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Cornell Launches $150M Public Engagement Plan

By 2025, all undergrads will participate in community-engaged coursework

By AIMEE CHO Sun Senior Writer

Embracing its land grant mission, Cornell launched a “transformative” $150-million, 10-year initiative for community engagement and public service-related coursework, the University announced Monday

Under the new “Engaged Cornell” initiative, all undergraduate students will participate in community-engaged coursework by 2025, and the University will establish hundreds of multi-year partnerships with local, global and national stakeholders, President David J Skorton said at a press conference

“[ This] initiative will transform education at Cornell Community-engaged learning is a specific kind of experiential learning, one in which students, faculty and staff collaborate with diverse stakeholders in communities to address the pressing social problems and issues that plague us all,” Skorton said “Students [will] also learn from the expertise in the community about global issues ”

The initiative is partially funded by a $50-million gift from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust, headed by David Einhorn ’91, founder and president of Greenlight Capital, and Cheryl StraussEinhorn ’91, journalist and adjunct faculty member at Columbia University, Skorton announced Monday

Skorton described Engaged Cornell as an “extraordinary new development” on Cornell’s land grant mission

“Nearly 150 years ago, Cornell’s leaders laid the foundation for an institution formally committed to public engagement From the earliest beginnings of this university, the land grant mission of outreach and service was part of Cornell’s identity,” Skorton said

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Cornellians March in TCAT Teach-In

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Students placed a roadblock which had over 500 student signatures to show solidarity with Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit workers in front of Day Hall as part of a teach-in

Monday

The Save the Pass Coalition hosted the teachin in order to educate students about the campaign and to emphasize the effect the controversy over Cornell’s contributions to TCAT has had on

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Actor Nick Offerman To Perform in Bailey Hall

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

Actor Nick Offerman will perform in Bailey Hall on Dec 5 the last day of classes for the fall semester the Cornell University Program Board announced Monday

Offerman who is best-known for his role as the deadpan Ron Swanson in NBC’s hit comedy series Parks and Recreation will bring a musical and speaking aspect to his show, according to Daniel Fines ’15, co-president of Cornell Concert Commission, which is co-producing the show with CUPB

reacted to most enthusiastically when we resumed selections talks at the start of the semester, ” said Zahos, who is also a senior arts and entertainment writer for The Sun Zahos added he expects to see a “packed audience” of primarily Cornell students at the show due to Offerman’s widespread presence in the television industry

The show will be “half comedy, half music,” according to Zachary Zahos ’15, president of CUPB

According to Zahos, Nick Offerman has been at the top of the CUPB’s list of potential performers “for months, [and even] years ”

“He’s the one our general body

“Offerman is not only famous for being on Parks and Recreation but [also] for extending that grumpy Ron Swanson persona to big movies like 22 Jump Street and his recurring segment on Conan, ” Zahos said “It’s funny how he’s so famous among people our age, even though a lot of his character’s jokes take aim at the superficiality of social media, health-conscious diets and so on ” Fines also said he believes the show will help students relieve stress

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New Hayloft Bar Will Open for ‘Mature’ Crowd

By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer

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Andrew Lee can be reached at alee@cornellsun com

At Big Red Regatta, Competitors Race in Pumpkins

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Contributor

In Cornell’s first-ever Big Red Regatta Relay Saturday afternoon, approximately 30 competitors raced pumpkins ranging in weight between 200 and 400 pounds across Beebe Lake

The course was 100 meters across Beebe Lake, with each of the eight teams of four in their own pumpkin, each big enough to hold one team member at a time, according to Peter DelNero grad Each team had a small wooden paddle and discussed strategies to keep the pumpkin from tipping over

“First team member races to the buoy, comes back and then the next team member gets into the pumpkin,” DelNero said to team members during the beginning of the race

Chris Hernandez grad said his team ’ s goal was to keep their pumpkin afloat

“Of the eight pumpkins, only one was big enough to float, which is why many

teams are using life jackets to keep them afloat,” he said

Before the relay started, John Smeda grad said he expected the pumpkins to spin

“[Beebe Lake] is shallow enough that you might be able to push yourself from the bottom with the paddle,” he said

While all eight teams completed the r e l a y, t h e f i r s t p l a c e t e a m t h e

Canoelagans did not use their pumpkin as a boat and instead walked through the lake in their pumpkin

“ We realized from the get go we would need to have a strategy because other wise the boats would sink,” said Ithacan and Canoelagans team member Luke Whitlow

Katherine Constas ’16 a team member of the second-place team, Pump in the Sun said her group was “either walking or rolling [the pumpkin] the entire time ”

“ The pumpkins were full of water, ” she s a i d “ T h e r e w a s r e a l l y n o b o u n d a r y between the boat and the lake ”

The only team that was able to stay in

their pumpkin and paddle the entire time, Oogie’s Revenge, competed in costumes from the film A Nightmare Before Christmas Gretchen Wall, program coordinator for t h e Pr o d u c e S a f e t y A l l i a n c e i n t h e

Department of Food Science, said competing in the race was a “ great way to bring in the fall spirit ”

“We played by the rules, and we had fun doing it ”

“ We played by the rules, and we had fun doing it,” she said L a u r e n G a b u z z i ’ 1 6 s a i d i t w a s a n “understatement” to say that she had fun while in her submerged pumpkin

“I couldn’t stop smiling The coldness burnt a smile into my face,” Gabuzzi said Ileana Betancourt ’12, a staff member at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, said she was “excited” to participate in the event

“ We don’t know a better way to bring in fall than by paddling around Beebe Lake in a pumpkin,” she said

DelNero said the pumpkin is an “enduring symbol of community and gratitude and well being ”

“ The best part was seeing ever yone out here smiling, laughing and united under a common icon,” he said “ We had people from all over campus racing pumpkins We’re looking to grow bigger pumpkins next year For the first time, it couldn’t have gone any better ” The event was hosted by Cornell Flotilla, a graduate student club

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mkc94@cornell edu

Parks and Recreation Star to Perform

Comedy, Music Show in Bailey Hall

Students Call Upon Univ. To Increase Transparency Towards TCAT Funding

Carrying roadblock, students march to Day Hall

TCAT

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TCAT workers, according to Michael Ferrer ’16, who helped plan the event

The teach-in followed the University’s announcement on Friday that it will increase its monetar y contributions to TCAT Skorton said in an inter view with The Sun Monday that details regarding the University’s increased financial contributions to TCAT should be announced by this weekend

Approximately 50 people were in attendance at the teach-in, where students and representatives from the United Auto Workers Local 2300 came together to support TCAT workers, who are currently in the middle of contract negotiations

Frank Howells a TCAT bus driver and unit negotiating chair for the United Auto Workers said approximately 110 TCAT workers represented by the UAW are facing “tough” times

“ We keep running into a roadblock with the TCAT for funding,” Howells said “And they keep saying, ‘ We don’t have the money and we can ’ t put a burden on the taxpayers ’ This burden has to be absorbed somewhere because we, like ever yone else in this community, have to live ”

While members of the Cornell community make up approximately 71 percent of all TCAT ridership, Cornell’s payments accounted for approximately 26 percent of TCAT ’ s revenue in 2014, The Sun previously reported

Howells said he believes this current system does not seem “fair ”

“If we were able to to level this to an even playing field, where ever yone paid their fair amount, it would not only be a fair system, but it would also go ahead and fund enough revenue for ever yone to make a decent living here,” Howells said

He added that many TCAT drivers struggle financially

“All we ’ re asking is an opportunity to feed our families Our money will be spent in the community because we live here It’s only going to fund other places

i n t h e c o m m u n i t y, ” h e said “It’s going to allow us to send our children to your schools ”

“All we’re asking is an opportunity to feed our families. ... Our money will be spent in the community because we live here ”

In addition to economic pressure, TCAT bus drivers work long days that sometime last 15 hours, a c c o rd i n g t o Ho w e l l s Several drivers work split shifts where the times that the drivers work are split into two or more parts Between these shifts, the drivers usually are left waiting for the next shift to start, Howell said

Students from the Save the Pass Coalition who had also spoke to bus drivers along their routes shared what the drivers had said According to Allison Lapehn ’17, some drivers expressed a “lack of hope and optimism,” because over the summer, the University had not committed to increase funding to the TCAT

“Since Tompkins County is a pretty rural area, there’s not a lot to fall back on if TCAT doesn’t work out for [the drivers],” Lapehn said Prof Elizabeth Sanders, government, discussed the Redbud Woods protests during the summer of 2005 Many students, professors and Ithacans joined the protest as students chained themselves to trees and ground pipes in order to prevent the razing of the Redbud Woods to allow construction of the parking lot behind West Campus, The Sun previously reported

The protesters and University officials came to an agreement on July 17, 2005, which allowed the parking lot construction to continue in exchange for several environmentally focused measures, including the free transit passes for first and second-year students According to Sanders, the administration implied that the bus passes would gradually be given to all students, but instead, the bus passes were gradually reduced

Sanders, who was one of many faculty members involved with the protests, said she believed the destruction of Redbud Woods for a parking lot seemed like a “ crazy idea ”

“ The idea of bulldozing the last woods on campus in order to accommodate more cars was at odds with what students were learning in class,” Sanders said

In the culmination of the event, the teach-in attendees marched from the Engineering Quad to Day Hall, carr ying a roadblock as a symbol of their “continued solidarity with TCAT workers ”

To that road block, students nailed a letter addressed to President Skorton requesting more transparency on funding arrangements between the University and TCAT

“ We placed this roadblock in front of Day Hall as a symbolic gesture of our continued solidarity with TCAT workers, for without them, our roads are as good as blocked,” said Lucy Stockton ’17

‘Engaged Cornell’ Part Of Land Grant Mission, Administrators Say

ENGAGEMENT Continued from page 1

Engagement, Partnerships and Transformation

In transforming curricula across the University, the initiative involves three par ts, according to Skor ton, focusing on student and faculty engagement with ever y undergraduate depar tment offering community-engaged courses, as well as “high-impact par tnerships” and “ str ucture for transformative leaderships and success ”

“ We will establish university-wide standards for learning outcomes such as intercultural competence, integrative learning, critical reflection and ethical practice,” he said “ We will aim to train 500 faculty members about one-third of the faculty on Ithaca’s campus to implement high-quality teaching and scholarship directly related to community engagement ”

Laura Brown, senior vice provost for undergraduate education, said at the press conference that the ne w emphasis on community engagement will “shift our understanding of excellence” in evaluating faculty members

“Students who graduate from Cornell will be ... caring [and] empathetic ”

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“ When we come to assess a faculty member’s contributions [for tenure], this will be an integral par t of it,” she said “ We intend for Cornell to be nothing less than a recognized leader in community engagement, ” Skor ton said “Fur ther, we want our commitment to continue to be a major reason why faculty, students and staff choose to come to Cornell and stay at Cornell ”

Four Years in the Making

In an inter vie w with The Sun Monday, Skor ton said Engaged Cornell will be led by Vice Provost Judith Appleton, who will help flesh out ideas for how the program will operate

“ The team that put together the proposal and has been working is now developing the details of how to interact an inter face with the community,” Skor ton said

Although the details of how the plan will function are to be determined, David Einhorn said Engaged Cornell has been “four years in the making” and called it a “vital and visionar y initiative ”

“Students who graduate from Cornell will be responsible, caring and empathetic [ They] will be known as problem solvers for the greater good,” David Einhorn said “At a time when students are often thinking about what they want to be when they grow up, engaged learning pushes students to think about who they want to be when they grow up ”

Both students and members of the Cornell community will be able to offer input on how Engaged Cornell will be formed, according to Skor ton

The plan was formed as a result of Cornell’s histor y, the students and faculty at Cornell and because the nature of Cornell’s “varied” curriculum, according to Skor ton

“One of the things that I found astonishingly admirable about Cornell when I first came here was that this idea of looking beyond the campus and beyond one ’ s own self-interest is really a par t of the environment,” Skor ton said

Engaging as a National Leader

Skor ton added that empirical studies have shown a “direct correlation between community engagement and student achievement ”

“Engaged students tend to have higher retention rates, improved writing skills and a greater capacity for critical thinking and problem solving,” he said

David Einhorn said he envisions Cornell ser ving as a “national leader” in community-engaged learning

“Cornell will inform, inspire and guide peer institutions, shifting the next generation of college graduates who will enter society inspired to work well with one another,” he said

Kathr yn Boor ’80, dean of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said in an inter vie w with The Sun that the gift will help provide resources to the program to ensure that students will be left with a “ permanent, indelible vision for how a person can have a positive impact on a community ”

“ There are all sor ts of ways that we can use resources like the incredible Einhorn gift to ensure that our students are actively engaged in our community not only here in Ithaca, but much more broadly throughout Ne w York State, and around the globe, where we can have our students par ticipating in hands-on learning,” she said

Eventually, Skor ton said, community engagement will become the “ ne w norm at Cornell ”

“Students and faculty will come to regard engagement as a natural par t of what they do,” he said “ We will educate a ne w kind of global citizen, one who proudly practices respect and empathy, seeks collaboration and embraces differences and diversity in all aspects of life

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Tyler Alicea contributed repor ting to this stor y

Journalist With Ebola Enters Nebraska

OMAHA, Neb (AP)

An American video journalist who contracted Ebola while working in Liberia stepped off a jet Monday under his own power on his way to a Nebraska hospital where he will be treated for the disease in a specialized containment unit

At the bottom of the jet’s steps, Ashoka Mukpo was loaded onto a stretcher for the ambulance ride to the Nebraska Medical Center Mukpo, 33, was working as a freelance cameraman for NBC News when he became ill last week He is the fifth American with Ebola to return to

the U S for treatment during the latest outbreak, which the World Health Organization estimates has killed more than 3,400 people Mukpo’s parents said they tried to talk him out of going to Liberia last month, but he told them he wanted to report on the severity of the epidemic

“I told him I thought he was crazy, ” said his father, Dr Mitchell Levy

“And I begged him from a mother’s perspective I said, ‘Please don’t go, ’” Diana Mukpo said “But there was nothing to do He was determined ”

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mbiguous pronouns are my favorite way to drive an English professor (or anyone, really) insane There’s something especially entertaining about watching mild confusion turn to frustration (and eventually anger) as someone tries furiously to figure out what specifically you ’ re referring to People like to know things, or, at least, they like to believe they know things Take that privilege away, and there’s little they won ’ t do to gain it back Take the title of this particular column, for example “It” could refer to any number of things “It” could refer to the 20 BRBs I have left in my account, a fact I’ve been told multiple times I should be far more worried about than I am “It” could refer to the number of times I’ve called my parents to tell them I miss them in the last week, a number that’s entirely unrelated to my realization that I am broke, and it’s the first week of October “It” could even refer to the essay I turned in a few minutes ago that was filled with ambiguous pronouns I’m sure my GPA will thank me for later

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as well Personally, I think of affirmative action in higher education as an issue with two facets: race and socioeconomic status It would be unfair to consider one without the other, and it would be unfair to disreg a rd b o t h e n t i re l y In Su p re m e C o u r t Justice Sonya Sotomayor’s 58-page response to the Schuette case, there are a few sentences that make her point most powerfully

“Race matters to a young woman ’ s sense of self when she states her hometown, and then is pressed, ‘No, where are you really from?’, regardless of how many generations her family has been in the countr y Race matters because of the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts: ‘I do not belong here ’” Race and its influence on education and opportunity is not something that can be conveyed in numbers and data; it is a collection of small experiences, experiences that build up to become a disadvantage, a b a r r i e r t o f

Socioeconomic status, however, is tangible It can be compiled into statistics and used to show the d i f f i c u l t i e s c e r t a i n students face In fact, the strong cor-

Personally, I think of affirmative action in higher education as an issue with two facets: race and socioeconomic status. It would be unfair to consider one without the other, and it would be unfair to disregard both entirely.

It’s not as good (or as bad) as you think Actually, let’s remove what you think from this conversation entirely and focus on what we know instead Race as a legitimate factor in college admissions was a notion first challenged and addressed by the Supreme C o u r t i n 1 9 7 8 i n t h e c a s e Re g e n t s o f University of California vs Bakke Alan Ba k k e , a w h i t e a p p l i c a n t , w a s d e n i e d admission to the university twice even though minority applicants with significantly lower standardized testing scores were admitted The Supreme Court’s decision set the precedent that while race was a legitimate factor in school admissions, the use of such inflexible quotas as the school had set aside was not Fast for ward to April 22 of this year: Schuette v Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, in which the Supreme Court successfully runs away from taking a solid stance on affirmative action, and instead confirms the constitutionality of the states ’ amendment process (an issue no one was too concerned about)

While it has upheld the constitutionality of certain aspects of affirmative action, the Supreme Court has more recently been addressing the issue of affirmative action with a hesitancy that mirrors the attitude with which most people approach the issue

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a n advantage lower income applicants do not have access to Race and socioeconomic status matter, but they are not the only factors that matter To define an applicant by only his or her circumstances is to fail in the purpose of creating an environment in which an individual can be successful in more ways than one People are not their circumstances; they are how they choose to respond, to thrive despite the disadvantages they have faced Affirmative action in higher education should stand as an acknowledgement of an applicant’s circumstances, not an excuse to look only at an applicant’s circumstances So yes, F Scott Fitzgerald had it right when he wrote, “ Whenever you feel like criticizing any one just remember that all the people in this world haven’t had the advantages that you ’ ve had,” but whenever you feel like evaluating someone, just remember that they are not their disadvantages, but how they choose to respond to them

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

CORRECTION

An October 2 Opinion column, “THROWDOWN THURSDAY: Who Owns Culture?” misreferenced another piece The piece was from Salon, not Slate

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I Didn’t Think I Would Become A Victim

Editors’ note: It is the policy of The Sun not to publish anonymous columns In this case, we have made an exception and the name of the writer has been kept confidential to ensure that she is given the privacy that she has requested The editors know the identity of the writer and have confirmed her story to the greatest extent possible Due to the sensitive nature of this column, we wanted to warn readers that this article describes multiple assaults

When I was raped for the first time, I was surprised because it was so different from what I had imagined it to be like I thought it would be violent I thought it would be dramatic I thought that the rapist would be like what you would imagine a criminal to be I thought such a vocal and physically big and strong woman like me would never be a victim But it did happen to me, and the rapist was my best friend

At first, when it was about to happen, I tried to convince him that I’m his best friend That I love him, but as a friend, and even if he had started seeing me another way, this was not the right approach I didn’t kick or scream In fact, I was still friendly, while clearly voicing my opinion “I don’t want sex If you do it, it would be rape ” However already taken by desire, he used force to stop me from pulling away and resisting, but he did not use violence Later, he told me that he was sorry and that he always had feelings for me Definitely not a rape scene I had imagined

What really hurt me was not the fact that I was raped, but the fact that my own best friend treated me like a piece of meat, sole-

Both of these instances happened quite unexpectedly, and with unexpected people as well I first abhorred my female body, then came to embrace it In retrospect, my experiences, although traumatizing, have grown me into a stronger person overall

ly because of my female body

After the first rape and several other encounters with men, I realized one thing: There are men who do not always take “ no ” for “ no ” I don’t know if it’s because some men always want sex, so they cannot fathom the fact that someone would not want to have sex, or because some of them watch too much porn in which the female porn star shyly says no, but nevertheless enjoys sex In any case, there are men who think that when a woman dines with a man, she will want to kiss, and that when she lets a man kiss her, she will want to have sex In order for women to avoid being assaulted, women should know that there are some men who think this way (The better way to prevent rape is for men to know that “ no ” is “ no, ” but we know better not to depend on them)

The second time I was raped was by a guy I had just gone on a couple of dates with He was being “funny” and grabbed my butt He lifted my dress “for fun ” I said “seriously don’t, I don’t like it,” but he seemed to find it funny and think of it as a play I kept on asking him to stop, but he pinned me down and fingered me, still laughing After that, he couldn’t control his own excitement and ended up penetrating By then, he wasn ’ t smiling Neither was I (I was still wearing my dress and underwear, a clear sign of no, I don’t want sex ) This was also not a kind of rape I imagined It started as something casual as grabbing my butt, what men see as “harmless” and “inoffensive,” sexual harassment However, even these acts (like calling a girl sexy, spanking and groping, many of which I have experienced on Cornell’s campus) can be very dangerous More so because there are men who cannot control their own desires These men get excited by sexually harassing women and it can go too far, although that’s not necessarily what they had intended, as what happened with my second rape

Both of these instances happened quite unexpectedly, and with unexpected people as well I first abhorred my female body, then came to embrace it In retrospect, my experiences, although traumatizing, have grown me into a stronger person overall

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c o m p l a i n t , t o h a v e “ [ h e r ] p u s s y w a x e d r a w, ” t o b e a s i z e t w o w i t h o u t e f f o r t a n d t o l i k e e v e r y s i n g l e t h i n g t h a t h e l i k e s W h i l e Fl y n n ’ s n ov e l w a s a n i n t r i c a t e ( i f d a r k ) e x a m i n a t i o n o f p o s t - f e m i n i s t m a r r i a g e d y n a m i c s a n d l ov e i n t h e t i m e o f e c o n o m i c r e c e s s i o n , t h e f i l m m u s t b e m o r e h e a v y - h a n de d f o r t h e s a k e o f c l a r i t y It i s a s t u b b o r n l y s i c k s o c i a l s a t i r e t o e x p e c t t o o m u c h m o r a l i t y o r c l a r i f i c at i o n o f n u a n c e b e n e a t h t h a t s u r f a c e i s t o m i s s t h e

Gone Girl Directed by David Fincher Starring Ben Affleck, Rosamund Pike, Neil Patrick Harris

C r o n e n w o r t h’s c i n e m a t o g r a p h y i s n o t o n e m a s t e rp i e c e , b u t t w o t h e f i l m ’ s f i r s t h o u r i s a t i g h t , c o nt r o l l e d “d r a m a t i c m y s t e r y, ” w h i l e t h e f o l l o w i n g 9 0 m i n u t e s a r e a s t i l l - e x h i l a r a t i n g b u t m i t i g a t e d p i e c e o f b l a c k - h e a r t e d c o m e d y Us i n g t h e s a m e s t y l e o f c a m e r a ( w h i c h m a i n t a i n s h i g h r e s o l u t i o n i n l o w l i g h t i n g ) a s i n t h e d u o ’ s 2 0 1 1 a e s t h e t i c w o n d e r, T h e Gi rl W i t h t h e D ra g o n Ta t t o o , C r o n e n w o r t h s h o o t s f o r 6 0 m i n u t e s i n t h e d a r k , a l t e r n a t i n g b e t w e e n t h e b l u e - l i t d r e a m i n e s s o f t h e d i a r y ’ s f l a s h b a c k s a n d t h e g r e y a n d y e l l o w e d t o n e s o f Ni c k’s h a r r o w i n g p r e s e n t He t h e n d o e s 9 0 m o r e w i t h t h e c h a l l e n g i n g t a s k o f m a k i n g l i f e i n t h e l i g h t o f d a y a p p e a r e v e n m o r e d i z z y i n g a n d w a r p e d ( s e e o n e c h a r a c t e r ’ s m a d t e a r t h r o u g h B i g L o t s f o r h o w e v e n t h e e v e r y d a y c a n g e t f r e a k y ) St a n d o u t s ? T h e c a nd l e l i g h t v i g i l i s a b o u t a s p e r f e c t a s h a s b e e n s e e n i n r e c e n t m e m o r y ( t r u m p i n g a s i m i l a r s c e n e i n Pr i s o n e r s i n t e r m s o f h o w s h a d o w s c a n p l a y t o m a k e a c r o w d o f t e n d e r - h e a r t s l o o k s u d d e n l y d e m o n i c ) ; t h e r e i s a n e x c e p t i o n a l l y v i o l e n t s c e n e w h i c h e x p a n d s o n Pa u l Ve r h o e v e n ’ s 1 9 9 2 o d e t o Hi t c h c o c k i a n m a g i c ( o n l y q u i c k e r, r o u g h e r a n d d i r t i e r ) a n d t h e r e i s , j u s t f o r f u n , a d e l i g h t f u l l y a n t i - Ho l l y w o o d , f r o m - t h e - f e m a l e - p e rs p e c t i v e s h o t o f B e n A f f l e c k e n j o y i n g t h e t a s t e o f ( a n d I q u o t e ) “ a w o r l d c l a s s v a g i n a ” W h i l e C r o n e n w o r t h a n d Fi n c h e r a r e a p r ov e n p a i r i n g , i t ’ s t h e l a s t m e m b e r o f t h e b i g t h r e e w h o ’ s t h e r i n g e r G i l l i a n F l y n n d e s e r v e s h i g h e s t h o n o r s f o r h e r o w n a d a p t e d s c r e e n p l a y, w h i c h s h o w s a y o u n g a n d w i l d l y s u cc e s s f u l / h i p n ov e l i s t w h o s o m e h o w m a n a g e d t o d i s e nc h a n t h e r s e l f w i t h h e r o w n w o r k l o n g e n o u g h t o o p e nl y b a s k i n i t s a b s u rd i s m i n t h e t h i rd a c t It i s b e c a u s e o f h e r g r a c e t h a t Go n e Gi rl c a n b e c a l l e d t r u l y g e n r ed e f y i n g It i s c o l d w h i l e s t i l l b e i n g a f f e c t i n g , w i t h b o rr o w e d e l e m e n t s o f n e o -

‘ S u r r e a l i s m a n d M a g i c ’ t o D o a t t h e J o h n s o n

BY MADELINE SALINAS Sun Staff Writer

Approaching the Johnson Museum to view the new “Surrealism and Magic” exhibition, I was immediately struck by the poster as I passed under the entrance, a mythical representation of a face with two symbols inscribed on the forehead and chin As a viewer with minimal prior knowledge of Surrealism, truthfully I was unner ved by how inconsistent this inscription was with my simple image of surrealism not straying far from Dali’s The Persistence of Memor y Yet, from this perspective, I believe that the “Surrealism and Magic” exhibition this fall at the Johnson Museum does an excellent job of walking viewers through the surrealists’ interest in magic from an intellectual, visual and religious perspective

As I later learned in the exhibition, the central inscription for the exhibition “Ex Libris Cabalisticis” describes the exploration and research of knowledge The two symbols inscribed on the face are alchemical symbols of lead and mercur y; lead representing Saturn and the “melancholy of the learned” and mercur y representing the eponymous planet, believed to govern the transmission of knowledge As an opening to the exhibition, I think that the inscription excellently portrays the esoteric sense that the Surrealist movement often lends and encompasses the elements of science, occult and art emphasized in the rest of the works

“Surrealism and Magic” portrays the link between magic and art as twofold Some intellectual works curated in the exhibition represent intellectuals who strived to find discipline in magic rather than mystifying reality On display, one may view Charles Ritchet’s Traité de métapsychique, p u b l i s h e d a s a n e f f o r t t o d r a w m e t a p s yc

f occultism as chemistr y was drawn out of alchemy

Yet, a handful of the surrealist works look at the challenges of society through a fantastical lens For instance, in a series of juxtapositions of surrealist works juxtaposed against earlier counterparts One pairing showcases Dürer’s

16th centur y woodcut The Fall of Man, a women standing next

Victor Brauner’s 1942 Femme au corps de serpent dans un arbre (Woman with Serpent’s Body in a Tree), construed to show a woman ’ s head descending into the body of a serpent, coiled around a branch Another pairing juxtaposes a 17th centur y French etching of witches and sorcer y next to a gouache work by Georges Hugnet, entitled Petite fille imaginant une bacchanale Both sets of works depict a dynamic community of people merrily engaged physically and in music, both even utilizing a similar flattened aesthetic While the 17th centur y etching depicts at its pinnacle Satan upon a throne to represent the cult offense against god and the state, the Hugnet work is punctuated by a child, who faces away from the viewer, fascinated with the bacchanal scene before her and perhaps comparing the child with the savage of its

imposed on the black and white landscape of the Hugnet work, compared to its earlier counterpart, emphasizes the supernatural quality of the piece As Russian occultist Peter Ouspensky is quoted, “the artist must be a clair voyant: He must see that which others do not see; he must be a magician ” Ultimately, the pairings encourage viewers to look beyond the political or realistic context of the paintings and prints displayed to examine the internal and mystical forces influencing the scenes at play

Further examining the relationship between fantasy and reality with child drawings featured by the Museum of Modern Art and La Bouche en croissant (Smiling Face), the exhibit also explores the influence of primitive and even child artwork and the fantastical surrealist imager y and simultaneously exposes the deep rooted influence of Breton

in the surrealist movement Breton, a medic in a mental hospital during World War I, was intrigued by the simplicity and irrationality of his patients’ expression The link between the work of the youth and insane with surrealism is both complicated and controversial As a quotation by Sandra R Zalman in the exhibition states, “Surrealists are aware of the distinction between fantasy and reality unlike children and the insane ” Moreover, by exploring this controversy in the surrealist movement, the exhibition highlights the adoption of magic not only by artists but into society as it considered the role of magic in childhood development

The intellectual roots of Surrealism laid by Breton are compellingly curated in his literature on display and the thorough explications that accompany them Moreover, the pairings of paintings in the exhibition demonstrate how the surrealist ideology of Breton was both formed and expressed in artwork and society “Surrealism and Magic” presents the intellectuals and artists influencing and expressing the surrealist movement while clearly showing the backbone of the movement in Breton’s writings and artwork

Madeline Salinas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun com

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Red Aims to Rebound Against Winless Tigers

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getting it right ”

Marrero said that stakes are high going into the Princeton game as the Red looks to change the tide this season

“A win at Princeton will bring us back to 500, and while that’s not exactly where we wanted to be at the start of the season, we still have to take the rest of the year one game at a time,” he said

According to Zalevsky, the Red plans on eliminating avoidable mistakes that occurred during the Army game and looks forward to showing off the team ’ s progress against its Ivy foe

“We are looking forward to correcting any imperfections and showcasing our improvements against Princeton on Friday,” he said

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun com

Patriots Need to Bring In Receivers for Brady

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under center, the Patriots rank in the bottom half of the league in passing yards Yes, the Patriots have always been known to run the ball a lot – more than some feel they should – but where has Ne w England’s prized passing attack gone? Most of the leagues’ top quar terbacks are currently l e a d i n g t h e N F L i n y a rd s : Andrew Luck, Matt Ryan, Drew Bre e s , P h i l l i p R i v e r s , Pe y t o n Manning and so on Not Tom Brady The reason for this is simple: New England, year after year, has provided Brady with one of the league’s worst receiving corps – one far, far less talented than those of New Orleans, Atlanta, Denver, etc

acquired superstar receiver Randy Moss from the Raiders In Moss’ first season in New England, he broke Jerr y Rice’s single-season record for touchdown receptions with 23 In Brady’s first season w i t h Mo s s , h e b r o k e Pe y t o n Manning’s single season record with 50 touchdown passes Oh, and the Pats went 16-0 in the regular season and nearly recorded the league’s second perfect season before losing to the Giants in the Super Bowl Moss caught 11plus touchdowns in his final two seasons in New England With other solid receivers like Wes Welker and Donte Stallworth on t h e r o s t e r, t e a m s c o u l d n o t implement similar shut-downMoss gameplans like the ones s e e n t o d a y v e r s u s Ro b Gronkowski

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With an all-time great under center, why has New England not made a move – via draft, signing or trade – to acquire a b i g - p l a y p a s s - c a t c h e r ? Ro b Gr o n k ow s k i i s a s g o o d o f a receiving tight end as any in the l e a g u e , b u t w i t h n o o u t s i d e re c e i v i n g t h re a t s , o p p o s i n g defenses can focus their game p l a n s o n c o n t a i n i n g Gr o n k Today, New England’s number one receiver is Julian Edelman Edelman’s a good player who catches ever ything thrown his way, but he’s only 5’10” He’s not much of a deep threat, and is more of a 10-catches-for-eightyards-a-piece kind of guy He’s perfect for Tom Brady, but not as a number one receiver Edelman is far better suited in a Wes Welker, slot receiver type role A few seasons ago, Edelman was t h e Pa t r i o t s t h i rd o r f o u r t h option But Edelman is the number one because he is the best wideout the Pats have to offer Behind him on the depth chart a re u n p r ov e n y o u n g p l a y e r s ( A a r o n Do b s o n ) , s m a l l , E d e l m a n - l i k e s l o t

y s who have failed to make much of an impression at the pro level (Brandon LaFell) These guys are okay – maybe a little better than okay – but Tom Brady deser ves better talent

The only seasons Brady has had a true number one receiver on his team were ’07, ’08 and ‘09 On draft day 2007, the Pats

De s p i t e t h e s u c c e s s o f t h e Brady-Moss duo, the Pats have not acquired a big-name receiver since Moss’ departure The franchise notorious for trading draft picks in order to stockpile picks in later years has failed to draft a potential-packed receiving stud Gronkowski was a second round pick, and a great one at that, but besides him, little has been done to give Tom Brady big-time targets With the number of star receivers who have entered the league in the last few years, it’s shocking – and frustrating for Br a d y f a n s Do e s n ’ t t h e Pa t s ’ front office see what ever yone e l s e s e e s ? W h a t a b o u t Bi l l Belichick?

Tom Brady is still a top-five quarterback in the NFL He is still the same Tom Brady that won three super bowls, as exhibited in his surgical picking-apart o f a t o p Be n g a l s ’ d e f e n s e If Brady does, in fact, have issues with his staff, you can ’ t blame him With just one star receiver a l o n g s i d e No 1 2 , t h e Pa t r i o t s offense would be Broncos-like in terms of effectiveness

It’s time for moves to be made in New England As a longtime fan of Tom Brady, I would be sad to see Brady leave the Pats for any reason, but it’s his teams ’ job to ensure that the franchises’ alltime greatest player retires in blue and white

Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun com

Red Fails to Topple Dominant Army Squad

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The sprint football team traveled to West Point Oct 3 to take on a formidable opponent in Army, a team that has not lost in over two seasons Army entered the weekend on an impressive 16-game winning streak and ultimately extended the run as the Red fell, 49-7

Turnovers were costly yet again for the Red, as the squad turned the ball over five times, including three in the second quarter

Army is certainly dangerous on the offensive side of the ball, and the Red learned it the hard way The Black Knights lead the conference averaging 263 yards per

Tom Brady Deserves Help

The Patriots dismantled the undefeated Bengals, 43-17, at home on Sunday night Tom Brady threw for nearly 300 yards, two touchdowns and no interceptions

A New England team that had been struggling appeared to have returned to its winning ways But even after the landslide victory, Tom Brady found himself in the headlines for off-the-field reasons ESPN reported that tension between Brady and his coaching staff

could lead to the end of Brady’s historic t e n u re i n Fox b o ro u g h Br a d y, a s E S P N re p o r t e d , h a s b e e n “ u n c o m f o r t a b l e w i

Patriots’ changes ” Although Brady has vehemently denied any such internal issues with his team, the fact of the matter is this: Tom Brady has the right to be disappointed with the staff that he has won three Super Bowl titles for, because they have failed to surround him with the talent he deserves

The Pats are still the favorite to win the AFC East this season They have won their division 11 of the 13 seasons Tom Brady has been on the team Now 3-2, the Pats appear to have moved on from their sluggish earlyseason start, and are playing classic Patriots football But despite having one of the greatest quarterbacks to every play in the league

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game, while already scoring six touchdowns through the air Quarterback J J Wartski leads the league with 526-yards passing, while completing 58 1 percent of his passes (50-86) He is also second in the league with a passing efficiency of 127 9 Additionally, he has thrown at least three touchdowns in each game thus far and leads the Collegiate Sprint Football League with 11 passing touchdowns

Wartski was instrumental for Army’s fast paced aerial attack on Friday He went 19-of-25 for 266-yards and five touchdowns to lead the Black Knights to victory Additionally, Army racked up 515 yards of total offense while holding the Red to just 192 The foe’s offensive surge in the second quarter allowed it to rack up 35 points for a 42-0 lead at the break Ultimately, the deficit proved too much for Cornell to come back from and the squad trailed until the end

Cornell with a strong performance on defense Army ranked second in the league in total defense two seasons ago, while it led the league in total defense in its CSFL title defense last season The team has continued to excel in defense this season, ranking second in the league, allowing just 206yards per game Army’s defense made it extremely difficult for the Red to put numbers on the board Ultimately, it wasn ’ t

until the end of the fourth quarter that sophomore John Zelek had a one-yard touchdown for Cornell’s lone score of the day

The Red also saw some success on defense, however Senior linebacker Noah Shephard led the squad’s defense with 12 tackles five solo and seven assists including one sack Freshman Dominic LaBell showed talent in the defensive zone, adding eight tackles four solo and four assists with an interception

Although the loss to Army definitely hit a nerve, the Red looks ahead to Princeton with a positive mindset

“The Army game was a tough one for u s , ” s a i d j u n i o r w i d e - re c e i ve r Tre vo r Marrero “We made mistakes on both sides of the ball, but we ’ re putting the game behind us and looking forward to getting back on track against Princeton ”

Senior captain Greg Zalevsky echoed Marrero’s sentiments and added that the loss indicates that the Red must reinforce its strategic initiatives on the field and execute rather than change direction altogether

“The loss to Army was a tough pill to swallow but it’s behind us now, ” he said “Rather than scrap what we ’ ve been doing, we need to buckle down and commit to

C.U. Drops Two Games to Ivy Rivals

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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Rowland continued to make Cornell histor y, the women of the volleyball team struggled to come out on top in both games this weekend The Red fell to Ivy foes University of Pennsylvania and Princeton on the road, unable to notch

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and only securing one set win against Penn on Saturday Cornell, now 3-10, has struggled so far this season While the team itself is cohesive, the players

in the game but needs to come out stronger and on the offense from the start

One area of strength for the Red is in its team dynamic, Phelps said She explained that the women of the team are friends and teammates both on and off the court This sort of team cohesion drives the women to play well not j u s t f o r t h e m s e l ve s , but for their teammates

“We relied too much on the other teams making mistakes.” M a c e y W i l s o n

aggression and drive to win, leaving them down at the start and unable to come back Sophomore middle hitter

Macey Wilson explains that the Red was waiting for the other team to make errors rather than coming out strong and on the offense

“ We relied too much on the other

should have been more aggressive,” she said

Howe ve r, t h e re we re s o m

h i g h points during the weekend, including Rowland’s ever-increasing dig count

Rowland, who plays libero, a strictly defensive role on the court, now sits in sixth place for all time digs in Cornell histor y With 11 games of Ivy play ahead of her, she is sure to keep moving up in the ranks

Wi t h o t h e r s t ro n g p e r f o r m a n c e s from sophomore setter Alyssa Phelps and hitters freshman Maddy Sroufe and Wilson, the Red is still ver y much

“ We h a v e g r e a t t e a m c o h e s i o n We get along on and off t h e c o u r t w h i c h i s something really special,” she said “ We know what gets each other going and how to help them out when they’re struggling We win together and we lose together, but most importantly we play for each other ” Moving for ward, the team knows that it can perform at a higher level and hopes to show that developed level of play, especially on the Red’s home court, Phelps said She notes that home team advantage can really play a role in the outcome of a match, and perhaps that is another reason Cornell struggled to win this weekend

“ E a c h t e a m d e f e n d s t h e i r h o m e court so well and they really come out to play We are determined to win our matches at home when these teams visit and we ' re going to fight to win the rest of our away games even though they might be tough,” she said These next couple of weeks will be crucial for the team ’ s success, since the rest of the season just consists of Ivy play The Red will face both Princeton and Penn again on its home court, as well as Columbia, which overtook the

Red on Sept 27 on the road Wilson is optimistic for the rest of the season and knows that her team has the potential to win the league

“ We know we can play at a high level, we just have to find the consistency at that high level,” she said “Princeton is a solid team this year, yet both teams [were] ver y beatable and we are looking for ward to playing them again at home because we know that we can beat them ”