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By JINJOO LEE

News Editor

Racial and sexual minorities feel less safe and comfortable at Cornell than their peers, a University survey report released at the end of last month shows

The analysis was conducted by Cornell’s Institutional Research and Planning Office and the University Diversity Council to assess campus climate, according to Cornell’s diversity website The data was drawn from surveys conducted earlier this year on both undergraduates and post-graduates

The undergraduate student survey showed that a larger percentage of racial minorities at Cornell felt insulted or threatened based on their social identity than white students Forty-five percent of black students, 32 percent of Asian students and 29 percent of Hispanic students reported having felt occasionally to very often insulted or threatened by students based on their social identity In comparison, 20 percent of white students said they felt that way

The results were even more stark for sexual minorities: while 24 percent of self-identifying heterosexual students felt occasionally to very often insulted or threatened by other students based on their social identity, 50 percent of self-identifying lesbian, gay or bisexual students and 73 percent of self-identified queer students reported feel-

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Police

General Eric T Schneiderman announced Tuesday One man and two women were arrested in connection with the sex trafficking Investigators say the three individuals recruited

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Schneiderman said in a statement “Unfortunately, this case is

human trafficking, which is an issue of international importance We must redouble our efforts to protect people forced into a horrible life from which they feel they can ’ t escape ”

Ithaca Police are searching for an “armed and dangerous” man who they say may have shot a 21-year-old man on West Green Street Monday evening T h e s u s p e c t i s a n 1 8 - y e a r - o l d black male who is 6’0” tall, 185 p o u n d s a n d g o e s b y t h e a l i a s

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FINDL AY, Ohio (AP) A man who disappeared decades ago is finding out there’s no easy way to come back from the dead

Donald Miller Jr went to cour t this week to ask a county judge to reverse a 1994 r uling that declared him legally dead after he had vanished from his home eight years earlier But the judge turned down his request, citing a three-year time limit for changing a death r uling

Hancock County Probate Cour t Judge Allan Davis called it a “ strange, strange situation ”

“ We’ve got the obvious here A man sitting in the cour troom, he appears to be in good health,” said Davis, who told Miller the three-year limit was clear

“I don’t know where that leaves you, but you ’ re still deceased as far as the law is concerned,” the judge said Miller resur faced about eight years ago and went to cour t so that he could get a driver’s license and reinstate his Social Security number

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“Teaching international programs provides important experience and input regarding the international industry ”

Oct. Study Will Evaluate Policies to Improve Campus Climate

ing that way

Pro f N ’ Dr i T h e re s e A s s i eLumumba, Africana studies, said she was sad but not surprised by the sur vey ’ s results

“ We bring students and faculty members here because of their past achievements and what they can contribute in the future But to find those achievements and those potentials are overlooked or shattered by perception it’s sad and unacceptable,” she said

Jadey Kar tikawati Huray ’14, p r

LGBTQ Student Union, echoed Assie-Lumumba’s sentiments

“ Talking to any number of people in the LGBTQ community, people have said they have experienced or heard of at least one person who has been threatened, or insulted given their perc e i ve d i d

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d “ It shows how much we need to go for ward as a community ”

Another telling difference was found in students’ perceptions of campus climate When underg

how they would characterize the campus climate for a student in their own racial categor y, seven percent of white students and nine percent of Asian students said the campus climate was ver y disrespectful or moderately dis-

themselves In comparison, 13 percent of Hispanic students, 20 percent of international students and 27 percent of black students s

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Hispanic students, 52 percent of Asian students and 44 percent of white students said they did the same

Eighty-three percent of selfidentified queer students and 62 percent of self-identified gay, lesbian or bisexual students repor ted having made an effor t often to ver y often to educate themselves about diversity, while 49 percent of self-identified heterosexual students said they did

students feel more burden to educate themselves and others about diversity

“ Those who are threatened, who feel insulted, in addition to the burden of processing that in order to move on, have also the burden of educating others,” she said “[Students] are not here to do that That’s not their role, but they do it anyways ” Ni a H

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tion,” she said “ We desperately need more university suppor t in educating the student body on d

the form of faculty, money and space and overall attention to each community’s specific wants and needs ”

The upcoming campus climate study will be conducted by Prof Sylvia Hur tado, education a

University of California at Los Angeles

While the previous sur vey by Cornell’s Institutional Research and Planning showed how students felt, Hur tado’s study will build on the sur vey results and a l s o f o c u

University can do to improve its campus climate “ We plan to identify areas of commonality [between different c o m

ences across

explain previous work from

out last year Together, these assessments begin to provide an impor tant benchmark for future planning and that can be aligned

Hur tado said

focus groups based on various racial and ethnic, socio-economic, gender and national identities who will be chosen randomly from the students that volunteer

Hur tado’s study will be released in Febr

Cornell Sees Increase in Freshman Legacies, Decrease in Transfer Legacies

a ve r y l a r g e a n d t a l e n t e d a p p l i c a n t p o o l , ” L o c k e s a i d i n a n e m a i l A c c o r d i n g t o s t a t i s t i c s re l e a s e d by C o r n e l l , 1 5 p e rc e n t o f C o r n e l l’s e n t i re u n d e r g r a d ua t e p o p u l a t i o n i s c o m p r i s e d o f l e g a c y s t u d e n t s T h i s f i g u re i s h i g h e r t h a n p e rc e n t a g e s a t m a n y o f C o r n e l l’s Iv y L e a g u e c o u n t e rp a r t s Fo r e x a m p l e , T h e Ha r va rd Cr i m s o n re p o r t e d t h a t l e g a c y s t u d e n t s a c c o u n t f o r 1 2t o - 1 3 p e rc e n t o f t h e u n d e r g r a du a t e s t u d e n t b o d y a t Ha r va rd In re c e n t ye a r s , L o c k e s a i d C o r n e l l h a s s e e n a s i m u l t a n e o u s i n c r e a s e i n f r e s h m a n l e g a c i e s a n d a d e c re a s e i n t r a n s f e r l e g ac i e s T h e p e rc e n t a g e o f l e g a c y s t u d e n t s w h o a r r i ve t o C o r n e l l a s f r e s h m a n h a s w a v e r e d b e t we e n 1 4 a n d 1 5 p e rc e n t T h e p e rc e n t a g e o f t r a n s f e r l e g a c i e s u s u a l l y f a l l s b e t we e n n i n e a n d 1 1 p e rc e n t M i c h a e l Hu r w i t z , a re s e a rc h e r a t Ha r va rd , s t u d i e d t h e i m p a c t o f l e g a c y s t a t u s o n a d m i s s i o n s a t 3 0 c o l l e g e s

C.U. More Likely to Enroll Legacies Than Peers

LEGACY

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Two 19-year-olds involved with the ring

TRAFFICKING

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Schneiderman’s office described the sex trafficking ring as being “brazen” to the point that the alleged ring leader called his partners from Ithaca and Watertown jails to give them i n s t r u c t i o n s , even though he was warned that his calls could be recorded In these phone calls, Oliver a l l e g e d l y directed his 19year-old partners to transport prostitutes to various locations and even told one of his partners to give drugs to a prostitute to get her to work

like the New York Attorney General's Office and the Organized Crime Task Force will continue to bring these groups to justice "

Eric Oliver, a 30-year-old man from Syracuse and the alleged ring leader, has been charged with two counts of sex trafficking, com-

“With these arrests, a sextrafficking ring has been dismantled, and victims have been freed from a forced lifestyle ”

J o s e p h A D ’ A m i c o

"This modern-day type of slavery will not be tolerated in New York State With these arrests, a sex-trafficking ring has been dismantled, and victims, some as young as 15 years old, have been freed from a forced lifestyle,” Joseph A D’Amico, New York State Police Superintendent, said in a statement Tuesday “While human trafficking can be a difficult crime to detect, public awareness and the continued hard work of law enforcement and agencies

tion, pro-

tion, rape in the third degree and

in the fifth degree If convicted of the five felonies and one misdemeanor charge, Oliver could spend decades in jail

Tirra Pate, a 19-year-old woman from Syracuse, has been charged with sex trafficking, promoting prostitution in the third degree and conspiracy in the fifth degree Jessica Moro, a 19-year-old woman from Cicero, has been charged with promoting prostitution in the second and third degrees and conspiracy in the fifth degree

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

3 3 p e r c e n t o f t h o s e o f f e re d a s p o t w e r e t h e c h i l d r e n o f a l u m n i H a r v a r d g e n e r a l l y a d m i t s 3 0 p e r c e n t , a n d Ya l e s a y s i t a d m i t s 2 0 p e r c e n t t o 2 5 p e r c e n t Fo r a l l t h re e , t h e ov e ra l l r a t e i s i n t h e s i n g l e d i g i t s , ” Pa u l s a i d S o m e h i g h l y - r a n k e d s c h o o l s , l i k e M a s s a c h u s s e t t s I n s t i t u t e o f Te c h n o l o g y a n d

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Ad m i s s i o n s b l o g p o s t t h a t h e s t a n d s b y h i s p h i l o s o p h y o n c o l l e

Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun com

WHITE PLAINS, N Y (AP) The Indian Point power plants in the New York suburbs have been cited for more violations than any other nuclear site in the country, although 99 percent were low-risk violations, according to a federal report awaiting release

The Government Accountability Office report, using figures from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said four of the 384 citations between 2000 and 2012 were for "higher-level" violations Many plants around the nation have more in that category

But no plant site had more total violations The closest to Indian Point's total was at the Cooper plant in Brownville, Neb , which had 374 violations Eleven of those were "higherlevel" violations, the report says

Cooper has just one reactor, while Indian Point has two

Lower-level violations are those considered to pose very low risk, such as improper upkeep of an electrical transformer

Entergy Nuclear, owner of Indian Point, issued a statement saying it "has received the most regulatory scrutiny of any plant in the country " It said, "Entergy's commitment to address even minor issues and enhance safety is unrelenting "

Phillip Musegaas of the environmental group Riverkeeper, an Indian Point critic, said of the plant's violations, "Even if they're low-level violations, they're still safety violations, and the NRC does not have an effective system for tracking them The people of New York should wonder why Indian Point has twice as many as any other plant in the Northeast "

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Purported White Supremacists Arrested In Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz (AP) Two members of a notorious family that authorities say once tried to set up a whites-only nation in America were arrested this week in Arizona on federal firearms charges after a raid on a sprawling ranch netted dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition

Kirby Kehoe and his 37-year-old son, Cheyne, had an initial court appearance Tuesday in Flagstaff Cheyne Kehoe’s attorney declined to discuss the case, while a lawyer for Kirby Kehoe did not immediately respond to requests for comment

Authorities received a tip that Kirby Kehoe, 65, had weapons on his 40-acre property near Ash Fork, about 140 miles north of Phoenix, said Tom Mangan, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Agents who raided the property seized dozens of guns, including shotguns and semi-automatic rifles and pistols, according to the ATF Kirby and Cheyne Kehoe both have previous felony convictions and are banned from possessing firearms

The Kehoe family has been well-known to law enforcement since the 1990s when authorities say they provided weapons to various white supremacists who committed robberies across the Midwest Authorities also said the family was involved in a plot to overthrow the federal government and establish the Aryan Peoples Republic in the Pacific Northwest

Another son, Chevie Kehoe, is serving a life sentence in federal prison for his role in the 1996 killings of an Arkansas gun dealer, his wife and their 8-year-old daughter as part of the plot

Ex-San Diego Mayor Filner ’63 Pleads Guilty to Three Crimes

SAN DIEGO (AP) Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner ’63, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony for putting a woman in a headlock and to lesser counts for kissing one woman and grabbing the buttocks of another

The pleas came less than two months after the 10-term congressman defiantly said he was the victim of a lynch mob and insisted he would be vindicated of the sexual harassment claims by at least 17 women if due process was allowed to run its course

His accusers included a retired navy admiral, a university dean and great grandmother

Filner, however, said little on Tuesday except “guilty” when a judge read the charges against him one count of felony false imprisonment and two counts of misdemeanor battery

Under a plea deal, the state attorney general’s office will recommend Filner be sentenced to three months of home confinement and three years of probation The maximum possible sentence for a false imprisonment count is three years in prison and one year for each count of battery

Filner restrained a woman against her will at a fundraiser on March 6, applying additional force after she resisted, according to the plea agreement Filner put her in a headlock, his attorney, Jerry Coughlan, told reporters

He also kissed a woman without permission at a “Meet the Mayor” event on April 6 and groped another victim at a May 25 rally to clean up Fiesta Island in Mission Bay None of the victims were identified

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David Fischer | Fischy Business

The Fall Break Void

When I packed my backpack to go home for Fall Break last Friday, I included books for three of my four classes with the intention of getting some real work done Now I find myself, on Monday, facing a prelim and an untouched Mount Doom-sized portion of readings to accomplish for the week But unlike Frodo, faced with his perilfraught quest to return the One Ring to the fires from whence it came, I feel content with my workload

My contentment does not only stem from the fact that I am not a small, hole-dwelling fantasy creature inexplicably charged with transporting a nearly indestructible object tirelessly sought after by a nigh omniscient, flaming eye on top of a perilously spiraling tower that inevitably will fundamentally alter my value structure and personal relationships More important to my satisfaction is that Fall Break offers a release from Cornell-related responsibilities This liberation allowed me to pursue a few of my hobbies: I slept well into the afternoon and, I will admit, I watched at least one of the Lord of the Rings extended edition films Although these “hobbies” are not exactly conducive to the sustained pursuit of academia, they were much needed after a tough couple of months on the Hill

Although the only headway I’ve made in studying for my Thursday night prelim is procrastinating studying for it (maybe

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I’ll start tomorrow when I get back to Ithaca), I feel like my studying will go much more easily after getting time off from the crushing mental grind I associate with Olin Library I am convinced for the sake of my heart, if nothing else that this week I’ll only need one coffee during study sessions instead of two

The point I’m trying to make in this Fall Break-inspired column is the importance of taking breaks While I hope that all of you, my loyal readers, enjoyed a long weekend as relaxing as mine, the reality is that with our return to our mesa Far Above Cayuga’s Waters, it becomes much harder to take a single day off even on weekends However, as a sort of Fall Break resolution, I have decided that I am going to make more of an effort to get schoolwork done during the week, so that I can enjoy more of the rapidly fading daylight on the weekends

There are far too many opportunities to enjoy autumnal Ithaca to only spend your days in Mann and your (weekend) nights in Pixel To borrow a few things from The Sun’s ubiquitous 161 Things list, you could: #4: Go to the CornellHarvard Men’s Hockey Game and throw fish on the ice, #22: Pick apples at the Cornell orchards or, if you ’ re feeling particularly adventurous, #72: Take over a building Even Frodo, after being stabbed by a poisoned knife, sought shelter in the Elvish city of Rivendale So whatever it takes, rather than slogging through enchanted forests, sunken bogs and soot-covered pathways without respite on your journey to Mount Doom, try to stop before you get stabbed by that poisoned knife

While I realize that it may not be the perfect analogy (although I guess Mount Doom could be graduation), I do think that The Lord of the Rings and how we would chose to conduct ourselves in Middle Earth may offer us some insight in how to maximize our time on the Hill That’s all for now; I’m off to watch The Return of the King, and then, hopefully, get some studying done

David Fischer is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun com Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester

“Cinco de Mayo is NOT “a Mexican Independence Day,” though It only marks the victory of a battle against the French Also, these kinds of parties usually have other subtexts going on, not just sombreros and nachos. I know of a party a few years ago where the theme was a Mexican party. To get into the party, you had to jump over a small fence, signifying illegal immigrants That’s downright offensive Yet nobody who went to the party had enough of a problem with it to leave And this is the case still ”

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Re: “Cornell Athletics Apologizes for ‘Culturally Insensitive’ Marketing Campaign,” News, published Oct 6, 2013

Jess

Coleman | Guest Room

S aving Af rmative Action

On Tu e s d a y, t h e S u p r e m e C o u r t h e a r d a r g u m e n t s i n S c h u e t t e v C o a l i t i o n t o D e f e n d A f f i r m a t i v e Ac t i o n , a c h a l l e n g e t o a v o t e r - a p p r o v e d a m e n dm e n t t o t h e M i c h i g a n

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m e e t p e o p l e o f d i f f e r e n t c u l t u r e s a n d b a c kg r o u n d s A d d t o t h a t t h e Gr e e k s y s t e m , a n d t h e h u n d r e d s o f s t u d e n t o r g a n i z a t i o n s , a n d y o u h a v e f a r m o r e t h a n j u s t a n e d u c a t i o n W h i c h i s w h y u n i v e rs i t i e s h a v e l o n g a c c e p t e d a p p l i c a n t s o n a b a s i s f a r w i d e r t h a n j u s t t e s t s c o r e s a n d g r a d e s Fa c t o r s s u c h a s y o u r h o m e t o w n , y o u r p a re n t s ’ l e v e l o f e d u c a t i o n a n d l e g a c y a r e u s e d i n a d d i t i o n t o r a c e O p p o n e n t s o f a f f i r m at i v e a c t i o n c a r r y t h e b u r d e n o f e x p l a i n i n g w h y o n l y r a c e , a n d n e v e r t h e s e o t h e r f a ct o r s , c o m e s u n d e r s u c h i n t e n s e s c r u t i n y T h e u n f o r t u n a t e r e a li t y i s t h a t , w i t h o u t a f f i rm a t i v e a c t i o n p r o g r a m s , u n i v e r s i t i e s a c r o s s t h e c o u n t r y w o u l d n o t b e a b l e t o m e e t a n y r e a s o na b l e s t a n d a r d o f d i v e r s it y S i n c e M i c h i g a n d i d a w a y w i t h a f f i r m a t i v e a c t i o n i n 2 0 0 6 , f o r e x a m p l e , b l a c k u n d e rg r a d u a t e e n r o l l m e n t h a s f a l l e n 3 3 p e r c e n t a t t h e Un i v e r s i t y o f M i c h i g a n W i t h c o l l e g e b e i n g s u c h a t r a n s f o r m a t i v e p e r i o d i n s o m a n y y o u n g p e op l e s ’ l i v e s , i t w o u l d b e i m m e n s e l y d a m a g i n g f o r t h e m t o d e v e l o p i n a n a t m o s p h e r e s o d r a s t i c a ll y d i f f e r e n t f r o m t h e w o r l d t h a t t h e y w i l l s o o n e n t e r R e c o g n i z i n g t h i s r e a li t y, c o u n t l e s s i n s t i t ut i o n s h a v e c o m e o u t i n d e f e n s e o f a f f i r m a t i v e a c t i o n O v e r t h e s u mm e r, i n a s e p a r a t e a f f i rm a t i v e a c t i o n c a s e , C o r n e l l , a l o n g w i t h B r o w n , H a r v a r d , D a r t m o u t h , M I T, a n d U Pe n n f i l e d a b r i e f w i t h t h e C o u r t d e f e n d i n g r a c e - b a s e d a d m i s s i o n s p r o g r a m s T h e y w e r e j o i n e d b y o v e r 5 0 Fo r t u n e 1 0 0 c o m p a n i e s , t h e B o s t o n a n d N e w Yo r k S t a t e B a r A s s o c i a t i o n s a n d e v e n t h e Na t i o n a l

Jess Coleman is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations She may be reached at jkc224@cornell edu Guest Room appears periodically this semester

SCIENCE

P r o fe s s o r H o n o r e d b y W h i t e H o u s e

By AMIT BLUMFIELD

Contributor

Public sharing of research is fundamental to the advancement of science Prof Paul Ginsparg Ph D ’81, information science and physics, took this to heart when he developed a public research sharing archive, known as arXiv

For his service to the scientific community, Ginsparg, along with 12 others, was honored by the White House as a champion of change, according to the White House This honor is reserved for those who advocate free public sharing of text

“Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ideas,” Ginsparg said

While the concept of data sharing may seem trivial, when Ginsparg developed his archive in 1991, arXiv was one of the first open access text sharing systems available to researchers

According to Ginsparg, availability of research prior to the rise of text sharing archives was unfair While faculty members and graduate students of prestigious schools had access to publications, less prestigious or wealthy researchers were unable to access many publications

Specifically, in third world countries, the spread of current research was sparse, Ginsparg said

One of Ginsparg’s inspirations for developing an open access system is the late Prof Ken Wilson, physics Wilson, Ginsparg's thesis advisor, was at the forefront of the development of the use of computers and computer networking for research purposes This inspired Ginsparg to develop his own open access research system

Today, according to Ginsparg, there are over 200,000 researchers who use arXiv on a daily basis

"The top tier researchers around the world use the system, ” Ginsparg said Anyone with an internet connection can obtain free access to all the research posted in the system In order to maintain a base level of scientific rigour, however,

there are some qualifications to submit research to the system According to Ginsparg, the arXiv system uses a set of external moderators together with various language algorithms to screen for inappropriate submisisons

ArXiv’s success can be attributed to multiple factors, according to Ginsparg

The fact that this system was one of the earliest of its kind played an essential role in gaining users Media influence is also partially responsible for the success

“When research ties into some popular meme, such as invisibility cloaks pulled from Harry Potter, or teleportation from Star Trek, many new users are referred to the arXiv system, ” Ginsparg said

One famous article involved a man who used elementary physics to get out of a speeding ticket According to Ginsparg, the man calculated the location of the police car and determined an obscurity in the radar readings, This led a judge to throw out the case

Although Ginsparg did not expect such an impact due to media influence, he said he was glad to see it because it meant that not all of the scientific research performed fell into an obscure niche, only to be read by a few people According to Ginsparg, it is reassuring to researchers to know that their hard work is valued by the general public

This data-sharing system is not only designed for the benefit of active researchers, however

“I hope that once in a while, a high school student interested in a science field finds the arXive, becomes completely befuddled by it, but still says ‘this is cool!’ and gets inspired to learn even more about science, perhaps pursuing it as a career, ” Ginsparg said

By making the system available to everyone, Ginsparg said that he hopes to persuade younger students to become more involved in scientific fields

Less Meat Is Better for Environment

By EMMA JOHNSTON Sun Contributor

Seventy-five percent of all arable land is u s e d t o s u p p o r t a n i m a l s o t h e r t h a n humans However, it takes less land to grow crops that humans can directly eat than it does to raise cattle, sheep and other animals, researchers say Prof Christine Costello, University of Missouri, bioengineering, a former postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionar y biology at Cornell, found that the United States could both trim its population’s waistlines and reduce its environmental impact by swapping some of its meat consumption for consumption of vegetables, milk and eggs

A c c o rd i n g t o E m i l y C a s s

d y g r a d , University of Minnesota, growing crops

instead of raising animals could feed as many as four billion more people

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emissions, land use and use of nitrogen in soil associated with different diet types These diets include the average American diet, the omnivore, diet recommended by

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reduces average meat consumption by half, a ovo-lacto vegetarian diet that includes eggs and dair y and a vegan diet

Costello used a life-cycle analysis to measure the environmental impact, land use and nitrogen and fer tilizer input necessar y for each diet at all stages of production

According to Costello, it takes 4,150 square meters of land to produce all the food for an average American adult for a

year, 3,370 square meters for the recommended omnivore and 890 square meters for the ovo-lacto vegetarian This means that with the same amount of land required to feed the average American, almost five ovo-lacto vegetarians could be fed

Increasing trade, however, complicates

according to Costello If a farm in the Midwest expor ts goods to the coastal U S , is it fair for the Gulf States to incur the

problems like nitrogen pollution, should environmental harm be attributed to the expor ter or the consumer?

Costello said that nitrogen pollution does not seem to be an issue because nitrogen is an invisible gas

impacts; it’s a problem for another region,”

Costello said

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i e l d s because it is a necessar y soil nutrient, but too much can cause environmental problems such as algal blooms

“ The green revolution has done amazing, great things for humanity, but now we ’ re dealing with the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico or groundwater with really high nitrate levels,” Costello said

According to Costello, the average U S diet requires twice as much nitrogen as a vegetarian dietiet

As a leading food producer for the world, the United States has decreased its beef consumption in recent years, but production of beef has not followed this trend because the United States expor ts what it does not eat to other countries

According to the USDA, the average person in the U S still eats twice as much protein than is recommended, and more than half of that protein comes from meat

According to Cassidy, this helps explain why it takes 16 1 hectares to feed a person in the U S but only 6 5 hectares to feed a person in India

According to Costello, food waste in the U S is also a problem Close to half of all fr uits, vegetables, and dair y products, 35 percent of poultr y and 20 percent of beef are wasted at the consumer level, according to the USDA

Costello advocates reducing food waste by suggesting that individuals investigate what is being grown in the first place and what implications thier food choices have f o r n i

health

“Sustainability is about being where we ’ re maximizing human well-being, where we ’ re not destroying the ecosystems that we need for food and not constantly facing nutrient-related illnesses, whether malnutrition or over-nutrition,” Costello said “I wouldn’t want to take away from the ability of a child who’s malnourished to eat something that’s really nutritious like milk or beef That s not sustainable

Researchers Find Origin of Ovarian Cancer

By SHERRI COUILLARD Sun Contr butor

Bu t Pro f A l e x a n d e r Ni k i t i n , p a t h o l o g y, h a s d i s c o v e r e d a p o s s i b l e o r i g i n o f e p i t h e l i a l ova r i a n c a n c e r Ma n y o t h e r c a n c e r s , s u c h a s s t o m a c h a n d c e r v i c a l c a n c e r, a re k n ow n t o o r i g i n a t e i n j u n ct i o n s b e t we e n t h e l a ye r s o f t i ss u e t h a t c o v e r t h e o r g a n , a c c o rd i n g t o Ni k i t i n Ni k i t i n ’ s w o rk l i n k e d t h e s e j u n c t i o n s t o t h e e x i s t e n c e o f s t e m c e l l n i c h e s , a re a s o f s t e m c e l l s p ro n e t o c a n c e r Ni k i t i n a n d h i s t e a m f o u n d a n e w s t e m c e l l n i c h e i n t h e h i l u m re g i o n i n m i c e T h e h i l u m re g i o n i s a t r a n s it i o n a l a re a b e t we e n t h e ova r i a n s u r f a c e e p i t h e l i u m , t h e t i s s u e l a ye r c ove r i n g t h e ova r y a n d t h e m e s o t h e l i u m , a n i n n e r l a ye r o f t h e ova r y A c c o r d i n g t o Ni k i t i n , re s e a rc h e r s s h owe d t h a t c e l l s i n t h i s re g i o n a re m o re s u s c e p t i b l e t o m a l i g n a n t t r a n s f o r m a t i o n w h e n c o m p a r e d w i t h o t h e r ova r i a n c e l l s T h e s t e m c e l l s i n t h i s re g i o n we re f o u n d t h ro u g h e x p re s s i o n o f t h e p ro t e i n A L D H 1 , w h i c h m a rk s s t e m c e l l s by a t t a c h i n g t o t h e m On c e t h e c e l l s we re l a b e l e d , t h e y g re w n a t u r a l l y i n t h e m i c e Ni k i t i n w a s t h e n a b l e t o s e e h o w t h e s t e m c e l l s s p re a d , a p ro c e s s c a l l e d l i n e a g e t r a c i n g C r i t i c a l t u m o r s u p p re s s o r g e n e s , s u c h a s p 5 3 a n d R b 1 , a r e c o m m o n l y i n v o l v e d i n h u m a n o v a r i a n c a n c e r s Ni k i t i n i n a c t i v a t e d t h e s e t w o g e n e s i n b o t h s t e m c e l l s a n d d i f f e r e n t i a t e d o v a r i a n c e l l s , t h e d a u g h t e r c e l l s o f s t e m c e l l s Ac c o rd i n g t o Ni k i t i n , t h e l a b f o u n d t h a t , a f t e r i n j e c t i n g b o t h o f t h e s e c e l l t y p e s i n t o a m o u s e a b d o m e n , s t e m c e l l s f o r m e d a g g r e s s i v e t u m o r s , w h i l e d i f f e re n t i a t e d c e l l s r a re l y f o r m e d a n y t u m o r s “ T h i s i s b a s i c a l l y p ro o f t h a t s t e m c e l

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Any Monster,Any Study

An interview with Pixar’s Claire Faggioli ’06

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Recently, Sun staff writer Mark DiStefano ’16 was lucky enough to interview Claire Faggioli ’06 and Scott Clifford ’96, two employees at Pixar Animation Studios, the digital animation powerhouse that has produced such films as the Toy Story saga, Finding Nemo Ratatouille and Up DiStefano spoke with Faggioli and Clifford about their experiences at Pixar, working on the studio’s newest release, the summer blockbuster Monsters University Today, we present his conversation with Faggioli Find his talk with Clifford tomorrow, or on cornellsun com

THE SUN: Please talk about what your job was on Monsters University

CLAIRE FAGGIOLI ’06: I was a production coordinator

Every film has a different department I was in the animation department on Monsters, coordinating with different departments to [get] the shots out on time I was a fix coordinator; there were several fix animators on the film All

SUN: What is it like to work at Pixar and to work on a film as highly anticipated at this?

C F : Pixar is so much fun; the people are amazing, there are lots of great perks, it’s beautiful Everyone was really excited about it, everybody felt like they had a great, fun movie to work on, [even though] it had tons of challenges We had tentacles, tons of fur; every shot had its own challenges

SUN: What was your career path like, from graduating Cornell to working at Pixar?

C F : I went to grad school [at] USC, because I wasn ’ t sure if I wanted to go into the industry, and [USC] was situated where I could intern, but also focus on doing critical studies for my graduate degree

While at USC I interned at production companies in LA, doing script reading and stereotypical [duties as a] Hollywood intern, grabbing lunches, it was fun to be in that environment It was very dynamic, with a lot of things to juggle After I graduated from USC I came back up to the Bay Area LA wasn ’ t for me, I mean I’m sure I could’ve lived there if I had to, but I wanted to see if I could do something in film in the Bay Area

departments once their work is in There may be something in the animation that causes the fur to go crazy, or something, so my job was to track that, which was especially hard on Monsters because there were so many characters

SUN: What were some classes that stand out in your memory at Cornell, or some favorite professors or experiences you remember?

C.F.: In the film school I loved [film professor] Sabine Haenni She was a professor who I really used to connect with and used to guide me through a lot especially [since] I was figuring out what I wanted to do with my degree I loved History of American film, and I liked Avant-Garde, [as well as] other non-film classes [like] Decadence and Desire Those classes were really fun

I’d always loved Pixar and been really interested in their movies It was the summer of 2008, right before the recession, and Pixar was hiring a lot of people for Toy Story 3, and I got really lucky and started as a temp and [moved on] to being a P A SUN: Sounds like you did pretty well for yourself!

C F : I got so lucky, especially since that was the first movie I ever worked on SUN: I understand that the environment at Pixar is an extremely live-

“At Pixar and at Cornell too, it’s a lot of people who are really driven but who are also really fun It’s a lot of work-hard-and-play-hard ”

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ly one marked by a lot of fun, but where people also work tremendously hard It sounds quite similar to Cornell Is that so?

C F : At Pixar and at Cornell too, it’s a lot of people who are really driven but who are also really fun It’s a lot of workhard-and-play-hard, and the people there are 150-percent

committed to what they are doing

SUN: As a filmmaker myself here at Cornell, my love of movies began at age seven when I was inspired by the original Monsters Inc What sorts of films inspired you to want to work in film, and specifically to work at Pixar?

C F : When I went to Cornell, I always wanted to do evolutionary biology But I always loved movies, always in high school, I was in a suburban area, so every night we’d go and see a movie, even if it was really bad I loved The Jungle Book and Indiana Jones and then later on at Cornell I was doing evolutionary biology and I had to take an elective, so I took a critical studies class in film, and that was amazing It was the first time I realized you could study that Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Herzog [became] one of my favorites, and [so did] The Third Man

SUN: What advice would you give to other aspiring filmmakers at Cornell, whether they want to work in animation or live action?

C F : These days I think a lot of people approach degrees with the idea of, ‘What am I going to do with it and how am I going to make this a job,’ and I think that’s fine, but I think if there’s something you really want do, if you really want to make a film, don’t let anything stand in the way of that Be proactive and be open to new things, and it’ll help you

Mark DiStefano is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun com

E mi n em “R ap Go d”

Released Oct 14

Call it Eminem’s “Free Bird” (or don’t): The controversial artist has just unleashed “Rap God,” a sixminute single off of his highly anticipated Marshall Mathers LP 2, out Nov 5 Presumably, Shady wanted to let Kanye know that the hip hop game is not monothestic.

S no o pz i l a a n d D a m Fu n k “F ad en Aw ay ”

Released Oct 15

In case one reincarnation of Snoop wasn ’ t enough (see: Snoop Lion), the rapping and smoking legend is adding a new one to his roster Snoopzilla, in honor of funkmaster Bootsy Collins, affectionately known as Bootzilla The new, funky Snoop, will be appearing as part of 7 Day of Funk, a funk group that also includes Dam Funk but really, we ’ re all here to see snoop get funky

Ma d l i b “B l ack W i do w”

Released Oct 15

Inspired by the sounds of ’70s African rock, Madlib’s upcoming project, Rock Konducta Vol 1, is a smooth and nostalgic entr y to the prolific producer’s catalogue Catch a ride on the this hip-hop/rock/soul train as soon as possible, mon

Sure, it’s not a full-on single “Life Round Here” appeared on James Blake’s 2012 EP, Overgrown but a track this chill, and an accompanying music video this well monochromatic, deser ves our utmost respect

Released Oct 3

MellowHigh, another Odd Future combination, made up of Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Left Brain, goes hard on their new track “Extinguisher ” The track, replete with lyrics about weed, fisting (the man?) and bringing back hip-hop will be on MellowHigh’s self-titled debut, out on Halloween.

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The new song by Mutual Benefit, “Advanced Falconr y ” is dreamy from the start with air y harp, light plucky guitar and wistful violin for miles There’s something about the juicy wonder in singer Jordan Lee’s voice that, suffice it to say, makes you want to drink it up like Kool Aid on a summer ’ s eve

The Filthy, Brilliant Back Alleys of Twitter

Facebook and Twitter Say it out loud: Facebook and Twitter Twitter and Facebook Status updates, news feeds, retweets, social media There was once a time when these words had a spark of potency to them, before Buzzfeed, IPOs and the Fox News Deck We too easily conflate Facebook with Twitter, or at least bunch them together in the same headline (“The AntiSocial Social Network???”) But while Facebook deserves censure for its ever-growing string of privacy concerns and unwavering intellectual vacuity, Twitter is too rarely celebrated for what it has revealed itself to be: A platform for a new, bizarre and brilliant form of literature

Granted, if you just follow your friends, One Direction fans and celebrity “parody” accounts (“FillWerrell” is the worst), you have yet to leave the Facebook ghetto, or are stuck on an even more insipid avenue all your own

Of course, many of my friends at Cornell and back home maintain honest and entertaining Twitter accounts that goes without saying They join the wider band of users I follow, and not the other way around Aside from my friends’ often very earnest updates (usually about appreciating life, weather, etc , or stressing over work), I find the topical, capsuled comedy of Stephen Colbert, the metropolitan musings of Ezra Koenig, the inspiring cinephilia of Richard Brody, the gaming know-all of Jeff Gerstmann and the “weird, sexual, anti-comedy comedy” of Megan Amram

From “Anyone who doesn’t request unlimited salad and breadsticks as their last meal is an idiot” to “Guys be honest how raven am I,” her style is about one part removed from the typical stand-up one-liner, and mostly in step with the alternative comedy sensibility practiced by Zach Galifianakis, who also once teased the grammar of That’s So Raven in his set She landed a writing gig on Parks and Recreation from the strength of her tweets, which feed off millennial references and ironic turns of phrase to appeal to a predominantly college-aged demographic

Today, Amram still deserves to be ranked with the best of Twitter, but it is down the back alleys leading from her work where you can find the most ingenious and subversive comics on the web An acquaintance from my early high school gaming days, @piss wizard posts like crazy (he broached 97,000 tweets recently) on anything that passes his mind,

It’s that last one that I would like to talk about Amram’s off-kilter brand of humor caught my eye early on (I’ve had a Twitter since 2009, which is apparently a long time)

from the crappy politics of his native U K and the U S to delirious pop culture mashups like “banjo kazooey deschanel ” This mad stream-of-consciousness approach to tweeting finds seasoned practitioners in @othersome and @jitka, as well On fleeting occasions, I have interacted with these accounts and have found them to be smart, unusually self-aware young guys (one of them is a Cornell alum) who circumvent the corporate political correctness of Twitter by trolling it with apolitical, stupidly funny non sequitirs

“@tomhanks happy hanksgiving,” read an @othersome tweet you know he waited weeks until Thanksgiving to send, while @piss wizard tweeted to the Pope, “@Pontifex when is half life 3 coming out ” And when the cool mode of irony doesn’t suit the occasion, a concise-though-fervent rant will do, as @jitka made clear early last year: “shut up about bacon bacon is good but just shut up about it already please it's just bacon it's literally just bacon”

You may notice the lack of proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling in these tweets: it’s an aesthetic requirement for this school of humor Some bloggers have referred to this body of jokesters as “Weird Twitter,” which I guess is about the right name if you had to pick one But while the tweets may look similarly ‘broken,’ it must be emphasized that “Weird Twitter” is a simple label for a very diverse pool of comedy Some of these masters exclaim all-caps epiphanies (@rare basement: IMAGINE IF JAMES JOYCE COULD SEXT) while others impart narrative poetry so subtle they should be considered [hilarious] works of art (@UtilityLimb: it's sad thinking of all the dogs in old movies that have died, but even sadder thinking of the earth we fled because of the dogs that can ' t”) Some make light of (and truly love) gaming culture (@wolfpupy: burn your enemies and take the gems they drop) while others prefer to riff on film or music, like @ingmarbirdman or The

Mountain Goats’ own John Darnielle, who I consider an honorary member of Weird Twitter, with his standout contribution: “When my Citizen Kane moment comes I’m pretty sure I’m gonna say ‘Nerds Rope ’” Like I said, millennial humor, even for a 46-yearold man

Weird Twitter (not a phrase I love, but it’s easy shorthand) works so beautifully because it recognizes that the utopian pitch for Twitter, and all social networks, to make the world a more connected, knowledgeable place is B S Twitter secured its staying power once WalMart realized it could sell more stuff with this thing With that acute awareness of how the Internet, and thus the 21st century, works, this ragged band of comics spews both its jaded contempt and sincere awe for the world around at or under 140 characters apiece Ironically, doing so has fulfilled the site’s idealistic goal and united these provocateurs as they stake out a new avant-garde form of Twitterbased comedy Leave it to @dril a cross between Bukowski and 4Chan and surely the greatest Twitterer today to sum up the profound and irreverent grace of the medium: “sometimes i gaze towards the beautiful endless sky and wish that i was a bird so that i could piss and shit out of the same hole ”

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The Red also tested a new formation with several players unaccustomed to defense on the back-line As a result, the defensive line was less cohesive, Banks said

“We weren ’ t used to playing together in the back,” she said “I think that on top of already being down 1-0, they were coming at us really hard with high pressure We left a lot of marks open in the back, and we let them turn the corner on us ”

The Red’s offense, however, had some things to be proud of, said Growney

“It was really disappointing, but we had some good attacking opportunities,” she said “There were portions where we possessed the ball and it wasn ’ t like they completely dominated the play ”

“We got a lot of air balls,” Banks added “And we did manage to get two goals, which isn’t terrible ”

Banks currently leads the team with six assists this season

With four games remaining in Ivy League play, the Red is focused on the future, Banks said In the coming weeks, Cornell will face Yale, Brown and defending champion Princeton before closing out the season against Dartmouth

“Since we ’ ve had a couple of off weekends in a row, we are really focused on trying to change that,” Banks said “By Saturday we should have had enough time to rethink our mentality and refocus ” Cornell will play its fourth Ivy League game against Yale in New Haven on Saturday The Red last beat Yale in 2010, losing in overtime in 2011 and falling, 1-0, last season

This season, the Bulldogs (6-5, 1-2 Ivy) beat Princeton in overtime in their Ivy opener before losing to both Harvard and Dartmouth

According to Growney, this week’s practice will be crucial to the Red’s progress

“Coach Farmer really stressed that we need to move on from Harvard,” she said “Yale is a must-win for us this weekend and we need to focus all our efforts on learning from Harvard but still trying to forget that disappointment ”

According to Banks, overcoming the disappointment of the Harvard match will pose a significant challenge for the team going into the Yale game

“It was obviously really disappointing, and we were not prepared to lose that badly at all this season, ” she said “We have some wins under our belts, and we need to remember that and make sure we still have confidence going into this game ”

The Red aims to up its offensive pressure against Yale, Growney said

“If we can get our attack going early, that will be huge for us, ” she said “We have a lot of speed up top and a number of dangerous players ” Cornell also hopes to focus on maintaining possession, a task that will become more difficult on Yale’s turf field, Growney added

According to Banks, the team ’ s mindset will be key this weekend

“We’ll be practicing really hard and making sure we ’ re going 100 percent in practice,” she said “We need to make sure the 11 who will start at Yale know that we need to play our best, and we can ’ t have a repeat of what happened ”

Gina Cargas can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun com

Cornell Heads Into Game Against Naval Academy

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offense Throughout the first four games of the season, the Red has only produced 30 total points The 50-point mark that the team was able to reach may be a positive indication that season may end on a good note Last Friday’s win was Cornell’s 21st consecutive victor y over the Tigers since the 1989 season

With two games left, the Red is looking to rebound off an awful star t to the 2013 season The final record will not be over the 500 mark, but the team wants to make sure that the breakdowns it was having will not follow into next season Even though the Tigers were an easier opponent than many other teams in the league, the Red coaching staff finds it impor tant to build off ever y matchup The huge win over Princeton is sure to be a confidence booster for the players on the Cornell squad going the last two games

This Saturday, the Red takes on the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md at noon The Red has not won against Navy since the 2006 season Navy comes into the matchup with a 4-0 record and is a powerhouse in the league The game will surely be against a more challenging adversar y, so it is an ideal test of whether last week’s per formance by the Red was a real turnaround or just a clobbering of a subpar opponent

Nikita DuBnov can be reached at sports@cornellsun com

Griders Look to Secure Win Against Monmouth

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However, Har vard’s backup quart e r b a c k Mi c h a e l Pr u n e a u h a d other ideas After converting on a third-and-7 to keep the drive alive, Pruneau hit Cameron Brate for a 22-yard touchdown with less than three minutes to go, essentially putting the Red away Pruneau got the start for the Crimson after starting quarterback Connor Hempel was sidelined with an injur y The Red’s defense had trouble containing him as well, though, as Pruneau completed 23 of 29 passes for 2 touchdowns and 340 yards

“ We knew Pruneau would be the starter because of injur y and I think our defense did its job to keep the game close in the fourth quarter, ” Gellatly said “ That’s what we wanted to do We gave ourselves a chance to win, and that’s all you can ask for ” The Red’s own signal caller threw for 472 yards in the game the most by an individual in a game against the Crimson but it was not enough in an eventual 34-24 loss Gellatly and Bostain also both surpassed the 100-yard receiving mark, totaling 181 and 112 yards respectively Shapiro who was out last weekend

with a fractured foot came b a c k o u t w i t h a v e n g e a n c e against the Crimson, catching five passes for 75 yards and a touchdown

“Coming back for Har vard and being able to make a difference and make some big plays really felt good,” Shapiro said “It’s just an amazing feeling to know that ever yone on my team trusts that when the ball is in the air, I’m going to come down with it ” Now sitting at 0-2 in Ivy play, the Red has difficult road ahead After a nonconference matchup with Monmouth next weekend, the squad will compete in five straight Ivy games, three of which will be on the road However, according to Gellatly, keeping up with Har vard proved that the Red is prepared for these match

ups

“I think it shows us that there is no big difference between the teams, ” he said “ When we come out and play with emotion and execute we can compete with anyone, but we must do that in order to win games It is a tough loss to take, but it was a step in the right direction for our program and gave us a lot to learn from moving for ward ”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Wr ter

After winning two of its first three Ivy League games, the Cornell women ’ s volleyball team had a setback this past weekend, falling in matches with Har vard (8-6, 3-2 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (8-9, 1-4 Ivy League)

Against Har vard, Cornell (5-9, 2-3 Ivy League) dropped the first two sets and won the third, but the Crimson took the fourth set for the win, (18-25, 23-25, 2523, 16-25) Cornell jumped out to a two

s e t l e a d a g a i n s t t h e Bi g Gre e n , b u t Dartmouth stormed back for the five-set win, 25-22, 25-21, 19-25, 23-25, 13-15

According to sophomore right side Breanna Wong, the Red was sluggish at the start of the game and failed to gain

m o m e n t u m e a r l y e n o u g h t o w i n t h e match

“ We just started off really slow, and it took longer than it should have for us to pick up our game for the rest of the match,” she said

According to senior outside hitter Kelly Ma r b l e , Re d s t r u g g l e d t o f i n i s h s e t s strongly and secure set wins

“I think throughout this match we struggled to be consistent and take care of our business, which affected our ability to close out all the sets we dropped,” she said

The Red improved its play in the second set against Har vard, but could not secure the win According to Wong, Har vard’s grit made it ver y difficult for Cornell to come back after falling behind

“ We definitely improved and started playing a lot better in the second set, but they’re a really scrappy team so it’s hard to come back after falling behind and just all of a sudden decide that we ’ re going to play and be able to be successful,” Wong said

The Red had a much better start in the match with the Green, winning the first

two sets However, Dartmouth captured the momentum and rode it all the way to a five set win According to Marble, Cornell lost some of the intensity that it had in the first two sets, and it failed to adequately adjust to Dartmouth’s attack

“I don’t think we came out with the same intensity after the second set, ” she said “ We needed to take care of the easy plays and also step up our passing game after Dartmouth came out and started ser ving more aggressively ”

According to Wong, the Dartmouth attack threw the Red off its game and turned the tide

“Dartmouth started playing better than they had been previously, then we made a couple of mistakes,” Wong said “It started getting hectic, and it took us a while to calm ourselves down and to be able to play composed again ”

According to Wong, the Red will look to improve its passing and defensive play in its upcoming games

“ We’re definitely working on passing and on pursuing balls on defense,” she said

With the two losses, Cornell fell into a three-way tie for fourth place in the Ivy League After its final non-conference game against Binghamton, the Red will continue its Ivy League schedule with two home contests against Yale and Brown this coming weekend According to Wong, the Red is confident that it has the potential to play winning volleyball on a more consistent basis

“ There have been times this season when we ’ ve played ver y well, and in the f i r s t t w o s e t s a g a i n s t Da r t m o u t h , we looked like a ver y confident and composed team, ” she said “I know that as much as it stinks that we lost and didn’t play well consistently, we know we can play at that high level, and we’ll keep that in mind over the next few games ”

According to Marble, the key for the Red is to stay confident and use the past games as motivation to succeed in the upcoming ones

“Staying confident is important and is exactly what we are going to do,” she said

“ This past weekend will definitely fuel us to play better tomorrow and our upcoming matches this weekend ”

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Sprint Beat s Princeton, Grabs First Win of Season

By NIKITA DuBNOV Sun Staff Wr ter

With the 2013 season coming to an end, the Cornell sprint football team was able to come together and put a

mark in the “W” column Friday against Princeton

It was the first win of the season for the Red and greatly needed to turn around the slow start the team has been dealing with so far Last week’s matchup featured two teams at the lower end of the conference both having 0-

4 records coming into the game

Throughout the season, minuscule offense output and breakdowns on special teams have contributed to the Red’s losing record These issues did not seem to exist last Friday as the Red clobbered Princeton at Schoellkopf Field The game was packed with early production from Cornell, leading to a 50-19 victory and a 1-4 record The Tigers went on to a 0-5 record and remain as the only club in the CSFL without a win this season

The Red was able to take advantage of the early miscues by the Tigers In the first quarter, two early fumble recoveries on Princeton’s play snaps led to scoring drives

Furthermore, as time was running out senior quarterback

Brendan Miller was able to connect with freshman Robert Pannullo for a 1-yard touchdown pass in the corner of the end zone At the end of the first quarter, the Red was up, 21-0

The Tigers’ offense was able to produce touchdowns in each of the following quarters, but the Red did not give in Sophomore running back Benjamin Herrera was a strong offensive option for the Red Herrera rushed for 162 yards and had five receptions for 62 yards On top of that, the sophomore back was able to run in for two midgame touchdowns one of which was a 55-yard long rush where Herrera evaded oncoming Princeton defender with some crafty moves

The passing game was also very successful against the Tigers Senior Spenser Gruenenfelder, who came into the contest as one of the CSFL’s top receivers, capped off his night with two touchdowns on 68-yards of total offense Senior running back Nick Perez, who has been the Red’s best option as a return man, added to the outpouring of offense with a 13-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter The Red finished the night with 404-yards of total

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Down 27-17 with 12 minutes to go in the game against Harvard on Saturday, senior quarterback Jeff Mathews and the Red started their march up the field First, Mathews hit senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly for a 17-yard gain, before finding senior tight end Ty Bostain and sophomore wide receiver Chris Lenz for consecutive catches, bringing the Red to into Crimson territory Just seven yards separated Cornell from bringing the game to within one field goal, but the next play would eventually decide Cornell’s fate On the next play,

Mathews’ pass intended for junior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro was intercepted, and though the coaching staff argued that it had hit the ground first, the call was not overturned, and the Crimson put an abrupt end to the Red’s scoring drive

“Jeff was scrambling, and I was running across the middle and he tried to throw the ball across his body to me I felt the defender coming down on the ball with me and he got there before me so I just tried to hit the ball out of his hands,” Shapiro said “If I can ’ t catch it, I’ll make sure no one else does It was a tough call, but it is what it is ”

According to Gellatly, although the call did not go the Red’s way, the play was indicative of the offense’s relentless effort on Saturday

“Jeff tried to make a play to Lucas, who had been making big catches all game and, unfortunately, it did not go our way, ” he said “In hindsight, we should have thrown the ball away and lived to see another down, but I think our attitude that entire game was to attack and force the issue and it hurt us in that situation ”

Though hindsight may be 20/20, when looking back on this game the Red will see a slew of missed opportunities that could have tipped the scales in its favor

“We had several opportunities in the Red zone that we failed to turn into touchdowns because of execution errors, ” Gellatly said “We cannot afford to go backwards in those situations We have to tighten up in the red zone and execute better ”

After Mathews’ pass was intercepted in the fourth quarter, the Red’s defense came up big, forcing Harvard to punt and giving Cornell yet another opportunity at the Harvard 44-yard line Mathews cashed in this time, ending the drive on his own with a two-yard run into the end zone

Down by only a field goal now with under seven minutes left in the game, the Red was in

By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

The women ’ s soccer team fell, 7-2, to Harvard at Berman Field Saturday in its second Ivy League loss of the year While the Red (74 - 1 , 1 - 2 Iv y ) m a t c h e d t h e Crimson (7-3-2, 3-0 Ivy) in the first half, Harvard rose to a sixgoal lead in the second half before conceding any goals

The Crimson netted its first goal in the 41st minute and the floodgates opened after halftime After scoring two goals in the first five minutes of the second half, Ha

before freshman forward Meera Marhoefer headed in her classmate Dempsey Banks’ cross In the 87th minute, sophomore forward Caroline Growney converted senior captain Rachel Nichols’ through-ball for the Red’s second goal According to Banks, the Red’s play did not justify a five-goal defeat

“We had a solid first half and for most of it we were dominating,” she said “They had a couple good runs and passes, but we had just as many shots as they did ”