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Cornell’s $6.1 Billion Endowment

Posts Loss; Lowest Return of 5 Ivies

By JOSH GIRSKY Sun News Editor

Cornell announced Thursday that its $6 1 billion dollar endowment has posted a return of negative 3 3 percent in the 2015-2016 fiscal year The University’s endowment performance is the worst of the five Ivy League schools that have reported returns so far

Only Yale has posted a gain for the year, climbing 3 4 percent, while Harvard, University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth have posted losses of 2 percent, 1 4 percent and 1 9 percent, respectively

“We recognize the importance of the endowment for the University’s financial interests and its research, faculty and students,” said Donald Opatrny ’74, the chair of the Investment Committee in a statement “Moving forward we are proactively examining, given this lowreturn environment, how to optimize the endowment ”

One of the proactive moves the University will make is to move the Office of University Investments to New York City from its current location in Ithaca

The move was announced on Friday after being recommended at the Investment Committee’s Sept 7 meeting and receiving the stamp of approval from Interim President Hunter Rawlings a week later

The move represents an effort to attract more potential employees who may not be willing to move to Ithaca,

Endowment Returns for Fiscal Year 2015-2016

Falling behind | The University performed poorly among the Ivy League institutions in endowment returns, according to the 2015-2016 fiscal report released Thursday

according to Joann DeStefano, Cornell’s chief financial officer “ The Investment Committee believes over the long term the relocation to New York City gives us even better access to potential staff who might not be willing to move to Ithaca,” she said in a statement “We’ve had great staff hires, but this move will expand the population of potential candidates And it puts us closer to the

Students Voice Safety Concerns After Stabbing

By ANNA KOOK Sun Contributor

While Interim President Hunter Rawlings announced t

increased campus safety measures after last week’s stabbing, some Cornellians expressed concern that precautions do not extend far enough

After Wednesday night’s violent altercation and last m o n t h’s

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Rawlings and Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner sought to assure students that they are safe at Cornell

“Safety is our top priority

as violence has no place on or near our campus, ” Rawlings said in an email He added that, although there is no ongoing threat to Cornell, security provisions have been

number of police patrols and Blue Light escort teams

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, some students and parents say their safety concerns persist, explaining that, although no Cornellians were harmed in Wednesday night’s incident, the presence of violence on or near campus this semester has been startling

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world capital markets ” Kenneth Miranda, the University’s fourth chief investment officer since 2010, added that the move is in the long-term interest of Cornell even if the “full merits will take time to achieve ” Although office space and salaries in Ne w York City would be more expensive, DeStefano added that a 10-basis point increase in endowment returns would more than cover the difference in cost

Anabel’s Grocery

By JEANETTE SI Sun Staff Writer

Anabel’s Grocery, a Student Assembly-funded venture that aims to relieve food insecurity on campus, is slated to open next semester according to a statement from its co-presidents, Lizzi Gorman ’17 and Adam Shelepak ’17

Despite receiving S A funding last fall for a projected opening this semester, Gorman said the project faced several obstacles that have forced the team to keep postponing the opening date

After an original projected opening of February 2016, bureaucratic hurdles in the construction process pushed the date back to the beginning of the academic year and then again to next semester

For one thing, the team struggled to renovate the basement of Anabel Taylor Hall to become the grocery ’ s storefront, according to Gorman and Shelepak

“Delays in the construction process that are external to the student involvement in the project have pushed our timeline to opening in the middle of next semester, ” Gorman said “These delays were driven by unexpectedly high bids from contractors and subcontractors ”

In addition to a sluggish construction process, Gorman also said the grocery encountered funding issues, with unforeseen costs making the project’s organization more expensive than originally projected

“While the funding asked [from the S A ] was in line with cost projections at the time for the renovation, unknown-unknowns of the space

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Apple Festival Kicks Off Fall Season

By TREY AGUIRRE

Sun Contributor

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Two Years After Fa t a l A c c i d e n t

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Contribut or

After a shocking car crash forced the restaurant to close for two years, Simeon’s on the Commons officially reopened with a ribbon cutting ceremony hosted by Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and the Downtown Ithaca Alliance Executive Director Gar y Ferguson

Thursday morning

Simeon’s was forced to shut its doors after an incident in June 2014 when a tractor-trailer collided with the front façade, reducing it to rubble and killing employee

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CoursePad to Become Open Source

By CELINE CHOO Sun Contributor

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Co-owners Dean Zervos and Rich Avery said they rebuilt the restaurant in Bush’s honor, placing a plaque on the wall to commemorate her memory and naming

“The next 10 years are going to be epic in this city, a complete change and re-growth.”

the build-out after her

Although the restaurant has opened for limited business since Aug 26, working with a few former employees, it launched into full operation Thursday after several delays slowed the construction process

The restaurant which was named after Ithaca’s founder and the first Surveyor General of New York Simeon De Witt has been one of Ithaca’s premier gathering places for nearly a quarter of a century, according to Simeon’s website

The restaurant has undergone major reconstruction since the 2014 accident The rebuilt front facade replicates, in all but a few details, the facade that was destroyed The interior of the restaurant dining space has also been enhanced, with the additions of the Oyster Room, Tavern Room, and a balcony space overlooking the main floor

Zervos said that he has been grateful for the community’s support throughout the rebuilding process

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“The Ithaca Community has been supportive of us throughout and we look forward to welcoming back our old customers and even a lot more new ones, ” he said “The next 10 years are going to be epic in this city, a complete change and re-growth ”

After Stabbings, Increased Safety Measures Fail to Arrest Concerns

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Anabel’s Grocery Slated to Open Spring Semester

Student organizers say opening was delayed by construction, bureaucratic hurdles

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Tom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling

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There comes a time when you ’ re forced to keep your cool, and try not to lose it It’s called a breaking point; my pastor preaches it as a ‘defining moment ’ In that instance, people find out who you really are For college students, this moment seems to come every other day There are assignments to be done, prelims to cram for, labs to attend and interviews to be bombed all stacked on each other like an ambitious game of Jenga It’s stressful, I tell you Especially for a freshman, the change has been jarring Jumping from high school is like jumping from Double A to the Major Leagues you hardly ever feel ready, and when you do, something else blindsides you and leaves you with whiplash It might show up when you least expect it My business management class, easily my favorite class so far, unveiled an ugly surprise last Mo n d a y : a f t e r a weekend of studying three assigned chapters crammed w

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dency and finally I’ll do this, this, this, this and, oh yes, that ” But when she said it, she seemed so worried, instead of excited She had too much on her mind, like me, where we both obsessed over maintaining this nirvana of being social and learned, happy and unburdened, with a healthy GPA and conscience

We wanted it all I remember watching a documentary a couple years ago about a baseball phenom who came over from Cuba His story was unbelievable: He had failed three times to defect from Cuba, but at the age of 15, he finally succeeded; even more, on that last try, his mother fell overboard from the boat, and he jump into the waters to rescue her He quickly became a star: He pitched himself into the stratosphere of the Major Leagues, winning accolades and adoration from fans

I think our expectations, as hopeful freshmen, were so distorted it left the room open for disillusionment. We expected things to go smoother than they really have

l y w a l k e d to the front of the room, and pulled up a video of an advertisement that he found on Youtube We watched it, and then he told us to use what we had seen and apply it to a topic that had filled up about a page of our textbook We had read about 80 pages People were pissed We were mutinous But we all learned something important: college is where expectations go to their graves Expect the unexpected; and if you expect the unexpected, then you just might actually get the expected I think our expectations, as hopeful freshmen, were so distorted it left the room open for disillusionment We expected things to go smoother than they really have There have been fights, blowups, and tears We certainly didn’t expect to get that grade on an exam We all had certain dreams, to be a part of this and that club, to do this and that thing that would make us happy and satisfied and when that didn’t happened, some spiraled I didn’t get into my preferred choice of club, and when that happened, I became so discouraged I didn’t apply to any other clubs When I missed my business quiz, I felt like my GPA had just took cyanide When someone removed my clothes from the dryer and placed it on a dirty counter, being the germophobe I was, I freaked and placed everything back in the cleaner And then I remembered: I had a laundry list of things still to do I had to prepare for a quiz the next day, meet with my advisor, talk to this person and that, study this book and the other and finish a CS Assignment I had to be well learned, active, career oriented, social and happy But I didn’t feel any of that I just felt overwhelmed

This relates to a conversations I had with my best friend just the other day To be honest, she intimidates me a little Her dad is a Yale professor, she went to an elite private school and she double majors in Biology and English She’s off the charts smart and off kilter She’s also determined She lists her goals in the form of a hunting list: “First, I’m going to join this fraternity, next I’m going to get this on my MCAT, then I’ll receive my M D Ph D from Harvard, and then I’ll complete my resi-

He

ebullient radiance, passionate, infecting the game with his joy When he was reunited with

behind in Cuba,

union reminded us how beautiful the

His name was Jose Fernandez Jose Fernandez was killed in a boating accident last weekend at the age of 24 When I heard the news, I was sick, and disgusted It was unfathomable Here was someone who fought his way here from Cuba to bring his family here, and showed immense pride and joy every day in what he was doing He shouldn’t have been taken away; it wasn ’ t right He had his whole life ahead of him He left behind his pregnant girlfriend He left behind a devastated family He left us shaken in our views of the world

He certainly impacted me I know he’s just one person, that there are bigger issues in this world, but still he resonated It shouldn’t matter that much but it has The news of his passing put a few things in perspective for me That, as much as the problems I face daily as a student, they seem almost trivial with what his family is dealing with right now We’re all looking out for our success, but some things demand our attention more than just grades and activities But another thing t o o k t o m e t o o : e m b r a c e t h e l i t t l e moments You might never know when it’ll be your last Now, whenever I get caught up with my hectic schedule, I just take a moment and relax and let up I tr y to remember why I should be happy, instead of being upset about a quiz or a prelim to run through I’m more appreciative now: I’m going to a great school, and I have friends to talk to I have loving parents, and I’m writing for The Sun, doing what I love the most Is this emotional overplay? Probably But I do know this: Just two weeks ago, I would have given anything to be Jose Fernandez Today, I’m a better person because of him College is stressful and frustrating It’s thought provoking, and fit inducing It’s a love hate relationship But it’s a journey to be enjoyed and grow from I can ’ t say it’ll be smooth, but I know that I’ll be here for four more years I might as well enjoy ever y moment of it

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

I’veThe Elusive Quicksilver of Adaptation

been telling people for a while now that I fear I may be outgrowing my column, and that fear was almost confirmed in the early stages of writing this one

As I rummaged through the dozens of pages in my “Sun Columns” document, I found that many of the ideas/thoughts there failed to strike me with any kind of zest or zeal for transmitting them to print It’s as if the would-be incisive ingredients of my metaphorical ink had been reduced to a sparse collection of watered down pencil shavings and stale, rehashed themes

I realized that in spite of all the demons I’ve exorcised using the style on which I have relied for over two years the time had come for me to slough off some of my inhibitions and mold the medium into what I needed it to be or else I would soon become unfulfilled

And so, Editor willing, I will commence with doing just that As I’ve said before, I am always fascinated by the unasked questions that white people, especially my friends, often seem to have for me Before I unlocked my own freedom, to see my reflection in their eyes was to see my reflection in the eyes of the world But the solace I’ve gained from replacing that image with my own is, unfortunately, tarnished by the trauma of knowing that many of these same friends remain entrapped within their own destructive understanding of themselves, or lack thereof

The neurotic denial of one ’ s identity is a terrifying prospect, but

it becomes even more terrifying when compounded with modern society’s glorification of this denial

In other words, the nicer and more reasonable a group carrying privilege becomes over time whether that be white people, men, heterosexual people, the able-bodied or what have you the easier it becomes for them to claim an invisibility they do not deserve And, even more disturbing, they must know, somewhere in their heart of hearts, that they are in fact a significant difference-maker in the world

After all, I was writing to the Class of 2020 about Alton Sterling and Philando Castile in July, and I am now writing to you bearing the names Keith Lamont Scott and Terrence Crutcher from September

This endless cycle of dead black people cannot possibly have escaped the notice of my white friends, although most of them have yet to mention it to me, which just seems inconceivable Such a delusion lends itself to striking vulnerability and allows one to risk spiraling into intense personal depravity

In love and truth, the oppressed of any group are far more prepared for the impending disaster that would result from such self-evisceration, while the privileged of any group may find that all moral, ethical, intellectual and spiritual stability has been suddenly and violently ripped out of their fragile ethos They’re late to the party, even though they sent out all of the invitations and set up all the decora-

tions, and the concussive impact of this epiphany on the world has been forewarned a mind-numbing amount of times by people far more intelligent and talented than myself

All people live in a constant world of truth aversion, and this aversion is ratcheted up by several orders of magnitude whenever those from opposite sides of a spectrum interact with one another I can ’ t tell you how many times I’ve been subjected to bewildering and gratuitous displays of kindness from both strangers and friends and no, I do not mean the genuine, organic kind of kindness exhibited by those who are truly aware of themselves and willing to engage with the conflicts enveloping our society Rather, I am referring to the kind of nauseating niceness, cloaked in superficiality and naiveté, of unnecessarily bright smiles and comically wide eyes

This form of kindness is a stratagem, tactfully employed in the hope that it might somehow allow us to circumvent the tremendous, indelible role that those with power white people, in this context have played in society This contrived niceness is, in a sense, a way to foist all of their dreams of reconciliation, peace, perceived progress and forgiveness upon my tired soul

But I refuse I am the lingering shadow of eternally ignored nightmares, nightmares which have been self-imposed and reified through unspeakable acts of willful evil or, in the case of my ever-silent friends, passive negligence These night-

Max van Zile | Guest Room

mares born out of truth and reality have been distorted with time and lies, so as to absolve the privileged parties and their posterity of responsibility

I for one find it frightening how an entire culture can gorge itself on lies and then, once the stomach ache inevitably takes hold, dare to whisper that dreaded question silently into the night: “Why?”

This question of “why” is the question we sometimes ask ourselves But we can find no satisfactory answer within ourselves, and we do not want the true answer, which we can only find elsewhere

So we instead choose to grin and nod in the hopes that those who are suffering will forget that the questions remain unasked

In this realm of nightmares and dreams, of unasked questions and unsought answers, benevolent intent becomes largely irrelevant in the absence of some awareness that this interaction that of the smiling privileged person, to whom the oppressed person should demonstrate immeasurable gratitude and love for their genteel approach does not operate in a vacuum And, because of this, intent cannot hide behind consequences, or attempt to obscure the weight of those consequences

Of course, this column is just a piece of art, so nothing I say here can be of much use unless you recognize that these are the words of a living, breathing human being And although my humanity has been stolen from me time and time

President Mark Cuban, 2020

It ’ s a balmy June morning in 2018, and President Hillar y Clinton fires up her tablet to find that a mysterious ne w candidate is r unning against her in the 2020 Democratic primar y Faced with domestic terror attacks and a government

s h u t d o w n f o r c e d b y c o n g r e s s i o n a l Republicans, Hillar y has grown unpopular Young voters want something fresh At noon, eccentric Texas billionaire and Shark Tank star Mark Cuban livestreams a p r e s s c o n f e r e n c e o n Yo u Tu b e a n d Snapchat Wearing jeans and unpretentious Silicon Valley sneakers, Cuban lays out a platform for the 21st centur y heavy investment in self-driving cars, private space travel and biotechnological

h u m a n e n h a n c e m e n t , t h e c o m p l e t e divestment of U S energy from foreign oil, and legalization of all dr ugs After his speech, Cuban celebrates with his reality

T V c o s t a r K e v i n “ M r Wo n d e r f u l ” O’Lear y, Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon and the Dallas Mavericks cheerleaders Cuban is the number-one most Googled search term that evening; one week later, he leads Hillar y among Democratic voters

So u n d c r a z y, l i b e r a l s ? I f s o , t h i n k again What Donald J Tr ump has done to the Republican Par ty could happen to the left, too, since Tr ump has demonstrated that the system that keeps unserious candidates away from American voters no longer works Many of the same trends

t h a t h e l p e d Tr u m p b e a t r i c h e r, m o re experienced rivals in the Republican primar y have also powered upstar t candidates like Sen Bernie Sanders (D-Vt ) and Barack Obama, who defeated a heavily favored Hillar y Clinton in 2008 in

par t because he killed her in free media coverage and grassroots organization on social media

Tr ump has been able to sell impossible fantasies to millions of Americans The right popular liberal Cuban, Stephen Colber t, Kanye West could sell aspira-

t

Anti-war activists sick of Hillar y ’ s hardnosed foreign policy might prop up a candidate who, like Tr ump, refuses to honor America’s commitment to defend NATO

esting opponents A figure like Cuban, who also built a brand as a savvy, charismatic businessman, could do the same The Tr ump campaign came wrapped in patriotism, the conser vative civil religion A liberal equivalent would play to the leftist religion: technological progress To Americans sick of the government, the scientific genius and business acumen of an Elon Musk could qualify him for the Presidency, especially if such a figure were willing to make Tr ump-sized promises about Mars settlements and vir tual realit y ( T h e S o u t h

again, I love each and every one of you reading these words and trust you to not replicate that heinous act by taking my words to mean more than what I’ve said

You see, art provides us with assurance and solidarity, enfolding us within the warmth of shared experience or exposing us to the universality of being alive But art cannot and should not serve as a surrogate for real people, because the truth is that you don’t really know shit about anyone You cannot and will not truly know me, or any artist, or any human being, unless you reciprocate with a piece of yourself

This fact is not only non-negotiable, it is the unifying fulcrum on which all social dynamics should rely

Point Blank Period

Does this mean you have not grown if you have not yet given? Of course not The growth that comes from seeking to know the artists, seeking to find yourself within their work, is wedded with the nature of existence And indeed we are all artists We are born as artists and we cannot help but to die as artists too, though the extent to which we sketch out that identity varies widely Okay, I’m just rambling now That’s enough for today Hope I didn’t scare you away

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

on free pub-

payer health

What Donald J. Trump has done to the Republican Party could happen to the left, too, since Trump has demonstrated that the system that keeps unserious candidates away from American voters no longer works

c a r e remember, the Sanders plan would have added $21 trillion to the national debt in 10 years and find them impossible to implement

The reasons Tr ump won aren ’ t specific to conser vative politics No one has been able to hold Tr ump accountable for his errors and lies because his suppor ters read ne ws sources that suppor t their vie ws

The same is tr ue for the liberal echo

c h a m b e r : S l a t e , B u z z f e e d a n d Jo h n

Oliver Tr ump has used his name recognition and sensational headlines to draw attention from more-qualified, less inter-

A f r i c a - b o r n Mu s k h i mself is inelig i b l e ) Te c h n o l o g y, to some on t h e l e f t , i s like the term

A m e r i c a i s to those on the right t h e y’l l t r u s t a figure who successfully associates himself with it, and they’ll assume that only a subversive wouldn’t suppor t it The mainstream media may be no more able to stop such a candidate than they were able to stop Tr ump

The problems with Hillar y Clinton’s p e r s o n a t h a t h a v e b e e n m a s k e d b y Tr ump ’ s near-complete failure to r un a professional campaign will still be there if s h e b e c o m e s Pr e s i d e n t Fi r s t - t e r m

Presidents tend to get less and less popular as the honeymoon period ends and the years go by Remember, Obama swept

into office with majorities in both houses of Congress and his approval rating was still in the upper thir ties by his reelection campaign He was a more charismatic, l i k a b l e a n d t a l e n t e d p o l i t i c i a n t h a n Hillar y, too, and he made bigger promise s : w o u l d n ’ t a n u n p o p

y Clinton be uniquely suited to

primar y c

n t ? Won’t disillusioned liberals want someone to tell them what they want to hear, too? I like Mark Cuban, and I don’t think ne w ideas and fresh faces are always bad But taking candidates with little to no actual experience seriously is a terrible idea The least qualified Presidents of the past typically had stronger resumés than you might think; Reagan, for instance, was a two-term governor Don’t let a Tr ump loss give you the idea that your 2020 candidates will all be reasonable and qualified Tr ump has shown ambitious egomaniacs and minor celebrities all over the countr y that the right media frenzy could propel nearly anyone towards the White House Liberals congratulating each other on the collapse of the Republican party are missing the big picture In fact, progressives could fall for a charismatic celebrity candidate with big dreams, online support and a talent for making headlines, too As we move (hopefully) into a post-Trump era, be careful who you support The new media age isn’t ending soon Don’t let the next Donald Trump be a Democrat

Max van Zile is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mvanzile@cornellsun com Guest Room appears periodically this semester

The Easy Rider Cab

Sundays are work days at Cornell You arise from the chaos of Saturday night and prepare to do battle with the demons of prelims and term papers, striding into Olin or Uris or Mann tenacious grin and Latte in hand

But lets be real You sit down, crack open your laptop and sip to the tune of the Netflix opening jingle Procrastination is as apart of your Sunday workday routine as anything else

So how about this? Instead of burning those hours away watching reruns, stalking exes and numbing your brain in the dark corners of Youtube, why not read a story? And not just any story; a piece of fiction written by a friend of yours One written by an ex-friend of yours, maybe One written by your old roommate from freshman year who you swear transferred Well, he didn’t And guess what? He wrote a story about that night

The stories published here on Sun Story Sundays all burst from the pens of Cornell undergraduates hoping to follow in the footsteps of the literary giants who once stalked the Arts Quad They will appear every two weeks under a monthly theme They will be sad and happy, spiteful and gleeful, menacing and pleasing They will run the emotional, thematic and geographic gamut But most importantly, they will come from you

Open your skull; reverse lobotomies are on the house

HAVE A STORY? SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ANDRES VAAMONDE, alv49@cornell edu

hand was bleeding when he got in the car He didn’t say anything off the bat He opened the door and had a real no nonsense grip when he smashed it shut as he sat down He’d called me saying I had to come quick and check out the scene When I rolled up there wasn ’ t anything but him in the middle of the street looking up at the sky The moon was hanging low and its light made Ricky a shadow

I was riding high on a bender fueled by a blood flow of coffee and pow- der with minutes of shuteye being few and far between Times like these just happened they lit up like a match and burnt out randomly Sometimes a wind blows the flame away; other times it burns down the stem, turning the wood to ash makes everything crumble That night was one long burning flame I didn’t know what day it was, and everything felt like one dreamless moment On these nights, the only thing keeping me from slaughtering myself was driving I’d drive with nowhere in mind and let my subconscious take the wheel If someone called me they’d know I’d go and get them I’d gained a reputation by that point of being the kid with the ride for the down low People knew all I asked of them was enough gas money for the car or substances to keep me driving They called it the easy rider cab It was a no hustle, no bullshit, no questions kind of operation that I didn’t even consider an operation in the first place All this was a way to help dull the static in my head until there was nothing left to do but press the reset button

When I saw Ricky’s hand I hoped it wasn ’ t blood and hoped even harder that we wouldn’t have to talk about it It looked like it was covered in ink smeared from a pen that could’ve exploded on his knuckle I didn’t ask any questions, but Ricky broke the silence

“Bet you ’ re wondering what happened here,” he said holding up his palm I told him I hadn’t noticed

“Take a look at it,” he placed it on the dashboard

“I’m driving I can ’ t ”

“Sure as shit you can ’ t ”

I looked over at him He was smiling like a monkey and his eyes were wide There was something on fire behind them

“Stop the car man you gotta take a look at this,” He repeated I hit the brakes The wheels screeched and sent a shockwave through my head that stayed there as Ricky snapped his fingers in applause

“What do you think?”

He was showing off the back of his hand like a jewelry model The blood was painting streaks down his forearm I saw shining specks of light poking out against the deep red coming from a gash around his knuckle All I said to him was that it looked pretty bad

“Damn right it’s bad I got little shards of glass stuck all around my fist Look!”

He held it up to the moonlight that was streaming through the car It danced around those little gems in the flesh of his fingers

“Does it hurt?”

“Yeah but who cares? I don’t have time for that I’ve got places to be my man ”

“Where are you going?”

“You know any girls working tonight?”

“I don’t do that kind of stuff ”

“Yeah, but do you know any girls working tonight?”

“Last time I saw you, you had a girlfriend ” Ricky showed me his hand, “Not anymore ”

I could feel my heart pushing up against the inside of my shirt

“So are you gonna take me?”

“What?”

“Are you gonna take me somewhere?”

“I don’t really know any places I could ”

“Jesus what did I call you for?” Ricky shifted himself and looked up at the moon He sat there staring while the engine hummed and my head screamed He turned back towards me and said, “You know on average more murders happen on full moons?”

“That’s something ”

“It’s a wild fact of life man ” He looked back down at his hand “I think I’m gonna keep this Too damn pretty to wash it all away ”

He looked at me, “There’s a spot you ’ re gonna take me I’ll give you the directions one by one Sound good, Easy Rider?” I nodded He slapped the dashboard and turned on the radio

I didn’t say anything while driving, and Ricky didn’t seem to care he just howled along to the radio and slapped his hand against the window I followed his directions and when he finally said stop we were at the entrance to some storage unit Ricky hopped out the car and told me to get out I told him this was the end of line

“I’m gonna need your help on this one kid”

“I don’t do that ”

“C’mon I’m asking as a friend ” I shook my head He took out a knife

“You wanna get paid Easy Rider?”

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Comm en t of the day

“The work of these young men and their coaches is a great credit to them Congratulations to them all President Garrett wanted to strengthen Cornell football This is a great honor to her memory ”

Old Alum

Re: “Upstart Upsetters: Cornell Football Shocks No. 25 Colgate After Trailing 28-5,” Sports October 1, 2016

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“Ithink

she’s a computer science major ”

T h e y A r e t h e W o r l d : W h a t P r o n o u n s C a n Te a c h U s A b o u t P o l i t i c a l C o r r e c t n e s s M a n y

“You mean they’re a computer science major ” “Whatever ” T h e a b ove c o n ve r s a t i o n took place between my roommate and I a few weeks ago To clarify, I used the pronoun she to refer to a m u t u a l a c q u a i n t a n c e of ours, and m y ro o mm a t e Troy corrected me, pointing out that the person I had mentioned uses they p ro n o u n s On e t h i n g a b o u t Troy; he’s a very reasonable person (Troy if you ’ re reading this, don’t get a big head Also please take out our garbage ) After I said “whatever,” he proceeded to admonish me in a very fair and thoughtful way, which was more than I deserved considering how dismissive I was of him

“I think, um, it’s an issue of respect, ” he said earnestly, “but I get that it’s tough I mean, everyone grows up saying he and she ”

Having my liberal credentials questioned made me very uneasy Luckily, I was able to p l a y o f f t h e s i t u a t i o n w i t h humor At that very moment, a loud frat-boy-type person drove by our house yelling obscenities

“Like he’s an asshole,” I said, pointing out the window We both laughed, and the matter was dropped But the subject stayed with me long t h e re a f t e r I p ro c e e d e d t o indulge in a mental narrative I half-knew to be flawed and irresponsible I never stooped so low as to denounce gender fluidity or transgenderism or anything of that sort What bothe re d m e w a s t h e p e rc e i ve d

obligation Using they to refer t o a s i n g l e p e r s o n c a n b e counter-intuitive and confusing Who were they to demand an alteration of the English language? It seemed at the time to be a dreadful imposition Was I being immature? Of course Is modern pronoun

’ s t h e m I ’ m t r y i n g t o r e a c h

b y w a y o f t h i s a n e c d o t e .

usage a completely logical undertaking in light of recent advances in our understanding of gender? Again, the answer is an obvious yes The purpose of this article is not to debate those points Many people in this country have a problem with political correctness in society, and it’s them I’m trying to reach by way of this anecdote I get it Nobody likes being told what to do, especially in the freedomcentric American zeitgeist And I don’t think I’ll get through to you using terms like privilege or micro-aggression, even though I absolutely believe that both of those things exist Charged words rarely lead to changed minds

It was a few days after my conversation with my roommate that I came to a realization Using they is not an obliga t i o n : It’s a n o p p o r t u n i t y Certainly theys have varying life experiences just as hes and shes do However, it’s safe to assume that many individuals who use t h i rd - p e r s o n p ro n o u n s h a ve endured some amount of anxiety about their identity Perhaps they’ve even taken some heat for who they are or how they l o o k Yo u , w h e n e ve r yo u address such a person, have a choice to make when it comes

to pronoun usage You’re being handed on a silver platter the opportunity to make another person feel good, even to conn e c t w i t h t h e m , s i m p l y by u s i n g a f e w w o rd s It’s a n opportunity that comes along precious little in this dismal world of ours It’s an opportunity that, as an aspiring writer, I ’ ve d e vo t e d my entire life to pursuing I s u g g e s t yo u take it

G o o d d e e d s a re n ’ t j u s t m o r a l , they’re utilitarian Let’s consider Harry Potter (possibly my favorite sentence I’ve ever written) Before J K Row l i n g b e c a m e a f a m o u s author, she was a single mother on benefits, the British equivalent of welfare In fact, she has said that without government benefits, she would never have been able to begin writing the Harry Potter series That’s why I donate money and do volunteer work; it’s not because of some abstract conception of morality I want the next Harry Potter To be clear, I’m not c o m p a r i n g c o r re c t p ro n o u n u

c h a r i t y w

rk I ’ m merely trying to establish that b e i n g n i c e t o o t h e r s o f t e n comes around in a very tangible way In a dog-eat-dog world, sometimes it’s hard to be empathetic while trying to look out for yourself Next time you might be tempted to, say, use an inaccurate pronoun or mispronounce a foreign name: be selfish Consider what you might be able to get out of doing the right thing I guarantee you it’s more than you think

Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences He can be reached at ahagopian@cornell edu Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY NATHAN CHAZAN Sun Staff Writer

Gilbert Hernandez is an unparalleled figure in American comics Working tirelessly since 1979, “Beto” is one of the key artists in the first wave of alternative comics, creating with his brother Jaime, a significant cartoonist in his own right, the legendary magazine Love and Rockets, a pioneering work of comics-as-literature Gilbert’s stories in Love and Rockets, the Palomar cycle, form perhaps the greatest work of magical realism in the comics form; challenging moving sto rytelling How

Gi l b e r t He r do not end

h e re T h e man ’ s output

i s s i m p l y i n s a n e , r a n g ing from qui

c h i l d h o o m e m o i r s exploitation-s pulp, all execu to maddening fection

Re c e n t l y,

h a s b e e n e menting with of obscenity, the surrealist

t h a t a l w a y s

b e h i n d t h e even his tam and amping gouging extremity Blubber, which now seems to be the flagship book for this side of Gilbert, was published with little fanfare but, for those who read it then, dropped like an atom bomb That book’s endless barrage of cartoon critters with swollen genitalia, buggering and killing each other in seemingly endless permutations, consistently upends the reader’s desire to categorize the work, while its artistic mastery and impressive mark making forces the reader to take it seriously Later issues further confounded by introducing human beings to the frenzy, behaving in more or less the same fashion as the creatures before And now in Garden of the Flesh Beto puts the graphic in graphic novel by taking the iddrenched frolics of the Blubber kingdom to perhaps the most

popular book of all time: the Bible Garden of the Flesh comes to you as a shrinkwrapped little black book, equally reminiscent of Moleskine notebooks, pocket bibles and Tijuana bibles, the short pornographic cartoon tracts from the Great Depression to which this book is clearly indebted The very act of tearing off the shrink wrap feels illicit, and turning the pages in this dark tome becomes a subversive act This ingenious design (credited in the backmatter to one “J Feeli Pecker”) plunges the reader straight into the debauched fever dream of the Old Testament that ensues It goes a little something like this:

The universe is born in an abstraction that would make e swoon The first man, Adam, emerges boner-first round, contemplating his idyllic surroundings and nt hard-on Adam brings himself to orgasm, from first woman, a buxom blonde named Eve, is born, striking resemblance to the square-jawed pornstar rom the Blubber series They have sex with each d then Eve meets the devil and has sex with him er eating the forbidden fruit, Adam and Eve are cast arthly paradise and have some more sex, and make ids, one of whom kills another and later has some while later, a man named Noah has a lot of sex with e breasted, veiled woman referred to only as wife, builds a boat to save his family and all the animals

n d i v i n e th floods the r l d T h e mily have sex

n t h e b o a t n t i l t h e y nd land, a a r t h l y p a ram and Eve have more sex That s basically the book

Pu t t i n g a s i d e t h e visceral pleasure and

a r t i s t i c g l o r y o f t h e work (and, in brilliantly confident full color, t h i s b o o k i s a m o n g Gilbert’s most aesthetic a l l y p l e a s i n g ) , o n e might be wondering what value there is in m a k i n g a n X - R a t e d

Book of Genesis It’s a cliche to make sexuallized art out of the Bible, and the vanilla heterofantasy sex in Garden of the Flesh is hardly the stuff of revolution If even R Crumb played his take on Book of Genesis straight, what’s the point of Gilbert’s libidinous variant?

And yet there is more to the core juxtaposition of Garden of the Flesh than shock value by slamming together the biblical and the pornographic, Hernandez explores the power fantasies which fuel both After all, porn and religion both offer their own promises of otherworldly pleasure unattainable in life, be it paradise after death or an impossibly good roll in the hay, and in these promises instruct behavioral and societal norms Both are like the subconscious of society, invisible to those who do not participate yet pervasive in the background of our culture Garden of the Flesh is then a naked depiction of that underground fantasy, the contradictory rewards of both merged by our collective unconscious and unleashed by Beto’s penline It is not with judgement that Beto pulls back the curtain on our id, but with the humor and delight you might find reading your roommate ’ s search history aloud It’s great comics and delectable entertainment; it would be a sin for me not to recommend it

Nathan Chazan is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at ndc39@cornell edu

O f f t h e C h a i n : S p h i n x V i r t u o s i a t B a i l e y H a l l

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

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Tyran Grillo is a graduate student at Cornell University He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun com

Dive on In Lake Street Dive at the State Theatre

BY ANITA ALUR Sun Staff Writer

Throw a bunch of New England Conservatory grads on a stage, and you can ’ t help but expect excellence I knew going into the Lake Street Dive show this past Friday that I would see a tight, bluesy band fill up the State Theatre with sound I was far from disappointed Lake Street Dive brought even more presence and expertise than even I expected

The show opened with PWR BTTM, an energetic duo I’ve hoped to see for months They emerged on stage, fully prepared to fill the mixed crowd of Ithaca natives and college students with their gritty, glittery garage-punk They maintain a fun, frivolous energy, interspersed with dialogue on gender identity and sexuality While they differ tremendously from Lake Street Dive in style, the two bands share the same high level of energy, making the duo a perfect opener They played tracks from their 2015 record, Ugly Cherries, as well as songs from an upcoming release And PWR BT TM’s guitarist/singer remained in the left wing of the stage for Lake Street Dive’s performance, dancing and singing along throughout their entire set Lake Street Dive appeared on stage, unified and spunky, performing “I Don’t Care About You” from their newest album Side Pony They’re a band made up of only four musicians, yet their sound is resemblant of a full-force blues-jazz band Their gui-

tarist, Mike Olson, routinely switched to trumpet, and I was amazed at how every person in the band harmonized with lead singer Rachael Price Price truly stole the show for me She had tremendous control over her voice, testing out tricks and trills, and belting notes with her jazzy tone as the show progressed Her stage presence was also commendable, as she ably danced and moved to ever y song While the seated State Theatre felt some what restrictive at times, by the middle of their set, everyone was up and dancing People began filling the walkways on the sides of the orchestra, singing along to every song they kne w And Price was leading the way, teaching us all how to move to the band’s music Lake Street Dive blends jazz, blues, country and pop elegantly and effor tlessly They have hits that lean one way or the other, but their overarching sound is full and refreshing I was amazed at how much fun they appeared to have on stage This is a band that has been together for 12 years, yet from watching them, I got no sense of any emotional fatigue Instead, they appeared more uni-

fied than ever, eager to perform for a crowd of Ithacans During the song “Side Pony,” the band brought out a giant, inflatable pony and bounced it about on stage Like PWR BTTM, they’re unafraid of being frivolous, feeling confident that their musicality will shine through regardless of what fun tricks they play on stage I’m always appreciative of a band like this one that cares just as much about their stage presence as the music they create

While they maintained the purity and precision of their recorded tracks, Lake Street Dive also made the concert feel like a skilful jam session I watched as Bridget Kearney, the upright bassist, took a solo, slamming on her instrument with power and sophistication There were drum, guitar and trumpet solos as well, making the show feel more about the band than any one single musician There was a sense of mutual appreciation on stage, as the quartet shared the mic for the song “What I’m Doing Here ” They crowded around Rachael Price, harmonizing soulfully to the words “Leave me, leave me, leave me ” And for the remainder of the song, while they pulled out other instruments and resumed playing, they resided by Price, joining together in harmony

The band’s encore was one of the most memorable songs in their set They offered a rendition of Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody,” an iconic, dynamic and highly musically challenging track Lake Street Dive’s cover was impressive and intricate They managed to make the song feel as full as the original, and the cross-generational crowd screamed the words as the band performed the whole song This was a show I’ll remember for years to come, one filled with skill and sass, music and movement Lake Street Dive doesn’t take itself too seriously, making the group a pleasure to see, hear and experience

Anita Alur is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at aalur@cornellsun com

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g o i n g , a n d a s Fr i m e l s a i d , t h e e n e r g y g o i n g i n t o t h e s e c o n d h a l f w a s m u c h m o r e p o t e n t “ We a l l j u s t g o t f i r e d u p a n d w e k n e w t h a t i t s t a r t e d w i t h u s , ” Fr i m e l s a i d “ O u r o f f e n s e w a s d o i n g a g r e a t j o b a l l d a y a n d w e j u s t k n e w w e h a d t o s t o p t h e m a n d g i v e t h e b a l l b a c k t o o u r o f f e n s e a n d g i v e o u r s e l v e s a c h a n c e t o w i n ”

A s t h e g a m e b e g a n t o w i n d d o w n , C o l g a t e f a c e d t w o s e p a r a t e o c c a s i o n s w h e n t h e t e a m h a d t o r i s k i t a l l o n f o u r t h d o w n O n b o t h

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d w a y t o o h a rd f o r t h i s It’s a w es o m e t h a t a l l o f o u r w o r k i s f i n a l l y p a y i n g o f f ” A t e a m a l r e a d y e n t r e n c h e d w i t h c o n f id e n c e , S e g g e b r u c h a d d e d t h a t a w i n ov e r a n a t i o n a l l y - r a n k e d t e a m i s g o i n g t o m a k e n e x t w e e k’s b a t t l e w i t h

c o u l d b e a t w h a t e v e r c ov e r a g e they were running,” Banks said “ We had plays that can always win ”

The first pass of the drive fell incomplete, intended for senior w

Ba n k s i m m e d i a t e l y re c ov e re d , hitting Deutz just seconds later for a nine-yard completion, followed by another 13-yard toss to Deutz that brought Cornell to the Colgate side of the field

Banks scrambled for seven yards on the next play, exhibiting a shiftiness that has brought a new element to the Cornell offense absent in recent seasons And after a nine-yard pass to junior wide receiver James Hubbard put the Red 28 yards away from the end zone, and the lead, the team needed to make a decision

“I’m having to yell at them and tell the line their assignments The receivers are catching and we have to stay calm, but also you ' re going fast too, ” Banks said “ You’re going back and forth We were just like, ‘Hey guys, let's do this Let's keep going ’ Everyone knows they have to execute their jobs ”

That was the moment when head coach David Archer ‘05 decided to take a shot He called for his wideouts to run verticals and let Banks make the decision After the ball was snapped, Banks recognized Colgate’s blitz and rolled over, where he saw Shaw had gotten the release off the line o f s c r i m m a g e a n d b e a t e n h i s man

“Let’s give him a chance,” Banks thought “I’m going to throw it out there ”

As Shaw turned, he saw the b a l l u p i n t

towards the back of the end zone

“I blacked out, ” Shaw said With the ball cradled in his arms, Shaw looked up at the referee

“I think I saw a foot in,” Shaw heard the referee say A few sec-

“We told him he’s our guy and we’re going to rally behind him no matter what ”

onds later after the refs conferred, both arms went up, indicating the Red had taken the lead and put the team in position for its first victory over a ranked opponent since 2006 against Princeton

“I just wigged out, ” Shaw said

The celebration marked the completion of what once seemed improbable, but is now becom-

Cornell football team, the upstart

position, following the graduation of Jeff Mathews ’13, the Red appears to have found its next

- 3 sophomore from San Antonio

“He’s definitely lived up to the hype and exceeded expectations,” Shaw said “[The victor y] speaks volumes to what kind of player he is and what kind of player he is going to be for this program ” Banks finished the day with 454 passing yards, the eighthmost in Cornell histor y and the highest mark since Mathews’ last game as a member of the Red in 2013 It wasn ’ t his sharpest day out on the field, but Banks’ ability to bur y his previous mistakes and lead the team on a gamewinning drive has separated him from the pack Having someone like Banks under center only helps confidence permeate up and down the roster

“He’s a stud,” Hubbard said “ We told him he’s our guy and we ’ re going to rally behind him no matter what ” Banks needed to be perfect, with less than two minutes left in the game and his team down by less than a touchdown It’s a situation the sophomore quarterback will not only continue to face this

s e a s o n , b u t t h ro u g h o u t t h e remainder of his time on the slope But given how Banks handled the high-pressure situation against Colgate, it seems as if this team will be in good hands moving forward

“It's one of those things where you take a deep breath and have

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i d e n t , ” Banks said “You have to have confidence in your guys I couldn ' t let the ner ves get to me and ever yone out there, we knew that we couldn't let the hype get to us We had to play smart and execute and play with confidence ”

Trailing 28-5, Red Roars Back to Upend Colgate

Defense holds Raiders scoreless on fnal six drives, paves way for offense to stun home crowd

for our team, such a big win for us ”

But again, Cornell’s defense played at its best when it mattered most On fourth and inches, the defense stuffed a rush attempt by the Raiders

And that was when Banks went to work With surgical precision, the sophomore orchestrated a hurry-up drive down the field

“You know you have to execute, ” Banks said “The clock is in the back of your head We had no timeouts and we had to get out of bounds ”

“Coach Archer had a smile on his face He came over and he pointed to the twominute menu and said, ‘Here, we go We have enough time,’” Shaw said of his coach’s plan for the game ’ s final drive “Strategically, we were able to get the ball back on our 40 and thought, 'This is just like practice '”

On first and 10 from the 19-yard line, Banks launched a pass into the back of the end zone and into the outstretched arms of Shaw

After an instant replay review confirmed the catch, Cornell players on the sideline exploded in celebration

“It can ’ t get much better than this,” Hubbard said “I think that was probably the best game I’ve played in I’m so excited

The game played out remarkably similarly to last year ’ s home loss to the Raiders In that game, Cornell trailed early but began to put together a comeback late in the game However, it was too little too late, and the Red lost, dropping to 0-3 on the season

“Everything is different,” Hubbard said when asked about the contrasts between this year and last year “Our seniors talk about resilience I think that shows, we just know that we ’ re going to win We expect to win now We just have the confidence to go out there and do what we do ”

Again like last year, Cornell started off slow, giving up 21 points in the first quarter while Colgate’s dominant defense locked down the Red

Pinned at its own one-yard line to start its first drive, the Raiders used a couple of runs to create some room to work with, then quarterback Jake Melville found John Maddaluna 10 yards down the field Maddaluna burst past Cornell’s defenders and sprinted 93 yards for the score, putting Colgate in the lead just under five minutes into the game

muscled down the field and scored again, placing the Red in a 21-point hole

“[The Raiders] are explosive,” Archer said “Colgate is really good and if you miss a gap, they’re gone That’s what was happening ” Cornell got on the board in the most unlikely of ways After senior punter Chris

Following the Raiders’ kickoff, Cornell put together its best offensive possession of the day, but a penalty in the endzone derailed the drive and the Red settled for a field goal

“We were doing well between the red zones and moving the ball well,” Banks said “We just couldn't finish and execute We would stall out here and there ”

Colgate answered the Red’s pair of scores with yet another throw and catch from Melville to Maddaluna The wide receiver finished with 261 yards receiving, the most receiving yards by an opponent in the history of Cornell’s program

The Red continued to hang around in the second quarter when Banks fired downfield to Shaw The wide receiver got a step on his defender, snagged a well-thrown pass from Banks, then outran Colgate’s defense to score the Red’s first touchdown of the game

It was one of four passing touchdowns on the day for the quarterback who, in just his third ever start, passed for 454, the eighthmost passing yards in school history and the most since the days of Jeff Mathews ’13

At the end of the half, Cornell made a great goal line stand to keep the Raiders out of the end zone Colgate connected on a field goal to go in the locker room up 19

The impressive stop would be a harbinger of things to come Late in the game, the Red’s defense made a series of timely stands against Colgate’s high-powered offense Late in the third quarter, the Red held the Raiders scoreless on their final six drives, including two turnovers on downs

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Fraser pinned the Raiders at their own fouryard with a masterful 34-yard kick, junior linebacker Kurt Frimel tracked down Melville and sacked the quarterback in the end zone for a safety

Those two points, while seemingly insignificant when trailing by 21

“Hats off to our defense in the second half and stoning them so hard,” Shaw said “They gave us all the momentum going in They played their asses off ” With No 19 Harvard the only other undefeated Ivy League team waiting next week, the Red will enter the game with confidence at an all time high

“We definitely are going to be way more confident ” Frimel said “We are going to feel very good about our game plan, knowing we can execute against the best, which we have shown That’s just going to improve our confidence here on out to do bigger and better things ”

Melville was dominan day, completing 23 of 37 p while throwing for 399 y and three scores He showed off his talents as run rushing for 80 yards, g enough for second most on team

On the ensuing dr Banks was picked off and Colgate immediately took advantage

Similarly to the previous drive, a hyper aggressive Cornell secondary gambled, lost and paid the price as Melville again connected on short pass to Maddaluna Once again Maddaluna took advantage the Red’s sloppy defens play to run 51 ya untouched into the end zo After the Raiders for another Cornell punt, Col

‘A day I’ll never forget’

CORNELL SHOCKS NO. 25 COLGATE Spor ts

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

Sitting in the locker room, trailing by 19 points against a nationally ranked opponent, the men of Cornell football knew what they had to do: play the best football of their lives to stun No 25 Colgate at home

The team, against all odds, accomplished the feat The Red shocked the Raiders, 39-38, in front of Colgate’s Homecoming crowd The team trailed early, falling into a 28-5 hole, but remarkable play from all sides of the ball propelled Cornell (3-0, 1-0 Ivy) to its first road win over a ranked team since 1950

“[At halftime] Jake Waltman brought us up and said, ‘ This is the moment you ’ re going to be looking at 10 or 15 years down the road and say we had the biggest comeback we ’ ve ever had and we ’ re going to prove it today,’” said senior wide receiver Collin Shaw “Everyone rallied around that before the half and it

gave us so much momentum going into the second half ” “We said, ‘Hey, no matter what happens, we ’ re going to win the game, ’” said head coach David Archer ’05 “We stuck to it and they just kept making plays and it was just a day I’ll never forget ”

Thrice as nice | With the win over Colgate, Cornell moves to 3-0 on the season, a year after a 1-9 campaign

Banks orchestrates game-winning drive

Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks could not afford to make a misk I h h

Cornell football team down 38-33 to the No 25 Colgate Raiders and just 90 seconds left on the clock

This is Banks’ first year starting for the Red, but he exudes the confidence of an upperclassman He’s poised and confident, but still makes mistakes, as is xpected of a first-time tarter And while his ravitas on the field is cerainly impressive, it was Banks’ ability to push out he mistakes, the two nterceptions, an inconistent first half, that hined at Andy Kerr Stadium on Saturday

“We just knew our plays that we had

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Daring Dalton | Banks’ ate-game heroics were rucial to the Red’s upset ctory

Even when facing a daunting 23-point deficit, the players maintained a highlevel of confidence

Sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks fired a pass to junior wide receiver James Hubbard The underthrown ball was batted up in the air by a leaping Colgate defender, leading to one of the most exciting moments of the 2016 season

For a second the ball seemed to hang there, suspended in space, then Hubbard reached out and snagged it Cutting inside past two defenders, he raced off to the end zone, trimming the Colgate lead to five and quieting the home crowd that had been so raucous only moments early

“I was thinking, ‘It’s about time,'” Archer said of Hubbard’s catch “When you work hard, you get lucky and you get breaks These kids in the program deserve that one ”

Right when it seemed like the Red had regained the momentum following a huge Cornell stop on fourth down late in the fourth quarter, Banks overthrew Shaw way down field and the ball floated right into the hands of Colgate’s Adam Bridgeforth

“We never lost the expectation that this was our game, ” said sophomore linebacker Reis Seggebruch “Our coaches stayed on us and even at halftime no one lost the faith Everyone kept fighting like we knew it was our game to win ”

One of the defining moments of the game came late in the third quarter

But an impressive stop from the Red gave the ball back to the offense, a pattern that came to light as the game progressed

picked off again, giving the ball back to the Raiders with four minutes left

After sluggish start, defense locks down Raiders through fnal minutes to complete comeback

first eight made all the difference

With no shortage of offensive excitement, it was the Red’s defense that gave Cornell its most impressive win of the season so far over No 25 Colgate on its Homecoming weekend

Undoubtedly, sophomore quarterback Dalton Banks’ 454 passing yards and four touchdowns make for an attractive headline, but preventing Colgate from scoring on all of its last six drives after the team scored on six of its

“We all just got fired up and we knew that it started with us, ” said junior linebacker Kurt Frimel “Our offense was doing a great job all day and we just knew we had to stop them and give the ball back to our offense and give ourselves a chance to win ”

As the centerpiece of the offense, Banks understands how essential it was to have his defense get him the ball down the stretch

“They allowed us to get the ball back at the end of

the game, ” Banks said “We knew if we got the ball back, we were going to go down and punch it in Our guys made great plays and we were as happy as can be to finish out on top ” Though touting an impressive performance at the game ’ s end, the defense came out especially sluggish in the first half Colgate got off to a quick three-touchdown lead in its first three drives, but head coach David Archer ’05 said he knows the slow

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