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Skorton: Cornell Still Needs‘Innovation’

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer

Sharing his thoughts on the importance of “thought leadership” and “innovation” in his 2013 State of the University address, President David Skorton emphasized the need for fresh thinking and new alliances in an evolving educational landscape.

“Doing more of what we have always done at Cornell is not going to work anymore,” Skorton said to a crowd of 700 Cornell Board of Trustees and Cornell University Council members Friday.

He said the University must be careful in planning its next steps to ensure that Cornell’s projects further society’s best interests.

“If we are true to our claim of thought leadership, we at Cornell do need to think more strategically and boldly and devise and be advocates for partnerships that will ensure that Universities continue to serve

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Atkinson Center Receives $12 M Gift

By CHRISTOPHER STANTON Sun Contributor

David Atkinson ’60 and Patricia Atkinson have donated $12 million to Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, which aims to develop interdisciplinary methods to promote sustainability.

“We believe Cornell, with its strength in a broad array of disciplines, including agriculture science, is uniquely well positioned to address sustainability issues and be the leading university globally in this field,” David Atkinson said in a University press release. “Given the center’s remarkable success, we are happy to provide additional support.”

The donation, which Cornell Schember, outgoing executive direcannounced to the public Tuesday, tor of the center, Kerslick will help will promote the continual growth of execute the center’s recently announced the center’s leadership strategic plan, team and provide “Given the center’s an outline of endowments to its three the center’s faculty directors. The remarkable success, we goals through professors will in turn are happy to provide 2017 that use the money to further involves the center’s research in additional support.” increased coltheir respective fields, David Atkinson ’60 laboration according to a with external University press release.

The donation coincides with the organizations with similar aspiracenter’s recent restructuring, which tions.

“Collaboration with other organiincluded the appointment of Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D- zations — community, private sec4th Ward) as its new executive direc- tor, government, non-profit and tor, The Sun previously reported.

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The University has come a long way to increase the diversity of its students and employees, but it still has much left to do, trustees and officials say.

This fall, Cornell welcomed “the most diverse freshman class ever in terms of proportions of African American students, the proportion of students who consider themselves people of color and international students,” Robert S. Harrison ’76, chairman of the Board of Trustees, said at a meeting Friday. The University has also seen increasing diversity among its graduate students and workforce — something that Lynette Chappell-Williams, associate vice president of inclusion and workforce diversity, said she “felt really proud of.”

Even then, one of the biggest challenges the University continues to face as it seeks to increase diversity is community engagement, officials said.

Although the University has tried to promote diversity through efforts such as the launch of a See DIVERSITY page 5

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Meeting of the minds | The Board of Trustees held an open meeting in Sage Hall Friday.

Univ.Officials,Trustees Discuss C.U.’s ‘Sacrifices’

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I need a dollar | University officials and trustees discuss Cornell’s need-blind admissions at a panel called “Higher Education, Rising Costs: What does the Future Hold?” in Statler Hall Friday.

Despite costing money, Cornell’s need-blind admissions policy has had an invaluable impact on the student population’s socioeconomic diversity, University trustees and officials said at a panel Friday.

“If all you wanted to do was raise the maximum amount of money possible … you’d eliminate financial aid and just let in rich students,” Prof. Michael Lovenheim, policy analysis and management said. But the money the University has to spend to

continue being need-blind is worth it when considering how important it is to admit a diverse student body, Lovenheim said.

Provost Kent Fuchs echoed Lovenheim’s sentiments, saying the money the University spends on aid is more than compensated by the ability to foster intellectual growth among diverse students.

“If our primary metric — our goal — in being one of the world’s top research institutions is the financial payoff, then it’s not worth it,” Fuchs said. “Even if we haven’t benefitted financially as See PANEL page 5

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Financial Faceoff: Students Weigh Prospects Consulting: innovative, strategic thinking

By MANU RATHORE Sun Senior Editor

Students leaning away from investment banking and toward consulting say the latter industry is more “strategic” and “entrepreneurial” than the former.

“Consulting is an exciting industry to be in for innovative thinkers,” Abi Warren ’15 said. “Consulting, from my understanding at least, is more creative [than investment banking] and is for people who want to be in an intellectual environment.”

Consulting provides students impressive opportunities to learn managerial skills, Shivang Tayal ’16 said.

The industry can also provide employees a wide range of experiences, according to Tayal.

“From my experience, what’s great about consulting is that it gives you great business experience in various industries,” he said. “Consulting firms have a great work environment. It is a very positive setting with a great learning curve.”

The industry also provides employees a better work environment than investment banking, Gizem Sakalli ’15 said. “[Consulting] is a wider umbrella industry,” she said. “Banking and finance are more specific industries.

Banking could be a subset of consulting, but the other way round is not always the case.”

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Investment banking:creating value, impact

involves more strategic thinking than Investment banking jobs are sought investment banking, which is made up after due to high compensation, growth of more repetitive tasks. opportunities and even their work envi“The biggest difference between conronments, students who have worked in sulting and investthe industry say. banking ment Jay Edwards ’14 according to me is said he believes that consulting investment bankinvolves more maning can make a agerial and high meaningful impact strategic level on society. thinking, whereas “A lot of work banking involves that we do extends more specific outside a client’s tasks,” he said. balance sheet. By On average, helping out our Cornell graduates clients, we are who joined conhelping them sulting firms expand their capiearned less than tal,” he said. “By their investment helping companies banking peers. you’re making an The mean annuimpact outside al salary for Cornell their immediate graduates who balance sheet.” joined entered conEdwards added The Sun asked students to describe consulting sulting industry that the investment and investment banking in a word. was $59,513, banking industry according to Cornell Career Services’ also provides an opportunity to create Class of 2012 Postgraduate Report. value not only for shareholders but also Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, for employees and suppliers.

Ernst & Young, “The industry helps companies PricewaterhouseCoopers and IBM were expand beyond just the immediate value consultancy firms that hired most for shareholders but also customers, Cornell students in 2012, according to employees, suppliers and manufacturers,” the 2012 postgraduate report. he said. “When you work on an [Initial

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Public Offering], you’re helping give a company access to money with which they can do great things.”

Though consulting is a competitive industry, investment banking also attracts highly qualified applicants and is highly selective, according to Gizem Sakalli ’15.

“The firm chooses very selectively, and this [is] a big attraction for individuals beginning their careers as they get to network,” Sakalli said.

Culture is plays a key role in every industry and is “one of the best ways to evaluate a firm,” according to Edwards.

“The culture is the key part of a workplace,” he said. “When you work long hours, you really need to be around people that you like.”

On average, investment bankers who graduated from Cornell earn a higher salary than their consultant peers. The mean salary for Cornell graduates who joined the financial services industry was $64,366, according to Cornell Career Services’ Class of 2012 Postgraduate Report.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Barclays Capital, Capital One, Citi, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase were the top financial services firms that recruited from Cornell, according to Cornell Career Services’ Class of 2012 Postgraduate Report.

Manu Rathore can be reached at mrathore@cornellsun.com.

‘Unconventional’ Classes,Positivity Important to Firms

By ARNAV SAHU Sun Contributor

As many Cornell students pick out the perfect suit and tie to land a lucrative Wall Street finance job, they face a big question: what are these firms looking for?

Some common requirements in a candidate include quantitative skills, good academic standing and impressive past experience, according to most banking internship and job postings.

However, firms are increasingly

emphasizing the “fit” of applicants.

Classes — other than those in math, finance and economics — often have helped students in succeeding at the job, according to Vinay Ramprasad ’14, who worked at a bank over the summer.

“Looking back, I would say that Introduction to Asian Religions is a non-finance class that helped me this summer,” he said. “While it may seem completely irrelevant to [a finance] job, the course encouraged stu-

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dents to analyze many abstract concepts.”

Ramprasad added that humanities courses can also help students develop a different perspective.

“Developing critical thinking skills, improving my own writing, and seeing issues from a different perspective were all important things I took away from the course,” he said.

Finance-related classes are not necessarily the most important aspects for an application, according to Kartik Das ’14, who worked at a bank over the summer.

“Pursuing an internship or career in finance does not require you to be a finance guru. You need to take accounting and probably an introductory finance course, but apart from that, you need to know how to work efficiently and communicate effectively,” he said.

Cheryl Cho ’14, who interned at Goldman Sachs this summer, said that art history was a class that helped her stand out during her interview.

“I was able to speak with my interviewer about my interest in art and museums during my interview,” she said. “Additionally, one of the partners' daughters at the firm was an art history major, so I was able to converse with her on topics unrelated to finance.”

Being multi-dimensional is important not only for finance

but for every industry, according to Cho. “You do not want to be onedimensional because that makes you a robot,” she said. “I truly believe, though, that this is important for every industry, not just finance.”

Classes out of one’s comfort zone often help build “soft skills,” according to Enrico Bonatti ’14, who worked at a financial firm over the summer.

“In terms of what specific classes have helped me, I would say pretty much any class that is far outside someone’s comfort zone and a class that not only makes you think critically and ‘outside the box’ but also has communication and teamwork elements [helps,]” he said.

Ramprasad echoed this sentiment, adding that group work can also help develop interpersonal skills.

“Beyond the accounting and finance classes that develop technical knowledge, I believe courses where students are able to focus on group projects, like Marketing Plan Development, prepare them for the intangible aspects of the job,” he said. “Being able to work in a team, and more importantly, communicate with that team, is essential for any role.”

Finance firms also look for positive attitude and composure under pressure in applicants, according to Cho. “Honestly, I think that a positive energy goes a long way espe-

cially when you are in a high stress, high intensity job,” she said. “Firms look for applicants who are able to stay positive no matter how difficult the situation gets or how many hours you have to work.”

Being a part of student organizations is one way to build on these skills, according to Bonatti.

“Joining student organizations can help one develop these highly prized soft skills or [emotional quotient],” he said.

Furthermore, such a skill set can also help students handle the stressful environment of investment banking and finance jobs, according to Bonatti.

“This was definitely true for me, as joining organizations like AIESEC, [International Student Board] or the Student Assembly had a great influence on the development of my leadership and organizational skills,” he said. “[These qualities are] essential when working under time pressure in a stressful environment [such as investment banking].”

Das echoed Bonatti’s sentiments.

“If you want to be prepared for the non-finance skills, join an organization that helps hone those skills like a business fraternity, and take an Excel or class communication class,” he said.

“Not having those skills will put you at a significant disadvantage.”

Arnav Sahu can be reached at as944@cornell.edu.

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society through science and technology, through the humanities, social sciences and through the arts — and, most importantly, through the development of the next generation of thought leaders,” he said.

To support his claims for evolution, Skorton cited recent data from the Global Innovation Index, which measures the pace of innovation in 142 countries. According to a University press release, this report is published by the World Intellectual Property Organization — a specialized agency of the United Nations, French business school INSEAD and Cornell.

U.S. is in fifth place on the index, trailing behind Switzerland, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands and low and middle income nations such as China, India, Senegal and Costa Rica. The growth of dynamic innovation hubs in these developing countries demonstrate the rate of global innovation and competition, Skorton said.

Skorton said Cornell must continue to nurture talent and recruit a diverse student body to contribute toward the United States’ larger goal of “sustainable competitiveness” and to fulfill its responsibility towards the public good.

Beyond human capital, he said, willingness to invest in research is just as critical for innovation.

In order to foster innovation, Skorton said Cornell has directly forged partnerships with other large research institutions. He said professors are making advancements in early-stage drug development with the help of Weill Cornell Medical College, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, the Rockefeller University and Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. It is also making strides in connective media through the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute, he said.

After lauding recent efforts in the research realm, Skorton outlined a few areas of concern, such as the breadth of liberal education and federal funding for agricultural research.

“The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s spending on research and development has

declined by 26 percent by constant dollars in just the past decade, while investments by China, India and Brazil have increased dramatically,” Skorton said.

Blaming the 2013 sequester on the depression of funding levels for agricultural research, Skorton called upon Congress to reverse this trend so the United States can continue to be competitive in agricultural productivity on a global scale.

Skorton also noted the need for greater global understanding before nations are able to achieve more specific and concentrated goals.

“Investments in science are critical to our future, but even the best science and profound knowledge will not solve world problems if cultural differences are not respected, understood and engaged,” he said.

He cited examples of Cornell faculty and students in the arts, such as Prof. Caroline O’Donnell, architecture, who won the competition for the Museum of Modern Arts Young Architect’s Program, and Eric Nathan ’12, who earned the Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize in the 117th annual Rome Prize Competition.

Public funding for the arts has not kept pace with inflation, so the Board of Trustees and University Council should keep a watchful eye on this area to ensure it receives adequate support, Skorton said.

Skorton concluded his State of the University by urging audience members to consider Cornell’s future and how to best prepare for another successful 150 years.

“The need for fresh thinking and new alliances has never been greater. But if ever there was a university ready and eager for the challenge, it is our Cornell. Together, on the eve of our sesquicentennial, let’s seize the unique opportunities before us — as we have done throughout our history — to position Cornell for its second 150 years so that we can continue to engage the world, improve the human future and enrich human life,” he said.

Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun.com.

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philanthropic — is essential to unleash our collective power for broader, more timely and durable impact,” Kerslick said in an Oct. 22 Sun article.

Kerslick — who has worked as associate director of several Cornell research centers — aims to have established at least two strategic, application-oriented collaborations with external partners by 2017.

The center itself — which bears Atkinson’s name due to an $80 million donation made in 2010 — was founded in 2008 by the Office of the Provost for the purpose of linking studies in economic development, energy and

the environment to further sustainability research, according to the center’s website.

These categories constitute the center’s three main research groups, which collectively consist of more than 360 researchers from 11 different Cornell schools and 76 of its departments.

“It’s really important to engage the full range of expertise at Cornell to solve the problems in sustainability research,” Kerslick said in an Oct. 22 Sun article.

“This involves a long term commitment to collaboration across campus and beyond, and I’m looking forward to working to my new colleagues on the challenges ahead.”

The center’s projects in the five years since its creation have

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ranged from developing environmentally friendly insect control to assessing mycotoxin exposure in pregnant Zimbabwean women.

Part of the center’s strategic plan is to establish “constancy of purpose” and be able to “tackle critical new problems as they emerge,” according to the center’s strategic plan.

The Atkinson Center receives most of its funding externally from both individuals and organizations, and it has ongoing collaborations with organizations such as Oxfam, the Nature Conservancy and CARE, according to the center’s website.

Chris Stanton can be reached at cms459@cornell.edu.

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an institution, we’ve made an impact on the world.”

Cornell is “one of a handful [of institutions] with need-blind admissions,” Fuchs said. Onesixth of the University’s students come from families with incomes of less than 60,000 dollars, he added.

Trustees lauded the University’s admissions and aid policies, saying it is admirable the University sacrifices revenue to ensure that students of all economic backgrounds can attend.

“I think we at Cornell will continue to be that little speck in higher education that will continue to be need-blind,” Trustee Rana Glasgal ’87 M.Eng. ’92 said.

Despite the University not considering students’ economic backgrounds when admitting them, panelists said that Cornell still faces challenges in its admissions — with many students who are eligible for full financial aid not realizing they can afford a Cornell education.

“A lot of low-income, high-ability students … are not aware that the 60k a year tuition does not apply to them and, in actuality, Cornell might be cheaper than a state school,” Lovenheim said.

“This information gap that is occurring is very correlated with socioeconomic status.”

It is also problematic that higher education places a burden on upper to middle income families, who often receive little to no financial aid despite not being able to comfortably pay tuition, panelists said.

“Why are we willing to make the price of tuition affordable for one group of people but unaffordable for someone else?” Trustee Robert Katz ’69 said.

Even with the challenges it has faced in admitting students of diverse socioeconomic backgrounds, the University’s financial aid policies have already dramatically changed the income distribution of the student body, Katz said.

“The income distribution of our students is shifting more and more to students that come from relatively modest backgrounds,” he said.

“Today, over half of our students … are receiving an average of $34,000 in aid.”

Ultimately, panelists said the University must continue asking how it can efficiently allocate its revenue to meet the needs of its students.

“If you have the academic standing of Cornell … it’s going to cost us money. Where do we allocate our infrastructure effectively to achieve our goals?” Glasgal said.

Trade-offs will occur as the University considers how to balance tuition, financial aid and the diversity of its students, said Prof. Ronald Ehrenberg, industrial and labor relations.

“We can't afford to be world-class in everything,” he said.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

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promote a “culture change,” Smith said. Students cannot be excluded from the process of trying to increase diversity on campus, he added.

“As students, we are an integral part of this University, and our participation is really key if we want any of these long and sometimes difficult conversations to yield any tangible results,” Smith said.

Ultimately, change in the University’s campus climate and composition will take time, officials said.

“It’s going to be years — not days or weeks or months,” Harrison said.

Rachel Weber can be reached at rweber@cornellsun.com.

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diversity and inclusion website and the introduction of mentoring organizations for students of color, officials say they do not think enough people know about ongoing efforts on campus.

“We’re finding our biggest struggle is getting individuals aware of the process and challenges that we’re experiencing. Despite all the efforts that we’ve had to get the word out, we’re still finding pockets of individuals who are not aware [of the University’s diversity initiatives],” Chappell-Williams said.

Echoing Chapell-Williams’ sentiments, Student Assembly President

Ulysses Smith ’14 said that “one of the big things we’ve noticed about [new diversity initiatives] is that many people, both students and employees, are not aware of it.”

“It’s really a shame, because this is such an interesting approach that really requires that we all take an active interest in promoting it,” Smith said.

According to Smith, the S.A. has been working to get more undergraduates involved in conversations about diversity through measures such as United Student Body, which encourages student groups to implement their own diversity initiatives.

The S.A. is also actively partnering with the University to try to

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he summer leading up to 8th grade, I went on a mission trip to Bolivia with 20 other strangers and a priest.

Mission trips are planned by individuals, usually of Christian or Catholic affiliation, who travel around the world both to help the indigenous people and to spread the word of Christ.

I didn’t want to go. What in the world was I going to do in Bolivia? The only reason I was going was out of force from my mother and her all-powerful reasoning of “it will look good for college.” Looking back, I’m extremely happy that I ended up going on the trip. The experience lifted the veil of ignorance I held throughout most of my life and has shaped the way I view the world. Before Bolivia, I was ungrateful, selfish and more so than the other two, ignorant about the world.

Coming from Long Island and living in a bubble for most of my adolescence, I just couldn’t relate to the outside world — it’s issues and dilemmas didn’t seem to have any direct impact on my own life. All I cared about was getting the newest iPod or video game or complaining to my parents that my friend bought a toy that I just HAD TO HAVE. So, when our group landed in La Paz, Bolivia’s gorgeous capital city, I was blown away. What do you mean drinking the tap water could kill me? Huh? There are some places that don’t have electricity? I was in a different country, but it felt like I was in a different universe.

We went directly to work at an orphanage and did menial tasks such as babysitting the orphans, cleaning the orphanage’s mausoleum and painting a mural on the side of one of the buildings. Then, one night, a child passed away in his sleep. As I watched his body being placed in the same mausoleum we had been cleaning, I was hit by a tidal wave of emotions.

First was genuine sadness and disbelief.

This child had his whole life ahead of him.

He could have been the next Lebron James.

He could have been the next Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He could have been the next Picasso!

His life ended prematurely due to the misfortunes life threw at him and I couldn’t wrap my head around how something like this could happen.

After the initial sadness, I was confused and angry. Why was the child destined to a life of hardships, while I wasn’t? What made

me any different from him? How could this child’s light be extinguished, while the lights of evil men and women flourish throughout the world? What the fuck? I realized much later on that I was looking for an answer that was never there in the first place. It’s just how the world is.

Before that, I never realized how fortunate I was. Being surrounded by friends who had good homes and families allowed me to naively assume that this was how the rest of the world was. After seeing the harsh realities of the world, I felt something that I hadn’t felt for the longest time: both shame and gratitude.

I was ashamed and disgusted at myself for the way that I acted toward my parents. I complained to them for not having something and completely forgot to thank them for all that they’ve provided. From that shame, grew gratitude. I was grateful for my parents. For immigrating to a foreign country, learning a new language and enduring hardships that I could never imagine. They worked long hours to put me in the best position to succeed. Now, whenever I bitch and moan about having to do something, I look at all that I have and remind myself that life could be so much worse than getting a bad grade or being rejected by some girl.

I apologize if you get the impression that this article was about some spoiled kid who finally learned how to be grateful — that was never my intention. Nor did I ever intend to write this piece to convince you to stop what you’re doing and to go join the Peace Corp.

All I want to convey to you is what I learned from my own life-changing experience: That even during the hardest of times, being grateful for what you have will help alleviate stress and give you a more optimist perspective on your life.

I hope my message aids you when you’re cramming for prelims, stressing about the job search or even lamenting drunken mistakes.

No matter what hardships life may throw at you, there are moments in life that make those hardships worthwhile. We carry around not only our own hopes and dreams, but the hopes and dreams of those who worked to put us in a position to reach for the stars.

Andrew Kim is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at ak9392@gmail.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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Ariel Smilowitz | Why You Should Care

Aspiring Toward Gender Equality In Saudi Arabia S

audi Arabia is the only country in the world where women are prohibited from driving. This, coupled with the country’s ban on public gatherings and its mandatory guardianship system, has stifled gender equality in the country for decades. However, this past weekend, more than 60 women across the country drove cars in defiance of this prohibition, in hopes that the Saudi government will finally repeal these restrictive bans.

First, a little background about the circumstances currently facing women in Saudi Arabia. Although there is no formal law banning them from doing so, authorities do not issue women licenses. Under the country’s guardianship system, women cannot be legally responsible for their own affairs and a male relative must give them permission if they want to travel, get married or enroll in higher education.

Under these restrictions, women have still managed to raise their voices against the government. In 1991, 47 women protested by driving through the streets of the capital, Riyadh, and although they were arrested, detained and suspended from their workplaces, the act was the first in a chain of protests against the prohibition. In 2011, dozens of women participated in the “Women2Drive” campaign and not only drove, but also filmed and uploaded videos of themselves in the act. Again, the law was not repealed.

Now, as another protest has gone underway, we have yet to see the government make a change toward establishing gender equality

Driving a car is an act that we oftentimes forget is a luxury, one that in another part of the world, for a specific group of people, is actually prohibited. for its people. The Oct. 26 Women’s Driving Campaign has already gathered thousands of signatures on its online petition, and the campaign’s twitter account, @oct26driving, has more than 40,000 followers. Despite the campaign being built around the Oct. 26 date, many of the women who participated didn’t even wait until October 26 to start driving, and went out, drove around and posted videos before the set date.

Nonetheless, according to Huffington Post, up until the official day of the protest, authorities issued statements warning that violators who “disturb public peace” will be dealt with forcefully. Some activists claimed that they received telephone calls from the interior ministry asking them not to participate in the campaign, while clerics of the government have claimed that allowing women to drive will lead to “licentiousness.” One cleric even went as far as claiming that medical studies show driving a car harms a woman’s ovaries. Ultimately, the Agence France-Presse reported that about 16 Saudi women received fines for taking the wheel and driving during the protest.

With all of this in mind, it seems as though the Saudi government is slowly beginning to introduce reforms; after the protest in 2011, King Abdullah granted women the ability to sit on the national advisory council and allowed them to vote and run in municipal elections. So, perhaps the fact that the authorities did not punish the protestors as severely as in the past is a hopeful sign that the government is starting to acknowledge and accept the change toward gender equality. However, the male guardianship system has not been altered and is still as stringent as ever, a restriction that, along with the ban on allowing women to drive, has potentially fatal consequences. When Saudi women complain that they don’t have a male relative to drive them places or money to spend on hiring a driver, the clerics claim that the women should call for better public transportation systems rather than a driver’s licenses. Yet, what if a child is seriously injured and a male relative or driver is not around to take them to the hospital? Will that child die simply because his or her mother was not allowed to drive?

Protests occur on our campus all the time, usually without interference by the authorities. Even if the police do get involved, students at Cornell have a right to protest and make their voices heard, and they fully make use of that right. Similarly, driving a car is an act that we oftentimes forget is a luxury, one that in another part of the world, for a specific group of people, is actually prohibited.

Women who attend Cornell are in school because they have dreams and aspirations to become doctors, lawyers and teachers, while women in Saudi Arabia have dreams and aspirations to get a license and drive a car. So, let’s hope that the Saudi government can move in the direction toward granting their female citizens the right to drive a car, so that they can finally realize their dreams and aspirations of achieving equality.

Ariel Smilowitz is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at asmilowitz@cornellsun.com Why You Should Care appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Constructing Truly Sustainable Buildings G

reetings Cornell. this feeling, but I do think can certainly equal the 30 It’s been a while. I there are more practical years or so that more was sifting reasons for preferring a “conventional” metal or through my thoughts, try- cottage. When I look at a asphalt roofs last. There ing to find something to skyscraper, while I am are various ways to write about, when I impressed, all I can think improve the longevity of looked up while walking about is the mines, the thatch, such as running through the Physical furnaces smelting, the copper wire along the top Sciences Building. That glassworks and the cement of the roof. which will building is beautiful, and makers. And, though leach through the reeds quite impressive, but I can most of us often forget destroying fungal spores. never shake the feeling about it, the only reason The main concern with there, and various other the Western world can thatch is fire, but a thin places around campus, afford to have so much flame retardant ceiling that it’s all a little much. metal and glass is because under the thatch massiveWhat do I mean? it was, and is, being taken ly reduces that risk.

Well, I’m thinking mainly from developing nations. Thatch is a low carbon, about all of the glass and However, there are plenty locally sourced, plastic and metal that went into a place like the It would be good for our health, good Physical Science Building.

I for our minds and good for the know that it world if a “sustainable campus” earned LEED were to contain a little less polished Gold, and is considered ener- metal and a little more dirt. gy efficient. This matters a great deal in the long term, but of local, natural, alterna- beautiful roofing material.

I suspect that the building tive materials out there Now, I am not suggestcould have lower embod- just waiting to be used. ing that all of Cornell’s ied energy — the energy Let’s talk about thatch, buildings be thatched. employed to create the for instance. Thatch is, for That would, obviously, be materials and construct those of you who are absurd. First off, a thatch the building — if more unaware, any roofing roof must be have at least “natural” materials were made from plant material a 50-degree pitch to shed used. properly.

— generally straw or reeds snow I had a similar feeling in temperate areas. It’s def- Additionally, it’s very when I saw pictures of the initely a roofing material expensive due to the highplanned Tech Campus in of a past age in most peo- ly skilled labor involved New York City: beautiful, ple’s eyes, but I think it’s (thatching is actually quite ambitious, but so much delightful. The best thatch difficult, and is not a comembodied energy. I sup- is made from reeds of the mon skill). But maybe on pose my preference for genus Phragmites, which is one or two roofs — perwood and earth over soar- an invasive in upstate New haps ones that need to be ing, shining confections of York, and commonly replaced anyway? metal and glass is a sort of grows in the run-off What about using anachronistic idealism on ponds near highways and earth? A very cheap buildmy part; I see at least as parking lots. The reeds are ing material is dug out of much, if not more, virtue cut in the winter when the every construction site, in a well-made cottage as I previous years growth is and could easily be put to do in a skyscraper. standing dormant and use. Buildings made of Obviously, I cannot dead. Well made reed rammed earth, clay mixed expect everyone to share thatch can last decades. It with straw; these are cheap

and highly energy efficient due to earth’s thermal mass. They are also surprisingly useful even in wet environments like Ithaca. In England, where it rains a fair bit, many traditional cottages are made of a mixture of clay, sand and straw, and many of these buildings stand hundreds of years with a lime whitewash. Earth can be shaped into quite impressive shapes and sizes. In the Middle East, ten story highrises, vast walls and massive arches have been constructed of packed earth or adobe. Some such buildings still exist, and are still inhabited. I think it would be a sustainable and very ambitious project if, the next time a new building is built on this campus, it was made of earth, not of glass.

I’m not saying that there is no place in the world for grand, burnished buildings because there certainly is. Such buildings are effective at creating a sense of wonder, but I think natural materials create another sort of wonder. I simply feel that it would be good for our health, good for our minds and good for the world if a “sustainable campus” were to contain a little less polished metal and a little more dirt.

Liam Henrie is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at lorliam8@gmail.com.

Out of the Mouths of Goats appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT ‘An Inch Off the Ground’: A Reading With Colum McCann

into the darkness he might find the presence of a light, damaged and bruised, but a light all the same.” Where God comes into the novel, he has to be reconciled not only with the backdrop of New York in the 1970s, but also with the attacks on the World Trade Center that made writing about National Book Award and Pushcart Prize-winning New York a different game entirely. McCann presented the author Colum McCann gave the Eamon McEneaney passage in which he dealt with these contradictions, saying, Memorial Reading last Thursday afternoon. He was intro- “What Corrrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one duced by Prof. Helena Viramontes, English , who set the you could find in the grime of the everyday. The comfort he tone for the event by praising McCann’s command of “alter- got from the hard, cold truth — the filth, the war, the povernative historical narratives.” She read from the epilogue of ty — was that life would be capable of small beauties.” His his 2009 National Book Award-winning work Let the Great goal is to humanize history — all aspects of it. And while the World Spin, which tells the story of his father-in-law’s shoes, reader experiences one man’s crisis of faith, one also experisitting in the family’s closet, covered in the dust from the ences the country’s crisis of faith in the wake of the horrible events that Let the Great World Spin does not explicitly detail, Twin Towers. but rather, dances circles It was from the experience around. of watching his father-in-law McCann is known for his walk down the block towards “We wait for the explosion but it never comes. the family apartment covered The plane passes, the tightrope walker gets to emotional specificity and his in this dust that McCann the end of the wire. Things don’t fall apart.” seemingly magical ability to create something meaningful said he realized that he wasn’t Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin out of everyday monotony. just interested in the towers But he’s also known for writfalling or in Philippe Petit’s ing really, really well as a 1974 walk on a tightrope thrown between the buildings (another central moment in prostitute. He read a bit from the more humorous sections the book), but also in the people standing below. The peo- of Let the Great World Spin, mostly told in the voice of midple walking a tightrope hung just “an inch off the ground.” dle-aged hooker Tilly. He revealed that it took six months to The memorial reading is given every year to honor the mem- capture her voice, along with the humorous aside that one of ory of Cornell alumnus Eamon McEneaney, who died while her lines came to him when his daughter slipped a note rescuing people from the towers of the World Trade Center under his door asking to be taken to the park to play soccer: “Hold on, I’m right in the middle of turning a trick. Give on Sept. 11, 2001.

McCann started the reading with several smaller excerpts me five minutes … no, give me four.” The selections from from Let the Great World Spin, saying that he hadn’t planned Let the Great World Spin ended with a passage from the peron reading from it until he had learned the context of the spective of Tilly’s granddaughter, Claire, who found a photo memorial. The first excerpt was from the perspective of the of Philippe Petit’s walk in which there is a passing airplane unnamed tightrope-walker in the novel, which McCann that looks almost as if it will fly directly into the tower. This preceded with an explanation of his fascination with this concluding part of the novel is set in 2006, and so Claire walk. Petit’s “brazen act of beauty,” he said, is “an act of cre- reflects, remarking, “We wait for the explosion but it never ation which stands against that evil destruction. Imagination comes. The plane passes, the tightrope walker gets to the end of the wire. Things don’t fall apart. It strikes her as an endurcan become more powerful than reality.”

In another, smaller attempt to imagine a better reality, ing moment, the man alone against scale, still capable of McCann explained how the character of Corrigan was myth in the face of all other evidence.” Here we see the cenmeant to be a tiny act of redemption for a Catholic church tral thesis of Let the Great World Spin — McCann uses a that was experiencing nothing but scandal during the time dozen unique voices in this novel for the distinct purpose of that he was writing the book. As one of the “people on the showing that the human mind and the human heart essenground,” Corrigan’s function in the novel was to become tially operate in the interest of good, and that imagination immersed in the horrors and the tragedies of the everyday on and creation have the power to confront forces of evil and the streets of New York, and yet be able to come out the destruction.

The remainder of the reading was dedicated to two other side consoling himself that “when he looked closely

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longer excerpts from McCann’s most recent work, Transatlantic, which uses the first nonstop transatlantic flight, made in 1919 by John Alcock and Arthur Brown, as a pivoting point around which to tell the story of Frederick Douglass, George Mitchell, and four generations of women, all involved heavily with the peace process that negotiated a free Ireland. The two excerpts dealt with Douglass’ and Mitchell’s early perception of the country they had been sent to help. McCann noted that he has been criticized for being too nice to Mitchell, who aided in the Irish political process for three years without compensation — that people have accused him of turning the man’s life into a “half-myth.” But if he had it to do again, he said, “I think I would be even nicer.”

This novel has also been criticized as following the structure of Let the Great World Spin too tightly, with a less organic connection between historically disparate characters. The New York Times writes, however, that “it eventually opens out to become an affecting story about the ways the tsunami of history can sideswipe people or lift them to unexpected heights — about the ways dreams and ambition and loss can be handed down generation to generation.” The excerpts that McCann chose to read exemplify his deft ability to pair people with historical context, and to intrude upon the minds of historical figures in a way that feels completely and genuinely enlightening, rather than contrived.

Douglass rides through the Irish countryside and witnesses the poverty there, leading him to justify his own cause in the face of such hardship: “The Irish were poor, yes, but not enslaved. He was still a slave, a fugitive.”

The fact that an airplane is a central figure in both of McCann’s recent works merits its examination as a symbol of McCann’s goal for his work. He loves to pair the unexpected, he is eager to represent modernity, surely, as all contemporary writers are, but mostly, he loves to throw beautiful acts of creation in the face of enormous acts of destruction. He wonders about both the plane and the people on the ground. Of a piece of machinery that inspires dreams of the grandiose as well as unimaginable nightmares, McCann says, “One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down.”

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

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Arts Around Town The Hands of Orlac

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8:00 p.m. on Thursday at Sage Chapel

8:00 p.m. on Tuesday at State Theatre of Ithaca

In case you haven’t heard of The Hands of Orlac, or if you weren’t born 80 years ago, the 1924 silent horror film follows pianist Paul Orlac, whose hands are destroyed in a railroad accident. Said hands are surgically replaced after this accident, but Orlac’s new hands are those of a murderer — They are meant to kill.

This offering from Cornell Cinema should be a fun way to do Halloween right (read: spooky).

— Arielle Cruz

As one of our most anticipated Ithaca concerts of the year, Neko Case’s upcoming gig at State Theatre is a can’t miss. A highly lauded musician and past member of The New Pornographers, Neko Case has spent her career “combin[ing] her passions to develop a signature sound that blend[s] contemporary rock, pop and country elements,” according to NPR. This has been especially true since the musician went solo in 2001 and lost her “boyfriends.” In September, Case released her newest album The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight, The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You, which has been called “magnificently weird,” “cutting” and “emotionally wrenching” by Pitchfork.

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8:00 p.m. on Sunday at Emerson Suites at Ithaca College Formed by bandmates Adam Gardner, Ryan Miller and Brian Rosenworcel at Tufts University in 1991 — after a (clearly successful) Wilderness Orientation program — Guster have come a long way since their humble college beginnings. A perennial favorite among frat bros, pop-rock fans and nostalgic “millennials” alike, the band has built a strong, diverse following through electric live performances — and by not taking itself too seriously.

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The Trill, Turnt-Up Trends of Rap

id you know Dartmouth is the least rapped-about Ivy? Or that references to sushi in hip-hop songs have increased by 500 percent in the last decade? If not, there’s a website out there for you called Rap Genius. Along with explanations for the layman on the meaning of hip-hop lyrics, the site provides the visitor with “stats” on every hip-hop song in their massive database, which stretches back to 1988. Type in a word or phrase and the database will show you in colorful graph form the number of times, by year, the word or phrase has been mentioned in songs.

Bringing a Moneyball mindset to the industry of Young Money isn’t the sexiest endeavor. Hip-hop is sonnets set to a beat. Boiling sonnets into statistics could be a bore. But by examining the trends of the hip-hop lexicon over the past 25 years, one can gain insight into where the genre has been and where hip-hop and our wider culture is headed.

bloods and crips have decreased accordingly as well. So the fact that you can neatly position your fingers to spell out “blood” is much less useful now. I’m sorry.

Rivalries haven’t gone away. The local ones remain. “East side” and “West side” references have jumped considerably since 2000.

As have the references to the intra-city rivalries Kendrick Lamar speaks of throughout GKMC (“’eff who you know, where you from?”). References to “Chiraq”, the nickname given to the areas of Chicago where the violence leaves a body count on par with Iraq, have risen since the term was first coined five years ago.

TRENDING UP: LUXURY Bashfulness was never a stable of the rap genre. Rappers like telling you they started from the bottom and are now in the stratosphere. They do this by name-dropping the tenets of a high roller lifestyle. A roll of the aforementioned sushi is a few luxury steps TRENDING DOWN: HOMOPHOBIA above a can of tuna. Once mentioned as often as the acknowlPride and culture have long been the central tenants of hip-hop. edgedly unhip Canada, France, with its reputation for luxury villas, Oh, and homophobia. Pride, culture and homophobia. Thank- chateaus and Monaco, has rocketed to become the most cited forfully the “show no love to homo thug” days of DMX might be eign country in hip-hop. behind us. The use of the f-word has decreased by 50 percent since As do-rags and grillz have gone by the wayside, the hip-hop 1988. The last few years have seen Macklemore’s “Same Love” and fashion trend of choice is another luxury totem: Versace. The the coming out of Frank Ocean. The slur’s downward trend has Italian fashion company gets mentioned more than Obama. sunk even sharper since 2011. Coincidence perhaps — or progress. Drake repeats it 18 times for the hook to Migos’ single “Versace.”

It’s a clear departure from the ’90s TRENDING UP: golden era of gansta rap. Whereas MOLLY NWA drew anger from police disIn the past four crimination, the frustration Kanye years, molly mentions West exhibits in “Yeezus” stems have increased by 950 from fashion executives not taking percent, signaling the his ideas for clothing lines seriously.

Run It stimulant’s notoriety in It’s noteworthy that hip-hop today’s society. Since songs have moved from being Back 2009, the molly line made up of lyrics that mirror the graph on Rap Genius urban poverty many of the artists resembles Mt. Everest. Good rapping often requires the rapper to grew up in to being about the “glam” lifestyle. References to guns, take on a world-beater persona. Molly gives the user that persona. crime and welfare have all declined since the turn of the century.

Weed is still the most mentioned drug (and by quite a margin), but For a listener living in poverty, the genre has shifted a bit from being the ascendance of molly to drug-of the-moment shouldn’t be over- a reflective art to a form of escapism. looked.

TRENDING DOWN: TRILL TRENDING DOWN: COASTAL RIVALRIES The sum of True + Real = has decreased by 50 percent since its The bicoastal rivalry that spanned much of the ’90s has sub- peak prevalence in 2008. sided since the deaths of Tupac and Biggie in ’96-’97. The years leading up to their murders saw the highest mentions of “east coast” TRENDING UP: TURNT and “west coast” in history. Since then, the mentions of the two TRENDING UP: SWAG coasts has decreased by around 300 percent. References to the Practically non-existent pre-2005, turnt and turnt-up have

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exploded. My financial advice is to buy more turnt stock. However, as far as popularity goes, swag makes turnt look like trill (that sentence was really fun to write). Purple Swag, Pretty Boy Swag, Cali Swag District; the stats back it up. In terms of references, 2008 saw “swagger” outpace “swag” by a hundred thousand trillion. The tables have since turned dramatically. Swag is now the teacher.

TRENDING DOWN: OBAMA TRENDING UP: REAGAN From 2005 to 2008, the frequency of Obama’s name in rap songs saw a molly-like meteoric rise. Since 2010 however, the POTUS is being cited 23 percent less often. Perhaps this demonstrates a minor disappointment amongst hip-hop artists in Obama’s tenure, or simply just their general disinterest in a sluggish political system.

Killer Mike’s recent track “Reagan,” compares the late Conservative darling to Satan. The cause of the 40th President’s rising popularity in rap lyrics is likely backlash from liberal artists who take issue with the pedestal Republicans have put Reagan on in the years since his death and Obama’s elections.

TRENDING UP: LOVE TRENDING DOWN: HATE Across all hip-hop songs, “love” is used five times more than “hate,” and the gap is getting wider.

TRENDING FLAT: BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH The skilled screen actor has been referenced in exactly zero percent of rap songs since 1988. But consider all of the possibilities.

Brian Gordon is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Run It Back runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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Three Ivy Contests Left in Season Red Dominates in Both

senior captain Ben Williams said. “Second, our execution in the final third was just not sharp enough.”

Rinow added that despite the one mishap that led our chances away when we had them,” junior mid- to the solo goal of the game, Zagorski played well in fielder Atticus DeProspo said. “We worked really the back for the Red. “Zach did great. We didn’t give up many shots hard and competed as a team and now we are trying and the one that did go in was a tough ball for him to shift focus and finish out the season strong.”

The game was not just a matchup against a tough to handle … He’s doing well,” he said. “He’s comAncient Eight competitor but the game also brought municating and he’s a stud back there.”

As the Red heads into the back half of the season, students and alumni to Berman for the Berman the team prepares for three Ivy League games left to Blackout and the program’s Alumni Weekend.

“It was a great atmosphere. Getting to see all of play with the hopes that the team can turn things around. the fans come out and support “We are just missing a couple us and having all of the alumpieces here and there but I think ni come back. We really felt “We know that there are when we put those together, we the support when we were out there playing and it’s disap- three games left in the Ivy can definitely get a positive end to the season,” Williams said. pointing that we didn’t win for League season, and we “That’s what we are looking forthem,” senior captain Patrick are going after results.” ward to doing. That is what we Slogic said. are planning on doing.”

Despite outshooting its Next weekend the team will opponent 25-5, the game Jaro Zawislan head back on the road for against the Bears had a bunch Princeton followed by an away of pieces that did not fit together for Cornell. In the first half, the Red dom- game against Dartmouth and then the return back inated most of the play, attempting 10 shots in the to the Hill for the Red’s final regular season game half and forcing Brown’s goalie to make four saves. and Senior Night against Columbia.

“We are going to digest and work through this Despite, a lack of shots, in the 45th minute, Brown’s Daniel Tyler hit a cross from the left to Tariq Akeel game [against Brown] … We are focusing on who headed the ball past junior goalie Zach Princeton right now,” Zawislan said. “We know that there are three games left in the Ivy League season Zagorski for the only point of the game.

“I thought we had two problems. We had a pret- and we are going to go after results in all three of ty bad defensive breakdown. They transitioned well those games. However, our full focus will be on the on us and we didn’t find our marks in the box and Princeton game.” obviously that resulted in their goal. Very shots for them besides that so that’s very disappointing,” Haley Velasco can be reached at MEN’S SOCCER

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Ferlin added a goal with less than two minutes remaining during this third period flurry.

The opposite narrative dominated Saturday’s game, as Mowrey and Bardraeu knocked in two goals 28 seconds apart during the first period for the quick 2-0 lead. The Red spent the rest of the game fighting to hold that advantage, with the Mavericks constantly pulling within one goal.

“We started off strong, but we didn’t play the kind of hockey we wanted to play tonight,” Schafer said after the game.

The Mavericks scored the first goal of the second period during even strength, but quickly took an interference penalty to put the Red back on the power play. Sophomore forward Christian Hilbrich roofed the puck in front of the net to return the two-goal advantage.

Nebraska-Omaha scored the next goal in the closing minutes of the second period while the Red was killing off a holding

penalty. Walters set up streaking Mavericks forward Dominic Zombo, who tapped the puck in behind Iles.

Joel Lowry put the next tally on the board, scoring his second goal of the weekend nine minutes into the third period for the 4-2 Red lead. The Mavericks would add one more with five minutes remaining in the game, but the Red killed off a late penalty to seal the 4-3 win.

According to Schafer, some lines played better than others and that line combinations are something he is going to continue to tinker with throughout the season.

“We’ll continuously look around for different lines throughout the course of the year—we had some good performances and we had some poor performances tonight,” he said. “We’ll look at the video and see where we can make any adjustments.”

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he Cornell women’s soccer team battled on Sunday in a home showdown against Brown that ended in a 3-2 game that went into double overtime periods but ended with a loss for the Red. Sitting in the top spot of the Ancient Eight is Harvard who took down Princeton in a 4-0 brawl on Saturday that kept the Crimson in the lead of the League.

Yale and Penn also threw down as the two teams battled it out in double overtime periods to end the game in a 1-1 tie on Saturday.

As the Ivy League eight fight for the top spot this season, there are plenty of comeptitive play left in 2013. Harvard is set to take on Brown on Tuesday, as well as a matchup between Princeton and Colgate to wrap up midweek competition.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

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Battling Brown | The Cornell women’s soccer team lost its Senior Day game on Sunday in a 3-2 loss that went into double overtime.

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he Cornell men’s soccer team dropped its weekend Ivy League game against Brown this Saturday. The 1-0 loss for the Red occured thanks to a late goal from the Bears in the first half due to a defensive breakdown in the back third for Cornell. The Red looks towards a matchup against Princeton next weekend with the hopes of turning around its Ivy season thus far.

Saturday was a better day for Harvard as it defeated Princeton, 2-1, in a weekend grudge match. The Crimson will face Dartmouth next weekend in a Saturday meetup for the two teams.

Columbia snuck in a win against Dartmouth in a 2-0 match on Saturday as well. The Lions look to play Yale on Saturday as Ivy League play continues.

Yale and Penn also had an interesting meet-

up this weekend as the game between the Bulldogs and the Quakers ended in a 3-2 victory for Penn after two periods of overtime were played. The Quakers look to play Penn State on Tuesday for a Pennsylvania showdown between the two teams.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

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Just keep swimming | The men’s soccer team dropped its Ivy game against Brown on Saturday in a tough 1-0 loss.

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With Seconds Left, Red Steals Win Over Mansfield Despite a back and forth game,Cornell beats Mansfield thanks to a touchdown near the game’s very end

By NIKITA DUBNOV Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell sprint football team took on the Mansfield Mountaineers for the last game of an already tough season on Saturday which resulted in a picture perfect ending for the Red and a positive final game.

“That was the wildest game that I have ever been a part of on sprint football,” senior wide receiver Spenser Gruenenfelder said.

“Second only to our five-overtime win against Penn last year.”

The Red entered the weekend’s contest with a 1-5 record with its only win coming from an Oct. 11 game against Princeton.

Despite being at the bottom of the conference, the Red headed into the last game of the yearly campaign with its sight set on adding another mark in the “W” column.

The game started off slowly, with neither team scoring a touchdown until the third quarter.

“It started off slowly and it seemed like it was going to be a defensive struggle for a while. Then late in the game, it went back and forth with scoring. Unfortunately, on defense, we let up some big plays. But our offense was able to bail us out,” senior defensive lineman Kyle Higgins said. “Our offensive line started doing a great job. Eventually, we just had more time than they did and we scored on the last play.”

Mansfield was the first on the board as freshman wide receiver Kurt Logan caught a 25-yard pass from junior quarterback Mike Maniscalco, but Cornell was able to stay in the game with two long field goal conversions by senior kicker John Rodriquez.

Entering the final quarter of the game, the Red was down, 10-6. The teams alternated the lead as each team would score, and a quick response would then follow.

However, senior quarterback Brendan Miller’s heroics in the last quarter led to the victory in his final game for Cornell. Less than a minute into the fourth, Miller rushed for a 1-yard touchdown to give the Red the lead. Mansfield responded when Kurt Logan threw a 59-yard pass to freshman Edward Larcom. The Red’s collapse on defense on that play was the same type of breakdown

that has led to the handful of losses this season. However, this time the ending did not look the same.

A little over halfway into the last quarter, Brendan Miller took a 10-yard rush into the end zone for his second touchdown of the day. The Red was back on top until the 3:40 mark of the quarter when Mansfield’s senior wide receiver David Wallace rushed 1-yard for a touchdown.

With little time on the clock, the Red needed to score to avoid another loss and a tough ending to an already tough season.

Miller led a huge drive that ended in a last-second touchdown and a huge victory for Cornell.

Over twelve plays which lasted a little over three minutes, the Red moved down the field gaining 62 yards of offense. With 9 seconds on the game clock, Brendan Miller threw a 9-yard pass into the end zone to junior Michael Crawford. With no time for Mansfield to respond, the Red solidified its second victory of the season.

“It was the last game for the seniors and we really couldn’t get much going offensively and then on the defensive side we were holding them in the first half. Then in the second half … it was a lot of back and forth,” senior quarterback Brendan Miller said. “We were fortunate to be the ones that found the ball with two minutes left and drove it down the field and ended up punching it in.”

After the end of the game, the Red’s final season record was 2-5. The 2-5 mark put Cornell at the 6th spot in the conference, with Mansfield and Princeton below the Red. “It’s not the championship season that we expected but everyone had a really fun time especially in this Mansfield game,” Gruenenfelder said.

This season with the worst that the program has seen in over 10 years.

“I think we were a young team and we made a bunch of mistakes that you could expect a young team to make. I think that we are definitely a talented group … We started to eliminate a lot of mental errors,” Miller said. “It wasn’t the easiest season to end on but after yesterday’s game, it was def-

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Finishing on a high note | With nine seconds left in play, senior quarterback Brendan Miller delivered a nine-yard pass to junior Michael Crawford to secure the win.

initely very satisfying. Especially to go out that way and to win your last game on a last second touchdown.”

The Red will lose its seniors which include integral players like Brendan Miller, Spenser Gruenenfelder and Nick Perez but next season’s focus will be on improving the younger prospects on the team including freshman Robert Pannullo and Christopher D’Ambrosia, who have gotten a fair amount of playing time this season.

“We have a lot of really good young players that have really improved throughout the season and will be great for next year,”

Gruenenfelder said.

Higgins added that ending his time with the Red on a solid note was a positive experience.

“It feels great going out on a win. It feels good to keep up the legacy of never losing to Mansfield and generally speaking, playing sprint at Cornell has been an awesome experience,” Higgins said. “I just hope that people in the future will be able to get out of it as much as I did.”

Nikita DuBnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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“[The defensive back] was trying to jam me off the line — he got me a little bit but I got a decent release off him and Jeff made a great throw,” Gellatly said.

Marani finished with seven tackles to go along with the interception, while leading-tackler Buehler again led the charge with 15 stops.

The Red arguably lost the game in the first half and on the first play of the second half. Brown dominated total offense (301-165), first downs (14-7) and time of possession (18-12 minutes) before intermission, while Cornell went 0-of-7 on third downs.

Cornell’s only touchdown of the first half came on fourth-and-4 from the Brown 31. Mathews placed the ball beautifully behind a defender and into the hands of sophomore running back Luke Hagy, who sprinted into the end zone to knot the game at 7-7 with 1:36 to play in the opening quarter.

But Brown responded with two touchdowns in the second quarter, while Cornell ended a 64-yard drive

with a missed field goal just before halftime to keep the Bears lead 21-7.

Then, on the opening kickoff of the second half, Brown forced a fumble from sophomore wide receiver Ben Rogers. The ball flew directly into the hands of Bears sophomore linebacker William Twyman, who ran 23 yards into the end zone for a 28-7 advantage.

“Bizarre,” Archer said. “They did a nice job of forcing it out, it popped right to one of their kids and there’s another seven points.”

Though Mathews and the Red responded with a 10-yard scoring pass to wide receiver Lucas Shapiro — the junior’s fifth consecutive game with a touchdown catch — the hosts had dug themselves too big a hole to overcome.

Nonetheless, Archer lauded his players’ fighting spirit and comeback attempt.

“It was a valiant effort by our kids,” Archer said. “There was a lot of adversity throughout the game and I thought our senior captains in particular really provided a spark. We played incredibly hard, fed off each other and played with a lot of pas-

sion and unfortunately … we came up on the wrong end of the scoreboard.”

The Red plays four more games this season, starting on Saturday at Princeton and the lone remaining home game on Nov. 16 versus Columbia. With Ithaca College’s Cortaca Jug slated for that afternoon, the Crescent may be hard pressed to match Saturday’s meager fan count of 3,195, especially with the prospect of the Red carrying in a 1-7 record.

Despite a familiar losing skid that the program believed it had put in the past when Archer replaced former head coach Kent Austin prior to the 2013 campaign, the new skipper never questions the Red’s commitment to building a winning program.

“I have a great group of kids,” Archer said. “If we went to do anything competitive right now, they’d be ready to go [with the snap of a finger]. I don’t expect anything different from them tomorrow … failure always tries to trip you the hardest when success is the closest.”

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Gridders Fall to Bears in Tight Game

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Staff Writer

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Bye, bye Brown | The Red fought hard Saturday in its fight against Brown but ended up suffering a 42-35 loss to the Bears.

So close, but no cigar: the Cornell football team lost its fifth straight game Saturday as the Red’s second-half rally came up one touchdown short in a 42-35 defeat to Brown.

Brown senior quarterback Patrick Donnelly was a crisp 21-of-27 for 295 yards and three touchdowns, and the Bears (4-2, 1-2 Ivy League) added 193 rushing yards to keep the Red (1-5, 0-3) at bay for most of the contest.

Cornell senior quarterback Jeff Mathews threw consecutive touchdown passes to senior receiver Grant Gellatly in the fourth quarter to close the deficit to 35-28 with over 10 minutes to play. When Brown promptly responded with its sixth touchdown of the day, Mathews led a 75-yard drive that ended with the quarterback’s eighth career rushing score and again narrowed the gap to seven points, 42-35, with 4:33 remaining.

The Red defense then stepped up to make the play it had failed to do for the majority of the game.

On third-and-4 from the Brown 31-yard line, Cornell collapsed the pocket and senior linebacker Tre’ Minor tackled Donnelly for no gain. The Bears punted just 27 yards, setting up the Red at its own 47 with a great chance for a tying score.

“That showed a lot of growth by our defense,”

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Booters Fall to Brown in Berman Blackout Game

Icers Take Two Games Against Nebraska-Omaha

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

With 29 total penalties over the course of the weekend — 14 dished out to the Red and 15 for Nebraska-Omaha — it was a battle of power plays versus penalty kills that ultimately went to the Red, who took a 5-3 victory in Friday’s match-up before clinging to the lead during Saturday’s 4-3 win. The weekend sweep of the Mavericks (2-4, 0-0 NCHC) starts the Red at 2-0 as it heads into the beginning of ECAC play.

The team’s 3-8 performance on the power play during Friday’s game was only outmatched by its 4-7 record Saturday. The Red, currently ranked 19th in the NCAA, had not scored four man-advantage goals in one game since November of 2009. The Red also went 12-14 on the penalty kill over the weekend, allowing a goal to 2013 Hobey Baker finalist Ryan Walters during the first contest and letting in a Waltersassisted goal in the second game.

“It was just a lot of penalties called in general,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said.

“The whole weekend was a special teams game.”

The Red got on the board first during Friday’s match-up, with junior defenseman Joakim Ryan firing a wrist shot over Mavericks goalie Kirk Thompson for the first power play goal of the weekend. The Mavericks answered the tally with less than one second remaining in the first period, however, slipping a backhander past Red goaltender Andy Iles during a scramble in front of the net. Iles finished with 28 saves during his 71th consecutive start.

Junior forward Joel Lowry put the Red back on the board six minutes into the second period, firing home a rebound off of a

first-year head coach David Archer ’05 said. “We challenged them about third down — we haven’t been good on third down in the past — but that was a great rise to the occasion.”

On the Red’s first offensive play, however, Brown senior defensive lineman John Bumpus sacked Mathews and forced a fumble, which the Bears recovered with 2:11 to play. The strip-sack essentially squashed any hope of completing the comeback, though the Red did earn one more puncher’s chance possession that ended with a desperation interception by Mathews on the final play of the game.

Mathews completed 30-of-46 passes for 419 yards and four touchdowns, surpassing 10,000 career yards with his eighth 400-yard effort.

Gellatly caught 10 passes for 212 yards and two fourth-quarter scores, the senior’s second and Cornell’s fifth-ever individual 200-yard receiving effort after entering 2012 with only one. The second touchdown came on an 81-yard bomb following a momentum-changing interception by safety Bobby Marani, the superb sophomore’s first career pick.

“The offense was driving and spilling their guts out on the field,” Marani said. “Our captain [senior linebacker] Brett Buehler was saying, ‘Jeff and Grant are putting everything out there and we have to do the same.’ After that our defense was all good.”

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All hail the Red | Cornell took down NebraskaOmaha in two pre-season showdowns. shot by junior forward Cole Bardreau. Less than three minutes later, an unlucky bounce sent Mavericks forward Josh Archibald streaking down the ice on a breakaway. Archibald, who was drafted in the sixth round by the Pittsburgh Penguins in 2011, was pulled down and was awarded a penalty shot. He fired the puck under the crossbar past Iles, tying the game at 22.

Despite the penalty shot goal, the first the Red had given up in almost five years, Schafer said the bad bounce was to blame more than the Red’s defensive positioning.

“It wasn’t really a mental breakdown,” he said. “The kid made a nice play to score the goal on the penalty shot.”

The Mavericks first power play goal of the weekend put the home team up 3-2 at the end of the second period. The third period was all Cornell, however, as the Red slammed home three unanswered goals to cap off the Red’s victory in its first game of the season. Senior forward Dustin Mowrey and Bardreau each scored less than a minute apart and junior forward Brian See MEN’S ICE HOCKEY page 13

There seems to be a trend for the men’s soccer team this season: creating lots of forward movement and scoring opportunities but failing to capitalize on the chances are created.

“We came out well. I couldn’t ask our team to generate more chances than we did in the first part in the first half. But story of our Ivy League season, we didn’t put the chances away,” head coach Jaro Zawislan said. “We generated enough chances to get the results out of the game but we can have all of the chances and all of the shots on the score sheet. If you don’t put them away, then it doesn’t matter. Goals matter in the game of soccer.”

Senior captain Jake Rinow added that no number of chances will secure the wins for the team if the Red fails to execute on any of them.

“We can generate a hundred chances a game and not score a goal. Or we can generate one chance a game and score,” Rinow said. “It honestly comes down to putting the ball in the back of the net ...

I would rather have one chance and one goal.”

The Red (6-4-4, 0-3-1 Ivy League) entered this weekend with the hopes of securing an Ivy League win against Brown (4-6-3, 1-1-2 Ivy) and grabbing its first win since the Sept. 27 game at Buffalo. The team, however, fell to the Bears in a tough 1-0 matchup.

“We came out and played some of our best soccer this season. We created a lot of chances and worked really hard.

We just didn’t execute properly and put our chances away when we had them,” junior midfielder Atticus DeProspo said.

“We worked really hard and competed as a team and now we are trying to shift See MEN’S SOCCER page 13 HALEY VELASCO / SUN SPORTS EDITOR

Fighting to the finish | Senior captain Patrick Slogic and the rest of the Red tried to snatch a win against the Bears but ended falling in a 1-0 competition on Saturday.