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Reaching out | Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, presents his plan to increase resource and advocacy center staffing at the Student Assembly meeting Thursday.

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Staff Writer

A confidential letter detailing the demands issued by Black Students United to President Elizabeth Garrett and vice president for student and campus life Ryan Lombardi was leaked Saturday on a Cornell subreddit.

The subreddit, titled “Cornell University Black Students United demands from secret meeting with President Garrett,” includes a scanned copy of the letter. The description of the post reads, “The Cornell Community has a right to know and debate, before decisions are made.”

The letter makes a series of demands, insisting that the administration rename the Cornell Plantations and create mandatory coursework for all students on systems of power and privilege, “centering [on] the voices of oppressed people,” among others. The letter was delivered to the Office of the President at the end of a silent march to Day Hall on Nov. 17.

“While Cornell touts its compositional diversity, the campus environment is not conducive to the overall success of of students of color,” the letter reads.

The demands listen in the letter are divided into six categories — curriculum, compositional diversity, mental and physical health and wellness, governance, support service and symbols.

The letter also demands the creation of Latino Studies, American Indian Studies and Asian-American studies majors and an increase in black faculty, administrators and staff.

“The University can make no claim to have achieved an ideal compositional diversity when its faculty and administrators continue to be overwhelmingly white,” the letter says.

The letter also stressed the need for more diversity in Gannett’s faculty, requesting the hiring of more psychologists and psychiatrists of color.

“People of color historically have a reason to mistrust professionals,” the letter states. “We believe that there should be qualified psychologist and psychiatrists of color that can sufficiently address the way that racism affects the mental and emotional health and well-being of black students at a predominately white institution.”

The letter also requested standing appointments with Garrett to continue to grapple with the issues students of color face at Cornell.

The letter shown on the forum appears to have a stamp on the top right corner that says “Received November 17, 2015 Office of the President,” suggesting that the letter was leaked See DEMANDS page 3

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Lombardi Announces Plans to Increase Resource Center Staffing Will bolster programs,begin recruitment in spring semester

By YUN SOO KIM Sun Staff Writer

Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, announced that there will be an increase in staffing in the University’s advocacy and resource centers at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting.

Lombardi said that since the beginning of his term, there has been a “need of additional front-line staff to support students.”

The specific areas for employment are yet to be determined, but Lombardi said he plans “to identify the exact areas these staff will be employed based on where they are needed the most.”

Some students leaders in diversity and advocacy groups said they approve of this effort and agreed that these centers have

been understaffed in the past.

“The staff who lead [the centers] help ground our communities, especially with regards to individual students and student organizations,” said Linda He ’16, president of Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union.

According to He, one staff member leads each center, a sizable responsibility which includes tasks like interacting with alumni and handling difficult situations.

“They are also responsible for so many things such as crisis management or alumni engagement that they can’t possibly be directing a center or supporting a community all on their own,” she said.

He added that she does not think it is fair to give one person See DIVERSITY page 3

Campaign Proposes Placing Cornell Sober Cornell Alumna on $10 Bill House to Open

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Susan B. Anthony or Harriet Tubman, to represent American women on the $10 bill, Gibson advocates a scientific figure The Barbara on the Bill campaign aims to celebrate American accomplishments to put Barbara McClintock ’23 M.A. ’25 in a different field.

Ph.D. ’27, a scientist “America has only had known for overcoming one theme on its currency discrimination in the field — great political and civil of genetics and making achievements,” he said. groundbreaking discover“There’s no greater venue ies, on the $10 bill. to share a value of Don Gibson, a Ph.D. American achievement student in the genome and accomplishment then center and plant biology on our currency. America department at the has unlocked the atom, McCLINTOCK ’23 M.A. ’25 University of California, created light, put a man Ph.D. ’27 Davis, started the camon the moon and paign to emphasize that Americans value unlocked the human genome.” achievements in science and technology.

Gibson also said he believes displayAlthough many have called for See BILL page 3 another political or civil leader, such as

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By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s Sober House club, which is comprised of members of Sober@Cornell, alumni, staff and faculty, plans to open a sober house for interested students by the fall of 2016.

G.P. Zurenda MBA ’88, member of the main development committee, says the house is meant to be a safe place for those who have struggled with alcohol and drug abuse.

“The concept of the house is to proSee SOBER HOUSE page 3

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vide an attractive space for Cornell students who have had problems with drugs and/or alcohol,” Zurenda said.

“These students are self-identified as having a problem and need a supportive environment, which this house will address.”

Prof. William Sonnenstuhl, organizational behavior, an advisor to Sober@Cornell, said the plan for the house has only recently attracted the attention of the Cornell community.

“This idea has been kicking around for a while,” he said. “I actually wrote a proposal with Gannett a few years ago for the university to develop a sober house, but it didn’t get much traction — there were many problems on how to start this.”

According to Zurenda, when he and his wife bought the property on North Campus where the center will be located, the vision for Sober House began to take shape.

Zurenda said his interest in creating the center stems from his professional experience as a therapist and his eagerness to assist those in need.

“I am a therapist in town and I work a lot with alcohol and drug issues, so I have a personal interest in helping people,” he said.

Sonnenstuhl added that the Cornell community’s support has been instrumental in establishing the house.

“Students in the Sober@Cornell group have been leading the charge on a lot of this,” he said. “We’ve also got other students, faculty and administrators who are supportive of the idea, which is helping the process move ahead.”

Zurenda said he was pleasantly surprised that the project received so much support from Cornell’s Greek life system.

“The Cornell Interfraternity and Panhellenic Councils have provided a lot in supporting several sober initiatives,” he said. “It’s very positive to see those who are often regarded as ‘big partiers’ to be so supportive.”

The details of the proposal are still taking shape, according to Zurenda, who said the house’s affiliation with Cornell is still to be determined.

“Right now we are in the conversation with people at Cornell about what the nature of the relationship will be, whether it’s going to be an endorsed co-op, or possibly be more of a Cornell managed house where students would

be living there and going through the bursar’s office,” he said. “There are pros and cons to both, but we are still early in the conversation.”

The proposed building contains 10 bedrooms and would house students in all stages of recovery. Zurenda said he believes the house’s location on North Campus will make it a safe space for any incoming freshmen seeking a drug and alcohol-free environment.

“One of the best parts of the location is that it allows incoming freshmen in recovery to live in a sober environment and still participate in the North Campus experience, which provides a much better environment for these new students,” he said.

Zurenda said he does not believe Cornell students struggle with substance abuse more than students on other college campuses, but stressed that the issue is still one which requires attention and assistance.

“While there are a good number of students on campus, I wouldn’t say there are hundreds by any means,” he said. “Cornell’s problem isn’t larger than anyone else’s, but rather it transcends all schools across the country.”

Jamil Rahman can be reached at jrahman@cornellsun.com.

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after it was delivered to Garrett’s office.

Samari Gilbert ’17, a member of BSU, confirmed in an email that the leaked letter was the one delivered to Garrett. However, she denied that any “secret meeting” took place, as indicated in the title of the Reddit post.

Gilbert did say, however, that the image of the stamp has lead some to believe that the letter was leaked by someone in the administration.

“In terms of the confidentiality of the document, it has been distributed to a variety of campus leaders, administrators and our general body,” she said. “While the leaking of the document is not really an issue, it is problematic that the document on Scribd appears to be a leak by an administrator.”

Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean and director of intercultural programs, student and academic services and advisor to BSU, said the leak illustrates how quickly information can travel over the internet.

“We live in an age where information travels,” she said. “I don’t know how that letter traveled, but

... in this age of information being shared and at the push of a button, who knows whose hands that letter might’ve gone through inside the administration.”

The letter of demands has not been well received by some Reddit users, drawing criticism from a host of anonymous commenters.

“These demands are ridiculous and exemplify the intellectual fairness and freedom of universities being assaulted by fear mongering activists,” said Reddit user gat45.

John Carberry, senior director of media relations, confirmed in a statement that all documents delivered to the President’s office are stamped. He also said a response to the letter will be released soon.

“All documents submitted as communications to the President’s Office are stamped for our records, and to insure they are handled in a timely manner,” he said. “President Garrett, vice president Lombardi and the University’s senior leadership are reviewing the letter from Black Students United and expect to reply early this week.”

Josh Girsky can be reached at jgirsky@cornellsun.com.

observed the same phenomenon in bacteria.

Although men often posed the greatest obstacle to McClintock’s work, they were also often ing a scientist on American currency will help her greatest proponents, according to Prof. humanize the public’s image of scientists who are Thomas Fox, genetics. often pictured as intelligent but austere figures.

“McClintock was discriminated against by “[We could] change the average perception of institutions and their rules,” he said. “The male what a scientist is,” Gibson said. “They are scientists in her field who knew her were trying human beings who have all struggled, who have to help her fight these rules.” tried to prosper and if we can share an image of Fox said McClintock’s male coworkers soon not only a great scientist but a great American came to respect and admire her work in the lab. women of science, we can change the perspective “They recognized and respected her brilliance [on] science and the people who do it.” in the work on chromosomes that fit the paraGibson also said he hopes digms, which she did long having an image of a female “She listened quietly and before she started the most scientist on the $10 bill will famous stuff on transposable show that women can be just intently to descriptions of elements,” Fox said. “They as successful and influential as experiments very far from respected her to the point that the men who currently domwhen she started reporting inate the STEM fields at a 3- her own kind of research.” the radical notion of transposto-1 ratio. able elements, those who Prof. Thomas Fox McClintock became the knew her thought she must first woman to win a nobel be onto something even prize in medicine or physiolothough they didn’t really gy in 1983, and remains the only woman to have understand what it was.” received an unshared award in this category, Fox said he was struck by McClintock’s brilaccording to The American Society of Plant liance, pulling from his own personal encounters Biologists. The prize recognized her discovery of with McClintock when she was an A.D. White genetic transposition, a process which shows visiting professor at Cornell. genes changing their positions on a chromo“My recollections are that she listened quietly some. and intently to descriptions of experiments very Today, the knowledge of jumping genes has far from her own kind of research, and then aided scientists in the development of many asked the kinds of penetrating questions one medicines and in the study of cancer and genetic would expect from an expert in the field,” Fox diseases, according to the National Women’s said. “Nothing new here; she was wicked smart.”

Hall of Fame. It was not until the 1960s that her idea of transposable genes was finally widely Devon Gilliams can be reached at accepted, and this was only after other scientists dgilliams@cornellsun.com.

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so much responsibility without the assistance of any additional staff.

“It is just not possible — or fair — to put all of these responsibilities on one person without costs, whether it is costs incurred by the community, the students or the center directors,” He said.

Maria Chak ’18, S.A. vice president for outreach and minority at large, said she believes the resource centers play a significant role in providing a space for students to voice their concerns. However, she added

that they cannot function properly if centers are understaffed.

Eleanor Reppy ’17, president of Haven: the LGBTQ Student Union, said a larger staff is necessary to implement policy changes and increase the visibility of the LGBTQ+ community.

“There has been significantly more to do and no more people to do it,” Reppy said.

Reppy expects that additional staff will extend support through the advocacy centers and “expand programming and trainings to more people.”

Lombardi said he hopes additional staff members “will help to further expand and accelerate our

goal of fostering a more inclusive campus environment, while providing additional direct support to students in the centers.”

Chak added that Lombardi’s plan to hire four more staff to the advocacy and diversity centers is a step toward addressing larger campus issues.

“Lombardi’s plan is a great first step towards creating an inclusive campus community," Chak said.

Lombardi said he anticipates that new employee recruitment for these centers will begin early in the spring semester and added Yun Soo Kim can be reached at ykim@cornellsun.com.

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didn’t want to write this column. I would have loved nothing more than to have closed out the semester with a rousing endorsement of Fetty Wap for Senate or an explanation of why Bernie Sanders is the Kirstaps Porzingis of this year’s election.

There is a time for such humor, but that time is not now. The statements made by a certain toupeéd Oompa-Loompa currently running for president this past week cannot be explored with humor. Indeed, these statements inspire nothing more than absolute disgust, and they merit nothing more than immediate and forceful condemnation. There is nothing humorous or lighthearted about Mr. Oompa-Loompa’s very real suggestion that we create a national database to monitor all Muslims, and even perhaps issue special ID cards indicating whether or not the bearer is Muslim.

Mr. Trump, you are a degenerate human who has absolutely no business running for our nation’s highest office. Every continued second you spend in the presidential race is sickening. This should have been apparent the moment you launched your campaign and immediately unleashed an unprovoked, racially charged and totally unsubstantiated attack on Mexicans and immigrants in general. Instead of the public seeing you for who you truly are, your vile rhetoric only served to rocket you to the top of the polls. When you labeled Sen. John McCain, who spent years suffering in a North Vietnamese prison, a “loser” because he “got caught,” I thought that America would catch on. But no, the trust fund-baby who weaseled his way out of any military service and who went so far as to compare his time at an elite boarding school to the conditions faced by our soldiers overseas, has seen his rhetoric send him to the top of the polls. This is a disturbing trend, and if it is to be believed, Mr. Trump’s recent comments on Muslims (as well as his recent assertion that his supporters and security were justified in “roughing up” a Black Lives Matter protester), which share an uncanny similarity to the rhetoric used by certain black leather-obsessed Austrian megalomaniacs in 1930s Germany, will cause his support to elevate to 80 percent in the polls. To this I say, wake the fuck up, America. Open your fucking eyes and observe the true nature of the buffoon in front of you.

Yes, I did just compare Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler. I don’t say this because I don’t like the man’s policies or because I think that he’d be a terrible president. I say this because Donald Trump is legitimately sounding like Adolf Hitler, and that is terrifying. It is terrifying to me as a Jew, and it should be terrifying to my 300 million compatriots as freedom-loving, red-blooded Americans. Mr. Trump’s endorsement of a database and of identifying cards or even clothing for Muslims in America is not an American idea. It is not an idea born of the values that our country was founded on.

It is a reactionary, misguided, and Orwellian proposal based on fear and hate.

Moreover, it would be just the first step in the process to relegate Muslims to secondclass citizenship.

That is how tragedies begin. We look back at the horror of the Nazi regime and ponder why the people of Germany were so willing to follow such a vile ideology. (I am aware of elements such as the White Rose and the partisans in Eastern Europe, but such resistance was generally token and ineffectual, and it was not representative of the German populace as a whole.) Will we look back on history and ponder how Donald J. Hairpiece ascended to the White House on the back of a national Muslim registry?

In Germany they said, “No, never in Germany.” In America, we say “No, never in America.” They were wrong. Will we be wrong as well?

We cannot stand idly by while a fear-mongering psychopath perverts our nation and our identity. Neither can we nervously giggle from afar as we have been so wont to do throughout the duration of the Trump campaign. The Donald is serious, and we should be as well. It may be easier to ignore him, to regard him as the crazy uncle we will all see this Thursday, the one who, after you give him enough beer, stops his ranting and passes out on the couch (invariably lying on top of the remote control), but ignoring Trump is not the right path. The right path is one of action. Donald Trump is a dangerous man with dangerous ideas who must be stopped. I urge each and every one of you write, call and email his campaign expressing your feelings towards his fascist policies. Tell him that in America we do not follow the example of Adolf Hitler.

Tell him that in America we support our fellow Americans regardless of their skin color or the god they pray to. Tell him that in America we support our constitutional rights to life and religious exercise. Tell him that he is not making America great again, but rather perverting what America means.

Is all this really going to happen? Will Mr. Trump swap out his disastrous hairpiece for a disastrous moustache a la Führer? Probably not. I hope that we are a sane enough nation to prevent such a catastrophe. But that does not mean we do not have a responsibility to speak out. It is times like these when I believe we must turn to the past for guidance, and take heed the words of Martin Niemöller, which are inscribed on the walls of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. “First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Socialist.

Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Trade Unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out — Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me — and there was no one left to speak for me.”

Jacob Rubashkin is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jrubashkin@cornellsun.com. The Jacobin appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ecent attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad and the downing of Metrojet Flight 9268 over the Sinai Peninsula have, in typically horrifying fashion, proven that ISIS has metastasised beyond its "J.V. team" origins.

International outrage erupted, triggered by the attacks’ sophistication and the heightened threat they represent. Wary rivals like the United States and Russia should use their hardened resolve to seek deeper cooperation and assemble a coordinated front against the group. While impressive in the short term, these attacks may well have set the bell tolling for ISIS. The United States and Russia, the strongest powers involved in the Middle Eastern quagmire, are the international lynchpins of two loosely opposing groups whose members are also, at least nominally, fighting ISIS. Washington is allied with Turkey and the Sunni Gulf states while Moscow supports the Shia governments of Iran and Bashar al-

forces deployed. Saudi Arabia’s intervention in Yemen has demonstrated how little regard the Saudi government has for following the rules of war. For all their faults, Western militaries do have a better record of following laws like the Geneva Convention and the Convention on Cluster Munitions. They should make adherence to these conventions a strict precondition for military support.

Besides preventing excessive civilian deaths, a watchful eye overseeing the myriad of different troops — Arabs, Kurds, Turks, Iranians — will help limit inter-state and inter-ethnic power struggles which are liable to boil over into sectarian violence if left unchecked. Outside powers must attempt to safeguard both civilians’ lives and the fragile partnerships between regional rivals.

This task will be especially difficult with regard to Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Any unbalanced gains by Tehran will feed Riyadh’s perception of impending Persian dominance in the

Managing the political and geographical space left behind after the removal of ISIS will be difficult but ensuring multilateral cooperation during and after the military phase will provide a foundation for a continued peace.

Assad’s beleaguered Syrian regime.

Neither side can triumph in this wider regional power struggle that forms the backdrop for ISIS growth (although they are certainly not monolithic in their aims) without the support of their great power patron. This should afford both the United States and Russia strong influence over their allies in bringing their strength to bear against ISIS. Geographically, the United States and Russia are also well situated to coordinate their coalitions’ anti-ISIS efforts.

Russia is heavily involved in backing Assad in western Syria while the United States has a military presence in Iraq and infrastructure throughout the Persian Gulf. ISIS sits in a vice between the United States and Russia with the two powers on the brink of turning the screw.

Inviting as such a scenario may be, powers outside the region should resist deploying ground forces to fight ISIS. Large contingents of Western or Russian troops in Iraq and Syria will fuel ISIS’ return of the crusaders narrative and strengthen their recruiting power among prospective fighters. Such ammunition gifted to the group’s propaganda-savvy media minds would outweigh the benefits of large Western or Russian troop contingents and would place a far higher price on peace.

Any ground effort to dislodge ISIS must comprise primarily Middle Eastern military forces. Foreign opposition to ISIS will be answered with epithets against imperialism but relying on regional ground troops will undercut the group’s vitriol. Instead of going in guns blazing, Western and Russian militaries should support their partners with matériel, intelligence and expertise.

In addition, world powers should focus on providing humanitarian assistance to those who will inevitably be displaced by the bloody conflict to come. This should start on our own shores by taking in refugees, but should also extend to supporting areas liberated from ISIS control.

Food and medical supplies should feature prominently on cargo plane pallets; their provision will further take the wind out of ISIS’ propaganda sails.

All this engagement should be coupled with strong oversight of the regional

Middle East. Iran, however, faces a greater threat from ISIS and, despite Saudi outcries, still plays a weaker geopolitical hand — as evidenced by the numbers of troops its military has thrown into the Iraqi-Syrian meat grinder. Iran’s weaker position as the sole functioning Shia state in the region will afford opportunities to extract concessions and allay Saudi fears. Striking the balance will be difficult given the political realities of the region, but increased pressure from the international community to cooperate will help bring both governments to the table.

Managing the political and geographical space left behind after the removal of ISIS will be difficult but ensuring multilateral cooperation during and after the military phase will provide a foundation for a continued peace. The primary task is preventing the creation of a Mesopotamian power vacuum while delivering an equitable settlement to all state actors involved (unfortunately, Kurdish hopes for statehood are most likely unattainable as countries struggle to maintain security).

This can only be accomplished through an internationally-backed political settlement in Syria, and, to a lesser extent, Iraq. Much to the dismay of American neoconservatives and Saudi clerics alike, any agreement that has a chance of maintaining peace must include Moscow and Tehran. Securing important players — those with the capacity to seriously undermine stability — as stakeholders presents an alternative to a zero-sum regional game and the only path to solving the Middle East’s many other problems.

Given its location and its resources, the Middle East has been a continuous battleground between competing regional and international powers, none of whom have succeeded in delivering peace. It is telling that it took the deaths of Westerners and Russians to stimulate any semblance of cooperation, but surely it’s time to try something new.

Alex Davies is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at ajd253@cornell.edu.

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Guster at the State Theatre

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We were welcomed at the door to the State Theatre by a rep from Reverb, “a non profit organization dedicated to greening musicians’ tours and engaging their fans to take action to protect the planet.”

The group was created

by Guster’s Adam Gardner in 2004 to engage musicians and their fans in environmental work. This set the tone for the night: At this stage in their career, Guster seem dedicated not just to turning out albums, but also to changing the industry and mentoring new musicians.

On this tour, they have committed to having young, local bands open in each city, a project they’ve described as a “home run” so far. It certainly was with Saturday’s opening act out of SUNY Purchase. Darryl Rahn and the Lost Souls brought to the State Trampled

by Turtles-inflected folk, with lovely harmonies from their female vocalist and a skilled upright bassist adding a layer of depth. Their charming gratitude for the opportunity to play won the crowd over; still, as tends to happen at the State Theatre, people stayed in their seats even as Guster strolled out onto the crochet-covered stage. The psychedelic crochet work — which covered everything from Adam Gardner’s guitar to the microphone stands and the piano — made for a cheery, quirky backdrop to the relatively laid-back night of music. A lone fan stood at the front, happily swaying as they opened with the sweet, mellow tune “Diane” off of 2003’s Keep It Together.

Frontman Ryan Miller goodnaturedly called out the rest of the audience, encouraging them to follow the “courageous lead” of Martha in dancing and having fun at the front. With this, the crowd streamed forward, lending energy for renditions of much-loved classics like “Satellite” and “Barrel of a Gun.” After some overzealous light work by one of the light-techs named “Wookie,” Ryan Miller launched into a story about Wookie’s tendency towards the inappropriate when crossing the U.S.-Canada border. With a smirk, Adam started playing a brooding background melody, on which Luke and Ryan quickly picked up to form a True Detective-style accompaniment to the story, raising it to new heights of absurdity and leading it along into a second story about a border crossing disrupted by the oldest, tiniest roach at the bottom of a weekend bag.

This sort of goofy, off-the-cuff material is what has brought Guster such a devoted fan following. And indeed, the way in which the band’s fans have grown with it was reflected by the crowd — plenty of couples in their 30s and 40s, with a smattering of college students

and younger folks. I’ve been a Guster fan for a while (in my freshmen year of highschool I made a “Guster is Good for You” T-shirt before driving two hours for a show), and, watching the crowd sing along word

Recognizing this dynamic, they interspersed the dreamy, synthy songs off of their new record Evermotion with classic songs from Goldfly, Keep it Together, Ganging up on the Sun and Lost and Gone Forever.

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for word to songs off of old albums and new, I was pleased to recognize that this sort of familiarity was the norm.

Although their energy and enjoyment were more palpable while they were playing their new stuff, the mesmerizing,

electrifying drumming of Ryan Rosenworcel that featured prominently on so many of their older songs made each and every track come alive. Understandably famous for his bare handed, rapid-fire use of bongos, cymbals and seemingly whatever other flat surface got in his way, Rosenworcel’s energy and enthusiasm left me, after old numbers like “Demons” and “Happier,” with a ridiculously huge grin on my face. The nostalgia of listening to these songs for so many years was washing over me in a wave of familiarity — the stress and drama of the week that had built up fell away as the familiar harmonies of Guster’s melodies urged us all to “hang on.”

Another show highlight came as Guster welcomed to the stage a trio of young brass musicians who brought a big-band grandiosity to classics like “Fa Fa.” Their saxophone, slide trombone and trumpet had the crowd whooping and clapping.

Guster’s support and encouragement of younger musicians — from the high school and college bands that have opened for them on their tour, to the impromptu inclusion of this grinning band — spoke to Guster’s sincere desire to give back and to inspire others.

Others who perhaps remind them of the “20 year old dudes” they once were at Tufts, opening for national acts and trying to build a name and following.

This was my fourth time seeing Guster since high school, and the giddy, surreal fangirl sense that I got at their shows at age 16 has faded into a more comfortable, laid back appreciation for the beauty of a concert created in exchange with the energy and enthusiasm of the fan community. And that, as Ryan Miller said last week, is the magic of live music.

Allison Considine is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at adc85@cornell.edu.

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as Cornell came in ranked eighth in the nation in goals scored and Brown came in ranked 20th. Yet, the relatively solid play of both defenses and the excellent play of Gillam kept the game at 1-0 going into the third period.

Sophomore forward Alex Rauter drew a penalty for the Red late in the second period, which carried over for the start of the third period. Nonetheless, Cornell was unable to score on the power play and Brown created a short-handed attempt on goal that was pushed away by Gillam.

Brown went on the power play twice in the third period, but various blocks from the Cornell defense were pivotal.

Brown’s inability to score on the power play was the deciding factor in tonight’s game.

With a minute left, freshman forward Tommy Marchin had another great opportunity to tie the game for Brown. He backhanded the shot into the pad of Gillam, who was just too good for the Red tonight.

“Over the last four games [Gillam] has been outstanding,” Schafer said. “He’s been seeing and reading the puck very well and that’s what happens when goalies get confidence.”

If Gillam can continue his hot stretch of play, Cornell, already an explosive offensive team, will present challenges for every team on the schedule this season.

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun.com.

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face No. 7 University of Nebraska and No. 15 Rutgers University.

Koll emphasized that good health will be the most important factor leading to a successful weekend against these two top teams.

“Some wrestled six matches and the likelihood of being banged up is pretty high,” Koll said. “It’s like playing a couple of football games back to back … so right now we’re gonna take a day off and make sure we’re healthy for Sunday.”

All of the matches the Red plays around this time of the season are really just preparation for Ivy League competition.

“Right now it’s all practice, but we still want to win, so [we are] refining our techniques and staying mentally prepared as a team,” Realbuto said. “Going down and competing in front of the crowd at madison square garden will be exciting and I think it’s just important that we focus on getting better when we’re competing.”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun.com.

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working really hard in practice,” said head coach Patrick Gallagher. “Outside of the wins, it was nice to see Micaela Luders come back in the 500-yard freestyle and Helen Hsu’s 100-yard backstroke is now the 6th fastest time in school history.”

The final scores for the women’s team in the meet were 213-87 against Princeton and 200-100 against Penn.

This result does not bode well for the Red, who has high hopes for an impressive showing when it comes to Ivy League championships in the spring.

“We have to clean things up in our races,” Gallagher said. “This is a grinding time of season and some of the races looked like that. We need to clean up turns, starts and race a little smarter in some races. We have to continue to stay healthy and consistently work towards Ivy championships.”

On the men’s side of the trimeet, the Red did not fare

much better, posting a final result of 234-64 in the loss to Princeton and 217-83 when defeated by Penn. The main highlights of the meet for the men’s swimming team were senior captain Victor Luo’s second place finish in the 100 breast and third place finish in the 200 breast. The Red also got some of their most impressive finishes of the season from their men, but they were not enough to earn the Red some wins to bring the margin of the two meets closer.

“We had numerous seasonbest times, which means our guys are continuously getting stronger as the season progresses,” said men’s head coach Wes Newman. “Moving forward, we still have more conditioning to do, and will work towards fine tuning details to make our races sharper in the future.”

The Red now has over a month before their next Ivy League matchup, when they open up 2016 in Puerto Rico against Yale University. Both the men’s and women’s Swim and Dive teams will have their next competition at the

Bomber Invitational at Ithaca College on Dec. 4, and over the next few months the teams hope to make some great improvements.

“I thought our team had a few solid performances this past weekend, and we also learned about a few areas where we need to improve,” Newman said.

All of the Ivy League matchups during the season help give the Red an idea of where they will stack up when it comes to Ivy League Championships in February, where Cornell hopes to make an impact and improve upon their sixth place finish by the men’s team and seventh place finish by the women’s team last year. For now, Gallagher said he wants his team to focus on improving before the team’s biggest contest.

“We have a lot of work to do, but a long stretch before Ivy Champs,” Gallagher said.

“We have to keep focusing on getting better and becoming a stronger team.”

Jeff Asiedu can be reached at jasiedu@cornellsun.com.

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Gillam RecordsTwo Shutouts for Men’s Icers

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Twelve minutes into the third period, Brown went on the power play for the fourth time against No. 16 Cornell men’s hockey team. With a one-goal lead, the Red leaned on their defense and goaltending to stifle the Brown power play.

As a Brown (1-4-2, 1-3-2 ECAC) forward found some space with a lane to shoot, junior defenseman Patrick McCarron sprawled out to stop the Brown shot and made a crucial clear to help kill the penalty. It was a gritty play that embodied the toughness and willingness to sacrifice that Cornell (6-1-1, 4-1-1 ECAC) hockey prides itself on.

“It was an outstanding effort by our guys blocking shots,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

The Red held on to beat Brown 1-0. It was the third shutout of the year for junior goalie Mitch Gillam, who came into tonight’s matchup with a 1.82 goals against average. Gillam was sensational tonight, finishing with 27 saves.

“Mitch Gillam was the star of the show,” Schafer said.

It wasn’t an easy win for the Red. Cornell’s tendency to commit errors early on continued tonight, with Brown getting an early power play. Senior defenseman and team captain Reece Willcox made several solid plays on the penalty kill. Willcox has been one of the most reliable players for the Red this season, with one goal and five assists and terrific defensive play.

Brown had Cornell on its heels for most of the first period, outshooting Cornell 10-3. Gillam made a series of outstanding saves to keep the game knotted at 0-0. “[Brown] played a really solid hockey game,” Schafer said. “But we didn’t play with the same kind of urgency, enthusiasm and energy that we did last night.”

In last night’s matchup with Yale (4-1-2, 2-1-2 ECAC), Cornell played a fast, back and forth game that ultimately

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Brick wall | Junior goalie Mitch Gillam recorded his third shutout of the season this weekend after blanking both Yale and Brown in the men’s hockey team’s games this past weekend.

ended in a scoreless tie after both teams failed to score in overtime. The Red came out a little sluggish after the intense matchup on Friday night.

Injuries have also piled up for the Red this season. All things considered, Schafer was pleased to escape out of Brown with the victory.

“With all of the guys we have hurt and out of the lineup, it says a lot about our hockey team to be able to score one

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goal on the weekend and get three points,” Schafer said.

Midway through the second period, sophomore forward Trevor Yates dashed in front of the net and scored the decisive goal for the Red. Junior forwards Jake Weidner and Matt Buckles assisted on the goal.

“The goal came from a turnover that Jake Weidner got on See M. HOCKEY page 7

SWIMMING

Red Wrestling Kicks Off Season Swimmers Drop

By Claiming New York State Title Ivy League Meets

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Fast start | Junior wrestler Brian Realbuto and the Cornell wrestling team beat Drexel and claimed a fourth-straight New York State title this weekend.

By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer

Wrestling is another seemingly individual sport that actually depends largely on the entire team’s success as a whole. The Cornell wrestling program knows this and is attempting to establish one group of close-knit teammates all working toward the common goal of a national title.

“This year our team motto is all in,” junior Brian Realbuto said. “I think that just kind of exemplifies the way that we’ve started to shift

our team culture and we’ve started to include the younger guys into that drive and that motivation for the entire season.”

The No. 8 Red kicked off the season nicely this past weekend, defeating Drexel, 37-3, on Saturday and then taking a fourth straight New York State title on Sunday.

“I thought we looked like we were in very good shape and Ithought we looked strong,” head coach Rob Koll said. “That’s a testament to the team working hard and having a great training pro-

gram.”

The Red took home five individual titles at States and nine matches in its defeat of Drexel on Saturday. Despite this success, the team knows that it will need to improve a lot more to achieve a national title.

“We’re definitely not at a spot where we’ve peaked yet,” Realbuto said. “We still have a lot [of room] to grow from here, which I think shows a lot about our team.”

Realbuto won an individual title on Sunday and also won his match on Saturday against Nick Elmer.

Three of the four freshmen that competed against Drexel won their individual matches, indicating that the new wrestlers have had a nice transition into collegiate wrestling.

However, Koll emphasized that their success this weekend isn’t surprising given their successful high school resumes.

“These freshmen are just like anybody else on the team,” Koll said. “Some of these guys, even though they’re freshmen, have had probably more years under their belt than upperclassmen [and] we look at them with the same expectations as anybody.”

Both matches this weekend were on the Red’s home turf, See WRESTLING page 8

By JEFF ASIEDU Sun Staff Writer

Cornell’s men’s and women’s swim and dive teams went to Princeton, New Jersey for their last Ivy League competitions of the year, a tri-meet against Princeton and Penn. Both Cornell teams dropped both meets against the Red’s rivals, leaving Cornell’s swimming teams with ample time to reflect and improve before their next Ivy League meets in 2016.

The women’s swimming team had some memorable performances, many involving

senior captain Jenna Immormino who won first place in both the 50 and 100 free races and earned second and third place as part of the Red’s 400 free and 200 medley relays, respectively.

“Jenna Immormino won two individual events vs Pennsylvania and Princeton.

She continues to improve while working really hard in practice,” said head coach Patrick Gallagher. “Outside of the wins, it was nice to see Micaela Luders come back in See SWIMMING page 7

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A disappointing weekend | Both the men’s and women’s swimming team dropped meets against Princeton and Penn.