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University, Ithaca Sued Cornell Partakes in Program Over 2012 Gorge Death To Minimize Substance Abuse Of Cornell Alumnus

By ASHLEY CHU

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At least the third suit against University over gorge-related deaths since 2011

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

Cornell and the City of Ithaca are facing a lawsuit filed by the family of a Cornellian who fell to his death in the Cascadilla Gorge nearly two years ago, according to court documents.

A l a n Young-Bryant M.A. ’07 YOUNG-BRYANT Ph.D. ’11 was Ph.D. ’11 found dead in the gorge during a visit from Los Angeles to see his girlfriend and celebrate her successful defense of her Ph.D. thesis and the completion of her exams. The couple was last seen

together at the Chapter House on Dec. 4, 2012, according to court documents.

After falling into the gorge, Young-Bryant reportedly sustained “severe blunt trauma and personal injuries” on the trail — which is maintained by the Cornell Plantations and owned by the city — 80 feet below the ridge of the gorge near the Stewart Avenue Bridge.

The lawsuit, filed by the family of Young-Bryant, 32, alleges that Cornell and the city were negligent in the maintenance of the gorge trail and that they did not properly light the trail.

“The condition of the Cascadilla Gorge Trail walkway, adjacent railings and inadequate or non-existing

Last week, the University announced that it is one of 56 colleges participating in a national initiative to review student alcohol and drug use and campus mental health services in support of student well-being.

Schools participating new initiative — led by the Jed Foundation and The Clinton Mental Health Matters Campus Program — make a four-year commitment to work with the program

to improve mental health services for students. The new iniative specfically targets minimizing alcohol and substance abuse on campus, according to Janis Whitlock, director of the Cornell Research Program on SelfInjurious Behaviors.

“The newly released Jed Initiative is to really couple alcohol and substance abuse with the mental health focus that it had,” said Whitlock, who is also a member of the Jed Foundation Board of Advisors. “The overall initiative is one meant to provide a common See MENTAL HEALTH page 4

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Show your stripes

CornelliansTake Home Nobel Prize

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resolved fluorescence microscopy” have a connection to Cornell, — a technology that allows according to Corey Earle ’07, researchers to examine parts of alumni engagement officer for the Two Cornell alumni — Eric molecules that were previously too University.

Betzig M.S. ’85, “Betzig and Moerner small to be Ph.D. ’88 and are the 14th and 15th s e e n William E. Moerner Cornell graduates to win through a M.S. ’78 Ph.D. ’82 — Nobel Prizes and the 43th microscope were awarded the and 44th Cornell-affiliat— accord2014 Nobel Prize in ed winners, by my count,” ing to the Chemistry on Earle said.

R o y a l Wednesday.

Because of the diffracSwedish The two tion limit, a fundamental Academy of Cornellians, along MOERNER Ph.D. ’82 Sciences. law of optics that indicates BETZIG Ph.D. ’88 with a third scientist, that the resolution of a Betzig Stefan W. Hell of Germany, were and Moerner are the latest in a honored for their work on “super- long line of Nobel laureates that See NOBEL page 5 Sun Staff Writer

Colleagues Remember Student as‘Dedicated’

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Arthur Peterson ’15 shares his story with the public to celebrate National Coming Out Day on Ho Plaza Wednesday.

Taylan Cihan grad, a music student in the College of Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday morning. He was 36.

Cihan, a doctoral stu-

dent, studied composition and was a founding member of the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble — a campus music group focused on improvisation — according to a statement from Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and

Sciences. Information about the cause of his death was unavailable Wednesday night.

Cihan was a “singular artist and person” who was extremely dedicated to his work, according to Prof. Kevin Ernste, music, who acted as

Cihan’s mentor.

“He was self-driven and forged his own path, providing an example of artistic courage admired by his students, colleagues, collaborators, friends and teachers,” See CIHAN page 5

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At yesterday’s Student Assembly meeting in Robert Purcell Community Center, Cornellians debated Campus Life’s proposal to close Balch and Risley Dining Halls within the next three years.

Balch and Risley dining halls have been financially unprofitable in recent years, according to Jean Reese, project leader for the residential initiative that will move all freshmen to North Campus by 2001. She attributed this to the small lunch crowds there as well as the facilities’ small overall capacities.

Peg Rodger, the associate director of Campus Life, commented that the “overall functionality and design of Balch dining are terrible.”

“The current facilities are very tired,” she said.

Expanding and renovating Balch and Risley dining would be too expensive and improbably, Rodger said.

To make Risley more functional, its unique architecture would have to be altered, she continued. Balch dorm rooms would have to be displaced to allow for an expanded dining hall there.

Residents of Risley and Balch Halls have expressed anger over the proposals to close their dining halls.

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intimate dining hall with cook-to-order operations,” said Risley residential adviser Hugh Ryan ’00.

Earlier this year, students formed the Coalition to Save Risley and Balch Dining. They distributed 1,200 surveys to students at North Campus dining halls to solicit information on how students feel about the possibilities of Balch and Risley dining closing.

The members have made changes and handed out fliers to encourage people to eat at Risley and Balch.

“The major problem is that people think that Risley is only for the people who live in the dorm, but thy are just as welcome here aas they are anywhere else on campus,” said coalition member Amanda Westervelt ’99.

“The administration wants to build community on North Campus, but the dining hall really helps build community in our building,” she added.

Reese disagreed, saying, “The dining units in a building do not create community within the entire group.”

According to Reese, North Campus will be designed to create a cohesive community for the freshman class.

As a part of the North Campus renovations, there will be more places where students can buy food at all hours.

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Truck Loses Brakes, Crashes Into Utility Pole On Hector Street A dump truck traveling down the 200 block of Hector Street lost its brakes, running into the opposite lane of traffic and crashing into a utility pole and trees at approximately 3:51 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, according to the Ithaca Police Department.

The driver was not injured, according to police. The front end of the truck — which was carrying asphalt and towing a trailer with a paver — was heavily damaged.

The truck, which belongs to Harrison Paving Company of Bucks, Pennsylvania, was operated by an employee of the company.

Hector Street was closed off until the truck was removed and the telephone pole was replaced, according to IPD. Two large wreckers and responders from six different emergency teams and government organizations were at the scene.

Wednesday’s accident is the second incident in recent months where a large vehicle lost control of its brakes.On June 20, a large tractor-trailer barreled into the Simeon’s Restaurant on the Ithaca Commons, injuring several and killing one.

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Ombudsman Serves Following C.U.Career

Prof. Emeritus Walcott was named the University’s 12th ombudsman in 2011 “[The three of us] have very different backgrounds which cover a wide range of experiences,” he said. “That means that whatever the issue, one of us is likely to be able to be helpful Prof. Emeritus Charles Walcott Ph.D. ’59, neurobiology and provide some suggestions as to how to resolve the proband behavior, officially retired in 2008, but he continues to lem. We don’t solve the problem, what we do is to try to help remain an active and involved member of the Cornell com- you solve it.”

According to Walcott, all issues are discussed under the munity as the University Ombudsman.

After retiring from a career at Cornell that began in 1981 general principles of the International Ombudsman with his position as director of the Cornell Lab of Association, which include independence, informality, neutrality and confidentiality.

Ornithology and ended in He said that over the years 2008 with his position as “What is really important the office has had between 250 Dean of the University faculty, is to come see us before a and 400 visitors, with the Walcott said he decided to majority of these visitors being apply for the position of situation gets too far out staff and faculty.

University Ombudsman in of hand. Most problems “Over 50 percent of our visi2011 after the death of the are easier to resolve in tors requesting an Ombudsman Walter Lynn, the previous meeting are staff and faculty, University Ombudsman. their early stages.” [and] about one-third of our “As Dean of the Faculty, I visitors include undergraduate had worked with Walter and Prof. Emeritus Charles Walcott and graduate students,” Walcott he had suggested to me that I might like to succeed him,” he said. “So, I applied to the said.

He said that his position as Ombudsman is “always intersearch committee and was selected.”

Along with serving as University Ombudsman, Walcott esting,” but also “very satisfying” when he is able to help said he still continues to teach, conduct research and serve as someone. “[The best part of my job] is meeting somebody that we the University Marshal. He said his position as the University Ombudsman involves providing a “safe and confidential have worked with and having them tell us that we had really been helpful,” Walcott said. place” for Cornellians to voice their issues and concerns.

Walcott added he welcomes undergraduates to reach out to “For undergraduates, it is often a problem with a professor, a grade dispute, difficulties with financial aid or even interper- the Office of the Ombudsman, stressing that the office is a sonal disputes,” Walcott said. “Whatever the issue, we meet, safe and confidential space.

“What is really important is to come see us before a situatalk, and we are usually able to guide folk to other resources or tion gets too far out of hand,” he said. “Most problems are eassuggest different approaches toward resolving the problem.”

Walcott said he works with Linda Falkson, associate ier to resolve in their early stages.”

Ombudsman, and Helen Yang, Ombudsman office coordinaAnika Sethy can be reached at asethy@cornellsun.com. tor.

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Students’ Stories Franck Onambélé ’14 completes fundraising campaign for installation of water pump in African village

By JEANETTE SI

shift stairs by herself with two Cornell community, he said he Since then, Onambélé said heavy buckets of water in tow, managed to raise the $8,000 he has received positive feedback he knew it from the villagers, who This January, Franck was time to send him Onambélé ’14 returned from take action. “ T h i s pictures of winter break with one thought the pump so — Oyak, Cameroon, must woman, she that he can have accessible and clean water. doesn’t know see how After a seven-month successful anyone, she they use it fundraising campaign later, it had nowhere to go [for in their now does. help].

She daily lives.

The 2,000 residents of Oyak Although he now have easy access to a self- could’ve been has not been replenishing pump and well my mother, or able to visit system that holds 1,000 liters of my sister, or girlOyak since filtered water at any given time, my the installaaccording to Onambélé. Prior friend,” he tion of the to this, Oyak’s main source of said. “I [was] p u m p , water had been a river at the sure that if I the Onambélé foot of a hill, a three-mile walk asked right people at said he plans from the village. to make An Oyak native, Onambélé Cornell … another trip said he was no stranger to this s o m e o n e would help this winter. routine.

Ac c o rd i n g “I remember as a kid, I had [her].”

As part of to Onamto walk that far. I was waking bélé, the up at 4 a.m. to go through the an internagreatest line to be the first to have tional requirement for his challenge he water,” he said. faced during Though Onambélé moved major, Onamthe project to Canada in 2005, he said he bélé started an was raising has since made trips back to I n d i e g o g o campaign in funds on his Oyak, including one last winter own, rather that inspired him to start his March to raise t h a n pump campaign, The Sun pre- money for a COURTESY OF FRANCK ONAMBÉLÉ water pump Labor of love | Franck Onambélé ’14 raised $8,000 for a water pump through a viously reported.

Oyak. charity Onambélé said that when he in organizasaw a pregnant woman climb- With some that was installed this summer in Oyak, Cameroon. tion.

He ing the make- help from the needed for the pump by May. said — for this reason — his The pump was ready for use by idea was initially turned down Know someone remarkable? Send your suggestion August. by many sponsors. to managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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“I hadn’t wanted people to give money … just so they could receive something from it,” he said. “I wanted people to give just to help someone else.”

Onambélé said he asked student organizations at Cornell for support as well as procured the help of Cornell’s Public Service Center. Together, they held an art show in May that featured the donated artwork of many student artists.

Proceeds from the art show raised around $500 for his cause, and the event itself brought more visibility to his project — enough that he raised 102 percent of his goal by his Indiegogo deadline, according to Onambélé.

Onambélé — who plans to pursue a master’s degree in international development — added that he is looking to start a campaign to build a second well that is easier to use to keep up with the water demand.

“I’ve learned that we take a lot of things for granted, and people don’t believe in themselves,” Onambélé said. “People don’t know what they have. We all have something in us that someone will appreciate, and [we should] use that … If we decide to use it, we will achieve anything we want, in a good way.”

Jeanette Si can be reached at js2882@cornell.edu.

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midnight.

Briley, according to police, awoke at 3 a.m. to find Young-Bryant had still not returned. At this point, she called the Ithaca Police Department and the Cayuga Medical Center.

The next morning, Young-Bryant’s body would be found at the bottom of the gorge.

“The male subject was deceased and laying on the slate stone trail with his feet hanging over a foot ledge above the creek,” according to a police report.

lighting, had existed for so long a period to the happening of the instant incident that said dangerous condition of the walkway should have been discovered and remedied,” the complaint stated.

In addition, police found that the metal hand railing “directly above” where they thought Young-Bryant fell was broken and bent.

The mother of Young-Bryant — Judith Young van Wageningen — filed the suit and is seeking The Third of Its Kind compensation from the University and the city The suit is at least the third regarding gorgefor their “negligence.” related deaths to come against the University “The incident and injuries suffered by [the] since 2011, and the second that claimed the plaintiff ’s descendant were gorges were not sufficiently caused through the neglilit. gence and carelessness of Police found that the metal Howard Ginsburg ’70 [the] defendants [the] City of the University after his sued hand railing “directly Ithaca, Cornell University son, Bradley Ginsburg ’13, and/or [the] Cornell above” where they thought committed suicide from the Plantations,” the complaint Thurston Avenue Bridge in Young-Bryant fell was stated.

February 2010.

After years of litigation, a broken and bent.

Death of a ‘Brilliant’ settlement was reached last Academic month, creating a scholarship On Dec. 4, Young-Bryant in Bradley Ginsburg’s memo— who was described by Cornell professors as a ry. In addition, the city agreed to put forth “brilliant” scholar following his death — and his $100,000 as part of the settlement. girlfriend Alexis Briley went to the Chapter In addition, the family of Khalil King ’13 sued House along with several other Cornellians for a the University after King fell to his death in 2010 night of celebration. into the Fall Creek Gorge behind the Phi Gamma Young-Bryant was “highly intoxicated” before Delta fraternity house. In the suit, which is still his death, with a blood alcohol content of .22 ongoing, King’s parents claim that Cornell did percent, according to police reports. not provide adequate lighting or barriers preventWhen Briley went to leave the Chapter House ing gorge access, The Sun previously reported. later that evening, she was unable to find YoungBryant. After searching the neighborhood, she Tyler Alicea can be reached at returned back to where they were staying around managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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framework and language for universities across the country for delaying with mental health and alcohol and drug ideas.”

Though Cornell is partnered with the Jed Initiative, it has had its own similar mental framework independent from the program, according to Whitlock.

“The Jed Initiative was one of the earliest comprehensive frameworks, but Cornell has its own mental health framework that is very parallel to the Jed framework,” Whitlock said. “The idea of both of them is that you really need to have an ecological approach to conceptualizing and intervening with mental health and alcohol use.”

Whitlock said this “ecological approach” refers to looking at the “natural factors” as well as “climate and structural issues” of mental health and alcohol and substance abuse.

“The idea of ecology is that we live in these interlinked systems and this is true no matter what you’re looking at,” Whitlock said. “Certainly, when you’re looking at mental health, you really need to have a multipronged approach to both understanding and treating it.”

The Jed Initiative particularly focuses this approach on mental health and alcohol and substance abuse, according to Whitlock.

“For alcohol, [an ecological approach looks at] structural issues that affect the availability of alcohol and the use of alcohol,” Whitlock said.

“And for mental health factors, it would be [factors such as] how many treatment specialists we have on campus ... whether [students are] coming in with a history of mental health challenges and whether they’re willing to seek help.”

The willingness of students to seek help in a difficult situation is a large focus of the ecological approach that the Jed Initiative seeks to pursue, Whitlock added.

“An ecological intervention would say we need to spread that word that it’s okay to seek help through systems that affect the whole campus population,” Whitlock said. “So having [President David Skorton] show up and having every incoming freshman hear him say that it’s really important to [seek help] is part of the ecological initiative.”

The Jed Foundation was created by couple Donna and Phil Satow in 2000 after their son, Jed Satow, committed suicide during college, according to Gregory Eels, associate director of Gannett Health Services.

“The Jed Foundation has been working for over a decade now to figure out how to help colleges and universities address issues of mental health,” said Eels, who is also the director of Counseling and Psychological Services and a member of the Jed Foundation Board of Directors.

When the University joined the Jed Program with its seal of approval in October 2013 — which states that Cornell meets the program’s mental health resource criteria — the mental framework that Gannett had developed had already been in place, Eels said.

“Really, for us, it was more of a cataloguing and getting feedback on things we were already doing,” he said. “For a long time, we’ve been working on a comprehensive mental health framework at Gannett. So a lot of it at Cornell was really giving us an opportunity to say, ‘Here’s the work that we’re doing.’”

Many of the areas that the Jed Foundation assesses when awarding the seals are initiatives that the University’s mental health framework already works to achieve, according to Eels.

“A lot of it is acknowledgement of [our pre-existing framework],” Eels said. “What’s changed is that after developing the seal program, they’ve developed the initiative with the Clinton Foundation, which includes substance use, alcohol use and the impact of mental health.

What we’ll be asked to in the next year is talk about some of the things that we’ve done around alcohol use, and we’ve done quite a bit.”

One way that Cornell has addressed issues of alcohol abuse is through the National College Improvement Program, an initiative with Dartmouth College that has resulted in the Cayuga’s Watchers program with some student input, according to Eels.

Ashley Chu can be reached at achu@cornellsun.com.

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Ernste said.

Cihan and his work had a significant impact on his colleagues, faculty and students in the University’s music department, Ernste added. “[He was] utterly dedicated to his own work and ideas, a musician at heart who put thousands of hours into making sound and developing unique, do-it-yourself electronic instruments for live performance,” Ernste said. “He had diligently acquired a profound expertise with these tools and loved to share his knowledge skillfully and openly with others.”

Ernste described Cihan’s music and performances in the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble as both “edgy” and “beautifully refinoed.” “[His] musical sensibilities helped give life to a rich, mutually serendipitous musical language that none of us who shared in it with him, Taylan included, could have expected or set out to create,” he said.

Chris Miller grad, a founding member of the Cornell Avant Garde Ensemble, said it was a “delight” playing with Cihan.

“His music was incredibly inventive and energetic — he was a major force in the group,” Miller said. “He was always making new instruments.”

As a result of his inventive spirit, Cihan frequently created his own musical technology, according to Prof. Steven Pond, music, who taught a class where Cihan served as a teaching assistant.

“He was most in his element in what he called ‘do it together’ — collaborative invention, collaborative music-making,” he said. “He was a fantastically inventive person, who had an exciting way of connecting musical composition with experimental sound technologies.”

Cihan helped to teach monthly do-it-yourself music workshops at the History Center in Tompkins County for members of the Ithaca community, Pond added.

“Taylan would teach all comers to understand the synthesizer by making a simple version of their own — no prior knowledge necessary, parts provided,” he said. “The workshop setting, always accompanied by a congenial buzzing punctuated by triumphant cries of discovery, led to a palpable sense of community.”

Prof. Steven Stucky, music, said Cihan’s peers and colleagues in the music department will miss his “unfailingly kind” presence and artistic vision.

“His vision of the intersection of technology with sound art promised to enlarge the musical world for all of us, and thus his loss is both a personal blow and an artistic one,” Stucky said.

Details about a commemorative gathering in Cihan’s memory will be announced in the next few days, according to Ritter.

“On behalf of the College of Arts and Sciences, I want to extend my deepest condolences to Taylan’s family, friends, faculty advisors, artistic collaborators, fellow graduate students, as well as those students that he taught,” Ritter said.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

Following Supreme Court Ruling, ClerksTurn Away Gay Couples LAS VEGAS, N.V. (AP) — County clerks in Nevada turned away gay couples eager to marry Wednesday amid a flurry of conflicting court decisions, including a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that blocked partners in Idaho moments before they would have picked up marriage licenses.

“I think I have whiplash,” said Mary Baranovich who was a plaintiff in a Nevada court challenge to the state’s gay marriage ban with Beverly Sevcik, her partner of 43 years.

A 9th Circuit ruling late Tuesday cleared the way for Idaho and Nevada to begin issuing same-sex marriage licenses.

Couples gathered early Wednesday, but a ruling by Justice Anthony Kennedy brought such plans to a halt in both states.

Later, Kennedy clarified that the stay he approved applied only to Idaho, but Nevada officials said they wanted to wait for clearer direction.

A Supreme Court decision Monday effectively made gay

marriage legal in about 30 states, but for several how and when that would happen remained in doubt. In South Carolina, for example, a judge issued a license for a handful of gay couples, but no one got married as the state’s attorney general asked the Supreme Court for a stay.

In Idaho, hopeful couples crowded courthouses early to apply for marriage licenses.

But at 8:01 a.m., Ada County Clerk Chris Rich handed the Supreme Court memo to a lawyer and told a small crowd of gay couples and their supporters gathered in a Boise courthouse, “We’re not issuing same-sex marriage licenses today.” The announcement left the room in stunned silence, except for a small child asking over and over, “Why?” “We were past the metal detectors, we were just a few feet away from the clerk,” said Amber Beierle. “And then our attorney was handed a onepage document. Apparently, it was Justice Kennedy telling us, No.”

microscope can never be better than half the wavelength of light being looked at, small structures within cells could not be observed before this technology, according to The New York Times.

Betzig, Moerner and Hell’s method works by causing parts of the cell to glow, making it possible for researchers to see the smallest molecules in a cell once a set of images are combined, according to The Times.

Moerner, a professor of applied physics at Stanford University, has used the technology to study proteins related to Huntington’s disease and Betzig, a researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Virginia, has used it to track

cell division inside of embryos.

Cornell’s first Nobel recipient, Prof. Peter Debye, won his honor in Chemistry for his work on molecular structure in 1936, according to Earle.

Earle added hat there are now 10 Nobel Laureates in chemistry affiliated with the University after Betzig and Moerner’s award.

“Cornell has previously had six faculty and two A.D. White Professors-at-Large win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Betzig and Moerner are the first alumni,” Earle said. “It’s great to see Cornellians recognized for their accomplishments on the world stage.”

Dave Janeczek can be reached at djaneczek@cornellsun.com.

Same-Day Registration in N.C.Not Allowed RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Same-day registration won’t be allowed during early voting in North Carolina and Election Day ballots cast in the wrong precinct won’t be counted this fall after the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday blocked a ruling that had set aside parts of a 2013 election law.

A majority on the nation’s highest court agreed to halt the ruling of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Two justices dissented.

The decision means the full law will remain enforced while the state and civil rights groups that challenged the law prepare for trial next summer. The full

law was enforced during the May primary as well.

In-person early voting begins Oct. 23 and the registration deadline remains Friday, as originally planned.

The court’s order was unsigned, as it typically is in these situations. Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Sonia Sotomayor dissented, saying they would have left the appellate ruling in place.

It is unclear how the other seven justices came down on the matter, other than that at least five formed a majority and voted in North Carolina’s favor.

State attorneys filed an emergency application for a stay last week, the day after the 2-1 circuit

court decision in favor of setting aside the provisions. Lawyers for the state argued that bringing back the provisions would cause voter confusion and trouble for local election officials to implement them again.

Rep. David Lewis, R-Harnett, who shepherded the voting law through the state House, said he's glad the decision of “two obviously partisan appellate court judges” at the 4th Circuit was blocked. All three judges on the panel that ruled Oct. 1 were appointed by Democratic presidents.

“The law is reasonable, fair and treats all people the same,” Lewis said in an interview.

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By Ruben Bolling

Milian Dollar Baby

Y

ou know that little voice inside your course, the many-faced "bae." It’s narcishead? The one that's always telling sism in the best way possible, and it's peryou to check your Facebook mes- fectly fine until it gives you anxiety.

I have the biggest FOMO of my life sages, just in case. Just in case you missed a message that would typically "ping," currently. I'm an ocean away, watching "buzz," "pop" or make the Kimmunicator parts of my life play out through 900 noise to alert you? We've all been there, Facebook posts. There I am, not marching desperately waiting for some drama to take on Schoelkopf, not seeing Bill Gates, not us away from boring lectures. A phone call eating at C-Town Crepes (though I bet the to introduce our study break. Maybe a ones here in Paris are better). This was my booty call to spice up an otherwise tame choice and I have to learn to live with it, but being a senior magnifies the fear.

Thursday.

We are a community plagued by the Suddenly the "out" in FOMO becomes fear of missing out and being in love with "opportunity" as we silently weep every our smartphones doesn't help at all. While time our friends get a new job offer or get I'm no Millennial-basher (I'm currently into grad school, and feel #blessed. It's not typing this on my iPhone), I recognize that envy, but a crippling sense of time running even now, more than ever, we are hounded out. Looking at the sum of our lives, 21-22 by the fear that someone out there is hav- years of academics, extracurriculars, and ing fun without us. It's no longer the fear everything else, will we miss out on startof someone talking about us elsewhere (we ing our future?

I look over my resume, and I ask embraced that fear in high school), but it's myself: Am I original? Am I the only one? the fear of not being current.

Marketing teaches us about being Am I intellectual? Am I everything my employers needs? opinion leaders, No one wants to being the hippest of the opportunity our friends, the Suddenly the “out” in FOMO lose of a career because ones with the latest becomes “opportunity” as of a less-than-perkale-shake recipe, fect resume, missing the latest alt-J we silently weep every time that one informaalbum, the iPhone our friends get a new job offer tion session or sim6! We cling to that ply not being title as a validation or get into grad school, and recruited at a Career of our "millennialfeel #blessed. It’s not envy, Fair. Even if we go ism," and that's why we need to be but a crippling sense of time to irrelevant career fairs, weave a web of on top of things. running out. networks on Not being on Yik LinkedIn and beg Yak, not having a our employed pumpkin spice latte the minute it returns to the Hill and not friends for connections, the insecurity of going to our extracurriculars makes us our job market and that darn FOMO social outcasts. And while yes, there’s comes back. And while our parents, teachmuch more to life than being plugged into ers, advisors and pets tell us it'll all be fine, the latest craze or social-media campaign, we won't feel that way until we get rid of the fear and live in now. it’s what keeps us sane at Cornell.

So let's be infinite in our moments, let On the other hand, the Grandma Movement is growing strong. Now more us be like Pitbull and "stop time and enjoy than ever, people are taking pride in sleep- this moment." Cheesy (and dated) refering early, knitting and choosing to stay in ences aside, let's enjoy our time as college and heading to the baking cabinet instead students, without forgetting about of the nightclub. While there’s nothing impending changes, but not letting it get wrong with the grandma lifestyle (I some- to us. Lets enjoy our last years free of times partake in the guilty pleasure of stay- career commitments, of bills and the nineing in for a night of Charmed re-runs and to-five grind. Before we become overbaking quiche), a little goes a long way. worked (but happy!) zombies, we need to Friends start to worry about your disap- take things step-by-step; not freak out pearance in the social sphere. Concerned about what are friends are doing, but Snapchats, Tweets and messages flood your instead focus on our own self-growth and inbox. Have these classmates of ours improvement.

Read that book you’ve been putting off! reached a certain zen? A certain level of enlightenment that tells them "yarn Meet with your professors and ask them before (Big Red) barn?" Letting go of about their own job experiences, take FOMO is great, but not when you forgo sometime to brand yourself and create an amazing you that will be hired by everyrelationships for it, or daylight.

Apps like Foursquare and Instagram one. Let’s use that infamous American bank on FOMO. We create accounts to optimism on our own problems for once.

In the end, it's not social media that's tell everyone about #applefest, #parisfashionweek or #terracesalads and hope that the problem, but our own insecurities, and someone thinks we're cool, and yet we feel while repressing those fears isn't the FOMO when we refresh the screen. While answer, having a little faith in our educawe obviously have a better reason to use tion and perseverance can be the solution.

Instagram — memories, keeping in touch with our friends, actually attempting phoMilian is a senior in the College of tography on an app — we all really just Kevin Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached want to show off our latest culinary exper- at kmilian@cornellsun.com. Milian Dollar Baby iment, our friend’s shenanigans and, of appears on alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Ruth M. |

I’m Just Gonna Shake It

10 Reasons I Won’t Stay at Your Place I

f you’re going to hook up with me, I want it to be at my place. The only exception to this rule is if you have a single and I have roommates (#tbt freshman year), but otherwise I am going to insist on my place. I don’t want to have to keep my room clean for visitors, and I don’t want to have to wash my sheets more than usual. If you’re a bad hookup, I don’t want to worry about how to get you to leave. However, all of these cons are significantly overwhelmed by the legitimate reasons I would rather do it at my place.

1. Housemates: The girls I live with in my apartment are used to my sexcapades.

They’re not going to listen to us outside my bedroom door, try to embarrass you or, even worse, walk in. All of the above have happened to me at a guy’s place, and I don’t need to be nicknamed “the screamer” again.

2. Makeup: I do not want to get mascara all over your pillow. This will 100 percent happen if I sleep over, and those stains aren’t always easy to get out. At least at my place I can stain my own pillowcases, or, if I’m ready for you to see me au naturel, I can take my makeup off.

3. Bathroom: I

know the last time my bathroom was cleaned, and I know there will be toilet paper. If you live in a frat house, just forget it — I’m not walking in that bathroom barefoot (which is necessary if I went out in heels) and I’m not peeing in a stall while one of your brothers uses the next one over.

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Food: I will provide you w i t h drunk snacks if we are drunk and breakfast the next morning. The leftover Chipotle at your place will not suffice.

5. Getting home the next morning: No one likes taking a walk of shame.

However, I think it’s so much easier for a guy to do. Your hair won’t be messed up.

You won’t be in heels or a dress or any other obvious day-after outfit since guys here seem to wear their class clothes straight to bars. If you’re strolling down College Ave. in last night’s clothes, no one will likely be able to tell. Nothing says “walk of shame” like smudged makeup, a bandage skirt and a ponytail.

6. Getting home that night: What if we don’t have a sleepover? The unfortunate thing about the society that we live in today is that women are much more vulnerable walking alone at night than men.

Ithaca is generally a safe place, but media, crime reports and personal stories still make me nervous to walk anywhere by myself at night.

7. Pa jamas: If w e ’ r e hooking up but not having sex, I’m not going to sleep naked in your bed. At my place I can put on one of my own t-shirts and shorts or anything comfortable. My regular clothes are absolutely not comfortable enough to wear to sleep, so that leaves me with two options: my underwear or your clothes. Chances are your clothes are going to be huge on me and wearing them to sleep seems super relationship-y, which I clearly don’t want if I’m not even having sex with you.

8. Morning breath: I just really, really want to be able to brush my teeth ASAP in

All of these cons are significantly overwhelmed by the legitimate reasons I would rather do it at my place.

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the morning. I’ll give you some gum if you want it.

9. Clean sheets: I will clean my sheets after every hookup. I don’t know the last time you washed yours, who has been there before me or what kind of body fluids are dried onto the sheets I’m laying on.

10. Condoms: You can never try to get away with not using a condom at my house. I will always have my condom drawer stocked. One of the greatest hookup disappointments is going to your place with the intention of having sex only to find out you don’t have any condoms.

And no, I won’t do it without one.

Not all of these reasons apply to every guy’s house; maybe you’re super clean and have a breakfast buffet and a new toothbrush to give away. In that case, you’re my dream hookup and maybe this can turn into a consistent thing. However, in most cases it’s going to take a lot of convincing to get me to go to your place. It will be a more pleasant experience for both of us if I don’t have to sleep in my skinny jeans.

Ruth M. is a senior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at ruthm@cornellsun.com. I’m Just Gonna Shake It appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

Hints From Hitch

The Best Way to Spend 90 Minutes E

veryone needs a good sex playlist. If anything, I’d recommend having a couple at your disposal for different purposes. There’s a lot of great music out there that can be used before, during and after the act, but not every song works for every person. So instead of offering you the “10 best songs to get you horny as f*ck” or “50 great beats that will get you and your partner wetter,” I decided it’d be more interesting and, hopefully, valuable if I look at the anatomy of a playlist using one of my favorites.

I call this playlist The Best Way to Spend 90 Minutes.

Hanging Out and Making Out A mixture of upbeat and slow songs will help match the natural ebbs and flows of every make out session.

The Selection: “Glory Box” by Portishead.

Best Line: “Just take a little look from outside when you can / Show a little tenderness.”

The Reason: Portishead’s slow-melting ballad is the perfect way to begin the night. This song’s romantic and sultry rhythms will help set a lovemaking mood, even during a one night stand. And when Beth Gibbons, the lead-singer, serenades when the beat drops, I dare you to not scratch your nails from the tip of your partner’s neck all the way to their lower back.

Additional selections: “Psychotic Girl” by The Black Keys; “Primetime” by Janelle Monáe and Miguel; “Without” by Shy Girls; “Sex on Fire” by Kings of Leon and “Naughty Girl” by Beyoncé.

Foreplay This stuff should be dirty, suggestive and make your heart pound.

The Selection: “Intro” by The xx.

Best Line: No lyrics, just moaning.

The Reason: You can take the title of this track quite literally, as it signifies the perfect time to take your hand and place it in your partner’s pants. By the time the moaning in the song kicks in, you can expect your partner to have been doing the same, but for a lot longer. Although I prefer lyrics, The xx’s well-known track gives me everything I want with-

out words: pace, heavy beats and an ability to turn me on in any situation.

The Selection: “Down on Me” by Jeremih & 50 Cent.

Best Line: “And I’m gonna lick it, lick it, lick it / till her hicky have that river running.”

The Reason: I can’t say with certainty that you’ll understand the meaning of everything that 50 Cent says, but it’s not hard to get the gist — Fiddy loves putting his partner on her back and getting to work. At about this time, I suggest you doing the same. Spend the first three minutes of the song teasing your partner’s thighs before you dive in at the climax of the song. Only warning: Don’t get too good or you’ll both find yourself finishing before The Weeknd and

progression is perfect. The ups and downs replicate every sexual experience I’ve ever had. I guarantee that you’ll find yourself moving on the rhythm when The Weeknd gasps his first words.

The Selection: “Lost Without U” by Robin Thicke.

Best Line: “You wanna roll with me / You wanna hold with me / You wanna make fires and get Norwegian wood with me.”

The Reason: After dirtying yourself, it’s nice to clean up with a little Robin Thicke. The crooner drops the words “love” and “you” a combined 45 times in his seductive piece and he offers a respite from the stronger, more suggestive songs from this playlist. The smooth voice should elicit a similar response from you: bite and lick your partner’s ear and say a few words. Trust me, don’t be coy and make sure to say exactly what you’re feeling.

Additional selections: “Lost Without U” by Robin Thicke; “I’m in it” by Kanye West and “Neighbors Know my Name” by Trey Songz.

Post-sex Chilling Seriously, take a rest. You deserve it.

The Selection: “Hello My Old Heart” by The Oh Hellos.

Best Line: “I’ve been so worried / You’ve been so still / Barely beating at all.”

The Reason: The subtle acoustic guitar and soft voice will bring your heart rate to a much more sustainable rate. I like turning down the music and dimming the lights. If your playlist was done right, you’ve been getting to work for just over 70 minutes and all you will want to do is escape into some much needed sleep.

Additional selections: “To Me” by Chet Faker; “Hideaway” by Passion Pit; “Born to Die” by Lana Del Ray; “I Should Live in Salt” by The National and “Re: Stacks” by Bon Iver.

There’s a lot of great music out there that can be used before, during and after the act, but not every song works for every person.

Robin Thicke get their chance to make you cum.

Additional selections: “Outside” by The Weeknd; “U KNOW” by Prince; “Lil’ Freak” by Usher and “Harder to Breathe” by Maroon 5.

The Act Try to find songs that match the type of sex that you want to be having — don’t overthink this, just plays what makes you feel good.

The Selection: “Loft Music” by The Weeknd.

Best Line: “I think you lost moral, girls / But it’s okay / ‘Cause you don’t need em’ where we’re going.”

The Reason: There’s not much that isn’t wrong about this song, and that’s what makes it so right. The Weeknd praises his drug usage, his infidelity and his ability to please every woman that comes before him in around in minutes.

His ballad will make you feel just as naughty and the song’s

Hitch is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at hitch@cornellsun.com. Hints From Hitch appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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by ELIZABETH YOUNG Sun Staff Writer

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he beginning of October may have meant the real start of fall for many people, but as a senior in my final semester, it meant an ending as I attended my final Ithaca Apple Harvest Festival.

I can still remember my first Applefest: friends roamed up and down the open Commons on a sunny Saturday, clutching jugs of cider and bags of kettle corn. We indulged in fried Oreos and hot apple crisp as we perused the handmade jewelry and crafts offered by local artists.

Now, while it’s not entirely accurate for me to say that Applefest is the reason I decided to go to Cornell, it is fair to say that the apple celebration has been one of my favorite parts of becoming a part-time Ithacan.

There’s a certain charm to Applefest that brings together college students and local residents in welcoming the changing of leaves, the warm, smoky air and the crisp, sweet fruit that upstate New York is famous for.

And while this year’s Applefest may have been a little wetter and more interrupted, you know that you’ve become (and will always be) an Ithacan when rain and construction fail to keep you away from embarking on one last Applefest food journey.

P OTATO LATKE A ND P OPEYE Q UESADILLA I started my journey at a stand whose banner was emblazoned with a simple name: Potato Pancakes and Gourmet Sandwiches. Since the stand seemed to declare its offerings so boldly, I thought it would only be fair of me to try two of its bestselling items: the potato latke and the Popeye quesadilla.

I’ve had latkes in the past, but this particular latke was one of the best ones that I have had in a while. Its generous size nearly covered my paper plate and its crunchy, browned exterior soon gave way to tender bits of buttery, shredded potato. The piping hot latke was accompanied by the usual sour cream and applesauce, both of which provided a much needed cool temperature contrast. I especially liked the applesauce accompaniment as it brought a refreshing, sweet flavor to the rich, savory pancake.

The Popeye quesadilla combined four of my favorite flavors: pesto, spinach, feta and mozzarella. Rather than using one large tortilla, the woman preparing my quesadilla used two smaller tortillas — one covered in pesto and one covered in cheese — and waited until the cheese had melted and the tortillas had browned before adding the spinach and putting the tortillas together like a sandwich.

This technique worked great, as there was a perfect balance between the oozing melted cheese and the sharp, garlicky spinach with each bite.

A PPLE PIZZA When you go to Applefest every fall, you’ll inevitably discover your go-to favorites and

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develop somewhat of a routine.

But this year, I branched away from the usual apple cider doughnuts and hot apple crisp to try something new: apple pizza from Bella Pizza. Now, when most people think of apple pizza, they may think of the icing-drenched dessert pizza variety that puts everyone into sugar overload. Bella Pizza’s take on the dish, however, was more of an interpretation on the classic American dish, cheesetopped apple pie. The crisp, airy dough was covered with a light layer of applesauce, topped with diced pieces of apples and shredded mozzarella cheese, rather than the standard cheddar that normally accompanies American apple pie. While I’d originally expected a more dessert-like pizza, I did appreciate that Bella Pizza’s take was more sweet and savory. However, I would have liked a more enhanced apple flavor so that I felt like I was eating a true apple pizza, rather than a cheese pizza that happened to have apples on top.

TARTE TATIN One of my favorite parts of this final Applefest journey was the Ba-Li encountering Cravings’s stand, where the owner told me that it was her family’s first time at the apple celebration and that she had pulled an all nighter in order to create and bring her baked goods to the festival. Her tarte tatin did not disappoint. The softened layers of tart, cinnamon-infused apple slices still had a nice bite to them and the thick layer of the sweetened dough was perfect in balancing the two elements together. A flourished swirl of whipped cream and a layer of caramel added a final touch of sweetness to the lovely, homey dessert.

P UMPKIN C URRY After all the sweetness from the tarte tatin and even the apples in the apple pizza, my mouth was begging for something savory again, so I went to the Taste of Thai Express stand to get some pad thai and sample a new offering of theirs, pumpkin curry. While I thought the curry was flavorful and had the perfect medium

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G ERMAN A PPLE L OAF A ND A PPLE C RISP My final Applefest journey came to an end at a place that has been one of my personal favorites throughout my time in Ithaca: The Little Grey Bakery. This Amish bakery’s stand has expanded over time into a sprawling span of tables, displaying its spread of pies, cookies, cakes, quick breads, yeast-leavened breads and pastries. Although I was too full at this point to eat anything there, I did go home with some of my favorite baked goods that I had found from past Applefest visits: the German apple loaf and the apple crisp.

I’m not sure that I would call the German apple loaf a “loaf ” when it’s really much more of a cake. Studded generously with walnuts and apples and perfumed with warm cinnamon, it is very difficult to have just one slice (and I don’t think I ever have). And Little Grey Bakery’s apple crisp reminds us that lovely dishes can be made from a few simple ingredients. The layers of thinly sliced apples didn’t seem to end, and I’m not sure how the Amish bakers managed to retain the apples’ crisp texture throughout the baking process.

And the crumble — the best part of a proper apple crisp, in my opinion — was a simple combination of flour, oats and butter that lent a beautifully crumbly texture to the crisp.

That was it. And, just as I thought when I first tried the apple crisp many Applefests ago, it’s all that was needed.

Elizabeth Young can be reached at eay23@cornell.edu.

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worth writing. If it had been the second, we’d really have something to talk about. Instead, we got the last one, behind whose door there are 14 songs that would serve as perfect background music for the exclusive apathetic basement party that your really cool friend with piercings is throwing this weekend.

Are the songs bad? No. Are they engaging? No. Is this probably Iceage’s best record? Yes. Does that really matter? Not really.

Simply put, the music is dancing on this precarious, uneventful artpunk line. It’s too experimental to be visceral and belligerent, but not experimental enough to be categorized as some great work.

Similarly, the vocals are too slurred and difficult to be insightful or engaging, but not powerful or raucous enough to make you wanna break something.

The PiL-ian metallic spurts seem more like embellishments than necessary sonic components. The music jumps from quasi-experimental to quasimelodic, without ever capitalizing on the fruits of either one.

All this isn’t to say, though, that Field of Love isn’t worth a listen. In fact, if you like punk, you’ll probably like this record. For one thing, it shows that Iceage is maturing both instrumentally and compositionally. Instead of sounding like they

Iceage has, since New Brigade, their 2011 debut, been a band plagued by a distinct problem: They just can’t figure out what brand of punk rock they want to play. Their first two records sounded as if, after deliberating for hours on whether to emulate The Ramones, Camper van Beethoven, Swans, Joy Division, Bad Religion, Devo, Blink 182 or Black Flag, they gave up and just decided to throw all of it in there. But, instead of being some enlightening, melting-pot synthesis of the best of punk rock, it sounded more like a naïve, confused Wall of Punk. It wasn’t bad, but it certainly wasn’t any movement-spurring, call-yer-friends new sound. It just was.

All of that means that this new album, Plowing into the Field of Love, could have been one of three things: 1) a collection of more hodgepodge postpunk ditties that are all listenable, but more than a few degrees removed from being great; 2) a record on which Iceage make up their minds and show us once and for all if they’re just a group of blind punk rock regurgitators, or if they’ve really got something to say and play; or 3) a disc that shows some maturation, but mostly clings, cautiously suckling, to the teet of our post-punk mother like a prematurely mohawked newborn.

If it had been the first, a review wouldn’t’ve been

Weezer Everything Will Be Alright in the End Republic Records

Daniel Jones It must be accepted that Weezer will never be great again. The angst and self-doubt that characterized Weezer’s first two albums, the ‘90s classics Weezer (aka The Blue Album) and Pinkerton, has been either inauthentic or nonexistent on all of their following albums (which are almost universally bland). Weezer has never recaptured the sense of lovely melody undercut by consuming loneliness that characterizes The Blue Album or the surprisingly dangerous and unhinged sound of Pinkerton. Some Weezer

cultists believe Pinkerton is their masterpiece; Rivers Cuomo has called it both “a hugely painful mistake” and “super-deep, brave and authentic” since its release, both opinions that coincided with what most Weezer fans felt about it at the time. This indicates a problem that Weezer has fallen into; it tries to give its fans exactly what they want, with diminishing artistic returns. This came to the point where, a few years ago, seemingly aware of its inability to recreate its past triumphs, Weezer went on a “Memories” Tour, which consisted of Night One/Night Two shows where they played either The Blue Album and Pinkerton in full.

Weezer’s mistake has not been lack of effort to recreate its past masterpieces.

2001’s Weezer (this one known as The Green Album) was a conscious return to the power-pop of The Blue Album after the abrasive Pinkerton. However, what was refreshing about Cuomo’s immaturity and bemused loneliness on The Blue Album sounded forced on The Green Album, when it even appeared; what’s most noticeable about the album is how

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couldn’t decide which band they wanted to emulate, it just sounds like they couldn’t decide which aural theme they wanted to pursue, which is definitely a step in the right direction. They’re honing their chops for sure, and the needless barrage of instrumental miscellany sounds a bit more polished and deliberate.

Stand-out tracks like “The Lord’s Favorite” and “Cimmerian Shade” suggest that Iceage might just be capable of something worthwhile. The former sounds like a Gun Club/Cramps rave-up and the lyrics, while not packing a lot of emotive punch, sound pretty cool: “100 year-old wine / I do believe in heaven and I do believe it’s time / fiveinch, white-hot heels / I do believe in heaven and I do believe it’s real.” The latter is filled with caustic, angular instrumental work and some grunted, moaned vocals that evoke primal sexual frustration in its impurest form.

All in all, Plowing the Field of Love deserves a listen. From start to finish, it’s never bad, although it struggles a bit to reach the realm of truly good. If post-punk is what gets you going, though, then Field of Love is definitely for you.

Troy Sherman is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at tfs48@cornell.edu.

emotionally vague it is. This trend continued on all of their later efforts.

All of which, I realize, sounds like an introduction to why Weezer’s latest album, Everything Will Be Alright in the End, is the latest in a string of albums that don’t live up to those great first two. And of course, it doesn’t. But it may be the most enjoyable and interesting album Weezer has made since those two. Weezer was not a stadium band when it made The Blue Album, and Pinkerton’s lack of success essentially stopped them from continuing to be one for a while. Everything Will Be Alright is fully aware of Weezer’s status as a stadium rock band, and opens in true form with thundering guitars and slamming drums on the typically petulant, but surprisingly enjoyable, “Ain’t Got Nobody.”

Following immediately is “Back to the Shack,” which hearkens back to the good ol’ days of “rockin’ out like it’s ‘94.”

The meta theme continues with “Eulogy for a Rock Band” and “I’ve Had it Up to Here,” which are perfect powerpop-punk nuggets with lyrics that are ironically aware of their position in the (hopefully) latter half of Weezer’s career.

Despite these references to their previous efforts, this is actually one of Weezer’s more sonically adventurous albums, and most of their gambles pay off. “The British Are Coming” opens with martial drums, followed by plucking guitar and lullaby chimes before breaking into strummy pop. Somehow, it all makes sense while it’s playing. The only real misstep is the closing trilogy of mostly instrumental songs, “I. The Waste Land,” “II. Anonymous,” and “III. Return to Ithaka,” whose art-rock pretensions fail to conceal the fact that they consist of very little.

Weezer are a band of lifers, and must be commended for continuing to pour their cheesy, forever juvenile hearts into their music. Everything Will Be Alright is no masterpiece, but it succeeds on its own terms, delivering smart, smarmy power-pop with an eye to the past.

Daniel Jones is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dwj37@cornell.edu.

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His lyrics are absolutely gorgeous and completely unpredictable.

Full of biblical references and sexual undertones, each song found me Hadiyah Chowdhury with an absent-minded smile on my face.

Hozier is a 24 year old up-and-coming Irish blues/soul guitarist and vocalist whose eponymous Somehow, Hozier imbues his lyrics with whimsical debut album has completely shifted my perception images while still managing to express his more of the blues. He sings with such passion that I serious sentiments. One line in particular from the swear I could feel his soul bleeding out of my third song on the album, “Jackie and Wilson,” speakers and into my room. His voice is difficult to elicited a grin from me: “We’ll name our children describe: smoky, sensual, passionate, woodsy? Jackie and Wilson / raise ‘em on rhythm and Perhaps he and his album can best be described blues”. That image is just so beautiful to me with one word: honest. Hozier writes honestly and because of how integral music is to each person’s soul. Hozier recognizes that the world is not composed only of one thing: It is full of love, sex, religion and passion.

Going back to the idea of blues for a moment, Hozier’s music is difficult to contain to just one genre, but the blues are certainly an overarching theme of the album.

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progressions and gorgeous melodies evoke a sense of the blues, he stays very close to his Irish roots.

In particular, the guitar riffs in “In a Week” transport the listener back to Hozier’s origins without losing any of the feeling of the blues. The concept of mixing the blues with Irish music was completely foreign to me, but now that I have heard it, I never want to separate the two. Perhaps this is something of an exaggeration, for I am sure I could never tire of listening to blues classics, like Louis Armstrong, B.B. King and even the Rolling Stones, but this album made me think about the blues in a completely different light. I love the concept of creating outside of the confines of only one genre, and Hozier has pulled it off magnificently.

My favorite song on the album has to be either “To Be Alone” or “Cherry Wine.” The former starts with “Never feel too good in crowds / With folks around, when they’re playing / The anthems of rape culture loud.” Be still my heart, an artist condeming rape culture?! I love that he attacked rape culture with such directness. The song only gets better from there and his emotions are never simplified.

He expresses raw emotions with balance; instead of a sickening love song, the listener experiences the complex range of emotions that go along with any relationship. This is the reason I love “Cherry Wine” as well. With Hozier, nothing is ever simple.

Emotions, like decisions, are difficult to deal with and he recognizes this. If you haven’t heard anything like what I’m describing, I would absolutely recommend starting with “Cherry Wine” because it showcases the best of his musicianship and lyricism.

When I first listened to “Cherry Wine,” Hozier’s guitar playing made me shiver.

Some of the other highlights of the album include “From Eden” and the first track, “Take Me to Church.” Give the entire album a listen, if only to experience a reinvention of blues music along with Hozier’s husky, coarse, rough vocals.

Hadiyah Chowdhury is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hrc39@cornell.edu.

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ith Gone Girl rocking the weekend box office, Ben Affleck’s strategic side-peen scene making headlines and the general contentious existence of Batfleck, the world watches in rapt attention as we are once again gifted with a David Fincher production. As this director-auteur proves time and again that it’s possible to strike the perfect balance between commercial blockbuster success and quality cinematic resonance, should the public ask ourselves if we, lowly humans, were made in the image of Fincher? Well, turns out, even superhuman Fincher has a few go-to tricks up his sleeve to (almost) debunk the mystery of his masterful storytelling. Here are some trademarks and tropes commonly employed by my number one non-Christopher Nolan Director: MODERN FILM N OIR: Fincher knows how to rock the chic nihilism trend like no other. Just think Se7en, Fight Club, The Game, Zodiac and The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo. Lacing his films with a constant subdued moodiness that is reminiscent of your angsty teen years — or, er, classic film noir — his slick and glossy lacquer on modern, dystopian settings may cause some critics to bemoan his work as a shallow experiment in style. However, film noir has always been characterized by themes of loss, nostalgia and insecurity, which manifests itself in mannerism and style. Don’t equate a void in possible content with a void in utter significance. This technical style is precisely what makes the pointed meaninglessness of his work so goddamn meaningful.

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expertly as Fincher, who is aided, almost always, by the sonic sparsity of a Trent Reznor score.

T HE M ASTER ARCHITECT: As Entertainment Weekly’s Darren Franich points out, Fincher’s films have a common character type in the master planner — an entity that sits at the crux of the plotline playing chess with the film’s main characters serving as mere pawns. In Zodiac, it’s, well, the Zodiac. In The Game, it’s the nightmarish puzzle-within-a-puzzle architecture of the game itself. In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, it’s the rapey serial killer and Lisbeth Salander, who undertakes a very Tyler Durden-esque, fight-the-good-fight takedown of the system with her hackerati prowess. In Fight Club, it’s Tyler Durden and his Project Mayhem. In both Se7en and House of Cards, it’s Kevin Spacey — not even John Doe or Frank Underwood, it’s the actual actor Kevin Spacey, who, as far as I’m concerned, has cornered the market on modern villainy delivered in a bone-chill-

Alice Wang Profanity Prayers ing monotone. But why the architect?

Why so perverse? As Fincher once said of his audience with the cleverest of smirks: “I think people are perverts. I’ve maintained that. That’s the foundation of my career.” Well then, what a noble messenger for delivering the deeply-satisfying

depravity we so clearly crave.

N O UNMOTIVATED CAMERA MOVES : As Tony Zhou of “Every Frame A Painting” video essays explains in his beautifully executed dissection of Fincher’s genius, our favorite director does not like hand-held cameras. Locking down all his shots on a tripod, other than a few notable exceptions, Fincher hopes to divorce the sense of a human being operating a camera in a time when other directors are quite notably adding camera shake. Oftentimes, the audience has no clue as to whether the shot is humancontrolled, motion-controlled or pure CGI. Without any personality in the shot, with all expression extracted completely from the frame, there only remains the unshakeable sense of foreboding afoot. Simply, what we see is what the main character sees, and as Fincher sums up, therefore, “What’s happening is what’s doomed to happen.”

E MPTINESS : Like a pregnant pause or a notable void, emptiness serves to build suspense and thicken the plot in a manner that seems totally effortless. Fincher does this in simple ways, by cutting the camera to an empty chair in the lawyeroff of The Social Network, or in complex ways, by highlighting loneliness as a primary character in the room. In Fight Club, Edward Norton is a lonely office worker in a post-modern world. In Panic Room, Jodie Foster is an unprotected single parent in the gaping palatial emptiness of her giant post-divorce townhouse. In The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Brad Pitt ages backwards as an eerie Donald Rumsfeld-looking gnome, away from his family and future.

D IALOGUE: All the hype and hullabaloo for a film usually centers on the crazy stylish one-taker scenes. However, it can be argued that it’s not the multimillion dollar trailer-tailored scenes that define a director’s oeuvre, but the barest of essentials — just two people in a room exchanging information in dialogue. For Fincher, the wow factor, the plot, the twist, the entire movie is about the information. All the drama is in the information, and both the story arc and the character development becomes about how the acquisition of a new piece of information can inform the next step. Unlike many filmmakers who actively avoid exposition, Fincher revels in it. In fact, Zodiac took this concept to the granular level, following the micro-detective work of tracking the smallest leads, finding dead ends and landing little breaks that we now see in critical favorites like True Detective.

PERFECTIONISM: Fincher is as much known for his stylistic filmography as he is for his total fastidiousness. He’s a tireless perfectionist, taking dozens to hundreds of takes to capture the simplest of shots. And with all the low-angle zooms, slow focus, balletic tracking, top-down perspective and insane visual techniques he employs, Fincher is able to meld live action with CGI seamlessly. Like the great Stanley Kubrick, his uncompromising standards have probably made this signature trademark the most beneficial to us all.

Alice Wang is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays.

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ties to score, with Ellie's goal being a great comeback from the 1-0 deficit. Unfortunately, after giving up the second goal we were not able to get another one, but we put in a strong effort throughout the game.”

Head coach Patrick Farmer agreed with Farbers’ sentiment, praising the teams’ “excellent competitive spirit to immediately respond to an unfortunate goal.” However, Farmer “We need to continue to did pinpoint some areas of the field that need improve our cohesiveness on development. defense, especially against “We need to continue to improve our cohesiveteams like Colgate.” ness on defense, especially Patrick Farmer against teams like Colgate who are intent on spreading the field,” Farmer said. “If we can improve, I believe we have an excellent opportunity to post our best Ivy standing and best overall record in some years.”

The Red (6-3, 1-1 Ivy League) will take on the Harvard Crimson (6-2-2, 1-0-1 Ivy League) this Saturday at 1:30 p.m. in Cambridge, Mass. Harvard, defending Ivy League champion and favorite to repeat, will be another tough test. The game may be a must-win if Cornell wishes to seriously contend for an Ivy League title.

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American Pride Should Include Soccer Struggling Smith ZAKOUR

Liga or the Premier League, but it just needs to get to the point where it can churn out American players who are routinely transferred to the most lucrative and high profile teams in the ers; we don't need to be introduced to them like we do at the world. Brazil and Argentina’s domestic leagues can’t compete Olympic games. The World Cup also invites fierce rivalries and with Spain’s La Liga either, but they’re still a solid infrastructure allegiances, more intense than those possible for club and team of soccer development. sports. The national allegiance, although country lines are In the same vein, I can forgive when our sports leagues have somewhat imagined, is more vivid and real. those overseas games and exhibitions. I can forgive the insisNot to mention that the World Cup is awesome to watch. tence on games in London, even to the chagrin of American It stands as the shining example of sports spanning languages, fans. I understand the turmoil and the scheduling havoc cultures and oceans. What other event invites all continents wreaked. It's for the growth of the game. It's about marketing with seemingly equal vigor? What other sport could make it the product, but also cultivation of something. It's the first possible? steps of creating an international, grand competition for other Now this isn't to say that soccer is inherently the best sport sports. As I think I've made clear by now, I love the idea of the on Earth, but it certainly is the most supported. It's breathtak- World cup. I am infatuated with it; but more than anything, ing, and we lose sight of this. It was awesome to support Team I'm envious of it. Or envious that it is limited to soccer. I have USA’s run and to watch their heartbreaking loss to Belgium, a feeling I'm not the only one. but we can do better. We, as Americans, can NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, as put together a team that can win it all. And not We, as Americans, can much flack as he catches for it, seems helljust with Jurgen Klinsmann taking the best bent on helping the NFL grow in Europe, dual nationals in the world. That’s why I’m askevidenced by his London games. NBA put together a team ing my fellow sports fan to do their patriotic commissioner Adam Silver also has his duty. No, I’m not talking about voting. I’m that can win it all. leagues play in London and even Mexico talking about supporting the MLS. City. Imagine a basketball or baseball World For us to show our American pride, we Cup, inspiring a following like soccer’s. Yes, have to measure our sports against the world's sport. Soccer. As they already have their competitions, but FIBA World Cup and long as it’s the sporting metric system, let's use it. I love our the World Baseball Classic don't hold a candle to the real thing. sports and our sports leagues. They have different personalities, And they probably never will. But I love the idea of a true bascultures and histories. But they are our pastimes, not the ketball world cup, where the USA isn't a shoe-in every year. world's. If we want to be the best sporting nation in the world We'd be the basketball answer to Brazil or England, ever arro(which we all do, even if it’s not a goal I expect Obama to gant about our place in the sport, even if it’s unjustified. proudly announce), we have to to establish our soccer prowess. Moreover, we could have a champions league of basketball We have to subscribe to the sensibilities of the world. So let’s where NBA teams face off with the best teams in Europe. We support MLS. Let’s help soccer grow in America, and get every could have a true world series, with the best Japanese team MLS game televised. Pick a team to support. There are two squaring off with the best team in the MLB for the title of new good options coming soon in New York FC (with David world champion.

Villa and Frank Lampard!) and Orlando City Soccer Club OK, so the last two seem a little far off, although not impos(complete with a purple color scheme and Kaka). Even if the sible. But it isn’t so hard to imagine the U.S. as a soccer power, rank and file will never be as supported as an NFL player, let’s not a Brazil or Germany, but maybe a Netherlands. So let’s make it so our American soccer stars are on par with any other watch the MLS, pick a team and support it. Yes, they do play athlete. during NFL sundays, but there’s always the game of the week.

I want the U.S. to compete every cycle with the best teams in the world, not just for second tier. And a big part of this will John Zakour can be contacted at jzakour@cornellsun.com. Point Blank appears every be the growth of soccer domestically. The MLS will never be La Thursday this semester.

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Keeps Starting Job, At Least for Now FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) - For cursing at a fan. For poor performances. For missing a team meeting.

The New York Jets quarterback is in a rut, on and off the field. But he’s getting another chance to hold on to his starting job, and knows that if he doesn’t improve quickly, he could end up back on the sideline — maybe for good.

“Obviously, I’m disappointed in some of the uncharacteristic things that I have done,” Smith said after practice Wednesday. “But I have apologized for those things, and now it’s about not letting those things occur again, and just remaining focused on football — staying grounded and remaining focused on football.”

Last week, Smith was fined $12,000 by the NFL for shouting an expletive at a heckler after the Jets’ 24-17 loss to the Detroit Lions at home. He talked about making progress on the field, playing at a higher level. But then came the news that he missed a meeting — along with a teammate — the night before the Jets’ 31-0 drubbing at the hands of the San Diego Chargers.

Smith was present for the rest of the meetings, missing only what was a 10-minute session. The quarterback said he told his teammates he was sorry, and coach Rex Ryan didn’t consider benching him for the start of the game — saying the discipline would be taken care of in-house.

“Was this thing just an aberration?” Ryan said. “I believe it was.”

Some fans and media insisted it was a display of immaturity by Smith, not exactly becoming of a team leader.

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they look really cool, so I like to wear them.

1) I heard you started with crew “later in life.” Tell me about how you got into the sport and what really got you started.

3) What was it like winning gold for the U23 Women’s National team this summer in Italy?

I played tennis in high school and I rode horses (jumping) and I played tennis for 12 years. My dad said the horses ended after high school and I was looking for a new sport when I came [to Cornell], something to keep me busy. [Crew] sends coaches and members of the team to the swim test and other freshmen activities to scout people who look tall and kind of athletic. So I got an invitation from the team and a couple of other people in my freshman dorm were going to this meeting for the gym class for walk-ons. I ended up joining that and the coaches said I had potential, so I kept going with it. They had a girl who was training for the Olympic team here my freshman year and it was cool to see that she had started as a walkon, and now she was training for the Olympics. It was like, ‘Oh, you could go to the Olympics with this sport!’

2) I hear you have a lucky pair of socks that you wear during ergometer tests. Is there a story behind that?

Sadly yes. My mom is really into quirky things, and she gets my family a bunch of random things for Christmas. For some reason she’s really into pirates because she thinks that they can get away with anything, so she got me a pair of socks that are black and kind of taller and they have a skull and cross bones on them. She got them for me for one Christmas and I think

Have they brought you good luck? so.

I think they have! Yeah, I’d like to think

Oh my goodness. That was an unreal moment when we crossed the finish line. I feel like it had been building up the entire summer — making the boat was almost the equivalent of winning the gold medal, but not quite — but it was this huge relief that we had done it and succeeded and didn’t let down our country. It was just a huge elation.

4) You are in the running to win a Fan’s Choice Award. Tell me about that?

People submit nominations for any of their teammates, and a couple of my teammates — [junior] Kelly Albanir and [junior] Anna Kastenberg — submitted a nomination for me. I wasn’t supposed to know about it, but I kind of knew about it, [although] I didn’t get to read it until after.

A panel of judges reads over and selects finalists and then they post it on the website and it goes through a popularity contest where you vote for whoever you think is the best collegiate athlete of the year. I’m actually up there along with three other people who were on the national team with me this summer, so it’s kind of a joke between us.

5) To take inspiration from Humans of New York, if you could give any piece of advice to a large group of people, what would it be?

He totally asks that question, word for

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word. I would say don’t limit yourself, because I know I have set boundaries for myself or goals for what I want to achieve and sometimes, looking back, I find that if I hadn’t done that, I would have gotten somewhere through a different route that I did not expect. If you limit yourself, you never know what you could achieve. Crew has really shown me that you may not think you could add another thousand meters and pull the same split, or even go faster and then you do it and you’re like, ‘Oh, cool, I didn’t think that was possible.’

It can really be an eye opening experience.

6) Before college, rowing wasn’t really a part of your life. What other things did you do in your free time before Cornell?

There was a lot of tennis and a lot of horses. I’d like to think that I helped my mom garden a little bit. She’s a landscape architect, so she was always in the yard and always wanting us to come join her, but my sister and I were not really into it. I read a lot of books — I still do, but I don’t have as much time now with college.

Nothing super exciting 7) If you could be on any other Cornell team, which team would you want to be on and why?

I think I’d want to be on the rugby team, just because I haven’t ever really played a contact sport — tennis, horseback riding, crew — not really contact sports. It seems intense and awesome and the girls seem really cool. I don’t know, it has always seemed like a really fun sport.

8) What is your favorite place on campus?

Snee [Hall]. Definitely the best place on campus. I don’t know if you know what it is, but it’s the atmospheric sciences

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Started from the bottom | Senior rower Kate Roach (seated) was a latecomer to the sport, but now she is a gold medalist.

building kind of by Collegetown. It has this place called the reading room across from this place where they display all of these minerals and rocks, which are super cool looking. It’s always warm in there, no matter if it’s freezing cold outside. You just go in there, and the sun shines and you’re like, ‘ahhh, this is a happy place.’ It’s a great building 9) What is one of your favorite memories in the last four years, not having to do with crew?

I am a material science and engineering [major] and this year, I was doing research working on display screens for your phone, for your computer, and I think one of my proudest moments was when I got invited to attend my first conference and present a poster and show everyone the research I had done. It was the first time I got to do anything like that and it was cool to see what other people were working on and what the industry was like.

10) What do you think is a lesson you’ve learned from crew that carries over into your day-to-day life?

Definitely pushing through even when it’s hard. When you think, ‘I can’t do this anymore, it hurts,’ but you’re in the middle of a race and you’ve got a girl in front of you and a girl behind and you think, ‘well they’re still going, so I should probably keep going with them.’ This is going to sound cheesy, but [it’s similar to] on a homework set, when you think, ‘I can’t figure this out, I give up,’ but you know you have to keep going and finish it.

Perseverance is key. Also, hydration.

Hydration is key.

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

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Red Unable to Find Equalizer Against Tough Raider Squad The goal marked Crowell’s team-leading sixth score of the season, and it was Farber’s second assist on the year.

The game remained tied at the half, with The women’s soccer team faced off against the Colgate Raiders Monday night, narrowly both teams playing a very even match. losing by a score of 2-1. Colgate (9-1-2), Colgate came out of the gates strong in the perennial power and current leader in the second period, however, scoring a goal in the Patriot League, posed the toughest test so far 54th minute. Sarah Coy rocketed a shot from outside of the penalty box, and her goal for the Red this season.

The Raiders are the only team Cornell has would prove to be the game winner.

Cornell had several more faced that is ranked chances to tie up the game, amongst the Top-40 CORNELL @ COLGATE with seven total shots on net. schools in Division 1. The Colgate goalkeeper Red failed to carry the 1 2 However, Brenna Mason had a strong momentum over from a 2ND FINAL 1ST game with six saves. Perhaps historic win over the Game: Cornell 0 1 1 Cornell’s best opportunity University of Pennsylvania Colgate 1 2 1 came at the 75th minute mark, last week, while the Raiders when junior defender Shanay extended their unbeaten Fischer fired a shot from only 15 yards away streak to 11 games.

Colgate got off to a quick start, scoring from the goal. Mason was there with another their first goal in the seventh minute. save, though, and Colgate’s win was preCatherine Williams fired the ball into the box served.

Although the Red suffered the loss, there and, after it pin-balled around, was rewarded with a score off the foot of Caroline Brawner. were many positives that could be taken from The goal was the quickest given up by the the game, according to Farber. The Red was Red all season. Cornell was just as quick to able to respond to an early goal and played respond, though, scoring the equalizer only tough against a very talented team.

“I thought as a whole we did very well six minutes later. Freshman defender Whitney Farber took a throw-in from the right side of against a team that is ranked high nationally; Colgate territory and launched the ball into of course it was not the result we wanted, but we put in a really good team effort,” Farber the box.

Sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Crowell said. “I thought we had some good momenwas there to head the ball in, powering her tum going forward and had some opportunishot off the left hand of Colgate goalkeeper See W. SOCCER page 13 Brenna Mason and into the back of the net.

By SHANE LEWIS

Sun Contributor

Support the MLS: It’s a Patriotic Duty

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hat’s the greatest “will they or won’t they” love story in history? Americans and soccer.

I'm going to preface this by saying I call the beautiful game soccer, not football. Sorry. I mean no disrespect, really. But I grew up, as did every other child in the USA, calling it soccer and the

custody if it came to that. The NBA is also our sport, but it’s becoming a number two option in parts of Europe and South America. The MLB is our sport that has had the time to blossom, like the NBA, in parts of Central America and Asia. But soccer is truly the world's sport. We all know that.

John Zakour Point Blank NFL football. The mental unconscious association is just too strong — it will always be soccer to me. Football is Peyton Manning to me.

The World Cup is always the most important sporting event of the year. It attracts the attention of the whole world, minus a few countries, while most sports only attract a certain number of countries or a continent at best. The NFL is our sport. The NHL is Canada’s and our sport — shared, but knowing Canada would win

The World Cup, coming from someone who doesn't know the details and intricacies of soccer as well as other sports, is an amazing event. It's such an amazing event that countries are willing to build stadiums and complexes for the honor of hosting them, similar to the Olympics. But unlike the Olympics, the importance of the World Cup extends into the other three years. We know all the playSee ZAKOUR page 14

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Just short | Cornell fought hard against nationally ranked Colgate on Monday, but could not convert on its chances in the second half.

WOMEN’S SQUASH

Letourneau Qualifies for World Team Championships Over the weekend, senior squash player and Sun staff writer Danielle Letourneau qualified to represent Team Canada in the Women’s World Team Squash Championships this coming December.

Letourneau earned the spot in the prestigious tournament by winning Pool A at Canada’s qualifying event this weekend. Aside from being a strong force for the Red’s squash team, Letourneau has also proven herself on the international level before. In May she reached the finals of the Canadian Squash Championships after entering the tournament as an unseeded player.

She also earned three medals at the PanAmerican squash championships.

This year the World Championships will take place from Dec. 1-6 at Niagraon-the-lake, Ontario. Letourneau will compete for Team Canada against 20 different countries.

Letourneau moved up to No. 6 in the national rankings last season and is the first three-time All-Ivy League winner since Olga Puidgemont Sola ’02 did the same for four consecutive seasons.

Letourneau and the rest of her team kick off the 2014 season at home with the Cornell Round Robin beginning on Nov. 21. The Red will face off against Williams, George Washington and Stanford in the tournament.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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Going international | Senior Danielle Letourneau will represent Team Canada at Worlds in December.