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Tyran Grillo grad says Made in Chicago wrapped Bailey Hall in the warm embrace of masterful jazz. | Page 6

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McKain Named Associate V.P. for

Communications

By ANNIE BUI Sun Managing Editor

John McKain, assistant dean of communications for the College of Human Ecology, will become the next associate vice president for university communications, the University announced Thursday.

McKain, who will assume the position Oct. 19, succeeds Tracy Vosburgh, who departed Cornell last month to serve as the senior associate vice president for university relations at Virginia Tech.

McKain began working at Cornell in 2006 for Alumni Affairs and Development and transitioned to his role in the College of Human Ecology in 2011, according to a University press release. His experience in the fields of marketing communications and media relations spans over two decades.

In his role as assistant dean in the College of H u m a n “It has been E c o l o g y , cKain an honor and M “developed a a privilege to communications and serve the media strateUniversity.” gy integratJohn McKain ing strategic messaging” for multiple platforms, according to the release.

Also, under his leadership, press and media coverage of faculty and students in the human ecology college in “major news media” tripled.

His responsibilities as associate vice president will include overseeing a staff of 50 people, as well as “promoting and raising” interest in and visibility of the Cornell brand, according to the University.

In the release, McKain said he was “thrilled” to be

Aims to make Slope Day artist selection process‘more transparent’

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Slope Day hopes | At an open forum Monday evening, students ranked their preferences from a list of 28 potential Slope Day artists. Above: A scene from Slope Day 2012.

Slope Day Programming Board Hosts First-Ever Open Forum

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

The Slope Day Programming Board held its first-ever Slope Day Artist Selections Forum on Monday in Uris Hall, where students could help decide on possible artists for Slope Day 2016.

The board presented a list of 28 artists compiled by the selections committee, which was based on the results from an online survey sent out to the student body.

In the past, the decision was made during general body meetings, according to August Larmer ’17, co-selections director for the SDPB. The forum is part of their efforts to make the selections process more transparent.

“The more transparent we are, the more understanding the student body will be about what artists we have the capability of bringing to Slope Day,” said Chloe Chan ’16, vice chairperson for the SDPB.

The annual budget for Slope Day artists, safety and security and promotional material is $350,000, according to the organization.

The board spoke about factors that limit the pool of potential Slope Day artists including the limited time for soundcheck, the possibility of particular artists promoting high-risk events and the outdoor and daytime nature of the event.

Approximately 60 students attended and rated each artist through an online poll at the conclusion of the event.

“I did expect more people to show up, but honestly, this number was better because everyone could hear each other,” Kevin Kee ’18 said.

According to Thomas Marin ’17, promotions director for the SDPB, the attendees’ preferences seem to be rep-

Student Organizations Promote Global Health Opportunities at Fair

By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Staff Writer

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A wealth of health | Clubs participate in the Global Health Fair sponsored by the Cornell Global Health Student Council in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room yesterday.

Cornellians gathered inside Willard Straight Hall at Cornell’s second Global Health Club Fair Monday, an event that highlights opportunities for students to get involved in global health initiatives on campus.

The fair had tables from 14 clubs, ranging from project teams to crowdfunding initiatives, where students could speak to club members. It was hosted by Cornell’s Global Health Student Council, a blanket organization that connects over 20 global health organizations across the campus, according to GHSC president Alex Leto ’16.

Leto described the fair as a chance to promote unity and collaboration among the organizations — GHSC’s main goal — in addition to increasing student participation

in global health programs. “[The clubs] can promote the global health community as a whole, while also promoting their own interests and missions,” Leto said.

According to Leto, the GHSC reserved the Willard Straight Memorial Room nearly a year in advance — right after its club fair last year in Upson Hall — in hopes that the more central location would attract attendees.

“Last year was a bit more of a remote location, so this year we’re trying to bring in more people,” Leto said.

Beyond that, planning for the fair mostly involved publicity campaigns on social media, she said.

“We saw what we needed to improve upon from the event [last year],” Leto said.

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Local Officials Consider Impact of State Street Triangle Project City officials have recently been concerned with how the development of the State Street Triangle would impact local traffic should it be constructed, according to The Ithaca Journal. The site’s plan currently includes an outdoor pedestrian plaza, which may interfere with current roads, specifically a right-turn lane from South Aurora to East State Street. The plaza design aims to connect the Commons to the rest of Ithaca, overall improving the “vibe.”

State Airplane Makes Emergency Landing In Syracuse After Pilot Death An American Airlines jetliner with 147 passengers aboard made an emergency landing in Syracuse Monday after the pilot became sick and died, according to aviation officials. The plane’s co-pilot took control of the plane and landed it at Syracuse Hancock International Airport a few minutes after 7 a.m., according to The New York Times.

The flight had taken off from Phoenix and was bound for Boston.

National Death Toll Rises Following Historic Flood In South Carolina At least nine people have died after unprecedented flooding ravaged South Carolina this weekend, according to The Washington Post.

On Saturday, rainfall averaged higher than 16 inches across 10 counties. The torrential downpour has surpassed a 1,000 year rainfall, which makes it a once-in-a-millennium storm, according to statistics compiled by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in the state so that local officials will have access to federal funding to deal with the storm’s impact. Officials warn that the dangers are not over although floodwaters have receded. Gov. Nikki Haley (R) warned that flooding could worsen as the excess river water makes its way to the see, The Post reported.

“This is not over,” Haley said at a news conference.

“South Carolina has gone through a storm of historic proportion.”

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MGLC Event Showcases Spirit,Diversity

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A thing for bling

By LINDSAY CAYNE Sun Staff Writer

Sorority and fraternity members of the Multicultural Greek Letter Council held a Yard Show which included performances, music and information in an effort to showcase their unique organizations and bond as a community on Ho Plaza Sunday.

While MGLC holds a formal event called Greek Freak every spring, it has been several years since they held a fall event, according to Mariana Pinos ’16, vice president of programming for MGLC and member of Sigma Lambda Upsilon/Señoritas Latinas Unidas Sorority, Inc. “We wanted to do something in the fall semester not as formal as Greek Freak ... to still get our names out there and to show the Cornell campus and educate them on what our organizations do, the cultural aspects of our organizations and what makes them unique,” she said.

MGLC President and member of Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc. Andrea Kim ’16 added that the Yard Show was meant to be a “stress-free” event that could bring the Cornell community together. Through this event, Kim said MGLC hopes to “reach all different kinds of communities.”

“This is great for students of color and our organizations’ members to take pride in ... but this is open to the community and Ithaca,” she said.

Before the performances began, organization members and other Cornell students chatted around tables covered in posters and apparel representing each organization while a D.J. played music.

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Sisters of the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority sell jewelry on Ho Plaza as part of their second Pink Week to benefit Sharsheret in honor of breast cancer awareness month.

Jeffrey Lin ’16, a member of Pi Delta Psi, said the atmosphere was “energetic.”

“That’s the first thing you get as soon as you come through,” he said. “It’s a good time.

Everyone’s amped up, everyone loves each other’s company; it’s laughter all around.”

According to MGLC Vice President of Communications Dan Kim ’17, all 14 organizations tabled and nine of them performed.

Members of fraternities and sororities from other schools, such as Syracuse University and University of Virginia, also attended Cornell’s Yard Show to support their brothers and sisters.

Each performance highlighted the character of the specific organizations and gave members a chance to use art and dance as a form of expression. The performances included “stepping, strolling and saluting,” according to alpha Kappa Delta Phi member Athena Shea ’16.

“Those are the three main performances many multicultural organizations try to do,” she said. “It’s part of how they express themselves culturally and show a sense of pride for their organization. There’s an overarching meaning to what exactly a step, a stroll and a salute means to each of our chapters, even

though our performances look different from each others’. At the end of the day, showcasing our performances to each other helps us feel a sense of unity in the MGLC community.”

According to Andrea Kim, MGLC leaders began working on the details of the Yard Show in May and have been planning the event with organizations’ members ever since. Many of the organizations performing in the Yard Show have been practicing their routines since the start of this semester, Pinos said.

Amy ElSayed ’16, one of the performers who saluted with the Lambda Theta Alpha Latin Sorority, Inc, said saluting is “something that we do to pay respect to the sisters that came before us and show the audience who we are now.”

“It’s super important to me, it’s a tradition that’s in our chapter and in our sorority nationally,” she said.

Armon Sadler ’17, a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, said the performances provided “an opportunity for us to show who we are and why we are different from our counterparts.”

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Lecture Highlights Press-Government Relationship in China

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Maria Repnikova, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, gave a lecture yesterday in Kaufmann Auditorium called “Critical Journalists and the State in China: The Case of Guarded Improvisation,” which examined the complex relationship between the press and the government in modern China.

Co-sponsored by the Cornell Contemporary China Initiative and the Department of Communication, the lecture covered Repnikova’s doctoral and postdoctoral research.

Repnikova made the argument that contrary to the popular

image, Chinese journalists critique the state within certain boundaries set by the central party.

According to Repnikova, the popular imagery of Chinese media tends to casts journalists as “loyal agents of the party state” and claim that the state “gives very little leeway for criticism.”

However, Repnikova said while the press does have severe restrictions under the Chinese state, a particular form of “critical journalism” has emerged where the state allows the press to critique it, but with fluid limitations.

“Beneath this imagery of collision between isolated critics and

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an omni-powerful state, there are some exchanges that take place between various journalists and Chinese officials that often go unnoticed in popular media depictions,” Repnikova said. “I argue in the past several decades the practice of what I call critical journalism has emerged in China which encompasses investigative and editorial coverage of contentious societal issues.”

Grappling with what Repnikova calls the “politics of the boundary of the permissible,” both the journalists and the state work together to improve the operation of government. In giving the press a limited space to operate, the Chinese state seeks advice on state matters, according to Repnikova.

“We should look at this kind of relationship between journalists and the state as one of collaboration,” Repnikova said.

“Essentially for existing onto a shared framework but at the same time they keep renegotiating their relationship with what I call guarded improvisation.”

Central to this relationship, according to Repnikova, is the shared goal of “gradual improvements” to the Chinese state.

“Journalists and the state are unified by a shared goal or agenda of gradual improvement of party governance, but the way they negotiate this role and this agenda is very much the result of acts of political improvising,” Repnikova said.

According to Repnikova, the improvisation within this relationship leaves many questions unanswered. Often questions regarding the limitations of the press are answered on an ad hoc basis, and can even change “hourly.”

From this improvising, according to Repnikova, the press functions almost as a consultant with the central party, especially in that the state expects the press to explore and publish possible solutions to problems.

“Media is invited to play a kind of constructive role in the political process,” Repnikova said. “The idea would be to expose issues but to also contribute to solutions. It is not just about underlying failures but it is also about coming up with ways to solve failures.”

However, Repnikova said that even with this limited room for criticism, the relationship between journalists and the state remains uneven and repression of the press remains the norm.

“Indoctrinated to do primarily propaganda work, silenced by censorship and threatened by coercion, Chinese journalists function in a very difficult place — one of the most difficult regimes when it comes to press freedom,” Repnikova said. “By no means is this an equal relationship.”

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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MGLC Holds Yard Show YARD SHOW

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“The MGLC organizations were founded upon culture and tradition, part of which includes strolling, saluting and stepping,” Sadler said.

“This allowed us to raise awareness for our council, enjoy some nice weather and have some fun during prelim season.”

Pinos said she believes the event was a success.

“I think looking back on it, it went exactly how I wanted it to,” she said.

She said she hopes the council can continue to hold the Yard Show and make it an annual event.

Audience member Kibrett Facey ’16 said she enjoyed the event and the performances.

“I know personally a lot of the people have been practicing for weeks, and it really showed in their performances today,” she said. “They were very entertaining.”

Lin said he is proud of the council’s ability to create a school-wide event.

“This sort of event sums up who we are as a council, it’s hard at the end of the day to get maybe 100 people together, males and females, on a Sunday afternoon, but it just shows the level of commitment that we as organizations have to our council and how we’re all in this together,” he said.

Lindsay Cayne can be reached at lcayne@cornellsun.com.

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resentative of the student body.

“I think the sample [of students] we had here was definitely reflective of the student body,” Marin said. “There were artists that people agreed on and others that were more controversial.”

In general, students were most excited about EDM and rap

artists. However, the board expressed concern over EDM artists due to the potential drug use associated with such concerts, according to Marin.

According to Larmer, the most popular artists discussed were Fetty Wap, Kygo, Childish Gambino, Future and the Chainsmokers.

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun.com.

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helps you learn about these issues,” Lee said.

SamahopeU, a club that works with the national nonprofit Samahope, fundraises for the organization, which provides free medical treatments for lowincome women and children, and raises awareness about health issues that affect these groups.

Andie Wong ’17 discussed

“This year, I’m already seeing that there’s a lot more attendance.”

Organizations participating in the fair included Engineers Without Borders, a project team that is designing a bridge and a method for obtaining clean water for a village in Bolivia, according to project “Global health is an issue that ... affects team member Thomas everyone. There are little things we can do Lee ’19. that can make a really big difference.”

Lee said he believes Andie Wong ’17 a global health project team is a practical and useful the importance of Samahope’s way for engineers to apply their work to people in need. skills.

“Global health is an issue that “To look back and actually really affects everyone,” Wong have more practical applica- said. “There are little things we tions to a job, and just to get can do that can make a really big to a community that needs difference.” help, makes it a lot better,” GHSC secretary Megan Lee said.

Jibilian ’18 said the fair’s goal Another organization present was to show Cornell students was the Cornell Global the range of global health proAwareness Program, which grams available to them, regardoffers education programs on less of college or major. worldwide health issues for local “We’re hoping that they can schools. have another opportunity to CGAP member Christina Lee really see how many organiza’18 said participating in the tions they can get involved with club’s programs have helped her dealing in global health, because gain a better understanding of there are so many options that these issues. cater to different interests,” “It’s a really good way to not Jibilian said. only help the community learn about issues that are affecting all Stephanie Yan can be reached at of us on a global scale, but it also syan@cornellsun.com.

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chosen for the position.

“It has been an honor and a privilege to serve the university,” McKain said.

Joel Malina, vice president for university relations, said he is looking forward to seeing McKain — who will serve on his leadership team — employ his numerous skills in the posi-

tion.

“I have long been impressed with John’s resultsdriven approach to communications — reflecting both substantive skill as well as an emphasis on collegiality and partnership,” Malina said in the release.

Annie Bui can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT GENIUSES OF JAZZ:

Made in Chicago at Bailey Hall

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

In 2013, a year after being named a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master, drummer Jack DeJohnette was asked to perform at the Chicago Jazz Festival. Given a free choice of bandmates, he convened reedmen Henry Threadgill and Roscoe Mitchell, pianist Muhal Richard Abrams and bassist Larry Gray on far more than a whim. Their connection runs back to the early 1960s, when DeJohnette was making a name in his hometown of Chicago. Abrams and company would go on to found the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, or AACM, from whose ranks would arise the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago. By that time, DeJohnette’s career was already taking off in New York City.

Still, he never forgot those formative spaces, where Chicago cats would play together for hours on end in the city’s legendary “loft” concerts, performed in musicians’ homes. As frequent host Mitchell recalls elsewhere, “Every time I get together with musicians from the AACM it’s like we are just picking up from wherever we left off.” And so, despite having never recorded before as a quintet, an organic unity abounded when the historicity of the 2013 gathering was captured as Made in Chicago, released this past January on the influential ECM Records label.

If the album can be said to be a feather in the cap of DeJohnette’s already vast output, then by now that same cap could surely unfurl wings and soar of its own accord. His discography reads like a Who’s Who of modern jazz, ranging from untouchables like Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman to the brightest stars, among them bassist Esperanza Spalding and trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, of the here and now. Although his integrated style is recognizable across a spectrum of genres and cross-cultural collaborations, his opendoor policy with ECM has yielded some of the finest projects of his career.

Whether in the Gateway Trio with bassist Dave Holland and guitarist John Abercrombie or the pet project known as Special Edition (which included pioneers Baikida Carroll, Chico Freeman, and Rufus Reid), to say little of the enduring Standards Trio with bassist Gary Peacock and pianist Keith Jarrett, DeJohnette has consistently brought an exhale of soul to every inhale of heart that imbues whatever musical organism he touches. All this and more was in clear evidence on Sunday night as Made in Chicago kicked off this year’s Cornell Concert Series on the Bailey Hall stage.

Before a single gesture of the band went live, I had the rare privilege of interviewing Mr. DeJohnette in an open Q&A session the previous afternoon. I asked him about his association with AACM musicians and how it shaped his musical identity. “Back then, we were cultivating an original approach to improvisation,” he told me in his thoughtful yet humble manner. “AACM’s motto was to establish the serious intentions of everyone that came out of its ranks. Jazz wasn’t simply improvisation, but a continuation of improvisation, creation through a process by which everyone and everything in the multiverse is hardwired to do. That concept fuels me and this combination of players that I got together. To play spontaneously is a challenge. You are exposed. The ability to compose on the spot, to create motifs and rhythms and communicate those not only to the other musicians but to the audience … It’s more like soundscapes, painting in sound.”

I asked DeJohnette whether he felt that hanging out with the AACM crowd allowed him to explore spontaneity in ways he hadn’t before. “Definitely,” he agreed. “Chicago prepared me for New York. It was my school. You practiced at home, but you played and developed your consistency to create and improvise fluidly on the instrument by performing. I don’t like the term ‘free jazz,’ because it’s not really free. The real freedom is in the choices we make. That’s why

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I always prefer to think of it as spontaneous composition.”

Indeed, we do well to remember that DeJohnette is a composer at heart, crafting — whether off the cuff or with more forethought — melodic and intervallic structures with the ease of a lifelong painter at the canvas. The analogy is not ill-chosen, for it is one that DeJohnette shares in reference to his own craft. “I’m not just a drummer,” he said of the capacity in which fans are more likely to understand him. “I’m a colorist who paints and participates in the music both harmonically and rhythmically.” He likewise cites the piano as a central component of his sonic upbringing. It was his primary instrument and one to which the drums were a later addition. “I used to spend three to four hours a day on each instrument, because I wanted to bring the drums up to the level of my piano playing. The piano helped how I heard the ensemble, tuned the drums and how I approached the cymbals. If you listen to cymbals closely, they have a gonglike resonance, a higher frequency. Both piano and drums, of course, belong to the percussion family, so for me the two instruments have always overlapped one another.” This idea of overlapping is immortal in DeJohnette’s musical worldview, by which the growth of his art comes across with that much deeper inherency.

Where in the latter vein DeJohnette brought the wisdom of history, Abrams brought the wisdom of process when, following the Q&A, he led a master class for the Cornell University Jazz Band. Since co-founding the AACM, Abrams has had a formidable career of his own not

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only as a musician but also as a bona fide composer, his String Quartet No. 2, for one, having been premiered in 1985 by the Kronos Quartet at Carnegie Hall. It was from beneath the shadow of this hat that Abrams addressed the young musicians with poignant, if dense, nuggets of advice.

“I’m interested in what you don’t know about yourselves,” he told them. “Allow your imagination to go inside.” Simple words on paper, to be sure, but difficult to embody in practice. In his sagacious, patient manner, Abrams worked through moments of confusion and revelation with equal attention, encouraging students to “give it presence” here or “create however you want to play it” there whenever hesitations manifested themselves. All of this was meant to bring across a central point: Evolving jazz artists feed not on the carrion of others, hunt not for things that have been found.

Rather, they dig within and give us something we can carry on into the future.

Nowhere was this so aptly demonstrated as in the performance proper, in which the straight line paved by DeJohnette and Abrams yielded a downright ritualistic pentagon when Made in Chicago gave presence to 90 minutes of uninterrupted experience. No titles were given to the concert’s four long tunes, and perhaps any announcement thereof would have imposed on their continuity. The first piece, which felt more through-composed than improvised, opened where most jazz performances wouldn’t: with a cello solo. Gray’s bow was mellifluous yet robust, trailing a

mournful shadow by its gait. Like so much of what followed, it catalyzed a play of frequencies, at once ancient and of the moment. One by one, the rest of the band followed suit. As Mitchell’s full-throated alto, DeJohnette’s selective contacts, Abrams’s starlit keys, and Threadgill’s incanting flute took shape, one could almost feel the molecules transforming in the room. It was, I would wager, a challenging introduction to those who were expecting to tap their feet to something recognizable. But as Abrams surely would have reminded us, it was all about sharing a search for the unknown.

How lucid this philosophy blossomed as the pianist himself introduced the second tune, rippling into Mitchell, whose alto proved a force to be reckoned with. His penchant for circular breathing and complex finger work led to some of the concert’s most arresting developments, contrasting beautifully with Threadgill’s halting pointillism. It was as if both were navigating a rift between dimensions, only one was trying to escape while the other was content to remain where he was. Gray and DeJohnette meanwhile played not so much off as through each other, shifting their densities to allow for Abrams’s extensions. Like a player piano gone haywire, his keys seemed to move of their own accord. From there the band whittled its way down to DeJohnette alone, crisply defining every hue with painterly intelligence, as he did also in the next tune, which found him exploring the possibilities of a full-contact drum synthesizer in a veritable rain forest of utterances, and in the final piece, recognizable as Mitchell’s “Chant” from the quintet’s recent album. Here Mitchell dominated on the shriller sopranino saxophone, keeping step with Abrams’s mounting speed. If anywhere, here was the potential of simplicity to the fullest, a difference through sameness that blew the candle flame of inspiration enough to keep it wildly dancing but unextinguished.

For its encore, the quintet proceeded whimsically, Mitchell (switching between three saxophones) and Threadgill (on alto) playing with expectations over the solid groove laid down

by DeJohnette, who demonstrated himself, like the band as a whole, for all a peaceful commander. As the musicians turned on their last dime, strangely evoking a feeling of travel by way of suspension, I couldn’t help but be reminded of what DeJohnette had said the day before: “I just follow where jazz wants me to go, and where jazz wants to go depends on what humanity does with the challenges we face as a species. We have to adapt to our environment, and I think that music and art speak to that. I don’t know if you’re going to have any more John Coltranes and Miles Davises, but there will always be people addressing the times we live in through their music. The actual event of getting together and playing music together is vital. The people who come to listen are instruments, too.” Which is not to say that we as an audience were being played, but invited to join our notes of appreciation to theirs of generation.

Among the handful of albums in the DeJohnette catalog to which I find myself returning with especial frequency is his 1997 ECM effort Oneness. In addition to its moving progressions, this understated leader date boasts one of his most emblematic titles. Oneness is no mere throwaway concept, but a core tenet of this essentially ad hoc collective. It is an overarching expression for what DeJohnette and his peers can do, a testament to their quasi-spiritual quest for unity. As Abrams mentioned in his master class, musicians don’t need to be anywhere else than where they want to be, and neither did the fortunate listeners, as we sought purchase in the increasing density of their comet’s tail. They followed wherever the sounds wanted them to go and, despite the distant past implied in their advancing years, had nothing but the future in their hands.

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

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Ten-Minute Playfest Fills Schwartz’s Black Box

BY HADIYAH CHOWDHURY Sun Staff Writer

I have always loved intimate theatre spaces, especially black box theatres, so I may be a little biased when I say that having Ten-Minute Playfest in the Schwartz Center’s Black Box was a brilliant idea — but it definitely was. On Saturday night, the audience of about 100 people was buzzing with excitement over the six plays they were about to see and they were not disappointed. As we took our seats and the lights dimmed, the entire cast came out and sang a cover of Chicago’s “Cellblock Tango” to remind audience members what they should and should not do during the performance, perhaps the most effective and memorable way I have ever been told to shut my phone off during a show. And then, of course, the plays started and I was blown away.

The first play, On the Brink, directed by performing and media arts Ph.D candidate J. Michael Kinsey Ph.D ’19, was definitely my favorite. The piece was extremely dynamic and versatile in the way it dealt with the Black Lives Matter movement. Actors were constantly moving and yelling, creating a chaotic atmosphere that completely immersed the audience; it was difficult to separate the character’s fear from my own. In general, the dialogue was organic and

each performer lent their own voice to the piece, resulting in a nuanced and poignant look into the intersection of race, gender and identity. In addition, though the play did seem somewhat disjointed at some points, the overall confusion and fear was augmented by the lack of structure, which I thought suited the subject matter (police brutality) quite well. I was quite affected, and the play certainly made me examine my own politics with scrutiny.

Mark DiStefano’s ’16 piece, Molte Vino, had me laughing incessantly. This piece was the perfect foil to On the Brink because it lightened the heaviness that seemed to permeate the room. The actors in this piece had perfect comedic timing and their Italian accents were on point.

The piece consisted of a young man bringing his fiancée home for the first time to his Sicilian-American parents, resulting in all kinds of awkward questions and obnoxious comments. What made this piece so compelling, though, was the fact that the parents were based upon DiStefano’s own parents, who happened to be in the audience on Saturday night. Their laughter only magnified everyone else’s, resulting in an altogether spectacular performance.

The fifth piece, Parmacetty, written by Kelley Mark and directed by Nick Fessette Ph.D ’18, consisted mostly of a man and a woman being interviewed by a documentarian about sharks and a recent shark attack. The man attacked the shark while the woman defended it by giving the audi-

ence an overwhelming amount of data about how one’s chances of being killed by a shark are infinitesimally small.

The interviews were quite dry, so by the time it was revealed that the man who had died in the shark attack was the woman’s boyfriend, I did not have much of a connection with the woman. While I understand that this piece was meant to be of a political nature, I feel that it could have been more effective if the format had not been so predictable and if the arguments were more interesting than simply statistics.

Overall, Ten-Minute Playfest was a success. I left feeling like I had witnessed something truly spectacular that had been put together with an incredible amount of time and passion. While I certainly enjoyed some plays more than others, I have to say that the acting was top notch, and the use of the space was innovative and very effective in creating an intimate environment for the audience without limiting the movement of the actors. Although the first piece was so chaotic and overwhelming that the rest of the pieces may have lost some of their impact in comparison, I was thoroughly pleased with the amazing work of the actors, directors and writers that worked so hard to make the show such a success.

Hadiyah Chowdhury is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hchowdhury@cornellsun.com.

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Engaging In National Politics STUDENTS FROM ACROSS CAMPUS gathered last week for a non-partisan effort to register Cornellians to vote in advance of Friday, the New York State deadline to register to vote in primary elections. By manning voter registration tables in convenient locations around campus, the project’s architects endeavored to reduce the complexities of registering to vote and increase civic engagement among members of the University community. These efforts, although early before the election more than a year away, help make democracy more accessible to students on campus, particularly in advance of an election season set to have momentous implications for higher education.

As the 2016 election approaches, students across the United States face a growing number of hurdles — tuition is soaring, student debt is at an all-timehigh and federal Pell Grants are in the crosshairs. As the announced candidates offer the American public distinct reform policies and visions for the future of higher education, it is imperative — now more than ever — that students have a say in the democratic process. But nearly eight years since the 2008 elections delivered the second-largest youth voter turnout in American history, students across the nation face persisting systemic barriers and chronic difficulties in registering to vote. By helping students to register to vote in the 2016 primaries and the following election and providing accessible information about the candidates to Cornellians, the voter registration drive is making headway towards removing those difficulties and renewing a much-needed spirit of civic participation on campus.

A successful democracy requires participation by all of its citizens — including students. If this crucial voting bloc does not turn out in 2016, students have less of a voice shaping the future of higher education policy in the United States.

We at The Sun applaud the voter registration drive not just for its tangible success in bringing Cornellians into the fold of the upcoming elections, but for its bold vision of giving students a say on national issues that matter to them. As this important election season kicks into full swing, the campus community must take further steps towards vigorous student participation in the political process.

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or me, the anti-abortion fervor of Bernie Sanders talks about the procethe last couple months has been dure as if women who choose it cry surreal. I keep asking myself ques- themselves to sleep every night. When tions like, “How can these states be de- people on the left mimic the right’s funding Planned Parenthood when the anti-choice rhetoric, it only fuels daninvestigations found the organization gerous misconceptions about abortion. to be compliant with all state laws?” Far from undermining right-wing and “How can Carly Fiorina lie about extremism, such rhetorical compromisimages she’d seen in videos on live tele- es encourage it. vision in a serious political debate?”

This is the new normal in reproducBut since the Republican base has long tive rights debates — and, it’s working relied on the evangelical Christian pop- alarmingly well in favor of the antiulation for political support, I guess choice movement. Everyday, federal this response is to be expected. and state legislatures pass restrictions What I wasn’t expecting, though, on abortion that make it more expenwas the introduction of a new charac- sive, embarrassing, time-consuming ter in the national abortion debate: the and, in some cases, impossible to apologetic ally. As Planned Parenthood access. was under siege, I wanted my legislaWhen the pro-choice movement tors to stick up for me and my bodily adopts an apologetic tone to appease autonomy. I wanted every Democratic extremists, it silences and shames the congressman on the numerous women who have had abortions. news, at rallies, on the Senate floor When we talk about When people on the left passionately sex on this campus, we defending abortion work hard to break mimic the right’s antias a woman’s right down stigma associatchoice rhetoric, it only and a positive pubed with sexuality, lic good.

STIs, and other fuels dangerous What I got “taboo” topics. But instead was a lot of these efforts have not misconceptions about conciliation. Bernie reached pregnancy. abortion. Far from Sanders told stuHave you ever heard dents at Liberty of a Yale College undermining right-wing University that woman getting pregabortion is “a very extremism, such rhetorical nant? Probably not, but of course women painful and difficult choice that compromises encourage it. on this campus do get pregnant. Yet, we don’t many women feel talk about them, and they have to make.”

Elizabeth Warren pointed out all the we certainly do not talk about what services that Planned Parenthood pro- they choose to do with their pregnanvides that are not abortion — Pap cies. tests, STI treatment, pregnancy tests, That is because women at Yale do breast exams and prenatal referrals. not feel safe sharing their experiences These are our crusaders. These so- with pregnancy. We live in a culture called heroes of the pro-choice move- that shames women into feeling like ment are afraid to say that, for many they have to be sorry, not just for havwomen, Planned Parenthood is an ing an abortion, but for getting pregabortion provider. And they are afraid nant in the first place, even if they ultito say that the majority of women walk mately decide to keep the baby. out of abortion clinics relieved that I’m tired of apologizing for aborthey made the best choice for them. tion. Millions of women in our comThe apologetic side of pro-choice munities are grateful they can end a rhetoric is likely an attempt to be non- pregnancy so that they can go back to partisan. With an issue so polarizing, I their jobs, finish college, take care of imagine Democrats in Congress are their other children or anything else willing to make some concessions in that living, breathing women may priorder to facilitate reasonable discus- oritize over having a child. If tomorsions, especially in more conservative row I found out I were pregnant, I spaces like Liberty University. would call the Planned Parenthood But the language we use to talk office in New Haven and make an about abortion rights matters. It appointment for an abortion. I am not frames debates that determine what ashamed of this, I am not embarrassed legislation is introduced and which about it and I challenge all pro-choice policies are put in place. For goodness’ Yalies to join me and refuse to feel sake, even though the American guilty about your right to choose.

Psychological Association has repeatedly refuted the claim that women The above column was originally published in experience trauma from abortions, The Yale Daily News on Sept. 30, 2015.

CORRECTION An Oct. 5 news story, “United Way Kicks Off Annual Campaign,” incorrectly stated that the annual Duff Ball dance will take place on Jan. 31. In fact, there is no set date for the dance at the moment.

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ighteen percent of female students surveyed in the AAU Campus Climate Survey said that they experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by physical force or incapacitation since arriving at Cornell. Thirteen percent of female students said that they experienced nonconsensual sexual contact by the absence of affirmative consent.

Yet, victims report these incidents to organizations or campus officials at very low rates.

Only 26.8 percent of victims of penetrative acts by physical force reported it; only 16.2 percent of victims of penetrative acts involving incapacitation reported it; and only 9.2 percent of victims of forceful sexual touching reported it.

Why don’t victims report these acts of sexual assault? Students overwhelmingly stated that they did not report these instances because they did not think they were serious enough.

Further, students do not feel like they know what to do if they or their friends experience sexual assault or sexual harassment.

Just 28.5 percent of students know where to find help at Cornell if they or a friend are sexually assaulted or harassed.

I see three major takeaways from the AAU Survey. We need to focus on prevention, we need a culture shift at Cornell and we need to provide information more clearly and broadly.

First, we need to focus on prevention.

I have been impressed with the innovative sexual violence prevention initiatives that I’ve seen students come up with and enact during my time at Cornell, but we still need to do more. We need more ideas for new initiatives to reach broader constituencies across campus. We need to harness the energy of students to support these initiatives and engage with them.

We need more education for students to understand what is sexual assault and harassment. There is not a common understanding of what these terms mean and what they look like in real life.

Students come from a variety of countries, cultures and types of secondary schools. Many

that “this kind of thing happens all the time” and that it’s thus not worth someone’s time to take an incident of sexual assault or harassment seriously. This kind of thing will continue to happen all the time unless all of us — students, faculty and staff — appreciate that these incidents are as serious as they are.

“Taking it seriously” means questioning the culture of binge drinking at Cornell and on college campuses across the nation, and exploring ways to make students’ social lives safer and healthier. It means talking about sexual assault and harassment, exploring the uncomfortable questions that arise around this topic and helping our community come to a common understanding of what is and what is not acceptable behavior.

Third, we need to provide information more clearly and broadly.

Students should know where they can turn if they or a friend are victims of sexual assault or harassment.

Policy 6.4 — the policy that governs sexual assault and harassment — is currently undergoing changes to explain processes more clearly and to streamline them to be more efficient and effective in dealing with reported instances of sexual assault and harassment.

I think these changes to Policy 6.4 are necessary and overdue. In particular, Policy 6.4 should provide clearer information to students about how Cornell defines sexual assault and harassment, victims’ options once they’ve experienced instances of sexual assault and harassment, and the rights of the accused throughout formal processes. The changes need to happen quickly but also in a deliberate and informed manner. Changes should be made with input from students, faculty and staff to fully reflect the variety of issues and concerns that are inherent to this complicated issue.

In addition, we should do a better job of informing students about the excellent resources that Cornell does have to help victims of sexual assault and harassment.

The SHARE (Sexual Harassment and Assault — Response and Education) website — share.cornell.edu — is the best source for information about what to do if you or a friend

I see three major takeaways from the AAU Survey.

We need to focus on prevention, we need a culture shift at Cornell and we need to provide information more clearly and broadly. students have not had sex education and have never talked about these issues before they move onto North Campus freshman year. We can’t be satisfied that we’ve taught students about these issues once they’ve seen one performance during Orientation or sat through one presentation on sexual assault. We need to work formal and informal sexual violence prevention education into students’ four years on campus — through programming, through living-learning communities and through the curriculum.

Second, we need a culture shift at Cornell.

Sexual assault and harassment is serious.

No means no, and the absence of no does not mean yes. If someone violates this principle, it is a serious issue.

Until sexual assault and harassment is taken seriously, students will continue to be victimized at these alarmingly high levels.

“Taking it seriously” does not necessarily mean that a victim has to go to the police, or file a complaint through the University or go through any process that he or she doesn’t want to go through. A victim should have control over his or her decision to go through a formal process following an instance of sexual assault or harassment, especially given the loss of control that occurs when a person is sexually victimized.

But, it is unacceptable to have the attitude

experiences sexual assault or harassment.

Confidential support is available through Gannett, the Cornell Victim Advocate, the director of the Women’s Resource Center, the director of the LGBT Resource Center, the Ithaca Advocacy Center’s 24/7 hotline, Cornell United Religious Work Chaplains and the University Ombudsman.

Other resources for help and advice include: CUPD, resident advisors or residential housing directors, the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations, the Office of the Judicial Administrator, the Title IX Coordinator and the Program Coordinator for Diversity and Inclusion Strategies.

Sexual assault and harassment is a serious and difficult issue. Cornell must continue to work diligently and constantly to keep students safe and to provide supportive environments for them to pursue an exceptional education. Administrators and the Board of Trustees cannot and should not solve these issues on their own — we need student input, student ideas and students to take this issue seriously in order to improve our campus climate.

Annie O’Toole is the graduate student-elected trustee. She can be reached at ado29@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears on alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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espite objections from the far-right abortion programs. who refer to him as moderate or even Anti-establishment Republicans sought to liberal, John Boehner — the retiring defund Planned Parenthood in recent budget Speaker of the House — is a conservative. In negotiations and demanded that any spend2010, Boehner’s last year in Congress before ing bill sent to President Barack Obama ascending to a Speakership post that rarely include such language. Supposed top-tier votes on legislation, Boehner received a 100 Republican Presidential candidate Carly percent conservative rating from both the Fiorina lied to the American people about the American Conservative Union as well as the leaked Planned Parenthood videos during the conservative Club for Growth; he boasts a 94 second GOP debate and neglected to and 83 percent lifetime score from each acknowledge her exaggerations on multiple respective organization. In an ironic twist, occasions. Mick Mulvaney has been quoted 2010 also happens to be the year that the saying, “Our leadership has probably one ultra-conservative Tea Party caucus emerged chance left to save the party, and it’s on in Congress and five years later this group Planned Parenthood.” So, apparently the leveraged their influence consolidated in the only way leadership can redeem the party is House Freedom Caucus to contribute to to defund a women’s health organization — Boehner’s resignation. For the purpose of this one that doesn’t even use federal money for article, the term ‘conservative’ will be used in abortions — on the basis of doctored ‘evireference to the ideology of Boehner and By using ultra-right issues as proxies for his allies, while ‘anti-establish- the Republican fight against government ment’ will power, the anti-establishment wing denote the effectively renders the entire ultra-right wing of the Republican Party useless.

Republican Party.

Republicanism in the American political dence’ and lies. What kind of party is that? It’s system traditionally represents an ideology no wonder John Boehner resigned. favoring smaller, more localized government Boehner’s resignation effectively ends with less spending. While Democrats surely debate over whether Planned Parenthood will deviate on this political philosophy, there is be defunded in the latest budget negotiations, nothing inherently sinister about champi- as his political career is no longer hostage to oning free-market economics and reduced the ultra-right wing of his party. But that’s budget deficits. However, the anti-establish- exactly the point. In order to defund Planned ment bloc of the GOP has co-opted the Parenthood, a measure that will surely fail Republican Party to a point where tradition- and objectively has no basis in truth, the antialism is no longer overtly apparent. They’ve establishment wing was more than willing to instead replaced governing via negotiation push out their most powerful leader, a man and compromise with impractical, sectarian consistently committed to the conservative demands that discount rudimentary facts. cause and perhaps the only man capable of For some years now, anti-establishment keeping the House from descending into members of Congress — members such as complete chaos.

Ted Cruz, Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan and The polarization and divisiveness in Mick Mulvaney — have used positions so far Washington will only worsen with Boehner’s removed from the traditional political spec- departure. Whoever replaces him — and the trum as a proxy for waging war against gov- leading candidate to the Speakership is the ernment control. The first example of this incapable-of-speaking, flip-flopping Kevin proxy war is demonstrated in the Republican McCarthy — will either face the same conopposition to the Affordable Care Act that servative versus anti-establishment problems resulted in the 2013 government shutdown. as Boehner or will concede to the crazies of To be clear, questioning the potential effec- the House and begin to duke it out with the tiveness of the Affordable Care Act is squarely United States Senate and/or President of the within the Republican mainstream. Shutting United States. Good luck. Though the Senate down the government over such a disagree- is under Republican control, don’t expect that ment, however, is not. institution to be any more accepting of antiIn an August 2013 conference call with establishment bombast. Majority Leader House Republicans, Boehner stressed that Mitch McConnell has already demonstrated while his leadership team was committed to his disdain for such tactics by stating, “I terminating the Affordable Care Act, would remind all of your viewers: The way Republicans should avoid a government shut- you make a law in this country, the Congress down over the issue, warning that such tactics has to pass it and the president has to sign it. would not succeed in derailing the legislation The president has made it very clear he’s not and fearing backlash similar to the repercus- going to sign any bill that includes defunding sions the GOP faced after the 1995 govern- of Planned Parenthood, so that’s another ment shutdown. Eventually, Boehner con- issue that awaits a new president hopefully ceded to Senator Cruz and other anti-estab- with a different point of view about Planned lishment figures, resulting in a two-week gov- Parenthood.” ernment shutdown that failed to affect the By using ultra-right issues as proxies for the Affordable Care Act, but succeeded in evis- Republican fight against government power, cerating the Republican Party in public opin- the anti-establishment wing effectively renion polls. Boehner’s aforementioned cautions ders the entire Republican Party useless. proved foreboding and illustrated that When negotiations are started by declaring Boehner acknowledged political realities and that the President must defund women’s limitations that certain Republicans refuse to health care or face a government shutdown, accept. there’s really no negotiation. Demanding The latest instance of this continuing proxy does not equate with governing and refusing war is included in the opposition to Planned to concede to such demands does not make Parenthood funding. Anti-establishment Speaker Boehner a liberal or President Republicans seek to completely defund Obama a tyrant. Democrats didn’t agree with Planned Parenthood on the basis of falsified John Boehner on much, but he was genuinely videos that incorrectly purport to display a good man and a more than capable Speaker.

Planned Parenthood profiting from selling We might not be able to say the same for his tissue from aborted fetuses. Again, pro-life successor. sentiment is a staple of the Republican Party.

But defunding a major provider of women’s Jake Forken is a senior in the College of Human healthcare over deception simply is not. Ecology.

He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu.

Furthermore, Planned Parenthood is already My Forken Opinion appears alternate Fridays this restricted from using federal dollars to fund semester.

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The defense worked hard to limit the Quakers’ defense was unable to hold on, and Cornell lost, 2Technology has become ubiqlead. After a Penn shot on goal was saved by fresh0. uitous in the NFL, and prospect Head coach Jaro Zawislan said he was pleased man goalkeeper Rhys Moller, Swenson attempted to scouting is now more effective with what he saw from his team at this point of the get his second goal of the night by shooting off the than ever. Teams can analyze rebound. Freshman defender Ryan Bayne made an game. precise details of workouts and “I was very proud of how our players started the impressive diving stop. Nevertheless, Swenson was game-film, in hopes of predictgame,” he said. “We started the game right away by able to get his second goal by scoring in the 82nd ing the future stars of the league. generating a lot of possessions, pressed very well up minute for the final score of 2-0.

Despite this, there will always “Defensively, it was a solid effort,” Zawislan said. the field and didn’t allow the other team a lot of remain a human aspect that space or time. That resulted in a few turnovers and “At the end of the game, we took one defender off teams cannot predict. A college transition plays for us. We just needed to be a little the field and put in a more attack-orientated player. quarterback who has the makWe were playing lighter in the defensive side, so we bit sharper with our finishing.” ings of an elite professional playIn one of the few chances that Penn did have on were taking more risks and taking chances at the end er will not always be successful the offensive side, however, Penn’s Joe Swenson was of the game. We were trying to put ourselves in a — see JaMarcus Russell. able to convert a goal from the top of the box in the position to tie the game, so this was a necessity for Likewise, late-round prospects us.”

30th minute to put the Quakers up 1-0. can improve and become great Ivy League play continues for the Red this “That’s the game of soccer — it comes down to talents. There will always be a couple of few key, critical plays in the game and we Saturday at 4:30 p.m. when Harvard comes to busts. There will always be steals. need to make sure that we continue to focus on Berman Field. The Red is 1-1-1 at home this season The goal is to choose the Tom playing one play at a time, because we don’t know so far, and Zawislan’s emphasis on focusing on the Brady instead of the Giovanni which play will decide the game,” Zawislan said. next game is as strong as ever.

Carmazzi.

“Our focus is preparing our best for our home “That was one of very few attacking sequences that Penn had, and they put it away. It set a different tone game against Harvard, that’s the main message,” Ben Shatzman can be reached at for the rest of the game because now we have to Zawislan said. bshatzman@cornellsun.com. Calling the chase for the equalizer.”

Shatz appears on Tuesdays throughout the semester.

The Red wasn’t about to go down without a Jamil Rahman can be reached at jar534@cornell.edu.

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Women Tie Quakers, Keep Undefeated Record

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Contributor

Amidst heavy rain and winds approaching 50 miles per hour, Cornell women’s soccer (8-02, 1-0-1 Ivy) slogged its way to a 0-0 draw against Penn (4-2-3, 0-1-1 Ivy) Friday evening at Penn Park in Philadelphia. With its ninth shutout in 10 games, the Red remains undefeated this season.

“Consistent rain, and the wind was strong the entire game,” said senior co-captain

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN FILE PHOTO

Can I kick it? | Amidst the rain and wind, the Red held Penn scoreless, its ninth shutout this year.

defender Shanay Fischer about the game conditions. “It was also noisy, because we were in the city. It was just a completely different environment. The weather definitely played a huge factor in the result. Whichever team was playing against the wind had to work a little harder. The ball was all over the place, and it was tough to judge how far the ball would go on goal kicks, corner kicks and plays like that.”

Head coach Patrick Farmer agreed that the conditions affected the game’s outcome. He said he believes that the draw was indicative of the two teams’ equal play and that the lack of goals was a result of the weather.

“I thought the two teams were pretty close,” Farmer said, adding that in better weather the two teams would have likely played to a “1-1 draw.”

Farmer said the weather changed the type of game his team played.

“I thought we had a good game plan,” Farmer said. “The game was more about competitive spirit ... than tactical and technical [play].”

Farmer said some of the Red’s well-executed technical plays came unraveled due to high winds and a wet playing surface. Farmer said a strong wind allowed goalies to clear the ball 60 or 70 yards on goal kicks. Even though the Red had to play the second half of regulation running into the wind, Farmer still “played for the win.”

“We changed our shape to the most attacking shape possible,” Farmer said. “We played with four attackers instead of four midfielders for the last sixtyfive minutes of the game.”

As is typical of conference play, the Red only had one game last weekend. Farmer said he believes one game per week affects the way he manages a game. He plays some players more and has a hard time getting some role players into games. “[During conference games, we] shorten our bench a little”, he said. “From 21 to 18 or 19 ... Our back four and [freshman goalie Kelsey Tierney] played all 110 minutes.”

“The number of games we have in a weekend doesn’t change the way we play,” Fisher said. “There’s no such thing as pacing yourself, especially when it comes to these Ivy games. We have to put 100 percent effort into the entire game every game. We definitely did that at Penn.”

Both teams had a couple of opportunities to score but each time the teams were unable to capitalize.

“They had a bouncing ball,” Farmer said. “[The Penn player] should have hit the target. She headed it too high ...

In overtime, we had a good run and a good shot that just went wide.”

To add another wrinkle, due to the inclement weather, the Red did not know which field it would be playing on until after the team meal on Friday. Overall, Farmer and his players alike said they were impressed with how the team managed everything.

“Obviously a win is the most desirable result for every game, but a draw doesn’t hurt either,” Fischer said. “We want to come away from these Ivy games with points, and we get one point for a draw. Considering how chaotic the Penn game was, I think a tie was deserved on both ends.”

Keith Bollt can be reached at kb477@cornell.edu.

Predicting Michael Graboyes Takes Sixth in Cup QB Success T GOLF

“My performance at The Course at Yale was my lowest finish this calendar year,” he said.

Despite the lackluster performance in This past weekend, Cornell’s men’s golf team played its last match of the sea- the Cup, Luke Graboyes said he was able son, the Macdonald Cup at Yale. The improve on his game this semester.

“Overall, I believe it was of my best team played admirably, scoring 609 to earn a ninth place finish out of 13 teams, semesters of competition here at but the story of the meet has been one of Cornell,” he said. “I have matured as a the main stories of Cornell golf: the golfer tremendously since last year, as emerging dynasty of the two Graboyes well as last semester.”

The brothers are from Watchung, brothers, sophomore Michael and junior New Jersey, and both attended and Luke.

Michael Graboyes is already an golfed at Watchung Hills Regional High emerging star for Cornell and started this School in 2013. Luke Graboyes won the fall season coming off of a freshman year Tournament of Champions and was that saw him win second team All-Ivy named New Jersey High School Golfer of the Year, and in League honors. At The 2014, his younger Course at Yale, he per“The conditions were brother achieved the formed well despite harsh same lofty triumphs. weather conditions. so brutal with high The brothers said “The conditions were so brutal with high winds winds and rain. I did my having a sibling to play with for so long and rain,” Michael best to stay focused.” has definitely helped Graboyes said. “I did my them achieve such a best to stay focused menMichael Graboyes high level of skill in tally, especially on the sport.

Saturday when we played “We play together almost every day 26 holes. I tried to play to my strengths, which is solid iron play, and I was able to during the season and over the summer,” drop a few putts and make a ton of pars. Michael Graboyes said. “Besides the Par is always a good score playing a chal- added competitiveness and pushing each lenging golf course in the conditions we other, we both know each other's games so well.” faced.”

The Macdonald Cup marked the last Luke Graboyes is quick to point out just how impressive the score actually match of the fall season for Cornell golf; the team will resume play in the spring, was.

“My brother’s round of 70 is when major Ivy League tournaments will undoubtedly the best round played by begin.

“My goal is to win every tournament any golfer on our team this season,” the elder Graboyes said. “It was extremely I play in,” the younger Graboyes brother difficult to score well during the final 18 said. “Not only does that mean I’m playing well individually, but also it means I holes of play.”

The junior had a decent showing at am having a great impact on the team’s the Macdonald Cup, placing 45th, but chances to win as well.”

Aside from the Graboyes brothers, he remains critical of his play.

By JEFF ASIEDU

Sun Contributor

om Brady grew up a 49ers fan. The Bay Area-native watched Joe Montana lead his team to four Super Bowl titles. In 1999, the 49ers went 4-12. It was the team’s first losing season since 1982.

The 49ers needed to address the quarterback position in the 2000 NFL Draft, as undrafted free agent Jeff Garcia had yet to prove

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz himself a capable starter in the league. This draft featured two-time All-Big Ten quarterback Tom Brady. So it would have been fitting for the 49ers to select Brady: he was a longtime Niners’ fan, who had earned the nickname the “Comeback Kid” at the University of Michigan – the same nickname given to the quarterback who he idolized growing up, Joe Montana.

After using four consecutive selections to bolster a their woeful defense, the Niners drafted a quarterback with the 65th overall selection: Giovanni Carmazzi, Hofstra University. After Carmazzi, 133 more players would be selected before the Patriots drafted Tom Brady in the sixth round. By 2006, Carmazzi was out of pro football: he wasn’t even on the 49ers’ active roster in his one NFL season, and his career ended after unsuccessful stints in NFL Europe and the CFL. Brady, on the other hand, had already led the Patriots to three Super Bowl victoSee SHATZMAN page 11

there are several other pivotal golfers who will need to contribute for the Red this spring. Freshman Jack Cen has already established himself as a talented golfer for the Red, coming in second among Cornell’s golfers this weekend at Yale.

Sophomore Chris Troy and senior Brandon Eng will also be key golfers to watch.

Jeff Asiedu can be reached at ja542@cornell.edu.

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Golfin’ Graboyes | With winds swirling in New Haven, Michael Graboyes posted a round of 70.