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Blood brothers | Now leading a team made up of only his own recruits, head coach David Archer ’05 and his squad have their sights set high in 2017.

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he Cornell football seniors, like they always do, gathered as one group for their annual class picture to close out the team’s preseason camp. Only this year, they were sporting new, pristine jerseys which represented the mood of the team leading up to the season’s kickoff — a clean slate from shortcomings in years past coupled with the desire to get down and dirty.

But there was one small inclusion in the senior class photo: their head coach, David Archer ’05. This senior class holds particular significance for the fifth-year head coach as it is the first group of student-athletes he personally recruited to join his program. In a way, they represent the final step in Archer’s full transition into the role of head coach.

That is not to say he is new to the team.

Far from it. Archer has been the head coach of the program for four years and an assistant coach for six more, not to mention he was also a threeyear starter at offensive line for the Red in the early 2000s. He has been with the team through some success but has been around long enough to know the pains and frustration a life in football on East Hill brings as well.

But there is one thing different this year.

With a roster made up entirely of his own recruits, plenty will change for him and the program, both on and off the field. For one, it eliminates the stigma that some of the recent shortcomings can be attributed to playing with guys he never had a direct hand in recruiting.

But now, “it’s a great feeling in the sense that you’ve been involved with these guys from their high school senior year until now,” Archer said. “They’ve been bought in with you from the start.”

“We’ve seen the vision from the start and we’ve had that belief,” added senior captain and running back Jack Gellatly. “Now, it just feels like us seniors have put the work in for the better part of four years, and we are just excited to show everybody on campus around the league and all the leagues we play what we’ve been building here. All the pieces have now kind of fallen into place and we’re just excited to get after it.”

After finally transitioning to his own ros-

ter, Archer has noticed a newfound sense of accountability and ownership in this year’s team that might have been lacking in years past. Thanks to a greater sense of family stemming from the fact that all recruits have been hand-picked by Archer, players have begun to play more for each other and the program.

“They know what we want, they know what we expect,” Archer said. “Very little gets to my desk in terms of player accountability or anything of that nature.”

“These guys are committed to getting better every single day with a blue-collar attitude,” added Cornell’s athlete performance director Tom Howley, who has been around the program since before Archer was an athlete. “Guys [are] pushing on each other, relying on each other. That camaraderie and

linebacker and defensive back positions.

“You’re going to have some turnover because those guys came to play for someone else,” Archer said of playing with his predecessor’s recruits. “You’re basically recruiting all of them, [and] at the same time you’re recruiting the normal recruits.”

Like any job, football is one where added responsibility typically comes with experience. With so much more talent now sitting up and down the roster, it’s no longer on a breakout freshman to be the driving force in a season.

“Our freshmen come in and it’s like, if you’re exceptional then you'll play on the varsity level. Other than that, we’ve got five JV games for you,” Archer said, whereas in the past, freshmen have been asked to do more without proper development, at times.

And with a brand new sense of accountability that has come with developing a cohesive, unified program, Archer has been able to refocus his current role to one that focuses more on the administrative needs rather than on day-to-day minutiae after finding coaches he has built trust with to call the right plays and run the right drills.

Archer has relinquished daily offensive play-calling to his assistant coach Joe Villapiano, while Jared Backus will continue to lead the defense.

“It’s been fun to be back around the defensive kids. ... I missed being the head coach,” Archer said. “I would say my ability to delegate … [and] to be involved in each aspect, but not micro- manage [has improved].”

As much as Archer is trying to put his mark on the Cornell football program and community as a whole, it has, inevitably, been leaving one on him as well. Though he may not like to admit it, his hair is slightly graying — two straight 1-9 seasons certainly does not help. He has also found a fiancee through his work — the wedding is scheduled for next summer.

“I’ve found out more about myself, how [to] handle adversity, how [to] keep a resilient type of attitude, more than I could ever explain,” Archer said. “This has been the best experience of my entire life.”

“All the pieces have now kind of fallen into place.”

— Senior Running Back Jack Gellatly team unity has been pretty evident in how these guys work.”

Howley added that he’s noticed that Archer and his staff have been able to attract that right kind of athlete, one that will buy into the system and sell out for the guy they suffer through sprints with.

Archer has always strived to mold the program into a junior-senior team — one that allows its younger players to develop in their freshman and sophomore years and then get the call-up to starting roles as upperclassmen.

With that, Archer believes he can create a team with fewer hiccups and one that does not rely on newcomers to deliver with such little experience.

This year is the first Archer feels he has the personnel to accomplish the desired junior-senior team. In his second year as head coach, Archer was left with just 14 seniors and 42 upperclassmen. This year, that number has jumped to 26 seniors and 56 upperclassmen. Upperclassmen now start at the all-important running back quarterback,

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RED BOUNCED BACK FROM TWO STRAIGHT 1-9 SEASONS WITH A 4-6 CAMPAIGN IN 2016 W 24-16 Sept. 17 Two years ago, it took Cornell football nine weeks to secure its first win.

But in 2016, the squad captured the first victory on opening night, flipping the script on last season’s late collapse to Bucknell. After trailing early to the Bison, quarterback Dalton Banks and running back Chris Walker, then

W 27-13 Sept. 24 The Red proved that its opening night win was no fluke by knocking off Yale on Homecoming the following week. In front of a crowd almost 16,000 strong, Cornell found the endzone twice in the first half. Behind more stellar play from Banks and strong stands from the defense, the

W 39-38 Oct. 1 Despite trailing by 23 in the first half, Cornell stormed all the way back to shock Colgate on the Raiders’ homecoming game. The victory marked the Red’s first road victory over a ranked team since 1950. The Raiders piled on three touchdowns in the first quarter, seemingly putting Cornell in an insur-

L 29-13 Oct. 8 After the team’s three straight wins to start the season, the Red looked to continue the hot start against the most daunting of foes: Harvard. The two squads entered the contest as the only undefeated teams left in the Ivy League. For the first time in 2016, Banks struggled all game, tossing a

L 31-24 Oct. 15 Cornell fell flat in its fifth game of the season, a low-pressure, out-ofconference matchup against Sacred Heart. The Red struck first when Jack Gellatly ran in a 14-yard touchdown in the first quarter. But then big plays from the Pioneers helped them take an early 21-7 lead. A 34-yard field

sophomores making their starting debuts, played with veterans’ skillsets and helped Cornell take the lead. Then the defense fended off a late Bison rally to capture victory on the road to start the season. In addition to an efficient day through the air, Banks finished with a pair of rushing touchdowns, while Walker amassed 141 yards on the ground. Fellow sophomore D.J. Woullard also had a big game, pulling down two interceptions. The win would set the stage for a vastly improved season.

Red opened up a 24-3 lead after the first half. Unlike last season in which the Red watched its big lead against the Bulldogs evaporate in the second half, continued pressure from all sides of the ball helped Cornell finish the victory and move to 2-0. The defense forced a fumble and totaled three interceptions, including a victory-sealing pick with under three minutes left in the game by linebacker Jackson Weber ’17, who notched nine solo tackles on the day. Only two games in, Cornell doubled 2015’s wins.

mountable hole, but a safety from Kurt Frimel ignited the team to its improbable comeback. Behind masterful play from Banks — 454 yards and three touchdowns — and impressive, timely defensive stops, Cornell fought back, eventually trimming the deficit to five by the the fourth quarter. The teams traded drives, neither squad making much headway. But a surgical drive from Banks and the rest of the offense set up the quarterback’s endzone strike to Collin Shaw that capped the comeback and sent the Red to 3-0.

pick on his first pass of the day. The Crimson’s defense would eventually intercept two more of his passes. Banks connected on just 49 percent of his throws in the game, far below his almost 60 percent completion percent on the season. A 41-yard touchdown catch from Ben Rogers ’16 — his first of two of the afternoon — tied the game up at seven, but 22 unanswered points from Harvard all but put the game away for the Crimson, as the squad issued the upstart Red its first loss of the season.

goal from Nick Null temporarily stopped the bleeding for Cornell, but 10 straight points from Sacred Heart again buried the Red into a 21-point hole. Turning two interceptions into touchdowns, Cornell cut the lead to seven with nine minutes to play in the game, but Banks and the offense could not come up with the one additional and critical score sending the comeback just short. The defense picked off Sacred Heart four times, including two from safety Nick Gesualdi.

L 28-21 Oct. 22 Playing in a torrential downpour, Cornell started sloppily against Brown, giving up a first-half punt return touchdown to the Bears’ do-it-all offensive weapon Alex Jette. The Red’s offense could not get much going in the first half and failed to find the endzone until Banks hit tight-end Matt

L 56-7 Oct. 29 In the most embarrassing game of the season, Princeton demolished Cornell at home, sending the oncehopeful Red to its fourth straight loss.

The Tigers’ fast-paced offense hung up 35 points on Cornell in the first half, while their defense locked down the Red’s offense that had looked so potent

L 17-13 Nov. 5 Hoping to snap back after the demoralizing loss to John Lovett and Princeton, Cornell’s defense locked down the Green at first, holding Dartmouth to just three points in the first three quarters. The offense, sluggish but effective, scored 13 points during that same time period, two

W 42-40 Nov. 12 In the highest scoring contest of the season, Cornell triumphed over Columbia in the Empire State Bowl in the Red’s second to last game of the season. A back-and-forth affair all day, the game saw a total of 11 touchdowns.

Banks and Walker returned to their peak form, combining for five of the

L 42-20 Nov. 19 With an Ivy League title on the line, Penn plowed past Cornell in the final game of the season. The Quakers’ well-balanced attack bullied its way to 527 yards of offense, including 243 yards on the ground.

The Red hung with Penn through the first quarter, but the Quakers went on

Sullivan ’17 for a nine-yard pass in the middle of the third quarter to get Cornell on the board. Another Banks touchdown pass — this one to Rogers — in the third quarter tied up the game at 14 with 18 minutes left to play. Neither squad was able to put points on the board before the end of regulation and the game went to overtime locked up at 14-14. After the teams traded touchdowns in the first extra period, Cornell had no answer to the Bears’ second score and fell to 3-3 on the season.

just weeks earlier. Led by John Lovett, Princeton continued the barrage in the second half, scoring three more touchdowns to complete the blowout.

Lovett, Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year and Bushnell Cup recipient, finished his career day with four passing touchdowns, two rushing and one receiving. Cornell’s defense failed to force a turnover and gave up 645 yards of offense to Princeton. The Red’s offense similarly struggled, gaining just 263 yards of offense, including a paltry 49 on the ground.

field goals from Null and a Banks-toNolte touchdown. But it all unraveled in the fourth quarter when two touchdowns from the Green put the Red in a 17-13 hole with seven minutes left.

Cornell’s first drive stalled out and then the Green ran out the clock to ice the victory and issue the Red its fifth straight loss of the season.

Dartmouth found its success on the ground, rushing for 179 yards, compared to Cornell’s 50. In total, the Green had over 130 more yards of offense than Cornell.

team’s scores. Walker was particularly brilliant, dancing and muscling past Columbia’s defense. He ended with 178 yards, 71 of which came on a dynamic touchdown run in the fourth quarter that swelled Cornell’s lead to nine. The Red also got an offensive bump from one of the most unlikely sources: punter Chris Fraser ’17. Fraser, a four-time first-team all-Ivy honoree, hauled in a 33-yard pass in the third quarter that shifted the game’s momentum in favor of the Red and clinched the team’s fourth straight Empire State Bowl.

a 21-7 run across the next 30 minutes to put the game out of reach. Banks concluded his debut season with 322 yards, but it took him 43 attempts to do so and gave up three picks in the process. Walker also was not able to get much going offensively, rushing for 48 yards on 11 attempts to finish his sophomore year. The loss concluded the Red’s 2016 season, giving the team a final record of 4-6, and a 2-5 record in Ivy League play to tie with Columbia for sixth in the Ancient Eight.

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BLACK STUDENTS OCCUPY STRAIGHT 12 demands made to president after black student beaten

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Hundreds of black students marched into Cornell University’s Willard Straight Hall on Wednesday afternoon and occupied the building for several hours after delivering a list of demands to the University’s president in a protest reminiscent of the 1969 takeover of the same building.

More than 300 marchers, led by Black Students United, silently climbed three flights of stairs in Day Hall and handed a list of demands to President Martha Pollack, who had met with BSU earlier in the day.

The protesters, the majority of whom were black and most of whom were people of color, were responding in part to the assault on Friday of a black Cornell student, who said a group of white men called him the N-word and bloodied him by repeatedly punching him in the face in Collegetown. Two weeks prior to the occupation, a resident of the Latino Living Center reported hearing chants of “build a wall” from a nearby fraternity, Zeta Psi. Ithaca Police arrested John Greenwood ’20, a 19-year-old white student, within hours of the altercation and have charged him with two misdemeanors, third-degree assault and second-degree aggravated harassment. Police are continuing to investigate whether there is enough evidence to charge Greenwood under hate crime statutes, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said.

The injured student, a junior and a member of Kappa Sigma, spoke to The Sun on the condition of anonymity on Friday from a local hospital, where he

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Black Students United’s execuwas checked for a concussion and a broken nose, of which he had nei- tive board demanded on Wednesday ther. “I was pretty bloodied up,” he that the University work to increase said. Two people with the victim the presence of black students on after the assault said in sworn state- campus, create an anti-racism instiments to police that the student’s tute, hire additional non-white shirt was soaked in blood following mental health and medical personnel and require diversity training for the incident.

Greenwood apologized in an employees and specific coursework email on Wednesday for using for students. The demands are “unacceptable and inappropriate meant to be fulfilled over several language,” but did not address the years, although BSU members want reported physical dispute. work to begin immediately.

Greenwood’s attorney, Ray See OCCUPATION page 5 Schlather J.D. ’76, said his client was not involved Fists up | BSU members and supporters in front in any fight and of Day Hall before delivering demands had not committo President Pollack and marchted any crime. ing to Willard Straight Hall.

Ithaca Police this week identified the Cornell student charged with two misdemeanors who they and witnessGREENWOOD ’20 es say punched a black student in the face in Collegetown after yelling the N-word at him several times.

Police charged John P. A. Greenwood ’20, who is 19 and white, with third-degree assault and seconddegree aggravated harassment after an altercation on Eddy Street that witnesses said left one student bloody and dizzy. Police are “reviewing the evidence that they have against the statutes that they have for a hate crime,” Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said.

The victim, a junior and a member of Kappa Sigma who spoke to The Sun on the condition of anonymity, said he was coming home from a party when he noticed a group of people arguing with his friends in the driveway area of See GREENWOOD page 4

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Reinventing mottos | Khansa Mahum’s ’19 artwork on the Willard Straight Hall walls during the BSU takeover.

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ple of color] have of white fraternities,” she said.

“They don’t feel safe walking around this campus anymore. To a lot of white men walking around, The night before the Willard Straight Hall sit-in, they might feel personally offended and they might Khansa Mahum ’19 didn’t sleep a wink. not see it that way, but it’s not about them. It’s about She was in Uris Library long after most of her the image that has been perpetuated in the commuclassmates had left, and she was walking out as nity based on the actions of the Psi U fraternity. So many of them were on their way to early morning what are we going to do about it collectively?” classes. But eight hours, $70 and a near Photo Shop The black teenager beside it — with an intendisaster later, her posters were done. tional correspondence with “person” — was inten“I knew that this had to be [done] tomorrow,” tionally constructed with warmer colors and with Mahum said about the time she conceived of the X’s over the subject’s eyes, she said. posters on Wednesday. “This couldn’t wait. I “It’s very bright to show the liveliness and the skipped all of my assignments and everything, I did- pride that especially black men have in themselves, n’t got to section today. I put everything aside to do but we still see them as an anonymous menace,” she this.” said.

While students were streaming into Willard Not everyone embraced all of the posters, howStraight for the sit-in, four posters loomed in the ever. Later Wednesday evening, Mahum learned entrance, each with one word of Cornell’s “any per- that one of her posters — in which a Cornell stuson, any study” motto. dent is facing a bear, representative of Cornell, with The posters, Mahum said, were a way of reclaim- speech bubbles including the swastika — was torn ing that phrase. down.

“I think probably the most damaging thing When she approached those around the crumabout Cornell promotpled poster, Mahum ing that image of diversaid she discovered they “I think probably the most damaging thing were members of the sity and inclusion is that they promote it so heav- about Cornell promoting that image of diversity Jewish community on ily,” Mahum said. “They campus. ... is that they promote it so heavily.” often capitalize on the “While I was initially diversity of the student upset at the damaged Khansa Mahum ’19 body, using faces of artwork because so black students on finanmuch effort and passion cial aid applications. They promoted it so much that went into them, I did not give enough thought to things like this seem like a myth, like it’s a one-time the hate symbol I used in my art, how it goes against thing. This is not a one-time thing, this goes on all the very message of banning hate speech on camthe time.” pus,” she said in a message to The Sun. “I did not Though the message was meant to be biting, give enough thought to other minorities on campus Mahum — who does not study art, but said she who do not have the ‘spotlight’ at this moment.” does it more on her own initiative — she also want“It was the Jewish New Year as well, so it simply ed to showcase it to acknowledge the depth that exacerbated the offensiveness,” she continued. “I Cornell’s motto can hold. apologize to the Jewish community for using the “It’s sort of in a sarcastic way, but the last one, the symbol so carelessly.” one that with ‘study’ on it, it shows that you can still Mahum, who is also currently working with mock that message, but at its core value it is some- Dean of Students Vijay Pendakur and the Willard thing that’s very important to this University, it is Straight staff on a mural, hopes to further the use of something that should be taken seriously,” she said. public art to open discourse on campus.

“That girl was imagining endless possibilities of her “I think that student art is severely lacking on skin color not mattering with what she decides to campus,” she said. “Whether you’re in Willard pursue with her life. You can make fun of that, but Straight with Greco-Roman art that has no people also if you’re going to take these matters seriously we of color in it and no color in it at all, or these paintneed to consider where we are and what our core ings of old white men in all of the libraries, there’s values are.” no student art on campus.”

Mahum, though involved with social justice ini“Student art does deserve its place in social justiatives on campus, is not a member of Black tice and politics.”

Students United, the organization that hosted the And her work suited just that purpose — just as rally. The initiative making the posters, she said, was she had hoped, the posters garnered a wealth of completely her own. attention and discussion, as passersby took pictures “When they came in, I was waiting for their reac- and shared photos of her work during and after the tions,” she said. “They were a little confused but rally, then people were taking pictures of it. [The pieces “When people remember back to this event, they were] doing the thing they were supposed to do.” might remember the images they saw when they For the side-by-side “any person” posters — fea- walked in,” she said. “People were stopping by and turing a black student in a hoodie beside a blond talking about them. That’s what matters.” skull in a suit — Mahum attempted to make a direct comparison.

Rachel Whalen can be reached at “It’s sort of showing the very real fear that [peo- rwhalen@cornellsun.com.

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Though Cornell — and the students around him — may not have known at the time, Matt Hagerty ’17 spent much of senior year in Mann library directing and producing a film.

At the end of September, Amazon will release the short film “Anatomy of a Breakup,” written, acted, produced and directed by Hagerty — with some steps of the process completed in Ithaca.

Hagerty began writing the film while in Los Angeles for the Cornell in Hollywood program. Returning to campus after this year off-campus, Hagerty split his time completing both his degree and the film.

The film, which could also become the pilot of a television series, follows fictional college student and fraternity member AJ Fitzpatrick as he navigates a breakup with the guidance of his two close friends. While the film does not focus on the breakup itself, it narrates “that sort of in-between period where you’re left, if you’re lucky, with the friends who were there all along,” Hagerty told The Sun. In choosing to focus on

three brothers of a fraternity, Hagerty, who was not a member of a fraternity, said he was not intending to “glorify that culture.”

“Considering Greek life is a big part of college, and ripe with comedic and dramatic possibilities, of course I have

“We literally had a person hired to hold me on an iPhone for 12 hours and walk me around.”

Matt Hagerty ’17 to explore it, and walk the line between lampooning it and allowing the characters to be smart and three-dimensional,” he explained.

However, the plight of the protagonist, Hagerty admits, was influenced primarily from Hagerty’s own experience, but he said he “had no idea I was going to write until the day I wrote it.”

Hagerty explained that the entire film was an unexpected result of Hagerty’s Valentine Day pining.

“I started writing it in the first place for no particular purpose,” he said. “It was See HAGERTY page 12

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Psi Upsilon Denies Affiliation With Arrested Student GREENWOOD

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his residence. When he yelled for the people he did not know to leave, they began to walk away

from the house, he said, before turning and yelling expletives and the N-word.

When the student confronted them, four or five white men began hitting him in the face, he

told The Sun and police, according to documents filed in Ithaca City Court on Wednesday.

The arrested student, who also goes by Jack, played on the Cornell squash team, the team’s coach,

David Palmer, confirmed to The Sun. Palmer said he cut Greenwood from the team on Sept. 11, preceding the Collegetown assault, because he had not been participating in team training on a regular basis.

Greenwood also may have been an underground member of Psi Upsilon, a fraternity that was suspended by the University in 2016, although the fraternity denies that Greenwood had any affiliation with Psi Upsilon.

Multiple members of Cornell’s men’s and women’s squash teams declined to comment. One member of the men’s team said he was “told not to talk about it” shortly before hanging up on a reporter on Tuesday night.

Greenwood said in a statement on Wednesday that the words he used were “unacceptable and inappropriate” and apologized for what he called “abhorrent” language. He did not refer to the assault charge, but his lawyer, Ray Schlather J.D. ’76, said Greenwood was “in no way involved in any physical altercation of any kind.”

Ithaca Police quoted the victim as saying he was positive Greenwood was “definitely one of the guys that jumped me.”

“I know for sure it was him,” the victim said of Greenwood, according to police.

When police asked the victim shortly after the assault why he thought he was targeted, he said he believed it was because he is black.

“I have a pretty good idea,” he told police, according to court documents. “They were calling me ‘Nigger,’ so I believe it was because of the color of my skin.”

Greenwood grew up in Toronto and attended Deerfield Academy in Massachusetts for high school, according to an archived version of a now-deleted sports profile on the Cornell athletics website. The player’s online squash profile was removed on Saturday, Jeremy Hartigan, a spokesperson for the Athletics Department, said. Police

did not release a mugshot.

Alumni of the Psi Upsilon fraternity chapter at Cornell have denied accusations that its members were responsible for the assault, but a set of online flashcards seem to indicate that Psi Upsilon was secretly recruiting members while it was suspended by the University.

The flash cards, now deleted, are titled “Brothers,” and list Cornell students, their nicknames and hometowns, some of which The Sun was able to confirm with other social media profiles. On one card labeled “Doxology” is the phrase, “Oh God, Thy blessings now shed down / Upon our loved Psi Upsilion [sic].”

A Cornell student whose name matches that of the username managing the online flashcards — which were created in February of 2017 and are now deleted — blocked a Sun reporter on Facebook within 10 minutes of the reporter attempting to connect with the student.

Thomas Fox, executive director of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity’s International Office, said the group’s investigation had found that some members of the Cornell chapter, which the University suspended in May of 2016, had been secretly recruiting new members.

The Executive Council of Psi Upsilon chose to extend the suspension of the fraternity at Cornell until at least the fall of 2020, The Psi Upsilon alumni Board of Governors is immediately shuttering its fraternity at Cornell indefinitely and will allow its building to be used by student organizations that are “dedicated to promoting a diverse and inclusive student community” once scheduled renovations are complete “in 2018-19,” the University said.

Three witnesses who provided statements to Ithaca Police gave similar accounts of the incident, according to the court records filed on Wednesday.

One Cornell student said he saw the junior arguing with a group of men and encouraged him to return to his house on Eddy Street. As they moved away from the argument, one person followed them up to the steps of the porch, the first witness said, and when the witness told the man to leave, the man shoved him twice, the witness said.

The group of men began walking away from the house and “towards their place next door.”

Two students, speaking anonymously out of fear for their safety, identified the residence at 306 Eddy St. — where police responded to the Friday morning 911 call regarding a fight — as Psi Upsilon’s unofficial annex. No one answered the door at the residence over the weekend on two separate days.

The first witness said the group of men was leaving when a white man in the group with “black wavy hair” yelled the N-word several times. The witness did not see the following altercation, but said he “heard a loud pop” and walked up the sidewalk to check on his friend — the junior Cornell student identified as the victim.

The witness said he saw the junior “walking funny, kind of staggering or swaying as he walked,” and that his shirt was See GREENWOOD page 12

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BSU Demands in Hand, Pollack ‘To Do Everything We Can’

Occupation, march after black student says he was assaulted OCCUPATION

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Led by co-chairs Delmar Fears ’19 and Traciann Celestin ’19, BSU also demanded that any students found to have been involved in the assault be expelled, that the Psi Upsilon fraternity be permanently banned from campus and that the fraternity’s house be converted into a cultural center for members of the African diaspora.

Thomas J. Fox, executive director of the Psi Upsilon International Office, said in a statement that “no initiated members” of the fraterniCAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR ty, which had its recognition Paper trail | Delma Fears ’19, co-chair of Black Students United, hands President Martha Pollack a list of a dozen revoked in 2016, were involved in demands in Day Hall on Wednesday, preceding a march to Willard Straight Hall, which 300 students occupied. the assault. But Psi Upsilon’s alumreporter, Mason said his first reac- Afro-American Society, in 1969, ni Board of Governors told takeover in 1969. remained in the building for more “There is an act of racial vio- tion was “amazement.”

Cornell this week that it was clos“Almost 50 years after that than 24 hours and armed theming the Cornell chapter of the fra- lence happening on campus again,” said Fears, whose mother incident, we’re still plagued with selves after an attempted intrusion ternity indefinitely.

Fox said the international office graduated from Cornell in 1973. the same problems: this issue of by white counter-protesters. The racism, more generally, but also takeover led to a host of changes of the fraternity had found that “This isn’t new.”

Celestin said BSU had chosen specific cases of racist actions on and at least one resignation at the some members of the suspended to occupy the campus,” he said in an inter- University, The Sun reported in Cornell fraternity 1969. building for the view. were recruiting “There is an act But there were also stark differWednesday’s protest, on the same reasons black while the chapter of racial violence students had seized ences between the two occupa- other hand, was condoned by the was suspended. the building in tions. Black students, in 1969, University, with at least a dozen The organization happening on April of 1969. expelled at least 20 parents from staff members present — includannounced that it campus again. This “This is the heart guest rooms in the building at 5:45 ing a vice president and the dean has extended the of campus,” she a.m. during Parents Weekend, The of students — and BSU members suspension of the isn’t new.” said, “so we want to Sun reported. Members of The were in contact with Cornell Police Cornell chapter Delmar Fears ’19 disrupt the heart of until the fall of campus.”

2020.

David S. Mason As students squeezed into Willard Straight ’69, now a professor at Butler, was Hall and sat on the floor as music stationed outside of Willard blared and BSU members passed Straight Hall during the 1969 out bottled water, the organiza- takeover photographing the scene tion’s co-chairs reflected on the for the University yearbook, the Informed of parallels between Wednesday’s Cornellian. occupation and the armed Wednesday’s occupation by a Sun

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN ARCHIVES

Back to the ’60s | The front page of The Cornell Daily Sun on April 20,1969, after black students seized Willard Straight Hall. On Wednesday, black students occupied the same building in a sit-in that was condoned by the University.

and administrators throughout the day, they said. The sit-in ended as scheduled, at 4 p.m.

Yet, students were cautiously hopeful that the drastic measures black students deemed necessary nearly 50 years ago are not required to make substantial change today. Pollack, who began her tenure as president in April, seemed very receptive to BSU’s demands, said Fears, who along with Celestin, met with Pollack and Ryan Lombardi, the vice president for student and campus life, on Wednesday morning.

When the group handed Pollack its 12 demands, she said she would work with BSU to “do everything we can to rid this campus of racism.”

“I can’t promise there will never be another racist incident,” she said. “This is a scourge across the country, but I’m going to work with all of you to do everything we can.”

Imani Luckey ’19, a BSU political action chair, looked over the hundreds of students occupying the hall on Wednesday, almost all clad in black in support of BSU, and she let out a sigh, picked up by the microphone.

“This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen since my start at Cornell,” she said.

Alisha Gupta ’20 contributed reporting to this article.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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pen your mouth and talk. Say something. Say anything. Say something about the stupidity of bashing a student of color because he doesn’t fit in the fraternity stereotype. Say something about the hypocrisy of telling our immigrant students they cannot stay in the place they call home. Say something, anything.

Yet most of us choose not to.

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They are sitting, protesting in solidarity with the racial violence on campus, pausing their day to speak loudly with actions. Yet most of us are not there with them.

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Toward a Better Cornell THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS HAVE NOT BEEN EASY for many Cornellians, but Wednesday’s peaceful march to and sit-in at Willard Straight Hall show that our community is more than up to the challenge of defeating racism and hate. Both the administration and Black Students United have acted with grace and with gravity in the wake of last week’s Collegetown assault, and as Cornell begins to lumber toward substantive and meaningful change, we hope that the spirit of open dialogue and mutual respect persists.

The signs are positive. President Pollack’s Sept. 17 message to the Cornell Community made clear that the University takes the situation seriously, and the presidential task force, if properly constituted, could be an incredibly important mechanism in the months to come. The swiftness with which Psi Upsilon fraternity has been sanctioned by both the administration and Tri-Council is refreshing and commendable, and the repurposing of the home at 2 Forest Lane is both a symbolic and practical step forward. The demands presented to President Pollack by Black Students United are clear, well-supported and merit a comprehensive examination and speedy response from the administration. The “Diversity & Inclusion Plan” presented by the Interfraternity Council, the Panhellenic Council and the Multicultural Greek Letter Council is a promising start that rightfully acknowledges the racist, oppressive and exclusionary facets of Greek life.

All this is just the beginning. Over the next several weeks, Cornell must commit to a conversation and a reckoning about race, about privilege, about responsibility. The issues at hand are not simple ones, and the grievances expressed this past week are profound, provocative and at times can be uncomfortable to discuss. However, we must still discuss them, especially if we are to fulfill Ezra Cornell’s dream; not just one of “any person, any study,” but of an institution that enhances and elevates the lives of every individual and community it touches, an institution that lives up to its potential and is deserving of the love of its students and alumni. Welcome the discomfort, and learn from it.

As we proceed, all involved parties should continue to recognize that their words actions have consequences for all those around them. One need look no further than the rushed and subsequently retracted statement issued by the Student Assembly on Saturday evening to see how a lack of both communication and perspective can undermine an otherwise well-intended expression. Communication and perspective will be valuable and necessary commodities in the days to come.

This is Cornell: we’re all here for a reason, and it’s not because we shy away from a challenge. Together, let’s turn today’s statements into tomorrow’s reality.

Don’t forget you have the freedom to write whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want. Use it. Speak up. Don’t waste it.

If we don’t talk, nothing will be resolved. If we don’t put aside the stigma of appearing too “pushy” or “crazy” or “outgoing” for writing harsh words, we’ll never make that one controversial Facebook post we wanted to. If we don’t speak up, we won’t be heard. If we spend our time complaining about how “life is hard,” the change won’t come until we make it happen.

Social media is distracting, but it has a silver lining we often forget: Anyone can say anything they want at any time of any day. I could post about my 2 a.m. essay frustrations or my early morning coffee-spilled-on-my-shirt incident. I could say anything I want, whether it’s brash or harsh or cheesy or tragic, and everyone can hear it.

So my question is: You have this powerful forum, you have these thousands of friends following you on their phones at every minute of every day, you have the biggest voice any person has had in history, yet you choose to use your power to

Instead, we choose to use Facebook to tag people in memes about a salt-sprinkling guy and Kermit the Frog. We choose to send videos of how to make the perfect créme brulee and fluffy cheesecakes. We talk about the “bing-a-ling” clocktower jokes on Overheard at Cornell, but never about the things that aren’t heard.

Students are sitting right now at Willard Straight Hall. They are sitting, protesting in solidarity with the racial violence on campus, pausing their day to speak loudly with actions. Yet most of us are not there with them.

We are on our phones, “too busy” with our lives, hurrying to go to class.

Even if we are sitting in Willard Straight Hall, most of us will probably walk away today still thinking about ourselves, about what’s for dinner, about what our next Facebook status will be. Our minds are rapidly somewhere else.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not innocent either — I spend my time sifting through articles about horoscopes and those “the first word you find in this crossword will tell you your future” type of blurbs. Like any other student, I “have a life,” as some would say as their excuse. I can’t afford to drop everything and devote my life to nonprofits and charities and activism.

I’m not asking you to open your laptops right now and delete your Facebook.

I’m not even asking you to share that video or that article or that photo. I am saying, don’t forget you have the power.

I am saying, don’t forget you have the power. Don’t forget you have the freedom to write whatever you want, whenever you want, however you want.

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TO

send memes?

Put time aside from those Reddit threads you follow, and say something yourself instead. Write about the violence on campus, about the wage gap between your professors, about the lack of resources in the humanities departments.

I chose to be a writer because writers have all the freedom of the world: a blank paper and nothing stopping you, not a single obstacle to write down exactly the words you want. All you have to do is use it.

Kelly Song is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ms2968@cornell.edu.

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The Uptight Tart | Slutty Endeavors

What Do I Owe my Hook-Ups? N

ights like last night are my favorite times to go out. There’s nothing like going to a bar in the middle of the week, ordering a drink you actually enjoy (read: not Keystone), and being surprised by the number of eligible men to mingle with on the dance floor. I pre-gamed with wine, ordered a vodka cranberry at the bar and waited for both to hit me before I started dancing. I would need that warm feeling in my legs before I could consider hitting on a stranger.

My friend (let’s call her Sarah) and I were approached almost the second we hopped off our bar stools. My suitor was dressed more appropriately for the couch than the club, but it was getting late so I took what I could get.

“Hey, can we join in on the dancing?” he asked, grabbing my hand and motioning to his friend, who was eyeing Sarah.

“Sure,” I said with a smile before he twirled me around. We danced only for a minute when we realized we couldn’t hear anything the other was saying.

I leaned in close to his ear, yelling,

“What’s your name?”

“John!” We shook hands awkwardly before laughing.

John and I talked for a while about risk-taking. I didn't even realize we were flirting until he leaned in and kissed me.

It wasn’t the best but it saved me from awkward small talk.

I told Sarah I was leaving with him and going to the fraternity where he lived. She laughed, saying how quickly things had progressed and I just smiled and laughed with her.

The walk to his house, then up to his room, went even more quickly than our conversation. He put some music on the TV and leaned into me to continue what we started at the bar. Soon enough, we were on the bed and our clothes were off.

And for the first time in a long time, I was totally not into it. I am pretty much down any day, any time. But I remember a few times, just like this one, where five minutes in I would really just not be feeling it. Unlike those times though, instead of just going with it (because why not?), I told John I had to go, and I left.

What changed this time, I can’t tell you. Why didn’t I want to have sex? And why did I choose to leave? Maybe it’s

because I knew the taco truck was open and I’d much rather be there. Or maybe I remembered I had a paper due Friday and drunk me thought I could totally write it all tonight. But I think the most likely explanation is that I didn’t feel like I owed him anything, least of all sex.

I remember that when I first started having sex, I stopped enjoying all the build up. I just wanted to get right to it and not take any time for anything else.

I didn’t want the guys I was hooking up with to see me as selfish, or worse, scared. If I went right for having sex, they couldn’t doubt that I knew what I was doing, that I didn’t care and that I wasn’t going to get attached. I thought I owed them this reassurance, that sex was just sex and that was all I wanted.

Honestly, it was that simple for me, but I was so afraid for a second they might think otherwise. I did anything to avoid that confusion, even sacrificing my own pleasure for their’s.

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve grown more confident and have stopped automatically prioritizing my hook-ups’ wants over my own. Despite this growth, I still get caught up in smaller ways. I don’t ask guys to go down on me. I don’t expect them to even try to be good at it when

they do. I still hook up with guys that do things I’ve told them I’m not into. I give guys my number even when the sex is mediocre. And, until last night, I still had sex when I was not 100 percent into it.

I am thankful that John respected me when I said no — some people are not as lucky as I am. Mostly because guys have been trained to think we owe them sex, especially sex that is low-commitment and requires little work on their part. If it is, they also expect that we’ll do it again when they text.

I love having sex, and, despite some old-fashion stereotypes, I love having sex that doesn’t lead to a relationship. There is something freeing about sleeping with someone you don’t know beyond the formalities. But I don’t owe any sexual partner anything. Not keeping quiet about what I want, not a text the next day, not going with the flow when I’m not into it.

I guess it’s taken me this long to realize but I don’t have to be polite when it comes to sex. I just have to be respectful, to the person I’m sleeping with, but more importantly, to myself.

The Uptight Tart is a student at Cornell University.

Slutty Endeavors appears monthly this semester.

Honey Ryder | Whoreoscopes

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You (Yes, You) Have Herpes

he tears streaming down my face plopped onto the paper sheet covering my lap as the doctor calmly patted my back. “There, there honey, I know this seems terrible but it’s not so bad. So many people have herpes. Now you just need to wait for the test results but I’m sure they’ll confirm it, and then contact all of your sexual partners if you don’t know who you got it from.” I had gone to my OB-GYN because I noticed one small, odd bump near my upper thigh and now I had an incurable, permanent, STI. It felt like someone had branded a scarlet H on my vagina. I would never fuck again. How could anyone want to be with me after the declaration of “hey, just so you know, I have herpes?”

Anyone can get a sexually transmitted virus, but nobody reacts to it like a Cornell woman relegated to eternal status as a pariah by the fates. If I can cram for a prelim you better fucking bet that I can read everything the CDC has published on “living with herpes” in a 24-hour span — and that’s exactly what I did. The first important thing I learned, dear reader, is that you all have it too.

Not in a cute way of like, “oh I’m not alone a few people have this.” According to the World Health Organization, 67 percent of the global adult population has HSV-1, and an additional 1 in 6 people have the second strain, HSV-2. If you’ve ever had a cold sore on your mouth? You’ve got the herps. A few small red bumps on your balls that hurt and couldn’t be explained? Give me an H! Give me an S! Give me a V! Never had any symptoms at all? You bet your ass you could still have it.

Thousands of individuals carry the disease but never have a single outbreak.

Both strains originate from an extraordinarily similar virus, and both strains can be either oral or genital. The key difference: HSV-1 likes being oral more, and HSV-2 likes being genital more. So, if you have one of those strains in a place it “dislikes” you are less likely to have fre-

quent outbreaks and tend to have lower rates of asymptomatic shedding. HSV-2 generally causes more outbreaks and shedding as well (which is probably why so many people have HSV-1; we all just don’t realize it).

So, you probably have herpes. Don’t believe me?

According to the Center for Disease Control, the vast majority of individuals with herpes have never received a clinical diagnosis and don’t know that they have the disease.

Why? Because there is no evidence that screening for HSV can improve health outcomes or symptoms, or reduce transmission of HSV. The potential harms of

recognition that they have herpes.

I bet you’re thinking, “okay now I have to make sure I never get this; what can I do? “ First, make sure you’re hooking up with people who always disclose. If you’re really worried, this includes the question of, “have you ever had a cold sore on your mouth?” because THAT IS HERPES (seriously like even fucking Jessica Biel has it — Google it). Beyond that conversation? not much. I mean abstinence — including never kissing again — is your best bet, but that’s no fun. Condoms help only to a certain extent, given that transmission can happen from skin contact alone. If you have herpes, you can take medicine that prevents outbreaks and reduces asymptomatic shedding. This is particularly helpful for those with HSV-2.

Also, at a certain point, you just might have to own that you might get it (or already have it). There are no negative health risks of herpes except in that it can cause complications during pregnancy, which, don’t worry, my mother looked into it immediately and confirmed that I would still be able to give birth naturally. It was her first question, because why worry about anything else but your potential grandchildren? The only other risk? If you have sex with someone who has HIV while having an outbreak there is a higher risk of HIV transmission — but if you have herpes you shouldn’t be having sex during an outbreak anyway.

I got a phone call from my OB-GYN four days after our first meeting. My tests were negative. But honestly, if I have this same conversation again, I probably won’t cry.

Odds are my reaction will be a: “that makes sense, no big deal.” Because it turns out the only thing that’s actually a big deal about herpes is the fact that we idiotically treat it like a huge fucking deal. It’s just not.

Not in a cute way of like, “oh I’m not alone a few people have this.” According to the World Health Organization, 67 percent of the population has HSV-1, and an additional 1 in 6 people have the second strain, HSV-2. If you’ve ever had a cold sore on your mouth? You’ve got the herps. screening: which include labeling, anxiety and of course false positives, outweigh any minimal benefits of knowing that you have HSV. This is why traditional STI screenings only look for gonorrhea, chlamydia, syphilis and HIV (and if you have a cervix your doctor should check for HPV on your pap smear). Moreover, while individuals who know they carry the disease do tend to follow the basic rules of not having intercourse or sexual contact when they have an outbreak, herpes’ good pal “asymptomatic shedding” does not give a fuck. That’s right — even with absolutely zero symptoms or outbreak you can still spread herpes. And given that so many individuals will never have symptoms, never be tested, but can carry the disease, you bet your ass that there are individuals who could pass it to you with absolutely no malicious intent or

Honey Ryder is a student at Cornell University. Whoreoscopes appears monthly this semester.

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ant to cheer on the Big Red in a competition they stand a chance at winning? Then be sure to watch the finale of Gordon Ramsay’s hit series MasterChef, in which Jason Wang ’04 has cooked his way to becoming one of the top three home cooks in America.

On the show, Wang often pairs a warm, bubbly personality with a deep intensity for cooking. When I spoke to him, it was clear that his passion for food was not exaggerated for television — what was (in my opinion, wrongfully) missing from the show, however, was just how much of that passion stemmed from Wang’s time in Ithaca.

Wang came to Cornell as a plant science major in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, eventually transferring to the Hotel School and finally to the music department in Arts and Sciences. He now works as a high school music teacher in the Boston area.

Wang started cooking at a young age, inspired by his family’s Chinese heritage.

“My [maternal] grandparents lived with us growing up for a while, and we always had different things on the dinner table. I was always fascinated with the textures and flavors,” he said. He began experimenting with baking pastries in middle school, eventually learning to cook vegetables and proteins after his mother told him they couldn’t eat cake for every meal.

“Instead of reading other types of books, I would read cookbooks,” Wang observed.

He continued to refine his cooking skills up until his arrival in Ithaca for college.

“Going to Cornell was such an amazing thing for my palate and my understanding of food because Ithaca has all these amazing different types of food cuisines, and also the dining hall food at Cornell — I don’t think people realize — it is so good! … I remember North Star was opening when I was an undergrad, they had a Cantonese couple there, they had their own restaurant and they got hired to do their own station there.”

Wang lamented about how much he missed autumn in Ithaca — “All Cornellians know that crisp fall air” — as one of his most salient Ithaca food memories centered on the abundance of apples Cornell grows in the fall.

“My eyes were opened at the Cornell Orchards because, as a plant science major, we were doing labs … and I’m walking down the hallway and there’s an apple vending machine, and there were probably 10 different kinds of apples in the machine … Just going to the Cornell Orchards and seeing all the varieties of apples, and each one has its own taste and flavor

and characteristics,” Wang recalled. “For me, food was a great way to get to know people. I was in the wind ensemble and … before rehearsal, we would just go to Okenshield’s together, and you get to know people based on what foods they eat. There’s always a common language in food ... I can close my eyes and I can see Chef Wang in Okenshield’s with all the stir fry. I can close my eyes and tell

him screaming or a clip of him calling someone an idiot sandwich.

Gordon is the pinnacle of cooking entertainment: He’ll show you how to prepare a beautiful dish step-by-step, and then turn around and scream that your duck is so rare it just needs a beak and it’s ready to swim in the river. But is that what working with him is really like?

“Gordon Ramsay is best

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you all the different stations in North Star.”

Wang decided to audition for MasterChef after the show announced a round of auditions in Boston. After pressure from his friends, Wang decided he wanted to see how his skills and knowledge stacked up against that of the rest of the home cooks in the U.S. “Over the years, traveling to lots of different places for music …

I think I have a very wide knowledge base of flavors and ingredients and how they pair together,” he told me.

For each challenge on MasterChef, the competing home cooks are faced with difficult ingredients or dishes, and they have to create recipes on the spot or know the intricacies of specific cooking techniques.

“I think I was super fortunate because all the challenges that got thrown at me, I realized that at some point … I had experienced some way with dealing with that ingredient or that technique,” Wang told me. “All the knowledge I had read from all the books and watching cooking shows and talking to people, all that knowledge came in handy … I pulled out my internal library and flipped to the reference page that has that flavor pairing.”

But not every aspect of MasterChef was as blissful and stress-free as Wang’s winning streak would make it seem.

“I think the portrayal of the MasterChef kitchen as a super stressful place is 100 percent accurate. You have no idea how disturbing it is to try to cook something with the pressure of a time limit, meanwhile having to speak to a judge or two or three at your station, and then there are cameras on you as well.”

Google Gordon Ramsay and you don’t have to search for too long before you find an image of

described as Gordon Ramsay,” Wang told me. “He has such high standards for how food needs to be and for how you need to get it on the plate. We didn’t interact with judges off-camera, so I’m just

going by what he said to us. He’s always very passionate about his food, and I think even amidst some of the screaming and the scolding, he’s always trying to help you, and if you can see past that crazy energy, everything he said had a purpose and had some advice hidden in there.”

After working with some of the most prolific chefs in the world and cooking in front of millions of American viewers, I imagined it would be difficult for Wang to go back to teaching music.

“At the heart of everything, I am an educator, and I love teaching people about new things.

Whether that’s music and how to rehearse and how to put a beautiful concert together, or whether that’s food and creating new flavors and textures and creating a new dish, that idea of teaching people is near and dear to my heart,” he said.

Before the interview concluded, Wang wanted to give some advice to fellow Cornellians.

“I would just encourage those students at Cornell to take advantage of the amazing foods and products and ingredients that are available there. I think a lot of times people come from certain places in the U.S. or certain home

experiences where they’re used to eating things they’re familiar with,” he said. “Don’t just stick to your french fries and hot dogs at the grill station … you never know what you’re going to love and what you’re going to gravitate towards.”

Olivia Lutwak is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at food@cornellsun.com

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT It Screenwriter Coming to Cornell

BY VIRI GARCIA Sun Staff Writer

Chase Palmer, screenwriter for the 2017 film It, will be holding a question and answer discussion at the Scwhartz Performing Arts Center today.

Back in 2009, when the project to create a new It film began, Andy Muschietti was not set to be the director, but rather Cary Fukunaga who Palmer had worked with previously. Palmer got an offer to write the script and took it. “When it comes to an adaption of anything by Stephen King, you want to jump on board,” Palmer told The Sun. In 2015, Fukunaga dropped out as the director of the film and Andy Muschietti took the reigns.

Surprisingly, the writers did not look to the original 1990 miniseries for inspiration at all. In fact, Chase Palmer has never seen the original It. “I remember it being on and I remember seeing clips of Tim Curry,” he explains. “The book was the source material for this new version,” Palmer adds.

Additionally, Palmer mentioned that the focus of this reboot was “things that weren’t in the book but were in the spirit in the book,” such as scenes where the children are swimming in a quarry rather than playing in the junkyard, as written in the book.

“Based on our experiences as kids and the fact that we played in quarries, we decided to change that up. it wasn’t in the book but it was in the spirit of the book.” However, the fact that It is an 1138 page

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novel created “a lot of pressure to fit in all the character work, history and story from the book into a single movie.” Palmer described the perfect, simple solution: “Split the book into two movies: one will focus on the story when the protagonists are kids, and the other when they are adults.” A sequel to the film has been confirmed, but Palmer is busy working on other major projects.

Palmer is both the creator and writer of Biopunk, a drama based on the book Biopunk: DIY Scientists Hack the Software of Life by Marcus Wohlsen, a Wired magazine writer. The series will be about DIY biohazards and is “based on the emerging subculture of bioengineers working in their garage, and synthetic biology,” Palmer explained.

Additionally, Palmer is working on Number 13.

Number 13 was meant to be Alfred Hitchcock’s first film, but it was pulled from production and was lost. No one knows what happened to it and with this Number 13, Palmer hopes to set forth a theory as to what happened to the film, but through a “Hitchcockian story… with the same humor and irony a Hitchcock film would have.”

The question and answer session is in the Film Forum at the Schwartz Center starting at 4:30 p.m. It is part of the Department of Performing and Media Arts’ Professional Directions Series.

Viri Garcia is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at vgarcia@cornellsun.com

This Weekend In Arts The Caucasian Chalk Circle – September 21-23 This parable about kindness, value and justice in the wake of the Second World War opens at the Schwartz Center this Thursday at 7:30 p.m. The Caucasian Chalk Circle is one of German playwright Bertolt Brecht’s most famous works. PMA associate professor Beth Milles directs this take on Brecht’s twentieth century play with an ensemble cast comprised of Cornell students. Additional performances are on Friday at 7:30 pm and Saturday at 2pm and 7:30 pm.

Tickets for this evening of storytelling and music can be purchased on the Schwartz Center University Tickets website ($15 for adults and $8 for students, faculty, and seniors).

Exhibition: Union Made – Fashioning America in the 20th Century – September 20-November 4 This exhibit features various items including clothes, banners, and multi-media made by unions to highlight how unions have changed the workforce in the United States as well as to promote and celebrate twentieth century fashion. This collaboration between Catherwood Library and the Cornell Costume and Textile Collection can be viewed in the Human Ecology Building and the Catherwood Library circulation lobby for free through November 4.

Pagliacci – September 23-30 Pagliacci, an Italian opera by Ruggero Leoncavallo, is Opera Ithaca’s fourth season opening performance. This sinister and tragic story of crime and passion is brought to Ithaca in collaboration with Circus Culture, located at 116 W Green St. downtown which can be reached

by TCAT. Tickets are $35 for general admission and $10 for students.

The Artist’s Struggle

he last column that I wrote for this paper considered my own identity as a student of ethnomusicology and the importance of experiencing the art of different cultures. I was planning on broaching a different topic this week, but then an actual hate crime occurred in our community and so to ignore that would be blissfully ignorant and cringingly self-indulgent.

In my last column — and in other previous ones — I feel as though I stopped just short of explicitly commanding everyone to go engage with black art. Well, now I would like to say it explicitly: everyone really needs to go engage with black art.

It might seem somewhat trivializing to attempt to connect these recent events to some lesson about artistic consideration. Furthermore, I readily acknowledge, early on, two things: one, that I should by no means be considered any type of authority on race relations in the United States or the rest of the world, nor I am the final interpreter on any piece of intellectual creativity.

Nevertheless, these more violent instances obviously stem from a general sense of iengrained racism and casual moments of microaggression, and for this culture we are all certainly responsible to some degree.

Why art, right now?

Chiefly, I think that the serious consideration of any art, be it literature, music or visual creations slowly but surely instills a keen sense of nuance in the person studying it. This sentiment sort of reminds me of some proverbial wisdom I once read in a Fitzgerald essay (“The Crack Up”) about intelligence: a fine cognitive ability is measured by one’s capacity to be able to hold seemingly

opposing views in one’s head and still operate on a daily basis. In studying art and the many complex influences and traumas that go into creating a great piece of art, one begins to develop this specific mental capacity.

Take this gained sense of nuance and apply it to contemporary issues of identity.

Perhaps it takes a bit of intellectual labor to understand the notion that, for example, gender is a social construct which exists on a spectrum. These ideas challenge the many binary and antiquated notions of identity that are instilled in Americans even as young as ourselves. Now, take the relevant issue of African-American identity and art. A common thread among black art created in the United States seems to be the conflict of possessing an American pride while simultane-

Nick Swan Swan’s Song ously always being shunned by mainstream, white society. Indeed, early blues lyrics reflected this sentiment among the newly emancipated individuals who sung them. Nearly one hundred years later, James Baldwin, in works like Notes of a Native Son, discusses this feeling,

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the resigned frustration of constantly existing between love and hate. Could the identification of these complex themes be the start of some broader sympathy?

Rural college campuses, like that of Cornell, are often trapped in an insidious sort of bubble that creates an unfounded sense of safety among the individuals that live there. It is a bubble that might likely resemble the suburban havens where many of its students came from.

In this light, art of historically oppressed individuals can offer stark glimpses into the realities that so many other people have to face on a daily basis. The failure to believe in the existence of these realities, for lack of familiarity or whatever reason, is the beginning of hatred. White people can never know what it is like to be black in the United States, but we can at least listen to what individuals like James Baldwin, Chuck D or Robert Johnson have to say about it.

There is a brilliant scene in Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing where Mookie, played by Lee, confronts another charac-

ter, Pino, about the racism that he has exhibited throughout the movie. Pino is white and Italian and Mookie picks on his hair, telling Pino that it is “kinkier” than his own, and Mookie then amusingly accuses Pino of wishing that he was black. The entire scene works to highlight the stupidity of Pino’s racism.

On some level, this scene can be tied to a poignant quote by James Baldwin: “It seems to me that the artist’s struggle for his integrity must be considered as a kind of metaphor for the struggle, which is universal and daily, of all human beings on the face of this globe to get to become human beings.” I think the point of this connection is that we are all the same, tiny, insignificant people trying desperately, beautifully, to prove our humanity on a daily basis. There is no space for hate, really, as it is utterly useless in the end of it all.

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com. His column Swan’s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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DO YOU REMEMBER Puzzle #21

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Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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At one point during this fateful Valentine’s Day, as an attempt for resolution, Hagerty decided to delete his Facebook profile. In Los Angeles at the time for the Cornell in Hollywood program and “so immersed in the industry,” Hagerty turned away from profile refreshing and began to write.

“I stayed up all night and wrote like 70 pages — drank a lot of Red Bull, and not only have I not gotten back on Facebook since, but that dialogue ended up being very well received and formed the basis, a lot of it sort of verbatim, for the first script,” he said.

From this all-nighter script, Hagerty admitted he had “very little ambitions,” planning to team up with a friend and produce the script, hoping at most to get SAGAFTRA cards out of the production.

However, praise from a rolemodel shifted these ambitions.

At a casting audition, after reading the script, one of the auditioners came with Richard Schiff, Emmy-winning actor from The West Wing. The writing impressed Schiff, and he wanted to know who wrote the script, figuring that there was no way a 20-year old rookie to the industry was behind it.

This unexpected praise propelled Hagerty to launch the film into a greater project than expected. Because he “wanted to have creative control” and direct it himself, Hagerty decided to produce it independently with friend and coproducer Ashley Khakshouri.

The two were able to shoot their first cut while Hagerty was still in Los Angeles. Not entirely happy with that first cut, Hagerty used the first shot to raise money for a pick-up shoot.

However this pick-up shoot had to be filmed after Hagerty’s return to Cornell. Thanks to modern technology, Hagerty found a way to make this possible.

Returning to Ithaca to complete his second year — what ended up being his senior year — Hagerty then cast the female lead, directed the remaining scenes and worked through the post-production process, all while completing his AEM major.

“I directed from FaceTime from Mann Library at Cornell.

And I looked crazy because nobody knew what I was doing and I didn’t tell anyone what I was doing,” he said. “The director of photography served as like the interim director and I still directed the entire thing from FaceTime.

We literally had a person hired to hold me on an iPhone for 12 hours and walk me around.”

Hagerty attributes the success of the film to its unique “quirks,” combined with “lucky breaks” along the way. One such lucky break included being able to film for free in a neighborhood that was home to Jennifer Lawrence, Christina Aguilera and Charlie Sheen. By nature of this location, Michael Bay came to set on their first day of shooting.

The two main “quirks” of the film are its quick dialogue and a percussive score — inspired by the play Hamilton.

Hagerty was also able to hire Emmy-winning sound-mixer, Ken Polk, who worked on the sound team for Juno. After sending Polk a cut of the film, Polk gave Hagerty a 99 percent discount off his usual rate.

The fast-paced dialogue was inspired by screwball comedy, which averages to being about “three times faster than the average piece of a usual screenplay,” and allows for “maximizing intensity and emotion on a smaller budget,” he said.

These quirks and the breaks Hagerty received along the way allowed him to stretch its limited budget. As praise for the film grew and grew, Hagerty said he was surprised, summing the process as “being one step out of our league every step of the way,” he said.

In terms of the film’s potential for the future, Hagerty said it could become a TV pilot if it were picked up and became a series. But for “right now [he’s] just focused on making “Anatomy of a Breakup” as successful a standalone short film as possible,” he said.

Though his focus lies in the film being standalone, that is not to say that Hagerty does not have some ideas for its adaptation.

“What I can say for sure about a possible adaptation, should we go there: it won’t be called Anatomy of a Breakup, because that’s just the title of this short; and it won’t just be about these three frat guys,” he said.

Anna Delwiche can be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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“slapped me in the face and knocked some food I had out of my hand” after calling him the soaked in blood from his nose. N-word and a variation of the The witness helped clean the epithet. The witness appears to junior up and laid him down, be the same student who is arguafter which the student com- ing with two white men in a video obtained by The plained of pain in on Friday. his head and face. “[The student] SunMirroring details in The junior previhad a lot of the victim’s and the ously told The Sun first two witnesses’ that he went to blood on his accounts, a third witCayuga Medical Center to test for a shirt and all over ness said a man in a broken nose and white button-up shirt his face.” concussion, of came onto the porch which he had neiof the victim’s house Witness ther. and shoved the other A second witwitness when he tried ness said in a statement to Ithaca to get the man to leave. The man Police that a man in a white shirt in the white shirt and two others Continued from page 4

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left and began walking up the hill, the third witness said, when he yelled the N-word.

After the altercation, the victim “was bleeding from his nose area” and “had a lot of blood on his shirt and all over his face,” the third witness told police.

Greenwood is scheduled to be arraigned in Ithaca City Court at 9 a.m. on Sept. 27.

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the future of labor negotiations in sports in the context of an evolving market. In addition, Schaap asked if the relationship between the leagues and players go beyond economic issues, such as salaries.

Bettman described using their respective leagues as platforms to positively impact local communities in conjunction with the players.

“Another thing we do, and we work very well with the Players Association on this ... is using the power of sports to set a good example,” Bettman said during the panel. “[We] have programs in the community that either emphasize education or physical fitness, emphasising the values of leadership and teamwork and discipline.”

Schaap facilitated a relaxed environment, resulting in an enjoyable yet informative keynote.

“Beyond the incredible outpouring of support that we received across our community, a personal highlight for me was seeing Commissioners Bettman and Manfred on stage with Jeremy Schaap,” Addonizio said. “In my opinion, Jeremy is one of the alltime great journalists and he proved it, once again, today.”

Schaap’s sports journalism roots trace back to Ithaca, where he served as sports editor for The Sun, following in the footsteps of his father, the late Dick Schaap ’55, a former editor-in-chief of The Sun. Bettman and Manfred also trace their roots, albeit in labor relations, back to their time on East Hill as well as the two are graduates of the ILR school.

Later on in the festivities, National Basketball Association Deputy Commissioner Mark Tatum ’91 and former YES Network CEO Tracy Dolgin ’81 spoke alongside other panelists about media rights negotiations in the age of online media and streaming services.

Despite the exodus of consumers away from cable television, they agreed the demand for live sports will live on.

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Other notable Cornell alumni who spoke included Major League Soccer’s Chief Administrative Officer JoAnn Neale ’91 and former Cornell football lineman Kevin Boothe ’05, who claimed two rings with the New York Giants in 2008 and 2012.

Co-Head of Creative Artists Agency Sports Mike Levine ’93 was the featured speaker during lunch, discussing deal making in a changing sports industry. Notably, Levine touched upon eSports, and the substantial amount of revenue drawn from live video game competitions.

With millions, and even billions, of dollars behind the media rights deals, eSports is making noise across the industry, Levine said.

On top of the showcase of speakers, the event itself went along smoothly despite it being a first time event, according to Student Intern for Cornell ILR Sports Leadership Summit Matthew Vani ’19.

“What impressed me the most about the event was the ability of the conference staff to run the event perfectly,” he said. “I was able to see how well every member of the ... staff was able to work together fluidly with the speakers and guests to create an incredible event the likes of which I have never seen before.”

Since somewhat of a disproportionate amount of ILR alumni — and many more across Cornell — hold senior leadership positions in the industry, the ILR Sports Leadership Summit seemed like a no brainer. According to Addonizio, ILR Dean Kevin Hallock was inspired to create the conference by the alumni themselves, specifically by Dolgin and President of Business Affairs of Fanatics Inc. Gary Gertzog ’80.

With two alumni as commissioners, Hallock believed the idea of the conference could become a reality. And it did.

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SPORTS

FIELD HOCKEY

Cornell Bounces Back From Loss to Top Lafayette

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

Coming off its first loss of the season to No. 24 Rutgers, Cornell field hockey (5-1) bounced back to defeat Lafayette, 2-0, on the road to conclude nonconference play.

After a slow first half, Cornell took the lead on consecutive goals by seniors Katie Carlson and Sam McILwrick.

Both goals came within nine minutes of each other. The Leopards were unable to get much going the entire night, as they only attempted four shots on goal in the game.

“It was probably the most cohesive game that we have played as a team,” said junior midfielder Gabby DePetro.

“So, it really started to come together for us, and now we feel really confident going into the next part of our schedule.”

Sophomore goaltender Maddie Henry continued her shutout streak; she has played over 240 minutes this year without allowing a goal.

“I try not to think about it too much, and I just try to communicate a lot with my defense, so we can work as a unit and try to prevent shots from even being attempted,” Henry said. “So, it has really been a team-wide defensive effort.”

Henry has split time in net with senior Kelly Johnson, who has been almost equally as good. Johnson has allowed just four goals in 175 minutes, with a save percentage of 75 percent.

“Honestly, our goalies have been outstanding this year,” said head coach Donna Hornibrook. “They have been splitting time, but they are both starting caliber goaltenders.”

The defense, led by McILwrick and senior Isabel Josephs, was strong once again. Cornell has only allowed four goals the entire season through six games.

While the team has been as good as any in the country on the defensive side of the ball, they believe that there is plenty of room for offensive improvement. The Red has scored just nine goals this season, and has played in five onegoal contests.

The squad has focused on getting more corner opportunities, as they feel that will give them the best chance to score. Against Lafayette, Cornell attempted four corners, which was one of the team’s highest totals of the season.

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Impenetrable | The Red held the Leopards to four attempted shots on goal during Monday night’s contest.

While they were unable to convert on any of the four last few years, but we just want to continue what we have chances against the Leopards, the team sees this as an been doing to this point,” Hornibrook said. “Our team improvement that must carry over in order to be successful defense has been amazing. We would hopefully like to get some penalty corners, and ultimately keep the pace of the in the Ivy League.

“One positive over the last two or three games has been game up, because that is where I think that we will be most that our corners have finally been coming together,” successful.”

Last year, Cornell ended the year tied for third in the Ivy Hornibrook said. “We have scored three goals off of corners League, finishing 4-3. This year, the squad eyed the coveted in our last few games.”

Despite the team’s offensive struggles, the Red was Ivy League crown and an appearance in the NCAA ranked No. 20 in RPI. However, the team was unable to Tournament.

The Red squares off against the Quakers at noon in crack the top 25 in the coaches’ poll.

Cornell will open up Ivy League play this weekend, when Philadelphia on Saturday. it travels to Penn (2-4). The Red has lost to the Quakers by one goal each of the last two seasons.

Bennett Gross can be reached at “We’ve had some incredible battles with Penn over the bgross@cornellsun.com.

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your area because [Yale] has a lot of different options on every play,” Archer said.

One of the bright spots for Cornell last week was its defensive line, and coupling that with a secondary that led the league in interceptions last year and is returning all of its starters, the defense is confident that it can take on the multifaceted Yale offense.

“It’s going to be a lot less physical, a lot more passing, a lot more methodical on their end,” Crochet said. “I’m confident that with our secondary and with our defense all together, we’ll be able to hold our own.”

However, while Yale’s victory was its largest margin of victory since 2014, the defense was a glaring issue for the Bulldogs. The team still gave up 28 points to the Mountain Hawks and allowed the team to go for 323 yards through

the air. Nevertheless, Archer gave praise to the Bulldog defense.

“They did a great job of getting Lehigh into third and long, and Lehigh converted — Lehigh’s quarterback made some great plays on third down,” Archer said. “They try to confuse you on third down, they try to stop the run on first down, so it’s almost NFL-esque.”

When Cornell heads to the Yale, the team will be looking for its first consecutive Ivy League road wins since 2005, including last season’s 42-40 closing victory at Columbia, and its second straight league-opening victory, something the team has not done since 2008-09.

“It’s always tough to play at the Yale Bowl, no doubt, but I think we’re just looking at it as an opportunity,” Archer said.

Kickoff gets underway at the Yale Bowl on Saturday at 1 p.m.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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CORNELL V. YALE

CORNELL

YALE

YALE

YALE

CORNELL

CORNELL

YALE

YALE

CORNELL

CORNELL

YALE

BROWN V. HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

PENN V. LEHIGH

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

PENN

LEHIGH

PENN

LEHIGH

GEORGETOWN V. COLUMBIA

COLUMBIA

COLUMBIA

COLUMBIA

GEORGETOWN

GEORGETOWN

COLUMBIA

PRINCETON V. LAFAYETTE

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

PRINCETON

HOLY CROSS V. DARTMOUTH

HOLY CROSS

HOLY CROSS

HOLY CROSS

HOLY CROSS

HOLY CROSS

HOLY CROSS

HOLY CROSS

DARTMOUTH

HOLY CROSS

DARTMOUTH

DARTMOUTH

TCU

OKLAHOMA ST.

TCU V. OKLAHOMA ST.

OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST.

GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN

GEORGETOWN GEORGETOWN

OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST. OKLAHOMA ST.

GEORGETOWN

DUKE V. UNC

DUKE

UNC

DUKE

DUKE

DUKE

DUKE

DUKE

UNC

DUKE

UNC

DUKE

BUCCANEERS V. VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

BUCCANEERS

BUCCANEERS

BUCCANEERS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

VIKINGS

SAINTS V. PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

PANTHERS

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LAST WEEK

7-3

8-2

6-4

7-3

7-3

4-6

6-4

7-3

5-5

5-5

4-6

TOTAL

7-3

8-2

6-4

7-3

7-3

4-6

6-4

7-3

5-5

5-5

4-6

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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

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FOOTBALL

Red Looks to Rebound From 1st Loss at Yale

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It definitely wasn’t the way to open the 130th season for the Cornell football team — five turnovers in the first half and heading into halftime down 27-0, ultimately dooming the team to a 41-14 thrashing by Delaware this past weekend.

But for a team that has high expectations for itself this season, the Red (0-1) is certainly not losing conviction in itself any time soon.

“There’s no bad blood, we’re not discouraged at all, we’re just working on cleaning up this week,” said junior running back Chris Walker. “It was boneheaded mistakes, now it’s just in the rearview mirror. It’s gone. It’s erased.”

There are a few reasons why the team has not lost any confidence in itself despite the unfavorable performance this past weekend. For one, the margin of victory for Delaware came entirely from Cornell turnovers.

“I call it the good, the bad, the ugly — enhance the good and keep doing it, correct the bad, and get the ugly out of our mindset [and] our DNA, and that means primarily the turnovers,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

“Even the Delaware coach said, ‘man, that’s too bad, I wish you guys didn’t do that in the first half, this could’ve been a heck of a game,’ and he’s right.”

“There’s no bad blood, we’re not discouraged at all, we’re just working on cleaning up this week.”

Junior Running Back Chris Walker Second, the Delaware game was the first action the Red saw against a different team, since a July scrimmage against Columbia fell through, something that Archer took responsibility for immediately following the game and again during practice.

And finally, and perhaps the most prominent reason,

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On the road | Cornell football will play its second road game in a row this weekend at Yale after falling to Delaware, 41-14, in the team’s opening game of the 2017 season last weekend.

Delaware is not an Ivy League team. Beyond the fact that the loss from Delaware does not hurt the Red’s chances for an Ivy League title, Delaware is a scholarship school with more resources for its football team which has “bigger, stronger players,” said senior linebacker Daniel Crochet.

“Since we were able to hold our own physically, a lot of guys are optimistic,” said Crochet, who is coming off his first career interception. ‘We have a lot of guys who played their first game this weekend, and they got their butterflies out of the way, and we’re excited, we feel good.”

But the so-called Ivy League preseason will be temporarily put on hold, as the team turns around to take on Yale (1-0) to open conference play, a team that is coming off a 56-28 rout over Lehigh, the defending Patriot League

champion.

The Bulldogs came into the season with a question mark at the quarterback position, but seem to have found its answer after the first week performance. Sophomore Kurt Rawlings completed 77 percent of his passes, throwing for 308 yards and four touchdowns on his way to Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week.

The running game did just as much damage for Yale, which totaled 258 yards while averaging 7.2 yards per rush, and tacked on four touchdowns.

“It looks like they’ve got their offense back on track, lot of weapons, so you really have to play your assignment and See FOOTBALL page 14

Men’s Soccer Upsets No. 11 Syracuse in Overtime

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Sports talk | Schaap ’91, Bettman ’74 and Manfred ’80 discuss the future of labor relations in the sports industry.

ILR Holds Sports Leadership Summit

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

NEW YORK — League commissioners, athletes and sports industry professionals descended upon midtown Manhattan on Monday for the ILR Sports Leadership Summit. And in turn, students, faculty and alumni flocked to the event for an impressive lineup of speakers, most of whom Cornell alumni themselves.

Thirty-one different panelists and moderators assembled to dis-

cuss their experiences in the sports industry on a handful of topics including the future of labor in sports, media rights, negotiations and labor law surrounding collegiate athletics.

According to organizers, the sold-out event was a huge success its first time around.

“I was thrilled with the outcome of the first ILR Sports Leadership Summit,” said Assistant Dean for Communications and Marketing for the ILR School Tom Addonizio.

“It was great to see such a tremen-

dous turnout from our students, faculty, staff and distinguished alumni who have helped to shape the modern sports industry.”

First up on the day were National Hockey League Commissioner Gary Bettman ’74 and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred ’80 on a panel, moderated by ESPN investigative personality Jeremy Schaap ’91.

Bettman and Manfred discussed See ILR page 13

Cornell men’s soccer was the clear underdog entering a mid-week road contest with nationally ranked No. 11 Syracuse. And with seven freshmen starting for the Red, the odds were even less in Cornell’s favor.

Despite it all, junior Ryan Hill scored on a one-on-one chance in the overtime period to give Cornell the monumental upset victory over the Orange Tuesday night. The win is Cornell’s first over its upstate rival in 16 years.

“In all honesty, I thought we created great chances,” said head coach John Smith, according to Cornell Big Red. “We got more shots on target. We had more shots and it worked and that’s all I ask from our guys. It requires no talent and yet they did a fantastic job of really working hard.”

The Red (2-3-1) held Syracuse to just three shots on goal throughout the contest, and senior goaltender Mitchell Meyer stopped each one that came his way.

“He made some excellent low saves and he just did a great job,” Smith said of Meyer. “Any through balls he was on quickly and he made some vital stops. He’s been patient and continues to be a positive influence in the locker room and the training facility. He’s been wonderful and he deserved to have a win tonight.”

Cornell, on the other hand, launched five shots at Syracuse’s Hendrik Hilpert, but it was the final shot in overtime off the foot of Hill that made the difference.

The victory was only the second for Cornell in its last 10 matchups with the Orange, and the second for the club in the 2017 season, doubling its 2016 total.

Now, the Red returns home with a major win under its belt to face St. Francis College Brooklyn Friday afternoon.

— Compiled by Charles Cotton

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2017 SEASON PREVIEW

THIS UPCOMING SEASON MARKS THE FIFTH YEAR WITH DAVID ARCHER ‘05 AS HEAD COACH at Delaware L 41-14 Cornell’s 2017 kicked off in the Mid-Atlantic, where the team was easily handled by the Blue Hens, 41-14. It was a game that featured plenty of rust, made worse by the fact that Delaware plays in a stronger conference and had already faced off against a team like Virginia Tech.

at Yale

Sept. 23 Ivy League play gets underway from New Haven against Yale for the 80th matchup between the two teams. The 2006 Ivy League co-champions saw a down year in 2016 with a 3-7 record after an 8-2 2014 and 6-4 2015. Rising sophomore Kurt Rawlings and rising junior Tre More split the duties at quar-

vs. Colgate Sept. 30 Far and away the most exciting game of the 2016 season gets a rematch, but this time it comes in the friendly confines of Schoellkopf Field.

Luckily for the Red, quarterback Jake Melville — who tossed 399 yards and three touchdowns along with 80 yards on the ground in the 2016

vs. Harvard Oct. 7 While much of the student body is away for fall break, the Crimson will come into town for game number four.

Fresh off its worst season since 2010 — though still finishing 7-3 — Harvard has high hopes for 2017.

A perennial contender atop the Ivy League, Harvard returns many of its

vs. Bucknell Oct. 14 Bucknell comes to Ithaca for the first time since an exciting homecoming matchup in 2015, where the Bison squeaked by with a 19-14 win.

Bucknell already has three games under its belt in a roller-coaster start for the Bison, starting with a 45-6 rout over Marist. Bucknell found its way to the

The Red totaled five turnovers in the first half, including one on the first play of the game. Delaware took advantage of each one, scoring 27 points on the five drives started by Cornell miscues.

Quarterback Dalton Banks still managed to throw for 247 yards and a touchdown, which was to freshman Eric Gallman for the freshman’s first career score. Delaware managed 225 yards on the ground compared to Cornell’s 46. And with a 27-0 lead at the half, the Blue Hens never looked back to send Cornell to its first loss.

terback, as both combined for an equal number of interceptions as touchdowns.

Alan Lamar returns for his sophomore season at tailback after becoming the clear rushing leader with five touchdowns and 557 yards on 131 rushes, good enough for 4.3 per attempt.

Meanwhile, classmate and last year’s leading receiver Reed Klubnik returns with three touchdowns and 35.6 yards per game to his name. The Bulldogs were picked to finish fourth in the Ivy League preseason poll.

vs. Brown Oct. 21 Cornell will cap off the four-game home stand when it hosts Brown, as the Red seeks to avenge its double overtime heartbreaking loss to the Bears last season.

Brown will be filling some big shoes after losing all six of its all-Ivy selections from last year. But if there is a team that

at Princeton Oct. 28 The game against the defending Ivy League co-champion will be the first back on the road after a one-month home stand for Cornell, marking the 100th meeting between the two, a series Princeton has dominated, 61-36-2.

Despite last year’s thrashing, the two teams have played in close games lately

matchup — has graduated, as well as John Maddaluna, who caught for 261 yards and all of Melville’s touchdowns in the game. On the defensive side, leading tacklers Kyle Diener and Chris Morgan have also graduated.

That being said, the Raiders return running back Keyon Washington and receiver Alex Greenawalt for their senior seasons. Sophomore Carmine Scarfone has been the team’s starter through two games this season and has put up solid numbers. Colgate fell outside of the FCS top-25 after a week two loss.

at Dartmouth

standout players from last season, including four first-team all-Ivy picks, all looking to better their third-place league finish and get back on track to their championship ways. Now a senior, Joe Viviano remains the team’s quarterback. Charlie Booker is the starting running back and is arguably the offense’s best player.

Tanner Lee and Luke Hutton are players to note on Harvard’s defense.

Unless the Crimson takes another step back in 2017, this could be one of the toughest home games for Cornell.

vs. Columbia

endzone four times in the first quarter, including two in the final two minutes of the period. Quarterback Matt Muh went for 205 yards and two touchdowns, while the defense held Marist to just 154 yards of offense, including only 24 yards on the ground.

The next weekend Bucknell opened its conference schedule against Holy Cross, but the offense was a no-show in a 20-0 loss. Then came 30-9 loss to William & Mary. Bucknell has two home Patriot League games before coming to Ithaca to begin a road trip.

Nov. 4 Dartmouth went from best to worst in a matter of one season — the team finished alone in last place in the Ivy League with a 1-6 record just one year after sharing a piece of the Ivy League title in 2015. And who did their lone league win of the season come against?

Cornell.

Nov. 11 The Empire State Bowl returns to Ithaca for the first time since Cornell’s 3-0 win in 2015. This year, the Lions return three all-Ivy picks in kicker Oren Milstein, defensive back Cameron Roane and defensive lineman Lord Hyeaman.

Columbia also returns quarterback

at Penn Nov. 18 Cornell will close out the 2017 season the same way it has done many years before — against reigning league co-champion Penn. The two have ended their respective seasons against each other every time since 1998.

While quarterback Alex Torgerson graduated and signed into the NFL,

knows how to rebuild, it’s Brown, who has finished in the top half of the league standings in 16 of the past 19 years during head coach Phil Estes’ tenure at the helm of the program.

Junior Nick Duncan is now Brown’s starting quarterback and is a threat both to pass and to run. Livingstone Harriott should be the featured running back, but that is, of course, subject to change as the season goes on. Brown also boasts a strong pass rush, led by defensive captains Richard Jarvis (defensive end) and Isaiah Thompkins (linebacker).

— eight of the last 13 have been decided by a touchdown or less, and in the past 27 years, 13 have been decided by a field goal or less.

A difference maker for the Tigers has been John Lovett, who accounted for seven touchdowns last year against Cornell. Injured, Lovett is sitting out to start 2017, with his status for when Cornell travels to Princeton unclear.

Princeton will also be welcoming back a key member of its league-leading defense, runner-up Defensive Player of the Year Kurt Holuba.

Dartmouth had a very up-and-down year last season, similar to Cornell.

Despite the abysmal league record, the Green did go 3-0 against its non-conference opponents.

Junior running back Miles Smith, who ran all over the Red with 119 yards and finished the season as an All-Ivy honorable mention, will be returning this season for the Green. In addition to Smith, Dartmouth will be welcoming back five all-Ivy League selections, including Rookie of the Year wide receiver Hunter Hagdorn.

senior Anders Hill, and while he did not have stellar numbers last season, ranking toward the bottom in the league in passing average and efficiency, he improved as the season progressed. He averaged over 205 yards while completing 60 percent of his passes, and notched six of his 10 total touchdowns during the last three games of 2016.

At running back, Columbia will replace graduated All-Ivy Second Team Alan Watson, and despite losing three receivers, the Lions return the team’s leading recipient Josh Wainwright.

running back Tre Solomon is back for his senior year, fresh off a 90.7 yards per game season. The electric wide receiver Justin Watson, who set the Penn record for most receptions in a season against Cornell, also returns. The Ivy League Player of the Year runner-up had over 1,110 receiving yards, and averaged 111.5 per game.

Though the loss of Torgerson will set the Quakers back a bit, the team that has captured five league titles since 2009 will surely give the Red a fit in the final game of the season.

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t’s probably our deepest position on offense.” That’s how head coach David Archer ’05 described his team’s stock of halfbacks ahead of the 2017 season.

That may come as a surprise considering the Red finished last in the Ivy League in rushing just one year ago. Be that as it may, Cornell returns a host of talented ball-carriers who will look to climb the rankings in the league’s rushing stats this time around.

Junior Chris Walker, who earned a spot on the 2016 All-Ivy first team, led the team in rushing yards last season and will be the featured back in 2017. Archer said Walker spent the summer in Ithaca working to further improve his game and has been turning some heads.

“He’s looking faster and stronger than he has been in the past,” the head coach said.

Last year’s totals of 655 yards and three touchdowns, and an average over five yards-per-carry were solid, but Walker is looking to become a dominant force out of the backfield in 2017, a weapon the Red’s offense can count on consistently.

Senior captain Jack Gellatly, as well as junior J.D. Pickell, are two more prominent members of the Red’s run game who will supplement Walker’s carries. “[Gellatly has] made some really good runs in preseason, and he’s definitely a guy we can give the football to,” Archer said. “J.D. PicKell is of the same category. He has made some explosive plays this preseason and has game experience. He’s been making plays out of the backfield catching the football, and he’s made some explosive runs.”

Pickell missed time with a concussion last season, but should get plenty of work in 2017 if he can stay healthy.

Classmates Walker and PicKell standout to Archer as two who have not only improved physically this offseason, but mentally, too.

What [PicKell] and Walker have learned is, ‘I am going to go ahead and let the play develop,’” Archer said. “Now that doesn’t mean slowing down, that doesn’t meant making a cut in the backfield, but [they] see it so much better [now].”

Now a senior, Josh Sweet will also look to get involved after playing primarily on special teams in years past.

“He’s a real ground-and-pound type of guy … like an unbelievable team guy, [I have] no problem putting him in the football game, we know he’s a dependable guy,” Archer said of Sweet.

Barring any injuries — and assuming the Red’s offensive line is able to neutralize opposing defenses — the running game could prove to be a weapon for Cornell in 2017.

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RECEIVERS T

he recipients of 53 percent of quarterback Dalton Banks’ passes graduated since the 2016 season, leaving a void that needs to be filled if the offense wants to build off of last year’s success. With so many new names throughout the depth chart, the position is a “big question mark,” according to head coach David Archer ’05.

Marshall Deutz ’17 and Ben Rogers ’16 are the two major losses for wide receivers this upcoming season. The pair combined for 70 catches for 878 yards and nine touchdowns in 2016. With Rogers’ deep threat and Deutz’s consistent presence across the middle, Banks had a full arsenal to choose from.

Without Deutz and Rogers, senior James Hubbard will anchor this year’s receiving class.

Hubbard had the best game of his career in last year’s upset of Colgate. He hauled in five passes for 105 yards and a touchdown. But outside of that outburst, Hubbard failed to top 50 yards or find the end zone in any of his other nine games. With much more opportunity this upcoming season, Hubbard will likely see his targets increase dramatically.

The other two main receivers are both inexperienced underclassmen. Davy Lizana — a big sophomore wideout who can play over smaller defenders — and Eric Gallman — a freshman who “doesn’t play like a freshman,” according to Archer — have stood out and will likely get the starting nod heading into the year.

After those three, the group is “still in fierce competition,” Archer said.

Fifth-year senior Collin Shaw will also be thrown into the mix once he recovers from an undisclosed injury. The wideout ranked fourth on the team in receptions, third in yards and second in receiving touchdowns with three, including the game-winning score against Colgate.

Overall, the new names up and down the roster have had a bit of difficulty finding the same level of chemistry that Banks had with last year’s squad.

“There have been some miscues,” Archer said of the communication between Banks and his receivers. “Dalton throws a hard ball now, there’s been a couple of drops.”

Similar to wide receiver, the loss of Matt Sullivan ’17 and Nick Bland ’17 at tight-end means less experienced players will have to step up. The pair of now-graduated tight ends combined for 464 yards last year and three touchdowns. Stepping in to fill the gap is senior Hayes Nolte.

While he did not see nearly as much time as Sullivan last year, Nolte had a knack for finding the end zone. The 6-foot-4, 258-pound Nolte scored as many touchdowns as Sullivan did, despite catching a third as many passes.

Sophomores John Fitzgerald and Nic Canal and junior Oscar Boochever, with some practice and PHOTOS BY CAMERON POLLACK / refining, could see meaningful play time this SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR upcoming season, according to Archer.

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ossibly the biggest relief for any football team is having a mature and talented quarterback consistently taking the snaps. Luckily for Cornell, the program has that guy in returning starter Dalton Banks.

Banks was named the starter last season as a sophomore, winning the position over two upperclassmen. Now, with a year of starting experience under his belt, head coach David Archer ’05 said he believes that Banks has the capability to push the team to the next level.

“He has a tremendous amount of moxy, a tremendous amount of football knowledge, and he plays fearless, absolutely fearless,” Archer said about his offensive leader. “He’s exactly the makeup of a quarterback you want.”

Despite having no varsity experience his freshman year, Banks turned heads with his numbers last season. He led the Ivy League with 18 scores through the air, second in passing yards per game with 251.4, and third in points responsible for with 138. Banks was an All-Ivy League honorable mention at the conclusion of the season, and was named Offensive Player of the Week after his performance against Yale on Homecoming.

An underrated quality for Banks is his running. While he only ran for 141 yards all last season, 87 of those came against Sacred Heart, and he added five touchdowns last season with his legs.

“He’s deceptive as a runner,” Archer said. “When I talk about him, or talk about recruiting a quarterback, I want a guy that can run enough that he can get you a first down — doesn’t necessarily have to get you a touchdown, but if it’s blocked up, he’s going to be able to get you a first down.”

However Banks has one blemish on his resume: his turnovers. throwing the second-most interceptions in the league last year.

Archer attributed that inflated number to Banks’ inexperience.

“He [was] a sophomore last year, he thinks he can make every throw on the football field, and he can, but it doesn’t mean he has to in every situation,” Archer said. “He has that gunslinger mentality. Trust me, I’m taking the kid with the courage and the moxy — I’ll take his problem every single day at the quarterback position.”

But Archer is optimistic that the turnovers will go down based on what he has seen during the preseason.

“I’ve seen this training camp a maturity from him, a level of understanding to know when to make that bigball throw and know when to go and ahead and take the check down and not force something that could create an interception,” Archer said. “If his interceptions go PHOTOS BY down, our offensive potential sky rockets.”

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OFFENSIVE LINE

o position on the 2017 Cornell football team was cratered more due to graduation than the offensive line. A whopping six linemen graduated, leaving two seniors and just one returning starter to the line for the upcoming season.

“This is a huge question mark,” head coach David Archer ’05 said about his first line of protection on offense, adding “this is probably very similar” to the battles that will ensue at wide receiver as well.

Henry Stillwell, a junior at right tackle, will look to impart his wisdom learned in 10 games played last season to a line made up of almost entirely fresh faces. He will also have experience playing along now-graduated perennial starters Alex Emanuels ’17, John Foster ’17, Jake Waltman ’17 and Islam Mohamed ’17.

But apart from Stillwell, starters for the offensive line are still flud. Archer pointed to J. Edward Keating as someone with the potential to slot in at center, but the coach acknowledged the lack of experience he has at the position and said it would take some time to determine who lines up on game day. “[It’s] wait and see on the starting lineup there,” he said, “but all very talented guys — just not a ton of game experience.”

2016 was a difficult year for the offensive line nonetheless. Despite the emergence of running back Chris Walker, the team finished last in the Ivy League in rushing offense with just 113 yards per game. Opposing defenses also got to quarterback Dalton Banks for 23 sacks totaling a loss of 145 yards.

A young offensive line could be a thorn in the side of a team side which boasts budding stars at both the quarterback and running back positions.

Without much protection for gunslinger Banks and the quick Walker, offensive production could potentially stymie, but a new coach will look to minimize that possibility.

John Kuceyeski has taken over coaching duties of the offensive line, and despite Kuceyeski’s small stature, Archer has noticed a big impact from the new coach on the team’s largest members.

“He’s done a really good job,” Archer said of Kuceyeski. “He’s the son of a coach, he has a great bond with those guys.

It’s funny because they are all like 6-foot-8 and he’s a little bit shorter and it’s just funny in practice.”

— Zachary Silver

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LINEBACKER

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t is an unfortunate flashback for Cornell football’s depth at linebacker. For the second straight season, the team has to deal with the loss of three-time captain Miles Norris to an Achilles injury in preseason training.

A player who did not miss a single game in his three years before the injury, Norris was hoping to make a comeback this season, returning as a fifth-year senior and a three-time captain. But an injury to the opposite foot brings a crushing blow to the team.

“It was so gut-wrenching to see that,” said head coach David Archer ’05. “A guy like Miles Norris doesn’t come around every day, very few and far between with what he does on the field, off the field, and his influence. He’s still the captain, he’s part of this program forever, but just heartbreaking.”

But this year’s linebacking corps has one thing that last year’s did not: experience. This team has already dealt with a year without its leader, an intangible asset that the team will undoubtedly be falling back on.

The most seasoned player is senior and captain Kurt Frimel, who appeared in every game the past two seasons in addition to four his freshman year. Frimel tallied 59 total tackles, six for a loss and 1.5 sacks last year. He ranked second in the League and 24th nationally with three forced fumbles, and ranked first in the league and 20th nationally in fumbles recovered with two.

Junior Reis Seggebruch, who Archer said is “like a little clone of Frimel,” had a stand-out inaugural varsity season when he accounted for 74 total tackles, good for 10th in the league. 52 of those tackles were were unassisted, good for sixth in the league and 24th nationally, to go along with 3.5 tackles for loss and two sacks.

Adding to the mix is senior Daniel Crochet, who had a stellar sophomore season and already has an interception and five tackles in 2017. Last season, Crochet missed three games due to injury but still accounted for 23 tackles and 1.5 for loss.

— Jamil Rahman

DEFENSIVE LINE T

he men of the defensive line stand as the first line of defense for Cornell football.

With so much inexperience, this position could prove to be one of the most important for the Red this upcoming season.

One of the returning starters is senior Seth Hope, who lead the defensive line in tackles last year. The 6-foot-3, 250-pound defensive lineman also had a pair of sacks on the season. A start in the team’s first game against Delaware was his 22nd consecutive time as a starter. Another returning starter is Geno DeMarco, who had 24 stops last season as a junior. Defensive coordinator Jared Backus will likely look to their experience to provide veteran leadership at the line of scrimmage.

Also starting on the line is Jordan Landsman. The sophomore got his first chance to see varsity action against Delaware and is projected to be an impact player all year long.

At 6-foot-4 and 295 pounds, Landsman “plays mean and has that presence in the middle that alone will help our rush defense,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

Returning reserves Victor Olapinsin and Chase Wickenheiser will be back for their junior years this upcoming season. The pair combined for 37 tackles in 2016, and will bring in-game experience to the defensive line.

Gus Basanes started his Cornell career as a defensive linemen, flipped to an offensive linemen and returns to the defensive side of the ball as a senior. After a productive freshman season in which he tallied a sack in his first appearance, Mason Banbury missed his sophomore year due to an injury.

The 6-foot-4, 270-pound lineman is healthy again and transitioned to defensive tackle for this upcoming season. Once the junior can figure out the nuances of the new position, Archer said “the production level from the inside is going to skyrocket.”

Overall, the defensive line has the potential to make “a significant jump from last year,” Archer said.

And that improvement is something the program as a whole needs, according to the head coach.

— Adam Bronfin

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FOOTBALL SUPPLEMENT

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SECONDARY

016 was not a kind year to any aspect of the Cornell defense, and the secondary was no different. While the Red led the league in interceptions with 15, the team finished seventh in passing yards allowed, giving up 272 yards per game on average, and ranked last in total defense.

This year, all four starting defensive backs return and are eager to help the team improve its pass defense, and head coach David Archer ’05 believes they are ready to do some damage.

“The whole starting back end is back this year, and they’re all better than they were,” Archer said.

Senior captain Nick Gesualdi and classmate Justin Solomon are Cornell’s starting safeties.

Gesualdi consistently has been a key contributor for the Red on the defensive side of the ball, and his team is counting on him for another big season.

“It all starts with Gesualdi,” Archer said of the secondary. “He’s a kid that’s around the football all the time, he came back in great shape. He just makes a ton of plays, he just feels it.”

Gesualdi, who led the league with six interceptions in 2016, earned first-team All-Ivy honors and was named a third team FCS All-American. His 81 tackles led the team, and he picked up a few sacks along the way as well.

Solomon had three interceptions to his name and averaged nearly seven tackles per game last season at the free safety position.

Senior Sean Scullen is still battling back from a severe leg injury sustained on the opening kickoff of last season. Scullen was poised to start at safety but missed the entire season with the injury. Archer said 2017 remains a question mark.

“I hope at some point he could get back,” he said.

At cornerback, senior Jelani King and junior D.J. Woullard will get the nod on opening day. Both King and Woullard started all 10 contests last season and should be expected to do the same this year. Each had a solid 2016 season but both had their fair share of blown coverages that led to some big plays for the opponent’s offense.

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— Charles Cotton

SPECIAL TEAMS I

t is hard to talk about Cornell football special teams without the name Chris Fraser ’17 finding its way into the conversation.

Fraser, who flirted with some NFL teams this summer, was a staple of the team throughout his four years, earning praise from his coach as the “best punter in the country” en route to becoming the first in program history to earn All-Ivy first team honors each of his four seasons.

Sophomore Nickolas Null will try his best to be the next Fraser, earning the punting job after he did “an incredible job of learning how to punt this offseason,” said Head Coach David Archer ’05. While Null has only punted a handful of times in a collegiate game, he seems to have the chops, evident by a 76yard boot when he was in high school.

But his versatility is what Archer said he likes most. Last season, Null served as the team’s kickoff specialist and also saw time at field goals and point afters.

Joining Null is junior Zach Mays, back as the field goal specialist. The Las Vegas native is fresh off a sophomore season where he lead the Ivy League in points per game with 7.3, touchbacks with 12 and kickoff average with 63.5 yards per kick.

Since Null can largely act as Mays’ backup, the versatility of the two allows the team to open up another spot on the travel roster.

“With two guys who can create so much depth, you actually create a travel spot,” Archer said.

Getting the ball to these two will be senior long-snapper Mac Pope, who Archer says is “phenomenal.” Pope, who also rotates into the fullback and tight-end positions, has been dealing with shoulder difficulties, and Archer said the team will monitor as necessary.

— Zachary Silver

2016 SEASON IN PHOTOS

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What’s next? | Cornell football takes on the 2017 year fresh off a season in which the team saw a three-win improvement over its dismal 1-9 campaign in 2016. Head coach David Archer ’05, now in his fifth year at the helm, finally has a full roster of players he personally recruited out of high school, and he’s optimistic about the team’s season despite a last place rank in the preseason Ivy League media poll. A year of hard-fought victories and devastating losses has given the team a much-needed experience to continue its upward momentum. Could this Cornell football team again shock the rest of the Ivy League and move up in the rankings? Conference play starts this Saturday at 1 p.m. against Yale.