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By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

Big Red football enthusiast Arthur Wolcott ’49 has donated $20 million to the University’s financial aid program — an act that he hopes will allow Cornell to competitively recruit student-athletes being courted by other Ivy League universities.

The donation, announced Sunday evening, will help fund the University’s Award Match Initiative, which guarantees accepted students that Cornell will match need-based financial aid packages they are offered by other Ivy League schools, Duke University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University. The initiative made its debut in Fall 2011 after a University “Athletics is important in survey showed that students building the Cornell rejecting Cornell’s offer of University brand.” admission most often chose to attend peer institutions Arthur Wolcott ’49 offering more generous financial aid packages.

Wolcott’s gift comes on the heels of changes to the financial aid program the University announced this summer. Those changes, effective next fall, will quash Cornell’s no-loan guarantee for all families making under $75,000 a year.

While the Award Match Initiative applies to all eligible students, one group stands to benefit in particular: student-athletes. Wolcott is a lifelong Big Red fan.

“Athletics is important in building the Cornell University brand,” Wolcott, who was described as a “loyal and generous supporter of Cornell’s athletics program,” said in a University press release Monday. “If we neglect athletics, we will miss the opportunity of attracting outstanding people. We should compete against See DONATION page 4

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Students gather on the Arts Quad Monday for a Sept. 11 memorial. Tuesday marks the 11th anniversary of the terrorist attacks that killed 3,000 Americans.

CCC Ticket Policies Draw Mixed Reviews

By LIANNE BORNFELD Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Concert Commission is warning students that tickets purchased for the upcoming Avicii show must be backed by photo identification — a policy that, though intended to curb violations of CCC’s policies, drew mixed reactions from students.

Under a set of policies which is limited to “closed” shows such as Avicii’s Homecoming perfor-

mance, students who give one of their tickets to a guest must arrive with that guest at the concert. At the door, the buyer will need to show photo ID that matches the name on the ticket. For shows that are closed, concertgoers only need to present a ticket to enter.

The policy also sets a limit of two tickets per buyer, down from CCC’s usual maximum of four.

A show is considered closed when ticket sales are

Friends, Family Remember Life of Krista Depew ’15

By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer

champagne, according to manager Pima Mbwana. It is currently offering four beer options on tap, though Mbwana said he hopes Jack’s will eventually offer 16 different varieties of beer, as well as local brews.

Open from 4 p.m. to 1 a.m., the venue aims to attract students interested in eating, drinking and catching a game. So far,

Friends and family of Krista DePew ’15 shared memories of the rising sophomore’s electric personality, fierce drive and passion for agriculture at a packed memorial service at Sage Chapel Monday evening.

DePew died on May 26 of acute meningococcal meningitis. She complained of not feeling well in the last few days of her freshman year and died shortly after returning home.

Krista’s mother, DEPEW ’15 Marsha DePew, described her daughter as “a gritty farm girl one minute and a gorgeous girly-girl the next.” At the service, Marsha DePew spoke of Krista as a wonderful and fun-loving daughter.

“She liked to party since she was little.

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Jack’s be nimble | Customers watch sports at Jack’s Grill on Monday night. The bar began serving drinks this weekend after receiving its liquor license in August.

First Call: Bar at Jack’s Open for Business

By TAJWAR MAZHAR Sun Staff Writer

Let the games begin.

Jack’s Grill, a Collegetown burger joint and late-night eatery, began serving drinks this weekend at its connecting sports bar after securing a liquor license in early August.

The sports bar will serve beer, wine and

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News To Rent or Not to Rent?

The Cornell Store increases the number of textbooks available for rent by 80 percent this year. | Page 3

Opinion Bleep Bleep Bleep

Deon Thomas ’15 discusses why he finds Lil’ Wayne’s, and many other rappers’, lyrics absurd and offensive | Page 7

Arts We Were Promised What?

James Rainis ’14 reviews Scottish band, We Were Promised Jetpacks’, Sunday night show at The Haunt. | Page 10

Sports Sad Times Soccer

Women’s soccer fell to SUNY Albany in a weekend match. | Page 16

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By Claire Elaine Dorsett ’13 From the day he first began to work at Plaza Six, Gavin was fascinated by the wooden cursive letters adorning the bedroom wall in apartment 1206. He speculated for a while on their presence and finally decided that they were just a mildly tacky attempt at do-it-yourself home décor. R-H-Y-M-E, they spelled out crookedly, in mottled pinks and purples above a bed blanketed in similar hues. They caught his eye immediately whenever that bedroom door was left open, which was most of the time since its attractive blonde inhabitant was so careless. He’d always thought the letter design a bit random since the letters were different sizes and obviously mismatched – most people in his experience chose “peace”, “love” or something equally cliché for their design accents – but he gave the blonde points for being at least a bit off-beat in her taste. Gavin prided himself on being a good judge of people; he had extensive experience observing them.

He, in turn, was rarely observed. He was a spider on their wall, omnipresent but overlooked.

“Rhyme” was still in bed this morning, the pinkand-purple comforter thrown mostly off, one edge tangled around her legs. She might as well be naked for all the protection that translucent yellow nightgown offered. Her head tipped to the right, hair puddling beneath her cheek and around her neck. Gavin’s eyes followed one pale yellow strand that strayed across her right nipple, pinkly visible beneath the yellow cotton. All this he could see from his suspended platform outside her living room window, two feet below her floor and twelve stories above the New York City concrete. She slept like this often. Sometimes he’d spray foam or wax on the panes, closing one eye to focus and erasing parts of the sudsy mess with his squeegee until the residue seemed to clothe her in sudsy lingerie. He imagined himself quite the artist.

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The lower levels of this building were all offices and rarely interesting in the slightest. The top three levels, though, were residential. He cleaned them once every other week, spent longer on each of them than the other ten floors combined. For some convoluted legal reasons, he received a salary rather than wages. This was convenient; no one ever noticed his strange hours. He never had to report them.

Window washing was Gavin’s ideal job, really. No one to answer to. Easy work as long as you’re not afraid of heights, which, as an adrenaline junkie, he wasn’t.

Relatively no interaction with people, which meant minimal temptation to get himself into trouble again.

Until Rhyme.

Her effortless, innocent sensuality would be his downfall and he knew it. He made a definitive effort to deny his impulses: he’d adhere to the same rules as when he was a boy of twelve, in the antique shop with his foster mother, and he broke the little porcelain horse figurine he had picked up to admire. “Look but don’t touch”, she’d shouted and cuffed him alongside his ear so hard it rang. She’d had to buy the figurine from the disgruntled Asian storeowner, and he’d been forced to pick up a job painting the neighbor’s fence and doing yard work at a dollar an hour to pay her back. The neighbor’s daughter had only been a baby then, looking like a perfect sugarplum illustration beneath a weeping cherry tree as her mother hung the wash. He’d noticed her then, had archived her image into his memory, but it had taken another six years for her to truly catch his eye as she swung beneath the same tree on a tire swing, her sundress billowing like a parachute in the breeze.

He knew, now, not to touch. But that didn’t mean he couldn’t look, and look he did. Sometimes he would touch, too, but only himself, and that much was allowed.

Now, washing windows to pay his rent and bills, Gavin again had the chance to look. This time it was into the lives of the rich . . .

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Cornell Store Expands Book Rental Option by 80 Percent

By DARA LEVY Sun Contributor

As students attempted to save money when buying textbooks and course packets this year, Cornell Store employees tried to help mitigate the cost of their class materials — expanding the number of titles available in its textbook rental program by 80 percent since last year, according to Margie Whiteleather, strategic projects manager for the Cornell Store.

Rental textbooks — which first became available as part of a pilot program in fall 2010 — now comprise more than 15 percent of books in stock for the fall semester.

Whiteleather said it was important for the Cornell Store to make books more affordable for students due a sharp increase in textbook prices over the last decade.

“For a long time we’ve offered textbook sell-back” which usually gives students “a fair amount of money back,”

Whiteleather said.

Still, she said that the Cornell Store cannot guarantee that it will buy a book back from a student at the end of the semester; therefore, offering a rental option allows the store to “guarantee savings up front” for students.

Publishers’ book prices have risen six to seven percent, according to Whiteleather — outpacing inflation rates by nearly twice the national average, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Still, some students noted that the price of a rental for many textbooks was comparable to the price of a used copy of the book and often, not worth the trouble.

“Essentially, the question is, ‘How much money is worth not having the hassle to return it at the end of the semester?’” Michael Patashnik ’16 said.

Although he said he only chose to rent because there were no used copies of his books available, Patashnik rented one of his books — and estimated that he saved about

$60.

Luke Guerrero ’16 said he also chose to rent only one of the nine textbooks he purchased at the Cornell Store because, for the other eight books, “there wasn’t enough of a [price] difference between the used and rental copies to make renting an incentive.”

But Guerrero said that he still saved money by renting his book instead of buying a new copy. He rented a textbook for $70 that would have cost him $211.75 if he had purchased a new copy, he said.

“Even if I sold it back, the profit that I would’ve made back wasn’t as much as its cost, so I saved money in the long run,” he said.

In addition to expanding its rental option, the Cornell Store also introduced an online price comparison tool last year, which allows students to view textbook prices alongside those offered by competitors. Students can also purchase their books from several different vendors directly from the site.

“We just want students to have options and to understand the prices,” Whiteleather said. “Cornell has always been in the lead in providing technology solutions for students.”

Despite the option to buy books from other vendors, 80 percent of the items students purchase from their online shopping carts are still purchased directly from the Cornell Store, according to Whiteleather.

Chiaki Soejima ’16 said she compared textbook prices online and estimated that she saved about $50 by renting her books from the Cornell Store instead of buying used editions. Soejima said she would have purchased her books through another online vendor, but did not want to bother with the costs and hassle of shipping.

“If students can’t find any good deals online … renting is better. But if they can find a cheap one online, then they might as well do that,” Soejima said.

The price comparison tool also includes eBook offerings, though, according to Whiteleather, fewer than than one percent of books purchased through the Cornell Store’s site have been in eBook format.

“There has been very limited interest in eBooks,” Whiteleather said. “Students have been more interested in interacting with an actual book.”

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Bookworms | With the Cornell Store’s expansion of textbook rental offerings, students may save money on books for the semester by renting titles from the store, rather than buying copies that they may not be able to sell back.

Dara Levy can be reached at drl97@cornell.edu.

Students’ Stories Before facing Ithaca winter, Lin’13 lost 20 pounds in nine-day hike for Singaporean army

By CINDY HUYNH Sun Staff Writer

For many students, transitioning from high school to college is one of the most challenging experiences of their lives. But for Daryl Lin ’13, coming to Cornell in 2010 was a welcome reprieve from his two years of service in the Singaporean army. Lin, who is from Singapore, was required to serve in accordance with the country’s mandatory service law.

After three months of basic training, followed by nine months of officer cadet training, Lin served for a year in an active infantry unit.

He recalled one particularly difficult practice mission during his time at officer cadet school: LIN ’13 A helicopter dropped men, in groups of four, in the middle of a jungle in Brunei. The teams were tasked with finding their way back to their base.

“It’s a nine-day walk with 70 pounds of gear. I had no food for nine days; I lost about 20 pounds,” Lin said.

The mission also took place in the

middle of monsoon season, Lin said. A constant torrential downpour provided an additional challenge to him and his team.

While working in an infantry unit during his second year, Lin spent much of his time outdoors — occasionally jumping out of airplanes and helicopters.

The sense of adventure and risk-taking he developed while completing his service led him pursue outdoor extra-curricular activities at Cornell, he said.

“I heard it was beautiful in upstate New York, so I joined Cornell Outdoor Education and took a [physical education] class freshman year called ‘Backpacking in the Finger Lakes,’” Lin said.

The next year, he came back as a guide for Outdoor Odyssey.

As an Outdoor Odyssey guide, Lin found himself once again braving rough conditions. He participated in the Guide Outdoor Leadership Development program, a week-long backpacking trip over spring break 2012 in the Arizona desert. Though the team packed desert gear, anticipating hot, dry weather, they were met by something else when they arrived.

“We were hit by a freak snowstorm … The sleeping bag of one of the guides we were traveling with got wet overnight because of the snow, and he was close to hypothermia. We couldn’t start fires because everything was wet. So it ended up being three guys in two sleeping bags,” Lin said. “It wasn’t pretty, but we made it work.”

An operations and research major in the College of Engineering, Lin said he was first attracted to Cornell because of the strength of its engineering programs.

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He also relished the opportunity to get out of his comfort zone, he said, saying he wanted to travel out of Singapore.

However, when Lin arrived at the University, things were not exactly as he had expected.

“When I first applied to Cornell, I’d never been to the east coast of the United States before. So when I thought about New York, I had visions of going to New York City every weekend. [Then I] came and realized I was in the middle of upstate New York,” he said.

Still, Lin has been traveling around the world between semesters. He embarked on a three-month backpacking trip around Asia with a childhood friend prior to starting his freshman year.

“We backpacked the Golden Triangle, which consists of Thailand, Burma, Vietnam and Laos. We started in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam, and ended up in Phuket, Thailand, at the Full Moon Party, a beach party, which was a great end to the trip,” Lin said.

He said he also has plans to visit Turkey and Morocco this winter.

Lin learned a lot from leaving his home country to attend Cornell and interact with a foreign culture, he said.

“There is definitely a different culture here. In America, there’s an emphasis on being yourself … which is a nice difference,” he said.

Cindy Huynh can be reached at chuynh@cornellsun.com.

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Wolcott ‘Instrumental’ in Several Athletic Initiatives at C.U. DONATION

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our rivals in a way that will make athletics very important while continuing to make academics most important.”

Andy Noel, director of athletics and physical education, said in an interview Monday that Wolcott’s gift will help ensure the survival of a financial aid program that “saved the Ivy League from splitting into the ‘haves’ or ‘have-nots’ based on the generosity of financial aid packages.”

“From working here for the past 13 years as director, I have been a part of many heartbreaking recruiting losses based on financial aid,” Noel said. He added that, in the past, the size of Cornell’s endowment — the third smallest in the Ivy League, according to Forbes — has prevented the University from offering as generous aid packages as those offered to athletes that go to Harvard, Princeton and Yale. In addition, Noel said that Cornell has an undergraduate population that causes “our financial aid dollars to be spread across a much higher number of students who qualify for more aid.”

For “many, many years,” Noel said, such athletes would end up enrolling in an Ivy League rival that offered more aid than Cornell — and then end up playing against Cornell throughout their college careers. The disparity in aid packages between Ivies is so great that in the most extreme cases, the same student could be offered aid packages differing by $25,000 per year, Noel said.

But with the launch of the Award Match Initiative, which has allowed Cornell to match its peers’ aid pack-

ages, the University has matriculated 122 student-athletes in the last two years, according to Noel.

“Three, four years ago, we wouldn’t have matched those top athletes. For financial reasons, we lost a terrific cohort of Cornellians — students who wanted to be here but in some ways were forced to pick another school because of their family’s financial considerations,” Noel said. “I am thrilled that President Skorton supported the Ivy match program and am thankful that Ivy presidents understand that financial considerations must be minimized if the Ivy League is to be fair with respect to recruiting.”

But Noel said that allowing Cornell to match other schools’ aid packages will not only benefit student ath-

“I have been a part of many heartbreaking recruiting losses based on financial aid.”

Andy Noel letes. He pointed to Spring 2010, when Cornell’s men’s basketball team fought its way to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen.

“Top sports forecasters on ESPN, ABC, NBC, CBS … when interviewed, they’d say that the team to watch is Cornell. Who’d have ever thought?” Noel said. “[Alumni] were sending me these articles from Kentucky, Seattle and Washington … saying this is really a national phenomenon. It’s good to have Cornell’s name in such a positive way.”

Besides generating excitement among students, alumni and the national press, athletic competition, Noel said, is beneficial to universities because it adds value to students’ educational experiences.

“There’s an awful lot of education that occurs in the field of competition, whether it is in a swimming pool, on a track or in a football field,” Noel said. “If it’s successfully undertaken, it takes execution, it takes patience [and] it takes the resilience of not doing as well as you’d hope to bounce back and try again. I think there’s a very significant educational benefit in athletics for the participant.”

Wolcott’s donation, which Noel said will help Cornell provide such opportunities for student-athletes of limited financial means, is just one of several he has made to the Cornell athletics department. According to Noel, Wolcott was also “instrumental” in supporting the expansion and refurbishment of Schoellkopf Memorial Hall and the replacement of the field turf at Schoellkopf Stadium.

Still, in a University press release, Wolcott described his latest act of generosity, the $20-million gift, as “just the beginning” — not the last donation that should be given to Cornell’s aid program. To propel Cornell’s award match initiative to success, he said, “we need to raise significantly more.”

“Others are going to have to step up and support it, too, if they want Cornell to have a fighting chance against our peers,” Wolcott said.

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun.com.

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Jack’s Sports Bar Has CCC: Ticket Policy Will Prevent Scalping ‘Chill’ Atmosphere, C-Town Customers Say CCC

“We know that people are scalping their guest ticket. It’s something we try to combat, but realistically, we know that there’s not much restricted to Cornell students, staff and faculty that we can do to completely eliminate it,” because of a request by the performer, according Rodriguez said.

Steele Phillips ’13 said he believed the polito CCC. “This show is unique,” said Dave Rodriguez cy would help diminish the problem of ticket ’13, executive director of CCC. “We under- scalping.

“Though bothersome, it’s a smart policy … stand that any extra restrictions could be an inconvenience, but we did our best to spell Although it doesn’t totally eliminate the problem of scalping, it does minimize it,” he said. [the policy] out on our ticketing website.”

The vast majority of CCC shows are open, Limiting purchases from the typical four ticket maximum to two and checking IDs at Rodriguez said, and therefore do not require the door — policies that differ from those in such stringent identification measures or a place for concerts open to the public — were restriction to two tickets per buyer.

Still, many students felt that the policy for a measures CCC took to guarantee that Cornell students comprised the majority of the show’s closed concert made the process of buying tickets unfair. audience, according to Rodriguez.

“I feel like it’s a really impractical policy, “Avicii is also playing shows in Binghamton especially for Avicii,” Rohit Ramanathan ’15 said. “I feel “I feel like nobody knew that this was the like nobody knew that this was policy ... It’s going to screw over a lot of people.” the policy and people who bought tickets from others Rohit Ramanathan ’15 because they simply weren’t able to that morning are in a rough situation. It’s going to screw and Syracuse … so part of our contract is that over a lot of people.”

Andrea Cerruti ’14 echoed these sentiwe don’t promote the show off-campus. We only let [Cornell affiliates] into our show to ments.

“Sometimes you’re in class [when tickets go not take ticket sales away from other concerts,” on sale] and you physically can’t get them,” she he said.

The last time CCC implemented these tick- said.

Still, others said the policy was fair to place et policies was for Billy Joel’s show at Bailey Hall in December 2011 — another closed con- the responsibility of ticket purchasing on potential buyers. cert, which, according to Rodriguez, is rare.

“People should just wake up and get the “I can’t think of the last closed show we had before Billy Joel. It certainly wasn’t in the past tickets for themselves,” Alex Familant ’15 said. four years,” Rodriguez said.

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“It will be a lot more of a casual atmosphere. It is not meant to be a nightclub-like atmosphere.”

George Figueroa Drake said.

Rambert Kennith Nahm grad also stopped by Jack’s Monday night to watch the U.S. Open tennis tournament.

“We really wanted to watch the U.S. Open final, and we figured this might be a good place to come watch it,” Nahm said.

Still, Nahm said the atmosphere of the venue was “just okay.”

Figueroa perviously co-owned Loco, a margarita bar on Stewart Ave. in Collegetown, with Sullivan. Figueroa said that the atmosphere for Jack’s new addition is meant to be more “laid back” than most bars in Collegetown.

“It will be a lot more of a casual atmosphere. It is not meant to be a nightclub-like atmosphere,” he said. “We want an atmosphere with good food and relaxing environment to hang out with friends.”

Figueroa said he has already received inquiries from organizations such as sports teams, fraternities and sororities that have expressed interest in hosting events at Jack’s.

He added that the sports bar will also provide a place for additional seating for brunch — a popular time for the restaurant, which serves breakfast as well as bar food. In order to put more of a focus on the meal, Jack’s will soon introduce a “Mimosa Menu” weekend special on Saturdays and Sundays, Figueroa said.

“This first week is just our trial run to figure out the demands of the restaurant and space … [and to] see what our customers’ response is,” he said.

He said Jack’s is currently working on incorporating a display of Cornell sports memorabilia into the bar, to pay a tribute to Big Red athletics.

“We take pride in our Cornell sports … Homecoming is coming soon and we want to show a lot of school spirit for Cornell,” Figueroa said. “We like to consider ourselves part of the Cornell family.”

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She definitely made our life pretty exciting over the years,” Marsha DePew said.

DePew, who grew up on her family’s dairy farm in Argyle, N.Y., was valedictorian of her high school class and an all-star softball pitcher.

Susan H. Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president of student and academic services, said she remembered reading and being impressed with Depew’s college essay — “Out of the Suburbs and Onto the Farms” — in which Depew wrote that she had “‘found her voice as an advocate for farmers and their families.’”

“She was a perfect match for [Cornell] and [Cornell] for her,” Murphy said. “It is clear how fortunate we were to have her in our family for a year.”

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her love for farming.

“At the age of 18, Krista knew exactly who she was and was proud of it. She was a proud farmer’s daughter,” said Conor Goetz ’15, a close friend and hallmate of Depew.

Many of Depew’s friends also spoke of her self-assuredness and her ability to make instant connections with people.

“There were few things that made you feel more hilarious and accomplished than Krista’s laugh,” said Marina Gaeta ’14, Depew’s “big sister” in the Alpha Phi sorority.

Depew’s joy and vigor for life were often contagious, friends said.

“Krista provided me with an example of what real energy and love can do in life,” said Gavin Taves ’15, a friend of Krista’s from freshman year.

President of Alpha Phi Ali Hoffman ’13 spoke emotionally about the death of Depew.

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So far, the bar has been populated with “a lot of grad students,” he said.

Mbwana said customers have begun coming in at about 6 p.m., as students return from classes.

“For the most part, people are just happy it’s open,” he said.

While the venue seats up to 65 people, it has yet to see a full house, Mbwana said. Still, Mbwana said he is optimistic that Jack’s will soon become a regular spot frequented by Cornell students.

For now, customers typically lured in by Jack’s burgers and other fast food are being drawn to the adjacent bar, formerly the location of KC Copies, Mbwana said.

“Normally, they will be going to Jack’s and then they’ll say, ‘Wow, I can have a beer as well?’” he said. “We’re just excited to be here and we’re excited to give students an outlet.”

George Figueroa, co-owner of Jack’s with Kevin Sullivan, said he hopes showing a mix of professional and collegiate level sports will also help draw students to the bar.

Watching sports was what brought Nicole Drake ’14 to dine at Jack’s on Monday night. Despite being under 21 years old, the Baltimore Ravens fan, who does not have access to ESPN at her home, said she wanted to see the game.

“I like it here. It’s very chill and I just wanted to watch the game,”

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“Krista was and always will be our sister, not by blood or marriage, but in every other sense of the word,” Hoffman said. “There is a promise we make to our sister: We will remember you.”

Depew’s hallmate and close friend from freshman year, Elizabeth Harrington ’15, urged everyone in attendance Monday to celebrate life in honor of Depew.

“She wouldn’t want us sitting around mourning her passing. In honor of Krista, go out and do something fun.

Celebrate,” Harrington said.

The service included music

by Annette Richards, University organist, a slideshow of photographs of Krista and a video clip of the song “The Circle of Life” from Disney’s “The Lion King,” in memory of Krista’s love for Disney movies.

Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochaczevski@cornellsun.com.

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Students Could Sue Harvard in Fallout From Cheating Scandal

By THE HARVARD CRIMSON

After Harvard issues verdicts to the roughly 125 undergraduates being investigated for academic dishonesty in Government “Introduction to 1310: Congress,” several lawyers predict that the University could face a slew of lawsuits from students facing punishment.

One student currently under investigation said he may consider suing Harvard, depending on the outcome of his case. He said that he has already contacted a lawyer and has spoken to about ten others accused of academic dishonesty who have done the same.

“Harvard has created this war between the students and the fricking school, and this is a war that I am willing and very eager to fight,“ said the student, who was granted anonymity by The Crimson because he did not want it known that he is accused of cheating.

Lawyers and experts who specialize in higher education law said they expect that any students who choose to sue the University are most likely to claim that the Administrative Board did not properly follow its procedures as listed in the student handbook during the Government 1310 investigation.

These lawsuits could have merit if Harvard “substantially” deviates from its delineated processes during the investigation, said Peter F. Lake, a professor at Stetson University College of Law who specializes in higher education law. While administrative mistakes, such as misnumbered pages in procedural documents, will be unlikely to generate successful lawsuits, he said, students could have a valid legal case if administrators make more egregious errors, such as the denial of promised hearings.

Lake added that he thinks problems could arise from the unusually high volume of students implicated in the investigation.

“Particularly with 125 matters to resolve, it takes a lot of diligence to make sure that [all of the students] get what they’re supposed to get,” Lake said. “It

gets that much more likely that you’re going to make a mistake.”

Harvard could also face a number of lawsuits from punished students claiming that their future job prospects have been jeopardized, said Michael R. Schneider, a Boston lawyer who has acted as a consultant for students in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Medical School, and Law School facing Ad Board processes. punishments Potential issued at the conclusion of the investigation, such as withdrawal, will always appear on students’ transcripts and may impact their likelihood of being accepted at graduate schools or hired for a job.

“I think the University needs to realize that it is really making it difficult for some really solid students who may have had one lapse in their academic careers,” Schneider said.

Students who say they have lost jobs or other opportunities as a result of being falsely accused of plagiarism could also sue the University for intentional or negligent infliction of emotional distress, Boston education lawyer Laura E. Gillis said.

But it will be difficult to prove that the University was sloppy in carrying out its investigation, or that Harvard intentionally caused emotional harm, Schneider said.

Experts interviewed for this article also said that Harvard can take preventative measures while the investigation is still ongoing to defend itself from these possible suits.

In response to these possible lawsuits, the University should be careful to draw a clear line separating collaboration from cheating, said Robert Holmes, president of the Association for Student Conduct Adminis trators.

“There’s a difference between similar answers and copied answers,” Holmes said.

The Ad Board should also ensure that each student is investigated and prosecuted as an individual, Schneider said.

This story was originally published in The Harvard Crimson Monday.

NEW YORK STATE NEWS BRIEFS

NYC Board of Elections Upgrades Reporting Process NEW YORK (AP) — In advance of Thursday’s primary election, the New York City Board of Elections demonstrated for the public its upgraded process for reporting unofficial election night returns.

The demonstration Monday occurred more than two months after the board came under intense scrutiny following the hotly contested Democratic primary between U.S. Rep. Charles Rangel and state Sen. Adriano Espaillat.

The new process is aimed at increasing accuracy of the results rather than speed, said John Naudus, director of the board’s electronic voting systems department. “Our concept for this was to make it as easy for the poll workers as possible,” he said.

On election night, after the polls close at about 9 p.m., poll workers will remove the portable memory devices — which are similar to USB devices — from the scanning machines that contain the vote totals.

The workers will then put the devices into secure yellow pouches and give them to NYPD officers, who will bring them to a preassigned precinct.

After every device is accounted for, the results are uploaded onto a computer, wirelessly transmitted to the board's general office and sent to The Associated Press for distribution to other news outlets.

Naudus said the first results Thursday will likely come in around 10 p.m.

Poll workers will still manually cut and tally paper results printed from the scanners.

But they will not be relied upon as heavily as in past elections.

Officials said they ultimately want to phase out this process, which has been criticized for being antiquated and prone to human error.

Advocates for more transparent elections say they’re satisfied with the improvements.

“It’s something we’ve been advocating for a while,” said Alex Camarda, public policy director at Citizens Union. “We think the board put a lot of work into this and we hope it goes smoothly on Election Day.” Neal Rosenstein, an elections specialist at the New York Public Interest Research Group who has long been critical of the city's votecounting process, said the board deserves credit for beginning to reform its system.

“The board has taken the right steps in ensuring the public has more confidence in our elections,” Rosenstein said.

The board has also launched a new website and smartphone application that officials hope will keep voters notified and informed before future elections.

9/11 Families Receive $80 Million in Scholarships NEW YORK (AP) — A private fund says it has awarded $80 million in college scholarships to children, spouses and domestic partners of Sept. 11 victims.

Families of Freedom Scholarship Fund said Monday that the figure includes $12.7 million in needs-based scholarships for the current academic year.

Tim Miller says the fund allowed him to complete his undergraduate education at Johns Hopkins University. It’s now helping him to become a podiatrist.

Miller’s late father was a Port Authority police officer. He suffered from cancer after working in the World Trade Center rescue effort.

The fund is managed by Scholarship America.

The nonprofit educational support group says it will continue to steward the fund until the year 2030.

FBI Seeks Help in Case Of Bogus Anthrax Threats SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — The FBI is seeking the public’s help in finding out who in Syracuse has been sending out powder-filled letters threatening an anthrax attack for the past 15 years.

The Post-Standard of Syracuse reported Sunday that the powder in the letters is always baby powder, detergent or some other nonhazardous material.

But the 21 letters sent to schools, businesses and government offices have set off scares in Syracuse and throughout the East since 1997.

The letters have come months, even years, apart.

The letter writer seems to have no clear agenda or cause, FBI Special Agent Dan Capone told the newspaper. Many of them contain passages from the writings of the late horror and fantasy writer H.P. Lovecraft.

An FBI profile points to a Syracuse-area man who’s at least 35 years old, has had significant contact with the mental health system and may have difficulty functioning independently.

Capone said the FBI frequently handles anthrax hoaxes, but he knew of no other case where it appeared the same person had sent fake anthrax over as many as 15 years.

The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service are offering a $10,000 reward for information that leads to the conviction of whoever sent the threatening letters.

Tipsters can call 1-800-CALL-FBI or go to the FBI website at tips.fbi.gov.

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A Response to ‘Betches Love This College: Cornell University’ T

here is nothing wrong with being a female Cornell student who enjoys high fashion and partying.

Reconciling both academics and fashion doesn’t make women “betches.”

Drop the “e” and replace it with an “i”.

Do you know what that spells? And do you know how violent that word is? Do you know how many women are called that bad word when they are being violently raped?

In light of the recent attacks against Cornell women, I found this opinion article very offensive. I’m not alone in that thinking. Implicit in the idea that “GDIs … are boring” is the notion that sorority sisters need to be exciting, wild

“How are they getting home?” “How did they get so drunk?” I know a lot of people criticize women for being scantily clad, but that’s not the issue here.

Forget about our short skirts and minidresses, and stop obsessing over what we are (or aren’t) wearing. Ladies, flaunt whatever you want to flaunt and enjoy your youth. Our male counterparts can wear anything they want — and you don’t see anybody criticizing them. At the end of the day, we should be able to wear anything we want without fear of attack. Right?

Except … we are always looking over our shoulder at the strange man in a grey hoodie and jeans walking behind

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and entertaining. Women feel that pressure — not just from some men at Cornell but also from broader society.

It’s perpetuated by Hollywood and reality TV shows, and it’s even evidenced in politics. Sexism showed it’s ugly face when we obsessed over what designers Sarah Palin wore at the RNC convention back in 2008. It is common at Cornell frat parties, where there are often male to female ratios that need to be met. Because, you know, the more women there are at a party, the better chances that a brother might “get lucky.” And when men call us bitches, they are attempting to undermine our potential as women. They are attempting to dismiss us.

Last week’s article said that “betches” are a “great source of entertainment,” and that one time “a betch was so drunk she literally staring peeing on the floor without realizing it.” Come on, bro. He later admits that this experience made his semester. Something is fundamentally wrong with your college experience if that type of experience is the highlight of your semester.

I read the blog post that circulated on Facebook over the summer titled “Betches Love This College: Cornell University” and to be honest I found it really dumb. The blog post was filled with tired sexist stereotypes and joked about women stumbling over their 5inch heels in Collegetown after a formal. Is that funny? I’ve seen those women too, and I always wondered,

us, attempting to speed up so that we can lose him. We always try walking in groups so that we won’t be left with a group of unfamiliar men at a party. We are always extra cautious with our drinks, because we don’t really trust the cute guy at the bar.

It’s undisputed: Women, in general, need to play it safer than our male counterparts because we are often victims of violent sexual attacks. Men need to respect us, our bodies and our sovereignty. We need to end the rape culture that normalizes the widespread objectification of women. I’m sure calling women “betches” gets a couple of laughs, but it capitalizes on our experiences as women and perpetuates a rape culture that normalizes anti-woman behavior. We are not bitches. Last week a fellow Cornell student was raped, and another was forcibly touched. Let’s raise awareness about rape and sexual assault, and let’s leave the name-calling behind.

Next time you see a drunken woman at CTB, don’t laugh and call her a bitch.

Put her safety first and call a taxi for her to get home. Look for her friends and make sure she is in good hands. Nobody enjoys reading those crime alerts on Sunday mornings.

Cristina Lara is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She may be reached at cal255@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Beijing’s Prancing Horses P

ower is up for grabs this fall.

Mankind’s Machiavellian best are in action in not just the United States but also in China and South Korea.

Besieged parliamentary coalitions in Japan and India might soon be facing general elections.

This global festival of lame-ducks might explain many of the international tiffs in the last few weeks. The explanations can be divided into three major strands. First, governments are manipulating nationalistic passions to divert domestic attention from issues that might lose incumbents the election. This might explain the ratcheting up of tensions between South Korea and Japan over the disputed Dokdo / Takeshima islands.

Second, foreign actors are taking advantage of domestic political compulsions to advance their own agenda. For instance, there are reports that suggest Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu might attack Iranian nuclear facilities in an “October surprise.” This would force Obama into backing the aggression. The third strand invokes multiple competing sources of power within a polity to explain international bickering. Analyses that attribute China’s aggressive posturing in the South China Sea to tensions between the People’s Liberation Army and the civilian apparatus are examples of this.

These power transitions, however, are interesting to follow even absent their relationship to foreign policy adventurism. Particularly gripping is the least visible transition taking place in the People’s Republic of China, scheduled for next month at the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It’s no coincidence that China’s behavior is often attributed to internal factionalism.

China’s transition differs from the earlier examples of the United States and South Korea in one obvious way; it will not be the result of a democratic election. Each

leader derives legitimacy in such a system not from a voting constituency but a narrower group, for instance, the PLA. China also differs in one other crucial manner — norms of leadership transition are weak. The absence of democracy does not necessitate the absence of these norms, but this is the case in China. The CCP regime has carried out exactly one successful, peaceful, transfer of power at the highest level; that was in 2002 when the current team of Hu Jintao and Wen Jiabao became General Secretary and Premier respectively. The combined absence of popular franchise and long standing transition norms means that when the time comes to hand over power, factions will jostle not just for positions in the new administration, but also for the status of their faction.

The promotion of Xi Jinping, Hu Jintao’s successor as the Secretary General of the CCP is likely to proceed as planned.

The transition, however, also involves filling numerous other powerful positions.

China’s transitions are generational transitions, the incoming generation being the fifth generation of leaders in the People’s Republic. The turnover, as a result, is very large with seven of the nine members in the CCP’s highest decision making body, the Politburo Standing Committee, due for retirement.

The February 2012 scandal involving Bo Xilai, former mayor of Chongqing, is indicative of how far up the chain the factional jostling might go. He was stripped of his influential position after a drama that involved his police chief, Wang Lijun, fleeing to the local U.S. consulate to reveal the role of Bo’s wife in a British businessman’s murder. Not too long ago, however, Bo was in strong contention for being promoted to the PSC. He had become known for cultivating a strong local following in his town of 30 million with populist policies and public ceremony

reminiscent of the Mao era. Further, as the son of a former revolutionary leader, he is a member of the prominent “princeling” political grouping. These are the sons and daughters, wealthy and corrupt, of former Party bigwigs. Their nepotism and brazen display of wealth has alienated them from numerous CCP elders. The bizarre manner of Bo’s ouster suggests some political

with loyalists. He has not been entirely successful, with two Hu protégés having lost favor earlier this month. The first setback unraveled in a manner almost as bizarre as the sequence of events that led to Bo Xilai’s departure. Ling Jihua, the candidate in question, was demoted after his son was involved in a fatal Ferrari crash on the streets of Beijing.

Kirat Singh Evaluating the Discontents considerations were at play. The scandal affected every fish in the pond; fellow princeling Xi Jinping had to distance himself from Bo, with the latter having often boasted about his close ties to the Xi family. In a promotion system that relies heavily on seniority, his removal also set in motion a series of other personnel changes.

The schism between this informal bloc of revolutionary babies and the more selfmade, often technocratic, Party members like Hu Jintao is important but far from being the only one. Another prominent one is between elements in the PLA seeking to restore military influence in the Politburo to its earlier high and those who oppose military encroachment. Yet more factions have been created because of the patronage networks maintained by individual CCP leaders. With Xi’s place as the next General Secretary cemented relatively firmly, some reports suggest that Hu Jintao is attempting to protect his legacy by filling the new Standing Committee

The list of challenges facing Xi Jinping is enormous by any measure. The CCP regime remains reliant on rapid economic growth to maintain legitimacy among large sections of the population. That fact, combined with the economy’s reliance on exports and collapsing demand in the U.S. and the European Union, means that questions of growth will be on top of Xi’s agenda. Even if does succeed in boosting domestic demand and reducing reliance on foreign investment, he will have to deal with the growing distance between the Chinese masses and a political elite increasingly seen as corrupt, insular and brash. That he himself belongs to a fabulously wealthy, Ferrari owning family of former revolutionaries (his wife’s sisters are worth more than US$ 120 million) might make his job harder.

Kirat Singh is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at ksingh@cornellsun.com. Evaluating the Discontents appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

My Dedication M

y roommate began playing some new music in our room, and I was bombarded with a series of questions. Has a girl ever asked you to “hit it raw” and then you responded with something along the lines of “[girl] you crazy, [I] don’t want no HIV, don’t need that honey, move to Vegas?” Okay, maybe that’s a bad question; let me ask a better suited one. Have you ever tried to “pull it out, bust on her face and call her cry baby?”

The reason I quoted a few of his lyrics was to show how ridiculous they are becoming. These lyrics are difficult to relate to, disgusting and degrading to women. This is especially horrifying due to the fact that this mixtape is easily found online and is available as a free download. This means that anybody with a computer and a current knowledge of rap has access to this music. This means that many early teenagers or even pre-teens are listening to this music as you read this article. This means that this music which degrades women, glorifies violence It’s Not Me, and quite honestly It’s You enforces the stereotypes that African Americans face daily, is available to children! Does anybody else see that as a problem?

The obscene nature of the mixtape is not the only problem with it. We can begin with the title of it, this mixtape was entitled Dedication 4. The series of mixtapes was entitled The Dedication in 2005; one is to assume that Lil Wayne dedicated it to his fans.

Dictionary.com defines the word dedicate as: “to offer formally (a book, piece of music, etc.) to a person, cause, or the like in testimony of affection or respect.” This definition seemed fitting until Lil Wayne announced that Dedication 4 was going to be released on August 15 and failed to release it until September 3. It seems extremely ironic to release something, which you have dedicated to everyone including those who have passed away,

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Really, I imagine that would be hilarious. It wouldn’t be? Okay, never mind. I know you can relate to this next question. Have you ever caught your significant other trying to “catch [your] [semen] and then refrigerate it”? Wow, I’m really surprised I didn’t get you with that last one. Believe it or not, these are all quotes from a very popular mixtape released by one of today’s most popular rappers.

Last year this “rapper” made 27 million dollars, and even began his very own clothing line, called Trukfit. One way he endorsed his clothing line in his music was by stating that the listener should “suck a ni—a d—k for some Trukfit.” Leaving the listener and me to assume that Trukfit clothing must both be extremely rare, expensive and amazing. If you haven’t figured it out yet I am speaking of Lil Wayne a.k.a Dwayne Carter.

two weeks late. This shows that Lil Wanye does not care much about his fans and especially “everybody” that he dedicated this mixtape to.

Another ridiculous aspect of the mixtape is the fact that on the song entitled “Green Ranger,” before Lil Wanye begins to rap, he states that he “doesn’t even like this beat.” I don’t even believe that Lil Wayne knows how disrespectful that statement was to himself and any of his fans. For an artist to release music that he fails to find appealing is a slap in the face to his loyal supporters. We must remember that this man sells millions of albums! He is so popular that his last two albums each sold around a million copies . . . in one week! Why should anyone support a rapper that doesn’t respect his own craft or fans?

Thus, I have decided the problem isn’t with Lil Wayne himself. The problem is with anybody who supports his music. We are allowing a musician to abuse us. He is profiting off of a genre and a support base that he no longer respects. Degrading women, promoting violence and enforcing stereotypes have become the only subjects that his lyrics revolve around. It shocks me that people have the nerve to give this man their hard earned money. So I must ask my readers to do one thing for me.

Demand more from your musicians! If they cannot make music about relevant topics then we can at least ask them to try their best. The only way to do this is to refuse to buy or support their music and other endeavors. To the Lil Wayne fan that continues to support him, learn to respect yourself, and believe me when I say it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com.

It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT What Exactly Were We Promised,Again?

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The Haunt kind of sneaks up on you; you turn down a street seemingly reserved for storage spaces, boat repair shops and other hardy edge-of-town industries that, while necessary, reside on Ithaca’s periphery. Being that I’m on my way to see a Scottish rock band called We Were Promised Jetpacks, this makes me think about the decline of the guitar group as a force of nature. Have nerdy, picked-last-in-gymclass rock kids been swept to the periphery, as well?

There is no opener. Instead, a D.J. mixes a more-thancompetent mix of electro-pop and dubstep, much to the excitement of a tall redheaded man. Dressed in neon yellow, he entertains The Haunt’s patrons with a formidable take on the robot. I am tempted to join him, but, this being a Sunday, I am sober and thusly inhibited.

When We Were Promised Jetpacks arrive onstage, the crowd of indie kids (I would bet that most of them were townies and Ithaca College students, as I didn’t spot a single person donning Vineyard Vines) whooped. We Were Promised Jetpacks needed no such fanfare; they were straight-faced and modestly dressed in plain t-shirts and

black basketball shorts. As an opening salvo they launched into a delicate arpeggio reminiscent of post-rock shoegazers Explosions in the Sky. As the figure repeated, drums and bass chugged along until the sound grew into a wonderful cacophony of splashing cymbals, pounded toms and staccato guitar chords.

As part of Fatcat Record’s impressive roster (which has included, in its tenure, Frightened Rabbit, Sigur Rós, Animal Collective and The Twilight Sad), We Were Promised Jetpacks specialize in a somewhat vanilla brand of post-punk that relies on the band’s cleverness and singer Adam Thompson’s powerful voice to stand out from the pack. As instrumentalists, they are beyond adequate. Drummer Darren Lackie is the band’s locomotive, all flailing arms and rattling snares; bassist Sean Smith juxtaposes Lackie’s busy workings with off-beat figures and bass chords while the guitarists, Thompson and the bearded Michael Palmer, provide melody and texture with the help of a bevy of effects pedals.

While the set eschewed some of my personal favorites (no “Circles and Squares?” That, my friends, is madness), it developed a certain ebb and flow that ensured the crowd was unable to settle into any sort of expected pattern; after all, this is post-punk, a genre founded on jarring rhythms and grand dynamic shifts (re: The Pixies’ famous

LOUDquietLOUD formula). Adam Thompson’s musings on love and life are delivered in a choirboy voice that, while sweet and airy, packs a punch. Even while standing away from the microphone stand, he still enables the sumptuous reverb effects he uses for emphasis.

The band’s best songs (“Quiet Little Voices,” “Thunder and Lightning” and “Ships With Holes Will Sink”) are tightly wound pieces that never grow manic, despite the audience’s valiant attempts at pogoing. Instead, they’re punctuated with a certain funereal air that almost all Scottish bands exude. It’s a fantastic effect that contributes to their post-rock studiousness (these guys have clearly listened to their Mogwai records with great attentiveness), but, ultimately, it makes everything feel very monochromatic and joyless.

Likely exhausted and mildly depressed by the modest turnout, the band ended their night encore-free, ignoring chants for just one more song. While they obligatorily expressed their gratitude, one gets the feeling that We Were Promised Jetpacks, with their somber demeanor and serious approach, never quite got over getting picked last in gym class.

James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

Joan of Arc’s Passion Perseveres One might wonder what relevance Carl Theodor Dreyer’s 1928 silent classic The Passion of Joan of Arc has on Cornell students in 2012, whose other classic film options provided by Cornell Cinema have much more obvious applications (The Graduate, Annie Hall). It just so happens that in this particular season, Joan of Arc is an especially appropriate choice. The story provides a lens through which we can see our own notions of heroism, patriotism and altruism against one of history’s greatest emblems of those values: The Maiden of Orléans. Her tale tells of the triumph of personal conviction against an atmosphere of strict doctrine, cutthroat opportunism and narrow cynicism — a setting not so foreign to observers of today’s political climate.

Prof. Don Fredericksen, film, spoke at Sage Chapel before the movie. His class on “Jung, Film and the Process of Self-Knowledge” puts him in a good position to introduce a movie that places character development in light of a heated heresy trial and an even more zealous war. He excited the audience and pitched the movie as a trophy of early cinema. The film’s precocious use of extreme close-up, barren mise en scène and naturalistic shooting (the film was shot chronologically with a nascent form of method acting) was shocking to 1928 audiences. Fredericksen’s intro added weight to a movie where the exaggerated acting and chiaroscuro photography project photons heavy as lead.

Our martyred heroine Joan sits at the film’s prosecution chair and is portrayed by Renee Jeanne Falconetti, in what is often cited as one of the greatest performances in

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cinema history. It is through her dazed eyes, which seem on the verge of divine visitation throughout the 82-minute film, that we see the depths of Joan’s dilemma. Her conflict is pivoted between either accepting the party platform of her beloved church or standing by her own spiritual convictions. The film reenacts the infamous 1430 trial surrounding Joan’s claim that God had ordained her to fight England in the Hundred Years’ War. Joan was tried in Rouen, France, the English occupational post of the time, which is recreated through an impressive soundstage. The English court presents her with an ultimatum: Deny that God had visited, as it is heresy to suggest God is on the side of France, and thereby escape death, or maintain that God sent her on this mission and accept death at the stake.

It’s a silent film, but much of the text dialogue is copy-pasted from the actual transcript of the 1430 trial. Joan’s responses — “Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth” — illuminate her boldness and spirit. She famously tells the inquisitors that in France, she’s referred to as ‘Joan,’ but in her village she’s ‘Jeannette,’ Cornell choosing the hero Cinema provincial role over the international celebrity she achieved. She is not a hero for hero’s sake; she’s one for her beliefs.

Much of this setup is uncomfortable for modern day viewers. Today’s screens, frequented by explosions, loud action and alluring bimbos, fire excitement at a pace unachievable by a picture reeling at this placidity and age. Falconetti wears no make-

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up, the flames of her pyre are the closest the film comes to an explosion and the conflict exists between the egos of the characters, not between their fists.

Those at risk of getting bored by this mind-game of a movie could study the contours of the obese, bald jurors’ wrinkles and fat rolls, but they’d be missing out on a movie that is an incredible document of film and religious history. Critics agree: The film recently topped the Toronto International Film Festival’s chart of the ‘Essential 100’ list of the most influential movies of all time and also landed at number nine on the Sight and Sound decennial poll of ‘Greatest Films.’ Just as Godard pioneered the jump cut, Kubrick the tracking shot, Dreyer pioneered the extreme close-up, a mechanism of film that will be used for the rest of film history.

These close-ups are accentuated by the film’s incredible score. The Criterion Collection chose Richard Einhorn’s Voices of Light (provided by the film’s 1985 restoration) to accompany the film and it was beautifully echoed within Sage Chapel’s histrionic ceilings and ornamental vaults. The Chapel itself added dimension to the experience. I left the movie feeling like my blood was made of Eucharist wine. I don’t accredit this post-film high so much to the setting as the questions the film asks.

For those of us who will be punching in ballot forms this November or making any other big decisions in the nearby future, the

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film asks how much we want those decisions to be corrupted by those around us. Further, it challenges us to weigh the proportions to which we value our inner genius against the ethos of authorities and written documents.

The Passion of Joan of Arc leaves this up to the viewer, although its stance remains consistently anti-establishment. The authorities give Joan a public burning, after which an attendee yells, “You’ve killed a saint!” kickstarting a riot against the town’s politicians and religious representatives. The townspeople champion these men in the film’s beginning but attack them by the end, choosing to follow in Joan’s obduracy of belief. As we watch our combed and image-obsessed politicians get ready for the national spotlight, the film tells us to be weary of those who are ready to paint themselves as heroes or saviors because often, yesterday’s pariahs are tomorrow’s heroes.

Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at hds56@cornell.edu.

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Heart Is Where the Home Is

KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Contributor

“I’m trying to get to a town nobody ever heard of around here. I’m hurrying to see Bountiful before I die.”

The Hangar Theatre’s last production of the season is The Trip to Bountiful, a one-act play written by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Horton Foote, of To Kill a Mockingbird fame. Bountiful is the story of the elderly Carrie Watts (Susannah Berryman), living in a small apartment in Houston with her stoically unhappy son Ludie (Jesse Bush) and his overbearing wife, Jessie Mae (Sarah Chalmers). Carrie is a nervous woman with a bad heart and a penchant for singing hymns. She often stares at the full moon while reminiscing about her hometown, the mythically distant Gulf Coast town of Bountiful and wants nothing more than to make a final pilgrimage home.

At the play’s core is the characterization of the mysterious Bountiful, so named by Carrie’s grandfather because “in those days it was a land of plenty.” It gradually becomes apparent that Bountiful, much like the young and prosperous America, is missing much of its former glory. This does not deter Carrie from loving the place; she affectionately describes it to a young lady named Thelma (Sarah Charles), whom she meets on the bus. Carrie intertwines joy and tragedy as she talks about the “girlhood friend” she intends to stay with, the love of her life and her beloved father.

But no one has ever heard of Bountiful;

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the train doesn’t even stop there anymore and the only descriptions are those nostalgically delivered by an elderly, questionably sane woman. But we know what it is to take a “trip to Bountiful” — to look for something about ourselves that we might have left somewhere else. As Carrie wonders aloud, “Maybe it’s just me. Maybe the need to belong to a house and a family and a home has gone from the rest of the world,” you can almost hear the audience’s murmured denial. The beauty here is in the playwright’s faith in the ability of the human heart and mind to pair their own stories with his. And in the small theater, the intimacy between actors and audience is palpable. These universally identifiable emotions create a radical closeness between art and life.

As Ludie, Jesse Bush elevates the play’s major dramatic monologue to a convincing, emotional high point. Ludie is the voice of doubt and acts as a foil to his mother as he represents all that America has given up on while glorifying the past, saying, “I want to stop remembering. It doesn’t do any good to remember.”

Jessie Mae, Watts’ caricature of a frivolous and inconsiderate wife, is the only character who falls flat. Jessie has few redeeming qualities and many jokes are made at her expense. However, Sarah Chalmers does her best to overcome the cookie-cutter character prescribed to her by conveying the desperation of the mid-century housewife who shoulders many burdens — her entrapment in caring for Carrie, Ludie’s recovery from long-term illness and the couple’s inability to

have children.

With heartwrenching emotional climaxes delivered by the play’s star, Susannah Berryman, the audience ponders what it means to go home — what you take with you, what you bring back.

Carrie’s determination to return to a town that she knows is falling down and deserted demonstrates that the reverse of the old adage is true: The heart is where the home is. She holds onto a Gatsby-esque belief in the beauty of her past, knowing that this is what she has carried with her these 20 years spent captive in the city.

Bountiful is not supposed to be a real place. The sets are minimal; the only backdrop we are given is a big blue sky and a faint birdsong soundtrack. Bountiful is our yearning to hold on to our roots, to who we were before we entered the tedium of adulthood.

To deny that this play retains relevance 60 years after its writing is to deny one of the oldest and most celebrated plots in literature: the homecoming story. From

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Odysseus’ epic journey back to Ithaca, to Scarlett O’Hara’s hard-fought trek to Tara and everything in between, there’s a special significance in going home. And though we might not find what we were expecting, it’s worth remembering that, “We can never lose what it has given to us.”

The Trip to Bountiful will run through September 15 at the Hangar Theatre. Tickets are $18 with a student ID. Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at krt38@cornell.edu.

How I Learned to Stop Hating And Love ‘Call Me Maybe’

n March 11, I had an experience that would change the way I understood what is possibly the most powerful cultural force of the year. On this bright and clear Sunday, exactly six months ago, I stood outside Barton Hall and watched a car full of students sing note for note, word for word, the song that has since become synonymous with 2012 Pop Music: Carly Rae Jepsen’s “Call Me Maybe.”

At first I assumed that, like me, they harbored some sardonic appreciation for the song, with its music video featuring Justin Bieber and overly simplistic lyrics.

However, there was an unquestionable genuineness to their drive-by performance, one that demonstrated true appreciation for Jepsen’s then still-rising pop single. I didn’t know what to make of this, so I wrote it off, thinking, “These students must be anomalies; no one can actually like this.”

In hindsight, I should have seen then what I know now. “Call Me Maybe” is not some novelty throwaway song that would disappear after a few months and some (several million) ironic YouTube views. Over the past six months, it has established itself as an inescapable and undeniable element of the culture of 2012. But I didn’t know that in March. Even though I saw right in front of me evidence of the authentic and widespread popularity of the song that was soon to come, I was in Stage 1 of my “Call Me Maybe” journey: Denial.

As “Call Me Maybe” quickly became exponentially more popular as the semester went forward, I entered Stage 2: Anger. It became impossible after a certain point to deny what was becoming more obvious each passing weekend. As each party I entered seemed to have “Call Me Maybe” blasting — some with a welcome sense of mockery, but increasingly with palpable excitement from partygoers — I grew irritated and resentful of my peers who were blind to what

I so clearly saw. Throughout the months before summer break, I argued to anyone who would listen that “Call Me Maybe” was annoying, stupid, simple and a detriment to pop music everywhere. This was often partnered with Bargaining, Stage 3. “OK,” I would say, “We can play ‘Call Me Maybe,’ but can’t we at least try the mash-up with ‘Levels’?” I would organize stealth teams to try and reprogram iPods at parties, instead having them play my beloved “Starships.”

This summer was hard for me. My efforts had done nothing to stop the inevitable, and “Call Me Maybe” emerged as a nationwide phenomenon. Stage 4 is Depression, and as “Call Me Maybe” climbed the Billboard charts each week, I seemed to fall deeper and deeper into a slump. When the song finally hit Number 1 in mid-June, I became undone. “How could so many people be so wrong,” I cried, to no one in particular. I felt distant from my friends, who somehow managed to listen to “Call Me Maybe,” and even if they didn’t like it, not totally freak out.

I am proud to say that I am now at stage 5: Acceptance.

“Call Me Maybe” is here to stay, and I’m OK with that.

Let’s look at some facts. Pretty much objectively, “Call Me Maybe” was the 2012 Song of the Summer, spending nine consecutive weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 list.

“Call Me Maybe” was the most popular song in America for more than two months. By length of time at the top spot alone, “Call Me Maybe” has been Big Talk the most popular song of the year. (Side note: There’s another column to be written on the fact that only 10 songs have hit Number 1 so far this year. That’s low.)

According to Nielsen, “Call Me Maybe” has sold over 5 million copies in the United States alone, and has been certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America. Like it or not, these are impressive figures.

Peter Jacobs

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Five million people can’t be wrong. We can debate the artistic merits of pop culture today, but it’s impossible to deny that a piece of music this extraordinarily popular is not, on some level, “good.” Since its release, critics have argued that not only is Jepsen’s pop hit catchy, it’s also quality, a reading that I have fought for months.

Something so constructed, so artless, so basic deserved nothing more than a cursory listen to see what all the initial fuss was about, and then it should be regulated to wherever I am not.

But I come to you as a changed man. “Call Me Maybe” is not the newest addition to the Great American Songbook, but it needs to be treated as an important part of this year’s culture. What, or if, it reveals about this moment in history remains to be seen, but its significance can no longer be argued. This is crazy.

Peter Jacobs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pjacobs@cornellsun.com. Big Talk appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ACROSS 1 Favorite texting partner, for short 4 In a crooked position 9 Form 14 Lord’s Prayer opener 15 Deli counter unit 16 What actors have to learn 17 Barcelona gold 18 Kin of “Skoal!”

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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.

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Finally on top | After losing his first four Grand Slam finals, Murray beat Djokovic on Monday night to finally win a title.

Murray Wins Britain’s First Slam in 76 Years NEW YORK (AP) — His considerable lead, and a chance at history, slipping away, Andy Murray dug deep for stamina and mental strength, outlasting Novak Djokovic in a thrilling five-set, nearly five-hour U.S. Open final Monday.

It had been 76 years since a British man won a Grand Slam singles championship and, at least for Murray, it was well worth the wait.

Ending a nation’s long drought, and snapping his own four-final skid in majors, Murray finally pulled through with everything at stake on a Grand Slam stage, shrugging off defending champion Djokovic’s comeback bid to win 7-6 (10), 7-5, 2-6, 3-6, 6-2.

“Relief is probably the best word I would use to describe how I’m feeling just now,” Murray said, adding: “You do think: Is it ever going to happen?”

Yes, Murray already had showed he could come up big by winning the gold medal in front of a home crowd at the London Olympics last month. But this was different. This was a Grand Slam tournament, the standard universally used to measure tennis greatness — and the 287th since Britain’s Fred Perry won the 1936 U.S. Championships, as the event was known back then.

“He deserved to win this Grand Slam more than anybody,” Djokovic said of Murray, who will rise to No. 3 in the rankings behind No. 1 Roger Federer and No. 2 Djokovic.

Murray vs. Djokovic was a test of will as much as skill, lasting 4 hours, 54 minutes, tying the record for longest U.S. Open final. The first-set tiebreaker’s 22 points set a tournament mark. They repeatedly produced fantastic, tales-in-themselves points, lasting 10, 20, 30, even 55 — yes, 55! — strokes, counting the serve. The crowd gave a standing ovation to salute one majestic, 30-stroke point in the fourth set that ended with Murray’s forehand winner as Djokovic fell to the court, slamming on his left side.

“Novak is so, so strong. He fights until the end in every single match,” Murray said. “I don’t know how I managed to come through in the end.”

But as the finish approached, Djokovic — who had won eight consecutive five-set matches, including in the semifinals (against Murray) and final (against Rafael Nadal) at the Australian Open in January — was the one looking fragile, trying to catch breathers and doing deep knee bends at the baseline to stretch his aching groin muscles. After getting broken to trail 5-2 in the fifth, Djokovic had his legs massaged by a trainer.

“Well, any loss is a bad loss. There is no question about it,” Djokovic said. “I’m disappointed to lose the match, but in the back of my mind I knew that I gave it all. I really, really tried to fight my way back.”

No one had blown a two-set lead in the U.S. Open title match since 1949, and Murray was determined not to claim that distinction.

When Djokovic sent a forehand long on the final point, Murray crouched and covered his mouth with both hands, as though even he could not believe this moment had actually arrived. The 25-year-old Scot took off his sneakers, grimacing with each step as he gingerly stepped across the court. Djokovic came around to offer congratulations and a warm embrace, while “Chariots of Fire” blared over the Arthur Ashe Stadium loudspeakers.

Murray was one of only two men in the professional era, which began in 1968, to have lost his first four Grand Slam finals — against Djokovic in the 2011 Australian Open, and against Federer at the 2008 U.S. Open, 2010 Australian Open and this year’s Wimbledon.

The other guy who began 0-4? Ivan Lendl, who just so happens to be Murray’s coach nowadays. Murray’s forehand is one of the improvements he’s made under the tutelage of Lendl, who sat still for much of the match, eyeglasses perched atop his white baseball hat and crossed arms resting on his red sweater — in sum, betraying about as much emotion as he ever did during his playing days.

During the post-match ceremony, Murray joked about Lendl's reaction: “I think that was almost a smile.”

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bounced back with their fourth goal of the game. Although Hompe scored again late in the second period to make the score 4-2, another goal by Albany forward Chelsea DeVerna put the game virtually out of reach for Cornell.

Sunday’s loss marks the second year in a row the Red has lost its first four games to out of league competition. It is also the second game this season that the squad has outshot its opponent and failed to come away with a win.

“I guess it comes down to when we get the ball on the 18 we have to work on finishing all the opportunities we get,” Nichols said.

Defensively, the Red has allowed 17 goals in four games, in large part due to a defensive line that is still learning to play together after losing a starting defender in Sidra Bonner ’12 last year.

“We have to get used to transitioning from offense to defense faster,” Nichols said. “One of their goals was just a quick touch over the defense because we didn’t transition fast enough.”

The Red is also becoming accustomed to a new goalkeeper in the net — Tori Christ — who has already made 20 saves this season.

“Goalkeeper is going to be the newest thing,” Farmer said. “We have two freshman and Tori is a junior but previous to [this season] had only played for ten minutes, so we just don’t have a lot of experience there.”

Christ has held her own in the net, though, having played every minute prior to the game on Sunday night when she was relieved by freshman Caroline Quentin.

Cornell remains on the road this week with a trip to Binghamton on Wednesday.

“We’ll come out strong and physical trying to get that first win,” Nichols said of the squad’s next matchup. “So far we have been outplaying our opponents and not coming away with the results.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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able to capitalize on that,” she said.

On Sunday, the Nittany Lions grabbed the lead just five minutes into the game, then doubled that lead five minutes later.

However, both of those goals came on penalty strokes — not during regular even strength play.

According to Mollineaux, not allowing any goals in regular play was the result of the defensive unit stepping up its game.

“On defense our play was noticeably different,” she said. “We had each other’s back, and that helped us.”

As was the case in the season’s first two games, the Red was outshot in both games this weekend.

The lopsided shot totals against Penn State was a result of the Nitanny Lions’ aggressive play and quickness to the ball, according to Molineaux.

“Penn State had a tough press that we had trouble breaking for most of the game,” she explained. “They would always be first to the ball when our defense tried

to clear it.”

The Red now moves on to Ivy League competition, beginning on Saturday with a home match against Penn.

The Red will focus on integrating the offensive and defensive units, and capitalizing on its chances in preparation for Saturday’s game.

“We’ll work on connecting the forwards and the defense, and the forwards will work on finishing their chances,” Molineaux said.

“We’re going to focus on making sure we flow together, communicate effectively, have strong defense, and finish our chances,” Bannon added.

Having faced a difficult non-conference schedule, the Red feels prepared and excited to start Ivy League play, according to Bannon.

“We’re really looking forward to Ivy League play because they’re always intense games,” she said. “We’ll definitely be prepared and excited for those games.”

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

Sister Katie’s Strength in Face of Spinal Cord Injury Inspires Mathews FOOTBALL

whole thing and were on it instantly.”

Katie spent almost six weeks, two comatosed, in the Neurological Intensive Care Unit of Bayfront Medical Center in St. because she knew it could always be worse.

Like millions of American children, Katie Petersburg, Fla. She then rehabilitated and and Jeff Mathews, 18 months apart, experi- underwent tests and surgeries for nearly five enced the divorce of their parents before months at Craig Hospital in Denver, Colo., either of their ages hit double digits. But the where Jeff first saw his paralyzed sister. He 2,000 miles separating Katie and mother noted that it was difficult as a rising high Shellie Miller’s Florida residence from Jeff and school boy whose life revolved around sports father Jeff Mathews’ Colorado home — and fun to manage the gravity of the situawhich grew to 2,700 miles when the latter tion.

“It definitely blindsides you — you have pair moved to Southern California during Jeff’s elementary school days — could not no idea,” Jeff said. “It’s just one of those things that happens where you don’t really break the brother-sister bond.

“We’ve always been extremely close,” Jeff, know how to respond or know what’s really 20, said. “My parents divorced when we were going on. I didn’t really have any strategies. I younger so I think because of that we’ve hadn’t yet reached that time when you’re always made sure that we keep close and in ready to handle it … Especially when you’re contact with each other and hang out as young, you kind of think you’re invincible much as possible … We talk about pretty and [Katie] says that all the time. These tragic incidents show you that you’re not.” much everything together.”

Katie admits that she was “It just means so much to me that he knows how unable to immeto put the important things first.” diately view the accident in a posKatie Mathews itive light, as it was only natural for her to initially Something Katie cannot talk about, feel bitter and resent the tragedy. In the though, is her experience on the night of May months after waking up from the coma, she 6, 2006. It is not because she is unwilling, as would show defiance for short periods of time she may have once been, but because she can- — questioning God, questioning life and not remember anything from that fateful questioning everything.

“I was very upset at first not remembering Saturday night nor much of the previous three years. Katie, then 16, was the passenger three years of my life,” Katie said. “But the in a classmate and friend’s SUV going 80 doctors were telling me this was my body’s miles per hour on Interstate 75 in Venice, way of kind of protecting myself so I wouldn’t remember everything all at once. So I see Fla., one hour south of Tampa.

Another friend was on speakerphone giv- it as a blessing now that I don’t remember the ing Katie directions to a party. Katie and the accident … [But] I had a hard time at first.”

“It was very hard for her to start out,” Jeff driver realized they were just about to pass the necessary Jacaranda Boulevard Exit and the added, “Because she went from fully funcdriver swerved to make the ramp on the right tioning — and a very good athlete — to now before overcorrecting and causing the car to not being able to walk and having trouble moving her upper body and arms and everyroll over four times to the left.

In addition to the spinal cord injury that thing.”

Katie continued to fight during her junior prognosticated never walking again, Katie suffered a broken neck and mild brain dam- year of high school, undergoing intensive age when the roof of the Ford Explorer col- physical therapy and battling fatigue, which lapsed on her head. The driver was relatively limited her attendance. She progressed rapidly nonetheless and by her senior year, the forunharmed.

“Luckily I was the only one that was seri- mer Venice High basketball, softball and volously injured,” Katie, 22, told The Sun as she leyball star was back in school full time and prepared to watch her favorite NFL team, the having memories from the three-year gap and Green Bay Packers, play their first game of the extremity sensations gradually grace her.

2012 season. “We were very lucky because Katie credits her family for getting her off-duty paramedics happened to be driving through the toughest first years of adjusting in the opposite direction and witnessed the to quadriplegia.

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“I am so unbelievably blessed with my family support,” Katie said. “[Jeff] is such a strong male figure in my life. He acts so much like he’s the older one. He’s so protective of me and I love it … My family has been such a strong support system in my life and I don’t know where I’d be without them. After my accident, they really inspired me to just keep going and keep doing things in my life.”

One of her activities is speaking to teenagers about decision making and the dangers of distracted driving, particularly cell phone use. Katie knows how close she was to being one of the approximately 7,000 U.S. motorists between the ages of 16 and 20 to die from an auto accident in 2006, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. It would have been easy to remain in an idle funk, but Katie said that she realized during recovery that she was still capable and still had a helping role to serve in life.

“I saw people who had worse brain injuries than me and I said, ‘You know, it really could be a lot worse,’” Katie said. “I’m still really blessed to have a good perception of my life and just be able to still take care of myself … And seeing people who had it a lot worse just gave me respect for what I could do and what I still am able to do.”

“I think she reached a point where she said, ‘This is the hand I’ve been dealt’ and I’ve got to make the best of it,” Jeff said. “Once she did that, she started working really hard with physical therapy … she’s just an unbelievable girl.”

The National Safety Council recently hired Katie as a public speaker on distracted driving. She has lived alone in Houston, Texas, for about a year, an almost unthinkable accomplishment for a quadriplegic — one that has made an eternal impression on her former playmate.

“Even doctors and physical therapists have told [Katie] this is probably not possible — for [her] to live on [her] own, and now she’s living by herself,” Jeff said. “The gains that she makes are really unbelievable, and that’s what’s so motivating for me to work hard because she sets such a great example. The way she went through it was probably better than I could ever have imagined anybody else ever going through it.”

Jeff also has a knack for surpassing expectations. He started nine games as a freshman for the Red. He broke the single-season Ivy passing yardage record in 2011. He finished the year with two consecutive 500-yard games with five scores, both victories. He won the Bushnell Cup as the Ivy League

Offensive Player of the Year. He has legitimate professional potential. Katie and Jeff talk at least three times a week through various media, and big sister tells Jeff how proud she is at every chance — or at least she tries.

“I don’t really see how strong I am until [my family] tells me because it is just an everyday thing for me to get up and get ready and get dressed and stuff like that. I don’t really think anything of it,” Katie said. “But I realize it every time I tell Jeffrey I’m so proud of him He immediately stops me and says, ‘Katie! What I’m doing is nothing compared to what you’re doing. I’m so much more proud of everything you’re doing and everything you continue to do.’ I love him so much for that. He has so much opportunity to focus on himself with all the records that he’s breaking and everything like that, but he focuses on his family and on what I’m doing. It just means so much to me that he knows how to put the important things first.”

Katie, Venice High’s 2007 Homecoming Queen and Ms. Wheelchair Florida Jr. 2010, plans to travel to Ithaca for Cornell’s nationally televised Sept. 22 Homecoming game against Yale. The in-person time for brother and sister is a rare privilege, as it has been since late 1998 when Katie was eight and Jeff was seven, but fortunately technology has come partway to the rescue.

“Especially now that we can talk on Skype or iChat or whatever and see each other, it brings so much more meaning to it because I can keep up with his busy schedule,” Katie said. “He’s always on the go and doing stuff with school and football and everything like that, so I feel like I can live vicariously through him and I love it.”

As Katie continues to shatter quadriplegic stereotypes, Jeff thinks back to the devastating phone call he received from his mother in 2006 and wonders how something so torturous turned out so pleasant. He finds the answer when he looks at his computer screen and accepts the request coming from Houston.

“She’s been in so many situations where people have said, ‘Oh, Katie, you can’t do that,’ or, ‘This is not really possible for someone in your situation.’ And she proves them wrong time and time again. I think that part of it for me is what is so amazing because she doesn’t care about what people are going to say about her … [The accident] has become such a positive, basically just because of how she handled it.”

Quintin Schwab can be reached at qschwab@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

SPRINT FOOTBALL

Offensive Trio Prepares for Upcoming Season

By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer

Last season, Cornell’s sprint football team’s offense was in flux. The Red had a new starting quarterback — junior captain Brendan Miller — and was hoping junior college transfer senior captain and wide receiver Abe Mellinger would prove to be a weapon for Miller. Luckily, the offense came together, as Miller passed for 1409 yards — third in the league — despite missing a game due to a concussion. Mellinger gathered 609 receiving yards — also third in the league — and was the only player to accumulate over 1,000 all-purpose yards.

This year, the team has added to its offensive playbook and expects big things from their offense, according to Miller.

“We’re putting in a lot more package plays instead of individual plays [in our playbook],” he said. “It’s a little more complex … and it’s taken a bit of an adjustment process, but I think we’ve picked up on it pretty quickly and we’ve gotten the mistakes

out of our system in the first couple days we’ve implemented it. I think that we will be able to capitalize on these plays as the season comes along.”

“We have an entirely new offensive scheme, a lot of more opportunities, a lot of new plays and a lot of new things to open up,” said senior wide receiver Spenser Gruenenfelder. “It’s really just up to execution; if we run the plays like we’re supposed to and really read the defense, it’s going to be a good year.”

One of the reasons why the coaches have been able to open up the playbook is because the returning trio of Miller, Mellinger and Gruenenfelder, who caught 27 passes for 413 yards last season.

“We have a really good receiving corps this year and with the talent we have and all the returning players, coach [Mark] Kreydt can really expand the playbook,” Gruenenfelder said.

The trio is hoping to capitalize on their experience together and produce results this season, according to Mellinger.

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Three musketeers | Senior wide reciever Spenser Gruenenfelder is one piece of the offensive trio that caught 27 passes for 413 yards last season.

“We know we have a lot of experience and we want to take advantage,” he said.

“One thing I think we will try to do more is to have more motions on the field to try to get the defense moving and confused. We’re [able] to do that because Spenser and I are flexible and [can] move around in the offense.”

While the returning receiving corps will be very strong, the passing game starts and ends with Miller and the chemistry with his two star receivers. “[Miller and I] have a very healthy quarterback-receiver relationship and we have a lot of respect for each other,” Mellinger said. “He knows that if I make a mistake or don’t quite make that catch, I’m doing the best I can do and [I know] he’s doing his best to make the catch possible.”

Miller expressed the same enthusiasm towards his teammates..

“Abe [Mellinger] is one of the most disciplined route runners that I’ve been able to play with,” he said. “He’s very, very consistent, which helps me tremendously just knowing where he’s going to end up.

Spenser [Gruenenfelder] is a quarterback’s dream as a deep threat. He’ll beat anybody [down the field], even guys that are bigger or faster. He’ll find a way to get past them and make a big play, so he’s always a big threat.”

Gruenenfelder and Mellinger also praised Miller’s leadership qualities.

“For [Miller] being a junior and a captain, I’m very impressed by his leadership and communication skills,” Mellinger said.

“I’m definitely glad to have someone like him as a leader for the offense.”

“From last year, [Miller and Mellinger] have really proven themselves as leaders,” Gruenenfelder added. “They execute, come to practice every day to work and are ready to get better. They’re at the forefront as far as the playbook is concerned and they’re focused on the plays and communicating with the coaches. They set really good examples … working just as hard, if not a little more, just to push us.”

While the passing game will have much experience, the backfield will be young and inexperienced with the graduation of FirstTeam All-CSFL running back Doug Famularo ’12.

“I see [junior running back Nick] Perez playing a big role in the running game and there’s a few freshmen…that are very quick and strong,” Mellinger said. “It’s hard to replace someone like Doug, who was a quiet leader that got a lot of running yards and was a great blocker, but I think that any one of those guys, if not all of them, can fill his shoes.”

The offensive line may also see its fair share of growing pains with the graduation of First-Team All-CSFL center George Gomez ’12.

“The center’s arguably one of the most important offensive linemen; he’s making a lot of calls for the other guys on the line and that’s been our trouble [with replacing him],” Mellinger explained. “We have three guys who can hopefully fill his shoes, but were having some trouble deciding who that guy is going to be.”

With younger players comes added responsibilities for the team.

“We have a young offensive line and we’ve been working with them [on] new blocking schemes and communication,” Gruenenfelder said. “This year, we are focusing on them communicating better with each other, [so they] know who they must block.”

Despite the lack of experience outside of the passing game, the team has very high expectations for the season, according to Mellinger.

“I have huge expectations,” he said.

“We’re opening this season with Penn, which is usually one of our biggest games — besides Army and Navy — so this is going to be a wake-up call for us and put a benchmark of where we are at this early in the season.”

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

CROSS COUNTRY

Costich Reflects on Her Time as a Cornell Athlete

By TINA AHMADI Sun Staff Writer

Entering Cornell as Connecticut’s top cross country and track runner, Cara Costich continued to execute impressive performances on Cornell’s cross country team. During a phenomenal freshman year, Costich ran during all three seasons and then displayed a solid trend of improvement through her sophomore year. Placing in the team’s top seven, Costich achieved her personal records at indoor and outdoor ECAC championships during her sophomore year and placed seventh overall at the Yellowjacket Invitational during her junior year. Now entering her senior year, Cara elaborates on her favorite memories, goals for the year and a slew of interesting facts about athletics, life and team bonding.

As her fourth year running on the team, Cara said that she cherishes a countless number of great memories. After a difficult decision process, she described the most memorable — by a close margin — as the Ivy Championship last year at Princeton. The Red, now ranked 30th in the nation, won the championship last year and sets

out again this year to take home the title.

“Just seeing everyone come together, put everything out there and get so pumped for the race and accomplish a goal like that in not so great weather was a really great experience,” Costich said. “We won the Ivy

Year.” In the cross-country realm, Costich greatly appreciates the movie Without Limits, and loves watching races on TV. “I especially enjoyed watching and cheering for Morgan Uceny ’07 during the Olympics this past summer.”

Costich described Uceny as a

“Everyone works really hard, and the team is always there for you.”

Cara Costich championship by such a close margin over Columbia. We went out there wanting to work our hardest and we gave it our all.”

In addition to her involvement on the cross country team, Costich serves on the StudentAthlete Advisory Council, an alliance that connects student athletes. Costich said that it is great hearing what other athletes are doing and being involved in the greater athletic community in general.

During free time, Costich enjoys hanging out with friends, traveling to beautiful cities such as Paris and watching movies, especially romantic countries.

Her favorite movies include When Harry Met Sally, Sweet Home Alabama, and A Good

prime example of someone who has worked extremely hard to achieve her goal. Costich said that the fact that she ran under the Cornell cross country coaches and was a member of the team serves as a great inspiration.

To fuel up for her races, Costich begins with a peanut butter bagel as her pre-race breakfast or lunch. After her race, Costich usually re-energizes with a chocolate chunk Luna bar. To maintain energy levels during the day, she often visits Martha’s — her favorite eatery on campus — where one of the dishes she most enjoys is the chicken pesto sandwich.

Majoring in Economics, Costich’s running and academic experiences have strongly

impacted one another. She explained that studying economics has taught her to look at experiences in a rational and methodological way. Costich experienced some injuries junior year, and described that viewing these obstacles as an economist helped her efficiently alter training methods to achieve her goals.

After graduation, Costich anticipates working in investment banking or consulting, while continuing to run in road races regardless of her location or occupation.

Costich articulates a strong sense of team and togetherness, and says that her favorite part of being on the team is interacting with a great group of individuals who are always working their hardest to reach their full potential.

“I love being on a team that consists of a group of girls that are such a great team of individuals,” she said. “They’re my best friends at this school. Everyone works really hard, and the team is always there for you.”

Senior Suzana Markolovic articulated the strong team bonding that ensues over the course of the season. Markolovic said that the men’s and women’s cross country teams experienced

great bonding while giving back to the community at Ithaca 5 and 10 last weekend, a road race that the teams help execute every year.

“It was a great team bonding experience,” she said. “We had to work together to make sure the runners, who are the officials who implement our meets, were safe. It was really fun because we were able to give back to the community.”

Markolovic also had warm words for Costich on a more personal leve.

“Cara is one of my best friends so I’m always excited to see her at practice,” Markolovic said. “She’s really supportive of me and always interested in how my workouts are going and how I’m doing and such.”

The team has set high goals and expectations for this year’s national performance.

“I feel like a team goal is to perform really well at a national level,” Markolovic said. “Last year we missed making the national meet by a very small amount, and the goal is to make it and perform our best at the national meet.”

Tina Ahmadi can be reached at tahmadi@cornellsun.com.

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Sports

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Cornell Falls in Weekend Match Against Albany

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assisant Sports Editor

In its second game on the road this weekend, the Red fell to Albany, 5-2, despite senior midfielder Xandra Hompe’s first two-goal game of her Cornell career.

The Red held the Great Danes scoreless for most of the first half and controlled the ball offensively, taking eight shots compared to Albany’s five. However, just before the 40 minute mark, the Great Danes broke the game open with a goal off a breakaway past the last Red defender.

“We have to get used to transitioning from offense to defense faster.”

Rachel Nichols Down by only one goal going into the second period, the Red was unable to find an equalizer before Albany struck again on a free kick by Despina Psomopolous. In the 67th minute a header by Albany forward Maggie DeVerna found the back of the net, and the Red suddenly found itself trailing, 3-0.

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Double trouble | Senior midfielder Xandra Hompe scored the Red’s only two goals in Friday’s match against Albany, earning her first two-goal game of her entire Cornell career.

Hompe helped to bring the squad back into striking distance with a goal in the 68th minute off an assist by senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis. For Chitanvis — last year’s team leader in scoring — it was her first point of the 2012 season, a good sign for the Red’s offense as the season progresses.

“I think for us to have a dynamic attack, it will fall to [Chitanvis] to be the prime mover there,” said head coach Patrick Farmer. “She’s a person that can cover some ground and do a number of different tasks, she can keep the ball at her

feet, she can hit the ball through and she can get through herself, so she’ll be a big focus of what we’re doing.” “[Sunday] night [Hompe and Chitanvis] were both playing really well and playing off each other,” junior midfielder Rachel Nichols said. “The more we all get used to each other as the season goes on, the better off we’ll be.”

Just two minutes after Hompe’s first goal, the Great Danes See W. SOCCER page 14

FOOTBALL

Mathews Draws on Sister for Strength

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Senior Writer

Why did Cornell junior quarterback Jeff Mathews stay so level-headed during a 2-8 rookie campaign and an up-and-down 2011 season? Because of his older sister, Katie, and because he

knew it could always be worse.

Why did the quadriplegic Katie stay so positive after sustaining a C6/7 incomplete spinal cord injury and mild brain impairments? Because of her younger brother, Jeffrey, and See FOOTBALL page 14

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Fighting for survival | Sophomore back Ann DiPastina registered one defensive save against Penn State.

FIELD HOCKEY

Red Gains Experience Before Ivy Play Starts

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

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Inspired | Junior QB Jeff Mathews has a close bond with his sister.

The Cornell field hockey team’s less than stellar start to the 2012 season continued this past weekend, with the Red falling to Bucknell (4-2, 0-0 Patriot League) on Friday, 2-1, and then to Penn State (5-2, 0-0 Big Ten) the following day, 2-0. These defeats leave the Red with an 0-4 record heading into Ivy League play this weekend. However, according to senior back Paige Mollineaux, the Red showed noticeable improvement against the Nitanny Lions on Sunday and gained experience that makes the team better prepared for conference play.

“It was frustrating that things didn’t go our way, and we were upset that we didn’t win on Sunday” she said. “But we played better and it was a great opportunity to play such a good team to prepare us for Ivy League games this weekend, which are more important.”

This sentiment was echoed by junior midfielder Mallory Bannon.

“We worked together more and had better communication than we did in the previous games,” she said.

On Friday, the Red grabbed a 1-0 lead over the Bisons early in the second half, but could not hold on to it. Bucknell had an aggressive offensive attack throughout the game, outshooting Cornell, 12-3.

The Bisons broke through with the tying goal 60 minutes in, then netted the winner just five minutes later.

Bucknell’s momentum and Cornell’s momentary defensive lapses allowed the Bisons to take the lead, according to Bannon.

“When they tied the game they gained momentum, and we had good defense for most of the game, but we let our guard down a little bit, and they were See FIELD HOCKEY page 14