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Rawlings: Union Would ‘Weaken’ Grad Education

Cornell Graduate Students United says president misrepresents group’s objectives, affliates

By SUN STAFF

Interim President Hunter Rawlings revealed his posture on graduate student unionization Thursday, saying he believes representation by a collective labor union could undermine shared governance and individualized learning, and so is “ not in the best interests of graduate education at Cornell ”

Rawling’s announcement on unionization comes months after the National Labor Relation Board’s August decision that graduate students are characterized as workers, in addition to students, opening the door for labor movements at private universities across the country

Cornell Graduate Students United is currently gathering signatures from graduate students to authorize an election, according to Michaela Brangan grad, an administrative liai-

son for CGSU She said that, under the National Labor Relations Act, the organization needs approval from 30 percent of graduate students in order to vote on unionization

“I believe we are better able to work through differences of opinion in a collegial atmosphere ” H u n t e r R a w l i n g s

In a statement emailed to students, Rawlings voiced concern that the Cornell Graduate Student Union would change the working relationship between faculty and graduate students by creating an artificial divide between workers

Let them eat cake | Cornell dining workers say their wages are significantly lower than those of comparable positions at all other Ivy Leagues

Dining Staff: Wages Are Low, Strikes Forbidden

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Harvard dining hall workers went on strike almost a month ago, protesting problems of low pay, inconsistent employment during academic breaks and limited ability to better their working conditions Cornell dining employees claim that they earn even less Workers at Harvard staged a walkout following failed negotiations between the university and Unite Here Local 26, the union representing employees The union’s demands included a salary increase to $35,000 a year and a freeze on out of pocket health expenses Harvard acquiesced to both of these requests, ending the strike on Wednesday

Cornell dining workers interviewed by The Sun all of whom asked not to be named out of concern for their jobs expressed similar grievances, saying their average wages fall well below the salary of comparable positions at all other Ivy League schools But Cornell workers are loath to walk because they say they were warned that such a demonstration would lead to their dismissal

One worker detailed how Cornell employees were explicitly told not to stage a walkout during collective bargaining because it would be considered an unsanctioned union walkout They were informed that they would face dismissal by the University if they disobeyed these instructions

and “ management ”

The interim president said the nature of a union would interfere with the “flexibility, individuality and inventiveness ” of graduate education, making students responsible to a larger collective labor group, rather than able to cater their educational experiences individually

Rawlings also expressed doubts about the ability of the American Federation of Teachers and New York State United Teachers two unions affiliated with CGSU to adequately represent students’ interests in dealing with the administration

In contrast, he cited the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly and the General Committee of the Graduate School as examples of bodies that endow graduate

Trustees Vote to Rename Plantations

By NICHOLAS BOGEL-BURROUGHS Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Board of Trustees voted unanimously to change the name of the Cornell Plantations to Cornell Botanic Gardens Friday, after 72 years under the former title

The name change follows a more than twoyears-long initiative by Christopher Dunn, the Elizabeth Newman Wilds director, to find a name that better describes the gardens and avoids the “negative and painful connotations” of the plantations name that has been in place since 1944

Cornell’s Black Students Union, in a November of 2015 delivered a letter to former president Elizabeth Garrett and Vice President Ryan Lombardi, demanding that Cornell “change the name of the Cornell Plantations as soon as possible ”

Dunn said the concern of BSU and other campus groups added fuel to an initiative he had proposed in his first interview for the director job, when he was still at the University of Hawai’i

“I feel like the door has opened for the future,” Dunn said minutes after the trustees voted “I think we were somewhat limited, in terms of our ability to really connect people with plants and gardens, by the name, and [the change] feels liberating

veys and focus groups, with Cornell Botanic Gardens leading the pack

“That’s when things really took off,” Dunn said, and the University began preparing for the name change

Dunn said one problem with the former name, in addition to the slavery connotations of the word “plantation,” is that it was inaccurate term to describe the Cornell gardens

Plantations are large swaths of land, dominated by a single crop that is harvested and sold, Dunn

“We’ve been the Cornell Botanic Gardens for 12 minutes and it feels great, ” he added

The gardens are one of the five largest gardens in North America, Cornell said in a statement, and are home to 50,000 plants as well as 3,400 acres of natural area preserves

Dunn said that during the job interview for his current director job, he asked Cornell leadership about the history of the name and the potential for changing it

“When I was hired, I was given the encouragement to pursue it,” Dunn said “We wanted good justification and good support for a change, not just a knee-jerk reaction to one thing or another ”

The two-year process included focus groups, surveys and internal polling of 2,700 stakeholders’ reaction to nine potential new names for the gardens

In August, the results came back from the sur-

Botanic disputes | Plantations director Christopher Dunn said he first proposed the renaming two years ago

said That name, Dunn said, was a poor description of the diversity that Cornell’s gardens include Cornell has already acquired a website, cornellbotanicgardens org, although it is not yet active, and the University says a new logo is being drafted New signage will also be installed by spring 2017, according to a statement from Cornell

Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs can be reached at njb99@cornell edu

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Decentralizing Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs on Coupled Human and Natural Systems In Mexico

12:15 - 1:10 p m , 498 Uris Hall

C U Music: Halloween Organ Extravaganza

8 - 9:30 p m , Sage Chapel

Monday, October 31, 2016

SAP: “Culture & Politics in Pakistan:The Long Shadow Of the Cold War”

12:15 - 1:15 p m , G08 Uris Hall

Department of Physics Colloquium

4 - 5 p m , Schwartz Auditorium, Rockfeller Hall

The Belnick Presidential Forum: A Partisan Realignment? 4:30 - 6 p m , Klarman Hall Auditorium

Cornell Community Forum: Options for Achieving a Carbon Neutral Campus by 2035 5 - 6 p m , Lewis Auditorium, Goldwin Smith Hall

To m o r r o w

Water works | Dr.

will describe an economic program for conserving Mexico’s watersheds at 12:15 p m today in

“History in the Making: Cornell Perspective on Election 2016” 7 p m , Auditorium, Klarman Hall

Health Economics Seminar: Kevin Schnepel 12 - 1 p m , G87 MVR

LASSP and A&EP Seminar - David Saintillan

4 - 5:45 p m , 700 Clark Hall

Sibley School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Colloquium Series 4 p m , 205 Thurston Hall

University Assembly Meeting

4:30 - 6 p m , 401 Physical Sciences Building

CFSeminar: Professor Peter J Diamessis, “Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulence under an Internal Solitary Wave of Depression” 12 - 1 p m , 178 Rhodes Hall

Data Cleaning: An Introduction to OpenRefine 4:30 - 6 p m , Stone Classroom, Mann Library

Vinciane Despret: Animals as Secret Agents 4:30 p m , K164 Klarman Hall

Rawlings Speaks on ‘State of the University’

By STEPHANY KIM Sun Staff Writer

Interim President Hunter Rawlings who disclosed his vision for a more unified “One Cornell” earlier in the semester reemphasized the need for collaboration among the University’s campuses and schools in his annual State of the University address Friday

In the address, held at the Cornell Trustee-Council meeting, Rawlings explained that strengthening the connection between Cornell’s three campuses will help bridge the divide between upstate and downstate New York, “ two completely different states in one ”

“Cornell is the only large institution that bridges that divide with enduring relationship with the state of New York and now the City of New York,” Rawlings said “Before now, we have been perceived as a university essentially located in upstate New York With the advent of Cornell Tech, we cannot be perceived that way any longer ” Cornell Tech, on Roosevelt Island, is beginning a life that is “inextricably tied to Ithaca” and will enable the University to build strong departments in both campuses via direct interactions among the faculty, according to Rawlings

The president also introduced “The Hinge Project,” a fund that will allow Ithaca faculty interested in Cornell Tech research to “ put a foot” on Roosevelt Island while “keeping a foot” in their Ithaca department

Like Cornell Tech, Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City has also been strengthening its ties with the Ithaca campus, according to Rawlings As an example of this partnership, he cited an initiative by Dr Monica Safed who began her tenure as chief of Weill’s division of general internal medicine in January and will bring Cornell medicine to the rural areas of the Appalachia

Rawlings added that departments in the Ithaca campus have been making efforts to utilize resources in New York City, all of which will take “Cornell from upstate to down-

state or downstate to upstate ”

In addition to collaboration among the three campuses, Rawlings’s vision of “One Cornell” includes crosstalk between the deans and faculty in the University’s seven undergraduate colleges

He emphasized the role that the College of Arts and Sciences curriculum review will play in this collaboration, as the other colleges “depend on the arts college for the foundational pieces of their curriculum ”

Rawlings, who has frequently shared his stance on the importance of a liberal education, reiterated its significance in his address, saying that “national discourse has descended to the language of the gutter ” He added that teaching stu-

dents to become critical thinkers will address issues of “political and internet nonsense, ” “vapid consumerism and celebrity culture,” and “ethnic and class divide in the U S ”

“An education without the arts and the humanities is like a frame without a picture,” Rawlings said “[Liberal education] shows us ‘all the light that we cannot see ’”

The address was followed by a faculty panel from the College of Arts and Sciences on the discussion of thme curriculum review Panelists included Prof Tracy McNulty, French and literature, Prof Julia Thom-Levy, physics, and Prof Verity Plank, classics

Stephany Kim can be reached at skim@cornellsun com

Classics Department Resurrects History With Festival

By DONGYEON LEE Sun Contributor

The department of classics’s weekend festival aimed to make an ancient topic more accessible to a modern public, according to Prof Verity Platt, classics, one of the event ’ s organizers

The event which featured several lectures from professors and Latin declamation contest for students was the first of its kind at Cornell to be open to the public, according to Platt Students from Ithaca High School and Ithaca Montessori School joined Cornellians among the attendees

“This is the first time we ’ ve done a big outreach event to celebrate what it is that we do,” Platt said “I wanted to be able to share the exciting experience with school kids here in Ithaca We wanted to be as inclusive as possible ”

Platt said the idea for the festival was conceived when faculty members expressed concern about the lack of classics representation at Cornell

“[Nowadays] there is a problem with the status of the humanities where fewer students are taking classes in the field,” she said “So we wanted to publicize what we do to a bigger audience across and beyond the University, and celebrate what it is that interests us about the ancient world ”

Prof Michael Fontaine, classics, another of the festival’s organizers, agreed that the department owes it to the public to “show them what [work it does] ” He also emphasized the need to make the classics more inspiring to students

currently taking Latin

“My greatest hope [for the attendees] is that they’ll have a lot of fun seeing that most of us are pretty passionate about what we do,” Fontaine said “There’s now a groundswell of enthusiasm for treating Latin like a regular language instead of this mystical code that you decrypt ” Platt agreed, sharing her hope that attendees left the festival with a better understanding of how classics can apply to the real world

“I hope that it will help them see that the ancient world isn’t just a dead world, that it’s not completely consigned to the past, but that it’s still very relevant to many of the concerns we have today,” she said “Making connections

Grad Students Debate Unionization

objectives

students with a “significant voice” and are specifically Cornell-centered

“We have not been able to solve every issue raised by students, but I believe we are better able to work through differences of opinion in a collegial atmosphere than in a potentially adversarial collective bargaining setting,” he said of these groups

Speaking for CGSU, Brangan criticized what she called Rawlings’s misrepresentation of the union The organization believes Rawlings decided disparage graduate student unionization because “the administration sees the union as a threat to power, ” according to Brangan

“Right now the administration can decide what to pay graduates, what kinds of benefits they have, they can conduct all business as they see fit without any real checks on their power and it makes sense, they don’t want to give up any of that power, ” she said

Brangan also said Rawlings misrepresented CGSU’s relationship with its national union affiliates

the American Federation of Teachers and N Y State United Teachers by unfairly grouping their union

“We also felt that it was misleading that he stated the interest of the national union would necessarily be implicated in a contract, ” Brangan said “Only Cornell graduate students not affiliates will get to decide on what their contracts will look like, and the interests represented there will those of the graduates ”

Furthermore, Brangan explained that the central role of national affiliates will be to support their local unions

“Dues from AFT and NYSUT help to fund our campaign Right now we do not pay any dues,” she said “So, they’re a national union that serves as support for local unions, but a contract that is negotiated with the University will be what Cornell graduate students want ”

Brangan stressed that, despite the questions Rawlings raised, CGSU believes its formation is in graduate students’ best interests

“CGSU wants real choices and real changes for graduate students for both T A ’ s and R A ’ s, ” Brangan said

[between disciplines] is one of the most productive things that you can learn as an undergraduate ” Derek Li ’17, a classics major attending the event, said he was excited by the festival’s success in bringing together the classics community

“It’s intriguing to be able to listen to people talk about classics and see people come together,” Li said

Platt added that the event also served to remind the classics department of their common goal of making the subject more accessible to the public

“I wanted to remind everybody that we have more in common than what divides us, ” she said “We all care very much about making the ancient world live ”

Dining Workers Living in Poverty

DINING Continued from page 1

“ That was why we all decided not to strike, because we got told that if we did strike, they would re p l a c e u s , ” t h e w o r k e r s a i d “ They would replace ever y one of us And most people working here have families so they’re like, ‘Oh well, I can ’ t afford to walk out of my job ’” When asked to confirm these allegations, the University denied telling workers not to strike, saying the decision “is the union’s

“You got alumni coming in, donating $25 million, $10 million, $5 million. I don’t see what they’re doing with the money ”

alone to make, consistent with its constitution and bylaws ” Workers also revealed ironic personal anecdotes about worki n g a l u m n i e v e n t s d u r i n g which the University often collects extravagant donations while being denied livable wages

“You got alumni coming in, donating $25 million, $10 million, $5 million I don’t see what they’re doing with the money, ” one employee said “ We’re not getting any more money ”

Living on the Poverty Line

C o r n e l l d i n i n g e m p l oy e e wages average $16 88 an hour, which is “neither the highest or the lowest” when compared to other Ivy league schools, according to Melanie Ciotoli, director of human resources for student and campus life Ciotoli stressed that this number is, on average, 30 percent better than the local market value for comparable positions

Experienced employees inter-

viewed by The Sun say they are paid an average hourly wage of a r o u n d $ 1 7 t h e H a r v a rd employees on strike made $21 89 an hour They said, however, that this initial number is misleading, as short hours and interruptions in employment, due to academic breaks, infringe upon their ability to earn a living wage “ We get cut off all year round We get cut off in the summer We get cut off between December and Januar y for a month We get all the breaks, spring break, fall break cut off for that,” one employee said “ They close it down, and we don’t get paid for none of these breaks We work literally nine months out of the year That’s crazy ” Others added that even in parts of the semester when work is consistent, many schedules fall short of full-time work

“I’ve been here five years, I make $16 33 an hour I work 35 hours a week; they won ’ t even give me 40 hours a week,” the same worker said “ They said I was hired as a 35-hour-a-week employee ” With this wage, a 35-hourper-week limit and the unavailability of work, due to school closure during breaks, this particular full-time employee makes a yearly salar y of around $20,000 The federal poverty line for an individual without a family is currently $11,880, and $24,000 for a family of four Responding to these issues, C i o t o l i a c k n ow l e d g e d t h a t employees are “susceptible to the a c a d e m i c s c h e d u l e ” b u t s a i d Cornell tries to supplement these hours during breaks with paid trainings, by assigning worker to other University departments and opening dining halls for academic conferences or summer camps

“[ We] are proud to say that any employee that has wanted summer work for the last few years has gotten summer work,” she said

‘Saving Cornell Money’ Employees also claimed that their managers often do not find re p l a c e m e n t s w h e n c o - w o rk e r s are fired for various reasons, leaving work that is meant for two employees to a single person “ They call it ‘saving Cornell money, ’” one worker said “How is it saving Cornell money, if you ’ re working your employees extra hard till they get so tired they, they’re like ‘I’m not coming in tomorrow my back hurts, my feet hurt ’”

Ciotoli stressed that dining management “works diligently” to fill vacant positions and uses f l o a t e r s t o a c c o m

absences

Workers also took issue with

Dining’s third-place ranking by

honor that the University exhibits throughout campus dining halls, on its literature and on its web-

attributed to dining management and not the dining employees

“No one actually thinks about us We got the third rating in the Princeton Review and the man-

“If all the workers were to walk out, there would be no rating There would be no dining.”

agers are so happy about it,” an employee said “But they claim it all, they claim that they’re the reason that they got that rating, when they don’t seem to realize that if all the workers were to walk out, there would be no rating There would be no dining ” Employees believe that their work should be recognized more broadly The solution? Workers suggest representation and livable wages, to start

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employees’ union, United Auto Workers, to remedy trouble with the University have had mixed success, one employee said In the most recent collective bargaining

employees’ union, the union only managed to obtain a two percent wage increase well below a dollar on most Cornell employees ’ hourly wage T

hardships associated with struggling to pay bills and provide for a one-year-old daughter

“I make $17 22 an hour,” the employee said “I’ve been here 3 years I make $25-30 grand a year It’s literally ridiculous ”

Red Collapses Against Tigers

Cornell cedes second-most yards in program history

Score. Celebrate. Repeat. | Princeton’s wide receiver Trevor Osborne throws up his arms after scoring a touchdown in Saturday’s game The Tigers’ dynamic offense hung up 645 yards on Cornell and scored eight touchdowns against the Red’s defense, which had been solid for the first half of the season

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“You need to make a decision that [the loss] is not going to define us ”

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“Anytime you’re down in a game, it gets frustrating. So you need to be able to recenter yourself ”

Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

The phrase “Chick tract may not immediately conjure up an image for all of you, but I’m sure most of you know what they are like much quintessential Americana, the sight of a Chick tract conjures up strong associations regardless of our prior knowledge Chick tracts are short, punchy religious comics in a rectangular format, notable for their vitriol and hardline stance on the power of conversion These little pamphlets are the physical embodiment of American evangelical movements, audaciously insisting the reader will burn in hell unless they accept Jesus Christ as their lord and savior, presented with jitter y, vividly literal cartoon imagery Targets of the Chick tract ’ s scorn have ranged over the years from homosexuality to Catholics to climate change to Dungeons and Dragons, harsh invectives inconspicuously left on park benches and bus seats by believers

Over the years, these comic tracts have attracted mockery and sarcastic disdain from the skeptical readers (i e most of us), so it’s understandable that the recent death of Jack T Chick, the writer, frequent artist and publisher of the tracts, has generally not been treated as the loss of a great artist Chick’s work is vulgar hate speech, albeit of an enterprising nature that could only come out of late capitalist America Yet at the time of his passing, I think it’s a good moment to acknowledge Chick’s commendable qualities, a prolific, imaginative and remarkable pioneer in self-published comics

Consider the anti-witchcraft tract

panic such kitsch tends to mask, the vaguely incoherent scribble-shading suggesting unseen evils in the periphery The kids flee, only for one to die by random car accident and burn in that hell for all eternity We are told by a wise mother that this gruesome fate can only be avoided through acceptance of

missed, that has made Chick a mainstay where other entrepreneurial zealots of literature have come and gone For an artist so determined to save our souls, Chick has succeeded best in spreading an image of hell that has remained delightful and fascinating, especially to the skeptics

Chick’s directness and willingness to tackle intense subject matter is especially commendable, his self-publishing empire evolving concurrently with the underground comics of the ’60s That frank quality in Chick’s work is reflected in many great alternative comics Justin Green’s seminal autobiography Binky Brown Meets the Holy Virgin Mary is blatantly indebted to Chick, and the original presentation of Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer-winning Maus a comic notable for rendering hardto-process horrors in blunt clarity was originally presented as a rather tract-like insert in the oversized art-comics mag RAW But Chick may be the most successful artist of the comics codeeschewing bunch undergrounds were contained in headshops, while you might find a tract on your doorstep

“Happy Halloween,” not as iconic as “This Was Your Life” or “Somebody Goofed” (the latter being definitive proof that you should never trust a hipster) but a classic nonetheless The strip opens with some all-american, sweaterclad, ethnically ambiguous kids straight outta the Magic Schoolbus wandering into a HAUNTED HOUSE, given a few good spooks all in good fun, right? until a cauldron stirring witch deposits them in this:

This scene of literal hell combines the gaudy humor of American pop culture circa-Boris Karloff with the real satanic

Inot only in their punishments but in their clarity Chick tracts communicate their message with the efficiency of a bullet train and the subtlety of a bomb threat, every square inch packed with information and terror It s the fervor of a man who found God in the chaos of the Second World War Chick found Christ over the radio while touring New Guinea1 and Okinawa It’s a vision of justice filtered through the eyes of one man convinced of his righteousness, Dante s Inferno as written by the Burger King It s this maddening vigor, this absurdity which can ’ t quite be dis-

Chick’s tracts are powerful, influential and hard to imitate I have yet to read a parody of Chick that has been remotely as pleasurable as the genuine article Chick’s mission to bring both comics and Christ to the people will continue, likely by Fred Carter, Chick’s frequent artistic collaborator who may well be the most widely read African American cartoonist Nonetheless, the passing of Chick should be recognized as a turning point in the comics world

Jack T Chick will be remembered as a hateful man, but also a passionate, true formal visionary whose work undoubtedly enriched comics

1The critic Joe McCullough recently pointed out on Twitter that, over enemy lines, the great mangaka and youkai expert Shigeru Mizuki had a storied encounter with the spirit world on the same military frontier on which Chick was stationed at around the same time Such serendipity makes you wonder

Nathan Chazan is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences T h e Ne x t Pa n e l will appear online at www cornellsun com Wednesdays this semester He can be reached at ndc39@cornell edu

Black Mirror and the Propagation of Paranoia

rarely expose myself to anything in the horror genre Unless there are computerized ghouls emerging from subway tracks, only to be blasted away by comedic goddesses (I see you, Ghostbusters 2), I have very little interest in deliberately scaring myself I’m more energized by the possibility of a good laugh or cry than the spine-curling, hair-raising horror shows and films out there

Despite this, over the summer, like many, I endeavored to watch Stranger Things The show gripped me without necessarily “scaring” me in the conventional sense There were no axe murderers on the loose and not too many sudden movements While the first few episodes definitely gave me an aura of unease, once I realized that the stranger things were actually just monsters in the “upside-down,” my fears were mostly alleviated and I could appreciate the show for what it was It harked back to an era of scary stories, making us all feel a bit transported and transfixed And the performances were unusual and impressive We all got to root for the little guys, in this case, children Winona Ryder, who I remembered from her role in the film version of The Age of Innocence, plays a mildly batshit but ultimately endearing mother This show worked, and I wouldn’t quite characterize it as a horror series Instead, it felt more like a Goosebumps novel, one that anyone and ever yone could find some pleasure in

What scared me recently was surprisingly the British television drama, Black Mirror I decided to watch it late one night over fall break after feeling disenchanted by my Netflix queue In reading the show description, I began preparing myself for a thriller or psychological drama I ended up feeling deeply disturbed, profoundly troubled and ultimately very paranoid And yet, I con-

tinued to watch more episodes of the show, managing to finish the first and most of the second, seasons in just a few days Granted, the seasons are short, and the episodes, while long, are not unmanageably so, but still For a show that genuinely scared me, I was surprisingly captivated Black Mirror is not a show about characters You don’t watch an episode and immediately connect to one figure or another And the characters don’t stick around from episode to episode Actors change, narratives diverge and the each episode feels more cinematic than the last It s a collection of concepts, a series of thought experiments in which quirky-minded, somewhat sadistic writers take you on a trip Make you stretch your mind to points you never quite wanted to Black Mirror forces us to reconcile with the possibilities of the future and to deal with the ethical issues surrounding emerging technologies While some episodes feel like they exist decades away from our current world, others are alarmingly similar to today s landscape There are chances that all of us might become (or perhaps already are) hamsters in a wheel, working solely for some materialistic reward We may gain access to our memories in ways we ’ ve never had before, remembering even the darkest moments with just the press of a button All of this, while farfetched in the present, is alarmingly possible in the long-term It’s 1984 all over again, warning us of what may

happen if we let our agency go and allow our technology to control and consume us

After watching the five or so episodes that I did, I wondered what I could do to make the paranoia go away I retreated to Family Guy and The Office, hoping that the mindless jokes and endless wordplay might balance me out again Somehow nothing quite seemed to help And maybe that’s the point I’m still not sure if I want to see what more Black Mirror has to offer Season three just came out, and it features an episode co-written by the beloved, comical Rashida Jones Maybe there will be humor here and there, or I might continue to squirm in my seat at the possibilities our future brings But I do believe that it’s good for us to endeavor in those thoughts every now and then, to be more cognizant of what might happen if we don’t remember our humanity or if let our technology go too far Shows like Westworld promise a similar sense of paranoia, and I think this genre will continue to expand as technology does Sci-fi has existed for ages, but this visualization of the future, this deeply troubling, imagined perception feels somehow new to me New, and all the more unsettling

Anita Alur is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at aa567@cornell edu Millenial Musings appears ever y other Wednesday this semester

Eulogy: For My Dearest Taft

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Taft in 2006 He was sold at a makeshift pet shack beside the I5, about ten miles south of the Kettleman City exit, where everyone veered off the road to relieve swollen bladders and indulge barely-caffeinated Starbucks Frappuccinos At first, the shack appeared to be a strawberry stand; it stooped in front of a seemingly endless array of manicured fields and sporting a bright red tablecloth Large “FOR SALE” lettering had caught my eye, compelling me to make yet another stop in the hopes of sinking my teeth into ripened berries or, at least, prolonging actually arriving at my destination

The booth was manned by your stereotypical Californian-wannabe-redneck His shoulders were sunburned He crudely chewed a wad of foul tobacco He might have been the real deal if it weren ' t for the Staples paper nametag that read, “Hello, my name is AL ” His name was written in highlighter Real rednecks don’t use highlighters

It quickly became evident that his shack was devoid of berries and stocked, instead, with strange merchandise His first tried selling me on a Juventudian voodoo doll, which apparently could make any enemy “ rue the day” another telltale sign of his faux redneck-ness I joked that I could get the battered looking rag doll for Danny; perhaps he could use it to enact the revenge he intended for the Federal Prosecutor

Next, Al elected to show off a freshly patented bar of Pope Soap He claimed it was made from a combination of ground rosaries, infused with shards of shredded bible and held together by a delectable smelling Eucharist paste It "saved the sultry soul and squashed unpleasant scents, " or so claimed the label I told him I was an atheist He quickly dropped the bar and grunted

“I be knowin’ what heathens wan, ya shuda jus said so!”

Al reached below the counter and produced a metal cage, awaking its sleeping inhabitant He rested the contraption on the counter and beamed a gloating smile

“ what is it?” I asked

“Well ma ’ am, this here be a ferret, them is illegal contoraband!”

The little creature had positioned itself in a crescent moon shape and nestled its chin between two lightly furred front paws It looked intently up at my face with a pair of pebble-sized brown eyes

I had never done anything illegal, nor did I intend to But something about the little animal made me feel obligated to rescue it from Al’s tchotchke emporium I bought the ferret, and the voodoo doll and, begrudgingly, I returned to I-5 The voodoo doll would live at Taft Prison with Danny Or, at least, this was the plan School having beat the creativity from my brain, I decided the ferret would also be named Taft

In preparing this eulogy I have come to realization that Taft was much more than an illegal collection of cells He was a tabernacle of memory

Thus, I would like to share three catalogued Taftian tales

One:

The room was circularly shaped It resembled a large black and white cookie, with a line of flames delineating the middle You could stand on the flames for some amount of time before they started to cauterize the soles of your feet However, the line moved at inexplicable and immeasurable intervals Thus, aside from having to worry about scorched feet you also had to vigilantly monitor even the slightest movements of the flame in order to remain on its neutral parallel Otherwise you could find yourself on either the white or black half of the circle The white half was covered with lush, off-white shag carpeting and was bordered by a mural of aboriginal flowers and kangaroo children that jumped around the opulent-looking spring meadow This side of the room had mastered the false veneer of pleasantry, creating a poison aura that led to inevitable addiction Conversely the other side of the room was covered in charcoal linoleum and was filled with suffocating grey fog The bad news was that, once you stepped into this side of the room, you could never see your way out The good news was that you would suffocate to a quick death within moments The white side, I should have mentioned, has a large mirror that reflects the black side Thus, one could never be sure which side they were on Only waiting anxiously to asphyxiate could answer this question All this aside, trust me when I say it is best to remain on the central fire strip As Taft said choose your battles If you ’ re saving your lungs, who gives a rat's (he hated vermin) ass about your feet?

Two:

This one was more of a gallery, a brightly populated homage to history’s brightest moments Let me preface this by saying, contrary to popular belief, in order to be bright something does not need to be good The paraphernalia that filled this room included Elvis favorite guitar a Tibetan monk mandala that had been glued to a dismantled cardboard box, a spool of unfettered Chinese green tea stolen from Mao’s kidnapped geisha, the remnants of a Faberge egg smashed to smithereens by Stalin, several potted tulips that refused to drink anything besides Grey Goose, a cooler of depleted liver sacks from goose harvested for foie gras, beaks of ravens that had been removed and fashioned into nail clippers, etc Taft said he would have photographed the loot for me if it hadn't been for the silhouette of a honey badger that presided over the trove He didn't speak, but the showed claw of the badger extended its middle finger to follow Taft wherever he scampered and would start shaking the finger violently if Taft came close to actually touching any of the objects Taft debated stealing a particularly brilliant set of curated blue eyes that bobbed in a mason jar on one of the shelves as a souvenir for me, but was worried what the honey badger projection would have to say about thievery and pondered how unpleasant it would be to become the taxidermic ferret of the vast collection

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Ara Hagopian | Whiny Liberal

W h y B a s h i n g T r u m p

S u p p o r t e r s I s C o o l

Irecentlyread an online article entitled “ Why Bashing

Trump Supporters isn’t Cool” Here’s the link if you want to check it out The author of the piece, one Caitlin Johnstone, condemns jokes that are at the expense of Trump supporters, calling them “classist condescension ” She writes:

“If I see one more millionaire comedian go to a Trump rally and make fun of how low-class and uneducated some of his supporters are, I’m gonna put my fist through my computer I mean for God’s sake, duh, yes, many of them are lower class and under-educated That’s the problem That’s why they’re angry That’s why I’m angry We know that their countr y has failed them ”

voices were silenced The fallacies of Trump’s platform (if you can call it that) must be fleshed out, and humor is one of the best ways to do so To quote Mark Twain, “Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution these can lift at a colossal humbug push it a little weaken it a little, century by century, but only laugh-

D e m a g o g u e r y m a y o n l y w o r k o n d e s p e r a t e p o p u l a t i o n s , b u t t h o s e w h o o p p o s e d e m a g o g u e r y a r e f o r c e d t o b e c o m e e v e n m o r e d e s p e r a t e .

Johnstone goes on to draw a parallel between Trump-ism and Nazi Germany “Demagoguery only ever works on a desperate population,” she says, proceeding to outline the difficulties faced by post-WWI Germany that led to the rise of Hitler While justification of Nazism may rub some folks the wrong way, I actually agree with her on this point I do not believe that every Nazi was an evil person (if indeed men can be evil) or even a bad person Not only were the German people desperate, but they were facing death if they dissented I like to think that if it were me I would have stood up for my beliefs, but I’m not sure of it by any means I’m unwilling to condemn all Nazis, and I’m cer tainly u n w i l l i n g t o c o n d e m n a l l Trump supporters As the man himself once said some, I a s s u m e , a re g o o d p e o p l e I w o u l d s a y i n re s p o n s e t o Johnstone’s logic, however, that the reason Hitler was able to accumulate so much power is p re c i s e l y

ter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand ” Comedy is much more powerful than earnest discourse when it comes to reaching people Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz did more for the normalization of interracial marriage than any academic or activist I know of Consider the work of comedian and former Cornellian Robert Smigel, the man behind the foul-mouthed canine puppet known as Triumph the Insult Comic Dog He is exactly who Johnstone is criticizing a rich comedian that goes to Trump rallies and exploits the comedic value of Trump supporters Some of it is stupid humor, but some of it is genuinely incisive For example, Triumph (a handpuppet controlled by Smigel, just to clarify) tells a man that Trump used to be “ a bigger Democratic supporter than Michael Moore’s bra ” It’s funny, but it also sheds light on Trump’s history of reversing his positions for his own gain It’s very possible that someone who isn’t very politically informed might watch Triumph videos and end up learning a thing or two

Returning to Johnstone’s article, I believe the truly problematic part comes at the very end She writes, “Yes, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia are

being used to rally the victims of our exploitative system on the political right, but if you end the exploitation, you end the desperation we ’ ve got to stand together ” I would say in reply that the phrase “ yes, racism, xenophobia and Islamophobia are being used” shouldn’t ever have a “but” after it I try to avoid using the word ‘privilege’ because it’s become something of a buzzword and charged words rarely lead to c h a n g e d minds But sometimes I just can ’ t help myself Aren’t you lucky that you feel secure enough to preach togetherness while Trump threatens to “ target the families” of his enemies Aren’t you fortunate that you ’ re protected enough to be offended by jokes while whole groups of people are being denounced as criminals and rapists What a privilege it must be

While a large group of Americans being uneducated and ignorant is tragic, it’s also dangerous Demagoguery may only work on desperate populations, but those who oppose demagoguer y are forced to become even more desperate

The attitudes of Trump and his supporters put some Americans in genuine danger, which makes them the most pressing issue currently facing the country I’m all for “standing together” to address the injustices that plague lower-class Americans After Trump’s candidacy and the hateful thinking behind it are quashed In the meantime, I’ll absolutely support anyone who helps in this effort, be they average Joes or “millionaire comedians ” If you don’t understand that, maybe we shouldn’t stand together after all

Ara Hagopian is a junior in the College of Arts & Sciences He can be reached at ahagopian@cornell edu Whiny Liberal appears alternate Fridays this semester

There Is Nothing for Me Here Now

Inthe mornings, like most people, I wake up Then, begrudgingly, I rouse my attendant devices

The laptop, which contains a bevy of unused words, unheard songs, unseen films and unedited stories, blares lascivious light into my eyes, even though I have no time to indulge its temptations

This recognition of my inability to do so is a point I’ve beleaguered many times now, yet it does little to my grumbles and gripes with Cornell’s creative impediments In this sense, I continue to wonder if I will ever acquire the gumption and audacity to write how I truly feel, and what I truly want Until then, there may very well be nothing for me here, so long as I remain on this campus

On the way to class, I pass by a noisy willow tree, shivering in the autumn cold Another tree, pummeled by the wind, looks as if someone uprooted the poor plant, then reattached several of the buried limbs to the behemoth’s head The resulting abomination lacks aesthetic harmony, yet strikes me with an intrigue not unlike that felt during the summer At that time, campus was littered with overzealous oaks, their boughs buckling under the excesses of the season But now the ground is blanketed in death the deceptively gorgeous kind, hand-crafted by Roy G Biv himself There is nothing here for me, though, because I am not doing as well as I would like in Japanese

Still, as I trudge up the hill, I notice the little birds, stonily still until I pass They scatter from their perfect camouflage, always twice as many as I thought I saw, then van-

ish into bushes They display an aerial adeptness that is as brazen as their silent swiftness is bewildering The birds strut so closely to you They flutter up, hover and sink or glide in pairs of two or chase each other through the air Of course, moments later, a chipmunk scampers across the steps and dissolves into a crack or halfcovered hole in the ground Nonetheless, there is not much time for contemplation, and thus not much for me here

I always find myself stopping to pause at the plastered leaves and vines which tend to fan out over West Campus’ gothic architecture, layered and vibrant like an eagle’s wings The feathers are unsure of themselves and their direction, so they alternate between aggregating in colorful clumps and climbing upwards in a straight line, clinging to the wall with dragon-esque tenacity

anymore, unless I abdicate from all of my responsibilities

Back to my walk On the way from the Language Resource Center, I stop at Beebe Lake and sit on a seat-shaped boulder There are a few fish (maybe koi?) floating a few inches beneath the surface, in a triangular formation In the distance, ducks coast or rest on logs A heron, nauseatingly cliché in its majesty, takes off from the concrete dam and glides just a few inches above the water It lands in the tiny cove to my left From there, I watch as it stalks through the mud and lily pads, painstak-

People look up to me, and I try my best give them a good reason to do so But I stretching myself in far too many directi so there may well be nothing for me her anymore, unless I abdicate from all of my responsibilities

However, I can ’ t afford to dwell on eagles and dragons After all, I have been a bad student more often than I should have been and a much more flawed person than anyone seems to realize, yet I am tasked with advising freshmen from two different organizations and I share a classroom with another undergraduate in which we are charged with helping to facilitate the education of our peers on issues of social justice In other words, people look up to me, and I try my best to give them a good reason to do so But I am stretching myself in far too many directions, so there may well be nothing for me here

Gettingto India is the struggle With each year that passes, my parents renew their interest in travelling back to the countr y they spent the first half of their lives in They have nostalgia for practically ever ything they used to do; my mom missed sampling the seemingly endless supply of street food along MG road in Bangalore, and my dad missed playing cricket at his agricultural college he attended in Coimbatore, amongst a million other memories they formed during a time fondly recalled as ‘the days before the kids were born ’ India pleaded with my parents to make arrangements for a return ever y year, and without fail, the travel agent listing the hefty costs of such an endeavor as well as the complaints of how incredibly busy my sister and I were with middle and high s c h o o l re s p o n s i b i l i t i e s a n s w e re d Exc i t e m e n t w a s a l w a y s t e m p e re d , b u t never lost A trip to the decent Indian buffet alleviated any case of home-homesickness, followed with what has now become a staple in my house: a viewing of a Bollywood film It kept the uncultured A m e r i c a n c h i l d re n a t l e a s t m i n i m a l l y informed of their heritage

Over the years, I have grown to cherish a number of Bollywood films, but they are definitely an acquired taste If you were, for example, a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, then y o u p r o b a b l y w o u l d n ’ t n o m i n a t e a Bollywood film for an Oscar, consider it as a nominee nor even be asked to consider it Bollywood has established a tried-andt r u e t e m p l a t e f o r f i l m s s h o t o u t o f Mumbai: several exhausting musical numbers, religious adulation for the legendar y heroes and a plot that manages to defy logic and reason simultaneously and consistently We liken the extent of this frame-

ingly patient and slow, before striking and coming up with a struggling, squirming dragonfly

But witnessing this sublime scene isn’t going to get me a job, an acceptance into grad school, or an A on that upcoming Forest Ecology prelim Besides, I am easily bothered, slow to trust and more interested in observing or listening to people then interacting with them So there must not be much for me here on a campus full of human beings, even as I watch a couple dance across the lake, two dervishes whirling about at the water ’ s edge They kiss as the sun sets, and I know it’s time to move on On the way up the path to the Ag Quad, I

stumble across an instructor from freshman year I’m not sure if she can tell that I recognize her, but she bears the anxious, weary look of one yearning to connect with a distant memory Apparently I wasn ’ t a nameless face in her intro bio lecture As she slowly disappeared, the chill of the morning receded into the furnace of midday Later, I would watch an ant carry a leaf up a concrete bench, then a flake of orange as it twirled mischievously across a secluded meadow -- could have been a butterfly or a leaf; I never found out Anyway, after that I crossed T h u r s t o n Bridge that n i g h t , p a u s i n g briefly to obser ve a s p i d e r , s

dark brown with a bul-

m e n and scrunched legs, crawl around in its web There were dozens of them, some with legs extending like stilts outward, others aglow in the lights lining the underside of the railing They had caught quite a lot of food, and I stopped when I noticed two in particular that were mating I felt incredibly intrusive, so I walked away

There’s nothing here for me at this school where I’ve failed more often than is acceptable, disappointed more people than I ever planned to, and become about as sure of my love for writing, art, and social justice as I have become unraveled by my distaste for school The construction workers

Narayan Reddy | Reddy Set Go

A Little Less Masala

work featured in a film to how much “masala” it has Masala is the spice paste used to give curr y an array of tastes It is an ingredient used liberally in B-grade Indian restaurants, usually at the expense of the food quality, but if you ’ re Indian you’ll still eat it for the overdose of familiar flavors

The recipe has been a hit for decades, and it continues to churn out the “masala-

b a n g e r s ” t h

y dethrone each other in the all-time boxoffice collection records for India and amongst overseas film markets People love it, I love it, but the lovable mess has been v e n t u r

equipped handle

India is currently in a state of movement The new crop of passionate and social-justice oriented young people has taken to spreading awareness for the social and political issues that plague the countr y Young men don sarees to protest the government ’ s passivity to the rape epidemic and a young woman ’ s rap set to the tune of Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” exposing the negative health impacts of industrial pollution, especially as they relate to the working class, has gone viral Filmmakers have taken notice and are doing their part They are creating movies to par take in the national dialogue, but are failing to adjust their format to respect them

One of the most socially and politically charged issue that has remained fixated on the Indian consciousness is the tension between India, Pakistan, and their respect i v e c i t i z e n s C o n s e q u e n t l y, e l i t e Bollywood directors have sought to depict the volatile tensions arising from the conflict in their films Bajrangi Bhaijaan, a film I watched with my family shortly before leaving for Cornell, is now the second highest grossing Bollywood film ever (third if we include all Indian languages,

on the Ag Quad are working on a project that I won ’ t be around to see, so I suppose it’s time for me to go Their monstrous machines, with churning bellies and bruising claws, move about without much regard for me The people who operate them, though, are frighteningly nice The silhouettes of slumbering beasts, mounds of dirt and stacks of wood or slabs of concrete are somehow promising, because they portend beauty

There is nothing for me on this campus, even though I recently saw a flower growing out of a trunk the other day, and listened to the gentle splashes of a bird bathing in a tiny pool of rainwater

You’re getting the director’s cut, of course; this is just a diminutive fragment of my collected footage I’m obsessed with watching the world work and breathe, and I can thank my time here for that I suppose The aforementioned documents would not be as full and wide if not for the nothingness of this campus, too In fact, now that I think about it, the critical introspection arose from a similar source I could go on describing moments from campus for another 1000 words, easily Maybe they would have a greater impact on you than these did, especially since I haven’t even begun to touch on all that people have shown and given me Maybe not Either way, this senior, tired of college as he is, isn’t so sure if there is nothing left Not just yet

Amiri Banks is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences He may be reached at abanks@cornellsun com Honest A B appears alternate Mondays this semester

with “Bollywood” referring to those in which Hindi is spoken) It discusses the continuing hostilities between Indians and Pa k i s t a n i s , b u t d o e s s o i n t h e m o s t Bollywood (worst) way possible It starts with the simple stor y of a man tr ying to return a mute little girl home, and ends with what seems to be the entire populations of India and Pakistan plastered along the fences lining their countries’ border, chanting “Bajrangi Bhaijaan!” (the strong, honest Indian man) as the little Pakistani girl screeches “uncle!” (her first word ever) Bajrangi runs to embrace her while the billions of people surrounding them are losing their shit The message of unity is lost in the saturation of theatrics ironically used to get the point across Director Kabir Khan ends up bludgeoning the audience with it and in the process drains it of any meaning or impact There was a lot of miscellanea during that final scene, but an authentic, realistic account of hostile Indian-Pakistani relations was one particular thing not present A depiction of the realities people face as a result of this toxic, nationalistic hatred was not filmy enough to make the cut

The highest grossing Bollywood film of all time released in 2014, PK, deals with the divisive interactions between religion and society, especially as it relates to a predominantly Muslim Pakistan and a pred o m i n a n t l y Hi n d u In d i a T h e s i m i l a r theme with Bajrani Bhaijaan, however, is not the only thing the two movies have in common The climax of PK is a nationally televised debate (with ever yone in the countr y tuning in) between an alien (from outer space) and an unethical Hindu leader in which the alien’s argument that modern-day religion only creates conflict between individuals and exploits them for profit, a respectable opinion However,

this is a Bollywood movie Validation of his argument wholly depends on whether or not Pakistani Muslim Sar faraz will return Indian Hindu Jaggu’s call (spoiler: he does) and once again, ever yone loses their shit Once again, the chance to raise a w a re n e s s t o a n i m p o r t a n t i s s u e w a s neglected PK could have given voice to the number of people who have been brainwashed into extremism, swindled of their life savings, and/or have become sexu a l a s s a

c t i m s t

- p r o c l a i m e d avatars and prophets Instead, Rajkumar Hirani opts for the tired recipe designed specifically and only to pack cinemas and yield massive dividends at the box office I implore Bollywood directors who want to illustrate the countr y ’ s many challenges to move away from how it has always been done to how it should be done, out of respect for social responsibility and for those that live the subject matter these films attempts to portray Cramming the complexities typical of multi-faceted issues of societal impor tance into the Bollywood entertainment machine is disrespectful, it exploits them for entertainment value and calls attention to the bombast of the film itself as opposed to the seriousness of the themes woven into the film’s plot A paradigm shift isn’t necessar y, but a major adjustment is in accord These films may produce a smaller margin of profit, but ultimately will make up for it with the much greater outcome of spreading awareness to the multitude of issues that may not be so visible to the average filmgoer and actively moving those filmgoers to act on them Besides, sometimes less masala tastes better anyways

Narayan Reddy is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at nreddy@cornellsun com Reddy Set Go appears alternating Mondays this semester

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Princeton Demolishes Cornell at Home, 56-7

Led by Lovett’s seven touchdowns, Tigers blow out Red, issuing

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Sports Editor

Looking more like the team that posted back-to-back one-win seasons than the squad that started this year 3-0, Cornell football wilted at home against Princeton Saturday, losing 56-7 to the Tigers

“I don’t

think that was the real 2016 football team out there This game is not going to define the rest of our season.”

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The team ’ s 3-0 start once the talk of campus now seems like a distant memory After four straight losses, this one by far the most embarrassing, the Red now sits at 3-4 with three games left in the season “ W e p l a y e d w h a t I think is our worst game of the seas o n , ” s a i d head coach D a v i d Archer ’05

“I don’t think that was the real 2016 football team out there This game is not going to define the rest of our season ”

After Princeton’s initial drive sputtered out, the Tigers scored touchdowns on three straight possessions, setting the tone for the blowout and placing Cornell into a hole the team was not able to dig out of

Juking, tricking and dodging their way to 18 first-half first downs, the Tigers, self-assured and commanding, held a 35-0 lead at the half, in complete control of the game

The Red’s defense seemed lost at times, leaving receivers wide open throughout the game; and the Tigers took full advantage Princeton had 392 passing yards, 198 for John Lovett and 194 for Chad Kanoff Five of the Tigers’ eight scores came through the air

Lovett on the roster as the backup quarterback seemed to be everywhere for the Tigers In the first half alone, Lovett accounted for five touchdowns two pass-

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ing, two rushing and one receiving He tacked on two more passing scores in the second half

“He just made a lot of plays He can play with his arm, he can play with his feet,” Archer said “Obviously we didn’t do a good job of [stopping him] ”

Like Brown’s Alex Jette last week, Lovett found the soft spots in Cornell’s defense and exploited them over and over again After his fireworks display in Ithaca, the one-man show now has 23 touchdowns on the season more than Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth and Yale

Play after play, the Tigers, running their unpredictable brand of football, utilized Lovett in a different way Senior captain and linebacker Jackson Weber noted that Lovett plays comfortably at multiple positions on the field and is dangerous wherever he lines up

“ Ru n n i n g t h e b a l l , h e i s re a l l y patient,” the captain said “As a quarterback, he can run, but when he is in the quarterback spot, he is almost like a true quarterback As a receiver, just treat him as a normal receiver ”

Beyond just the team ’ s inability to contain Lovett, Archer was critical of the defense as a whole, chalking the performance up to “mental mistakes and physical mistakes ” Cornell gave up 645 yards, the second most in program history

“[The defense] just wasn ’ t what we ’ ve been accustomed to this year, ” the head coach said

In the first six weeks of the season, the trademark of this Cornell defense had been takeaways Even in the Red’s recent losses, the team prided itself on the defense forcing turnovers and getting the ball back to the offense Interceptions and fumble recoveries were critical for Cornell to keep itself in games

Yet on Saturday, the takeaways just would not come

“Getting turnovers can get you back into any game even when you ’ re down,” Weber said “That’s something we

have focused on the past and will continue to focus on Balls didn’t bounce our way today ”

The problems extended beyond just the defense

Red Upends Nationally-Ranked Tigers in Double O.T.

By SARAH PETERS Sun Staff Writer

Junior for ward Kr ysten Mayers’ goal in double over time knocked off nationally-ranked Princeton and sent the Cornell field hockey team to its first victor y over the Tigers since 2007

“I am ver y happy for the girls,” said head coach Donna Hornibrook “ They worked hard and played a competitive, hard-fought game They dug deep and managed to connect ”

Currently, Princeton is ranked second in the Ivy League conference and 12th overall, according to NCAA Division I standings Cornell is ranked two places below in the Ivy League conference and 22 places below overall

“ Yesterday was an impor tant win for the team, ” Hornibrook said “It shows they are continuing to battle, compete and work hard ”

T h e g a m e s t a r t e d s t r o n g f o r t h e

women The Red scored two goals within the first 16 minutes of play Both goals were scored by Mayers and they were assisted by junior for ward Katie Carlson

a n d s e n i o r m i d f i e l d e r K a t y We e k s Princeton came back to tie up the game 2-2 by the end of the first half

Both teams fought hard and Cornell managed to score in the 91st minute of second over time, ending the marathon game

T h e c o n t e s t w a s e v e n l y m a t c h e d throughout, according to Hornibrook

The Tigers had eight shots on goal and

four saves during the game The Red managed seven shots on goal, with six saves

Cornell’s defensive unit was ver y solid throughout the game This is one skill area the women have been working on all season, according to Hornibrook, and their polished defense was on display all game

“ O u r b a c k l i n e p l a y e d re a l l y, re a l l y well,” Hornibrook said “[ Junior back]

Sam McILwrick has been a workhorse all year ”

Ho r n i b r o o k a l s o c o m m e n d e d t h e steady competitive nature of junior forward Isabel Josephs and senior back Luisa Schulte-Bockums

“A w i n a g a i n s t Pr i n c e t o n i s g r e a t because it has been the team ever yone has chased after,” said Hornibrook “For us to finish strong is a testament to the team ’ s character ”

One key factor in the win was Mayers’ ability to sneak in goals, according to Hornibrook

“She has the ability to put numbers up

on the board,” Hornibrook said “She has created oppor tunities all season long but things are going in for her right now so she is definitely dangerous ”

Despite this victor y, the Red has faced adversity throughout the season, losing key players to injur y “ We have had some ups and downs throughout the season, ” Hornibrook said

“Because of injur y we have had to deal with putting young talented kids into key roles really early in their career ”

An example of this trend is freshman goalkeeper Maddy Henr y She played the entire game against the Tigers and held her own, according to Hornibrook

“She played really well, really comp o s e d a n d c o m p e t i t i v e , ” Ho r n i b r o o k said “She took advantage of the oppor tunity and went for it, showing a lot of composure ”

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impact was back Rose Gorski She maintained consistent composure, despite her r

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Overall, the women were proud of the outcome in addition to their quality of play

“ We are really proud of how the kids played and excited to finish the season strong, ” Hornibrook said

Cornell will take on Dar tmouth at home for its final game of the season on Nov 5 at noon