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Brian Gordon ’14 talks with the members of IFC’s Birthday Boys.

The men’s soccer team finished their season with a win over Columbia.

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Seeing the future

Rep.Reed Races Past Competition In Fundraising 2014 candidates seek campaign gifts By EMMA COURT Sun City Editor

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Rob Morache speaks at a Comprehensive Plan Committee meeting Monday in City Hall, as members worked on a document that will set out a vision for the City of Ithaca’s future.

Student Pleads Not Guilty to Burglaries By DARA LEVY Sun Senior Writer

A Cornell student who pleaded not guilty to three counts of burglary, criminal mischief and obstruction last week will continue to have his case heard in Ithaca City Court, rather than a Tompkins County court, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 ruled Thursday. Byung Jun Lee, 21, is accused of burglarizing three North Campus residences early in the morning of Nov. 9 — 508 Thurston Ave., 411 Thurston Ave. and 305 Wyckoff Ave. — according to court documents.

411 Thurston Ave. is the home of Alpha Phi sorority. According to the court documents, Lee entered the house through the basemen,went into a second floor bedroom, reached under a girl’s covers and touched her foot before fleeing. Rossiter signed orders of protection for the victims of the burglaries — all of whom are Cornell students — as well as one for a Cornell sorority house, the Ithaca Inde pendent reported. Dara Levy can be reached at dlevy@cornellsun.com.

Speaking at TEDxCornellU, Entrepreneurial Alumnus Stresses‘Interdependence’

The 23rd Congressional District caught national attention last year when newcomer Nathan Shinagawa ’05 MA ’09 lost to incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-23rd) by only four points. With Reed up for reelection in 2014 and the election still a year away, Reed has already spent more than his leading Democratic opponent, Tompkins County LegisReed’s campaign has lator Martha Robertson received $1,217,944 in ’75, has raised. Thus far Reed’s camtotal contributions this paign has received year through Sept. 30. $1,217,944 in total contributions this year through Sept. 30. Between July and September, Reed raised $526,772, more than the $438,327 Robertson campaign has raised in total since she announced her candidacy in April, according to an FEC quarter report. Reed has also outraised his fellow contenders for the House of Representatives. The average raised for current candidates totals $416,239, according to Open Secrets, a resource that collects federal campaign contributions and lobbying data run by the Center for Responsive Politics, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research group. Relative to campaign contributions at this point during the 2012 election, Reed’s fundraising this year is slightly highSee CAMPAIGN page 4

Saving the best for last

By GRACE HURLEY

By LINDSAY CAYNE

up in suburban Pittsburgh, Garrity Sun Contributor said he lived a happy life, yet always felt “a sense of incompleteRob Garrity ’05, founder of ness; life could be more than it Finlo Solar Powers, spoke about was.” the importance of interdepenHe said he wanted to get out dence and how he and explore the applies that concept world, so he went to “We saw such to his work at the Montana. After realbeauty and TEDxCornellU izing Montana was wisdom speaker series at not the place for Barnes Hall Sunday. him, Garrity said he around us.” In his lecture, joined up with a Rob Garrity ’05 Garrity said his main friend and “hit the goal is changing the road –– that was our way the world views power from a destination, with $600 between more traditional, hierarchical view the two of us.” to a view that values teamwork. During the trip, Garrity said he He began his presentation with See TEDX page 5 a reflection into his past. Growing

Gettysburg Address Displayed at C.U.on 150th Anniversary Sun Contributor

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Prof. Rosemary Avery, policy analysis and management, offers life lessons during her “last lecture.”

The Gettysburg Address, considered one of the most influential speeches in American history, is on display in Cornell’s Carl A. Kroch Library in honor of its 150-year anniversary. Cornell’s version of the address — one of only five copies written in Lincoln’s own handwriting — was donated in 1949 by Nicholas H. Noyes 1906 and his wife Marguerite Lily Noyes, both of whom bought it from an antiquarian dealer in 1935. It is usually kept in the library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, according to Lance Heidig, a Cornell University Library guide who headed the exhibit. Within the first three days of the manuscript going on display, Heidig said approxiSee GETTYSBURG page 5

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Johnson School to Lead $2.3M Ecology Initiative

Program will help improve sustainability By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Contributor

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Out with a bang | A member of Cornell EMS hands a quarter card to a student on Ho Plaze during the Collegiate Emergency Medical Services Week, which students celebrated last week.

Cornell EMS Volunteers Help Promote Student Health, Safety By ANIKA SETHY

I’m glad that that’s something Cornell has left me with in my senior year.” Last Tuesday, CUEMS partnered with Bangs Last week, Cornell University EMS organized Ambulance and Cornell Environmental Health events and classes to promote the Collegiate and Safety to hold a vehicle exposé on Ho Plaza, Emergency Medical Services Week. Dando said. She added that the exposé allowed The week is dedicated to the annual celebra- students a closer look at the emergency response tion of campus EMS services and consists of vehicles and gave them the opportunity to ask events intended to educate the Cornell communi- questions about each agency. ty about how to respond to emergency situations On Wednesday, CUEMS held an event called and connect with emergency responders on cam- “Got Soap?” — a flu prevention campaign pus, according to Emily Dando ‘14, community launched by CUEMS five years ago. CUEMS education officer for CUEMS. partnered with Gannett Health Services and Hannah James ‘15, promotions officer for Clorox to pass out bars of soap and hand sanitizCUEMS, said EMS Week helped er to promote hand hygiene and to encourage healthy living prevent the spread of illness, “I think EMS Week is according to Dando. around Cornell. “I think EMS Week is a great James said that although it a great opportunity.” opportunity for members of may have seemed unusual, the Hannah James ’15 CUEMS to engage with the campaign was an effective way to Cornell community and to play spread the word about flu prevenan active role in promoting a tion. healthy student population,” James said in an “I think some people were surprised to see that email. we were giving out soap, because it’s not someLast Monday, to mark National Collegiate thing you typically receive with a quarter card on CPR Day, CUEMS offered free classes to the Ho Plaza. But hand-washing is one of the best Cornell community. The group certified 32 peo- ways to fight the flu, and handing out free soap is ple during the three classes they held, according to definitely a great way to encourage that,” she said. Dando. On Thursday, CUEMS provided information Spencer Whale ‘14, who took one of the concerning alcohol safety and answered questions American Heart Association CPR certification about New York State Good Samaritan laws and classes offered, said the course was a great way for campus policy with regards to alcohol, Dando people to learn lifesaving skills. said. “I think we do have a responsibility as students Finally, on Friday, CUEMS finished the week in a privileged Ivy League university to better our- with a Red Cross Blood Drive, which was held at selves with our time here. ... I want to be able to Bartels Hall. go out in the world and know that I can help in some way,” Whale said. “I’m a theater major; I’m not a doctor, but I feel better knowing that if a sit- Anika Sethy can be reached at uation arises, I’m not going to stand there gaping. as2654@cornell.edu. Sun Contributor

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process is to understand the various related activities already occurring in the areas we are targeting,” he said. He added that the team will “meet with local, regional, and national governments, NGOs, multilateral institutions and businesses... [to ensure that] the work we do is complementary to other activities in the region.” Milstein also said that the end goal for the program is to help these communities better manage their ecosystems. “Ultimately, the work we are doing over the next five years is meant to provide better decision tools for helping an array of stakeholders ––

Joining the World Bank and several international universities, the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is leading a $2.3-million endeavor to improve the economic and environmental sustainability of marine ecosystems. Prof. Mark Milstein, management, will head the initiative, picking an international team of researchers to enhance the link between natural communities and their ecological and monetary wealth, according to a press release from the Johnson School. Cornell announced earlier this month that it had formally signed onto the “A critical part of the project, called process is to Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem understand the various Services. related activities The project will primarily help low- already occuring.” income communities Prof. Mark Milstein to “integrate ecosystems and business to protect valuable marine from local communities to ecosystems in the heart of the national governments –– coral triangle,” Prof. Drew improve their ability to manHarvell, ecology and evolu- age natural coastal ecosystems tionary biology, said in a and economic development over time so that each are University press release. Growing populations in reinforcing of the other,” he the East Asia-Pacific region said. Prof. Bruce Monger, earth have made it increasingly difficult for people to make the and atmospheric sciences, said most out of natural resources the program could be a posiwhile protecting the ecosys- tive way for Cornell to influtems, researchers say. For ence different decision makers example, mass fishing and to work toward implementing pollution are two human more sustainable practices. “Valuing ecosystem serthreats to the welfare of the surrounding marine ecosys- vices is a good way to get decitems. They also impede the sion makers thinking more ability of ecosystems to pro- intelligently about their vide natural services like water actions by taking a broader for filtration, caostal defense look at all the gains and all the and blue carbon sequestra- losses,” he said in an email. tion, according to the press “Cornell [is] uniquely qualified to lead the world in creatrelease. Milstein, who is also direc- ing new approaches in sustor of the Center for tainable development and the Sustainable Global Enterprise CCRES Project is a perfect in the Johnson School, said example of what can be the team’s first step will be to accomplished with good colevaluate the areas in which it laboration.” will be working — mainly Indonesia and the Philippines. Ariel Seidner can be reached at “A critical part of this abs253@cornell.edu.

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Ithaca Police are investigating a report that a man was punched in the face early Saturday while walking on University Avenue near Lake Street, according to a crime alert sent Monday. At around 3:11 a.m. Saturday, the male victim and his friend were approached by two men, the crime alert says. The two alleged perpetrators did not say anything. One of the men punched the male victim in the face, “causing pain and physical injury,” and then ran south on University Avenue, according to the crime alert. Police searched the area but were unable to locate the alleged perpetrators. The Ithaca Police Department is continuing to investigate the reported assault. — Compiled by Caroline Flax

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Students learn about the Peace Corps from former volunteers at Mann Library on Monday.

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Rep.Reed Raises More Funds Than Other Candidates CAMPAIGN

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er, according to Alderperson Stephen Smith (D- 4th Ward), who was the treasurer for Shinagawa’s 2012 campaign. Reed’s 2012 campaign raised a total of $2.1 million and spent about $2 million of those funds; in comparison, Shinagawa raised $829,000 and also spent nearly all of it, according to Open Secrets’ data. Reed, who is a member of the House Ways and Means committee — the House of Representatives’ chief tax-writing committee — has come under scrutiny regarding the contributions made to his campaign by political action committees. Fifty-seven percent of his fundraising, or $709,002, has come from political action committee contributions, constituting Reed’s top fundraising category. On average, his fellow House of Representatives candidates have only raised $176,344 from PACs. Large individual contributions make up the second most significant chunk of Reed’s fundraising activity, standing at 35 percent. Smith noted that Reed’s position on

the Ways and Means committee affords him access to major donors that is difficult for challengers to match, particularly political newcomers like Shinagawa. To match Reed’s financial resources, Smith said, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee — the committee that aims to elect Democrats to the House of Representatives — would have to make the 23rd District one of its “marquee races.” When asked to comment on the role special interest play in Reed’s fundraising efforts, Seth Wimer, the campaign manager for Tom Reed for Congress, simply expressed satisfaction with the state of the campaign’s finances thus far. “I would just say that we’re pleased with the support that we’ve gotten here in the district,” Weimer said, referencing the almost $200,000 in individual contributions the campaign raised during the last fiscal quarter. “As we go into next year, I’m confident we’ll have the resources we’ll need to conduct a successful campaign.” About half of Tom Reed for Congress’ coffers — or $537,641 — has been spent on campaign operating expenses.

Meanwhile, the Robertson campaign’s net operating expenditures total $77,045. However, Robertson will not hve to match Reed’s financial resources to be a serious contender, Smith said. He said that although Reed spent three times as much money campaigning against Shinagawa, Shinagawa came within points of matching Reed in the general election, which in 2012, “nobody was expecting.” Although, “at a certain point it just helps to have more money,” Smith said as long as a candidate raises enough to cover its major campaign expenses, he or she “could win, raising less than Reed.” So far, $496,150 of Reed’s campaign contributions have come from individual donors, and $718,094 have come from non-political party committees, such as PACs. The top five industries contributing to Reed’s reelection campaign are insurance ($52,500), securities and investment ($45,626), oil and gas ($40,950), real estate ($25,700) and health professionals ($19,000), according to Open Secrets. Smith noted that the 23rd Congressional District — which encom-

passes much of southwestern New York, including Ithaca, Elmira and Corning — is located in the Marcellus shale region, and that the oil and gas industry is one of the top industries donating to Reed’s campaign. Following the Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010, the unlimited amount of money industry can contribute to campaigns has been roundly criticized by those who say it introduces bias into the democratic process. Smith said the role of money in politics is highly problematic — on both sides of the aisle — and that he sees no end to it in the near future. “The two are so intertwined that the lobbyists don’t want to give up that power and the people who are in power don’t want to give up that lifeline,” Smith said, calling it a “incumbency protection program.” “[Incumbents] will almost always be able to outraise someone who runs against them.” Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

Pitchfork? Too mainstream.

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Speaker: Company’s Team ‘Shares Risks and Rewards’ TEDX

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asked himself, “How can I make the biggest contribution possible?” He added that he then answered his own question by beginning to help people stuck on the side of the road and working at local schools. In North East, Pennsylvania, Garrity stayed with a family who took down roofs and repurposed them into homes. Here, he met his wife, he said. “She had a vision. We saw such beauty and wisdom around us. In our passion, excitement and adventure, we had a baby and my worlds collided,” he said. “I was living just months before on the road, full of vision, and now I had to actually put food on the table.” After the birth of his child, Garrity said he faced ques-

tions concerning what it means to be a man, as well as a father. To help solve some of his questions, he went to work as a laborer installing solar panels in the New York area. Over the next 13 years, Garrity transitioned from working as a laborer to working in sales to starting his own company — Finlo Solar Powers, a company that is founded on conversion to solar energy and building a better world. Although Garrity said “it’s been a success beyond my dreams,” he said he was upset by difficulties in his marriage missed spending time with his children. In search of a better way to balance a successful job and a happy personal life, Garrity asked the people he considered his role models what he should do. Garrity said they told him to view the world as interdependent, meaning “we are all in this world together. We are a team.”

Fascinated by this new idea of interdependence, Garrity said he became a “team” with his partners at his company. “We share risks and rewards. It’s no longer me as the boss and these are my workers. These are my partners; it’s awesome,” he said. Among several other achievements, Garrity has taught solar electric systems design and installation, created a solar energy department in an energy consulting and construction company and worked on solar electric projects for Cornell, Google and Crayola. Garrity was one of nine speakers at the event. Speakers voiced topics ranging from ways to eliminate structural poverty to conscientious innovation. Lindsay Cayne can be reached at lnc36@cornell.edu.

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mately 500 people had come to see it. Heidig said he hoped visitors understood the significance of the exhibit and the power of Lincoln’s words. "The Gettysburg Address is one of the greatest speeches in American history. Lincoln held this piece of paper in his hands and wrote out his speech on it,” Heidig said. “I would hope that people coming to the library to see this document would value its uniqueness and be inspired by Lincoln’s words.” Students who attended the exhibit said they enjoyed the display. After viewing the exhibit, Meredith Corsi ’17 said she felt lucky to have viewed an actual copy of the Gettysburg address. “It’s an awesome piece of history, and

I feel really lucky that Cornell is provid- especially connected to the Cornell coming students with an opportunity to wit- munity because of the relationship ness this,” she said. “Plus, I mean, how between the University’s founders and Lincoln. many people can say "Cornell was they’ve seen an actual “I would hope that people founded just two copy of the weeks after the Civil Gettysburg Address?” coming to the library to War ended and Another attendee, see this document would Lincoln was assassiAmanda Yellen ’17, nated," he said. said she appreciated value it uniqueness "Both Ezra Cornell the exhibit because andbe inspired by Andrew and she has always been Lincoln’s words.” Dickson White interested in Civil knew and supported War history. Lance Heidig Lincoln, who “The story behind shaped and helped how it got here is determine the desreally cool. I’ve always been really interested in the Civil tiny and future of the University when he War, so this was really amazing. It was signed the Morrill Land Grant College also a really nice break from studying,” Act in 1862. Cornell is New York State’s land grant institution. The Cornell comshe said. According to Heidig, the exhibit is munity has the privilege of being able to

see and experience the library’s amazing and truly stunning collections of Lincoln artifacts and art works.” Of the other four original copies of the Gettysburg Address, two are at the Library of Congress, one is at the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, Ill. and another copy is at the White House in the Lincoln bedroom, according to Heidig. The exhibit, named “Remembering Lincoln at Gettysburg,” will remain on display in the Carl A. Kroch Library until Dec. 20, according to the Cornell University Libary’s website. The original copy of the Gettysburg Address, which has been on display since Nov. 12, will be available for viewing until Saturday. Grace Hurley can be reached at gkh29@cornell.edu.

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More Information On DeLuca’s Dismissal

SINCE THE UNIVERSITY ISSUED A BRIEF, vague statement announcing the dismissal of Ben DeLuca ’98, head coach of the men’s lacrosse team, no additional information has been released. Furthermore, University and athletic communications have said they have no plans to elaborate on the situation moving forward. We understand the administration has policies regarding the information they will release about employee firings. But lingering questions about this particular high-profile dismissal have led to speculation and confusion among both the press and the general public. We expect Cornell to explain the termination of a decorated member of our community, especially if it would shed light on the University’s efforts to end hazing. DeLuca’s dismissal as head coach comes two months after the lacrosse team was sanctioned for an alcohol-related hazing incident. Because the University has failed to confirm or deny that the two events are connected, we are all left to wonder. Athletic teams have notoriously been omitted from the University’s sustained efforts to combat hazing and high-risk drinking. If the administration’s decision to relieve DeLuca of his duties is indeed a response to the team’s transgressions, that action is deeply relevant to the broader campus dialogue on hazing. In taking action against DeLuca, was the University holding him accountable for his team’s behavior? We don’t know. The University won’t tell us. If, in fact, DeLuca’s dismissal was a simple case of ineffective coaching, explanation is still necessary. Men’s lacrosse has had three winning seasons under DeLuca’s leadership, and the team’s win/loss record have been consistent with those from previous years. There are only two months until the beginning of the nationally competitive team’s game season. Shrouding this abrupt termination in secrecy is disrespectful to the Cornell lacrosse community — both past and present members — who are baffled by the loss of a respected coach. DeLuca, who has served Big Red lacrosse for years as a player, senior captain, assistant coach and head coach, has been described by his former players as a dedicated alumnus who “lives and breathes Cornell lacrosse.” Cornell has a duty to the team members, their parents, supportive alumni and the wider campus community to be more transparent about this situation. A cited desire to “support our students” and to continue the lacrosse program’s “decades-long tradition of excellence” is the closest to an explanation the University has offered, and plans to offer, on the matter. We want to know more.

f you happened to have read any of my columns or have known me for 20 minutes, you’re aware that I’m an unrepentant moralizing windbag of a do-gooder. I have strong opinions about so-called “big issues” (opinions don’t have to be right to be loud) and I try to make sure people know them. I tell myself that I consider apathy an evil almost as great as overt evil. I decided in large part to write for this paper because of the soapbox it allows me. Vague institutional self-consciousness regarding the apolitical or unserious character of the Sun’s editorial page made me want to contribute what I could. But that motive was far overshadowed by the selfimportant conviction that by writing something about current events that makes people angry or sad, I might redirect some of the ample talent flowing through this campus toward social injustice issues. Such are the foibles of a precious undergrad whose civic worldview was forged by agitators baffled at the political complacency of the millennials and professionally and personally convinced of the transformative power of the pen. My pretentious expectations of my impact on the social consciousness of the student body notwithstanding, I still believe most of the above on some level. Journalists and issue advocates play a vital role in creating a buzz around contentious issues, supplying the general public with facts and arguments they need to be informed and active citizens. But what the good information-disseminators can do is necessarily limited. Though related, advocating for some cause is fundamentally different from actually working to create the change you’d like to see. The distinction may be obvious to most, but, somewhat alarmingly for someone so guilty of the confusion. It wasn’t clear to me until recently. The post-graduation search has been illuminating in this direction. Regardless of how much I tell myself that one’s first job is only one’s first job and not a referendum on one’s essential moral and intellectual quality, assessing every CCNet posting is fraught with undue tension as I grapple with larger questions about worthiness. When a close friend was deliberating over his offer from Teach for America, I cautioned him vehemently with my own reservations about the program. It’s absurd and disrespectful to teachers everywhere to act as though students are qualified to teach, I said, let alone turn failing school districts around. And, I preached, to act as though the biggest problem in these struggling school districts is merely ineffective teachers is to ignore the deep structural issues which plague the American education system. It’s patchwork, it’s entitled and it

doesn’t work. “Freedom Writers” is a tearjerker because the transformation the imported white lady brings is so improbable, I concluded. My friend, prepared for this overwrought rant because he knows me, responded calmly and arrestingly. All that stuff is true to one degree or another, he said. But if you’re primarily preoccupied with the large structural problems which have stumped policymakers, educators and communities for decades then there’s no way to make the progress we’re all interested in. There’s no consensus regarding how the government should craft its educational policy, or how schools should allocate their resources in order to save all of the nation’s failing schools. Even building what can plausibly be called an informed handle on this obviously complex issue, a necessary precursor to being considered a serious voice in favor of one specific strategy of reform or another, is prohibitive for nearly all interested individuals. But Teach for America is taking a plausible, if contested, issue within the broader education reform debate and addressing it directly by infusing schools with bright young teachers. And as talented undergraduates are attracted to the TFA brand, they begin to think seriously about education in America rather than any number of other compelling pursuits which could attract their time and effort. It’s one thing to be generally aware that education in America is not what it could or should be. It’s another altogether to actively confront an issue by working directly and tangibly to change it, and to leverage that experience as a practitioner into further theorizing about how the future can be different. This TFA exchange can be applied to a general concept of activism. TFA has, to a certain extent, made teaching in underprivileged schools sexy to graduating seniors in a way that it was hardly expected to be. Of course, I’m not suggesting that people should rush headlong into unexamined “action” — due diligence matters, and expertise is, obviously, valuable. But efficacy comes from not biting off more than you can chew, and experience in the trenches lends legitimacy and otherwise inaccessible insights. Advocacy is important, but finding a way to be active is even more impressive.most direct way to more closely align ideological influence with the electoral salience of that ideology, which is in turn the best way to tether the politician’s natural instinct of self-preservation to the preferences of the electorate. Sam Kuhn is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at skuhn@cornellsun.com. His column appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Darrick Nighthawk Evensen | Trustee Viewpoint

Grad Students Should Do

’ve been a student at Cornell for seven years. While that doesn’t necessarily make me Van Wilder, I’d like to think that I’ve experienced and caused my fair share of the insanity that Cornell has to offer. I’d also venture to say that the minstrels will, someday, glorify my escapades at Cornell in their immortal ballads, or at least I can believe as much in my dreams. These credentials are as good as any for offering up my AUTHORITATIVE list of the 16.1 things graduate students must do while at Cornell (and by authoritative, I mean, things I enjoy doing). Why a list with ten times fewer things to do than the undergrad list? As grad students, we need to prioritize. 1. Avoid (at all costs) having “sex in the stacks”. Please, you are graduate students; show some propriety. You are too mature for the stacks; you have access to lab tables, rooftops and any number of lounges. 2. Enjoy the Finger Lakes properly on a wine tour. Bonus points for touring both Cayuga and Seneca Lake wineries and for hitting the distilleries. Extra bonus for encountering a Cornell dean while on the tour and a little tipsy. 3. Invite your advisor to a Texas Hold’Em Poker night at your house/apartment. Bonus points if he/she shows up with his/her own martinis and olives.

Why a list with ten times fewer things to do than the undergrad list? As grad students, we need to prioritize. 4. Befriend someone who owns a sailboat. There is no greater destresser than viewing Cornell from the center of Cayuga Lake. There is no friendship that pays greater dividends than one with a captain. 5. Travel to the coolest places in the U.S. and the world and have the federal government pay for it (because it is part of your “research”). Conference in Germany? Think about renting a castle for your lodging. 6. Attend the “Lessons and Carols” concert at Sage Chapel. Seriously, I don’t care what your religion (or lack thereof) might be, the music and general splendor is simply breathtaking. 7. Learn how to teach (well). You owe it to your students and to your own professional development to put your best foot forward in the classroom. If your advisor and/or the professor for whom you are a T.A. do not provide adequate support, seek out resources from the Center for Teaching Excellence. 8. Avoid the urge to hook up with your students. Whether it is because your excellent teaching is such a turn-on (see #7) or just because one of your students wants to achieve #78 on the list of 161 Things to Do, you know some students will try. This is also one way to avoid getting expelled. 9. Swim in Enfield Gorge. This is legal and you will not risk death by doing so; this gorge has the stunning swimming area at Robert Treman State Park. I will not require that the swimming be skinny dipping (see #92 on the 161 list), but if you are so moved, all the more power to you. 10. Have a conversation with Cornell President David Skorton (shaking hands at the Ph.D hooding ceremony doesn’t count). David is as funny as he is caring and gracious; devising a plan to meet him is worth your effort. Quadruple bonus points for being invited to his house for dinner, probably due to winning a ridiculously prestigious award (I am still trying to accomplish this sub-goal). 11. Compete on a Cornell sports team. We need to show the undergrads that we still have it in us. 12. Take all your weekday meetings after 2 p.m. at the Big Red Barn. $1 beers daily on a graduate student stipend? Enough said. 13. Get published in Science or Nature. Yes, I needed one lavishly ostentatious academic goal. Hint: Publish a letter to the editor and write it down on your C.V. anyway; its only partially cheating. 14. Eat the spiciest chili you can find at Ithaca’s Chili Cook-off. Writhe in pain, then dare your friends to eat it; laugh at them when they do. 15. Go to the Chapter House at 4 p.m. for happy hour; stay until at least 10 p.m. Your dinner? The free popcorn. 16. Climb all 161 steps to the top of McGraw Tower. In this we must show our solidarity with the undergrads and everyone who declares himself or herself a “Cornellian”. 16.1. Graduate. This is perhaps the most difficult task of all; it will also be the most rewarding. Darrick Nighthawk Evensen is a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources and the graduate student-elected trustee. He may be reached at dte6@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

“Honestly, as a society, we need to accept that beauty matters, there is a limit to which confidence can help. But at some point, if spending few thousand dollars on a nose jobs in Korea is going to change how people react, then it might not be a bad. Having more people undergo plastic surgery will both reduce the cost [of the procedures] and train better surgeons. I don’t see why that would be such a bad thing. I recommend that you re-examine your Victorian views [of] beauty. Some people do look ugly and surgery can help them. Why shun it?” someguy Re: “BHOWMICK: Foxy Ladies, Vulpine Men,” Opinion, published Nov. 18, 2013

Jacob Glick | Glickin’ It

Remembering JFK: Heroism and History I

t is the week before Thanksgiving, and the mid-semester doldrums have transformed into a frantic realization that we all have so much living to do before retreating to that Netflix binge that others more idealistically call “Winter Break.” The week before Thanksgiving, nestled comfortably in the midst of our academic year, is not usually a time for reflecting, nor a moment in which we look beyond ourselves for answers to unanswerable questions. That’s the sort of mental procrastination reserved for Finals Week. This week before Thanksgiving should be different. This Friday, Nov. 22, at 12:30PM, I will probably be eating lunch. Some of you luckier, and lazier, readers may still be in bed. But at that moment, 12:30PM, we should pause. We should reflect. For a half-century ago, at 12:30PM on Nov. 22, 1963 (which, eerily enough, was also a Friday) an assassin’s bullet ended the life of President John F. Kennedy and forever changed the course of our nation, our planet and our lives. I know that I often write columns ruminating over the nature of our interaction with history, or externalizing and contextualizing the college experience in such a way that (I hope) makes us savor every moment we have here at Cornell. This week, I did try to conjure up some non-abstract, topical thesis — I lingered for a moment on the particular allure of the Big Red Bar Mitzvah for some of us nice Jewish boys who were still awkward, rotund and overly hair-gelled at their own bar mitzvah parties — but, I kept returning to a commemoration of

President Kennedy’s assassination. And then, as I contemplated my stillunwritten column, I realized perhaps it is not so abstract a thesis after all. We are reaching adulthood in the Age of Disillusionment. Even those of us who have cheered our nation’s forward march over the past years squirm uncomfortably at the mention of drone strikes, NSA phonetapping and healthcare.gov. It is hard, with a public sphere so inundated with the most despicable examples of leadership (Anthony Weiner, Rob Ford), to add a heroic sheen to any element of contemporary history. When a sitting presi-

flawed individual presiding over an imperfect administration. In death, however, he united not just his citizenry, but his entire century. My aunt, who was herself a college student in November 1963, often recalls the harrowing days before her own Thanksgiving Break. While her story should perhaps show me that being a college student caught up in the current of history is many times more macabre than it is epic, I still find myself perversely jealous of her for having experienced this American tragedy that continues to shape our national psyche. Rightly or wrongly, almost our entire political

I will be the first to admit that JFK has remained, to me, somewhat removed from this depressingly pragmatic view of contemporary power.

dent endorses gay marriage, we ask why he didn’t do so sooner. When that same president helps a political adversary salvage the storm-tossed wreckage of the Jersey shore, media outlets dwell, not on the uplifting power of our shared humanity, but on the political fallout of bipartisan collaboration. The Age of Disillusionment leaves little room for heroes. With all this in mind, I will be the first to admit that JFK has remained, to me, somewhat removed from this depressingly pragmatic view of contemporary power. The saga of the Kennedy family enchants my English major fantasies, even while my Government major instincts reminds me that, while he lived, JFK was a

spectrum has deified JFK and made him the martyr of the American Century. The most enduring image of a century filled with photographs is that of Jackie Kennedy in her bloodstained dress standing beside Lyndon Johnson as he is sworn in. There is nothing so poetic as a fallen king. JFK’s death added a heroic splendor to the Great Society initiatives — the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act, Medicare, Medicaid — whose passage was fueled in part by his martyrdom. When we view our generation’s greatest challenges, from gay rights to healthcare to climate change, the narrative arcs seem woefully cynical compared to the tragic poetics of the 1960s. There is a self-fulfilling

prophecy underlying this reality; by rendering JFK a political demigod, Americans set themselves up to be disappointed by the foibles of his successors: Johnson and Vietnam, Nixon and Watergate, Clinton and Monica Lewinsky. But 50 years ago, our nation stood united by an emotional bond unparalleled by anything in the half-century since, aside for 9/11. We must seize on the ephemeral outburst of JFK nostalgia, not to rehash conspiracy theories or to partake in the mythicizing of an admirable (but still human) president, but rather to remember that it is possible for our nation to be united on a path towards justice. It has happened. It is possible for our national experience, even the turbulent annals of the early 21st century, to approximate poetry, if we seek out heroism and force the frustrating glitches and asinine scandals onto the ash heap of history. Even as we remember the 50th anniversary of JFK’s death on Friday, today, November 19, is the sesquicentennial anniversary of President Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: two discrete moments in time connected by America’s tumultuous attempt at a more perfect union. We should mark these events, not by lamenting how comparatively trivial our own times seem to be, but by crafting a future that is heroic rather than sordid, pragmatically optimistic rather than sarcastically defeatist. Then, in 2063 and 2113 and even 2163, our generation, too, will be so remembered. Jacob Glick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT BY BRIAN GORDON Sun Staff Writer

Last Wednesday Jefferson Dutton, Michael Mitchell and Chris VanArtsdalen, three members of IFC’s Birthday Boys, made a trip to Ithaca for a screening of their new sketch comedy show. The Sun was able to sit down with the boys after the screening to talk about comedy, show business and working with Ben Stiller and Bob Odenkirk, two of the show’s producers.

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An interview with IFC’s Birthday Boys

THE SUN: How’d the name come about? THE BIRTHDAY BOYS: We pitched 300 names. Probably more. Eventually we became so exhausted that no one hated Birthday Boys enough to veto it. There’s a corporate response that it’s Birthday Boys because we’ve all had a birthday. We tried once to form a name by having everybody shout out their favorite letter. That gave us SACPEMM which didn’t work, but with Birthday Boys, nobody hated it. I’m not sure that’s still true to this day. It might be a bit too cutesy now. People always have weird jokes about it, especially my mom. National Camp Fire? The Times New Roman. But those sound like names that wouldn’t have television shows. I think Birthday Boys was just good enough. We tried not to have a name that was joking. THE SUN: The L.A. Times positively referred to you guys as a “lighthearted” group. Do you understand that label? BOYS: I think being out in comedy for eight years, you see people going dirty a lot and it kind of becomes a turn off. It’s more a comment on laziness than anything else. It sort of gets boring for a guy to come out and just be like “9/11, aids, dead baby … ” On the other hand, Louis C.K. is dirty but it’s birthed from amazing material. It all depends on whether the joke is worth it. If it’s funny, it’s funny. We don’t explicitly shy away from things that are dirty, but hopefully there’s something additional that makes us laugh about it, otherwise it’s kind of just low-hanging fruit. THE SUN: Your comedy seems to be a big hit with audiences that have comedy backgrounds themselves. BOYS: Yeah, a lot of our stuff relies on the audience to be the “straight man.” We didn’t provide a character in the sketch to be like “Hey wait a minute, that seems weird.” We rely on the audience to be media literate enough to know the trope and be like, “hey, they’re not doing it right.” I think that’s a characteristic of alternative comedy. That being said, I don’t think we are super alternative with our comedy. Yes, some tropes might go over people’s head, but I don’t think you ever need to have seen the trope before to appreciate it. THE SUN: You guys get to work with two comedy legends, Bob Odenkirk and Ben Stiller. How is it to work with them, and what do they bring to the show? BOYS: Ben and Bob know each other from way back when Bob wrote for The Ben Stiller Show. Because of that relationship, when we were pitching the show around, we went to Ben’s Red Hour Productions. Having Bob there is incredible because he has been one of the best sketch writers for years. He had an approach where he let us have our own show: He would say things that would tweak [a joke] to make [it] perfect. Or, if we really loved a joke, he would let us have it. Ben came in and shot for a day and he was great, he improvised and was so funny on set. THE SUN: You mentioned being big childhood fans of Bob’s Mr. Show growing up. Is it hard to view him now as a co-worker and not an idol? BOYS: We still look up to him for sure, but Bob is so much in the trenches with us that he makes you engage and use your own instinct. He doesn’t just want us to bow down

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to what he wants to do, he really wants to hash it out. You start interacting with someone as a real person once you disagree with him, sometimes, and it’s ok. Bob is a real person. And with the whole Breaking Bad thing, he got bigger and bigger and his career was taking off all over again. THE SUN: How has attending Ithaca College helped get you guys to where you are today? BOYS: I would like to think we would still be doing some-

“Ithaca gave me that idea that, “hey, you can work in L.A., in TV,” and at a larger school you might get lost in the shuffle a little bit. The best part about Ithaca is that you get to move away and be happy it’s not raining.” The Birthday Boys thing if not for I.C. Ithaca had little to do with comedy. It was only once we got out to L.A. and started seeing midnight shows that we were like, “hey they joke around just like we joke around. We can do this.” I don’t know if we ever would have ended up in California if it were not for Ithaca, though. Ithaca has an L.A. program for a semester and I think that’s where most of the Birthday Boys met. Ithaca gave me that idea that, “hey, you can work in L.A., in TV,” and at a larger school you might get lost in the shuffle a little bit. The best part about Ithaca is that you get to move away and be happy it’s not raining. It’s an eternal happiness. Ithaca weather is like a weighted bat for four years and once it gets lifted it’s like oh boy, weather! THE SUN: The reputation is that pursuing an entertainment career in Los Angeles can be a struggle. Did your experiences mirror that reputation? BOYS: By the time the show was about to happen, everyone was getting work, and work is hard to come by. You work various office jobs. Some of us started directing stuff for Funny or Die, which helped get us out of our day jobs, which was a huge bump in our happiness factor. Your whole purpose in life shifts a little more into what you want to be doing. But we had many years of “the grind” — making coffee, going on supply runs. The landscape has

changed. [Now] with Funny or Die or College Humor there are a lot of internships and all these new channels to get jobs through. It’s still not easy to get one of those jobs, it might take several years of slogging 12-hour days on sets for a movie you’ll never see because its made-for-DVD or madefor-the-wastebasket just to make rent. The struggle is always on. Even after making the show, I don’t feel like its hands behind our head and we’re good to go. You always have to hustle a little bit. We still look for other work outside the Birthday Boys. Mitchell will appear as Bjorn Lerpiss on several episodes of Parks and Rec this season. MITCHELL: I am Bjorn Lerpiss. THE SUN: Where do the concepts for your sketches come from? BOYS: A think a lot of our sketches come from movies. It’s generally a bad thing if your stuff is all derivative of representations of life and not actual life, but we depend on the audience to know that this is a “meet the gang” scene or still find a twist on it. We have one about your DVR being too full and people found it super relatable. But we’re all movie nerds, so if we make an Alien sketch, we’ll make an Alien sketch. Or like the shrinking dicks sketch. Well, that one is from life too. THE SUN: Can you share a good “inside baseball” Hollywood story? Feel free to name drop. MITCHELL: We were writing for the MTV movie awards one night and Aziz Ansari was hosting a party downstairs, while Tom Cruise was hosting a much nicer party upstairs. It was like the Titanic. Cruise came down from his party and was talking to a swarm of people. I didn’t want to get a picture, I just wanted to talk to him so I could tell my mom. So I approached him and put my hand on his back. I figure he’ll feel me and eventually turn around. Three long minutes later I subtly peel my hand off his back. He must be so used to people touching him. So celebrities don’t mind being touched is the real story. DUTTON: I put my hands on Kate Homes and she knew immediately. THE SUN: Advice for making it in Hollywood? BOYS: Taking classes in Ithaca, making it in Hollywood seems so unattainable until you get out there and you realize, oh, you can actually do this. You need to slug it out for a while, but there are a million little ways to find your way. You’ve got to put your work in. You can definitely get work, not everyone will be the star of a sitcom, but y can find your place. THE SUN: How can you watch the show? BOYS: Our IFC overlords would like to remind everyone that new episodes of the Birthday Boys can be seen at 10:30 p.m. on IFC, on iTunes or through IFC.com. Brian Gordon is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com.

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Three Metals to Check Out This Year T his has been a terrible year for metal. Perhaps it’s because 2012 was so fantastic for all things aggressive and progressive, culminating in Swans’ proto-metal masterpiece The Seer. But this year, just about every metal album I have listened to struck me as either disappointing or merely satisfying. When I say that these are the three metal albums worth checking out this year, I mean that these are the only three metal albums worth checking out this year; the rest are hardly worth listening to for casual fans. These albums expand the genre and deliver the bone-crushing catharsis you secretly need to get through prelim season. Even if

and humor translate effortlessly. Metal tends to take itself too seriously, so the band’s refreshing positivity makes them stick out like a sore pair of devil horns.

WOE – WITHDRAWAL: You enter dangerous territory when you mix emo with any musical genre, especially the orthodoxies of black metal. But Philadelphia’s Woe manages to take the genre’s earnestness and amplify it with heaps and heaps of sludge. Not a lot of artists, let alone metal bands, can get away with beginning a song with the lyrics, “When I was young I thought I’d be complete, and one day I would see that life is beautiful,” but Chris Gigg screams it so unapologetically on “Song of My Undoing” that it becomes an album highPaul light. WithBlank drawal is a harowing marathon of, well, distortion isn’t your thing or screams make you wretch, I would woe and withdrawal. Only one of suggest at least giving a shot to the its seven tracks ends below the five minute mark and the album best the year has to offer. is packed with assaults of braying and chugging that can go on for KVELERTAK - MEIR Norwegian sextet Kvelertak’s minutes without reprieve. But sophomore album is definitely the that isn’t to say the aggression is most accessible of the three here. aimless. You won’t find more The band opened for Foo Fighters heart-wrenching material in on select legs of their Wasting music this year than in the callhowls of Light tour, and their brawny rawk and-response sound is reflected in the alt-rock “Exhausted.” Gigg’s desperate arrangements of tracks like cries, “It’s a fraud, it’s a lie / “Spring fra livet” and “Bruane Nothing matters, still we try” brenn.” The band incorporated demonstrate what makes this major chords and black metal genre truly resonate with some blastbeats on their 2010 debut people. Withdrawal probably before they became “hipster won’t appeal to you much if you metal”’s modus operandi, and aren’t looking for a challenge, but they’re as heavy and euphoric in it’s a uniquely American spin on this album as they ever were. Meir, extreme metal and could serve as the Norwegian word for “more,” a good introduction to the kvlt revels in Fucked Up’s life-affirm- cannon, should you choose to ing brashness and AC/DC’s explore it. smirking cheekiness. The album GRIS – À L'ÂME ENFLAMMÉE, flags a bit in its final third with L'ÄME CONSTELLÉE ... : three six-minute songs in a row, One of my favorite aspects of but ends riotously with metal is that its luminaries aren’t “Kvelertak,” a chunky mission concentrated in any one country. statement sure to illicit scream- A fan could be just as familiar alongs at live shows for years to with a group like Austria’s come. As the song titles imply, Summoning as Japan’s Sigh or the Meir is sung exclusively in U.S.’s Atlas Moth. The impulse to Norwegian, but Kvelertak’s joy get angry transcends all cultures apparently, and it’s NILS AXEN / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR why you hear stories of rich countercultural movements in Saudi Arabia or Iran playing metal music as opposed to, say, deep house. One country that is rarely mentioned in the international metal conversation, though, is Canada. Maybe it’s for their renowned politeness, but our neighbors up north only have a few prominent metal bands to their name. Perhaps Gris’ new album will

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change that, as these French Canadians do their country proud with a splendid collection of atmospheric black metal tunes. At nearly an hour and a half, À l'âme … can be hard to take in at once, but its compositional complexity and diverse instrumentation make the time go by fast. Members Icare and Neptune (gotta love metal pseudonyms) cycle through an array of instruments — from acoustic guitar to a full orchestra — to challenge your notion of how pretty a metal album can be. The violin stabs that introduce the second half of “Les Forges” jolt your synapses, then melt your heart like the crescendos of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Explosions in the Sky. The dingy guitar tone and screamed vocals (exclusively in French, I should add) can be off-putting, but the album is mostly instrumentals that can be easily compiled into 40 minutes of dark folk. À l'âme … is a dazzling adventure that took six years to make. If you think metal is only loud and vicious, I can’t recommend it enough. Paul Blank is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at pblank@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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TV for Thought: America’s Next Top (Androgenous) Model by Natalia Fallas America’s Next Top Model has graced television screens for 20 cycles. It has gone through a lot of transformations, the most hard hitting of which being the loss of that hunk, Nigel Barker, two seasons ago. But I digress. So why am I writing about what is arguably white noise reality TV? Well, aside from trying to be relevant and fresh again by adding male models to the mix of contestants this season, one of the show’s contestants is breaking important boundaries in life and in the business with his androgyny. From the beginning, Cory Hindorff has been one of my favorites. He is FIERCE (insert snaps in an “S” formation here as well) and truly the most grounded contestant. He is above the petty bullshit and remains focused on his goals. Oh, and he’s undeniably beautiful. His bone structure is on point as long as he works his angles correctly, and his eyes … well I get lost in them at times. But I digress. Back to my point about breaking ground. Cory is one of the only contestants this season who is gay, which plays into seasons before where there is always one girl who is part of the LBT community. Luckily, we’ve moved on from the whole coming out portion of events with him, but he is still continually cast aside as real competition because he plays up his androgyny. Week after week he hears from the photographers or judge, Rob Evans, that he is not being masculine enough and that his poses are too feminine.

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ARod’s Grievance Case Back in Court

NEW YORK (AP) — Alex Rodriguez’s grievance hearing to overturn his 211-game suspension resumed Monday with the first of what could be 10 straight days of sessions. The sides spent their ninth day before arbitrator Fredric Horowitz, who also heard the case from Sept. 30-Oct. 3 and Oct. 15-18. Rodriguez’s legal team was set to call witnesses when the hearing resumed. MLB and the players’ association appear to be trying to finish testimony before Thanksgiving, and it remained unclear whether the New York Yankees third baseman would testify. He had been scheduled for an investigatory interview with MLB on Friday, but the session was canceled when Rodriguez’s side said he was ill with flu-like systems and could not travel from California. Rodriguez arrived at MLB’s office on Monday morning. MLB has been expected to assert that Rodriguez should not be allowed to testify at his grievance if he first refused to answer MLB’s questions at the investigatory interview. Rodriguez was suspended for 211 games by MLB on Aug. 5 for alleged violations of the sport’s drug agreement and labor contract, and the players’ association filed the grievance to overturn the penalty. The three-time AL MVP said four years ago he used performanceenhancing drugs while with the Texas Rangers from 2001-03, but he has denied using them since. At the time of his suspension, MLB said the penalty was for “use and possession of numerous forms of prohibited performance-enhancing substances, including testosterone and human growth hormone over the course of multiple years” and for “engaging in a course of conduct intended to obstruct and frustrate the office of the commissioner’s investigation.” A Florida police department said Monday it had reopened an investigation into the theft of documents related to baseball’s inquiry. Boca Raton police officer Sandra Boonenberg said the investigation was reopened several weeks ago based on new information stemming from Rodriguez’s lawsuit against MLB, which accused the sport of engaging in a “witch hunt.” Boonenberg offered few details on the open investigation but said detectives have “a lot of leads that they’re pursuing.” The documents were stolen in March from the car of Porter Fischer, who took them from Biogenesis of America, the now-closed Florida anti-aging clinic where he worked. The clinic and its owner, Anthony Bosch, have been accused of providing banned performance-enhancing drugs to Rodriguez and other major leaguers. Bosch agreed to cooperate with baseball’s investigators, and baseball later suspended 14 players. Citing unidentified sources close to the investigation, ESPN reported last week that MLB impeded the Florida investigation. “MLB investigators knowingly purchased stolen documents in their quest to allow Commissioner Selig to act, for the first time, as if he was tough on PED use in baseball despite striking a cooperation deal with Anthony Bosch who MLB knows is under federal investigation for providing steroids to minors,” Jordan Siev, one of Rodriguez’s lawyers, said in a statement. MLB has repeatedly denied the accusation. “The truth continues to be that we did not knowingly purchase stolen documents and there is an active police investigation to determine if the documents were in fact stolen,” the commissioner’s office said in a statement.

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SPORTS

POLO

Women Split Weekend; Men Move to 3-2 Record By ELANI COHEN

of the Red’s biggest rivals, the Huskies were quite the competition, starting the match out with a 3-0 lead. Unfortunately, the team did not take advantage of its Recently, the women’s and men’s polo teams have opportunities during the first and second chukker, and been playing well this season thus far. The women’s polo was down 10-5 by half. team split its weekend set against its two biggest rivals, After Wicker was subbed in by freshman Emma University of Massachusetts and University of Eldredge, the Red won the third chukker 5-3, making Connecticut. The team won its first match on Saturday the overall score, 13-10. However, the Red could not against the University of Massachusetts, but lost its overcome the Huskies’ lead, and lost 16-12, its second Sunday match against the University of Connecticut. loss of the season. Though the Red lost, Cox had an The men’s team has won its past three games against exceptional game, scoring 10 of the overall 12 goals. the University of Connecticut, Skidmore College, and Both the men’s and women’s polo teams are preparing University of Kentucky, and holds a current record of 3- for the annual Bill Field Invitational this upcoming 2. weekend. The invitational will be played in Ithaca at the “With Nick’s poise on the field and the development Oxley Equestrian Center. Over the five-day span tourof Ignacio’s awesome abilities, nament, featuring 14 games, the which will further improve with men’s tournament field includes “I am confident we are Dave’s coaching skills, I have never University of Virginia, Skidmore well prepared for the Bill College, Cornell University, looked forward for a season as much as this one. We’re a winning Field Invitational and I am University of Kentucky, Colorado team,” senior captain Nik Feldman University and Texas A&M looking forward to the said. University, while the women’s tourBoth teams are looking to games.” nament field includes University of matches in the upcoming Bill Field Massachusetts, Cornell University, Maddy Olberg Invitational. California Polytechnic State The women’s team started out University, University of Kentucky the weekend with a match against University of and Yale University. Massachusetts that was played at home at the Oxley According to Feldman, the men’s team, specifically, is Equestrian Center. Due to its latest win against looking forward to the aggressive play that will be Skidmore College, the Red, with a current record of 4-2, brought out during the tournament. came into the match with confidence. “We certainly won’t underestimate Kentucky in our The match started out with a combined six goals by first game. We will want to play a strong, physical game sophomores Elena Wicker and Devin Cox. The that we can maintain through our next two days of Minutemen could not counter this lead, and the first matches,” he said. “Colorado State was last year’s runnerchukker ended with Cornell in the lead 6-0. During the up, and we have yet to play them so far this season. I second chukker, the Red was able to score another 10 don’t expect their squad to be the same calibre as last goals. By halftime, the Minutemen was tailing the Red year, but they could surprise us.” 16-0. Overall both teams, according to their current The Red actively defended its lead during the last two records, are looking to have good showings during the chukkers, winning with an overall score of 18-6. Cox Bill Field Tournament next week. had a great match ending with an amazing nine goals. “I am confident we are well prepared for the Bill Field Sophomores Phoebe Hering and Sean McNeil also Invitational and I am looking forward to the games,” helped Cornell stay in the lead, with Hering tallying a senior Maddy Olberg said. total of four goals and McNeil with two goals. On Sunday, the Red went into its a match against the Elani Cohen can be reached at University of Connecticut, played in Storrs, Conn. One ecohen@cornellsun.com.

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Trotting on | Both Cornell polo teams look to the Bill Field Invitational this weekend with the hopes of winning against top teams in the nation.

Icers to Face Boston College Red Preps for Penn, Princeton Over Thanksgiving Weekend SWIMMING AND DIVING Continued from page 16

WOMEN’S ICE

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goals that happened were combined efforts, with nice passes, good communication and all the little attributes that add up to produce goals. I think our line has been good because we’ve been talking, working together, and feeding off of one another’s strengths. We all have our

improve on. “I think sometimes it can be hard to get your motivation going right away, but I think that’s something we’ve been addressing and we know it’s something we need to fix,” she said. “If we can fix that and play the full 60 minutes then we’ll “The power play is be a lot more danger- something that we’ve been ous. putting a lot of work ... it’s Cornell picked up its going to come down to game in the second and outshot Harvard by a special teams and who can wide margin, but it could not break score on those advantages.” through with a goal. In Jillian Saulnier the third, however, senior captain Jessica Campbell scored on the own strengths and weaknesspower play to trim the lead to es, and we’ve really been one, and Saulnier followed highlighting our strengths with a goal of her own to tie and working off one another. the game. Harvard regained If we continue to do that, we the lead, but Saulnier deflect- should continue to see more ed a shot for a goal to tie the success.” The Red got off a much game with just over four minutes to go. According to better start against the Big Saulnier, her line with Green, scoring just one Campbell and junior Emily minute and 16 seconds into Fulton are working well the first to take a 1-0 lead. Dartmouth responded to tie together to score big goals. “I think it was just about the game, but the Red finfeeding off of one another,” ished the period with two she said. “Obviously the power-play goals take a 3-1

lead. After Dartmouth trimmed the lead to one, Cornell scored a third power play goal to seal the win. According to Saulnier, being able to capitalize on power play chances is a key advantage in the tight ECAC. “The power play is something that we’ve been putting a lot of work into, and this season alot of teams are even in the ECAC and the NCAA, so its going to come down to special teams and who can score on those advantages,” she said. We’ve been working on it alot in practice and talking about it alot off the ice, so fortunately it’s been successful and hopefully we can continue to keep that up.” The Red now has over a week to prepare for back-toback home games vs. No. 5 Boston College on Thanksgiving weekend. The unbeaten streak has already been remarkable, but extending it over two consecutive games against a top, nationally ranked, team will make an even greater statement. Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

148-125 and the women taking a 158114 victory. Therefore, both squads were riding on positive momentum going into the meet but expected challenging duals against the two rivals. The men lead the all-time series with Dartmouth, 32-29, and definitely aimed to extend that winning record this past weekend. The men trail the series with Harvard at 56-3. Despite beating Boston College in the seasonopener, the squad is coming off a 1-7 campaign that included home losses to both Dartmouth (152-148) and the Crimson (207-93). The men’s team now faces the pressure of turning the tide in terms of Ivy competition results as it matches up against UPenn and Princeton this coming weekend. Despite the losses this past weekend, the men’s team is still confident in its ability to succeed in the future and proud of its performance. “Although we did not achieve our goal of beating Harvard and Dartmouth, it was great to see the team perform well and compete against other Ivy league schools. The team has been training really hard, so I look forward to improvement in upcoming meets,” junior Patrick Pash said. The women lead the series with the Big Green, 20-11, but trail the Crimson by a substantial margin at 30-1. The Red has shown consistent improvement over the last several years and is especially proud of its win against Dartmouth and the mental

toughness and endurance the squad showed. “The women’s team went into the meet against Dartmouth with confidence and a will to win. Since we lost to Dartmouth in the last relay last year, we’ve been wanting revenge for a long time. We were losing halfway through, but were able to make an amazing comeback in the second half. When we took first, second, and third in the 200 IM, we knew we could beat Dartmouth. I could not have been prouder to be a part of Cornell’s team in that second half of the meet,” junior Nicole Jibrine said. The women’s squad has stressed the importance of mental preparation this season and the results have been positive. The comeback the Red made in the Dartmouth meet has definitely given the squad the confidence it needs to continue to plow through tough Ivy competitions, players said. “I am confident we will be able to put up a strong fight against Penn and Princeton next weekend, especially if we keep our heads in the meet like we did against Dartmouth,” sophomore Laly Vandenburghe said. Team MVP, sophomore Jenna Immormino, echoed Vandenburghe’s sentiment, saying that heart will help the Red beat Penn and Princeton this weekend. “At no point did we give up, and it was obvious that everyone’s heart was in it. That is exactly what you need to win a meet,” she said. Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

Sports

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TUESDAY NOVEMBER 19, 2013

MEN’S SOCCER

Booters Finish Season With Ivy Win Over Lions To end 2013,Cornell defeats Columbia on Berman Field By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

That’s a wrap this year’s men’s soccer fall season. Cornell finished its 2013 season with a 3-0 win over Columbia in a Saturday night game that bid farewell to the six seniors — Kurtis Teskoski, Jake Kirsch, Patrick Slogic, Stephen Reisert, Jake Rinow and Ben Williams — who will be departing the Hill. “Winning my last game of college was really special to me,” Rinow said. “I don’t think I will ever forget it. Spending four years with this team was such an incredible experience.” The 7 p.m. game started with some back-and-forth movement from both teams. The action moved at the 22nd minute when a foul on Slogic led to a goal from freshman forward Vincent Brunetti, notching the first point of the night and of Brunetti’s collegiate career. Play in the first half ended with Cornell sitting on top of Columbia, 1-0, and the forward momentum being dominated by the Red. As the second period got under way, the Red continued to keep momentum going forward into the Columbia half. Sophomore Ben Feldman added another notch to Cornell’s belt as he hit the ball into the right side of the post for the first goal of his collegiate career. The goal came after junior Conor Goepel crossed the ball, but Brunetti could not get there in time. The ball ended up heading to Reisert, who knocked it back in the box for Feldman to capitalize on the failed clear. The third of the trio for Cornell came in the 68th minute when junior forward Devin Morgan grabbed the ball from

HALEY VELASCO / SUN SPORTS EDITOR

Roaring Red | Senior captain Jake Rinow, along with the five other graduating seniors, finished his Cornell career with a 3-0 win over the Lions.

the opponent, which allowed freshman Sebastian Scales to grab the win for the Red. After following a season in which the Red won the Ivy League, the team finished out the fall 8-5-4 overall. “Regardless of the results this season, I’m just happy have been able to play with an incredible group of guys,” Rinow said. With the six seniors graduating this year, the Red will be losing a class with a 35-17-15 record throughout the four years

of play marking the winningest Cornell men’s soccer class since the Class of ’99 finished its time on the Hill with 39 wins. “I will miss the guys on the team. They are such an eclectic group of people that I’m likely to never meet there such again. I can’t say enough about how special these guys are to me,” Rinow said. Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

SWIMMING AND DIVING

C.U.Travels to Face Harvard, Dartmouth By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER

0-2 start in the Ivy Conference and 1-2 overall. The women’s team, on the Both the Cornell men’s and other hand, had mixed results. women’s swimming teams Cornell defeated Dartmouth, travelled to 160-140, and Hanover, to Har “I could not have been fell N.H. this past vard, 191-109, prouder to be part of weekend to to improve to compete 2-1 overall Cornell’s team in the a g a i n s t and 1-1 in the second half.” Dartmouth Ivy. and Harvard. Both teams Nicole Jibrine In its first came off of Ivy League successful seameet of the season, the men’s son-opener wins over Boston team fell to both opponents College, with the men going on Friday. The pair of losses See SWIMMING AND DIVING page 15 set the men’s squad back to a

Sun Staff Writer

KELLY YU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Splitting the set | Heading into the weekend with an undefeated record, Cornell tied Harvard, 3-3, but beat Dartmouth, 4-2.

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Red Ties Harvard,Beats Dartmouth By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

BETH SPERGEL / SUN FILE PHOTO

.500 | The Cornell women’s swimming and diving teams beat Dartmouth but fell to Harvard during the meet.

Heading into two road games against Harvard and Dartmouth this weekend, the No. 3 Cornell women’s hockey team was undefeated. After erasing a two goal deficit to tie Harvard (6-1-1, 61-1 ECAC), 3-3, on Friday, the Red defeated Dartmouth (2-7, 2-6 ECAC), 4-2, the following night. Cornell (8-0-2, 6-0-2 ECAC) is first in the ECAC standings , making it the only

undefeated team in the NCAA. According to junior forward Jill Saulnier, the win and tie testify to Cornell’s team effort and never-give-up attitude. “We were playing against great hockey teams, but we have a special team. We’ve proven that we can do things that people didn’t necessarily have set for us, and one of those is resilience and having the full team effort,” she said. “You’re going to continue to see that from this team because everyone is ‘all in,’ and

that’s what its going to take to see success this season.” The Red got off to a rough start against the Crimson, who took a 1-0 lead less than two minutes into the first and ended that period with a 2-goal advantage. Harvard limited Cornell’s puck possession time and capitalized on its own opportunities. According to Saulnier, getting off to a fast start is an important area that the Red should work to See WOMEN’S ICE page 15