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Ithacans Protest U.S. Involvement in Syria ‘Bombing Syria aids al-Qaeda,’ one sign reads By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer
Carrying various signs bearing phrases such as “Let’s stop killing one another” and “Bombing Syria aids al-Qaeda,” approximately 50 Ithacans marched down Cayuga Street Friday protesting the possibility of the United States using military action against Syria. The U.S. threatened to take part in a military strike against Syria after Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad allegedly authorized a chemical attack Aug.21 that resulted in the death of 1,400 civilians, according to the Associated Press. President Barack Obama said he was send troops to Syria, but decided to defer
seeking congressional approval for a strike to consider a Russian proposal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons, the AP reported. “This delay will allow warmongerers and defense contractors more time to organize for war just as it will allow more time for defenders of peace and amnesty to organize against it,” said Shakti Moksha, the event’s organizer, on the rally’s Facebook page. The protesters met in Dewitt Park before walking to the Public Library. Chanting “We are unstoppable. Another world is possible,” protesters marched down Cayuga St., attracting the attention of passersby. Some residents yelled agreement for the cause, while dri-
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Declaring their stance | Ithacans participate in a march expressing opposition to military action in Syria Friday. vers gave their endorsements by honking their horns as they drove down the street. Once the protesters arrived at
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IFD Tackles Two Simultaneous Fires Firefighters ‘spread thin’ fighting fires, dept.says By JINJOO LEE
The Ithaca Fire Department was “spread thin” Saturday with two fires simultaneously breaking out in the city, according to a press release from IFD. According to the press release, a Ford pickup truck caught on
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SWAG Looks at Causes of Low Black Male Graduation problems are all factors,” Kendrick Coq ’15, SWAG copresident, said. “We’ve been African-American male stu- working with the African dents may be graduating at a American Research Task Force to lower rate compared to their peers compile data on effective retendue to a lack of mentorship, mo- tion strategies and see how the ney issues and family problems, administration can help.” according to research conducted Thaddeus Talbot ’15, SWAG by the African American Research co-president, said SWAG has Task Force and Scholars Working “interviewed students on campus, Ambitiously to Graduate. and they said the lack of role For the Cornell class that models and black faculty is a facentered in 2003, tor.” 75 percent of Renee Alex“We found that lack of Af rican-Amer ander ’74, assomentorship, money ican male stuciate dean of issues and family dents graduated students and within six years. problems are all factors.” director of inFor the class that tercultural proKendrick Coq ’15 entered in 2007, grams, agreed, that graduation saying that Corrate rose to 83 percent. nell has a limited number of SWAG, a student-run organi- African-American professors. zation that works to increase the “The University is assertively graduation rate of African- recruiting and working to retain American male students through faculty and staff of color. Some of academic enrichment, profession- the factors that we work harder to al development and community mitigate are geographical location building, is continuing the and competition from our peer research it started last year to institutions,” Alexander said. determine what prevents some “Some people find it hard to African American male students adjust to our remote setting in from graduating. central New York State. When “We found that lack of mentorship, money issues and family See SWAG page 5 Sun Contributor
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fire on Route 13 near Dey Street at 11:33 a.m. The driver and the passenger of the truck noticed smoke coming from the dashboard of the vehicle and pulled over on Route 13 — out of the traffic on Dey St. — and took their possessions out of the truck before it fully caught on fire. While the fire crew responded
to the truck fire, a second call came from Highland Place on East Hill. A dryer had caught fire on the top floor of a three-story apartment. Both fires were “placed under control” and no injuries were reported, according to the press See FIRE page 4
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C.U. Falls to 16th Best National University By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor
Slipping one spot from last year, Cornell was ranked the 16th best national university by U.S. News & World Report last week. The publication released its annual rankings of national universities — schools that it says “offers a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and Ph.D. programs” — last Monday. This year, U.S. News & World Report said it reduced its emphasis on newly enrolled students’ high school class standings while increasing its emphasis on students’ SAT and ACT scores. Most of the schools ranked among the top 10 by U.S. News & World Report last year remained at the same positions this year. In one exception, Harvard University — which tied with Princeton University at No. 1 last year — moved to No. 2 this year. Although they have been widely publicized every year, the U.S. News & World Report rankings have annually been the subject of criticism among higher education experts, bloggers and columnists alike. Writing for The Atlantic last week, John Tierney said the rankings’ “real
purpose is to ‘exacerbate the status anxiety’ of prospective students and parents.’” In a similarly critical piece, Malcolm Gladwell wrote in The New Yorker in 2011 that “who comes out on top, in any ranking system, is really about who is doing the ranking” — and less about methodology. Despite such criticisms, University officials have previously defended the importance of college rankings, saying they are critical to helping draw top faculty and students to Cornell. In “Reimagining Cornell,” Cornell’s 2010-15 strategic plan for moving the institution forward, the University says “maintain[ing] the current number one ranking of several Cornell schools or colleges … and [moving] at least one professional school into the top ten among its peers” is one of its goals in achieving “excellence in research, scholarship and creativity.” Attaining “world leadership” among several departments and graduate fields is “imperative” to preserving academic excellence in the short term, the University says in its strategic plan. Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Discovery of Thinnest Glass Shatters World Records Accidental finding enters Guinness Book By ANNIE BUI
has an atom arrangement similar to that of a liquids’ — can perhaps find an answer in this An accidental discovery by latest discovery. researchers at Cornell and the The structure of the twoUniversity of Ulm in Germany dimensional glass found by has led to an earth-shattering the researchers is similar to a entry in the 2014 Guinness theoretical diagram of the Book World Records: the arrangement of atoms in glass world’s thinnest sheet of glass, drawn by W.H. Zachariasen at just a molecule thick. in 1932, according to the The glass was discovered in press release. the lab of Prof. David Muller The glass pane’s structure Ph.D. ’96, applied and engi- enables the glass to be bent to neering physics, who is also a greater degree than regular the co-director of the Kavli glass, according to The Los Institute at Cornell for Angeles Times. However, if Nanoscale Science. someone were to blow on it The researchers were origi- hard, it would likely tear, nally working Muller said, w i t h to “This is the work that, according graphene, a The Los strong, flexiwhen I look back A n g e l e s ble and versaTimes. at my career, I wil tile material “This is the be most created from a work that, single layer of when I look proud of.” carbon atoms. back at my Graphene Prof. David Muller Ph.D. ’96 career, I will — the be most proud strongest of,” Muller material known to man, said, in the a University press according to a Massachusetts release. “It’s the first time that Institute of Technology news anyone has been able to see the article –– could potentially arrangement of atoms in a have many applications given glass.” its impressive conductive capaThe discovery and potential bilities. use of this two-dimensional The record-breaking find- glass could lead to improveing arose when scientists ments in nanotechnology and observed some “muck” found the performance of computer on the graphene, which turned and smartphone processors, out to be a two-dimensional the press release said. sheet of ordinary glass comGuinness world officials posed of carbon and silicon first noticed the lab’s work atoms. The “pane” of glass was through an article in Nano so thin that its individual Letters published in January atoms could only be seen 2012. The finding is featured through the use of an electron in the 2014 Guinness World microscope. Records Book’s 21st Century The creation of the glass Science spread, which was layer was caused by an air leak released on Sept. 12. that had caused copper foils to The research at Cornell was react with the quartz furnace funded by the National the graphene was being creat- Science Foundation through ed on, according to a the Cornell Center for University press release. Materials Research. Scientists, who for decades have tried to understand the structure of glass — which has Annie Bui can be reached at the appearance of a solid, but abui@cornellsun.com.
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Last Week in Review David Weil ’83 Nominated for U.S. Dept. of Labor Post President Barack Obama announced September 10 his intent to nominate David Weil ’83 to be administrator of the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor, according to a White House press relaease. Student Assembly Hopefuls Talk Campus Issues at Candidate Forum Student Assembly representatives expressed disappointment over the low turnout at a candidate forum September 11, where the number of students running in the S.A. elections nearly equalled the number of audience members present. Students Say Construction Near Goldwin Smith Is Disruptive 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. Fire Breaks Out in Collegetown House Ithaca firefighters investigated the cause of a fire that broke out in Collegetown early Wednesday afternoon. Firefighters evacuated the occupants of 407 Dryden Rd. and extinguished the fire in about two hours. None of the home’s occupants or fighters were injured, according to the Ithaca Fire Department. Weill Cornell Medical College Receives $100 Million Donation Weill Cornell Medical College received a $100 million gift from Joan and Sanford I. Weill ’55 which will help it launch two research centers and bolster its research in medicine. The medical school is hoping to recruit top scientists, fund medical research, establish new endowed professorships and medical student scholarships and invest in new medical technologies. –– Compiled by Lianne Bornfeld and Jinjoo Lee
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Protesters: Another World Is‘Possible’ SYRIA
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supported an airstrike — such as President Barack Obama, Secretary of State John Kerry and French Secretary of State Laurent Fabius — said the strike was needed to enforce international laws against the use of chemical weapons, The New York Times reported. Protesters, however, disagreed. One of the protesters, James Ricks, described the situation in Syria as being “convoluted” and expressed his disappointment with President Barack Obama. He added that he was originally proud of the president when he was first elected in 2008. Claire Grady, another protester, said this is not the first time people have had to respond to the threat of killing of people “by our government in our name with our money.” “I’m 54 years old, and I’ve seen this happen again and again and again,” Grady said. Protester Adam Levine expressed his concerns about using bombs in any context and said he believes the case has not been made as to why bombing
would be the solution to the alleged use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government. “Dropping bombs is a bad way of getting involved. Dropping bombs is always bad because you kill people,” Levine said in an interview with The Sun. Furthermore, he said a peaceful solution is the correct way to handle the situation. “If people are willing to give up chemical weapons, that’s a good thing,” Levine said. Christopher Church said he does not think that it is the U.S.’s role to police the world. “We really should stay away from foreign entanglements and be wary of the military industrial complex,” he said. Many of the protesters said they believe their protest will help spread their anti-war message. “In Ithaca, we’re pretty hip, so some of it is just preaching to the choir. Still, if we get any publicity whatsoever, we’ll gain attention for the whole thing,” Church said. Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com and twitter.com/tyleralicea.
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release. According to the press release, all on-duty personnel were employed to handle the two separate events. The press release added that there are almost 3,000 dryer fires
in the U.S. each year. “The Fire Department reminds residents to clean out their lint traps and dryer vents regularly,” the press release said. Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com and at twitter.com/jinjlee.
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SWAG: Focus on Standardized Tests Hurts Black Students
Speakers say achievement gap not reflective of students’ ‘innate talent, ambitions or dreams’ SWAG
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you compare our numbers to [universities in] more urban locations like Columbia [University] and [the University of Pennsylvania], arguably, location might be a factor in their highernumbers of faculty of color.” Coq and Talbot said one of their goals is to bring in guest speakers to serve as role models for the SWAG members. “We look for notable people in society whose messages align with our goals,” Coq said. Another one of SWAG’s initiatives is a mentorship program in which underclassmen are paired with upperclassmen. The mentor and mentee pairs are encouraged to meet with each other often and go to events together. “Last year, we had lots of big events, but we’ve found that the intimate, micro-level is much more effective,” Talbot said. At SWAG’s kick-off meeting Saturday morning, Stephen Breedon ’14, treasurer of SWAG, said race singles African American
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students out in a context of predomiately white students. “When you step into a classroom, you’re the black dot. Not a lot of folks look like you. Take solace in the fact that the people in this room are going through the same thing. Think of SWAG as your base, your rock,” Breedon said. Breedon outlined SWAG’s main goals for the year, such as increasing its membership and partnering with Career Services to provide professional opportunities to members. “It’s about making sure that you achieve and giving you the tools to succeed. The inflow of employers that want to hire us is tremendous,” Breedon said. Dr. Luvelle Brown, superintendent of the Ithaca City School District, delivered a keynote address at the event, sharing his personal experience growing up as an African American in the educational system.
Brown said the country’s focus on standardized tests is one of the causes of the perceived African American achievement gap, since it prevents African Americans who did not have the resources needed to succeed on tests from being able to access extracurriculars and better education. “In ninth grade, the principal pulled all the boys on the football team except for me off the field, because they hadn’t passed their Stanford nine standardized tests. I watched my friend, one of the smartest guys in the group, cry and walk off the field. He was never the same after that,” Brown said. Speaking about the gap in educational achievement of AfricanAmerican students, Talbot said the gap is not reflective of “our innate talent, ambitions or dreams.” Coq agreed, adding that the perceived black achievement gap is still evident at Cornell. “The graduation rate of black
men is increasing, but is still below the overall average at Cornell,” Coq said. Alexander, who has been supporting SWAG since its founding in 2011, said biases also play a key role in creating the achievement gap. “These young men of color are at Cornell because they are highachieving and academically successful. In my view, we should also be looking at structural causes of the achievement gap,” Alexander said. “African-American men can often be viewed through the lens of unconscious bias and stereotypes. My job is to support them as they move through the University.” After Brown’s keynote address, a panel of upperclassmen shared their first-year experiences with freshmen in attendance. Aaron Hancock ’15 spoke about how much of an impact SWAG has had on him. “I almost transferred out of
Cornell during my freshman year, but my SWAG mentor kept me here,” Hancock said. Also in the audience was Eldred Harris, member of the Ithaca City School District’s Board of Education. “Adults have treated minorities as walking deficits for a long time, and it’s time to stop that. All children are smart. It’s our job to figure out how they’re smart,” Harris said. Roberto Matos ’15, a member of SWAG for the past two years, said the responsibility to improve the gap rests upon those it affects. “I think it’s up to us to do something about the black achievement gap. SWAG is a form of empowerment,” he said. “Only we can be our own mentors. It’s up to us to be in control of our own destiny, and we are perfectly capable of doing it.” Aimee Cho can be reached at aac85@cornell.edu.
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Changing The Culture Of Rape
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n India, a rape is reported every 20 minutes. Last December, a 23-yearold medical student was tricked by a group of six people into boarding an offduty bus in New Delhi. The men then proceeded to rape the woman and use a metal rod to inflict massive internal injuries, eventually dumping her mutilated and naked body on the side of the road. The woman died two weeks later from her injuries. The brutal gang rape sparked widespread protests across the country and the world, as people called for justice and for a change in the way women are treated in India. However, although the Indian government has enacted a tougher law to deal with crimes against women, in light of recent events, it seems as though the government has not done enough to ensure justice for women across the country. On Aug. 31, the first verdict in the New Delhi rape case was heard: The suspect — who was 17 at the time of the rape — was sentenced to three years’ detention in a correctional facility. Under Indian law this is the maximum sentence that a juvenile can receive, as the law treats all suspects under 18 as children who should be reformed rather than punished. According to the prosecution, the juvenile was the one who not only lured the victim to the bus but then raped her twice and violated her with the metal rod. Keeping this in mind, The Hindustan Times later reported that for the next 20 months until his sentence is completed, he can watch TV and play games while doing time. The conviction has caused outrage on all fronts: The victim’s family called for the teenager to be tried as an adult and claimed that they plan to appeal the verdict. Politicians throughout the country are demanding that the age of juvenility be lowered from 18 or 16. Opposition leader Sushma Swaraj wrote on Twitter that she was going to introduce a bill to the Indian parliament this week to amend the Juvenile Justice Act, stating that “the sentence must commensurate with the gravity of the offence irrespective of the age of the offender.” On the other side of the debate, several NGOs and human rights groups have defended the 3-year sentence, including Amod Kanth, founder of children’s rights NGO, Prayas, who believes that rehabilitation and reform is the aim, not punishment.
Only time will tell what the ultimate verdict in the New Delhi rape case will be. However, in the meantime, we must focus on changing this culture of rape. Rewriting laws and amending statutes and constitutional rights is a good step in this direction, but the most impactful transformative change can only happen through redefining the way people think about rape in general. This is not something that can be pinpointed to a certain ethnicity, race, or country; it is not something that can only be found in India. Do not pick up a newspaper this morning, read about the first verdict in the New Delhi rape case and think that these rapes don’t occur elsewhere or are less brutal in the United States. To put things in perspective, take a look at a list of rape statistics published by Huffington Post’s Soraya Chemaly last year: • A woman’s chance of being raped in the United States: 1 in 5 • Rank of U.S. in the world for rape: 13th • Number of adult men accused of repeatedly gang raping 11-year-old girl in Texas: 14 • Age of woman raped in Central Park in September, 2012: 73 • Percentage of rapists who are never incarcerated: 97 percent • Percentage of rapes that college students think are false claims: 50 percent • Percentage of rapes that studies find are false claims: 2-8 percent Look at the last two bullet points and consider what that means for women in this country, especially for women on college campuses, such as Cornell. Last year at least three cases of rape were reported to the Cornell and Ithaca police and there were definitely rumors circulating that some of the rapes were falsified or exaggerated. Regardless of whether or not they actually were falsified, incidents of rape on our campus should still be taken seriously. As the new school year begins, our attitudes and perceptions towards rape and must change, so that countries, cities, and campuses like Cornell can be rape-free and women like the victim in the New Delhi can receive the treatment, equality and justice they deserve. Ariel Smilowitz is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at asmilowitz@cornellsun.com Why You Should Care appears alternate Mondays this semester.
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omplete the following list: Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan, Indonesia, Micronesia,
Palau. Did you get it? Here’s some help: Add the United States, and you have completed a list of all the countries with a 21 year-old drinking age — everywhere else it’s either lower or alcohol is illegal altogether. In fact, the U.S. has the highest drinking age in all of North America, South America, Europe and Africa besides Libya and Sudan, where alcohol is outlawed. Just 30 years ago, we were in line with the rest of the international community. But then came Richard Nixon, the signer of the National Minimum Age Drinking Act of 1984 and the author of the war on drugs mentality that has all but been considered a failure. Not surprisingly, according to the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, more than 70 percent of 18 year-olds have consumed at least one drink, and the average underage drinker
In a perfect world, the law would be reasonable enough for people to follow. We would reclaim the regulatory system, instead of encouraging lawless behavior that we cannot expect to stop. reports having about five drinks in one setting. What we end up with is nothing short of a disaster. Drinking has been pushed underground, to the dorm rooms and frat houses, where binging is not only required to avert law enforcement, but also has warped into a new social norm. Worse yet, youngsters have come to feel alienated by a legal system that clearly fails to represent them, so they buy fake IDs and enlist older folks to act as their alcohol straw purchasers. In a perfect world, the law would be reasonable enough for people to follow. We would reclaim the regulatory system, instead of encouraging lawless behavior that we cannot expect to stop. We would stop criminalizing otherwise honorable, smart college students, and would allow drinking to take place out in the open, where it is often done more safely. Most importantly, we would stop threatening young adults who are often too scared to ask for help when it is genuinely needed. Granted, getting grandiose policies through Congress isn’t exactly the easiest task at the moment, especially if it involves repealing a three-decade-old, popular piece of legislation. But fortunately, there’s a simple step that can be taken that would go quite a long way, and it rests in the hands of our president: David Skorton. The Amethyst Initiative, founded in 2008, is a nationwide effort calling on our elected officials “to support an informed and dispassionate public debate over the effects of the 21 year-old drinking age.” Amethyst circulates a petition to university presidents trying to build support, and so far, they have 136 signatures. James Wright, the Dartmouth College President is thus far the only Ivy League president to get behind this effort. Adding Skorton’s name to the list would provide just the kind of prestige and legitimacy that is so desperately needed. It’s really easy: Just visit theamethystinitiative.org, print the statement, sign it, and mail it off to D.C. President Skorton, surely you do not wish to stand beside President Nixon in history. Now’s your chance to engrave your name not on the side of force and coercion, but with justice and reason. Jess Coleman is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jesskcoleman@gmail.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.
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Comment of the day “Add to this the many new security cameras installed at every entrance on to campus. Cornell is now very literally monitoring every person that comes and goes. Oh, they’ll say its for monitoring activity on the bridges and tampering with nets, but they serve a very nice function capture everyone coming and going too. Want to organize and protest or march? Nope, they’ll see you coming!” mike Re: “THROWDOWN THURSDAY: A Disturbing Trend Toward Campus Censorship” Opinion, published September 12, 2013
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will probably irritate seem not only as awful as indignation. I will confess that I many of my readers if it is, but utterly unnecesHowever, I will bet have only the foggiest I say that anti-fracking sary. you everything I own that notion of how to start sentiments are starting to I would not insult my the state government will actually doing what I’m annoy me. Before you readers’ intelligence by do one thing to free us suggesting. I am a poor begin to list the many implying that you’ve from our dependence on college student and know negative impacts of frack- never thought of this; that natural gas: Nothing. comparatively little about ing, let me say that I don’t it has never crossed your Actually, worse than how to apply leverage to support fracking in New mind that you’re being a nothing. They will help the institutions of the York or anywhere else. tad hypocritical as you sit the gas companies exploit world. But something However, it seems to me in a gas-heated room here us. Perhaps I am a pes- must be done (we could, I that there is an awful lot at Cornell and glance out- simist, but it seems to me suppose, begin by pushof public dialogue about side at a “Don’t Frack that our government, ing Cornell to go further banning fracking and not With My Water” sign. both state and federal, has than it has in this direca lot about what we we’re Perhaps you’ve even heard a nasty habit of being tion. Carbon-neutral by going to do without nat- of biogas, perhaps you’ve much more effective at 2050 is not good ural gas. No matter how been eagerly awaiting its addressing the needs of enough). I have become angry people are convinced that about fracking, it the reason there doesn’t matter so are some many long as they still rely Fracking protesters may put as many posters stories of failure, on natural gas to heat and up as they like, they may sign petitions until ofc o mstates their homes and cook munities their food. Com to their hands are weary, they may froth as the succumbing plain all you want; the demands of someone’s getting industry — mouth at the indignity of it all. fracked. Why shouldpaper companies n’t it be you? polluting rivers There are alternawith bleach-like tives, of course. Energy debut in your furnace. large businesses than chemicals, coal compareduction for one: Even if you’re pro-frack- those of the people. nies removing mountains Building with more home ing, surely biogas seems Success stories in the fight — is because you can’t insulation and turning like a good idea; indefi- against pollution or eco- rebel against a system that the thermostat lower in nite production of gas nomic woe are generally you rely on. You must the winter. But you’ll still from waste products with local, on a city or county break free from it first. be burning something. no risk to our water sup- level. It is possible to safe- Fracking protesters may That being said, it is per- ply. Seems like a great ly heat one’s home and put as many posters up as fectly possible to produce idea, right? It solves cook one’s food without they like, they may sign natural gas via the anaero- many environmental fracking, but you (yes, petitions until their hands bic breakdown of organic problems and would be you!) are going to have to are weary, they may froth materials. Electricity is great for our economy as take the initiative. at the mouth at the indigbeing generated by well (more so than frack- Investing in the construc- nity of it all; but if they decomposing garbage in ing, by far). The real tion of anaerobic digesters can’t learn to heat their Seneca County as we problem, however, is: to produce natural gas or homes with their anger, speak. Any organic waste How will we get to that replacing your furnace the inexorable march of will do: manure, lawn point? The infrastructure with a wood fired mason- the gas companies shall clippings, human waste, simply doesn’t exist yet. ry stove are far more not stop. food scraps. If we lived in But perhaps you believe effective means of fightan Upstate New York that there is some govern- ing gas companies than Liam Henrie is a sophomore in where waste from our ment official with the going to protests or sign- the College of Agriculture and farms and homes were word “engineer” in his or ing petitions. They are, I Life Sciences. He may be reached at lorliam8@gmail.com. being transformed into all her title who is figuring admit, more expensive, Out of the Mouths of Goats the “biogas” that we need- that out; the only fuel you but no one said this was appears alternate Mondays this ed, then fracking would need provide is your fiery going to be easy. semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT SUN SETS: THE WEEK’S BEST CONCERTS This past week Ithaca’s music scene was on fire with a list of concerts to help you defy your mounting piles of homework. Between Screaming Females, Speedy Ortiz and Brick Mower at Ithaca College and El Ten Eleven at The Haunt on Wednesday, Yo La Tengo at the State on Friday and Porchfest on Sunday, we at the Arts section have been on music overload. Now that we’ve taken the weekend to recover and reflect, we proudly present to you as much concert coverage as we can fit on our two print pages (you can find overview of Porchfest 2013 in our section tomorrow.) So look, read, emjoy and reminisce about this smashing week in live music.
El Ten Eleven At The Haunt
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BY JAMES RAINIS Sun Staff Writer
If someone told me a band composed of a husband and wife team that’s been together for 30 years was playing a show in the Commons, I’d likely assume we were dealing with some fey, folksy act straight out of Portlandia’s Quiet Music Festival. And for the first part of what turned out to be quite a long evening with indie rock institution Yo La Tengo at The State Theatre on Friday night, that sort of assumption would have been validated. Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew began the night with a low-key acoustic set, including a chilled-out cover of Neil Young’s “For the Turnstiles” and the band’s classic, movie star-referencing “Tom Courtenay.” Any present skeptics would surely be lamenting the loss of indie rock’s balls: Dainty tunes with sung “bah bah bahs” are, admittedly, fairly tweeseeming. Forty minutes later, Ira Kaplan is defying gravity, swinging his guitar around like Thurston Moore’s slightly less careless cousin as he searches for the perfect feedback frequency with which to embellish “We’re An American Band.” The transition to the electric set was revelatory. What started out as a demure affair — where the mumble of concert attendees purchasing craft brews often eclipsed the sound of the band — turned into an ear-ringing set of classically skewed, feedbacksoaked indie rock drone jams. Kaplan, a former music critic (because, deep down, all critics just want to be musicians), is a certified guitar mangler, recalling Sonic Youth’s atonal no-wave dirges and Neil Young’s simplistic melodicism all at once. As a fan of dysfunctional guitar noise and premature hearing loss, it was a joy to see a band of seasoned veterans indulging in the simple joy of making noise with an amplifier. Heavy on material from this year’s Fade, the set never threatened to devolve into the absurdist coverfests that have made Yo La Tengo’s recent live shows
Yo La Tengo at The State Theatre
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famous, possibly to the dismay of young fans introduced to the band during their performance in association with Cornell Cinema last year. The band playing on Friday was not in a goofball mood but, perhaps, a nostalgic one. With an acoustic set that was extremely reminiscent of The Velvet Underground’s self-titled record (no, not the one with the banana), followed by the bread and butter ’90s indie rock of the electric set, you realize that these guys have been inventively mining the same sources for some time now. If not for the slight signs of aging, I swear it could have been 1997, with songs like “Ohm” and “Before We Run” sounding like the incredibly kickass b-sides to that year’s epic I Can Hear The Heart Beating As One. Yo La Tengo is the comfort food of ’90s American
indie rock. With none of Guided By Voices’ aggressively lo-fi production or Stephen Malkmus’s esoterically verbose faux-poetry, their music is, as paradoxical as it sounds, unpretentiously experimental. Willing to do anything with a laugh and a shrug, the band is able to approach any sound — be it monolithic guitar fuzz or subtle, “ooh”-assisted acoustic ditties — with a knowledge, appreciation and sense of fun that is often direly absent from many other “eclectic” bands. Only Yo La Tengo could follow up cultfavorite “Autumn Sweater” with George McCrae’s disco hit, “You Can Have It All,” with Kaplan and McNew serving as Hubley’s lovely backup singers. James Rainis is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.
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16 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | Monday, September 16, 2013 DARRA LOGANZO Sun Contributor
Last Wednesday, the Ithaca College Bureau of Concerts presented Screaming Females, Speedy Ortiz and Brick Mower. It was not exactly the setting I expected — crowd members were met with a carpeted event room that looked like it could have just been used for the kinds of business meeting with light cocktail snacks out on tables. The diverse young audience ranged from grungy teenagers in denim sporting pins that advertised things like “Explosive Crack,” to average college students who could have just wandered into the room accidentally; it was no doubt a strange grouping. To say that no one pre-gamed this thing would be an understatement. The second the opening band, Brick Mower, soundchecked, the head-banging, long-hair-shaking lead guitarist and vocalist gave a head-rattling scream, and out of nowhere the audience was immersed in the song’s heart-attack-inducing beats. Although the lyrics weren’t all that distinguishable, people were bouncing around to the music just the same. I started bobbing my head just so I wouldn’t feel out of place, despite the feeling that my ears were internally bleeding. The guitarist was passionate, and his feelings transferred to the audience when he got into each song and became consumed in an all-out jam. He leaned down to the ground with his guitar, nodding in time to the music and cried out, “And I believe!” From the sheer power of his shouting, I trust that he really did. The bright red concert lights provided an eerie ambiance in Emerson Suites, under which Brick Mower’s drummer sweated in an alien graphic tee, grinning away as he smashed his drums. Astoundingly, between
songs they paused to tell the tech crew that they “needed a smidge more bass” though, from what I could hear through my ringing ears, it seemed like there was already plenty. The band’s energy lured the crowd in closer to the stage, and by three songs into the set there were four rows of laidback concert-goers, nodding and foot tapping along like satisfied schoolchildren. With groundsmashing beats, the lead guitarist jumped back and forth from foot to foot, breaking out in a full-on sweat. Next up was Speedy Ortiz. Complete with self-aware yet spooky decoration (including signs proclaiming “Enter at your own risk”), the casually dressed performers looked like they could have just walked straight out of a band practice in their garage as they nonchalantly took the stage. Female guitarist and lead vocalist Sadie Dupuis immediately captivated the audience with her voice with her startling rendition of the band’s hit release, “Tiger Tank.” And then things started to go crazy. Lead guitarist Matt Robidoux, who was already leaping around the stage, took his vibrantly-colored guitar, threw it completely around his body, ripped it off leaned down on the ground as we erupted in full-on head-throbbing and limb-flinging “dancing.” I learned this much: If the guy standing next to you is doing it, I guess it’s acceptable for you too. Things just kept getting weirder. At one point, after a song finished, Sadie announced “[the band had eaten] a lot of bread before coming on stage” and “if we puke everywhere, spread.” Comforting, I know, but her friendly vibe, with audience members shouting back replies, kept the crowd involved and loving it. By the time the main performers, Screaming Females, took the stage, the audience was antsy with anticipation and charged with energy. The band originates in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and includes guitarist and vocalist Marissa Paternoster, bassist King Mike and drummer Jarrett Dougherty. Paternoster brought rich sparks to the room with her deep, confident vocals
SCREAMING FEMALES (AND PALS) ROCK ITHACA MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFFF PHOTOGRAPHER
as she bellowed the memorable and repeated line, “It all means nothing,” from their biggest hit, “It All Means Nothing,” off their newest album, Ugly. Screaming Females did not disappoint: They performed with a charisma and talent that revealed a more experienced and mature band than those that populated the opening sets. The audience could feel this shift and had moved right up to the stage to dance as wildly as their bodies could keep up and as enthusiastically as their long hair could flip. During “Fall Asleep,” which includes the goose-bumpy chant “I want you to fall asleep / And die with me,” Paternoster’s gut-wrenching howl into the microphone pulled every member of the audience into the wrath of the music. (It was also difficult not to stop staring at Paternoster’s mouth touching and completely enveloping the microphone with her hardcore screaming.) As the riff melted into that of the next song, it was clear that this night was a unique occasion for a hardcore listener, especially within an otherwise ordinary college week. Darra Loganzo is a freshman in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at dsl236@cornell.edu.
Twerking Through My Issues With Miley M iley isn’t for me. But we’ll get to that later. First let’s talk about that twerk.
Was her VMA performance inappropriate? Sexually, it was fine. All is fair in love and war and the Video Music Awards. The show is annually pregnant with provocativeness. If its carnal explicitness doesn’t elicit a fiery response from the professional party-poopers of the Parents Television Council every year, then someone at MTV gets fired. Racially the performance was off. There are people online who are smarter than I who have written more thoughtfully on this matter, but here’s my quick take. The crimes in question are Miley’s attempt at a twerk and the use of voluminous black backup dancers in a way that mined ethnicity for entertainment. As a general rule, I believe when done well and in good taste, no artist act should be exclusive to a single race or ethnicity. Latinos can do kung fu. Asians can sing country. Whites can rap and Blacks can even enjoy Miley’s VMA performance if they want to. But when a performance’s um … blurring of racial lines, becomes a winking joke to the audience, then it becomes ill advised. A cast of non-Asian actors in a genuine kung-fu film sounds neat. But once the point of the film becomes, “Look everybody, we’re not Asians but we’re doing a traditionally Asian art form, how funny!” it no longer is. Miley’s overzealous infatuation with the backsides of her backup dancers came across like she was laughing at a dance culture she was feebly attempting to emulate, and that’s what made the performance a nono. The weeks since the VMAs have proven that Ms. Cyrus will not be denied on her quest to achieve enlightened turnt. “Turnt,” as Miley references in “We Can’t Stop,” is basically an unbridled feeling of awesomeness. Society tried Regina George-ing Miley, telling her to stop trying to make turnt happen, because it’s not going to happen, but where Gretchen Weiners wilted, Miley hath risen. She’s given two foam middle fingers to the world and radiated Icona Pop’s creed with every new video,
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tweet and interview. She don’t care. She love it. As I write this, the music video“Wrecking Ball” has garnered 85 million YouTube views, this is since its posting five days ago. By the time you read this it’ll likely have brought down the Internet. In the video, Miley swings around nakedly on a wrecking ball amid construction rumble, and intermittently licks a hammer and cries — perhaps because the hammer doesn’t taste very good. With this new iteration of the former Disney star, there will likely be a lot less wholesome entertainment and way more butt crack and side boob, not that there hasn’t been already. And I for one don’t really know if this is a good thing or not, I just want it to be over. I’m more interested in why so many people, like myself, feel the need to spend hundreds of words talking about Miley. Maybe it’s because with Miley comes interest. Right now if you write about Miley you get a reaction. This equation is as reliable as a direwolf. As an arts columnist I often wrestle with whether to talk about a topic I sincerely find interesting, or a topic that draws in more attention and reaction. During my last tour as a Sun columnist I wrote a spoof piece about Justin Bieber coming to Cornell. It wasn’t particularly well written and the jokes were a bit overwrought, but the name “Bieber” was in the title, and the column was the “most read” article on the Cornell Sun’s website for almost two weeks. At the same time, pieces I cared much more for, those about small-budget documentaries and my beloved Simpsons, came and went without a ripple. Unlike news or sports where dominant singular events like Syria or the Super Bowl dictate column topics, the world of arts and entertainment Run It has become stratified in the age of Netflix and Back Spotify. The columnist has a uniquely vast field of topics to write about. Do you elegantly tackle a passion project and wax rhapsodically about your favorite indie band’s switch bassist switch? Or how the black and white subtitled French film you loved comments on American jingoism in the mid-2000s? Or do you cover Miley Cyrus because her name
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draws reader attention, a central component of a newspaper? If the purpose of columns is to occupy your mind for a few minutes over breakfast, in class or on the toilet, then shouldn’t some columns be more for the reader than the writer? Many actors follow a motto of “one for them, one for me”. James Franco does Oz: The Great and Powerful for the studios then does collegiate art house films for himself. This inner-debate has real world implications. I’m entering the professional world next year and will have to choose a career paths. Do I follow my desires and become a low-paying teacher? Or do I select a less intrinsically fulfilling job that happens to pay more because making money is a central component to having a job? That answer will come later. As a columnist, I luckily can switch back and forth between the two dichotomies. So while I’m a sell out this week, expect an 800-word ode to Freaks and Geeks’ one and only season down the road. That one will be for me. Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Run It Back runs alternate Mondays this semester.
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis ACROSS 1 Manages (for oneself) 6 Snuck 11 __ Moines, Iowa 14 Native Alaskan 15 Cowboy singer Gene 16 “That’s nasty!” 17 Criticize gas and electric companies? 19 The Beatles’ “__ Loves You” 20 Sunrise direction 21 One of a D.C. 100 22 Russian capital 24 Roy G __: rainbow mnemonic 26 Piebald horse 27 Criticize a modeling shoot array? 30 It replaced the French franc 33 Pass out 35 Mudville number 36 Complete, as a scene 37 Tropicana and Minute Maid, briefly 38 Cheesy sandwiches 39 Grounded jet 40 Sworn statement 42 Isaac’s eldest 43 Wranglers with wheels 45 Folk music’s Kingston __ 46 Criticize stage shows? 48 Former Bears head coach Smith 50 Be in debt 51 Sea near Stockholm 53 Prefix with pass 55 Become enraged 59 World Cup cheer 60 Criticize awards? 63 Gen-__: boomer’s kid, probably 64 Invalidate 65 On one’s toes 66 Fist pumper’s word 67 Trotsky and Uris 68 Pack animals DOWN 1 Lose color in the wash
2 “On the Waterfront” director Kazan 3 Loch with a monster 4 Brit’s trash can 5 Sault __ Marie 6 Batman’s hideout 7 Wreck completely 8 And so on: Abbr. 9 Vacate the __: eviction notice phrase 10 Big name in chicken 11 Criticize college subjects? 12 Bounce in a 6-Down 13 Depict unfairly 18 Invitation letters 23 Bouillabaisse, e.g. 25 Practitioner: Suff. 26 Kept in, as hostility 27 Criticize farmers? 28 Bodysuit for a tiny tot 29 “__ Marner”: Eliot work 31 Speak with a grating voice 32 Chooses 33 12 inches 34 Open a bit
38 Doctor’s profession 41 Owl’s cry 43 A boxer may have a glass one 44 They’re attractive to look at 47 “Footloose” co-star Singer 49 “Myra Breckinridge” author Gore 51 Like the Honda Element
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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)
Team Depth Inspires Men To Play Hard For Positions M. TENNIS
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versity. … And I felt like [they did] that to perfection from the beginning until the very end.” A few of the Red’s regular starters were injured and did not attend the tournament this weekend, a circumstance that Sidney believes can benefit the other members of the team. The absence of certain starters provides an opportunity for players to prove they have what it takes to be part of the initial lineup this season. “I certainly think it gives a couple other players the chance to show themselves, kind of gives them a chance in the spotlight to prove to everyone what they can do,” Sidney said. “We certainly have a lot more depth than we did last year, with the addition of the freshmen, and I’m curious to see if they can keep performing well consistently, and then hopefully us older guys can give them the drive to keep doing what they’re doing.” According to Wilton, the depth of the roster this season will be a motivational factor for the Red. “I think that we have a team with big depth, even more so with the freshmen class. It makes people hungry to prove themselves to Silviu on both the singles and doubles front,” Wilton said. “There are some people that are almost guaranteed to start, but … that competition brings a bit of fight out in people to go ahead and improve and demonstrate that they are better than their fellow teammates. It’s really good, and I think that a few of the guys definitely did that this weekend.” Tanasoiu emphasized that while tennis is an individual sport, a major theme that the Red will focus on this season is development and growth. “We had a team meeting and we talked about how, going forward, this semester has a lot to do with developing and growing, a longing for growth in practice and tournaments, and striving to improve individually,” he said. “I think that’s how we’re going to ultimately be a good team. Each player on our team is going to take care of his own business and his own schedule when it comes to practice … I think each one of them has his own path right now that they’re trying to solidify and hopefully they will continue to do so.” Olivia Wittels can be reached at owittels@cornellsun.com.
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CROSS COUNTRY
In Rough Conditions, RunnersTake Dual Meet Women take first 15 spots in race against Army By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The men’s and women’s cross country teams kicked off the 2013 season this Friday with their annual meet against Army. Running on home ground in Ithaca on the Moakley Course — where rain and mud made the conditions far from ideal — both teams were able to persevere nonetheless, defeating Army 19-40 on the men’s side and 15-50 on the women’s. Army was no match for the No.10 ranked women’s team, which swept the first 15 places in the 5000-meter race and had 18 of the Top-20 finishers. Senior co-captains Rachel Sorna and Emily Shearer took first and second respectively, with Sorna setting a course record with a time of 17:20.4. Coming off an injury from last season,
Shearer got back on the right track in 2013, finishing with a time of 18:00.6, despite making a wrong turn in the race. Two freshmen had strong collegiate debuts for the Red. Taylor Spillane took third in the race with a time of 18:02.1 and Delphi Cleveland rounded out the top Red runners in 15th place with a time of 18:49.4. For strategic reasons, the men’s squad kept its top four runners out of the race on Friday, leaving the field wide open for underclassmen to step up. This strategy worked to perfection as freshman Mark Tedder crossed the finish line of the fivemile race first, winning his first-ever collegiate meet in a time of 25:22.3. He finished just over a second ahead of Army sophomore Ricardo Galindo. Four Red runners took the next four
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Utilizing youth | The men’s cross country team left its top four runners out of the race this weekend, allowing the underclassmen to shine against Army.
positions in the race, maintaining the team’s pack-running strategy by all finishing within 18 seconds of one another. Sophomores Brian Eimstad and Ben Rainero took third and fourth respectively, and junior Tyler Eustance was close behind in fifth. Tedder, Eimstad, Rainero and Eustance — the top four runners for Cornell — were spaced out by only three seconds. The Red had two more Top-10 finishes,
with sophomore Ty Kawalec coming in ninth and freshman Zack Israel finishing tenth. Both the men and women will have next weekend off before traveling to the Boston College Invitational on Friday, September 27. Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
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certainty heading into the season. “[Gruenenfelder] was impressive as always,” Miller said. “I was particularly impressed with having had him just walk in, pretty much, and being just as solid as he has been. He hasn’t practiced very much with us. He was actually going to be an assistant coach with us ... and then they found out he was going to be able to play.” Despite already having four years of experience under his belt, Gruenenfelder was granted an extra year of eligibility because he was hurt for the majority of his freshman season. The veteran receiver led the team with seven catches for 132 yards against Post. “The only issue with him was getting the league to clear him and just double checking to make sure his status would still allow him to be an eligible player,” Miller said. “So he got cleared by everybody ... He only really had one or two days where he was really getting reps, just because we weren’t quite sure what his eligibility was.” Complementing the Red’s passing attack was freshman running back Kevin Nathanson, who racked up 42 yards on nine carries. “Kevin Nathanson at running back was someone I was very impressed with
as well, just his speed and physical running ability,” Miller said. On the opposite sideline, Post’s own freshman running back James Harrington made sure Cornell’s lead did not last long, scampering for a 60-yard score in the third quarter. Harrington continued to gash the Red en route to 156 rushing yards. “One of the things coach told us was that Post is a very young team — they have a lot of guys coming in and out. ... We kind of knew what kind of plays they were going to run, but it was just those few big plays that hurt us,” said sophomore linebacker Jino Park. “It’s just those big runs that we let up. Those tend to be the most [crucial]. It’s up to us to go back and fix that.” A second Harrington touchdown — this time from 45 yards out — gave Post a decisive 21-10 lead heading into the fourth. Aside from the handful of third quarter miscues, however, the Red’s defense played formidably for most of the day, with first-time starter Park perhaps the most impressive of the entire unit. “I think Jino Park was the MVP of the team yesterday,” Miller said. “He came out flying and was hitting hard. [He is] a very aggressive player and he’s a pain in the butt to practice against for sure. It’s nice to have him on our team.” Park led the defense with 7.5 tackles,
including a dominating 4.5 sacks. “For his first game he really stood out,” Sitko noted. “He ... had an exceptional, exceptional game. He had a few sacks ... and he definitely stood out and became a leader on the field just [based] on his performance.” Despite Park’s strong individual performance, the sophomore has continued to dwell more on how to improve as a team. “I don’t think individual stats really matter when the team took a loss,” Park said. “Defensively, I think we had a great first game but I think 21 points is a little on the big side so we’ll work to improve on that.” Although the Red outgained Post in total yardage, including a 197-33 edge in passing yards, the Red was unable to dig itself out of a 21-10 deficit, despite several scoring chances. According to Miller, co-head coach Bart Guccia made sure to emphasize efficiency and consistency to better convert yards into points in future contests. “[Coach Guccia] was relatively understanding that there were some mistakes, particularly in the first game,” Miller said. “The big takeaway, I think, was just not being able to capitalize on various opportunities we had. I think we had ... a field goal to show off of it. Nothing too impressive there but if we keep getting those opportunities and then are able to punch in a few of them I think we’ll be fine moving forward.” Despite these mistakes, Miller said that the Red has already begun to make strides, and his teammates understand that it will take time to develop, considering the youth of the offense. “Football mindset and football IQ was definitely something that we improved,” Miller said. “We are relatively young on offense and early on our goal is to keep things simple — to get people accustomed to a new offense and a new team — but I think that [Saturday] showed that we did that. ... Now it’s more so just looking into [next week’s opponent] Franklin Pierce and looking at how we can capitalize on some of the steps we made [against Post.]”
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Fifth time’s the charm | Fifth-year wide receiver Spenser Gruenenfelder was cleared to play this season, and led the offense with 132 yards in the first game against Post.
Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.
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VOLLEYBALL
For Second Straight Weekend, Red Takes One of Three By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The volleyball team finished its second straight weekend with a 1-2 tournament record, bringing its overall
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She be killin’ it | Though senior middle blocker Rachel D’Epagnier recorded seven kills, the Red was unable to defeat Colgate.
record to 2-4 with three games remaining before the start of the Ivy League season. This weekend’s tournament started the same way that last weekend’s tournament ended — with a five-set match that ultimately ended in a loss for the Red. This time, the opponent was LIUBrooklyn, the tournament host. The Red lost the first game, 25-22, before flipping the score in its favor and taking home a 25-22 win in the second game. The third game remained a backand-forth affair, with neither team gaining an advantage of more than two points, until the Blackbirds went on a 6-0 run at the end to win the match, 25-19. In the fourth match, the Red once again turned the tables on the Blackbirds, breaking a 20-20 deadlock and taking the match, 25-23. Although the Red quickly fell behind in the final set, the team powered its way to a two point deficit at 14-12 before losing the final point on a Blackbird kill. In last weekend’s five-set loss to Bucknell, the Red won the first game, but dropped the next two before taking the fourth game to force a fifth set. Senior outside hitter Kelly Marble noted the similarities between the Red’s two matches. “In both of those matches, we won
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game four and had momentum going match wrapped up, the Red hit the into the fifth,” she said. “We need to court once more to take on rival maintain consistency throughout all the Colgate. Despite the hitting efforts of sets and particularly focus on the … sophomore right side hitter Breanna fundamentals in the fifth set and close it Wong and senior middle blocker Rachel out. Those types of losses only motivate D’Epagnier, the Red lost to the Raiders the team to make the necessary changes in straight sets, 25-15, 25-17 and 25individually and as a whole to finish the 20. Next weekmatch.” end, the Red In the second match “We need to maintain to travels of this weekend’s tournament, the Red consistency throughout all the Pittsburgh, Pa. breezed to a 3-0 win sets and particularly focus on to take on the University of over Fairfield the ... fundamentals in the Pittsburgh, University. The Red Morehead State won the first game, 25fifth set and close it out.” University and 17, then followed up Kelly Marble R u t g e r s that victory with a 25University for its 19 win in the second final games game and a 25-21 win in the third. Five players hit above .300, before challenging Columbia in the Ivy including freshman middle blocker League opener the following weekend. “All of the top teams in the Ivy, Macey Wilson and freshman setter Alyssa Phelps, while junior libero including Columbia, run fast offenses Natasha Rowland had a team-high 14 and dig a lot of balls,” Marble said. “In this upcoming tournament, we will face digs. “Natasha Rowland, our primary similar teams that will force us to play passer, was everywhere this weekend,” long rallies and stick to our fundamenMarble said. “She really took command tals that will prepare us for the Ivy of the back court and was giving extra- matches.” ordinary effort to dig as many balls as she could.” Emily Berman can be reached at Only a few hours after the Fairfield eberman@cornellsun.com.
MEN’S TENNIS
Despite Halftime Lead, Freshmen Excel C.U. Unable to Top Post As Vrabel Takes
By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer
A promising season got off to a disappointing start on Saturday, as the Cornell sprint football team came up short in Waterbury, CT. The Red (0-1 CSFL) fell to the Post Eagles (1-0), 21-10, in what proved to be a back-and-forth contest from the very first play. “Post returned the opening kickoff back for a touchdown, which isn’t exactly how you want to start a game,” said junior defensive back Chris Sitko. “But the offense [on the] next drive definitely bounced right back.” Facing a 7-0 deficit on the team’s first possession, senior quarterback
Brendan Miller hit fifth-year wide receiver Spenser Gruenenfelder for a 48yard gain to set up an eventual four-yard touchdown pass to sophomore running back Ben Herrera. “[Spenser’s catch came during] a third-and-long, and that definitely gave everybody the spark they needed to continue,” Sitko said. “So when we scored on that drive to tie it up, it was like a whole new game.” A 27-yard field goal by senior kicker John Rodriguez gave the Red a 10-7 lead going into the half. The kick was among several first half scoring chances made possible by the Miller-Gruenenfelder connection, which was anything but a See SPRINT page 18
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Between the posts | Senior kicker John Rodriguez connected on a 27-yard field goal to give the Red a 10-7 halftime lead, but the squad could not hold on against Post.
Home Singles Title By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer
The men’s tennis team gave a solid performance at the Farnsworth/Princeton Invitational this past weekend, with members of the squad earning spots in the finals of two singles brackets, the finals of a consolation bracket and the quarterfinals and semifinals of three other draws. Leading the pack was freshman Chris Vrabel, who defeated Columbia’s Eric Rubin, 7-6, 6-2, giving him a singles title in the Pagoda Draw. Freshman Colin Sinclair lost in the finals of the Cordish Draw to St. John’s Vaidlk Munshaw, 6-4, 6-3, and freshman Bernardo Casares Rosa fell in a super tie breaker, 6-2, 3-6, 14-12, to Princeton’s Alex Day in the finals of the Pagoda consolation bracket. The fact that three of the Red’s newest recruits gave such strong showings this past weekend certainly points to the talent of its 2017 recruiting class. “I think they’re just really eager to prove themselves,” said junior Alex Sidney, who lost a three-setter in the semifinals of his draw to Princeton’s Tom Colautti. “They’re proving themselves not only to the coach, but to the rest of the team, and the rest of the schools in the Ivy League. … They’re really going to be assets for our team this upcoming season.” “They are a bunch of good players and they’re good people as well. They’ve been working hard, are very focused and
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Proving their worth | Junior Alex Sidney said the Red’s freshman class stands out in the Ivy League.
get the job done,” added senior Alex Wilton. Head coach Silviu Tanasoiu was also impressed with how the freshmen implemented what they have been working on in practice into competitive match play. “From a coaching standpoint, for myself and our assistant coach, it made our job very easy … I felt they made very good adjustments throughout the tournament and we were very pleased from that standpoint,” said Tanasoiu. Tanasoiu also pointed out that this weekend marked the very first collegiate tournament for his freshmen. “They were able to do very well at their first time representing Cornell,” he said. “One of the things we talked about before this tournament was to compete — to compete [for] every point, every shot, every single chance they get once they’re on the court to represent the uniSee M. TENNIS page 17