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WRESTLING Nov. 22 W, 21-13 Nov. 23 1st, 144.5 Nov. 29 W, 3-0 Dec. 5 All Day Dec. 21 All Day Jan. 1 All Day Jan. 10 2 p.m. Jan. 17 1 p.m. Jan. 17 6 p.m. 1 p.m. Jan. 24 Jan. 25 3 p.m. Jan. 30 6:30 p.m. Feb. 7 6:00 p.m. Feb. 15, 22 All Day Mar. 6 All Day Mar. 19 All Day *Ivy League Meet
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Oklahoma NYS Intercollegiates at Northeast Duals at Las Vegas Invitational at Grapple at the Garden Southern Scuffle Missouri at Harvard* at Brown* Penn* at Lehigh Princeton* at Columbia* National Duals EIWA Championships at NCAA Championships
MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING Nov. 9 Nov. 15 Nov. 15 Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Dec. 5-7 Jan. 7 Jan. 7 Jan. 17 Jan. 24 Jan. 31 Feb. 26-28 Mar. 9-10
W, 171.5-125.5at Binghamton L, 131-169 at Harvard W, 213-87 Dartmouth L, 140-160 at Princeton W, 168-132 Penn All Day at Ithaca College 11 a.m. Yale 7 p.m. Yale 1 p.m. Columbia 1 p.m. at Colgate 12 p.m. at Brown All Day at Ivy Championships All Day at NCAA Diving Regionals
WOMEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING Oct. 25 Nov. 9 Nov. 15 Nov. 15 Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Dec. 5-7 Jan. 6 Jan. 7 Jan. 16 Jan. 24 Jan. 31 Feb. 19-21 Mar. 9-10
12 p.m. W, 174-120 W, 216-84 L, 144-156 W, 180-118 L, 156-144 All Day 11 a.m. 7 p.m. 2 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m. All Day All Day
at Buffalo Boston College Harvard at Dartmouth Penn Princeton at Ithaca College
Yale
Yale Columbia at Colgate at Brown at Ivy Championships at NCAA Regionals
WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY (4-6-1, 3-2 ECAC) Oct. 18 Oct. 24 Oct. 25 Oct. 31 Nov. 1 Nov. 14 Nov. 15 Nov. 18 Nov. 21 Nov. 22 Dec. 1 Dec. 2 Dec. 5 Dec. 6 Jan. 2 Jan. 9 Jan. 10 Jan. 13 Jan. 16 Jan. 17 Jan. 23 Jan. 24 Jan. 30 Jan. 31 Feb. 3 Feb. 6 Feb. 7 Feb. 13 Feb. 14 Feb. 20 Feb. 21
7:30 p.m. L, 2-6 L, 2-6 L, 4-5 L, 0-3 W, 5-1 W, 6-2 W, 3-1 L, 2-7 L, 0-2 T, 1-1 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 3 p.m. 3 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m. 7 p.m. 4 p.m.
Red/White Game at Boston College at Boston College Princeton Quinnipiac Brown Yale Colgate at U. Minnesota Duluth at U. Minnesota Duluth Mercyhurst Syracuse at Clarkson at St. Lawrence McGill St. Lawrence Clarkson Boston University at Yale at Brown at Dartmouth at Harvard Union RPI at Colgate at Quinnipiac at Princeton Harvard Dartmouth at RPI at Union
MEN’S AND WOMEN’S TRACK & FIELD Dec. 6 Jan. 9 Jan. 17 Jan. 24 Jan. 31 Feb. 7 Feb. 13-14 Feb. 14 Feb. 15 Feb. 21 Feb. 28-Mar. 1 Mar. 7-8 Mar. 12-14 Mar. 21 Mar. 28 Apr. 4 Apr. 11-12 Apr. 18 Apr. 23-25 Apr. 26 May 2 May 9-10 May 16-17 May 28-30
Greg Page Relays Souther Tier Collegiate at Harvard/Brown Upstate Challenge Robert Kane Invite at Valentine Invite/at Sykes-Sabock Challenge at SPIRE Invite at Ithaca College Invite Sunday Invite Deneault Memorial at Heptagonal Championships at ECAC Championships at NCAA Championships Cornell Spring Invitational at UC Riverside Invite at Stanford Invite at Bucknell Invite Upstate Challenge at Penn Relays Big Red Invite Cornell Invite at Outdoor Heptagonal Championships at Outdoor ECAC Championships at NCAA Championships (East Regionals)
Oct. 4 Oct. 5 Oct. 25 Oct. 31 Nov. 2 Nov. 8 Nov. 15 Nov. 19 Nov. 22 Dec. 5
W, 23-19 W, 21-17 L, 9-10 W, 19-14 W, 29-12 L, 15-26 W, 19-15 L, 17-21 7:30 p.m.
Red/White Scrimmage at UConn Skidmore at UVA at Skidmore UConn Gardnertown Polo Club Skidmore Colorado State Yale
WOMEN’S POLO (7-2) Oct. 4 Oct. 18 Oct. 24 Oct. 31 Nov. 1 Nov. 7 Nov. 15 Nov. 19 Nov. 20 Nov. 23 Dec. 6 Dec. 7
W, 21-10 W, 28-10 L, 8-9 W, 20-6 W, 17-13 W, 24-3 W, 27-2 W, 25-3 L, 9-13 2 p.m. 2 p.m.
Oct. 25 Oct. 26 Nov. 2 Nov. 8 Nov. 9 Nov. 22 Feb. 22 Feb. 28 Mar. 28
1st 2nd 2nd 4th 1st 1st All Day All Day All Day
Red/White Scrimmage Maryland Polo Club Skidmore at UVA UMass UConn at Skidmore UMass Skidmore UVA Yale at UConn
at RIT Show at RIT Show at Alfred University at Nazareth College at Nazareth College at Alfred University Cornell Show at Alfred University at Regionals
Western Ontario Williams George Washington at Columbia Brown Yale St. Lawrence Drexel University Trinity College Harvard Dartmouth Rochester at Penn Princeton Hobart College vs. TBA Individual Championships
WOMEN’S SQUASH (3-0) Nov. 21 Nov. 22
W, 9-0 W, 9-0
W, 9-0 11 a.m. 12 p.m. 12 p.m. 7 p.m 12 p.m. 11 a.m. 12 p.m. 12 p.m. 5 p.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. TBA
Stanford at Columbia Brown Yale St. Lawrence Drexel Trinity College at Harvard at Dartmouth at Penn Princeton William Smith College Individual Championships
4 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 1 p.m. 12 p.m. 4 p.m. 12 p.m. TBA TBA
at Penn State at George Washington SUNY Cortland at Penn w/ Ursinus Big Red Invite at Rutgers at Ivy Classic Bridgeport, William and Mary Temple at West Virginia w/ Penn vs ECAC Championships vs NCAA Regionals at USAG Collegiate Nationals
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MEN’S SQUASH (3-0) W, 6-3 W, 9-0 W, 8-1 11 a.m. 12 p.m. 12 p.m. 7 p.m. 12 p.m. 11 a.m. 12 p.m. 12 p.m. 6 p.m. 5 p.m. 1 p.m. 4 p.m. TBA TBA
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GYMNASTICS Jan. 10 Jan. 18 Jan. 24 Feb. 1 Feb. 7 Feb. 14 Feb. 22 Feb. 28 Mar. 7 Mar. 14 Mar. 21 Apr. 4 Apr. 10-15
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Nov. 21 Nov. 21 Nov. 22 Dec. 7 Jan. 10 Jan. 11 Jan. 23 Jan. 24 Jan. 25 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Feb. 4 Feb. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. 8 Feb. 20-22 Feb. 27-Mar. 1
Nov. 23 Dec. 7 Jan. 10 Jan. 11 Jan. 23 Jan. 24 Jan. 25 Jan. 31 Feb. 1 Feb. 6 Feb. 8 Feb. 8 Feb. 27- Mar. 1
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L, 48-46 L, 62-53 W, 74-66 W, 58-47 W, 58-49 W, 59-49 L, 59-51 7 p.m. 2 p.m. 2 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 7 p.m. 1 p.m. 4:30 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 6 p.m.
Hartford at Drexel at Colgate at Fairfield Marshall at Bucknell Buffalo Bryant Robert Morris at Loyola at Syracuse at UVermont Youngstown State Howard University Columbia at Columbia at Brown at Yale at Penn at Princeton Dartmouth Harvard Yale Brown at Harvard at Dartmouth Princeton Penn
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8 VOORHEIS FEATURE
Cover Story: Red begins rebuilding process with a young team.
A look at the growth of Paula Voorheis into the Red’s starting goaltender
4 M. BASKETBALL
9 W. ICE HOCKEY
Courtney’s fast paced style starting to come to fruition
After losing the first four games of the season, the Red is beginning to gain its footing again.
5 SWIMMING/GYMNASTICS
10 EQUESTRIAN/POLO
Swimming: Men, women see early success Gymnastics: Red welcomes eight new faces to squad
Equestrian: Red remains at top of region through six shows Polo: Riders look to close out season on strong note
6 INDOOR TRACK Red prepares for opening meet of season Sisserson reaches for higher goals in pole vault event
7 SQUASH/FENCING Squash: Men look to break into Top-five of Ivy League Fencing: Women get off to unblemished start
11 M. HOCKEY With some surprising defensive success, icers try to gain ground in ECAC
12 WRESTLING Garrett, Dean, Villalonga help wrestlers to undefeated start to season
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Scott Chiusano ’15, Anna Fasman ’16, Emily Berman ’16, Sydney Altschuler ’16
Supplement Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Photo: Connor Archard ’15 Cover Design: John Schroeder ’74
Michelle Feldman ’15, Shailee Shah’14, Connor Archard ’15, Enoch Newkirk ’15, Brian Stern ’15, Kelly Yu ’17, Ryan Landvater ’15
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RED FEATURES YOUNGEST TEAM TO DATE
Team Splits First Six Games T
his season, the women’s basketball team is the youngest it has been in recent memory. While some may find this to be a weakness, Coach Dayna Smith and fans alike see it as a positive. Last year, the Red went exactly .500, ending at 14-14 overall and 6-8 in the Ivy League. In the pre-season Ivy Media poll, Cornell was picked to finish fifth, behind perennial powerhouses Princeton and Penn, as well as Harvard and Yale. Perhaps a team of newcomers is what the Red needs. The team stands at 3-3 so far this season. With three wins against Colgate, Fairfield and Marshall, and three losses against Hartford, Drexel and Bucknell, the Red has about a
By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Writer streak and carried the Red into the break. Two games this coming weekend could potentially turn things around for the team once again. The next game for the Red will take place tonight at 7:00 p.m. against Buffalo at home. After a disappointing loss to end its winning streak, the Red hopes to bounce back against the Bulls and and then on Saturday against the Bryant Bulldogs. This year, starting sophomores Kerri Moran and Nia Marshall, who broke into the lineup last year as freshmen, are back with a season of experience, as well as six months of off-season —Maddie Campbell p r e p a r a t i o n . Four other letter-winners return — sophomore forward Nicholle Ashton and senior forward Sarah Poland and guards Kline and sophomore Taylor DePalma. The lone junior on the roster is Maddie Campbell, a transfer from UC Santa Barbara, who was not eligible to play last season due to NCAA regulations. Campbell played two seasons with UC, appearing in sixteen games. With such a young team, inexperience could be the Red’s fatal flaw, but Campbell sees it differently. “Our strengths are also our weaknesses. We are a young team with a lot of energy and we play fast pace,” she said. “Nothing is more fun than when we get a steal or re bound, make a
five consists mostly of underclassmen, Smith thinks that the leadership and team chemistry is going to take some time to build. “We have three upperclassmen that really have very little experience out on the court. Sarah
“Our strengths are also our weaknesses. We are a young team with a lot of energy.” month and a half to continue preparing for Ivy play, which starts on January 17th against Columbia at home. Eight games remain between now and the start of conference play, enough time to give the young team valuable experience on the court. In its first game of the year, the Red suffered a heartbreaking loss to the Hawks. In the last seconds of the game, senior guard Christine Kline was fouled on a desperation heave from behind the three-point line, but after a video review, the officials determined that Kline had let it go after time expired. In its next game and second loss in a row, the Red fell by nine points to Drexel. Although Cornell struggled in the first half, it was able to turn things around after the break, but not enough to take the win away from Drexel. However, after this disappointing start to the season, the Red proceeded to fight back and win MICHELLE FELDMAN / three games SUN SENIOR EDITOR straight. Despite this change of pace, the women most recently fell to Bucknell by eight points. Although the Red was within one point of the Bison during the second half, Bucknell was able to score fourteen points on the Red in a span of two minutes, sealing Cornell’s fate. This loss ended the three game winning
full court pass to a running teammate and get an ‘and one’ layup. But what also comes with us being young and high energy is a lack of attention to detail at times.” Because the team and the starting
Poland and Kline have earned some minutes through the years and Maddie [Campbell] had to sit out last year, so she earned time at practice but collectively, the three of them haven’t had a lot of game experience,” she said. “They’re just trying to get their feet and their games going and on top of that, we’re asking them to be vocal and the leaders by example and it’s just going to take some time to do that.” However, a strong core of sophomore returners will supplement the leadership of senior captains Christine Kline and Sarah Poland. “Our sophomore class probably has the most experience. You kind of forget [that] they’re sophomores. You’re trying to look for them to be the person that’s getting us in the huddle or getting things under control, so we’re just young across the board with that,” Smith said. Smith also noted that despite some lack of experience, the team chemistry away from the court is exactly where it needs to be. “Off the court, they’re just great friends, and I think we have the off court leadership in Sarah, Maddie and Kline, but it’s the on court stuff that is going to take some time to develop,” she said. Even younger than that core of sophomores is a big and exciting class of freshmen. Three forwards, Janelle Odionu, Paige Samuelson and Christine Ehland will join Poland, Marshall and Aston down
low, while Jamie Hill, Janée Dennis and Marisa Knox will join the guards. “The freshmen [are a] hardworking group. … The pace of the game is a little bit different for them and they’re not picking it up as quickly as we’d like, but like I said, hard workers and a lot of size,” Smith said. “Once they really understand the pace and kind of conquer that transition speed, they’ll be able to step in and spell us for a few minutes.” While the freshmen have yet to see playing time, they will undoubtedly serve to deepen the R e d ’ s bench and pool of talent. Looking ahead to league p l a y , S m i t h agrees with the CONNOR ARCHARD / pre-season SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY poll, putting EDITOR Princeton and Penn at the top of the league. While those teams have both lost key players, Smith noted that both teams, especially Princeton, have replenished their rosters. “Harvard hasn’t been in the mix but I think you always have to put them there. They have an Olympian center that can dominate in a lot of different ways,” she said. “She’s just a 6’5” forward that is athletic and long and causes such a mismatch for every team.” Between January and March the squad will play each Ivy team twice, though Columbia is the only one the Red faces back to back. With such a young team, the month and a half between now and league play will be a blessing. The freshmen have the chance to adjust to college speed and the chemistry on the court will have time to develop. So far, the team has been able to work well together, but splitting the beginning of the season was not the ideal start for the Red, which still has some tough matchups ahead of it before conference play. As Campbell said, the lack of experience and youth of this year’s team has it’s advantages and disadvantages, but the energy that comes with that youth will hopefully serve them well in the four months to come.
Three in-a-row | The Red was able to turn things around after two losses at the beginning of the season, winning three straight games before a loss to Bucknell most recently.
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UP-TEMPO STYLE OF PLAY PROVIDES OPTIONS FOR RED By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer
For the last 10 minutes of a Nov. 18 victory over Colgate, the men’s basketball team was cruising along. The chaos that the Red aims to create was forcing the Raiders into difficult shots late in the shot-clock. Cornell was pushing the ball up the court on every defensive rebound, penetrating Colgate’s defense at will. The fast-paced system was working perfectly. That wasn’t always the case. In the first half of the game, Cornell was plagued by turnovers. Lapses on defense led to wide open shots. The Red quickly dug itself into a 17-point hole. But that’s the nature of the uptempo system, according to head coach Bill Courtney. “As a coach, you gotta learn to let go a little because it can be a roller coaster at times,” he said.
Fast and furious | Senior guard and co-captain Devin Cherry has been lethal in the open floor on the fast break in his time with the Red.
SHONN MILLER: Back With a Vengeance
Miller Takes On Leadership Role By AMIR PATEL Sun Staff Writer
Ohio has produced a myriad of top college and NBA players within the last 15 years. Senior Shonn Miller, a product of Euclid, Ohio’s St. Ignatius High School, has been a focal point of the Cornell men’s basketball program since his arrival in 2011, which coincided with the arrival of head coach Bill Courtney. Despite missing the entire 2013-14 season after sustaining a shoulder injury in the offseason, Miller has maintained his image as a leader within the Red locker room. “As a program, we have had our ups and downs, but I think that is what has built us. It has been fun being a part of the development of this team,” Miller said. His sophomore season, Miller was a First Team All-Ivy selection, averaging 11.5 points and 6.8 rebounds per game.
With Miller injured the following season, the Red finished with a 2-26 record, with only one win against a Division I program. “It was absolutely tough to watch knowing that I could have made a difference. We have come out this year with a level of determination to improve,” Miller said. The Red has already surpassed its win total from last season, with some of the losses coming against top competition. Despite those losses, the Red has been competitive in almost every game. Miller has been a steady force through the first few weeks, averaging 13.3 points and 7.6 rebounds per game. “I think that I’m getting back into a groove. We have had competitive games against top teams, and that has given the whole team an opportunity to adjust to a new sea-
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COURTNEY’S VISION BEGINS TO TAKE FLIGHT
PLAYER TO WATCH After a year a w a y from the team, Cancer has returned for his senior season and will be pivotal for the Red at the guard position. He is averaging 12 points per game so far.
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son,” he said. The Red has made it a point to rely on Miller as an intricate part of the game plan. With fellow seniors Devin Cherry and Galal Cancer playing big roles as guards in the offense, Miller has seen some of the load lifted from his shoulders. “I am ready to have a successful senior season. We have improved a lot, and are confident that we will see results throughout the year,” Miller said.
SHONN MILLER PROFILE • First Team All-Ivy in sophomore season • Named a co-captain this season • Leading team in scoring and rebounding so far with 13.3 points and 7.6 rebounds through first eight games
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At the rim | Miller has been a goto option for the Red on offense.
“You know you’re going to make mistakes when you’re being that aggressive.” The team has bounced back to a 4-4 record this season. The Red opened the campaign with a 68-60 win over George Mason, then dropped to Loyola before rebounding against Colgate. The team emerged winless from the three-game Charleston Classic, but recently picked up two wins against Canisius and Binghamton. Since being installed as head coach in 2010, Courtney has waited to fully implement this quick-paced brand of basketball. In previous years, the roster wasn’t suited for this style of play. With a healthy, athletic and well-conditioned roster, this year Courtney said he’s confident that the system will work. “We always talked about it all the time and I knew when I became the head coach I wanted to do it,” he said. “It’s just been a matter of getting the pieces together to be able to do it. We think we have a group this year that can do that.” Courtney is able to run the pressure defense because the Red has so many versatile players. Courtney is able to call substitutions liberally; 15 different players have seen play time in this young season. Perhaps the most famous example of pressure defense is the Havoc defense run by Shaka Smart at Virginia Commonwealth University. With Smart at the helm, the Rams have enjoyed success, reaching the Final Four of the NCAA tournament a few years ago. Courtney worked briefly under the tutelage of Smart and says he learned a lot in those few short months. It’s always a struggle for opposing teams to get the ball across half court. Cornell hounds opposing players, getting in their faces, arms waving wildly. This aggressive play forces mistakes but also often leads to fouls. In the halfcourt set, the Red continues to pressure its opponents, trying to be disruptive and wear down the other team. Whenever the Red gets the ball, it is always looking to get out in transition, Courtney said. “We’re trying to fly the ball up the floor on every opportunity, miss or made field goal,” Courtney said. “We’re always looking to attack.” Rarely will you see senior point guard Devin Cherry take his foot off the gas when bringing the ball up the court. In an effort to try to catch opponents off guard, Cornell tries to keep the ball moving constantly on offense.. “That’s huge for our team,” Courtney said of ball movement. “When we’re going to be at our best is when we’re sharing the basketball, getting high assists and hockey assists.” Cornell has not yet perfected the uptempo style. On offense, most points have not been assisted. Courtney readily admits it’s a work in progress but says he hopes that by the time Ivy League games roll around in mid-January, the team will be hitting its stride.
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Red Welcomes Eight To Squad for 2015
By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell gymnastics team has reloaded itself for the 2015 season. After finishing in fourth place of the four teams competing at the semifinals of the 2014 USAG Collegiate Nationals, the veterans from last season will be joined by eight freshmen as they try to surpass l a s t year’s achievements. With eight freshmen joining the squad this year, integrating the new members of the team will be crucial to their success, said senior Samantha VanderPutten. “The freshmen this year have been working really hard in practice and I absolutely see them making a strong impact in lineups. …We are counting on them to help fill in the gaps,” she said. Senior captain Maia Vernacchia also gave a glowing review of the new class of gymnasts. Not only will many of them make lineup, but their energy and enthusiasm has motivated us and made us stronger as a team,” Vernacchia said. The six seniors that graduated last fall made up a majority of last year’s bars lineup and will need to be replaced. Vernacchia expressed
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worries about the current bars lineup. “At the moment, bars appears to be our weakest event,” she said, noting that she has seen a marked improvement in the Red’s beam performance. “Beam has been a weak event in t h e past, but at t h e practice meet, we pervery well on
formed the event.” The Red will not get a chance to compete until January, making the coming months crucial as the team
Balancing out | As the Red prepares for its upcoming season, the team looks to fill holes in the bars event left by the six 2014 seniors.
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prepares routines and skills for the coming season. The preparation time will be central to developing confidence as a team, VanderPutten said. “Our routines are coming together great, but we definitely need to fine tune the details,” she said. “Getting more numbers in the gym will help with our confidence a lot.” According to junior captain Hannah Clark, the team’s ultimate goal is to play like it practices. “We have the talent to perform and succeed and this season will be about performing like we practice whether it’s a dual meet or the Ivy championships,” she said. If this year’s gymnasts want to qualify for the NCAA Regionals in Morgan-
town, West Virginia, they need to be able to stay focused and take each skill, routine and event one at a time, Vernacchia said. “When we compete, we want to make sure we stay relaxed and don't get ahead of ourselves by rushing through our routines,” she said. The 2015 season will begin on Jan. 10 when the Red travels to Penn State to compete in a four-way meet with Penn State, Rutgers and New Hampshire. Two weeks later on Jan. 24, the Red will compete for the first time at Teagle Hall when it partakes in a dual-meet with SUNY Cortland. This event will mark the first of four home meets, with the Big Red Invitational occurring Feb. 7.
GYMNASTS TO WATCH HANNAH CLARK Junior Hannah Clark has been a key player for the Red on the beam during both her sophomore and freshman seasons. Last year, she finished tied in second place at the 2014 ECAC meet for the event.
ALICIA BAIR Junior Alicia Bair has been a consistent starter for the Red on the vault, earning All-American at the 2014 collegiate championships for her performance in the event as a sophomore. She also occasionally competes on the beam and floor.
Men Find More Success Than in Seasons Past By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell University men’s and women’s swimming and diving team has started its 2014-2015 season off on the right foot. The Red currently holds a 3-2 record with wins over Dartmouth and the University of Pennsylvania. The Red also had two meets against Harvard and Princeton, but ultimately fell to both teams. Despite the losses, this season Cornell has shown that it is improving each year. “Based off of the meets we've had so far, we're feeling pretty confident about the season ahead. But even more of an indicator is the team cohesion and fun that we bring to every practice and each travel trip. It's a great group,” said senior Bethany Douglas. “We've been focusing on our team as a whole and what our goals are for the season, ever since we received word of our new team practice dynamic. Both programs have grown stronger since coaches started being able to tailor sets to each person's
Ivy competitors, will con- many goals this season, specialty.” The Cornell women’s tinue into the rest of the including strong preparation in the offseason, which the swimming and diving team’s season. “We are threatening most team views as key to earning hard work during the offseason has been made evident of the teams in the Ivy wins during actual meets. “One of our main goals and the team has taken the League and are swimming positive momentum from faster and stronger than our this year was to put in a lot of effort in the preseason to last season and continued to prepare us for a strong work hard this season. season. So far, this “It’ll be interestgoal has been fuling to see where filled. All of the season the guys takes us, as made huge we are off i m p r ov e to a great ments in s t a r t . the fall E v e r y and the dual meet freshmen in the h a v e league so stepped in far has had to fill the an interestroles of some ing outcome talented seniors and it seems that were lost,” like everyone is in Hallowell said. it to win it this season, “Staying healthy has so we're excited to see MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR been really imporwhat we can do,” Making a splash | Both the men’s and women’s tant and with some Douglas said. training On the men’s swimming and diving teams have started their seasons guys with a 3-2 record, notching two league wins a piece. through injuries, it side, the Red has has not been the seen more success so far this season than any competitors. I think this easiest task. But lots of guys season in the last four years. season will prove to be a bounced back and showed Senior Thomas Hallowell huge success especially com- up strong for the beginning hopes that the strong per- pared to years past,” of the season and have high hopes for the future.” formances in meets, espe- Hallowell said. In a recent college swimcially in the meets against The men of the Red have
Women achieve winning record as well, in part due to strong offseason. ming ranking done by collegeswimming.com, the Red was ranked No. 2 in the Ivy League and 20th overall. This is the highest the Red has been ranked in recent history. “I am very excited for this season because not only do I think we can win a lot of dual meets, [but] I think we can [also] challenge many of the strong teams in the Ivy League at Championships. … We have made huge strides towards success and I believe we can sustain that success throughout the rest of the season. Most teams don't expect a lot out of us, but I know we can surprise them in our dual meets and at Championships in the spring,” Hallowell said.
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GRANT SISSERSON: High Above the Rest
Warming up | Both veteran returners and freshmen of the women’s and men’s track and field teams gear up for their 2014-15 seasons.
Vaulter Preps For New Season By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer
Grant Sisserson began pole vaulting in the seventh grade when he was just 13 years old. His dad, who pole vaulted in high school and college as well, suggested he try it. This suggestion turned out to be one that would shape Sisserson’s life greatly in the years to come. Sisserson came into Horizon High School in Scottsdale, Arizona with a personal best of 10’ 6,” and improved that to 17’ by the time he left. He was recruited to Cornell his junior year, after making the choice between the Red and Arizona State. A sophomore this year, Sisserson is already setting incredible but attainable goals for himself on the cusp of his second season for the Red. “I would like to make the NCAA national meet and either accomplish or approach the Ivy League pole vault record,” he said. As a freshman, Sisserson placed first in six different events during his indoor season, followed by four consecutive first place finishes in the outdoor season. He posted a season best 17’ 1” at the Penn Relays and placed 33rd in the NCAA East Prelims. The Ivy League pole vault record is 18’ 1.25”, so Sisserson’s record of 17’1” is not too far off. He is confident that through his own will power, and the instruction of his coaches at Cornell and back in Arizona, that he will be able to achieve this record, if not this season, then at least before he graduates. His coach in Scottsdale is the 2000 Olympic pole vault champion Nick Hysong. Hysong is also the 1995 Indoor Champion and the 2001 World Outdoor Championship bronze medalist. Cornell Track and Field Head Coach Nathan Taylor coaches Sisserson here at Cornell. “Nick sets a good basis for further learning and now that I have that basis, Taylor helps me fine tune everything to help me make improvements from here on out,” Sisserson said. Sisserson will have eight to nine indoor meets and a few more outdoor meets this season to try and accomplish his goals. Because there are no indoor tracks in Arizona, Sisserson said that he prefers outdoor meets over indoor meets. “I prefer outdoor events because it reminds me of my high school experience where the sun is actually out and shining,” he said. “Vaulting in the 110 degree Arizona heat has actually grown on me.” Sisserson will likely to make a positive impact on the Cornell track team’s success once again this year, especially after his impressive freshmen season.
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Leaps and bounds | After a succesful rookie season, sophomore Grant Sisserson has set himself lofty goals in the pole vault event.
Track and Field Prepares For Indoor Season Meets BOTH TEAMS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PAGE RELAYS “I'd like to qualify for both NCAA National Championships,” Sisserson said. “I would like to improve my technique and strength such that I approach or even capture the All-Time Ivy League pole The approaching winter recess will be anything but vault record of 5.52m (18'1.25").” a break for the members of the Red track and field The squad as a whole has the necessary base for a squad. The team is gearing up for an intense indoor strong team. season, which begins Dec. 6 in Barton Hall with the “The strengths of the team are very broad this year. Greg Page Relays. We could very easily dominate almost every event in “The Greg Page Relays are actually a very early sea- the meets that we compete in.” Sisserson said. “ We son meet, and a lot of [players] won't be competing,” really do not lack power in any event.” said sophomore distance runner James Gowans. “For Freshman triple jumper Oseoba Airewele said that those that are, it’s an opportunity to run and evaluate the ultimate goal for the Red is, as always, the Heps the team's training early, Championship. before the big competition “As a team, we are strivstarts.” ing to continue our trend of On the women’s side, winning both indoor and Running Start the team finished in fifth outdoor Heptagonal place at last year’s indoor Championships. Hopefully The men’s and women’s teams will take to the track H e p t a g o n a l we can also defend our in Barton Hall this weekend for the first time this Championships with a team IC4A title and place season, hosting team total of 54 points. The Top-10 at Nationals. I the Greg Page Red won two events during wouldn’t put anything past Relays. the Championships, but us,” freshman triple jumper struggled overall in the Oseoba Airewele said. wrap-up of the Ivy season. Cornell has several However, just one week strong athletes looking in later, the women were able to take second place at the different events. Both the men and women have overECAC championships, the second best finish for any come obstacles and shocked their competitors in seaIvy team in the meet’s history. In its conclusion of the sons past. They hope to do the same this coming seaindoor season, the Red looked like a whole different son.With several newcomers on both the men’s and team than the week before. women’s rosters, some fresh talent will hopefully fill the The men’s team hopes to have a repeat of last year’s gaps left by graduating seniors. Additionally, with the success, when they won 14th place at the NCAA return of key members of both squads, the freshmen Championships while being ranked No. 19 in the will have strong examples and leadership to help begin NCAA. Cornell sent then-seniors Bruno Hortelano- their careers. Roig ’14, Montez Blair ’14 and current senior thrower “Anyone can see that this is a team with a deadly Stephen Mozia. All three earned first team honors. combination of talent and depth. Beneath that exterior “[T]he main goals of the team this year are to have is a group of passionate, supportive and intelligent atha significant amount of athletes qualify for both indoor letes. And to top it off, incredibly experienced and and outdoor NCAA Nationals and stay consistent effective coaches,” Airewele said. “I expect both the within the Top-10 track and field teams in the nation,” men and women's teams to win soundly, and I hope said sophomore pole vaulter Grant Sisserson. we can remind everyone that CUTF is not playing There are several young athletes, this year, looking games.” to follow in the footsteps of last year’s champions. Last The Red will begin its season on Saturday with the year, Sisserson made a strong team impact, posting sev- Greg Page Relays. The team returns on Jan. 9 to host eral freshmen records and personal bests. the Southern Tier Collegiate Open in Barton Hall. By LISA AWAITEY
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The University is expected to participate in a White House summit in Washington, D.C. Thursday, where it will highlight plans to increase the number of college graduates and parity in science, technology, engineering and math fields, according to documents obtained by The Sun. President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, First Lady Michelle Obama and leaders in education are expected to announce over 600 actions at the second White House College Opportunity Day of Action Thursday with the hopes of increasing the number of students who prepare for and ultimately attend college across the country, according to a statement from The White House. “Expanding opportunity for more students to enroll and succeed in college, especially low-income and underrepresented students, is vital to building a strong economy and a strong middle class,” a White House statement says. “President Obama believes that the United States should lead the world in colSee WHITE HOUSE page 4
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‘Black lives matter’ | Following a town hall in Uris Hall, dozens of Cornellians gathered on Ho Plaza Wednesday evening for a vigil in rememberance of two black men killed by police officers this year.
Cornellians Gather Following Police Violence By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer
At a town hall and vigil Wednesday night in remembrance of Eric Garner and Michael Brown — two black men killed by white police officers this year — members of the Cornell community spoke about “systemic” problems of police brutality and brainstormed ways to combat instances of everyday racism. Over 200 people attended the town
hall-style discussion entitled “Ferguson: The Next Steps.” The event was co-hosted by Black Students United, the Cornell Asian Pacific Islander Student Union and La Asociacion Latina in Uris Hall. Three Cornell professors — Prof. Joe Marguiles, law; Prof. Russell Rickford, history; and Prof. N’Dri Assié-Lumumba, African studies — opened the event. Marguiles, who worked as a civil rights defense attorney, began the
forum by explaining the American grand jury process and clarifying common misconceptions about how the Ferguson grand jury may have reached their decision. “The grand jury is not an adversarial process. It is not like your ordinary trial,” Marguiles said. “Its only purpose is to determine whether there is probable cause to go forward. It is a proceeding simply with the prosecutor presentSee TOWN HALL page 4
Murphy Stresses Importance of Gratitude Tisch Tapped to Lead By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer
Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D ’94 — who will be retiring from her post as vice president for student and academic services in June — spoke of the importance of gratitude during
a “Last Lecture” hosted by Mortar Board Wednesday. “Since this is my last lecture, I’ve decided to focus ... on giving thanks for a lifetime of friendship,” Murphy said. “I want to be intentional about expressing gratitude. … When I think of Cornell, I
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Giving thanks | During her ‘Last Lecture’ Wednesday, Vice President Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94 speaks on the importance of gratitude.
immediately think of the friendships I have made.” In her speech, Murphy touched on several matters, including the passing of her husband Gerry Thomas Ph.D. ’78 in 2011. After her husband’s death, Murphy said hundreds of people reached out to her with support, to which she spent half a year responding to each person with a thank you note. “For six months, I spent each morning at work writing five or six thank you notes to those who had reached out,” Murphy said. “It was very affirming to be able to focus on the person I love.” Murphy also spoke about how she values friendship. According to Murphy, she sets aside a week each year to spend time with her closest friends — whom she met during her time as an undergraduate at Cornell — and their families. “For the past 33 years, we have gathered our families for a week each summer,” Murphy said. “I have missed work for the first week See MURPHY page 5
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Administrators,Students Discuss Sexual Violence at C.U. By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer
Approximately 150 Cornellians gathered to discuss the current status of sexual violence at the University on Wednesday, following speeches by Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’88 and Mary Opperman, vice president for human resources and safety services, on current sexual violence policies. The University is actively working to
address the issue of sexual assault, especially through the Council on Sexual Violence Prevention, Grant said. The council consists of students, faculty and staff and aims to reduce all experiences of unwanted sexual touching, according to Opperman, who is a cochair of the council. Currently, the council is dealing with the issue of consent and how to define it, Opperman said. The council also ensures that the University follows local, state and
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Round table discussions | Students gather in Clark Atrium for an event called “Status of Sexual Violence at Cornell” Wednesday.
federal laws, including the Clery Act, the Violence Against Women Act and Title IX. According to Grant, the University is also working on how to best address cases in which students bring in complaints of sexual violence against a non-Cornellian, such as students from nearby schools. The council was founded last fall, following the recommendations of an incident management team that investigated a string of sexual assaults by strangers and bias incidents in the 2012-13 academic year, Opperman said. “To change the culture of the university and on our campus, it takes all of us being honest and open with one another and being able to talk about something that’s very difficult,” Opperman said. “This is a long term problem, and it’s going to take a long term fix.” Opperman also noted the importance of discussing domestic violence, an issue that has resurfaced on campus following the death of Shannon Jones ’15, who police said was murdered following a “domestic incident” on Thanksgiving. “It’s estimated that one in five students have experienced domestic violence,” Opperman said. “About 35 percent were assaulted while on a date. We need to add to our conversation the issue of domestic violence.” Following Opperman’s and Grant’s
speeches, students broke out into small groups to discuss various issues, including the definition of consent and how to create a space for discussion about sexual assault on campus. “In our group, we discussed what the Cornell community defines as consent, what new initiatives could be instituted to fight these pressing problems and how to increase the access and awareness of the resources already available to us,” Lauren Goldman ’16 said. The campus-wide discussion — titled “Status of Sexual Violence at Cornell” — will become an annual event, according to host Yamini Bhandari ’17, vice president for outreach and women’s representative for the Student Assembly. Bhandari said she plans to publish a report based on the discussion to continue the dialogue and implement suggestions brought up at the event. “I hope that this interaction helped create better connections with students from organizations across campus to work together in the future, and address these issues with a united front,” Bhandari said. “I also think that it was valuable to just meet other students working on sexual violence issues from their own perspectives.” Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.
Cornellian Earns Perfect Score at Coding Challenge Local Abandoned Ithaca Home Becomes Award Winner
For his renovations on an abandoned 19th century house, Albert Kelly of Ithaca received a Pride of Ownership Award from the City of Ithaca Wednesday, according to The Ithaca Journal. The building, which was built around 1850, was rotted to the point where it required a new foundation, siding, roof and insulation. According to The Journal, the house now houses two tenants. Recent Ithaca College Graduate Dies at 22
Max Addy, a 2014 Ithaca College graduate, died unexpectedly last week at his home in Newfield , according to an obituary notice. He was 22. According to the obituary, Addy was a baseball player at Ithaca College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration.
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State Senator Brad Hoylman (D-Manhattan) pitched a bill Wednesday that would permit doctors in New York State to prescribe lethal medication to terminally ill patients who want to take their own lives, according to the N.Y. Daily News. If passed, the bill would make New York the fifth state to allow assisted suicide. — Compiled by Noah Rankin
Daniel Fleischman grad places third in national HackerRank competition learn fast by reading other people’s code. Always have fun. If you are not having fun go find A Cornell Ph.D. student something else that amuses you.” For the HackerRank competiearned a perfect score at the HackerRank national coding tion, Fleischman competed challenge last month, finishing in against graduate and undergraduthird place among approximately ate students from top engineering 600 other competitors from 87 departments such as Stanford’s and Princeton’s, who were all universities across the country. Daniel Fleischman grad, a tasked with solving seven coding captain of Cornell’s Association challenges in 24 hours. According to a press release for Computing Machinery Programming Team, said his from HackerRank, Fleischman career in coding competitions completed all seven challenges began when he was urged by one with a perfect score of 420.00 in of his undergraduate professors to four hours. Fredrika Odelstierna, a participate in them. representative, “I went to a few meetings and HackerRank got completely hooked,” he said. stressed the rarity of this feat, especially amid “[The competisuch tough tions] are chalcompetition. lenging, excit- “If you start competing “A perfect ing. There is a score equaled great communi- with jobs in mind you 420 points, and ty of people are doomed to fail. I only one perwho like to help cent of students each other, and think passion should achieved that,” the feeling of ‘I drive you.” she said. “[The] want to get bettotal time to ter’ is always Daniel Fleischman grad complete all there.” seven challenges Fleischman was used as the said he first tie breaker. In competed in 2005 and became a passionate this case, Princeton ranked first participant in the following years, and Cornell placed third.” HackerRank has a dual goal aided by his varied background in computer engineering, mathe- in these competitions, both providing a platform for coders to matics and computer science. “You could say that I started to sharpen their skills and acting as a be a ‘serial contestant’ somewhere tool for companies to recruit technical talent, according to around 2009,” he said. Besides competing in several Odelstierna. Previous winners world finals, Fleischman has also have gone on to jobs at top tech trained world finalists. companies including Palantir, Fleischman said it is important RocketFuel, Facebook and for aspiring coders to “always Amazon after being discovered as student competitors. have fun.” “These competitions not only “Coding is way deeper than it seems at first, but don’t be shy.” carry out the hacker ethos and he said. “In the beginning you champion coding competitions as won’t perform well, but you will a sport — they also serve as the By PHOEBE KELLER
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modern career fair,” Odelstierna way to get in front of thousands of students at once.” said. However, Fleischman said She added that these types of competitions serve as an equalizer coders should view landing presin that they enable recruiters to tigious jobs as a potential benefit see a variety of different students rather than as a motivating factor. “If you start competing with perform against the same obstajobs in mind you are doomed to cles. “We are democratizing how fail,” he said. “I think passion companies approach technical should drive you.” talent by helping them recruit students based off their skill, and not necessarily by their school,” Phoebe Keller can be reached at she said. “It’s also a more scalable pkeller@cornellsun.com.
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Cornellians Speak on Issues of Police Brutality at Meeting Professor defends protesters in Ferguson, saying they are exercising‘human right to revolt’ TOWN HALL
Multiple students said they chose to attend the discussion and vigil because they felt personally compelled by the issues at hand. ing evidence.” Usamah Andrabi ’15 said events such as the discussion According to Marguiles, it is possible to control this and vigil “are important because they generate discourse process to reduce the likelihood of an indictment. about [social] issues.” “When the prosecutor doesn’t want the jury to come “These are social issues, which means that people’s beliefs back with an indictment, there are ways to control the are influenced by this,” Andrabi said. “The only way people’s course of conduct, what’s presented to the grand jury, to vir- beliefs change is if people continuously generate dialogue.” tually guarantee that result,” he said. “It appears that that’s Thaddeus Talbot ’15 said he was angered at the grand what happened in this case.” jury’s Nov. 24 decision not to indict Wilson. He also cited a Rickford said he believes peaceful discourse and other New York grand jury’s decision Wednesday to not indict peaceful means of protest should not be viewed as the only Daniel Pantaleo, a white police officer, in the death of Eric “acceptable” methods of dissent available to people of color. Garner in July. “Expressions of outrage, of anger, are [viewed as] illegitiAccording to The New York Times, Garner — who was mate,” Rickford said. “Everybody knows we have to follow arrested by police for allegedly selling cigarettes illegally — that up and engage in civil discourse. was killed by a chokehold maneuver We instinctively disavow militancy and that was banned by the New York expressions of outrage. We disavow and “I believe that the Ferguson Police Department in 1993. reject disruption and confrontation as “I am here because I am outraged by issue is just indicative of illegitimate and uncouth and selfthe Ferguson decision, as well as the what’s going on in the defeating.” Eric Garner decision that was released Rickford defended protesters in today of no indictment,” Talbot said. “I United States right now.” Ferguson and elsewhere for exercising think a lot of the facts were miscontheir “human right to revolt” against strued, and I am here in solidarity with Nadia May ’17 what he called fascism. the rest of my brothers and sisters to He added that the death of Brown protest that.” may serve as a catalyst for shifting attiSeveral students said the Ferguson tudes about race in America — calling it the current gener- grand jury’s decision not to indict former police officer ation’s “Emmett Till moment,” an incident where a black Darren Wilson in Brown’s death was indicative of a larger teenager was killed in 1955. problem. “We do not realize, as the prophets have been telling us, Nadia May ’17 said the Ferguson decision was “nothing that peace is not an absence of conflict,” Rickford said. “It is new.” the presence of justice.” “I believe that the Ferguson issue is just indicative of Lumumba echoed Rickford’s concerns about an unjust what’s going on in the United States right now,” May said. police system in America. “It’s nothing new. It’s definitely a situation that we’ve seen “It is tiring to have to come to these kinds of events,” recurring time and time again in our history, in this nation’s Lumumba said. “It’s not human nature. It is not normal. It history.” is a system that has produced such situations occurring again May said that as a black individual, she was concerned for and again.” the welfare of her family and friends. Lumumba added that it is important to educate young “At the end of the day, this is the country we’re growing people before they enter positions of authority later in their up in. This is the culture we’ll most likely raise our kids in,” lives. May said. “I don’t feel comfortable raising my children in a “We don’t want people to go all the way to universities, country that would do things to people of their race or peoto military academies, to police schools, without knowing ple of color in general.” the basic principle of seeing a human being who is walking,” Brittney McFarlane ’17 said she identified with the events she said. “You would not shoot a dog. But it’s okay to shoot in Ferguson because it “could easily” have been her in the a black man walking.” same situation. Continued from page 1
“It’s something that I worry about,” McFarlane said. “Even with my own friends going out, I have to tell them to be careful.” McFarlane added that because she is black, she has felt unprotected by the American police force. “I don’t even feel comfortable with the police because I feel like I wouldn’t be protected,” she said. “Now that I’m an R.A., I actually work very closely with Cornell Police. [But] before, that security never existed because I felt like they didn’t value my life.” Karen Li ’15, director of advocacy for CAPSU, said it was a priority to bring together different student organizations to host the event in order to represent more diverse perspectives. “I believe that it’s important for people of color to come together and fight against systemic forms of oppression and racism,” Li said. “The privileged only gain from dividing our communities and pitting us against one another.” Jessica Barragan ’15, co-chair of LAL, also said it was important for different racial minorities to join together in addressing issues of racism. “In light of the decisions from the grand jury on the Michael Brown and Eric Garner case, it is more important than ever to host events like this that bring faculty, staff and students from diverse backgrounds all together,” Barragan said. After an hour of discussion, attendees moved from the town hall-style discussion to Ho Plaza, where they formed a large circle and held a candlelight vigil. Antoine St. Victor ’16, co-president of BSU, opened the vigil by asking attendees to “please remember all the lives lost” in police shootings. St. Victor then asked participants for a moment of silence. After about five minutes, St. Victor called on Reverend Kenneth Clarke, director of Cornell United Religious Work. “[Prison abolitionist] Angela Davis said 12 years ago in Sage Chapel that places like Cornell are places where we engage in critical consciousness. It is that critical consciousness that we have been engaged in at Uris Hall that makes us educated,” Barker said. “In the aftermath of the failure to indict the officer who killed the gentleman in New York City, in the aftermath of the grand jury decision in Ferguson, I encourage us to take that critical consciousness with us.” “All of us have a stake in this,” Barker added. “All lives matter.” Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.
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lege attainment, as it did a generation ago.” Barbara Knuth, vice provost and dean of the Graduate School, will represent Cornell at the summit, according to Kathleen Corcoran, a representative for Cornell’s Media Relations Office. University officials informed with the specifics of Cornell’s proposals could not be reached for comment at the time of publication. According to documents from The White House, universities and organizations participating in the Day of Action will announce plans in one of four areas: increasing college completion rates, creating “K-16 partnerships” to prepare students for college, backing high school guidance counselors and increasing the number of graduates in STEM fields. Cornell’s proposed plans seek to fulfill two of those requirements: increasing the number of college graduates and increasing STEM field “equity across all demographic groups.” The University, according to the documents, will collaborate with New York 4-H — a development program that works with the Cornell Cooperative Extension — “in efforts to dou-
ble the number [of ] high-achieving, low-income, first generation rural youth in fully engaged and impactful institutional experiences.” Through what are said to be new programs, Cornell will increase its outreach to 180,000 4-H youth with “messages and activities to keep them on track for collegiate participation,” with the hopes of creating an additional 2,000 college graduates by 2020, according to the documents. The plan anticipates that 2,000 students will be admitted into college with an additional 800 college matriculants transferring into other colleges. Based on information from the plan, it is not clear if the students will be exclusively from New York State. Cornell expects that over the course of four years, 1,200 students from the program will attend Cornell; while 200 of those students will be admitted through regular admissions each year, 100 will be admitted as transfer students annually. “Those who transfer into Cornell will begin their advising at the pre-transfer sending institution to ensure readiness to participate fully in at least two engaged high-impact practices of research, off-campus study [or] internships, living learning experiences and community service,”
the plan states in White House documents. Information on whether the undergraduate population at Cornell would increase by 1,200 students as a result of this program was not clear based on the plan. In addition, Cornell is also working to increase the number of students “traditionally underrepresented” in STEM fields, according to the documents. “Cornell University will adapt eight total introductory courses in physics and biology and will share their learnings and results through the [Center for the Integration of Research on Teaching and Learning] network of 24 colleges and universities, as well as through published articles and professional conference presentations,” the documents state. Faculty members of these departments have worked to revise curriculums and design new courses, which, according to the documents, were offered beginning this semester. By doing this, the University hopes to “see a notable increase in performance and retention among low-income and underrepresented students in these fields,” according to the documents. Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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of two different presidents [because of this]. … Frankly, being with those friends was more important to me than work.” Murphy’s “Last Lecture” was hosted by the Mortar Board Honor Society. According to Zander Liem ’15, president of Mortar Board, the society holds a Last Lecture at the end of every semester. “We hold the Last Lecture to give the opportunity to members of the Cornell community to take a step back from the day-to-day hustle and bustle,” Liem said. Michael Gross ’15, chair of the Last Lecture event for Mortar Board, said the objective of the Last Lecture event is to provide students with an opportunity to “gain a different perspective of campus faculty and administrators.” “Speakers are encouraged to give a lecture as if it would be their last chance to address the students; to share personal stories
and impart any pearls of wisdom,” Gross said. Although the Last Lecture is not always given by a member of Cornell who is departing the University — President David Skorton has given one in the past — the “last” in “Last Lecture” had a double meaning for Murphy since she will be leaving in a few months, according to Liem. “Murphy was a very fitting choice, given her long history of service with the University and her leaving at the end of the year,” Liem said. Gross said Murphy and her office were “a pleasure to work with” when arranging the event. “We met with [Murphy] briefly to discuss the nature of the event and what she might want to discuss,” he said. “Susan didn’t really require any coaching, as she is such an experienced and thoughtful speaker.” Anika Sethy can be reached at asethy@cornellsun.com.
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dents and Cornell Tech itself to a radically higher standard,” Pass said in a statement. Tisch said in a statement that he is honored to be selected to lead the studio. “I believe implicitly in its mission and what we are setting out to accomplish, and couldn’t have a better partner in this project. I am excited for what’s to come,” he said. The graduate campus — which currently offers classes in temporary space in Google’s offices in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood — will open on Roosevelt Island in 2017 when the first buildings are expected to be completed.
The campus, which also offers dual degrees with the TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology, is set to complete construction of its campus and be fully operational by 2037. In an interview with Crain’s New York Business, Tisch expressed his belief in the tech campus’ mission of bringing entrepreneurship and technology to New York City. “Cornell Tech is going to be a beacon for talent,” Tisch said. “The second that Mayor [Michael] Bloomberg announced the campus was a huge moment in the city’s tech scene. It’s the best example of what it’s going to take to grow this ecosystem, and companies will come out of that on their own.”
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Justice for all | In response to a grand jury’s decision not to charge a police officer involved in the death of Eric Garner — a black man who died after being placed in a chokehold — protesters stage a die-in at New York’s Grand Central Terminal Wednesday.
Justice Dept. to Investigate July Death WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will conduct a federal investigation into the chokehold death of an unarmed black man after a grand jury in New York City declined to indict the white police officer who applied the move, Attorney General Eric Holder said Wednesday. The investigation will look for potential civil rights investigations in the July 17 death of Eric Garner, 43, who was confronted by the officer on suspicion of selling loose, untaxed cigarettes. A video shot by an onlooker showed Garner telling officers to leave him alone as they tried to arrest him and one then responded by wrapping his arm around Garner’s neck in what appeared to be a chokehold. Calling the death a “tragedy,” Holder said it was one of “several recent incidents that have tested the sense of trust that must exist between law enforcement and the communities they are charged to serve and protect.” The death occurred weeks before the deadly police shooting in Ferguson, Missouri, a case also under investigation by the Justice Department and in which a local grand jury last week not issue an indictment. The cases together have contributed to a national discussion about use of excessive force by police and their treatment of minorities. “This is not a New York issue or a Ferguson issue alone,” Holder told reporters late Wednesday. “Those who have protested peacefully across our great nation following the grand jury’s decision in Ferguson have made that clear.” Separately, New York Mayor Bill de Blasio said
U.S. Companies Add 208K Jobs in Nov.; Stock Market Reaches New Highs NEW YORK (AP) — A batch of good news on the economy Wednesday pushed the stock market to new highs. Payroll processer ADP said that U.S. companies added 208,000 jobs in November, the third straight month that hiring has topped 200,000. A separate report showed that service sector activity climbed close to an eight-month high in November. The reports were an encouraging sign before the government's monthly jobs survey is published on Friday. “There is nothing more important than employment data,” said Russell Price, senior economist at Ameriprise Financial. “More income fuels more consumer spending over time.”
The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 7.78 points, or 0.4 percent, to 2,074.33. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 33.07 points, or 0.2 percent, to 17,912.62. The Nasdaq composite climbed 18.66 points, or 0.4 percent, to 4,774.47. After rebounding from a slump in mid-October, stocks have been gradually moving higher on optimism that the U.S. economy will continue to improve next year. Investors are also hopeful that actions by central banks outside of the U.S. will help bolster global growth. Economists forecast that the U.S. government will say employers added 225,000 jobs in November and that the unemployment rate slipped to
5.7 percent from 5.8 percent, according the financial data provider FactSet. “The biggest, most important economic statistic in the world looks like it will continue its winning streak if this morning’s ADP employment report is to be believed,” Christopher Rupkey, chief financial economist at Bank of TokyoMitsubishi, wrote in a note to clients. “Things are better than you think.” On Wednesday, stocks also got a lift from the energy sector as the price of oil showed signs of stabilizing. The sector rose for a third straight day, as drilling companies and other businesses that provide services to the oil and gas industry gained.
he had spoken with Holder and Loretta Lynch, the U.S. attorney for the eastern district of New York who has been nominated as Holder’s successor, and was told that the federal investigation into the death will now move forward. The federal investigation was announced hours after a New York grand jury chose not to indict Officer Daniel Pantaleo. The grand jury could have considered multiple charges, from murder to a lesser offense such as reckless endangerment, but Staten Island District Attorney Daniel Donovan said jurors found “no reasonable cause” to bring charges. The Justice Department had been monitoring the outcome of the local investigation before announcing its own probe. The federal investigation into the case will look for potential federal civil rights violations in Garner’s death, which led to demonstrations in New York. It will be similar to a separate federal investigation already underway into the Aug. 9 shooting death in Ferguson of Michael Brown, an unarmed black 18-year-old. A county grand jury in that case decided against indicting the white officer, Darren Wilson. To mount a prosecution in police misconduct cases, federal officials have to satisfy an extremely difficult legal standard — that the officer willfully violated a victim’s civil rights and used more force than the law allowed. That standard is the same in the Ferguson case as in the New York case, but there are important differences between the two, said William Yeomans, a former Justice Department civil rights official.
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Because of this, the country is plagued by an intrinsic response towards individuals who are of Mexican descent. A house Earlier in November, there was an inci- and a home are two different things. Attending a predominantly white unident on Overheard at Cornell, a popular Facebook page amongst Cornell students. versity at a time where immigration poliA picture of a girl wearing a sombrero at cies are crudely partitioning the country Loco Cantina was posted; all virtual Hell into fragmented pieces, one can only imagine the unsettling heightened feeling broke loose. The issue of cultural appropriation and of Otherness faced by individuals who’ve its many technicalities warrants an equally never felt at home. Otherness does not technical approach — while understand- only kick the individual out of the house ably complex, it is not one to be trivial- before they’re ready — it makes it so that ized. The paradox of the supposed ulti- the individual stays out for good, under mate paradigm of knowledge and progress the impression that they’ll never find — this University — fostering ignorance home. It threatens identity. How infuriating it must be to feel like and retrogression is growing increasingly pervasive. With that said, the faults with- you don’t belong. To feel like your bookin discourses on cultural appropriation bag wasn’t cool enough, that your lunch does not lie with the perpetrator or the box was lame. To feel like you were five victim, or what is specifically being dis- inches too short. To feel that because of the God you worship, cussed; the fault lies you’d be the last genwith how cultural eration. To feel helpappropriation is disOtherness does not only less when, no matter cussed. The issue either kick the individual out of how hard you try, you can’t scrub color off. becomes confrontathe house before they’re You can’t clean up tional, or it is your accent. You, too, neglected, neither of ready — it makes it so know what it feels which do anything. that the individual stays like to be Other. Admittedly, I am For this reason, I guilty of the former, our for good, under the am guilty. I can’t cool while others are impression that they’ll down boiling blood, guilty of the latter. I but it’s time that I do. get pissed the hell never find home. I need to listen to off, while you laugh you, even when you it off. We’re both tell me it’s a silly hat. wrong. I only know that cultural appropria- At some point or another, I’m pretty sure tion is wrong because it has recently had we’ve all appropriated; it’s pretty easy to an impact on me directly. Otherwise, out do. Unfortunately, scolding ourselves isn’t of sight, out of mind. I cannot expect, so easy — it’s difficult to understand why however, for others to understand this if it it hurts. I need you to listen to me too, has not been made salient to them if I especially when the topic offends me. If you listen to me and I listen to you, don’t explain. A burn can only fester if it I can’t promise you that it won’t hurt. I has touched you. This is why a sombrero, the “silly hat,” won’t invalidate you anymore. I once was stings: While I am not Mexican, several of you — you’re not the monster. You didn’t my close friends are. I hurt by association. give life to the Bandito, but we’re not Just as America treats Mexico as their geo- doing a good job of killing it either. I say graphical appendage, Mexicans residing that it will hurt, not because I will indiin the United States themselves are treated rectly attack you through desperate equally as disposable. They feel Othered. attempts of debunking every single point I’ve heard stories of how the sombrero you make, calling you out on your perpetand the pancho were “borrowed” by ual logical fallacies. I’m saying that it will American film, in order to reinvent the hurt, because growing pains hurt. This isn’t the White Man’s Burden. Mexican — to literally project the horrendous and far-from-true new Mexican Don’t fight for us. Fight with us. I know Frankenstein on the big screens. In you know what it feels like to be Other. American film, the Mexican is the Like the Star of David for others, I wear Bandito, lazy and good-for-nothing. my culture. Like the Taino, black and Recognizing the increasing influence of white within me. Please understand that I film and media throughout the 20th cen- do, too. Like President Obama said, “We were tury, this American creation, even long after its “death” managed to leave behind once strangers, too.” a rather sticky residue — a characterization of what all Mexicans must be. While we do not believe it explicitly, rest Paola Muñoz is a sophomore in the College of assured, in a strangely Freudian way, Human Ecology. She can be reached at Americans are made to internalize it pmunoz@cornellsun.com. Midas’ Crumbs appears alternate Thursdays this semester. implicitly. ’ll admit it: I’m wrong. I messed up, to say the least — but so did you.
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Eric Pesner | Dems Discuss
After Ferguson W
hen the grand jury in Ferguson unbelievably, yet unsurprisingly, failed to indict Officer Darren Wilson in the death of Mike Brown, people were understandably upset and angry. Some took to the streets to protest or riot, many participated in vigils or walkouts and most wrote articles or Facebook posts. But what people wanted to come of this travesty remains muddled. Amid calls for justice for Mike Brown and his family and thoughtful reflections on the state of race relations in this country, there were only a few calls for substantive policy changes. Most notably, those in overpoliced communities proposed that all police officers wear body cameras. And in cases like this one, where witness testimony differed wildly, these cameras could help provide truth and lead to justice. However, policy changes cannot come on their own — they must be fought for and won. After Mike Brown was killed in August, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick added a proposal to his budget to fund body cameras for every city police officer. And in the wake of the grand jury decision, President Barack Obama asked for Federal funding for body cameras for many police officers across the country. The pressure put on our elected leaders when large numbers of their constituents demand change is necessary to make real progress in this country. However, had we elected different leaders, even these modest proposals would like-
ly not have even been initiated. While the their communities. In the most recent Ithaca proposal will take effect, the midterm election, turnout was the lowest in President’s proposal is likely doomed to lan- decades. And even fewer people vote in the guish in the Republican Congress next year. springtime local elections in Ferguson. This And this should shock no one, especially is why this majority-black city has a white considering that 87 percent of Republicans mayor, a majority-white city council and a in the House of Representatives next year majority-white police force. Had there been will be white men. And prominent a higher level of voter turnout, the policing Republicans like former New York Mayor situation in Ferguson could have been comRudy Giuliani rail against regulating the pletely different. But it’s not just voter turnout that needs police, but instead call for an increase in to change. white police There are officers substantially patrolling Treating the symptoms will not lead fewer oppormajority-black to real change, if we do not change tunities for neighborhoods to stop the aspects of our culture that minorities to involved black people are inherently racist. get in politics. from killing There is a sigeach other. The fact that someone who can espouse nificant portion of the population that refusviews this racist and still be considered a es to vote for any minority, no matter how “respectable” member of the political class qualified for office. This is how Mia Love, a speaks to the failures and biases of the media newly-elected black Republican from Utah and the electorate. It’s almost laughable to only managed to win by four points despite think that this man seriously ran for running in a Republican wave election in a President, but the idea loses its humor when district that voted for Mitt Romney over pondering how he would have reacted to the Barack Obama by 37 points. And the Voting Rights Act, which aims Ferguson situation from the White House. In order to make real progress on race to protect the voting rights of minorities, relations in this country, we have to make was partially overturned by the conservative sure that people like Rudy Giuliani never get majority on the Supreme Court, making it near offices of power. And this means ensur- easier for the Republicans to implement new ing that people turn out to vote for candi- restrictions which disproportionately affect dates who will support their interests and the poor and racial minorities. This makes it
harder for people to make their voices heard. But even if these changes do happen and we elect leaders who are responsive to underprivileged communities, it remains unclear what would happen next. After the dust has settled in Ferguson, there will still be a community ravaged by poverty with limited opportunities for the future. What happened in Ferguson is simply a symptom of an underlying problem in this country where the disadvantaged cannot escape from the cycle of poverty, crime and violence. Treating the symptoms will not lead to real change, if we do not change the aspects of our culture that are inherently racist. As long as anyone, let alone someone like Rudy Giuliani, can make statements saying that white people are needed to control black people and is still taken seriously, then we will always have a race problem in America. But the reaction in the general population has not been this way. Instead it’s been highly divided between those who blame a dead teenager for being shot and those who bemoan race relations in America. Until we can all accept that black lives matter and that no one deserves to be treated like this, there will never be an “after Ferguson” because the cycle of discrimination will never end. Eric Pesner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at erp55@cornell.edu. Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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civil war is raging within liberal thought, and it’s playing out at the University of California, Berkeley.
On the one hand, many liberals believe in the preeminence of their own values. To cite a few examples, they believe that recognition of “reproductive rights” is better than placing restrictions on abortion and contraception access, that larger welfare states are better than smaller ones and that secular, democratic forms of government are better than theocratic or authoritarian ones. Most liberals believe that protecting these values is essential to ensuring a just society, and that criticizing other value systems that fall short of their standard is not just permissible, but essential. On the other hand, however, a lot of liberals believe in a particularly strict, relativistic form of multiculturalism that is reluctant to declare some value systems better than others. This is not always the case: Liberals are happy to rail America’s gun culture or the supposedly patriarchal norms of western society. When it comes to groups they subjectively deem to be marginalized, however, they consider almost all criticism of those groups to be offensive — regardless of merit — and will lash out at those who do criticize. In these cases, it is sensitivity and tolerance, not truth and justice, that become the most important objectives. The tension between the two liberal camps underlies a battle surrounding comedian Bill Maher’s invitation to speak at commencement this December on the 50th anniversary of Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement. In an exercise of blatant irony, thousands have signed an online petition demanding that he be disinvited. The justification? That Maher — like nearly every commencement speaker in history — has said things that are offensive to some. Reading the petition’s text, one cannot help but feel a bit of sympathy for its creators, who seem so incapable of actually grasping the arguments that their ideological opponents are making. Since they are on the “tolerance first” side of the liberal civil war, they believe that calling an argument offensive is just as good as logically rebutting it. As you might expect, this leads them to claim offense at everything that makes them even slightly uncomfortable, without any genuine appreciation of the ideas that they eagerly dismiss as
unworthy of public consideration. Consider one quotation of Maher’s that the petition’s authors consider “hate speech” and proof of Maher’s bigotry: “Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you comes at a terrible price.” In what world is this “hate speech?” Maher is expressing his opinion that believing in a deity makes one an irrational person, and that the world would be better off without religion. Nowhere does he advocate mistreating or persecuting those who do believe in the divine. Maher’s anti-religious view is not one that I personally share, but it hardly warrants disinviting him from a commencement speech. If the above statement is hate speech, everything is.
This is why we have free speech to begin with — to create a marketplace of ideas where today’s unpopular view can become tomorrow’s majority view. Here’s more “proof” of Maher’s bigotry, from the petition: “You have to understand, you have to embrace the values of Western civilization. They’re not just different, they’re better.” This can only be considered “hate speech” if you believe that all cultures and civilizations are of equal moral weight. Of course, nobody really believes this. We make judgments about which values we consider preferable on a daily basis when we choose where to live, what to buy, who to associate with and what God to pray to. In fact, over the past century, millions of immigrants have come to the West precisely because they believe that the values practiced here are more conducive to human happiness than the values practiced in their countries of origin. Are these immigrants racist because they acknowledge that western civilization offers benefits not available elsewhere? Since all of us place some values over others, the fact that Maher’s favored values happen to be western
in origin and prevalence does not make his prioritization any more racist than someone else’s. Unfortunately, more than a few students subscribe to the misguided worldview that undergirds this petition. A larger and larger share of the student bodies of universities across the country want their schools to be “safe spaces” where those who hold positions they disagree with are kept out. These students are far more interested in using political correctness to silence beliefs they disagree with then having an honest debate. In Maher’s case, they want to go even further than that: They do not want him to speak at commencing regardless of what he says in his speech. His prior statements make his very presence on campus objectionable to them. It is far more important to figure out whether an idea is valid then it is to figure out if it is offensive to some. That is why we have free speech to begin with — to create a marketplace of ideas where today’s unpopular view can become tomorrow’s majority view if it can withstand logical scrutiny, enabling the best ideas to win out. If we had adopted these students’ worldview, society would have immediately denounced major intellectual developments like Darwin’s theory of evolution for being offensive to some people’s beliefs, without even considering the validity of the ideas. There’s nothing liberal or progressive about that. UC Berkeley should teach its students a lesson about the necessity of learning how to interact with people with whom you disagree. It can only do that by refusing to rescind Maher’s invitation to speak at commencement. If it gives into the pressure, the campus that spawned the Free Speech Movement 50 years ago will prove once and for all that it values freedom from speech over freedom of speech. We must not become a country where, to quote Bill Maher, “sensitivity is more important than truth, feelings are more important than facts.” Free speech is not free if it only protects those you agree with. If our universities wish to remain centers of intellectual life, it is about time they understood that. Julius Kairey is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun.com. Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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op Up is Cornell’s newest trend in fancy dining. The Hotelie Entrepreneurs — a student organization that grants opportunities in the hospitality industry and helps students exercise their creativity to develop successful enterprises — came up with the idea to have different restaurant themes and experiences throughout the year to appeal to students on campus who are interested in escaping your typical Ithaca cuisine. The concept provides a hands-on opportunity for individuals to hone their skills and gain invaluable professional experience in the field of hospitality while combining the ingenuity of surprising diners with both the location and the menu the day of the event. I was graciously invited by Tucker Iida ’16, the visionary behind Pop-Up. After confirming my reservation for the Pop-Up Restaurant, I had to play the waiting game to not only figure out the location of the event, but also the type of cuisine that would be served. The event’s use of social media, from the website that sponsored the event to their Twitter account,
was fantastic and provided periodic updates for the event. I learned that the Pop-Up would take place at 325 College Ave. The theme for the evening was modern rustic Italian. Upon entering the restaurant, the first thing that caught my attention was how the entire PopShop was transformed. The ambiance of the room certainly fit the theme: The homey feeling was accomplished with candles burning atop wine bottles, decorative Italian paintings scattered along the walls, and a cleverly used projector that portrayed an Italian country side spanning the entire room. I also liked how the windows were blacked out — it seemed as if I was placed in a five star restaurant and miles away from the bustling Collegetown street. The room was lined with two parallel long tables, covered in elegant white tablecloths. This communal style seemed like a great idea to meet new Cornellians in a relaxed setting. Even though the set up worked out fairly well, my party’s seating arrangement was a little staggered, which made conversing a bit more difficult. The surprise menu waited for us at our seats, which listed all three courses: tomato tart as the appetizer, Gnocchi topped with a red sauce and braised short-rib as the main course, and Tiramisu for dessert. The table’s fresh baked assortment of bread and olive oil, with its delicious inclusion of a red sauce topping, was delicious and the perfect start to the evening. I made the mistake of chowing down on the bread before our server informed us
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Sun’s Top 10 Shows of 2014 Game of Thrones HBO
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True Detective HBO
It was quite apt that True Detective aired the day that Matthew McConaughey received a Golden Globe for getting his acting life together. But McConaughey’s rising non-Rom-Com career is the last thing to take away from the show. Creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto crafts an unsettlingly dark murder case that exposes us to both psychologically fucked-up characters and themes that bring us into a plausible, but hidden, reality. Rust Cohle and his foil, Marty Hart, played brilliantly by McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, respectively, tap into our world’s subconscious definitions for people, religion and rituals. It creates a visual medium for expressing intellectual introspection that resonates with viewers. After 60 minutes of scrutinizing the minds of Pizzolatto’s characters, we naturally tap into the ability to look into our own minds. — Harini Kannan
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House of Cards Netflix
Many of the most popular political dramas in recent memory — from The West Wing to 24 — provoke fanatical patriotism, depicting a utopian view of government and politics in which our nation’s elected are resolute and selfless leaders with our best interests at heart. House of Cards, based on a British miniseries of the same name, is most definitely not one of those shows. The original BBC production followed Francis Urquhart MP as he wheeled and dealed his way to absolute political power. In this adaptation Urquhart becomes Underwood, but the plotting and scheming remains. With dismal congressional and presidential approval ratings and pervasive national distrust in government, the United States that we all know is much more Frank Underwood than it is Josiah Bartlet. — Sean Doolittle (originally printed February 4, 2014)
Even after four years of betrayals, moon doors, weddings and trials by combat, Game of Thrones still managed to top The Sun’s list. That alone is a testament to the lasting triumph of HBO’s prestige fantasy tale. The characters’ plotlines sprawl like Westeros itself, weaving an unbelievably complex yet tight-knit world. This season offered a star-making performance in Pedro Pascal’s “Red Viper,” Oberyn Martell, who went full Inigo Montoya, and yet another brilliant performance by Peter Dinklage. Yes, it’s hyperviolent and overly sexual on occasion, but critics who lambaste the show for its gratuitousness are missing out on the best the fantasy genre has to offer since Tolkien, and one of TV’s great dramas of all time, up there with The Wire, The Sopranos and Breaking Bad. — Sean Doolittle
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By the end of its first episode, Last Week Tonight cemented itself as an essential, exciting agent in our national conversation, but what makes it different from all the other suited-dudes-behind-a-desk fake news? For one, it’s real news, with each episode dedicating at least 12 minutes to one ungainly, underreported issue (net neutrality, civil forfeiture, the prison-industrial complex, etc.). Unlike Stewart, Oliver avoids the critiques of Fox News, the lay-ups they are, and unlike Colbert, he does not couch his indignation in satire. Whether he’s attacking drones or the Miss America pageant, Oliver is an eloquent defender of everything liberalism stands for in 2014. And he goofs off like the best of them, as anyone who recognizes the phrases “horny space geckos” or pictures Antonin Scalia as a slobbering bulldog will surely agree. — Zachary Zahos
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The humor of Veep is far from all dry. At its best, the show cracks with verve. Its pistol-paced wit and cultural references will get you well acquainted with the HBOGO rewind button. Armando Iannucci is similar to Sorkin (and The West Wing) in that both men’s characters converse in a way we outside the screen don’t. A Sorkin character speaks in saccharine soliloquies. An Iannucci character is a Picasso of the insult. The level of verbal sparring on this show would have Wilmer Valderrama fork over all the cash money. Veep writers hold as much regard for political correctness as they do for politics. — Brian Gordon (originally printed April 25, 2014)
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Louie took a huge step forward in its most recent season, ditching the one-off, self-contained episodes in favor of more multi-episode story arcs and a sense of continuity. While writer-creator Louis C.K. had played with the notion of extended stories in past seasons with the “Late Show” arc, the show seems fully committed to long-form comedy now, and it’s all the better for it. C.K. has found the perfect outlet for artistic expression and refuses to sellout. The show remains the most heartfelt, honest comedies on telelvision, a welcome reprieve from the trashy sitcoms of network television.
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Netflix did it again with season two of Orange is the New Black. This show is a masterful mishmash of comedy and drama. It seamlessly incorporates gender issues, sexuality conflicts and race relations all in a set of 26 episodes, not to mention that the show takes place in a women’s prison. Above all, this show is thoughtful and well-written, working tirelessly to capture the distinct lives of each of its characters. In this season, we learned more about Taystee’s troubled childhood and Poussey’s romantic history, all while further understanding the corruption and cruelty within the prison. My only issue with OITNB is that we have to wait a whole year to see more of it. — Anita Alur
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The unsinkable Lena Dunham’s laughingly cynical portrait of the lives of four white 20-something Brooklynites has finally come into it’s own. The third season featured guest appearances from John Cameron Mitchell, Patti Lupone, Gabbi Hoffmann and Felicity Jones, doubled-down on the acerbic dialogue and takeno-prisoners self-interest of its nasty main characters, churned out a killer soundtrack (new music from Jenny Lewis, Beck, Miguel…), delivered 30-minute segments of television that had unprecedented density (the bottle episode, “Flo,” introduced and fully developed four new characters, while the season finale revealed the secret inner life of one we thought we knew completely) and reneged on its season two promises to bow to the critics. — Kaitlyn Tiffany
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Silicon Valley has garnered quite a few Entourage comparisons in its short lifespan. Both parody their respective industries, with Silicon Valley making funny at the pretentious entrepreneur/tech complex and those who are trying to make it big within its parameters. Doctors pitch mediocre startup ideas to patients with the desperate confidence of a barista pitching the next award-winning script to an agent patronizing a Burbank Starbucks. Thomas Middleditch is wonderfully demurred as Richard Hendricks, a meek young techie with a closet full of hoodies and a world-beating algorithm that has major implications. —Brian Gordon (originally printed April 28, 2014)
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Team Foxcatcher Is the Champion of the Year sound as opposed to dialogue and exposition. A world of dramatic tension is implicitly expressed but not overtly stated. The film also features a trio of career-peak performances from Steve Carell, Channing Tatum and Mark Ruffalo. All Unless something even more spectacular comes along in three deserve Oscar nominations, and it will be a crime if Carell December, I would, without reservation, call Bennett Miller’s doesn’t take home the gold. His transformation into convicted Foxcatcher the best film of the year. It is a masterclass in subtext, criminal and pseudo-sociopath John du Pont leaves him unrecsubtlety and how cinema can be used to create a spellbinding ognizable in the greatest performance on the screen this year. psychological atmosphere of dread, empathy and suspense. Haunting the frame with a beak-like prosthetic nose and glazed Within its first few minutes, it establishes a heady undertone eyes, he shows us the humanity inside a mentally-stunted indiand holds you rapt under its spell forever after. I viewed the vidual slowly developing into a monster. Villainous as seems, movie in a theater crowded with noisy old folks who insisted on what he really wants is an escape from the crushing loneliness of continually chattering throughout, and it’s a tribute to the film’s his social stratum, and Carell’s performance demands us to mesmerizing gravitas that I still never glanced at my watch once. identify with him. Most of the action takes place between the 1984 and 1988 It has a measured, deliberate pace, but its two-plus hours go by Olympics. Tatum, millions of miles away from Dear John and in a flash. Like in my favorite film last year, Her, the movie’s premise is G.I. Joe, plays Mark Schultz, a gold medalist wrestler. Many of not what the filmmaker is concerned with. It serves as the con- the first scenes seem like throwaways, but in fact they expertly lay foundation. text, a jumping-off point to communicate an Mark’s postuncanny insight about American life and the Olympic life is Foxcatcher human condition. Starting with a true-life crime rather humdrum event about Olympic wrestling, this tale builds Directed by Bennet Miller — he shows his and builds until it becomes a towering statement Starring Steve Carrel, Channing award to a group about exceptionalism, loneliness and the of schoolchildAmerican dream. And it does so entirely through Tatum, Mark Ruffalo ren, explains it’s the texture of its atmosphere; with image and more than just a medal and spars COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES CLASSICS with his older brother Dave (Mark Ruffalo). Ruffalo is the compassionate heart in a film shrouded in fog, literal and psychological. Whereas Mark is restless and possessed of an inner fury, Dave is level and composed. We see the raging animal inside Mark early on when he nearly breaks Dave’s nose during sparring, but Dave is forgiving. The story could proceed as an examination of what destroys a human being who strives too far for athletic excellence, but the film offers a far more ambitious complication in the character of John du Pont. Descended from millionaire BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer
American royalty, du Pont is also an enfeebled, tragic figure raised in overwhelming isolation by his disapproving mother (Vanessa Redgrave). Redgrave has precisely one speaking scene with Carell that contains perhaps four lines of dialogue, and it takes the house down. It’s all that we need to entirely understand the fearsome demons that are driving du Pont. A self-described patriot, du Point recruits Mark to lead an Olympic-caliber wrestling team on his gloomy Pennsylvania estate, Foxcatcher Farms. “I want to restore hope to America,” says du Pont, and Mark agrees to move out. Dave is reluctant, and only joins the team when Mark abandons him for the attention and the spoils offered by du Pont. But du Pont’s admiration soon turns sour and as his bad influence and pressure on Mark increase, he drives a wedge between Mark and his brother. There is a particular shot in which Mark’s constitution is hanging by a thread and his brother prevents du Pont from entering the workout room where he is training. The mere sight of Carell approaching the door is downright terrifying — a snake lurking outside the window. du Pont’s greatest demon is his want for a surrogate son, and the movie might be best understood as a struggle between du Pont and Dave over who catches the fox that is Mark’s bruised heart. After Moneyball and Capote, two fine films, director Bennett Miller finally finds subject matter perfectly suited to his restrained, incisive style. His previous films featured material that was provocative but not nearly this deep, and his deliberateness could make the story seem slow or thin at times. Here it brings the absolute best out of the performances and underlying themes, and in fact creates an entirely new dimension out of the movie. I have no idea how Miller was able to shoot or edit for the impact the final product achieves. It is astonishing. This stuff wasn’t on the page — it’s all between the lines. You and a friend can discuss the intrigue in this movie for hours after the lights go up, and think about how rare that is these days. The climax portrays an act which has been grotesquely overdone in so many films with such effect and intelligence it is positively devastating. It was simple yet so gut-wrenching I slid down in my seat and put my hands over my mouth as a cry of shock sounded in the theater. The combination of a few sparse parts had totaled to an immense, profound experience. Foxcatcher is masterful storytelling. Mark DiStefano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.
#HandsUp: On Social Media and Ferguson “T
he most significant challenge encountered in this investigation has been the 24-hour news cycle and its insatiable appetite for something, for anything, to talk about. Following closely behind were the nonstop rumors on social media,” said Ferguson prosecutor Robert McCulloch last Monday, the same day that the decision that Darren Wilson would not be indicted was announced. In his statement, he targeted the role of social media in the case with strangely pointed force, accusing social media of misleading the public and making the investigation of the case unnecessarily confusing and fraught. I see McCulloch’s statement as not only flawed, but alarming in the way that it mischaracterizes and reduces the role of social media to “non-stop rumors.” His perspective is suggestive of a troubling trend of fearful and censoring attitudes of authority figures towards social media. This attitude would serve to deny and scorn the crucial role social media played in making Ferguson a global issue, in allowing the events to play out uncensored for the country, in galvanizing community action and in connecting a local injustice to a national dialogue. As actor Jamil Smith tweeted the same day, “If it weren’t for Twitter, millions may never have learned Michael Brown’s name.” What is really striking is how eerily dated and backwards McCulloch’s attitude towards social media seems to be. The role social media played in Ferguson, while remarkable, is by no means radical. It’s been nearly four years since the Arab Spring began and social media’s capacity to facilitate social justice, especially where traditional media fails, established it as a tool of liberation and empowerment. It seems like somewhat common knowledge that social
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what’s behind the frustration of people like McCulloch is that social media makes everyone a critic.” For a case like Ferguson, which from its inception — with the appointment of a prosecutor who has deep ties to law enforcement and is the son of a police officer killed by a black man, to prosecutors evident failure to thoroughly cross-examine Darren Wilson’s testimony, to the St. Louis County PD’s bogus reporting on nights of protesting, that it was deploying merely smoke and not tear gas — has been fraught, this agent of criticism was more than merely appropriate, it was necessary. In a justice system like ours, making prosecutors and police officers subject to scrutiny through a channel of social media is an act of justice in itself, because it makes those individuals more accountable to the people that their decisions affect. Making McCulloch’s statement even more troubling are Objectivity the implications of rejecting social media as a legitimate mediBites um of rhetoric, in who that act of isolated incident, instead recognizing it as rejection excludes. Social media offers a voice urgently symptomatic of something much to groups who, so frequently, have none in larger. Social media has made Brown’s death mainstream media. Ferguson was a case that crucially demanded such voices. It costs a lot one with repercussions. As Sarah Seltzer wrote for Flavorwire — namely connections and a college educa“Social media has… [created] a pipeline tion — to write an op-ed for The New Yorker. between localized instances of injustice on the It costs nothing to tweet or post a response to, ground and the national dialogue.” Ferguson is or criticism of an event or a legal decision or a prototypical of this capacity, and McCulloch’s politician’s speech, even though that act can be dismissal of that power because it “complicat- just as powerful. Social media is not subject to the traditional gatekeepers of journalism that ed” the investigation is untenable. It seems clear that the investigation in often serve to whitewash, and limit the breadth Ferguson and the decisions of authority figures of its voices. The medium of social media, of course, has should have been made complicated. James Poniewozik said in Time, “I suspect part of inherent limitations: that it rewards “volume, media is a resource of modern democracy, which is why the implications of McCulloch’s statement and the mindset he invokes, seem so strange and unsettling. Maybe I’m in danger of inflating or dramatizing his statement; McCulloch did not call for mass censorship of, or an end to, social media. But the blame he casts on social media in its engagement with the justice system and his dismissal of its power, sheds light on a destructive false dichotomy between social media and functional justice. Rather than obstructing justice, social media has called for it, in immortalizing Michael Brown and ensuring that his death could not be dismissed as
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frequency, and fervor rather than nuance, complexity and persuasion,” that it may sacrifice depth for potency. The symptoms of this are visible in the vast assortment of social media rhetoric that is total sensational bullshit. But refinement is not always a mark of validity in conversation, and those who think like McCulloch may be upholding a brand of media respectability politics that inherently exclude a number of groups from conversations to which their voices are crucial. I do not argue that social media is conclusively good or effective. The toxic clickbait, the sensational, sentimental dribble that systematically infects my News Feed is proof of just the opposite. Social media rhetoric and activism can be painfully self-important and dogmatic, across political lines. And because we see the posts and news of the people and organizations that we choose to, those we follow or friend, social media spaces can become echo chambers of said dogmas. But the effective and healing force that social media can be in the creation of networks of collective human consciousness, in the way it has forced national recognition of issues of sexual assault and campus rape, in the grassroots activism that occurred during Wendy Davis’s fight against the closing of abortion clinics, in the #NotYourAsianSidekick campaign that inspired Asian-American women to voice social frustration, in the proliferation of the Human Rights Campaign’s red equal sign graphic during the Supreme Court’s deliberations on marriage equality. This is the force it needs to be. Jael Goldfine is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jgoldfine@cornellsun.com. Objectivity Bites runs alternate Thursdays this semester.
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Tight End Thomas Returns ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The Denver Broncos haven’t missed tight end Julius Thomas — until they reach the red zone. The Broncos (9-3) have scored just six touchdowns on 15 trips inside the opponents’ 20-yard line since Thomas sprained his left ankle in the first quarter at St. Louis three weeks ago. That 40 percent red zone efficiency pales in comparison to the 77 percent success rate (24 for 31) they had before Thomas got hurt. “Julius is one of our top players and when you have one of your top players go out, you are going to miss him,” Peyton Manning said Wednesday. “We hope to get Julius back out there. There’s no question when he’s out there he makes a difference, he makes a lot of plays for us.” Thomas leads the league with a dozen TD catches even though he hasn’t scored since Nov. 9. He was limited at practice Wednesday and hopes to return to action this weekend against the Buffalo Bills (7-5). Last week at Kansas City, the Broncos settled for five field goals from Connor Barth after stalling at Kansas City’s 4, 6, 11, 14 and 19. “I’m looking forward to getting back,” Thomas said, “so maybe my presence can have us kicking a little bit less field goals.” Manning called it unfair to blame Denver’s red zone woes solely on the absence of Thomas. “I can’t point it there,” said Manning, who lamented his missed connections with Demaryius Thomas and Jacob Tamme last week when the Broncos scored on just one of six trips inside the 20 before a game-ending kneel-down at the 7. “Every red zone opportunity has its own story,”
Manning said. “Nobody wants to hear it. They just want to see if you got a touchdown or a field goal. Some way, we’ve got to find a way — I’ve got to find a way — to help us get into the end zone with Julius or without him.” Thomas’ return would add an intriguing challenge not only for the Bills but for the Broncos, who have had success emphasizing the run in Thomas’ absence. Behind an O-line that’s jelling after a midseason shake-up, the insertion of third tackle Paul Cornick and the return of physical tight end Virgil Green, C.J. Anderson has run for 335 yards in back-to-back wins over Miami and Kansas City. “C.J. has been awesome the past couple of weeks and it’s been awesome to watch,” Manning said. If Thomas returns to the lineup, “I don’t really know how it’s going to change them,” Bills coach Doug Marrone said. “Obviously, they’ve got another great player coming back. They can do so many things. They can hurt you so many ways. That’s a challenge and you have to be careful. If you try to take someone out or you try to take someone away, they have so much talent on that offense that they’ll exploit whatever weakness you have whether it’s by putting too many guys in the box or putting too many in coverage.” The Broncos want Thomas on the field but they don’t want to take Green out — he was sorely missed in all three of Denver’s losses. The game plan was built around him as a fullback and a second tight end at Seattle in Week 3, but he sustained a concussion on the first drive. His calf injury sidelined him at New England and St. Louis.
New England Heads to MLS Cup FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Jay Heaps is taking the New England Revolution back to the MLS Cup — this time as the head coach — still looking for his first win. Charlie Davies scored twice to give the Revolution a 2-2 draw with the New York Red Bulls on Saturday and a 4-3 victory in the two-game, aggregate goals Eastern Conference finals. New England will play in the MLS Cup on Dec. 7 against the winner of the Western finals between the Los Angeles Galaxy and the Seattle Sounders. “It’s so rewarding for me,” said midfielder Chris Tierney, who joined the team in 2008, just after its streak of three straight losses in the title game. “We just hope that we can make good in the final and
take it all away.” have played with him, coached Tierney assisted on both goals him and been with him every day to twice tie the score after the Red in practice. Whatever he decides Bulls took to do, he’ll be the lead. successful.” T i m “It’s so rewarding for me. H e a p s Cahill and played for the We just hope that we can P e g u y Revolution Luyindula make good in the final and from 2001-11 scored for take it all away. ” and helped the the Red team reach the Bulls, who Chris Tierney MLS Cup four are expecttimes, in ’02 ing to say and again from goodbye to 2005-07. captain Thierry Henry. The 37Each time they lost. year-old French star’s contract is Heaps took over as head coach up, and he is expected to return to in 2012 after back-to-back years Europe to finish his career. missing the playoffs. After one “I don’t think we’ve ever had a more rebuilding year, he had them player in the league that has what back in the postseason last year Thierry has,” Red Bulls coach and now back in the champiMike Petke said. “I’m honored to onship game.
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freshman goalkeeper Boughn. In her first ever start, Boughn earned the victory while saving 22 of 24 shots. The two goals given up was an improvement on the season, as Cornell on average has given up 3.27 goals a game, one of the worst rates in the country. The Red has a critical round of games coming up this weekend, when it takes on Clarkson and St. Lawrence University. Clarkson (11-5-1) and St. Lawrence (7-5-2) are
currently second and third, respectively, in the ECAC standings and will be a huge test for the Red. Both games will also be played away, something that has been daunting so far for Cornell. Cornell has yet to win a road game in four tries. “We’re looking forward to our two games this weekend, they will be very important if we want to put ourselves in a good position before break,” Jenner said. “It will definitely be a tough test.” Shane Lewis can be reached at slewis@cornellsun.com.
Maple Leafs Notch Win Over Dallas TORONTO (AP) — It wasn’t the prettiest effort for the Toronto Maple Leafs. Against the struggling Dallas Stars, it was more than enough. The Leafs played a turnover, mistake and penalty-filled game, but their offense kept clicking in a 5-3 victory on Tuesday night. Toronto won for the fourth time in the past five games and has picked up nine out of a possible 10 points in that period. “I think we’re just a pretty confident group in here,” said Tyler Bozak, who scored his 12th goal 27 seconds in. “Every line’s producing, every player’s stepping up and playing well and we’re getting full team efforts most of the nights.”
In addition to Bozak’s quick strike, Joffrey Lupul scored twice and Phil Kessel ended his goal drought at five games. Nazem Kadri also scored for the Leafs (13-8-3), who haven’t lost at home since getting thrashed by the Nashville Predators on Nov. 18. Since back-to-back losses to the Buffalo Sabres and Predators by a combined 15-4, Toronto has outscored opponents 23-12. “We still got plenty to work on,” Lupul said. “Obviously things are headed in the right direction, but we know what can happen if you get complacent.” The Leafs did get complacent at times, and that led to goals by Jason Spezza, Ryan Garbutt and Ales
Hemsky. Coach Randy Carlyle wasn’t thrilled with the defensive performance, but he also wasn’t eager to poke holes in a two-goal victory. “We’re going to take the two points, but we can’t be happy with the sloppiness with which we played,” Carlyle said “We cannot continue to play that style of game and think we’re going to have success.” The Stars (9-11-5) know that all too well. Predicted to be among the big boys in the Western Conference, they’ve been unable to find consistency. That continued in Toronto, where turnovers led to a third straight loss. “It’s just not playing the right way,” captain Jamie Benn said.
qualified and all of them seem like they have definite biases and ties to college teams. The fact there are several sitting athletic directors leads me to believe they all have their agendas. And Infamously, Condoleezza Rice is on the committee. Clearly, she hasn’t played football or held any kind of job relating to the sport. But the committee seems to be doing, well, a good job. Its rankings that are released every Tuesday are sensible and logical. Its not over-valuing a Florida State, team despite the squad being winners of 28 in a row, as it’s sputtering and smoking up in the process. Impressively, the group has Florida State ranked No. 4, the lowest seed, despite the team’s win streak and defending champs status. The commit“This just all goes to show tee has s o m e that you don’t really have to conferbe an expert to rank teams. e n c e equality, ... All you really need are as it intellegent fans.” seems there will be four different conferences represented in the four teams, while not buying too much into the SEC’s supposed conference supremacy. It’s done a good job of evaluating team’s resumes and not treating the game like a weekly horse race. At the very least, the committee is doing better than the AP poll or the old BCS rankings, the former of which still has FSU top-ranked. This just all goes to show that you don’t really have to be an expert to rank teams. There’s a big difference between coaching football teams and determining which teams are best. All you really need are intelligent fans who pay attention and are openminded. I’m sure the sports staff of the Daily Sun could do it. I’m sure me and a few of my friends could to it, and hell, we’d do it for free. Yeah, the committee isn’t perfect. Eventually I think the playoff will expand, after the contract runs out in 2025. In reality, the resumes of TCU, Baylor and Ohio State aren’t all that different — but only one will get in. Eight teams would be a good number. I would love12 teams with byes or a full 16 team bracket. I think fans will learn the more teams in, the more intrigue, the higher the stakes and the better the college football. John Zakour is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be contacted at jzakour@cornell.edu. Point Blank appears every Thursday this semester.
Previous Partial Owner of Islanders Sentenced to Jail Time NEW YORK (AP) — A former money manager and one-time partial owner of the New York Islanders was sentenced Wednesday to a decade in prison for a more than half-billion-dollar financial fraud carried out over more than a dozen years. Paul Greenwood, 67, was sentenced by Manhattan U.S. District Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum, who told him “many people today lost many thousands of dollars as a result of your fraud.” Greenwood must report to prison Feb. 9. Greenwood pleaded guilty in 2010 to securities fraud, admitting that he cheated charities, schools,
pension funds and others out of hundreds of millions of dollars. He used a portion of the money to buy collectible teddy bears and to invest in $100,000 horses. “You really wanted to have a lot of money,” the judge told Greenwood, who cooperated with the government in the prosecution against Stephen Walsh. Walsh eventually pleaded guilty and was sentenced weeks ago to 20 years in prison. Prosecutors submitted a letter to the judge on Greenwood’s behalf that earned him leniency from what would have been a more severe sentence. The government said
Walsh and Greenwood carried out the fraud from 1996 through February 2009, cheating institutional investors. During those years, the men operated a securities business while Greenwood lived in North Salem, Connecticut. The businesses included WG Trading Co. LP, based in Greenwich, Connecticut, and Westridge Capital Management Inc. in Santa Barbara, California. Three years ago, Greenwood moved to Southern Pines, North Carolina, where his lawyer, Fred Hafetz, said he regularly tutors veterans and performs other charity work.
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Trouble on the ice | New York Islanders center Frans Nielsen fights for the puck during a home game against the Toronto Maple Leafs, at Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
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Five down | The Brown women’s basketball
ix games into the season and the Brown women’s basketball team only has one win to its name. During its last five games, the Bears have struggled to notch a win against opponents, such as Providence and Boston College, just to name a few. The opening game for the squad was the only victory of the season, in which Brown topped Vermont by five points. Since then, the Bears have been on a losing streak, most recently losing to Rhode Island, Wednesday. In one of it’s most frustrating losses of the season, Brown finished the first half of its match against Rhode Island tied, 30-30. However, in the second half, the Rhody was able to kick it into high gear and win in free throws with just 3.2 seconds left on the clock. The Bears only fell by four. This weekend, the women will play host for the Brown Classic, facing Sacred Heart on Saturday and St. Bonaventure and Drexel on Sunday. Though the women have struggled to find the net, they have only lost by more than a 10 point margin in its one game against New Hampshire. Perhaps taking to their home court this weekend will energize the team and provide them with a home-court advantage. Ivy League play will begin for the team on Jan. 16 against Yale on the road. Last season, the Bears finished in sixth place in the league, just behind the Red. The Bulldogs, the team’s first opponent, finsihed in fourth place. Last season and Brown fell in both matches against Yale by more than 15 points each time. — Compiled by Anna Fasman
has dropped five games in a row since its openning win against Vermont.
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against Quinnipiac on Nov. 14. The men have only dropped one other game since then, losing to Providence at the end of November. On Wednesday, the team won against Bryant, notching seven
points over its opponent on the road. The squad’s next home game will not come until Dec. 20 against Albany, but in between now and then, the team will travel to play three games on the road.
Ivy play for Yale wil begin Jan. 17 on the road against Brown. The team will face the Bears once again the following weekend for its league home opener. — Compiled by Anna Fasman
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Red Dominates In Game Against Syracuse Orange By SHANE LEWIS Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell women’s hockey team dominated on Tuesday night, skating its way to a 6-2 victory over the Syracuse Orange. Five different players scored goals for the Red (4-6-1), with sophomore forward Hanna Bunton leading the way with two goals. The win ends KELLY YU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER the Red’s three game winless streak but only adds the Syracuse’s struggle (4-8-7), having won just one of its Breaking ice | Senior forward Jillian Saulnier netted one of the Red’s six goals on Tuesday, scoring off of a pass from senior past seven games. captain Brianne Jenner. The Red did not notch its first goal until 17 minutes into the first period. After a missed wrap-around shot by goal. After Cornell goalkeeper, freshman Amelia marked Fulton’s sixth goal of the season, a team best. The Red would score two more goals the rest of the junior forward Jess Brown, sophomore forward Brianna Boughn, laid out to stop the first shot, Piacentini hanVeerman handled the rebound and sent the puck flying dled the rebound and took advantage of an empty net. period, while allowing Piacentini to notch her second of But the Red quickly diffused any momentum that the game for the Orange. The game served as an offeninto the net past Syracuse goalie Jenn Gilligan. This was Syracuse was garnering, scoring its sive explosion for the squad, which has scored more Veerman’s second goal of the season. third goal two minutes later on a power than three goals only twice this year. After a low-scoring first period, SYRACUSE @ CORNELL “It’s nice to see the team coming together and playing play of its own. Syracuse defender things quickly picked up in the secaggressive and fast hockey,” Jenner said. “Offensively, I Dakota Denner was called for tripping ond. Less than a minute into the 2 6 and the Red took advantage, scoring 19 think we took care of the details and paid the price, period, senior forward Jillian 1ST 2ND 3RD FINAL seconds after the penalty. Bunton took either with a chip out of the zone or a forecheck — Saulnier scored off of a perfect pass Game: 1 1 2 Syracuse 0 a pass from sophomore forward Kaitlin that’s when we were rewarded with the best opportunifrom senior captain Brianne Jenner 2 3 6 Cornell 1 Doering, maneuvered past a Syracuse ties.” to extend the Red’s lead, 2-0. Jenner had a team-high three assists and slid into the defender and fired a close range shot Syracuse was able to respond, fifth spot for all-time scoring at Cornell. She also is now however, scoring on a power play just seven minutes past Gilligan. Leading, 3-1, after two periods, the Red effectively third all-time in career assists. later. The Orange took advantage of the tripping penalAnother big storyline from the game was the play of ty called on sophomore defender Sydney Smith, taking put the game away 16 seconds into the third quarter. only nine seconds of the power play to score. Syracuse Senior forward Emily Fulton corralled a missed shot forward Melissa Piacentini needed two shots to score the from Saulnier and smacked it into the back of net. This See W. HOCKEY page 13
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Track and Field Announces This Season’s Captains As the men’s track and field team gears up for its start of season on Saturday, Head Coach Nathan Taylor came out with the announcement of this season’s team captains. With six men leading the team and representing their respective events, the Red is in good hands for the upcoming 2014-15 season.
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Head of the pack | Ben Potts, along with five other Red competitors, was named as one of the Red’s captains for 2014-15.
On the field side of the game, senior thrower Stephen Mozia will lead the Red, while seniors David Melly, John Phillips and Ben Potts will captain the distance runners. Senior Francisco Olloqui and junior Max Hairston will guide the sprinters. Each of these players and, most notably, Melly, Mozia and Hairston, has contributed to the team immensely over his time with then Red. Additionally, each has achieved remarkable personal feats in his Cornell uniform. Mozia, a six time AllAmerican has earned the MVP title at both the Heptagonal Ivy League Championships and the NCAA championships. He is one of the best throwers in the program’s history. Hairston holds All-American honors as well. He earned the MVP title at Heptagonals last season. Melly, who just finished his final season with the Red’s cross country team, qualified last season for the NCAA East Preliminaries. All six athletes will begin their seasons at the Greg Page Relays Dec. 6 in Barton Hall. — Compiled by Anna Fasman
The Problem With College Football C ollege football has a ton of issues. Unbalanced scheduling, player safety, player compensation and conference instability, chief among them. No small matters. But the state of the sport is still strong, with the college football playoff helping. The college football playoff, as flawed as it is, is working. There is interest in more games than ever and the best regular season in sports has gotten even better. The main complaint from playoff detractors was that the four-team tournament would devalue the regular season, that each game wouldn’t matter as much. But it’s done the opposite. I think back to the 2011 regular season, which culminated in Alabama routing LSU in the title game. It was an awful, bitterly boring championship game. Maybe in part because Coach Les Miles’ LSU squad had seemingly eliminated Alabama (no playoff, remember?) by beating them in Tuscaloosa earlier in the season. But a few twists later, a No. 3 Oklahoma State team was left out and the same Alabama team was allowed to play for the title. So that rendered, in essence, the LSU-Alabama game meaningless. It also meant that the 12-0 LSU team had a bye in the SEC title game, while if they had lost it, they would still be allowed to play for the title.
In reality, the old system was far too harsh and fickle. A No. 4 ranked Stanford team led by Andrew Luck barely got any title consideration. Alabama was not even a unanimous No. 1 after the title game (rightly so) as Oklahoma State got four top votes and even LSU got one. Clearly, the voters thought it was fickle too. This was probably more an indictment on the system and giving Oklahoma State their due
even as Auburn was the rightful champ. In 2009, Alabama was the only undefeated power conference team but a 14-0 Boise State, with a win over Oregon, didn’t get its chance. And 2009 would’ve actually been a great year for a four team playoff, as there were five undefeated teams going into bowl week. College football has the best regular season in sports — but thats just a football thing. You play college football only once a
John Zakour Point Blank than it was an indictment on the quality of the Alabama team. It’s not the only time in recent memory that voters have had discontent with the title game. Alabama was unanimous the next year, but Oregon also had a 12-1 record (its only loss was to a top-fifteen team in overtime), and was denied their chance. In 2010, an undefeated TCU team beat a red-hot Wisconsin attack in the Rose Bowl and also earned a few first place votes in the final poll. That year resulted in two undefeated teams with impressive resumes,
week in wholly unbalanced schedules that feature rivalries and trophy games. Expanding the playoff to 32 teams wouldn’t stop that. And while we’re on the subject, let’s talk about the college football committee. They are tasked with seeding and selecting the four teams that will play for the title, along with the big time New Year’s bowl games. And the committee isn’t perfect. The credentials of its members are quesSee ZAKOUR page 15
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Five Fresh Faces Bolster Both Squads By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Senior Writer
The Cornell men’s and women’s squash teams kicked off their respective seasons on Friday by hosting the Cornell Round Robin — a series of non-conference games taking place at Cornell’s Belkin Squash Court. The men’s side will start the season off in eighth place in the College Squash Association rankings — dropping down two spots following a change in the assignment of pre-season rankings. Despite this, the men’s side finished last season in sixth place in the CSA rankings and third in the Ivy League and will be looking to attain a similar level of success. “At a bare minimum we’re going to try and stay where we are. It’s well within our reach to move up,” said head coach Mark Devoy. “I have a team of lower classmen now, so I’m going to be looking towards them to perform. And they have to perform if we want to move up.” Despite losing four-time CSA and Ivy All-American Nick Sachvie ’14 to graduation, the Red has strengthened this year, adding five freshman to the squad. “[Moving up to the collegiate level is] a fairly steep learning curve. The freshmen look like they’re going to be making the line up,” Devoy said. The new additions to the squad are freshmen Jordan Brail, Liad Hare, Seb Obieta-Chichizola, Ian Rothweiler and Andrew Stone, who were all highly touted players coming out of high school. “[The junior captains are] going to have to provide, by example, a good work ethic in matches,” Devoy said. “Where [the freshmen] play in the line up is going to be quite
“At a bare minimum we’re going to try and stay where we are. It’s well within our reach to move up.”
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important.” Despite coming off a program-record sixth consecutive season with at least 10 victories, the Red suffered some key losses last season. As such, Cornell has several key encounters to focus on in the coming season. “We’re using this weekend to prepare for Columbia. That’s a huge match for us; they have a very strong recruiting class and we lost 5-4 in the scrimmage to them,” Devoy said. “The league is considerably stronger this year and I would say Penn also has a very strong recruiting class and is going to be a big match for us. Dartmouth is going to be in the mix with us as well.” The women’s side ended and will start the season as the sixth ranked side in the CSA, with head coach Julee Devoy — like her male counterpart — preparing for her 11th season at the helm. “Our goal is to try and break into the Top-five. It’s been the same for the last few years, but you have to look up and forward and that’s what we have to make happen,” Devoy said. The women’s side has also bolstered its roster with five new additions. Freshmen
Michèle Garceau, Charlotte Knaggs, Margaux Losty, Emma Uible and Laura Watson are all expected to contribute to the Top-nine line up and help the side finally break into the Top-five. “All five freshmen are great additions to the team. ... All of them are very close competitively and it’s a nice addition to be able to bolster the mid order of the team with players of this level,” Devoy said. “If anything this year’s class is going to give us a lot more strength in the middle order which we’ve never had before. That will trickle down.”
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ADITYA JAGTAP One of three seniors on the men’s side, Jagtap went 5-2 last season and earned his second AllIvy League honor. He was a unanimous selection and also finished the season ranked No. 10 in the country by the CSA.
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Breaking through | The men’s squash team has set its goal for the season as moving into the Top-five.
Only two women competed in all 17 of the team’s matches last season, and Odinak was one of them. She tied a team-high nine victories and finished the year ranked No. 75 by the CSA.
Fencers Start Season Undefeated By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
Cornell’s fencing team has gotten its season off to a strong start this year, first securing three wins at the Temple Open before going undefeated at the Vasaar Invitational. According to junior captain Angelica Gangemi, a driving factor in the team’s current success is due to a restructuring of preseason training. By tweaking the usual program slightly to incorporate more explosive power drills and conditioning into training, the team was able to improve greatly. “We wanted to restructure preseason to make it the most practical for our sport. Fencing requires a lot of explosive action and quick movements,” Gangemi said. “So we incorporated a lot of new conditioning that involved explosion and then built up what we’re doing to build fencing into the program.” Added to this was a greater focus on point control, meaning the ability to hit your
opponent exactly where you want to. The Red saw improvement on this side of their game, which has really helped results, according to Gangemi. “We integrated more work on the target and point control,” Gangemi said. “I have noticed a big change in my fencing and a lot of girls that their tips are a lot sharper and they are missing left.” The changes clearly paid off for a squad that has been dominant so far this season. According to head coach Iryna Dolgikh, this is just the start for the Red. "Personal preference is always to underestimate, but plan, work and hope to overperform,” Dolgikh said. "The girls have been working together, keeping communication open with the coaches and finding the most balanced way to achieve goals in preparation and trainings. We are about to enter a much tougher part of the season and we are as ready as we can be." Another factor in Cornell’s success this season is the new freshman class, which has brought fresh styles of fencing
to the team. “The freshmen are all from different backgrounds. They have come from all over the country so we are exposed to different fencing styles,” Gangemi said. However, the freshmen are being helped along to adapt to the difference between high school and college fencing by the returning upperclassmen, according to Gangemi. “It’s great to have the returners coach the freshmen experience-wise,” Gangemi said. “College fencing is really different from high school because everything before then is individual. Now we
are fencing for a team result and that changes your mental game. They have been great with sharing what they have learned and how to adapt to the new system.” Despite a fine start, the Red is not resting, but working harder in order to continue its solid results against tougher competition in the future. “Each tournament is a progression in toughness; we are going to keep fighting tougher and tougher schools,” Gangemi said. “We are hoping to keep working hard so that we can hopefully challenge our tougher opponents.”
VICTORIA WINES PROFILE • Overall record of 56-12, leading the team last season • Third fencer in Cornell history to be named firstteam All-Ivy League • Won Silver in epee at NCAA Northeast Regional • Placed 14th overall at NCAAs
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Making a point | Through two tournaments, the Red is undefeated with an 8-0 record.
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Dynamic duo | When they are not busy sweeping across the ice for Cornell, seniors Brianne Jenner and Jillian Saulnier play for Team Canada, most recently in the Four Nations Cup, and they are coached by Cornell head coach Doug Derraugh.
PAULA VOORHEIS: Guardian of the Goal
Young Goaltender Grows Up Between the Pipes By JOON LEE Sun Staff Writer
Marshall Voorheis really wanted somebody to shoot on in street hockey. At a certain point, shooting pucks into a net devoid of a goaltender gets boring for anyone. There was a problem, however: he didn’t have a sibling his age that could easily stick in net to practice shooting. Suddenly, he came up with an idea. Marshall decided to stick his little sister Paula in net. The only issue? Paula couldn’t use the bathroom by herself at that point, let alone stop slapshots. Paula, five years Marshall’s junior, still was in diapers, but there she stood, wobbling back and forth from post to post as Marshall zipped pucks towards the net in the Voorheis driveway. It didn’t take long for Paula and Marshall’s mother, Jane, to catch on to what was going on and give the elder brother an ultimatum. “I told [Marshall] that he could not shoot on his sister unless he got her equipment so he went down to the local arena and got her pads and put her in net,” Jane said. “She played in net with her brother and her dad shooting on her, much to her mother's chagrin. That's where she started right there.” Trying to stop pucks in the driveway soon turned into stopping pucks on the ice for Paula. Voorheis soon found herself between the pipes as her team’s goaltender because she was the only player on her teams that knew how to stand up in pads. “I tried forward a couple of times when I was little and I would end up going back to defense or playing in
the defensive zone because I never wanted to go on offense,” Voorheis said. “It started there. I’ve always wanted to be a goalie. I’ve never thought about changing” It was only natural that Voorheis fell in love with hockey. Her father played competitively and her brother only fueld her desire to get better. Voorheis’ mother remembers Paula displaying a toughness and impeccable work ethic from a young age. When Paula was nine years old, she caught the chicken pox after having traveled three hours with her boy’s hockey team. “She was in grade two so I thought she was never going to get them,” Jane said. “She woke up that morning and had chicken pox and her coach said it wasn’t a problem because every member of the team had had it so she played with a fever and she almost laid down in the third period, but they won but I felt like I wasn't a great mother because I had stuck her in net with chicken pox and a fever, but she survived.” When Voorheis decided to commit to Cornell the transition was a major one. “You come in here thinking, ‘Woah, I don’t even know if I’m going to be at this level.’ You kind of look up to everyone
thinking that you don’t know how you could ever become that,” Voorheis said. “As soon as you get into the dressing room and the captains introduce themselves, you get to know the girls, you realize that it's not that big of a jump.” Voorheis’ first start came against Syracuse University. She was hemorrhaged with shots in the first period, letting in two goals. It was only then that it hit her that she was playing college hockey for one of the most decorated programs in the country. “I just had this moment that this was me. This is a game,” Voorheis said. “We ended up winning the game 5-2, but it was that first period where I
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just had so many shots and I was the one in net controlling the game. ... That was the realization for me that I was a part of the team and this was it.” Voorheis finds herself as the starting goaltender for the team following the graduation of goalie Lauren Slebodnick. The sophomore goaltender is ready for the moment. “There’s that feeling when you step on the ice and it’s just indescribable. You feel like you’re at home and when you go out there, it’s like nothing else matters. You go out on the ice and you're in the zone. You're in your zen,” Voorheis said. “Having that place here, it’s like no other feeling that y o u’v e experienced.”
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he women’s hockey team got 2014-15 sea- the third period, Cornell shut Princeton out, but was son off to a slow start, losing its first four one goal short, falling 5-4. In the matchup against games of the season, two to then No. 3 Quinnipiac, Cornell lost 3-0. Between these two games and the next set of home Boston College and two to ECAC rivals games against Brown, Yale and Colgate, Cornell had a Princeton and then-No. 5 Quinnipiac. The Red was crippled without star seniors Jillian weekend off to just train hard and mentally prepare. Saulnier and Brianne Jenner, who were both playing Voorheis said she believes the two weeks between for the Canadian National Team in the Four Nations games enabled the team to reset and gear back up. “After losing the first four games of the season, we Cup. Head coach Doug Derraugh was with them as had two weeks off to re-gather ourselves,” she said. well, coaching that squad. Without hanging their heads, the women bounced back, winning four of their next seven games with a tie against Mercyhurst sprinkled in between. The Red now has two games left to play before January against ECAC rivals Clarkson and St. Lawrence, both critical matches with the Red now jockeying for decent position in the conference. This bumpy start to the season has left the Red with a slightly disappointing 4-6-1 record. However, despite the rough beginning, the team is continuing to fight and work hard in every game as the season wears on. Sophomore goaltender Paula Voorheis said she believes that the team’s collective unity in all aspects of the game has helped strengthen the team’s performance and will help in future matchups. “Obviously our senior class last year was a huge part of our team both on and off the ice. But our incoming freshman have really stepped up to the plate and have been working extremely hard to pick up their part,” she said. “Overall, I feel like our team this year is really close and we have come together very fast in these first few weeks.” K.K. YU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Cornell dove Picking up the pieces | The headfirst into its Red has some work to do after season with two tough away games losing its first four games of against No. 3 the season. Boston College. The team had to quickly coordinate itself to keep up with the Eagles, who, in their five prior games, had already worked out any early season kinks. Despite the large amount of pressure, Cornell was able to contain Boston College for the first period. Voorheis played a strong period in net by stopping 12 shots fired on her. However, despite a close and physical second period, Boston College ran away with the game in the third. Overall, “Over Cornell lost 6-2, and was outshot 37-19. In the sec- those two weeks we really pushed ourselves both on ond matchup against the Eagles, Cornell had a slow and off the ice. We did a lot of strength and battle start, tried to pull back, but ended up losing 6-2 once work, which really got us in the right mindset to come back with a fighting attitude.” again. In the games against Brown and Yale, Cornell won Growing even through adversity has been a goal for the team after the difficult star, according to Voorheis. decisively 5-1 and 6-2 respectively. In the third “Even though the season got off to a rough start, I matchup against Colgate, Cornell had to fight hard for the win. Being Cornell’s third game in five days, and in the middle of a busy school week, the team had to really focus and get energized. For Voorheis, the 3-1 victory against Colgate has think our team is growing everyday and we are just been the highlight of the season thus far. “Even though it wasn't the best game, we came out taking each game one period at a time. It is really important to stay in the moment and to focus on what with a very important win in the middle of a busy we can handle each and every time we step on the ice,” school week,” she said. “The last five minutes of the game were very exciting and the atmosphere comshe said. After the opening matches against Boston College, pletely changed once the band came into the rink Cornell played Princeton and No. 5 Quinnipiac at from the men's basketball game. As soon as they starthome without their star scorers. In the first matchup ed playing, the crowd really got behind us and we were against Princeton, Cornell was tied after the first peri- able to finish the game off strong and with lots of od 1-1, but was outshot in the second period 4-1. In energy.”
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This game built upon Cornell’s high level of confidence and optimism for the rest of the season. Voorheis believes that the team is learning from each game and will continue to improve. “Even after getting off to a bit of a rough start, I don't think our team ever lost confidence. We all know that we have what it takes to win, we just need to work on the small details,” she said. “I think learning how to handle losses and mistakes is an important part of growing and becoming a championship team by the end of the year.” Handling losses has become a theme for the Red in the early goings, considering the topnotch competition the squad has been matching up against. The win over Colgate was followed up by two games against a Top-10 team in Minnesota Duluth. The Red was shocked on Nov. 21 with a 7-2 loss, the team’s worst of the season. Though Cornell bounced back in the second part of the series against Minnesota, holding them to just two goals, the offense had no answer and was shutout. In keeping with the roller coaster effect the 2014-15 season has put forth thus far, the Red rebounded from the losses to Minnesota with a 1-1 tie against Mercyhurst and a big 6-2 win over Syracuse on Tuesday night. Saulnier scored a goal and assisted on two others, Jenner had two assists and sophomore forward Hannah Bunton chipped in with two scores as well. With the season only about a quarter through, the Red has plenty of time to work things out and return to the winning ways of the past. Voorheis said she believes that once the team fits all the pieces together, the Red will really take off. “Looking forward, I think our team is just focusing on perfecting the small details and increasing our overall awareness, especially in the defensive zone. We
Icers Look to Bounce Back After Slow Start SAULNIER, JENNER LEAD RED’S POTENT OFFENSE EARLY ON By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer
“It is really important to stay in the moment.” — Paula Voorheis
PLAYERS TO WATCH have all the pieces in place, but now we just have to make them fit together,” she said. After the ECAC matchups w i t h Clarkson and St. Lawrence, the Red will face a non-conference foe in Mcgill on home ice, kicking off a stretch of four games at Lynah.
BRIANNE JENNER When she is not starring for the Canadian National team, Jenner is a prolific scorer for the Red. She led the squad last season with 35 goals and 35 assists for an impressive 70-point campaign as a junior.
ERIN O’CONNOR In her first few games in a Cornell uniform, O’Connor has made an immediate impact on the ice. She has three goals and seven assists for 10 points so far this season.
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New Coach, Fresh Mantra Help Team to Success By ARIEL COOPER Sun Senior Writer
Responsibility, integrity, determination, excellence and sportsmanship. These terms, which make up the acronym RIDES, are the values that the Cornell equestrian team chose to com-
The team has gone through many changes in the past year. The cancellation of the PE Equitation program in May 2014 gave the squad more horses to care for, but also increased its practice time. The Red also acquired a new head coach, Joanna Novakovic ’03. “I think I sort of had an idea of the challenges it was going to bring, but I wasn’t really prepared for the magnitude of things I had to pay attention to and manage so that’s been a learning curve,” Novakovic said of her first semester coaching the Red. The riders have adapted well to the changes and appreciate Novakovic’s teaching style, sophomore Carlee Roberts said. “Coach has been really focusing each specific lesson that we have on different aspects or techniques and we focus on that just for the lesson and then those have been really overlapping in the shows … so a lot of us have been really utilizing what she’s been teaching us in practice,” Roberts said. One standout performer so far this season has been junior Meridith Meyer. Meyer has been on the team since her freshman year and competes in the
Strong leadership, camaraderie propel team to victory. pete by at the beginning of the 2014-15 season, according to senior co-captain Sofia Steinberger. With three victories in six shows, two second place finishes and a solid lead in the region that the Red has maintained from the start, the team has certainly been following its creed. As a second-year captain, Steinberger, who is serving as co-captain along with senior Georgiana de Rham, has enjoyed watching last year’s large rookie class become leaders for this year’s nine new faces, she said. “We had such a big rookie class last year and I think one of the things that’s really exciting for me in my second year as a captain is to see how they’ve become really good veterans. … They’re good role models,” she said. “It’s cool to see them grow and improve and become the ones that are teaching others.”
open flat and fences divisions. This season she has won high point rider in three consecutive shows and is currently leading the prestigious Cacchione Cup competition for the region. “It feels good to know that all the hard work that I’ve been putting in over the years is seeing results,” Meyer said. “I’m just happy that ever y-
thing I’ve been doing has been working.” While she is pleased with her success, Meyer said that all she hopes for is to continue riding her best at each show. “Individually, I just hope
to keep improving and ride to the best of my ability and let the chips fall where they may,” she said. Poised to win the region and move onto zone finals as a team, the Red has high hopes for the rest of the season,
according to junior A m a n d a Symons. “I think our outlook for the rest of the season is really really stellar,” Symons said.
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Riding on | The equestrian team has won three of its six shows this season and two second place finishes, enough to maintain the regional lead.
Men,Women Wrap Up Successful Seasons BOTH HOLD WINNING RECORDS By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer
PLAYER TO WATCH IGNACIO MASIAS URANGA Masias Uranga has been an integral part of the the Red’s starting three this season, as well as a leader for the team as one of the more experienced players on the 2014 roster.
The Cornell women’s and men’s polo teams have started their seasons on a strong note. The women have trotted out to a 7-2 record, while the men have earned a 5-3 mark. Most recently, the women lost in the final match of the Cornellhosted Bill Field Invitational, while the men exited the tournament after two games. The women’s only losses have come at the hands of their perennial rival, the University of Virginia. In the first match-up between the two squads, the Cavaliers emerged with a 9-8 win after scoring on a foul shot in the final minute of the game. Less than a month later, the Cavaliers emerged victorious yet again in the finals of the Bill Field Invitational with a 13-9 win over the Red. Of the Red’s four losses last season, two came at the hands of UVA and two came at the hands of UConn. The Red’s most lopsided win of the season came in its second CONNOR ARCHARD / face-off SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR against the
University of Massachusetts, as the Red rode to a 27-2 win. Cornell has also earned 25-3, 24-3 and 28-10 wins over Skidmore, as well as a separate 206 win over UMass and a 21-10 victory over the Maryland Polo Club. The men’s team opened its season with a four-goal victory, never falling behind as it earned a win against UConn. It earned an additional four-goal victory in its next game, taking down Skidmore, 21-17. The men lost in close fashion to UVA on Halloween, falling in a shootout, 10-9. After the UVA loss, the Red rebounded to earn two more victories against Skidmore and UConn before falling, 26-15, to the Gardnertown Polo Club. At the Bill Field Invitational, the Red failed to make it to the finals. The tournament started well, as the squad jumped out to a 19-15 win against Skidmore. In its second game, however, the team fell to Colorado State University, 21-17. The Red missed sophomore Ignacio Masias at the tournament, as Masias was away playing in the Federation of International Polo World Championships in Peru. Freshman Kimran Pirasteh said missing Masias made the event a “challenge.” “Our maximum performance is absolutely necessary,” Pirasteh said before the tournament regarding the team’s play without Masias. Up next for the men’s squad is a match-up with Yale on Dec. 5. Last season, the men beat the Bulldogs 30-3. The women have two upcoming games, one against Yale and another against UConn. In last year’s match against Yale, the women earned a 24-5 victory.
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fter an offensive drought led to a frustrating start to the season for the men’s hockey team, the Red has surged back with a three-game winning streak. After last weekend’s win against Penn State in the Frozen Apple at Madison Square Garden, the team improved its record to 4-4-1 overall. The team stands at 3-3 in ECAC play. Expectations were high for the team coming into the season, with the Red ranked No. 18 nationally as the season opened. With 12 of its 14 leading scorers returning, but its longtime starting goaltender, Andy Iles ’14, departing, the Red’s offense was expected to be rolling as its young defense worked to adjust itself. Instead, the Red’s offense has struggled out of the gate, while its defense has kept opponents to an astonishing 1.56 goals per game, good for third in the nation. “I’m proud of our guys, because everybody had left us for dead a few weeks ago. Even in yourself, you start to wonder, are we ever going to score? Who’s going to get it in the back of the net for us? But it’s coming,” said Head Coach Mike Schafer ’86 of the team’s improving offense. The Red opened its season with a sluggish 1-1 tie against Omaha on Halloween. Sophomore forward Matt Buckles scored on the power play for the Red, while sophomore netminder Mitch Gillam, who had seen action in just two games the previous season, made a strong start with a 38save perforLAYERS mance in goal. O ATCH Despite s t r onger JOHN play the folKNISLEY lowing night in the Knisley had his first rematch career multi-point w i t h game last season in Omaha, the a 3-2 overtime win. In the Red’s win Red fell, 21, in its secover Penn State at Madison Square ond game Garden on Saturday, Knisley scored two of the seaof the team’s three goals. s o n . Freshman forward Trevor Yates JOHN earned his MCCARRON first colle-
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power play goal in the final period. Senior captain Cole Bardreau expressed his disappointment over the St. Lawrence game a few days after the match, calling it “uncharacteristic.” “Saturday night was just uncharacteristic, it was just not a good game for us, especially that third period,” he said three days after the game. “It was pretty embarrassing; we kind of just let our guard down, didn’t do what we needed to do. Our work ethic wasn’t there — we can’t have that in our own barn.” Taking sentiments like these to heart, the loss to St. Lawrence was the last loss the Red has suffered so far this season. The Red’s first game the next weekend turned into a 3-2 home victory over Yale, as the Red struck twice on the power play and once in even strength to take down the Bulldogs. Gillam started the game for the Red, putting up a series of spectacular saves in the second period to keep the Red in the game. The following night’s game was the Red’s 4-0 shutout of Brown. The Red tallied three goals in the first period alone, and the team’s four goal total was its first time putting that many tallies on the board since a 4-1 win over Princeton last February. The last win in the Red’s current three-win streak comes from last weekend’s 3-1 win against Penn State at Madison Square Garden. Senior captain and forward John McCarron, who has been held off the board for much of the season, put together a three-point night, while sophomore forward John Knisley returned from a brief injury-related absence to score two of the Red’s three goals. Some of Cornell’s struggles in the early part of the season can be attributed to the loss of senior defenseman and assistant captain Joakim Ryan, who Schafer often refers to as one of the best defensemen in the league. The loss of Ryan’s offensive output is striking — last season, Ryan ranked 11th in the nation in points per game for defensemen with .75. Ryan was injured in the Red’s first game of the season and has not yet returned to the ice. As the defense has learned to adjust to Ryan’s absence, Schafer has coached his team’s offense to be “comfortable” with low-scoring, one or two-goal victories. “I asked [the team] a few weeks ago, 'look around the locker room, how many of you guys were Top-10 scorers on your junior teams?'" he said after the win at the Frozen Apple. "I think we only had three or four guys put their hands up. And I said, 'Well, you know just be comfortable with who we are.'” Next up for the Red is a set of home games against No. 10 Denver. Denver’s offense ranks fourth in the nation with 3.64 goals per game, while its offense ranks 20th with 2.18 goals against.
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By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor 37 saves, including 11 in the first period as the Red struggled to find its footing. Stewart last started in the Red’s 40 win against Brown on Nov. 22, and his shutout in that game makes him the first Red freshman to post a shutout since Ben Scrivens ’10 left Union scoreless in 2006. “Hayden had a shutout in his last game, but Mitch is much better right now at controlling rebounds, and that’s why we went with him,” Schafer said of starting the sophomore against the net-crash-happy Nittany Lions. Following the two season-opening games against the Mavericks, the Red dropped two more close ones. Cornell lost, 2-1, to Princeton in its first Ivy match of the season, then dropped to current No. 14/15 Quinnipiac, 1-0, the following night. The Red finally earned its first win of the season in spectacular fashion the following weekend, against Clarkson. The teams traded goals in the second period, but both squads failed to record any more tallies during regulation, and the game was sent to overtime. Down a man in the extra time due to a major penalty, sophomore forward Eric Freschi scored a shorthanded goal from a two-on-one with senior forward Joel Lowry, lifting the Red to the win. T h e Red’s momentum was short-lived, as the team dropped to St. Lawrence, 4-2, the following night, after giving up both a shorthanded g o a l and a
A prolific career for McCarron will come to an end this season. McCarron was named the first junior sole captain since 2001 last year and was tied for second on the team with 24 points.
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Circling the net | Despite some key losses, the Red’s defense has been a strong point in the early goings.
1. QUINNIPIAC 2. CLARKSON 3. HARVARD 4. RENSSELAER 5. ST. LAWRENCE 6. COLGATE 7. YALE 8. CORNELL 9. DARTMOUTH 10. UNION 11. PRINCETON 12. BROWN
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WRESTLERS START THEIR SEASON WITHOUT A LOSS
Despite Injured Starters, Red Meets Goals Thus Far By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
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pulled ahead of Hofstra to snag first place for the day. “It’s nice when we have a couple other guys that we don’t ‘expect’ to pull out victories,” said head coach Robert Koll. “Team competition is not as tough as Oklahoma. Just the sheer volume of teams almost assures at least one or two good matches.” Koll added that emerging from the event without injuries added to the victory. “I’m most pleased that we got a lot of matches and no one got hurt,” Koll said. Just one week later, the Red swept the competition at the Northeast Duals, earning wins against Kutztown, North Carolina State and West Virginia. Villalonga, Dean and Garrett each went 3-0 for the day in their individual matches, with Pickett earning a decisive victory in the Red’s battle against North Carolina. Senior Jace Bennett and sophomore Mark Grey also both earned important wins during their North Carolina State fights, the one school that threatened to overtake the Red during the Duals. Overall, the team is still working to heal injured players and give those newcomers on the mat more experience. Koll explained that while training during practice is valuable in maintaining skill, experience in front of a crowd is invaluable. “For some of these guys, it’s the first time they make weight. It’s always tough your fi r s t
National Championships. In wrestling it’s about keeping the guys healthy, staying positive and being ready in March,” he said. “Regardless of whether you lose a couple here or there, it doesn’t stop the individuals from reaching their goals. And when individuals reach their goals, the team meets its goal.” Koll is the winningest coach in C o r n e l l wrestling history and is fast approaching his 250th career win, a feat that only eight o t h e r Cornell coaches h a v e accomplished. And in a sport where coaches have to motivate not Championships just individual and then, after players in individthat, win Easterns ual matches but also and then ideally win a team striving for a the National communal goal, coachChampionships. Those BRIAN STERN / ing style can be the deciare always our goals, SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER sive factor in a champievery year.” Both Koll and the team believe onship title. Koll said he works to that they have the men and the adapt his coaching tactics to the motivation to do just so. At this individual and provide each of his point, Koll said he hopes that he can men with the support and motivakeep his men healthy for the next six tion needed. “Every team is different,” he said. months. “All of the matches, all of the “The individuals we have are all tournaments, everything unique and different. Some kids can we do, are just prepara- be pushed really hard and constantly tion for that broken down but others, if you push last week- too hard, get broken down and can’t end in recover.” The Red has the majority of its March, t h e season remaining. Ivy League play kicks off in mid-January against Harvard. time down wrestling in front of a crowd,” he said. “It’s not something you can practice in a practice room. Part of the training is the matches and learning to deal with nerves.” Looking ahead, the team has set itself lofty, but attainable goals. Koll noted that throughout his 26 years with the team, he has always made the Ivy League championship a priority, and this year will be no different. “My alumni would kill me if I didn’t make the Ivy League and make it a priority,” he said. “We want to continue our streak of Ivy L e a g u e
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Fighting start | Junior Nahshon Garett (left), sophomore Gabe Dean and senior Chris Villalonga have all been key parts for the Red.
GABE DEAN PROFILE • EIWA Rookie of the Year in his freshman season • Earned All-American honors last season • Finished in third place at the 2014 NCAA championships • First team, All-Ivy selection, went 40-3 in the 2013-14 season