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By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Contributor

Millions of people on the East Coast are bracing for what newspapers around the country are calling “Frankenstorm”: a hybrid of powerful winds, intense rains, extreme tides and possibly snowfall, a portion of which local meteorologists say will hit Ithaca on Monday.

As of Sunday night, experts predicted that the storm would persist through Wednesday afternoon — just in time for Halloween and the full moon.

Mark Wysocki M.A. ’89, a senior lecturer in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, said that Frankenstorm is likely to be a storm of historic proportions because it is a combination of two separate storm systems.

The first is a large storm in northern Canada that is drawing cold, dry air south, across the Great Lakes and into the Northeast; the second storm is Hurricane Sandy, which is bringing warm, moist air into the mid-Atlantic states and the Northeast, according to Wysocki. The two storms are expected to merge Monday night, bringing 36 hours of violent weather to Ithaca.

The storm will occur during a full moon, which increases the chances that flooding will occur, Wysocki said.

According to Michael Gouldrick, director of meteorology for Time Warner Cable’s New York news channels, the heaviest rain and winds will occur in Ithaca between late Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. During this period of time, residents can expect to see winds with speeds of 20 to 40 miles per hour, with some gusts reaching 60 mph. Winds of 60 mph are strong enough to cause tree damage, which can cause power outages, Gouldrick said.

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Erica Ho ’13 plays a selection of ghoulish songs on the chimes in the University’s annual Halloween Concert Saturday evening.

Response to Cop Shooting Scrutinized

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

and MANU RATHORE

Sun Senior Writer

Low staffing levels in the police department hampered its efforts to respond to the shooting of an officer earlier this month, according to officers who warned that proposed budget cuts to the

Ithaca Police Department could exacerbate the challenges city police face.

Under the IPD’s preferred staffing guidelines, a minimum of six officers are supposed to work the “midnight shift” to replace the six officers who have just worked the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift.

Therefore, when Officer Anthony Augustine was

Student Reportedly Harassed,Grabbed by Masked Man

By MANU RATHORE Sun Senior Writer

A female student was reportedly grabbed and terrorized by a masked man behind 111 Dryden Rd. early Saturday morning.

The student said she was grabbed by the man between 1 and 2 a.m. Saturday as she exited her home and walked to the parking area directly behind it — located between College Avenue and Eddy Street.

The man then reportedly a crime alert CUPD sent out to community Cornell pulled her in the direction of a the dark-colored SUV parked in the Saturday evening.

The assailant was described lot, according to an email sent by the Cornell University Police The assailant was described as Department approximately six feet tall and was Saturday.

The student wearing a dark blue button-up shirt, was able to break blue jeans and a Halloween mask. free, flee the area and return to her residence, where she remained as approximately six feet tall. until calling the police later He was wearing a dark blue Saturday morning, according to button-up shirt, blue jeans and

a Halloween mask that fully obscured his face, CUPD reported.

Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner declined to further elaborate on the incident, saying the investigation is ongoing.

In an email, CUPD urged students to “remember to take advantage of the Blue Light resources available to our community.”

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

Skorton Reflects On Year’s Victories, Challenges to Come

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

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Presidential perspective | President David Skorton delivers his “State of the University” speech to an auditorium full of trustees and administrators Friday morning.

It has been an eventful year for President David Skorton. He saw Cornellians elated when the University won the tech campus competition; outrage erupt when a man threw beer

cans at black students outside a fraternity; and alumni break University fundraising records in an outpouring of philanthropy.

Reflecting on both the victories and challenges of the past year, Skorton See SKORTON page 5

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News Brewing Fun

The City of Ithaca celebrated its inaugural Oktoberfest — a festival that drew brewers in lederhosen and tasters sampling local beers and wines. | Page 3

News Money Matters

Leaders of student organizations said they approved of the changes the Student Assembly Finance Commission made to its funding process. | Page 3

Opinion Prioritizing Climate Change

Jing Jin ’13 argues that the next president of the U.S. must carefully consider climate change and its possible effect on national security. | Page 7

Arts Bittersweet Goodbyes

Glen Campbell, a guitarist who boasts a 54-year music career, made a pit stop at Ithaca on his farewell tour. | Page 11

Sports Victorious

Cornell’s football team edged Princeton, claiming victory in its home game this weekend. | Page 16

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Beer,Wine Flow at Inaugural Ithaca Oktoberfest

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Contributor

At the first-ever Oktoberfest on the Commons this weekend, participants — several clad in lederhosen — endured overcast weather to sample local beers, wines and local restaurant fare.

On Saturday, residents and students attended the event, which was co-sponsored by the Downtown Ithaca Alliance and Kilpatrick’s Publick House. Tim Gammons, Kilpatrick’s food and beverage manager and one of the event’s organizers, said he felt the turnout was impressive for the festival’s first year.

“I think it’s going very well. We’ve got a lot more people

than we expected,” Gammons said during the festival.

“We’re just so happy to have everyone here being part of this.”

While the event’s organizers were impressed by the turnout, some vendors said they had expected more attendees. They recalled attendance numbers at other annual festivals on the Commons, such as Chili Fest, Apple Fest and Brew Fest.

“I was at Chili Fest last year. This is a little bit slower, but I think that has to do with the weather and the fact that this is the first time,” said Will Sheavely, who was running Life’s So Sweet’s chocolate sampling station.

Gammons said he came up with the idea for Oktoberfest after Ithaca Brewery’s annual Brew Fest was

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Raise a glass | Attendees at Ithaca’s first-ever Oktoberfest Saturday sample wine from Six Mile Creek Vineyard, one of the local vendors that served beverage samples at the event.

canceled for 2012.

“We wanted something that would kind of imitate the idea without stealing it,” he said.

Food and beverage samples were served by local companies ranging from Ward’s Maple Products to Viva Taqueria.

“Everyone’s kind of joined in the festivities, whether they’re a German-themed restaurant or not,” said Patricia Clark, event manager for the Downtown Ithaca Alliance.

“They put their spin on it.”

The festival provided an opportunity for local food and beverage producers to gain exposure in the community, Clark said.

“We think it’s important for a lot of the local brewers, winemakers and farmers who are off the beaten path, because … people don’t necessarily happen upon them,” she said. “This kind of event allows people to get a sense of what’s available right in our area, which is really great because we have a lot of wonderful local treasures.”

Ithaca resident Alex Zavaski said he took advantage of the variety of samples available Saturday.

“The event’s awesome. I like it; there’s a bunch of different places I didn’t know about, and I get to try some beers,” Zavaski said during the festival. “I’m just gonna enjoy it.”

Like many events on the Commons, Oktoberfest was free and open to the public. For those who wanted to sample the food and drink options, however, ticket packages were available for purchase.

Local bands including The Notorious String Busters, The Erik Caron Connection, and Mike Brindisi and The New York Rock performed over the course of the day, providing a lively backdrop for festival attendees and entertainment for children, who turned the center square into a dance floor.

Clark said she hopes and expects that Oktoberfest will become an annual event in Ithaca.

“The music is fun, people are enjoying themselves, there’s lots to talk about, there’s lots to taste,” she said. “This is something, like Apple Fest, where people make it an annual event and plan to go again next year. This is the first year to make a good impression so folks can come back.”

Sarah Cutler can be reached at src234@cornell.edu.

Student Orgs.React to Tiered SAFC Funding

By SARAH SASSOON Sun Staff Writer

allocated funds — about $200,000 — went unspent each year. Money that is allocated to clubs and is unspent, called rollover funds, is essentially wasted resources, according to Desai.

The tier system, in response, was designed to reduce rollover by rewarding groups that spent wisely, according to Matty Gruber ’13, co-chair of the SAFC. “This year, when we placed groups into tiers, we did so based entirely on their past spending. We didn’t care what kind of group you were or what the purpose of your organization was. We simply cared how much money you spent from the SAFC [in the past],” Gruber said.

For this semester, the 383 organizations that applied for funding were sorted into five of the six tiers, according to Gruber.

After several consecutive years in which students were angered by what they called unfair funding practices, the Student Assembly Finance Commission has implemented a new system this fall for allocating funding to student organizations.

In recent years, campus groups have criticized the SAFC for what they said was a lack of transparency, a difficult application process and untenable budget cuts. In response, the SAFC created a tiered system to ameliorate the funding application process for student groups.

Under the new system, organizations are placed into tiers, or levels, of funding allocations based on how efficiently they spent money in the past. Each tier has its own funding cap — or the maxi“The tier we were placed in was suffimum amount of money any club within that level can receive in a cient for our [organization’s] needs.” given semester.

With the SAFC’s new funding Shantel Maharaj ’14 system, groups were able to receive up to $1,000, $1,750, $2,500, $3,250 or $4,000 this fall, depending on The top tier was left vacant and will be what tier they were placed in. The changes reserved in the future for clubs that not represent an increase in funding from last only use funding effectively but also “do fall, when organizations were able to receive more for our community,” he said — winning a national competition, for instance, a maximum of $2,700.

The new funding system will also aim to or providing a unique resource.

According to Gruber, before the SAFC reduce unspent funds, SAFC members said.

Under the old system, all student orga- made changes to its system, it struggled to nizations were capped at the same upper provide larger clubs with the amount they limit — a practice that left some groups needed.

“Inevitably, the amount of funds underfunded and some with more money than they could spend, according to Roneal requested would be way higher than what Desai ’13, vice president of finance for the we could give out in a semester,” he said.

After the latest round of budgets were S.A. “Basically, the previous incentive of an released last month, student leaders of orgaSAFC group was [to] apply for as much as nizations in both higher and lower tiers say you can, get as much as you can and then they have been generally pleased with the spend whatever you need,” leaving a por- new system.

“We received all the funding we requesttion of some clubs’ budgets unspent, Desai ed, and the tier we were placed in was suffisaid.

Consequently, more than 20 percent of cient for our needs,” said Shantel Maharaj

’14, president of the Teszia Belly Dancing Troupe, a smaller organization on campus.

Elizabeth Nolan ’13, president of Women’s Club Soccer, said the previous funding system, which substantially diminished the budget of club sports teams, was a detriment to her organization.

In Fall 2011, when the SAFC decided to give clubs who make mistakes on their applications a second chance to apply for funding, the number of organizations that qualified increased substantially — resulting in dramatic budget cuts across the board. For club sports, funding was cut in half from about $10,000 to $5,000 per year last spring.

“Last year was awful when the new changes were so abrupt. Our funding was cut by over 50 percent,” Nolan said.

“Thankfully, we had saved up on team dues from the previous years; otherwise, we likely would not have been able to afford [to participate in] the annual national tournament.”

This semester, club sports fall into the highest available tier — guaranteeing their ability to secure up to $4,000 per semester, compared to the approximately $2,700 per semester they received last year.

Nolan said the changes the SAFC has made to the funding process “have already benefited” her organization — but acknowledged that her satisfaction could be attributed to her club’s placement in the second tier.

But even officers of new clubs — all organizations applying for SAFC funding for the first time are automatically placed in the lowest tier — expressed approval for the tiered system.

For instance, Shuangyi Hou ’13, president of the Every1 Campaign, said her group received funding that was “absolutely adequate to cover our first-semester needs.”

Sarah Sassoon can be reached at ssassoon@cornellsun.com.

After Court Says Weill Defrauded Government, University Pays $1.6 Million

After being found by a federal court to have misused funding intended for HIV/AIDS research, Weill Cornell Medical College paid the government and a whistleblower in the case about $1.6 million on Oct. 19.

Employee Sues Cornell For Alleged Violation of Americans With Disabilities Act

A Cornell Information Technology employee is suing the University for $1 million for violating the Americans With Disabilities Act in a way that he says brought him “severe emotional pain and suffering, mental anguish, humiliation [and a] loss of enjoyment of life.”

Court Sentences SAE Fraternity; Former Cornell Chapter Ordered to Pay $12,000

The defunct Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at Cornell was fined $12,000 Oct. 25 after the Tompkins County Court convicted the organization for its role in the events leading to the death of SAE brother George Desdunes ’13.

— Compiled by Lianne Bornfeld

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Ithacans Debate Merits of Proposed Cuts to Police Force IPD

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shot on Oct. 12 shortly before the time of a shift change, 12 city policemen should have been available to respond to the crisis.

But because of staffing shortfalls, according to Officer John Joly, three of the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. officers were scheduled to work overtime and also cover the later shift. Additonally, only five officers were slated to work the next shift — giving the shift commander only two new bodies to send when the commander of the 3 p.m. to 11 p.m. shift called for backup, Joly said. “[The midnight commander] only had two people to send — in situations like this, when the suspect is still at large, we need more people,” Joly said. “Anything could happen, but if we’d had more people, the chances of catching this guy sooner would have been greater.”

It took nearly six hours, half a dozen police agencies and two helicopters for police to find suspect Jamel Booker, who has since been charged in the shooting.

That extensive and potentially dangerous manhunt might have been cut short if, as police guidelines stipulate, six new IPD officers had been available to for the next shift, Joly said.

IPD Lieutenant Vincent Monticello, while not confirming the exact staffing levels at the night of the

shooting, also said “we were at our minimum staffing.”

“We could’ve used more people that night,” Monticello said, adding that the low staffing level “definitely had an impact on setting up the perimeter and getting people right to the scene.”

Monticello said that the cuts to the IPD proposed by Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 could hurt the department’s already “critically” low staffing levels.

“We were able to get there quickly; next time, we might not be so lucky,” Monticello said.

Myrick’s proposed budget will reduce the number of police officers by about nine and the number of firefighters by four as a part of suggested measures to close the city’s $3 million deficit.

“This budget is something that weighs heavily on every member of the city staff,” Myrick said in an email.

“Like every other city in the country, we’re attempting to navigate a new era of scarcity.”

Should the cuts pass, the Common Council will aim to provide IPD with all that it requires to “operate effectively,” said Alderperson Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward).

As the Common Council prepares to make its recommendations for the budget, city officials have yet to come to a consensus on the budget, according to Alderperson Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward).

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earlier this month, Myrick said that while he recognized that the city “needs more officers, not less,” the costs of maintaining the fire and police departments have skyrocketed over the years, increasing by $4 and $5 million, respectively, from 12 years ago.

“Everything you have told me weighs heavily on my conscience,” Myrick said at the meeting. “[But] we can’t afford the amount of personnel that we have.”

However, some residents have criticized the proposed budget, backing IPD officers’ claims that it will hurt public safety.

Cornell Republican Misha Checkovich ’13, who is running to represent the 4th Ward, said that Myrick’s plan “reflects dangerously misplaced priorities.”

“Over the past month, an Ithaca Police Department officer was shot and badly injured it the line of duty [and] a federal jury awarded $2 million in damages to another officer in a suit against the city for alleged retaliation after the officer filed human-rights complaints,” Checkovich said in a press release. Noting that Myrick has proposed to downsize the IPD while adding positions in other departments, she said, “We should put the safety of our citizens ahead of other considerations.”

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Skorton Challenges Univ. Experts Predict Ithaca Power Outages To Seek ‘Great Tomorrows’ STORM

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Skorton put forth the goals Cornell will move toward in his “State of the University” speech Friday.

Skorton said Cornell has made significant progress in striving to achieve the vision outlined in its strategic plan to make itself “widely recognized as a top-ten research university in the world.” Three years since the plan was launched, the University has risen in national rankings, recruited faculty at the top of their fields and bolstered its academic programs, he said.

Currently, 47 of the Ithaca campus’ academic programs are ranked in the top 10 of their fields — more than any other college in the nation, Skorton said.

Anticipating a wave of faculty retirements, the University has also been “very successful” in hiring “rising stars, as well as senior-level colleagues,” he said.

For the Ithaca campus alone, Cornell made 71 new tenure-track appointments during the 2011-12 academic year — a leap from the 27 appointments in the 2010-11 academic year.

Some of the newly-hired faculty members will soon inhabit Klarman Hall, Skorton added.

The building — the first that will be built at Cornell for the humanities in a century — will break ground next summer, with the aim of opening it to the public in 2015.

As the tech campus rises in New York City, the University has also forged greater connections between its Ithaca and New York City campuses, Skorton said.

Although Skorton expressed pride over these accomplishments, he also highlighted several challenges facing Cornell today.

Despite boasting one of the most economically diverse student bodies among U.S. colleges, the University has a faculty that is predominantly male and white. Only 27.6 percent of faculty are women, and just 5.7 percent of faculty are underrepresented minorities.

The Cornell community has also been shaken by multiple incidents of bias and sexual violence in the last few months.

And in recent months, Cornell staff have expressed concerns about imbalanced workloads — an issue Skorton said came “particularly in the wake of the belt-tightening of the past few years.”

The University cannot resolve such issues with complacency, Skorton said. Quoting former Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson II, he emphasized that “We dare not just look back to great yesterdays. We must look forward to

great tomorrows.”

Skorton stressed that, following the traditions of the University’s founders, Cornell must continue to think about fostering diversity among its students, faculty and staff.

“When many of us think about diversity, we have in mind a way to reduce inequalities by creating opportunities — part of Ezra Cornell’s famous aspiration,” he said.

As part of efforts to increase diversity at the University, Cornell has launched “Toward New Destinations” — a program in which administrators have committed to 158 goals relating to improving diversity in their respective colleges and units, Skorton said.

Cornell is also attempting to respond to community concerns in the wake of several sexual assaults. Skorton said that the University is working on “[getting] the word out about safety services and other resources that are available, improving lighting in areas where incidents may occur and continuing conversations with individuals and groups so that we can move closer to being the diverse, welcoming and caring community we aspire to be.”

Many faculty and staff are also taking an online course, “Respect@Cornell,” to learn how to handle reports of sexual violence, harassment and discrimination.

“Clearly, we still have work to do, but I am proud of the seriousness and the sensitivity with which so many on our campuses are attempting to address the challenges we face,” Skorton said.

As the University prepares to celebrate its sesquicentennial anniversary in 2015, Skorton attributed the state of Cornell today to the sum of Cornellians’ work over the last 150 years.

“Because of the excellence and diversity of our student body, Cornell graduates are making contributions throughout the world.

Because Cornellians have given back so much — so very much — to their alma mater, we’ve achieved our current level of distinction,” he said.

Skorton charged the community with continuing to push Cornell forward over the next year.

“As we begin another year together, I challenge you, through your commitment of time, energy, resources and skills, to help create great tomorrows for new generations of Cornellians — on the Hill, in New York City and throughout the world,” he said.

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In Ithaca, “there will definitely be strong winds that could lead to power outages,” he added.

Prof. Arthur DeGaetano, earth and atmospheric sciences, warned that if rainfall exceeds two to three inches, there is a moderate risk of flooding of creeks and rivers.

DeGaetano also urged students to stock up on extra batteries, water and other emergency supplies in case there are widespread power outages in the area.

“A lot of the big utilities cover large areas, so a lot of places might take precedence [for repairs] over places in upstate New York,” DeGaetano said.

Lee Shurtleff, director of the Tompkins County Department of Emergency Response, said that by the time Hurricane Sandy hits Ithaca, it will have become a tropical storm — which is characterized by less extreme winds than a hurricane.

Still, Shurtleff warned all residents to prepare to stay indoors for up to 72 hours due to the threat of falling branches and wires. He said the storm’s unusual combination of two pressure systems could create unpredictable effects, which is one reason it has been nicknamed “Frankenstorm.” “[Weather experts] have a fairly good sense of the volume of rain and amount of wind, but how that affects the infrastructure for the electrical systems is still a question,” Shurtleff said.

Students are not taking the impending storm lightly. Many have already followed weather

experts’ recommendations to stock up on emergency supplies.

“Personally, I have plenty of food that doesn’t require cooking — I’m a poor college student,” Ted McHardy ’13 said. “I have a weather radio that will be charged and I'm going to make sure I shower Monday in case we lose power.”

In addition to stocking up on food and water, Sage Hiller ’13 has been charging all of his electronics in anticipation of prolonged power outages. Other students, like Sydney Altschuler ’16, are following suit out of fear that the storm will disrupt their use of laptops and iPads.

Warnings about the storm and its severity have caused some students to criticize Cornell’s decision to not cancel classes.

In an email sent out Sunday evening, Joseph M. Lalley, senior director of facilities operations, said that “all classes are expected to meet, and all staff to report to work, as scheduled.”

Ryan Hobson ’15 questioned the University’s decision.

“People could get hurt, and it could be dangerous to get to class,” Hobson said.

Although some students said they disagree with the administration’s decision and hope that the University will ultimately cancel classes, Frank Xie ’15 said he is not surprised by Cornell’s announcement.

Xie said that he expects classes will likely go on unless TCAT shuts down its bus service.

Alexa Davis can be reached at abd79@cornell.edu.

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Humanizing Undocumented Immigrants

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As the editorial articulating this new policy notes, newspapers across the United States differ on this issue.

Margaret Sullivan, the new Public Editor at the New York Times, defended the newspaper’s continued use of the term illegal immigrant as being the most neutral, correct and accurate term.

this as the case, choosing the more humanizing option between two clear descriptors is an obvious decision. I commend The Sun for choosing the more humanizing description.

While The Sun is, in my opinion, correct to use the term “undocumented immigrant,” the editorial board should do so with the understanding that they are, in some way, taking a position on our contentious immigration debate.

Words have meaning, and to choose “undocumented immigrant” instead of “illegal immigrant” is a choice to emphasize these people’s rights and dignity and to deemphasize the laws they have violated.

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Flying solo To the Editor: Re: “Our Redefinition: Be Who, Not What, You Are” Opinion, Oct. 23 For the second time in a row, Deon Thomas’ write-up interrupted me from my normal routine to think deeply about things we tend to neglect. His article on Sept.

25 mentioned the near segregation he noticed in classrooms. Interestingly, this phenomenon is probably very noticeable across most classrooms and does not pertain to one particular genre.

To reiterate what Deon mentioned, while birds of the same feather tend to flock together, we seldom realize that we are each a free bird in this hub of education.

Gaining the most of your experience here would mean interacting with an array of people and cultures, getting exposed to what ticks and flips them and trying hard to erase the unseen lines that divide our mental cavities. Being in your comfort zone is perhaps the most uncomfortable thing to do, if what you want is gaining richer experiences in the pursuit of knowledge. Those very emotions of pain, fear, doubt, insecurity and prejudice that create a barrier with our fellow humans tend to be common factors when you attempt to build a bridge and connect. It is not just who you are, but how you think that matters in nipping the buds of prejudice before they bloom in your heart.

Thomas’s write up on Oct. 23 is commendable because it strikes where it questions the most. Our definition of self builds from cultural, moral and academic experiences (in the context of Cornell) we build over the course of our life time.

Embalming free spirits in water tight compartments is a great disservice we do to the self. Diversity, connectedness and being together are what the campus culture symbolizes every day. Tolerance, kindness and compassion are things that need to be harnessed for self as our lives remain miraculously woven together and for others, because life remains insipid if you do not lend a hand and reach out. What better way can we stand alongside each other at Cornell, than ending the myths that stereotypes and biases create or try to root in our fragile minds. Our hopes and lives are only as malleable as we make them — and we need to be our own moral police in making decisions for who we are and what we stand for. Fearless learning stems from a fearless mind, and this is always a choice we can choose to make.

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I, like the editorial board at The Sun, disagree. Margaret Sullivan goes on to say that, “the Times rightly forbids the term illegal alien...” However, if clarity and accuracy are the purported values to uphold, “illegal alien” is often the most accurate legal description. Given the sinister connotation of the term “illegal alien,” the New York Times is accepting that humanizing this diverse group of people is more important than using the most legally accurate terminology.

I commend The Sun for taking this one step further. My immigration law class had difficulty choosing a fair and neutral descriptor, and we somewhat unsatisfyingly settled on “undocumented noncitizen.” Indeed, neither “illegal immigrant,” “undocumented immigrant” nor “undocumented noncitizen” are sufficiently accurate descriptions of a broad group of people in violation of different civil and criminal laws, but as many of their difficulties are shared, a concise, if overbroad, description of these groups of people is understandably necessary for a newspaper to adopt.

The strongest argument for the use of the term “illegal immigrant” is that it is a clear and accurate term for the reader. I submit that both “illegal immigrant” and “undocumented immigrant” are equally clear. No one is confused by the meaning of either. The reader will instantly recognize that we are talking about foreign nationals who either overstayed their visa or crossed the border illegally to enter the United States. With

undocumented immigrant is not without legitimate criticism. It is, in part, a political decision. Indeed, the editorial board stated that they hope to encourage other news agencies to adopt “undocumented immigrant” for their coverage. While the role of an editorial is very much to express an opinion on current issues, The Sun should tread carefully in bringing political opinions into their news section. The Sun is correct to choose “undocumented” for their news articles going forward, but because the term is more humane and equally clear to the reader.

In some cases, including this one, a news organization is inevitably forced to adopt language that will not appeal to all groups. When our political debates involve disagreement over the very words we use to describe a person or viewpoint, editorial boards must decide on what they believe is a clear, accurate and neutral term for their coverage. I commend The Sun for their transparency on their decisionmaking process for this contentious topic. At the same time, I urge them to be aware of the risks of using their news articles to advance an agenda better left to the editorials.

Nicholas Kaasik is a second-year law student at Cornell Law School. He assigns and edits submissions for Barely Legal. He may be reached at public-editor@cornellsun.com. The Public Editor column runs monthly on Mondays.

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OPINION

A Reason to Hope Again M

y first column this semester was titled “Hope?

Nope.” It contained my thoughts on why I was not especially thrilled to vote for President Obama, at least not as excited as I was in 2008.

But the fact remains, I support the President. Here’s why: The modern form of the Republican Party has to be stopped in its tracks. The GOP’s national agenda ought to be considered abhorrent to our generation.

During the Primaries, the only candidate to not receive any momentary surge of support was Jon Huntsman. I’ll admit that Huntsman doesn’t have the memory of Rick Perry, the thoughtfulness of Michele Bachmann, the pizza making skills of Herman Cain, the humility of Newt Gingrich or the per-

guns to make somebody devote their pickup truck’s rear window to it? The objective answer is: absolutely nothing. The President has expanded gun rights.

But that does not matter. In fact, during President Obama’s term, gun sales have dramatically increased because Americans think that the President is going to go after their guns.

Whether it’s gun control, Obamacare, tax cuts, Solyndra, Dodd-Frank financial reform, regulation or a multitude of other issues, Republican opposition to the President is not based on an honest assessment of his performance, it’s based on a ingrained dislike of the President.

I want to make it as clear as possible; this is an issue that is present in the Democratic Party, too. However, look back to the way Democrats treated President Bush. They did not like him and, coming from Massachusetts, I saw plenty of people who appeared to hate President Bush.

Plain Yet, Democratic Senators Hokum in Washington voted for President Bush’s tax cuts, the War in Iraq and passed No Child Left Behind by a vote of 91-8.

Not a single Republican voted for Obamacare. Only three Republican Senators voted for the Stimulus Act. Of the three, one later switched to the Democratic Party and another, Olympia Snowe, is quitting the Senate because she believes that there is not enough bipartisanship.

Since then, Republican opposition has hardened, as have its positions. Mitt Romney is the embodiment of that opposition. His wild inconsistencies, his radical choice of vice president and his patently absurd tax cut proposal all reek of the unreasonable conservative opposition to President Obama.

I think it is overly simplistic, and foolhardy, to cry racism.

Yes, 79 percent of Republicans were found “to express racial prejudice in the questions measuring explicit racism” in an Associated Press poll from last week. Yet, core Republican opposition goes deeper than the mere color of the President’s skin.

They oppose the President because he, in so many ways, represents the future. He’s relatively young, biracial and worldly. He’s not rural — he’s urban. Obama’s America, a more diverse cosmopolitan country, is coming. The demographics, with a rapidly rising minority population and a rapidly shrinking white population, make a more diverse and dynamic pop-

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sonality of Mitt Romney.

What Huntsman did offer was a reasonable alternative to President Obama. He was a deeply conservative governor from one of our nation’s most preposterously conservative states.

Additionally, he spoke Mandarin fluently, having served as President Obama’s ambassador to China. He looked past partisanship and put the duty to serve his nation above future political opportunities. His opposition to the President did not come from a deep-seated distrust of Obama; instead, it came from legitimate political differences.

And that, more than any other reason, is why he never found any traction in today’s Republican party.

Driving to grab some lunch today, I saw a woman whose bumper sticker featured President Obama’s rising sun symbol with a big X through it and the slogan, “I’ll keep my guns and you keep your change.”

Now, I understand that Mitt Romney is probably the better candidate for “gun rights,” but that’s if we determine that gun rights means that the right to bare arms includes the right to high-capacity magazines and as few checks to gun ownership as possible.

However, what has President Obama done on the issue of

ulation inevitable.

Imagine you are an older, rural, middle-income and temperamentally conservative person. You have watched your income disappear, you’ve watched homosexuals begin marrying, your house is probably worth less now than it was 10 years ago, you’ve watched many of the decent jobs around you disappear, your pension (if you had one) is gone and all of a sudden the visual embodiment of the future, multiracial, progressive and secular country is elected to be your President.

Voters like this are the face of the Tea Party, and they would never vote for a Democrat, let alone President Obama.

It is not hard to see why people like that oppose the President and have unrealistic impressions of his attitudes and policies. Fortunately, there are not enough of those people to win an election.

What it will take to defeat the President is the opposition of voters who harbor no resentment toward Obama, those who don’t have bumper stickers on the back of their cars touting their opposition to positions the President does not have.

They simply think that the President has not done a good job and needs to be replaced.

If you are one of these voters, I do not blame you. I really don’t. The last four years have not been a picnic. But I do ask you to think, think really long and really hard.

If you wanted to vote for Jon Huntsman, I would disagree with you, I would argue that Huntsman’s conservative ideology was not the correct prescription for America. The American Conservative, a magazine with a name à propos of its politics, said Governor Huntsman’s views were both “a break with the Bush legacy on foreign policy and the chance to move their policy prescriptions off the Tea Party’s placards and into the center of our political debate.” Huntsman stood up to the radicalism at the core of today’s Republican Party, and he was quickly struck down.

Compare the Conservative’s assessment of Huntsman to its assessment of Romney whose “willingness to say whatever his supporters want to hear regardless of the merits” and that he “lacks important qualifications for the Presidency.”

Unlike Huntsman, Romney’s election would be a realization of the irrational cultural backlash to President Obama.

That might not be reason enough to vote for the President for everyone, but it’s why I am.

Noah Karr-Kaitin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at nkarrkaitin@cornellsun.com. Plain Hokum appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Bringing Climate Change Into The National Security Conversation T

his past Thursday, two former National Security Advisors, Samuel “Sandy” Berger and Stephen Hadley, discussed their experiences at a panel on “The World, the Day After.” They shared their insights into the overnight transition from being the (successful) presidential candidate to being the commander-in-chief.

Despite coming from opposite sides of the partisan divide, they echoed the consensus of policy wonks that the range of difference between Republican and Democratic foreign policy agendas is actually very narrow.

When asked to look ahead to next January, Hadley, who served under President George W. Bush, said that he would advise President Obama and Governor Romney to resist getting so absorbed in managing current crises as to neglect taking measures to forestall the development of future conflicts. He didn’t quite have the time to go into specifics, although I have a feeling that he wouldn’t agree with me on climate change being a top national security concern.

The two candidates probably wouldn’t assent either, since climate change didn’t come up once in any of the four debates.

Oil, gas and “clean” coal made it in; the failure of Solyndra was mentioned; but, climate change — the most pressing issue facing the world, this nation and our generation — wasn’t deemed a hot enough topic to be addressed. According to polls from last month, two-thirds of Americans would beg to differ.

The U.S. military has, in recent years, pulled far ahead of the government in renewable energy investments, committing

to incorporate solar, wind, biomass and geothermal power into its energy profile by 2025. In 2010, the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review described global warming as a destabilizing force. The Department of Defense didn’t quite consider it a cause of conflict yet but rather a catalyst of conflict.

Resource wars are certainly not a historical novelty, but climate change’s interference in the harnessing or cultivating of resources will create a pressure cooker for conflicts over food, water and energy. In a discussion on genocide prevention with foreign policy experts and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Yale history professor Timothy Snyder testified that the world had entered a time of ecological panic, the reactions to which will lead to mass killings in the coming decades. By 2030, the National Intelligence Council, a government agency, predicts that nearly half of the world’s population will live in areas of severe water stress. Unfortunately, if climate predictions have been any indication, projections — especially government-sanctioned ones — are usually far too conservative to allow for effective policies.

At home, we are hardly immune to resource-related security vulnerabilities. As the student body prays for Sandy’s projected trajectory to deliver a hurrication (but its actual path to cause minimal damage), oil executives in the South are probably breathing a sigh of relief that there isn’t a hurricane in the Gulf threatening drilling and refinery operations. The growing number of extreme weather events, including hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and flooding, have incurred industry and government

staggering costs in lost operation time and recovery efforts.

This summer’s drought and recordbreaking heat wave decimated the Midwest corn crop and left farmers and policymakers, both domestic and international, with a range of problems: food security, loss of

against another world power. European countries have already joined forces to leverage their long-term diplomatic relationship with Greenland in pursuing drilling and mining permits.

The Department of Defense and State Department have shown an increasing

Jing Jin Ringing True profit and impact on the various industries dependent on corn.

There is an additional way in which national security and climate change needs to be considered. As resources have become depleted due to increased consumption and population growth, nations are frantically scouring the globe to secure access to energy, minerals and land. China, a country that the U.S. has a sensitive relationship with, has vied for Canadian tar sands oil, expressed interest in developing Greenland’s rare earth metals and acquired agricultural land leases in Africa.

In all these cases, the resource bidding war privileges countries with political or economic advantages and deprives the people living in countries with resources to exploit. The conflicts that are going to spring up will either force the U.S. to consider an intervention or directly pit the U.S.

awareness of the myriad ways in which climate change endangers both domestic efforts to build resource capacity and foreign relations with countries that are competing for resources or relying on U.S. support. Extreme weather and resource strains compel immediate action, but the prolonged and increasingly severe effects of climate change necessitate long-term planning. Candidates do not excel in thinking beyond the four-year election cycle, but the person who is sitting in the President’s chair the next four years will cease to be a candidate the day after the election (at least temporarily). Americans cannot afford to allow him to remain silent on climate change.

Jing Jin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jingjin@cornellsun.com. Ringing True appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Just Another Man

Glen Campbell’s Last Ride

BY MEREDITH JOYCE Sun Contributor

Glen Campbell said one more goodbye on his Farewell Tour Thursday at the State Theatre. Cornell students may not who he is, but with a 54-year music career — starting as a session guitarist with the famous Wrecking Crew ensemble before a nonstop solo career with 61 albums and 81 charted singles, not to mention a starring role John Wayne’s True Grit — the 76-year-old Glen Campbell is who anyone’s parents or grandparents would call a country and pop music legend. However, at Thursday’s concert, Campbell showed the skill, not the fame and recognition, he has accrued as a musician for so many years.

Glen’s children, Ashley and Shannon Campbell, opened the show as part of their country/folk project Victoria Ghost. The two have toured with their father, who was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, to help him perform. They sang with him when he forgot lyrics or mouthed the words as they played in his band.

They were also there to introduce themselves as an exciting, harmonious group with varied and enjoyable songs.

Their lyrics were clear and, for that, engaging, telling relatable stories with profound messages. “Just Another Man,” a stringy ballad about mortality, felt complete, even with just a banjo and a guitar, and relevant to the spirit of closure that this Farewell tour signifies. In a 30minute set with six songs, they provided variety, grabbed the audience’s attention and brought a family feel to the concert.

After a 20-minute intermission, Glen’s children lead him on stage. He still wore a white blazer and an electric blue, rhinestone shirt, perhaps in the fashion of his hit song “Rhinestone Cowboy.”

The audience gave him an immediate standing ovation.

With a total of three standing ovations, the audience, many of whom were around in the ’70s to see him at his peak, was knowingly pleased with the performance. They had nothing to complain about except the intermission.

Glen started out with three of his most popular songs:

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“Gentle On My Mind,” “Galveston” and “By The Time I Get to Phoenix.” With a steering banjo, patient bass and circuitous beat, he eased the crowd into the happy, relaxing mood of country music.

Through all 17 songs, the crowd responded most favorably to his country repertoire. Despite his age and ailments, Campbell, for the most part, stayed away from the sad and slow piano blues.

The dimmed stage lights during “The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress” marked a somber tone in light of the rest of the night. He gave a solid performance that was meant to make the audience feel breezy, not mournful.

The instantly gratifying nature of today’s music hasn’t affected Glen, either. From the talent he has built over half a century, he creates music with dedication and skill that recalls ideals reminiscent of the American Dream. A truly professional musician, he knew how to put on a show that grew steadily as the show went on.

Without knowing his songs beforehand, I hummed along before I even realized I liked them. His songs evoke words like “classic” and feel familiar and timeless. This is a testament to how influential his work is, as we’ve probably all heard derivatives of his work in today’s popular country singers.

Campbell’s illness manifested here and there, as could be expected. He used computer screens at the bottom front of the stage to remember lyrics; while singing “A Better Place,” he laughed at the lyrics after he sang them, as if he had read them for the first time. Usually, he

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managed to get the audience to laugh along with his fumbles. Sometimes, he pivoted away from the audience or forgot words. However, his setbacks never stopped the show or discouraged him. One of his songs, “Try a Little Kindness,” about “narrow minded people on their narrow minded streets,” was well-suited to convey the open-mindedness that watching a man afflicted with Alzheimer’s requires.

Campbell overcame ailments beyond his control and struck a confident and inspiring stage presence.

Glen Campbell’s concert showed how he has mastered, not surrendered to, age. After the show, during a bouquet presentation for Glen’s 30th wedding anniversary that night, his drummer son remarked to the audience after the show, “Amazing what those fingers could do, right?” It was true: When playing guitar solos, his skills proved ageless. He may have sold more records and appeared on more talk shows decades before, but Campbell has not let time define who he is. He is the kind of performer who can keep touring at the age of 76 in an industry of Taylor Swifts. He’s not touring to recruit more fans or sell more records — he is here to say a grateful goodbye to his fans and his work. After the concert, my taxi driver praised him, saying how there are other performers who stay around too long, with ruined voices and listless stage presence. I wondered whether this was true of Glen Campbell, who couldn’t always remember lyrics and who remarked more than once to the crowd about the heat of the theater. But then, I thought about the crowd: They were grateful to see someone stand up there, just as flawed as anyone else still working at his or her craft.

Meredith Joyce is a junior in the College of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at maj89@cornell.edu.

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Arts Around Town Citizen Cope

Faust at Sage

8 p.m. on Thursday The State Theatre

8 p.m. on Wednesday Sage Chapel

Most know him for his 2002 RIAA certified Gold hit “Let the Drummer Kick,” but Citizen Cope (the stage name for Clarence Greenwood) usually finds a happy medium between bluesy folk, rock and soul.

Performing at the State Theatre Thursday at 8 p.m., Citizen Cope, D.J. turned hiphop/rock artist turned folk/soul crooner, is definitely a show to check out for an eclectic, acoustic-driven set.

— Nicole Hamilton

If you’re looking for a good old-fashioned scare this Halloween, you can’t do much better than F.W. Murnau’s Faust. It is often cast into the shadow next to Murnau’s other famous horror work, Nosferatu, but with its haunting visuals and truly sinister villain, Faust holds its own as an epic tale of love, loss and evil. Cornell Cinema’s free-to-all production ramps the fear-factor to the next level with a live accompanying score by the Filharmonia Duo, with Dennis James on Sage Chapel’s Pipe Organ and the Theremin and Mark Goldstein playing electronic “Lightning Wands.”

— Sam Bromer COURTESY OF CITIZENCOPE.COM

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N.Y. Banjo Summit

Remember Romeo and Juliet? Did you love it?

Did you hate it? Doesn’t matter. bare, a musical presented by the Melodramatics Theatre Company directed by Spencer Whale ’14, is the new and improved version of Shakespeare’s classic. Replacing Romeo with a closeted gay boy and Juliet with another closeted gay boy, bare delves into thorny questions of sexuality, religion and coming-of-age. Featuring music that is rocky, edgy and classy, bare is a production you will not want to miss.

— Danyoung Kim

Most people think of the banjo and laugh.

After all, it is considered to be the most novelty of instruments, reserved for rednecks and hillbillies. Stop by the State Theatre this Friday, and you will shatter these misconceptions. Led by Bela Fleck, the N.Y. Banjo Summit proves the banjo has a place beyond bluegrass and country. The Five String Summit plays everything from jazz to classical to rock music, leaving listeners asking: That sound came from a banjo?

— Ashley Popp

Premieres 8 p.m. on Thursday Risley Theater

8 p.m. on Friday The State Theatre

The Mallomars of Television A

hypothetical: Someone I am trying to impress other words, Mallomars, just like apples, asks me for my favorite TV show. I would prob- pomegranates and other foods that are good ably say something like Party Down, Freaks and for you, have a season. So, even though you Geeks or Undeclared (I would say Arrested Development, know that, ultimately, Mallomars are no betbut I think it’s too mainstream now). Preferring shows ter for you than Oreos, you ignore that that were cancelled after only a few seasons and featured unpleasant nutrition information and tell celebrities before they were famous, I seem like a true yourself it’s just like eating an apple (I feel television connoisseur with impeccable taste: the ulti- like Nabisco should be paying me).

The same is true for the supposed “reality” mate TV hipster.

Here’s another hypothetical situation: I tell the truth. of reality TV shows. When I started watching My favorite TV show, and I’m not saying it’s the best Breaking Amish a week ago, I was enthralled TV show, is The Bachelorette (side-note: The Bachelorette by the drama between these four young is way better than The Bachelor because it’s just pathet- Amish and one Mennonite exploring New ic to watch a house of bikini-clad girls fighting over one York City for the first time. I was obsessed stupid jock, whereas it is hilarious to watch a house of with the blossoming relationship between jocks fighting over an evening gown-clad blonde with a Rebecca and Abe, and loved hating Jerimiah for his antiquated views about women’s tragic backstory). roles in society. I rooted for Kate Not far behind The as she pursued her dream of Bachelorette, are other becoming a model and teared up reality TV shows such when Sabrina, who was adopted, as The Millionaire reconnected with her Puerto Matchmaker, The Rican roots.

Hills, What Not to Carrot Top Then, I received some disturbWear, Top Chef, The Confessions ing news: Breaking Amish isn’t Only Way is Essex and, real. Apparently many of the cast most recently, members had left their commuBreaking Amish.

Say what you will about reality television, but you nities as many as 14 years prior to the start of the show. know you would be lying if you said it wasn’t entertain- Also, Abe and Rebecca have a child. So that episode ing. I may love Mad Men with every fiber of my being, when Abe asks Rebecca out on their first date...

Later that day, whilst purchasing Diet Coke from 7but if all I’m looking for in a TV show is a quick shot of laughs and drama while I paint my nails, I’m not going Eleven, I spotted the cover of a magazine which insinuated that The Bachelorette’s Emily Maynard had paid the to put in the mental energy required for watching it.

Reality TV shows are like the Mallomars of the TV winner, Jef Holm (who, by the way, should never have world. They are delicious, addicting and you tell your- won because Ari was totally better for her), to pretend self you’re not eating junk food because of the whole to be with her for the sake of the show. It was a dark deal with the chocolate. For the Mallomar-ignorant time for me.

This traumatizing day reminded me of a similar among you, the quality of the chocolate is supposedly too good, and the coating too thin, for them to be sold earth shattering experience: the airing of the series finale between April and October because they would melt. In of The Hills, when the producers of the show essential-

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ly admitted that the entire show was fictional. As Brody said his final goodbye to Kristen, the camera zoomed out and revealed that the pair was actually on a movie set and that the palm trees and Hollywood Sign behind them were only a backdrop.

Everyone knows that reality TV shows are just as scripted as soap operas, that no relationship begun under the scrutinizing eyes of the American public is genuine and that Mallomars are just as fattening as any other junk food. But I don’t want to know that. Reality TV shows are entertaining and Mallomars are delicious.

So I will continue to watch Breaking Amish, because frankly, I don’t care that Abe and Rebecca have been together for years. Stop telling me that reality television isn’t real, because I know and I don’t care. Please, producers of reality TV shows, don’t pull any more Hills finales on me (I actually sort of thought that finale was brilliant, but don’t do it again). I accept reality television for what it truly is: a delightful treat consisting of a marshmallow on top of a graham cracker with a thin coating of pure chocolate.

Julia Moser is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions runs alternate Mondays this semester.

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The next 25 minutes of play did not provide many great opportunities for either team, aside from the 55-second five-on-three advantage Cornell had around 12 minutes into the second.

The third period opened with Colorado having the first few shots on net. However, the Tigers drew another penalty six minutes into the third, and once more Lowry was able to capitalize on it and score his second goal of the night. On the power play, sophomore defenseman Joakim Ryan and senior forward Greg Miller helped set up the play for Lowry, who fired a low shot to the far side of the net, getting it past Thorimbert once again for a two-point lead.

“It felt good to contribute … I saw [Ferlin’s] back door and I was just trying to throw it off the goalies pad to get him a rebound and it went in, so it was kind of lucky I guess,” Lowry said.

Just 35 seconds later, the Tigers were able to put another one past Iles — making the score “We made a major blunder,” Schaefer said. “We had both defensemen jumping into play on a 3-1 lead — and that’s just an early season thing and they made us pay for it, scoring and making it 3-2.”

The score stayed at that number for the rest of the game, and the Red beat the Tigers, 3-2. Iles had 21 saves on the night.

According to Lowry, the Tigers came out with some more ferocity than they had the night before.

“They had a lot more push tonight than they did last night … Tonight I think they came out pretty strong … They played really physically tonight,” he said. “I think we matched them for the most part and were just lucky that we capitalized on our chances on the power play and I think that’s why we won tonight.”

The benefit about playing the same team two nights in a row is that it provides the team a chance to build off of play from the previous night and improve in certain areas against the same opponent. According to Ferlin, this may have helped lead the Red to more success.

“We were a little too quick to get to our spots [Friday] night and not so much as focused on getting possession of the puck,” he said. “So I think we were working a little better together tonight, and getting possession of the puck before we set up so that definitely had a lot to do with it … We struggled a little last night, my unit did, so it was good to come out tonight and put it together.”

Cornell’s special teams units played a cru-

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Leisure dive | Senior defenseman and tri-captain Nick D’Agostino credits the special teams units as playing a crucial role in Saturday’s outcome against Colorado College.

cial role in Saturday’s game. The Red went three-for-eight on the power play and did not let up any goals on its eight penalty kills.

“Obviously it’s nice to have [special teams] clicking early,” D’Agostino said.

“Right now, we’re just trying to keep it simple on the power play, get pucks to the net, look for seams and I think guys are doing a good job of that right now.”

“I think we have a lot of skill right now as a team,” Lowry added. “Guys have finally got a handle on who they’re playing with and have a little bit of chemistry with the guys they’re playing with now that the season started. I think we’re just making good plays, getting pucks to the net, getting bodies there

and when you do that, good things happen.”

The Red has scored all of its goals so far on the power play.

“We’re not naïve, we’re gonna need to score even strength goals throughout the year,” D’Agoistino said. “But, Cornell hockey is shut ‘em down five-on-five and win a special team battle, and we’ve done that so far — we’ve scored five power play goals and haven’t let in a power play goal against.”

Cornell begins ECAC play this upcoming weekend, with a two-game match-up against its neighbor Colgate.

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun.com.

Austin Gives Mathews Tough Love Iles Emphasizes FOOTBALL

receiver’s route and intercepting Michelsen on the first play to seal the thrilling victory.

Princeton committed four turnovers Princeton’s offense was in general more on the day while the Red had none. The methodical. Nonetheless, sophomore Cornell defense allows 464.7 yards per quarterback Conner Michelsen hit junior outing, but the ball-hawking unit has wide receiver Roman Wilson for a 72-yard forced 15 turnovers in seven games this touchdown pass up the right sideline midseason. way through the third quarter that tied “The difference to the game was the the game at 28 — the fourth of five forced turnovers,” Austin said. “Our touchdowns traded by both squads on defense has found a knack to get us consecutive drives. turnovers, especially at key times in the Michelsen finished with 390 yards on game. The good news is we were able to 29-of-35 passing, although he did throw capitalize on that today offensively.” two interceptions. Red sophomore lineIn fact, everybody has capitalized backer Andrew Nelson, who recorded a offensively on Schoellkopf Field lately. team-high 12 tackles, picked off a deflectMathews, Red senior backup Chris ed pass on the first possession of the secAmrhein, Michelsen and Monmouth’s ond half that led to an eight-yard touchKyle Frazier combined for 1,889 passing down bullet from Mathews to Tasker. yards in Cornell’s last two home games. “[Defensive coordinator Kim As for Mathews, it was an exceptional Dameron] is always stressing getting to showing a week after he threw three the ball and running to the football, [sayuntimely interceptions in a loss at Brown ing] we need 11 heads to the football,” — just in case anyone doubted his profesNelson said. “When we do fly around, sional potential. Austin wasn’t when we do give 100 percent effort afraid to scrutinize Mathews’ perfrom whistle to whistle, that’s when “When you don’t play well, you formance against the Bears, but good things happen.” the gunslinger said that comes Predictably, the Red offense should be criticized.” with the territory of being the focal responded after Michelsen’s touchpoint of a pass-heavy offense. down bomb. Tasker made a 37- Jeff Mathews “I told Jeff when he first started yard catch on an underthrown ball playing, ‘When I quit pushing you to set up freshman running back Silas Nacita’s sixth rushing touchdown of the Year hit Tasker over the middle and and quit getting onto you and quit trying the season on third-and-1 from the the wideout spun away from defenders for to push you to another level is when a 15-yard gain. Then, Mathews dropped a you’ve got to worry,’” Austin said. “We Princeton 2-yard line.

Wells missed wide left on the point precise throw into the hands of a well- have a great relationship. He understands after attempt, however, to keep the Red defended Gellatly for 35 yards down to what’s going on — we need great play out of that position the way we’re structured advantage at six points, 34-28, with 5:22 the Princeton 11.

“The poise that we showed at the end offensively right now. We’re putting a lot left in the third quarter. Princeton’s second quarterback, sophomore Quinn Epperly, and the leadership helped us,” Austin said. on his plate.”

“When you don’t play well, you should made the miss more costly when he found “Our guys just don’t panic on offense. We senior tight end Mark Hayes in soft cov- just go out and execute the next play. You be criticized,” Mathews added. “I didn’t erage for a six-yard score with 8:49 win with execution and not letting the give us a chance to win last week, and I remaining in the game for a 35-34 lead. pendulum swing too far emotionally from think as a player you’ve just got to Epperly also rushed for two short touch- euphoria to being too negative. You have respond. I expect Coach Austin to get on me and to coach me hard, and I think to strike the proper balance.” downs.

Austin showed faith in his junior kick- that’s going to make us a better team and Cornell marched right back down the field with a solid Mathews throw and div- er by electing to run the ball and run the me individually a better player.”

The club indeed already appears in a ing 30-yard catch by Tasker, followed by a clock under one minute instead of going 20-yard completion to junior tight end Ty for a game-winning touchdown. Wells did better position than last Saturday. The Bostain. But two short gains and an not disappoint, splitting the uprights on a win hands the Tigers their first Ivy loss incompletion created a fourth-and-5 from 23-yard boot for redemption and a 37-35 and moves the Red within one game of the Tigers 23, and Mathews fired low to lead as the Red sideline and a crowd of first-place with three contests remaining.

Austin also reflected more broadly on the Tasker and the pass was broken up with 4,420 erupted with cheers.

Princeton’s offense had 42 seconds to huge triumph for the team’s confidence.

6:17 to play.

Princeton took over on downs and try to win the game, but sophomore linemade the clock move quickly for the first backer Taylor Betros made the Tigers final Quintin Schwab can be reached at time all afternoon, mixing three runs and chance short-lived, cutting off a Princeton qschwab@cornellsun.com.

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three passes to pick up 46 yards. The Tigers appeared in control with a thirdand-2 from the Cornell 31 with just under three minutes to go, but that’s when the Red defense flipped the script.

A wall of Cornell defenders stuffed Princeton’s Dre Nelson for a one-yard gain. The freshman running back fought for more yardage, but Gee punched the ball loose and junior defensive end and defensive co-captain Tre’ Minor recovered. “[Princeton] did move the ball on us, but when we needed to make a play, when we needed to step up, we did to give our offense a chance,” Nelson said.

The comeback still looked bleak when Mathews twice underthrew wide receiver Kurt Ondash up the left sideline once the senior had beaten the Princeton secondary. But Mathews stayed calm and found his reliable targets on consecutive passes to get the Red into field-goal range.

On third-and-10 from the Cornell 39, last season’s Ivy League Offensive Player of

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defenseman Joakim Ryan both had one.

“I am obviously pleased with the first game of the year, especially against a team that’s great in the transition,” said head coach Mike Schafer. “It is great to see John Esposito come out there after an injury and get off to a good start.”

Cornell scored its first goal with six seconds left in the second period on a five-on-three advantage, after Colorado (2-2-0, 0-0-0 WCHA) earned a costly too many players on the ice penalty and went down two men with under two minutes in the second period. Esposito’s goal resulted from a rebound after the Tigers’ goaltender left the net wide open.

“I was at the right place at the right time on the first goal,” Esposito said. “Both teams definitely came out physical and we played hard enough to get what we wanted to get done.”

After another penalty by the Tigers in the third

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period on a slashing minor, Esposito received a swift pass from Bardreau and maneuvered the puck beyond Colorado’s blockers.

However, according to Schafer, one of the key plays of the game was senior defenseman and tri-captain Nick D’Agostino. The 6-2 Ontario native came through on the defensive side, when he blocked a shot in the middle of the second period. “[D’Agostino] got right in the shot lane and sacrificed his body and laid out for it,” Schafer said. “I thought we did a great job overall putting the pressure on their offense. Our clears on the penalty kill were pretty good today and we were able to limit their second chances.”

In net, Iles recorded his seventh career shutout on Friday with 19 saves. After the game, he emphasized that the Red cannot get too far ahead of itself..

“It is a 120 minute game,” Iles said in reference to the weekend’s two-game series against Colorado.

“We made penalty kill an emphasis today and it was amazing tonight.”

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

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SPORTS

WOMEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Icers Begin ECAC Play, Earn Wins Over Brown, Yale

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

The No. 2 Cornell women’s hockey team began its ECAC schedule with two victories over opponents that the Red has become accustomed to defeating in recent seasons.

The Red beat Brown (1-1-0, 1-1-0 ECAC) in 11 consecutive contests heading into Friday’s game at Lynah Rink, and again proved victorious in a 2-0 shutout.

Similarly, the Red handily defeated Yale (1-3-0, 1-1-0) in two contests last season and defeated the Bulldogs on Saturday in a close game, 3-2. According to senior defenseman Laura Fortino, the Red (4-1-0, 2-0-0) is excited about winning its first two ECAC contests.

“As a team it feels really good to win these two big Ivy League games,” she said. “That was really important for us, and to have those two under our belt is a great start and we’re really excited and continuing to get better as a team.”

The Red was on the attack from the outset in the game against Brown, and outshot the Bears by a wide margin in the first period. However, Brown’s goalie did not back down and the game was still scoreless after one period of play. The Red ultimately broke through with a power-play goal by freshman forward Taylor Woods at the beginning of the second. According to sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier, staying patient and not getting frustrated led helped the Red finally take the lead.

“It was really important to stay patient because you can’t get on your heels and think too much about scoring,” she said. “We knew the goals would come if we stayed focused.

It was really important that we kept our composure and fortunately things worked out for us.”

“It could get frustrating to not capitalize on your offensive chances, but as a team we did a good job of staying focused on our tactics and doing the little things right,” Fortino added. “It was a positive that we kept on getting those shots, and the amount of focus we put on not being selfish and playing a good team game really helped us in

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Hockey’s honey badger | Sophomore forward Jillian Saulnier got down to business and scored Cornell’s game winner against Yale on Saturday when she capitalized off of a power play.

those two victories.”

One of the keys the to this victory was the Red’s strong penalty kill. Cornell killed off all six of Brown’s power plays that it faced. According to Fortino, the penalty killing unit’s agressiveness and good execution contributed to success.

“The amount of pressure in all three zones that we put on their power play was key, starting with our forecheck, and through the neutral zone our defenseman forced them to dump the puck in,” she said. “I think overall the key was being aggressive, not letting them set up, and we did a great job of that and blocking shots and getting the puck

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The Bulldogs struck first in Saturday’s contest when the Red failed to move the puck out from behind its net, and Yale cashed in on a loose puck. However, the Red took the lead five minutes into the second period with goals by junior forwards Brianne Jenner and Jessica Campbell just 19 seconds apart. Yale tied the game on a five-on-three

power play a little over five minutes later. According to Fortino, the Red was not sufficiently careful in avoiding penalties.

“One thing we took away from that game is that we need to minimize our minutes in the penalty box,” she noted.

“We need to be more disciplined and smart in those areas, and specifically with the stick infractions we need to be able to move our feet and not use our sticks so much. We do not to play physically, but staying in the lines of being smart, because its hard to have momentum when your shorthanded a lot.”

The Red tallied the game winner on a power play goal by Saulnier at the beginning of the third period.

“The puck went around and Jenner made a beautiful pass in the middle for me and I was able to finish it,” Saulnier explained. We had been working on that a lot in practice so it was nice to see.”

With these two victories under its belt, according to the sophomore forward, the Red is excited for the games that lie ahead.

“We have a strong team this year for sure, and I’m really looking forward to the rest of the season,” Saulnier said.

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S SOCCER

Cornell Sends Tigers Home Nursing Their Wounds LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

“I’m hungrier than those other guys out there. Every rebound is a personal challenge,” said famous NBA rebounder Dennis Rodman, when asked to describe his success on the court.

The No. 17 Red channelled the same inner drive over the weekend, as it strived to bounce back from a devastating 2-0 loss to No. 11 Brown on Oct. 20. In one week’s time, Cornell dropped seven spots in the national NCAA Division I rankings and fell to second place in the Ivy League, while Brown climbed six spots in the country and took control of the conference leaderboard by one point. With its destiny no longer in

its hands, the Red (13-1-0, 3-1-0 Ivy League) needed to earn a crucial win against the visiting Princeton Tigers if it hoped to keep its dream of an Ivy crown alive — and it did, earning a 1-0 shutout.

“We want to strive for perfection, but we understood that last [week’s loss to Brown] had to happen,” said junior striker Daniel Haber. “Sometimes you need a hard loss like that to wake you up and show you that it's not going to be a perfect season. We're going to have to work hard for every win.”

On Saturday afternoon against the Tigers (6-6-2, 2-1-2), Cornell gave a dynamic effort on the field — muscling its way into Princeton’s defensive third and fighting to create scoring opportunities. However, true to the nature of many conference foes,

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

He strikes again | Junior striker Daniel Haber scored his 17th goal of the season on Saturday against Princeton, contributing to the Red’s 1-0 shutout of the Ivy rival.

Princeton pushed back and fought hard to stave off any Red attack.

“Like all the other Ivy League games, we knew it was going to be a grind,” Haber said. “We had some chances; [Princeton] had some chances. Our defense did a great job handling our set pieces.”

Yet, despite multiple attempted shots on goal, the first half of play proved scoreless for both teams. Senior keeper and tri-captain Rick Pflasterer gave a strong performance in net, making one save in the first 45 minutes of play, compared to Princeton’s junior goalie Seth MacMillan’s two catches.

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Cornell 0 “We just had to raise the level of play and clean up a couple of things on both sides of attacking and defending,” said head coach Jaro Zawislan.

“In the game of soccer, that first goal is so important it definitely changes the dynamic of the play.”

Coming back after the halftime break, the Red approached the field with a renewed sense of urgency. Just over two minutes into the half, Haber struck and scored Cornell’s game winner — his 17th of the season.

Junior midfielder/forward Stephen Reisert dribbled down the field, outmaneuvered Princeton midfielder Joe Saitta and closed in on the penalty box. He passed the ball off to Haber, who spun around and beat MacMillan for the goal. The national leader in points per game (3.00) positioned himself yards from the end line and ripped off a

shot, which flew towards the far post and found a place in the side netting.

“I was waiting for the ball, waiting for the ball, and just trying to stay onside,” Haber said. “In the end, [Reisert] found me and I got a great pass and was able to put it in.”

A win against the Tigers was crucial for the Red in its hopes of staying in the running for the Ivy crown. With 12 points, Cornell is tied for second place with Dartmouth (8-6-0, 4-1-0) — who will travel to Berman Field on Saturday for the Red’s Senior Night. According to Zawislan, the team is back on track and remaining competitive in what has grown to be a very unpre0 dictable conference.

1 “We are staying in Tot 2nd business,” he explained.

0 0 “The situation is where at 1 1 this point in the Ivy League season you have to keep getting results, otherwise any result by the win can practically eliminate you from the contention for the Ivy League Championship because you start running out of the games where you can win the points.”

The win marked Cornell’s first win over the Tigers since 2006 and equaled the most victories the Red has compiled in a year since 1995. The team will look to rebuild a positive streak to close out the season, as it heads into its last home game of the year against Dartmouth on Saturday night.

“We have to keep improving because we always strive to be a better team for the following game,” Zawislan said.

Lauren Ritter can be reached at lritter@cornellsun.com.

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FOOTBALL

Wells Secures Win Against Princeton With 23-Yard Kick

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Senior Writer

“Great players always respond and that’s what [junior quarterback and offensive co-captain Jeff Mathews] has done,” said Cornell head coach Kent Austin.

Mathews followed arguably the worst game of his career with his best, while junior kicker John Wells nailed a 23-yard field goal with 49.8 seconds remaining to lift the Red past League-leading Princeton, 37-35, on Saturday afternoon at Schoellkopf Field.

Mathews completed 35-of-51 passes for 525 yards and four touchdowns — the third 500-yard game of his career and the Red’s (4-3, 2-2 Ivy League) fourth in its last nine contests.

Junior receiver Grant Gellatly had 12 receptions for 215 yards a touchdown, while senior wide receiver and special teams cocaptain Luke Tasker added 10 catches for 201 yards and two scores. Cornell entered this season with only one 200-yard individual receiving game in its history, but the team now has four.

Mathews orchestrated his first-ever game-winning drive in a contest’s final five minutes, after junior safety Brian Gee forced a Princeton fumble for the second time with 2:57 to play. Three completions and several clock-milking runs gained 66 yards down to the Tigers 5-yard line, offering Wells a chance to make up for a missed first-quarter field goal and a missed extra point on his previous kick — the reason Princeton (4-3, 3-1) held a one-point advantage in the entertaining shootout.

“I just had to move onto the next kick,” Wells said. “[Sophomore long-snapper] Dylan Chayes had an excellent snap, [holder] Luke Tasker put it right down on the spot and

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Playing hot potato | Rookie running back Silas Nacita (above) scored his sixth rushing touchdown of the season on a thirdand-1 from the Princeton 2-yard line, after senior wide receiver Luke Tasker made a 27-yard catch on an underthrown ball.

I helped us kick it through. I can’t even explain the feeling. It was amazing. I was so excited and the team believed in me.”

The team also believed in its offense. After a scoreless first

Game: Princeton Cornell

PRINCETON CORNELL 1ST 0 0

2ND 14 14

3RD 14 20

4TH 7 3

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period in which the Red possessed the ball for over 12 minutes but failed to cash in, Cornell and Princeton each put up two touchdowns in the second quarter for a 14-14 halftime tie.

The Red rediscovered big offensive plays that were customary in 2011, but elusive so far in 2012. Tasker took a short

pass 54 yards to the end zone midway through the second frame to knot the game at 7-all and Mathews found Gellatly over the top of the defense for a 74-yard strike on the next possession to hand the Red a 14-7 advantage. Mathews said the explosive plays relieved an offense that has struggled to execute in the red zone, even if they were primarily a product of Princeton’s blitzes.

“I think [big plays are] always kind of dictated by the team you play and Princeton is a pressure team,” Mathews said. “I knew if we could hold up up front, which we did very well today, our receivers could get open. And we focused a lot this week on yards after the catch … When you go down the field a lot and you’re in the red zone — it’s easier, let’s just say, to get 50 yards."

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Cornell Sweeps Colorado College in Two-Game Series Red nets three power-play goals for close win

By DANI ABADA

ning of the year, so that’s encouraging to see.

I think we’re far ahead from where we started off last year, so it’s a good spot to build After a 2-0 victory over Colorado off of and get better.”

College on Friday night, the men’s ice hockA few minutes later, Tigers sophomore ey team returned to Lynah Rink on forward Charlie Taft was able to get past Saturday night for another victory — this Red senior defenseman and co-captain time with a 3-2 final score.

Braden Birch, take the puck down the ice “It was a good weekend, [Colorado and score on Iles, tying the score up at 1-1 College is] a good hockey team,” said head before the first period came to a close. coach Mike Schaefer. “I think they came out The second period got off to a strong with more energy and I think we were as sharp start for the Red, as just two minutes in tonight as we were last night … It was that Tigers’ junior defenseman Eamonn kind of night that we learned a lot of lessons McDermott earned a two-minute penalty and came out on top.” for hooking. Cornell Colorado College was able to capitalize COLO. COLLEGE 2 was off to an aggreson the power play 3 CORNELL sive start, leaving again, when junior 1ST 2ND 3RD TOTAL junior goaltender Game: forward Dustin 0 1 2 Any Iles defending a Colo. College 1 Mowry passed the 1 1 1 1 barrage of pucks. At Cornell puck to D’Agostino, six minutes into play, a Tigers forward took who sent it down low, where it found a two-minute elbowing penalty. sophomore forward Joel Lowry, who tipped Just as the Cornell power play was com- a low shot past Colorado College goalie ing to an end, sophomore forward Brian junior Josh Thorimbert.

Ferlin started a rush through the neutral “D’Agostino] made a good play,” Lowry zone, where along with senior defenseman said. “He tried to get it to Miller and just and co-captain Nick D’Agostino brought couldn’t get enough on it, and we kind of the puck down to the far wing. Ferlin shot got the puck again in the corner. I saw Nick the puck through a sea of bodies, including out the weak side and just hit him. I was junior forward Armand de Swardt, and the just trying to get to the net to get some trafpuck found its way into the net. fic and he saw me. There was a seam and he “I thought we were pretty strong, espe- just made a great pass and I just had to put cially for one of our first two games of the my stuck on it.” season,” Ferlin said. “I know last year we See SATURDAY page 14 didn’t come out quite as strong at the beginSun Assistant Sports Editor

LAUREN RITTER / SUN SPORTS EDITOR

Lucky No. 7 | Junior goaltender Andy Iles recorded his seventh career shutout, as the Red knocked off the Colorado College Tigers, 2-0.

Esposito scores both goals in 2-0 shutout against Tigers

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

Defense dominated the Red’s first game of the 2012-13 campaign. In Cornell’s 2-0 win over Colorado College on Friday night, the men’s hockey team did not allow a single shot by the Tigers on a power play, as junior goaltender Andy Iles recorded 19 saves in his first shutout of the year.

Senior forward John Esposito was the

offensive standout of the game, notching two goals in his first contest after coming back from an injury that sidelined him most of last season. Both of Esposito’s goals came on the power play as the Red (1-0-0, 0-0-0 ECAC) went two-for-six with the extra man with eight total shots. Sophomore forward Cole Bardreau had two assists while sophomore forward John McCarron and sophomore See FRIDAY page 14