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Fall Sports Schedule CROSS COUNTRY Sept. 7 Sept. 15 Sept. 28 Oct. 12 Oct. 13 Oct. 19 Oct. 27 Nov. 09 Nov. 17
at Army-Binghamton at Yellowjacket at Paul Short at Wisconsin at Princeton John Reif Memorial vs. Heps Championships vs. NCAA Northeast Regional vs. NCAA Championship
FIELD HOCKEY (7-7) Aug. 31 Sept. 2 Sept. 5 Sept. 9 Sept. 15 Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Sept. 29 Sept. 30 Oct. 3 Oct. 7 Oct. 13 Oct. 15 Oct. 20 Oct. 27 Oct. 28 Nov. 3
L 1-2 L 1-6 L 1-2 L 0-2 W 4-0 L 1-2 L 3-4 W 1-0 W 1-0 W 3-2 W 3-1 W 4-0 W 2-1 L 3-4 12 p.m. 2 p.m. 12 p.m.
at Lock Haven UNC at Bucknell at Penn State Penn at Columbia at Rutgers Yale Siena at Colgate vs. Georgetown at Harvard Davidson at Brown Princeton Holy Cross Dartmouth
SPRINT FOOTBALL (3-2) Sept. 14 Sept. 22 Sept. 28 Oct. 05 Oct. 12 Oct. 26 Nov. 2
What’s Inside 3 MEN’S SOCCER
6 SPRINT FOOTBALL
Rolling Thunder
Sprint Falls in Critical Matchups Player Profile: Abe Mellinger
4 CROSS COUNTRY Strong Showings All Around Player Profile: Katie Kellner
5 WOMEN’S SOCCER Red Perseveres Despite Tough Times Player Profile: Maneesha Chitanvis
7 FIELD HOCKEY & VOLLEYBALL Program Heads in Positive Direction Season Marked by Up and Downs
8 SPRINT
Staring down the competition one player at a time
Credits DESIGN
CONTRIBUTORS
Supplement & Covers Design: John Schroeder ’74 Cover Photos: Oliver Kliewe ’14
Lauren Ritter ’13, Haley Velasco ’15, Skyler Dale ’16, Juan Carlos Toledo ’13, Albert Liao ’14, Scott Eckl ’13, Chris Mills ’16, Ben Horowitz ’15
PHOTOGRAPHY Oliver Kliewe ’14, Connor Archard ’15, Brian Stern ’13, Michelle Feldman ’15, Abhi Shah ’13, Kyle Kulas ’14
EDITORS Lauren Ritter ’13, Haley Velasco ’15, Dani Abada ’14, Scott Chiusano ’15
SPECIAL THANKS Special thanks to Cornell Athletic Communications, Cornell Men’s Soccer, Cornell Sprint Football
W 42-34 W 26-21 W 22-15 L 14-38 L 3-11 7 p.m. 7 p.m.
Penn at Franklin Pierce Princeton at Army Navy Post Mansfield
WOMEN’S SOCCER (1-12-1) Sept. 1 Sept. 3 Sept. 7 Sept. 9 Sept. 12 Sept. 14 Sept. 16 Sept. 21 Sept. 23 Sept. 28 Oct. 2 Oct. 6 Oct. 13 Oct. 21 Oct. 27 Nov. 3
L 1-6 L 2-3 L 1-3 L 2-5 L 1-2 L 1-2 L 0-4 L 0-1 L 1-2 L 1-2 W 4-1 T 1-1 L 0-1 L 0-1 6 p.m. 3 p.m.
at Georgetown at GWU at Colgate at Albany at Binghamton Sacred Heart at La Salle at Columbia Niagara Penn Lafayette at Harvard Yale at Brown Princeton Dartmouth
MEN’S SOCCER (12-1) Aug. 31 Sept. 2 Sept. 7 Sept. 9 Sept. 14 Sept. 16 Sept. 19 Sept. 22 Sept. 25 Sept. 29 Oct. 6 Oct. 9 Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Oct. 27 Nov. 3 Nov. 12
W 2-1 W 2-0 W 1-0 W 4-0 Postponed W 2-1 W 5-0 W 3-2 W 4-1 W 3-2 W 3-1 W 3-1 W 3-0 L 0-2 3 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m.
at CSU Fullerton at Loyola Marymount at Lafayette Buffalo Vermont Wofford at Binghamton St. Joseph’s Hartwick Penn at Harvard at Colgate Yale at Brown Princeton Dartmouth at Columbia
VOLLEYBALL (6-13) Aug. 31 Aug. 31 Sept. 1 Sept. 7 Sept. 7 Sept. 8 Sept. 8 Sept. 15 Sept. 15 Sept. 22 Sept. 25 Sept. 28 Sept. 29 Oct. 5 Oct. 6 Oct. 9 Oct. 12 Oct. 13 Oct. 20 Oct. 26 Oct. 27 Nov. 2 Nov. 3 Nov. 9 Nov. 10
L 0-3 L 0-3 L 0-3 L 2-3 W 3-2 L 0-3 L 2-3 W 3-1 L 0-3 L 0-3 W 3-2 L 0-3 W 3-1 L 0-3 L 1-3 W 3-2 L 1-3 W 3-2 L 2-3 7 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 5 p.m. 7 p.m. 5 p.m.
vs. Fresno State at Colorado vs. Northern Arizona at Fordham vs. Bucknell vs. Stony Brook vs. NJIT vs. Central Connecticut at Temple at Columbia Colgate Yale Brown at Penn at Princeton Binghamton Harvard Dartmouth Columbia at Brown at Yale at Dartmouth at Harvard Princeton Penn
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humble and focused ast year the Red concluded its fall cam- increasing amount of attention despite the team’s paign on a sour note — finishing 0-1-3 as the team climbed the national notable successes. The against Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth rankings reaching as high as No. 10. shared mentality of only Cornell has experienced one of its and Columbia and placing 4th in the Ivy focusing on the next League. Frustration and disappointment col- strongest seasons in program histomatchup on the schedule ored the players’ faces as they walked off the ry during 2012. Under and not harboring on field after their last game of 2011; however, Zawislan, the Red had its best past games’ outwhile the season may have been put to rest, the start in school history — wincomes has intense desire to come back strong and win the ning the first 12 games of the helped the Red season and earning recognition Ivy League title was still smoldering. make it to this “The key was for all of the players ... to as the only team to go on a 12point in the seacome back and be as game-ready as possible,” game win streak in the country son. said head coach Jaro Zawislan. “That is what this year. Cornell shattered records “The team chemthis group has done. The returning players just almost every week and has had mulistry is amazing right now,” continued the momentum from the spring tiple players recognized as Ivy League Oder said. “Every player has a and the new players they came in ready to con- Player of the Week, including Haber good attitude and is driven tribute. For the first time, the group that were who earned the honor four times as towards our goal of an Ivy League established starters at the end of the spring sea- of Oct. 15. The junior striker is curson kept the momentum going.” In one year’s time, the Red has ornell made news during improved on last year’s 8-2-6 record and replaced it with a near perfect this season, becoming the only 12-1-0, going 3-1-0 in Ivy play. Beginning the 2012 season on a team to go 12 games without a high note, the Red traveled cross single loss or tie. country to take on Cal State Fullerton and Loyola Marymount. The Red dominated both Californian teams, rently leading the nation in points per game title.” “This season we are doing a much better winning 2-1 and 2-0, respectively, as senior (3.00) and ranks second in goals per game job of creating chances and finishing them goalie Rick Pflasterer picked up his first (1.23). Additionally, Cornell extended its record off,” added senior midfielder Nico Nissl. “Of shutout of the year and junior striker Daniel for consecutive games with a goal to 28 — course, defense is still extremely important and Haber scored three of the four Red goals. “Not only did we start off the season with building off of the foundation for success that something that we really pride ourselves on. ... With a good defense, we are able to counter two big away wins, but the trip brought the the team created last year. Breaking down the formula for success, the and attack much more effectively which has team together in many ways,” said junior midmen’s soccer team has shown that focus, drive contributed greatly to our success.” fielder Aaron Oder. Cornell’s strong defense has contributed The California trip offered players just a and character are some of the most paramount preview of the wildly successful season that lay factors in securing a win. Throughout the sea- much to the team’s overall season success. The ahead. Over the next seven weeks, the Red son Zawislan has stressed the importance of back line and Pflasterer have only allowed 11 would go on to win 10 of its 11 games — sharpening up the execution on both sides of goals this year — the second lowest in the Ivy earning three more shutouts and garnering an the ball, as well as the players’ ability to remain League. However, every player on the field
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shares responsibilities between defending and attacking, which is evident in the league-leading 35 goals scored. “There is no separation between the defense and offense,” Haber. “Everyone attacks and defends together and we all know in order for us to have success we need to be on the same page and work as a unit.” This season the Red has recorded wins against strong teams like Colgate, Hartwick, Harvard and Penn. The only team to beat Cornell was Brown, who snapped the Red’s 12-game win streak on Oct. 20 with a 2-0 shutout. Looking forward to the remaining three games of the season — against Princeton, Dartmouth and Columbia — the Red is focused on what lies ahead and achieving a positive result. "This week we have been sure to bring a surge of intensity to our practice sessions,” Pflasterer said. “Brown was a realization that we still have work to do if we want to compete for the top spot in the Ivies. We know that Princeton tied Brown and we’re in for as tough of a match as last weekend. It’s very important to be on the other end of the result this time.” The hard work and preparation that the team has been exhibiting in practice will play an important role in determining whether or not the Red achieves its ultimate goal — winning the Ivy League crown and making a trip to the NCAA tournament. “If we want to win the Ivy League, we need to come out with a win — plain and simple,” Haber said. “Every team we play will be looking to move ahead of us, and we will have to out execute them.”
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Pushing ahead | Cornell has had strong showings this season from both
KATIE KELLNER: Captain and Champion
the men’s and women’s cross country teams despite some surprise injuries.
Four Years Of Pure Heart By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer
Battling a wind and snow filled course in Princeton, N.J. almost a year ago, senior captain Katie Kellner crossed the finish line in fourth place, carrying her team to its first Ivy championship in 13 years. With three meets left in the cross country season, Kellner is approaching the end of an illustrious career. Kellner may have been timid in her first year, she made an impact as the team’s thirdbest runner all year. “When I came in, I was just a shy freshman,” Kellner said. She has come a long way since then, becoming the same type of role model for underclassmen that she once looked up to. According to head coach Artie Smith, Kellner has embraced the role of captain extremely well. “[Katie] is…very encouraging of her teammates and projects a positive attitude towards the sport,” he said. “She is extremely hardworking, and very conscientious.” Not surprisingly, Kellner’s most vivid memory with the Red is last year’s Heps Championship, where she and her teammates had to fight through an unexpected blizzard to win against Columbia. Only a few races later, in the NCAA East Regional, Kellner also posted the fifth-best 10K time for an Ivy League runner at 32:58.73. She also has fond memories of an indoor track meet at Stanford last spring, when she passed the U.S. Olympic trials standard and nearly did well enough to participate at the Olympic qualifiers. She looks at the event proudly as an accomplishment that made her, “one of the top collegiate runners in the country.” After four years of running cross country and track, Kellner has perfected a strategy that she brings to the course for every race. “If you’re all tense, you waste a lot of energy,” she said. “Keeping your body relaxed…keeping your brain relaxed, [is the best way to perform successfully.]” According to Kellner, her family and coaches have inspired her to work hard in everything she does. “They’ve all been there every step of the way,” Kellner said.
Above and beyond | Katie Kellner has been a dominant member of the Cornell cross country and track and field teams for the past four years.
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CORNELL PREVAILS DESPITE SEASON SURPRISES
Strong Showings All Around
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to injuries, but with this team, we’re able to step up when we have to and are looking forward to [up]coming The 2012 cross-country season has meets.” featured strong performances throughAfter a strong start to the season for out by both the men’s and women’s both teams, a split weekend saw some teams. From day one, the Red has runners travel to Wisconsin while othremained focused on competing hard ers headed to Princeton for large inviand working towards winning the tational meets. Heps championship. The women’s team took 5th overall Women’s cross country coach Artie at the Wisconsin Invitational—featurSmith ’96 has praised his team all seaing 6 top ten schools—and took 3rd son for its commitment. overall at the Princeton Invitational, “The progression this season has while the men’s team took 43rd place been great,” he said. “To be able to do and 7th place at those same meets. this, they have to have a great foundaDespite a poor start, Kellner said that tion ... They’ve had a great dedication the team was able to bounce back at to laying that foundation in their trainWisconsin. ing.” “We started pretty poorly, and we The women’s team started the season got stuck in the back,” she said. “Over strongly, with the first mile we consecutive really had to work wins at the our way up. We A r m y - “To be able to do this, they have a great foundation ... They’ve really kept our Binghamton had great dedication to laying that foundation in their training.” composure to be tri-meet, the able to move up.” — Artie Smith ’96 Yellowjacket Looking forInvitational at ward, though, the Rochester, and Red must prepare at the Paul Short Invitational at Lehigh. a reason to build confidence. for the Heps finals at Princeton. Lang According to Smith, his team does Senior co-captain Katie Kellner was is confident in the amount of not shy away from competition, surprised at how well the freshman resilience his team shows. “[This team] has a very healthy atti- class has stepped up to the training and “There is a ton of fight in this tude towards competition,” he said. the racing. team,” he said. “Looking forward our “They really look forward to it.” “Our freshman class has been focus is on the Heps championship in The men’s team also started off the remarkable,” she said. “You never know two weeks.” season strongly, finishing first at both with freshmen how they’re going to Kellner put it plainly that although the Army-Binghamton tri-meet and adjust to training. It’s going to keep the team has proven to be very comthe Yellowjacket invitational before fin- Cornell high in the standings for years.” petitive, they should not think that ishing 6th at the Paul Short Although the men’s team has had to they’ve won just yet. Invitational. deal with some injuries, Groves is sure “I have a lot of confidence,” she All season men’s cross country that his team will be able to fill voids said. “We have so far proven ourselves coach Zeb Lang ’03 has been pleased wherever needed. to be the best team in the Ivy League. with how many different racers can “The season never goes the way that I don’t want us to forget that the rest and have stepped up when needed. you want it to,” he said. “We lose guys of the field is competitive though.”
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“We’ve had five different guys be first or second for our team this year,” he said. “On any given day any of these guys can step up and take the lead for Cornell. It shows the diversity and strength of our team.” Junior Max Groves pointed to the team’s training as why the team has been able to progress. “We started summer training pretty early,” he said. “We wanted to grind through the summer to be ready for the first meet. The first couple of meets it’s really about getting more solid training and getting used to racing.” The Red has been aided with some surprises this season. While some of them have been both good and bad, they’ve given the cross country teams motivation to continue to fight on and
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However, in a separate proceeding in June, Judge Rossiter acquitted three former SAE pledges of criminal The defunct Sigma Alpha Epsilon charges, arguing that Max Haskin fraternity chapter at Cornell was fined ’14, Ben Mann ’14 and Edward $12,000 on Thursday after the Williams ’14 were not responsible for Tompkins County Court convicted Desdunes’ death. the organization for its role in the The two rulings highlight different events leading to the death of SAE legal battles that have emerged as a brother George Desdunes ’13. result of Desdunes’ death, which Though no representative of the occurred on Feb. 25, 2011, after fraternity’s former Cornell chapter Desdunes participated in a fraternity appeared at the hearing, Desdunes’ hazing ritual. mother, Marie In a separate Lourdes Andre, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. civil suit against spoke at the hear- ’86 found that [SAE] ... was the national SAE ing, according to a organization, press release from culpable for Desdunes’ Desdunes’ moththe Office of the death on three er argues that To m p k i n s both the fraterniCounty District misdemeanor counts. ty and several of Attorney. its brothers were Andre requested that the judge responsible for forcing reckless behavimpose the maximum possible sen- ior on her son. tence in order to underscore a mesAccording to allegations sage that hazing will not be tolerated, Desdunes’ mother made in the civil the press release said. case, several SAE pledges kidnapped Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 said Desdunes, tied a noose around his that SAE’s Cornell chapter is guilty of neck and kept him bound and blindthe three misdemeanor counts laid folded while pledges quizzed him on out in the criminal case. fraternity history. Each time On Thursday, the fraternity chap- Desdunes answered incorrectly, the ter was fined the maximum $5,000 pledges forced him to perform exerfine for unlawfully dealing with a cises or drink alcoholic substances. child in the first degree, the maxiIn March, the national fraternity mum $5,000 for criminal nuifiled a defense brief in the civil suit sance in the second in which they denied all charges degree and the maxand argued that only imum $2,000 for Desdunes himself was hazing in the first See SAE page 4 degree, the press release said.
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The University must divest — or remove investments from — the portion of its endowment in the fossil fuel
News Freedom of the Press
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Opinion Land of Opportunity
Adrian Palma ’13 reflects on the struggles he has experienced as an undocumented immigrant, as well as the advantages he has gained from living in the United States. | Page 8
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Newly turned 22-year-old Annie Newcomb ’13 lists her birthday wishes for the sports world. No. 1 on her list: Northwestern makes it to the NCAA tournament. | Page 16
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Candidates Brandish Bipartisan Records at Debate By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor
In a spirited, substantive debate held Thursday morning, rivals in the local Congressional race fought to claim the mantle of bipartisanship while deriding their opponent as an extremist removed from the political mainstream. Incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y. 29) said Democratic challenger Nate Shinagawa ’05 M.A.
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News, “Professor Pranked Again in Second Email Forgery,” Wednesday Speaking about an unknown individual who impersonated him in an email “If the attacker is still a Cornell student, I will file all possible academic integrity violation charges against the student. If the attacker is found guilty of any academic integrity violation, and is a student in the current oceanography class, I will fail the student immediately and expel them from the class.” Prof. Bruce Monger, oceanography
New Energetics in the Build Environment 12:20 - 1:10 p.m., 101 Phillips Hall News, “Illuminating Night, University Unites Against Bias, Assaults,” Thursday Speaking about the Cornell community’s response to recent incidents of bias and sexual assault “Blue glowsticks will not resolve some of the structural issues or hurdles in our society.”
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Opinion, “The Exception Is Not The Rule,” Wednesday Speaking about an incident of sexual assault last semester “My friend experienced a lot of doubts — many acquaintances, friends and even her brother felt and voiced that she, in her words, “wanted it” because she had, on other occasions, expressed romantic interest in her attacker. It took a while for her to accept that what happened to her was not OK, consensual or acceptable — that she had been raped.”
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Ithaca College Students,Faculty Protest New Student Media Policy By DARA LEVY Sun Contributor
Members of the Ithaca College community are challenging a new policy that forces student media groups to request interviews for administrators through the college’s office of media relations, effectively prohibiting them from contacting the individuals directly. After the policy was enacted on Oct. 1, between 45 and 65 I.C. students gathered in protest at the Peggy Ryan Williams Center, the school’s administration building, on Oct. 12, according to one of the protest’s organizers, Ayla Ferrone, a senior at I.C. The students staged a sit-in, holding signs and chanting about the policy’s flaws. The protest then moved to Free Speech Rock, before arriving at its final location in the Campus Center, where I.C.’s Board of Trustees was meeting. During the event, both students and faculty spoke about their feelings on the new policy. Most of the students were from the Roy H. Park School of Communications, but Ferrone said there were other students who supported the cause. Another organizer, Brennin Cummings, a senior at I.C., said that “our goal for the protest was simply to show the administration and the Board of Trustees that this policy wouldn’t go ignored by student media and those who wish to uphold the values of a free press on this campus.” Critical discussion of the new media policy continued on Oct. 15, when the I.C. chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists sponsored a panel discussion featuring student editors and faculty members. David Maley, associate director of media relations at I.C., said that at the discussion, he was able to answer the questions and concerns that the I.C. community raised about the policy. “I understand that some student journalists are still unhappy with the policy, as the protest on campus demonstrated,” he said. “It remains my job to ensure that the implementation of the policy continues to work well for all involved.” Still, Ferrone said that there is no need for the policy. “This was instated as a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist,” she said. According to The Ithacan, I.C. said it intends on better facilitating interviews with administra-
tors — not controlling the media — through its new policy. The college has also said that the policy simply reinforces the way that external media work to contact sources and that the policy will not be applied to students who are writing pieces for classes. In an Oct. 4 editorial, The Ithacan expressed concerns that the policy was a sign of I.C. becoming increasingly corporate and closed to discourse. Ferrone said that students in journalism classes should receive the same treatment as those in student media groups. “If their reasoning for the policy is that student media needs to learn how to work in the real world, why isn’t this being enforced in classes as well?” Ferrone said. “Many points of the policy just don't add up.” Cummings added that the policy is a “stain” on I.C.’s journalism and communications program. “It puts a gatekeeper beween student media and the administration they’re trying to interview,” she said. Cummings also said that the policy renders the jobs of I.C. journalists more difficult. “Although the administrators that put this policy into place swear this isn’t censorship, putting any kind of restriction of this kind is another hoop that journalists have to jump through,” she said. Defending the administration, Maley said that the policy has not hurt student media. “I believe that their fears of censorship, stifling of viewpoints and an inability to reach sources in a timely fashion have not been borne out,” he said. Yet Ferrone summarized her issues with the policy as that of a “transparency issue.” “I believe it’s a way for the college to funnel what information they want about the school to be available to the public,” she said. Cummings emphasized the policy’s hindrances. “It also increases the inevitability of receiving PR from sources, rather than honest information,” she said. Both Cummings and Ferrone expressed their desire for the policy to ultimately be revoked. “The students and faculty of Ithaca College will continue to fight back against these policy changes whatever way we can. Rest assured, we won’t be letting this policy stand,” Cummings said. Dara Levy can be reached at drl97@cornell.edu.
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The statue of Ezra Cornell on the Arts Quad is adorned with a pink ribbon for the month of October in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month.
This week, The Sun reported that the Bear’s Dean, Cornell’s campus pub, has seen low attendance numbers. What are some new amenities the pub should include to boost its popularity? “A bouncy castle. Who doesn’t like a bouncy castle, especially in a bar?” — Moonwalker ’14 “Yogurt Crazy. Cue the squeals of a few thousand girls.” — Froyo for Life ’14 “Actual bears. Preferably grizzlies.”
— Beary Serious ’13 — Compiled by Kerry Close
Cornellians Express Shock at Reported Sexual Assault at Amherst College By JULIA PASCALE Sun Contributor
After a student publication at Amherst College published a former student’s account of sexual assault on campus, Cornell students reacted with shock at the
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Vigil | Cornellians gathered Wednesday on Ho Plaza to protest sexual assaults on campus.
lack of action taken by the Amherst administration in response to the reported sexual assault. On Oct. 17, The Amherst Student published former student Angie Epifano’s personal account of being sexual assaulted at Amherst. The story was widely read, generating so many page views that the paper’s website crashed, according to the blog Jezebel. Epifano’s account of sexual assault largely deals with what she calls the dismissive way in which the administration handled her case. When Epifano told Amherst counselors and advisors that she had been raped, she said she was met with indifference and even skepticism. “In short I was told: ‘No you can’t change dorms, there are too many students right now. Pressing charges would be useless, he’s about to graduate, there’s not much we can do. Are you sure it was rape? It might have just been a bad hookup … You should forgive and forget,” Epifano wrote. Cornell students expressed surprise at the response of Amherst College’s administration to the reported rape. “I was shocked. Amherst is a very good school and it’s very liberal, and it’s in a very progressive part of the United States,” Nomoya Hall ’13 said. “[That it would fall short] in something as fundamental to human rights, as preventing rape seems counterintuitive.”
Hall also said she believes that Cornell’s addressing sexual assault. administration would have addressed the “Despite Cornell being larger, students allegations in a more effective way, saying form caring communities,” Qureshi said. that the Office of the Judicial “There was a Facebook group that posted Administrator in particular “provides a very that article and people extended their symsupportive community.” pathies to anyone who had been affected Hannah Dorsey ’16 echoed Hall’s senti- [by sexual assault].” ments, saying that “the campus atmosBut Rachael Blumenthal ’13 said the pheres are different [between Cornell and quantity of resources available to students Amherst].” dilutes their effectiveness. For instance, while Epifano was not “Unfortunately, our University has no allowed to space specifically switch dor- “I don’t think that we are successful at for survivors [of mitories sexual assault],” after she addressing the needs of [sexual assault] Blumenthal said. “I was sexually victims.” don’t think that we assaulted, at are successful at C o r n e l l , Rachael Blumenthal ’13 addressing the temporary needs of victims.” emergency housing is available to those J.A. Mary Beth Grant J.D. ’86 said vicwho feel unsafe in their current living situ- tims can reach out to officials in the ations, according to Laura Weiss, director Cornell University Police Department or of the Women’s Resource Center. Gannett Health Services, among other serDorsey also cited the large number of vices, to determine an appropriate resource campus resources available to victims of to use. sexual assaults. “Even if a survivor of an assault is “There are so many obvious places to go unsure of what the best next steps are for that would satisfy all needs that even if one him or her, talking about it with those in had a similar reaction [to Amherst], the positions of authority can clarify options next would be able to help,” she said. “It and get the survivor to appropriate helps a lot that we have student-run groups resources,” Grant said. because it seems like [Epifano] was dealing solely with administration.” Wajeha Qureshi ’13 also said the size of Julia Pascale can be reached Cornell’s campus serves as an asset when at jp852@cornell.edu.
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Shinagawa jumped on the claim. “The fact [is] that you have a voting record of over 90 percent with your party, and everybody knows that this Congress has been one of the most divisive in recent American history,” he said. “So when we hear the Congressman talk about bipartisanship, I think we need to say: ‘What does your voting record say?’ Not just the awards you get from different groups, or the bills that don’t actually end up making it anywhere, but what action have you taken, how does your record show you’re bipartisan?” Yet Reed, who is running to represent a more conservative district than the one that initially elected him, said that he is no ideologue. “Just put the record up. You banter around the 90 percent rate [of voting with the Republican party], Nate, and looking in comparison to other members, there are [others who vote] 95 percent or even higher,” with their own party, Reed said. He said that his predecessor, Rep. Eric Massa (D-N.Y. 29), had a record of voting with the Democratic party 94 percent of the time. Shinagawa persisted in attempting to link Reed to the Tea Party, noting that Reed had recently attended a Tea Party rally.
“In regards to the Tea Party rallies … those are constituents, those are people of the 23rd Congressional district, those are people who have a voice and the right to be heard,” Reed said. “We’ve sat and met with groups on the other side of the aisle.” Reed lamented what he called Shinagawa’s “attacks [claiming] that I’m some type of extremist.” “People know me, know who I am; my [three] older brothers and [eight] sisters will tell you who I am — we’re practical people,” he said. “I think that comes from being in this area all of our lives, living in a house my grandfather built in 1922. That’s the mindset of this area, and it’s what we believe in.” Reed, meanwhile, attempted to brand Shinagawa as a tax-and-spend liberal, noting his support for Obamacare and other left-wing policies. “Raising taxes is what my opponent has been championing for quite some time,” Reed said. Shinagawa worked to deflect that line of attack. “Of the many criticisms my opponent has made about me, one of the things I find most shocking is that he likes to say in town halls that I'm an ‘Ithaca Democrat,’” Shinagawa said. “I don't know what that means … I have led the way in terms of getting bipartisan sup-
port at the local level.” Though the debate focused primarily on policy questions, it had moments of levity, too, as the candidates shared a laugh over whether Shinagawa should call Reed “Tom” or “Congressman.” Both candidates also drew from their past to connect political issues to the emotional moments in their lives — particularly when discussing the importance of education. “My father passed when I was two, and my mom was raising the last six of us all by herself. One thing my mom and dad committed to all of us is that we would have an education,” Reed said. “We have to stress the importance of education.” Shinagawa also shared a family experience to emphasize the importance of reforming education. “My family moved here [from California] 10 years ago because I have a little brother named Mitch; he’s a special needs child,” Shinagawa said. “Now, he’s more of an independent kid than we ever thought, and it’s because of the good quality of education [in New York].” The election will be held Nov. 6. Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.
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responsible for the conduct that led to his death. The fraternity denied that the organization has a pledging process and claimed that it does not require any activity from pledges. For the civil proceeding, Kings County Judge Karen Rothenberg will decide in Brooklyn whether or not to allow a subpoena filed in September. The subpoena would require Cornell to provide extensive records — including all photographs or videotapes of any SAE fraternity event, as well as records of police and medical calls related to SAE — to the court.
Desdunes’ mother is suing the fraternity for $25 million in damages. Tompkins County District Attorney Gwen Wilkinson acknowledged that there is a stark difference between the two payments. “Fines, like the ones issued today, are very different than damages. That’s why you often see such a huge difference in state penal awards fines versus civil damage awards,” she said. Neither University staff nor any SAE representatives returned requests for comment Thursday. Harrison Okin can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com.
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the group is working on a Student Assembly resolution that calls on the University to reinvest 30 percent of the endowed funds previously invested in traditional energy to sustainable companies and renewable energy. In its petition, the group said that its requests stemmed from a call “to uphold our commitment to creating a more sustainable world while fulfilling our fiduciary duty, and to responsibly direct our University in accordance with our mission and values.” Anna-Lisa Castle ’14, co-president of Kyoto NOW!, said the University’s current investment strategy lends itself to an ideological conflict on Cornell’s campus. “On the one hand, we’re working toward carbon neutrality on the physical campus, but we’re still profiting greatly from investing in companies that are not at all sustainable,” she said. “We believe that this is something that Cornell cares very deeply about and that we should do everything we can to make sure that our investment practices align with those ideals.” Kyoto NOW! plans to pass its petition — along with a resolution — to the S.A. to urge the Board of Trustees to consider divesting its endowment from fossil fuels. While Castle acknowledged that resources such as coal and oil can be financially rewarding investments, she cautioned against long-term investment in these industries. “The fossil fuel industry is an industry that is based on non-renewable resources, which means that while these resources like oil [and] coal may become more valuable as they become more scarce, they will run out,” she said. “This is not a way to sustain Cornell.” Prof. Mark Milstein, management and organizations, also said the topic of divestment highlights the University’s competing interests in business and environmental sustainability. “Energy is cyclical, but recently, energy has performed extremely well as a sector . . . but [it] often consists of coal, oil and gas,” he said. “You’ve got an internal tension that exists there. They can be very good performing assets, but the underlying business that is responsible for that growth also contributes to an environmental and social problem.” Milstein also said that divesting the endowment from certain companies is not a straightforward task because Cornell does not select individual companies in which to invest. Instead, the University contracts fund managers to build a profitable portfolio, he said. “The investment office isn’t making decisions on every single investment,” he said. “They’re hiring out management of pieces of the endowment to other organizations.” Still, in the past, students have successfully worked with the University to divest its endowment from certain companies. For instance, in
response to the genocide in Darfur in 2006, Cornell halted investment in oil companies operating in Sudan, according to a University press release. “The Student Assembly helped to . . . stop investing in companies that supported oppressive regimes,” Castle said. “It’s really important … that this is something that comes from students, is passed by students and we can work with the trustees to figure out how we can get Cornell on track to divest.” But the challenge of divesting from energy companies is unique, according to Milstein. Instead of divesting from companies that do business in a geographic area, as with the Darfur campaign, divesting from the traditional energy sector would cut a profitable section of the economy out of Cornell’s portfolio, he said. The problem is compounded by the fact that less diversified portfolios often perform poorly, as their risk is spread across a smaller number of areas, according to Milstein. “Typically, when you pursue divestment strategies and screen out certain economic sectors, performance tends to degrade,” Milstein said. “If an investment office like Cornell were to, all of a sudden, go with that kind of a negative screen for social or environmental reasons, they’re going to have to look from a fiduciary responsibility standpoint and ask, ‘How are we going to make that up?’” Before the Board of Trustees makes an official decision on the initiative, it must be approved by President David Skorton after clearing a vote in the Student Assembly, where the resolution accompanying the petition is currently seeking cosponsors, according to members of the S.A. “I fully believe the Student Assembly will take this resolution into great consideration and will determine exactly how the resolution will be worded, and whether it’s passed or not will be a matter of what they think is in the best interest of everyone at Cornell,” said Melissa Lukasiewicz ’14, the S.A.’s vice president of internal operations. Student Trustee Alex Bores ’13 said that while he supports the general principles behind the petition, he wants to see more evaluations, including from the Board of Trustees’ investment committee, before solidifying his opinion on the matter. “I would need to . . . see how much of our investments it actually affects, what the [practical] and real challenges are of changing it, and then I would evaluate it,” Bores said. “The intentions are good, but there are practical hurdles to this, just like anything else.” Bores rejected the notion that companies could either be sustainable or profitable, but not both. “I think [that] often those two things aren’t in conflict … Companies in general that play by the rules and do good things tend to do well,” he said.
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NYC Police Officer Charged In Cannibalism Plot
NEW YORK (AP) — A city police officer dreamed up plots to kidnap, torture, cook and eat at least 100 women whose photos, names and addresses he pulled from a confidential law enforcement database, authorities said Thursday. Gilbert Valle’s fantasies about cannibalizing women — in one, he said he hoped to “cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible” — were retrieved in a trail of emails, computer files and instant messages in online fetish chat rooms, and authorities said he was arrested because he was taking steps to carry them out. None of the women were harmed, although a prosecutor said some of the women knew Valle and that he had stalked at least two of them at home or work — once in his police car in a “very intimidating fashion.” Authorities said he had had lunch with one of them. Valle’s estranged wife tipped authorities off to his chilling online activity, leading to his arrest, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because the official wasn’t authorized to speak publicly about an ongoing case. Valle, 28, was held without bail on charges including kidnapping conspiracy and unauthorized use of law enforcement records. U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Pitman called the charges against him “profoundly disturbing ... the most depraved, most dangerous conduct that can be imagined” and even more troubling because he is a police officer. Pitman said the charges of the steps Valle took to carry out the plot “suggest more than just talk.” One document on Valle’s computer was titled “Abducting and Cooking (Victim 1): A Blueprint,” according to the criminal complaint. The file also had the woman’s birth date and other personal information and a list of “materials needed” — a car, chloroform and rope. “I was thinking of tying her body onto some kind of apparatus ... cook her over low heat, keep her alive as long as possible,” Valle allegedly wrote in one exchange in July, the complaint says.
In other online conversations, investigators said, Valle talked about the mechanics of fitting the woman’s body into an oven (her legs would have to be bent), said he could make chloroform at home to knock a woman out and discussed how “tasty” one woman looked. “Her days are numbered,” he wrote, according to the complaint. That woman told the FBI she knew Valle and met him for lunch in July. Valle, who could face life in prison if convicted, sat quietly in a red T-shirt and jeans at his court appearance, answering one question with “yes, your Honor.” No one answered the door to his home Thursday in a quiet, middle-class Queens neighborhood. Public defender Julia Gatto had asked for bail, saying the Valle was only guilty of a “deviant fantasy.” “There’s no actual crossing the line from fantasy to reality,” Gatto said. “At worst this is someone who has sexual fantasies about people he knows and he talks about it on the Internet.” But Valle was arrested because he was too close to carrying out the “grotesque and disturbing” plots, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hadassa Waxman said. He had “plans to kidnap, rape, torture, kill and eat the body parts of young women, some of whom the FBI has identified and they acknowledge knowing the defendant for a period of time,” she said. Valle had created a computer catalogue with records of at least 100 women with their names, addresses and photos, the complaint says. Some of the information came from his unauthorized use of a restricted law enforcement database, authorities said. He claimed, according to the complaint, that he knew many of them. “The allegations in the complaint really need no description from us,” said Mary E. Galligan, acting head of the FBI’s New York office. “They speak for themselves. It would be an understatement merely to say Valle’s own words and actions were shocking.”
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2 Kids Stabbed Dead in NYC Home; Nanny Hurt Nearby
NEW YORK (AP) — A mother returned home to her luxury apartment building near Central Park on Thursday to find two of her small children stabbed to death in a bathtub and their nanny, with self-inflicted stab wounds, lying near them, police said. The woman entered the building, La Rochelle, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, with her 3-year-old and saw her 1- and 6-year-old children in the bathroom, police spokesman Paul Browne said. It’s unclear how many times the children were stabbed. The nanny was found with stab wounds to her neck, and a kitchen knife was nearby, police said. There was no water in the bathtub, they said. Music therapist Rima Starr, who lives on the same floor as the family, said she heard screams coming from their apartment at around 5:30 p.m.
With Giant Storm on the Way; N.Y. Begins to Prep NEW YORK (AP) — Stressing that there’s no need to panic, New York officials are bracing for a gale-force storm expected to hit most of the U.S. East Coast next week. Forecasters say there’s a 90 percent chance that the East will get high winds, heavy rain, flooding and maybe snow starting Sunday. While it’s too early for precise forecasts, New York City and New Jersey could get the worst of it. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Thursday noted the uncertainty in the forecasts. But he said the city was beginning to take precautions and has opened its emergency management situation room. “What we are doing is we are taking the kind of precautions you should expect us to do, and I don’t think anyone should panic. It’s probably not going to be a great weekend for outdoor activity Sunday into Monday, maybe — Saturday should be OK,” he said. Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday directed state agencies to begin emergency preparations and asked residents to pay close attention to storm updates. “I urge all New Yorkers to closely track the storm’s path, using local radio and television or online reports,” Cuomo said. “We will actively monitor the storm’s progress and take any steps necessary to protect our state’s residents.” Anxiety is especially high in Northeast areas socked last year by a freak October snow storm that knocked out electricity to hundreds of thousands of customers. Denise Van Buren of Central Hudson, a power utility that serves New York’s mid-Hudson Valley, said they are monitoring the storm track closely because of the potential for high winds and snow with leaves still lingering on trees. “Those are the ingredients that give us great cause for concern,” Van Buren said. “And we are still raw from last year’s October snow storm.”
25 Arrested in Five States In N.Y. Web Gambling Probe NEW YORK (AP) — Three owners of an Internet gambling website that boasts of having customers in 100 countries have been indicted, along with 22 other people, on charges that they were part of a betting ring took tens of millions of dollars from people in the United States, prosecutors said Thursday. People were arrested in five states Wednesday as part of a sweeping investigation aimed at bookmakers and money couriers connected to Internet and phone gambling, including men who prosecutors identified as owners of the online gambling site Pinnacle Sports. The three, Brandt England, of Las Vegas, George Molsbarger, of Santa Monica, Calif., and Stanley Tomchin, of Montecito, Calif., were charged with enterprise corruption, money laundering and conspiracy. England faced an additional charge of promoting gambling. England’s lawyer in Las Vegas, David Chesnoff, said, “We certainly intend to defend this matter vigorously in court.” He declined to address the specifics of the allegations, saying he was new to the case. The probe was led by investigators from the New York Police Department, but multiple state, municipal and federal law enforcement agencies were involved, and arrests took place in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Nevada and California. The Queens district attorney’s office, which is prosecuting the case, said that in one 18-month period the gambling operation took in $50 million in profit while using computer servers in gambling friendly countries to try to hide dealings with bettors in the U.S. Gamblers placed bets over the phone and at least four websites, while the ring used dummy accounts to hide the flow of money and couriers to transport cash profits to and from Panama and Costa Rica, authorities said. Pinnacle Sports sidestepped the issues of whether it was involved in illegal gambling in the U.S. and whether England, Molsbarger and Tomchin were owners of the site. “Regarding the recent allegations surrounding the individuals allegedly affiliated with Pinnacle Sports, please be reassured that no Pinnacle Sports employees have been arrested or charged, and Pinnacle Sports itself was not charged in the indictment,” it said in an emailed statement. “We expect no interruptions to our day to day business activities at this time.” No one returned a phone message left at a number listed in Tomchin’s name Thursday. Molsbarger’s phone number isn’t publicly listed.
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Long time, no see | President Barack Obama greets Chicago, Il. Mayor Rahm Emanuel as he disembarks at O’Hare International Airport on Wednesday.
Obama Urges Romney to Break Ties With Mourdock CINCINNATI (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to shore up support among women, intensified his pressure Thursday on Mitt Romney to break any ties with a Republican Senate candidate who said that if a woman becomes pregnant from rape it is “something God intended.” Romney ignored the emotional social issue, holding to an optimistic campaign tone as he fought for victory in crucial Ohio. Obama, wrapping up a 40-hour battleground state blitz, also headed to his hometown of Chicago and cast his ballot 12 days before Election Day. The stopover was more than a photo opportunity — it was a high-profile attempt to boost turnout in early voting, a centerpiece of Obama’s strategy. The 2012 presidential contest was expected to cross the $2 billion fundraising mark Thursday, putting the election on track to be the costliest in history. It’s being fueled by a campaign finance system vastly altered by the proliferation of “super” political action committees that are bankrolling TV ads in closely contested states. Back on the campaign trail, the president made repeated, though indirect, references to Indiana Republican Richard Mourdock’s controversial comment on rape and pregnancy. “We’ve seen again this week, I don’t think any male politicians should be making health care decisions for women,” Obama told a crowd of about 15,000 on an unseasonably warm fall day in Richmond, Va. The president’s aides pressed further, using a web video to highlight Romney’s endorsement of Mourdock and to accuse the GOP nominee of kowtowing to his party’s extreme elements. Romney, who appears in a television advertisement declaring his support for Mourdock, brushed aside questions on the matter from reporters throughout the day. He centered his efforts instead on turning his campaign’s claims of momentum into a more practical — and ultimately necessary — roadmap to winning the required 270 Electoral College votes. Ohio is crucial to that effort. “This election is not about me,” Romney told a 3,000-person crowd at a southern Ohio manufacturing company. “It’s not about the Republican Party. It’s about America. And it’s about your family.” Romney has disavowed Mourdock’s comments, but his campaign says he continues to support the Indiana Republican’s Senate candidacy. Less than two weeks from Election Day, both candidates feverishly campaigned across the country in an exceedingly close race. Opinion polls show Obama and Romney tied nationally. A new Associated Press-GfK poll of likely voters had Romney up 47 percent to 45 percent, a result within the poll’s margin of sampling error. But the race will really be decided by nine or so competitive states: Ohio, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Iowa, Wisconsin, Nevada and Colorado.
Police Detain in Murder Investigation DOWNEY, Calif. (AP) — As police searched for a gunman who killed three people and critically wounded two others in suburban Los Angeles, friends and neighbors of the family targeted in the attack grappled for answers Thursday. Authorities have been mum regarding a motive for the shootings and haven’t identified a suspect, though four people — three men and a woman —were detained for questioning Thursday afternoon, said Downey police Lt. Leslie Murray. The gunman doesn’t appear to be a former employee, friend or family member, Lt. Dean Milligan said. Police, however, say they don’t believe the killings were a random act of violence. Authorities were still looking for a stolen black Camaro, which they say the suspect used to get away after the shootings. Police have not identified the five victims, but a portrait began to emerge of a tight-knit family who threw large parties and ran a successful company. Prayer candles and flowers were left at the home and nearby business where the shootings took place. A sign decorated with pink hearts and flowers was left outside the house, reading “RIP Susana, to a great mother.” Workers returned to the industrial strip where the first shots were fired at the small family-owned fire extinguisher company. “This is absolutely heartbreaking,” said Dean Wright, who owns the septic supply business next door. “The guy who did this had to be absolutely crazy.” Richard Mercado, 36, a family friend, said he grew up with the two brothers who ran United States Fire Protection Services Inc., which sells professional firefighting gear and equipment. Property records show the business is owned by Robert Salinas, 35, and the house is owned by Antonio Salinas, 34. Attempts to reach anyone at either location were unsuccessful and others associated with the family refused to talk when reached by phone. Mercado said the siblings made a lot of money with the business and that they also liked to buy and sell motorcycles and cars. “If they saw money to be made they would invest in it,” Mercado said. “They always had extra money.” Police said the deadly encounter began around midday Wednesday and that someone called from the business to reporting a shooting. A few minutes after police arrived, a 13-year-old boy called dispatchers from the family house just down the street, authorities said, where the second shooting happened. The gunman fled in a 2010 black Camaro that is registered to Maria Fuentes, the mother of the business owners. Wright said she was shot in the face at the business and survived.
BALTIMORE (AP) — A man accused of killing a Georgia megachurch volunteer leading a prayer service in a chapel was charged more than a decade ago with a shooting at a mosque in Maryland, police documents show. Floyd Palmer was part of a security detail at a Baltimore mosque in June 2001 when he shot another man working with him, wounding him in the back, according to a police report obtained by The Associated Press on Thursday. Palmer tried to fire again, but the gun jammed. When other people ran over to him, he turned the gun on them, but it wouldn’t fire, according to the documents. During a pretrial psychological evaluation, Palmer said the shooting occurred in part because he believed that NFL player Ray Lewis and members of his own family were out to get him. Palmer was committed to a psychiatric hospital in 2004 after pleading not criminally responsible to the mosque shooting. Despite objections from prosecutors, a judge released him in 2006 on the condition that he abide by a number of restrictions for five years. It’s not clear when Palmer made his way south. He had been working at the Rev. Creflo Dollar’s World Changers Church International just south of Atlanta, but quit in August for “personal reasons,” Fulton County Police Cpl. Kay Lester said. On Wednesday, authorities said the 51-year-old Palmer walked into a chapel and opened fire, killing Greg McDowell, 39, who was leading a morning prayer service for a group of about 25 people. McDowell is identified as a warehouse manager for the church on a LinkedIn web page. A witness told police he heard about five gunshots, but that only McDowell was hit, according to a police report. The witness said he ducked down, then looked up and made eye contact with Palmer before the suspect began “walking calmly towards the exit of the chapel.” The witness said he ran outside to get help and saw Palmer leaving the parking lot in a black vehicle, the report says. Officers recovered about a dozen shell casings for a .380-caliber handgun, but they have not located the weapon. Police arrested Palmer several hours later when they spotted his Subaru station wagon at a mall in the upscale Buckhead community, north of downtown Atlanta. Authorities were trying to figure out if Palmer and McDowell knew each other. Visibly distraught members of McDowell’s family showed up at the Fulton County jail for Palmer’s first court hearing Thursday, but he waived his appearance. Later in the day, however, he changed his mind. Another hearing was scheduled for Friday. Palmer faces murder and firearms charges. It was not immediately clear if Palmer has an attorney. The Fulton County public defender’s office didn’t return a phone message Thursday. In Baltimore, officials were taking a closer look at the 2001 shooting. According to the pretrial psychological evaluation, Palmer said the shooting occurred because one of his cousins, Richard Lollar, was killed in Atlanta shortly after the 2000 Super Bowl. Lewis, a Baltimore Ravens linebacker, was charged in the stabbing death of Lollar and another man, but he was exonerated. He pleaded guilty to misdemeanor obstruction of justice. Two other defendants were acquitted in the case. Palmer said he shot Reuben Jerry Ash outside the mosque because he believed Ash was being paid by Lewis to “get rid of him,” according to the psychological evaluation. The shooting left Ash paralyzed.
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A pragmatic solution To the Editor: Re: “Editorial: A Pragmatic Budget” Opinion, Oct. 24 I read, with interest, your editorial, “A Pragmatic Budget,” in the Wednesday, Oct. 24 issue. It concerns Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick’s attempt to balance the city’s budget and reduce the $3 million deficit. You discuss the possibility of the mayor reducing the size of the Ithaca police force by nine members using retirement incentives. May I remind you of the headline on your lead article on the front page of The Sun on Monday, Oct. 22, just two days earlier. It read, “Cornell Sets Record, Raises $777. 8 Million.” As a graduate of Cornell (1959) and now a resident of the Town of Ithaca and a daily visitor to the city, I am very much aware how many Cornell students, faculty and staff visit the city and are happy to have police and fire protection. Several departments of Cornell actually have their headquarters and offices in the heart of downtown. I’ve forgotten how much Cornell gives the city of Ithaca — I think it’s under $2 million. Maybe, in a future issue, you might comment on this obvious discrepancy? Henry Stark ’59
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writing this essay, to let you into my life story and my personal struggles as an immigrant growing up in the United States. I was born in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, Mexico, a small town about five hours from the border town of El Paso, Texas. Also known as the “Capital of the World,” as Chihuahuans like to refer to our small town, I never imagined that my family would one day decide to leave Parral and immigrate to the United States. At the age of five, I knew nothing about my family’s economic situation. My life in Mexico was simple and tranquil. One day, my father disappeared. My mother, in order to try to emotionally protect my older brother and I, simply told us that he was at work and would come back later. But my father never returned that night, nor the next day, nor the week or month after that. I later learned that my father, a hardworking and honest man, had to immigrate to El Paso, Texas because of the scarcity of jobs in Parral that often left us with limited food and resources. Using the little money that he was able to save and send back, my mother, older brother, and I finally managed to pay him a visit. During those two to three day visits to El Paso, I was introduced to the American way of life. I went to my first McDonald’s, learned a couple of English words and saw a movie in English for the first time. Every departure back to Mexico was heartbreaking, as I knew that it would be months before I could see my dad again. Yet, one day, we just simply stayed in El Paso. I didn’t question my mom about our prolonged stay since I was ecstatic to be with my dad, but I later came to realize that specific moment marked my first day as an undocumented immigrant living in the United States. As a young child at the age of six, I could not understand the implications that my parent’s decision to permanently immigrate to the United States would have on my family or myself. My parents successfully enrolled me in kindergarten, and I began to learn more about American culture and society. I grew up like the majority of you at Cornell, watching Saturday morning cartoons, dressing up as a
immigrant has been both a blessing and an incredible setback. There were times when I questioned my selfworth and my place in the world. I often felt desperate knowing that I did not fit in with the rest of my American citizen friends and knowing that I would be treated differently if I were to return to Mexico because of my English-accented Spanish. I grew angry towards my parents, who I would blame constantly when I felt desperate, restrained and suffocated as I internalized the implications of my immigration status. Yet, my status also helped me realize the importance of my education and how education could serve both as a vehicle for upward mobility and as a reminder to my parents that they made the right decision to come to the United States. My time at Cornell has given me the opportunity to ponder about and better understand my status as an undocumented American. I no longer get angry at my parents, and instead I thank them for taking the biggest risk of their life to bring me and my family to this place where I have been able to learn, thrive and grow as a citizen of the world. Cornell has provided me with a safe space to do activism, help out my fellow undocumented peers and to make sense of my identity. If I’ve learned anything at Cornell from my professors and peers, it is that we should always be willing to listen to and learn about one another’s life stories and how they’ve shaped us. Through my time on campus, I’ve held Ezra Cornell’s motto, “any person, any study,” and his vision for Cornell close to heart as I’ve seen that Cornell is a place where any person, regardless of immigration status or background, can find instruction in any study. Cornellians, lets take advantage of the beautiful diversity on our campus and learn from one another’s challenges, struggles and stories in order to better understand our society, our world and our own Cornell community.
Adrian Uriel Palma is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at aup5@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.
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OPINION
Safety in Hierarchies H
ierarchies are a much more important part of vet school than they ever were of undergraduate life. In college, after freshman year (sorry, freshmen) everyone was pretty much on even footing academically and socially. You could have sophomores and seniors in classes together, and people tended to hang out in the same places. Even the bars had a selection of everyone, because — let’s face it — fake IDs weren’t hard to come by. In vet school, hierarchies are an integral part of life, at least academically. The first years are on the bottom of the filing cabinet (this sounds like a weird metaphor, but we actually have a filing cabinet where each year gets a drawer where we each get internal mail, and the drawers move up every year) and each subsequent year has a little more “power,” at least in terms of the fact that the younger years look up to and defer to them. Part of the reason for this is built into the curriculum. In the past, I’ve written about how we learn an immense amount of information in a short period of time. Each class looks at the class above it and realizes that those students have successfully gone through significantly more of the coursework, which earns them a certain amount of respect. The idea of hierarchies is reinforced in the clinics. Roughly, the third and fourth year vet students who are working in the clinics report to the interns / residents, the interns report to the residents / faculty and the interns / residents report to the faculty, who are generally perceived as brilliant by everyone involved. All of this sounds like a lot of unnecessary segregating and you hear people complain about it lot — “oh I couldn’t see anything because the upperclassmen and interns were in the way.” I’m coming to realize, though, that it’s actually a system we’re incredibly lucky to have. First of all, the hierarchy clearly isn’t arbitrary. People have worked extremely hard to obtain their positions, and the benefits they get are well deserved and should serve to
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motivate us. Secondly, it’s not a tyrannical system. The people higher up don’t tend to boss everyone else around or expect people to be at their beck and call. Instead, more often than not, they remember what it was like to be in a younger year and they are more than happy to offer guidance and advice. Most importantly, we take advantage of the fact that the hierarchy is really a built in safety system. It means that when you’re less experienced and something goes wrong, you get scolded but someone higher up takes the brunt of the responsibility. A teaching hospital needs this kind of setup to exist so that things don’t fall through the cracks when an animal’s life is on the line. The students don’t want to disappoint the clinicians, and the clinicians oversee the students very carefully. (As a side note, I hope this makes you readers who are clients feel good about everything — maybe the appointments take longer than in a private clinic and you have to talk to students, but think about how many people are working for your animal!) The system is also good preparation for life after vet school. When we graduate, we’re still going to have a lot left to learn, especially in terms of real-life experience in an environment that isn’t necessarily a tertiary referral center with an immense amount of resources at our disposal. This means that we absolutely won’t be top dog (haha …) wherever we end up and will probably be a part of a system much like the one that we’re already used to. The main difference is that we’ll be more accountable for ourselves and could get fired over making a big mistake, which is where
being accustomed to reporting to someone else will come in especially useful: We’ve gotten used to checking everything we do before reporting to the clinicians, and these habits will help us make less mistakes in the future. Also, the hierarchies in vet school don’t tend to extend to the social sphere. In general, people hang out more with friends from their own class only because they’re the most
Nikhita Parandekar Hoof in Mouth familiar with each other, but they can be (and are) friends with whomever they want, which softens the environment in school because relationships with people are often more than just professional ones. Although this concept of hierarchies is rigidly implemented in health professions, it’s really applicable in many professional fields. So next time you complain about your boss or that annoying co-worker who has a higher salary than you, remember that they also might have a lot more at stake than you, and you might be complaining even more if they weren’t around.
Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a second-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.
The Patient Who Showed Me the Light Behind the Shadows on the Wall
Doctor, perdone que te moleste, pero me puede explicar por qué estoy en el hospital para que pueda decir a mi familia que está pasando?” [“Doctor, forgive me for bothering you, but can you please explain to me why I’m in the hospital so that I can tell my family what’s happening?”] My patient groaned from amidst his dark, corner hospital room. With the blinds closed and lights off, I struggled to see his face — made
he suffered and his need for continued antibiotics. He indicated to me his understanding and thanked me. I then made haste to catch up with the team — who had already seen three more patients on our list. I left the hospital that day disillusioned. What I had witnessed seemed to fly in the face of the extensive Power-Point presentations and lectures on patient-centered care and culturally sensitive medicine that we
Landon Roussel What’s Up, Doc? more obscure by the dusk hour at which we rounded. Between his emergency laparoscopic appendectomy, a protracted bout of gramnegative sepsis and multiple evacuations of peritoneal abscesses, the surgery patient was unclear about his illness and treatment. For whatever reason, the patient had not been able to fully grasp what was happening to him. Our team needed to rectify his lack of understanding. As I tried to come to grips with this gap in our communication, I grimaced as the patient rapidly clenched his right-lower abdomen in response to the resident’s palpation of the area. I introduced myself as the medical student (which did not deter him from calling me “doctor”), and — as the only Spanish speaker on the team — translated the patient’s request for the chief resident. “We have to get on with rounds. You explain to him what’s going on and meet us ahead when you’re done.” The team left, while I stayed behind. I took a deep breath and began to explain to the patient about his appendicitis, the subsequent complications
were given as first and second year medical students in our “Medicine, Patients and Society” class. Wasn’t the first step in patient communication ensuring patient understanding? I scratched my head as I strolled through the lobby to the street. What went wrong? The surgeons at the hospital are excellent. All of the nurses speak Spanish. They must have told the patient what was happening to him when they rounded on him every morning — even if tersely. Still, some critical step was bypassed in communicating to the patient about his condition in a way that he could understand it. Walking to the Metro stop, the contrast between the sunny May afternoon in New York and the darkness of the patient’s room reminded me of the allegory of Plato’s cave. I was witnessing the semblance of medicine — Plato’s shadows on the cave’s wall — where the “care plan” was taken to be the textbook steps to treating a complicated appendectomy. Yet, by no fault of any single person, something went wrong. I reached in my
pocket for my patient list to review his plan. IV antibiotics. Check. Jackson-Pratt drains emptied. Check. Wound care. Check. Where was the communication about his condition? The sunlight — what Plato compares to truth — somehow did not make it to our patient’s room. What was bothersome to me was not just the communication gap, but also the fact that he reminded me of how tempting it can be in medicine to rest in the cave. As Jerome Groopman notes in his best-selling work, How Doctors Think, studies show that it takes an average of 23 seconds after the patient starts talking for a doctor to interrupt and, at best, an average encounter with a patient lasts 15 minutes. With such terse interactions and so much information needed to gather a good history and physical exam and to formulate a treatment plan that is best for the patient, the environment is rife for miscommunications. Why such brevity of interaction? One answer is that a heavy workload limits the amount of time that can be allocated for each patient. We all feel the time crunch and need to cut corners somewhere to get through our workload by the end of the day. More importantly, though, cutting short patients’ free responses adds structure to the chaotic world of dealing with people’s problems. As with any service profession, dealing with people’s problems — illness or whatever — can be messy business. Too much narrative or “touchy-feely” talk does not fit nicely and neatly into textbook-style medical histories for which we can make clean differentials and treatment plans. Plato was right. The sunlight reveals the randomness of nature that all of us would just as rather shelter ourselves from and look at shadows on the wall. Outside in the elements can be a scary place. Of course, when it comes to what goes on the checklist, very little may change in the care plan by taking a few more extra moments to ensure effective communication.
For my surgical patient, my few extra minutes talking to him did reveal insomnia symptoms that were remedied with medication, but management of his peritoneal infection would likely not have changed. The infection cleared, his fever broke, pain subsided, drains were removed and he was discharged home. Nonetheless, something critical was lost by his being dragged along a complicated recovery path without knowing what exactly he was suffering from or how he was being treated. Good medicine is more than just good old bedside manners — which our team showed no lack of. It’s an art of tuning into the patient’s communication needs that is all too easy to jump when we’re constructing scholarly differential diagnoses and comprehensive multi-point treatment plans. I don’t see any easy solutions in today’s environment of scarce time and growing patient loads, but suffice it to say that the art of communication merits a considerable share of doctors’ attention alongside the formulation of treatment plans. During my last encounter with my surgical patient in his dark room, with lights out and blinds drawn, he appeared comfortable and content. “Doctor, te quiero decir algo.” [Doctor, I want to tell you something.] “Sì,” I said, taking a step back — desperately hoping that I was not in for another surprise like the last one. “Te agradezco mucho por haber tomado el tiempo para explicarme que me pasa. Me has tratado bien.” [I want to thank you for having taken the time to tell me what’s happening. You’ve treated me well.] I left the hospital that afternoon to the bright May sun — contented that my work was not an illusion.
Landon Roussel is in his final year as an M.D. candidate at Weill Cornell Medical College. He may be reached at lsr2001@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Magic Of Miyazaki
When people in the United States hear the words “anime” and “manga,” they usually think of gratuitously drawn Japanese schoolgirls, pre-teen boys addicted to videogames in basements and conventions. This is a slim caricature of a unique and beautiful art form; after all, there are good reasons why people obsess over it. Japanese film prodigy, Hayao Miyazaki, is an example of someone who raises the medium to its most stunning heights. Miyazaki, the director, writer and animator of films such as Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke, is one of the few nonAmerican animators who has been successful in breaking into international markets, with Spirited Away winning an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2001. It is no surprise then that this semester, Cornell Cinema has chosen to present “Five by Miyazaki,” a series on his work. Miyazaki co-founded Studio Ghibli, a film and animation studio, with Isao Takahata after his first big success, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, which was released in 1984. This is first of the five films that will be shown at Cornell Cinema and is one of the most characteristic of Miyazaki’s auteur style. His films usually deal with themes of the environment, industrialization and harmony between
human and nature, themes that are intrinsically compatible with his style of animation. These seem to be heavy subjects to insert into animated movies, which we usually think as “kid’s movies,” but, although some of his films are suitable for children, some definitely are not (Princess Mononoke sports more than a few violent scenes, some in which limbs are cut off). Nausicaä tells the story of a postapocalyptic world in which a Toxic Jungle that consists only of lethal plants envelops the land. People live on its fringes, waiting for the prophesied day that someone will “reunite man and nature.” Nausicaä is the protagonist, a princess who secretly tends to a garden of jungle plants that are rendered non-toxic once grown in soil and water untainted by humans. Oh, and she flies on a glider. And is joined by a fox-squirrel named Teto. Often, Miyazaki’s films scatter their plot and seem all over the place in the beginning. They are always worth the stress, for they come together cohesively at the end. The environmental themes are strong in the film, but they don’t hit you over the head — it’s a story of hope for the versatility and strength of mankind. Princess Mononoke, another film in the Cinema’s series, was released in the U.S. in 1999. It set the standard for Studio Ghibli’s strict “no-edits” policy for films released internationally. It was rumored that when Harvey Weinstein suggested edits to the film in order to increase its commercial appeal, a producer at Studio Ghibli mailed him a samurai sword with the message, “No cuts.” Miyazaki’s loyalty to the original product exemplifies the idea that his movies are not merely created for entertainment value but that they are, in fact, artistic masterpieces. Princess Mononoke stays true to this form — following the story of prince Ashitaka, whose journey takes him to industrious Iron Town, where the inhabitants make firearms from razing a nearby forest. The COURTESY OF STUDIO GHIBLI
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town is in a continuous struggle with the forest spirits that inhabit the land. One of them, a giant white wolf, has adopted a human girl, who is nicknamed “Princess Mononoke” by the townspeople. “Mononoke,” which means “spirit” in Japanese, captures the essence of the film. Though it is easy to cheer for the forest spirits, you catch yourself in a moral gray area, typical of Miyazaki, and find yourself also admiring the spirit of the townspeople as they fight for their cause. Castle in the Sky is another one of Miyazaki’s older films, transporting its viewers to a fantastical world where humans once resided in flying cities. At the start of the movie, only one such city remains, hidden away. The plot is basic for a Miyazaki movie, with a clear-cut protagonist and antagonist, and holds more appeal in its marvelous animation. My Neighbor Totoro, the last movie to be shown, follows in the same vein plot-wise. However, this film’s simplicity is a reflection of its innocence, and is definitely one to show to kids (it’s also part of the Cinema’s Cornell “IthaKid Film Fest”). Children or adults aside, Cinema Totoro is worth seeing for its stunning cinematography — rendering the Japanese countryside into sublime pans that make you forget, and almost regret, that real life isn’t animated. Spirited Away, the newest of the five movies featured, is the most successful film in the history of the Japanese box office. This movie is one of Miyazaki’s craziest and most creative, taking place in a bathhouse run and patroned by spirits. It features a girl named Chihiro, whose parents have been turned into pigs — she fits easily into Miyazaki’s eclectic, dynamic and memorable cast of characters. The movie also highlights the haunting music of Joe Hisaishi, who has scored all Miyazaki’s films since Nausicaä. If the poignant plots, dazzling panoramas or inspiring characters don’t do it for you, Miyazaki’s series is worth going to just to hear Hisaishi’s heartbreaking compositions.
Clio Chang
“Five by Miyazaki” starts this weekend at Cornell Cinema. Clio Chang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cchang@cornellsun.com.
Making Music BY COLIN CHAN Sun Staff Writer
I’ll get the invariable name-related puns out of the way. Opus, the Kitchen Theatre’s latest play, does not pretend to be magnum. By that I mean it lacks the ponderous gravitas, that thick portentous sense of self-aware importance. Perhaps because of this, it was great fun to watch, so much so that the play resounded to its meditative denouement before I even knew it, which is a rare accomplishment — that it’s over? kind of shock that accompanies one’s return from the land of suspended disbelief. Opus, as the promo material puts it, is about sex, drugs and chamber music. Not the most palatable combination on paper — it sounds like one of those mishmash amalgamations welded together in a ghastly symphony of artistic license. But, really, it’s not so much about sex or drugs as it is about the interpersonal dynamics of the team members of a nationally renowned (fictional) string quartet, named the Lazara Quartet. The play starts somewhat in media res. The intellectual but dyspeptically acerbic first violin Elliot (played with verve and snark by Michael Samuel Kaplan), the charming but somewhat cynical second violin Alan (Jesse Bush) and the sanguine, dependable cellist Carl (Alexander Thomas) are looking for a new member to fill the position of viola after Elliot fires the mercurial, musical virtuoso Dorian (played pitch-perfect by Brendan
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Powers) for his erratic behavior. Eventually, they settle on the vivacious musical prodigy Grace (Alison Scaramella), with little time to spare as the world-class quartet prepares for the biggest performance of its career — a televised Beethoven concert at the White House. The opening scene, told in documentary format, with the members of the quartet sitting in their chairs, illuminated by individual spotlights in mimicry of an interview, is confusing and off-putting at first. However, as the quartet’s history is revealed through flashbacks, the story rapidly becomes engrossing. As the group’s rehearsals tide them closer to the date of the performance, tensions rise, and the group’s dynamics peel back layer by layer to reveal a deeply satisfying bouquet of narrative epiphany. The playwright, Michael Hollinger, is a violinist. In many ways, the play could be a theatrical version of a concerto. Every instrument — every character — has a chance to shine through on its own, but, at the same time, each interacts with the other instruments in the composition, sometimes to create a rousing harmony or a cacophonic clash of competing personalities, interests and petty agendas. The play is almost a kind of testament to the ability to transpose musical vocabulary onto the conventions of theater, to encode soaring harmonies and jarring discordance with the careful application of dialogue, acting and characterization. And the end result is entertaining to see. Interactions
between characters are a delight to watch because the dialogue is so snappy, so pitchperfect that Elliot’s caustic one-liner insults or Carl’s placating banter are tremulously produced, crystal clear notes in a maestro’s composition. The acting helps too, and, in this respect, Opus benefits the most from its accomplished direction. It is easy to see how lessthan-stellar acting might have marred the quality of the production, much like how a bad musician might turn even the most hallowed classical pieces into so much noise, but every cast member shines here. In particular, performances by Kaplan as the snark-baboon Elliot, and Thomas as the virtuoso Dorian, stand out. Kaplan brings just the right amount of verve and sophistication to Elliot, while retaining the deep obstinacy of a spoiled child. His witty bon mots and passionate outbursts speak to his character’s intelligence and passion, but his obdurate, almost childish behavior towards those close to him provide the main fount for alienation and antagonism in the show. Thomas is, himself, a virtuoso in the role. He inhabits Dorian, becomes the troubled musical genius; his urbane, poetic declamations, delivered in a quavering, vibrato-esque baritone, defines the character utterly. The play itself is not quite perfect, however. It seems that Elliot and Dorian dominate the stage so much with their forceful presence that other characters become secondary adornments, their development
arrested after the first few tentative scenes. Alan never truly progresses beyond being a straight man. Carl pretty much remains a stoic enigma. As an outsider, Grace becomes a narrative anvil against which the ship of the Lazara Quartet founders and fragments. Also, the denouement, which left many plot threads unresolved, might have worked, were it the ending crescendo in a composition. But it leaves too much hanging here. But criticisms aside, this really is a wellwritten and superbly directed production, a play worth seeing. It is enjoyably complex, fearless in direction and its depiction of human relationships, highly funny and endearing. It is almost a meta-testament to the torturous dynamics of creating truly great art, and of its ephemeral nature. Much as audiences in a concert hall treasure every note of a Beethoven opus because they are crystal clear reverberations that, after a brief blossoming across the hall, disappear forever, so is the theatre, with its one-time-only performances, a monument to the fleeting nature of artistic beauty. Opus is to be watched for an expression of that feeling, but also because it’s a darn good piece of after-dinner entertainment. Opus runs at the Kitchen Theatre until November 11. Colin Chan is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at cchan@cornellsun.com.
A&E BY CHARLEY DU Sun Contributor
“Creepy,” “fascinating” and “mind-boggling” are some of the words critics have used to describe Bart Leyton’s documentary The Imposter. As different as these adjectives are, most of the movie’s audience — as the favorable critic and audience polls on Rotten Tomatoes prove — agree that it is gripping and thought provoking, making it one of the year’s most highly acclaimed documentaries. Yet, as we all know, sometimes expectations lead to disappointments. Such was my experience with the film when I saw it this week at Cinemapolis. The Imposter details the bizarre case of 13-year-old Texan boy Nicholas Barclay and his disappearance. More than three years after he goes missing, a boy shows up across the globe in Linares, Spain, claiming to be Nicholas. He tells the police the gruesome circumstances in which he was abducted and tortured. The problem is that this person looks conspicuously different from the Nicholas that went missing — his hair color, demeanor and even accent have changed drastically. The man is later identified as French citizen and serial imposter Frédéric Bourdin. The family nonetheless embraces the new Nicholas and welThe Imposter comes him into their home, citing Directed by Bart the conditions in which Nicholas lived for three years as the reason behind his not-so-subtle transformations. The film alternates between real-life interviews with people directly related to the case — including Bourdin himself — and reenactments of the events. At the start of the movie, I expected the discovery of Bourdin’s real identity to be the climax of the film. Surprisingly enough, that is not the case, for we see a grinning, brazen
Friday, October 26, 2012 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | 11 Bourdin at the start of the movie. Even then, something about his character definitely seems off — Bourdin does not appear to be a broken man guilty for what he has done but instead talks with an air of arrogance. His braggadocio renders the audience uncomfortable. Bourdin recounts his childhood abandonment by his Algerian father, citing it as the reason behind his craving for attention. The audience then discovers that Bourdin’s arrival in the U.S. is more accidental than intended. He merely wanted to impersonate an orphan and live the life of a happy child. However, the insistence of the Spanish authorities made it imperative that Bourdin actually find a specific identity. He thinks on the spot, so when forced into a corner, he manages to fool those with (purportedly) the most discerning eyes: the American Embassy and officials in charge of the case. The unraveling of plot itself is not the most startling part; rather, the power of deceit as displayed by Bourdin and the joke that he makes of the American government become the major topics of the film. Throughout the process of Bourdin stealing Nicholas Barclay’s identity, only a handful ever questions the validity of his claim. The U.S. Embassy in Madrid is so concerned with getting a lost “American” boy home safely and promptly that it overlooks the most Leyton fundamental question of whether or not the boy presented to them is actually who he claims to be. The Barclay family is overjoyed and readily takes Bourdin in as their lost son, despite the fact that he looks nothing like Nicholas. One would think that, though it has been three years, such drastic differences would not be overlooked by those closest to Nicholas. Even Bourdin himself expects to be “beat up” due to the agony caused the grieving
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family. The only ones to remotely question Bourdin’s real identity are the Spanish government, an FBI agent assigned to the case and a private investigator. Their combined effort at the end unnerves Bourdin, who turns the table on his “family” and accuses them of having killed Nicholas. The plot twist toward the end of the film becomes the biggest shock and the climax of the documentary. Nevertheless, it is where the director takes an otherwise unimpressive movie in an even worse direction. Whereas Bourdin’s interview scenes at the start of the film are more or less intriguing to the audience, by the end of the film, it becomes apparent that he is a man plagued by a psychiatric condition, perhaps as a result of his disturbed childhood. He becomes a sickening presence on the screen. The twist only exists because of Bourdin’s accusation, which is untrustworthy, as the director should know better than anybody else. However, as a result of the twist, the movie now lacks a resolution and its point gets lost as the audience is confronted with an ambiguous ending, where
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the question of whether the family was involved in the murder remains unanswerable. For a documentary that critics have raved about for the past 10 months, The Imposter fails to impress me. The film provides much food for thought as it touches upon deceit, grief and our instincts to doubt and believe. However, the motifs jumble under Bourdin’s smug narration and Leyton’s overemphasized reenactments. Even though it is not Leyton’s fault that the case remains unsolved, the fact that he chooses to expand on Bourdin’s accusation makes the film even less fulfilling. The Imposter could be an interesting psychological springboard but, as a film, it does not deserve the hype it has received. The Imposter is now playing at Cinemapolis. Charley Du is a freshman in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at csd85@cornell.edu.
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n the wake of a stressful few days, I looked to this time here because I assume that most of you have heard of week’s fortune cookie for some comfort. I was told this: her before, likely in conjunction with her HBO show “Don’t worry, half the people you know are below aver- Girls, which has been receiving a bathtub full of attention age.” While for some reason I did feel a little less worried this year. So here’s what you may not know: Dunham is a after reading that, my cookie was a little less credible 26-year-old Oberlin grad who has already written, directunwrapped so close to our Cornell campus. However, I ed and produced two feature films of her own entitled am still happy to take my maybe sort-of compliment. My Creative Non-Fiction and Tiny Furniture. She was nomifortune, and thereby the universe, has declared that I’m nated for four Emmys for her work on Girls and just better than at least half of you. Take that, world! received a $3.5 million publishing deal for a yet-to-beSo, of course, now I have been considering who else is written book of essays. She is set to appear in Judd in this upper fortune cookie crust club. It’s also had me Apatow’s This is 40, which hits theaters this December thinking about all of the movies and TV shows that I may, and should ensure that she won’t be off our radar anytime Ezra willing, have time to catch up on this weekend, but soon. Thank God. I think I’m always subconsciously thinking about that. Another individual who won’t be off our radar for a Either way, the overlap led me to a group of the best and very long time is Peter Jackson, who will be the director most current of our of all three parts of The upper crusters in the Hobbit. The first of the field of writing and three part installments will directing. I hope you hit theaters this December, have heard about many and, admit it, you’re excited. of them before, and if Jackson directed the first you haven’t get the three Lord of The Rings jump, because this films, and the final film, Fortune Cookie winter I suspect you’re Return of the King, won going to hear their Oscars for Best Picture, Fridays names a lot more. Director and Adapted Let’s start with Paul Screenplay in 2004. Thomas Anderson. Director of Magnolia, There Will Be Basically, we know The Hobbit is in good hands. Now, the Blood and, most recently, The Master, Anderson probably only question is who to dress up as for the premiere. has an award shelf somewhere in his house because he has On the topic of books becoming movies, we can’t forwon too many to count. Most of his films have been nom- get the fabulous Baz Luhrmann, who somewhat recently inated in multiple categories, and The Master has already completed the new version of The Great Gatsby. I was a litwon the Silver Lion in Venice. You’ll undoubtedly see The tle heartbroken when its Christmas release got pushed Master pop up on the Oscar list in a few of months, and until spring, but I’m still way too excited about the movie if you’re itching to see a well-made movie, this film is for to actually be angry about it. What you need to know you. Joaquin Phoenix, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Amy about Baz Luhrmann is that he is really just Baz Adams, under Anderson’s direction … just go see it. Fun Luhrmann. His style is his and his alone. It is new, bright, fact: In real life, Anderson is married to Maya Rudolph. I colorful, different, a little wild and overall beautiful to am taking this as proof that, besides being a respected look at. Quick Review: You have most likely seen director, he is most likely an all-around awesome person. Lurmann’s work in Moulin Rouge, Australia and Romeo + Speaking of awesome people, one of our hot names has Juliet. If Romeo + Juliet is any indicator, this adaptation got to be Lena Dunham. I’m not going to spend a lot of will be unlike any other Gatsby film so far.
Arielle Cruz
If none of films I’ve mentioned so far swipe an Oscar nom for Best Picture, there is a good, very good chance that Silver Linings Playbook will. You may have heard of its director David O. Russell from films like Three Kings and The Fighter. Playbook comes out in November and is pretty much guaranteed an Oscar. The film already won a People’s Choice Award at TIFF and, as of now, has a 100 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Come on, Jennifer Lawrence. Bradley Cooper playing a serious role. And great reviews? Get excited. Russell has an untitled production set to come out in 2013 that is rumored to include Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner and Amy Adams. I have a feeling he will keep popping up long after this year. Directors don’t get half of the buzz that actors do, which is a shame, because, in a sense, they are the characters we love so much, much more than the actors. Half of the time, they are the writers of the words we so anxiously quote on our walls and attribute to Don Draper or Frodo. In a magical world, where these people were “everyone I know,” I would consider myself lucky to be below average. Until then, my goal will be what the goal for all college undergraduates is: Just try to stay above the mean. Arielle Cruz is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at acruz@cornellsun.com. Fortune Cookie Fridays appears once a month this semester.
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WOMEN’S SOCCER
Searching for First Ivy Win, Red Set to Battle Princeton By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
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Spoiler alert | The Red hopes to prevent Princeton from clinching an Ivy title on its home turf.
This weekend the Red (1-12-1, 0-4-1 Ivy League) will face first-place Princeton (11-3-1, 5-0) in a grudge match at home at 6 p.m. on Berman Field after the men take on the Tigers at 3 p.m. “I think they felt a little sorry for themselves after the Brown game for a day or so. They trained really hard yesterday and today,” said head coach Patrick Farmer. “I think they are looking forward to the chance to not see Princeton winning the Ivy League on our field. I am hoping that they are up for the challenge.” The Cornell women will try and grab the team’s first Ivy League win for the season and spoil the Tigers’ unblemished record in the Ancient Eight. Princeton is riding a nine-game winning streak heading into Saturday’s game at Berman, while the Red is still searching for its second season win and first Ivy one this season. “You try to get some little mental edge out of each of the games and until you are mathematically eliminated, you are trying to win the championship. When you are mathematically eliminated, you focus on a couple of other things. You don’t want to come in last in the league,” Farmer said. Cornell comes into this weekend after a 1-0 loss to Yale in its last game on the road. The Tigers are in a bit better position coming out of last weekend with a 2-1 victory in overtime against LaSalle — Cornell lost to LaSalle earlier this season, 4-0, on Sept. 16. Last season, Princeton came out one top in the matchup between the two Ivy opponents after an early snowstorm
hit the East coast, which forced the teams to play on a field usually used for field hockey. Princeton scored the only goal of the game in the 24th minute after consecutive shots that hit the crossbar. Princeton is currently on a 16-game winning streak in the series against the Red — including wins in 2009 and 2010. “I think that they are mentally preCornell pared to feel like they are competitive with [Princeton],” Farmer said. The season has been tough for the team so far. Eight of the 14 games that the team has played to date, Cornell vs. has lost by one goal. As pinpointed by the players and Farmer, the problems have been playing 90 full minutes of play while executing shots and turning them into goals at the same time. Princeton Farmer noted that the members of the team have kept their heads up and Saturday, 6 p.m. spirits high despite tough conditions Berman Field this season. “I think in training they have been absolutely terrific … I think that they have been competitive, spirited and interested in learning,” he said. “I am honestly surprised that they have kept their competitive spirit. Their attitude is top shelf. I think what they are trying to find is their team-wide personality and bring that together.” Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.
Calipari Out,Knight In: Defense Is Key This Weekend Two Wishes Off the List FOOTBALL
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the overtime loss to Auburn in the Outback Bowl in 2009 is still one of my worst memories. Tampa is forever ruined for me. In the same manner as my first wish, I need them to win a bowl game. This is for my sanity as well as thousands of other Northwestern fans that aren’t asking for a national championship or even a Big Ten championship. Just a win in December or January. Please. #3: John Calipari stops coaching all things John Calipari is a figure that encapsulates the problems with college sports. That is my personal judgment, but it is based on some pretty concrete facts. He is currently the head coach for the University of Kentucky basketball team, and is coming off of a national title victory with the Wildcats. While this is a very prestigious honor to have to his name, he also has some less honorable accomplishments. He is the only head coach to have Final Four appearances vacated by the NCAA at more than one school. He has championed and perfected the “one-and-done” mentality for NCAA basketball players. He is also one of the few coaches whose Wikipedia page boasts its own “Controversies” subsection. Given that, I want him to stop coaching. Not just college basketball, but really all things. He is not a positive influence on the game of college basketball, and he furthers the belief that his players are biding their time in college before entering the NBA rather than treating them as studvents. I also still harbor some hatred from their Sweet Sixteen victory over Cornell back in 2010. #4: Bob Knight coaches all things First and foremost, a quick shout out to Mr. Knight who also shares my birthday. Just a fair warning: he will probably be more angry that you did
not wish him a happy birthday. It’s the two of us and Ciara that share this birthday. I’m sure that many of you will still remember that in 364 days. There is an undeniable passion to the way in which Bob Knight coached NCAA basketball. He won more than 900 games in his historic career, and is an iconic coach regardless of sport. He, too, has a section of his bio that includes “Criticism and Controversy” and his infamous toss of a chair onto the basketball court during an Indiana Hoosier game in 1985. Since the incident, he has made light of it by saying, “he saw an old lady standing on the opposite sideline and threw her the chair so she could sit down”. There is a real need for coaches with personality. While Knight might be (read: is) over the edge, his passion for the game has made him one of the most revered coaches in college basketball history. This passion has a real place in college sports as long as its within reason. #5: Charles Barkley narrates my life This is by far my most ridiculous wish, but there is something unbelievable about the way that Charles Barkley speaks. He makes me laugh every time that he talks, and I find his commentary for the NBA to be truly hilarious. I would be honored if he would narrate my life at all times. Just walk about five feet behind me telling everyone else what I was doing, and provide personal commentary to my life’s events. I think everyone would benefit from this situation. There you have it. This is a life’s worth of sports birthday wishes. I am not delusional enough to think that all of them will come true, but I’m hoping one within the next year comes to fruition. Cheers to that. Annie Newcomb can be reached at anewcomb@cornellsun.com Sucks to Suck appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
than Cornell’s once-vaunted attack, employing a two-quarterback system with sophomores Connor Michelsen and Quinn Epperly. Unlike the Red, Princeton has not wasted offensive production, ranking second in the Ancient Eight in points per game despite accumulating the seventh-most yards. The Tigers entered the fourth quarter against the Crimson with only three passing touchdowns on the season, but they added four more in fifteen minutes — three by Michelsen and a 36-yard heave by Epperly with 13 seconds left that capped the heroic comeback. Red freshman cornerback Jarrod Watson-Lewis said he doesn’t believe the substitution of quarterbacks presents an additional challenge for the defense. “It won’t really make too much of a difference for us,” Watson-Lewis said. “We’ll
scheme against it and probably have different packages for different quarterbacks, but we’ve seen it before.” Watson-Lewis led Cornell with 11 tackles against Brown, but the talented rookie acknowledges that he and his teammates must take down ball carriers upon first contact. The visitors this weekend will try to counter the Red’s mission with a rushing attack that averages 154.8 yards per game. Five different Tigers, including Michelsen and Epperly, have taken at least 39 carries in 2012. “Tackling was one of the biggest issues we had — [Brown] had 190-something yards after contact,” WatsonLewis said. “We practice tackling every day, but we just need to make tackles in the game and maybe it’ll be a different outcome.” A stingy defensive performance will indeed be the key to a Cornell win based on recent history. In head coach Kent Austin’s two-and-a-half seasons,
the Red is 7-0 when allowing fewer than 20 points to its opponent and 3-16 when surrendering 20 or more. Cornell relinquished just one touchdown to the Tigers in last year’s sound 24-7 win at Princeton University Stadium during a relentless snowstorm over Halloween Weekend, an exception to the rule of thrilling finishes when the two programs go head-to-head. But the Red is always prepared for a down-tothe-wire contest, especially against the Tigers, who have tasted sole possession of first place in the Ivies for the first time in 17 seasons. “Week in and week out in this league, you’re going to play very good football teams and a lot of those are going to come down to close games,” Mathews said. “It comes down to us making more plays than they do and at the end of the day, that’s what we’ve got to focus on.” Quintin Schwab can be reached at qschwab@cornellsun.com.
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tie. According to Bardreau, this may not have been as good as the team was hoping for. “Last year we got off to a hot start in the preseason, winning pretty big,” he said. “This year, we had a little set back, but I think that can be good at the same time, give us a little reality check that we have a lot of skill but we also have to play together … I think it’s good. I think along the way it will be good.” This may just be a result of the limited on-ice time the team has had so far, according
to Schaefer. “It’s just not having enough playing time under out belt yet,” he said. “It wasn’t major things, that was the nice thing about it.” Even so, Cornell has been watching film and is already working to improve upon last week’s mistakes. “We just have to start winning puck battles, we have to play harder in our defensive zone and start working together,” Bardreau said. Another factor the team has to adjust for is the new faces in the lineup: the Red graduated four seniors last year and added five freshmen for the 2012-13 season.
While the season is just beginning, so far things seem to be going well with the new players on East Hill. “They are freshmen, they are inconsistent — it’s new to them.” Schaefer said. “It’s a grind. Division I hockey, I think, is different than any other hockey: you’re here to win and you’re here to get better. And getting better takes an awful lot of energy.” After facing the Tigers this weekend, the Red will finally begin ECAC play with the annual home-and-home series against Colgate. Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun.com.
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DANI ABADA
SCOTT ESTHER ANNIE RUBY CHIUSANO HOFFMAN NEWCOMB PERLMUTTER
LAUREN RITTER
UINTIN SCHROEDER Q SCHWAB
JEFF STEIN
HALEY VELASCO
PRINCETON AT CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
PRINCETON
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
HARVARD AT DARTMOUTH
HARVARD
HARVARD
DARTMOUTH
HARVARD
DARTMOUTH
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
BROWN AT PENN
BROWN
PENN
PENN
BROWN
PENN
PENN
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
YALE AT COLUMBIA
YALE
COLUMBIA
YALE
YALE
COLUMBIA
COLUMBIA
YALE
YALE
YALE
YALE
TENNESSEE AT S. CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
TENNESSEE
S. CAROLINA
SOUTH CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
S. CAROLINA
IOWA AT NORTHWESTERN
N’WESTERN
N’WESTERN
IOWA
N’WESTERN
N’WESTERN
N’WESTERN
N’WESTERN
N’WESTERN
IOWA
N’WESTERN
FLORIDA AT GEORGIA
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
FLORIDA
GEORGIA
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
FLORIDA
GIANTS AT COWBOYS
GIANTS
GIANTS
COWBOYS
GIANTS
COWBOYS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
GIANTS
DOLPHINS AT JETS
JETS
JETS
JETS
JETS
DOLPHINS
JETS
DOLPHINS
DOLPHINS
JETS
JETS
REDSKINS AT STEELERS
STEELERS
STEELERS
STEELERS
REDSKINS
STEELERS
REDSKINS
STEELERS
STEELERS
REDSKINS
STEELERS
LAST WEEK
7-3
5-5
7-3
6-4
5-5
6-4
6-4
6-4
3-7
7-3
TOTAL
46-14
42-18
39-21
39-21
24-36
38-22
41-19
42-18
39-21
39-21
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A Sports Birthday Red Looks to Hand Tigers First Loss Wish List By QUINTIN SCHWAB
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s I sit writing this column on my 22nd birthday (that’s right, you’re a day behind now that you’re reading it in the paper) I realize that I wish for a lot of things from the world of sports. Despite my superstitions and rituals, there is little to no evidence that any of my focused energy has had any positive results. Ergo, for this column I am making a birthday wish list as it pertains to sports. By writing and publishing these hopes, they will come true. #1: Northwestern Basketball makes it to the NCAA Tournament Since the NCAA tournament started in 1939, Northwestern is the only team in the six major conferences to never have made an appearance in the bracket. This is an extremely daunting statistic, and especially depressing after Northwestern failed to make the tournament last season in the final year for Northwestern’s all-time leading scorer, John Shurna. Another fun fact is that Northwestern actually hosted the first NCAA tournament back in 1939. Given that, Northwestern’s inability to make it into the
Annie Newcomb Sucks to Suck Big Dance in its history is a constant burden to the program, and so for my first wish, I would like to ask that the basketball team make its first historic appearance in the tournament in my lifetime. Yes, that’s all I’m asking. #2: Northwestern football wins a bowl game I know! There’s a theme! (Spoiler alert: the theme is Northwestern teams losing.) Most near and dear to my heart is the Northwestern football team, which currently has not won a bowl game since 1949. With the exception of Otto Graham, Northwestern has had a very rough history when it comes to football. With a school that has fewer than 9,000 undergraduates on their campus competing against multiple schools in its conference with more than 40,000 undergraduate students, the odds are constantly against them. However, given that Wikipedia describes that, after appearing in the Rose Bowl in 1949, Northwestern “plummeted to extended levels of futility from the mid-1970s to 1994,” they have much improved. Since 1995, they have made nine bowl game appearances, though they were all losses. I have seen six of these losses with my own eyes, and See NEWCOMB page 14
Fourteen of the past 17 games between the Cornell and Princeton football teams have been decided by a touchdown or less, and the 2012 matchup tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. on Schoellkopf Field figures to be no different. The Red (3-3, 1-2 Ivy League) hopes to save its season when the squad begins a stretch of three out of four home games to end the year against the surprising first-place Tigers (4-2, 30), a contest televised by Time Warner Cable. Last Saturday in Princeton, N.J., the Tigers pulled off a stunner for the ages to shake up the Ivy title race — scoring 29 unanswered points in the fourth quarter to defeat conference favorite and nationally-ranked Harvard, 39-34, despite trailing by 24 with just 12 minutes remaining. The Crimson had won a Division I-best 14 straight games by an average of 25 points, while Princeton had compiled a 5-22 record in its previous 27 contests. Cornell This year’s Princeton team seems to present a whole new story, though, as the Tigers have won four consecutive games and sit alone in first place in the Ancient Eight with vs. a 3-0 mark after being picked to finish last in the preseason. “Year in and year out, so many things change,” said Red junior quarterback and offensive co-capPrinceton tain Jeff Mathews. “[Princeton] is a different team this year — they play Saturday, 12:30 p.m. with a whole different type of enerSchoellkopf Field gy. They’ve grown up over the year. And we’re also a different team than we were last year.” Cornell has stumbled to a 1-2 Ivy start, including a frustrating seven-point defeat at Brown last weekend. Even so, the Red remains very much in the Ivy picture, as a win over Princeton would move the club within one game of the top of the standings. Against the Bears, Mathews tossed three interceptions for only the second time in his career. The Red certainly expects a resurgent performance from the 2011 All-Ivy signal caller, who amassed 521 yards and five touchdowns following his other three-pick outing in November of last year. “Any time you don’t play up to the level that you expect to play to give your team a chance to win, I think that’s a huge motivating factor,” Mathews said. “And I think our team as a whole is very motivated to come back and show we’re a better team than we were last week and get a win.” The Red’s quest for redemption will not be easy.
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Looking for redemption | After a disappointing loss to Brown, the Red hopes to rebound against Princeton.
Princeton’s defense allows a conference-low 15.3 points per game, a total Cornell has failed to surpass three times this year. Tigers senior defensive linemen Caraun Reid and Mike Catapano have combined for 12 sacks and 16.5 tackles for loss in 2012, while senior linebacker Andrew Starks has recorded a team-high 54 tackles. “They have a very good defensive line — [Reid and Catapano] are both very good players,” Mathews said. “They have some solid players in the linebacking corps and in the secondary. Our [offensive] line is improving week in and week out also, so it’ll be a good test for us … I think we’re going to match up very well against them and we’ve just got to make plays.” Princeton’s offense, meanwhile, is more unconventional See FOOTBALL page 14
MEN’S HOCKEY
Squad Takes On Colorado at Lynah
By SHANE DUNAU Sun Staff Writer
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Itching to play | Four to six games behind the rest of the country, the Red is anxious to get back on the ice.
The men’s ice hockey team starts off its season with a home-and-home pair of matches against Colorado College (3-10). The puck drops at 7 p.m. on Lynah Rink Friday night, and then again on Saturday night. The most recent USCHO.com national college hockey poll ranks Cornell at No. 7 and Colorado at No. 19. “They’re anxious to play, we’re four to six games behind everyone in the country right now,” said head coach Mike Schaefer. “Starting this weekend with Colorado College, they’re 3-1 coming in here and we look forward to playing. [We] had a great series with them last year, they’re a great hockey team so we’re just excited to play.” Although this is the Red’s first look at the 2012-13 season, the Tigers are an out of conference opponent. Currently, Colorado College is in the WCHA, but next season it is moving on to be a charter
Schaefer still has to figure out team in the National where the right place is for Collegiate Hockey Cornell everyone in the lineup. Conference. “It’s just a matter of getting And while the Cornell icers more and more time and trying may be ready to get going, to figure out exactly who we according to sophomore forwant on power play and getting ward Cole Bardreau, the team vs. two units,” he said. “I played also recognizes that there is a everybody — a lot of guys had a long way to go. lot of chances to kill penalties “The locker room is full of and we watch them every day so motion in there,” he said. it was kind of a training run for “Everyone is a little jittery, Colorado College us. Not that many guys are excited that the long preseason going to be killing penalties and is over … I think anxious is a Friday, 7 p.m. not that many guys will get a good word but at the same Lynah Rink chance on the power play as we time, by the same token, we’ve move forward … [It’s] not just only had three to five practices about who is the best player, a together, so everyone is just getting to know each other, [to] know lot of times it’s what can they do and what each other’s habits. Everyone’s trying to role can they fulfill.” Last weekend, the Red hosted the U.S. mesh together right now — I think once we get a few more practices and games Under-18 team and Brock University. On under our belt, I think we’re really going Friday, Cornell beat the Under-18s, 6-2, and on Saturday the game ended in a 2-2 to come together here.” On that same vein, with only a few See M. HOCKEY page 14 chances to watch the team play together,
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RED PERSEVERES DESPITE TOUGH TIMES By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
This season has changed the way that the women’s soccer team has approached the game — both mentally and physically. Under the guidance of 20 year veteran and head coach Patrick Farmer — who comes to the Red from the University of Wisconsin as an assistant coach for the Badgers and with experience at the professional level, at Penn State and at Ithaca College — the team has faced an overhaul of the mentality of the program highlighting the need to be more aggressive and push forward. At the start of the season, the Red looked to take home its first winning season in the past 10 years — a goal which will follow the team into next season. The Red began the fall 2012 campaign primarily on the road with seven of the eight games that the team played away from campus. The season began for Cornell with a roundup during Labor Day weekend in Washington D.C. where the Red faced off against Georgetown and George Washington — dropping both of those games to the opponents in tough bouts. The team then continued with an upstate game against Colgate on Sept. 7 and a showdown against Albany on Sept. 9 — both games ending up in losses for Cornell. The kickoff of the season came against Binghamton on Sept. 12 under the lights where the Red lost, 1-2, followed by the Red’s home opener on Sept. 14 against Sacred Heart for the first meet up between the two teams in program history. Cornell also went up against LaSalle that weekend for a loss, 0-4.
On Sept. 21, Cornell entered high point. We just into its first Ivy game of the sea- came out son against Columbia — losing strong to the Lions, 1-0. “I don’t think that our execution has been consistent across the whole 90 minutes especially really early in the game. We have had a couple of goals scored really early … We just haven’t been coordinating where the good BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER sections of play turn into really Immense good chances,” dedication | said Farmer. The Red tries to “There have been turn the season times where we have around with let down a little bit hardwork on and the goals have cost us. I the field. think that [it’s about] executing across the 90 minutes.” The team then returned to a n d Ithaca for a three-game homes- had a lot of tand on Sunday, Sept. 23 against confidence,” said Niagara and its first Ivy game at Christ. “Harvard won the home against Penn on the Sept. league last year and we tied them 28 — collecting two more losses. last year. Then to come out and The Red finished out the non- tie them this year was definitely a league portion of its season and plus … It was a big confidence the trio with a game against boost.” The team went back on the Lafayette on Oct. 2 — where Cornell grabbed its first victory, road to face off against Yale and 4-1. Senior forward Maneesha Brown in the next two weekends. Chitanvis scored two goals with Both games ended up in upsetsenior forwards Xandra Hompe ting 1-0 losses for the Red, and Moonie Mancho scoring one despite tough play and strong mental attitudes of the team. The each. The team then continued the loss against Yale was due to an more positive stretch of the sea- unexpected goal off of Cornell son by grabbing a tie, 1-1 against that whipped past junior goaldefending Ivy League champion keeper Tori Christ. Then the Red Harvard thanks to a goal from went against the Bears and failed junior midfielder Mary Keroack. to capitalize on scoring opportu“The high point [of the sea- nities that cost the team the game son] for us was the Harvard and in the end. Despite a tough season, the the Lafayette games. Just that week of soccer was definitely the team has been pushing hard and
2012 POINT LEADERS getPLAYER ting recogM. Chitanvis nition for Xandra Hompe the dedicaJayann Gabrio tion internally and Moonie Mancho externally. Senior forward Maneesha Chitanvis has scored four goals and two assists for 10 points this season to date — tying her with senior teammate Xandra Hompe for leading the team in points. Chitanvis was also named Ivy League Player of the Week on Oct. 8 — after an away outing against Lafayette where she scored two goals and her assist for the goal by Keroack against Harvard. “Maneesha is a very dynamic player and strikes the ball very
MANEESHA CHITANVIS: A Leader, a Scorer, Four Years Strong
Senior Captain Looks Back on Career By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer
With two games left in her collegiate soccer career, senior forward and captain Maneesha Chitanvis has a storied four years to look back on with the Red. After tying for the second most goals on the team during her freshman season, Chitanvis led the team in scoring as a sophomore and as a junior, receiving AllIvy honorable mention awards both seasons. As a senior, she has scored four goals, including two in the team’s only win of the year against Lafayette College. Chitanvis said that she is pleased to join two other seniors as the team’s captains. “We’ve had a set group of captains for the last two years,” she explains. “It’s exciting to finally get the opportunity this year to step up and be in those leadership roles.” Unfortunately, Chitanvis and the Red (1-12-1) have struggled this year — with eight of Cornell’s 12 losses coming by a
one-goal deficit. Despite its overall record, the squad had promising moments, such as a 4-1 victory over Lafayette and a hardfought tie against powerhouse Harvard. As a captain and team leader, Chitanvis remains confident and motivated when it comes to the Red’s future. “No one is ever going to be complacent,” she claims. “[The team is] still going to keep fighting ... [it] has the potential to do better.” Chitanvis looked back at her college career and said she remembered her best moments as the ones when the chemistry of the team showed the most. As for the future, she said that she has high hopes and expectations for the team. With a new coaching staff and a changing program, Chitanvis emphasized the chance that the younger players have to influence Cornell’s women’s soccer program. “The opportunity they have ... no one else had,” Chitanvis said. “[It’s their responsibility to] really change things and really move the program forward.”
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Moving forward | Maneesha Chitanvis believes her teammates can turn the women’s soccer program around.
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well with both feet. She is very fast and can get going and can be dangerous going forward. Xandra is probably the most technical player on the team … They are very different kinds of players even though they play in the same area of the field,” Farmer said. “They make a good tandem sometimes, but other times I think that they don’t find each other very well because their games are so different.” Christ has also started in goal for all 14 games that the Red has played in the season thus far — getting a career high 10 saves for the Red in the game against Harvard on Oct. 6 in Cambridge. The junior goalkeeper is new to a permanent spot on the field for the Red after following behind two senior goalies last season. “It has definitely been a learning experience. Being behind two upperclassmen before, I got to train really hard. I think the focus now has been setting a pace every single practice,” Christ said. “I like it, but it has been learning to focus in on every single practice and take it game by game. It is definitely a mindset thing and has been a good experience overall.” The team will play the rest of the season at home at Berman Field, with two weekend matchups against Ivy foes Princeton and Dartmouth. “To be honest, we are fed up and disappointed because we have been in games and our record could be significantly better,” Farmer said. “I think that it is a very motivation. We are not in the running to win the championship anymore … I think that we will try and improve … our combination play [against Princeton and Dartmouth].”
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“We are not where we expected to be at the start of the season; we wanted to be 5-0 at this point.” — Brendan Miller
By ALBERT LIAO Sun Staff Writer
After starting the season 3-0, including a victory against perennial contender Penn (2-2), the Cornell sprint football team looked like it would be a challenge for the league title. However, the Red (3-2) followed up its great start with two losses to Army (5-0) and Navy (4-0) — the two undefeated teams in the league — that ended any hopes of a league championship. “I am very disappointed by our season so far,” said junior captain and quarterback Brendan Miller. “We are not where we expected to be at the start of the season; we wanted to be 5-0 at this point.” Going into the season, with top offensive players Miller, senior captain and wide receiver Abe Mellinger and senior wide receiver Spenser Gruenenfelder returning, the offense had high expectations. Although the team has played well this year — Miller has thrown for 1046 yards and seven touchdowns on the year, both second in the league, and Mellinger has averaged 81.4 yards per game and caught four touchdowns — it has been unable to convert opportunities
team has been working hard to perform well this season.
into points. “To only score three points against Navy is embarrassing,” Miller expressed. “Navy has a great defense, but we squandered many opportunities.” The offense also had trouble converting in its 22-15 win against Princeton. The Red scored 20 points in the first half, but did not score any points on offense in the second half. An offensive surprise came from young running backs junior Nick Perez, sophomore Jake Michaels, freshmen Ben Pham and Ben Herrera. After losing 1000-yard rusher Doug Famularo ’11, the squad expected a drop off, but the Red’s young backs have made up for Famularo’s graduation. “Nick Perez had a really good game against Navy,” Gruenenfelder praised. “He’s been doing well for us throughout the year, especially in pass coverage.” “Our running backs have stepped up big time this season,” Miller said. “Michaels, Perez, Pham and Herrera are all steady and have the speed and power to [be] effective.” The defense has been a consistent force this season, led by the play of junior linebacker Kyle Higgins, who has recorded four tackles for a loss and three sacks, sophomore defensive back Michael Monahan, who leads the team with
48 tackles, and junior defensive back Riley Scott, who leads the team with three interceptions despite missing a game. The defense has improved and its best performance came against Navy — holding the opponent to nine points in an 11-3 loss. “We are really proud of our defensive performance against Navy,” Gruenenfelder said. Offensively, the team has a lot of room to improve, according to both Miller and Gruenenfelder. “We really need to improve on both first and second down. We have way too many third and long situations that limit us offensively and allow the defense to predict our next move,” Miller explained. The Red has two games remaining against Post (2-2) and Mansfield (1-3) and plans to take out its frustration on them after losing the last two games, according to Gruenenfelder. “We had a lot of frustration from the Navy and Army games and we are going to take it out on Post and Mansfield,” Gruenenfelder said. “We practiced hard this past week … we’ve gone all out full-contact and are really looking to get better.”
ABE MELLINGER: Senior Captain, Wide Receiver, Record Maker
Mellinger Leads Cornell on and off the Field By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer
Tallying 407 of the Red’s 1,046 receiving yards and leading all players in receiving touchdowns (4) and punt-return yards (87), senior wide receiver Abe Mellinger is capping off his sprint football career with an explosive season. “You look at him during a game and he’s so focused,” said junior running back Nick Perez. “He has an incredible knack for making plays.” For Mellinger, a fifth-year senior captain from Lancaster, Pa., leadership comes naturally. “We’re limited with how many coaches we can have on the practice
field,” Mellinger noted. “Just from starting at wide receiver for five years, I have a lot of advice ... to offer young guys ... There’s a lot to
pass down on my part ... I try to lead by example … To show with hard work and determination, you can fight through any adversity.”
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Mellinger leads the Red in receiving touchdowns.
Mellinger played a big role in the Red’s 3-0 start, which included an exhilarating six-overtime victory over Penn. Since then, Cornell has dropped back-to-back games to Army and Navy. “We’re still really working hard on being able to work together,” Mellinger said. “We’re a little tentative right now. Not only as an offense, but I think sometimes as a team. And if we’re a little more confident in the things we do ... we have a lot of room to improve.” Mellinger will continue to remain a vibrant personality on and off the field. “[H]is serene, almost stoic demeanor in the locker room, shrieks
after a blown call, knack for making incredibly athletic plays … goofy grin, farm-boy roots, and Tupac sneakers build Abe up to be one of those stereotypically eccentric and enigmatic wide-receivers we all know and love,” Perez commented. Most apparent, however, is Mellinger’s passion for football. “I’ve been playing receiver a long time, and I just love to compete and run with other players,” Mellinger recollected. “For me, I’m just hopefully going to keep getting as many opportunities and capitalizing on these opportunities as they come in these last two games of my football career.” But despite his valuable role on offense,
Mellinger’s favorite part of the game remains on special teams. “My most favorite play of the whole game is kickoff returns,” Mellinger sai “There’s nothing like waiting for that ball to come down ... It’s my favorite part of the game.” “These last two teams … we’re going to be going full throttle, no mercy … I’m excited to put up as many points as we can against them.” Even as his career comes to a close, Mellinger carries with him a special passion for the game, a quirky farmboy personality spawned from his Lancaster roots, and a knack for leading his teammates by example and never giving up on the big play.
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Up, up and away | The Cornell volleyball team has doubled its victories this season as compared to last, under new head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose.
Season Marked by Ups and Downs By BEN HOROWIRZ Sun Staff Writer
PROGRAM HEADS IN POSITIVE DIRECTION By SCOTT ECKL
er Rachel D’Epagnier. In a game that featured 38 ties and 10 lead changes, Cornell pulled out on top in five sets; At this point last year, Cornell was 3-17 over- 16-25, 25-18, 20-25, 25-22, 18-16. The all, 1-7 in the Ivy League, and had lost 12 of Bearcats had three match points in the final set, their previous 13 matches. The team would go but were unable to close it out. At 17-16, the on to finish 5-21 overall and 3-11 in the confer- Red’s junior outside hitter and captain, Kelly ence, as three-year head coach Sarah Bernson Marble, sealed the deal with her team-leading was fired. While the team’s record in the 2012 18th kill of the match. “I think Tuesday’s game was big for us campaign under first-year head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose may not appear like a great because we were able to finish the game,” Batieimprovement, the women have doubled their Smoose said. “Going 2-1 overall last week was win count from last year and, most importantly, very important with the injuries we have had and the tough stretch of road games to come.” they have a new attitude. After Tuesday’s “My expectabig win, the Red tion coming in was was able to split to change the culthree games against ture,” Batie2012 RED POINTS LEADERS Ancient Eight Smoose said. “The PLAYER YEAR KILLS DIGS o p p o n e n t s players want to Shannon O’Brien Freshman 1 66 H a r v a r d , change and they Janel Forte Junior 71 18 Dartmouth and really have been Columbia. The working hard. The Brittnay Fox Junior 6 2 team lost in four level of intensity Kelly Reinke Sophomore 18 129 sets to Harvard, but and energy in was able to fend off practices has risen the Big Green in dramatically throughout the season, but now we just have to five sets, after winning the first two and dropping the next two. Cornell was unable to defeat take that into our matches.” As the 2009 Sun Conference Coach of the Columbia, as the Lions won three close sets. Up next for Cornell is a four-game road trip Year at the Savannah College of Art & Design, Batie-Smoose is used to winning. Now at the Ivy to Brown on Oct. 26, Yale on Oct. 27, League level, she wants to create a culture of Dartmouth on Nov. 2 and Dartmouth on Nov. 3. confidence. “We are still taking it one game at a time,” “Knowing and believing you can win is a hard mindset coming in to a struggling pro- Batie-Smoose said. “We cannot overlook anyone or surpass any game. Getting this win at gram,” she said . The season had a shaky start, as the Red went home is important for us and then we got to 2-7 in its non-conference schedule. However, focus on having success on the road.” Despite these challenges that the team the team seems to have picked it up in since then with a 4-5 record, with two wins coming against faces, the players remain confident and Ivy League opponents Brown and Dartmouth. hopeful about the future direction of the proBoth the players and the coach agree that the gram. “Our focus is getting better each day,” Batieteam is heading in the right direction after a big non-conference win against Binghamton Oct. 9. Smoose said. “At this point we might not be “All of us looked good together as a group number one or even finish in the top two, but and looked each other in the eye and said ‘we are we still are mentally in it and we will still be not losing this game,’” said junior middle block- fighting for pride.” Sun Staff Writer
The field hockey team’s season can easily be subdivided into two distinct parts, one with disappointment and the other with encouraging success. The Red lost its first four games of the season and began the year 1-6 overall. “We started off the season with some really tough games,” said junior forward Hannah Balleza. “Some we expected to win, but we knew playing North Carolina would be a difficult and Penn State would be difficult. It wasn’t the way we LEADING THE RED wanted to PLAYER YEAR GOALS ASSISTS start the Hannah Balleza Junior 13 4 season.” Four of 4 2 Brittany Thompson Junior those losses Kat Dipastina Senior 3 3 were by a Freshman 2 4 Taylor Standiford margin of just one goal, which made the matchups particularly frustrating, but also meant that the Red was close to breaking through the barrier with a victory. The team finally pulled through with a victory, beginning with a 1-0 home win over Yale on Sept. 29th. The Red has now won six of the last seven games. According to junior midfielder Mallory Bannon, improved chemistry both on and off the field helped the Red reset itself on a path of success. “We have been connecting a lot, meshing both on and off the field,” she said. Leadership has also been a key component in the Red’s rise to success. According to Balleza, the leadership of the four team captains and other players stepping up as leaders at different times has maintained the team’s chemistry and morale off the field. “We have four awesome captains right now, but our coach expects all of us to be leaders,” she said. “I think its really important for everyone to speak up and act as leaders. Especially through all of those losses, it was important to keep everyone positive and encouraged about the next game.” The Red has three games left this season, two against Ivy League opponents. The Red will host first-place Princeton on Oct. 27 in what could be a crucial game in determining who wins the Ivy League. The game is the first of three consecutive home contests to close out the season, with the Red facing Dartmouth in the season finale. According to Balleza. the Red is confident and excited about its upcoming games. “All of us are some pumped for the rest of the season,” she said. As long as we continue to play like we did against Harvard, I think we’ll do fine. Each game we’ve been getting better and we’ve learned from our mistakes.”
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Mixed reviews | Cornell has had some tough losses early in the season, followed by some clutch wins over Yale and Harvard.