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City Says No to Historic Designation for Chacona Block

By ANU SUBRAMANIAM Sun Staff Writer

With fiery citizens overflowing Ithaca City Hall on Wednesday night, Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 broke a Common Council tie by voting to not designate the Chacona building in Collegetown a historic landmark, possibly imperiling the future of Collegetown Bagels in the building

The vote, which split Common Council, means that Student Agencies, the studentrun organization that owns the building, will likely aim to replace the building at 411 to 415 College Ave , which has housed Collegetown Bagels since 1995, with a new building that has more apartments

Ira Brous, one of the owners of CTB, said a redevelopment could make it possible that CTB “will be thrown out of the building” and could imperil the food production for other locations

“We are vertically integrated,” Brous said, adding: “If this affects our kitchen,

which makes the food for our other locations, our entire business is at risk I’m not just talking about the Collegetown location, but all of them ”

No redevelopment plans have yet been submitted to the city by Student Agencies, so it is unclear what kind of impact the group ’ s potential renovations could have on the longtime bagel, sandwich and coffee shop

Luke Bushner ’19, president of Student Agencies, said that a petition signed by more than 2,200 urging the city to designate the building as historic was misleading, “if not irresponsible ”

“It was framed in a way that made it seem like they were saving Collegetown Bagels,” Bushner said, claiming that the development “wouldn’t affect that area ”

Student Agencies offered a memorandum of commitment that if they were allowed to develop the property, they would maintain an outdoor space that is similar to

With $10K From City, Teens

Ask Ithacans How to Spend It

By MOLLIE CRAMER

The City of Ithaca on Wednesday funded a pilot program in which voters will be able to decide, without the city’s approval, how to spend $10,000 of the city’s money, a radical project initiated and developed by local teenagers Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 allocated $10,000 for the experimental program, known as participatory budgeting, in the city’s $72 2 million budget, which Common Council approved after weeks of debate The pilot program will take place in the Second Ward, which encompasses downtown Ithaca

The Multicultural Resource Center’s youth fellows, who have been working on the proposal for more than a year, say the program will give citizens a more direct and active role in deciding how at least a portion of their tax dollars are spent by local government

Five high school students are currently part of the Youth Organizing Fellowship, and the fellows have been working on the concept of participatory budgeting, which they branded as The People’s Budget, since the spring of 2016, when there were a dozen fellows

Under the pilot program, voters could propose

Cornell Offers Puerto Rican Students a Semester of Study

By JOHN YOON and YUICHIRO KAKUTANI Sun Asst News Editor and Sun Staff Writer

Cornell is offering a free semester to up to 58 Universidad de Puerto Rico students who have been impacted by the recent hurricanes that tore through the U S territor y, causing the local university system to operate at limited capacity

Up to 50 fulltime undergraduate, law and graduate business students and eight graduate research students from the university could study at Cornell during the spring semester

computing facilities, laboratories, support services and activities

It has been more than 40 days since Hurricane Maria, and only 30 percent of Puerto Rican utility customers have had their power restored, Reuters reported on Monday Damages are estimated at more than $90 billion

“I want the students

Prospective students must apply by Dec 1, and, if accepted, will take Cornell courses, earn credits and receive an official Cornell transcript upon completing the semester, the University said Accepted students will have to pay for their own health insurance, travel expenses, books, laundry, and off-campus meals, but will have access to the libraries,

Cornell joins Brown University, which committed to enrolling up to 50 students in the spring, as well as Wesleyan and Tulane in offering Puerto Rican students an option to study Cornell

“ We aim to offer them a warm welcome to one of the great universities in the world and do our deadlevel best to a c c o m m o d a t e them,” said Prof Glenn Altschuler, American history, dean of the School of Continuing Education and Summer Sessions

“I want the students from Puerto Rico to know that there will be an awful lot of people reaching out to See PUERTO RICO page 4

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Institute Hosts Forum to Deliberate Nomination Process for Task Force

By ALISHA GUPTA Sun Assistant News Editor

Students, faculty and administrators expressed their hopes and fears for the Presidential Task Force on Campus Climate in the first of six meetings that will be discussing the process of nominating individuals to the newly instituted body

The task force, charged with promoting campus inclusion and diversity, was formed in response to a series of high-profile racial incidents on campus, including the alleged assault of a black student in Collegetown To that end, the task force will be in charge of three areas: campus experience, regulation of speech and harassment, and campus response

A l t h o u g h

President Martha Pollack has assigned three co-chairs to the task force, other members of the committee are yet to be selected In a recent statement, she directed the Scheinman Institute on Conflict Resolution in the ILR school to recommend a nominations process

the meeting

During the conversation members of the community shared their concerns about the task force and the obstacles to its success

Some expressed concern the task force would be an empty vessel with no real authority, while others were worried the committee would lack diversity

Attendees also suggested ideas for the nominations process, such as an emphasis on nominating experts in the field of social justice work and representation of all identities

“I attended the meeting to understand what the task force is and to get a better idea of how I can get involved.”

“I attended the meeting to understand what the task force is and to get a better idea of how I can get involved,” Andrew Young ’20 said “ The administration is putting a lot of responsibility on this task force, and I wanted to see how I can contribute ”

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Young deemed this first meeting a success, saying “the coordinators of the task force will be able to foster a collaborative and inclusive environment to ensure substantial change on campus ”

Trump Picks Cornell Alum For NASA Administrator

By GIRISHA ARORA Sun Assistant News Editor

I f c o n f i r m e d b y t h e Senate, Rep Jim Bridenstine (R-Okla ) MBA ’09, who Pre s i d e n t Do n a l d Tr u m p nominated to lead NASA, w o u l d b e t h e f i r s t Cornellian and first elected official to ser ve in that role

ration,” The Post reported Bridenstine, at the heari n g , s a i d h e “ a b s o l u t e l y ” believes in climate change, and said he would be supportive of NASA’s mission for space exploration as well as studies on the Earth’s climate, vowing to keep the agency an “apolitical” organization

Consequently, the institute decided to facilitate six open meetings to “discuss the process for selection and the concerns and ideas of interested individuals,” Harry Katz, director of the Institute, and Martin Scheinman ’75, MS ’76 said in a statement

The meetings are meant to increase transparency surrounding the selections process, “ to ensure the best possible job is done,” according to the institute’s website

On Wednesday morning, nearly 25 faculty, administrators and students attended the first meeting

“Our goal today is to focus on a conversation with the community about what the nomination process should look like,” said Cornell Woodson, diversity and inclusion programs lead and one of the facilitators of

Following these meetings, the institute aims to announce members of the task force before Thanksgiving break They envision the task force to include about 30 to 35 members divided into various subcommittees

The remaining meetings are Nov 3 from 11 a m to noon, Nov 6 from noon to 1 p m , Nov 6 from 5 to 6 p m , Nov 8 from 5 to 6 p m and Nov 9 from 9 to 10 a m For those who cannot make it to one of the meetings, an anonymous survey with recommendations is available on the institute’s website

Bridenstine faced blistering criticism from Democratic senators on Wednesday, however, who said the C o r n e l l a l u m n u s h a s d e n i e d t h a t humans have a role in climate change and does not have adequate qualifications for the job The full Senate will likely vote on whether to confirm Bridenstine early next week, news outlets reported

A f t e r g r a d u a t i n g f r o m R i c e University, Bridenstine ser ved in the Navy in Afghanistan and Iraq before enrolling at Cornell and obtaining his MBA Oklahomans elected him to represent the state ’ s first congressional district in 2012 and Trump, in September, picked him to run NASA, a position that requires Senate confirmation

At the hearing on Wednesday, senators questioned Bridenstine on his previous statements denying humans’ role in climate change and his support for legislation that some senators said discriminated against the LGBTQ community

Sen Bill Nelson (D-Fla ) called the Cornell alumnus a partisan warrior whose divisive policies were an example of “why Washington is broken,” The Washington Post reported Nelson also said Bridenstine did not possess the skills to be a “technically and scientifically competent ” administrator of NASA or to unite members o f t h e s c i e n t i f i c c o m m u n i t y o n a “shared vision for future space explo-

He said human activity contributes t o g re

, Po l i t i c o reported, but that the scientific community is “just scratching the surface” on understanding the issue

Bridenstine has received high-profile endorsements from Buzz Aldrin, the second man to walk on the moon and Republican Sens Ted Cruz of Texas and Richard Shelby of Alabama, The Post reported

After earning his Cornell business degree, Bridenstine ser ved as the executive director of the Tulsa Air and Space Mu

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House of Representatives, he currently ser ves on Armed Ser vices Committee and the Science, Space and Technology Committee, according to his website

He was a major sponsor of the A

which Bridenstine, in a press release, called “comprehensive and bold policy

ensure American leadership in space ”

NASA has not had a permanent leader since the previous administrator, Charles F Bolden, Jr , stepped down on the first day of Trump’s presidency, on Jan 20, 2017 This 10-month period is the longest time that NASA has not had a leader, The New York Times reported

Former U.S. Ambassador to Yemen Criticizes Trump’s Policy to Combat ISIS

By AVRAHAM

Staff Writer

The former U S ambassador to Yemen said at Cornell on Wednesday evening that President Donald Trump’s military approach to combatting the Islamic State is “ too limited in scope ” and that the president needs to pursue more diplomatic solutions and invest in development assistance programs

Gerald Feierstein, who served in Yemen from 2010 to 2013 and is now the director for Gulf affairs and government relations at the Middle East Institute, criticized Trump’s policy at a lecture hosted by Cornell Political Union, “Can Trump’s Militar y-Only Antiterrorism Strategy Succeed?”

“Combatting the Islamic State is an issue of great urgency and Trump’s overwhelmingly militarycentric approach is too limited in scope, ” Feierstein said

Feierstein described the Trump administration’s counterterrorism strategy as a “one-legged stool ” Gleaning from his experiences during nine overseas diplomatic postings, Feierstein lamented that by taking a strictly militar y approach, Trump has ignored what he said are the two other critical legs of U S foreign policy peaceful negotiations and investment in programs that benefit civilians, such as those that allevi-

ate poverty

By relying exclusively on military operations, the Trump administration is “turning back the clock to the Bush era and combatting terrorist groups, not terrorism,” Feierstein said, referring to George W Bush

This approach, Feierstein said, renders the United States “insufficiently resourced to eradicate violent extremist movements once and for all ”

Feierstein fiercely protested what he called Trump’s “lack of a clearly articulated strategy ” The president’s strategy has been heavily geared toward eliminating existing terrorist entities and preventing new terrorist groups from arising rather than getting to the heart of the matter, Feierstein said, which is “what makes an individual join an extremist group and become a willing participant in terrorist activity ” ISIS ideology does not go away once their territorial strongholds are broken, the former ambassador said He ended his speech by proposing that the U S shift from what he said is a reactionary, militaristic approach to one of diplomatic engagement

During a question-and-answer session, Feierstein, responding to a question about Trump’s travel ban, said the executive order “is simply wrong ” and that “there is no

quicker way to lose this war of ideas than by using such tactics ”

In a robust debate at the end of the event, most in attendance agreed with Feierstein’s central thesis that the U S “ must take full advantage of the three legs at our disposal in order to achieve our objective of defeating terrorism for the long term ”

While some disagreed with the amount of money the U S spends on its militar y, members and friends of the Cornell Political

Union were overwhelmingly in favor of “joining the coalition of nations who share the aim of stamping out extremism and providing our children a hopeful future,” as the ambassador proposed

This cannot be achieved through military operations that result in extreme collateral damage, Feierstein said, but rather, the U S “ must defeat not the ideology, but the factors that make the ideology appear true and legitimate ”

Feierstein told Cornellians that everything that Trump has done so far has only served to perpetuate the status quo

“By eviscerating diplomacy and development funding, Trump has compromised the country ’ s ability to confront terrorism head-on,” Feierstein said

Cornell to Provide Free Semester for up to 58 Students

them to be helpful ”

Cornell made a similar offer in 2005, e

University, Xavier University of Louisiana and the University of New Orleans after Louisiana was hit by Hurricane Katrina, the University said in the release

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Altschuler said “Students are going to be giving up some room in their residences; faculty are going to be teaching some extra students; deans are doing the work to make it happen; and our president and provost are leading the way in how we should be responding ”

University by Kent Kleinman, dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, when the Department of Architecture said it was willing to enroll students from the island

The dean of each college has since designated an associate dean or a faculty member to work directly with accepted students to make their transition as smooth as possible, Altschuler said

Prof Debra Ann Castillo, Hispanic studies, fears that “ one of the big challenges right now is getting the word out, since the power grid is iffy still ” She expects the UPR students will need to overcome significant logistical issues to travel from Puerto Rico to Cornell

“We know our Puerto Rican students will most likely arrive in NYC, and we are

including driving them to Ithaca, and making sure that they have winter coats right away when they arrive,” she said in an email

Chris Arce ’19, Puerto Rican Student Association co-president, said he is glad Cornell is taking this step, but is skeptical about how welcome the students will feel on campus

“Overall, people are great, ” he said “My concern is, as we have seen on campus, despite what we may think, there are clearly issues that need to be addressed rooted in issues of racism, of white supremacy ”

“Perhaps having an influx of about 60

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tuition, I fear that might cause a backlash,” he said “Obviously, I am not going to say

don’t do it because there may be backlash We are just trying to account for any sort of what could be a racist response ” Castillo told The Sun that students from Puerto Rico are likely to “ come up against immense culture and climate challenges, and will need to integrate immediately to take best advantage of the semester ”

“Thus, student organizations like the Puerto Rican Student Association, and the Latinx greek organizations are already in conversations to brainstorm ways to welcome them, and extend a hand,” she added

John Yoon can be reached at jyoon@cornellsun com Yuichiro Kakutani can be reached at ykakutani@cornellsun com

Ithaca Allocates $10,000 for Experimental People’s Budget

adding a speed bump on a busy road, fixing a swing set, funding community organizations and more The voting requirements are loose by design, allowing undocumented and formerly incarcerated people, as well as those who work or go to school in the Second Ward, to vote as long as they are 12 or older They may need to sign a pledge indicating that they fall under those broad requirements, fellows said, although the details are still being hammered out

Former youth facilitator Emma Dennis, 19, who now helps to oversee the fellows, said participatory budgeting will involve community members in their local government and empower them to improve their own neighborhoods

Fellows will “reach out to communities and demographics that we know by experience are not reached out to by our government ” during the pilot program, Dennis said

The $10,000 allocated by the

city will go solely toward projects chosen by the community, not to the overhead costs of organizing the elections, which will be completely volunteer-run Youth fellows will collect project ideas from community members during the “democratic consensus brainstorming process, ” Dennis said, and delegates selected from the community will weed out bad or impractical ideas

The remaining ideas will be put to the community for a vote over a one- or two-week period at local businesses, the fellows said

Several of the fellows spoke to The Sun on a recent night during their weekly meeting at the Multicultural Resource Center on State Street, where a whiteboard with “action items” graced the wall and included one par ticularly pressing to-do item: “Put pressure on city ” The next night, on Oct 26, the budget committee voted six to four to include $10,000 for the group in the city’s budget

The young group had been speaking with city officials over the last few months, putting pressure on the mayor and making their

case at Common Council meetings One of the fellows, Anacheliz Gonzales-Ortiz, 18, said she had spent so much time on the group ’ s proposal because she could have benefitted from a similar program when she was growing up in Ithaca

“No matter where I lived, no matter how old I was, it was always a problem,” GonzalesOrtiz said of the lack of quality community spaces in certain areas “A lot of the times, we weren ’ t even allowed to play on these playgrounds that were made for us because they weren ’ t safe ”

Playgrounds would be taped off instead of fixed, she said, “and then that was it ”

The youth fellows began their campaign by canvassing Ithaca in sweltering heat, educating the community on the budget concept and gaining feedback In the summer of 2016, the fellows canvassed for four days a week, five hours each day for a month, dripping in sweat as they greeted people at their doors or in public parks

“We’re knocking door to door, and it’s our friends, family members and teachers,” Viola Jones,

17, a fellow, said “I think that finally finding a way to feel like I’m lifting a people up is incredible, and it’s gratifying work and its good work and its hard I don’t always do it the right way, but the fact that I’m doing it means so much to me ”

“I have trust that the people of Ithaca are going to do something really beautiful with this $10,000,” she said

While the loose voting requirements may concern some, youth fellow Lyla Zusman, 17, said making the voting process accessible to a wide swath of Ithacans is vital to the program ’ s success

“It’s important that we have a not-so-narrowly-tailored requirement for who can vote, especially when it’s a direct decision being made about something being implemented in the community,” Zusman said “The people in the community don’t meet a narrowly tailored requirement themselves Young people are part of the community Undocumented people are part of the community ”

Myrick agrees In 2015, about 29 percent of registered voters in the Second Ward voted in the Common Council election, and about half of the ward’s residents are registered to vote, according to 2015 figures The mayor, in a brief interview in City Hall, said he hopes that the participatory budgeting program will allow more Ithacans to see themselves as having a say in local government

“Engaging more young people in our civic government has been a passion and an interest of mine for a long time,” Myrick said, adding that the fellows’ program would do so on two levels

“First, the level of the organizers themselves the people who tried to put this together are going to get, really, a masters-level course on local, civic government, the good and the bad,” he said, “And then the second level will be that young people will be able to vote in this process ”

Seph Murtagh, Second Ward alderperson, said some people have difficulty finding time to engage with their government

“It’s hard for a lot of people in a city to find their way to city hall,” Murtagh said after a budget committee meeting last week Many people have opinions on what could improve, but do not have time “ to come to a meeting like this because they’ve got families and jobs,” he said

“One thing I like about this

idea is that this is going directly to those people and asking them, ‘What do you want to see the city spending money on?’” he said

Ahja Haedicke, a youth fellow, said many people the group approached when they were canvassing were not “ super energetic” about the proposal, which she said was a result of years of these people being disenfranchised from the voting process

Their lack of enthusiasm, she said, “is in part because of how there has been, for a very long time, no way for people to have their voices heard ”

“And people are tired of the system, ” Haedicke continued “So, I think part of it for me is just feeling that tiredness of our community and wanting to reinvigorate it ”

The youth fellows attended a workshop hosted by The Participatory Budgeting Project, an organization with offices in Brooklyn, Chicago and Oakland that has facilitated the implementation of participatory budgeting programs in more than 17 cities in the U S and Canada

“Members of a community are expert users of that community,” David Beasley, communication director for the organization, told The Sun

“Representative democracy is really effective at a lot of things, but when it comes to community needs and community-based projects, the best thing you can do is give real power over real money to the people who really live there,” Beasley said

The youth fellows initially requested $30,000 in funding for the projects, but Myrick said he was only able to make room for $10,000 Common Council nearly voted to cut that in half, to $5,000, but reinstated the $10,000 figure after realizing it would not affect the tax rate in any way

“If we ’ re trying to teach these young people that nothing can get accomplished in government and it gets delayed forever, I think we should vote this money down,” Alderperson George McGonigal, who represents the First Ward, said last week

“But, I hope we don’t,” he added, shortly before the committee voted to include the funding in the final budget, which Common Council approved on Wednesday

Mollie Cramer can be reached at mcramer@cornellsun com

Building Not Declared Landmark

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the current outdoor patio and develop the building in a way that retains its current architectural style CTB’s owners remain concerned that the patio may be removed in any redevelopment, which could imperil the business

“I am worried about CTB,”

Myrick told The Sun in a brief interview after the vote “I love CTB more than the next guy, and I hope they remain on that corner for as long as I am alive ”

“But, I also care about the overall health of the vicinity, and freezing [development on] that corner isn’t the best we can do,” he added “The students who live in that building could tell you why ”

The vote split the two alderpeople who represent the Fourth Ward, which encompasses Collegetown Stephen J Smith, an associate director of development at Cornell, voted against historic designation and Graham Kerslick, executive director of the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, voted in favor

Kerslick said the building is “charming” and has a “local presence ” and it would be a “significant loss” if the building was not preserved Smith, in a previous interview, told The Sun that historical designation would “lock the visual appearance of this building while doing little to protect the functions and features we love ”

Many speakers affiliated with Student Agencies voiced their opposition to the landmark desig-

nation, including the agency ’ s former president, CEO and many alumni and current members

Lincoln Morse, owner of the development company that surveyed the building, said the building is “crumbling ”

“This is a product that doesn’t meet any standards of modern masonr y construction and has reached its lifetime expectancy, ” Morse said of the building’s current materials “It doesn’t make sense to spend $2 million on a facade that currently costs $400,000 ”

Those who spoke in favor of the landmark designation emphasized that the building is central to the history of Collegetown, and said that with proper maintenance, it could survive for many years

The building, these people said, is also a symbol of the Greek immigration that played a significant role in the development of Ithaca

Prof Katelin Olson, architecture, art and planning, is an expert in historic preservation and started the popular petition on Facebook that urged Common Council to designate the building as historic

“It can take up to 80 years for a new building to make up for unnecessary demolition of a historical building,” Olson said “When a building is demolished, it will result in an overwhelming amount of the materials ending up in a landfill ”

The Chacona block building meets all five of the criteria for historical landmark designation, according to the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission

Julee Johnson, president of

Historic Ithaca’s board of directors, told The Sun after the vote that “the organization is disappointed, but what was interesting was how hard the decision was ”

“There was a lot of thought given and a lot of discussion,” she said

Smith said the building is not important enough to restrict the possibility of redeveloping the building

Chacona “is not a guy people looked into the history of and then they found the building,” Smith said “It was the other way around ”

“ This building would make him historical, it would not canonize the history he made or contributed,” Smith said

Cynthia Brock mentioned that while this block holds memories for many Ithacans and Cornellians, a landmark designation is “ not the way ” to keep those “memories alive ”

Myrick, in explaining his vote against the designation, also said Collegetown “is better than it was five years ago ” and that residents of the area now have “ an interest in non-drinking activities, which is something we hoped for ”

Cynthia Brock (First Ward), Donna Fleming ( Third), Rob Gearhart ( Third), Deborah Mohlenhoff (Fifth Ward), Smith and Myrick voted against the designation while George McGonigal (First), Seph Murtagh (Second), Ducson Nguyen (Second), Michael Decatur (Fifth) and Kerslick voted in favor

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Letter to the Editor

Setting the record straight on the attempt to silence me at Vassar

To t h e E d i t o r :

On Oct 31, 2017, The Cornell Daily Sun ran an article about the controversy concerning my lecture at Vassar College on Oct 25, on the issue of “hate speech” and free speech on campuses The Sun’s reporting completely missed the reality of what happened at Vassar

The Sun focused heavily on a sideshow regarding the name change of the lecture, as if the name change was the problem that incited the attempt to prevent me from speaking To the contrar y, it was not the name of the lecture, but an organized campaign by student activists to inflame the campus with false factual accusations as to the event

As I wrote at my website, in a link I provided to the Sun reporter for an explanation of what happened, Actual Malice at Vassar College:

“ The campus was misled into thinking that I, and supposed ‘neo-Nazis and white supremacists’ who were likely to attend with me, were going to target nonwhite, LGBT and Jewish students It was a fabrication

Two campus forums attended by hundreds of people were held by a student group called Healing 2 Action to prepare how to protect the campus from the supposed threat I posed Among other statements reportedly made at the meeting was the false claim that the ‘speaker himself is tr ying to incite violence ’ That was a lie without any factual basis

False claims by Healing 2 Action that event information was shared by me ‘ on multiple white nationalist websites,’ and that there was ‘active encouragement for other white nationalists to come to the event’ were spread to thousands of people by the Vassar Student Association, the student government, in an all-student email

The claim was made in that all-student email that there was a need to ‘ protect the people that this speaker has targeted in the past ’”

This fabricated incitement against me and the lecture is what caused the campus turmoil, not the change in the name of the lecture

These baseless inflammator y safety accusations were used as one of the reasons to tr y to shut down speech the activists did not want to hear As I mentioned in my email exchange with the Sun reporter:

“I think some people at Vassar who opposed me speaking on the topic have seized on the name change as a distraction from the fact that they opposed me coming to campus for any reason ”

There also was an attempt, which unfortunately the Sun partially quoted, to misrepresent my prior writings to turn mainstream right-of-center political positions into some type of “ism ”

The objection to me speaking was that student social justice activists didn’t want a conser vative speaker on campus discussing emotional issues as to constitutional protections even for hateful speech They then created a false safety narrative which ignited the campus, and engaged in a campaign to demonize me

It wasn ’ t pleasant being the object of this incitement, which included an event poster defaced to put horns on my head, as if I were the devil

In the end, I was able to speak under heavy security Almost 300 students packed the lecture hall and surrounding hallways to listen to me

My lecture was 45 minutes and we had a 1 hour and 20-minute question and answer session I hope you will find them informative, and also that you will understand how outrageous the incitement campaign was in light of this reality

I’m hopeful, but not optimistic, that the type of incitement and demonization I was subjected to at Vassar will not be repeated against members of the Cornell community who speak up in defense of free speech as the campus works its way through its own difficult issues of “hate speech” and free speech

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Let ’ s face it, while winter break is our light at the end of the tunnel, around the eighth day most of us are f i v e p o u n d s h e a v i e r a n d absolutely bored with our nondescript home lives Sometime d u r i n g t h a t s e c o n d w e e k o f blissful boredom, you open the little, red-flamed app that you had promised not to rejoin A fe w swipes later, you ’ re sitting in your couch wearing warm flannel pajamas for the second day in a row, stuffing your face with holiday cookies, feeling that redhot holiday jingle in your pants And all of a sudden, you realize the holidays are actually stressful At Cornell, you have the luxur y of your own mattress and no parental super vision, so you never really have to sneak around (unless you ’ re into that, in which case, hell yeah), but at home privacy is a rare luxur y That being said, don’t let it stop

y o u f r o m u n w r a p p i n g s o m e packages and doing some adult

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d l y naughty this holiday season

1 Finding Santa’s Little Helper

S O , an ex, a friend or a sexy stranger, you may want the help of someone for those not-sosilent nights Once you secure a little helper, remember:

Don’t assume what your par tner wants or doesn’t want Be honest about your boundaries

Holiday lingerie because ‘tis the season!

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cheer!

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e d doesn’t mean you have to be boring! Similar to a Christmas t r e e , h o l i d a y s e x i s s p e

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Adult toys gift a vibrating gift that keeps on giving (big O’s)

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Tr y holiday-inspired sex posit i o n s ( Ur b a n Di c t i o n a r y i s a must!)

3. Baby, It’s Cold Outside

You and your S O (or hot rando) are ready to go at it, but your houses aren ’ t safe for sex, or y o u w a n t t o s p i c e u p y o u r venue, where to go? Keeping in mind that public sex can land y o u i n j a i l a n d o n t h e s e x offenders’ list, here are some options other than your teenage bedroom to get it on:

Sleigh Ride: Park some where s e c l u d e d a n d h a v e a q u i c k escape route planned I suggest turning the music up, as the vibrations of the speakers, heat inside of the car, and thrill of

g e t t i n g c a u g h t g u a r a n t e e a steamy good time

The Nor th Pole: If you want

because instead of a plain pine tree, you get to decorate it with o s t e n t a t i o u s o r n a m e n t s o f a l l shapes and sizes To list some festive favorites: Gingerbread and candy cane flavored lube Nutty Vanilla scented candle fun fact, vanilla is an aphrodisiac scent!

to modify and add an extra level of kinkiness, get naughty on the snow Similar to the hot icecube scene on Fifty Shades of Grey, temperature play has some s e r i o u s s t i m u l a t i n g e f f e c t s , s o warm it up with some foreplay indoors and then get raunchy outside Light it Up: Assuming you ’ re lucky enough to have a fireplace

dels, squeeze many sugarplums and make Santa blush this holiday season!

Veuve Cliq-Hoe is a student at Cornell University Fire & Ice and Cherries in the Snow appears monthly this semester

Dining Guide

By EMILY JONES Sun Staff Writer

On Saturday, October 28, Coltivare welcomed wizards and muggles alike to its second annual Advanced Potions for Adults at its restaurant on 235 South Cayuga Street A continuation of Wizarding Weekend festivities, the event offered mixology demonstrations, as well as oppor tunities to sample and purchase drinks from a variety of Finger Lake winery, brewery, and distillery vendors

The event was conducted in the large multipurpose room across the breezeway from Coltivare’s main restaurant Wizard hats and cloaked heads bobbed between tables around the perimeter of the room, sampling an assortment of wine, beer, cider, and spirits from vendors including Sheldrake Point Winery, Four Fights Distilling, and Finger Lakes Cider House Meanwhile, a curious fellow with a pointy goatee and top hat (who was fortunately much less intimidating and much more entertaining than Professor Snape) demonstrated how to concoct different wizard-themed “potions” on a stage at the front of the room

Amongst the potions demonstrated were the “Guzzling Goblin Goblet” (consisting of pumpkin purée, brandy and spice syrup); the “Sea Hag” (Quackenbush amber rum, Midori, Agwa coca leaf liqueur, house-Made sours and chia seeds); the “Health Potion” (Balls vodka, Campari, watermelon purée, raspberry syrup, cranberry bitters and lime bitters) and the “Mana Potion” (Black Button Citrus Forward Gin, Blue Curaçao and St Germain)

Shaking a tumbler next to his head, the eccentric potions master offered a wealth of

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Wizarding weekend is full of wands and broomsticks, talking pictures, lines of people waiting to receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter and be sorted into their Hogwarts house, the deathly hallows symbol on every piece of jewelry, people dressed as wizards yelling spells at each other and perhaps most importantly, food If you are not a

knowledge about the history of cocktails (they were first invented in New York) and different kinds of alcohol (gin is derived from Guinevere, which was invented by the Dutch), information about cocktail-making (amongst bartenders, St Germain is known as “cocktail ketchup” because it makes everything taste better), as well as tips and tricks for concocting our own potions (a good cocktail has strong, sour and sweet components)

Even if I didn’t love the taste of each potion, I appreciated their variety and creativity, as well as the insightful, amusing commentary that accompanied their brewing (“It’s always important to have your mayonnaise jar tightly sealed,” the mixologist exclaimed as his makeshift tumbler nearly burst open, “And don’t wear white!”)

Of the drinks I sampled from the vendors, my favorites were Four Fights Distilling’s Emperial Apple Pie: a sweet, robust whiskey

Harry Potter fan, you probably have no idea what half of these things are But food is one thing that that everyone knows and has opinions about I got to the Commons, where Wizarding Weekend was taking place, at around 9:30 a m Saturday to volunteer for the event with my roommate Despite a strong breeze, it was a perfect day for this event; it was sunny and bright, and the leaves whirling around in the breeze made it an ideal fall day Instead of food stands lining the Commons like at other Ithaca festivals, there were jewelry stands, stores selling Harry Potter merchandise, wand stores, picture booths, wizarding chess and basically anything Harr y Potter-themed you could ever want, with a few vendors selling food scattered in between Near Center Ithaca, I passed a place serving grilled cheese, tomato soup and chocolate warts, which I learned were chocolate covered apples As appealing as the chocolate warts sounded, they were not what I was craving I passed a place serving vegan shepherd's pie with organic salad, Little Tree Orchards selling their famous cider and other apple products, and a Latin food station set up outside Pizza Aroma on Cayuga Street

I then reached Pressbay Alley and realized that most of the food was set up around this area There were food trucks everywhere, such

that could emblaze an otherwise innocent scoop of vanilla ice cream; and Kite & String Honeoye Sparkling Cider, another sweet, yet lighter drink produced by Finger Lakes Cider House (I have sweet taste)

Though libations were plentiful, the event lacked edible refreshments The event ’ s Facebook description adver tised “light food fare” yet the only fare to be found consisted of a small bowl of Halloween candy on one of the vendor’s tables Having eaten only a light dinner to save room for both food and beverage, I found myself holding back on enjoying the potions so as not to over-enjoy them Of course, it was only a short walk across the breezeway to the restaurant, but I didn’t want to miss out on the event while waiting for a table to open up in the crowded restaurant For future Potions classes, Coltivare should consider offering Harr y-Potter themed food (Pumpkin Pasties or Treacle

as Silo famous all-natural fried chicken, Silo Mac express, a sandwich place, an omelette place and Indian Creek Farm There were people everywhere lining up for food, talking in the sun and watching the Quidditch match nearby

All of the options were overwhelming, but my roommate and I eventually decided on sharing the Silo Veggie Mac It consisted of Silo mac and cheese with organic, local, wilted greens and housemade pickled onions It was originally $9, but we got a dollar off for liking Silo food tr uck on Facebook It came out pretty quickly and we took it over to a grassy area to sit and eat

When I got the food, the lettuce looked so wilted and the onions were such a strange pinkish color that I thought I had made a mistake Yet I was pleasantly surprised by how much I liked the combination of flavors The warmth and creaminess of the mac and cheese complemented the cold and crunchy onions nicely The onions were refreshing, and even the wilted-looking lettuce was actually very tasty Magical mac and cheese indeed! We ate our food quickly, and I could have happily had more But instead of going to get the same thing again, we walked back to the Latin food stall stationed outside Pizza Aroma The Latin food place was selling bean or pork pupusas ($4)

Tarts , anyone?) to bolster the theme and ensure that guests enjoy drinks on a full stomach or else, it shouldn’t advertise food at all

If the event could have benefitted from Harry-Potter-themed food, it could also have benefitted from Harry-Potter-themed drinks The mixologist’s potions vaguely referenced magical themes and creatures, but aside from Finger Lakes Cider House’s display of red, green, yellow and blue bottles representing each of the four Hogwarts houses, and guests ’ own Harr y-Potterthemed costumes, there were few explicit connections to the series itself I would have enjoyed renditions of Butterbeer, Felix Felicis, Pollyjuice Potion, Unicorn Blood or even Goblets of Fire I suppose serving drinks too strongly tied to the books might have stifled the mixologist’s originality and imagination – but guests expecting a stronger Harry Potter theme may have found themselves disappointed

Nevertheless, the event offered a fun excursion into the Ithaca community and a welcome break from the overcrowded bars and stale fraternity basements of Collegetown A recently turned 21-year-old, I enjoyed the opportunity to witness a different version of Ithaca, from the wineries that the Finger Lakes are so well known for to the company of an older, more mature crowd At the anticipated third annual Advanced Potions for Adults next year, alcohol aficionados and aspiring mixologists alike will find a magical night awaiting them

Emily Jones is a senior in the College of Arts & Sciences She can be reached at ej68@cornell edu

and chicken or bean tamales ($5) I had never had a pupusa before, so we decided to share a bean pupusa A pupusa is a thick corn tortilla with some sort of filling in this case, a bean filling On top, there were cabbage and onions with an orange sauce It took a little while to get into the heart of the pupusa, where all the beans were, and without the bean filling it tasted plain Once I reached the filling and had a bite with the onions and cabbage as well, I very much enjoyed the meal I was too full from the mac

and cheese to eat much of the pupusa, but I’m glad I got it as it was a mixture of flavors I had never experienced before All in all, if you don’t want to go to Wizarding weekend for the people dressed up as wizards living out their Harry Potter fantasies, then at least go for the the variety of food and the atmosphere of excitement during the day Even muggles are welcome!

Pinch is a sophomore in the College of Arts & Sciences She

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

Defending Our Cinema

BY LORENZO BENITEZ Sun Staff Writer

A few semesters ago, when I was a more active staff writer in this section, I reviewed the 1971 film Walkabout before it screened at the Cornell Cinema When the opportunity arose to review one of the greatest Australian films ever made, I obviously seized it without hesitation, thankful there exists an institution right here at Cornell that is devoted to showcasing profound examples of world cinema, like Ran and Koyaanisqatsi, alongside more contemporary works like Moonlight and Baby Driver I didn’t expect much to come of that review after all, who actually reads this section, if not this paper, right? but at the bottom of the online article, I found a comment by an alumnus named David Moriah ’72, whose response is tangible evidence of the enduring relevance of institutions like the Cornell Cinema It has been nearly half a century since David graduated, yet he has “returned to [Walkabout] several times over the years and continue to drink in the deep well of its wisdom and beauty ” Recently, we were all r udely awakened to discover the Cornell Cinema has been threatened by not just a reduction to existing funding, but a complete withdrawal of financial support Just a few weeks ago, local audiences were finally given the chance to witness the belated Ithaca premiere of Jean-Luc Godard’s Adieu au Langage, more than three years after its initial release at Cannes The packed theater, composed of people from both Cornell and surrounding communities, verified our cinema as among

the most important cultural venues at this school, if not central New York Had Cornell Cinema not been around to screen a pioneering 3D film by one of the most celebrated filmmakers of all time, I wonder if it would have ever found its way to this part of the world

ments they demand of the cinema’s financial structure That a portion of student funding not be used for the wages of a faculty advisor appears like a reasonable request, but this was already approved by the Appropriations Committee of Fall 2015, which decided the allocations

agree that its importance as an independent institution transcends the profit motive I would similarly posit that the Cornell Cinema is of such importance as a cultural institution that should its existence be dictated by profitability If anything, the Cornell Cinema is regis-

In a time when the United States is gripped by issues of social division and shrinking empathy, the power of the moving image as a means by which we might expand our empathy the foremost purpose of cinema identified by the late critic Roger Ebert appears more relevant than ever While some of the grievances that prompted the Student Assembly Appropriations Committee’s intended funding appear well-reasoned, threatening the ver y existence of Cornell Cinema is immensely disproportionate to the marginal improve-

of 2016 to 2018 cycle While the Appropriations Committee of Fall 2016 expressed their concern toward this practice, the money with which the cinema paid this staff wage had already been granted and to re-divert it mid-cycle would have violated other restrictions imposed by the Student Assembly

The committee’s other grievance, that the cinema’s business model is unsustainable, grossly mistakes the inherent value of certain institutions The Cornell Daily Sun is not a profitable business, but almost all of us would ultimately

tered as a non-profit organization and yet it managed to consistently return a slight fiscal surplus!

My friend Yuji Yang ’19, president of the cinema’s Student Advisory Board, says they expect a $200 surplus this fiscal year My argument therefore doesn’t concern what the Cornell Cinema ought to be, but what it is already is I personally owe much to the Cornell Cinema, not only because of the cultural experiences it has provided to me as an audience member If I end up making filmmaking my ultimate career, I will

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forever have it to thank as the premiere venue of my first featurelength film If the Student Assembly has no qualms devoting $75,000 each year to their Infrastructure Fund Commission, which supports student-led infrastructure projects with which budding engineers might practice their craft, why not extend the same generosity to budding creatives, for whom the Cornell Cinema acts as a unique, cultural institution instrumental to our development The committee’s ostensible incredulity toward the value of Cornell Cinema is perhaps part of a growing STEM-obsessed skepticism toward the relevance of the arts, which is why, in resistance to the increasing functional commodification of higher education, we must vigorously defend our cinema

The thought that decades of history and cultural enrichment that the Cornell Cinema has provided could suddenly end with the decision of an undergraduate committee should deeply trouble us The consequences will be far greater than members of the Appropriations Committee likely anticipate, leaving a permanent cultural crater at the literal center of our school In the lead-up to their final vote next week, I implore the transitor y representatives of the Student Assembly to consider the lasting cultural opportunities they would deny future Cornellians some of which are still fondly remembered nearly half a century later if they allow our cinema to die on their watch

Lorenzo Benitez is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at lbenitez@cornellsun com

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“Is it a good movie? Lord no, it’s all over the palce and doesn’t make a lick of sense.”

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The problem only worsens when the movie tries to cover its tracks For example, at one point in the movie, the villain

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Cornell Earns Tough Weekend Split up North

By SMITA NALLURI Sun Staff Writer

Cornell women ’ s hockey got off to a solid start this past weekend as it began the regular season with two ECAC games on the road against No 7 St Lawrence (2-3-2, 0-10 ECAC) and No 3 Clarkson (8-1-1, 2-10) No 8 Cornell (1-1-0, 1-1-0) bested the Saints, 3-1, on Friday, but fell to reigning national champion, Clarkson, 6-0, on Saturday

The weekend with its ups and downs provided Cornell with a valuable learning opportunity and sets the stage for a successful campaign ahead

“We were well prepared and battled as a team, ” said junior goalie Marlene Boissonnault “As the season progresses, we will continue to learn and grow as a team and get stronger and stronger ”

“There were a lot of positives in our first weekend,” echoed head coach Doug

Derraugh ’91 “But we need to learn to be more consistent in our play ”

The Red is coming off of an outstanding 2016-17 season that saw the team advance to the NCAA tournament However, after graduating a strong senior class, the group had to readjust this year in order to maintain its prowess

“This season we lost not only a talented senior class, but a group of strong leaders and teammates off the ice too, ” said senior defenseman Sarah Knee “We knew going into this season that everyone right down to the incoming freshmen would need to contribute on the ice and in the locker room to bring us back to that level ”

Underclassmen stepped up to the plate in both games this weekend as freshman defenseman, Devon Facchinato blocked two shots for the Red against Clarkson, and sophomores Jamie Bourbonnais, Kristin O’Neill, and Paige Lewis led the offensive charge during each of the two contests

Freshman goaltender Lindsay Browning came on in relief and made her career debut for Cornell against Clarkson, and classmate forward Madlynne Mills scored her first career-goal against St Lawrence to regain the lead in the third period

Other highlights from the weekend include Bourbonnais’ and Lewis’ goals against St Lawrence and Boissonnault’s 25save performance against the Saints

A driven and talented team, albeit young, the Red moved up one spot and is currently ranked eighth in the NCAA, but the group pays little attention to rankings as the season unfolds

“Rankings don’t affect our goals from year to year, ” Knee said “We are always striving to be the best we possibly can While rankings help down the road, they are more of a byproduct We are focused on our daily actions rather than the end result ”

And despite the pressure of being a

nationally ranked team, the Red prefers to take things one game at a time and focus on the task at hand, using even the toughest of losses to better itself as a cohesive unit

“There is always a big learning curve with a young team, ” Derraugh said “We need to be patient ”

“I’m very excited for this year, and I’m even more optimistic knowing the season has only just begun,” Knee said “There’s still plenty of work to do and nothing worthwhile comes easy, but we ’ re ready to work hard and learn from our mistakes Of course we want to win games, but we know even losing can make us better ”

The Red is back in action this weekend at Lynah Rink, making its home debut against Quinnipiac (5-4, 1-1 ECAC) and Princeton (1-1-2, 1-1) in two more conference matchups

Smita Nalluri be reached at snalluri@cornellsun com

1st Place Red to Take on Green

FOOTBALL

Quarterback Jack Heneghan leads a capable offense and has thrown for 13 touchdowns and just four interceptions this season The team averages 165 yards per game on the ground, with Ryder Stone getting the bulk of the carries

“[Heneghan] is a really great thrower, but when you watch him on film he’s got a great sense of the pocket and he will take off for first downs and extended drives,” Archer said “We’ve got to keep him in the pocket and get him sacked ”

“They play such base defense, but they do it really well,” Archer said “They run to the ball, they shed blocks and they’re just really fundamentally sound ”

“They’re a really well-coached team, ” said senior tight end Hayes Nolte “They don’t do a lot of

something they have embraced in recent weeks

“We’ve always prided ourselves on being the blue-collar Ivy. We want our opponents knowing that when you play Cornell, it’s going to be physical ”

S e n i o r H a y e s N o l t e

The Green defense has given up an average of just 332 yards per game and ranks in the top half of the league defending both the run and the pass

crazy stuff, but their defensive line is really big and really physical We’re definitely going to have to be physical and match their intensity on the line of scrimmage ” For Nolte and the rest of the Cornell offense, physicality is

“I feel like we ’ ve totally figured out our identity as a team, and everyone ’ s bought in,” he said “We’ve always prided ourselves on being the blue-collar Ivy We want our opponents knowing that when you play Cornell, it’s going to be a physical game ” Along the same lines, the Red has become a run-first team a label Archer is proud of In its previous four games, Cornell has run the ball far more than it has thrown, and the team ’ s talented group of tailbacks has gotten the job done

Losing junior Chris Walker against Princeton is a big blow, but senior captain Jack Gellatly, classmate Josh Sweet and sophomore Harold Coles have already shown they can be effective when called upon

“You have to take [ Walker’s] production and spread it out over ever ybody else,” Archer said “And that means more for Jack and Harold and more for some others ”

If the Red can beat Dartmouth, a pivotal week nine matchup with Columbia would loom But the team is certainly not overlooking this one Either way, the Red is playing meaningful football in November, and that is nothing to scoff at

“It’s a great feeling,” said sophomore punter/kicker Nickolas Null, whose 43-yard field goal was the difference versus Princeton “Every one of them is hungry to win games, and they all have this chip on their shoulder that a lot of people predicted we weren ’ t going to be very good, and they’re coming out here and showing that they can play ball It’s an us against the world mentality ”

“We believed in it the whole time,” Nolte added, “but it’s great to see it translating into wins and it being week eight with us tied for first ”

Kickoff is set for 1:30 Saturday at Dartmouth’s Memorial Field

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun com

Null Embodies ‘Chip on Our Shoulder’ Mentality

Boots game-winnning field goal in first start at new position as full-time kicker, after injury to Mays

By RAPHY GENDLER

Staff Writer

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C o r n e l l f o o t b a l l’s p r i m a r y r u n n i n g back junior Chris Walker will miss the remainder of the 2017 season and “probably the first part of next year ” after an injur y sustained in the team ’ s 29-28 win over Princeton Saturday night, head coach David Archer ’05 said Tuesday afternoon

With just over seven minutes played in

t h e t h i rd q u a r t e r a g a i n s t t h e Ti g e r s , Walker rushed the ball up the left side only to fall to the field with a non-contact injur y and a buckling in his right knee

The junior immediately grabbed his right leg in pain and had to be helped off the field, making his touchdown earlier in the third quarter seem inconsequential

With Walker out, Cornell loses its leader in all-purpose yards through seven games this season An All-Ivy first-team selection in 2016, Walker has regressed in the 2017 campaign in terms of offensive production, averaging 30 fewer yards per game on the ground and two yards less per carr y

But what Walker lost on the ground he made up for in the air Compared to the

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“He just has that humble, earn it type of attitude. There’s no sense of entitlement. There’s no, ‘Where are my reps?’”

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All-Ivy Running Back Walker To Miss Remainder of Season

nine games he appeared in last season, he was averaging nine more yards in the air per game and hauled in four more recep-

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y Saturday He is the second-leading receiver on the team, averaging 9 3 yards per catch

Walker was injured once before this season, exiting the 28-16 loss to B

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“It was devastating to lose Chris,” said senior tight end Hayes Nolte

Chris We are a team with a lot of confidence

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Sophomore Harold Coles has shown signs that he is capable of taking on a larger role, evident in his team-leading 293 yards on 46 fewer attempts than Walker

Senior captain Jack Gellatly is having a

career year with 329 all-purpose yards

Both, however, have been injur y-prone t h i s s e a s o n ; C o l e s m i s s e d t h e e n t i r e Bucknell game with an ankle injur y, while Gellatly only appeared briefly in the second half

Archer also pointed to senior Josh Sweet as someone who may get more touches, as well as freshman S K Howard, who filled into the halfback role nicely against Bucknell when only he and Sweet were healthy enough to play

The quar terback position, too, has become a pseudo-running back role for Cornell at times, especially when senior Jake Jatis is under center Jatis is fourth on the team in rushing with 151 yards and tied with Walker for the lead in rushing touchdowns with three, including two

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“ We’re going to have to lean on them a little bit more, ” Archer said of replacing Walker’s playmaking “ We have to take Chris’ production and spread it out over ever ybody else ”

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Cornell Seeks First Win at Dartmouth Since ’05

By CHARLES COTTON Sun Assistant Sports Editor

For the first time in decades, Cornell football enters its yearly matchup with Dartmouth first in the Ivy League standings After knocking off two preseason No 1 teams Harvard and Princeton, the Red is proving it is no joke and has a legitimate shot at the league title

But with the final three games taking place against a fellow No 1 team in Columbia, No 2 in Dartmouth and a perennially tough Penn program, there are no easy games from here on out, and the team ’ s next big challenge takes place this Saturday in Hanover

“We’re not playing to keep anything or protect anything,” said head coach David Archer ’05 “We’re still going after it These are three more huge games, and there’s still a lot more to play ”

Last season, Cornell lost to Dartmouth, 17-13, after surrendering a double-digit fourth quarter lead to drop its fifth consecutive contest and its eighth straight against the Green

But the team has used last year ’ s defeat as added motivation, a constant theme throughout this season ’ s “Revenge Tour,” in which Cornell has attempted and so far succeeded to avenge losses suffered in 2016 The Red can check Harvard, Brown and Princeton off that list and is using the same fuel heading to Dartmouth

“We’re not playing to keep anything or protect anything We’re still going after it These are three more huge games.”

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“Last year was definitely tough losing that game, ” said sophomore cornerback and kick returner David Jones

“That wasn ’ t a game we should’ve lost, and we kind of gave it away We’re really harping on [the revenge tour] this week, and we really want to get that revenge because we gave [the game] to them last year ”

Dartmouth (5-2, 2-2 Ivy) began the season with five straight wins but has lost its last two to fall out of the league’s top spot The Green has remained competitive, though, and has talent up and down its roster

“They should’ve beaten Harvard, they should've beaten Columbia,” Archer said “These guys could easily be undefeated and tops in the league ” Dartmouth’s numbers are solid across the board, but the group does not excel in any one particular phase of the game

Red Faces off Against Quinnipiac, Princeton to Begin ECAC Play

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Sports Editor

There is no team Cornell men ’ s hockey has faced off against more than Quinnipiac since the 2010-11 season

In the 23 contests between the two ECAC powers in that timeframe, nine have come in the postseason, 13 have been decided by a one-goal margin and six have had to be decided in overtime Each contest is more bitterly fought than the one preceding it, and each holds an added sense of urgency and novelty than most any other game on the respective schedules

“From game one when I played

Quinnipiac last year, I noticed a difference,” said sophomore defenseman Yanni Kaldis, who has two games under his belt against the Bobcats “It’s a really fun game to play in We can expect their best and they should expect our best also ”

With a sweep of Alabama-Huntsville this past weekend in the back pocket, Cornell is set to begin ECAC play this coming Friday and Saturday, and there is no other team the Red would rather begin against

The No 18 Cornell squad heads to No 11/12 Quinnipiac this Friday, with Princeton slotted in the next day As opposed to UAH this past weekend, Cornell has two teams to focus on in the upcoming

road trip, and while the team will tell you that every game is of equal importance, it is clear who they look forward to more

“It’s always fun playing Quinnipiac,” said senior alternate captain and forward Trevor Yates, the reigning ECAC Player of the Week “We don’t like them very much, so it adds a little more excitement to the game ”

In the 23 contests since the 2010-11 season, Quinnipiac holds the slim margin in wins with 12 to Cornell’s 10, and one bout ending in a 2-2 tie But the Bobcats have dominated in the goals department, holding a 17-goal margin over the Red in the past seven seasons, albeit with a 10-0 win thrown into the mix

“It’s one of those teams you go in and you know it’s going to be one of the hardest, if not the hardest, games of the year, ” Yates said

A team always chock-full of offensive and defensive weapons, Quinnipiac is coming off a relatively down year, at least by its standards The Bobcats lost in the ECAC semifinals to eventual-Frozen Four team Harvard and fell short of the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2012

“It’s ebbs and flows,” said Cornell head coach Mike Schafer ’86 of Quinnipiac “[They’ve] been having great years, and we ’ ve been trying to steal stuff that they do ”

As much as Cornell would love to try and dismantle Quinnipiac every day of the year, the team also has an up-and-coming Princeton team to prepare for the very next night

The Tigers finished seventh in the ECAC last season with a 8-11-3 conference record and were tabbed to finish fourth and fifth in the media and coaches’ polls, respectively

Junior Max Véronneau was also picked by both sects of voting members to be an allconference selection at forward Cornell, at least on the scoreboard, easily handled Princeton in both matchups last season, but was outshot in the 5-1 win in New Jersey Schafer is wary of what could potentially be a Tiger squad on the rise

“Our guys respect them,” Schafer said “We had two tough games against them last year If you give them time and space, like anybody else, they will make plays ”

Like Cornell, Princeton touts a newcomer in net after the graduation of Colton Phinney, the program ’ s all-time leader in saves Ryan Ferland has just one game of collegiate experience, but he led his team to a season-opening 4-2 win over Holy Cross, where he had to make 38 saves Schafer also stressed the power of the impending opponents ’ special teams But one bright spot of taking and drawing so many penalties for Cornell this past weekend against UAH was getting reps on the powerplay and penalty kill early on in the season

“It was really important for both the power play and the penalty kill [to get ice time],” Kaldis said “We got better in the second game against [UAH] than the first game We have to move forward from here ”

The weekend slate of games kicks off at 7 p m from Quinnipiac’s High Point Solutions Arena, then again at the same time Saturday from Princeton’s Hobey Baker Memorial Rink

Zachary Silver can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun com