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Sisters of the alpha Kappa Delta Phi Sorority organize a vigil to raise awareness of and prevent hazing on campus. | Page 3

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Prison Ed Program Receives $1M

Grant will allow CPEP to expand services to more facilities

By MAXWELL DOPSCH

tiatives to strengthen the humanities, arts, higher education and cultural heritage,” according to the foundation’s website.

The Cornell Prison Education Program received a $1 “The Mellon Foundation has a long-standing history million grant from The Mellon Foundation on with Cornell as sponsors of humanities scholarship and Thursday, which will allow the program to double its education,” Scott said. presence in central New York correctional facilities, CPEP was established to provide a college education according to Rob Scott, executive director of CPEP. to the region’s inmates and to engage Cornell faculty and “We offer more than 30 courses right now with over students to the incarcerated population, according to the 100 students within prison program’s website. The prowalls,” Scott said. “With gram, unique among Cornell’s “The program puts a face behind this grant, we’ll jump to Ivy League peers, has been over 60 classes a year and [statistics about prisons], centering the offering courses for credit to probably more than 200 inmates without charging students once it’s fully voices often overlooked in academics.” tuition or fees since 1999. implemented.”

“In the past decade, we Amber Aspinall ’17 The program currently went from barely offering one offers courses taught by or two credit-bearing courses Cornell faculty and graduate students at Auburn to now basically being the leading institution for higher Correctional Facility and Cayuga Correctional Facility. education in prison in the entire region,” Scott said.

So far, CPEP has held two commencement ceremonies Amber Aspinall ’17, a teaching assistant for CPEP, — the first in 2012 and the most recent in 2014 — and said she has been interested in the criminal justice system conferred more than 15 associate degrees to inmates each since grade school and that the program has become the time. focus of her academic life at Cornell.

The grant money will enable CPEP to expand its ser“The Prison Education Program gave me an opportuvices to Five Points Correctional Facility and Elmira nity to go into a prison and learn with some of the Correctional Facility. brightest people I have ever met,” Aspinall said. “Most of The million-dollar grant comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which “supports a wide range of iniSee GRANT page 4

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Ithacans Flock to Commons for Applefest

By JULIA GREENBERG Sun Contributor

The recent renovation of the Commons created a more open and vibrant atmosphere for this year’s Down-

town Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival, at tracting large crowds of enthusiastic visitors to the new center of downtown Ithaca, according to business owners and festival goers.

This year marks the 33rd annual Applefest and the first on the newly renovated Commons. The Commons, which officially reopened in August after being under construc-

tion since April 2013, now features new paving, bike racks, gateways and a playground.

The festival spanned multiple streets around the See APPLEFEST page 4

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Funds for futures | Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 speaks at the United Way kickoff event Friday.

United Way Kicks Off Annual Campaign

By JONATHAN LEVENFELD Sun Contributor

PHOTOS BY BRITTNEY CHEW / SUN NEWS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

How do you like them apples? | Ithacans and Cornellians flock to the Ithaca Commons to enjoy apple-based products — from apple cider donuts to apple pizza — and other fall season favorites at Applefest this weekend.

Cornell’s United Way chapter kicked off its annual campaign Friday in Willard Straight Hall, featuring remarks from Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 as well as student and staff representatives.

Cornell United Way, which raised $815,152 last year, works in conjunction with the United Way “There is hope, as we’ve of Tompkins County to provide basic needs seen through programs of education, income and people’s lives who and health to members of the communiwe’ve changed.” ty. With a total campaign goal of $2 milJames Brown lion for the year, United Way is hoping that this year’s Cornell contributions will reach $750,000.

Myrick, who said he is no stranger to hard times, stressed the importance of coming together to address community needs.

“After a lifetime of poverty, I came to understand that big See UNITED WAY page 5

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Dozens Gather to Celebrate Eid at Annual Banquet

By ALEXA ESKENAZI

Sun Contributor

One hundred and thirty people packed into the Biotechnology Building on Saturday for Cornell’s annual Eid al-Adha Banquet, which boasted an upbeat atmosphere and diverse crowd.

People who attended the banquet represented a variety of cultures and backgrounds, according to Hasna Zainul ’17, treasurer of the Muslim Educational and Cultural Association, which hosted the banquet.

Approximately 20 percent of attendees were not MECA members, Zainul said.

MECA members decorated the banquet room in a scheme of blue and yellow, with the back wall draped in an ornate paper tapestry covered with gold camels. The backdrop was used for group pictures as guests walked in.

As old friends and newcomers mingled and exchanged “Eid Mubarak” messages, MECA President Ehab Ebeid ’18 and member Ama Frederickson ’17 rang in the night with a recitation and translation of the Quran.

The audience was taken by surprise by a twist on traditional Eid celebrations when Syed Samin ’19 took the stage and beat-boxed. A slew of remarks could be heard echoing around the room, with one wide-eyed observer citing how “this is pretty different” from the norm.

Children clapped along with the beat, dancing along the side of the banquet hall.

The performance and its accompanying reactions reflected the spirit of the night, as mentioned by keynote speaker Fiyyaz Jaat, the Islamic Society of North America’s youth programming and services director.

Jaat spoke on the point of unison transcending religious and cultural differences, saying there is a disparity pertaining to the Muslim observance of Eid. “There are two ways which people can determine

when to celebrate Eid — calculating and moon sighting,” Jaat said. “Where should our hearts be? No matter what my position is, I will defend the other one no matter what.”

When asked if the banquet goes along with the usual traditions associated with Eid, Akida Erken grad, who is from China, said it very much resembled her family’s Eid celebrations back home.

“In China for Eid, everyone opens their doors and welcomes anyone, no matter if they are Muslim or not.

We will prepare lots of food,” Erken said. “Last year, our family had over 100 visitors for Eid.” The same view of Eid and the banquet as a time to come together was echoed by Ali Moeed grad, who is from Pakistan.

“Eid back home means getting together with family and celebrating together,” Moeed said. “Because Muslims here at Cornell come from different communities, even culturally this event is diverse. It is more often a cultural than a religious event here; this is more of a cultural gathering.”

Ebeid, who is from Egypt, echoed the cultural significance of the banquet, citing it as a great opportunity to showcase the culture and the Islamic community at Cornell.

“A lot of the Muslims here like to invite their friends who may not necessarily be Muslim,” Ebeid said. “One thing that I really love is how this really showcases the type of events that MECA organizes which are just so inclusive in nature. We pride ourselves on being anti-sectarian and being inclusive of all traditions of Islamic thought and practice. The banquet really brings that to life.”

When asked what Eid means to him, Ebeid said he saw it as a familial affair.

“Eid to me is about going around to visit every single member of our family who is in proximity,” Ebeid said.

“This is not something that I will be able to do here, but this comes very close. This is family.”

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at ame63@cornell.edu.

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Sorority Honors Hazing Victims C.U.Clubs Host Syria Forum

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Contributor

On Wednesday, sisters of the alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority at Cornell held a Remembrance Vigil to commemorate those who have been affected, are currently affected by or have passed away from hazing.

This event was a part of the chapter’s “Comfort in your Community” series, which took place during National Hazing Prevention Week and featured several events focused on hazing prevention.

At the vigil, students read various testimonies and excerpts from stories on hazing.

One such piece of testimony included excerpts from a paper titled “Hazed and Confused” written by Adam Zwecker ’04.

In 2003, Zwecker wrote his paper for an independent study with the support of two professors at Cornell. The vigil event focused specifically on an excerpt called “Woods Night,” which detailed Zwecker’s experience of being blindfolded and hazed as part of his second pledge activity with the fraternity he was pledging for in 2000.

Since the “Comfort in your Community” series aimed to touch upon different aspects of hazing, members of the

sorority said they felt this piece would illustrate how destructive hazing can be.

“We wanted students to really think back into their experiences and grapple with this idea because, often times, those affected by hazing in the past didn’t consider it hazing because of this concept of uninformed consent,” Nina Kitele ’17 said. “I think we ultimately chose Zwecker’s paper because of the compelling nature of his story and because it just touched upon so many different ideas about hazing that are not often discussed.”

In addition to the vigil, the sorority raised awareness about the different dimensions of hazing by holding several other events throughout the week, which included informational tables, a photo campaign and a hazing workshop hosted by Gannett.

“A big aim for our week of events was to educate the members of the Cornell community by informing students that hazing comes in all different forms, dispelling myths about hazing, educating the community about hazing practices that may not be so clear cut and informing the community about resources for how to actually help,” See VIGIL page 5

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Haze no more | Luminaries with statements of solidarity for hazing victims are arranged in a semicircle at the alpha Kappa Delta Phi Hazing remembrance vigil on Ho Plaza.

By ISABEL LING

Sun Contributor

Several dozen students gathered at the “What’s Happening in Syria?” event hosted Friday by a coalition of Cornell clubs about the Syrian refugee crisis. The mass migration, first catalyzed by the Syrian Civil War, which began in 2010, has gained

the global community, we needed to say something.”

The presenters highlighted some of the discriminatory actions many European Union countries have taken against Syrians seeking asylum. However, the current refugee and migrant crisis is not isolated to Europe, said Prof.

Holly Case, history, in an email to The Sun.

crisis since World War II” due to weak immigrations systems.

During the discussion that followed the presentation, students debated the role Syria plays in today’s global context and how to help alleviate the injustices faced by Syrian refugees.

The event hit home for some students, including Ahmad Sabbagh ’17, phil-

“Seeing everybody who came out here, people from all different backgrounds and all different parts of the world — it’s just indescribable.”

Ahmad Sabbagh ’17 renewed media attention because of the recent influx of Syrians and migrants from other countries into coastal European countries offering asylum.

The South Asian Council hosted the presentation and following discussion, bringing together many diverse organizations, including Cornell International Affairs Society, Arab Students Association and Cornell Organization for Labor Action.

“Although the South Asian Council is not directly affiliated with Syria, we understand the global nature of the humanitarian crisis that is occurring right now,” said Caro Achar ’18, one of the students who presented information about Syria.

“Ultimately, we are humans too. We thought that as fellow members of

“This is not just a European problem … countries like Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan have taken in over four million refugees since the war in Syria began,” said Case, who researches and recently visited the border between Hungary and Serbia. “It is partly because the United Nations High Commission for Refugees had to reduce its support in these countries earlier this year that some refugees staying these countries have sought to make their way to Europe.”

According to the U.N., 7.6 million Syrians have been displaced internally, while 4.1 million Syrians have left the country.

According to the presentation, the countries are struggling to accommodate what the U.N. has called the “worst refugee

anthropy chair of the Arab Student Association at Cornell.

“I actually lived in Syria for three years. I have very happy memories there,” Sabbagh said. “It hurts when you see your people suffering and seeing your home destroyed. Seeing everybody who came out here, people from all different backgrounds, and all different parts of the world — it’s just indescribable.”

For many students, the event was an educational experience.

“What made this event special was that I can easily follow what is going on in Syria at home, but this was different from me just clicking through articles on my computer, it gave an emotional and human perspective,”Dara Canchester ’18 said.

See SYRIA page 5

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Applefest Draws Large Crowds Foundation Gifts $1M Students,Ithacans enjoy event on revitalized Commons APPLEFEST

store managers.

Continued from page 1 “Now that [Applefest] is back on the Commons, I think we’re going to get a lot more business,” said Commons, filled with vendors selling a variety of Amelia Clemenco, manager of Waffle Frolic. “I items from handmade jewelry to Amish whoopie think the whole idea is that there’s a lot of foot trafpies and funnel cake. fic.”

Many vendors at Applefest said they believe For some students, visiting Applefest was their the completion of construction benefited the fes- first time at the Commons. Lizzie Bach ’18 said she tival, and as of Friday afternoon, some said they visited “a lot of stores [she] never would have experienced an increase in business from previous because the Commons was open” and plans to years. “come back to those stores and do additional shop“We’ve done double we were expecting… for ping.” us,” said Rob Parcell, co-owner of Maple River Locals who visit Applefest annually said they Syrup Company and one have noticed a difference of the vendors at the fesfrom past years because “Now that [Applefest] is back on of tival. “Today’s been pretthe construction. ty good.”

“The renovated the Commons, I think we’re Parcell said he believes Commons ‘feels cleangoing to get a lot more busithe renovation of the er,’” said Zoe Zervos, a Commons could be 17-year-old from Ithaca ness. I think the whole idea is responsible for this sucwho attended the festicess because “people are with her friends. “I that there’s a lot of foot traffic.” val more concentrated in like the atmosphere betthis area.” ter.”

Amelia Clemenco Lisa Ferguson, owner However, the develand operator of Laughing opment was not without Goat Fiber, said one benefit of the new Commons its criticisms. Lizzy King, who said she is nostalgic is “the number of people that can walk through the of the Commons she grew up in, said the festival middle […] [who can see her] display from farther “seems less Ithaca-y” and “didn’t feel like official off.”

Applefest.”

The improved accessibility and visibility has While not everyone has embraced the new enviboosted business for the company, which sells ronment, many expressed appreciation for the lack hand-dyed products made of yarn from goats, of construction. Lori Freer, a local visiting the fesalpacas and sheep, according to Ferguson. tival with her family, explained that “it was much “I’m worried that I’m going to run out of medi- harder to get around” last year because of the conum mittens,” Ferguson said. “It’s been pretty much struction. nonstop.”

“It’s [...] just a lot more exciting to have it on the Applefest not only brought business for local Commons,” Clemenco said. vendors who set up tents around the Commons, but also brought visitors and Julia Greenberg can be reached tourists into surrounding shops, according to at jpg233@cornell.edu.

To Prison Ed Program GRANT

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the time, we study numbers, statistics and theories. The program puts a face behind them, centering the voices often overlooked in academics.”

Having spent three semesters assisting instructors at Auburn Correctional Facility, Sophie Allen ’16 noted that the students often engage their coursework with an enthusiasm that often times exceeds that of her peers back at Cornell.

“At Auburn, people are jumping out of their seats to answer questions,” Allen said.

“In addition to bettering their employment prospects after incarceration, education for them is about learning. It’s about expanding their minds.”

Allen also said she believes education in prison benefits those beyond the individual students.

“The ability to say ‘my dad is getting a degree’ rather than ‘my dad is in prison’ is huge,” Allen said.

Interaction between the students also improves through their education, according to Scott. The cultural climate in prison settings often divides inmates based upon race and ethnicity. In the classroom, these barriers are broken down

and connections are fostered through shared academic work.

“Universities could do a world of good in helping to shift the prison culture,” Scott said. “In a long term prison, people will often associate in racialized gangs for protection … We create a multicultural space.”

Evidence indicates that education continues to benefit the inmates after their release by reducing recidivism, according to the CPEP website.

“The primary impact that the program is designed to have is in the prison system, but a very close second is the impact on the volunteers from campus who are transformed by engaging the complexity of the human situation in prison,” Scott said.

Aubrie James grad, a teaching assistant for CPEP, said the program has had a large impact on her.

“I think one of the first steps in solving the problems of the prison system is to raise awareness that the problems exist,” James said. “In CPEP, I have firsthand experience to share with others what's going on in the prisons. It makes me feel like a responsible citizen.”

Maxwell Dopsch can be reached at myd3@cornell.edu.

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Campaign Launches Online Pledging UNITED WAY

United Concert that was held Sept. 13 in Bailey Continued from page 1 Hall and the annual Duff Ball dance that will take place Jan. 31. problems require collective solutions,” Myrick said.

James Brown, president of United Way “There’s no one program that’s going to fix it all, Tompkins County, discussed Cornell’s past and prethere’s no one initiative that’s going to solve every sent importance to the organization, calling the problem. You need to work together.” school “a big part of United Way.” Ted Dodds, campaign chair of Cornell United The Tompkins County chapter was established Way and vice president of information technolo- in 1921 in large part due the efforts of Cornellians, gies, laid out the primary focus points of this year’s who went door to door to rally community support campaign. and helped convince the mayor and community The chapter is aiming to be more strategic about leaders to take action, according to Brown. its communications in order to garner more support Myrick emphasized that any contribution from and better emphasize Cornellians or communiUnited Way’s role and ty members would message, Dodds said. He “When you support United Way ... you’re enhance the community contributing to a better way of life for also said he hoped to as a whole. gather a larger cohort of “When you support every person who lives in this county.” volunteers. the United Way of The most significant Tompkins County, you’re Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 change for this year’s contributing to a better campaign is a new way of life for every peroptional online pledging system to complement the son who lives in this county,” Myrick said. traditional paper pledging. Previously, Dodds said Speakers said that while United Way and similar donors could only use paper forms to pledge organizations have done much for the community money. over the years, there is still work to be done to Dodds, who called the giving nature of Cornell address the basic needs of families and individuals. and the important work of United Way “an incred“[These community] problems are real,” Brown ible and dynamic combination,” said the new said. “We see them every day. But at the same time pledging system could be the starting point to a there is hope, as we’ve seen through programs and potential shift to only online donations. people’s lives who we’ve changed.”

Cornell Student United Way, led by president Elizabeth Joyce ’16, is having two main events this Jonathan Levenfeld can be reached at year to raise funds — the ninth annual A Capella jsl345@cornell.edu.

Sorority Vigil Comdemns Hazing VIGIL

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Kitele said.

While the sorority aimed to inform the community of the importance of hazing prevention, members of the sorority said they felt a personal connection to the movement.

“I believe in the strength and bonds of the relationships that I’ve made so far and it’s made me realize how horrible hazing

is and how damaging it can be,” Theresa Cao ’18 said. “My friends — my sisters — are supposed to support me and make me want to be a better person. I wanted people to realize that you don’t have to haze to create bonds, that true relationships are formed from positivity and support.”

Alex Tse ’17 echoed these sentiments on the importance of friendships and highlighted the importance of being a strong individual.

“Throughout my time in college, I find that I have become a stronger individual and I didn’t have to go through any hazing to prove myself as an individual,” Tse said. “I want to make sure that everyone understands that they are who they make themselves out to be and don’t need anyone else to tell them how to be a better or stronger person.”

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jar534@cornell.edu.

Students Discuss Syrian Refugee Crisis SYRIA

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“Seeing people who really care about what’s going on and are affected by the crisis was eyeopening.”

The event also focused on how students can get involved in

“The goal of this event was to first raise awareness, then take action out of a place of understanding.”

Caro Achar ’18 helping the Syrian refugees.

“The goal of this event was to first raise awareness, then take action out of a place of under-

standing, so we can better address the problem,” Achar said.

All of the participating organizations took donations for Save the Children Syria, a branch of an NGO that provides aid to children in poverty around the world.

The Arab Student Association also announced plans for a clothing drive for children, who make up approximately half the population of Syrian refugees.

Additionally, for students interested in making a difference, Case recommended donating to the UNHCR. “This is not a distant issue; it is one that lives with and among us in myriad ways,” Case said. “There is a refugee center [called Mohawk Valley Resource

Center for Refugees] in the city of Utica just a couple of hours north of here has resettled 15,000 refugees since 1981 — from Bosnia, Nepal, Burma, Somalia and other war-torn areas — helping them find jobs and homes, apply for citizenship, learn English, etc.”

For Sabbagh, the inter-club meeting at Cornell was representative of the global response to the crisis.

“It’s amazing because people from all over the world are coming together — people I thought would never care,” Sabbagh said.

“It just shows that in humanity we’re all just brothers and sisters.”

Isabel Ling can be reached at igl3@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ‘Well It Is Ithaca; You Never Know’: Paula Poundstone at the State Theatre

BY ALI JENKINS Sun Staff Writer

Paula Poundstone, standup comedian and star of National Public Radio’s Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me, recently traveled to Ithaca to perform at the State Theatre. She strode onto stage right after 8 p.m. with a florescent pink suit and an enormous presence. For the next two hours, she engaged the audience with her informal comedy routine. Known for never performing the same routine twice, she mixed old jokes together with improvisational banter with the audience for an evening full of laughs.

Poundstone began the night by poking fun at Ithaca itself, sarcastically explaining how thrilled she was by her timing: “What is it, the Apple Festival or something? Oh, well then I timed it just right.” At a later point, she heard some crinkling in the audience and asked if someone was passing around a loaf of bread. “Well it is Ithaca,” she conceded. “You never know.” Although Ithaca was the butt of many jokes, Poundstone did remark on the beauty of the area several times.

Poundstone also spent several minutes talking about Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, who was not at the event but whom she met earlier in the day. She told the audience he was the “cutest little fellow I ever did see.” She went on to comment that Ithaca is the only place that you can find a “10-year-old mayor,” and that since it was past the mayor’s bedtime we would probably have a “fussy mayor in the morning.” Though the audience members laughed at the mayor’s expense, the crowd was clearly comprised of many of his supporters. When Poundstone asked if he is a good mayor, she received an enthusiastic “yes” from the crowd along with applause.

Poundstone was very open about her political and religious leanings and she spent a large portion of the beginning of the show on current events. She explained that she did more Popewatching than she expected to as an atheist and remarked, “You know I thought it was great that he went around saying we should take care of one another and love one another and we should work our problems out and work as a team. I thought it was embarrassing that the Congress didn’t know that already.” She went on to pick apart a woman’s comment that the Pope was extraordinary simply because his first words

after being elected were “good evening” instead of the traditional “my brothers and sisters.” Poundstone stated, “If ‘good evening’ is extraordinary, hold on to your hats because I’m going to blow you the fuck away tonight.”

The political tone of her jokes was overwhelmingly progressive. At one point, she expressed her dismay at the

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Republican candidates, imitating the goldfish-like facial expression of Donald Trump. She stated that we might have dumbed ourselves down enough as a society at this point that “Trump can make his move now.” Luckily, she had the right audience for her political statements. In contrast to some of her experiences in the South, her political jokes went over well with the Ithaca crowd. She even recounted the time in which she was accused of being a “rich, stupid Liberal,” to which she

countered that she may be a “stupid Liberal” but she wasn’t rich.

Poundstone wove some of her personal life into her comedy as well, bringing her three kids into many jokes. She shared with the audience that she has a 17-year-old son, which she claims “is just about the worst thing that can happen to a person.” She said that she gets so tired of arguing with her son that sometimes after he goes to sleep she goes back into her room and just completes her sentences. She connected this back to the book she recently published, titled There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say. Each chapter in the book compares her life with that of a historical figure, such as Abraham Lincoln, and the entire work focuses heavily on parenting.

Later, Poundstone went on to explain her view on technology in schools. She stated, “In schools, they don’t write […]

PowerPoint is the enemy of education and intelligent oration.”

Going to the audience, she asked if anyone had to use PowerPoints regularly. A college student in the audience told Poundstone about her PowerPoint slides about “immersive theater.” Poundstone took her time dissecting this term, acting out her interpretations, and trying to understand its meaning.

She returned to the topic of “immersive theater” many times throughout the night.

This audience interaction was a common occurrence in Poundstone’s show. She took great pleasure in calling audience members out and asking them what they did for a living and where they worked, before turning the responses into impromptu jokes. This technique gave the event a breath of fresh air, as much of the routine was unscripted and personalized for the Ithaca crowd. She did express her surprise at the hesitancy of the crowd to engage with her banter, concluding that she must be ignorant of the Ithaca culture. However, many audience members did call out jokes throughout the show and it was overall an interactive performance.

She finished with a final reference to NPR: “I’m actually always happy to talk about Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me publicly because I’d like to clear up this misconception: Yes, I’m trying to win!”

Ali Jenkins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ajenkins@cornellsun.com.

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On Saturday night, the Department of Theatre Arts at Ithaca College performed its public debut of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. In addition to launching the comedy's individual production run, this marks the beginning of the department's 2015-2016 theatre season, which will consist of other well-known classics like A Chorus Line and more modern dramas like Arcadia.

One of Shakespeare’s 38 plays, As You Like It was written in 1599, and published in the First Folio in 1623; the origins of its initial performances are unclear. Of the three “genres” present in the First Folio, As You Like It is considered to be a comedy. As You Like It centers around Rosalind and her unexpected journey through the Forest of Arden, to where she and her cousin, Celia, are cast away from the court by her ruthless uncle, Duke Frederick. At some point before the play’s events, Frederick had claimed the throne from and exiled his brother, Rosalind’s father, to the Forest of Arden. Before Rosalind is expelled, however, she meets Orlando de Boys. In true Shakespearean fashion, the two fall in love at first sight. Orlando is also forced out of the kingdom and into the Forest of Arden by his oppressive older brother, Oliver. Initially, neither of the two lovers know that they are both cast away in the forest. Rosalind, disguised as a boy named Ganymede, Celia, disguised as another woman named Aliena and Touchstone, the court’s jester, set off through the woods. They encounter many eccentric characters like Jacques, a member of the old duke’s exiled party. Jacques possesses a pensive, “melancholy” nature, and his constant philosophical monologues lead him to mutter some of Shakespeare’s most

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famous lines, including “All the world’s a stage / And all the men and women merely players...” Ganymede (Rosalind) soon encounters Orlando, and eventually she lifts her disguise, marrying Orlando in the forest. Furthermore, Celia marries a newly reformed Oliver and Frederick, who has recently turned to a life devoted to religion, restores Rosalind's father to the throne.

Performing a Shakespeare play in the 21st century can be quite difficult for contemporary theatre companies and departments. As Shakespeare was limited by the strict norms and basic technology of stage acting, the development of his plays lies primarily within their verses. Therefore, those who perform his plays are responsible for bringing the verses to life, and filling them with a splendid emotion that captures the audience's attention. This can be a daunting task; at a first glance, Shakespeare’s early modern English appears to be lacking in any sense, and only through careful subsequent readings does its meaning begin to convey itself. Nevertheless, I was compelled by the refinement and professionalism evident in the I.C. player’s performance of As You Like It. Each actor possessed a certain quality in their deliverance that truly channeled the wit and emotional spectrum present in the playwright's work.

Perhaps most exemplary of this emotional command was senior Brianna Ford in the role of Rosalind. Ford portrayed Rosalind (and Ganymede) in a jovial, energetic way which captivated the audience. Far from merely muttering the lines, she brought to each verse a physicality – whether in literal skips and jumps or in facial expression when communicating with other characters – that satisfied the original challenge of bringing Shakespeare to life. Possessing a similar emotional presence was junior Trevor Eichhorn, who portrayed Jaques. One could identify with the philosophical brooding of Jacques, whether he be demanding more music to satiate his melancholy intel-

lectual appetite or musing over the seven life-stages of man.

Director Catherine Weidner took advantage of the intimate, arena-style seating of the Clark Theatre. In many instances, the actors moved about and around the center of the room, with different characters entering and exiting from any of the four sides; this created a three-dimensional, rotating effect that allowed the audience members to fully submerse themselves in the scenes of the play. The transitions from scene to scene and act to act were seamless, giving the comedy life as its lines flowed freely across time. The Forest of Arden, a quintessential setting of the play, was introduced skillfully; the “parade” of characters that passed through the center field accurately showcased the more liberating nature of the forest in contrast to the strictness of the court. Furthermore, I particularly enjoyed how the musical scenes in As You Like It were addressed; the actors, singing themselves, applied Shakespeare’s lyrics to more contemporary melodies, and played the underlying chord progressions on six-string, acoustic guitars. As a contemporary audience may have difficulty identifying with musical ideas of Shakespeare’s time, this modernization of the play's music was crucial in giving life to the play in 2015. This effective and skillful modernization also exists in the characters’ costumes, which represent fashion more so of the past century rather than that of Shakespearean times.

The theatre department at Ithaca College produced an excellent rendition of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Through carefully refined acting and modern directing techniques, this centuries-old play was vividly brought to life. As You Like It will run until Oct. 10, so I implore all to see it while it lasts!

Nick Swan is a freshman in the Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com.

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good. Really, really good.

And that’s a complete and utter cop-out. The gameplay — skate around, do some tricks, string some tricks into combos, spell S-K-A-T-E with floating letters, collect some inexplicable VHS tapes — was immutable and consistent. If you flipped before you grabbed, you did an Anti-Casper and if you grabbed before you flipped, you did a Truckstand, end of story. What it lacked in innovation, it made up for in dependability, transplanted from one location to another (the Alcatraz level in THPS4 was pretty sick).

You knew what you were getting yourself Pulp FictSean into.

Or so I thought.

Earlier this month, my brothbecause there are three games on the list and I played them, but er shot me a text out of the blue. maybe you did, too. Three “They’re releasing a pro skater 5 incredible series had new entries [sic].” Of course, this came as a come out within a three-month shock. The Tony Hawk series has period at the end of 2001 and been in limbo since 2007 when changed the lives of adolescents Neversoft, the series’ long-time everywhere, myself included. developer, was restructured by Now, your personal favorite may Activision and given command vary; if you had friends, you of the Guitar Hero series instead. probably played a lot of SSBM, if Every entry since has been a you had an ignorant parent that string of disappointing gimyou could trick into purchasing micks, culminating in the coup GTA, you did. If you didn’t meet de grace of the Tony Hawk series: either of those criteria, hollah, the Ride skateboard peripheral. we totes should have had a sleep- The entire point of the series was to skateboard without having to over and played THPS3.

The strangest thing is I actually skateboard! It was a couldn’t even tell you why the betrayal of all the things we held Tony Hawk games were my dear about the games. They never favorite as a child. You see, I am quite recovered.

I was excited at the prospect not what one would call “sporty” or “athletic” or “locomotive.” of a new Pro Skater; the name I’m more Squid than Reggie or alone inspired hope for the Otto. My favorite part of base- game, a return to form for a ball games are the hotdogs. I genre that fell by the wayside once dashed off a soccer field in years ago. My hope was shortlived, however. Reviews for Pro tears and never looked back.

I’ve never ridden a skateboard Skater 5 are universal in the savin real life, but I had real cred on ageness of their evisceration. I the PlayStation 2. I must have mean, Superman 64-level awful. played every entry between If you manage to get past the THPS2 and Downhill Jam, dreaded loading screen boss which killed it for me — I without having your console mean, what was that anyway, a lock-up, you are doomed to a racing game? I especially loved life of falling through the Tony Hawk’s Underground and ground, taking off a half-pipe its sequel, Underground 2, which into low orbit, and spontaneousI believe were the true innova- ly dying at the slightest bump. tors of the series. For the first They’ve also added the ability to time, you could get off your ground-pound like Mario, board and just do other stuff. because that’s something skateLike graffiti or driving vehicles, boarders can do. On the bright for some reason. It also intro- side, you can play as Lil Wayne, duced Eric Sparrow, the worst so there’s that.

I will not be buying Pro asshat ever written into existence. I just remembered that I Skater 5, and neither should went through a serious Viva La you. I will take the next few days Bam phase during this period. I to reflect on one of the greatest ask for privacy during this diffi- video game series ever made, and then promptly move on. cult time.

I don’t have an explanation as Better to let the series live in the to why I played the Tony Hawk past, bathed in the warm glow of games so religiously. I wasn’t nostalgia, than to let it die really interested in skateboard- painfully in the present. ing, after all. I haven’t played a sports video game since, Wii Sean Doolittle is a senior in the Sports and some pathetic College of Agriculture and Life He can be reached at attempts at FIFA aside. The only Sciences. sdoolittle@cornellsun.com. Pulp reason I can come up with is FictSean appears alternate Mondays that the Tony Hawk games were this semester. he release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 5 — the first main entry in the Tony Hawk series since 2007 — last week raises some very important questions: Where has Tony Hawk been? Lil Wayne skateboards? And, most importantly, what happened?

Chances are, if you played video games in the early 2000s, you tried your hand at some part of the Great Triumvirate: Grand Theft Auto III, Super Smash Bros.

Melee and Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. I call it the Great Triumvirate

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he problem with my generation of students, I’m told, is that we think we’re customers. It’s become the focus of op-eds and convocation speeches, which have tried to rally students to view their education as an intrinsic good and leave behind their consumerist expectations. The case is that if you see yourself as a customer on campus, you come to expect that the institution has a responsibility to appease you in some way. Frankly, though, this view is far too narrow.

Surely there are certain perverse expectations that many students have adopted, but this does not mean that they should have no expectations. It’s not that students shouldn’t act as customers — they should. Rather,the way in which they act as customers should reflect an expectation that their universities respect the cost that they impose and honor their educational mission.

American students are often treated by their institutions as consumers in a way that is generally blind to their needs as learners. Our university system is one that encourages students to act like they are purchasing a product.

As has been well documented, universities — including Cornell — have spent increasing amounts of money on non-instructional aspects of their respective institutions. This includes expansions of the size of the physical campuses, the promotion of noninstructional research staff and the improvement of campus amenities.

This has been a function of broad shifts in the university system that has forced colleges to make these changes in order to keep up.

In large part, this explains why I’ve found myself eating steak at a dining hall then traipsing over to sit in the balcony of a 400-student lecture.

Perhaps a lecture of that size is effective for some, but its size is based on the decision made by the university that it is more likely to lose prospective students if other campus amenities aren’t on par with competing institutions — they’re focusing on the steak in the dining halls when they should be working towards offering more personal instruction. When universities advertise these qualities to prospective students, they become the basis of students’ expectations once they arrive.

Generally speaking, students buy into this mentality. We believe that we are allowed to have consumerist expectations of our universities, but mostly in the realm of comfort. It is reasonable, for example, to demand a certain quality in our residence halls, and many of us do. I find myself developing expectations, attaching too great a

value to aspects of my college experience that have very little to do with the quality of my education.

Sometimes, even when we make requests with regard to our instruction, it comes through as an expectation for high grades and easy classes. This is the justified knock against students. When we do adopt a mentality of entitlement, it becomes a desire that professors treat us as though they owe us. At best, this manifests itself as a desire to take classes that never challenge, and at worst, it is a direct expectation that professors treat their students’ comfort as their paramount responsibility.

Principally, however, I do not oppose the expectation that we, as students, have as customers. Students are expected to pay increasingly exorbitant costs, mortgaging their futures in a way that no previous generation has been asked to do. Furthermore, a university degree has been labeled as a prerequisite for consideration for most high-income job opportunities. If students are asked to pay as they are, and given very little choice in the matter, it is not only natural, but justified that they develop very real demands.

These demands ought to be specifically of their universities — for them to provide greater individual attention to students’ educational experience.

Were students to expect that universities, as vendors, reduce class sizes, provide greater access to tutors and offer affordable textbooks it would be not only a legitimate expectation, but one that would immediately benefit these students in what should be their purpose in attending. It should be unacceptable for any consumer to pay $65,000 for instruction that was half that price for their parents.

This is not a call for students to force universities to charge less money.

It is too lucrative a system for students to truly gain control of. Rather, this is a call for students to adopt a responsible consumerist outlook. Clinging to the centrality of education as the purpose in our enrollment, we should demand that universities do the same.

Further, we ought to resist the charge that any entitlement is an inherent wrong, or an indicator that we are childish — this claim is simplistic.

Demanding excellence in our educations can allow students to gain some degree of agency over their college experience, or, at the very least, give them some peace of mind.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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he thing about America's gun problem is that it is exceptionally and uniquely American. No where else in the developed world do we see routinely high rates of gun homicides (almost six times as many as in Canada and 16 times as many as in Germany). News headlines become less surprising: Two journalists killed during live broadcast in Virginia, three shot near U.C. Santa Barbara and, most recently, mass shooting shocks Oregon community college.

We know how this story ends. The shooter is usually male and often young, most likely with a history of psychiatric issues or social isolation. The news will discuss the role of mental illness and family background for a while until we’re all convinced that the shooter was crazy, this was an isolated incident and there is nothing we can do. This is our unique, American problem.

Then it happens again. And again.

And again. There hasn’t been a calendar week without a mass shooting in Obama’s entire second term. In the past 1,000 days, there have been nearly 1,000 mass shootings in America. While they are the most visible, and in many ways the most disturbing, form of gun conflict, mass shootings make up only a fraction of all gun deaths. In 2013, deaths from mass shootings accounted for about 500 of the total amount of firearm deaths. That same year, there were over 11,000 firearm homicides and over 21,000 firearm suicides. Add in accidental firearm deaths and the total number was nearly 34,000 in 2013.

So far in 2015, 10,011 gun deaths have been reported, 555 of which were children and 1,981 were teens. There have been 1,400 accidental shootings.

The statistics are devastating.

The persistence of these disturbingly high numbers obscures the issue at hand — maybe what makes America different is not just our history of misdiagnosing

or failing to respond to mental illnesses, nor that our social institutions fail to respond to the widespread exclusion of at-risk individuals. Maybe trying to come up with a one-size-fits-all formula to profile the persona of a mass shooter won’t be able to predict the unpredictable.

Or, you know, maybe it’s all the guns.

What makes this crisis so unique has everything to do with the rate of gun ownership in America. There are nearly 89 firearms per 100 civilians in the United States, the highest rate of civilian firearm ownership per capita in the world. To be fair, most guns are legally

It is impossible to comprehend how we are still discussing the role of guns in a post-Sandy Hook America. Nearly three years after 20 children and six adults were murdered with high-capacity semiautomatic weapons, no comprehensive gun reform has been passed in America at the federal level. Although many states have passed or intend to pass stricter gun laws, an equal or greater number of states are working towards repealing what little legislation is in place. In the wake of this unimaginable tragedy, among others, our failure to act will forever haunt our nation and disturb the memory of those we

It is impossible to comprehend how we are still discussing the role of guns in a post-Sandy Hook America. Nearly three years after 20 children and six adults were murdered with high-capacity semiautomatic weapons, no comprehensive gun reform has been passed in America at the federal level. owned by law-abiding citizens who use them for sport or for self-protection.

But while guns may not cause violence, they increase the probability of death by making every potential conflict lethal.

Countries with higher rates of gun ownership have higher rates of gun deaths.

Period.

While Americans may be torn on the issue of passing stricter gun control policies, it is clear that guns do not make us safer. Between 2007 and 2011, at least 311 American children were unintentionally killed by guns. When there is at least one gun present in over a third of American households, there is substantial room for error. Having a gun at home actually increases the likelihood of homicide by 2.7 times.

have lost since then.

The issue with gun control advocacy is that the argument on each side looks completely different. The pro-gun side is faced with the tangible loss (at the hands of the government, no less) of both their physical property as well as their right to own that property, while the opposing side is driven by goals that seem more conceptual in comparison, such as public safety. The result is an argument that is often far more abstract than it needs to be, muddled with the history of property rights and the role of government in private life.

The public benefit of mass gun ownership is very low, while the private benefit is much higher. It is difficult to argue that the convenience of not hav-

ing to reload a weapon while shooting clay pigeons offers any overall benefits to society as a whole. In contrast, the public cost of widespread gun ownership is extremely high. But when the public cost of automobile ownership got too high, we made cars safer. We enacted seatbelt laws, put airbags in and made emissions tests mandatory, among other regulations. When roads, bridges and buildings become dangerous and life-threatening, we fix them. We update our regulations, tighten city codes and work to prevent future harm. Why should guns be any different? There is no other preventable public health crisis that is treated with the same degree of ignorance and misinformation.

Australia is the common case in favor of stricter gun laws. Directly following the Port Arthur massacre of 1996, in which 35 people were murdered, the Australian Prime Minister restricted the private ownership of semi-automatic weapons and instituted a massive gun buyback program. Since then, the rates of both gun homicides as well as gun suicides have fallen. Mass shootings have virtually disappeared.

The U.S. is not Australia, and what works there will not necessarily work here. Without a major reform of the treatment of mental health and a social upheaval of the way we think about gun culture, gun control legislation simply cannot be the end-all solution to this issue. But if fewer guns result in fewer deaths, it is policy worth pursuing. It is time gun laws start effectively protecting the public — not just gun owners.

We must broadly redefine our conception of “freedom,” so that it means the right to live safely rather than personal entitlement to own a firearm.

Emily Hardin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at enh33@cornell.edu. Free Lunch appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

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his column began as a d i s r u p t i o n .

Disruptions, those problems that can’t be solved immediately, also can’t be forgotten through passivity. I think the creators — the comedians, artists, singers, musicians, filmmakers, writers, sculptors, dancers and painters of the world — are the people who must constantly disrupt themselves or seek out disruptions. They refuse to be at ease for more than a moment, and spend most of their lives checking in on everything that occurs around them or inside of them. They take a single second in their life, wash it in contemplation or bliss or discontent, then wring it dry until their creation sputters out and become art.

The most tormented individuals tend to be the more prolific creators. Popular comedians have repeatedly stated that they derive much of their humor from past places of darkness, or from the

darkness they’ve witnessed in others. And I don’t think anyone needs to be reminded how many famous writers and singers have had tragic lives.

Of course, that’s not to say that creators must be unhappy or that creation is useless in the pragmatic, emotionless world of college.

When you arrive at college, you are less a college student and more of a “high school student plus three months,” as my professor once said.

Before long, you begin to comprehend where you fit into this hectic world.

You are at the bottom, and you are hungry, so you learn from those above you. Over time, you begin to acquire positions, responsibilities and powers, gradually seeing yourself as more and more on par with those former superiors.

At some indistinguishable point in time, you realize that the duty of mentoring a younger generation now falls on your shoulders. You have

arrived. You relish the moment, knowing full well that you will soon have to graduate and start all over again.

We often tend to perceive life as a never-ending set of steps towards some next level.

You become team captain, an

We often tend to perceive life as a never-ending set of steps towards some next level. organization president, peer advisor, T.A., upperclassman mentor, tutor etc. But these identities represent a socially constructed status, one that holds validation only within the context of that particular group. Because of this, you must balance two roles: The role of the autonomous individual who possesses a wealth of knowledge, and the role of the still-naïve dependent. As

an upperclassman, you may find that you will no longer be able to discern the difference.

The more power you attain, the more it should become evident that there really is no hierarchy of power. There never was.

The people whom you want to help don’t necessarily know less than you, and may be able to offer you as much as you can offer them. But the people who appear to be on equal footing with you — whether by deed, position or ability — are just as likely to know far less as they are to know far more, and this is what scares the hell out of competitive folk (read: all Cornellians). We want to believe that we do in fact know more than others on our level. The reality, though, is that we only know something else. And this something goes

hand in hand with eliminating the disturbances from your life. You cannot exist as a living, thinking being on this planet without a something.

I used to believe my something was science, but I’ve found that science clashes often and intensely with my terribly, shamefully and irredeemably lazy nature. Now I realize that it is writing about science, and about the power of art and about navigating communities in general that frees me from the disruptions of my underachievements. I want you to experience this euphoria too. Don’t wait until you’ve retired, after spending 60 years serving in a capacity that you subconsciously resisted, to start looking for your something. Find your something now, and share that happiness with the world in whatever way you see fit.

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

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tunity that I have with these kids,” Archer said. “I know this is all part of our making in [the] program and we have so much of our season ahead of us.”

Somewhere out there, Colgate junior quarterback Jake Melville is still running in circles away from the Cornell pass rush. Melville ended the day with 257 passing yards on 18-0f-28 attempts, two touchdown passes, 99 rushing yards on 14 carries and another score on the ground. The gunslinger’s direction of the Raiders no-huddle offense ultimately set the tone for the majority of the game.

“I’m hoping [Mellville]’s a senior,” Archer said. “If not, maybe we can get him an accelerated graduation program.”

The Red defense struggled to keep up against Melville and the Colgate uptempo offense through the first three quarters of the game, allowing 419 total yards versus its own 176. Frequently, Melville rolled out of the pocket after feeling pressure from the Red rush and scrambled and danced around defenders.

“We make sure that we have a good conditioning program all year long to play against the no-huddle,” Archer said. “I think it was more Melville than anything else, to be quite honest with you.”

Melville often salsaed, shimmied and scampered his way through the Red defense until a gap opened up for a quick scramble or a receiver opened up. Cornell simply had no answer for Colgate’s nohuddle offense, which totaled 484 total yards of offense, 257 through the air and 227 on the ground in the game.

The Red struggled to keep up in both the running and passing game, leading to a touchdown pass from Melville to wide receiver Alex Greenawalt for the first of the game. After that, the team’s inability to stop Melville proved to be the Red’s biggest downfall.

Colgate football head coach Dan Hunt, who lead the Raiders to a 27–12 over the Red in 2014, had kind words for Archer’s squad.

“I’ve been saying all week that of all of the teams that we played last year that we played again this year, I think Cornell is the most improved team,” Hunt said. “We knew all week that they were going to be good and their defensive style is aggressive.”

The next step for Archer’s squad is making that leap from being one play away from victory to victory itself. Archer said that the team needs to put four quarters of good football together, something that it has struggled to do this season.

“I’ve been on Cornell teams and been a coach on Cornell teams where there is no shot that they come out in the second half and play that brand of football,” Archer said. “They just let it become a runaway. That’s not what these guys chose to do. They chose to make it within a play. It’s totally different.”

Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun.com.

It May Be the Year for Cub Fans SCAZZERO

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er in the past 100 years to be the first to 20 wins in all of baseball. He currently leads the MLB with 22. In his last regular season game, he threw six shutout innings in the Cubs’ 61 victory at Miller Park. It was his 20th quality start and he is the first Cubs qualifying pitcher to finish with a sub-2.00 ERA since player Grover Cleveland Alexander in 1920.

Additionally, he is rumored to possibly clinch the Cy Young Award, the award given to the best pitchers in both the American and National Leagues. Yet, he’s not the only Cubs player making a splash this year nor the only one possibly up for an award.

Hitter Kris Bryant has been another prominent player this season for the Cubs and his stats put him in a great position to be considered for the National League Rookie of the Year. He entered the final weekend of regular season leading all Major League rookies with home runs (26), RBIs (99), on-base per-

centage (.369), slugging percentage (.495) and runs scored (86). The No. 2 overall draft in 2013 from the University of San Diego certainly has been a big factor in the turnaround for the Cubs with his impressive rookie season.

Overall, the Cubs’ chances don’t look dismal this year and it would be exciting to see

everyone’s (or most people’s) favorite underdogs have a sustained run during the 2015 MLB Playoffs. So, as those diehard cubs fans would say, this year is (possibly) their year!

Sophia Scazzero is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at sscazzero@cornellsun.com. Instant Replay appears every Monday this semester.

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True devotion | Eager children hold out their pens and baseballs in hopes of securing autographs at a spring training game between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians in Mesa, Arizona.

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The Cubs Are Still in It E

arlier this year, I wrote a column on how the Mets have been having a record breaking and whirlwind year.

Today, I am writing about another team that is poised to have another landmark year, the Chicago Cubs. The Cubs are my hometown team and though I have not followed them religiously, it is almost impossible to ignore the reputation the Cubs have in the Major Leagues. Their miserable luck for the past 100-plus years is infamous. The TV show Scrubs had a killer line in illustrating the agony of being a Cubs fan with, “How depressing is it being you? Would you equate it to being a lifelong Cubs fan, or being born without lips?”

Sophia Scazzero Instant Replay The Cubs have not won a championship in so long that there is even a legend of the curse of the billy goat, allegedly placed on the Cubs in 1945. The whole thing started when Billy Goat Tavern (a popular burger chain in the Chicago area) owner Billy Sianis brought his goat to a World Series game against the Detroit Tigers at Wrigley Field and was asked to leave because the goat’s smell was bothering the fans.

Outraged that he was being kicked out, he (allegedly) declared, “Them Cubs, they ain’t gonna win no more,” which, to this day, has been interpreted as that there will never again be a World Series game won at Wrigley Field. There is no way of proving if this is the reason the Cubs have become universally known for their poor luck and lack of championships, but the fact remains that the Cubs have not won a World Series since 1908.

All of this notoriety and years of disappointment may wear down the average fan, but Cubs fans are dedicated and patient, always waiting and saying, “This year is our year!” (I cannot count the amount of times

The Cubs are not in their expected last place. They’re proudly holding a third place spot in the Central Division. my diehard friends say this to only inevitably be let down). However, this year that statement might actually hold some weight. The Cubs are not in their expected last place. They’re proudly holding a third place spot in the Central Division of the National League and they clinched the wild-card spot with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who they play this Wednesday. This year, the Cubs are not their usual source of misery, but hope.

A big part of what has brought the Cubs out of their century-long slump is their fresh young roster, with the likes of pitcher Jake Arrieta and hitter Kris Bryant. Arrieta is the first pitcher in the majors to have 20 wins this season and is the fifth Cubs pitchSee SCAZZERO page 11

FOOTBALL COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS

Close to Colgate | In what has become a developing pattern this season, the Red came close to catching Colgate on Friday night, ultimately falling to the Raiders by one touchdown.

Red DropsThird Game of Season Rogers. “There are three games right there that we feel that we should be 3-0.”

Indeed, with the luck of the draw, Cornell’s record could They really did try to flip the narrative of the season. In be looking at itself in the mirror and the Red could be the the early part of the 2015 season, the Cornell football team most surprising undefeated team in the Ivy League. A stop on a miraculous touchdown pass against had been on the wrong end of comebacks Bucknell, a sack of Yale quarterback during its first two games.

COLGATE @ CORNELL Morgan Roberts and a completed pass from Down 27 points in the fourth quarter, 28 21 Somborn 10 yards out against Colgate, and the Red (0-3, 0-1 Ivy League) had a chance 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Final the Red could be undefeated on the year. to make Colgate University (2-3) feel the Game: 7 14 7 0 28 Instead, the Red has experienced fourthpain, just like they had when they dropping Colgate Cornell 0 7 0 14 21 quarter heartbreak, a feeling that it has massive leads to Bucknell and Yale. known all too well so far this season. This Instead, all that came out of the first night game at Schoellkopf field was more pain. Coming 10 time, coming so close, the pain was just as bad for head coach yards short of a touchdown on the last drive of the game, the David Archer ’05.

“It hurts all of the way until tomorrow morning, when I win would have changed the team’s fortunes. Instead, the Red dropped the contest to the Raiders, 28-21, and fell to 0- wake up in the morning and I’m so thankful for the oppor3 on the season.

See FOOTBALL page 11 “We [were] so close,” said senior wide receiver Ben

By JOON LEE

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

SPRINT FOOTBALL

Cornell Loses First Game to Army

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The Army West Point sprint football program can never be taken lightly. A powerful rushing defense combined with a penetrating offense makes reaching the end zone against this powerhouse nearly impossible.

The Cornell sprint football team dropped this past Saturday’s conference game to the Black Knights, 33-0, and ultimately fell to 2-1 on the season. The

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Bringing it back | Junior quarterback Robert Panulla passed for 140 yards Saturday.

Knights were coming off an 86-0 victory The Knights had two rushing touchover Princeton the previous week and downs and a field goal in the second half have yet to give up a point all season. In to finish off the game. three games, the Knights have outscored A combination of strong rushing their opponents 153offense and defense 0. made the difference for ARMY @ CORNELL Senior wide receivthe Knights in the 33 0 matchup. Led by junior er Trevor Marrero, who received for 123 Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH Final running back Marqus yards in the game, Army Burrell, who rushed for 7 9 10 7 33 described the Red’s Cornell 0 0 0 0 0 a net gain of 92 yards, preparation in practhe Knights out-rushed tice prior to facing the Knights. the Red 162 to 23. They also adminis“Offensively, I know we tried to do tered five sacks. some more shots down the field in the There were highlights to the Red’s passing game,” he said. “We also pre- performance despite the loss. The strong pared a lot for Army's rushing attack in offensive connection between Pannullo practice.” and Marrero was clearly evident, with Army got on the board early with a Pannullo passing for 140 yards and 30-yard first quarter touchdown pass Marrero receiving for 123. Defensively, from freshman quarterback Brady Miller junior linebacker John Zelek administo junior wide receiver Austin Breed. The tered six solo tackles and CSFL defensive Red responded late in the quarter with a player of the week Christopher reception from sophomore defensive D’Ambrosio had five of his own to lead a back Karriem Royster, but could not con- defense that held Army to its lowest point vert the change in possession to a touch- total on the season. down.

Nevertheless, the Red will have to Junior quarterback Rob Pannullo practice hard this week to regain positive passed for 140 yards despite the loss, momentum for its second home game of completing a monster 50-yard pass to the season against rival Penn on Friday.

Marrero early in the second quarter that “We are going to put the mistakes we brought the Red to the 22. The Red was made this Saturday behind us and focus not able to penetrate Army’s defense from on Penn,” Marrero said. “They are off to there, and another pass from Miller to a good start this year, also at 2-1, so it will Breed late in the second quarter — this be a great match up.” time of 23 yards — combined with a safety in the middle of the quarter put the Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at Knights up, 16-0, at halftime. sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.