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C.U. Students P itch Startups, Brainstorm Ideas at 3DS

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T h i s w e e k e n d , a s p i r i n g C o r n e l l entrepreneurs gathered at Sage Hall for the third annual 3-Day Star tup, popularly known as 3DS Students attending the event came from a variety of academic backgrounds and had the oppor tunity to present, learn about and get involved with business ideas

“It’s a snapshot of what entrepreneurship feels like,” said Gizem Sakalli ’14, head organizer of this year ’ s event “ You form a team, you pitch an idea [to par ticipants who can join your team] and present the idea to venture capitalists ”

W h i l e t h e e ve n t c u l m i n a t e s w i t h presentations to experienced entrepreneurs who have the option of investing in the star tup ideas, the main objective of 3DS is not to raise funds, according to Sakalli

“ This is educational The main purpose of this event is learning by doing,” Sakalli said “ We have 35 to 40 par ticipants who come together the first day and brainstorm People choose whatever team they are interested in working on, which is how it is in the real world ”

Sakalli said that 3DS invited mentors to help students form ideas and

pitches for star tups

Sohan Jain ’12, who star ted 3DS at Cornell in 2011 and came back to campus this weekend to attend the event, said the event is intended to give par ticipants real-world experience in entrepreneurship without the risks that are traditionally attached to star tups

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through time ” Hussam Abu-Libdeh grad is another entrepreneur in the process of building a s t a r t u p H i s i d e a f o r a s t a r t u p , Snowball, hopes to provide a degree of organization to the events in people’s lives

“It’s kind of like Facebook for the f u t u r e , ” A b u - L i b d e h s a i d “ Pe o p l e describe their intents to do something in the near future, and [with Snowball], you can check out what people are about to do and set to join them or not ” Sakalli noted that 3Ds is also intended to help students cultivate relationships with industr y mentors, as well as to find fellow students to par tner with

“ Me n t o r s a re n o t o n l y h e re t h i s weekend,” Sakalli says “ They are here for life 3DS is a great oppor tunity to [meet] people who can help you down the road ”

Abu-Libdeh said that he was most impressed with the insight exper ts were able to provide in an around-the-clock fashion The energy and enthusiasm of the par ticipants makes it a fun, productive atmosphere, he added “I really appreciate the advice I got f ro m re a l t e c h n i c a l f o u n d e r s , ” Ab uLibdeh said “ This is something amazing I definitely benefitted from it ”

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Times reported However, he soon realized that beyond law enforcement, economic redevelopment would be a key factor in changing the area

Weisbrod was also influential in the economic development of the city when, in the 1990s, under the administration of Mayor David Dinkins, he became the founding president of the New York State Economic Development Corporation Weisbrod first met de Blasio while they were working for Dinkins, according to the New York Times

At their first public appearance Sunday, Weisbrod and Jones Austin did not reveal much about upcoming hiring announcements particularly the appointment of a new police commissioner, according to Politicker

Weisbrod and Jones Austin also emphasized that de Blasio was very involved in all major transition decisions, Politicker reported

“The City of New York is a big and complex place and we want to be able to do it as best we can ”

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Weisbrod told the New York Times that, as co-chair of de Blasio’s transition team, he will help the Mayor-Elect choose talented individuals to work with

“We’re going through a period of change now in the city, and one change that’s really taking place is a generational change,” Weisbrod said to the Times

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“Our goal is to get this right And there’s obviously a whole lot that we have to both absorb and digest So that involves looking at personnel, it involves looking at policy, it incomes looking at our financial situation It involves a whole host, across the board,” Weisbrod said Sunday at his first public appearance since being appointed “The City of New York is a big and complex place and we want to be able to do it as best we can ”

Weisbrod is a partner at HR&A Advisors, a real estate and economic consulting firm, and a director of three government authorities the Lower Manhattan Development Corporation, the Trust for Governors Island and the Convention Center Development Corporation

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Aditi Bhowmick | Abtruse Musings

Foxy Ladies, Vulpine Men

When Groucho Marx claimed sardonically that a belladonna in Venezuela “ got her good looks from her father, he’s a plastic surgeon, ” I doubt anyone was offended or found the comment particularly unusual After all, Venezuelan retail stores have found a new secret to profit maximization they have made their mannequins more bootylicious! Mannequin makers in Venezuela sculpt and carve because the benchmark for beauty in perfection never ceases to ascend The breasts keep getting larger and the waists tinier until they disappear and the mannequin collapses like wickerwork Meanwhile, the Venezuelan woman is beginning to mirror the mannequin a little nose job here, some fat reduction there and the process never really stops They are beguiled by the concept of boosting their confidence by improving how they look on the outside, but they actually end up pushing themselves deeper into an abyss of depression. Obviously, body image is a big deal in Venezuela It is also a big deal at Cornell, and not necessarily only for women

We’re not in a deranged frenzy of stretching our legs, narrowing our midsections and enhancing and reducing every body part we can possibly think of just yet Nevertheless, we ’ re spending large portions of our time thinking about how to look like we stepped out of the cloud-palace above Mount Olympus We spend small fortunes on trying to perfect a

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Re: “Former Players ‘Dumbfounded’ by Dismissal of Cornell Men’s Lacrosse Coach,” News, published November 15, 2013

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constructed image of ourselves we have in our minds Replace your expensive products with confidence and you ’ re better off If you ’ re terrific to be around, no one will really care if you show up at a party wearing the same thing you wore last weekend and the weekend before that The only person who is so bothered and caught up is you Here’s a simple experiment I urge you to carry out spend a day avoiding the vicious mirror I promise you the day will seem less exacting

To those around you, you pretty much look like you ’ ve always looked it’s your own eye that gauges these peaks and falls in your appearance If we learn to love what we see in the mirror everyday, we’ll surpass the combined beauty of all former Miss Venezuelas Becoming the best versions of ourselves doesn’t mean tweaking our dimensions at all One needs to lose weight only when it is medically necessary for him or her to do so As for sexual attraction it consists of a number of things apart from the clothes you ’ re wearing and the size of your muffin top Ask men and women alike: The way someone talks, walks, what he or she talks about, how sociable a person is, all of that figures into a person ’ s sexual profile way more than how straight, long, sharp or stubby a person ’ s nose is

Body image is essentially a two-fold concept It encompasses how one perceives the aesthetics and sexual attractiveness of his or her own body and how social institutions prescribe an ideal body image Since I am addressing social institutions, I might as well take this moment to state that TotalFratMove com is a product of the most thick-headed, half-witted and imbecilic minds of our generation This website is, for lack of a better word, simply dumb Therefore, ladies at Cornell, if any of you derive your ideas about body image from websites such as these, you have serious issues But since these hideous social platforms will always exist (because the world has its imperfections), the way to tackle body image is from the inside out

It is true that happier girls are the prettiest and, more importantly, that happy girls eat Stop living on granola bars if you don’t like them Do not detest yourself for indulging in a lavish meal The secret to happiness at Cornell is food, sleep and friends

I urge the men of the world to collaborate in this struggle against negative body image and help the beautiful women around them realize that they are just that: beautiful Ladies, return the favor because both men and women are trying to stay afloat on this struggle boat Finally, nothing is sexier than confidence If you ’ re actually looking to improve your social presence, start feeling confident in your own skin instead of wishing you were in someone else’s

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C o r n e l l , I t h o u g h t I ’d made it Coming from community college, the pomp and circumstance of the Ivy League made me feel as though every possible door of opportunity had been thrown wide open Meticulously, I began mapping out the courses and internships and experiences that would prepare me for a top doctoral program Or perhaps law school Or business school The glittering array of grad school information sessions and employer Q & As seemed to be laid out like a festive spread If it was prestigious, I drooled over it The

o n l y d i f f i c u l t y seemed to be choosi n g w h i c h Pe r f e c t Future™ was right for me

So o n e n o u g h , complications began to arise that threw a wrench in my delusions My GPA wasn ’ t high enough to write an honors thesis The firm I had planned on interning with couldn’t hire me I returned to my hometown in suburban California, defeated A few weeks later I learned that, thanks to a financial snafu, I wouldn’t have the money to go back to school in the fall

home, I managed to land an internship in DC at C-SPAN, despite the fact that I had no background in television I worked on the founder a n d c h a i r m a n o f t h e n e t w o rk’s i n t e r v i e w p ro g r a m , f o l l ow i n g a manic producer around the building all day as we pulled tapes for clips and did research on the guest for the week In other words, it was perfect The excitement I felt heading into the office each morning, with the Capitol building looming a few hundred yards away, was a heady buzz

Ambition is paying to have you dr y cleaned while exhibiting symptoms of vitamin deficienc because you can’t afford anyth other than pasta for dinner

I watched all the precious futures I had coveted slip right through my fingers I wanted to cut my losses and run away Maybe a ship would let me on as a galley cook, or a hostel in Albania would let me work the counter, or a clan of wandering Bedouin would take me in as one of their own I spent hours daydreaming I was anyone but who I was: an imperfect résumé Yet, sometimes failure can be fortuitous In my scramble for an escape from the mediocrity of life at

we walked a dozen blocks to the White House and milled about with the rallying crowd under occasional clouds of marijuana smoke I ended up being out after the Metro shut down, and being penniless, was forced to walk four miles back to Arlington in the wee hours of the morning only so I could go to work a few hours later And yet, I was not bitter, and though my feet ached in my worn-out Oxfords and my tie hung slack around my neck, I was possessed with a fire for life that I had never experienced

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Since the position didn’t pay I had to live cheap, which meant renting a bed in a hundred-year old, two-bedroom Victorian with nearly a dozen residents People crammed in everywhere they could, with one guy paying reduced rent for a cot in the bathroom My first morning at the house I woke up just before dawn and turned on the light in the kitchen to discover a swarm of cockroaches, each at least the size of my thumb It was a far cry from West Campus But what the house lacked in luxury it made up for in the character of its residents We were all young and driven, eager to work high-profile internships that paid nothing Even Bathroom Man worked for Nancy Pelosi

On election night, I went to a pub on the Hill with a few friends to watch the world’s most expensive popularity contest After it was over

s t e p p e d o n t o Cornell’s campus, I was seduced by the grandeur of it all I thought the w o r l d owe d m e s o m e t h i n g because I had a venerable institution vouching for m y s m a r t s , b u t ambition is a lot more than tacking a Yale Law School admissions flyer to your bulletin board Ambition is getting coffee at the office because you aren ’ t good for anything else when you start Ambition is paying to have your suit dry cleaned while exhibiting symptoms of vitamin deficiency because you can ’ t afford anything other than pasta for dinner Ambition is fighting off the roaches with a wooden spoon while you make your breakfast It isn’t often very sexy, but in the brief moments of respite you ’ re afforded, you come to realize that the point isn’t just the end goal: The struggle itself for something you crave can be fun as hell

ARTS ENTERTAINMENT Two Lives, One Stage A Lie of the Mind at the Schwar tz Center

Full of deep symbolism, powerful emotion and commanding acting, A Lie of the Mind opened Friday at the Schwar tz Center Directed by Jesse Turk ’14, PMA, The 1985 play by Sam Shepard follows husband and wife Jake and Beth as they retreat to their respective families following a physically abusive relationship Thereafter, the work follows the couple as they cope with crippling mental illness

The play, whose story is told by alternating between two different families that occupy the stage simultaneously, opens with Jake (Rudy Gerson ’14) calling his brother to report the death of his wife, Beth (Sarah Coffey ’16) In this call, he admits that over the past few years, their relationship had been marred by brutal abuse and hostility Opposite Jake, on the other side of the stage, Beth lies in a hospital bed in bandages, recovering from bruises and

brain damage that has left her unable to walk or express complete thoughts, but not killed by Jake’s abuse Jake is taken to his childhood home to be monitored by his mother and sister, where he again falsely proclaims Beth dead Meanwhile, Beth returns home with her parents and brother, where she begins to recover As she improves physically, Beth becomes more and more mentally unstable and, as her commentary proves, begins to resent her family

Staged in the Schwartz’s Flex Theatre, the set for the play is simple but effective in tying together the performance The subtly patterned backdrop fades into two designs on the floor that compartmentalize the homes of Jake and Beth Each scene alternates between these two adjacent sets Visually, the stage creates a powerful juxtaposition of the couple’s families as they approach the trauma of their children: While one attempts attentive nurturing, the other copes with trauma through structured rehabilitation and denial Fluidly

shifting from one side to the next, the blocking quite literally emphasizes the common ground between Beth and Jake, as they assume central positions to speak of their emotional scars and struggle to gather memories

In A Lie of the Mind, Shepard utilizes strong symbolism and intriguing literary parallels Under Turk’s direction, the performance incorporates these effectively While Jake sifts through the memorabilia of his father, he comes across an American flag commemorating his time in service Later, the flag trails behind him as a cape on his distraught journey across the country to find his brother and Beth, an image that conveys the link between himself and his father, to whom the flag had previously belonged In A Lie of the Mind the identities of the characters ar constantly shifted--Jake taking ownership of the abusive nature of his father, and Beth, eventually taking on the apathy in her marriage that once led Jake to abuse and neglect toward her

Ultimately, the acting comes across as natural, though the emotional intensity of the production could have been more effectively maintained At times, the comic relief written into the script is overemphasized at one point, heated dialogue is paused entirely, which disrupts the natural buildup of tension between the characters

However, the actors especially in lead roles have a commanding stage presence that captures and holds the audience’s attention through the confusion of streams of consciousness and disconnected thoughts Coffey excellently portrays Beth’s brain damage, making her condition apparent without overdoing it In the second act, she smoothly progresses to recovery and, with it, regains a charmingly subtle sense of humor

The final scene of the production is especially intriguing and brings out the strongest acting in the play Jake’s family, Lorraine and Sally (Melanie Dreyer-Lude, PMA and Katelyn Pippy ’15), are left alone at his house and, as the two most sane characters, converse intimately and naturally

This turns out to be a perfect juxtaposition to the other side of the stage, as Jake appears in Beth’s home and each character is overwhelmed by their own troubles The dazed lack of reaction between any of the characters in the final scene is the most powerful portrayal of dysfunction in the performance, exuding the chaotic disconnect within each family and between the couple The play, centered around the suspended relationship of Beth and Jake, culminates with a mere glance, without dialogue or recognition, between the couple, symbolizing the resolution, through dissolution, of their marriage

Ultimately, the deep symbolism written in A Lie of the Mind makes for a powerful performance and the emotional development of the characters was conveyed well

The depth, however, is stronger in some scenes than others It is intriguing, even overwhelming, and showcases superb student talents

A Lie of the Mind is a part of the guest director series this fall at the Schwartz Center performances are scheduled through Nov 23

Madeline Salinas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun com

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Cor nell Men’s Basketball Defeated by Louisville in Away Face-Off

After putting a scare into a Top-10 NCAA team in Syracuse last weekend, the Red travelled to Louisville, hoping to do the same against the d e f e n d i n g N C A A c h a m p i o n s However, the Cardinals were unfazed on their home court, defeating the red handily, 99-54

Louisville started off the scoring with a layup by Wayne Blackshear on t h e i r f i r s t p o s s e s s i o n C o r n e l l answered, though, with a dunk by freshman forward David Onuorah, marking the third time the freshman has started off the Red’s scoring so far this season However, the 2-2 tie was as close as the squad would get all night Louisville went on a 20-0 run after that before senior guard Jake Matthews finally got the Red back on the scoreboard with a three-pointer

The Cardinals never really let up, going into the locker room leading 53-14 The Red had scoring opportunities, but it was just unable to convert, and giving the Cardinals additional chances by turning the ball over d i d n o t h e l p t h e t e a m ’ s c a u s e

Louisville scored 20 points off Cornell turnovers in the first half, while the Red scored only one The Red’s forwards were also outmuscled down low by Louisville’s formidable big men in C h a n e Be h a n e n a n d Mo n t re z l Harrell In the first half, the Cardinals scored 30 points in the paint compared to the Red’s six, and Harrell and Behanen combined for 27 rebounds, eight of them offensive Blackshear led both teams in scoring with 20, and Luke Hancock chipped in with 12 points in just 14 minutes of play

The Red’s offense, on the other h a n d , w a s s t a g n a n t t h ro u g h o u t ,

shooting 29 percent from the field and 25 percent from beyond the arc

Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler led the squad with 10 points and eight rebounds, but he was an uncharacteristic 0-5 from three and 4-17 from the field One of the Red’s go-to players on the offensive end in Devin Cherry was also held scoreless by Louisville’s a c t i ve g u a rd s So p h o m o re g u a rd Robert Mischler had six points, connecting on both three-pointers he

took, and senior for ward Dwight Tarwater had nine points and was three-for-five from beyond the arc, but they seemed to be the only Red players to get hot The rest of the team shot a dismal two-of-21 from three

The Red will take on Colgate in a m i d - we e k g a m e o n t h e ro a d Wednesday, still in search of its first win Last year, Cornell defeated the Raiders 70-63 at home

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Red Prepares to Face Quakers in Final Game

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Red; aside from the field goal, he was perfect on all three extra point opportunities

The Lions answered with a field goal of their own, leaving the score tied at three at the end of the first The Red was forced to punt on the first possession of the second quarter, but a big pass-breakup by sophomore defensive back Jarrod Watson Lewis gave the ball back to Cornell On the ensuing drive, Few showed bursts of brilliance, but also inexperience He was sacked twice on the drive, but both times was able to regain field position, once with a ten-yard run of his own, and the second time by handing it off to senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly, who carried the ball to the one-yard line The Red was stopped on its first chance, but the second time Few muscled his way through Columbia’s defensive line for the first touchdown of the day, putting Cornell up 10-3 with two minutes left in the half

Columbia started its own drive down the field, but was forced to settle for a field goal as time expired, making the score 10-6 at halftime

Both teams were forced to punt on their first drives coming out of the locker room, but when the Red got the ball back, it went on the attack once again Gellatly started the drive off with a run down Columbia’s sideline

Few handed the ball off twice more to Gellatly and once to sophomore running back Luke Hagy to bring Cornell within the 20 Few then found sophomore wide receiver Ben Rogers in the corner of the end-zone for a 16-yard touchdown pass, the first of Rogers’ burgeoning career

The defense took over from that point for ward, only allowing Columbia to connect on one more field goal Senior inside linebacker

Brett Buehler had nine tackles and a half-sack, while sophomore defensive lineman Debo Sodeke had a pair of sacks Sophomore corner back Twan Terrell also had an interception early in the fourth quarter, setting the stage for the Red’s final score, a seven-yard touchdown pass from Few to senior tight end Ty Bostain

Though Rogers and Bostain ended two of the Red’s three touchdown drives, it was largely the work of Gellatly and Hagy that got the offense in scoring position Gellatly led the team with nine receptions for 136 yards, and ran for another 38 Hagy ran the ball 25 times for a gain of 73 yards

“Grant and Luke are both tough football players,” Few said “They are two of the best athletes in the Ivy League, and we knew we had to get the football in their hands They made some phenomenal plays today and protected the football ”

Saturday was Gellatly’s ninth career 100-yard game, the second most of

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its first five-on-four of the evening and took full advantage Ferlin crossed to junior for ward Joel Lowr y, who converted from the left circle to net the Red’s first goal just five-and-a-half minutes into the first

Power plays became the stor y early, with St Lawrence striking back on one of its own Senior for ward Greg Carey, the nation’s leading goal-scorer last season with 28, gave the Saints something to cheer about with a shot that ricocheted off the post and snuck past senior goaltender Andy Iles

The score knotted at 1-1, captain and junior for ward John McCarron wrestled the puck away from a St Lawrence defender and passed it out to senior for ward Dustin Mowrey, who dealt to Lowr y for the Red’s second goal the third power play goal of the night and coming less than a minute after Carey’s strike From there, the floodgates opened and the Red raced down the ice for a Ferlin goal and a 3-1 lead and a benching of SLU’s star ting goalie Freshman for ward Jeff Kubiak joined the party with a strong shot of his own from the slot, but was denied what would have been his first career score for the Red by the new St Lawrence goalie McCarron cleaned up from close range to extend Cornell’s lead to 4-1, all coming in the first 15 minutes of action

The Saints and the Red traded scores in the second and third periods, respectively, with Ferlin netting his second of the night to put the game out of reach Ferlin and Lowr y who lead the team with five goals apiece each earned two on the night

“You knew getting off the bus today that we were ready to play,” head coach Mike Schafer ‘86 said following the game “It was a real good win for us ” The 5-2 victor y in Canton was a fitting conso-

“You knew getting off the bus today that we were ready to play.”

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any Red player He also became just the fourth receiver in school history to surpass 1,000 yards in a season It was a storybook ending to Gellatly’s career, as well as the rest of the Red’s 22 seniors, who were able to go out with a win in their final game on Schoellkopf field

“They gave so much to this program over their four years, ” Few said of the seniors “They showed us the right way to do things and how to work hard every day It was great to honor them with a victory in their last game on Schoellkopf ”

Two years still remain in front of Few, though, who will likely be the starting quarterback come 2014 It will be a new era for Cornell football, one that will not have the towering presence of Mathe ws to lead it According to Few, though, the legacy that Mathews left behind, one of confidence, of learning and of leading, will ensure that presence is not forgotten

“Jeff has been a big brother to me these past two years He has taught me more on and off the field than I could ever thank him for,” Few said “He’s shown me how to be a leader and, really, how to be a man Jeff has given his heart to this university and this team, and I hope that the way I played today honored his career in some small way ”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun com

lation following the previous night’s disappointing finish at Clarkson The Golden Knights scored on the opening shift to take a 1-0 lead, and outshot the Red 26-11 on the evening The deficit was nothing new for the team, which has been outshot or evenly shot ever y game this season and has continued to rely on quality scoring opportunities Down 2-0 in the second junior defenseman Joakim Ryan gave the Red one of those opportunities on a hard shot that deflected off the Clarkson goalie and after a few more shots was finally put in by McCarron

A Ferlin score with less than eight minutes to go capped a Cornell comeback, but a bad break in the game ’ s closing minute would leave the icers shaking their heads Clarkson scooped up a deflection off an official and after an initial Iles save scored on the rebound to take a 3-2 lead with just 37 seconds left The loss was the culmination of what was at the time a four-game winless skid for the Red

“ I w a s d i s a p p o i n t e d i n o u r p re p a r a t i o n [Friday],” Schafer said at the end of the weekend action “Ever y coach knows it Ever y team knows it It’s about focusing your body and mind before you get here and how bad you want to play ”

Although Schafer had hoped to come out of the Clarkson game with points to show for it in the ECAC standings, he acknowledged it was still huge to “ get that two points [against St Lawrence] knowing that they’re a good hockey team, to put us back to 2-3-1 with some opportunities now with Brown, Yale and [Niagara] at home in the next three ” With the Red’s four-game road trip in the books, the team is ready to return to campus

“Four of our next five are at home and one ’ s at MSG so we got through a real tough stretch here on the road,” Schafer said “So it’s going to be exciting to get back to Lynah in front of our crowd ”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun com

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This past weekend the men and women ’ s Cross Country teams competed in the NCAA Northeast Regional meet at Van Cortlandt Park in New York Both the men and women were successful with top 10 finishes

The men ’ s team finished ninth out of a field of 37 teams with a final score of 326 points The men were ranked 10th in the region prior to this race and were able to exceed that ranking and finish in ninth

The women ranked 23rd nationally finished fourth overall The women ’ s team also has received an at large bid to the NCAA national championships in Terre Haute, Ind on Nov 23rd

“We were very happy with our team performance

“I’m very pleased that this group was able to get back to the stage that is the NCAA Championships.”

The team competed with real confidence and we asserted ourselves very well from the very beginning of the race I thought it was our best team performance of the season so far,” assistant coach Artie Smith said “Co-captains Rachel Sorna and Emmy Shearer were absolutely terrific in their final Regional meet, both placing in the top 10 in a loaded field They became just the fourth and fifth Cornell women to place in the top 10 in this race in the past 15 years, and we ’ ve had some outstanding runners in that time-frame ”

The Red was also able to be successful because of its tremendous depth throughout this season

“After them, we had strong performances across the board We needed good races from everyone and we got that,” Smith said “Devin McMahon had her best race of the year, Liz Simpson was outstanding again and Caroline Kellner ran a very determined race as our fifth scorer, made all the more impressive since it was only her third race of the year since she

missed all of September and most of October with injury I thought sophomores Claire DeVoe and Kristen Niedrach competed very well in their first Regional meet ”

The Red looks to continue the success going into the NCAA National Championship, Smith said

“Some of the keys with the NCAA meet include keeping one ’ s composure and to continue to focus on the things that got you to the meet in first place and to trust those capabilities We’ve dealt with a lot of adversity this season across our entire line-up and our runners have been forced to demonstrate that composure all season long, so they are certainly ready in that regard,” Smith said “If we can also continue to focus on running our races the right way and to compete well, we will do great ”

The Red looks to continue to focus on performing in the coming weeks and to have outstanding results at Nationals

“Every year is different and every year presents different challenges and opportunities I’m very pleased that this group was able to get back to the stage that is the NCAA Championships, as it takes a great deal of commitment and determination and represents achievement of the highest order in our sport, ” Smith said

On the men ’ s side, the Red closed the season with a strong ninth place finish in the NCAA Regional meet The Red ran in the meet without the senior runners in order help facilitate the development of their younger athletes and to gain the necessary experience to have even more success for the team going forward

“We ran a solid race Sophomore Brian Eimstad was only six places away from All-Region honors and only nine seconds away from qualifying for the NCAA Championships Junior David Melly was our 11th-best man at our first meet in September and ended the season as our 2nd-best man, ” assistant coach Zebulon Lang said “Sophomore Ty Kawalec has improved dramatically over the last year Freshman Mark Tedder has contributed greatly since setting foot on campus We didn’t have any seniors at this meet Our youth brigade oriented its compass for the future of Cornell men ’ s crosscountry ”

Icers Take Down St. Lawrence

The Red offense is clicking again

After scoring only five goals in the t e a m ’ s p re v i o u s f o u r games, the men ’ s icers put up the same amount a single contest en route to a 5-2 drubbing of

“I think we’ve been playing hard.”

No 17 St Lawrence (64 - 2 , 2 - 2 - 2 E C AC )

Saturday evening No 19 Cornell (4-3-1, 2-3-1) had been coming off of a narrow defeat to No 11 Clarkson (10-3-1, 4-2-0), 3-2, in the Friday night game

“It feels good,” junior forward Brian

Ferlin said “I think we ’ ve been playing hard but we haven’t been playing as hard as we’d like at times I think tonight we just came [out with] energy and we were playing our systems well, and instead of having a couple of guys ready to go, I think we had the whole team ready to go tonight So it definitely feels good to come, play hard and get the win ” The Red entered the weekend as one of the nation’s top teams in power play efficiency Following an early interference call against a St Lawrence defender, Cornell received

For the Red’s seniors, Saturday’s game against Columbia was a final opportunity to pick up an Ivy League win on Schoellkopf For the underclassmen, it was a chance to stand out and point the future of the Cornell football program in the right direction Both wishes came true this weekend, as a combination of youth and experience gave the Red a 249 victory, allowing them to reclaim the Empire State Bowl Trophy

It was a long time coming for head coach David Archer ’05 and his team, who had played five Ivy League games before this one without notching a win And with senior quarterback Jeff Mathews sidelined with an injury, the road to a victor y seemed a lot bumpier However, sophomore quarterback James Few slipped into the starting role seamlessly, giving fans a glimpse of the future of the program According to Few, the boost into the starting role Saturday did

Best of the best | Senior co-captains Emily Shearer (above) and Rachel Sor na had strong times this weekend and helped the rest of the Red squad advance to Nationals

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not effect his nerves

“I prepare every week as if I am starting because I know I could be only one play away from taking over, ” Few said “As Jeff ’ s backup, I obviously never want to see him injured, but at the same time I’m always ready ” In the Red’s first offensive drive of the game, it was clear that Few was at the helm of the offense

Though a characteristical-

ly pass-heavy offense with Mathews in the lineup, Cornell turned to the running game on Saturday, gaining yardage on the ground on the first three plays of the drive, eventually culminating in a 40-yard field goal by freshman Joe Pierik The young placekicker was another sign of good things to come for the