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Grad Claims AntiMuslim, Male Bias

By DREW MUSTO Sun Senior Editor

A male graduate is suing Cornell University in federal court, claiming that he was treated unfairly and unlawfully during a University Title IX investigation. It is the third lawsuit of its nature in seven months, and the second time in the same period that a student or former student has claimed the University’s behavior gave him suicidal thoughts.

“[The investigator] was determined to find Doe responsible for sexual violence.”

John Doe ’17 in a lawsuit The newest complaint, filed on Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York, accuses Cornell’s Title IX coordinator, Sarah Affel, of discriminating against a former student, “John Doe,” based on his sex, religion and ethnicity.

The man, who is Muslim and a citizen of a South Asian country, was accused of and found to have committed sexual assault, according the complaint. The male stu-

dent denies that he committed sexual assault.

Cornell spokesperson Lindsey Hadlock said Cornell cannot comment on active litigation.

The investigation and the oneyear suspension handed to Doe gave him severe mental health problems, he says in the suit — problems that resulted in his contemplating suicide and his being admitted to a psychiatric ward “for several days,” he says.

Doe also alleges that the investigation was unfair and that Cornell and Affel failed to consider the results of a polygraph test he voluntarily took and reportedly passed.

Doe graduated from Cornell in May 2017, but only after serving his suspension, which remains marked on his transcript, he says.

The graduate’s encounter with his accuser, “Jane Roe,” was on the final Friday of the fall semester of 2014, the complaint says.

Doe and Roe were at the same party, both drinking, Doe says in court, adding that most witnesses who saw Roe that night said she was severely intoxicated.

Several witnesses said that Roe’s R.A. — who incidentally was also consuming alcohol at the same party — had to carry Roe See LAWSUIT page 4

COURTESY OF EMMA DENNIS; INSET COURTESY OF ITHACA POLICE

Engulfed | Joshua Reeves, of Dryden (inset), was found dead in his jail cell on Friday morning, less than two days after Ithaca Police accused him of setting fire to a three-story duplex on South Hill.

Accused Arsonist Dies in Jail Cell

Ithaca Police say he lit South Hill duplex on fire last week

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun Managing Editor

The man arrested this week and accused of starting a house fire died in his Tompkins County Jail cell on Friday morning in a reported suicide.

Joshua Reeves, of Dryden, who was arrested early Wednesday morning for arson in connection with the house fire at 120 Hudson St., died at 10:58 a.m. on Friday, the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department said in a release.

The Ithaca Voice, citing a person familiar with the situation, reported that Reeves had hung himself in his cell.

The sheriff ’s office said in a media release that the “death does not appear to be suspicious in nature and there is no indication of foul play” and that “a determination into the cause of death is still under investigation.”

Emergency responders arrived at the threestory duplex on South Hill around 1:20 a.m.

Wednesday to find it “heavily involved with

Empire state of mind

fire,” Ithaca Fire Lt. Tom Basher said. The seven occupants of the building all escaped without injury and no other nearby houses were damaged.

Police arrested Reeves shortly after noon on Wednesday and charged him with arson in the second degree, Ithaca Police said in a release.

Two days after police accused the man of setting a three-story duplex on fire, the Dryden man was found dead in jail.

Reeves was arraigned in Ithaca City Court and was remanded to the Tompkins County Jail in lieu of $10,000 cash or $20,000 bond.

Reeves may have believed that one of the occupants of the house was having a relationship See ARSON page 4

Ithaca Rep Who Shipped Acid Rain to Reagan Dies

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM

progressive neurological condition.

Hinchey, a Democrat, served Staunch environmental 10 terms as a U.S. congressman, activist and former congressman representing Ithaca and surMaurice Hinchey, who represent- rounding areas when the city was ed Ithaca for 20 years part of District 26, and once shipped from 1993 to 2003, President Ronald and when it was in Reagan a gallon of acid District 22, from 2003 rain and a tree, died until his retirement in Wednesday night at 2013. his Saugerties home.

Prior to his terms in He was 79.

Congress, Hinchey Hinchey’s family represented Ulster announced his death County for 18 years in REP. HINCHEY in a Facebook post, the New York State saying “he was a Assembly. Hinchey beloved statesman, and cherished was Ulster County’s first for his work in the community Democratic representative since and nationwide.” The family pre- 1912 when he began serving in viously said Hinchey had frontotemporal degeneration, a rare See HINCHEY page 4

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Men’s hockey senior forward Trevor Yates (left) and classmate Alex Rauter (right) celebrate winning the Kelley-Harkness Cup over Boston University, 4-3, at Madison Square Garden Saturday night.

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City May Raise Parking Garage Fees, Add Stop Sign

Board will vote on proposals at today’s meeting

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

The City of Ithaca this week will consider increasing weekly and monthly garage parking rates and adding stop signs to an intersection between the Fall Creek neighborhood and downtown.

Frank Nagy, the director of parking, will propose new parking rates — which do not include any increase for hourly parking — at the Board of Public Works meeting on Monday evening.

If the rate hikes are approved by the Board of Public Works, monthly rates for the Seneca and Green Street garages would increase from $96 to $105 for full access, a 9.375 percent increase that would go into effect on Jan. 1.

“It’s really hard to turn out of [Cascadilla Avenue] because people are speeding by and it’s hard to see around the bridge.”

Rain Talosig Under Nagy’s proposal, the city would also stop offering special deals, such as a “worker’s special” Monday through Friday pass for $78 each month, an overnight deal and a part-time deal for the two garages.

At the Cayuga Street Garage, the allaccess monthly price would increase 3 percent from $69 to $71, and the worker’s special pass would continue to be offered for $58, a $2 increase.

The Dryden Road garage would see the largest monthly increase, from $164 for a full access pass to $200 — an increase of 22 percent — beginning on

July 1. The price for special deals at the Dryden Road location would all increase 20 percent.

Weekly rates at the Seneca and Green Street garages would increase from $30 to $32.81, and, at the Dryden Road Garage, from $51 to $61.20.

Hourly rates remain unchanged for all garages, lots and street parking in Collegetown, downtown and elsewhere.

The only change to hourly parking would be that drivers could, beginning on Jan. 1, park their cars for 12 hours at the Seneca, Green Street and Cayuga Street garages instead of just seven under the current rules.

Also on Monday, the Board of Public Works will consider making the intersection of Cayuga and Cascadilla streets an all-way stop. The intersection currently just has two stop signs on Cascadilla Street and Cascadilla Avenue, which run roughly east-west across Cayuga Street.

While the corner is not among the intersections with the highest frequency of reported accidents, cars pulling out of Cascadilla Street or Cascadilla Avenue have little visibility because of the bridge over Cascadilla Creek.

Ithaca College student Rain Talosig lives on Cascadilla Avenue and is a barista at Gimme Coffee on the corner of Cascadilla and Cayuga streets. She said she would appreciate an all-way stop at the intersection.

“It’s really hard to turn out of [Cascadilla Avenue] because people are speeding by and it’s hard to see around the bridge,” she said. “I think it’s a dangerous area and I’m excited for it to be safer when I come to work.”

Another barista, Dave Torrey, said people are “laying on their horns” at the intersection on a near-daily basis because

KATIE SIMS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Speed stopping | Due to poor visibility from Cascadilla Street, the Board of Public Works will consider making the Cayuga and Cascadilla street intersection an all-way stop.

of the difficulty turning onto Cayuga Street.

The intersection vote was initially set to be determined at the previous Board of Public Works meeting in November, but there were not enough members of the board for a quorum, so the issue was not discussed.

The Board of Public Works is expected to vote on the parking rates and the

all-way stop during its Monday meeting, which begins at 4:45 p.m. on the third floor of City Hall.

Mollie Cramer ’19 contributed reporting to this article.

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun.com.

Land Aside Inlet Purchased for $4.2 Million

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

A construction company based in Elmira purchased an 8-acre plot of land next to The Haunt for $4.2 million, records show, although it is not clear what is planned for the location bordering the Cayuga Inlet.

The contracting and construction company, Edger

Enterprises, Inc., purchased the property through a limited liability corporation called City Harbor, which was formed in September, state records show.

The property, at 101 Pier Rd., borders where Cascadilla Creek meets the Cayuga Inlet, and was most recently assessed at $2.378 million, according to Tompkins County records.

The property was formerly the site of Johnson’s Boatyard,

The Ithaca Voice reported, noting that, generally, properties purchased at a price high above assessment often means development plans are in the works.

Edger Enterprises served as the general contractor for the Elmira Savings Bank at 602 West State St. and the Texas Roadhouse Restaurant on South Meadow St., The Voice reported.

The purchased property sits across the creek from the

Ithaca Farmers Market.

In 2012, John Snyder Architects proposed building 203,000 square feet of housing in the area with 183 units, which was approved by the Planning Board. The Voice reports that the project failed to move forward because of financial difficulties.

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Grad Claims Title IX Investigator Discriminated Against Him LAWSUIT

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back to her West Campus dorm room, the suit says.

Another witness inside the dorm said Roe was being physically dragged back to her room, and other witnesses added that Roe was vomiting and slurring speech.

Only the R.A.’s account suggests that Roe’s level of intoxication was mild, according to the complaint. The R.A. took Roe back to her room and stayed with her for about an hour and a half to make sure she would be okay, the complaint states.

Doe, a trained EMT, later entered the room and offered to relieve the R.A. of her duties and to watch over Roe himself, the complaint says. The R.A. accepted his offer, Doe says in the suit.

This is where stories diverge. Doe says nothing significant happened beyond this point: He slept on Doe’s floor until about 6 a.m. and then left. But Roe says she awoke to find Doe in her bed and that he then kissed her, touched her and forced her to perform oral sex.

Roe reported a sexual assault to the Cornell Police Department about four and a half months after the December 2014 night, the complaint says, and during those months, Doe says he and Roe had a normal friendship and that Roe called him an “awesome friend” at one point.

Doe claims the allegations made by a “close friend” took him by surprise.

The police investigation into Roe’s report lasted only a few days.

After Doe denied the allegations both in a two-hour interrogation and in a “controlled phone call” — a recorded phone call between Roe and Doe in which Roe tried to get Doe to incriminate himself, the complaint says — and after Doe agreed to take a polygraph test, which he passed, CUPD closed its investigation and Doe was not charged with a crime.

The University’s Title IX Office, at that time still under the Office of the Judicial Administrator, then conducted its own investigation and found Doe responsible for sexually assaulting Roe. Doe says Cornell and its investigator, Affel, conducted a biased, arbitrary, capricious, unfair and harmful investigation.

Doe says Affel declined to consider the results of what Doe says was an exculpatory polygraph test because the tests are “generally not admissible in court,” the suit says.

Doe says in the suit that this was an arbitrary and capricious decision, because Affel relied in part on hearsay to come to her finding that he was responsible.

He said Affel arbitrarily ignored evidence, pointing out that it was Cornell Police who urged him to take the polygraph test in the first place.

Affel also declined to provide the results of the test to Doe, he says, during or after the investigation.

Unable to secure the results from Affel, Doe asked the Cortland Police Department, which administered the test, for them, but Doe says Affel dissuaded the police from turning over the results, telling the department that the results were part of an ongoing investigation at Cornell.

Doe was later able to secure his results from the Cortland police, he says.

Doe further accuses Affel of relying on anti-male, antiMuslim and anti-South Asian stereotypes to find him responsible.

Affel wrote in her report that Doe’s behavior — specifically calling Roe a “sweetheart” and joking that she was his child — was “unusually paternal to the point of being patronizing or demeaning,” according to the complaint.

Doe claims that Affel treated female witnesses differently, saying the female R.A. said Roe “is cute” and “like a little sister” to her, comments Doe says were not flagged by Affel.

Doe also claims that Affel sought more aggressively to discredit Doe and another male witness while applying less scrutiny to Roe and female witnesses, despite what Doe says is their admittedly higher levels of intoxication on the night in question.

Affel dismissed the potential impact of intoxication on witness memory in this case, saying “the investigation did not give rise to concern that the witnesses or parties were so intoxicated that they could not remember the events of the evening,” the complaint says.

But, the suit claims, Affel called Doe’s credibility into question because “astronomical data” contradicted his estimate that the sun was up at 6 a.m. when he says he left Roe’s room. In fact, Affel found, on that day “civil twilight began at 6:49 a.m. and sunrise began at 7:21 a.m.”

Doe said: “Common sense … dictates that a person who

is so intoxicated that she cannot walk on her own, so intoxicated that she is vomiting, and so intoxicated that she is incoherent and apparently unaware of her surroundings, and so intoxicated that she passes out, is not likely to give a reliable account of events that transpired while she was so heavily under the influence of alcohol.”

Doe also claimed Affel failed to consider the influence of alcohol on another female witness who Doe claims said she had consumed at least 10 alcoholic drinks.

“The only possible explanation for Affel’s willful blindness to the acute influence alcohol had on certain witnesses’ recollections of events is that she was determined to find Doe responsible for sexual violence,” Doe says, adding that Affel had an anti-male bias.

Doe also says Affel employed anti-Muslim bias when one of the witnesses brought up Doe’s Muslim faith, at which point Affel began to question the witness about Doe’s level of respect for women, Doe claims in the suit.

Affel finished the investigative report in July 2015. This was when the Title IX investigator’s determinations and case facts were not reviewed or aired at a hearing, but rather by a panel that based its decision on the investigator’s report.

That review panel found in September 2015 that a preponderance of the evidence suggested Doe had committed sexual misconduct, and it recommended a two-year suspension with mandatory counseling and psychological care.

After an appeal, the suspension was reduced to one year.

Doe’s suspension is noted on his transcript, according to the complaint.

Doe is demanding a jury trial and is asking the University for damages.

His attorney, Andrew Miltenberg, is the same lawyer who represented Paul Nungesser in a suit against Columbia University.

Nungesser is the Columbia student who was accused of sexual assault by Emma Sulkowicz, who famously carried a mattress around campus her senior year at Columbia after the University found Nungesser not responsible.

Miltenberg is currently representing another anonymous Cornellian in a federal court case that is now in mediation.

Drew Musto can be reached at dmusto@cornellsun.com.

Accused Arsonist Dies in Cell Rep Who Mailed Tree to President Dies

Man’s death is reportedly a suicide ARSON

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with his girlfriend, The Voice reported, citing Ithaca City Court documents.

The man Reeves believed was having a relationship with his girlfriend told police that Reeves had been sending him threatening text messages, The Voice reported. Reeves was driven to the house by a teenager and his cousin.

The teenager told police that his dad asked him to drive Reeves to pick up a food stamp card. The teenager said that Reeves got out at Hudson Street and was gone for about 15 minutes, during which time they could not see what Reeves was doing, the court documents reportedly said.

After that time, the teenager

said that Reeves came running back to the car as the flames started and yelled at him to drive away.

When the teenager dropped Reeves off at his house on Dryden, the teenager said he immediately called an adult who told him to report the incident to police, The Voice reported.

University Resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can call Cornell Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-2555155), EARS peer counseling (607-255-3277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607255-2673), the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-2738255) or find additional resources at caringcommunity.cornell.edu.

Josh Girsky can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

HINCHEY

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1975.

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer, who served with Hinchey in the state assembly during the 1970s, praised Hinchey’s passion for environmental preservation. “‘Mighty Moe’ as I used to call him was a man of great conviction, principle, endless energy & rare legislative ability,” Schumer tweeted. “He cut a unique figure throughout the Hudson Valley & the Southern Tier & was passionately committed to the environment & to preserving that region’s priceless open & wild spaces. He will be sorely missed.”

Hinchey became chairman of the State Assembly’s Environmental Conservation Committee in 1979. Possibly his most prominent work was his investigation of the so-called Love Canal.

After reports of birth defects and high miscarriage rates in Niagara Falls, Hinchey launched an investigation into the unfinished waterway. His investigation found that there had been 22,000 tons of toxic waste dumped into the canal, and resulted in the evacuation of many families, The Washington Post reported. The investigation helped launch a superfund for waste cleanup in areas across the country.

Hinchey also took strong stances against fracking and in support of renewable energy.

He was one of three initial sponsors of legislation to regulate fracking, which was banned in New York in 2014.

ProPublica reported Hinchey and two other members of Congress, in a letter urging the interior secretary to pass fracking regulations in 2011, said “the public has a right to know what toxins might be going into the ground near their communities, and what might be leaking into their drinking water.”

Hinchey was also the primary sponsor of an acid rain prevention bill in New York — the first of its kind in the United States, The New York Times reported.

To bring attention to the issue, Hinchey sent a gallon of acid rain water and a spruce sapling to President Ronald Reagan in 1984.

“Mr. Reagan can water the sapling with New York rainwater and see for himself how its growth will be stunned over a period of time,” Hinchey said at a news conference that year, the Associated Press reported. “We can supply him with all the acid rain he needs for the experiment because New York is one of the most seriously affected states in the nation.

“We want Mr. Reagan to understand it’s not trees which pollute the atmosphere,” Hinchey continued. “Mr. Reagan doesn’t understand environmental pollution.”

Another investigation Hinchey took on while he was an assemblyman was the control

organized crime had on the New York garbage business.

Hinchey released a 70-page case study in 1989 regarding an illegal landfill in Orange County.

Hinchey said at the time that New York’s penalties for illegal dumping were much less strict than surrounding cities, feeding into the problem of illegal waste sites.

“The maximum penalties tend to be about $1,000 whereas millions and millions of dollars have been made and continue to be made by people engaged in illegal dumping,” Hinchey said at the time, according to the Associated Press.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi said in 2013, when Hinchey retired, that “From his seat on the Appropriations Committee, Congressman Hinchey has always put his constituents and his state first – creating goodpaying jobs with investments in local highway projects, protecting family farms and a safe food supply, and acting to preserve our natural resources and national parks.”

While on the Appropriations Committee, Hinchey also helped support men and women in uniform, and “led the charge to transform upstate New York into a hub for hightech, clean energy manufacturing, solar energy research, and innovation,” Pelosi said.

Anu Subramaniam can be reached at asubramaniam@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Icers Show Mental Strength RESILIENCY

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Cornell came away with a victory, it took a four-goal third-period effort to do so.

“We came in with the wrong mindset in both of those games,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86.

“Against Clarkson we thought, ‘Man this is a big game,’ and against Niagara we thought, ‘Man we can’t lose this game.’

“It’s the exact opposite of what we’ve been talking about — [to] just focus on things we can control and just follow that process.”

So the question on the team’s mind following Niagara was how this young squad will respond to adversity in an environment like MSG and against a ranked team in Boston University that, before Saturday, Cornell had never beaten in the Red Hot Hockey series dating back to 2007.

For the first two periods in Manhattan, it seemed like Cornell had the mindset that Schafer was looking for and brought with it the momentum from the third period of the Niagara game. Cornell built itself a commanding 3-0 lead over BU heading into the final 20 minutes.

But the Terriers would not go down without a fight, storming back with a three-goal third period to cut Cornell’s seemingly comfortable lead to just a single goal and once again test the Red’s resiliency as a team — especially for freshman goaltender Matthew Galajda.

Like the rest of the team, Galajda had a rough two games heading into Saturday’s matchup in New York.

A player who had to step in perhaps before his time given the injury to senior Hayden Stewart, Galajda has been the backbone of the Red. During the Red’s sevengame winning streak, Galajda only let eight goals get past him and posted two shutouts. But in the two games to Clarkson and Niagara alone, Galajda gave up a combined eight goals.

And it looked like Galajda responded well, recording 28 straight saves until BU came in

with its first goal with just under 45 minutes played on Saturday.

BU then came back with two more, including a goal that any goalie would like to have back.

With less than five minutes left to play, it appeared that Galajda secured a shot to his left side, but Boston’s Patrick Harper was there to gather the rebound and sneak the puck into the Red net, cutting the once three-goal Red lead down to one.

But in the final minute, when Boston pulled its goalie and swarmed the Cornell defense with a 6-on-5 attack, it was Galajda who came back to make crucial saves for the team.

“Even in a situation like today when that third goal went in, he bounced right back and made a huge save, and that’s what he’s done,” Schafer said about his goalie. “He doesn’t let things bother him, and he shows good maturity for that.”

Galajda’s bounce-back mentality is one that extends to the rest of this team, as was showcased in Saturday’s performance. “[We] did a great job in this venue tonight with all the young guys we had,” Schafer said. “To just focus in on playing the game was a tremendous testament to their mental preparation coming in.”

While Cornell acknowledges that there are things it needs to focus and refocus on, especially after recent performances, this team has shown one thing: It has character. The team has 10 freshmen mixed in with a squad that has had to face a blowout, come from behind victories, and staving off of opposing comebacks.

And with all of this, the Red only has one tick in the loss column.

“Obviously we had some rough patches in the [past few] games, but overall we found the way to get the job done,” freshman forward Morgan Barron said. “I think that’s going to be characteristic of our team this year.”

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

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Sun’s Top 10 Songs of 2017 Bodak Yellow

Cardi B

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Passionfruit Drake

“Passionfruit” is possibly the most confusing track on More Life. If you’re not listening to the lyrics and hear it being played somewhere in public, it makes you feel great. But when listening to it alone, when the lyrics are inevitably isolated, it brings forth emotions that no party song should bring forth, the main one being sadness. Drake meant for “Passionfruit” to be about the constant strain that occurs in most long-distance relationships. He managed to take the frustrations encountered when it comes to trust and commitment in long-distance relationships and turned them into a fun, but emotional song.

— Viri Garcia

5

HUMBLE.

Kendrick Lamar

“HUMBLE.” serves as Kendrick Lamar's melting pot. Thematically, it is incredibly diverse — at times it discusses Lamar's origins as a simple kid from Compton with something to say, while at other moments it displays ideas of superiority and Lamar's hip-hop divinity. Further, Lamar's storytelling is backed by a booming Mike WiLL Made-It beat which allows the track to be bumped by everyone from students studying to athletes warming up before a game.

— Pete Buonanno

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Perhaps the most pervasive and noticeable facet of this song is the unapologetic delivery of Cardi B’s lyrics. The percussive nature of her articulation almost renders the background beat subservient to her artistic command. Supporting the lyrics is the repetition of a haunting melody which produces a sense of tension that despite being peripheral, is undeniably entrancing. Mesmerizing and captivating, Bodak Yellow is a beautifully hypnotic work.

-— Varun Biddanda

3

Overpass Kitty

Miami Garden Club shocked many listeners (myself included) when it dropped in late August. Kitty, a largely goofy Soundcloud rapper who had previously released tracks like “Give Me Scabies,” had created an album that was lush and introspective.

“Overpass” finds Kitty at her best on the album, half-whispering lines about ditching your phone at home and walking around in the rain. The song opens with gulls — enmeshing the listener in Kitty’s native Florida — and fades out with the wistful synths that tie the whole album together. It’s a song that’s both intensely personal and alienating, both delicate and raw.

— Shay Collins

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Lorde has made a comeback and is still exploring meaningful themes. She has shown that between Pure Heroine and Melodrama, she has matured as both an artist and an individual. “Green Light” delves into the theme of not only moving on after heartbreak, but learning to love oneself along the way. She knows “I’ll be seeing you down every road” but nevertheless wants to move on. Most of the time, breakup songs are about being stuck and not being able to move on because it’s painful. Lorde has gone past that and tells the world that to move on, one has to have the will to do so first.

— Viri Garcia

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Future

What happens when you mix mega-star producer Metro Boomin and Future? “Mask Off ” happens.

With arguably one of the most recognizable calling cards of any song in the last decade, a sampled flute and score from “Prison Song” by Tommy Butler, “Mask Off ” becomes an instant classic that will be played everywhere from the back alleys of Manhattan to the beaches of L.A. — Pete Buananno

Logic

In a press release discussing the track’s impact, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline writes that “The release of ‘1-800-273-8255’ was a watershed event for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline.”

For that reason alone, Logic’s poignant track deserves a spot on our Top 10. But the track, which features Alessia Cara and Khalid, is furthermore an intricate and powerful work of music. It’s difficult not to feel enraptured when Logic sings “I want you to be alive/You don’t gotta die” over a beat built on understated studio strings.

— Shay Collins

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Mask Off

1-800-273-8255

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Who Dat Boy

Tyler, the Creator

Tyler, the Creator’s first 2017 single, “Who Dat Boy,” opens with an absolutely audacious beat.

From then on, the OFWGKTA rapper unleashes a seemingly endless stream of reference and profanity. “Who Dat Boy” proves that Tyler, the Creator’s creative vector is still pointed up, and evidences further artistic growth since 2015’s Cherry Bomb.

— Shay Collins

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Land of the Free Joey Bada$$

Every lyric in “Land of the Free” rings electric with power and intent. Released the same day as Donald Trump’s inauguration, Bada$$’s lyrics tell of the ongoing stories of oppression and struggle faced by his community specifically in the context of the presidential election. The occasional trilling of an arcade-like arpeggio combine with the hopeful melody, evoking a faint glow of youthful optimism from within the broader framework of the song’s resentful criticism of an American reality.

— Varun Biddanda

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I’m The One

DJ Khaled ft. Justin Bieber, Quavo, Chance the Rapper, Lil Wayne

Only the man who claims to have almost shut down the iTunes servers through the sheer power of his own success would have the audacity to put out a track so glaringly normal: A basic trap beat, a mosaic of big-name features to carry the track, and lyrics describing, uh, success. Doesn’t matter; “I’m the One” is a total bop anyway.

Justin Bieber’s wavy hook is the cherry on top of this fun, totally dancy song of the summer.

— Pegah Moradi

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Does Coco Live Up to the Hype?

BY DAVID GOULDTHORPE Sun Staff Writer

It’s been a long year for animation.

While we’ve had a couple good hits here and there, there’s been a lack of quality in many titles.

So I really needed Coco.

The film opened in Mexico last month, unusual since American studios tend to release their films domestically first. Coco ended up becoming the highest grossing movie of all time in Mexico, and rave reviews heralded an upcoming splendor. Now that it’s actually hit theaters, I can confirm: Coco is a wonderful treat that gives us an affecting story that celebrates Día de los Muertos in a sincere and wonderful way.

Coco is directed by Lee Unkrich and Andrew Molina. The movie opens with some exposition by Miguel, played by Anthony Gonzalez. He talks about his family’s history, focusing on the moment they banned music. The family’s now been in the shoe business for generations, but Miguel wants to play music. His passion leads him to follow the footsteps of his idol Ernesto de la Cruz (Benjamin Bratt). On Día de los Muertos though, tensions flare between Miguel and his family, and he ends up getting himself lost in the Land of the Dead. He now has to

find a way back home before he becomes permanently dead, and find a way to follow his dream of being a musician.

The film brims with delightful characters, starting with our protagonist Miguel.

He’s a kid who wants more than his life has to offer — familiar for Disney, of course, but it’s executed very well. Coco walks a fine line with Miguel: he makes a few choices that are selfish from a mature perspective, but you can still understand his motivations. He never intends to harm anyone. As the way home becomes more complex, more people begin depending on him for his journey to succeed. Miguel has to navigate through thornier choices to try and balance their wants and needs with his own. Plus, he’s still a kid, and it’s reasonable for him to make some poor choices. It ends up making him feel more realistic, he learns from his mistakes, and we keep rooting for him.

In the Land of the Dead, Miguel meets a skeleton named Hector, voiced by Gael Garcia Bernal. Miguel first sees Hector attempting to rush past security to get to the Land of the Living, and he’s presented very much as a rapscallion character. As one might expect, he ends up bonding with Miguel. As the film digs more and more into his character though, we find a very complex man, harboring deep-root-

ed fears and concerns. By the end of the movie he is not at all the same character as in the beginning, and I love it. Hector is my favorite character in the movie and, the more I consider it, one of my favorite characters Pixar has created. He’s funny, he’s emotional, and Gael Garcia Bernal brings him to life in the best way.

The other characters are also all great.

Miguel ends up meeting his Mamá Imelda, voiced by Alanna Ubach. She was the great-great-grandmother who banned music. In death she remains the matriarch of the family, and offers to send Miguel home — on the condition he never play music again. Obviously he denies that condition, and she ends up pursuing him.

As the film unfolds though, she ends up becoming more complex as a character, and definitely goes through her own arc.

Ernesto de la Cruz also ends up being quite interesting. He’s still popular in the Land of the Dead, and lives the high life… or, well, their “high life” equivalent.

As Miguel’s musical idol, he ends up going along a familiar “fallen idol” trope.

An extra twist gets added, though, which heightens the drama and left me genuinely shocked.

So far I’ve mentioned a lot of the major players in Coco, but I’ve not touched upon the titular character herself. That would be Mamá Coco, Miguel’s great-

grandmother and daughter of Mamá Imelda. Her screen time may be limited, but Coco definitely deserves to be the title of the movie. She links everything together by the end, and had me shedding tears.

However, the story delivers not one, but several emotional moments that left me crying in the theater. The plot also takes a clever and meaningful twist, that will have me looking out for little details upon my second viewing.

Unfortunately, no movie is flawless, and for the sake of honesty I have to point out a couple of things I noticed. Near the beginning of the movie, Miguel explains how his great-great-grandfather turned his back on the family to become a musical star. Meanwhile, the musical star Ernesto de la Cruz came from the same town at about the same time. It seems an obvious connection, and while Miguel makes it early on, I was still surprised he hadn’t made it before. Second, near the end of the movie a character reveals they’ve been hiding something for years.

I’m being deliberately vague on details for the sake of spoilers, but after the fact I began to question how they managed to keep the item hidden for so long. Of course these are nitpicks, and I’m glad when a movie leaves me nitpicking for problems.

Honestly, there’s little else to say. It’s Pixar, so obviously the animation is incredible. Michael Giacchino gives a great score, especially for a movie all about music. The centerpiece of the soundtrack is “Remember Me”, by Kristen Anderson-Lopez and Robert Lopez. It’s a short and simple song, that takes on different meanings as the movie progresses. Coco’s a visual treat, nice to listen to… it’s a success all the way around.

Coco is exactly the movie I needed to see. It’s sweet, affecting, funny, somber, all at the right times and at the right beats.

All cast and crew should feel proud for such brilliant work, especially Adrian Molina. This is Molina’s first time directing, and only his second writing position.

It’s satisfying to see Pixar branching out beyond their initial brain trust. I look forward to seeing more excellent work in the future from Molina, and the studio as a whole.

David Gouldthorpe is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dgouldthorpe@cornellsun.com.

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Opinion of an old person To the Editor: I am an old alumnus. Class of 1955. Graduated in 1956.

Back then, when I walked around the Quad on Homecoming Day, I would see these old people. Doddering along.

Now I am one. Fortunately, not yet doddering.

In those days it took five years to get your BEE. In his address to the entering class, the electrical engineering Dean said, “Look around. Only a third of you will graduate as electrical engineers.” He was right. Tough school.

Being Jewish, I pledged a Jewish Fraternity as a freshman. Made sense. Then I got pneumonia and also was attacked by Physics 101. Never took Physics in high school.

Struggled big-time. Had little time for fraternity stuff. De-pledged. So for the first year and a half I was an independent.

My two best friends in the E.E. School were Lou Nosenzo and Carmen Palermo.

Members of Alpha Phi Delta, Mu chapter. An all-Italian fraternity. Went there a lot to study with them. 515 Stewart Avenue. (I was told the house burned down much later, but that’s irrelevant.) Was there so often that one of them said to me, “You’re here so often, why don’t you join?

Seemed logical, so I did. Never considered that everyone at Alpha Phi Delta was Italian and Catholic. Everyone. Nothing in common with my ethnic and religious upbringing.

Jewish and non-Italian. Just never thought about it. So I moved in. Roomed with Bobby Guasta and Armand Martini. Fifth year with Ed Galli in upper Collegetown.

Was told sometime later that that APD’s national chapter wasn’t happy about Mu chapter accepting a non-Italian, non-Catholic. Put Mu chapter on suspension — whatever that meant. As I look back, I like to think of myself as having challenged the establishment (albeit without realizing it).

Anyway, the point of all this ancient (and somewhat mundane) history is that in the three-and-one-half years that I was a member of APD, never once did I experience any sense of unease because everyone else had a different background that me.

Never. Never.

And when I graduated, Alpha Phi Delta had about a dozen non-Italian members. I guess that meets the definition of integration and acceptance. Remember, this was in 1952.

So why, fellow Cornellians, is so much anti-everything crap happening on campus today — in 2017?

What’s with all this anti-Semitism, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Asian, anti-LGBT, neo-nazi, Alt-right and Union of White Cornell Students bullshit? Do Cornellians who identify with this rubbish really believe that they’re superior in some profound way? That America really belongs to them? Or are they actually compensating for some mental, social, or moral deficiency? Or do they just have an inferiority complex?

But . . . I can hear them thinking . . . he’s a doddering old man . . . what does he know?

A lot more now than I did when I was measuring the McGraw Tower. Yeah, electrical engineers had to take courses in civil engineering. Or mechanical engineering’s Strength of Materials. (We called it Busting Lab.) Or PSYCH 101. (EEs taking psychology?)

In the years since I graduated, I’ve spent time in many places — from Thule, Greenland to the southern tip of Tasmania. From the Great Wall, Taipei and Osaka to Cairo and the Blue Mosque of Istanbul. From Stonehenge to the Masai Mara. I learned to say hello, goodbye, thank you and two beers, please, in about twenty different languages.

And I’ve helped found a hi-tech company and succeeded as an executive in a number of others. Managed and interfaced with lots of people.

But the most important thing that I’ve learned wherever I’ve been and whatever I’ve done, is that all people are just about the same. White, black, brown, yellow, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, agnostic, atheist, gay, straight, female, male, bi, Red Sox fan, Yankees fan (well, almost). They all have the same basic hopes, fears, ambitions, desires and capabilities. Strengths and weaknesses. Some are much better than others, some not nearly as good. Some might make it as president, some I wouldn’t let pour me a drink.

So for any of you who believe that your shameful group or attitude makes you better in intellect, honesty, morality, courage, caring, loyalty, dependability etc. etc. etc. than people who are different from you — you just don’t know what the hell you’re talking about.

So stop dumping on them!

Can it! Shut up! Zip it! Tais-toi! Halt die Klappe! Stai zitto! Bì Tzui! Zamolchi! Shtok!

Start acting as intelligent individuals instead of racists and bigots and xenophobes — which is in fact what you are. And rejoin the human race.

But that’s just my opinion.

Stan Harris ’55

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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year

’ll be quite honest with you: I’m trying to hammer out this column at the pace I once only reserved for SAT essays and angry-turned-angsty Facebook messages. It’s Thanksgiving weekend, and my family is waiting on me to help put up the Christmas tree. My five-yearold cousin is periodically running into the room in which I’m writing just to ask me if it’s 8:00 p.m. yet, because he really wants to put up the decorations. I can’t let down the world’s most adorable fiveyear-old, can I? I’m Muslim and I’m a damn nut for Christmas. Maybe it’s because I’m a victim of the commercialization of the holidays or some deep-rooted desire to

until we get dizzy with sleeplessness. The point is to surround yourself with love and joy to protect yourself and each other.

Culture tends to surprise us most when we observe its evolutionary convergence: as the korsi has gone out of fashion, I’m instead enveloped by Ella Fitzgerald bellowing “I’ve got my love to keep me warm.” On Yalda, we’re assured that Judy Garland’s “faithful friends who are dear to us/gather near to us once more.” Yalda and Christmas differ in their rituals and likely even more so in the populaces of their adherents, but they serve to reinforce the same values: togetherness, warmth, generosity. They

But let’s be real: winter at Cornell is synonymous with seasonal gloom and the Ithaca sun’s annual hibernation until, like, April. assimilate into American culture, or maybe I just watched a lot of ABC Family (What the hell is Freeform?) whenever I was home alone over winter break. Who cares; I started my annual holiday playlist before Halloween, and I’m listening to it as I write this.

The holidays in Virginia are non-stop Christmas music on 97.1 WASH FM and LED snowflakes on every lamppost in every suburban shopping center.

Christmas used to be preparing some holiday song for the annual Christmas piano recital (my magnum opus was a delightful performance of “Winter Wonderland” circa 2009), or sitting in Beltway traffic waiting for your fingers or tush or whatever to finally warm up in the just-nippy-enough mid-atlantic winter.

Simultaneously, the holidays are acutely Iranian, peppered with pomegranates galore, with chai consumption at an annual high and a sharp increase in the number of mehmoonies (parties) we pack into our minivan to attend. Iranians celebrate Shabe Yalda on the winter solstice, when we stay up all night with our loved ones to avoid the evils that could befall us on the longest night of the year.

Traditionally, you sit around a korsi, a table with a heater nested underneath it, and eat pomegranates and fruits and nuts and tell tales and jokes and predict our futures through verses from Hafiz poems

exist as separate bodies in the same climate, generating warmth where it doesn’t exist through the sheer kindling of good spirit.

Okay, that was cheesy! But let’s be real: winter at Cornell is synonymous with seasonal gloom and the Ithaca sun’s annual hibernation until, like, April. The holidays are even tougher when you’ve lost family members or aren’t accepted by the ones you have. On top of it all, the obligatory retrospection of December forces us to remember again and again the tragedies of the past year and to face that they’re not ending anytime soon.

Winter is hard and it’s cold and it’s bitter, and most of the time we’re just advised to wait for it to pass. But there’s something about the chill of the season that makes human beings across the world want to heat each other up with empathy, to embody the coziness of hygge, to find time to spend with people they love.

Again, it’s cheesy, I know (and there’s nothing like cheesiness to immediately make our irony-loving generation uninterested), but when we feel divided, hurt and confused, maybe we can find temporary solace in the warmth of others amidst a brutal winter.

Pegah Moradi is a junior in the college of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at pmoradi@cornellsun.com. All Jokes Aside appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Lorenzo Benitez | Not A Cop

What, Exactly, Is ‘Utility’?

R

egardless of whether you’ve taken a philosophy class, you’re likely already familiar with the trolley problem.

While the exact terms of the problem may vary, its ultimate question remains constant: should you kill one person to save many and, if so, would you? As a helpful thought experiment, the trolley problem allows us to weigh the relative utility of either option by framing the number of lives saved as the only relevant gauge of either outcome. To save

son conducts a cost-benefit analysis after being asked if they want to go out that night. After deciding that going out would constitute a net benefit, the person resolves to do so.

This meme likely derives its humor from the dissonance between the formal reasoning of a cost-benefit analysis and the hurried, informal circumstances in which we must actually make them. Indeed, during the split-second in which we make decisions like the one presented in that meme, a whole

This became clear when I recently joked that I’m at a school I don’t really like, studying a major I don’t fully enjoy, so as to get a job I don’t actually want. five lives, you must kill one. Any subsequent tension one feels when confronted by the problem is therefore because of an intuition to not kill rather than a reasoned cost-benefit analysis, as the latter always favors sacrificing one life for the benefit of five.

While the trolley problem is most often used to introduce utilitarianism to those who are yet to conceptualize it, the problem’s straightforwardness, maintained by there being literally just one metric of its consequences, perhaps obscures the most interesting question a utilitarian must continue to grapple with. What exactly is “utility”?

Synonyms offered by economics include “welfare,” “net surplus” and “profit.” The formal study of applied philosophy offers terms such as “satisfaction,” “happiness” and “contentedness.” Yet even then, the disciplines betray a reluctance to define precisely what is a profoundly elusive term. Despite a contemporary tendency toward reductionism — whether it be within the physical sciences (“We’re nothing but atoms”) or linguistics (“This signifier represents A, B and C”) — we must ultimately recognize the shortcomings of a catch-all term like “utility” considered fundamental.

The Facebook page Economics Memes for UtilityMaximizing Teens publicized a funny meme in which a per-

storm of variables inform what “utility” is at that precise moment. This meme pokes fun of how we seldom ever calculate our output with perfect consistency. Our desired “output” is a spectral answer, and is perhaps why the universal struggle of young adulthood is figuring out precisely what we want from our finite lives.

This insight may not be the most striking or profound, and has hopefully been reached by many others before me.

However, I only recently realized the extent to which approaching life itself as an optimization problem — minimizing inputs to maximize output — has altered my worldview for the worse.

As a hedonist-utilitarian, I’m out to maximize everyone’s happiness, including my own. While my goals and mechanisms for maximizing social happiness haven’t changed, those maximizing my personal happiness have. To this day, I measure the consequences of my actions with a hedonistic lens, but no longer do I consider myself a “hedonist,” as the term is more colloquially understood. For instance, up until now, I mistook the exclusive variables maximizing my life’s utility as being achievement — distinguishing oneself through productive contributions to society — and pleasure. Consequently, for a while you could find me on a Wednesday, with great accuracy, either by scouring Uris

Library during the day or Level B at night.

But at some recent point, I began to realize that the inputs I’ve been throwing at my life — run student council in high school, get into an Ivy League university, preserve a certain GPA — are not actually providing the utility-maximizing output I personally seek. As I ready myself for the next great input of my life — full-time employment — I can’t help but behold its promised reward with skepticism considering the weak correlation between past inputs along the same, pre-professional trajectory, and the anticipated hedonist output. This became clear when I recently joked that I’m at a school I don’t really like, studying a major I don’t fully enjoy, so as to get a job I don’t actually want. The naked truth of that self-deprecating statement was surprisingly impactful, to say the least.

After some reflection, I now understand how the “utility” I seek has shifted away from the sub-categories of “achievement” and “pleasure” I formerly pursued and more toward “contentedness” I once thought incompatible with my mercurial extroversion. I also recognize that this continued tendency to express what I’m looking for in life as an “output” constituted of “sub-categories” and produced by “inputs” is an overly-intellectual, emotionally-sterile attitude I need to continue working on. However, recognizing that “utility” is amorphous, complex and in constant flux has allowed me to make conscious decisions more in concert with my fundamental identity.

Ultimately, as interesting as the trolley problem is, utilitarianism as a personal, applied philosophy poses far more interesting challenges that just overcoming instinctive intuition. Accounting for the relative utility of different outcomes measurable by the exact same metric isn’t the hardest part of living as a utilitarian. It’s when different outcomes share few common metrics by which they can be compared — when it’s not just lives-against-lives, but, say, pleasureagainst-contentedness — that a utilitarian must confront harder questions that aren’t just theoretical, but potentially deeply personal. Indeed, utility is not the same thing as pleasure, and neither is it the same thing as contentedness.

However, reflecting on each of our own personal understandings of “utility” at this given time can help direct us toward the lives we really want to live.

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Not a Cop appears alternating Mondays this semester. Lorenzo can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun.com.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

Doing the Most

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ast Thursday at Thanksgiving dinner, a few of my cousins and I spent a solid 30 minutes trying to explain the evolution of the meaning of the word “extra” to one of our aunts. Traditionally, the word just means “more than is due, usual or necessary.” But recently, we — meaning mostly young people — have adopted it to describe something (or someone) that is over-the-top, excessive and usually kind of annoying. Uses of the word can be benign; the other day I was shopping with a friend, and she asked me if the skirt she was trying on was “too extra to wear to class.”

“It means more, but more often it means too much.”

But other times, the word, and the sentiment behind it, is used to criticize effort and sincerity, like the girl who raises her hand “too often” in class or the guy who

posts “too openly” about his life on Facebook. While we tried to explain this to our aunt, she kept getting caught up on what she perceived to be the neutral nature of the word. “Doesn’t extra just mean more?” Well, yes and no.

“It means more,” my cousin chimed in, “but more often it means too much.”

Etymology of that specific word aside, it’s interesting that we young people have assembled an arsenal of words and phrases — with almost uniformly negative connotations — to describe the same behavior: loud deviations from the norm.

If you’re overdressed for a function, you’re being extra. If you do more work for a class than you absolutely need to, you’re “doing the most.” If you’re really loud in a group of people, you’re “a lot.”

These are all pretty harmless phrases on their own, but in aggregate they show that somewhere along the line we decided that it’s cool to be calm, removed and chill. This isn’t necessarily anything new, and I don’t think it poses a great threat to society, but it is something that can be hard to navigate, especially in spaces like

Cornell.

There’s a lot of pressure here not only to succeed, but to be exceptional and eventually do something great. And I think that’s pretty standard at Cornell, at other colleges, and in all kinds of spaces. I recently read through student newspapers from Columbia, Ithaca College, Harvard and others, and was able to find at least one column in each paper that described an “intense pressure” to succeed.

But when the expectation of success is coupled with a culture that punishes and pokes fun at effort, we’re nudged into a catch-22 where we can either be disingenuous about how hard we try, or be made to feel like our effort is embarrassing. I can’t count the amount of times that I’ve qualified a subpar column by reminding people that I wrote it the morning it was due, or acted like I studied less for a test than I actually did. A lot of people here are naturally quite smart, but nobody intuitively knows organic chemistry or Roman history. We have to put in effort to learn things, to do well and to eventually satisfy whatever goals we’re setting for

ourselves. Still, in the binary we set between smart-person and try-hard, there is an unspoken pressure to make it look easy, to not be “extra.”

Try, fail, be extra, look stupid.

We should do our best to ignore this pressure. The actual consequences of being labeled a try-hard are practically non-existent, but the consequences of muting or changing pieces of your personality can be huge. The nonchalant, withdrawn persona that’s been deemed cool has a pretty short shelf-life.

Try, fail, be extra, look stupid. It’s easy to sit back and be critical of others. What isn’t easy is participating. Participate anyways.

Jacqueline Groskaufmanis is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgroskaufmanis@cornellsun.com. The Dissent appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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four goals to both Clarkson and Niagara.

With five to play in the game, Galajda thought he had trapped a gentle shot attempt from the corner, but BU’s Patrick Harper was there to pick up the scraps of what should have been a routine snag and make it a one-goal game. “[I was] shocked that it went in,” Schafer said. “He probably was too.”

But when it mattered most, with his team nursing a onegoal lead and a sixth BU skater on the ice with an empty net, Galajda made the stops needed of him in spite of the slew of bodies and pucks flying into the crease.

The freshman rebounded from two tough games for a 35save performance on the biggest of stages.

“As a freshman goaltender, I kind of feel for him. … He’s had to carry the load for us all the way,” Schafer said. “He’s risen to the occasion after he’s had a bad outing. … He’s got that kind of warrior mentality that he doesn’t let things bother him and he doesn’t drop his head.”

The eventful final 20 minutes was foreshadowed by an equally as eventful opening 40 minutes.

Junior forward Beau Starrett picked a perfect time to notch his first tally of the year, kicking off the scoring for Cornell 15:18 into the game off a feed from classmate Mitch Vanderlaan while on the rush.

The Red added a pair of goals in the following period to achieve its first three-goal lead of the night.

The Red’s two other tallies came off the sticks of senior forward Trevor Yates for his teamleading seventh goal of the season and from junior defenseman Alec McCrea for his fourth goal of the season after just one in all of 2016-17.

After a 15-minute stretch without any goals, Dante Fabbro scored the Terriers’ first of two power play goals on the night only to be followed by Mullin’s heroics and goals from Chad Krys and Harper, the other power play goal.

But Cornell, a team that prides itself on dealing with adversity especially after bouncing back from a blanking at the hands of Clarkson with a gritty 5-4 win over Niagara, buckled down in the final five minutes for its second consecutive annual win at MSG in addition to last year’s 3-1 win over New Hampshire, both of which consisted of game-winners of the stick of freshmen for their first collegiate goals “Maybe we’ll come back here more often,” said Schafer, possibly with a future freshman in the wings eager to score goal No. 1 at the world’s most famous arena.

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

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ICERS NOTCH 1ST RED HOT HOCKEY VICTORY

Mullin’s first goal proves game-winner at MSG as Red survives late B.U.rally

MEN’S HOCKEY

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

NEW YORK — When he scored, Tristan Mullin knew he did something special — a kid from small-town Canada notched his first collegiate goal at Madison Square Garden, the world’s most famous arena.

Only what the Cartwright, Manitoba native didn’t know is that his tally would later prove to be the game-winner for his squad.

Cornell men’s hockey had to fend off a furious third-period rally from Boston University to come out victorious over the Terriers for the Kelley-Harkness Cup and its first win in the biennial Red Hot Hockey series, 4-3.

“Unbelievable experience with such history here,” Mullin said. “Some major events, some major players and all that played here — just such heritage here. Unbelievable feeling.”

“I talked to him after the game about shoulders to get the first goal.”

At the time, it was insurance — Cornell being able to sit around with the boys in summer and [asking,] ‘How many guys have entered the third period with a comfortable scored a game winner at Madison Square three-goal lead. But the Red saw its lead cut Garden?’” added head coach Mike Schafer to two just five minutes into the final frame on a BU power play goal. And the goals kept ’86.

It was not the prettiest of tallies, but coming for the Terriers.

After Mullin’s tally with 8:09 left to play, Mullin, snake-bitten and pointless after appearing in every game but three entering BU responded under two minutes later, and Saturday night, won a puck at the bottom of again less than two minutes after that to turn what was once a threethe circles in the BU zone goal Cornell lead into a with under 10 to play in B.U. VS. CORNELL single-goal game. the third period. Fighting Then, it was Mullin’s for every inch toward the classmate Matthew 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL goalmouth, Mullin just Game: 0 0 3 3 Galajda’s turn to step up barely got a shot off while B.U. 1 2 1 4 in net. Galajda was being pummeled to the Cornell unshakable early on in his ice. But it was enough to send the puck top corner past the right debut at the world’s most famous arena, carshoulder of BU netminder Jake Oettinger, rying a shutout into the first five minutes of the third period. ballooning his team’s lead back to three.

But after the first BU goal, the freshman “You try to play your best and don’t look at statistics. You just play the game the right began to show some signs from his two preway to get shots just do everything right,” vious games, a pair of starts where he let up Mullin said of the time to get goal No. 1.

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Hello, hardware | Cornell won against BU at MSG for the first time on Saturday to capture the KelleyHarkness Cup.

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Resiliency continues to build in tough stretch

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

NEW YORK — Any team will tell you that every season is full of its ups and downs, and Cornell men’s hockey — seemingly untouchable in its first seven games — appears to be facing a slope as of

late, again evident in Saturday’s 4-3 win over Boston University at Madison Square Garden.

It started with a 4-0 crushing loss to Clarkson at home. Then Niagara came to town just three days later, and while See RESILIENCY page 5

MEN’S BASKETBALL

Hoopers Fend Off Toledo Comeback Bid to Stay Undefeated at Home

By JOSHUA ZHU Sun Assistant Sports Editor

When a 21-point lead was cut to a just a single point in the final minute against Toledo, the Cornell men’s basketball team certainly knew what they were grateful for this Thanksgiving: the game clock.

For the second time in the young 2017-18 season, Cornell (2-3) nearly gave up a game after amassing a 20-point lead.

Fortunately, like the win over Binghamton, the Red weathered the storm with some timely hoops and key defensive stops en route to an 80-77 victory over the Rockets at Newman Arena Friday night.

“It’s something that we need to address, but I don’t think it’s

something that can be changed overnight,” head coach Brian Earl said of maintaining leads.

“As we become a little more competitive in games, we’ll begin to understand how to take a lead and keep it. But it’ll have to be a process.”

Much of the late-game run stemmed from Toledo’s change in defensive schemes, Earl said.

While Cornell ran an efficient man offense in the first half, the Rockets were able to stymie it late-game with a series of switches and by running a zone defense.

“They started switching on every screen, so that was their game plan,” Earl said. “There’s not many things you can do to combat that aside from getting a little bit of a mismatch and get-

ting to the rim.

As Cornell lost its offensive flow, a few players put it on themselves to help the Red pull out the win. Sophomore forward Josh Warren scored six of his 11 points in crunch time, including two key putbacks.

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Junior guard Matt Morgan also patiently controlled much of the late-game tempo, running out much of the shot clock before beginning the offensive possession.

“We’re building a little bit of

a resilience,” Earl said. “At the end of the game you’re playing the opponent as much as you’re playing the clock. We were just trying to manage the time and get out of there with a win.”

Despite the late-game drama, Cornell put together a complete team effort in the opening 30 minutes. Morgan paced the offense with 24 points, while junior forward Stone Gettings added 21, including a careerhigh five 3-pointers. As a whole, the Red shot 56 percent from the field and 43 percent from 3point land.

“We played with a lot more effort than we played with a couple days ago against UMass Lowell,” Earl said. “We got a lot more shots in our own building [and] we played a little bit hard-

er which put us in a position to beat a very good team.”

While the final minutes were scrappy, the win over Toledo serves as a nice bounce back from the Red’s recent two-game skid. Looking ahead, a major focus of the team will be addressing how to respond when teams change their defensive schematics.

“We’ve identified what teams will do when they can’t guard us man to man,” Earl said. “We’ve just got to keep hammering away at that at practice.”

The Red heads back on the road tonight when its travels to Pittsburgh to take on Duquesne at 7 p.m.

Joshua Zhu can be reached at jzhu@cornellsun.com.