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Cornell Dedicates College of Business Center in C-Town

By HNIN WAI LWIN Sun Staff Writer

Nearly 18 months after David Breazzano MBA ’80 donated $25 million to expand the Cornell S.C. Johnson College of Business into the heart of Collegetown, alumni, staff and faculty celebrated the grand opening of the Breazzano Family Center for Business Education on Wednesday.

This state-of-the-art, six-story building is located on Dryden Road in Collegetown, with classrooms for up to 450 students, three floors of administrative offices, two high-definition broadcasting studios and 19 breakout rooms.

“Business education is at an inflection point. We've consolidated undergraduate and graduate education through the S.C. Johnson College of Business and we’ve embarked on ambitious programs with the new campus in Roosevelt Island,” Breazzano said.

Dean of the Johnson Graduate School of Management Mark Nelson said that these innovative classrooms, breakout rooms and studios within the building fulfill the needs and goals of the school. He added that it will allow people to connect whether they are in Ithaca or at The Bridge building at Cornell Tech, a building dedicated to collaboration

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Blocked byTrump,Ithacan Files Suit Twitter users claim First Amendment violation

By NICHOLAS

A former Ithacan

Philip

Cohen is a sociology professor at the University of Maryland who grew up in Ithaca

and is the child of a Cornell math professor and biology researcher. And on June 6, he joined a relatively exclusively club of people blocked by @realDonaldTrump, the president’s personal Twitter, which more than 40 million users follow.

“I was shocked,” Cohen said in an interview, recalling the moment he could no longer access the president’s Twitter feed from his account. Cohen was blocked

about 15 minutes after tweeting an image of Trump with the words: “Corrupt Incompetent Authoritarian. And then there are the policies. RESIST.”

Now, Cohen is one of several people blocked by the president who, along with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, are suing Donald Trump and several members of his staff for violating their rights.

The Knight Institute said in its July complaint that blocking the plaintiffs violates their First

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$20 Million Donation to Create New Tech

Just weeks after the official opening of Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, Cornell announced a new initiative to promote technology in the humanities as a result of a $20 million donation from the Milstein family.

This donation, announced Wednesday night, will establish the Milstein Program in Technology and Humanity, a collaboration between the College of Arts and Sciences and Cornell Tech.

Through this collaboration, the initiative will allow students in Arts and Sciences to get specialized courses in computer science in addition to free courses at Cornell Tech’s Roosevelt Island campus and internships in New York City.

“It is thrilling to imagine the potential of the Milstein Program and how it

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will influence the future of higher education in the context of our global economy and digital age,” said Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the

“Thanks to the Milsteins, we are able to create a truly distinctive experience for undergraduates.”

President Martha Pollack

College of Arts and Sciences.

According to the University, students enrolled in the Milstein Program will select their major in Arts and Sciences but will also have access to resources to develop a proficiency in computer science.

A cohort of 100 students, 25 from

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The revival of a 20-year-old website is now allowing students to relive the legend of the mysterious pumpkin appearance decades after the original mystery.

On Oct. 8, 1997, a pumpkin materialized at the top of the 173-foot-tall McGraw Tower overnight, with no one claiming responsibility for the seemingly impossible feat. Within hours, it quickly became a source of entertainment and intrigue — not just at Cornell but around the country.

To commemorate the anniversary, Cornell staff member Oliver Habicht dusted off his 20-year-

Business Owners Oppose Historic Designation

By SARAH SKINNER Sun Staff Wr ter

As businesses across Collegetown have become or faced the possibility of becoming historic landmarks, owners of some businesses within these buildings have raised concerns, pointing out drastic increases in expenses associated with such a status

The Larkin Building, named a historic landmark by the Ithaca L a n d m a rk Pre s e r va t i o n Commission on Oct 4, was home to Stella’s Restaurant before it closed last year It joins two other historic properties on College Avenue, as we l l a s s e ve r a l o t h e r s a ro u n d Collegetown, including a string on Eddy Street near the Eddy Gate

The building housing The Nines has been considered for historic designation as well, and the Chacona Block, the large stucco building housing Collegetown Bagels, will soon go into the last round of voting on its historic status And those most strongly opposed to reclassification? The building’s owners themselves, Student Agencies

However, this is not as surprising as it sounds, said Nathan Lyman, m a n a g e r o f It h a c a Re n t i n g Company One of the properties the

c o m p a n y m a n a g e s , Ac e s Apartments, is located in an Eddy Street building with historic property designation

Historical landmark designation requires all changes to the exterior

a n d s i t e o f t h e p ro p e r t

b e a p p rove d f i r s t by t h e It h a c a L a n d m a rk Pre s e r va t i o n Commission, according to a letter to all historic property owners

This process, Lyman said, can make even the smallest changes to buildings difficult and expensive

“My neighbor, who is not historically significant, can put in a vinyl window, which can be a perfectly fine window,” Lyman said “ While for my building, I have to put in a wood-sash window that I have to get custom-built, which can cost three to five times more ”

According to the open letter, the only changes left to the discretion of property owners are the colors of

paint and roof sheathing within a certain, prior approved range

Br yan McCracken M A ’10, historic preser vation planner for the City of Ithaca, said that these are

T h e I L P C operates “ to protect the city’s histor y and to ensure that representatives of our previous cultural, social [and] e c o n o m i c a c h i e ve m e n t s a re p reser ved for future generations,” he told The Sun

Student Agencies has plans other than preser vation for the property In August, CEO Kyle Karnes ’91 spoke at an ILPC meeting against the designation

According to the official transcript of the meeting, SAI hopes to rebuild the property in a modern style while keeping with the style of Collegetown The original stucco facade has “reached the end of its usable life,” as stated by a consultant from Taitem Engineering

If t h e p ro p o s a l t o n a m e t h e building as a historic landmark is approved, SAI will not be able to rebuild the property without ILPC approval and would likely have to renovate the entire stucco facade, a project estimated at $720,000 by Taitem Engineering

Owner of the Larkin Building George Avramis, also spoke out against the historical designation at the Common Council meeting, and cited worries about fire hazards

“I think the owner of the land ought to have input on whether it is going to be designated,” Lyman previously said “It’s like changing the rules ”

In terms of landmark designation, McCracken believes that the community is on the side of histor y

“A lot of people have strong assoc i a t i o n s w i t h b u i l d i n g s t h e Chacona Block at its current location and the Larkin building as well,” he said “ They associate them with the Collegetown of their youth or with the city they grew to love ”

The Chacona Block designation will be decided in front of the Common Council next month

Sarah Skinner can be reached at sskinner@cornellsun com

Summit Aims to Improve Campus Culture

By KYLA CHASALOW Sun Staff Writer

The Greek Tri-Council held a Summit on Sexual Assault on Wednesday to focus on sexual assault prevention in Cornell culture, with the conclusion that “the culture does really need to change,” said Luke Bianco ’19, one of the organizers

Members from both within and outside the Cornell Greek community met in peer-moderated focus groups to discuss sexual assault at the individual, chapter and institutional level

“Greek life is just a microcosm of Cornell culture, which is a microcosm of societal culture,” said Hannah Light-Olson ’18, president of Cornell Consent Ed

The question then, she continued, is “how can we fix it in our little sphere?”

Many attendees talked about the importance of standing up against misogynistic, objectifying or otherwise harmful language in order to prevent escalation and a culture of permissiveness Bianco, Interfraternity Council vice president for University and community relations, explained that to do so, we must look beyond the extremes

“Generally, conversations on preventing sexual assault really only focus on the extremes: how do we stop predators, the worst of the worst? If we ’ re only focused on that far end of the spectrum, we ’ re missing everything that leads up to that,” Bianco said

In her group ’ s discussion of consent, LightOlson suggested that such discussion is “unhelpful” when “people disassociate the conversations from the practice ”

What matters, she said, is that it goes beyond the “intellectual idea of consent ” to discuss actual experiences

“It’s what we’d tell our grandma versus what we ’ re doing in our real lives,” she said For many of the organizers and attendees, it was important to incite concrete discussion of actions that could improve the campus culture,

particularly in the context of Greek life

In some groups, the focus was institutional Anna Brzozowski ’19, stressed the importance of Cornell “dealing with the issue and being honest with the issue” rather than “trying to hide it”

Taking too long to resolve issues, Brzozowski said, can become “dangerous,” and can make people hesitant to report an assault

Other groups focused on actions at the chapter or individual level, from sober monitoring policies at parties to how to bring honest discussion of sexual violence to the dinner table

Moderators also encouraged participants to consider the LGBTQ perspective one that many said is often overlooked in a heteronormative Greek culture

“Bystanders,” Sabrina Sugano ’19 said, “need to be checking in on people whether or not it’s your archetypal view of sexual assault is ”

Sugano added that “sexual assault is not always between a man and a woman, ” and encouraged members of her group to think about possible situations when warning signs of sexual assault might be overlooked in a non-heterosexual context

The many themes that emerged from these various group discussions were brought together at the end of the summit in an open mic session that ultimately closed on the importance of pushing the discussion beyond the Willard Straight Hall gathering room

“We all have to go back to our chapters, to our organizations, and have these conversations,” Josh Briscoe ’18 said

These conversations, concluded Bianco, reflect that “change really does need to come from the bottom up ”

“We can push every single mandate in the books, but if you all as chapter leaders and campus leaders aren ’ t going to incorporate that into your personal lives, the culture will not change,” Bianco said

Kyla Chasalow can be reached at kchasalow@cornellsun com

Cornell I.T. Manager Revives 20-Year-Old Pumpkin Watch Website

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old floppy disk, retrieved his original footage of the pumpkin atop McGraw Tower and put it on display for viewers across the world

Amid the campuswide buzz 20 years ago, Oliver Habicht, who was working for Cornell’s I T department at the time, mused, “Wouldn’t it be neat to be the person who saw it fall off? Wouldn’t it be cool to have a video camera on it?”

And from then, the PumpkinCam was born

Now the I T manager of the Chemistry Department, Habicht recently re-created the original Pumpkin Watch website A request to view the old site, taken down ages ago, motivated him to “redux” the site

For this revival project, Habicht said he uploaded data

from a floppy drive an oldfashioned flash drive which is read magnetically by a spinning circle to the internet

Habicht said it was really simple “All I had to do was upload a folder that contains a few files and a few directories” onto the web server, he said explaining the conversion process When the pumpkin did not fall off as expected, people began to realize it was there to stay, and inspiration struck

“I put together the pieces that were required,” Habicht said and created a live-stream through the lens of a camcorder perched on one of the top floors of Olin library, so everyone could follow the pumpkin’s progress

“People just kept contributing different parts ” to the project, he said He added that one person even loaned him a computer, another a camcorder and the

library an office

“Fun is what motivated the whole thing,” Habicht said

The live-stream was instantly popular, perhaps because of the alluring mystery or so alumni “could hark back to their alma mater days,” and Californians could laugh at Ithaca’s weather, Habicht said

At a time when it was not an option to scroll through Instagram or Twitter in passing, the live-stream was a novel form of entertainment

Recalling common internet entertainment, “the way people did things was you visited websites and you emailed [and] that was about it,” Habicht said

Not only was the 24-hour broadcast groundbreaking in the realm of technology, but its presence lasted long after the pumpkin was taken down

“This project created the impe-

tus for there being an investment in webcams by the University,” Habicht said, and lead to the modern live view of McGraw Tower and Ho Plaza

In a way, the resurrected site is a snapshot of the past

The webpage as seen online today is virtually identical to the original, with the exception of a brief introduction about its restoration, Habicht said And Habicht was also able to transform the static image originally on the site into an animated gif

To this very day, how exactly the pumpkin climbed up McGraw Tower and planted itself at its spire remains a mystery In Habicht’s opinion, one compelling theory is a group of perpetrators traveled to the top of the tower and, with their rope-climbing skills, hoisted themselves and a hollowed-out pumpkin through a hatch

158 days after the pumpkin’s bizarre appearance, a crane removed the pumpkin for safety reasons When asked if it was saddening to see the pumpkin taken down, Habicht plainly stated: “It was time ” Its long-awaited descent was victorious in a sense because people were finally able to learn that it truly was a real pumpkin

The great legend of the pumpkin atop McGraw Tower will perhaps always overshadow other pranks for Habicht Whereas others are ephemeral, this one lasted over the course of winter and early spring and is even still mentioned in campus tours today

And through Habicht’s revival of the original website, students can now follow the legend, as if it were happening right now

Victoria Moore can be reached at vem27@cornell edu

Restoring Rigor in Science 9:15 - 10:15 a m , Lecture Hall 1, College of Veterinary Medicine

C F Seminar: Solid/Liquid Equilibrium At Subfreezing Temperature Noon, 116 Upson Hall

The Quest to Identify a Key Gene Controlling Acquisition of Cell Competence During In Vitro Organogenesis in Tomato 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Thursday, October 19, 2017

Cows, Pigs and Rhinos?

Disease Surveillance in East Borneo

4 - 5 p m , Lecture Hall 2, College of Vetinary Medicine

Book Talk: The Economy of Hope 4:30 - 5:30 p m , 107 Olin Library

Harbingers and Echoes of the Shoah 4:30 - 5:30 p m , G76 Goldwin Smith Hall

A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Middle East 5 - 10 p m , Auditorium, Barnes Hall

Khartoum at Night: Fashion and Body Politics in Imperial Sudan 5 p m , 106 White Hall

Ally Development

Moving From Awareness to Action 9 - 11 a m , G10 Biotechnology Building

Professional Directions: Conversation With Writer Cheri Magid Noon - 1 p m , Green Room, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

The Role of Biotech in Africa 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Department of Latino and Carribean Studies, Rutgers University, will discuss the writings of one of the greatest political thinkers of the Third World

Spain in Crisis: A Roundtable on Recent Development In the Spanish Political Landscape 3 - 4:30 p m , Seminar Room 110, A D White House

Critical Race Series Lecture: The World that Coloniality Built - Fanonian Meditations on Language and Love 4:30 - 6 p m , 258 Goldwin Smith Hall

Blocked by Trump on Twitter, Ithacan Joins Suit Against President

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between academics, established companies and startups

“This building contains flat classrooms that we don’t have in Sage Hall as well as a m a z i n g v i d e o f u n c t i o n a l i t y t h a t l i n k s ro o m s a c ro s s Breazzano and the Bridge in New York City that could also foster networking and collaboration,” Nelson said

Nelson said the opening of this building will also enable additional outreach, especially i n t e r n a t i o n a l l y T h e b u i l d i n g allows students from different campuses around the world to s i m u l t a n e o u s l y n e t w o rk a n d hold meetings

“One college, two campuses With simultaneous translation capabilities that are available,

language is no longer a barrier in connecting us to the rest of the world,” President Martha Pollack said In terms of bridging the two campuses, Breazzano added the new center “ represents Cornell’s major foreway into the redevelopment of Collegetown” and allows Cornell to “efficiently connect the multiple campuses in New York and China and the Americas ” In h i s c l o s i n g re m a rk s , Breazzano added, “All in all, we have a lot of work ahead of us but we ’ re in a good place and I am just humbled and honored to be a part of the transformation of business education at Cornell ”

Hnin Ei Wai Lwin can be reached at hwailwin@cornellsun com

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Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at nbogel-burroughs@cornellsun com

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Letter to the Editor

Re: ‘Animals as Metaphors and a 'Cruelty-Free'Guggenheim’

To t he Ed it o r :

Although it’s now making headlines, it’s been a thinly disguised secret that sexual abuse has been the “ norm ” in Hollywood for decades Just as abuse of women is now rightfully viewed with contempt and condemnation, so too is the abuse of animals, including the gratuitous exploitation of animals in art displays like those that were pulled by the Guggenheim

Forcing dogs to rip each other to bloody shreds in fighting pits isn’t a metaphor, it’s a matter of life and death Anyone who finds enjoyment from the pain and suffering of animals should seek professional help

Animal protection laws in China are non-existent Animals are skinned alive for their fur, dogs are bludgeoned for their skin, and bears are chained and hung from their neck for hours on end during circus training sessions With the withdrawal of the art pieces, the Guggenheim is sending a strong message to the country and its artists that animals are not props and that they deserve respect

Museums can and should continue to provoke thought, discussion and debate But what museums should not do is glamorize animal abuse

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texting regardless of your level of intoxication Being drunk gives you a great excuse that sobriety cannot You can say “I’m sorry, I was drunk,” or “Sorry, I was drunk and thought this was someone else’s number ” There are so many options to mitigate the embarrassment of rejection If it was not clear, these are reasons to drunk text a crush, not drunk email a professor or drunk apply to a job It is much harder to email the next morning to fix the well-crafted, now-ruined, image your professor had of you

Beyond curbing minor embarrassment, there are much larger benefits to drunk texting The most obvious of these is the ability to put yourself out there A friend has been acting weird? Ask what’s going on, though I would not recommend fighting via drunk texting Sometimes you just need the courage to start the conversation and then actually deal with it in the morning This principle applies even better to honest communication with guys for sex If I had not drunk texted a guy during Halloween freshman year, I would not have started a two-year long hookup And that relationship would not have lasted if for the first six months I was not able to text him when I was frustrated without feeling embarrassed

The way to maximize this growth is to text whenever you ’ re drunk and you want to, as long as you are playing within the rules And it does not have to be just “Hey” or “Are you up? “ but “Do you want to have sex in the woods?” Or if you ’ re consistently hooking up with someone but you want to actually date them, drunk-you has the courage to say “Do you want to go to CTP with me right now?” It might be 1:30 a m after Level B fishbowls, but it’s a step in the right direction

If going after what you actually want is like riding a bike, then drunk texts are the training wheels They’re the push you need to be more open and uninhibited while still confined to limited-risk opportunities There will be a time in your life when you are no longer able to respectably drunk text My mom drunk texts me to tell me she loves me, but I guess she never got the opportunity to do so when she was in college Take the chance this weekend, while you still can, and see what it gets you

The Uptight Tart is a student at Cornell University Slutty Endeavors appears monthly this semester

Warning: This column may be difficult to read for individuals who have experienced, or know those who have experienced, sexual assault and sexual misconduct These terms refer to a range of unwanted behaviors including remarks about physical appearance, persistent sexual advances, threats of force to get someone to engage in sexual behavior such as non-consensual or unwanted touching, sexual penetration, oral sex, anal sex, or attempts to engage in these behaviors

Floating across newsfeeds and tweets, the Me Too campaign has made national headlines through asking those who have been either sexually assaulted or sexually harassed to write “Me Too”, aiming to give more of a sense to the magnitude of the problem and allow expression of individual experiences

According to Cornell’s 2015 Campus C l i m a t e Su r ve y o n Se x u a l A s s a u l t a n d Sexual Misconduct, “by their senior year, almost one in five (19 percent) of undergraduate women have experienced nonconsensual penetration by force, incapacitation, or absence of affirmative consent ” Me, Too

There are two ways in our lives in which we discover our sexuality: the first is the moment in which we realize we have sexual desires There is the classic tale of the 10-year-old boy who discovers Playboy magazines stuffed under the basement couches (or in our era, pornhub com) and quickly begins to understand how good it feels to yank one out into an old crusty sock The first moment you realize that the butterflies in your stomach when you see that cute boy in your 10th grade history class mean you want to do more than just hold hands with him, and instead have daydreams in class about scenes that would give E L James a run for her money

The second moment in which we come to realize sexuality is the moment when we

understand ourselves as something that could be desired sexually by someone else When the breasts bouncing off of your chest during the beep test in gym class cause the nearby boys’ jaws to physically drop; when you find a note in your locker that says, “Let’s make out under the bleachers ” Often these moments happen in synchronization – one intuitively follows the other, but I learned that I was sexualized long before I thought about the joy of having my first sexual experiences I was 11 years old and walking myself to school with a female friend who lived nearby Walking down W 10th Street in New York City, a man walking by me in the opposite direction shoved his hand towards my crotch, grabbing my underwear, rubbing his fingers over my vagina and attempting to shove them inside of me He continued walking as if nothing had happened I wanted to go to the police but my friend Emma insisted that they would not be able to do anything, and we continued to school My sixth grade teacher found out and called my parents; I can ’ t imagine their pain as they learned that their 10-year-old daughter had been sexually assaulted by a stranger I never said no, I never said stop I had been wearing a short skirt I thought I had led him on, I thought it was my fault

My sophomore year of high school I lay under my boyfriend as we made out on his

bed He pulled my shirt off, and I insisted that things had gone too far “No, no; it’s fine” he insisted I conceded and allowed things to keep going “I’m not sure I want to, ” I requested, as we progressed to the point of no return His arms pressed down on my shoulders, his naked body hanging down above me, “Honey, you ’ re going to be okay it’s no big deal ” I lay there unmoving and unspeaking as he entered and then finished inside of me I never said no, I never said stop I had initiated our hookup and we were dating I thought I had led him on, I thought it was my fault

My freshman year at Cornell, I attended a party at a fraternity annex I started talking to a man I had met previously; our bodies came close He leaned in to kiss me and I pulled away, turning to the side So we both stood, our backs to the wall facing the rest of the room He wrapped his hand over my shoulder hanging low across my chest I went to walk away and he grabbed onto my breast, repeatedly squeezing and fondling me as I tried to leave I never said no, I never said stop I had been friends with him I thought I had led him on, I thought it was my fault

My story isn’t special It isn’t unique And, if this column truly illuminates a problem for you on Cornell’s campus that you somehow did not previously believe existed, it’s time to come out from beneath the rock you ’ ve been living under and take

a stand It’s time to teach victims that sexual assault is never their fault It’s time to validate the experience of those who have been sexually assaulted It’s time to hold organizations liable and accountable for the members of their organization who commit these crimes Whether it’s athletics, religious groups, academic clubs or Greek Life Any organization that seems to condone something so heinous needs to go Full stop To those who wrote “ me too ” in any context, fuck whoever did this to you and fuck anyone who has failed to believe you Fuck the systems that have made reporting or actualizing your experience difficult

And to Cornell, fuck you for creating a culture that has allowed this to fester and persist, fuck you for not doing anything, fuck you for making reporting as hard as taking a three credit class, fuck you for allowing fraternities with members who committed sexual assault to stay on campus because of donors with money, fuck you for letting young women who are victims/survivors believe it is their fault To those who are victims/survivors who did not post, your voices are no less valuable and your experiences are fucking infuriating as well

To Cornell: me too and fuck you

Honey Ryder is a student at Cornell University Whoreoscopes appears monthly this semester

CORNELL UNIVERSITY Homecoming

2017

Featured Events

Fireworks and Laser Light Show

Date: Friday, October 20

Time: 7 – 9:30 p.m.

Doors open at 7 p.m.

Live music from For the Win

Location: Schoellkopf Field.

Big Red Fan Festival:

Date: Saturday, October 21

Time: 12 – 3 p.m.

Celebrate Big Red football. Free events for all ages

Location: Crescent Parking Lot

Big Red Football Game

Cornell vs.Brown

Date: Saturday, October 21

Time: 3 - 6 p.m.

Location: Schoellkopf Field

Homecoming Concert: Foster the People

Date: Saturday October 21

Time: 8 –11 p.m. Tickets required.

Location: Barton Hall

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Manhattan Beach Finds Comfort in Chaos

BY VICTORIA HORROCKS Sun Staff Writer

Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan’s eagerly awaited followup after winning the Pulitzer Prize in 2010, does not disappoint

Manhattan Beach covers themes of war, economic depression, and the cultural revolutions of the time, as it takes place in New York City in the early to mid-twentieth century, Through the life of courageous protagonist Anna Kerrigan, Egan demonstrates the changing societal roles of women during World War II and the variety of pressures placed on women Weaving through the lives of multiple characters, all of whom serve their own distinct roles in New York society, Egan gives a socio-economically diverse lens into the criminal culture of the era, and does so through her endlessly engaging prose

The novel begins along Manhattan Beach at gangster Dexter Styles’s grand mansion along the water Eric Kerrigan, Anna’s father, seems to be engaged in a dubious business venture that is cut with the innocence of their closeknit father-daughter relationship Courageous as she faces the icy temperatures of the water, Anna demonstrates her unique tenacity in the face of obstacles, and is subsequently awarded for her spunk and rather masculine mindset

She frequents her father’s work along the docks of New York City and keeps up with the antics of backhanded business, but is all the same a loving daughter to Agnes Kerrigan and caring sister to Lydia Lydia, the Kerrigans’ developmentally disabled younger daughter, serves as a point of contention in Eric and Agnes’s relationship and not only drives Eric to guilt and self-hatred, but also furthers him into shady business After the mysterious disappearance of Eric, Anna slips into a providing role for Anges and Lydia and takes a production job at the Naval Yard five years later Determined to give a stimulating life to her sister, Anna takes Lydia to the sea, and later embarks on a mission to find her father She does both with the help of suspicious Dexter Styles

The novel takes on a New York identity and carries it in stride From evoking landmarks, like the Brooklyn Bridge, to referencing specific street names and restaurants, Manhattan Beach revels in the grit of 1930s and 1940s New York as it emerged from the Jazz Age There is a sort of cul-

Atural romanticism of wartime in America during the beginning of the twentieth century that Egan evokes in her nostalgic images of the city However, this nostalgia is not so much a cinematic crutch, but rather a dangerous twist on the romantic freedom of the era The lawlessness of the crime and business that occurs in the novel has perilous consequences to the Kerrigan family Additionally, the prejudice that Anna faces in the workforce and among her peers crystallizes the biases that pervaded gender roles Therefore, while romantic in its cultural perspective, Egan reminds her readers of the dangers and discrimination associated with it Involved with gangsters and Brooklyn criminals, the characters in the novel experience profound pain While the pain of love is present in various romantic relationships, perhaps it is the pain of loss that affects these characters most Such pain is common throughout the characters that span socio-economic classes, from rich gangster Dexter Styles in Brooklyn to the poor Kerrigan family in Manhattan

The novel has loud feminist undertones that bring these societal pressures into a contemporary context Anna is very much a modern woman who seems unphased by societal pressures to appear and behave in ways that are stereotypically feminine, from pinned hair to extravagant dresses to the suppression of any sort of “immoral” behavior

Throughout the novel, Anna navigates her passion for the war cause and her desires to work as a diver with her more traditionally female roles of caring for her sister alongside her mother While her routines are demonstrative of the working roles women fell into during the war, they are even more largely reflective of the increasing power of women Determined always to show her worth to men, Anna fearlessly enters male-dominated spaces, whether it be the marine divers or groups of men in nightclubs She appears to be “different” than other girls, which lends her a sort of magnetism Men are not attracted to her beauty, but rather her courage

While the novel jumps in time, the presence of water is constant throughout the narrative Both incorporated into the setting and heavily symbolic, water and the sea hold a sense of escape for the novel’s principal characters New York’s waters, which are “ never the same on any two days, not if you really looked,” have different schemas for Anna, her father and Mr Styles respectively For Eric, it offers literal escape and a new lifestyle, while for Anna, the sea is

emblematic of opportunity Whether it is her ambitious diving career in the Naval Yard or dipping her toes in the icy water, New York’s harbors offer her power against the prejudice she faces It is no surprise that she adamantly tells Lydia, “ we ’ re going to see the sea ” as a means of reversing Lydia’s condition and to give her new opportunities and escape

To Dexter Styles, the water is merely in the background of his wealthy estate, the need for escape not so much pressing as it is haunting Tumultuous and unpredictable, the sea functions as a metaphor for the novel itself

Simultaneously bringing comfort and torment, Manhattan Beach triggers a diverse range of emotions for the reader as it does the characters It offers a channel for personal revelation, if the characters choose to face it It is this sense of freedom and liberation in the midst of prejudice and conflict that makes this New York City novel one that encompasses sentiments of the twentieth century and spills into our own contemporary mindset

Victoria Horrocks is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at vrh23@cornell edu

To Make Gods of Music Majors

fe w summers ago I found myself steadily employed at a Presbyterian church in my hometown in Ne w Jersey I was hired as the church’s sole pianist and musical handyman It was exciting, as I could finally deem myself a “working musician,” and though it was not a residency at the Lincoln Center or the Vanguard, it had consistent hours (just take it a little easier Saturday night)

a n d p a i d f a i r l y w e l l T h e u b i q u i t o u s church gig seems to hold a degree of admiration among local musicians, both as a rite of passage and as a re warding experience in its own right; the music is not ver y hard, and hey, at least the crowd is always singing along I will always remember the first ser vice that I played at this

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it’s alright I was there to complete a task, a per formative function, and my own background was entirely irrelevant, so my piano teacher often reminded me Still, things became a little awkward The first time I played at this church was during a communion ser vice, and so at some point the pastor was supposed to pass out the juice and bread, so it goes My intention was to merely play the music I prepared for this segment and act the skeptic fly on the wall Yet, when he finished passing

never baptized and gre w up in a totally n o n - r e l i g i o u s h o u s e h o l d O n e o f m y fondest memories of my heretical childhood occurred on an occasion where I actually did attend church, a Baptist session where they were honoring my grandmother for the work she did there during her lifetime After the rather long ser vice, and on the front steps of the church, my father exclaimed, “ Wow, I didn’t realize they would mention my mother once and then talk about sheep for two hours ” But

out the juice to the congregation, he came to give a cup to me I stopped playing abr uptly, and after too many seconds of silence, I assimilated and drank the blood of Christ with them Of man ’ s first disobedience “Oh God, it’s going to happen again,” I thought, and sure enough, when he finished passing out the bread, he gestured for me to rip off a piece Again I joined them, this time consuming the body of Christ, I think Whose mor tal taste brought Death into the world, and all

our woe

Just like that, my agnostic little paradise was lost, and I finished up the ser vice and left quietly I think that my dramatized tale repres e n t s t h e j u x t a p o s i t i o n b e t w e e n t h e worlds of organized music and organized religion Obviously music is used extensively throughout ser vices of worship in many religions, and indeed many individuals’ first exposure to “ per forming” music i n a s e n s e s t e m s f r o m t h e i r t i m e a t church However, I did not realize the extensive relationship between music and religion until college, when I, an aspiring music major, enrolled in my first music histor y courses Western music was essentially reinvented during the Middle Ages in order to centralize and spread messages of the Catholic church around Europe

This is, at least, my more critical take on the subject and indeed affirming of my gradually growing incredulity with Western classical music as I learned about it just a fe w weeks ago in the music histor y sequence here at Cornell In that course and in music histor y courses at e v e r y s c h o o l , w e s t u d i e d Me d i e v a l Catholic chant as it was per formed at mass, and then actually sang it aloud, in Latin and from its original notation, during sectionals

But who are the gods, really? My fellow music majors are some of the most socially liberal and politically progressive indi-

viduals I know Yet, there is a wicked culture of canonization which exists in the realm of classical music education, where we idolize the works of a fe w great men and standardize our aesthetics and practices around them Ever ything is Pérotin, Mo n t e v e r d i , V i v a l d i , B a c h , H a y d n , Beethoven, etc (As I write this column I am listening to Mozar t ’ s Requiem, a rather vivid aural display of Catholic might, left unfinished after his death) It is great to have established benchmarks in music histor y, but at what point are the works of historical and contemporar y composers tragically left out of impor tant discussions? This tendency to make deities out of a fe w figures is indeed an unfor tunate reminder of Western music’s antiquated t i e

institutions I think that the students, per formers, and academics currently active in the study of Western music and all of its complex implications are the real gods As we endure our chants and troubled histor y, we indeed have the ability to lend power to the voices that have been quieted by the discipline’s own hefty air of selfimpor tance To hell with the old gods!

Nick Swan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nswan@cornellsun com His column Swan s Song runs alternate Thursdays this semester

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and the next fail to entertain in the slightest on its home field, in a b o r i n g l o s s t o a l e s s t h a n impressive non-conference opponent?

There are those who say the issue lies with recruiting, and that Ithaca being an unattractive place t o l i ve i s w h a t d r i ve s t h e s e inequities between Cornell and other members of the Ancient Eight Ithaca being an unattractive place to live is itself a s t a t e m e n t I t a k e i s s u e w i t h , though this column will forego that conversation for the sake of the argument at hand

The evidence, however, rend e r s t h i s e x p l a n a t i o n e n t i re l y inadequate when you consider Cornell’s ability to field top-ofthe-conference talent in other sports like hockey, lacrosse and others It is weakened even further given that Dar tmouth, a school in rural New Hampshire, is more often than not able to sport a competitive football team

Some turn to blame the coachi n g , a n d h e a d c o a c h Da v i d Archer ’05 is no stranger to criticism I think it is true that Archer could be doing a better job, and he agrees with that sentiment But his job is not so easy to begin with He has little to work with, a n d a l t h o u g h t h e re c r u i t i n g responsibility largely falls on him, this is his first year coaching a team made up entirely of his own recruits Time will provide a better metric for his coaching skills

In a t e c h n i c a l s e n s e , t h e offense has been the biggest issue for Archer to manage The passing game has been anemic, to put it lightly Inconsistency at the wide receiver position has been the most glaring problem, hin-

dered further by a season ending injur y to freshman wideout Eric Gallman This inconsistency, in turn, has caused junior quarterback Dalton Banks to be stranded in the pocket more often, leaving an inexperienced offensive line in a position to defend him for longer amounts of time

With less time to throw the ball and even less places to throw it, Banks, who had a respectable first season as the starter last year, has been left unable to further develop this season and build on his success

These issues that are plaguing the Red on the field do not appear to be going anywhere anyt i m e s o o n , a n d a l t h o u g h t h e defense has looked impressive at times, it may not be enough to save the season this year

Of course, I can have plenty of fun without a good football team, and I do, by the way But nobody is asking for a nationally ranked program The Ivy League is made of only eight teams The conference was created for the purpose of standardizing conditions for athletics, particularly football It should not be so difficult to ask that one of those eight teams, in this case Cornell, field an exciting team ever y once in awhile

In 1 9 8 8 , f o l l ow i n g o n e o f Cornell’s three Ivy League titles, the students in attendance at a sold out Schoellkopf stormed the field and carried the goal posts all the way to Collegetown in celebration It is hard to imagine such a thing happening today, but the stor y nonetheless elicits a longing for a return to at least some kind of legitimacy

Dylan McDevitt is a junior in the ILR school He can be contacted at dmcdevitt@cornellsun com One Point Play appears weekly this semester

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a hole to fill Yet Ostrander, the only returning candidate, was not guaranteed the job

“[Ostrander] was here and he knew our offense, so he had a leg up on [freshman] Brooks Panhans,” Gneo said “Everyday [Ostrander has] gotten better He got to play in the last game of the year and start because Pannullo was hurt, so that really helped his confidence, and that carried over into this year ”

Cornell’s starting quarterback credits much of his success to his predecessor

“Rob [Pannullo] did a great job mentoring me the past two years to help my preparation to step into the QB role,” Ostrander said With Pannullo no longer under center, it is now Ostrander’s time to shine Only three games remain, and it is up to the quarterback and his team whether or not the Red reaches the postseason

“We still have the same goal we had from the beginning of the season, and that's to win a cham-

pionship,” Ostrander said “We still control our own destiny and we just need to take it one week at a time and keep improving ”

Next up for Cornell are sprint football powerhouses Navy and Army Despite struggling against Penn in the team ’ s only loss, Ostrander still has the chance to turn heads with a win against either of the two academies a tall order, nonetheless

These are teams against whom Cornell cannot afford to turn the ball over In last season ’ s finale, Ostrander threw three interceptions, the same amount he’s thrown in all of 2017 “ The [difference] is the turnovers, ” Gneo said “He’s been been able to keep the turnovers down And he keeps his poise In a bad situation a pressure situation he’s always in control He’s always cool under the gun ” Ostrander and the Red travel to Annapolis, Maryland to take on Navy this weekend The Midshipmen are 4-1 on the season

Jack Kantor can be reached at jkantor@cornellsun com

Dining Guide

By ARATHI BEZWADA Sun Contributor

Described as a “Collegetown alternative to Big Red Bucks,” Elevate is the newest meal plan package available to Cornell students Elevate was founded by two University of Virginia alumni to provide students with more convenient dining options This program has expanded to schools across the country and, most recently, to Cornell Currently there are seven restaurants included in this meal plan at Cornell: Cafe Pacific, Manndible Café, Oishii Bowl, Apollo Chinese Restaurant, Collegetown Pizza, Hai Hong Restaurant and Calios

First, you purchase a set of meal plans (refundable with a 100 percent satisfaction or your money back for any unused meals guarantee) in either a set of three, 45, 75 or 105 meals The price per meal ranges from $9 34 to $9 76 per meal, not including tax, with prices per meal typically decreasing when purchasing a larger package You can pick your entree on their ordering site from a limited list of meal options from the restaurant ’ s full menu When your food is ready, typically 15 to 20 minutes later, you can pick up your meal from the restaurant

This is the first year I’ve lived off campus and have been off a Cornell dining plan

Like most Cornell students, I don’t always have time to make or be home for dinner/lunch Elevate seemed like the perfect option for me: It provided a flexible alternative to a dining hall and served as a convenient backup plan for when I couldn’t or didn’t want to cook At first, I loved the service: The site was easy to use, the restaurants were close by and it saved me time and money However, after a few weeks of using the service, I found myself unsatisfied with the restaurant and food options

The food, which I thought to be subpar, became repetitive Of the seven restaurants partnering with Elevate, six are located in

These six restaurants fall into three categories: Japanese, Chinese, and Pizza I found that meals from the first two cuisines, Japanese and Chinese, often didn’t taste fresh The dishes seemed pre-prepared and were often underseasoned and featured rubbery meat

Unlike these restaurants, the pizza restaurants, CTP and Calios, seemed to fulfill their orders as they were placed However, both of these restaurants typically feature high-calorie, carb-heavy, foods that left me craving a healthier alternative

Pros:

Cheaper than dining halls: Cornell is ranked #3 in the country, a fact that is represented in the cost of the dining plans Elevate is considerably cheaper than the Cornell Dining Plans, where the cheapest traditional dining plan is $2,316

Meals don t expire: Unlike a traditional meal plan, Elevate meals do not expire by week or by semester You have the choice to use your meals at your discretion

Saves time: For many of us, college is the first time we are responsible for all aspects of our meals: budgeting, planning, shopping, cooking For the busy student or the inexpe-

When I sat down with Jamie Kim ’19, the cofounder of bumble & butter, an organic, locally sourced granola company based in Ithaca, I wanted to find out what differentiates her product in the crowded granola snack market Her response not only gave me insight into this question but also set the tone for how this company is revolutionizing the way one thinks, eats, and snacks on granola She replied, “people should think of granola as a crunchy topping or snack that doesn’t only have to go with milk and yogurt ” Indeed, this young entrepreneur has challenged what we think about granola by incorporating it into a vari-

ety of dishes and introducing flavors never developed in the granola market to date bumble & butter has gone from concept to full-blown company in the course of merely a year Initially hatched from Jamie’s marketing class, bumble & butter has grown to sell in many locations around campus and the Ithaca community, even reaching the broader audience of New York City this summer at Smorgasbord, the nation's largest and most competitive open-air food market Jamie even mentions that they recently signed a deal with Urthbox, a healthy snack subscription service Gaining more exposure has allowed Jamie to grow her presence as a savory granola leader with a physical presence in Ithaca and a growing online presence Everything about bumble &

rienced chef, Elevate is the perfect crutch when learning how to balance all of these things into our busy schedules

Easy to use: The Elevate website is easy to use and understand The site is organized by restaurant, then entree and then side dishes This setup allows users to easily navigate and order from the site in seconds

Lots of options: Since you have the flexibility to choose your own entree and side dish, there are hundreds of meal pairing options on the website

529 Plan eligible: If you already have a 529 State/School College Savings Plan, you can request a receipt for reimbursement from Elevate through your college spending account

Convenience: Like many students, I don’t always carry a credit/debit card or cash with me Luckily, picking up your order doesn’t require either

Large portions: Between the entree and side dish, you typically have enough food to last you for two meals

Cons:

Few and limited types of restaurants: Right now, there are only seven restaurants partnering with Elevate, six of which are in Collegetown Only varying in three types of

butter is meticulously curated from the small drawings of the flavors stamped on each bag to the name of the company The name comes from the butter that is locally sourced from Hamilton and locally sourced honey from Ithaca Honey Works These two ingredients are central to the granola, as Jamie found that using butter brought more flavor and nutrition to the granola

Currently, they have three main flavors; vanilla bean with dried cherries, rosemary with Zante currants, and sharp cheddar with cracked black pepper Each flavor was crafted by Jamie with its own distinct story For example, Jamie had the idea of having the granola so saturated in vanilla that the flecks are visible on the pieces Each flavor is more than just a typical granola flavor, it's a carefully constructed story and distinctively unique Jamie mentions that their initial goal of the three main flavors was to create three core flavors for the brand She plans to incorporate new flavors into the future and even expand to holiday flavors as well

Upon first bite, I was delightfully surprised at the intensity of the vanilla bean that was perfectly complemented by the dried cherries The sharp cheddar with cracked black pepper was inspired by ched-

cuisines, these restaurants start to feel underwhelming after a few orders There are a lot of similarities in the types of food offered, so even though there are technically a lot of meal options, they still feel limiting because of the lack of diversity

Carb-Heavy: Most of the meal pairings feature one of three things: Noodles, bread or rice The dishes often lack balance and leave you feeling too full and craving healthier, more balanced alternatives Overall, the range of healthy options pale in comparison to the range and number of unhealthy ones

Lack of description: Calios is the only restaurant on Elevate that has dish descriptions For many of the others, you would not know what the dish was without having eaten it before or having to google what it is Final Verdict

There seems to be more pros than cons, but the cons outweigh the pros Unfortunately, since Elevate is a relatively new meal plan offering, it subsequently has not partnered with nearly as many restaurants as it has on other campuses As a result, the few restaurant offerings start to feel redundant Elevate offers little variety in types of cuisine and, even though there a lot of meal options, they are mostly just slight variations of a few types of meals The meals themselves are typically carb-heavy and/or unhealthy, with few options breaking this norm The meal plan is cheaper than dining halls, but students could easily save more money by cooking for themselves or ordering from different restaurants around Collegetown

The final verdict? Not worth the money Until Elevate can diversify and increase its partner restaurants and offer healthier options, you ’ re better off finding your meals elsewhere

dar popcorn as well as what Jamie describes as the ideal combination of honey and cheese I found myself reaching for another bite before I finished the first It was unlike any snack I had ever had, with more crunch than popcorn and fuller flavor of cheddar I later sprinkled it on tomato soup and found myself devising new plans of what dinner dishes I could garnish with my bags of bumble & butter granola

Bumble & butter’s key differentiator is their exploration of savory granola Their website boasts a variety of recipes including using granola as a salad topper or on carrots Jamie highlights using her rosemary granola on top of Greek yogurt drizzled with olive oil as her favorite way to eat granola The ways to incorporate granola into savory dishes are endless and bumble & butter is not only changing the way people think about and use granola but it is tapping into a new enclave of an established market When asked about future plans for bumble & butter, Jamie mentions that she would like to continue to grow and expand both online and physically in Ithaca She says she likes the idea of granola as a gift in fact, this summer she handpacked 500 bags for a wedding Her advice to aspiring entrepreneurs: “Just go out there and do it

It's so easy to be scared but it's important to just try it and go from there ” bumble & butter is a testament to this and their impact on the granola market is sure to make waves and change the way we use and think about granola

Red to Host Brown on Homecoming

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Senior Editor

A year ago, in piercing wind and driving rain, the men of Cornell football let a comeback victory over Brown slip away The squad trailed Brown early and used a 14-point third quarter to get back in the game and send it to overtime But in the second period of extra time, the Red couldn’t keep up, and the Bears issued Cornell its third straight loss after a 3-0 start

That defeat has not left the minds of Cornell 365 days after its occurrence

“That day has been referenced more than once this week, there is no question about that,” said head coach David Archer ’05

The goal of flipping losses like that one has helped the Red’s 2017 season earn the nickname “The Revenge Tour,” said junior linebacker Maxwell McCormick

“Last year it came down to inches,” McCormick said “It all comes down to preparation We have been preparing even better for Brown this year I think hopefully we’ll be able to close that gap and come out with a big win in front of the crowd ”

With Homecoming on Saturday, Cornell will likely play in front of the most spectators at home that it will all

season That extra attention ratchets up the team ’ s anticipation for the clash against the Bears

“It’s just an energy thing that people feed off of when you have friends in town, when you have family in town and you ’ re kind of in the spotlight,” Archer said

Senior captain and running back

Jack Gellatly assured that while excitement levels will be high on Saturday, it’s just another Ivy League game

“Obviously we love to ride the highs when those times come, ” he said, “but we ’ ve got to make sure we ’ re taking care of all the details regardless of what else is going on in the stadium or anywhere else ”

On the field, unlike Harvard two weeks ago, Brown will likely load the box on defense Against the Crimson, Cornell took advantage and hung up 233 rushing yards on Harvard’s defense en route to the squad’s first victory over its Cambridge rival in 12 years The Bears’ defensive strategy calls for the Red to reshape its offensive attack once again

“They’re going to put the whole student body in the box to try to stop the run, ” Archer said

But Gellatly was quick to point out, despite the imposing upfront attack, Cornell will not shy away from the

rushing game

“We’re going to do everything in our power to make sure no matter how many guys they put in the box, that we can punish them with the run because that just helps the whole offense so much,” Gellatly said

Brown will throw several different defensive looks at Cornell, trying to spark confusion on offense With preseason FCS All-American Richard Jarvis a defensive end Archer has said “will make Colgate’s guys look slow” leading the way, Brown has relied on its defense to be one of the most consistent teams in the Ivy League over the past two decades, with 16 top-half conference finishes in the past 19 years

A week after a non-conference loss to Bucknell with a depleted backfield and linebacker corps due to injury, several players will likely be healthy this week and return to the field Gellatly and sophomore Harold Coles will return to the backfield, with junior Chris Walker questionable for the game Senior linebacker and captain Kurt Frimel and fellow linebacker sophomore Dylan Otolski are probable for Brown, while Daniel Crochet, who last saw the field against Yale, is doubtful

With a rejuvenated roster, the team could capture its first 2-1 Ivy League start since 2000

“It gives everyone here a sense of life every week and a sense of drive and motivation to get this done,” McCormick said of Cornell’s ability to control its own destiny “It’s a new exciting experience, and everyone is ready and grinding and coming together ”

With five straight Ivy games to end the season, including two against the league’s current undefeated squads, Cornell enters its most critical, and difficult, part of the 2017 campaign Archer said the team will treat these next five weeks as one-game playoffs

“If we can get better in October, we can be relevant in November,” he said

When I was a freshman, Cornell football was 08 heading into a matchup in New York City against conference rival Columbia Columbia was 0-8, too, and the teams would battle it out to determine who would avoid what was likely to be a winless season Cornell won by three points and would finish the season a triumphant 1-9, one win better than its downstate rivals

The following season, the Red would again post a record of 1-9, the lone victory coming against a familiar opponent (you guessed it, Columbia) In that game at Schoellkopf, Cornell prevailed in what was an abysmal game by a score of 3-0 Though that season it was the Lions who bested the Red in the overall standings, as Columbia finished a win better when it was all said and done

Just two years later, Columbia, a team whose football stadium is over 100 blocks away from its campus, finds itself not winless but undefeated loss-less, and sits atop the Ivy League midway through October

It’s been 27 years since Cornell’s last Ivy League title in 1990 Since then, every team except Cornell and Columbia have earned the hardware in fact, all six of them have won it more than once since then and it looks as though we could see an end to that this year, with the Lions on a rampage that features some star power on defense

Cornell on the other hand has enjoyed no such improvement Although let us give credit where credit

is due, as beating Harvard is something even my beloved Cornell hockey team struggles with these days After my recent column detailing the autumn woes that come along with fall sports at Cornell, I was met with some criticism Most of it, online and otherwise, amounted to the same two themes: One, you don t need football to have fun, and two, there are other sports worth watching Both of these claims are valid, but people making them seem to be missing my point

Beating Harvard was incredible and by no means should we detract from that accomplishment But it somehow adds to the frustration How can a team go out and knock off a conference powerhouse one week,

Ostrander Leads Sprint Football to Improved Start

By JACK KANTOR Sun Ass stant Sports Editor

If not for some late game heroics on Saturday, the ride home from New Hampshire could have felt a lot longer than five hours

With less than 30 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, the Cornell sprint football quarterback carried, not threw, the ball across the goal line to give his team the lead and the eventual win And thus, the Red rode back to Ithaca as the victors

With Saturday’s 19-14 win over Franklin Pierce (23), the Red is 3-1 for the first time since 2012 And a driving force behind this team ’ s success has been the man at the center of it all,

junior quarterbac Ostrander

One can argu schedule is fro with easy oppone can argue it is Nevertheless, Ost done his job as q terback, and then some N a t u r a l l y , Ostrander has the team ’ s most passing yards as the Red’s starting gunslinger But on top of that, the Massachusetts native leads the squad with 226 rushing yards

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, ” he said a great job entire season ng lanes, and taff has also increase the ctice to preeek ” was not the st year In his d playing in 2016 uding just start), rander averged 0 8 yards per carry versus a much i m p r o v e d

3 6 this season

The junior’s running prowess showed through Saturday afternoon when he rushed for 120 yards numbers a running back strives to put up Ostrander ended the day with more rushing yards than passing yards

“Franklin Pierce really took away they pass, ” said head coach Bob Gneo “Our coaches did a great job adjusting the game plan, and a lot of it called for power runs by [Ostrander] with a lead back, and that’s where he got most of his yards ” Situations like these are where Ostrander makes a

difference When the going gets tough either during a play or over the course of a game he finds a way to move along

“[He has the] ability to escape bad situations and make situations into good situations,” Gneo added “And [he has the] ability to shake off a bad play The philosophy of the team is ‘ one play at a time and move onto the next one ’ He’s done a really good job of that ”

This year has not been like Ostrander’s first two on East Hill With the departure of all-CSFL second team quarterback Rob Pannullo ’16 over the offseason, Gneo and his staff had