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The Department of Entomology hosted the annual Insectapalooza, Saturday. | Page 3

Ai Weiwei’s powerful new documentary, Human Flow, is reviewed by Lela Robinson ’20.

The Red’s seemingly impossible win over Princeton has now moved the team into 1st position in the Ivy League. | Page 16

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Judge Clears Way For Ithaca Man’s Deportation Case

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

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Spell bound | Harry Potter themed food, costumes and musical performances charm members of the Ithaca community assembled on the Ithaca Commons to share their excitement about wizarding.

Wizarding Weekend Charms Ithaca

By STACEY BLANSKY Sun Staff Writer

Hundreds of people from near and far, adorned with hooded robes and pointed hats, populated the Commons for Ithaca’s third annual Wizarding Weekend, a celebration that provides enthusiastic magic-lovers the opportunity to revel in the memory of their favorite wizarding series.

The event kicked off on Friday in Downtown Ithaca with a costume parade, where participants displayed their Halloween costumes as they walked from the Greater Ithaca Activities Center to the Commons.

The festival continued throughout the weekend with live music from groups including the New Roots Steel Drum Ensemble and the Fall Creek Brass Band, as well as food vendors, street performers and magicians, converting Press Bay Alley into the Diagon Alley from the Harry Potter series that wizarding enthusiasts were more familiar with.

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Angela Harris, who lives just outside Syracuse, came to the event on Saturday with a friend for the first time and said that the mixture of costumes with small street vendors created an enjoyable atmosphere.

While waiting in line for the “Sorting Hat” attraction, which revealed which Harry Potter house individuals belonged in, Harris said she would like to return to this event in future years.

“I think we will come every year because there’s a lot of nice, like-minded people that like Harry Potter,” Harris said.

“Everybody is just having fun.”

April Townson ’20 volunteered at the event through Into the Streets, a volunteer-based program hosted by Cornell that sends students downtown for the University’s largest day of community service.

Townson, who was selling t-shirts that read “Ithaca is

Hate Speech Forum Criticized Following Lackof Attendance

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Editor

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Senior quarterback Jake Jatis hands the ball to running back Chris Walker ’19, who suffered a leg injury of unknown severity against Princeton, Saturday.

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The Codes and Judicial Committee of the University Assembly held a community forum on hate speech and the Campus Code of Conduct on Friday following multiple racially charged incidents on campus, including the alleged assault of a black student, who said he was punched and called N-word by a group of white men in Collegetown, and the posting of anti-Semitic posters on several University buildings.

Hundreds of students held a protest following the alleged assault in September, prompting the U.A. to task the CJC with

considering adding a “hate speech” clause to the Code.

Both the Student Assembly and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly passed resolutions that condemned hate crimes and hate speech following the protest.

Yet forum attendees were frustrated by the lack of CJC and U.A. members present at the meeting, calling their absence “disheartening” in light of recent incidents, and arguing that the last minute nature of the forum — which was publicized two days prior — resulted in poor attendance by the community.

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A federal judge ordered on Friday that the Ithaca man who has spent nearly six months in jail after being arrested by federal immigration agents in May should not be sentenced to additional time for possessing a fake green card, paving the way for his immigration case to proceed.

José Guzman-Lopez, 32, who was arrested in Ithaca by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in May for entering the country illegally, and later charged with possessing a fake alien registration card, or green card, apologized in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York in Binghamton on Friday for having the fraudulent document when he was arrested.

“America has been great to me,” he added, “and provided me with opportunities that Mexico could not. I work hard and I love this country.”

Judge Thomas J. McAvoy ruled that “America has the five months and 23 days that been great to me Guzman-Lopez has already spent in cus- and provided me tody since being with opportuniarrested was enough ties that Mexico of a punishment for possessing the forged could not.” green card, to which José Guzman-Lopez Guzman-Lopez had admitted. The judge also ordered Guzman-Lopez to comply with ICE reporting requirements and sentenced him to three years of supervised release.

McAvoy said Guzman-Lopez is “clearly a good person” who he thinks should be allowed to remain in the country.

“If it were up to me, I’d let you stay here,” the judge said. “That’s not up to me.”

Guzman-Lopez was taken back to Cayuga County Jail after the proceedings, where he has been held for the majority of his time in custody.

ICE will pick him up soon and he will be transported to Batavia Federal Detention Facility in Buffalo, where he will await deportation hearings in Immigration Court.

“Obviously, you’re a good person,” McAvoy said. “I hope some immigration judge gives you some good help to remain or return to this country, if or when you’re deported.”

The conclusion of the federal case against Guzman-Lopez on Friday, which came several months after he pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in a local court case that had put him on ICE’s radar, clears the way for his case in Immigration Court to proceed.

Several attorneys had been interested in representing Guzman-Lopez in Immigration Court but were not comfortable making any agreement until See GUZMAN page 4

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Rick and Morty Creator Harmon to Visit Cornell Emmy-winner to be hosted by CUPB

By SAMUEL NOLAN

tion program Heat Vision and Jack starring comedy star Jack Black. Harmon and fellow Dan Harmon, the Emmy- Wisconsinite Rob Schrab would winning writer, producer and go on to co-create and write for voice actor of hit shows Rick Comedy Central’s Sarah and Morty and Community will Silverman Program. be coming to Cornell Nov. 10.

In 2009, Harmon was Harmon is being hosted by awarded an Emmy for the Cornell University Outstanding Original Music Programming Board, which in and Lyrics for the “Hugh the past few months has also Jackman Opening Number” at brought comedians Trevor the 81st Academy Awards.

Noah and John Creative difMulaney to f e r e n c e s Cornell. b e t w e e n R e c e n t l y, Harmon and Harmon has Sony forced widely been Harmon to acclaimed as stop writing for the co-creator Community of Adult Swim’s after three seaanimated comsons in 2012, edy Rick and he though Morty, whose rejoined the season three team a year finale was the later. It was most watched during this cable program brief hiatus that among younger Harmon, along DAN HARMON demographics with Justin on the day that it aired accord- Roiland, developed the basis of ing to the A.V. Club.

Rick and Morty.

A Wisconsin native and The popular animated series graduate of Marquette is best known for its nihilistic University, Harmon briefly and absurdist humor, as well as attended community college in its rabid fanbase.

Glendale, California where he Harmon also has writing and gained the inspiration for his producing credits on the other hit television show spooky Academy Award nomiCommunity. nated movie Monster House Harmon began his entertain- (2006). ment career in Milwaukee in the Tickets for the event will late 90s, but soon after, he head- available at 7 p.m. on Nov. 10 ed to Los Angeles where he co- for $10 and $12 for the balcony founded Channel 101 — a and orchestra sections of Bailey monthly film festival competi- Hall. tion.

Harmon’s first Hollywood television writing credit was on Sam Nolan can be reached at the 1999 comedy science-fic- smn87@cornell.edu.

Sun Staff Writer

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Into entomology | Cornell Department of Entomology’s Insectapalooza was a resounding success, drawing in hundreds from near and far, spanning all ages.

Insectapalooza Draws Big Buzz

By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON Sun Staff Writer

An army of bird-eating spiders, scorpions, cockroaches and a hundred other species swarmed Comstock Hall early Saturday morning.

Each year, the Cornell Department of Entomology hosts “Insectapalooza,” a fair whose aim is to principally “spread knowledge of insects to the wider public because they play such a huge role in our lives,” fair organizer Emma Mullen said in a press release.

The event spanned three floors, with exhibits ranging from the “Arthropod Zoo” to a crowdpleasing Butterfly room, where attendees could experience the critters free-flying. Other popular attractions included “Sound of Insects,” which played the noises of various bugs, and “The Pollinator,” an entire room dedicated to bees and their honey.

“Each lab and speciality in the entomology department organized its own exhibit,” explained John McMullen grad, who manned a station discussing insect physiology and genetics.

With over 200 volunteers and 2,000 guests, Insectapalooza is routinely one of the largest events of its kind, attracting visitors from far beyond the Ithaca area.

“I’ve met people from Rhode Island, Michigan and other far-away places,” said Erin Krichilsky ’18, a volunteer and member of Cornell’s undergraduate entomology club. “And I often see a lot of the same people come year after year.”

Driving this wide-reaching popularity,

McMullen explained, is humans’ rather complicated relationship with insects, which often provokes an intense curiosity towards them.

“Insects often immediately trigger fear, disgust, appreciation, or excitement,” he said. “They are very emotionally-charged.”

In addition to psychological intrigue, insects can also represent a valuable medium for introducing children to science, McMullen said.

“Insects often immediately trigger fear, disgust, appreciation or excitement.

They are very emotionally-charged.”

John McMullen grad Unlike other disciplines, he said, “insects are tangible and thus more relatable for kids.”

Indeed — though the event drew bug-lovers of all ages — younger kids and their parents comprised most of the fair’s audience. For much of the day, eager toddlers and tweens could be seen gawking at butterflies or mingling with the oversized bee and cricket mascots roaming the halls.

By all accounts, the fair’s youngest participants deemed it a resounding success.

Nine-year-old Jack Healy who visited with his family from New Jersey, proclaimed, “I thought it was really awesome.”

Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at js2993@cornell.edu.

Largest Annual Volunteering Event Into the Streets Bursts Cornell Bubble

By SHIVANI SANGHANI Sun Staff Writer

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Popped | Hundreds of students set aside coursework and studying to volunteer in Ithaca for Into the Streets.

Cornell students flooded into the streets of Ithaca Saturday afternoon, volunteering for over 35 Ithaca-based agencies and nonprofits for Cornell Public Service’s 26th Largest Annual Day of Service, “Into the Streets.”

Approximately 550 Cornell students — 75 student teams and 50 individual volunteers — participated in community service projects, ranging from cleaning playrooms at the Ithaca Community Childcare Center to clearing up trails at the local YMCA. Paola Camacho-Lemus ’18, who volunteered for the Tompkins County Health Department, said she was tasked with distributing lead-poisoning awareness pamphlets and door hangers to approximately 140 homes in Southside Ithaca. The pamphlets included information on preventing lead poisoning, such as wiping dust off surfaces and applying temporary barriers to walls.

“Even though it sounds like something that’s very simple like handing out information, considering the two recent lead-poisoning outbreaks, if this helps someone, it’s

totally worth it,” Camacho-Lemus said. “People always make excuses — prelims and essays and projects — but in the end, this is what I’ll remember when I graduate.”

The event kicked off at 10 a.m. with performances from Cornell Yamatai, The Callbacks and Break Free and a keynote speech from Ryan Lombardi, vice president of student and campus life. Into the Streets hosted volunteering projects at the Salvation Army, Sciencecenter, Tompkins County Public Library and even Wizarding Weekend.

Shreya Mantrala ’18, along with members from the Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity, volunteered for the Ithaca Community Childcare Center, cleaning the daycare’s playrooms, including toys, cribs, carpets and windows.

“I really felt at home volunteering there — it was just so easy to see that the people who worked at the daycare center really cared about the children,” Mantrala said. “Living in a Cornell bubble on campus, we don’t really understand the impact we could be making if we went out and did more things like this.”

Co-president of Into the Streets

Margaret Jis ’19 and agency coordinator Jenny Swift ’18 said they are grateful for the opportunity to “serve as active citizens.”

“It’s important to distinguish Into the Streets from any other community service event, since we get the opportunity to travel outside Cornell’s isolated campus and take our citizenship to the local community,” Swift said.

Into the Streets implemented new changes in fall 2015, decreasing the number of volunteers from 1,200 to 500 in order for students to have a more extensive impact on the local agencies, according to Joyce Muchan ’94, assistant director of the Cornell Public Service Center.

“There’s a certain point when you start to saturate the community just to say that we’re doing service as opposed to the quality of service. It’s really the quality of service that matters for the agencies and the students,” Muchan said. “That’s we want for the students — to come out of this and be lifelong active citizens, in whatever community they may be.”

Shivani Sanghani can be reached at ssanghani@cornellsun.com.

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Batting it out | Matthew Battaglia ’16, grad, chair of the Codes and Judicial Committee started the forum by discussing the new formation for the Hate Speech Working Group.

Hate Speech Forum Criticized FORUM

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“Why are members of the CJC not here?” asked Morgan Miller, grad. “If people on U.A. and CJC are not here, then that speaks to the level of their commitment to implementing change.”

Matthew Battaglia ’16, grad, chair of the CJC, started the forum by presenting the new formation of the Hate Speech Working Group, which he said will seek to involve community members in revising the campus code of conduct and reconsider the existing provisions about harassment. The working group plans to present three to five revisions of the code to the CJC, and the U.A. will then revise, accept or reject these proposals.

“The working group is aimed to represent various voices on campus, and encourage participation by meeting and speaking on these proposals,” Battaglia said. “We’re trying to make it open to the community. It’s meant to be consensus driven.”

The provision in the Code about harassment that the working group will focus on says it is a violation “To harass another person (1) by following that person or (2) by acting toward that person in a manner that is by objective measure threatening, abusive, or severely annoying and that is beyond the scope of free speech.” The language of this provision is too broad, attendees agreed.

Attendees said they were displeased with the

membership structure of the working group, calling on the CJC to reconsider the structure of the membership to involve community members like University employees.

Miller said that the process in which it was created left out community members, despite the CJC’s effort to be transparent in its formation.

“If people on U.A. and CJC are not here, then that speaks to the level of their commitment to implementing change.”

Morgan Miller, grad.

“It seems like everything is already worked out and decided,” she said. “Regular members of the community are not going to have voting rights, there has been a lot of decision making without us.

If this was supposed to be about us, we should have been involved on the outset.”

The CJC will host a second open forum in the coming weeks, as well as opportunities for people to submit written feedback and comments about the hate speech and provisions to the Campus Code of Conduct.

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun.com.

Controversial independence

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People celebrate after Catalonia’s separatist leader, Carles Puigdemont, announced he would place a decision on independence from Spain before the region’s parliament, in Barcelona.

Immigration Court Up Next for Ithaca Man GUZMAN

ommendation of his uncle, who was later killed in the violence, Wolfson said. Guzman-Lopez the case in federal court had con- was shot twice himself during cluded, said Angela McEnerney, random street fights, his lawyer a friend of Guzman-Lopez’s in said, but managed to graduate Ithaca. from the boarding school and Sitting on the steps of the attended high school and college courthouse after the brief sen- in Mexico City. tencing, McEnerney and Alyssa At 21 years old, he made a Buda, another friend of “treacherous” 2,000-mile trip to Guzman-Lopez’s, said they were the U.S. with a cell phone and frustrated and angry to see their worked briefly in New Jersey, his friend and a hard-working lawyer told the court, before restaurant employee remain in moving to Ithaca about 11 years custody, with deportation loom- ago, from where he has sent ing over him. money back to his family.

“Every time I see him, I’m “This is what led him to really surprised at his good spir- break the law, which is totally its,” Buda said. “He’s always out of character for him,” smiling, and it just kills me, hon- Wolfson told the judge on estly. Like, it’s good to see, but Friday. The assistant U.S. attoralso it’s just really disheartening ney prosecuting the case, to see that he’s in this state.”

Miroslav Lovric, did not address It is unclear how soon the 32- the court. year-old’s case in Immigration What put Guzman-Lopez on Court will commence. Martin ICE’s radar was when Ithaca Wolfson, the federal public Police arrested him on defender who represented Halloween night in 2013 and Guzman-Lopez in federal court, accused him of stabbing a 26thanked about a dozen of year-old man with a steak knife Guzman-Lopez’s supporters for and sending him to a regional making their way trauma center. to Binghamton on The unidentified “Every time I see victim Friday. He will not said in a him, I’m really represent statement to Guzman-Lopez in police, which was surprised at his the immigration obtained by The good spirits. He’s Sun under New case.

Buda and always smiling, and York’s Freedom of McEnerney, who Information Law, it just kills me.” have visited him at that he was fightCayuga County ing with GuzmanAlyssa Buda Jail and spoken Lopez when he with him on the was stabbed, but phone, described Guzman- that Guzman-Lopez had not Lopez as a caring man who stabbed him. always looks out for others, by Guzman-Lopez was bailed walking someone home late at out of the Tompkins County Jail night or being there when a within a couple of weeks, in friend gets out of work and 2013, and local prosecutors needs to talk about personal never tried him for the assault issues. charge because of a lack of eviShortly after he was arrested dence. He recently pleaded

by ICE, he called Buda, and one guilty to disorderly conduct in of his first questions was to make that case, allowing the federal sure she got his keys and could charge for possessing the fake get someone to feed his cat, green card to proceed more easiTiger. ly.

“All the things that were With the local and federal going on — getting picked up cases resolved, Guzman-Lopez

by ICE, not knowing where he now has just the Immigration was going to go — and his con- Court ahead of him. cern was making sure that some“He is ready for the battle” of body was going to feed his cat,” Immigration Court, said Carlos Buda said. “He’s just got a big Gutierrez, a health and safety heart.” trainer at the Tompkins County Friends, over the last few Workers’ Center who attended months, have played heavy metal the court proceedings in music for Guzman-Lopez Binghamton. through the phone and mailed His friends said they hope him Dresden Files and martial Ithacans can keep bringing arts books. When McEnerney attention to Guzman-Lopez’s visited him in Cayuga County, case, and restore the kind of outhe was the only incarcerated per- rage there was from citizens and son who was not handcuffed, local politicians the day followwhich she took as a sign that he ing his arrest, when hundreds had been on his best behavior. gathered on the Ithaca He was “all smiles,” she said. Commons for a rally.

Guzman-Lopez was born to Guzman-Lopez’s hands and coffee farmers in Juxalja, a town legs were cuffed and he wore an in the southern Mexican state of orange jumpsuit in court on Chiapas, which borders Friday. As he walked out of the Guatemala, his attorney, courtroom, he thanked his Wolfson, said in court filings. At friends for showing up, and nine years old, Guzman-Lopez when U.S. Marshals led him left his parents to escape the vio- into the black SUV, headed back lence against Mayan ethnic to jail, he blew them kisses. groups, such as the Tzeltal, like Guzman-Lopez and his family.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be He attended a boarding reached at nbogelschool six hours away on the rec- burroughs@cornellsun.com.

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Becky Frank | Guest Room

Five Ways We Can Each Fight Hate I t has been a week since anti-Semitic posters adorned Cornell’s campus. I am a history major concentrating my studies on the Holocaust, and have been thinking about how we can make tangible change at Cornell. While the Nazis only ruled from 1933-1945, the underlying foundation of hate has not been eradicated. In the powerful words of Prof. Timothy Snyder, history, Yale, “Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism or communism in the twentieth century. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so.”

Inspired by Snyder, here are five things we can each do as Cornellians to combat discrimination on campus: 1. Understand the complexities of being a follower. Most people assume every Nazi was an inhumane monster, and forget that almost all of Germany was complicit during the Holocaust. When we sit by and pretend not to know something is wrong or follow because we see no other alternative, we become part of the problem.

Helping followers see that they have a choice to speak out is essential. For example, former neo-Nazi Frank Meeink was introduced to the white supremacist movement when he was 14 and was excited to be part of a loving camaraderie. It was not until a Jew treated Frank with extreme kindness that he realized everything he believed was wrong: “The minute you try to make me feel dumb or make me feel that my beliefs are stupid… I'm going to lash out… So we need to treat people with respect, and understand that them getting to know somebody is what's going to work.” I want to emphasize that this argument is controversial and complicated. It is not going to work for everyone: most current neo-Nazi leaders and/or Holocaust deniers will not change their false views.

But, there are collaborators and confused activists that will listen and reform when we have calm and constructive discussions with them.

2. Go beyond social media. Social media is a powerful tool because it gives everyone their own individual platform to voice their opinions and messages quickly. While many find comfort in posting a Facebook status, tweet or Instagram, we can do more to express ourselves. Go to rallies. Talk to people face to face. Have a discussion.

Leave the screen.

3. Personally eliminate signs of hate.

Cornell’s campus responded quickly: all of the anti-Semitic posters were taken down early Monday morning. But, antiSemitism can be found elsewhere on cam-

pus. Last week, I spent a few days collecting over 70 books and journals written by Holocaust deniers. These books are mixed in the stacks of Olin Library among legitimate history books and memoirs on the Holocaust. The Diary of Anne Frank is right next to Felderer and the Institute for Historical Review’s Anne Frank’s Diary — A Hoax. These materials do not belong at Cornell; as Holocaust deniers do not supply a second opinion, but lie and distort evidence to promote their warped and dangerous arguments. Whether the Holocaust happened is not a subject of debate. I am no hero for checking out books, but, while these materials are in my possession, no one at Cornell can randomly stumble upon them and mistake them as legitimate sources. I understand the historical relevance of Holocaust denial, and did not check out books such as Deborah Lipstadt’s Denying the Holocaust that present deniers and their theories in an academic context. When you see discrimination or lies, remove them, and never accept them as a new normal. Take down hurtful words. Reject racist comments. Actively speak out.

4. Reflect and admit sorrow. Immediately after the anti-Semitic posters were hung up last week, I received a text asking if I was okay. I said, “Of course, I am not a victim.”

No one beat me up or called me any names. But sometimes it is important to acknowledge when we are victims. I am from Sandy Hook, Connecticut, and live a mile away from Sandy Hook Elementary School. After the shooting in 2012, I did not know how to react. I was not shot.

Neither were any of my family members. It felt wrong to be sad when I knew I was not hurt as much as other community members. But, accepting that I too was damaged, even if differently, is the first step to determining action. There is no shame in being sad, as long as it leads to resilience.

5. Stand up for Cornell. This column is not just about anti-Semitism on campus.

We must act as one unified force for Cornell and stand up for prejudices of groups that are not our own. Attend discussions around campus (there is a discussion on Prof. Snyder’s On Tyranny today at 4:30 p.m. that I strongly encourage everyone to attend). Talk about what happened a week, six months, and 70 years ago. Do not forget. Learn from history. Every small action we take individually matters and helps to disarm hate. Never again.

Becky Frank is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She is a Sun Arts staff writer. She can be reached at bfrank@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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My Jewish Is In the Searching

his week my Judaism became suddenly quite visible. When antiSemitism was plastered across campus, Jewish went from being a private piece of self to the subject of public discussion, in classrooms, on social media and with peers. Yet even in a moment when Jewish identity was directly vandalized, the conversations I have had this week remind me that my lifelong experience with American Jewry has been a constant tension. On one side is the rich and complex sense of Jewish self that my parents and community have offered, while on the other lie the two-dimensional assumptions of everyone else.

Recently, Jewish has been something I

But try as I might to avoid these conversations, the world is full of non-Jews who are quite sure they know what Jewish is. So, I am often handed a history beginning in 1946. The Jewish experience, some say, is meant to be understood only in terms of its relation to the Holocaust, or perhaps to the Zionist project. At its best, we are given a long view of history, but only allowed to pick out the most painful bits. The Jewish I have been given by my parents is Benjamin in Germany and Gershwin in New York; the rest of the world offered history lessons about pogroms and inquisitions.

It is the flat, two-dimensional identity of the victim, and bears no resemblance to

But try as I might to avoid these conversations, the world is full of non-Jews who are quite sure they know what Jewish is. have searched for in places where it once thrived. I have spent hours in the quiet corners of cities where I was told the Jews used to live. Lisbon, Rome, Paris, Manhattan. In the churches and gift shops I imagined synagogues and bakeries, teeming with community and commonality. On the Lower East Side, in front of a Starbucks that may have been a deli or a Yeshiva, I listened for the echo of identity still bouncing off the sidewalk.

Last spring, my father found an old book written in Hebrew and sent me up 40 blocks to West Side Judaica to talk to a woman who might know what it was, and what kind of Jewish we could find between the pages. Over the summer he dragged us to the basement of the Library of Congress where they stashed Gershwin’s piano and Ira’s pen. We went there searching for Jewish too.

Fifteen years earlier, my Jewish memory began privately, and in borrowed space. It was the basement of a Unitarian church that leant us the room on Saturdays and holidays. From the beginning, Jewish experiences had to be created with deliberate care. My notion of what faith meant was a direct function of the choices my congregation made, choices I feel tremendously proud of. As a result, my first experience with being Jewish was intimate, something for family and the people who taught me how to pray. It was an identity borne and experienced around kitchen tables and in private religious spaces. It was quietly, obviously my own.

As I got older, though, I began to encounter a kind of Jewish that was no longer private. It was a public identity, and one that carried meaning that was not my own. I watched that meaning unfold in front of me, shaded and shaped by the 99.03 percent of my hometown that didn’t hold it. Whether it was teachers asking just me how I felt about Israel, or a classmate gently confiding that he had forgiven us for killing Jesus, Jewish was something on which everyone held an opinion. Wracked with 16-year-old anxiety, there was no part of me that wanted a signifier of difference, and especially not one that would make me a certain way, whatever that way may have been. So I began to keep Jewish tucked in my back pocket, glad at times that you could not see it on my face.

the personal, joyous Jewish that I know to be ours.

The most common, and frightening suggestion has been that there is no unique identity at all. Time and again, I have been asked to justify why being Jewish should mean anything more than faith. I am a white American, so is my father, and so is his. We have been safe and stable for nearly 75 years, and we have a state that represents us. We are highly integrated, socio-politically empowered and some of us eat ham. Jews are white, I am told, and nothing else. No culture, no history, no people. Just a shorter book.

Thus my experience of diaspora Jewry in America has been a bombardment of unhelpful suggestion, resulting in the growing sense that perhaps I should abandon that identity in place of one that would meet less resistance. This is what I find truly frightening. Despite the constant labor of family and community to instill something valuable, my Judaism was sometimes eroded, not through clear acts of violence and hate, but rather by the insistence of the others around me that they should have some say in what it means. I became less vocal about my faith, and less attached to my community. This is a dynamic that threatens to make Jews less safe and Jewish more invisible. As a people, in that small way, we become an easier target.

Finding Jewish has been a lifelong project, structured and supported by the Jews I know and love. However, despite the best intentions of a mostly accepting community, Cornell and places like it have a way of making that project much more difficult. It isn’t enough to simply say that we do not tolerate Nazis, and as Jews, this is not the only thing that we should ask.

Instead, Cornell’s community needs to begin listening to Jews when they describe what their faith means to them. This community must be willing to internalize a more nuanced and complex understanding of Jewish identity. Anything less will only further obscure a people that centuries of violence have already sought to bury, and make it harder for us to begin looking ourselves in the first place.

Rubin Danberg Biggs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at red243@cornell.edu. The Common Table appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

A Revision on Romanticization I

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am nothing if not inconsistent. I’ve written about romanticization and authenticity a few times, mainly on my frustrations with the urgency of nonchalance in college and the somewhat paradoxical burden of sugarless sincerity. My point stayed more or less the same: Romanticization and its sister, coolness, are harmful to how we experience life.

Earlier this month, columnist Paul Russell ‘19 wrote an upbeat defense of romanticization on social media. “Sure, it’s artificial,” says Russell, “but so is every painting you’ve ever loved. Accuracy and reality are for the rest of our lives. A moment of fantasy is no less a moment.”

Russell’s piece reminds me of one of the most influential texts I’ve read, Oscar Wilde’s lengthy socratic essay, “The Decay of Lying.” Wilde, with his nose firmly up in the air, critiques aestheticism indulgently and concludes the essay with the primary goals of art. Wilde concludes the essay by declaring that “Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue

I’m against considering social media as distinct from Real Life. things, is the proper aim of Art.” That essay bore one of Wilde’s most famous aphorisms: “Life imitates art far more than Art imitates life.”

How could I neglect this fundamental view when writing about our interactions with art and life? I was foolish to assume some unclear definition of authenticity without reminding myself that authenticity itself is colored by our consumption of romanticized content. To quote Wilde one last time before The Sun editors ban me from the paper forever, “Nature is no great mother who has borne us. She is our creation. It is in our brain that she quickens to life.”

Luckily, Russell’s column revitalizes the argument for romance, but his constraints on romanticization are what make the argument so intriguing. In effect, social media is performative art and the most subtle, yet blatant, form of lying. You can’t really be authentic on social media, right? The very nature of a constructed persona means that our appearances and actions are deliberate. We perform differently depending on who the audience is, and this is so uninterestingly obvious. You’re pretty actively aware that your Tinder profile is different from your Facebook is different from your LinkedIn is different from your rinsta is different from your finsta. I have two Twitters: One is public and has my face on it, and the other is private and is used for shitty jokes about bitcoin. Both are lying.

I’m against considering social media as distinct from Real Life, as the two are so intricately interwoven, especially for our generation. Our lies online trickle into our in-person perceptions and actions.

Social media isn’t that much different from my writing for The Sun, and the way I write is largely a function of how I engage online and how I act in person.

In both media I am performing some sort of persona via deliberate decisions. These columns aren’t pure id. I’m not writing this on acid or something, despite how it might come across. The least self-conscious artist is still self-conscious. I try to be as genuine as possible, I think, in my writing, but I’ve seemingly neglected to consider that my authenticity is inevitably drenched in context. Every word I choose to write is fraudulent by virtue of being chosen.

I still hold that the paradox of writing is the maintenance of novel sincerity without dipping into the saccharine. The paradox of youth culture is that you should be interesting without losing your aloofness. I also hold that these paradoxes are limiting and difficult and that escaping them is freeing. Maybe conflating this escape with living sans romanticization was misguided. I’m working on it. I’ll (hopefully) get back to you.

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

OPINION

An Audience of One

know exactly what happened on this day last year, and the year before that, and five years before that. Since 2010, I’ve been keeping up with twelve notebooks: one for each month. Each year, I work my way through all twelve of them, returning to them month by month, writing and comparing. What started out as a random project in middle school has evolved into a way for me to keep record, and to keep a running conversation with myself between the years.

I can flip through pages from 2011 and remember what my world looked like (hint: not great, considering it was middle school). Or I can look to 2015 and read about what it was really like to get settled at Cornell. After seven years, my twelve notebooks have managed to collect mundane stories, photographs and ticket stubs alongside the most important details on my life. They’re also almost full. Yesterday, I found myself with only one page left in my “October” notebook, meaning it’s time to start some kind of “Volume II.” Finishing up my original notebook is interesting because there’s so much uncertainty about what I’ll be writing in the second one. Volume I followed an informal pattern: in middle school, I knew I would go to high school and in high school, I hoped I’d go to college. But now that I’m in college – as seems to be a theme among people my age – I’m not completely sure what happens next. After Cornell, that predetermined structure gives way to my own decision-making.

I don’t know what city, or what country, in which I’ll be living in October 2022. I don’t know who I’ll be eating dinner with or what will make me laugh or what will completely stress me out. Thankfully, I have these notebooks as a space to keep track along the way.

After seven years and thousands of words, I’m still not completely sure where the impulse to write comes from. It’s not really about remembering things, per se. I don’t write about what happened today because I think that two years from now it’ll be imperative that I remember. That being

said, it’s really interesting to look back on some of the things I wrote when I first got to Cornell, and see the first mentions of people who would later become my best friends. It’s also really comforting to look back and read about things that once seemed like the end of the world, and realize they’re so insignificant now that I would have forgotten them altogether had I not written them down. That perspective can be refreshing.

Joan Didion wrote “I think we are well-advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.” And while I wouldn’t ascribe that level of sophistication to anything I wrote in middle school, or really anything I write now, I still find it applicable to the practice of keeping a notebook.

In a world where it feels like we’re constantly sharing (and often oversharing) information about ourselves, it’s nice to have a space with total privacy. I love writing for The Sun, but it’s different. I have lots to say, but only a few viable topics to choose from once I factor out things I don’t want to “get into” and topics which are too personal. When writing in a notebook, there’s no such selection process. There’s no pressure or self-censorship; it’s genuinely regenerative. An audience is a privilege, but so is the ability to write – or do anything – for just yourself. Some might call this a waste of time, but I think getting the ugliest and most interesting parts of your life onto paper, alongside mundane details and concerns, is one of the most practical things one can do. I probably have at least a thousand pages written that nobody (including myself) will ever have the time or desire to read in full. Still, I’d recommend the practice to just about anyone.

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

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

Lorenzo Benitez | Not A Cop

Fighting Alienation T

his past summer, I visited foreigner in the United States right knowing a few thousand at best. It Providence, Rhode Island, for now allows one to sense a tectonic sometimes seems like a cosmic tragedy the first time. I was helping my power shift afoot: the unipolar world that there are others on this earth who younger brother, who was spending the we now inhabit is changing as this could easily have been, had the ovarian summer at Brown, bring his stuff from country, because of stratospheric social lottery turned out differently, the most New York City. Even though a lot of and economic inequality, further important people in my life. On the my American friends described Rhode descends into a howling snake pit. bus back to New York, I couldn’t help Island as “skippable,” I had been itch- However, by connecting their interests but reflect on how regrettable it is that ing to escape the subtle claustrophobia to so-called “skippable” places, they encounters like mine, where an unanprompted by living in New York City. demonstrated an openness to exploring ticipated sense of community revives And so, after what turned out to be an the full nooks and crannies of their our most humanist intuitions, are becoming increasingly enjoyable day on a camrare. We spend so much pus whose beauty rivals Cornell’s, I was upset to I couldn’t help but smirk at such a novel of our lives with our headphones on, more discover that the bus I reason to visit Rhode Island. alienated and disengaged was meant to take back from greater society than to New York was overwe likely have ever been booked. It seemed that in our history as a species; requiring the extra passengers, of which I was geographic curiosity. one, would have to wait hours for our We continued chatting, and we unanticipated aberrations like bus cannext ride. After our collective frustra- learned a surprising amount about each cellations to reanimate the public tion moderated, almost all the remain- other for the little time we spoke. Upon sphere with more than just bitter funcing five passengers attended to their finding out that I was Australian, the tionality.

Increasingly, we are encouraged to phones, at first to consider possible Brit even began rattling off sentences in alternate modes of transport, but there- one of the best Australian accents I’ve seek out “purposeful” conversations as after to occupy their waiting time. ever heard from a non-Australian. we network our way to employment, However, having lost my phone the Refreshingly, neither Trump nor Brexit seeing each other as means to whatever night before, I instead struck up a con- were mentioned. Unfortunately, our end, rather than as fellow travelers for versation with another one of the passen- conversation was cut short by the sud- whom unconditional attention is gers, whose British accent I’d overheard. denly arrival of a replacement bus. We potentially available. In his recent I was immensely curious to know what a introduced our names to one another, Trustee Viewpoint, entitled “No New Brit was doing in Rhode Island, of all knowing that we would likely never Friends,” Dustin Liu ’19 acutely idenplaces. Were they students at Brown or meet again, and parted ways. As I tified the alienation wrought by our RISD? The man explained that he and thought more about our encounter times in describing how his earnest his friend were backpacking through the afterwards, I remembered a similar attempts to befriend strangers resulted United States for half a year, and were excursion a good friend of mine in “the two [other] people sharing a curious about Rhode Island because they embarked on, when he spent six look before uncomfortably telling me I had heard that Seth MacFarlane had months travelling through Southeast could have the table to myself.” gone to school there. And being fans of Asia and interior China, avoiding Especially at busy Cornell, where attenFamily Guy, they decided to add the prominent cities like Beijing and tion is seldom directed unconditionally state to their itinerary.

Shanghai in favor of less-known, equal- after the first two weeks of freshman I couldn’t help but smirk at such a ly-interesting names including year, this alienation is perhaps at its most pronounced. novel reason to visit Rhode Island. Chongqing and Dongguan.

However, the more I reflect on it, the It’s saddening to think that of the more I appreciate the extent to which seven billion people with whom we Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts these British backpackers so thoroughly share this planet, we will have had by and Sciences. He can be reached at lbenitez@corembodied a spirit of curiosity. Being a the end of our lives the pleasure of nellsun.com. Not a Cop appears alternate Mondays

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OPINION

A STUNNING EXPOSÉ! CORNELL’S GREATEST MYSTERY SOLVED!

How the Pumpkin Got On the Tower!

In print for the first time in 17 years, with a new introduction by former editor in chief Farhad Manjoo ’00

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t first, I didn’t really care about the pumpkin. No one did, not really. Sure, it was curious — suddenly one fall morning there was a tiny speck way at the top of the tall tower you walked by everyday. But it’s not like it sparked an instant frenzy; you saw the speck and you maybe asked some friends about it, and one of them who’d heard from someone else would maybe say, “oh yeah, it’s a pumpkin, kinda weird,” and then you’d think about it a minute and go, “huh.” And that was pretty much the whole story.

We were all very busy college kids, after all, but also: Those were different times! We didn’t have phones! We couldn’t snap pictures and create funny tweets and Stories and what-have-yous, we couldn’t get the pumpkin on Reddit and BuzzFeed, sparking dumb posts about what Disney character the pumpkin resembled and whether the pumpkin was an alt-right meme yet.

Things didn’t just become national news back then, is what I’m saying. It would take many days for most of Cornell and Ithaca to hear about the pumpkin on the top of the tower, and then weeks for the mystery to spread around the country. The first New York Times story “Howdy — I just laughed my ass off at the article y’all published on “how the pumpkin got onto the tower.” Nice piece of fiction and speculation. Would you like to know the REAL story?”

— excerpt of an e-mail sent to The Sun, Oct. 26, 1999

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salivated after reading this message.

Seriously. Because even though dozens of jokers mail The Sun every day claiming something grand, and even though — as editor in chief of the paper — I’d learned to discount such conjecture, there would be no better coup for The Sun than finding the Pumpkin Prankster. And I wanted the paper to expose the fellow during my term.

You see, since the infamous gourd first appeared on the clock tower in the fall of 1997, The Sun has tried — and failed — to ascertain the identity of the prankster. The closest we or any other news organization ever got was speculation; and everyone we speculated about, from the University to certain fraternities and athletic teams, denied all involvement.

By the fall of 1999, we were obviously no longer investigating the story. But just before Halloween, we printed a light piece recapping the two-year-old mystery, a story which, in the end, said what everyone already knew about the pumpkin: O OT PH That it IL E F UN was /S ER

SE NE AN P IC

about the pumpkin was published nearly three weeks after it was first spotted; after that, there were a few national spots, including the “Today Show.” You knew the pumpkin was something more than just a local curiosity once your parents started asking about it.

It was only as the attention grew — and as the pumpkin kept clinging to the tower — that people became really invested in the thing.

Again, no phones! There wasn’t a lot of other stuff competing for our attention. As you walked through campus you basically just looked around at the buildings and the sky and the other people.

Day after day of these long, cold, Instagram-freewalks have a way of getting to you; eventually you find yourself getting lost in your own mind, and inevitably you ponder life’s deepest mysteries. And in the fall of 1997, as you looked off into the distance every morning and kept catching that gourded steeple, one such mystery had to be, “Wait, how the hell did they do that?”

Twenty years later, I still wonder. A couple years after the pumpkin prank, when I was a senior and editor of The Sun, I got an email from an anonymous source who

destined to remain an enigma, the kind of pseudo-freakish thing that is universally understood to be beyond human comprehension, like crop circles or Kid Rock.

But evidently, this light piece caught the eye of a University employee named Tom Cruise (not his real name). Indeed, it made Tom “laugh his ass off,” and apparently for good reason: he knew who really did it.

“I was a housemate of one of the three individuals involved in this prank,” he wrote, “and now that he has moved away from town I don’t see any harm in setting the record straight on how they did it. I have details on the prank that were not released by the C.U. police, and could be verified by them to corroborate the truth of what I will tell you.”

So I called Tom Cruise. And he told me the whole story: How three friends managed to captivate the campus with nothing more than some duct tape, wire cutters, some rope, and, of course, a bright orange pumpkin.

After we discuss his preliminary “demands” — that I can’t use his name, and that he won’t give me the names of the perps — he gives me his account.

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e begins by describing the main characters, who I’ll call Kennedy (the ringleader), Reagan and Nixon (the helpers). Kennedy was a Cornell student — the two others were Ithacans. Tom says that Kennedy had pulled a similar prank in his hometown some years ago — something involving a squash and a church steeple.

One imagines that when he came to Cornell, Kennedy saw the clock tower and knew then that he was put on God’s green earth just to decorate its steeple. He probably became obsessed with this goal; and, Tom says, he began to look for a couple climbers to help him achieve it. He hung out at local outdoorstype stores, and after a while, he found his accomplices, Reagan and Nixon.

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hen Tom t a l k s about Kennedy, it’s with unabashed awe; we should revere this guy, he thinks.

Kennedy was brilliant, Tom says —

claimed to know how the pumpkin got up there. My report on his account — first published in the 2000 Senior Issue — appears below.

I believe his story, but the source didn’t give me the names of pranksters, including the name of the ringleader. So the mystery is still unsolved.

But you know what’s awesome about today, versus 1999? Exactly, viral true-crime podcasts! Remember “Serial”? I’m thinking same thing, but with the pumpkin and the tower; we can even find a way to weave Casper into the story somehow, if that will help with sponsorships.

Or wait, I’ve got a better idea. How about a viral hashtag that encourages the pranksters to confess? It’s been 20 years. They pulled off the best prank Cornell has ever known. Decades later, we can finally let them take a bow for risking their lives to give us 20 years of lonely pondering. Pumpkin pranksters, tell us who you are! #PumpkinAmnesty!

— Farhad Manjoo ’00, former Sun editor in chief

and do we need mention the cojones!

“That night, he went up there early, when the chimesmasters were playing — and he hid out there,” Tom says.

Kennedy had planned the prank extensively, right down to picking the night based on anticipated wind conditions. And while he was up there, he could feel it — this night was right.

“He stayed up there for about an hour,” Tom says. “And when he left, he duct taped the door locks — there are two — on his way out, so that they wouldn’t lock. Then he left, and they all met up, and came back at midnight.”

“They came back with the pumpkin” — which was a normal pumpkin (“no preservatives”), Tom says, bought from a farm stand on the side of the road, and cored.

Their equipment: a pair of wire cutters, and rope. And when they tried the doors, they saw that Kennedy’s duct tape trick had worked –in no time, they were up there with the bells.

Tom says: “They hung out there for an hour. They figured, we’re in here, we’re safe…What do we do from here?”

They’d been confident before, Tom says, but now there were so close, and they wondered whether they should go through with it. Imagine the three go up there in the early autumn morning three years ago, shivering in the wind; they’re on the verge of doing something fairly crazy — a trick which could yield big payoffs, but which might also, in the worst case scenario, get them in big trouble, or get them dead.

They surveyed their surroundings.

“When you’re in the room up there — I’ve been up there myself,” Tom says, “[you’ll see] there’s a thick wire mesh above your head, which blocks off the pointed part of the room.”

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he wire mesh was the key — break through the mesh, and they could get to the access hatch to the roof. “You can see it from Libe slope — you can actually see the access hatch. The plan was to get through that hatch, go up the roof from there, place the pumpkin on top,” Tom says.

“They look up at the grating, and see a padlock on it. And they freeclimb the interior beams to reach it — three strong guys can do that. And they cut the lock with the cutter.”

From there, Kennedy climbs up to the access hatch. “It was his maniac idea,” Tom says, so he’s the one to do it. He takes up one end of the rope — the other end of which is attached to the pumpkin.

“You can’t tell this from the ground,” Tom

says, “but the texture of the roof is made up of two-inch deep tiles. They’re not incredibly solid, but it’s going to provide excellent hand and foot holds. Though up there the winds are brutal — even when it’s sunny out.”

And so, this is how it goes down.

“Kennedy climbs up to the peak. He tugs on the rope to let them know he’s up there. They send him the pumpkin on the rope. [When he gets it], he jams it on the damn thing, and then he climbs down.”

And when he got back inside, they “laughed their asses off for fifteen minutes, and went and had a beer.”

“And the next morning was when it started for the rest of us,” Tom says.

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n the phone, Tom Cruise sounds like a regular guy. He’s maybe 35, and married, and happy — he can’t stop laughing. He works for Cornell in some office of some department, a job that he seems to enjoy but which nevertheless smacks of bureaucracy — he has the word “technician” in his title. All of which is to say: Tom Cruise doesn’t sound like the kind of guy who’d try to dupe some college students at a campus newspaper. He tells his story with surprising indifference — he doesn’t argue points, or take pains to convince me.

He tells it, really, as if it’s the truth.

He says he’s kept the story a secret for so long out of concern for the three fellows.

After the pumpkin became a national sensation, Tom says, the three became scared of getting in deep trouble.

“Well why didn’t they come out with it?

The reason is these guys were afraid they were gonna get fuckin’ arrested. All the papers were saying that the police were investigating. As far as I know they never were caught, or questioned, though.”

“One detail I gave you,” Tom says, “was about the padlock being cut off — the newspapers never printed that the padlock had been cut off. So the police would have it. I don’t know if they know the doors had been taped.”

I called the University police, and I was able to confirm that the padlock had been cut. But the police did not disclose anything about the duct tape.

So as far as I’m concerned, this seals the case.

Tom Cruise solved the pumpkin mystery: Kennedy, Reagan and Nixon did it.

Farhad Manjoo ’00 is a former Sun editor in chief. He is now the technology columnist at The New York Times. Follow him on Twitter at @fmanjoo. He’s funny.

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NEWS

Wizarding Weekend Brings Harry Potter to Life WIZARD

Thompson expressed how happy she was to have this event in her hometown, because it enabled her to share moments from her childhood with close friends and Wizards,” said that there was a lot of volume and the role family. of Cornell student volunteers “There is a really unique was to facilitate the overall community here in Ithaca experience for festival-goers. and there is a unique vibe “Local vendors specifically made Hannah Thompson, an products for Harry Potter to celebrate. It that all of these festivals Ithaca local who currently have,” Thompson said. “It’s is really cool seeing that.” resides in Massachusetts, said really inclusive and excited. she had to take off from work Everyone is just wandering Hannah Thompson so that she could make the around and experiencing the six-hour drive to attend the events that are being hosted.” event.

While there was some “I grew up both in Ithaca and with Harry Potter,” apprehension on the Facebook page about the event after Thompson said. “One of my first memories is going to heavy rain was forecast for Sunday, organizers issued a the first Harry Potter movie with my parents.” statement that “rain does not stop magic, it just makes it Continued from page 1

more interesting.”

Despite the gloomy weather, several enthusiasts made their way down to the Commons, but a dramatic decrease in attendance was visible.

Festival-goers were also thrilled with the Harry-Potter themed food that was available at numerous stalls.

Thompson believed that the organic quality of Ithacan food and craft vendors contributed a personal touch to the event.

“Local vendors specifically made products for Harry Potter to celebrate,” Thompson said. “It is really cool seeing that at a community level and seeing kids that are going to start growing up with Harry Potter on their own.”

Stacey Blansky can be reached at sblansky@cornellsun.com.

PHOTOS BY MICHAEL SUGUITAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Yer a Wizard | Locals and tourists of all ages gathered in Ithaca to bring Harry Potter to life at Wizarding Weekend.

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Monday, October 30, 2017 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 9

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Where Is Home Now? Ai Weiwei’s Human Flow

BY LELA ROBINSON Sun Contributor

Few words are needed to express the heavy realities found within our global refugee crisis. Ai Weiwei’s documentary Human Flow captivates an awareness of this crisis chronicling the unimaginable narratives of refugees around the globe. Ai follows a series of stories, capturing the lives of refugees in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, France, Greece, Germany, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico and Turkey.

The documentary displays the relentless existence of these refugees as they flee from the crises crippling their home countries. Natural landscapes provide a striking visual backdrop to the many struggles a refugee faces: the journey from their home country, navigating systems new countries have arranged,

simultaneously living in a state of dependency and self-reliance, this list goes on.

In many ways the expressive terrains of these countries highlights the human suffering displayed in the film. Lone and

require no words yet comment on the transnational parallels of uncertainty, desperation and enduring human resiliency.

Ai shows how abandonment has

swallowed up and replaced with a nagging resignation as escaping a damaged country provides no opportunity in an unwelcoming place. Yet despite the grave moments of inhumanity the refugees face, Ai also captures exactly what it means to be human. Love, affection, sadness curiosity, smiling children squirming to be seen on camera all provide a subtle commentary on what it means to be human and how similar we actually are. The extent of human suffering among refugees despite their assorted nationalities is a poignant reminder of human resemblance and the significance of human empathy.

COURTESY OF LIONSGATE

despondent figures look across roaring seascapes, the camera pans out revealing thousands of empty lifejackets strewn carelessly across the shore. These shots

become a disease infecting an exponentially growing number of displaced peoples. Relief as it pours out of overcrowded rafts alongside refugees is quickly

Human Flow is playing now at Cinemapolis.

Lela Robinson is a sophomore in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at lgr47@cornell.edu.

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

A&E After Seven Years, Jigsaw Picks Up the Halloween Tradition 10 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | Monday, October 30, 2017

COURTESY OF LIONSGATE

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

“If it’s Halloween, it must be Saw.” It’s been seven years since that tagline has been heard in cinemas. In 2004, Saw hit theaters and created a whole new subgenre of horror. It became an annual tradition.

Every Halloween brought more death traps, more mystery and an ever growing web of mythos. For seven years, Lionsgate and Twisted Pictures harvested huge profits from these low-budget, box office hits. But when Saw VI hit theaters, it was the first movie in the series to earn less than $100 million. That made Saw 3D, the seventh movie, the last in the series. That’s changed this year with Jigsaw, directed by Michael and Peter Spierig, and written

by Pete Goldfinger and Josh Stolberg. After a seven year hiatus, Jigsaw’s trailers boast “he [Jigsaw] returns to take back Halloween.”

Now, I have to make a confession: when I was in high school, I thought Saw was the best movie series ever. They were my first R-rated movies, and I obsessed with decoding the sprawling storylines. Over time, I became a little more discerning and realized they had more than a few problems. Yet, they were still my introduction into horror and they remain a guilty pleasure of mine. So I was curious to see where Jigsaw fit into the series.

Jigsaw hits the ground running with a police chase, which ends in a suspect getting apprehended and shot.

Before he’s shot though, the suspect screams out that it’s all a part of “the game” and that more are going to die.

Afterwards, grisly bodies begin popping up around the city, reminiscent of the Jigsaw murders of the previous movies. A dwindling group of people find themselves struggling to survive twisted traps, desperate not to become the next victim, while also finding out the crimes that led to them being targeted by Jigsaw. The police have to determine if it’s a copycat, and if so who it is; or, as it begins to appear, the original Jigsaw Killer himself.

Now, as you’d expect from a Saw movie, there’s blood.

A LOT of blood. It was a problem that began to affect the later movies in the series. While the original Saw was indeed brutal and gory, it was selective in how much blood showed up on screen. More was implied than shown. In a way it was a gift of a tiny movie budget; with less prosthetics and effects, cinematography had to do more. In Jigsaw, you have autopsies sitting in full view, often with horrific injuries. You have the nasty results of the traps. It shows up on screen for extended times, and it becomes less shocking and more disgusting. Much like some of the series’ later movies, Jigsaw leans too heavily on blood and gore as a

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crutch.

Now, how about the characters? Jigsaw throws an awful lot of people at us, and the storyline shies away from actually focusing on any one of them. We know that this police chief is corrupt, and that guy really loves his daughter, but these kinds of things aren’t established well. That being said, there are still some interesting characters. There’s an autopsy assistant who’s also a member of a dark web cult that honors the Jigsaw Killer’s work. Odd, but definitely not boring. There’s also this one guy in the “main trap” of the movie who has the best reactions to everything, and some good sarcasm. Tobin Bell also reprises his role as John Kramer, the original Jigsaw Killer, and it's great. Bell’s sociopathic and detached mannerisms make his scenes some of the best in the whole film. Everyone else ranges from okay to bland.

Weak characters hamper any film. When the film is a whodunit mystery, though, that problem multiplies. It’s hard to lean towards any suspect in particular when hardly anyone stands out to us. So, while it’s somewhat interesting, we don’t get that invested in the mystery. I do have to give the movie credit though for at least building SOME mystery for us, something that got eschewed in the later series.

We need to be honest though, everything I’ve just described takes second-stage in almost any Saw movie. No, we go to a Saw movie to see bad people navigate deathtraps. So, how Saw is Jigsaw? Well, you have the characteristic plot twist. It’s a twist that leaves a lot of loose ends

though, and afterwards I thought “Wait, but what about that one thing? Or that event there?” You have some good tension here and there, and the movie manages to set us on edge at several points. You have the traps, outlandish and deadly as ever. Some of them get overly complicated, which again is part of the goofy charm of Saw. One trap really captured my imagination though. The original Jigsaw Killer locks two people in a room, addressing them and recanting their sins, telling them exactly why he chose them. Then he takes a single shotgun, places a single shell inside, and states “The rest is up to you.” No other instructions. Even the cinematography seemed to improve, showing a lot with haunting visuals. It’s the kind of mind game that made me love the original Saw, and my only complaint is that the scene didn’t get to linger as long as I would have liked. But in that one part, I felt like I was watching the original movie again. It was a stroke of inspiration that I loved.

Jigsaw doesn’t quite top the original Saw movie. There are so many people running around that it’s impossible to really develop anyone. Plus, the movie tends to lean on gore and shock value instead of actual mind games to create horror. That said, it’s also not the worst Saw movie. It’s a return to form for a series that went out on a whimper in 2010 with Saw 3D. If audiences are kind at the box office, I think Jigsaw might just win back Halloween.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at djg284@cornell.edu.

A Fine Litter of Puppies

ne of the handful of truly splendid things about America is the newspaper comic Garfield. While the strip doesn't quite have the art snob street cred of Peanuts, Nancy or even Calvin and Hobbes, there's something about the fat cat that seems to stick around throughout the humdrum of our lives. Out of the corner of your eye you almost see him, each bemoaning of a Monday morning comes from a voice we may have learned from him. Each one of us is a little bit Jon Arbuckle, each of us grapples with a Nermal or an Odie in our midst. Not unlike the country we live in, Garfield is exactly as bad as you've heard, but it's always there, and there can be a lot of good and beauty to be found in that banal reality.

Like the suburb, the country song or any Americana, there's a weirdo, deviant undercurrent to the Garfield cycle, just beneath the surface that bubbles up every once in a while. The original Garfield of the late 70s was a much crueller fellow than we know today, a petulant, violent beast with a penchant for pipe smoking.

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One bizarre run of strips from 1989 nicknamed “Garfield Alone” by fans features the feline abandoned and isolated, possibly dying, finally submitting to an illusory fantasy of not being alone which allows the series to continue as normal.

Absences also plague the Garfield mythos: whatever happened to Jon's mustachioed buddy Lyman, Odie’s prior owner, who vanished from the Nathan strip entirely Chazan after a few weeks of playing foil The Next t o Arbuckle's Panel early adventures in pet ownership? A brief cameo in an official haunted house-themed computer game as a prisoner in a dungeon drove Lyman fans to spin mad conspiracies of his dissidence and torture. More recently, archival audio of Jim Davis describing Garfield as neither a boy nor a girl sparked a multiday editing war on Wikipedia over the fat cat's gender identity.

And then there is the Fine Litter of Puppies. In a strip dated to May 30, 1990, Jon helps himself to a cup of “coffee” that he assumes Garfield's veterinarian Liz, the love of Jon’s life, has prepared.

“Congratulations, Mr. Arbuckle,” Liz responds drolly, “You are going to give birth to a fine, healthy litter of puppies.”

Jon visibly gags as Garfield delivers the hilarious punchline, “I hate puppies!”

By all appearances, this would seem to be the first and only instance of dog semen being depicted (not to mention consumed) in a nationally syndicated comic strip, a bit of bitter lore cherished by Garfield-heads for now nearly thirty years, circulating later as internet platforms allowed for new channels of broadcast. An image of a print of the strip signed by cartoonist Jim Davis and captions “This is canon” circulated widely on Twitter, creating a virtual uproar. To my mind it's no wonder people love this strip so much.

There's a joy to the cartoon, an acknowledgement of bodily fluid and grotesquery in the sexless world of the funnies. It's not merely subversive, it's a gateway into a whole new cartoon world where people puke and itch their groins and do the vulgar, fun things that people do.

But what if it isn't vulgar after all? In a recent interview with Buzzfeed, Jim Davis himself was asked about the litter of puppies, to which he replied: “On the farm, we used to give first-calf heifers a high protein supplement to help them deliver healthier calves. The supplement was provided by our vet... I assumed that there would be a similar supplement

for dogs. So Jon is drinking a proteinenriched drink formulated for a pregnant dog.

There you have it!

Is Davis telling the truth? Could this be an evasion of the coarse reality, cooked up for the more prudish Garfield lovers? It could go either way. Knowing the undercurrent of bumpkin farmboy stuff that runs throughout Garfield (n.b. U.S. Acres) and how heavily Davis derives that strain of humor from his own upbringing, his explanation seems completely plausible to me. Yet somehow this does not diminish the perverse fascination that the fine litter provokes, but rather intensifies it. What kind of strange life has Davis had that made this joke seem plausible? What the heck is a “protein supplement” in this context, and how are we supposed to infer it?

A cup of dog spunk now becomes a Shroedingeresque ambiguity that prods at the gateways to our collective unconscious.

Time only makes the strip grow stranger, maturing like a puppy raised to doghood from a fine, well-nourished litter.

In other news, Jon and Liz started dating a few years ago in the comics. Mazel tov!

Nathan Chazan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Next Panel will appear Mondays this semester. He can be reached at ndc39@cornell.edu.

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

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

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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By CHLOE MIKLES and HANNAH JAMES Sun Staff Writer and Sun Staff Contributor

With perfect conditions for racing and a familiar course layout, both the Cornell men’s and women’s cross country teams left the city without what they had set out for — the Heps trophy.

Facing off against their Ivy League foes in New York City’s Van Cortlandt Park this past Friday, both squads walked away in the middle of the pack, with the men capturing fourth with 131 team points and the women finishing fifth with 106.

Princeton took home the men’s crown, and Columbia walked away with the women’s.

Regionals will take place on Nov. 10 at the Audubon Golf Course in Buffalo, with the race kicking off at noon.

Freshman Sets Cornell Van Cortlandt Park Record En Route to 5th Place Result

Although falling short of the podium, the women’s performance at Heps was far from disappointing. The team took fifth in Van Cortlandt Park on Friday with several impressive finishes, but were unable to cohesively close out the race.

“We’ve been doing a good job this season of establishing great position early in the race,” said head coach Artie Smith ’96. “Although our position was solid as we entered the trails heading into the back hills of the course, it wasn’t as good as it has Men Heading ‘In a Good Direction’ After 4th been in some other races.”

Place Finish The team has faced difficulty this season in effecAfter a successful few months of racing, the men closed out their competitive season with a fourth tively closing out the race after very strong starts, place finish at Heps, an improvement from their and with the absence of senior tri-captain Jackie sixth place finish last season. And while the team Katzman, the Red struggled to claim firm ground early on. Katzman is the returning had extremely lofty goals for this MVP, and could not compete meet, its advancing position indi“You always want team due to an injury. cates that the program is moving formore, I think that’s “Many people stepped up with ward. terrific races and all the returning “You always want more, I think kind of a part of runners in our top seven had their that’s kind of a part of being an athlete and a competitor,” assistant being an athlete and best ever place finish at the Heps,” coach Mike Henderson said. “[But] a competitor. [But] Smith said of his other runners being able to fill the void. we are certainly happy that we’re we are certainly The pool of competitors was moving in a good direction.” happy that we’re diverse and there was not a single The Red started off strong, keepdominant squad. Columbia took ing pace with the other top teams in moving in a good home the trophy this year after finthe race but had difficulty maintaindirection.” ishing last at Heps a year ago, while ing its position in the middle secDartmouth took second after a sevtion, which saw a fall in scoring posienth overall finish in 2016. tions. Despite this struggle, Cornell Assistant Coach The Red had a strong and aggrescame away with a final score of 131 Mike Henderson sive start, asserting its running posipoints, just below Dartmouth, tions early on. Third at the halfway which placed fifth with 138 points.

“We lost a little bit of ground in then the middle point, it seemed as if the Heps title could have been section of the race,” Henderson said. “We were a in reach. However, the women fell back in the last long shot to get in the top three teams but we want- 3000m of the race, and the championship slipped out of grasp. ed to give them a run.”

Freshman Gabrielle Orie led the Cornell women, Senior Dominic Deluca led the pack of five scoring runners for the Red, although he battled a mid- crossing the finish line in seventh place. Her time of race back injury and had to dig deep hard to finish 21:20.0 was not only good for First Team All-Ivy the race. Another standout was Senior Michael Honors, but was also the fastest time run by a Wang, who moved up from 45th place at the 5k Cornellian on this course.

Senior tri-captain Erin McLaughlin set an aggresmark to finish 27th. Wang was the third-highest scorer for Cornell on the day, and his performance sive pace for the field and ran in the top four for the was a huge improvement on an 84th place finish at majority of the race. She ended up taking ninth with a time of 21:20.6, earning her second-team All-Ivy the meet last year.

With all five of this year’s Heps scorers being honors for the second consecutive year. McLaughlin seniors, the Red will have many opportunities for was followed by her co-captain, senior Shannon Hugard, who ran the best Heps of her cross country the underclassmen to step up next year.

“All five of our scorers were seniors so we’ve got career. Hugard finished 20th in 21:47, gaining some big shoes to fill,” Henderson said. “They were ground in the challenging last 1000 meters of the great seniors, great leaders, so we definitely are going race.

Junior Briar Brumley and sophomore Junior to have to have people that step up for next year to World Triathlon Champion Taylor Knibb closed fill that void.”

Despite the team competition wrapping up for out the top five for the Red, finishing 27th and Red, seven individuals will have an opportunity to 47th, respectively.

Next up for the women is the NCAA Northeast compete at the NCAA Regionals in a couple of Regional in Buffalo, also on Nov. 10. The team and weeks.

“Obviously trying to get some people onto the individuals will vie for a shot at the NCAA NCAA Championships is the first thing,” Championships in Louisville later in November.

Henderson said about the goals for Regionals. “Let’s see if we can’t get a couple of all-regional runners Chloe Mikles can be reached at cmikles@cornellsun.com. and end with our best meet of the year.”

Hannah James can be reached at hlj37@cornell.edu.

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False start | While the men’s team was able to keep pace with the other top teams early on, it struggled to maintain its position in the middle section.

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Football Moves Into First Place Tie in League

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Second half turnaround | Despite heading into the locker room with a halftime deficit, the Red drastically improved both offensively and defensively in the second half.

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“It’s just validating a belief that I had … and that my staff had,” Archer said. “You start to see the manifestation of that belief.”

Princeton, the top scoring offense in the Ivy league, flexed its muscles in the first half and took a 21-10 lead into halftime, reminiscent of last year’s demolishing of the Red. Tiger quarterback Chad Kanoff had no trouble finding open receivers and led his team to nearly 300 yards of offense in the first two quarters. But the Red’s defense, ranked No. 1 in total defensive yards, buckled down and limited the Tigers to just one touchdown in the final 30 minutes. “[Our coaching staff] made some great

adjustments at halftime,” Archer said. “They did a few different things because Princeton reacted to our initial gameplan and they changed it up and the kids executed it.”

“Once the jitters calmed down, and our defensive coordinator made a bunch of great corrections, we went out there and did what we needed to do,” said senior safety Nick Gesualdi, who snagged an interception to set up Cornell’s first score of the day.

As has been the gameplan for much of the season, the Red stayed true to the run and moved the ball effectively throughout the game, finishing the night with 163 yards on the ground with contributions coming across the board. Despite limited success early, Archer’s continued commitment to the ground game paid off and helped the

Red keep Princeton’s offense off the field.

Cornell won the time of possession battle, finishing with just under 33 minutes on offense compared to the Tigers’ 27.

“We knew we had to go out there and execute,” said Banks, who played behind an offensive line that did not give up a sack.

“We knew we were in the game the whole time, even when they jumped out early. We didn’t let that get us down and just stayed confident that we were going to get the win.”

A rotation between Banks and senior Jake Jatis under center got the job done as well. Banks threw two interceptions — including one early in the third quarter — and it seemed Jatis had taken over for the night. The Princeton defense had no answers for Jatis’ dual-threat ability, as the senior converted on seemingly countless short yardage situations to keep the chains moving.

But it was Banks’ turn to lead the team down the field on its final drive with under five minutes remaining, and he made sure his head coach did not regret his decision.

Banks completed all six of his passes on that series and brought his team into field goal range.

Banks finished the game 23 of 29 passing for 171 yards, while Jatis led the rushing attack with 61 yards on 12 carries, including a touchdown.

After no gain on third down from the Princeton 26, Archer sent out Null to attempt the 43-yarder. His kick looked like it would have gone ten more yards if it needed to, and the Red had its first lead of the

night.

“It was a great feeling,” Banks said of leading his team on the game-winning drive.

“Whatever it takes to get the ‘W.’ We had trouble running the ball when I was in, and we did a great job when [Jatis] was in. We both did our parts, and that’s what you need to do to win.”

Princeton got the ball back with 48 seconds to go, but kicker Tavish Rice could not create the same magic as Null, shanking a 44-yarder that would have given Princeton the last second victory.

A bit of bad news amid the pure bliss of a win of such magnitude on national television, junior running back Chris Walker went down with a non-contact right leg injury and had to be helped off the field. His status going forward is uncertain.

“You hate to see one of your brothers go down tonight, but we had to stay focused and say we are going to do this for him,” Banks said. “No better opportunity to go out there and do it for our brother.”

Cornell moves to 3-1 in the Ivy League, tied for first place alongside Yale and Columbia. The Red has three games remaining and will look to continue its “Revenge Tour” at Dartmouth next Saturday.

“We’ve known that we’ve had it this whole time, but we’re finally letting everybody else know that Cornell’s here,” Gesualdi said. “We know we’re not messing around, we’re ready to keep going.”

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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[last year],” Schafer said. “We [couldn’t] believe it as a coaching staff, he shoots the puck so hard.”

Galajda was tested early, as the Chargers Senior alternate captain and forward unleashed 16 shots on him in the first peri- Trevor Yates doubled Cornell’s lead after the od, but the freshman out of Ontario turned penalty festival with five minutes played in all he faced aside. the first period, and then Barron netted the A majority of Galajda’s first-period shots first of his career to make it 3-0. came while Cornell was busy nursing penal“They can tell us about it as much as ty kill after penalty kill. With Cornell only they want, but I don’t think anything is facing one five-on-three all of last year, the going to prepare you for what it was,” Red had to kill two off alone in the opening Barron said about the Lynah environment. period of the 2017-18 season.

“To be able to bury one and … to help the Sophomore forward Noah Bauld’s season team get started on the right foot was a lot debut was cut short after of fun.” he sent UAH forward Sophomore forward “It means a lot to me Brennan Saulnier, brothJeff Malott notched a knowing all the goalies pair of goals in the third, er of Cornell women’s hockey alumna Jill and the younger Saulnier who have played here Saulnier ’15, awkwardly ended Galajda’s shutout over the years.” into the boards. Bauld bid with 3:08 left in the was assessed a 10-minute game to leave Lynah with Freshman Matt Galajda game misconduct, senda 5-1 final score. ing him to the showers Joining Galajda in and Cornell to kill a five-minute major just making collegiate debuts Friday were six 42 seconds into killing a slashing minor by freshmen skaters, who combined for four senior captain and forward Alex Rauter. points on the night. In addition to Barron’s Upon killing the Rauter minor and get- tally, Brenden Locke earned his first career ting back to five-on-four, sophomore point with an assist on the first Malott goal, defenseman Yanni Kaldis was called for a and Cam Donaldson added two helpers of hook with 53 seconds left in the first period, his own before leaving the game after taking sending Cornell back on a five-on-three kill. a low, nasty hit late in the third period.

But Galajda was able to stand on his “If that was the NHL, we would be fighthead, stymying not just those two five-on- ing still,” Schafer said after the game in refthrees but all six shots he faced on as many erence to the Donaldson hit, adding that he power plays on the night. believes the freshman will be ok. “[The refs] “Matt saved us [on those kills],” Schafer said [the UAH player] hit him on the hip, said. “That was the difference in the game.” but don’t know what they were watching on Luckily for Cornell, the team was able to that particular play.” fight through the penalty-killing palooza Galajda, however, quickly stood out to with a one-goal lead off the stick of junior endear himself to the Lynah Faithful and defenseman Alec McCrea. Four seconds reaffirm that no matter who Cornell throws after Cornell drew a power play of its own in net, that person seemingly finds a way to 4:35 into the game, McCrea collected a pass impress. off the faceoff from classmate forward Beau “It means a lot to me knowing all the Starrett and sent a bouncing puck past goalies who have played here over the years,” UAH goalie Jordan Uhelski’s far side to get Galajda said. “Hopefully I can be one of Cornell on top first. them too.”

McCrea matched his goal production from last year just 4:39 into the 2017-18 Zachary Silver can be reached at season.

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Sophomore defenseman Yanni Kaldis lasered one down to the right side of the net where Yates was waiting to punch it in.

Cornell held onto its two-goal lead until four minutes remained in what was a quiet third period.

Yates later struck again to seal the deal, sneaking the puck past opposing goalie Jordan Uhelski for his team’s third goal and his third on the year. Kaldis provided Yates with the assist, yet again.

“Yanni is a great player, really smart with the puck [and] always thinking offense,” Yates said. “We just connected this past weekend on the power play and we are looking to keep going. If he keeps passing me the puck, I’ll keep shooting.”

Yates thrives on the power play, with 11 of his 15 goals since the beginning of last season having come with a man advantage.

“Great game by Trevor on the power play,” Schafer said. “He led our team in power play goals last year … [and] he’s off to a great start this season.”

As a team, Cornell struggled to keep itself out of the penalty box, recording eight penalties. While these miscues could be afforded against UAH, the Red will look to cut down on penalties as it heads

into conference play, facing tougher opponents.

“The area I am really disappointed on is our penalties,” Schafer said. “It’s early [in the] season, but we need to shore that up. We can’t be taking penalties off of faceoffs, can’t be taking penalties in the offensive zone.”

Still, freshman goaltender Matt Galajda repeated his strong performance from the night before, holding down the fort despite the seven penalty kills his team endured. The rookie finished with 11 saves and his first career shutout in his second career start.

“I told Matt we screwed up last night giving up the goal late,” Schafer said.

“Didn’t do it tonight.”

Schafer’s team totaled 17 blocked shots on the night after breaking out pucks made of sponge during the morning skate to get his players more acclimated to the intensity of the flying rubber.

“Our guys blocked shots [tonight]; it was a totally different story [with] the power play and five-on-five,” Schafer added.

Up next for the Red are a pair of road tilts against ECAC foes Quinnipiac and Princeton to kick off conference play.

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

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Red Shocks Princeton,Takes 1st in Ivy Last minute field goal clinches upset victory

FOOTBALL

By ZACHARY SILVER and CHARLES COTTON Sun Sports Editor and Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Two kicks, separated by one yard and 37 seconds, are what defined the biggest win for Cornell football in recent history, eradicating the demons from a 56-7 loss to Princeton at home last year.

“I can’t watch this,” junior quarterback Dalton Banks told himself as Princeton’s Tavish Rice lined up for a 44yard kick, just half a minute after Cornell’s Nickolas Null sunk a 43-yarder to give his team the lead.

But after two timeouts to ice the Princeton kicker, Banks picked his head up to see Rice’s kick shank to the left, securing another victim in the team’s coined “Revenge Tour.”

“This is gonna sound crazy, but I just knew it was going to happen,” said head coach David Archer ’05. “I just knew we were going to win.”

With the Princeton Stadium floodlights shining and the NBC cameras rolling, Cornell did what many thought was impossible; the team upset Princeton, 2928, thanks to a last minute field goal from Null, the sophomore punter and backup kicker, making 56-7 last year a distant memory.

“It was unreal,” Banks said. “He made a great kick. … That was an all-around great team win.”

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Game: 1ST Cornell 0 Princeton 7

2ND 10 14

3RD 6 7

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Big stage | With NBC televising Saturday’s game on national television, the Red was able to pull off its upset win against the Ivy League’s number one offense.

against Brown, was 3-3 on field goals on the night and 2-2 on extra points.

“The guy’s got ice in his veins, and he’s just such a class kid,” Archer told NBC Sports after the game. “He kicks the winning field goal and then he comes over to me and he says, ‘Hey thanks for recruiting me.’”

Cornell, picked to finish last in the Ivy preseason polls, now sits tied for first place in the Ancient Eight with wins over the two preseason favorites — Princeton and Harvard — already on its resume.

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Icers Complete Weekend Sweep to Open Season 2-0 Red notchs shutout against UAH in second game of back-to-back

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Repeating history | With its two wins against Univeristy of Alabama-Huntsville, the Red opens its season 2-0 for the fourth time in six years.

Freshman goalie Galajda sensational in season-opening win

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Anyone in a carnelian and white jersey who steps into the goal creases of Lynah Rink immediately has sky-high expectations thrust upon them. With the likes of Mitch Gillam ’17, Andy Illes ’14, Ben Scrivens ’10 and, certainly not least, pro hockey hallof-famer Ken Dryden ’69 all gracing the blue paint on East Hill, the bar is high for any iteration of a Cornell men’s hockey goalie.

Thursday night, with an injury to senior goalie Hayden Stewart, freshman Matt Galajda, received the news he would get the start in the team’s homeopener against Alabama-Huntsville.

“When I got the text, I definitely had a smile on my face knowing that I was going to start my first game,” Galajda said.

After a solid preseason, appearing and impressing in both exhibition games, Galajda more than lived up to the hype Friday, carrying a shutout bid into the final minutes, stopping all but one of the 29 shots he faced en route to a 5-1 season-opening win for Cornell over Alabama-Huntsville.

“He’s played that way in practice,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said of his young goalie. “He has been getting better and better as the fall has gone on.”

“To be able to see him go out and stand on his head like that was awesome,” added Galajda’s classmate forward Morgan Barron, who attended the same high school as Galajda and netted his first collegiate goal Friday. “He made some unbelievable saves.”

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They did what was expected of them. Against non-conference opponent AlabamaHuntsville, Cornell men’s hockey completed the sweep Saturday night with a 3-0 shutout at home to open the season 2-0 for the fourth time in the last six years, earning freshman goalie Matt Galajda his first collegiate shutout in his second career start.

With Saturday’s win, after Friday’s season-opening 5-1 handling of the Chargers, the Red sent UAH packing this weekend, as expected, but with room to improve in this young season.

“We came out for a pregame skate this morning … and we said, ‘this is not the kind of team we are,’” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86. “[We were] far from perfect, but that was a better game for us tonight than what we played last night.”

Adversity came early when junior Alec McCrea was whistled for tripping less than a minute into Saturday night’s contest. Nevertheless, the Red stayed focused and did not skip a beat in fighting back.

Right off the heels of a successful penalty kill by Cornell,

junior defenseman Matt Nuttle buried a goal in front of the net off the counter-attack for his first on the season, set up by senior alternate captain and forward Trevor Yates.

“Killing off a penalty is always huge momentum,” Yates said. “And we were able to get a lucky bounce and capitalize. It was a good momentum swing and it benefited us greatly.”

The Red entered the first intermission up on the Chargers, 1-0, just as it did the night before. But unlike Friday night, when UAH outshot Cornell, 16-7, in the opening frame, Cornell outshot its opponent Saturday, 7-4, to start the game despite going on the penalty kill twice in the opening period.

It was a buffet of penalties on Saturday night, with eight in the second period alone. “[The officials] called the game a little bit different tonight,” Schafer said. “You have to adjust for that.”

Cornell eventually got its money’s worth on the slew of special teams opportunities.

With time expiring in its third power play of the evening, the Red notched the first manadvantage score of the game.

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