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C.U. Apologizes for Insensitive Campaign

Students: ‘Cinco de Octubre’ was culturally inappropriate

By AKANE OTANI

Students and administrators alike condemned Cornell Athletics for running what they say was a culturally insensitive, Cinco de Mayo-themed marketing campaign that included encouraging community members to don sombreros and ponchos

“I was disappointed that this theme was stereotyping the Mexican culture of which I identify ”

The marketing campaign, which was launched Wednesday to promote Cornell’s football game Saturday against Colgate University, was meant to “develop a festive atmosphere at the football game, ” according to Jeff Hall, associate director of sales and marketing for Cornell Athletics

As part of the campaign, the University encouraged community members to participate in a “photobooth” activity that involved the person with the “best costume ” winning a prize, according to Carmen Martinez ’14, who saw a poster advertising the game in Goldwin Smith The University also sent a promotional email asking community members to celebrate “Ithaca: Cinco de Octubre ” Cinco de Mayo, a holiday that celebrates the 1862 Mexican victory at the Battle of Puebla, is celebrated on May 5 “I was disappointed that this theme was stereotyping the Mexican culture of which I identify,” Martinez said “I was especially troubled by the ‘photobooth’ activity, especially after one of my colleagues pointed out that the winner [is the person] with the ‘best costume, ’ implying the best Mexican costume was going to win a prize What better way to invite stereotyping of our culture?”

Several student groups and Latino community members contacted University officials saying the marketing campaign was offensive, culturally insensitive and inappropriate As of Friday, the

Oceanography : New Psych 1101?

By LIANNE BORNFELD and MICHELLE

Where Psychology 1101: “Introduction to Psychology” once stood as the most populous class at the University, now Ecology and Evolutionary Biology 1540: “Introduction to Oceanography” has taken its place With 791 students enrolled this semester, oceanography leads “Introduction to Psychology” by about 50 students

About 600 student enrolled in oceanography ––which instructs students in both ocean functions and the current environmental threats they face ––last year, according to Prof Bruce Monger, earth and atmospheric sciences, who teaches the course Back then, Monger taught the course in Kennedy Hall, which has an maximum occupancy of 600 persons

This semester, the class was moved to Bailey Hall to accommodate the approximately 200 student increase in class size

“People were turned away because I couldn’t sit more students in the room [in Kennedy Hall],” Monger said With its home now in Bailey Hall, oceanography students fill two-thirds of the building’s seating occupancy

“I want to fill Bailey I want 1,200 students to take this class,” he said

Five years ago, Monger said, about 130 students were enrolled in oceanography Only when the class hit an enrollment of 300 students did the

class at Cor nell This year, 791 students have enrolled in the class

31st Apple Fest Moves Away From Ithaca Commons

Due to an ongoing, $10-million redesign of the Ithaca Commons, the 31st Annual Apple Harvest Festival took place this weekend not in the Commons itself, but in different locations

The event, which was coordinated by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance, faced more challenges this year than usual because of the construction project in the Commons, according to

Univ. Looks at Obamacare

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Sen or Writer

On Oct 1 , the ne w He alth Insurance Marketplace opened for enrollment as part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act The act requires all individuals not covered by an employer-sponsored health plan or public healthcare such as Medicare and Medicaid to enroll in a private insurance plan on the marketplace

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cost the least and feature the lowest coverage Ganne tt He alth Se r vice s taff spoke to The Sun regarding how the new marketplace will affect students “Young people are really a big piece of this story, because historically they have been uninsured in such high numbers,” said Jennifer Austin, health communications specialist at Ga

have insurance will be bombarded with the same media messages as those who don’t It may confuse them, making them think ‘maybe I need a different plan’ or ‘ my family needs something different ’ “Part of our job at Gannett is to to help students on SHIP take a breath and say,

weather FORECAST

Talk by Enrique Gonzalez-Conty

12:15 p m - 1:30 p m , 202 Uris Hall

“Perspectives in Space” 3:30 - 5:30 p m , B17 Upson Hall

Josiah McElheny Lecture: Modernisms

5:15 p m - 7 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Joe Davis: Artist Talk “Forbidden Fruit” 6:30 p m - 7:30 p m , 120 Physical Sciences Building

Behavioral Workshop, Mina Cikara 11:45 a m , B06 Sage Hall

Judith Butler Public Lecture: “Plural Action”

4:30 p m - 6 p m , HEC Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

The dr.T projecT: a Cornell hiTchhiker’s guide to culTure

4:30 p m - 5 p m , Browsing Library, Willard Straight Hall C.U. Jazz: Jazz Underground Jam Session

p m - 12 a m , The Gates, 422 Eddy Street

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Thomas DiNapoli has found that hundreds of inmates in upstate county jails received more than $500,000 in improper benefits

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Seventy-five inmates received inappropriate Medicaid benefits

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Cult Leader

R e c r u i t s ‘ White Girls’

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Police are asking the public for information about a cult leader who was seen on Cornell’s campus and in the Town of Newfield handing out fliers recruiting white females to join the “Nymph Squad Commune ”

According to the flyers the man distributed, the man is seeking “13 Spiritually Alive, White, European, Caucasian, Blue Eyed, Green Eyed GIRLS to be my LIFE Partners, & to Join My Private, Spiritually Alive Commune ” The man further specified that he is looking for girls with 20/20 vision, “perfect teeth” and an opposition to “Race-Mixing[,] a k a Having Sex With Anyone That is Not White, European or Caucasian ” Multiple people have complained to both the Ithaca Police Department and the Tompkins County Sheriff ’ s Department about the man, according to the sheriff ’ s department

The sheriff ’ s department said

the man is 6’0 tall, white and has short, brown hair He was seen driving a late 90 s vehicle that was either a green

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C.U. to O pen Study Abroad P rog. in India

By JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Contributor

C o r n e l l w i l l b e o p e n i n g a study abroad program in Tamil Nadu, India in Spring 2014, the Un i v e r s i t y a n n o u n c e d l a s t month

The program will be run out of the Nilgiris Field Learning

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Keystone Foundation The foundation works on developing eco-

Southern India, according to a University press release

The Nilgiris Field Learning Center’s student body will consist of both Cornell and Indian

s t u d e n t s , a c c o rd i n g t o Pr o f Neema Kudva, city and regional planning, the faculty lead on the project Kudva also said students will be working with the indigenous population to find solutions to a variety of economic and environmental problems

“ We imagine the Nilgiris Field Learning Center as a place for transformative, engaged learning and research for the Cornell and Keystone communities where we will work together on questions

Kudva said

The program will be taught by both Cornell staff and Keystone

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w i l l come from a variety of departments, including city planning, natural resources and anthropology

In addition to Kudva, Prof Rebecca Stoltzfus, nutritional scie n c e s , a n d Pr o f A n d re w Wi l l f o rd , a n t h r o p o l o g y, h a v e signed up to teach in India for 10

weeks each Prof Steven Wolf, natural resources, will also be participating, Kudva said Kudva said the program ’ s goal is not only to have many disciplines represented by faculty, but to also have diversity represented in its students

“ There will be a variety of disciplines in the program We want a dynamic group of people t o p a r t i c i p a t e , s o a s re s e a r c h needs emerge, the program can re s p o n d a c c o rd i n g l y, ” Ku d v a

“We will work together on questions of sustainable livelihoods and

about the local area and what to expect from the program

Cornell and Keystone plan to implement a variety of programs, i n c l u d i n g t ow n a n d c o u n t r y p l a n n i n g , a r t s p r o g r a m s a n d green shops that would focus on local producers and exchanging ideas, according to Pratim Roy, director of Keystone Foundation Participating students will live in hostel-style housing that will be a 15-minute walk from the Keystone campus, according to the official brochure for the NFLC There will also be a personal cook who will use local ingredients for meals

The Nilgiris Field Learning C e n t e r w i l l b e t h e s e c o n d

C o r n e l l - r u n i n t e r n a t i o n a l study abroad program after t h e C

said “ We live in a world with many problems We can ’ t just take a uni-disciplinar y approach in environments where there are s i m u l t a n e o u s l y p l a n t a t i o n e c o n o m i e s , s m a l l c i t i e s a n d endangered species ” T h e s e m e s t e r - l o n g p ro g r a m will be worth 12 to 15 credits six credits for independent studies and three credits each for a n t h r o p o l o g y, n u t r i t i o n a l s c iences and city and regional plann i n g c o u r s e s , a c c o rd i n g t o Kudva She added that there will also be plans for Tamil language study, as Tamil is the primar y language of the region

Additionally, Cornell students at the program must complete a one credit course in Fall 2013 t h a t Ku d va c a l l e d “ To p i c s o f Planning,” a pre-departure course

i n w h i c h s t u d e n t s w i l l l e a r n

Program, according to Kudva Kudva said she hopes there will be around 20 combined students from India and Cornell in the next five to 10 years Kudva said she is aiming to have four to five Cornell students in the program next year “ The NFLC could be a transformative place for Cornell students and Indian students If you have a sense of adventure, join: you’ll be part of a great experiment,” Kudva said

The project is being funded by a variety of benefactors, includi n

o r Sustainable Futures, the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, the vice provost of international affairs and the Institute for the Social Sciences

Students ‘Disappointed,’ ‘Stereotyped’ by Marketing

behalf of Cornell Athletics

University had canceled all radio spots and removed all posters, social media posts and photos referring to the campaign, according to Hall

“We [tried] to get the crowd rowdy, have free nachos, popcorn, etc But the sombreros or ponchos it really got to the point where it was a little bit offensive to Latino heritage and culture [and] might be promoting them in a different light,” Hall said

He added that the University has “learned a lesson ”

“ This has been a learning opportunity for me and for our marketing group, and we are committed to working with our community so this does not occur again,” Hall said in a statement on

Although the University apologized for the marketing campaign, members of the Latino community said they felt Cornell Athletics’ statement lacked transparency and was insufficient

“This speaks to a broader issue of how hierarchy and bureaucracy allow for athletic departments at elite universities to behave as they wish without much accountability,” Francisco Rodriguez ’14 said “What is going to happen to Ezra’s Army, [a group that describes itself on Facebook as being the official student fan club of Cornell Athletics] as a result of this? any form of education?”

The fact that the administration was behind the marketing campaign was “disappointing,”

Stephanie Martinez ’14 said “If the people that have a lot of say in what happens at this school can ’ t tell when something is inappropriate, we have a problem,” she said “My first question was how

“Having this event promoted as ‘the greatest new holiday in Ithaca: Cinco de Octubre’ is a mockery.”

did this get so far without anyone noticing that this could be hurtful to people on campus, people that are supposed to be part of this ‘inclusive’ community? This definitely tainted the idea of commu-

nity at Cornell ” Stephanie Martinez added that it was strange that the University chose Cinco de Mayo to promote a football game in October “What upset me the most was the email that was sent out promoting the event Having this event promoted as ‘the greatest new holiday in Ithaca: Cinco de Octubre’ is a mockery, because clearly, this is an allusion to Cinco de Mayo,” she said “In the United States, Cinco de Mayo has been used as a marketing tool, and its real meaning has been lost in the process Referring to Cinco de Mayo is again very stereotypical and demonstrates the lack of knowledge of our culture and our history ” Hall said the choice of the Cinco de Mayo theme was made as Cornell Athletics was “trying to

develop different kinds of themes to achieve a festive, Homecoming-type atmosphere ”

“We learned a lesson [that] certainly, that’s not the way to go, ” he said

Administrators reiterated that they do not by any means condone the marketing campaign

Susan Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president of Student and Academic Services, said in a statement Friday that the incident “is an important reminder about how we must function as an increasingly diverse community ”

“Celebrating our cultures is important and vital for all of us

Using stereotypes and other people’s cultures to market events is wrong, ” she said

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

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Stay for ‘Inspring’ Prof

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Ac c o rd i n g t o Mo n g e r, e n ro l lm e n t h a s i n c re a s e d by a b o u t 1 5 0 s t u d e n t s e ve r y ye a r ove r t h e p a s t t h re e o r f o u r ye a r s “ It c a n n o t g o f o re ve r, b u t I d o n ’ t k n ow w h e n i t ’ s g o i n g t o s t o p, ” h e s a i d Mo n g e r s a i d h e a t t r i b u t e s o c e a n o g r a p h y ’ s m o u n t i n g c l a s s s i ze t o s t u d e n t s ’ g e n e r a l f o n dn e s s f o r o c e a n i c s t u d y a b ov e o t h e r s c i e n t i f i c d i s c i p l i n e s , i n a d d i t i o n t o h i s “ e n t h u s i a s t i c ” t e a c h i n g s t y l e “ It’s p o p u l a r b e c a u s e e ve r yb o d y l i k e s t h e o c e a n T h e re a re a l o t o f p e o p l e t h a t l i k e a s t ro n om y a n d a l o t o f p e o p l e t h a t l i k e g e o l o g y, b u t e ve r y b o d y l i k e s t h e o c e a n , ” h e s a i d Mo n g e r a l s o s a i d m i l l e n n i a l s t u d e n t s a r e v e r y a w a r e o f g l o ba l e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s s u e s H e s a i d h e t e l l s s t u d e n t s t h a t , a s i n f o r m e d c i t i z e n s , t h e y h a v e t h e c i v i c d u t y t o s h a r e t h e i r k n ow l e d g e a n d c r e a t e a b e t t e r w o r l d “ No t h i n g i s g o i n g t o c h a n g e f ro m t o p d ow n It i s o n l y g o i n g t o c h a n g e f r o m b o t t o m u p T h i s g l o b a l w a r m i n g i s s u e i s n o t g o i n g t o c h a n g e i f yo u d o n ’ t r a i s e yo u r vo i c e , ” Mo n g e r s a i d A l t h o u g h Mo n g e r a c k n ow le d g e d t h a t t h e c o u r s e ’ s g row i n g e n ro l l m e n t m a y b e i n p a r t d u e s t u d e n t s ’ n e e d t o f u l f i l l t h e i r s c ie n c e d i s t r i b u t i o n re q u i re m e n t , h e s a i d t h i s s t u d e n t s u l t i m a t e l y re a p a c a d e m i c b e n e f i t s “ I h e a r i t f r o m s t u d e n t s ; t h e y ’ re l i k e , ‘ I t o o k i t f o r a s c ie n c e d i s t r i b u t i o n , b u t I g o t re a ll y s u r p r i s e d by h ow m u c h I l e a r n e d , ’ ” h e s a i d “ I t h i n k t h e y a re ve r y s u r p r i s e d by h ow m u c h t h e y l e a r n a n d ve r y p ro u d o f h ow m u c h t h e y l e a r n ” O c e a n o g r a p h y ’ s r e p u t a t i o n a s a n “ e a s y ” c o u r s e i s a l s o a f a ct o r w h e n a d d i n g t h e c o u r s e , Ji a n a n Su ’ 1 4 s a i d Su s a i d t h a t u l t i m a t e l y, f o r h e r, t h e c o u r s e ’ s b e n e f i t s a m o u n t e d t o m o re t h a n i t s e a s e “A l t h o u g h I a d d e d t h i s c l a s s b e c a u s e i t i s e a s y, I f o u n d t h e c l a s s v e r y i n t e r e s t i n g I a l m o s t w e n t t o e v e r y c l a s s b e c a u s e I re a l l y l i k e d t h e p ro f e ss o r a n d n e ve r f e l t b o re d d u r i n g t h e c l a s s , ” Su s a i d Mo n g e r a l s o a c k n ow l e d g e d t h e l ow r i g o r o f t h e c o u r s e , a d d i n g t h a t h e i n t e n t i o n a l l y m a k e s o c e a n o g r a p h y “f u n a n d e a s y ” “ It i s a p re t t y e a s y c l a s s t o g e t a g o o d g r a d e , i f a s t u d e n t p u t s i n a s i n c e re e

Common s Renovation S plit s Festival Stand s Into Two S ection s

The Commons renovation, which began in April and is projected to finish in August 2014, will renovate the amenities, furnishings and surfaces of the Commons and rebuild underground utilities, which include water pipes that are over 100 years old, The Sun previously reported The construction split the Apple Festival into two sections, with the family-oriented side situated in front of Town Hall and the rest of the fair held on the opposite side of the Commons

“The main difference this year is [the Fest] is split up into two main sections, with an East and a West End,” said Patty Clark, events manager for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance

The split also came with the condensing

of the “family-oriented” aspects of the Festival into one section, a move that Taylor said would “ create a more intimate community experience ” Ferguson said that despite the challenges the construction has brought, he thinks the festival was still a success

“It was much more expensive, and it took a lot more people,” he said “[The construction] changed the way we did the event, but with the help of the volunteers and the community, we made it work It was the most crowded it’s been in 30 years, and the fact that it was more spread out helped it handle the larger crowd ”

Though splitting up the vendors among different locations was necessary due to the construction, some people running booths at the festival said they were initially concerned as to how the new layout which would require more walking between

booths would affect business

“We were nervous [the construction] was going to mess everything up, because we ’ re used to doing really well here on the Commons,” said Cathy Kessler, who was a vendor representing Bakers Acres at the festival “But we ended up selling out [Saturday] ”

The festival, which offers apple-related goods like caramel apples, apple cider and cider donuts, also offered opportunities for local restaurants, non-profits and artists to share their work with the community

“The Apple Harvest Festival provides an opportunity for folks who don’t know a lot about Tompkins County and our agricultural and artistic communities,” Clark said “It introduces them to this beautiful, rich culture we have in Ithaca ”

One part of the festival was sectioned off for local artists exclusively, with products

ranging from decorative spoons to customized stationery However, the applerelated products remained the centerpiece of the festival, as most food stands offered something pertaining to the fruit ranging from apple-braised pork to apple cider donuts

“It’s kind of hard to walk around the fest because it’s so crowded, but the cider donuts are definitely worth the wait,” Daniel Cooper ’17 said, as he stood in a line of several dozen people, many of whom said they were anxious to try the fried pastry

The Finger Lakes Cider Week –– an annual event in which local cideries hold events to showcase their ciders and orchards –– coincided with the Apple Fest this year

Christopher Stanton can be reached at cms459@cornell edu

Univ.: Insurance Plans May Advertise Cheaper Plans to College Students

‘I’m fine; my insurance already meets those requirements ’”

Ac c o rd i n g t o Va l e r i e Lyo n , associate director of business and finance at Gannett, students fall under the group of “ young invincibles,” people under 30 who are less likely to suffer from illness and have traditionally been uninsured in high numbers With the new marketplace, a lot of advertising will target young invincibles, including college students

Such marketing may suggest that the cheaper bronze or silverlevel plans are the best option for a healthy college-age individual However, these plans usually feature higher out-of-pocket costs that can run into the thousands of dollars if faced with an unexpect-

e d i n j u r y, a c c o rd i n g t o Cr a i g

Mc A l l i s t e r, d i re c t o r o f R i s k Management and Insurance for the University

“Most people don’t plan for a b ro k e n a r m , ” Mc A l l i s t e r s a i d “Injuries happen, and many times

those are the unexpected costs where the out-of-pocket expenses on the bronze plans and the silver plans can really come back to get somebody The maximum out-ofpocket can be over $6,000 on those plans, where if you look at the higher valued plans such as t h e St u d e n t He a l t h In s u r a n c e Plan, those maximums are much lower ” L owe r - c o s t p l a n s w i l l a l s o require a higher out-of-pocket expense per doctor’s visit, which Lyon said may deter students from getting the care they need Lyon said that, with health insurance, “small barriers loom large ” “If it costs you more money to go to the doctor, you ’ re less likely to go, ” Lyon said “However, the Bronze plans are being marketed as a great choice for a young invincible, because those people aren ’ t expected to need health care often That’s the last thing we want for students to have a plan that limits their access We want people to use their plans, to go and get care when they need it so that a small health concern

doesn’t turn into a more expensive issue that’s going to take them away from school ”

Ac c o rd i n g t o Lyo n a n d Mc A l l i s t e r, s t u d e n t s w h o w i l l remain on the University-offered Student Health Insurance Plan or on their parents ’ employer plans generally do not really have to worry about looking at the new marketplace’s exchanges The new m a rk

n g t o Lyon, largely intended for people w

point

“There’s going to be a lot of i n f o r m a t i o n t h

s c o m i n g a t young adults,” Lyon said “Really, if you ’ re already on the student health plan, you ’ re fine, you ’ re set, you don’t need to do anything If a family loses health insurance in January then the parents will need to think about what plan is going to work best for their student here in Ithaca, New York They will need to take the in-network coverage into consideration as they’re looking at options and pricing ” Fo r s t u d e n

exchanges, the portability of the coverage whether an individual is covered by their plan unrestricted by geographical location is also an extremely important factor, according to McAllister

“Many of the ways they’re able to keep the price down low on some of the exchanges is by narrowing the network, or coverages available,” McAllister said “As opposed to being in a network in California that may be statewide, i t m a y o n l y c ove r s o u t h e r n California or northern California or even be more restrictive than that in some cases With Ithaca, many of the [Health Maintenance

Organizations] around the countr y don’t have a network that responds in Ithaca ” Another factor, which especially applies to students with spouses and families, is to see what federal subsidies might be available on the exchanges According to Lyon and McAllister, family coverage found on some of these exchanges might be much more affordable than SHIP due to subsidies

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LInvesting in Town and Gown

ast week, The Sun featured three articles concerning the relations between Cornell and Ithaca, generating strong reactions from both sides In a battle over how much money Cornell should pay the University, one side argues that Ithaca is benefiting tremendously from Cornell in its job creations, spending power, and subsidized infrastructure The other side retorts that local residents cannot keep up with everincreasing cost of living that caters to wealthy Cornell students Yet, the debate over how much an educational institution particularly a tax-exempt non-profit institution should contribute to its surrounding community has been an ongoing dispute for years The extent of the history surrounding this issue, however, would shock most people

The contention between an education institution and its locality, or simply town and gown ” goes all the way back to medieval Europe, where the higher learning of the Western civilization began The language of the learned in the medieval period was Latin, while the common people spoke some version of Old English with varying degrees of similarities from Old Norse and Old French

Besides this linguistic barrier that hindered c o m m u n i c ation between these two groups, the young scholars hailing from other parts of the countr y often pursued a drastically different lifestyle than the local settlers

ambulance demand with completely unintentional, unforeseen medical emergencies such as alcohol poisoning and drug overdoses The ever-present construction on campus brings heavy trucks and machinery that clogs local traffic and increases road hazard Collegetown on the weekends is a bustling public space where heated intellectual debates include dropping f-bombs outside of our local neighbors’ windows every five seconds

Yet, Ithaca and Cornell should not be competitors, hungry to steal a penny from one another; we are partners Cornell invests in Ithaca, and as a result, Ithaca becomes a safer, vibrant, more charming place This, in turn, makes life at Cornell more appealing a campus ’ surroundings are a significant factor in attracting prospective students and faculty Students and professors have come to Cornell from University of Chicago, Duke University and Johns Hopkins University for the less than ideal living environments in South Chicago, Durham and Baltimore Believe or not, there are even individuals who prefer quaint, small town of Ithaca over the cosmopolitan neighborhoods of Morning Heights next to Harlem

We’ve claimed the Hill. We breathe the clean air and strain weekend ambulance demand with unintentional, unforeseen medical emergencies such as alcohol poisoning and drug overdoses.

The medieval universities, in large part, were also funded by the Catholic Church of Vatican, an organization exempt from compulsory levy obligation to the local municipality as well as civil authority and jurisdiction discipline Unruly youngsters, with their strange language and culture, frequently clashed with the local people At one point, the Pope himself and the King of England had to intervene and order municipal governments to reverse its harsh rulings against the scholars The arbitration apparently wasn ’ t enough to assuage mutual despise, forcing some scholars of Oxford University to leave the town of Oxford and establish a brand new institution in Cambridgeshire, England

Winding the clock forward some 800 years, here we are in a small city in upstate New York No, we do not all speak different dialects, nor can we get away with legal offenses (well, except those closed-door meetings in Day Hall, perhaps), but we are still tax-exempt and our aloof, arrogant attitude has never gone away We've claimed the Hill We breathe the clean air and strain weekend

We should be grateful that we don’t have to tab our student ID to enter a gated campus like Yale Cornell libraries are open to everyone, both students and locals, which is made possible by Cornell’s generosity but also through Ithaca community ’ s cooperation On the other hand, Butler Library at Columbia needs 6’5” security guards Cornell students and native Ithacans alike should be thankful for what we have The Apple Festival and the Ithaca Art Trail this past weekend are perfect testaments to Ithaca’s charm and vibrancy Ithaca is a dynamic community of its own that attracts artists, environmentalists and free thinkers It is the fourth most popular destination for Cornell alumni after New York City, Washington D C and the Bay area If a large number of us will remain in the area even after graduation, why not invest our time and financial resources into cultivating a greater sense of community? We can continue to fight with our main base or we can boldly invest in it, knowing the yield will far outweigh the cost

Don Oh is a senior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning He may be reached at doh@cornellsun com Bi the Way appears alternate Mondays this semester

An apolog y from the Athletic D ept.

To t h e Ed i t o r :

Re: In order to publicize Cornell’s Oct 5 football game against Colgate, the Athletic Department worked with a local radio partner to develop a Cinco De Mayo themed promotion While the promotion was intended to get the crowd excited for the game, some perceived it as offensive to Latino heritage and culture The Athletic Department has stopped the promotion and taken down all social media posts regarding the theme

Cornell athletics apologizes to the community for an insensitive marketing campaign launched to promote the Oct 5 football game On Oct 2, we began an effort to attract attendance through materials that made inappropriate cultural references to the Latino community We appreciate that student leaders brought this issue to our attention As a result, we immediately ended all promotional activity This has been a learning opportunity for me and for our marketing group, and we are committed to working with our community so this does not occur again

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Re: “Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 Slams Cornell Over Contributions to Ithaca,” News, published October 2, 2013

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BreAking Bad’S 10 BEst

BY SAM BROMER AND ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor and Sun Associate Managing Editor

1. PHOENIX (S. 2, EP. 12): Our number one pick does not boast the kickass firepower of “Face Off ” or the perfect dramatic unity of “Fly” or “4 Days Out ” Indeed, the one where Jane dies is very typical both in action and narrative structure What it does do better than any other episode, however, and through the most moving, startling ways, is come to grips with what makes Walt tick From Walt beaming as he shows newborn Holly the stacks of cash hidden in the garage to his look of wounded pride when Walter Jr posts a charity site for his father’s cancer, money for, and within, the family appears to be Walt’s motivating factor But things complicate when Jesse and his girlfriend Jane blackmail Walt for Jesse’s cut Walt standing over Jane’s asphyxiating body allowing her to die, is horrible enough Yet it arrives just moments after by mere chance he runs into Jane’s father at a bar, where they talk about the difficulties of family” and how You can ’ t give up on them Money sets the pieces in place while one man s selfish need for control assumes the truest power “Phoenix” is the turning point of the series, as well as a perfect microcosm of all Vince Gilligan was going for And it is devastating

2. OZYMANDIAS (S 5, EP 14): No, the episode named by dozens of critics, thousands of IMDB users and even Vince Gilligan himself as the best episode of the series is not our number one pick But that does not mean it is unworthy of the heap of praise it has received: “Ozymandias” is Breaking Bad at its most thrilling, its most powerful and its most sickening From the moment Walt’s “shattered visage lies, half-sunk” in the sands of To’hajiilee, it is clear that he, and by extension, we, have turned a dark corner As the AV Club’s Donna Bowman succinctly points out, the Spaghetti Western vibe of Breaking Bad’ s highly stylized previous episode devolves into a veritable “horror show ”

Unsurprisingly, Bryan Cranston is at his absolute best in “Ozymandias ” As the empire he has built is reduced to rubble, with nothing remaining but a solitary barrel of cash, Cranston earns his accolades presenting both the frantic desperation of a man trying to salvage something from nothing and the chaos of two personalities clashing into one Even as he rats out his former partner, kidnaps his own daughter and threatens his wife over the phone (albeit to ostensibly help her), it is disconcertingly difficult not to feel sympathy for Walter

“Ozymandias” works breathtakingly well on all levels; as a character study as a thrilling climax and as a perfect nightmare scenario where our greatest fears for these characters, spurred from the earliest moments of this series, become a reality

3. 4 DAYS OUT (S. 2, EP. 9): This bottle episode (an episode filmed on mostly one set and a limited budget) is impossible not to love After discovering what he thinks is a ghastly tumor on his x-ray, Walt recruits Jesse to cook one last batch of meth, far out in the boonies What starts as brilliant comedy Jesse lectures Walt on artist Georgia O’Keeffe: “She does these vagina pictures” nosedives into survivalist horror when the RV’s battery explodes and Jesse pitches all their water on its fire Walt nearly gives up hope and accepts death, which is right around the corner for him anyway It takes Jesse’s persistence to shake Walt out of it, plus a great line where Jesse declares with confidence that “wire” is a chemical element Things get back onto track until Walt receives his x-ray results back: He’s clear, in remission After hugging and crying with his family, Walt retreats to the bathroom, where he beats a paper towel dispenser to shit He already accepted death and evil in his life, and without one, he s destined to succumb to the other

4. FLY (S 3, EP 10): Thank God for budget constraints Like “4 Days Out,” “Fly,” the acclaimed and largely self-contained masterpiece from Breaking Bad’ s third season is a bottle episode On a functional level, its plot adds little to the overall story arc, and if you ’ re looking for tense gunfights or nursing home explosions, look elsewhere Yet, as a singular allegory for Jesse and Walt’s mercurial relationship, a darkly comic exploration of the forces at work in Breaking Bad s universe, Fly is unmatched In the episode, Walt, suffering from insomnia and paranoia, becomes fixated on finding and killing a fly that is “contaminating” the lab At the heart of this tale, whose sensibility lies somewhere between the obsession of Moby Dick and and the absurdist slapstick of Waiting for Godot, is a monologue delivered by Walt in another of Cranston’s finest hours “My God,” he exclaims, “the universe is random, it's not inevitable, it’s simple chaos It’s subatomic particles in endless aimless collision That’s what science teaches us, but what does this say? What is it telling us that the very night that this man ’ s daughter dies, it’s me who is having a drink with him? I mean, how could that be random? Unable to resolve the existence of justice in a disordered universe, he gives up trying As he defeatedly tells Jesse just before the episode’s close, “It’s all contaminated ”

5. BETTER CALL SAUL (S. 2, EP. 9): A sign of the show’s many layers of greatness, Breaking Bad’s funniest episode is also one of its most cinematically ambitious It opens with a single long shot of a lanky dude coercing Badger into selling him some meth When that dude turns out to be a DEA agent and the deal a bust, you realize that the long shot was probably a camera in a surveillance van across the street Brilliant! The introduction of everyone ’ s favorite bus-stop lawyer, Saul Goodman, produces some of the series’ most memorable lines (“Faith and begorrah! A fellow potato eater!”) and leads to a criminal-for-hire taking the fall for Heisenberg but only after everything goes wrong It’s as rigorously edited a sequence as any meth-making or prison-shanking montage and a million times more hilarious

6. CRAWL SPACE (S 4, EP 11): A single moment alone justifies this episode’s inclusion on any Top 10 list In case you can ’ t remember the iconic moment to which we refer, here’s a refresher: Walter enters the crawl space for which this episode is named, expecting to find the money he needs to escape Gus Fring with the vacuum man Instead, he finds an empty basement Panicked, he begs Skylar to explain where the cash has gone, and she tells him, in a tone of measured terror, that she has given it to Ted Walter, beginning to lose track of his sanity, breaks down As the camera pans out, framing Walt in a coffin of his own misdeeds, he laughs maniacally All the while, the sounds of mechanical feedback echo as the only sound in a void There is only terror then the credits roll Oh, and the rest of the episode works well, too

Well we ’ ve made it one week so far and from the looks of it we ’ re going to be just fine in a world without more Breaking Bad That being said The Sun would like to offer one final feature on what pretty much everyone has canonized as one of the greatest television shows of all time Breaking Bad was stellar from start to finish, but, like any show, there were

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7. MADRIGAL (S. 5, EP. 2): Better than “Box Cutter”? “Dead Freight”? “Face Off ”?! With its cocktail of tones palettes and character moments, yes, “Madrigal” earns its rank The cold open delivers a concentrated shot of delirium as a blank-eyed and silent German businessman taste-tests various condiments before committing suicide by automated external defibrillator As a way to show the scope of Gus and Walt s meth empire, the scene could not be more off-the-wall From there, you get Jesse’s anguish over his “misplaced” ricin, Lydia’s horrifying pleas to Mike as he holds a gun to her head and Walt’s sickening bedroom abuse of Skyler Good shows can live off dynamite set pieces and season finales, but only the greatest keep you riveted as the pieces are slowly put into place

8 FACE OFF (S 4, EP 13): First off, let us clarify that Face Off would be higher on the list if not for the last scene s Lily of the Valley reveal, which we buy but still consider a stretch That being said wow Gus and Walt’s game of chess ends with a pawn, wheelchair-bound Tio Salamanca, taking out the mighty king “Ding-BOOM,” read a card tacked onto the writers room ’ s board months before they wrote this episode, and we are grateful Gilligan and co pulled all the stops to make it happen even the ricin gambit, sure But what we most love is Uncle Tio’s extended flip-off to the DEA communicated one letter at a time in order to lure Gus into Walt’s trap while ensuring he dies without becoming the most dreadful of creatures: a rat

9. AND THE BAG’S IN THE RIVER (S 1, EP 3): Classic moments are scattered throughout this early episode, often marked by Breaking Bad aficionados myself included as the one that got them fixed on the series Among these, two deserve “classic status ” among the pantheon of great scenes First, the cold open, where the camera switches off between Walt and Jesse struggling to choke back vomit as they clean the hydrochloric acid-soaked remains of Jesse’s former partner, and a younger Walt discussing the mysterious chemistry of the human body with Gretchen, then a fellow chemistry student Second, a more simple but equally powerful scenario: Walter weighing the pros and cons of killing Krazy-8, a meth dealer who had previously attempted to kill him and Jesse The sole pro? “He’ll kill your entire family if you let him go ” In a single scene, Cranston and the writers manage to encapsulate Walter s constant justification for his actions: he must protect his family, and it is better they than he As the show goes on, of course, Walt bastardizes this logic, letting, “I did it for family!” justify increasingly heinous actions In doing so, he becomes the danger

10. DEAD FREIGHT (SEASON 4, EPISODE 13):

Breaking Bad has it all as the above list has attempted to illustrate From slapstick humor to mortal terror and everything in between the show manages to pay homage to several forms of art while paving a strikingly original path In “Dead Freight,” Gilligan and Co take on the caper In fact, in the vein of the Westerns they so love to reference, the writers have Walter and his team pull off a train robbery Of course, they do not go in guns blazin’ though the murder of Drew Sharp provides an exception No, Walter is smarter than that In one of the most captivating exploits of the series, they use ingenuity (science, bitch!) to pull off their bold plan It is a fine example of Bad’s flexibility and a thoroughly entertaining watch

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Over (Season 2, Episode 10), Box Cutter (Season 4, Episode 1), Gliding Over All (Season 5 Episode 8) Half Measures (Season 3 Episode 12), To’hajiilee (Season 5, Episode 13)

Sam Bromer and Zachary Zahos are in the College of Arts and Sciences They can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com and zzahos@cornellsun com

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Americans Win Fifth Straight President’s Cup With Woods’ Putt

DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) Fred Couples, the coolest guy in golf, never really looked that way until he stood on the edge of the 18th fairway Sunday and saw everything going his way

The Americans needed only one more point to win the Presidents Cup

And there was Tiger Woods, who has a history of delivering the winning point, in the middle of the fairway at Muirfield Village, where he has won a record five times

The Presidents Cup ended just the way it always does

Woods found the green and two-putted for par and a 1-up victory over Richard Sterne, the third straight time he has won the clinching point in the Presidents Cup The Americans won for the fifth straight time and eighth time in 10 tries against an International side that showed some fight when it was too late to matter

The Americans, who finished strong Sunday morning in the raindelayed foursomes for a 14-8 lead, only needed to win four singles matches

It took longer than anyone expected

“I must have asked 500 times, ‘How are we getting this fourth point? Where is the fourth point coming from?’” said Couples, a three-time winner as U S captain “You’re nervous Not for the players the players know what they’re doing But we knew we needed 18 points, and we got them It was a very, very good match today And the matches were all close At no given time was I a nervous wreck But it was nice when Tiger two-putted that last green to get the 18th point ”

The final score United States 18½, International 15½ and whether the matches would beat the rain was really the only suspense on Sunday

“People say it was close Jack (Nicklaus) said it was close,” International captain Nick Price said “You tell me We were behind the 8-ball all day If we pulled it off, it would have been miraculous ”

Not that his team of seven rookies didn’t give it a shot

Zach Johnson closed out Branden Grace, four and two, to give the Americans 17 points and assure them a tie But it took more than an hour to get that last point

Graham DeLaet holed out for birdie for the second time Sunday on the 18th hole, this time from a bunker to beat 20-year-old Jordan Spieth Ernie Els found his putting touch and beat Steve Stricker Marc Leishman rolled in a 15-foot par putt from the back fringe of the 18th green to beat Matt Kuchar Adam Scott and Charl Schwartzel won their matches

The International team ’ s fleeting hopes ended when Woods, despite suffering back spasms again in the final hour of his match, didn’t make a birdie on the back nine and still won Sterne helped him by hitting his tee shot off the corporate tents behind the 16th green and making bogey

“It was a team effort this whole week,” said Woods, who went 4-1 for the best record of any player “We really played well to give ourselves a nice lead ”

Rain interrupted the matches all week and made Muirfield Village so soft that it was mere target practice for the best players from every continent but Europe It was a long, tiring week of leaving the course at darkness and completing matches the next morning when it was just as dark

The Americans might have won this Presidents Cup on Sunday morning

Returning to finish off the foursomes session, the Americans picked up a win and a halve in matches they had trailed by three holes

Phil Mickelson hit one of many exquisite shots this week a 7-iron he had to hook with the ball slightly below his feet, around a tree to about 10 feet Keegan Bradley had to make the birdie putt for a halfpoint after DeLaet chipped in for birdie Louis Oosthuizen and Charl Schwartzel played the last six holes in 5-over par three bogeys and a ball out-of-bounds for double bogey in losing to Webb Simpson and Brandt Snedeker

“It was a tall order, but they gave it their best shot These guys played their tails off,” Price said “We’re a real hodge-podge of a team that came together from four corners of the planet And they gave the might of America a run for their money ”

The closing ceremony was moved indoors because of approaching rain, and it led to an awkward moment as the International team watched the Americans pass around the gold trophy and pose for the pictures before quietly filing out of the room

Since that famous tie in South Africa in 2003, the Americans have won by at least three points every time Only one of them, in 2005, was close International players talked about the importance of making a contest out of this exhibition, and only a 7½-4½win in singles made it feel that way at the end

“We kept it very interesting today,” Scott said “We gave it a good shake ”

Mickelson and Angel Cabrera were the last match on the course, and it was comical at times Mickelson hit one shot that ricocheted off a tree to the left, skipped out of the water and into the rough, and he pitched that to 5 feet and then missed the putt to lose the hole On the final hole, Cabrera had three feet for par to win the match Instead of conceding, Mickelson first knocked in his 5-foot bogey putt, and then conceded All in good fun, which is how the day felt

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Red Falls to Undefeat ed Army S quad

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

The sprint football team ’ s struggles continued Friday, leaving co-head coach Bart Guccia’s squad still in search of its first win this season

The Red (0-4 CSFL) was overpowered by Army (4-0), 22-0, at Schoellkopf and was held scoreless for the first time in nearly eight years The defeat marked the team ’ s lowest offensive output thus far this season, a meager 102 yards

Cornell went tooth-and-nail with the Black Nights during the first quarter, leaving the score 0-0 15 minutes in The Red’s defensive unit was the bright spot of the afternoon Senior linebacker John Kelder notched 10 tackles, a sack, and a broken-up pass, helping Cornell to hold Army one of the CSFL’s elite offenses to zero offensive points until late in the third quarter

“Kelder always comes to play,” said junior captain and defensive back Chris Sitko “He’s right in the middle of the defense; he really anchors us down He’s a great tackler never misses He hits hard and ever ybody respects him ”

Sitko teamed up with Kelder for one the Red’s biggest plays of the game With Army preparing to strike on a field goal attempt midway through the second quarter, Sitko rushed the edge and deflected the kick to deny the Knights three points

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other guy and he did a great job of taking that blocker so I got a clean release and that gave me that extra time to get back and lay out and get a piece of the ball ”

Despite a series of big stops by the defense, senior captain and quarterback Brendan Miller and the Red offense were unable to get anything going against Army, at times moving backward

With just over nine minutes left in the second quarter, Miller dumped a backward pass off to freshman running back Kevin Nathanson who slipped on the wet endzone grass The miscue gave Army a safety the only points of the first half and a 2-0 lead

“ There was a communication error regarding the play,” Miller said “It was just a mistake I think I probably should have called a timeout so I think that was mostly my fault Tried to switch the play and I took too much time to do it and the play clock ran down so I had to snap it and the play just kind of got messed up ”

Cornell struggled to move the ball on the ground -- totaling negative four yards on the day The key to the team ’ s struggles began with the Knights’ defense which, despite only putting five defenders in the box, was able to corral the Red ground game and post a shutout reminiscent of Army’s 27-0 victor y over the Red in October 2005

“ They didn’t really force too much,” Miller said of the Army defense “ They just have really fast defensive linemen who are

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Gridders Face Another Weekend in Search of Second Win

it Colgate for executing better than we did,” Gellatly said “We hurt ourselves with penalties at points in the second half and we just didn’t find a rhythm Overall, we just didn ’ t execute as well as we wanted to or needed to ”

One of those penalties came late in the game, when Mathews hit Gellatly for a 31-yard gain that put the Red in Colgate territory and position to cut the lead down to two scores But Cornell was called for an illegal receiver downfield, and although it was able to keep the drive alive with a first down on the subsequent play, Mathews’ next pass was picked off by Colgate’s Mike Armiento, essentially sealing the Red’s fate

Despite the Red’s second half woes, the first half featured offensive displays by two star quarterbacks in Mathews and McCarney Colgate’s defense got the best of Mathews first, though, towards the end of the first quarter when Armiento grabbed his first interception and ran it back 85 yards for a touchdown

“That first interception, they knew our hand signals, and jumped the route so that was just a tough break,” Gellatly said

Mathews bounced back on the second drive of the game, marching the Red 76 yards up the field with some help from a fifteen-yard run by sophomore running back Luke Hagy, before he found sophomore wide receiver Chris Lenz in the end zone for a 24-yard touchdown pass

Colgate could only answer with a field goal, putting them up, 10-7 Gellatly put the Red back on top with three minutes left in the second quarter with a six-yard run This time, Colgate responded with a touchdown, though, and it looked like the Red would go into the locker room down, 17-14 However, Mathews had other ideas, completing seven of seven passes for 75 yards on the next drive, capping it off with a four yard touchdown pass to Gellatly to give his team a 20-17 lead with 22 seconds remaining in the half This touchdown would end up being the last for Cornell

Gellatly was the Red’s leading receiver on the day,

catching 13 passes for 138 yards and a touchdown As the senior man of the receiving core, Gellatly has taken on the role of helping younger receivers like Lenz, Hagy and sophomore Ben Rogers develop

“A lot of the younger guys are very talented, and I try and help them out with technique issues or passing concepts, ” Gellatly said “At the end of the day, I want to see that they are going to get out what they put in and that I want to help in whatever way I can to ensure their success ”

Becoming the Ivy League’s all-time passing leader was

not Mathews’ only accomplishment on Saturday He also set an Ancient Eight record for most career 300-yard passing games with his 15th

“Jeff is a great player He does a lot for this team and takes on a ton of responsibility,” Gellatly said “Obviously, I’m sure he would like to have a few plays back as we all do because he is a huge competitor and wants to win, but his accomplishment is a testament to how hard he works, and [it’s] well deserved ”

Primary passer | Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews set a new Ivy league record for most career passing yards during Saturday’s loss

Second Half Sink s Red; Gridders Drop Second Consecutive Game

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With less than eight minutes to go in the third quarter of Saturday’s game against Colgate, junior corner back Michael Turner made a hard tackle on reigning Patriot League Player of the year Gavin McCarney that carried him out of bounds The Colgate fans on that side of the field jumped to their feet, begging for a penalty on the play They did not get the call, though, and McCarney would not reenter the game With the Red leading 23-20 at that point, and the Raiders’ backup quarterback entering the game, the stage seemed to be set for a Cornell run

But it was ultimately a day of missed opportunities for the Red, as Colgate’s reser ve signal caller Jake Melville wasted no time taking part in the action, scoring on a sixyard touchdown run just minutes after entering the game This was Colgate’s first of four second half touchdowns, as they scored 24 unanswered points coming out of the locker room to beat the Red, 41-20

For the second Saturday in a row, the Red struggled to contain its opponents ’ offense in the second half In a loss to Yale last weekend, the Bulldogs also scored four straight touchdowns to open the half According to

C.U. S plit s Weekend Iv y Play

By EMILY BERMAN

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After taking home a victory in its first league game of the season last weekend, the volleyball team split its matches against Princeton and Penn this weekend to place its league record at 2-1 and overall record at 5-7 The Red is currently tied for second place in Ivy standings alongside Princeton and Brown

Last season, the Red earned its first weekend Ivy sweep in four years with its home wins over Penn and Princeton in the two final games of the season Although this weekend the Red managed to take down Princeton, 3-1, earning its first backto-back victories against the Tigers since a threegame streak ended in 2005, the Red lost the momentum in the Saturday match against Penn, dropping a five-set decision after holding a 2-1 lead after three games

The first game against the Tigers proved an easy win for the Red, who took a 25-16 win after maintaining the lead for the majority of the game

The second game was a closer fight, with seven ties and a close comeback attempt for the Red that put the team within one at 22-23 The Tigers scored two of the next three points, however, to take what would be their only win of the match

Freshman middle blocker Macey Wilson was instrumental in the next two games, recording a game-tying kill in the third game, which the Red eventually won, 25-23, and recording the matchpoint block alongside fellow freshman Sarah Kramer to hand the Red its 26-24 victory in the fourth game Wilson finished with a team-high 16 kills

Assistant coach Trudy Vande Berg, who is in her second season with the Red, noted that the Red’s net presence and use of Wilson and D’Epagnier were some of the strong points in the weekend’s games

“Blocking was great, we transitioned well to our middles we did a lot of really nice things,” she said “We passed well [and] served great for pretty much the entire weekend; it’s just the defensive pursuit and the mindset we need to get ” Defense was the critical point in the five-set match against Penn, with Penn’s improved defense

in the fourth game killing the Red’s momentum

In the first match, the teams traded the lead five times before multiple 3-0 runs by the Quakers pushed Penn to the 25-22 victory The Red came back in the second and third games, however, with the team clawing its way back from an early 7-5 deficit in the second game to hold onto the lead until securing the 25-21 win and maintaining the lead almost the entire third game to gain an easy 25-20 victory

The Red started strongly in the fourth match, carrying its two-consecutive win momentum into a 6-2 lead Despite a kill from Kramer to end the run, the Quakers quickly continued their streak to put Penn up, 16-10, before finishing with the 2517 victory over Cornell

Vande Berg said that the Quakers’ improved defense in the fourth set was a turning point in the game

“Penn started to pick up [its] defense and just became what we call scrappy and started digging everything and sending it back over, ” she said “We just got a little frantic and we just needed to take a breath I think we recovered eventually in the fifth set, but then at that point anything could happen, and things ended up on Penn’s side ”

The Quakers initially carried their momentum into the fifth set, taking a 6-2 lead before the Red managed to reverse the course of the game and a huge solo block by D’Epagnier tied the set at 1313 Two consecutive Penn kills gave the Quakers the five-set victory, however The Red now stands at 2-4 in five-set matches, while the Quakers are 5-3 in such matches

Junior libero Natasha Rowland finished the Penn match with 32 digs, increasing her lead in league statistics Rowland stands atop the Ivy boards with 5 06 digs per set, half a dig more than her closest competitor Vande Berg said that to achieve success, other players need to help Rowland out on the defensive side of the game

“[Rowland] again dug 32 balls for us and we just need other people to start contributing back there and digging more balls in pursuit,” she said “We had a lot of balls that landed without people on the floor, and that’s what we need ”

senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly, this will be a focal point for the team in practice this week

“I think we have to learn from these past two weeks, and it needs to be an area of focus to start games and halves faster,” he said “Anytime you don’t get first downs and don’t keep moving the ball, you put the defense in a tough situation, and we saw that happen yesterday ”

The shining moment in a disappointing loss for the Red came with three minutes left in the game when senior quarterback Jeff Mathews shoveled a short pass to senior tight end Tyler Bostain The pass made Mathews the Ivy League’s all-time passing leader, helping him surpass the record of 9,294 yards previously held by Brown’s James Perr y It was a fitting way for Mathews to break the record, as Colgate’s defense effectively stifled the Red’s passing game in the second half On the play, Mathews was pressured by two linemen, but just before he was brought down, the senior was able to shovel the ball off to an awaiting Bostain just a few yards away

The Raiders’ defense was tough all game, bringing down Mathews four times and intercepting two of his passes “ We saw more pressure in the second half and I cred-

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