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Police Of cer Shot After Chase; Suspect Charged

Ithaca police chief details events leading to shooting of Of cer Anthony Augustine

By REBECCA HARRIS Sun News Editor

At about 11 p m Thursday, the time of night his patrol shift would typically

e n d , It h a c a Po l i c e o f f i c e r A n t h o n y Augustine was instead running through the woods in pursuit of a suspect Moments later, as he emerged from the wooded area, he was struck by a single bullet that pierced the left side of his chest striking him just inches outside of his bulletproof vest

Augustine was shot in the West Hill area of the city, near the West Village Apartments complex, while pursuing a suspected car thief, later identified as Jamel Booker, 22, an Ithaca resident Augustine is recovering from his injuries at a hospital in Syracuse; Booker is in p o l i c e c u s t o d y a n d f a c e s m u l t i p l e charges

At a press conference Friday afternoon, Ithaca Police Chief Ed Vallely gave

a detailed account of the chain of events that occurred late Thursday night and into Friday morning His outline of the evening paints a clearer picture of a crime that has captivated residents of the city

At 1 0 : 1 7 p m T h u r s d a y, p o l i c e responded to a report that a vehicle was stolen out of a driveway on South Plain Street Augustine, the responding officer, began searching for the vehicle on the west side of the city

Less than an hour later, Augustine still patrolling the streets at the tail end of his 3 p m to 11 p m shift spotted the stolen 2002 Toyota Camry driving along

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

Closing a lawsuit that could have brought a halt to Cornell’s scanning and uploading eight million library books to the web, a federal district court ruled last week that the University has the right to make digital copies of its books

Since sealing an agreement with Google in 2007, Cornell has used its technology to scan and store or digitize more than 400,000 of its own books in an

West State Street He attempted to pull the vehicle over on nearby Elm Street

The driver, later identified as Booker, reportedly refused to stop, speeding up and leading Augustine to engage in a slow car chase Augustine called for backup, and a fellow IPD officer soon joined the pursuit

Approaching Elmcrest Circle, Booker abruptly fled the vehicle on foot and ran into a nearby wooded area Augustine and the other pursuing officer called for Booker to stop, chasing him into the

online repositor y called HathiTrust The process, University Librarian Anne Kenney said in court documents, provides an “inestimable potential benefit to research ”

But The Authors Guild, Inc , and other organizations representing authors, sued Cornell, four other universities and HathiTrust September 2011 for creating digital copies of the books, an act that they said amounted to “ one of the largest copyright infringements in history ” By digitizing the works, the plaintiffs alleged, the universi-

Inaction Could Hurt C.U. Research, Fin. Aid

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun Sen or Writer

In the face of a divided Congress failing to agree on how best to cut the countr y ’ s deficit, University administrators are monitoring Capitol Hill for signs that the government will default to a sequester: across-theboard budget cuts that could slash fund-

ing for Cornell’s fede r a l l y - s u p p o r t e d research and financial aid by 8 5 percent, effective next year The quandar y stems from the Budget Control Act, which states that, to compensate for the U S raising its debt ceiling, Congress must reduce its deficit through a mixture of

Man accused of shooting ha s long hi stor y of crime

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Ed tor

Jamel Booker, the man charged in connection with shooting an Ithaca Police officer

Thursday, has a trail of criminal records that include 13 prior arrests, multiple convictions and an attempted murder charge, according to court records

Just six months ago, Booker, 22, was battling charges that he attempted to murder a man allegedly shooting the victim multiple times in the torso after a brawl in the Elks Club on Green Street spiraled out of control

He contested the charges of attempted murder, assault and two counts of criminal possession of a weapon brought against him in June 2011 in the Tompkins County Court

As of Friday, however, the docket for the case had been sealed, or expunged from public records, according to officials at Tompkins County Court Under New York State law, criminal records can only be sealed immediately if the outcome of the case was favorable

ties collectively infringed copyright laws for a staggering seven million books Quashing the plaintiffs’ arguments, District Judge Harold Baer Jr ruled Wednesday that the universities did not break the law by digitizing their works a process he called an “invaluable contribution to the progress of science and cultivation of the arts ” The court ’ s decision may set precedent in future battles that erupt over copyright laws, as libraries around the countr y increasingly look to digitize their

collections It also roused the relief and praise of the Cornell Library, which risked losing its ability to continue digitizing works if the lawsuit had favored the plaintiffs “We were all thrilled by the judge’s decision and believe the outcome of this suit represents a major watershed in supporting fair use and the ‘ progress of science and useful arts, ’” Kenney wrote in an email Sunday “Digitization is valuable for Cornell students and faculty because it breathes new life

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New Ways of Seeing the Plant Genome 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 404 Plant Sciences Building

Cornell Field Hockey vs Davidson 4 p m - Midnight, Marsha Dodson Field

Thinking Through Michelle Obama: Black Studies and Black Feminism 4:30 p m , Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies and Research Center

Messenger Lecture Series: Lecture 1: “Writing Poetry”

7 - 8:30 p m , Hollis E Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Not a Feather But a Dot 7:15 - 9 p m , Cornell Cincema, Williard Straight Hall

Introduction to Zotero

15, 2012

weather FORECAST

Hi: 62° F Lo: 42° F Shower s

Though the week, unfortunately, gets going with some showers, don’t be discouraged! This week proves to be one of the final resur gences of mild temperatures before fall begins to fully take shape This fleeting bit of October warmth may be your last chance to step outside sans coat or gloves, so take advantage of temperatures above freez ing and the Wednesday sunshine Sadly though, the week will end the way it began: with rainfall

The coldest day of the week, Tuesday, proves that low temperatures are approaching , and we can only fight them off for so much longer before they really kick in!

Hi: 50° Lo: 37° Par tly Cloudy

Wednesday will bring a bit of delight with its sunshine and warmth, so revel in the rays Grab a cool drink and relax on the Arts Quad!

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3 - 4:30 p m , Stern Conference Room 160, Mann Library

The Role of Law, Politics and Economics In the Marketing of the Tunisian Revolution 4:15 - 5:55 p m , 276 Myron Taylor Hall

A Look Back: Four Years of President Obama’s Foreign Policy 4:30 - 6 p m , 110 Hollister Hall

Expulsados: La Tragedia de los Moriscos

8 - 10 p m , Seminar Room, Alice Cook House Tomorrow

A.E. Stallings

Poet, Translator Member, American Academy of Arts & Sciences

Lecture 1: “Writing Poetry”

Monday, October 15, 2012, 7:00 p m - 8:30 p m

Hollis E Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Lecture 2: “Translating Poetry”

Wednesday, October 17, 2012, 7:00 p m - 8:30 p m

Hollis E Cornell Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

Lecture 3: “Reading Poetry”

Thursday

October 18, 2012

7:00 p m - 7:45 p m , Johnson Museum

Thursday will offer similar temperatures as Wednesday; however, some pesky clouds will put a damper on all of the warmth

Hi: 64° Lo: 48° Par tly Cloudy

Friday will bring with it those tried and true Ithaca showers, so break out your rainboots today Nothing quite says TGIF like buckets of rain

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In Wake of Shooting, Thoughts of Ithacans Turn to IPD Of cer

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor and AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

Ithacans met the news that a city police officer had been shot with a mixture of horror and shock, taking to social media in the early morning hours Friday to find a sense of community in their collective fear and condolences

“My prayers and thoughts are with the police officer injured and his family,” Marilene Barros, who lives in Ithaca, said on Facebook “God bless us all and keep us out of harmful ways ”

Eliza VanCourt also expressed her dismay about the shooting

“This is horrific,” she said on Facebook “I know several people on the force So worried ”

The Ithaca Fire Department, which assisted in the investigation, expressed its support for Ithaca Police Officer Anthony Augustine, who, as of 5:15 a m , was still in surgery for his injuries

“The thoughts and prayers of all the Ithaca firefighters are with Officer Augustine” who was alert and conscious when he was airlifted to a hospital in Syracuse “and our city’s entire public safety family,” IFD said on its Facebook page at about 6:45 a m

The shooting followed another major public safety scare: Earlier Thursday, several buildings on the Commons were evacuated due to reports that a “possible explosive device” had been left outside the Bank of America downtown

“Cop shot near west village AND a bomb scare? Nothing like this happened when I lived there,” Lauren Siegert said on Twitter

On Wednesday, just one day before the bomb scare and shooting, Ithaca had been named the “ most security” city with a population under 150,000 by the Farmers Insurance company an irony not lost on city residents

“So much for that ‘safe town ’ award,” Rebecca Cameron, a laboratory technician at Cornell, said on Facebook

“Yeah, safe in what areas?” C J DelVecchio ’88, a broker in Ithaca, responded

Throughout the night, as police cars sped through the city and helicopters flew about in search of the shooter who remained at large for several hours Ithacans also tweeted out messages of fear

“Going to sleep to the sweet sounds of whirring helicopter blades,” tweeted Isha T “Will sleep better when the person is caught & they’re gone ”

Jess Anne S said that the knowledge that the shooter had not been caught at the time of her message made her uneasy

“Hope they catch the punk that shot the officer,” she added Mary Dart Blinn, writing on Facebook, agreed “I hope the officer will be okay and that they catch the person who did it," Blinn said "My thought are with his family ”

Perhaps summarizing the sentiment of all was DelVecchio, who said, “It has been a strange day in Ithaca, N Y ”

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Firefighters, Police Officers Urge Mayor to Kill Budget Plan

Ithaca firefighters and police officers spoke against Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 budget plan a public meeting Tuesday, saying that the reductions of the firefighters and police officers it entails will be detrimental to public safety

After Vandalization of Schwartz Center, Tri-Delta Sisters Will Perform Community Service

After an incident of vandalization at the Schwartz Center over Homecoming Weekend –– in which Tri-Delta letters were spray painted on the Schwartz Center –– chapter president Morgan Bookheimer ’13 said the members responsible will volunteer at the Schwartz Center to “offset” the damage

Compiled by Kerry Close

Author D íaz M.F. A .’95 Receives MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

By YIDAN XU Sun Contributor

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into historical scholarship ”

In his written judgment, Baer Jr dismissed the plaintiffs’ argument that Cornell did not fairly use digitization to advance “scholarship, teaching and research ”

Rather than give universities license to unfairly distribute content, as the guild asserted, digitization has allowed universities to preserve their library collections and protect works from “the face of normal deterioration” that would occur when books are used, lost, stolen or damaged in a natural disaster, Baer Jr said in his summary judgment

Adding to Baer Jr ’ s point, Kenney said that because physical copies of books can deteriorate over time due to the acidity in paper pages, digitization is a valuable means by which Cornell can preserve and replace such works

Baer Jr also threw out The Authors Guild’s claim that the universities digitized books instead of purchasing additional copies of them simply to save money In a jab at the logic of the plaintiffs’ argument, the judge characterized the claim as being “off the mark ”

While universities could have purchased extra copies of books rather than digitizing existing books to preserve their library collections, their goal was not just to preserve texts; it was also to advance research through

technological innovations, Baer Jr said in his judgment

For instance, through HathiTr ust, professors and researchers can rapidly comb through massive amounts of texts, search for keywords and find out how often they appear in texts, an innovation that Kenney said has paved the way for “ ne w forms of scholarly inquiry not possible in the print originals ”

By being able to search through the full text of digitized books from a computer at any time and place, researchers can rapidly “pinpoint when particular concepts first entered public consciousness” in texts a process that would otherwise be “extremely time-consuming given the volume of material available,” Kenney said By digitizing texts, universities can also give the visually impaired access to millions of works that the sighted can read in print, a move that Kenney also applauded

“Digital versions of print content hold great potential to support visually-impaired students,” she said, noting that digitized works can enlarge text size or even translate text into audio for visually-impaired scholars

The plaintiffs alleged that every time a university digitizes a text instead of re-purchasing it, an author loses an opportunity to sell the work Baer Jr , however, said that scenario was unrealistic Because texts in their physical form do not allow universities to

aid the visually impaired or let researchers rapidly search through works, digitized texts do not detract from the sales of physical texts, he said

Baer Jr also rejected the plaintiffs’ question of whether copying texts even to make them available to the blind was legal, citing a past case that stated “ a copy of a copyrighted work for the convenience of a blind person is expressly identified by the House Committee Report as an example of a fair use ”

Especially since the blind are not considered to make up a significant or lucrative market for publishers and authors, Baer Jr said, the universities gave sufficient proof to argue that they are digitizing texts not for monetary profit but for scholarly purposes

“It is minorities such as this that Congress sought to protect through enactments like the [Americans With Disabilities Act],” he said

While Cornell and other universities celebrate the victory, for The Authors Guild, the legal battle to stop digitization is unlikely to be over

The organization released a statement Friday saying it “disagree[d] with nearly every aspect of the court ’ s ruling ” It added that its members will be discussing Baer Jr s decision with partners in Canada, Europe and Australia and “expect[s] to announce our next steps shortly ”

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun com

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woods

There, the two officers’ paths diverged: Augustine followed Booker along one trail, while the second officer followed another path in an attempt to cut Booker off Augustine caught up to Booker just as the two emerged from the woods Booker reportedly turned back toward Augustine, lifted a handgun, and fired one shot, according to Vallely’s report

The bullet struck Augustine in his upper left chest area just shy of the bulletproof vest he was wearing No shots were fired by police, Vallely said Booker then escaped on foot to the nearby West Village Apartments complex

Over the next few hours, dozens of emergency responders, including state troopers and two helicopters, swarmed the scene

Harris can be reached at rharris@cornellsun com

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to the defendant: acquitting the defendant or dismissing the case altogether

Gwen Wilkinson, the Tompkins County District Attorney, said in an inter view Friday afternoon that the attempted murder charge against Booker was dismissed by a lower court Wilkinson has appealed the decision, but said that further pursuit of the charge against Booker is currently “pending an appeal from a trial court order of dismissal ” It would not be the first time Booker was brought to court

In August 2010, Booker was stopped by Ithaca Police Investigator Donald Barker as he drove by the officer, according to court documents Moments earlier, Barker had recognized Booker’s face testifying later that he was “personally aware ” that Booker did not have a valid driver s license

Before he took action, Barker called for backup “ as an extra precaution because the defendant was alleged to have connections to several recent violent crimes,” the documents say Proceeding to remove Booker and his three passengers from the

car, Barker found a “large, opened knife” and several clear bags of cocaine stashed away in one of the car ’ s compartments, according to the documents As the police brought charges against Booker for unlawful possession of cocaine with the intent of selling it and driving without a valid license, Booker’s mother, Janice Booker, told investigators she believed her son would show up to court proceedings because he “has nowhere to go ”

Able to convince that the court throw out the cocaine as evidence because it was not rightfully seized from his car, Booker was found guilty of operating a motor vehicle with a suspended license and sentenced to the maximum period of incarceration in Januar y 2011, according to the documents

Even before the episode, Booker’s “ rap sheet,” the court noted, stretched further back into his youth including sentencing for a three-year probation as a youthful offender that began in 2007; sentencing for a five-year probation in 2008; and time behind the bars of Tompkins County Jail in April 2009

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun com

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according to Dianne Miller, director of federal relations at Cornell If Congress does not agree on an alternate budget to reduce the countr y ’ s deficit by $1 2 trillion before the end of the year, the sequester will take effect on Jan 2, 2013 possibly imperiling several Cornell programs

Among the government agencies that could be affected is the National Science Foundation, which, in Fiscal Year 2010, gave Cornell $141 9 million 30 8 percent of its total research funding according to Cornell’s website According to Miller, if the budget cuts are approved, “maintaining the current level that [Cornell’s laboratories] have will be much more difficult ”

“Our scientists are ver y good at obtaining funding, but [if the sequester is implemented], there would be fewer opportunities and less money to compete for,”

Miller said

The cuts could also potentially slash millions of dollars in financial aid grants for Cornell, such as the government ’ s Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant a federal grant program that provides additiona

“exceptional need” for aid, according to the Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment website

While the cuts, if they go into effect, would affect Cornell students starting in Fall 2013, Tom Keane, director of financial aid for scholarships and policy analysis, said that the University “will probably pick up that funding source ”

“ We put over $220 million into our financial aid pro-

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gram, so if were to lose a million or two million dollars for the [Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant] program, that’s a problem, but it’s not a huge problem,” he said “It means the University has to make priorities ”

Keane said that Cornell is “unlikely to turn to students to cover ” any federal shortfall in funds for FSEOG

Another program potentially at risk is Federal Work Study, which provides part-time employment to students to help pay for their educational expenses, according to the Office of Financial Aid and Student Employment’s website In the 2009-10 academic year, FWS-eligible students earned nearly $3 million working on campus, the website states

Keane, however, expressed skepticism that Congress will fail to come to a compromise on the budget to prevent the sequester from taking effect He also said he doubts that the FWS program ’ s funding will be cut, since many political candidates in the current election season are advocating policies that promote employment

“All [political] parties are talking about getting America back to work, so it would be really surprising to see anybody suggest the work-study program not get funded,” Keane said

Miller said that, although groups have pressured Congress to maintain current funding levels for federal programs, final decisions on the budget will not be made until after the presidential election The wait has left groups that rely on federal funding in a “holding pattern, waiting to see what is going to come out, ” she said Keane echoed Miller’s sentiments, adding that, once the election is over, he hopes Congress will return to Capitol Hill to help balance the budget, which would prevent the 8 5 percent across-the-board cuts that remain

a possibility

In the meantime, though, Keane said he is “going to worr y about the 14,000 [undergraduates] that are here and not worr y about something I can ’ t control in Washington ”

One professor who receives federal funding for his research, Prof Peter Enns, government, said he hopes that, since the proposed, across-the-board budget cuts would affect multiple federal agencies, Congress will come to a compromise to avoid the sequester

The cuts, if approved, will have “widespread implications in a lot of domains but that also makes it more likely that there will be a postponement or agreement [on the budget] of some sort, ” Enns said

Although he expects to hear back from the National Science Foundation about renewing his research funding before a sequester would be enacted, Enns said he has already adjusted his grant proposal in light of the possibility of budget cuts, in the hopes of maximizing the chances that his request will be approved

“In proposing my budget, I was ver y conscious to request only what was necessar y, ” he said

As administrators and professors wait to see how Congress will decide to balance the budget, Miller expressed frustration at the possibility that Congress, in an effort to chip away at the countr y ’ s deficit, might turn to a sequester

“[ The sequester is] a blunt instrument to get at a real problem, which is balancing the budget, but it takes away the ability to make decisions about priorities,” Miller said

Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun com

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JUAN FORRER ’13 Editor in Chief

HELENE BEAUCHEMIN 13

RUBY PERLMUTTER 13

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A Tou g h Path For ward for O bama

Well loyal readers, it’s my favorite time of year Well actually, it s my favorite time of every four years It s the time of year where my interest in politics is no longer a crippling social detriment

No longer do members of the opposite sex turn and run at the very sight of me, and mothers no longer have to scold their children for pointing, staring and laughing

That’s right, it’s election season, and I’ve got a bad case of Election Fever

If you ’ re reading this column, it likely means that you ’ re interested in the upcoming election or it means that you ’ re my parents Hi, Dad! Either way, what follows is my best assessment of the race as it stands

Enough celebrating, let s talk politics!

I don’t need to tell you that President Obama had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad debate performance two weeks ago I don’t need to tell you because, even if you didn’t watch the debate you ’ ve heard about how poorly he did For the week and a half that followed the debate the media elite (myself included) have been ridiculing his performance

In fact, you can ’ t swing a dead cat around Cornell without hitting an Obama supporter, head in her hands, lamenting the coming of President Romney’s first term

However, Democrats really should not be exceedingly concerned about the President’s lackluster debate performance The President was riding a bump in the polls that had continued after the conventions A bump somewhat propelled by the release of a secret recording of Governor Romney saying, “47 percent of Americans are going to vote for the President no matter what, and they are also never going to take personal responsibility for themselves,” foolishly adding, “Oh, and by the way I hate puppies ”

And yet, even after a frustratingly poor debate performance and an outrageously damaging hidden camera video, neither candidate has amassed all that much of a lead

as of now

This tells us something about the fundamental essence of this presidential race, it’s close Really, really close Barring some shocking development, this election’s outcome will look a lot more like 2000, and 2004 and not much like 2008

There are five to six percent of voters who are willing to break for either candidate, and after the conventions, a lot of them started breaking for President Obama However, after the first debate, those voters quickly abandoned the President These people are not new to Obama, they most likely voted for him four years ago But, the debate proved that they are dissatisfied with him and it does not take too much to take them out of Obama’s column

That said, they are not par ticularly fond of Governor Romney Only a handful of reputable polls have shown Romney with a lead outside of the margin of error

The first debate did not doom Obama to defeat, but it underscored how important and difficult his next two debates are going to be Difficult, but not impossible The post-convention bump proved that Obama can sway swing voters

This week’s debate, a town-hall style event, will be especially hard for the President, with plenty of questions sure to come on his weakest subject, the economy

Entering the battle for the Republican nomination, Mitt Romney s record was of a Massachusetts moderate, with a troubling propensity for flip-flopping Through the course of the primaries, Governor Romney began taking increasingly conservative positions He labeled himself as somebody who was “severely conservative,” and began proposing policies like a 20 percent across-the-board marginal tax cut, and vowed to spend at least four percent of the nation’s GDP on defense Suddenly, it became in the Obama campaign’s best interest to attack Romney as being too conservative for middle of the road voters, opposed to going after him for his flip-flopping Romney’s “47 percent ” comments only furthered to encourage Obama’s people to continue attacking the Governor as too conservative

There was only one problem with this plan; Mitt Romney is not a severe conservative

Romney’s proposed policies are severely conservative, and his campaign’s statements are severely conservative, but Romney himself isn’t This may seem like a curious conclusion to draw, but it isn’t really Romney has no ideology, he simply says what he feels like he needs to say in order to win over the audience in front of him

Romney is like a political version of Schrödinger's cat; we never know what position he’s going to take until we actually see him take it in front of our eyes So until you hear the words coming out of his mouth at the moment he’s speaking, you have no idea what position he is going to take, regardless of any past pattern of behavior

When President Obama took the stage in the first debate, he came prepared to go after “severely conser vative” Romney’s proposed plans and campaign statements The Obama campaign clearly forgot about Romney's willingness to abandon his previous positions at the drop of a hat

Romney got on stage and turned his back on many of the plans he’s proposed From a tactical standpoint, it was brilliant Governor Romney was able to challenge the President’s depictions of him as radically conservative by just out and out morphing policies he’d been otherwise touting for months

Fortunately for President Obama, Joe Biden delivered a very good performance last week in the Vice-Presidential debate Biden came out swinging, attacking Paul Ryan’s inconsistencies and misdirecting as “malarkey,” even in a few cases when it wasn ’ t

It seems to be a winning formula A CBS News snap poll of undecided voters after the debate found that 50 percent thought Biden had won, and 31 percent thought Ryan had won President Obama has a tough fight ahead of him, Governor Romney is a talented debater and he seems to really enjoy it The President, on the other hand, doesn’t much care for debates, and has never been particularly good at them

But, if he prepares to show up against Mitt Romney the flip-flopper, and can attack him for his wild inconsistencies, he ought to be able to deliver a much stronger performance than he did last time

Noah Karr-Kaitin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations He may be reached at nkarrkaitin@cornellsun com Plain Hokum appears alternate Mondays this semester

W hat We Talk About W hen

We Talk About

Energ y

Last Thursday, Mark Orlowski, founder and executive director of the Sustainable Endowments Institute gave a lecture on campus about his organization’s efforts to establish revolving loan funds to advance universities’ energy efficiency efforts Such funds are typically launched by dipping into endowments but are continually replenished with the savings on energy costs

In the past year, ardent and persistent campaigning from students who have since established Energy Corps has yet to result in such a fund at this university While I support Energy Corps and SEI for championing a selfsustaining funding stream for energy efficiency projects, I am not yet convinced that such funds and their concomitant projects result in a meaningful net reduction in energy use

When I asked if the specific projects advocated by SEI were mostly technology retrofits targeted toward infrastructure, for example motion sensor lights, or if they included behavior change campaigns targeted toward users, Orlowski was careful to say that SEI focused on funding and left project selection up to each school

Sure, retrofitting a building or dorm reduces energy consumption and carbon emissions, but if the University continues expanding in Ithaca and beyond, tweaks here and there will not balance the carbon books as more services are provided and students served I am not anti-growth and share the excitement for the tech campus and other facets of our burgeoning global presence I do, however, want to urge that as we cast our eyes on greater prospects, we must also hold the University to its commitment of climate neutrality by 2050

Energy use, of course, is a mind-numbing practical and ethical dilemma facing not just universities but consumers at every level from individuals to the world as a whole It is certainly a big ticket issue in the presidential election, whether a voter is more concerned with securing supplies of fuel, access to which fluctuates with domestic and international politics, or more concerned with abating the environmental consequences of present and projected energy practices

Energy independence is a far more complicated goal than the emerging reality the candidates have made it out to be In the first debate, President Obama celebrated that “oil and natural gas production are higher than they’ve been in years ” Indeed, as James Burkhard of IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates has testified in the Senate, “A ‘Great Revival in US oil production is taking place a major break from the near 40year trend of falling output ” Forty years ago, the U S was also in the grips of the Arab oil embargo, which cemented fuel supply as a supreme source of national anxiety

The load of the U S ’ s oil imports is lightened by increased production and decreased demand (According to IHS CERA, this is due to higher fuel economy standards about as close as this administration has gotten to environmental reforms and an aging population ) However, the $70 billion and growing invested in 2010 to develop U S oil and gas belies a continuing long-term dependence on fossil fuels

The shift from reliance on foreign fossil fuel sources to domestic ones is not all that stabilizing We have now deigned to figuratively scrape oil and gas from the very bottom

of the barrel The reserves that have trumpeted this Great Revival, such as Marcellus shale gas, Alberta tar (oil) sands, Arctic oil and deep offshore oil, can only be tapped at steep costs to fossil fuel companies, ecosystems and people

These unconventional fuels, or forms of extreme energy in the words of Hampshire College professor Michael T Klare, require

extraction methods which are unprecedentedly invasive and which use inordinate amounts of water and release toxic amounts of waste Due to environmental and human health concerns, activists in America, Canada and around the world have mounted successful campaigns to delay hydrofracking in New York, the building of the Keystone XL to pipe tar sands to refineries and drilling in the Arctic by Shell The Great Revival is unquestionably beset with practical and ethical uncertainties which companies, policymakers and consumers must wrangle with I am one of those voters who is more concerned with environmental consequences than with fuel supply, and I don’t harbor any illusion that my camp is necessarily on higher moral ground I would say that we are uninterested in business as usual, which is what

further development of fossil fuels would maintain, at best Sandra Steingraber writes in Living Downstream, a book about the environmental causes of cancer, of “the unimaginative way things are ” She attacks the unremitting momentum of petrochemical development (for fuel, for industrial products and for consumer goods) in the face of undeniable evidence tying the industry to environ-

mental and human health problems

For the U S to rejoice in further oil and gas exploitation, not as a crutch for advancing toward a truly energy independent future, but as an insistence on squeezing out every murky drop of oil and undisturbed pocket of gas is to be deeply unimaginative

When we talk about increasing energy efficiency at Cornell without talking about reducing overall energy use, and when we talk about cutting dependency on foreign fuels without talking about building capacity for new domestic energy sources, we fall short on thinking through the full spate of practical and ethical considerations

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Here Come The Playaaas

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“Here come the playaaas!” And yes, they were fine

Craig Ferguson and opener Josh Robert Thompson tickled The State Theatre Thursday night, filling the theater with great jokes and raucous laughter Starting off with Thompson who warmed up the crowd with perfect impressions, and closing with Ferguson and Thomson performing their Geoff Peterson and Craig schtick, the night left the audience pretty satisfied (I’ll get to that inside joke later) My only real problem with the night was the mother who decided it was a good idea to bring along her restless toddler But I digress It’s time to get to the actual show

Comedian and voice actor Josh Robert Thompson started off the show with his signature Geoff catchphrase, “Here come the playaaas!” For those not familiar with The Late Late Show, Thompson plays Ferguson’s sidekick in the form of a gay robot skeleton, Geoff Peterson Tr ying to get the audience to work off of each other was the real joke, however Those in the orchestra sections could get the “Here come the playaaas!” but the balcony people really struggled with “ They so fiiinnne ” The joke continued throughout the night with those in the balcony regularly missing their cue The rest of Thompson’s routine was thoroughly entertaining as well

He also has an impressive knack for impressions which he showed off with potential bedroom encounters This allowed the audience to escape into the boudoir with their favorite celebrities Who knew that having sex with Robert Downey, Jr would be such a drag with his incessant need to talk? Saying things like “[d]on’t worr y about the five o ’clock shadow down there; just pretend you ’ re hugging a cactus with your mouth” could kill your mood ladies (at least in the way Thompson put it) Nothing, though, could top Mr Thompson’s rendition of Morgan Freeman reading from the runaway hit, 50 Shades of Grey In fact, the impression was so good that Thompson has even received a cease-and-desist from Freeman himself after a video of it became viral on YouTube Luckily, Thompson took that to refer only to web content and felt free to perform it live He capped it off with Regis Philbin reading the book which was slightly more than I could handle Overall, Thompson performed a solid set of impressions although it did feel like the audience was left wanting more But then again, ever yone was there for a certain Scotsman waiting in the

Craig Ferguson at the State Theatre

wings

Enter the man of the hour, Craig Ferguson He started off with his usual opening, “It’s a great day for America, ever ybody!” Thus began a night of expletives, offenses, histor y lessons, addiction-addled anecdotes and sexual gratification essentially your basic comic routine grievances Now, anyone who was expecting the typical tame monologue form that is his style on The Late Late Show, was in for a surprise It is always interesting to see the true comic form of any late night talk show host once they get free rein on stage Ferguson was so free on that stage that it made him super tw that he is normally stoic, but th es were more noticeable live on rather than in front of a camera then started off the night mak fun of the rude hobos of Itha while still remarking how wel come it is compared to the

home He then riffed on family life for a while, clearly playing to an audience that was of an older demographic

effects on the eye upon seeing a child come into the world It made Ferguson question going back there again at least for little while Which led to the ins joke I mentioned earlier in w Ferguson proceeded to air pleasu “ladycock” (as he so eloquently the women in the audience was repeated throughout the night

through direct targeting of audience members who cheered at the wrong times or through analysis of transgenders or the teletubbies, Ferguson was a force to be reckoned with

Along with the earlier candidness, Ferguson tackled his cocaine-addicted and alcoholic days, all with reser ved judgment Although judging by his twitchiness, the remnants of those hazy insane days still afflict the comic ever y day It could also be due to his shark dive without the cage in the Bahamas But that was pretty much the ilarity of his act While delving topic of his childhood and life n Scotland, the act began to fall It was sadder at times than the ny thrill ride that Ferguson had ven the audience thus far The aughs began to fade away And the last attempt to revive the audience with a live rendition o

Next came the topic of getting on television and the histor y of asses Now how does one segue from one subject to the other? None other than the most famous Armenian ass of them all: Kim Kardashian I mean, the man did have some great examples: Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Hitler Yes, Hitler Who doesn’t love a good Nazi joke? No group will be sending hate mail, then This also holds true for Canadians, in Ferguson’s opinion These are the only two groups that can take a joke and will not necessarily identify themselves even if offended which is a shame as Ferguson held nothing back while

between host and the gay robot skeleton, also failed to fully deliver They tried to prove the point that the act is a l w a y s i m p r ov

show Although that may be true, they probably have more preparation with a rehearsal ather than the raw skit they put n for all on stage

Despite the lackluster ending to evening, overall the night of y was enjoyable There were y ab workouts from some hearty It was also a breath of fresh air to see the comedian fully let go rather than act within the confines of a scripted talk show If ever you get the chance, go see Craig Ferguson live You are guaranteed to laugh and feel no remorse for doing so even if it is so morally wrong Because the most important lesson of the night is to not be so sensitive about a fucking joke Oh,

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Arts Around Town

8 p m on Thursday The State Theatre

Charlyn Marie Marshall who performs under the stage name Cat Power will bring her soft but danceable compositions to The State Theatre Power’s repertoire over the past 16 years has consisted of mostly soft tracks with haunting harmonies and alternative melodies Her most recent album, Sun, is significantly more upbeat than her past work and makes use of alt/electro synthesizers, making the more experimental tracks feel almost like a collection of indie dance music Fans of artists like Feist or Sharon Van Etten should check out Cat Power, as should anyone looking to enjoy an evening with a quirky performer with an impressive vocal range Cornell Concert Commission has teamed up with Dan Smalls Presents to provide discounted tickets, available for students at cornellconcerts com

Scarsella Cat Power

Little Shop of Horrors

Afternoon and evening shows, October 18 to October 20 Risley Theatre

It’s the time of the year when leaves redden, pumpkins get har vested and days turn dark rapidly Risley Theatre’s production of the comedy horror rock musical Little Shop of Horrors comes just in time for this moody month Risley’s spoof of the 1950s horror movie humorously stalks an unlucky floral assistant who chances upon fame and romance after discovering a mysterious plant that craves blood What could be a better setting than a windowless theater with towering balconies for melodramatic horror? Or, if you ’ re just interested in watching a killer plant sing R&B, there will be five showings this weekend at Risley Hall

Meredith Joyce

DOld Dog at Cornell Cinema 7:15 p m on Thursday Willard Straight Hall

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“We’re going to enjoy the win against Yale, but it’s over, so now we’re moving on ”

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c o a c h i n g l a n d m a rk a s h e re c o rd e d h i s 3 0 t h c a re e r w i n w i t h t h e Re d a n d Ha b e r t i e d f o r f i f t h a l l - t i m e i n t e a m h i s t o r y f o r p o i n t s ( 6 5 ) “ L i k e we a l w a y s s a i d , re c o rd s a re m e a n t t o b e b ro k e n , b u t i t ’ s d e f -

i n i t e l y s o m e t h i n g t o b e p ro u d o f, ” Za w i s l a n s a i d “ It’s a n o t h e r s t e p i n t h e r i g h t d i re c t i o n ” Wi t h o n e m o re w i n u n d e r i t s b e l t , t h e Re d w i l l l o o k t o p re p a re f o r t h e n e x t g a m e o n t h e s c h e d u l e Ac c o rd i n g t o Re g a n , t h e t e a m i s a l w a y s l o o k i n g f o r w a rd “ We’re g o i n g t o e n j oy t h e w i n a g a i n s t Ya l e , b u t n ow i t ’ s ove r, s o n ow we ’ re m ov i n g o n , ” h e s a i d T h e t e a m s i t s a t a p e r f e c t 3 - 0 i n Iv y L e a g u e p l a y, w i t h t w o p o i n t s ove r No 1 9 Brow n a n d t h re e ove r Da r t m o u t h Fo u r g a m e s re m a i n f o r t h e Re d , a l l o f w h i c h a re a g a i n s t c l o s e l y r a n k e d Iv y t e a m s W h i l e

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s a i d “ We’ve g o t t o k e e p i t g o i n g , a n d we ’ re n o t h a p p y w i t h 3 - 0 b e c a u s e we ’ ve b e e n h e re b e f o re a n d h a d a l e t - u p ” A s t h e re g u l a r s e a s o n c o n t i n u e s t o w i n d d ow n , n a t i o n a l c o m p et i t i o n b e g i n s t o c o m e i n t o v i e w, a s t h e w i n n e r o f t h e Iv y c o n f e re n c e w i l l re c e i ve a b i d t o t h e N C A A t o u r n a m e n t Howe ve r, t h e Re d i s n o t f o c u s i n g o n t h e n a t i o n a l t o u r n a m e n t a n d i s i n s t e a d k e e p i n g i t s s i g h t s s e t o n t h e c o n f e re n c e c row n “ T h e n u m b e r o n e g o a l i s n o t o n l y c o m p e t i n g , b u t g o i n g a f t e r t h e Iv y L e a g u e c h a m p i o n s h i p, ” Za w i s l a n s a i d “ By w i n n i n g t h e Iv y L e a g u e c h a m p i o n s h i p, yo u w i n t h e a u t o m a t i c b i d a n d t h a t i s t h e m o s t a s s u re d w a y o f g o i n g t o t h e n a t i o n a l t o u r n a m e n t ” T h e Re d w i l l c o n t i n u e i t s j o u r n e y t o c o m p e t e f o r t h e Iv y t i t l e t h i s we e k e n d , t r a ve l i n g t o Prov i d e n c e , R I , t o f a c e Brow n

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Route to More Ivy Play

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“We’ve learned in the past, especially against Rutgers when we blew a 3-1 lead, that no lead can ever be too safe,” she said “It was great to make it 2-0, but that doesn’t seal the deal, but once it got to 3-0, that took the pressure off and we could play a little more conservatively and calmly ”

The Red allowed only 5 shots on goal in route to the shutout victory According to Bannon, effective ball movement from the defense up the field allowed the Red to minimize the Crimson’s chances

“It was a very strong defensive effort During practice last week we really talked about connecting passes and taking advantage of the spaces in Har vard’s

defense From the backfield going upward, we were able to utilize the gaps they had to connect with different players, which was helpful in the keeping the ball out of our end ”

The Red hosts Davidson tomorrow in an out-of-conference matchup According to Bannon, the Red will look to win tomorrow ’ s contest and thereby maintain its positive momentum for the rest of the Ivy League schedule

“We’re hoping to keep the momentum that we ’ ve gained from the win against Harvard, and to solidify what we do well as a team, in order to be ready for our next Ivy League game against Brown next weekend ”

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in the game.

Red Missed Change Against Har vard

VOLLEYBALL

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On Friday, Cornell did not achieve a positive result against Harvard, as the team committed 34 errors with just a 138 hitting percentage The Red won the third set, 27-25, and had 17 kills and 11 errors in the set In the fourth Harvard, won 2520 and recorded a solid 333 hitting percentage with 13 kills and just two errors

“We missed a big a opportunity against Harvard,” Batie-Smoose said “We just did not show up mentally and physically, but we could have matched up well against them We just did not serve well and pass well which usually are our strengths

Junior captain Kelly Marble led the team with 18 kills, while Zheng again led the team with 42 assists

“We definitely should have beat both

of the teams this weekend,” Marble said “We just couldn’t make a mental switch during the Harvard game in order to beat them ”

The Red continues their Ivy League play next weekend against Columbia in Newman Arena in the “Dig Pink” weekend The game against the Lions is Cornell’s only one of the weekend before they go on a four-game road trip in consecutive weekends against Brown, Yale, Dartmouth and Harvard

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A mrhein, Mathews Combine Forces

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number on the first play from scrimmage with a pinpoint 34-yard heave to a diving Tasker

Amrhein never looked back, making the smart and simple throws early in the game to set up big chunks later He registered the secondhighest single-game passing mark in Cornell history behind Mathews’ 548 in last year ’ s finale at Penn It was the fourth passing output of at least 489 yards in the Red’s last seven contests dating back to 2011

“Coach [Kent Austin] just told me to stick with my reads [and] if they’re giving up the underneath routes, to take them,” the senior who may have a fifth year of eligibility said “They were helping open up deeper routes too ”

The decision to hold out Mathews didn’t come until Saturday morning The 2011 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, who started 23 straight games and had played in all 24 contests since arriving at Cornell, suffered an unspecified neck injury is last week’s loss at Harvard and remains day-to-day Mathews had 862 more pass attempts of collegiate experience than Amrhein before the battle against the Hawks, but Tasker said he couldn’t tell much of a difference

Chris was prepared He was ready to go mentally with the film and he’s got a strong arm, ” said Tasker, who caught 11 balls and became the sixth-ever Cornellian with 2,000 career receiving yards “It’s as if we didn’t have a backup in there He was ready to take over the game and he did

“For a guy that hasn’t played to execute at the level that he executed is a credit to him and his preparation and to our staff to know what he does well,” Austin added Monmouth’s signal caller, senior Kyle Frazier, was also sharp as neither defense offered many answers after the first quarter Frazier connected on 35-of-45 throws for 451 yards and four touchdowns while a committee of rushers, including the team-leading Frazier, contributed 151 yards on the ground A budding Cornell defense has allowed 1,146 yards and 83 points in its last two outings, albeit against two excellent offenses

“[Monmouth] is a good offense they always have been,” said junior linebacker and defensive co-captain Brett Buehler, who had a monster game with 13 tackles, a sack and a forced fumble “They have two really good running backs [and] their quarterback is a good runner [who] makes his reads on the run Of course we expected to shut them down, but we knew

they had the ability to do what they did ”

Four plays after Buehler knocked the ball loose from Monmouth senior tight end Tyler George, Nacita put the first points on the board with a one-yard sneak off a direct snap in the final minute of the opening quarter The Silascat ” formation worked throughout the contest, helping the rookie became the first Red player since 1983 to score four rushing touchdowns in a game, none longer than six yards

Cornell led at halftime, 17-14, despite surrendering an 85-yard touchdown strike from Frazier to wide-open senior flanker Tristan Roberts and having a 19-yard passing score of its own called back due to a holding penalty

The referees flagged the Red for holding four times before intermission, but the Cornell offensive line with freshman center Zach Wilk admirably replacing injured senior offensive cocaptain Bob Bullington was otherwise flawless in pass protection The men up front provided Amrhein several seconds on each play to

“We’re young on defense it’s a challenge for us ”

move around the pocket, scan the defense and improvise

“[The offensive line] did an unbelievable job,” Amrhein, who was sacked once, said “They’re a great group of guys They kept me off my butt for most of the game Hats off to them ”

Monmouth was stuck playing catch up for most of the matchup, though the Hawks did take their first lead of the day with a 28-yard field goal in the last minute of the third quarter Amrhein didn’t seem to mind on the ensuing drive, placing two beautiful throws into Tasker s hands a 37-yarder on a play-action fake and a 41-yarder over the middle

The second catch broke the previous Cornell single-game receiving record of 204 yards, but the referees inexplicably called Tasker down on the one-yard line when it appeared that he stretched a few yards deep into the end zone Nacita made it a moot point by cashing in his first of three fourth-quarter touchdown gallops to hand the Red back the advantage, 27-23, with 14:03 remaining in the game

“As a receiving corps, we were on-point today,” Tasker said after a reviving sure-handed performance by the Red pass-catchers Senior wide receiver Kurt Ondash had an effective six grabs for 66 yards while freshman running back Luke Hagy caught five passes for 54 and junior

receiver Grant Gellatly pitched in three receptions for 62 Amrhein connected with a seasonhigh eight different receivers, the most since the Red’s blowout of Wagner on Oct 1 of last year

Freshman defensive lineman Logan Murphy recorded his first of two sacks on third-and-8 to end a short Monmouth possession, then yet another Amrhein-Tasker hookup over the top of the defense brought Cornell near the goal-line Nacita ran it in from three yards out to stretch the lead to 11 points with 10:35 to play

Once Monmouth sophomore wide receiver Eric Sumlin responded with a 28-yard sliding catch in the front of the end zone on third-and13 (plus a two-point conversion), Nacita capped off his four-score game with a six-yard prance that put the Red up, 41-31, with 4:15 to go

The Hawks gave themselves one last shot with just over a minute left on the clock when 64, 235-pound sophomore receiver Neal Sterling dragged Cornell freshman safety James White on his back for the last 10 yards of a 25-yard score

“We’re young on defense it’s a challenge for us, ” Austin said “But really, it’s a credit to their offense We could play better obviously ”

But Ondash then made two plays to ice the game and complete his rebound performance after Harvard shut him down for no catches The senior recovered Monmouth’s ensuing onsides kick, and on third-and-6 from the Hawks’ 38, he caught a pass from Amrhein and made it up the left sideline just enough to pick up the first down, run out the clock and send the visitors back to West Long Branch, New Jersey, with a 41-38 defeat

Cornell entered the contest converting only 33 percent of its third downs, but a cool Amrhein and his fellow playmakers moved the chains on 10-of-17 as Mathews coached from the sideline

I like to say I m his eyes when he s on the field [and] he’s my eyes, ” Amrhein said “He was helping me with everything walking me through reads and helping me get shortcuts on coverages and what not ”

“Jeff and Chris are both lights out, ” Austin noted “They support each other, they want each other to do well and they don’t care who gets the credit ”

Back above 500, Cornell enters the second half of its 2012 schedule, all against Ivy squads, at Brown on Saturday The team hits the road for the fourth time in its first six weeks of the season to play the Bears, whom Princeton shut out in a surprising 19-0 win over the weekend

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Despite Multiple Chances, Cornell Comes Up Short

By HALEY VELASCO

Assistant Sports Ed tor

This past Saturday, the women ’ s soccer team suffered a loss at the hands of Yale adding to what has been a challenging season so far for the team The Bulldogs (5-7-0, 1-3-0 Ivy League) took home the tight 1-0 victory from the Red (1-111, 0-3-1 Ivy), due to a corner kick and a lucky deflection that led to the game winner in the 84th minute of play

“It was really frustrating to come out losing It was a corner kick and was low driven I am not really sure what happened,” said junior goalkeeper Tori Christ “I went up for it and I don’t know if someone got a touch on it before or after, but it was obviously just really disappointing to lose that way I thought we were evenly matched and everything ”

The loss for Cornell was not due to a lack of shooting

the Red made 14 shots, four of them on target, while the Bulldogs only made six scoring attempts but the team seemed just not able to capitalize on the opportunities to score Christ had four saves for the day, matching Yale; however,

she had no shot at grabbing and stopping the game winner

“[The players’] work in training has been very good The last couple of weeks they have had a couple of our best training sessions of the year, ” said head coach Patrick Farmer “You would have thought that they would have been down after losing their first two Ivy games, but they have been working hard I think that that part is okay I think that their expectations and my expectations are getting a little more in line right now ” Cornell continues the rest of its Ivy season and will head on the road for the last time on Sunday, Oct 21 to match up with Brown

“Brown for sure is a big focus for us obviously, just coming in and taking it game by game, a big focus is beating

Brown,” Christ said “Personally, I just need to keep making the saves that keep us in the game I think that is the biggest thing to just keep staying focused ”

The Red then continues the rest of the season with Princeton and Dartmouth at home

“I think for us it is going to be coming in with the mindset to play the full 90 minutes and coming out strong just taking good chances,” Christ said “Like when we have shots on goal, we need to be sure we are getting them on goal and following up and being tight in the back I think it is going to be about discipline ”

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Standiford, Balleza Contribute to 4-0 Shutout O

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The field hockey team was on a four game winning streak heading into its Saturday contest with Harvard and looked to extend it to five The Red proved victorious in convincing fashion, beating the Crimson (3-9, 1-3 Ivy League), 4-0 With the win, Cornell improved to a record of 31 in Ivy League play and 6-6 overall, and it moved up to second place in the Ivy League standings

“We’re definitely excited to have won this game, ” said junior forward Hannah Balleza

“We have gone back and forth in previous years Two years ago we won a close game and last year we lost, so we kind of figured it would be a pretty tight game, which in the end it wasn ’ t, but it was a great win and we ’ re in a great position now going forward ”

CORNELL

The Red took a 1-0 lead in the 12th minute of play on a goal by freshman midfielder Taylor Standiford This was her first of two goals on the day According to junior midfielder Mallory Bannon, scoring first gave the Red momentum and set the

team on track for maintaining a competitive edge throughout the rest of the game

“It was really important to take the early lead, not that you can take anything for granted, but getting that first one gave us momentum for the rest of the game, ” she said “Once you get one you know its possible to get more, so it kind of opens up the door for you

Standiford also netted the Red’s fourth goal of the game in the second half According to Bannon, it was encouraging to see goals being scored from the midfield

ver Crimson

position and to get significant production from a freshman

“Taylor executed what we had planned in practice very well,” she said “It’s great to have a lot of different people scoring, to get contributions from everyone and to see freshmen stepping up ”

The Red maintained the 1-0 advantage until midway through the second half, when Balleza scored two goals just 10 minutes apart According to Balleza, it was important for the Red to build a safe lead in order to finish off the victory

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Red O wn s Yale, S et s P rog ram Record

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

Sophomore midfielder/defender Atticus DeProspo was airborne after scoring his second goal of the season, as his excited teammates lifted him up in celebration of the Red’s 2-0 lead over Yale DeProspo combined efforts with senior forward and tri-captain Tyler Regan and junior forward Daniel Haber to record Cornell’s 3-0 shutout in front of a record-setting 1,121 fans The crowd witnessed another record being made, as the team earned its program-best 12th straight victory

The No 16 Red welcomed Ivy rival Yale to Berman Field on Saturday afternoon in what proved to be a conference showdown

From the first whistle, the Bulldogs challenged Cornell pressuring the players on the field and forcing the Red (12-0-0, 3-0-0 Ivy League) to increase its level of competition According to head coach Jaro Zawislan, the victory over Yale (3-6-3, 0-2-1) was “ an excellent win against a quality opponent ”

At first glance, Yale’s record entering the matchup has not been particularly strong this season The Bulldogs have only five goals to their name the lowest of any Ivy League team and have yet to score on a conference competitor; however, they tie the Red in goals against, only giving up nine for the season

While Yale s offense continues to struggle to carve a name for itself on the field, the defense is defining itself as a powerful force

“Going into this game we knew it was going to be a difficult game, ” Zawislan said “We needed to step up our game, especially in the second half, so scoring three goals against this [defensively organized] team is something to be proud of ”

The first 45 minutes of play were a test of patience, as the the Bulldogs defense and Red offense engaged in a back and forth game

Standing at 6-5, senior goalkeeper Bobby Thalman diligently defended Yale’s net, with the line of defenders creating a strong wall in front of him Cornell managed six shots on goal; however, Thalman blocked every attack and held the Red to a scoreless first half

On the other end of the field, senior tri-captain Rick Pflasterer recorded a pair of saves his only two for the night With the win, Pflasterer earned his third shutout of the year the fifth overall for the Red and made his 50th career appearance Forming a strong wall in the Red’s defensive third were sophomores Peter Chodas and Matt Mardesich and juniors Patrick Slogic and Jake Rinow The back four limited Yale to only two shots on goal for the afternoon

Cornell Edges Out Monmouth

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Sen or Writer

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f Mathews said last month that senior Chris Amrhein is a capable backup, and he sure meant it A spectacular 523-yard fill-in performance from Amrhein, a s c h o o l re c o rd 2 8 0 re

yards from

Luke Tasker and four rushing touchdowns by freshman running back Silas Nacita put the Red (3-2, 1-1 Ivy League) back on track Saturday with a 41-38 shootout win over Monmouth

(3-3, 2-1 Northeast Conference) on Schoellkopf Field Amrhein smoothed out some offensive wrinkles by completing 33-of-56 passes and throwing a 21-yard touchdown to Tasker, as

Monmouth secondary all afternoon Entering the game with

Amrhein nearly quadrupled that

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