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Climbing upward | The number of Cornell undergraduates majoring in computer science has more than tripled since 2011; enrollment in C.S. classes has matched this surge.

Computer Science Growth a‘Phenomenon’

By ANNE SNABES Sun Staff Writer

Nikita Gupta ’17 is a computer scientist who loves to cook. When she was a freshman in high school, she created a website so she could share her favorite recipes with friends and family.

Gupta uploaded videos of herself cooking onto a web-

site and attached written recipes. She hadn’t been exposed to computer science before, but after working on the website, she decided she wanted to pursue the major in college.

“C.S. allowed me to integrate my passion for technology and cooking together, and create something that was helping my friends and family around the world,” she said.

Gupta has experienced firsthand the computer science craze sweeping through Cornell and across the country. In the last five years, the number of C.S. majors at Cornell has more than tripled — from under 200 to almost 700 — according to Prof. Fred Schneider, chair of the department of computer science.

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N.Y.College Republicans Chair Resigns

By MADELINE COHEN

their endorsement of Libertarian Gary Johnson, the organization had violated the club’s constitution and due process rights, A day after the Cornell Republicans The Sun previously reported. The letter filed an administrative appeal with the also accused Nachmany of violating camCollege Republican National Committee, paign finance laws in his work for Trump, demanding to be reinstated to the New in addition to broader principles of free York Federation of College Republicans, speech.

Chair Eli Nachmany — who had called for Kuby warned that if the national coman abrupt executive board vote to expel mittee did not act to reverse its decision Cornell’s chapter — resigned his post. within 10 days, the group would proceed Nachmany is currently working for with litigation.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, When asked if Cornell Republicans and according to the federation, he stepped would drop the impending law suit now down to focus his efforts on work for the that Nachmany has resigned, Olivia Corn, candidate. The former chair did not imme- chair of Cornell Republicans responded, diately respond to requests for comment.

“If we are reinstated yes, if not, we will pro“We at the Federation would like to say ceed with litigation.” goodbye to Eli Nachmany, who has “Make no mistake, [Nachmany] did resigned as Chairman in order not resign to help the Republican to focus on getting our party’s party: he resigned because he did nominee elected in not read the Federation’s constiNovember,” the N.Y. tution before he made a decision Federation wrote in a post on with massive ramifications,” she its facebook page Friday. said. “He jeopardized the 527 The post additionally said status of the federation by makthat Cornell’s status in the feding his decision as a paid Trump eration will be determined by staffer.” the new board after it is Corn also said the Nachmany approved. may have made this decision in NACHMANY “All questions relating to order to “clean up his image.” the current situation with Cornell will be “Over the phone he whined to me that discussed and decided after the Standing we were ruining his political career,” Corn Committee approves the new executive said. “No Eli, you did that all by yourself; board,” the post said. as much as I would like to take the credit, The Cornell Republicans’ attorney, that one’s on you.”

Ronald L. Kuby J.D. ’83, had drafted an appeal arguing that in expelling the Madeline Cohen can be reached at Cornell group from the federation after mcohen@cornellsun.com.

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Cultural controversy | Students say the exhibit implies Native American culture has disappeared.

Native American Students: Art Exhibit‘Crossing a Line’

By SHAFAY MUNIR Sun Contributor

The American frontier has pushed its way to the forefront of Cornell’s campus on a long stretch of Libe Slope, where a controversial exhibit by Prof. Aleksandr Mergold ’00, architecture, has been on display since Friday.

“American Spolia: Crossing the Line” — part of the Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Bicentennial — has provoked a negative response from Native American Students at Cornell.

The structure is a visual symbol of the 1792 Central New York Military Tract,

which destroyed indigenous lands to create 28 new townships now known as Central New York, according to the Cornell Council for the Arts website.

Crafted out of 200 years of New Yorkbased debris, the exhibit’s name alludes to the practices of the Romans, who built triumphal arches out of the spolia, or spoils, of their victories, according to the CCA. This debris is drawn out into a physical line, representing the path of American expansionism.

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interview, what I said on stage,” she said. “I really felt comfortable in my own skin.”

She added that the most rewarding aspect of her Camille Sims ’15 is not only the third runner up in participation was being able to bring her platform “to 2016’s Miss America Pageant; she also acts as a food a broader stage,” and teach the general public about food justice and the inequities in our food system. security advocate, volunteer and singer.

Sims, who began volunteering at homeless shelters Sims said she began competing in pageants at the age of 13, when her mother suggested that she use the when she was 12, said she decided her platform was contests as an outlet to engage in philanthropy and going to be about food justice after working at Head Start — a program in the United States Health and become a better student and college applicant.

“I knew I wanted to go to New York, I knew I Human Services that helps children from low-income families with their educawanted to go to a compettional, nutritional and social itive university, but I also “[I was myself] 100 percent of the needs. She said her experiknew that I needed to way, from what I wore, to my talent, ence there, when she worked find a way to get scholarclosely with families to help ship money to follow my to what I looked like in interview.” them develop nutrition heart and come to New plans, inspired her to publiYork,” Sims said.

Camille Sims ’15 cize their struggles.

During her time at “Having to drive 45 minCornell, Sims took time off from pageants to focus on her academic goals. She utes out of the way just to deliver a care package of studied human development and inequality studies food, because the grocery store was too far and they and was a member of the Sabor Latino Dance didn’t have transportation, and the food pantries were Ensemble, Cornell Ballroom Dancesport and C.U. closed on the days the parents were off [and could] Jazz Voices. Sims also participated in a federal work even get food ... is something that touches every person,” she said. “That’s the moment I realized this is study at a local community center.

“Being a part of several organizations really helped something we need to talk about.”

Sims has also gained media attention for her me to have an academic and play balance in my life,” she said. “Having an outlet to perform and dance responses to questions during pageants, particularly really helps, and a lot of my fond memories are per- when speaking on political issues.

“I am baffled and disturbed by everything that has formances or rehearsals and being able to make music gone on through this presidential election,” she said. and dance the stress away.”

Sims returned to pageants her senior year to pay “There are so many issues that I am passionate about off her student debt and determined to begin gradu- that haven’t come up.”

Sims believes strongly in the benefits of the ate school. She was named Miss New York last May, beating out roughly 80,000 young women who also pageant system, calling it an “incredible” opportunity that provides women with funding to go to school sought to compete in the Miss America pageant. “[I was myself ] 100 percent of the way, from what and pursue careers they otherwise may not have had I wore, to my talent, to what I looked access to.

“There are places in the world where women will like in interview, what I said in my

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Campaigning for a cause | In her beauty pageant platform, Sims fights to reduce food inequity.

never get that opportunity, where women have to apologize for being talented, for being articulate, for having an opinion about things,” she said.

As if her academic success, pageant wins and volunteer work were not accomplishments enough, Sims said she plans to release her new album, featuring of neo-soul, R&B and jazz music, this November. Her hope is that the album continues the dialogue she began with her 2015 E.P. “[The album] was named after my grandmother, See SIMS page 5

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The referendum received the minimum required 1,500 of signatures — necessary for it to appear on the S.A. A controversy over the availability of ballot — in less than seven hours, with feminine sanitary products has swept many assembly members advertising Cornell’s campus in the form of the referendum on their Facebook Student Assembly referendum 30. The cover photos and sharing the motion proposal’s query is simple — “should online. In total, the petition received pads and tampons be available free of 2,356 signatures, with 2,072 signatocharge to students in all bathrooms on ries verified as current undergraduates, Berger said. campus?”

“We are currently in an open comBridget Doolittle ’17 brought the ment period,” she measure to the S.A., said. “Every member representing Cornell’s Women’s Resource “The ultimate goal is to of the Cornell comCenter, according to provide feminine hygiene munity is permitted to submit statements.

Student Assembly products to Cornell We have received 569 President Jordan statements already.”

Berger ’17. The referstudents.”

Like at Brown, the endum was introS.A. hopes to offer Miranda Kasher ’17 duced a week after tampons and pads in Brown University all of women’s, men’s announced that it will supply tampons and sanitary products and gender-inclusive bathrooms, for free in every gender’s non-residential according to Kasher.

“The ultimate goal is to provide free bathrooms on campus.

“Following the recent initiative at feminine hygiene products to Cornell Brown, many people have been won- students and to be as inclusive as possidering, ‘Why doesn't Cornell follow ble in doing so,” Kasher said.

This referendum is the first in suit?’” said Matthew Indimine ’18, S.A. approximately 10 years to receive executive vice president.

There is “clear” support in favor of enough signatures to appear on the S.A. providing students on campus with free elections ballot, according to Indimine.

“We are so excited to be able to directfeminine hygiene products, according to Miranda Kasher ’17, S.A. Women’s Representative.

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The Computer Science Boom

The undergraduate demand for computer science is by no means a movement restricted to Cornell. “It’s a national phenomenon,” Schneider said. “Different universities have dealt with it in different ways.”

At the University of Washington, competitive appli-

by year — senior majors have the first choice of classes, juniors have the second, and so on, Schneider said.

Non-majors have the lowest enrollment priority, which can create additional waitlists of students who are not affiliated with the major but would still like to take courses.

“It’s virtually impossible if you’re a non-major to take a C.S. course,” he said. “And the department is not happy about this.”

Why Study Computer Science?

“I can go into fashion, I can go into food, I can go into social service, and I can go for the consumable hardware products.”

Nikita Gupta ’17 cants to the major need a GPA of at least 3.5 in CS, math and English, he said, addressing the demands imposed by the major’s new popularity.

“So far we haven’t done those things, and I think the faculty would prefer not to do that,” Schneider said. “Cornell would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

He attributed part of the study’s attraction to its new demand and versatility in the job industry — computer science is useful in fields from finance to biology, and students know it’s “the new skill to have,” he said.

“The number of students who are not C.S. majors and want to take C.S. courses has grown significantly,” Schneider said.

This booming demand has had consequences, as Cornell has struggled to accommodate a swift increase in student interest in computer science. Enrollment in C.S. classes has doubled in the past five years, and the new popularity has relegated some computer science majors to waitlists when they try to enroll in desirable courses.

This semester, four high-level courses — out of the 27 the department is offering — have waitlists comprised entirely of computer science majors. In one course, 50 students are still hoping to enroll.

Schneider said this congestion is caused by restrictions in lecture hall sizes, and that professors would otherwise “be very happy” to teach larger versions of the courses.

“We’ve been asking for larger rooms, but the way the University does room scheduling has not allowed that,” he said.

To ensure that all C.S. majors can finish their graduation requirements in four years, the department uses a registration mechanism that prioritizes enrollment

Students like Gupta said they chose C.S. for a variety of reasons, from academic interest to the field’s usefulness in multiple industries.

"The one thing that really excites me about computer science is that I can go into any industry and know that a software engineering role will be needed,” Gupta said. “I can go into fashion, I can go into food, I can go into social service, I can go for the consumable hardware products.”

Eric Landgrebe ’20 said he was drawn to computer science because he finds it intellectually stimulating.

“It’s unlike any other type of technical subject because it requires you to think about problems really generally and consider all the cases, instead of a math problem where you just can apply what you know and find the answer,” he said. “It has to be right all the time, not just in a particular case.”

Another factor in Landgrebe’s choice of major was that his C.S. degree will grant him a significant amount of job security, he said.

“It would for good for anything in tech, and also just anything that requires a lot of math and technical skills like investing,” he said.

Agi Csaki ’17, co-president of Women in Computing at Cornell, agreed with this assurance.

Csaki began college as a math major, but switched to C.S. because she “wanted to be making an impact on people’s lives” — if she works in a large tech company, the code she writes could be used by billions of people, she said.

“After my first theoretical math class, I think that I felt like it was too far removed from the real world,” Csaki said. “I felt like in my computer science classes, I was applying everything that I loved about math, but it was really tangible the impact I was making on the world and on people.”

The Future of C.S. at Cornell

Computer science, as students study and apply it today, has only recently become established as a popular field, according to Csaki.

“More and more people are interacting with technology and with computer science,” she said. “I think that as kids are growing up interacting with that, it

becomes more of a reasonable field to go into, rather than a while ago when tech seemed to be only for a very small select group of people.”

Prof. Éva Tardos, computer science, said students who were not C.S. majors first began to express interest in the classes around 15 years ago, after the “dotcom bust.”

“Having taken some computer science classes will make many students' resumes look so much more powerful and interesting,” Tardos said. “The hunger for knowing more and more C.S. is increasing.”

Last year, in Tardos’s Introduction to Analysis of Algorithms course — an upper-level class required for the major — it was apparent that many of the students were non-majors, she said. Four hundred and twenty students had enrolled, and the graduating class of seniors only has 300 members.

Prof. Walker White, computer science, also said he has noticed an increase in interest in the topic within the College of Arts and Sciences. The major is currently offered in both Arts and Sciences and the College of Engineering, and a similar growth spurt occurred in the engineering college in the 1990’s, he said.

“What we’re seeing that seems to be very ahistorical is a huge growth in Arts and Sciences,” White said.

“We’ve always been a major that’s accessible through the Arts and Sciences, but for whatever reason, a small minority of our class comes from the Arts and

“Being able to do some computing is definitely going to be super useful for a well-educated [adult] in the 21st century.”

Prof. Éva Tardos Sciences.”

As the department expands its undergraduate reach, Tardos said she believes student interest will continue to grow, and not just for majors. She expressed her hope the University will hire more faculty members so that professors can teach smaller courses, and that the department will begin offering C.S. courses geared towards all students.

“There are many opportunities out there, not just in C.S. companies, but many other professions need people who can understand data and be able to do some computation with it,” Tardos said.

“Being able to do some computing is definitely going to be super useful for a well-educated [adult] in the 21st century.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

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“Professor Mergold did not conduct careful and thorough research when planning this public installation and was not prepared to offer an apology for his erasure of Native Peoples before the end of the meeting,” Oster said. “NASAC will not attend the installation opening and instead reminds the Cornell Community that Native Peoples are still here and have been since time immemorial.”

a concern to many, as it takes a definitive stance on a didactically challenging period of history, which declaratively altered the lives and cultures of many. process unite Cornellians on their daily Jessica Biggott ’20 said the exhibit has commutes by showing that singular acts of begun a new dialogue in the somewhat-staghistory affect everyone, according to the nant and often avoided history of American CCA. expansionism in increasingly divisive times.

The exhibit is Mergold’s investigation of “Despite the several conflicts that have the “invisibility” of the Six Nations of started and its number of flaws, I believe Iroquois from the CNY Tract map and the the exhibit is good overall because it has “destruction” of their livelihood, a conversation about history according to the exhibit’s Facebook “Professor Mergold did not conduct started that has so often been ignored,” Biggott post. careful and thorough research when said.

Cornell students from Native The theme of the bicentennial is American communities reacted with planning this public installation.”

“Abject and Object Empathies,” focusdisbelief to the accusation that their ing on how the human mind shapes cultures had vanished, with NASAC Benjamin Oster ’17 experiences intentionally and unintenreps denouncing the aim of the piece in tionally, according to the CCA website. a statement published on Facebook, In response to the exhibit’s unaltered “American Spolia” was scheduled to be calling on collaborators to “restructure this opening day, NASAC created a month-long on display starting Friday, amongst other piece in order to foster dialogue.”

Mergold and the NASAC met Thursday Facebook event — “We Are Still Here” — 2016 Bicentennial Abject and Object to discuss the exhibit’s aim and description, to draw attention to the surviving Empathies exhibits. However, the event has resulting in friction as NASAC President Indigenous culture prevalent in much of since been cancelled, according to a Benjamin Oster ’17 concluded that central New York and Cornell. The public Facebook post.

Mergold declined to comment on the Mergold “did not conduct careful and thor- event coincides with the exact dates of the exhibit. exhibit or the NASAC’s response but said he ough research.”

Some students have expressed a disdain is working with the NASAC to refocus the Oster said the exhibit “paints Native Peoples as a conquered relic of the past, dis- for the rhetoric of the exhibit but still main- description and dialogue of the piece. misses the active and vital Indigenous tain that the work itself is of use and value to Cornell community and undermines our the community. The exhibit’s description Shafay Munir can be reached at and literary aim at the 2016 Bicentennial is sm2363@cornell.edu. core value of “any person, any study.”

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because she passed away while I was making it,” she said. “Having her not be there to see it come to fruition was a snapshot of that project. This album is talking about the “One of the greatest loss of her and rewards I got from being also going into the real world. at Cornell was my It’s about the classmates.” challenges and triumphs that Camille Sims ’15 come with it.”

Looking to the year ahead, Sims said she plans to continue traveling around the state, promoting her food security platform and preparing for graduate school, where she plans to work towards a master’s in human rights and a Ph.D. in human development.

Sims reminisced on her time at Cornell, saying “one of the greatest rewards I got from being at Cornell was my classmates.” “[My classmates] are some of the most interesting and creative and brilliant minds I have ever come in contact with,” she said. “I cherish the stories, experiences and advice that I got from my peers by ... being together and encouraging each other to do something new, do something crazy, do something fun.”

Catherine Goldsmith can be reached at ceg228@cornell.edu.

ly engage all students in shared governance,” he said.

In a resolution passed during the 2015-2016 school year, the S.A. modified the referendum process, redefining a referendum to include the student body instead of just the S.A. and changing the number of signatures required for a petition.

These amendments aimed to improve the referendum process, particularly in polling students, and provide students with a simpler procedure for voicing their opinions to the administration, according to Brian Murphy ’16, a staff member at the Office of the

“Every member of the Cornell community is permitted to submit statements. We have received 569 statements already.”

Jordan Berger ’17 Assemblies.

In order for a referendum to appear on the ballot, it must either be approved by S.A. and garner signatures from three percent of the undergraduate population, or must be signed by 10 percent of undergraduates, Murphy said.

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Ending the political hegemony of righteousness To the Editor: We have recently witnessed an upsurge in liberals and Clinton supporters devaluing large left-leaning segments of the population which are considering voting for third party options, or not voting at all, in the coming presidential election. Being a member of this ideological trend I am forced to respond to these attacks, to give public representation to a position which is constantly being decried.

I respect those whose political choice is to cast their ballot in favor of Hillary Clinton, some of which will even do this against their conscience in a respectable effort to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidency. I, and many others, do not share that sacrifice, however legitimate in its own right. The mainstream liberals, clearly represented on this campus by the Cornell Democrats, however, have an egregious will to undermine our divergent political choices. The Sun recently dedicated an article to the Democrats position, titled “Cornell Democrats Warn Students of Risks of voting for Third Party.” This reminds us one more time of how racist and scary candidate Trump is, and, in essence, works to guilt trip us into voting for their candidate. I will respond to the arguments formulated in that article and demonstrate their fallacies.

One member of the Cornell Democrats hails at us to “wake up and smell the fascism” to appeal to our sense of duty against such forces. There is an absence of historical understanding of fascism inside the ranks of Hillary Clinton, however, which limits the conception to its bare minimum. A Fascist movement, although catalyzed by a powerful figure during its rise and climax, necessitates pre-conditions for its emergence. The defeat of Donald Trump will not shut down the large sections of American society which are responsive to his rhetoric. The end of Trump will not save this country from these threats.

The far-right reactionary and fascist movement will keep rising, finding a new leaders if it needs to, unless it is opposed by a genuine anti-fascist united force, a progressive socialist movement which doesn’t flirt with the establishment. Clinton is born of the neo-liberal economic order, the same establishment politics that have generated the fascist movement taking place today. It is not a far-reaching certitude that Clinton, outside of mild appeasing economic reforms, will maintain this order and therefore only generate more reactionary forces.

Another point of pride made by the Cornell Democrats about Clinton is that she “treats her political adversaries with respect” as opposed to the unpredictable and provoking Trump. We have accumulated enough information by now, especially through the WikiLeaks email disclosure, to know that the cooperation between the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign was real and seriously undermining the fair process of the Democratic primaries. Hillary Clinton, although more subtly than Trump, knows how to do this and will undermine her political adversaries when she needs to.

A third and final, rather prevailing, point made by the Cornell Democrats concerns the recognition of the sacredness of the right to vote, aimed at those planning on not voting.

A member mentions the sacrifice of those who achieved the legal right and our inherent duty to use it. How pleasant the hypocrisy, this argument ending an article focused exclusively on dictating whom to vote for. The right to vote, in all its sacredness, also encompasses the right to choose for whom to vote.

To Cornell Democrats specifically, and to all Liberal moral-givers generally, I will not criticize your voting decision but keep us out of your political calculations. You are responsible for the creation of this bi-partisan system which has left us a choice between fascism and neo-liberalism. Today, some of us are ready to formulate and construct a brand-new path, and we won’t delay this project any longer because of your petty cries for help.

Alec Desbordes ’17

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remember when I wanted to be an athlete. Before Brad Pitt took it to Hollywood glitz, I read Moneyball cover to cover and dreamed of someday being centerfielder for the Athletics. I’m not sure what was going on in my head: my hand-eye coordination was atrocious, and my flaccid swing made me an easy out. I was fast, sure, but it’s hard to run to first base when you always strikeout.

Needless to say, my baseball dreams were not to last.

It was inevitable. I think almost every kid has, at some point in their childhood, fantasized about being a sports star. They dream of that big moment, of those last gasping, dying seconds in the championship round, with their team down.

Maybe it’s on the basketball court, where they’re guarded by their idol, and it’s the last possession the difference between failure and success, anonymity and glory. They palm the ball, dribbling up the court against an imaginary opponent.

Then: a stutter step, a quick juke and the shot goes up. “This is the final shot — for the win!” they scream.

Swish.

Tr u t h f u l l y, most of us never grow up from that. Even as we lose passion for the sports we grew up on or realize our bodies have betrayed our minds, we still keep a small part of our childhood in the form of this perpetual awe of athletes. Maybe it manifests when Usain Bolt glides across the finish line, hardly breaking a sweat, flashing his signature smile as he rolls to another gold.

Or maybe it comes up when we see LeBron, trucking past his peers to lay the smackdown on a poor, unsuspecting soul for a championship saving block. Or perhaps you find it all around: The cross country track star, outclassing the rest of the field, who happens to be the golden boy for your school, or the football wide receiver who, yeah, really, he made that catch with one hand.

Do we expect anything more from them, though? Should we expect anything besides highlight reels and garish confetti? Some people might say no, because the sports we watch on TV, the kind that controls the moods of millions, is just entertainment. And the people who say this believe that athletes shouldn’t get paid millions, and that the money spend on them is a waste. A sports star is just a sports star, they say, because really, does sports really matter in the grand scheme of things Well, no, of course not.

Sports are sports, because even though they might bring us joy and pride in our team, and even though they bring us together even if we disagree politically or religiously, at the end of the day the world moves on without them. I could watch the Red Sox win tonight, but at the end, nothing has changed. The apple still falls from the tree, the country still has a disaster of an election coming and innocent people are being gunned down without prejudice. Sports doesn’t matter.

And then yet — there’s Colin Kaepernick. Megan Rapinoe. Brandon Marshall. Devin McCourty. Jason Lane.

Arian Foster. Marcus Peters. Athletes — idols — who have protested the national anthem because of their dissatisfaction with the country and how it has permitted social injustice. The list goes on and on, and I suspect, based on the initial

feedback from the NBA and other sports leagues, the list will snowball before the year ends. It’s surprising what a few weeks can do for our national conscience. These athletes meant something to some people before the protests started, but that meaning was only found in statistics and money, wins and losses. Now? They mean something entirely different, and based on your point of view, it can be either terrifying or liberating.

But this isn’t about who is right or wrong, about whether it’s “correct” to protest the national anthem, or whether it’s unpatriotic to speak freely. It isn’t about their character, or ulterior motives; it isn’t about their race, or how much they make. Rather, think about it, and step back: We’re no longer talking about how many tackles they made last week, how many points they scored, or whether their team won or lost.

We’re talking about police brutality. We’re talking about what it means to be American. We’re talking about the oppression of minorities, and the coming onslaught of xenophobia.

We’re talking about why would athletes, vulnerable to the public opinion, would risk their profile, endorsements, jobs, for a muted protest?

Athletes themselves are expected to be good at their jobs (read: entertain) and stay out of trouble off the field.

That’s it. But this belies the influence they hold. They’re amongst the highest profile people in this world; they are celebrities on the periphery, and idols in the middle of our national conscience.

We look up to them for their accomplishments, and are swayed by their opinions. When they do something, we notice. So when one stands up for a cause, we listen intently. It’s why these protests have been so enlightening: When people in power ignore a problem, we tend to believe the issue is insignificant. But when they point it out, we look, and then stare. Whoever said sports is trivial is right; whoever said athletes are trivial is wrong.

Whatever one thinks about the protests, it’s clear something has shifted these past few weeks. So it’s in this vein that I encourage more athletes to follow them and protest or speak out on the problems that run rampant in society.

And not just on racial oppression, but also the causes they believe in, because those who do raise awareness have done an invaluable service. It tips the conversation of this country, and lends the cause more credibility. It’s also a matter of longevity. Athletes that last the longest in our consciousness are not necessarily those who were the best or most accomplished, but those who fought for their ideas: Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Caitlyn Jenner, Tommie Smith and John Carlos. They fought and clawed for their voice, and it was heard. In today’s fast thinking and diverse world, it could only help to receive a growing body of opinions. But it might not come easy. After all, it takes superhuman speed to sprint like Usain, but it takes a superhero to speak honestly.

We’re no longer talking about how many tackles they made last week, how many points they scored, or whether their team won or lost ... We’re talking about what it means to be American.

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

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n my last column, I wrote at length about the truth.

Operating with the definition used there, I would like to expand on what it can actually look like to talk about the truth. Since I am a cynical realist at heart, I am not going to elaborate on the bright side of this endeavor: those resplendent moments of success and growth, which are bound to happen because of how elegantly they perpetuate themselves.

Rather, I will focus today on the moments when truth-sharing seems to fail.

Sometimes, the talks I have with others about the truth of the world don’t go the way I had hoped. For example, I often find myself being subjected to relentless critiques of the structure and presentation of information, which allows my peers to circumvent the content. Other times, they will eagerly cordon off my attempts to be heard with stalwart, seemingly impregnable defensive barriers — after all, it’s much easier to talk broadly and abstractly about human nature than it is to address an intimate detail of one’s own life or commit to making a personal change. My peers also like to coopt the conversation as a subversive means to focus on their own qualms with the world and avoid investing any trust in myself or others. And this is just the short list. The long list has similarly recurrent themes and strikingly familiar examples, almost to the point of being laughably predictable.

The Truth, Part Two When I see people respond to teetering on the escarpment that and so on and so forth and so it the truth in ways like this, I already marks the end of this metaphorical goes, as Vonnegut might tiredly know why they’ve chosen these plateau, huddled together as the say. coping mechanisms. So while I winds of our own apathy and Granted, I exist in an insular may briefly become discouraged denial threaten to hurtle us into space where the concerns of those and dejected, I will never become the abyss. who seek justice and equity are broken. As a form of inspiration, I Let’s try, if you’ll humor me, to more likely to enter my sphere of like to remember that I have get a bit more concrete. The other consciousness than they would in dozens of stories from history to day, I stumbled across an article in many other places (although I still back me up. Still, in turning to for- the Atlantic that meticulously and don’t hear nearly as much as I mer advocates and allies, I some- thoroughly explained how resegre- should or would like to from my times struggle with the juxtaposi- gation is plaguing the nation. To peers here). I wonder, though: make a long story short, housing When we are no longer college tion that arises.

For example, I recently re-read districts that served their kids, full of verve and passion, but Martin Luther King’s Letter From a metaphorical “time” during the instead have become true adults, Birmingham Jail — this, along golden age of desegregation are fully matriculated into the workforce, will with The we remain Fire Next fiery?

T i m e , Listening to what others have to say does not M o n e y, should be networks, r e q u i r e d hurt if you are willing to hear something power reading for you do not want to hear and if the speaker and presanyone who tige have a c o n s i d e r s conveys a sense of respect way of themselves a and empathy. making us proponent a turn of nurturing Justice, by the way — and it occurs now being “rewarded” across the blind eye, or at least bury our to me that the potency and fullness country with colorblind policies anger under an avalanche of poise of King’s words is sometimes lack- ,that dictate homeownership, and ambition, allowing it to creep ing in contemporary recourse. The school zoning, etc. And, as would and claw back to the surface only people’s energy has dwindled away be expected, this has rapidly led to in those occasional, inspired to a margin of diminishing the steep decline in the economic moments. President Obama is a returns. If X is the extent to which value of homes, quality of educa- sometimes beloved, oftentimes dispeople are talking about an issue or tion and availability of resources as respected, and perennially divisive committing an act towards a cause government support from former- example of what happens when — and if Y is the extent to which ly integrated, thriving, communi- this burial process vaults you into people are responding to those ties vanishes because white people the role of a transcendent, diplowords or actions — then the decide to get the hell out of dodge. matic symbol for the group you curves on the graph of progress What follows is an imposition of represent, yet doesn’t prepare you have become less and less pro- will on the afflicted through sys- for the pressure to exact lasting, nounced over time, gradually temic oppression: Cue the school- substantive change that is intrinsic regressing to a flat line. If we’re not to-prison pipeline, the prison in such a role.

Believe me, I would love nothcareful, we will soon find ourselves industrial complex, gentrification

ing more than to be content with the state of this world, to never have to write about oppression again — to declare, exultingly, “We made it, all of us.” Then I could spend more column space on art, film, music and nature (to which I will turn for a brief reprieve in subsequent columns, by the way). I would also love to declare “fuck this, it’s too much,” to convince myself that there really is no hope for humanity, as the saying goes, and to seize caring or trying because I feel overwhelmed by the world. However, I recognize that no great problem has ever been solved by one great solution, and that even the tiniest of problems will continue to persist and fester in the face of abject indifference.

Listening to what others have to say does not hurt if you are willing to hear something you do not want to hear and if the speaker conveys a sense of respect and empathy. Speaking does not hurt if you are being truly listened to by the person to whom you are speaking. At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong answer to the problems facing our world. But there is The Truth. And The Truth will sometimes hurt. A lot. So whether in doubt or dialogue, I will happily defer to the experiences and opinions and thoughts of my peers, but I will never try to protect them from The Truth.

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun.com.

Honest A.B. appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Narayan Reddy | Reddy Set Go

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y parents found a perfect candidate to look after me since they couldn’t anymore. What qualified him, however, had nothing to do with the fact that he was my resident advisor whose job was to ease the drastic change to college life. He was a respectful and seemingly responsible Indian student who fondly reminisced with them of the motherland, using “aunty” and “uncle” throughout their conversation.

As we mature, we come into identities shaped by the culture we were raised in. My parents came to America for my sister and me, but ensured we would grow up in an Indian household. As a result, my Indian heritage has always been an important aspect of my identity. It was always a source of support and comfort I could turn to, and this well-mannered Indian boy would continue to provide it for me. They were right in that he became important to me, but not in a way they would expect.

Years of maintaining denial were shattered; I burst through the closet doors. His terrifically structured face told me I was gay, and the tight red shirt and skinny jeans plastered onto his lean, lanky body confirmed it. Up until that point, I would justify the urges I felt towards boys with envy. In elementary school, I would convince myself that some boys’ faces were really cute, and since mine was ugly, I was jealous. In middle and high school, my body was doughy and sedentary and theirs toned and athletic.

When I saw him, however, I didn’t want his face. I didn’t want his body. I did, however, want them enmeshed against mine.

I told my parents he became my friend and to him, I was. To me, it was a little more than that. I half-sprinted back to North after my last class to secure dinner

Brown Boy, Brown Boy dates, felt fiercely betrayed when he spent that can do both” rings a bell.

I learned a few things from my first foray time with other residents, and endured physical pain upon meeting his girlfriend. It into romance that I wish to share here.

First, I learned it is important to accept was not until much later that I realized it was more than puppy love. The running that conflicting identities boil down to theme of our interactions was the Indian those created by one’s experiences and othculture we both identified with. Privately, ers by one’s belief system. For me, my however, I used my infatuation with him as Indian identity comes from watching a way to begin accepting my own gayness. Bollywood movies every Friday with my My identity was in disarray. I asked family, and finding community in the myself how I could continue to be an “brown” parties we attended every Saturday.

Indian when Indian culture disapproved of It did not arise from my approval of the hetqueerness. However, through an imagined erosexual, cis-gendered and caste-upholding institurelationtion of ship, I arranged lived in a I am a proud, gay Indian American that marriage. utopia In fact, in which has only just learned that I don’t need my sheer society rejection did not validation from an Indian man. By writing of such a pit identhrough this extremely neglected custom is tities driven by against perspective, I hope to inspire more queer my ideno n e tity as a another. inclusivity in Indian spaces.

It was an gay man. attempt This is to force an idenaffinity between identities marred by a rela- tity informed by my own personal belief tionship of hatred. His Indian-ness kept me system. I feel comfortable merging the two grounded in memories of home and child- identities knowing that any conflict hood, and his sexiness was a space for me to between them only feels “wrong” superfiexplore my sexuality with the assurance that cially. I stopped leaning on him because I my sense of self was still standing, albeit found stability in dual affirmation. fractured.

Second, I learned that instead of comThis is what we do when faced with promising an identity to sustain another, it polar aspects of our central identity. This is is best to fixate the struggle of tending to the queer evangelical Christian. An individ- multiple clashing identities into your ual I once had zero empathy for, but who I becoming. I let go of the shame attached to now understand, truly believes that God delusion because I knew I learned from it. will forgive them for their sins. No, I didn’t People are diverse and diversity in identity think he was divine, but “get you a man lends to diversity in experience. We learn

through diversity, including the lifelong process of learning who we are. Without it there would be no differences to perceive.

Become comfortable with and be open about identity crises to work through and learn from.

These lessons will inspire positive change in ourselves which can then extend outside of ourselves, into a society in severe need of social change. Change that dismantles institutions that keep aspects of our identity in solitary confinement, making integration easier for those who come after us. I am a proud, gay Indian American that has only just learned that I don’t need validation from an Indian man. By writing through this extremely neglected perspective, I hope to inspire more queer inclusivity in Indian spaces. I was once called a unicorn. People would pay to see a unicorn, let alone hear it speak, but the problem lies in the fact that we are not rare but silent. Sharing your own narrative can give voice to those who guard theirs and can eventually lead to edits and additions to the narrative of humanity.

I saw him again the first week of this semester. He looked good, but I wasn’t trying to have his babies. I had learned I didn’t need his affection to be Indian or gay; I did not need him to be myself anymore. I know I’m still very much insecure, but I have embraced the fact that all humans, including myself, are messy, complicated folks predisposed to compartmentalizing, mediating and negotiating their intersectionality.

Third, I learned I still have much more learning to do.

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com. Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester.

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Isabel Fortuño | Guest Room

The Ñ Files

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rowing up in Puerto Rico I was taught two alphabets in school, English and Spanish. To most people they appear the same, but my classmates and I learned the subtle differences. We were taught the effect letters such as ch, ll, rr and ñ could have on a word. The letter that stuck with me was “ñ.” It is a universal symbol for the Spanish language and, to me, a unique part of my family name. For many years, the “ñ” in my last name was mispronounced, exchanged for an “n,” or simply ignored. It never used to bother me until I saw Uzo Aduba tell the story of asking her mother to change her name to Zoe because of its difficulty. Her mother responded with, “If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky and Michelangelo and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka.”

That was the moment when my perspective shifted.

Up until that point, whenever I was away from my home in Puerto Rico I would pronounce my name with an “n” to make it easier for my companions. I now proudly declare the “ñ” in Fortuño whenever I get the chance. This shift in my attitude led me to the University Registrar to rectify a wrongdoing made when I enrolled as a freshman. My name has never had an “ñ” in the eyes of Cornell officials because I was told that it was “impossible to enter accents in our system.” While I was aware that one could easily enter diacritical marks on any computer, I accepted the answer because I was a timid freshman. Now, as a tenacious senior, I am determined to have the diploma that I worked tirelessly for represent my true identity, and not the Anglicized version. I headed to Day Hall with my birth certificate and the hope that three years was enough time for university technology to catch up with the capabilities my iPhone has had for years. Unfortunately, I was given the exact same response this time around. I tried to explain that a simple “Atl + 164” would do the trick on the office P.C., but was met with the same resistance and sent to another office.

As a university striving for diversity and inclusion, there seems

While I was aware that one could easily enter diacritical marks on any computer, I accepted the answer because I was a timid freshman.

Now, as a tenacious senior, I am determined to have the diploma that I worked tirelessly for represent my true identity, and not the Anglicized version. I headed to Day Hall with my birth certificate and the hope that three years was enough time for university technology to catch up with the capabilities my iPhone has had for years. to be an issue with including its diverse students. Ultimately, the registrar at the Hotel School graciously worked with me to find a solution to my problem. A few minutes, some simple keystrokes and the foundations of hospitality the program instills were all that was necessary to remedy an issue I had been struggling with for three years. I wanted to overcome this hurdle for all the Édouards, Marías, Noëls, Peñas and all other diacritically marked names to come. They should not have to walk around with a permanent marker changing every name tent, class list and name tag that comes their way. My name is not Fortuno, Fortuny or Fortu(error letter not found)o. I am Isabel Fortuño and I want Cornell, and the world, to know it.

Isabel Fortuño is a senior in the School of Hotel Administration. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Comment of the day “Why not call themselves the Cornell Political Group if they want to support whomever appeals to them? How can they call themselves a Republican group and then support a candidate running against the Republican candidate? Sorry, but I completely agree they should lose their certification.”

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Ara Hagopian | Whiny Liberal

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rmenian-American. This people of the Standing Rock outside forces more powerful phrase means a great deal reservation. The construction than themselves. That simply to me, but it doesn’t always would also desecrate a number of won’t happen in this case; there’s mean much to others. “I’m burial grounds and sacred sites no world power to step in when Armenian,” I tell people. Often I that, while falling outside the cur- you’re the world power. We see a blank stare and I reluctantly rent borders of the reservation, Americans who are so quick to be add “like the Kardashians.” are protected by the United States the moral policemen of the world There’s a very tragic reason why federal government. The Dakota must, in the words of Jodie the Armenian race isn’t more Access company has taken several Foster’s Silence of the Lambs widely known; namely that there steps to get around this, including character, “point our high-powaren’t that many of us left. going out of their way to dese- ered perception at ourselves.”

What the United States govBetween 1915 and 1923, the crate these sites; an action which Ottoman Turks systematically for some reason renders their pro- ernment has done and continues to do to the American Indian executed 1.5 million Armenians tected status null and void.

I am a liberal, and I freely people is nothing less than genoin an act of genocide.

Last year I attended a gather- acknowledge the fact that liberals cide. Maybe you agree with using ing of Armenians in Times like to take up causes. You’re talk- that word in connection with something like Square. The rally Wo u n d e d was held to comKnee, but you memorate the What the United States government has think it’s a little 100th anniveroverdramatic sary of the done and continues to do to the American in the context Armenian of a construcGenocide. As Indian people is nothing less than tion project. I important as the genocide. would reply plight of my own that the definipeople is to me, tion of genothe speakers that I found most interesting were the ing to (or reading the words of) a cide is “extermination of an ethrepresentatives of other popula- guy who, noticing with distress nic group.” Effectively turning an tions that had survived attempted that his bedroom walls were cov- entire population into refugees by extermination. A Holocaust his- ered with posters of mostly male spilling oil into their drinking torian addressed the crowd, fol- musicians, promptly hung up a water seems like a pretty big step lowed by a Cambodian woman picture of Norah Jones that he in that direction.

Consider the two most comand a young man from the small printed out at the library. I African nation of Rwanda. A bought a “Free Pussy Riot” t-shirt mon terms used to describe speaker for American Indians, in high school thinking it was a native people in this country; American” and however, was nowhere to be modern art piece. However, I flat- “Native ter myself to say that I think I “American Indian.” We define found.

Which brings me to the sub- have matured a little since then, them in terms of their relation to ject of this article. You may have at least enough to recognize that us. They’re a sideshow, a nuiheard about the controversy sur- the protest against the Dakota sance, a (literal) mascot. The only rounding the Dakota Access Access Pipeline is not a cause to thing left to an entire race of peoPipeline. Dakota Access, a sub- be adopted, given the “social jus- ple is a few small tracts of land sidiary of the Fortune 500 com- tice warrior” treatment and even- and ostensible autonomy, both of pany known as Energy Transfer tually forgotten. Because the which we clearly don’t respect.

The American Indian is going Partners, is in the midst of con- Dakota Access Pipeline controstructing an oil pipeline that versy is the latest installment in to extraordinary lengths to fight would run from the Bakken oil what I consider to be the greatest this pipeline. It is the first time fields in the Dakotas to a process- tragedy in the history of civiliza- that representatives of every remaining tribe have come ing plant in Illinois. The structure tion.

Some historians estimate that together in counsel. But the horwould have a profound impact on the members of the Standing as many as 18 million native peo- rible reality is that they simply Rock Sioux tribe, whose ple were killed within the borders don’t have the numbers or the (autonomous) land is contained of modern America. When look- standing to speak for themselves within the U.S. state of North ing at the “new world” as a whole, and be heard. They need my help Dakota. Current architectural that number rises as high as 90 as well as yours. plans have the pipeline running million. Ranking tragedies is a directly under the Missouri River deplorable action that minimizes at Lake Oahe, the latter of which the suffering of the victims. It Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of is the tribe’s main source of drink- must be said, however, that Hitler Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at ing water. Any spill or leakage and Pol Pot were prevented from ahagopian@cornell.edu. Whiny Liberal would be disastrous for the 8,000 reaching their horrible goals by appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Fumbling With History: American Spoila

BY TROY SHERMAN Arts & Entertainment Editor

American Spolia gashes itself out into space like an inverse wound. It spans an unbent and unwavering 140 feet across Libe Slope’s midsection, resting, at its highest, westernmost point, several feet above my head. At each end it terminates bluntly and abruptly. Its thin metal beams are sparse and rudimentary, almost purely utilitarian. Numbering about a dozen, they support, as if extollingly, an imbricated miscellany of wooden panels, each one of its own faded hue. Across these, stretching the structure’s flank, is etched a harrowing command from our own country’s first president to General John Sullivan: “Sir, the expedition which you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents. The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many of every age and sex as possible.”

Washington’s quote) into direct contact with the empathizee (the American Indian whose ancestors it affected). Spolia was created from pieces of wood plundered (Latin: spoliatus) from 200 years of houses built by white settlers. The deplorable quote on its side, then, has been quite literally carved into the spoils of colonization. But in this empathetic relationship, the party empathized with — the Native Peoples on whose land these houses were built, whose life and livelihood were the victims of Washington’s command — is presented as a remnant peering out of the cracks of that quotation. Spolia’s role as empathizer

was drawn. I thought it would be interesting to try to visualize all of it.

SUN: So it seems as if, rather than a social critique, this project sprung more out of an interest in the history of this area’s regional planning?

A.M.: I wouldn't even say “planning”: it’s specifically about “drawing.” It came from an interest in drawing as an instrument of other things — as an instrument of power, as an instrument of colonization, any of these things. But drawing being an act of putting a line down on paper means more than just putting down some line.

SUN: The name of the piece is American Spolia: Crossing the Line. Obviously that title is wrought with a lot of implications on both sides of the colon. What made you consider this project specifically in relation to Ancient Roman spoliae?

A.M.: Well, that was actually something I had been thinking about before the biennial as well. When we all come to Ithaca, one of the most striking features of the local It is with this nauseating side of history landscape is all of these Greek and Roman that American Spolia: Crossing the Line town names, which actually came about as a attempts to grapple. But rather than truly part of Dewitt’s map. There is a question as engaging the inherent multiplicity of issues, to whether Simeon Dewitt himself came up past and present, which it presents, it with the names or somebody else, but that’s instead inserts itself into a narrative in not really the point. The point is that there which it seems only to serve as a pedantic is definitely a perceived legacy of the past in reminder of the events for which it, by its this area. When I first learned about very existence, stands. It wrenches itself into Sullivan’s Raid — the quote here on the side history with the intention of spurring some of the piece is from George Washington vague change, but with a more powerful OMAR ABDUL-RAHIM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER instructing Sullivan to essentially “clear out” and selfish desire for its own visibility. Its Building a Map | Viewers look at Mergold’s American Spoila: Crossing the Line on Libe Slope. the local population — I thought, “It’s interlumbering permanence, its unrelenting span, its sheer and uncompromising presence at our campus’s takes center stage; it touts its capacity for feeling and its ability esting that these events aren’t particularly well known.” I’ve been center is proof that American Spolia is concerned with few his- to admit — or rather, brandish on its side — the foibles of its working on this project for a week, and people come up to me past. But in this bombastic display of apparent empathy (that is, asking about it, but they don’t know about the dark side of this tories other than its own.

This, however, despite its creator’s deep engagement with in building an enormous structure which makes no reference to area’s history. I thought that, as an art piece, it would be interthis area’s past. The project sprang from Prof. Aleksandr American Indians other than as a group which was conquered esting to create something like the Romans would have done Mergold’s, B. Arch ’00, architecture, interest in, quite simply, a some 200 years ago), what is lost is the role of the empathizee in after their conquests: A temporary arch made up of spolia, bunch of lines that were casually drawn more than two centuries the process of empathy. American Spolia fails not because it which is basically what this is. Except the difference is that this attempts to empathize, or because it attempts to bring the is made up of spolia not of the Native American civilization, but ago.

In 1792, Simeon De Witt created a map, scaled at the ratio empathizer and the empathizee structurally together within one of our own. This is 200 years of old houses that white settlers of one inch:one mile, of central New York. It was on this piece towering installation. It fails because it looks at history as finite built here; it’s the remnants of those things. That’s where we get of paper, rather small considering its historical magnitude, that and definite, a thing with ascribed and unchangeable winners the “American Spolia” of the title. And it’s “Crossing the Line” De Witt separated what would eventually become Ithaca and its and losers, conquerors and conquered. What it does is attempt because we are literally crossing the line of history right here. environs into 20 townships. The dividing lines, according to to empathize with a subject that doesn’t exist: A conquered, dis- We’re standing here now in a 140 foot wide line [that, scaled Mergold, “are fairly casually drawn with a quill pen on the tant, long-ago erased Native American who fell along with down, would have been the thickness of Dewitt's pen on the parchment. It’s in a very small scale, but it shapes so much of the Washington’s command. What it should have done is forced its map he made of this area]. The map was scaled 1 inch: 1 mile. way we live here in this area now, for better or for worse.” The viewer, whoever that might have been, to empathize not only SUN: In the planning and construction of this piece, were better, it can be assumed, might include our bustling town, our with the Native Peoples “conquered” in some dark, distant past, respected university, the beautiful landscape which we all, as but also with those thriving in the present moment, even within there any Native American peoples or parties involved?

Cornellians or Ithacans, can claim as our own. The worse, how- the bounds of that line drawn by De Witt’s casual hand.

A.M.: I did reach out to the American Indian and ever, is what the flank of Mergold’s structure calls graphically to THE SUN: How did this project begin? Were you enlisted to Indigenous Studies department here before this thing was conmind: Requisite for these townships to have been created, for those lines to have been drawn, for us all to enjoy “the better,” contribute to the biennial or did you undertake making this structed. Prof. Jolene Rickard and the other faculty members were aware that this thing was going on, and they were quite was the systematic displacement and extermination of the happen? supportive of the project.

Native Peoples who had occupied this area for thousands of ALEKSANDR MERGOLD: The biennial was soliciting calls for I don’t necessarily see this as a piece that tells a Native years prior.

American story. I see it as a piece that essentially can become a Libe Slope’s giant structure represents the width, were it proposals, so I proposed this project. platform for all sorts of stories to be told. I see it as literally visuscaled up from its original size on the map, of one of the lines SUN: Had you been thinking about this project at all before- alizing the particular drawing which happened in this particular which De Witt drew and which, as Spolia calls to mind, cuts through our current reality in a far more literal way than many hand, or was this something that had its inception in the bien- place and which spawned a lot of different stories. I’m an architect, so I don't necessarily tell stories; I create things out of nuts of us would ever care to consider. But the project’s failure lies not nial. and bolts. So this is my part, and I see this project as a platform in its engagement with history, or in this presence of the past A.M.: I hadn’t been thinking about this specific situation, for various other stories to come from and be told by anybody which it makes us consider; rather, it fails because of the boundary which Spolia sets on that consideration, because of the way but I had been thinking a lot about the map of central New York who, in one way or another, has a presence here. To me that’s which Simeon Dewitt drew in 1792. I had been studying it for the whole point. it engages with its history.

American Spolia communicates with its audience through a about a year after I got a New York State Council for the Arts SUN: So for you, this piece is meant to reflect less on any one series of conflations: it conflates the past (the line that was grant to produce essentially an atlas of the 20 townships that drawn) with the present (what that mark continues to mean); Dewitt's map prescribed. There are two copies of the map, one specific implication of the line that was drawn, and more on the the linguistic (the words on its side, the narrative it tells) with here in Kroch Library and one in Albany. It’s a pretty small piece many implications of the drawing of that line? the spatial (you must walk from end to end to read those words, of paper, and the lines are fairly casually drawn with a quill pen A.M.: The implications are certainly many. I’m not a histoto hear its story); the drawn (a lifeless map) with the lived (the on the parchment. It’s in a very small scale, but it shapes so people existing on either side of that “for better” and “for much of the way we live here in this area now, for better or for rian and I don’t know any exact numbers; all I know is that this worse”). But its most important conflation — the one through worse. It's pretty fascinating: how can a drawing — and not a map and consequently this one single line had a lot of influence which it engages with history and which forces each of us to particularly big one — shape such a huge tract of land. My ini- on this area starting back then, and it is still exuding its influconsider the implications of such a project — is its conflation tial study looked into how the original townships, which were ence now. For me, visualizing that and making it tangible by which falls the flattest: That of the two sides of the process of essentially a grid, transformed over the last 220 years. That was making it very present is the beginning of a conversation which “empathy,” not coincidentally the theme of the 2016 Biennial of an interesting part of the project, interviewing New York state will hopefully continue on. I guess it’s already begun. historians and these kinds of things. This project sort of came which American Spolia is a part.

Spolia’s intention seems to have been to bring the empathizer up as a byproduct of that. Preceding the creation of Dewitt’s Troy Sherman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He (the white person whose ancestors were complicit in map, there was a series of events that shaped shaped the way it can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun.com.

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people but empathy with objects.” By creating Urchin, she is taking away theinitial and classic view on the object, the chair, playing with people’s perceptions and affordances.

I asked the thought process behind morphing the chair into this artwork. O’Donnell explained, “Turning a chair If you walk around the Cornell campus at this time of upside down, making a chair not able to function as a the year, you might be surprised by what you find. The chair forces you to think about the chair differently. Now Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Biennial has just started that you cannot sit in it, you notice around campus and one of the most other things about chairs. You see capturing installations is the Urchin. the spikiness, the material, the way It is an enormous white structure in the light comes through. Then you the middle of the Arts Quad. You start asking questions. Who can’t really tell what it is until you designed them? Who made them? start getting closer. That’s when you Are they recycled? It forces people see the spikes. The whole outside to ask questions.” She values the layer of the structure is covered with idea of making the audience questhese spikes that are oddly familiar. tion regular life and shapes. “When So you get a bit closer and that’s you are walking towards a chair, you when you see: They are just chairs. normally don’t think about the This is Urchin (Impossible chair. you don’t think ‘should I sit, Circus),made by CODA for the should I not sit.’

Biennial. CODA is a studio for One of the other principal rules architectural and urban research and for Urchin was that is acknowledges design led by Caroline O’Donnell, something in its context. So when who is also known for her work Party O’Donnell decided on placing in Wall, the winner of MoMA PS1. She between Ezra Cornell and A.D. has worked with many other artists White statues, she saw that A.D. to create Urchin, but her efforts and White’s position was perfect for a influence cannot be underlined deformation in the shape. The dip enough. To really understand how in the shape relates to the statue’s such an artwork is created, it is necleg as if it continues through and essary to look beyond it and towards Urchin has to dip down to let it the artist and ask them how this pass. It is a tiny but effective nod came to be. and reaction to the surroundings of When I asked why she decided to the installation. be an architect, O’Donnell said she “What would make me very doesn’t remember ever wanting to do happy is for someone to walk by anything else. She only remembers and from a distance you think it’s a drawing houses in drawing books CORINNE KENWOOD / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER highly designed object and when when she was only 11, and playing you get close you realize, it’s just a in the constant construction sites in New Perspectives | CODA’s Urchin during its construction. chair and I’ve sat in that chair her ever-growing neighborhood.

During her childhood, there was always a new house being thing about itself.” This really struck her as powerful and before.”

Urchin is now the center of attention at the Arts Quad, added to the row of houses, and that was basically her she kept working on it. Building on his idea, she started playground. Playing in the foundations is the one signifi- thinking, “if architecture can be read, maybe it can say and it definitely adds an air of sophistication as well as interest. Countless students that pass it by every day have cant memory that struck her as an influence on her inter- something about what is outside itself.”

O’Donnell has worked with modified objects ever to stop and look again. It makes them think, and see new est in architecture. Her interest only intensified as she grew up, and at around 17 she decided to choose architec- since. She has created Party Wall for MoMA PS1 in 2013. perspectives, empathize with the object. This is what It was made up of skateboards and brought her first place makes Urchin such a strong piece. ture as a career.

She went on to study in Manchester University, in the competition.

This year’s theme for the Biennial was “Object/Abject Çağla Sokullu is a first-year student in the College of Art, England. That was when she met James Gibson and learned about his ideas on “affordance.” In her words, Empathies,” and in thinking about empathy for this bien- Architecture and Planning. She can be reached at Gibson’s idea is that “when you first see an apple, the first nial, O’Donnell defined empathy as “not empathy with cs896@cornell.edu. thing you see is what you can do with it, that you can eat it.” Since then, O’Donnell has also been interested in challenging people’s perceptions of objects.

After university, she worked with builder and theoretician Peter Eisenman in New York. His most prominent idea was that architecture always means something, that “architecture can be read but it should be able to say some-

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The album opens with “Congratulations,” which features both Mac and Bilal singing. If you haven’t heard Mac sing before, you should. The sound of the opener truly sets the tone for the rest of the album; it is fully orchestrated, replete with a piano intro and a string section, but conspicuously missing any per-

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It’s worth noting that I had an hour long argument with a friend about what the song is actually about; she thought that it was a regretful ode to a failed relationship, whereas I was certain it had a more introspective bent, but we agreed that, either way, it’s beautiful in its own way.

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This album is strange, in the same as pretty much everything he has done in recent memory. But it is also full of incredibly articulate, genuine moments which show Mac Miller’s incredible growth and lyrical ability. It’s the kind of thing that you really need to hear for yourself, but I would throw in the caveat that if you’re going to listen to the album, listen twice.

Jacob Kruger is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at jpk238@cornell.edu.

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“That’s something that we really preach,” Weber said of the turnovers. “We practice it every single day. It’s very fulfilling to have that come out in the game after practicing it for so long.”

Later in the quarter, two big fourth down conversions on Bucknell’s third drive of the day allowed the Bison to maneuver down the field to the five-yard line. A couple of big stops from the Red halted Bucknell and forced them to kick a field goal, dropping Cornell into a 10-0 deficit with 11:24 left to play in the first half.

Weber said part of the reason Bucknell was CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR able to pounce on the Red so early in the game was that the Bison had kicked off its season Flying high | For just the third time in as many seasons, Cornell football came away with a victory, two weeks earlier, saying the earlier start gave defeating the Bison, 24-16. the team an advantage in game readiness.

“It started with [the offensive] line,” Walker needed it most. Sophomore linebacker “We came out a little slow,” Weber said ‘“They’ve played two games, we haven’t played said. “We’ve got a lot of upperclassmen that Malcolm Chaka popped the ball out of anyone. Once we got our game legs under us, really set the tone for us and they got the edge DeFloria’s hands and junior linebacker Kurt Frimel pounced on it. going.” we started to excel.”

While the Red went three and out after the After two straight plays when the Red failed to Cornell answered the field goal with one of its own, a 41-yard attempt from Zach Mays, a make what appeared to be sure tackles, DeFloria fumble, Cornell’s defense again stepped up added a second touchdown for Bucknell, break- huge as the clock inched towards zero. career long for the sophomore.

“It’s a testament to the conditioning, Having points on the scoreboard seemed to ing the 10-10 tie, but a blocked extra point because obviously they were moving the ball make Cornell turn things up a notch. On the attempt kept the score 16-10.

On the ensuing and pushing us around,” Archer said. “When ensuing Bucknell drive, Walker con- it mattered and when we had to come up with drive, the Red “The expectations of this year are set tinued his strong something, we did. I’m so proud of [defensive forced a threeextremely high with this group and we rushing perfor- coordinator Jared] Backus and the defensive and-out. And mance, breaking coaches and the defensive kids.” then after receivcan achieve it.”

WIth a 1-0 record, Cornell’s team already off a 24-yard run ing the ball deep on the Red’s first has as many wins as it accumulated in its entire in its own terriChris Walker play of the third last season. tory, Cornell “It’s definitely like we kind of already tied quarter. A mix of marched down the field, using Walker’s speed and precise run and pass plays set up a one-yard touch- what we did last year,” Walker said. “But that’s not something we’re settling on. We want to passing from sophomore quarterback Dalton down run for Banks.

Bucknell seemed to put together a solid offen- settle on something way better than that. The Banks to engineer a long drive to the end zone.

A 10-yard run around the left side from sive drive to answer the Red’s second touchdown expectations of this year are set extremely high Banks to cap the drive gave the Red its first but Woullard again put an end to it, picking off with this group and we can achieve it.”

The sentiment seems to be a recurring touchdown of the season and tied the game Muh for the second time of the night. With the going into the half. Without any regular sea- ball and the momentum, Cornell tacked on theme of this year’s team: while a win over son experience under his belt, Banks appeared another score, a 22-yard pass from Banks to Bucknell may be surprising for those not familto possess decision-making skills more com- Sullivan on third and one to take a 24-16 lead. iar with the team, those on the squad expect it.

“This whole preseason we’ve had a different “We had a few third and shorts throughout mon in a veteran.

Part of the reason Banks’ rushing plays were the game,” Sullivan said. “We ran it and ran it mindset,” Banks said. “Everyone has had this so effective was due to the success Walker and ran it. It was just a great play call [to go great feeling about it. Now that it’s solidified found at tailback. With Bucknell’s attention deep]. Coach Archer set it up perfectly after week one, we’re just going to keep it rolling and hope to keep the wins coming. placed firmly on the shifty speedster, Banks throughout the game.”

Bucknell took the ball back and made its was able to call his own number and pick up short gains. Walker ended with 133 yards on way down the field. But Cornell’s defense was Adam Bronfin can be reached at unshakeable, forcing a fumble when the Red sports-editor@cornellsun.com. just 16 carries.

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Sophomore Banks Stars in First Career Game

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

LEWISBURG, PA — In his first ever varsity action, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks looked like anything but a rookie.

The San Antonio native took the reigns with confidence and poise, throwing for 160 yards, rushing for 24 and accounting for all three touchdowns — two on the ground and one in the air.

Coaches and teammates alike were happy with Banks’ performance, but were not surprised at what they saw from the young quarterback.

“I expected it,” sophomore running back Chris Walker said. “I didn’t expect anything else.”

“Did it look like it was his first game ever?” asked senior captain and tight end Matt Sullivan of his quarterback.

The two players connected for the most impressive play call at the most crucial point of the game. Up by just one with the third quarter winding down, Banks hit Sullivan for a 22-yard touchdown to essentially put the game out of reach ZACH SILVER / SUN ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

Banking on Banks | The sophomore quarterback accounted for all three of the Red’s touchdowns against Bucknell.

for Bucknell.

“The kid plays the game in his head before he gets on the field,” a jubilant Sullivan said after the game. “It’s not his first game. He’s so prepared. He has all the tangibles to go out there and be a great Division I quarterback and you saw it on the field today.”

Banks, too, noted that his performance on Saturday night came from months upon months of preparation and training, but gave a majority of the credit to his teammates.

“I’ve got a great team around me,” he said. “My [offensive] line is fantastic, my receivers are deep at every position.

I just feel comfortable, confident and I don’t really have to feel nervous because I’ve got a great team around me.

Teammates that will pick me up whenever I need it to help me out.”

Head coach David Archer ’05 was particularly impressed with Banks, given that Bucknell did not play how the coaching staff expected.

“In a hostile environment, they blitzed and they brought everything,” the head coach said.

“We thought they were going to come in with certain coverages and certain formations and they almost always did the exact opposite. They blitzed so much more than we thought and they blitzed on different downs than we thought they would.”

While he was deadly accurate with his arm — completing 17 of 24 pass attempts — Banks’ rushing maneuverability was what put the Red over

How to Grow Professional Women’s Soccer C

enue for individual teams. Obviously, TV rights deals for the NWSL will be nowhere near as lucrative, but for a league that is still in an expansion stage like the NWSL, any extra cash will go a long way. Plus, the increased exposure will bring the league more revenue and publicity, continuing long-term growth.

A discussion of U.S. women’s soccer is incomplete without mentioning player salaries. The salary cap for an entire NWSL franchise is $278,000 in 2016. Several professional men’s players make more than that paltry sum in a single week. So $278,000 can buy you one of the world’s best men’s soccer players for seven days, or an entire professional women’s soccer team for a full year. Aside from the obvious inequality here, the average NWSL salary works out to around $17,000 per year. This is clearly not a sufficient living wage. While salaries are rising each year in the NWSL, they are barely keeping up with inflation. Women’s soccer players are certainly justified in asking for increased wages.

If women’s soccer could draw more interest in between the World Cup and the Olympics, it would create a cycle that would continuously expand the league fan base. Fans of the local NWSL team would watch the World Cup and Olympics to see their favorite NWSL players represent their countries, and fans who just watch the tournaments to cheer on the USA might pick some The Beautiful favorite players and follow progress in the NWSL. Game their At the moment, audiences for the tournaments vastly which is a national television channel, but outweigh audiences for NWSL games, only in some American households. both in the stadium and on television.

Television rights deals have been in the Women’s soccer can grow as a sport if they spotlight ever since the world’s most popu- increase their players’ wages, increase publar men’s soccer league, the English Premier licity through a better television deal and League, signed a three-year TV rights deal ultimately build a long-term following for with Sky Sports worth £5.14 billion. This the National Women’s Soccer League. fiscal windfall has given that league a chance to invest in grassroots efforts to Kevin Linsey can be contacted at grow the game, as well as provide more rev- klinsey@cornellsun.edu. arli Lloyd’s goal from midfield against France. Brandi Chastain’s winning penalty kick in the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final. Women’s soccer captured the national spotlight in America at those two moments, which will live on as two of the greatest in the history of the sport. Both times, fans were drawn to the sport because the players were representing the United States on the world stage. Yet, in between Olympics and World Cup cycles, women’s soccer struggles to gain popular attention in America. What can women’s soccer do to gain more publicity and grow in future years?

There is currently one professional women’s soccer league in the United States, the National Women’s Soccer League (NWSL). The league was founded in 2012 after the previous league folded. The 10 teams are spread across the United States, in such major cities as Chicago, Seattle and Washington, D.C. Attendance varies widely, with anywhere from a few thousand to 20,000 people attending games, with the average around 4,000 per game.

One way for the league to gain more coverage is through an improved TV rights deal. Currently, a few NWSL games each season are broadcast on Fox Sports One,

the top in the end. He scored the team’s first touchdown of the season on a 10yard rush, and scored the game-winning “He has all the tangibles to go touchdown on a oneout there and be a great yard goal line sneak.

This performance Division I quarterback and you is no anomaly for saw it on the field today.”

Banks, however. In Matt Sullivan his high school senior year, Banks ran for double-digit touchdowns and just shy of 600 yards. So far in 2016, he has run for two, though his rushing performance was not to be outshined by Walker’s 133 yards on the ground.

It was this two-headed monster — strong passing and a threatening running game — that kept the Bucknell defense on its toes, never able to relax and become complacent.

“We have so much versatility that it just helps that the defense won’t be able to lock in on a certain guy,” Banks said.

“Everyone on offense is a playmaker. I truly believe that I think we’re going to be a force to be reckoned with throughout the season.”

In the days leading up to Saturday’s kickoff, Archer called the new quarterback “a football junkie,” who is “always watching tape and preparing.”

While there are some aspects of play that the detail-oriented quarterback will inevitably look to fix, he should watch the tape happy and with confidence, knowing he looked like a seasoned-veteran while leading the Red to its first win in a season-opener since 2013.

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

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means a little less travel [but] the workload will stay the same.”

Spillane said it is essential that out and each race as they come,” the Red maintains a consistent Spillane said. workout regimen over the course of The Red has a weekend off and the season so every runner peaks during the championship season.

“Our goals as a team are to “Our goals as a team are to continue continue to work together [and] to work together, continue to use our teammates to continue to use our help push us.” teammates to help push us and keep us Taylor Spillane positive throughout a race,” Spillane said. then the squad heads to Bethlehem, “We are very focused on the process Pa. for the Paul Short Run the week- of this season, doing all the little end of Oct. 1. things we can to prepare ourselves Workouts will stay the same for the championship portion of the despite the break in the schedule. season.”

“We will continue to workout as we would normally,” Spillane Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwexplained. “An off weekend just al@cornellsun.com.

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Off to the races | A solid performance at the Yellowjacket Invitational will help the Red get on track as larger meets approach.

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Red Rewrites Script,Downs Bucknell Despite late Bison rally, football wins season opener for first time since 2013

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

LEWISBURG, Pa. — Just like last year, Cornell football (1-0) started slow against Bucknell (1-2), falling into an early hole. Just like last year, the Red eventually found its groove and built a lead. Just like last year, the Bison stormed back, threatening to steal a miraculous victory.

But unlike last year, the men of Cornell football did not let the game get away from them, holding off a late surge to take the victory, 24-16.

This marks the first time the team FOOTBALL opened the season with a win since 2013.

Senior linebacker Jackson Weber said a central reason the Red was able to capture the victory was that the team had a different mindset this year than it did last year.

“This team throughout the preseason and coming into this week has collectively a much higher level of confidence than we’ve had in the past,” the captain said.

“We trust each other. We believe we’re going to get the job done from start to finish, and that shined through in the end and we sealed the deal.”

Sophomore Chris Walker, one of the stars on offense for the team, agreed with Weber on the team’s evolution.

“The confidence in one another is different,” Walker said, “More playmakers this year. We’ve got a lot more talent and depth this year.”

Last year, a few huge fourth down conversions allowed Bucknell to complete a comeback and this game the Red seemed doomed to the same fate. However, head coach David Archer ‘05 credited the win to the team’s resiliency and tireless work over the offseason.

“It’s just so fun to see the guys hard work pay off,” Archer said. “It’s great to see them to battle back from adversity and show some grit and get the win.”

Trailing by eight, but with the moment u m , Bucknell faced a fourth and long. After Cornell benefited from a false start, pushing the Bison back to a fourth and 14, Bucknell quarterback Matt Muh con-

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Red redemption | Cornell players celebrate after defeating Bucknell, 24-16, in the team’s season opener. Last year, the team was unable to stop a Bison comeback and lost to Bucknell.

Victorious,” in front of adoring fans for just the third time in as many years.

The game began with a scary moment when junior safety Sean Scullen went down with an injury on the first punt of the game. An ambulance took Scullen off the field. While no official injury report has been released, Scullen has reportedly been released from the hospital and made the trip back to Ithaca with the team.

When play resumed, Bucknell worked down the field, powering towards the goal line. On a second-andgoal from the one-yard line, Bison running back Joseph DeFloria punched through the Red’s defense to give Bucknell a 7-0 lead.

DeFloria was a threat all game, totaling 154 on the ground. With a knack for finding holes in Cornell’s defense, DeFloria averaged 5.7 yards per carry.

Following a long catch-and-run on the team’s next possession, Bucknell threatened again, but a CORNELL @ BUCKNELL diving interception in the end zone from sophomore cornerback DJ Woullard — his first of two Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH picks on the night — ended the Bucknell 7 3 6 0 Bison’s scoring hopes. The interCornell 0 10 14 0 R ORTS EDITO ception was one of three turnovers SISTANT SP AS N SU / ZACH SILVER forced by the Red, a remarkable improvement from last year when Cornell struggled to ball].”

The defense made the stop, the offense killed the rest of the time on clock and the Red sang “Cornell See FOOTBALL page 14

nected with Will Carter for a 29-yard pick-up.

Despite the “eery” similarities to last year, Archer said he was confident the defense would complete the necessary stops to get the offense the ball.

“I thought we were going to stop them,” Archer said, admitting he was not worried that last year’s events would transpire again.

“I was thinking about what play calls to run [when we get the

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Runners Dominate at Yellowjacket Invitational on Saturday

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The women’s cross country team finished first for the second year in a row in Saturday’s Yellowjacket Invitational. The Red dominated the field, placing seven runners in the top 10 and 13 in the top 25, an impressive feat, considering the field is around 400 women strong.

“The team did an amazing job working together at this meet,” said senior tricaptain Taylor Spillane. “We followed the race plan that Coach [Artie] Smith created for us and we made it happen together.”

Spillane finished first for the Red and second overall with a time of 21:27.9 on the six-kilometer course, 12 seconds behind Taryn Cordani of Ithaca College.

The Yellowjacket Invitational is Junior Jackie Katzman finished in third with a time of 21:28.6; sophomores always an important meet for the Red, as Gracie Todd, Suzie Petryk and Briar it allows the team to work on its tactics Brumley finished in fifth, sixth and sev- early in the season.

“There are approximately 400 women enth, respectively; juniors Shannon Hugard in this race so and Erin it allows our McLaughlin “This was very positive because our team to work finished eighth and ninth. runners finished so close to each other on positioning early, settling Finishing in such close quar- and pushed each other to do our best.” in and being composed and ters is a good Taylor Spillane then working sign in cross the last section country races, as it shows the team is working well of the race in order to finish strong,” Spillane said. together, according to Spillane.

Perfecting the team aspect of the sport “This was very positive because our runners finished so close to each other will be essential for the Red as it starts to and pushed each other to do our best,” go up against more Ivy League oppoSpillane said. nents. The team finished fifth in last

year’s Ivy League Heptagonal Championship and the women know they can improve. This year’s event is on Oct. 29.

Among Ivy opponents, the Red has only faced Princeton thus far, competing against the Tigers in the Harry Groves Invitational, in which Cornell finished second and Princeton finished eighth.

The Red won Ivy Heps in 2011 and 2012 and hopes to repeat that success this season with a strong roster.

However, according to Spillane, it is essential that the Red take the year one meet at a time.

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