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College-Aged Man Rescued Following Fall Into Gorge

Victim airlifted to Syracuse hospital

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

Emergency responders flocked to the Stewart Avenue Bridge Wednesday afternoon after a college-aged male was found at the bottom of the Cascadilla Gorge.

Responders were called around 5 p.m. Wednesday after a man was found by passersby near the trail, approximately five to 10 feet from where he apparently landed, according to Lt. Thomas Basher, public information officer for the Ithaca Fire Department.

Responders believe that the man did not fall from the Stewart Avenue Bridge, but rather from the north side of the gorge, according to Basher. He sustained multiple lacerations, as well as head and back pain.

Basher said the victim, who could not be identified immediately by responders because he had no identification with him, suffered was conscious, but was in “serious condition.” In an email to The Sun, Gerardo Velez ’15, a friend of the victim, said the victim is an employee at Cornell.

Still, the Cornell University Police Department could not

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After responders treated the man’s injuries, they moved the man through the gorge trail to Linn Street, where they were able to drive him to the a landing zone at the Ithaca High School, according to Basher. From there, the victim was flown to the Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse.

As the man was transported down the gorge trail, approximately a dozen passersby gathered on the Stewart Avenue Bridge.

The rescue took approximately an hour, according to the IFD. Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Student Remembered for Contributions to Jewish Community

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Ilan Rasooly ’15 — a student in the School of Hotel Administration and co-president of the Center for Jewish Living — died on Tuesday. He was 20.

Rasooly died in a hospital near his home in

Maryland after sustaining an injury during Shemini Atzeret while visiting friends from University of Maryland, according to a Center for Jewish Living board member.

During his time at Cornell, Rasooly had a large presence in the Jewish community. His close friends remembered him as “larger than life” and “a very special person” as they drove from Ithaca to

Maryland to attend his funeral on Thursday.

Judy Zwillenberg ’15, who served as co-president of the Center for Jewish Living with Rasooly, said he was a loyal and energetic friend.

“He was there for everyone and would do anything for anybody,” Zwillenberg said. “He was joy-

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Meth Production Materials Found on C.U. Property

By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor

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Nicole Edelstein ’15 sells cupcakes to Cornellians on Ho Plaza to raise money for pediatric cancer patients Wednesday.

Cornell police found household chemicals — associated with the production of methamphetamine — in a backpack on Maple Avenue Sunday morning.

Police notified the Cornell University Health and Safety Emergency Services and the New York State Police Contaminated Crime Scene Response Team, who concluded the items were used to illicitly produce methamphetamine.

Police were called to the scene at approximately 10:30 a.m. after a “concerned citizen”

discovered the backpack sitting on the side of the road, CUPD said.

The incident is still currently being investigated, according to CUPD. Police added that materials used to produce methamphetamine — including drain cleaner, solvents, table salt and cold medication — can be extremely hazardous when handled improperly.

Police encourage anyone who encounters suspicious chemical or has knowledge about the incident to contact police.

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

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Michael Ross ’81, who is currently awaiting execution for the murders of four teenage girls in Connecticut in the early 1980s, was arraigned Friday on charges that he also murdered a young New York girl in 1982.

Paula Perrara disappeared in Wallkill, New York on March 1, 1982 after hitchhiking home from high school early because she felt ill. Her body was found 17 days later.

“Michael Ross picked her up, drove her to a secluded area, dragged her from his car, raped her and murdered her,” said Frank Phillips, the district attorney for Orange County, where the crime was committed, according to The Associated Press.

While studying Agricultural Economics at the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ross was a member of several organizations, including the Future Farmers of America and the Alpha Zeta fraternity.

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Ross had become what he called an “urban legend at Cornell.”

When the investigation first began almost 20 years ago, Alpha Zeta turned over all photos and documents pertaining to the case to the authorities. Kui said the Connecticut State Attorney also tried to find more materials last spring but was unsuccessful.

“Michael Ross’ actions were certainly not in accordance with the purposes of our organization,” Kui said.

“To say the least, his actions were deplored by both our local and national chapters, and that is an understatement.”

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics, Ross worked as an insurance salesman. He has admitted to preying on young women who were walking or hitchhiking down the back roads of New London County, Connecticut during this time.

He also raped some of his victims before murdering them, according to the Associated Press.

Defense attorneys claimed that Ross was driven to rape and kill by a disorder called sexual sadism during his trial, but the jury rejected this theory, according to The Associated Press.

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C-Town Crossing Rent Could Reach $1,000 Per Month

By EMMA QUIGLEY Sun Staff Writer

Apartments at Collegetown Crossing — a new residential building that will be constructed at 307 College Ave. — will be priced at around $1,000 per month per tenant, developer Josh Lower ’05 announced at a Collegetown Council meeting Tuesday.

The new building, which will begin construction in June and open in the following year, will also contain a GreenStar Cooperative Market, a heated bus stop and a small public garden in addition to 96 beds, Lower said. He added that he is planning to bring in one to two commercial startups for the unit.

Lindsay Wershaw ’16, vice president for public relations for the Student Assembly, said she thought many students would not appreciate the price of the rent, which is $200 higher than Lower originally planned.

“I understand it’s an enticing location but it should be made as inexpensive as possible for students,” Wershaw said. “The new residential space helps some but not others.”

According to Lower, the increase is a financial necessity for the unit, despite the “much larger market” for the lower prices.

“The economics of the situation won’t allow rent at those prices,” Lower said. “If I could only get $700 to $800, I wouldn’t be able to build the building.”

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Crossing over | This first-floor plan shows the proposed layout of Collegetown Crossing, which will be located at 307 College Ave. The plan includes a GreenStar Cooperative Market branch in the largest retail space, a heated bus shelter (seen at lower left) and a walkway (gray square-hatched area next to plantings) extending from College Avenue to Linden Avenue.

Daniel Keough grad said he sees several benefits in adding the new building to Collegetown.

“Collegetown is a food desert for healthy options,” Keough said. “A grocery store would be incredible, as many of the healthy food options are restaurants and not everyone can afford to eat out on a regular basis.”

Strategies to minimize overcrowded street parking were also discussed at the meeting.

According to Frank Nagy, director of parking for the City of Ithaca, the officials are looking to automate all three public garages in the city. Nagy added that the city is going to add automated meters to some streets

rather than having multiple manual meters lining the streets.

“We want to change the attitude that parking should be free,” Nagy said.

According to Nagy, the city will implement a permit system for parking on street sides. The permits will require proof of residency, which will permit parking over longer periods of time to those who acquire them.

Emma Quigley can be reached at equigley@cornellsun.com.

Cornellians Prepare Bird Identification Project Crowdsourced Lab of Ornithology database spreads knowledge about birds

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Contributor

FeederWatch — an annual winter project led the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that enables participants to submit identifications of birds in United States and Canada — will kick off its online survey on Nov. 8.

According to Emma Greig, project leader of the program, the FeederWatch database answers questions about “where birds are moving and how populations are changing.”

“We can take counts from Florida in 2014 and compare them to counts from Oklahoma in 1997,” Greig said. “This is really the way to make comparisons between species and populations across these big spatial and temporal scales.”

FeederWatch was created in 1976 by Bird Studies Canada — a non-profit organization concerning bird habitats and their conservation — and was joined by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in 1986 to expand the program to the United States.

Since then, the project has contributed to different aspects of bird research, including the discovery of the House Finch eye disease in the 1990s, according to Greig.

“The disease was first observed around Washington D.C. and then spread throughout the east in House Finches and now it [has] moved into the western states,” she said.

“FeederWatchers helped track the spread of this disease by reporting where they saw it and also where they saw house finches that were free of symptoms.”

Anybody can submit photographs of birds and their identification to the website, Greig said.

“Participants pay a small fee to join, and this fee has supported the project and kept it running for so long,” she said. “In exchange we send materials to help them learn how to feed their birds properly and materials to help them identify species they’re likely to see.”

According to Greig, approximately 20,000 people are signed up for the program. For this reason, she said the FeederWatch website has a “meticulous review system” to check the accuracy of the identifications and communicate with the citizens who submitted them.

“It’s such a huge data set but we still want to make sure that it’s as accurate as possible,” Greig said. “If an observation is unusual because it’s a bird that shouldn’t be in a particular location at a particular time, a record will pop up in our review panel as a flagged record.”

Participants whose records are approved will have their name listed as the source of the picture, according to Emily Waldman ’16, who joined the FeederWatch team this semester to assist with the review process.

“I think that it’s a great incentive to improve your identification of bird species,” Waldman said. “My favorite part, by far, is when participants do find a rare bird in their area,” Waldman said she thinks the project is beneficial for many areas of research.

“I think this project is very important not only for the Lab

and data collecting, but it provides very unique information on bird migration, habitat and number of species in the area,” Waldman said. “They are obviously very important to study for the environmental changes and biomes.”

Greig said she encourages all

Cornellians interested in birds to take part in the project.

“People of all experience levels can sign up to participate in the project,” Greig said.

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bc552@cornell.edu.

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Local Tax Hikes Proposed For Town of Ithaca

The Ithaca Town Board will roll out its new budget for 2015 on Monday, increasing the town budget by 7 percent, according to The Ithaca Times.

The new budget includes an average increase in water bills by $4.06 but a slight decrease in property tax rates. Supervisor Herb Engman said the recent trend in increasing the town’s budget — between 7 and 8 percent for the past few years — is “unsustainable.”

National New Jersey School Board Approves Coaches’ Suspensions

Amid a hazing and sexual abuse scandal that has led to criminal charges against seven football players at Sayreville War Memorial High School, the school board unanimously approved the suspensions of the head football coach and four other coaches, according to The New York Times.

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Charles Bolden, the current administrator of NASA, speaks to students in Phillips Hall Wednesday about the future of NASA.

The recent completion of the autopsy for Michael Brown — the unarmed teenager shot to death by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri in August — supports Wilson’s version of events. According to The New York Magazine, a shot to the hand that Brown sustained indicates that there may have been a close range struggle for the officer’s gun.

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Athlete Grades Scandal Plagues UNC Friends,Colleagues

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A scandal involving bogus classes and inflated grades at the University of North Carolina was bigger than previously reported, encompassing about 1,500 athletes who got easy A’s and B’s over a span of nearly two decades, according to an investigation released Wednesday.

At least nine university employees were fired or under disciplinary review, and the question now becomes what, if anything, the NCAA will do next. Penalties could range from fewer scholarships to vacated wins.

Most of the athletes were football players or members of the school’s cherished basketball program, which won three of its five national titles during the scandal (1993, 2005, 2009).

Athletic director Bubba Cunningham wouldn’t speculate on any possible sanctions.

“We’ll work with the NCAA and work through the report with them as part of our ongoing investigation,” Cunningham said. “That’s going to take some time.”

In all, about 3,100 students enrolled in classes they didn’t have to show up for in what was deemed a “shadow curriculum” within the former African and Afro-American Studies department from 1993 to 2011, the report by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein found.

Many at the university hoped Wainstein’s eight-month investigation would bring some closure. Instead, it found more academic fraud than previous investigations by the NCAA and the school.

The UNC case stands out among academic scandals at Harvard, Duke and the Naval Academy, said Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education who studies cheating.

“I think the existence of fake classes and automatic grades — you might say an athlete track, where essentially you might as well not have the university at all — I think that’s pretty extreme. I hope it’s pretty extreme,” he said.

The scandal reached back to the final years of

legendary men’s basketball coach Dean Smith’s tenure, as well as Mack Brown’s time as football coach before leaving for Texas and John Swofford’s stint as athletic director before becoming Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner.

The NCAA reopened its probe over the summer. Cunningham said the school had no immediate plans to impose its own penalties as it did during an NCAA investigation into the football program that began in 2010.

The school and the NCAA said in a joint statement they would review Wainstein’s report “under the same standards that are applied in all NCAA infractions cases.” They declined to comment on possible rules violations.

The focus was courses that required only a research paper that was often scanned quickly by a secretary, who gave out high grades regardless of the quality of work. The report also outlined how counselors for athletes steered struggling students to the classes, with two counselors even suggesting grades. Several knew the courses were easy and didn’t have an instructor.

Chancellor Carol Folt wouldn’t identify the terminated employees or those facing disciplinary review.

“I think it’s very clear that this is an academic, an athletic and a university problem,” Folt said.

Wainstein’s report said it found no evidence of similar problems in other departments. In addition, Hall of Fame men’s basketball coach Roy Williams and other current coaches said they were aware there were independent study courses offering easy grades, but they didn’t know the classes were fake.

Wainstein said he found no reason not to believe them.

Faculty and administration officials missed or looked past red flags, such as unusually high numbers of independent study course enrollments in the department, the report said.

“By the mid-2000s, these classes had become a primary — if not the primary — way that struggling athletes kept themselves from having eligibility problems,” the report said.

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ous and a very fun person to be around — always joking and smiling.”

Aaron Troy ’16 added that with Rasooly, “there was never a dull moment.” Troy recounted a time when members of the Center for Jewish Living trained to run a 5K together.

“Ilan was on top of all of us for training. When we got there to the race, he decided that we were going to sing the whole time. The second the race started, he started singing at the top of his lungs. People would look at us, and he was also wearing a bright blue fuzzy hat with earmuffs and sunglasses,” Troy said. “Everything we did was an adventure. He made everything into a memorable experience.”

Rasooly took his role as co-president of the Center for Jewish Living “very seriously,” according to Zwillenberg, and worked to welcome all students.

“He wasn’t just a president — he wanted to engage people in our Jewish community, especially prospective students and parents by contacting new students and transfers and making sure they felt welcome,” Nicole Barel ’16 said. “He felt very responsible for how the community was running.”

As someone who “dearly loved” Cornell, Rasooly wanted to give tours of the campus to all prospective Cornellians, according to Zwillenberg.

Two of the people he had given a tour to were Rabbi Chaim Finson and Shira Finson, who head the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Cornell.

“We first met Ilan when we came to Cornell last spring. He gave us a whole tour of campus, and he loved this campus and loved telling us little Cornell factoids,” Shira Finson said. “We were by the clocktower and he proceeded to tell a story about the prank about the pumpkin on the clock tower … Ilan was just so enthusiastic about the story that it was so fascinating seeing him tell this story.”

Rasooly worked to plan many activities and sought to make Shabbat dinners at 104 West open and engaging.

“He showed a sense of leadership. He was an optimist and always enthusiastic about what he was doing. He had a very rare ability to solve problems,” Rabbi Chaim Finson said. “[Rasooly] showed a sense of In addition to his devotion to the Jewish commu- leadership. He was an optimist nity, Rasooly was passionate and always enthusiastic about about hospitality and was what he was doing.” involved with organizing Hotel Ezra Cornell. He also Rabbi Chaim Finson had internships with several hotels, according to Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services.

“He was really into being a good hotelie. I remember when I went to his Establishment dinner, which was Disney-themed. He was very professional. He came and asked how we were doing and whether we wanted any more water, which was a funny and sweet moment,” Sarah Sonenberg ’16 said.

Beyond the Jewish community and his studies, Rasooly loved basketball and baseball, according to Zwillenberg. A Yankees fan, he had played baseball since elementary school. He would often Skype with his friends from home and talk about sports.

“He had a very core group of friends from home. They grew up together and went to the same school. They talked and argued and did all sorts of outdoor activities together,” Zwillenberg said.

Zillwenberg added that he hopes Rasooly’s legacy will perservere.

“He had the power to make a really big impact. His whole life is a story,” Troy and Zwillenberg said.

Rasooly’s funeral service will take place Thursday in his hometown — Silver Spring, Maryland — according to Murphy.

“On behalf of the entire university community, I want to extend my deepest condolences to Ilan’s family and friends. Please join me in taking a moment to remember Ilan and acknowledge this unfortunate loss to our community,” Murphy said in a statement, adding that plans for a commemoration on campus will be made.

University resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can call Gannett Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-255-5155), EARS’ peer counselors (607-255-3277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607-255-2673) or find additional resources at http://caringcommunity.cornell.edu.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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Early Apple Computer Sells For $905,000 at Auction

NEW YORK (AP) — A vintage Apple computer that was one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 sold for $905,000 at auction on Wednesday, far exceeding pre-sale estimates and outdoing a previous high price of more than $671,000 paid in Germany last year.

Bonhams auction house said Wednesday’s winning bid, which includes its premium, came from The Henry Ford museum.

The computer, which had been estimated to sell for $300,000 to $500,000, has an intact motherboard and a vintage keyboard and monitor. It also has a power supply contained in a wooden box and two tape decks, Bonhams said.

“The provenance on the Apple-1 is excellent and the condition is outstanding, so it was not surprising that it did so well,” the auction house’s specialist for the sale, Cassandra Hatton, said in a statement.

“We are thrilled to have broken the world record for its sale, and are even more thrilled that it is going to a wonderful new home at the Henry Ford Museum.”

An Apple-1 computer sold last year in Cologne, Germany, for $671,400. Apple, the maker of iPads, iPhones and iMac computers, is based in Cupertino, California.

The auction was Bonhams’ first in New York City of items connected to science and technology. Other lots included a letter by Charles Darwin to a colleague about the sex life of barnacles and the earliest electrical keyboard, a Helmholtz sound synthesizer from 1905. There were a number of globes, books and other documents and a telescope from 1870. There also was a framed painted portrait of Bill Gates.

In the letter, which sold for $25,000, Darwin says he wants to learn more about the sex act of barnacles, such things as “were the specimens under water at times” and “if the recipient was in full vigor?”

Huge Gold Nugget Goes For Sale in California SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — One of the biggest gold nuggets found in modern times in Northern California’s historic Gold Country is going up for sale.

Weighing in at 6.07 pounds, the Butte Nugget is expected to carry a price tag of $350,000.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that the nugget’s finder asked dealer Don Kagin to keep his name and the location of the discovery secret.

What’s known is that a gold hunter found it in July on public land in the Butte County mountains. Prospecting for gold is legal on most public lands in the state.

David McCarthy, a coin and rare-minerals expert, told the Chronicle that he took a blindfolded ride to the site of the discovery so he would be satisfied the nugget was genuine.

The gold chunk will be unveiled Thursday at the San

Francisco Fall Antiques Show.

Prospectors found many giant gold nuggets in California’s 19th century Gold Rush days. That includes a 54pound gold chunk found in Butte County in 1859. The Chronicle said its research shows it has been decades since a report of anyone discovering a rock of 6 pounds or over in California.

The finder of the Butte Nugget used a metal detector and told colleagues he initially thought he had come across a pipe or some other “big piece of trash” underground, part-time local prospector Bob Van Camp told the Chico EnterpriseRecord.

Worried that the strong reading on the metal detector would mask any signal from surrounding gold nuggets, the man decided to dig it up, said Van Camp, who filmed himself briefly holding the Butte Nugget.

Methodist Panel Hears Appeal Over Gay Wedding MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A Methodist pastor who was disciplined for officiating at his son’s same-sex wedding will soon find out whether he can remain an ordained minister in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination.

The Rev. Frank Schaefer was suspended and then defrocked last year after refusing to promise to refrain from conducting samesex marriages in the future. The action against Schaefer — who officiated at his son’s 2007 wedding in Massachusetts — was taken after a church trial in Pennsylvania.

An appeals panel restored Schaefer’s pastoral credentials in June, but that decision is being challenged.

The United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council, the denomination's highest judicial body, heard arguments in the case Wednesday in Memphis.

The Rev. Scott Campbell, who represents Schaefer, told the coun-

cil that Schaefer’s defrocking was wrongly imposed as a punishment for a possible future action, something church rules do not allow.

The Rev. Christopher Fisher, representing the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference, said the punishment was appropriately directed at Schaefer’s refusal to promise that he would uphold the Methodist law book in its entirety, “the same condition required of every United Methodist elder,” Fisher said.

While Schaefer is not the only Methodist minister to face church discipline for his stance on homosexuality, he is the most high-profile. His case has galvanized opposition to official church doctrine.

The United Methodist Church accepts gay and lesbian members but rejects homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching,” and clergy who perform same-sex unions risk punishment ranging from a reprimand to suspension to defrocking.

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United States Returns Dozens of Artifacts to Peru DENVER (AP) — Dozens of artifacts are on their way back to Peru after being seized in the United States during investigations into the smuggling of cultural relics.

Investigators from U.S.

Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security department held ceremonies in Denver, San Antonio and Boston on Wednesday to repatriate more than 40 items, including 20 Incan artifacts

allegedly taken from graves in Peru. Investigators say a middleman purchased those items from local farmers and then shipped them by mail from Bolivia to a smuggler in New England.

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Engaged Cornell: Propelling the University’s Land Grant Mission ON OCT. 6, THE UNIVERSITY LAUNCHED ENGAGED CORNELL, a $150 million, 10-year initiative to establish community engagement as a part of the curriculum for all undergraduate students. The goal of the initiative is to empower students and faculty to become more active citizens, being able to apply the concepts they learn in class to tackle challenges in their local, national and global communities. According to the Engaged Cornell proposal, every academic department will offer courses based in “community-engaged learning” and will also lead to 100 percent student participation in community engagement and 480 communityUniversity partnerships by 2025. We at The Sun support the University in its efforts to further promote public engagement as an integral part of higher education.

Cornell has a long history of public engagement and community outreach. As a land-grant institution, Cornell has a unique responsibility to foster outreach as well as research and is committed to work towards improving the quality of life for people in New York and around the world. The University currently offers several programs for students to engage the greater community, such as Alternative Spring Breaks, study abroad and the Public Service Center. While these options are good options for students to engage their communities, to achieve the goal of 100 percent participation, the University will need to work to add programs appealing to all students.

Therefore, when working with academic departments to determine major-specific curricula, the University should be transparent in its process and solicit student opinion.

Engaged Cornell will further this commitment to social action. Through the initiative, students will leave Cornell as more globally aware and dedicated citizens, who have real-world experience tackling difficult problems in the community.

Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to learn about different applications of their fields of study and gain experience applying their knowledge in meaningful work.

Milian Dollar Baby

Shake Up Your Life: Tell Your Friends You Care I was thinking about what to write about friends, not your pain receptors. While for my column this week when an earthquake Ithaca prepares us for dangerous weather, it’s occurred. It was during a slow moment in important to have first aid skills or friends one of my classes, so I had said “please God, who will take you to Cayuga Medical.

And no, I’m not going to continue rantput me out of my misery” when he took things a little too seriously. As the floor shook ing about natural disaster safety, y’all can and hysteria took over everyone in the room, read Gannett’s stick-figure posters for those I started saying “everyone calm down, it’s just tips or ask your nearest EMS friend. I’m an earthquake” a little too loudly (though I going to talk about the possibility of final sounded much more composed inside my moments and what you choose to do. I head). For some reason, I thought I was chose to stay for my iPhone, meaning I much more prepared than everyone and even value the Apple company, Steve Job’s had time to roll my eyes as the room started rhetoric and my apps. My friends told me to to empty. Breaking Rule Number One in grab their things in the next quake because natural disasters, I quickly packed my iPad they’d run out first, so they clearly don’t and pen into my bag, but I couldn’t find my value me. Today was humankind’s (my) phone. That was the sole thing that held me grim reminder that life can catch you off back, my beautiful, unbendable gold iPhone guard and so we shouldn’t hold back in basi5S with the Lifeproof case that was probably cally everything.

When is the last time you told someone earthquake proof. As I shuffled for it, I grimly thought “Heh, bet archaeologist are going to you’re their best friend? Called your dog? find my skeletal hand playing Flappy Bird. Hugged your mom? Bought yourself artisanal hand soaps? Like I’m so cool.”

Donna and Tom Needless to say I Like Donna and Tom from from Parks and Rec found my phone on say, “treat yo self” and the floor, and we didParks and Rec say, “treat yo treat others, too. Tell n’t actually evacuate self” and treat others, too. Tell your friends you the building because appreciate them, 1) my teacher your friends you appreciate message that special thought it was just someone back on the class above makthem, message that special Facebook, apply to ing a ruckus and 2) someone back on Facebook, that competitive because I didn’t want internship. Can you to start a fight with apply to that competitive tell I’m learning the said teacher. To say I internship. imperative in French? was shaken up afterI won’t tell you what wards would be punny and accurate. Can you blame me? I to do, because it’s different from all of us, but don’t want to die in a room full of surly grad it’s time to take some effort and start living a students, in a suburb of Paris of all places! The little. Now’s the grueling time of the semester, odd thing was that only my classroom expe- so instead of watching How to Get Away With rienced the tremors, no one else was panick- Murder during your study break, do other ing or heading to clear ground. It was like fulfilling things (not murder).

As I get older, I’m more aware of loss: loss some Twilight Zone episode or Freaky Friday.

I was craving Activia, my transformation into of friends, loss of time and loss of life. While I’ve never been good at grieving, or expressing Jamie-Lee Curtis had begun!

During the remainder of class, I spoke to sadness in a way that doesn’t involve represfriends about earthquake safety. I vaguely sion, this column goes out to all of us who’ve remembered tips like “hide in your bathtub,” lost someone dear this year. It’s a reminder, to “stand under a door frame,” “go to a clear area everyone, myself included, that we should with no buildings” and “staircases are the take all the opportunities we have to tell peomost stable part of a building.” I spewed ple we appreciate them. It doesn’t have to be them out as a clear expert on seismic activity. a grand gesture — that might be awkward — But here’s a question: Are we really prepared but a simple sticker in a Facebook message, or for these disasters? When is the last time we the little :* emoji works just as well. No need stocked up on canned goods for the zombie to get morbid and serious (like I have in this apocalypse? Are we truly ready for the skele- column), but serious enough to get your ton war? Just this past weekend I went to point across.

Turns out the earthquake wasn’t an earthshower during a fire alarm, since I’m used to false alarms happening often (and I wasn’t quake, apparently the 3rd floor of this buildgoing to let some silly fire ruin my evening). ing is unstably connected to another buildHave we become desensitized to these warn- ing. So the danger remains, minus the drama of being in an earthquake. However, ings?

I’ve often wondered about the reckless- if it happens again, I won’t hesitate to leave ness of our actions. From “Too Turnt Tina” (with my iPhone in hand) run to to the “Do it for the Vine” mantra, I think McDonalds, order some nuggets and take a we’re prone to more danger nowadays. One stroll through the park while texting all you time, a friend twerked too much at a party, loyal readers. So stop reading my column and the next day she was in crutches! Freak and go pet a dog! Drink every single accidents aside, we feel naturally invincible Pumpkin Spice Latte on campus, and then from the age of 15 until some ripe old age do the same with the Peppermint Mocha.

(25 maybe?), and I think we take some form Tell your friends you love them, in a nonof hedonic pleasure in tweeting about it, or creepy way. Or be creepy — if they’re your bragging with our friends. I’ve had my share friends, they’ll embrace it. of dangerous experiences — burned baked goods, slippery nights out in C-Town streets Kevin Milian is a senior in the College of and trombone slides jutting dangerously Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached close to my head — and Snapchatting it at kmilian@cornellsun.com. Milian Dollar Baby only makes it funny for the rest of your appears on alternate Thursdays this semester.

CORRECTION An Oct.22 news story,“Cornell Alumni Develop Software for Emergency Agencies,” incorrectly said Echo Responder launched last year. In fact, it launched last month.

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OPINION

Ruth M. |

I’m Just Gonna Shake It

Best Left as a Memory T

here is something very sentimental about returning home. I honestly can’t imagine going anywhere else for Fall Break. This year I returned to everything that feels comfortable: the smell of my home, my dog, my childhood bedroom filled with high school awards and pictures of distant friends and my favorite teddy bear waiting patiently on my bed. I was happy to hug my parents and have home-cooked meals, but the piece of comfort I looked forward to most was seeing my ex-boyfriend.

It had been two years since we broke up and I finally felt that I was completely over him. So when he texted me asking if I wanted to meet up for drinks when we were both home, I agreed, looking forward to catching up with someone who used to mean so much to me. We met up at a local restaurant and as soon as our eyes met I felt butterflies in my stomach. I was nervous to see him and suddenly felt flustered, wondering if my hair looked okay and if I had put on any weight since he last saw me. Despite having no romantic interest in him, I was still worried about whether or not he was attracted to me. I didn’t want him to ever think of me as a mistake.

We ordered our drinks and appetizers and made casual conversation as

the introduction to Taylor Swift’s “Back to December” ran through my head: “How’s life? Tell me, how’s your family?” Except the lyrics stopped when Taylor started to lament the end of the relationship. I really truly was, and am, over him. The only thing nagging me the whole time we sat across from each other was the familiar smell of his cologne. That smell made me want to curl up in his lap like old times a n d maybe t h a t ’s why, as we were walking home after a f e w drinks, I let him kiss me. That kiss felt the same as I felt when I laid in my childhood bed, or drove the family car, or anything else familiar I did while home. It wasn’t magical or passionate, it just felt like reliving a memory.

He came inside with me and we quietly tiptoed to the den where we started to watch one of our old favorite shows. He kissed me again and while it still lacked magic, I decided I wanted to go further.

The sex between us used to be so good, and I wouldn’t mind feeling that again.

Things heated up and clothes came off and he entered me and nothing happened.

I didn’t feel electrified or immensely turned on, and he could tell. He pulled out and went down on me. He always knew exactly what to do to get me off and I always considered him to be the best sex I’ve ever had — yet, even as I felt him hit all the right spots, my mind wasn’t completely into it. Even as he whispered dirty words into my ear that used to excite me, I just felt turned o f f .

Maybe it’s senior year nostalgia, or maybe it’s my impending move far away from home, but I craved familiarity.

Hitch |

Eventually my body gave in to the pleasure and I came, and then we continued to have sex until he came, but it just didn’t feel like I thought it would. The magic was gone. Our bodies fell into the familiar rhythm but my mind didn’t. I found myself reflecting on how sad I was when we broke up, and thinking about the girls he must have slept with after me.

I was no longer attracted to his body, his appearance or even his personality. I really was only attracted to the familiar, comfortable feeling of being with him. I

don’t love driving the family car, but driving standard instantly comes back to me.

I’m not still close with a number of people featured in the pictures hung up around my room, but I like seeing a younger version of myself having fun with them and reflecting on the memories. Maybe it’s senior year nostalgia, or maybe it’s my impending move far away from home after graduation, but I craved familiarity and all I got was disappointment. I would have been better off with the pleasant memories of our sex life rather than trying to relive it. When he asked if I wanted him to stay over, I told him no, that my parents would be up early, when really I just didn’t think I would get any warm fuzzy feelings from cuddling with him. I would rather go cuddle with that old teddy bear.

He has texted me a few times since Fall Break and he is a decent friend, but that’s all he should be. He seems to think we’re going to hook up again but I just can’t see it happening. The romance is gone and sex with him has gone from two passionate people living in the moment to two bodies moving in an old and worn out rhythm.

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

Hints From Hitch

Why We Should All Say Yes to Consent G

iven the recent legislation mandating California universities to adopt a “yes means yes” sexual assault policy, and the calls for similar language by the Governor of New York, it’s important that Cornellians understand what the language means. Not only that, it’s also vital for us to know these changes aren’t negative, but, in fact, are empowering and sexpositive — something that everyone seems to have trouble understanding.

Before diving into my favorite reasons to embrace consent, it is important to understand what all these changes mean. After a bit of research, I found a few sentences about the affirmative definition of consent that, in my opinion, do an especially commendable job explaining the concept. The American College Health Association says, “Never assume. Ask before you proceed. A good lover is a good listener. A bad listener is at best a bad lover and at worst a rapist.” I like this because it doesn’t simply include all the reasons why a lack of consent is bad (and there are a million). In fact, it does the opposite: receiving consent is not only the right thing, but it’s the best thing to do to have passionate, mind-blowing sex. I could not agree more.

But, like anything else, these major changes come with confusion and pushback. Even though college students should have been receiving affirmative consent for years, we’ve been living in a “no means no” world for a while. From speaking with Cornell students, these newly revised definitions of consent can seem awkward, burdensome and difficult to understand. In my eyes, though, it can be (and should be) the exact opposite: natural, valuable and easy to interpret and utilize.

To make your transition to affirming language as smooth as possible, I have given you my three favorite reasons to receive consent and some language that has either worked for me or on me.

The play-by-play: The great thing about affirmative consent is its ability to move you and your partner from one act to another. Like a coach calling the next play, asking your partner what the next position or location should be will provide direction and spontaneity to your playbook. Sex without communication can be stagnant,

can seem scary or intimidating, but trust me on this one. The next time you are getting down and dirty, just imagine exactly what would turn you on and ask your partner for it.

Questions to ask: Can you give it to me from behind?

I want you to pull my hair. You should slap me on the ass.

Open dialogue: The more I write this column, the more I realize how important open dialogue with your partner(s) is to a great time in bed. All questions and conversations should be on the table. And for every conversation and question that someone can ask, every possible response should be acceptable.

Getting to the point where your partner trusts you enough to ask these questions is hot and, from my experience, these conversations frequently ends with heavy panting and sweat in all the right places.

Questions to ask: Can we give anal sex a shot?

Let’s buy a toy to use later tonight. I think we should be more adventurous, what’re you thinking?

After years of “no means no,” the new definition of consent can be challenging for college students to adjust to. To that challenge, I would stand by all of my previous articles in saying that everything is worth trying once. However, unlike other sexual acts which you might not like or be comfortable with, I am confident you won’t say no to positive sexual consent. And once you give it a shot, you’ll never want to stop asking your partner what to do with them next.

Receiving consent is not only the right thing, but it’s the best thing to do to have passionate, mind-blowing sex. and the least enjoyable sex I’ve ever had started in the same place that it finished.

Questions to ask: I want to get on top, would you be into that? How do you feel about moving this to the shower? Can I go down on you now?

Give it to me: By far the sexiest experiences I have ever had have come from a girl asking me to do something to them during the act. These statements of desire inspire confidence and are a great way to generate affirming consent from your partner. If they don’t respond to your desire, it means they aren’t comfortable and you know to try something else, slow down or stop completely. If they do respond, you are getting exactly what you want, when you want it. Initially, I know this

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

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DINING GUIDE

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Dining Guide

Your source for good food

Soup, Spice and Stir Fry Spicy Asian’s traditional Chinese dishes and Szechuan cuisine diversify the options

By TIFFANY WONG Sun Staff Contributor

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f you’re looking for Chinese food, Spicy Asian is the place to go. Whether you are looking to satisfy a craving for some of the classics, or hoping to explore new Chinese dishes, this restaurant offers items that will impress anyone. Ithaca isn’t burgeoning with authentic Chinese cuibut sine, Spicy Asian offers a wide variety of dishes, covering a spectrum that ranges from Americanized Chinese food to Szechuan pot.

On the last day of Fall Break, I took a trip down to the restaurant with friends. We had all

stayed in the area for break, so this excursion was our consolation for having just mooched around the past few days. Spicy Asian is easiest to get to by car — located on Elmira Road, it’s far from TCAT bus stops, and is surrounded by empty restaurants and car dealerships.

The restaurant ambiance itself is relatively drab. The interior is dimly lit, and the vast seating area is reminiscent of a mall food court. Sparse paintings adorn the walls, and the occasional vase decorates the room.

Their service is efficient and straightforward; while not especially friendly, the waiters take orders and serve food quickly.

What really sets Spicy Asian apart, however, is the quality of its food. While the restaurant experience is ordinary, Spicy Asian’s food is some of the best Asian cuisine to be found in Ithaca. The menu is extensive and varied, offering anything from the popular General Tso’s Tofu to more adventurous dishes such as Jellyfish and Braised Pig Trotters. During our trip, we ordered family style to share, opting for a combination of Americanized and authentic Chinese foods.

We started our meal with Beef and Broccoli. Albeit a safe bet, Spicy Asian did not disappoint with this classic dish,

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Braised in s u g a r, s o y sauce and spices, the succulent pork belly paired perfectly with the white rice that came with it.

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which had an even balance of beef and broccoli and a few carrots thrown in for good measure. We also ordered Singapore rice noodles, which again tasted delicious. These noodles are stirfried vermicelli noodles in curry powder with miscellaneous vegetables and meats. In our case, they mixed in cabbage, green onion, egg, beef and shrimp.

The curry powder added a nice kick, and the variety of add-ins lent for a dish the pleased all. In addition to the noodles came rice cakes with pork. Rice cakes vary by cuisine. In Chinese food, they are made with glutinous noodles, sautéed in soy sauce and stir fried with vegetables and meat. Oftentimes at restaurants, rice cakes can be undercooked, which results in a hard middle. However, Spicy Asian’s rice cakes were cooked to perfection, soft and chewy all the way through.

Last but not least came the Braised Pork Hot Pot. Typical

Chinese hot pot consists of a pot of boiling soup accompanied by a combination of raw ingredients. This style lets you cook your food, dropping it in the soup, just before eating it. It seems intimidating at first, but once you get the hang of determining how long to leave things cooking, it becomes a fun and satisfying way of eating fresh food. Unfortunately, Spicy Asian’s hot pot was not this.

Instead, it was a sizzling stone bowl filled with braised pork, which took away from the experience. Nevertheless, while we were disappointed to see that it was not served traditional hot pot style, the pork did not disappoint. Braised in sugar, soy sauce and spices, the succulent pork belly paired perfectly with the white rice that came with it.

Overall, we left with bellies filled and Chinese food cravings satisfied. Spicy Asian has so much variety and masters each dish, providing something

delectable for everyone. The restaurant’s Chinese-American food is classic. The Szechuan dishes are authentic. And overall, portions are generous.

Furthermore, if you are looking to try traditional dishes and can tolerate the heat that is Szechuan’s signature pepper, Spicy Asian has you covered. I recommend the Ma Po Tofu and Sliced Fish in Chili Sauce. As of now (De Tasty opens this week in Collegetown), no other place in Collegetown offers as wide a selection of authentic Chinese food at prices for main entrees that range from seven dollars for lunch specials to 25 dollars for seafood dishes. While Spicy Asian is a little out of the way, they deliver through Ithaca To Go. Whichever way you get your food, I guarantee that’ll it’ll be well worth it.

Tiffany Wong can be reached at tkw32@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LOL,WTF. Can I GTFO of This Theater?

category “young adult dystopian action flick with cool costumes, surprisingly good acting and some kissing.” Men, Women and Children is easy to judge because it doesn’t stand up to either. On You aren’t supposed to ignore Jason Reitman movies (Juno, Up its own terms, it’s a think-piece on social technology and relationin the Air, Young Adult). You are also, if raised on Saturday Night ships (I’ll explain how it fails at that later), but, more broadly, it is Live reruns, nurtured by Happy Gilmore and critically disillusioned a sadder version of one of those romantic comedy ensemble nightby Jack and Jill, supposed to participate in Adam Sandler’s death mares (Love Actually, Valentine’s Day, etc.) — meaning that there throes (burying something you love is part of growing up, or so are nearly a dozen main characters, none of whom are developed 1970s coming-of-age pastorals instructed me). And if Ansel Elgort past the point of their plot function and all of whom are grating is going to “Shailene Woodley” himself, you don’t want to miss and irredeemable in either the cruelty or the stupidity of their that pivotal vault from Secret Life of the American Teenager to The behavior — and a ham-fisted American Beauty wannabe. It has Descendents, am I right? Right. And maybe that choice of title was very many things in common with James Franco’s hapless and misa miscommunication. So now I’ve justified my choice to go watch anthropic Palo Alto of early summer and with Crash if you cut out Men, Women and Children alone last night at Cinemapolis. the race stuff and substituted a lot of porn (like, so much porn).

Justifying my choice to stay to the bitter, bitter end is going to be There is a History Channel-style voice-over delivered by Emma Thompson for the first half of the movie, which occasionally draws harder (it was to finish my popcorn, guys). the audience out of the action to show a satellite orbiting the Earth As you probably should have read in Zach Zahos (and sometimes ’15’s column yesterday, it’s hard to know how Venus, I guess?). when it’s appropriate to judge a movie on its own Men, Women and Children This makes sense terms and when to hold it to a higher, more unibecause Elgort’s Directed by Jason Reitman versal standard. Maybe The Hunger Games isn’t a character, a video masterpiece of film, but it’s unmatched in the subStarring Jennifer Garner, Dean game enthusiast PHOTO COURTESY Norris, Adam Sandler but general morOF PARAMOUNT bidist who is PICTURES harassed occasionally because he quit football, is obsessed with Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” and the irrelevance of human life, so it all fits together, like whoa and symbolism and goddamnit, this is the worst.

Reitman’s script is focused on technology and its ability to store or disperse secrets, to facilitate or destroy relationships, but its take on the issue is about as original as the first clause of this sentence. A teenage boy can’t take his semi-girlfriend’s virginity because he’s only turned on by extreme Internet porn; a nasty white lady (the type-cast Jennifer Garner) has imprisoned her daughter in a cage of surveillance because access eliminates the need for trust; online chat forums enable a young girl’s anorexia; a mother puts semi-nude pictures of her daughter online and doesn’t realKAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

ize it’s bad for a really long time because “It’s a new generation! The rules are different!” There are iMessage bubbles floating over people’s heads and a suicide-attempt-inducing case of accidental cyberbullying. There is a spontaneous abortion and emojis. There is oodles of sexting (Rough draft title for this article: “Text Dirty to Me”).

It’s a ludicrous movie (16 after-school specials melded into one disaster) and its understanding of the effects and implications of social technology alternates between complete naivete and kneejerk cynicism — you can’t learn anything about sex from porn but that doesn’t justify this film’s blanket disgust with the people who watch it, and the Internet is a lovely way to connect with people you wouldn’t otherwise meet, but the idea that mutually-understood adultery achieved by such means is an acceptable salve for marital discord is borderline sociopathic. Also, J.K. Simmons’ only lines are “Let me know if you want seconds,” “You were pregnant?!” and “I need some air,” which is almost as criminally insulting as making Dean Norris’ emotional climax include the phrase “One of these guys says he wants to fuck your mom in reversecowgirl so that he doesn’t have to look at her face. I’m deleting this game!”

Things this movie does right: its portrayal of sex as super weird, especially between people who are uncomfortable with each other and with themselves, and its portrayal of middle class white people as having all sorts of misguided priorities and stupid problems.

Even putting aside my still-hot and unbridled resentment for the pettiness of the suburb I grew up in, it’s true that only the monied have the ability to worry about the effect that subscription video games, online escort services and iPhones are having on their kids and their marriages. Neurotic, unhappy people are often bred from privilege — is having the leisure time to read your daughter’s entire Facebook chat log the new form of conspicuous consumption? — and that’s interesting enough even if Men, Women and Children doesn’t realize its cleverness in this regard (it is probably as middle class and white as Wonder Bread, only because that’s still what happens in Hollywood and in Reitman’s work even more so). If the movie had considered itself a satire of these behaviors, it might have held its own. In reality, it’s too self-serious and hackneyed, an insultingly lazy interpretation of the themes that will undoubtedly define our generation, to be anything but a mess.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

Age-Old Wisdom and New Age Love MADELINE C. JONES Sun Contributor

I think I may have aged about 45 years while reading Margaret Atwood’s new collection of tales, Stone Mattress. I feel wiser, more experienced, more cynical and physically tired — as I imagine old age feels. I would not recommend reading the ninth and final story before bed — not only is it unsettling and may cause nightmares, but it made it impossible to get up the next morning. I was quite convinced I’d woken up blind in a nursing home under siege. That said, this collection is a phenomenal display of imagination, wit and word craft that alternately causes awkward smiling in public (or even more awkward if you’re alone in your room) and true awe.

Many of the stoStone Matress ries center on old age, as most of the

By Margaret Atwood main characters are Random House in advanced stages of life, but memory is a powerful device, particularly in fiction and particularly here. There is no want for life in these stories. The first three are linked, following three separate characters who knew each other at a younger, wilder time.

And all slept with one another, we learn, at least via transitive property. The first shows the perspective of perhaps the most sympathetic character in all nine stories. She, Constance, is the innocent, in contrast to most of the other protagonists that Atwood crafts. Constance speaks to no one

out loud in the entire tale other than a salesclerk, briefly, and her dead husband — they have an ongoing and maturing relationship despite his departure from the physical world.

Yet Constance’s inner life is more than enough to fill books.

She is, in fact, a writer of a fantasy series about Alphinland that met with unexpected commercial success at a time when she needed to support herself and her fledgling poet of a boyfriend. The boyfriend strays and later her husband does too because of — or inciting? — her increasing absorption into Alphinland, which is full of mythical creatures and emotional baggage. Constance in old age is a withering presence whose physical slightness has a lot to do with part of her presence now permanently residing in the world of her own creation.

In the next tale, we get the perspective of the womanizing poet she used to live with and see his own aging process under the care of his much younger, nurse-like, third wife.

Finally, a man whose twin sister had a brief affair with the poet and consequently broke Constance’s heart narrates the infamous poet’s funeral. Both Constance and the twins attend, where they meet his widow. It’s an awkward scene.

Yet the confrontation-turned-confusing-reconciliation is somehow heartwarming, too, perhaps because we view it from perspective of the baffled twin brother. Therein lies Atwood’s magic.

The next six stories can each stand alone, and though you might start to miss Alphinland a bit, each has its own fantastic elements that somehow require no suspension of disbelief, or at least none that is consciously or at all reluctantly undertaken. Just to give you a taste, some of the tales titles are, “The Freeze-Dried Groom” (take this literally), “The Dead Hand Loves You” (less literally, but still prepare for shivers and then laughing at yourself for shivering), and “Torching the Dusties” (read “Dusties” as “old people in

nursing homes”). Atwood shows no boundaries with this collection and introduces us to worlds and relationships we could never have imagined, yet relate to effortlessly.

Madeline C. Jones is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at mjc37@cornell.edu.

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Photography: Identity and the Global Lens at Tjaden

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Photography: Identity and the Global Lens demands a second visit. The collection of photographs from Professor Jean Locey’s ART 3601 examines “the impact of global perspectives on the understanding and interpretation of self through the lens of race, gender, and geography,” according to the class description.

However, all of the student collections do not present an overarching, generalized statement about globalism and its impact on the self. Rather, they exhibit carefully constructed narratives, beautiful meditations on the human body, and captivating reflections on geographic place.

Bella Sewon Oh’s (B.F.A. ’15) alternating attention to and deprivation of texture in her photographs accentuates the merits of focused and unfocused images. Oh’s second composition foregrounds the texture of the subject’s hands and the thick waves of the hair that the subject pulls forward in front of its face. The final set of four photographs, arranged in a square, all capture the same bent knee. At first, the four images appear identical, but after closer observation, the viewer realizes that the leg is oriented slightly differently in each photograph.

Dabin Lee (B.F.A. ’16) projects patterns on to her subjects and constructs multiple planes in her photographs. In the topleft photograph, a saturated red and green pattern adds another dimension to a simply composed image. The bottom-middle photograph, however, epitomizes Lee’s layering of multiple planes. One subject occupies the middle of the composition, their body illuminated but their face entirely obscured. Another circle, covered in white, unclear writing, in turn frames the subject.

Rachel Margolis’ (B.F.A. ’15) collection features emotional, almost melancholy, depictions of childhood. The pool table green background of two photographs gives the compositions a posed feeling of portraiture. Conversely, the photograph of a woman’s hands holding a tube of lipstick and a teddy bear on her lap transmits powerful nostalgia.

Morgan Bang’s (B.F.A., ’15) images of human forms draped in various fabrics are some of the most difficult photographs to engage with, but also some of the most dramatic. While preventing the viewer from directly seeing the human body, the

curve of an elbow or protrusion of a head COURTESY OF THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND PLANNING seems to always lurk below the thick fabric.

Bang, however, also includes photographs using slightly more transparent fabrics, which tease the viewer with the nearly discernible human bodies.

Melody Stein’s (B.F.A., ’16) collection features texture both in the photographs’ composition and on the surface of the photographs themselves. In one photograph, colorful streaks on and scratches into the photograph paper add another plane to the faded image of a woman’s profile. Another photograph evokes feelings of confinement, depicting a subject sitting cross-legged on the ground, its hands tied together with wide, translucent tape. Even without focusing on texture, Stein’s photographs still conValerie Kwee (B.F.A. ’16) alters portraiture by blurring the tain effective tension. In one photograph, the subject extends their glossy, blurred hands downward, away from a sink, caus- surroundings of her subjects. The subjects retain their humanity while being dislodged from physical space, suspended in a ing the expectation of water cascading off of them.

Danni Shen’s (B.A./B.F.A. ’15) collection exhibits the most blurred realm. In the bottom-right of a group of four phoconsciousness of geographical place. Through the use of minia- tographs, the deep sweep of a subject’s hair, his tightly rolled tures, Shen greatly controls the lighting, and thus the atmos- cuffs, and the darkened right and left edges of the frame comphere, of her photographs. Shen’s photograph of a dragon sculp- bine to form a unified, heavy atmosphere. In one photograph, ture evidences her command of lighting, illuminating the carv- the inclusion of a physical reference — the green houseplant ing while leaving the fore and background of the composition and the window to the blue sky — contrast with the previous entirely black. Furthermore, the image of Mao Zedong appears photographs, evidencing the effect of geographical place.

In a manner completely opposite to Morgan Bang’s, Katya in two photographs, and the inclusion of images within images becomes a motif. One photograph captures a miniature art Savelieva’s (B.F.A./B.A. ’16) photographs also deprive the viewer of an obvious human presence. Savelieva blends the familiar gallery bedecked with miniature images on its walls.

The repetition of images in Jessica Chu’s (B.F.A. ’16) pho- curves and flesh-color of the human body with neon overlays tographs makes hers the most unified collection. Three pho- and accents, suggesting the human form but consciously avoidtographs present subjects turned away from the camera, two ing clear depictions. The earthy, lively neon green and the present longhaired subjects face down in bed, and three present intense, vibrant red accents of the photographs skillfully comempty, unmade beds. Yet, the interplay of presence and absence, plement the human form, yet in a manner that defies descripand beds and sleepers transforms the meaning of each individ- tion. In one photograph, any presence of the human form disual image. The composition of the empty beds is beautiful: the appears completely until the viewer focuses again on the blendthick, billowing blankets, the feeling of uncharted territory. ed colors of the composition.

Returning to the “sleeper” photographs, the human aspect dissolves, leaving only the alien presence of flowing hair, pushed Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can back against the mountainous terrain. be reached at smc377@cornell.edu.

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ive days out from Above & Beyond’s 100th Group Therapy radio show, and the effects of ABGT100 withdrawal are still raging strong. In this signature Shithacan doom, gloom and Kirby Room, how do I cope with the syndrome’s symptomatic inattention and melancholia? Hours and hours of live stream coverage from Soundcloud. Of course, half-listening to some sobbing megafan get to “push the button” to Jono, Paavo and Tony’s stupefying set while t-testing metrics in the frigid cave that is the 6th floor Stacks isn’t the same thing, but tell that to the asinine bopping of my head. With limbs moving independently of my own will and (uh oh) that right fist throwing its first pump in the air while seated in this ice cube of a graduate carrel, I relive all the goddamn feels of my goodass night.

THE HYPE: As the first British DJs to headline the landmark venue of Madison Square Garden in history, Above & Beyond had been Twitter-hyping the shit-eating public that we are with some serious superlatives of how mind-blowing the night would be. Group Therapy, their tastemaking weekly radio show, garnering 25 million listeners in 30 countries, continually counted down the days, hours, minutes, seconds left before ABGT100, like a ticking time bomb to our collective eargasm. Days before the show, A&B blue-balled us by releasing the music video to the headlining track of their new album, “We Are All We Need,” without any audio like the next-level trolls that they are. Having secured my ticket in the super-secret super-exclusive pre-pre-sale last spring, I didn’t have to compete with the outrageous scalper prices of $700 for a general admission stub on the day of.

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interviews in Boston, a buddy landed after Mechanical Engineering midterms at Stanford, another took off after her own job search in the city and several more drove down from Ithaca. Finally, the core crew had reunited — just in time to start taking bets on which one of us would shed the first tear during ABGT’s undoubtedly moving set (hint: not me). Inside the venue, bursting with serious camaraderie and legitimate PLUR vibes, we linked shoulders and locked eyes with the group of Detroit bros besides us. The row of us, complete with the 18,000 other die-hards in the sold-out stadium, joined together in the strangest, most beautiful, most surreal singalong of “Sticky Fingers” there ever was.

THE SET LIST: With a stacked six-hour set from Above & Beyond’s extended Anjunabeats family, the night was an endurance test of human debauchery. The trance trio kicked off the concert with their deep set of progressive beats, followed by upand-comer Ilan Bluestone. The build on

Alice Wang Profanity Prayers “Tension” was so explosive, the audience shared a collective half-chub before Andrew Bayer rocked the house with his genre-making IDM. On deck for A&B, Mat Zo turned The Garden into a Mad Zoo (heh) with his mix of funk, house, dance and trance. Finally, A&B came on for the main act and delivered everything they promised, live-typing an on-screen narrative for the audience, complete with

adorable typos.

The rainbow ribbon streamers (the Group Therapy trademark), skittering multi-screen visuals, laser field and confetti clouds created a mesmerizing production. #ABGT100 immediately shot to a top trending topic, and the venue lighting was nearly eclipsed by the PHOTO COURTESY OF ABOVE AND BEYOND sea of backlit iPhones on the floor. The self-confessed perfectionist DJs gave wind to last me until A&B themselves took exclusive previews of “Quieter is Louder” and over the stage (until, ahem, nine a.m.).

THE DEBRIEF: Nothing says sunrise and a “Sacrifice” from their upcoming album and played crowd favorites like “Blue Sky Action” post-festivities debrief quite like a $50 Uber to and “Sun and Moon.” All the grating synths, a muy autentico Brooklyn taco stand. Asses on slow builds and driving bass lines came the sidewalk, we each scarfed down five $1 together for that ethereal big-room sound. tacos de tripa, de cabeza, de lengua and al pasThere were goosebumps. Magic. Man tears. tor. Chased with some horchata and hydrated by passion fruit paletas, we could just barely Possible jizz. And such feels.

THE AFTER-PARTY: Post-one a.m., all of recover some of our vocal cords to coordinate MSG made the mass migration to the after- an AirDrop of the night’s most Instagram-able party, held at the supremely ghetto Pacha. photos. Half-deaf but full-bellied, we gulped Huddling together like emperor penguins for down some multivites, 5-HTP, B12, warmth in the door line, we befriended some Ibuprofen and coconut water before finally ABGT fans who’d flown in from Liverpool, getting to PTFO in the superloft we only to be immediately mugged in Penn AirBNB’d from two actual meth heads in Station by large men they tried to hit up for X. Bushwick.

Though I hadn’t been to Pacha since I was literally 17, the crowd was exhibiting all the Alice Wang is a senior in the College of Arts and strange clubland mating rituals I remember. Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellThe music, “Anjunadeep 06” by Lane 8, was sun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate straight fire and gave me enough of a second Thursdays.

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ning backs possess.

“We don’t really have the guys that can match [their speed] per se, but we’re hoping to beat them with our technique,” he said.

“We feel we can outsmart them.”

Coach Guccia noted that despite Post’s tendencies to run significantly more than it passes, the passing offense is still very capable of running up the score.

“They seem to be a 70% run, 30% pass team,” he said. “But their 30% pass is: get receivers deep and score off it.”

Last week, Post held off a late Penn rally to beat the Quakers 28-21. Big plays were again key for the Eagles as quarterback Greg Volpe averaged 21 yards per completion. Mahan played a large role in the game as well, scoring on an 81-yard pass as time expired in the first quarter.

He added a 31-yard touchdown in the second quarter.

On offense, Cornell gave Navy’s stellar defense its biggest test of the season, hanging up 30 points and 361 yards of offense on the Midshipmen, both season highs for Navy’s superlative defense. Going into last week’s game, Navy had given up a total -37 yards rushing across its first four games, by far the lowest mark in the Collegiate Sprint Football League. The Red was able to rush for 66 yards against this formidable defense. For the first time all year, though, Cornell was unable to reach the endzone on the ground.

But that shortcoming took a back seat because Cornell found success in its passing game. The key to this was sophomore quarterback Rob Pannullo. Averaging just 20 attempted passes per game going into Saturday’s contest, Pannullo lofted 48 throws, completing 23 of them for 295 yards. He also threw for all four of the Red’s touchdowns, including two to junior Trevor Marrero.

The air attack will try to continue this success as it faces Post’s secondary, which ranks No. 3 in the CSFL, allowing just 155 yards per game.

Guccia said he believes that the offense will continue its success against Post, which he said runs similar defensive schemes to Navy.

“We were able to move the ball very well last week and I think the offense has the confidence now that they can move the ball against any one of the fronts that we’ve seen,” he said.

“This is just an opportunity for them to keep executing.”

Jackson is optimistic about these last two games at home.

“We’re just really trying to finish out the season well. If we can win these last two games, we’ll be above .500,” he said. “Our goal is to finish strong for the seniors and for the team as a whole.”

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

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I’ve always been a busy person, that’s just the way I am. This semester I’m taking 18 credits and playing a sport. I’m trying to do 150 credits in four years so I’m taking classes and doing an internship during the summer.

Having a busy schedule keeps me from just doing nothing and being a bum. It keeps me active.

It’s pretty much how I have fun — staying busy.

favorites. I don’t know if you have a spread, like if it’s Vegas style, but I usually pick the favorite. In the games that are supposed to be tight, definitely pick the underdog because you want to have the same picks that everyone else has on the big games, but it’s in the games where everyone else picks the other teams that you get your points and really catch up.

7) You’re from New York— are you a Jets or a Giants fan?

6) So I don’t know if you regularly read The Sun, but every week we have the editors do football picks. I am currently in last place and was wondering if you have any advice for me on how to improve my standings?

I’m actually neither. I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan and everyone wonders why that started, especially since the Giants are popular in my neighborhood. I’m actually rivals with all of my friends at home. We’ll watch the games together and wind up heckling each other the whole game.

Depends on the game you’re picking. I usually go for the heavy

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of the purgatory of losing.

But this has all put me in a strange position. Should I root for them during this tanking phase? Or more precisely, do I root for them to win or lose? It’s ingrained in me to want my team to win, but I know it’s better for the long run if the current season’s losses are the sacrifice for winning a Stanley Cup later on. When I just follow the Sabres, I know they’re better off losing as often as possible this season. But when I see them play, what do I do? Cheer opposing goals? Am I supposed to dread Buffalo goals? If a Sabre makes a spectacular play, should I be happy with the individual effort but not so about anything that brings them closer to a franchise jeopardizing win? It’s all very confusing.

The Sabres are 1-5-0 with a -14 goal differential as of writing, both worst in the NHL. They’re well on their way to being the worst team in the league. It’s clear they have given me no choice, I have to root for losses. A win has to feel like a loss and vice versa. So being a fan of the Sabres right now entails really being a fan of any team playing the Sabres. Which is fine for a while, but I’m looking forward to the day when I can actually cheer for my own team’s wins.

Looking at recent Cup champions, tanking doesn’t seem like the worst idea. The Blackhawks and Kings, the two model franchises as of late in the NHL, have hit on picks early on in the first round. The Penguins won the Sidney Crosby sweepstakes and it’s worked out pretty well for them.

You need stars to win championships. You need to draft stars to win. And franchises exist to win championships, especially ones in the city of Buffalo, which has never seen a winner.

The Sabres already have what many consider the best farm teams in hockey, and will have two more first round picks this year. Because of this, I’m not sure if tanking needs to be curtailed in sports. For teams willing to forgo all chances at winning a few playoff games to try to win a championship, it can be the right move. But not every team feels comfortable risking totally alienating their fan base for a few years. Hyper competitive coaches and players need to be able to stomach taking part in a tank job.

Tanking “feels” wrong. It might be the best strategy, honestly. But it feels wrong. Yes, franchises are supposed to win titles. But they’re supposed to “win.” And raking up the losses is tolerable for a little while, but then the wins had better start piling up. A tank job followed by anything less than an elite team will just beget another tank. Teams are supposed to get better gradually and do their best to fill holes, not just sell off everything of value. It’s not fun to actually see the product on the field, which is what should matter. The point of a sports team is more than winning.

Since sports falls under the entertainment industry (more or less), sports should provide entertainment value. Watching Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth fish the puck out of his own net loses its charm after a while.

The Sabres losing every day, being totally outclassed by teams on the other end of the spectrum, like a 6-2 beat down courtesy of the Blackhawks or a 5-1 thrashing by the Ducks, provides very little entertainment value. In fact, it’s pretty hard to watch.

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.

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32,” Ngyuen said.

However, the Cornell men performed better in doubles.

Sophomores Bernardo Casares Rosa and Chris Vrabel reached the semifinals of their bracket.

They went on to play against Harvard’s Dennis Ngyuen and Brian Yeung. Unfortunately, they were unable to pull out the win.

Overall the team was not fully satisfied with its performance this fall season, but hopes to get its act together so that the spring semester is an improvement.

“As it stands now we are a little behind the rest of the Ivys. As a team we didn't have a particularly great fall season but that's ok. Our main dual match season is in the spring and we have time to improve before our first match in January,” Nguyen said.

He said he believes that if the team is more disciplined on and

off court, then it will have a successful spring season.

“I can speak for everyone when I say there needs to be changes to our team if we want to perform in the spring, ranging from better leadership in the upperclassmen to our mindset when approaching training,” he said.

The team leaders plan on using past results and experiences to guide and motivate the team to work hard and improve its results.

“Two seasons ago our team obtained the highest ranking in Cornell history and a big part of our success was due to our team camaraderie,” Nguyen said.

“The next two months of training are going to be tough, but if we can all get on the same page

by January, I believe it'll give us the best shot at having a successful season.”

Danielle Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun.com.

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Ten Questions Columnist Anna Fasman caught up with sophomore linebacker Chris D’Ambrosio to talk about his pump up rituals and his affinity for delicious foods.

1) How did you get started in football?

Football started when I was five years old. My dad played when he was in his teens and I picked it up and instantly fell in love with it. I played probably close to 10 sports when I was young, but football is the only one I wanted to stick with through high school. When it came down to college, I couldn’t play Division I football, but I could have played Division III or even Division II, but going to Cornell, you have [strong] academics, so playing sprint football is absolutely the best alternative for me.

2) Do you have any pregame rituals or traditions, either alone or with the team?

A lot of my pre-game [traditions] are all music based. I listen to not necessarily the same songs, but I listen to an hour of EDM music before and I’ll also listen to rap and hard rock right before the game.

But there’s one song right before the game that I always listen [to] and that’s “The Prayer” by Kid Cudi. Usually I’m so amped and I want to get out there right away and it calms my mind so I’m able to keep everything straight and [not] lose my

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head during the game. Also, when I was a senior in high school, one of my really close friends gave me a shirt that he wore during a school dodgeball tournament that [he wore as] a joke that made him look really funny. It has one long sleeve and every time I put it on after [in high school], I didn’t lose a game. It’s my go-to and I wore it every game in high school and now at Cornell. It’s a light shirt and even if it’s really cold out, I’ll wear a long sleeve under armour and I’ll wear this shirt on top of it, so it’s always showing 3) What’s your favorite thing to do on campus/in Ithaca besides play football?

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onds left in the game. Even though we were in Mansfield and it was a three-hour bus ride back, once we got back the whole team went out together and we all celebrated. Having all of us come together as a family and not having to worry about the season anymore was great. We could just hang out as friends and family and not just because we were being forced together by practice. It was really probably my favorite memory at Cornell.

5) What else are you involved with on campus besides football?

I’m in a fraternity on campus and I’m also in many other clubs. I’m in the sports business society and I’m also in athletes helping athletes where I’m a tutor. I was happy when I got good grades last year so I really enjoy helping others. I might want to teach when I get older, so it’s also a good way to get into doing that.

Do you ever feel like you have trouble balancing all of the clubs, academics, football and Greek life?

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My favorite thing is eating. I’m a huge foodie so I love going around Ithaca and traveling to different places to get food. I go to the farmer’s market almost every weekend. I’ll take one or two of my friends and we’ll go down there. The Cambodian food is absolutely my favorite. I definitely enjoy traveling around, looking for the best places to eat.

4) What is your best memory at Cornell so far?

I probably have to say the last game of the year last year. We were down most of the game and our quarterback last year, Brendan Miller [’14], four year starting quarterback, was playing his last game. He threw a game-winning pass with two sec-

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Making gains | Sophomore linebacker Chris D’Ambrosio said he has fun staying busy on campus.

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TENNIS

Men,Women Travel to Compete at Regionals

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend, the men’s and women’s Cornell tennis teams competed at the ITA Regional Championships. The women played at Yale in New Haven, and the men traveled to St. John’s in New York City.

The women’s team had five entries in the main singles draw and two entries in doubles.

Sophomore Alex D’Ascenzo was the last standing Cornellian in the singles event. In the round of 32, D’Ascenzo battled against Boston College’s Jessica Wacnik, but unfor-

“Everyone is going to be more motivated for the spring, from both the wins and losses we experienced this fall.”

Alex D’Ascenzo tunately lost 6-3, 6-2.

Deespite the loss, D’Ascenzo said she felt she challenged her opponent.

“The only person I lost to won the

entire tournament and qualified for the National Indoors, and I thought that I put up a good fight against her,” she said.

In doubles, junior Dena Tanenbaum and freshman Lizzie Stewart started their tournament with an 8-5 win over two players from Massachusetts, then beat Drexel’s Nicole Pivonka and Clary Rodriguez Cruz.

They advanced to the quarterfinals, but the Cornell duo lost 8-5 against Columbia’s Kanika Vaidya and Rima Asatraian.

The women’s team has only one more event left in its fall season — the Harvard Invitational. The team is going to try its hardest to end the season on a strong note, according to D’Ascenzo.

“Going into this final event we are focusing on having high energy and giving it 100%. This is our last tournament of the fall, so we want to end a high note and leave everything we have out on the court,” she said.

D’Ascenzo said that the team looks forward to the spring season with knowledge from the fall meets now under its belt.

“Everyone is going to be more motivated for the spring, from both the wins and the losses that we experienced this fall.

Everyone is very excited to start our spring season,” she said. “Everyone, the freshmen

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Double trouble | Junior Dena Tanenbaum (above) and freshman Lizzie Stewart advanced to the quarterfinals of Regionals, but lost to Columbia’s duo.

especially, are coming out of this fall season with more confidence and experience, which will really help us going into the spring season.”

The men’s team went into Regionals feeling optimistic and hoped to end its fall season on a strong note.

Last year at this tournament there was an all-Cornell doubles final between Senior Sam Fleck and partner Sophomore Chris

Vrabel against seniors Jason Luu and Quoc Ngyuen. The first team was victorious and won the title.

However, this year was not as successful as the team would have liked.

“We didn't have a very good showing in singles, Vinti and Bernie led the team in that aspect as they made it to the round of See TENNIS page 14

Tanking Teams: C.U.Looks to Stop Big Play Against Post It Just Feels Wrong R SPRINT FOOTBALL

By ADAM BRONFIN

Sun Staff Writer

After dropping last Saturday’s game to an undefeated Navy squad, Cornell sprint football wel-

comes Post this Friday. Despite a very strong performance by the offense, Cornell (2-3) was unable to take last week’s game. The Midshipmen (5-0) took advantage of mistakes made by Cornell’s

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Offensive threat | Junior wide receiver Trevor Marrero caught two touchdown passes in last weekend’s loss to Navy.

defense and registered a seasonhigh 529 yards of offense.

Co-head Coach Bart Guccia said that mistakes like the ones made against Navy have allowed for opponents to break out for long yardage gains all season.

“We’ve given up big plays defensively and haven’t been able to come back and make enough big plays on offense to overcome that,” he said. “[Navy] was one of the games just like Army and Penn; in the three losses we’ve had, that was basically the story.”

In last Saturday’s game, Navy had scoring plays of 85, 59 and 53 yards. Sophomore defensive back Ryan Jackson said that Post (2-2) will pose a similar threat offensively.

“They really try to go for the big play; they try to throw the ball deep. Third and one, they’ll throw it deep, they don’t care,” he said.

“That’s our main focus for this week, containing the big play.”

Last year, big plays were the story as Cornell lost to Post 21-10.

On the opening kickoff, Jay'Len Mahan returned the ball 91 yards for a touchdown to set the tone of the game. The other two Post touchdowns were each off plays of over 45 yards. This year, Mahan returns as the Eagles’ leading wide receiver and he will likely be a deep vertical threat in Friday’s game.

Jackson hopes that the Red will be disciplined on defense enough to contain the speed that Mahan and Post’s other receivers and runSee SPRINT page 11

ooting for the Buffalo Sabres isn’t always easy. In fact, it’s been pretty hard. They’ve been around for over 40 years and never won a Stanley Cup, and their most recent trip (in 1999) is only famous for the Sabres losing in game six, in triple overtime, on a goal that shouldn’t have counted. “No goal” still

something they haven’t before. Tanking. That is, to be precise, losing intentionally with the goal of securing the best draft pick possible.

When I say losing intentionally, I mean fielding a team that reasonably can’t be expected to win games rather than throwing games. A team that doesn’t endanger the goal of having a chance

John Zakour Point Blank persists today.

The Sabres featured one of the greatest offensive lines ever in the “French Connection,” comprised of three great French-Canadian skaters and led by the Hall of Famer Gilbert Perreault, and could never top the Flyers in the ’70s. The Sabres history features maybe the greatest goal ever in Dominik Hasek, who wasn’t enough to get Buffalo over the hump in the ’90s and early aughts.

Now with owner Terry Pegula, the Sabres have shown a penchant for doing

of the first pick in the draft, for supposed franchise changing player Connor McDavid.

Tanking is nothing new.

As soon as you reward losing in drafts, you’ve incentivized being the worst and not the third or fourth worst. And it makes sense; you’d rather be the worst for a little while than be mediocre forever.

Sure, being the absolute worst is embarrassing and, well, unpleasant for fans, but it’s worth it if you can get out See ZAKOUR page 14