with the oddities of I.C.’s layout, or even expressed displeasure over his impressions of the performances, without being snide about it. The Sun could improve its coverage, and its image in the community, by helping its writers navigate the fine line between humor and sarcasm, not to mention helping them navigate to their destinations. Mark H. Anbinder ’89 Ithaca, New York
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A Very Brief Introduction to American Justice O
ne week ago today was the 11th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks. This year, the anniversary was not only a day of mourning, but also a day of renewed violence. Muslims around the world took to the streets after an Islamophobic video portraying Mohammed as a rapacious murderer and child molester was broadcast on an Egyptian Islamist T.V. station. The protests, riots and attacks claimed over three dozen deaths worldwide, but here in America, coverage has focused on an
incitement to racist and religious violence of which Goebells would be proud. It’s bad. It’s really, really bad. The reaction was no better. Salafists surrounded the U.S. Embassy in Egypt, tearing down the American flag and replacing it with the black Islamist flag. Protesters in Sydney beat at police officers with signs that said, “Our dead are in paradise. Your dead are in hell.” The U.S. Embassy in Libya was attacked with rocket-propelled grenades and other weapons, killing four Americans and 10 Libyan
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attack on the U.S. Embassy in Libya, in which four Americans were killed. American leaders are calling for justice, Islamist protesters are carrying signs reading, “Behead those who insult Islam,” and filmmaker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula seems quite content to throw gasoline on the fire. To understand this chain of events, we need to begin with the film itself: Innocence of Muslims. If you haven’t seen it yet, take the time to do so. It’s only 14 minutes long, and it provides a pretty concise introduction to bigotry and Islamophobia. Nakoula, an EgyptianAmerican Coptic Christian, doesn’t just portray Muhammad on film, which in itself has been enough to draw threats of violence in the past. Nakoula portrays Muhammad as a fraud, a pervert and a mass murderer. Innocence of Muslims is an
policemen. The violence continued in the American reaction to the attacks. The statements American politicians made last week are an important part of the story of last week’s violence. Here’s President Obama, sounding more like President Bush than I ever thought he would: “We are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice. I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm: No act of terror will go unpunished.” Sound familiar? America was still reeling from the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, when President Bush assured us, “Whether we bring our enemies to justice or bring justice to our enemies, justice will be done.” If there was any doubt in my mind about what exactly Bush meant by justice,
it dissipated one evening in May, 2011, when I heard students outside my dorm room chanting, “USA! USA!” Osama bin Laden was dead, and the country had spoken. When we say justice, we mean revenge. We mean hunting down the man responsible and shooting him in the head, even if it means killing tens of thousands of Iraqi civilians in the process. Let me be clear: I in no way intend to condone or excuse terrorist violence. I just want us to be honest with ourselves about American violence and American bloodlust. When Americans get killed, the President goes on the television and promises to take an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. He codes his threats in the euphemistic language of justice and defending freedom. The bloody occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the assassination of Osama bin Laden and countless others, show quite clearly what the American Empire means when it uses these words. The threat of violence was perhaps most explicit in Mitt Romney’s response to the attacks last week. Romney said, “As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we’re at the mercy of events, instead of shaping events, and a strong America is essential to shape events. And a strong America, by the way, depends on a strong military. We have to have a military second to none and that’s so strong no one would ever think of testing it.” When someone in the crowd protested Romney’s politicization of the attacks, the protester was drowned out by the familiar chant of “USA! USA!” Romney’s message is unusual for its explicitness, but not for its essential content. American politicians from all over the political spectrum are quite comfortable with the idea that because we have the most guns, we should be calling all the shots. In this, Obama has proven himself not much different from his Republican
predecessor. What emerges from this brief sketch of the events of last week is not a simple causal narrative. Indeed, some reports indicate that the attack in Libya was too organized to really be a response to the film. The terrorists may have merely used the film as an excuse to legitimize their otherwise-motivated attacks. Such sleightof-hand is a recurring feature in the anatomy of revenge: The rage of the people is mobilized in the name of a struggle orchestrated by rather cool-headed individuals with a great deal to gain from violence. Just as we should question the direct causal link which seems so clear between Innocence of Muslims and the attacks that followed, we should carefully question the direct causal link our leaders have drawn between the Sept. 11 attacks and the American invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Vice President Dick Cheney, to give just one example, Chairman and CEO of Halliburton Company, had a great deal to gain from an America at war. My point is not that America is to blame for the violence in the Middle East. Any number of factors are to blame for that violence. My point is rather that the American people have demonstrated repeatedly, throughout history, a fundamental affinity for violence, an affinity which has been exploited time and time again by those with the most to gain from war. Our understanding of our own violence must, in turn, inform our understanding of those we consider our enemies. When we raise our voices to condemn violence, let us not restrict our condemnations to the violence of the peoples we occupy. Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at tmoore@cornellsun.com. What Even Is All This? appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
What Are You Going to Do With That? I
think that as a senior, I have a certain allowance of wow-I’m-so-old moments. So I’m going to take one of them now. I remember sitting in my room as a high school senior, laying all the welcome packets and rejection letters out in front of me, and having quite literally zero clue about how to make my next decision. After putting my options on the actually-important-things scales, I was left with trying to convincingly tip them with things like how much I liked the school colors. Or access to fitness centers. (Which, just for the record, does not speak in Cornell’s favor. Ahem.) Oh high-school-me, how little you knew. I get to look back now and reflect on the decisions I made back then with 20/20 hindsight, and I’m realizing now that most of my decisions basically boiled down to little more than whim. But some of those choices were actually kind of significant, even if my mechanism for deciding wasn’t the most sophisticated. I chose this school because — true story — the PE website told me I could take broadsword for academic credit. I think that of the few decisions high-school-me managed to get right, this counts as one of the more meaningful ones. Never mind that it was based on a resource that I have yet to actually utilize, or has very little academic significance whatsoever. On some level, I was convinced of the importance of educational breadth. I
bought into the idea that a college education had to be more than an exercise in fulfilling graduation requirements or training for a future job. And for some reason I found it significant that I could have the option of incorporating swordfighting into my academic experience. The popular theme in talking about undergraduate studies lately seems to involve the question of whether or not college is worth it. And the conclusion always seems to be yes, but only in certain majors. A lot of well-meaning dialogue exists about the purported death of certain courses of study, and a steady drone of earnest opinions reminds bright-eyed teenagers everywhere that venturing out of STEM dooms them to a life of probable unemployment and working to pay off loans. It’s almost enough to make me switch to my atone-point-planned philosophy major. If going on to higher education was simply a tactic for increasing one’s future financial security, all colleges should turn into training grounds for specialty welders. (I mean, obviously not, because then supply would go way up and specialty welders would become dirt cheap, but humor me here). No one needs to drop $170,000 (or $108,000) to find a job. Even a fairly high-paying one. So why bother going to college at all? And specifically, hitting slightly closer to home, why this campus? Because education — and particularly a college education — is so much more than your
degree and your future job prospects. College is about intellectual vitality, and learning how to think outside the convenient little corner of knowledge where you’re comfortable hiding out. No matter if that corner happens to be a wellpaying one. College is about recognizing that other people are different — sometimes profoundly different — and almost always have something to teach you. It’s about aggressively breaking up
ing about the Cornell experience, just do it. Even if it’s just to take Wines and Human Bonding. Shoutout to the departments that make this university awesome — to the ones that make sure some corners of the horizon are within reach. Shoutout to Viticulture & Enology, Landscape Architecture and Design & Environmental Analysis. To Jess from my Modern Philosophy class sophomore
Deborah Liu First World Problem the little one-dimensional dreams that we have for ourselves. Realizing that there is more to intellectual development than getting where you want to go really, really fast. An education should expand your horizons. Of course, I’m biased and I think that any horizon requires a minimum of multivariable calculus and introductory computer science to be thoroughly broad, but that’s largely beside the point. What I’m saying is, reach outside your major and your college. For the love of all that is life-chang-
year who told me she just wanted to study turtles. To the dude I talked to at 3 a.m. in the Upson basement that one time, who was finishing a thesis on something about the relationship between language and epistemology. You attend an institution whose very motto claims “Any person, any study.” What are you going to do with that? Deborah Liu is a senior in the College of Engineering. She may be reached at deborahliu@cornellsun.com. First World Problem appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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osh Ritter is a peculiar combination of folk, alternative blues and rock with a twinge of Americana. Most college kids probably aren’t too familiar with him, as the median age at the concert appeared to be 45. He’s set to release his seventh studio album, Bringing in the Darlings, in next February. For a show so full of lyricism and instrumental intricacies, fist-pumping and dancing just seemed inappropriate. The State Theatre provided the perfect setting for the performance. The place is an odd combination of traditional and eccentric. The ceiling starts off with aged yet fine coffering with ensigns and crests, and then it harshly switches into a psychedelic fresco of the night sky. The seats are of a traditional red velour, seemingly fitting in the quirky theatre. Opening alone with the softly melodic “Come and Find Me,” from his 2000 album, Golden Age of Radio, Ritter then cuts to a thumping and angsty tune with the help of a few members of The Royal City Band. The Royal City Band is just a name for the guys that Ritter plays with. Only two members accompanied him that night, but they were still quite a sight. The men were dressed in black suits and ties except Ritter, who was sans tie. Zack Hickman, on the double bass, had a full handlebar moustache visible from 20 rows back and the sense of humor that you would expect to go along with it. Mark
Erelli proved that it’s not often that you see a grown man in a suit playing the mandolin, but it happens. Whoops and catcalls rang out from the crowd as the bass beat to the melody of “Rumors.” It’s a tune usually filled with guitar, piano, drums and some brass, but it was played at the State with a blues and acoustic guitar and a double bass. The richness of the instruments and voices worked best early in the set during “Wolves.” Josh, Zack and Mark sweetly echoed the chorus: “So long, so high!” The painful honesty was audible in their voices; their eyes were rarely open during the melodies. This was a concert for the fans. The 23-song set was filled with both old and new material, from ballads to love songs to comical, folksy tunes. Ritter played the staples including “Kathleen,” “Harrisburg,” “Monster Ballads” and “Girl in the War.” He also previewed his upcoming album with the song “Joy to You Baby Wherever You are Tonight.” Towards the end of the set, Ritter asked the crew to turn all the lights off, so that people could “get away with doing whatever [they] wanted.” Appropriately, he played “In the Dark,” and the crowd hauntingly “ooh-ed” along with him. For an almost sold-out showing, the acoustic show carried a distinctive intimacy. Multiple times, the band would move in front of the microphones, making the State seem like a much smaller room. Ritter and the band belted out “Girl in the War” with their unadulterated voices while the audience gently clapped along. Ritter broke up his set with a series of stories. Many songs were introduced with anecdotes, including ones about
SkyMall and his school playground back in Moscow, I.D. He talked about his hobby of holding strange animals. The first animal he held was a koala bear: “In pictures there’s so much wisdom in those eyes, but when you’re up close it’s really not there — it’s hatred.” Ritter interrupted “Kathleen” with a soliloquy about the places he’s visited. “Then the hellish spawn of mosquitos and bear traps where demon children run in the wild: Ithaca,” he said. “With nightly glow in the dark frisbees and hacky sacks, and fumes of marijuana up and down pedestrian walkways, which reminds me: please send Fruit Roll-Ups and Fritos.” He got a few good chuckles out of the crowd. The acoustic show at the State, the last stop on the tour, was bursting with energy. Ritter was constantly moving — jumping up and down between songs, bouncing while playing and singing while on his knees. At one point he began to howl like a coyote and the audience howled back for what became an uncomfortably long amount of time. Though there were only three pieces on stage at a time, they carried the power of a full band. Ritter played and transitioned so quickly and smoothly that it sounded like he had two more guitarists backing him up. The bass echoed throughout the theater while the mandolin and acoustic guitar serenaded harmoniously. As a longtime fan who’s never been able to make it to a show, I found this acoustic finale fantastically odd. Nicole Hamilton is a freshman in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at nmh57@cornell.edu.
The Laugh Always Wins BY MARY JARVIS Sun Contributor
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t 7:45 p.m., as the rain began to drizzle outside the State Theatre, local residents and college students began to trickle in and find their seats amidst the sea of red vinyl and faux velvet. They were coming to see Brad Sherwood and Colin Mochrie, two improvisational comedians of Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame. The show promised to be much like its T.V. counterpart: a night filled with nonsense, games, audience participation and, of course, hilarity. The two began the show with a game called “Moving Bodies,” in which two members of the audience took hold of the comedians’ arms and legs and controlled their movements as Sherwood and Mochrie improvised a scene based on audience suggestions. Much like the rest of the games, it was funny because it played off of the absurdity of the situation — two French police officers attempting to take down a gang. Not only was the sight of the performers stumbling around the stage at the whim of the volunteers as they sported terrible French accents (which was amusing in itself) amusing, but there was something so decidedly American about it all. The comedians played off of preconceived notions about the French, mixing it with the stereo-
typical N.Y.P.D. chase, guns flaring despite the fact that most police officers in France do not have guns. Leaving the audience in a fit of laughter, Sherwood and Mochrie proved to understand timing, each other and their viewers. Their subsequent routines continued in much the same way as their first with the comedians exploiting the audience’s suggestions for a comical payoff. The two kept a nice pace, attempting to go from game to game as quickly as possible. However, through explaining the games, taking suggestions and using volunteer audience members, a lot of time was spent simply trying negotiate what the next game would look like. These moments were boring, to say the least, though Sherwood and Mochrie did attempt to make them as interesting as possible by poking fun at the situation. But was the show funny? Much like their T.V. show, Mochrie and Sherwood dabbled in absurdity, playing off the audience’s tendency with a childlike love of nonsense, silliness and good old-fashioned fun. Their style borders on slapstick; the show ended with a game featuring the Sherwood and Mochrie blindfolded, walking barefoot on a stage covered with set mouse traps. They only skirt the margins of vulgarity when the laugh calls for it. Their apprehension towards anything distasteful
was especially wary when they asked the audience for “something they didn’t know anything about” and a suggestion was BDSM. Despite the fact that they initially hesitated before taking the topic they ultimately ran with it, taking into account the audience’s boisterous reaction to the suggestion. You quickly realize that these men are not our comedians — they are not for our generation — but our grandfathers’. There is no hatred in their show. No commentary on the decline of American culture, no call to arms, no irony or anger. Mochrie said to the crowd after a politically charged heckle was thrown out, “Let’s stay away from the political. It always seems to divide the house.” They inspire unity, straying away from difficult and controversial issues, with one goal in mind: to make us laugh, smile and just be happy for a brief moment in time. They represent an old-school America, a more sincere and wholesome comedy almost reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin. Unlike the intellectually and politically directed comedians we
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often see on campus, these men are more of comic socialists, providing laughter to those who may not get the Proust reference or perhaps are lost when it comes to the latest indiscretion of a politician. You could call their humor deprived of the intellectual, but in reality it is nothing of the sort. These men are smart and quickwitted and by indulging in the nonsense they release us of our pretension. They provided a break from the academic standard and the intellectual elitism that pervades our campus. They are aware of their situation and they embrace it. As Sherwood said to the audience, “The laugh always wins.” Mary Jarvis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mmj49@cornell.edu.
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By the People, for the People BY ASHLEY POPP Sun Contributor
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t started with two ukuleles, and then became a hundred bands. Within a half hour, an audience of one became a thousand. Porchfest VI has really become a “fest for the people by the people,” said co-founder and Prof. Robbert van Renesse, computer science. Exclusively folk and jazz at its beginning, the festival now includes pop, alt-rock, Latin and hip-hop. Despite the wide range of genres, most performers were still folk singers or folk hybrids. 4ever XUNG, a folk-bluegrass duo, echoed the tone of The Civil Wars, but their original songs were more instrumental than vocal. Sum Dude & Friends added a funk element, with their original song “Tell Me.” Their persistent sound and offbeat lyrics laden with innuendos was a bit unnerving but definitely entertaining. Out of the 20 folk bands, this one was the most memorable. The Gunpoets, probably the most acclaimed musicians at the festival, had the largest turnout; over a hundred people crowded into the corner of Lynn and Tompkins Street to hear them. Their masterful blend of pop, rock and hip-hop definitely broke the mold of the string-dominated streets. The new age band drew a crowd as diverse
as their sound. They were the one group whose listeners were not predominantly bohemian 30 somethings. The bass-keyboard-drum trio, Shuhan Family and Friends, made a statement. Solos transitioned to synchronized harmonies. Jazz turned into electric blues. Every chord, every note was artfully delivered. Sunday’s event was more about the community than the music; it felt like a laidback gathering of friends and family.
The Cornell Ukulele Club best captured the spirit of Porchfest. On the steps of Prof. van Renesse’s home, where Porchfest began, the fledgling club took flight. 12 nervous students began to strum and sing Gotye’s “Somebody.” Although the performance was more than a little pitchy, their performance seemed to resonate most with festival goers. When the chorus was lost, wide-eyed Cornellians immobile; the crowd was a source of encouragement. Smiles and gestures led them back on track, allowing them to contin-
ue with their set. Helen Lin, president of the club said that she “didn’t expect so many people to come,” but thought considering their lack of rehearsal, “everything went really well.” Grassroots performances stemmed from a much larger collaboration of the Fall Creek neighborhood, making Porchfest a truly noncommercial, community-run event. Local artist Nina Widger contributed her colorful, almost narrative illustrations for the advertisements, while the Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services covered almost all other costs. Vendors doubled as fundraisers for causes near to Ithaca’s heart. Fundraisers included local students who sold lemonade to raise JOY CHUA / SUN CONTRIBUTOR money for Cancer Research. Lehman Alternative Community School students made cookies to help fund their trip to South America. Calling Porchfest a music festival is like calling Ithaca a city. Neither exactly fits the description they’ve been assigned. But this is not a bad thing. Both function in the way they are meant to, but somehow retain the ideals and magic of a small town. Ashley Popp is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arp254@cornell.edu.
Punk Prayers F
In Psychology Today, Anthony Lemieux outebruary 21, Moscow. A group of female punk rockers enters a church. They sing a song that many find lined lyrical themes prevalent in white power offensive. They are forcibly removed from the church. music like that of Page: awakening, conspiracy, August 5, Milwaukee. A young man enters a temple. He decay of traditional values, celebration of white belongs to a rock band and often sings songs that many find power “heroes,” “us” versus “them” distinctions and a call for violent action. Although “Punk offensive. He is removed from the temple. These two cases look remarkably similar, right? In both Prayer” seems to suggest some degree of awakencases, individuals holding dissenting opinions turned to ing (from religious and social oppression) and music to express their views, selecting places of worship to conspiracy (between the Kremlin and church), it stage their protests. Here’s the kicker though: the first also differs on other counts. “Punk Prayer” does describes the feminist musical collective Pussy Riot, the sec- not focus on decay so much as the stifling of proond the Wisconsin shooter Wade Michael Page. The former gressive religious and feminist values under In the first, music used music to critique the current politi- Putin. Rather than commemorate “heroes” for cal establishment in Russia, specifically the Kremlin’s cozy the cause, Pussy Riot detracts from the individrelationship with the church. The protest follows disputed ual. They function as a collective with changing parliamentary elections and street protests last December. membership and wear balaclavas to maintain No one was hurt, and no church property was damaged. In anonymity. No one person, they seem to say, the second, music was used to fuel an ideology of hate that should ever rise to the level Putin has. Most cruinspired violence against religious minorities. Seven people cially, “Punk Prayer” does not enforce an “us” versus “them” mentality. It is inclusive, asking the were killed, including Page. Given the context, it’s really difficult to view these two Virgin Mary (and the church itself) to join them incidents in a similar vein. But Russia does. On August 17, as feminists. Unlike hate music, “Punk Prayer” a Russian court convicted three members of Pussy Riot of does not encourage its listeners to take action of any kind, hooliganism motivated by religious hatred. They were sen- much less violent action. Rather than command, it pleads: tenced to two years in prison. According to Russia, the Pussy “Virgin Mary, Mother of God, put Putin away!” Next, what is the purpose of Riot incident was a religiouslythis music? According to Christian motivated hate crime — just Picciolini, a former member of a like the Wisconsin shooting — white power hate band interviewed and anyone who says otherwise by McClatchy Newspapers, hate is part of a grand Western conmusic is the primary recruitment spiracy. Western bias or not, we Greener on the tool for white power groups. Not can distinguish between the only does the music help recruit, two with a few simple questions Other Side said Picciolini, but it also reinforces of content, intention and site hateful beliefs by providing a comselection. First, what does the music say? Pussy Riot’s “Punk munity of like-minded individuals. The performance is a Prayer” calls on the Virgin Mary to “put Putin away.” The testosterone-heavy, energetic event that gives the performers band blames Putin for oppressing women and gays. a sense of power, and hate crimes often occur after these Claiming that the all-powerful Putin has become like a god shows. In contrast, Pussy Riot doesn’t seem to be interested in on earth, they scream “Shit, shit, the Lord’s shit!” Throughout, the song focuses on the Virgin Mary as a recruiting new members and purposely performed in a place female religious figure and asks her to join them as a femi- where they weren’t going to find like-minded people. Their actions suggest a forced dialogue with people who would nist.
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otherwise not engage. Unlike the hate music bands, Pussy Riot isn’t insular. The music seems to help ease this forced dialogue, making it harder to ignore and easier to swallow through humor and entertainment. By modelling their song after a prayer, Pussy Riot might be trying to bring their cause closer to home. Finally, why do both incidents take place in places of worship? Page seems to have chosen the Sikh temple for reasons both practical and ideological. Not only were the worshippers clearly not expecting an attack, but Page’s choice of site sends the message that he is targeting them because of their religion. In contrast, Pussy Riot does not enter the church with a violent purpose. If Putin has indeed replaced god, then the church isn’t a religious site so much as a political one. By offering a prayer, Pussy Riot is reclaiming the church as a religious site and stirring conversation. Emily Greenberg is a senior in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences & Art, Architecture and Planning. She can be contacted at egreenberg@cornellsun.com. Greener on the Other Side appears alternate Tuesdays.
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were named to the All-Tournament team. Cornell remains undefeated and untied with the win, starting 5-0 for the first time since 1996. The victory against Wofford also marks another program landmark, as Cornell tied the school record for consecutive games with a goal (21), equaling the mark set by the 1970-71 team. “We couldn’t be happier with how we are progressing,” Haber said. “We feel like something special is happening, but we don’t want to get ahead of ourselves. Five games is not a whole season, but we are really happy with how we are starting.” Cornell has a short window for recovery, as it hits the road tomorrow to play Binghamton in Vestal, N.Y. Last year the Red handed the Bearcats a 4-0 shutout last season. Lauren Ritter can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Women’s Squad Shines at Cornell Fall Invitational By REENA GILANI Sun Senior Writer
The men’s and women’s tennis teams opened up play for the 2012-13 year over the weekend with individual tournaments. The men traveled to Princeton, N.J., for the Farnsworth Invitational, while the women hosted the threeday Cornell Fall Invitational from Friday to Sunday. On the men’s side, overall expectations were not met in play at the tournament, though there were some shining moments throughout the weekend. “I think our trip to Princeton wasn’t as good as we thought it would be,” said sophomore Quoc-Daniel Nguyen. “A lot of us lost early in the first round, but we were able to turn it around on the second day. In addition to myself, three of the guys got to final rounds in some of the
draws.” Partnering with Nguyen was sophomore Kyle Berman; the pair made it to the finals of the “B” Doubles Draw, where they fell to a duo from Georgetown, 8-5. “It was the first time we played together so we were kind of nervous at the beginning about how it was going to be, but we ended up beating teams from Princeton, Columbia and Yale,” Nguyen said, noting that his doubles play with Berman was definitely a highlight for him of the weekend. “We complement each other’s games pretty well because he has a big serve and I’d say I’m fairly quick at the net.” Berman also made it to through to the second round of the New Jersey Draw 2 as a singles player, though that draw will continue at a later date. Another match set for the future is the Lenz Draw Consolation final round between Nguyen and sophomore teammate Alex Sidney.
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Starting strong | Senior co-captain Sarah O’Neil and the rest of the women’s tennis team kicked off their season on a winning note.
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The first 45 minutes of play closed with Wofford leading the way, 1-0, as the teams regrouped and headed into the second half. Each side created multiple scoring opportunities; however, neither team was able to follow through on them. After a hard fought 65 minutes, Goepel netted the first goal of the day for Cornell and the Red’s spark was once more ignited on the field. “I’m proud of us that we kept our heads up and kept getting chances,” Haber said. “We really feel like we had the possession for the majority of the time going into the halftime and coming out and getting the equalizer in the second half was a huge boost to our team.” The equalizer came after Haber took a free kick from the left side of the field, sending it flying toward the penalty box. A Wofford player caught a piece of the action and knocked the ball away, before junior Patrick Slogic headed it back in direction of the goal. The 6-5 defender fed it off to Goepel, who was able to head it past Andrew Drennan in net. “We were fighting and sometimes in soccer it just has to be a scrappy goal like that,” Haber said. “[Goepel] did a great job and tipped it in.”
The Red’s goal jumpstarted the momentum on the field and the fight was on the score the game winner. After 20 minutes of both teams trying to capitalize on scoring opportunities, Haber put the game away, 2-1, with a goal in the 85th minute. “[Scoring the game winner] just shows the character of the team striving through the whole game and coming through from behind,” Zawislan said. “I’m very happy for our players because it’s a reflection of their hard work.” Junior midfielder Ben Williams sent a solid shot directly to Haber, and the striker was able to outplay the Wofford goalie to win the point. This goal lifts Haber’s count to seven for the season, just two less than his team-high nine goals for the 2011 season. “The guys on our team really worked hard and repossessed the ball in the middle third, caught them off guard and Ben Williams played an absolute beautiful job to me,” Haber said. “The guys behind me did all the work and I did my job.” Williams earned recognition as CU Inaria Defensive MVP for his solid contributions in the midfield throughout the game, as well as for his assist on Haber’s game winner. Slogic and Haber See M. SOCCER page 14
Junior Spencer Clark was able to make it to the final round of the Nassau Draw Consolation, but unfortunately had to withdraw from the match giving Buffalo’s Jason Shkodnik an automatic win. The only senior from the Red’s roster that went on the trip was Brett Cromwell, who made it to the semifinals as a singles player in the Pagoda Draw. “We had a couple of good successes here and there, but overall I think it was more of a disappointing trip for us. There’s a lot to take away from it and learn from,” Nguyen said. Meanwhile, the women’s individual tournament seemed to find mostly positive outcomes for the players during the only home play they will see this semester. “Overall we did great. We had at least one Cornell representation in every final, whether it be a singles flight or a doubles flight,” said senior co-captain Sarah O’Neil. Indeed, the Red won three of the four championships at the Fall Invitational. O’Neil beat out all competition in the “A” Flight Singles, while “B” Flight Singles was won by freshman Laila Judeh. The “B” Flight Doubles was also won by sophomores Courtney Malinchak and Sara Perelman. For the women, the tournament was different than the men’s Farnsworth Invitational, in that it was more intimate and did not feature any Ivy League opponents. “It was a pretty small tournament with only three teams, and it was great that we all came out,” O’Neil said. A doubles team from Buffalo defeated sophomore Lauren Frazier and O’Neil in the “A” Flight Doubles championship match, while Albany served as the third team playing at Reis over the weekend. “It was good to start playing matches again because next weekend we have a tournament with all the other Ivies,” O’Neil said. “It was great to get match play in and get back into shape for next weekend.” Going forward, the women will work at figuring out doubles combinations due to the four new faces on the team. “We wanted to come out winning every flight and we won everything except “A” doubles, so there’s some room for improvement and that’s what we’ll emphasize, but it was a great showing given that its first event of the year,” O’Neil said. Reena Gilani can be reached at rgilani@cornellsun.com.
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goal. Growney’s shot bounced off the hands of Sacred Heart’s keeper, but the Red was unable to make a rebound. “Getting more shots on net than they do is always our goal,” Christ said. “But it’s always about following our shots, we had that one good shot and the keeper rebounded but we couldn’t finish.” The Red was back on the road Sunday with a trip to La Salle (5-3). The squad could not bring back its first win, falling 4-0 to a team that played in the NCAA tournament last year. Christ had
seven saves in the game and senior forward Moonie Mancho had the Red’s only shot on goal. Going into its first Ivy League game against Columbia this weekend, the Red is still searching for that first win. “It’s obviously been frustrating, but for us it’s all about getting confidence and staying focused,” Christ said. “We’ve got to come in and compete regardless of the situation and make sure everyone is on the same page giving 110 percent no matter what the score is.” Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
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A numbers game | Senior forward Moonie Mancho has the Red’s only shot on goal in the game against La Salle on Sunday afternoon.
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MEN’S SOCCER
Cornell Comes From Behind to Whip Wofford
By LAUREN RITTER Sun Staff Writer
The men’s soccer team played a different game than it is accustomed to on Friday night. The Red was forced to play the waiting game. What should have been the first matchup of the CU Inaria Classic, ended in a weather postponement for Cornell (5-0) and Vermont (2-3-2) after over two hours of waiting the storm out. “Everyone on this team is a little edgy to play; we love to play,” said junior striker Daniel Haber. “We were feeling so good about ourselves and we really didn’t want to take that day off.” However, the weekend was not completely spoiled for the Red, as Cornell welcomed the Wofford Terriers (4-30) to Berman Field for a midday bout on Sunday. During this match, the team found itself experiencing another first of the season — its first deficit of the year. “We always pride ourselves on the character of this team and character of the individual players and this group and that was the very first test that our players had to face this season WOFFORD 1 where we find ourCORNELL 2 selves behind one nothing,” said head Game: 1ST Tot 2nd coach Jaro Zawislan. Wofford 1 1 0 Wofford’s Alex Cornell 0 2 2 Hutchins claimed the first goal of the day, blasting a ball past senior netminder Rick Pflasterer at just over the 25-minute mark. “We knew [Wofford] was going to be tough, and we really felt that we had most of the momentum, so it was devastating to have a goal scored,” Haber said. With a one-point gap, Cornell needed to shift its style
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Holding down the fort | Junior midfielder Ben Williams was named CU Inaria Defensive MVP for his contributions in the midfield during the game against Wofford on Sunday, which included an assist on Haber’s game-winning goal.
of attack from playing to win the first point to playing to equalize the game. “We responded pretty well toward the end of the first half and then carried that into the second half,” said
sophomore midfielder Conor Goepel. “I think we had much better play in the second half all around.” See M. SOCCER page 15
Squad Still Looking to Grab Balleza’s Hat-trick Lifts A Win After Weekend Losses Red in Win Over Penn FIELD HOCKEY
By SCOTT CHIUSANO
had shown any signs of dominating the pitch. “We were in a good place [after the first half ], I thought we actually had a better second With the clock winding down from 10 sec- half but we have to convert on more of our onds, senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis opportunities,” Christ said. However, just three minutes into the second scrambled for a ball out of bounds, trying to get one last chance at an equalizer with a cor- period, Sacred Heart struck first with a strike ner kick. Her cross was on target, but a desper- from 18 yards out by Jennifer Mulvey. The Red came back firing and found an ate header as the final whistle sounded was grabbed by the Sacred Heart keeper, handing equalizer just two minutes later. Chitanvis was the Red a tough 2-1 loss on Friday afternoon in fighting for possession of the ball in the corner when a Sacred Heart defender poked it out of its home-opener. The last-second opportunity was one of bounds. Senior midfielder Xandra Hompe many that the Red (0-6) was unable to convert took the corner, playing a perfect ball in the air throughout the second half. The offense forced to the middle of the pitch, where it found leaping sophomore midfielder Sacred Heart’s goalie to SACRED HEART make five saves on 12 shots 2 Claire MacManus for a header the back of the net. It was in the second period, but CORNELL 1 into MacManus’s first goal of the only one of them found the Game: 1ST Tot 2nd season, making her the 10th back of the net. 2 2 Red player to record a point Senior goalkeeper Tori Sacred Heart 0 0 1 1 this season. Christ was the story of the Cornell it’s always good to first half, keeping her team CORNELL 0 have“I athink bunch of people conin the game with five saves. LA SALLE 4 tributing,” Christ said. “If Sacred Heart (3-5) consomeone is having an off day, trolled the ball for much of Game: 1ST Tot 2nd we have many people to pick the first 45 minutes, keep- Cornell 0 0 0 them up.” ing Christ on her toes. In La Salle 3 4 1 The score remained tied for the 27th minute, Christ made a leaping save where she got just enough another 10 minutes before Sacred Heart struck of her fingertips on the ball to knock it off the again. A direct kick deflected off a Red defendcrossbar and back into play, where a Red er back to Sacred Heart forward Kristen defender cleared it. The Red offense had only Verrette, who put a perfect cross from the left two shots on goal in the half, including a strike side to her teammate Dana Cosmedy, who was by Chitanvis straight into the goalie’s hands in waiting at the net to put the ball in. The Red was able to keep the ball in its half the 44th minute, keeping the slates blank for of the field for much of the rest of the game. both teams. “Going into the second half tied at zero, With 20 minutes left in the match, the Red you always have a good chance to win,” Christ had an opportunity to equalize when Hompe’s said. “But the hardest parts of games are after pass through the defense found freshman forstoppages, and that is what we have struggled ward Caroline Growney sprinting towards the with this year.” See W. SOCCER page 15 With 45 minutes left to go, neither team
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By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The field hockey team overtook Penn this past weekend, 4-0, while on the road. A big force on the field for the Red was junior forward Hannah Balleza, who notched the first hat-trick of her career in the game against the Quakers. “I am really pleased with our team effort today,” said head coach Donna Hornibrook. “I feel like we executed well in scoring chances and we continue to do good work defensively, which we’ve done for the past two games.” The matchup was a close one between the two teams; however, the Red capitalized on offensive opportunities while the Quakers were unable to make good on any scoring chances.
Cornell held a slight edge in shots, 1514, and both teams grabbed seven penalty corners apiece. Junior goalkeeper Carolyn Horner grabbed eight saves while the opposition only made six saves in total. Junior midfielder Elly Plappert recorded the fourth goal for Cornell after she grabbed a long pass from Balleza, bounced the ball around a defender and then lifted it up past the Penn netminder to score. The Red heads back on the road for the weekend as it goes up against Ivy foe Columbia on Friday at 4 p.m. Cornell will travel to play out of conference opponent Rutgers on Sunday at 1 p.m. Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.
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Hats off to Hannah | Junior forward Hannah Balleza’s hat-trick contributed to the Red’s 4-0 shutout against Penn over the weekend.