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Attack Reported Near Commons

Despite Local Rainfall, Drought Persists

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun News Editor

Significant winter snow needed

By REBECCA EVEN

er scope of Ithaca’s rainfall history.

“Right now [year to date] we are comparable to 1969, the last time we had a drought like this,” OF he said. “We should COURTESY MARK WYSOCKI have had 28.89 inches in an average Drastic drought | The red region, which includes Ithaca, year, and we only shows area of extreme drought as of Oct. 18. received 21.67, so and the snow melts, and all that water we’re 8.22 inches behind.” goes into the reservoirs and the groundwater,” Wysocki said. “If you don’t have The Driest Winter on Record Droughts begin with a lack of snow- that snowfall, then you’re starting the fall, according to Wysocki. He said last summer off behind, and summer prewinter — the driest on record — set cipitation is very spotty, so some people the stage for water shortages and was get it and some people don’t. For this compounded by the fact that tropical particular year, the people who have storms in the past few months have not been getting precipitation are the peotraveled far enough north to hit Ithaca. ple to the east of us.”

“The reason for that is snow is covering a large area, then spring comes See DROUGHT page 4

U.S. Drought Monitor

Sun Senior Writer

Recent downpours may seem like good news for Ithaca’s ongoing drought, but experts say the coast may not be clear until the city receives sufficient snowfall.

Ithaca has had periodic droughts since 1893, when the city began recording data on rainfall. However, their frequency has actually decreased since the 1970s, according to Mark Wysocki, a senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences.

“So the question then becomes: maybe climate change is doing the opposite and giving us more rainfall and fewer droughts,” Wysocki said of this trend.

In terms of precipitation, Wysocki said the current year is not an abnormality when considered in the broad-

Ithaca police responded to an assault on the 200 block of South Geneva St. Friday night, where a female victim said she was attacked while walking towards the Ithaca Commons.

At approximately 6:54 p.m., victim said she was struck from behind in the head by an unknown person. After she fell to the ground, the attacker continued to hit her in the face and attempted to steal her purse, an Ithaca Police Department release said.

The victim “let out several loud screams,” and the attacker fled the area on foot towards Geneva and Clinton St., according to the release. She was able to retain all her property and suffered minor injuries.

Several people in the area said they heard the victim’s screams and came to her aid after the attacker had fled. The attacker was described as a “black male, possibly female, wearing jeans and a dark green hooded sweatshirt.”

The incident is currently under investigation.

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

StrangerThings Writer toVisit Cornell

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun Contributor

Dedicating signage | Cornellians gathered Friday for the dedication of the Robert F. Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering.

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C.U.Dedicates Engineering School, Funded by Alumnus

By RUBY YU Sun Staff Writer

SMITH ’85

Over 300 Cornell faculty, alumni, students and guests congregated in Klarman Hall Friday to celebrate the dedication of the Robert Frederick Smith School of Chemical and Biomolecular

Engineering, a testament to the benefactor’s $50 million donation.

The University decided to name the school for the donor after Robert F. Smith ’85 donated to Cornell’s College of Engineering in January. The multimillion dollar gift will be used to create undergraduate scholarships, graduate fellowships and diversity initiatives, specifically for students traditionally underrepresented in engineering, including minorities and women.

Smith’s gift will also fund the See DEDICATION page 3

Alison Tatlock, writer and producer of several popular television shows, including Netflix’s Stranger Things, will be visiting two Cornell classes next week and speaking at the Schwartz Center on Monday.

Tatlock, the sole writer of the fifth episode of Stranger Things and coproducer of the first season, said she has been overwhelmed by the response to the series, which garnered critical acclaim, earned a Saturday Night Live parody skit and even generated a meme.

“I thought it would be good, but there was no way to predict that it would have this kind of splash,” Tatlock said. “It’s undeniably cool to have been a part of something that people are so excited about.”

The day after Netflix

released the first season, study, an actress on Tatlock said teaching assis- Broadway, to running tants at her daughter’s workshops in juvenile school began emailing her, detention centers in Los praising the show and Angeles and ultimately telling her they had writing and producing watched the entire first some of the most popular season in one day. and critically-acclaimed That’s when Tatlock television shows. said she knew Stranger After moving from Things was a hit. Even New York to Los Angeles with experience writing for in 1999 “for a boy” who CBS, ABC and other later became her husband, major networks, “It just seems Ta t l o c k said this like young people was a difare going crazy ferent for this show.” level of buzz.

Alison Tatlock “ It’s pretty intense,” she said of the Tatlock said she began volreaction to Stranger Things. unteering in juvenile “I’ve never experienced detention centers for the anything even close to it. It non-profit Street Poets, just seems like young peo- Inc., and eventually ple are going crazy for this worked her way up to executive director of the show.”

Tatlock’s career has fol- organization.

Working mostly with lowed an unusual trajectory. The writer progressed from working as an underSee STRANGER page 4

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NEWS

Hundreds Contribute to‘Into the Streets’Day of Service

rather than maintenance.”

Despite the poor weather, Zerbib said many events were successfully completed, Approximately 400 Cornell students vol- adding that “it was great to see students be unteered in Ithaca and its surrounding willing to go out and volunteer regardless of towns this weekend, participating in Into the weather.”

Zerbib said Into the Streets “scaled back” the Streets — an annual service event, according to Into the Streets Co-President in 2015, only allowing 500 people to participate, while in past years more than 1,000 Raquel Zerbib ’17.

A student-organized event, Into the people participated. She said the group did Streets paired Cornellians with 23 local this in order to “[promote] a lifetime of service rather than a one agencies this year to voltime volunteer event.” unteer for causes from “It’s very rewarding to “We realized there was food security to sustainsome disconnect between ability, Zerbib said. get away from campus the work students were The co-president said the event was intended to and just do a whole day performing during Into the Streets and their alter student perception of service.” understanding of the of the Ithaca community Brady Bunkelman ’19 agency’s mission,” Zerbib and encourage student said. engagement in their Zerbid said Into the community.

“The goal is to connect students with an Streets plans to provide more information organization outside of Cornell so that if about organizations ahead of time and create they want, they can continue volunteering a newsletter after the event, so students can there, and it’s not as intimidating to go out continue volunteering.

Katherine Ring ’18, a student volunteer, into the local Ithaca community,” she said.

“Sometimes you get stuck at Cornell, said she and a team of volunteers from because there’s just so much to do, but Alpha Phi Omega — a national service fraternity — cleaned a kitchen at Pennsylvania there’s also a lot to do outside of Cornell.”

Zerbib noted that 12 of the 25 service Avenue Methodist Church in Pine City, projects involving outdoor work, such as N.Y. that hosts a food pantry for 400 famicleaning and raking, were cancelled due to lies twice a month.

“It really gave me a greater appreciation the rain.

“We had a lot of issues because of the for the people who put their time and effort rain, unfortunately,” Zerbib said. “Yesterday into this every weekend, because it is a huge was not the best of days, and we had a hand- operation,” she said. “I was just really happy ful of outside projects, since many agencies that behind the scenes, we were able to make would prefer to use their limited resources a difference.”

Ring said she worked for four hours with for programming and community outreach

By ANNE SNABES

Sun Senior Writer

a group of volunteers who cleaned a cupboard, removed all dining ware and washed and dried kitchen items.

“It was really cool because I didn’t know everyone in the group, and we got the chance to get to know each other doing dishes and churning it all out as a team,” she said.

Brady Bunkelman ’19, who also volunteered at the food pantry in Pine City and participated in Into the Streets last year, said he enjoyed meeting the other volunteers.

“It’s very rewarding to get away from campus and just do a whole day of service,

basically, where you’re helping out, and you know you’re making an impact in the community,” he said.

Bunkelman suggested Into the Streets occur once a semester instead of just once a year.

“There are tons of organizations out there that need more volunteers,” he said.

“One day for six hours each semester is not a lot to ask. The more we do service is always better.”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun.com.

A bug’s life

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Students and community members attend Insectapalooza at Comstock Hall Saturday.

Class Council Hosts First Fall Fest Donation Aims to

By JACOB WEXLER Sun Contributor

More than 1,000 Cornell students and community members gathered in Klarman Hall for Cornell’s first Fall Fest Saturday, which featured 45 different clubs and organizations from both Cornell and Ithaca.

The event was hosted by Cornell’s 2017 Class Council. Lauren Lang ’17, Class Council president, said she was “really looking forward to” seeing students “celebrate this really great season.”

After learning that “some people couldn’t even get into Clubfest” in September, Lang said she thought Fall Fest would be a good opportunity for students to “meet new organizations on campus” and find “something that they love.” She described the event as an “alternative Club fest.” “[The Class Council] started

brainstorming the idea back in the spring, but then it sort of evolved after clubfest,” Lang said.

Gabriella Alexandrou ’19, a member of Mayor Potencial — an organization that offers students social entrepreneurship opportunities in impoverished countries — agreed, saying Fall Fest was “a great way to see programs” because clubfest was “packed.”

Heavy rain on Saturday forced the Class Council to move Fall Fest from the Arts Quad to Klarman Hall, but Lang said she remained optimistic the event would be a success.

“It is interesting, exciting, and there are a bunch of different things to do,” said Javier Correa ’20, an attendee. Because Fall Fest coincided with Cornell’s First-Year Parents’ Weekend, Correa was one of many students who attended the event with their parents.

The decision to hold Fall Fest on

Parents’ Weekend was not intentional, but Lang said the coincidence was helpful for parents who want to “see what goes on on campus.”

The event offered a variety of fall themed snacks. For example, the Cornell Beekeeping Club offered honey samples, and Mayor Potencial distributed doughnuts with apple pie filling.

“Carving pumpkins, talking to people about conservative ideology, it’s a good way to reach out to the community,” said Olivia Corn ’17, chair of the Cornell Republicans.

Lang concluded that Fall Fest went “incredibly well,” adding that she hopes the event can be held outside in the future so “we could have more performance groups and more space for organizations.”

Jacob Wexler can be reached at jsw339@cornellsun.com.

Bolster Diversity DEDICATION

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Robert Frederick Smith Tech Scholars Program, which will help high school seniors who require financial aid to earn an undergraduate degree from Cornell Engineering and a technical master’s degree from Cornell Tech.

“My intention here is to work directly with Cornell Tech and Cornell Engineering … to create on-ramps for African Americans and young women to enter tech so that they can help lead us into the fourth industrial revolution,” Smith said.

Interim President Hunter R. Rawlings called the donation a “very inspiring gift,” saying it “has a vision … to increase diversity and appreciation of diversity at Cornell University.”

Smith said he hopes his donation — which aims to bolster diversity by making a Cornell education more accessible — will uphold Ezra Cornell’s mission statement of founding “an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.”

“Smith has shown his confidence in us,” said Abraham Stroock, director of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. “This is called keeping Ezra’s promise.”

Smith said the vision underlying his donation is based in an ambition to promote economic mobility by removing obstacles to higher education.

“We live in an extraordinary time when intellectual property has become the new currency of business,” Smith said. “There is only one goal left to achieve economic mobility, and that is democratizing access to world class education.”

Smith studied chemical engineering at Cornell and is the founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners — a private equity fund.

He is also the founding director and president of the Fund II Foundation — a nonprofit organization that works to advance social change and preserve African-American culture, human rights, music education, the environment, entrepreneurship and innovation.

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Fall fun | Cornellians enjoy fall food and interact with over 40 clubs and organizations at the first Fall Fest in Klarman Hall Saturday.

Ruby Yu can be reached at ryu@cornellsun.com.

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C.U. Officials: Drought Still in Stage Two, Despite Rain DROUGHT

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To alleviate the drought, Wysocki said Ithaca is hoping to see an increase in winter precipitation between Oct. 1 and May 31 to supply water. However, the 8.22 inches of precipitation that Ithaca needs must occur over a threeweek period or longer to replenish groundwater.

“Water just runs off if we get rain all in one day,” he said. “The ground can’t absorb it fast enough. We are banking on an increase in our fall precipitation and specifically, we’re hoping for more snowfall. In the short term, for the year, we need those 8.22 inches to reach normal levels, ideally over the next month.”

If this winter is also extremely dry, the lack of precipitation “would make the impact of the drought larger, as we will start the year behind in precipitation,” Wysocki added.

Chris Bordlemay, Cornell’s water and wastewater manager, agreed with Wysocki, saying that Ithaca needs “a decent snowpack to slowly melt in the spring to fully recharge.”

The city is currently experiencing a “green drought,” in which “we have enough rain to keep vegetation alive, but our groundwater sources are still very low,” according to Sarah Brylinski, sustainability communications and integration manager in the Energy and Sustainability Department.

The campus is experiencing a Stage Two drought with stable water levels, Bordlemay said, adding that he does not anticipate that Cornell will progress into Stage 3.

Cornell entered Stage Two drought conditions on July 28 and has remained at that level since, according to the University.

A ‘Wake-Up Call’ for the Cornell Community

Brylinski credited the stability of drought conditions to the “tremendous efforts” of utilities, facilities and staff across campus, who have made cutbacks and changes to operational water usage. Bordlemay said he remains confident in Cornell’s ability to supply water to the campus, even if water levels drop to historic lows.

“Cornell is committed to finding solutions in longterm resiliency and sustainability for water supply on campus,” Brylinski said.

Countering Brylinski’s optimism, Bordlemay said the University only managed to achieve its water reduction goal — 30 percent less than last year’s baseline — for the first few weeks of the semester. Since then, water usage has only decreased by 18 to 20 percent from last year.

Brylinski nevertheless praised Cornellians’ commitment to water reduction, citing initiatives such as Cornell dining’s use of paper plates and the ‘Energy Smackdown: Every Drop Counts competition,’ in which residential halls competed to limit their water usage. The University has also installed low-flow showerheads in all residence halls and athletic facilities and plans to continue using them after the drought.

The biggest water consumers on campus are the Central Energy Plant, the Cornell Heights assisted living facility and the Wilson Synchrotron Laboratory — home to the particle physics accelerator, during its oper-

“Cornell is committed to finding solutions in long-term resiliency and sustainabiity for water supply on campus.”

Sarah Brylinski ational hours — according to Bordlemay.

The most successful aspect of Cornell’s water reduction policy so far has been a “reduction in irrigation water and finding alternative non-potable sources,” according to Bordlemay.

Ashley Stappenbeck ’18, a residential advisor in Court-Kay-Bauer Hall, said although she encourages residents to use use the shower timers provided by the University and has tried to educate her students about the drought’s severity, many have trouble remembering to conserve water.

“I don’t know how many of them really took it to heart,” she said. “Many seemed to think that since the lawn was green, we couldn’t possibly have a drought.

Additionally, I remember hearing several students at various times mention [the drought] was over after the first time it rained during the school year.”

Wysocki agreed, saying Cornell and Ithaca could be doing more to conserve water. He called the drought a

“wake-up call for the community” and expressed his hope that it will motivate people to save water even during times of surplus.

“We’ve been lazy about water conservation,” he said.

Wysocki stressed the importance of altering everyday activities to conserve water, including using rain barrels to collect rainwater, drinking less tap water and turning off the faucet while brushing your teeth.

Wysocki also suggested that water restrictions be automatically implemented when Ithaca experiences a dry period to prevent escalation into an extreme drought.

Impact on Ithaca Farmers

Examining the drought’s effects on the larger Ithaca area, Jessica Spaccio, a climatologist at the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and the Northeast Regional Climate Center, said areas hit hard by the drought have seen serious consequences for agriculture.

“Corn was much shorter than usual — some fields had to be used for silage [grass stored to feed livestock over the winter] because the yields were so low,” she said.

“Hay yields were also down. Many dairy farmers grow their own feed and will need to buy feed for their cows.”

Many farmers lack irrigation systems because of the rarity of droughts in the northeast, according to Spaccio.

Some work together to purchase feed from other areas of the state, but others have sold livestock to compensate for their losses.

The government has been offering assistance in the form of low-interest loans, Spaccio added.

According to Wysocki, the recent rain has helped to alleviate the drought in Ithaca, but water levels in Fall Creek and Six Mile Creek are still below where they were in January and February. Also, because the precipitation occurred over such a brief period of time, groundwater levels remain low.

“Some of the rain will help raise streamflow values of smaller streams and creeks to a higher level,” Wysocki said. “But people who depend on well water will have to wait for any benefits, as it will take some time for the water to work its way into the local groundwater table.”

Rebecca Even can be reached at reven@cornellsun.com.

Stranger Things Writer,Producer to Speak at Cornell Screenwriter describes ‘winding road’ to television work, inspiration for Netflix hit series est in writing.

“The writing became the center of not only that place ... but of my life in young girls, Tatlock said she designed LA. Eventually, I really started to love it poetry and drama workshops and ran and really reconnect to [writing],” she them with the teens, an experience she said, adding that it had been 20 years said was fulfilling but chaotic. since she had written a poem.

“It was a crazy life-changing experiTatlock said she doesn’t remember ence,” she said. “These are mostly making a conscious decision to move teenage girls — a few boys — who had from acting to writing, but when she been kicked out of the foster care system looks back, the change clearly happened while working for Street Poets.

“The writing became the center of not “Poetry started to crack the only that place ... but of my life in L.A. story open a little bit, and as Eventually, I really started to love it and that happened to the young people I was working with, I really reconnect to [writing].” believe that was actually happening to me,” Tatlock said.

Alison Tatlock In 2009, after five years as the executive director of Street or had been released from a juvenile hall Poets, Tatlock was offered a job writing and didn’t have a family to return to.” season three of HBO’s In Treatment.

Tatlock recalled reading the girls’ Tatlock’s friend, who was working for poems, which were sometimes about the show, mentioned that there might their battles with drug use, and being be a role for Tatlock, who was already a forced to ask them what they meant by big fan of the series and thought there “tweaking,” a term used to describe a was no chance she could actually write hyperactive state caused by drugs. for it.

Making the class more difficult, Tatlock “It was just hard to believe that it said, was the fact that many of the girls would actually work out,” Tatlock said. were on medication and would some- “My first TV job would be on this show times be passionate one day and cata- that I was already obsessed with.” tonic the next.

When she first arrived on the set and Soon, though, she said she began noticed the script she had written was connecting with the teens by sharing her on a teleprompter, she said she felt “a own stories and shifting the focus from weird sensation” and “actually got kind drama to poetry, in which her mentees of woozy. It was just surreal.” showed more interest.

Every episode of In Treatment was The increased focus on writing and simply a conversation between a therapoetry in Tatlock’s workshops meant pist and a patient, making it an extremecalmer classes, but she said it also served ly intense writing job, but one that as a catalyst that sparked her own inter- Tatlock said also made her a better STRANGER THINGS Continued from page 1

writer. scene in Boston.

Over the next four years, she wrote “Even though I’m not a young person for several network television shows — I’m not a young writer — I didn’t including ABC’s Betrayal and A Gifted feel daunted by writing young voices,” Man on CBS. Tatlock said. “I was a teenager in the Tatlock said she is happy to be writing ‘80s, so that actually felt very natural to for digital and cable outlets again me. All the music and all the clothes, it because of the freedom they allow. She just felt familiar.” also gave an insider’s perspective on what Tatlock worked on Stranger Things it was like to write for Stranger Things. for about four months in the summer of After Matt and Ross Duffer, the 2015, and then quickly moved on to her brothers who created the show, shared current gig, writing and producing Halt their vision to Tatlock and four other and Catch Fire, an AMC show about the writers, the team got to work. They sat early days of the 1980s technology in a room together for eight hours each boom. day and outlined the season’s major “I had a winding road and I’m okay moments before going back through the with that,” Tatlock said of her career. story arc multiple times to fill in more “Would I be more successful and richer granular details. if I had started writing television at 23?

This process, standard for television Yes — and oh well.” shows, can either be incredibly fun or Tatlock will be speaking to students excruciatingly frustrating, Tatlock said. in Prof. Nick Salvato’s introductory tele“Before anyone does any writing, you spend weeks figur- “Even though I’m not a young person — ing out what the season is I’m not a young writer — I didn’t feel going to be,” she said. “You sit together with all of these other daunted by writing young voices.” [writers] every day — eight hours if it’s a good job 12 hours Alison Tatlock if it’s a bad job and until 3 a.m. if it’s a shitty job — and figure out the big moments of the overall vision class on Monday, as well as Prof.

Austin Bunn’s class, “Screen and Story: series.”

Once the general storyline is estab- Script Analysis,” on Tuesday.

Her moderated discussion in the lished, the group assigns a writer to individual episodes to create the actual Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts will run from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on script.

Tatlock said she was able to draw on Monday, during which she will also take her own experience when writing for a questions from the audience. The event series that centers around a group of is free and open to the public. young boys in 1983. She grew up in that decade and had previously written a Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at script set in 1982 about the punk rock njb99@cornell.edu.

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eople are afraid of us. The reigning belief of the mentally ill is that we are unhinged, unpredictable, unable to be. At Cornell, and most colleges, this belief is a bit less so. You can’t fear what you know, so our Mental Health Awareness Week is set to do just that, make people conscious that hey, the mentally ill exist, your mental health is a real thing and that caring for yourself and others is good. But it is not enough.

Workshops on self-compassion aren’t enough, photo campaigns aren’t enough, people are already aware that mental illness exists here, in 2016. Now, it’s become a passive and shallow thing to remember those that have committed suicide, we did all we could, say the professors, a rare case, write the papers, what a tragedy, we all agree for just one day.

Awareness is a thing of an already graduated class.

The general public opinion doesn’t matter in the Cornell context; most students are aware that mental health is a term and a term not to take lightly. We have the general groundwork for policy change, because these awareness techniques years ago did their job years ago.

Now we’re beating on a dead horse, continuing these small and easy techniques because they did in fact work and because there’s no harm in being safe. Why fix what isn’t broken.

Our policies are not catching up to the popular university opinion that the mentally ill are not dangerous, and that stigma is a structural barrier to attaining mental health care. And this isn’t just Cornell, it’s every university. Higher-level institutions know, but what do they do?

What has Cornell financially done since 2011 for mental health care, what has changed besides a cute hashtag for this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week?

Gannett’s been in construction since last year, to be completed this spring as a reborn “Cornell Health.” Dr. Bullis, the executive director of Gannett encouraged all visitors “to share their feedback with us and how we can improve our services” during construction time. So let’s share our list of grievances, since we’re apparently approved to do so now.

So, policy change for effective treatment is needed. Gannett needs better services, administrative staff that are trained better; Do you want to kill yourself? No? Then why are you calling? doesn’t cut it. We need to invest in more psychiatrists and therapists. In the current system of untrained receptionists, lack of communication between administration and the team of therapists/psychiatrists, it can take three weeks to even see someone when you’re feeling depressed, anxious, when your mental illness peaks during its hourly rise and fall of severity. I called once, last fall, suicidal, in need to talk to my therapist when the bored woman at the end of the line said she could only give me a slot two weeks from now. I didn’t even hear a sorry. I e-mailed my therapist a few minutes after the call and she was able to see me an hour later. This is not acceptable and this is unforgivable for an Ivy League university that spent $350,000 on bridge barriers to stop students from jumping to their deaths. Students should not be put in an endless line to get mental health care. We’re not in a time of depression, in an orderly queue for bread. This is the same as physical health care, this needs the same type of urgency and personal aid.

Structuralizing the mental health care

programs should be one of the first steps.

All the resources available are on different pages, on different main sites, there’s no true master list of services/locations/times. Some students don’t even know EARS is an option available right in Willard Straight Hall until their senior year. It’s all a waste without proper organization and marketing. One page should be created, with numbers and events listed properly, it should be a hub. We shouldn’t make people who need help work for it.

How about being realistic in the way students receive mental health care? Do you think a student in a crisis or a student unsure whether or not their feelings are severe enough to warrant treatment can wait ten minutes to get an answer on the Gannett line? To go through all those options and holds and transfers just to get someone on the other end that will indifferently reply we’ll see you in two weeks.

How about a texting service? Calling real people adds anxiety, it adds unnecessary time, it’s not 2002 anymore. How about an app that connects to your student account, knowing your class times to schedule a session, letting you talk to a professional through a screen that allows you to be more raw and open? And with a bigger team of professionals it shouldn’t be a problem to get someone’s help on your time and on time. Shouldn’t the Student Assembly’s Web Development team’s resources go into a project like this? It all seems radical now because no one’s tried before, because the Cornell mood on mental health is that raising awareness is enough.

We need to lessen the fear and up the familiarity, but this is not a priority. And this isn’t done by hour-long workshops once a year on drawing your dreams with crayons and spa nights at Noyes. We don’t need to be patronized like elementary school students. We need a constant conversation and that means realizing mental illness is common and an issue. Photo campaigns do this to an extent, but in general they’ve become impersonal and now associated with one-time events, for things that happen yearly, something you attend then forget about. Plus, the stigma still exists, some people are not in that stage of treatment or recovery where they can show their face and tell their story. If that’s the only outlet how can we expect to hear the whole story quilt. How about a column for health, for daily blog posts on students’ well-being, on their mental health and maybe progress. A safe space of sports, a public journal that can be text or drawings, quotes clipped from their favorite books. It can be anonymous, but it’s something that lets the student body know people dealing with their mental health are nearby, they still exist, they’re not viral campaigns of the past. Yes, recovery is possible, not all cases are biological, triggers exist, you can get better and treatment can work. Students need to know there is not one story, there is a gradient of experiences and you can fit anywhere.

Even if we lose in advocating for better and more proactive mental health policy, we’re promoting better mental health culture. We win by trying because this kind of awareness is new. We start understanding that structurally, things can improve.

We can’t allow the apathy to continue.

Allison Arteaga is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

Justice, Justice, Justice “My mother taught me this trick. If you repeat something over and over again, it loses its meaning. For example, homework. Homework, homework, homework, homework, homework, homework, homework, homework...See? Nothing.”

— Phil Kaye,“Repetition”

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fter a comedy show, my friend tells me which jokes were “problematic.” Problematic. His mouth holds the word the same way a seasoned cellist holds a note, muscle memory guiding fingertips to their exact position on a string.

It’s a routine: hear something, match it to an established system of prejudice or intolerance, then give it a label. Problematic.

There’s comfort in defaulting to the same language over and over: Saying “ratchet” is problematic. Lena Dunham is problematic. Opening a Soul Cycle in Southeast D.C. is problematic.

Problematic, problematic, problematic.

The language of left-wing, social advocacy is repetitive. These are ordinary words; words like dialogue, space, culture, bodies, safe or identity. They often come in packages: toxic and mas-

I’m afraid of the overuse of this small linguistic repertoire. I’m afraid, because the dependence on the terminology and the immediacy of its use fray the connections between the words and their meanings. That’s the thing about muscle memory: you don’t have to think about it. culinity, reproductive and justice, Spongebob and Squarepants.

That said, exploiting patterns of behavior attached to a movement or ideology is one of the simplest forms of mockery. Think of how Stephen Colbert lampooned conservative talk show hosts in The Colbert Report, or how Saturday Night Live picks on, well, everyone; the ridicule comes from the repeated behaviors, which are amplified by the satirist until the behavior looks inherently ridiculous, like a caricature.

It’s no surprise that the Redditesque users of the internet label this language pejoratively as SJW (an internet abbreviation for “social justice warrior”) speak. It’s just so easy to do so. A small, coded source of language is reliable, but it’s also heavily mockable. The comfort of this language backfires. Not only does the repetition leave room for mockery, but the dependence on this language — often language that can productively take complex and thorny ideas and make them more digestible and accessible — becomes a crutch for the user.

Problematic, problematic, problematic. Applying the word is like washing your favorite pair of jeans. Problematic, problematic, problematic. Each wash, each use, makes them worn out more and more, until they lose their gusto but still cover up what you want them to. At this point, you wear them not because they’re fly as hell, but because they’re still comfortable. (I write this as all of my jeans are falling apart. I had to order two new pairs online. I’ve worn exercise pants as normal pants an absurd number of times in the past two weeks.) I’m afraid of the overuse of this small linguistic repertoire. I’m afraid, because the dependence on the terminology and the immediacy of its use fray the connections between the words and their meanings. That’s the thing about muscle memory: you don’t have to think about it.

I rely on patterns of language just as much as the next guy (provided that the next guy relies on these patterns a lot), which is probably something a reader can gauge just from reading this column. I fear making a normative argument about these patterns, because they’re useful. They’re mockable, but they’re accessible. They’re worn-out, but they’re efficient. I guess you could say they’re just a little problematic.

Pegah Moradi is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

OPINION

Web

Comment of the day “I think that having Alpha Phi Alpha cosponsor this forum is a positive sign.

I hope that every Cornell fraternity ... holds an after dinner meeting wiith a CUPD officer to improve Greek-police relations. Campus police need to see that fraternities are not just people out to voilate the ABC Laws and fraternities need to understand the difficult job that campus police have.”

Outraged Alumnus Re: “Students, Cornell Police Clash Over ‘Systemic Racism’ in Law Enforcement,” News, October 20, 2016

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

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Publisher’s Dilemma

he 24-hour news cycle during an election is its own type of arms race: media outlets all want the story, they want the story first and they need to match the information of their competitors in order to win over an evolving readership.

Journalism has always been motivated by this kind of competition. However, now that the news isn’t always punctuated by a print cycle, and is made boundless by the Internet, the pace has been accelerated and certain considerations are becoming sloppy.

Now add the fact that new documents, WikiLeaks, have been added into the category of “what news competitors have in their arsenal” and the information arms race is brought to a level that is not only competitive, but potentially unethical.

T h e media matters a lot in any election. Some people criticize this and some people celebrate it, but it has been proven again and again to be true. The media dictates what we pay attention to, and sets the tone in which we pay attention. Lately, the media has been engaging in a relatively new kind of reporting, turning to thousands of WikiLeaks emails have been hacked, stolen, sifted through and published. The extraction of these e-mails was sketchy and most likely illegal, and increasing CIA evidence implies that Russia hacked and leaked the emails in order to influence our presidential election. And now it’s online for anyone to see, with the media acting as the most efficient agent of that information. The media’s secondhand publication of this stolen information is legally sound, morally dubious and difficult to question, because we’re all too distracted reading it.

I spoke to a reporter who said that, if one of his colleagues

hacked into someone else’s computer and published their stolen information, they would not only be fired, but most likely arrested and prosecuted. The only difference here is that there is a middleman doing the hacking.

However, that’s hardly redeeming considering the fact that the middleman is international hackers with ulterior motives regarding our election. In this situation, the middleman doesn’t absolve a publication of responsibility, but instead just complicates things more. This is something new that we should think about, even if we still come to the conclusion that WikiLeaks’s findings are salient enough to to continue to publish and read.

tors have already done it, of course you’re going to hop on the train; it makes sense competitively, and economically. As a reader, we aren’t always considering or understanding the decisions that we make either, in part because we expect reputable sources to make some of these decisions for us. When all news publications are relaying the information, the practice is normalized. I don’t question CNN when I see that they’re running a headline on Podesta’s emails, because it’s news. When CNN runs transcript from a sketchy speech that Hillary gave, their editorial authority indicates to me, and other viewers, that it is relevant, and fair to publish. But this isn’t necessarily correct.

T h i s m i g h t come off as overly sympathetic to those who engage in wrongdoing, and get caught by WikiLeaks.

It’s tempting to think, ‘if politicians don’t want private information to be made public, they shouldn’t live private lives that they need to keep secret in the first place.’ And this is a good point. But think about your own phone, and whether or not this would work for you.

Someday, some of you might decide to run for office. And if you do, in a high profile election, you may be subject to the same journalistic standards that you — and the media outlets that dispense news to you — are setting right now, as I write this. That’s not something to agree with or disagree with; its simply something to think about. Even if we as readers collectively decide we’re okay with a narrowed private sphere, we need to go off autopilot long enough think about it.

As a reader, we aren’t always considering or understanding the decisions that we make either, in part because we expect reputable sources to make some of these decisions for us. When all news publications are relaying the information, the practice is normalized.

The decision to publish WikiLeaks is difficult to look at ethically, because it’s the responsibility of the media to report newsworthy findings. This isn’t a moral condemnation of the media outlets, but an appeal for us all to zoom out and look at the new trends we are setting, and the way those trends are narrowing the realm of what we are allowed, as American citizens, to keep private. We are setting a precedent, both for how we allow foreign powers to intervene in our election, and for how we use the election to justify the intrusion of privacy and the idea that nothing — not emails, pictures, campaign strategies or private conversations — is sacred.

As a publication, you don’t necessarily have time to consider the ethical pluses and minuses of relaying Russia’s information dump to your readers. If the Washington Post has already done it, and your other competi-

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She may be reached at jgroskaufmanis @cornellsun.com. The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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OPINION

Jack Kim | Guest Room

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conomics and climate awareness have always been heralded as enemies in the media, with “right-wing, power-hungry” economists battling with “leftwing, hippie” environmentalists. But what if there was a way for them to join forces to achieve a common goal?

On Oct. 4, the Senior Leaders Climate Action Group released a report outlining different pathways to achieve carbon neutrality by 2035, furthering its commitment to the Climate Action Plan released in 2009. Members of SLCAG presented the report before the Student Assembly yesterday, and will take questions from the entire community at a forum on Oct. 31.

While I appreciate that Cornell has taken some important steps towards lowering its own carbon footprint to fight climate change, as a self-proclaimed global climate leader, Cornell must recognize that it must set the bar for climate action, not just meet it, to alert the global community that it is serious about leaving the path of “business-as-usual” in favor of a cleaner, brighter future.

Fossil fuel divestment,

A Green Endowment combined with our plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2035, would draw necessary worldwide attention to the research produced on our campus, a “living laboratory” for climate solutions and add an additional punch of legitimacy to the calls for a clean energy revolution.

“Divestment” involves Cornell withdrawing its investments in the Carbon Underground 200, which consists of the top 100 coal and the top 100 oil and gas companies with the largest reserves of carbon (potential CO2e emitted). A commitment to divest is distinct from sustainability goals because it labels the fossil fuel industry as “morally reprehensible” and makes a clear statement that we do not support the companies that systematically obstruct efforts to combat climate change.

Fossil fuel companies have a long history of purposely not accounting for the extreme externalities that they produce, and failing to acknowledge the global extent of their actions. For example, ExxonMobil was aware of the serious effects of climate change back in 1977, a full eleven years before climate

change was a well-established global issue. Instead of improving their technology to reduce carbon emissions or focus more on sustainability, they decided instead to subdue the information because they didn’t want to incur additional transaction fees.

One of the main arguments

by Cornell’s administration against divestment from fossil fuels is that it would be too costly. However, given the opaque nature of universities’ investments offices, “empirical” studies and statements made by the committee frequently have no means of factual verification. A recent study conducted by Hendrik Bessembinder released on May 11 stated that large universities such as Cornell would have its endowment lowered “$120.75 million to $724.5 million over 20 years”.

However, this figure assumes that Cornell is a typical large endowment university that falls into a conjured generalized model. In reality, our endowment investment percentage is drastically different.

The report implies that we invest 6.12 percent of our endowment in the fossil fuel industry, while we actually

invest less than 1 percent. Our investments in crude energy are very low, contradicting the notion that we could potentially lose hundreds of millions of dollars due to divestment.

In fact, Cornell has lost millions of dollars of our endowment directly because of our investment in declining industries such as oil and gas, not in spite of it. The S&P Oil & Gas Industry Index, which measures the performance of those crude energy companies, has fallen 15.8 percent over the past three years.

Universities can’t profit off of investment in failing companies, and this is reflected in our 3.3 percent loss of return on our endowment, the lowest of the Ivies, according to a recent Bloomberg report.

Therefore, we would actually be saving money from divestment rather than losing it.

This would support both the University’s motive for profit and our transition towards a more sustainable environment while protecting basic human rights worldwide.

Furthermore, we would be the first Ivy League institution to fully divest from fossil fuels, and would join other

divested institutions such as Washington DC’s $6.4 billion retirement fund, Berlin’s €750 million pension fund, as well as the city of Ithaca, as Mayor Svante Myrick announced divestment from fossil fuels in 2013. Cornell’s climate action plan has not gathered much press attention, but a public statement for fossil fuel divestment would definitely catch major headlines and spur global communication.

As carbon levels have now been the highest in human history, past the 400 ppm threshold that was previously considered to be “bad news” for the environment, we know that we must take drastic action. Divestment from fossil fuels is a tangible step that can severely impact fossil fuel companies and get both them and the world to notice a big problem.

This column originally ap peared online on October 21, 2016.

Jack Kim is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Comments may be sent to associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

Ruth Weissmann | A Word to the Weiss

Taking America’s Pulse I

to take the survey, agree to have their recently read a piece of advice that will.) asked writers to pinpoint the topic, In class, we dabble with the polling voices heard, no matter what opinions issue or event they would least like to data and analyze survey ethics, the they hold.

I spoke to a middle-aged man who write about, and then go write about it. moral of the course being that most if Mine wasn’t a difficult answer: the all- not all statistical data is at the very least refused to answer the gender question, consuming political hellhole that is the imperfect. Outside class, I am calling noting that gender is non-binary. I chatAmerica, and America usually hangs up ted with a college student who supported current election. So, here goes.

Wait! Do not stop reading. I know on me. The call list is randomized the Black Lives Matter movement with that the political opinion of a twen- throughout the Continental U.S., and palpable emotion. I talked to a young tysomething college co-ed is not one when a Southern state area codes pop man in his early 20s who elaborated at you’re eager to hear. But I will not, in up, I prepare for the possibility of being length as to why people of different racial the following article, discuss any of the cursed out – or prayed for. Florida is backgrounds should not date (and, in a following: the electoral college, the pre- typically a grab bag; the elderly popula- testament to my willpower, I did not lose ferred civic duties of a voter, the sup- tion makes for willing but hard of hear- it). I’ve spoken to people who think that posedly rigged media, policy or the ing participants. With states further too many immigrants enter our country; dead squirrel that Donald Trump calls This election sometimes feels like the last season of a television hair. Instead I’m going to talk about a show where the writers have given up on a believable plot. In the class I’m enrolled in polling calls I find humor and occasionally horror, but I also find here called Taking America’s Pulse. The sincerity. These are people ... of different ages and incomes and premise of the course is simple: each stu- raised under different beliefs, who care enough about the litany dent in the class subof problems facing our country to take a stance. mits a survey question on a topic of their choice — anything from climate change to politics to west, you can usually count on fairly I’ve spoken to people who think that the racially charged issues to whether full liberal opinions and people who are opposite. I administered the survey to a body contact should be eliminated in shocked to learn that they still in fact woman who thought that public high youth sports. The survey is then com- own a landline. It’s exhausting — my schools should make condoms available piled and coded and carried out at status as a non-telemarketer is frequent- to their students but also championed Cornell’s Survey Research Institute. All ly questioned, I am leaving overly chip- abstinence-only education. (What, like this to say that I’ve been spending a few per messages on answering machines the kids are just going to make balloon nights a week at a polling center with a that will never be returned and there is animals?) I’ve talked to Hillary voters phone to my ear, trying to swindle peo- a stiff crick in my neck developing from and Trump voters and people who don’t ple across the continental U.S. into tak- holding a phone to my ear. But the best think voting is important. On the phone, ing a 15 minute poll using coercion and thing that has come of conducting a I cannot chime in, cannot take sides or a dose of good cheer. (If you take the national poll has by far been the few nudge anyone towards an answer. The survey, we’ll stop calling you, we really people who jump at my pitch and agree ability to groan or reprimand some of the

(to me, abhorrent) viewpoints I’ve been privy to is not an available option. But I don’t mind. I had forgotten what a privilege we have in the country in being granted our individual opinions.

This election sometimes feels like the last season of a television show where the writers have given up on a believable plot. In the polling calls I find humor and occasionally horror, but I also find sincerity. These are people large and small, of different ages and incomes and raised under different beliefs, who care enough about the litany of problems facing our country to take a stance.

They remind me that I am not the only person on the planet who believes she has a valid, logical, researched perspective on the issues — something I think we all get caught thinking during an election year as we preach our own personal dogma to the depths of the internet.

After all, the opposing side believes you to be just as irrational as you believe them to be. In the past months I was beginning to believe that America as we know it was in the midst of a slow death. But I’ve been spending my nights taking America’s pulse, and in a way, we’re far from needing life support.

Ruth Weissmann is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at raw287@cornell.edu. A Word to the Weiss appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Professor Jaak Panksepp Washington State University

“The Emotional Feelings of Other (Animal) Brains: From Cross-Species Neuro-Affective Foundations to Novel Psychiatric Therapeutics” Monday, October 24 4:00 p.m.

G01 Uris Hall

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Seoul Searching:

Stereotypes, Authenticity, Diversity Seoul Searching (directed by Benson Lee) starts in black and “being Korean” and “being an immigrant,” Seoul Searching was white, old reels and footage of Korea as a narrator gives a quick more of a feel-good bonding story of teens in summer camp historical background to give us the setting for the film. After a filled with cheap laughs and silly scenarios. The extensive use of devastating war, many Koreans left the peninsula in search of a clichés and stereotypes were a throwback better life, bringing their young children to America and Europe. to ’80s film in general — an homage to As so often happens in immigrant stories, the children inevitably John Hughes films. But the clichés made experienced a distinct loss of heritage and understanding of the Seoul Searching feel inauthentic. The Korean culture. In an attempt to mitigate this, the South Korean stereotypes and clichés so defined the government implemented a program during the ’80s to bring characters that it was hard see any real children of immigrants to Korea for a summer camp to learn substance in them; in a way, it felt like I about their Korean heritage. This movie revolves around a set of was watching caricatures of people. these kids — Sid (Justin Chon), Klaus (Teo Yoo), Sergio And unfortunately, it was at the (Esteban Ahn), Grace (Jessika Van), Kris (Rosalina Leigh) to expense of other groups. What’s interestname a few — going to this camp. ing about the stereotyping in Seoul After the historical introduction, my gut instinct was to Searching is that the use stereotypes are cringe. From the poster, you can tell this movie is meant to be to mostly reversed. Instead of falling onto some extent a comedy with bright colors, flashy outfits and silly the typical Asian stereotype Hollywood poses. But the movie as a whole relied heavily on stereotypes to so loves, Seoul Searching has Asian actors create the basis for the characters — it was almost hard to watch playing characters that are stereotypes of Sergio’s stereotyped love for parties and women, Claus’s German Americans, Germans, Mexicans and so orderliness or Sid’s on. In that sense, the ’80s American obsesmovie tried to construct sion with the punk diverse range of actual rock. The outfits of characters that had very the characters feel different lives and experiences in the new counlike costumes, the tries they had to adjust to. But the gung-ho Cornell lines are predictable group of teens also detracted from the movie, and we’re slammed making it go in too many different directions, Cinema with corny clichés of which ultimately made the film seem more teenagers and culinsubstantial. tures.

What was great is that the movie had real I thought that perhaps my reaction was because I went into Asian people playing Asian characters. In a time in which we’re the film thinking that it would be exploring the Korean immi- still being inundated with whitewashing controversies and limitgrant story. As a Korean immigrant, that excited me. But the ed roles for non-white actors, it was refreshing to see an all-Asian movie mostly did something else; though touching a bit on cast playing new roles and types of characters. While the clichés

Catherine Hwang

and stereotypes of the characters overall didn’t appeal to me, I appreciated the diverse roles and that many of the actors had understandings of the stereotypes their characters portrayed (for example, Esteban Ahn who played Sergio Kim, a student from Mexico, was raised in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands of Spain; Teo Yoo who played Klaus Kim, a student from Germany, was born in Cologne, Germany).

Ultimately, the movie relied too heavily on overused tropes and had too many corny scenes to give a real sense of authenticity—the histrionics made the movie feel ridiculous at times.

But it showed a diverse COURTESY OF WONDER VISION cast in new roles and in the in-between, I thought I saw glimpses of that story I wanted to expect. In small moments, sentiments that are universal for immigrants were expressed: the understanding of how hard it is to drop everything and start a new life, the very raw loss of culture and the nature of being Asian in different cultures.

Seoul Searching will be shown at Cornell Cinema on the evening of Monday, October 24.

Catherine Hwang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at shwang@cornell.edu.

Perfectly Sensible: Precious Nonsense at the Kitchen

BY EMILY FOURNIER Sun Staff Writer

The aptly-named musical Precious Nonsense is advertised as a simple diversion from the stress of everyday life, and it delivers. Playwright and artistic director Rachel Lampert’s production is fun and lighthearted, serving as pure entertainment. The show is not new to the Kitchen Theatre; Lampert’s sister, Sara Lampert Hoover, directs as she did in the original production in 2004 and Eric Brooks reprises his role as RDC Carter. Lampert spoke to the audience before the show began on opening night and explained that the production was chosen to run at this time to distract theatre-goers from the stress of world events like the upcoming election, and it certainly does its job.

The musical is set in the 1930s and follows the lives of members of a touring theatre company, the Carter Family Savoyards, dedicated to sharing songs from the comedic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan. Many of the songs are adaptations of the originals, and all are sung by the cast and accompanied by the company’s pianist, Herbie (Thomas Conroy, who is also the music director). The set is simple and serves the plot without distracting from it. Angelina (Lydia Gaston) and RDC Carter (Eric Brooks) are the heads of the Carter Family Savoyards and clearly have a flair for the dramatic, constantly singing to each other and making grand speeches whenever possible. Their son Frederic (Coleman Hemsath) hopes to leave the company on his upcoming 25th birthday, but his parents want him to stay and take over with his childhood friend Josephine (Jillian Gottlieb), the archetypal ingénue, so they can soon retire. Josephine and Frederic are aware that Frederic’s par-

ents want them to marry, but realize that scene. character likeable. Mabel’s situation adds neither is romantically interested in the Patrick Halley seems comfortable to the hilarity, particularly when she is other. Both thus become free to pursue onstage, but convincingly plays someone forced to keep her fake mustache while she other people, which naturally results in who clearly is not. Pete, playing the Pirate and the male actors play women, which of chaos, including a song that ends in a King, constantly struggles with his high- course is not exactly playing for her. bizarre make-out scene between Precious Nonsense starts out the two. slow and is not the kind of The Carter Family musical that appeals to those Savoyards originally intend to who don’t love musicals, as it perform simply a series of songs fits just about every stereotype

by Gilbert and Sullivan but, about musicals. Half the chardue to the orders of the man acters fall in love at first sight, paying for the play, they are they constantly break into required at the last minute to song, and the actors gesture produce the full-length show flamboyantly with every draThe Pirates of Penzance instead. matic line. However, it is also a This change requires Pete very self-aware production and (Patrick Halley), the stage manthe characters poke fun at their ager and cynical bachelor, to own problems. For those who conquer his stage fright and like traditional musicals and participate in the show and to have a good sense of humor, eventually confess his feelings the show is simply fun and for Josephine. It also introduces charming. The entire cast is Samuel (Weston Allen Kemp), very vocally talented, and an aspiring performer who Gottlieb’s dramatic, vibratoimmediately falls in love with filled entrance and Brooks’ Josephine, and Mack/Mabel performance of the fast-paced (Emily Jackson), Josephine’s sis“Modern Major-General’s ter who disguises herself as a Song” are especially memoman to in order to get a role in rable. The use of Gilbert & COURTESY OF DAVE BURBANK this production and perform Sullivan’s work would likely with Frederic so she can be with Hilarity ensues | Eric Brooks and Lydia Gaston in Precious Nonsense. alienate some younger theatrehim. Frederic falls for her too, goers were it not for the show’s even before realizing that that “Mack” is heeled shoes and wobbles around the quirky humor, which left audience memreally Mabel. The romantic feelings among stage, and his nervousness before his first bers, including myself, chuckling through the cast become apparent in the produc- song is palpable. Fortunately, Pete the reception after the show. tion; in many ways, the events of The becomes more comfortable and brings Pirates of Penzance mirrors the actions of down the house with an upbeat song Precious Nonsense will be performed the characters in Precious Nonsense, and the announcing that he is the Pirate King. through November 6 at the Kitchen goings-on backstage begin to blur with the Halley and Gottlieb, who plays Josephine, Theatre. plot of the show. Despite the many entan- definitely deliver the most comedic perforglements, the musical has a happy ending mances of the musical. Gottlieb brings Emily Fournier is a senior in the College of Arts for all but one, who is comforted while Josephine to life with silly quips and gig- and Sciences. She can be reached at comically being dragged away from the gles at every turn, and makes the conceited ejf225@cornell.edu.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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Actions Speak Louder Than Words After surviving attempts to destroy all copies of this film due to copyright infringement (they never got the rights to the material), this adaptation of Stoker’s Dracula (1897) was brought before a packed audience in Sage Chapel. For those who don’t know, Nosferatu is a 1922 silent, expressionist, German film.

This means lots of beautiful stylized acting may be in store, which is my favorite part of any silent film. Since silent films can only use intertitles for dialogue, the plot has to be conveyed via the characters’ actions. The actors are over the top in their gestures, and their eyes bulge farther than I think should be physically possible. However, the stylized acting here is downplayed to make the audience take the film more seriously. So, unfortunately, it isn’t as funny as I thought it might be. But, what do you expect from one of the most influential horror films of all time? The question I wanted to explore was whether Nosferatu really is as flawless as everyone believes it to be.

In any silent film, the only sound is the accompanying soundtrack. That night, we had the pleasure of live accompaniment from the orchestra, the Silent Czars. And, I don’t know if it was just because I couldn’t see them, but I kept forgetting the music was live. It was dramatic, on point with what was on screen down to characters’ gestures and really created a creepy atmosphere. One of the Silent Czars even added an intro to the piece by dressing up in period costume, trying to scare the audience before the film started. It was creative but confusing.

The film lives up to its name in atmosphere. For a film made in 1922, it builds suspense very well through the ominous shadows (chiaroscuro lighting for you film junkies), long takes and the eerie music. The best scenes are when Count Orlok (a.k.a. Nosferatu) tries to kill his victims by sucking their blood. I just wish there were more scenes like this. Throughout the entire film, you only see Nosferatu attack four times and control people with his shadow once. The other times, we just see the result of his attacks and the dead. So, despite the atmosphere building in intensity and eeriness, there’s not that much of a payoff. You could argue less is more, but scenes when we don’t see Nosferatu ranged from odd to confusing.

The characters are pretty typical to what you would find in this genre today: the unspeakable evil (Nosferatu), the minion (Knock), the fair maiden (Ellen), the dashing hero (Hutter) and others. Nosferatu is creepy, and his costume and makeup design really add to the overall effect. I particularly like the addition of his long nails, which is a pretty defining feature. His limitless telekinetic powers make me wonder why it takes so long for him to kill everyone and attack Ellen. What is he waiting for? Knock, Hutter’s boss and scapegoat for the town’s killings, is controlled by Nosferatu. He is just a crazy character and is so much fun. Even his eyebrows take on a life of their own. I wish he does more than just send Hutter to Nosferatu,

but that might make the audience not take the film seriously. I guess I just wanted more over the top.

The actress playing Ellen isn’t fantastic, but I can’t say I’ve seen silent films where the acting is realistic. And, some artistic liberties are definitely taken with the portrayal of characters. There is a very bizarre scene where she somehow telepathically stops Nosferatu from attacking Hutter. Her “powers” don’t come into play anywhere else, so I’m not sure how to interpret that. Also, she is Hutter’s wife, so how is she a fair maiden? I mean, I don’t know the inner workings of their marriage, but I doubt that she’s a maiden. I guess Nosferatu goes after her because he sees her in a picture Hutter has, but it’s weird that she just happens to be the one that could somehow distract Nosferatu and kill him. And, she doesn’t do anything to really distract him more than other people, so it just seems like Nosferatu is stupid for not getting back to his house in time.

Hutter ranges from fun and enjoyable to just dopey. He is a relatable character but doesn’t run when he figures out Nosferatu is a vampire.

And, to follow Nosferatu, he jumps out of a tall window instead of using the stairs, which causes him to be taken to a hospital. Hutter never makes the connection, or tells anyone, that the vampire is Cornell in their town. So, people die because he doesn’t take action.

Cinema The story starts with Knock sending Hutter to Count Orlok in “the land of phantoms” to offer him a house across from Hutter’s. I don’t know if the phantoms are a metaphor or are real because the world seems like ours, which is why Nosferatu adds conflict to our normal world. Hutter even laughs at the idea that a creature like Nosferatu could exist.

But, when Hutter goes to a tavern in Transylvania, they tell him to spend the night to take cover from the werewolves, something apparently common in the area. And, I don’t really know how worldly people were in the 1920s, but instead of having someone in a silly costume, there are shots of a hyena since, I guess, it was a bizarre creature to the period’s audience. I speculate that the filmmakers thought it would be taken more seriously, but all I thought was “poor hyena.” I hope it is equity. So, we are led to believe that the supernatural exists, but once people start dying from a bite in the neck, everyone assumes plague first. Then, they quite randomly decide that Knock is a vampire since he kills a guard.

There are a couple of other plot holes that also rear their ugly heads. The townspeople are scared to go to Count Orlok’s castle at first but regularly go there other times. Nosferatu also doesn’t

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drink all of Hutter’s blood the first chance he has, and, to be honest, he doesn’t really need to sign the deed for the house in Hutter’s town since he goes there without anyone knowing anyway. So, why doesn’t he go there before? And, why does he take a ship to the town if he easily moves himself across land? Hutter gets there just as fast on foot as he does in water (a problem that even the film addresses in that they don’t know how it is possible). As confusing as these flaws are, and as easily swayed the townspeople are, it doesn’t distract from the enjoyment of the picture.

The effects for the time are really good. Despite being a black and white film, this version, still from 1922, COURTESY OF FILM ARTS GUILD includes filters that help determine the time of day: piss yellow for a lit space, blue for night (yet people can still see) and white or pink for early morning. Some of the frames are missing in time, so some scenes are choppy, including the stop motion. However, you can really appreciate what they were able to accomplish almost 100 years ago, especially when the doors and other objects flawlessly move on their own, thus giving a “not of this world” appearance. For example, the footage of the horse and carriage that carry Hutter to Nosferatu’s castle is sped up to give the carriage unnatural speed. The idea is good, but it does look a little silly. It really makes you wonder what effects we use today are going to be dated 100 years from now. It was shot on location, which is a better choice than what some filmmakers do today in only using CGI. Practical effects look real guys, not just fake CGI sets.

My biggest problem, other than Hutter being a bit of an idiot, is the intertitles. There is a lot of reading, even for a silent film, to a point where we had to reread titles we had already read.

I know this is a famous film, but I think my screenplay professor would faint at the amount of reading the audience had to do.

In the end, the film still really holds up. It’s just not as flawless as people make it out to be. The slow moving atmosphere makes the intense scenes with Nosferatu all the more effective and enjoyable. And, Nosferatu is a quintessential villain. He is all knowing, telepathic, telekinetic, and is king of the night. I just wish a creature that powerful would be harder to kill and survive beyond the film. But, I did enjoy the development in Ellen’s character in her willingness to sacrifice herself to kill Nosferatu. I just yearned for Hutter to grow a pair and take a stand as well. Anyway, I gotta grab another bandaid. I woke up this morning with two equally spaced holes around my neck. Stupid mosquitoes.

Trip Hastings is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Scinces. He can be reached at gh357@cornell.edu.

Slam! vs. Poetry: The Problem With Names

BY TUSHAR THOMAS Sun Contributor

The Haunt hosted Andrea Gibson and Sarah Kay this past Sunday. I had never before attended a slam poetry performance, but I had studied poetry, and my friend had an extra ticket, so I decided to go. As an introduction, the event served well. The poems entertained, and the crowd was vibrant.

I’ll admit, before the event, I wasn’t sure how much I would enjoy it. The only previous exposure I had had to slam poetry was from 22 Jump Street, in which, Jonah Hill’s character improvises a slam poem in one scene. His piece is barely coherent, if at all, and riddled with ridiculously bad puns. In the movie’s depiction of it, slam poetry came across as a modern form of sophistry. But my hesitation stemmed from broader concerns.

To be honest, I’m a little bit of a snob — at least when it comes to literature. The poetry that I’ve studied in English classes is rich with aesthetic formalisms. The great American poet Marianne Moore, for example, fits her stanzas into specific (though unconventional) rhythmic patterns, and her line-breaks are deftly placed on the page to add to the mean-

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ings of the poems. I was afraid that slam poetry would lack aesthetic qualities like these, and therefore, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it as much. I was half right. The aesthetic techniques employed by Sarah Kay and Andrea Gibson weren’t as poetically subtle as those employed by Marianne Moore.

But what surprised me was that that didn’t stop me from enjoying the performance.

Sarah Kay took the stage first, and she won me over immediately. If you’ve ever heard T. S. Eliot’s rendition of “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” you know that even the greatest of poets aren’t always the best performers. But Kay’s performance was on point. Moreover, it was a vital part of her poetry. Her voice was resonant. She used charming hand gestures that accompanied her topics. She mysteriously winked once in a while as if to acknowledge some secret bond with a lucky audience member. Her way of speaking reminded me of a kindergarten teacher’s endearing way of storytelling, which was apt because much of her poetry dealt with childhood innocence. I would go so far as to say that her poetry was closer to storytelling than poetry. The subtlety and skill in her craft lay in how she paced

her narratives and acted those narratives out rather than in profound wordplay. But, at least in contemporary written poetry, profound wordplay seems to be a definitive aspect, so can we call her work poetry? And herein lies the key to understanding why I enjoyed her performance: it struck me as something other than poetry. Thus, because it wasn’t poetry, it didn’t have to work on the same level as poetry.

And yet, I’m finding it difficult to identify where exactly to draw that line between storytelling and poetry. Andrea Gibson complicates the issue further because they broke from storytelling, but still, their poems were often structured around it. For example, in “Boomerang Valentine,” they began as if they were about to tell a story. Then, about a minute into the poem, they abandoned the story and started using images and metaphors. In these moments, their poems began to appear more and more like Moore’s poems, which use images and metaphors with skillful grace. Gibson’s poetry never quite reached Moore’s poetry though. That’s because it lacked a certain degree of composition. Gibson jumped from image to image and topic to topic inconsistently. Their verses

end up sounding like enjoyable rants. It’s almost as if they were sacrificing storytelling in favor of poeticism, and as a result, they were losing the structure provided by a pure story or a pure poem. It’s tempting for me to portray this dynamic as an instance of “real poetry” developing out of mere performance art. But that would mean that complex, academic poetry is inherently superior to simpler, oral poetry. If that was the case, I wouldn’t have enjoyed Gibson’s performance, and I did. Again, the resolution of this issue seems to be that this is an intersection of two categories, both of which work on separate but equally valid levels.

And that leads me back to the ever-present question of: where do these categories diverge? I suspect that there aren’t really any strict categories, and instead there are whole networks of associations and spectrums. Still, the categories are useful in some situations.

For example, they allow me to say things like: if I had to choose between slam poetry and academic poetry, I would choose academic poetry. Fortunately, I don’t have to choose.

Tushar Thomas is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tt465@cornell.edu.

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Cornell struggled to put together a single strong offensive possession in the first half. Banks’ passes were wobbly and off-the-mark, and it seemed like whenever his passes were thrown well, the ball slipped out of the hands of Cornell receivers.

The Bears started the third quarter where they left off at the end of the first half. Quarterback T.J. Linta found Jette for his second touchdown of the day on an 18-yard strike.

Jette — who torched Cornell for 157 receiving yards when the teams last met, a 44-24 Brown victory — finished with 196 total yards and three touchdowns.

“Jette in the open field is tough,” Archer said. “He’s a really good athlete and when you get him you have to put him down. You can’t miss a tackle in open field space.”

As the rain subsided and the field began to dry, Cornell responded to the Brown touchdown with a score of its own. Banks orchestrated his best drive of the day with five straight passes and 57 passing yards. The sophomore capped off the drive with a nine-yard pass to senior captain and tight end Matt Sullivan.

Asked what caused Banks’ impressive turnaround in the second half, Archer said bluntly, “The balls weren’t waterlogged, so he was able to throw them.”

Several drives later, junior linebacker Kurt Frimel forced a fumble and returned the ball 71 yards to put the offense in ideal position to start the ensuing drive. Replays appeared to show that Frimel’s knee may have been down when he scooped up the loose ball, but, since Ivy League does not offer referees an option to review plays, the call on the field stood.

On the ensuing drive, a passer interference penalty on the Bears extended Cornell drive and allowed Banks to find senior receiver Ben Rogers in the endzone and tie the game at 14.

Later, as the fourth quarter ticked away and as the Bears attempted to score the go-ahead touchdown, Linta looked downfield for a Brown receiver, but junior safety Nick Gesualdi swooped in and muscled his way for an interception — his fifth in as many games.

These turnovers come a week after a five-turnover performance by the Red’s defense against Sacred Heart. In

“It hurts right now, but tomorrow when the sun comes up it’ll be time to move on and keep pressing this thing forward.”

Head Coach David Archer ’05 that game, too, defensive takeaways gave a struggling offense prime opportunities to capitalize.

“They really take great pride in taking the football away, which is great to see,” Archer said of his defense which he as extolled all season. “They play a tenacious brand of football.”

Cornell, however, was unable to capitalize on the interception and Fraser came on to punt the ball away.

After a pair of strong stops that kept the Bears backed up at their 10-yard line, a pass interference call on junior cornerback Jelani King gifted Brown another chance on the drive. The Bears marched down the field, but stalled out on Cornell’s 21-yard line.

The Bears pulled their original starting kicker after he

missed two field goals in the first quarter and called upon freshman Jack Hall to kick the field goal. The 38-yard attempt was Hall’s first ever at the collegiate level, and the freshman’s kick was short, sending the game into overtime.

Cornell started with the ball in the first extra period. In five plays, Banks connected with senior receiver Marshall Deutz for a touchdown to put the Red ahead. Deutz ended the day as the team’s leading receiver, hauling in seven balls for 70 yards.

Brown sent the game into a second overtime period thanks to a two-yard pass from Linta to a wide-open Jette.

The Bears started with the ball in the second overtime and Johnny Pena — who had four touchdowns last year against Cornell — scored, putting the Red on the brink of a loss for a third straight game.

Following the Bears’ score, Cornell regained the ball and Banks’ fourth-down run kept the team alive, setting the Red up with a new set of downs. After three incomplete passes, Cornell needed to reach the five-yard line for the first down, but an eight-yard pickup by Deutz was not enough.

The game ended, and so did Cornell’s chance at snapping its losing streak against its Providence rival.

With four games remaining — each of them in-conference games — Archer continues to have faith in his team.

According to the head coach, the losses sting, but they still represent a vast improvement of the past few seasons.

“It hurts right now,” Archer said, “but tomorrow when the sun comes up it’ll be time to move on and keep pressing this thing forward.”

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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juniors Dan Wedman and Ryan Bliss.

Cornell fans got a first look at some of the newly-introduced freshmen — Yanni Kaldis and Noah Bauld — who will likely see ice time this year.

Kaldis quarterbacked a majority of Cornell powerplays in the first game and Bauld went on to score his first goal in a Cornell jersey, although it did not come in NCAA play so does not count as an official first career goal.

In the first game against Ontario, Schafer elected to start last year’s starter, senior Mitch Gillam. While Schafer plans to start

his dependable goalie this season, he has also acknowledged the incredible improvement of junior Hayden Stewart, who got the nod against Brock.

“I thought [Stewart] was solid without looking back at the video,” Schafer said.

Senior goalie Ryan Coon was eventually subbed in for Stewart when the Red’s offense attained a comfortable lead, but the deployment of Stewart could be a foreshadowing of what Cornell fans can expect next season when Gillam is gone and Stewart is a senior.

“Ryan is a tremendous teammate and a fantastic student,” Schafer said of his behind-the-scenes senior. “[But] Stewart has to unseat Mitch and has to continue to work

if he wants to play.”

Above all, while generally happy with the performance, Schafer and his staff know there is still plenty of fine-tuning to be done prior to Friday’s opener at Merrimack.

However, according to the head coach, this weekend’s games did a fine job in getting a surprisingly-packed Lynah Rink energized for the season, especially on parents’ weekend.

“Good start to the season with this weekend,” Schafer said. “We are on the road for a long, long time [early this season] … but we are looking forward to the challenge.”

Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

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Sprint Notches First Home Win,Improves to 2-3 Heading into final two games against Penn, Franklin Pierce, team eager to achieve season goals

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

After two consecutive losses and a bye week, Cornell sprint football has been treating its final three games as a completely new season, according to Co-Head Coach Bart Guccia.

Despite poor weather, the Red (2-3) was able to win its first home game of the season against Post (0-5), by a final score of 27-13.

“The rain was not too bad on the artificial turf,” Guccia said of the conditions. “The rain and wind were intermittent, so we were able to keep the balls dry, and ultimately it didn’t affect us too much.”

The only fluid offense in the opening half came when senior quarterback Robert Pannullo was able to manufacture a methodical scoring drive for the Red — with under a minute remaining before halftime — and rushed the ball in for the score. Freshman kicker Ben Finkelstein missed the point after, and so the Red took a 6-0 lead into halftime.

The Red was able to continue its success in the second half, scoring on its first possession of the third quarter, courtesy of Pannullo’s second rushing touchdown.

ADRIAN BOTEANU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER “Post is a really good team, and we were feeling them out Eyes on the prize | Co-Head Coach Bart Guccia gave his team a goal of winning the final three games of the season. Now in the first half,” Pannullo said. “We turned the ball over twice, which slowed us down a bit, but once we cleaned that Penn and Franklin Pierce stand in the way of that goal.

“It was a big game for us to win because we were coming ond half,” Seeley said. up, we came out strong in the second half, and finished some The Cornell defense came up huge, allowing only 229 off of two straight losses and had a bye week to get ourselves drives.” yards passing and negative five rushing yards on 20 attempts.

Cornell’s special teams unit blocked a Post punt on the right,” Seeley said.

“The defense played a great game and did not allow them Pannullo finished the contest with 88 passing yards and next series, and the Red recovered the ball on the Eagles’ 40yard line. Following the block, Cornell was able to punch it one touchdown through the air, to go along with 120 rush- to move the ball very much,” Seeley said.

Defensive backs, like senior Ryan Jackson and freshman into the end zone on its third consecutive drive, with a 14- ing yards and two scores on the ground.

“It all started up front Marcus Weeks, anchored the defense for the Red, with seven yard rush by freshman Will with the offensive line,” tackles coming for Jackson and six for Weeks. Even Pannullo Griffen.

“Our defense played very well in this Pannullo said. “[Senior line- had four tackles of his own.

Post finally got on the “Our defense played very well in this game,” Guccia board, with 12 minutes remaingame. It was probably the best that they man] Caleb Minsky has been added.

“It was probably the best that they had played all seathe leader for that group ing in the game, when quarterhad played all season.” throughout the season. son.” back Sayvon Willis found Next week, the men will travel to Philadelphia to take on Anytime your team runs for receiver Rocco Guerrera for a Co-Head Coach Bart Guccia over 200 yards, you have to first place Penn on Friday at Franklin Field. With a win, 31-yard touchdown pass. chalk it up to a dominant Penn would clinch a CSFL crown.

However, the Red would “This was the first step in our goal to win the final three not let the Eagles back into the game, scoring on its very next offensive line; they did a great job this week, and we will games of the year,” Guccia said. “Now we are looking to win possession. Pannullo hit junior wide receiver Ryman Seeley need them next week against Penn.”

Griffen ended with 60 rushing yards and a touchdown, the final two games to complete that goal.” for Cornell’s first passing touchdown of the night.

Post would tack on another touchdown in the final sec- while both Seeley and Griffen each had 39 yards receiving.

“We were able to run the ball pretty well against them Stratford Michael can be reached at onds of the game against the Red’s substitute defensive unit, and that opened up our passing game a little bit in the sec- wonderboy@cornellsun.com. but Cornell was the team to walk away victorious.

MEN’S HOCKEY

Men Easily Sweep Exhibiton Games Before Season Opener

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With its sights set on getting back into the “Cornell hockey mindset” for the regular season, the Cornell men easily downed two Canadian foes this weekend in a pair of exhibition games. The Red defeated UOIT on Friday, 3-1, and Brock on Saturday, 8-1.

Despite the fact that the games do not count for official statistics, Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 said he is happy with what he saw in his squad. Taking a step

back from the X’s and O’s, Schafer said he valued this experience for its benefits that are not defined by numbers.

“I enjoyed sitting there watching some of the young guys experience Lynah Rink for the first time,” he said. “Biggest crowd some of the freshmen have ever played in front of, so it was fun to see.”

Both games were riddled with an incredibly high number of penalties — there were 22 total times either penalty box had a new inhabitant.

In game one against Ontario Institute of Technology, Cornell was awarded the

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Tunin’ it up | Though no points nor games count in official record books, Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 and he is happy with what he saw with his team before the season debut.

majority of the power plays and two of weekend are seldom the ones to score Cornell’s three goals came on the man goals. Sophomore defensemen Matt advantage.

Nuttle and Brendan Smith did not score Early on in the second game against at all last season, but both notched a goal Brock, the tables turned, and the Red was during exhibition weekend. the team that played mostly a man down, “[Nuttle] gets pucks down to the net but the ship soon righted itself and the offensively and shoots the puck well,” team went on to score Schafer said. “He had a four goal on the powerslow start — he came “[It was the] biggest crowd out in first period and play. some of the freshmen Although satisfied had his worst period of with the overall perforhave ever played in front hockey so far — but mance, Schafer said he what I like about him of, so it was fun to see.” so far this year is his was displeased with the team’s start. mentally.”

Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 growth “Really disappointBeau Starrett — who ed in our players and I was sidelined for a talked to them after the first period about majority of last year due to a broken colhow we can move on and play as a team,” larbone — was also successful this weekhe said. “I told them I was really sur- end, scoring one goal and adding four prised they could be that easily satisfied assists in two games, after just one goal after beating a team last night that was all last season. pretty good and come back and not play “You are only as good as your lineharder prove yourself every time you take mates and I think Dwyer [Tschantz], the ice. I was disappointed how we start- [Trevor] Yates and I clicked tonight,” ed, but very happy with the response Starrett said after the win over Brock. after we talked.”

“We were able to contribute well offenThe rampant penalties gave Schafer sively. Hopefully [the injury] was just a and his staff a good look at special teams speed bump last year. I’m hoping to stay units, and they were overall happy with healthy this year and contribute with what they saw, according the Schafer. whichever role.”

“When you come out in front of Other players, too, stepped up in 4,000 people, you get antsy and want to these games, which is something Schafer do well,” Schafer said. “That’s what our had wanted, given the uncertainties surpenalty kill did [against Brock].” rounding senior Jeff Kubiak, along with Another encouraging sign for the Red See M. HOCKEY page 13 is that the players on the scoresheet this

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Brown Tops Cornell in Soaking O.T.Thriller

After starting 3-0, Red football has dropped three straight games

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

In a game that reflected the day’s weather — rainy and sloppy in the first half, sunny and crisp afterwards — Brown edged out Cornell, 28-21, in an overtime thriller. The loss extends the Red’s losing streak against Brown to nine games and drops the team’s record to 33 after a 3-0 start to its season.

In the first overtime period, Cornell and Brown traded touchdowns. But when the Bears went on to score to begin the second overtime, the Red (3-3, 1-2 Ivy) had no answer, and Brown (2-4, 1-2) snapped its four-game losing streak.

“I’m just stunned we lost,” said head coach David Archer ’05. “There was no doubt in my mind we were going to win, especially when we scored first [in overtime].”

The first half was riddled with monsoon-like conditions that drastically impacted the quality of play. On top of this, it was the first time the Red played on nonturf since Brown two years ago.

Both quarterbacks had trouble getting the ball out cleanly and the head coaches opted for the run game — in the first half, fewer than 20 passes were attempted by both teams.

“All the balls were soaked and we really felt we couldn’t throw it,” Archer said. “So we had to run the ball almost every play. In the second half we felt we could run our [regular] offense a little more.”

Despite the focus on running, offense as a whole was almost nonexistent in the entire first half. The only score before halftime came off a 76-yard punt return by Brown’s Alex Jette. In the wet and muddy conditions,

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Slippin’ and slidin’ | Rain was a huge factor in the game, as both quarterbacks had trouble getting a firm grasp on the ball and combined for under 20 pass attempts in the first half.

Jette slipped through would-be Cornell tacklers and weaved his way into the endzone to give the Bears a 70 lead.

The Red was lucky to come out of the first half down just seven, though. The Bears had two field goal attempts in the first half and both of them went wide right.

“I just thought it was going to be a field position game with [senior punter Chris] Fraser able to flip the

field for us until we could get things going our way we needed offensively,” Archer said. “Just shows you our defense really rose to the occasion in our own territory and rose to the occasion to keep points off the board.

The missed field goals were emblematic of the first half as a whole. Players slipped all over the field, easy catches fell through fingertips and tackles that seemed See FOOTBALL page 13

WOMEN’S HOCKEY

Women Sweep Mercyhurst for First Time to Open Season

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

Opening the season at Lynah this past weekend, the Cornell women’s hockey team started its season off strong with a series sweep against Mercyhurst — the Red’s first sweep of the Laker in program history.

The Red won Friday’s season opener 3-1 — scoring all three goals after falling behind — in a game that demonstrated the strength of the team’s freshmen. The tying and winning goals came off the sticks of freshmen forward Valerie Audet and defenseman Jaime Bourbonnais, respectively.

Eight minutes in, Mercyhurst earned a power play and was able to score on the

man-advantage, grabbing the early lead. Less than two minutes later, Audet was able to level the game.

“The play started by a great individual play by [sophomore forward] Lenka Serdar who blocked a shot from the point,” Audet said. “The puck ended up bouncing out into the neutral zone behind the two opposing team's defensemen. I managed to be the first one on the puck, leading me to a breakaway [and] was able to score by dekeing the goalie.”

The game was tied 1-1 at the halfway point, until Audet’s classmate, Bourbonnais, put the Red ahead. “[Sophomore forward] Pippy Gerace was carrying the puck through the slot so I

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Fantastic freshmen | In their first ever collegiate games, freshmen stepped up this weekend to account for five total points.

decided to sneak in behind her and she gave compete for positions right away, which carme an awesome drop pass,” Bourbonnais ried over into the first two games,” said. “The goalie was kind of screened so I Derraugh said. “They’ve done a great job for just shot it on net and luckily it found its us in the first two games, and we’re going to way through.” need them tremendously as the season conBourbonnais said the best part of her first tinues. We have seven freshmen, which is career goal was the energy that it brought to almost half of the team, so I’m very happy to the team. see what they did.”

“To see everybody Despite the strong on the bench cheering start, Derraugh pointed “I liked the energy, the and realizing how out that the team still has balance, and the strong areas to work on as the seapumped up everyone was after we scored was son progresses. Most play at all positions, but notably, discipline and such an indescribable feeling,” she said. “I love persistent play stick out to [not] the discipline.” my team and love how the coach as elements to much energy we bring focus on.

Head Coach Doug Derraugh to one another.”

“I liked the energy, the While Bourbonnais’ balance, and the strong goal ended up being the game-winner, play at all positions, but I didn’t like the disjunior Erin O’Connor added her own about cipline,” Derraugh said. “We were taking halfway through the third period, sealing the too many penalties, which is going to be game at 3-1. troublesome if it continues. We need to Like Friday, Saturday’s game also came work on consistency.” with a strong showing by freshmen. This Nevertheless, this weekend’s performance time Kristin O’Neill notched her first and is a confidence booster for the team moving second career goals, to lead the Red to a 2-1 forward to ECAC play next weekend. victory.

“It’s really important with a young team O’Neill’s first goal came after an assist by to get off to a strong start,” Derraugh said. classmate Bourbonnais in the first period — “It’s not important to necessarily win both the first assist of her career — and O’Neil’s games, but rather to show that you’ve done scored a second goal in the third period, off a good job in your preparation, that you can an assist by senior Brianna Veerman. compete at this level, and that we can rely on Head Coach Doug Derraugh said he was young players at this level. The team showed impressed with the freshmen’s performances that this weekend, and it’s important for the this weekend, saying he will grow more con- rest of the year.” fident in them as the season continues.

“When [the freshmen] arrived, they Jamil Rahman can be reached at came in very good shape and were ready to jrahman@cornellsun.com.