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Gender Disparity Still Visible in Leadership Of Some Student Orgs

By JONATHAN LOBEL Sun Contributor

on the streets to allow IPD to reduce crime.

Under the proposed amendment Common Council is considering, the IPD would be able to add two more officers to its force starting on April 1. The combined cost for the two additional positions would add up to $117,609.

The city has not yet determined how it would fund the new positions.

The Common Council will now have the opportunity to vote on whether the proposed amendment should be included in Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09

Sixty-three years after student organizations at Cornell were officially gender desegregated, gender equality has become more prevalent in the leadership of student organizations including the Student Assembly, Haven and the Cornell University Program Board. But within the executive boards of some of Cornell’s largest business clubs lies a stark contrast: much like the professions they prepare members for, these boards remain predominantly male.

According to the Cornell Consulting Club’s website, its eight-member executive board consists of one female and seven males. Similarly, the executive board of the Mutual Investment Club of Cornell consists of 16 males and one female, according to its website.

Raimund Riedl ’14, president of Cornell Consulting Club, declined to comment on the gender disparity in the club’s leadership.

According to Prof. Ileen A. Devault, industrial and labor relations, male dominance in business clubs on college campuses is an expected phenomenon.

“I find it sad, but I don’t find it all that surprising,” Devault said about the gender inequality.

Devault added that the relatively low number of women in the high ranks of business clubs is consistent with a report conducted by the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2009, which found that roughly 22 percent of chief executives are female.

“Most people who are going to join a business club on a college campus imagine themselves as CEOs someday, and that means they are most likely male,” Devault said. “It’s hard for a women to imagine herself as something she’s never seen.”

In contrast, the Student Assembly’s Fall 2013 executive

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Speak now | Fay Gougakis, an Ithaca resident, expresses her concern about safety in the City of Ithaca at a special budget hearing Wednesday evening.

Common Council Considers Adding Police Officers to 2014 Budget

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer

One year after the City of Ithaca approved a budget that cut the size of the Ithaca Police Department by nine officers, the Common Council has begun considering adding two officers back to the police force.

“I can’t emphasize the importance of adding more personnel to our department,” IPD Chief John Barber said at a meeting Wednesday. Citing an increase in crime rates in the city, Barber said that the city must increase the number of police officers

Filthy/Gorgeous Will Downsize 300 to attend spring event

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

Known in recent years for its extravagant budget and huge turnout, Filthy/Gorgeous, an annual event to promote awareness of the LGBTQ community, will be scaled down this spring, its organizers say.

Although the event has previously been hosted in Duffield Hall and Noyes Recreational Center — spaces that accommodated about a thousand people — this year, it will be hosted in the Willard Straight Hall See GORGEOUS page 4

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Ithaca is Filthy/Gorges | About 900 people attended the Filthy/Gorgeous event in Spring 2013, when it was held in Noyes Community Recreation Center. Spring 2014’s event will be much smaller, accommodating only about 300 people and taking over Willard Straight Hall.

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Gary Koretzky’78 describes position as ‘dream job’ will expand Weill’s research space by more than 455,000 square feet, is projected to open in 2014. Weill will also further its After his first month as the new dean of research efforts by collaborating with the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Hunter College, which announced Oct. Medical Sciences, Gary Koretzky ’78, a 24 that it will purchase the fourth floor of prominent immunologist, described the the building to expand its public-private partnership. position as his “dream job.”

Koretzky said he is excited to play a part “My overall goal as dean of the graduate in these expansions. school is to take an outstanding “The enthusiasm and exciteprogram to the next level of ment for the future of both the eminence,” Koretzky said. He medical college and graduate said that, among other goals, he school is palpable,” Koretzky hopes to make administrative said. and structural changes to the Koretzky said he hopes that program to enhance students’ the direction WCMC is taking experience. will encourage Cornell students In the long term, Koretzky heading to medical school go said he plans to revise WCMC’s KORETZKY ’78 straight from one Cornell camcurriculum “to ensure we are pus to another. teaching the most important “I very much hope that as Cornell concepts and approaches to our students and optimally preparing them for the myr- undergraduates consider the next phase of iad of opportunities in biomedical their careers, those interested in the biomedical sciences will consider WCMC for research.”

Koretzky, who began serving as dean of that next step,” Koretzky said.

Koretzky was the vice chair for research the Weill graduate school and senior associate dean for research at WCMC on Oct. and chief scientific officer in the 1, will be overseeing a large expansion of Department of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania before being named dean biomedical research at Weill.

The Belfer Research Building, which of the Weill Graduate School, according to

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Spending his undergraduate years at Cornell inspired him to pursue a career in medicine, Koretzky said.

“For me, Cornell was the perfect mix of academic rigor in a beautiful setting. … I met incredibly interesting and idealistic individuals who challenged me to think much more broadly on many topics,” Koretzky said.

WCMC Dean Laurie Glimcher said she looks forward to seeing Koretzky move Weill forward over the coming years.

“Dr. Koretzky is a distinguished researcher and leader, and I am thrilled that he will join us as dean of the Weill Cornell Graduate School of Medical Sciences and as senior associate dean for research at Weill Cornell,” Glimcher said in a University press release. “He will enable us to translate scientific discoveries into the most advanced care for our patients.”

Jesse Weissman can be reached at jmw397@cornell.edu.

Ayuen Ajok Grad, Lost Boy of Sudan, Finds Refuge at C.U.

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

By the time he entered high school, Ayuen Ajok grad had already lived the horrific life of a war refugee: Over a span of 13 years, Ajok walked thousands of miles among three countries, nearly died from disease and starvation and lost countless friends and family members to war.

Ajok is one of the Lost Boys of Sudan, the 20,000 Sudanese children who were displaced from their homeland and separated from their families during the Second Sudanese Civil War. “As a child, I was told that Arabs would come to our villages and convert us and kill us,” Ajok said.

When his village was attacked, knowing “that death was around the corner and that anything could happen” to him, five-yearold Ajok escaped immediately, unable to meet with his parents before making the several thou-

sand-mile trek to Ethiopia on foot with other refugees.

“We encountered things like people dying from dehydration, animal attacks, children being kidnapped by bandits at night,” said Ajok, adding that people died from lack of medical care, as well as from depression and suicide.

The main thing that encouraged him to keep walking was the hope that his parents might have survived, he said.

“Thinking about my parents, where they were and how their safety was was something I thought about all the time,” he said.

In Ethiopia, Ajok was grouped with 27,000 children refugees into isolation camps, where he remained for four years until 1991.

“There were no houses when we got there, just trees,” Ajok said. “We did not have tools, [and] we did not have infrastructure like hospitals or clinics.

During the rainy season, the

cholera endemic became a big issue, and some of the friends I made there died. It was the first time I had to witness a friend die.”

The only real adult figures at the Ethiopian camp were the volunteers there, who periodically disappeared once they were called off to war, according to Ajok.

Ajok was forced to go back to Sudan once gunshots rang out one morning in 1991.

“I just ran. Everyone had to leave, toward Sudan. We were not prepared for it, and rebels were shooting everyone. They didn’t care if you were a refugee or not,” he said.

Ajok returned to Sudan as an internally displaced person. For three months, he and other children lived off berries, eventually trading what little clothes and supplies they had for food.

Then, in order to get to a refugee camp with real food and water, they walked further south in Sudan, single file, walking only

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The music man | Musician Jeff Snedeker performs works by the composer Heinrich Scheidemann on the organ in Anabel Taylor Hall as part of a Midday Music concert series put on by the Department of Music Wednesday.

at night and leaving the sick and injured behind. During the journey, Ajok caught malaria and had to be carried by his two colleagues. Eventually, they reached a refugee camp in Kenya, where he stayed for eight years.

At this camp, Ajok began his education and his eagerness for learning. Though lessons were given in charcoal on pieces of cardboard and the children only had the ground to practice, Ajok said he became very driven about practicing his English.

In 2000, Ajok was among the refugees who were brought to the U.S. to escape life as a refugee. He described coming to America as a “culture shock,” only having a small idea of what America was like based off of a viewing of Charlie’s Angels in the Kenyan refugee camp.

“The first night I spent in America was in a hotel in New York City,” Ajok said. “I left my shoes on while I was sleeping, because I was so used to always running.”

Having refused to be placed in a foster home, Ajok was placed in a home in Philadelphia along with a relative of his mother, “I thought I was going to another refugee camp,” Ajok said, before discovering the lack of violence in his new home.

“People walk past each other on the street without bothering each other,” Ajok said. “Whether you are Republican or Democrat, in America you can still get along.

We never shoot each other from left to right over political differences.”

After studying hard and receiving support from a local church, Ajok was able to excel in school and graduate from high school as well as Temple University, where he transferred to after spending a year at Penn State.

In 2007, Ajok finally reunited with his mother in Uganda, where she lives as a refugee.

“I view America as my first home and Sudan as my second home,” Ajok said. “America gave me the opportunity that my country did not give me. With my American passport, I can travel anywhere. I want to be an advocate for Sudan’s cause. For a society to move forward, it involves community, civil society and government.”

A t Cornell, Ajok has given presentations “As a child, I on margin markets in was told that developing Arabs would countries, as well as talks come to our at local high villages and schools. He believes that covert us and for children kill us.” growing up in a develAyuen Ajok grad oped country like the U.S., the curriculum should expose students to the humanitarian crises across the world and incorporate the United Nations’ Millenium development goals into teaching. He said he thinks that on all levels, from academic down to the family level, students should be made aware of inequity in the world.

“Parents should play a great role to give children a different perspective so that they grow up with enthusiasm not about their own problems, but children in developing countries,” Ajok said. “A lot of kids have dreams, but they don’t have opportunities. Don’t take things for granted.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Filthy/Gorgeous Adapts to Shifts in Campus Climate, Budget GORGEOUS

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Memorial Room, which has a room capacity of 300 unseated students.

Noyes has refused to host Filthy/Gorgeous due to a number of medical transports that occured when the event was held there in 2012, and increased safety regulations have made holding the event in Duffield again too expensive.

Jadey Huray ’14, president of Haven: the LGBTQ Student Union, noted that last year’s Filthy/Gorgeous made safetyrelated improvements that result-

ed in no medical transports.

Even then, the event’s organizers say that they are optimistic about the choice of the Straight as Filthy/Gorgeous’ venue this year.

Daniel Petralia ’15, one of the event’s organizers, said that, prior to 2012, the event was regularly held in the Straight, he said.

“We decided to go back there for its natural feeling. Everything is sort of laid out for us since it’s been done there for years,” Petralia said.

Echoing Petralia’s sentiment, Huray said that Filthy/Gorgeous is returning to its roots this year. “[It] is being reformatted from

its current state and returning to the original format from years ago — a sort of throwback, if you like, to years gone by,” Huray said.

As in previous years, the event will host a performer and possibly include go-go dancers. Previous headliners have included drag performers Chi Chi La Rue, Manila Luzon and rapper Cazwell.

Other parts of the event, however, will change with the organizers’ efforts to reduce the cost of hosting Filthy/Gorgeous, according to Huray.

The increase in the cost of holding Filthy/Gorgeous last year became an “unjustifiable” expense

on Haven’s budget, Huray said. It also “vastly changed the nature of the event, which has previously been far more accessible to the LGBTQ and wider Cornell community, and made us question the sustainability and reach of the event to the student body that we serve,” she said.

With Filthy/Gorgeous’ smaller scale, the event organizers hope that they will be able to rein back expenses to a more manageable level.

Huray added that she thinks that, over time, there has been a shift in the campus climate regarding LGBTQ issues that will

facilitate the change in Filthy/Gorgeous this year.

“Filthy/Gorgeous was established at a time when LGBTQ students were uncomfortable and did not have any, if not a few, safe spaces on campus to celebrate their array of identities in a social [or] party setting. Hence, Filthy/Gorgeous stood as a capstone event, once a year, that allowed these students to feel at ease and occupy a space that they could truly be themselves in,” Huray said. “I believe that more informal and formal events or initiatives have been created that have led to the formation of such spaces beyond Filthy/Gorgeous and any other Haven event.”

Matthew Carcella, director of the LGBT Resource Center, echoed Huray’s sentiments, saying Filthy/Gorgeous will be “in a different form than before to make sure that we are keeping the event relevant.”

Petralia said he hopes Filthy/Gorgeous will be a successful event again this year and on part with “what people have experienced in the past.”

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

S.A.Gender Balance PARITY

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board is about 45 percent female and 55 percent male, according to the S.A.’s website. This is an improvement on previous years: over the last six years, the percentage of females in the S.A. has ranged from 14 to zero percent, according to the S.A.’s website.

Juliana Batista ’16, vice president of outreach for the S.A., said she thinks females are well represented in the organization this year, adding that previous executive boards have been largely male due to a lack of female interest in attaining such positions.

“I would say that this year the ratio is fairly good,” Batista said.

“I think, in terms of student politics, it’s not that we aren’t encouraging women to go out for these positions –– it’s just who’s naturally drawn to them and who has the best platform.”

Haven also reported having nearly equal representation of genders in its executive board over the last three years, according to Jadey Huray ’14, president of Haven.

The current board consists of two females, two males and one individual who identifies as genderqueer –– a blanket term including all gender identities apart from male and female.

Haven’s past two executive boards were 60% and 40% female respectively, Huray said.

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Police Chief:Important to Adequately Staff Department BUDGET

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budget, which will be approved on Nov. 12.

At the meeting, Myrick responded to police officers’ concerns by saying that, while he would like for the city to invest as much as it can in the department, the 2014 budget represents the largest amount of money the IPD has received.

In 2013, the IPD received $11.7 million, compared to $10 million the department was allocated in 2009, he said.

As Common Council deliberated over whether or not the city should add police officers to the department, some members proposed possibly axing a plan to create a deputy chief position so the city can finance the addition of officers to the department.

The proposed budget currently allots for the addition of a deputy chief position, which is set to begin in March and will help to increase morale and accountability, according to Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D1st Ward).

Brock praised the creation of the deputy chief position. She said, however, that the city should weigh the tradeoffs between keeping the deputy chief position and adding more officers to the police force.

“I understand how challenging it would be to add an additional officer … I want a deputy chief, [but] we need officers on

the street,” Brock said, adding that having more officers on the force will help to relieve stress at the IPD. Alderperson Stephen Smith (D-4th Ward) was skeptical of weighing the deputy police chief position against the creation of additional officers, saying he believes it is important to maintain a strong relationship between Ithacans and the police department.

“I think it’s important that we have someone there to help develop that relationship [with the community],” Smith said.

Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward) said he strongly supports exploring options for adding more officers.

He added that people are concerned about public safety in Ithaca and that cities across the country are having to deal

reduced police forces.

Throughout the meeting, Ithaca police officers expressed their concerns about the department’s tight budget. They say they have seen an increase in the amount of violent crime in the city, and that the department is not adequately staffed to reduce crime rates.

IPD Lt. Vincent Monticello cited a stabbing that occurred on Chestnut Street in which

four women were stabbed after a “large fight” broke out last Thursday. He also said that there have been shootings that occurred on Chestnut Street and Green Street over the last two months.

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Evaluating Obama’s College Affordability Plan IN A FORBES OP-ED published this week, “Rating President Obama’s College Ratings,” President David Skorton and Glenn Altschuler, vice president for University relations, join the critics who express skepticism of Obama’s college affordability plan.

Given the widening gap between tuition costs and family incomes and affordability continuing to slip further out of reach, bold and creative higher education reforms are much needed. Obama’s higher education plan is a step in that direction, with compelling underlying concepts and some clear, beneficial changes. But we agree with some national education experts that the proposed college ratings system is flawed.

The ratings system would assign performance-based values to U.S. colleges and tether federal financial aid eligibility to those rankings. Connecting aid with outcomes is an ambitious idea. But we worry that relying on rigid, numbers-driven metrics will lead some universities to take a numbers-driven approach to reform — instead of pursuing true qualitative change. Obama’s suggested criteria may push universities not toward enforcement of higher standards, but rather toward reduced rigor and grade inflation. Experts recall the backlash seen with No Child Left Behind, where some K12 schools lowered academic expectations in order to drive up graduation rates.

Alternatively, if colleges that fear a low rating become more selective in admissions, some students in need of financial aid may be left out in the cold.

Still, there are aspects of Obama’s proposal we support as written, such as the requirement that, in order to receive continued assistance, undergraduates must prove that they are making progress toward acquiring a degree. Holding students accountable for earning their financial aid through demonstrated academic advancement can help ensure that the government is investing wisely in young people who will become productive members of the workforce. It would also incentivize students to graduate in a timely fashion, reducing the average aid doled out to individuals.

Expanding and improving awareness of the Pay As You Earn federal aid program — capping loan repayments required of student borrowers at 10 percent of their incomes — is another way the plan could make financing a college education more feasible for more people. While college tuition has risen by more than 250 percent, average family incomes have increased by only about 16 percent, according to recent College Board and Census data cited by the White House.

With the persistence of such discrepancies preventing so many students and families from being able to comfortably finance higher education, substantial and immediate systemic changes are necessary. Obama’s plan includes some quick and positive measures that should be implemented in the U.S. as soon as possible. But in considering college ratings, we urge caution; the system in its proposed form could potentially do more harm than good.

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eople in our generation like to complain that romance is dead.

No one seems to go on dates anymore and — let’s be real — we’re lucky if someone out there favorites one of our tweets. This summer, whenever I was out with my girlfriends for our umpteenth singles’ night, I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of jealousy when I spotted a picture-perfect couple.

So when I started dating Mr. Romantic, it was exciting. He liked cooking for me, hiking together and singing to me. He wouldn’t hear of rushed dinners; we had to cook with vegetables from his garden, and afterwards hike up halfway up a mountain to eat as the sun set. We couldn’t pass a piano without him sitting down and start serenading me.

After two weeks, I was miserable.

I had never dated a more exhausting individual in my entire life. Everything we did felt like an elaborate production.

Lazy days in sweat pants were a nonoption. He always had some exciting outing planned for us (at the end of which I would undoubtedly be sunburned and inflicted with poison ivy) and slowly, but surely, I came to dread them all.

But despite my growing annoyance with the relationship, the thought of breaking up with Mr. Romantic gave me pause. We all have ideas about what romance should be and this relationship fit all those criteria: candlelit dinners, cooking together, long walks during sunset.

Even with all of the boxes checked off, something didn’t feel right; we were both trying too hard. He was trying to construct a relationship based on these preconceived notions of “the perfect romance.” I was trying, too — to convince myself these things were exciting, when really I was counting down the minutes until I could go home, watch The Office on Netflix and count my mosquito bites.

Throughout it all, I let myself get so caught up in his romantic gestures that I lost sight of what was really important: Did I even like this guy?

I realize now that if I had really liked him, I wouldn’t have even noticed that the “romance” felt forced. I also probably wouldn’t have noticed how sunburned I was after our outings, or how hungry I was when he insisted we hike to the top of a mountain before eating.

I definitely wouldn’t have been so mortified when he insisted on singing to me in public. Frankly, he deserved better for his efforts.

My experience with Mr. Romantic taught me that true romance cannot be constructed, because it is contingent on one thing alone: how you feel about the person you’re with. With the wrong person, grand romantic gestures are empty.

I’m not saying that we should settle for someone who never makes an effort to do anything special for us. What I am saying is that we shouldn’t be fooled by the show. If we think that grand gestures alone will add substance to a relationship, we are deluding ourselves.

More likely, all that our preconceived notions of romance will do is make us jealous of seemingly perfect couples that may actually be more miserable than we are.

So if people are referring to our preconceived notions of strolls in the moonlight when they say that romance is dead, then I say let it rest in peace.

Romance in its truest form will never die, but it will continue to defy our expectations.

The most romantic moments between people may ultimately have little to do with roses or kissing in the rain. More likely they take place on a crowded subway, in a frat basement or even in Libe café. They may not look like anything spectacular, but they are the rare moments in a lifetime where you feel that you are exactly where you want to be. And they all involve the company of someone who, with one glance, renders you more complete and less alone.

Liz Kussman is a senior in the College of Human Ecology. She may be reached at lkussman@cornellsun.com. Up to Date appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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The Perks of Sober Sex W

elcome to Saturday night at Rulloffs, where every Cornell senior (maybe some juniors too and hey, if your fake ID worked I applaud you) comes at midnight with the intention of meeting someone to go home with. Maybe it was that last drink Kevin poured you or that last game of darts you just lost, but suddenly that guy you met in your freshman writing seminar three years ago looks good and hey, you were friends first, right?

Fast forward to Sunday morning where you wake up in either an apartment you don't know, with someone you don’t know (has happened to me way too many times … don’t judge) or, if you’re lucky (I usually am not), in your own bed with someone you don’t know.

There’s that awkward laugh – the hahagood-morning-what’s-your-name-againdid-we-have-sex-last-night-and-howsoon-is-too-soon-to-ask-you-to-leave kind of laugh -- then somehow you both get dressed and he or she leaves with a really horrible kiss on the cheek and an empty promise of, “Yeah, I’ll text you

later.” Yeah. Right. Sure you will. thought about it, the more it felt So, what about that time that, instead mediocre and incredibly sub-par. of making poor life decisions, I decided I don’t want any readers thinking I am to have stone cold sober sex with a guy I advocating for only drunken sex. In fact, had met the weekend before?

I’ve been concerned in the past when Listen, at the time it seemed like a friends have come up to me and said, “I really good idea. Seriously, this was the can only have sex with him/her when I’m thought process going through my head: drunk!” because, personally, I usually He’s really good looking (like really good have sober sex. To be honest (this example aside), looking), he sober sex feels told mutual Maybe it won’t rock your world every a lot better friends that than drunk he’s interested time, but I promise you’ll be able to sex. in me, we didn’t have make it rock your world the second and Yes, sober sex last weeksex will not third time around. end when we always feel were both too great. The drunk to good news is function and now, he’s naked in my bed that drunk sex, too, will not always feel – why not have sex with him? great! The difference with sober sex is Out came a condom and some lube that, looking back, I was able to pin(because you know, why not?) and I was point exactly what I didn’t like about on top of him. And it was awful. He was the sex I had that night, which is always super handsy, was gripping me a little too a good thing. If I decide to sleep with hard in all the wrong places (ouch, that the aforementioned male again (which kind of hurts) and just totally not for me. is not a decision I will soberly make), We both finished and at the time I was I’ll at least be able to tell him my likes like, “this is alright,” but the more I and dislikes in bed based on what hap-

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pened last time. This may not make the sex any better, but at least it’s communication.

So many times Saturday nights lead to drunken debauchery and you end up in your senior year with a list of partners 16 people long when you really, really wanted it to stay under ten (this may or may not be my fate). So, in my attempt to pass on the small amount of wisdom I’ve garnered from those 16 males (some of whom I remember having sex with, some of whom I’ve had to ask in the morning what happened last night): Have more sober sex. It helps you communicate. It helps you make good decisions. I’m not staying be sober all the time because that would be wildly hypocritical (here’s to always being the drunkest girl at the party), but just give it a try. Maybe it won’t rock your world every time, but I promise you’ll be able to make it rock your world the second and third time around.

Amy O. is a senior in the College of Human Ecology.

He may be reached at amyo@cornellsun.com. Some like it Rough appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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appy Halloween to all my readers! I hope everyone’s ready for an awesome weekend of delicious sweets (I love me some orange Oreos), pumpkin carving and half-naked girls with animal ears. Oh what? My column runs on Oct. 31 and you thought I wasn’t going to write a piece about slutty costumes and dirty deeds in disguise? FOOLS! The only thing more fun than hookups are hookups with a theme, and everyone from hardcore frat bros to timid engineers takes part. So whether you’re a sexy ketchup bottle or a fox shouting jibberish, I hope you enjoy today’s All Hallow’s Eve edition of Headshakes and High-Fives.

Slutty Costumes: Don’t get me wrong, I love a cutie in a short white skirt, white top and fluffy polar bear hat as much as the next guy. What I would like to say, however, is that I feel bad that some girls feel obligated to dress slutty on Halloween. If anyone looks down on you for wearing a normal costume, then screw ‘em (not literally — that comes later). Hey girl, just do you.

On the flip side, I would like to say I also admire the girls who go to extensive lengths to make their costumes Hustler-worthy. And I’m not talking about wearing lingerie with a green hat and calling yourself Robin Hood. I’m talking about the ones who get a crap-ton of red cloth and cardboard, then strategically cut it up to be T-Bone Me Steak. Who cares that it’ll probably be about 35 degrees out when you’re a green dress, backpack and monochromic mask away from being a Teenage-But-Now-Legal Mutant Ninja Turtle?

CROSS-DRESSERS AND COVERED FACES: We’ve all had at least one bad experience with these. One

minute you find yourself checking out that cute cowgirl from behind, the next minute you’re complimenting your friend Dan on how great he looks in a wig and jean shorts (then immediately throwing up in the bathroom). Just be thankful you noticed it during the pregame and not under low lights of some frat’s basement — or worse, his apartment the next morning. But hey, don’t rule

— or a Spartan for the girls here. But for three nights when anything goes, having a story the next day is all that matters. I usually don’t like to give too much detail about my own hookups, but for the sake of this piece I might as well. Dinosaur? Check.

Pocahontas? Check. Slutty Vitamin Water Bottle?

Well, let’s just say she was the XXX flavor (actually we just made out, but you get my point). So if the night’s going slow for you, why don’t you go talk to one of the minions by the mantelpiece?

YOUR PERFECT MATCH: Ah yes, my ultimate Halloween goal. Have any bunnies out there met their carrots? Or Supermen who’ve met their Wonder Women? There’s an enormous difference between going out as paired costumes and actually finding your partner by chance. Some are way too easy and unoriginal. “Oh hey I’m a cowboy and you’re a horse. Let’s bang.” No. Just no.

But maybe the man in the taco suit will gaze across the countertop at Dunbar’s and see his Border Sauce packet staring back at him. As Boomer from the Rowdyruff Boys (Powerpuff Girls fans, you know exactly who I’m talking about), will I find my Bubbles this weekend? Only time will tell, but I guarantee you’ll hear from me in two weeks if I do.

And with that, I wish you all a wonderful next few days. If you’re lucky, the only thing the fox will say to you is, “Hell yes.”

My column runs on Oct. 31 and you thought I wasn’t going to write a piece about slutty costumes and dirty deeds in disguise? out the possibility. After hours of heavy boozing and not knowing what anyone really looks like, some sword fighting or scissoring will sound like a great idea.

Speaking of not recognizing anyone, beware of the masked dance-floor make-outs. It may start out harmless but if this escalates to behind closed doors, then make sure you fully see what you’re dealing with first. You may being going to bed with a princess, but you could be waking up with a frog.

COSTUMED HOOKUPS: Who doesn’t want to say they made out with Cookie Monster or that they showed Jasmine a whole new world? Unless you have some wild mixers planned for later in the year, you won’t get opportunities like this again for another 365 days. Anyone can score a pirate or a schoolgirl

Donny J. is a senior in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at donnyj@cornellsun.com. Headshakes and High Fives appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Foodie Face-Off: Campus Edition Battle of the campus salad bars: Ivy Room vs.Terrace Restaurant

By HANNAH MEZHERITSKY Sun Contributor

There’s always a looming sense of excitement on my walk down the stairs to the Ivy Room.

The Ivy Room has just about any food a Cornell student could be craving, yet the salad line is always one that is almost out the door. While this line could be a result of the lag that comes from the ability of being able to customize every ingredient in your salad, it is clear that it is also the product of the high demand that comes for a personalized, crisp salad with the freshest ingredients. In the Ivy Room, Straight From The Garden offers exactly that.

It is made clear from the start that the service you will receive upon embarking on this journey will not present to you the smile and warm face you might get elsewhere. The few people behind the glass of the countless ingredients you have to choose from are strictly business, which may not be so bad when the line starts growing at the quick rate it normally does during the lunch rush. Though some of the workers are more efficient than others, which happens to be the luck of the draw, the entire team is certainly orderly and organized as a whole. All ingredients, the 50 or

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more that there are, seem to be restocked regularly. In the time it took to have my salad handed to me, around ten ingredients were refilled from the refrigerator that kept them fresh and crisp, including the romaine lettuce and mixed greens that you first get to choose from.

The options you get are endless, and to just name a few, range from all sorts of fruit (blackberries, cantaloupe, pineapple, grapes), to hummus, water chestnuts, various chopped veggies (peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, carrots), black beans, sprouts and all sorts of nuts (pecans, walnuts, almonds, pistachios). The originality of ingredients seems unbeatable — no other eatery on campus is able to offer as many original and freshly kept ingredients for salads as the Ivy Room. Equally impressive are the choices of house-made dressings, ranging from the “Straight From The House” honey Dijon vinaigrette to the “Arnot Forest Maple Vinaigrette,” which is a lighter, sweeter dressing that uses Cornell’s own maple syrup.

While the classic bottled dressing options are available, the house-made dressings offer a different touch that other salad stations on campus may not be able to offer.

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To a new salad explorer like myself, though, I was unaware of all the hidden possibilities that were available to me. If it wasn’t for the girl in front of me, I wouldn’t even have known that shrimp is normally offered, but was not available that day. A potential improvement could come from a list of all the options possible, especially the ones kept behind the counter, stowed away from first glance.

This would not only speed up the entire process of picking toppings, but also show to people how truly extensive the list is.

While the salad I put together myself was not one that I thoroughly enjoyed, I did appreciate the immense variety presented at the Ivy Room. It truly is an art to pick exactly which ingredients will go well together, and which dressing to top it all off with — I now know, for example, that the fresh green peppers I chose do not mix well with the sweet, thicker sesame ginger dressing with which I garnished my salad.

Perhaps with more trips to Straight From The Garden, I will have more experience and know exactly which choices will make the perfect salad, just as the customers in front of me seemed to be able to do. A perfect salad is somewhere among those ingredients, it just needs to be chosen and created among all the possibilities.

Hannah Mezheritsky can be reached at hmezheritsky@cornellsun.com.

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By EMI BOSCAMP Sun Contributor

Terrace is a scene; people go to be seen. If you’re willing to weather the infamous salad line and have a friend saving a seat for you, you’ll find yourself with a tasty, topping-heavy salad at a reasonable price.

But is the salad worth the wait? If you arrive between 12 p.m. and 1 p.m., the line will extend the length of the outside hallway. It’s a considerable distance, and there are usually only three or four people making the salads at a time. To their credit, though, they move at an impressively rapid pace, usually maintaining their smiles.

Terrace’s ingredients are pretty consistent, but somehow your salad will change every time.

Depending on the person who crafts your salad, it could end up mostly lettuce, mostly toppings or a heaping portion that overflows the box or a meager portion that only fills it halfway. I would recommend getting the half-salad because they usually overfill it and you pay less for the full salad portion. There isn’t an overwhelming selection of ingredients, but they’re always fresh, though some are from cans. The selection usually consists of romaine lettuce, mixed greens, crumbled blue cheese, shredded mozzarella, (extremely watery) diced tomatoes, segmented oranges (watery as well), shredded carrots, diced cucumbers, chopped hard-boiled eggs, crumbled bacon, diced chicken, diced ham, tuna salad, kidney beans, chickpeas, sliced black olives,

baby corn, diced beets, edamame, sunflower seeds, croutons, crispy Asian noodles and dried cranberries. They do change it up sometimes, substituting the usual cheeses for other types, like Parmigiano-Reggiano, replacing the oranges with canned sliced peaches or throwing in another crunch factor with strips of multi-colored tortilla chips. My topping selection has remained the same throughout my years here: mixed greens, blue cheese, eggs, chickpeas, edamame, beets, cranberries and crispy Asian noodles. I love the combination of sweet and savory, and I need the variation in texture.

They have the standard bottled dressing choices: ranch, blue cheese, balsamic vinaigrette, French and Italian — but everyone’s favorite is their housemade sesame ginger dressing, which is tangy, sweet, thick and extremely caloric — a recipe for fingerlicking addiction. While it is convenient that the salad makers toss your ingredients with your dressing in a bowl before transferring into a box, I would recommend getting your dressing on the side. They always overdress the salad, creating a sweat-inducing vinegar soup at the bottom of your box.

Terrace is a safe bet if you’re looking for a quick hunger fix with a lengthy wait, but if you're looking for a wider variety of unique ingredients, head over to the Ivy Room. There, you can always see the end of the line.

Emi Boscamp can be reached at eboscamp@cornellsun.com.

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Arcade Fire Reflektor Merge

O Sam Bromer Hype is a funny thing, isn’t it? Just about every highly anticipated release — be it from Radiohead, Kanye West, Daft Punk or someone else — incites a cycle of immense or unqualified praise, cynical backlash and the kind of partisan bickering that would make Ted Cruz blush. Arcade Fire’s latest release, Reflektor, has proved no exception to this rule, and it seems this is exactly what Win Butler and his merry band of fools wanted. From utilizing controversial viral marketing techniques to a creating a celebrity-filled mini-documentary, Arcade Fire has delighted in stoking the bonfire of anticipation surrounding the new album and in provoking those critical of its work to reach for their pitchforks.

Thankfully, the attention the group has garnered for its follow-up to 2010’s Grammy-award winning LP, The Suburbs, is more than justified. Gleeful and self-aware, the record represents an important shift for a band known for meditations on memory, innocence and hope that tend to avoid irony in favor of honest emotional introspection. Produced by James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem fame and featuring two Haitian percussionists alongside an already-sizable group, this record reveals an Arcade Fire that can get loose, get loud and have some fun.

In many ways, though, Reflektor is more an evolution than a revolution: “We Exist”’s tongue-in-cheek musical reference to “Billie Jean” and a brief clip of Jonathan Ross featured in “Normal Person” still exist beside weighty themes — religion, love, individuality and alienation in a technological age — much as past releases have dealt with suburban isolation, the vacuity of religion and the like. Here, however, the band has

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learned an important lesson: Even an album that addresses serious ideas does not need to sound like it’s taking itself too seriously.

The album opens with a bang, in the form of its eponymous first single, “Reflektor.” It is a pulsing, polyrhythmic introduction to the “new Arcade Fire,” as well as to a major theme of the album: love in a “reflective age” where narcissism and vacuity reign over true emotional depth. “Reflektor” is among the album’s strongest cuts, with a potent blend of Remain in Light-era Talking Heads and Bowie glam, the latter of whom is featured in the track’s bridge. It also hints at the album’s entirely separate influences — namely, afrobeat, Jamaican voodoo and the lively, carnival rhythms of Haiti.

Thematically, Butler takes aim at the ambiguous relationship we have with technology. At a particularly powerful point, he sings, “The signals we send are deflected again/We’re so connected, but are we even friends?”, an idea that is echoed by the track’s amalgamation of musical influences. Love and music may both be timeless, but, as illustrated by the track’s uneasy blend of synth-heavy disco, afrobeat and modern electronic music, technology distorts and disorients each.

As the first disc of this massive double-album progresses, intense themes permeate each track, but the band maintains its newfound and entirely refreshing irreverency. “We Exist” follows characters “going nowhere,” under the microscope of their peers (Facebook, anyone?) who are trying merely, as the title hints, to exist; all the while, the track employs Michael Jackson’s famous bassline. Later, “Here Comes the Night Time” gives us a mix of peppy Haitian rhythms and relaxed,

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down-tempo dub, which, as the title implies, surrounds death, pain and sadness. The first half closes with one of Arcade Fire’s finest and most rousing efforts yet, “Joan of Arc.” It starts at breakneck pace, with thrashing guitars and punk-rock drums, but quickly settles into a tense and unbelievably catchy groove. On the track, Butler seems to anticipate his critics when he sings, “First they love you, then they kill you, then they love you again.” Like the track’s famed title-woman, Butler knows that in life, as in music, one day you’re revered and the next day you’re reviled. In its entirety, the first half represents a more radically new direction than the second half.

This isn’t necessarily a bad thing: The airy, dreamlike atmosphere of the Reflektor’s second disc is punctured by moments of intensity that take your breath away — particularly on “It’s Never Over” — and Butler’s lyrical prowess shines as he poignantly addresses love, loss and the afterlife.

As the final track, “Supersymmetry,” brings Reflektor to a close, the band pulls a Sgt. Pepper’s by including almost five minutes silence punctuated by contemplative synth textures and electronic feedback. This reference is blasphemous, but of course, it is meant to be. Reflektor is a proud and bombastic attempt to voice the concerns of a lost generation, and against all odds, it largely succeeds. Sonically, rhythmically and lyrically, Reflektor is a satisfying and truly ambitious breath of fresh air.

Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.

Cut Copy Free Your Mind Modular

Kai Sam Ng COURTESY OF CUT COPY

Ignore that silly album cover for a second. In fact, forget about that multicolored motto on the cover imploring you to “free your mind,” too. The best way to “free your mind” is to just listen to the album.

Cut Copy made a splash in 2008 when its second album, In Ghost Colours, dropped, bursting with melodies that seamlessly blended in a haze of ambient noise. Amid the demise of early 2000s dance-punk revival, the album’s New Orderinspired dance was welcome and cemented Cut Copy’s reputation as a group of musicians with a knack for infectiously catchy melodies. Follow-up Zonoscope brought some much-needed focus with hypnotic hooks and a psychedelic bent, but its long songs often seemed too dragged-out. Free Your Mind finally reconciles these two opposite directions by combining what was best. As a result, the album is full of concise dance-pop gems with little filler that make the album one of best dance records of the year.

Free Your Mind succeeds in taking the same hypnotic, dancey baselines in Zonoscope that could have gone on forever and taming them into the strict structure of a rock song. Unlike other recent

’80s synth throwback albums (Hot Chip, anyone?) that move from one hook to the next with the memory of a goldfish, Free Your Mind acts like a good rock song, returning to its best parts to flesh them out. “Let Me Show You Love” touts a groovy, four-note disco baseline, not unlike the one on Donna Summer's disco classic “I Feel Love”: Minimal beats and airy vocals evince that all attention should be paid to the endlessly repeated and ingenious synth line. It is only towards the end of the song that the driving bass is upped a pitch for the climax.

Before Cut Copy put Free Your Mind up for streaming, the band had forced eager listeners to travel to different worldwide billboards to hear its first single. This annoyed some fans, and five minutes after the initial announcement, someone had already figured out how to stream the song.

Regardless, this viral marketing campaign is part of a newfound confidence and directness for the band. Free Your Mind so unabashedly puts its music at the forefront that the ambience and reverbs in the previous two albums feel like insecure gimmicks. The house influences in “Footsteps” thump the whole way through, not unlike the best of The

Juan Maclean’s songs. The chorus in “Take Me Higher” does indeed sound like a hazy halcyon memory of the album’s purported influence, 1967’s Summer of Love. Title track “Free Your Mind” is the most unabashedly psychedelic song Cut Copy has made yet, but the piano on it contributes just a hint of acid house that works beautifully.

Listeners who hear Free Your Mind with In Ghost Colours in mind will be disappointed that the two don’t match up, but this is an unfair comparison. It is unlikely that the band will pump out another In Ghost Colours with its LCD Soundsystem influences (that album was produced by Tim Goldsworthy who is part of the DFA production duo; the other member is LCD’s James Murphy).

The band has proved with this album that it can seamlessly incorporate other genres into its oeuvre and, as a result, they have little incentive to revisit old works. Throughout Free Your Mind, Cut Copy seems to have a clear sense of what they want, and the exuberance they bring proves they can pull it off.

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com.

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ince today is Halloween — and Zach Zahos already beat me to the punch with a fittingly touching tribute to recently deceased art-rock curmudgeon Lou Reed — I’m inspired to do something thematic.

However, I feel like Halloween’s been devalued. Instead of fake blood and scary clown masks, we get a bevy of supposedly “timely” pop culture references and slutty reinterpretations of blue-collar occupations. I mean, I love an ironic “What Does The Fox Say?” costume just as much as the next guy, but when was the last time something on Halloween scared you? (And, no, I’m not referring to the time that girl on your freshman floor starting puking blue or the time you saw that dude from the football team — undoubtedly a freshman offensive lineman — wearing a thong.)

So, in an attempt to get in the true spirit of the holiday, I’m going to suggest some actually scary music.

Note: I’ve reserved for consideration only intentionally scary tracks.

While Associate Editor Liz Camuti’s suggestion of Kevin Federline’s “Playing With Fire” does elicit a certain existential dread, it’s hardly done on purpose, and I’d like to focus on the real terror artists here.

I’d also like to prematurely apologize for omitting all metal. The average non-metal fan thinks it all sounds sort of scary — guttural pig squeals and down-tuned guitars are not for everybody — so it really does me no good suggesting it.

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“JOHN WAYNE GACY, JR.”

BY SUFJAN STEVENS Sufjan is not known for his dark side. Hell, some might even call him twee, and, with two albums each dedicated to U.S. state histories and Christmas, they’re pretty much correct. What Sufjan does best, however, is provide unique perspectives on his song’s topics — his Christmas song cycles often question the commerciality of what is supposed to be a reverent time of year — and the most starkly disturbing example of this is his character study of serial murderer John Wayne Gacy. In talking about Gacy’s abusive father, you get uncomfortably close to the cycle of abuse that produces such sick individuals.

Solemn and purposefully non-graphic, “John Wayne Gacy, Jr.” is an emotionally affecting and intimate exploration of a verified creep.

“COME TO DADDY”

BY APHEX TWIN Screw all those dubstep tracks that sample horror Irresponsible movies.

Richard Listening D. James, t h e man/machine/psychopath behind trailblazing ’90s electronic alias Aphex Twin, beat them all to the punch with an absolutely brutal track whose explicit vocal sentiment (“I will eat your soul / Come to daddy”) doesn’t even hold a candle to the spazzy drum patterns and filthily distorted basslines. And in place of a drop: A brief interlude into a lilting melody sung in a child’s voice, more disconcerting than any wub-wub I’ve

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heard. If I were to be possessed by a demon and inspired to murder a camp filled with innocent-but-horny teens, I’d want “Come To Daddy” to soundtrack it. For bonus creepiness, check out the equally disturbing video.

“DANCE WITH THE DEVIL”

BY IMMORTAL TECHNIQUE I remember in high school, sometime during my senior year, some guys I had been going to lunch with were adamant that I listen to some rap song. I obliged. That song was “Dance With The Devil,” and, just, Jesus, it just ruined my day. As menacing as the track sounded — that haunting Henry Mancini piano sample, those moaning vocals, that lo-fi drum sound — nothing beats the absolutely harrowing twist ending. Some might complain that Immortal Technique gets a little too preachy with his politics, but “Dance With The Devil” is akin to German fairy tales before Disney got to them: a lesson learned via sheer terror.

“THE CUE”

BY SCOTT WALKER Scott Walker’s voice is a unique instrument.

As a young man, it garnered him the adoration of teenage girls across England; at a time, his fan club was bigger than that of The Beatles’.

However, as he aged, Walker has grown interested in experimental orchestral arrangements.

His lyrical interests too have matured, turning from schmaltzy pop ditties into darkly impressionistic short stories. “The Cue” is a prime example of his particular allure: His quivering baritone sings, “From the voice flooded semen clotting to paste / Can’t swallow it then bury it,” while tense string vamps and erratic drum accents erupt below. Walker has been silent as to the meaning of its inscrutable lyrics, but,

with the uncomfortably slow accompaniment, it’s hard to imagine that they’re anything other than nightmarish.

“GOOD MORNING, CAPTAIN”

BY SLINT Slint’s Spiderland might have been the inspiration for the epic crescendos and orchestral pomp of post-rock, but its instrumentation is a lot more modest. Recorded live in four days, its simple ingredients coalesced into some of the most bizarre music many had ever heard.

On “Good Morning Captain,” Spiderland’s concluding track, the band is firing on all cylinders. At the climax, quietly dissonant riffs explode into burnt-out guitar fuzz as singer Brian McMahan screams, “I miss you.” The lyrics — a tale of a captain being refused refuge following a shipwreck — are difficult to parse, but the foreboding mood and atonal melodies sent chills down many a record nerd’s spine.

James Rainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

Irresponsible Listening appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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terns … a lot of the basics so when we got there, everybody was pretty well equipped.”

The Red’s next show, which will be hosted by Nazareth College, will also be held at Lehman Farm, according to de Rham. Steinberger hopes that the riders will have a more relaxed attitude at the next competition.

“We’re all Cornell students … and I think sometimes that causes us to go into the ring and be upset if we make one small mistake,” she said. “Sometimes, we stress ourselves out so much that we don’t do well because of the stress we’re putting on ourselves.”

However, the strong team spirit was able to keep the riders at ease this weekend. The rookies found the veterans extremely helpful when it came to preparing for the show, according to Coffey and Ko. “I was super nervous going into [the show], but the team is so supportive and everyone’s so helpful and Todd prepares us really well,” Coffey said. “It was nice having a

bunch of older teammates there to coach us through it.”

Ko said she was comforted by the veterans’ knowledge and experience.

“It’s definitely calming when you just go ask a question and someone immediately has the answers,” she said.

The squad made sure to support each rider as she competed, according to de Rham and Coffey.

It seemed as if the arena was filled with red.

“Sofia and I looked over our shoulders at one point and there was just this sea of red jackets at the in-gate,” de Rham said.

Overall, the Red is pleased with the strong start to the season, Karn said.

“It shows what we can accomplish right out of the gate,” Karn said. “[We are] being supportive of one another and working hard and keeping our skill set honed. I think it’s a really good start and I hope we [carry the momentum] all the way through.”

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Riders Win Opening Shows Lakers Need To Face Future L

By ARIEL COOPER

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Red in the region | With its two weekend wins, the Red now has a 20-point lead in the regional standings.

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The Lehman Farms arena in Rochester, N.Y., bled red this weekend when the Cornell equestrian team took the competition by storm. The squad opened its season in spectacular fashion, winning both of its first shows of the season to snag a 20-point lead in the regional standings.

“It feels like we’ve achieved this huge milestone,” junior co-captain Georgiana de Rham said. “We really wanted to have a positive start and we really wanted to be strong, and I feel like we made a lot of big changes and big efforts to really try to be successful and we were … and it’s just really rewarding.”

The strong start mirrors the beginning of the team’s 2011-12 season, when the Red was nearly undefeated.

“It felt like [our freshman year] again,” junior co-captain Sofia Steinberger said.

The Red put in a solid performance on Saturday, sweeping the fences divisions and finishing just eight points shy of a perfect score, according to Steinberger. Sunday’s show was a little bit more challenging, but the team rallied and took the winning ribbon once again.

“Everybody worked really really hard and we gave them all the tools to be able to go up to the show and do well and they did,” head coach Todd Karn said. “[On] Sunday, we were off to a little bit of a slow start, but everybody picked it up. I think it was hard to have the energy flowing the same way the second day,

[but] we picked it up and won Sunday as well and everybody was very pleased.”

Intercollegiate Horse Show Association shows feature both team and individual competition. The highlight of the Red’s individual achievements was the high point rider contest between freshmen Amanda Ko and Shana Coffey on Saturday. Ko shows in the open flat and intermediate fences divisions, while Coffey competes in novice for both flat and fences. When the riders won all of their classes on Saturday, they then faced off for the title of high point rider. After being asked a series of knowledge-based questions, Ko was named high point rider while Coffey received reserve high point rider.

“It was completely friendly,” Ko said of the competition.

Coffey agreed, saying, “It was a lot of fun.”

“It wasn’t super competitive, we were kind of just happy to be there,” Coffey said.

Karn said that he was pleased to see Ko and Coffey end up in the high point ride off.

“It’s unusual to end up in a high point ride off so for us to have two riders in that is terrific,” he said.

During practice, the squad has been focusing on the fundamentals of riding to ensure that each rider has a solid foundation, according to Karn.

“We’ve been spending a lot of time just on the basics,” he said. “We did a lot of individual drills, whether it be a gymnastic or riding without stirrups on the flat, figure eight pat-

os Angeles can still attract free agents. Just ask the Clippers. While the Lakers were spurned by Dwight Howard, the Clips resigned their max player, Chris Paul, without much drama while (or due to)

John Zakour Point Blank adding a new high profile coach.

A surprising opening day win aside, the Lakers need to start looking at themselves honestly.

They lost out on Dwight Howard after trading for him.

The Lakers, for once, were not the destination. Houston, with all its newly cleared cap space, was able to swoop in. Kobe Bryant has to face his own mor-

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Q U E S T I O N S

R A C H E L D’E P A G N I E R VOLLEYBALL

Country fan | Volleyball senior Rachel D’Epagnier (left), sitting next to teammate Breanna Wong, said she listens to country artists Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean before games.

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Sports editor and Ten Questions columnist Haley Velasco sat down with senior volleyball player Rachel D’Epagnier.

1. You are a senior on the volleyball.

What has Cornell volleyball meant to you over the last four years?

Cornell volleyball has taught me an incredible amount of life lessons, and it just means so much to me to play on a Division I

team in college. It’s something that I never really thought I would get the chance to do. It means a lot to me because it let me reach a dream that I had and also allowed me to have different relationships and friends. I have friends now that I don’t think I would have ever had if I hadn’t met them on the volleyball team.

senior season and then potentially the postseason. What does that mean to you? Are you feeling a little sentimental?

I am. It’s all starting to sink in because it’s so close and I am graduating a few weeks after the season ends, so it’s all hitting me. My primary goal for the rest of the season is just to have fun.

2. You have six sets of games left in your

3. If we opened up your music playlist

before a game, what would be on it?

I am kind of funny because I don’t listen to a lot of modern day rap or hip hop, I am actually a huge country girl. This sounds funny and my teammates make fun of me for it, but country music is what gets me pumped up — some Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean.

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