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Federal Bill Would Cut TCAT Funding $200K Annually

An amendment to a federal highway bill that passed the United States House of Representatives Wednesday proposes to cut funding for public transit and would slash 12 percent of the federal portion of TCAT funding, or $207,000 annually, according to a TCAT press release

In 2013, 10 6 percent of the TCAT ’ s annual budget came from federal funds, according to its website

TCAT workers plan to protest the bill along with other transit agencies in the state, according to the release

According to The Syracuse Post-Standard, the bill would cut $820 million over the course of six years statewide New York state currently receives $140 million

a year from the federal government for public transportation

The New York Public Transit Association said it plans to mobilize and lobby for further funding for public transit in the state and throughout the east coast the region

eliminates transit funding dedicated to states with high population-density, including New York, a change that will significantly impact transit systems across the state, ” NYPTA President and CEO of the Capital District Transit Agency (CDTA) in Albany Carm Basile said in the release

Basile emphasized that this cut would seriously compromise the quality of ser vices TCAT provides

most affected by the cuts

The mobilized organizations aim to work with the United States Senate, which has not presently passed the bill and could amend or reject it, according to the release “ The recently passed House Surface Transportation bill

Among I.C. Students, Admin

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca College students and faculty have grown increasingly frustrated with the administration’s response to racial issues on campus, with tension reaching a new high in the past few weeks as students and faculty call for a vote of no confidence for President Tom Rochon

“You can ’ t even walk through campus right now without hearing about [these issues] or go to class without hearing it part of class discussion,” said Dominick Recckio ’16, president of Ithaca College’s Student Government Association

According to Recckio, problems first surfaced during Residential Advisor training at the start of this year when RAs reported racial aggression by Public Safety officers

At the training session, Officer Terry O’Pray reportedly stated that racial profiling does not occur at Ithaca College Officer Jon Elmore showed RAs various weapons, and when he showed a black BB gun, he

By PHOEBE KELLER

Assistant News Ed tor

President Garrett is embarking on a six-month tour, aspiring to connect with Cornellians across the nation and overseas and explore Cornell’s role as a “global university ”

Garrett’s presidential tour, which was organized by the Division of Alumni Affairs, includes 12 stops in locations including Washington D C , Seattle, Mumbai, Beijing and Hong Kong, according to the University

“A 20 percent or more cut in funding will force us to ask our riders to pay more for less ser vice, and slow economic growth in our communities,” Basile said

At a meeting called by the NYPTA Friday, NYPTA announced its plans to collaborate with transit agencies

far and wide,” Mazza said in a University press release

Garrett also said she is eager to connect with Cornellians nationally and internationally, both to present her priorities for Cornell and to receive feedback

Jim Mazza ’88, associate vice president for alumni affairs, said the tour will allow Garrett to interact directly with a diverse selection of alumni and discuss her vision for Cornell’s future

“Thanks to our close partnerships with, and the good work of, Cornell club volunteers around the globe, this tour promises to be a terrific opportunity to introduce our inspiring president to Cornellians

“Cornell is a global university, and I want to connect with our alumni, families and friends in the places they now live and work,” Garrett said in the release “This tour will give me insights about our spirited and diverse Cornell community, as I share my own vision and passion for our great university ”

The tour ’ s first stop will be in Washington D C on November 10 According to the event ’ s website, more than 50 people have already indicated they are planning to attend the event, many of them alumni

ZACHARY KAPLAN

Contributor

With a $198,000 state grant and nearly $50,000 from the Un i ve r s i t y, C o r n e l l’s Pu b l i c Service Center is coordinating a Science and Technology Entr y Program to begin in January that will provide pre-college services to 99 disadvantaged students across Ithaca over the next five years

The grant, which comes as p a r t o f t h e Ne w Yo rk St a t e Science and Technology Entr y Program (STEP), allows Cornell to join a coalition of 58 colleges and universities around New York also working to expand higher

education opportunities for dis-

school students

The Public Ser vice Center’s program will serve local students a t De

Ithaca High School over the next

Leyden, the program ’

director In addition to the $198,000 grant from the New York State Department of Education, the University will match 25 percent of the state funds, Leyden said Both the state grant and the

Market Reform and Water Wars

12:15 - 1:30 p m , 262 Uris Hall

Trial by Arati: Gogaji’s Muslim, Brahman And Government Priests 12:15 - 1:10 p m , G-08 Uris Hall

Constructing Food Webs for Large Territorial Ecosystems With Dr Andy Dobson 12:20 - 1:20 p m , A106 Corson/Mudd Hall

What Did They Really Eat?

A Critical Analysis of the Food Value in the Three Sisters 12:20 - 1:30 p m , 404 Plant Science Building

Tomorrow Monday, November 9, 2015 Today

Cornell Fluid Dynamics Seminar Noon - 1 p m , 178 Frank H T Rhodes Hall

Poisonous Plants and Ruminants With Sage Buckner Noon - 1 p m , LH2 College of Veterinary Medicine

Genetic and Molecular Approaches For Crop Nutritional Quality Improvement 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 135 Emerson Hall

Thanksgiving Turkey Donation Drive 1 - 2:30 p m , Statler Hall

Biomedical Sciences Seminar Series With Dr Sharon Carter 4 - 5 p m , Lecture Hall III, Vet Research Tower

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are expected for Thursday,

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It will be sunny thoughout your Friday, but at night it will be quite cold Time to break out the fracket for a night on the town

by Paulina Glass

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Man Steals Purse at Gunpoint

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New York Legislator Fights Against Nail Salon Reforms

R o n K i m , a Ne w Yo r k State assemblyman, has publicly questioned Gov Andre w Cuomo’s ne w law, which is designed to protect nail salon w

according to The Ne w York Times Kim has taken par ticular issue with a provision of the law which is designed to p ro t e c t w o rk e r s f ro m w a g e f r a u d K i m h a s s a i d t h e requirement unfairly singles out nail salons and says when he signed the law he did not

b e l i e v e t h e n e w p r o v i s i o n

w o u l d a p p l y t o n a i l s a l o n businesses alone Many state officials have expressed confusion and disappointment with Kim’s opposition to the law, saying they believed it was

a l w a y s c l e a r t h a t t h e l a w would apply on to the nail salon industr y Alphonso B David, the chief counsel for the governor, said he questions Kim’s motivations after his abr upt change in position, The Times repor ts

N a t i o n a l

Missouri Football Players Join Protest

By Boycotting Team

Activities

Dozens of black football players at the University of Missouri have joined demons t r a t o r s i n p r o t e s t i n g t h e Univerity President, blaming h i m f o r p o o r h a n d l i n g o f r a c i a l t e n s i o n s o n c a m p u s , according to The Ne w York

Ti m e s Pro t e s t s o n c a m p u s have been in response to several incidents in which racial slurs were directed at black students and one in which a student used feces to draw a swastika on the wall of a resi-

d e n c e h a l l M a n y s t u d e n t s have blamed the University’s a d m i n i s t r a t o r s a n d o f f i c i a l s for failing to respond to the incidents and are calling for

t h e Un i v e r s i t y p r e s i d e n t , Timothy Wolf to step down, The Times repor ts

Compiled by Phoebe Keller

Hundreds Celebrate Taiwanese Night Market

By LAUREN KELLY Sun Staff Writer

With a line spilling out the front door, the 15th annual Taiwanese Night Market welcomed over 500 students to celebrate Taiwanese heritage through food, music and games in the Physical Sciences building Saturday

“Taiwan is such a small island and not many people know much about it,” said Yvonne Huang ’16, vice president of Cornell Taiwanese American Society, which organized the event “Night markets are a very famous part of Taiwan and there are certain foods that are unique to it Our goal is to spread Taiwanese culture and awareness to the Cornell community and what’s a better way of doing it than through free food?”

The event aimed to serve three purposes, according to Tech Kuo ’16, CTAS president

“For the people who are from Taiwan, it’s a chance to get a taste of home For people of Taiwanese heritage, it’s a chance to learn more about where you came from,” Kuo said “For the greater community, Taiwan has a very vibrant culture and it’s amazing that we get to give more exposure to the small country ” In addition to live music played by the CTAS band and common night market games, a major highlight of the event was the authentic, traditional Taiwanese dishes, including pork belly bao buns, three cup chicken, minced pork rice and shaved ice

“Every time we make these dishes I learn something new and that is very cool because I get a better glimpse of what my parents ’ lives were like,” Kuo said

Although this is the Night Market event ’ s 15th year, CTAS has tried to make the event accessible to more students each year, according to Huang This is only the second year that the event has been free to the public, made possible by funding from CUTonight, an group which finances events for a variety of organizations, and only the first year CTAS had planned to serve 500 people at the event, according to numerous members of the CTAS executive board

“[The food is] all homemade,” according to Kuo “The recipes that are used have been passed down But it’s amazing to see so many people line up We are just a bunch of college students, not professional chefs ” Not only is CTAS’ Night Market their biggest event for their publicity, but also a chance for members of the organization to bond, with volunteers within and outside the organization spending the entire week prior to the event planning and cooking in preparation, according to Lily Shi ’17, a member of CTAS

“You really get to know everyone in the club and it strengthens the bonds between members,” Shi said “Some people you might not know too well, but you cook one dish together and suddenly you become great

friends ”

In particular, Kuo said that Night Market is a unique event because the members of CTAS experience all the cultural aspects of the food by preparing and enjoying it He added that most cultural organizations at other universities allow caterers and chefs to handle the food when organizing events similar to Night Market

Winston Lee ’18, another CTAS member, added that the hard work CTAS put into organizing the event was ultimately rewarded when hundreds of students showed up to enjoy the Night Market

“Planning for the Night Market takes a lot of time and work, but in the end it’s a rewarding experience to be able to see all these people and really appreciate the efforts that we made,” he said

Harvard Prof Explores Limits and De nitions of Life

By KYLE OEFELEIN Sun Staff Writer

Prof Sophia Roosth, history of science, Har vard University, spoke in Kaufmann Auditorium Thursday about the limits of the biological and how we define life in a new age of science, which defy typical expectations and definitions of life

The lecture, titled “Unlikely Life: Interrogating the Limits of the Biological,” focused on several examples of “unlikely life,” such as the development of the T7 1 virus Led by Prof Drew Endy of MIT, synthetic biologists developed this virus in order to better understand the T7 virus, Roosth said

“Instead of trying to rebuild the model, Endy’s team wanted to rebuild the phage to be more understandable,” Roosth said “That’s a symptom of the move to manufacture in the life sciences comprehensibility becomes a design principle, and making becomes a form of inquiry Knowledge about how life works is furthered not by experimenting on life, but by making new forms of it ”

As synthetic biology methods become more ingrained in modern science, scientists are constructing a more complex definition of life which encompasses a more diverse set of organisms, according to Roosth

“I call these objects of synthetic biology including T7 1 persuasive objects,” Roosth said “Such living things do not simply exemplify what life is or what it might next become, they are vital manifestations of theories that simultaneously convince and compel synthetic biologists to redefine life itself as a much [something] broader ”

According to Roosth, defining the origins of life is complex, as the term “life” itself has recently taken on an increasingly malleable identity

“Life, in short, is something that gets made,” Roosth said “The unlikely lives born by syn-

thetic biologists grow, mutate, metabolize and divide, yet they also speak eloquently of nature and artifice, of analysis and synthesis, of life and its limits ”

Roosth said the extremely resilient tardigrade, a microscopic eight-legged aquatic extremophile is also an example of unlikely life, which he said has proliferated in almost every terrestrial ecological niche Biologists have subjected these organisms to many extreme conditions in order to test the tardigrades’ durability, according to Roosth These tardigrades survive extreme conditions through a process unique to their species and divergent from the typical conception of life

“The reason that tardigrades can endure such extremes is that when exposed to such conditions they enter a state of suspended animation,” Roosth said “What that means is that they are pausing their metabolism until they

appear as if dead ”

Some theoretical ecologists now believe that some organisms, more than others, challenge our traditional concept of life, Roosth said “These are creatures that behave in ways that resist our assumption about how life happens,” Roosth said

These examples, according to Roosth, served as cases to explore the many problems or theories of life and its limits

“Rather than being the common denominator underlying all living things, life is perpetually problem of ontological limits and discontinuities,” said Roosth “Life is indeed a concept but of course that doesn’t mean that life does not exist, rather that our theories of life are spectacularly lively ”

Kyle Oefelein can be reached at koefelein@cornellsun com

Amended Federal Bill May Cut TCAT Funding

State Grant Funds New STEM Program

University’s funding are renewable annually for the next five years

The pre-college ser vices will i n c l u d e c a re e r a

counseling, SAT/ACT preparation, individual subject tutoring, leadership training, college tours and financial aid guidance, according to Leyden

Professor Thomas H. Jordan

Professor, University Southern California and Director, Southern California Earthquake Center

“Trial of the L’Aquila Seven: How an Unforetold Seismic Catastrophe Changed Operational Hazard Forecasting”

Monday, November 9, 2015

4:00-5:00PM 184 Law School The Public is Invited

These ser vices are intended to encourage entr y into the fields of science, technology, engineering and math in addition to state-licensed professions such as social work and l

added

“It’s difficult for teens who haven’t been exposed to the

what most STEM careers really

[STEP] is connecting those students to STEM in their com-

resented in the STEM fields, according to Leyden The state classifies historically underrepresented students in STEM as students of African American, Hi s p a n i

/ L a t i n o , Na t i v e American, and Alaskan Indian origins

Department of Education on July 1 Since then, the program

process and is now accepting

throughout Ithaca Leyden said she expects Ithaca’s program to

“It’s difficult for teens who haven’t been exposed to the STEM fields to understand what most STEM careers really are.”

“Lots of programs like this exist, but what sets this one apart from the others is its longt e r m n a t u re , ” L e y d e n s

This is a five year grant that has a position where the assistant director meets with the s

be fully operational by Januar

been primarily responsible for

’18, a program assistant

In order for local students to STEP, they must be either economically disadvantaged on a

assets or historically underrep-

inside the school building so we really become a par t of the schools ” C

spring by Jen Rudolf, the director of the University’s pre-college opportunity programs, and

Entr y Program implementation since last spring, but have been largely assisted by several organizations including 4H Youth

Development, according to

University press release

Zachary Kaplan can be reached at zkaplan@cornellsun com

I.C. Students Initiate Vote of No Con dence Against President

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said he would shoot anyone he saw with one on campus, according to The Ithacan, Ithaca College’s student newspaper

RAs and other students who became aware of the incident found parallels with other incidents of police violence towards African Americans, specifically with the shooting of 12-yearold Tamir Rice who was shot while carrying a black BB gun, according to The Ithacan

Following the training session, President Rochon issued a statement saying that racial discrimination is a “college-wide issue that needs ongoing attention ” According to Recckio, however, President Rochon never publicly apologized and students expressed their frustration through demonstrations

The second event involved two alumni who made racially insensitive remarks about another black alumna at a college event, Blue Sky Kickoff on Oct 8, according to The Ithacan

In an open letter to The Ithacan, Ithaca College Faculty wrote, “ we were distressed and offended by the fact that one of the guest speakers, Tatiana Sy ’09, was repeatedly called ‘the savage ’ by another guest speaker, Chris Burch ’76 ”

Burch referred to Sy as “the savage ” after she made a comment about her “ savage hunger,” referring to her ambition

The faculty pointed out that this phrase, which they said they found offensive, was also used by the moderator, Bob Kur ’70

“Although Burch and Kur seemed unaware of the racist and sexist implications of referring to Sy, who is AfricanAmerican, in this way, others in the room were not, ” the Ithaca College Faculty wrote

The third and final event occurred on Oct 9 when unaffiliated fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi, sent out Facebook invitations to their themed party, “Preps & Crooks ” According to The Ithacan, the event said the“Crooks” theme suggests “ a more ’90’s thuggish style” and “bling” and “Preps” theme refers to one ’ s “favorite Polo shirt, button down or boat shoes ”

Daniella Resto ’18 said in article in The Ithacan she felt that this theme and its suggested dress code represented an attack on the minority community

While an apology from the fraternity came within hours of the invite, students and faculty had to wait four days for an apology from President Rochon about the remarks made at the Blue Sky event, according to The Ithacan

The People of Color group at Ithaca College has led multiple rallies and demonstrations in response to these incidents over the past few weeks In one rally on Oct 20, over 200 students and faculty demonstrated on campus chanting “Tom Rochon! No confidence!” and “ no more dialogue, we want action ”

At another demonstration on Oct 27, about 40 #POCatIC student leaders stormed the stage during a town hall meeting at which President Rochon was speaking The initial group encouraged about 1500 other students to leave the meeting as well

This past weekend, the group circulated the document,

“The Case Against Tom Rochon,” which details, among other things, Rochon’s “disregard for minority community members” and “ poor leadership” since coming to office in 2008 Many of these demonstrations occurred during trustee weekend in order to garner more support and reach a larger audience, according to Recckio

According to The Ithacan, Elijah Breton ’16, who led the People of Color rally, directed his remarks to the administration and trustees present, “[I] hope that it made you feel uncomfortable standing here because if you feel uncomfortable, imagine how uncomfortable we feel living ”

In early September, the administration hired an external consultant for improve campus-wide relations as well planned to established a Council on Diversity and Inclusion In late October, administration proposed a massive diversity plan in order to help create a “safe space ” for multicultural students Mandatory sensitivity training is of these initiatives However, Recckio said poor communication has hindered the administration’s efforts to respond to racial problems

Recckio said there is “ a complete lack of communication” between activists and administration When the President Rochon did invite student leaders to a meeting, he proposed what Recckio called “ two fairly weak action plans ” According to Recckio, student leaders walked out of the meeting because they are “tired of empty dialogue ”

“It seems a lot less meaningful than it should be,” Recckio

Across the Strait

said “It feels like too little too late I have almost no followup from the administration for anything ”

In the midst of recent protests, Recckio said he knew if students were chanting for votes of no confidence, it was his job to take action He said he wrote a resolution and made the call for a vote of no confidence in the university’s president campuswide The Student Government Association unanimously voted in favor of a no-confidence vote

“As a representative and someone who serves [the student body], it was my duty to initiate the vote, ” Recckio said As of Nov 4, faculty in two of the five schools the School of Humanities and Sciences and the Roy H Park School of Communications have decided to hold a vote of no confidence Of the other three schools, faculty in the School of Business voted against holding a vote, and faculty in the School of Health and Sciences and Human Performance have yet to decide

The open vote which was emailed to all students began on Nov 4 and will continue until Nov 30 The day the vote closes the Student Government Association will hold a public meeting announcing the results, and based upon the results will determine whether to pursue any further action, according to Recckio

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sachriche@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

‘Come Away With Me’: Norah Jones at the State Theatre

BY TROY SHERMAN Assistant Arts and Entertainment Editor

Together we pushed through a gradually drunkening mass of anticipatory over-50s, all jocund and overpriced beer and premonitions of the soft-sung night to come Under the gaze of a scrutinizing usher, he groped around in his clothes looking for our two tickets, which with a broad smile he produced, wrinkled and smudged from a short life spent at the bottom of a crammed pants ’ pocket Stubs deemed satisfactory, a brusque sweep of an arm pointed us up the stairs and into the boondocks of the State Theatre’s balcony When his eyes fell on our seats, a coy look of apprehension washed over his face, which I quickly did my best to dispel by saying that, in my opinion, the best way to see Norah Jones perform is from far off and above, with the ability to melt back into your seat and, eyes closed, feel the night’s velvet slink around you without any expectation of or desire for one of those coveted, meaningless little glances from the performer that those in rows closer to the front are wont to crave

As the night proceeded, though, I came to realize that there’s one more criterion for having an enjoyable experience in seeing Ms Jones perform: to be, while in the midst of her lovestained caresses, in a state of utter platonism Because, if I had had anyone but a good friend sitting next to me while she lilted on, in her ineluctable smoothness and suavity, about loves lost and loves found and loves kindled and loves burning out, my mind might have dolefully drifted off into the State’s aether to commingle with Norah’s jazzsmoke breath which, with every cabaret note or pluck of country twang, floated upward to rest, almost tangibly, just beneath the theatre’s muraled ceiling in hazy andamento But instead of all that lovelorn garbage, I had with me on Saturday night a friend with whom I had to worry about doing nothing more than absorbing the music of a veritable legend in muzak history

Jones, as it turned out, was actually the audience’s reward for

BY GWEN AVILES Sun Staff Writer

Throughout your time at Cornell, you will meet a multitude of “writers”; people who are currently writing, but never seem to produce anything, or at least not enough to see their work fully actualized But that is not the case for Anna Alison Brenner (’16), a senior who’s been penning some version of the play Twentyhood (which premiered at the Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts this weekend) for the last few years According to the director of the show, Andrea Fiorentini (’16), Fiorentini has watched this show become “pulled apart, created and recreated” as it grew from “ a play about painting, to a play about Italy, to a play about self-discovery and college life ” There is no doubt this play has many faces, both literally and figuratively, and that is due in part to Brenner’s identity as a logophile Actors learned to adapt quickly as lines were changed, remolded or discarded, even during the week leading up to the show

Yet, neither the last minute line adjustments nor the sensitive, personal material of the play Twentyhood seemed to faze any of the actors Twentyhood follows the narrative of Olive (“like

enduring the blandest opening act which any mess of oversexed millennial Brooklynites with a taste for “indie rock” could conceivably conceive: Alberta Cross The band hails from across the pond, but has been residing in Brooklyn for the past seven years, presumably for the purpose of honing their craft And honed their craft was: Whoever writes their songs has an overwhelming knack for moulding vapid clusters of overused words into no less vapid lines of metered cliches, and they played their instruments with the whittled competence of people who have been playing their instruments in Brooklyn for seven years Lead singer Petter Stackee delivered tepid truncations of what might have been mediocre lyrics, but were in fact too mumbled and gurgled in the name of Sounding Cool to speak on with any definition Leaning over his armrest in between songs, my friend aptly whispered, “ They sound like the music that plays in the background of a drama movie when having music doesn’t really fit the vibe, but silence would be too weird ” Unfortunately, their set lasted a grueling six songs Fortunately, the soundcheck was short, and before long the lights dimmed and the State erupted An unassuming Jones, clad in a flowing, gossamer, leopard-print dress took the stage with her band a guitarist, bassist, drummer and keyboardist whom she’d go on to intermittently introduce throughout the night With little more than a brief hello she’d prove by the end of her set to be endearingly softspoken she and her cohorts slipped into their first song, a track which, admittedly, I didn’t know and I don’t remember But, that’s beside the point, because Jones’s performance would prove to be not one defined by lugubrious stretches of deep cuts and newer material interspersed amidst the hits everyone ’ s waiting for Instead, she avoided this trap which performers in her same boat that is, those who have a low huge-hits to rest-oftheir-catalogue ratio usually fall into, and imbued in every one of her songs (not only “Don’t Know Why”) a sultry import which proved, at least to me, that she is and has always been more than just a sweet crooner with a pretty piano and nothing to say; even if what she has to say has already been uttered to infinity by oth-

ers more articulate, it’s still something I desperately want to listen to And listen I did on Saturday night

The captivation, however, wasn ’ t just incited by Jones For one thing, her band was remarkably adept Regardless of the sonic environment required by Jones’s arrangements or lyrics, the men behind her knew how to match the feeling Shifting with uncommon ease from spryness to ghostliness to precision to absence (they gave Norah a few songs to herself and her piano), they followed Jones wherever she might take them, but it never seemed like they were being led They were at their best when they had the chance to show off, the most remarkable instance of which occurred when guitarist Jason Roberts plunged into a solo which wouldn’t have been out of place at a hard rock show, nor, strangely, did it seem at all out of place at all during Jones’s set

But in the end what Norah’s band did was lend a backbone to her music, which, in its own unpretentious way, is ultimately as sweet and innocuously affecting as holding hands or receiving a gift for no reason For me, this fact made itself clearest near the beginning of her set, during a song which, in fact, wasn ’ t even her own “If you don’t mind,” she began to say as she stood up from the piano and positioned an acoustic guitar strap around her neck, “ we ’ re going to play a Jerry song My band turned me on to the Grateful Dead, and I hope all of you like them as much as I do now ” And with that she began a simple strum, common to as many country laments as have ever been written with a halfbroken heart But with Norah Jones and her band up on stage, flooded in red light and summoning from their instruments and her throat some of the most starkly meaningful sounds that’ve ever been played for me, this surely wasn ’ t a lament If the smile which complemented my heavying eyelids and back-tilting head was reflective of what Jones was doing on stage (and I for one think it must have been), then this instead was a celebration Of what, I don’t know, but a celebration nevertheless; one to be best enjoyed with a friend to your left, someone else entirely consuming your brain and a twinkle of utter contentedness flowing straight from the stage to the very back of the State Theatre and into every fibre of my body “It Must Have Been the Roses” was the prime example of Jones’s ability to make, if even for a moment, every sad thing seem okay and every bittersweet thing seem entirely happy If the ability to muster such a sweeping effect is one way in which a performance can be judged, then Norah Jones’s show at the State was an absolute success

Troy is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun com

A Look at Twentyhood

the fruit”) Glass, a college student who is staying with her friends during a summer in Ithaca Glass, portrayed by Elise Czuchna (’18) is a revered playwright, respected by peers and faculty alike for her talent However, Olive’s security in her playwriting identity does not extend itself to all facets of her life During her summer as a “Lampchop Playwriting Fellow,” (Brenner has a habit of poking fun at the world of theater while at the same time embracing it), Olive develops feelings for two of the actors in her theater program, Evander, played by Luke Bianco (’19) and Helena, played by Siobhan Brandman (’17) Olive first tries to convince herself it’s the charming (albeit broke) Southern gentleman that she wants, but then realizes their interactions are far more awkward and entail far less chemistry than she had originally conceived I mean, really, who quotes Romeo and Juliet upon leaving the girl they just kissed for the first time? Not only is it a little obnoxious, but it’s one of those things some girls might think will be romantic in theory, but is just cringe-worthy in actuality Instead, it is Brandman’s tantalizing and fearless Helena that captures Olive’s affections and the affections of the audience That is, until Helena starts hooking up with Evander herself, leaving Olive in the lurch

Twentyhood is remarkable for several reasons, a primary one being its commitment to truthful storytelling and avoidance of all that is maudlin and trite (especially since the show, co-sponsored by Haven, Cornell’s LGBTQ Student Union, obviously touches upon serious issues of identity) Ultimately, however, Twentyhood’ s biggest strength is its balanced approach Czuchna’s performance as Olive could have easily been the overdramatized account of a college student struggling to find herself and awaken her sexual identity, but her command of subtlety allowed Olive’s story to more greatly affect its viewers Czuchna also balanced out Carly Siege’s (’19) performance of Becca, one of Olive’s overtly aggressive and emotional friends, who is devastated after the boy she loses her virginity to takes someone else to his room

Luckily, the play’s devastation is offset by its physical and linguistic comedy and its parodying of theater Calvin Kuang (’17) as Mike, the man-whore of Olive’s friend group, is effectively hilarious in his drunken stupor and inability to sleep alone Christian Kelly (’16) who plays Gino Marino, Olive’s gay best friend, has a way of making every line sound suggestive, and his use of physical comedy, despite or perhaps maybe even because of being on crutches, gar-

nered consistent chuckles from the crowd And finally, visiting lecturer Jeffrey Guyton’s portrayal of Aurora, a harried, overdramatic, bitterly divorced theater professor might have been the funniest thing I’ve seen in years; the laughter that it inspired was the athletic equivalent of a 300 crunch workout Still, even through the hilarity of Aurora’s stripping and declaration that she is not giving up on herself, we see a person who too is going through her own struggles

Twentyhood is a challenging play both to perform in (one of the main actors dropped the show in the beginning of this project, for that very reason) and to watch It will sadden you, perhaps even anger you, but above all, it will remind you of the human capacity for pain and resilience As Gino Marino instructs us, “This is the beginning because when the party is over and you ’ re sitting on the floor by yourself, you better know how to pick yourself up ” The good news is that even if you don’t know automatically how to do so, you will learn, as all the characters of this play did in their own way

Gwen Aviles is a junior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at g fa28@cornell edu

The Prophet at Cornell Cinema

What is it about Liam Neeson that makes him, at age 63, one of the most popular movie stars? He’s not strikingly good-looking, or especially physically imposing Without a doubt, it’s Neeson’s voice that drove his “ReNeesonce” in acting, in such pretty-bad films as Taken and Non-Stop His voice is fatherly, warm and reassuring, but also capable of gravity and menace Above all, Neeson’s voice conveys wisdom, even when the script he’s reading decidedly doesn’t

It’s this quality, and not that of incapacitating ten nameless bad guys in under a minute, that makes Neeson an excellent choice to provide the voice of the titular character in The Prophet, an animated film adaptation of the Kahlil Gibran’s 1923 book of poetry of the same name Neeson brings sophistication, compassion and a light sense of humor to the character Mustafa (called Almustafa in the book)

under Orphalese’s totalitarian government, and is being set free by the rulers on the condition that he return home immediately on the ship Mustafa’s exit is accompanied by a bumbling, arrogant sergeant, and silently followed by the mute girl Almitra, who is fascinated by the lessons he

Gibran’s message of oneness and moral fluidity

The story itself is the film’s weakest aspect Luckily, much of the film consists of captivating and euphoric animated segments paired with Mustafa’s poetic lessons, on topics ranging from freedom and work to love and death

Not surprisingly, these are the real substance of the film, as they are the parts that are actually drawn directly from Gibran’s work

The framing story for Mustafa’s lessons is almost wholly invented for the film In Gibran’s book, Almustafa has lived on the island of Orphalese for twelve years, until one day a ship arrives to take him home This mystical framework is left unexplained; the reader does not know what brought Almustafa to Orphalese in the first place, or how he knows that the ship in the harbor has arrived to take him home This mystery serves the book well, as it is about Almustafa’s words, not the character himself or the plot Before leaving, Almustafa spends the day talking to the townspeople in gorgeous, Biblical prose on every topic ranging from work and money to love, freedom and death

However, in the film, Mustafa is a political prisoner

imparts to the town on his way The narrative of tyranny and resistance addresses politics and division in a way that Gibran never does Gibran’s writing is universal and forgiving: He writes, “You are good in countless ways, and you are not evil when you are not good You are only loitering and sluggard ” However, the presence of the unsympathetic and malicious sergeant and governor undercuts this message by creating an “ us vs them” narrative that is antithetical to

While the framing storyline is directed by Roger Allers, who oversaw The Lion King, these interspersed segments are created by nine different directors, and make up an impressive range of different animation styles, from flowing, fluid colors to angular, Picasso-like shapes and bodies Some particularly memorable segments include “On Marriage,” in which a bride and groom dance barefoot in a blue, deserted restaurant surrounded by ancient ruins, and “On Death,” in which a cloaked woman with a flowing and inconstant shape walks through the woods before casting off her garment and climbing into the sky

The film adaptation of The Prophet is imperfect; its framing storyline is generic and a bit silly, and the somewhat haphazard arrangement of Mustafa’s lessons doesn’t reflect the unified structure and message of the book Nonetheless, the segments that pair Neeson’s reading of the original text with a variety of animation styles are imaginative and memorable The film provides both an engaging new look at Gibran’s poetry for those who have already read it, and an entrance for those who have not yet been exposed to its pure, brilliant beauty

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Ar ts and Sciences He can be reached at dwj32@cornell edu

Suffragette and Stonewall:

Hollywood’s Whitewashing of History

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While it is dishear tening that these two ne w movies depicting the histories of women and LGBT people are tainted by white washing and cis-washing, the backlash they’ve faced at least shows that we ’ re talking about the lack of diversity in film and it’s a ver y impor tant conversation to have if we want directors to recognize that their audiences are demanding more representation And more diversity behind the scenes of films is essential for avoiding problematic por trayals and increasing representation in the stories filmmakers choose to tell Katie O Brien is a senior in the College of Ar ts and Sciences She can be reached at cobrien@cornellsun com

Aditi Bhowmick | Abstruse Musings

Why Should I Give Back?

“If you get, give If you lear n, teach ” Maya Angelou

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A pertinent question to ask is, how are our peer institutions doing it? Well, Princeton, Yale, Har vard, MIT, Dartmouth, Penn, Brown and Columbia all have a higher University endowment per student ratio than Cornell Despite our endowment being lower than other Ivy League institutions, students paying full tuition at Cornell are only paying approximately 60 percent of the actual cost of their education, with gifts from alumni, parents and friends, young and old, playing a critical role in subsidizing the difference On top of that, about half of Cornell students receive some form of financial aid, thanks in part to gifts ranging from five dollars to many millions

Last year, 32 percent of Cornell seniors gave back to Cornell compared to 90 percent of seniors at Penn Are we less grateful for t

received at Cornell compared to Penn students? Increasing tuition costs are a problem ever ywhere, but they also mean increasing financial aid costs At Cornell, the actual cost of attendance for most income levels has actually decreased over the last decade thanks to expanding financial aid programs, which rely on alumni suppor t

A small contribution from each senior is an indication that we

We do have a cost issue in private high education today, and yes, there is alway room for improvement at our own alma

One way we can be part of the solution pay it forward for future generations lik alumni have done for us

care about Cornell We care about what happens to Cornell after we graduate We care about the issues we raised while we were on campus and we will continue to care after graduation I guess the dialogue I am initiating in this column goes beyond giving back to Cornell financially and speaks to a larger question what kind of alumnus or alumna do you want to be? One who cares about what happens to the place where it all star ted? Or one who remembers Cornell as some distant memor y buried in the past?

Many people bring up that we are students, so we cannot afford to give back just yet But gifts to Cornell under $500 add up to millions of dollars each year If ever y senior gave a gift let’s say $20 16 we can have a major impact on the programs, depar tments and organizations we suppor t Seniors can choose where to direct their gifts in order to suppor t what means the most to them, whether it’s their college, a depar tment, student life and organizations, Cornell Outdoor Education, the librar y, athletics, financial aid or the Cornell Annual Fund, which provides suppor t where the need is greatest Gifts can even be made in honor of an individual, like a favorite faculty or staff member

We do have a cost issue in private higher education today, and yes, there is always room for improvement at our own alma mater One way we can be par t of the solution is to pay it for ward for future generations like alumni have done for us Without generations of alumni suppor t, we would not have the oppor tunities we have at Cornell Going back to Maya Angelou’s quote, with which I star ted this op-ed, I do honestly believe that I have received a lot from Cornell, and I will give back in my own way I do believe in the enormous strength of the ripple effect If anything I said resonates with you, do give back to your class campaign before you graduate in a way that is meaning ful to you If not, I hope future generations will have a more fulfilling experience than you did at Cornell and our contributions will help shape that experience As Khalil Gibran once said, “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need ” A tr uly engaged person understands that identifying the problem is easy, but the challenge lies in honestly caring about it

Aditi Bhowmick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester She may be reached at ab738@cornell edu

Kate Poor | Triple Jump

Arbitrating

Sex and Athletics

Teenage track star Dutee Chand has found herself at the heart of a controversy confounding athletes around the globe On the surface, the debate contends to address unfair advantages in athletics; on deeper inspection, the arguments expose biases underlying gender categories in international competitions

Dutee Chand trains hard and runs fast In September, she clinched the gold medal for the 100 meter sprint at the National Open Athletics Championships in Kolkata With medals in her relay race and the 200 meter dash as well, her reentry into competitive track and field has been triumphant However, her comeback arises during a lull in the turbulent gender scrutiny she underwent last year that initially barred her from competing Upon revelation of Chand’s hyperandrogenism a naturally occurring condition that induces higher production of androgens in female-sexed bodies she was deemed unfit (or purportedly, “ too fit”) to compete with other women Sports arbitrators, including FIFA, the International Olympics Committee and the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), have instituted rigid policies regarding the eligibility requirements for female athletes These regulations customarily exclude hyperandrogenic women from competing with women whose testosterone levels fall under the threshold of a standardized norm, in a dubious effort to eliminate biological “advantages ”

Under the codes of IAAF, disqualified intersex athletes can reenter competition if they undergo body-altering medical interventions (surgery to reduce testosterone production or a regime of hormone-suppressing drugs)

Today’s biomedical policing of intersex athletes burgeons from a dark genealogy of gender verification exams that pathologized nonbinary bodies For most of the 20th century, all female athletes in international contests underwent testing to prove the “appropriate” hormones and chromosomes that would allow them to compete

Unlike their peers, male athletes have not been subject to such panoptic inspection Contrary to the unfair advantage that high levels of testosterone supposedly imparts on women, too much “femininity” in male athletes is perceived to be a handicap and thus irrelevant to arbitration of advantages This assumption fails to critique the possibility that the conflation of women and weakness is a self-fulfilling prophecy imbedded in cultural expectations of passivity and lack of funds and opportunities for female athletes rather than a biologically determined fact Katrina Karkazis of Stanford University’s Center for Biomedical Ethics argues, “there is no [scientific] evidence that successful athletes have higher testosterone levels than less successful ones ”

IAAF’s testosterone policy hinges on this inkling of an impervious boundary between the male and female sex, which, as scientists,

feminists and anthropologists have pointed out, is a socially fabricated bifurcation The imposition of two diametric boxes for sex identity obscures the range of variation in human anatomy; we can be male or female, and nothing in between, outside, oscillating or otherwise Karkazis asserts that “scientifically, there is no clear or objective way to draw a bright line between male and female,” because testosterone levels vary widely, depending on a range of non-generalizable factors

Culture and science do not exist in parallel vacuums, but rather mutually influence one another, particularly in demarcating “natural” and “normal ” The “objective” processes of scientific research are laden with cultural biases that have led to the pathologization of bodies that “deviate”

Women who do not conform to racialized gender stereotypes often fall under suspicion The hyper-monitoring of racialized women in arbitrations of gender testing in sports typifies this vestige of colonial racism; most women whose gender has been called into question by athletic adjudicators have been women of color and/or women from the Global South

These women face increased body policing, medicalization, and exclusion from opportunities when failing to comply Courts disproportionately negate the agency of female athletes of color to selfidentify, thereby propagating racism within athletic arenas and gender constructions

Nonetheless, last summer Dutee Chand won a lawsuit that temporarily overturns IAAF’s

Testosterone testing helps no one least of all the intersex athletes whose dreams are sidelined, careers are cut short and identities are refuted through the imposition of capricious borderlines.

from normative standards Today, intersex babies often undergo “ corrective” surgery moments after birth (frequently without their parents ’ knowledge or consent) to placate a social discomfort with nonbinary persons These “ corrective” interventions are cosmetic measures that aim to situate people more neatly into categories and often result in psychological damage for the individual Cultural queasiness with intersexuality and the “corrective” surgeries work in a positive feedback loop, exacerbating medical surveillance and intolerance of intersex individuals

Scores of athletes have been stripped of medals and disqualified because of variances that inevitably exist in the infinitely diverging array of female anatomy Yet, IAAF avows that a fundamental limit of testosterone divulges the distillable essence of “ woman ” a measure that confines the admissibility for participation in female athletics In codifying the corporeal limitations of “ woman, ” IAAF policies reaffirm perilously narrow-minded conceptions of sex and gender The scrutiny and marginalization of intersex athletes becomes standardized through the ensnaring, co-constitutive effects of sexist stereotypes and gender binaries

Furthermore, this highly regulated and essentialized femininity is rooted in centuries of white supremacy Dissected and molded by the white male gaze, the archetypal female is a racialized concept, stemming from the desire for a docile, submissive, diminutive and reproductive homemaker to serve the active, willful, colonial male

The standardized boundaries of “ woman ” (physically, psychologically and socially) develop from a racist patriarchal organization of control that leaves little room for deviance from the idealized, compliant, white female

testosterone policy The Court of Arbitration for Sport decided that Chand has the right to compete with her natural body, based on the absence of scientific proof demonstrating that testosterone enhances athletic abilities Within track and field competitions, the hyperandrogenism exclusion has been lifted for two years, during which the IAAF must evidence their claim or give it up

Common estimates indicate that one in 2000 people are intersex, meaning that the delineations of binary boxes fall short for millions across the globe To institutionalize an incompetent binary system within international athletics is to disregard, reject, erase, disparage and deny the existence and the exigencies of millions of athletes past, present and future The inadequacy and destructiveness of these categorizing schemes becomes evident in the exclusion of passionate athletes like Dutee Chand who deserve the opportunity to compete without forcibly transforming their bodies

We are all affected by the reinforcement of gender binaries that stem from racist and misogynist ideologies and serve to squash us into restraining categories of preconfigured identities Testosterone testing helps no one least of all the intersex athletes whose dreams are sidelined, careers are cut short and identities are refuted through the imposition of capricious borderlines Dutee Chand’s victory is a leap towards undoing the damaging confines of gender testing in sports, but much work remains to bring justice to the multiplicity of sex and gender identities We all have a stake let’s start pushing

Kate Poor is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences She may be reached at ksp57@cornell edu Triple Jump appears alternate Mondays this semester

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“When you ’ re up 3-0, not getting ahead of yourself because it’s easy to take your foot off the pedal and staying mentally tough is key to not giving them the momentum back,” Hilbrich said

This lack of discipline prompted Schafer to mess around with his last three lines frequently in the third period Schafer moved up senior wing Teemu Tiitinen to the second line in the place of junior wing Matt Buckles, while sophomore wing Jared Fiegl saw a significant increase in playing time after strong showings on the penalty kill units

However, the major increase in penalties in the last two periods seemingly fell right into the hands of Pecknold’s plan of

attack coming into Saturday’s game The taunting from the Bobcats, notably from Alex Miner-Barron, of the Lynah Faithful after the game certainly indicated that, despite the early three-goal deficit, ever ything unfolded for the Bobcats exactly how they had planned

“[The taunting] doesn’t surprise me, ” Schafer said And now for the Red, turning that corner and finding a way for the team not to lose its grips not take its foot off the pedal when up by three goals will prove critical to the team

’ s potential success moving forward this season

“We’ve got to show more discipline,” Hilbrich said “We’ve got to run them out of the building

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Joon Lee can be reached at joonlee@cornellsun com

take your foot off the pedal,” Hilbrich said “Staying mentally tough is key to not giving them the momentum back ”

Coming out of the second period, Cornell extended its lead back to three goals on what looked at that moment to be a key play Off a s c re a m e r f ro m f re s h m

Vanderlaan gathered the long rebound and backhanded the puck top shelf

Then it all started to break down for the Red, who could not put up another goal for the rest of the match

“I think we took our foot off of the gas a little bit,” Weidner said “We got up 3-0 and then 4-1 again Guys relaxed naturally throughout the game and that’s where we ’ ve got to step up Older guys have to take the reins We’ve been here before and send every line over the boards ready to step on their throats while they are down ” However, Cornell did not step on Quinnipiac’s throat and let the Bobcats come back to life late the second period

Just over a minute after Vanderlaan’s goal, the Bobcats netted two goals within a minute of each other The first goal from Quinnipiac’s Travis St Denis was counted after review

Right after, the Bobcat’s Andrew Tavener, who was a nuisance for the Red, ending the game with two goals and two assists, scored his first goal of the evening

“You have to have the effort to put it away, ” Schafer said “They had the effort to come back and we didn’t to do the things necessary discipline, not blocking shots on their power play, little things It was disappointing We were up 4-1 halfway through the [second] and we end up losing the game ”

Cornell committed what proved to be another costly penalty with a charging on sophomore Trevor Yates 30 seconds into the power play, Taverner struck again with a game tying goal to make the Lynah Faithful a little uneasy at 4-4

“This game was an official dominated game, ” Schafer said “[A lot] of power plays and [a lot] of penalty kills A lot of guys didn’t play tonight [with] all the special teams that went on in the course of the game There was no flow to game tonight ”

At 14:49, Cornell went on the power play in a key spot to try and take the lead before the end of regulation However, the Quinnipiac defense proved to be stout, giving up their bodies to prevent the Red from scoring

Junior Eric Freschi was called for boarding at 19:24, sending the Red onto the penalty kill and virtually squashing Cornell’s chances of winning in regulation

“The more physical we are, the better hockey team we are, ” Schafer said “But as [I] said, you got to be physical, but you have go to be smart In the last penalty of the game we took, it was physical but it was dumb ” Quinnipiac secured the win in overtime off a deflection goal from junior defenseman Connor Clifton

“We didn’t make smart plays,” Weidner said “That came back to bite us there at the end and it cost us ” M

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Red Falls to Quinnipiac in 5-4 Loss

By JACK KANTOR Sun Staff Writer

It was simply a “disappointing loss,” said head coach Mike Schafer ’86, as the Cornell men ’ s hockey team (3-1, 1-1 ECAC) gave away a 4-1 game after taking an early lead on the Quinnipiac Bobcats (8-0, 2-0 ECAC) The Red dropped its first game of the season, 5-4, in overtime The team fell short in this one, and they know it

“We gave ourselves an opportunity to make a statement, a statement game against a great team It looked good, but we let it slip away, ” said senior Christian Hilbrich

On Saturday evening, momentum swung in the Red’s favor 3:45 into the game Quinnipiac’s Thomas Aldworth committed a hit from behind, warranti-

ng a five minute major penalty for the Bobcats and an ejection for Aldworth

Just over 30 seconds into the power play and four minutes into the match, Cornell took a lead over the Bobcats on a goal from senior defenseman Reece

Willcox Willcox was able to get his stick on the puck from a shot by his counterpart on defense, sophomore Ryan Bliss

“It was good to see the power play clicking there at the start, ” said junior wing Jake Weidner

Bliss fired a shot at the Quinnipiac goaltender Michael Garteig, who successfully fought off Bliss’ attack But the Red would not let the play die, with an immediate follow-up shot from freshman Matt Buckles Buckles flicked the puck towards the open left side of the goal where Garteig nearly got his pad on the shot Fortunately for the Red,

Willcox was there to clean it up and secure a 1-0 lead for the Red

Cornell struck again a minute later with a goal from junior Jake Weidner Hilbrich slid the puck across the crease to set up Weidner for a one-timer to which the junior deftly put past Garteig

The Red capitalized on Quinnipiac’s lack of discipline, tallying two goals during the five minutes of the power play and coming out with an early lead

In the same period, the Red extended its lead over the bobcats on a nice set up by the defense pair of Bliss and Willcox Bliss, from the top of the left side of the zone, sent the puck across the width of the ice to his fellow defenseman Wilcox Wilcox then detected Buckles in the middle of the ice

The puck went from Bliss to Wilcox to Buckles quickly Before Quinnipiac could react, Buckles’ shot hit the back left of the net, giving Cornell a somewhat surprising 3-0 lead only halfway through the first period

“The special teams kind of dominated the first [period],” Weidner said This would show to be true for both sides

Just as the Red thought it would enter the first intermission with a decisive lead, the Bobcats put themselves on the board

Freshman Anthony Angello was sent to the box for cross-checking With 30 seconds left in the power play, Tim Clifton of Quinnipiac put the puck past Junior goaltender Mitch Gillam, putting the score 3-1 in favor of the Red heading into the second period and changing the momentum of the game

“When you ’ re up 3-0 it’s easy to

Cornell Penalties Give Bobcats the Edge

By JOON LEE

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Lynah crowd roared as freshman center Mitch Vanderlaan took the rebound of a shot from freshman wing Anthony Angello and scooped up the puck, promptly backhanding it into the top shelf past Quinnipiac goalie Michael Garteig The score was 4-1 halfway through the second period and it looked as if the Red was going to put together a statement victory against the No 5 team in Division I hockey Even after low preseason expectations, Cornell men ’ s hockey was a force to be reckoned with

Then, exactly 90 seconds later, Quinnipiac center Travis St Denis put a puck past Cornell goalie Mitch Gillam and 40 seconds after that, Bobcats wing Andrew Taverner made a nice move to register the first of his two goals against the Red Saturday night The third unanswered goal from Taverner and the Bobcats (8-0, 2-0 ECAC) came five minutes later on the powerplay In a tick under six minutes, a potential statement victory for the Red was suddenly a tie game against one of most offensively dynamic college hockey teams in the country

“We took our foot off the gas a little bit [after the fourth goal],” said junior center Jake Weidner

The penalties began to pile on in the second period, and given that special teams marked the strength of the Bobcats squad visiting Ithaca on Saturday, the prospects of a victory grew slimmer and slimmer as more and more Cornell (3-1, 11 ECAC) players began to take trips to the penalty box The officials, in the words of head coach Mike Schafer ’86, “dominated” Saturday’s 5-4 overtime loss against the Bobcats

“A lot of guys didn’t play tonight with all of the special teams that went on in the course of the game, ” Schafer said “There was kind of no flow to the game tonight It seemed every time you turned around there was a power play or 4-on-4, so certain guys playing special teams and some guys sat for long periods of time ”

Throughout the game, both teams remained chippy Several skirmishes started after the whistle and late hits from both sides flew all around the rink The Bobcats penalties that led to the

Red’s three goals in the first period turned into Cornell penalties, seemingly almost at will through the badgering off the referees by Bobcats head coach Rand Pecknold

This shift from power play to penalty kill for the Red fell into the hands of what appeared to be Pecknold’s strategy After Saturday’s game, Quinnipiac has converted 37 5 percent of its power play opportunities, good for second in all of NCAA hockey On the flip side, the Bobcats rank eighth in NCAA hockey on the penalty kill, killing off 90 6 percent of opponents opportunities

Senior Christian Hilbrich said the team let the high emotions of the game get away from them The key, Hilbrich said, to the Red not letting this happen is mental toughness and work ethic

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Athletes are great with their athletic ability and all that, but it’s really the fans and the atmosphere surrounding them that makes sports what they are Sports fans can be clever, awesome and make the whole experience of the game that much more fun Some of the best parts of going to any sports event (except golf and tennis, I guess) are the cheering, chanting, jeering, heckling, tailgating and painting of bodies and spirit apparel

There’s nothing like being around thousands of excited people, all hoping for the same thing a win One thing is for sure, the American population loves its sports, so here are some of the teams and arenas that have the best atmospheres in North America

College Football

College football is renowned for its amazing fan atmosphere The stadiums are crazy-

large some bigger than many NFL teams ’ stadiums and the fans are all students or alumni with die-hard school spirit In a ranking of the Top-10 college stadiums with the best atmosphere by The College Football Fan Index, LSU claims the top spot Fans allegedly tailgate for at least five hours before every game, and opposing team coaches lament the incredible noise created by the crowd, which fills the stadium’s capacity of 102,321 University of Michigan’s Stadium is the largest in America and the second largest stadium in the entire world, with a capacity of 107, 601 Now that’s taking football seriously

NFL Football

The NFL team with the most dedicated fan base, according to Business Insider, is the Dallas Cowboys Cowboys fans dub the Dallas Cowboys “America’s Team,” which their number one spot in crowd attendance and ticket prices seems to prove Honestly, though, I think that’s just the advantage of being a team in Texas Tony Romo hasn’t been having a great past couple of years and the Cowboys are currently 2-5, so those fans are showing some real optimism

The New England Patriots, the team everyone else loves to hate, rank second They obviously have the advantage of having a fanbase that stretches across a whole region of the country, on top of the fact that their team just recently won the Super Bowl Tom Brady also remains one of the most famous quarterbacks in the league, with four Super Bowl Rings and three Super Bowl MVP titles

NHL Hockey

In Hockey, ranked by Forbes, the Pittsburgh Penguins fans hold the top spot with a five-year sell-out streak The Montreal Canadiens fans came in second, known for having the loudest arena in the league, the Bell Centre, which has been sold out since 2004 Much like the Dallas Cowboys, proving that you don’t have to be a winning team to have a dedicated fan base, the Toronto Maple Leafs hold the number three spot despite currently