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$20 Million Donation to Create New Tech Program

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Sharpening up | David Breazzano MBA ’80 cuts the ribbon with officials at the grand opening of the Breazzano Center, pictured at right.

Cornell Dedicates College of Business Center in C-Town

By HNIN WAI LWIN Sun Staff Writer

Nearly 18 months after David Breazzano MBA ’80 donated $25 million to expand the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business into the heart of Collegetown, alumni, staff and faculty celebrated the grand opening of the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education on Wednesday.

This state-of-the-art, six-story building is located on Dryden Road in Collegetown, with classrooms for up to 450 students, three floors of administrative offices, two high-definition broadcasting studios and 19 breakout rooms.

“Business education is at an inflection point. We've consolidated undergraduate and graduate education through the S.C. Johnson College of Business and we’ve embarked on ambitious programs with the new campus in Roosevelt Island,” Breazzano said.

Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management Mark Nelson said that these innovative classrooms, breakout rooms and studios within the building fulfill the needs and goals of the school. He added that it will allow people to connect whether they are in Ithaca or at The Bridge building at Cornell Tech, a building dedicated to collaboration See DEDICATION page 5

Blocked byTrump, Ithacan Files Suit

Twitter users claim First Amendment violation

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS

and is the child of a Cornell math professor Sun City Editor and biology researcher.

And on June 6, he joined A former Ithacan a relatively exclusively blocked by Donald Trump’s club of people blocked by Twitter account this sum- @realDonaldTrump, the mer is claiming president’s perin federal court sonal Twitter, that the presiwhich more than dent and his 40 million users aides violated follow. his and other “I was blocked users’ shocked,” Cohen First Amend said in an interment rights. view, recalling the Philip N. moment he could COHEN Cohen is a no longer access sociology professor at the the president’s Twitter feed University of Maryland from his account. who grew up in Ithaca Cohen was blocked

about 15 minutes after tweeting an image of Trump with the words: “Corrupt Incompetent Authoritarian.

And then there are the policies. RESIST.” Now, Cohen is one of several people blocked by the president who, along with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, are suing Donald Trump and several members of his staff for violating their rights.

The Knight Institute said in its July complaint that blocking the plaintiffs violates their First See TWITTER page 5

Just weeks after the official opening of Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, Cornell announced a new initiative to promote technology in the humanities as a result of a $20 million donation from the Milstein family.

This donation, announced Wednesday night, will establish the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and Cornell Tech.

Through this collaboration, the initiative will allow students in Arts and Sciences to get specialized courses in computer science in addition to free courses at Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus and internships in New York City.

“It is thrilling to imagine the potential of the Milstein Program and how it

will influence the future of higher education in the context of our global economy and digital age,” said Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the

“Thanks to the Milsteins, we are able to create a truly distinctive experience for undergraduates.”

President Martha Pollack College of Arts and Sciences.

According to the University, students enrolled in the Milstein Program will select their major in Arts and Sciences but will also have access to resources to develop a proficiency in computer science.

A cohort of 100 students, 25 from See DONATION page 5

20 Years Later, Legend Lives On: Pumpkin Watch Website Revived

By VICTORIA MOORE Sun Contributor

The revival of a 20-year-old website is now allowing students to relive the legend of the mysterious pumpkin appearance decades after the original mystery.

On Oct. 8, 1997, a pumpkin materialized at the top of the 173-foot-tall McGraw Tower overnight, with no one claiming responsibility for the seemingly impossible feat. Within hours, it quickly became a source of entertainment and intrigue — not just at Cornell but around the country.

To commemorate the anniversary, Cornell s t a f f member Oliver Habicht dusted off his 20-yearSee

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Gourd gone viral | Oliver Habicht, then a C.U. I.T. manager, created a website 20 years ago which he has now revived to celebrate the pumpkin’s anniversary by “live-streaming”its 1997 appearance spiked atop McGraw Tower.

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Business Owners Oppose Historic Designation

By SARAH SKINNER Sun Staff Writer

As businesses across Collegetown have become or faced the possibility of becoming historic landmarks, owners of some businesses within these buildings have raised concerns, pointing out drastic increases in expenses associated with such a status.

The Larkin Building, named a historic landmark by the Ithaca Preservation Landmark Commission on Oct. 4, was home to Stella’s Restaurant before it closed last year. It joins two other historic properties on College Avenue, as well as several others around Collegetown, including a string on Eddy Street near the Eddy Gate.

The building housing The Nines has been considered for historic designation as well, and the Chacona Block, the large stucco building housing Collegetown Bagels, will soon go into the last round of voting on its historic status. And those most strongly opposed to reclassification? The building’s owners themselves, Student Agencies.

However, this is not as surprising as it sounds, said Nathan Lyman, manager of Ithaca Renting Company. One of the properties the company manages, Aces Apartments, is located in an Eddy Street building with historic property designation.

Historical landmark designation requires all changes to the exterior and site of the property to be approved first by the Ithaca Landmark Preservation Commission, according to a letter to all historic property owners.

This process, Lyman said, can make even the smallest changes to buildings difficult and expensive.

“My neighbor, who is not historically significant, can put in a vinyl window, which can be a perfectly fine window,” Lyman said. “While for my building, I have to put in a wood-sash window that I have to get custom-built, which can cost three to five times more.”

According to the open letter, the only changes left to the discretion of property owners are the colors of

paint and roof sheathing — within a certain, prior approved range.

Bryan McCracken M.A. ’10, historic preservation planner for the City of Ithaca, said that these are necessary guidelines. The ILPC operates “to protect the city’s history and to ensure that representatives of our previous cultural, social [and] economic achievements are preserved for future generations,” he told The Sun. Student Agencies has plans other than preservation for the property.

In August, CEO Kyle Karnes ’91 spoke at an ILPC meeting against the designation.

According to the official transcript of the meeting, SAI hopes to rebuild the property in a modern style while keeping with the style of Collegetown. The original stucco facade has “reached the end of its usable life,” as stated by a consultant from Taitem Engineering.

If the proposal to name the building as a historic landmark is approved, SAI will not be able to rebuild the property without ILPC approval and would likely have to renovate the entire stucco facade, a project estimated at $720,000 by Taitem Engineering.

Owner of the Larkin Building George Avramis, also spoke out against the historical designation at the Common Council meeting, and cited worries about fire hazards.

“I think the owner of the land ought to have input on whether it is going to be designated,” Lyman previously said. “It’s like changing the rules.”

In terms of landmark designation, McCracken believes that the community is on the side of history.

“A lot of people have strong associations with buildings — the Chacona Block at its current location and the Larkin building as well,” he said. “They associate them with the Collegetown of their youth or with the city they grew to love.”

The Chacona Block designation will be decided in front of the Common Council next month.

Sarah Skinner can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com.

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Concrete discussions | Drew Lord ’18 (right), IFC president, looks on during a focus group at Wednesday’s Summit on Sexual Assault, organized by the Greek Tri-Council.

Summit Aims to Improve Campus Culture

By KYLA CHASALOW Sun Staff Writer

The Greek Tri-Council held a Summit on Sexual Assault on Wednesday to focus on sexual assault prevention in Cornell culture, with the conclusion that “the culture does really need to change,” said Luke Bianco ’19, one of the organizers.

Members from both within and outside the Cornell Greek community met in peer-moderated focus groups to discuss sexual assault at the individual, chapter and institutional level.

“Greek life is just a microcosm of Cornell culture, which is a microcosm of societal culture,” said Hannah Light-Olson ’18, president of Cornell Consent Ed. The question then, she continued, is “how can we fix it in our little sphere?”

Many attendees talked about the importance of standing up against misogynistic, objectifying or otherwise harmful language in order to prevent escalation and a culture of permissiveness.

Bianco, Interfraternity Council vice president for University and community relations, explained that to do so, we must look beyond the extremes.

“Generally, conversations on preventing sexual assault really only focus on the extremes: how do we stop predators, the worst of the worst? ...

If we’re only focused on that far end of the spectrum, we’re missing everything that leads up to that,” Bianco said.

In her group’s discussion of consent, LightOlson suggested that such discussion is “unhelpful” when “people disassociate the conversations from the practice.”

What matters, she said, is that it goes beyond the “intellectual idea of consent” to discuss actual experiences.

“It’s what we’d tell our grandma versus what we’re doing in our real lives,” she said.

For many of the organizers and attendees, it was important to incite concrete discussion of actions that could improve the campus culture,

particularly in the context of Greek life.

In some groups, the focus was institutional.

Anna Brzozowski ’19, stressed the importance of Cornell “dealing with the issue and being honest with the issue” rather than “trying to hide it” Taking too long to resolve issues, Brzozowski said, can become “dangerous,” and can make people hesitant to report an assault.

Other groups focused on actions at the chapter or individual level, from sober monitoring policies at parties to how to bring honest discussion of sexual violence to the dinner table.

Moderators also encouraged participants to consider the LGBTQ perspective — one that many said is often overlooked in a heteronormative Greek culture.

“Bystanders,” Sabrina Sugano ’19 said, “need to be checking in on people whether or not it’s your archetypal view of sexual assault is.”

Sugano added that “sexual assault is not always between a man and a woman,” and encouraged members of her group to think about possible situations when warning signs of sexual assault might be overlooked in a non-heterosexual context.

The many themes that emerged from these various group discussions were brought together at the end of the summit in an open mic session that ultimately closed on the importance of pushing the discussion beyond the Willard Straight Hall gathering room.

“We all have to go back to our chapters, to our organizations, and have these conversations,” Josh Briscoe ’18 said.

These conversations, concluded Bianco, reflect that “change really does need to come from the bottom up.”

“We can push every single mandate in the books, but if you all as chapter leaders and campus leaders aren’t going to incorporate that into your personal lives, the culture will not change,” Bianco said.

Kyla Chasalow can be reached at kchasalow@cornellsun.com.

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old floppy disk, retrieved his original footage of the pumpkin atop McGraw Tower and put it on display for viewers across the world.

Amid the campuswide buzz 20 years ago, Oliver Habicht, who was working for Cornell’s I.T. department at the time, mused, “Wouldn’t it be neat to be the person who saw it fall off? Wouldn’t it be cool … to have a video camera on it?”

And from then, the PumpkinCam was born.

Now the I.T. manager of the Chemistry Department, Habicht recently re-created the original Pumpkin Watch website. A request to view the old site, taken down ages ago, motivated him to “redux” the site.

For this revival project, Habicht said he uploaded data

from a floppy drive — an oldfashioned flash drive which is read magnetically by a spinning circle — to the internet.

Habicht said it was really simple. “All I had to do was upload a folder that contains a few files and a few directories” onto the web server, he said explaining the conversion process.

When the pumpkin did not fall off as expected, people began to realize it was there to stay, and inspiration struck.

“I put together the pieces that were required,” Habicht said and created a live-stream through the lens of a camcorder perched on one of the top floors of Olin library, so everyone could follow the pumpkin’s progress.

“People just kept contributing different parts” to the project, he said. He added that one person even loaned him a computer, another a camcorder and the

library an office.

“Fun is what motivated the whole thing,” Habicht said.

The live-stream was instantly popular, perhaps because of the alluring mystery or so alumni “could hark back to their alma mater days,” and Californians could laugh at Ithaca’s weather, Habicht said.

At a time when it was not an option to scroll through Instagram or Twitter in passing, the live-stream was a novel form of entertainment.

Recalling common internet entertainment, “the way people did things was you visited websites and you emailed ... [and] that was about it,” Habicht said.

Not only was the 24-hour broadcast groundbreaking in the realm of technology, but its presence lasted long after the pumpkin was taken down.

“This project created the impe-

tus for there being an investment in webcams by the University,” Habicht said, and lead to the modern live view of McGraw Tower and Ho Plaza.

In a way, the resurrected site is a snapshot of the past.

The webpage as seen online today is virtually identical to the original, with the exception of a brief introduction about its restoration, Habicht said. And Habicht was also able to transform the static image originally on the site into an animated gif.

To this very day, how exactly the pumpkin climbed up McGraw Tower and planted itself at its spire remains a mystery. In Habicht’s opinion, one compelling theory is a group of perpetrators traveled to the top of the tower and, with their rope-climbing skills, hoisted themselves and a hollowed-out pumpkin through a hatch.

158 days after the pumpkin’s bizarre appearance, a crane removed the pumpkin for safety reasons. When asked if it was saddening to see the pumpkin taken down, Habicht plainly stated: “It was time.”

Its long-awaited descent was victorious in a sense because people were finally able to learn that it truly was a real pumpkin.

The great legend of the pumpkin atop McGraw Tower will perhaps always overshadow other pranks for Habicht. Whereas others are ephemeral, this one lasted over the course of winter and early spring — and is even still mentioned in campus tours today.

And through Habicht’s revival of the original website, students can now follow the legend, as if it were happening right now.

Victoria Moore can be reached at vem27@cornell.edu.

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Blocked by Trump on Twitter, Ithacan Joins Suit Against President TWITTER

“with his own fat little thumbs.”

Cohen’s verified Twitter account, @familyunequal, has more than 10,000 followers, and he used to quickly Amendment rights because it has restricted them, reply to Trump’s tweets so that more people would see because of their political beliefs, from participating in a his responses, which often appeared immediately below public forum, accessing official statements and peti- the president’s postings. tioning the government for redress of grievances.

“Nothing I've been able to do since gets as many Cohen and the other plaintiffs are suing Trump; viewers,” he said in the interview on Tuesday.

Hope Hicks, the White House communications direcWhen Cohen's friends comment on a Tweet from tor; Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press @realDonaldTrump, he can no longer see the presisecretary; and Daniel Scavino, White House director of dent's posting — only "Tweet not available." He can social media and assistant to the president in Federal get around the block by logging into a separate Twitter District Court for the Southern District account, which the president has not of New York and are suing the defenblocked, but Cohen cannot respond to the “It’s the modern president's dants in their official capacities only. tweets from his primary version of being account.

Department of Justice attorneys, representing the defendants, conceded in a “I recognize I don't have to climb involved, I guess. letter to the court on Friday that Trump Mount Everest to get around the [presiLike, I do it at my dent’s] block, but it is inconvenient and I blocked Cohen and the others “from the Twitter account that he has personally desk — alone.” think [Trump and his staff are] making it a used for more than eight years, long hassle for me because of my political Philip Cohen before he became president.” views,” Cohen said.

“The decisions he makes in managing All of the people who followed Cohen that account, like many of the personal because they wanted to see his postings decisions he makes as president, are not an exercise of regarding the president and politics, he said, can no power conferred on him by federal law,” the lawyers longer see Cohen’s responses to the president. “That's argued. “As such, they are not state action and not sub- just suppressing political speech, basically,” he said. ject to First Amendment scrutiny.”

The Knight Institute lawyers warned Cohen that Cohen, who lived in Ithaca for about 15 years as a publicly joining its lawsuit may lead to online harasschild and teenager, wrote for the Ithaca Times in the ment from people opposed to the lawsuit, and Cohen 1980s and worked at both WHCU and WVBR, said it said he has received a few "slightly-threatening emails" is “surreal” that Trump is personally blocking people and some nasty tweets, including some that are antiContinued from page 1

Semitic, but nothing seriously concerning.

"Personally, it's just nice to feel like I'm involved in something,” he said, laughing. “It's the modern version of being involved, I guess. Like, I do it at my desk — alone.”

The Justice Department filed a motion for summary judgement on Friday arguing that @realDonaldTrump is not a public forum and, instead, a private platform managed by a private company, Twitter. The plaintiffs’ response is due by Nov. 3.

The Knight Institute has asked the court to declare Trump’s blocking of users unconstitutional, compel him to unblock the plaintiffs and prohibit him from blocking anyone based on their beliefs.

“It's totally uncharted waters,” Cohen said. "I'm confident in our lawyers, but I have no idea what's going to happen."

Cohen likened the group of Twitter users suing Trump to characters on “Gilligan's Island,” noting that the plaintiffs include a surgeon, a police officer, a former professional cyclist, a comic and more, all of whom are active on the social media platform.

Although Cohen said he has not met any of the other plaintiffs, some have spoken via Skype since joining the suit. And, unsurprisingly, they also keep tabs on each other’s internet activity.

"Now, we all follow each other on Twitter," Cohen said.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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“technical foundation to drive progress.”

Ritter shared these sentiments from Milstein, saying that “our society needs innovative problem each class year, will also spend their summers in solvers who have the vision and background to New York City to listen to speakers, work as think creatively and broadly about ways to address interns or be mentored. The first group of stu- our greatest challenges.” dents will be selected from this year’s applicant Howard Milstein currently serves as the pool and will enter as freshmen in Chairman, President and Chief Fall 2018.

Executive Officer of New York The University said Howard Private Bank & Trust and its operMilstein ’73 and Michael Milstein ating bank, Emigrant Bank, accord’11, who both graduated from the ing to Forbes. arts college, collaborated with The Milstein family — ranked Ritter and Daniel Huttenlocher, as the 90th richest family by Forbes dean of Cornell Tech, to develop — have made other recent donathe idea. tions to several New York institu“Thanks to the Milsteins, we are tions, including New Yorkable to create a truly distinctive Presbyterian Hospital, the New experience for undergraduates in York Public Library, American HOWARD MILSTEIN ’73 Arts and Sciences,” President Museum of Natural History.

Martha Pollack told the Cornell Milstein and his wife Abby Milstein Chronicle. “I believe this program also created the The Howard and will be a model for our other Abby Milstein Foundation in 2002.

Ithaca-based colleges and schools Milstein currently serves as on seeking creative partnerships with the Board of Trustees. Past donaCornell Tech to meet student and tions by the Milstein family have societal needs.” established Milstein Scholars Both Howard and Michael Program, Milstein Fellowship for Milstein told The Chronicle they Faculty Excellence, Milstein felt that “technology is increasingly Faculty Fellowships for Strategic vital to all aspects of our society,” Hires. A donation by Paul Milstein, MICHAEL MILSTEIN ’11 and that it is important to include father of Howard Milstein, in 2007 the “disciplines of the humanities led to the building of Milstein Hall and social sciences” in its progress. in College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

For Michael Milstein, the intersection of technology and a strong liberal arts background allows the emerging technology leaders to be able to Anu Subramaniam can be reached at “communicate, understand and maximize the asubramaniam@cornellsun.com. Anna Delwiche can societal benefit of their work” along with the be reached at adelwiche@cornellsun.com.

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Cutting edge | David Breazzano MBA ’80 cuts the ceremonious ribbon at the official opening of the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education.

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between academics, established companies and startups.

“This building contains … flat classrooms that we don’t have in Sage Hall as well as amazing video functionality that links rooms across Breazzano and the Bridge in New York City that could also foster networking and collaboration,” Nelson said.

Nelson said the opening of this building will also enable additional outreach, especially internationally. The building allows students from different campuses around the world to simultaneously network and hold meetings.

“One college, two campuses.

With simultaneous translation capabilities that are available,

language is no longer a barrier in connecting us to the rest of the world,” President Martha Pollack said.

In terms of bridging the two campuses, Breazzano added the new center “represents Cornell’s major foreway into the redevelopment of Collegetown” and allows Cornell to “efficiently connect the multiple campuses in New York and China and the Americas.”

In his closing remarks, Breazzano added, “All in all, we have a lot of work ahead of us but we’re in a good place and I am just humbled and honored to be a part of the transformation of business education at Cornell.”

Hnin Ei Wai Lwin can be reached at hwailwin@cornellsun.com.

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hen I say I’m an Asian woman, people say they know what that means. They say it means growing up with tiger moms and Silicon Valley dads. It means bowls of rice clutched in the palms of our hands as we pour over SAT prep books. It means Dad sending us to elementary school with a doctor’s coat and stethoscope already in one hand.

But to me, being an Asian woman also means warm pineapple bread that Grandma just pulled from the oven. It means bamboo plants Momma decorated with red ribbons and snuck in my bedroom for good luck the night before my exam. It means Dad driving a beatup Toyota Camry to my violin lessons and stopping for Szechuan food on the way back.

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And I see Asian women all around me lowering their voices instead of fighting this rage because that’s exactly what’s expected of us — nothing but smart, rule-adhering, soft girls. No one expects us to fight back; they say we’re the “model minority,” the quiet ones who never speak up.

And how could we react any differently? The very act of fighting defies our Asian roots. Our fathers taught us to respect our elders, our mothers taught us to hand-wash the dishes, our grandmothers sent us to school with a bowl of congee and wishes for a rich husband.

How can we fight against the roaring insincerity of our stereotypes, when it’s Asian culture to humbly accept our faith?

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Re: ‘Animals as Metaphors and a 'Cruelty-Free' Guggenheim’ To the Editor: Although it’s now making headlines, it’s been a thinly disguised secret that sexual abuse has been the “norm” in Hollywood for decades. Just as abuse of women is now rightfully viewed with contempt and condemnation, so too is the abuse of animals, including the gratuitous exploitation of animals in art displays like those that were pulled by the Guggenheim.

Forcing dogs to rip each other to bloody shreds in fighting pits isn’t a metaphor, it’s a matter of life and death. Anyone who finds enjoyment from the pain and suffering of animals should seek professional help.

Animal protection laws in China are non-existent. Animals are skinned alive for their fur, dogs are bludgeoned for their skin, and bears are chained and hung from their neck for hours on end during circus training sessions. With the withdrawal of the art pieces, the Guggenheim is sending a strong message to the country and its artists that animals are not props and that they deserve respect.

Museums can and should continue to provoke thought, discussion and debate. But what museums should not do is glamorize animal abuse.

Kenneth Montville, manager of education outreach People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

The comments on my paper?

“You write really well for someone whose first language isn’t English.”

I was born in Missouri. etly and I don’t listen to classical piano all day.

There are the Asian women who fit the stereotype, with soft voices and strict parents, and there’s nothing wrong them at all. But generalizing every Asian woman to be the same chopstick-holding, submissive girl with a bun is exactly what it sounds like — a foolishly puttogether cliché that’s rooted in deeply misinformed generalizations.

Because questions run through my mind all the time, and they follow me everywhere. Will my teachers assume I can do calculus just because I’m Asian?

Will my friends never want to come to my house because they think I have a helicopter mom? When I say I’m an English major, will people look at me funny because they expect me to be a doctor?

And then I realized it all sounds so ridiculous. Why do I have to like green tea or soy sauce or sesame seeds? Why can’t I wear a blazer and be the next CEO of a company and be loud at the podium? Why can’t I prefer English to chemistry?

I’ll never forget when I wrote the topscoring essay in my high school history class and my heart warmed from the glowing 98 percent scrawled across the front. The comments on the back? “You write really well for someone whose first language isn’t English.” I was born in Missouri.

the classroom because their professors never picked on the girl with the “heavy accent.” How can I blame them for the way they wanted to protect their daughters?

But despite the facade, I see strength in Asian women. I don’t see quiet, meek girls. I see my mother hand-making my favorite dumplings while I’m struggling over my essay at 4:00 a.m. I see my grandmother spoon-feeding me Chinese cough syrup when I have the flu. I see my aunt wrapping a fragile teapot with her overcoat in her luggage so my sister and I can drink tea from an authentic set from China. We are Asian women, and we express strength in subtle ways, but it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

To all the people who only see Asian women as creatures that are too timid, you’re wrong. To all the Asian women who think all you can do with your lives is sit with hands in your lap and nod graciously, you’re wrong. You can be loud, you can stray from the path, and you can be filled with a blazing strength. You can write a book, play guitar, wear tall boots.

Screw the rest of the world that says you can’t. And your fight will be echoed by every other Asian woman, because they all have that strength in them too.

Kelly Song is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ksong@cornellsun.com. The Songbird Sings appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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The Uptight Tart | Slutty Endeavors

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The Case for Drunk Texting

DRAWING BY HELEN HU / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

ver since my very earliest days of drinking, I have been a drunk texter. Initially, my texts were barely legible strings of letters that even I could not decipher the next day. I would only text one of the four close friends I had in high school, trying to tell them how much I loved them. As my drinking abilities matured, so too did my ability to send texts that were, for the most part, composed of real words.

And under the influence of college hookup culture more than anything, I now find myself only texting guys I want to sleep with.

This issue is not an uncommon one. Almost every person I know in college has drunk texted an ex, a past hookup, or a random Tinder match something they wished they had not. Anyone reading this has probably sent, and received, this type of message. Besides quarter cards on Ho, this is the most regular type of spam at Cornell. But I believe there are quite a few benefits too often overlooked, so long as you follow a few rules.

Like BDSM, there are two cardinal rules of positive drunk texting: set limits and respect the limits of others. If you know that drunk texting your ex will send you into an emotional tailspin when you are sober, block them on Messenger, delete their number and their conversations in your message inbox. Take similar precautions if someone has said they do not want to talk to you anymore. And obviously, never send unsolicited pictures. Like all other lowrisk behaviors, drunk texting only yields positive outcomes when practiced in moderation.

Assuming you follow the above guidelines, the negatives associated with drunk texting are quite minimal ego bruises. The most likely scenario involves the recipient ignoring you. But this is a r i s k associated with

texting regardless of your level of intoxication. Being drunk gives you a great excuse that sobriety cannot. You can say “I’m sorry, I was drunk,” or “Sorry, I was drunk and thought this was someone else’s number.” There are so many options to mitigate the embarrassment of rejection. If it was not clear, these are reasons to drunk text a crush, not drunk email a professor or drunk apply to a job. It is much harder to email the next morning to fix the well-crafted, now-ruined, image your professor had of you.

Beyond curbing minor embarrassment, there are much larger benefits to drunk texting. The most obvious of these is the ability to put yourself out there. A friend has been acting weird? Ask what’s going on, though I would not recommend fighting via drunk texting. Sometimes you just need the courage to start the conversation and then actually deal with it in the morning. This principle applies even better to honest communication with guys for sex. If I had not drunk texted a guy during Halloween freshman year, I would not have started a two-year long hookup. And that relationship would not have lasted if for the first six months I was not able to text him when I was frustrated without feeling embarrassed.

The way to maximize this growth is to text whenever you’re drunk and you want to, as long as you are playing within the rules. And it does not have to be just “Hey” or “Are you up? “ but “Do you want to have sex in the woods?”

Or if you’re consistently hooking up with someone but you want to actually date them, drunk-you has the courage to say “Do you want to go to CTP with me right now?” It might be 1:30 a.m. after Level B fishbowls, but it’s a step in the right direction.

If going after what you actually want is like riding a bike, then drunk texts are the training wheels. They’re the push you need to be more open and uninhibited while still confined to limited-risk opportunities. There will be a time in your life when you are no longer able to respectably drunk text. My mom drunk texts me to tell me she loves me, but I guess she never got the opportunity to do so when she was in college. Take the chance this weekend, while you still can, and see what it gets you.

The Uptight Tart is a student at Cornell University. Slutty Endeavors appears monthly this semester.

Honey Ryder | Whoreoscopes

19 Percent

Warning: This column may be difficult to read for individuals who have experienced, or know those who have experienced, sexual assault and sexual misconduct. These terms refer to a range of unwanted behaviors including remarks about physical appearance, persistent sexual advances, threats of force to get someone to engage in sexual behavior such as non-consensual or unwanted touching, sexual penetration, oral sex, anal sex, or attempts to engage in these behaviors.

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loating across newsfeeds and tweets, the Me Too campaign has made national headlines through asking those who have been either sexually assaulted or sexually harassed to write “Me Too”, aiming to give more of a sense to the magnitude of the problem and allow expression of individual experiences.

According to Cornell’s 2015 Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct, “by their senior year, almost one in five (19 percent) of undergraduate women have experienced nonconsensual penetration by force, incapacitation, or absence of affirmative consent.”

Me, Too. There are two ways in our lives in which we discover our sexuality: the first is the moment in which we realize we have sexual desires. There is the classic tale of the 10-year-old boy who discovers Playboy magazines stuffed under the basement couches (or in our era, pornhub.com) and quickly begins to understand how good it feels to yank one out into an old crusty sock. The first moment you realize that the butterflies in your stomach when you see that cute boy in your 10th grade history class mean you want to do more than just hold hands with him, and instead have daydreams in class about scenes that would give E.L. James a run for her money.

The second moment in which we come to realize sexuality is the moment when we

understand ourselves as something that could be desired sexually by someone else.

When the breasts bouncing off of your chest during the beep test in gym class cause the nearby boys’ jaws to physically drop; when you find a note in your locker that says, “Let’s make out under the bleachers.” Often these moments happen in synchronization – one intuitively follows the other, but I learned that I was sexualized long before I thought about the joy of having my first sexual experiences.

I was 11 years old and walking myself to school with a female friend who lived nearby. Walking down W 10th Street in New York City, a man walking by me in the opposite direction shoved his hand towards my crotch, grabbing my underwear, rubbing his fingers over my vagina and attempting to shove them inside of me. He continued walking as if nothing had happened. I wanted to go to the police but my friend Emma insisted that they would not be able to do anything, and we continued to school. My sixth grade teacher found out and called my parents; I can’t imagine their pain as they learned that their 10-year-old daughter had been sexually assaulted by a stranger. I never said no, I never said stop. I had been wearing a short skirt. I thought I had led him on, I thought it was my fault.

My sophomore year of high school I lay under my boyfriend as we made out on his

bed. He pulled my shirt off, and I insisted that things had gone too far. “No, no; it’s fine” he insisted. I conceded and allowed things to keep going. “I’m not sure I want to,” I requested, as we progressed to the point of no return. His arms pressed down on my shoulders, his naked body hanging down above me, “Honey, you’re going to be okay it’s no big deal.” I lay there unmoving and unspeaking as he entered and then finished inside of me. I never said no, I never said stop. I had initiated our hookup and we were dating. I thought I had led him on, I thought it was my fault.

My freshman year at Cornell, I attended a party at a fraternity annex. I started talking to a man I had met previously; our bodies came close. He leaned in to kiss me and I pulled away, turning to the side. So we both stood, our backs to the wall facing the rest of the room. He wrapped his hand over my shoulder hanging low across my chest. I went to walk away and he grabbed onto my breast, repeatedly squeezing and fondling me as I tried to leave. I never said no, I never said stop. I had been friends with him. I thought I had led him on, I thought it was my fault.

My story isn’t special. It isn’t unique.

And, if this column truly illuminates a problem for you on Cornell’s campus that you somehow did not previously believe existed, it’s time to come out from beneath the rock you’ve been living under and take

a stand. It’s time to teach victims that sexual assault is never their fault. It’s time to validate the experience of those who have been sexually assaulted. It’s time to hold organizations liable and accountable for the members of their organization who commit these crimes. Whether it’s athletics, religious groups, academic clubs or Greek Life. Any organization that seems to condone something so heinous needs to go. Full stop. To those who wrote “me too” in any context, fuck whoever did this to you and fuck anyone who has failed to believe you. Fuck the systems that have made reporting or actualizing your experience difficult.

And to Cornell, fuck you for creating a culture that has allowed this to fester and persist, fuck you for not doing anything, fuck you for making reporting as hard as taking a three credit class, fuck you for allowing fraternities with members who committed sexual assault to stay on campus because of donors with money, fuck you for letting young women who are victims/survivors believe it is their fault. To those who are victims/survivors who did not post, your voices are no less valuable and your experiences are fucking infuriating as well.

To Cornell: me too and fuck you.

Honey Ryder is a student at Cornell University.

Whoreoscopes appears monthly this semester.

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Manhattan Beach Finds Comfort in Chaos

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan’s eagerly awaited followup after winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, does not disappoint.

Manhattan Beach covers themes of war, economic depression, and the cultural revolutions of the time, as it takes place in New York City in the early to mid-twentieth century,. Through the life of courageous protagonist Anna Kerrigan, Egan demonstrates the changing societal roles of women during World War II and the variety of pressures placed on women. Weaving through the lives of multiple characters, all of whom serve their own distinct roles in New York society, Egan gives a socio-economically diverse lens into the criminal culture of the era, and does so through her endlessly engaging prose.

The novel begins along Manhattan Beach at gangster Dexter Styles’s grand mansion along the water. Eric Kerrigan, Anna’s father, seems to be engaged in a dubious business venture that is cut with the innocence of their closeknit father-daughter relationship. Courageous as she faces the icy temperatures of the water, Anna demonstrates her unique tenacity in the face of obstacles, and is subsequently awarded for her spunk and rather masculine mindset.

She frequents her father’s work along the docks of New York City and keeps up with the antics of backhanded business, but is all the same a loving daughter to Agnes Kerrigan and caring sister to Lydia. Lydia, the Kerrigans’ developmentally disabled younger daughter, serves as a point of contention in Eric and Agnes’s relationship and not only drives Eric to guilt and self-hatred, but also furthers him into shady business. After the mysterious disappearance of Eric, Anna slips into a providing role for Anges and Lydia and takes a production job at the Naval Yard five years later.

Determined to give a stimulating life to her sister, Anna takes Lydia to the sea, and later embarks on a mission to find her father. She does both with the help of suspicious Dexter Styles.

The novel takes on a New York identity and carries it in stride. From evoking landmarks, like the Brooklyn Bridge, to referencing specific street names and restaurants, Manhattan Beach revels in the grit of 1930s and 1940s New York as it emerged from the Jazz Age. There is a sort of cul-

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tural romanticism of wartime in America during the beginning of the twentieth century that Egan evokes in her nostalgic images of the city. However, this nostalgia is not so much a cinematic crutch, but rather a dangerous twist on the romantic freedom of the era. The lawlessness of the crime and business that occurs in the novel has perilous consequences to the Kerrigan family. Additionally, the prejudice that Anna faces in the workforce and among her peers crystallizes the biases that pervaded gender roles. Therefore, while romantic in its cultural perspective, Egan reminds her readers of the dangers and discrimination associated with it.

Involved with gangsters and Brooklyn criminals, the characters in the novel experience profound pain. While the pain of love is present in various romantic relationships, perhaps it is the pain of loss that affects these characters most.

Such pain is common throughout the characters that span socio-economic classes, from rich gangster Dexter Styles in Brooklyn to the poor Kerrigan family in Manhattan.

The novel has loud feminist undertones that bring these societal pressures into a contemporary context. Anna is very much a modern woman who seems unphased by societal pressures to appear and behave in ways that are stereotypically feminine, from pinned hair to extravagant dresses to the suppression of any sort of “immoral” behavior.

Throughout the novel, Anna navigates her passion for the war cause and her desires to work as a diver with her more traditionally female roles of caring for her sister alongside her mother. While her routines are demonstrative of the working roles women fell into during the war, they are even more largely reflective of the increasing power of women.

Determined always to show her worth to men, Anna fearlessly enters male-dominated spaces, whether it be the marine divers or groups of men in nightclubs. She appears to be “different” than other girls, which lends her a sort of magnetism. Men are not attracted to her beauty, but rather her courage.

While the novel jumps in time, the presence of water is constant throughout the narrative. Both incorporated into the setting and heavily symbolic, water and the sea hold a sense of escape for the novel’s principal characters. New York’s waters, which are “never the same on any two days, not if you really looked,” have different schemas for Anna, her father and Mr. Styles respectively. For Eric, it offers literal escape and a new lifestyle, while for Anna, the sea is

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emblematic of opportunity. Whether it is her ambitious diving career in the Naval Yard or dipping her toes in the icy water, New York’s harbors offer her power against the prejudice she faces. It is no surprise that she adamantly tells Lydia, “we’re going to see the sea” as a means of reversing Lydia’s condition and to give her new opportunities and escape.

To Dexter Styles, the water is merely in the background of his wealthy estate, the need for escape not so much pressing as it is haunting. Tumultuous and unpredictable, the sea functions as a metaphor for the novel itself.

Simultaneously bringing comfort and torment, Manhattan Beach triggers a diverse range of emotions for the reader as it does the characters. It offers a channel for personal revelation, if the characters choose to face it. It is this sense of freedom and liberation in the midst of prejudice and conflict that makes this New York City novel one that encompasses sentiments of the twentieth century and spills into our own contemporary mindset.

Victoria Horrocks is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at vrh23@cornell.edu

To Make Gods of Music Majors

few summers ago I found myself steadily employed at a Presbyterian church in my hometown in New Jersey. I was hired as the church’s sole pianist and musical handyman. It was exciting, as I could finally deem myself a “working musician,” and though it was not a residency at the Lincoln Center or the Vanguard, it had consistent hours (just take it a little easier Saturday night) and paid fairly well. The ubiquitous church gig seems to hold a degree of admiration among local musicians, both as a rite of passage and as a rewarding experience in its own right; the music is not very hard, and hey, at least the crowd is always singing along.

I will always remember the first service that I played at this church. My own upbringing was incredibly secular; I was never baptized and grew up in a totally non-religious household. One of my fondest memories of my heretical childhood occurred on an occasion where I actually did attend church, a Baptist session where they were honoring my grandmother for the work she did there during her lifetime. After the rather long service, and on the front steps of the church, my father exclaimed, “Wow, I didn’t realize they would mention my mother once and then talk about sheep for two hours.” But

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it’s alright. I was there to complete a task, a performative function, and my own background was entirely irrelevant, so my piano teacher often reminded me. Still, things became a little awkward. The first time I played at this church was during a communion service, and so at some point the pastor was supposed to pass out the juice and bread, so it goes. My intention was to merely play the music I prepared for this segment and act the skeptic fly on the wall. Yet, when he finished passing

Nick Swan Swan’s Song out the juice to the congregation, he came to give a cup to me. I stopped playing abruptly, and after too many seconds of silence, I assimilated and drank the blood of Christ with them. Of man’s first disobedience… “Oh God, it’s going to happen again,” I thought, and sure enough, when he finished passing out the bread, he gestured for me to rip off a piece. Again I joined them, this time consuming the body of Christ, I think. … Whose mortal taste brought Death into the world, and all

our woe… Just like that, my agnostic little paradise was lost, and I finished up the service and left quietly.

I think that my dramatized tale represents the juxtaposition between the worlds of organized music and organized religion. Obviously music is used extensively throughout services of worship in many religions, and indeed many individuals’ first exposure to “performing” music in a sense stems from their time at church. However, I did not realize the extensive relationship between music and religion until college, when I, an aspiring music major, enrolled in my first music history courses. Western music was essentially reinvented during the Middle Ages in order to centralize and spread messages of the Catholic church around Europe.

This is, at least, my more critical take on the subject — and indeed affirming of my gradually growing incredulity with Western classical music — as I learned about it just a few weeks ago in the music history sequence here at Cornell. In that course and in music history courses at every school, we studied Medieval Catholic chant as it was performed at mass, and then actually sang it aloud, in Latin and from its original notation, during sectionals.

But who are the gods, really? My fellow music majors are some of the most socially liberal and politically progressive indi-

viduals I know. Yet, there is a wicked culture of canonization which exists in the realm of classical music education, where we idolize the works of a few great men and standardize our aesthetics and practices around them. Everything is Pérotin, Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Haydn, Beethoven, etc. (As I write this column I am listening to Mozart’s Requiem, a rather vivid aural display of Catholic might, left unfinished after his death). It is great to have established benchmarks in music history, but at what point are the works of historical and contemporary composers tragically left out of important discussions? This tendency to make deities out of a few figures is indeed an unfortunate reminder of Western music’s antiquated tie to incredibly hierarchical religious institutions.

I think that the students, performers, and academics currently active in the study of Western music and all of its complex implications are the real gods. As we endure our chants and troubled history, we indeed have the ability to lend power to the voices that have been quieted by the discipline’s own hefty air of selfimportance. To hell with the old gods!

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun.com. His column Swan’s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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Columbia Football Is 5-0, Now How About Cornell?

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and the next fail to entertain in the slightest on its home field, in a boring loss to a less than impressive non-conference opponent?

There are those who say the issue lies with recruiting, and that Ithaca being an unattractive place to live is what drives these inequities between Cornell and other members of the Ancient Eight — Ithaca being an unattractive place to live is itself a statement I take issue with, though this column will forego that conversation for the sake of the argument at hand.

The evidence, however, renders this explanation entirely inadequate when you consider Cornell’s ability to field top-ofthe-conference talent in other sports like hockey, lacrosse and others. It is weakened even further given that Dartmouth, a school in rural New Hampshire, is more often than not able to sport a competitive football team.

Some turn to blame the coaching, and head coach David Archer ’05 is no stranger to criticism. I think it is true that Archer could be doing a better job, and he agrees with that sentiment.

But his job is not so easy to begin with. He has little to work with, and although the recruiting responsibility largely falls on him, this is his first year coaching a team made up entirely of his own recruits. Time will provide a better metric for his coaching skills.

In a technical sense, the offense has been the biggest issue for Archer to manage. The passing game has been anemic, to put it lightly. Inconsistency at the wide receiver position has been the most glaring problem, hin-

dered further by a season ending injury to freshman wideout Eric Gallman. This inconsistency, in turn, has caused junior quarterback Dalton Banks to be stranded in the pocket more often, leaving an inexperienced offensive line in a position to defend him for longer amounts of time.

With less time to throw the ball and even less places to throw it, Banks, who had a respectable first season as the starter last year, has been left unable to further develop this season and build on his success.

These issues that are plaguing the Red on the field do not appear to be going anywhere anytime soon, and although the defense has looked impressive at times, it may not be enough to save the season this year.

Of course, I can have plenty of fun without a good football team, and I do, by the way. But nobody is asking for a nationally ranked program. The Ivy League is made of only eight teams. The conference was created for the purpose of standardizing conditions for athletics, particularly football. It should not be so difficult to ask that one of those eight teams, in this case Cornell, field an exciting team every once in awhile.

In 1988, following one of Cornell’s three Ivy League titles, the students in attendance at a sold out Schoellkopf stormed the field and carried the goal posts all the way to Collegetown in celebration. It is hard to imagine such a thing happening today, but the story nonetheless elicits a longing for a return to at least some kind of legitimacy.

Dylan McDevitt is a junior in the ILR school. He can be contacted at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com. One Point Play appears weekly this semester.

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a hole to fill. Yet Ostrander, the only returning candidate, was not guaranteed the job. “[Ostrander] was here and he knew our offense, so he had a leg up on [freshman] Brooks Panhans,” Gneo said. “Everyday [Ostrander has] gotten better. He got to play in the last game of the year and start because Pannullo was hurt, so that really helped his confidence, and that carried over into this year.”

Cornell’s starting quarterback credits much of his success to his predecessor.

“Rob [Pannullo] did a great job mentoring me the past two years to help my preparation to step into the QB role,” Ostrander said.

With Pannullo no longer under center, it is now Ostrander’s time to shine. Only three games remain, and it is up to the quarterback and his team whether or not the Red reaches the postseason.

“We still have the same goal we had from the beginning of the season, and that's to win a cham-

pionship,” Ostrander said. “We still control our own destiny and we just need to take it one week at a time and keep improving.”

Next up for Cornell are sprint football powerhouses Navy and Army. Despite struggling against Penn in the team’s only loss, Ostrander still has the chance to turn heads with a win against either of the two academies — a tall order, nonetheless.

These are teams against whom Cornell cannot afford to turn the ball over. In last season’s finale, Ostrander threw three interceptions, the same amount he’s thrown in all of 2017.

“The [difference] is the turnovers,” Gneo said. “He’s been been able to keep the turnovers down And he keeps his poise. In a bad situation — a pressure situation — he’s always in control. He’s always cool under the gun.”

Ostrander and the Red travel to Annapolis, Maryland to take on Navy this weekend. The Midshipmen are 4-1 on the season.

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

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Elevate: Collegetown’s Newest Meal Plan

By ARATHI BEZWADA

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escribed as a “Collegetown alternative to Big Red Bucks,” Elevate is the newest meal plan package available to Cornell students. Elevate was founded by two University of Virginia alumni to provide students with more convenient dining options. This program has expanded to schools across the country and, most recently, to Cornell. Currently there are seven restaurants included in this meal plan at Cornell: Cafe Pacific, Manndible Café, Oishii Bowl, Apollo Chinese Restaurant, Collegetown Pizza, Hai Hong Restaurant and Calios.

First, you purchase a set of meal plans (refundable with a 100 percent satisfaction or your money back for any unused meals guarantee) in either a set of three, 45, 75 or 105 meals. The price per meal ranges from $9.34 to $9.76 per meal, not including tax, with prices per meal typically decreasing when purchasing a larger package. You can pick your entree on their ordering site from a limited list of meal options from the restaurant’s full menu. When your food is ready, typically 15 to 20 minutes later, you can pick up your meal from the restaurant.

This is the first year I’ve lived off campus and have been off a Cornell dining plan.

Like most Cornell students, I don’t always have time to make or be home for dinner/lunch. Elevate seemed like the perfect option for me: It provided a flexible alternative to a dining hall and served as a convenient backup plan for when I couldn’t or didn’t want to cook. At first, I loved the service: The site was easy to use, the restaurants were close by and it saved me time and money. However, after a few weeks of using the service, I found myself unsatisfied with the restaurant and food options.

The food, which I thought to be subpar, became repetitive. Of the seven restaurants partnering with Elevate, six are located in

Collegetown (all but Manndible Cafe).

These six restaurants fall into three categories: Japanese, Chinese, and Pizza. I found that meals from the first two cuisines, Japanese and Chinese, often didn’t taste fresh. The dishes seemed pre-prepared and were often underseasoned and featured rubbery meat.

Unlike these restaurants, the pizza restaurants, CTP and Calios, seemed to fulfill their orders as they were placed. However, both of these restaurants typically feature high-calorie, carb-heavy, foods that left me craving a healthier alternative.

Pros: Cheaper than dining halls: Cornell is ranked #3 in the country, a fact that is represented in the cost of the dining plans.

Elevate is considerably cheaper than the Cornell Dining Plans, where the cheapest traditional dining plan is $2,316.

Meals don’t expire: Unlike a traditional meal plan, Elevate meals do not expire by week or by semester. You have the choice to use your meals at your discretion.

Saves time: For many of us, college is the first time we are responsible for all aspects of our meals: budgeting, planning, shopping, cooking. For the busy student or the inexpe-

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By ALEXANDRA FOWLER Sun Staff Writer

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hen I sat down with Jamie Kim ’19, the cofounder of bumble & butter, an organic, locally sourced granola company based in Ithaca, I wanted to find out what differentiates her product in the crowded granola snack market. Her response not only gave me insight into this question but also set the tone for how this company is revolutionizing the way one thinks, eats, and snacks on granola. She replied, “people should think of granola as a crunchy topping or snack that doesn’t only have to go with milk and yogurt.” Indeed, this young entrepreneur has challenged what we think about granola by incorporating it into a vari-

ety of dishes and introducing flavors never developed in the granola market to date. bumble & butter has gone from concept to full-blown company in the course of merely a year. Initially hatched from Jamie’s marketing class, bumble & butter has grown to sell in many locations around campus and the Ithaca community, even reaching the broader audience of New York City this summer at Smorgasbord, the nation's largest and most competitive open-air food market. Jamie even mentions that they recently signed a deal with Urthbox, a healthy snack subscription service. Gaining more exposure has allowed Jamie to grow her presence as a savory granola leader with a physical presence in Ithaca and a growing online presence.

Everything about bumble &

rienced chef, Elevate is the perfect crutch when learning how to balance all of these things into our busy schedules.

Easy to use: The Elevate website is easy to use and understand. The site is organized by restaurant, then entree and then side dishes.

This setup allows users to easily navigate and order from the site in seconds.

Lots of options: Since you have the flexibility to choose your own entree and side dish, there are hundreds of meal pairing options on the website.

529 Plan eligible: If you already have a 529 State/School College Savings Plan, you can request a receipt for reimbursement from Elevate through your college spending account.

Convenience: Like many students, I don’t always carry a credit/debit card or cash with me. Luckily, picking up your order doesn’t require either.

Large portions: Between the entree and side dish, you typically have enough food to last you for two meals.

Cons: Few and limited types of restaurants: Right now, there are only seven restaurants partnering with Elevate, six of which are in Collegetown. Only varying in three types of

butter is meticulously curated — from the small drawings of the flavors stamped on each bag to the name of the company. The name comes from the butter that is locally sourced from Hamilton and locally sourced honey from Ithaca Honey Works. These two ingredients are central to the granola, as Jamie found that using butter brought more flavor and nutrition to the granola.

Currently, they have three main flavors; vanilla bean with dried cherries, rosemary with Zante currants, and sharp cheddar with cracked black pepper. Each flavor was crafted by Jamie with its own distinct story. For example, Jamie had the idea of having the granola so saturated in vanilla that the flecks are visible on the pieces. Each flavor is more than just a typical granola flavor, it's a carefully constructed story and distinctively unique. Jamie mentions that their initial goal of the three main flavors was to create three core flavors for the brand. She plans to incorporate new flavors into the future and even expand to holiday flavors as well.

Upon first bite, I was delightfully surprised at the intensity of the vanilla bean that was perfectly complemented by the dried cherries.

The sharp cheddar with cracked black pepper was inspired by ched-

cuisines, these restaurants start to feel underwhelming after a few orders. There are a lot of similarities in the types of food offered, so even though there are technically a lot of meal options, they still feel limiting because of the lack of diversity.

Carb-Heavy: Most of the meal pairings feature one of three things: Noodles, bread or rice. The dishes often lack balance and leave you feeling too full and craving healthier, more balanced alternatives. Overall, the range of healthy options pale in comparison to the range and number of unhealthy ones.

Lack of description: Calios is the only restaurant on Elevate that has dish descriptions. For many of the others, you would not know what the dish was without having eaten it before or having to google what it is.

Final Verdict There seems to be more pros than cons, but the cons outweigh the pros.

Unfortunately, since Elevate is a relatively new meal plan offering, it subsequently has not partnered with nearly as many restaurants as it has on other campuses. As a result, the few restaurant offerings start to feel redundant.

Elevate offers little variety in types of cuisine and, even though there a lot of meal options, they are mostly just slight variations of a few types of meals. The meals themselves are typically carb-heavy and/or unhealthy, with few options breaking this norm. The meal plan is cheaper than dining halls, but students could easily save more money by cooking for themselves or ordering from different restaurants around Collegetown.

The final verdict? Not worth the money.

Until Elevate can diversify and increase its partner restaurants and offer healthier options, you’re better off finding your meals elsewhere.

Arathi Bezwada is a sophomore in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at ab2247@cornell.edu.

dar popcorn as well as what Jamie describes as the ideal combination of honey and cheese. I found myself reaching for another bite before I finished the first. It was unlike any snack I had ever had, with more crunch than popcorn and fuller flavor of cheddar. I later sprinkled it on tomato soup and found myself devising new plans of what dinner dishes I could garnish with my bags of bumble & butter granola.

Bumble & butter’s key differentiator is their exploration of savory granola. Their website boasts a variety of recipes including using granola as a salad topper or on carrots.

Jamie highlights using her rosemary granola on top of Greek yogurt drizzled with olive oil as her favorite way to eat granola. The ways to incorporate granola into savory dishes are endless and bumble & butter is not only changing the way people think about and use granola but it is tapping into a new enclave of an established market.

When asked about future plans for bumble & butter, Jamie mentions that she would like to continue to grow and expand both online and physically in Ithaca. She says she likes the idea of granola as a gift — in fact, this summer she handpacked 500 bags for a wedding.

Her advice to aspiring entrepreneurs: “Just go out there and do it.

It's so easy to be scared but it's important to just try it and go from there.” bumble & butter is a testament to this and their impact on the granola market is sure to make waves and change the way we use and think about granola.

Alexandra Fowler is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences. She can be reached at asf226@cornell.edu.

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Red to Host Brown on Homecoming Come on, Football!

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Keep your head up | Although Cornell is 1-4 overall, the team is just 1-1 in the Ivy League and is excited for its upcoming stretch of five consecutive Ivy contests.

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

A year ago, in piercing wind and driving rain, the men of Cornell football let a comeback victory over Brown slip away. The squad trailed Brown early and used a 14-point third quarter to get back in the game and send it to overtime. But in the second period of extra time, the Red couldn’t keep up, and the Bears issued Cornell its third straight loss after a 3-0 start.

That defeat has not left the minds of Cornell 365 days after its occurrence.

“That day has been referenced more than once this week, there is no question about that,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

The goal of flipping losses like that one has helped the Red’s 2017 season earn the nickname “The Revenge Tour,” said junior linebacker Maxwell McCormick.

“Last year it came down to inches,” McCormick said. “It all comes down to preparation. We have been preparing even better for Brown this year. I think hopefully we’ll be able to close that gap and come out with a big win in front of the crowd.”

With Homecoming on Saturday, Cornell will likely play in front of the most spectators at home that it will all

season. That extra attention ratchets up the team’s anticipation for the clash against the Bears.

“It’s just an energy thing that people feed off of when you have friends in town, when you have family in town and you’re kind of in the spotlight,” Archer said.

Senior captain and running back Jack Gellatly assured that while excitement levels will be high on Saturday, it’s just another Ivy League game.

“Obviously we love to ride the highs when those times come,” he said, “but we’ve got to make sure we’re taking care of all the details regardless of what else is going on in the stadium or anywhere else.”

On the field, unlike Harvard two weeks ago, Brown will likely load the box on defense. Against the Crimson, Cornell took advantage and hung up 233 rushing yards on Harvard’s defense en route to the squad’s first victory over its Cambridge rival in 12 years. The Bears’ defensive strategy calls for the Red to reshape its offensive attack once again.

“They’re going to put the whole student body in the box to try to stop the run,” Archer said.

But Gellatly was quick to point out, despite the imposing upfront attack, Cornell will not shy away from the

rushing game.

“We’re going to do everything in our power to make sure no matter how many guys they put in the box, that we can punish them with the run because that just helps the whole offense so much,” Gellatly said.

Brown will throw several different defensive looks at Cornell, trying to spark confusion on offense. With preseason FCS All-American Richard Jarvis — a defensive end Archer has said “will make Colgate’s guys look slow” — leading the way, Brown has relied on its defense to be one of the most consistent teams in the Ivy League over the past two decades, with 16 top-half conference finishes in the past 19 years.

A week after a non-conference loss to Bucknell with a depleted backfield and linebacker corps due to injury, several players will likely be healthy this week and return to the field. Gellatly and sophomore Harold Coles will return to the backfield, with junior Chris Walker questionable for the game. Senior linebacker and captain Kurt Frimel and fellow linebacker sophomore Dylan Otolski are probable for Brown, while Daniel Crochet, who last saw the field against Yale, is doubtful.

With a rejuvenated roster, the team could capture its first 2-1 Ivy League start since 2000.

“It gives everyone here a sense of life every week and a sense of drive and motivation to get this done,” McCormick said of Cornell’s ability to control its own destiny. “It’s a new exciting experience, and everyone is ready and grinding and coming together.”

With five straight Ivy games to end the season, including two against the league’s current undefeated squads, Cornell enters its most critical, and difficult, part of the 2017 campaign.

Archer said the team will treat these next five weeks as one-game playoffs.

“If we can get better in October, we can be relevant in November,” he said.

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hen I was a freshman, Cornell football was 08 heading into a matchup in New York City against conference rival Columbia.

Columbia was 0-8, too, and the teams would battle it out to determine who would avoid what was likely to be a winless season. Cornell won by three points and would finish the season a triumphant 1-9, one win better than its downstate rivals.

The following season, the Red would again post a record of 1-9, the lone victory coming against a familiar opponent (you guessed it, Columbia). In that game at Schoellkopf, Cornell prevailed in what was an abysmal game by a score of 3-0. Though that season it was the Lions who bested the Red in the overall standings, as Columbia finished a win better when it was all said and done.

Just two years later, Columbia, a team whose football stadium is over 100 blocks away from its campus, finds itself not winless but undefeated loss-less, and sits atop the Ivy League midway through October.

It’s been 27 years since Cornell’s last Ivy League title in 1990. Since then, every team except Cornell and Columbia have earned the hardware — in fact, all six of them have won it more than once since then — and it looks as though we could see an end to that this year, with the Lions on a rampage that features some star power on defense.

Cornell on the other hand has enjoyed no such improvement. Although let us give credit where credit

Dylan McDevitt One Point Play is due, as beating Harvard is something even my beloved Cornell hockey team struggles with these days.

After my recent column detailing the autumn woes that come along with fall sports at Cornell, I was met with some criticism. Most of it, online and otherwise, amounted to the same two themes: One, you don’t need football to have fun, and two, there are other sports worth watching. Both of these claims are valid, but people making them seem to be missing my point.

Beating Harvard was incredible and by no means should we detract from that accomplishment. But it somehow adds to the frustration. How can a team go out and knock off a conference powerhouse one week,

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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SPRINT FOOTBALL

Ostrander Leads Sprint Football to Improved Start

By JACK KANTOR Sun Assistant Sports Editor

If not for some late game heroics on Saturday, the ride home from New Hampshire could have felt a lot longer than five hours.

With less than 30 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Cornell sprint football quarterback carried, not threw, the ball across the goal line to give his team the lead and the eventual win. And thus, the Red rode back to Ithaca as the victors.

With Saturday’s 19-14 win over Franklin Pierce (23), the Red is 3-1 for the first time since 2012. And a driving force behind this team’s success has been the man at the center of it all,

junior quarterback Connor Ostrander.

One can argue Cornell’s schedule is front-loaded with easy opponents. Others can argue it is just luck.

Nevertheless, Ostrander has done his job as quarterback, and then some.

Na t u r a l l y, Ostrander has the team’s most passing yards as the Red’s starting gunslinger. But on top of that, the Massachusetts native leads the squad with 226 rushing yards.

“A lot of the rushing success can be attributed to the work of the

offensive line,” he said.

“They've done a great job throughout the entire season creating running lanes, and the coaching staff has also been able to increase the intensity at practice to prepare us each week.”

This was not the case last year. In his limited playing time in 2016 (including just one start), Ostrander averaged 0.8 yards per carry versus a much improved JASON BEN NATHAN / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

3.6 this season.

The junior’s running prowess showed through Saturday afternoon when he rushed for 120 yards — numbers a running back strives to put up. Ostrander ended the day with more rushing yards than passing yards.

“Franklin Pierce really took away they pass,” said head coach Bob Gneo. “Our coaches did a great job adjusting the game plan, and a lot of it called for power runs by [Ostrander] with a lead back, and that’s where he got most of his yards.”

Situations like these are where Ostrander makes a

Turning heads | Junior Connor Ostrander has emerged as a dual-threat quarterback for the Red in 2017.

difference. When the going gets tough — either during a play or over the course of a game — he finds a way to move along. “[He has the] ability to escape bad situations and make situations into good situations,” Gneo added.

“And [he has the] ability to shake off a bad play. The philosophy of the team is ‘one play at a time and move onto the next one.’ He’s done a really good job of that.”

This year has not been like Ostrander’s first two on East Hill. With the departure of all-CSFL second team quarterback Rob Pannullo ’16 over the offseason, Gneo and his staff had See SPRINT page 18