Squad goals | Many of the Red players attribute this season’s success to the bonded nature of the team and contributions from players of all ages
GIVES UP ONE GOAL SO FAR IN 2015 Red Boasts Best-ever Season Start
By JESSICA BROFSKY Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell women ’ s soccer team has played 11 full games of its season and has only let in a single goal This is the first time the Red has been undefeated at this point in the season in the program ’ s histor y With a record of 8-0-3, Cornell women ’ s soccer is the only team in the Ivy League that hasn’t given up a single game yet this season
The team has come together nicely in order to accomplish this major success
“Right now, ever yone is extremely positive going into ever y practice and game, ” said junior defender Kailey Joyce “Ever y single class contributes so much to the team and we have huge impact players from all grades and in all positions ”
Junior goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney added that resembling family
“ We have a great team dynamic both on and “ These girls are my best friends and that really tran we can rely on one another in tough situations ”
The team tied its first game against Siena Coll Syracuse University, and most recently, its game ag Joyce commented on the str ucture of the season an ing that the team ’ s Sept 27 win against Wagner w the squad over 500 and clinching the best star t to histor y
The Red has only played two Ivy games thus Columbia 1-0 and most recently tying with Pen remaining six games will be against other Ivy Leag
“Ever y upcoming Ivy game is a huge game b competing for the Ivy Title,” Joyce said “Last year we lost, we were ver y competitive and I’m look playing those teams again Ne w year, ne w team ”
She explained the positive pressure that sur their winning record, but claimed it has only created a sor t of excitement
One of the Red’s goals is “ to be over 500 and be in the top of the half of the Ivy League at least,” Joyce said
However, Tierney said the team sees the Ivy Championship as the ultimate feat this year
more competitive,” Joyce said “Upfront, we ’ re continuing to work on our dynamic movement and attack As a defender, we just spend a lot of time working and moving together to improve our communication and understanding of playing together ” Tierney also spoke about practices and added that the team often looks to adapt to ne w goals
“ The ultimate goal is to win an Ivy League Championship,” she said “ The team has been making tremendous steps in the right direction this season so we need to continue moving for ward and give it our all ”
In order to achieve this, the Red has been taking advantage of all of its practice time together as a team
“Ever y week, we look to improve our speed of play as our schedule gets more and
“In practice, we have been focusing on defending as a unit, possession and connecting passes, ” Tierney said “Each week, we have different objectives and goals to achieve ” esh mentality that perhaps is linked to its undefeated ference between this season and years past is that we going into games, ” Tierney said “ We don’t go into a ther] we expect to achieve a result and have set a stane proven that we can compete with strong opponents onfidence in our program ” level of play will be upheld for the rest of the season iggest competition and strives to keep an undefeated e making women ’ s soccer histor y the team will face other Ivy teams including Har vard, Princeton and Dar tmouth While the team remains the season, it still stands in third place in the Ivy Har vard and Princeton because of its tie against Penn so face non-league opponent Colgate, who has seen this season and just three wins With an impressive the season, the women stand at an impressive 864 te ’ s 318 win percentage as a lot to be proud of, the women let in their first goal tly in their late September game against Wagner despite the goal, the women were still able to pull ahead, 2-1, and win the game Since then, in the game against Penn this weekend, the women were able to shutout the Quakers and still stand with just one goal scored on them for the season
W i t h u p c o m i n g g a m e s a g a i n s t t h e H a r v a r d C r i m s o n a n d t h e Princeton Tigers who are tied for first place in Ivy League women ’ s soccer the Red will be put to the test Though both teams have better Ivy standings, Har vard has six losses on its season and Princeton three, compared to the Red’s zero Nonetheless, these games will play a big par t in determining where the Red will end up in the Ivy standings this season
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Leading Red | Senior Shanay Fischer, pictured above, is one of the captains for the Red
GRIDDERS MOVE TOWARDS SUCCESS
By ADAM BRONFIN
Sun Assistant Sports Editor
To the outside obser ver, it
l o o k s a s t h o u g h n o t h i n g h a s changed since last year Cornell football has played three games and, just like last season team has lost all three But closer look and one can se the two teams are nothing
Last year ’ s squad lost it three games by an average points This year, all thr Cornell’s losses have been b possession In each game
Red has either held a lead l the four th quar ter or ha oppor tunity tie the game little time left to play
Cornell lost to Buckn begin the season, 19-14 Bison jumped to an early but the Red hung with Eventually, Cornell pulled and junior quar terback R S o m b o r n f o u n d s o p h o receiver James Hubbard i
e n d z o n e Bu c k n e l l , h ow marched down the field o ensuing drive and on four t 10, Bucknell quar terback Nitti completed a pass i endzone to give the Biso lead for good
“ We d i d n ’ t m a k e e n plays when we needed to, head coach David Arche after the game “ There wer tainly a lot of positives b came down to critical play so we were on the wrong e it what a miraculous pla them there on four th down
There was a similar p against Yale in the next gam Ne w Haven, the Red cam firing, scoring 26 points i first half, more than twic amount the team scored a Yale in the entirety of last g a m e S o m b o r n h a d touchdown passes in that half But the wheels beg come off as the second quar ter came to a close A long Yale kick return allowed the Bulldogs to s c o r e j u s t 1 5 s e c o n d s a f t e r Cornell four th touchdown, cutting the Red’s lead to 13
‘WE WEREN’T ABLE TO FINISH; THAT’S REALLY THE BIGGEST THING’
A similar trend can be found on the offensive side of the ball as well A big reason behind the offensive str uggles last year was the inconsistent play at quar terb
C o r n e l l ’ s o f f e n s e c o u l d n ’ t muster up any more points and the special team ’ s fell apar t in the second half, missing field goals and muffing points Yale went on to win 33-26
“ We controlled ever y facet of the game, ” Archer said “ Then we made some big time, critical
that’s really the biggest thing ” But just like against Bucknell, Cornell played leaps and bounds better against Yale than it did l a s t ye a r Ya l e d o m i n a t e d t h e R e d l a s t y e a r, o u t s c o r i n g Cornell, 51-13 In 2014, opponents put up
a n a v e r a g e o f 4 4 0 y a r d s o f offense per game This year it’s down to 416 “ We’r e p r e v e n t i n g m o r e points than last year, ” said senior defensive lineman Mike Staples “ Te a m s w e r e k i n d o f d o i n g
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throughout the game, our fir down defense is good We’re be ter in the red zone than we we last year We’ve held teams t field goals a lot this year when in the past they would have been touchdowns ” The defense has yet to make many flashy plays that garner the most attention, but Cornell has p l a y e d s o l i d , f u n d a m e n t a l defense so far this season, making critical third down stops and p r e v e n t i n g l o n g p l a y s f r o m opponents The Red has forced
Bulldozer | Senior running back Luke Hagy continues to be the centerpiece of the Cornell offense Hagy has run for more than 100 yards in all three games this season
r, and he’s proven himself the Red’s definite quar terthis year Through three , Somborn has 662 yards n g
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c o mpared with last year, the defense is giving up o v e r s e v e n p o i n t s f e w e r p e r game Sophomore safety Nick Gesualdi leads the way for the Red with 26 tackles Linebackers J J Fives, a senior, and Jackson Weber, a junior, and senior cornerback Jarrod Watson-Le wis all have at least 16 tackles
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C.U. Relaunches
First-Year Spring Admissions
Four colleges to welcome 125 incoming freshmen
By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Contributor
Approximately 125 first-year students will be joining the Cornell community in January 2016 through the First-Year Spring Admissions program, according to Jason Locke, associate vice provost for enrollment
This will be the first time the program will run since 2003, when the University previously had a similar program called “J Frosh,” according to Locke
The primary reason for the revival of the FYSA-type program, according to Locke, is the drastic increase in first-year applicants and the desire to accommodate the influx of qualified candidates
Committee Rejects Cinema Funding Increase
Cornell Cinema supporters urge S.A. to vote against recommendation
By ANDREW LORD Sun Staff Writer
Student leaders from Cornell Cinema are speaking out against a recent Student Assembly Appropriations Committee recommendation to not grant a funding increase in the organization’s allocation from the student activity fee
Cornell Cinema currently seeks a $1 40 per student funding increase, raising the allocations from $10 60 per student to $12 per student However, the S A Appropriations Committee, which recommended against a funding increase wrote in a statement that although Cornell Cinema provides “ some value to students,” the committee did not find a funding increase justifiable based on recent attendance numbers and its insufficient operational model
history of the organization,” Weber-Han said “As Cornell Cinema is a popular student activity it would seem logical that the activity fee would be beneficially allocated to ensure a sustainable cinema program ”
Additionally, the committee wrote that it does not have an obligation to “continually and consistently cover the rising cost of doing business within the cinema industry” and encouraged Cornell Cinema to explore new ways to lower their costs
“Undergraduate attendance has increased by 1,300 in the last year ”
“Moving forward, the committee suggests that Cornell Cinema determine ways to reduce costs by either more selectively showing screenings, reducing the number of days that Cornell Cinema is open or find alternative mechanisms to reduce their costs, ” the statement said
“More students desire the opportunity to take time in the transition from high school ” J a s o n L o c k e
“Applications to Cornell have more than doubled since the former J Frosh program was discontinued,” Locke said “For this year ’ s class, Cornell reviewed close to 42,000 applications for a class of 3,182 new first-year students In order to allow more students to benefit from a Cornell e d u c a t i o n , t h e U n i v e r s i t y a p p r o v e d the FYSA program ” L o c k e added that the evolution of higher education has also forced the University to change the way it looks at first-year applicants
“Students are approaching a college education in a way that is no longer bound by time or place,” Locke said “More students desire the opportunity to take time in the transition from high school to work, travel or volunteer ”
Only four of Cornell’s colleges have accepted FYSA students for this coming January
Thirty-one FYSA students will be entering the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, 62 into Arts and Sciences, 20 into Human Ecology and 12 into the School of Hotel Administration, according to Locke
“For some of our undergraduate colleges and schools, it is not possible to begin in the Spring semester due to curricular requirements and course sequencing,” Locke said
While Locke said the Nor th Campus Residential Initiative, which was put into to place to bring a sense of unity among freshmen, created a desire to have first-year students enroll in the fall, considerations for reinstating the FYSA program began through the Enrollment Assessment
Elijah Weber-Han ’15, president of Cornell Cinema, said the S A ’ s remarks on attendance are “unfounded ” “Undergraduate attendance has increased by 1,300 in the last year and we have the largest student advisory board in the
But the organization maintains it has already done all that is possible to reduce overhead costs without jeopardizing the integrity of its mission Mary Fessenden, director of Cornell
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Labor rights | COLA member Alice Rayner ’19 gives a presentation about COLA’s efforts in their Weill Workers Suffer Campaign, which has included a letter to President Elizabeth Garrett and the delivery of a card to Garrett on her inauguration day, during Wednesday’s teach-in
COLA Holds Weill Workers Teach-In
By BRIAN ENG Sun Contributor
Approximately 50 students gathered for Cornell Organization for Labor Action’s teach-in in Warren Hall Wednesday, which aimed to raise awareness about alleged human rights violations at Weill Cornell Medicine in Education City, Qatar Following the presentation, the students marched to President Elizabeth Garrett’s office to deliver a letter demanding a third-party investigation
of Cornell’s Qatar campus Wednesday afternoon’s teach-in and letter drop are the latest actions in COL A’s Weill Workers Suffer campaign, which demands that the University conducts an independent investigation of the labor practices at Cornell’s Qatar campus and that it upholds its mission of fair labor practices regardless of location
COLA has had difficulties investigating the workers ’ conditions since any contact with human rights
organizations would result in the workers’ deportations, according to COLA member Hadiyah Chowdhury ’18 However, a report about labor practices on Qatari satellite campuses that was sent to COL A from the International Trade Union Confederation in January 2015 has further motivated their campaign, she added Chowdhury, who is also an arts and entertainment
Paul Smith’s College Funds
Hinge on Joan Weill Name
By PHOEBE KELLER Sun Assistant News Ed tor
Paul Smith’s College, a small college in upstate New York, may have to turn down a $20 million donation from Joan Weill the wife of Sanford I Weill ’55, who endowed Cornell’s medical school and institute for cell molecular biology because it is legally bound to retain the name it adopted at its founding, according to The New York Times
In addition to the Weills’ connection to Cornell, Cathy Dove, current president of Paul Smith’s College, was also a former vice president at Cornell Tech
Justice John T Ellis of the State Supreme Cour t in Franklin County r uled Wednesday that the college, which is the only four-year institution in six million acres of Adirondack Park, could not change its name to honor a pledge from Joan Weill The gift, which could be potentially be invaluable to the school
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Arts College Study Shows Varied Grading
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An average grade of B+ and discrepancies in grade distributions were revealed by a recent study of fall 1971 grades in the College of Ar ts and Sciences
The grade distribution study was completed late last spring and was the first done in the college in recent memor y Drawing on the final enrollment and grade records of the registrar’s office, the tabulation is broken down by depar tments, grades (A+ to F , S, U, and Inc ) and by depar tmental course level (100, 200, 300, and 400)
Of the almost 24,000 grades awarded last fall in the Ar ts College, 24 per cent were A’s (either A+, A, or A-) over 42 per cent were B’s, 22 per cent C’s, and 5 per cent D’s and 2 8 per cent F’s Thus, for ty-two per cent of the grades were B+ or better
According to [Dean of the Ar ts College] Alfred E Kahn, professors in the physical sciences have complained of alleged discrepancies in grading practices
In a brief but strongly worded memorandum addressed to the faculty shor tly before the spring examination period, Kahn states, that “the inexorable and sharp increase represented by this average is absurd; as long as we have a letter grading system - i e , as long as we speak what sounds like the same language - I must urge each of you to use the language in roughly the same sense ”
In that memo Kahn specifies an average grade in the C+ to B- range as desirable although he concedes that exceptions might be made in par ticular cases
But, he continues “large depar tures from this norm on the up side are grossly unfair to the students whose instr uctors continue to grade rigorously ”
In the humanities and languages the relatively s
Semitics vie for the dubious honor of the highest percentage of A’s and B’s with 97 6 and 96 per cent, respectively
Ten C.U. Dance Troupes Perform in Flash Mob
Endeavor to unite diverse dance groups, foster community ties
By SUZY PARK Sun Contributor
United by the love of dance, 10 of Cornell’s dance troupes performed a four-minute flash mob Wednesday, hoping to “establish a better community” among Cornell dancers
Dozens of dancers took to Ho Plaza, performing everything from tap-dancing to hip hop to Punjabi dance, as a large audience filmed and watched the flash mob Even after the performance ended, students remained on Ho Plaza, socializing and taking pictures
Groups that participated included On Tap Dance Troupe, Cornell Bhangra, BreakFree, Base Productions, Impact Dance Troupe, Cornell DanceSport Team, Big Red Raas, Rise Dance Group, Badmaash and Anjali
Jin Jin Ma ’17, president of hip hop dance group BreakFree, said he felt the need for greater exchange between different dance groups during his three years as a part of Cornell’s dance community
“From our perspective, the dance community is a little split right now, and it is very difficult to bridge connections sometimes,” he said “Because everyone is always busy, people in the dance community don’t necessarily set aside time to get to know people on other teams They just get to know their own team ”
Ma said that through the flash mob, he hoped to promote BreakFree’s motto, “Dance to Inspire,” throughout the entire dance community at Cornell
“The whole point of BreakFree is to encourage others to dance and to express themselves through dance,” Ma said “We feel like dance is a way to ‘break free’ from inhibitions and come together as a community So that being our team motive and team dynamic, we really wanted to spread that into the dance community ”
Prior to Wednesday’s flash mob, collaboration among dance teams was largely individual, said TJ Famighetti ’17,
president of Base Productions, a hip hop dance group
“A lot of dance teams occasionally do collaborations or have other dance groups come perform at their guest shows,” Famighetti said “So people definitely do collaborate, but this is the first time that anything like this has really happened where [different groups] choreograph together ”
In addition to building a stronger community among Cornell’s dancers, the flash mob aimed to communicate and promote members’ passion for dance, according to Famighetti
“[We wanted to] get people to see other people dancing, and see how awesome all these different dancers are because
they are all really fantastic people,” Famighetti said “So hopefully, it will get people interested to see our shows and to try out in the future ”
Planning for the flash mob began during the summer, according to Niara Hardister ’18, BreakFree’s co-director of marketing, who said that she emailed every team on campus over the summer to ask if they wanted to participate Practices for the dance took place every weekend the month leading up to the flash mob, Hardister added
Suzy Park can be reached at jp779@cornell edu
Professor Explores Western Lyrical Tradition at Lecture
By MELVIN LI
Staff Writer
Prof Jonathan Culler, English and comparative literature, spoke Wednesday about his new book
The Theory of the Lyric as part of Cornell University Library’s Chats in the Stacks book talk program
The Theory of the Lyric, published by the Harvard University Press in June, explores the Western lyric tradition across millennia, continents and cultures Culler drew upon 40 years of research on a wide range of poets, including Sappho, Baudelaire, Petrarch, William Carlos Williams and even nursery rhymes to help determine how the lyric continues to exist
socially and enchant readers today
“[Culler] challenges us to reexamine what we think we know about the lyric poem and expands our concept of the lyric as a genre, ” said Bonna Boettcher, director of Olin and Uris Libraries Culler explained that his new publication originated in his curiosity of the strange ways lyric poems often addressed subjects such as time, winds, trees and the dead and how the poems asked its subjects to do something or refrain from doing what they usually do Culler said that from the Greeks to the moderns, poets often called upon the universe and other subjects they thought to be responsive
and issued demands
“The question is ‘what’s really going on here?’” Culler said “What do these strange ways of speaking tell us about the investments and ambitions of lyric poetry? How should we approach it?”
In 1975, Culler published an essay on the figure of speech known as apostrophe, which he said is an act of breaking off one ’ s speech to address anything that is not a regular interlocutor such as the dead, urns, nightingales or sofas Culler argued in his paper that “the strange habit of address” is central to the lyric tradition He said the paper marked a break away from his earlier work in New Criticism
“That was really the seed from which this project grew It took 40 years to grow, ” Culler said “I was no longer oriented by the New Critical assumption that poems exist to be interpreted and that my goal was to produce a more complex and intricate interpretation than anyone has done before That essay sought to explore the most unsettling and intriguing aspects of these poems and their lyric language rather than producing interpretations of the poems ” From his foundational research on lyrical address, Culler began a broader project investigating the Western lyric tradition as a whole and attempting to work out a general framework for a theory of the lyric itself Culler said he was not attempting to deem what is and what isn’t lyric poetry or produce more brilliant readings of such poems Instead, his book seeks to register the sorts of pleasures lyrics offer readers
“The first thing to say about lyrical poetic systems is that they are non-mimetic,” Culler said “Aristotle wrote a treatise on mimetic poetry, which is poetry as imitations of action and character He did not write about lyric poetry in Poetics even though he was very familiar with lyric poetry and wrote such poems himself And as a result of the exclusion of these important Greek lyric forms from Poetics, the genre was not really theorized in Western theory for a very long time ”
Culler said that even though lyrical poetry was a very important form for the ancient Greeks, Romans and Renaissance writers, Western literary thought did not become cognizant of the lyric until the Romantic period at the end of
the 18th century He said that this was likely because Romantics, with their more robust conception of the individual subject, thought of lyrics as mimetic and created a model of lyric poetry as a way for the subject to express intense experience
“That conception of lyric as a representation of subjective experience doesn’t have much currency in the academic world today ” Culler said “In the AngloAmerican academy at least it has been more or less replaced with a model of the lyric as a representation of the action of a fictional speaker or persona whose situation readers are supposed to reconstruct That’s a conception of lyric that informs important textbooks such as Helen Vendler’s Poems Poets Poetry ”
Culler pointed out that many great poems in the Western tradition are dramatic monologues, especially in the English tradition, which drives the possibility of thinking of lyric poetry as an imitation of speech He said the problem with this model is that it fictionalizes the lyric, directs our attention to characters and situations and distracts us from all the elements that are the responsibility of a poet, not of a character created by the poet
“The basic impetus of this project is to investigate the inadequacies of these current models of the lyric and to explore alternatives,” Culler said “ There are many poems in the tradition that explicitly are telling us things about the world rather than creating a fictional character ”
Melvin Li can be reached at mli@cornellsun com
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Shake it off | Cornell dance troups perform a four minute flash mob on Ho Plaza Wednesday
Spitting verses | Prof Jonathan Culler, English and comparative literature, speaks about his new book The Theory of the Lyric, which discusses the Western lyrical tradition Wednesday
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Cornell Relaunches Spring Admissions
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Task Force
“In March 2014, the Enrollment Assessment Task Force recommended to Provost [Kent] Fuchs that the topic of January admission for freshmen deserved analysis, for a variety of strategic, academic and budgetary reasons, ” Locke said
While many FYSA students are excited to join the Cornell community, some worry about the amount of work that must be done in order to catch up to students who began in the fall
Jenna Steele ’19, a FYSA hotel student, said she was accepted off the waitlist and is spending the fall semester studying at a local university to try and limit the impact of starting late
“Because the hotel school’s courses are so specific, I had to work very hard to find a place that would allow me to take the specific courses I need,” Steele said
In addition to catching up on school work, she also said she felt the emotional toll of starting late
“It was very hard watching all of my friends go off to school, being the only one left behind,” Steele said “I get to hear about everyone else’s experiences, see their lives on social media and be jealous of them all from my bedroom ”
However, she added that she did not feel that temporarily attending a different university and having catch-up work should keep her from attending her university of choice
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“I chose FYSA because I knew the hotel school, and Cornell, was the perfect place for me, ” Steele said “Cornell has always been my dream school and I knew I would do whatever it took to attend ”
Other students on the “Cornell University FYSA” Facebook group also expressed concerns about starting a semester late In particular, numerous students were vocal about whether they would be allowed to rush sororities or fraternities in the spring
Despite student concerns, however, Locke said the University will not have a problem easing in the new students, citing the University’s years of experience with January transfer students
“Many students new to a college campus, FYSA, first-year fall freshman and transfer students, are anxious about the transition to campus That’s a normal part of moving into a new environment,” Locke said “Cornell’s New Students program and representatives from our undergraduate colleges and schools have been planning an orientation program and focused advising programs for FYSA students ”
Zachary Silver can be reached at zjs6@cornell edu
Paul Smith’s College
May Be Denied Donation
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while it struggles with its finances, is contingent upon the adoption of a new name Joan Weill-Paul Smith’s College according to The Times
The college was originally funded by the will of Phelps Smith, who specified that the institution should be “forever known” by his father’s name In light of the new potential donation, the college petitioned to be released from the will’s conditions, but their appeal was denied by Ellis, The Times reported
The decision has not yet been officially filed as of Tuesday night, but Ellis rejected the college’s petition in its entirety, maintaining in his decision that he had considered the college’s financial need but disagreed that the college’s name was holding it back from academic success The college’s petition had stated that it needed at least $30 million to remedy decreased enrollment and tuition revenue, according to The Times
There have been diverse reactions to the petition from Paul Smith’s faculty and alumni While faculty members have been generally supportive of the petition, hundreds of former students emailed the New York attorney general’s office, asking the department to oppose the request, The Times reported Specifically, many alumni have expressed concern that a name change would damage the school’s integrity and have questioned Joan Weill’s philanthropic intentions
Cathy S Dove posted a letter to Paul Smith’s College’s website expressing her regret at the court ’ s decision, but also highlighting the importance of the college’s continuing commitment to its historical legacy
Joan Weill has been involved with the college for over 20 years and has served on the college’s board for over 19 years Over the decades, she and her husband have donated millions of dollars to the college, funding both a library and student center which now bear her name
It remains unclear whether Joan Weill will withdraw her donation now that the college’s name will not be changed, The Times reported
Phoebe Keller can be reached at pkeller@cornellsun com
COLA Furthers Qatar Campaign at Teach-In
COLA
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writer for The Sun, presented information about the Middle Eastern “kafala” system ’ s history of human rights violations during the teach-in
“[The workers’] bosses may confiscate their passports and force them to continue working at the firm [under the kafala system],” Chowdhury said “Workers are unable to find new jobs, and the money they make is often put into banks which, if deported, would be inaccessible to workers ”
Migrant workers from all over the Middle East and East Asia may have been recruited by this system to work in the construction of Cornell’s Qatar campus, according to Chowdhury The kafala system is infamous for its dishonesty about wages and working conditions, exorbitant recruitment fees and predatory recruitment practices, she added
Workers in the kafala system also suffer numerous other injustices, according to an information pamphlet distributed at the teach-in The pamphlet states that workers often suffer from isolation in labor camps, labor in temperatures above 120 degrees Fahrenheit and restricted access to food and water
After the teach-in, COLA members and teach-in attendees marched down Tower Road to Garrett’s office in Day Hall to present a letter demanding an investigation to ensure fair labor practices at WCM Qatar
The letter follows COLA’s Sept 15 letter to Garrett, which asked her to respond to an ITUC letter that was previously sent to university presidents
In a letter responding to COLA’s first letter, Garrett wrote that she had not found any indications of labor rights violations at WCM Qatar
“After thoughtful review and my own independent assessment of our operations in Doha, I am convinced that we are treating our staff in Qatar the way that we treat our staff here in Ithaca and in New York City,” Garrett wrote “None of the abusive practices you reference in your letter take place at Weill Cornell Medical College Qatar ”
In response, COLA’s Wednesday letter thanks Garrett, but states concerns that “Cornell is unknowingly participating in an infrastructure of labor abuse in Qatar ”
The letter continued by stating that while workers directly employed to Cornell’s Qatar campus may not suffer labor abuses, workers hired through subcontractors may be the victims of labor rights violations
While COLA members said they were not satisfied by President Emeritus David Skorton’s standoffish response to demands for an investigation, the members said Garrett’s inauguration of had given COLA renewed confidence in their campaign
“We’re really hopeful A lot of the rhetoric President Garrett has been using has been really exciting in terms of talking about building workers’ rights, about being a radical and progressive university,” COLA member Allison Considine ’17 said “We’re really hopeful that she can kick off her tenure by conducting this investigation and recognizing these workers and fixing any injustices ”
Considine also encouraged students and student organizations to support the investigation by partnering with COLA by joining their Coalition Against Gulf Exploitation and attending COLA’s future meetings about the Weill Workers Suffer campaign
“I think throughout Cornell’s history and the history of other higher education institutions, students have demonstrated they have immense power, ” Considine said
Brian Eng can be reached at bwe22@cornell edu
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Cinema, said her organization cannot afford any further cuts
“I think Cornell Cinema has acted in good faith over the years I am not sure I can say the same for the Appropriations Committee,” Fessenden said “Any further cuts to our program will lead to a reduction in the diversity of our offerings at a time when it’s more important than ever to maintain or, ideally, expand upon this kind of programming, programming that Cornell Cinema takes great pride in presenting ”
Fessenden also said the program has been very cost-conscious over the years, only seeking financial support from the S A when appropriate
“It’s also important to note that we had to deplete our general reserve account to cover the cost of the necessary upgrade to digital cinema,,” she said “We did not seek additional support from the Student Assembly to make this expensive upgrade, and yet now, when we request just $1 40 more per student to restore our financial stability, we are turned down ”
Cornell Cinema and its supporters expressed their discontent via Facebook, creating a public event called “Save Cornell Cinema” that encourages students to attend Thursday’s S A meeting to oppose the funding decision As of Wednesday evening, the event had over 150 supporters, according to the event ’ s attendance list
The S A is expected to vote on the committee’s recommendation at Thursday’s general body meeting
Andrew Lord can be reached at dlord@cornellsun com
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TYLER ALICEA ’16
EMMA LICHTENSTEIN 16
SLOANE GRINSPOON 17
AMBER CHEN 16
NATALIE TSAY 18
JAYNE ZUREK ’16
MICHAELA BREW ’18
GABRIELLA LEE 16
MIKE SOSNICK 16
JONES 18
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ITom the Dancing Bug By Ruben Bolling
’ ve always been a person who would gladly choose a physical copy of a book over any other online source The smell of the book, the tangible feel of flipping the pages and the act of dog-earing corners is lost when it comes to an ebook My stand for “real books” over ebooks extends to my love for hand-written letters Even though text messaging, Facebook Messenger and Facetime has made it easier to converse with others electronically, I think it’s important to bring back the art of handwritten letters There is something immensely intimate about writing and receiving a handwritten letter Whether it’s to a friend, family member or loved one, the feelings associated with letters are far more important and long-lasting than an online exchange Letters make every word count Unlike a text or Facebook message, it isn’t as easy to write rambling sentences or h a l f - f o r m e d thoughts You can ’ t use an emoji to substitute how you ’ re feeling Letters require thought and energy, making every sentence more m e a n i n g f u l Letters are therefore an outlet of expression a way to reveal what is truly going on in your mind The act of physically writing out every word helps ideas form and genuine feelings to arise Whereas texts and messages can be sent in a matter of seconds, letters take time to write The fact that a letter cannot be sent so often means there is a higher chance the letter includes actually important and relevant information Text messages, as useful as they can be, have the chance to be empty, frivolous and nonsensical Letters include things that matter They also require off-screen time In an age when we spend obscene amounts of time on laptops and smartphones, it’s important to take some time to appreciate using just pen and paper Away from the distractions of an iPhone or computer, we are able to take a break from the outside world and have time to focus on ourselves and our thoughts Instead of partaking in the usual feat of multitasking (for example, responding to a friend over iMessage, watching a YouTube video and texting another family member all while scrolling through Facebook photos), letter writing requires concentration and attention
That might sound strange, but the reflection and deep thinking that comes from merely being present in a situation is unimaginable ... Besides my journal and a book, all I had to entertain myself was my mind.
keep in contact with each other or keep their love alive Immigrants used letters to communicate back home to their families and friends Some intriguing letters from the past include King Henry VIII’s love letter to Anne Boleyn in 1527 (while he was still married to Catherine of Aragon), Ludwig Van Beethoven’s letter to his “immortal beloved” in 1812 and 14-year-old Fidel Castro’s letter to Franklin D Roosevelt in 1940 approving of his presidency Writing letters today continues a tradition that has been alive for as long as we can remember Although people wrote letters in earlier ages because there was no other alternatives and the need for communication was necessary, in this day and age, I am a proponent for handwritten letters for the sake of writing them Receiving a letter means that someone genuinely acknowledged and thought of you There is time and effort that goes into ever y letter, making it easy to understand why people today choose the efficiency of texting over writing letters But letters become keepsakes Because they are palpable and concrete, even the most l i g h t - h e a r t e d , casual letter can be viewed more importantly Letters can be read over and over, creased and folded, kept in safe places The smudge of written words and the feel of worn paper makes letters undeniably real
Handwritten letters are timeless They have been around for centuries, as they were once used as a crucial means of communication It evokes a wistful, nostalgic feeling to know that our grandmas and grandpas, and their mothers and fathers before them, wrote handwritten letters during wartime to
There is a lot more you can say when writing a letter You learn to articulate your words, express what is on your mind and develop your writing skills Sadly, the digital age has reduced the impact of words The text response, “I’m okay,” can bring up a variety of questions: Is the person really okay? Are they just being short? Do they need space now? Is a follow-up response necessary? In a letter, there are less ambiguities How a person is feeling, or what they are trying to get across, becomes more clear They have had time to develop what they want to say and how they want to say it While computers and smartphones are undoubtedly more efficient, they cannot replace the beauty of the handwritten letter Texts are extremely useful and I by no means am lessening the importance of them, but it is time for handwritten letters to make a comeback Let’s not allow the art of writing letters to become a thing of the past
Gaby Leung is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached atgl376@cornell edu Serendipitous Musings appears alternate Thursdays this semester
CORRECTION
An Oct 7 news story, “Garrett Talks Free Speech, Hazing Issues With University Assembly,” quotes President Elizabeth Garrett saying “It’s like digging a hole It takes a lot of work, but once you finish, you ’ ve really done something,” with regards to creating a comprehensive sexual assault policy However, the story misstated the context in which Garrett spoke In fact, she was referring to creating a community bill of rights, not a sexual assault policy
An Oct 7 science story, “C U Sustainable Development Embarks on Housing Project” incorrectly referred to the student organization behind the Overlook Ridge project as Cornell University Sustainable Development In fact, the organization is called Cornell University Sustainable Design
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Kevin Kowalewski is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at krk78@cornell edu Democratic Dialogue appears alternate Thursdays this semester
You Can’t Just Wish ISIS Away
n the past six years, the political fault lines of the Middle East have drastically shifted Between the Arab Spring, the U S withdrawal from Iraq and Afghanistan and the pan-regional growth of radical Islam, the Middle East of 2009 looks radically different from the Middle East of 2015 These drastic shifts have left the established political order of the region in rotting decay From Iraq to Yemen, Syria to Egypt, the old political order has died, opening an immense power vacuum a vacuum that radical Islam is happy to fill
Surely, one could argue that the United States played a par t in the Middle East’s power vacuum Operation
Ir a q i Fr e e d o m i n 2 0 0 3 d e p r i v e d Ir a q o f S a d d a m Hussein’s stable leadership (granted the operation also removed a genocidal maniac who killed 100,000 Kurds), and Obama’s suppor t of the Arab Spring movement greatly weakened the legitimacy of Hosni Mubarak’s government in Egypt Yet, for the most par t, the decay of established Middle Eastern governments has been an internal process Therefore, we cannot focus on the question of why chaos has broken out, but what can be done to solve the crisis
As turmoil ensues in the Middle East, the President’s response has been simple: Let’s just wait and see what happens In essence, the administration has simply been hoping that the regional chaos will somehow dissipate on its own Time and time again, the press has asked the White House and the Depar tment of Defense for a detailed outline on how they plan to deal with ISIS And time and time again, both institutions have produced nothing I am cer tainly not a foreign or defense policy exper t, but even I can tell you that hoping the problem will go away without a concrete plan is sheer insanity
While the United States has failed to help establish stable leadership in the Middle East, one nation has decided to fill the void: Russia the same countr y that Mitt Romney warned about in 2012 (to which Obama
simply laughed off ) In just the last fe w weeks, Vladimir Putin has stationed troops in Russia’s long time ally, Syria It is key to understand that wherever there is an American void, Putin seeks to fill it with Russian power and authority
So, the stor y of the Middle East has become more complex Even if ISIS magically disappeared (as the White House seems to be hoping), we would still be left with the problem of an ever-belligerent Russia When
Even if ISIS magically disappeared (as the White House seems to be hoping), we would still be left with the problem of an ever-belligeren Russia
considering these factors, nearly ever yone agrees that something has to be done
If sitting on our hands and wishing the problem away i s n o t t h e a n s w e r, t h e n w h a t s h o u l d b e d o n e ?
Surprisingly, there has been a great deal of agreement among politicians in several key areas First, the United States, NATO and regional allies (such as Saudi Arabia) should help to arm the Kurds a notion suppor ted by a myriad of politicians, ranging from Carly Fiorina to Barbara Boxer The Kurds, an ethnic group predominantly located in nor thern Iraq, have consistently fought ISIS independent of the Iraqi militar y, and with greater success than the Iraqis Cer tainly, some have questioned if arming the Kurds would undermine the authority of the central Iraqi government Perhaps, but the Iraqi government has consistently failed to successfully combat ISIS Why not give arms to fighters who can actually
defeat ISIS?
Second, the United States must ramp up its bombing effor ts in the region Cer tainly, we cannot send ground forces into the region (we do not need a third invasion of Iraq we saw how well that went the first two times) Yet the militar y has limited its bombing effor ts to ISIS supply routes Instead, the United States should increase the number of air-based attacks by expanding its targets to include key ISIS outposts
Finally, we must do a better job of suppor ting our allies in the region Whether it is King Abdullah of Jordan or our friends on the Arabian Peninsula, the Ob
requests for arms and supplies from our allies This lack of suppor t not only undermines our legitimacy with our allies, but also strengthens Russia’s hand as a major power player in the region The defeat of ISIS will not come from an internal collapse of the movement, but rather the concer ted effor t of organized armed forces In order to ensure these forces are properly armed and equipped to defeat ISIS, the United States must be willing to provide key provisions
No, I am not a foreign policy exper t But I do know this: wishing that a problem would go away is never the solution ISIS has been a growing problem for nearly two years, and we all agree that something must be done to fight plague of radical Islam So, why hasn’t the president done anything yet? What is he waiting for? The tr ue test of a superpower is if it can help to provide international stability If the United States fails to act, we undermine our capacity as a superpower and embolden the growing power of Putin
Michael Glanzel is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at mg786@cornell edu Cornell Shrugged appears alternate Thursdays this semester
The Corne¬ Daily Sun
One more reason to pick up
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App l e Fe s t
By ELIZABETH GORMAN Sun Staff Writer
Iwent into AppleFest weekend with goals: to go all three days and tr y ever y apple-esque product available Sample every apple variety I could sink my teeth into Turn into an apple Although I didn’t actually achieve any of these ambitious goals, I discovered why I love AppleFest so much: It’s a place for people to be happy, carefree and content while feasting on Ithaca’s many apple-esque offerings However, the majority of the food I consumed at AppleFest didn’t contain apples How could this be?
On Sunday morning, I was famished after a run, but waited to refuel until 10:00 a m when the festival magic began When my
Dorm Room Hacks Dining Guide
By EVAN KRAVITZ Sun Contributor
Ifriends and I arrived at AppleFest, I wanted some “real food” before diving into the sweet and savory apple concoctions available (fried apple bread, anyone?) Yet that first foray into summer rolls and pad thai set the tone for the rest of the day, and I ended up only sampling a few apple delights
Yet the glory of Applefest is not necessarily in the apple-based food Indeed, I was underwhelmed by the apple truffles I sampled, which, while chocolate and tasty, held no hint of apple and were rather goopy And the apple fries I tasted later were delicious, but left me craving potatobased fries and simultaneously feeling like I had overdosed on fried food
I finally took a break from the AppleFest craziness at Sarah’s
t ’ s 2:00 a m You’re in your dorm, your stomach is growling and you can ’ t get yourself to walk the 100-or-so steps to Nasties Time for chocolate cake
Chocolate cake, you ask? Yes, cake By following a few easy steps, you can whip up a moist and rich chocolate cake in the convenience of your own dorm room
Chocolate cake is arguably the most amazing dish of all time This warm and decadent treat is sure to raise spirits and teleport you to a magically comfortable place However, it’s difficult to prepare in a short amount of time Preparing the perfect chocolate cake quickly involves science (but don’t worry this kind of science is delicious and won ’ t lower your GPA)
Let me introduce you to the microwave You’re used to just using it for warming up pizza or heating water for tea But there’s so
Patissierie In this quiet, beautiful pastr y shop just off the Commons, the frenzy of the festival disappeared In the soothing environment, I was able to enjoy a coffee and what proved to be the tastiest AppleFest apple item of the day: a perfectly crumbly, nottoo-sweet apple streusel tar t Enjoyed with a good friend on a sunny day on the Commons, the streusel was the perfect reminder why Applefest is the perfect Fall festival It provides the space and the sustenance to slow down, enjoy good friends and good food and feel at peace with the changing seasons
But if you missed AppleFest, fear not You can pick up a wide variety of freshly grown, delicious apples at the Cornell Orchards’ adorable store right off campus
much more the microwave can do The microwave is one of the most underutilized pieces of kitchenry out there, which is a shame, because it such an efficient way of cooking food
Microwaves and traditional ovens are fundamentally different cooking tools Ovens use convective heat, while microwaves rely on electromagnetic waves to heat water particles This kind of cooking unfortunately has the tendency to dry out food, which does not bode well for chocolate cake Therefore, I knew that whatever recipe I’d use to make cake would be tasty regardless
Most chocolate cakes consist of a couple key components: the dry mix, eggs, some liquid and fat For this chocolate cake, we will be using store-bought dry mix We simply don’t have the time or the kitchen resources to fool around with different dry ingredients Plus, you can buy pretty good cake mixes nowadays
Let’s talk about the eggs When you bake chocolate cake in an oven, you use eggs as a binder; the protein in the eggs gives structure to cake This method does come with some downsides The protein in eggs tends to decrease the moisture, and for some reason, the eggs seem to dampen the flavor (which my floormates can attest to) After testing different recipes, I decided to omit eggs
The next key ingredient is some sort of liquid I like using milk because it imparts a richness that works well with the chocolate The milk also gives the cake a moistness and a fluffiness that really sets it over the top But in addition to the milk, don’t forget about the oil The oil is responsible for the cake’s richness and dark, chocolaty flavor So without further ado, here’s the recipe:
In g re d ie n t s : 4 5 tbsp chocolate cake mix
1 5 tbsp vegetable/canola oil
Dire c tio n s : Mix ingredients until just combined Pour into greased microwave-safe mug Microwave for about 60 seconds
That’s it Your piping hot cake is ready to eat Scoop some ice cream on this cake and you ’ re on your way to dessert nirvana Like marshmallows, chocolate chips? Add that to the mix There’s no limit to how you can modify this recipe, so do whatever suits your tastes Also, feel free to approximate measurements Don’t stress out about exact amounts; just make sure you have the right consistency Last thing: not all microwaves are created equal Frequently check on your mug cake to ensure that it’s cooked all the way through, but not overcooked That’s a sin!
Kravitz is a freshman in the College of Engineering He can be reached at esk95@cornell edu
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Elizabeth Gorman is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at eg434@cornell edu
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Shay Collins
Write this down: Savage Hills Ballroom is going to have a sizable presence on end-of-year “Best Of ” lists Youth Lagoon (a k a 26 year-old Trevor Powers) stripped away the instrumental excess and lyrical melodrama that dominated his first two albums to craft his third release The resulting product is a concise tencourse offering, each track of which evidences Powers’ ability to arrange creative orchestrations and write captivating melodies
For the first time, Youth Lagoon can be described as an indie-rock group It is a welcome change Youth L a g o o n ’ s f i r s t re l e a s e i n 2 0 1 1 T h e Ye a r o f Hibernation was the work of a young and wistful Powers, all navel-gazing and shimmering guitar riffs
On 2013’s Wondrous Bughouse, Powers swung across the spectrum The sophomore release oozed out carnival-esque keyboards and wandering vamps But the songs swelled up to nothing and Wondrous Bughouse lacked The Year of Hibernation’ s emotion
Sa va g e Hi l l s Ba l l ro o m , h owe ve r, c o m b i n e s a n d strengthens Youth Lagoon’s best elements Powers counters abstract lyrics with jarring instrumentation (“No One Can Tell”) and puts evocative stor ytelling on a solid ballad bedrock (“Kerr y”) Half of the album’s tracks charge into indie rock territor y Powers succeeds on them with impressive accuracy for an artist tr ying out new styles
“Officer Telephone” signals from the first measure that Powers is done whimpering Over a foreboding electric piano riff, Powers sings a forceful declaration: “My legs are limbs/My shoes are cold stones/All I want is for you to come home ” Powers subtly builds the arrangement: one guitar, foghorn-like brass and a single hi-hat, barely audible Powers’ voice cuts out after a
minute and he proves how far he has come since Wondrous Bughouse A distorted drum set and bass synthesizer drone drive the song through a pounding, take-no-prisoners outro that sounds more like electropunk thrashers The Prodigy than any indie-pop contemporaries
“Officer Telephone” also reveals Powers’ willingness to be ephemeral On Wondrous Bughouse, Powers stayed in riffs for minutes at a time Now, the listener gets one glimpse of a killer hook and then its gone Powers uses the same structure on “No One Can Tell ” A snare snaps the second and fourth beats down under fat,
(although the hi-hat is never out of earshot), but when the song reaches the climax reappears With the accompanying instrumentation, Powers’ other wise melan-
to/Comatose in the bedroom”) sound uninhibited Later, Powers gets just plain audacious as well On “Again,” Powers sheds his weepy persona for that of a sardonic prophet “ Through aisles of cans you walk/You’d rather spend than grow a crop, ” Powers jeers After a minute and a half of his chanting, he cuts off to the sound of an overdriven, nearly percussive guitar and scratching strings During the two years following Wondrous Bughouse, Powers became an adept arranger Now is his time to show off Savage Hills Ballroom’ s creative (and enjoyable) peak occurs right after its midpoint in “Rotten Human” and “Kerr y ” “Rotten Human” epitomizes Powers’ success with ephemeral music Ever y enthralling and beautiful moment occurs and disappears Over two celestial synthesizers, Powers sings, “ You were the habit I couldn’t break/Lying awake for eight hours straight / Human, I
am a rotten human ” But as Powers holds out “human” for a few extra seconds, he exists between self-pity and defiant confidence It’s a moment of pure, ungraspable brilliance; you have to hit repeat, you have to hear it again Yet, right after Powers ascends to his furthestreaching and most profound track, he reels it back in and stuns with the elegant, heartbreaking “Kerr y ” Over an unaffected piano (a rarity for Youth Lagoon), Powers sings a simple narrative about cocaine addiction Powers does not rely on conspicuous affects or creative structures throughout the whole song Yet, “Kerr y ” probes an emotional depth that Youth lagoon hasn’t reached since his still best known hit: “17 ” Supported by piano, guitar, bass and drums alone, Powers sings, “Used to be Las Vegas made him feel alive/Now instead of just succeeding, he’d rather just sur vive ” But just as we fall in love with heart-on-hissleeve Powers, he jumps into callous “Again ” Although critics often commend albums for realizing one vision, Youth Lagoon excels on Savage Hills Ballroom by showing off a multitude of styles Powers is a stor yteller, punk, critic and, above all, a tremendous arranger But Savage Hills Ballroom is also a distilled album Powers moves through many instruments and structures without writing superfluous tracks If Powers puts eight instruments on a track, he wants the listener to clearly hear all of them Powers’ ability to combine minimalist riffs into a rich mosaic (think fuzzy guitars, stammering synths, trumpet and vocal samples on “ The Knower”) is the mark of a grown-up, highly skilled songwriter
Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at SCollins@cornellsun com
T h e M a r t i a n : R o c k e t S c i e n c e a s C o m e d y
BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Senior Writer
Fall movie season is officially here, which means that even after a summer of particularly good popcorn fare, Hollywood starts craving some respect and puts out all its prestige films
Generally, around this weekend there is one highquality film released by a major studio and helmed by a heavyweight director I’m pleased to report that The Martian is this year ’ s movie
Directed by Ridley Scott and running two and a half never-boring hours, it is a pleasurable and sometimes awe-inspiring ride It contains some moments of genuine amazement, many that are laugh-out loud funny, and fits neatly into the tradition of recent space-set blockbusters by bigname directors like Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar and Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity
The film plays like a comedic fantasy version of Apollo 13 with its good-natured characters, not a one of them evil or out for sabotage, striving to bring home a lone marooned space explorer on cinema’s favorite alternative planet Mars has seen the likes of many other bad, cheesy films dealing with astronautical exploration, but this one does so with a wink and a smile It bears repeating that this is, yes indeed, a comedic film, an epic comedy-drama set lightyears away It’s also a tribute to the science and the ingenuity of NASA’s glory days, a celebration of the innovation and engineering prowess of humankind so clearly defined during the space race
Scott is a science fiction maestro, with such classics as Blade Runner, Alien, and the underrat-
ed Prometheus to his name, and when he works with a smart script, the writing grounds all his kinetic visuals in performance and character Such is the case with this screenplay by Drew Goddard, adapted from the bestselling novel by Andy Weir
The book has been described as ‘Hatchet in space ’ and is first and foremost a character study The film wisely takes this cue and relies on an exceptional cast and an attuned focus to the central performance from leading player Matt Damon to do much of the heavy dramatic lifting When Scott’s techno-bravura is layered on top, the result is thrilling
Commander Melissa Lewis (Jessica Chastain) is captaining a manned mission to Mars and her crew includes Kate Mara, Michael Pena and Damon, playing our hero Mark Watney A cataclysmic space storm interrupts their work, forcing them to take refuge and then abort in their shuttle capsule All of them make it aboard the ship except for Watney, who is impaled by debris and, when Lewis is forced to make a him-or-all-of-us decision, left for dead Back at base, Jeff Daniels head of NASA reports that Watney was killed But wait! He’s still alive On the martian surface, Scott shows us Watney recuperating from his grisly injury, making his way to the mission shelter and deciding not to throw in the towel “I’m not going to die here ” Then he makes a video message to send back to base: “I’m alive Surprise!”
The rest of the film concerns the competing efforts of the astronauts still on their months-long journey back to Earth and the NASA engineers down in Washington grappling with the mathematics of trying to bring Watney back home The
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n t i o n e d bureaucrats include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Sean Bean and even Kristen Wiig Donald Glover has a scene-stealing role as a nerdy twentysomething scientist who has a eureka moment and codenames a consequent top-secret cabinet gathering after the Council of Elrond from Lord of the Rings, which Bean figured prominently in Meanwhile, worlds away, Watney struggles to grow enough food on a planet with hopelessly infertile soil, to survive the four year timespan that will elapse before another manned mission is able to reach him Many of the most enjoyable moments come from watching Watney’s incremental progress as the first of his potato plants begin to sprout, as he first makes contact with the folks at NASA using a complex system of hieroglyphics, and when he finds out that NASA has not informed his fellow crew members that he’s alive (That scene involves a few humorous cover-ups of Watney’s more than justifiable F-bombs)
Growing years ’ worth of food on a planet where nothing grows may seem a Sisyphean task, but it’s worth attempting when your coworkers back on Earth are moving mountains to keep you alive, and the Chinese space program has even been inspired to join the battle It’s a majorly hos-
tile, unforgiving environment, but optimism, hope and humor can provide the fuel needed to keep going Damon’s performance reflects this it’s his best one in years, by the way, probably since he dropped Mr Bourne and Watney remains a compelling character because of his ability to make light of the most disheartening situations imaginable Cruising around in a surface rover about to run out of fuel and leave him stranded, he claims he s got larger problems: Commander Lewis’ pre-packed music for the mission includes nothing but 80s disco hits In this way, what finally brings The Martian home is its theme of humanity and perseverance in the face of almost comically insurmountable odds
Mark DiStefano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com
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The team has also had many rigorous practices this season to make up for the loss of returning teammates, and has been working on teamwork and other skills that will make the women ’ s actions on the field more fluid
“ The only thing I would say about the team is that we lost a lot of seniors last year, ” said junior Sarah Barnes “ We still have a lot of really strong players, but it’s definitely a building year ”
Though the team will be missing some players, including junior Emma Eldredge, who is abroad in Australia
t h i s s e m e s t e r, t h e t e a m i s enthusiastic and hopeful for the upcoming games and season as a whole The returning players are showing the ne w players the ropes and helping them better their abilities on and off the field
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have many experienced returning players and a number of fantastic new horses.”
“ We have many experienced returning players and a number of fantastic ne w horses being added to our string,” Wicker said “Ever yone is ver y excited for what this year will bring and I am ver y much looking for ward to our first away game of the season ”
Senior Claire Stieg expressed the team ’ s overall excitement to get gameplay under way
“ We’re all ver y excited for our first game of the season against Skidmore,” she said “[I] hope to have yet another successful season ”
Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun com
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Ten Questions columnist and sophomore Hannah Noyes sat down with junior volleyball player Macey Wilson to talk about everything from her proudest accomplishments as an athlete, to her celebrity crush (or crushes, as the case may be)
1 W h a t is y o u r g r e a t e s t
ac c o m pl is h m e nt as a Co rne l l athl ete ?
I was named to the AllTournament team at the St John’s invitational this season It was awesome to be recognized as a top player at a tournament with four other teams
2 Wh at is y our bes t me mo ry from growing u p?
My favorite memory from volleyball was during my senior year of high school playing with my club team when we won the American Division at Junior Olympics I still wear the ring that we got as a reminder that hard work can lead to amazing results
3 W hat is your f avo rite par t about be ing back at sc h ool ?
I love coming back to Cornell after the summer and being surrounded by amazing people and being back in my research lab
In what research lab do you work?
I work in the Webster Lab under the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Department of Neurobiology and Behavior I do research with grasshopper mice
4 Wh at w oul d you say is the
g reate st s treng th of the team this ye ar?
Our greatest strength this year is our team chemistry We love being together and we are constantly laughing on and off the court We always have so much fun together and I love the feeling of having a family away from home
5 Do you h ave a f avo rite re staurant in Ithac a? W hat is it and w hat’s yo ur favorite m e al th ere ?
I love Sunset Grill I always go there whenever my family is in town and being there always reminds me of being with my family I always get pancakes and bacon
6 W h at is th e big g es t pie ce
o f advic e that you wou ld g ive to inc om ing fres h me n ath le tes ?
As hard as it might be, try and find a balance of ever ything College is your opportunity to try new things, [so] don’t focus too much on school and miss out on the other opportunities available There is so much more to life than [a] GPA
7 W ha t is th e be s t c l as s yo u ’ ve take n at Corne ll ?
My favorite class is actually one of my classes now, Biology 2800, Lectures in Genetics and Genomics So far the professor is amazing and the material is really interesting
8 Wh at is s om eth ing abo ut yo u that no t m any p eop le know?
I like to go fishing and hunting
How did you pick that up?
The first time I went fishing I was probably four or five, but I wasn ’ t allowed to actually hold my own fishing pole until I was 10 I also wasn ’ t allowed to go hunting until I was older, probably around 13 But I’ve been surrounded by it my whole life and I’ve enjoyed every time I went
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9 W h o i s y o u r c e l e b r i t y c ru sh and w hy?
I have to go with One Direction Me and my best friend have loved them for a while I think it became more of a sign of our friendship than an actual celebrity crush
10 Wh o was the las t p ers on to make you s mil e?
Does my dog count? My mom sends me pictures and videos of my terrier mix running around and bothering my other dog, who is a chow and lab mix He is always hilarious and makes my day better
Hannah Noyes can be reached at hnoyes@cornellsun com
Taking flight | During her free time, junior Macey Wilson works in the Webster Lab, a laboratory under the Cornell Lab or Ornithology She does research with grasshopper mice
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Polo Opens Weekend With Game Against Skidmore
Prepares to take on its upstate foe on the road in Saratoga Springs
By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer
A f t e r c o n s e c u t i ve w i n s a g a i n s t Sk i d m o re C o l l e g e l a s t
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“They are such nice girls both on and off the field and are a pleasure to play with ”
Sa r a t o g a Sp r i n g s , Ne w Yo rk A l t h o u g h Sk i d m o re w i l l h a ve a h o m e f i e l d a d va n t a g e a g a i n s t t h e Re d , t h e w o m e n a re l o o ki n g f o r w a r d t o s h o w i n g t h e T h o r o u g h b r e d s t h e i r a b i l i t i e s o n t h e f i e l d Mo s t o f l a s t y e a r ’ s m a t c h e s , b o t h a t C o r n e l l a n d i n S a r a t o g a Sp r i n g s , e n d e d w i t h C o r n e l l i n t h e l e a d by a t l e a s t 2 0 p o i n t s T h e Re d i s o p t i m i s t i c t h a t i t w i l l h a ve s u c c e s s a g a i n d u r i n g t h i s s e a s o n ’ s m a t c h e s “ I a m l o o k i n g f o r w a rd t o p l a y i n g Sk i d m o re o n
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Horse play | Last year, the women’s polo team was able to defeat the Skidmore Thoroughbreds in both of its matches This year, the team has been preparing dilligently to take on the Skidmore squad for its game of the season
The Top Five Most Heartbreaking Sports Finishes
Yesterday was my greatest birthday of all time Not only was I reunited with my girlfriend in Austin, Texas, but my mom also bought me a pair of salmon Chubbies with sky blue sailboats on them (Total Frat Move, Rush Phi Delt 2015) However, my girl and my sailboats weren ’ t what put my birthday over the top I got to relish in the Yankees being out of the play-
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offs and to witness my Cubbies play for an opportunity to reach the NLDS Trust me, this doesn’t happen often
My jubilation has to contrast pretty strongly with how Lions fans are feeling this week Once again, the 13th man of the Seahawks helped gift them another win Losing a game because of a blown call is the absolute worst way to lose This isn’t quite as bad as the “Fail Mary” that I had to live through a couple years ago, but this LionsSeahawks game definitely comes close In honor of Lions fans everywhere, I decided to compile a list of the five most heartbreaking finishes to games in recent memory Disclaimer: Patriots fans, your two Super Bowl losses will not be on here because even though you were heartbroken, the rest of the country was rejoicing I hate the Patriots
5 2007 NFC Championship Game
As a Packers fan, I can ’ t have a list of heartbreaking moments and not list this game The Giants missed a last second field goal to end the game in regulation and the Packers got the ball to begin overtime But
just like he’s done billions of times before, Favre threw a pick in Packers territory that cost them the game This wouldn’t be that heartbreaking if it hadn’t been Favre’s last game in a Packer uniform This game signified the end of era for the Packers and their most beloved player ever, and it was especially depressing to see Favre go out the way he did
4. Super Bowl XLIII
Considered by many to be the greatest Super Bowl of all time, Super Bowl XLIII featured a Steelers team that everybody expected to be there and a Cardinals squad that nobody saw coming Down 20-7 heading into the fourth quarter, the Cardinals mounted a comeback and took a 23-20 lead with 2:37 left in the game But then Big Ben drove his troops 78 yards down the field and broke the hearts of Cardinals fans everywhere after connecting with Santonio Holmes in the corner of the end zone with only seconds remaining This was the Cardinals’ first ever trip to the big game and was pretty much the most disheartening way you could lose
3. 2010 Men’s College Basketball Championship I don’t remember ever being so sad watching a team I have absolutely no connections with lose Butler made a Cinderella run through the NCAA tourney and found themselves pitted against Duke in the championship game This was the true battle between good and evil The underdog versus the powerhouse Saint Aaron Rodgers vs Tom “Scumbag” Brady This was the real deal Butler kept it close the whole game and had a chance to win with a long second full court shot However, Gordon Hayward’s shot was off by just inches and the evil empire that is Duke cel-
ebrated their fourth national title People all across the nation wept
2 Game 6, 2011 World Series
This game is so heartbreaking because fans had their hearts broken twice Only one strike away from their first World Series title, the Rangers blew a 7-5 lead in the ninth, allowing David Freese to drive in two runs with a triple on a 1-2 count But the Rangers regained control of the game in the 10th, pulling ahead from the Cardinals, 97 Then they choked again One strike away from their first World Series title again, the Rangers gave up two runs and the Cardinals won the game in the 11th I’ve never seen a team collapse like that twice in one game, and this has to still haunt Rangers fans
1. Game 6, 2013 NBA Finals
This is it This is my ultimate soft spot If you ever mention the name Ray Allen, I will punch you in the face This is the night I cried in the shower for five hours This is the night Pitbull released Global Warming The night my life shattered The Spurs were seconds away from their fifth NBA title when they blew a five point lead with less than a minute left They forgot how to rebound, forgot how to shoot free throws and forgot that that Ray Allen guy is pretty good at knocking down the three You guys know what happened I don’t want to talk about it
Shane Lewis is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at slewis@cornellsun com Sportstradamus appears alternate Thursdays this semester
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FIELD HOCKEY PLAYERS TO WATCH
Last season, Siergiej saw first-team Mideast Region
All-American and first-team All-Ivy honors after scoring the most goals for the Red in 2014 The senior defender is back for her last season with the Red
As a senior on the team, Standiford has taken a leadership role as one of the captains this season after doing so last season as a junior as well Standiford is a strong force in the Red’s midfield.
Weeks earned a spot on the seco n d - t e a m Al lIvy after her sophomore season in 2014 As a starter for ever y game last season, the junior for ward has been scoring for the Red in 2015
‘WE CAN COME OUT WITH AN IVY LEAGUE TITLE’
Frustrated Out of the Gate
By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer
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No matter the record up to this point, the Red continues to put its focus on the next game and it is optimistic about the Ivy League season.
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VOLLEYBALL FIELDS TEAM OF MAINLY UNDERCLASSMEN
Youth movement | 13 of the 16 student-athletes on the volleyball team are freshmen or sophomores, such as Chelsea Sincox
By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY Sun Staff Wr ter
This season, Cornell’s volleyball team is out of the ‘building’ stage, and ready to dominate the Ivy League
The team lost only one senior, defensive specialist Natasha Rowland, and brings back multiple star ters as well as strong freshman talent However, the biggest change for the Red this season has been a new head coach Tr udy Vande Berg became the coach this past spring, after three years as assistant coach
Joining her on the coaching staff is assistant coach Caitlin Mahoney, who played for Vande Berg while a defensive specialist at Iowa State, and Aaron DeKalb, who played for the Division II Belmont Abbey College
Last year the Red finished last in the Ivy League, posting
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Both juniors, Phelps and Wilson have been star ting for the Red so far this season Phelps leads the team in assists with 331 so far this season, as well as 71 kills for a 170 kill percentage overall Wilson, a middle blocker, has an incredible 352 kill percentage so far in 2015, as well as leading the team in blocks with 46 already this year
The sophomore class, with five members has defensive specialists Chelsea Sincox and Kiley McPeek, outside hitters Maddy Sroufe and Emily Wemhoff and right side hitter Kit McCar ty Sincox has been star ting as libero for ever y game so far this season, racking up 202 digs, giving her a whopping 111 digs more than the next highest Fellow sophomore Emily Wemhoff leads the team in kills with 111, earning her a 144 kill percentage
“Going forward, it’s going to be about playing at that top level consistently ”
Emily Wemhoff
a 3-11 conference record Har vard and Yale led the league with in conference records of 12-2
After graduating only one player, Cornell is still an extremely young group There is one current senior, defensive specialist Brittany Kalepa, and two juniors, setter Alyssa Phelps and middle blocker Macey Wilson
The other 13 members of the roster are comprised of five sophomores and eight freshmen Despite their inexperience in a collegiate arena, the freshmen and sophomores have stepped up to the plate and shown an incredible amount of promise and leadership in the season thus far
Senior Brittany Kalepa, a defensive specialist from Hawaii, returns to the Red after taking her sophomore and junior years off Kalepa has a lot on her shoulders as the only senior, but is excited and ready for the responsibility
“As the only senior, my main goal is to bring this team together,” Kalepa said “ With so many freshmen we want to be able to find how we best work together to make this program and our team successful My goal is for us all to be committed to each other and tr ust that we will always give 100 percent for each other and this pro-
The freshmen class came in highly touted, ranked among the top 90 out of 334 teams in the countr y There are two setters, two defensive specialists, three middle blockers and one outside hitter Out of those eight new players, outside hitter Carla Sganderlla from Houston, Texas, has put up the biggest numbers, with 76 kills Next is Alex Basler from Green Oaks, Illinois, with 67 kills, and setter Lauren Donnelly with 103 assists and 34 digs
So far this season, the Red has faced 13 opponents, three of which were an Ivy League competitor Cornell has a 4-9 record so far, already miles ahead of where it was this time last year Despite losing its first three Ivy League games, Cornell maintains that this is anyone ’ s conference to win this year
“ We want an Ivy League Championship,” Phelps said “ We have complete belief that we can achieve that goal We have grown so much in just one year and nobody is going to be ready for the fight we ' re about to bring to the league ”
“ We [have] learned that we can play at a high level that is completely capable of beating anyone in the Ivy League,” Wemhoff said “Going for ward, it’s going to be about playing at that top level consistently and maintaining composure on the cour t when the pressure is on ”
“ We need to find that fire Ever yone wants to win,” Kalepa said “It’s a matter of finding that balance of fire, fight and calm The technical, tactical things change with ever y group of girls It's more a matter of how we put the system into play ”
By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Ed tor
Volleyball is a sport with where only six players stand on the court at any given time, making each player of vital importance However, no job comes with quite the same stress and pressure as setter does The setter has the unique position of being involved in virtually every play and the physical demands placed on the setter involve speed and agility in order to be able to get to each and every ball the defense recovers
For the Red volleyball squad, junior captain
Alyssa Phelps fills this role with an abundance of talent
Phelps started her volleyball career in fifth grade, but volleyball had always been a part of her life
Phelps’ mom had a college career of her own out on the court and her parents actually met playing beach volleyball For Phelps, volleyball has really been a place for her to develop her leadership skills
“Volleyball, especially in the last couple of years, has given me some incredible opportunities to grow as a leader, whether that be on the court with my team, or off the court through programs that Cornell offers its athletes,” Phelps said
Phelps has been starting for the Red since her freshman year in the setter position Last year, she earned 770 assists overall, earning her 20th place for amount of assists in Cornell history Additionally, she finished her sophomore season ranked No 4 in the Ivy League in assist average She led the team in other areas as well, including blocks, digs and service aces While the setter position comes with a pressure of its own, Phelps enjoys the high-intensity position
“I think there’s a lot of pressure, ” Phelps said “I am directing a lot of the offense Not only do I have to direct the offense, but I have to encourage the defense and I have to know where the blockers on the other side of the net are I love it though, because I’m so involved and I have such a big impact on the team I can see everything and although I have a lot on my mind, I like it that way because I’m able to be completely aware and focused ”
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Phelps leads the team in assists with 331 so far
MEN,WOMEN RUNNERS SEE STRONG START TO SEASON Look toCarrySuccesstoLaterMeets
The Cornell men’s cross country team finished fifth last year at regionals, the team’s best finish since 2007. However, this was not enough to carry them to the national championships. Despite a solid season and second place finish in the Ivy League, the Red was not satisfied.
“After last year not making the national meet, we were a little disappointed at the end of the season and ... this year, we are absolutely motivated to attend that national meet,” said senior Matthew Crawford. “That’s the ultimate goal in our minds on top of winning the Ivy League title.”
The men last won the Ivy League title in 1993.
Having finished in first place in the first two meets of the season and second (out of 35) this past Friday at the Paul Short Invitational, the women’s cross country program is on track to win its third title in five seasons. The women won the title in 2011 and 2012, and last won the title before those two seasons in 1998.
Associate head coach of women’s track and field and cross country Artie Smith, who runs the women’s cross country team, emphasized that the team’s goals for the season go beyond just reaching the national championship.
“My expectation every year … is for each runner to give their best and to take advantage of the opportunities provided for them,” Smith said. “In terms of goals, the team looks to contend for the Ivy League team title and to not just qualify for the NCAA Championships, but to do well when we get there.”
By SHAN DHALIWAL Sun Staff Writer
track and field Zeb Lang, who runs the men’s cross country program, knows his team will need to train really hard and work on shortening the time gap between its top runners in order to attend Nationals.
“We definitely have a few guys who are shining bright up front,” he said. “We just need to work on getting a few more guys up into that front pack and getting the difference between our first runner and our fifth runner … down a little bit.”
Like the women, the men have been performing quite well so far. The men placed first in their first meet of the season in Riverdale, fourth (out of 21) at the Battle in Beantown in Boston and then first again at the Harry F. Anderson Invitational a week ago in Rochester.
A key to both teams’ success so far has been strong incoming freshman classes.
“[The freshmen have] really had a tremendous adjustment,” Smith said. “I think that is very much attributable to the fact that captains, since the beginning of the summer and into the fall, have been making them feel welcome.”
Crawford went on to explain the adjustment each freshman had to make coming into college running.
the extra things at practice they might not have been doing with their high school teams.”
On the women’s side, freshman Eve Glasergreen placed fourth in her first collegiate race at the Brother Jasper Invitational and freshman Gracie Todd led the newcomers with a sixth place finish in the team’s second race of the season (YellowJacket Invitational). On the men’s side, freshman Patrick Murphy and Tomas Reimer both finished in the Top-15 in last weekend’s meet in Rochester, helping the Red bring home the victory.
Both teams will next compete in the Pre-National Invitational on Oct. 17 in Louisville, Kentucky, in preparation for the beginning of the championship season two weeks afterward.
“[The Pre-National Invitational] is a meet you want to be very well prepared for [because] there are going to be some of the very top teams in the country there,” Lang said. “That’s when we really want so start hitting our stride.”
Lang has strategically scheduled the season so the men experience all of the important championship courses before they encounter them at the end of the season. The men previewed the site of the conference championships in mid September at the Brother Jasper Invitational as well as the site of the Regional Championships in Boston at the Battle in Beantown.
The women qualified for nationals two years ago with a fourth place finish at regionals, but failed to return last year after a ninth place regionals finish. Both the men and women have won two meets so far this year. This early season success, combined with each team’s motivation to improve its performance at regionals from last year, will certainly make them strong contenders to reach the NCAA Championship at regionals this year.
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“A lot of the time it’s kind of a big leap from high school to college cross country because of the distance jump from 5k to 8k,” Crawford said. “It’s been our job to make sure [the freshmen] are doing well in their classes, staying on top of things, getting all the necessary sleep, eating the right things in the dining halls and doing all
“We want to put ourselves out there and try to do our best in both the conference and regional championship, and if those performances carry us on to nationals,then great,” Lang said. “We’re aiming our training to be at full strength by mid-to-late october so when we hit the champi- onship meets from halloween to thanksgiving, we’re really ready to go.”
BEN RAINERO PROFILE
•Came in first for the Red during two of the three meets this season.
•Helped the Red earn a second place finish at Heps last year.
•Earned a spot to compete in Heps his freshman year.
• One of the consistent top finishers for the Red.
CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN FILE PHOTO
Hitting their stride | The women’s cross country team has seen much success so far this season, placing first at its first two meets and second most recently.
