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S.A. Okays $0.30 Per Student Cinema Funding Hike

Advocates say cinema still faces major nancial strain

By BRIAN ENG Sun Contributor

The Student Assembly voted 18-3-0 to increase student activity fee allocations to Cornell Cinema by $0 30 per student Thursday, overturning the Appropriations Committee’s recommendation that the cinema should not receive an increase in activity fee allocations

With the funding increase, Cornell Cinema will now receive allocations of $10 90 per student from the student activity fee However, the $0 30 per student increase is still far lower than the $1 40 per student funding increase that Cornell Cinema has applied for, and proponents of the cinema said that the cinema will still face considerable financial strain even with the increase in allocations

Several passionate Cinema supporters held signs in support of increasing cinema funding and spoke to the S A about the importance of preserving culture and arts on campus at the meeting

Debating with members of the Appropriations Committee, Douglas McLaren ’05, manager of Cornell Cinema, explained how his experiences at Cornell Cinema as an undergraduate inspired him to pursue a master ’ s degree in film preservation

Prof to Address Trustees on Fossil Fuel Divestment

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Prof David Shalloway, molecular biology and genetics, will give a presentation urging the Board of Trustees to divest the University’s endowment from the fossil fuel industry next Friday during the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting

Speaking on behalf of sponsors from all five shared governance assemblies that had passed resolutions calling for divestment, Shalloway said he will make the case that divestment from fossil fuels goes beyond environmental concerns and addresses the nature of shared governance itself

The presentation marks the latest step in an effort toward divestment that began over two years ago when the Student Assembly passed a resolution in February of 2013 calling for

divestment

Since the passing of the 2013 resolution, the Faculty Senate, the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, the Employee Assembly and the University Assembly have all passed their own resolutions calling for the University to divest from fossil fuels The University Assembly most recently passed its resolution in April last year

With the number of resolutions calling for divestment from fossil fuels, Shalloway said he believed the Board of Trustees should hear his presentation as a joint call from the entire shared governance organization

“This unanimity of campus constituencies, as voiced through their elected representatives, is unprecedented in Cornell's history,” Shalloway said “If shared governance is to have any real meaning, this unanimous decision should be

respected

”

In addition to the presentation Shalloway will give, he will also introduce a signed letter to the Board of Trustees As of Thursday afternoon, the letter had gained approximately 400 signatures from students, faculty, staff and other members of the Cornell community, according to Jeffrey Bergfalk grad, an organizer of the signature drive for the letter

The divestment resolutions passed by all the assemblies within the shared governance system have called for Cornell to divest from 100 coal and 100 oil and gas companies holding the largest fossil fuel reserves, according to Shalloway The resolutions have called for this commitment to be done over the course of 20 years, to accompany

Mental Health Awareness Week Kicks Off, Aims to Stomp Out Stigma

By RUBY YU Sun Contributor

Today marks the start of the first Mental Health Awareness Week, which lasts until Oct 23 and will feature events around campus designed to promote the awareness and understanding of mental health issues

“I feel like a lot of students are afraid to come out of their comfort zones and talk about mental health, especially with Cornell’s atmosphere, but they need to know that people are going to help them,” said Maria Chak ’18, one of the week’s organizers and Student Assembly vice president of outreach

The week kicks off with a talk by Frank Warren, also known as “The Most Trusted

Stranger in America” and the founder of PostSecret, a website that posts anonymous submissions of “ secrets ” sent in from all over the countr y PostSecret begun in 2005 as an art pro when Warren asked peop to submit their secrets o creatively decorated pos cards He has since accumulated over 1,000,000 secrets and has compiled them into six books

“ Warren has worked with crisis hotlines on college campuses to address mental health issues,” said Angelica Cullo ’17, the large events

coordinator for the Cornell Minds Matter e-board “If you like Humans of New York, you should check out PostSecret ” Mental Health Awareness ek will also include a variy of events, such as yoga n the Arts Quad and a Willard Straight Hall exhibit titled “Faces of Mental Health ” According to Tiffany Guo ’16, the exhibit features portraits of students and descriptions of the struggles they faced

“We asked students to share stories of their person-

al struggles and how they addressed resolving them Each portrait highlighted their individual experiences,” said Guo, the series event coordinator for Cornell Minds Matter “I think this is a great way for students to speak out about mental issues and encourage others to do so as well ” Mental Health Awareness Week will come to a close with an event called “Dining with Diverse Minds” on next Friday, which will bring an estimated 150 students, faculty and staff together in an active discussion about mental health issues Ryan Lombardi, vice president for student and campus life, will be speaking about mental health in relation to higher education at the event

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Ownership, Protection and Global Circulation of Images 11:15 a m - 1:10 p m , 400 Caldwell Hall

Living Latin and Greek: The Paideia Institute 4:30 p m , 122 Goldwin Smith Hall

Yoga Is Not Just Poses 5 - 6 p m , One World Room, Anabel Taylor Hall

Anatomy, Cartography and the Prehistory of Normality 5:15 - 7 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

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professors in social sciences and humanities Finding 97 percent of Cornell professors giving to Democrats that’s suprising ”

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EIC of Al Jazeera America Addresses Journalistic Freedom

uncensored press, dangers of journalism as part of lecture series

By ALEXA ESKENAZI Sun Contributor

Amjad Atallah, editor in chief of Al Jazeera America, presented “Journalism Under Fire,” a lecture focusing on the importance of journalists and freedom of the press The lecture was this year ’ s installment of The Daniel W Kops Freedom of the Press series, which has been offered for over a decade

Prof Michael Jones-Correa, government, introduced Atallah, his high school classmate

“Amjad, in his career both at Al Jazeera and before, has given a particularly sharp perspective on free speech and freedom of the press issues, which is the purpose of the Kops lecture,” Jones-Correa said

Before becoming editor in chief, Atallah served as a regional director of the Americas for Al Jazeera Media Network and as Bureau Chief of the Americas for Al Jazeera ”

Atallah began by describing his journey through journalism as “eclectic,” saying that he has gotten to his current point based on his encounters with journalists at the beginning of his career

In the 1990s, while Atallah was a studying the Holocaust at the University of Virginia’s graduate program in religious studies, a Newsday reporter discovered and published pictures of operating concentration camps in Yugoslavia

This cognitive dissonance led Atallah to pose a question for himself

“It wasn ’ t what should the world do, but what should I do? What will I need to be involved and how do I need to be engaged?” he said

These questions led to the development of Atallah’s professional career working on humanitarian and policy issues on Bosnia, where he realized the importance of journalists

“Without the reporting that came out of Bosnia, it is unclear what would have happened That war continued even after people found out that rape camps and concentration camps and death camps were in place,” Atallah said “But imagine if there hadn’t been any reporting at all? Or imagine if the reporting hadn’t been able to come out? Would the genocide actually have played itself out of its logical conclusion?”

Atallah then jumped forward 20 years, saying even after the importance of journalists has been shown, their situation has not gotten better it has actually gotten worse In this year alone, 48 journalists have been killed, and 147 journalists are now in prison

“Reporters provide a reality check, but not everyone wants you to know what that reality is.”

This led to an uproar of journalists reporting on the death camps Amjad said what shocked people around the world, including himself, the most was that it had already gone on for so long without any global knowledge or news coverage

Not only are these numbers startlingly high to him, they also ring close to home, Atallah said Three Al Jazeera staff members were imprisoned in Egypt, accused of being part of the Muslim Brotherhood and spreading false news

The three were then placed on trial without any substantial evidence against them, according to Atallah They were held in maximum-security prison and subsequently solitar y confinement until their eventual release

self-centered of journalists to demand so much attention to themselves However, Atallah said he recognized “ a correlation between attacks on journalists and the greater crimes that are taking place around them on the stories they are trying to cover ” and cited this as an effect of journalism’s main role as a check on power

“Journalism exists to be able to hold all power centers to account, whether they’re corporate, whether they’re financial, whether they’re governmental,” Atallah said “Governments and militaries know this They also know that if they can control the narrative, and if they can deny the story from getting out, they know that they can actually push their agenda a bit further Reporters provide a reality check, but not everyone wants you to know what that reality is ”

response to the United States Pentagon’s first guidelines on its interpretation of the law of war, which it stated was a direct threat to journalists

“’Journalists,’ the manual says, ‘ are generally regarded as civilians, but may in some instances be deemed unprivileged belligerents ’ , i e that journalists would have less rights than a soldier from the enemy side that was captured,” Atallah said “’The manual warns that reporting on military operations can be very similar to correcting intelligence or even spying Governments may need to censor journalists’ work or take other security measures so that journalists do not reveal sensitive information to the enemy ’”

“When I heard from all of these reporters and then I would go to class and have an academic conversation and discussion about World War II, I was having a real problem with cognitive dissonance,” Atallah said “I could not believe that these things could happen again and again and again despite all the slogans about it happening never again ”

In response to the detainment of its own journalists, Al Jazeera started the “Journalism is not a crime” campaign, in hopes of raising awareness of violations of Press Freedom and in support of all journalists, primarily in the Middle East, according to Atallah

When taking into account all the other injustices facing civilians in the Middle East, Atallah said he was aware that it might seem

Atallah made the distinction that censorship of journalists is not only occurring in the Middle East and is not just the literal detainment of journalists He pointed to public pressure being just as detrimental and a very strong form of journalistic censorship, “especially in times of national distress,” and raised the issue of censorship in the United States

Atallah cited The New York Times’

The censorship and attacks on journalists affect much more than the news industry, Atallah said He stressed that these attacks are used to intimidate the rest of the population, “making other violence that much easier to perpetrate, ” and that journalists must be defended

“Imagine if every newscast was delivered by lobbyists,” Atallah said “That world is not that far away We always have to struggle against it ” A

Alexa Eskenazi can be reached at ame63@cornell edu

Apprentice Contestant Koutsomitis ’09 Commends Hotel School

By ANNE SNABES Sun Contributor

Vana Koutsomitis ’09 appeared in BBC’s reality television show The Apprentice Wednesday Koutsomitis, currently the CEO of financial ser vices network The City Street and a hotel school graduate, praised her alma mater in an interview with The Sun, saying that it provided her a global perspective and valuable learning experiences

Koutsomitis, who viewers will be able to see compete in a variety of tasks during the current season of the show, could potentially earn a business partnership with billionaire Alan Sugar if she is declared the ultimate winner

Additionally, Koutsomitis also coordinates events such as wine tastings, that allow professionals to meet each other

“My main focus in business is connecting people,” Koutsomitis said “In a globalized world, like the one we live in today, it’s important to connect people across borders, and to be able to make those connections in a cross cultural way ” W h i l e

A social media entrepreneur who currently lives in Barcelona, Spain, Koutsomitis said she aims to create connections among financial professionals Her company, The City Street, provides a platform that standardizes the profiles of different business people

Koutsomitis began her studies at Cornell in the College of Human Ecology, she transferred into the School of Hotel Administration after a semester because she said she believed the school would provide students with a practical degree Additionally, she transferred because she said her parents were architects who had been involved in hospitality projects before

“I had been exposed to hospitality and I really liked it,”

Koutsomitis said

During her time at Cornell,

Koutsomitis discovered that she wanted to work on an international scale As a result, Koutsomitis studied abroad in Shanghai and, after graduating from college, lived in the United Kingdom Koutsomitis also said she comes from a multicultural family, as her father is Greek and her mother is Colombian

“I think it’s really important to explore different cultures and learn about people from different places,” Koutsomitis said

As a student, Koutsomitis participated in Hotel Ezra Cornell, an event where hotel students manage a weekend-long hotel conference Koutsomitis said another influential part of her Cornell experience were her classes Those classes included Introduction to Wines, a course that has helped her in her current pursuits that includes the development of a new wine brand from France, called Vino by Vana Koutsomitis said another influential Cornell class was a seminar called Quality Brewing and Fine Beer According to Koutsomitis, Prof Giuseppe Pezzotti, hotel administration, presented a global perspective that she appreciated

“It was important to always look at the global and always look at the international viewpoint as opposed to just seeing the national point of view, ” Koutsomitis said “I just thought the overall Hotelie

experience was very strong, and I really enjoyed the community feel that it had ”

Anne Snabes can be reached at acs328@cornell edu

Student Assembly Votes in Favor of Increasing Cinema Funding

“I found my experience at Cornell Cinema to be touching to such an extent that I changed my path entirely,” McLaren said Speaking to The Sun, McLaren added that in the 10 years since he has been involved with Cornell Cinema, screenings have decreased in frequency and financial suppor t from University administration has been weakening

Me m b e r s o f t h e Ap p r o p r i a t i o n s

Committee argued that strategic funding cuts must be made to allow for newer organizations to receive funding and that internally restructuring the cinema’s operations would alleviate some of the cinema’s financial problems without requiring increased

S A funding

However, McLaren said that a decrease in funding from the College of Arts and Sciences after the college restructured its budget has already put more pressure on Cornell Cinema “ We’re tr ying ever ything that we can to

”

“A healthy line item is our film rental and our filmmaker events and at some point we’ll have to cut those down Our overhead [costs

events, so there’s not a lot of wiggle room ”

McLaren explained that the cinema compromised with Dean of Students Kent Hubbell ’69 to prevent the cinema’s property rental costs from rising, but because student organizations are now permitted to

use the cinema’s facilities on some weekends, Cornell Cinema is often unable to screen films on its most lucrative days

Although the S A increased its funding allocations for Cornell Cinema, the cinema still faces financial strain, according to McLaren The Cornell Cinema will meet w

administration to advocate for more funding, according to McLaren “I’m hopeful that we will see some increase i

McLaren said “ They, like the S A , have indicated that they do value Cornell Cinema and I think that is ver y heartening to hear ”

McLaren said because the cinema continues to lose money ever y year, further financial support from the S A would help

alleviate pressure as the cinema negotiates with the University administration

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Cinema cannot secure financial support from the GPSA or the University administration, the Cinema will need to rely on donations from alumni and further S A funding

“ We will definitely have to increase our alumni relations and go back to the S A , and I know that’s the last thing they want to hear If ever yone else is shutting the door on us, it’s [the S A ] or bust,” McLaren said “I am ver y hopeful that with this new administration we can tr y to work something out ”

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The event is being co-sponsored by over 25 student organizations, with an estimated cost between $12,000 and $15,000, according to Matt Indimine ’18, a principal organizer of Mental Health Awareness Week and cochair of the S A Health and Wellness Committee Most of the money is allocated to hosting Frank Warren’s talk and for providing food at the various events, although some companies, such as Insomnia Cookies, have agreed to make donations

“ We’ve been planning this since May,” Indimine said

A variety of organizations including the African, Latino, Asian and Native American Programming Board, Cornell Minds Matter and many others are collaborating to make the week a success and reduce the stigma associated with seeking help

“Mental health issues affect everyone in a different way, which is why there are so many organizations involved,” Indimine explained

Another one of Mental Health Awareness Week’s main objectives is to promote available resources on campus such as Counseling and Psychological Ser vices at Gannett, Let’s Talk and EARS For Carolina Bieri ’16, co-chair of the S A Health and Wellness Committee, Mental Health Awareness Week is important because students sometimes neglect their well-being

“I think that people on this campus ignore their personal health far too often most notably their mental health and if we can get people to think how they’re taking care of themselves, even just a little more often, then we ’ ve accomplished something,” Bieri said

Mental Health Awareness Week was approved and sponsored by the S A following the passage of Resolution 6: “Mental Health Week Recognition ” The resolution cites multiple reasons supporting the perceived necessity of the promotion of mental health awareness, such as the fact that 1,100 college students die each year by suicide, which is the third leading cause of death among youth

Hundreds of Cornellians Sign Divestment Letter

Prof to address Board of Trustees

the University’s Climate Action Plan which aims for a carbon-neutral Cornell by 2035

Shalloway said he hopes the presentation will start a discussion within the Board of Trustees He added that he does not believe that the trustees has discussed the issue in the two years since the divestment campaign began

“As far as we know, this [discussion] has never happened in the two years of fossil-fuel divestment resolutions,” Shalloway said “ We are asking them to seriously consider this request with discussion by the entire Board and for the entire Board to vote to whether or not to accept this shared governance request ”

While he does not expect the trustees to vote on the issue right away, Shalloway said he hopes that the Board of Trustees will not push the issue aside by moving it to a subcommittee

“I believe that their immediate schedule is full, but we ask that they discuss this and then vote on it in full group as soon as possible and not relegate the issue just to subcommittee,” Shalloway said

In the past, critics of divestment have cited financial risk as a reason to oppose divestment However,

according to Shalloway, representatives from the shared governance assemblies met with the administrators in the Office of University Investment last month and learned that if the University had divested from fossil fuels from 2006 to 2015, the divestment would have saved the University $47 million “ We believe the financial issue is a ‘red herring’ the amount to be divested is actually quite small and hope that the Board will focus on more important issue of our moral integrity,” Shalloway said

He added that he hopes the Board of Trustees will take action on the matter and that Cornell can emerge as a leader among the Ivy

action

“I hope that Cornell will do ever ything it can to become the ‘Green Ivy’ a national and international thought leader on sustainability and climate action This will require pairing our Climate

Campus actions with visible public education and leadership actions

Shalloway said “It will be good for our students, the world and our reputation ”

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Lies About Bad Jokes and Triggers

Alot of discussion has taken place recently about the merits of “trigger

w a r n i n g s ” i n a c a d e m i c e n v i r o nments We can see that students, professors and administrators are all now part of an important conversation which deals with trauma and its role in the classroom Some are fans of trigger warnings Others, like President Elizabeth Garrett (to reporters at the Cornell Club), say that “there shouldn’t be any limits on the substance of freedom of speech at a university ”

And on a tangential note, any casual obser ver of the Cornellian social media scene will also see that a related division of opinions has

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a l incident usually goes like this: A makes a joke in poor taste B and C tell A why that joke is wrong and why A should not have said it A, D and E defend A, saying B and C are too sensitive and, hey, aren ’ t we in America where A can say whatever A wants and wouldn’t you just say that ever yone ’ s triggered by ever ything these days? The conversation inevitably turns to Hitler, and it eventually ends with the hand of God blocking out the sun and the seventh seal being opened

some way to deal with this dilemma on their own terms, as opposed to any unexpected interactions with material that could recall past pains or sufferings

We have responsibilities as students to question what we hear, even when it’s coming from students themselves To do so, we

Cathedral, three members of the punk group Pussy Riot were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred,” condemned by the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church and sentenced to time in a Russian penal colony

On August 25 2015, Ukrainian film-

Jokes aside, it’s obvious how these concerns about humor and trauma relate to one another It’s also pretty apparent, to me at least, how improperly we mobilize the rhetoric of free speech and censorship to defend a lack of attention to trauma and power in the works of

a r t t a u g h t i n t h e c l a s sroom, or to the jokes we make an art themselves amongst one another ever yday

A trigger warning in this c o n t e x t f u n c t i o n s a s a n alert It lets a student or participant know that the class will deal with content potentially related to traumatic personal experiences That way, if the student realizes that they have not prepared themselves mentally or emotionally for encounters with the remnant memories of their trauma, they might find

have to divorce the trigger warning as well as the criticisms of offensive or irreverent humor from Or wellian laments about the First Amendment and liberal society In terms of art, trigger warnings deal with a single person ’ s experience of a work of art which tries to grapple with trauma Censorship, on the other hand, does not concern trauma It is about art and ide-

Stephen Meisel

Appearances

ology Specifically it is about whether or not a work of art aligns with the opinions of those in power

On August 17 2012, because of their performance of the song “Prayer: Mother of God Drive Putin Away” at a Moscow

maker Oleg Sentsov was sentenced to 20 years in prison, after a trial which was, according to one obser ver, “redolent of Stalinist-era show trials of dissidents ” He was accused of planning terrorism

These two events are instances of censorship They are not someone policing jokes about spelling, or someone asking that we tr y to not make light of the dangers which have become so common in the lives of so many people They are meant to punish and silence expressions of an aberrant ideology which the current political regime has deemed subversive or undesirable If we w a n t t o l o o k a t t h a t g o o d o l’ Enlightenment-era notion of Truth that these “free-speech advocates seem to adore so much, we have a problem here, right? We have the people in power neutering the dialogue and forbidding distasteful ideas with the threat of imprisonment, possibly for life This is definitely a reprehensible thing to do, especially so when the consequences are that dire Suppression of political dissent simply because you don’t like what

you ’ re hearing turns into a genuine lifeor-death issue in these circumstances It goes beyond whether or not someone has the freedom to speak their mind or express themselves It becomes a problem of how political powers can decide their own truth and maintain its sanctity Essentially, it is an effort from those in power to safeguard the integrity of their ideas In politics, that is often a matter of life or death

To compare this action and its manifestations to that of the “trigger warning” is to have a gross misunderstanding of both Student victims of trauma are not throwing their professors in prison for twenty years They are not asking other students to stop making jokes about sexual assault because those jokes are politically rebellious or ideolog-

blacklisting them or making them the subject of religious condemnations

A trigger warning is not an issue of truth It is an issue of respect and m

ever y university who know ver y well what the “real world” is like Ever y day they quietly keep to themselves the cruelty and pain this world has shown them I recommend that universities stop making it seem like these people ser ve a kind of liberal, anti-American regime In a way, they are saying that students may make whatever demands they want The university simply does not care about our own personal relationships with academics and arts The politically and emotionally vital connection between a college-educated individual and ideas something the Truth-loving university is supposed to cultivate in all of its students is in big trouble

Ever yone, not just the lamenting administrators, will have a larger problem to deal with then, when we stop caring about what the truth means to ever y person and only care about what a single definition of the truth entails

Stephen Meisel is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at smeisel@cornellsun com Ap p e a r a n c e s r uns alter nate Fridays this semester

Chris Stanton

“I’ve seen dynamite on the streets, ” narrates Killer Mike on the intro to rap duo Run the Jewels’ new single, “Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite) ” The voiceover gives way to an absolutely spastic instrumental courtesy of Little Shalimar, as Killer Mike and El-P, his partner in mayhem, get to work doing what they do best Each of the spr y 40-year-old MCs struggled for years to make a name for themselves, earning underground credibility in their respective hometowns of Brooklyn and Atlanta, while largely failing to captivate wider audiences After meeting each other in 2011, El-P agreed to produce an entire album for Killer Mike (entitled R A P Music) Their chemistr y proved so undeniable that the two rappers toured together before recording their first album as a duo, 2013’s Run the Jewels While mildly popular, the album’s success was easily eclipsed by 2014’s Run the Jewels 2, a project that launched the duo into a new stratosphere of popularity and critical acclaim. Their underdog stor y makes ever y RTJ song feel simultaneously like a riot and a victor y lap, as the bombastic production clashes with alternately political and braggadocio rhymes

“Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite)” does not break the successful RTJ mold, nor is it a great song in comparison to some of the better cuts off RTJ2 Still, as a nonalbum single (it features on the soundtrack to the new documentar y Rubble Kings) it’s a welcomed appetizer for next year ’ s RTJ3 Mike and El-P each fit in some great bars, playing off the anti-institution tropes that made “Close Your Eyes (And Count to Fuck)” arguably the best rap song of last year Over the hectic vocal loop that provides the beat’s backbone, El-P refers to himself and Killer Mike as “wolves to the bitter finish,” a declaration that could ver y well be the group ’ s mission statement

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Outside the bubble of athletics that blends college life with the rest of the world are all of the pressures marked by media and the rest of society They say, mostly to females, to look a certain way To be thin And they seem to love you a little more if you ’ re skeletal

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Eating disorders are real, and they are dangerous and frightening

Perhaps starting out as a seed of a thought inside a person ’ s mind, they generate dire medical

Eating disorders are most common in sports that have weight requirements, emphasize appearance or are endurance sports

Generally, this is also true for sports that focus on the individual In 1992, the American College of Sports Medicine published the statistic that 62 percent of athletes participating in sports like figure skating and gymnastics develop eating disorders It’s especially hard for these athletes when they reach puberty They must adjust their techniques to account for their changing bodies, but for many this translates into pushing to lose weight and return to their pre-pubescent size

I talked to two Cornell athlete about the pressures they feel I have changed both of their names to protect their privacy

Aidan said he was able to turn the extra competitive pressures into something positive It’s a life skill to be able to react and perform under pressure However, it isn’t always so easy His coaches try to take the pressure off and stress that running competitively is “just a race ” Still, he has seen teammates here and elsewhere change the way they eat and be encouraged to lose weight by their coaches Sometimes this escalates to the point of obsession

Lily says, “Being an athlete, people expect you to look a certain way ” They expect to see someone in shape, who looks fit and muscular It’s an extra standard to live up to

In high school, I remember hearing friends on the lightweight crew team talk about how they couldn’t eat for days before weighing in, that an extra pound added could jeopardize all that they’ve worked for I would see skaters skinny as twigs complaining that they were fat in the mirrors of the locker room

These things don’t always start off so obviously There’s a hazy line between intense athletic training and obsessive compulsive exercising Psychiatrist Kimberly Dennis has even noted that denial has been somewhat ingrained in athletes as they have to overcome physical limits daily Denial mixed with perfectionism can create this perfect storm in the development of eating disorders

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Many athletes believe that controlling their calorie intake can help them overcome challenges, but this can have the opposite effect World-renowned figure skater Jenny Kirk said, “There are so many things in skating that a competitor can ’ t control, particularly the judging, and I felt that if I were a certain weight, I would feel more in control of all those external variables What really happened, though, is that the disorder started to control me, and it took over my life ” Control is a wonderful thing we like to think we have But when we give control to unhealthy thoughts, we can lose ourselves to them

Jessica Brofsky is a second year hot columnist She can be contacted at jbrosky@cornellsun com Mind Games appears alternating Fridays this semester

Men Start Title Defenses at Head of the Charles

By TROY BRIDSON Sun Contributor

The Cornell men ’ s heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams will be in action this weekend at the Head of the Charles Regatta The event, held annually on Boston’s Charles River, will feature some of the best rowing teams from around the world Cornell will square off against other college teams and several national teams

“National teams are always a nice benchmark and this race will help us gauge what we are capable of doing this year, ” said heavyweight senior captain Gregor y Davis

Cornell will compete in the 4+ and 8+ championships Both the heavyweight and lightweight teams have a lot of experienced rowers, so they are hoping for quality results Senior rowers constitute a large part of each team

Although Cornell rowing has high expectations for this season, the Head of the Charles Regatta will help the teams gain a sense of where they stand for the rest of the season

“Our team has a lot of power We want to be really competitive and are looking for a strong result,” said heavyweight head coach Todd Kennett

The Charles River will present several challenges for the team

“The course is quite long and leaves room for error at every turn, ” said sophomore coxswain Nikhil Chuchra “The river twists and turns both to the left and right throughout the course, which makes it difficult to navigate

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“It is probably the most technical race out there,” said lightweight head coach Chris Kerber

The Boston schools will be favorites to place well in the race

Having experience on the river provides an advantage and knowing the turns could shave seconds off of race time The Regatta follows a race-against-the-clock format rather than a head to head format Coach Kerber noted that team will not know how well they’ve placed until every team crosses the finish line

The Head of the Charles is anyone ’ s race, but Harvard is always quick,” Chuchra said “ The Charles is their home course, making coxswains more savvy with its turns and course in general, and making rowers more comfortable with its conditions ”

Both the heavyweight and lightweight teams are hoping to produce a strong performance in the fall season, which will give the team confidence for the spring

“Our fall preparation is about building the foundation of physical stamina,” Kerber said “We have three races in the fall so our time is spent on development for the spring racing season ” Regardless of the result, the Head of the Charles Regatta will be a special experience for the Cornell rowers

“When you have 250,000 fans from over 700 clubs and universities descending on the Charles, you have an event like no other,” Kerber said

“This year we have the talent to make huge strides during the spring, so we need to race like it in the fall,” Chuchra said For the lightweight team, most of their races take place in the spring The fall season is used to figure out what combinations work well and to determine what improvements need to be made for the spring

Troy Bridson can be reached at tbridson@cornellsun com

Women Ready to Row at Head of the Charles

Prepare for rst major race of the year

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Sports Editor

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“The opportunity to race at the Charles is something that motivates the athletes all summer.”

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