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College-Aged Man

Rescued Following Fall Into Gorge

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

Emergency responders flocked to the Stewart Avenue Bridge Wednesday afternoon after a college-aged male was found at the bottom of the Cascadilla Gorge

Responders were called around 5 p m Wednesday after a man was found by passersby near the trail, approximately five to 10 feet from where he apparently landed, according to Lt Thomas Basher, public information officer for the Ithaca Fire Department

Responders believe that the man did not fall from the Stewart Avenue Bridge, but rather from the north side of the gorge, according to Basher He sustained multiple lacerations, as well as head and back pain

Basher said the victim, who could not be identified immediately by responders because he had no identification with him, suffered was conscious, but was in “serious condition ” In an email to The Sun, Gerardo Velez ’15, a friend of the victim, said the victim is an employee at Cornell Still, the Cornell University Police Department could not

release any details regarding the identity of the victim Wednesday evening, according to the Cornell University Police Chief Kathy Zoner

After responders treated the man ’ s injuries, they moved the man through the gorge trail to Linn Street, where they were able to drive him to the a landing zone at the Ithaca High School, according to Basher From there, the victim was flown to the Upstate University Hospital in Syracuse

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Student Remembered for Contributions to Jewish Community

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Ilan Rasooly ’15 a student in the School of Hotel Administration and co-president of the Center for Jewish Living died on Tuesday He

died in a hospital near

home in

Maryland after sustaining an injury during Shemini Atzeret while visiting friends from University of Maryland, according to a Center for Jewish Living board member

During his time at Cornell, Rasooly had a large presence in the Jewish community His close friends remembered him as “larger than life” and “ a very special person ” as they drove from Ithaca to

Maryland to attend his funeral on Thursday

Judy Zwillenberg ’15, who served as co-president of the Center for Jewish Living with Rasooly, said he was a loyal and energetic friend

“He was there for everyone and would do anything for anybody,” Zwillenberg said “He was joy-

See RASOOLY page 4

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C.U. Alumnus Arraigned for 1982 Murder of Girl

By KATHERINE DAVIS

Michael Ross ’81, who is currently awaiting execu-

Connecticut in the early 1980s, was arraigned Friday on charges that he also murdered a young New York girl in 1982

Paula Perrara disappeared in Wallkill, New York on March 1, 1982 after hitchhiking home from high school early because she felt ill Her body was found 17 days later

“Michael Ross picked her up, drove her to a secluded area, dragged her from his car, raped her and murdered her,” said Frank Phillips, the district attorney for Orange County, where the crime was committed, according to The Associated Press

College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Ross was a member of several organizations, including the Future Farmers of America and the Alpha Zeta fraternity Alpha Zeta President Jonathan Kui ’00 said Ross’ membership in the organization was revoked in the 1980s when he was first connected with the four Connecticut members Kui felt it was unfortunate that

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Ross had become what he called an “urban legend at Cornell ”

When the investigation first began almost 20 years ago, Alpha Zeta turned over all photos and documents pertaining to the case to the authorities Kui said the Connecticut State Attorney also tried to find more materials last spring but was unsuccessful

“Michael Ross’ actions were certainly not in accordance with the purposes of our organization,” Kui said “ To say the least, his actions were deplored by both our local and national chapters, and that is an understatement ”

After graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Agricultural Economics, Ross worked as an insurance salesman He has admitted to preying on young women who were walking or hitchhiking down the back roads of New London County, Connecticut during this time He also raped some of his victims before murdering them, according to the Associated Press Defense attorneys claimed that Ross was driven to rape and kill by a disorder called sexual sadism during his trial, but the jur y rejected this theor y, according to The Associated Press

C-Town Crossing Rent Could Reach $1,000 Per Month

By EMMA QUIGLEY Sun Staff Writer

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Cornellians Prepare Bird Identi cation Project

Crowdsourced Lab of Ornithology database spreads knowledge about birds

By BENEDETTA CARNAGHI Sun Contributor

FeederWatch an annual winter project led the Cornell Lab of Ornithology that enables participants to submit identifications of birds in United States and Canada will kick off its online survey on Nov 8

According to Emma Greig, project leader of the program, t h e Fe e d e r Wa t c h d a t a b a s e answers questions about “where birds are moving and how populations are changing ”

“We can take counts from Florida in 2014 and compare them to counts from Oklahoma in 1997,” Greig said “This is really the way to make comparisons between species and populations across these big spatial and temporal scales ”

FeederWatch was created in 1976 by Bird Studies Canada a non-profit organization concerning bird habitats and their conservation and was joined by t h e C o r n e l l L a b o f Ornithology in 1986 to expand the program to the United States

Since then, the project has contributed to different aspects of bird research, including the discovery of the House Finch eye disease in the 1990s, according to Greig

“ T h e d i s e a s e w a s f i r s t o b s e r ve d a ro u n d Wa s h i n g t o n D C and then spread throughout the east in House Finches and now it [has] moved into the we s t e r n s t a t e s , ” s h e s a i d “ Fe e d e r Wa t c h e r s h e l p e d t r a c k the spread of this disease by reporting where they saw it and also where they saw house finches that were free of symptoms ”

Anybody can submit photographs of birds and their identification to the website, Greig said

“Participants pay a small fee to join, and this fee has supported the project and kept it running for so long,” she said “In exchange we send materials to help them learn how to feed their birds properly and materials to help them identify species they’re likely to see ”

According to Greig, approximately 20,000 people are signed up for the program For this reason, she said the FeederWatch website has a “meticulous review system ” to check the accuracy of the identifications and communicate with the citizens who submitted them

“It’s such a huge data set but we still want to make sure that it’s as accurate as possible,” Greig said “If an observation is unusua l b e c a u s e i t ’ s a b i rd t h a t shouldn’t be in a particular location at a particular time, a record will pop up in our review panel as a flagged record ”

Participants whose records are approved will have their name listed as the source of the picture, according to Emily Waldman ’16, who joined the FeederWatch team this semester to assist with the review process

“I think that it’s a great incentive to improve your identification of bird species,” Waldman said “My favorite part, by far, is when participants do find a rare bird in their area, ” Waldman said she thinks the project is beneficial for many areas of research

“I think this project is very important not only for the Lab

and data collecting, but it provides very unique information on bird migration, habitat and number of species in the area, ” Waldman said “They are obviously very important to study for the environmental changes and biomes ”

Greig said she encourages all

To

infinity and beyond

Cornellians interested in birds to take part in the project

“People of all experience levels can sign up to participate in the project,” Greig said

Benedetta Carnaghi can be reached at bc552@cornell edu

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Athlete Grades Scandal Plagues UNC

CHAPEL HILL, N C (AP) A scandal involving bogus classes and inflated grades at the University of North Carolina was bigger than previously reported, encompassing about 1,500 athletes who got easy A’s and B’s over a span of nearly t w o d e c a d e s , a c c o rd i n g t o a n i n v e s t i g a t i o n released Wednesday

At least nine university employees were fired or under disciplinar y review, and the question now becomes what, if anything, the NCAA will do next Penalties could range from fewer scholarships to vacated wins

Most of the athletes were football players or members of the school’s cherished basketball program, which won three of its five national titles during the scandal (1993, 2005, 2009)

Athletic director Bubba Cunningham wouldn’t speculate on any possible sanctions

“ We’ll work with the NCAA and work through the report with them as part of our ongoing investigation,” Cunningham said “ That’s going to take some time ”

In all, about 3,100 students enrolled in classes they didn’t have to show up for in what was deemed a “shadow curriculum” within the former African and Afro-American Studies department from 1993 to 2011, the report by former U S Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein found

Many at the university hoped Wainstein’s eight-month investigation would bring some closure Instead, it found more academic fraud than previous investigations by the NCAA and the school

The UNC case stands out among academic s c a n d a l s a t H a r v a rd , Du k e a n d t h e Na v a l Academy, said Howard Gardner, a professor at Har vard’s Graduate School of Education who studies cheating

“I think the existence of fake classes and automatic grades you might say an athlete track, where essentially you might as well not have the university at all I think that’s pretty extreme I hope it’s pretty extreme, ” he said

The scandal reached back to the final years of

legendar y men ’ s basketball coach Dean Smith’s tenure, as well as Mack Brown’s time as football coach before leaving for Texas and John Swofford’s stint as athletic director before becoming Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner

The NCAA reopened its probe over the summer Cunningham said the school had no immediate plans to impose its own penalties as it did during an NCAA investigation into the football program that began in 2010

The school and the NCAA said in a joint statement they would review Wainstein’s report “under the same standards that are applied in all NCAA infractions cases ” They declined to comment on possible rules violations

The focus was courses that required only a research paper that was often scanned quickly by a secretar y, who gave out high grades regardless of the quality of work The report also outlined how counselors for athletes steered struggling students to the classes, with two counselors even suggesting grades Several knew the courses were easy and didn’t have an instructor

Chancellor Carol Folt wouldn’t identify the terminated employees or those facing disciplinar y review

“I think it’s ver y clear that this is an academic, an athletic and a university problem,” Folt said Wainstein’s report said it found no evidence of similar problems in other departments In addition, Hall of Fame men ’ s basketball coach Roy Williams and other current coaches said they were aware there were independent study courses offering easy grades, but they didn’t know the classes were fake

Wainstein said he found no reason not to believe them

Faculty and administration officials missed or looked past red flags, such as unusually high numbers of independent study course enrollments in the department, the report said

“By the mid-2000s, these classes had become a primar y if not the primar y way that struggling athletes kept themselves from having eligibility problems,” the report said

Friends, Colleagues Remember Rasooly ’15

RASOOLY Continued from page 1

ous and a very fun person to be around always joking and smiling ” Aaron Troy ’16 added that with Rasooly, “there was never a dull moment ” Troy recounted a time when members of the Center for Jewish Living trained to run a 5K together

“Ilan was on top of all of us for training When we got there to the race, he decided that we were going to sing the whole time The second the race started, he started singing at the top of his lungs People would look at us, and he was also wearing a bright blue fuzzy hat with earmuffs and sunglasses,” Troy said “Everything we did was an adventure He made everything into a memorable experience ”

Rasooly took his role as co-president of the Center for Jewish Living “ very seriously,” according to Zwillenberg, and worked to welcome all students

“He wasn ’ t just a president he wanted to engage people in our Jewish community, especially prospective students and parents by contacting new students and transfers and making sure they felt welcome,” Nicole Barel ’16 said “He felt very responsible for how the community was running ”

As someone who “dearly loved” Cornell, Rasooly wanted to give tours of the campus to all prospective Cornellians, according to Zwillenberg Two of the people he had given a tour to were Rabbi Chaim Finson and Shira Finson, who head the Orthodox Union’s Jewish Learning Initiative on Campus at Cornell

“We first met Ilan when we came to Cornell last spring He gave us a whole tour of campus, and he loved this campus and loved telling us little Cornell factoids,” Shira Finson said “We were by the clocktower and he proceeded to tell a story about the prank about the pumpkin on the clock tower Ilan was just so enthusiastic about the story that it was so fascinating seeing him tell this story ”

Rasooly worked to plan many activities and sought to make Shabbat dinners at 104 West open and engaging

“He showed a sense of leadership He was an optimist and always enthusiastic about what he was doing He had a very rare ability to solve problems,” Rabbi Chaim Finson said

“[Rasooly] showed a sense of leadership. He was an optimist and always enthusiastic about what he was doing ”

In addition to his devotion to the Jewish community, Rasooly was passionate about hospitality and was involved with organizing Hotel Ezra Cornell He also had internships with several hotels, according to Susan Murphy ’73 Ph D ’94, vice president for student and academic services

“He was really into being a good hotelie I remember when I went to his Establishment dinner, which was Disney-themed He was very professional He came and asked how we were doing and whether we wanted any more water, which was a funny and sweet moment, ” Sarah Sonenberg ’16 said

Beyond the Jewish community and his studies, Rasooly loved basketball and baseball, according to Zwillenberg A Yankees fan, he had played baseball since elementary school He would often Skype with his friends from home and talk about sports

“He had a very core group of friends from home They grew up together and went to the same school They talked and argued and did all sorts of outdoor activities together,” Zwillenberg said

Zillwenberg added that he hopes Rasooly’s legacy will perservere

“He had the power to make a really big impact His whole life is a story, ” Troy and Zwillenberg said

Rasooly’s funeral service will take place Thursday in his hometown Silver Spring, Maryland according to Murphy

“On behalf of the entire university community, I want to extend my deepest condolences to Ilan’s family and friends Please join me in taking a moment to remember Ilan and acknowledge this unfortunate loss to our community,” Murphy said in a statement, adding that plans for a commemoration on campus will be made

University resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can call Gannett Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-255-5155), EARS’ peer counselors (607-255-3277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607-255-2673) or find additional resources at http://caringcommunity cornell edu

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun com

Early Apple Computer Sells

For $905,000 at Auction

NEW YORK (AP) A vintage Apple computer that was one of only 50 made in Steve Jobs’ garage in 1976 sold for $905,000 at auction on Wednesday, far exceeding pre-sale estimates and outdoing a previous high price of more than $671,000 paid in Germany last year

Bonhams auction house said Wednesday’s winning bid, which includes its premium, came from The Henry Ford museum

The computer, which had been estimated to sell for $300,000 to $500,000, has an intact motherboard and a vintage keyboard and monitor It also has a power supply contained in a wooden box and two tape decks, Bonhams said

“The provenance on the Apple-1 is excellent and the condition is outstanding, so it was not surprising that it did so well,” the auction house’s specialist for the sale, Cassandra Hatton, said in a statement “We are thrilled to have broken the world record for its sale, and are even more thrilled that it is going to a wonderful new home at the Henry Ford Museum ”

An Apple-1 computer sold last year in Cologne, Germany, for $671,400 Apple, the maker of iPads, iPhones and iMac computers, is based in Cupertino, California

The auction was Bonhams’ first in New York City of items connected to science and technology Other lots included a letter by Charles Darwin to a colleague about the sex life of barnacles and the earliest electrical keyboard, a Helmholtz sound synthesizer from 1905 There were a number of globes, books and other documents and a telescope from 1870 There also was a framed painted portrait of Bill Gates

In the letter, which sold for $25,000, Darwin says he wants to learn more about the sex act of barnacles, such things as “ were the specimens under water at times” and “if the recipient was in full vigor?”

Huge Gold Nugget Goes For Sale in California

SAN FRANCISCO (AP)

One of the biggest gold nuggets

f o u n d i n m o d e r n t i m e s i n No r t h e r n

Gold Countr y is going up for sale

Weighing in at 6 07 pounds, the Butte Nugget is expected to carr y a price tag of $350,000

The San Francisco Chronicle

r e p o r t e d We d n e s d a y t h a t t h e nugget ’ s finder asked dealer Don Kagin to keep his name and the location of the discover y secret

What’s known is that a gold hunter found it in July on public land in the Butte County moun-

t a i n s Pro s p e c t i n g f o r g o l d i s legal on most public lands in the state

David McCar thy, a coin and r a re - m i n e r a l s e x p e r t , t o l d t h e

Chronicle that he took a blindfolded ride to the site of the discover y so he would be satisfied the nugget was genuine

T h e g o l d c h u n k w i l l b e unveiled Thursday at the San

Francisco Fall Antiques Show

Pr o s p e c t o r s f o u n d m a n y g i a n t g o l d n u g g e t s i n California’s 19th centur y Gold Rush days That includes a 54-

Chronicle said its research shows

repor t of anyone discovering a rock of 6 pounds or over in California T

Nugget used a metal detector and told colleagues he initially thought he had come across a pipe or some other “big piece of

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local prospector Bob Van Camp

Record

Worried that the strong reading on the metal detector would mask any signal from surrounding gold nuggets, the man decided to dig it up, said Van Camp, who filmed himself briefly holding the Butte Nugget

Methodist Panel Hears Appeal Over Gay Wedding

MEMPHIS, Tenn (AP) A Methodist pastor who was disciplined for officiating at his son ’ s same-sex wedding will soon find out whether he can remain an ordained minister in the nation's second-largest Protestant denomination

The Rev Frank Schaefer was suspended and then defrocked last year after refusing to promise to refrain from conducting samesex marriages in the future The action against Schaefer who officiated at his son ’ s 2007 wedding in Massachusetts was taken after a church trial in Pennsylvania

An appeals panel restored Schaefer’s pastoral credentials in June, but that decision is being challenged

The United Methodist Church’s Judicial Council, the denomination's highest judicial body, heard arguments in the case Wednesday in Memphis

The Rev Scott Campbell, who represents Schaefer, told the coun-

United States Returns Dozens of Artifacts to Peru

DENVER (AP) Dozens of ar tifacts are on their way back to Per u after being seized

investigations into the smuggling of cultural relics

Security depar tment held ceremonies in Denver, San Antonio and Boston on Wednesday to repatriate more than 40 items,

cil that Schaefer’s defrocking was wrongly imposed as a punishment for a possible future action, something church rules do not allow

The Rev Christopher Fisher, representing the Eastern Pennsylvania Annual Conference, said the punishment was appropriately directed at Schaefer’s refusal to promise that he would uphold the Methodist law book in its entirety, “the same condition required of ever y United Methodist elder,” Fisher said While Schaefer is not the only Methodist minister to face church discipline for his stance on homosexuality, he is the most high-profile His case has galvanized opposition to official church doctrine

The United Methodist Church accepts gay and lesbian members but rejects homosexuality as “incompatible with Christian teaching,” and clergy who perform same-sex unions risk punishment ranging from a reprimand to suspension to defrocking

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Editorial

Engaged Cornell: Propelling the University’s Land Grant Mission

ON OCT 6, THE UNIVERSIT Y L AUNCHED ENGAGED CORNELL, a $150 million, 10-year initiative to establish community engagement as a part of the curriculum for all undergraduate students The goal of the initiative is to empower students and faculty to become more active citizens, being able to apply the concepts they learn in class to tackle challenges in their local, national and global communities According to the Engaged Cornell proposal, ever y academic department will offer courses based in “community-engaged learning” and will also lead to 100 percent student par ticipation in community engagement and 480 communityUniversity partnerships by 2025 We at The Sun support the University in its efforts to further promote public engagement as an integral part of higher education

Cornell has a long histor y of public engagement and community outreach As a land-grant institution, Cornell has a unique responsibility to foster outreach as well as research and is committed to work towards improving the quality of life for people in New York and around the world The University currently offers several programs for students to engage the greater community, such as Alternative Spring Breaks, study abroad and the Public Ser vice Center While these options are good options for students to engage their communities, to achieve the goal of 100 percent participation, the University will need to work to add programs appealing to all students Therefore, when working with academic departments to determine major-specific curricula, the University should be transparent in its process and solicit student opinion

Engaged Cornell will further this commitment to social action Through the initiative, students will leave Cornell as more globally aware and dedicated citizens, who have real-world experience tackling difficult problems in the community Furthermore, students will have the opportunity to learn about different applications of their fields of study and gain experience applying their knowledge in meaningful work

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Shake Up Your Life: Tell Your Friends You Care

I was thinking about what to write about for my column this week when an earthquake occurred It was during a slow moment in one of my classes, so I had said “please God, put me out of my misery” when he took things a little too seriously As the floor shook and hysteria took over everyone in the room, I started saying “ everyone calm down, it’s just an earthquake” a little too loudly (though I sounded much more composed inside my head) For some reason, I thought I was much more prepared than everyone and even had time to roll my eyes as the room started to empty Breaking Rule Number One in natural disasters, I quickly packed my iPad and pen into my bag, but I couldn’t find my phone That was the sole thing that held me back, my beautiful, unbendable gold iPhone 5S with the Lifeproof case that was probably earthquake proof As I shuffled for it, I grimly thought “Heh, bet archaeologist are going to find my skeletal hand playing Flappy Bird I’m so cool ” Needless to say I found my phone on the floor, and we didn ’ t actually evacuate the building because 1) my teacher thought it was just the class above making a ruckus and 2) because I didn’t want to start a fight with said teacher To say I was shaken up afterwards would be punny and accurate Can you blame me? I don’t want to die in a room full of surly grad students, in a suburb of Paris of all places! The odd thing was that only my classroom experienced the tremors, no one else was panicking or heading to clear ground It was like some Twilight Zone episode or Freaky Friday I was craving Activia, my transformation into Jamie-Lee Curtis had begun!

friends, not your pain receptors While Ithaca prepares us for dangerous weather, it’s important to have first aid skills or friends who will take you to Cayuga Medical And no, I’m not going to continue ranting about natural disaster safety, y ’all can read Gannett’s stick-figure posters for those tips or ask your nearest EMS friend I’m going to talk about the possibility of final moments and what you choose to do I chose to stay for my iPhone, meaning I va l u e t h e Ap p l e c o m p a n y, St e ve Jo b’s rhetoric and my apps My friends told me to grab their things in the next quake because they’d run out first, so they clearly don’t value me Today was humankind’s (my) grim reminder that life can catch you off guard and so we shouldn’t hold back in basically everything

Like Donna and Tom from Parks and Rec say, “treat yo self” and treat others, too Tell your friends you appreciate them, message that special someone back on Facebook, apply to that competitive internship.

When is the last time you told someone you ’ re their best friend? Called your dog? Hugged your mom? Bought yourself artisanal hand soaps? Like Donna and Tom from Parks and Rec say, “ treat yo self ” and treat others, too Tell your friends you appreciate them, message that special someone back on Facebook, apply to that competitive internship Can you tell I’m learning the imperative in French? I won ’ t tell you what to do, because it’s different from all of us, but it’s time to take some effort and start living a little Now’s the grueling time of the semester, so instead of watching How to Get Away With Murder during your study break, do other fulfilling things (not murder)

During the remainder of class, I spoke to friends about earthquake safety I vaguely remembered tips like “hide in your bathtub,” “stand under a door frame,” “ go to a clear area with no buildings” and “staircases are the most stable part of a building ” I spewed them out as a clear expert on seismic activity But here’s a question: Are we really prepared for these disasters? When is the last time we stocked up on canned goods for the zombie apocalypse? Are we truly ready for the skeleton war? Just this past weekend I went to shower during a fire alarm, since I’m used to false alarms happening often (and I wasn ’ t going to let some silly fire ruin my evening) Have we become desensitized to these warnings?

I’ve often wondered about the recklessness of our actions From “Too Turnt Tina” to the “Do it for the Vine” mantra, I think we ’ re prone to more danger nowadays One time, a friend twerked too much at a party, and the next day she was in crutches! Freak accidents aside, we feel naturally invincible from the age of 15 until some ripe old age (25 maybe?), and I think we take some form of hedonic pleasure in tweeting about it, or bragging with our friends I’ve had my share of dangerous experiences burned baked goods, slippery nights out in C-Town streets and trombone slides jutting dangerously close to my head and Snapchatting it only makes it funny for the rest of your

As I get older, I’m more aware of loss: loss of friends, loss of time and loss of life While I’ve never been good at grieving, or expressing sadness in a way that doesn’t involve repression, this column goes out to all of us who’ve lost someone dear this year It’s a reminder, to everyone, myself included, that we should take all the opportunities we have to tell people we appreciate them It doesn’t have to be a grand gesture that might be awkward but a simple sticker in a Facebook message, or the little :* emoji works just as well No need to get morbid and serious (like I have in this column), but serious enough to get your point across

Turns out the earthquake wasn ’ t an earthquake, apparently the 3rd floor of this building is unstably connected to another building So the danger remains, minus the drama of being in an earthquake However, if it happens again, I won ’ t hesitate to leave ( w i t h m y i Ph o n e i n h a n d ) r u n t o McDonalds, order some nuggets and take a stroll through the park while texting all you loyal readers So stop reading my column and go pet a dog! Drink ever y single Pumpkin Spice Latte on campus, and then do the same with the Peppermint Mocha Tell your friends you love them, in a noncreepy way Or be creepy if they’re your friends, they’ll embrace it

Kevin Milian is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun com Milian Dollar Baby appears on alternate Thursdays this semester

CORRECTION

An Oct 22 news story,“Cornell Alumni Develop Software for Emergency Agencies,” incorrectly said Echo Responder launched last year In fact, it launched last month

There is something ver y sentimental about returning home I honestly can ’ t imagine going anywhere else for Fall Break This year I returned to e ve r y t h i n g t h a t f e e l s c o m f o r t a b l e : t h e smell of my home, my dog, my childhood bedroom filled with high school awards and pictures of distant friends and my favorite teddy bear waiting patiently on my bed I was happy to hug my parents and have home-cooked meals, but the piece of comfort I looked for ward to most was seeing my ex-boyfriend

It had been two years since we broke up and I finally felt that I was completely over him So when he texted me asking if I wanted to meet up for drinks when we were both home, I agreed, looking for ward to catching up with someone who used to mean so much to me We met up at a local restaurant and as soon as our eyes met I felt butterflies in my stomach I was nervous to see him and suddenly felt flustered, wondering if my hair looked okay and if I had put on any weight since he last saw me Despite having no romantic interest in him, I was still worried about whether or not he was attracted to me I didn’t want him to ever think of me as a mistake

We ordered our drinks and a p p e

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the introduction to Taylor Swift’s “Back to December” ran through my head: “How’s life? Tell me, how’s your family?” Except the lyrics stopped when Taylor started to lament the end of the relationship I really truly was, and am, over him The only thing nagging me the whole time we sat across from each other was the familiar smell of his cologne That smell made me want to curl up in his lap like old times

were

Things heated up and clothes came off and he entered me and nothing happened

turned on, and he could tell He pulled out and went down on me He always knew exactly what to do to get me off and I always considered him to be the best sex I’ve ever had yet, even as I felt him hit all the right spots, my mind wasn ’ t completely into it Even as he whispered dirty w o r d s into my

Maybe it’s senior year nostalgia, or maybe it’s my impending move far away from home, but I craved familiarity.

drinks, I let him kiss me That kiss felt the same as I felt when I laid in my childhood bed, or drove the family car, or anything else familiar I did while home It wasn ’ t magical or passionate, it just felt like reliving a memor y

He came inside with me and we quietly tiptoed to the den where we started to watch one of our old favorite shows He kissed me again and while it still lacked magic, I decided I wanted to go further The sex between us used to be so good, and I wouldn’t mind feeling that again

Eventually my body gave in to the pleasure and I came, and then we continued to have sex until he came, but it just didn’t feel like I thought it would The magic was gone Our bodies fell into the familiar rhythm but my mind didn’t I found myself reflecting on how sad I was when we broke up, and thinking about the girls he must have slept with after me I was no longer attracted to his body, his appearance or even his personality I really was only attracted to the familiar, comfortable feeling of being with him I

don’t love driving the family car, but driving standard instantly comes back to me I’m not still close with a number of people featured in the pictures hung up around my room, but I like seeing a younger version of myself having fun with them and reflecting on the memories Maybe it’s senior year nostalgia, or maybe it’s my impending move far away from home after graduation, but I craved familiarity and all I got was disappointment I would have been better off with the pleasant memories of our sex life rather than tr ying to relive it When he asked if I wanted him to stay over, I told him no, that my parents would be up early, when really I just didn’t think I would get any warm fuzzy feelings from cuddling with him I would rather go cuddle with that old teddy bear

He has texted me a few times since Fall Break and he is a decent friend, but that’s all he should be He seems to think we ’ re going to hook up again but I just can ’ t see it happening The romance is gone and sex with him has gone from two passionate people living in the moment to two bodies moving in an old and worn out rhythm

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r o f Ne w Yo rk , i t ’ s i m p o r t a n t t h a t C o r n e l l i a n s u n d e r s t a n d w h a t t h e l a n g u a g e m e a n s No t o n l y t h a t , i t ’ s a l s o v i t a l f o r u s t o k n ow t h e s e c h a n g e s a re n ’ t n e g a t i ve , b u t , i n f a c t , a re e m p owe r i n g a n d s e xp o s i t i ve s o m e t h i n g t h a t e ve r yo n e s e e m s t o h a ve t ro ub l e u n d e r s t a n d i n g Be f o re d i v i n g i n t o m y f a vo r i t e re a s o n s t o e m b r a c e c o n s e n t , i t i s i m p o r t a n t t o u n d e r s t a n d w h a t a l l t h e s e c h a n g e s m e a n A f t e r a b i t o f re s e a rc h , I f o u n d a f e w s e n t e n c e s a b o u t t h e a f f i r m a t i ve d e fi n i t i o n o f c o n s e n t t h a t , i n m y o p i n i o n , d o a n e s p e c i a l l y c o m m e n d a b l e j o b e x p l a i n i n g t h e c o nc e p t T h e A m e r i c a n C o l l e g e He a l t h A s s o c i a t i o n s a y s , “ Ne ve r a s s u m e A s k b e f o re yo u p ro c e e d A g o o d l ove r i s a g o o d l i s t e n e r A b a d l i s t e n e r i s a t b e s t a b a d l ove r a n d a t w o r s t a r a p i s t ” I l i k e t h i s b e c a u s e i t d o e s n ’ t s i m p l y i n c l u d e a l l t h e re a s o n s w h y a l a c k o f c o n s e n t i s b a d ( a n d t h e re a re a m i l l i o n ) In f a c t , i t d o e s t h e o p p o s i t e : re c e i v i n g c o n s e n t i s n o t o n l y t h e r i g h t t h i n g , b u t i t ’ s t h e b e s t t h i n g t o d o t o h a ve p a s s i o na t e , m i n d - b l ow i n g s e x I c o u l d n o t a g re e m o re Bu t , l i k e a n y t h i n g e l s e , t h e s e m a j o r c h a n g e s c o m e w i t h c o n f u s i o n a n d p u s h b a c k Eve n t h o u g h c o l l e g e s t ud e n t s s h o u l d h a ve b e e n re c e i v i n g a f f i r m a t i ve c o n s e n t f o r ye a r s , we ’ ve b e e n l i v i n g i n a “ n o m e a n s n o ” w o r l d f o r a w h i l e Fro m s p e a k i n g w i t h C o r n e l l s t u d e n t s , t h e s e n e w l y re v i s e d d e f i n i t i o n s o f c o n s e n t c a n s e e m a w k w a rd , b u rd e n s o m e a n d d i f f i c u l t t o u n d e r s t a n d In m y e ye s , t h o u g h , i t c a n b e ( a n d s h o u l d b e ) t h e e x a c t o p p o s i t e : n a t u r a l , va l u a b l e a n d e a s y t o i n t e r p re t a n d u t i l i ze To m a k e yo u r t r a n s i t i o n t o a f f i r m i n g l a n g u a g e a s s m o o t h a s p o s s i b l e , I h a ve g i ve n yo u m y t h re e f a vo r i t e re a s o n s t o re c e i ve c o n s e n t a n d s o m e l a n g u a g e t h a t h a s e i t h e r w o rk e d f o r m e o r o n m e T h e p l a y - b y - p l a y : T h e g re a t t h i n g a b o u t a f f i r m a t i ve c o n s e n t i s i t s a b i l i t y t o m ove yo u a n d yo u r p a r t n e r f ro m o n e a c t t o a n o t h e r L i k e a c o a c h c a l l i n g t h e n e x t p l a y, a s k i n g yo u r p a r t n e r w h a t t h e n e x t p o s i t i o n o r l o c a t i o n s h o u l d b e w i l l p rov i d e d i re c t i o n a n d s p o n t a n e i t y t o yo u r p l a y b o o k Se x w i t h o u t c o m m u n i c a t i o n c a n b e s t a g n a n t ,

Receiving consent is not only the right thing, but it’s the best thing to do to have passionate, mind-blowing sex.

a n d t h e l e a s t e n j oy a b l e s e x I ’ ve e ve r h a d s t a r t e d i n t h e s a m e p l a c e t h a t i t f i n i s h e d Qu e s t i o n s t o a s k : I w a n t t o g e t o n t o p , w o u l d yo u b e i n t o t h a t ? How d o yo u f e e l a b o u t m ov i n g t h i s t o t h e s h owe r ? Ca n I g o d ow n o n yo u n ow ? G i v e i t t o m e : By f a r t h e s e x i e s t e x p e r i e n c e s I h a ve e ve r h a d h a ve c o m e f ro m a g i r l a s k i n g m e t o d o s o m et h i n g t o t h e m d u r i n g t h e a c t T h e s e s t a t e m e n t s o f d e s i re i n s p i re c o n f i d e n c e a n d a re a g re a t w a y t o g e n e r a t e a f f i r m i n g c o n s e n t f ro m yo u r p a r t n e r If t h e y d o n ’ t re s p o n d t o yo u r d e s i re , i t m e a n s t h e y a re n ’ t c o m f o r t a b l e a n d yo u k n ow t o t r y s o m e t h i n g e l s e , s l ow d ow n o r s t o p c o m p l e t e l y If t h e y d o re s p o n d , yo u a re g e t t i n g e x a c t l y w h a t yo u w a n t , w h e n yo u w a n t i t In i t i a l l y, I k n ow t h i s c a n s e e m s c a r y o r i n t i m i d a t i n g , b u t t r u s t m e o n t h i s o n e T h e n e x t t i m e yo u a re g e t t i n g d ow n a n d d i r t y, j u s t i m a g i n e e x a c t l y w h a t w o u l d t u r n yo u o n a n d a s k yo u r p a r t n e r f o r i t Qu e s t i o n s t o a s k : Ca n yo u g i ve i t t o m e f ro m b e h i n d ? I w a n t yo u t o p u l l m y h a i r Yo u s h o u l d s l a p m e o n t h e a s s O p e n d i a l o g u e : T h e m o re I w r i t e t h i s c o l u m n , t h e m o re I re a l i ze h ow i m p o r t a n t o p e n d i a l o g u e w i t h yo u r p a r t n e r ( s ) i s t o a g re a t t i m e i n b e d A l l q u e s t i o n s a n d c o n ve r s a t i o n s s h o u l d b e o n t h e t a b l e A n d f o r e ve r y c o nve r s a t i o n a n d q u e s t i o n t h a t s o m e o n e c a n a s k , e ve r y p o s s i b l e re s p o n s e s h o u l d b e a c c e p t a b l e Ge t t i n g t o t h e p o i n t w h e re yo u r p a r t n e r t r u s t s yo u e n o u g h t o a s k t h e s e q u e s t i o n s i s h o t a n d , f ro m m y e x p e r i e n c e , t h e s e c o n ve r s a t i o n s f req u e n t l y e n d s w i t h h e a v y p a n t i n g a n d s we a t i n a l l t h e r i g h t p l a c e s Qu e s t i o n s t o a s k : Ca n we g i ve a n a l s e x a s h o t ? L e t’s b u y a t oy t o u s e l a t e r t o n i g h t I t h i n k we s h o u l d b e m o re a d ve n t u ro u s , w h a t’re yo u t h i n k i n g ? A f t e r ye a r s o f “ n o m e a n s n o , ” t h e n e w d e f i n i t i o n o f c o n s e n t c a n b e c h a l l e n g i n g f o r c o l l e g e s t u d e n t s t o a d j u s t t o To t h a t c h a l l e n g e , I w o u l d s t a n d by

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s e e m s i n t i m i d a t i n g a t f i r s t , b u t o n c e yo u g e t t h e h a n g o f d e t e rm i n i n g h ow l o n g t o l e a ve t h i n g s c o o k i n g , i t b e c o m e s a f u n a n d s a t i s f y i n g w a y o f e a t i n g f re s h f o o d Un f o r t u n a t e l y, Sp i c y A s i a n ’ s h o t p o t w a s n o t t h i s In s t e a d , i t w a s a s i z z l i n g s t o n e b ow l f i l l e d w i t h b r a i s e d p o rk , w h i c h t o o k a w a y f ro m t h e e x p er i e n c e Ne ve r t h e l e s s , w h i l e we we re d i s a p p o i n t e d t o s e e t h a t i t w a s n o t s e r ve d t r a d i t i o n a l h o t p o t s t y l e , t h e p o rk d i d n o t d i sa p p o i n t Br a i s e d i n s u g a r, s oy s a u c e a n d s p i c e s , t h e s u c c u l e n t p o rk b e l l y p a i re d p e r f e c t l y w i t h t h e w h i t e r i c e t h a t c a m e w i t h i t O ve r a l l , we l e f t w i t h b e l l i e s f i l l e d a n d C h i n e s e f o o d c r a v i n g s s a t i s f i e d Sp i c y A s i a n h a s s o m u c h va r i e t y a n d m a s t e r s e a c h d i s h , p r o v i d i n g s o m e t h i n g d e l e c t a b l e f o r e v e r y o n e T h e r e s t a u r a n t ’ s C h i n e s e - A m e r i c a n f o o d i s c l a s s i c T h e S ze c h u a n d i s h e s a re a u t h e n t i c A n d ove ra l l , p o r t i o n s a r e g e n e r

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

LOL,WTF. Can I GTFO of This Theater?

You aren ’ t supposed to ignore Jason Reitman movies (Juno, Up in the Air, Young Adult) You are also, if raised on Saturday Night Live reruns, nurtured by Happy Gilmore and critically disillusioned by Jack and Jill, supposed to participate in Adam Sandler’s death throes (burying something you love is part of growing up, or so 1970s coming-of-age pastorals instructed me) And if Ansel Elgort is going to “Shailene Woodley” himself, you don’t want to miss that pivotal vault from Secret Life of the American Teenager to The Descendents, am I right? Right And maybe that choice of title was a miscommunication So now I’ve justified my choice to go watch Men, Women and Children alone last night at Cinemapolis Justifying my choice to stay to the bitter, bitter end is going to be harder (it was to finish my popcorn, guys)

As you probably should have read in Zach Zahos ’15’s column yesterday, it’s hard to know how when it’s appropriate to judge a movie on its own terms and when to hold it to a higher, more universal standard Maybe The Hunger Games isn’t a masterpiece of film, but it’s unmatched in the sub-

Men, Women and Children

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category “ young adult dystopian action flick with cool costumes, surprisingly good acting and some kissing ” Men, Women and Children is easy to judge because it doesn’t stand up to either On its own terms, it’s a think-piece on social technology and relationships (I’ll explain how it fails at that later), but, more broadly, it is a sadder version of one of those romantic comedy ensemble nightmares (Love Actually, Valentine’s Day, etc ) meaning that there are nearly a dozen main characters, none of whom are developed past the point of their plot function and all of whom are grating and irredeemable in either the cruelty or the stupidity of their behavior and a ham-fisted American Beauty wannabe It has very many things in common with James Franco s hapless and misanthropic Palo Alto of early summer and with Crash if you cut out the race stuff and substituted a lot of porn (like, so much porn) There is a History Channel-style voice-over delivered by Emma Thompson for the first half of the movie, which occasionally draws the audience out of the action to show a satellite orbiting the Earth (and sometimes Venus, I guess?) This makes sense because Elgort’s character, a video game enthusiast but general morbidist who is harassed occasionally because he quit football, is obsessed with Carl Sagan’s “Pale Blue Dot” and the irrelevance of human life, so it all fits together, like whoa and symbolism and goddamnit, this is the worst Reitman’s script is focused on technology and its ability to store or disperse secrets, to facilitate or destroy relationships, but its take on the issue is about as original as the first clause of this sentence A teenage boy can ’ t take his semi-girlfriend’s virginity because he’s only turned on by extreme Internet porn; a nasty white lady (the type-cast Jennifer Garner) has imprisoned her daughter in a cage of surveillance because access eliminates the need for trust; online chat forums enable a young girl’s anorexia; a mother puts semi-nude pictures of her daughter online and doesn’t real-

ize it’s bad for a really long time because “It’s a new generation! The rules are different!” There are iMessage bubbles floating over people’s heads and a suicide-attempt-inducing case of accidental cyberbullying There is a spontaneous abortion and emojis There is oodles of sexting (Rough draft title for this article: “Text Dirty to Me”)

It’s a ludicrous movie (16 after-school specials melded into one disaster) and its understanding of the effects and implications of social technology alternates between complete naivete and kneejerk cynicism you can ’ t learn anything about sex from porn but that doesn’t justify this film’s blanket disgust with the people who watch it, and the Internet is a lovely way to connect with people you wouldn’t otherwise meet, but the idea that mutually-understood adultery achieved by such means is an acceptable salve for marital discord is borderline sociopathic Also, J K Simmons’ only lines are “Let me know if you want seconds,” “You were pregnant?!” and “I need some air,” which is almost as criminally insulting as making Dean Norris’ emotional climax include the phrase “One of these guys says he wants to fuck your mom in reversecowgirl so that he doesn’t have to look at her face I’m deleting this game!”

Things this movie does right: its portrayal of sex as super weird, especially between people who are uncomfortable with each other and with themselves, and its portrayal of middle class white people as having all sorts of misguided priorities and stupid problems Even putting aside my still-hot and unbridled resentment for the pettiness of the suburb I grew up in, it’s true that only the monied have the ability to worry about the effect that subscription video games, online escort services and iPhones are having on their kids and their marriages Neurotic, unhappy people are often bred from privilege is having the leisure time to read your daughter’s entire Facebook chat log the new form of conspicuous consumption? and that’s interesting enough even if Men, Women and Children doesn’t realize its cleverness in this regard (it is probably as middle class and white as Wonder Bread, only because that’s still what happens in Hollywood and in Reitman’s work even more so) If the movie had considered itself a satire of these behaviors, it might have held its own In reality, it’s too self-serious and hackneyed, an insultingly lazy interpretation of the themes that will undoubtedly define our generation, to be anything but a mess

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun com

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out loud in the entire tale other than a salesclerk, briefly, and her dead husband they have an ongoing and maturing relationship despite his depar ture from the physical world Yet Constance’s inner life is more than enough to fill books

I think I may have aged about 45 years while reading Margaret Atwood’s ne w collection of tales, Stone Mattress I feel wiser, more experienced, more cynical and physically tired as I imagine old age feels I would not recommend reading the ninth and final stor y before bed not only is it unsettling and may cause nightmares, but it made it impossible to get up the next morning I was quite convinced I’d woken up blind in a nursing home under siege That said, this collection is a phenomenal display of imagination, wit and word craft that alternately causes awkward smiling in public (or even more awkward if you ’ re alone in your room) and tr ue awe

Many of the sto-

r i e s c e n t e r o n o l d age, as most of the main characters are i n a d va n c e d s t a g e s of life, but memor y is a power ful device,

p a r t i c u l a r l y i n f i ction and par ticularly

h e r e T h e r e i s n o want for life in these stories The first three are linked, following three separate characters who kne w each other at a younger, wilder time And all slept with one another, we learn, at least via transitive proper ty The first shows the perspective of perhaps the m o s t s y m p a t h e t i c c h a r a c t e r i n a l l n i n e s t o r i e s S h e , Constance, is the innocent, in contrast to most of the other protagonists that Atwood crafts Constance speaks to no one

She is, in fact, a writer of a fantasy series about Alphinland that met with unexpected commercial success at a time when she needed to suppor t herself and her fledgling poet of a boyfriend The boyfriend strays and later her husband does too because of or inciting? her increasing absorption into Alphinland, which is full of mythical creatures and emotional baggage Constance in old age is a withering presence whose physical slightness has a lot to do with par t of her presence now permanently residing in the world of her own creation

In the next tale, we get the perspective of the womanizing poet she used to live with and see his own aging process under the care of his much younger, nurse-like, third wife Finally, a man whose twin sister had a brief affair with the poet and consequently broke Constance’s hear t narrates the infamous poet ’ s funeral Both Constance and the twins attend, where they meet his widow It’s an awkward scene

somehow hear twarming, too, perhaps because we vie w it from perspective of the baffled twin brother Therein lies Atwood’s magic

The next six stories can each stand alone, and though you might star t to miss Alphinland a bit, each has its own fantastic elements that somehow require no suspension of disbelief, or at least none that is consciously or at all reluctantly under taken Just to give you a taste, some of the tales titles are, “ The Freeze-Dried Groom” (take this literally), “ The Dead Hand Loves You” (less literally, but still prepare for shivers and then laughing at yourself for shivering), and “ Torching the Dusties” (read “Dusties” as “old people in

nursing homes ) Atwood shows no boundaries with this collection and introduces us to worlds and relationships we could never have imagined, yet relate to effor tlessly

Madeline C Jones is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at mjc37@cornell edu

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Photography: Identity and the Global Lens demands a second visit The collection of photographs from Professor Jean Locey’s ART 3601 examines “the impact of global perspectives on the understanding and interpretation of self through the lens of race, gender, and geography,” according to the class description However, all of the student collections do not present an overarching, generalized statement about globalism and its impact on the self Rather, they exhibit carefully constructed narratives, beautiful meditations on the human body, and captivating reflections on geographic place

Bella Sewon Oh’s (B F A ’15) alternating attention to and deprivation of texture in her photographs accentuates the merits of focused and unfocused images Oh’s second composition foregrounds the texture of the subject’s hands and the thick waves of the hair that the subject pulls forward in front of its face The final set of four photographs, arranged in a square, all capture the same bent knee At first, the four images appear identical, but after closer observation, the viewer realizes that the leg is oriented slightly differently in each photograph

Dabin Lee (B F A ’16) projects patterns on to her subjects and constructs multiple planes in her photographs In the topleft photograph, a saturated red and green pattern adds another dimension to a simply composed image The bottom-middle photograph, however, epitomizes Lee’s layering of multiple planes One subject occupies the middle of the composition, their body illuminated but their face entirely obscured Another circle, covered in white, unclear writing, in turn frames the subject

Rachel Margolis’ (B F A ’15) collection features emotional, almost melancholy, depictions of childhood The pool table green background of two photographs gives the compositions a posed feeling of portraiture Conversely, the photograph of a woman ’ s hands holding a tube of lipstick and a teddy bear on her lap transmits powerful nostalgia

Morgan Bang’s (B F A , ’15) images of human forms draped in various fabrics are some of the most difficult photographs to engage with, but also some of the most dramatic While preventing the viewer from directly seeing the human body, the

Fcurve of an elbow or protrusion of a head seems to always lurk below the thick fabric Bang, however, also includes photographs using slightly more transparent fabrics, which tease the viewer with the nearly discernible human bodies

Melody Stein’s (B F A , ’16) collection features texture both in the photographs’ composition and on the surface of the photographs themselves In one photograph, colorful streaks on and scratches into the photograph paper add another plane to the faded image of a woman s profile Another photograph evokes feelings of confinement, depicting a subject sitting cross-legged on the ground, its hands tied together with wide, translucent tape Even without focusing on texture, Stein’s photographs still contain effective tension In one photograph, the subject extends their glossy, blurred hands downward, away from a sink, causing the expectation of water cascading off of them

Danni Shen’s (B A /B F A ’15) collection exhibits the most consciousness of geographical place Through the use of miniatures, Shen greatly controls the lighting, and thus the atmosphere, of her photographs Shen’s photograph of a dragon sculpture evidences her command of lighting, illuminating the carving while leaving the fore and background of the composition entirely black Furthermore, the image of Mao Zedong appears in two photographs, and the inclusion of images within images becomes a motif One photograph captures a miniature art gallery bedecked with miniature images on its walls

The repetition of images in Jessica Chu’s (B F A ’16) photographs makes hers the most unified collection Three photographs present subjects turned away from the camera, two present longhaired subjects face down in bed, and three present empty, unmade beds Yet, the interplay of presence and absence, and beds and sleepers transforms the meaning of each individual image The composition of the empty beds is beautiful: the thick, billowing blankets, the feeling of uncharted territory Returning to the “sleeper” photographs, the human aspect dissolves, leaving only the alien presence of flowing hair, pushed back against the mountainous terrain

Valerie Kwee (B F A ’16) alters portraiture by blurring the surroundings of her subjects The subjects retain their humanity while being dislodged from physical space, suspended in a blurred realm In the bottom-right of a group of four photographs, the deep sweep of a subject’s hair, his tightly rolled cuffs, and the darkened right and left edges of the frame combine to form a unified, heavy atmosphere In one photograph, the inclusion of a physical reference the green houseplant and the window to the blue sky contrast with the previous photographs, evidencing the effect of geographical place In a manner completely opposite to Morgan Bang’s, Katya Savelieva’s (B F A /B A ’16) photographs also deprive the viewer of an obvious human presence Savelieva blends the familiar curves and flesh-color of the human body with neon overlays and accents, suggesting the human form but consciously avoiding clear depictions The earthy, lively neon green and the intense, vibrant red accents of the photographs skillfully complement the human form, yet in a manner that defies description In one photograph, any presence of the human form disappears completely until the viewer focuses again on the blended colors of the composition

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at smc377@cornell edu

M y G o o d - A s s N i g h t : G r o u p T h e r a p y’s 10 0 t h

ive days out from Above & Beyond’s 100th Group Therapy radio show, and the effects of ABGT100 withdrawal are still raging strong In this signature Shithacan doom, gloom and Kirby Room, how do I cope with the syndrome’s symptomatic inattention and melancholia? Hours and hours of live stream coverage from Soundcloud Of course, half-listening to some sobbing megafan get to “push the button” to Jono, Paavo and Tony’s stupefying set while t-testing metrics in the frigid cave that is the 6th floor Stacks isn’t the same thing, but tell that to the asinine bopping of my head With limbs moving independently of my own will and (uh oh) that right fist throwing its first pump in the air while seated in this ice cube of a graduate carrel, I relive all the goddamn feels of my goodass night

T HE HYPE : As the first British DJs to headline the landmark venue of Madison Square Garden in history, Above & Beyond had been Twitter-hyping the shit-eating public that we are with some serious superlatives of how mind-blowing the night would be Group Therapy, their tastemaking weekly radio show, garnering 25 million listeners in 30 countries, continually counted down the days, hours, minutes, seconds left before ABGT100, like a ticking time bomb to our collective eargasm Days before the show, A&B blue-balled us by releasing the music video to the headlining track of their new album, “We Are All We Need,” without any audio like the next-level trolls that they are Having secured my ticket in the super-secret super-exclusive pre-pre-sale last spring, I didn’t have to compete with the outrageous scalper prices of $700 for a general admission stub on the day of

interviews in Boston, a buddy landed after Mechanical Engineering midterms at Stanford, another took off after her own job search in the city and several more drove down from Ithaca Finally, the core crew had reunited just in time to start taking bets on which one of us would shed the first tear during ABGT ’ s undoubtedly moving set (hint: not me) Inside the venue, bursting with serious camaraderie and legitimate PLUR vibes, we linked shoulders and locked eyes with the group of Detroit bros besides us The row of us, complete with the 18,000 other die-hards in the sold-out stadium, joined together in the strangest, most beautiful, most surreal singalong of “Sticky Fingers” there ever was T HE SET L IST: With a stacked six-hour set from Above & Beyond’s extended Anjunabeats family, the night was an endurance test of human debauchery The trance trio kicked off the concert with their deep set of progressive beats, followed by upand-comer Ilan Bluestone The build on

T HE CR EW: With a brutal return from fall break, I flew in from some real-life, adult job

“Tension” was so explosive, the audience shared a collective half-chub before Andrew Bayer rocked the house with his genre-making IDM On deck for A&B, Mat Zo turned The Garden into a Mad Zoo (heh) with his mix of funk, house, dance and trance Finally, A&B came on for the main act and delivered everything they promised, live-typing an on-screen narrative for the audience, complete with

adorable typos

The rainbow ribbon streamers (the Group Therapy trademark), skittering

m u l t i - s c r e e n visuals, laser field and confetti clouds created a m e s m e r i z i n g p r o d u c t i o n # A B G T 1 0 0 immediately shot to a top trending topic, and the venue lighting was nearly eclipsed by the sea of backlit iPhones on the floor The self-confessed perfectionist DJs gave exclusive previews of “Quieter is Louder” and “Sacrifice” from their upcoming album and played crowd favorites like “Blue Sky Action” and “Sun and Moon ” All the grating synths, slow builds and driving bass lines came together for that ethereal big-room sound There were goosebumps Magic Man tears Possible jizz And such feels T HE AFTER-PARTY: Post-one a m , all of MSG made the mass migration to the afterparty, held at the supremely ghetto Pacha Huddling together like emperor penguins for warmth in the door line, we befriended some ABGT fans who’d flown in from Liverpool, only to be immediately mugged in Penn Station by large men they tried to hit up for X Though I hadn’t been to Pacha since I was literally 17, the crowd was exhibiting all the strange clubland mating rituals I remember The music, “Anjunadeep 06” by Lane 8, was straight fire and gave me enough of a second

wind to last me until A&B themselves took over the stage (until, ahem, nine a m )

T HE DE BRIE F: Nothing says sunrise and a post-festivities debrief quite like a $50 Uber to a muy autentico Brooklyn taco stand Asses on the sidewalk, we each scarfed down five $1 tacos de tripa, de cabeza, de lengua and al pastor Chased with some horchata and hydrated by passion fruit paletas, we could just barely recover some of our vocal cords to coordinate an AirDrop of the night’s most Instagram-able photos Half-deaf but full-bellied, we gulped down some multivites, 5-HTP, B12, Ibuprofen and coconut water before finally getting to PTFO in the superloft we AirBNB’d from two actual meth heads in Bushwick

Alice Wang is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at awang@cornellsun com Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays

Red Preps to Defend Run Game Against Post Offense

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ning backs possess

“We don’t really have the guys that can match [their speed] per se, but we ’ re hoping to beat them with our technique,” he said “We feel we can outsmart them ”

C o a c h Gu c c i a n o t e d t h a t despite Post’s tendencies to run significantly more than it passes, the passing offense is still very capable of running up the score

“They seem to be a 70% run, 30% pass team, ” he said “But their 30% pass is: get receivers deep and score off it ”

Last week, Post held off a late Penn rally to beat the Quakers 28-21 Big plays were again key for the Eagles as quar terback

Greg Volpe averaged 21 yards per

c o m p l e t i o n Ma h a n p l a ye d a large role in the game as well, scoring on an 81-yard pass as time expired in the first quarter He added a 31-yard touchdown in the second quarter

On o f f e n s e , C o r n e l l g a ve Navy’s stellar defense its biggest test of the season, hanging up 30 points and 361 yards of offense on the Midshipmen, both season

h i g h s f o r Na v y ’ s s u p e r l a t i ve defense Going into last week’s game, Navy had given up a total -37 yards rushing across its first four games, by far the lowest mark in the Collegiate Sprint Football League The Red was able to rush for 66 yards against this formidable defense For the f i r s t t i m e a l l ye a r, t h o u g h , Cornell was unable to reach the endzone on the ground

But that shortcoming took a back seat because Cornell found success in its passing game The key to this was sophomore quarterback Rob Pannullo Averaging

j u s t 2 0 a t t e m p t e d p a s s e s p e r game going into Saturday’s contest, Pannullo lofted 48 throws, completing 23 of them for 295 yards He also threw for all four of the Red’s touchdowns, including two to junior Trevor Marrero

The air attack will try to continue this success as it faces Post’s secondary, which ranks No 3 in the CSFL, allowing just 155 yards per game

Guccia said he believes that the offense will continue its success against Post, which he said runs similar defensive schemes to Navy

“We were able to move the ball very well last week and I think the offense has the confidence now that they can move the ball against any one of the fronts that we ’ ve seen, ” he said “This is just an opportunity for them to keep executing ” Jackson is optimistic about these last two games at home

“We’re just really trying to finish out the season well If we can win these last two games, we’ll be above 500,” he said “Our goal is to finish strong for the seniors and for the team as a whole ”

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D’Ambrosio’s Pro Tips For Sun Football Picks

TEN QUESTIONS

Continued from page 15

I’ve always been a busy person, that’s just the way I am This semester I’m taking 18 credits and playing a sport I’m trying to do 150 credits in four years so I’m taking classes and doing an internship during the summer Having a busy schedule keeps me from just doing nothing and being a bum It keeps me active It’s pretty much how I have fun staying busy

6) S o I do n ’ t k now i f y ou regu l ar l y rea d T he Su n , bu t ever y week we have t he edi to rs d o fo o tb al l

Depends on the game you ’ re picking I usually go for the heavy

favorites I don’t know if you have a spread, like if it’s Vegas style, but I usually pick the favorite In the games that are supposed to be tight, definitely pick the underdog because you want to have the same picks that everyone else has on the big games, but it’s in the games where everyone else picks the other teams that you get your points and really catch up

7) Yo u ’ re fr om New Yo rk are yo u a Jet s o r a Gia nts fa n?

I’m actually neither I’m a Dallas Cowboys fan and everyone wonders why that started, especially since the Giants are popular in my neighborhood I’m actually rivals with all of my friends at home We’ll watch the games together and wind up heckling each other the whole game

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Who Should You Root for If Your Team Is Tanking?

ZAKOUR Continued from page 16

of the purgatory of losing

But this has all put me in a strange position Should I root for them during this tanking phase? Or more precisely, do I root for them to win or lose? It’s ingrained in me to want my team to win, but I know it’s better for the long run if the current season ’ s losses are the sacrifice for winning a Stanley Cup later on When I just follow the Sabres, I know they’re better off losing as often as possible this season But when I see them play, what do I do? Cheer opposing goals? Am I supposed to dread Buffalo goals? If a Sabre makes a spectacular play, should I be happy with the individual effort but not so about anything that brings them closer to a franchise jeopardizing win? It’s all very confusing

The Sabres are 1-5-0 with a -14 goal differential as of writing, both worst in the NHL They’re well on their way to being the worst team in the league It’s clear they have given me no choice, I have to root for losses A win has to feel like a loss and vice versa So being a fan of the Sabres right now entails really being a fan of any team playing the Sabres Which is fine for a while, but I’m looking forward to the day when I can actually cheer for my own team ’ s wins

Looking at recent Cup champions, tanking doesn’t seem like the worst idea The Blackhawks and Kings, the two model franchises as of late in the NHL, have hit on picks early on in the first round The Penguins won the Sidney Crosby sweepstakes and it’s worked out pretty well for them You need stars to win championships You need to draft stars to win And franchises exist to win championships, especially ones in the city of Buffalo, which has never seen a winner

The Sabres already have what many consider the best farm teams in hockey, and will have two more first round picks this year Because of this, I’m not sure if tanking needs to be curtailed in sports For teams willing to forgo all chances at winning a few playoff games to try to win a championship, it can be the right move But not every team feels comfortable risking totally alienating their fan base for a few years Hyper competitive coaches and players need to be able to stomach taking part in a tank job

Tanking “feels” wrong It might be the best strategy, honestly But it feels wrong Yes, franchises are supposed to win titles But they’re supposed to “win ” And raking up the losses is tolerable for a little while, but then the wins had better start piling up A tank job followed by anything less than an elite team will just beget another tank Teams are supposed to get better gradually and do their best to fill holes, not just sell off everything of value It’s not fun to actually see the product on the field, which is what should matter The point of a sports team is more than winning Since sports falls under the entertainment industry (more or less), sports should provide entertainment value Watching Sabres goalie Jhonas Enroth fish the puck out of his own net loses its charm after a while

The Sabres losing every day, being totally outclassed by teams on the other end of the spectrum, like a 6-2 beat down courtesy of the Blackhawks or a 5-1 thrashing by the Ducks, provides very little entertainment value In fact, it’s pretty hard to watch

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun com

‘Camaraderie’ Key To Team’s Success

TENNIS Continued from page 16

32,” Ngyuen said

However, the Cornell men p

So

re s Rosa and Chris Vrabel reached the semifinals of their bracket They went on to play against Har vard’s Dennis Ngyuen and B r i a n Ye u n g Un f o r t u n a t e l y, they were unable to pull out the win

Overall the team was not fully s a t i s f i e d w i t h i t s p e r f o r m a n c e this fall season, but hopes to get its act together so that the spring semester is an improvement

“As it stands now we are a little behind the rest of the Ivys As a team we didn't have a par ticularly great fall season but that's ok Our main dual match season is in the spring and we have time

t o i m p r ov e b e f o r e o u r f i r s t match in Januar y, ” Nguyen said He said he believes that if the team is more disciplined on and

off cour t, then it will have a successful spring season

“ I c a n s p e a k f o r e v e r y o n e when I say there needs to be changes to our team if we want to per form in the spring, ranging from better leadership in the upperclassmen to our mindset when approaching training,” he said

T h e t e a m l e a d e r s p l a n o n using past results and experiences to guide and motivate the team to work hard and improve its results

“ Two seasons ago our team obtained the highest ranking in Cornell histor y and a big par t of our success was due to our team

c a m a r a d e r i e , ” N g u y e n s a i d “ The next two months of training are going to be tough, but if we can all get on the same page by Januar y, I believe it'll give us the best shot at having a successful season ”

E N Q U E S T I O N S

H R I S D ’ A M B R O S I O

Ten Questions Columnist Anna Fasman caught up with sophomore linebacker Chris D’Ambrosio to talk about his pump up rituals and his affinity for delicious foods

1 ) How did yo u g e t st arte d in fo otb al l?

Football started when I was five years old My dad played when he was in his teens and I picked it up and instantly fell in love with it I played probably close to 10 sports when I was young, but football is the only one I wanted to stick with through high school When it came down to college, I couldn’t play Division I football, but I could have played Division III or even Division II, but going to Cornell, you have [strong] academics, so playing sprint football is absolutely the best alternative for me

2 ) Do yo u h ave an y pre gam e r itual s o r trad ition s , e ithe r a lo ne or with th e te am ?

A lot of my pre-game [traditions] are all music based I listen to not necessarily the same songs, but I listen to an hour of EDM music before and I’ll also listen to rap and hard rock right before the game But there’s one song right before the game that I always listen [to] and that’s “The Prayer” by Kid Cudi Usually I’m so amped and I want to get out there right away and it calms my mind so I’m able to keep everything straight and [not] lose my

head during the game Also, when I was a senior in high school, one of my really close friends gave me a shirt that he wore during a school dodgeball tournament that [he wore as] a joke that made him look really funny It has one long sleeve and every time I put it on after [in high school], I didn’t lose a game It’s my go-to and I wore it every game in high school and now at Cornell It’s a light shirt and even if it’s really cold out, I’ll wear a long sleeve under armour and I’ll wear this shirt on top of it, so it’s always showing

3 ) Wh at ’ s you r f avorite thin g to do o n c am pus / in Ithac a b es ide s pl ay fo otb al l?

My favorite thing is eating I’m a huge foodie so I love going around Ithaca and traveling to different places to get food I go to the farmer’s market almost every weekend I’ll take one or two of my friends and we’ll go down there The Cambodian food is absolutely my favorite I definitely enjoy traveling around, looking for the best places to eat

4 ) W hat is you r b es t m em or y at C or n el l s o f ar?

I probably have to say the last game of the year last year We were down most of the game and our quarterback last year, Brendan Miller [’14], four year starting quarterback, was playing his last game He threw a game-winning pass with two sec-

onds left in the game Even though we were in Mansfield and it was a three-hour bus ride back, once we got back the whole team went out together and we all celebrated Having all of us come together as a family and not having to worry about the season anymore was great We could just hang out as friends and family and not just because we were being forced together by practice It was really probably my favorite memory at Cornell

5 ) W hat e l se are you in vo lve d w ith o n c am pu s b e s ide s f oot ba ll ?

I’m in a fraternity on campus and I’m also in many other clubs I’m in the sports business society and I’m also in athletes helping athletes where I’m a tutor I was happy when I got good grades last year so I really enjoy helping others I might want to teach when I get older, so it’s also a good way to get into doing that

Do you ever feel like you have trouble balancing all of the clubs, academics, football and Greek life?

Men,Women Travel to Compete at Regionals

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer

women ’ s Cornell tennis teams competed at the ITA Regional Championships The women played at Yale in New Haven, and the men traveled to St John’s in New York City

The women ’ s team had five entries in the main singles draw and two entries in doubles

Sophomore Alex D’Ascenzo was the last standing Cornellian in the singles event In the round of 32, D’Ascenzo battled against Boston College’s Jessica Wacnik, but unfor-

“Everyone is going to be more motivated for the spring, from both the wins and losses we experienced this fall.”

tunately lost 6-3, 6-2

Deespite the loss, D’Ascenzo said she felt she challenged her opponent

“The only person I lost to won the

entire tournament and qualified for the National Indoors, and I thought that I put up a good fight against her,” she said

In doubles, junior Dena Tanenbaum and freshman Lizzie Stewart started their tournament with an 8-5 win over two players from Massachusetts, then beat Drexel’s Nicole Pivonka and Clary Rodriguez Cruz

They advanced to the quarterfinals, but the Cornell duo lost 8-5 against Columbia’s Kanika Vaidya and Rima Asatraian

The women ’ s team has only one more event left in its fall season the Harvard Invitational The team is going to try its hardest to end the season on a strong note, according to D’Ascenzo

“Going into this final event we are focusing on having high energy and giving it 100% This is our last tournament of the fall, so we want to end a high note and leave everything we have out on the court, ” she said

D’Ascenzo said that the team looks forward to the spring season with knowledge from the fall meets now under its belt

“Everyone is going to be more motivated for the spring, from both the wins and the losses that we experienced this fall Everyone is very excited to start our spring season, ” she said “Everyone, the freshmen

especially, are coming out of this fall season with more confidence and experience, which will really help us going into the spring season ” The men ’ s team went into Regionals feeling optimistic and hoped to end its fall season on a strong note

Last year at this tournament there was an all-Cornell doubles final between Senior Sam Fleck and partner Sophomore Chris

C.U. Looks to Stop Big Play Against Post

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer

After dropping last Saturday’s

g a m e t o a n u n d e f e a t e d Na v y squad, Cornell sprint football wel-

comes Post this Friday Despite a very strong performance by the offense, Cornell (2-3) was unable

t o t a k e l a s t we e k’s g a m e T h e Midshipmen (5-0) took advantage of mistakes made by Cornell’s

defense and registered a seasonhigh 529 yards of offense

Co-head Coach Bart Guccia said that mistakes like the ones made against Navy have allowed for opponents to break out for long yardage gains all season “ We’ve g i ve n u p b i g p l a y s defensively and haven’t been able to come back and make enough big plays on offense to overcome that,” he said “[Navy] was one of the games just like Army and Penn; in the three losses we ’ ve had, that was basically the story ” In last Saturday’s game, Navy had scoring plays of 85, 59 and 53 yards Sophomore defensive back Ryan Jackson said that Post (2-2) will pose a similar threat offensively

“They really try to go for the big play; they try to throw the ball deep Third and one, they’ll throw it deep, they don’t care, ” he said “That’s our main focus for this week, containing the big play ” Last year, big plays were the story as Cornell lost to Post 21-10 On the opening kickoff, Jay'Len Mahan returned the ball 91 yards for a touchdown to set the tone of the game The other two Post touchdowns were each off plays of over 45 yards This year, Mahan returns as the Eagles’ leading wide receiver and he will likely be a deep vertical threat in Friday’s game

Jackson hopes that the Red will be disciplined on defense enough to contain the speed that Mahan and Post’s other receivers and run-

Vrabel against seniors Jason Luu and Quoc Ngyuen The first team was victorious and won the title

However, this year was not as successful as the team would have liked

“We didn't have a very good showing in singles, Vinti and Bernie led the team in that aspect as they made it to the round of

Tanking Teams: It Just Feels Wrong

Ro o t i n g

o r t h e Buffalo Sabres isn’t always easy In fact, it’s been pretty hard They’ve been around for over 40 ye a r s a n d n e ve r w o n a Stanley Cup, and their most recent trip (in 1999) is only famous for the Sabres losing in game six, in triple overtime, on a goal that shouldn’t have counted “No goal” still persists today

The Sabres featured one of the greatest offensive lines e ve r i n

h e “ Fre n c h Connection,” comprised of three great French-Canadian skaters and led by the Hall of Famer Gilbert Perreault, and could never top the Flyers in the ’70s The Sabres history features maybe the greatest goal ever in Dominik Hasek, who wasn ’ t enough to get Buffalo over the hump in the ’90s and early aughts

t b e expected to win games rather t h a n

m e s A team that doesn’t endanger the goal of having a chance

of the first pick in the draft,

McDavid

Tanking is nothing new As soon as you reward losing in drafts, you ’ ve incentivized being the worst and not the third or fourth worst And it makes sense; you’d rather be the worst for a little while than be mediocre forever Su re , b e i n g t h e a b s o l u t e worst is embarrassing and, well, unpleasant for fans, but it’s worth it if you can get out

Now with owner Terr y Pe g u l a , t h e Sa b re s h a ve shown a penchant for doing s o m e t h i n g t h e y h a ve n ’ t before Tanking That is, to be precise, losing intentionally with the goal of securing the best draft pick possible When I say losing intentionally, I mean fielding a team t h a