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Long weekend | For the first long weekend of the fall semester, students relaxed, caught up on work and even travelled to other cities like Syracuse.

Students Reset and Relax for Labor Day

By AIMÉE EICHER Sun Staff Writer

This fall, Cornellians took advantage of the three-day Labor Day weekend to travel, spend time with friends and catch up on schoolwork.

Several students used the long weekend to travel outside of Ithaca. Alan Liu ’24 went to Syracuse for the Great New York State Fair, which concluded this weekend.

“I went wIth some friends, and it was so fun,” Liu said. “We saw lots of cool animals, and I even won a prize.”

Isabel Hou ’24, who also visited the fair, commented on the weekend’s inclement weather.

“I enjoyed the social events that were hosted this weekend,” Hou said. “It was raining but still a really fun way to spend the day.”

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In addition to visiting the state fair, Jailyn Wilson ’24 traveled to Niagara Falls, also taking the weekend to practice self care and catch up with friends.

“I’ve hung out with a lot of my friends and had a nice spa day for myself, which was so relaxing,” Wilson said.

Tia Taylor ’25 stayed in Ithaca for track practice this weekend, but she also prioritized spending time with friends.

“I stayed in the majority of the time to do homework and hang out with my friends,” Taylor said. “I’m a part of the Women of Color Athletics group, and we had our meet and greet. It was nice to see familiar faces from last year and see how everyone’s summer went.”

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SBWU Members Speak Out

Ithaca Starbucks workers organize Labor Day rally and parade

By ANGELA BUNAY and SURITA BASU

On a drizzly Labor Day morning, students, community leaders and Ithaca residents gathered on College Avenue for a rally hosted by Starbucks Workers United in support of the Ithaca Starbucks’ efforts to unionize.

In April 2022, Ithaca became the first city in the United States to unionize all Starbucks locations. The movement was sparked in August 2021 by actions in nearby Buffalo, New York where workers voted to unionize the first Starbucks in the country.

Ithaca workers were motivated to unionize in October 2021, but in June 2022, management

closed the Collegetown location, claiming that it made little sense to continue operating with ongoing issues regarding the condition of the store. The workers claim this was in retaliation for their unionization.

Taking place in front of the now-closed Collegetown Starbucks, the crowd included members of SBWU, members of the Ithaca Democratic Socialists of America and the Ithaca Tenants Union. The rally featured speeches from Ithaca Starbucks workers and community leaders and was followed by a parade from College Avenue to Ithaca Commons.

In his speech, Evan Sunshine ’24, a former

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Dean Colleen Barry Refects on One Year Anniversary

By SAMMIE LAMBOURNE Sun Staff Writer

Approaching its one-year anniversary on Sept. 15, the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy has grown significantly in its inaugural year.

The school currently houses 55 professors and has expanded its opportunities for students, including new Executive Master of Health Administration and Executive Master of Public Administration programs alongside its undergraduate and PhD degrees. The Brooks school is also working to broaden its course

offerings.

Inaugural Dean Colleen Barry said that the school’s mission is shaped around growth and longevity.

“Within ten years, I hope that we can be at the stage where people will know about the school and be aware of its mission within the larger University. But more importantly, I hope the work that we do will allow us to be known in the broader community,” Barry said.

Four members of the 2022 cohort of Brooks graduates were the first recipients of the John Siliciano Student Leadership

Award, which recognizes graduating students for exceptional academic excellence and leadership.

“The work that we are doing through our research, student internship and engagements and community organizations will have built this reputation that our students and faculty make a difference in the world,” Barry said.

Barry’s background is in health policy, through which she works to improve mental health care and reduce barriers to healthcare access. Barry says that if she were a Brooks student in 2022, the school’s offerings and opportunities would have

expanded her academic interests.

“I wish I could be in the classroom and learn more,” Barry said. “I would be interested in learning more about climate change and environmental sustainability. Race and public policy are also critically important issues.”

The Brooks school aims to address these issues through the various institutes and centers that it houses — including the Cornell Population Center, Institute of Politics and Global Affairs, Cornell Program in Infrastructure Policy and Cornell in Washington Study Program.

These programs foster discussion of global issues, such as the history of Taiwan’s democracy and sustainable infrastructure. In addition, the school’s classes aim not only to educate students on current policy issues but also to help them develop solutions to these problems.

“Whether it's environmental policy, challenges in technology or confronting historical racism that's embedded in policy, we are teaching the students the tools toward equity,” Barry said.

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Today

Bradley Verhelle: Mneumonic Mercury

8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Olive Tjaden Gallery

Entrepreneurs in Residence

With Robert Gregor ’00, Judicial Degree ’07

9 a.m. - 4 p.m., Statler Hall 189C

Behavioral Economics Workshop

With Heather Schofield, University of Pennsylvania

11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m., Sage Hall 106

Does Dual Citizenship Reproduce Inequalities? With Robtel Neajai Peiley

1 p.m. - 2:30 p.m., Uris Hall G08

University Lecture

With Dr. Alexander Rudensky

4 p.m., College of Veterinary Medicine Lecture Hall 4/5

How Populism Deals with Complexity With Oscar Mazzoleni, Univesrsity of Lausanne 4:30 p.m., Uris Hall G08

Made in China: Artworks for Chinese Muslim With Quamar Adamjee 4:30 p.m., Morrill Hall 404

Shop Talk: Translation Matters

With Haruki Lee, Valzhyna Mort and Edmundo Paz-Soldon

5 p.m., Goldwin Smith Hall 258

Populism Perspectives | Oscar Mazzoleni, Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology at the University of Lausanne will discuss why scholars need to develop a multi-faceted perspective on the concept of populism.

Tomorrow

Hope Over Fate: The Science of Ending Global Poverty With Fazle Hasan Abed 12:25 p.m. - 1:15 p.m., Warren Hall, 151

Perspectives on Law School Admissions With Cornell Law School

Assistant Director of Admissions Marcie Purcell 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Martha Van Rensselaer Hall 1219

Biophysics Colloquium With Alex Holehouse, Washington University School of Medicine 4 p.m., Clark Hall 701

Microeconomic Theory Workshop With Tommaso Denti, Cornell University 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Uris Hall 498

Fall 2022 Townsend Lecture 1: Continents With Constanze Güthenke, University of Oxford 4:30 p.m., Goldwin Smith Hall G64

Information Session: Migration Studies Minor 4:45 p.m. - 5:45 p.m., Virtual Event

Queer Botany

With Student Garden Ambassadors 5 p.m., Brian C. Nevin Welcome Center

W W W . C O R N E L L S U N . C O M

SBWU: ‘No Cofee, No Contract!’

Workers push for College Ave reopening with union recognition

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Collegetown Starbucks employee and SBWU organizer, noted that the College Avenue workers took action in October 2021 when their manager was forced to quit due to poor working conditions involving upper management.

Sunshine and his coworkers learned of Stephanie Heslop, a worker at the Starbucks on Ithaca Commons, and became aware of her efforts to unionize the store.

From there, the College Avenue and Ithaca Commons locations joined forces with the newest Meadow Street location to begin organizing.

“Originally, my intention to unionize was not anti-Starbucks [but] simply pro-worker and prounion, but the way that Starbucks

was treating me and my coworkers made me rethink my perspective of the company as they had shown their true colors,” Sunshine said during his speech.

Kayli Gillet, a former Starbucks employee of five years, who worked in the Houston, Dallas, New York City and Ithaca locations also spoke.

“On this historic Labor Day, solidarity is more important than ever,” Gilet said.

Gilet expressed her disappointment at the working conditions she experienced at Starbucks.

“Times may seem bleak, but we have to remember that there’s a reason for all this — the business is afraid.”

Jorge Defendini ’22

Gilet was one of the first union organizers at the Ithaca Commons Starbucks and was fired on Aug. 25. In response to her firing along with two others in August, both the Ithaca Commons and College Avenue locations were on strike.

“The amount of labor that they’re asking us to provide just is not possible,” Gilet said. “They’re asking for more and more and they are staffing us less and less.”

Jorge Defendini ’22 who serves as an alderperson for the City of Ithaca’s Fourth District and the interim chair of the Ithaca DSA, noted the power of labor organizing both at the Ithaca Starbucks locations and at Cornell in his rally speech, referencing the United Auto Workers vote last Monday.

“Starbucks is firing workers and closing stores while Cornell tries to strip labor of its benefits,” Defendini said. “Times may seem bleak, but we have to remember that there’s a reason for all this — the business is afraid. Starbucks and Cornell alike are afraid of an organized labor movement.”

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Students Unwind Over Labor Day Weekend

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Regardless of how they spent Labor Day weekend, students agreed that having an extra day off provided much needed time for relaxation following the first two weeks of classes.

“It was extremely nice to get some time away from classes after trying to get back into the groove,” Wilson said. “I can finally collect myself so later on, I’ll be ready for my classes.”

Taylor and Liu agreed that the extra day off provided the opportunity to better prepare for the week ahead.

“The break is much needed,” Liu said.

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Much of Todd Hido’s photography is void of subjects. Capturing interior spaces, the exteriors of homes at night or isolated suburban off-shoots, Hido’s photography peers into the sheltered spaces of private life and is less revealing than suggestive of untold narratives.

The feeling of Hido’s work teases at voyeuristic: the perspective of his photos feels privileged but is not wholly satisfying because we are never shown the private moments his photos come so close to revealing.

Hido’s photographs do not depict the leftovers of a Thanksgiving meal, or winestained glasses at a cocktail party, or a child’s shoe prints in a mud room; rather, they denote

scenes of great solitude, loneliness and isolation.

Hido’s work is significant because it attempts to universalize these phenomena –– phenomena that are innately private and unseen. I believe that his attempt is a successful one: Hido’s photographs beg for a subject, and one cannot help but insert one into the frame. This absence, and the subsequent impulse to account for it in a way that is specific and personal to the viewer, strengthens the associative qualities of Hido’s photographs.

I met with a childhood friend over the summer, having not seen him for over a year. I greeted him with a hug, and we sat down at a table on the street

Todd Hido’s ‘Interiors’

in upper Manhattan. He told me rather quickly that he had been released from a psychiatric ward just three months prior, where he was being held on suicide watch. He had been living alone on the lower east side of Manhattan, struggling with depression.

He showed me scars up along his arm, telling me in a very matter of fact way that he had been drinking himself to excess, researching the lethal dosage of certain medications he had access to and had attempted to create a noose from a jump rope in his studio apartment, but that the ceilings were too low. After asking several friends for a gun, one of them called an ambulance and he was taken to the hospital.

His family flew in from the West Coast, and his mother had been living with him in his apartment since. I’ve known him since I was three years old, and it was the night of his 23rd birthday when he told me all of this.

It is difficult not to apply the variety of emotive readings of Hido’s photos to spaces and communities that are close to myself. I cannot help but think about my friend when I see Hido’s art, or attempt to imagine the physical space of his apartment on his worst nights. Or the wall art, the ruffled bedding, the family photos in West Campus dorms where students have taken their lives here in Ithaca.

I don’t believe that Hido’s collection is in direct reference to suicide, but thought of in that dim light, Hido’s art empa-

thizes with the experience of solitude by detailing the spaces in which it is most authentically felt, and most scarcely seen. By doing so, we are encouraged not only to think about the private lives of those we know, but also of those we do not, but may hear about for the first time in emails from the University informing us of their passing.

The touching part of Hido’s art is that one can choose to fill his spaces with whatever they want; paint the walls green, replace the grim lighting with something more luminous –– or, do what I believe he wants us to: sit in a space for the very reason that it is unfamiliar and disorienting.

Hido’s medium offers a passage for conceptualizing solitude, which is, like the photographs themselves, hollow and deeply unsatisfying. It is sad that in the years that I have been a student at Cornell, I cannot keep track of the number of students who have taken their lives. And even sadder is that I cannot recall those students whose names appeared, for a moment, in my inbox, before they were forgotten. It is only when we lose someone whom we knew that we attempt to detail their pain. But Hido’s photography details that pain as an offering for even deeper consideration, emotional ponderance and recognition of not just the lived isolation of others, but of all endured suffering that is not our own.

of your photograph but a vehicle to get people to think about the subjects that you’re interested in. They’re really not about houses, they’re about people,” said Hido.

“Oftentimes what you’re photographing isn’t the subject

I hope that Hido’s photographs make students think

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about the low-lit and ugly forms of private life experienced on and off this campus: that they are softened to the realities of

He showed me scars up along his arm, telling me in a very

matter

of fact way that he had been drinking himself to excess.

loneliness and pain everyone feels, but seldom shares, and that they may consider the mental and emotional bouts of others by sitting with this art, and perhaps, as a result, offer greater kindness, camaraderie and consideration to strangers who may very much need it.

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FBeReal Is Saving Gen-Z

or today’s column, I will write about … hold on, it’s time to BeReal.

I scoffed when a friend told me about the photo sharing app BeReal this spring between ping pong matches at his north campus fraternity. Some seven months later, Cornellians — myself included — are improbably still posting on the app, indicating a possible shift in the way Gen-Z uses social media.

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BeReal is too dumb to be addicting. That’s the beauty of it.

After growing tired of drinking Red Bull and shredding the French Alps on his mountain bike, GoPro co-founder Alexis Bareyat launched BeReal, promising users “your friends for real.” The app sends users a notification at a random time every day telling them to post a photo of what they’re doing. Don’t post late or retake your picture lest you suffer the judgment of your fellow BeRealers.

The push notification has spawned a sort of secular liturgy among BeReal users. Sitting in a dining hall or cafe, students will turn to each other with mock urgency when their phone dings: “It’s time to BeReal!” before snapping photos of one another. The social aspect, I think, is why BeReal caught on, and it is why the app spells hope for Gen-Z’s online presence.

While it’s easy to be alarmist about the effects of social media, there is evidence that our scrolling is taking a toll on our mental health. In 2012, a Cornell psychology professor teamed up with Facebook for a controversial study demonstrating users’ moods could be changed by altering the content of their feeds. More recently, researchers linked increased Instagram, Snapchat and Facebook usage to depression and loneliness.

Social media that once brought joy now induces anxiety. Eight years ago, it was normal to make a Vine of you and your friend singing Taylor Swift. Now, in our war against being labeled as boring or cringe, we sit alone in our rooms curating online personas with the perfect amount of whimsy and depth. No one wins but the social media company’s shareholders.

My peers are aware of these issues — I even had a couple Cornell friends delete social media after watching the 2020 documentary, The Social Dilemma , which chronicled Facebook’s nefarious efforts to grip our attention — but generally shrug at them because social media is an intractable part of college student life. A couple of my friends bought the Light Phone, but let’s be real — Pandora’s box has already been opened, and it’s fanciful to imagine a future without social media.

BeReal walks a middle road between throwing your phone into Beebe Lake and spending your vacation obsessively taking selfies. It’s what I like to call dumb social media — apps whose entire appeal is their limitations. BeReal does not allow users to see follower counts, filter their pictures or post more than once a day.

The app exists more or less as an elaborate inside joke between its users, a meme turned to reality. And it’s not alone in the dumb social media category.

Sidechat grew popular at Cornell for intentionally limiting users to Cornell students, rather than curating an endless For You page. Poop Map even had a moment in 2020 where Cornellians were sharing their bathroom trip locations with their friends.

Sometimes, what we need is a dumb social media app rather than the perfect internet machine. In terms of performance, Instagram is the Lightning McQueen to BeReal’s Towmater, but the fact remains that people crave real life connections.

Cornell is capable of holding classes entirely remotely. Forcing a lecture hall’s worth of students to sit and listen to a professor is no longer necessary given the wonders of modern technology. And yet, we’re (mostly) thrilled to be returning to that old inefficient system because as a rule, technology that takes away our ability to connect in-person does not help us flourish.

BeReal walks a middle road between throwing your phone into Beebe Lake and spending your vacation obsessively taking selfies.

Dumb social media apps also succeed on some level because we resent being commodified by social media giants throwing money at initiatives meant to win our attention. TikTok is building an unfathomably large database of surveilled user data. Snapchat has scores of engineers tinkering with its augmented reality filters. Facebook is building a Metaverse. Yet to paraphrase Jeff Goldblum in Jurassic Park , engineers were so preoccupied building social media attention factories that they failed to consider whether they should be building them in the first place.

I should make a confession, though — I’m not very real on BeReal. I use the app’s archive as a college photo diary, so I don’t post myself doing mundane tasks that I won’t care to revisit in the future. BeReal cannot do away with the desire to curate our online personas.

What BeReal can do is move the focus of our online lives from viral videos made by strangers to memories shared with friends — and that seems like a definite, if measured, step in the right direction.

First Semester Jitters

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The beginning of the semester is an adjustment period for us all. Freshmen are supposed to struggle in their frst few weeks on campus. It’s almost like a rite of passage. But frst-years aren’t the only ones who have to take time to adjust.

As a junior, this will be my third “frst semester” of an academic school year here, and I’d be lying if I said I felt more prepared to take on this year than when I was a sophomore or even a freshman. I urge us all to be kind to ourselves these frst few weeks as we navigate new spaces and schedules that don’t seem like our own quite yet.

Adjusting to a new semester takes time, so be patient with yourself. You don’t need to create more work for yourself just yet; your professors will do that for you later this month during the frst round of prelims. You don’t need to go on four-day benders if you’d rather sleep. It’s a marathon, not a sprint. You’ll thank yourself later.

We all have reasons to be slightly overwhelmed these frst few weeks on campus. Many sophomores have relocated across campus, forcing them to abandon the common rooms and dining halls that once provided comfort during their frst year on campus. Two weeks isn’t really enough time for the Cornell calves to kick in, making the trek up the slope quite dreadful. Many juniors have

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With my senior year beginning and my graduate school applications already being submitted, I have found myself crossing out lists, highlighting spreadsheets and checking of checkboxes for all the things I wanted to do before the end of my Cornell undergraduate career. Taking all the right classes to get minors and honors, passing of leadership to younger club members and simply ensuring I do as much as I can in Ithaca before I leave has been satisfying and enjoyable in my own quest to have a fulflling Cornell experience.

As I refect upon my own graduation checkboxes, I urge all students to take

moved into their frst apartments of campus, entering an advanced stage of adulting that dorm-living can’t really prepare you for. While lots of seniors might be returning to their already-established of-campus housing arrangements, they also have to endure their fair share of start-of-the-semester stresses as they look ahead to a life without Cornell after May.

Of course, there’s also the initial excitement of a new semester — of meeting new friends and reuniting with old ones. Tere’s even the initial excitement of seeing the green check on Student Center, confrming your enrollment in a course that gets you one step closer to completing your major. Regardless of whether or not you’re thrilled for the coursework to start again, all of us are at least a bit excited for the semester to begin because it’s all so very new to us now.

In this excitement, there’s a desperate hope that this semester will be diferent than the last — that the material will somehow crystallize faster in our brains or maybe even that our professors will be more merciful this time around. Tose might not ever occur, but it’s really true that each new semester feels diferent from the last. A fresh start keeps us on our toes, which is not necessarily a bad thing, until it knocks us of our feet every time we try to walk.

At the start of every single semester here at Cornell, I founder for a bit, struggling to establish a personal and academic schedule that works well for me. Tis is partly due to the fact that my course list usually changes considerably during the frst two weeks of the semester.

I urge us all to be kind to ourselves these first few weeks as we navigate new spaces and schedules that don’t seem like our own quite yet.

I’ll even admit to abusing Student Center in the beginning of many semesters here, adding and dropping classes at my convenience, with just one click

of a button. Being able to “shop” for classes in the beginning of every semester definitely has its perks, but enrolling three weeks late into a class that already moves too fast hasn’t necessarily set me up for the easiest transition.

Scheduling

not-so-optional office hours for a Friday afternoon hardly seems kind, but Cornell can be an unkind place for its students. So when Cornell can’t be kind to you, don’t forget to be kind to yourself.

In fact, this is actually the only semester that I haven’t completely changed my schedule from pre-enrollment period — pushing calculus of to my junior year wasn’t one of my greatest moves, but I can’t do much about that now except endure a semester of math. Despite the little movement in my academic schedule this semester, I still found myself overwhelmed these past few weeks, adjusting to new coursework, classmates and classrooms. Since every semester seems so very new, it makes establishing a routine across semesters virtually impossible to do. Many of us tailor our personal schedules to the needs of our classes, so a change in course load also warrants a change in our personal and social lives. Do I really want to be in Orgo ofce hours every Friday from 4 to 5 p.m.? No. Will you fnd me in Baker Lab drawing sticks and dashes and maybe some orbitals too every Friday afternoon? Yes. Will I be happy about it? No, because I, like many others, am forced to build my own schedule around those of my professors. Scheduling not-so-optional ofce hours for a Friday afternoon hardly seems kind, but Cornell can be an unkind place for its students. So when Cornell can’t be kind to you, don’t forget to be kind to yourself.

Refecting on Checkboxes

the time to refect upon where they are in their Cornell experience as we all grow and evolve through it together.

At the start of each semester, I have planned out which classes to take on multiple spreadsheets to ensure that I hit all of my ILR requirements, Global Scholars honors and diferent minors. Over three years of tracking classes, the minors I have tried to complete have changed with the

As I reflect upon my own graduation checkboxes, I urge all students to take the time to reflect upon where they are in their Cornell experience as we all grow and evolve through it together.

courses I enjoyed and subsequently took more of.

T e international relations minor

became much less feasible after a couple of semesters neglecting it. Te business minor was defnitely within reach, but I became no longer interested in that style of classwork. I ensured I was taking at least one Law & Society minor course and completed the minor by junior year.

Yet unintentionally, I found myself recalibrating my junior year when I began reexamining the courses I had already taken to see which minors I might additionally reach. T e inequality studies minor only required two more courses; the leadership minor needed only one.

With the start of senior year’s add/drop period, I looked through dozens of minors to see if I was close to completing them as well. PAM, History of Capitalism and other minors seemed close but too far away with just one semester left to plan. Nevertheless, I was happy to have been somewhat intentional in the courses I took my junior year while also leaving myself open to new and interesting material throughout both of my upperclassman years.

Beyond coursework, the other general pre-graduation checkboxes that I have been completing have been the most exciting to fulfll. Go to AppleFest, PorchFest and Ithaca Fest: check. CU Downtown, Homecoming, Dragon Day and Slope Day: check. Going to a game at Lynah, bowling at Helen Newman Lanes, attending a concert in Bailey Hall and climbing to the top of McGraw Tower: check. Even outside of Ithaca but in the area, I visited the Great New York State Fair and a Syracuse Mets game but still have the Corning Museum of Glass and

the Golden Plates to see.

I wrote previously about Cornellspecifc checkboxes too, such as seeing every building on campus and doing some of the more reasonable things on the list

I am trying my best to do all there is to do in what now feels like so little time.

of 161 Tings Every Cornellian Should Do, but completing these checkboxes has truly made my Cornell experience that much richer.

As my time as a Cornell undergraduate is ending, I am trying my best to do all there is to do in what now feels like so little time. For all the freshmen and transfers starting a new journey, for all the sophomores and juniors continuing that journey and all the seniors beginning the end of it, I encourage all of you to refect upon the checkboxes in your Cornell career. Which ones do you need to do before it gets cold? What class do you need to take to get that extra minor? What part of Cornell do you want to remember after we have graduated and look fondly upon our time at Cornell? I think more about these questions each day as graduation approaches, and I encourage you all to think about them too.

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sudoku)

I Am Going to Be Small

Men’s Soccer Sweeps California Road Trip

Red is

now

2-0 to start the season

Gauchos, 2-1.

Men’s soccer kicked off the season with a three-game road trip, starting on Saturday in Santa Barbara, California. The team faced off against UCSB (2-1-1, 0-0 Big West) for the first time since last season, when it won a thrilling 4-3 match in double overtime

The Red (1-0, 0-0 Ivy) is looking to build on a strong 2021 campaign in which it went 11-3-2, including an undefeated mark in home games. UCSB entered this season just outside of the top 25, receiving 18 votes in the United Soccer Coaches poll.

On Friday, Cornell wasted no time getting its offense started up, striking first in the eighth minute. The Red intercepted a throw-in from the Gauchos, quickly pushing the ball up to sophomore forward Alioune Ka. After beating a defender, Ka made a sliding shot, passing UCSB’s keeper on the left side. Freshman goalkeeper Ryan Friedberg put on a strong showing in his collegiate debut, tallying four saves. His lone blemish came in the 39th minute, when the Gauchos capitalized on a free kick set up by a Cornell yellow card. Thaabit Baartman had his shot deflected by the Cornell wall, but it stayed on goal and beat Friedberg. And just like that, the match was tied at one. Nevertheless, it took just two minutes for the Red to reclaim the lead. A give-and-go between junior defender Kisa Kiingi and senior midfielder Brandon Morales set it up for Cornell. Kiingi was able to find freshman forward Dakota Jonke across the box, who tapped it into the back of the net, from just outside the six-yard box. Jonke’s first collegiate goal gave the Red a 2-1 lead heading into halftime.

UCSB’s best opportunity to level the game came in the 74th minute. The Gauchos executed a corner kick, setting up a header inside the box. It took a full extension by Friedberg to make the save, as he got just enough of his

left hand on the ball to force it out of bounds.

Despite seven fouls and two yellow cards in the second half, the Red’s defense remained strong, allowing only two shots in the final 45 minutes. While Cornell was not able to build on its lead, it finished the match with a 2-1 victory.

The Red remained on the west coast for one more game, facing UC Irvine (0-2-1, 0-0 Big West) on Labor

Cornell will play its first home game on Tuesday, September 13th at 7 p.m. at Berman Field against the University of Vermont.

Day. Cornell continued their hot start with a 1-0 victory over the Anteaters. After a scoreless first half, the Red took the lead in the 54th minute, when Ka capitalized on a corner kick from junior defender Connor Drought. It was goals in back-to-back games for Ka.

Sophomore forward Alioune Ka scored goals in both West Coast games to help the Red sweep the weekend.

Cornell will look to continue its winning streak when it heads to Philadelphia to take on Saint Joseph’s University on Saturday at 5 p.m. The game will be broadcast on ESPN+.