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Mental Health Awareness Week Aims to ‘ Stomp Out Stigma,’ Change Culture
By CHANCE MASLOFF Sun Staff Writer
Besides the prospect of free popcorn, Cornellians could drop into Willard Straight Hall to destress and get a free professional massage on Saturday night
This second edition of Spa Night, which boasted over 500 in attendance last year, is kicking off this year ’ s Mental Health Awareness Week, said Matt Jirsa ’19, Cornell Minds Matter’s vice president of events
Spa Night is the first of many events this week meant to increase conversation and “ stomp out stigma ” about mental health on campus, Jirsa said Cornell Minds Matter a group that Jirsa says is dedicated to bringing about “tangible culture change towards a more positive campus mental health culture” is hosting these events in its third annual Mental Health Awareness Week
“The main goal of the week is to show that mental health plays a role in all of our lives and if we increase conversation surrounding it we are actively improv[ing] campus climate and striv[ing] towards impactful change,” Jirsa said Although Mental Health
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Black Students United issued a statement on Thursday “apologizing for the delay in response ” after one of the 12 demands delivered to President Martha Pollack last month was met with increased controversy, both on and off campus
Awareness week is important, Jirsa believes that the discussion around mental health should not begin and end with the week
Outside of the events of the week, Jirsa said that he “encourage[s] all students to think critically about how mental health affects their own lives and just talk to friends and family about it ”
“The main goal of the week is to show that mental health plays a role in all of our lives.”
“Our biggest and most readily available assets at Cornell are our communities that serve as support groups for our individual mental health,” he added
While the Spa Night is an important event hosted during the week, another popular event Lift Your Spirits Day Other events during the week will include Pumpkin Decorating, EARS Training, Zumba, and Yoga
Lift Your Spirits Day will include activities such as “photo campaigns,
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Climate, Culture and Cuisine: Thomas Jefferson’s Experimental Garden 4:30 - 6 p m , G08 Uris Hall
Whiteness and Racial Meaning-Making: What White Supremacists and Anti-Racists Have in Common 4:30 - 6 p m , G01 Uris Hall
Safer Sex Week: Truths and Trend in Genital Cutting Cultures (Sexual Health) 5 - 6 p m , 205 Robert Purcell Community Center
Restoring Rigor in Science 11:15 a m - 12:20 p m , 404 Plant Science Building
Safer Sex Week: (A)sexuality Myth Busters 2 p m , Ho Plaza
“Cows, Pigs, and Rhinos? Disease Surveilance in East Borneo” 4 -5 p m , Lecture Hall 2, College of Veterinary Medicine
Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah 4:30 - 5:30 p m , G76 Goldwin Smith Hall
The Economy of Hope 4:30 - 5:30 p m , Room 107, Olin Hall
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Middle East 5 - 10 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall
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Marathon Aims to Raise Sexual-Assault Awareness
5k in Botanic Gardens highlights the important role of active bystanders
By JULIA CURLEY Sun Staff Writer
Statistics say that one in five women and one in 16 men will be sexually assaulted while in college Last Saturday’s 5k in Ithaca aims to make that statistic zero, said Sophia Tulp, an Ithaca College junior of the The New Agenda Foundation
Cornell and IC students, as well as faculty and community members, raced through the Cornell Botanic Gardens
“When I see someone at a bar in a situation of possible nonconsent, I would intervene ” S o p h i a T u l p
Saturday afternoon at the annual SToPP 5K, a fundraising event to raise sexual assault awareness on college campuses
SToPP stands for Stop, Think and Protect your Peers “ an acronym for active bystander intervention,” Tulp said
Explaining the role of active bystanders, Tulp added “ we have a human responsibility to look out for one another When I see someone at a bar in a situation of possible non-consent, I would intervene ”
With this event, Cornell, IC and The New Agenda Foundation teamed up to shine a light on the often unrecognized culture of non-consent in student relationships
As a small community comprised of two large campuses, Ithaca is a “unique environment ” for these events, said Olivia Forker, an IC sophomore managing the event
Saturday’s event marked the third edition of the annual run The first year attracted just 20 participants, the second year, 50, and this year earned 70 enrollments as of Friday afternoon Tulp expected a final turnout of around 100 students
“We hoped to increase involvement each year but the turnout is definitely exceeding our expectations,” Tulp told the Sun
In addition to the $10 donation fee per participant, independent fundraising teams already raised over $350 through online coordination efforts
All donations go toward creating curriculum and programming materials for Title IX offices nationwide Last year ’ s proceeds helped fund an educational video called Grey Matters
The event attracted a range of runners and walkers, students and faculty Community
liaison Lara Hamburger of Ithaca’s Advocacy Center, also attended to share insight into Ithaca’s local resources
Members from the Cornell community joined their Ithaca peers at this event Specifically, AKPsi, a Cornell pre-professional fraternity, members attended as a group
Cornellians were able to both enjoy the gardens and to raise awareness for the SToPP cause
“We all have a human responsibility to care about the people around us ”
Member Kelly Chan ’19 said that her group ’ s preprofessional focus prompted them to spread awareness particularly as they enter the workforce and begin to lead their own businesses, she said Through the r un, Ithacans and
Though sexual assault advocacy is an ongoing process, Saturday’s 5k represents many more steps in the right direction
“We all have a human responsibility to care about the people around us, ” Tulp said “Too often we only care about ourselves It’s really important to get the message out ”
Julia Curley can be reached at jcurley@cornellsun com
Building Bridges: Cornell Engineers Aid Bolivian Village
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3rd Annual Mental Health Awareness Week to Show Students ‘They Are Not Alone’
[and] de-stress activities,” Jirsa said
The event will be going from 1 to 4 p m on the Arts Quad Wednesday Cornell Mental Health Awareness week was founded three years ago by Cornell Minds Matter member Matt Indimine ’18, who is still involved in its planning Additionally, Cornell Minds Matter member Mayra Valadez ’18 has also been involved in the execution of the week
Indimine said he started this event three years ago after hosting an event for mental health awareness that was attended by a single student
AWARENESS Continued from page 1 Chance Masloff can be reached at cmasloff@cornellsun com
Later he found out that this was because another event for mental health awareness was occurring concurrently
This week, he said, is meant to create “ a centralized platform and resource to foster collaboration amongst them, and to show the student body the cliche but true Caring Community that exists ”
Three years later, this event has grown and engaged even more communities certainly surpassing the attendance of one person at Indimine’s past event
True to its origins, however, Indimine said he hopes that out of this week, students recognize that “they are not alone in their struggles Anna Delwiche ’19 contributed to this story
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One Fish, Two Fish, White-ish, Brown-ish
There’s an old Middle EasternAmerican proverb that roughly translated goes something like, “I’m actually technically white according to the Census ”
This proverb, with its awkward adverbs and desperate lust for ethos, has dribbled out of my mouth more times than I am proud to admit I am, after all, the product of two white American frontiers: the sweetly benevolent whiteness of Treasure Valley and the abstruse, nebulous whiteness of the Virginia piedmont As would most little girls with black frizzy hair and a funny name in towns 92 percent white, I fell to official racial classifications when I had nothing else that could back up my claim to sameness
bullying throughout childhood were directly tied to my ethnicity in ways I hadn’t previously realized As obvious as it now sounds, it had never occurred to me before that these experiences were not merely unpleasant but were in fact definitively racist ” Not being able to pinpoint or vocalize the racism you ’ ve experienced makes speaking against it and about it challenging When a coffee-shop owner back home is noticeably hostile to me but not to the white man in front of me in line, I cannot clearly demonstrate that it was because I was the darkest person in the store the same way my dad could when he used to be explicitly denied service for being Iranian in the 1980s As a result, I ignore it The protocol
I’m not white Sorr y, U S Census, CommonApp and my loyal following over at the neo-eugenicist website (that once republished one of my columns) Prometheism net! There is little whiteness in my black frizzy hair and my funny name and the fact that I am made to feel ashamed of both whenever I go to an airport In fact, legal Middle Eastern whiteness in the U S likely dates back to mid-20th century judicial decisions, when whiteness was required for citizenship and Christian Arabs leveraged their religious affiliations to obtain it For Arabs, Persians, Armenians, Turks, etc whiteness is a legal designation that accompanies few if any of the social privileges In other words, racial dichotomies are arbitrary and based in colonialism and eugenics, water is wet and Collegetown housing is overpriced
Race is arbitrary, but it is still undoubtedly salient Then what language do Middle Easterners get to use to address their nonwhiteness? I briefly tested “brown,” but using it felt like the first time I tried wearing a bold red lip color (With my olive undertones and big-ass eyeballs? Absolutely not ) Asking around for a definition of brownness understandably yielded myriad results from, “South Asian only” to “Latinx, Pacific Islander, MENA and South Asian,” to just “ not looking white ” Some of my white friends called me brown with certainty, while many of my South-Asian friends said I definitely wasn ’ t The language of race noticeably ignores heterogeneity, so I, along with many other (but most certainly not all) Persians, Arabs, Armenians, Turks, etc seem to occupy an area between whiteness and brownness, one that is dark enough to be profiled but light enough for certain things to slide Sociologists might call it “white passing ”
One of my friends called it being the “brown people of whiteness ” I’ve flirted with calling it “being ‘ish ’” You know, brown-ish, maybe a little white-ish, but mostly just ish
Being in the ish space is confusing and it is nuanced Still othered from whiteness, being in this buffer means that the way I experience racism is often couched, implicit, or implied, so much so that I don’t spot it a lot of the time As Alex Shams, a PhD student in anthropology at the University of Chicago writes, “the more I spoke with white folks about race, the more I began to understand that many of my experiences of
is to attribute it to something inane like maybe he just didn’t like that I used AmEx and then to move on
But while I am brown-ish, I am still white-passing in this gray area, and am thus being utilized as an instrument of reinforcing current racial barriers Prof Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, sociology, Duke, asserted in 2004 that as the U S becomes more ethnically diverse, we will treat race less as white vs nonwhite and increasingly stratified in a “tri-racial” system Bonilla-Silva argues Middle Easterners will fall into the middle tier of “honorary whites,” writing that “ race conflict will be buffered by the intermediate group, much like class conflict is when the class structure includes a large middle class ” It’s alarming how squarely light-skinned and white-passing Persians, Arabs and others fit into Bonilla-Silva’s theory today Persian-Americans especially tend to exhibit anti-blackness and hispanophobia, largely carried over from the Pahlavi regime’s nationalistic narratives of Persian racial superiority Moreover, recent MiddleEastern immigrants and their children often fall under the “model minority” myth; even President Trump referred to Persians as “ one of the most successful immigrant groups in our countr y ’ s contemporar y histor y, ” despite Persian immigrants historically developing wealth prior to coming to the U S
I can ’ t say I don’t benefit from this transfer to “honorary whiteness,” because I indubitably do Because of the conflation of Muslimness and brownness, it’s likely that, especially because I am not visibly Muslim, my non-Muslim brown friends have suffered more from explicit Islamophobia than I have But I still desperately long for a place in the linguistic racial landscape so that I can put my finger on what exactly it is that ish people like me experience: What exactly is our shared oppression, and how can we recognize it without taking up space where we don’t belong? Perhaps creating space for the brown-ish racializes where racialization isn’t needed Maybe it creates monolithic labels like “Middle Eastern” that mask heterogeneity At the very least, though, it can serve as a starting point in understanding the realities and complexities of being in-between in America
Rejecting Libertarian Intuition
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hood for the first time It’s a belief that attracts because it appeals to the desire to “break free” of the paternalism that had guided all of our lives up until a cer tain point, and it isn’t something that can be easily refuted
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At the end of the summer, we saw some of the worst of the South Hundreds of white supremacists descended on Charlottesville, Virginia, armed with riot gear, torches and hatred
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Go South
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As Southerners ourselves, we have been witness to this str uggle over the narrative of the South, and these developments are a large par t of the reason we want to move back Each of us has had conversations with our peers at Yale who question why we would want to return to the South
Because one of us is black and one of us is white, their assumptions about why we don’t “fit” in the South differ A recurring theme is that people from outside of the region (and even some Southerners) do not recognize that it is both culturally rich and racially and politically diverse
Two years ago, Ne ws columnist Tyler Blackmon ’16 highlighted the problems that plague the South pover ty, unemployment, disease, lack of education and suggested that Yalies could supply potential solutions He was right But Yalies can also contribute to already existing solutions in the South without reinventing the wheel As seniors, we want to suggest that as you consider career opportunities and begin to think about where yo u
impact, you consider going south S
they carr y out concrete visions to continue the long road of community-building in the region they call home Often, community organizations don’t get philanthropic funding because they don’t have the resources to incorporate as a nonprofit or lack the staff to write grant applica-
neglected the South in favor of funding oppor tunities in large cities like Ne w York the same places where most Yalies make their careers But there are jobs in the South, there are oppor tunities and there is a need for people willing to sup-
But there are jobs in the South, there are opportunities and there is a need for people willing to support the hard work of Southerners who have dedicated their lives to building and healing their communities.
por t the hard work of Southerners who have dedicated their lives to building and healing their communities
Southerners continue to fight: for queer l
Southerners on Ne w Ground; for immigrant rights through coalitions in ever y Southern state; for racial justice and civil rights through countless avenues, some ne w and some that have existed since Reconstr uction There are media outlets d e d i c a t e d t o t e l l i n g So u t h e r n s t o r i e s , philanthropies that fund r ural healthcare and development effor ts and ar tistic communities that produce some of the most innovative works in the countr y There are ample oppor tunities for Yalies to plug
into these effor ts, if we can leave our elite coastal complexes behind We say this not to overlook the deeply rooted bigotr y that exists in the South but to suggest that there is also deeply rooted, constr uctive resistance We want to take the narrative of our region back and urge our classmates to consider a Southern s t o r y t
u d e s , a Southern stor y that includes fighting to change its own institutionalized inequality We fur ther urge you to consider engaging with these fights through actions internships, jobs, activism as well as through conversations and scholarship We believe in setting the record straight par tly out of love for where we come from but also because we recognize that when stories of the South erase people of color and advocates of radical social change, people like Jason Kessler win
Dasia Moore and Olivia Paschal are seniors in Pierson College at Yale University Contact them at dasia moore@yale edu and olivia paschal@yale edu IvyWire appears periodically throughout the semester
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Freshman Back Sees Varisty Debut Following Injuries to Established Vets
Howard
shines as lone bright spot in loss
HOWARD Continued from page 16
in the first quarter
“I think he is going to be a good player for us, ” said head coach David Archer ’05 “It was a lot for a freshman Quite honestly, he wasn ’ t ready to play, but he was forced into being ready due to injury He’s going to have a really good future here ”
“It was definitely a jump from JV and high school,” Howard a d m i t t e d “ It’s s o m e t h i n g I ’ m going to have to get used to ”
Being thrown into an offense when the only experience you have is in the JV games would be h a rd f o r a n yo n e Lu c k i l y f o r Howard, Coles took him under his wing to try and prepare him as best he could for Saturday
“The biggest thing for me was knowing the offense,” Howard said “Not that I wasn ’ t nervous at
“Quite honestly he wasn’t ready to play, but he was forced into being ready due to injury. He’s going to have a really good future here ” H e a d C o a c h D a v i d A r c h e r ’ 0 5
all moving up, but it was more stuff like the mental preparation and knowing the plays quick because we get going sometimes
Harold was out this week and he was a really big help for me Everyone has just really taken me in ”
Since the injury-riddled backfield is expected to return to some level of normalcy by the time Brown comes to town next weekend for Homecoming, Howard’s exposure at the varsity level his freshman year could be short-
lived But in the coming years, the all-time leading rusher out of Fo r s y t h C e n t r a l Hi g h S c h o o l knows getting some snaps in his freshman year will set him up nicely for when he does swap in regularly
“It really came down to trusting the line and knowing the guys in front of me were going to do their job.”
“It’ll definitely just add some c o n f i d e n c e , ” How a rd s a i d “Today, obviously, we didn’t walk away with the win, but I felt like I got a lot more comfortable than I was going into this game If next year was my first time touching the field it would have been scary This experience is definitely key ” Howard is by no means the only freshman to make an impact in his first year, giving a glimpse of what might come in future seasons Despite playing only two g a m e s b e f o re a s e a s o n - e n d i n g injury, Eric Gallman shined at the w i d e o u t p o s i t i o n , l e a d i n g t h e team in receptions before he went down
Archer has lauded the 130th Cornell team as an experienced group, one that will be juniorsenior led, and he called the running back position, specifically, as “probably our deepest position on offense ”
If Saturday was any indication, the head coach can rest assured knowing that several positions on his team have more than capable youngster waiting in the wings
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From the start | The Red started its average drive at the 20-yard line just half of Bucknell’s average start at the 40-yard line
Red Unable to Carry Over Harvard Showing
FOOTBALL
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back against Bucknell, finishing the day with 10 carries and 37 yards
Freshman S K Howard also saw his first varsity action, filling in nicely when called upon and going for 73 yards on 18 rushes
“It was a lot for a freshman,” Archer admitted “But I think he is going to have a bright future here ”
The Bison broke through on their second series of the game, a twoplay drive capped off by a 64-yard touchdown from quarterback John Chiarolanzio to Jack Horan, then adding a 19-yard field goal with three minutes to play in the first half after Sweet fumbled deep in Cornell territory
The Red got the ball back on its own 24, tasked with trying to put points on the board and avoid going into the half scoreless Facing a 4th and 1 from their own 33, Archer elected to go for it
Senior quarterback Jake Jatis picked up the crucial yard, and the offense was able to march the rest of the way down the field to set up junior kicker Zach Mays, who converted on a 35-yard field goal
On the first drive of the second half, the offense marched down the field and scored quickly to knot the game up at 10 thanks to a nine-yard pass from Jatis to sophomore wide receiver Davy Lizana It was the former ’ s first passing touchdown since his freshman year and the latter’s first career touchdown
“He’s a jack-of-all-trades, he does everything for us, ” Banks said about his complementary quarterback “He’s a great athlete, good quarterback and smart with the ball ”
From that point on, Cornell was left searching for the big play that never came Besides a kneel to end the game, the Bison scored on each of its remaining drives but one, prioritizing the run game to kill the clock and dismantling Cornell’s rush defense in the process
Cornell sophomore punter Nickolas Null punted four more times, including one that got blocked, to eradicate any chance of a comeback Banks orchestrated a 12-play, 67-yard drive capped off by a touchdown and two-point conversion to make it an eight-point game
But the touchdown was too little too late, as the prior Bucknell drive took over six minutes off the clock A failed onside kick and kneel later, and the Bison had sealed the victory
With the loss, Cornell finishes its out-of-conference slate 0-3 and the first half of the season 1-4 But despite the disappointment today, the team has five Ivy League games to play and believes the Ivy title is still well within reach given its 1-1 in-conference record
“Although it sucks to lose, we ’ ve got a greater mission ahead of us, ” Banks said
Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com
Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun com
ARENA
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This past November, Arena replaced Jurgen Klinsmann as head coach of the United States’ Men’s National Team Klinsmann led the team from 2011 to 2016 and was replaced after a disappointing r un for what many believed to be a very talented team
Over the last 11 months following Arena’s return, the team was off to a hot start, winning its first 14 games, but fell apart after stunning losses to Costa Rica and
Trinidad and Tobago Unsure what the future holds, Arena expressed his gratitude and love for his time with the United States’ Men’s National Team
“I don’t know what the future holds for me, but I can say this from the bottom of my heart: from the high of reaching the quarterfinals of the 2002 World Cup to the low of a few days ago; I have appreciated every minute of being a part of this program, ” he said in his statement
Tim Morales can be reached at tim8@cornell edu
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luck | After being stuck in Turkey during a
Staff writer Karen Papazian sat down
w i t h C o r n e l l v o l l e y b a l l s e n i o r K i l e y McPeek to talk about ever ything from what makes this year s team special to her time in Turkey during the 2016 attempted coup
The transcript has been modified for content and clarity
1 When did you realize that you would want to pursue volleyball at the college level?
I made my junior varsity team as a freshman and this was when I realized I may actually be okay at this spor t and that I should tr y looking to see how long I could play it I had star ted playing volleyball in middle school because it’s a hard spor t to play when you ’ re little I played club and competed at that level during my high school career I stopped playing softball to star t playing v o l l e y b a l l f u l l t i m e a n d s t a r t e d m y recr uiting process then
2 What made Cornell stand out the most to you?
Cornell has been in my family for a really long time I’ve had 10 family members who came here, including my parents, grandparents and sister I think what really sold me on Cornell was the fact that I could study at such a high level and play a Division I spor t all in the same place Academics were really i m p o r t a n t t o m e , w h i c h i s w h y I thought Cornell kind of fit the bill for both of those I also really love the coaches and the players here so that definitely sold me
3 What stands out about this year ’ s team compared to past Cornell teams you played on?
One big thing that jumps out to me is the experience that we have this year In the past, we ’ ve had really young teams with a lot of freshmen and sopho-
senior
was able to avoid a dangerous situation through an unexpected coincidence
mores on the cour t This year we have a lot of upperclassmen on the cour t leading the team, many having a lot of experience
4 Do you see yourself as a superstitious person? Have you ever had any pre-game rituals?
Oh yeah, a 100 percent Before ever y game, I do the same visualization ever y time I also get ver y superstitious about my ponytails I have my one lucky ponytail that I must always use I also have this breast cancer ponytail that I always wear I’ve had a lot of people in my family who had breast cancer, so I tr y and wear it during games to represent them as well
5 Who has been your biggest inspiration?
I would say my mom She star ted her own company when I was really little and has been able to both star t a company from the ground up and raise [our family] our whole lives My mom has been a role model to me showing me that you can do it all I feel as though t h a t h a s h e l p e d m e a t C o r n e l l t o o because it’s hard to be a student-athlete sometimes You consistently have a ton of work and prelims and need to find time to get ever ything done She has shown me that you can do it all and that you can be successful at multiple things
6 I heard that you were in Turkey when the [attempted] coup occurred in 2016 Can you tell us about your experience going through that?
I went for an internship experience
The coup actually happened on our last day of the internship We finished work and we were going out to celebrate at a restaurant right on the water, and the guy that we were with had to take a phone call, which resulted in us having to go back to the apar tment Right
where we had previously eaten dinner was where the coup star ted, so we got super lucky that he decided he needed to go back to the apar tment We ended up being stuck in our apar tment for four days because the U S Embassy and Cornell told us not to leave as they were coming up with a plan to tr y and evacuate us Eventually, Cornell got us a flight through Germany to come back to the United States because all of the flights from the United States to and from Turkey were canceled My family was actually going to be on their way to Turkey to come and visit me I was going to show them around Istanbul and then we were going to go to Greece, but I decided to tell them to stay home
7 If yo u c o u l d t r a ve l a n y w h e re , where would it be?
I really would love to do a tour around Asia I’d love to go to Vietnam, China and Japan Going to a lot of places that are different from the United States is definitely something that I want to do Taking a tour around Asia is something different, and it would be nice to see that par t of the world and learn a different culture than ours
8. What do you envision yourself doing after college?
Right now, my plan is to move to Ne w York City I’m going to be living with my sister there I’m going to be working at Citibank in sales and trading But, in the way-way future, my dream is to open my own coffee shop I’m still unsure of when that will happen, but that’s what I want to do eventually
9 What are some things that you like to do in your downtime?
I really love going around and doing different things in Ithaca with my teammates We recently went and picked
apples at the apple orchard together We like to go to AppleFest, walk around the plantations, go to the gorges just spend some time outside and do a lot of different things that Ithaca has to offer, especially since I won ' t be here for that much longer
10 Is it tough being a student-athlete and always having to travel for away games?
Yeah, it is tough being a student-athlete especially when you have a lot of classes on Friday’s that you have to miss when traveling During midterm and prelim season, it’s pretty hard when you have three prelims the next week but you have games on Friday and Saturday, so all of your studying gets pushed to Sunday It is hard but you have to figure out how to balance doing work on the bus, in-between games or when you ' re in the hotel It’s hard especially when you ’ re a freshman since volleyball is a fall spor t you kind of get thrown into the fire right away so you have to figure out really quickly how to balance ever ything I think that is a huge strength a lot of the girls on our team have They have great time management skills to get things done when there isn’t a lot of time
B o n u s : W h a t a r e y o u r f a v o r i t e spor ts/teams outside of Cornell?
I’m originally from the nor thwest suburbs of Chicago, so I typically root for the Chicago teams My favorite team is the Blackhawks I love watching professional hockey The Blackhawks are usually pretty successful which helps My second favorite spor t would have to be baseball It helps that the Cubs have been really good and won the World Series last year as well
Karen Papazian can be reached at kpapazian@cornellsun com
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ALICE SONG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Red Falls Again in Last Non-Conference Game
By ZACHARY
A week after its historic win over
H a r v a rd , C o r n e l l f o o t b a l l c o u l d n ’ t replicate the magic from last week,
d r o p p i n g a 2 8 - 1 6 c o n t e s t a g a i n s t Bucknell to fall to 1-4 on the season
“ This loss is on me, ” said head coach David Archer ’05 “I am the head coach, and I didn’t have the team
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m a n y p e n a l t i e s , t o o m a n y m i stakes I did a terrible job and we lost the game ”
“ We were on such a high after the Har vard win last week,” added junior defensive lineman Cyrus Nolan “ We probably didn’t do what we needed to do this week in practice to get the win [today] ”
The Red kept up with the Bison through most of the game but could not come up with the big play to turn the tide Zero turnovers on defense, just 287 yards of offense 67 coming in relative garbage time during the final drive and a poor second half showing killed Cornell’s chances of forming a win streak
Cornell converted on just three of 13 third downs and struggled to keep drives alive The defense wore down as the game went on, and ultimately had no answer to Bucknell’s predictable running game
“ We kind of lost the momentum, ” Nolan said in regard to Bucknell’s second-half success on the ground “ We
j u s t n e e d t o b e m o re c o n s i s t e n t throughout the game ”
The Cornell offense, held to 101 yards in the first half, was not aided by the cards it was dealt The Red began its first five offensive drives on the five, 25, 17, one and 24 yard-lines, respectively, with an average drive start on its own 20 for the game
By comparison, Bucknell’s average
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drive started on its own 40-yard line
“ They always had better field positioning,” Banks said “ That’s a big fact o
notices ”
Poor field position, coupled with an injur y-riddled backfield, was a recipe for disaster on Saturday
For the second game in a row, the running game was supposed to be the focus on offense after a 233-yard performance against Harvard But Cornell had to try and replicate that showing without sophomore Harold Coles, who was out with an ankle injury, and senior Jack Gellatly, who dressed but did not see the field in the first half He had only two carries for eight yards and a catch to convert on a two-point conversion
To m a k e m a t t e r s w o r s e , j u n i o r
Chris Walker, who leads the team in rushing attempts, went down after a big hit on a 19-yard reception and did not return
In their place, a different pair of backs got a chance to step in and tr y and leave its mark on the season
Senior Josh Sweet, who had only eight carries last year and three entering Saturday’s contest, became a featured
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