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Police Identify Body Construction by Goldwin Smith Of Cornell Student Blocks Pathways,Moves Bus Stops

By AKANE OTANI

Sun Managing Editor

Medical examiners have identified the body of a man found in the Hudson River as that of Denis Lukashkov ’15, New York State Police said Tuesday.

In the early hours of Sept. 4, police found Lukashkov’s Honda Accord abandoned on the Tappan Zee Bridge. Police said they believed Lukashkov, 20, might have jumped into the Hudson River after leaving his although they Police found Lukashov’s addedcar, that no witnesses saw Honda Accord anyone jump from the bridge. abandoned on the Throughout the weekend, authorities used radar Tappan Zee Bridge. and sonar technologies and searched through the Hudson River for signs of Lukashkov, according to Trooper Jason Jones of the New York State Police. Divers retrieved a body from the Hudson in the Village of Dobbs Ferry on Saturday.

Police were unable to make a positive identification on the body until Tuesday.

Lukashkov’s mother told The Journal News that she last heard from her son when he called her on Sept. 3. Lukashkov played video games with friends at Cornell before driving from Ithaca, N.Y. to Westchester County, turning around and stopping his car on the Tappan Zee on Sept. 4, police said.

Lukashkov’s car was found on the Tappan Zee with its car keys and Lukashov’s identification in it at 4:25 a.m.

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By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

There is bad news for students and professors frustrated by closed exits, blocked pathways and a relocated bus stop caused by construction around Goldwin Smith Hall: they will continue to be inconvenienced until at least October 2015, when University officials project that they will finish building Klarman Hall.

Klarman Hall, which will rise adjacent to

Goldwin Smith, is expected to take up 33,250 square feet of space and dramatically expand space for the humanities on campus. As construction on Klarman begins, the University is also working on replacing the roof of Goldwin Smith.

The construction has closed numerous entrances and exits to Goldwin Smith, blocked several pathways, including the area between See CONSTRUCTION page 4

Don’t fence me in | Construction on Klarman Hall began this summer and is scheduled to end in 2015.

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Health Insurance Costs Rise at C.U.

In memory

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer

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American flags were placed on the Arts Quad by an anonymous student group Wednesday, the 12 year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center. When viewed from the clock tower, the flags spell out “Remember 9-11.”

To keep up with increasing requirements brought on by health care reform, the cost of Cornell’s Student Health Insurance Plan rose 10.7 percent this academic year, according to Gannett Health Services officials.

The rise in the health plan’s price from $1,998 last year to $2,212 this year was one of the largest hikes the University has ever announced, according to Craig McAllister, director of

Risk Man agement and Insurance and chair of the Student Insurance Advisory Committee. In the last decade, the average annual increase in SHIP’s price has been more around five percent, according to Valerie Lyon, associate director for business and finance at Gannett Health Services.

Lyon partly attributed the jump in the plan’s cost to President Barack Obama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The law, which See SHIP page 4

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Dennis’13‘Loved People in an Unconditional Way’

Student disappeared shortly before what would have been his graduation day

By MANU RATHORE

the world will lose out on.”

People who had worked with Dennis, such as Sandra Steingraber — a member of the anti-fracking movement Described as “the only true altruist” and as someone New Yorkers Against Fracking — remembered him as who “would have changed the world,” Chris Dennis ’13 being a talented videographer. Dennis shot a video titled was remembered by his friends as a free-spirited individual “Don’t Frack New York” for New Yorkers Against committed to environmental justice.

Fracking, which Steingraber said was a powerful piece of Dennis was reported missing in May, shortly before he work. was due to graduate with the Class of 2013. After separatDespite his many accomplishments, Dennis was a moding from his friends to canoe alone on Cayuga est person, Castle said.

Lake, Dennis disappeared, and Seneca County “Chris was somebody who handled a lot of officials and Cornell students launched a search things and was behind the scenes in many ways, for him. but I don’t think he ever realized how big an During the course of the search effort, impact he actually made,” Castle said. “He Dennis’ canoe was found overturned in the never tried taking credit for anything, but one middle of the lake, The Sun reported in May. would see his name at the bottom of a video, Dennis, who was a double major in internasaying, ‘Shot by Chris Dennis.’” tional agriculture and rural development and Kelsey Erickson ’13 also emphasized Dennis’ communications, worked as a videographer at talents behind the camera.

DENNIS ’13 The Sun and was a member of KyotoNOW! He “His movies were beyond anything that I had a passion for remedying climate change that led him had ever seen for someone his age,” she said. “I had visions to shoot many videos for the climate justice movement and of him becoming a big movie producer someday, but he the anti-fracking movement in New York State, according was so humble that I knew he would never try to.” to Anna-Lisa Castle ’13.

Dennis was also a creative person with a unique way of “He was really committed to the environment, to his thinking, Upadhyay said. friends and to loving other people. He loved people in an “[Chris] always did exactly what he wanted to be doing, unconditional way that I have never seen before,” Castle and I think that is something special that you don’t find in said. most people,” she said. “He saw a lot of possibilities that Sarita Upadhyay ’11 said that Dennis, despite being other people don’t see. He was very open to a lot of ideas only 22 years old, had already made his mark on the world. that most people wouldn’t have even noticed.”

“At 22, [Dennis] had already accomplished a lot of Dennis started a discussion group to help broaden the things and had a huge impact,” Upadhyay said. “He just public’s perspective on science and the media last semester had a huge amount of unique potential for the future that with the co-founders of IndependentScienceNews.org, a

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site for alternative media on issues of science and agriculture, according to Erickson.

“He was really excited to give them the opportunity to talk to students so that these students would attain a more wholesome perspective on science and understand the corporate interests that bias scientific claims regarding agriculture,” she said.

Deeply sympathetic to the damage done by the 2010 earthquakes in Haiti, Dennis took time off the 2011-12 academic year at Cornell to work on reforestation projects in Haiti, according to Castle.

“He started a non-profit in Haiti to grow bamboo as an earthquake-resistant building material,” she said. “He was somebody who could just go with the flow and commit to something but at the same time he was very free spirited.”

Upadhyay said that Dennis had taught her how to appreciate the little things in life.

“For me, he really taught me to be happy and how to really love life and every little thing: a sunset, a sunrise, the beauty of a tree or animal or food,” she said. “He was really excited about and compassionate toward every person he met. That was really beautiful.”

Upadhyay said she urges Cornell students to have a positive impact in the world in honor of Dennis.

“Chris cared a lot about having an impact, and the best way to honor his memory is for people to think about how to have a positive impact on the world,” she said. “His memory and time with me have inspired me, and I hope he inspires other people in the Cornell community.”

Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com and twitter.com/mrathore15.

At Candidate Forum,Freshmen Propose Campus Improvements

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Staff Writer

Student Assembly representatives expressed disappointment over the low turnout at a candidate forum Wednesday, where the number of students running in the S.A. elections nearly equalled the number of audience members present.

The candidates at the forum are running for freshman representative, transfer representative, LGBTQ representative and University Assembly representative.

Eighteen students debated each other at the event, answering questions posed

by Ulysses Smith ’14, S.A. president, and Alfonse Muglia ’14, director of elections for the S.A. Many of the candidates shared similar thoughts about topics raised at the forum such as the importance of the S.A.’s diversity initiative, the need for improvement in the TCAT bus system and the requirement that S.A. representatives meet with leaders of certain clubs and organizations on campus.

One candidate, Marc Masson ’17, expressed his opinion that the University’s survey about freshmen’s housing preferences was “too impersonal.”

“They should include questions like ‘Do you like to party every night? Do you like to have rowdy sex every night?’” he said.

Another candidate, Alex Chakrin ’17, discussed Greek life, reflecting his platform to “fight for fewer restrictions” on fraternities and sororities on campus.

“I believe that the University needs to revisit its policies on fraternities and how it does not allow freshmen to have any sort of contact with fraternities because it is having an adverse effect on the community [at Cornell],” Chakrin said.

Yamini Bhandari ’17 proposed an initiative to combat the “50 to 60 emails a day [she receives] to her Cornell account each day,” an idea she coined “ClubCal.” “Every listserv should have an option to unsubscribe from the email,” Bhandari said. “I want to streamline the way that we do clubs and have an interactive calendar on the S.A. website to show when every meeting is and update it currently.”

She proposed making information about clubs more accessible and organized for students.

“I want to make a website where you check off different clubs that you’re interested in, and once a month, you get one email with the dates and times for every club and where they’re meeting,” Bhandari said.

A noteworthy change in the candidate debate this year was the style of questions that were asked, according to Muglia. This

year, the S.A. asked more questions about its history, as well as past resolutions it has pushed forward.

“You know, I don’t think we intended to stump people, necessarily,” Smith said.

“But one, it brings awareness to the assembly and what we’re doing and hopefully draws more people in.

The other part is that it helps the candidates learn about themselves.”

Smith said he hopes that the challenging questions asked at the forum will spur candidates to understand the task they are planning on undertaking.

“I think after hearing some of the questions that Alfonzo and I asked, the candidates will probably go and do some more research,” Smith said. “They realize now, ‘Wow, this is not high school government all over again. We actually have a $6.5-million budget that we’re responsible for allocating.’”

Muglia also said that he thought the forum was informative for students, since most of the topics that were brought up at the forum were those most relevant to freshmen.

“One of the first things that freshmen notice are things like the bus system, things like the dining hall hours, and it is important for them to know the difference between the things that the Student Assembly can do something about and can’t do something about,”

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Represent | Alfonse Muglia ’14, director of elections for the Student Assembly, speaks at a candidates forum at the Robert Purcell Community Center Wednesday.

Muglia said. “But most of them, I think, have figured it out, and I was very impressed.”

Despite saying they were both disappointed by the low turnout at the event, both Muglia and Smith expressed a general satisfaction with the way the debate went.

“We’re making decisions

that actually affect a lot of people,” Smith said.

“Though this campus might largely be apathetic in certain rights toward a lot of the things that are happening, a lot of the things that we do really do impact a lot of people.”

Smith added that he hopes students will more widely publicize the candi-

date forum next year.

“Next time, they need to advertise to their friends a bit more — get some cheering corners in here for them or something. Other than that, it was pretty good,” he said.

Ashley Chu can be reached at achu@cornellsun.com.

Around the ivies The Student Health Advisory Board of Princeton University has set in place an initiative utilizing plastic cups featuring the pharase “Mine. Not Yours” in an effort to illuminate the issue of bacterial meningitis and stress the importance of curtailing the spread of germs, acording to The Princetonian.

Following Dartmouth College’s passage of the Greek First-Year Safety and Risk Reduction resolution in May, the Greek Leadership Council finalized the policy’s enforcement, which will, with some exceptions, prohibit freshmen from attending Greek houses until the conclusion of Homecoming weekend, The Dartmouth reported Wednesday.

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Construction Proves Gannett: Expect SHIP Costs to ‘Annoying,’ Students Say Continue to Rise Over the Years CONSTRUCTION

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around the building their department calls home is very disruptive.

She said that, at the start of the semester, “some offices were unusable because there was construction going on in individual offices.”

“It’s a change, and it wasn’t a change that the faculty actually made, so I think it’s perhaps natural to feel uncertain about what the outcome will be,” Mackowski said.

Still she said that the construction was a reasonable price to pay for the addition of a new building.

“I think that once [Klarman Hall is] done people will think it’s nice, but it’s always hard in the middle when people are working on something else," Mackowski said.

Students have also expressed annoyance at the construction around Goldwin Smith.

“I feel like it takes away from the beauty of campus and since it's on the main part of campus I feel like it really disrupts the atmosphere,” Katrina Simon ’16 said.

Justin Ying ’16, a student with two classes in Goldwin Smith, also said that the construction impeded new students from learning the most efficient ways to class.

“I think the biggest problem with the construction is that now is the time of year that freshman need to traverse the places in the most optimal way, but it’s also annoying because it covers three or four of the entrances that people used to take,” Ying said.

Ying added, however, that he felt the construction was an unavoidable evil.

“I guess it’s necessary, because I couldn’t imagine them doing construction at any other time period where it wouldn’t interfere with us,” Ying said.

The site work surrounding Goldwin Smith is just the preparatory work of relocating underground utilities to allow the excavation for Klarman Hall, with the bulk of the construction of Klarman beginning in November, according to Senior Project Manager Gary Wilhelm.

The construction has closed numerous entrances and exits to Goldwin Smith, blocked several pathways including the area between Lincoln Hall and Goldwin Smith and moved the bus stop originally located in front of Lincoln Hall further down East Avenue across from the A.D. White House.

Due to the central location of Goldwin Smith Hall and the heavy flow of student traffic around the area, Wilhelm said planning the construction has been a challenge.

He added that as construction picks up, most parts of Goldwin Smith will be covered in scaffolding at one point or another, several more entrances to the building will be closed and one lane of East Avenue will also be closed.

“East Ave. has become the main pedestrian and vehicular route on campus and disrupting that is a big deal,” Wilhelm said, forecasting additional inconveniences for members of the Cornell community.

Since only one lane of East Avenue will be open from November to January 2015, Wilhelm said that temporary traffic lights would be brought in to regulate the traffic, and only buses, bikes and construction vehicles would be allowed to pass through.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

was passed in 2010, has expanded requirements for the coverage health insurers provide to their customers — meaning premiums for SHIP have had to rise to keep up, according to Lyon.

SHIP costs have also risen because of inflation in the healthcare marketplace and a jump in students’ uses of SHIP last year, according to Lyon.

“It’s not [a question of ] ‘where’s the money going,’ but rather what happened in the previous year that makes the rate what it is,” said Jo Ann Molnar-Kieffer, student insurance administrator. “It’s a review of the previous year’s claims experience that sets the rate.”

SHIP is used by about half of Cornell’s student body. As a “platinum-level” plan — which under the ACA, means a plan covers 90 percent of a customer’s health care costs — SHIP has continued to expand benefits this year, according to the University.

For instance, the ACA has required that SHIP move from capping pharmacy expenses at $4,000 to providing unlimited benefits for prescriptions, according to McAllister.

“That change increased cost and was quite a driver for the increase in the price this year,” McAllister said.

Despite the increase in SHIP’s rates, University officials defended the health insurance plan, saying it offers the community comprehensive health care benefits without undue expenses. In fact, at some large state institutions and community colleges, students have had to go without university-provided health plans because schools could not comply with expanded benefits, McAllister said.

“The Affordable Care Act eliminated these high-end caps on plans, so if someone has a very serious illness or injury, their insurance isn’t going to run out,” McAllister said. “But on the other side, some of the benefits that some of these smaller plans had with low cost-sharing and low out-ofpocket are going away. The Cornell SHIP has always tried to balance that.”

According to McAllister, the majority of SHIP’s changes

were not optional, but were required by health care laws.

Any enhancements that Cornell has direct control over are decided with administrative and student input during SIAC meetings, he added.

A lot of these “enhancements” to SHIP coverage are made in order to lower costsharing, or the portion individuals have to pay out of pocket for their services. According to Lyon, this past year, SHIP costshares were made more consistent so that, in line with the established $10 co-payment for every Gannett visit, surgery copayments are now $150 across the board.

Cornell-decided Other enhancements included in creased coverage for preventative services like STI tests, immunizations and screenings, as well as contraceptive coverage, according to Lyon.

Even so, the SIAC maintains that SHIP is cheaper than self-purchase comparable plans, which can cost as much as $8,000 a year.

“It’s important for students to look at peer institutions; look at the overall cost of our plan and compare, and you’ll see that [SHIP] is actually one of the lowest-cost plans in the Ivy-plus peer group,” Lyon said. “While it’s challenging to think of the $2,000 as inexpensive, as it relates to health insurance it’s relatively lowcost.”

According to MolnarKieffer, discontent with the cost of SHIP often relates only to the sticker price of the plan without taking into account that seemingly cheaper plans may be employer-subsidized or have very large deductibles.

“A lot of times it’s comparing apples and oranges; just looking at the price of an insurance plan doesn’t really relate to the value you get from it,” Molnar-Kieffer said. “You might have huge out-of-pocket expenses, especially if the price is lower.”

McAllister addedd that health insurance costs are everincreasing by nature due to factors like increased technology and general medical awareness.

He added that the main goal of the SIAC is to keep the rate of increase stable while providing the necessary benefits. Part of the discussion includes cutting costs wherever able.

Katy Reines ’14, the under-

graduate representative on the SIAC, calls it “a constant struggle” to change health plan costs without putting the burden on students.

“As students, we don’t necessarily have a wealth of money just to spend on health care in any given moment,” Reines said. “[The SIAC] has discussed in length if we should change a certain portion of the plan that would make a student have to pay $25 extra at the time of the service, or if it’s worth it to keep the overall price of the plan slightly higher in order to make the student pay less at the time of service. … We recognize that as students $25 or $50 can be a lot of money.”

This year’s 10.7 percent increase was still lower than what was originally expected.

According to Lyon, deliberations in February with SHIP provider Aetna worked with a prospective increase of near 20 percent.

“We’re looking for full transparency on the rates,” McAllister said. “Wherever we feel that [Aetna] may be looking to make extra profit, we push back and try to have that removed from the rate.”

Still, McAllister said he expects more increases in SHIP’s cost over the next few years as the new benefits that come with federal and state health care reform are utilized by students.

“That being said, we continue to work to have the right mix of benefits, and also make sure that the insurance company ‘sharpens their pencils’ when it comes to the rate they’re providing on that,” McAllister said.

Reines said she has been impressed with the other members’ commitment to students and how they work with Aetna to keep profit to a minimum.

“From the student perspective, the strongest feeling I get from being on the committee is to actually trust these people,” Reines said. “There’s no need to have mistrust, or that somehow you’re paying for someone’s profit. The whole point of this is that we as students are healthy and can go to school and learn, because that is why we’re here.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Zimmerman Probe on Hold Until Evidence Surfaces

LAKE MARY, Fla. (AP) — The investigation of a domestic dispute between George Zimmerman and his estranged wife is on hold because there is no clear evidence to charge anyone and neither side wants to press the case, a police spokesman said Wednesday.

That could change if new evidence surfaces or technicians are able to extract video that recorded the dispute from Shellie Zimmerman’s smashed iPad, said Officer Zach Hudson. Law enforcement analysts are having difficulty obtaining the video because the iPad is in bad shape, he said.

“We have concluded the investigation with what we have to work with right now,” Hudson said.

The dispute took place Monday, just days after Shellie Zimmerman filed divorce papers.

In the papers, Zimmerman, 26, said she had separated from her husband a month after he was acquitted in the 2012 fatal shooting death of unarmed black teen Trayvon Martin.

A police report on the dispute released Wednesday shed some light on how it started.

Shellie Zimmerman, accompanied by her father and a friend, was removing some belongings from the couple’s house when George Zim–merman, who still lives there, arrived and began taking photos of her, the report said. The house is owned by Shellie Zimmerman’s parents.

George Zimmerman recorded the items she removed from the house and also the belongings she had placed in her father’s truck, the report said.

Zimmerman said his wife was “taking property that was not agreed upon and he began taking pictures and recording the items,” the report said.

Shellie Zimmerman then took her iPad and started recording her husband taking photos of her, authorities said.

George Zimmerman went in the house and locked the front door.

What happened next is in dispute.

Shellie Zimmerman told investigators she heard her father screaming from the garage.

Her father, David Dean, told her that Zimmerman had hit him in the face, the report said.

She said her husband then smashed her iPad. During a 911 call, she also told police that George Zimmerman was threatening her and her father with a gun.

Later, however, she said she had not seen a gun. Police said they found no gun, but that Shellie Zimmerman’s father “did have a swollen red mark on the bridge of his nose.”

At a news conference late Wednesday, Shellie Zimmerman was with her attorney, Kelly Sims, but didn’t answer any questions about what happened.

Sims cited the on-going divorce proceedings and probation as the reason. Sims defended his client’s initial assertions that her husband was armed.

Sims said Shellie Zimmerman found packaging for a new holster in the trash

that day and has always known him to carry a gun.

“Bottom line, Shellie had every reason to believe there was a gun,” Sims said.

Sims said his client is hoping to move on as soon as possible.

“The only thing Shellie wants out of the end of this relationship is for it to end with a whimper and not a bang,” Sims said.

In the report George Zimmerman told investigators that his wife had told him she was done picking up her belongings.

He said he locked the front door and went to the garage to close it when Shellie Zimmerman’s father confronted him, according to the report.

Shellie Zimmerman’s father threw down his glasses and charged his son-in-law, according to George Zimmerman’s account. Shellie Zimmerman at some point hit her husband with her iPad, George Zimmerman told investigators.

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Nation Pauses on 9/11 to Pay Tribute to Victims NEW YORK (AP) — Life in lower Manhattan resembled any ordinary day on Wednesday as workers rushed to their jobs in the muggy heat, but time stood still at the World Trade Center site while families wept for loved ones who perished in the terror attacks 12 years ago.

For the families, the memories of that day are still vivid, the pain still acute. Some who read the names of a beloved big brother or a cherished daughter could hardly speak through their tears.

“Has it really been 12 years? Or 12 days?

Sometimes it feels the same,” said Michael Fox, speaking aloud to his brother, Jeffrey, who perished in the tower. south

“Sometimes I reach for the phone so I can call you, and we can talk about our kids like we used to do every day.”

On the memorial plaza overlooking two reflecting pools in the imprint of the twin towers, relatives recited the names of the nearly 3,000 people who died when hijacked jets crashed into the towers, the Pentagon and in a field near Shanksville, Pa. They also recognized the victims of the 1993 trade center bombing.

Bells tolled to mark the planes hitting the towers and the moments when the skyscrapers fell.

“Tribute in Light” searchlights, turned on at sunset, illuminated the skies where the twin towers once

stood.

In Washington, President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and wife Jill Biden walked out to the White House’s South Lawn for a moment of silence at 8:46 a.m. — the time the first plane struck the north tower in New York. Another jetliner struck the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.

“Our hearts still ache for the futures snatched away, the lives that might have been,” Obama said.

A moment of si lence was also held at the U.S. Capitol.

In New York, loved ones milled around the memorial site, making rubbings of names, putting flowers by the names of victims and

weeping, arm-in-arm.

Former Gov. George Pataki, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and others were in attendance. As with last year, no politicians spoke. Mayor Michael Bloomberg watched the ceremony for his final time in office.

Carol Eckna re called the contagious laugh of her son, Paul Robert Eckna, who was killed in the north tower.

“Just yesterday, you were 28,” she said.

“Today, you are 40.

You are forever young.

Dad and I are proud to be your parents.”

The anniversary arrived amid changes at the Flight 93 National Memorial in where Shanksville, construction started Tuesday on a new visitor center.

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An Unsympathetic New York State of Mind I

am from a place that some have said, jokingly, is on the wrong side of the river. I was raised in New Jersey, so its no wonder I am naïve enough to still allow New York City to pull at my heartstrings (despite the fact that I have interned there for two summers). Many of my Cornell colleagues, who are proudly self-identifying native New Yorkers (as well as summer interns eager to prove how well they have assimilated) have mocked me for my expressions of sympathy toward the homeless, while wearing their impenetrable apathy like a badge of honor. Every pained look I give a beggar is followed by rolling eyes or a patronizing speech about how I simply do not understand New York City. I began to understand that being void of emotion toward those asking for money goes beyond economic necessity, but has become a source of superiority, exclusivity and humor for many.

I have heard many of my Cornell acquaintances joking about devising elaborate plans to ward off beggars on the subway, such as bringing around a book as a prop or slowly pretending to pass out as they are approached. They employ these tactics while those asking for spare change slowly shuffle by with outstretched baseball caps and plastic bags. Despite their insistence that I adopt their attitude and join in the fun, I take pride in the fact that after two years of interning in the greatest city in the world, I have yet to cave and conform to bragging about how good at not caring I am.

When did apathy become elitism?

Many of my more sympathetic friends, similar to myself, have been lectured in some rather demeaning tones by NYC natives, as if they were giving us valuable insider information about the lifestyle and culture of NYC. Although I can acknowledge that becoming somewhat desensitized to the stories of misfortune and the cardboard signs littered across Fifth Avenue was a personal necessity for me, I have never been proud of it.

I’m writing about this because of a particular woman I saw slowly declining

as I commuted to and from work this summer. What I saw as her transition into homelessness still weighs heavily on my heart. Once hesitant to even ask for money, she grew dirtier and more comfortable with begging each day I saw her.

The first day I saw her she was neatly dressed in a clean striped T-shirt and khakis, shuffling her feet and selectively approaching the stream of commuters on their way downtown. However, as the week passed I saw her gradually begin sitting on the floor of the tunnel, her hair matted and her clothes covered in stains and dirt. Eventually, she stopped showing up.

As students, we are accustomed to learning, and when we enter the workforce for the first time, our instinct is to do the same. Not only do we learn to do our jobs at our various summer or permanent positions, we learn from what we see and hear from our friends and peers in order to fit in. We learn by mirroring the speech, actions and attitudes around us, and therefore abide by the rules of the society we have entered.

However, once in a while we do need to remind ourselves that the attitudes we adopt should be subject to our personal judgment and moral values.

I do not donate to someone every time he or she asks me to. I have neither the financial means nor the heart and soul of Mother Theresa to do so. I carry around my fair share of cynicism, especially when hearing about the fourth person whose house burned down in the past week on the A train late at night.

Everyone seems to have no money and three children to feed after a long day when one’s patience is wearing thin.

However, I do find it disturbing that to many, this attitude toward the homeless has become not simply a norm, but a pride-filled rite of passage to show that one has truly developed a New York state of mind.

Cecilia An is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at cpa33@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Dems Discuss

2013:An Election Year

hen those of us on the executive board of the Cornell Democrats were planning for this semester, I made a dumb comment (not an unusual occurrence for me). I said that I wish it were an election year because campaigning is such a fun part of the being in the Dems. Our Director of Public Relations corrected me, saying that it was, in fact, an election year. At first, I thought he said this because we are already preparing for the 2014 midterm elections, but he meant that in New York, and many other states across the country, off-years are the time for county and municipal elections (not to mention state-wide elections in New Jersey and Virginia). So, in a sense, I was right: It’s not an election year for the Cornell Dems ... unless were to have any members from New York, New Jersey, Boston or Atlanta. Like I said, dumb comments: not an unusual occurrence for me.

Unfortunately, I think most Cornell students fall into my camp when it comes to forgetting that 2013 is an election year. How many of us realized that Tuesday was primary election day in New York? Unless you saw coverage of the New York mayoral election you might have missed that the first, and in many cases the only important, part of this election occurred on Tuesday. In many places, including Ithaca and New York City, one party has such an overwhelming dominance that the

primary election is enough to determine who you should care. Sure, you understand why will probably win the election. In short, the the New York City mayoral race matters, but most populous city in America probably just who knows what the county executive, comselected it’s next mayor, the county in which mon council member, first selectman, general you go to college may have just selected its assembly member or county clerk even does? next County Judge and many of your home Well, to the question of why you should care, counties and towns just nominated officials to I have two answers. various other positions. Odds are, it happened Even though you know President Barack without you.

Obama’s name and don’t know your county While turnout in American elections is legislator’s unless she lives next door, local and m u c h state laws are maligned and the ones that is poor when Failing to engage in or, at the actually govcontrasted ern your life. very least, follow local level Most of the with other politics keeps your voice from taxes you’ll Western democracies, the being heard by the officials pay, it’s actually school reguwho affect your life lations you been rising most often. follow and since the turn of the centulaws that ry. That said, voting in non-presidential elec- affect your life are passed at the state level or tions is probably still worse than you think. below. Congress may get to deal with the sexVirginia, a state where the governor is up for ier issues such as Syria, healthcare reform and election in off years, has seen the number of renaming post offices, but members of the eligible voters who turnout drop to three-in- Ithaca Common Council are the ones who ten compared to seven-in-ten during can protect you from your Collegetown slumPresidential election years. States like New lord or regulate the Hot Truck’s hours. Failing York, where citizens are voting for county offi- to engage in or, at the very least, follow localcials and judges, can expect even less enthusi- level politics keeps your voice from being asm. heard by the officials who affect your life most At this point, you’re probably asking why often.

The second reason local politics matters is because as much as you might think you’re voting for the person who is going to fix potholes, national agendas often start at the local level. It is much easier to organize for and affect local elections which means they are the place to get good public officials into office and keep potentially dangerous ones out.

Many of the politicians who gain national fame start out by winning local elections by a few dozen votes. People in New York found out that the election for county clerk mattered when several clerks tried to deny gay marriage licenses. Conversely, maybe that state legislator you support will eventually rise to the presidency, like President Obama did.

Your small, local election has ripples that extend far beyond your trash collection and sales tax.

If you ever hear somebody at Cornell say: “It’s not an election year,” I hope you tell them that they should check again. Furthermore, if you are a New York, New Jersey or Virginia resident: Please register to vote in the general election and apply for your absentee ballot today! After all, it is an election year.

Max Schechter is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences and the president of the Cornell Democrats.

He may be reached at mschechter@cornellsun.com.

Dems Discuss appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

THROWDOWN THURSDAYS Julius Kairey |

Always Right

A Disturbing Trend Toward Campus Censorship A

re American free speech norms too permissive of nology.” Ironically, the Assembly used Cornell’s “Open offensive and hateful speech? Many university admin- Doors, Open Hearts, Open Minds” Statement on Diversity, istrators and professors seem to think so. Over the which purports to nurture minorities, to suppress ideas past few decades, they have launched dangerous new cam- deemed hostile by a majority of the campus. Thankfully, paigns at schools across the country to limit the extent of free President David Skorton decided to intervene to defend the principle that “the antidote to offensive speech … is more speech on campus.

Examples are easy to find, but difficult to stomach. speech, not less speech” in an article in The Sun. Still, it is Western Michigan University prohibited students from disappointing how hollow the ubiquitous rhetoric surholding “condescending sex-based attitudes.” The rounding diversity rings when it is intellectual diversity that University of Delaware banned “teasing” and “ridiculing.” is on the chopping block. To this day, Cornell prohibits California State University at Chico prohibited students making “bias-motivated jokes or statements” that create an from using “generic masculine terms … to refer to people of “offensive environment” — criteria subjective both sexes,” literally prohibiting students from using the term “guys” to get the attention of a group of friends. And Drexel University’s speech What lies at the heart of this dispute code proscribed — if you can believe it — “inap- over free speech on campus? In my propriately directed laughter” and “inconsiderate view, it is fundamentally about jokes.” One might as well require students to “play what role a university ought to play nice with others.”

When universities act in furtherance of these in the ideological policies, the results are predictably disastrous. At development of its student body.

Bucknell University, students were prohibited from holding an “affirmative action bake sale” to protest the use of racial preferences in admissions policy. Tufts University students were found guilty of enough to prohibit speech on key issues such as affirmative “harassment” when they accurately published certain pas- action or immigration.

What lies at the heart of this dispute over free speech on sages from the Quran. At New York University, students were successfully pressured into not displaying the Danish campus? In my view, it is fundamentally about what role a cartoons of Mohammad that ignited worldwide protest university ought to play in the ideological development of its student body. Should universities be places that encourage nearly a decade ago.

Our University is no stranger to this fight. Just a few years the free exchange of ideas — places that allow students to ago, the Student Assembly adopted “Resolution 6” after an pursue truth, wherever it might lead them? Or should uniarticle in the Cornell Review criticized “angry minorities” versities seek to inculcate their student bodies with a predewho are too quick to “complain about discrimination from termined truth and defend, on behalf of students, a “right whitey.” While students rightly condemned the unsubstan- not to be offended” by speech that contradicts those tiated arguments and insensitive terms contained within the prepackaged ideas?

Proponents of the latter view seem to see themselves as article, the Assembly went further, urging a revision to the Campus Code of Conduct to “prevent future hateful termi- protectors of the student body. They seek to keep us safe

from material that could hurt our feelings or cause tension between different groups in the Cornell community. Indeed, nearly all Western liberal democracies allow content-based restrictions on speech deemed “hateful” or “belittling.”

Whether at the national level or the university level, however, these restrictions do serious harm to a key purpose of having the freedom of speech to begin with.

That purpose is to allow robust debate on matters of public concern. Through discussions with our fellow citizens, we hope to be able to come up with the optimal solution to problems we all face. Free speech enables us to pursue truth without having to worry that we will be punished because our beliefs conflict with the interests of the powerful or with notions that most of society considers sacrosanct.

When speech can be restricted simply because someone takes offense, everyone loses: The censored student loses the ability to speak, the campus community loses the ability to listen and the aggrieved students lose the ability to reconsider (or reinforce) a perspective that they hold near and dear through a clash with the offensive opinion.

As Chief Justice Roberts, said in Snyder v. Phelps, upholding the Westboro Baptist Church’s right to engage in sinister, vile protests against military families: “Speech is powerful. It can stir people to action, move them to tears of both joy and sorrow, and — as it did here — inflict great pain. On the facts before us, we cannot react to that pain by punishing the speaker. As a nation we have chosen a different course — to protect even hurtful speech on public issues to ensure that we do not stifle public debate.”

If our Supreme Court sees fit to protect the First Amendment rights of those who protest against the very people who defend those rights overseas, then surely we can take the smaller step of keeping our universities out of the business of regulating offensiveness.

Julius Kairey is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jkairey@cornellsun.com. Always Right appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Dining Guide Raise Your Glass to the Best Cocktails in Ithaca Your source for good food

By JACOB LIFTON Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca may be known for its remarkable supply of creativity (I hear we have a higher number of amateur loom-weavers per capita than New York City), yet this fact is typically featured by way of the town’s eclectic eatery scene.

Although Ithaca’s bubbling foodie backdrop can be a solid source of excitement for the dining section, lately I’ve been interested in something even bubblier: its cocktails.

To a certain point, cocktails are cocktails — almost every bar will be able to make a decent Gin and Tonic or a Manhattan, and most of them will make the groovy juice go down just as smooth. These “basic”cocktails are of little interest to me; instead of trying every Rob Roy or Vodka Collins in Ithaca, many of which would end up tasting pretty darn similar, for this feature I wanted to investigate the sorts of cocktails that the Ithacan bartenders are inventing and determine who is inventing the best.

Given that we all have different tastes for different tastes, I admit that this list is neither totally objective nor definitive. Cocktails can range from the inordinately sweet to the unpleasantly bitter, and our fine-tuned palates can vary just as widely. However, to reduce the inherent bias of this study, all cocktails were sampled by several members of a deliberately selected judicial panel (i.e., a couple buddies and I).

The criteria I was after included quality of taste, inventiveness on the part of the creators and overall uniqueness of the beverage. Did the drink contain some unexpected ingredient that worked surprisingly well? Could something similar be found in another bar, and if so, was it as good? This was the sort of question-cud my panel and

I chewed whilst slurping back thyme-infused whiskeys and whiskey-infused ports.

Our findings lie below...

Cheers!

5. LEVEL B Although not necessarily renowned for its ingenuity, Level B can still serve up some quality swigs. Stop by for some solid cocktails, awkward dancing, nice bathrooms and an overall fun time!

Our Choice: Love in an Elevator In case you’d rather drink your dessert, this sumptuous blend of Godiva white chocolate liqueur, Svedka vanilla vodka and chocolate syrup offers up the equivalent of a liquid brownie. It’s healthy, too (not)!

Bartender’s Choice: Level B Containing Marker’s Mark bourbon, amaretto, bitters and a cherry, the Level B is a fairly simple spin on a Whiskey Sour — less sour, more sweet — and the result is quite good.

4. PIXEL Most may not bother with the ever-changing specialty drinks menu at Pixel, but if you do, you may find a surprising amount of innovation! Still, Pixel could learn from Level B’s bathroom conditions.

Our Choice: Bonita Applebum Citadelle apple, jalapeño, lime and sugar — sweet, sour, bitter, spicy. This zesty apple-tini goes easy on the ’tini and rocks hard on the flavor!

Bartender’s Choice: Sorrel Absolut mandarin, framboise, Ithaca ginger beer — now that’s one tangy, hipstery brew.

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cially when they’re muddled together. The mintiness in particular adds an interesting layer to a nicely sour beverage Bartender’s Choice: French Pear This drink smartly combines Absolut pear vodka, elderflower liqueur and freshly squeezed

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Tucked neatly away on the Commons, bar / cocktail lounge Silky Jones offers up a somewhat classier setting for sipping bubs than Pixel or Level B. I didn’t go the bathroom here, so I can’t really speak as to how it compares to Level B’s. (Seriously,

by Collegetown standards, those bathrooms are pristine!)

Our Choice: Cool Ruler Muddled lemon, orange, mint, Stoli blueberry vodka and lemonade are all things we all like, espe-

lemon juice, yielding a slightly more refined flavor. Fellas, don’t be weirded out by the thought of drinking flowers — they’ve proven to have many antioxidants and vitamins, just like those gym supplements you take every day! Plus, they’re pretty darn good in a drink.

2. STELLA’S Coming in a very close second place, Stella’s definitely plays by its own rules when it comes to ‘tails.

The bartenders are continuously revamping the drink menu, opting to use fresh, local ingredients and quality booze; there are so many types of whiskey on the walls that the entire main floor glows amber. So if you’re into warm, romantic lighting and taste-bud experimentation, this is your place!

Our Choice: Kiss on the Lips Boasting a delicate interplay of vodka, elderflower liqueur (apparently this flower is all the craze right now in the cocktail world), lavender extract, lemons and blueberries, this is a drink that is fruity enough for the sweet tooth, yet complex enough to please fans of herby bitterness.

Bartender’s Choice: The Crucible A definite autumn-beverage, the Crucible contains light and dark rum plus tawny port, served up (mixed with ice, then strained into a stemmed glass). Four fresh cloves are pinned neatly onto a lemon slice, which is then plopped gently into the middle of the glass, imbuing the mix with a hearty spice!

1. FELICIA’S ATOMIC LOUNGE WINNER !

Many of you reading this may be wondering what/where the hell Felicia’s Atomic Lounge is, yet, in truth, there isn’t a bar on this list that more perfectly embodies the Ithacan spirit I’ve been after. Featuring frequent live music, a funky retro ambience and a staggering array of freshly prepared infusions and creative cocktails, this W. State Street lounge takes the cocktail cake — if only by a margin.

Our Choice: Zen Mary Man, Felicia’s House Bloody Mary is a zinger! House-infused cucumber vodka, house-made chipotle sauce, house-mixed Worcestershire sauce (everything’s house-made or infused!), and fresh local horseradish come together to form a sort of drinkable gazpacho, with plenty of piquancy. Clear your sinuses with this meal during breakfast, lunch AND dinner—since it’s a Bloody Mary, no one can judge you!

Bartender’s Choice: State Street ’75 Citrus, citrus, refreshing citrus. Citrus-infused vodka, lemon juice, simple and fizzing champagne with an orange twist all make for a beverage worth beverage-ing. It’s freshness you can taste and taste-ness you can feel as it tickles its way down your esophagus. A truly nice drink.

Jacob Lifton can be reached at jlifton@cornellsun.com.

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Brian Gordon With their fifth studio L.P. released in a seven-year span, Arctic Monkeys, the best British quartet of this generation, continues its evolution from the manic linear sounds that made 2006’s Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not the fastest selling debut album in British history. Lead singer and lyricist Alex Turner was on the younger side of 20 when writing that first album, and those songs touched on the pressing matters of a 19 year-old lad: Trying to get into the club. Not getting into the club. Trying to get the girl to dance. Maybe getting some action. Maybe not.

There’s not much sentimentality on that first album, because who has time for feelings when you’re 19 in a crowded club looking for a quick shag with a bouncer breathing down your neck? As Turner sings on “I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor,” “There ain’t no love, no Montagues or Capulets, just banging tunes and D.J. sets and dirty dance floors and dreams of naughtiness.”

Now its seven years later, and a weathered Turner might actually be in love. He’s quite unsure about it though, as is evident from the titles of each of AM’s three lead singles, all phrased as questions: “Do I Wanna Know?,” “R U Mine?” and “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?” What is certain, though, is that Arctic Monkeys have pushed aside their juvenile impulses and stowed away their, ahem, dancing shoes. Their rhythms have slowed now, and more emphasis is placed on their lyrics than guitars. No longer are they trying to get into the club — they got in long ago, danced and now Turner’s looking for her. No longer concerned with what happens when the sun goes down, he’s

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searching for who he’ll be with when the sun comes up — hence the album title’s double meaning, AM, both for Arctic Monkeys and for after midnight, those earliest hours of the day when lust meets longing and last calls turn into booty calls. The party has ended, people are leaving and Turner is alone in conversation with his brain. “I need a partner. Are you out tonight?” he asks in “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High?,” a single with a message about as subtle as a war drum. “Has it gone for good or is it coming back around,” reads the chorus to “Fireside,” as Turner contemplates reconnecting with a former love.

“Fireside” is a great song, a livelier counterpart to “Cornerstone” from the band’s last album Suck It and See. “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” recounts a tale of physical desire and woe laid over an old school Dr. Dre beat. The album was recorded in California, and West Coast influences like Dre permeate throughout. The new influences are welcomed additions to their sound and show that Arctic Monkeys are continuing to develop beyond their insta-star roots.

In the beginning, Arctic Monkeys were the most prototypical British-sounding band around but, cut from the ribs of The Libertines, they grew into something bigger. Arctic Monkeys embodied the English version of the Rust-Belt.

They were the sound of Liverpool, Manchester and their native Sheffield. They represented the England we saw at the beginning of Across the Universe, where Jude has his preLucy date jiving on a dingy warehouse dance floor.

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It’s fitting then, that the best the album offers, both lyrically and sonically, is “Arabella,” a song influenced by American Rust-Belt band The Black Keys. “Arabella,” as well as “Do I Wanna Know?,” are driven by the same steady servings of heavy deliberate guitar riffs that paced many preEl Camino Key’s tracks (the groups toured together last year.) and the song’s lyrics, like many of the lyrics on the album, are near perfection. Track after track is abound with wordplay and cultural references, from Mean Streets to the EPL. Since Arctic Monkeys’ drastic stylistic turn in between My Favourite Nightmare and Humbug, Turner has become the poet laureate of swooning love-sickness (check out his soundtrack to the quality film Submarine for reference).

That being said, there is still room for the band to improve.

“Mad Sounds” is a miss and “I Wanna Be Yours” is a snoozer to cap off the album. It also might have been nice to see the Monkeys take a couple more experimental chances. Unlike their earliest work, the band is now letting their albums receive some significance outside producing embellishments. Apart from “Why’d You Only Call Me When You’re High” and “Knee Socks,” the production flairs are few on AM, and it would have been nice to see a little more. Arctic Monkeys were never the type for glitz or glamour, but with their place in British rock’s pantheon all but secured, it would be nice to see them push the envelope a little further on their next album.

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com.

The Weeknd Kiss Land Universal Music Group

Alice Wang When The Weeknd, a.k.a Abel Tesfaye, self-released his trio of gripping mixtapes in 2011, the once anonymous Toronto native was quickly propelled into the PBR&B limelight. Following the exponential trajectory of his stardom, Tesfaye centers his first major studio debut, Kiss Land, on the oft-covered subject matter of touring life. We’ve heard it all before.

Unfortunately, in Tesfaye’s case, we really have — and quite recently. Technically, Kiss Land is The Weeknd’s fourth album in two-and-a-half years, and though the Trilogy mixtapes primarily discussed the joylessness of sex and drugs instead of the thrill, his sophomore effort merely expands on more of the same. Maybe this is Tesfaye’s crystallization of a thematic concept that’s been gestating within him since 2011, or maybe (perhaps more probably), this is just a redundancy in Tesfaye’s overly nihilistic, overly familiar worldview.

Nonetheless, if asphyxiation by moodiness is Tesfaye’s goal, asphyxiation is what listeners get. Kiss Land’s mood is palpably mournful. It’s an album of calluses and cold, where the beauty of decay trumps the beauty of creation. His sound is still pretty dark (and darkly pretty, actually), like sex music you’d play after a night of heavy narcotics abuse.

And like the narcotics Tesfaye most likely ingests, Kiss Land is full of both molly highs and molly lows. The songs play like an oxymoron: lush chords and vocals over barren lyrics and textures. Sonically and lyrically, Kiss Land accurately portrays the cheap thrills of the touring lifestyle — as he whisper-sings in his title track, “White Russian when the sun hits, white Russians with the tongue tricks.”

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For Tesfaye, love is vampiric — he squeezes blood out his victims to the very last drop. Lust is rampant but hollow, and he thrives on the ambiguity of his nocturnal clock and the blur of one night bleeding into the next. His lyrics would be overtly misogynistic were it not for the fact that Tesfaye most likely equally distrusts men and women in his state of addled despondency. Some of his more offensive lyrics are nonsensical, as in “Wanderlust”: “Good girls go to heaven / Bad girls go everywhere.” Others, as in “Kiss Land,” are downright appalling: “You can meet me in the room where the kisses ain’t free / You gotta pay with your body.” Nevertheless, “Wanderlust” proves to be a successful track sonically, pitting chillwave cool against upbeat chord progressions.

Jeff Weiss commented in The Washington Post that Tesfaye attends “The Derek Zoolander School of Songwriting” — every song he produces has the same look.

Luckily, one thing hasn’t changed for the better: Tesfaye’s signature voice has the same high tremor as Michael Jackson’s and the same urgency as Prince’s, but it is altogether inimitable. Its ethereal strength sounds just as dichotomous as Tesfaye’s tracks: He places breathy vocals over metallic synths, analogous to the glitz that covers the desolation of his newly acquired fame. His falsetto trills over depraved subject matter, allowing his dystopian universe of strippers and substance abuse to grow with each high note.

He croons in his opening track, “The Professional:” “You’re a somebody now / But what’s a somebody in a nobody town?”

Though in its entirety, Kiss Land sounds rather homogeneous, the album’s songs actually feature a spectrum of new

sounds individually. “Belong to the World” may include a sample from Portishead’s “Machine Gun.” This “borrowed” percussion riff started much publicized Twitter beef between Tesfaye and Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, but is altogether used triumphantly in the track. Progressing from Trilogy, “Belong to the World” sounds more honest and direct, like the polish a major label might bring to Tesfaye’s raw vocals.

Likewise, he adds everything from distorted Asian pornography (as in “Kiss Land”) to excerpts of French monologues to his songs without sounding completely schizophrenic (a moderate success).

In the end, Kiss Land is a better-mastered continuation of Echoes of Silence, his final mixtape. Both albums create similarly immersive atmospheres with interesting textures.

However, this still remains The Weeknd’s fourth album in half as many years, and as such, the final product does not present the same genre-bending seismic shift of Tesfaye’s earlier work. His benumbed worldview has been told over and over again until even his core-listeners have been desensitized to its beauty.

Maybe Tesfaye is singing too many of the same tales about drugs, sex, money and the fraudulence of fame on purpose. Just as he grows even more numb, deadened by immoralities that have become so commonplace, the audience does too. Just as Tesfaye futilely chases his career’s first virgin high, we are there, chasing with him, benumbed by the same old, now taken in ever increasing dosages.

Alice Wang is a junior in the College of Human Ecology. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com.

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London Grammar If You Wait Metal & Dust Mike Sosnick

Twee is out, trip-pop is in. Well, twee “indie” hasn’t left yet (and I’m sure it won’t for a while), but a brand of trip-hop with accessible pop hooks has replaced the former’s dancey, upbeat jams as the poster music of the Urban Outfitters crowd. There’s one main band responsible for bringing the “trip-pop” style (as I’ll dub it) into the mainstream, and that’s The xx. Maybe they were successful because they cite club music as one of their influences. More likely though, they are successful because they make predictable music with roughly the same formula: Start with a sparse rhythm and easy vocals, build the song in complexity and intensity, come to a head somewhere from two-thirds to three-quarters of the way into the track and then return to sparseness for the outro.

That’s exactly the reason why I can’t fully get behind The xx. Sure, a few of their songs are good — especially off their first album — but I can’t listen to more than a few tracks without getting bored. Now enter London Grammar, a UKbased trio that follows smack dab in The xx’s footsteps with their debut LP If You Wait. If you like The xx, you’ll like this album. But if you don’t, don’t stop reading yet.

London Grammar’s most obvious differentiating feature, and the one it’s been most lauded for, is Hannah Reid’s vocals.

First breaking into the limelight on Disclosure’s track “Settle,” she brings powerful, persistent, Adele-style delivery to every track on If You Wait. Coupled with the album’s lyrical themes of brokenness and emotional injury, her vocal delivery never fails to bring passion and intensity. It’s very rare that dream pop or trip hop artists feature such powerful vocalists, and Reid will continue to make London Grammar stand out both from the sea of already-established The xx clones and from the tidal wave of them about to arrive.

The first taste of the album, the intro of opener “Stay Awake,” is calm, dreary and even a tad eerie. From then on, the rhythmic, quick drums and bass keep the track moving while the slow, ethereal vocals and piano keep the song spiritual. From track to track, Reid’s voice thunders relentlessly with beautiful, effortless power that never seems to waver, with particularly strong moments on “Sights” and the LP’s first single, “Metal & Dust.” Her intensity can be overwhelming at times, though, often becoming the focal point of a track to the exclusion of interesting instrumentation. In fact, London Grammar’s greatest potential lies in its intros, which tend not to be fleshed out into full tracks as well as they could be. Particularly on “Flicker” and the band’s most recent single, “Strong,” creative instrumental ideas are consumed by raw vocal strength. The intros give me faith in the group’s instrumentation — Dot Major and Dan Rothman just need to have more faith in themselves. All this begs the question: Is the relevance lost if the whole album is trying to be as powerful as possible? I’d argue yes. London Grammar needs to let their instrumentals shine more, rather than packing intense vocals into every nook and cranny of every track. This is one way that the tracks blend together and lose their own identities, and the album loses effectiveness as a result.

The other way they lose their identities is by following the same trip-pop song structure. By the middle of the record, and particularly around “Nightcall,” I got really fed up with the sparseness to complexity to calmness cycle. As I’ve said before, it’s fine on a few tracks and can even be used interestingly, but on If You Wait, the lack of variety in structure just made it drag. Even “Interlude,” which was a welcome respite from the vocal onslaught, has a gradual crescendo and a sharp

decrescendo toward the end. With its simple piano and breathy, more subdued singing, the track is still very successful, but maybe they should have tried one without the escalation. At least then it would have actually been an interlude.

My biggest, most immediately executable suggestion to London Grammar is to release the album’s title track as a single. “If You Wait” features impeccable, emotional vocal delivery with swelling, uplifting organs. Even though it does come to a peak two-thirds of the way into the song, it works really well in a non-cliché way. It doesn’t add complexity, it just adds intensity. But mostly, the track should be released as a single because its place in the album isn’t doing it justice. By the last track, I was already annoyed by the structure that all the preceding songs shared. Listened to by itself, however, “If You Wait” is a standout.

In the end, I felt as if London Grammar was calling me stupid. Who needs lots of instrumentation even if it shows potential? Who needs variety in the vocal delivery and song structure throughout the album? I do. As stellar as the vocals are, I began to take them for granted because the record provided little respite from them. While Hannah Reid will probably remain the focal point of the band, the intros are where album’s real strength lies. Hopefully London Grammar will expand the role of the instrumentation in future releases, but that seems doubtful considering everyone’s infatuation with the vocals. Many are calling If You Wait “album of the year.” It’s a good debut LP, sure, but I don’t believe the hype.

Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

Bleeding Book Trailers L

ast week, Thomas Pynchon ’59 released a baffling trailer for his upcoming novel Bleeding Edge. Like many book trailers, the production quality was low and the trailer seems remarkably amateurish next to the sleek, bombastic film trailers to which we’re accustomed. In the promo, we watch a young man wander around New York and narrate his daily routine and scathing and self-aggrandizing opinions of the people who surround him.

His t-shirt reads “Hi, I’m Tom Pynchon” and he seems to be a spoof of a certain type of young, pretentious New Yorker — an interesting portrait, yet he has no clear link to the book itself. While going about his day, he practices yoga in a grocery store, states he’s the “king of the Upper West Side” and says that Philip Roth is “everywhere.”

The trailer ends as the man drapes lox across his face, claiming it’s an exfoliant that pharmaceutical companies don’t want you to know about. The trailer is pretty nuts, and as with like many book trailers, the production and aesthetic quality seems more fitting of a student art project than a professional production. It succeeds, however, in generating buzz in a way that many book trailers don’t. Of course, this buzz is limited to a very small crowd of book nerds, but when it comes to book trailers, anything that makes it onto The New York Times’ arts blog can safely be considered successful.

When confronted with book trailers, the literary crowd’s reactions tend to fall somewhere between dislike and indifference.

Traditionalists complain that trailers violate the very medium of literature and detract from a reader’s experience of reading. It’s the same complaint readers raise about film and television adaptations of their favorite nov-

els: The visual representation can “ruin” the process of imagining worlds and characters based on the written word alone. Even for those who aren’t bothered by the increasing digitalization of literature, book trailers often seem like a pathetic attempt to mimic high-budget Hollywood previews. That’s what makes Pynchon’s trailer so interesting: At no point does it attempt to preview the actual content of the book, nor does it make reference to Pynchon’s career or previous work. It’s typical of Pynchon, who is simultaneously reclusive and remarkably skilled at getting people to talk about his work.

(His zealous commitment to anonymity once resulted in a threat of lawsuit against a London Times journalist who photographed him). The mystery makes his identity and work all the more interesting.

Video isn’t new to the publishing industry — TOR (The Onion Router) released a hilariously ’80s video promo for John Farris’ Wildwood in 1986 — but the increasing dominance of web media has made it all the

Gina Cargas Gina Tonic more common. Some trailers, like that for Chuck Wendig’s Mockingbird, attempt to recreate the experience of reading, rather than visually introduce a protagonist, a location or even a mood. Others even feature interviews with the author. However, the vast majority aim to visually represent the novel. What’s more interesting is the phenomenon of fan-made book trailers,

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which often compile images from movies or other media to preview the story in an already-released book. These are most common for books in the pulp-fantasy genre and are proof of yet another way the internet allows literary communities to interact with each other and the material. Even awards organizations have embraced video as a literary medium; the Man Book Prize shortlist was announced this week via video-sharing app Vine.

But the question at the heart of this all is whether book trailers are an effective marketing strategy. When it comes down to it, a publisher-produced trailer is all about marketing. For Pynchon, that answer is unclear — the theory that the trailer for Bleeding Edge will actually increase book sales is up for debate. Viewers learn next to nothing about the novel and the image of the book jacket at the end will mean very little to those who aren’t already familiar with the

name Thomas Pynchon. As a marketing tool, book trailers play a completely different role than film trailers. While film trailers provide a sneak peek of the storyline you will be introduced to in theaters, a book preview tends to show just one interpretation of a text in the hope that you’ll be tempted to imagine your own. Artistically, this is a fascinating extension of a literary work. While film, music and visual art have developed into multidisciplinary genres, literature remains primarily textual, with infrequent forays into other disciplines. As a marketing tool, however, book trailers — particularly those as esoteric as Pynchon’s — remain alienating and ineffective in attracting new audiences to an already-faltering market.

Gina Cargas is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com. Gina Tonic appears alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Sabres Stars Face Ends of Conracts Despite Three Titles, Crimson Tide Remains Undeserving of Legacy

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Goalie Ryan Miller and forward Thomas Vanek are both taking a business-asusual approach to their uncertain futures with the Sabres.

Miller, a former Vezina Trophy winner as the league’s top goaltender, and Vanek, Buffalo’s top offensive threat, reported for physicals Wednesday after an offseason filled with trade speculation.

Both players are in the final year of their contracts and are not currently negotiating extensions with the Sabres.

“If you play long enough, you’re going to have this type of discussion surround you at some point,” Miller said. “I have to be professional enough just to do the job. I’m able to do a job in a city I’m familiar with, a city I’m very much at home.

I like to be in Buffalo. I like the people.

“So this isn’t a bad situation.”

General manager Darcy Regier said the window for making training camp deals has closed, but that talks will heat up again as the in-sea-

son trade deadline approaches.

Regier did shore up his roster on another front later in the day, resigning restricted free agent Cody Hodgson to a multi-year contract.

Hodgson is Buffalo’s top-line center, who finished last season second on the team with 15 goals and 34 points in 48 games.

The Sabres are in transition.

They opened last season with Stanley Cup aspirations, but have since elected to rebuild an underperforming roster with prospects and draft picks after missing the playoffs for a second straight year.

Miller acknowledged at the end of last season that he may no longer fit into the Sabres’ long-term plans.

Following last season’s home finale, Miller skated a lap around the ice, waving to fans. He also sold his home over the summer and is now renting.

“It does look like, ‘OK, I’m out of here,’” Miller said. “People are going to believe it or they’re not going to believe it. I thought it was a smart business decision to have it

on the market in the last year of my deal so I didn’t at least get lowballed.

“I had to laugh at myself and say, ‘this is not going to be looking good to the people of Buffalo.’ I’m not racing out of town. It was just honestly a business decision.”

Vanek has previously said he is not interested in enduring a lengthy rebuilding process and will take this season to assess. On Wednesday, he was more political.

“I’m not ready to re-sign, and to be honest, I’m not sure if they are ready to re-sign,” Vanek said. “If I would have got traded, I wouldn’t have been shocked."

Regier said the NHL’s new collective bargaining agreement has made players with expiring contracts reluctant to sign extensions.

“That’s the nature of the new NHL,” Regier said. “The expectation from the players side is that the cap is going to go up. To the extent that the cap goes up, it may be beneficial for them to wait for the unrestricted market”

‘Nightmare’ Season Sends Jeter Back to Disabled List BALTIMORE (AP) — Derek Jeter began the season on the disabled list, and that’s how it will end.

The New York Yankees shortstop will miss the rest of the year after being placed on the DL on Wednesday with an injured left ankle.

Jeter missed the first part of the season after breaking his left ankle in the 2012 playoffs. He returned to the DL twice more and played only 17 games, batting .190 with one homer and seven RBIs. And now, he’s been shelved for a fourth time.

“This entire season has been a nightmare for me physically,” Jeter said. “It’s a fitting end.”

The captain fully intends to return next year, even though he turns 40 on June 26.

“I truly believe with a full offseason, working out and getting my strength back that I can get back to doing what I always have,” Jeter said. “I don’t think you think about the end of anything. Our job is to get ready to play. I tried to come back this year as quickly as possible. Maybe that was not the best thing to

do. My job now is to get ready for next year. And I have to do that."

Jeter last played Saturday against Boston. He was removed for a pinch runner after hurting his left ankle, and although a CT scan was negative, general manager Brian Cashman said the injury will need significant time to heal.

“You have to let the pain dissipate and then give it a chance to let the ankle strengthen back up,” Cashman said. “We’re just not going to have the time to do that in any capacity right now. It puts him in a vulnerable situation and risks reinjury or further injury. And that’s not something we are willing to do.”

His departure comes with New York in the thick of the AL wild-card hunt.

“It’s very disappointing not to be able to play, especially at this time of year,” Jeter said. “This is when I want to play the most.”

The Yankees will miss him, but they’re counting on having Jeter in 2014.

“I have seen him do this over and over and overcome a lot of things people thought

he would not overcome,” manager Joe Girardi said.

“That just who he is. When you talk about what’s inside Derek, he’s special. That’s what made him great for so long.”

The current ankle injury is seemingly related to the one that occurred last October in the AL championship series against Detroit.

“There is no new medical information other than the fact there were conversations that he has pain most likely stemming from weakness surrounding the bone, the muscles, tendons and ligaments, and it was not going to solve itself anytime soon,” Cashman said. “And he would be vulnerable. Something’s going to give the more we run him out there. So we feel it’s best to shut him down. Let him prepare for next year. That’s the safest thing to do.”

Next year? Cashman is certain of it.

“I have not thought I have watched his last game,” Cashman said. “Not one time.”

New York’s career leader with 3,316 hits, Jeter made his season debut on July 11 but hurt himself in that game

and returned to the disabled list on July 19 (retroactive to July 12) with a right quad strain. After being activated on July 28, he was placed on the DL on Aug. 5 with a strained right calf.

“It seemed like when he came back, he was fine and then he would play a couple of games and something would happen,” Girardi said.

“It seemed to be the repeated days seemed to get to him a little bit. That was frustrating for him. That was frustrating for all of us because we wanted him out there. I think that’s why we decided to shut him down.”

Jeter was a regular in the lineup after his return on Aug. 26 before again running into problems with the ankle.

Now he’s done for good.

“I think it’s just a matter of me not having any strength,” Jeter said. “I have not been able to work out my legs or lift my legs since October of last year. I really think it’s from lack of strength. When I came back, I had two other leg issues because of weakness there. I’ll have a whole offseason to get back to being able to work out.”

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on the opening drive, and the Alabama defense feasted on his true freshmen replacement. It’s easy to imagine Texas winning with McCoy behind center, but that’s just a hypothetical. It wasn’t a dirty hit, and every team that wins a title gets a break.

And that will be the last nice thing I say about Alabama. The 2011 Alabama Crimson Tide will always have an asterisk by their name in my book. As per usual, their out-of-conference schedule included the likes of North Texas, Kent State, Georgia Southern and the aforementioned Penn State team.

Would it kill them to play teams that have at least a minute chance of beating them? Also, Alabama lost to LSU at home, so it didn’t even have to play a potential tough opponent in the SEC title game. Despite other one-loss teams, Alabama was rewarded with another shot at undefeated LSU for the national title.

The final AP poll shows LSU and Oklahoma State also getting votes for number one, as all three teams had one loss, not to mention Boise State and Houston. Considering LSU and Alabama went 1-1 against each other and that LSU had two more quality wins over Oregon and Georgia, it’s still hard to say which was the better team. Oklahoma State was never given its title chance, and it had the offense to score on Alabama.

The 2012 season was another title for Alabama, but this time, the team was as hyped as could be. In 2011, most thought LSU was the superior team going in to the title game, The 2011 Alabama Crimson as reflected by their Tide will always have an number one rankasterisk by their name in ing; in my book.

2012, people actually a s k e d whether Alabama could beat an NFL team. Despite the sheer asininity of this question, it was debated on ESPN. And if the answer was ever in any doubt, Texas A&M answered it by beating Alabama in Tuscaloosa, 29-24. This was a just week after escaping Death Valley with a last minute win to top LSU. Alabama would answer the bell by thrashing Notre Dame in the BCS title game, but again it had one loss, just like Oregon.

At the end of 2012, Ohio State was undefeated but bowl-ineligible. Any other year, the title game would have been Ohio State-Notre Dame. Heck, Oregon was just as deserving as Alabama in 2012. Oregon only had one loss (just like Bama), to a top 10 team (just like Bama), at home (just like Bama), and in overtime (unlike Bama). Oregon was undefeated in regulation, just like the tagline a two-loss LSU team rode to the title in 2007 branded themselves with.

And given how Notre Dame was outclassed in the title game, Oregon would have beaten them that day.

When asked at the half what his team could to do close the 28-point deficit, Brian Kelley, the Notre Dame coach, simply answered “maybe Alabama doesn’t come back in the second half.” The title was decided as soon as Alabama lined up across from Notre Dame.

But Oregon didn’t “run the gauntlet of an SEC schedule,” which of course it can’t do since it plays in the Pac-12. The SEC is resting on its laurels. Oregon’s bowl record is good, but pedestrian. Alabama really has a three-game schedule; LSU, A&M and the potential SEC title game. The Tide will be allowed to lose one of these games. The SEC are unlikely to be challenged and therefore the perception of them being the “best conference ever” is as well. The way the SEC is perceived, it will take every team losing twice to keep at least one representative of the conference in the BCS title game. And if the best teams in the SEC only have two or three opponents that could beat them, it’s actually fairly easy for the SEC to send a team to the title game and perpetuate their mythical conference. And that team could be Alabama, proud owners of the worst dynasty ever.

John Zakour can be reached at jzakour@cornellsun.com.

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Ten Questions columnist Haley Velasco sits down with senior Sam Fleck to discuss everything from mentoring freshmen to game-time rituals.

1. Sam, you are a junior on the men’s tennis team. What has tennis meant for you over the past three years?

Tennis has been huge for me over the last several years. It has been a huge part of my life and takes up a large part of my time as a lot of my other friends know. But it has been great because I have gotten so close to the other guys on the team. When I came in, I came in with a huge recruiting class and we have really bonded.

We do everything together. We live together now which is great fun.

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To start each match as a team, we have a chant and I lead the chant. We all get very fired up and that’s pretty fun.

During the match, I have

stantly wiping my grip with my shirt before every point.

5. I heard that you are pretty loud o n

matches and that works for them.

Then others are much more intense, they get fired up and that helps them. I am one of those people, I guess. I try not to moan because it distracts me as well as others.

6. Who would you say is your best friend on the team?

I am close with the people that I came with during my freshman year. So my roommate Alex Sidney, my doubles partner Kyle Berman and the other guys in my year, Jason Kwok.

Probably those four and Evan McElwain as well.

7. If you could pick your favorite place to eat on campus, what would you pick? What would you get?

It would probably be getting wings delivered to the library.

2. I heard that you are all about the extended team pep talks, can you tell us about those?

Yeah, some of our freshmen need a little more discipline than others.

You are there to be a helping hand for the freshmen?

Yeah, on and off the court.

8. What’s your favorite library to go to on campus?

I go to Uris sometimes, and the law library sometimes just because it’s closest. I don’t really do much work in the library. It’s more procrastination.

9. If you could trade places and be on any of the women’s teams at Cornell, what would you be on?

I would probably be on the women’s tennis team. … They are all very cool girls and we have mixed with them and stuff.

3. Have you taken any of the younger guys on the team under your wing, so to speak?

Not yet, it’s very early in the year. I know there are a couple of foreign recruits so I will keep an eye on how they do. With being from a different country myself, I know that it’s a huge adjustment to come to Cornell. I will try and help them on the court and make sure that they are doing okay in classes and meeting people and socializing.

4. Do you have any lucky charms or pregame rituals?

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Number game | During games, senior Sam Fleck takes exactly seven steps before serving the ball or making other movements.

some v e r y weird rituals, like I take seven steps before I do anything.

Like before I serve, I take seven steps up to the line. Before I return, I take seven steps. I also get very sweaty hands during matches and I am con-

the cour t.

Do you think that’s distracting to the competition that you play?

I am actually not too bad. There are guys on the team who are worse.

We have a couple of guys who are just completely silent through

10. If you could play a match against any professional tennis player, who would you chose?

I would have to say Andy Murray because he’s unbelievable and has done so much for tennis in England.

He won Wimbledon for the first time in like 70 years, or however long it was. That would be cool and he moans almost as much as I do on the court as well.

Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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FENCING

By NIKITA DUBNOV

After posting the best overall record in program history last season with a mark of 18-7, the fencing team is ready to prove it can improve on last year’s outcomes.

The team lost six experienced seniors, so at the first team meeting of the season, head coach Iryna Dolgikh announced new leadership positions to

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Leading the way | Senior foil fencer Christine McIntosh will serve as team captain for the upcoming season.

the rest of the group. This year’s team captain will be senior foil fencer Christine McIntosh, who won the team’s MVP Award last season and was recognized as CoSIDA Academic All-District first-team.

The co-captain honors were assigned to junior epee fencer Olivia Weller, last season’s Graham Jennings Award recipient. The award is bestowed upon a fencer who steps up and leads the squad despite not having a labeled leadership title.

Captains for the separate squads were also named at the meeting. Senior April Whitney and sophomore Angelica Gangemi were called upon as foil captains, junior Yolanda Li and sophomore Taylor Wong were named the epee captains and junior Kristen Holl and sophomore Alaina Uhouse were given the honor of captaining the saber squad.

Five freshmen have been named to the team as well, including saber fencer Anastasia Turin and epee fencer Victoria Wines.

Several important meets highlight the upcoming season. The Red will open their competitive crusade in late October at the Annual Temple Fencing Open, one of the largest collegiate fencing events of the year with more than 600 fencers from over 30 universities around the nation. The Vassar Invitational on Nov. 30, Brandeis Invitational on Dec. 8 and the Philadelphia Invitational on Jan. 25 will be three team meets to look forward to. Select individuals from the team will compete in the North American Cup on Jan. 17, the Junior Olympics on Feb. 14 and the 2014 NCAA Fencing Championships on March 20.

The most important team meets, however, occur during championship season at the Ivy League Championship at Brown on Feb. 8 and at the NCAA Regionals on March 9 in Wellesley, Mass. Although the Red posted its best overall record last season, it aims to improve upon its 2-4 Ivy record.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at nd296@cornell.edu.

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Alabama’s Misleading Dynasty

Red Names Captains, Prepares To Follow Up on Past Successes Sun Contributor

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

T

he Alabama Crimson Tide has won three of the last four national titles. By now, it’s ho-hum to describe them as a dynasty.

And I’m not convinced they’re all that great. For a

Penn State team in 2010 (whose official record was hilariously 0-4 thanks to NCAA sanctions). And this Saturday, Alabama lines up against a team with a real chance of beating it, Texas

John Zakour Point Blank dynasty that has won three out of four, I've seen them lose too much.

First, let me be clear.

Alabama was a great team every year they won, and it’s not their responsibility to be fair. They don’t care about fairness so much as winning.

And they did beat who was put in front of them in each title game, controversies aside.

As usual for SEC teams, Alabama has always played a very soft out of conference schedule. Virginia Tech was the only challenging out-ofconference opponent it played in its title years, unless you count a mediocre

A&M. This is a titanic clash, and a win puts A&M on the title track.

The 2009 Crimson Tide is pretty much the only Alabama team you can call champions without getting an argument out of me. It ran the table, beating Virginia Tech, LSU, Florida and Texas, and generally looking like a national champion. But if I had to nitpick, Alabama got lucky against U.T. in the title game, a game the Tide won 37-21. The Longhorns lost their star QB (and college football name of the year award winner) Colt McCoy See ZAKOUR page 14

VOLLEYBALL

C.U. to Visit Brooklyn for Next Games

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After kicking off the season with a home tournament last weekend, the volleyball team heads to Brooklyn to face off against LIU-Brooklyn, Fairfield University and Colgate University as part of the Long Island Tournament.

In its match-ups this past weekend, the Red pulled out a 3-1 win against Iona College but dropped matches to Buffalo, 3-0, and Bucknell, 3-2. Down 2-1 to Bucknell after three games, the Red dominated the fourth match to stay alive before falling in its fifth and final game, 15-13. For their efforts during the tournament, Red players right side hitter Breanna Wong and middle blocker Rachel D’Epagnier were named to the All-Tournament team.

“I definitely think we learned a lot from this past weekend,” D’Epagnier said. “We got to try a lot of different rotations and lineups, and that will help us going

into this weekend because we have a better idea of what works for us.

It was good to get out against other opponents and see what we need to improve.”

D’Epagnier listed the ability to keep rallies alive as one of the Red’s main focuses for improvement.

“Our motto this year is to be a

“Our motto this year is to be a defense-minded team.”

Rachel D’Epagnier defense-minded team,” she said.

“We want to block a lot more balls ,and we want to dig as many balls as possible.”

Senior outside hitter Kelly Marble led the team with 43 digs and 40 kills. Several freshmen also received significant playing time, including middle blocker Macey

Wilson, who led the team with 18 blocks. Freshman setter Alyssa Phelps also logged time on the court, recording 26 assists in the Red’s first match against Iona.

“I think our freshman are very diverse,” D’Epagnier said. “I think they also are really hardworking and very willing to do whatever they can to fit into our system. It’s been fun to watch them learn how we play and work hard to earn that time on the court. I think the freshman will provide a lot of offense for us, which is really nice.”

Although D’Epagnier said the team had not yet done much scouting of Fairfield and LIUBrooklyn, the Colgate game is one the team is looking forward to.

“We want to beat them every time we face them — since we play them so often, it’s become a big rivalry,” she said. “For our senior class, it’s the last time we see them, so we want to go out on that win.”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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Ivy preparation | This weekend’s Long Island tournament and the following weekend’s tournament in Pittsburgh are the Red’s final games before it begins the Ivy League season.