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Do Ivies Discriminate Against Asian Applicants?

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Closed Ivy towers | Data show that, although Asian-Americans outperform their peers in standardized tests and high school competitions, they face higher barriers to college admissions.

By DREW MUSTO Sun Staff Writer

All three of Naomi Hill’s ’17 older siblings attended Ivy League schools. Hoping to follow her siblings’ path, Hill — then a freshman in high school — sat down with her counselor to chart her own path to college. But before she could get her feet off the ground, her counselor warned, “because you’re Asian, you will be compared against people with GPAs and test scores that are this much higher.”

Hill, who was adopted and raised in a white, Jewish household, questioned the ‘Asian’ grouping.

“I didn’t feel that it was fair for me to be put into that vast group,” Hill said.

The same sense that Hill’s counselor had about Ivy League admissions — that Asian applicants must perform better than non-Asians to achieve parity — underlies the newest tide of legal challenges to the use of race in admission, a tide that now is rolling toward Ithaca’s shores.

In late August, a group called the Asian American

Mayor Myrick Endorses Plumb for Congress

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Higher Standards

Hill said that her counselor, other Asian parents and Asian students at her high school shared the assumption that Asian applicants must meet a higher standard of assessment in admissions.

“I was told that, because of my race, my SAT score — my math score in particular — was not high enough to compete with other Asians and that I might not get into an Ivy or a top school because of it,” Hill said. “I had one friend whose mother signed her up for every extracurricular that either I or my other Asian friends were in, just so her daughter would be on par with the other Asians from her high school.”

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Wings Over Ithaca Closes After Owner’s Indictment

SlamsTom Reed for supporting Trump,avoiding Ithaca area

By JOSEPHINE CHU

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By STEPHANIE YAN Sun Assistant News Editor

Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 endorsed Ithaca congressional challenger John Plumb Saturday, warning voters about the dangers of reelecting Tom Reed (RN.Y.), an early supporter of Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Reed announced his support for Trump on March 16, becoming one of the first congressmen to endorse the controversial candidate publicly.

Following Reed’s statement, Plumb accused the Republican of “putting politics before the country.”

In his endorsement post on Facebook, Myrick also criticized Reed for actively “avoiding” Ithaca, the largest city in his district.

“Maybe [this is] because he routinely insults ‘extreme Ithaca’ in his campaign ads,” Myrick wrote.

“Maybe because he routinely stands against the environment, in favor of fracking and against human

Coalition for Education filed a complaint against Cornell and Columbia with the Department of Education, alleging the two universities engaged in “systematic illegal discrimination against Asian American students.” The AACE filed a similar complaint three months earlier against Brown, Dartmouth and Yale, again alleging discriminatory admission practices against Asian applicants.

Mayor Myrick | Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 announced that he is supporting John Plumb in the local congressional race.

rights for refugees.”

In contrast, Myrick praised Plumb’s commitment to upholding policies important to Ithaca, citing the fact that the candidate’s family has lived in upstate New York for four generations.

“He understands the importance of the federal government investing in people, stopping climate See MYRICK page 4

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V.P. of CNN Describes Dramatic 2016 News Cycle

By SHAFAY MUNIR Sun Contributor

On Friday evening, Ken Jautz ’75 found himself in familiar territory: speaking to a packed crowd of students, faculty and guests in an ILR auditorium.

Jautz, the executive vice president of CNN, returned to campus to recount his career in media and speak about CNNs’ experience covering an election cycle which has drawn critiques of the mainstream media.

One Night in Berlin

Jautz centered his lecture on a single night from his time reporting for the Associated Press in Berlin during the 1980s. Jautz said that, in his time in

Working as a CNN producer in East Germany, Jautz said he covered Schabowski’s fluster and the confusion resulting from announcement when, confronted by Western journalists, he confirmed to press that the changes are “effective immediately.” Schabowski later relented that much of the conference was a “foul-up” and some of the information he gave was inaccurate, according to The Independent.

When questioned immediately afterwards by his superiors in America as to what was to happen next, Jautz predicted that, within an hour, the city would be filled with activity, as citizens, once “prisoners of their own country,” embraced freedom. However, Jautz was incorrect and the network covered the

actions of the German people. Faced with this crushing lesson, however, Jautz said he did not give up, but rose forward, taking more risks and learning from his failures to rise up in CNN and eventually work his way to his current position.

Students said Jautz struck them as introspective and engaging. He was “interesting and hopeful,” Nick Hernandez ’19 said after the speech. “He made me feel better about my first semester here.”

the ILR school, shares his experience working in media in Ives Hall on Friday afternoon.

Germany, he produced some of the most consuming and fulfilling work of his three decade career. He listed three lessons he drew from the experience — take risks, be persistent and break out of your comfort zone.

These lessons stem from a dramatic event that he experienced while working in Germany. Jautz said he was present when the press secretary of the East German Communist Party, Guenter Schabowski, announced that the East German Communist party would allow citizens to apply for visas to travel beyond the Berlin Wall.

Berlin Wall after traveling over an hour away from the conference, to find nothing.

When questioned later as to what upcoming coverage should entail, Jautz this time predicted that the bureaucrats would remain silent for several days before the story culminated in any action or excitement from the people. That evening, Jautz said he was surprised again as over a million visitors came to destroy the Berlin Wall.

Jautz said he reviled this as a “potentially career-ending mistake,” and evidence of his inability to predict the

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Officials: Closure temporary,due to path erosion

By JOSEPHINE CHU

Midnight in Berlin | Ken Jautz ’75, CNN’s executive vice president and a former student in

Projecting a Country’s Future

As Jautz works to showcase the 2016 election, students inquired as to how he feels about his network's current coverage of this unprecedented election cycle and national polarization.

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He said the seminal lesson from his experiences is — everybody fails, so one must take risks anyway.

The Cascadilla Gorge trail, between Treman Triangle at Linn St. and College Ave., has been temporarily closed due to safety issues.

Todd Bittner, director of natural areas at Cornell Plantations, said the “recent hard rain following this summer’s drought” eroded material onto a section of the trail. As a result, the trail will remain closed “until steps have been taken to return it to safe walking conditions.”

“We are working to monitor conditions and address the underlying stormwater drainage issue,” he said. “We hope the trail can reopen soon, because it is enjoyed by so many.”

However, depending on the work needed to complete repairs, the trail may be closed through the winter, according to Bittner.

The gorge — owned and managed by the Cornell Plantations — was last closed in 2008 due to storm-related safety concerns and reopened in 2014, according to the University.

Robert H. Treman 1878, a former Cornell trustee, donated the gorge to the University in 1909 to support “public use, education and enjoyment,” according to the Cornell Plantations website. The gorge trail is 400 feet in elevation and 7,800 feet in length.

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

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Trail trials | The recent closure of the Cascadilla Gorge trail follows its six-year closure from 2008 to 2014, also due to safety concerns.

N.Y.Comptroller Advocates for Fiscal Responsibility in Government

By KATHERINE HEANEY Sun Contributor

Thomas DiNapoli, the 54th comptroller of the state of New York, encouraged civic engagement and promoted fiscal responsibility in a Cornell Institute of Public Affairs lecture Friday.

As the state chief fiscal officer in charge of managing state payroll, operating the state retirement system and auditing government activity, DiNapoli has spoken out against the government’s inefficient use of public resources. Since he began work in 2007, he said he has also reformed the state pension system, making it sustainable for the retirees of future generations.

DiNapoli began his colloquium at CIPA by applauding MPA student attendees for seeking a degree in public affairs.

“These skills will serve you well in many future careers,” DiNapoli said. “You never know where your education is going to come in handy, but you are always going to have that credential and it’s only going to help you.”

DiNapoli also expressed the importance of proper government

financing. He said that, in order for the country to operate effectively, it is imperative that the government be “critical about spending.”

DiNapoli said he and his 2,600 person team often work alongside the attorney generals at the state and federal levels to make sure government money is not misspent.

“We won’t tolerate corruption,” DiNapoli said. “People need

to be held accountable so we don’t waste taxpayer dollars.”

The comptroller’s office is viewed as the least partisan, in part because it focuses on long term projections, according to DiNapoli. Workers collect unbiased data on specific issues such as student loans and public health.

The information is then compiled into public reports so that both state officials and ordinary citizens can access and interpret the data

themselves.

Much of DiNapoli’s early interest in government and policy was influenced by the political and social changes dominating American life when he was in high school, during the Vietnam War. “You had to be 21 to vote, but 18 year old men were drafted to war and many families were affected,” DiNapoli said. “Young people wanted change but had no voice in making policy.”

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Spending and the state | New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli encourages students to become more involved in government issues at a lecture Friday.

DiNapoli said he joined the fight to lower the voting age. The year he graduated high school was the first year 18 year olds could vote. That same year, he ran for his town’s school board.

“I had the unique experience that the very first time I voted, I voted for myself.” DiNapoli said.

“A few hours later I found that I had won.”

DiNapoli said he hopes that more people get involved in government and vote this November, not only because it is their civic duty, but due to the unprecedented nature of this particular election cycle.

He said although Trump is the Republican nominee, he has been rejected by many citizens, including many Republican party members. However, he pointed out that Trump was not just appointed the nominee, he won his status democratically, under party guidelines.

“Trump didn’t select himself,” DiNapoli said. “He is a reflection of the people who chose to vote this year.”

Katherine Heaney can be reached at keh224@cornell.edu.

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Jautz’75 Defends CNN’s Objectivity CNN

work has a bias, on any side, he would simply respond “no kidding.”

As audience members asked questions that and national polarization. implied CNN has a liberal bias, Jautz responded “I was interested in what he had to say, espe- by saying that those who stray among the consercially in a time when CNN and other media out- vative side often yearn for “alt-right” media, citing lets are under the same media scrutiny,” news sources such as Breitbart and Drudge Report Hernandez said. as their preferred sources of information, outlets Jautz said that at this particular time in the which have been accused of deep-rooted racism election cycle, the focus of CNN is on presenting and sexism, according to The New York Times. newsworthy facts that support substantiated, This claim was disputed most heavily by others credible evidence. following the talk. Thomas Hartman ’19, a sup“The biggest danger is the echo-chamber,” he porter of neither candidate, took issue with many said, alluding to the partisan coverage across the of these claims. line, from MSNBC to Fox News that allows view“As somebody who neither supports Trump ers to only hear viewpoints that reverberate nor Clinton, I’m offended by the assertion that desired claims back to them. conservatives prefer to only watch news networks While highlighting racist,” deemed the advantages that Hartman said.

“We are “I’m offended by the assertion that new media has in a party that supports regards to updating the conservatives prefer to only watch news everybody’s rise to the public immediately and top regardless of race, networks deemed racist.” providing additional gender identity, sexual outlets for information, orientation, creed, or Thomas Hartman ’19 Jautz warned that this other characteristics.” change could result in a To some, the networld where people refuse to embrace or even works’ message of objectivity, compared with its acknowledge “opposing notions.” event coverage, has been viewed as a type of Still, Jautz was quick to admit that he has sev- pointillism which creates a design that cannot be eral regrets on how his network has covered the discerned from its intent: Hartman says, “Fox election cycle.

News and CNN have both avoided objectivity.

“We did not take the Trump candidacy serious- CNN’s hand-picking of sexual assault claims and ly enough,” he said in regards to the candidates’ Fox News’ purposeful selection of strictly populist spring from original non-factor to cur- WikiLeaks hacks show a clear deviation from rent party nominee, a statement echoed by CNN’s objective reporting.” president on Friday night when he stated that airJautz responds to claims of favoritism and a ing so many Trump rallies was a “mistake,” lack of trust by citing the fact that Trump’s overaccording to The Hill. whelming air time, though currently causing a rift This mistake, however, Jautz said was “recti- in trust within viewers, is significantly less than fied,” once Trump became the frontrunner, and the proportion which Romney received compared he said he now stands behind CNN’s tendency to to Obama in 2012, and even further less than the report mostly on Trump. proportional coverage which Bush received comJautz said he recognizes the challenges that pared to Al Gore in 2000. come with the unprecedented sentiments in the Within an era of “false equivalency,” Jautz electorate. As an analogy, he stated that if one maintains that CNN’s aim throughout this electook 10 random CNN viewers, they would find a tion cycle is to be a beacon of truth which viewers handful of opinions, a minority of which claiming can comfortably rely on for transparent informathe network is anti-Democratic, another minority tion. declaring it anti-Republican, and the rest potentially holding a belief that mainstream media has Shafay Munir can be reached an agenda. Therefore, if anyone claims the net- at sm2363@cornell.edu.

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Plumb, Reed Discuss Trump Tapes Plumb criticizes congressman’s support of Republican nominee MYRICK

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change and creating more affordable education,” Myrick wrote.

Although Reed reprimanded Trump after the release of a tape showing Trump making lewd comments about sexually assaulting women, Reed did not pull his endorsement, maintaining that a “Hillary Clinton presidency is unacceptable.”

Reed also explained his support for Trump by calling him “an outsider who will shake up D.C.”

Plumb criticized Reed’s response to the scandal, pointing out that while other Republicans withdrew their support for Trump Reed remained committed to the contentious candidate.

“Congressman Reed will do and say anything to advance his own self-interests at the expense of all of us here in the Southern Tier,” Plumb said in a statement.

“It is clear that he made a selfserving political calculation that this is the best way to advance his Washington career and the special interests that he protects.”

Myrick has been a longtime supporter of Clinton, campaigning for her in Pennsylvania and New York. He has also repeatedly criticized Trump, saying on his Facebook page that Trump “knows nothing and can fix nothing.”

Plumb, a former officer in the U.S. Navy, has a Ph.D. in aerospace engineering and worked at the National Security Council prior to his congressional campaign, according to a campaign release.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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Ithaca” in 2011, according to the Ithaca Times.

The restaurant, which was open until 2 a.m. on weekends, was a popular late-night delivery option for Cornell students.

Kevin Kee ’18 called himself a “loyal fan” of the restaurant, raving about the combo packs the venue offered, including various combinations of wings, ribs, fries and drinks.

“I’m actually sad that [Wings Over Ithaca] closed,” he said.

“Now I have no place to get wings.”

Angel Ding ’18 said Wings Over Ithaca was “very convenient” because of its late hours.

“I just ordered my favorite buffalo chicken wrap the other day,” she said. “I had no idea that that would be my

last ever Wings Over Ithaca order.”

The general manager of Wings Over Ithaca, Mitchell Blinn, did not respond to requests for comment.

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

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C.U.Asian Groups Defend Affirmative Action Policies ADMISSIONS

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The AACE report provides some evidence to support this view, citing a book, No Longer Separate, Not Yet Equal, that documents admission disparities by race at four unnamed elite private schools and three elite public schools. The researchers found that, between similarly situated Asian and white applicants, an Asian applicant is 67 percent less likely than a white applicant to receive an offer of admission. The researchers also found that Asian applicants must score considerably higher on standardized tests to reach a likelihood of admission comparable to that of non-Asian applicants.

Prof. Richard Sander, law, UCLA and Medha Uppala conducted a similar study with data from three unnamed Ivy League schools. Sander and Uppala concluded, “No other racial or ethnic group at these schools is as underrepresented relative to its application numbers as are Asian Americans. Indeed, no other racial or ethnic group comes even remotely close to this level of underrepresentation.”

‘The New Jews’

“When people argue that there is discrimination against Asians in the Ivy League, I agree,” Hill said.

“There is.”

Sara Harberson, a former associate dean of admissions at the University of Pennsylvania, corroborated Hill’s belief. “[H]olistic admissions can allow for a gray zone of bias at elite institutions, working against a group such as Asian Americans that excels in the black-and-white world of academic achievement,” Harberson wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed.

Does data support this assertion?

Cornell is 18.09 percent Asian — defined as “having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent” — according to the University’s 2015-2016 Common Data Set. This figure puts the University just above the median Asian enrollment in the Ivy League, but well above Dartmouth (15.21 percent) and Brown (13.32 percent) and fairly below Princeton (21.50 percent) and the University of Pennsylvania (20.14 percent).

But the AACE and others say these figures are out of balance with the Asian population, and especially the group’s academic record.

Asian success in elite academic competitions nationwide is well documented. In 2010, Asian students constituted only 11 percent of California’s high school population, but 60 percent of the state’s National Merit Scholars. The same pattern of overachievement has been documented in a number of states, including Texas and New York.

Sixty-four percent of Intel Science Talent Search finalists since 2010 have also been Asian American, though Asians constituted only 5.8 percent of the U.S. population as of 2011, according to the Pew Research Center. Thus, Asian students are among the highest academic achievers in the country.

Asian Americans also compose at least 31 percent of Presidential Scholars, athough the true figure may be higher because Asians without a traditionally Asian last name, like Hill, were not counted in the analysis that produced this figure.

More so than the other competitions, the Presidential Scholar criteria match many Ivy League schools’ broad-based criteria for admission. Candidates are evaluated not only on their academic record, but also on their “personal characteristics, leadership and service activities, and an analysis of their essay,” according to the program’s website.

“Accordingly, one would expect the percentage of Asian Americans selected as Presidential Scholars to predict the percentage admitted to the Ivy League colleges,” the AACE’s complaint said. “It does not.”

Ivy League schools’ apparent failure to respond to Asian American population growth and high academic achievement has led the AACE and other researchers to dub Asians “the new Jews.” The nickname alludes to several Ivy League schools’ welldocumented discrimination against qualified Jewish applicants in the 1920s and 1930s.

Notably, Cornell did not institute racial and ethnic quotas to exclude Jewish students, according to the University. However, Cornell did adopt, and still uses, legacy preference policies that were originally implemented in other schools “to screen out Jewish applicants,” according to The New York Times.

The AACE’s complaint against Brown, Dartmouth and Yale recounted a study that compared Asian enrollment at the eight Ivy League schools, including Cornell, to that at the California Institute of Technology, where an applicants’ race is not considered in admission decisions. The study’s key finding: CalTech’s Asian enrollment coincides with Asian population growth, but Ivy League enrollment does not.

“The relative enrollment of Asians at Harvard [plummeted], dropping by over half during the

“[H]olistic admissions can allow for a gray zone of bias at elite institutions.”

Sara Harberson last 20 years, with a range of similar declines also occurring at Yale, Cornell, and most other Ivy League universities,” said Ron Unz, the researcher who conducted the study, in the paper.

“The yearly fluctuations in Asian enrollments are often smaller than were the changes in Jewish numbers at those institutions during the ‘quota era’ of the past,” Unz added.

The University’s Defense

The University, citing its “practice not to comment on active or pending litigation,” declined to comment on these specific allegations of discrimination, but it defended its race-conscious admissions policies in an amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief filed with the Supreme Court in Fisher v. University of Texas (2016).

In the brief, seven Ivy League schools — all except Harvard — and a number of other elite universities argued that race-conscious admissions processes are necessary to acquire the academic benefits that flow from diversity, an interest the Court has deemed “compelling.”

“Diversity encourages students to question their assumptions, to understand that wisdom may be found in unexpected voices and to gain an appreciation of the complexity of today’s world,” the universities wrote in the brief.

The universities further argued that their policies “will hasten the arrival of the day when race no longer matters.”

Since 1978, the Supreme Court has allowed universities to defend race-conscious admissions policies on the same grounds that the amici brief describes.

However, AACE president YuKong Zhao said the University has left many questions unanswered.

“If Ivy League schools claim they have not discriminated against Asian American applicants, why [don’t] they make their admissions process and files transparent?” he said.

Zhao also questioned the authenticity of the University’s commitment to diversity.

“If Ivy League schools really cherish diversity, why [don’t] they use their legacy slots to help disadvantaged minorities, instead of limiting Asian American enrollment?” Zhao asked. “When will Ivy League schools start promoting diversity on their sports teams?”

In response to Zhao’s questions, the University reiterated its decision “not to comment on active or pending litigation.”

Student Perspectives

Attitudes toward the University’s admission policies among Cornell’s Asian community are complicated.

For many, the history of raceconscious admission as a means to increase the enrollment of historically underrepresented groups — particularly African Americans — paints race consciousness favorably.

“Because we see other minority groups benefitting from this, even though we may not individually benefit from it, we have compassion and a willingness to be for this policy that helps our fellow minority groups,” said Francis Ledesma ’19, treasurer of the Cornell Filipino Association. “And we recognize that diversity makes Cornell a better place.”

The Asian Pacific Americans for Action at Cornell has also defended the University’s raceconscious admission approach.

“Students of color, specifically Black folx, Latin@s, indigenous folx, Pacific Islanders and Southeast Asians, are more likely to go to under-resourced K-12 schools,” the group wrote in a statement. “It’s critical for universities to consider these racial barriers in education during admissions.”

Even Hill, after conceding that race-conscious decision making may have affected her negatively, agreed that the approach produces invaluable benefits.

“I think affirmative action, without a viable alternative, is an

element that has to be included in admissions,” Hill said. “I wouldn’t want to see Cornell use the [raceneutral] CalTech system.”

Like Hill, the AACE prefers race-neutral admissions, but Zhao said it “supports the goal to achieve diversity on college campuses” and does not attack affir-

“Affirmative action, without a viable alternative, is an element that has to be included in admissions.”

Naomi Hill ’17 mative action at large.

“Our complaints focus on eliminating illegal discriminations against Asian American applicants, not opposing affirmative actions,” Zhao said.

Ledesma advised potentially frustrated Asian applicants to see the benefits of race-consciousness and trust the axiom that “things will always work out in the end.”

“Maybe being of a certain ethnicity may hurt you in college applications, but you will end up where you fit, a place that will make you happy and a place that will push you to be better,” he said. ***

The Office of Civil Rights in

the Department of Education has not yet determined whether it will investigate the complaint against Cornell. The AACE is waiting for OCR’s response before it decides its next step, according to Zhao.

The leading case on the topic is Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v.

Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College, et al., which is currently being adjudicated in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts. One of SFFA’s requests is a declaratory judgment that Harvard’s admission scheme is unconstitutional, barring the university from using race in future admission decisions.

Last Thursday, Harvard informed its 2009–2015 applicants that it will turn over data from their admissions decisions to SFFA on October 28. The parties have until March 2, 2018 to file briefs in the case, according to a case schedule issued by presiding judge Allison D. Burroughs, an Obama appointee.

For the thousands of students who, like Hill, harbor Ivy League aspirations, much hinges on the case’s outcome. It may be almost as important as the GPA, test scores and other accolades they are currently working to accrue.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

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Trump’s toxic masculinity is a danger to us all To the Editor: As both a campus center and a student organization, The Cornell Women’s Resource Center exists to serve Cornellians of all political stripes, in any way that comports with our mission: to support the full and active participation of women-identified students in both their personal and educational pursuits at Cornell. In a typical election year, we would not publicly endorse or denounce any political candidate.

This is not a typical election year.

Even the first female presidential nominee from a major party would not, in itself, warrant abandoning our political neutrality. Some of us have supported Hillary Rodham Clinton since she announced her candidacy, while others still aren’t comfortable offering full-throated support of the Democratic nominee’s policies and positions.

We are no more a monolith than the entire student body is.

We are all in agreement, however, that Donald Trump must be stopped.

Regardless of our political affiliations, we at the WRC are committed to promoting social justice and equality for all. We deplore identity-based bigotry, harassment, hate speech, and violence. What that means is, we should have spoken out as a group — not just as individuals — a long time ago.

We should have spoken out when Donald Trump refused to denounce white supremacist supporters.

We should have spoken out when Donald Trump characterized Mexican immigrants as drug dealers and rapists.

We should have spoken out when Donald Trump threatened to ban Muslims from entering the country.

We should have spoken out when Donald Trump mocked a reporter’s disability.

We should have spoken out every time Donald Trump used inflammatory rhetoric about Black Americans.

We could go on — and we apologize to everyone we let down by trying for too long to maintain a façade of political neutrality in this extremely unusual election year. But we are speaking out now to say we stand with everyone who has felt their identity, their family, their country, their religion, or their community attacked by Trump’s hateful and dangerous invective. You did not deserve his vitriol or our silence.

We hope the entire Cornell community will join us in that, and in condemning the Republican nominee’s recently released and much discussed misogynistic remarks.

Speaking to Access Hollywood host Billy Bush in 2005, Trump said, among other things, “You know I’m automatically attracted to beautiful [women] — I just start kissing them. It’s like a magnet. Just kiss. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything... Grab them by the p---y. You can do anything.”

In the days since that video was released — and even in the wake of multiple women coming forward to report that Donald Trump assaulted them in just the way he describes — Trump’s team has attempted to dismiss his words as mere “locker room banter.” Admittedly, most of us haven’t spent much time in men’s locker rooms, but we certainly hope they aren’t usually full of people bragging about how they manage to get away with committing sexual assault. Touching people sexually without waiting to find out if they’re interested is not a privilege some folks can earn by dint of wealth or fame; it is a crime, even if the perpetrator is a “star.”

Conflating typical male behavior with sexual assault perpetuates rape culture. It bolsters the myth that “real” sexual violence is rare and deviant, as opposed to an unacceptably common occurrence, often committed by people we otherwise like and admire. Sowing confusion around this issue is not only dangerous to those who live every day with a heightened threat of sexual assault — trans and gender non-conforming folks, undergraduate women and/or people with disabilities are especially vulnerable populations on Cornell’s campus — but also unfair to the vast majority of men, who do not feel entitled to use other people’s bodies as they see fit.

“Locker-room banter” that involves descriptions of criminal assault is not a function of maleness, but of toxic masculinity — the widespread belief that violence, aggression, and dominance are natural and necessary parts of manhood. Toxic masculinity teaches boys to believe any display of emotion other than anger or dominance is unacceptable, and that sexually objectifying women is the hallmark of being a “real man.” It prescribes an impossibly narrow path for boys and men to walk, one that denies or denigrates the existence of queer men, trans men, gender non-conforming people and even men who sometimes feel like crying.

Donald Trump is not just an “alpha male” who speaks like most “red-blooded American men” — we reject that dangerous myth out of respect for the men we know and love, as well as ourselves. The Republican nominee is a purveyor of toxic masculinity, rank misogyny and racial and religious hatred. We unequivocally denounce his bigotry and oppose his candidacy for President of the United States.

We should have said so sooner.

Laura Weiss, director of the Women’s Resource Center Kate Harding, assistant director of the Women’s Resource Center The Women’s Resource Center Exectutive Board

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here was a recent article that ran suspected, some people do things just for under The Sun’s news section, titled the money. It’s a decision I faced when “Cornell Student Critique Culture of applying to colleges. Writing is the one I Careerism.” It was published in news, but enjoy unconditionally. It’s something that given the collective shrieking of students defines my autonomy, and my autonomy is and parents alike, it might as well have been the only thing that I have at this moment. I an opinion column with a taste for blown had never considered becoming a business fuses. In it, Erial, a classics student talks major until I was gently nudged in that about the financial high wire act she’s direction because it was practical, and when embraced the moment she switched from I did choose it, I wasn’t head over heels with studying chemistry and anatomy to Latin. the decision. It seemed like a cop out, that She cites her apathy towards medicine, and I’d chosen something over what I loved the fact that she can’t even stand blood, most. One day, I thought I’d write columns which is a bit like a computer science major a la Spotlight, the next, I’m spending my saying they don’t weekdays in lecture like computers. talking about suit “That something and tie companies I’ve accepted for Being a business major isn’t that prickle the who I am: I am not backbones of nonmeant to be a docconformists. But something I’d ever enjoy tor, but it’s okay,” it’s growing on me she says, with a more than writing, but I’ve because I’ve given sniff of defiance. it time. Being a To be honest, I business major isn’t accepted it’s more practical something found it refreshing.

I’d ever I respected her enjoy more than and less financially risky. honesty and selfwriting, but I’ve awareness. It’s not it’s more Becoming a business major accepted often someone in practical and less college can come risky. was a business decision, financially out and say what Becoming a busithey want in life. ness major was a but it’s one I can live with. business It’s even less often decision, someone is going but it’s one I can to come out and live with because I say money was part of the career decision do enjoy it now. they made. If there’s anything people will But that’s why the article I read really distort more than their sex lives, it’s their spoke to me the way it did. It’s takes guts to desire for money. For example, there’s a one day, wake up and realize the lucrative damning moment in Michael Lewis’s Wall path you’ve taken is the wrong one for you.

Street classic Liar’s Poker where the soon to What if I hated studying business? Would I be graduated, soon to be poor Lewis inter- take the plunge? It depends on two things, views for a job at a prestigious bank. He’s really. It matters how honest we are with naïve, pregnant with hope and unexpecting. ourselves when we choose our careers. It’s When he’s asked the mandatory “Why do okay to make our decision based off of you want to be an investment banker?” he financial cues. We all do, to some extent. gives the honest answer. It’s a moral obliga- But we have to accept it. To try to imitate tion, of course. “I want to make money,” he passion, to try to say we do what we do replies. because we love it when we actually feel I want to make money. quite different is at best disingenuous and at If there ever was a time for the establish- worst unhealthy. The second things is: What ment to immolate its own unspoken laws, do we value in our careers? It’s easy to that was it. It didn’t happen, though. Heads become dazzled by the mainstream and be exploded, but custom wasn’t customized. swept away in the current trend. But at Lewis didn’t get the job, because he’d broken some point, we’d have to wake up to the the taboo of speaking about his desire for reality we’ve bought into. It’s a point of conmoney. You see, he’d accidentally hijacked tention that everyone is forced to go the lexicon: People with jobs don’t know the through. What makes us happy? Is it the word “money.” They’re supposed to be above money? Looks? Or is it more subtle, intanit all: The hedonism is there, but no one is gible and less flashy? willing to admit it. It’s silly. The whole point Someone cynical might say it’s impossiof banking is to make money. Otherwise, we ble to have it both ways. I don’t agree. What would just call it a think tank. they say is of the vertical perspective; from Our society can’t seem to reconcile the top to bottom. They want the top of the pursuit of career with the pursuit of money. wants pyramid, the financially irresponsible, It’s selfish, and shallow: That’s what we’re take the Maybach for a joyride kind of told. You can be posh, but you can’t try to be wants — and then they want the inner sancposh. Being well off is a side pursuit that timony, the peace, the self-confidence and we’re supposed to accidentally stumble into; sense of fulfillment that is found at the emobeing passionate about your career is the real tional base. But I think it’s more horizontal. goal. Anything else is misguided.

We ebb and flow in our choices, and we This level of self-deceit in careers blurs make different choices based on our current the actual pursuit of it. This is the crossroad circumstances. Time. We swing back and that every college student faces. You hear it a forth between ends when disequilibrium is lot nowadays in colloquial: There’s a “hard” attained. Sometimes we reach the middle major and a “soft” major to be assigned to when we’re self-aware and understanding of each study. We’re not talking about level of what we value. Other times, we stand on difficulty, but rather what’s going to be fea- much more tenuous ground and disillusionsible in the job market. A “hard” major is ment settles in gradually. In that case, it feasible, which can range from economics to takes longer to realize the path we’re meant pre-med. Anything else is “soft,”, like clas- to take. But I like to be optimistic about the sics or history. When someone says they’re situation. I think everyone, in the end, realdoing a “soft” major, it invokes a few izes what makes them happy in life. It’s just responses: admiration, interest, snootiness, a question of whether it’s too late. pity, but mostly — questions. As in, “Why are you doing this, and aren’t you concerned William Wang is a freshman in the College of about your future?”

Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached You do it because you love it. Because the at wwang@cornellsun.com. Willpower appears money doesn’t matter. Because, as you’ve alternate Mondays this semester.

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OPINION

Amiri Banks | Honest A.B.

A Brief and Incomplete Synopsis of My Current Life 1.

I’m taking Intro to Japanese (six credits). My German, I now realize, is significantly better than I thought.

2. I have an ongoing collection of observations that I’ve made of this stunning campus and all its life.

They are in disarray, just like my overstuffed email inbox.

3. Yesterday, while parsing through a word document, in which I store all my potential stories, I discovered that over 60 (!) pages were devoted purely to good words that I had come across. The list should be shrinking as I use them, but it continues to grow somehow.

4. I haven’t had a decent opportunity to explore any new music or film in-depth since the summer; I am suffering from withdrawal.

5. Social justice is exhausting. Just writing the previous sentence uncorked a flood of pressure and emotions, which are now swirling about inside my head.

6. I’m supposed to take the GRE in two weeks, but standardized tests are stupid.

7. Oh, and I have family/friends from home; fill in the blanks.

8. More often than not, I spend my limited free time in wasteful isolation (i.e. YouTube; haphazard, spontaneous journaling; reading random articles). Eventually, these small chunks of wasted time accumulate to a critical mass, at which point I devote energy, begrudgingly, to my many responsibilities. More on that soon.

Anyway, the inspiration for this column came from a long overdue meeting with a close friend. We discussed many topics, like how I am booked every day through the next two weekends with “We should

catch up” lunches and dinners. This tive faculty for both outward and your ability to understand yourself. I is because, in spite of my magnetic inward processes. So while it may can question the why and how of my relationship with my room, I know seem intuitive that you can be wrong writing all day long. Yet if, after all far too many people. Just one night about someone else, it came as a sur- this, I trust that I have consciously earlier, in fact, I had had dinner with prise to me that I could indeed also and truly written what I wanted — someone and found myself struck be just as wrong about myself. and only what I wanted, then I can with dysphoria due to the odd com“Wow,” I thought. “Do I hate all live with the “what could have bination of fascinating strangers, of my columns because I’ve tried to been,” the doubts and the insecuriabout whom I knew frustratingly lit- express myself in the wrong way? If ties. So yes, I am greatly disappointtle, and friends/acquaintances, from there is indeed this truly infinite ed in most of my columns, but I whom I felt unsettlingly distant — landscape, covered in potentially know for a fact that even my bad both of which were present in the successful pathways for my own columns were still very much so a crowded dining hall. Even though I artistic journey, then what if I just version of myself that I embrace and am about as unimportant to most keep choosing the wrong one? What love. I may have outgrown the conpeople in the grand scheme of their if I actually failed not because I am a tent, or see it as vastly inferior to stolives as they are to me, there’s still an bad writer (though this may very ries/essays/other forms of written uneasiness enclosed within the well be the case), but because I failed expression stowed away on my comknowledge that everyputer, but one you know won’t t h e s e love you and everyone words are you see can’t be known. All in all, cluttered minds are not a scourge mine.

Eventually, the to the efficiency demanded by the modern They are topic of conversation useful to turned inevitably to art world, but its greatest source of innovation. my peace (he’s an architect in a You should have more words, thoughts and of mind band and I’m a and essencinephile who loves to ideas than time. tial for my write). I was explaining artistic to him that I don’t growth. think I’ve ever written a good col- to recognize the writer I was supI am a human being, which umn, but that I can sleep at night posed to be?” means I am predisposed to the combecause I believe that all high quality The prospect of such a thought forts of conformity and stubbornly creations, if they are really worth process becomes increasingly terrify- resistant to the challenges of change. sharing, will find their way into the ing because it lacks precision. There After all, the vast majority of wouldworld at some point or another. is no reliable metric or analysis that be repercussions in my life have carMy friend offered a different per- allows you to discern whether the ried neither permanence nor relespective, drawn from a book he has thing you’ve created is the truest ver- vance with respect to my overall trabeen reading, which I found to be sion of yourself, and thus you are jectory. Yet, when confronted with enlightening. I’m probably not destined to be overwhelmed, dissat- the option to label a potential outdescribing this particularly well, but isfied, and unsure for the rest of your come as hollow and trivial or a legitapparently, there is loads of contem- days. imate concern, I continue to struggle porary literature in the fields of psyBetween the two of us, though, with the fear of choosing incorrectly. chology and neuroscience support- my friend and I came to a more reas- Thus I often consign myself to the ing a radical new idea: our socio- suring conclusion: Contentedness more restrained, measured route — interpretive brain functions — how with your creative agency lies in even when it is in direct opposition we perceive, value and define people accepting the imperfection of your- to my own desires. This boundless, — are composed of a singular cogni- self, including the uncertainty of vacuous fear threatens to swallow

joy, and a sense of urgency without a sense of joy leads to stress without purpose, which is perhaps the most destructive and useless type of stress one can have.

Taking into account this perspective, I’m no longer sure about my previous frame of mind (“What should exist eventually will exist”).

But if I can at least trust that “what does exist is what I freely and happily willed to exist,” then I have no complaints. Sure, I might find that I’ll never have written or said enough, but, as always, at least I’ll have said something. The choices never made, the words never written, the thoughts never fully explored, the ideas never realized… this is all wound into the territory of the torture that is being alive and thinking.

All in all, cluttered minds are not a scourge to the efficiency demanded by the modern world, but its greatest source of innovation. You should have more words, thoughts and ideas than time. I certainly don’t have enough time, yet the reason I continue to bother with taking so long to become productive is a matter of dissent. The world presents productivity in a formulaic way, and even the unorthodox among us are bound to eventually align themselves with this school of thought: That productivity can be measured in output, contribution, tangible benefits, creations, dollars, pride, ego and acclaim. As for myself, I know that I’ll get to the productive stuff, in due time.

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

Honest A.B. appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Narayan Reddy | Reddy Set Go

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have been a research assistant for the Cornell Research Program on Self-Injury and Recovery, now known as the Youth, Risk and Opportunity lab, for a few years now. One of the projects I worked on last year was transcribing interviews. The interviews were conducted to clarify the course of one’s relationship with NSSI throughout one’s life as it relates to the trans-theoretical model. This model reflects an individual’s readiness to act on incorporating a healthier behavior into their lives, which in the cases of these individuals would be working towards ending their engagement in NSSI. The interviews themselves were of many perspectives. Some were teenagers who faced bullying, young adults struggling with their relationships and older individuals who confided in us that self-injury had been a fixture in their life for a long time. One thing they shared in common was their gender identity.

All were women, with the exception of one young man.

No, this gender distribution is not representative of the overall population. Countless demographic studies on NSSI have consistently found that its prevalence is half women and half men. However, significantly fewer men seek treatment for their NSSI, or rather, the underlying mental health causes maintaining the behavior. It then follows that a large amount of men experiencing mental health issues do not seek treatment for them, and another body of research can confirm that the results of this negligence can be devastating.

This is one example of how sexism is damaging to men. The movement is entitled feminism because women comprise the gender seeking equality; they are the marginalized. It is a social-justice cause that has implications for better opportunities available to women by reforming a male-dominant system to allow for the realization of ambitions, aspirations, hopes, dreams and basic fundamental rights.

Chameleon However, it is often neglected that men are also affected by sexism in that many feel they must live up to the expectations that a maledominant system entails. Stereotypically masculine features are those of strength, resilience and detachedness, being minimally emotional and stereotypically feminine features are the binary opposite: weakness, delicateness and affectedness, being overtly emotional.

“American Male,” a short film released by MTV, effectively illustrates the toxic effects a fragile masculinity can have. “American” because the United States is a country horribly beset by sexism, and the setting of a fraternity grounded in ‘bro’ culture is a specific aspect of American society in which such toxicity seeps into almost every conceivable social interaction.

“Order beer not wine.” “And beef not chicken. Never light beer though. And not tofu. Never tofu. Can’t get more gay than tofu.”

The narration of how to be a man eventually makes what is implicit explicit: directly comparing the social cues that define appropriate behaviors based on gender. As he recites the laws, they begin to touch on deeper levels of personal adjustment and consequently depict stronger repressions of emotional expression and vulnerability.

“Steer clear of the arts unless you live near the coasts. That means no theatre, dancing, painting, poetry or prose. Too much reading is also risky because it makes you look soft and bookish.”

“Women move their hips when they walk, men move their shoulders.”

“Women use exclamation points when they talk, men use periods.”

“Women second guess, men go with their gut.”

“Women write in diaries, men journal.”

“Women sing, dance and perform on stage. Men play sports, watch sports and talk

about sports.”

As conversations about mental health are inherently discussed through emotions, men are as a result less likely to seek help for mental health issues they are experiencing. If an adolescent is engaging in NSSI, he may fear telling his friends or even his parents because he will lose any chance of cultivating an image of toughness; the fear of not living up to his manhood.

A similar phenomenon occurs with other areas of mental health, with one prevalent example being the stereotype of those suffering from eating disorders being exclusively young, middle to upper-class women with body image issues. Along with women, a large amount of men also suffer from eating disorders. Their causes are as diverse as the people who deal with them. For a man who shows symptoms of an eating disorder, however, their internalization of masculinity actively prevents them from receiving treatment. It is not a stretch to say that even the way in which NSSI usually presents between genders is also gendered. Women are more taken to forms of cutting, and men, punching. Furthermore, men are barred from participating in mental health research that also requires dialogue about emotions. This can explain the lack of information regarding mental health in men and the proceeding lack of mental health treatments that could be effective for male populations. This is a particularly troubling aspect of disparity out of the entire systemic issue of stigma that mental health advocacy is fighting to address.

In accordance with de-stigmatization, we must double down on efforts to have men be open up about their emotions, or just what they are going through in general, with feminism. This sentiment is related to the fundamental importance of fighting discrimination leveraged against women because of stereotypes surrounding their emotional states. It

should be noted that women are not necessarily better off than men even in this aspect.

A woman’s openness about mental health issues is not only recognized, but is often perceived as signs of being over-exaggerators attention-seekers, and has in many cases led to speculations about her sexual promiscuity.

This perception deems a woman’s mental health less worthy than a man’s, who is applauded for speaking up about his mental health, whereas it becomes deceptive when a women does it. This can be seen in the discussions of celebrities’ mental health, what separates Amanda Bynes, Tila Tequila, Kehlani and Lindsay Lohan from Kanye West, Ryan Adams and most recently Kid Cudi. To take on sexism in this regard, we must empower both genders and encourage men to be more open about mental health while at the same time discouraging biased reactions when women choose to be more open about theirs.

The man who narrates the short film ends it by describing himself as a chameleon, one who must constantly alter his presentation to fit his social environment. Ultimately, he admits to sacrificing his personhood in exchange for becoming a set of social cues. In one sense, however, being a chameleon can be a good thing in that it can represent both the dark shades associated with manhood, and the bright associated with womanhood, to display the full range of colors, the emotional expressions, that paint our existence as unique human beings removed from our gender expression. Consequently, we must all learn to be dysfunctional chameleons if we truly seek to improve access to and acceptability of mental health as well as the quality of mental health treatment.

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun.com. Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester.

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Jim Quinn | Sun Story Sundays

Workin’Late Sun Story Sundays are back with our second rendition, this mythological ditty from Jim Quinn. And now we have an addition feature: an audio podcast to accompany your story excursion. Listen to it on the way to class, on the bus, or on the toilet. Any where you’d please.

Submission for next months columns are open. The theme is family.

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’ working the late shift again and I’m on the only open register still running. Things are going as usual. I ring up less and less people as time grows heavier, the giant industrial fan spins in slow, great arcs from its place in the rafters, and the plastic wrapped pallets of unsold products sit solidly on their shelves, forming mazes and caves high above the concrete aisles. My legs are sore from my stillness at the register and I’m already missing the small stimulation a steady flow of shoppers brings. I’d rather be stocking shelves. At least then I could be walking around the store, though even that gets just as boring just as quick.

From my place at the register I can see most of the store, right down the center where the lowlands dip close to the concrete, tables and shortshelves of books and clothes, between forests of towering shelves that stretch off into their own shadows, promising boxes of cheese crackers, fruit snacks, and the refrigerated obelisk with its crates of produce and wall of wind.

With this vantage point, I see him coming well before he approaches.

He quickly rounds a corner made of stacked up bottles of everyday vitamins and jerkily makes his way to my register. He drops an already opened pack of lobster tails and a bag of bread on the belt, which begins to roll to me. He doesn’t step forward.

“Hi. I would like to pay for this. And, everything else.”

Everything he’s wearing is from somewhere in the store, from the trench coat with its flicked up collar and the low sitting hat that casts his face in shadow to the gloves he’s got on, still connected by an elastic cord. There’s tags sticking out all over him.

“Great. So if you’ll just let me scan those.”

He steps forward like his legs are too tired to fully bare his weight and he’s actually just constantly falling. I start stretching my scanner all over to each of the tags flopping off of him. He’s not the weirdest customer to come through here.

“Anymore clothes need to be scanned?”

“Ah what?”

“Anymore—” “Ah, there’s just the shirt.”

“Cool, could you just move the coat so I can get at the tag?”

“Ah mm, well how about the tails first?”

He slides the pack of already open lobster tails over, a sardine slides out of his sleeve and drifts slowly across the scanner in a gooey puddle of oil.

“Hmmm. Uh. Sorry about that.”

“Uh no yeah that’s uh don’t worry about it,” I say.

He’s not the weirdest customer to’ve come through here.

“I suppose… the ‘Jig’ is up. It is time you knew.” He unfastens the coat and opens it to reveal the shirt underneath is soaked through and yellowing in patches of the gooey oil where it’s touched his skin, which is kind of a strange texture. He raises the hat off his head to reveal a lobster where his face should be. Actually, his entire body seems to be made of bits of some sea food or another, cuts of salmon and tilapia, an entire mackerel here and there, and the intricate collection of sardines, squid tentacles, and lobster that somehow formed the necessary tendons and musculature for speech.

“Yes, it is me, Markór, god of ocean life. No I am not always in such a sorry state, but as you probably know it is not easy being a dispersed consciousness among the organisms in a stretch of water within a particular geographic location. I guess enough of me just got swept up in this seafood business that I ended up here. Really I have been away too long and must get back to the ocean soon. Don’t worry, I’ve gathered all the body mass you see from tossed left overs and expired scraps; I may be down on my luck but I am no trickster god, pilfering around for the dead organisms of his own domain, no thank you! It is a sad life nowadays! I am not nearly at the level of power I once was and it seems the business is drying up, so to speak, before any of the promised benefits have really come along. But how great was the ancient world, so full of mystery and promise: danger and life were everywhere, even in the most lifeless things! Gods and Spirits growing from shared experience and communication! Spreading over the land they came from and ruled and relishing their power! But while it is belief that created us, it is belief also that sustained us. Ancient belief in powers of immortality and indomitability have left us here, our divine forms dispersed along with the creators who gave us our power. Perhaps that is the nature of immortality? A gift to not be so lightly given? One that ensures suffering and failure even while it promises glory. Or perhaps that is the way of all life? Perhaps it is inevitable that imperfect mortals would create immortals made all the more imperfect by the mortal view of perfection? Or maybe I am exactly what I am meant to be, a conscious record of the beliefs that once were, granted longevity by those very beliefs.”

My leg is jiggling behind the counter.

“Hey listen it’s fine I can just gotta scan the shirt…ah, there. Got it.

Looks like your total’s gonna be $95.63, how will you be paying?”

“Ah yes, cash,” he pulls some greasy bills out of the pocket of the trench coat. “Hang on I think I have 63 cents here.”

He does some more digging through his pockets and comes up with some change that at this point is too oiled up to really jingle much.

“Here we go,” he says and slides the coins onto the counter.

“Great.”

They’re greasier than the dollars, like flies trapped in sap before it’s turned to amber. I place the money into the open register, give him his change, print out the receipt, which he takes, and hand him his bag of bread and lobster.

“Have a good night now.”

And he’s off, leaving slimy shoeprints on the concrete as he goes. He steps through the vortex of wind at the exit, leaving the still world of the store for the darkness and drama of the parking lot.

I still have another hour on my shift.

Jim Quinn is a junior in the College of Arts, Architecture and Planning Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Sun Story Sundays appears Sundays this semester.

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Ara Hagopian | Whiny Liberal

Rest in Power: Significance Of a Modern Epitaph T

he phrase “Rest in of Trayvon Martin. There are “power” mentioned is the Peace” (Latin: a number of salient similari- earthly power that the indiRequiescat in pace) has ties between Martin and vidual had to make a differbeen a fixture on Christian Leelah Alcorn. For one thing, ence. People like Prince, who gravestones since the 18th they both died tragically at a have no particular association century. Its meaning is appar- young age. For another, they with activism, are also told to ent; let the soul of the person both came from traditionally Rest in Power because the buried here find peace in marginalized groups. The African-American race has death. Three words, easily most important parallel of all, been so intensely oppressed said and seemingly innocu- however, is that their deaths that every prominent black ous, yet they voice makes a have prodifference. found impli“Rest in cations.

The common denominator in each Rest in Power” struck There can be me the first Power death is that each one greatly no rest withtime I saw it. out work; impacted a particular impetus for social It seemed to the notion me grossly change. of resting in unfair. Who d e a t h are we, I implies that though, to life is some sort of toil. Then came to mean a great deal to deny someone their wellthere is the peace aspect of the the respective causes they earned peace? Upon reflecthing. Peace, in this context, became associated with. I tion, however, I came to betcan be defined as a state of believe the modern popularity ter understand the issue. I tranquility or serenity. of the Rest in Power epitaph have taken a religious studies Presumably our souls, wher- sheds considerable light on course here at Cornell, and I ever they go, achieve this state the nature of such causes, remember exactly one thing after we perish. especially the current plight from that course: environAn alternative to this tradi- of African-Americans. ment shapes spirituality. tional epitaph emerged in the Why Rest in Power instead Many ancient nomadic tribes, late 20th century. “Rest in of Rest in Peace? What does for example, had religious sysPower” seems to have origi- the former offer the mourners tems that were decidedly cornated in 90s hip-hop culture of Trayvon Martin and Eric poreal. They sacrificed a goat, with the deaths of individuals Garner and Alton Sterling they hoped for rain or some such as rapper Tupac Shakur that the latter does not? The other earthly reward, that was and graffiti artist Aaron deceased is still being allowed the end of it. When life is a Anderson. The phrase has to rest from the toil of life. constant struggle for food and since been adopted by the Instead of a peaceful rest, safety, there’s simply no time queer community and other though, they have a powerful to contemplate salvation or countercultural groups. For one. And attempting to karma or anything of the sort. example, the expression was ascribe power to someone I contend that, as evidenced widely used to lament the who has passed implies that by the usage of “Rest in death of Leelah Alcorn, a they will need that power Power,” certain groups in transgender teen who was dri- wherever they’re going; an America have experienced ven to suicide by her judg- idea that has no spiritual basis such profound suffering that mental parents. in Christianity or any other the notion of moving on to The recent violence against western religion. The only greener pastures after death African-Americans has afterlife in which a soul might has become intolerable or brought “Rest in Power” to need power would be some irrelevant or both. If that hitherto unattainable promi- type of hell, and that is cer- doesn’t underscore the need nence. Indeed, the upcoming tainly not what is meant. for change, nothing will. memoir of Trayvon Martin, a The common denominablack teenager who was shot tor in each Rest in Power Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of dead by a neighborhood death is that each one greatly Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at watchman, will be titled Rest impacted a particular impetus ahagopian@cornell.edu. Whiny Liberal in Power: The Enduring Life for social change. The appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Real Estate at The Haunt

BY MATT PEGAN Sun Staff Writer

In the two years since I first saw Real Estate play The Haunt, I have done a lot in the way of growing up. In 2014, I was a naïve sophomore with a head full of possibilities and uncertainties. Now I am a senior with one eye toward graduation and the “real-world” beyond; probably still naïve, but much more settled in my views and plans. Real Estate, in contrast to my development, has remained fairly static. The band hasn’t released so much as a single since 2014’s Atlas: the record which they were supporting on that previous spin through town. This didn’t prevent me or a horde of other fans, however, from making the trek out to The Haunt on Wednesday night to again see the New Jersey-based Indie greats illuminate the stage. It is not just any band that could have drawn me out on a school night, away from a mounting pile of work, either: Real Estate is a special band, one of those acts that seems to have an endless ability to bring me joy. I like them as much at 21 as I did at 19, and I dare predict that my appreciation will not have waned by 23, 25 or beyond.

I say all this not merely as a means of forging a personal entry point into my concert review, but also because Real Estate’s music invites this sort of introspective mood. Since I first fell in love with their album Days during a particularly stressful semester, Real Estate’s breezy tunes have always served as a reminder to me that there is more to life than continual work: that an enjoyable life is as much about aimless walks, and watching the wind blow through trees as it is about ambitions and undertakings. There’s no way of writing this idea without sounding stupid, and I’m not suggesting that Real Estate’s lyrics all boil down to an extolling of this sort of repose (many of them reflect on the tribulations of young adulthood and in fact, take a somewhat critical stance toward the idea of such “wasted miles,” and “aimless drives”), but the fact remains that their music continually puts me back in touch with a certain contentment that has always felt very viscerally real, even if to put it into words is it is to render it a hippie cliché.

Wednesday’s show got started with EZTV: a pleasant enough, if not strikingly original, Brooklyn-based indie band.

The set took a turn for the livelier, however, during its second half, as the band introduced material from their new album “High in Place,” and covered Big Star’s “When My Baby’s Beside Me.” And then, after the brief, customary, blackout it was time for Real Estate. The band opened with an entrancing rendition of “Green Aisles:” one of their best and most somber cuts, and with that the pensive mood was set.

They proceeded to drift between classics (old favorites such as “Had to Hear,” “It’s Real,” “Talking Backward” and “Municipality” which electrified the audience), and new material from their forthcoming album (set for an early 2017 release).

Real Estate is not the sort of band you expect, or necessarily want, to have made significant changes to their sound between records, but I will say that their new material featured a discernible aesthetic which distinguished it from all prior work, while at the same time setting itself very much in line with it, withholding the lush mellowness which gives the band so much of its appeal. It is hard to say which of my impressions correspond to a genuine sonic shift, and which to misinterpretations enabled by the transience of the listening experience, but I feel confident in saying that that next Real Estate record will be spacier and more multi-layered than previous efforts, featuring keyboards more prominently, and somewhat twangier guitars. In any case, I found the new songs surprisingly easy to love and get lost in on first listen, and am certainly look-

ing forward to hearing the studio versions.

Between songs, band members kept up their usual, personable, stage banter. One of the most special moments of the night came when front-man Martin Courtney reflected upon his habit of ending tours at The Haunt. Wednesday’s show was the last of Real Estate’s fall 2016 tour, just as their 2014 show was the last of that respective tour, and further, Courtney ended his solo-tour, in support of debut effort Many Moons, in Ithaca back in February. Evidently, the band members are great lovers of Ithaca, which sort of makes sense when you think about Real Estate’s melodious, cautiously-optimistic vibe. “It’s a really amazing time of year up here,” reflected bassist Alex Bleeker later in the set, referring to upstate New York’s spectacular autumns, “have we reached peak-week yet?”

Undoubtedly they’ll be back again, and this time with a brand new stack of records on the merch table.

I’d love to say that I’ll be here for round three, but sadly my COURTESYOFREALESTATETHEBAND.COM time “far above Cayuga’s Water’s” is drawing to a close, and I can’t be sure where on the map I’ll be. Nevertheless, given the relationship I’ve built with Real Estate’s music over the course of my time in college, it’s a comfort to know that they’ll keep on playing it and always be warmly received at The Haunt; that some things will always remain, all the same.

Matt Pegan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mpegan@cornellsun.com.

The Inherent Charm of Regina Spektor BYJESSIE WEBER Sun Staff Writer

This past Friday, Dan Smalls Presents treated us to a lovely and endearing performance at the State Theatre of Ithaca by inviting Regina Spektor to pay the city a visit.

Waiting for the start of the concert, the theater was loud and everyone seemed in a slight daze, presumably from the recent turn of the weather, or maybe as a residual effect from the week’s earlier presidential debate. The cold outside had everyone shedding layers of coats, or drinking off the chill, or both. A half hour after the projected start time, as people could be heard asking their neighbors, “The opener hasn’t even started yet?” Spektor waltzed out onto the stage with drummer Mathias Kunzli, cellist Yoel Mir and keyboardist Brad Whiteley.

“Oh my gosh she’s so cute!” I heard someone half-whisper off to my left.

Spektor and her band started off the set with “On the Radio,” which set the crowd cheering all the way to the back of the theatre, where apparently they were more than content with what they could see from the cheap-seats. Wrapping up the song, she looked out at the crowd, grabbed the microphone with both hands and breathed “Ithacaaa” into it, before launching us on a brief history of Ithaca’s almost-Hollywood fate and saying, “I’m actually just a talking picture,” as she turned back to the piano.

The band ran through “Better” and “Tornadoland,” and afterwards someone shouted to her, “I love you!” Hands on her

back, she looked out and said, “Hm, as I’m tucking a wire to the back of my pants because I was sitting on it… the glamor.”

In every chorus of “Bleeding Heart,” her band came through in the most glorious way — Kunzli, Mir and Whiteley know just how to amplify all the best in Spektor’s sound in a way so seamless you wonder how they manage to switchback through emotions like that.

The audience applauded so loudly that Spektor couldn’t finish the song at first, having to wait before singing the lyrics, “How long must I wait?” Immediately at the end of the song she admitted, “I felt so rude saying that first line after you guys clapped.”

She enraptured the audience and never quite stopped interacting with them, whether it was encouraging them to clap along, waving out or responding to whatever was being yelled towards the stage. The next time someone yelled, “I love you Regina!” she leaned into the microphone and whispered, “I love you too.”

Spektor is largely a paradox to me, because it seems that all of her energy lives in her music. When she speaks, her voice is almost too soft-spoken, she hesitates frequently, she laughs a lot, shyly and sometimes has to pause and collect herself. She’s charming and did not fail to say thank you after any of her songs, seeming taken aback by the applause each time. She got nervous a few times and messed up parts of her songs, each time telling us that she hadn’t practiced enough, which evokes memories of any middle-school recital with a performer who’s more talented than she’s letting you know. But a second after bowing her head she touches down on

the keys of the piano and begins singing with such a powerful versatility that you’re blown away. Her voice will dust at you like a feather but her singing will rock you to your core.

Spektor singing “Small Bill$” is a feat to watch. She writhes to that song and manipulates her own voice so effortlessly that you can’t help but be a bit floored by her preternatural ease at creating her own sound effects.

She followed up that song with “Ballad of a Politician,” of which she said, “this next song I’d like to dedicate to our united and collective power of voting.”

Somewhere behind me, I heard someone say to their friend, “I’m not voting,” a few times, as if in private protest to her perfor-

mance. It seemed to be the only moment that generated any friction, however, as the crowd was shouting compliments at her and her band and practically throwing applause at them throughout the set. Every time Spektor stood up she was applauded anew. “It’s amaz-

ing to get applauded for moving,” she confided at one point.

After “The Trapper and the Furrier” ripped the room apart with Spektor’s wailing chorus crescendo of “more, more, more, more!” the audience reached back at her, repeating the same word in an effort to cajole her to “Come back soon!” or better yet, “Don’t leave!”

Watching Spektor perform truly is a marvel. You’re so wowed by her raw talent and the clearly massive amount of time the band has invested into creating such a beautifully sculpted range of sound, but you also feel so proud of her you could burst. It’s hard to know whether to feel like a parent or a child when she’s performing for you. She creates a very intimate and open atmosphere just by being vulnerable beyond her music, which shrinks down the theatre so it feels more like a room.

The audience couldn’t get enough of her, and demanded an encore as the band left the stage. After a few minutes they reemerged to a trio of “Fidelity,” “Hotel Song” and “Samson,” this last with only Spektor on the stage and most of the audience in tears. The song makes you feel both childish and very, very old. Perhaps that’s the best way that Spektor could have left us that evening; straddling the same lines that she does, touching the edges of something quite beautiful and then going off again into the dark of the night.

Jessie Weber is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jlw372@cornell.edu.

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In the Comfort Zone:

A conversation with tabla vituoso Zakir Hussain “Nowadays young musicians, even as they are listening to and playing Indian music, have their computers in front of them, able to access any master of any musical tradition, so they grow up with a more universal sensibility of music. It’s amazing to see them treating Indian music as more than a single entity, but rather as part of an ever-growing hard drive through which they access software of all other musical kinds and marry them in ways that at their age I was nowhere near doing.”

Zakir Hussain

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BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff WRiter

As I call up Zakir Hussain on the phone for this interview, I call up also memories of my childhood. I was raised in a small town in Marin County, California, where it so happens the mother of a childhood friend studied traditional Kathak dance with Zakir’s wife, Antonia Minnecola. I distinctly remember those performances, and can’t help but laugh at myself now for being too young then to recognize the greatness to which I grew up in such close proximity. Thirty years and seemingly infinite more of musical exposure later, here I sit transcribing my conversation with the world’s leading virtuoso of the tabla drums. When I tell him about our distant connection, he says to me, “What a small world this has suddenly become,” and the strange twists of life that completed this circle feel all the more inevitable to me as I offer my first question.

S UN: Thinking back on your many projects reminds me of how many so-called “crossovers” you have done.

Then again, I’ve always felt that Indian classical music is already hybrid by definition. In light of this, how do you feel that you have evolved as you continue to work with musicians from traditions and cultural backgrounds other than your own?

Z AKIR HUSSAIN : Indian music, at least when I was growing up in India, was undergoing a great transition.

Up until India gained its independence in 1947, most musicians were under the employ of Maharajas, so they rarely performed for lay audiences. Once those princely states were demolished and India became a democracy, court musicians had to fend for themselves. Young musicians back then, Ravi Shankar and my father among them, were trying to figure out how to tailor their art for the stage. At the same time, because of the British influence, Western music was everywhere in India. My generation grew up with symphonies and string quartets, but also the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, even as we were helping to create music for a fledgling Indian film industry, now famous as Bollywood. All those Indian musicians who had studied Western classical instruments were absorbed into the film industry, and we all became integrated into a mutant, hybrid orchestra, performing music that was a hodgepodge of influences.

And so, when I first came to the United States in my late teens and heard the musicians here, it felt like a natural progression. I was also fortunate because my father used to bring me records from his travels, so by then I had heard the likes of Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, Yusef Lateef, Charles Lloyd, Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead. All of this was an extension of where I was in India, and it made for a seamless transition when starting to play with people here. Luckily, by then there was major interest among American musicians — in particular John Coltrane, Mickey Hart and John

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McLaughlin — to learn Indian music. I was meeting all these people who already understood what I did, and it was easy for them to walk me across the rift into a system I was familiar with. Whatever hesitancy I had in being able to contribute disappeared, because these people knew who I was and where I was coming from. er?

S UN: How would you characterize yourself as a listen-

Z.H.: Listening is one thing that most drummers do.

It doesn’t matter whether you are in Indian music, jazz or classical. Drummers are supposed to know all the standards, all the breaks, so that they can interact at a moment’s notice. Indian tabla players are no different.

We need to know the music to be better accompanists.

So we are listeners. On tour, I’m constantly listening to the masters. When I was playing with Ravi Shankar, I would listen to his most recent albums, familiarizing myself with his temperament, his musicality and his improvising depth, to see what I could contribute when I got on stage. It was a form of respect, a way of letting him know that I was aware of what he’d done and that I was ready to give whatever he wanted.

S UN: On the topic of collaboration, how did you come to work with sitar player Niladri Kumar, with whom you’ll be playing at Bailey Hall on Friday night?

Z.H.: Niladri Kumar is one of many young masters of Indian music today who I am hoping to promote globally. My reason for this is twofold. First, people should not get caught up in idea that Indian music begins and ends with Ravi Shankar. Even at the time when he became internationally famous, there were other sitar players who were just as great and highly revered in India, but who people outside of India never heard about. Now, I may be considered the tabla player of the day, but I can honestly name at least 15 tabla players who are just as good as, if not better than, I am.

But people don’t know that, because they hear a marquee name and say, “Oh, that’s the guy to go see. Forget about the rest.” Nowadays young musicians, even as they are listening to and playing Indian music, have their computers in front of them, able to access any master of any musical tradition, so they grow up with a more universal sensibility of music. It’s amazing to see them treating Indian music as more than a single entity, but rather as part of an ever-growing hard drive through which they access software of all other musical kinds and marry them in ways that at their age I was nowhere near doing. Which brings me to my second reason for wanting to play with them: to get their fresh take on what global music is all about and use my own experience to interact with them, all while learning something more in the process. And, of course, being around younger musicians stokes the fire under me and gets me going more. I used to play with Niladri’s father. And once Niladri came into his own as a musician, I decided to bring him to America, where I hope he will get the

attention he deserves for his efforts.

S UN: How would you characterize the mass effect of Indian classical music in the 21st century?

Z.H.: The only way to be able to learn about any music or musicians is through listening. And when you do that, you’re not only listening to their music but also finding out about their cultures and ways of life. I find that young people have developed a deep respect for all art forms, and by extension for those cultures. They also understand that the Third World is anything but, and that its people are anything but clueless as to where they belong. I see immense respect for what India has to offer and its ability to be a great cultural contributor to this world, and all because today’s younger generation has accepted it as such.

S UN: Is there any core advice you would give to anyone who wants to start learning the tabla, or any instrument for that matter?

Z.H.: What I tell people is: try to experience the music a little bit, and if it actually excites you and makes you happy, then it has the potential to turn into a lifelong relationship. And it is a relationship. Every musical instrument has a spirit, and that spirit has to accept you.

It’s like in the film Avatar, when the Na’vi bond their hair to a horse or bird. That animal has to accept you as a friend before you can ride it. Only then can you fly the way you imagine yourself to. That’s what music is all about. My own relationship with the tabla is such that we are both friends and lovers. We are together on this journey and every time I grow and find new shades in my musical expression, I find that the tabla is right there saying, “Okay, let’s try this.”

S UN: What is your greatest hope or expectation for listeners who come to hear you play?

Z.H.: I feel comfortable with the audiences of the world, because they know more now than they did 30 years ago. Being able to Google musicians and see them on YouTube means that audiences are no longer arriving without a clue as to what we are all about. It’s almost like meeting friends you have never officially seen before. In that sense, I’m very open and easy with audiences. I don’t have to sit there and talk for 10 minutes about what we are going to do. I believe honestly in the music conveying its own intent. Natural flow is very important to me. I just get on stage and announce what we’re going to play as a matter of routine, and the audiences respond accordingly, and with respect.

Zakir Hussain and sitar player Niladri Kumar played at Bailey Hall on Friday, October 14, as part of the Cornell Concert Series.

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University. He can be reached at tcg32@cornell.edu.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

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FOOTBALL

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down. The Red rushed just three on the play but still could not prevent the third huge play of the half.

Each team added a field goal before halftime, leaving the Red down 24-10 at the break.

Despite the deficit, the message in the locker room was generally positive, according to PicKell.

“We’ve been down before,” the sophomore said. “We were down three, four touchdowns at Colgate. We knew we had it in us to do it.”

That resilience has been present in each of the team’s games so far this year. On Saturday, it was no different.

“We’ve done a really good job of keeping our heads up and understanding that it’s not over until the whistle blows,” Gesualdi said. “We know we can come back.”

Coming out of the half, each team punted on its first drive, but on Sacred Heart’s second possession, it converted on a big third down to put the game farther out of reach.

On a third-and-five on Cornell’s side of the field, Noel threw a screen pass to Andrew O’Neill, who broke what looked like a sure tackle and ran all the way to the end zone for another Sacred Heart touchdown. Junior CB Jelani King was there for the tackle short of the first down but simply could not bring O’Neill to the ground. The Pioneers led 31-10, and the game seemed all but over.

After another empty offensive possession, it was time for the Cornell defense to make a play, and for the second time in the game, it came through.

After a Chris Fraser punt pushed Sacred Heart back to its own three, Noel’s first-down pass was intercepted by sophomore linebacker Ryan Kelley. The Red took over at the Sacred Heart eight-yard line.

On fourth-and-goal from the two-yard line, Archer chose to go for it, and on a toss left to PicKell, the California-native was able to find the end zone for six — the first second half points the Pioneers had given up all year. The Red trailed 31-17 after freshman Nick Null’s

extra point — playing in place of Zach Mays, who is no longer on the roster.

On the ensuing possession, Gesualdi came up with his second interception of the game, again giving the Red the ball in plus territory. However, the drive stalled out and the team punted away.

On Sacred Heart’s first possession of the fourth quarter, Noel made yet another poor decision, this time throwing the ball right into the hands of senior safety Justin Solomon at the Cornell 46-yard line.

Noel’s fourth interception of the game gave the Red

“We’ve done a really good job of keeping our heads up and understanding that it’s not over until the whistle blows.”

Safety Nick Gesualdi offense another chance.

Archer gave his secondary credit for its ability to create takeaways in big spots all season long.

“They just do a great job. They have great ball skills, they track the quarterback… They’re just doing a really nice job,” he said. “Coach [Jared] Backus and the defensive secondary are doing a great job taking the ball away.”

After the Solomon interception, Cornell drove the ball 51 yards on 13 plays to get within seven points. The Red converted two huge fourth downs and, on second-andgoal from the one, Banks ran it in on a QB sneak to put the Red right back into the game. With 8:54 left in the fourth, the Red trailed 31-24.

The Cornell defense stopped the Pioneers on its next possession, and with 4:18 left, the offense took over with a chance to tie the game up. After three plays failed to produce a third down, Archer chose to punt the ball away, with just 3:10 left in the fourth quarter, putting his faith in his defense — which had played nearly lights out all half

— to get another big stop.

“I just thought our defense was playing really well,” he said of his play call. “We had one timeout left, and I thought we would stop them.”

And that is exactly what they did. Cornell got the ball back with 58 seconds and no timeouts in need of a touchdown.

After a Banks run and two incomplete passes, Cornell was awarded a first down due to a defensive holding penalty on Sacred Heart. Banks’ first-down throw went through the hands of Collin Shaw which set up second-and-10.

With just nine seconds left in the game, Cornell needed 45 more yards.

Banks dropped back, evaded a defender and launched the ball downfield. The ball was tipped into the outstretched arms of Pioneer cornerback Tim Johnson, sealing the team’s fate and issuing Cornell its second straight loss.

The Red outscored Sacred Heart in the second half and got within one big play from tying the score, but it simply was not to be.

It was “really an emotional game,” Archer said. “I’m disappointed with the outcome… [but] the guys left it all out on the field. There were certainly a lot of good stats to point to — [I’m] just disappointed with the win-loss column.”

Banks shared the same sense of disappointment, despite the strong second half performance.

“I mean it shows we’re resilient… We’re always gonna fight back, but it was a bummer,” Banks said. “Things weren’t going our way and we got behind way too early. We got close and took a few shots in the end, but it just didn’t fall our way this week.”

The loss may sting, but Cornell will need to recover quickly in order to prepare for five straight Ivy League games to close out the season.

“We’ve gotta clean a lot of thing up and come back stronger for the Ivy run — I mean those are the ones that matter,” Banks said. “This one’s hard but we’ve got to get over it and focus on our league opponents.”

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

FIELD HOCKEY

Cornell Shut Out by Harvard, Falls to 1-3 in Ivy Play An upset would have cemented Cornell’s standing in the Ivy League, but Harvard’s offense overwhelmed

By SARAH PETERS Sun Staff Writer

With a chance to knock off Harvard’s undefeated Ivy League play, Cornell field hockey fell short, shut out by the Crimson to fall to 1-3 in Ivy play.

The Red started the game off strong, challenging the Crimson for the first 25 minutes. However, Harvard locked in its rhythm and scored two goals by the end of the first half.

The second half began with Harvard scoring within the first 20 seconds of the half. The team followed with two more goals, ending the game 5-0. “[Their third goal] was a momentum shifter” said head coach Donna Hornibrook.

“To give another one away within minutes of the second half put us in a position we weren’t able to recover from.”

Although Hornibrook said she believes the Red was physically ready for its game against the Crimson, based on what she saw during the training sessions this past week, there was a mental aspect of the game that the Red was not prepared for.

“We need to keep being patient” said Hornibrook, “we can’t get frustrated when

“We need to keeep being patient, we can’t get frustrated when things don’t go well immediately.”

Head Coach Donna Hornibrook things don’t go well immediately.”

The women are aware of the quality of their performance and are looking to learn from this game, according to Hornibrook.

“Overall we are disappointed,”

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Offensive struggles | The loss to Harvard was the second straight time the Red has been shut out and the fourth time this season.

Hornibrook said. “When things didn’t go well we started to get away from the team aspect of our game and people tried to do a little too much which resulted in us getting back on our heels.”

This individual style of play is one aspect that led to multiple turnovers by Cornell throughout the game and provided multiple opportunities for Harvard to attack and score.

“Keeping possession is going to be important” said Hornibrook. “We started to press a little bit and do too much individually, not from a selfish place, but from wanting the team to succeed, and sometimes we created turnovers for the other team.”

Although the women were on their heels for the majority of the game, their efforts did not diminish, according to Hornibrook.

“We had a lot of girls who worked very hard” said Hornibrook. “As a group it wasn’t happening.”

One skill the Red was working on this season was its offensive and defensive corners, but this weekend these aspects of the game were poorly executed, according to Hornibrook.

“Ideally you get half-a-dozen corners during a game and you have the chance to get into a rhythm.” Hornibrook said. “But when that doesn’t happen each corner becomes even more important.”

The women are not letting this loss go right away, using it as an opportunity to learn and to improve their skills — physically and mentally — for future games.

“We are trying to take the positive and focus on the areas we need to improve on and work on them to prepare for our two matches next weekend” Hornibrook said.

The Red hopes to use what it has learned against the Crimson in order to end this two game losing streak on Oct. 21 against Brown in Providence, and on the very next day against Rider at home.

Sarah Peters can be reached at speters@cornellsun.com.

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WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Reloaded Women Ready for 2016-17 Season The team returns last season’s leading scorer,welcomes talented group of seven freshmen

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women’s hockey will look to build on a productive preseason after welcoming a talented freshman class into the program. The Red (13-14-4, 9-9-4 ECAC) had a somewhat inconsistent season last year; the team hopes to find solid contributors amongst its new freshmen.

Already, Head Coach Doug Derraugh said he is happy with what he has seen from the newcomers.

“We have a large freshmen class that has come in and worked hard over the summer,” he said. “They’ve gelled well with the upperclassmen and brought a lot of energy to the group.”

Adjusting to the expectations of a storied Cornell hockey program is something that every player experiences in a first season. With time and in-game experience, players come to understand what is required to play at a high-level in the ECAC. Nonetheless, with freshman expected to contribute this season, the coaching staff and upperclassmen have tried to develop team chemistry as quickly as possible.

“The team does a lot of things together from the start of the school year until now,” Derraugh said. “We’ve had a lot of practicing and training and also team building activities.”

Cornell’s returning players have also taken initiative to make the freshmen feel welcome in the program.

“The upperclassmen have done a very good job of welcoming [the freshman] to the team,” Derraugh said.

This togetherness amongst the players has helped the team develop a positive attitude heading into the season.

Team members say they feel upbeat and poised to take a step in the direction of the dominance the Cornell once had in the ECAC. “We have a young team that is really excited to get started,” Derraugh said. “[The team] is chomping at the bit to get the games rolling.”

An early characteristic of this season’s team is the desire to get onto the ice each day with an eye towards improving.

“They want to get on the ice and get better,” Derraugh said. “They are enjoying the process so far.”

CAMERON POLLACK / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Back for more | Hanna Bunton led the team with 27 points this season and returns for her senior year as a leader both on and off the ice with a new freshman class.

It will be crucial for the Red to continue this type of attitude throughout the season, as the team must improve in all areas of the game.

“I don’t think there is one specific part of the on-ice equation that we have to target,” Derraugh said. “We need to find scoring from more than just one or two players and be more committed to better defensive team play.”

Luckily for the Red, the team is welcoming back its leading scorer from last season, senior forward Hanna Bunton.

“Hanna is a great all around player,” Derraugh said.

“She has a heavy shot, a nice wrist shot and is physically very good out of the corners.”

Derraugh noted Bunton’s commitment to both offense and defense as an example of strengths the program prides itself on. Cornell has long sought fundamentally sound, versatile players and asks them to do a lot on the ice.

The freshman will look up to players like Bunton in hopes of establishing themselves in the Cornell lineup.

The team will have three out of conference matchups before starting ECAC play, which will allow the team valuable time to evaluate the young players.

Cornell welcomed Carleton to Lynah this past weekend for an exhibition and showcased its potential for dominance with a 10-0 win. Bunton finished with two goals, along with four combined goals coming off the sticks of freshmen Paige Lewis, Amy Curlew and Jaime Bourbonnais.

In just one exhibition game, it seems that an offseason of bonding and team-building has already paid dividends.

The freshman have taken note of Bunton’s prowess and found a home for the next four years.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

FOOTBALL

Big Plays Plague Cornell Defense in Sacred Heart Loss

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Racking ‘em up | Cornell’s defense has more than doubled last season’s interception total, but gave up some huge yards that led to the team’s second loss of the season.

By ZACH SILVER and ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sports Editor

Throughout its entire 2015 season, Cornell football amassed a total of four interceptions. In Saturday’s tilt with Sacred Heart, the Red matched last year’s production and brought the team total up to 10; more than doubling last year’s total in half as many games.

Sophomore linebacker Daniel Crochet started the turnover parade by forcing a fumble deep in the Pioneers’ territory.

Cornell capitalized on the takeaway and took the lead early in the game.

Junior safety Nick Gesualdi had two

interceptions on the day, bringing him to nine career picks and good for ninth on the Cornell all-time list. Sophomore linebacker Ryan Kelley and Justin Solomon also added interceptions in the second half, taking advantage of Sacred Heart quarterback R.J. Noel’s erratic passing.

“I’m very proud of how the secondary has been playing,” Gesualdi said. “We are being way more locked down this year than we have been in the past years. It’s opening up a lot of opportunities for people to get interceptions.”

Sophomore running back J.D. PicKell praised the effort of the defense in Saturday’s game, noting that the defense’s ability to get

the ball back to the offense was crucial.

“There are so many playmakers on defense,” PicKell said. “They played lights out today, can’t say enough good things about them and what they did today.”

The turnovers seemed to always come in the Pioneers’ territory. Head coach David Archer ’05 said the defense’s knack for giving the offense great field position set up the Red’s comeback.

“It got us back in the game,” Archer said.

“They were big all day.”

In a game in which sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks had trouble getting performing via air attack, he credited the defensive contributions to a majority of the team’s points.

“That set us up great,” Banks said of the four interceptions. “We got good field position in the second half we were able to score off of them get points on the board. Defense was huge with the turnovers, we just didn’t capitalize enough.”

Yet the high-flying, risk-taking style of defense also had its drawbacks.

Jumping a route, blitzing the quarterback or going for a strip tackle can backfire. And that was evident in Saturday’s loss.

When Cornell’s defense was buzzing, it rendered Sacred Heart’s potent offense powerless. But when the defense was lacking, the Pioneers made sure to take advantage.

“When you play aggressive defense to force takeaways,” Archer said, “you run the risk of giving up a big play.”

Every Sacred Heart touchdown drive included a play longer than 39 yards, plays that Gesualdi called “busted.” In every other drive, only one resulted in points — a field goal that ended the second quarter — and

none came with a play of over 15 yards.

After Cornell jumped to an early 7-0 lead, a 76-yard kickoff return enabled the Pioneers to score and tie up the game. Later in the quarter, Sacred Heart’s Ose Imeokparia sprinted down the sideline for a 67-yard gain.

The Pioneers would score on the play that followed Imeokparia’s run. Sacred Heart’s third score of the game was a 58-yard catch-and-run to Imeokparia on third-and12, and its final score came off a 39-yard catch and run that should have easily ended up as a short gain had it not been for ineffective tackling.

Halfway through the season, the capricious defense has had moments reminiscent of last year’s 1-9 record, but also times in which the squad appeared poised for a run at a conference championship.

With five games remaining in the season

“When you play aggressive defense to force takeaways, you run the risk of giving up a big play.”

Head Coach David Archer — all of them within the Ivy League — Cornell will need its defense to play its best if the team hopes to contend for the elusive conference crown.

Adam bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com. Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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Red Falls Short in Comeback Against Sacred Heart

By CHARLES COTTON

Yet, in spite of the team’s success on the ground, a 21-point deficit was too much for Cornell to make up.

After an exhilarating comeback left After an uneventful opening few minCornell with a chance to make up another utes, Sacred Heart fumbled the ball on its 21-point deficit, the Red fell just short — own 14 in the game’s first big play. its second half charge was just “too little, Sophomore linebacker Malcolm Chaka too late,” as head coach David Archer ’05 jumped on the football, and on the very put it. next play, Gellatly ran in for the score to The Red (3-2, 1-1 Ivy) lost 31-24 to give the Red the early lead.

Sacred Heart, who improved to 4-1 on On the ensuing kickoff, the Pioneers the season. The loss is the second straight took the ball all the way to the Cornell for Cornell and the team’s first against a 22-yard line, setting up an easy touchnon-league opponent this season. down run for Sacred Heart running back The Red struggled defensively in this Nate Chavious, and just like that, the one, allowing big play after big play in the game was knotted up at seven. first half. On the other side of the ball, On Sacred Heart’s next offensive series, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks big plays once again proved costly for the had trouble dealing with an aggressive Cornell defense. A 67-yard rush set up the KATIE SIMS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Sacred Heart pass rush that sent at least second Chavious touchdown of the quarFlyin’ high | Sophomore running back J.D. PicKell leaps just short of a touchdown, but five pass rushers on nearly every play. ter, and Sacred Heart took its first lead of Banks finished the game completing would go on to rush for a touchdown and 95 yards in the loss. the game. Cornell’s defense had already just 15 of his 38 pass attempts for 117 allowed over 100 yards rushing at the end Aside from Banks, Cornell also had success running of just one quarter. yards with an interception and taking five sacks in the the ball out of the backfield. Held out of the game with process.

Junior safety Nick Gesualdi said he felt the defense But he did run the ball effectively, rushing for 113 an undisclosed injury, sophomore Chris Walker did not missed some key tackles that led to the big plays. yards on 15 attempts including a touchdown. According play, but classmate J.D. PicKell and junior Jack Gellatly “We had some busted plays in the beginning of the to the sophomore, Banks did not plan to run so often, filled in nicely. The two combined for 176 yards and two game,” Gesualdi said. “We just didn’t make the tackles we but said he saw some holes and took advantage of them. scores. needed to, and they opened up some good holes. We have PicKell gave credit to his offensive line for the running to work on our tackling.”

“They played pretty good coverage and then blitzed off the edges,” Banks said. “There was a lot of room to backs’ succes.

Early in the second quarter, Sacred Heart’s quarter“We have, in my opinion, the best offensive line in the back R.J. Noel found a wide open Ose Imeokparia on a scramble so when I had room I tried to make a play on my feet to keep the chains moving. … Sometimes you’ve Ivy League, if not the country,” PicKell said. “Those guys seam route that went 58 yards for another Pioneer touchgotta throw the ball, sometimes you’ve gotta run it and all did a great job today, opening up holes for me and Jack — and Dalton even.”

See FOOTBALL page 14 sometimes you’ve gotta do a little of both.”

Sun Staff Writer

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Comer’s Goal Powers Strikers to First Ivy Win Over Yale Freshman’s first career goal one of women’s only six goals this season after being shut out five straight games

By CAITLIN STANTON Sun Staff Writer

After five consecutive matchups without a win, Cornell women’s soccer finally snagged its first Ivy League victory against Yale on Saturday in 90 minutes of hard fought gameplay on both sides.

“I can’t really pick out one player on the field and that I’d be like ‘That player didn’t really put their all on the field in this game, they didn’t do what was required of them,’” said senior captain Ellie Crowell. “I think in all different positions along the field, whether it was forward, midfield, defense, I think people did their job … I was really proud of everyone on the team.”

The Red’s last two Ivy League games were not successful — a crushing loss against Penn and a draw against Harvard — but its game against Yale on Saturday definitely boosted the women’s confidence and the team’s chances of pulling ahead in the conference.

“We had a very good performance against Harvard ... so it was seeing if we could come back again with that energy and collective intention to play defense together, play offense together,” Crowell said. “The fight there at the end was amazing. Both of our goals were scored by two underclassmen, a sophomore and a freshman, so that’s just really cool.”

The Bulldogs (5-5-3) came out strong at Berman Field with a total of 24 attempted shots compared to Cornell’s six. The first half ended with the Red leading by one goal, but a penalty kick tied up the game for Yale in the second half.

“No one would like to be scored on, but

I actually like the idea that we were ahead, they caught up, and then we fought enough to come back,” said head coach Patrick Farmer. “I think it builds something more than just winning, to be honest, if they can see that it’s not just one and done, that somebody can score on you and you can still come back and win.”

The last 20 minutes of the game were arguably the most intense. The Bulldogs proved to be a very physical team, knocking over players such as senior defender Kailey Joyce, junior forward Paige DeLoach and freshman midfielder Juliana Comer.

“I’m the smallest person on the team, so I’m kind of used to getting knocked down,” Comer said. “They’re a big team … they wanted to beat us, obviously, so they were definitely going to bring the pressure.”

Despite the physicality of its opponent, Cornell was able to seal its 2-1 victory with a goal late in the second half from Comer.

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tired during the game and it helps to reenergize you,” she said. “I was just like ‘Now let’s keep it up, keep the pressure on them, and not give up a stupid goal right after that.’”

Similar to the many of its previous games, Cornell had a difficult time making shots getting shots on goal against the

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Hugs all around | A season removed from a 9-4-4 record, the team has struggled so far this year, but notched its first Ivy win of the season at home.

Bulldogs. In addition, the Red committed twice the amount of fouls as the Bulldogs — 12 as opposed to Yale’s six.

“They’re pretty powerful and we just made silly, silly fouls, and the strongest part of their game because of that was their free kicks,” Farmer said. “I thought we helped them be pretty forceful against us.”

The women tweaked the strategy in the second half to account for the missteps made earlier in the game. The key for this was their increase in communication on the field.

“For some reason we’re a very talkative team off the field, and then all of a sudden we’re on the field and everyone’s just quiet, running around and not saying anything,” Crowell said. “That’s just so huge ... making

sure we know where our teammates and making sure we help organize one another ... and I think it was better in the second half.”

Next week, the Red faces Brown. With this first Ivy win under their belts, the women are ready to prove themselves yet again at the Bears’ home field in Providence.

“I think we have a whole week to get our legs back and prepare and work on some of the stuff that broke down in this game, but I think this is a huge step up and a huge building block for us, for these last three games in our season,” Crowell said.

Caitlin Stanton can be reached at cs968@cornell.edu.