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Faculty Donations Flood Left, Filings Show

By PHOEBE KELLER and EMILY FRIEDMAN Sun Assistant News Editor and Sun Staff Writer

Of the nearly $600,000 Cornell’s faculty donated to political candidates or parties in the past four years, over 96 percent has gone to fund Democratic campaigns, while only 15 of the 323 donors gave to conservative causes

The Sun’s analysis of Federal Election Committee data reveals that from 2011 to 2014, Cornell’s faculty donated $573,659 to Democrats, $16,360 to Republicans and $2,950 to Independents Each of Cornell’s 13 schools both graduate and undergraduate slanted heavily to the left In the College of Arts and Sciences, 99 percent of the $183,644 donated went to liberal campaigns The law school demonstrated the strongest conservative showing, with nearly 26 percent of its approximately $20,000 worth of donations going to Republicans

Almost one-third of donations made over the past four years went to 2012 presidential campaigns More than 94 percent of the $200,000 Cornellians contributed to the presidential race went to the Obama Victory Fund, while the Romney Victory Fund received under four percent of these funds

To compile this data, The Sun filtered public Federal Election Committee filings, collecting the donation information from individuals who listed Cornell University as their employer The Sun then confirmed the current appointment of each donor as a Cornell faculty member, instructor or researcher Administrators and other personnel were excluded from all calculations

Surprised?

Although students and professors alike said they consider Cornell’s faculty generally Democratic, nearly all remarked that they had not expected to see donation numbers so dramatically skewed

“Nationally, economists, chemists, business school professors and engineers are significantly more conservative than professors in social sciences and humanities,” said

Garrett Continues Day Hall Shake-Up

Hierarchy changes again; arts college creates position

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Ed tor

After several months ripe with personnel fluctuations, the University has announced that it will restructure the presidential leadership team and add a director of education innovation position to the College of Arts and Sciences

President Elizabeth Garrett plans to add an executive vice president and chief financial officer to her team, pending board of trustee approval of the position, according to a University press release Garrett has appointed Joanne DeStefano, the current vice president for finance and chief financial officer, to fill the new position

Prof Mildred Elizabeth Sanders, government “Finding 97 percent of Cornell professors giving to Democrats, that’s surprising ” Danielle Eiger ’18 said she would have thought that the Democrat-Republican breakdown would be closer to 60 percent and 40 percent, but said she was always sure that the “majority of professors are liberal ”

Prof William Jacobson, law, one of the 15 Republican donors, said that he found the statistics “completely predictable ”

“Academia in general leans heavily liberal, and that likely is compounded at Cornell because Ithaca itself is a progressive bubble, surrounded by reality, as the saying goes, ” he said

Though Cornell’s administration declined to comment

Faculty Senate Talks On Finance, Romance

By MELVIN LI Sun Staff Writer

Environmental Health and Safety and the Cornell University Police Department

“We are extremely fortunate to have Joanne’s substantial talents including her financial acumen and deep understanding of the University to draw upon as we look to the opportunities and challenges ahead,” Garrett said in a statement Almost immediately after this academic year began, Garrett announced that she would begin her tenure by restructuring the Cornell administration to be more efficient She has already

The new position is intended to oversee all of Cornell’s risk-related units in effor ts to maximize operational efficiencies, Garrett said in a University statement In her new position, DeStefano will “continue oversight of Financial Affairs, the Investment Office and the Audit Office, and will share oversight with Provost Michael Kotlikoff of Information Technologies and Budget and Planning,” in keeping with her previous duties, according to the release She will also take on oversight of Infrastructure, Properties and Planning, Risk Management and Insurance, Emergency

The Faculty Senate addressed the rising costs of the University’s financial aid program, plans to resolve the University’s deficit and proposed revisions to Cornell’s policy on romantic and sexual relations between students and faculty at its meeting Wednesday Dean of Faculty Prof Joseph Burns Ph D ’66, astronomy, began the meeting by announcing an upcoming faculty forum will discuss the feasibility and educational sense of Cornell’s current financial aid policy According to Burns, the forum, entitled “Financial Aid Policies: Unimaginable Outcomes,” is intended to be a little bit

provocative

“There are large expenses in the University We knew building costs are expensive Our salary costs are expensive and financial aid is a growing cost to the University,” Burns said “If you look at the amount of funds that we ’ re spending [on financial aid], the curve has a very steep slope an increasing slope over the last few years So I think that the faculty should look at that growing cost and whether or not it makes sense ”

Burns said he see two possible outcomes if the University continues to spend as much as it currently does on financial aid He said that it is very important to balance the needs of faculty and

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Gannett Plans Bystander Video

Seeks students from different majors, organizations

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Assistant News Ed tor

The Skorton Center for Health Initiatives at Gannett Health Services plans to partner with Cornell Interactive Theater Ensemble to create a comprehensive bystander intervention video, hoping to empower Cornellians to intervene in cases of drug abuse, intimate partner violence, sexual assault and other potentially dangerous situations

The center expects to take about a year to produce the video, and hopes to present the final project next August, according to Health Initiatives Coordinator Laura Beth Santacrose ’11 The idea for the project was originally sparked by American University’s “Step Up” video, which shows students how to address a wide breadth of daunting situations, according to Santacrose

“For years, staff in our department have been exploring the idea of such an effort,” she said “We have even worked with various communications and marketing classes at Cornell to explore ideas for implementation ”

Right now, the center is in the process of

reaching out to community members to get input on what content would be most helpful They will conduct focus groups through Oct 22, then work to determine ways the video can enhance current campus movements to mitigate drug and alcohol abuse, sexual violence, mental health problems and hazing

“We seek students from all over campus representing different degrees, academic departments, and involvement in various clubs, teams and other student organizations,” Santacrose said

Santacrose said she thinks the video will serve as an important contribution to campus conversations on these issues because multimedia presentations can give viewers a thorough perspective on the issue and can also be easily shared on the web and on social media

“Back in 1987, Cornell was the first university in the nation to use video as a platform for communicating key information about sexual violence on college campuses, ” she said “Videos are a helpful component in health education, as they present mini stories that can engage both the mind and emotions of the viewers ”

After dark discussions

Evan Zhang ’16 speaks at “After Dark: The Impact of Cultural

hosted by the Asian and Asian American Center Wednesday.

While the center is not yet sure exactly how they will distribute the video, they hope it will serve as a valuable addition to existing trainings and presentations on these issues, and will also be disseminated to the broader community

“We already know many of the factors that prevent someone from stepping in and helping out, ” Santacrose said “They may have faulty beliefs about the campus norm of stepping up and intervening They may

not know what to do or what to say The goal of the video is to empower students with the information, resources, and clear steps necessary to make a difference In short, we want everyone to know how to See Think Act ” Gabriella Lee contributed reporting to this story

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun com

First American on Death Row Exonerated by DNA Addresses Students

By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Staff Writer

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t h a t h e d e f i n i t e l y w a s n ’ t s k i n n y “ T h e y a r r e s t e d m e o n a

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r e p o r t a b o u t w h o t h e k i l l e r might be,” Bloodsworth said He explained that experts used data and statistics about criminals and crimes to come up with a profile suggesting characteristics of the perpetrator “Right on the front page [of the profile] it says you are only supposed to use [the profile] as a tool, it’s not a cr ystal ball ”

Bloodsworth said this profile

w a s c o m p l e t e d a f t e r h e w a s arrested, so it may have been influenced by what authorities already knew about him

“ The profile said that this person would have a love for the water because this crime happened around a pond area, and Oh My God Mr Bloodsworth is

“I had nothing to do with this [murder], I just didn’t want them to find my weed ”

composite of the perpetrator pictured a man with a specific style o f m o u s t a c h

c i a l s thought it made the perpetrator look “ too Asian,” and removed the moustache from the composite sketch He also mentioned another woman who helped create another composite sketch, and said that her composite was disregarded because it did not match the original composite

Bl o o d s w o r t h b e g a n h i s s t o r y by s a y i n g t h a t h e w a s a f o r m e r m a r i n e a n d t h e n b e c a m e a w a t e r m a n o n t h e s h o r e o f Ma r y l a n d He l i ve d i n a s m a l l t ow n a n d w a s 2 2 ye a r s o l d a t t h e t i m e o f h i s w ro n g f u l c o n v i c t i o n “ We h a ve a w a r r a n t f o r t h e a r re s t o f K i rk Bl o o d s w o r t h , ” h e re c a l l e d h e a r i n g p o l i c e o f f i c e r s s a y f ro m o u t s i d e h i s d o o r o n Au g 9 , 1 9 8 4 Bl o o d s w o r t h s a i d h e s t e p p e d o u t s i d e a n d w a s q u i c k l y t o l d , “ y o u ’ r e u n d e r a r re s t f o r f i r s t d e g re e m u rd e r, yo u s o n o f a b i t c h ” “ T h a t w a s t h e l a s t t i m e I ’d s e e m y s m a l l t ow n f o r e i g h t ye a r s , 1 0 m o n t h s a n d 1 9 d a y s , ” h e s a i d Bl o o d s w o r t h e x p l a i n e d t h a t D a w n H a m i l t o n w a s f o u n d d e a d i n Ju n e 1 9 8 4 , h a v i n g b e e n s e x u a l l y a s s a u l t e d a n d b e a t e n w i t h a ro c k “ T h a t i s w h a t t h i s m a r i n e w i t h n o c r i m i n a l r e c o rd w a s c h a r g e d w i t h , ” h e s a i d , p o i n t i n g t o h i m s e l f a f t e r e x p l a i n i n g Ha m i l t o n ’ s m u rd e r “ Fro m t h e m o m e n t o f m y a r re s t t o t h e m o m e n t o f m y re l e a s e , I t o l d e ve r yo n e a n d a n yo n e t h a t w o u l d l i s t e n t h a t I w a s a n i n n o c e n t m a n , b u t i n 4 8 h o u r s I b e c a m e t h e m o s t h a t e d m a n i n t h e s t a t e o f Ma r y l a n d ” Wro n g f u l w i t n e s s i d e n t i f i c at i o n w a s a m a j o r c o m p o n e n t o f Bl o o d s w o r t h’s w ro n g f u l c o n v i ct i o n Wi t n e s s d e s c r i p t i o n s o f t h e p e r p e t r a t o r i n d i c a t e d t h a t h e w a s we l l ove r 6 f e e t t a l l a n d s k i n n y w i t h c u r l y b l o n d e h a i r a n d t a n s k i n Bl o o d s w o r t h s a i d t h i s d e s c r i p t i o n d i d n o t f i t h i m a t a l l , a s h e w a s u n d e r 6 f e e t t a l l a n d h a d b r i g h t re d h a i r a n d f a i r s k i n He c h u c k l e d a s h e a d d e d

them to find my weed ” B l o o d s w o r t h s a i d t h e e v id e n c e u s e d a g a i n s t h i m w a s inconclusive and the prosecutors d i s c o u n t e d m a n y p o t e n t i a l l y exculpator y pieces of evidence

He also noted that his counsel was ineffective

“My trial lasted about two weeks,” he said “I knew this was not going to end well for me I could hear people in the courtroom saying ‘there’s the killer, there he is right there pointing at me ” T h i s k i n d o f t r i a l , Bloodsworth said, left him feeling as if he could do nothing to change his own fate

a waterman! So he must have done it!” Bloodsworth said

He a d d e d t h a t t h e p r o f i l e would have been okay if it had been used, as protocol originally intended, as a guide, not a rule

“ S o m a n y d i f f e r e n t b i a s e s c o m e i n t o p l a y i n c r i m i n a l cases, ” Bloodsworth said “ They were so adamant in getting the real killer they just didn’t pay attention to protocol ”

He said the criminal profile was completed prematurely after just 14 weeks of composition out of a possible 28 weeks He also said that authorities pointed to h i s “ n e r

inter view as evidence of his guilt

“I can explain that,” he said “ They kept tr ying to look at my shoes, and I was jitter y because I had a bag of weed in my shoe right between my sock and my shoe I had nothing to do with this [murder], I just didn’t want

“I had no money I had married a girl from Baltimore and I lived there for less than 30 days when I got caught up in t h i s h o r r i b l e , h o r r i b l e crime I had never been arrested before in my life I w a s a Un i t e d St a t e s Marine I wasn ’ t an angel, but I knew what I wasn ’ t, ” B l o o d s w o r t h s a i d “ B u t with no money, no good l a w y e r, ‘ K i r k’s g o i n g t o death row ’”

“Give him the gas and kill his ass, ” Bloodsworth said he heard s o m e o n e c h a n t i n t h e c o u r troom

“My mother just sat there and cried ” Tw o w e e k s l a t e r, B l o o d s w o r t h’s d e a t h s e n t e n c e was delivered The cour troom erupted in applause, he said “Go k i l l h i m , g i v e h i m t h e g a s ! ” someone yelled

“I remember sitting in the bullpen and my lawyer came out I noticed that he wasn ’ t standing close to the cell door like he normally would He was standing back,” Bloodsworth said “All he could do was look at me and smile and say good luck, and he turned around and walked away That was the last time I’d ever see that guy ” Bloodsworth said he was sent to a prison where, just two weeks before, a guard had been disemb o w e l e d

“ We’r e gonna do to you what you did to that little girl,” he heard regularly

“ When that 300 pound cell door shut and those brass keys c l i c k e d , m y l i f e w a s ov e r It sounded just like the tailgate of a dump truck,” he said Bloodsworth talked about the sheer terror he experienced his first night in prison

“I was reading a magazine and the power popped off, the lights went out You couldn’t see your hand in front of your face,” he said “[ The other prisoners] were lighting books on fire, Bibles on fire, shaking the bars screaming and hollering ” He said sewage was dripping from shaken pipes, hitting him in the face B l

“If it can convict you, why can ’ t it free you?” Bloodsworth s a

forensic evidence, semen found [at the crime scene] I said ‘I want to take this [DNA] test and prove once and for all that I’m an innocent man like I’ve been saying for all these years ’”

After requesting that the case b

being told that the DNA evidence from the case had been inadvertently destroyed

“ That was almost my undoing I went crazy, ” he said “I almost set my cell on fire and burned up with it, and then it hit me: they didn’t know where it was, they couldn’t find it, they probably had no idea where it was ” Bloodsworth said he continued to pursue a search for the D N A

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Faculty Donations Flow Overwhelmingly Left

for this article, John Carberry, senior director of media relations, said only that political tendency is “ not a condition [the University] weighs when hiring or working with faculty ”

However, several professors offered their opinions as to why such a high percentage of Cornell’s faculty seems to lean left

Prof Richard Bensel, government, said a “historical trend” explains a declining number of conservatives in Cornell’s faculty

“In the late 19th and early 20th century, there were far more conservative professors than liberals in elite universities although it was still not nearly as slanted as it is today,” he said “This switched around the New Deal ”

He also conceded that in today’s climate, “ a lot of the time conservative professors don’t want to work here ” Prof Emeritus Isaac Kramnick, government, explained that there were one or two conservative professors in the government department in the 1960s and 1970s, but both had already left

“Conser vative students who come through a place like Cornell very easily move into research or advising positions in Congress, journalism positions and political positions,” Kramnick said “Career patterns are such that you are less likely to have conservatives applying for academic jobs ”

Other professors asserted that Republicans often have ideas that are “antiscience” or “anti-intellectual,” which can make them an unpopular presence at elite universities

“It is not surprising that faculty at Cornell find the anti-scientific rhetoric of many in the Republican Party to be troublesome,” Prof Kenneth McClane, English, said “Many of us here are scientists we believe in global warming, since we believe what the research tells us ” Bensel echoed this claim, saying that recent Republican debates have illustrated the deviation of “mainstream conservatives” from views that are widely accepted by intellectuals at reputable universities

“I think many mainstream Republicans have views that are anti-intellectual and antiscience,” he said “There are candidates who are creationists, don’t believe in climate change and claim that Obama’s a Muslim Ted Cruz, for example, should not teach here ” Student Stories

Kramnick said that when he served as Cornell’s vice provost for undergraduate education from 2001 to 2005, he was “ concerned that there were not enough conservative voices in the faculty ” Some students maintain that their professors’ politics never enter the classroom Others recount times when they felt stifled by an atmosphere intolerant of differing viewpoints

William Bristow ’16, president of the Cornell Democrats, said his professors have consistently delivered material with an even hand

“I have never found myself in a classroom environment where a professor did not allow for an open discussion between different political views,” he said

Emily Agnew ’18 said she does not think the political leanings of professors should be problematic, because professors are expected to always be unbiased when teaching subjective subjects

“Their political affiliations are unrelated [to the material], and professors should be allowing the students to discuss and explore without imparting their own opinions,” she said

However, some students recounted incidents in which they said their professors were far from objective, saying that personal politics entered both the classroom and coursework

David Navadeh ’19 said he was in a nutrition class in which his professor regularly featured announcements from various clubs before class began According to Navadeh, one day the professor advertised a Planned Parenthood rally, which was an event independent of any club, and spent substantially more time than usual encouraging his students to attend

“He was very clear what his personal leanings were and he made it very clear that we should stand with Planned Parenthood as well,” he said “I certainly respect their right to protest and I respect the other view The irony just kind of strikes me, though, if a conservative professor were to say that you should go to a defund Planned Parenthood rally and was saying what a good job folks like Ted Cruz are doing in making sure that that happens if someone were to put forth the idea that abortion is indeed murder I can just imagine the outcry ”

Austin McClaughlin ’18 recounted a time when, in an industrial and labor relations economics class, the professor abruptly dismissed free market principles as ineffective

“We were largely focused on financial crises and after we finished the 2008 crisis the next slide said, ‘and that is why deregulation and free market economics do not work,’” he said “So I asked him, ‘Isn’t it too early to say that this is the case?’ And he says, ‘No, it’s not too early it’s too late ’”

Brandon Thompson ’16 said he has seen “thousands of examples” of professors holding debates and only giving conservative students a fraction of the speaking time given to their liberal counterparts

Cornell Republicans President Matt LeBlanc ’16 said he deliberately took microeconomics with a professor who he knew was fiscally conservative and stressed that, while they may be rare, the few conservative professors at Cornell are highly respected and

“[their presence] is definitely good for the campus ” Is Something Missing?

According to Thompson, there is not one moderate or conservative professor among the 42 faculty members in Cornell’s government department While some students feel that a valuable viewpoint is missing, other students and professors say they do not feel the University needs to actively seek out conservative faculty members

Bensel said that while he would support adding a conservative to the government department, he does not believe Cornell is obligated to supply students with all points of view

"Our job is not to mold the minds of young students they’ll go out into the world and do that for themselves,” he said “Cornell does not have to be a banquet that offers every viewpoint "

Prof Andrew Little, government, said that while it would be “nice to have more balance,” he would not advocate compromising the quality of Cornell’s professors, which he suggests would be the effect of seeking out Republican faculty

“Placing more emphasis on diversity of political beliefs when hiring [would] almost certainly require sacrificing on general quality or other dimensions of diversity,” he said Jacobson, on the other hand, said he views the failure to expose students to the conservative viewpoint as one of Cornell’s most striking weaknesses

“If we value professors not just for their research and publications, but also for the role they serve in mentoring students, then the lack of political diversity among the faculty is a University failure,” he said

Many acknowledged that it is difficult to determine whether Cornell’s political imbalance is due to a lack of conservative professors applying to work at the University or the administration’s refusal to hire them

“I think it would take a lot of bravery to work here as an openly conservative professor, ” Bensel said

Damaging Diversity

While Cornell pursues diversity in its student body and in certain aspects of its faculty, many students and professors who saw these statistics said they were concerned about Cornell’s professed diversity of thought "Cornell faculty pride themselves on eliminating discrimination with respect to ethnicity and gender,” Bensel said “But I think one of the last prejudices they still have

is against conservatives ” Thompson also said he saw the absence of the conservative viewpoint among faculty members as in conflict with Cornell’s proclaimed mission of diversity

“I think that’s actually kind of an embarrassment for Cornell with their stress on diversity and inclusion, and yet whenever someone ’ s position doesn’t go exactly into the range that they’d like it to, they purposefully will not let those opinions be heard,” he said Jacobson said he believes this lack of diversity is actually most damaging to liberal students, who leave college without having to defend their views and enter a world where “Republicans control both houses of Congress and most state legislatures and governorships ”

“Such homogeneity in thought process at the professorial level is not conducive to intellectual rigor That harms liberal students more than anyone, because they have a comfort zone of political acceptance which does not exist in a real world,” he said “Over the years, I have observed that openly conservative students have to be better prepared for argument than their liberal counterparts and that process prepares them for life better than being intellectually coddled ” Thompson agreed, saying that he, as a conservative student in the College of Arts and Sciences, has a chance almost every day to hone and defend his own beliefs, while many liberal students never experience a “trial by fire” test of their own values

“I actually think that students on campus on the right-end of the political spectrum are stronger and more able to confront challenges to their viewpoints after they leave here, so I think Cornell is actually failing students in that way as well, they’re not providing students with an alternative point of view,” he said

Jacobson called on the administration to recognize the value and necessity of diversity of thought in Cornell’s faculty

“Diversity at Cornell focuses on gender, race and ethnicity as a proxy for intellectual diversity That is inadequate as an objective matter because it has not resulted in a diversity of political thought,” Jacobson said “If Cornell truly believes that diversity of thought fosters the educational experience, then it should include political diversity in its mandated diversity goals ” Connor Juckniess ’18 contributed data analysis to this article

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Editorial

Ensuring ‘Any Person’ Can Afford C.U.

THROUGHOUT THIS SEMESTER, AT LEAST TWO STUDENTS have publicized their inability to pay for a Cornell education and resorted to online crowdfunding platforms to pay off the balances owed to the University Late last month, Jonah Okike-Hephzibah ’16, who identified himself as an undocumented student, started a GoFundMe page to avoid being removed from Cornell Within days, he raised over $20,000 Days later, Nikolai Lumpkins ’16 followed suit and has since raised over $5,000

The generosity of the Cornell community in response to fellow students’ needs is remarkable and demonstrative of how our capacious campus shrinks to help those in crisis or need However, the fact that Okike-Hephzibah and Lumpkins needed to turn to crowdsourcing as a solution to their financial need is troublesome and causes us to wonder how many more students with similar situations walk among us each day As described by John Lowry ’16, president of the Class of 2016, crowdfunding is not a long-term solution to solve the financial challenges facing some students across campus

One of the issues highlighted by Okike-Hephzibah’s campaign is international student financial aid Both domestic and international students are admitted to Cornell need-blind, meaning their ability to pay does not influence their admissions decision However, only domestic students that demonstrate financial need are guaranteed a support package that will enable them to attend Cornell While we understand that the University is under federal and state legal obligations to only award government-sponsored financial aid to citizens and legal residents of the United States, our growing international and, possibly undocumented student populations deserve the respect afforded to domestic students

We recognize the issues surrounding financial aid are complex and will not be solved instantaneously But as Cornell reevaluates its priorities with its next fundraising initiatives, we urge the University to consider ways to make the Office of Financial Aid more accessible to Cornellians in an effort to reduce misunderstandings and to continue to increase the available amount of aid to all students When students continue to struggle to afford the costs of attending this University and to understand the inner workings of Day Hall, additional work must be done to bridge that gap

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ove mushrooms, they fascinate me If you know me personally, you’re likely lly aware of this I’ve been asked why mushrooms so much, and I don’t think I’ve ever given anyone a satisfactory answer, so I’ll try to set the record straight now.

Having sex with someone ne w for the first time is amazing I love the myster y of it you never k n o w w h a t y o u ’ r e g o i n g t o g e t

Admittedly, I’ve had my fair share of confusing and bizarre encounters, like the time a guy worked to sustain eye contact for the entirety of our “coitus” (his noun of choice, not mine ) Usually, however, I’ve been pleasantly surprised

I slept with someone ne w two weekends ago He’s an adorably awkward guy (I have an odd soft spot for awkward men), and I had no idea what the sex would be like I could write an entire essay on why girls should go for nerdy guys they’re gentle and enthusiastic, sweet and passionate

This guy was all of those things, but he was especially passionate He was surprisingly adept at locating my erogenous zones (there were inner thighs kisses that made me squeal), and his stamina was definitely impressive I didn’t think twice about the classic awkward moments (like when his dick fell out or a High School Musical song came on my Pandora), and position transitions were pretty smooth But the best par t of the w h o l e e x p e r i e n c e w a s the way he made me feel when he looked at

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me after we fell back on the pillow, exhausted It’s subtle things like this, the easily missed bashful yet excited glances, that make ne w sex great

For all of my “first times,” I have been sober In fact, I’ve never had dr unk sex It’s not because I don’t drink I do But for some reason, luckily, I will always opt

tive sexual experiences and because I was always sober, I was ver y aware of this at first I wasn ’ t comfor table enough with my own body to focus on anything other than the visceral awkwardness of the situation However, the more comfor table I’ve grown with myself, the better my encounters have been You need to love

for pizza over men at the end of the night if I’m dr unk Alcohol apparently lowers my libido and pizza makes me happy even when I’m not feeling sexual In all seriousness though, I’m glad that my only sexual experiences have been sober ones All of the “first times” were intimate and real, and I was aware of what was going on with the full capacity of my sensor y systems

Admittedly, I haven’t always had posi-

yourself before you can love someone else they say, and I’d like to add that you need to be fully comfor table with your body before you can have a healthy sex life By overanalyzing any of your perceived physical flaws, you ’ re cheating yourself out of great sex

The benefits of a sustained sexual relationship are over whelming Each time I walk away from this guy ’ s house or he walks away from mine, I can ’ t stop smil-

Youing I love that I smell like him after sex, and that my hair is knotty and messy from rolling around in bed I love that he’s seen me naked I love that I’ve seen him naked I love that the first time we had sex he made me scream with pleasure, made me scream for so long that I was out of breath, made me scream until I couldn’t scream any more

I have since apologized to my housemates for the screaming I didn’t know that I could scream like that, which goes to show that with each first time, you learn something ne w You learn about y o u r s e l f a n d y o u r p a r t n e r, y o u l e a

about the mechanics of sex and you can broaden your understanding of human intimacy

I’ve slept with this guy a number of times since our first, and it has gotten consistently better each time With comfor t comes a naturalness that is hard to achieve the first time I’m excited that I’m getting to know him, and hopefully there will be more sexual surprises along the way, but I’ll always value the nuanced intricacies and emotions that I experienced our first time

are a slut You dress provocatively and have sex with too many people Of course, the reason you ’ re a slut doesn’t really matter You’re an object of “affection” either way Why do you accept this identity? You have value Why do you not think being called a slut is derogative? You are very sexually open Open to exploring, to sharing experiences with many people, willing to indulge in exciting and new sexual encounters You know how to have fun Of course you ’ re beautiful or hot/sexy/slutty/bae I mean that’s the same thing right? You attract pretty much every single man Whether you offer him your beauty to enjoy, your ass to grope or a hole to stick his dick into Either way, you ’ re attractive or that’s how you see yourself at least, how you let others define you

There are women who self identify as “sluts ” There are also women who allow others to call them sluts If you chose to call yourself a slut and get yourself into these multiple-partner situations, society is quick to tell you it’s your choice and your fault Admittedly, it’s a double standard, and an unfair label placed on many If you don’t want people to call you a slut, society says, just stop going out, drinking and hooking up with people (however you define that) Just wear more conservative clothes, don’t really talk to guys unless you have a real reason to do so, especially if they have a girlfriend, don’t eat healthy because then you’ll be told you care too much about being hot Stop wearing make-up or doing your hair Seriously Just STOP TRYING TO BE A SLUT

It might just be me, but there seems to be a missing link between talking, dressing, choosing to be a certain way and the assumed treatment of disrespect that seems to be the immediate response to it I really don’t remember authorizing

a male friend to slap my butt, asking to be be stalked or constantly called on for sex, but I have been addressed or treated in this regard Sure, these are all things that I brushed under the carpet and hid under my protective slut identity

So what is this identity? When you degrade yourself enough, there doesn’t seem to be any room left for anyone to do this for you If you indulge in and are open about giving

understanding the true meaning of an individual, their true desires, basic pleasures, all that which Freud called the ‘id,’ is a beautiful way to tap into the true yearnings and needs of an individual What their pain is, what their fears are, what they need in life Stemming from this is the argument that the seeking of love and affection is based on this deep-founded loneliness and lack of fundamental pleasure and connection What easier way to connect with someone than the physical? When you literally have someone else inside you, someone who for that moment wants only you, then of course you ’ re going to feel that you are connected to them in some way And maybe this connection, for some time at least, is enough All you have to do then is indulge in the identity which most endorses this connection Slut

blowjobs, letting men talk to you or do to you as they wish, abuse your body without caring much about boundaries or respect, then it’s ok for others to do the same By assuming this “slut-identity,” you can slowly degrade any aspect of your personality that you would consider worthy for others to admire in you, and you instead become as sturdy exterior, ready to house someone else’s pleasure You don’t believe yourself worthy of being admired or loved I mean what’s the point? If they don’t want to stick their dick in you, what could they possibly want from you?

I truly believe that understanding sexuality is an ideal way to connect with raw human nature, unaffected by any kind of social influence which then creates character It could be argued that our raw nature doesn’t mean anything or matter in any way since we never make an use of it Nevertheless,

If others tell you you ’ re a slut, you will begin telling yourself you ’ re a slut, and eventually allow yourself to believe it’s an identity suited to you You can slowly sink down into it and live within its walls, almost as a way of protecting yourself with the real connection that can tear you apart and expose the deepest and darkest parts Escaping the identity is hard Not impossible, but hard It hurts and it’s confusing But oh, is it worth it to find value in something other than the physical Find the part of yourself that you truly believe is worth knowing and loving; the part of yourself that makes you feel truly beautiful Being a selfdefined slut might be safe and easy, but it’s nothing compared to the beauty, relief and wholeness of being human

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Toronto quartet Dilly Dally puts up a drawling coolkid façade on their first album, Sore We partied harder than everyone else in high school, but we still got our shit done and got our grades,” singer Katie Marks told The Quietus’ John Freeman, referring to herself, and guitarist, and childhood friend Lizzy Ball But, for all of their slacker malaise, Dilly Dally’s music evidences serious creative concentration There’s the fact that, first and foremost, Dilly Dally is a group six years in the making Marks and Ball formed the group straight out of secondary school; bassist Jimmy Tony and drummer Benjamin Reinhartz later came on board for Sore Then, there’s Marks’ captivating, adrenaline-shaking animal growl that steers the album from the count-in of the first track Laura Snapes for Pitchfork compared it to a Kraken impersonation; Sasha Geffen tossed comparisons to Layne Staley, Kurt Cobain and Frank Black, “singers who heard the harshest grain of their voice not as a flaw but a weapon, in Consequence of Sound And there’s the music itself, a stark whirling of grunge guitar riffs, bare-bones garage drums and indie-pop vocals Marks referred to the “intellectual challenge” of writing pop songs in a stripped-down, four-piece format as comparable to “playing chess If Dilly Dally is playing chess, they are the scrappy upstarts, unwilling to capitulate before past idols With the assistance of

producers Josh Korody and Leon Takeny, Dilly Dally recorded a simultaneously room-filling and minimalist album, held together by a barely-there centrifugal force Ball’s solos slip around with intentional sloppiness, just barely hitting key notes and sneaking in before the end of the phrase Reinhartz plays a strange tactic on the drums, often working solely with kick and snare, but still filling out Dilly Dally’s scraped-knee texture The moral of the album: It takes a lot of effort to care this little

When the listener gets to peek at brilliant moments, however, they can see just how much focus went into Sore Note the tambourine placed delicately in the mix on “Ballin Chain” or the extra contortions Marks pushes her voice through to squeal “Witch Man ” True, many reviewers fixate on the quality of Marks’ voice rather than the words she sings, but she rewards the listener who can pick out the vocals She reels with stoned apathy on “Snake Head:” “Excuse me, let me get my backpack / these painkillers are no fun She croons, “I want you, I want you, I want you / Naked in my kitchen / Cooking me breakfast,” in vulnerable infatuation on “Green ”

But for all of their indie bona-fides (on top of all else, Marks’ older brother is Tokyo Police Club’s Tony Marks), the group has no qualms over being called a pop band As Marks stated to The Quietus, she sees writing killer pop songs as a musical challenge like any other When Freeman asked Marks

about her willingness to sell songs to commercials, she pushed back, Is wanting to eat really selling out?”

With that said, Dilly Dally’s “ pop ” songs are far from superficial The album’s first track, “Desire,” features Marks at her most sensual, as she wails, “Desire, inside her / It’s callin’ on me lately ” Marks thinks many listeners are thrown off by Dilly Dally’s unobtrusive but unapologetic status as a female-fronted band, referring to her and Ball’s role as “ women fronting the band in neither a non-sexualized way nor a ‘ we ' re fucking feminists who will change the world’ way ” But it’s hard to not get some Riot Grrrl vibes when Marks sings, “Snakes are coming out of my head / And there’s blood between my legs” on Snake Head ” Dilly Dally is prone, however, to vices and habits like any other group The band gets content with plodding along in many of their growling tracks (“Snake Head,” “Get to You,” “Witch Man,” “Ice Cream”) You can ’ t help but feel that they milk the cool kid ethos at points Despite Dilly Dally s six-year lifespan, however, Sore is still the group ’ s first full-length release and follows a relatively small amount of previously released material Perhaps the next release will see the group deviate from their creative insistence on a four-piece, no tricks format

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Swim and Dive Open Season at U. of Buffalo

By JEFF ASIEDU Sun Contributor

This season, Cornell men ’ s swimming and diving has a concrete goal: to improve upon its last season and show the Ivy League what Cornell is made of With previous assistant coach Wes Newman ’09 named as the new head coach of the swimming team, Cornell swimming is looking to make an impact in its conference this year The Red will be starting its season this Saturday with a meet at the University of Buffalo

This meet is the opener for the swim and dive squad, but it will be closer to a scrimmage events will not be individually scored and many swimmers will be swimming events that are not their specialty When asked about team goals for this meet, Newman said the team is just looking to gage where they are coming into the season

“The goal this meet is honestly just a really good assessment to see where the team is at It’s a scrim-

anticipation

“We’re definitely looking forward to our first league meet, ” he said “That’s gonna be against Dartmouth and Harvard at home ”

While early meets such as the meet in Buffalo this weekend will be used as benchmarks for the Red, “the ultimate goal is to swim your fastest at the Ivy League Championship, which is in February,” according to Newman

“Along the way, there are a lot of great meets that we can use as milestones to see where we ’ re at towards reaching our ultimate goal,” he said

The swimming and diving team will also be looking to improve upon its standings in the Ivy League this year, and it looks like the team has momentum on its side Talking about the Red’s annual finishes at the Ivy League championship in recent years, Coach Newman points to last year ’ s general improvement in the final standings

“The goal this meet is honestly just a really good assessment to see where the team is at ”

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mage for us so it’s just a really good opportunity to let the guys race, ” he said

Buffalo will certainly serve as a testing ground for many of the fastest swimmers on Cornell’s team

“We’ve got obviously some of the big names from last season we ’ ve got [sophomore] Alex Evdokimov and [junior] Dylan Sali, we ’ ve got a couple new guys that have made big changes in the offseason and have really stepped up their game and they’re returning,” said senior captain Taylor Adams “That would include [junior] Lucas Reisch and [sophomore] Kevin Ma ”

Cornell’s most important competitors in any sport are typically other Ivy League rivals, and last season at the Ivy League Championship Meet, Cornell scored sixth out of the eight schools in the Ancient Eight

“We had a really successful season last year, considering my freshman and sophomore year we didn’t get a lot of wins in the Ivy League, but last year every meet was close,” Adams said

Newman explained that the squad is looking towards the Ivy competition with excitement and

“If you ’ re looking at the past three years, three years ago we were eighth, two years ago we were eighth, last year we jumped up to sixth, so last year was a nice improvement for us, ” he said “I don’t think it’s out of the question to get fifth this year, which would be a great improvement going in the right direction ”

Some of the major performers from last season will surely be back and just as strong in 2015 New to the team last year, Evdokimov made an immediate impact for the Red in the pool, winning both the 100 and 200 breaststroke events at the Ivy League Championship, earning All-Ivy honors Many members of the senior class will be leaders for the team this year as well; Taylor Adams and his two cocaptains Victor Luo and Carl St John will be providing guidance for a team that some consider the best Red swim team in recent years

It’s only a matter of time before the Red get to really test their mettle; after the meet in Buffalo this weekend, the team will host Dartmouth and Harvard at home on Saturday, Nov 13 Coach Newman is optimistic

“Our team has been doing a good job at training hard and doing what they need to do to reach their goals and I’m excited to see it all play out this season, ” he said

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Booters Fall to Harvard, Win Against Colgate

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

After a well fought loss to the Harvard Crimson (4-4-2, 2-0 Ivy), Cornell (2-9-1, 02 Ivy) punched in an early goal against the Colgate Raiders (5-6-1, 2-2 Patriot) to earn a much needed win, 1-0, with the team struggling as of late

Eighteen shots, a season high for Red, was not enough to defeat the Crimson on Saturday On paper, one would think Cornell should have won the match, holding Harvard to a mere five shots

“We definitely felt we did enough during the game to come out with a positive result however, it comes down to the goals scored,” said head coach Jaro Zawislan Zawislan explained that the Red displayed solid possession of the ball and put forth quality chances Unfortunately, it was simply a matter of scoring more goals than the opponent, something the Red just could not do

The Crimson made the most of each scoring opportunity, netting its first goal off of a 30-yard free kick on one of its first attacks into Cornell’s territory

Sophomore Jonathan Cullom and junior Liam Crotty headed the scoring attack with several scoring opportunities between them, giving the Red an 11-1 shot advantage heading into halftime However, Cornell still

remained down a goal

The Red kept the attack up in the second half but still conceded a second goal to Harvard falling, 2-0, to the Crimson after 90 minutes Nonetheless, it was a positive game for Cornell, but still not a win With a team struggling as much as the Red, the squad needs actual victories, not mental victories

Junior JJ Black shared these sentiments

in a postgame interview

“We need more than positives; we need results,” he said Ivy League competition is difficult and Cornell would have the opportunity to bounce back on Tuesday in their final nonconference match against Colgate before getting into the thick of conference play

Bouncing back is exactly what the team

Cornell Drops Game to Quakers

By SHAN DHALIWAL

Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men ’ s sprint football team let up 26 points in the first half of last Friday’s game against the University of Pennsylvania, the most it has let up in the first half of a game all season

The Red (2-2-0) outscored the Quakers (3-1-0) in the second half, but it was not enough to overcome Penn’s powerful start

The Quakers got on the board early, blocking a punt from junior defensive back Ryan Jackson on the Red’s first possession of the game This left the Quakers on the Cornell 15 and then converting from there

“The biggest thing in the first

half was our mistakes allowing Penn to get real good field position and score, ” said head coach Bart Guccia “Penn made some real good plays in the first half that they didn’t make in the second half ”

The Red did not play poorly statistically and actually out-rushed the Quakers by 15 yards

“It really wasn ’ t a matter of what [Penn] did,” Guccia said “We were able to move the ball [and] have some success on offense We just weren ’ t able to score touchdowns when we did get opportunities to and that was basically the difference in the game ”

The Red was not able to convert a number of strong drives into touchdowns The Quakers forced the Red to take field goals from the Penn 7 and Penn 17

“Our line played very well [and] our defense in the second half played great, ” said junior running back Kevin Nathanson “One thing we could improve upon is finishing our drives ”

Nathanson rushed for 82 yards, helping to fuel the strong offensive effort from the Red The Red lost the game in the mistakes it made in the first half, but played well otherwise

“We fumbled a few times and gave them possession and real good field position and they were able to score, where on our side of the ball, we drove down the side at least twice and settled for field goals [and also] dropped maybe 12 in the end zone that may have been touchdowns,” Guccia said “We really

gave them the opportunities to score and put up points in the first half ”

The Red viewed the second half of the game as a second opportunity to win a game it expected to win from the beginning

“Penn was one of the games we really thought we could win so [at halftime], we were ready to go back out and tr y and take the lead again,” Nathanson said

The Red “ won ” the second half, outscoring the Quakers, 6-3

Coach Guccia emphasized the importance of finishing all season, and a lack of finishing chances in this game is what made the difference in the end

The Red turns its attention to Princeton this weekend, who the Red defeated, 55-0, last year The Red will take this week to fix the mistakes made in the Penn game and focus on the Tigers

“We just want to improve on the mistakes that we made against Penn and hopefully get things all shored up and get ready to play Princeton,” Guccia said

It is essential the Red treat this game like any other despite the team ’ s past success against the Tigers

“In past years we have won, [but] it doesn’t really change the way that we prepare for any team, ” Nathanson said “We just have a hard week of practice and we go in [looking] to win ”

Shan Dhaliwal can be reached at sdhaliwal@cornellsun com

did, defeating the Raiders, 1-0 Six minutes into the contest, sophomore Eric Nuss netted a shot into the top left corner off of a pass into the box from Collum

Cornell held its ground, although a bit more conservatively when the Raiders sent extra men on offense at the beginning of the second half Nevertheless, the Red kept up the attack

“We wanted to get that second goal,” Zawislan said “We didn’t want to sit on a 10 lead, it’s dangerous ”

However, Colgate’s extra players on the offensive proved to be troublesome for Cornell, as the ball tended to be on the Red’s side of the field As a result, Cornell pulled an extra man back on defense Zawislan noted how the reinforcement on defense calmed things down for Cornell

The Red staved off the Raiders, who were eagerly looking for an equalizer late in the match, and came up with the victory

After a four game losing streak, this win against a quality squad such as Colgate can be essential in boosting the morale of the Red But coach Zawislan insisted the players have been positive all the way through, and that is how Cornell was able to bounce back and get the win in the first place

Despite its struggles, the Cornell men ’ s

Sports Rituals And Superstitions

The Chicago Cubs are one step closer to capt u r i n g t h e i r f i r s t World Series title since 1908, after belting the St Louis Cardinals with home r un a f t e r h o m e r u n i n t h e NLDS Some would say that the series win was due to the

Cubs’ nucleus of young talent finally realizing its full potential I would have to disagree I would say that the Cubs beat the Cardinals in the NLDS because it was fate The “Back to the Future II” prophecy tells us that the Cubs will win the World Series this year, and because of this, it is guaranteed to happen Clearly, I am a huge believer in the relationship b e t we e n s u p e r s t i t i o n a n d sports

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g games For example, I have a

distinct set of rituals that I follow when rooting for my Packers First of all, I must

s alone Absolutely nobody is allowed to talk to me during a Packer’s game Secondly, I cannot consume any food during a game I must fast

for my lord and savior Aaron Rodgers Lastly, I cannot be wearing any type of headgear while watching the Packers T

allowed to touch my head is the loving grace of Vince Lombardi

If my team loses, I am a strong believer that it was my fault Last year during the N

screen when they were up double-digits with five min-