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C o m p u t e r S c i e n c e G r o w t h a ‘ P h e n o m e n o n’

Nikita Gupta ’17 is a computer scientist who loves to cook When she was a freshman in high school, she created a website so she could share her favorite recipes with friends and family Gupta uploaded videos of herself cooking onto a web-

site and attached written recipes She hadn’t been exposed to computer science before, but after working on the website, she decided she wanted to pursue the major in college

“C S allowed me to integrate my passion for technology and cooking together, and create something that was helping my friends and family around the world,” she said

Native American Students: Art Exhibit ‘Crossing a Line’

The American frontier has pushed its way to the forefront of Cornell’s campus on a long stretch of Libe Slope, where a controversial exhibit by Prof Aleksandr Mergold ’00, architecture, has been on display since Friday

“American Spolia: Crossing the Line” part of the Cornell Council for the Arts 2016 Bicentennial has provoked a n

v e American Students at Cornell

The structure is a visual symbol of the 1792 Central New York Militar y Tract,

which destroyed indigenous lands to create 28 new townships now known as Central Ne w York, according to the Cornell Council for the Arts website

Crafted out of 200 years of New Yorkbased debris, the exhibit’s name alludes to the practices of the Romans, who built triumphal arches out of the spolia, or spoils, of their victories, according to the CCA This debris is drawn out into a physical line, representing the path of American expansionism

Mergold’s work is meant to celebrate the “American experiment” and in the

Gupta has experienced firsthand the computer science craze sweeping through Cornell and across the countr y In the last five years, the number of C S majors at Cornell has more than tripled from under 200 to almost 700 according to Prof Fred Schneider, chair of the department of computer science

N.Y. College Republicans Chair Resigns

A day after the Cornell Republicans filed an administrative appeal with the College Republican National Committee, demanding to be reinstated to the New York Federation of College Republicans, Chair Eli Nachmany who had called for an abrupt executive board vote to expel Cornell’s chapter resigned his post

Nachmany is currently working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, and according to the federation, he stepped down to focus his efforts on work for the candidate The former chair did not immediately respond to requests for comment

“We at the Federation would like to say goodbye to Eli Nachmany, who has resigned as Chairman in order to focus on getting our party ’ s nominee elected in November,” the N Y Federation wrote in a post on its facebook page Friday

The post additionally said that Cornell’s status in the federation will be determined by the new board after it is approved

their endorsement of Libertarian Gary Johnson, the organization had violated the club’s constitution and due process rights, The Sun previously reported The letter also accused Nachmany of violating campaign finance laws in his work for Trump, in addition to broader principles of free speech

Kuby warned that if the national committee did not act to reverse its decision within 10 days, the group would proceed with litigation

When asked if Cornell Republicans would drop the impending law suit now that Nachmany has resigned, Olivia Corn, chair of Cornell Republicans responded, “If we are reinstated yes, if not, we will proceed with litigation ”

“All questions relating to the current situation with Cornell will be discussed and decided after the Standing Committee approves the new executive board,” the post said

The Cornell Republicans’ attorney, Ronald L Kuby J D ’83, had drafted an appeal arguing that in expelling the Cornell group from the federation after

“Make no mistake, [Nachmany] did not resign to help the Republican party: he resigned because he did not read the Federation’s constitution before he made a decision with massive ramifications,” she said “He jeopardized the 527 status of the federation by making his decision as a paid Trump staffer ” Corn also said the Nachmany may have made this decision in order to “clean up his image ”

“Over the phone he whined to me that we were ruining his political career, ” Corn said “No Eli, you did that all by yourself; as much as I would like to take the credit, that one ’ s on you ”

Department of Physics Colloquium

Conell Fluids Seminar:

Human Decision-Making

chair | Gabe Kaufman ’18 chairs the Univesity Assembly, which will meet tomorrow

Biomedical Science Seminar: Elizabeth Snyder 2:30 - 3:30 p m , G10 Biotechnology Building

University Assembly Meeting 4:30 - 6 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

Using Excel with Research Data 4:30 - 6 p m , Uris Classroom, Uris Library

Alumna Places Third in Miss America Pageant

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The undergraduate demand for computer science is by no means a movement restricted to Cornell “It’s a national phenomenon,” Schneider said “Different universities have dealt with it in different ways ”

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Exhibit Prompts Debate on Historical Narrative

process unite Cornellians on their daily commutes by showing that singular acts of history affect everyone, according to the CCA

The exhibit is Mergold’s investigation of the “invisibility” of the Six Nations of Iroquois from the CNY Tract map and the “destr uction” of their livelihood, according to the exhibit’s Facebook post Cornell students from Native American communities reacted with disbelief to the accusation that their cultures had vanished, with NASAC reps denouncing the aim of the piece in a statement published on Facebook, calling on collaborators to “ restructure this piece in order to foster dialogue ” Mergold and the NASAC met Thursday to discuss the exhibit’s aim and description, resulting in friction as NASAC President Benjamin Oster ’17 concluded that Mergold “did not conduct careful and thorough research ”

“Professor Mergold did not conduct careful and thorough research when planning this public installation and was not prepared to offer an apology for his erasure of Native Peoples before the end of the meeting,” Oster said “NASAC will not attend the installation opening and instead reminds the Cornell Community that Native Peoples are still here and have been since time immemorial ”

a concern to many, as it takes a definitive stance on a didactically challenging period of history, which declaratively altered the lives and cultures of many

Jessica Biggott ’20 said the exhibit has begun a new dialogue in the somewhat-stagnant and often avoided history of American expansionism in increasingly divisive times

In response to the exhibit’s unaltered opening day, NASAC created a month-long Facebook event “We Are Still Here” to draw attention to the sur viving Indigenous culture prevalent in much of central New York and Cornell The public event coincides with the exact dates of the exhibit

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Oster said the exhibit “paints Native Peoples as a conquered relic of the past, dismisses the active and vital Indigenous Cornell community and undermines our core value of “ any person, any study ”

Some students have expressed a disdain for the rhetoric of the exhibit but still maintain that the work itself is of use and value to the community The exhibit’s description and literary aim at the 2016 Bicentennial is

“Despite the several conflicts that have started and its number of flaws, I believe the exhibit is good overall because it has started a conversation about histor y that has so often been ignored,” Biggott said The theme of the bicentennial is “Abject and Object Empathies,” focusing on how the human mind shapes experiences intentionally and unintentionally, according to the CCA website “American Spolia” was scheduled to be on display starting Friday, amongst other 2016 Bicentennial Abject and Object Empathies exhibits However, the event has since been cancelled, according to a Facebook post Mergold declined to comment on the exhibit or the NASAC’s response but said he is working with the NASAC to refocus the description and dialogue of the piece

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ly engage all students in shared governance, ” he said

In a resolution passed during the 2015-2016 school year, the S A modified the referendum process, redefining a referendum to include the student body instead of just the S A and changing the number of signatures required for a petition

These amendments aimed to improve the referendum process, particularly in polling students, and provide students with a simpler procedure for voicing their opinions to the administration, according to Brian Murphy ’16, a staff member at the Office of the

“Every member of the Cornell community is permitted to submit statements. We have received 569 statements already ”

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In order for a referendum to appear on the ballot, it must either be approved by S A and garner signatures from three percent of the undergraduate population, or must be signed by 10 percent of undergraduates, Murphy said

“If passed, this would be one step towards gender equity.”

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“If passed, this would be one step towards gender equity,” he said

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When either of these conditions are met, the referendum will appear on the ballot for fall or spring elections, along with names of students running for offices It is on this ballot that students can vote in support or against the referendum, according to Murphy Indimine said the referendum “merely serves as a way of establishing the need, or denouncing the need if it fails, for free tampons and pads in all bathrooms on campus ”

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To the Editor:

William Wang | Willpower

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Iremember when I wanted to be an athlete Before Brad Pitt took it to Ho llywoo d glitz , I rea d Moneyball cover to cover and dreamed of someday being centerfielder for the Athletics I’m not sure what was going on in my head: my hand-eye coordination was atrocious, and my flaccid swing made me an easy out I was fast, sure, but it’s hard to run to first base when you always strikeout Needless to say, my baseball dreams were not to last

It was inevitable I think almost ever y kid has, at some point in their childhood, fantasized about being a sports star They dream of that big moment, of those last gasping, dying seconds in the championship round, with their team down Maybe it’s on the basketball court, where they’re guarded by their idol, and it’s the last possession

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feedback from the NBA and other sports leagues, the list will snowball before the year ends It’s surprising what a few weeks can do for our national conscience These athletes meant something to some people before the protests started, but that meaning was only found in statistics and money, wins and losses Now? They mean something entirely different, and based on your point of view, it can be either terrifying or liberating

But this isn’t about who is right or wrong, about whether it’s “ correct ” to protest the national anthem, or whether it’s unpatriotic to speak freely It isn’t about their character, or ulterior motives; it isn’t about their race, or how much they make Rather, think about it, and step back: We’re no longer talking about how many tackles they m

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We have recently witnessed an upsurge in liberals and Clinton supporters devaluing large left-leaning segments of the population which are considering voting for third party options, or not voting at all, in the coming presidential election Being a member of this ideological trend I am forced to respond to these attacks, to give public representation to a position which is constantly being decried

I respect those whose political choice is to cast their ballot in favor of Hillary Clinton, some of which will even do this against their conscience in a respectable effort to stop Donald Trump from winning the presidency I, and many others, do not share that sacrifice, however legitimate in its own right The mainstream liberals, clearly represented on this campus by the Cornell Democrats, however, have an egregious will to undermine our divergent political choices The Sun recently dedicated an article to the Democrats position, titled “Cornell Democrats Warn Students of Risks of voting for Third Party ” This reminds us one more time of how racist and scary candidate Trump is, and, in essence, works to guilt trip us into voting for their candidate I will respond to the arguments formulated in that article and demonstrate their fallacies

One member of the Cornell Democrats hails at us to “wake up and smell the fascism” to appeal to our sense of duty against such forces There is an absence of historical understanding of fascism inside the ranks of Hillary Clinton, however, which limits the conception to its bare minimum A Fascist movement, although catalyzed by a powerful figure during its rise and climax, necessitates pre-conditions for its emergence The defeat of Donald Trump will not shut down the large sections of American society which are responsive to his rhetoric The end of Trump will not save this country from these threats The far-right reactionary and fascist movement will keep rising, finding a new leaders if it needs to, unless it is opposed by a genuine anti-fascist united force, a progressive socialist movement which doesn’t flirt with the establishment Clinton is born of the neo-liberal economic order, the same establishment politics that have generated the fascist movement taking place today It is not a far-reaching certitude that Clinton, outside of mild appeasing economic reforms, will maintain this order and therefore only generate more reactionary forces

Another point of pride made by the Cornell Democrats about Clinton is that she “ treats her political adversaries with respect ” as opposed to the unpredictable and provoking Trump We have accumulated enough information by now, especially through the WikiLeaks email disclosure, to know that the cooperation between the DNC and Hillary Clinton’s campaign was real and seriously undermining the fair process of the Democratic primaries Hillary Clinton, although more subtly than Trump, knows how to do this and will undermine her political adversaries when she needs to

A third and final, rather prevailing, point made by the Cornell Democrats concerns the recognition of the sacredness of the right to vote, aimed at those planning on not voting

A member mentions the sacrifice of those who achieved the legal right and our inherent duty to use it How pleasant the hypocrisy, this argument ending an article focused exclusively on dictating whom to vote for The right to vote, in all its sacredness, also encompasses the right to choose for whom to vote

To Cornell Democrats specifically, and to all Liberal moral-givers generally, I will not criticize your voting decision but keep us out of your political calculations You are responsible for the creation of this bi-partisan system which has left us a choice between fascism and neo-liberalism Today, some of us are ready to formulate and construct a brand-new path, and we won ’ t delay this project any longer because of your petty cries for help

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We’re no longer talking about how many tackles they made last week, how many points they scored, or whether their team won or lost ... We’re talking about what it means to be American

T r u t h f u l l y , most of us never grow up from that Even as we lose passion for the sports we grew up on or realize our bodies have betrayed our minds, we still keep a small part of our childhood in the form of this perpetual awe of athletes Maybe it manifests when Usain Bolt glides across the finish line, hardly breaking a sweat, flashing his signature smile as he rolls to another gold Or maybe it comes up when we see LeBron, trucking past his peers to lay the smackdown on a poor, unsuspecting soul for a championship saving block Or perhaps you find it all around: The cross countr y track star, outclassing the rest of the field, who happens to be the golden boy for your school, or the football wide receiver who, yeah, really, he made that catch with one hand

Do we expect anything more from them, though? Should we expect anything besides highlight reels and garish confetti? Some people might say no, because the sports we watch on TV, the kind that controls the moods of millions, is just entertainment And the people w h o s a y t h i s b e l i e v e t h a t a t h l e t e s shouldn’t get paid millions, and that the money spend on them is a waste A sports star is just a sports star, they say, because really, does sports really matter in the grand scheme of things

Well, no, of course not

Sports are sports, because even though they might bring us joy and pride in our team, and even though they bring us together even if we disagree politically or religiously, at the end of the day the world moves on without them I could watch the Red Sox win tonight, but at the end, nothing has changed The apple still falls from the tree, the countr y still has a disaster of an election coming and innocent people are being gunned down without prejudice Sports doesn’t matter

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Kaepernick Megan Rapinoe Brandon Marshall Devin McCourty Jason Lane

Arian Foster Marcus Peters Athletes idols who have protested the national anthem because of their dissatisfaction with the countr y and how it has permitted social injustice The list goes on and on, and I suspect, based on the initial

about why would athletes, vulnerable to the public opinion, would risk their profile, endorsements, jobs, for a muted protest?

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c e t h e y h o l d T h e y ’ re a m o n g s t t h e h i g h e s t p r o f i l e p e o p l e i n t h i s w o r l d ; t h e y a re c e l e b r i t i e s o n t h e p e r i p h e r y, a n d i d o l s i n t h e m i d d l e o f o u r n a t i o n a l c o n s c i e n c e We l o o k u p t o t h e m f o r t h e i r a c c o mp l i s h m e n t s , a n d a re s w a y e d b y t h e i r o p i n i o n s W h e n t h e y d o s o m e t h i n g , w e n o t i c e So w h e n o n e s t a n d s u p f o r a c a u s e , w e l i s t e n i n t e n t l y It’s w h y t h e s e p r o t e s t s h a v e b e e n s o e n l i g h t e n i n g : W h e n p e o p l e i n p ow e r i g n o re

protests, it’s clear something has shifted these past few weeks So it’s in this vein that I encourage more athletes to follow them and protest or speak out on the problems that run rampant in society And not just on racial oppression, but also the causes they believe in, because those who do raise awareness have done an invaluable ser vice It tips the conversation of this countr y, and lends the cause more credibility It’s also a matter of longevity Athletes that last the longest in

those who were the best or most accomplished, but those who fought for their ideas: Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Caitlyn Jenner, Tommie Smith and John Carlos They fought and clawed for their voice, and it was heard In today’s fast thinking and diverse world, it could only help to receive a growing body of opinions But it might not come easy After all, it takes superhuman speed to sprint like Usain, but it takes a superhero to speak honestly

William Wang is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at wwang@cornellsun com Willpower appears alternate Mondays this semester

Inmy last column, I wrote at length about the truth

Operating with the definition used there, I would like to expand on what it can actually look like to talk about the truth Since I am a cynical realist at heart, I am not going to elaborate on the bright side of this endeavor: those resplendent moments of success and growth, which are bound to happen because of how elegantly they perpetuate themselves Rather, I will focus today on the moments when truth-sharing seems to fail

Sometimes, the talks I have with others about the truth of the world don’t go the way I had hoped For example, I often find myself being subjected to relentless critiques of the structure and presentation of information, which allows my peers to circumvent the content Other times, they will eagerly cordon off my attempts to be heard with stalwart, seemingly impregnable defensive barriers after all, it’s much easier to talk broadly and abstractly about human nature than it is to address an intimate detail of one ’ s own life or commit to making a personal change My peers also like to coopt the conversation as a subversive means to focus on their own qualms with the world and avoid investing any trust in myself or others And this is just the short list The long list has similarly recurrent themes and strikingly familiar examples, almost to the point of being laughably predictable

The Truth, Part Two

When I see people respond to the truth in ways like this, I already know why they’ve chosen these coping mechanisms So while I may briefly become discouraged and dejected, I will never become broken As a form of inspiration, I like to remember that I have dozens of stories from history to back me up Still, in turning to former advocates and allies, I sometimes struggle with the juxtaposition that arises

For example, I recently re-read Martin Luther King’s Letter From a Birmingham Jail this, along with The Fire Next T i m e , should be r e q u i r e d reading for anyone who c o n s i d e r s themselves a p r o p o n e n t of nurturing Justice, by the way and it occurs to me that the potency and fullness of King’s words is sometimes lacking in contemporary recourse The people’s energy has dwindled away to a margin of diminishing returns If X is the extent to which people are talking about an issue or committing an act towards a cause and if Y is the extent to which people are responding to those words or actions then the curves on the graph of progress have become less and less pronounced over time, gradually regressing to a flat line If we ’ re not careful, we will soon find ourselves

My parents found a perfect candidate to look after me since they couldn’t anymore What qualified him, however, had nothing to do with the fact that he was my resident advisor whose job was to ease the drastic change to college life He was a respectful and seemingly responsible Indian student who fondly reminisced with them of the motherland, using “ aunty ” and “uncle” throughout their conversation

As we mature, we come into identities shaped by the culture we were raised in My parents came to America for my sister and me, but ensured we would grow up in an Indian household As a result, my Indian heritage has always been an important aspect of my identity It was always a source of support and comfort I could turn to, and this well-mannered Indian boy would continue to provide it for me They were right in that he became important to me, but not in a way they would expect

Years of maintaining denial were shattered; I burst through the closet doors His terrifically structured face told me I was gay, and the tight red shirt and skinny jeans plastered onto his lean, lanky body confirmed it Up until that point, I would justify the urges I felt towards boys with envy In elementary school, I would convince myself that some boys’ faces were really cute, and since mine was ugly, I was jealous In middle and high school, my body was doughy and sedentary and theirs toned and athletic When I saw him, however, I didn’t want his face I didn’t want his body I did, however, want them enmeshed against mine

I told my parents he became my friend and to him, I was To me, it was a little more than that I half-sprinted back to North after my last class to secure dinner

teetering on the escarpment that marks the end of this metaphorical plateau, huddled together as the winds of our own apathy and denial threaten to hurtle us into the abyss

Let’s try, if you’ll humor me, to get a bit more concrete The other day, I stumbled across an article in the Atlantic that meticulously and thoroughly explained how resegregation is plaguing the nation To make a long story short, housing districts that ser ved their metaphorical “time” during the golden age of desegregation are

now being “rewarded” across the country with colorblind policies ,that dictate homeownership, school zoning, etc And, as would be expected, this has rapidly led to the steep decline in the economic value of homes, quality of education and availability of resources as government support from formerly integrated, thriving, communities vanishes because white people decide to get the hell out of dodge What follows is an imposition of will on the afflicted through systemic oppression: Cue the schoolto-prison pipeline, the prison industrial complex, gentrification

and so on and so forth and so it goes, as Vonnegut might tiredly say Granted, I exist in an insular space where the concerns of those who seek justice and equity are more likely to enter my sphere of consciousness than they would in many other places (although I still don’t hear nearly as much as I should or would like to from my peers here) I wonder, though: When we are no longer college kids, full of verve and passion, but instead have become true adults, fully matriculated into the workforce, will we remain f i e r y ?

M o n e y , networks, p o w e r and prestige have a way of making us turn a blind eye, or at least bury our anger under an avalanche of poise and ambition, allowing it to creep and claw back to the surface only in those occasional, inspired moments President Obama is a sometimes beloved, oftentimes disrespected, and perennially divisive example of what happens when this burial process vaults you into the role of a transcendent, diplomatic symbol for the group you represent, yet doesn’t prepare you for the pressure to exact lasting, substantive change that is intrinsic in such a role

Believe me, I would love noth-

Narayan Reddy | Reddy Set Go

Brown Boy, Brown Boy

dates, felt fiercely betrayed when he spent time with other residents, and endured physical pain upon meeting his girlfriend It was not until much later that I realized it was more than puppy love The running theme of our interactions was the Indian culture we both identified with Privately, however, I used my infatuation with him as a way to begin accepting my own gayness

My identity was in disarray I asked myself how I could continue to be an Indian when Indian culture disapproved of queerness However, through an imagined re l at ionship, I lived in a u t o p i a in which s o c i e t y did not pit ident i t i e s

g a i n s t o n e a n o t h e r It was an a t t e m p t to force affinity between identities marred by a relationship of hatred His Indian-ness kept me grounded in memories of home and childhood, and his sexiness was a space for me to explore my sexuality with the assurance that my sense of self was still standing, albeit fractured

I am a proud, gay Indian American that has only just learned that I don’t need validation from an Indian man. By writing through this extremely neglected perspective, I hope to inspire more queer inclusivity in Indian spaces

that can do both” rings a bell I learned a few things from my first foray into romance that I wish to share here First, I learned it is important to accept that conflicting identities boil down to those created by one ’ s experiences and others by one ’ s belief system For me, my Indian identity comes from watching Bollywood movies every Friday with my family, and finding community in the “brown” parties we attended every Saturday It did not arise from my approval of the heterosexual, cis-gendered and caste-upholding i n s t i t ution of a r r a n g e d marriage

In fact, my sheer r e j e c t i o n of such a custom is driven by my identity as a gay man

This is an identity informed by my own personal belief system I feel comfortable merging the two identities knowing that any conflict between them only feels “ wrong ” superficially I stopped leaning on him because I found stability in dual affirmation

ing more than to be content with the state of this world, to never have to write about oppression again to declare, exultingly, “We made it, all of us ” Then I could spend more column space on art, film, music and nature (to which I will turn for a brief reprieve in subsequent columns, by the way) I would also love to declare “fuck this, it’s too much,” to convince myself that there really is no hope for humanity, as the saying goes, and to seize caring or tr ying because I feel overwhelmed by the world However, I recognize that no great problem has ever been solved by one great solution, and that even the tiniest of problems will continue to persist and fester in the face of abject indifference Listening to what others have to say does not hurt if you are willing to hear something you do not want to hear and if the speaker conveys a sense of respect and empathy Speaking does not hurt if you are being truly listened to by the person to whom you are speaking At the end of the day, there is no right or wrong answer to the problems facing our world But there is The Truth And The Truth will sometimes hurt A lot So whether in doubt or dialogue, I will happily defer to the experiences and opinions and thoughts of my peers, but I will never try to protect them from The Truth

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun com Honest A B appears alternate Mondays this semester

This is what we do when faced with polar aspects of our central identity This is the queer evangelical Christian An individual I once had zero empathy for, but who I now understand, truly believes that God will forgive them for their sins No, I didn’t think he was divine, but “ get you a man

Second, I learned that instead of compromising an identity to sustain another, it is best to fixate the struggle of tending to multiple clashing identities into your becoming I let go of the shame attached to delusion because I knew I learned from it People are diverse and diversity in identity lends to diversity in experience We learn

through diversity, including the lifelong process of learning who we are Without it there would be no differences to perceive Become comfortable with and be open about identity crises to work through and learn from

These lessons will inspire positive change in ourselves which can then extend outside of ourselves, into a society in severe need of social change Change that dismantles institutions that keep aspects of our identity in solitary confinement, making integration easier for those who come after us I am a proud, gay Indian American that has only just learned that I don’t need validation from an Indian man By writing through this extremely neglected perspective, I hope to inspire more queer inclusivity in Indian spaces I was once called a unicorn People would pay to see a unicorn, let alone hear it speak, but the problem lies in the fact that we are not rare but silent Sharing your own narrative can give voice to those who guard theirs and can eventually lead to edits and additions to the narrative of humanity I saw him again the first week of this semester He looked good, but I wasn ’ t trying to have his babies I had learned I didn’t need his affection to be Indian or gay; I did not need him to be myself anymore I know I’m still very much insecure, but I have embraced the fact that all humans, including myself, are messy, complicated folks predisposed to compartmentalizing, mediating and negotiating their intersectionality Third, I learned I still have much more learning to do

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun com Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester

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Re: “Cornell Republicans Fight Expulsion, Enlist Attorney in Appeal to National Committee,” News August 31, 2016

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Ara Hagopian | Whiny Liberal

This phrase means a great deal to me, but it doesn’t always mean much to others “I’m Armenian,” I tell people Often I see a blank stare and I reluctantly add “like the Kardashians ” There’s a very tragic reason why the Armenian race isn’t more widely known; namely that there aren ’ t that many of us left Between 1915 and 1923, the Ottoman Turks systematically executed 1 5 million Armenians in an act of genocide

Last year I attended a gathering of Armenians in Times Square The rally was held to commemorate the 100th anniversar y of the A r m e n i a n Genocide As important as the plight of my own people is to me, the speakers that I found most interesting were the representatives of other populations that had survived attempted extermination A Holocaust historian addressed the crowd, followed by a Cambodian woman and a young man from the small African nation of Rwanda A speaker for American Indians, however, was nowhere to be found

Which brings me to the subject of this article You may have heard about the controversy surrounding the Dakota Access Pipeline Dakota Access, a subsidiary of the Fortune 500 company known as Energy Transfer Partners, is in the midst of constructing an oil pipeline that would run from the Bakken oil fields in the Dakotas to a processing plant in Illinois The structure would have a profound impact on the members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe, whose (autonomous) land is contained within the U S state of North Dakota Current architectural plans have the pipeline running directly under the Missouri River at Lake Oahe, the latter of which is the tribe’s main source of drinking water Any spill or leakage would be disastrous for the 8,000

people of the Standing Rock reser vation The construction would also desecrate a number of burial grounds and sacred sites that, while falling outside the current borders of the reservation, are protected by the United States federal government The Dakota Access company has taken several steps to get around this, including going out of their way to desecrate these sites; an action which for some reason renders their protected status null and void I am a liberal, and I freely acknowledge the fact that liberals like to take up causes You’re talk-

ing to (or reading the words of ) a guy who, noticing with distress that his bedroom walls were covered with posters of mostly male musicians, promptly hung up a picture of Norah Jones that he printed out at the librar y I bought a “Free Pussy Riot” t-shirt in high school thinking it was a modern art piece However, I flatter myself to say that I think I have matured a little since then, at least enough to recognize that the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline is not a cause to be adopted, given the “social justice warrior” treatment and eventually forgotten Because the Dakota Access Pipeline controversy is the latest installment in what I consider to be the greatest tragedy in the history of civilization

Some historians estimate that as many as 18 million native people were killed within the borders of modern America When looking at the “ new world” as a whole, that number rises as high as 90 million Ranking tragedies is a deplorable action that minimizes the suffering of the victims It must be said, however, that Hitler and Pol Pot were prevented from reaching their horrible goals by

outside forces more powerful than themselves That simply won ’ t happen in this case; there’s no world power to step in when you ’ re the world power We Americans who are so quick to be the moral policemen of the world must, in the words of Jodie Foster’s Silence of the Lambs character, “point our high-powered perception at ourselves ” What the United States government has done and continues to do to the American Indian people is nothing less than genocide Maybe you agree with using that word in connection with something like W o u n d e d Knee, but you think it’s a little o v e r d r a m a t i c in the context of a construction project I would reply that the definition of genocide is “extermination of an ethnic group ” Effectively turning an entire population into refugees by spilling oil into their drinking water seems like a pretty big step in that direction

Consider the two most common terms used to describe native people in this country; “Native American” and “American Indian ” We define them in terms of their relation to us They’re a sideshow, a nuisance, a (literal) mascot The only thing left to an entire race of people is a few small tracts of land and ostensible autonomy, both of which we clearly don’t respect The American Indian is going to extraordinary lengths to fight this pipeline It is the first time that representatives of ever y remaining tribe have come together in counsel But the horrible reality is that they simply don’t have the numbers or the standing to speak for themselves and be heard They need my help as well as yours

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

F u m b l i n g

BY TROY SHERMAN Arts & Entertainment Editor

i t h H i s t o r y : American Spoila

American Spolia gashes itself out into space like an inverse wound It spans an unbent and unwavering 140 feet across Libe Slope’s midsection, resting, at its highest, westernmost point, several feet above my head At each end it terminates bluntly and abruptly Its thin metal beams are sparse and rudimentary, almost purely utilitarian Numbering about a dozen, they support, as if extollingly, an imbricated miscellany of wooden panels, each one of its own faded hue Across these, stretching the structure ’ s flank, is etched a harrowing command from our own country ’ s first president to General John Sullivan:

“Sir, the expedition which you are appointed to command is to be directed against the hostile tribes of the Six Nations of Indians, with their associates and adherents The immediate objects are the total destruction and devastation of their settlements and the capture of as many of every age and sex as possible ”

It is with this nauseating side of history that American Spolia: Crossing the Line attempts to grapple But rather than truly engaging the inherent multiplicity of issues, past and present, which it presents, it instead inserts itself into a narrative in which it seems only to serve as a pedantic reminder of the events for which it, by its very existence, stands It wrenches itself into history with the intention of spurring some vague change, but with a more powerful and selfish desire for its own visibility Its lumbering permanence, its unrelenting span, its sheer and uncompromising presence at our campus ’ s center is proof that American Spolia is concerned with few histories other than its own

Washington’s quote) into direct contact with the empathizee (the American Indian whose ancestors it affected) Spolia was created from pieces of wood plundered (Latin: spoliatus) from 200 years of houses built by white settlers The deplorable quote on its side, then, has been quite literally carved into the spoils of colonization But in this empathetic relationship, the party empathized with the Native Peoples on whose land these houses were built, whose life and livelihood were the victims of Washington’s command is presented as a remnant peering out of the cracks of that quotation Spolia’s role as empathizer

was drawn I thought it would be interesting to try to visualize all of it

SUN: So it seems as if, rather than a social critique, this project sprung more out of an interest in the history of this area ’ s regional planning?

A M : I wouldn't even say “planning”: it’s specifically about “drawing ” It came from an interest in drawing as an instrument of other things as an instrument of power, as an instrument of colonization, any of these things But drawing being an act of putting a line down on paper means more than just putting down some line

This, however, despite its creator ’ s deep engagement with this area ’ s past The project sprang from Prof Aleksandr Mergold’s, B Arch ’00, architecture, interest in, quite simply, a bunch of lines that were casually drawn more than two centuries ago

In 1792, Simeon De Witt created a map, scaled at the ratio of one inch:one mile, of central New York It was on this piece of paper, rather small considering its historical magnitude, that De Witt separated what would eventually become Ithaca and its environs into 20 townships The dividing lines, according to Mergold, “ are fairly casually drawn with a quill pen on the parchment It’s in a very small scale, but it shapes so much of the way we live here in this area now, for better or for worse ” The better, it can be assumed, might include our bustling town, our respected university, the beautiful landscape which we all, as Cornellians or Ithacans, can claim as our own The worse, however, is what the flank of Mergold’s structure calls graphically to mind: Requisite for these townships to have been created, for those lines to have been drawn, for us all to enjoy “the better,” was the systematic displacement and extermination of the Native Peoples who had occupied this area for thousands of years prior

Libe Slope’s giant structure represents the width, were it scaled up from its original size on the map, of one of the lines which De Witt drew and which, as Spolia calls to mind, cuts through our current reality in a far more literal way than many of us would ever care to consider But the project’s failure lies not in its engagement with history, or in this presence of the past which it makes us consider; rather, it fails because of the boundary which Spolia sets on that consideration, because of the way it engages with its history

American Spolia communicates with its audience through a series of conflations: it conflates the past (the line that was drawn) with the present (what that mark continues to mean); the linguistic (the words on its side, the narrative it tells) with the spatial (you must walk from end to end to read those words, to hear its story); the drawn (a lifeless map) with the lived (the people existing on either side of that for better” and for worse”) But its most important conflation the one through which it engages with history and which forces each of us to consider the implications of such a project is its conflation which falls the flattest: That of the two sides of the process of “empathy,” not coincidentally the theme of the 2016 Biennial of which American Spolia is a part Spolia’ s intention seems to have been to bring the empathizer (the white person whose ancestors were complicit in

takes center stage; it touts its capacity for feeling and its ability to admit or rather, brandish on its side the foibles of its past But in this bombastic display of apparent empathy (that is, in building an enormous structure which makes no reference to American Indians other than as a group which was conquered some 200 years ago), what is lost is the role of the empathizee in the process of empathy American Spolia fails not because it attempts to empathize, or because it attempts to bring the empathizer and the empathizee structurally together within one towering installation It fails because it looks at history as finite and definite, a thing with ascribed and unchangeable winners and losers, conquerors and conquered What it does is attempt to empathize with a subject that doesn’t exist: A conquered, distant, long-ago erased Native American who fell along with Washington’s command What it should have done is forced its viewer, whoever that might have been, to empathize not only with the Native Peoples “conquered” in some dark, distant past, but also with those thriving in the present moment, even within the bounds of that line drawn by De Witt’s casual hand

TH E SUN: How did this project begin? Were you enlisted to contribute to the biennial or did you undertake making this happen?

A LEKSANDR MERGOLD : The biennial was soliciting calls for proposals, so I proposed this project

S UN: Had you been thinking about this project at all beforehand, or was this something that had its inception in the biennial

A M : I hadn’t been thinking about this specific situation, but I had been thinking a lot about the map of central New York which Simeon Dewitt drew in 1792 I had been studying it for about a year after I got a New York State Council for the Arts grant to produce essentially an atlas of the 20 townships that Dewitt's map prescribed There are two copies of the map, one here in Kroch Library and one in Albany It’s a pretty small piece of paper, and the lines are fairly casually drawn with a quill pen on the parchment It’s in a very small scale, but it shapes so much of the way we live here in this area now, for better or for worse It's pretty fascinating: how can a drawing and not a particularly big one shape such a huge tract of land My initial study looked into how the original townships, which were essentially a grid, transformed over the last 220 years That was an interesting part of the project, interviewing New York state historians and these kinds of things This project sort of came up as a byproduct of that Preceding the creation of Dewitt s map, there was a series of events that shaped shaped the way it

SUN: The name of the piece is American Spolia: Crossing the Line Obviously that title is wrought with a lot of implications on both sides of the colon What made you consider this project specifically in relation to Ancient Roman spoliae?

A M : Well, that was actually something I had been thinking about before the biennial as well When we all come to Ithaca, one of the most striking features of the local landscape is all of these Greek and Roman town names, which actually came about as a part of Dewitt’s map There is a question as to whether Simeon Dewitt himself came up with the names or somebody else, but that’s not really the point The point is that there is definitely a perceived legacy of the past in this area When I first learned about Sullivan’s Raid the quote here on the side of the piece is from George Washington instructing Sullivan to essentially “clear out ” the local population I thought, “It’s interesting that these events aren ’ t particularly well known ” I’ve been working on this project for a week, and people come up to me asking about it, but they don’t know about the dark side of this area ’ s history I thought that, as an art piece, it would be interesting to create something like the Romans would have done after their conquests: A temporary arch made up of spolia, which is basically what this is Except the difference is that this is made up of spolia not of the Native American civilization, but of our own This is 200 years of old houses that white settlers built here; it’s the remnants of those things That’s where we get the “American Spolia” of the title And it’s “Crossing the Line” because we are literally crossing the line of history right here We’re standing here now in a 140 foot wide line [that, scaled down, would have been the thickness of Dewitt's pen on the map he made of this area] The map was scaled 1 inch: 1 mile

SUN: In the planning and construction of this piece, were there any Native American peoples or parties involved?

A M : I did reach out to the American Indian and Indigenous Studies department here before this thing was constructed Prof Jolene Rickard and the other faculty members were aware that this thing was going on, and they were quite supportive of the project

I don’t necessarily see this as a piece that tells a Native American story I see it as a piece that essentially can become a platform for all sorts of stories to be told I see it as literally visualizing the particular drawing which happened in this particular place and which spawned a lot of different stories I’m an architect, so I don't necessarily tell stories; I create things out of nuts and bolts So this is my part, and I see this project as a platform for various other stories to come from and be told by anybody who, in one way or another, has a presence here To me that’s the whole point

SUN: So for you, this piece is meant to reflect less on any one specific implication of the line that was drawn, and more on the many implications of the drawing of that line?

A M : The implications are certainly many I’m not a historian and I don’t know any exact numbers; all I know is that this map and consequently this one single line had a lot of influence on this area starting back then, and it is still exuding its influence now For me, visualizing that and making it tangible by making it very present is the beginning of a conversation which will hopefully continue on I guess it’s already begun

Troy Sherman is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at tsherman@cornellsun com

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Football Finds Redemption Against Bison

Clutch defense, polished offense powers Cornell to victory in rematch of last year ’ s defeat

FOOTBALL

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take the ball away

“That’s something that we really preach,” Weber said of the turnovers “We practice it every single day It’s very fulfilling to have that come out in the game after practicing it for so long ”

Later in the quarter, two big fourth down conversions on Bucknell’s third drive of the day allowed the Bison to maneuver down the field to the five-yard line A couple of big stops from the Red halted Bucknell and forced them to kick a field goal, dropping Cornell into a 10-0 deficit with 11:24 left to play in the first half

Weber said part of the reason Bucknell was able to pounce on the Red so early in the game was that the Bison had kicked off its season two weeks earlier, saying the earlier start gave the team an advantage in game readiness

“We came out a little slow,” Weber said ‘“They’ve played two games, we haven’t played anyone Once we got our game legs under us, we started to excel ”

Cornell answered the field goal with one of its own, a 41-yard attempt from Zach Mays, a career long for the sophomore Having points on the scoreboard seemed to make Cornell turn things up a notch On the ensuing Bucknell

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“It started with [the offensive] line,” Walker said “We’ve got a lot of upperclassmen that really set the tone for us and they got the edge going ”

After two straight plays when the Red failed to make what appeared to be sure tackles, DeFloria added a second touchdown for Bucknell, breaking the 10-10 tie, but a blocked extra point attempt kept the score 16-10

“The expectations of this year are set extremely high with this group and we can achieve it ”

d ow n the field, using Walker’s speed and precise passing from sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks to engineer a long drive to the end zone

A 10-yard run around the left side from Banks to cap the drive gave the Red its first touchdown of the season and tied the game going into the half Without any regular season experience under his belt, Banks appeared to possess decision-making skills more common in a veteran

Part of the reason Banks’ rushing plays were so effective was due to the success Walker found at tailback With Bucknell’s attention placed firmly on the shifty speedster, Banks was able to call his own number and pick up short gains Walker ended with 133 yards on just 16 carries

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off a 24-yard run on the Red’s first play of the third quarter A mix of run and pass plays set up a one-yard touchdown run for Banks

Bucknell seemed to put together a solid offensive drive to answer the Red’s second touchdown but Woullard again put an end to it, picking off Muh for the second time of the night With the ball and the momentum, Cornell tacked on another score, a 22-yard pass from Banks to Sullivan on third and one to take a 24-16 lead

“We had a few third and shorts throughout the game, ” Sullivan said “We ran it and ran it and ran it It was just a great play call [to go d e e p ] C o a c h A rc h e r s e t i t u p p e r f e c t l y throughout the game ”

Bucknell took the ball back and made its way down the field But Cornell’s defense was unshakeable, forcing a fumble when the Red

Malcolm Chaka popped the ball out of DeFloria’s hands and junior linebacker Kurt Frimel pounced on it

While the Red went three and out after the fumble, Cornell’s defense again stepped up huge as the clock inched towards zero

“ It’s a

, because obviously they were moving the ball and pushing us around,” Archer said “When it mattered and when we had to come up with something, we did I’m so proud of [defensive coordinator Jared] Backus and the defensive coaches and the defensive kids ” WIth a 1-0 record, Cornell’s team already has as many wins as it accumulated in its entire last season

“It’s definitely like we kind of already tied what we did last year, ” Walker said “But that’s not something we ’ re settling on We want to settle on something way better than that The expectations of this year are set extremely high with this group and we can achieve it ”

The sentiment seems to be a recurring theme of this year

’ s team: while a win over Bucknell may be surprising for those not familiar with the team, those on the squad expect it

“This whole preseason we ’ ve had a different mindset,” Banks said “Everyone has had this great feeling about it Now that it’s solidified after week one, we ’ re just going to keep it rolling and hope to keep the wins coming

Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com

Sophomore Banks Stars in First Career Game

By ZACH SILVER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

LEWISBURG, PA In his first ever varsity action, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks looked like anything but a rookie

The San Antonio native took the reigns with confidence and poise, throwing for 160 yards, rushing for 24 and accounting for all three touchdowns two on the ground and one in the air

Coaches and teammates alike were happy with Banks’ performance, but were not surprised at what they saw from the young quarterback

“I expected it,” sophomore running back Chris Walker said “I didn’t

“Did it look like i asked senior captai Sullivan of his quarter

The two players impressive play call at the game Up by just winding down, Bank touchdown to essentia

Banking on Banks

| The sophomore quarterback accounted for all three of the Red’s touchdowns against Bucknell

for Bucknell

“The kid plays the game in his head before he gets on the field,” a jubilant Sullivan said after the game “It’s not his first game He’s so prepared He has all the tangibles to go out there and be a great Division I quarterback and you saw it on the field today ”

Banks, too, noted that his performance on Saturday night came from months upon months of preparation and training, but gave a majority of the credit to his teammates

“I’ve got a great team around me, ” he said “My [offensive] line is fantastic, my receivers are deep at every position I just feel comfortable, confident and I don’t really have to feel nervous because I’ve got a great team around me T t th t will pick me up whenever I need ut ” h David Archer ’05 was particued with Banks, given that not play how the coaching staff

How to Grow Professional Women’s Soccer

Ca r l i L l oyd’s g o a l f ro m m i d f i e l d against France Brandi Chastain’s winning penalty kick in the 1999 Women’s World Cup Final Women’s soccer captured the national spotlight in America at those two moments, which will live on as two of the greatest in the history of the sport Both times, fans were drawn to the sport because the players were representing the United States on the world stage Yet, in between Olympics and World Cup cycles, women ’ s soccer struggles to gain popular attention in America What can women ’ s soccer do to gain more publicity and grow in future years?

T h e re i s c u r re n t l y o n e p ro f e s s i o n a l women ’ s soccer league in the United States, t h e Na t i o n a l Wo m e n ’ s So c c e r L e a g u e (NWSL) The league was founded in 2012 after the previous league folded The 10 teams are spread across the United States, in such major cities as Chicago, Seattle and Washington, D C Attendance varies widely, with anywhere from a few thousand to 20,000 people attending games, with the average around 4,000 per game

One way for the league to gain more coverage is through an improved TV rights deal Currently, a few NWSL games each season are broadcast on Fox Sports One,

which is a national television channel, but o n l y i n s o m e A m e r i c a n h o u s e h o l d s Television rights deals have been in the spotlight ever since the world’s most popular men ’ s soccer league, the English Premier League, signed a three-year TV rights deal with Sky Sports worth £5 14 billion This fiscal windfall has given that league a chance to invest in grassroots efforts to grow the game, as well as provide more rev-

le environment, they blitzed and verything,” the head coach said hey were going to come in with es and certain formations and most always did the exact oppoThey blitzed so much more han we thought and they blitzed on different downs than we thought they would ” While he was deadly accurate with his arm completing 17 of 24 pass attempts Banks’ rushing maneuverability was what put the Red over

enue for individual teams Obviously, TV rights deals for the NWSL will be nowhere near as lucrative, but for a league that is still in an expansion stage like the NWSL, any extra cash will go a long way Plus, the increased exposure will bring the league more revenue and publicity, continuing long-term growth

A discussion of U S women ’ s soccer is incomplete without mentioning player salaries The salary cap for an entire NWSL franchise is $278,000 in 2016 Several professional men ’ s players make more than that paltry sum in a single week So $278,000 can buy you one of the world’s best men ’ s soccer players for seven days, or an entire professional women ’ s soccer team for a full year Aside from the obvious inequality here, the average NWSL salary works out to around $17,000 per year This is clearly not a sufficient living wage While salaries are rising each year in the NWSL, they are barely keeping up with inflation Women’s soccer players are certainly justified in asking for increased wages

If women ’ s soccer could draw more interest in between the World Cup and the Olympics, it would create a cycle that would continuously expand the league fan base Fans of the local NWSL team would watch the World Cup and Ol y m p i c s t o s e

i r favorite NWSL players represent their countries, and fans who just watch the tournaments to cheer on the U S A

favorite players and follow their progress in the NWSL

At the moment, audiences for the tournaments vastly outweigh audiences for NWSL games, both in the stadium and on television Women’s soccer can grow as a sport if they increase their players’ wages, increase publicity through a better television deal and ultimately build a long-term following for the National Women’s Soccer League

Kevin Linsey can be contacted at klinsey@cornellsun edu

the top in the end He scored the team ’ s first touchdown of the season on a 10yard rush, and scored the game-winning touchdown on a oneyard goal line sneak

“He has all the tangibles to go out there and be a great Division I quarterback and you saw it on the field today ”

This performance is no anomaly for Banks, however In his high school senior year, Banks ran for double-digit touchdowns and just shy of 600 yards So far in 2016, he has run for two, though his rushing performance was not to be outshined by Walker’s 133 yards on the ground

It was this two-headed monster strong passing and a threatening running game that kept the Bucknell defense on its toes, never able to relax and become complacent

“We have so much versatility that it just helps that the defense won ’ t be able to lock in on a certain guy, ” Banks said “Everyone on offense is a playmaker I truly believe that I think we ’ re going to be a force to be reckoned with throughout the season ”

In the days leading up to Saturday’s kickoff, Archer called the new quarterback “ a football junkie,” who is “always watching tape and preparing ”

While there are some aspects of play that the detail-oriented quarterback will inevitably look to fix, he should watch the tape happy and with confidence, knowing he looked like a seasoned-veteran while leading the Red to its first win in a season-opener since 2013

C.U. Wins Invitational

Seven runners in top 10 at Rochester event

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Red Rewrites Script, Downs Bucknell

Despite late Bison rally, football wins season opener for frst time since 2013

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

LEWISBURG, Pa

Just like last year, Cornell football (1-0) started slow against Bucknell (1-2), falling into an early hole Just like last year, the Red eventually found its groove and built a lead Just like last year, the Bison stormed back, threatening to steal a miraculous victory

But unlike last year, the men of Cornell football did not let the game get away from them, holding off a late surge to take the victory, 24-16

This marks the first time the team opened the season with a win since 2013

Senior linebacker Jackson Weber said a central reason the Red was able to capture the victory was that the team had a different mindset this year than it did last year

“This team throughout the preseason and coming into this week has collectively a much higher level of confidence than we ’ ve had in the past, ” the captain said “We trust each other We believe we ’ re going to get the job done from start to finish, and that shined through in the end and we sealed the deal ”

Sophomore Chris Walker, one of the stars on offense for the team, agreed with Weber on the team ’ s evolution

“The confidence in one another is different,” Walker said, “More playmakers this year We’ve got a lot more talent and depth this year ”

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Despite the “ eery ” similarities to last year, Archer said he was confident the defense would complete the necessary stops to get the offense the ball

C o r n e l l benefited from a false start, pushing the Bison back to a fourth and 14, Bucknell quarterback Matt Muh con-

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Victorious,” in front of adoring fans for just the third time in as many years

The game began with a scary moment when junior safety Sean Scullen went down with an injury on the first punt of the game An ambulance took Scullen off the field While no official injury report has been released, Scullen has reportedly been released from the hospital and made the trip back to Ithaca with the team

When play resumed, Bucknell worked down the field, powering towards the goal line On a second-andgoal from the one-yard line, Bison running back Joseph DeFloria punched through the Red’s defense to give Bucknell a 7-0 lead

DeFloria was a threat all game, totaling 154 on the ground With a knack for finding holes in Cornell’s defense, DeFloria averaged 5 7 yards per carry

Following a long catch-and-run on the team ’ s next possession, Bucknell threatened again, but a diving interception in the end zone from sophomore cornerback DJ Woullard his first of two picks on the night ended the Bison’s scoring hopes The interception was one of three turnovers forced by the Red, a remarkable improvement from last year when Cornell struggled to

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e n t h , respectively; juniors Shannon Hugard and Erin M c L a u g h l i n finished eighth and ninth

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