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Cayea Testifies University’s Policy 6.4 Revisions See As His Murder Progress After New State Mandates Trial Continues

By ALEXA ESKANAZI

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Says death of Jones’15 due to consensual violent foreplay

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

Benjamin Cayea took the stand Tuesday in his trial for the murder of Shannon Jones ’15, telling jurors that her death was an accident resulting from a sexual encounter gone wrong.

Cayea is on trial on a CAYEA charge of second degree murder of Jones, who he confessed to strangling in a December interview with law enforcement. However, during today’s trial Cayea testified that he had lied during the initial interview with police at the sheriff’s office.

During his testimonial, Cayea said that almost the entire story he initially told the police — that he “just snapped” and intentionally killed Jones — was false. In the transcript of his initial interview, Cayea told police, “I lost my shit and I killed my girlfriend.” On the stand, Cayea said of that statement, “That’s false. That’s what it says, but that is not true.”

Describing his turbulent relationship with Jones Tuesday, Cayea said that they fought often throughout the duration of their relationship from summer 2012 until her death last Thanksgiving. As their arguments escalated, they often ended in sex, which Cayea said Jones often initiated.

“As the fights became more intense, the only way she could transition to another emotional state was to become sexual,” Cayea testified.

Despite the arguments, Cayea said he made the decision in summer 2014 that he “was going to be the best boyfriend I possibly could

The University’s sexual assault policy is facing many possible changes, administrators said in a presentation to the University Assembly Tuesday.

Many of these changes, some completed and some being deliberated, include a new proposed hearing board model and new definitions of certain offenses.These changes follow the Office of Civil Right’s launch of a May Title IX investigation against Cornell and 115 other schools.

from the Office of Civil Rights and a new state law called, ‘Enough is Enough,’ which mandates that all New York State colleagues create certain previsions including affirmative consent.

Cornell has modified Policy 6.4 to comply with the new state law.

This includes updated definitions of certain offenses that were previously consid-

Completed Policy Changes

Changes made to Policy 6.4, last revised in 2012, reflect new state mandates, according to Alan Mittman, director of the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations.

Mittman says recent legislative changes to 6.4 incorporate guidance

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ered unclear or too wordy. The updated definitions more clearly categorize different forms of sexual assault, according to Mittman.

Also for the first time, there are now two full-time Title IX investigators working for the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations responding to claims against students. According to Mittman, this allows the Office of the J u d i c i a l Administrator to focus on earlier intakes, interim and formal resoluSee POLICY page 4

Policy changes | Alan Mittman, director of the Office of Workforce Policy and Labor Relations, discusses how modifications to Policy 6.4 will clarify language on Tuesday.

Cupcakes for a cure

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Local children, along with college mentors, sell hot chocolate and cupcakes on Ho Plaza to raise money for children with cancer yesterday.

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Prof.Wittich Discusses Contribution to Nobel Winning Research

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Prof. Peter Wittich, physics, received recognition recently for his contributions to Prof. Arthur McDonald’s project team, which resulted in the discovery of neutrino oscillations and earned a Nobel prize in physics.

The prize, awarded to McDonald of Queens University

and Takaaki Kajita of University of Tokyo, recognizes the discovery of neutrino oscillation, a process shows neutrinos have mass.

Neutrinos were previously considered to be massless, and consequently this new research helps to explore how the sun works. The findings also verify Cornell physicist Hans Bethe’s explanation of the workings of the sun.

Wittich said he worked at the

Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, the research lab over a mile underground in a nickel mine in Northern Ontario, while he was in graduate school. There, he measured the first one hundred days of data gathered on neutrinos.

PROF. WITTICH

Wittich said that the sun emits neutrinos, tiny participles, as a result of nuclear fusion that takes place at the sun’s core, according to The Ithaca Journal.

“There are trillions of them going through our bodies

right now and we don’t notice them and it doesn’t do anything to us,” Wittich said.

These neutrinos, according to Wittich, have the ability to pass through nearly every material.

“Most particles when they hit a table, or a wall, they will stop,” Wittich said. “Neutrinos can go through light years of lead withSee NOBEL page 5

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Sgt. Riley Harwood says police were called Saturday night after a stranger — who may have been on drugs — crashed the wedding at the Santa Barbara Carriage Museum.

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University librarian Joan Petit says the books are so old that staff members don’t know what to do with them. In the time since they were borrowed for a high-school speech class, card catalogs have been digitized and classification methods have changed.

But the librarians, who no longer charge late fees, say they are thankful that someone returned Basic Principles of Speech and Preface to Critical Reading.

Church Tips $1,000 PICKERINGTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio church congregation ordered a pizza from Domino’s during a service, then tipped the driver more than $1,000 that it had been collected for the offering.

The driver brought the $5.99 pizza to Sycamore Creek Church in Pickerington in suburban Columbus on Oct. 4.

The Rev. Steve Markle brought her onstage and asked her the biggest tip she’d ever received. She said about $10.

That’s when Markle told her the teaching at the church had been about generosity so the congregation had taken up an offering for the driver. She broke into tears.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that the congregation was wrapping up a sermon series on “I was Broke. Now I'm Not.” The church draws about 500 to 600 people each week.

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Non-Profit Solar Project Raises Over $17,000

Around the Ivies Harvard Medical School Raises $467 Million In Capital Campaign Harvard Medical School has recieved over $467 million of donations toward its $705 million goal in the first year of the campaign’s public contribution phase, according to The Harvard Crimson. The drive’s four campaign priorities are “Education,” “Discovery,” “Service” and “Leadership.”

With the influx of funds, the school hopes to increasingly focus on global health and medical innovation. Donors can contribute to any one of these four separate funds, and so far the “Discovery” section of the drive is closest to reaching its goal, while the “Education” sector has proved the least popular, The Crimson reports.

Student organizers plan to install solar energy system, open museum exhibit dents.

According to Amy Gaulke, public and media relations manager at Sciencenter, the Just a week after its launch, Energizing funds raised through this campaign will be Impact, a student non-profit solar energy used for “creating a new exhibition gallery organization, has raised nearly a third of the that will empower guests to engage in sustain$60,000 it projects will be necessary to install able practices in their daily lives.”

Gaulke said the exhibia 14.3 kW solar energy tion will showcase the bensystem and an exhibit in “We have already efits of living sustainably Sciencenter, an Ithaca raised over $17,000 for using solar energy. museum.

“It will illustrate how Kevin Cellucci ’17, the project but we still technology is able to harproject coordinator, said have a long way to go.” ness energy from the sun he was exposed to innovaand showcase a historical tive energy options while Kevin Cellucci ’17 and real-time display from working in the alternative a viewable photovoltic energy industry over the summer and said he discussed his idea to array on the Sciencenter’s roof,” Gaulke said.

Additionally, the solar energy will benefit adovate sustainable energy in Ithaca with the Sciencenter by lowering operating costs Rachel Geiger ’17.

He said the result, Energizing Impact, rep- and in turn support and allow the Center to resents and effort to increase energy sustain- expand its “free access programs including free memberships for low-income families,” ability through a use of solar energy.

Geiger said on campus the project is oper- according to Gaulke.

The Sciencenter frequently collaborates ated by a marketing team of about 15 stuBy YUN SOO KIM

Sun Staff Writer

with Everybody Solar, a solar energy nonprofit, and depends on the University for project resource, according to Cellucci.

“The money will also be used to help design and build this exhibit which focuses on teaching youth about how alternative energy works and why it is important,” said Cellucci.

According to Cellucci, the “seed funding” for the project comes from Societal Solutions Scholarship, a Cornell program that funds individuals efforts to improve society.

While the capital campaign is the first project launched from Energizing Impact, Cellucci said his team would “love to continue expanding Energizing Impact” by providing sustainable energy to a variety of organizations.

“We have already raised over $17,000 for the project, but we still have a long way to go before reaching our target,” Cellucci said.

The campaign is due to end on Nov. 15.

Yun Soo Kim can be reached at yskim@cornellsun.com.

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Local Tompkins County Citizen Arrested on Drug Charges Twice In One Week Aljamal Bovia, 26, was arrested two times this week on druge charges that resulted from a five-month long police investigation, according to The Ithaca Voice. A New York State Police release said the man, who is from Ulysses, was charged Monday will two counts of felony third-degree criminal posession of a controlled substance, felony first-degree criminal nuisance, misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child and misdemeanor seconddegree criminally using drug paraphenalia. He was taken into custody in Ulysses Saturday after the police say they found 51 grams of heroine, a stun gun, two cell phones and about $3,000 in his home after they obstained a search warrant, The Voice reports.

National Paul Ryan Says He Would Take House Speaker Job If GOP Unites Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Tuesday that he would be willing to serve as speaker if all of the factions in the Republican party unite in supporting him, according to The New York Times. Ryan also said would focus more on communicating the party message rather than almost exclusively fundraising. He said the division and growth of factions within the conservative party have become increasingly deterimental and said he would not concede to the demands of any “one group,” a warning to the Freedom Caucus which helped force Speaker John Boehner (ROhio) into retirement, The Times reports.

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Prof. Mark Talbert ’89 Remembered as Infomation System Innovator and Mentor

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versities around the world. “[Talbert] was responsive to Prof. Mark McCarthy ’86 student needs, firm in his methMMH ’98, one of Talbert’s colods, but also a little quirky,” Prof. Mark Talbert ’89 MPS ’92 died leagues in the hotel school, said McCarthy said. “His teaching this weekend at his home.

Talbert was responsible for assistants credit him with being a Talbert, a professor in the School of introducing valuable job skills kind man who was protective and Hotel Administration, to the classroom. loyal.” specialized specifical“[Talbert] was the Prof. Emeritus Robert Chase ly in information “His teaching assistants innovative developer of the hotel school was a longtime TALBERT ’89 systems within the credit him with being a and creator of the celepartner and friend of Talbert who MPS ’92 realm of hotel brated Excel business remembers Talbert as a promising kind man.” administration. curriculum at the hotel academic.

According to the school,” McCarthy said. “His “He also taught in Australia, Bali, Prof. Mark McCarthy ’86 University, his courses were popular with stu- Thailand, Oman, France and Switzerland research interests dents and the recruiters who hire [outside of Cornell],” Chase said. “His include business those students for the powerful curtain call came unexpectedly and far too computing, modeling and programming, tools that his courses gave them.” early in a prospering career.” and he has authored many educational McCarthy also said Talbert was a prosoftware programs in these fields. His soft- fessor who profoundly cared about his stu- Jeanette Si can be reached ware has been utilized by many other uni- dents and wanted the best from them. at jsi@cornellsun.com.

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be.”

“We talked about marriage, we talked about having children, we talked about places she could get jobs in her field,” Cayea said.

Throughout the summer and fall of 2014, the passionate and often physical arguments between the couple had “ebbed,” though they continued to engage in BDSM — erotic practices often involving bondage and discipline, dominance and submission and sadomasochism — during sex, Cayea said.

The couple got into an argument at their shared apartment on Triphammer Road on the evening of Nov. 27, 2014, or Thanksgiving Day, according to Cayea. He testified that he “tried to walk away” from Jones into different rooms of the apartment to dispel the fighting.

Though he sometimes left the house during arguments, Cayea testified that he was confident the couple could resolve the argument.

However, the argument turned physical. When Jones walked into the bathroom, Cayea followed her “to continue the discussion.” According to Cayea, Jones initiated sexual contact in the bathroom. While they were kissing and groping one another, Cayea said that “[Jones] told me that she wanted me to choke her.”

When Cayea did put his hands around her throat, he said that “she started telling me that I was a little bitch …

and I couldn’t do it hard enough.”

Cayea then said he began to choke her with more force.

He could not say how long he was choking her before “all of a sudden, she started to buckle.”

“I let go of her, and she dropped down,” he said.

Cayea testified through tears that he did not notice Jones’ lips turning blue because the lights were off in the bathroom. When he dragged her out into the bedroom, he said he saw that she was dead.

Though he said he knew it was dangerous and potentially fatal to choke Jones with such force, which he had never used to that extent before, Cayea said he did it because he “just wanted her to be satisfied with [him].”

“I was pretty sad for the way she was treating me,” Cayea said. “I wanted to make her happy.”

During the cross-examination, prosecutor Andrew Bonavia asked Cayea why he continued to choke Jones with his hand over her mouth when she had ceased talking or making noises.

“She had told me to,” Cayea replied. “We had safewords and safe gestures. I figured she would use one of those.”

Cayea said he never called 911 because he checked her pulse and already “knew” she was dead.

“I don’t like dealing with the police. Most people don’t,” he added.

When he was interviewed by police at the sheriff’s office after Jones’ death, Cayea told police that he “pushed Shannon down, straddled her and choked her,” according to defense attorney Matthew Van Houten. When Van

Houten asked Cayea why he told police such a different account of events at the time, he replied that he thought the couple’s sexual relationship should stay private.

“I didn’t want other people to know the kind of things we were engaged in,” Cayea replied. “I didn’t want [the interviewer] or any of the other investigators thinking of her in a sexual manner.”

Bonavia challenged Cayea’s professed motivation to protect Jones’ memory by pointing out that at other times in the interview, Cayea did tell police about Jones’ BDSM preferences.

The transcript shows that Cayea said, “[Jones] liked to be tied up and beaten, and I never did any of that shit with her.”

When Bonavia asked Cayea why he lied in the initial interview, Cayea said he was in shock and “not really thinking about it.” His memory of that interview, he said, is “quite hazy.”

“Considering how much you lied in that interview, why should we believe what you’re saying today?” Bonavia asked.

“I want everyone to know what happened so that justice can be done properly,” Cayea said.

In previous days of the trial, jurors saw testimony from many, including a forensic pathologist who testified that Jones’ death was a homicide. The defense rested their case Tuesday, which marked the close of testimonials. The trial will continue Wednesday morning.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

University Seeks to Clarify Title IX Violation Procedures Plans include changing reporting system and remodeling hearing board POLICY

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tions and other steps the process not pertaining to the direct investigation, Mittman said.

Proposed Policy Changes

Among the proposed policy changes is a new model for hearing boards, which run the Title IX trial system. Under the new model, a legally trained Cornell faculty or staff member would chair the hearing.

However, only the hearing panel would be able to ask questions to defendants and complainants, thus they never directly communicate with the hearing chair, according to Carol Grumbach, Associate Dean and Director New Student Programs.

Another possible addition of the new hearing model is the ‘alternate resolution’ option, according to Grumbach. This resolution presented by the hearing board, which is different entirely to the one initially discussed, would have to be approved by both parties and Cornell.

Grumbach then detailed how the changes will progress if implemented, sighting an increase of ease and clarity in all steps of the trial and reporting process.

“Under the proposed revisions, the investigator would stop short of making any findings,” Grumbach said. “There would be a thorough investigation, there would be an assessment of general credibility, but no finding as to responsibility and no recommendations.”

According to Mittman, the previous sys-

tem of reporting Title IX offenses was labeled as confusing, counter-productive and over-informative. The new system — which differentiates three categories of violation: prohibited discrimination or protected-status harassment, sexual assault and dating or domestic violence — should provide victims with a clearer direction on how to proceed with reporting.

“Again, this is very much still under construction, but the idea is to have a few provisions of policy principles, and then move to the area of what do I do… if I made a decision to move forward?” Mittman said.

Reasons for Policy Change

Mittman added that multiple factors prompted the system overhaul. The first factor, Mittman said, was that the University

felt it was time to review the policy change in place since 2012 that brought the Title IX cases involving students from under the Code Process to the Policy 6.4 Process.

According to John Siliciano, senior vice provost for academic affairs, the most highly regarded reasons that prompted the revisit to the issues with Policy 6.4 were independent of federal legislation.

“There is a growing nationwide concern about high incidents of sexual assault on university campus,” Siliciano said. “At the same time there’s rising national concern that the processes on many campuses are both ineffective and potentially unfair to respondents.”

Alexa Eskanazi can be reached at ame63@cornell.edu.

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out interacting at all.”

This ability of the neutrinos to permeate different substances offered the researches an opportunity to study the core of the sun.

According to Wittich, the visible light from the sun that reaches Earth mostly comes from the outer portion of the sun, after spending nearly ten thousand years within the sun itself.

“In that process you have lost a lot of information about that initial nuclear fusion reaction,” Wittich said. “If you look at the sun, effectively what you are looking at is what’s hap-

pening on the outer one percent of the sun.”

However, according to Wittich, neutrinos are able to penetrate through these layers of the sun, and so they carry information about what takes places at the very core of the sun.

“They basically move at the speed of light and come to us, and they are here in eight minutes,” Wittich said.

Still, he said the researchers found it challenging to observe neutrinos because their ability to pass through almost everything meant that they passed though most measuring devices.

“The same thing that means they get out of the sun is they’re extremely hard to capture,

Falling star

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Sen. Jim Webb (D-Va.) speaks at the Democratic debate last week. He announced Tuesday that he is dropping out of the presidential race after an unsuccessful campaign effort.

because they just go through everything,” Wittich said. “They don’t even see your apparatus that you put in their way.”

Wittich said the researchers devised a way to measure neutrinos by creating an enormous glass sphere and filling it with water.

Surrounding this sphere, they placed thousands of devices to observe tiny flashes of light. The neutrinos would make this flash when they interacted with a water molecule.

“About 10 times a day they interact with a thousand tons of water. You will see 10 neutrinos a day,” Wittich said. “So of those trillions going through your body every second, imagine something that 1,000 tons of water, imagine how many are going through them and you only still detect 10 a day.”

The data gathered by the researchers proved that neutrinos change their form after leaving the sun — called neutrino oscillation — which in turn explained a previous gap in the amount of observed neutrinos, according to Wittich.

Wittich expressed the difficulty of conducting these observations nearly a mile underground in an active mine. In particular, he said, the lab had to be kept clean to prevent dust from giving false readings of neutrinos.

“The lab had to be kept cleaner than an operating room,” Wittich said. “Imagine you have something cleaner than an operating room that you are keeping in a super dusty, active mine environment.”

Wittich also said that he found working in the mine to be a unique and bizarre experience “If they hadn’t air conditioned the mine, it would be about 40° Celsius, so well over 100° Fahrenheit,” Wittich said. “It’s such an otherworldly experience.”

Chris Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

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The Wrong Idea For Endowments

A BILL PROPOSED BY U.S. REP. TOM REED (R-N.Y.) that seeks to require universities and colleges across the country to contribute endowment returns to financial aid drew criticism from Cornell administrators earlier this month. If turned into law, the bill would include institutions with endowments larger than $1 billion, threatening those that fail to contribute with penalties. In an interview with Bloomberg, President Elizabeth Garrett described the bill, which is set to be filed this month, as “misconceived,” despite Reed’s “right instincts of access and affordability.”

We agree. The idea of such an endowment bill mischaracterizes how endowments work and serves as an obstacle for universities making decisions on how to best manage returns on endowments in a logical manner for each institution’s individual needs.

An endowment is the collection of a university’s (or more generally, any non-profit’s) invested capital, and cannot be called upon as a cash reserve throughout the year to pay for initiatives. Rather, the revenue generated each year can be allocated for the purpose of serving Cornell, with 12 percent of the returns funding the Ithaca campus’ $2.2 billion annual budget, according to a budget presentation conducted by President Emeritus David Skorton last March. From what we have gathered on the bill proposed by Reed — who represents the 23rd District, which includes Ithaca — the issue is grossly simplified. As noted by President Garrett, many of the gifts in the endowment are legally restricted and could not be contributed in the way Reed’s bill would propose. Additionally, the endowment is established primarily to serve future generations of Cornellians, and this proposed law could reduce the opportunities available to those students.

Universities with larger endowments also tend to have a greater number of resources available for financial aid measures. For example, Stanford University’s endowment is currently valued at $22.2 billion, which they are able to leverage to provide most of the costs of tuition for those families making under $125,000 annually. Relative to our peer institutions, Cornell consistently has maintained a small endowment by a margin of billions of dollars, despite being one of a select number of universities in the country with an endowment larger than $1 billion. Yet despite Cornell’s smaller endowment size relative to its peers, Cornell still invests heavily in financial aid, even if more work ought to be done to lower the costs of higher education. By requiring a university like Cornell to spend its returns on aid could negatively affect the endowment’s capability to grow, which, if implemented, would hinder Cornell’s ability to invest in providing greater financial accessibility in the long-term.

If Congress wants to address the issue of skyrocketing costs of higher education, then it must do so in a manner that is comprehensive enough to confront the complex issues contributing to the increased costs. Instead, Reed — who has consistently voted against protecting Pell Grants, or loans provided by the government to students that do not need to be repaid — is proposing a policy that underestimates how university endowments operate. In response to Garrett, Reed said, “We understand exactly how endowments work.” Once the full draft of the bill is released, we will see whether Reed does understand how endowments operate.

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more accurate perception of the obesity epidemic is that people are responding to their environment, rather than lacking will power or self control.” — Dr. Deborah Cohen In a time when the American political conversation centers on economic inequality, immigration and Bernie Sanders’ resemblance to Larry David, it’s easy to pinpoint some issues that haven’t gained much traction. With persistently high healthcare costs and body image issues on both ends of the weight spectrum, the stigma of obesity and body weight is a neglected conversation in America’s movement towards a healthier, more physically active nation.

Obesity is a complex social and health issue. We live in a society where socially constructed ideas of beauty are incongruous with reality, where the cards are stacked against those who are fat and we collectively shake our heads, attributing a glaringly fatal medical condition to a lack of selfrestraint. Being fat is looked upon as unfavorably as smoking and drug addiction — stemming from morally flawed behavior that not only affects one’s personal health, but impacts society through gargantuan medical costs and decreased workplace productivity.

If I told you that obesity was a completely genetic condition, that the stock of America’s obese were at the mercy of an unfavorable set of genes, you would likely take a more empathetic stance toward the overweight. Indeed, it has been shown that we have much more pity for individuals with completely genetically based conditions such as Alzheimer’s, which destroys one’s mental functioning, than those who are obese.

Yet, recent studies that examined the genomes of thousands of individuals noticed a group of genes that were highly related to one’s body mass index. While this is a promising discovery in our path towards a more understanding and constructive understanding of this disease, the fact of the matter is, external environmental factors still contribute significantly to obesity.

The biggest flaw of popular perspectives on the obesity epidemic is that many equate environmental factors with individual decisions. We easily forget about insidious social pressures that are outside personal control: the pricing and taste of food, sedentary jobs and enter-

tainment, long work hours and neighborhood designs that discourage walking to name a few. Yet, obesity interventions seem to be frustratingly simple to the medical community. Why does a doctor need to tell a patient to get more exercise when their blood pressure is high? Isn’t it obvious? What isn’t obvious, though, is how that patient will change their work schedule, afford both a gym membership and a healthier diet and overcome the embarrassment of being an overweight person in a gym. It’s no wonder that most current dietary programs and medications can do no more than reduce weight by 10 percent.

The ill will that the medical community has had towards obese individuals is a big part of the problem. Obesity is not a disease that hides within someone’s cells; we can see it. There is a difference then, between a patient with kidney failure and a patient who needs a wheelchair to enter the exam room because they cannot walk on their own two feet.

Understandably, doctors may feel frustrated and discouraged by such patients.

This impacts both quality and quantity of interactions.

Doctors have less respect for patients who are obese, and consequently spend less time with them and offer less information. That’s negative feedback if I’ve ever heard one.

Because doctors, who are deemed moral actors within society, have such attitudes (conscious or subconscious) towards the obese, they are implicitly endorsing a societal shunning of a third of the American population.

Stigmatization is not a form of treatment, and can only lead to adverse health outcomes and worse mental health states.

Although I am not obese, I can imagine the struggles of those dealing with weight issues. In the progressive, accepting culture Americans live in today, demeaning attitudes towards obese individuals are not consistent with other accepting attitudes we now have towards other groups. While obesity is undeniably a health problem that needs to be solved, an attack on the individual must be avoided for any constructive change to occur.

If I told you that obesity was a completely genetic condition, that the stock of America’s obese were at the mercy of an unfavorable set of genes, you would likely take a more empathetic stance toward the overweight.

Philip Susser is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. He can be reached at pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Katy Habr | On the Margin

We Don’t Need Your Saving

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hile many Americans pride themselves on being open minded and liberal, many of them (knowingly or not) still harbor many racist stereotypes of the Middle East. Liberals who would never use words such as “backwards” or “uncivilized” to describe a population out of a sense of political correctness, still often envisage the Middle East as a place rampant with bigotry and conservative prejudice. These stereotypes are, to an extent, not unfounded. Sexism and homophobia, the two favorite buzzwords surrounding Arabs, definitely exist. Racism within the Arab region is also a huge problem that affects not only daily interactions, but also economic issues such as labor abuse and income inequality, which are often tied to ethnicity, religion and nationality. However, the problem isn’t that we, as Arabs either in America or at home, are not aware of these issues. The problem is we don’t have the liberty of frankly approaching and trying to fix these issues without the discussion being manipulated and exploited to further a political agenda. Because discussions of problems in Arab communities are often fueled by racist stereotypes, it is difficult for members of these communities to address such problems without having the conversation hijacked by racist narratives that are used to justify Western violence and domination.

It is first important to recognize that the Middle East is not some sort of hive-mind singular entity. The Arab world comprises over twenty countries with different views and concerns that vary with different economic, social and political structures, and its common characterization as a homogenous area of equal intolerance is not only racist, but also completely incorrect. Yet, many justifications of drone strikes and attacks on Iraq and even places like Afghanistan, which isn’t even in the Middle East, imply that these countries are all the same and possess faults that somehow justify the mass murder of civilians. Stereotypical generalizations about Middle Eastern cultures being, for example, “woman hating” serve as justification for imperialistic invasions that take thousands of lives (and don’t help women, who are the most negatively impacted demographic in war zones). Of course these countries have problems that need addressing — but what country doesn’t?

Social injustice is in no way particular to the Middle East or any specific region, but is present in every country around the world — although in different ways. America runs rife with its race, gender and class issues.

However, for some reason, these issues don’t seem to define the USA, and, despite these problems, many people still view America as the land of freedom and liberty. In the Middle East, we are not afforded this same leniency.

One reason for this is that some Americans, and other Westerners, only look at conditions from their own perspectives. It is easy to judge discrimination and inequality without taking into consideration that some countries’ situations are very different from that of America. While Arab countries are not the war torn, violent death traps they are often generalized to be, the aforementioned issues, although important and significant, may not be priorities in the same way in some countries. When, for example, some “liberal” Americans defend Israel’s violent occupation of Palestine and its numerous war crimes by bringing up trendy American social issues — such as LGBT and women’s rights. By doing this, they only prove how out of touch they are. Homophobia, for example, is a prevalent problem in all countries around the world, Palestine included, but when a population is blockaded from food, medical care and water and lives in constant fear of death or displacement, marriage equality probably isn’t the number one priority on the list (although Palestinian LGBT groups such as Al-Qaws, founded by a queer Palestinian woman, exist and are active). The same can be said for priorities in Syria, where populations are attacked and slaughtered by terrorist forces from one side, and by their own government from the other. Obviously, intolerance and bigotry cannot be justified in any way, but it is important to recognize the context in which these things occur and the reasons they are brought up.

In this context of Western imperialism and neocolonialism, it is important to explore the reasoning behind problematization of the Middle East.

Although many justifications of attacks on Arab countries include liberation and protection of oppressed groups, these very groups often bear the brunt of conflicts which fuel increased traditionalism in face of Western attack.

That LGBT Arabs as well as Arab women also seem to be victims of bombings and attacks led by Western or Western backed regimes, and seen as nothing more than collateral damage, makes the legitimacy of Western “concerns” for these people (which are often one of the reasons used to justify violent intervention) questionable.

The pressure of always being watched, judged and expected to screw up almost stops us from even trying to acknowledge or fix the problems we know we should. Although many organizations exist throughout the countries of the Middle East that deal with the multitude of economic, social and political problems, it can still be hard to begin addressing these issues because we can’t afford to make mistakes without validating Western stereotypes As Arabs, we are put in uncomfortable positions when these stereotypes arise. While we know that prejudice should not be defended, it is hard not to push back against the racist undertones that color these accusations and demote Arabs to inferior and backwards people that need to be bombed into a new age of democracy and enlightenment. The conversation about problems within our own communities is definitely one that needs to be had, but this needs to occur in a context dedicated to actual improvement, as opposed to being co-opted by racist narratives that justify Western Imperialism at any cost.

Katy Habr is a sophomore at Cornell. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. On the Margin runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Black Bruins Matter

wo weeks ago on the what effects it might have or Greek system must be looked at holistically is because, like many University of California- how racist the acts truly were.

We can try to pretend that other systems, it is rooted in Los Angeles campus, the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity this is an isolated incident, and certain disparities. As I said and the Alpha Phi sorority held that just because these chap- before, the fraternities and a “Kanye Western” themed ters*of Sigma Phi Epsilon and sororities are often associated party. The Facebook event Alpha Phi are racist does not with the “elite.” There are muldescribed the party’s theme and mean every chapter or the tiple pieces of evidence that suggested that invitees could entirety of the Greek system is emphasize this point; such as participate by dressing up. Soon racist; but that would take a lot the creation of multicultural enough, pictures surfaced of of imagination. This is only one frats and sororities. One of the students dressed in blackface, incident on one campus that incentives for their founding wearing “thuggish” clothes, hav- involves Greek life; there are so was to empower and unite ing fake big lips, fake padded many other controversies relat- members of the multiculturbottoms — the racist list goes ing to different chapters and al/multiethnic communities. on. When I heard about this sit- campuses. The significance of On Cornell’s campus in particuation, I couldn’t actually this party is that it helps high- ular, it is evident to me that the believe it happened. It sounds light just one of the issues that two systems have different expeso unrealistic in 2015. There the Greek system has. It’s riences. A specific example is was even a movie about this important to recognize that this how multicultural frats and particular issue, 2014’s Dear incident isn’t isolated and that sororities on this campus don’t White People. it takes a certain frats and sororities continuously have their own houses. If they kind of person with a large partake in controversial activi- want to hold some kind of amount of privilege to think ties all over the country, includ- event, they have to rent out some Cornell space, sometimes that this was a suitable idea for ing on this campus.

Overall, the Greek system is meaning renting non-multicula party.

What made this incident problematic on multiple levels tural fraternity houses. Even so, worse and more personal for me was the fact that one We can try to pretend that this is an isolated of my best incident, and that just because these friends for almost 10 chapters of Sigma Phi Epsilon and Alpha Phi years is a black are racist does not mean every chapter or student at UCLA. I was the entirety of the Greek system is racist; already angry but that would take a lot of imagination. when I first heard about what had occurred, but after — much like other systems in at least this campus includes speaking with my friend about place in the United States. It’s multi-cultural frats and sororiit, I was not only furious, but racist, sexist, classist, etc. Greek ties — unlike UCLA, which has deeply saddened. After he told life is often a place for the “elite,” almost no affiliated multi-culme all the details of what had especially in already elite institu- tural frats, and no affiliated happened, one of the most tions like Cornell. We’ve had Black fraternity or sorority.

I have only scratched the surstriking things he said to me issues with our own Greek sysmultiple times was “I chose to tem. A few years ago a student, face of why I’m tired of the come here. I could have gone George Desdunes, died as a Greek system, especially since I anywhere else, but I chose to result of a fraternity’s hazing. didn’t even directly address the That frat has since been kicked blatant misogyny within it. come here.”

For the past two weeks, those off campus, but punished only That lies outside the scope of words have been playing over that chapter instead of holding what I’m trying to say. I believe and over in my head because I the entirety of campus Greek life that we need to hold this sysdon’t know what to do to help accountable. Sure, there are cer- tem, like any other prejudiced him. All I could utter in tain programs in place to prevent system, accountable for its response was “please stay safe,” these kinds of issues, but their actions as it has continuously something that has multiple effectiveness is proving question- demonstrated underlying issues. meanings for students of color. able. For instance, just this past I also wrote this article in order It’s hard to imagine what it’s like year a fraternity was temporarily to demonstrate my solidarity to feel so degraded and under- suspended for supposed hazing with Black Bruins, including mined on your own campus, a practices, but the University my dear friend. place where we’re supposed to couldn’t confirm the allegations. feel at home. I’m sure that when Clearly it’s a continuing issue on Sarah Zumba is a sophomore in the College planning this party and as they this campus and other campuses of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at got dressed, the people who par- across the nation. sez29@cornell.edu. Zumba Works it Out Part of the reason that the appears alternate Wednesdays this semester. ticipated didn’t even consider

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SCIENCE

MEdicine

PERCEPTION

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Boyce Thompson Researchers Discover Aspirin Works Differently Than Thought TIM BOYLE / GETTY IMAGES

By MARY NATTAKOM Sun Contributor

Researchers at the University’s Boyce Thompson Institute have recently uncovered that aspirin might not be working the way most doctors think it does. Prof.

Daniel Klessig, plant science at BTI, has been studying aspirin and its metabolite salicylic acid (S.A.) for the last 25 years.

His most recent findings, published in Molecular Medicine earlier this year, offer an alternate explanation for how aspirin works, focusing on the interaction between S.A. and the body. These findings help account for some of aspirin’s unexplainable benefits, like how it reduces the risk of a variety of cancers.

Aspirin is one of the world’s most utilized drugs, with over 80 million tablets being consumed daily by Americans alone.

Although normally taken to treat pain, swelling and fever, it also serves as a blood thinner.

Many doctors recommend daily lowdose of aspirin to prevent reoccurrence of heart attack, stroke or heart disease in elderly patients. Recent studies suggest that long-term use of aspirin may also reduce risk of colorectal cancer.

“The consensus of the biomedical community is that the primary, if not exclusive, mode of action of aspirin is inhibition of cyclooxygenases [COX] ... enzymes that synthesize compounds called prostaglandins, which induce inflammation, swelling, pain and fever,” Klessig said.

When COX is inhibited by aspirin, it can no longer produce these compounds, according to Klessig. But research done at

other hormones in plants and animals, would act by binding to one or a few receptors. We struggled for the better part of 25 years trying to identify its receptor,” he said. “But rather than a single one, we uncovered dozens of different proteins

phosphate-dehydrogenase or GAPDH. “GAPDH is a key suspect in a variety of neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and Huntington’s,” Klessig said. “In a model system, SA suppresses the neurodegenerative activity or the celldeath inducing activity “As we identify more and more of the targets that is associated with of salicylic acid, we will have a much better GAPDH. This work is still preliminary but understanding ... of the basis of some of the has very exciting negative side effects of aspirin.” potential.”

Research on S.A. Prof. Daniel Klessig will also provide insight into some of the side effects of through which S.A. modulates many plant Aspirin, Klessig said. Negative side effects processes, including immunity.” include potential stomach and intestinal Using high-through put screens devel- ulcers, as well as an increased risk of bleedoped to identify plant proteins to which ing from its blood-thinning effects.

S.A. binds, several proteins from human “As we identify more and more of the cells were identified. targets of S.A., we will have a much better The first is High Mobility Group Box 1 understanding, at the biochemical and metabolized, or broken down, in the body. or HMGB1. Because of its role in promot- molecular levels, of the basis of some of the “There are two things that don’t fit this ing inflammation when outside the cell, negative side effects of aspirin,” he said.

In addition, BTI researchers have syncurrent consensus of how aspirin works. HMGB1 is involved in many diseases such The first is that aspirin gets metabolized, or as heart disease, rheumatoid arthritis, thesized SA derivatives and located natural broken down, into salicylic acid in the lupus, sepsis, stroke and a variety of can- derivatives in licorice. These derivatives are 50-1000 times more potent than S.A. in body very quickly,” Klessig said. “Second, cers.

“We found that S.A. at very low levels aspirin, according to Klessig. unlike aspirin, S.A. is a very weak inhibitor “We are convinced that with the knowlof COX activity, yet S.A. and aspirin have inhibits these pro-inflammatory activities edge we have acquired and the experimennearly the same beneficial pharmacological of HMGB1,” Klessig said.

Since this low level is reached in the tal tools we have, it will be possible to make effects. Thus, we reasoned there must be additional targets through which bloodstream of people taking a baby a better aspirins, if you will,” Klessig said. aspirin, the resulting inhibition of “Certainly an aspirin that will do the job aspirin/SA exerts its many effects.”

According to Klessig, researchers have HMGB1’s pro-inflammatory activities better, whatever that job may be, and perpreviously discovered that S.A. is produced may be responsible for the protective effect haps with fewer negative side effects.” and used by plants to regulate their against certain cancers, such as colorectal immune systems. cancer, of low-dose aspirin usage.

Mary Nattakom can be reached at “We anticipated that S.A., like most Another target is glyceraldehyde 3- mtn36@cornell.edu. the BTI indicates that it is aspirin’s metabolite salicylic acid, that is causing the majority of the beneficial effects of aspirin.

Previously, it was agreed that aspirin itself was directly acting on COX before it was

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SCIENCE

Cornell Study Links Weight Bias to Food Perception

By SARAH CROWE Sun Contributor

What makes a recipe appear healthy?

According to a recent Cornell study for Health Communication, social media users can be influenced by a thin versus heavy weight bias to roughly the same extent as by nutritional information when making judgments about a meal’s healthiness.

“Prejudice and the Plate: Effects of Weight Bias in Nutrition Judgments,” published by Prof. Jonathon Schuldt, Prof.

Geri Gay and postdoctoral associate Jamie Guillory, all of the communication department, found that the weight of a social media user who posts food images has an effect on the perceived healthiness of that food.

Schuldt, the first author of the study, says health information on social media sites or blogs is becoming increasingly popular, but it is rarely objective from a scientific perspective.

“Because these things have a social element, it’s often not just content about the food itself — that content is often associated with a person,” Schuldt said.

This social aspect of health information led the research team to question whether weight bias might change viewers’ evaluation of food images or recipes, according to Schuldt.

“Our question was simply this — might the body weight of a person who the food is associated with influence how the food itself is perceived?” he said.

To find out, the research team showed over 200 participants 10 images of food that appeared to be posted to a social media site by a specific user. The thumbnail photo the participants were shown was a real photo of a woman either before or after she had lost weight.

The participants were randomly assigned to view the food images as posted

by the “overweight” COURTESY OF PROF. JONATHON SCHULDT woman or the woman of “normal” weight. They were then asked to rate how healthy each food image was on a scale from one to seven.

“What we found was not surprising — that, on average, the same set of meals are perceived as less healthy when they are posted by the heavier-appearing woman,” Schuldt said.

These results showed that weight bias has a significant correlation with perceived healthiness when nutritional information is not given. The research team then decided to take their investigation one step further.

“In the second study, we wanted to see whether we Quesa-dilemma | In a study conducted by Cornell researchers, the above image was judged as more would still get this effect if unhealthy when it was presented alongside a picture of an an overweight woman as opposed to a woman of we actually gave people “normal weight.” nutritional information — which is much more relevant to whether be just as strong as the effect of the caloric food that is truly healthy. Many people have health goals they actively try to meet, this food is healthy than the person associ- and fat increase.

“It’s not surprising that we found these but it becomes harder to do so when nutriated with it,” Schuldt said.

The researchers showed participants the effects, [but] it’s surprising how strong tional judgments are not made correctly.

This study has implications even outsame food and thumbnail images as they these effects are,” Schuldt said.

Many people do not fully understand side of the context of food blogging and had in the first experiment, but they added fake nutritional information underneath how to interpret nutritional information, health, according to Schuldt. Weight bias each food image. Half of the participants Schuldt added. Because turning to online is only one factor that influences decisions were shown “healthy” nutritional informa- sources for simple, easily accessible food but that few people give much thought to.

“It’s a reminder that there are social tion, while the other half were shown information has become so common, the caloric and fat values that were much high- combination of an uninformed public and biases that pervade society, and that our er. Once again, the participants were asked factors like weight bias could influence the judgments are less objective than we think population’s nutritional decisions. they are,” Schuldt said. to rate the healthiness of the food.

“We think that there are direct, practiAs expected, the participants who viewed the food images as being higher in cal implications of this work, really for all calories and fat rated them as less healthy. of us that use the Internet,” he said.

Schuldt said he hopes that this study Sarah Crowe can be reached at The surprise was that the effect of weight bias on perceived healthiness was found to will highlight the difficulties of choosing soc22@cornell.edu.

CORNUCOPIA | Henry ’16 Talks Possibilities For Sustainable Engineering on C.U. Campus Cornucopia is a biweekly podcast that covers research stories unfolding across campus. Join hosts Addison Huneycutt ’18 and Ali Jenkins ’18 as they dig into the juiciest discoveries they can find. In each episode, you’ll meet a researcher, chat with Addison and Ali and hear some corny jokes. Check out the science

Henry, a mechanical engineering student, explained that the club consists of the overarching organization, Engineers for a Sustainable World, as well as four project teams. Each of these four teams — Biofuels, Solar Kiosk, Solar Solutions and Renewable Design (SSRD), and Human Powered

shifted focus. The team is now creating photovoltaic panels, food driers and solar powered autoclaves.

They hope to continue to explore solar technology with future projects.

Within the Human Powered Electricity Generation team, students are working to use exercise equipment to generate electricity.

Henry explained that they envision using rowing machines to generate electricity to charge small devices. He also sees the possibility of linking several exercise machines in series in order to collect a larger pool of electricity.

The biofuels team is revisiting a previous project proposal that revolves around agriculture waste, according to Addison, who is also a member. “Other campuses benefit from agriculture but they don’t have it on campus so they can’t use the waste in a productive way like Cornell has the opportunity to,” she explained. “We have all this agricultural waste on campus. Why not take all that and build a really cool center so that we’re using it for research? And why not use some of it to power the school?”

If you are overwhelmed by the number of acronyms in ESW, you are not alone. “We’re into acronyms,” Henry joked. “We may have to come up with a few more.”

Check out the rest of the podcast at cornellsun.com/blog/category/science. Send queries relating to Cornucopia to cornucopiapodcast.cornell @gmail.com.

“There was a team developing a mobile bike generator ... as you’re riding around campus, you’re charging a battery and the battery can provide you whatever power you need.”

Mark Henry ’16

section of The Cornell Daily Sun for biweekly updates about the latest episode.

Ali and Addison sat down with the president of Engineers for a Sustainable World, Mark Henry ’16.

Electricity Generation (HPEG) — consists of driven students dedicated to their goal of sustainability.

Engineers for a Sustainable World began at Cornell but has spread nationally: “It was actually founded at Cornell in 2002 and now it has grown to over fifty chapters nationally […] it’s a cool organization with large scope,” Henry said.

The SSRD project team originally began as a solar cookers team, creating solar oven models for use in developing nations. Hoping to expand and create a sustainable project model, they have since

To listen to this week’s episode of Cornucopia, visit the Science section on cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT On Documentaries and Life: A Chat With Marshall Curry

BY TAMAR LAW Sun Staff Writer

This week Cornell Cinema is hosting the two-time academy award nominated film director, Marshall Curry. He is presenting two of his more socially focused documentaries; Street Fight screened on Tuesday and If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front will play on Wednesday. While different in their subject matter, each film addresses current political and social themes in the United States. The screening of If a Tree Falls is at 7:15 p.m. and is free of charge. In preparation for his time on campus, The Sun was able to ask a few background questions about the path Curry has taken as a filmmaker and some of his future plans.

THE SUN: How did you get into film directing? You studied comparative religion in your undergraduate years at Swarthmore College, how did this play into your career path?

MARSHALL CURRY: I took a pretty zig-zaggy career path, teaching high schoolers in Washington, D.C., working at a public radio station in Philadelphia, and producing websites at a New York design company for a number of years. I loved documentaries, though, and when I turned 30 I realized I didn’t want to look back on my life as an old man and regret never having even tried to make one. So I took a leave of absence from the Internet company and shot and edited my first film, Street Fight, about a rough and tumble, racially charged election in Newark, New Jersey. It went on to be nominated for an Oscar and an Emmy, and I’ve been lucky enough to make films ever since.

Majoring in comparative religion was actually pretty good preparation for making documentaries, because studying religion is all about trying to understand why people do what they do and why they believe what they believe. It also prepares you to hold contradictory ideas in your head at the same time without feeling a need to perfectly resolve them, which I think comes in handy when making films about complex people, issues and situations.

SUN: Why are you drawn to documentary as a medium?

M.C.: I like to be able to poke around into worlds that I don’t understand and to try to get some insight into the lives of other people. We are an extremely interesting species and making documentaries gives me a license to indulge my curiosity. I also love the process of turning hundreds of hours or raw footage into what feels like a movie, with drama, excitement, emotion and

humor.

SUN: Which directors have had a significant influence on your work?

M.C.: I love — and steal from — a lot of directors. The most influential ones were probably the Maysles brothers, D.A. Pennebaker/Chris Hegedus and Ross McElwee. But I have a big tent view on documentaries — I love all different styles: observational docs, polemical docs, impressionistic docs, journalistic docs. Duke Ellington said of music, “If it sounds good, it is good,” and I think I have a similar feeling about documentaries.

SUN: How do you see yourself as a storyteller? How do you make the ultimate decisions on how to frame the story?

M.C.: I guess I try to make the films that I would like to see, so I want stories that are complex but not confusing, and are dramatic but not melodramatic. My mom grew up on a farm in South Carolina and is an amazing storyteller. I grew up hearing her tell these stories about her life, and also about things that she noticed or people who she met every day, and I try to model my films on that.

SUN: Your films are quite varied in their subject matter, how do you decide a film idea is worth pursuing? What inspires you to make a film?

M.C.: It's hard to describe what attracts me, but usually I just find a story or a situation that interests me. I generally make films not because I have something I want to say, but because I have something I want to find out about. I know it is going to take a long time to make a film — often two or three years — so it has to be a pretty rich vein and a complex story to hold my attention that long. I look for stories with compelling characters, which does not mean that they are all “likable” — just provocative. And if possible I look for stories with a built in narrative arc — a beginning, middle and an end — for example an election or a trial or a racing series. I want the audience to constantly ask, “What is going to happen next?” I find that's a lot easier when you have a narrative arc that you are following.

SUN: Your films are also quite varied in their tone, from the more light hearted animated short to the more grave film on ecoterrorism. How do you adjust your methods to adapt for the different styles?

M.C.: I think humor is an important part of filmmaking, so even If a Tree Falls, my film about environmental arsonists, has moments that get audible laughs from the audience. Finding the right tone is a matter of editing, of music and of visual style. My

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short film on the debt and the deficit was extremely light hearted in an effort to get over the inherent boringness that people associate with the topic. I figured the only way to get someone to watch something as dry as that was by using funny animation.

SUN: Is there a story that you wish you could have developed into a film but never did?

M.C.: I have dozens of film ideas that I’d love to make, but each one takes such a long time, so I can’t do them all. I've been thinking recently about doing one on factory farms — trying to come at that from a slightly different angle than other documentaries have.

SUN: What do you see for the future of documentary? As viewers are getting more engaged and playing a larger role through social media, how do you see the practice developing or shifting?

M.C.: I think that with the advent of online streaming of video, it is a great time to make and share documentaries. People watch more [documentaries] on Netflix and iTunes and Amazon than ever before, and I love that. I think people are also starting to understand that documentaries don't have to be dry lectures, but instead can just be non-fiction movies, with all of the drama and power that draws us to fiction movies — even more often.

Tamar Law is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tlaw@cornellsun.com.

The Dirty Business of Politics: Street Fight the film, which is about the 2002 mayoral race between Cory Booker (now a well-known New Jersey Senator) and the long-time incumbent Sharpe James, explores just how much dirtier local politics are then, and how they allow for tactics It doesn’t surprise anybody to say that politics is a dirty that would be unacceptable in their national counterparts.

Since Booker is a now prominent national politician, it is business — and one that tends to ignore the substantive issues that the whole enterprise claims to be about. Especially a bit disorienting to see him as such an upstart, going through in today’s political climate, with the 2016 presidential race housing projects and corner stores canvassing for every last more resembling a reality show competition than an election vote. Booker and his campaign team repeatedly remark for the most important public office in the country, this cir- throughout the film that political races in Newark are not won in T.V. ads or mailers, but in “the streets.” cus-show aspect to American politics is as clear as ever.

The corruption on hand in Newark, New Jersey is So when I say that the 2005 documentary Street Fight, presented on Tuesday at Cornell Cinema and directed by astounding, even to the most jaded of government critics.

Marshall Curry, revealed to me new ways that politics is ugly, James, Booker’s opponent, is the overt villain of the film. it would be easy to dismiss my opinion as obvious. However, Street Fight reveals him unleashing the police to enforce byzantine codes against anyone who has a sign for Booker hanging in their business window, and using his security to slam their hands against the lens of Curry’s camera anytime he tried to film a campaign event or capture footage of James. But Booker, who prides himself on being a “clean” figure, undeniably has to play the game as well. For example, it is customary for politicians running for office in Newark to provide mountains of free food and entertainment for the local senior citizens, who also expect that fancy Christmas cards be sent to them. Booker initially resists from engaging in this genteel form of bribery, but he eventually says that he has no choice if he wants to keep up.

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tures; the election depicted in the documentary is also full of vicious personal attacks that register with uninformed voters.

The James campaign openly accuses Booker of being a collaborator with and benefactor of mutually exclusive groups: the Republican Party, the KKK and Jews. James proudly says in interviews that he is a “real black,” as opposed to the Rhodes Scholar, Booker, who is not from Newark originally but rather a “carpetbagger,” telling the people of Newark how to behave. The ugly, racialized tactics used in national campaigns at least have to be disguised and claim that they are not about bigotry: Trump after all claims he loves Mexicans.

Here, where the approval of the national media is not a factor, getting every last ignorant person’s vote is all that matters.

If you think that what I have written suggests that the film is a bit in the bag for the Booker campaign, you would be correct. Curry says that the James campaign refuses to give him access, confirmed by the aforementioned banning of Curry from any James event. Because we spend all of our time with the Booker campaign we naturally take his side. And of course, since the majority of the documentary shows the dirty tactics of the James campaign, it is hard to not see Booker as the clean reformer and James as the corrupt incumbent who is running the modern New Jersey Tammany Hall. Moreover, the film does not spend any time on the actual issues of the campaign. Cutty has no interest in looking at the effectiveness of either contender. This works in the film’s favor, however, because it allows the audience to devote its sole attention to the machinations of the campaign and how votes are personally won. But as a result, we do not know if our rooting for Booker is justified, or if Booker’s personal brand of charm is simply less sleazy than James’. Perhaps for a documentary that is more about the predatory and corrupt nature of local elections than the political issues they’re built around, that is actually the perfect ambiguity for the film to have.

Jesse Weissman is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jweissman@cornellsun.com.

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Happily, in the three years between A Dream Between and his subsequent release of Candy earlier this year, BØRNS has latched onto the ability to produce music that stuns in both acoustic and electric form. While he’s retained that same high, honeyed voice, he’s found solace in a group of fellow musicians and a synthesizer. The question after the release of Candy was no longer whether he could produce a proper sound, but whether he would be able to produce enough music to continue moving forward.

BØRNS answered that question as he released Dopamine, his first studio album, last week. Walking back from work in an unseasonably early snow, I gave the album a first listen. The snow melted before it hit the ground, and the sun hung back behind an overcast sky, but the voice and the instruments spun out ahead on the pavement. The first song, “10,000

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Still, the tracks somehow fit together in a strange but serendipitous jigsaw puzzle of an album. Trailing guitar notes followed behind me on the sidewalk.

Clouds collected around the sun and BØRNS crooned about the “paradise in your eyes, green like American money” before his voice slid off into silence for another few moments. Lana Del Rey would be proud of the notes his voice lazily spirals out on and of his small nods to popular culture, but it doesn’t feel like he’s paying any kind of homage to her with this music.

No — if Del Rey is the embodiment of a strungout guest at a pool party drifting away on a sinking inner tube, BØRNS is a lone ice skater staring you down from the far side of a frozen lake. His voice is the smoothest, warmest ice that you’ve ever slipped on. And you will slip. “Heaven knows I’m miserable, Hell takes all the credit, though.” Drum beats like horses’ hooves lurk behind the lyrics, and his vocals are goaded into the open by short jabs of electric guitar and long synthesizer runs. This is an album that’s built in a perpetual winter — it’s cold, it’s distant,

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Of course, it’s an imperfect album. “God, you really outdid yourself with this one,” may not be the most inspired line. Admittedly, none of the lyrics make me feel as if E. E. Cummings has risen from the grave to pay his respects to American artistry.

Often, the same lines are repeated from song to song.

The line, “Baby, baby, baby, can you take away my pain,” of “Dopamine” reflexively conjures up an image of an adolescent Justin Bieber. But the delivery of these potato-chip lyrics is really the redeeming factor in this album. The music falters for a moment as he croaks out, “It’s inevitable ain’t it? You left without saying ...” only a few songs before he cries out, “Let me satisfy your soul, not a saint but do I have to be?”

Whoever this album is about, she’s clearly taking him on the ride of his life.

Will the Class of ’42 still be listening to BØRNS? Probably not. Is Dopamine a groundbreaking album?

Definitely not. But does it break ground for the artist? Absolutely. In “Past Lives,” BØRNS is calling out to someone, saying “I’ve got the strangest feeling this isn’t our first time around.” By the time I reached the end of the album, I had the strangest feeling that it wasn’t going to be our last, either.

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

Why Bother With Something New? Over the weekend, I found myself compelled to producing a more legitimate form of COURTESY watch Netflix’s latest original content, Cary Fukunaga’s clickbait — polled almost 5,000 OF Beasts of No Nation. Acquired in a groundbreaking distri- Americans on their five “most VERSUS bution deal this summer, Beasts is a bold choice for the rewatchable films.” It’s a horribly service’s first piece of feature-length content. It tells the imperfect method, not least because terrifying — yet all too relevant — story of a child rebel it indirectly restricts the survey to soldier named Agu (Ghanaian actor Abraham Attah, in a Hollywood movies. Yet the results brilliant debut) in a nameless African country, brought also illuminate actual trends that up under the brainwashing tutelage of his Commandant agree with common sense and, likely, (Idris Elba). While I didn’t expect light viewing, with your own viewing patterns.

For one, American audiences love Fukunaga is entirely merciless in his depiction of Agu’s harsh realities. The imagery is inescapable and unrelent- to rewatch epics. It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Star Wars, Lord of the ing; the kind of stuff that keeps people up at night.

Once the film ended, I registered it as an important Rings and Wizard of Oz each ranked work that I would never want to watch again, and hur- in the top 10, as geeks (myself includriedly washed it down with my (approximate) 50th ed) love to have viewing parties of the viewing of I Love You, Man. An embarrassingly bro-y first two, and the latter is one of the film, for sure, but one of the few I have saved to my earliest “classics” still viewed by general audiences computer and could watch over and over again. The today. In support of my earlier statement about iconic juxtaposition of viewing it after Beasts brought to my films, It’s a Wonderful Life, Casablanca and Gone With mind the question: What about a movie makes it the Wind (a.k.a. four hours of racism) all ranked highly, as did gangster epics like Godfather and Goodfellas. The rewatchable?

“Individual preference” is an easy and mostly accu- only other notable trend was strong support for romanrate response, but it dismisses the broader cultural tic classics like Pretty Woman and The Notebook. But importance of Hollywood to America, and also ignores what do these broad (and dubiously determined) data points trickle down to say about why certain movies what films individuals find rewatchresonate with large able? audiences. Some In Hollywood’s early days, films take on lives movies were thought of as mere as cultural landmarks, and they escapism, a cheap means of avoiding become as fun to reality for an hour and a half. This view for their iconhelped create a longstanding conReally Terrible, and ic moments as they ception of movies as a “lower” art Such Small Portions! are for any intrinsic form than literature, and later gave value. The “horse way to the binary of “serious” versus head in the bed” scene from The Godfather doesn’t “blockbuster” fare. Even now that they’re a respected shock viewers these days, but rather gives them a sense art form, movies often do act as escapism, and it makes of watching something historically significant occur sense that audiences would find joy in repeatedly viewfirsthand. If factors as immeasurable as iconography ing fantasy epics where good trumps evil. Films like can help a film hold up under repeat viewings, then the Beasts of No Nation force us to confront realities we’d question of what constitutes rewatchability becomes rather ignore, so we gravitate toward works that either much more complex. empathize with our own problems or help us to forget In an effort to quantify this intangible, the folks over them. We find comfort in the relatable and reprieve in at FiveThirtyEight — a site that tries, but often fails, at fantasy.

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Pretenses of statistics aside, my own discussions with friends on this topic have consistently divided rewatchable films into the vague categories of the fantastical and the relatable. In the former, people often mention movies with twist endings, the feature-length mind fucks that leave you feeling incompetent after the first viewing. In the best examples — Usual Suspects comes to mind — repeat viewings allow you to pick up on foreshadows, knowing full well what’s behind the curtain at the end. And if we use the term “fantastical” loosely, it opens up the conversation to non-relatable films that simply have aesthetics, characters or dialogue that age well with familiarity. In this way, rewatching movies like Trainspotting or Pulp Fiction feels a bit like a reunion, even though they take place in their own insulated worlds.

While surveys and conversations can be helpful in trying to understand trends, I’d argue that the movies people most often rewatch of their own volition are associated with nostalgia or emotional resonance. These can be universal (anyone who went to high school can relate to Breakfast Club) or specific, but I’ve found the most rewatchable films preserve a specific time or feeling in a way no other art form can.

Chris Stanton is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at cstanton@cornellsun.com. Really Terrible and Such Small Portions! appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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support them. “It’s nice with close away meets because we are allowed to take everyone so even though they weren’t diving they were still at the meet alongside everyone cheering and showing their support,” Sterling said.

One of the main reasons this meet was so important to the team was it gave the divers an opportunity to try out many of their newer dives.

“I believe it was a great gauge to give the divers confidence that they are learning and using the right dives early so that they can master them before the very important meets in our season,” said coach RibotCanales. “I am happy that they attempted their recently learned dives. I think it was a very good opportunity for them.”

The men’s swimming team also competed this weekend, with many swimmers getting their first races of the season in Buffalo. Senior Victor Luo earned first place in the 200m breaststroke and junior Dylan Sali got first in the 200-yard backstroke and 50-yard freestyle.

One of the highlights of the meet was the 200-yard medley relay, where Dylan Sali, Victor Luo, junior Luke Reisch and senior Taylor Adams swam a blazing 1:31.74 to earn first place.

“That was a great relay, and is the fastest we’ve been as a team this early in the season in a long time,” said head coach Wes Newman. “It is exciting to think about what these guys can accomplish if they stay focused and push each other to become even better.”

Other high scorers for Red swimming included senior George Schnaars, who got first place in the men’s 200-yard freestyle, and freshman Johnny Kilduff, who earned third place honors in the 100-yard backstroke.

The Red have their next meet, and home opener, Nov. 6 at Teagle Pool against Binghamton University, and their first Ivy League matchup a week later on Nov. 13 when Teagle will host both Dartmouth and Harvard. While the meet in Buffalo was a good showing for the Red, Coach Newman wants his swimmers to keep working.

“The team should look back at this weekend and feel good about where we are at, but also realize there is more to be done,” Newman said.

“They’ve been working hard and just need to maintain their focus through the next phase of our season.”

Jeff Asiedu can be reached at jasiedu@cornellsun.com.

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Tedder leading the Red with a third place finish.

“Yesterday’s meet wasn't the best, but it wasn’t bad. Senior Ben Rainero was 11th as an individual, which is absolutely awesome! He beat several past Cross Country All-Americans. Our next group is very strong, but needs to be further up in the field,” said captain Brian Eimstad To secure a final push, Coach Zebulon Lang looks to ensure they are ready for the big stage.

“This team is focused on the right things,” Lang said. “We are relatively healthy, but that is a constant concern of mine at this time of the season. I think of these guys as if they were my own sons and so

I'm on their cases all the time to eat well, sleep well, and do their best to keep from getting hurt or sick.”

The Red has a home meet next this weekend before they start their championship campaign.

With everything on the line, both teams are confident that all of the preparation beforehand will allow for an extended season.

“We just need to control our own business and not worry about things we can’t control,” Lang said.

“If we execute our plan this year, we will run pretty well in the next month.”

Fortunately for the Red, their final push is completely under their control.

Brittany Biggs can be reached at bbiggs@cornellsun.com.

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“We turned as hard as we needed to,” Kennett said. “But the rudder on the Northeastern boat wasn’t as big so they couldn’t make the sharp turn.”

Overall, Kennett appreciated his team’s effort and added that they have a lot of things they can improve on.

“We probably have some more power to gain,” Kennett said.

“Our technical base and movement together can definitely get a lot better.”

“It was a pretty decent race,” said senior captain Greg Davis. “A lot of the crews we lost to had home field advantage, which is

very beneficial in a head race where steering is a major factor.”

All in all, the Head of the Charles Regatta was a thrilling experience for the Cornell rowers.

Numerous amounts of spectators converged on the banks of the Charles River to watch the world’s most talented rowers duke it out for supremacy.

“It’s really special any time you’re an athlete in an event like that,” Kennett said. “Your adrenaline is on edge the whole time and it’s a mixture of fun and pressure.”

“That’s an experience you’ll never forget,” Kennett said.

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

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Red Drub Tigers To Capture First Home Win of Year

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

Freshman quarterback Connor Ostrander replaced veteran junior quarterback Rob Pannullo with 2:25 left in the first quarter and proceeded to play his best college game of the year. The Cornell sprint football team’s 52-18 victory against Princeton last Friday saw the emergence of some new talent. Ostrander and freshman running back J.D. Donahey III both had impactful games.

“It was a lot of fun, and the offensive line really did a great job opening the holes,” Ostrander said. “It was just a good first experience to get out there and really get a feel for what it’s like in college and hopefully see what I can improve on in film and work toward getting better in the future.”

Ostrander finished with a total of 84 passing yards. On the running side, Donahey rushed for 83 yards, including a 39-yard run for a touchdown to put the Red up 52-18 with 6:25 left in the fourth quarter.

“It was a great experience, a lot of fun,” Donahey said. “I couldn't have done it without the other guys on the field, especially the linemen.”

Pannullo and junior running back Kevin Nathanson also had big games. Pannullo had three rushing touchdowns and finished with 82 rushing yards and Nathanson rushed for a touchdown and finished with 53 rushing yards.

“They showed a lot of great stuff, they got things going, and they're going to continue to work to get better,” Nathonson said.

“Offensively, we saw what [Ostrander] and [Donahey] can do and defensively our middle linebackers Nazzaro and McCarthy have a bright future ahead of them,” said sophomore wide receiver Ryman Seeley. “They played well.”

Seeley finished with 57 receiving yards, which included a

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Sprinting ahead | Cornell was led by two freshman in their win over Princeton last Friday, with quarterback Connor Ostrander and runningback J.D. Donahey playiing key roles in the game.

47-yard pass from Ostrander late in the first quarter.

The Red will look to maintain this positive momentum at Navy this Friday to achieve the goal of finishing off the season with two wins.

“We’re gonna have our meetings, and we’re gonna talk about schemes that Navy will try to stop us offensively again, and what we’re gonna to do attack these and exploit them,” Ostrander said. “We’ll be looking to see what we need to [improve] from the Princeton game and then how we’re gonna attack them, whether it be passing or running.”

The Red lost to Navy 42-30 last year and last defeated the Mids in 2006, the last season the Red finished as league champions.

“We’re working on being more intense in practice and just being quicker in everything that we do just to get ready for the pace that [Navy is] going to play at,” senior linebacker Jino Park said. “We’re also focusing on closing drives and finishing when we get into the red zone … so hopefully that’ll transfer to the field come game day.”

Park finished with eight solo tackles in the Princeton game and will be a key part of the strong defensive effort the Red will have to make in order to come out victorious this weekend against Navy.

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Head coach Bart Guccia said he knows there is not much the Red can do differently to prepare for Navy.

“They’re one of those teams like army that’s pretty straightforward [and] very consistent,” he said. “There isn’t a lot of things that we can do differently at this point in the season that we haven’t done already.”

Park emphasized that the team’s goal is to finish the season 5-2. Navy is coming off a 18-16 upset loss to Franklin Pierce, who the Red defeated 36-15 in the second game of the season.

“I’m very confident that we can,” Park said. “Navy’s gonna be a tough game this week but they’re just coming off a loss so they're vulnerable.”

The Red’s only shot at a league championship this year would be to win these last two games and for Army and Penn to lose their last two games. However, finishing at 5-2 would be a satisfying end to the season no matter where the Red finish in the standings.

“Our main goal is to play well and hopefully win two more,” Guccia said.

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

CROSS COUNTRY

Cornell Takes 10 of 27 Red Women Capture First in Buffalo Men finish in14th in Lousiville and 3rd in Buffalo Events at Buffalo Meet

By BRITTANY BIGGS

Sun Staff Writer

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First dip | Cornell swimming and diving won the 200m breaststroke and the 50m freestyle in their first competitive meet of the year.

By JEFFREY ASIEDU Sun Staff Writer

This past Saturday, Cornell’s swimming and diving teams took a trip up to Buffalo to compete in their first meet, an out of conference scrimmage with Buffalo. The Red swimmers and divers used the meet as on opportunity to finally get some time in the pool against a competitor, and came away from the meet winning a respectable 10 of 27 events.

For the men’s diving team, sophomore Noah Sterling and junior Deyon Godbay were the only competitors; the rest of the men’s team has been plagued by multiple injuries that have left Sterling and Godbay as the only divers able to compete, but the two did their best to represent the Red. “I was quite pleased with my perfor-

mance at Buffalo,” Sterling said. “It's nice to be able to have a meet under your belt a few weeks before the start of our competition season.”

Godbay also competed, a fortunate occasion since he has only recently been cleared for practice. Diving coach Veronica Ribot-Canales said of Godbay, “Deyon has only recently been cleared to practice, so with such limited time on the board [two practices] I am just happy that he got to compete at all. Although Deyon missed a large amount of preseason practices, he looks strong and confident, and he is such a gifted athlete that it is very exciting to see how the season will unfold for him.”

Although only Sterling and Godbay were able to compete, they had many of the injured divers on their team there to See SWIMMING page 14

In racing, there is always one thing you can always count on seeing: a final push.

This last burst of energy is all the athlete has left and hopefully is enough to receive the desired result. This past weekend, the Red cross country teams began their final push that would hopefully propel them into championship season. Both the men’s and women’s teams competed in two meets this weekend: the Pre National Invitational in Louisville, Kentucky and the Canisius Classic in Buffalo, New York.

The 29th ranked women’s team was able to secure a 22nd place team finish in a field of 45 seeded teams.

Taylor Spillane was the highest finisher for the Red, coming in 40th place.

In Buffalo, the team finished first overall, an occasion highlighted by a win from sophomore Jackie Katzman.

Coach Artie Smith is confident in the velocity of the team’s final push.

“We certainly have the pieces for a very successful season and they are lined up for a great championship run,” Smith said. “At the same time, all seasons present unexpected obstacles and

challenges and I'm very happy with how this group has responded to the unforeseen. We've learned many important lessons at each meet and even if not every result has been precisely what each runner hoped for they've all taken valuable lessons from each experience and emerged better prepared for the next race.”

The athletes are also very confident in the team's ability to go the distance this season.

“I would say that we definitely still have the fire that we had at the beginning of the season,” Katzman said.

“It was evident at both of the meets our team competed in

this weekend. We're a group that has so much fun together every single day, and I know that this positive energy and enthusiasm will help propel us to our goals in the next couple of weeks.”

The men’s team also had a pretty successful weekend at both meets. The team was able to secure a 14th place finish in a field of 42 competitors. Senior Ben Rainerio was the highest scoring Cornellian, finishing in a solid 11th place. At Buffalo, the team continued with their strong pace and was able to secure another team victory, with Junior Mark See XC page 14

COURTESY OF MIKE MCLAUGHLIN

Strong run | Both men and women’s cross country had strong results this past weekend at the Lousiville and Buffalo meets.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Red DefeatsYale 2-1 in Overtime

Booters pick up first Ivy League win of the year in nail-biter

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

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Getting ahead | The Red came up clutch in overtime against the Bulldogs, coming away with a 2-1 win.

Throughout the season, head coach Jaro Zawislan has held the same message for his team: Keep focusing on the next play because the game isn’t over until the whistle blows. As the Red (3-9-1, 1-2 Ivy) took on the Yale Bulldogs (1-10, 0-3 Ivy), his message was especially tested while the Red fought in overtime for their first Ivy League win and their first winning streak of the season.

The Red had their chances in the first half to take the lead, outshooting the Bulldogs 7-3, but the game was still tied 0-0 at halftime. Nevertheless, in the 58th minute, when the Yale goalkeeper attempted to clear a Red cross, the ball bounced off a Yale player for an own goal, putting the Red up 1-0. The pressure was now on the Bulldogs to equalize the game.

Zawislan knew that his team would have to modify its game plan to account for Yale’s equalizing attempt.

“When it is late in the game, the team that is losing will push forward, and they are going to take more numbers forward and take more chances,” Zawislan said. “This led us to change our formation to adjust, especially in the later part of the second half.”

However, with eight seconds left in regulation, Yale player Dylan Snow-Onderdonk crossed the ball in to Nicky Downs, and the Bulldogs were able to capitalize and equalize the game to send it into overtime, the Red’s third overtime game of the season so far.

Zawislan wanted to make sure that his team stayed focused going into overtime.

“We went back to the locker room for the short break between regulation and overtime, and the mindset of the

team was to focus on the next play going into overtime,” Zawislan said. “Whatever happened in the 90 minutes didn’t matter anymore, the game is tied now.”

Yale came into overtime strong, with the first three shots of overtime coming from the Bulldogs. Cornell, however, was able to capitalize on their chance. Junior defender Liam Crotty had his shot blocked, but junior midfielder Zach Bialik was able to recover the ball on the left side of the field. Bialik sent in a cross to sophomore defender Allen Capo, who was able to convert on the header, capping the Red’s first Ivy League win and a 2-game winning streak.

Zawislan credits the last play of the game to his team’s preparation.

“Giving up the goal late in regulation definitely tested our team, but our team responded very well,” Zawislan said. “Our team put a lot of time and hard work when training for the set pieces, and the last play of the game was a result of that. Credit to our team for responding and staying the course to get a win.”

Zawislan went on to talk about the difficulty of playing in the Ivy League and his appreciation for the team’s grit.

“I am very proud of our players and very happy for them for responding to a difficult situation,” Zawislan said.

“Their hard work and improvements during the season showed with a positive result. It was a typical Ivy League game where both teams were fighting hard and the momentum constantly shifted, but we stuck with it and got the win.”

The Red looks to continue their winning streak when the Brown Bears travel to Berman Field this Saturday at 4:30 p.m.

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

Painkillers Men’s Lightweight Rowing Cruises to And the NFL Gold Medal at Head of the Charles MEN’S ROWING

By TROY BRIDDSON Sun Contributor

The Cornell men’s rowing team arrived in Boston about 24 hours before the Head of the Charles Regatta. With the added rest, the team let it rip on race day with no practice runs on the course.

It was a gutsy and confident performance, according to lightweight head coach Chris Kerber.

The Cornell men’s lightweight rowing team secured the gold medal at the Head of the Charles Regatta in the 4+ championship. The lightweight team also finished fifth in the 8+ championship. The heavyweight team had a solid showing at the regatta as well, finishing ninth in the 8+ championship and 14th in the 4+ championship.

Three seniors and one junior rowed in the 4+ boat that finished first at the Head of the Charles. Seniors Ian Sigal, Conor Jones and Nigel Harriman, as well as junior Daniel O’Neill, all rowed exceptionally. Junior coxswain Gabrielle Steini guided the team through tough conditions and turns on the Charles River.

Steini’s poise and leadership stood out.

“Both boats did very well,” Kerber said. “But 4+ had a really solid performance that resulted in a dominating win by over 35 seconds.”

Kerber believes that Cornell has one of the best rowing programs in the country. The team focuses on developing young rowers to compete for national titles by the time they are upperclassmen.

Training is very intensive and each member has a responsibility to keep improving week in and week out.

“Our results are due to the commitment of each and every athlete on the team.” Kerber said. “Only fourteen athletes were able to compete at the Head of the Charles, but the entire team is pushing each other and those who travelled to Boston.”

The rowing program has a lot of depth and an ability to develop rowers from the minute they arrive on campus.

Kerber noted that even after a first place finish, the team is not satisfied.

“There is significantly more athlete development on the horizon,” Kerber said.

The men’s heavyweight team also had a successful weekend.

“The team did a pretty good and it was a solid showing placing ninth in the 8+,” said heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett.

The heavyweight 4+ team that finished fourteenth was unfortunately crashed into by the Northeastern boat on a windy turn on the Charles River.

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‘Four’ the win | Men’s lightweight 4+ rowing won the Head of the Charles by a staggering 35 seconds.

H

ead trauma, torn muscles, bruised tendons and broken bones- the bellicose lifestyle of an NFL player. Nate Jackson, a former tight end for the Denver Broncos, knows the physical agony all too well. “You never live pain-free in the National Football League, said Jackson.

The hurting NFLer has two options. He

Ben Denson The B.D. Report can chose to not play- and risk giving up his spot in the most competitive football league in the world. Or, he can turn to painkillers.

When one’s livelihood is at stake walking away is not an option—especially if you have a non-guaranteed contract worth five million dollars.

He gets a doctors note, wakes up every morning and takes a Percocet. His 267pound friend and teammate countlessly tackles him during practice, but Jackson doesn’t feel a thing. Sunday comes around- Jackson can’t get out of bed without his Percocet. He can’t move his arms without his vicodin and orange juice morning mix. The addiction cripples him. He feels no pain, yet is constantly hurt. And when you don’t feel the pain, well, then what is real?

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