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CCC laments alcohol abuse, defecation on bleachers

By MANU RATHORE Sun Senior Writer

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Multiple medical emergencies and hospitalizations turned the Avicii Homecoming concert at Barton Hall on Saturday into a potential health risk for some students, according to organizers and attendees.

The Cornell University Police Department received 12 calls regarding alcohol-related incidents related to the concert, according to Kathy Zoner, chief of the CUPD. There were six hospitalizations, Zoner said.

“A lot of [the hospitalizations] were [for] people on their way to the concert that never even made it indoors,” said Dave Rodriguez ’13, executive director of Cornell Concert Commission.

In addition to the alcohol-related incidents, CUPD said a forcible touching occurred at the ticket line for the concert. The victim said she was grabbed under her skirt twice while she was waiting in line to enter Barton, according to CUPD. Although CCC attempted to eliminate the presence and effects of alcohol and illegal substances –– enlisting the help of CUEMS, ambulance reserves and CUPD –– “what people do before they arrive isn’t up to us, unfortunately,” Rodriguez said.

Multiple drunken escapades also occurred during the concert. Rodriguez said that someone defecated in the bleachers.

“We try to keep those bleachers open so people have the chance to sit, but we never imagined that people would start relieving themselves in the bleachers,” Rodriguez said.

“It completely baffles me that somebody would think that was an okay thing to do … [it was] definitely a first.”

Factors such as the widespread penchant for debauchery during Homecoming Weekend contributed to the “unfortunate situations” that occurred both before and during the concert, Rodriguez said.

“There is a stigma that goes with electronic music and the type of people that go to the concerts, but a big factor of last night was that it’s Homecoming Weekend and Homecoming Weekend is a big party weekend for most people,” Rodriguez said.

“Unfortunately, a lot of people aren’t able to take care of themselves in these sorts of situations.”

Jared Hoffman ’15 said that it was incontestable that students were consuming alcohol and illegal substances at the concert.

“There was definitely a lot of rolling [on ecstasy] going on; I saw it numerous times firsthand,” he said. “The comment from most See AVICII page 5

By LUCY MEHRABYAN

Cornell’s 2012 Homecoming boasted not only a win for Cornell’s football team but also more alumni than in previous years, according to event organizers.

“Homecoming is one weekend that the entire Cornell community can come together and celebrate the spirit of Big

Red,” said Terry Hahn, director of affinity programs, which aims to connect alumni to Cornell events.

Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google, launched Homecoming Weekend with a speech on the power of technology in society for a packed Statler Auditorium on Thursday.

Friday night marked the 2012 Homecoming Pep Rally and the University’s

first ever Laser Light Show and Fireworks Show — events that Hahn said he hopes will become an annual tradition for the Cornell community.

The Cornell marching band kicked off the rally by playing the alma mater, “Far Above Cayuga’s Waters,” while accompanied by proud alumni singing the words of the See HOMECOMING page 4

Greeks Go Green

The Greek tailgate at Homecoming dramatically reduced landfill waste, organizers said. | Page 3

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Ruby Red Celebration

The Ujamaa Residential College celebrated its 40th anniversary Saturday. | Page 3

Don’t Play Nice

A forged email sent Friday impersonating and mocking President David Skorton is “outrageously offensive” and could constitute “criminal behavior,” a University spokesperson said Saturday.

While the identity or identities of those responsible for the email remain unknown, it resembled in form and substance previous messages sent out by the anonymous group Scorpions X. On Friday, Scorpions X published 1,000 copies of a 16-page fake newspaper called “The Cornell Nightly Moon” that criticized and belittled the University’s response to a string of recent reported sexual and racial attacks.

Friday’s email — which was sent to dozens of student leaders and administraSee FAKE EMAIL page 4

Shane Seppini ’13 criticizes the use of the word “nice” to describe someone’s personality. | Page 7

Arts On My Level

Lucas Colbert-Carreiro ’15 calls Avicii’s Barton Hall show on Saturday “nothing short of spectacular.” | Page 8

Sports Landslide Victory

Cornell trounced Yale 45-6 in Saturday’s Homecoming football game. | Page 16

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Protesters Express Grievances To Skorton in Day Hall Meeting

By JINJOO LEE

what demands the protesters have for the administration.

Skorton stressed that the adminisStudent protesters who voiced tration is, like the protesters, worried grievances about the administration’s about the bias incidents. handling of bias incidents on campus “It’s really, really important that took their demands from the doorstep we’re clear about one thing,” Skorton of Day Hall — where said. “You need to they staged a sit-in believe from the get“We’re just as protest Thursday — go that we’re just as into a conference concerned about these concerned about things as you are.” room with President these things as you are David Skorton on ... If we’re going to President David Skorton Friday. work together, we Skorton, Susan have to decide what Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president we can do together and organize in of student and academic services, and some way.”

Mary Opperman, vice president of The University has implemented a human resources, sat with 24 students in a 30-minute meeting to listen to See SKORTON page 5

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School spirit | Thousands of fans gather in Schoellkopf Stadium Saturday to watch the football team trounce Yale.

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Greeks’ Tailgate Reduces Waste

By BYRON KITTLE Sun Senior Writer

Cornell’s Sustainability Office encouraged Homecoming celebrants to reduce landfill waste — such as used red solo cups — at the Greek Life Tailgate before the Homecoming football game.

Rebecca Macies ’14, student sustainability coordinator at the Sustainability Office, said the Greek event was easy to target for improving environmental sustainability.

“The Greek tailgate is … kind of like the low-hanging fruit for sustainability –– it’s mostly students,” she said.

“It’s contained, so it’s just kind of the easiest place for us to kind of focus our sustainability efforts.”

This year, landfill waste from the Greek tailgate was reduced by 75 percent from 2010, according to Macies.

Macies said that the office encouraged attendees to help minimize the environmental impact of the Greek tailgate by rearranging dumpsters, trash cans, recycling bags and compost repositories at the site of the party.

Because the largest source of waste from the Greek tailgate has historically been plastic red solo cups, Macies said, organizers prominently placed recycling containers, instead of trash cans, at the party.

“We’re trying to cut down on recyclable [materials] that get thrown into the landfill,” she said. “The easiest way to kind of cut down on waste is just limit people’s options … so instead of having lots of trash cans, we only put out recycling bins … so people don’t have a choice except, ‘Oh, this is the only place I can put my cup.’”

This will be the second consecutive year that the sustainability office –– through the efforts of Spring Buck, manager of R5, or “respect, rethink, reduce, reuse, recycle,” operations –– has coordinated with the Greek houses host-

OMARI POWELL / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Green party | Students congregate at the Greek tailgate before Saturday’s homecoming football game. Organizers said efforts to make the tailgate more environmentally-friendly resulted in a 75-percent reduction of landfill waste from 2010.

ing the tailgate.

Macies said that the Sustainability Office hopes to reach out to other tailgate parties at Cornell — although she noted that more planning and manpower will be necessary to do so.

“I would say just the scale of Homecoming is just so huge,” Macies said. “There are so many things going on and so many aspects of Homecoming, it’s hard to communicate with everybody.”

Buck said that every tailgate event during Homecoming Weekend was a potential target for landfill waste reduction, but that different organizations were responsible for each one. For example, according to Buck, the tailgate hosted on the crescent behind Schoellkopf Field brought

in teams of professionals to manage waste disposal and recycling.

Even with professionals on the job in some cases, student organizations deserve a large amount of credit for coordinating their efforts to increase environmental sustainability, Buck said.

“I’d really highlight that there are a number of student clubs that have all really pitched in to make this work,” Buck said, citing the Sustainability Hub, Greeks Go Green and the Compost Club. “I think they really are the driving force behind this.”

Byron Kittle can be reached at bkittle@cornellsun.com.

Ujamaa Residential College Celebrates 40th Anniversary At Day Hall, Protesters Criticize Cornell Reaction to Reported Sexual Attacks

About 25 students participated in a sit-in outside of Day Hall on Thursday to protest what they called the administration’s inadequate response to recent sexual crimes on and near campus.

Posing as Professor, Cornell Alumnus Slams Jewish Student’s Religion in Email

Brian Mick ’10 told The Sun last week that he impersonated Prof. Bruce Monger, earth and atmospheric sciences, in an email slamming the University’s accomodations for religious holidays.

Cornell Says Other NYC Tech Schools Will Improve, Not Hurt Cornell NYC Tech

New York University and Columbia University are planning to launch NYC tech campuses of their own. In response, Cornell administrators said that they are hoping to collaborate with the city’s other tech campuses.

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Dance the night away

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Students perform a dance for the Mid-Autumn Festival — an annual celebration of the harvest season — on the Arts Quad on Friday.

By YIDAN XU Sun Contributor

Students, alumni and faculty gathered to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ujamaa Residential College in the Willard Straight Hall Memorial Room Saturday evening.

Ujamaa aims to create a community that, among other things, helps its residents learn about the culture and history of black people in the United States, Africa and the Caribbean.

Its name, which originates from the East African language of Swahili, means “cooperative economics, or the process of working together as an extended family to build and maintain a cohesive community,” according to a University press release.

During the banquet, former residents of Ujamaa shared their gratitude for a community that, they said, gave them guidance during their time as students at Cornell.

“I lived in Ujamaa all four years. Without [Ken Glover, former housing director of Ujamaa and residential director of Schuyler House], I would never have graduated from Cornell,” said Anika Daniels-Osaze ’96, the president of the Cornell Black Alumni Association.

Glover, Daniels said, served as a mentor to many

students who lived in Ujamaa, which was founded in 1972 to be a safe community for students on campus.

“He checked on everybody every day, asking about out school work, financial status, health and family. To many of us, he is like [our] father,” Daniels said.

Ujamaa residents and alumni also prepared awards and gifts to honor those who helped them in the Ujamaa community.

Glover, one of the award recipients, said Ujamaa has served as a place for residents to learn “knowledge, tradition and history.”

“We keep doors of opportunities open for others,” Glover said. “[We] come back to the communities in the Caribbean, Africa and America to make a difference.”

Echoing Glover’s message, Pastor Sonya Hicks, an advisor for Cornell United Religious Works, encouraged students to continue to try to give back to the community.

“I might not have a degree like you do, but I must — and you must — go forward,” Hicks said.

Students also expressed their appreciation for alumni who fought for civil rights.

“I can sit in the front of the bus … I can go to the top school in the country

— Cornell,” Janelle Boyd ’13 said.

Boyd said that, thinking of black alumni who helped break racial barriers in the country, she feels fortunate to be “now living their dreams.”

“Don’t stop dreaming, because the next generation will be living in your dreams,” Boyd added.

The residential college remains a vibrant community, said Olivia Davis ’15, a residential advisor at Ujamaa.

“Being an R.A. in Ujamaa has opened my eyes to many things, including the historical importance of such a place. Now that I am aware, I truly value Ujamaa — I feel that I am a part of the history. Tonight gave me that exact feeling,” she said.

Theoria Cason, residential hall director for Ujamaa, said she hopes that Ujamaa will continue to thrive on campus.

“After the 40th anniversary, our next plan is to revitalize the community and keep it well-rounded on Cornell campus,” Cason said.

She added that, although she was “anxious” for the event in the preparations leading up to it, she thought that it was a “great success.”

Yidan Xu can be reached at yx265@cornell.edu.

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tors, as well as members of The Sun — pretended to represent Skorton’s response to that publication.

“Dear Cornell Community,” it began, in imitation of Skorton’s previous Universitywide notifications. “This morning a number of copies of a student paper were found intermixed amongst copies of The Daily Sun. Those papers contained very strong criticisms of Cornell University policies, including the [U]niversity’s reaction to the recent sexual assaults on campus as well as the racially-motivated attacks which set such a dark tone for the beginning of our semester here in Ithaca.”

The email, however, then proceeded to parody the University’s allegedly apathetic

response to the racial and sexual attacks, mirroring criticisms advanced by the Scorpions X publication.

“Even though many members of the Cornell community may be terrified due to the permissive atmosphere which has allowed sexual and racist and homophobic assaults to proceed unabated, we do not feel that criticizing the policies which have incubated that atmosphere is the best way to proceed,” the email, falsely signed by “David J. Skorton,” states. “Nor do we believe that attempting to hold those who have drafted and implemented the [U]niversity’s prolific pro-diversity policies responsible for the inefficacy of those policies is a fruitful path.”

Though unsigned, the email bore several marks of previous Scorpions X statements, including the group’s self-proclaimed “radical press” printed Friday. One of the articles

in “The Cornell Nightly Moon,” for instance, also mocks the University’s purportedly blithe, naive response to the racial and sexual attacks.

“Our strategy for thinking about the oppression that has been institutionally embedded at the University is to think and talk about something else entirely,” a frontpage story, written by “Alexandria Renard, director of the Center for Fluff-and-Stuff,” states. Instead of talking about racism or other forms of oppression, then, we will talk about dancing and singing and getting along.”

Tommy Bruce, vice president of University communications, said Saturday that the email has been forwarded to the “appropriate authorities.” Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Department, confirmed that campus police

has begun its preliminary investigation, but said that it is too soon to determine whether the message could represent a prosecutable offense.

Bruce likewise did not comment on whether the email could be considered grounds for expulsion, saying, “I’m not going to speculate on that.”

Still, he said the fake email was “entirely unacceptable.”

“In a community of trust that is Cornell, where our collective efforts should be focused on improving the Cornell experience and lifting the climate on campus, this fraudulent behavior can have serious unintended consequences,” Bruce said.

Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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hymn from the stands. The rally drew a large crowd who stayed to watch Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 kick a field goal to donate $1,000 for the United Way of Tompkins County, a nonprofit organization.

On Saturday morning, students, alumni and Cornell fans went to the annual pre-game tailgate before the start of the game — in which Cornell beat Yale, 45-6.

Hahn said that Homecoming organizers tried to continue “build[ing] Homecoming into an event for the entire community to celebrate Cornell.”

“We offered more familyfriendly events and we made a specific outreach to the local community to invite them to come up to campus to enjoy the weekend and celebrate with students, alumni, faculty and staff,” Hahn said.

This year’s Homecoming drew more alumni than previous years, Hahn said.

“We had approximately 3,000 alumni register for Homecoming through the Alumni Affairs registration site. However, we know that there were many more taking part in activities across campus,” Hahn said.

One alumnus, John Rhee ’12, co-president of the 2012 Alumni Class Council, said he returned to Cornell for Homecoming Weekend to cheer on the football team and reunite with friends.

“It was definitely a grander experience this time around,” Rhee said. “I think Alumni Affairs and Development invested a lot more in drawing back alumni.”

Rhee said that, as an alumnus, Homecoming was more meaningful to him not only because he could come back for the weekend to relive his college years, but also because the University invested more time and effort into making the weekend a memorable experience.

“I think this is really important, since Homecoming is a way to remind alumni how important Cornell was as part of their lives,” Rhee said.

Andro Zunic ’15 said he was impressed by the school spirit on campus during the weekend.

“You can just feel the atmosphere on campus,” Zunic said.

“There is just something about it that brings all Cornelians even closer together.”

Hahn said that plenty of collaboration is necessary to making the weekend a success.

“We work closely with various departments on campus to ensure that events are marketed and executed well and that all participants are kept safe during the weekend,” Hahn said. “The planning process is year-round and we have already started making arrangements for Homecoming 2013.”

Rhee was among the many alumni that took note of the increased efforts to make Homecoming memorable this year.

“I was surprised and impressed by how many different tents and fun events [the University] organized this year,” he said. “Just on Facebook leading up to Homecoming Weekend, there were so many notifications on all of these competitions and events to make the days leading up to Homecoming much more exciting.”

Despite the challenges posed by the inclement weather, organizers said Homecoming was a success, with large crowds showing up with Cornell spirit at the events leading up to the game and to cheer the Big Red football team to victory on Saturday.

“We were impressed with how many people were willing to brave the weather to show their support for Cornell,” Hahn said.

“Anytime our football team wins by a score of 45-6, we will consider it a successful day.”

Lucy Mehrabyan can be reached at lmehrabyan@cornellsun.com.

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wide range of responses to respond to the incidents, Skorton said.

“Some of them [are through] federal laws, some in response to campus Code of Conduct [and] some are done by initiatives begun by administrators,” he said.

Murphy agreed, saying that maintaining diversity and student well-being is among the administration’s top priorities.

For instance, Murphy said, Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of students and director of intercultural programs, is spearheading a series of leadership roundtables in the fall. The administration also created “Cornell Responds” programs for the community to discuss incidents that trouble students and to make concrete suggestions.

Ashley Harrington ’13, an advisory board member for the Women’s Resource Center, said that the University’s reactions, however, have not been adequate. They have only been reactive, instead of proactive, Harrington said.

“I have been involved in a couple of forums and discussions and it seems as if after the forums and discussions, you don’t have concrete programming to [follow up on those issues],” Harrington said. “This is what we’re asking for: concrete, institutional programming that can help make proactive changes to the [University’s] culture.”

Omar Figueredo grad added that there is not enough acknowledgement of the different forms of oppression that he says exist at Cornell.

Addressing the protestors’ list of 11 demands initially presented to the University in the spring, Skorton said that he is willing to consider the call to implement mandatory anti-sexual violence training for incoming and current students.

However, Skorton said it is difficult to implement a course that would be mandatory for students because “there is a strong tradition against mandatory courses across the board.”

He also said that these programs must be cost-effective.

“I don’t mean to be pedantic, but we’re 10-percent down on staff,” he said. Since 2009, the University has cut more than 700 staff members since 2009.

He also said he is committed to developing viable long-term solutions to the issues.

“I think it’s in everybody’s interest to make sure that whatever we do is effective and cost-effective,” Skorton said.

Skorton also addressed the protesters’ demands for “a coordinated, seamless survivor-centered response” to sexual violence, saying that he would work with colleagues to pull together a summary of campus resources available to the community.

“It’s very, very important that we have this [kind of response].

We should pull together a summary of what we actually have right now so that you can see it,” Skorton said, adding, “there’s a lot of this going on already.”

Promising the group that there will be a follow-up meeting, Skorton said that it would be important to continue dialogue with the students who were present Friday.

“We’re having what, to me, is an extremely valuable exchange,” Skorton said. “I hope there will be some continuity to the dialogue.”

Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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people was that it was as hardcore as any concert that you could hope for that wasn’t part of a festival. It was definitely the craziest I’ve seen at Cornell.”

Donovan Whitter ’15 agreed.

“The crowd was electric throughout the show and the atmosphere was full of excitement,” he said.

“Pretty much everyone was extremely drunk or on drugs during the show, but in all honestly, that just made things better.”

Mujahid Powell ’15 compared the concert to a rave due to “half-naked” students and “crazy” lights.

“It was better and much crazier than any on-campus event I’ve been to before,” he said. “[The concert] was really well done.”

However, for some attendees, including Jeffers Nguyen ’15, the concert did not live up to their expectations.

“Avicii’s performance was not [as] impressive as I hoped it would have been,” Nguyen said. “It might have been because I didn’t know more than two of his songs.”

Jayant Mukhopadhaya ’15 said he had a “creepy” experience during the concert.

“There was this really funny moment when this guy tried to jump on my shoulders — not just once, but twice,” Mukhopadhaya, who is also a designer at The Sun, said. “He half got up on my shoulders and then asked me to put him down. So I put him down and 15 minutes later he jumped on me again.”

Mayda Dorak ’13 said the crowd was rowdy.

“I tried to go up on the shoulders of my friend, and then people actually got very angry very quickly,” she said. “They started yelling, ‘Get off!’ and someone was poking me with something sharp in the back.”

Even entering Barton Hall was “a pain,” according to Mukhopadhaya, as “everyone was everywhere on everyone.”

But Whitter said that, ultimately, the concert made “Cornell a better place.”

“Avicii was great; he put on an excellent show that far exceeded my expectations for a Cornell concert,” he said. “Compared to other on-campus events … this was by far the most mind-blowing night Cornell has ever sponsored.”

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verywhere we turn, we are bombarded by news sources relaying all that has erupted in the Muslim world in the past few weeks. As many of you know, an obscure film portraying the Prophet Muhammad in a crude, negative light, surfaced in Arab media and has spread throughout the world via the Internet and news outlets. This set off a firestorm of worldwide responses.

Protests, both violent and nonviolent, have sparked in several Muslim majority countries, and in a terrible sequence of events, extremists assassinated the U.S. Ambassador to Libya, J. Christopher Stevens; sadly, three other American lives were also lost in this deplorable act.

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So what does a Muslim American look like? Images in the popular imagination have purposefully constructed Muslim men as violent, raging terrorists and Muslim women as submissive, oppressed victims. These images function together to justify everything from American military expansion in the Middle East to the legally sanctioned racial profiling of Muslim American and South Asian American youth.

For instance, Newsweek’s latest edition, Muslim Rage, has the image of a screaming turbaned man on its cover.

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The Hypocrisy Of Scorpions X ON FRIDAY, AN ANONYMOUS GROUP called Scorpions X published a 16page imitation of The Sun under the banner, “The Cornell Nightly Moon.” The issue contained a series of articles mocking and condemning the University’s response to a string of recent reported sexual and racial assaults. Shortly after the issue hit newsstands, Scorpions X sent an email from a fake account impersonating President David Skorton commenting on the issue. The group implores the University to take responsibility, yet, by insisting on anonymity, Scorpions X itself eschews responsibility and is in turn awash in hypocrisy.

Though the identities of its member or members are unknown, Scorpions X has expressed significant intellectual confluence with recent student demonstrations.

Articles in “The Cornell Nightly Moon” include a list of the same demands delivered after a protest at the Sigma Pi fraternity last spring and voice many of the same frustrations as those aired at a sit-in at Day Hall Friday.

Behind the veil of anonymity, however, the publication puts forth far bolder assertions and stipulations than the protesters have. In line with videos and other media previously circulated by Scorpions X, the Nightly Moon directly and personally attacks several Cornell administrators, for instance calling Renee Alexander ’74, director of intercultural programs, “Alexandria Renard, director of the Center for Fluff-and-Stuff.” It goes on to fault Alexander for “exploitation” and for allegedly failing to acknowledge the survivors of a racial attack at a recent forum. The publication also excoriates Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president of student and academic services, for what it calls her misplaced efforts to advise women how to stay safe on campus.

Without commenting on the message or methodology of the group, The Sun calls on Scorpions X to either drop its highly personal vitriol or step forward and reveal the names of its members. Refusing to take credit for its message allows the dangerous escalation of rhetoric and hyperbole without fear of repercussion.

Additionally, unlike the editorials in The Sun — for which the editorial board, represented by the editor in chief, is accountable — Scorpions X’s unsigned barbs provide no forum for response.

The only mention of, and potential justification for, the group’s anonymity comes at the bottom of an article in “The Nightly Moon” titled “a structural solution to a structural problem.” “We find power in anonymity,” the editorial states. We find only cowardice.

So how does this violence and responses to it impact Muslim Americans? Muslims in the United States are in the stressful position of defending their faith or national origin as they face animosity from fellow Americans. When senseless acts of violence are carried out by extremists, who are out of touch with the tenets of Islam and represent only a small fraction of its followers, Muslim Americans are put in the position of proving their patriotism and condemning these acts of violence as if they were somehow involved in planning them.

We live in a world where the oppressed must constantly justify their existence and right to equitable inclusion. This theme extends within the LGBTQ community in their struggle against heterosexism and women in proving their gender is not a handicap.

In the case of Muslims, there is an inherently problematic expectation from the American public for Muslim Americans to speak out against extremism, as if they were prone to sympathizing with it. This pressure to prove patriotism and loyalty is just one example of the struggles Muslim Americans currently face.

And when Muslim Americans do condemn violence and cite the peaceful qualities of their religion, many times their views are dismissed as anomalous.

This oppressive silencing serves to perpetuate the extremist image of what a Muslim is and helps justify ongoing Islamophobia directed at innocent Muslim Americans or anyone that “looks Muslim,” as in the case of the Sikh Massacre in early August. In a post 9-11 America, fanaticism, terror and disloyalty have become synonymous

crucial in fueling Islamophobia in this country, as they dehumanize all Muslims and portray them in hateful, extremist lights.

As a nation, we need to hit the pause button. We need to reevaluate our understanding of Islam, our images of Muslim Americans and our urge to categorize our Muslim friends as peaceful anomalies. We live in a country where 40 percent of Americans have unfavorable views of Muslims. Politicians have suggested putting Muslims on trial to prove their patriotism. In the last election cycle, attempts to discredit Barack Obama included accusing him of secretly being a Muslim; yet the American public did not respond with, “And so what if he is?”

Moving forward as a nation, we must humanize Muslims by reacquainting ourselves with the forgotten images of playful Muslim children, artists, musicians, empowered women, Nobel laureates and humanitarians. We must allow room for Muslim Americans to define themselves the way they see fit. Let us question why fear of Islam is pushed by the media and politicians, and why some Americans are comfortable with labeling more than a billion people in the world as “the enemy.”

Umbar Sattar ’13, Ghalib Shaikh ’13 and Aisha Sindhu ’14 contributed writing to this piece.

Adam Abboud is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at aa538@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

CORRECTION A news article Friday, “Police Officers Given New Tool to Reverse Drug Overdoses” and its headline incorrectly stated that city officials recently gave the Ithaca Police Department permission to train officers how to administer Narcan to individuals suffering from drug overdoses. In fact, the City Administration Committee just discussed potentially permitting the IPD to train officers in Narcan use.

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Why I Don’t Like Nice People And You Shouldn’t Either

y last two columns have dealt with some pretty weighty issues: blood and censorship. This week I decided to take a step back and opine on something I’ve run into a lot since returning from abroad. That “something” with which I take issue is niceness.

Calling someone nice means almost nothing, and if anything, certainly nothing positive. Often the nicest people are also the most boring. You know the adage:

staying up late to debate topics from which today’s nice people would recoil.

To be considered nice in 21st century America one must master contrivances and be willing to accept the nauseating art of uninteresting surface-level conversation, which involves countless forced smiles and incessant head nodding. None of this is seen as a regrettable aspect of pragmatism; instead, it’s used as the broadest brush in the conversationalist’s crate.

There is little room for having an opinion, even if it is not strongly held, and even less space for expressing one. If a conversation lulls it is Letters From not nice to resuscitate A Young Curmudgeon it with a question that elicits a meaningful opinion unless, of course, it resembles “What kinda beer wouldya’ like?”

Allow me to give you an example that shows niceness is no longer a quality worth judging.

Recently I met a perfectly nice young person. Let’s call this person Pat (today’s definition of niceness is oblivious to gender, but I’ll refer to Pat as “he” since English sorely lacks gender-neutral third-person pronouns). Upon meeting Pat I stupidly thought, “Pat seems nice. He smiled when we spoke and, if the number of head nods is any indication, he must’ve thought what I said was interesting.” This alone would not usually motivate me to hang out with someone more than once, but we lived near each other and had mutual friends so we were in contact frequently. Pat drank with us, ate with us, he did everything — yes, that too, with some of us — except engage in our discussions.

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Heaven must be one hell of a boring place. After reading this column I hope you will agree to never again use the word nice to describe someone, except in a tonguein-cheek way. And if you come across someone who does use nice seriously, that you do the right thing and explain why she or he needs to choose another adjective.

Nice has become synonymous with agreeable. It is seen as nice to shy away from arguments, disagreements or uncomfortable situations. Think for a moment about your best memories with your closest friends. In my mind and, I imagine, in yours — unless you are indeed nice — I cannot think of one funny, warm or important memory that happened because my friends and I were being nice. My most vivid memories, in fact, involve my friends and I being the opposite — often immature or

Whenever my friends and I were embroiled in a debate, Pat took the role, which he probably thought a nice one, of asking us to stop disagreeing, get along and drink ourselves into a collective stupor. I assume Pat acted so because differences of opinion among friends made him uncomfortable, and not out of a subversive attempt to anger us, but I cannot be sure.

Regardless, as if this nice behavior wasn’t annoying enough, Pat chose to chime in once. We were discussing socioeconomic based affirmative action when he interjected, “I really like diversity, but I hate how black people that are less qualified than me got in and got scholarships.” I resisted calling Pat a dolt and did not cite that his contribution was off topic. I could not, however, allow Pat’s comment to go unrebuked. I explained why what he said was racist and I kid you not, the first comment from the room was, “Shane, it’s not nice to call Pat racist.”

This was when it occurred to me that being nice is a measure of how agreeable a person is. At that instant it became apparent that niceness no longer measures how much someone cares for others or the extent to which a person holds morally justifiable beliefs.

This example is one among many that shows someone can be a nice racist, just like Pat, or more likely a nice bore. So from now on, when your opinion of a third party is asked, please, I beg of you, use words that actually describe personality traits instead of copping out by calling her or him nice, unless of course she or he is.

Shane Seppinni is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

He may be reached at s.d.seppinni@cornellsun.com. Letters from a Young Curmudgeon appears alternate Mondays this semester.

‘Gotcha’ Has No Place in Politics: All’s Not Fair in Campaign Wars H

ow many hidden cameras does it take to derail a campaign? After the events of this week, many pundits would say just one. But I’m not so sure.

A few days ago, Mother Jones leaked a video that was recorded at a Romney fundraiser last May where the Republican candidate was recorded saying that he was disregarding 47 percent of the electorate because they were already firmly entrenched in their loyalty to Obama. He said that he had no reason to attempt and woo them because his messages about lower taxes would ring hollow.

To be fair, this was probably not one of Romney’s best moments. But will it be fatal to his campaign like so many are suggesting? No. This isn’t the first time a politician has been caught with his foot in his mouth. Last month, Biden was accused of being racist after he made a comment about putting people “back in chains.” Eric Fehrnstrom got in a spot of trouble after drawing an analogy between Romney’s policy stances and an Etch A Sketch. And four years ago, a certain senator from Illinois received significant flack after referring to some conservatives as “clinging to their guns and religion.” That guy went on to win the presidency.

If the past is any indication, the public loves a good gaffe. They love to

point and ooh and cackle mercilessly, “Ha! I’ve got you in a corner now.”

But the thing is: We have an extremely short attention span and an even shorter memory. If it’s slip-ups, gotcha moments or oops you’re looking for, just wait until the next news cycle. Will we still remember this particular incident come November 6? As we’re standing in that polling booth, are we really thinking about the comments Romney made in a grainy cell phone video?

And I would argue that Romney’s comment wasn’t so much of a Freudian slip as it was a poorly executed political strategy. Consistent candidates are unicorns — they just don’t exist. All candidates will start out in the primary season catering to extreme right or extreme left voters.

As we move into the general election though, independent voters become much more important and you see candidates moving to the middle.

(Romney, for example, spent all summer saying that he would repeal Obamacare as soon as he took office.

Yet a few weeks ago, he told Meet the Press that there were parts of it he would like to keep.) The point is that, when it comes to political rhetoric, there isn’t just a message; there’s an audience as well. And it’s strategic to manipulate that message depending on your audience. Romney’s speech at

the NAACP was vastly different than the one he gave at the RNC, and rightly so. In this case, he was speaking to people who can afford spending $50,000 for a dinner. Is he going to

cats or the way he runs an economy?

Candidates fight dirty during elections. The highest office in the world is up for grabs, so it comes as no surprise that most politicians take an

Joyce Wu ’13 Guest Room sound more snooty and pretentious than usual? Yes, and he should. He’s trying to take their money.

Finally, moments like these are not only distorted to generate the most shock factor, they’re also downright distracting. What Romney said wasn’t so far from the truth — those 47 percent most likely won’t vote for him.

His comment speaks to his campaign strategy, not his issue position, which ultimately, is what really matters. It bothers me that people on Facebook can quote Romney verbatim on his gaffes but have no idea what his ideas on job creation are. Which is a better judgment of a candidate’s electability?

The way he schmoozes with the fat

“ends justify the means” approach while they campaign. At the end of the day, we have to acknowledge that playing clean and fair is a distant dream of the past. But we still have to find the best person to lead. More focus should be placed on the substantive issues of the election. And whoever wins, we should be proud of the policies he plans to enact, even if we have to turn a blind eye to the tactics it took for him to emerge victorious.

Joyce Wu is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jw637@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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BY LUCAS COLBERT-CARREIRO Sun Staff Writer

At just five feet and four inches, Avicii nevertheless towered above the massive crowd that gathered in Barton Hall on Saturday for his Homecoming show, presented by the Cornell Concert Commission. As the first notes of his opening number rang out, the 23-yearold thrust his arm into the air — an action mirrored by the almost 5000-strong horde as they roared their approval.

Concertgoers were greeted with the ear-splitting sirens and flashing lights of several ambulances (more E.M.S. than E.D.M.), as excessive pre-games took their toll on overly eager “dubheads.” Lines stretching the length of the venue made for a lengthy entrance process in which some neon-clad, wayfarer-sporting hopefuls had to wait almost an hour while ticket-checks and patdowns were administered. One girl waiting outside will call sobbed into a friend’s shoulder, tragically exclaiming, “But I love Avicii!”

These hold-ups, however, didn’t stifle pre-show excitement by a long shot. Throngs of people audibly hummed Avicii’s inexorably catchy “Levels,” waving the standard glow sticks as more and more fans filtered in.

Openers D.J. AA and Radar Radar made sure that both sweatiness and exhilaration grew exponentially as clocks ticked closer to 9:30 p.m. These local electro acts were charged with the task of hyping up the already more than willing crowd — one that they performed for admirably. Between calls and responses of “Are you guys excited for Avicii?” the two spun some truly fun uptempo mixes. One especially bubbly number was reminiscent of Unicorn Kid’s synth-heavy ballads mixed with a generous dose of dubstep — a combination that worked surprisingly well. Near the end their set, a slightly remixed version of “Gangnam Style” (the viral hit that sparked a Ho Plaza flash mob) caused total chaos, as more than a few students fervently broke into dance.

Avicii’s big entrance was accompanied by stage effects that were nothing less than spectacular.

Both the raised D.J. station and the entire wall

behind it erupted with white light, pulsating to the beat.

Though he hadn’t brought the giant head that is his signature, the stage set-up, lighting and air cannons were beyond impressive and marked a new high in terms of Barton Hall production value.

After his big entrance, Avicii started with relatively slower tracks, clearly drawing inspiration from some of his electro

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predecessors, like Daft Punk. These tracks seamlessly melted into other elated and bouncy songs, giving off the airy, carefree vibe of a beachside European nightclub.

As the set continued, Avicii sometimes strayed from his notably melodic brand of E.D.M., occasionally delving into more Skrillex-esque dubstep with dirtier drops and more grating bass. His cover of Swedish House Mafia’s powerful “Greyhound” along with his own “Fade Into Darkness” and “Seek Bromance” received cries of recognition from the crowd and a chorus of amped up air punching.

After the first hour, the beginning of almost every song was met with whispers of anticipatory “Is this ‘Levels’?” Indeed, as engaging as his songs were, after such a long set even the most pounding bass-lines were blending together and feeling a little tired. Fans seemed to cycle in and out of the stage area — dancing relentlessly, retreating downstairs to rehydrate and complain of temporary hearing loss only to return again minutes later.

Though spirits never really wavered, an hour and a half into the set it became clear that intense arm waving can only be sustained for so long. Luckily, the iconic “Levels” came soon as surrounding lights dimmed and the audience hushed deferentially. Thousands of sweaty faces gazed up as a single spotlight shone down on Avicii — throwing his right arm into the air, and looking just as thrilled as the crowd below him.

Lucas Colbert-Carreiro is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be contacted at lcolbert@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Town Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio

Yo La Tengo and Sam Green

Friday at 8 p.m.

Bailey Hall

Monday at 7:30 p.m.

Cornell Cinema, Willard Straight Hall

Music, science and film collide at Cornell Cinema’s most monumental fall event. Acclaimed documentary filmmaker Sam Green (The Weather Underground) will present, in wholly unique fashion, his latest “live documentary,” The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller. A collection of rarely-seen videos and photos of the acclaimed writer, futurist and architect (inventor of the geodesic dome), the film projects besides Green, who narrates from the stage. He will be accompanied live by Yo La Tengo, the indie rock trio from Hoboken responsible for some of the best music of the last three decades. The band will also host a Q&A session at 9:30 p.m. This “Freewheeling” session will be easygoing, with the band answering questions and taking song requests. Check CornellCinemaTickets.com for passes before they’re all gone.

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Catch versatility at its finest when the Cornell Concert Series hosts the Gonzalo Rubalcaba Trio.

Rubalcaba, a Grammy-award winning Cuban pianist and composer, blends Afro-Cuban jazz with classical Cuban works and traditional American music. This eclectic mix will surely satisfy music lovers of all genres. For tickets, visit concertseries.cornell.edu.

— Yana Lysenko

Race, Activism and Art: A Conversation With Danny Glover

Tuesday at 5 p.m.

Multipurpose Room, Africana Studies and Research Center Actor and political activist Danny Glover, known for his roles in The Color Purple and Lethal Weapon, will head a panel discussion on Tuesday alongside faculty members from Cornell’s Africana Studies and Film Studies departments. Glover has spoken openly about myriad causes, such as the importance of education in the U.S. On Monday, two films Glover produced will be screened at the Schwartz Center: The Black Power Mixtape 1967-75 plays at 4:30 p.m. Bamako, which examines poverty alleviation in Africa, runs at 7 p.m. Both the discussion and the film screening are free, but tickets are required. For details, see events.cornell.edu.

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Fair Is Not Fair

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ast Thursday, Charles Blow, visual columnist for The the portrayal of any side can often reek of inauNew York Times, gave a moving lecture at Goldwin thenticity, the journalist’s responsibility is to Smith Hall. Watching a clip of him speaking about attempt to give equal non-judgmental time to Trayvon Martin’s clothing choices on The Sun’s website for both sides.

Noble as these goals seem on the surface, a third time, I still get goose bumps.

“What you wear says nothing about your guilt or inno- what role does this type of information really cence. What you wear does not invite people to shoot you,” play? In reference to the importance of cold Blow declared in elegantly blunt terms, speaking about hard data, literary theory has for generations unnecessary ink spilled over whether or not Trayvon Martin dealt with the inadequacy of abstracted statishad ever sported grills. And it’s true — try as we might to tics. Cleanth Brooks, a member of the highly analyze the implications of fashion choices, justice must formalist school of New Criticism, spoke eloquently on this principle, “There is no end to always trump petty speculation.

Despite my admiration, as Blow went on to mourn the the accumulation of facts. Moreover, mere accudeath of news journalism and the proliferation of the high- mulation of facts — a point our own generation ly editorialized blogosphere, I could not help but disagree is only beginning to realize — are meaningless.”

Statistics out of context are meant to distract with some of his arguments. Blow blamed some of our country’s hyperpolarization on the increasing popularity of and confound. Republicans frequently quote opinion journalism in all forms: columns, editorials, pun- the national debt and claim that it amounts to ditry, the blogosphere, the twittersphere and beyond. Blow around $50,000 per person, implying that every newborn claimed that the market for non-biased news journalism child somehow enters the world already owing money. This was dwindling because people would rather have their opin- proposition is ludicrous — the debt is a national responsiions confirmed than read the facts of a story, splitting the bility, not an individual one, and right now the government is practically being paid to borrow money with interest rates left and right more than ever.

Though it’s difficult to accurately determine what com- below that of inflation. Reading statistics could cause the plex social processes influence how people form their polit- reader to go into numeric shock; their inclusion is based on ical opinions, what exactly is this beacon of unbiased media the assumption that they will catch the audience’s attention, of which Blow spoke? Well, it consists of stations like though without heartfelt analysis that puts the data to use, CNN, in-the-field reporters and their newsroom counter- they are utterly meaningless.

Furthermore, the notion of balance as some sort of nod parts and statisticians. These journalists roll out fact after fact without attempting to imbue the reader with any inter- to the gods of fairness is even more debilitating than raw pretation. And Blow’s New York Times has some of the best data. In an attempt to avoid bias, news outlets give equal time and weight to any two — this campaign sides of a story. During the season Nate debt debate the news media S i l v e r ’ s actually did the Tea Party a FiveThirtyEight service by including it in and Ashley the debate, despite the fact Parker’s coverage that its idea to allow nationof the Romney al default was completely campaign have Slow idiotic. Stanley Fish, anoththoroughly Lerner er literary theorist, once impressed me. wrote that “‘Fair’ is a weak The news virtue; it is not even a virtue media is responsiat all because it insists on a ble for portraying both sides of a story. No matter which bill hits the floor of withdrawal from moral judgment.” Balance is its own type Congress or which video leaks onto YouTube, journalistic of bias really, since it forces us to speak about the likes of integrity requires that one side’s opinion is not given pref- Michelle Bachmann as if they’re on the same intellectual erential treatment over the others. Fair enough — though plane as their more thoughtful colleagues.

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Now I don’t write all of this to devalue the work that reporters do. News journalists do the muckraking necessary to have opinions. As Blow astutely pointed out, we only have gaffes because someone worked his or her butt off following a candidate around, waiting for him or her to slip up. But opinion pieces are news; they are informative and, moreover, they present their bias on the surface rather than behind a veneer. If the audience knows the bias is there, he or she can easily disregard it like water on top of yogurt.

Blow was right that we are more polarized than ever.

Reading the news only to confirm one’s own opinions is a serious issue — ideologues hunt for reasons only after their minds are made up, rather than wait to hear different points of view. Hyperpolarization will continue to tear our government apart until people learn to put down their selective filters — until liberals watch Fox with an open-mind or conservatives turn on MSNBC without cringing.

The solution is not necessarily to look solely to news for some sort of unbiased story that, in my mind, is a fallacy.

What a conscientious reader must do is read skeptically and from multiple sources. Liberals must read Charles Krauthammer, Peggy Noonan, David Brooks, and occasionally tune in to Bill O’Reilly. Conservatives need to read Paul Krugman and Maureen Dowd, and even watch Bill Moyers and Chris Matthews. Still though, nobody should listen to Glenn Beck. There’s a difference between an open mind and an empty one.

Adam Lerner is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at alerner@cornellsun.com. Slow Lerner runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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MIAMI (AP) — First, the Miami Dolphins missed a potential game-winning field-goal attempt in overtime, and then the New York Jets had a kick blocked with a chance at a victory, and then ...

Timeout!

Kicker Nick Folk received a reprieve that gave the Jets a wild win.

After Folk’s blocked field-goal attempt in OT was negated by a timeout, his retry was a successful 33-yarder with 6:04 left, and the Jets beat the Dolphins 23-20 on Sunday.

Mark Sanchez hit Santonio Holmes for a 38-yard gain to set up the kick. Two plays later, Folk’s attempt was blocked by Randy Starks charging up the middle, but the officials whistled the play dead just as the ball was snapped because Dolphins coach Joe Philbin had called timeout.

“I thought it was the right call,” Philbin said. “I was planning all along to call timeout right before he kicked the ball. ...

Typically we’re going to ice the kicker.”

Folk said he had a similar experience with Dallas in 2008, when a negated kick was blocked and he made the retry. He said he and his Jets teammates heard the whistle when Philbin called timeout, and his blockers eased up.

“I’d rather kick it than sit there and not kick it,” Folk said. “I got another warmup kick.”

Philbin managed a sheepish grin as Folk lined up for his second attempt. The Jets kicker then made the winner.

“You never see that happen,” Miami quarterback Ryan Tannehill said. “It’s a weird thing. It’s one of those things where you say the odds were not in your favor today. It just wasn’t meant to be.”

On the previous possession, the Dolphins’ Dan Carpenter was wide left on a 48-yard field-goal attempt that would have given them the victory. Carpenter also missed from 47 yards early in the fourth quarter.

“I let the team down,” Carpenter said.

“We got breaks, no doubt about it,” Jets coach Rex Ryan said.

“We’ll take the win. We’re not going to give it back.”

New York improved to 2-1, and the Dolphins dropped to 1-2.

“It’s a tough game,” Miami linebacker Karlos Dansby said. “We were inches away from 2-1.”

The Jets’ Darrelle Revis and Miami’s Reggie Bush left the game with left knee injuries. Revis is scheduled to undergo an MRI exam Monday.

New Jets offensive coordinator Tony Sparano had trouble getting his unit moving much of the day, but in the end he called the right play just enough to beat the team that fired him as head coach last December.

“I think he’s happy to get the victory for the team, not just himself,” Ryan said.

Tim Tebow called a fake punt and ran for 5 yards and a first down, but otherwise again contributed little to the Jets’ offense.

He still has yet to throw a pass this year, and a third-down throw from Sanchez bounced off Tebow’s helmet and fell incomplete.

“I was not expecting it that quick, but I guess I’ll learn,” Tebow said. “We got a win. That’s all that matters.”

Sanchez redeemed himself at the end of an erratic afternoon.

His 7-yard touchdown pass to Jeremy Kerley with 3:01 left to give the Jets their first lead, 20-17.

Tannehill then moved Miami 48 yards, including 19 yards on a third-down pass interference penalty against Revis’ replacement, Kyle Wilson. Carpenter’s 41-yard field goal with 16 seconds left forced overtime.

Miami lost despite trailing for less than 3 minutes of the game.

“That’s the NFL,” Dolphins defensive end Cameron Wake said. “There’s no script. It just happens.”

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him. To be honest I thought it was going to sail over his head, but he made one of the most outstanding catches I’ve ever seen and we ended up getting the first down and we ended up their game film last week and [it was] pretty impressive for a scoring — without the catch, it would have been fourth team that didn’t know each other until about 25 days ago and down. It was a horrific throw by me, but he made it look got together and learned a whole offensive and defensive pretty good.”

“We threw a screen pass to [Sussman] and Miller left it playbook.”

“Something that helped them out was that the coach from behind him and pretty high and he just did this acrobatic Post University, which had just joined the league recently, had move, jumping backwards, snagging it out of the air surgone over to Franklin Pierce to coach them,” said senior rounded by defense,” Gruenenfelder said. “That kept us alive defensive lineman Will Edmonds. “They came out with a because we were down one at that point.”

On the defensive side, it was a solid team effort after that pretty solid game plan which we weren’t expecting. It was deffirst possession, as Franklin Pierce only scored two more initely a good game.”

The Red struggled out of the gate, as it turned it over on touchdowns the rest of the game. Sophomore defensive back its first possession off a tipped Miller pass and gave up a 19- Chris Sitko led the way with nine tackles, while sophomore yard touchdown run on Franklin Pierce’s first offensive snap. defensive back Eric Stazi and junior linebacker Kyle Higgins each recorded six tackles and combined to record a sack.

Despite the early touchdown, the Red was not fazed.

“It was really just two small mistakes that ended up as a Despite the solid effort, the team believes this was not the best it can play. score [for Franklin Pierce],” “Defensively, it was not a flattering Edmonds said. “The intercep- “We knew that if we performed at a game for us,” said senior defensive tion was actually tipped; that lineman Chris Leyen. “We pulled out was the only reason it was an certain level, [we would] stop them.” the win, but we did not play to the interception. The touchdown best of our abilities and that’s somewas just one missed assign- Will Edmonds thing we need to work for as we face ment … it’s two things that the other teams in our league.” could easily have been preThe biggest moment for the defense was when Franklin vented, so it’s not like they came out and just beat us; it was just two small mistakes that we needed to immediately look Pierce got the ball back with two minutes after Cornell’s last score. They managed to record a four-and-out and the offense past and remember that we had four quarters left.”

“Immediately [after the first touchdown], we got together kneeled it three times for the victory.

“We knew that if we performed at a certain level, [we as a team [and stressed], that’s part of a game; they got really lucky and we were still a better team,” said senior wide receiv- would] stop them and we just needed to get to that level,” er Spenser Gruenefelder. “We played [from behind] for the Edmonds said. “We brought back all the starters and it was simple: fourth-and-out and the game was ours. Everybody first half but that was fine.”

On offense, the trio of Miller, senior co-captain and wide was focused and we got the job done.”

“When the offense does its job and gets the ball in the end receiver Abe Mellinger and Gruenenfelder had another solid day. Miller passed for 214 yards, two touchdowns and two zone, we have to make that stand,” Leyen agreed. “It shows interceptions, Mellinger hauled in four catches for 102 yards the character of your team; if you want to be a championship and Gruenenfelder caught four passes for 90 yards and a contending team, you have to be able to … step up and make touchdown. However, the most spectacular play of the day the stop.”

After starting 2-0, the Red is very excited for its upcoming belongs to senior running back Daniel Sussman, who displayed some incredible athleticism in hauling in a crucial 11- game against Princeton, according to Gruenenfelder.

“We’re really looking forward to Princeton; we only have yard first down in the fourth quarter.

“Sussman started out as a running back and I saw him four days to practice, but we’re clicking and practice is going catch a couple balls from that position, but he’s never played to go really well this week,” he said. “I’m looking forward for receiver before, then all of a sudden he winds up at wide Princeton and things are looking up.” receiver,” Miller explained. “When we were driving down in our last possession [down 21-20], it was third down and I held the ball too long and was forced to throw the ball to Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

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Ivy League. 13 out of the Red’s next 15 games will be against Ivy League schools.

The team plays its first home game this week on Tuesday against Colgate and then plays rivals Yale and Brown Friday and Saturday. The next time Cornell plays Columbia will be Oct. 20 at Newman Arena in Ithaca.

On the early season, Wong leads the offensive Cornell attack with 103 kills and averaging 2.78 kills per set. Junior captain Kelly Marble has been impressive from the service line with 19 aces and leading the team with a .51 aces per set average.

Reinke is by far the team’s most valuable

“We are ready to get back in the gym and show them how we play on Tuesday.”

Kelly Reinke setter, handing out 336 assists. Senior Ana Vanjak leads the team with seven blocked shots.

Cornell will next play Tuesday at home against local rival Colgate. The Red leads the overall series 53-27-1, but will look to avenge last year’s lost in four sets.

Reinke and the team look to play well and earn some important practice time before their important matches this weekend.

“We are ready to get back in the gym and show how we can play on Tuesday,” she said.

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun.com.

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who dragged his feet inbounds for Cornell’s second straight one-play scoring drive and a 14-0 advantage with 3:37 to go in the opening quarter. Tasker finished with 10 catches for 138 yards and two scores.

“We really defended the pass well, and more importantly, we were able to get turnovers,” Austin said. “That was really the difference in the first half — we were able to get the turnovers and we protected the football.”

After Tasker’s touchdown, sophomore safety Rush Miller and a herd of Cornell defenders denied Varga on fourth-and-1 from the Cornell 36-yard line. Miller finished with six tackles while freshman cornerback Jarrod Watson-Lewis had a teamhigh for the second week in a row with 11 stops.

“Our coaches put together a great game plan for us,” Nelson said. “We just executed our assignments. Last week sometimes we had some missed assignments, some missed tackles and this week a big thing was we gang tackled. Yale has great running backs and we swarmed them and did a great job tackling.”

Hagy continued to carve through the Bulldog defense, and on the seventh play of the next drive, the rookie scored his second touchdown of the contest from four yards out, launching the Red to a 210 lead early in the second quarter. Several

minutes later, Cornell senior defensive Bulldogs’ two-point conversion failed, end Emmitt Terrell pressured Williams making their six points the fewest total a into an ill-advised throw that sophomore Cornell team has surrendered this centucornerback Michael Turner picked off — ry. Red freshman kicker Boomer Olsen the fifth interception of the Yale signal booted the squad’s first successful field goal of the season from 22 yards out with caller’s young career.

On the ensuing Red possession, 8:25 to play, establishing the final score, Mathews squirted forward to convert a 45-6.

The 39-point destruction is Cornell’s fourth-and-inches before throwing a fiveyard touchdown to senior wide receiver widest margin of victory since a 50-point Kurt Ondash, who redeemed himself for win over Georgetown on Oct. 15, 2005 committing a few early gaffes and then and the largest in conference since a 41-0 some. The senior hauled in another short shutout at Columbia on Nov. 10, 1990 score to balloon the Cornell lead, 35-0, — the year the Red last shared a League with 1:29 left in the half and he ended title.

“Kudos to our staff — they really prewith six snags for 61 yards. Yale senior pared our kicker Philippe guys well,” Panico missed “We’ve got to build off this and Austin said. wide right on “This was two 40-yard- get better for next weekend.” one of our plus field goal better weeks attempts in the Jeff Mathews of practice final minutes, sending the Red well on its way to a com- that we’ve had in a long time. The credit plete Homecoming victory for the second really needs to go to [our staff with] the way our guys came out — they were preyear in a row.

In the second half, all that could disap- pared to play [and] they played with a lot point the Cornell faithful was the gloomy of energy.”

The Cornell offensive line also deserves sky and on-and-off drizzle. The Red defense forced three-and-outs on Yale’s credit for controlling the line of scrimfirst two drives, leading to a 21-yard mage and allowing only one sack of hookup from Mathews to Tasker and a Mathews, as senior center and offensive whopping 42-0 lead with 3:43 remaining co-captain Bob Bullington continued to snap well with his left hand due to his in the third quarter.

Varga, who finished with 91 yards on broken and casted right wrist. Cornell 13 carries, then propelled Yale on its lone dominated time of possession, 35:34 to scoring drive of the afternoon. The 24:26.

“Up front, those guys were unbelievable,” Mathews said. “[Last weekend the Fordham] defense dictated their pressure up front so we ended up throwing the ball a little bit more. This week, a very good rushing attack, especially early on … was huge for us. [Tasker] had a lot of catches inside the hashes and that’s where we want to win the game.”

The sweetest surprise for the Red, though, was the defensive showing after a dubious second half in the season opener.

Coordinator Kim Dameron lit a fire under the players during the week and Nelson said he didn’t doubt for one second that his unit would respond against Yale.

“Our defense has a lot of character,” he said. “[We] showed that we can step up when we need to. We didn’t see [Homecoming] as a distraction — we saw it as an opportunity. And we made the most of our opportunity.”

That the Red did. But the veteran team knows its steamrolling of the Bulldogs was only one game. Cornell ventures back out of the Ivies with a matchup at longtime rival Bucknell on Saturday under the lights.

“We should be very proud of how we played,” Mathews said. “But on the same note, we need to know that we’ve got to build off this and get better for next week.”

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

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Red Pounces on Yale in Homecoming Rout Mathews throws four touchdowns; freshman Hagy scores twice

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Senior Writer

“We preach [that] if a guy goes down, the next guy’s got to step up,” said Cornell junior quarterback and offensive co-captain Jeff Mathews. On Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field, just about everyone stepped up for the Red (1-1, 1-0 Ivy League) as it dominated Yale (1-1, 0-1) in all three phases of the game to down the Bulldogs, 45-6, on national television. Playing without the Ivy’s triple-crown wide receiver (fifth-year senior Shane Savage) and one of the team’s best defenders (senior linebacker and special teams co-captain Michael Hernandez), the hosts put on a show before 15,333 fans in a Homecoming blowout that was uncompetitive by halftime.

Mathews completed 29-of-39 passes despite a handful of drops, finishing with 340 yards and four touchdowns. It was the reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year’s fourth consecutive 300-yard game dating back to last season and the eighth of his career, tying the Cornell record. Mathews has thrown one interception and 17 touchdowns in his last 186 pass attempts, completing 76 percent of them for nearly 1,900 yards.

The Red offense also enjoyed a breath of fresh air from freshman running back Luke Hagy, who carried 21 times for 88 yards and his first two career touchdowns in addition to 69 receiving yards on five catches. Head coach Kent Austin lauded the two-time Pittsburgh Male Athlete of the Year, whom the Red hopes will spark a ground game that ranked last in the Ancient Eight in 2010 and 2011.

“Luke is mature beyond his age,” Austin

said. “He’s grounded, he’s mature, he doesn’t get flustered [and] he’s kind of unflappable.

He has to do a lot in our offense because we use him as a receiver as well.”

Speaking of unflappable, a maligned Cornell defense was all over the field and made all the plays, holding Yale to 350 yards of total offense, forcing two turnovers and preventing the Bulldogs from entering the red zone at any time in the first half. The Red, donning 1930s throwback uniforms, would have recorded its first shutout since 1993 if it weren’t for a fourth-and-goal touchdown pass by Yale freshman quarterback Eric Williams with 7.3 seconds left in the third quarter.

Sophomore linebacker Andrew Nelson, Hernandez’s replacement, set the tone early by sniffing out a bubble screen and intercepting Williams on Yale’s first offensive play after a fourth-down incompletion by the Red. On first down of the next drive, Hagy ran wide and stretched out for the pylon on an 11-yard score as Cornell drew first blood to lead, 7-0, firing up the Homecoming crowd.

“I had a little bit of a hint that [Yale freshman running back Tyler Varga] was going to get the ball,” said Nelson, who tallied 55 tackles and a pick last season. “Our offense doesn’t need a short field, but when we give them that, we feel good about it.”

Later in the first quarter, Yale senior wide receiver Cameron Sandquist muffed a punt return and Red sophomore long snapper Dylan Chayes recovered. Mathews immediately placed a perfect 14-yard pass into the outstretched hands of senior wide receiver and special teams co-captain Luke Tasker, See FOOTBALL page 15

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Starting off solid | Freshman running back Luke Hagy carried 88 yards, 69 receiving yards on five catches and had his first two career touchdowns on Saturday.

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Cornell Falls to Columbia in Red Tops New Competitor First Ivy Match of the Season

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Dig it | Sophomore capain Kelly Reinke posted 32 assists and nine digs against Columbia.

The women’s volleyball team spent Cornell’s homecoming weekend in New York City at its first match against an Ivy League opponent. The Red lost to host Columbia in straight sets as its early season struggles continue.

Cornell (2-8, 0-1 Ivy League) was defeated by the Lions (6-4, 1-0 Ivy) 1925, 15-25, 22-22 on Saturday afternoon. The Red had just a .146 hitting percentage, ten service errors and seven blocking errors. Leading Cornell was freshman Breanna Wong with 13 kills and just four errors with a .346 hitting percentage. Sophomore captain Kelly Reinke recorded 32 assists and nine digs to lead the Red. “It was definitely a tough loss,” Reinke said. “We know we could have played better as a team and it was not the outcome we wanted.”

The outcome puts Cornell down one game in its season quest to win the See VOLLEYBALL page 15

After a thrilling six-overtime victory over Penn, the Cornell sprint football team expected an easy win this past Friday against league newcomer Franklin Pierce, but were treated with a surprise, as Franklin Pierce almost beat the Red before

falling 26-21 in its first ever sprint football game. The Red (2-0, 1-0 CSFL) was impressed by the Ravens (0-1) and their play.

“I wasn’t particularly surprised with how well they played,” said junior co-captain and quarterback Brendan Miller. “I was watching See SPRINT page 15

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Receiving good news | Senior wide receiver Spenser Gruenenfelder caught four passes for 90 yards and a touchdown on Friday against Franklin Pierce.