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By REBECCA EVEN Sun Senior Writer

Recent downpours may seem like g o o d n e w s f o r It h a c

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i n g drought, but exper ts say the coast may not be clear until the city receives sufficient snowfall

Ithaca has had periodic droughts

s i n c e 1 8 9 3 , w h e n t h e c i t y b e g a n recording data on rainfall However, their frequency has actually decreased since the 1970s, according to Mark Wy s o c k i ,

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Atmospheric Sciences

“So the question then becomes: maybe climate change is doing the opposite and giving us more rainfall and fe wer droughts,” Wysocki said of this trend

In terms of precipitation, Wysocki said the current year is not an abnormality when considered in the broad-

COURTESY OF MARK WYSOCK

The Driest Winter on Record Droughts begin with a lack of snowfall, according to Wysocki He said last winter the driest on record set the stage for water shor tages and was compounded by the fact that tropical storms in the past fe w months have not traveled far enough nor th to hit Ithaca “ The reason for that is snow is covering a large area, then spring comes

C.U. Dedicates Engineering School, Funded by Alumnus

By RUBY YU Sun Staff Writer

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and the snow melts, and all that water goes into the reser voirs and the groundwater, ” Wysocki said “If you don’t have that snowfall, then you ’ re star ting the summer off behind, and summer precipitation is ver y spotty, so some people get it and some people don’t For this par ticular year, the people who have been getting precipitation are the people to the east of us ”

See DROUGHT page 4

Josephine Chu can be reached at jchu@cornellsun com

Stranger Things Writer to Visit Cornell

By NICHOLAS BOGELBURROUGHS Sun Contributor

Alison Tatlock, writer and producer of several popular television shows, including Netflix’s Stranger Things, will be visiting two Cornell classes next week and speaking at the Schwartz Center on Monday

Tatlock, the sole writer of the fifth episode of Stranger Things and coproducer of the first season, said she has been over whelmed by the response to the series, which garnered critical acclaim, earned a Saturday Night Live parody skit and even generated a meme

“I thought it would be good, but there was no way to predict that it would have this kind of splash,” Tatlock said “It’s undeniably cool to have been a part of something that people are so excited about ”

The day after Netflix

released the first season, Tatlock said teaching assistants at her daughter’s school began emailing her, praising the show and telling her they had watched the entire first season in one day

That’s when Tatlock said she knew Stranger Things was a hit Even with experience writing for CBS, ABC and other m a j o r networks, T a t l o c k said this was a diff e r e n t level of buzz

study, an actress on Broadway, to running workshops in juvenile detention centers in Los Angeles and ultimately writing and producing some of the most popular and critically-acclaimed television shows

After moving from New York to Los Angeles in 1999 “for a boy” who later became her husband,

“It just seems like young people are going crazy for this show.”

A l i s o n T a t l o c k

“ I t ’ s p r e t t y intense,” she said of the reaction to Stranger Things

“I’ve never experienced anything even close to it It just seems like young people are going crazy for this show ”

Tatlock’s career has followed an unusual trajectory The writer progressed from working as an under-

Tatlock said she began volunteering in juvenile detention centers for the non-profit Street Poets, Inc , and eventually worked her way up to executive director of the organization Working mostly with

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AEP Seminar: Trends and Patterns in the Triple Burden Of Malnutrition in India: Dr J V Meenakshi

10:30 a m - noon, 401 Warren Hall

LASP: Real Tobacco for Real People: Lacandon Maya Nicotine Trade in the Lowland Frontier by Joel Palka 12:15 p m , 498 Uris Hall

Monday, October 24, 2016

Patty Keller: Photography’s Alchemy

5:15 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Math Undergraduate Reception 4 p m , 532 Malott Hall

Carlo Rotella, Harold Seymour Lecture in Sports History

4:30 - 6:30 p m , 165 McGraw Hall

Professional Directions with Alison Tatlock (Screenwriter / Playwright)

4:30 - 6 p m , B21 Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts

To m o r r o w

Launch of Cornell Center on the Death Penalty Worldwide 4 - 6 p m , 182 Myron Taylor Hall

EAP Speaker Series: Looking Behind the Qin Unification of Writing

4:30 - 6 p m , 374 Rockefeller Hall

Phillip Berke: Resilience and Climate Change Cooperative Project 4:30 p m , Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium

Goldwater Scholarship Session 4:35 - 5:30 p m , 103 Barnes Hall

ORIE Colloquium: Varun Gupta (UChicago) Online Stochastic Bin Packing 4:15 p m , 253 Rhodes Hall

Zhi Liu: Public Space, Value Creation, and Sustainable Municipal Finance: A New Agenda for Chinese Cities 12:20 p m , 115 W Sibley Hall

Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series Paul Higgins 4 - 5 p m , Auditorium, Boyce Thompson Institution

Is Geo-logy the New Umbrella for All Sciences? 5 - 6 p m , Auditorium, Klarman Hall

Hundreds Contribute to ‘Into the Streets’ Day of Service

By ANNE SNABES Sun Senior Writer

Approximately 400 Cornell students volunteered in Ithaca and its surrounding towns this weekend, participating in Into the Streets an annual service event, according to Into the Streets Co-President Raquel Zerbib ’17

A student-organized event, Into the Streets paired Cornellians with 23 local agencies this year to volunteer for causes from food security to sustainability, Zerbib said

The co-president said the event was intended to alter student perception of the Ithaca community and encourage student engagement in their community

rather than maintenance ”

Despite the poor weather, Zerbib said many events were successfully completed, adding that “it was great to see students be willing to go out and volunteer regardless of the weather ”

Zerbib said Into the Streets “scaled back” in 2015, only allowing 500 people to participate, while in past years more than 1,000 people participated She said the group did this in order to “[promote] a lifetime of service rather than a one time volunteer event ”

“It’s very rewarding to get away from campus and just do a whole day of service.”

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“The goal is to connect students with an organization outside of Cornell so that if they want, they can continue volunteering there, and it’s not as intimidating to go out into the local Ithaca community,” she said “Sometimes you get stuck at Cornell, because there’s just so much to do, but there’s also a lot to do outside of Cornell ”

Zerbib noted that 12 of the 25 service projects involving outdoor work, such as cleaning and raking, were cancelled due to the rain

“We had a lot of issues because of the rain, unfortunately,” Zerbib said “Yesterday was not the best of days, and we had a handful of outside projects, since many agencies would prefer to use their limited resources for programming and community outreach

“We realized there was some disconnect between the work students were performing during Into the Streets and their understanding of the agency ’ s mission,” Zerbib said

Zerbid said Into the Streets plans to provide more information about organizations ahead of time and create a newsletter after the event, so students can continue volunteering

Katherine Ring ’18, a student volunteer, said she and a team of volunteers from Alpha Phi Omega a national service fraternity cleaned a kitchen at Pennsylvania Avenue Methodist Church in Pine City, N Y that hosts a food pantry for 400 families twice a month

“It really gave me a greater appreciation for the people who put their time and effort into this every weekend, because it is a huge operation,” she said “I was just really happy that behind the scenes, we were able to make a difference ”

Ring said she worked for four hours with

a group of volunteers who cleaned a cupboard, removed all dining ware and washed and dried kitchen items

“It was really cool because I didn’t know everyone in the group, and we got the chance to get to know each other doing dishes and churning it all out as a team, ” she said Brady Bunkelman ’19, who also volunteered at the food pantry in Pine City and participated in Into the Streets last year, said he enjoyed meeting the other volunteers

“It’s very rewarding to get away from campus and just do a whole day of service,

basically, where you ’ re helping out, and you know you ’ re making an impact in the community,” he said Bunkelman suggested Into the Streets occur once a semester instead of just once a year

“There are tons of organizations out there that need more volunteers,” he said “One day for six hours each semester is not a lot to ask The more we do service is always better ”

Anne Snabes can be reached at asnabes@cornellsun com

C l a s s C o u n c i l H o s t s F i r s t F a l l F e s t

By JACOB WEXLER Sun Contributor

More than 1,000 Cornell students and community members gathered in Klarman Hall for Cornell’s first Fall Fest Saturday, which featured 45 different clubs and organizations from both Cornell and Ithaca

The event was hosted by Cornell’s 2017 Class Council Lauren Lang ’17, Class Council president, said she was “really looking for ward to ” seeing students “celebrate this really great season ”

After learning that “ some people couldn’t even get into Clubfest” in September, Lang said she thought Fall Fest would be a good oppor tunity for students to “ meet ne w organizations on campus ” and find “ something that they love ” She described t h e e ve n t a s a n “ a l t e r n a t i ve C l u b fest ”

“ [ T h e C l a s s C o u n c i l ] s t a r t e d

brainstorming the idea back in the spring, but then it sor t of evolved after clubfest,” Lang said Gabriella Alexandrou ’19, a member of Mayor Potencial an organiz a t

i m p ove r i s h e d c o u n t r i e s a g re e d , saying Fall Fest was “ a great way to see programs ” because clubfest was “packed ”

Heavy rain on Saturday forced the Class Council to move Fall Fest from the Ar ts Quad to Klarman Hall, but Lang said she remained optimistic the event would be a success

“ It i s i n t e re s t i n g , e xc i t i n g , a n d there are a bunch of different things to do,” said Javier Correa ’20, an attendee Because Fall Fest coincided w i t h C o r n e l l ’ s Fi r s t - Ye a r Pa r e n t s ’ Weekend, Correa was one of many students who attended the event with their parents

The decision to hold Fall Fest on

Parents’ Weekend was not intentional, but Lang said the coincidence was helpful for parents who want to “ see what goes on on campus ” The event offered a variety of fall t h e m e d s n a c k s Fo r e x a m p l e , t

honey samples, and Mayor Potencial distributed doughnuts with apple pie filling “ C a

people about conser vative ideology, it’s a good way to reach out to the community,” said Olivia Corn ’17, chair of the Cornell Republicans

L a n g c o n c l u d e d t h a t Fa l l Fe s t went “incredibly well,” adding that she hopes the event can be held outside in the future so “ we could have more per formance groups and more space for organizations ”

Jacob Wexler can be reached at jsw339@cornellsun com

Donation Aims to Bolster Diversity

DEDICATION

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Robert Frederick Smith Tech Scholars Program, which will help high school seniors who require financial aid to earn an undergraduate degree from Cornell Engineering and a technical master ’ s degree from Cornell Tech

“My intention here is to work directly with Cornell Tech and Cornell Engineering to create on-ramps for African Americans and young women to enter tech so that they can help lead us into the fourth industrial revolution,” Smith said Interim President Hunter R Rawlings called the donation a “ very inspiring gift,” saying it “has a vision to increase diversity and appreciation of diversity at Cornell University ” Smith said he hopes his donation which aims to bolster diversity by making a Cornell education more accessible will uphold Ezra Cornell’s mission statement of founding “ an institution where any person can find instruction in any study ”

“Smith has shown his confidence in us, ” said Abraham Stroock, director of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering “This is called keeping Ezra’s promise ” Smith said the vision underlying his donation is based in an ambition to promote economic mobility by removing obstacles to higher education

“We live in an extraordinary time when intellectual property has become the new currency of business, ” Smith said “There is only one goal left to achieve economic mobility, and that is democratizing access to world class education ” Smith studied chemical engineering at Cornell and is the founder, chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners a private equity fund

He is also the founding director and president of the Fund II Foundation a nonprofit organization that works to advance social change and preserve African-American culture, human rights, music education, the environment, entrepreneurship and innovation

Ruby Yu can be reached at ryu@cornellsun com

To alleviate the drought, Wysocki said Ithaca is hoping to see an increase in winter precipitation between Oct 1 and May 31 to supply water However, the 8 22 inches of precipitation that Ithaca needs must occur over a threeweek period or longer to replenish groundwater “ Water just r uns off if we get rain all in one day,” he said “ The ground can ’ t absorb it fast enough We are banking on an increase in our fall precipitation and specifically, we ’ re hoping for more snowfall In the shor t term, for the year, we need those 8 22 inches to reach normal levels, ideally over the next month ”

If this winter is also extremely dr y, the lack of precipitation “would make the impact of the drought larger, as we will star t the year behind in precipitation,” Wysocki added

Chris Bordlemay, Cornell’s water and waste water manager, agreed with Wysocki, saying that Ithaca needs “ a decent snowpack to slowly melt in the spring to fully recharge ”

The city is currently experiencing a “ green drought,” in which “ we have enough rain to keep vegetation alive, but our groundwater sources are still ver y low,” according to Sarah Br ylinski, sustainability communications a n

Sustainability Depar tment

The campus is experiencing a Stage Two drought with stable water levels, Bordlemay said, adding that he does not anticipate that Cornell will progress into Stage 3 Cornell entered Stage Two drought conditions on July 28 and has remained at that level since, according to the University A ‘ W a k e - U p C a l l ’ f o r t h e

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Br ylinski credited the stability of drought conditions to the “tremendous effor ts ” of utilities, facilities and staff across campus, who have made cutbacks and changes to operational water usage Bordlemay said he remains confident in Cornell’s ability to supply water to the campus, even if water levels drop to historic lows

“Cornell is committed to finding solutions in longterm resiliency and sustainability for water supply on campus, ” Br ylinski said

Stranger Things

Countering Br ylinski’s optimism, Bordlemay said the University only managed to achieve its water reduction goal 30 percent less than last year ’ s baseline for the first fe w weeks of the semester Since then, water usage has only decreased by 18 to 20 percent from last year

Br ylinski never theless praised Cornellians’ commitm

Cornell dining’s use of paper plates and the ‘Energy Smackdown: Ever y Drop Counts competition,’ in which residential halls competed to limit their water usage The University has also installed low-flow showerheads in all residence halls and athletic facilities and plans to continue using them after the drought

The biggest water consumers on campus are the Central Energy Plant, the Cornell Heights assisted living facility and the Wilson Synchrotron Laborator y home to the par ticle physics accelerator, during its oper-

“wake-up call for the community” and expressed his hope that it will motivate people to save water even during times of surplus “ We’ve been lazy about water conser vation,” he said Wysocki stressed the impor tance of altering ever yday activities to conser ve water, including using rain barrels to collect rainwater, drinking less tap water and turning off the faucet while br ushing your teeth

Wysocki also suggested that water restrictions be automatically implemented when Ithaca experiences a d

drought

Examining the drought’s effects on the larger Ithaca area, Jessica Spaccio, a climatologist at the Depar tment of Ear th and Atmospheric Sciences and the Nor theast Regional Climate Center, said areas hit hard by the drought have seen serious consequences for agriculture

“Corn was much shor ter than usual some fields had to be used for silage [grass stored to feed livestock over the winter] because the yields were so low,” she said “Hay yields were also down Many dair y farmers grow their own feed and will need to buy feed for their cows ”

ational hours according to Bordlemay

The most successful aspect of Cornell’s water reduction policy so far has been a “reduction in irrigation

according to Bordlemay

Ashley Stappenbeck ’18, a residential advisor in Court-Kay-Bauer Hall, said although she encourages residents to use use the shower timers provided by the University and has tried to educate her students about the drought’s severity, many have trouble remembering to conser ve water

“I don’t know how many of them really took it to hear t, ” she said “Many seemed to think that since the lawn was green, we couldn’t possibly have a drought Additionally, I remember hearing several students at various times mention [the drought] was over after the first time it rained during the school year ”

Wysocki agreed, saying Cornell and Ithaca could be doing more to conser ve water He called the drought a

Many farmers lack irrigation systems because of the rarity of droughts in the nor theast, according to Spaccio Some work together to purchase feed from other areas of the state, but others have sold livestock to compensate for their losses

The government has been offering assistance in the form of low-interest loans, Spaccio added

According to Wysocki, the recent rain has helped to alleviate the drought in Ithaca, but water levels in Fall Creek and Six Mile Creek are still below where they were in Januar y and Febr uar y Also, because the precipitation occurred over such a brief period of time, groundwater levels remain low

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Writer, Producer to Speak at Cornell

Screenwriter describes ‘winding road’ to television work, inspiration for Netfix hit series

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f o r d i g i t a l a n d c a b l e o u t l e t s a g a i n because of the freedom they allow She also gave an insider’s perspective on what it was like to write for Stranger Things

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Allison Arteaga | Guest Room

Enough With Awareness Week : We Need Policy Change

People are afraid of us The reigning belief of the mentally ill is that we are unhinged, unpredictable, unable to be At Cornell, and most colleges, this belief is a bit less so You can ’ t fear what y o u k n o w, s o o u r Me n t a l He a l t h Awareness Week is set to do just that, make people conscious that hey, the mentally ill exist, your mental health is a real thing and that caring for yourself and others is good But it is not enough Wo r k s h o p s o n s e l f - c o m p a s s i o n a r e n ’ t enough, photo campaigns aren ’ t enough, people are already aware that mental illn e s s e x i s t s h e r e , i n 2 0 1 6 No w, i t ’ s become a passive and shallow thing to remember those that have committed suicide, we did all we could, say the professors, a rare case, write the papers, what a tragedy, we all agree for just one day Awareness is a thing of an already graduated class

The general public opinion doesn’t matter in the Cornell context; most students are aware that mental health is a term and a term not to take lightly We have the general groundwork for policy change, because these awareness techniques years ago did their job years ago Now we ’ re beating on a dead horse, continuing these small and easy techniques because they did in fact work and because there’s no harm in being safe Why fix what isn’t broken

Our policies are not catching up to the popular university opinion that the mentally ill are not dangerous, and that stigma is a str uctural barrier to attaining mental health care And this isn’t just Cornell, it’s ever y university Higher-level institutions know, but what do they do? What has Cornell financially done since 2011 for mental health care, what has changed besides a cute hashtag for this year ’ s Mental Health Awareness Week?

Gannett’s been in constr uction since last year, to be completed this spring as a reborn “Cornell Health ” Dr Bullis, the executive director of Gannett encouraged all visitors “ to share their feedback with us and how we can improve our ser vices” during constr uction time So let’s share our list of grievances, since we ’ re apparently approved to do so now

So, policy change for effective treatment is needed Gannett needs better s e r v i c e s , a d m i n i s t r a t i ve s t a f f t h a t a re trained better; Do you want to kill yourself? No? Then why are you calling? doesn’t cut it We need to invest in more psychiatrists and therapists In the current system of untrained receptionists, lack of communication between administration and the team of therapists/psychiatrists, it can take three weeks to even s e e s o m e o n e w h e n y o u ’ r e f e e l i n g depressed, anxious, when your mental illness peaks during its hourly rise and fall of severity I called once, last fall, suicidal, in need to talk to my therapist when the bored woman at the end of the line said she could only give me a slot two weeks from now I didn’t even hear a sorr y I e-mailed my therapist a fe w minutes after the call and she was able to see me an hour later This is not acceptable

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League university that spent $350,000 on bridge barriers to stop students from jumping to their deaths Students should not be put in an endless line to get mental health care We’re not in a time of d e p r e s s i o n , i n a n o rd e r l y q u e u e f o r bread This is the same as physical health care, this needs the same type of urgency and personal aid Str ucturalizing the mental health care

programs should be one of the first steps All the resources available are on different pages, on different main sites, there’s no t r u e m a s t e r l i s t o f ser vices/locations/times Some students don’t even know EARS is an option available right in Willard Straight Hall until their senior year It’s all a waste without proper organization and marketing One page should be created, with numbers and events listed properly, it should be a hub We shouldn’t make people who need help work for it

How about being realistic in the way students receive mental health care? Do you think a student in a crisis or a student unsure whether or not their feelings are severe enough to warrant treatment can wait ten minutes to get an answer on the Gannett line? To go through all those options and holds and transfers just to get someone on the other end that will indifferently reply we’ll see you in two weeks How about a texting ser vice? Calling real people adds anxiety, it adds unnecessar y time, it’s not 2002 anymore How about an app that connects to your student account, knowing your class times to schedule a session, letting you talk to a professional through a screen that allows you to be more raw and open? And with a bigger team of professionals it shouldn’t be a problem to get someone ’ s help on your time and on time Shouldn’t the Student Assembly’s Web Development team ’ s resources go into a project like this? It all seems radical now because no one ’ s tried before, because the Cornell mood on mental health is that raising awareness is enough

We need to lessen the fear and up the familiarity, but this is not a priority And this isn’t done by hour-long workshops once a year on drawing your dreams with crayons and spa nights at Noyes We don’t need to be patronized like elementar y school students We need a constant conversation and that means realizing mental illness is common and an issue Photo campaigns do this to an extent, but in general they’ve become impersonal and now associated with one-time events, for things that happen yearly, something you attend then forget about Plus, the stigma still exists, some people are not in that stage of treatment or recover y where they can show their face and tell their stor y If that’s the only outlet how can we expect to hear the whole stor y quilt How about a column for health, for daily blog posts on students’ well-being, on their mental health and maybe progress A safe space of spor ts, a public journal that can be text or drawings, quotes clipped from their favorite books It can be anonymous, but it’s something that lets the student body know people dealing with their mental health are nearby, they still exist, they’re not viral campaigns of the past Yes, recover y is possible, not all cases are biological, triggers exist, you can get better and treatment can work Students need to know there is not one stor y, there is a gradient of experiences and you can fit anywhere

Even if we lose in advocating for better and more proactive mental health policy, we ’ re promoting better mental health culture We win by tr ying because this kind of awareness is ne w We star t understanding that str ucturally, things can improve We can ’ t allow the apathy to continue

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b e c o m e s a c r u t c h f o r t h e u s e r Pr o b l e m a t i c , p r o b l e m a t i c , p r o b l e m a t i c A p p l y i n g t h e w o r d i s l i k e w a s h i n g y o u r f a v o r i t e p a i r o f j e a n s Pr o b l e m a t i c , p r o b l e m a t i c , p r o b l e m a t i c E a c h w a s h , e a c h u s e , m a k e s t h e m w o r n o u t m o r e a n d m o r e , u n t i l t h e y l o s e t h e i r g u s t o b u t s t i l l c o v e r u p w h a t y o u w a n t t h e m t o A t t h i s p o i n t , y o u w e a r t h e m n o t b e c a u s e t h e y ’ r e f l y a s h e l l , b u t b e c a u s e t h e y ’ r e s t i l l c o m f o r t a b l e ( I w r i t e t h i s a s a l l o f m y j e a n s a r e f a l l i n g a p a r t I h a d t o o r d e r t w o n e w p a i r s o n l i n e I ’ v e w o r n e x e r c i s e p a n t s a s n o r m a l p a n t s a n a b s u r d n u mb e r o f t i m e s i n t h e p a s t t w o w e e k s ) I ’ m a f r a i d o f t h e o v e r u s e o f t h i s s m a l l l i n g u i s t i c r e p e r t o i r e I ’ m a f r a i d , b e c a u s e t h e d e p e nd e n c e o n t h e t e r m i n o l o g y a n d t h e i m m e d i a c y o f i t s u s e f r a y t h e c o n n e c t i o n s b e t w e e n t h e w o r d s a n d t h e i r m e a n i n g s T h a t ’ s t h e t h i n g a b o u t m u s c l e m e m o r y : y o u d o n ’ t h a v e t o t h i n k a b o u t i t I r e l y o n p a t t e r n s o f l a n g u a g e j u s t a s m u c h a s t h e n e x t g u y ( p r o v i d e d t h a t t h e n e x t g u y r e l i e s o n t h e s e p a t t e r n s a l o t ) , w h i c h i s p r o b a b l y s o m e t h i n g a r e a d e r c a n g a u g e j u s t f r o m r e a d i n g t h i s c o l u m n I f

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Jacqueline Groskaufmanis | The Dissent

he 24-hour news cycle during an election is its own type of arms race: media outlets all want the story, they want the story first and they need to match the information of their competitors in order to win over an evolving readership Journalism has always been motivated by this kind of competition However, now that the news isn’t always punctuated by a print cycle, and is made boundless by the Internet, the pace has been accelerated and certain considerations are becoming sloppy Now add the fact that new documents, WikiLeaks, have been added into the category of “what news competitors have in their arsenal” and the information arms race is brought to a level that is not only c o m p e t itive, but p o t e n t i a l l y unethical

T h e media matters a lot in any election Some people criticize this and some people celebrate it, but it has been proven again and again to be true The media dictates what we pay attention to, and sets the tone in which we pay attention Lately, the media has been engaging in a relatively new kind of reporting, turning to thousands of WikiLeaks emails have been hacked, stolen, sifted through and published The extraction of these e-mails was sketchy and most likely illegal, and increasing CIA evidence implies that Russia hacked and leaked the emails in order to influence our presidential election And now it’s online for anyone to see, with the media acting as the most efficient agent of that information The media’s secondhand publication of this stolen information is legally sound, morally dubious and difficult to question, because we ’ re all too distracted reading it

hacked into someone else’s computer and published their stolen information, they would not only be fired, but most likely arrested and prosecuted The only difference here is that there is a middleman doing the hacking However, that’s hardly redeeming considering the fact that the middleman is international hackers with ulterior motives regarding our election In this situation, the middleman doesn’t absolve a publication of responsibility, but instead just complicates things more This is something new that we should think about, even if we still come to the conclusion that WikiLeaks’s findings are salient enough to to continue to publish and read

As a reader, we aren’t always considering or understanding the decisions that we make either, in part because we expect reputable sources to make some of these decisions for us. When all news publications are relaying the information, the practice is normalized.

I spoke to a reporter who said that, if one of his colleagues

The decision to publish WikiLeaks is difficult to look at ethically, because it’s the responsibility of the media to report newsworthy findings This isn’t a moral condemnation of the media outlets, but an appeal for us all to zoom out and look at the new trends we are setting, and the way those trends are narrowing the realm of what we are allowed, as American citizens, to keep private We are setting a precedent, both for how we allow foreign powers to intervene in our election, and for how we use the election to justify the intrusion of privacy and the idea that nothing not emails, pictures, campaign strategies or private conversations is sacred As a publication, you don’t necessarily have time to consider the ethical pluses and minuses of relaying Russia’s information dump to your readers If the Washington Post has already done it, and your other competi-

tors have already done it, of course you ’ re going to hop on the train; it makes sense competitively, and economically As a reader, we aren ’ t always considering or understanding the decisions that we make either, in part because we expect reputable sources to make some of these decisions for us When all news publications are relaying the information, the practice is normalized I don’t question CNN when I see that they’re running a headline on Podesta’s emails, because it’s news When CNN runs transcript from a sketchy speech that Hillar y gave, their editorial authority indicates to me, and other viewers, that it is relevant, and fair to publish But this isn’t n e c e s s a r i l y correct T h i s m i g h t come off as overly sympathetic to those who engage in w r o n g d oing, and get caught by WikiLeaks It’s tempting to think, ‘if politicians don’t want private information to be made public, they shouldn’t live private lives that they need to keep secret in the first place ’ And this is a good point But think about your own phone, and whether or not this would work for you Someday, some of you might decide to run for office And if you do, in a high profile election, you may be subject to the same journalistic standards that you and the media outlets that dispense news to you are setting right now, as I write this That’s not something to agree with or disagree with; its simply something to think about Even if we as readers collectively decide we ’ re okay with a narrowed private sphere, we need to go off autopilot long enough think about it

Monday, October 24 4:00 p m G01 Uris Hall

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“The Emotional Feelings of Other (Animal) Brains: From Cross-Species Neuro-Affective Foundations to Novel Psychiatric Therapeutics”

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Seoul Searching:

Seoul Searching (directed by Benson Lee) starts in black and white, old reels and footage of Korea as a narrator gives a quick historical background to give us the setting for the film After a devastating war, many Koreans left the peninsula in search of a better life, bringing their young children to America and Europe As so often happens in immigrant stories, the children inevitably experienced a distinct loss of heritage and understanding of Korean culture In an attempt to mitigate this, the South Korean government implemented a program during the ’80s to bring children of immigrants to Korea for a summer camp to learn about their Korean heritage This movie revolves around a set of these kids Sid ( Justin Chon), Klaus (Teo Yoo), Sergio (Esteban Ahn), Grace ( Jessika Van), Kris (Rosalina Leigh) to name a few going to this camp

After the historical introduction, my gut instinct was to cringe From the poster, you can tell this movie is meant to be to some extent a comedy with bright colors, flashy outfits and silly poses But the movie as a whole relied heavily on stereotypes to create the basis for the characters it was almost hard to watch Sergio’s stereotyped love for parties and women, Claus’s German orderliness or Sid’s ’80s American obsession with the punk rock The outfits of the characters feel like costumes, the lines are predictable and we ’ re slammed with corny clichés of teenagers and cultures

I thought that perhaps my reaction was because I went into the film thinking that it would be exploring the Korean immigrant story As a Korean immigrant, that excited me But the movie mostly did something else; though touching a bit on

BY EMILY FOURNIER Sun Staff Writer

T h e a p t l y - n a m e d m u s i c a l Pre c i o u s Nonsense is adver tised as a simple diversion from the stress of ever yday life, and it delivers Playwright and ar tistic director Rachel Lamper t ’ s production is fun and lighthear ted, ser ving as pure enter tainment The show is not ne w to the Kitchen Theatre; Lamper t ’ s sister, Sara Lamper t Hoover, directs as she did in the original p r o d u c t i o n i n 2 0 0 4 a n d E r i c B r o o k s reprises his role as RDC Car ter Lamper t spoke to the audience before the show began on opening night and explained that the production was chosen to r un at this time to distract theatre-goers from the stress of world events like the upcoming election, and it cer tainly does its job

The musical is set in the 1930s and follows the lives of members of a touring thea t r e c o m p a n y, t h e C a r t e r Fa m i l y S a v o y a rd s , d e d i c a t e d t o s h a r i n g s o n g s from the comedic operas of Gilber t and Sullivan Many of the songs are adaptations of the originals, and all are sung by the cast and accompanied by the company ’ s pianist, Herbie ( Thomas Conroy, who is also the music director) The set is simple and ser ves the plot without distracting f ro m i t A n g e l i n a ( Lyd i a Ga s t o n ) a n d RDC Car ter (Eric Brooks) are the heads of the Car ter Family Savoyards and clearly have a flair for the dramatic, constantly singing to each other and making grand s p e e c h e s w h e n e ve r p o s s i b l e T h e i r s o n Frederic (Coleman Hemsath) hopes to leave the company on his upcoming 25th bir thday, but his parents want him to stay and take over with his childhood friend Josephine ( Jillian Gottlieb), the archetypal ingénue, so they can soon retire Josephine and Frederic are aware that Frederic’s par-

“being Korean” and “being an immigrant,” Seoul Searching was more of a feel-good bonding story of teens in summer camp filled with cheap laughs and silly scenarios The extensive use of clichés and stereotypes were a throwback to ’80s film in general an homage to John Hughes films But the clichés made the Seoul Searching feel inauthentic The stereotypes and clichés so defined the characters that it was hard see any real substance in them; in a way, it felt like I was watching caricatures of people

And unfortunately, it was at the expense of other groups What’s interesting about the stereotyping in Seoul Searching is that the use stereotypes are mostly reversed Instead of falling onto the typical Asian stereotype Hollywood so loves, Seoul Searching has Asian actors playing characters that are stereotypes of Americans, Germans, Mexicans and so on In that sense, the movie tried to construct diverse range of actual characters that had very different lives and experiences in the new countries they had to adjust to But the gung-ho group of teens also detracted from the movie, making it go in too many different directions, which ultimately made the film seem more insubstantial

and stereotypes of the characters overall didn’t appeal to me, I appreciated the diverse roles and that many of the actors had understandings of the stereotypes their characters portrayed (for example, Esteban Ahn who played Sergio Kim, a student from Mexico, was raised in Gran Canaria, Canary Islands of Spain; Teo Yoo who played Klaus Kim, a student from Germany, was born in Cologne, Germany) Ultimately, the movie relied too heavily on overused tropes and had too many corny scenes to give a real sense of authenticity the histrionics made the movie feel ridiculous at times But it showed a diverse cast in new roles and in the in-between, I thought I saw glimpses of that story I wanted to expect In small moments, sentiments that are universal for immigrants were expressed: the understanding of how hard it is to drop everything and start a new life, the very raw loss of culture and the nature of being Asian in different cultures

What was great is that the movie had real Asian people playing Asian characters In a time in which we ’ re still being inundated with whitewashing controversies and limited roles for non-white actors, it was refreshing to see an all-Asian cast playing new roles and types of characters While the clichés

ents want them to marr y, but realize that neither is romantically interested in the other Both thus become free to pursue other people, which naturally results in chaos, including a song that ends in a bizarre make-out scene between the two

T h e C a r t e r Fa m i l y Savoyards originally intend to per form simply a series of songs by Gilber t and Sullivan but, due to the orders of the man paying for the play, they are required at the last minute to produce the full-length show The Pirates of Penzance instead T h i s c h a n g e r e q u i r e s Pe t e (Patrick Halley), the stage manager and cynical bachelor, to conquer his stage fright and par ticipate in the show and to eventually confess his feelings for Josephine It also introduces Samuel ( Weston Allen Kemp), a n a s p i r i n

r m e r w h o immediately falls in love with Jo s e p h i n e ,

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Seoul Searching will be shown at Cornell Cinema on the evening of Monday, October 24

Catherine Hwang is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at shwang@cornell edu

onstage, but convincingly plays someone who clearly is not Pete, playing the Pirate King, constantly str uggles with his high-

with Frederic so she can be with him Frederic falls for her too, even before realizing that that “Mack” is really Mabel The romantic feelings among the cast become apparent in the production; in many ways, the events of The Pirates of Penzance mirrors the actions of the characters in Precious Nonsense, and the goings-on backstage begin to blur with the plot of the show Despite the many entanglements, the musical has a happy ending for all but one, who is comfor ted while comically being dragged away from the

stage, and his ner vousness before his first

down the house with an upbeat song announcing that he is the Pirate King Halley and Gottlieb, who plays Josephine, definitely deliver the most comedic per formances of the musical Gottlieb brings Josephine to life with silly quips and giggles at ever y turn, and makes the conceited

character likeable Mabel’s situation adds to the hilarity, par ticularly when she is forced to keep her fake mustache while she and the male actors play women, which of course is not exactly playing for her Precious Nonsense star ts out slow and is not the kind of musical that appeals to those who don’t love musicals, as it fits just about ever y stereotype about musicals Half the characters fall in love at first sight, t h e y c o n s t a n t l y b r e a k i n t o song, and the actors gesture flamboyantly with ever y dramatic line However, it is also a ver y self-aware production and the characters poke fun at their own problems For those who like traditional musicals and have a good sense of humor, the show is simply fun and charming The entire cast is

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alienate some younger theatregoers were it not for the show’s quirky humor, which left audience members, including myself, chuckling through the reception after the show

Emily Fournier is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at ejf225@cornell edu

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

After surviving attempts to destroy all copies of this film due to copyright infringement (they never got the rights to the material), this adaptation of Stoker’s Dracula (1897) was brought before a packed audience in Sage Chapel For those who don’t know, Nosferatu is a 1922 silent, expressionist, German film This means lots of beautiful stylized acting may be in store, which is my favorite part of any silent film Since silent films can only use intertitles for dialogue, the plot has to be conveyed via the characters’ actions The actors are over the top in their gestures, and their eyes bulge farther than I think should be physically possible However, the stylized acting here is downplayed to make the audience take the film more seriously So, unfortunately, it isn’t as funny as I thought it might be But, what do you expect from one of the most influential horror films of all time? The question I wanted to explore was whether Nosferatu really is as flawless as everyone believes it to be

In any silent film, the only sound is the accompanying soundtrack That night, we had the pleasure of live accompaniment from the orchestra, the Silent Czars And, I don’t know if it was just because I couldn’t see them, but I kept forgetting the music was live It was dramatic, on point with what was on screen down to characters’ gestures and really created a creepy atmosphere One of the Silent Czars even added an intro to the piece by dressing up in period costume, trying to scare the audience before the film started It was creative but confusing

The film lives up to its name in atmosphere For a film made in 1922, it builds suspense very well through the ominous shadows (chiaroscuro lighting for you film junkies), long takes and the eerie music The best scenes are when Count Orlok (a k a Nosferatu) tries to kill his victims by sucking their blood I just wish there were more scenes like this Throughout the entire film, you only see Nosferatu attack four times and control people with his shadow once The other times, we just see the result of his attacks and the dead So, despite the atmosphere building in intensity and eeriness, there’s not that much of a payoff You could argue less is more, but scenes when we don’t see Nosferatu ranged from odd to confusing

The characters are pretty typical to what you would find in this genre today: the unspeakable evil (Nosferatu), the minion (Knock), the fair maiden (Ellen), the dashing hero (Hutter) and others Nosferatu is creepy, and his costume and makeup design really add to the overall effect I particularly like the addition of his long nails, which is a pretty defining feature His limitless telekinetic powers make me wonder why it takes so long for him to kill everyone and attack Ellen What is he waiting for? Knock, Hutter’s boss and scapegoat for the town ’ s killings, is controlled by Nosferatu He is just a crazy character and is so much fun Even his eyebrows take on a life of their own I wish he does more than just send Hutter to Nosferatu,

but that might make the audience not take the film seriously I guess I just wanted more over the top

The actress playing Ellen isn’t fantastic, but I can ’ t say I’ve seen silent films where the acting is realistic And, some artistic liberties are definitely taken with the portrayal of characters There is a very bizarre scene where she somehow telepathically stops Nosferatu from attacking Hutter Her “ powers ” don’t come into play anywhere else, so I’m not sure how to interpret that Also, she is Hutter’s wife, so how is she a fair maiden? I mean, I don’t know the inner workings of their marriage, but I doubt that she’s a maiden I guess Nosferatu goes after her because he sees her in a picture Hutter has, but it’s weird that she just happens to be the one that could somehow distract Nosferatu and kill him And, she doesn’t do anything to really distract him more than other people, so it just seems like Nosferatu is stupid for not getting back to his house in time

Hutter ranges from fun and enjoyable to just dopey He is a relatable character but doesn’t run when he figures out Nosferatu is a vampire And, to follow Nosferatu, he jumps out of a tall window instead of using the stairs, which causes him to be taken to a hospital Hutter never makes the connection, or tells anyone, that the vampire is in their town So, people die because he doesn’t take action

The story starts with Knock sending Hutter to Count Orlok in “the land of phantoms” to offer him a house across from Hutter’s I don’t know if the phantoms are a metaphor or are real because the world seems like ours, which is why Nosferatu adds conflict to our normal world Hutter even laughs at the idea that a creature like Nosferatu could exist But, when Hutter goes to a tavern in Transylvania, they tell him to spend the night to take cover from the werewolves, something apparently common in the area And, I don’t really know how worldly people were in the 1920s, but instead of having someone in a silly costume, there are shots of a hyena since, I guess, it was a bizarre creature to the period’s audience I speculate that the filmmakers thought it would be taken more seriously, but all I thought was “ poor hyena ” I hope it is equity So, we are led to believe that the supernatural exists, but once people start dying from a bite in the neck, everyone assumes plague first Then, they quite randomly decide that Knock is a vampire since he kills a guard There are a couple of other plot holes that also rear their ugly heads The townspeople are scared to go to Count Orlok s castle at first but regularly go there other times Nosferatu also doesn’t

drink all of Hutter’s blood the first chance he has, and, to be honest, he doesn’t really need to sign the deed for the house in Hutter’s town since he goes there without anyone knowing anyway So, why doesn’t he go there before? And, why does he take a ship to the town if he easily moves himself across land? Hutter gets there just as fast on foot as he does in water (a problem that even the film addresses in that they don’t know how it is possible) As confusing as these flaws are, and as easily swayed the townspeople are, it doesn’t distract from the enjoyment of the picture

The effects for the time are really good Despite being a black and white film, this version, still from 1922, includes filters that help determine the time of day: piss yellow for a lit space, blue for night (yet people can still see) and white or pink for early morning Some of the frames are missing in time, so some scenes are choppy, including the stop motion However, you can really appreciate what they were able to accomplish almost 100 years ago, especially when the doors and other objects flawlessly move on their own, thus giving a “ not of this world” appearance For example, the footage of the horse and carriage that carry Hutter to Nosferatu’s castle is sped up to give the carriage unnatural speed The idea is good, but it does look a little silly It really makes you wonder what effects we use today are going to be dated 100 years from now It was shot on location, which is a better choice than what some filmmakers do today in only using CGI Practical effects look real guys, not just fake CGI sets

My biggest problem, other than Hutter being a bit of an idiot, is the intertitles There is a lot of reading, even for a silent film, to a point where we had to reread titles we had already read I know this is a famous film, but I think my screenplay professor would faint at the amount of reading the audience had to do

In the end, the film still really holds up It’s just not as flawless as people make it out to be The slow moving atmosphere makes the intense scenes with Nosferatu all the more effective and enjoyable And, Nosferatu is a quintessential villain He is all knowing, telepathic, telekinetic, and is king of the night I just wish a creature that powerful would be harder to kill and survive beyond the film But, I did enjoy the development in Ellen’s character in her willingness to sacrifice herself to kill Nosferatu I just yearned for Hutter to grow a pair and take a stand as well Anyway, I gotta grab another bandaid I woke up this morning with two equally spaced holes around my neck Stupid mosquitoes

Trip Hastings is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Scinces He can be reached at gh357@cornell edu

vs. Poetry: The Problem With Names

BY TUSHAR THOMAS Sun Contributor

The Haunt hosted Andrea Gibson and Sarah Kay this past Sunday I had never before attended a slam poetry performance, but I had studied poetry, and my friend had an extra ticket, so I decided to go As an introduction, the event served well The poems entertained, and the crowd was vibrant

I’ll admit, before the event, I wasn ’ t sure how much I would enjoy it The only previous exposure I had had to slam poetry was from 22 Jump Street, in which, Jonah Hill’s character improvises a slam poem in one scene His piece is barely coherent, if at all, and riddled with ridiculously bad puns In the movie’s depiction of it, slam poetry came across as a modern form of sophistry But my hesitation stemmed from broader concerns

To be honest, I’m a little bit of a snob at least when it comes to literature The poetry that I’ve studied in English classes is rich with aesthetic formalisms The great American poet Marianne Moore, for example, fits her stanzas into specific (though unconventional) rhythmic patterns, and her line-breaks are deftly placed on the page to add to the mean-

ings of the poems I was afraid that slam poetry would lack aesthetic qualities like these, and therefore, I wouldn’t be able to enjoy it as much I was half right The aesthetic techniques employed by Sarah Kay and Andrea Gibson weren ’ t as poetically subtle as those employed by Marianne Moore

But what surprised me was that that didn’t stop me from enjoying the performance

Sarah Kay took the stage first, and she won me over immediately If you ’ ve ever heard T S Eliot’s rendition of “ The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock,” you know that even the greatest of poets aren ’ t always the best performers But Kay s performance was on point Moreover, it was a vital part of her poetry Her voice was resonant She used charming hand gestures that accompanied her topics She mysteriously winked once in a while as if to acknowledge some secret bond with a lucky audience member Her way of speaking reminded me of a kindergarten teacher’s endearing way of stor ytelling, which was apt because much of her poetry dealt with childhood innocence I would go so far as to say that her poetry was closer to storytelling than poetry The subtlety and skill in her craft lay in how she paced

her narratives and acted those narratives out rather than in profound wordplay But, at least in contemporary written poetry, profound wordplay seems to be a definitive aspect, so can we call her work poetry? And herein lies the key to understanding why I enjoyed her performance: it struck me as something other than poetry Thus, because it wasn ’ t poetry, it didn’t have to work on the same level as poetry And yet, I’m finding it difficult to identify where exactly to draw that line between storytelling and poetry Andrea Gibson complicates the issue further because they broke from storytelling, but still, their poems were often structured around it For example, in “Boomerang Valentine,” they began as if they were about to tell a story Then, about a minute into the poem, they abandoned the stor y and star ted using images and metaphors In these moments, their poems began to appear more and more like Moore’s poems, which use images and metaphors with skillful grace Gibson’s poetry never quite reached Moore’s poetry though That’s because it lacked a certain degree of composition Gibson jumped from image to image and topic to topic inconsistently Their verses

end up sounding like enjoyable rants It’s almost as if they were sacrificing storytelling in favor of poeticism, and as a result, they were losing the structure provided by a pure story or a pure poem It’s tempting for me to portray this dynamic as an instance of “real poetry ” developing out of mere performance art But that would mean that complex, academic poetry is inherently superior to simpler, oral poetry If that was the case, I wouldn ’ t have enjoyed Gibson’s performance, and I did Again, the resolution of this issue seems to be that this is an intersection of two categories, both of which work on separate but equally valid levels

And that leads me back to the ever-present question of: where do these categories diverge? I suspect that there aren ’ t really any strict categories, and instead there are whole networks of associations and spectrums Still, the categories are useful in some situations For example, they allow me to say things like: if I had to choose between slam poetry and academic poetry, I would choose academic poetry Fortunately, I don’t have to choose

Tushar Thomas is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at tt465@cornell edu

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Cornell struggled to put together a single strong offensive possession in the first half Banks’ passes were wobbly and off-the-mark, and it seemed like whenever his passes were thrown well, the ball slipped out of the hands of Cornell receivers

The Bears started the third quarter where they left off at the end of the first half Quarterback T J Linta found Jette for his second touchdown of the day on an 18-yard strike

Jette who torched Cornell for 157 receiving yards when the teams last met, a 44-24 Brown victory finished with 196 total yards and three touchdowns

“Jette in the open field is tough,” Archer said “He’s a really good athlete and when you get him you have to put him down You can ’ t miss a tackle in open field space ”

As the rain subsided and the field began to dry, Cornell responded to the Brown touchdown with a score of its own Banks orchestrated his best drive of the day with five straight passes and 57 passing yards The sophomore capped off the drive with a nine-yard pass to senior captain and tight end Matt Sullivan

Asked what caused Banks’ impressive turnaround in the second half, Archer said bluntly, “The balls weren ’ t waterlogged, so he was able to throw them ”

Several drives later, junior linebacker Kurt Frimel forced a fumble and returned the ball 71 yards to put the offense in ideal position to start the ensuing drive Replays appeared to show that Frimel’s knee may have been down when he scooped up the loose ball, but, since Ivy League does not offer referees an option to review plays, the call on the field stood

On the ensuing drive, a passer interference penalty on the Bears extended Cornell drive and allowed Banks to find senior receiver Ben Rogers in the endzone and tie the game at 14

Later, as the fourth quarter ticked away and as the Bears attempted to score the go-ahead touchdown, Linta looked downfield for a Brown receiver, but junior safety Nick Gesualdi swooped in and muscled his way for an interception his fifth in as many games

These turnovers come a week after a five-turnover performance by the Red’s defense against Sacred Heart In

“It hurts right now, but tomorrow when the sun comes up it’ll be time to move on and keep pressing this thing forward.”

that game, too, defensive takeaways gave a struggling offense prime opportunities to capitalize

“They really take great pride in taking the football away, which is great to see, ” Archer said of his defense which he as extolled all season “They play a tenacious brand of football ”

Cornell, however, was unable to capitalize on the interception and Fraser came on to punt the ball away

After a pair of strong stops that kept the Bears backed up at their 10-yard line, a pass interference call on junior cornerback Jelani King gifted Brown another chance on the drive The Bears marched down the field, but stalled out on Cornell’s 21-yard line

The Bears pulled their original starting kicker after he

missed two field goals in the first quarter and called upon freshman Jack Hall to kick the field goal The 38-yard attempt was Hall’s first ever at the collegiate level, and the freshman’s kick was short, sending the game into overtime

Cornell started with the ball in the first extra period In five plays, Banks connected with senior receiver Marshall Deutz for a touchdown to put the Red ahead Deutz ended the day as the team ’ s leading receiver, hauling in seven balls for 70 yards

Brown sent the game into a second overtime period thanks to a two-yard pass from Linta to a wide-open Jette

The Bears started with the ball in the second overtime and Johnny Pena who had four touchdowns last year against Cornell scored, putting the Red on the brink of a loss for a third straight game

Following the Bears’ score, Cornell regained the ball and Banks’ fourth-down run kept the team alive, setting the Red up with a new set of downs After three incomplete passes, Cornell needed to reach the five-yard line for the first down, but an eight-yard pickup by Deutz was not enough

The game ended, and so did Cornell’s chance at snapping its losing streak against its Providence rival

With four games remaining each of them in-conference games Archer continues to have faith in his team

According to the head coach, the losses sting, but they still represent a vast improvement of the past few seasons

“It hurts right now, ” Archer said, “but tomorrow when the sun comes up it’ll be time to move on and keep pressing this thing forward ”

H e a d C o a c h D a v i d A r c h e r ’ 0 5 Zach Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun com Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com

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Sprint Notches First Home Win, Improves to 2-3

Heading into fnal two games against Penn, Franklin Pierce, team eager to achieve season goals

By BENNETT GROSS Sun Staff Writer

After two consecutive losses and a bye week, Cornell sprint football has been treating its final three games as a completely new season, according to Co-Head Coach Bart Guccia

Despite poor weather, the Red (2-3) was able to win its first home game of the season against Post (0-5), by a final score of 27-13

“The rain was not too bad on the artificial turf,” Guccia said of the conditions “The rain and wind were intermittent, so we were able to keep the balls dry, and ultimately it didn’t affect us too much ”

The only fluid offense in the opening half came when senior quarterback Robert Pannullo was able to manufacture a methodical scoring drive for the Red with under a minute remaining before halftime and rushed the ball in for the score Freshman kicker Ben Finkelstein missed the point after, and so the Red took a 6-0 lead into halftime

The Red was able to continue its success in the second half, scoring on its first possession of the third quarter, courtesy of Pannullo’s second rushing touchdown

“Post is a really good team, and we were feeling them out in the first half,” Pannullo said “We turned the ball over twice, which slowed us down a bit, but once we cleaned that up, we came out strong in the second half, and finished some drives ”

Cornell’s special teams unit blocked a Post punt on the next series, and the Red recovered the ball on the Eagles’ 40yard line Following the block, Cornell was able to punch it into the end zone on its third consecutive drive, with a 14yard rush by freshman Will Griffen

Post finally got on the board, with 12 minutes remaining in the game, when quarterback Sayvon Willis found receiver Rocco Guerrera for a 31-yard touchdown pass

“It was a big game for us to win because we were coming off of two straight losses and had a bye week to get ourselves right,” Seeley said

Pannullo finished the contest with 88 passing yards and one touchdown through the air, to go along with 120 rushing yards and two scores on the ground

“Our defense played very well in this game. It was probably the best that they had played all season.”

However, the Red would not let the Eagles back into the game, scoring on its very next possession Pannullo hit junior wide receiver Ryman Seeley for Cornell’s first passing touchdown of the night

Post would tack on another touchdown in the final seconds of the game against the Red’s substitute defensive unit, but Cornell was the team to walk away victorious

“It all started up front with the offensive line,” Pannullo said “[Senior lineman] Caleb Minsky has been the leader for that group throughout the season Anytime your team runs for over 200 yards, you have to chalk it up to a dominant offensive line; they did a great job this week, and we will need them next week against Penn ”

Griffen ended with 60 rushing yards and a touchdown, while both Seeley and Griffen each had 39 yards receiving “We were able to run the ball pretty well against them and that opened up our passing game a little bit in the sec-

ond half,” Seeley said

The Cornell defense came up huge, allowing only 229 yards passing and negative five rushing yards on 20 attempts

“The defense played a great game and did not allow them to move the ball very much,” Seeley said Defensive backs, like senior Ryan Jackson and freshman Marcus Weeks, anchored the defense for the Red, with seven tackles coming for Jackson and six for Weeks Even Pannullo had four tackles of his own

“Our defense played very well in this game, ” Guccia added “It was probably the best that they had played all season ”

Next week, the men will travel to Philadelphia to take on first place Penn on Friday at Franklin Field With a win, Penn would clinch a CSFL crown

“This was the first step in our goal to win the final three games of the year, ” Guccia said “Now we are looking to win the final two games to complete that goal ”

Stratford Michael can be reached at wonderboy@cornellsun com

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After starting 3-0, Red football has dropped three straight games

By ZACH SILVER and

Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sports Editor

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Women Sweep Mercyhurst for First Time to Open Season

By JAMIL RAHMAN Sun Staff Writer

Opening the season at Lynah this past weekend, the Cornell women ’ s hockey team started its season off strong with a series sweep against Mercyhurst the Red’s first sweep of the Laker in program history

The Red won Friday’s season opener 3-1 scoring all three goals after falling behind in a game that demonstrated the strength of the team ’ s freshmen The tying and winning goals came off the sticks of freshmen for ward Valerie Audet and defenseman Jaime Bourbonnais, respectively

Eight minutes in, Mercyhurst earned a power play and was able to score on the

man-advantage, grabbing the early lead Less than two minutes later, Audet was able to level the game

“The play started by a great individual play by [sophomore forward] Lenka Serdar who blocked a shot from the point,” Audet said “The puck ended up bouncing out into the neutral zone behind the two opposing team ' s defensemen I managed to be the first one on the puck, leading me to a breakaway [and] was able to score by dekeing the goalie ”

The game was tied 1-1 at the halfway point, until Audet’s classmate, Bourbonnais, put the Red ahead

“[Sophomore forward] Pippy Gerace was carrying the puck through the slot so I

decided to sneak in behind her and she gave me an awesome drop pass, ” Bourbonnais said “The goalie was kind of screened so I just shot it on net and luckily it found its way through ” Bourbonnais said the best part of her first career goal was the energy that it brought to the team

“ To see ever ybody on the bench cheering and realizing how pumped up ever yone was after we scored was such an indescribable feeling,” she said “I love my team and love how much energy we bring to one another ”

compete for positions right away, which carried over into the first two games, ” Derraugh said “They’ve done a great job for us in the first two games, and we ’ re going to need them tremendously as the season continues We have seven freshmen, which is almost half of the team, so I’m very happy to see what they did ”

“I liked the energy, the balance, and the strong play at all positions, but [not] the discipline.”

While Bourbonnais’ goal ended up being the game-winner, junior Erin O’Connor added her own about halfway through the third period, sealing the game at 3-1

Like Friday, Saturday’s game also came with a strong showing by freshmen This time Kristin O’Neill notched her first and second career goals, to lead the Red to a 2-1 victory

O’Neill’s first goal came after an assist by classmate Bourbonnais in the first period the first assist of her career and O’Neil’s scored a second goal in the third period, off an assist by senior Brianna Veerman

Head Coach Doug Derraugh said he was impressed with the freshmen’s performances this weekend, saying he will grow more confident in them as the season continues

“ When [the freshmen] arrived, they came in very good shape and were ready to

Despite the strong start, Derraugh pointed out that the team still has areas to work on as the season progresses Most notably, discipline and persistent play stick out to the coach as elements to focus on

“I liked the energy, the balance, and the strong play at all positions, but I didn’t like the discipline,” Derraugh said “We were taking too many penalties, which is going to be troublesome if it continues We need to work on consistency ”

Nevertheless, this weekend’s performance is a confidence booster for the team moving forward to ECAC play next weekend

“It’s really important with a young team to get off to a strong start, ” Derraugh said “It’s not important to necessarily win both games, but rather to show that you ’ ve done a good job in your preparation, that you can compete at this level, and that we can rely on young players at this level The team showed that this weekend, and it’s important for the rest of the year ”