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Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15 positively reviews David Fincher’s new film, Gone Girl, calling it “genre-defying.” | Page 8

Students, staff and Ithacans raced in hollowed-out pumpkins raced in Beebe lake Saturday. | Page 3

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Cornell Launches $150M Public Engagement Plan

By 2025,all undergrads will participate in community-engaged coursework

By AIMEE CHO Sun Senior Writer

Embracing its land grant mission, Cornell launched a “transformative” $150-million, 10-year initiative for community engagement and public service-related coursework, the University announced Monday.

Under the new “Engaged Cornell” initiative, all undergraduate students will participate in community-engaged coursework by 2025, and the University will establish hundreds of multi-year partnerships with local, global and national stakeholders, President David J. Skorton said at a press conference. “[This] initiative will transform education at Cornell.

Community-engaged learning is a specific kind of experiential learning, one in which students, faculty and staff collaborate with diverse stakeholders in communities to address the pressing social problems and issues that plague us all,” Skorton said. “Students [will] also learn from the expertise in the community about global issues.”

The initiative is partially funded by a $50-million gift from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, headed by David Einhorn ’91, founder and president of Greenlight Capital, and Cheryl StraussEinhorn ’91, journalist and adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, Skorton announced Monday.

Skorton described Engaged Cornell as an “extraordinary new development” on Cornell’s land grant mission.

“Nearly 150 years ago, Cornell’s leaders laid the foundation for an institution formally committed to public engagement. From the earliest beginnings of this university, the land grant mission of outreach and service was part of Cornell’s identity,” Skorton said.

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PHOTO BY ELLEN WOODS / SUN FILE PHOTO; GRAPHIC BY CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Public service | A graphic outlines the three strategic focuses of the new “Engaged Cornell” public service initiative and the amount of money needed for each focus area.

Cornellians March inTCAT Teach-In Actor Nick Offerman

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Students placed a roadblock — which had over 500 student signatures to show solidarity with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit workers — in front of Day Hall as part of a teach-in

Monday.

The Save the Pass Coalition hosted the teachin in order to educate students about the campaign and to emphasize the effect the controversy over Cornell’s contributions to TCAT has had on See TCAT page 4

RYAN LANDVATER / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Teaching TCAT | Students march along East Avenue holding a roadblock with over 500 student signatures to show continued solidarity with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit workers Monday afternoon.

To Perform in Bailey Hall

By ANNIE BUI

reacted to most enthusiastically when we resumed selections talks at the start of the semester,” said Actor Nick Offerman will per- Zahos, who is also a senior arts and form in Bailey Hall on Dec. 5 — the entertainment writer for The Sun. last day of classes for the fall semesZahos added he expects to see a ter — the Cornell University “packed audience” of primarily Program Board announced Cornell students at the show due to Monday.

Offerman’s widespread Offerman — who is presence in the televibest-known for his role sion industry. as the deadpan Ron “Offerman is not Swanson in NBC’s hit only famous for being comedy series Parks and on Parks and Recreation — will bring Recreation but [also] a musical and speaking for extending that aspect to his show, grumpy Ron Swanson according to Daniel persona to big movies OFFERMAN Fines ’15, co-president like 22 Jump Street and of Cornell Concert Commission, his recurring segment on Conan,” which is co-producing the show Zahos said. “It’s funny how he’s so with CUPB. famous among people our age, The show will be “half comedy, even though a lot of his character’s half music,” according to Zachary jokes take aim at the superficiality Zahos ’15, president of CUPB. of social media, health-conscious According to Zahos, Nick diets and so on.”

Offerman has been at the top of the Fines also said he believes the CUPB’s list of potential performers show will help students relieve stress “for months, [and even] years.”

“He’s the one our general body See OFFERMAN page 4 Sun News Editor

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New Hayloft Bar Will Open for ‘Mature’Crowd

By ANDREW LEE

Lounge in Downtown Ithaca],” Abb said.

“We brought him on board as a bar consultant, and he helped create specialty cocktails The Hayloft Bar, a new establishment that are exclusive to the Carriage House.” located above the Carriage House Café, will Abb also said that she began working on hold its grand opening Saturday night. the liquor application in February while she The Hayloft is looking to attract a more was waitressing for the Carriage House “mature” crowd, according to Alexis Abb, Café. assistant event manager at the Carriage “I’ve never applied for a liquor license House Café. before, and it’s a lot different than a beer “We’re trying to do our own thing. I’m and wine,” Abb said. “We had to submit always looking for somewhere to go after around fifty pages of paperwork in addition work to go hangout and talk,” Abb said. to pictures of the space.”

“Like everyone else, I love to dance, but I While Abb said the bar will have limited don’t always want to go downtown.” operating hours, she also mentioned that the Abb said the management of the cafe management would look to have longer decided to open the bar — which will be hours if the initial trial period went well. open a few nights every “This is our first tryout so month — primarily to comwe want to see how everyplement the music shows “We’ve been doing this thing goes,” she said. “So if and other events it hosts durthings go well, we want to for so long, and we ing the year. have a pop-up bar, and as we decided to take the “Whenever there’s a show, get more popular, maybe business to the we’ll have the bar open to we’ll be open longer.” the public,” Abb said. “We Cornell students have next level.” also have a full bar for people expressed mixed interest in to enjoy during weddings, the Hayloft Bar’s opening.

Alexis Abb graduation parties and other Alice Anichkin ’16 said similar events.” she believes the Hayloft Bar The management of the cafe had been “seem[s] very sophisticated.” planning to expand by opening a bar and “While I’d really enjoy this kind of offering liquor in addition to its pre-existing atmosphere, I feel like it’s not what people selection of beers and wine, according to are really looking for on the weekend,” she Abb. said.

“Before I started working at the Carriage Nina Gershonowitz ’16, however, said House in February, they already had a beer the Hayloft Bar would add a “really nice and wine license,” Abb said. “We’ve been ambience to Stewart Avenue.” doing this for so long, and we decided to “There are a lot of bars in Ithaca, but the take the business to the next level. ” Hayloft seems like a nice place to chill durThe Hayloft Bar will focus on specialty ing the weekends with your friends and liscocktails that use fresh ingredients sourced ten to music,” she said. directly from local farms, according to Abb. “We are consulting with Roland Coggins, Andrew Lee can be reached at the head bartender at Lot 10 [Bar and alee@cornellsun.com.

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Gallop to the Hayloft Bar | The Hayloft Bar, located in the upstairs space of the Carriage House Café, will celebrate its grand opening Saturday night.

At Big Red Regatta,Competitors Race in Pumpkins

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Contributor

In Cornell’s first-ever Big Red Regatta Relay Saturday afternoon, approximately 30 competitors raced pumpkins ranging in weight between 200 and 400 pounds across Beebe Lake.

The course was 100 meters across Beebe Lake, with each of the eight teams of four in their own pumpkin, each big enough to hold one team member at a time, according to Peter DelNero grad. Each team had a small wooden paddle and discussed strategies to keep the pumpkin from tipping over.

“First team member races to the buoy, comes back and then the next team member gets into the pumpkin,” DelNero said to team members during the beginning of the race.

Chris Hernandez grad said his team’s goal was to keep their pumpkin afloat.

“Of the eight pumpkins, only one was big enough to float, which is why many

teams are using life jackets to keep them afloat,” he said.

Before the relay started, John Smeda grad said he expected the pumpkins to spin. “[Beebe Lake] is shallow enough that you might be able to push yourself from the bottom with the paddle,” he said.

While all eight teams completed the relay, the first place team — the Canoelagans — did not use their pumpkin as a boat and instead walked through the lake in their pumpkin.

“We realized from the get go we would need to have a strategy because otherwise the boats would sink,” said Ithacan and Canoelagans team member Luke Whitlow.

Katherine Constas ’16 — a team member of the second-place team, Pump in the Sun said her group was “either walking or rolling [the pumpkin] the entire time.”

“The pumpkins were full of water,” she said. “There was really no boundary between the boat and the lake.”

The only team that was able to stay in

their pumpkin and paddle the entire time, Oogie’s Revenge, competed in costumes from the film A Nightmare Before Christmas.

Gretchen Wall, program coordinator for the Produce Safety Alliance in the Department of Food Science, said competing in the race was a “great way to bring in the fall spirit.”

“We played by the rules, and we had fun doing it.”

Gretchen Wall “We played by the rules, and we had fun doing it,” she said.

Lauren Gabuzzi ’16 said it was an “understatement” to say that she had fun while in her submerged pumpkin.

“I couldn’t stop smiling. The coldness burnt a smile into my face,” Gabuzzi said.

Ileana Betancourt ’12, a staff member at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, said she was “excited” to participate in the event.

“We don’t know a better way to bring in fall than by paddling around Beebe Lake in a pumpkin,” she said.

DelNero said the pumpkin is an “enduring symbol of community and gratitude and well being.”

“The best part was seeing everyone out here smiling, laughing and united under a common icon,” he said. “We had people from all over campus racing pumpkins.

We’re looking to grow bigger pumpkins next year. For the first time, it couldn’t have gone any better.”

The event was hosted by Cornell Flotilla, a graduate student club.

MADELINE COHEN / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Float your boat | Competitors in the Big Red Regatta raced their decorated pumpkins — ranging in weight between 200 and 400 pounds — across Beebe Lake Saturday afternoon.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mkc94@cornell.edu.

Local Ithaca Rated Best College Town in America

The American Institute for Economic Research has named Ithaca the best college town in America. The study looked at 12 different criteria, including student life, culture, economic health and opportunity.

Tompkins County Teenager Charged With Assault

A Tompkins County teenager has been charged with third degree assault after punching an employee at the Maccormick Secure Center in Brooktondale, New York, according to The Ithaca Voice. 17-year-old Gaven Knighton punched an employee multiple times.

National Same-Sex Marriage Allowed in Five More States

On Monday, the Supreme Court let stand appeals court rulings that allow same-sex marriage in five more states, according to The New York Times. The decision to let the rulings stand will allow the unions in Indiana, Oklahoma, Utah, Virginia and Wisconsin almost immediately.

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Parks and Recreation Star to Perform Students Call Upon Univ.

Comedy, Music Show in Bailey Hall To Increase Transparency OFFERMAN

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after the last week of classes for the semester.

“We think this will be a great way for students to relax and celebrate the end of classes by enjoying and laughing along to the Nick Offerman experience,” Fines said. “By co-producing this show, we were able to greatly reduce ticket prices and make this more affordable to students,” he said.

Born and raised in Illinois, Offerman received his bachelor of fine arts in theater from the University of Illinois, according to NBC. He has also appeared in popular shows such as

24, Will & Grace, The West Wing and NYPD Blue.

His film credits include the 2009 film The Men Who Stare at Goats alongside George Clooney and Ewan McGregor; the 2010 film All Good Things with Ryan Gosling and Kirsten Dunst; and Miss Congeniality 2.

Tickets for Offerman’s Bailey Hall performance will go on sale starting Nov. 5, according to Zahos.

Anushka Mehrotra contributed reporting to this story.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

Towards TCAT Funding

Carrying roadblock, students march to Day Hall TCAT

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TCAT workers, according to Michael Ferrer ’16, who helped plan the event.

The teach-in followed the University’s announcement on Friday that it will increase its monetary contributions to TCAT. Skorton said in an interview with The Sun Monday that details regarding the University’s increased financial contributions to TCAT should be announced by this weekend.

Approximately 50 people were in attendance at the teach-in, where students and representatives from the United Auto Workers Local 2300 came together to support TCAT workers, who are currently in the middle of contract negotiations.

Frank Howells — a TCAT bus driver and unit negotiating chair for the United Auto Workers — said approximately 110 TCAT workers represented by the UAW are facing “tough” times.

“We keep running into a roadblock with the TCAT for funding,” Howells said. “And they keep saying, ‘We don’t have the money and we can’t put a burden on the taxpayers.’ This burden has to be absorbed somewhere because we, like everyone else in this community, have to live.”

While members of the Cornell community make up approximately 71 percent of all TCAT ridership, Cornell’s payments accounted for approximately 26 percent of TCAT’s revenue in 2014, The Sun previously reported.

Howells said he believes this current system does not seem “fair.”

“If we were able to to level this to an even playing field, where everyone paid their fair amount, it would not only be a fair system, but it would also go ahead and fund enough revenue for everyone to make a decent living here,” Howells said.

He added that many TCAT drivers struggle financially.

“All we’re asking is an opportunity to feed our families … Our money will be spent in the community because we live here. It’s only going to fund other places in the community,” he “All we’re asking is an said. “It’s going to allow us to send our children to opportunity to feed our your schools.”

In addition to econom- families. ... Our money will ic pressure, TCAT bus drivers work long days that be spent in the community sometime last 15 hours, because we live here.” according to Howells.

Several drivers work split Frank Howells shifts — where the times that the drivers work are split into two or more parts. Between these shifts, the drivers usually are left waiting for the next shift to start, Howell said.

Students from the Save the Pass Coalition who had also spoke to bus drivers along their routes shared what the drivers had said.

According to Allison Lapehn ’17, some drivers expressed a “lack of hope and optimism,” because over the summer, the University had not committed to increase funding to the TCAT. “Since Tompkins County is a pretty rural area, there’s not a lot to fall back on if TCAT doesn’t work out for [the drivers],” Lapehn said.

Prof. Elizabeth Sanders, government, discussed the Redbud Woods protests during the summer of 2005. Many students, professors and Ithacans joined the protest as students chained themselves to trees and ground pipes in order to prevent the razing of the Redbud Woods to allow construction of the parking lot behind West Campus, The Sun previously reported.

The protesters and University officials came to an agreement on July 17, 2005, which allowed the parking lot construction to continue in exchange for several environmentally focused measures, including the free transit passes for first and second-year students.

According to Sanders, the administration implied that the bus passes would gradually be given to all students, but instead, the bus passes were gradually reduced.

Sanders, who was one of many faculty members involved with the protests, said she believed the destruction of Redbud Woods for a parking lot seemed like a “crazy idea.”

“The idea of bulldozing the last woods on campus in order to accommodate more cars was at odds with what students were learning in class,” Sanders said.

In the culmination of the event, the teach-in attendees marched from the Engineering Quad to Day Hall, carrying a roadblock as a symbol of their “continued solidarity with TCAT workers.”

To that road block, students nailed a letter addressed to President Skorton requesting more transparency on funding arrangements between the University and TCAT. “We placed this roadblock in front of Day Hall as a symbolic gesture of our continued solidarity with TCAT workers, for without them, our roads are as good as blocked,” said Lucy Stockton ’17.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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‘Engaged Cornell’ Part Journalist With Ebola Enters Nebraska Of Land Grant Mission, Administrators Say ENGAGEMENT

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Engagement, Partnerships and Transformation

In transforming curricula across the University, the initiative involves three parts, according to Skorton, focusing on student and faculty engagement — with every undergraduate department offering community-engaged courses, as well as “high-impact partnerships” and “structure for transformative leaderships and success.”

“We will establish university-wide standards for learning outcomes such as intercultural competence, integrative learning, critical reflection and ethical practice,” he said. “We will aim to train 500 faculty members — about one-third of the faculty on Ithaca’s campus — to implement high-quality teaching and scholarship directly related to community engagement.”

Laura Brown, senior vice provost for undergraduate education, said at the press conference that the new emphasis on community engagement will “shift our understanding of excellence” in evaluating faculty members.

“When we come to assess a faculty member’s contributions [for tenure], this will be an integral part of it,” she said. “We intend for Cornell to be nothing less than a recognized leader in commu“Students who graduate nity engagement,” Skorton said. from Cornell will be ...

“Further, we want our commitcaring [and] empathetic.” ment to continue to be a major reason why faculty, students and David Einhorn ’91 staff choose to come to Cornell and stay at Cornell.”

Four Years in the Making

In an interview with The Sun Monday, Skorton said Engaged Cornell will be led by Vice Provost Judith Appleton, who will help flesh out ideas for how the program will operate.

“The team that put together the proposal and has been working is now developing the details of how to interact an interface with the community,” Skorton said.

Although the details of how the plan will function are to be determined, David Einhorn said Engaged Cornell has been “four years in the making” and called it a “vital and visionary initiative.”

“Students who graduate from Cornell will be responsible, caring and empathetic. [They] will be known as problem solvers for the greater good,” David Einhorn said. “At a time when students are often thinking about what they want to be when they grow up, engaged learning pushes students to think about who they want to be when they grow up.”

Both students and members of the Cornell community will be able to offer input on how Engaged Cornell will be formed, according to Skorton.

The plan was formed as a result of Cornell’s history, the students and faculty at Cornell and because the nature of Cornell’s “varied” curriculum, according to Skorton.

“One of the things that I found astonishingly admirable about Cornell when I first came here was that this idea of looking beyond the campus and beyond one’s own self-interest is really a part of the environment,” Skorton said.

Engaging as a National Leader

Skorton added that empirical studies have shown a “direct correlation between community engagement and student achievement.”

“Engaged students tend to have higher retention rates, improved writing skills and a greater capacity for critical thinking and problem solving,” he said.

David Einhorn said he envisions Cornell serving as a “national leader” in community-engaged learning.

“Cornell will inform, inspire and guide peer institutions, shifting the next generation of college graduates who will enter society inspired to work well with one another,” he said.

Kathryn Boor ’80, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said in an interview with The Sun that the gift will help provide resources to the program to ensure that students will be left with a “permanent, indelible vision for how ... a person can have a positive impact on a community.”

“There are all sorts of ways that we can use resources like the incredible Einhorn gift to ensure that our students are actively engaged in our community — not only here in Ithaca, but much more broadly — throughout New York State, and around the globe, where we can have our students participating in hands-on learning,” she said.

Eventually, Skorton said, community engagement will become the “new norm at Cornell.”

“Students and faculty will come to regard engagement as a natural part of what they do,” he said. “We will educate a new kind of global citizen, one who proudly practices respect and empathy, seeks collaboration and embraces differences and diversity in all aspects of life.”

Tyler Alicea contributed reporting to this story.

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia stepped off a jet Monday under his own power on his way to a Nebraska hospital where he will be treated for the disease in a specialized containment unit.

At the bottom of the jet’s steps, Ashoka Mukpo was loaded onto a stretcher for the ambulance ride to the Nebraska Medical Center.

Mukpo, 33, was working as a freelance cameraman for NBC News when he became ill last week.

He is the fifth American with Ebola to return to

the U.S. for treatment during the latest outbreak, which the World Health Organization estimates has killed more than 3,400 people.

Mukpo’s parents said they tried to talk him out of going to Liberia last month, but he told them he wanted to report on the severity of the epidemic.

“I told him I thought he was crazy,” said his father, Dr. Mitchell Levy.

“And I begged him from a mother’s perspective.

I said, ‘Please don’t go,’” Diana Mukpo said. “But there was nothing to do. He was determined.”

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Reforming the City’s Failed Housing Laws LAST WEEK, MORE THAN 150 STUDENTS CAMPED outside the headquarters of the Ithaca Renting Company in order to secure leases for Collegetown apartments for the following academic year. In the spring of 2013, the City of Ithaca attempted to alleviate the intense pressure that this annual housing rush places on students by lengthening the process of signing lease agreements. It sought to do so by requiring landlords to give their tenants two months notice before showing their residences to potential renters, signing lease agreements with future renters or requiring them to renew their leases. Unsurprisingly, the goals of the policy changes have failed to materialize. We at The Sun believe that this situation ought to be addressed with more comprehensive reforms to local housing policy that are fair to both tenants and landords.

The annual housing rush benefits landlords while disadvantaging tenants by forcing students to make premature, uninformed housing commitments a year in advance of move-in. Thus, the rectification of the situation is of crucial interest to the University community, and we applaud the City of Ithaca’s attempts to address it by working to eliminate heated competition in the local housing market.

However, the city has undermined its own attempts to halt the annual housing rush by failing to prohibit the signing of lease agreements at the beginning of the academic year. Further, the city has unwisely facilitated the circumvention of the 60-day notice window by permitting its mutual waiving by tenants and landlords.

We at The Sun call for the codified prohibition of notice waivers and earlyyear housing agreements, which are all too often ill-advised. Such measures are indispensable to the resolution of the Collegetown housing crisis. Further, we encourage the city to develop additional, tenant-friendly leasing guidelines. This, alongside residential development projects in the area, which we expressed our support for in an editorial Monday, has the potential to make the Collegetown housing market fairer and more sustainable.

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People like to know things, or, at to the Schuette case, there are a few senleast, they like to believe they know things. tences that make her point most powerfully Take that privilege away, and there’s little — “Race matters to a young woman’s sense they won’t do to gain it back. of self when she states her hometown, and Take the title of this particular column, then is pressed, ‘No, where are you really for example. “It” could refer to any number from?’, regardless of how many generations of things. “It” could refer to the 20 BRBs I her family has been in the country. Race have left in my account, a fact I’ve been told matters because of the slights, the snickers, multiple times I should be far more worried the silent judgments that reinforce that about than I am. “It” could refer to the most crippling of thoughts: ‘I do not belong number of times I’ve called my parents to here.’” Race and its influence on education tell them I miss them in the last week, a and opportunity is not something that can number that’s entirely unrelated to my real- be conveyed in numbers and data; it is a ization that I am broke, and it’s the first collection of small experiences, experiences week of October. “It” could even refer to that build up to become a disadvantage, a the essay I turned in a few minutes ago that barrier to future opportunities. was filled with ambiguous pronouns I’m Socioeconomic status, however, is tangible. sure my GPA will It can be compiled thank me for later. into statistics and However, “it,” in Personally, I think of affirmative used to show the this case, refers to a difficulties certain action in higher education as students topic that’s a lot like face. In an ambiguous proan issue with two facets: race fact, the strong cornoun itself — relation between and socioeconomic status. It everyone has an higher test scores opinion about it, and higher incomes would be unfair to consider yet very few people should come as no one without the other, and it have a clear idea surprise; families about to what it is with higher would be unfair to disregard referring to. “It” is incomes can afford both entirely. affirmative action to send their chilin higher educadren to SAT prep tion. courses and It’s not as good (or as bad) as you think. advanced tutoring, thereby creating an Actually, let’s remove what you think from advantage lower income applicants do not this conversation entirely and focus on what have access to. we know instead. Race as a legitimate factor Race and socioeconomic status matter, in college admissions was a notion first but they are not the only factors that matchallenged and addressed by the Supreme ter. To define an applicant by only his or her Court in 1978 in the case Regents of circumstances is to fail in the purpose of University of California vs. Bakke. Alan creating an environment in which an indiBakke, a white applicant, was denied vidual can be successful in more ways than admission to the university twice even one. People are not their circumstances; though minority applicants with signifi- they are how they choose to respond, to cantly lower standardized testing scores thrive despite the disadvantages they have were admitted. The Supreme Court’s deci- faced. Affirmative action in higher educasion set the precedent that while race was a tion should stand as an acknowledgement legitimate factor in school admissions, the of an applicant’s circumstances, not an use of such inflexible quotas as the school excuse to look only at an applicant’s circumhad set aside was not. Fast forward to April stances. So yes, F. Scott Fitzgerald had it 22 of this year: Schuette v. Coalition to right when he wrote, “Whenever you feel Defend Affirmative Action, in which the like criticizing any one … just remember Supreme Court successfully runs away from that all the people in this world haven’t had taking a solid stance on affirmative action, the advantages that you’ve had,” but whenand instead confirms the constitutionality ever you feel like evaluating someone, just of the states’ amendment process (an issue remember that they are not their disadvanno one was too concerned about). tages, but how they choose to respond to While it has upheld the constitutionality them. of certain aspects of affirmative action, the Supreme Court has more recently been Duggal is a freshman in the College of addressing the issue of affirmative action Hebani Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hdugwith a hesitancy that mirrors the attitude gal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal with which most people approach the issue appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Jacqueline |

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I Didn’t Think I Would Become AVictim Editors’ note: It is the policy of The Sun not to publish anonymous columns. In this case, we have made an exception and the name of the writer has been kept confidential to ensure that she is given the privacy that she has requested. The editors know the identity of the writer and have confirmed her story to the greatest extent possible.

Due to the sensitive nature of this column, we wanted to warn readers that this article describes multiple assaults. hen I was raped for the first time, I was surprised because it was so different from what I had imagined it to be like. I thought it would be violent. I thought it would be dramatic. I thought that the rapist would be like what you would imagine a criminal to be. I thought such a vocal and physically big and strong woman like me would never be a victim. But it did happen to me, and the rapist was my best friend.

At first, when it was about to happen, I tried to convince him that I’m his best friend. That I love him, but as a friend, and even if he had started seeing me another way, this was not the right approach. I didn’t kick or scream. In fact, I was still friendly, while clearly voicing my opinion. “I don’t want sex. If you do it, it would be rape.” However already taken by desire, he used force to stop me from pulling away and resisting, but he did not use violence. Later, he told me that he was sorry and that he always had feelings for me. Definitely not a rape scene I had imagined.

What really hurt me was not the fact that I was raped, but the fact that my own best friend treated me like a piece of meat, sole-

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Both of these instances happened quite unexpectedly, and with unexpected people as well. I first abhorred my female body, then came to embrace it. In retrospect, my experiences, although traumatizing, have grown me into a stronger person overall. ly because of my female body.

After the first rape and several other encounters with men, I realized one thing: There are men who do not always take “no” for “no.” I don’t know if it’s because some men always want sex, so they cannot fathom the fact that someone would not want to have sex, or because some of them watch too much porn in which the female porn star shyly says no, but nevertheless enjoys sex. In any case, there are men who think that when a woman dines with a man, she will want to kiss, and that when she lets a man kiss her, she will want to have sex. In order for women to avoid being assaulted, women should know that there are some men who think this way. (The better way to prevent rape is for men to know that “no” is “no,” but we know better not to depend on them).

The second time I was raped was by a guy I had just gone on a couple of dates with. He was being “funny” and grabbed my butt. He lifted my dress “for fun.” I said “seriously don’t, I don’t like it,” but he seemed to find it funny and think of it as a play.

I kept on asking him to stop, but he pinned me down and fingered me, still laughing. After that, he couldn’t control his own excitement and ended up penetrating. By then, he wasn’t smiling. Neither was I. (I was still wearing my dress and underwear, a clear sign of no, I don’t want sex.) This was also not a kind of rape I imagined. It started as something casual as grabbing my butt, what men see as “harmless” and “inoffensive,” sexual harassment. However, even these acts (like calling a girl sexy, spanking and groping, many of which I have experienced on Cornell’s campus) can be very dangerous. More so because there are men who cannot control their own desires. These men get excited by sexually harassing women and it can go too far, although that’s not necessarily what they had intended, as what happened with my second rape.

Both of these instances happened quite unexpectedly, and with unexpected people as well. I first abhorred my female body, then came to embrace it. In retrospect, my experiences, although traumatizing, have grown me into a stronger person overall.

Jacqueline is a recent graduate of Cornell University. Responses can be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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n a recent opinion they have “never cared” Emerson College — piece penned by about us and are the without any judicial President David foundation for this cul- action, it is clear that Skorton, he attempted ture of violence and women are not able to to reconcile the ideas of domination. Although continue living in free speech and civility. our fundamental beliefs America without harThe column was well begin to diverge with boring fear as well. written and helped to that last point, Dineen As I think back to make sense of how and I may be able to my own experiences of groups and institutions agree on potential meth- being followed around within the campus can ods to create effective in stores, intimidated by promote positive solu- change. cops, getting hostilely tions to serious issues.

In these institutions, called the “N-Word” However, certain issues fundamental changes and being racially proon campus and within must be made through filed, I know that I am the community are too protests that are taken to not alone. For example, demanding and too the next level. I am more take the recent case in immense to be able to than willing to declare Ithaca of four unarmed settle the issue on the this belief after hearing minority teens having a fine line that reigns Dineen and numerous police officer pull a gun between the freedom of women at Cornell on them. Yet, various speech and civility. expressing their constant underprivileged groups When dealing with certain issues, if civility Why not stand together and protest to end is not breached then necessary the onslaught of violence and domination? change will Too often we hear we need to stay calm and never be create more discussion on campus about wrought. the issue.

Last Tuesday, I attended a rally protesting campus rape fear of sexual violence in the United States culture in Willard on campus and beyond. wake up and continue Straight Hall, and from With the police murders to allow it. Why not the start, the underlying of Michael Brown and stand up together and message was clear. In Eric Garner finally head- protest to end this one of the most power- ed to a grand jury as onslaught of violence ful moments I have wit- heard in recent news, we and domination? Too nessed at Cornell, Bailey are reminded yet again often we hear that we Dineen ‘15 delivered a that even those institu- need to stay calm and speech about their per- tions assigned to protect create more discussion sonal experiences of sex- us seem to be aligned on campus about the ual assault. The words against us. After watch- issue. We need to they spoke shocked me. ing Eric Garner getting protest; not because The entire story, from choked to death on privileged people are the attack itself, to the video in July, I cannot inherently evil, but method in which it was simply continue on as a because it is easy for handled by Cornell, black man in America those that are privileged were not situations I without fear. After hear- to ignore the fact that believed were taking ing multiple stories in others are still dealing place in my community, the news about sexual with racism and sexism, let alone to my peers. assault happening on despite how far people Dineen touched on the campuses beyond ours think America has fact that institutions — from Emma come. I’m not saying we such as Cornell need to Sulkowicz at Columbia, need to go as far as the be torn down because to Jillian Doherty at Willard Straight

Takeover — though the Takeover did force the civil rights movement into college campuses as Cornell became one of the earliest pioneers.

However, we do need to be loud, we need to be abundant and, above all, we need to be in their face. We can become more rebellious while maintaining the law and ensuring nobody is harmed in the process. But, when we hold these rallies and protests, nobody should be able to walk to class without seeing us, nobody should be able to show up to work that day and not hear about us and no media organization should be able to avoid covering us. They say in order to understand a man you must walk a mile in his shoes.

I say we need to make those living in ignorance of our struggles do this whether they want to or not. Skorton, I respect that you want us to be civil. But how can we be civil when we are living a life of chaos?

Our chaos must become your chaos. Because, Presi dent Skorton, if someone is going to end up on the news in another case of police brutality it’s not you, it’s me.

Deon Thomas is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com.

It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

“What are you thinking? How are you feeling?

What have we done to each other? … What will we do?”

The first shots of Gone Girl, David Fincher’s muchhyped adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 bestseller, brings the audience immediately into contact with the psyches of its perfectly cast leads: Ben Affleck speaks the lines while the camera pans over Rosamund Pike at rest — all blonde hair and searching eyes. After a split-second title sequence, we are presented with the movie’s basic premise: On the morning of Nick (Affleck) and Amy Dunne’s (Pike) fifth wedding anniversary, Nick comes home to find Amy missing and evidence of a break-in. A large-scale investigation and media circus ensues and soon enough, Nick is the prime suspect in his wife’s murder.

It is a premise that would feel hollow and melodramatic if it were not for the film’s casting — Affleck, who has been criticized for years for his emotionless face and sleepy acting, is perfect as a man who we must be able to see as both an Average Joe and possibly a killer, as charming, intelligent and intermittently loving, but with the potential to be unfeeling and selfcontained. Pike is a marvel, an impossible-to-ignore presence, despite the fact that we become acquainted with Amy only through brief flashbacks, her voiceover of the notes she left to lead Nick through his anniversary “treasure hunt” and the diary that she has left behind.

It is also through Amy’s diary entries that the audience is let in on the story of how she and Nick started out as a couple — perfectly, it seems. Two interesting, beautiful people who were not just “smart” as in “educated,” but “smart” as in, “perceptive of the world around them and savvy about relationships” — they begin with Amy promising never to treat Nick “like a trained monkey, to be trotted out and shown off ” and with Nick swearing that he’ll never treat her like “the highway patrol, to be outmaneuvered and avoided.”

But early bliss gradually descends into dysfunction, factoring in a recession, a dead parent, a resented move from New York City to Missouri (“the navel of this great country”) and a host of other deceptions and emotional betrayals. Over the course of five years, love turns to hate, and hates turns to … murder? How could two people who had it so right end up getting it so wrong? That’s the haunting question of Gone Girl, as well as a huge clue to its central politics.

Gone Girl is a hateful film, disgusted by Americans’ propensity to cry wolf and their sick obsession with the sordid details of the lives of others — their ability to shout “Louder!” at a man who is speaking at a press conference held on the day after his wife’s disappearance; to take selfies in front of the bar he owns; to chase him on foot from a candlelight vigil — by the rotted-out generation that feels betrayed when its trust funds are retracted and just-for-fun employment is harder to find, by the man who calls his wife “com-

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plicated” as code for “bitch” and by the woman who point.

In any case, the surface is expertly designed. What calls a gorgeous home and a small business “not good enough … not even close,” but it is excused by know- has been delivered with Fincher’s direction and Jeff ing its targets and hitting them every time, as well as Cronenworth’s cinematography is not one masterby a great sense of humor. Also, a really talented cat piece, but two — the film’s first hour is a tight, controlled “dramatic mystery,” while the following 90 actor.

Another of the film’s victims: Men. And the women minutes are a still-exhilarating but mitigated piece of who try to please them. And the hypocrites of both black-hearted comedy. Using the same style of camera genders who falsely swear that their conceptualization (which maintains high resolution in low lighting) as of modern marriage has stepped out of the Dark Ages in the duo’s 2011 aesthetic wonder, The Girl With the and into the light of mutual respect and male femi- Dragon Tattoo, Cronenworth shoots for 60 minutes in nists and partnership. The only moment of decadent the dark, alternating between the blue-lit dreaminess monologuing that Flynn’s screenplay indulges in (a of the diary’s flashbacks and the grey and yellowed concerted reigning in, to be sure, given how many tones of Nick’s harrowing present. He then does 90 stunners there were in her novel) is the now infamous more with the challenging task of making life in the “Cool Girl” diatribe — which, during the process of light of day appear even more dizzying and warped condensing somehow became even more vicious, this (see one character’s mad tear through Big Lots for how one berating women who pretend that they live to even the everyday can get freaky). Standouts? The canshovel down chili dogs and then “open their mouths dlelight vigil is about as perfect as has been seen in for fucking” and out-and-out lambasting the man- recent memory (trumping a similar scene in Prisoners child who expects a “cool” girlfriend to never utter a in terms of how shadows can play to make a crowd of complaint, to have “[her] pussy waxed raw,” to be a tender-hearts look suddenly demonic); there is an size two without effort and to like every single thing exceptionally violent scene which expands on Paul that he likes. While Flynn’s novel was an intricate (if Verhoeven’s 1992 ode to Hitchcockian magic (only dark) examination of post-feminist marriage dynamics quicker, rougher and dirtier) and there is, just for fun, and love in the time of economic recession, the film a delightfully anti-Hollywood, from-the-female-perspective shot of Ben must be more heavy-handAffleck enjoying the ed for the sake of clarity. It Gone Girl taste of (and I quote) “a is a stubbornly sick social Directed by David Fincher world class vagina.” satire — to expect too While Cronenworth much morality or clarificaStarring Ben Affleck, Rosamund and Fincher are a tion of nuance beneath Pike, Neil Patrick Harris proven pairing, it’s the that surface is to miss the last member of the big three who’s the ringer — Gillian Flynn deserves highest honors for her own adapted screenplay, which shows a young and wildly successful/hip novelist who somehow managed to disenchant herself with her own work long enough to openly bask in its absurdism in the third act. It is because of her grace that Gone Girl can be called truly genredefying. It is cold while still being affecting, with borrowed elements of neo-noir. It delivers some of the nasty trauma of a full-blown horror movie. And while at times the misanthropy may be larger-than-life, bordering on surrealism, the sneaking paranoia that you can never truly know the person you marry is too real to shake off.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

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‘Surrealism and Magic’ to Do at the Johnson

BY MADELINE SALINAS Sun Staff Writer

Approaching the Johnson Museum to view the new “Surrealism and Magic” exhibition, I was immediately struck by the poster as I passed under the entrance, a mythical representation of a face with two symbols inscribed on the forehead and chin. As a viewer with minimal prior knowledge of Surrealism, truthfully I was unnerved by how inconsistent this inscription was with my simple image of surrealism — not straying far from Dali’s The Persistence of Memory. Yet, from this perspective, I believe that the “Surrealism and Magic” exhibition this fall at the Johnson Museum does an excellent job of walking viewers through the surrealists’ interest in magic from an intellectual, visual and religious perspective.

As I later learned in the exhibition, the central inscription for the exhibition “Ex Libris Cabalisticis” describes the exploration and research of knowledge. The two symbols inscribed on the face are alchemical symbols of lead and mercury; lead representing Saturn and the “melancholy of the learned” and mercury representing the eponymous planet, believed to govern the transmission of knowledge. As an opening to the exhibition, I think that the inscription excellently portrays the esoteric sense that the Surrealist movement often lends and encompasses the elements of science, occult and art emphasized in the rest of the works.

“Surrealism and Magic” portrays the link between magic and art as twofold. Some intellectual works curated in the exhibition represent intellectuals who strived to find discipline in magic rather than mystifying reality. On display, one may view Charles Ritchet’s Traité de métapsychique, published as an effort to draw metapsychics out of occultism as chemistry was drawn out of alchemy.

Yet, a handful of the surrealist works look at the challenges of society through a fantastical lens. For instance, in a series of juxtapositions of surrealist works juxtaposed against earlier counterparts. One pairing showcases Dürer’s

16th century woodcut The Fall of Man, a women standing next to a serpent, translated into Victor Brauner’s 1942 Femme au corps de serpent dans un arbre (Woman with Serpent’s Body in a Tree), construed to show a woman’s head descending into the body of a serpent, coiled around a branch. Another pairing juxtaposes a 17th century French etching of witches and sorcery next to a gouache work

by Georges Hugnet, entitled Petite fille imaginant une bacchanale. Both sets of works depict a dynamic community of people merrily engaged physically and in music, both even utilizing a similar flattened aesthetic. While the 17th century etching depicts at its pinnacle Satan upon a throne to represent the cult offense against god and the state, the Hugnet work is punctuated by a child, who faces away from the viewer, fascinated with the bacchanal scene before her and perhaps comparing the child with the savage of its inspiration. The vibrant-colored, ambiguous figures imposed on the black and white landscape of the Hugnet work, compared to its earlier counterpart, emphasizes the supernatural quality of the piece. As Russian occultist Peter Ouspensky is quoted, “the artist must be a clairvoyant: He must see that which others do not see; he must be a magician.” Ultimately, the pairings encourage viewers to look beyond the political or realistic context of the paintings and prints displayed to examine the internal and mystical forces influencing the scenes at play.

Further examining the relationship between fantasy and reality with child drawings featured by the Museum of Modern Art and La Bouche en croissant (Smiling Face), the exhibit also explores the influence of primitive and even child artwork and the fantastical surrealist imagery and simultaneously exposes the deep rooted influence of Breton

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in the surrealist movement. Breton, a medic in a mental hospital during World War I, was intrigued by the simplicity and irrationality of his patients’ expression. The link between the work of the youth and insane with surrealism is both complicated and controversial. As a quotation by Sandra R. Zalman in the exhibition states, “Surrealists are aware of the distinction between fantasy and reality unlike children and the insane.” Moreover, by exploring this controversy in the surrealist movement, the exhibition highlights the adoption of magic not only by artists but into society as it considered the role of magic in childhood development.

The intellectual roots of Surrealism laid by Breton are compellingly curated in his literature on display and the thorough explications that accompany them. Moreover, the pairings of paintings in the exhibition demonstrate how the surrealist ideology of Breton was both formed and expressed in artwork and society. “Surrealism and Magic” presents the intellectuals and artists influencing and expressing the surrealist movement while clearly showing the backbone of the movement in Breton’s writings and artwork.

Madeline Salinas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun.com.

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Marrero said that stakes are high going into the Princeton game as the Red looks to change the tide this season.

“A win at Princeton will bring us back to .500, and while that’s not exactly where we wanted to be at the start of the season, we still have to take the rest of the year one game at a time,” he said.

According to Zalevsky, the Red plans on eliminating avoidable mistakes that occurred during the Army game and looks forward to showing off the team’s progress against its Ivy foe.

“We are looking forward to correcting any imperfections and showcasing our improvements against Princeton on Friday,” he said.

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under center, the Patriots rank in the bottom half of the league in passing yards. Yes, the Patriots have always been known to run the ball a lot – more than some feel they should – but where has New England’s prized passing attack gone? Most of the leagues’ top quarterbacks are currently leading the NFL in yards: Andrew Luck, Matt Ryan, Drew Brees, Phillip Rivers, Peyton Manning and so on. Not Tom Brady. The reason for this is simple: New England, year after year, has provided Brady with one of the league’s worst receiving corps – one far, far less talented than those of New Orleans, Atlanta, Denver, etc.

With an all-time great under center, why has New England not made a move – via draft, signing or trade – to acquire a big-play pass-catcher? Rob Gronkowski is as good of a receiving tight end as any in the league, but with no outside receiving threats, opposing defenses can focus their game plans on containing Gronk.

Today, New England’s number one receiver is Julian Edelman.

Edelman’s a good player who catches everything thrown his way, but he’s only 5’10”. He’s not much of a deep threat, and is more of a 10-catches-for-eightyards-a-piece kind of guy. He’s perfect for Tom Brady, but not as a number one receiver. Edelman is far better suited in a Wes Welker, slot receiver type role. A few seasons ago, Edelman was the Patriots third or fourth option. But Edelman is the number one because he is the best wideout the Pats have to offer.

Behind him on the depth chart are unproven young players (Aaron Dobson), small, Edelman-like slot receivers (Danny Amendola) and guys who have failed to make much of an impression at the pro level (Brandon LaFell). These guys are okay – maybe a little better than okay – but Tom Brady deserves better talent.

The only seasons Brady has had a true number one receiver on his team were ’07, ’08 and ‘09. On draft day 2007, the Pats

acquired superstar receiver Randy Moss from the Raiders. In Moss’ first season in New England, he broke Jerry Rice’s single-season record for touchdown receptions with 23. In Brady’s first season with Moss, he broke Peyton Manning’s single season record with 50 touchdown passes. Oh, and the Pats went 16-0 in the regular season and nearly recorded the league’s second perfect season before losing to the Giants in the Super Bowl. Moss caught 11plus touchdowns in his final two seasons in New England. With other solid receivers like Wes Welker and Donte Stallworth on the roster, teams could not implement similar shut-downMoss gameplans like the ones seen today versus Rob Gronkowski.

Despite the success of the Brady-Moss duo, the Pats have not acquired a big-name receiver since Moss’ departure. The franchise notorious for trading draft picks in order to stockpile picks in later years has failed to draft a potential-packed receiving stud.

Gronkowski was a second round pick, and a great one at that, but besides him, little has been done to give Tom Brady big-time targets. With the number of star receivers who have entered the league in the last few years, it’s shocking – and frustrating for Brady fans. Doesn’t the Pats’ front office see what everyone else sees? What about Bill Belichick?

Tom Brady is still a top-five quarterback in the NFL. He is still the same Tom Brady that won three super bowls, as exhibited in his surgical picking-apart of a top Bengals’ defense. If Brady does, in fact, have issues with his staff, you can’t blame him. With just one star receiver alongside No.12, the Patriots offense would be Broncos-like in terms of effectiveness.

It’s time for moves to be made in New England. As a longtime fan of Tom Brady, I would be sad to see Brady leave the Pats for any reason, but it’s his teams’ job to ensure that the franchises’ alltime greatest player retires in blue and white.

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Red Fails to Topple Dominant Army Squad

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The sprint football team traveled to West Point Oct. 3 to take on a formidable opponent in Army, a team that has not lost in over two seasons. Army entered the weekend on an impressive 16-game winning streak and ultimately extended the

run as the Red fell, 49-7.

Turnovers were costly yet again for the Red, as the squad turned the ball over five times, including three in the second quarter.

Army is certainly dangerous on the offensive side of the ball, and the Red learned it the hard way. The Black Knights lead the conference averaging 263 yards per

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Record recaps | Friday’s win against the Red marked the Black Knights’ 17th straight victory.

Cornell, which has lost two straight, can jump back to .500 with a win over Princeton next weekend.

game, while already scoring six touchdowns through the air. Quarterback J.J. Wartski leads the league with 526-yards passing, while completing 58.1 percent of his passes (50-86). He is also second in the league with a passing efficiency of 127.9.

Additionally, he has thrown at least three touchdowns in each game thus far and leads the Collegiate Sprint Football League with 11 passing touchdowns.

Wartski was instrumental for Army’s fast paced aerial attack on Friday. He went 19-of-25 for 266-yards and five touchdowns to lead the Black Knights to victory.

Additionally, Army racked up 515 yards of total offense while holding the Red to just 192. The foe’s offensive surge in the second quarter allowed it to rack up 35 points for a 42-0 lead at the break. Ultimately, the deficit proved too much for Cornell to come back from and the squad trailed until the end.

The Black Knights also challenged Cornell with a strong performance on defense. Army ranked second in the league in total defense two seasons ago, while it led the league in total defense in its CSFL title defense last season. The team has continued to excel in defense this season, ranking second in the league, allowing just 206yards per game. Army’s defense made it extremely difficult for the Red to put numbers on the board. Ultimately, it wasn’t

until the end of the fourth quarter that sophomore John Zelek had a one-yard touchdown for Cornell’s lone score of the day.

The Red also saw some success on defense, however. Senior linebacker Noah Shephard led the squad’s defense with 12 tackles — five solo and seven assists — including one sack. Freshman Dominic LaBell showed talent in the defensive zone, adding eight tackles — four solo and four assists — with an interception.

Although the loss to Army definitely hit a nerve, the Red looks ahead to Princeton with a positive mindset.

“The Army game was a tough one for us,” said junior wide-receiver Trevor Marrero. “We made mistakes on both sides of the ball, but we’re putting the game behind us and looking forward to getting back on track against Princeton.”

Senior captain Greg Zalevsky echoed Marrero’s sentiments and added that the loss indicates that the Red must reinforce its strategic initiatives on the field and execute rather than change direction altogether.

“The loss to Army was a tough pill to swallow but it’s behind us now,” he said.

“Rather than scrap what we’ve been doing, we need to buckle down and commit to See SPRINT page 11

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By ANNA FASMAN

in the game but needs to come out stronger and on the offense from the start.

While senior libero Natasha One area of strength for the Red is Rowland continued to make Cornell in its team dynamic, Phelps said. She history, the women of the volleyball explained that the women of the team team struggled to come out on top in are friends and teammates both on and both games this weekend. The Red fell off the court. This sort of team coheto Ivy foes University of Pennsylvania sion drives the women to play well not and Princeton on the just for themselves, road, unable to notch “We relied too much on but for their teamany set wins against mates.

Princeton on Friday the other teams making “We have great and only securing one mistakes.” team cohesion. We set win against Penn get along on and off Macey Wilson on Saturday. the court which is Cornell, now 3-10, something really spehas struggled so far this season. While cial,” she said. “We know what gets the team itself is cohesive, the players each other going and how to help them have struggled to come out with out when they’re struggling. We win aggression and drive to win, leaving together and we lose together, but most them down at the start and unable to importantly we play for each other.” come back. Sophomore middle hitter Moving forward, the team knows Macey Wilson explains that the Red that it can perform at a higher level and was waiting for the other team to make hopes to show that developed level of errors rather than coming out strong play, especially on the Red’s home and on the offense. court, Phelps said. She notes that home “We relied too much on the other team advantage can really play a role in teams making mistakes when we the outcome of a match, and perhaps should have been more aggressive,” she that is another reason Cornell strugsaid. gled to win this weekend.

However, there were some high “Each team defends their home points during the weekend, including court so well and they really come out Rowland’s ever-increasing dig count. to play. We are determined to win our Rowland, who plays libero, a strictly matches at home when these teams defensive role on the court, now sits in visit and we're going to fight to win the sixth place for all time digs in Cornell rest of our away games even though history. With 11 games of Ivy play they might be tough,” she said. ahead of her, she is sure to keep moving These next couple of weeks will be up in the ranks. crucial for the team’s success, since the With other strong performances rest of the season just consists of Ivy from sophomore setter Alyssa Phelps play. The Red will face both Princeton and hitters freshman Maddy Sroufe and Penn again on its home court, as and Wilson, the Red is still very much well as Columbia, which overtook the

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he Patriots dismantled the undefeated Bengals, 43-17, at home on Sunday night. Tom Brady threw for nearly 300 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions.

A New England team that had been struggling appeared to have returned to its winning ways. But even after the landslide victory, Tom Brady found himself in the headlines for off-the-field reasons. ESPN reported that tension between Brady and his coaching staff

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz could lead to the end of Brady’s historic tenure in Foxborough. Brady, as ESPN reported, has been “uncomfortable with Patriots’ changes.” Although Brady has vehemently denied any such internal issues with his team, the fact of the matter is this: Tom Brady has the right to be disappointed with the staff that he has won three Super Bowl titles for, because they have failed to surround him with the talent he deserves.

The Pats are still the favorite to win the AFC East this season. They have won their division 11 of the 13 seasons Tom Brady has been on the team. Now 3-2, the Pats appear to have moved on from their sluggish earlyseason start, and are playing classic Patriots football. But despite having one of the greatest quarterbacks to every play in the league See SHATZMAN page 11

Red on Sept. 27 on the road. Wilson is optimistic for the rest of the season and knows that her team has the potential to win the league.

“We know we can play at a high level, we just have to find the consistency at that high level,” she said.

“Princeton is a solid team this year, yet both teams [were] very beatable and we are looking forward to playing them again at home because we know that we can beat them.”

Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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Stat sheet | Senior libero Natasha Rowland jumped up to sixth in program history for career digs after posting 23 in Saturday’s game against Penn.