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Robertson ’75 Sees Setback After Dems Pull Funding

By ANNIE BUI

Congressional candidate and Tompkins County legislator

Martha Robertson ’75 faces a campaign setback after the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee announced that it has pulled television advertising funding from her campaign, according to legislative news publication Roll Call

The DCCC was planning to spend $465,000 on television ads for Robertson, The Ithaca Journal reported Tuesday The committee is also canceling airtime buys in several other congressional districts around the country in states such as California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, New York and Pennsylvania

The funding cuts from the DCCC signals that the party does not “ see a path to victory” for the candidates, according to Roll Call These cuts will now enable the

DCCC to use the party ’ s resources in other instances “where the party has a higher likelihood of winning ” Robertson who has served on the Tompkins County Legislature since 2002 and acted as its chair between 2010 and 2013 announced her congressional campaign last April, The Sun previously reported Robertson was encouraged to run in this year ’ s election by Nate Shinagawa ’05 M A ’09 after he determined that he was unable to run due to family obligations

Shinagawa ran for a seat to represent New York’s 23rd congressional back in 2012 the same position Robertson is currently vying for but lost the race to Rep Tom Reed (R-N Y ), who Robertson is seeking to unseat He lost the race to Reed by a slim margin of four points, despite also not receiving DCCC funding New York’s 23rd congressional district encompasses portions of the Southern Tier, including Ithaca, Elmira and Corning

S.A. Aims to Brighten Slope

Resolution proposes to increase lighting, safety

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Dark nights walking from the librar y and down Libe Slope may not be as dark anymore if the Student Assembly passes a new resolution

The resolution which proposes repaving and adding lighting to a portion of the walkway below McGraw Hall leading to West Avenue is currently being deliberated by the S A

Currently, the walkway is “pitch black” at night and could physically harm students,

according to David Vakili ’16, the Arts and Sciences representative for the S A and one of the sponsors of the resolution “ The low visibility on top of Libe Slope’s steepness and black ice during the winter create a dangerous commute for those walking towards West,” Vakili said

Due to trees that line the walkway, light is par tially blocked on the por tion of the path, which also contains several potholes In contrast, other walkways on the

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In September 2013, Robertson said she was running a “winnable” race in an address to the Cornell Democrats, The Sun previously reported

In the address, Robertson also spoke on issues she said she believed were most pressing, among them bolstering jobs and economic development, protecting Medicare and Social Security programs and improving the quality of education

Seth Stein, Robertson’s campaign spokesman, said her campaign has been working to project her views and message to the public

“Martha is focused solely on having a conversation with the voters of the 23rd District,” Stein told The Ithaca Journal “Her message of protecting the middle class, creating jobs and advocating for working families is resonating with people Congressman Tom Reed, on the other hand, has shown he is not on the side of working families, instead representing the special interests that fund his campaign ”

Hear me out

By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Senior Writer

Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca announced last month that they plan to install over 8,000 solar panels in the city, which will power approximately one-third of city and government operations in Ithaca

The 2 4 million-watt generating solar panels will be constructed near the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, according to Tompkins County The City of Ithaca will purchase the electricity and will benefit from the solar energy through a reduction in energy costs

According to a press release, the Ithaca project is funded largely through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, with company SolarCity contracted to

install the panels and run the solar power system

SolarCity is America’s largest solar power provider, according to its website The company harvests energy from the sun through solar panels, “revolutionizing the way energy is delivered by giving customers a cleaner, more affordable alternative to their monthly utility bill

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“The project will help the City of Ithaca meet its energy use and greenhouse gas reduction goals,” Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said in the release

According to Myrick, the City intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in government operations by 20 percent by 2016 and 80 percent by 2050

The new development of solar panels in Ithaca comes on the heels

Clinical Investigators’ Day 2014

8 a m - 4 p m , Lecture Hall III, Veterinary Research Tower

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Study Abroad 101 10 - 10:30 a m , 170 Roberts Hall

Impact of High-End Computation On Industry and the Workforce 12:15 p m , 655 Rhodes Hall

Who Manages Warer?

Global Food Regimes, Supply Chains and Food Prices: Some Contradictions

3 - 4:30 p m , 109 Academic Surge Facility A

Fall New York State Veterinary Conference

8 a m - 5:30 p m , College of Veterinary Medicine

DeeDee Arrison Concert for the Animals

Noon - 1:10 p m , James Law Auditorium, College of Veterinary Medicine

Post-Uprising Justice Administration: Transitional Justice and Hybrid Regimes in Turkey And the Middle East

Noon - 4:30 p m , 184 Myron Taylor Hall

Cornell Jazz Jam Session

5:30 - 7 p m , Jansen’s Dining Room, Hans Bethe House

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News, “President-Elect Garrett Talks Cornell Campus Issues,” Monday

Speaking about her standpoint on issues of sexual assault and violence

I believe we cannot tolerate sexual violence, assault, intimidation or harassment on our campuses That is fundamentally incompatible with the university environment As a community we have to be very clear that such behavior is unacceptable, and that has been my position since I became provost [of the University of Southern California]

President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett

News, “Cornell Launches $150 Million Public Engagement Plan,” Tuesday

Speaking about how the 10-year initiative will transform education at the University “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 ”

President David Skorton

Opinion, “Any Person, Any Study, But Not Just Any Woman,” Wednesday

Speaking about how others address Elizabeth Garrett’s appointment as Cornell’s first woman president “[Elizabeth] Garrett’s appointment makes me proud to be a Cornell woman Nonetheless the fact that she is a woman should not overshadow her other achievements or be the only reason we should look forward to her term ”

Samantha Weisman ’15

News, “Professors Remember Cornell Graduate Student,” Thursday

Speaking about Taylan Cihan grad, who died Wednesday morning “His vision of the intersection of technology with sound art promised to enlarge the musical world for all of us and thus his loss is both a personal blow and an artistic one ”

Prof Steven Stucky, music

President of Int’l Criminal Court Speaks About Preventing Crime

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Contributor

Speaking Thursday as part of the Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker series, Judge Sang-Hyun Song JSD ’70, president of the International Criminal Cour t, told Cornellians about the ICC’s efforts to prevent atrocities before they occur

Song, the second president of the court, spoke about the tools the ICC utilizes and the obstacles it faces in trying to stop international criminals before they commit the acts that can bring them before the ICC These efforts, Song argues, are what differentiate the ICC from other international tribunals

“The ICC is different from temporary [international] institutions in one crucial aspect, ” said Song, 72 “It is not just dealing with crimes of the past ”

The ICC’s reputation alone can help it to deter potential criminals, according to Song

“Where the threat of imminent

atrocities appears, announcing publicly that the ICC is following the situation can be a powerful tool,” Song said “It puts leaders on notice ”

He further explained that the announcement of ICC action can prompt authorities to investigate a potential human rights violation, which he said is an effective way for the ICC to aid local and national governments

According to Song, because the ICC lacks a police force or military presence, it is important for governments to be involved with any ICC decision that affects their jurisdictions Furthermore, Song says, this mutually dependent relationship helps countries as well as the ICC grow stronger

“Research suggests that countries that have held leaders accountable for crimes have come away stronger, ” he said

Song also emphasized the ICC’s efforts to bring victims into the process of judicial administration beyond being witnesses in trials and to make them actual

“ actors in the proceedings ”

The ICC has also created a fund for victims’ reparations, which is “unprecedented” in the international community, according to Song

“The fund empowers victims to become key stakeholders in the pursuit of justice,” he said

The ICC’s influence has grown over the course of its 12-year history, according to Song It began operating in July 2002 following the 1998 Rome Statute treaty, which was first proposed in the United Nations

Song said many expected that it would take “ ages ” for the treaty to be ratified However, it was adopted by the requisite 60 nations three years later, and by 2003, over half of the world’s sovereign states had signed on, according to Song

However, Song said that many of the world’s most powerful political states including the United States have yet to sign the Rome Statute Still, he said that the United States cooperates with

the ICC on a “case-by-case” basis

Song also said he recognizes that the international community ’ s effor ts to maintain peace extend far past the operation of a single tribunal

“International criminal justice will always be only one piece in [a] much larger puzzle of protecting human rights,” he said

Song said he was motivated to fight for international justice in part to his own experience growing up in the midst of the Korean War The “highly traumatic experiences” he went through, he said, left a “ permanent mark” on him

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Slope are better lit, due to the lights near the Johnson Museum and West Campus, Vakili said Syed Ali Khan ’15, minority representative for the S A , said he co-sponsored the resolution to “ start the conversation” with administrators about the problem

“You have to use your phone as a flashlight so you don’t trip.”

“With the creation of the Sesquicentennial Grove on the northeastern side of the slope, it would be a great time to improve the lighting and pathway on the northwestern side,” Ali Khan said “Facilities Management has been very receptive to student suggestions ”

According to Ali Khan, this resolution is “just the starting point” for infrastructure improvement projects

Students living in housing at the bottom of the

Slope said improvements to the walkway are “much needed ” “It’s so sketchy at night I almost ran into a deer once, ” Mary Nattakom ’17 said “You have to use your phone as a flashlight so you don’t trip ” Allessandra DiCorato ’15 said that while she was “glad” to see the S A consider paving the road, the walkway gave her a chance to notice the nature on campus

“It has always been a little tricky to come home late from studying because of the holes in the pavement, ” DiCorato said “But I’m not exactly ecstatic either, because that poorly lit spot used to give me the chance to notice things like deer and skunks and trees It always felt like I was coming home through a piece of wilderness ”

U.S.-Led Coalition Airstrikes Hit Islamic State

MURSITPINAR, Turkey

(AP) The U S -led coalition intensified its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions Thursday in the Syrian border town of Kobani as the extremist group fought street battles with Kurdish forces and reportedly rushed in reinforcements

The battle for the town near the frontier with Turkey has emerged as a major early test for the air campaign aimed at rolling back and eventually destroying the extremist group

It has also strained ties between Washington and Ankara over the long-term U S strategy in Syria On Thursday, the U S special envoy for the coalition, retired Marine Gen John Allen, and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg were in Turkey to press the country to join military operations Turkish officials have said that while they do not want Kobani to fall, they will not take on a greater role until the coalition outlines a

broader strategy that also includes attacking Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is best positioned to benefit from any rollback of the Islamic State group But attacking Assad's regime “is not the focus of our international coalition and not the focus of our efforts by the United States,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said Psaki said Allen and Turkish officials discussed ways to advance the effort against the Islamic State group and said a joint military planning team will visit Ankara early next week

“Both sides also agreed that we will continue a dynamic and deepening bilateral consultation process across the multiple lines of effort against ISIL, including military support, countering foreign fighters, counter-finance, humanitarian assistance, and delegitimizing ISIL”s messaging and rhetoric,” she said using and acronym for the Islamic State

group Turkey also has called for the creation of a buffer zone inside Syria to secure the border, but the White House and Pentagon said Wednesday the U S is not considering that option Such a zone would be costly and complex to enforce

U S officials said Thursday the U S is largely talking to Turkey about other things it could do besides inserting ground forces into the fight: allowing U S and coalition aircraft to fly over Turkish territory; allowing its air base in Incirlik, some 100 miles from the Syrian border, to be used by U S or coalition planes or for logistics and training; and equipping moderate Syrian opposition forces fighting to topple Assad

The officials were not authorized to discuss meetings underway between U S and Turkish officials in Ankara and requested anonymity

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Months After Ferguson, Death Of 18-Year-Old Sparks Anger

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ST LOUIS (AP) Two months after a Ferguson officer killed Michael Brown, setting off intense national debate about law enforcement treatment of minorities, the shooting death of another black 18-year-old by police in nearby St Louis has reignited anger among activists already planning weekend protests Police say Vonderrit D Myers was shot Wednesday after he opened fire on a white, off-duty

officer, but Myers’ parents say he was unarmed Some activists and lawmakers say Myers was targeted because he was black and are asking the Justice Department which has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Brown, who was unarmed to investigate his shooting

“This here was racial profiling turned deadly,” said state Sen Jamilah Nasheed, a St Louis Democrat

The shooting happened as activists and other protesters from around the country prepared for four days of rallies, marches and protests over the Brown shooting Organizers say the events, which start Friday and include a march Saturday in downtown St Louis, have taken on added urgency

“This is a racial powder keg,” said Jerryl Christmas, a St Louis attorney who was among more than 20 black leaders who joined Nasheed at a news conference Thursday outside police headquarters “All this is going to do is escalate the situation ”

Brown’s Aug 9 death spurred weeks of unrest in Ferguson and the rest of the St Louis area A state grand jur y is deciding whether the officer who shot him, Darren Wilson, will face charges

Police say Myers was both armed and aggressive, using a stolen 9 mm gun to shoot at the officer

Syreeta Myers said her son was holding a sandwich, not a gun

“Police lie They lied about Michael Brown, too, ” she told The Associated Press by phone Thursday

About 200 people gathered Thursday night for a quiet candlelight remembrance at the sight where Vonderrit Myers was shot Later, protesters shut down a major street

MEXICO CITY (AP) Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced

After investigators narrowed Carrillo Fuentes’ whereabouts to a neighborhood of Torreon, he was taken into custody at a traffic checkpoint without a shot being fired, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam called the arrest “ a capture of great importance ”

A suspected bodyguard was also detained

Carrillo Fuentes, 51, purportedly heads the cartel founded by his late brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and both the U S and Mexico had million-dollar rewards for his arrest

Better known as “The Viceroy” or “The General,” he took over control of the Juarez drug cartel after his brother Amado, nicknamed “The Lord of the Skies,” died in 1997 in a botched cosmetic surgery Amado got his nickname by flying planeloads of drugs into the United States

It was the second capture of a major drug lord in as many weeks Mexican authorities nabbed Hector Beltran Leyva as he ate fish tacos in a seafood restaurant in central Mexico on Oct 1

The back-to-back arrests come as Mexico’s federal government is under international pressure over the forced disappearance of 43 students by police and a possible massacre of 22 suspected gang members by soldiers Everyone from outraged Mexicans to the United Nations is demanding justice and accountability in the two cases

“I think it’s a little bit because of the pressure, ” Samuel Gonzalez, Mexico’s former top anti-drug prosecutor, said of the sudden demise of long-time capos “This is to say they’re doing a lot of work ”

The Pena Nieto administration has captured a string of high-profile capos since taking office nearly two years ago, the biggest of them being the arrest last February of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the elusive boss of the Sinaloa cartel

Carrillo Fuentes, who like many top drug lords was from Sinaloa state, had a $5 million reward on his head from U S authorities and $2 2 million in Mexico He faces a forty-six count indictment in Texas, charging him with, among other things, trafficking in cocaine and marijuana, money laundering and murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise, according to the U S State Department

The Drug Enforcement Administration congratulated Mexico for Carrillo Fuentes’ capture

“Carrillo Fuentes facilitated murder and violence in Mexico while fueling addiction in the United States and across the world,” DEA Administrator Michele M Leonhart said in a statement

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CASABL ANCA, Morocco (AP) After seven months in Ebola-stricken Liberia, Vijay Kumar was getting his temperature scanned Thursday at the airport by medical crews in blue gowns and masks one of dozens who relied on Royal Air Maroc’s continuing flights to West Africa

“Of course we are all scared,” the cellphone worker said, as he and dozens of passengers made their way through the international airport in Casablanca, Morocco But “ we really appreciate their procedures, it’s a good system ”

He was finally heading home to Chennai, India, relieved that there were still flights operating, after British Airways and Emirates suspended travel to the outbreak countries Airlines from Morocco, France and Belgium are still flying in and out of West Africa, encouraged by the World Health Organization, because stopping would keep out needed aid workers and supplies and wouldn’t necessarily halt the spread of the disease It can take up to 21 days before a person infected with Ebola starts to show symptoms that

can be found in airport screening tests During that period, an individual carrying Ebola can get a flight to anywhere in the world and fall ill later as happened with a Liberian man who developed Ebola and died in the U S this week

Depar ting passengers in Africa are being screened U S officials said they will soon start screening arrivals from the affected countries European governments so far have held off, even though it’s conceded infected passengers could arrive undetected If someone gets sick in Europe, they are hoping to focus on quick response in advanced isolation wards like the one at Frankfurt, Germany’s University Clinic not far from its international airport

As a major hub for travel to West Africa, Casablanca airport functions as a gateway to the rest of the world Thursday morning’s arrivals board included flights from the Ebola-hit cities of Monrovia, Liberia and Freetown, Sierra Leone, among others Besides Royal Air Maroc, Air France and Brussels Air also still fly to and from West Africa

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m p u s a n d t h e Un i v e r s i t y b r i n g i n g o u t a l l o f t h e s t o p s f i re w o r k s s h ow, a n y o n e ?

s t u d e n t s w i l l n e e d l o n g e r t h a n t h e t h re e d a y s a f t e r Fa l l B re a k t o m e n t a l l y p re p a re t h e m s e l v e s S o we s e n t o u r b e s t B e r r y Pa t c h re p o r t e r s a t l e a s t , t h e o n e s w h o a re s t i l l o n c a m p u s t o s e e w h a t s t u d e n t s a re d o i n g i n a d v a n c e o f Ho m e c o m i n g we e k e n d

C l e a n i n g : Fo r t h o s e w h o a re h a v i n g h o u s e g u e s t s , o r a l u m n i w h o a re c r a s h i n g o n t h e i r c o u c h e s , c l e a n i n g i s a m u s t W h e t h e r i t s t h a t c o u c h , t h e b a t h r o o m o r y o u r l a u n d r y, i t a l l n e e d s t o g e t t a k e n c a re o f b e f o re g u e s t s a r r i v e E s p e c i a l l y s i n c e m a n y o f u s a re c h i l d re n o f C o r n e l l i a n s , i t ’ s o n l y n a t u r a l f o r p a re n t s t o c o m e b a c k a n d re l i v e t h e i r C o r n e l l d a y s So a t t h e v e r y l e a s t , c l e a n y o u r a p a r t m e n t / h o u s e / d o r m f o r y o u r p a re n t s Un l e s s y o u d o n ’ t c a re w h a t y o u r g u e s t s a n d p a re n t s t h i n k , t o w h i c h w e s a y : Yo u d o y o u D o i n g H o m e w o r k : D e s p i t e b e i n g i n t h e m i d d l e o f p re l i m s e a s o n , t h e re w i l l b e n o t i m e d u r i n g t h e w e e k e n d t o s t u d y o r d o a n y t h i n g e l s e re l a t e d t o s c h o o l w o r k So s t a r t w o r k i n g n ow, y o u’l l t h a n k u s l a t e r A m p i n g Up Yo u r S c h o o l S p i r i t : We m a y n o t b e a t y p i c a l r a h - r a h s c h o o l , b u t t h e re a re c e r t a i n t i m e s w h e re t h e C o r n e l l Pr i d e i s s t r o n g : Ho c k e y s e a s o n , Gr a d u a t i o n a n d , o f c o u r s e , Ho m e c o m i n g Hi t u p t h e C o r n e l l St o re w h i l e y o u s t i l l c a n a n d p r a c t i c e y o u r c h e e r s b e c a u s e t h i s i s t h e o n e d a y a y e a r w h e re w e p re t e n d t o b e l i k e a re a l s t a t e s c h o o l L e a r n i n g H o w F o o t b a l l Wo r k s : Fo r t h o s e w h o d o n o t k n ow, t h e Ho m e c o m i n g g a m e i s f o o t b a l l , s o s t u d y u p s o y o u c a n k n ow w h a t i t m e a n s w h e n i t s t h e f i r s t d ow n O r s e c o n d O r f o u r t h

Ezra ’ s Oracle welcomes inquiries from all members of the Cor nell community about anything and ever ything related to the University We seek out answers to campus mysteries, research r umors and investigate issues of relevance to Cor nellians

Questions can be submitted via email to ezrasoracle@cor nellsun com Or whisper them in the ear of the Ezra Cor nell statue on the Ar ts Quad

Q: We know that a Febr uar y break was added to the calendar last year, but when was fall break added?

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A: We know that no one is reading today’s issue of The Sun since most students have already fled Ithaca for fall break, but we’ll answer this question anyway In the midst of the par ticularly gray and dismal fall of 1977, approximately 500 students marched across campus at midnight to demand a week’s vacation ( The protest is perhaps best remembered for its chant: “ We will stay and free ze our asses until Frank Rhodes cancels classes ”) The following year, as par t of a University-wide effor t to examine mental health and academic pressure, a committee recommended changes to the university calendar, resulting in an “optional” one-day break in October 1978 that fe w faculty actually obser ved After considerable debate, including a proposal to take a full week off at Thanksgiving, a two-day break in October was instituted in 1979 and is now a welcome respite as the mid-semester prelims pile up

Q: Last week, Cornell announced its Elizabeth Garrett as its first women president What leadership roles have women held in Cornell’s administration?

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A: Despite Cornell leading the Ivy League in the admittance of women students, our alma mater has trailed some of our peers in other respects Perhaps the highest ranking woman in leadership at Cornell has been Carolyn A “Biddy” Mar tin, who ser ved as our first and only female provost from 2000 to 2008 Laurie Glimcher became the first woman to ser ve as Cornell’s provost of medical affairs and dean of its medical school in 2012 In 1976, Constance A Cook ’41, JD ’43 became Cornell’s first woman vice president, ser ving as vice president for land grant affairs until 1980 Cornell first appointed women to full professorships in 1911, when the leaders of the Depar tment of Home Economics (Human Ecology’s predecessor, formerly housed in the College of Agriculture) Mar tha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose were promoted A resolution from the faculty is par ticularly telling of the general sentiment at the time: “Resolved, That the University Faculty, while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships, interpose no objection to their appointment in the Depar tment of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture ” Cornell has yet to elect a woman as chair of its board of tr ustees, and many individuals colleges have not yet been led by female deans

Q: What’s the stor y behind the tradition of Homecoming? Nostalgic Alumnus ’14

A: Cornell’s Homecoming tradition dates back to November 13, 1920, when 2,000 alumni returned to campus to celebrate a "Ne w York State Cornell Day" as a kick-off to a state-wide Cornell Endowment Fund campaign With typically drear y Ithaca weather, the weekend featured a buffet luncheon with per formances by the University Band and Glee Club, a football game against Columbia (a 34-7 victor y) and an evening lecture on the “political situation in the Far East The next year, the second annual celebration of Ne w York Cornellians was par t of a week of activities that included the inauguration of President Livingston Farrand, the laying of the cornerstone of Baker Laborator y and the semi-centennial of the College of Architecture

However, the first official “Autumn Alumni Homecoming” was held on November 4, 1922 The success of the previous two years convinced Cornell to encourage all Cornellians to return for a football game each fall The weekend was combined with the 35th anniversar y celebration of the Cornell Law School, and this first annual Homecoming football game was a 56-to-0 trouncing of Columbia Interest and attendance at Homecoming has fluctuated over the years, but a rene wed focus by the University in recent years has substantially expanded programming Attempts to increase student involvement included a parade of student organizations in 2009 and 2010 A Cornell Concer t Commission show was added to the weekend in 2011, and a fire works and laser light show added in 2012 Five years ago, it seemed like fe w students were even aware of when Homecoming was, but that situation seems to have changed for the better This year, with Homecoming combined with the Tr ustee-Council Annual Meeting for a special sesquicentennial kick-off, next weekend will likely be par ticularly crowded on campus

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CORRECTIONS

An Oct 9 news story, “Franck Onambélé ‘14 Completes Fundraising Campaign for Installation of Water Pump in African Village,” incorrectly stated that Onambélé was born in Oyak, Cameroon In addition, the story incorrectly said he moved to Canada in 2005 In fact, he moved there in 2007

An Oct 9 news story, “Cornell Partakes in Program to Minimize Substance Abuse,” incorrectly said Cayuga’s Watchers was the result of a National College Improvement Program In fact, Cayuga’s Watchers was created by students and is student-run In addition, the story also misspelled Associate Director of Gannett Health Services Gregory Eells’ last name

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Shakespeare for Medical Students

Poetry, like many of the Arts, becomes an intriguing phenomenon if we stop to ask why it existed and why it continues to exist Why do amateur and professional poets continue to write, and why do they attract readers? Why do individuals from all walks of life from the instrument dealer in my hometown to numerous presidents of our country make time to read Shakespeare, the essential English poet-playwright? A poem or play does not protect or heal us; it does not provide basic needs for survival Yet poetry and drama continue to be, for many people, an important part of their lives Do medical students and doctors also fall into this category of people who consider poetry to be important in their lives? Yes and no, and I want to use this article to explore more of the “ yes ” side through two brief stories

Last Friday morning, before small group sessions, I selected and read one passage from Hamlet; reading in the morning, I should mention, is part of my daily routine Here is the passage:

“What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

Speak to any so-called professional literary critic about these passages and you will undoubtedly learn about the “theoretical” approaches that can be applied to understand these passages But that is not my goal, and I follow Harold Bloom in believing that the only useful critical method is the Self, or our own experiences How we feel and think at a particular moment should influence our readings of Shakespeare more than any pre-described critical method, such as deconstruction, new historicism or post-colonialism Again, one does not (and should not) need to have any exposure to “literary theory” to gain value from reading Shakespeare’s texts Our fresh, individual responses to Shakespeare, colored by our daily activities, is what I believe to be most illuminating and interesting

My small group session discussed a cancer case that Friday morning and I remember asking myself: What would a cancer patient get out of reading Hamlet’s speech? Will the patient take that speech literally or ironically, as Hamlet seems to have intended? How do I, as a physician, gain a clearer view of a cancer patient through Hamlet’s speech? A cancer patient who might be confronting death will have different thoughts than me, and understanding his or her thought processes would be vital if I were the physician I may not understand problems like pain or fear as well as a patient because I’m not going through the same problems, but reading Shakespeare and sensitizing myself to those issues through language can help in better understanding a patient

In this manner, our individual experiences are colored by Shakespeare’s texts, and, conversely, Shakespeare’s texts are also colored by our life experiences I remember feeling optimistic on Friday morning about my scheduled presentation, and so I read what Hamlet said with less irony than what Hamlet perhaps intended that is to say: “What a piece of work is a man!” Man is an impressive creation, and I mean this seriously, not ironically as Hamlet likely felt By imagining these fantasy scenarios, I am engaging in how the scene and dialogue happens, rather than just what happens How Hamlet says something tells us as much, if not more, than what he says This skill can be generalized to reading other scenarios that we encounter, whether that be a puzzling patient or an elusive scientific problem

My second story is about a patient I met at St Louis Children’s Hospital There, cerebral palsy patients worked with volunteers as part of a sports rehabilitation program I recall one session when my patient, Ben, was feeling uncomfortable, and he mentioned I could spend that day working with someone else I reassured Ben that I still wanted to be with him that day, and that we could talk about his busier schoolwork instead of playing basketball Ben had started high school six months ago, and he mentioned that he enjoyed English class This prompted me to ask whether he liked poetry, which was answered with an immediate “Yes!” I then began reciting a popular Robert Frost poem that I had recently re-read: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep ” Ben completed the poem: “And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep ” Both Ben and I have “miles to go ” to reach our goals, as different as those goals may be, and Robert Frost’s language wonderfully captures our mutual feelings Many of us have “miles to go ” to reach goals one does not have to have a prior interest in Robert Frost’s poems to gain value from this and other poems Poetry crystallizes feelings in language, and the endless varieties of poems offer us the language to better describe and understand the endless varieties of feelings that patients might feel

For Ben and me, poetry does more than just crystallize feelings in language; poetry gives us aesthetic pleasure, much like good music or good art With more exposure to texts, anyone can develop an ear for good prose and verse “Good” is certainly subjective, even within one individual, and I find that my appreciation of Shakespeare depends on what I do and how I feel while reading him Virginia Woolf, for instance, likes to read Shakespeare after she finishes her writing In one diary entry dated April 13, 1930, she wrote:

“I read Shakespeare directly [after] I have finished writing When my mind is agape and red-hot Then it is astonishing I never yet knew how amazing his stretch and speed and word coining power is, until I felt it utterly outpace and outrace my own, seeming to start equal and then I see him draw ahead and do things I could not in my wildest tumult and utmost press of mind imagine

Hearing that, I had better wrap up this article and get back to reading my Shakespeare

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Rolling With the Punches

Most of us fourth year

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n t s are facing (or have already dealt with) a serious life decision right about now to apply for an internship or not?

To explain this, I’ll start with a brief description o

y After passing board exams and

y school, you are legally licensed to be practicing veterinarians the equivalent of human general practitioners If you want to have more specialized training, then you can apply for an internship, which is a year of intensive immersion in a field you are interested in For example, there are equine internships and small animal internships After completing

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t o t h e intense nature of the program, you are ideally equipped with significantly more experience and knowledge You could go out into the world armed with your new skills, or you could

years out of school are the most important in terms of developing clinical skills, so many people complete internships even if they’re not interested in specializing in order to be more competent general practitioners That being said, if you can find a job where you have a good mentor, then it might be just as valuable to you as an internship would have been Unfortunately, the decision to do an internship generally has to be done sooner in your career rather than later years ago it was common for people to practice for a f e w y e a r s a n d t h e n g o straight into a residency, but the trend lately seems to be to go straight from vet school to an internship and then residency

Some people already know that they want to specialize they’ve fallen (and stayed) in love with a specific area of vete r i n a r y m e d i c i n e a n d a r e ready to start on that path A

Some people already know that they want to specialize they’ve fallen (and stayed) in love with a specific area of veterinary medicine and are ready to start on that path

g y to large animal surger y At the end of your residency, you

rd exams and then if you pass them become a licensed specialist, with extra fancy letters after your name and ideally a higher salar y when you find a job After your residency, you can either enter private practice as a specialist or continue down a path to get a PhD and enter academia So, to summarize, you have vet students who can either pursue being general practitioners or go the route of being interns, residents and, ultimately, specialists Internship applications are d u e s o o n ( s o o n i s r e l a t i v e depending on what kind of i n t e r n s h i p y o u ’ r e t h i n k i n g about), which is why I’m writing about this now I’ve heard

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pleted their internship, but moving around the countr y ever y year is not an easy task The last one I can think of is priorities do you want to h a v e s o m

graduate, or are you willing to sacrifice that for another year?

Fi r s t y e a r a s s o c i a t e s d o n ’ t often have the best schedules but most of the time they are at least marginally less allencompassing than an intern’s s

room what if you decide you want an internship and apply and then don’t get one?

So these are the things that a lot of us have been thinking about in the relatively recent past and into the future The a n x i e t y a

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process is not one that I think I’ve ever experienced or witn e s s e d b

o r e T h a t b e i n g said, I tr y to keep in the back of my mind that most of the v e t

lucky few have jobs set up a l r e

h throughout the years For the rest of us, there are a few factors to weigh into the decision The first is finances interns make next to nothing (in 2013, the median intern s a l a r y f o r a c a d e m i c i n t e r nships was around $25,000, it might be a little higher for some private practices), and when you ’ re graduating from v e t s c h o o l w i t h s i g n i f i c a n t debt (around $150,000) you need to have enough income to start paying off your loans An internship might not be financially possible The second is location would you move anywhere around the countr y for your internship? It is only one year, after all, and most people do not end up practicing where they com-

ries that go “ I

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A lot of the time, it’s more along the lines of “I really wanted to work with cats so I did an internship but then I found that I liked dogs too so I applied for residencies and I happened to get one and then I started this project that was i

wanted to go into academia instead of private practice ” So maybe, once we

ve thought circles around ever ything and think we ’ ve come to a decision, what we really have to learn to do is roll with the punches

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Life in Jupiter: We Are All Freaks

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

Welcome to Jupiter, Florida, 1952 After months of genuinely scary and NSF-Facebook viral marketing, the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s Emmy-nominated horror anthology American Horror Story, Freak Show, has finally seen the light of day Or, so to speak: After last year ’ s disappointingly tame and plot-hole-riddled Coven, Freak Show’ s Wednesday night premiere was a decided return to American Horror Story’s darkly daring Asylum (a study in 1960s criminalization of homosexuality and femininity set in a New England asylum) heyday Freak Show does what AHS does best: Preys on specifically American fears, fascinations and popular culture

Out of the gate we are thrust into 1950s Americana the milkman is at the door and the fact that yesterday’s milk is still on the porch is cause for concern He steps timidly into the poorly-lit home, calling out the familiar resident’s name and, after finding her lifeless on the living room floor, proceeds upstairs with a bat to find the perpetrator (would your UPS guy do this for you?) Off-camera, he catches a glimpse of the show’s first monster and it s his stomach-churning scream that snaps us to rapt attention it’s time for some freaks

Freak Show has them in scads, obviously from Kathy Bates’ intriguing and fierce (and schizophrenically accented) bearded lady to Sarah Paulson’s siamese twin sisters, Bette and Dot (one with a homicidal affection for Singin’ in the Rain, the other with a soft-spot for doe-eyed carnies) to a nefarious and web-fingered Evan Peters who makes spare cash as an oddity at housewives’ sex parties (you heard me) This is to say nothing of the freaks leader, Elsa Mars, played by a never-better Jessica Lange (if she won the Emmy for Coven, what can she win for this? A MacArthur Genius Award?) All we know about Elsa is that she is a German national; she used to be a small-time cabaret singer in pre-war Berlin; she “survived the Stasi,” and she is now desperate to fill seats at her lessthan-lauded “Cabinet of Curiosities” show

The cast also includes the actual smallest woman in the world, Jyoti Amge, a casting decision which it is hard to form definite feelings about On one hand, there is an undoubted aura

of exploitation when you ask someone to stand, as themselves, amongst people who are only “freaks” due to the addition of heavy makeup, prosthetics and fictionalized stories of oppression On the other hand, Amge has given many articulate and grateful interviews in which she has stated quite firmly: “People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act Regular people should not underestimate people who are small ” In any case, the casting makes Elsa’s mid-premiere speech in defense of freak shows especially affecting and morally confusing

The proximal plotline of a downright terrifying homicidal clown named “Twisty,” played by John Carroll Lynch, is light on the exposition and heavy on the allusion: Twisty’s first murder goes down almost identically to the first murder in the 2007 modern classic, Zodiac, starting with two pretty white teenagers say sex-stuff to each other on a picnic blanket and ending with the girl laying cheek-to-grass and watching her date be stabbed repeatedly to death with much bravado Aside from the fact that this reference lets me feel like a cool guy who knows subtle film references and that John Carroll Lynch also played the Zodiac killer (OMG, lol for days), it appears to be the start of what might be an amazing homage to slasher cinema Stylized slasher cinema, that is, as part of AHS’ “thing” is sleek, seductive violence that deliberately and ostensibly rips off every other gorey American nightmare we ’ ve watched and pretended not to enjoy Not for nothing, AHS is the only current television show, excepting perhaps Orange is the New Black, which takes it upon itself to deal with the dicey realities of America’s past and present societal atrocities

The knock-out scene of the episode and the best I’ve seen on television since Ozymandias” Lange’s cover of David Bowie’s 1971 “Life on Mars ” Elsa Mars takes the stage with her freaks performing in the background, wearing the same bright blue eyeshadow and periwinkle suit as Bowie though her greasy makeup seeps notably into every wrinkle and her suit is ill-fitting and dirty and delivers a heartbreaking rendition of the seminal anthem of weirdness “The freakiest show,” it turns out, is the desperate Mars, who weeps openly when the spotlight shuts down, who admits haltingly to Bates’ Ethel Darling afterwards that she is still hoping to become a star and who unlaces a pair of prosthetic legs before getting into bed in the closing scene

The details of what part Elsa Mars played in Nazi Germany is a compelling secret to keep As one of history’s few clear-cut evils and a precious rare example of when the United States was truly the hero, there is no bad guy for whom we reserve more joyous vitriol than a Nazi Similarly, however, a good woman in wartime Germany is as near to the paragon of courage as a trope can get We are not given an easy paradigm inside which to judge Elsa, making her, in just one episode, Lange’s most intriguing character yet (forgive me if I didn’t buy Sister Jude’s sudden conversion to civil rights activist/flower child/surrogate grandma-aunt/Nora Ephron)

If you needed any more reasons to tune in next week: We haven’t even met Angela Bassett’s three-boobed woman yet, it has been confirmed that Lange will cover a Lana Del Rey ballad sometime this season (you can submit your guess on the FX website if that’s something you ’ re into), Neil Patrick Harris’ guest arc was just confirmed (!!!) and potentially something was done about the ridiculously awful sound-mixing after I wrote that complaint letter about not being able to hear Jessica’s sultry whisper over that lame-o score

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun com

The Good Person of Set zuan at Ithaca College

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca College’s production of The Good Person of Setzuan feels stuck between an exuberant, playful comedy and a dismal drama

Many of the play’s experimental features detract from its moral consideration: How to be a “good person ” Conversely, many mundane scenes prevent the play from maintaining a surreal, vibrant atmosphere

Written by the German Bertolt Brecht and adapted by Tonyaward winner Tony Kushner, The Good Person of Setzuan focuses the theme of morality, while also including commentary on Marxism and feminism Norm Johnson, a professor of movement and scene study at Ithaca College for 25 years, gave the fantastical and exuberant aspects of The Good Person of Setzuan a front seat and crafted an exciting, colorful play With only 16 cast members, Johnson filled the stage with energy, humor, and activity, though often at the cost of the play’s message

The Good Person of Setzuan focuses on the gods’ search for a single good person in the Chinese province of Setzuan The gods find a candidate in Shen Te (junior, Kyra Leeds), a kind-hearted, morally-conscious prostitute and reward her with a thousand silver coins The generous gift, however, invites a host of other characters, all of whom hope to somehow benefit from Shen Te’s wealth The play then explodes into a flurry of activity a failed marriage, Shen Te’s invention of a fake cousin, a successful tobaccosorting industry

The most effective parts of the play, however, occur in strippeddown scenes, featuring only a few characters and a simple message The water-seller Wang’s (Evan Arbour, a senior at Ithaca College) simple song about his inability to find buyers in the rain beautifully reveals his desperation, cynicism and futility Shen Te’s confession to the gods in an emptied courtroom better explains the difficulty trouble of being a good person than all of the scenes of her busily weighing demands from the other townspeople

Unfortunately, such scenes compose the majority of The Good Person of Setzuan Multiple scenes served only to evidence the moral quandary that Shen Te faced regarding whether to kick acquaintances out of her tobacco shop or not, to a point of repetitiveness Furthermore, much of the world play and symbolism of the play fell flat Characters cracked jokes about Shen Te, a prostitute, “ never saying no, ” and “easily giving it up, ” enough times that the joke felt played out and contrived In one scene, Shen Te comforts Yang Sun (Michael Sullivan, a junior), who feels despondent about his inability to find work as a pilot, by telling a story about how she had a pet crane with a broken wing that also could not fly The story about the crane felt emblematic of the show as a whole largely favoring obvious and extreme scenes over subtlety

Characters introduce interesting dramaturgical devices only to desert them for the rest of the play As viewers entered the theatre, actor Eric Shaum, grad, asked people to write down the names of “good people” with chalk on to his sandwich board I loved the creativity of this element, and its engagement of the audience, but the sandwich board then sat off to a side of the stage for the rest of the show

A few actors stood out for their nuanced or humorous perfor-

mances Notably, Evan Arbour’s performance as Wang effectively conveyed his shame and, often physical, pain of trying to succeed in an economically and morally poor city Kyra Leeds presented a powerful performance of Shen Te and her alter-ego, Shui Ta a fabricated cousin Leeds transformation from Shen Te to Shui Ta, aided only by a pair of glasses, top hat, and overcoat, felt so complete that I forgot that the same actress portrayed both characters

Although secondary characters, grad student Matt Ryan’s, performance as the barber Shu Fu and sophomore Paul Hogan’s performance as the grandfather provided enjoyable comic relief in a complex and confusing show Although passionately portrayed, many of the other characters presented as so unwaveringly greedy and reprehensible that they blended into one scheming mass

Many of the other dramatic aspects of The Good Person of Setzuan, however, perfectly fit with the crowded, raucous atmosphere Containing original compositions and arrangements by musical director Joel Gelpe, the score jilted and bounced along, conveying the everyday misbehavior and ostentatiousness of the fictional Setzuan’s residents

Costume designer Ashlynne Abraham produced an amazing wardrobe for the cast Abraham, a senior, fitted all characters with eclectic and flamboyant costumes while still maintaining their individual looks Even while sporting tropical print shorts, Shu Fu still looked distinguished in his leather jacket and spats An enormous, hodge-podge overcoat alone transformed Shen Te from a shy, well-meaning prostitute to a powerful business mogul

In the end, the strength of Ithaca College’s production of The Good Person of Setzuan does not come from a strong conveyance of the complexities of being a “good person ” Rather, viewers will enjoy the play the most if they focus on the excellence of the score, the uniqueness of its experimental elements and the beauty of the costuming

The Good Person of Setzuan has three shows remaining in its run, including evening shows at 8:00 p m tonight and tomorrow night and a matinee show tomorrow at 2:00 p m

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun com

In a new and incredibly tantalizing combination, 17 year-old songstress Lorde teams up with the producers of the hotly awaited Hunger Games film, Mockingjay Pt 1, for the upcoming soundtrack Lorde released the single “Yellow Flicker Beat” on September 30 in an effort to further entice not only her own fans, but also those of the popular movie franchise She begins her deep brooding tune with what seems like a description of the “Girl on Fire” turned “Mockingjay ” In a forceful hum: “I’m a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm / and the scars that mark my body, they’re silver and gold ” Emerging suddenly from the haunting croon of Lorde’s initial poetry, the song detonates into a blazing and brilliant set of pop-synth rhythms in a way that perfectly encapsulates the inner fire of defiant heroine Katniss Everdeen In a July interview with Rolling Stone, Lorde speaks of the album-curating process, stating, “The soundtrack for such an anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians and being privy to a different creative process has been a unique experience I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people ” While Lorde’s upcoming album has yet to declare an official release date, Mockingjay Pt 1 will crash into theaters on November 21 In “Yellow Flicker Beat’s” parting lyrics, listeners get a taste of Lorde’s dark allure as well as the foreboding nature of one of the next Hunger Games installments “I got my fingers laced together and I made a little prison,” Lorde purrs, “I’m locking up everyone who ever laid a finger on me ”

Madeline Day is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mzd4@cornell edu

In Defense of ‘Swimming Pools’ and Rust Cohle

The formation of narratives in cultural critiques related to generational changes affecting entire mediums is a dangerous approach

I was reminded of this by several stories in the past weeks; notably Evan Needell ’15’s October 3 column in The Cornell Daily Sun “"Oh! Sweet Nuthin’, Don’t Mean Nuthin’ At All," Anita Alur ’17’s September 29 guest column for the Sun, “Tangled up in Auto-Tune” and A O Scott’s September 11 New York Times Magazine piece, “ The Death of Adulthood in American Culture ” Each piece takes liberties and shortcuts in developing narratives that support the author’s gripe with modern culture Needell identifies a lack of storytelling in music; Alur targets a loss of musicality and Scott, with a professional critic’s caution, explores the loss of “patriarchs” across a variety of media

Alur and Needell’s pieces can largely be considered together, as they share similar theses and rely on similar arguments, centered on a very nostalgic remembrance for older music They also make some of the same mistakes, with failures to define and limit the scope of their narratives resulting in perilously weak commentaries I feel that the juxtaposition between old and new is constructed in a way that is significantly more black and white than fair- like most things, generational growth in culture exists in shades of grey This binary classifying gives way to a narrative formation that is reflective of the self-fulfilling nature of bad sports journalismKobe is clutch because I remember a few big

shots, forget about what the stats say Similarly, if we sift through a 40 year catalogue and compare it directly to music released within the last year, proclaiming that histor y ’ s musicians were more artistic and had more meaningful songs is redundant

I find the idea that something is inherently better because of some archaic standard to be upsetting and too elitist for a thorough analysis As a fan of hip hop, this is something I frequently encounter, especially in conversations about artists like Waka Flocka Flame Waka is certainly not for everyone, but the blanket refusal of many culture enthusiasts to acknowledge that he has made significant contributions to music is really upsetting to me Similarly, you do not need to love music that is being made currently, but rejecting it as without value is flawed

everything from literature (largely dominated by females and young adult novels) to the unending stream of bro-comedies that find the actors reverting to “childish” behavior Scott’s argument does rely largely on a ver y selected interpretation of what is “Adulthood ” For example, after designating “Tony [Soprano], Walter [White] and Don [Draper] as the last of the patriarchs,” he quickly dispenses the men of House of Cards and True Detective by calling them “ angryman, antihero dramas that too many critics reflexively identify as quality television ”

Beatles (and probably well before!) Scott’s piece may seem more original, but cruder versions where a less politically correct reviewer frets about the direction of society with a previously underprivileged group having more input are as old as America itself “Adulthood” is certainly better developed and more nuanced than that, but it still is permeated by a nostalgia for a very specific type of character: the patriarchal male

more on television, film, literature and even American History in his discussion He quickly springboards from a discussion of Don Draper’s anticipated death into a tale of the death of Great Men (my semi-ironic words) from a “post-patriarchal” American Culture He identifies the “Death of Adulthood” as the reduction of adult men in the arts, based on

In general however, Scott is careful to never come to too strong a conclusion While an admitted sense of loss runs throughout the piece, it is notably vacant of any of the sweeping generalizations that characterize The Sun pieces This allows him to form a stronger critique (or at least one without gaping holes), but it also leads to a lack of fulfillment You may disagree with Scott’s narrative, but you still read the entire piece anticipating a firm ending; he refuses to deliver At least Needell and Alur have the gumption to make an assessment

All three pieces suffer from another similar, overarching issue: Have we not been here before? Complaining about modern music is a pastime that certainly extends back to the

To me, this is the point where even the most concise of generational narrative, especially with culture, breaks down History has shown us that it is almost impossible to understand what is happening in real time, generation to generation Our recency bias is too strong, out interpretations too disturbed by minor changes Generation after generation of conservative gatekeepers have critiqued culture and youth for their failures, only to be proven wrong as culture realigns or society adjusts Ultimately, regardless of your qualifications, making value judgments on the direction of a growing generation is a fool’s errand

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Coming off of its first loss of the season at the hands of Penn, the Red (6-3-1) is looking to rebound this Saturday when it travels to Cambridge to face the Har vard Crimson (6-3-0) The Crimson is currently riding a six game winning streak after dropping its first three games

Against Penn, the Red dominated the game throughout, winning the shot differential, 12-8, and maintaining the majority of possession The defense did its job as well, holding the high-powered Quaker offense to just two shots on goal Senior captain Devin Morgan continued to make plays on the back line, including a goalsaving tackle on Penn for ward Duke Lacroix Ultimately, it was a free kick goal scored by Penn midfielder Forrest Clancy in the 35th minute that proved to be the game winner for the Quakers

“ We had more chances and played well, but Penn still was able to come out on top, ” said captain Devin Morgan “ When we have that many chances on goal, we have to score ”

The Red will look to make that breakthrough this Saturday against Har vard The Crimson had a rough start to the season, dropping its first three games by a collective score of 6-2 Since then, the team has rattled off six straight victories, scoring 17 goals in the process Most recently, the men defeated Yale by a score of 1-0 to open their Ivy League campaign

Har vard is averaging 19 4 shots per game, and has scored 19 goals in its nine games It is also a deep team, with a variety of players at all positions Against Yale, the Crimson had eight different players get a shot off, while also going eight players deep on the bench rotation The matchup will be the Red back line against the high powered offense of the Crimson

The Red defense has been a valuable asset Anchored by senior captain Peter Chodas and Morgan, it has continued to make plays both on the back line and when it pushes into the offensive third Chodas recorded the most shot attempts for the Red against Penn with three, while Morgan, prior to the Penn game, was coming off of two games in which he registered the game winning goal

“Our objective is still to win the Ivy League Moving for ward we have to maintain our focus and capitalize when given the opportunity, ” Morgan said “ We will continue to improve, and will be ready to go against Har vard ”

Head coach Jaro Zawislan echoed Morgan’s sentiments and expressed his disappointment about the Penn loss and his hopes for league play, starting with this weekend

“ We did not want to start the way we did, but there is plenty of the Ivy League season to play,” he said

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Red to Take On Ivy Champs

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Editor

After an 0-3 start and a 51-13 shellacking by Yale last weekend, the football team will not get a reprieve when it heads to Cambridge this weekend to face off against the defending Ivy League champs

Har vard has run through the competition in two of its first three wins, scoring a combined 75 points against Holy Cross and Georgetown The Crimson, who boasts the second best offense and the top-ranked defense in the Ivy League, will propose a challenge on both fronts to a Cornell team that has struggled with defending the pass and finding the end zone through the first three games

positive mindset it needs to return to Schoellkopf for homecoming weekend

“We expect to win,” said senior co-captain and wide receiver Lucas Shapiro “I think those are our expectations going into ever y game; we are confident in our abilities, in each other, and in our game plan ” Har vard’s highpowered offense features two capable quarterbacks who have combined for a 75 percent completion rate so far this the sea-

“Every week is a battle and this game will be nothing less than that,” said fifth-year senior co-captain and defensive lineman Justin Harris “Harvard is a great team and we match up well with them and we are excited about the chance to play our best game yet and take down the defending champs ”

Winning is certainly on the minds of the Red A victory over Harvard would put the Red in the

son Junior Scott

Hosch has seen the majority of the snaps, throwing for 617 yards and two touchdowns

The real sparkplug of the offense, though, has been senior running back Andrew Casten With seven touchdowns, he is tied for first in the conference and his 325 yards on the ground is good for second

The Red’s defense will need to focus in on limiting Casten’s yards in order to stay in the game

“Casten is off to a great start but we know that our game plan will be to shut him down,” Harris said “Stopping the run game starts at the point of attack, the line of scrimmage Therefore our defen-

sive line is going to dominate the line of scrimmage ”

As far as the Red’s offense goes, though, it has been a struggle to put points on the scoreboard Cornell ranks second to last in the conference in total offense and dead last in pass offense Junior quarterback James Few was 6-for15 with a touchdown in his first start back, after some shoulder soreness last weekend

“We did a great job last week not hurting ourselves with penalties, but we still had too many mental mistakes, whether that be reads, or block assignments or finding the right gap, ” Shapiro said “We are definitely focusing on fine-tuning those points this week ”

Shapiro and junior running back Luke Hagy have provided the bulk of the offense, but sophomore wide receiver Collin Shaw has been a welcomed surprise this year as well He is leading the team with 11 catches for 131 yards on the season

“Collin is a great young player He is only a sophomore and he has a lot of potential,” Shapiro said “He is becoming a leader within the offense, both on the field and in the meeting rooms He is definitely a playmaker on the offensive side of the ball and someone that we look to get the ball to ”

The two teams on opposite rungs of the Ivy League ladder will

face off at 1 p m on Saturday in a nationally televised game on Fox College Sports While the Red comes in without a win to speak of, Shapiro said the team can gain motivation from the fans at home

“In a sense we are coming in as an underdog No one expects us to win after our performance against Yale, so it is a little more motiva-

tion,” he said “The game against Harvard is also somewhat of a rivalry It’s always a fun game when you get to go into someone else’s stadium, in front of their fans, in the midst of an undefeated season and have the chance to beat them ”