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Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show Over 96 percent of donations go to Democratic campaigns from 2011-14

By PHOEBE KELLER and EMILY FRIEDMAN Sun Assistant News Editor and Sun Staff Writer

Of the nearly $600,000 Cornell’s faculty donated to political candidates or parties in the past four years, over 96 percent has gone to fund Democratic campaigns, while only 15 of the 323 donors gave to conservative causes.

The Sun’s analysis of Federal Election Committee data reveals that from 2011 to 2014, Cornell’s faculty donated $573,659 to Democrats, $16,360 to Republicans and $2,950 to Independents. Each of Cornell’s 13 schools — both graduate and undergraduate — slanted heavily to the left. In the College of Arts and Sciences, 99 percent of the $183,644 donated went to liberal campaigns. The law school demonstrated the strongest conservative showing, with nearly 26 percent of its approximately $20,000 worth of donations going to Republicans.

Almost one-third of donations made over the past four years went to 2012 presidential campaigns. More than 94 percent of the $200,000 Cornellians contributed to the presidential race went to the Obama Victory Fund, while the Romney Victory Fund received under four percent of these funds.

To compile this data, The Sun filtered public Federal Election Committee filings, collecting the donation information from individuals who listed Cornell University as their employer. The Sun then confirmed the current appointment of each donor as a Cornell faculty member, instructor or researcher. Administrators and other personnel were excluded from all calculations.

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Blue Ivy | This graph shows the partisan breakdown of political donations coming out of each of Cornell’s undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges.

Although students and professors alike said they consider Cornell’s faculty generally Democratic, nearly all remarked that they had not expected to see donation numbers so dramatically skewed.

“Nationally, economists, chemists, business school professors and engineers are significantly more conservative than professors in social sciences and humanities,” said

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Spending big | The top six faculty donors from Cornell over the past four years all gave to Democratic candidates and causes, giving a combined total of $141,850.

Prof. Mildred Elizabeth Sanders, government. “Finding 97 percent of Cornell professors giving to Democrats, that’s surprising.”

Danielle Eiger ’18 said she would have thought that the Democrat-Republican breakdown would be closer to 60 percent and 40 percent, but said she was always sure that the “majority of professors are liberal.”

Prof. William Jacobson, law, one of the 15 Republican donors, said that he found the statistics “completely predictable.”

“Academia in general leans heavily liberal, and that likely is compounded at Cornell because Ithaca itself is a progressive bubble, surrounded by reality, as the saying goes,” he said.

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Garrett Continues Day Hall Shake-Up Faculty Senate Talks Hierarchy changes again; arts college creates position

By REBECCA BLAIR

The new position is intend- and Insurance, Emergency Sun Assistant News Editor ed to oversee all of Cornell’s M a n a g e m e n t / B u s i n e s s Continuity, risk-related units in After several months ripe with efforts to maximize Environmental Health personnel fluctuations, the operational efficienand Safety and the University has announced that it cies, Garrett said in a Cornell University will restructure the presidential University statement.

Police Department. leadership team and add a direcIn her new posi“We are extremely tor of education innovation posi- tion, DeStefano will fortunate to have tion to the College of Arts and “continue oversight of Joanne’s substantial talSciences.

Financial Affairs, the ents — including her LEPAGE President Elizabeth Garrett Investment Office and financial acumen and plans to add an executhe Audit Office, and deep understanding of the tive vice president and will share oversight University — to draw upon as we chief financial officer to with Provost Michael look to the opportunities and her team, pending Kotlikoff of In- challenges ahead,” Garrett said in board of trustee formation Tech- a statement. approval of the posinologies and Budget Almost immediately after this tion, according to a and Planning,” in academic year began, Garrett University press release. keeping with her pre- announced that she would begin Garrett has appointed vious duties, according her tenure by restructuring the DeSTEFANO Joanne DeStefano, the to the release. She will Cornell administration to be current vice president also take on oversight more efficient. She has already for finance and chief financial of Infrastructure, Properties and officer, to fill the new position.

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On Finance,Romance

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

The Faculty Senate addressed the rising costs of the University’s financial aid program, plans to resolve the University’s deficit and proposed revisions to Cornell’s policy on romantic and sexual relations between students and faculty at its meeting Wednesday.

Dean of Faculty Prof. Joseph Burns Ph.D. ’66, astronomy, began the meeting by announcing an upcoming faculty forum will discuss the feasibility and educational sense of Cornell’s current financial aid policy.

According to Burns, the forum, entitled “Financial Aid Policies: Unimaginable Outcomes,” is intended to be a little bit

provocative.

“There are large expenses in the University. We knew building costs are expensive. Our salary costs are expensive .... and financial aid is a growing cost to the University,” Burns said. “If you look at the amount of funds that we’re spending [on financial aid], the curve has a very steep slope — an increasing slope over the last few years. So I think that the faculty should look at that growing cost and whether or not it makes sense.”

Burns said he see two possible outcomes if the University continues to spend as much as it currently does on financial aid. He said that it is very important to balance the needs of faculty and See FACULTY SENATE page 5

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Tom Hayden and Jane Fonda brought their campaign for Economic Democracy to Cornell Saturday night proclaiming a need for a “citizen’s understanding that there has to be a change in the power balance” in the country.

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The Bailey talk was their third public talk Saturday and Hayden said they met with several other smaller groups during the day.

‘A Crisis of Power’ Hayden, who described the nation’s major problem as “a crisis of power,” not a crisis of energy, outlined three steps that would make corporations more “responsive and accountable” to the people.

We must “rewrite the contract between the American people and the corporations,” he said.

Today’s state charters, which he said give corporations vast rights and virtually no responsibilities, should be replaced by stricter national charters. In addition, the government should lift regulations off smaller corporations to increase competition, he said.

Hayden also urged a new definition of boards of directors and their responsibilities. He likened corporations to the political system of the Soviet Union, saying shareholders are like Soviet voters who “vote for a one-party team picked by management.”

“This room is infinitely more representative than any board of directors,” he said.

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Gannett Plans Bystander Video

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By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Editor

The Skorton Center for Health Initiatives at Gannett Health Services plans to partner with Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble to create a comprehensive bystander intervention video, hoping to empower Cornellians to intervene in cases of drug abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and other potentially dangerous situations.

The center expects to take about a year to produce the video, and hopes to present the final project next August, according to Health Initiatives Coordinator Laura Beth Santacrose ’11. The idea for the project was originally sparked by American University’s “Step Up” video, which shows students how to address a wide breadth of daunting situations, according to Santacrose.

“For years, staff in our department have been exploring the idea of such an effort,” she said. “We have even worked with various communications and marketing classes at Cornell to explore ideas for implementation.”

Right now, the center is in the process of

reaching out to community members to get input on what content would be most helpful. They will conduct focus groups through Oct. 22, then work to determine ways the video can enhance current campus movements to mitigate drug and alcohol abuse, sexual violence, mental health problems and hazing.

“We seek students from all over campus representing different degrees, academic departments, and involvement in various clubs, teams and other student organizations,” Santacrose said.

Santacrose said she thinks the video will serve as an important contribution to campus conversations on these issues because multimedia presentations can give viewers a thorough perspective on the issue and can also be easily shared on the web and on social media.

“Back in 1987, Cornell was the first university in the nation to use video as a platform for communicating key information about sexual violence on college campuses,” she said. “Videos are a helpful component in health education, as they present mini stories that can engage both the mind and emotions of the viewers.”

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While the center is not yet sure exactly how they will distribute the video, they hope it will serve as a valuable addition to existing trainings and presentations on these issues, and will also be disseminated to the broader community.

“We already know ... many of the factors that prevent someone from stepping in and helping out,” Santacrose said. “They may have faulty beliefs about the campus norm of stepping up and intervening. They may

not know what to do or what to say. The goal of the video is to empower students with the information, resources, and clear steps necessary to make a difference. In short, we want everyone to know how to See. Think. Act.” Gabriella Lee contributed reporting to this story.

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First American on Death Row Exonerated by DNA Addresses Students

By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

Kirk Bloodsworth, the first American man on death row to be exonerated by DNA evidence, spoke to a psychology of law class last Thursday about the flaws in the criminal justice system that cost him eight years of freedom and almost cost him his life.

Bloodsworth was arrested in August 1984 for the murder of nine-year-old Dawn Hamilton.

Wrongfully convicted in March 1985 and sentenced to death, he spent eight years behind bars until a DNA analysis exonerated him in June 1993. The real perpetrator was discovered 10 years later.

Bloodsworth began his story by saying that he was a former marine and then became a waterman on the shore of Maryland. He lived in a small town and was 22 years old at the time of his wrongful conviction.

“We have a warrant for the arrest of Kirk Bloodsworth,” he recalled hearing police officers say from outside his door on Aug. 9, 1984. Bloodsworth said he stepped outside and was quickly told, “you’re under arrest for first degree murder, you son of a bitch.”

“That was the last time I’d see my small town for eight years, 10 months and 19 days,” he said.

Bloodsworth explained that Dawn Hamilton was found dead in June 1984, having been sexually assaulted and beaten with a rock.

“That is what this marine with no criminal record was charged with,” he said, pointing to himself after explaining Hamilton’s murder. “From the moment of my arrest to the moment of my release, I told everyone and anyone that would listen that I was an innocent man, but in 48 hours I became the most hated man in the state of Maryland.”

“They wrote this flowery Wrongful witness identification was a major component of report about who the killer Bloodsworth’s wrongful convic- might be,” Bloodsworth said. He tion. Witness descriptions of the explained that experts used data perpetrator indicated that he and statistics about criminals and was well over 6 feet tall and crimes to come up with a profile skinny with curly blonde hair suggesting characteristics of the and tan skin. Bloodsworth said perpetrator. “Right on the front this description did not fit him page [of the profile] it says you at all, as he was under 6 feet tall are only supposed to use [the and had bright red hair and fair profile] as a tool, it’s not a crystal skin. He chuckled as he added ball.”

Bloodsworth said this profile that he definitely wasn’t skinny.

“They arrested me on a was completed after he was Thursday, held a lineup on the arrested, so it may have been coming Monday and told wit- influenced by what authorities nesses not to watch television,” already knew about him.

“The profile said that this perBloodsworth said. He said that despite this, witnesses ultimate- son would have a love for the ly had seen him on television water because this crime hapbefore they positively identified pened around a pond area, and Oh My God Mr. Bloodsworth is him as the perpetrator.

“They had all seen me on TV even though they were told not to,” “I had nothing to do with he said. this [murder], I just didn’t Two key witnesses in the case want them to find were young boys my weed.” who were playing with Hamilton on the day of her murder. They helped create a a waterman! So he must have composite sketch of the perpe- done it!” Bloodsworth said.

He added that the profile trator.

“They brought the two chil- would have been okay if it had dren together to make a com- been used, as protocol originally posite. You never do that. You’re intended, as a guide, not a rule.

“So many different biases supposed to make them do it come into play in criminal separately,” he said.

Even these two boys could cases,” Bloodsworth said. “They not positively identify were so adamant in getting the Bloodsworth, but Bloodsworth real killer they just didn’t pay said that wasn’t enough to prove attention to protocol.”

He said the criminal profile his innocence.

Bloodsworth noted that a was completed prematurely after composite of the perpetrator pic- just 14 weeks of composition out tured a man with a specific style of a possible 28 weeks. He also of moustache, but officials said that authorities pointed to thought it made the perpetrator his “nervousness” during his look “too Asian,” and removed interview as evidence of his guilt.

“I can explain that,” he said. the moustache from the composite sketch. He also mentioned “They kept trying to look at my another woman who helped cre- shoes, and I was jittery because I ate another composite sketch, had a bag of weed in my shoe — and said that her composite was right between my sock and my disregarded because it did not shoe. I had nothing to do with match the original composite. this [murder], I just didn’t want

them to find my weed.”

Bloodsworth said the evidence used against him was inconclusive and the prosecutors discounted many potentially exculpatory pieces of evidence.

He also noted that his counsel was ineffective.

“My trial lasted about two weeks,” he said. “I knew this was not going to end well for me. I could hear people in the courtroom saying ‘there’s the killer, there he is right there pointing at me.”

This kind of trial, Bloodsworth said, left him feeling as if he could do nothing to change his own fate.

“I had no money. I had married a girl from Baltimore and I lived there for less than 30 days when I got caught up in this horrible, horrible crime. I had never been arrested before in my life. I was a United States Marine. I wasn’t an angel, but I knew what I wasn’t,” Bloodsworth said. “But with no money, no good lawyer, ‘Kirk’s going to death row.’”

“Give him the gas and kill his ass,” Bloodsworth said he heard someone chant in the courtroom.

“My mother just sat there and cried.”

Two weeks later, Bloodsworth’s death sentence was delivered. The courtroom erupted in applause, he said. “Go kill him, give him the gas!” someone yelled.

“I remember sitting in the bullpen and my lawyer came out.

I noticed that he wasn’t standing close to the cell door like he normally would. He was standing back,” Bloodsworth said. “All he could do was look at me and smile and say good luck, and he turned around and walked away.

That was the last time I’d ever see that guy.”

Bloodsworth said he was sent to a prison where, just two weeks before, a guard had been disem-

boweled by inmates. “We’re gonna do to you what you did to that little girl,” he heard regularly.

“When that 300 pound cell door shut and those brass keys clicked, my life was over. It sounded just like the tailgate of a dump truck,” he said.

Bloodsworth talked about the sheer terror he experienced his first night in prison.

“I was reading a magazine and the power popped off, the lights went out. You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face,” he said. “[The other prisoners] were lighting books on fire, Bibles on fire, shaking the bars screaming and hollering.” He said sewage was dripping from shaken pipes, hitting him in the face.

Bloodsworth’s hope for freedom came years later when he heard of the case of Colin Pitchfork — the first man ever to be convicted based on DNA. “If it can convict you, why can’t it free you?” Bloodsworth said. “I started remembering forensic evidence, semen found [at the crime scene]. I said ‘I want to take this [DNA] test and prove once and for all that I’m an innocent man like I’ve been saying for all these years.’”

After requesting that the case be reopened to examine the DNA, Bloodsworth recalled being told that the DNA evidence from the case had been inadvertently destroyed.

“That was almost my undoing. I went crazy,” he said. “I almost set my cell on fire and burned up with it, and then it hit me: they didn’t know where it was, they couldn’t find it, they probably had no idea where it was.”

Bloodsworth said he continued to pursue a search for the DNA until it was ultimately found on the floor of a judge’s closet. A year later, in April of 1993, the FBI re-tested the See BLOODSWORTH page 5

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for this article, John Carberry, senior director of media relations, said only that political tendency is “not a condition [the University] weighs when hiring or working with faculty.”

However, several professors offered their opinions as to why such a high percentage of Cornell’s faculty seems to lean left.

Prof. Richard Bensel, government, said a “historical trend” explains a declining number of conservatives in Cornell’s faculty.

“In the late 19th and early 20th century, there were far more conservative professors than liberals in elite universities — although it was still not nearly as slanted as it is today,” he said. “This switched around the New Deal.”

He also conceded that in today’s climate, “a lot of the time conservative professors don’t want to work here.” Prof. Emeritus Isaac Kramnick, government, explained that there were one or two conservative professors in the government department in the 1960s and 1970s, but both had already left.

“Conservative students who come through a place like Cornell very easily move into research or advising positions in Congress, journalism positions and political positions,” Kramnick said. “Career patterns are such that you are less likely to have conservatives applying for academic jobs.”

Other professors asserted that Republicans often have ideas that are “antiscience” or “anti-intellectual,” which can make them an unpopular presence at elite universities.

“It is not surprising that faculty at Cornell find the anti-scientific rhetoric of many in the Republican Party to be troublesome,” Prof. Kenneth McClane, English, said.

“Many of us here are scientists — we believe in global warming, since we believe what the research tells us.”

Bensel echoed this claim, saying that recent Republican debates have illustrated the deviation of “mainstream conservatives” from views that are widely accepted by intellectuals at reputable universities.

“I think many mainstream Republicans have views that are anti-intellectual and antiscience,” he said. “There are candidates who are creationists, don’t believe in climate change and claim that Obama’s a Muslim.

Ted Cruz, for example, should not teach here.”

Student Stories

Kramnick said that when he served as Cornell’s vice provost for undergraduate education from 2001 to 2005, he was “concerned that there were not enough conservative voices in the faculty.” Some students maintain that their professors’ politics never enter the classroom. Others recount times when they felt stifled by an atmosphere intolerant of differing viewpoints.

William Bristow ’16, president of the Cornell Democrats, said his professors have consistently delivered material with an even hand.

“I have never found myself in a classroom environment where a professor did not allow for an open discussion between different political views,” he said.

Emily Agnew ’18 said she does not think the political leanings of professors should be problematic, because professors are expected to always be unbiased when teaching subjective subjects.

“Their political affiliations are unrelated [to the material], and professors should be allowing the students to discuss and explore without imparting their own opinions,” she said.

However, some students recounted incidents in which they said their professors were far from objective, saying that personal politics entered both the classroom and coursework.

David Navadeh ’19 said he was in a nutrition class in which his professor regularly featured announcements from various clubs before class began. According to Navadeh, one day the professor advertised a Planned Parenthood rally, which was an event independent of any club, and spent substantially more time than usual encouraging his students to attend.

“He was very clear what his personal leanings were and he made it very clear that we should stand with Planned Parenthood as well,” he said. “I certainly respect their right to protest and I respect the other view. The irony just kind of strikes me, though, if a conservative professor were to say that you should go to a defund Planned Parenthood rally and was saying what a good job folks like Ted Cruz are doing in making sure that that happens — if someone were to put forth the idea that abortion is indeed murder — I can just imagine the outcry.”

Austin McClaughlin ’18 recounted a time when, in an industrial and labor relations economics class, the professor abruptly dismissed free market principles as ineffective.

“We were largely focused on financial crises and after we finished the 2008 crisis the next slide said, ‘and that is why deregulation and free market economics do not work,’” he said. “So I asked him, ‘Isn’t it too early to say that this is the case?’ And he says, ‘No, it’s not too early it’s too late.’”

Brandon Thompson ’16 said he has seen “thousands of examples” of professors holding debates and only giving conservative students a fraction of the speaking time given to their liberal counterparts.

Cornell Republicans President Matt LeBlanc ’16 said he deliberately took microeconomics with a professor who he knew was fiscally conservative and stressed that, while they may be rare, the few conservative professors at Cornell are highly respected and

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Go blue or go home | Of the $600,000 donated to political causes by Cornell faculty over the past four years, 96.62 percent went to Democratic campaigns. “[their presence] is definitely good for the campus.”

Is Something Missing?

According to Thompson, there is not one moderate or conservative professor among the 42 faculty members in Cornell’s government department. While some students feel that a valuable viewpoint is missing, other students and professors say they do not feel the University needs to actively seek out conservative faculty members.

Bensel said that while he would support adding a conservative to the government department, he does not believe Cornell is obligated to supply students with all points of view.

"Our job is not to mold the minds of young students — they’ll go out into the world and do that for themselves,” he said.

“Cornell does not have to be a banquet that offers every viewpoint."

Prof. Andrew Little, government, said that while it would be “nice to have more balance,” he would not advocate compromising the quality of Cornell’s professors, which he suggests would be the effect of seeking out Republican faculty.

“Placing more emphasis on diversity of political beliefs when hiring [would] almost certainly require sacrificing on general quality or other dimensions of diversity,” he said.

Jacobson, on the other hand, said he views the failure to expose students to the conservative viewpoint as one of Cornell’s most striking weaknesses.

“If we value professors not just for their research and publications, but also for the role they serve in mentoring students, then the lack of political diversity among the faculty is a University failure,” he said.

Many acknowledged that it is difficult to determine whether Cornell’s political imbalance is due to a lack of conservative professors applying to work at the University or the administration’s refusal to hire them.

“I think it would take a lot of bravery to work here as an openly conservative professor,” Bensel said.

Damaging Diversity

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Yes, we can | Cornell faculty gave $171,377 to the Obama campaign in 2012, compared to $10,610 donated to the Romney campaign.

While Cornell pursues diversity in its student body and in certain aspects of its faculty, many students and professors who saw these statistics said they were concerned about Cornell’s professed diversity of thought.

"Cornell faculty pride themselves on eliminating discrimination with respect to ethnicity and gender,” Bensel said. “But I think one of the last prejudices they still have

is against conservatives.”

Thompson also said he saw the absence of the conservative viewpoint among faculty members as in conflict with Cornell’s proclaimed mission of diversity.

“I think that’s actually kind of an embarrassment for Cornell with their stress on diversity and inclusion, and yet whenever someone’s position doesn’t go exactly into the range that they’d like it to, they purposefully will not let those opinions be heard,” he said.

Jacobson said he believes this lack of diversity is actually most damaging to liberal students, who leave college without having to defend their views and enter a world where “Republicans control both houses of Congress and most state legislatures and governorships.”

“Such homogeneity in thought process at the professorial level is not conducive to intellectual rigor. That harms liberal students more than anyone, because they have a comfort zone of political acceptance which does not exist in a real world,” he said. “Over the years, I have observed that openly conservative students have to be better prepared for argument than their liberal counterparts and that process prepares them for life better than being intellectually coddled.”

Thompson agreed, saying that he, as a conservative student in the College of Arts and Sciences, has a chance almost every day to hone and defend his own beliefs, while many liberal students never experience a “trial by fire” test of their own values.

“I actually think that students on campus on the right-end of the political spectrum are stronger and more able to confront challenges to their viewpoints after they leave here, so I think Cornell is actually failing students in that way as well, they’re not providing students with an alternative point of view,” he said.

Jacobson called on the administration to recognize the value and necessity of diversity of thought in Cornell’s faculty.

“Diversity at Cornell focuses on gender, race and ethnicity as a proxy for intellectual diversity. That is inadequate as an objective matter because it has not resulted in a diversity of political thought,” Jacobson said. “If Cornell truly believes that diversity of thought fosters the educational experience, then it should include political diversity in its mandated diversity goals.”

Connor Juckniess ’18 contributed data analysis to this article.

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Garrett, Arts College Create New Positions

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made significant changes to Day Hall’s ranks and has put pressure on administrative units to streamline expenditures and cut inefficiencies.

Urging University provosts, college deans and vice presidents to cut costs and simplify processes in an Aug. 20 memo, Garrett wrote, “I am therefore asking each of you to assess processes and procedures within your jurisdiction or throughout the University, and work to eliminate unnecessary regulation, duplicative structures, or burdensome paperwork where the goals of the process can be met more efficiently.”

In addition, Prof. Peter Lepage, physics, former dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, will return to the college as its first director of education innovation. In his new position, Lepage plans to encourage professors to engage in active learning techniques and “help departments scale up from the individual efforts of professors who have initiated new models of teaching to a department-wide curriculum of engaged learning,” he said in a University release.

These efforts will include the increased integration of iClicker questions, which “I am therefore asking each of you allow profesto ... eliminate unnecessary sors to see an entire class’s regulation, duplicative processes.” answers to a question in President Elizabeth Garrett real time, and expanded reliance on discussion sessions following lectures.

“Peter is a real leader in educational excellence both within the college and nationally. He helped to initiate the Active Learning Initiative, and we are fortunate that he will be at the helm of the college’s ongoing efforts to expand our engaged learning strategies,” said Gretchen Ritter, arts and sciences dean, in a statement. “We have fabulous faculty in the college and we look forward to finding new ways to enhance their success as educators both inside and outside the classroom.”

Lepage emphasized that these new models are meant to compliment existing lecture set-ups, not replace them, and will simply expand the options available to students of different learning styles.

“Active learning models use short lectures in strategic ways, teaching according to how people learn most effectively,” he said. “Studies show that student-student discussion followed by a lecture results in the best learning. Exercising your knowledge by talking to someone is hugely beneficial in cementing knowledge.”

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun.com.

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DNA. On June 28, 1993 Bloodsworth left the prison.

In 2003, Bloodsworth received a phone call from the prosecutor who had argued for his conviction.

He met her at a Burger King and she told him that the real killer was found. She told him that the perpetrator had slept in the tier below Bloodsworth in prison for 5 years and never said a word.

“I look out to this audience and I’m “I look going to say you have to stand up out to this audience for what you believe in.” and I’m going to Kirk Bloodsworth say you have to stand up for what you believe in,” Bloodsworth told the crowd at Cornell. “I look out at you all and I see myself, there I am, 22 years old. If it can happen to me, it can happen to anyone.”

A documentary presenting Kirk Bloodsworth’s experience titled Bloodsworth: An Innocent Man will be released in early 2016.

Ariel Seidner can be reached at aseidner@cornellsun.com.

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Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders speaks at a fundraising event at the Avalon Hollywood in Los Angeles Wednesday.

Faculty Discuss Deficit,Fin.Aid Dean of faculty, provost, Title IX coordinator present at meeting FACULTY SENATE

the Provost on Sept. 18, 1996, currently prohibits staff or faculty from engaging in relationships with undergraduates whose work they supervise students at Cornell in order to avoid what he or oversee, but permit faculty to form relationcalled two “equally unacceptable and unimagin- ships with students who are not in their classes or able” results. subject to their supervision. Burns and Dean of “If we spend all our funds on financial aid, we Students Prof. Kent Hubbell ’69, architecture, won’t have enough funds for the faculty,” Burns proposed six changes to this policy that would said. “If we spend all our funds on the faculty, we make it much stricter. won’t have the funds we need to carry out finan“The first one is probably the one of greatest cial aid and we’ll end up with a University which interest to faculty because it proposes substantial is not as diverse — not the Cornell that we know change,” Atkins-Regan said. “It prohibits faculty and love.” and staff from pursuing or engaging in romantic Also discussing finances, Provost Michael or sexual relationships with undergraduate stuKotlikoff delivered a 75-day report on activities dents period, not just in cases where the faculty he had been engaged in since the start of his member had a supervisory or other authoritative appointment in August. The Provost’s Office relationship to the student of an academic sort.” faced a recurring structural deficit of $55 million Atkins-Regan said that this more blanketing for the last five years until it announced drastic version of the policy already exists in institutions budget cuts to be implemented for this current such as Yale, Dartmouth, Harvard, Stanford and fiscal year. the University of Connecticut. The Faculty Senate The current goal of the cuts is to eliminate the is expected to discuss the proposed changes furstructural deficit by the ther at its next meet2017 fiscal year, ing.

“The bottom line here is that going according to Kotlikoff.

Alan Mittman ’71, In order to carry out into fiscal year [20]17, we will have a University Title IX this plan, Kotlikoff said Coordinator for balanced central budget.” he will shift the Investigations and University’s colleges to trustee, also gave a preProvost Michael Kotlikoff five-year plans to allow sentation on recent long term planning developments in federinstead of constant al and New York legisannual discussion of each college’s budget. lation on sexual violence.

“We have several strategies,” Kotlikoff said, “Enough is Enough,” a newly implemented “One is controlling costs. The second is allocat- New York State law, went into effect on Oct. 5. ing many of the costs that had been in the center Shortly before the law took effect, the University of the University to the colleges and some finan- revised Policy 6.4, the provision governing sexual cial aid also to the colleges. [The third is] rein- assault cases, to conform to its affirmative consent vesting in the colleges to a net zero balance using and bystander amnesty requirements. Mittman historical financial data. The bottom line here is explained what the new law will entail for that going into fiscal year [20]17, we will have a Cornell. “[The ‘Enough is Enough law’] is something balanced central budget — something we did that the University and all universities in New not have a some period of time. We also will begin paying off the aggregate deficit that we’ve York State are obliged to comply with, setting the accumulated over time after the 2008 down- floor, not the ceiling that we aspire to,” Mittman said. “Some of the items there include a mandated turn.”

Prof. Elizabeth Atkins-Regan, psychology, definition of consent, known as ‘affirmative conchair of the Committee on Academic Freedom sent in sexual relations’ and sometimes shortened and Professional Status of Faculty, also presented to ‘yes is yes,’ not the ‘no is no’ that you might revisions the committee proposes to make to the have heard about.”

University’s “Romantic and Sexual Relationships Melvin Li can be reached Between Students and Staff ” faculty resolution.

The resolution, approved by the President and at mli@cornellsun.com.

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THROUGHOUT THIS SEMESTER, AT LEAST TWO STUDENTS have publicized their inability to pay for a Cornell education and resorted to online crowdfunding platforms to pay off the balances owed to the University. Late last month, Jonah Okike-Hephzibah ’16, who identified himself as an undocumented student, started a GoFundMe page to avoid being removed from Cornell. Within days, he raised over $20,000. Days later, Nikolai Lumpkins ’16 followed suit and has since raised over $5,000.

The generosity of the Cornell community in response to fellow students’ needs is remarkable and demonstrative of how our capacious campus shrinks to help those in crisis or need.

However, the fact that Okike-Hephzibah and Lumpkins needed to turn to crowdsourcing as a solution to their financial need is troublesome and causes us to wonder how many more students with similar situations walk among us each day. As described by John Lowry ’16, president of the Class of 2016, crowdfunding is not a long-term solution to solve the financial challenges facing some students across campus.

One of the issues highlighted by Okike-Hephzibah’s campaign is international student financial aid. Both domestic and international students are admitted to Cornell need-blind, meaning their ability to pay does not influence their admissions decision. However, only domestic students that demonstrate financial need are guaranteed a support package that will enable them to attend Cornell. While we understand that the University is under federal and state legal obligations to only award government-sponsored financial aid to citizens and legal residents of the United States, our growing international — and, possibly undocumented — student populations deserve the respect afforded to domestic students.

We recognize the issues surrounding financial aid are complex and will not be solved instantaneously. But as Cornell reevaluates its priorities with its next fundraising initiatives, we urge the University to consider ways to make the Office of Financial Aid more accessible to Cornellians in an effort to reduce misunderstandings and to continue to increase the available amount of aid to all students. When students continue to struggle to afford the costs of attending this University and to understand the inner workings of Day Hall, additional work must be done to bridge that gap.

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don’t have too many hobbies, well, Destroying Angel, which will cause liver at least not hobby hobbies. I don’t and kidney failure within 48 hours of bake or knit or play an instrument. consumption.

It astounds and humbles me that Oh, I’ve tried, but few things stick. I don’t know what it is, I get started on something so small, so often oversomething and then I swiftly lose inter- looked, could have so much power. I get est, usually after investing more money a thrill coming across a potently deadly than I probably should have. Live and mushroom just as I do finding an edible one. learn, I guess.

For instance, last fall I came across a But when I do find a hobby that stays with me, I will totally immerse flush of deadly galerina. They’re unasmyself in it. That hobby becomes an suming little things that grow on dead integral part of my person. I’ll research trees, no bigger than three or four inchevery little detail, and if you bring it up es across and dull brown in color. I to me you’d better be ready to nod didn’t even register what I had picked politely for a good half hour while I talk until they were pointed out to me by your ear off. I suppose it’s more accurate Professor of Mycology Kathie Hodge. to say I have “obsessions” rather than Granted, I would have never made the mistake of eating these, but it was still a hobbies.

One of these preoccupations tends to strange experience to hold such a small cause some raised eyebrows: mycophilia, thing that could do so much harm. or the love of fungi. I just love mush- Eating even one could potentially be rooms, they fascinate me. If you know fatal.

So it may sound strange when I say me personally, you’re likely painfully aware of this. I’ve been asked why I like that I am thoroughly enamored with mushrooms so much, and I don’t think mushroom hunting. Reactions are I’ve ever given anyone a satisfactory always varied when I say this. I’ve even answer, so I’ll try to set the record been told that I’m courting death, but straight now.

First, the of world I just love mushrooms, they fascinate me. If fungi is so you know me personally, you’re likely strange that I can’t imagine painfully aware of this. I’ve been asked why there’d be I like mushrooms so much, and I don’t think anyone out there who I’ve ever given anyone a satisfactory wouldn’t be answer, so I’ll try to set the record drawn in. You straight now. might be surprised about what fungi can do. Oyster mushrooms can absorb the thing is, I never, never eat anything and neutralize oil in contaminated soil, that looks remotely like a deadly species Turkey Tail fungus can be used to help or whose identification I’m not 100 pertreat cancer, and psilocybe mushrooms cent certain of. Ever pick wild berries? could be used to treat a myriad of men- You’re taking the same risk. Sure, deadly tal illnesses. And those are relatively ones are out there, but with experience common mushrooms; imagine the it’s easy to tell the difference. And I can’t tell you how exciting it is to be stumpotential in yet to be studied fungi.

World-saving applications aside, bling through the forest and come much of what I like about mushrooms across a patch of edible mushrooms. It’s comes from association. They remind a bona fide treasure hunt.

I know it’s not for everyone, but give me of rain, earth and summer. Fly agaric (the red, white spotted Mario mush- mushrooms a chance, even if it’s just room) brings to mind old fairy tales. buying shiitake at Wegman’s instead of Giant puffballs remind me of the time I white button mushrooms. Now, I hope spent playing in horse pastures as a kid. it goes without saying that you should Growing up in a rural town, mush- never eat anything wild if you haven’t rooms are the sort of thing you know had a professional double check for you. are always there, but never really notice. I don’t advocate for amateur mushBut ultimately, I like mushrooms rooming, and I’m not responsible for because of their transitory, ephemeral any stupid decisions you make. nature. To me, they are fairy tale magic However, I highly recommend that you brought to life. They spring up sudden- take the time the time to learn more. I ly after the rain, swiftly grow into their suggest taking one of Professor Hodge’s weird and fantastic forms, then disap- classes here at Cornell, or you can join pear back into the earth as fast as they Cornell’s Fantastic Fungi Fanatics Club. came. And they have so many different There’s an exciting world underfoot, all qualities. Some are highly prized for you have to do to discover it is pay their culinary values, like the morel that attention. inspires highly competitive hunts out west every year. Others are able to bring Soren Malpass is a junior in the College of Arts and on vivid hallucinations, such as those in Sciences.

He can be reached at skm94@cornell.edu. the psilocybe genus. Still others are to Sorenity Now appears alternate Thursdays this semesbe carefully avoided, like the ghostly ter.

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Cunning Linguist | Guest Room

First Time’s the Charm H

aving sex with someone new for the first time is amazing. I love the mystery of it — you never know what you’re going to get.

Admittedly, I’ve had my fair share of confusing and bizarre encounters, like the time a guy worked to sustain eye contact for the entirety of our “coitus” (his noun of choice, not mine.) Usually, however, I’ve been pleasantly surprised.

I slept with someone new two weekends ago. He’s an adorably awkward guy (I have an odd soft spot for awkward men), and I had no idea what the sex would be like. I could write an entire essay on why girls should go for nerdy guys — they’re gentle and enthusiastic, sweet and passionate.

This guy was all of those things, but he was especially passionate. He was surprisingly adept at locating my erogenous zones (there were inner thighs kisses that made me squeal), and his stamina was definitely impressive. I didn’t think twice about the classic awkward moments (like when his dick fell out or a High School Musical song came on my Pandora), and position transitions were pretty smooth.

But the best part of the whole experience was the way he made me feel when he looked at

me after we fell back on the pillow, exhausted. It’s subtle things like this, the easily missed bashful yet excited glances, that make new sex great.

For all of my “first times,” I have been sober. In fact, I’ve never had drunk sex.

It’s not because I don’t drink — I do. But for some reason, luckily, I will always opt

tive sexual experiences — and because I was always sober, I was very aware of this at first. I wasn’t comfortable enough with my own body to focus on anything other than the visceral awkwardness of the situation. However, the more comfortable I’ve grown with myself, the better my encounters have been. You need to love

Each time I walk away from this guy’s house or he walks away from mine, I can’t stop smiling. I love that I smell like him after sex, and that my hair is knotty and messy from rolling around in bed. I love that he’s seen me naked. for pizza over men at the end of the night if I’m drunk. Alcohol apparently lowers my libido and pizza makes me happy even when I’m not feeling sexual. In all seriousness though, I’m glad that my only sexual experiences have been sober ones.

All of the “first times” were intimate and real, and I was aware of what was going on with the full capacity of my sensory systems.

Admittedly, I haven’t always had posi-

yourself before you can love someone else they say, and I’d like to add that you need to be fully comfortable with your body before you can have a healthy sex life. By overanalyzing any of your perceived physical flaws, you’re cheating yourself out of great sex.

The benefits of a sustained sexual relationship are overwhelming. Each time I walk away from this guy’s house or he walks away from mine, I can’t stop smil-

ing. I love that I smell like him after sex, and that my hair is knotty and messy from rolling around in bed. I love that he’s seen me naked. I love that I’ve seen him naked. I love that the first time we had sex he made me scream with pleasure, made me scream for so long that I was out of breath, made me scream until I couldn’t scream any more.

I have since apologized to my housemates for the screaming. I didn’t know that I could scream like that, which goes to show that with each first time, you learn something new. You learn about yourself and your partner, you learn about the mechanics of sex and you can broaden your understanding of human intimacy.

I’ve slept with this guy a number of times since our first, and it has gotten consistently better each time. With comfort comes a naturalness that is hard to achieve the first time. I’m excited that I’m getting to know him, and hopefully there will be more sexual surprises along the way, but I’ll always value the nuanced intricacies and emotions that I experienced our first time.

Cunning Linguist is a senior at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com.

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The Duchess | Between the Sheets

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ou are a slut. You dress provocatively and have sex with a male friend to slap my butt, asking to be be stalked or con- understanding the true meaning of an individual, their true too many people. Of course, the reason you’re a slut stantly called on for sex, but I have been addressed or treated desires, basic pleasures, all that which Freud called the ‘id,’ is doesn’t really matter. You’re an object of “affection” in this regard. Sure, these are all things that I brushed under a beautiful way to tap into the true yearnings and needs of an either way. Why do you accept this identity? You have value. the carpet and hid under my protective slut identity. individual. What their pain is, what their fears are, what they Why do you not think being called a slut is derogative? You So what is this identity? When you degrade yourself need in life. Stemming from this is the argument that the are very sexually open. Open to exploring, to sharing experi- enough, there doesn’t seem to be any room left for anyone to seeking of love and affection is based on this deep-founded ences with many people, willing to indulge in exciting and do this for you. If you indulge in and are open about giving loneliness and lack of fundamental pleasure and connection. new sexual encounters. You know how to What easier way to connect with somehave fun. Of course you’re beautiful … or one than the physical? When you literhot/sexy/slutty/bae … I mean that’s the ally have someone else inside you, somesame thing right? You attract pretty much one who for that moment wants only There are women who self identify as “sluts.” There every single man. Whether you offer him you, then of course you’re going to feel are also women who allow others to call them sluts. If that you are connected to them in some your beauty to enjoy, your ass to grope or a hole to stick his dick into. Either way, And maybe this connection, for you chose to call yourself a slut and get yourself into way. you’re attractive — or that’s how you see some time at least, is enough. All you yourself at least, how you let others define have to do then is indulge in the identithese multiple-partner situations, society is quick to you. ty which most endorses this connection.

There are women who self identify as Slut. tell you it’s your choice and your fault. “sluts.” There are also women who allow If others tell you you’re a slut, you others to call them sluts. If you chose to will begin telling yourself you’re a slut, call yourself a slut and get yourself into and eventually allow yourself to believe these multiple-partner situations, society is quick to tell you blowjobs, letting men talk to you or do to you as they wish, it’s an identity suited to you. You can slowly sink down into it’s your choice and your fault. Admittedly, it’s a double stan- abuse your body without caring much about boundaries or it and live within its walls, almost as a way of protecting yourdard, and an unfair label placed on many. If you don’t want respect, then it’s ok for others to do the same. By assuming self with the real connection that can tear you apart and people to call you a slut, society says, just stop going out, this “slut-identity,” you can slowly degrade any aspect of your expose the deepest and darkest parts. drinking and hooking up with people (however you define personality that you would consider worthy for others to Escaping the identity is hard. Not impossible, but hard. It that). Just wear more conservative clothes, don’t really talk to admire in you, and you instead become as sturdy exterior, hurts and it’s confusing. But oh, is it worth it to find value in guys unless you have a real reason to do so, especially if they ready to house someone else’s pleasure. You don’t believe something other than the physical. Find the part of yourself have a girlfriend, don’t eat healthy because then you’ll be told yourself worthy of being admired or loved. I mean what’s the that you truly believe is worth knowing and loving; the part you care too much about being hot. Stop wearing make-up point? If they don’t want to stick their dick in you, what of yourself that makes you feel truly beautiful. Being a selfor doing your hair. Seriously. Just STOP TRYING TO BE A could they possibly want from you? defined slut might be safe and easy, but it’s nothing compared SLUT. I truly believe that understanding sexuality is an ideal way to the beauty, relief and wholeness of being human.

It might just be me, but there seems to be a missing link to connect with raw human nature, unaffected by any kind between talking, dressing, choosing to be a certain way and of social influence which then creates character. It could be The Duchess is a student at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associthe assumed treatment of disrespect that seems to be the argued that our raw nature doesn’t mean anything or matter ate-editor@cornellsun.com. Between The Sheets appears periodically immediate response to it. I really don’t remember authorizing in any way since we never make an use of it. Nevertheless, this semester.

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Fall Recipes To Get Cozy With:

Butternut Pear Soup and Rosemary Shortbread

By JULIA DAGUM Sun Staff Writer

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f the contrast of orange leaves and gray sky has you craving cozy fall meals, you’re not alone. It seems that produce sections and farmers’ markets are brimming with squashes and root vegetables of all varieties, and that pumpkin spice lattes have reached their annual peak in popularity. The seasonal excitement brings with it an excuse to cook up those homemade meals you’re missing from Fall break.

I tried out two recipes from Erin Gleason’s The Forest Feast cookbook, which contains a beautifully photographed array of simple vegetable dishes that are also great for entertaining.

Butternut pear soup and rosemary shortbread make for won-

derful components of a dinner that will warm you up on these crisp nights.

To make the butternut pear soup (slightly adapted from original recipe): Cut one butternut squash, three ripe pears and one large onion into cubes.

Roast in olive oil and salt at 375˚ F for 30 to 35 minutes, or until very tender.

Purée with four cups vegetable broth, ½ tsp. curry powder, ½ tsp. cinnamon, ½ tsp. ground ginger and ½ tsp. nutmeg.

Simmer on the stove for 10 minutes.

Garnish each bowl with popcorn and cilantro, if desired.

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This recipe serves six, and is a surprisingly interesting combination of savory and somewhat sweet, compared to the squash soup you might have expected.

The onions caramelize and give the soup a deep roasted flavor, which goes well with the spices, while the popcorn and cilantro add textures and freshness.

The original recipe calls for

an additional ½ cup of Greek yogurt to be stirred in before simmering. This adds tanginess and richness, but I prefer to leave it out. Depending on the size of your squash and pears, the ratios will be pretty different. Try blending everything in batches until you reach a desired consistency and flavor.

I’d love to experiment with adding chickpeas or cashews to the soup for another texture. I also think it could work well as a pasta sauce.

Rosemary shortbread, another autumn favorite, makes a great dessert to pair with this meal!

Recipe for rosemary shortbread: Cut one butternut squash, three ripe pears and one large onion into cubes.

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People seem to have a fear of making anything with the word “bread” in it! This recipe, however, is very easy to make and provides almost instant gratification.

This recipe can also be altered, depending on the flavoring you want. Rosemary is delicious, but I have replaced it with lavender, hibiscus and cinnamon for different flavors.

Adding chocolate chips or nuts could also be a great touch.

These recipes offer a simple way to take advantage of fall’s bounty of fruits and vegetables.

I can’t wait to use the pumpkin pie on my counter to make something else exciting and seasonal!

Julia Dagum is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at jfd226@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Arts Around Ithaca Fanclub Presents: GIRLS GIRLS Painted Zeros, Addie Onion, Izzy True

Rati Chakravyuh 7 p.m. Tonight at Cornell Cinema

8 p.m. Friday at Cayuga Lodge

Ever been curious whatmight happen if six young newlywed couples met with a priestess in an abandoned temple following their mass wedding on the night of a lunar eclipse? You’re in luck. Experimental filmmaker Ashish Avinkunthak’s single-take critically acclaimed film Rati Chakravyuh will be screened tonight at Cornell Cinema. The art-house film explores a long conversation over the course of such an evening; shuttling viewers between existential mythology, philosophical debates and contemporary stories of love and loss. Avinkunthak has called the film “a post-colonial memory” in its treatment of the Indian middle class life. Although it could be mistaken for a digital art installation, Rati Chakravyuh is an enchanting piece of cinema that allows us to experience time and narrative in a new form.

Ostensibly, the Fanclub Collective concert this Friday night is going to be a show about girls in rock music. And with such a lineup — Brooklyn-bred dreampunks Painted Zeros, lo-fi serenaders Addie Onion and Ithaca’s own upand-comer Izzy True — I might be inclined to say that’s a valid assumption.

Then again, when Painted Zeros are filling up the room with sound, Addie Onion is slinging her bedroom-born confessions and Izzy True is rocking out about lifting weights, the show will probably seem less like a night for girls who play rock n’ roll, and more like a night of undeniably unbelievable music, gender aside. Come over to Cayuga Lodge’s basement at 8 p.m. on Friday night to check it out. Tickets will be $5.

— Troy Sherman

— Jael Goldfine

The Mountaintop

7:30 p.m. tonight, 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday at Kitchen Theatre In 2010, Katori Hall’s The Mountaintop won the Olivier Award for Best New Play.

Since then, the surrealist take on Martin Luther King Jr.’s last night alive has garnered numerous awards and has seen productions at a number of theatres across the country. For the next two weeks (until October 25), Ithaca’s own Kitchen Theatre will be staging its production of the acclaimed play. Opening night is Thursday, October 15 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $40 for opening night and $35 for regular performances, and can be bought online or at the box office, which opens one hour before the show. Don’t miss out on a marvelous opportunity to see a top-notch production of an award-winning and highly topical play right here in Ithaca.

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Shay Collins Toronto quartet Dilly Dally puts up a drawling coolkid façade on their first album, Sore. “We partied harder than everyone else in high school, but we still got our shit done and got our grades,” singer Katie Marks told The Quietus’ John Freeman, referring to herself, and guitarist, and childhood friend Lizzy Ball. But, for all of their slacker malaise, Dilly Dally’s music evidences serious creative concentration. There’s the fact that, first and foremost, Dilly Dally is a group six years in the making. Marks and Ball formed the group straight out of secondary school; bassist Jimmy Tony and drummer Benjamin Reinhartz later came on board for Sore.

Then, there’s Marks’ captivating, adrenaline-shaking animal growl that steers the album from the count-in of the first track.

Laura Snapes for Pitchfork compared it to a Kraken impersonation; Sasha Geffen tossed comparisons to Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain and Frank Black, “singers who heard the harshest grain of their voice not as a flaw but a weapon,” in Consequence of Sound. And there’s the music itself, a stark whirling of grunge guitar riffs, bare-bones garage drums and indie-pop vocals.

Marks referred to the “intellectual challenge” of writing pop songs in a stripped-down, four-piece format as comparable to “playing chess.”

If Dilly Dally is playing chess, they are the scrappy upstarts, unwilling to capitulate before past idols. With the assistance of

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When the listener gets to peek at brilliant moments, however, they can see just how much focus went into Sore. Note the tambourine placed delicately in the mix on “Ballin Chain” or the extra contortions Marks pushes her voice through to squeal “Witch Man.” True, many reviewers fixate on the quality of Marks’ voice rather than the words she sings, but she rewards the listener who can pick out the vocals. She reels with stoned apathy on “Snake Head:” “Excuse me, let me get my backpack / these painkillers are no fun.” She croons, “I want you, I want you, I want you / Naked in my kitchen / Cooking me breakfast,” in vulnerable infatuation on “Green.”

But for all of their indie bona-fides (on top of all else, Marks’ older brother is Tokyo Police Club’s Tony Marks), the group has no qualms over being called a pop band. As Marks stated to The Quietus, she sees writing killer pop songs as a musical challenge like any other. When Freeman asked Marks

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about her willingness to sell songs to commercials, she pushed back, “Is wanting to eat really selling out?”

With that said, Dilly Dally’s “pop” songs are far from superficial. The album’s first track, “Desire,” features Marks at her most sensual, as she wails, “Desire, inside her / It’s callin’ on me lately.”

Marks thinks many listeners are thrown off by Dilly Dally’s unobtrusive but unapologetic status as a female-fronted band, referring to her and Ball’s role as “women fronting the band in neither a non-sexualized way nor a ‘we're fucking feminists who will change the world’ way.” But it’s hard to not get some Riot Grrrl vibes when Marks sings, “Snakes are coming out of my head / And there’s blood between my legs” on “Snake Head.”

Dilly Dally is prone, however, to vices and habits like any other group. The band gets content with plodding along in many of their growling tracks (“Snake Head,” “Get to You,” “Witch Man,” “Ice Cream”). You can’t help but feel that they milk the cool kid ethos at points. Despite Dilly Dally’s six-year lifespan, however, Sore is still the group’s first full-length release and follows a relatively small amount of previously released material. Perhaps the next release will see the group deviate from their creative insistence on a four-piece, no tricks format.

Shay Collins is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

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Why the Cubs Will Win and Why the Packers Lost LEWIS

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utes left. And what was I leaving the television screen for? To go eat Chinese food — two violations of my fandom rituals were enough to counteract the forces of sports and help the Seahawks win. While this may seem absolutely crazy to other people, I believe that was the reason why the Packers lost. I am completely serious.

I know I’m not the only person that is extremely superstitious when it comes to sports. I know people that wear the same articles of clothing during every game, people that do the same celebration dance after every score and people that eat the same foods during every halftime. I recently heard of this kid in the homeland of Green Bay that has been wearing the same Aaron Rodgers jersey every day for like the past five

years. That’s some serious dedication.

As fans, why do we believe so strongly that we can somehow influence the outcome of a game? Clearly, we must know that this is impossible. I think the reason for this is that as fans, we become so connected with our favorite teams that we search for any possible way that we can help them out. Because we cannot interact with our teams physically, we must resort to helping them out spiritually. Rituals and superstitions are our way of finding some kind of connection with a team and really feeling like we are playing a role in its success. It doesn’t make us crazy, it just makes us extremely passionate.

A common question I get regarding my superstitions is about how I explain my team losing, even when I followed all of my rituals correctly? Well, this is a reflection of the whole fan base, my friends. In order for a team to achieve victory, they must have more fans using their

superstitious energy than the other team. I am just one cog in a huge machine filled with fans wearing the same Packer socks every Sunday and going to Saturday mass to pray for their team. We all must play a part.

So the next time you’re sitting there thinking, why does Cornell football keep losing by 30 points to schools I’ve never heard of, just think, was it really their fault? Or was there something I could’ve done? I’ll leave that thought with you.

Oh, and when the Cubs win the World Series this year, don’t be surprised. It was meant to happen. Then I can finally take off this blue and red jock strap that I’ve been wearing for the past 20 years.

Shane Lewis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at slewis@cornellsun.Acom. Sportstradamus appears every Thursday this semester.

Odom Found Unresponsive In Nev.Brothel LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lamar Odom didn’t last long at the glittering intersection of championship success and Hollywood celebrity.

Cut loose by his beloved Los Angeles Lakers, followed everywhere by reality television crews, the humble kid from Queens who married into the Kardashian clan saw his life spiral out of control, and so did everyone else.

Khloe Kardashian tried to hide his addictions, then told the world she couldn’t save him.

The two-time NBA champion landed on Skid Row, a regular tabloid target.

Then he seemed to drop out altogether before he was found unresponsive in a brothel and hospitalized, bringing his estranged wife, his former teammates and the world’s attention back to his side Wednesday.

Hospital authorities would not comment on the condition of the 35-year-old former NBA forward, but the Rev. Jesse Jackson was among his visitors Wednesday. Jackson said Odom was on life support and improving.

“Apparently from what the doctor said, he was much better off today than yesterday. He at least has some responsiveness now,” Jackson said. “He’s got tubes in him now, but we felt inspired by his presence.”

Jackson added: “We’re just holding hands and hoping he can bounce back.”

Odom, who was embraced by teammates and television fans alike for his Everyman approach to fame, was found face-down and alone Tuesday after spending four days at the Love Ranch, a legal Nevada brothel.

Odom started “throwing up all kinds of stuff ” after a 911 operator told them to turn him on his side, Love Ranch owner Dennis Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview. Odom had “spent time socializing with some of my girls,” but wasn’t seen taking any illegal drugs, Hof said.

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Swim and Dive Open Season at U.of Buffalo

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anticipation.

“We’re definitely looking forward to our first league meet,” he This season, Cornell men’s said. “That’s gonna be against swimming and diving has a con- Dartmouth and Harvard at home.” crete goal: to improve upon its last While early meets such as the season and show the Ivy League meet in Buffalo this weekend will what Cornell is made of. With pre- be used as benchmarks for the Red, vious assistant coach Wes Newman “the ultimate goal is to swim your ’09 named as the new head coach fastest at the Ivy League of the swimming team, Cornell Championship, which is in swimming is looking to make an February,” according to Newman. impact in its conference this year.

“Along the way, there are a lot of The Red will be starting its season great meets that we can use as milethis Saturday with a meet at the stones to see where we’re at towards University of Buffalo. reaching our ultimate goal,” he This meet is the opener for the said. swim and dive squad, but it will be The swimming and diving team closer to a scrimmage — events will will also be looking to improve not be individually scored and upon its standings in the Ivy many swimmers will be swimming League this year, and it looks like events that are not their specialty. the team has momentum on its When asked about team goals for side. Talking about the Red’s annuthis meet, Newman said the team is al finishes at the Ivy League chamjust looking to gage where they are pionship in recent years, Coach coming into the season.

Newman points to last year’s gener“The goal this meet is honestly al improvement in the final standjust a really good assessment to see ings. where the team is at. It’s a scrim“If you’re looking at the past three years, three years ago we were eighth, two “The goal this meet is honestly years ago we were just a really good assessment to eighth, last year we jumped up to sixth, so see where the team is at.” last year was a nice Wes Newman ’09 improvement for us,” he said. “I don’t think it’s out of the question to mage for us… so it’s just a really get fifth this year, which would be a good opportunity to let the guys great improvement going in the race,” he said. right direction.”

Buffalo will certainly serve as a Some of the major performers testing ground for many of the from last season will surely be back fastest swimmers on Cornell’s team. and just as strong in 2015. New to “We’ve got obviously some of the team last year, Evdokimov the big names from last season — made an immediate impact for the we’ve got [sophomore] Alex Red in the pool, winning both the Evdokimov and [junior] Dylan 100 and 200 breaststroke events at Sali, we’ve got a couple new guys the Ivy League Championship, that have made big changes in the earning All-Ivy honors. Many offseason and have really stepped members of the senior class will be up their game and they’re return- leaders for the team this year as ing,” said senior captain Taylor well; Taylor Adams and his two coAdams. “That would include captains Victor Luo and Carl St. [junior] Lucas Reisch and [sopho- John will be providing guidance for more] Kevin Ma.” a team that some consider the best Cornell’s most important com- Red swim team in recent years. petitors in any sport are typically It’s only a matter of time before other Ivy League rivals, and last sea- the Red get to really test their metson at the Ivy League tle; after the meet in Buffalo this Championship Meet, Cornell weekend, the team will host scored sixth out of the eight schools Dartmouth and Harvard at home in the Ancient Eight. on Saturday, Nov. 13. Coach “We had a really successful sea- Newman is optimistic. son last year, considering my fresh“Our team has been doing a man and sophomore year we didn’t good job at training hard and doing get a lot of wins in the Ivy League, what they need to do to reach their but last year every meet was close,” goals and I’m excited to see it all Adams said. play out this season,” he said.

Newman explained that the squad is looking towards the Ivy Jeff Asiedu can be reached at competition with excitement and ja542@cornell.edu.

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soccer team is not slowing down, especially after a solid win on Tuesday.

“There is always room to improve on both sides of the ball … and the team has been improving. We will continue to do that,” Zawislan said.

The effort and improvement of this squad has been evident in its consistently strong training sessions. This week’s agenda for Cornell is preparing for Saturday’s game against the Yale Bulldogs (1-90, 0-2 Ivy).

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun.com.

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Booters Fall to Harvard,Win Against Colgate

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

After a well fought loss to the Harvard Crimson (4-4-2, 2-0 Ivy), Cornell (2-9-1, 02 Ivy) punched in an early goal against the Colgate Raiders (5-6-1, 2-2 Patriot) to earn a much needed win, 1-0, with the team struggling as of late.

Eighteen shots, a season high for Red, was not enough to defeat the Crimson on Saturday. On paper, one would think Cornell should have won the match, holding Harvard to a mere five shots.

“We definitely felt we did enough during the game to come out with a positive result … however, it comes down to the goals scored,” said head coach Jaro Zawislan.

Zawislan explained that the Red displayed solid possession of the ball and put forth quality chances. Unfortunately, it was simply a matter of scoring more goals than the opponent, something the Red just could not do.

The Crimson made the most of each scoring opportunity, netting its first goal off of a 30-yard free kick on one of its first attacks into Cornell’s territory.

Sophomore Jonathan Cullom and junior Liam Crotty headed the scoring attack with several scoring opportunities between them, giving the Red an 11-1 shot advantage heading into halftime. However, Cornell still

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Red up front | Sophomore Jonathan Cullom, pictured above, and junior Liam Crotty created a slew of scoring opportunities for the Red in its game against Harvard. remained down a goal.

The Red kept the attack up in the second half but still conceded a second goal to Harvard falling, 2-0, to the Crimson after 90 minutes. Nonetheless, it was a positive game for Cornell, but still not a win. With a team struggling as much as the Red, the squad needs actual victories, not mental victories.

Junior JJ Black shared these sentiments

in a postgame interview.

“We need more than positives; we need results,” he said.

Ivy League competition is difficult and Cornell would have the opportunity to bounce back on Tuesday in their final nonconference match against Colgate before getting into the thick of conference play.

Bouncing back is exactly what the team

SPRINT FOOTBALL

Cornell Drops Game to Quakers Sees second loss this season after losing last week to Army West Point

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s sprint football team let up 26 points in the first half of last Friday’s game against the University of Pennsylvania, the most it has let up in the first half of a game all season.

The Red (2-2-0) outscored the Quakers (3-1-0) in the second half, but it was not enough to overcome Penn’s powerful start.

The Quakers got on the board early, blocking a punt from junior defensive back Ryan Jackson on the Red’s first possession of the game.

This left the Quakers on the Cornell 15 and then converting from there.

“The biggest thing in the first

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Second half comback | Despite an overall loss, the Red outscored Penn in the second half of Friday’s game.

half was our mistakes allowing Penn to get real good field position and score,” said head coach Bart Guccia.

“Penn made some real good plays in the first half that they didn’t make in the second half.”

The Red did not play poorly statistically and actually out-rushed the Quakers by 15 yards.

“It really wasn’t a matter of what [Penn] did,” Guccia said. “We were able to move the ball [and] have some success on offense. We just weren’t able to score touchdowns when we did get opportunities to and that was basically the difference in the game.”

The Red was not able to convert a number of strong drives into touchdowns. The Quakers forced the Red to take field goals from the Penn 7 and Penn 17.

“Our line played very well [and] our defense … in the second half played great,” said junior running back Kevin Nathanson. “One thing we could improve upon is finishing our drives.”

Nathanson rushed for 82 yards, helping to fuel the strong offensive effort from the Red. The Red lost the game in the mistakes it made in the first half, but played well otherwise.

“We fumbled a few times and gave them possession and real good field position and they were able to score, where on our side of the ball, we drove down the side at least twice and settled for field goals [and also] dropped maybe 12 in the end zone that may have been touchdowns,” Guccia said. “We really

gave them the opportunities to score and put up ... points in the first half.”

The Red viewed the second half of the game as a second opportunity to win a game it expected to win from the beginning.

“Penn was one of the games we really thought we could win so [at halftime], we were ready to go back out and try and take the lead again,” Nathanson said.

The Red “won” the second half, outscoring the Quakers, 6-3.

Coach Guccia emphasized the importance of finishing all season, and a lack of finishing chances in this game is what made the difference in the end.

The Red turns its attention to Princeton this weekend, who the Red defeated, 55-0, last year. The Red will take this week to fix the mistakes made in the Penn game and focus on the Tigers.

“We just want to improve on the mistakes that we made against Penn and hopefully get things all shored up and get ready to play Princeton,” Guccia said.

It is essential the Red treat this game like any other despite the team’s past success against the Tigers.

“In past years … we have won, [but] it doesn’t really change the way that we prepare for any team,” Nathanson said. “We just have a hard week of practice and we go in [looking] to win.”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

did, defeating the Raiders, 1-0. Six minutes into the contest, sophomore Eric Nuss netted a shot into the top left corner off of a pass into the box from Collum.

Cornell held its ground, although a bit more conservatively when the Raiders sent extra men on offense at the beginning of the second half. Nevertheless, the Red kept up the attack.

“We wanted to get that second goal,” Zawislan said. “We didn’t want to sit on a 10 lead, it’s dangerous.”

However, Colgate’s extra players on the offensive proved to be troublesome for Cornell, as the ball tended to be on the Red’s side of the field. As a result, Cornell pulled an extra man back on defense. Zawislan noted how the reinforcement on defense calmed things down for Cornell.

The Red staved off the Raiders, who were eagerly looking for an equalizer late in the match, and came up with the victory.

After a four game losing streak, this win against a quality squad such as Colgate can be essential in boosting the morale of the Red. But coach Zawislan insisted the players have been positive all the way through, and that is how Cornell was able to bounce back and get the win in the first place.

Despite its struggles, the Cornell men’s See SOCCER page 15

Sports Rituals And Superstitions T he Chicago Cubs are one step closer to capturing their first World Series title since 1908, after belting the St. Louis Cardinals with home run after home run in the NLDS. Some would say that the series win was due to the

distinct set of rituals that I follow when rooting for my Packers. First of all, I must be watching their games alone. Absolutely nobody is allowed to talk to me during a Packer’s game. Secondly, I cannot consume any food during a game. I must fast

Shane Lewis Sportstradamus Cubs’ nucleus of young talent finally realizing its full potential. I would have to disagree. I would say that the Cubs beat the Cardinals in the NLDS because it was fate. The “Back to the Future II” prophecy tells us that the Cubs will win the World Series this year, and because of this, it is guaranteed to happen. Clearly, I am a huge believer in the relationship between superstition and sports.

Since I was a young kid, I’ve believed that my fandom has played a role in my favorite teams winning games. For example, I have a

for my lord and savior Aaron Rodgers. Lastly, I cannot be wearing any type of headgear while watching the Packers.

The only thing that is allowed to touch my head is the loving grace of Vince Lombardi.

If my team loses, I am a strong believer that it was my fault. Last year during the NFC championship game when the Packers choked away their chance at a Super Bowl berth, I blamed myself for leaving my television screen when they were up double-digits with five minSee LEWIS page 14