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The Costs of Sisterhood at C.U.
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Chapter dues, new member fees, costs of apparel and spending for ‘Big-Little Week’ are among the apparent costs of sorority life at Cornell. However, unknown to many who choose to “go Greek” are hidden fees and fines imposed throughout the year from both the chapters themselves as well as the Cornell Panhellenic Council. The list of infractions for Cornell’s formal sorority recruitment — which occurs at the beginning of the spring semester — is extensive, including restrictions such as “no photos containing men” visible in the house, according to the list of formal recruitment infraction guidelines obtained by The Sun. A combination of just four “major infractions” during recruitment can result in a $1,200 fine for the sorority from Panhel. Mistreating a Rho Gamma — a member of the Panhel community who has temporarily disaffiliated
from her sorority for the purpose of guiding new members during formal recruitment — results in a “minimum” $200 penalty for a particular chapter, according to the guidelines. Additionally, any reports of legacies — potential new members with personal ties to a fraternity or sorority — being mistreated by sisters or being dissuaded from joining the house automatically results in a $300 fine, according to the infraction guidelines. Sororities also use an online system known as ICS — Interactive Collegiate Solutions — to rank potential new members during the recruitment process, according to Panhel. However, submitting these lists late — “on ICS and in person” — results in significant fines, according to the infraction guidelines. Submitting the list after the deadline automatically results in a $150 base fine for the house, according to the guidelines. Submitting the list just 90 minutes late results in a $390 total fine for chapters. See FINES page 4
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Vying for Seat,Robertson’75 Talks Jobs,Blasts Opponent By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor
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False alarm | Residents of the Eddygate apartment complex were forced to evacuate after a false fire alarm went off early Sunday morning.
Eddygate Evacuated After Foam Fills Seventh Floor By RACHEL WEBER Sun Staff Writer
While dozens were left standing on Dryden Road out in the cold after a false fire alarm went off at the Eddygate apartment complex, the seventh floor of the building was coated with foam. The Ithaca Fire Department received a call at approximately 1:45 a.m. Sunday that a fire alarm was tripped at 110 Dryden Rd., and responders were on the scene in minutes, according to IFD Chief Tom Parsons ’82. Yet upon further inspection of the site, firefighters discovered that the seventh floor was
covered in a film of foam discharged from a fire extinguisher, according to Parsons. Responders also found a broken exit sign near the floor’s stairs and shattered glass on the floor. Across the street, students filled Collegetown Pizza, donning Halloween costumes and ending their night of debauchery. Yet outside of Eddygate, residents of the complex expressed their concerns as alarms sounded, including Jess Anson ’15, who described the event as a “really scary moment.” “I heard a loud noise, which caught me completely by surprise, and I figured some drunk See EDDYGATE page 5
Martha Robertson ’75 — the Democratic challenger against incumbent Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) for the 23rd Congressional District seat — says she aims to aid students by boosting
local job growth and working to regain lost research funds. Robertson, a member of the Tompkins County Legislature from 2002 to 2013, said in an interview with The Sun that one of her one of her largest successes in the county was
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Seeking victory | Martha Robertson ’75 looks to unseat incumbent Republican Tom Reed on Tuesday.
job growth, a key focus of her campaign that she says applies especially to students in the area. “We’ve been able to create the lowest unemployment rate in New York State right in this community,” Robertson said. “A lot of students I know fall in love with
mountains and mountains of debt,” Robertson said. “Reed has voted to make that harder for you. He’s voted to increase the rates of Stafford loans. He’s voted to cut Pell grants. He’s even voted to make it so you have start paying back the interest on your loans “You shouldn’t have to when you’re in college. That’s graduate college with just unacceptmountains and able.” According mountains of debt.” to Robertson, the increased Martha Robertson ’75 loans brings millions of the community and dollars to the special would love to be able to interests she says funds stay. We really want to the campaigns of certain make that possible for politicians — including the best and the bright- Reed — and limit the est to be able to stay in involvement of recent this community and graduates in the econocontinue to enrich it.” my. Robertson criticized “If [students are] the voting history of her spending half their payopponent Reed, saying check directly just to he works against the pay loans back, then interests of college stu- they’re not buying a car, dents with his record they’re not buying a regarding college debt. house; in some cases “You shouldn’t have to graduate college with See CAMPAIGN page 5
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Cornell Center to Study Eating Habits Among Families
By MOLLY KARR Sun Contributor
Cornell will become an “obesity prevention hub” after receiving over $800,000 in federal money to study how lifestyle changes can help low-income families live healthier lives, the University announced in late October. Cornell’s Northeast Regional Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Center of Excellence — based in the Division of Nutritional Sciences — was granted the two-year, $856,250 award from the United States Department of Agriculture on Oct. 17 to research ways to address this problem, according to a USDA press release. Prof. Carol Devine Ph.D. ’90, nutritional sciences, said low and middle-income families usually have “less time to devote to food,” which has been a big challenge that she and her team have found in their research. “This has become an especially big challenge for lowincome range Americans because they have much less control over their work schedules, work less desirable hours and more job transitions,” Devine said. “It is harder for them to manage a proper eating routine. Clint Wattenberg ’03, a specialty nutritionist for the Cornell Healthy Eating Program at Gannett, low-income families have less access to nutritional food. “Families and individuals of lower socioeconomic status tend to have less access to nutritious food, less access to nutrition education and fewer positive nutrition role models,” Wittenberg said. Wattenberg added that many other factors are linked to unhealthful eating behaviors. “In fact, many factors associated with low socioeconomic status such as chronic stress, less structured family systems, less structured mealtimes and easy access to low nutritious foods all are linked to unhealthy fueling habits,” Wattenberg said. According to Devine, the research that the grant will fund will study a variety of environments people are surrounded by and will also focus on factors that cause certain food choices. “Knowing what to do and what to eat is not nearly enough, because without a supportive food environment, any gains will be short-lived,” Wattenberg said. Devine — who is also a research team member for Cornell NutritionWorks, a University-sponsored website
for nutrition professionals — added that the grant is “innovative” in that it not only looks at changes in one’s behavior, but also one’s environment. “For example, food is everywhere, but the wrong types of its advertising — [such as advertisements] for soft drinks and fast food chains — occur [in] low income areas,” she said. The members of the team who will conduct the research come from a wide variety of backgrounds and expertise, according to Devine. Members are not only nutrition specialists, but also experts in the field of economics and communication. Devine added that this diversity — alongside with
Cornell being a land-grant university with a rich history as a research group for USDA sponsored programs — is why the University serves as an ideal place for an obesity prevention hub. “The time is now for obesity research, because the solution will not be a quick fix,” Devine said. “I think we just have to look back. Obesity is a public health issue just like smoking is — it took 50 years for researchers to convince people to take [smoking hazards] seriously and achieve changes.” Molly Karr can be reached at mk956@cornell.edu.
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The Cornell University Chorus performs during its Twilight Concert Saturday in Sage Hall in honor of Cornell’s sesquicentennial.
West Calls for U.S.to Meet Islamic State‘on the Battlefield’ By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Contributor
Allen West, a former member of the House of Representatives from Florida’s 22nd Congressional District, spoke about issues in national security — focusing on those related to
the Islamic State, Iran and Russia — at Cornell Thursday. West, a member of the Republican Party, said he believed that the Islamic State, also commonly known as ISIS, was “nothing more than the reincarnation of Al-Qaeda in Iraq” and called for the United States
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Talk it out | Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) speaks about the threats that the Islamic State pose against the United States.
to meet the Islamic State “on the battlefield” due to the organization’s threat to the country’s national security. “If we don’t contend with them now, we will definitely have to contend with them later,” he said. “And my fear, my concern, is that if we have to contend with them later, [they] will be even stronger.” According to West, the Islamic State poses a threat because they are “an enemy that knows how to leverage social media,” and through social media, they have expanded their organization from a regional to a global one. West also said that the United States’ current rules of engagement give the enemy the advantage, since they limit fighting until an enemy “[shows] hostile intent.” West claimed that these rules are symptoms of broader detrimental policies. “One of the things that I think troubles us as Americans is that we don’t like the word winning — we don’t like the word victory,” he said. “And it is very odd to me because when we go to football games or hockey games, we cheer for our team to win. Yet, what I see happening now, especially in the Middle East, we are not instituting the policies that enable us to be victorious.” West added that he did not want to see the country outsource fighting the Islamic State to Iran
because they are “a very clear and present danger in the Middle East.” He added that any cooperation would require a relaxation of sanctions. “Iran will exact incredible compensations by way of lifting sanctions,” he said. “That will allow them to pursue a nuclear device.” West also discussed the growing threat that he said Russia poses to the United States, citing the recent fighting in Ukraine as
“If we don’t contend with them now, we will definitely have to contend with them later.” Allen West evidence of such a threat. “Vladimir Putin will slowly but surely continue to make incursions, as long as he sees that there is a weakness in the United States,” he said. West compared Putin to Adolf Hitler, saying that Putin “represents the exact same type of threat” that Hitler did to the world following World War I. “When you look at the situation of Germany coming out of World War I, the economy and the downtroddenness of the people, you see the exact same thing in Russia,” he said. West discussed his three pillars
of security, which focus on of economic, energy and national security issues. He added that the three pillars are interwoven and can only be achieved together. “We need to have those strategic policies to get this economy going,” he said. “We need to have strategic policies that get our energy going, but most importantly, we must go back to what a previous president by the name of Ronald Reagan called ‘Peace Through Strength.’ It is not going out there and thinking you are the big dog, but [also] having a deterrent capability.” West encouraged members of the audience to “engage” in the world they live in and to “understand the dangers that are out there.” “Your future is in your hands, and the things that you see playing out right now has grave concerns [and] grave ramifications if we don’t solve this very quickly,” he said. “It starts with principled leadership that understands foreign policy and national security policy at the strategic level.” The event was hosted by the Cornell Republicans and cosponsored by the Department of Government, the International Affairs Review, the International Business Association, the University Program Board and the Freedom and Free Society. Christopher Byrns can be reached at ecb222@cornell.edu.
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Greeks Face Fines During Year Investigators Seek FINES
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Additionally, “disparaging” other chapters in the Cornell Greek community automatically results in a $300 fine in addition to an “immediate conversation” with members of Panhel or Greek judicial board, according to the guidelines. The checklist Rho Gammas use to evaluate skits during recruitment is detailed, including guidelines such as “not portraying non-Greeks as outsiders” through the use of terms such as “GDIs” — “god damn independents.” Other “unacceptable” terminology in the recruitment process outlined in the guidlines includes using the word “rush” in a negative connotation, calling new members “pledges or babies” and any reference of “hierarchy or ranking” of sororities in the Greek system. Cornell sorority houses are also required to follow strict guidelines for the physical appearance of the house, otherwise risking incurring several hundred dollars worth of fines from Panhel. More specifically, sorority houses are prohibited from having wreaths, welcome mats or even “new porch furniture” during the recruitment period, according to the list of guidelines. “The outside of your facility should look like it does year-round,” according to the guidelines. “[There should be] no decorations or any superfluous items outside of chapter facilities.” Fines, which are not exclusive to sororities, are often used to enact policies, according to Zach Benfanti ’16, a member of Sigma Alpha Mu fraternity. “I do know there are systems in place that enact such policies,” he said. “Generally, the mandate will be made clear when a particular event is outlined, and the fines can be transacted any number of ways.” Gavin Taves ’15, former president of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, said members of his fraternity can also incur fines for being late to
meetings. “Brothers do get fined for being late. In our house, this process is handled by our vice president of finance and enforced by our chaplain and standards board,” he said. “Repeat offenders, and those that pay their fines late, are subject to other more severe punishments that are handed out by the standards board.” According to the Phi Sigma Sigma sorority house constitution obtained by The Sun, members can be fined for possessing alcohol or drugs within the house, with the “least severe” action being a “$100 fine for each resident of a room in which alcohol or drugs are discovered.” In a public Google Group for the Alpha Xi Delta sorority, members of the sorority express the importance of completing certain tasks in order to avoid fines. “We really need 12 girls for Collegetown clean-up today at 11!! If we do not have 12 girls, not only will we get fined, but we will have to do it again next week, and every week following that for the rest of the semester until we have 12 girls!” one post states. In another post, sisters urge their fellow sorority members to attend mandatory events through the threat of fines. “Please note that failure to send an excuse for all or part of the workshop, sending a late excuse or arriving late or leaving early will result in a fine,” states another post. Individual chapters, however, may choose whether or not to fine members dependent on regulations from their national sororities. For instance, the Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority “does not fine members under any circumstances,” according to Corey Matthews ’16, president of the sorority. “We rely on other incentive systems to maintain accountability for members,” she said. Aimee Cho contributed reporting to this story. The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.
Answers After Crash
MOJAVE, Calif. (AP) — Investigators looking into what caused the crash of a Virgin Galactic prototype spacecraft that killed one of two test pilots said a 5-mile path of debris across the California desert indicates the aircraft broke up in flight. “When the wreckage is dispersed like that, it indicates the likelihood of inflight breakup,” National Transportation Safety Board Acting Chairman Christopher A. Hart said late Saturday. Learning where aircraft parts fell will help investigators determine when and how the breakup occurred, he said. The crash almost certainly founder Richard dashed Branson’s goal of starting commercial suborbital flight next spring, but the mogul said that while he remained committed to civilian space travel “we are not going to push on blindly.” In grim remarks at the Mojave Air and Space Port, where the craft known as SpaceShipTwo was under development, Branson gave no details of Friday’s accident and deferred to the NTSB, whose team began its first day of investigation Saturday. “We are determined to find out what went wrong,” he said, asserting that safety has always been the top priority of the program that envisions taking wealthy tourists six at a time to
the edge of space for a brief experience of weightlessness and a view of Earth below. “Yesterday, we fell short,” he said. “We’ll now comprehensively assess the results of the crash and are determined to learn from this and move forward.” He also criticized early speculation about crash causes. “To be honest, I find it slightly irresponsible that people who know nothing about what they’re saying can be saying things before the National Transportation Safety Board makes their comments.” The pilot killed in the test flight was identified Saturday as Michael Tyner Alsbury, 39, of nearby Tehachapi. The surviving pilot is Peter Siebold, 43, who parachuted to safety and was hospitalized. Both worked for Scaled Composites, the company developing the spaceship for Virgin Galactic. Scaled Composite said Alsbury was the co-pilot for the test flight. Siebold, who was piloting SpaceShipTwo, “is alert and talking with his family and doctors,” the company said in a statement. Investigators found an undeployed parachute at the crash site, Hart said. They do not yet know how Siebold got out of the aircraft because they have not had a chance to interview him, he added.
U.N.: World May Need To Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Zero COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Climate change is happening, it is almost entirely man’s fault and limiting its impacts may require reducing greenhouse gas emissions to zero this century, the United Nation’s panel on climate science said Sunday. The fourth and final volume of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s giant climate assessment offered no surprises, nor was it expected to since it combined the findings of three reports released in the past 13 months. But it underlined the scope of the climate challenge in stark terms. Emissions, mainly from the burning of fossil fuels, may need to drop to zero by the end of this century for the world to have a decent chance of keeping the temperature rise below a level that many consider dangerous. The IPCC did not say exactly what such a world would look like but it would likely require a massive shift to renewable sources to power homes, cars and industries combined with new technologies to suck greenhouse gases from the atmosphere. The report warned that failure to reduce emissions could lock the world on a trajectory with “irreversible” impacts on people and the environment. Some impacts
already being observed included rising sea levels, a warmer and more acidic ocean, melting glaciers and Arctic sea ice and more frequent and intense heat waves. “Science has spoken. There is no ambiguity in their message. Leaders must act. Time is not on our side,” U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said at the report’s launch in Copenhagen. Amid its grim projections, the report said the tools are there to set the world on a low-emissions path and break the addiction to burning oil, coal and gas which pollute the atmosphere with heattrapping CO2 , the chief greenhouse gas. “All we need is the will to change, which we trust will be motivated by knowledge and an understanding of the science of climate change,” IPCC chairman Rajendra Pachauri said. The IPCC was set up in 1988 to assess global warming and its impacts. The report released Sunday caps its latest assessment, a mega-review of 30,000 climate change studies that establishes with 95-percent certainty that most of the warming seen since the 1950s is man-made. The IPCC’s best estimate is that just about all of it is man-made, but it can’t say that with the same degree of certainty.
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Robertson’75:Reed’s Ideas Are‘Radical’ False Alarm Brings CAMPAIGN
“Voters should pay attention to who’s on their side: It’s not Tom Reed,” Robertson said. “He’s voted to increase middle class taxes so he can give the wealthiest Americans a they’re not even able to get married,” Robertson said. “It’s huge tax break. He’s voted to ship jobs overseas, he’s voted really changing people’s lives and those are the wrong prior- to end Medicare guarantees, he’s voted to raise the cost of ities, to make these as budget cuts to pay for tax cuts for the going to college. He’s making life harder for the middle wealthiest Americans like [Reed].” class.” Another focus of Robertson’s campaign is the institution Robertson said Reed’s stance against a federal minimum of broadband Internet access for rural areas, something she wage is especially dangerous, adding that nearly two-thirds calls a “critical investment.” of Americans making minimum wage are women. “If you have high-speed Internet, “[Reed] thinks that every local you can live here and work anywhere,” community should have the chance to “[Reed’s] voted to say that Robertson said. “There are so many set their own minimum wage,” opportunities if the broadband access is women — even in cases of Robertson said. “That’s a radical idea there. It matters to students everywhere race and incest — should not that would be terrible for working from first grade on up, to access people. It would have every local comlibraries from anywhere, to do their have the right to make their munity competing for a lower and research. It’s just key to so many things. own medical decisions.” lower wage and people would be destiIt’s like rural electrification in the tute and have no choice but to take Martha Robertson ’75 1930s. … It was the federal government those even lower-wage jobs.” that made that possible.” Robertson said she thinks Reed Robertson said that she has already pushes a “breathtaking agenda” and that worked on this issue in Tompkins County, leading to a $2.2 voters — especially women — should pay attention to his million grant to build infrastructure for broadband access. stances on medical rights. “In our county, we’ve put together a task force under my “He’s voted to say that women — even in cases of rape leadership that has created a plan, done research, written a and incest — should not have the right to make their own terrific report showing which technology would be best and medical decisions. That’s a radical idea,” Robertson said. showing where the gaps were,” she said. “One of our private “He’s voted to say that employers should have a right to internet providers then took that plan, put in a proposal to decide what kinds of birth control if any their employees the state government for a grant.” will get on their insurance even if employees pay for it. Another issue Robertson said she is passionate about is That’s a radical idea.” environmental sustainability, though she says the transiAccording to Robertson, Reed’s stance toward reproduction to more sustainable energy “is going to take a long tive rights is hypocritical in light of his platform supporting time.” small government — and has the potential for large-scale “We’ve done a lot in Tompkins County,” she said. negative consequences. “[Solar Tompkins] has helped people to sign up and buy “[The House of Representatives is] passing these laws — solar systems as a sort of discount and get a better price. if not for the Senate and the President this would be the law They’ve helped something like 300 families in the county of the land,” Robertson said. “I was around before Roe v. get solar systems. But local communities can only do so Wade. I know people who got illegal abortions — people much. We need certain things to happen at the federal, as died. It’s not impossible; we could go back there if Tom well as the state level.” Reed and his friends have their way.” Robertson also said she thinks Reed’s voting record proves that leaving him in office would be “radical” for Noah Rankin can be reached at women’s and middle class workers’ rights. nrankin@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
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idiot had just pulled the fire alarm, but when everyone was forced to wait outside for much longer than expected I started to get really nervous about what was happening,” said Emily Roehr ’16. After firefighters evaluated the scene, residents were able to return inside. Firefighters left the scene shortly after 2 a.m., according to Parsons. Representatives from Travis Hyde Properties, which owns the building, could not be reached for comment Sunday. Rachel Weber an be reached at rweber@cornellsun.com.
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casual inquiry about how I’m Peter ultimately ends up one happy guy. doing seems innocuous, until I Anyone can empathize with pre-hyprespond with “living the dream.” nosis Peter. Oftentimes we choose the safe My answer evokes priceless expressions of path over the satisfying one. Slaving over amused bewilderment, as if I’ve told a a problem set or paper translates into sadistic joke and need to reassure people trudging through a miserable career. of my sanity. Before the fateful week of Curious, I enjoy asking people about their October 20, I never understood how a motives and many of them express how happy student could be so incomprehen- willing they are to make the sacrifices and sible. Now I do. In retrospect, the whole endure the struggles. In the end, they are week seems like one hellish nightmare. I happy to. Not everyone seems so clearsimultaneously experienced the chaos and eyed though. Stress without a goal, or watched everything fall apart around me, goals without passion, make zero sense to as if from another place outside my body. me. When I awoke the next Monday, I someHonestly, students have nothing to how knew that the nightmare had given worry about. Idealistic and utopic? way to recovery. Probably, considering today’s grim world Here’s the condensed version. Day 1: of college graduate unemployment. But I Having invested a lot of energy into doubt any alumni will tell you how the research for the previous two weeks, I bad prelim grade or missed internship found myself deeply unsettled by some ruined their future. I think you will turn unaddressed issues regarding an organiza- out just fine, if you don’t let your peers tion I help lead. The burden of having not and the world convince you what to value done enough triggered stress-induced in life. While no one should actually not insomnia, which care about anyled me to be menthing like Peter tally absent at my Gibbons, no one In a hypercompetitive lecture on Day 2. should care too My abysmal permuch either. In a environment like Cornell, formance on a hypercompetitive people often take on countless environment like Day 3 oral test for this same class responsibilities or expectations Cornell, people exacerbated the often take on and attempt to invest 100 insomnia. Throw countless responin a typical or expecpercent of their energy in every sibilities Cornell workload tations and and Day 4 did not attempt to invest one. You will not be able to. look pretty. Oh, 100 percent of Period. and here’s the best their energy in part: a prelim on every one. You Day 5. Think I will not be able to. had done much studying? Period. I tried and failed, living for one Each individual component of my life week in perpetual dissatisfaction. had bled into the next, so that my priori- Ultimately, everything I did could best be ties became indistinguishable and one described as mediocre. While I’m still undertaking directly impacted the dimin- recovering, I don’t support jeopardizing ished quality of work I produced for the health and happiness in the short term for next. Since being mercilessly dropped perceived long term success. into this strange hybrid between more Of course, some stress is healthy and school and the real world, my metric for normal, enabling us to respond to probsuccess has been happiness. Ironically, too lems. But too much stress can consume much ambition had actually decreased my you, and morph into counterproductive output and I felt less successful. Funny madness. Right around the moment I how that works. stopped saying “living the dream,” I realSee, I’m a Happiness major, but college ized that I also hadn’t been listening to ice-breaker questions demand a real music either. Music is pretty much my answer. So I tell people Biology, empha- raison d'être, and I had forsaken catharsis. sizing that I am not pre-med/vet/dentist. I tasted depression for just seven days, and I usually follow up this surprise with a my body and mind reacted violently. No self-deprecating joke about how few of us decent human being deserves to experithere are (three, by my last count). The ence such unhappiness. person inevitably asks what I want to do, What is happiness? Hell if I know. But often assuming pre-grad, which prompts I envision some sort of balance between yet another surprise: I enjoy research, but ambition and fulfillment. Ambition, plan to focus almost exclusively on teach- when fueled by your passion, can translate ing after grad school. If someone were to into success. For those who define ambiask why, the simplest answer would be tion as a series of resume-builders and two words: Office Space. numbers, I genuinely want you to also be I admittedly take a 1999 comedy fulfilled. For me, fulfillment means about white-collar life way more seriously acknowledging that all the rights far outthan the film takes itself. In Office Space, weigh the wrongs. A little stress can do Peter Gibbons visits a psychotherapist to wonders for your appreciation of the posdiscuss his seething hatred for his job as a itives in life, but a lot can ruin you. If you bank software updater. He is subsequently slip into a nightmare like I did, remember hypnotized into not caring about any- that all nightmares end. They aren’t real thing, and decides to sleep in during his life. So please, for your sake, just try to scheduled Saturday overtime shift. He fol- live. lows this up with a series of increasingly badass decisions like going fishing during Banks is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture work, tearing down his cubicle and park- Amiri and Life Sciences. He may be reached at abanks@coring in his manager’s spot. Without spoil- nellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this ing the movie for you, suffice it to say that semester.
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i, want to be the next Mark Zuckerberg with your killer app? If you don’t, come up with an app and dream bigger — unless you’re pre-med in which case you’re dreams might get crushed. You should probably dream smaller (that was a joke by the way). Making an app costs you nothing — i.e. the average college kid’s monthly budget — but you can benefit from experience and improve others’ lives. A few weekends ago, I was lucky and got to help a friend with a business plan for his app. I’m no expert, but I want to share what I learned for any aspiring Mark Zuckerbergs. If you have a secret app that you haven’t told anyone about, your should reconsider your approach and tell people about it. Your biggest challenge will be getting the user base to make your app profitable. We have preconceived conceptions about what makes apps successful because we are only exposed to apps that have passed the initial hurdles. I thought the biggest hurdles would be overvaluation because of the headlines in the Wall Street Journal. The biggest challenge for apps starting out is getting users. From a business perspective, you need 50,000 users to be profitable. I don’t mean to sound discouraging but that’s a lot. That’s 10 times the
The only way people will find out about it is if you tell them. However slim the odds are of reaching critical mass are even slimmer your friends don’t use it, too. size of my home town and three times the size of Cornell. Only one percent of apps reach that point. You need 50,000 users because there are three ways an app can make money (which should be obvious to anyone with a smartphone): You can charge up front for the app, you can charge for advertising or you can charge for in app purchases. The Internet (i.e. an article in Forbes and few blogs) agree that 50,000 downloads is the point where these methods generate meaningful amounts of revenue. Also, having users opens up to making money through sponsorships. The app store is not going to encourage people to download your app. The only way people will find out about it is if you tell them. However slim the odds of reaching critical mass are even slimmer if your friends don’t use it, too. Those first 100 to 500 downloads should be easy because those are the people who personally know you. How are people supposed to use your product, if you haven’t told people that you created it? You might have the best app the world but it may never get downloaded. Plenty of other services violate our privacy, are cumbersome and drain data but people use them anyway. A lot of times, its dumb luck that promotes an app. Take Venmo (not to say Venmo is successful because of dumb luck); I doubt the developers expected people describe their transactions with gags but either way it’s great marketing and promotes Venmo. People get excited about being early adopter because there’s a glamour factor to be a part of the next Facebook. Technology is changing the world for the better making our time more efficient, and connecting us with the people we love. Sticking with the Venmo example: There is no longer that pause when someone asks you to pay them back and they don’t have cash (because who needs cash in college?); it’s not life changing but it makes life more elegant. I might sound like Mr. Rogers, but if you get passionate about it, I’d call your app a success. So, if you have an app don’t hide behind the opaque curtain of the app store hoping that one day people will come to you. Go out and proactively get people to download it. Why do people use apps? They simplify our lives. So, if you have an app, get passionate about what you're doing and do it for fun (it also helps keeping costs down) and, most importantly, tell people about it.
Eric Schulman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at eschulman@cornellsun.com. Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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o here’s the thing — we rounding every controversial live in a very diverse soci- identity issue that the bystander ety with a broad range of chooses to “stay out of it” and choices and some people dis- the pandemonium continues. agree with other people’s perFor instance, I happen to be sonal choices and start antago- a feminist and very few people nizing. This leads to microag- are aware of that. I am not gressions, victimizations, inter- preaching a way of life. My est groups, activism and what point is that constantly floodnot. Be it feminists rallying ing social network and all forms against sexual assault, derision of media with opinions and of LGBTQ rights or people rant simply creates a lot of noise protesting racial discrimina- and the purpose of the movetion. A part of this dialogue also ment you support eventually consists of the silent bystander gets dissipated. As a result, peowho does not participate not ple become numb to your because he or she is afraid, but protests. Maybe there is a caveat simply because they believe in the way we protest about cersilence to be the path of com- tain issues. The idea of activism mon sense. is to isolate the aggressor and Every column I have ever not people who are — so to written has always had a stimu- speak — doing their own thing. lus, and so does this one. This Civil society and social activism past week, Tim Cook, chief is an incredible instrument but executive of Apple, joined the varies in terms of marginal benleague of OUTstanding busi- efit depending on the issue at nessmen by publicly declaring hand. For instance, when it his sexual orientation. comes to something like divestAdditionally, this past week, a ment and sustainability, you resident of Ithaca was publicly want to exhibit strength in reprimanded in the Commons numbers and volume of protest. for being gay. The most startling part about the perFinally, it is time a bystander petrator was joins the effort to isolate that he decided to make a offenders and not members of fool of himself society who are at the in broad daylight in the receiving end of slurs. Commons when it was bustling due to Oktoberfest. However, when it comes to The “victim” reacted in the protesting for individual dignimost level-headed manner and ty, it is not really a public or simply asked the offender to collective interest, but a very stop doing what he was doing private realm. Clamorous and asked him to leave. There is protests and activism in such nothing extraordinary about instances results in society this response but it still struck viewing a person only in terms me as powerful. Perhaps of the part of their identity, because, for once, I do not read which is controversial. about cries of being victimized For instance, when I walk and so on. The victim in this into a boardroom of chief execinstance was the offender who utives as a woman of color, I clearly does not perceive the want people to neither be social cues observed by modern bewildered with admiration or civilized society. The truth is offended, I simply want them that it is not very difficult to to get over it. Similarly, if I respect each other with or with- identify as a bisexual President out interest groups. When it of a country, I do not want to comes to identity issues, I think be subject to heated confabulaat times activism and protest tion for 12 months, I want peomovements might end up ple to get over it and focus on doing more harm than good. other things as well, like maybe There is such a tempest sur- my merit and political agenda.
However, some identity issues are a big deal and seem to blind every other aspect of one’s personality in the public domain because of the amount of positive and negative activism surrounding them. This hinders some people from living decent, undisturbed lives for absolutely impertinent reasons. Therefore, it is the responsibility of interest groups and activists to reassess their way of protest. Maybe an approach that focuses more on positive aspects like success stories and personalities each community is proud of, a more level-headed approach — not engrossed with constantly shouting slogans from a platform — is the need of the hour. I understand that in instances of sexual assault, for example, it is not as straightforward to ask the perpetrator to mind their own business. However, I am limiting my argument mainly to social discrimination, microaggression and not necessarily criminal offenses. To be precise, my claim is that a number of social movements and interest groups that advocate identity issues end up concentrating more on presenting themselves as victims instead of sophisticated, level-headed members of society taking it upon themselves to remind certain sections of society to mind their own business. Finally, it is time a bystander joins the effort to isolate offenders and not members of society who are at the receiving end of slurs. Your silence simply adds to the haplessness of the noise. Society will prosper and so will individuals if we all work hard and respect each other. It really is not rocket science.
Aditi Bhowmick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Pride and Prejudice and Coal Mining BY LETITIA CHAI Sun Staff Writer
“Lesbians and gays support the miners!” yell a string of young homosexual Londoners marching at a pride parade. Across the street, a stoic woman holds up a sign that reads “Burn in hell” in pink typography. A young mother hurries to shoo her child into the house before he can see any more than he has to. “Disgusting, isn’t it?” she spits. Pride, directed by Matthew Warchus and now playing at Ithaca’s Cinemapolis, is a historical dramedy that follows the unlikely alliance between British gays and miners. In 1984, the British Conservative Government, led by Margaret Thatcher, voiced their opposition against the coal mining industry and argued that coal mining was simply uneconomical. Fueled by conservative support, she closed 20 coal pits, causing the loss of over 20,000 jobs. Within a few days, half of England’s miners went on strike to protest Thatcher’s decision.The government responded by (ironically) cutting off energy, leaving thousands without means for hot water or food. The mining community was desperate. They needed money and they needed support. However, they never expected the gays to step up and lend a helping hand. Socially conservative miners were generally homophobic and had treated the gay community horribly. In fact, no matter how desperate they were, they didn’t want help if it was coming from a gay or lesbian person. Likewise, many gays found it baffling that members of their community wanted to help the miners. However, after overcoming several obstacles, both parties end up benefitting from the coalition. The plot may read like that of any other feel-good movie, but Pride is different. It doesn’t beg for the sympathy and tears of the audience; it earns it. The story conveys the emotional consequences facing a seemingly insurmountable challenge, an experience both gays and miners can relate to. Pride begins with Mark Ashton (Ben Schnetzer, The Book Thief), a young political activist who urges his gay friends to support the miners. He argues that no one else but the gay community knows what it feels like to be beaten by police, jeered at by conservatives and attacked in publications. Despite his efforts to round up troops, only eight members join him. But eight is more than enough to build a compelling
story. Warchus’ theatrical directing paired with Stephen Beresford’s honest and witty Brit-com writing gives each gay and miner their own story. Take for example, Joe Copper (George MacKay), a timid and closeted college student who seeks the confidence to join the gay community. He comes from a conservative family that makes crude jokes about AIDS (his brother-in-law calls it the “Anally Injected Death Sentence”) and would never accept a homosexual into their household. Consequently, Copper must juggle between two identities, one as an obedient, straight son and another as a gay photographer for Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners (LGSM). When his mother Pride discovers her son has COURTESY OF PATHÉ been skipping school Directed by Matthew to fraternize with Warcus becoming another hackneyed tale of overcoming chalgays, she breaks down Starring Bill Nighy, Imelda lenges. Instead, the movie retains a fun, almost musiin tears. “It’s a hard cal-like atmosphere while simultaneously raising life, Joe. Do you want Staunton, Dominic West important questions about solidarity and acceptance. to have to hide? To It asks us to see beyond our prejudices and discern keep secrets from between what is right and what we have been told is everyone?” she asks as right. In effect, Pride transcends its historical backbone her son wipes tears to emphasize the importance of fighting convention, from his swollen eyes. inspiring confidence and forging camaraderie. It is only through At the beginning of the movie, Dai Donovan, a shy the support of LGSM that Copper finds the courage to stand up for himself. When he miner from Onllwyn, stands on stage at a gay club. The audireturns home from a trip to Onllywn, a small mining village in ence boos him even before he can get a word out. As he grips South Wales, Copper storms into his home, grabs a backpack the mic-stand for support, he looks into the crowd and relays a and walks out on his bigoted family. In one of the closing scenes, humbling speech of thanks for all the money the gays have he removes a pin that reads “I am (discreetly) gay” for one that raised for his community. “When you’re in a battle against an enemy so much bigger, reads “21, gay and legal.” If the emotional effect of the movie isn’t enough, Pride boasts so much stronger than you,” he says, “to find out you have a a star studded cast including Bill Nighy of Love Actually, friend you never knew existed, well, that’s the best feeling in the Andrew Scott of Saving Private Ryan and Sherlock, Dominic world.” West of 300 and Imelda Staunton of the Harry Potter series (aka. Letitia Chai is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can Dolores Umbridge). The cast and team of Pride stop the story of LGSM from be reached at lchai@cornellsun.com.
Elvis Has Left Risley Theatre: All Shook Up BY EMILY FOURNIER Sun Staff Writer
Based on both Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night and the music of Elvis, All Shook Up was a lively “jukebox musical” without a dull moment. While it explored themes of racial inequality and unrequited love, the show had a very positive perspective. Performed in Risley Theatre and directed by Andrea Fiorentini ’16, the upbeat music, onstage orchestra, powerful vocals, plot twists and hilarious awkwardness prevented the audience from checking their watches or reaching for their cell phones. The show was centered on the changes that cocky former jailbird Chad (Sean Doolittle ’16, an editor of The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment section) brought to a lifeless Midwestern town, wearing blue suede shoes and doing spot-on Elvis impressions throughout. Before meeting Chad, the inhabitants lamented the lack of romantic opportunity in their town with a soulful, dancing-on-tables rendition of “Heartbreak Hotel,” yet upon his arrival, they began to fall in love left and right. Spunky young mechanic Natalie, earnestly portrayed by Anna Alison Brenner ’16, a writer for The Sun’s Arts and Entertainment section, was immediately entranced by Chad’s charm. She expressed her feelings with “One Night With You,” a song that was used as something of a running gag every time a character developed feelings for another, about every five minutes. Although the musical focused on romance and relationships, it was lighthearted rather than sappy and exaggerated the terrible shyness, inability to speak properly and bad decisions that the characters found came with falling in love. Ariella Reidenberg ’16 portrayed Lorraine, a teenager in a forbidden, mixed-race rela-
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tionship with Dean, newcomer Jae Noh ’18. Matthew Lynch ’15 and Lauren Harris ’15 delivered a sadly sweet performance as old friends Jim and Sylvia, bringing a bit of emotional depth to the show. Other relationships were more chaotic: While Natalie’s best friend Dennis, made endearingly pitiful by Sam Nadell ’16, was obsessed with her, she relentlessly pursued Chad and disguised herself as a man named “Ed” to get closer to him. However, Chad’s love interest, the sassy and sophisticated Miss Sandra (Lauren Hunt, an Ithaca College student), fell for “Ed” when “he” delivered a poem to her from Chad, much like Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night (or She’s the Man, of course). Inspired to sing, dance, and love, the town’s citizens began to speak out against the actions of hilariously uptight Mayor Matilda Hyde (Jillian Holch ’16), who forced the silent Sheriff Earl (Jacob Kuhn ’18) to enforce the rules against indecency — dancing, “public necking” and loud music — eventually leading her to reevaluate whether “decency” is so terribly important. As dance and music played integral roles in the show, these elements were incorporated a bit more naturally than in most musicals. The dancing, polished and wellchoreographed, often elicited cheers from the other characters to suggest that it was actually part of the plot. The show was very self-aware and poked fun at the typical elements of musicals like spontaneous song and dance. In one scene, Dean told Lorraine about his struggles with their plan and she asked kindly, “Do you want to sing about it?” Even when granting the shy and awkward Dennis his shining moment, the show mocked the structure of the dramatic Broadway ballad, leaving him alone to belt out “It Hurts Me” onstage in his boxers. Pivotal moments like this were highlighted, but also made light of to maintain the show’s tone.
All of Elvis’ most popular songs were featured in the musical, and the lyrics fit the plot quite naturally. The mashup of “Teddy Bear” and “Hound Dog,” in which Chad tried to persuade Miss Sandra to date him and she continued to reject him (with backup from Nadell and Brenner, respectively), was well-staged and allowed Doolittle and Hunt to use their excellent ranges. The first act closed with “Can’t Help Falling in Love,” sung by the company, and the sound was absolutely gorgeous. Naturally, the second act opened with the song titled “All Shook Up,” reminding us that every character was crazy about another. All the performers adapted to the musical style very well, but Harris’ portrayal of Sylvia was particularly striking as her powerful voice perfectly fit the soulful nature of Elvis’ music. Although some of the performers’ voices sounded a bit strained after four performances in three days, the vocals were very impressive and they sounded lovely together. While my experience with theater in high school has made me rather critical of the musicals I attend, I enjoyed this performance and I wholeheartedly agree with the people I heard walking out saying they could not believe how fun the show was. Though the songs were so abundant that the storyline sometimes took the backseat, the plot was logical, interesting and easy to follow. The cast was hilarious, the dancing was wonderful and the vocals were beautiful. It may not be one of the most meaningful or life-changing musicals, but it is not without sentiment and it is a truly delightful production. Note: Sean Doolittle ’16 did not participate in the editing of this article. Emily Fournier is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ejf225@cornell.edu.
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Failure
hate to start with one of those “since the dawn of time” openings, but I think it is fair to say that the trope of the tortured artist has been around for a long, long time. I imagine a sullen caveman looking upon his paleolithic friend’s cave paintings with envious contempt, waiting for his own meticulously rendered elk to get the recognition it deserves. But it seems like, at least in film, the theme has made quite a comeback recently. The latest art-house offerings are rife with stories of musicians, painters, actors and writers struggling to prove their artistic worth to harsh, skeptical peers and to an uninterested public. In The Los Angeles Times, Steven Zeitchik provides an ample list of these releases: “Popping up everywhere are movies about people buckling under their own artistic weight — the kind that comes with being a certain type of jazz musician (Whiplash), actor (Birdman), novelist (Listen Up Philip), painter (Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner) ... concert pianist (the Ethan Hawke-directed fall-festival documentary smash Seymour) [and] rock singer (the Michael Fassbenderstarring Frank).” Here, I’ll focus on two of these films. In Frank, Domnhall Gleeson plays a young songwriter finding it impossible to compete with his eccentric but undeniably talented band members, especially Michael Fassbender's giant headwearing lead singer. Meanwhile, in Whiplash, Miles Teller plays Andrew, a
young jazz drummer single-mindedly focused on becoming truly great who finds himself under the tutelage of Terence Fletcher — made truly terrifying by J.K. Simmons, an actor you probably know either from Juno or those Farmer’s Insurance commercials. Neither film pigeonholes itself in questions of creativity. The former explores how mentally damaged people attempt to strive toward normality and how this facade can break down, while the latter is, in many ways, an analogy about the difficulty of finding success in a harsh, uncaring world. Yet, these films provide two interesting diagnoses for the difficulty of creativity in the 21st century. The first is that the democratization of art and our ever-shortening attention spans have given truly creative artists a far more difficult platform to prove their worth.
resent Frank, who seems to be a true, once-in-a-generation talent. Over the course of their stay on an extended album-recording retreat, Jon fails to impress any of his fellow bandmates. Yet, by secretly documenting the group’s recording sessions, he manages to get the group invited to play at South by Southwest (yes, this plot element was gimmicky, and no, this would probably never happen, especially if your best looking bandmate is hiding his face with a fake head). Unsurprisingly, the performance ends in disaster, with Frank crumpled onto the floor, destroyed by his one chance at mainstream success. Although the film asks far more questions than it satisfyingly answers, Frank clearly holds disdain for the impulse for self-promotion that seems to be necessary to survive in any creative endeavor nowadays. Here, creativity is a fleeting, ephemeral and rare gift, which is ultimately spoiled by efforts to package, commodify and reproduce There’s No Place it. Jon struggles to recLike Brome oncile his ordinariness with his yearning to be a Throughout Frank, we follow true artist, while Frank finds it easy to Gleeson’s keyboard-playing sad-sack, be an iconoclast but difficult to adjust Jon, as he attempts to improve his song- to everyday life. In the end, it is the writing skills. He blames his struggle to latter that is destroyed by the hollowfind inspiration on his bland upbring- ness of commercial success — in only ing in a British suburb, and grows to a few minutes.
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On the other hand, Whiplash explores another aspect of creativity: How the anxiety of influence and the terror of mediocrity can destroy the fragile hopes of a young musician. Andrew is eager to be “among the greats,” idolizing the deft artistry of Buddy Rich. Fletcher is able to exploit his combination of talent, insecurity and stubborn yearning for success, but, in the process, manages to destroy Andrew’s confidence and leave him emotionally broken. Unlike in Frank, art here is not a subjective, nebulous concept. To Fletcher, whose gentle chiding of Andrew for being “not quite” on tempo becomes a horrifying exercise in emotional manipulation, jazz can be objectively judged, and there is a clear-cut boundary between mediocrity and greatness. His solution is to ruin the lives of unworthy musicians until the right one comes along, using the story of Joe Jones throwing a cymbal at Charlie Parker as justification to torture his students into creating sublime music. In a world where chances at recognition are few and far between, it’s ultimately unclear whether his methods are examples of sadistic, cruel and unnecessary torture, or whether he has found a way to overcome an alternative that is almost worse: a waste of true potential. Sam Bromer is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com. There’s No Place Like Brome runs alternate Mondays this semester.
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Somborn’s Strong Game Bodes Well For Rest of Season FOOTBALL
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Through the air, Somborn posted the best game of any Cornell quarterback this season, completing 23-of40 passes for 315 yards and two touchdowns. Somborn entered the game after junior quarterback James Few — making his first start since the Big Red’s week three loss to Yale University — struggled to generate any resemblance of a consistent offensive attack. Few, who has been listed as “day-to-day” with an undisclosed shoulder injury since the team’s season opener at Colgate, consistently missed receivers short, eventually making way for Somborn to provide an offensive spark unseen so far this season. “It definitely builds confidence whenever I can get in or whenever any of of our quarterbacks can get in and fit into the groove and start to mesh with receivers, see what the defense is giving us, knowing where to go and seeing it from that perspective too because everyone is getting mental reps on the sideline, helping me out,” Somborn said. “It wasn't just me doing everything. I got help from all three other quarterbacks that were out there seeing what the defense can do and bringing for us. It definitely helps my play whenever we can get in and get into a groove, but it's not like it's just me with it. It's still a strength in numbers with everybody.” Somborn, who was sidelined for the first five weeks with an ankle injury, made his season debut last week against Brown, coming in relief of freshman gunslinger Jake Jatis and ultimately throwing for 118 yards on seven-of-14 throws and two touchdowns. While Somborn has a proclivity for taking sacks — he has been sacked four times in each of his appearances — the McKinney, TX native has crystallized the Red’s passing
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Heart-to-heart | Senior co-captain and wide receiver Lucas Shapiro — who had two touchdowns against Princeton — spoke with head coach David Archer ’05 last week about the shortcomings of the offense so far this season.
attack. The establishment of the pass game has subsequently improved the performance of everyone around Somborn, including junior running back Luke Hagy (16 carries for 98 yards, one rushing touchdown and one passing touchdown on a flea flicker) and Shapiro, who had his best game of the season (12 catches for 165 yards and two touchdowns) and surpassed 1,000 career collegiate receiving yards. Shapiro, the captain of the offense, had a “heart-toheart” with Archer — who has not committed to a quarterback yet in next Saturday’s matchup at Columbia — in the days leading up to the matchup against Princeton. Shapiro stated his dissatisfaction with the offense’s performance thus far this season, a unit that has generated the lowest total offense in the Ivy League at 263.2 yards per game.
Red Says Goodbye to Seniors SPRINT
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first and goal. On the next play, the Red ran another pitch play, this time to junior running back Benjamin Herrera for the touchdown. The score gave Cornell a 24-7 lead. Several possessions later, Pannullo hit sophomore defensive back Rob Hendricks in the back of the endzone to start the fourth quarter, extending the lead to a comfortable 24 points. Pannullo would finish with 137 yards, completing 12-of-17 attempted passes. He had his first game with no interceptions since Princeton (0-6) three weeks ago. His performance is all the more impressive considering Mansfield ranks as the best defense against the pass in the Collegiate Sprint Football League. Pannullo was efficient through the air but dominant on the ground. He had a career-high 129 yards to finish as the game’s leading rusher. After the Mounties cut the lead to 17 points early in the fourth quarter, Pannullo’s second touchdown put Mansfield away for good. Junior running back Benjamin Herrera was the second leading rusher, finishing the contest with 80 yards. Nathanson added 48 yards on the ground. In total, the Red rushed 54 times for 298 yards, good for a season high. Pannullo credited strong performances from the veteran offensive line as key for the rushing success. “The offensive line did an incredible job, and it was great to send the seniors out on a positive note,” he said. “The seniors gave
too much to the program and deserved to go out on a win.” On the defensive side of the ball, Cornell also found success. Cornell limited the Mounties to 2.9 yards per attempt for a total of 38 yards. Mansfield entered the game as the third most productive offense in the CSFL in terms of both points scored and yards per game. The Red was able to limit Mansfield to well below its offensive season averages. After the opening drive touchdown, Cornell’s defense kept the Mounties quiet for eight consecutive drives. As was a problem all season, Cornell struggled to reign in Mansfield’s air attack. Quarterback Mike Maniscalco threw for 252 yards and all three of the Mounties’ scores. Eddie Larcom was his favorite target, and he finished with 150 yards and two touchdowns. The victory snapped a two game losing streak for the Red. Cornell finishes the season ranked fifth in the CSFL and, with a young team, looks to build on this year’s success next season. Pannullo said he is thankful for the leadership that older members of the team have brought to the squad throughout the season. “We are really going to miss those guys next year,” he said. “Those guys have set a great example for us moving forward, and Friday's win ended the season on a very positive note [to] lead us into next season.” Adam Bronfin can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
Seeing the offense succeed left both Archer and Shapiro happy with the meeting earlier in the week. That offensive progress, Shapiro said, will continue to translate for the rest of the season and for the future. “We knew we had a great offense coming into it. Yeah, we were young, but we were playing with injuries at the beginning of the year and Robert was hurt,” Shapiro said. “We had some offensive linemen that got hurt early in the season, so it's been tough to mesh everything together and get the new guys in there and get some plays executed well. Now that we're fully healthy, we can see what we can do for the rest of this year and for years to come when everyone is 100 percent.” Joon Lee can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
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cussing his defensemen’s early performance, but praised the players for their play later in the game. “They were atrocious in the first period — turned pucks over, didn’t move pucks fast, got themselves in trouble — but I thought after that they settled down,” he said. “With the horrendous start that we had, they rebounded, and as a coach that’s what you’re looking for. You’re looking for them not to drop their heads and feel sorry that they don’t have it tonight. They actually took the opposite approach and rose to the occasion and played better in the second and third periods.” Stewart put up more than half of his save total in the first period alone, stopping 12 of 13 shots and shutting down several Maverick opportunities, including a breakaway. “He’s a real battler; he doesn’t get intimidated,” said freshman forward Trevor Yates of his netminder classmate. “First college start, he was playing really well in net, really competing hard.” The Mavericks snuck their first goal behind Stewart with 1:59 left in the opening frame, as Maverick freshman forward Avery Peterson scored his first collegiate goal by sliding the puck between Stewart’s pads as the Red goalie was down in the butterfly position on the ice. Cornell struck back 71 seconds later, as Yates tallied his own first collegiate goal, jamming the puck home from the right side of the crease to knot the game at 1-1. “It’s a great feeling, especially a goal like that where the whole line was involved,” Yates said. “We’re all battling hard — we win a bunch of battles and a couple of nice plays and it ends up in the back of the net.” Cornell ended up with an extended two-man advantage early in the second period, but failed to bury the puck. “Anytime you give up three Omaha goalie Ryan Massa goals in the course of a stonewalled several solid chances as the Red conweekend, you’ve got to be trolled the puck around the happy with your offensive zone. With 4:40 left in the secgoaltending.” ond frame, Omaha put Mike Schafer ’86 away its winning goal after the puck’s odd bounce off the glass set up an Omaha shot. Maverick sophomore forward Austin Ortega gathered the rebound for a wraparound, shoving the puck by Stewart’s right foot to grab a 2-1 lead for the away team. Despite peppering Massa for 10 more shots in the third period compared with Omaha’s four shots on Stewart in the frame, the Red was held off the board the remainder of the game. “Kudos to their kid, as far as goaltending I thought he had an outstanding weekend,” Schafer said of Massa’s performance. Despite the different outcomes of Friday and Saturday’s games, with the loss coming in the second game, Friday’s tie was a messier affair. The Red took several penalties in the first half of the opening frame on Friday, including yielding a five-on-three opportunity for the Mavericks. Sophomore goaltender Mitch Gillam stole a goal from the Mavericks in the two-man-down situation, making the most spectacular of his 38 saves on the night as he stretched to the side to deny the score. Gillam, who started Friday, and Stewart, who started Saturday, are expected to trade games for the start of the season. Schafer said he was pleased with the performances of both netminders over the weekend. “Anytime you give up three goals in the course of the weekend, you’ve got to be happy with your goaltending,” he said. “It was great to see both those guys having real strong weekends.” The Red nabbed the initial lead in Friday’s game, taking a 1-0 advantage late in the first as sophomore forward Matt Buckles powered a shot from the top of the left circle off the post and by Massa. Omaha responded early in the second period, taking advantage of a Red turnover at the Omaha blue line to create an odd-man rush down the ice for a goal. A scoreless third period and overtime left the game at the final 1-1 score. “We were a lot more pleased than yesterday; I thought we stuck to our game plan a lot better today,” said senior captain John McCarron after Saturday’s game, comparing the loss to the tie. “It’s unacceptable at home to lose in front of our unbelievable fans; we know that and we know we’ve got a huge week ahead of us to get prepared for next weekend.” The Red heads into ECAC hockey next weekend, taking its lone road trip of the semester to see Princeton and Quinnipiac. “We grew even on the weekend,” Schafer said, reflecting on his team’s 0-1-1 record. “It’s really, really early for us, and it’s going to be a long process. We judge ourselves on how we’re getting better, not on the results. We’ll be a different team next weekend, and two weeks, and three weeks, and that’s how we’ll judge ourselves.” Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.
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WOMEN’S HOCKEY
Strong Comeback Comes Up Short Against Princeton By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer
Cornell women’s hockey fell short in its opening home games against Princeton and No. 5 Quinnipiac this weekend. After ten minutes of play in the matchup with the Tigers on Friday, Cornell found itself trailing by one goal. However, with twenty seconds left in the first period, junior forward Jess Brown scored her first goal of the season during a power play to tie up the game. Despite out-shooting Princeton 11-4 in the first period, Cornell struggled to maintain its intensity in the second. Princeton took advantage of the Red’s slow start and scored three goals in the opening 2:53 of the period to jump ahead to a 4-1 lead. Cornell took a timeout, pulled sophomore goalie Paula Voorheis, and put in freshman netminder Amelia Boughn. Minutes later at 8:43, Cornell capitalized on a one-man advantage when freshman forward Hannah Bunton whipped the puck through the net front screen. With sophomore defender Sydney Smith in the penalty box for hooking, Princeton further extended its lead with 2:42 left in the second period. This was Princeton’s final goal of the night. In the third, the game switched in Cornell’s favor. Sophomore forward Kaitlin Doering said she believes the team’s confidence and patience was a key factor in the turnaround. “I think we showed a lot more confidence in our own abilities and our teammates and played with more poise and patience,” she said. “Being down three goals and then bringing the score back within one showed great character for the team and what we have in store for the future.” Cornell shocked the Princeton team. Within the first 31 seconds of play, senior forward Emily Fulton scored her third goal of the season. This goal livened up the
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Attacking the puck | Senior forward Emily Fulton has been an offensive force for the Red so far this year, scoring her third goal of the season on Friday.
Cornell fanbase. Later in the period, Doering dug a loose puck out of the corner and ripped it towards the net, just squeaking it past the Princeton goalie to bring the game to 5-4. Doering was impressed with the home performance of the Red’s underclassmen in the loss. “We had two first collegiate goals for sophomore Brianna Veerman, and freshman Sarah Knee, and a great showing by our freshman goalie Amelia Boughn, who made some great saves for her first appearance at Lynah rink,” Doering said. On Saturday, Cornell was unable to break through Quinnipiac’s strong defense and was shutout, 3-0. All three goals were scored within the first period. However, during the second and third periods Cornell created more goal opportunities. Voorheis also bounced back from the Princeton game to make 27 saves against Quinnipiac. The team has a two-week break before it resumes play against Brown and Yale. Doering said she thinks this is the
perfect time for the team to come together and prepare for its upcoming games. “I think we need to take advantage of these upcoming weeks, separate from the competitive aspect of the game and refocus on all of our systems so that the entire team becomes one cohesive unit,” she said. “Once we can trust that our teammates are going to do their job, we can all execute our own jobs on a superior level.” The two losses opened some eyes and fired up the team for the rest of its long season, according to Doering. “It’s always a tough pill to swallow when you lose a game. I think that the year is a constant progression towards the goals the team sets at the beginning of the year, so regardless of the outcome of the games we play, we are always looking to improve,” she said. “The losses just add extra incentive to continue working towards that common goal.” Danielle Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun.com.
MEN’S SOCCER
Princeton Deflates Cornell Hopes of Ivy League Title By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Senior Writer
Princeton’s Andrew Mills’ late goal on Saturday evening came as a hammer blow to the Cornell side, all but ending its Ivy League dreams. The Red suffered heartbreak when Mills got to the end of the ball in the 88th minute, guiding it past senior
goalkeeper and co-captain Zach Zagorski. The Tigers just edged past the Red in an entertaining game that saw one of the league’s best offensive sides face off with one of the league’s best defensive back lines. The result leaves Cornell at No. 6 in the league with six points. With two games left to
play — Dartmouth and Columbia — the Red still has a mathematical shot at the title. However Penn, Harvard and Princeton would also have to drop points along the way. Both Cornell and Princeton went into the game with strong incentives for victory — a win would have propelled either side near the top of the table, with
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The equalizer | Senior defender and co-captain Devin Morgan tied the game at one apiece with a goal late in the second half, but Princeton scored the game-winner in the 88th minute.
the tail end of the season Zagorski into the bottom right approaching. corner, putting the Tigers ahead With both sides registering 14 before the break. shots throughout the course of Cornell pressed for an equalthe game, a stalemate was clearly izer but was made to wait till the not an option. 84th minute Sophomore — a familiar f o r w a r d trend this seaPRINCETON @ CORNELL V i n c e n t son. Two 2 1 Brunetti Cornell capworked a good Game: tains stepped 2ND FINAL 1ST o p p o r t u n i t y Princeton 1 up to give the 1 2 for himself, Cornell 0 Red a fighting 1 1 firing low chance. from the right Chodas side of the box. The deflected once again displayed his profishot looked like it might just ciency in dead-ball situations, creep in, before a quick change hitting a long ball from a free of direction from the Princeton kick to the near post where the goalkeeper pushed it away. waiting defender and senior coSenior defender Peter Chodas captain Devin Morgan both rose and senior midfielder Conor to meet it. Morgan hit the ball Goepel connected well on several hard and low inside the near occasions to carve out goal scor- post, bringing the game level. ing opportunities. Goepel — the It was now the Tigers’ turn to Red hero on several occasions crank up the pressure, hitting already this season — almost put four shots in two minutes. Cornell ahead in the 30th Princeton finally broke through minute when his shot went just in the 88th minute when a cross over the crossbar. into the mass of players in the The Red did manage to frus- Cornell box caused some confutrate the Tigers in a very physical sion. As Chodas slid to clear the first half, preventing them from ball it ricocheted off of getting a shot on target until the Princeton’s Mills, creeping past 40th minute when sophomore an outstretched Zagorski into midfielder Ralph Lee Price IV the bottom right corner. fouled Princeton’s Cameron The Red takes on Dartmouth Porter in the box, leading to a next Saturday in the final home penalty kick. game of the season. Porter — the league’s leading goalscorer — made no mistakes, Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached calmly driving the ball past at hyousefi@cornellsun.com.
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Red Tops Mansfield in Final Game of Season
By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer
With four minutes remaining in the first quarter of the sprint football team’s game against Mansfield, sophomore linebacker Christopher D’Ambrosio dove to catch a tipped ball off the hands of a Mansfield receiver. The interception would give the Red the ball and the momentum. From that point on, Cornell would never look back in its
38-21 victory over Mansfield in its final game of the season. For the first 11 minutes of Friday’s game, it looked like Cornell (3-4) would fall victim to the mistakes that had plagued it all season. The Mountaineers (1-6) scored off a 65-yard touchdown on the very first drive of the game, reminiscent of the big plays that doomed Cornell in last week’s 17-14 loss to Post (3-2). The Red also struggled on third down conversions. Cornell was able to put together a solid drive for its first
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possesion, but unfortunately it only came away with three points as the Red was stopped on Mansfield’s 21-yard line. Junior kicker Michael Zazzara knocked in a 38-yard field goal to put Cornell on the board. The Red failed to convert on a third down and long on its next possession and was forced to punt. The game was shaping up to follow a similar script as the Red’s other losses this season. D’Ambrosio’s interception changed all of that. Cornell got the ball back and went to work. The Red’s rushing attack that has been brilliant at times throughout the season began to show off just how MANSFIELD @ CORNELL effective it could be. On the drive imme21 38 diately following Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL the interception, Mansfield 7 0 0 14 21 the Red ran on all Cornell 3 14 7 14 38 four plays. Sophomore quarterback Rob Pannullo highlighted the drive by spinning away from several would-be tacklers to the six-yard line for a 12-yard gain. On the next play, Pannullo found the endzone to give Cornell a 10-7 lead. The Red would never trail again. After forcing a three and out several minutes later, Cornell had one of its most impressive drives of the season, marching 88 yards down the field for the score. On the drive, the Red gained yards mainly on the ground, save for an 18-yard screen pass from Pannullo to senior wide receiver Alec Morris. The drive was punctuated with 17 seconds left on the clock in the first half by sophomore Kevin Nathanson’s touchdown, a pitch to the right side for five yards. In the third quarter, Pannullo found a wide open junior wide receiver Trevor Marrero at the five yard line to set up a
Hands team | Sophomore linebacker Chris D’Ambrosio (#34) had an interception towards the end of the first
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quarter that got the ball rolling for the Red in its win over Mansfield.
FOOTBALL
Improved Offense Comes Up Just Short
Somborn gives Red consistent pass game effort against Tigers By JOON LEE Sun Staff Writer
For the first time this season, one did not expect the Cornell University football team’s offensive drives to end with a failed third down conversion. For the first time this season, one did not expect to see a booming kick from sophomore punter Chris Fraser — who has arguably been among the team’s most valuable players thus far in the season — capping off an offensive drive. Most importantly for the Red
and head coach David Archer ’05, though, for the first time this season the offense consistently put together sustained offensive drives, marching down the field towards the end zone with a flurry of short passes and read-option plays while putting points up on the board frequently. While Cornell (0-7, 0-4 Ivy League) failed to register its first victory of the season, Saturday’s 38-27 loss to Princeton was about more than just the result of the scoreboard. Rather, it affirmed that the Red could put points up on the scoreboard with its young personnel and without an NFL-quality quarterback — such as Jeff Mathews ’14 —under center. “A little confidence can go a PRINCETON @ CORNELL long way and I think we did a 38 27 lot in establish- Game: 1ST 2ND 3RD 4TH FINAL ing our confi- Princeton 3 14 14 7 38 dence offensive- Cornell 0 14 0 13 27 ly,” Archer said. “It hurts because we didn't get the win, but knowing that we were able to do some things offensively is only going to help us the next three Ivy League games.” Led by sophomore quarterback Robert Somborn and senior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro, the Red put together consistent offensive drives, throwing together a solid mix of passing and run plays to keep the Tigers defense on their toes. Somborn’s presence under center immediately legitimized the passing game on Sunday, an area of the offense where the team has struggled to establish any presence so far this year. See FOOTBALL page 13 CAMERON POLLACK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Heisman pose | Junior running back Luke Hagy ran for 98 yards and a touchdown on Saturday.
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Buckle up | Sophomore forward Matt Buckles scored the lone goal in the Red’s tie on Friday night.
MEN’S HOCKEY
Icers Tie One, Drop Another to Nebraska By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
There were brief flashes of brilliance in Saturday night’s game — a set of excellent shifts following Omaha’s first goal that led to a quick tying tally, some terrific first period saves from freshman goalie Hayden Stewart — but it wasn’t enough to take down the Red’s more game-experienced opponent as Cornell faced a 2-1 loss in the second night of its season-opening homes-
tand. Cornell exits its opening weekend 0-1-1, with Saturday’s loss following on the heels of a 1-1 tie with the Mavericks on Friday night. Despite a solid opening minute of play on Saturday, the first period became a showcase for the Red’s early season kinks, as defensive give-aways led to several chances for the Mavericks. Head coach Mike Schafer ’86 minced no words disSee M. HOCKEY page 14