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Pocket Point Deals Wansink Faces Six More Retractions Researcher has had 13 papers pulled for ‘questionable research methods’ Likely to Change Over Next Few Days

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer

Six more of Prof. Brian Wansink’s papers were retracted Wednesday, increasing the Cornell Food and Brand Lab founder’s total number of retracted papers over the last 18 months to 13.

Wansink is a well-known researcher whose research has been featured in many news organizations, and he previously led a White House food program in 2010. Many of his areas of research focus on subtle, situational shifts that allegedly affect individual eating habits, like whether being hungry can affect a grocer’s habits or the impact of plate size on eating habits.

“This was quite a surprise,” wrote Wansink in an email to The Sun. “From what my coauthors and I believed, the independent analyses of our data sets confirmed all of our published findings.”

The papers retracted Wednesday were written between 2008 and 2014, according to Retraction Watch. They were published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, and were investigated following an

“Expression of Concern” published this past May, according to a JAMA news release Wednesday. The May statement expressed concern about the validity of all JAMA papers authored by Wansink.

“The decision to retract these articles follows the previously issued notices of Expression of Concern and was based on notification received from Cornell University that its investigation was unable to provide assurance that the results of the studies were valid,” a statement from JAMA Network said. “We appreciate Cornell University’s evaluation and assistance in addressing the important concerns about these articles.”

Wansink’s work was initially criticized after a blog post that supposedly promoted questionable research practices in November 2016, The Sun previously reported. In January 2017, three researchers published a paper criticizing apparent statistical inconsistency.

Alumnae and former lab researchers characterized his repeatedly retracted work as stains to the reputation of themselves and the University, The Sun previously reported.

Food science major Dean Hauser ’17 found that Wansink’s “dodgy” research hurt the department’s reputation, and was frustrated by the association of scandal with Cornell Food See WANSINK page 4 COURTESY OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY

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Brian Wansink’s publications have been criticized for research practices and inconsistencies. He now has 13 paper retractions.

Mars Rover Unresponsive Following Massive Dust Storm Though large dust storms can be common on Mars’ dry surface, this is the Sun Assistant News Editor planet’s most severe global dust storm in A massive Martian dust storm knocked decades, Squyres said. However, the storm out communication with NASA’s is now dissipating and Opportunity conOpportunity rover in early June, and now, tinues to to remain unresponsive.

“The skies are clearing; the dust is setas the dust settles and the rover remains unresponsive, NASA is forced to recon- tling,” he said. “So either the rover is still sider the future of one of its most famous alive and we’ll hear from it, or it’s not alive and we won’t.” missions.

The rover runs on “Our rover, which “I’d love to see him solar power from sevwas designed to last for 90 days and has been again, but ... we built it eral solar arrays, which make dust storms a paron Mars for 14 and a half years, has just been for Mars. I think Mars is ticular problem. Dust through the most trauwhere it should stay.” blocks direct light from reaching the arrays, matic event of its long “dramatically” affecting and eventful life,” Prof.

Prof. Steven Squyres the amount of power Steven Squyres ’78 Ph.D. that can be produced, ’81, the James A. Weeks Professor of Physical Sciences, principal Squyres said.

For now, investigators are waiting to investigator of the Mars rover missions, see if Opportunity will eventually regain told The Sun.

By HUNTER SEITZ Sun Staff Writer

The redeemable food discounts on the app “Pocket Points” are set to change over the course of the next few days.

“Students will notice over time that the rewards will change, and will continue to change throughout the life of the program. In addition, redemption periods for specific offers will expand and contract,” said Karen E. Brown, director of Campus Life Marketing & Communications.

The University and Cornell Dining are disagreeing on the ultimate direction of the app with members of certain Cornell campus eateries saying deals will no longer be honored after Friday Sept. “Students will notice over 21, despite the University assur- time that the rewards will ing users it intends change and will continue to continue the to change.” program.

Pocket Points, Karen E. Brown first released in fall 2014, was created

by Mitch Gardner and Rob Richardson. Within the first year of its release, the app was downloaded more than 200,000 times at more than 100 universities and colleges across the U.S., according to USA Today.

Long-lived | The

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Opportunity rover was sent to Mars via a Cornell-led mission in 2003.

By SARAH SKINNER

enough power to respond to messages from mission control.

“If there’s enough power, it will wake up and talk to us,” Squyres said. “The thing doesn’t have an off switch. There’s no way to actually turn it off. The problem with having an off switch is that you might accidentally use it.”

NASA will continue “actively listening” for approximately the next month and a half, sending commands to the rover instructing it what to do rather than simply

waiting for communication.

NASA currently transmits these commands multiple times per day according to a status update, which Squyres described as “time-consuming, costly, a lot of effort and, frankly, probably unnecessary.”

“If we get enough power on the solar arrays, it will wake up and try to talk to us,” he said.

Eventually, if the rover does not See ROVER page 4

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Students to Trek to Mount Everest’s Base Camp in May C.U. group plans to raise funds for clean drinking water charity

By MATTHEW McGOWEN Sun Senior Editor

A group of 20 Cornell students will trek to Mount Everest’s base camp 5,545 meters above sea level in May 2019, in an effort to raise between $45,000 and $55,000 for WaterAid, a charity that works to provide clean drinking water to people all over the world.

The trip is slated to begin on May 28, and 13 of 20 slots have already been filled. The trek was organized in partnership with Choose a Challenge, a London-based adventure travel company that organizes trips for student groups, who in exchange fundraise money for charity. Students who are interested in registering send their information to the trip’s campus leader, Elif Celikors grad who then provides more information on the next steps in the process.

Each participant is expected to use fundraising to accumulate $4,500 to $5,500, half of which will go to cover the cost of the trip, and the other half to WaterAid, the choice charity of Celikors.

“There’s a part of traveling that gives me cognitive dissonance... We are SO privileged to be able to jump on

“This is a rare opportunity for me to combine challenga plane and visit somewhere just for our own enjoyment,” Celikors wrote in an email to The Sun. “I wanted my ing adventure with a good cause, forcing me to step up and travels to translate into something more than beautiful actively engage with my world and my beliefs,” Ly stated.

Choose a Challenge has sent over 12,000 students on Instagram photos and interesting stories.”

Celikors recalled staying in a building with no bath- trips across the globe and raised over $25 million dollars room while studying abroad in France and becoming for charity since its founding in 2008, according to CEO attuned to the importance of clean water, which prompted Simon Varley. This year’s trip is the organization’s first ever partnership with Cornell, Varley her to choose WaterAid from the list told The Sun. of Choose a Challenge’s six partner “This is a rare opportunity Kailey White, a representative for charities.

WaterAid, noted that trips like the “Shower[ing] in our bedrooms is for me to combine Everest trek give students an opportua huge privilege, so [are] many other challenging adventure things,” Celikors said. “But having clean nity to experience first-hand the issues water, it’s a basic human right. It’s their fundraising efforts are trying to with a good cause.” essential for health, education, any litercombat.

Cathy Ly ’19 “Often on adventure trips like the ally any aspect of life.”

Everest one, students will be faced with Cathy Ly ’19, who will participate in lack of access to clean water and modern the trek, is familiar with the outdoors, as she said she has been an instructor for Cornell Outdoor toilets as well, which is an opportunity for them to think Education backpacking courses and outdoor adventure more critically about how important those basic necessities are,” White told The Sun. summer camps. $55,000, the overall fundraising goal, would also be “I haven’t done any adventure tourism before this, but I’m really excited about the opportunity to combine my enough to fund clean water projects like bathrooms, passion for the outdoors with a charitable cause,” Ly said hand-washing facilities and hygiene programming for five schools, according to White. in an email to The Sun. Though Ly had not heard of WaterAid before joining the trek, she said she is “passionate” about WaterAid’s goals Matthew McGowen can be reached at mmcgowen@cornellsun.com. and “supporting the right to clean water and hygiene.”

Real Estate Director Details North Campus Housing Plan

Wonders of nature A student reads a book on campus, taking advantage of the weather and Cornell’s outdoors.

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By SHAWN HIKOSAKA

Thomas also addressed how these buildings will be powered by natural gas.

“We’re increasing our footThe Employee Assembly convened on Wednesday afternoon print of built-environment on to discuss the North Campus campus by 4%, and we’re increasResidential Expansion with the ing our use of energy by just senior director of the real estate 1.4%,” he said. “These are going department Jeremy Thomas there to perform 33% better than the explaining the proposed plan to building code requires, from an energy perspective.” the assembly members.

“These will be the best perThe North Campus expansion will construct two new housing forming residential buildings on sites, which will give housing to the Cornell campus today — an additional 1,200 freshman and that includes [Cornell] Tech,” 800 sophomores, The Sun previ- Thomas said.

He acknowledged criticism to ously reported.

“A big part of this is meeting the proposed plan, namely regarding its use of the current and future demand “These will be the best natural gas.

Activists at an for on-camperforming residential Ithaca Planning pus housing,” Thomas said. buildings on the Cornell and Economic Development “We know campus today.”

Committee from experimeeting last ence that firstJeremy Thomas Wednesday years come in expressed conand they learn very quickly that if they were to cern over the buildings’ methane find housing for their sophomore emissions, The Sun previously year they need to start looking in reported.

“There are certain advocates the external market. There’s a lot of pressure and a lot of stress [on that feel that using any natural gas is not a responsible meththe students.]”

Thomas addressed current od and we understand that and housing problems on North we actually agree that you want Campus. He described the to minimize use of natural gas,” Townhouse Community, cur- Thomas said.

However, he cited reasons rently in use by first-year undergraduates. “[The Townhouses why Cornell plans on using natare] not really the ideal environ- ural gas. Thomas noted Cornell’s ment; the ideal environment is already-existing district energy system, which allows heating more of a dorm setting.”

He also spoke about the cur- and cooling to be done centrally.

According to Thomas, if Cornell rent state of Balch Hall. “[We] have some deferred used the electrical grid directly, maintenance projects — Balch more carbon emissions would be Hall for example. It needs to produced.

“40% of the energy that’s be renovated,” he said. The new dorms will mitigate the impact of created in that grid is actually the lack of available space in Balch done by burning gas, oil, and coal,” Thomas said. “When you Hall when it is renovated.

Thomas said that he hopes add load you are utilizing gas, oil that the plan “free[s] up housing and coal — all the other sources for faculty, for staff, for others are fixed.” that are out there who would just like to live closer to the core but Shawn Hikosaka can be reached at shikosaka@cornellsun.com. can’t afford to do so.”

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Prof Explains Vernacular Discrimination

By MAGDALENA SMITH Sun Contributor

American courts, police forces, job search processes and standardized education systems all discriminate against speakers of Black Vernacular English, a Stanford sociolinguist argued at a talk in Klarman Hall on Tuesday.

Prof. John Rickford, linguistics and the humanities, Stanford University, said the historically white standard English is constructed as more trustworthy, intelligent and well-educated than African-American Vernacular English — and dismantling this construction is part of the fight for racial justice.

In addition to being an emeritus professor at Stanford, Rickford is president of the Linguistic Society of America and former president of the Society of Caribbean Linguistics, among many other honors. He has written, edited or co-authored 117 academic scholarly articles and 16 books.

During his talk, Rickford cited a study in Philadelphia that found court reporters were only 59.5

percent accurate in their tran- found that regardless of if a cop scriptions of witnesses who spoke is black or white, they will use using Black Vernacular English, less respectful language when though the required accuracy rate speaking with black citizens. He said that in job interviews, AAVE is 95 percent.

For part of his research, was often associated with stupidRickford spoke with Rachel ity, lack of education and povJeantel, the last person to speak erty, forcing many black people to Trayvon Martin to assimilate their before white police speech patterns in officer George professional conZimmerman killed texts. him on February Rickford said 26, 2012. He said that the modJeantel “completeern-day racializaly transformed” tion of language his teaching and that forces black research. people to assimilate “Her testimony to a white standard was in very cultured, is rooted in slavery.

RICKFORD very deeply vernacLinguistic politics ular African-American language today are based more on race and was neither fully understood than class, which Rickford analnor believed,” Rickford said. ogized to how white poor and Rickford used research working class people historically regarding racialized interactions aligned themselves with wealthy between civilians and the police white people rather to suppress force, the school-to-prison pipe- slave rebellions, with no benefit line, the racial achievement gap, to themselves.

Rickford also noted the prevracial socioeconomic inequality, and mass incarceration to sup- alence of the school-to-prison port the arguments in his talk.

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Six More Wansink Pocket Points Deals Set to Change Publications Retracted POCKET POINTS Continued from page 1

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Science, when Wansink isn’t a part of the department.

Wansink has degrees in business administration, journalism and mass communication, and marketing — not food science — according to his CV. Wansink called the recent retractions “unjust” in an email to The Chronicle of Higher Education.

According to a press release by JAMA, the University informed them that “since we do not have access to the original data, we cannot assure you that the results of these studies are valid.”

Wansink said that the study can’t be reproduced from scratch because “there was no scratch.”

“What [my coauthors and I] did not keep over the past 25 years are the original pencil and paper surveys and coding sheets that were used in these papers,” Wansink wrote in an email to The Sun, saying that after combining the data in spreadsheets, they “tossed the pencil and paper versions.”

“[The] University has conducted a comprehensive review of allegations of academic misconduct raised in relation to the work of Professor Wansink.”

John Carberry The University first opened an investigation into Wansink’s work in 2017, and concluded that there were “instances of inappropriate data handling and statistical analysis,” but that there wasn’t “scientific misconduct,” John Carberry, a University spokesman, said in 2017, The Sun previously reported.

Since then, 12 papers have been retracted. The recent retractions cite reasons of “unreliable” data and results, and investigations by the institution and publisher, according to Retraction Watch.

Wansink’s papers have been widely circulated. According to Google Scholar, Wansink’s work has been cited 26,733 times.

Aside from being featured on media sites like Vox, Wansink also directed the 2010 United States Dietary Guidelines and promoted MyPyramid.gov, a dietary guidance resource. His work extended to “behavior change programs” for Google, the U.S. Army and other organizations.

The University opened a second investigation into Wansink’s work last October. Currently, he is still a professor, and is listed as an instructor for students conducting graduate-level, masters and Ph.D. research on the online Class Roster.

“Cornell University has conducted a comprehensive review of allegations of academic misconduct raised in relation to the work of Professor Wansink,” Carberry said. He said the University will release a full statement Friday.

“I’ve very proud of all of these papers,” Wansink said. “I’m confident they will be replicated by other groups.”

Maraym Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.

The app is designed to be easy to use. Individuals just have to open the app and lock their phone, and points automatically accumulate. People can earn more points if there are multiple individuals nearby also using Pocket Points.

Users found a glitch in the app’s free points system last week. Individuals are given a unique code their friends enter when they join the app to give the user 10 free points. However, the glitch allowed people to enter their friends’ codes an infinite amount of times.

Students were quick to exploit the glitch, allowing them to earn thousands of free points in minutes.

Armed with these points, students flooded campus eateries trying to cash in on the discounted or even free meals. Some even went out of their way to get in on the deals.

“I never used to eat lunch before but now I’ll quickly stop and either get 20 percent off a meal somewhere or get a free meal entirely,” Megan Hollister ’20 told The Sun. “I use the app to get free food and save money.”

The result was that many places quickly ran out of popular food options that were discounted on

the app, such as smoothies at Jansen’s Market, the Blended Burger at the Ivy Room and the cubano sandwich at Big Red Barn.

It is currently unclear how much money, if any, the University has lost.

“We’re currently analyzing redemption rates …

Bus Stop Bagels customers redeemed just over 100 Route 81 breakfast sandwiches [on Wednesday],” Brown said.

Certain campus eateries started refusing to honor the deals to combat this influx of traffic.

According to a post on the popular Facebook page Overheard at Cornell, Bus Stop Bagels refused to honor the discounts starting Tuesday, citing monetary losses as the reason.

A worker at Jansen’s Market, who wished to remain anonymous, informed The Sun that the rest of the campus eateries would be following suit by Friday.

Brown said, “All rewards are definitely still being honored at all locations and will continue to be honored.”

Hunter Seitz can be reached at hseitz@cornellsun.com.

Cornell-Led Mission Rover Rickford: Black Unresponsive After Storm Vernacular English Speakers Face Biases ROVER

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respond, the frequency of commands sent will decrease or stop, though locations around the world will continue to “passively” listen in case Opportunity regains power and transmits a message.

“Projecting a date when we might hear from it is impossible,” Squyres told The Sun. “There’s also the question of whether it’s alive or not, and we have no way of knowing that either. It will be either a miraculous recovery or an honorable death.”

As the rover has not communicated and is coming out of a dust storm, NASA has no idea whether it is permanently nonfunctional.

“It’s not low power that would kill a vehicle,” Squyres said. “It’s low temperature.”

The rover contains many sensitive electronic components within a warm enclosure, but that enclosure only remains warm while electric power is supplied.

Before flying 15 years ago, every component of the rover was tested to survive temperatures down to minus 55 degrees Celsius. Nights on Mars, however, can commonly reach down to minus 80 degrees Celsius, which Squyres described as “seriously, badass cold.”

In terms of rover-killing temperatures, however, the dust storm is actually functioning in Opportunity’s favor. Squyres explained that the sun heats the dust particles, causing them to radiate heat into the surrounding gas and keep the temperature within a much smaller range — a possibly survivable one.

“Now how cold is too cold?” Squyres asked. “We don’t know.”

The rover also has to deal with stress caused by the expansion and contraction of components as it goes through cycles of day and night, Squyres said.

Opportunity has currently survived around 5,000 Martian days — over 14 Earth years — longer than it was ever expected to last.

“I am now teaching adults, college students, who cannot remember a time when there wasn’t a rover on Mars,” Squyres told The Sun. “And to me that’s just extraordinary.”

Chris O’Connor grad told The Sun that he remembers

“It will be either a miraculous recovery or an honorable death.”

Prof. Steven Squyres following Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, when he was in fourth grade. Though he was already “waist-deep” in astronomy, he described the rover missions as “something great to see as a little kid who wanted to be a scientist.”

Sarah Skinner can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun.com.

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pipeline in many American public schools, the environment of fear, policing and criminalization it creates, and the connections between the school-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration of disproportionately Black and Latinx people.

To counteract the achievement gap in schools across the country between black and white students, Rickford argued writing teachers need to teach AAVE speakers the linguistics of both AAVE and standard English, instead of outlawing the vernacular and attempting to standardize language. Many world-renowned writers, poets and singers use the African-American vernacular, he said, and teaching children that standard and vernacular English are both valid may encourage students to claim the English language as their own.

“There is a very interesting and intimate connection between language variation, social class and race,” Rickford said, “and it has very strong activist implications.”

Magdalena Smith can be reached at mrs444@cornell.edu.

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Kelly Song | The Songbird Sings

I Wasn’t Planning on Moving In With My Boyfriend

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f you haven’t found housing for next year yet, you’re probably screwed.

My boyfriend and I have a long-running joke that the Ithaca housing market is so messed up you can sign a lease as friends and move in as significant others. It’s our little intro when people ask how we met. I was someone who was always adamant about not living with your boyfriend. We were just friends when we signed the lease, and I found myself moving in with a significant other this year and wondering how the hell I could’ve predicted this 9 months ago.

Yep, the usual depressing Cornellian romance backstory.

You’re probably wondering how all of this is possible, given that it’s still September, and we’re talking about the next school year. I know I certainly did. But the freshmen on campus will quickly learn that if you haven’t signed, sealed and delivered a lease by the second month of school, you might as well grab a cardboard box and prepare to make camp by the gorge.

The Ithaca housing system works the same way the Cornell mentality does, apparently: Everything has to be done as quickly as possible, and everything is about competition. Some of us are already looking at apartments before the current tenants have moved in. It’s all too familiar — summer after freshman year, I was already planning housing for junior year. I just finished my freshman writing seminar, and you’re already asking me to plan for my 3000-level English class era? And I thought Hotelies were the only ones obsessed with real estate.

We found my current house in late November. It has three stories and beautiful wood paneling and a reasonable rent. I swear that’s the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me. Really.

Because apparently finding a home nine months early is a force of nature.

Of course, you can still find semi-decent places until winter break, and if you’re really really lucky, the following March. But the choices are limited, and frankly, not pleasant. We’ve all been there before — wading between garbage bags and beer bottles in a Collegetown house because you waited until November to decide the housing lottery “just isn’t worth it,” so now you’re stuck choosing between a basement home with a faint

smell of laundry detergent or an apartment so far downtown it might as well be Binghamton.

My most baffling question was always, how the hell do you know who you want to live with a year from now? That’s assuming an impossible number of factors: a) I’ll still like the current roommate who just started showing symptoms of anti-dishwashing but I don’t know well enough yet to tell for sure, 2) I won’t develop an alter-ego and want to run off to a foreign country, or c) I won’t turn into the hermit I’m bound to become and decide to shut myself off in a studio, or d) anything that could possibly ever happen in the span of nine months, so basically everything.

Apparently, back to school checklists require picking your housemate for the next year before you even know if you want to ditch that semi-toxic friend group this year. That’s like asking us to start studying for the prelim early — it’s just not going to happen, and who knows what grade I’ll get anyway?

My point is, something needs to change — either the price range for rent needs to change or we just simply need more homes. By the third week of school, my friends are more stressed about housing than anything else that could occupy their minds. Simply put, there’s a growing demand, and the supply is overpriced. Hiking up prices simply because there’s a high demand from college students leaves an entire campus to fight for the few desirable homes at reasonable prices. Not everyone can afford those spanking new apartments in Collegetown. I don’t love Wings Over Ithaca enough to make a sacrifice like that.

I acknowledge there’s competition between landlords — it’s not any individual’s fault when there’s pressure from all sides and little housing to dole out.

The city needs to reevaluate the housing system from the top down, and someone needs to crunch some numbers and realize there’s not nearly enough homes that are desirable for the current market of students. Whoever’s in charge, why don’t you get back to me with a plan early this time, instead of the other way around?

Kelly Song is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. The Songbird Sings runs every other Thursday this semester. She can be reached at ksong@cornellsun.com

One Year Later: A Reflection on Hurricane Maria

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oday marks one year since Hurricane Maria made landfall in Puerto Rico.

Maria immediately thrusted Puerto Rico into darkness as the electrical grid was devastated, cellular communication was rendered impossible and basic necessities such as food and water became scarce.

Maria exacerbated the ongoing economic depression, with the poverty rate increasing to 52 percent (at least 3 times higher than the national average).

Since then, the Trump Administration has displayed a blatant disregard for the needs of Puerto Ricans.

For example, Trump praised how Hurricane Maria was not a “real catastrophe” like Hurricane Katrina, refused to extend Puerto Rico’s Jones Act waiver beyond ten days. This refusal prevented Puerto Rico from receiving aid and critical supplies from neighboring nations more quickly and cheaply.

FEMA also admitted to erroneously leaving 10 million bottles of water to spoil on a tarmac in Ceiba, and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin limited Puerto Rico’s access to federal disaster loans allocated

by Congress solely for Puerto Rico. He also refused to say that the Treasury would forgive Puerto Rico’s disaster loans , even though 90-95 percent of such loans are forgiven.

Neither should we forget Trump throwing paper towels to hurricane survivors as if he were playing basketball, or his egocentric declaration that the death toll was merely a fabrication designed to tarnish him politically.

The Republican-controlled Congress followed suit in the year after Maria. In line with its historic neglect and abuse of Puerto Rico, Congress passed a tax bill just under two months after Maria, treating Puerto Rico as a foreign jurisdiction thus subjecting corporations therein to a 12.5 percent tax on profits from intellectual property. All this despite Puerto Rico’s request for an exemption. Such a tax burdens the manufacturing industry, in Puerto Rico, which makes up just under 50 percent of the island’s gross domestic product. History shows us this tax bill will jeopardize the jobs of thousands of Puerto Ricans employed by pharmaceutical companies. For example, after Section 936 of the Internal Revenue Code was revoked for corporations operating in Puerto Rico — thus placing a financial burden on companies seeking to continue to operate in Puerto Rico — many simply moved out of the island, costing the economy 80,000 jobs. With respect to Medicaid, Republicans demonstrated a similar hostility to the needs of Puerto Rico’s healthcare system before and after

Maria. For instance, Congress has refused to equally fund Puerto Rico’s Medicaid program, which around half the population relies on and which Puerto Rico pays into fully. This occurs while the federal government has forced Puerto Rico, through a fiscal oversight control board, to cut nearly $1 billion from its Medicaid program. This likely means that close to one million people on the island will lose access to healthcare.

Only a year after Hurricane Maria, the consequences of such hostile and discriminatory measures against Puerto Rico are all too clear.

George Washington University’s Milken Institute School of Public Health found that there were 2,975 excess deaths in Puerto Rico following Maria, and specifically found that the rate of death among low-income and elderly communities were nearly 50 percent higher than normal.

Bread for the World Institute believes that food insecurity in Puerto Rico increased from 50 percent of households to 80 percent in the aftermath of Maria. A lack of resources for health services and a lack of access to basic necessities has led to a sustained increased in the island’s suicide rate. A study conducted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health estimated that the primary cause of higher mortality rates following the hurricane was “interruption of medical care,” allowing us to make sense of the high rate of death among low-income and elderly persons.

Today and going forward, we must remember and honor the 2,975 people who died in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, and the people of Puerto Rico who today continue to live with the effects of Maria and American colonialism. We must remember that thousands of deaths were not inevitable, but instead were the consequences of discriminatory treatment and policies. Puerto Rico has been subject to discriminatory policies time and time again that have made food, water, healthcare, security and life itself a luxury that thousands of Puerto Ricans are denied. We must remember the lives cut short as those of us who can vote in the November elections do so. We must also remember that Puerto Ricans themselves cannot vote. We must remember the lives cut short as we mobilize to act and support Puerto Rico in whatever way we can. In this way, we can work together to build up a more just and equitable world.

As Puerto Ricans before me have said, and Puerto Ricans after me will say: Puerto Rico deserves better. We must do better.

The consequences of such hostile and discriminatory measures against Puerto Rico are all too clear.

We must remember that thousands of deaths were not inevitable.

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Goddess Horny | Sex in the Stacks

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Strip Club Virgin? I Was Too.

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rystal tucked a wad of bills into my tiny black-lace bra.

Coquettishly, she straddled my lap and pressing her body against mine, she took the money from my cleavage with her red-lipped mouth.

As her teeth grazed my tits, goosebumps rose on my arms. With a sexy wink, she snapped the money into the gold string of her thong. On each side of me, one of my male-friends sat fully erect, their brows glistening and mouths gawking. The lustful daze of their eyes suggested to me that I had just landed a future role in their dirtiest masturbation fantasies. I wasn’t shocked to see them already failing to conceal raging boners only moments after arriving at the strip club. I was high on sexual power. I personified Rihanna’s “S&M.” I owned the male gaze. With a flash of boob and a lesbian kiss, those men were under my spell. At that moment, I understood and respected the fuck out of strippers.

Horny from the Ithaca summer sex-drought, I rallied two of my penis-owning chums, cashed out some billz, put on my pumps and paid a late-night visit to Kuma Charmers.

Self-described as an “adult entertainment club,” Kuma Charmers is Tompkins County’s local strip club.

On that sultry Thursday night, the customers were a trickbag of horny men: frat robots, truck drivers and several representatives from the age demographic that relies o n

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Viagra. Everyone had a visible hardon. I was the only female in the audience. We took our seats, the lights dimmed and that booty DROPPED. I don’t know exactly what my innocent ass expected from this kinky hole in the wall, but I did not expect to see vaginas. Newsflash (and duh): several dozen vaginas were centimeters from my face throughout the night.

Just as each stripper had a unique labia, each stripper had a unique persona. There was a slutty schoolgirl, a literal big titty goth chick, a save-a-horse-ride-a-dick cowgirl and everything in between. Ranging the beautiful spectrum of body types, each stripper could spin, twirl and hoist her womanness on the pole and make it look like angelic sex. I would bet my vibrator that these strippers’ athletic prowess had them NFL-draft ready. To further emphasize their beastly-ness, a stripper “air lassoed” me on stage and “taught” me moves on the pole. I was as clumsy and as lost as a teenage boy trying to find the clit. My arms shook; and when a customer asked me to take off my pants, I decided to retire. Not only did these women stun me with their acrobatics on the pole, spinning upside down by just the heel of their shoe, but I was also stunned by their showmanship and the grace with which they interacted with some of the dirt-bag customers. The strippers would circle the stage and interact with each customer individually, flashing a bit of her vagina or motor boating us with her tits. We’d thirstily await our turn to have the dancer perform a personal little sumthin sumthin. The sexy cowgirl would lasso and mount you, and with a lick down your neck, seduce the money out of your pockets before moving on.

When you look in the dictionary next to “girl power,” there is a picture of a stripper. By standing on stage and proudly showing off the female body, they are powerful. The

strippers were magnetic sex magicians.

They had full hypnotic power over these men (and myself admittedly) and complete and utter control and reverence. They used their bodies to mystify, excite, control and seduce.

I was enthralled, handing out cash faster than I could break my twenties. The strippers made my male friends squirm because, for the first time, these particularly entitled men realized that the objectified strippers of rap songs and pornos are actual people. They are women whose hair smells like Pantene, who wear bandaids on their blisters, who look you in the eye and who asked your name.

No longer are sex workers “bitchez on the pole.”

I don’t know what your preconceived notions about strippers are, but I had a humbling Flo Rida moment because my. head. was. spun. right. round.

Here were my big-dick-energy takeaways: • Stripping is a service: don’t be a cheap ass. Pay. • Keep yo hands to yo’self. They will touch you ya horndog, but don’t touch them • Strippers are humans too (duh) they are not sex dolls or porn holograms. Respect them.

• Strip club customers assume women in the audience are also strippers and treat you as such. Go with a trusted friend.

• Strippers smell like rainbows and unicorns. How? • You will see every house in boner city.

So with a naive gratitude I salute my hero strippers, and ask of my readers: Appreciate, respecte and/or hug (with consent and proper payment) your local sex worker.

Goddess Horny is a student at Cornell University.

Sex in the Stacks appears monthly this semester.

Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow

Relationship Status: Vibin’

slight buzz lingered in my room as the morning sunshine poured into my window and a lustful moan escaped from my lips. My tan leg muscles clenched and uneven movements broke the peace under my white sheets. Seconds later, bright colors burst in my veins and chivers sparked electrically from my core to the tips of my fingers. What better way to start a Sunday morning?

Much to my comfort, there was no one on the other side of the bed that Sunday. I was alone in my room enjoying the gift I had gotten myself earlier that week. On Monday, I came across an Instagram ad of a vibrator so chic and innovative that I had to have it. So I bought it. And this self-gifted orgasm marked a technological revolution in my sexual life, for now, I had a variety of vibrational settings and a sleek USBrechargable new lover.

This purchase also left me wondering, why are vibrators so mystical and how soon is too soon to get another one?

Not soon enough, obviously, yet as I looked online for my next toy, I realized how confusing it is to actually buy a sex toy. After all, if I’m paying over $100 for something, it better be worth my money, but how do I know it will work?

Six Shameless Questions to Ask:

• Is the material safe?

• How long does the battery last and how do you charge it?

• Is this an ideal product for a beginner?

• How many different settings does it have?

• Is this for the clit or G-spot...why not both?

• What is the sensitivity like?

In my experience, reading the reviews is the most important thing to do, and this also revealed a dramatic contrast between what sex toy manufacturers design and intend versus what women’s bodies actually desire. To my surprise, the majority of sex toy manufacturers and designers are men, so many vibrators and dildos aren’t actually comfortable or designed to fit adequately, and thus are not five-star products in their user’s eyes.

Looking at more options, I also realized that we’re truly in a revolutionizing era of the sex toy industry. Women are no longer accepting pink vibrators that don’t understand their bodies. Instead, women are creating products that acknowledge their needs and desires while at the same time normalizing the perception of women’s pleasure. Needless to say, I found this a mission worth investing in.

My Top 5 Feminist Sex Toys and Shops:

• The Frenchman by Smilemakers: a clitoral vibrator that mimics the delicate touch of a tongue in sensual light blue.

• Vesper by Lovecrave: a sophisticated and badass clitoral vibrator that doubles as a trendy necklace because self-love is something to brag about.

• Jolie Waterproof Vibrator by Natural Contours: a high-style, G-spot stimulator made by a company run by a sex-positive feminist, producer of pornography and sex educator.

• Good Vibrations: a sex-positive, worker-owned cooperative pioneer in the sex shop industry.

• Good For Her: a shop that fosters honest and open dialogues about sex, which started when its founder taught her friends how to achieve an orgasm.

Shyness, shame, or being spoiled for choice shouldn’t deter you from making a sensational purchase, so I invite you all to celebrate your orgasms with a lover that won’t break your heart!

Veuve Cliq-Hoe is a student at Cornell University.

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hether you’re looking for a snack on the go, a topping to sprinkle onto your yogurt or a crunchy cereal to mix with your favorite milk, this granola will satisfy each of those cravings. Naturally sweetened with banana and maple syrup, this gluten-free granola’s subtle sweetness can be enhanced with the addition of fresh berries or a drizzle of syrup or honey.

Buckwheat & Quinoa Banana Granola (GF) I adapted my granola from a recipe found on Food52, a website that features articles about food and travel. In order for the flavors of the banana and cinnamon to stand out, I slightly adjusted the ratios and substituted some of the buckwheat for quinoa to incorporate another form of crunch. This recipe makes about two cups.

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½ cup raw buckwheat groats ½ cup quinoa (any color works)* ½ cup coconut flakes 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 ripe banana 1 tablespoon olive oil (or coconut oil) 1 ½ tablespoons maple syrup** 1 pinch of sea salt *Look for gluten-free label if required. **Add an another ½ tablespoon maple syrup for a slightly sweeter granola.

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Royal Treatment at Shahi Pakwan

the banana with a fork into an applesauce-like consistency. Add the banana mixture to the buckwheat.

4. Add olive oil, maple syrup and salt. Stir until everything is evenly coated and spread across lined baking sheet.

5. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, stirring halfway through, until fragrant and golden. Allow to cool before storing or enjoying. Store in a cool, dry place for optimal freshness.

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ny person of South Indian descent will have fond childhood memories of dosa.

Dosa is often described as a crepelike dish made with rice batter. But to describe dosa through the analogy of a crepe is to do it a grave injustice.

A good dosa should be flaky and crunchy yet durable enough to act as a vessel for its contents. It should be served hot, with a glistening exterior that hits your taste buds with a hint of ghee (clarified butter) before giving way to the rest of the flavors that it has soaked up. These other flavors often include sambar (a lentil gravy) or spicy potatoes (a dish usually called masala dosa). Because it was a staple of my diet when I was growing up, dosa holds a special place in my heart (and stomach). Therefore, when I heard that Shahi Pakwan, a new Indian restaurant near the Commons, had dosas on its menu, I knew I had to go check it out.

Tucked away behind a corner just outside the center of the Commons, Shahi Pakwan is an incredibly small restaurant with only about seven or eight tables total. However, instead of feeling cramped, it felt cozy, like the dining room of an Indian uncle’s house. A couple of friends and I attended its Sunday lunch buffet, which had about a half-dozen different options that you’ll usually find at Indian restaurant buffets. These included naan, tandoori chicken, dal makhani (a black lentil dish), a mixed vegetable curry and, of course, rice.

Right away, I tried the tandoori chicken, and it was amazing. The spice mix that Shahi Pakwan used was incredibly flavorful, and, most importantly, the chicken was perfectly cooked. I’ve found that at most buffets, the chicken will sit for awhile and dry up. But none of the chicken served in this buffet was dry at all; it was all tender and juicy, an impressive feat. Although I found the murgh tikka masala, a chicken dish cooked in a red tomato sauce, to be a little bland, I was a huge fan of the murgh curry, which was bone-in chicken cooked in a gravy of ground spices that had a very distinct

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flavor. The gravy was thicker and had a mouthfeel different from that of most Indian curries. It coated my palate with a complex flavor consisting of cumin, garam masala, pepper and plenty of other spices. I had never tried Indian food with this sort of flavor profile, and I was excited to see that Shahi Pakwan was willing to serve food you wouldn’t usually expect from an Indian buffet.

The vegetarian dishes were quite good. The dal makhani curry, though cooked thinner and spicier than what I am used to, was a refreshing sauce that paired well with the rice. The mixed vegetable curry was also delicious, and none of the vegetables were overcooked.

To be honest, I was planning on coming back to try the dosa for dinner. Dosa is not meant to be served in a buffet — it needs to be served piping hot right off the griddle. (If someone ever offers you cold dosa, run as fast as possible in the opposite direction.) But throughout the whole process of eating at the buffet, I realized how incredible the service was. Shahi Pakwan is a small family-run business, and father-and-son owners Chur and Raaj Singh care a lot about the customer service that they provide. When they ran out of naan, within minutes, Raaj brought some hot naan right to our table so that we didn’t have to get up. So on a whim, I asked him if he was willing to make dosa for us.

When Raaj said, “Of course,” and ran back to the kitchen, I’d never been happier in my life. Within a couple of minutes, Raaj brought out a piping hot masala dosa (stuffed with spicy potatoes) and cut it up into pieces for my friends and me.

I’ve never felt so blessed in my life.

The dosa was delicious, soaking up the flavor of the potatoes, while still remaining crunchy on the outside.

Raaj brought out a total of four dosas for all of us while we were eating there. It was incredible, and definitely one of the highlights of my dining experience because I really appreciated the commitment to service that Raaj demonstrated.

The cherry on top of all of this? This whole dining experience cost $10 flat. That’s including tax.

(Doesn’t mean you shouldn’t tip though!) I can easily say that this is one of the cheapest lunch buffets around (at the very least, cheaper than Mehak). I ate four plates of delicious Indian food for $10, all while receiving the best service I’ve ever gotten at a dining establishment in Ithaca. Shahi Pakwan means “royal dish” in Hindi, and simply eating there made me feel like royalty. Since it’s just a ten-minute walk from Collegetown, I highly recommend you try Shahi Pakwan and meet Raaj and the rest of his family at their cozy Indian restaurant.

Serves: deliciously different style of Indian food Vibe: small, cozy Indian restaurant Price: $ Overall: Murali Saravanan is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at mms396@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Cayuga Sound to Rock Stewart Park This Weekend

Music, Ithaca and activism: A conversation with Sam Harris of X Ambassadors supported us . . . especially in the strength and power that came from our difference … so that song is one that always feels different at home.”

From here our conversation bounced around from Ithaca music venues, both past and present, to Harris’ favorite Cornell memory, which he claims is the

X Ambassadors have their sights set on a new concern: the opioid crisis.

Harris said the opioid crisis is “ really hitting Upstate New York bad, and there are some local groups doing great work in helping to minimize some of the damage and honestly to take some of the stigma off of addicts. That’s a big

Ithaca community about the crisis, Harris responded that “extreme punishment is never the right approach to this problem . . . in order to really treat the opioid If there’s anything we learned from problem in this country and upstate New last year’s Cayuga Sound Festival, it’s York, you need to take a more compasthat X Ambassadors are more than just a sionate approach and allow people to band. They are expert showmen, skilled feel more seen and heard . . . Addiction curators and is a disease and it philanthropists: needs to be treated home-town-heas such — not in a roes in every sense. criminal manner.”

Cayuga Sound Two days after I began last year as spoke with Harris, X Ambassadors’ Mac Miller overhomage to their dosed shocking roots and is hostthe both the couned in Stewart try and the music Park — a place community. Our Sam Harris, the conversation sudfront man of X denly became all Ambassadors, says the more relevant holds tremendous and important. sentimental value.

It is truly hum“I was a camp bling to realize counselor at that while both IC Stewart Park Day and Cornell sit on Camp … it was hills, these issues a place where I penetrate the town would go to play that supports soccer as a kid,” them. But beyond he described. He this, Harris’ mescontinued on to sage not only holds discuss how “he ground in the has a very deep Ithaca community, emotional conbut it has direct nection with the applications on park” and how “it Cornell’s campus. is insane to be able It isn’t strange CAMERON POLLACK / SUN FILE PHOTO to put a festival on Sound | Sam Harris of X Ambassadors performs with his band at 2017’s Cayuga Sound Festival. to Cornellians to there.” hear of our peers Harris notes that as a kid he “just want- time he spent as the dishwasher for the thing. There are some organizations that consuming drugs on an almost daily ed to get out” of Ithaca. But it is clear to Kappa Delta sorority on Cornell’s North are providing safe consumption sites for basis — and it is even less of an oddime that this statement is not one of resent- Campus. people who are using injectables. They ty for discourse to occur regarding the ment, but rather a celebration of how But our conversation quickly took a will provide clean needles, blood tests, inaccessibility of mental health services Ithaca embraced Harris and the rest of X more serious tone. X Ambassadors have access to doctors . . . some of these places on our campus.

Ambassadors to strive to be different and always publicly defined themselves as even will prescribe methadone and refer It seems clear that the Cornell commake their own paths. He cites this sup- activists and their philanthropic endeav- patients to treatment centers. But mostly munity especially should heed Harris’ port as one of the primary ways in which ors have certainly been catalysts for their these places are lessening to the mortal- message — help make people struggling Ithaca has shaped X Ambassadors’ dis- success. Harris discussed how last year ity rate due to opioids.” Methadone is with addiction “feel more seen and heard.” cography. Harris points to world-famous the band was “able to donate to a lot a drug commonly used in treating drug “Renegades” as a track that represents this of [local] groups that [they] benefited addiction.

Peter Buonanno is a sophomore in the College particular sentiment extremely well: from growing up, such as CSMA and When asked if he has any particu- of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at “Ithaca has always been a town that has GIAC.” This year, Harris and the rest of lar message to the Cornell and greater arts@cornellsun.com.

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Festival Cranks Up Volume for Year Two PETER BUONANNO Sun Arts & Entertainment Editor

The first annual installment of Cayuga Sound saw both X Ambassadors and The Roots headline. But while this past year has certainly been a busy one for X Ambassadors — the band has been hard at work on their second major record, which Harris described to me as constantly in flux but “expected to be completed sometime in 2019” — they have grown their festival to include a second night of action in Stewart Park.

This year’s ticket includes acts such as Young the Giant, who rose to stardom through singles like “My Body” and “Cough Syrup,” Talib Kweli, Towkio and dance duo Matt and Kim. Harris described the process in curating this year’s festival in a recent interview with The Sun: “Honestly, we really just kind of reached out to [this year’s] artists blindly. We didn’t really have any prior relationship with any of them. And we were lucky enough to have a lot of them say yes.”

Harris told us how he only met Young The Giant,

Friday night’s headliner, recently when they happened to be recording at the same studio. But Harris emphasizes that he is excited to work with these artists.

François Comtois of Young the Giant told The Sun that his group had “played a few festivals with X Ambassadors before, but that we only got to meet the group after signing onto the ticket at Cayuga.” Comtois further cited that the guys of X Ambassadors “are really cool” and that he hopes Young the Giant “will be able to host something similar [to Cayuga Sound] in

the future.”

In an interview with Matt Johnson from Matt and Kim, The Sun learned that Matt and Kim had a slightly different path to Cayuga Sound.

“We were playing a warm-up show for our tour at The Haunt, and we were still figuring a lot of songs out — we wanted to come back, so we reached out to one of the festival organizers as we felt that not everyone who wanted to see our show got the chance to see it . . . I guess we both kind of ‘swiped right’ on each other,” responded Johnson when asked how his band

was booked on the festival ticket.

Johnson further stressed how the audience should expect them to bring their usual Matt and Kim flare to the festival — self-described as “balloons, confetti . . . and lots of booty shaking.” Matt and Kim expect to end their tour on a high note at Cayuga Sound and mesh nicely with the vibe. When asked about his feelings on festivals, Johnson discussed how he feels that “festivals are where [the band] belongs as [they] perform more of a DJ set where even if you have never heard a Matt

and Kim song, you are able to still have a great time at one of [their] shows.”

Cayuga Sound has evolved in just a year to become a contender for title of best festival in the region.

The work the X Ambassadors and the Cayuga Sound team have done is impressive.

Don’t miss the second annual Cayuga Sound this weekend in Stewart Park — set times are available on the festival’s Facebook page.

Peter Buonanno is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts@cornellsun. com.

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Smith and other players to that goal?

They were ecstatic. Not only for me, but for the team because it really helped us throughout the rest of the game too. We weren’t pinned back as much because we were up two goals instead of one. It gave me a lot of confidence too and the team gained a lot of confidence in me also.

AUBREY AKERS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Ten questions | Emeka Eneli of men’s soccer, above, sat down with Jonathan Harris for an informal interview.

The Sun’s Jonathan Harris discussed adjusting to Cornell, the men’s soccer team and studying engineering with freshman forward/midfielder Emeka Eneli.

The following transcript has been lightly edited for clarity.

1) How has your first month at Cornell been?

It’s been exciting. It’s kind of hard to get used to all the little shortcuts around campus, but I feel like after the first three weeks I’ve gotten used to it. Everything has become kind of second nature to me. I love it here.

2) What was it like scoring your first goal in college?

Honestly it was a surreal moment. Not only was it my first goal but it was also a buzzer beater at the end of the first half.

3) What was the reaction from head coach John

4) Can you talk a little bit about your background?

I’m from Dublin, Ohio. It’s a suburb of Columbus which is the capital. Dublin is a growing city with about 20,000 to 30,000 people. I went to Dublin Coffman High School which is a public school. We had a student population of about 2,000 which isn’t too small or too big — it was just the right size for me. I was actually born in Lansing, Michigan, but I moved to Ohio when I was about eight years old because my parents got new jobs there. Since then I have lived in Ohio.

5) What are you studying?

I’m studying biological engineering in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. My sister just graduated with a chemical engineering degree so she’s kind of been the one that’s influenced me the most in what I want to study. I know it’s a big time commitment studying engineering and playing a varsity sport, but if you put the effort into anything you can reap the benefits of it. Any time I have free time in between classes, practices or soccer meetings I always try to get a little bit of homework done or a little extra studying in because I know it’s going to pay off in the long run when I have prelims, finals and my schedule gets even busier.

6) Who are your favorite professional athletes and why?

Definitely Lionel Messi because he’s a really humble person and I’ve always looked up to him since a young age. He’s not the biggest person and neither am I so I kind of relate to him in that aspect. Everything he does he gives 100 percent so he’s a really good role model to look up to.

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7) How did you decide that Cornell was the right place for you?

I visited here the beginning of my junior year. That’s when I met Coach Smith and other coaches and they toured me around the campus. First, the campus is really beautiful. From the second I stepped foot on campus I loved it. The team here is a great community. It felt like I fit in right away. I knew once I felt that, that’s the place I would want to be. I didn’t really feel that on other campuses with other soccer teams.

8) What is something about you not many people know?

Since I was 10 I also played basketball, football and tennis. I was a four-sport athlete for a little while I guess until academy when I turned about 14 or 15. Then I stopped playing all the other sports and really focused on soccer.

9) Can you talk a little bit about this year’s team?

This year’s team is extremely young. There’s 10 freshmen, 11 sophomores, a couple juniors and only one senior. Although we’re young we don’t really lack experience in the sense that we’ve all played in really big games under a lot of pressure.

10) How did you first get involved playing soccer?

When I was about four years old my mom said she always saw me bouncing a little soccer ball and kicking it around. She said parents would come up to her and say “he has a really good talent with the ball even though he’s only five or six years old.” After that I started playing recreational soccer in Michigan, then we moved to Ohio and I played rec soccer for another two or three years. That’s when I started to really play competitive soccer with a club team, then after the club team I went to play academy soccer. Academy is basically a 10-month investment into soccer, so that’s when I decided I wanted to really pursue soccer instead of any other sports.

Icers Picked to Repeat Top Overall Finish in ECAC Polls

By DYLAN McDEVITT Sun Sports Editor

For the first time since 200506, Cornell men’s hockey has been picked by both the media and coaches to finish atop the

ECAC, the conference announced on Wednesday morning.

Cornell received 16 first-place votes in each poll and holds a double-digit vote cushion on consensus No. 2 Princeton in both polls.

Princeton, which upset the Red

in the ECAC semifinals, received four first-place votes in each poll while Harvard received a lone first-place vote in the media poll.

The Red is coming off the heels of a first-place finish in the ECAC in the regular sea-

son last year, going 17-3-2 in conference en route to the program’s ninth regular season title.

As it looks to defend the Clearly Cup and beyond this upcoming season, Cornell will benefit from the retention of all of its

defensive corps and its star goaltender sophomore Matt Galajda — recently selected as the goalie on the preseason all-ECAC team.

While the Red remains intact from its title-winning campaign on the defensive side of the ice, it will forge through this season without its top three scorers from 2017 in Trevor Yates ’18, Alex Rauter ’18 and Anthony Angello ’19, who left Cornell early to join the Penguins’ AHL affiliate in Scranton.

It is the first time since before the 2005-06 season that Cornell was selected first overall in either poll.

Replacing those who have taken off the Carnelian and White for the last time will be eight new freshmen set to join the squad this year, including five forwards, two defensemen and a goaltender.

It is the first time since before the 2005-06 season that Cornell was selected first overall in either poll, when it was chosen in both.

That season saw the Red finish third in the conference with an ECAC record of 13-6-3.

Cornell will open its 2018-19 campaign with a pair of home contests against Michigan State October 26 and 27.

Dylan McDevitt can be reached at dmcdevitt@cornellsun.com.

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Red Set for Homecoming Matchup With Yale C.U. looks to avenge last year’s Bulldog blowout in New Haven

By MILES HENSHAW Sun Staff Writer

Every game matters in a league where the champion is decided in just seven contests, but this Saturday’s tilt between Cornell and the defending Ivy League champions Yale looks like it will matter a little extra.

Cornell will host the preseason favorite Bulldogs on Saturday with an opportunity to begin Ivy League play with a win in front of a homecoming crowd — and to get some revenge for the 49-24 rout they suffered at the hands of Yale last year.

“We’re coming out there with a little vengeance remembering what happened last year,” said junior defensive lineman Jordan Landsman. “Coaches, players, we lost some nights of sleep over what happened last year.”

“We want to play our best in front of our homecoming crowd and clean up the things we didn’t finish on the field.”

MICHAEL WENYE LI / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Grudge match | Cornell seeks ‘vengeance’ on its conference rival Yale after last year’s 49-24 defeat on the road as it hopes to ignite a packed homecoming crowd.

Head Coach David Archer ’05 If the Red wants vengeance against the Bulldogs, they’ll need to bounce back quickly from last week’s 27-10 loss at Delaware.

“We want to play our best in front of our homecoming crowd and clean up the things we didn’t finish on the field against Delaware,” said head coach David Archer ’05.

After managing only 232 yards in week one, Cornell’s offense will make some changes this week. The coaching staff will try to find hot hand among their offensive weapons after three quarterbacks and a number of running backs saw action in the home opener.

“I think maybe the reps will change,” Archer said. “It’s important to get a little more rhythm established with guys who are playing better and maybe playing better that practice week.”

The Red will make adjustments on defense, too, despite

a strong showing last Saturday that kept Cornell in the game.

“We can’t come in and have zero turnovers like we did last week,” Landsman said of the defense.

The focus on turnovers will not be limited to defense, as much of Cornell’s struggles in the first two weeks of last season were due to giveaways.

“I think one of the best improvements we made from last year’s Delaware game to this year’s Delaware game was turnovers,” Archer said. “When we went to the Yale Bowl last year we gave the ball away three or four times in the first half and that really changed the momentum.”

The Red’s big challenge on defense this week comes in the form of Yale’s sophomore running back Zane Dudek.

Dudek led the league with 1,133 rushing yards and 15 touchdowns and tore up Cornell’s defense for 173 yards last season. To boot, Dudek is fresh off a monster 217-yard

effort in Yale’s week one 31-28 overtime loss to Holy Cross.

“We’ve worked a lot on our pursuit angles,” Archer said. “[Dudek’s] a really elusive runner, he sets up his runs really well, he’s got great lateral quickness … he is exceptional.”

“Knowing how much of a threat their running back Zane Dudek is we have different personnel on our side of the ball, so we’re bringing it. It’s important to start hot and keep that going every play, every quarter,” Landsman said.

The Red is enthusiastic to put on a show for what will likely be football’s biggest crowd of the season.

“I love homecoming, he said. “I love home games here.

The homecoming game’s always one of my favorite days.”

Kickoff of the Homecoming contest is set for 3 p.m.

Saturday at Schoellkopf Field.

Miles Henshaw can be reached at mhenshaw@cornellsun.com.

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