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University Announces New Diversity Commitments

By EMMA NEWBURGER

After several incidents of racial bias led to widespread protests and anger on campus, Provost Michael Kotlikoff and Vice President for Student and Campus Life Ryan Lombardi announced new a philanthropic commitment to support low-income, first generation students and gave updates on other University efforts toward a more inclusive campus environment in an email on Monday

“We are committed to facilitating a campus environment in which all students, faculty and staff feel included and valued,” the administrators wrote

Over the past year, Cornell has increased the staffing of several student support areas, and reframed the role of the dean of students to focus on resources that support students in cultural and identity development, according to the email The search process led to the hiring of Vijay

Pendakur, dean of students, as well as four additional staff positions in student resource centers

Several initiatives are already underway, including the renovation of the space in CCC that houses academic student support programs and works to ensure that the Office of Academic Diversity Initiatives, the Intergroup Dialogue Project and the Learning Strategies Center are linked with student support programs to “deliver unified student support and advance inclusive academic success, ” they wrote

this student population

“We are committed to facilitating a campus environment in which all students, faculty and staff feel valued ”

The two administrators also announced a philanthropic commitment from a Cornell alumnus to support first-generation and low-income student initiatives over the next five years, a gift that the University will use to hire a fulltime staffer who will implement programs and support for

Speaks Out Against Hate

By BREANNE FLEER Sun Staff Writer

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The University is also expanding the new Center for Teaching Innovation, an initiative that will devote new staff resources to help faculty address diversity and inclusion in the classroom and facilitate faculty-student conversations The University will also build on their investment of $5 million per year in faculty recruitment and retention by enhancing a faculty task force focused on enhancing diversity of staff

The University is also beginning a planning process to establish a central campus location for student resource centers that are part of the Division of Student and Campus Life

“We will work with students, staff and alumni in the

Cornell Construction Round Up,

By SHRUTI JUNEJA Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca has two seasons: cold and construction

The origins of this common campus axiom are apparent with every crane touching all Cornell corners In order to adapt to its needs as a modern University, Cornell has recently been undertaking and completing a variety of construction projects, from the Engineering to Ag Quad

Forest Home Drive

Students have grown accustomed to the cranes of Forest Home Drive, which has been closed off for about two years This

project, which falls under the jurisdiction of the City of Ithaca, should be finished by the end of this November

“The City of Ithaca is working to repair a portion of Forest Home Drive at the Thurston Avenue Bridge,” Lindsey Hadlock, University media relations coordinator, told the Sun “This section of road is owned by the City, who has advised that they anticipate that the construction will be completed by November 30 ”

All in all, construction on campus will not be ending anytime soon As these projects wrap up, new ones will be started as Cornell continues to strive to be a premier

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Oxford Companion to the Economics of Africa - Fifth Anniversary Panel Discussion: Africa in the Next Decade Noon - 2 p m , 423 ILR Conference Center

Sylvie Tissot: Class, Race and Gay-Friendliness in Park Slope (New York) and Le Marais (Paris) 4:30 - 6 p m , G42 Klarman Hall

“All Who Go Do Not Return:”

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Sensus Access: The Next Step in Digital Accessibility Noon - 1 p m , Tang Conference Suite, Cornell Health

Roundtable with Jamie Van Leeuwen, Founder of Global Livingston Institute Noon - 1 p m , B12 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

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Techne of Giving: Cinema and the Generous Form of Life 4:30 p m , 107 Olin Library

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Students Lead Hurricane Relief Effort

By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer

In the wake of Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rican students wait in Ithaca for news of home

Cornell Puerto Rican Student Association’s secretary Julia Pagán Andréu ’19, who calls San Juan home, was eager to hear news from her family including her mother, father, sister, cousin and grandparents who waited out last week’s storm

“I’m just lucky that I’ve been able to get in touch with them,” she said “I’ve seen my friends posting on Facebook asking for help in making sure their parents and loved ones are okay So many people haven’t heard anything ”

From Sept 25 to 29 the PRSA will sponsor donation boxes in Anabel Taylor Hall, Appel, RPCC, Mann Library, Noyes and Willard Straight Hall to send aid

and assistance to families, loved ones and strangers affected by this record-setting hurricane season

Last Wednesday, Hurricane Maria barreled toward eastern Puerto Rico after pummeling Dominica

According to NBC News, it roared toward the island “ as the most powerful storm to threaten the nation in almost 90 years ” And to make matters worse, Hurricane Irma ravaged the Caribbean just 2 weeks earlier

“My mom doesn’t cry, and she told me that at one point she just started crying,” Andréu said “They said it was the scariest most traumatic event they’d ever experienced ”

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Cornell’s First Prof of Chinese Government Dies

By EMMA NEWBURGER Sun Assistant News Ed tor

John W Lewis, the University’s first professor of Chinese government and one of the first major China specialists who came out against the Vietnam War, died on Sept 4 in Stanford, California He was 86

His daughter said Lewis, who joined Cornell in 1961 and taught at the University through 1968 before moving to Stanford, died of urothelial cancer, The New York Times reported

Lewis co-founded the University’s international relations of East Asia and China program with Prof David Mozingo, government, and advocated for peaceful resolutions to international conflicts during a turbulent antiwar period on campus

“Cornell at that time was not in good shape,” he said in a 2015 oral history interview “There were the big riots, there were guns on campus, black students had occupied Straight Hall It was really in crisis,” he said, adding that his own government department was also under crisis

Lewis was vice chairman and co-founder of the National Committee on United StatesChina Relations, which he said helped arrange the ping-pong matches between Chinese and American teams in the early 1970s that ultimately improved relations for President Richard Nixon to visit China in 1972

Lewis himself made scores of visits to China in efforts to restore U S academic and governmental exchanges His work in China was sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the Inter-University Fellowship for Field Training in Chinese, which was part of the University language program at the time, The Sun reported in 1961

That year, he told Cornell students that what was more important than the diplomatic recognition of Communist China was the recognition of the historical, social, religious and political forces at work in the nation, The Sun reported

While teaching at Cornell, Lewis was in contact with refugees from Communist China, whom he said were motivated to flee China primarily due to political reasons over critical economic conditions He emphasized that understanding the value and limits of political power was crucial, calling the structure of power in countries like China “seductive ”

“People in power have an exaggerated sense of their own knowledge, their own understanding,” he said “They’re almost superhuman when they get to that level of power ”

His exposure to the limits and dangers of the power structure in Vietnam encouraged him to teach his students about how to empower people through positive leadership, emphasizing that dictatorships are “ not about empowering people” but rather about empowering only the leader

“I had a slogan that I got from the Chinese: ‘Unless your students are smarter than you are, you ’ re not a good teacher,’” he said in an interview “You have to make them better than you are ”

In addition to his work with China, Lewis believed that the United States failed to take opportunities to ease tensions with North Korea first when the Bush administration abandoned an agreement to recognize North Korea, and then when President Bush repudiated a communiqué, signed by President Clinton and North Korea leader Vice Marshal Jo Myong Rok, that had stopped the North’s nuclear program by declaring that Washington had “ no

C.U. Faculty to Take Knee on Arts Quad

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun City Editor

Scores of Cornell faculty members plan to take a knee on the Arts Quad on Wednesday in solidarity with football players who have been kneeling during the national anthem to bring awareness to issues including police violence against black Americans

The professors’s protest at 12:30 p m on Wednesday, which organizers hope will be joined by students and members of the Ithaca community, is also in response to an altercation in Collegetown in which a black Cornell student said he was called the N-word and punched in the face by a group of four or five white men

Ithaca Police have arrested John Greenwood ’20 and charged him with two misdemeanors in the Collegetown assault case, and a grand jury will decide in early October if the student will face hate crime charges

Dozens of NFL players have kneeled during the national anthem in the last year, including Colin Kaepernick, the former San Francisco 49ers quarterback, using their platform as NFL players to speak out on issues black Americans face, particularly in interactions with law enforcement

This weekend, President Donald Trump added fire to the issue in a series of tweets declaring the protests “ not acceptable ” Trump said players should stop “disrespecting our Flag & Country ”

“Fire or suspend!” he wrote in one tweet

In a letter announcing Wednesday’s silent protest, Prof Tracy McNulty, French and comparative literature, and 71 other faculty members who are members of The Cornell Coalition for Inclusive Democracy said they are acting to support both black athletes and students of color at Cornell

The group is kneeling to show solidarity with “the black students and other people of color here on campus whose civil rights and human dignity have been demeaned and violated in recent weeks by the actions of racists, nationalists, and white supremacists within our own community,” the statement said

McNulty said that while students have been on the forefront of Cornell’s response to several recent incidents, faculty members are often not aware of things happening on or around campus

hostile intent” toward the Capital of North Korea, Lewis said in an interview

“So they went nuclear,” Lewis said of North Korea in the interview “Yes, it is terrible It’s getting worse and worse by the day ” Siegfried Hecker, who cofounded Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation with Lewis, recalled traveling to North Korea with Lewis in 2004 during an important time in the country ’ s nuclear program

“I would never have gone to North Korea without John,” Hecker said in a press release “He had developed a relationship that allowed us to establish an effective means of communication during the times our governments were not talking ”

In March 2010, Lewis was awarded the Korea Peace Award for “efforts to support peace and reconciliation in Northeast Asia” by the National Association of Korean Americans

Lewis received an associate degree from Deep Springs College in California and graduated with bachelor’s and master ’ s degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he became an R O T C cadet the day the Korean War began, The Times reported He also served as a Navy gunnery officer after the war

“Sometimes people should remember histor y, ” Lewis said “Sometimes it matters You know, the Chinese, we had a really bad history with them ”

Quoting the Chinese premier, Zhou Enlai, Lewis said, ‘‘ You should not let history imprison you You should remember it, you should honor it, but you should also move forward ”

“It’s not enough to not be racist ourselves,” she said “We have to work on the ways in which even non-racist people end up promoting inequality in different ways and allowing it to continue ”

“I think it’s important that faculty step up and not just passively support these demands,” McNulty said, referring to demands delivered by Black Students United to President Pollack, “but actively start thinking about them ” In addition to taking a knee and a moment of silence, there will also be several members of the faculty coalition speaking on Wednesday, McNulty said

Prof Ella Maria Diaz, English and Latina/o studies, said faculty members need to begin having “meaningful conversations” and go “beyond just initiatives and trainings ”

“I’m encouraged that the students who began the conversation, and now the faculty who’s joining it, want to clarify the significant differences between open expression, freedom of speech, hate speech and speech that triggers violence against people’s very bodies,” Diaz said

“There is a difference, and it’s called humanity and/or morality ”

Diaz said she was inspired by a letter in The Sun from student-athletes who she said took leadership in addressing issues of bigotry in the athletic and Cornell communities

“It’s not just about working towards a blanket equality where everyone is treated equally without regard for their underrepresented identity,” she said, “but that there’s a concerted effort” when people are targeted

Prof John Weiss, history, said faculty members must begin recognizing that their actions or inactions can perpetuate a “racist and discriminating system ”

“It’s that second level of indirect and subtle kind of stuff that keeps the structure there,” he said “That needs to be discussed and it needs to be discussed by faculty and not just students ”

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

GPSA Follows S.A. Lead, Passes Resolutions Opposing Hate

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action from all students, and that white students must stand up as well “People of color have been

leading diversity training, forming task forces, for years, and telling people how to treat us, ” she said “And so I feel like this is the time where people who are not of color need to really step up ”

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University “ to support its students by committing to never again recognizing a chapter of Psi Upsilon on campus ” Matthew Battaglia ’16, grad, chair of the University Assembly Codes and Judicial Committee, argued that the evidence was still unclear as to whether or not the perpetrator of the assault was linked to the fraternity

Although the student arrested for the incident may have been an underground member of Psi Upsilon, alumni of the fraternity’s chapter at Cornell have denied accusations that its members were responsible for the assault, The Sun previously reported

Though President Pollack said that the University will no longer a c k n ow l e d

y, Battaglia thinks that the GPSA should not be swayed until the affiliation is proven

“If it comes out that this person was unofficially or officially linked to this organization, I would argue that [Psi Upsilon] s h o u l d b e h e l d re s p o n s i b l e , ”

Battaglia said “I just personally don’t like to act hastily and to a s s e r t t h a t t h e y s h o u l d b e banned ”

Jesse Goldberg, grad, GPSA arts and humanities voting member, disagreed, emphasizing that waiting is not an appropriate response to racism

“ On e o f t h e g re a

white supremacy ever gave us, ” he said, “is the charge that those who would deconstruct what gives us social positioning of power are being hasty ” “ We h a ve re q u i re m e n t s t o respond as hastily as we can to the mountain of violence that preceded that one moment, ” he added, in reference to the assault GPSA also passed Resolution 5: On the forthcoming Campus Climate Task Force with a vote of 1 3 - 0 - 5 , a d d

specifically more black and Latinx graduate or professional students on the Task Force

“This is the time where people who are not of color need to really step up ”

In an interview with The Sun, Goldberg noted that GPSA will likely continue to focus on the issues of racism throughout the year

“It is my perception that there is political will in the GPSA to pass a resolution or to have some kind of discussion or continuing c o n ve r s a t i o n o n , f o r e x a

training graduate and professional students,” he said “No one teaches us how to talk about race ”

BreAnne Fleer can be reached at bfleer@cornellsun com

Admins Detail Initiatives Following C-Town Assault

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i k o f f a n d Lombardi wrote “By co-locating these centers in one larger space, we will have the opportunity to p re s e r ve t h e u n i q u e c h a r a c t e r and work of each of these historic centers while capitalizing on new intersectional approaches to supporting our diverse student body ” T h e y a l s o w r o t e t h a t Associate Dean Renee Alexander ’74 has now assumed a new role as senior adviser to the dean, working with Pendakur to focus on campus climate issues Marla Love is also joining Pendakur’s staff as senior associate dean for diversity and equity

T h e a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a d d e d that after four national searches for clinical staff in Counseling and Psychological Ser vices since Spring 2017, three of the four i n d i v i d u a l s h i r e d w i l l “ b r i n g added diversity to CAPS and Cornell ” “ These steps represent important commitments to improving our campus and student support, ” they wrote “ We look forward to continued discussions among the campus community as we move closer to fully realizing our founding aspirations ” The statement followed an e m a i l f r o m Pr e s i d e n t Ma r t h a Pollack last week in response to the assault on Friday Sept 15 of

a black Cornell student, who said he was called the N-word several times and punched in the face by a group of white men A week prior to the assault, a resident of the Latino Living Center reported hearing Zeta Psi fraternity members chanting “build a wall ” Pollack wrote to students last week that in response to the “deeply painful” events, Cornell w i l l d e v e l o p a n d i m p l e m e n t steps to be a more “equitable, inclusive and welcoming university,” including developing and enhancing programs and ser vices that support diversity and inclusion on campus Pollack charged the dean of students to create and implement an alternative dispute resolution process based on restorative justice that can be a resource for students in addressing any future incidents, and said she

Task Force charged with examin-

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events, our community

“Please speak out against injus-

reach out to support one another Ours must be a community grounded in mutual respect and kindness ”

Emma Newburger can be reached at enewburger@cornellsun com

Cornell Keeps ‘Competitive’ Edge With Construction

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“ The one thing that we ’ re seeing is that it is a ver y competitive world in the education space, par ticularly engineering, and our top competitors are all focused on facilities renovation and getting ne w faculty, so we ’ re seeing an increased push to do that,” said Dawn McWilliams, director of marketing and communica-

t i o n f o r t h e C o l l e g e o f Engineering

College of Engineering

One of the main focal points of recent constr uction has been the College of Engineering

All five floors of Upson Hall have been completely renovated in a project that star ted in May 2015 and was completed Aug 22

“ The purpose was to renovate the space so that it was usable in the current way that we do engi-

n e e r i n g r e s e a r c h n o w, ” McWilliams said “ This was a

m o r e h o l i s t i c c h a n g

o t h e entire str ucture of the building

This renovation was dramatic ”

Many engineering buildings were built around 1959 to 1962, and the needs of the depar tments have evolved since then

“Back when the infrastr ucture of the college was built, most of engineering research required a lot of outlets and power, ” said Erin Mulrooney, associate dean for administration in the College of Engineering “Now it requires wetlabs Now there is so much nano-work and bio-work chemical-work that we need different types of labs, both wet labs and hybrid labs What we really need is to change what we have in order to do the research and work and education of today ” Although there were cer tain challenges that arose during constr uction, including noise, dust and the need to relocate several people, McWilliams said that a benefit of the constricted space in Upson Hall during the constr uction period was that it fostered greater collaboration

“ That changed a lot of the configuration of how that space

w a s p u t t o g e t h e r, ” s h e s a i d “ What we were able to do is that

w e w e r e a b l e t o p u t f a c u l t y r e s e a r c h e r s t o g e t h e r w h o h a d common work, which increases the ability for them to collaborate in research and they’re learning from each other because they all do something that’s a little bit different ” Upson Hall is also more effic i e n t a n d e n v i r o n m e n t a l l y friendly now the building is on target to be cer tified as LEED Platinum

“All these old buildings have developed deferred maintenance

i s s u e s ov e r t h e y e a r s , ” Mu l r o o n e y s a i d “ Un i v e r s i t i e s are challenged to keep up with t h e i r d e f e r r e d m a i n t e n a n c e backlogs, and often don’t have t h e r e s o u r c e s n e e d e d t o s t a y ahead of that cur ve Doing this kind of gut renovation of an existing building allows us to reuse and repurpose the bones of what we had and eliminate the b a c k l o g a s s o c i a t e d w

building ”

While there are still a fe w fini s h i n g t o u c h e s b e i n g m a d e ,

Upson Hall was completed by its target deadline and is open for business

However, the constr uction in the Engineering Quad has not followed its intended timeline

This project fell under the jurisd i c t i o n

Depar tment and the goal was to address the underground infrastr ucture “ T

took longer than we expected,”

Mulrooney said “ We were hoping it would have been completed before students got back to campus, and that wasn ’ t the case,

but it is all completed now ”

Other Construction

In another par t of campus, the Ag Quad has also seen a large renovation

“ The purpose of this project is to replace aging utility infrastr ucture, some of which is over 100 years old, and to revitalize

Quad in the aftermath of several

the Ag Quad project team previously said

Cornell campus, the

Center Plaza was redesigned to allow for a more open gathering space “ This project is expected to y

n g space that ser

as a catalyst for an enhanced pedestrian boulevard along College Avenue, the primar y pedestrian gate way to the university,” according to the project description “ This project is conceived as a key node

told the Sun that this project was

par t of a larger effor t to revitalize that area “ This is really kind of a first step toward a lot of different improvements in that corridor between College Ave down to Eddy Street and along the gorge there,” he said Additionally, the University recently installed three ne w solar farms that “will generate large amounts of electricity and help the campus achieve its carbon neutrality goals,” according to a press release

Shruti Juneja can be reached at sjuneja@cornellsun com

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Iek Life Should Not Exist

have two rules that serve as mooring posts for my socio-political thought

The first, which I shall call Postulate 1, is to remember that there is no master plan When I was a child, I preferred English to history because I thought they were both stories and I found novels more interesting than textbooks I had an epiphany in my middle-school U S history class, when the teacher said that X happened and then Y happened and then Z happened and that led to the trouble we ’ re facing in the present day My first thought was, “Holy Crap, history actually happened ” My second thought was, “Man, those people in the past were pretty stupid ” The days of yore had just as many mistakes and bumbling idiots as they did triumphs and founding fathers Societal norms are shaped by accident; trust them as far as you can throw them

That was Postulate 1 Postulate 2 is more meta-cognitive It is to always carry an idea through to its completion This idea is especially relevant in the progressive community Even Susan B Anthony, a noted activist and by all accounts a brilliant woman, sometimes failed to follow postulate 2 She believed that she was deserving of full personhood as a white woman, yet she seceded from the woman ’ s suffrage movement to form her own organization that opposed the 15th amendment In other words, Anthony wanted empathy extended to one particular marginalized group but not another; she didn’t carry her ideas through to their logical conclusion You’d be surprised how often that happens

If we apply Postulate 2 to Postulate 1, we get very close to understanding a central truth of the human condition People study history in school, they know that societies have led their people astray since time immemorial Yet they remain disinclined to question the society in which they currently live Why? Because people take their behavioral cues from other people and have very little ability to hold frame in opposition to perceived authority (If I were feeling especially frisky, I might call this Corollary 1, but I will leave it unnamed for now in the interest of readability ) It is because of this flaw in our psyche that things like fraternities continue to exist

Paul Russell is a fellow columnist at The Sun and is also a member of a fraternity In July, he wrote a piece for Business Insider defending fraternities Though I don’t know Paul personally, I’ve heard him speak at our columnist meetings I’ve

If you don’t live under a rock, you probably realize that it is a pretty tumultuous time for Cornell right now There was a hate crime in Collegetown last week and, with good reason, the entire campus has been talking about it As it became time for me to sit down and write my column, it seemed a little weird to tell some funny sex stories and not mention all the really serious things happening right now

This past Wednesday, my roommate Mia texted me a link to the Facebook event for the Black Students United rally at the University Assembly meeting “Yo I’m so down,” I responded, even though I didn’t really understand what the University Assembly was or why the BSU wanted to go to the meeting “Do you think it is okay that we aren ' t wearing black?” I asked Mia “Um, probably ?” she replied We were by no means prepared but we felt like it was better to show up wearing colors than to not show up at all

We were one of the first ones there and we grabbed seats near the back row More and more people filed in until the room was completely filled The committee called the meeting to order in the most bureaucratic

hard for me to understand that this is not my turn to talk

I decided to raise my fist and, although my arm was not nearly toned enough to last the full 30 minutes, it felt really good It was really my first chance to practice the intersectionality that I preach

On Thursday, I stood meekly outside Day Hall as the crowd gathered to deliver the list of demands to President Martha Pollack I cracked jokes to ease the tension, as I typically do But I soon realized it was okay to sit with my uncomfortableness Maybe standing in the background was the most feminist thing I could have done I can write a column-a-day for the next year about double standards and blowjobs and sex toys, but until we discuss the racial binary in modern feminism, we are not really saying anything

Since the incident last week, there has been a lot of discussion surrounding the whole Psi Upsilon narrative The sexual assault committed by the Psi U president two years ago the act that initially got the fraternity kicked off campus has been rehashed ad-nauseum Yet, in the past week, I’ve heard quite a few disturbing comments

watched him perform as an opening act at the Jamila Woods show He seems like a good guy But to paraphrase a friend of mine, his piece almost reads like satire It’s 12 paragraphs extolling fraternal brotherhood with some rhetoric about “doing something” to fix systemic issues thrown in at the end If these potential solutions don’t merit further explanation in your article, why should I believe that they will be fully explored by “the council” or any other of your decision-making bodies?

Weighing brotherhood and community bonding against racism, misogyny, hazing deaths and sexual assault is so insane that it almost beggars belief But social conditioning does funny things to people Create a close-knit group, throw in some markers of tradition and exclusivity (i e some Greek letters), and before you know it he’s arguing that a few deaths and rapes are the price one has to pay for all that friendship

Are racism, sexism and alcohol abuse society-wide issues that are present in other places besides fraternities? Of course

If you think that’s a legitimate argument in defense of communities that exhibit these characteristics at frighteningly high rates, then there’s no help for you If you think that fraternities are okay because they do charity work, I would say that charity work has existed before the Greek system and it will exist long after it These people can put on fundraisers without being in Greek life And if you respond to that by saying “they won ’ t, ” then I would say that perhaps they didn’t learn so much about the brotherhood of man after all

There are many institutions in this world, and some of them do a great deal of good But institutional badness, because of its terrible destructive power, must carry more weight in the decision-making process than institutional goodness If all these fraternity and sorority chapters are truly the uncommon paragons they say they are, they should be able to see the bigger picture and disband themselves If these organizations truly care about college students as much as they say they do, they’d liquidate and donate all their money to loan forgiveness and mental health programs There are plenty of opportunities for brotherhood to go around, and I would rather disband a thousand communities than continue to enable a malignant system

Ara Hagopian is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at ahagopian@cornellsun com The Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester

nonsense way possible and the two leaders of BSU, Traciann Celestin ’18 and Delmar Fears ’19, went to the front and read their statement I didn’t immediately understand the point of what they were saying Why wouldn’t they enumerate their demands? I leaned over and whispered “I’m very confused” to Mia approximately four times

Soon the committee called for silence One after another, students began raising their fists, holding the position for what would end up lasting more than 30 minutes Mia and I looked around uncomfortably I felt confused and out of place I wanted nothing more than to show my support for their cause and help defend the rights of my fellow students but I was paralyzed by a fear of offending someone or overstepping my bounds

Remember that quintessential civil rights photo taken at the 1968 Olympics?

Black American runners Tommie Smith and John Carlos stand with their heads bowed and fists raised The white silver medalist from Australia, Peter Norman, just looks on Smith has said that Norman approached him before photo, expressing his support for the cause but relaying his hesitance to actually put his fist in the air Well, that is kind of how I felt But, I realized it was okay to feel uncomfortable This protest was not for me These protests are not for me Feeling uncomfortable is a minor inconvenience faced everyday by minorities on our campus I was just getting a taste of it

I try to remind myself that when I feel uncomfortable or guilty or defensive in conversations and situations like these, there is a reason why Usually, it means I am challenging my own privilege The privilege that I have as an educated white woman The privilege that makes it so easy to write a column about feminism every week and never bring up race A privilege that means I will probably feel safe on this campus no matter what A privilege that makes it so

regarding the whole ordeal Some people are still challenging the victim’s story, saying: “well, we don’t even really know what happened with that ” Outside one of my classrooms on Tuesday I heard a girl tell her friend, “I know that girl got sexually assaulted and stuff, and that’s bad, but like beating up a black guy?! That should really get you kicked off campus ” And we wonder why people don’t report sexual assault

These comments, while admittedly not the opinions of Cornell’s finest, represent the pattern of comparing violence against women and violence against minorities, and pitting the two groups against each other Susan B Anthony asked black woman to march at the back of the protest Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver boasted in Soul on Ice that he had raped white women to avenge white men ’ s historic sexual abuse of black women He adds that he had practiced raping black women first and blamed them for colluding with white men to emasculate black men Obviously, Cleaver does not represent the whole movement, and the BPP had notoriously progressive views regarding gender roles, however, the pattern of competition between women and minorities is a backwards tradition that only benefits the white patriarchy Comparing suffering is never productive

Malcolm X said, “The most disrespected woman in America, is the black woman ” This holds true today, as black woman feel the gendered and racial oppression that most other demographics cannot understand Traciann and Delmar are the faces of modern feminism, telling a story I had heard before but never seen with my own eyes I would like to crown you both with a resounding “ YAAAAAASSSSS KWEEEEEENNNN”

Willow Hubsher is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She can be reached at wrh73@cor nell edu T h i s i s No t a Se x C o l u m n appears alter nate Tuesdays this semester

Artur Gorokh | Radically Moderate

Shush! It’s Election Season in Russia

Iwas seven years old and frolicking on a Soviet playground when Putin was first elected president By the looks of it, he will still be in power when I'm 31 Funny stor y how that happened: some legal clerk responsible for drafting up the relevant par t of constitution in 1993 wrote down "No person can be president for more than two terms in a row " Tr ue to the letter of the law, a couple decades later Vladimir Putin was elected to a third term, after a four year vacation as prime minister When

It makes for a vivid Economist pie but, unfair prosecutions aside, a pro-Western candidate has no chance of winning Russia even in a perfectly democratic process.

journalists found the clerk and asked why in God’s name he added "in a row, " the guy said he didn't mean anything by it and was just copying from the French constitution On March 18, 2018, all assume Putin will find himself elected to his four th (but second in a row) sixyear term It's the humor that keeps you sane, they say

This is five months from now, and what I find most striking is just how cricket-quiet Russia is The event is never brought up on TV and the par ty websites contain no signs of campaigning When Skyping with my dad the other day, I asked how often they talk election at work "What election?" he responded

Why the silence? One explanation is it just ain't the e xc i t i n g r i d e A m

unlikely that we will get a ne w president, and no amount of marketing can make the idea of maintaining the status quo sexy Often this cer tainty of outcome is attributed to the nature of the authoritarian regime But doing so is oversimplifying the issue beyond reason Russia is still a democracy, albeit one of a dimly grey color, and public

Immigration is a deeply personal issue for me Quick background my family came over to the United States when I was 6, and I received my U S citizenship a month ago I had been in this countr y for 14 years before I was legally allowed to feel as though the Pledge of Allegiance that I stood next to my classmates and recited in elementar y school was as much mine as it was theirs I kne w the American national anthem before I kne w India even had one of their own, and even today, I can tell you far more about the Founding Fathers than I ever could about Gandhi For those who insist the immigration law in this countr y needs reform because it is not robust enough, I implore you to figure out what the hell you ’ re talking about and soon, before you deny millions of deser ving people the right to live as equals in a countr y they have contributed to as much as the people lucky enough to have simply been born here

I am thankful ever y single day for the process my family incurred in securing our right to be citizens in this countr y Ever y single day, I am reminded of the ways in which my life would not be the same if even one thing had been different during our immigration process I was a green card holder when I applied to college My chances of being accepted to Cornell as an international student living in the United States on a visa are slim to none The international students pool of applicants is often thought of as only students that go to schools abroad, but many people don’t realize that this pool also

suppor t is a cr ucial political factor

What do I mean by grey? For one, they might not let you r un for president by prosecuting you with tr umped up charges This is especially likely if your campaign platform is to prosecute ever yone currently in power The election process itself has become mostly transparent in big cities, but in remote regions it is common practice to ske w results with fake ballots, adding 10 or 20 percent for the desired outcome In Chechnya and couple other p r o b l e m a t i c r e g i o n s , 99 9 percent of the eligible voters show up to the polls like a brigade and vote unanimously for Putin, just like in t h e g o o d o l d St a l i n days

The only active campaign at the moment is an off-parliament par ty r u n n i n g o n t h e p l a tform of liberal values a n d p r o - We

o reign policy The campaign is constantly harassed by the government and the candidate is now under yet another bogus criminal investigation It makes for a vivid Economist piece, but, unfair prosecutions aside, a pro-Western candidate has no chance of winning Russia even in a per fectly democratic process, at least for the moment, and proclaiming annexing Crimea a mistake is the equivalent of saying "I'm an atheist" in an American election a political suicide There is nothing that prevents major parliamentar y par ties from r unning their own candidate with a serious campaign, based on any number of popular issues, such reviving the stagnated economy, nationalism or increased government spending The best chance would be the Communist Par ty (their agenda nowadays is not nearly as radical as Lenin's): 20 percent of the population are voting for communists out of nostalgia no matter what With a ne w charismatic face, a fe w hundred million dollars and a year-long campaign, there is no reason why their candidate couldn't win And yet they don't do it! Is this totalitarianism at work? I don’t think so It seems to

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be just cowardice and acquired passivity of the par ty leaders, and maybe they are to blame for the failure of democracy

Here's another reason Putin is going to win that I personally find hard to face He is good at what he does He may in fact be one of the most qualified r ulers Russia had since 1900, granted our track record for leaders has been subprime He is smar t, remarkably dedicated and most impor tantly he has mastered the balancing act that is Russian presidency

A major chunk of Russian economy lies in the hands of oligarchs who acquired a voracious appetite for political power during the tumultuous 90s There is the FSB (ex-KGB), a security agency with an agenda and opinion o

Chechnya, an essentially autonomous region threatening to re-ignite into a war if anyone tries to attend to their atrocious human rights record Finally, there are the remains of liberal elites that reformed Russia in the 90s, still striving to have a say in its course Putin is able to navigate this terrain of contradictor y interests and values with the grace of a Bolshoi ballerina, and the ease with which he does it can be deceptive

For many, myself included, it is a dream to elect a president with zero tolerance for corr uption, a better grasp on economics, someone who is free from the Cold War paranoia that drives most of modern Russia's foreign policy Yet the reality is that if such a candidate is unable to somehow appease Russia's inner demons, they will tear it apar t And, when you discount for propaganda and unfairness of the election process, I think it is this justified fear for chaos that makes Russians vote Putin

Some anonymous repor ts hint that Putin’s campaign won ' t be announced until December, just three months before the election I would submit that this almost conspiratorial silence speaks to the regime’s anxiety about how fragile and unpredictable our society might be The less time people have to remember they have a choice, the likelier it is status quo will prevail, for better or worse

Ar tur Gorokh is a graduate student studying applied mathematics at Cor nell University He can be reached at ag2282@cor nell edu Radically Moderate appears alter nate Tuesdays this semester

Immigration in Practice

includes students that have been par t of the American education system for the majority of their life, but are here on a visa as opposed to being permanent resid e n t s o r A m e r i c a n

n g example? The valedictorian at my high school applied to colleges on an H1B visa, and was rejected from schools at which his transcript, SAT scores and subject tests scores far exceeded even the 75th percentile of the student body You can argue that maybe he just wasn ’ t the kind of applicant those schools were looking for and that getting into college isn’t just about your stats, but to pretend that his

impact on where he ended up (and how

y, ridiculous

Of course, this is simply one example from my life If you would like broader statistics because you believe my vie w of immigration policy and college admissions is too narrow, there is more information available in demographic data void of bias My account is personal because my e x p e r i e n c e w i

United States is personal I feel little obligation to crowd my words with percentages because there is always more information available to those who choose to educate themselves, and yet we find o

t changes to immigration policy within the United States because people do not hear the stories that stand behind ever y decision to make the legal process toward citizenship harder

Your legal status in this countr y either

opens doors for you or shuts them on you If you believe that working hard or following all the right steps in the immigration process somehow guarantees that you will be afforded the same oppor tunities as ever yone else, you are wrong There are s t u d e n t s a t C o r n e l l ( a n d a c r o s s t h e nation) on visas that cannot apply to the

cer tificate There is something impor tant about recognizing a difficult political climate, especially one that you disagree with so strongly To me, my naturalization cer tificate is a reminder of my privilege It is a reminder that there are an increasing number who cannot consider themselves as lucky as I can today Par t of being priv-

For those who insist the immig law in this country needs reform because it is not robust enough implore you to figure out what t hell you’re talking about.

same jobs as you There are students that are choosing to set aside what they tr uly want to do for a job that might sponsor them to simply stay in the United States for the next year Do not tell them that going through the process legally will work for them The chances that it will not are ver y high because the process was not set up with their oppor tunities in mind

I am privileged to be an American citizen today I spoke to a friend over the summer who also recently received his citizenship, but scheduled his oath ceremony early so he could have President Obama’s signature on his cer tificate I, on the other h a n d , i n s i s t e d o n h a v i n g Pr e s i d e n t Tr ump ’ s signature on my naturalization

ileged is working to ensure that those who do not currently have access to the same oppor tunities you do will soon Travel bans and rescinding DACA is not recognizing and fighting immigration inequality I cannot forget my privilege when I c o n s i d e r t h e i m p a c t s o f t h e s e a c t i o n s because my family has fought hard to feel the kind of relief we do today when we hear about changes in immigration policy You should not, however, need to have felt the stress of not being a citizen weigh on you in order for you to fight for those that have

Hebani Duggal is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun com Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Reviewing Lego’s Woes After Ninjago

Twoweeks ago I wrote about the Lego Group, and the financial troubles they’ve been having I also spoke optimistically about the boost that The Lego Ninjago Movie would give them Sadly, iIt turns out I was wrong

Box Office Mojo had estimated a $30-35 million opening weekend I agreed, thinking the recent lack of quality family movies would draw families

t o Ni n j a g o A s o f Mo n d a y morning, though, the movie has only grossed $21 million

Those are ver y disappointing numbers that cast a long shadow over both the Lego Group

a n d Wa r n e r A n i m a t i o n

Conjectures are already flying around, so let’s see if we can ’ t n a i l t h e m d o w n a n d s t u d y them

So, first question: why did Lego Ninjago underper form? I’ll

g o t h r o u g h t h

from best- to worst-case Bestcase answer, it’s just par t of the slump at the box office Movies

Pixar’s Cars 3 has only reached $ 3

those numbers will not go up

Ni

simply be facing an audience less willing to par t with their dollars There’s also the film itself Ninjago is the first Lego movie to get a Rotten rating from

a r e n ’ t b r i n g i n g i n a s m u c h money this year So far, only one animated film has managed to surpass $500 million worldwide; last year, six ani-

Ro t t e n To m a t o e s Au d i e n c e s on iMDB have concurred that it’s not as stellar as its predecessors. Again, in a year where a u d i e n c e s a

p

c k i e r w i t h which tickets they buy, they want to spend their money on movies they are more likely to e n j o y Ho l l y w o o d h a s e v e n attacked Rotten Tomatoes for the bad box office year They may be onto something with

that thinking with the site’s traffic growing it does seem that people are taking critics’ views into consideration. Poor reviews are not always a death knell to films, but they can l e a v e

probably negative

There’s another factor that might be at play here though, and it inspires the most dread C o u l d t h e L e g o n a m e i t s e l f simply not be a selling point like Warner Bros believed? The advantage of branded media is that audiences will be more likely connect with it Yet, as Fo r b e s p o i n t e d o u t , Ni n j a g o o p e n e d a t a b o u t t h e same level as W a r n e r A n i m a t i o n ’ s Storks did last y e a r I f a n ything, Ninjago actually had a W O R S E opening! So, if branded content is not outper forming original c o n t e n t , t h e n w h y b o t h e r branding at all?

Now, I want to emphasize I'm not condemning The Lego Ninjago Movie I enjoyed it, it was a solid enough film. But film is an industr y, and box

o f f i c e n u m b e r s m a t t e r Extending beyond that, Lego relies on these movies to sell toys They're a toy company, before all else

So what should Lego and Wa r n e r A n i m a t i o n d o ? It depends on what the major factor behind Ninjago’ s shor tcoming is If it’s the sluggish year or the bad reviews, then it’s a ver y simple “Keep going strong, and do better next time ” After all, Warner Brothers is one of the

I don’t have to reiterate how The Lego Movie surprised us However, it’s still teaching us lessons three years later Warner Bros saw a franchise opportunity and jumped in with four more Lego movies; The Billion Brick Race and The Lego Movie Sequel are yet to come The studio invested time and money into the franchise because they thought that audiences would follow it But now the question haunts, was The Lego Movie an anomaly? Can it even be replicated, or was the novelty part of its success, onea novelty that can never be recaptured? As the Ho l l y w o o d Re p o r t e r s t a t e s , “Once you perform the same trick enough times, the surprise of its success wears off ” As beloved as The Lego Movie is, if you say today “Hey, the Lego X Movie is actually funny,” we w o u l d n ’ t re s p o n d w i t h a “ What?! No way!” but with a “Yeah, we figured ”

few studios doing strong with this year ’ s Wonder Woman and the smash hit It Lego’s course is a bit more complicated, since the movie probably won ’ t lift t oy s a l e s a s m u c h a s t h e y’d hope.

But what if it’s a problem w i t h t h e L e g o b r a n d ? T h e n both companies have a far bigg e r p r o b

Animation must consider the possibility that its flagship franc

Luckily they already have several other films on the docket that aren ’ t Lego related, and they may yet hold their ground

won ’ t be able to rely on their film franchise to sell themselves any longer They were in trouble before, and this weekend o

hoping that both manage

C i t i z e n S c i e n t i s t s L e a d W i l d l i f e

C o n s e r v a t i o n Ef f o r t W i t h N e w A p p

By

Touchdown, Cornell’s unofficial mascot, is the only red bear in New York

But the state is home to at least 6,000 to 8,000 black bears, spread across all forms of terrain

Tracking all of them proves to be a significant challenge for New Yo r k’s D e p a r t m e n t o f

C

i o n , the agency tasked with the welfare of these animals However, the development of a new mobile

a p p a t C o r n e l l , n a m e d

iSeeMammals, could soon revolutionize how data about bears and their presence is collected

“ We have approximately 200 re s e a r c h s i t e

e v e r y s u m m e r across the Southern Tier, but we s t i l l c a n ’ t g e t e v e r y w h e re

Developing an app would potentially allow us to collect more data in new places by enlisting the help of the public and folks who spend a lot of time outdoors If they could submit data about where and when they saw bears and bear signs on hikes or on their trail cameras, we could really improve our dataset,” said Catherine Sun, a doctoral stud e n t i n t h e d e p a r t m e n t o f human ecology, and the project’s lead Sun hopes that the data provided through the application will allow researchers to model the population of black bears in the state, including their rates of reproduction and sur vival

“It is a great way to engage people with wildlife conser vat i o n , w i l d l i f e re s e a r c h a n d wildlife management Bears are an iconic species, and they can be hunted in New York, with hunting being a primar y tool of the NYSDEC for managing bears We thought this would be a really interesting way to involve people in the science part of the process, ” Sun said E x i s

track bears include the use of neck collars Older versions of the technology used radio frequencies to help scientists triangulate the bear’s location but the recent use of GPS has made this location data even more easily accessible Conser vationists also use a technique known as spatial capture-recapture, which tracks visits by individual bears to specific research sites Sun emphasizes the impor tance of using such techniques to estimate population size and distribution, an i m p o r

wildlife

only cover so much ground,” Sun said She emphasized the importance of crowdsourced data One of the biggest advantages is the sheer amount of data that can be collected Citizen scientists also prove to be extremely important when researchers are defining the focus of their investigation, the methods that they intend to use as well as during the process of collecting data and communi-

cating results

“So to pose and answer questions at large scales, like about climate change or natural patterns, it is very appealing to involve people who may not be professionally trained but are nonetheless able and interested in contributing to the scientific inquiry,” Sun said

Sun also hopes that enlisting everyday citizens to help the cause will help people connect with the environment and understand the c o m p l e x m a n n

functions

“ E s p e c i a l l y f o r w i l d l i f e research with a state agency, citizen science is an additional way to incorporate the values and input of the public into downstream management decisions It’s also an opportunity for transparency so folks can see that state agencies use rigorous science and aren ’ t pulling rules and decisions out of a hat,” Sun said

The response to the application was immediate, with over 300 people signing up in the first four months alone

“I was surprised by how organically interest in it has grown and how quick to be deeply involved

some people were It was almost as if they were waiting for something like this, because of how m u c h d a t a t h e y

m m e d i a t e l y started providing I think that alone highlights for me the value and potential of citizen science,”

Sun said

As with all crowdsourced pro-

remains a worry Though most people will not intentionally post misleading or inaccurate data, it is

could be mistaken for bear signs Sun says that the team has found ways to reduce these sources of error

“To verify the data, we encourage people to include a photo of the bear signs that they see Bear hair, tracks, scat and markings can sometimes be tricky to identify, so photographs help us make sure we ’ re only analyzing bear data,”

Sun said

While one of the application’s functions is to collect signs of the presence of bears, Sun emphasized the importance of tracking t h e i r a b s e n c e , o r p e rc e i ve d absence

“When people do not see bears

or bear signs, it is just as important for us to know We really encourage people to use the app to track their hike route and to report the period that their trail cameras were set up After all, it makes a difference if a person only saw one bear track on a hike that was a half mile versus a hike that was 10 miles or if a person saw a bear on their camera once over a two week period or over an entire year, ” Sun said

Though data from the application is still pouring in, Sun is optimistic about its potential She believes that the data can be used to estimate population size, distrib u t i o n a n d p a t t e r n s s o a s t o explain why and how bear populations are changing in the state Such an investigation would then allow scientists at NYSDEC to develop a conservation plan for these animals

“After that, we may consider using the app for studying and monitoring other wildlife species that are difficult to study with traditional resources, ” Sun said

Arnav Ghosh can be reached at

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H OUSE FOR R ENT

2nd-Day Woes Continue to Plague Golf Squad

Second-day sadness | Jack Cen (pictured) finished day one tied for fourth place as an individual, but the team as a whole continued to struggle when playing with a lead on day two at Dartmouth

By JACK ROSCOE Sun Staff Writer

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Jack Roscoe can be reached at jroscoe@cornellsun com

OF PLANET HOCKEY

Brick walls | Saturday against Penn was one of the first time an opposing offense was able to score multiple goals Cornell’s goalie tandem

Red to Face Lions Saturday

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es better with fe wer turnovers, we willhave success moving forward Our corner unit is strong this year, so if we can win more corners I think it will result in goals

”

D e f e n s i v e l y, t h e R e d w a s characteristically solid But that alone was not enough against a Penn attack led by two-time AllAmerican Alexa Hoover Just 10 minutes into the game, sophomore Alexa Schneck was able to put the Quakers on the board, ending Henr y ’ s streak Penn was able to tack on an insurance goal late in the second half on a d e f l e c t i o n b y j u n i o r R a c h e l Mirkin off a Hoover shot

Saturday’s game was a mere blip on the radar for an other-

w i s e d o m i n a n t d u o i n g o a l

Henr y and Johnson have helped carr y the Red to one of its best star ts in recent memor y, com-

bining to save over 85 percent of shots they have faced, allowing under one goal per game

T

y League foe Columbia (4-4, 1-0)

Saturday Cornell has won three of its last four meetings with the Lions And for Columbia, after three losses to begin the year, the Lions have won four of their last five contests

I a

team will bounce back ready to c o m p

Sa t u rd a y,

Jo s e p h s s a

T h e team is resilient and willing to learn the necessar y lessons from the Penn game, but then put the past behind us and move on We’ve proven how much we are capable of, so with a little belief and a lot of hard work, I know this season can be what we want it to be ”

Bennett Gross can be reached at bgross@cornellsun com

Red Quells Offseason Doubts

Team’s big frst half fuels

By JOHNATHAN STIMPSON

Sun Contributor

win over new opponent Caldwell

Following a first-week bye, combined with a rigorous, daily training schedule, Cornell sprint football took the field Friday evening feeling invigorated and eager to begin its season on a high note

And after an off-season marked by notable changes namely, the departure of 14 seniors and the appointment of a new head coach the game also represented an important test of resiliency for how the team would respond to an offseason of change

Cornell, however, managed to put much of those lingering doubts to rest, decisively defeating an upstart, inaugural Caldwell team by a healthy margin, 48-20

“Overall as a team, we played well,” said junior quarterback Connor Ostrander “ We accomplished a lot of the goals we set before the game and we came away with a win, which is the ultimate goal ”

Though the Red’s seasonopener revealed an impressive team, its performance was not

Brooks Panhans each found the endzone, padding Cornell’s margin by another 21 points

Rounding out the first half, and in one of the game ’ s most striking moments, Ostrander scored on a dramatic 50-yard run The Cornell starting quarterback would go on to throw for 99 yards in the air, completing eight of his 13 passing attempts

However, the Red was not able to fully replicate its dominant offensive campaign coming out of halftime

Caldwell, a brand new team looking to avoid an 0-2 start after last week’s 69-6 blowout at the hands of Penn, started to put the pieces together, scoring two touchdowns in the final quarter

But whatever momentum Caldwell had built, it was ultimately too little too late, as Cornell’s lead was large enough to stave off a comeback

“We accomplished a lot of the goals we set before the game and we came away with a win.”

e v e n l y d i s t r i b u t e d C o r n e l l owed much of its victor y to a commanding first half in which it scored 35 points, while an iron-clad defense kept Caldwell to six

Sp e a r h e a d i n g C o r n e l l’s e x p l o s i v e s t a r t w a s sophomore Will Griffin, who burst out of the gate to power in two first-quarter rushing touchdowns, from 12 and six yards out, respectively

Caldwell managed to answer Griffin’s offensive spurt with a touchdown of its own but failed to keep up as Cornell’s onslaught continued In addition to another Griffin touchdown, senior wide receiver Ryman Seeley and junior quar terback

Despite a convincing win to begin the season, the Red’s players are still eager to improve their play as they head into potentially more formidable waters

“ We are always looking for ways to improve as a team, ” Ostrander said “ We’ll have to break down the film and focus on the areas of need and work for improvement in the

[ u p c o m i n g ] g a m e a g a i n s t Mansfield ”

The Red will hit the gridiron again this Saturday, Sept 30, when it travels to Pennsylvania to face Mansfield University

Though the Mountaineers matched Cornell’s 25 record last year, it has begun the 2017 campaign on weak footing The team has fallen in both of its two games this year, most recently suffering a lopsided 41-14 defeat to a forbidding Navy team

Johnathan Stimpson can be reached at js2993@cornell edu

Men’s Hockey Ranked No. 3 In ECAC Polls, No. 15 in Nation

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

Fresh off a third-place regu-

appearance in both the ECAC

hockey was picked to finish third in ECAC by both the coaches and media, receiving one first place vote in each poll No Cornellians were forecasted to land on the all-conference teams

Pi c k e d t o f i n i s h a b ove Cornell are Har vard in first and Quinnipiac in second All top three teams advanced to last year ’ s ECAC tournament, with the only remaining participant, Union, falling significantly in this year ’ s rankings to sixth The Dutchmen have lost the team ’ s and conference’s top scorers Mike Vecchione and Spencer Foo to the NHL Cornell was also ranked No 1 5 i n t h e f i r s t USCHO com poll ahead of t h e s e a s o n , s a n d w i c h e d between Quinnipiac at No 14 and Union at 16 Reigning n a t i o n a l c h a m p i o n De n ve r, Boston University, Minnesota, Har vard and UMass Lowell round out the nation’s top five

L a s t ye a r, C o r n e l l w a s picked to finish fifth and sixth in the media and coaches’ poll, re s p e c t i ve l y, b u t f o u g h t through a tough, travel-heavy first half of the season to finish third with a 13-4-5 conference record and 21-9-5 record overall

Though Cornell will have to replace eight seniors this season as opposed to four the year before, the team is aided by the fact that it returns its top three goal-scorers and a relatively untouched defensive c o r p s Ju n i o r Mi t c h Vanderlaan looks to build off a sophomore season where he led the team in both goals and p o i n t s C l a s s m a t e A n t h o n

behind returning senior Trevor

Yates, who more than tripled his 2015-16 production last year

On the blue line, All-Ivy first-team defenseman Yanni Kaldis returns for his sophomore year after seeing heavy ice time as a newcomer Alec Mc C re a , Ma t t Nu

n d Brendan Smith also return for

valuable minutes and the latter two saw their roles increase last season Senior Ryan Bliss, who logged top-four minutes as a sophomore, reenters the lineup after he was sidelined for the 2016-17 season due to injur y Ten freshmen will join the team this upcoming season, two of which have been drafted by NHL teams to bring the team total up to six Of the 10 newcomers, two goalies join the lone returning netminder

senior Hayden Stewart after the departure of Mitch Gillam ’17 Stewart has appeared in 15 games and notched two shutouts, but it’s unclear who will get the starting nod come first puck drop

14, with

pair of

Canadian schools The homeheavy start to the regular season begins Oct 27 with a twogame home series against the

Huntsville

Penn Upends Staunch Cornell Defense, Ends Henry’s Shutout Streak

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

C o r n e l

h e a d c o a c h Do n n a Hornibrook has long lauded her goalie tandem of sophomore Maddie Henry and senior Kelly Johnson as the best the nation has to offer With Henry entering Saturday’s contest against Penn riding a more than 240-minute shutout streak,

it is hard to argue with that conclusion

But against the Quakers (4-4, 1-0 Ivy), the Red (52, 0-1) was unable to continue its hot start to open the season, dropping its Ivy League opener, 2-0, ending Henry’s shutout streak at 253 minutes and 21 seconds the second longest in program history

“Our goalies have been outstanding, but we just

know that we need to have

” Hornibrook said “We real-

d ow n against Penn in what was an

mance by our team ” The loss to Penn to open Ivy play comes after the

o n dominant, winning five of its first six games Though Saturday was not the result

the team was hoping for, the Red knows it needs to put the loss in its back pocket

“Even though we have had a relatively good start to the season, [Saturday’s] game was certainly a letdown,” Hornibrook said “But the way we have to look at it is that every game matters and one game does not mean more than another Now we just have to

f o c u s o u r a t t e n t i o n o n improving for next week ” Cornell, which had been strong defensively to begin the year, was focused on r a m p i n g u p i t s e f f o r t s offensively, most notably by trying to get more corner o p p o r t u n i t i e s Howe ve r, the team ’ s lackluster performance on offense, which saw the Red get just three corners and two shots on goal, ultimately led to its

Quakers “

Josephs “If we can have more awareness of where our teammates are on the field, and connect our pass-