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Hotel School Partners With Anabel’s

Campus grocery chosen as nonproft organization for fundraiser

By LAURA GRIES Sun Contributor

Students in Hotel Administration 4315: Nonprofit Social Enterprise and Food Justice and Hotel Administration 4340: Catering and Special Events are working together with Anabel’s Grocery, a student-run not-for-profit grocery store at Cornell, to host a fundraising event for the nonprofit organization.

The fundraising event, called “All in for Anabel’s,” will take place on Nov. 5 at Terrace Restaurant in Statler Hall and feature a silent auction and raffle from local vendors along with food and beverages prepared by students. Gift certificates to local restaurants, wine baskets and Cornell merchandise are among some of the items featured in the silent auction and raffle. The food and beverages are centered around the event’s fall theme.

Students in both Hotel Administration classes have spent the semester learning more about how

they can use philanthropic initiatives to address social issues in their communities. The event aims to raise money for Anabel’s Grocery and provide students in the Hotel Administration classes with a valuable hands-on learning experience for pro ducing a successful fundraiser.

Lecturer Ravinder Kingra, hotel administration, who runs Hotel Administration 4340: Catering and Special Events hopes the event will inspire creativity and problem solving among students.

“Working within constraints and overcoming obstacles and challenges is at the heart of event planning and managing,” Ravinder wrote in a statement to The Sun. “When students are taught this through reading and discussion it is never as memorable or as exciting as when you are pro ducing a real event with real guests and with real goals. The fact that we are able to collaborate on a fundraiser for such a worthy cause adds so much value to the project.”

In addition to the valuable experience for students, the team at Anabel’s is also excited

Campus Halloween Weekend Celebrations Return in Full Swing

By MARIAN CABALLO Sun Contributor

Under the orange glow of the spooky McGraw Tower, this Halloweekend consisted of themed festivities and parties, ranging from student get-togethers to school-co ordinated events.

Various clubs and organizations hosted events to celebrate the hol iday to engage the greater Cornell community.

Last Thursday, the Cornell Guild

of Visual Arts hosted a spooky face, decor and pumpkin painting event at Willard Straight Hall.

“Crafts and holidays have always been a source of joy for me,” said Samantha Yap ’23, president of the Cornell Guild of Visual Arts.

“Without structured time to have fun, like holidays and events, I feel like people often forget that they have the ability to create things and relax.”

to have the support and help from the Hotel Administration classes.

Lynah Rink Hours Draw Petitions From Students

By GABRIELLA PACITTO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Lynah Rink has reopened their public skating sessions for students, faculty and staff. However, momentary limited staff ing issues means public times are only during lunch times — often conflicting with student schedules.

With the public slots occurring during class time, students face diffi culties taking advantage of these sessions. One frustrated student creat ed a petition to advocate for more time slots.

Alongside Cass Park Ice Rink and The Rink, Lynah Rink is one of the three ice skating rinks in Tompkins County. But Lynah is the most conveniently located arena for Cornell students.

Due to priority given for Men’s and Women’s Ice Hockey teams and Figure Skating, the rink’s only free block for public skating occurs on weekdays during the day.

“By my count last week, the ice rink was operational for 90 hours,” wrote Anita Brenner, deputy director of Athletics for Intercollegiate Athletics and Senior Woman administrator, in an email to The Sun. “The rink schedule accommodates two varsity ice hockey teams, PE classes, numerous clubs and local youth hockey teams.”

The rink is open for public skating on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday from noon to 1 p.m. and from 11:45

a.m. to 12:45 p.m. on Tuesdays. Though this may be an inconvenience for students, Shreyas Parsad ’23 voiced his understanding that it is still a great activity to enjoy with friends, and stu dents should regardless seek opportuni ties to capitalize on it.

“It’s usually really hard to fit the time to come in,” Parsad said.

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“[But] it’s a fun thing to do with friends. Some of my friends have taken the class, and are trying to teach us how to skate. It’s a good, fun thing to do during the day.”

Cullen O’Hara ’23 wanted to go ice skating with his girlfriend before realiz ing it wouldn’t be possible with his class schedule.

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Anabel’s Grocery Goes ‘All In’

Hotel Administration to help host fundraiser

“When I heard the Hotel Administration classes were supporting Anabel’s in such a big way I was relieved. I am so passionate about Anabel’s mission to provide healthy and affordable food for all students,” said Dylan Rodgers ’23, who is the collabora tion and education lead of Anabel’s. “As I learned more though, I realized how much we depend on fundraising to keep prices low for students and compensate coordinators for the work they do to run the store and facilitate collaboration and education beyond the store.”

Hotel Administration 4315: Nonprofit Social Enterprise and Food Justice chose to support Anabel’s because of the overlap ping interest in food justice between the course and store. In Hotel Administration 4315, students learn about food justice issues and organizations that are address ing food access. Anabel’s strives to main tain its low prices as part of their mission to provide Cornell students with fresh, affordable food in an effort to alleviate food insecurity on campus.

“Supporting Anabel’s and their mis sion to help students on campus was a natural connection,’’ wrote lecturer Heather Kolakowski of the School of

“We have a monetary goal of rais ing $10,000 for Anabel’s Grocery, but we also want to raise aware ness of food justice issues that Anabel’s and other organizations are addressing through the poster board educational session.”

Students in Hotel Administration 4315 and 4340 are working with the team at Anabel’s in collaboration with AEM 3385: Social Entrepreneurship Practicum to organize and plan the event. Kolakowski’s

“We hope that attendees leave with a greater understanding of Ithaca’s food system and different ways to be involved and support this type of work.”

Visiting Scholar to Talk Brazil’s Political Climate

By AIMÉE EICHER Sun Assistant News Editor

Ângela Figueiredo Ph.D., a professor in the social scienc es department of the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia in Cachoeira-Bahia in Brazil, will give a lecture titled “Do Black Lives Matter in Brazil? Political Mobilization and Black Feminist Protagonism” on Nov. 3.

Figueiredo will discuss the activism of black feminist groups in Brazil over the past few years. Through the lens of these organi zations, Figueiredo will consider the current Brazilian sociopolit ical context and its impact on Brazilians’ rights.

Hotel Administration, who runs Hotel Administration 4315. “Both my class and the AEM 3385: Social Entrepreneurship Practicum: Anabel’s Grocery [course] have service-learning components that make this partnership even more tangi ble.”

class has the main responsibilities of orga nizing and planning donor relations, mar keting, education and community out reach. Their class has enlisted the help of Hotel Administration 4340 to provide food, beverage, design and service for the event.

“We have a monetary goal of raising $10,000 for Anabel’s Grocery, but we also want to raise awareness of food justice issues that Anabel’s and other organiza tions are addressing through the poster board educational session,” Kolakowski wrote. “The students are building team work and networking skills as well.”

On Anabel’s end, they have worked on ingredient sourcing, coordinating volun teers and creating a presentation about Anabel’s mission and food security data.

“We hope that attendees leave with a greater understanding of Ithaca’s food sys tem and different ways to be involved and support this type of work,” said Alexandra Mantilla ’24, who is part of Anabel’s team and is helping to organize the event.

This will be Kolakowski and Kingra’s third time organizing a charity event between the Hotel Administration classes. The collaboration started in 2018 and followed again in 2019, but the pandemic halted their plans for the past two years. All in for Anabel’s marks the reinstatement of the two Hotel Administration’s collabo ration on a charity event.

Skaters Petition For More Public Skating Sessions at Lynah Rink

the pandemic is really coming to a close, and it hadn’t,” O’Hara said.

The event is a public issue forum hosted by the depart ment of Latin American and Caribbean Studies in collabora tion with the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Project. The talk will commemorate the department’s 60th anniversary and is one of three in the African Diaspora Knowledge Exchange Series, a project by Prof. Carole Boyce-Davies, africana studies and research center.

In addition to teaching social sciences, Figueiredo is also an associate of the Graduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies and the Postgraduate Program in Interdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Federal University of Bahia. She has pub lished three books and produced two documentaries regarding women and Black identity. She is also the coordinator of Collective Angela Davis, a research and activist group.

According to Figueiredo, since the start of the COVID19 pandemic and following former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro’s election, racism and sexism have intensified in Brazil. She cited two specific events as representations of these sociopo litical changes — a 63-year-old black woman whose death from COVID-19 was the first record ed in Brazil and Miguel Otávio, a five-year-old boy who fell to his death from the fifth story of his mother’s workplace.

To compile the presentation, Figueiredo analyzed social media, webinars, livestreams and semi nars produced over the past two years, in addition to her partici pation in the topic as an activist and researcher.

The event will take place in Goldwin Smith Hall from 6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. If unable to attend in person, students, faculty and staff may register to attend virtu ally via eCornell.

Aimée Eicher can be reached at aeicher@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Celebrates Halloween

Upset by these challenges, he tried to reach out to see if the schedule would be changed at all. According to O’Hara, he was told the times were set and there’s nothing to be done.

This semester, O’Hara came back to the issue to try to find more answers and a potential compromise for both priority users such as the athletes and the general public to be content.

“Now, I kind of looked back into it to see if anything had changed, now that

“I kind of looked back into it to see if anything had changed, now that the pandemic is really coming to a close, and it hadn’t.”

“So then, I decided I’ll write about this in my capacity as a person at the Cornell Review.”

O’Hara created the petition and wrote a Cornell Review article to draw atten tion to the issue and attain more signa tures. Despite his efforts, Lynah’s open times haven’t been updated.

Brenner, however, hinted at a poten tial change that may be impending as the staffing issue gets resolved.

“We make ice time available to the public as time, staffing and ice mainte nance allows,” Brenner said. “The week day hours are to provide mid-day access to students, faculty and staff.

Prior to the pandemic we offered Sunday open skate hours as we plan to again this year once the seasonal staff are in place.”

Jiwook Jung ’25 contributed reporting.

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On Sunday evening, the Cornell Guild of Visual Arts collaborated with CU Tonight Commission and the Willard Straight Student Union Board for a haunted house event, featuring free face painting, caramel apples and pumpkin painting.

At the same time, the Tatkon Center for New Students hosted Terror at the Tatkon, where students participated in spooky activities and received themed-goodies.

Other events throughout the weekend consisted of club game nights and dorm hall celebra tions, including costume contests, Halloween baking and trick-ortreating from residential advisor rooms.

The Cornell Film Club hosted Halloween fright nights, screening “Madgod” and “Pan’s Labyrinth” on Saturday and “The Call” and “Candyman” on Sunday.

Embracing the holiday of spook iness in Ithaca, the Humanities

Scholars Program hosted an infor mation session while touring the A.D. White House. West Campus residents partook in haunted history tours about Downtown Ithaca and archival History Center collections.

On Friday, Cornell Cinema screened horror-comedy “Bodies Bodies Bodies,” and on Halloween night, Japanese horror film “Ringu” will be shown. On Monday night at 10 p.m., Cornell Chimes will be putting on a Halloween-themed concert to emanate across campus.

The University vibrated in Halloween spirit as students show cased their creative costumes. Madeline Yeh ’24 flaunted Star Wars and Formula 1 inspired costumes for her club and project team get-to gethers.

“My roommates and I are all fans of Formula 1, and thought that dressing up as pit crew would be a fun and comfortable costume,” Yeh said.

Black identity in Brazil | Ângela Figueiredo will give a lecture on rac ism and sexism within Brazil’s current sociopolitical climate.

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Grocery Raises Funds

Anabel’s and Hotel School organize ‘All in for Anabel’s’

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“Since this is our first in-person fundraiser since 2019, it is a steep learning curve for the students. In particular, the students are planning an event in two and a half months that normally would take between 6 to 10 months,” Kolakowski wrote. “So, there are lots of resources from previous fundraisers that we are using, but it takes a lot of collaboration

efforts to connect between the two classes and Anabel’s.”

“I think that both classes are so happy and energized to be working with Anabel’s,” Kingra wrote. “They are so appreciative of the work we are doing and we know that any money we raise will be going to a great orga nization.”

Laura Gries can be reached at lbg52@cornellsun.com.

Students Don Creative Halloween Costumes

Costumes include Formula One racer and hot dog

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Yeh and her roommates purchased jumpsuits online and vinyled logos onto each outfit, personalizing the jumpsuits with their favorite inside jokes.

According to Yeh, many Cornellians chose to dress as con struction workers this year in partic ular.

“Maybe it’s a funny reflection of all the construction going on in Collegetown this semester,” Yeh said.

Jacqueline Rangel ’26 received many compliments for her hot dog costume.

“I thought my costume would be a great conversation starter,” Rangel said, having attended Halloweenthemed parties over the weekend. “Hot dogs are just so simple and effortlessly funny, so I guess I wanted to make it a special Halloweenie,” Rangel said.

Rangel also attended a Halloween event at the Latino Living Center,

where she was able to carve and paint pumpkins.

“The event was really fun, there were great vibes and people,” Rangel said. “It was a fantastic way to kick

Jacqueline Rangel ’26

off Halloweekend.”

Although the long weekend of fes tivities before the day of Halloween has now concluded, a wide array of activities are still planned for the coming week as Cornellians celebrate and embrace Halloween spirit.

“Hot dogs are just so simple and effortlessly funny, so I guess I wanted to make it a special Halloweenie.”

Marian Caballo can be reached at mcc284@cornellsun.com.

Le Chocolat Viennois and Te Parisian Café

MEGAN PONTIN SUN ARTS COLUMNIST

If you’ve ever had the privilege of visiting Paris, I’d be willing to bet that you enjoyed a bite to eat — or at least stopped by — one of two quintessential ly Parisian cafés: Les Deux Magots and Café de Flore. The two institutions are neighbors on a picturesque boulevard in the charming neighborhood of Saint Germain de Prés, a quartier I came to know well during my time spent study ing in the city last spring.

The cafés sit nestled beneath green and gold awnings, an organized mess of cream-colored woven bistro chairs bus tling with impeccably clad waiters. The two spots have ascended into tourist-trap stardom due to their reputation as fre quent workplaces of Lost Generation artistic and literary giants including but not limited to Simone de Beauvoir, Hemingway, Picasso and Joyce, earning them the right to charge eight euro for a glass of orange juice.

Although a plethora of less pricey options dot the neighborhood, these two have transcended any semblance of the ordinary, instead upheld as artifacts of a time when writers and painters scratched their musings down on paper and took long drags from Galoises cigarettes and pondered the fate of a world reshaped by world war (the first one, that is). A some what paradoxical relationship thus arises, in which the two archetypal Parisian cafés also happen to be the ones that pro vide the most manufactured experience,

served with a heaping side of whipped cream. It leans more towards a mug of melted chocolate than an easi ly sippable beverage, rendering it quite the luxurious indulgence. This order served as inspiration for — and became the title of — a playlist I would later curate in an effort to encapsulate the soundtrack of a café culture I had grown to deeply admire. I fell in love with the way it concretized the power of food in fos tering connection while at the same time presenting itself as a vehicle for solitude, contemplation and intro spection.

In the process of seeking out piec es of music that aligned with this feeling, I found that fantasies of this glorified 1920s expatriate artistic sub culture very much still colored the way I conceptualized café culture. The collection became a haphazard collection of classics studded with stars like Joséphine Baker and Brigitte Bardot, interspersed here and there with the ballads of American chanteuses like Billie Holiday and Julie London and the occasional Italian love song. It was as if these longstanding institutions were time capsules in their own right, as if their existence would remain perpetually frozen in a period so drastically different from our own era.

What is it that renders this loose genre — this soundtrack behind le choc olat viennois — so undeniably timeless? What compels us to queue up music from a time we cannot relate to crafted by artists who have for the most part not been iconified in our vernacular?

tailored perfectly to the tourist agenda.

During my bucket-list visit to Café de Flore one day before class, I was quick to order the chocolat viennois, an incredibly rich, thick variation on hot chocolate

It was for this reason that I experi enced quite a start upon hearing the soothing refrains of Édith Piaf’s 1960 hit “Non, je ne regrette rien” float through the chilly October air from the win dow of my Collegetown apartment earlier this week. It felt like a total anachronism — a warp ing of worlds. The range of music I usually encounter from my bed room window is limited to “Starships” by Nicki Minaj, anything off of Drake’s Scorpion album and the occa sional pre-2012 Taylor Swift, so I was rather caught off guard when dreamy French melodies replaced this lineup for two consecutive nights.

The most salient quality of this genre may very well be its lightness, the way it comes across so effervescent, so weight less and buoyant. Delicate piano riffs are grounded by feathery percussive notes, all against a backdrop of playful, high-register vocals. This is also a genre largely dominated by women, providing them a platform during a time in which — in France, and in a vast group of other nations — women were denied several basic rights, with suffrage as a corner stone among them.

Take Joséphine Baker’s 1932 classic “Si J’étais Blanche” — or the English, “If I Were White” — for example. She formulates and contemplates her own notion of race relations, using more trivial imagery to call attention to strik ing inequality in a manner that would appear non-threatening to her largely white audience. The song is punctuat

ed, however, with unbelievably poignant admissions of her own dissatisfaction, the following verse serving as a keen example: “As a little girl I looked with ‘chagrin’ / At the blonde dolls in stores / With their pale skin / I’d have liked to look like them.” She is deliberate in her exposition, strategic in her explica tion. (As a side note, Baker went on to become a notable member of the French Resistance during the Second World War, and has since earned the honor of a burial in the Pantheon. She is only the fifth woman to be memorialized as such, and also the first performer.)

In this way, it becomes clear that the lightness that is so admirable about this French café music is not an indication of disposability. If we keep looking, we might find that powerful messages often disguise themselves inside easily digest ible packages. We might even find that just like those two Parisian cafés, these messages are timeless, too.

Megan Pontin is a senior in the School of Industrial Labor Relations. She can be reached at mpontin@cornellsun.com. Rewind runs alternate Tuesdays.

Never Have I Ever… Been a Chill Girl

KIKI PLOWE SUN STAFF WRITER

“You’re never too much, and you’re always enough,” Devi’s mother tells her in the penultimate episode of Never Have I Ever Season Three. The show’s new season is an ode to the intense girl, a love poem to the teenager who feels things a little too strongly.

Season Three was released on Aug. 12, and the show has been renewed for a fourth and final season. Each episode typically ends with a positive message and a feel-good hug; the recent season is driven by fewer cliffhangers than the previous seasons, but the audience is attached enough to the characters by now that their relationships keep our attention. I devoured the season’s genuine character development and effortlessly adoles cent soundtrack in two breezy sittings.

The season ends with a montage of moments as Devi, the plucky main character with a tragic backstory, learns to savor the present. Of course, the final minute when Devi delivers a note that says “One free boink” to one of her romantic options, followed by a cut to credits, reminds us that this is still the same show that revolves around a teenager’s love triangle. But what makes the show special is its effortless rotation between lightheart

ed drama and meaningfully moving takeaways.

Throughout the show, Devi negotiates her relation ship with her craziness and intensity: characters refer to her as “Crazy Devi,” and she starts to internalize this label and think of herself as crazy. Yes, Devi makes some questionable decisions as she maneuvers between crushes and boyfriends. But, as Devi realizes in the third season, there is nothing wrong with her.

We learn in the very first episode of the show that Devi’s father died unexpectedly and tragically, and she lost feeling in her legs for a year as an emotional response; it’s safe to say Devi has persevered through greater challenges than which handsome 30-year-old actor turned high school boy to choose. However, despite her very real emotional trauma, Devi is repeat edly made to feel like her emotional responses to her social and romantic life are inappropriately large. She is too intense, too self-centered and — every girl’s worst nightmare — too much. She worries she’s too much for any boy to like her back, prompting her mother to reassure her that she’s never too much.

This mother-daughter moment is characteristic of the feel-good show, but it also touches on something deeper than the show’s tone might suggest. Teenage girls and young women are often told that they are too much, or believe they must make themselves some

how smaller, lesser and more palatable in order to be deserving of love. In class, in the workplace, in the gym, women often think they are supposed to make themselves smaller, to take less space and to never be “too much.” Never overreact, lest you be labeled crazy.

However, Devi’s blossomed confidence in Season Three serves as a role model for other young girls, showing that they do not need to change themselves or make themselves lesser in any capacity in order to be loved. Even though Devi’s boy of the month might not be enough for her, Devi finds comfort and meaning in her family and close friends this season.

I, personally, have never been a chill girl. I’ve nego tiated my own relationship with the façade of chillness in a relationship context, and, like many other young women, I’ve learned that I don’t owe anyone chillness in order to deserve love. Devi might be a few years behind a college audience, but watching Season Three felt like watching a younger sister learn an important lesson years before I did. I couldn’t help but feel warmed by seeing such a positive message shining through dra matic moments in a show that many younger girls are likely watching.

Kiki Plowe is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cbp66@cornell.edu.

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Lean Into Te Agriculture Land Grant Mission

Cornell classes are contained to classrooms, ag classes emphasize feld experience. While I am uniquely biased by my major, I believe every student should take at least one ag class with a lab to experience the unique joy of discovering places and experiences you never knew exist ed. Te land grant system is undeniably problematic, but it diferentiates Cornell from other schools of similar cal iber and should be appreciated to its fullest by students, regardless of discipline.

Ag classes are also uniquely pre-professional and tech nical, two characteristics that can easily be lost in liberal arts education. Last year, I took ANSC 2500, Dairy Cattle Principles, to fulfll an animal science requirement within my major. By March, I found myself holding a dead bovine reproductive tract in one hand and a semen straw in the other. Had you asked me four years ago what I imagined I’d do at college, practicing artifcial insemination at 2 p.m. on a Monday afternoon would not have been on the list.

But in many ways, this “skill” is far more relevant

My ag classes challenge my view of our food systems, but also of our social and cultural approaches to farming

The other day I found myself at a dirt farm. Technically a compost facility run by Cornell Farm Services, the operation housed dozens of piles of soil, each in a diferent phase of decomposition. Crows circled overhead, occasionally landing on the piles to eat rotting food scraps.

Now why was I at a dirt farm at 2 p.m. on a Monday? I was on a feld trip in PLSCS 2600: Soil Science. As an agricultural science major, my classes expose me to unique places near Cornell, from cider orchards to dairies, and the occasional soil pit. Our transportation varies from rented party bus to eight-seater van, and long drives make for interesting conversations with unlikely companions.

Compared to my other classes, the agriculture cur riculum ofers a very diferent version of college than I believe most Cornell students experience. Whereas most

to my daily life than I realize — it’s an integral part of producing my cream cheese bagels and late night froyo runs at Jason’s.

and farming communities. In my land-grant education, I have become increasingly aware of the struggles of rural communities, and increasingly respectful of the efort it takes to produce my meals.

I struggle to reconcile feelings of great pride in our country and an urgent desire for change and improve ment. I fnd purpose knowing that I am one of many students to participate in the land-grant mission of serving the community through agricultural research and development. Tough colleges carry reputations of being insular bubbles, my agricultural classes have exposed me to livelihoods vastly diferent from my background and fostered nuance in my perspectives of our country.

I have always hated the humanities-STEM dichoto my, and don’t particularly subscribe to or believe in it. I don’t even fully understand where agriculture fts in that. However, I believe that every student, from classics majors to computer science ones, should enroll in at least one niche agriculture class. Agriculture is a unique part of Cornell’s identity and history, and one that should not be overlooked. Go out on a limb and take a risk — you never know what strange but signifcant places or skills or people you may encounter along the way.

Te Steady Hand Ithaca Needs

edly endorse and support her candidacy for this special term. Many of my col leagues on the Common Council and I partook in a general endorsement of Laura in September, but Lewis’s positive impact on students at Cornell warrant further endorsement.

Laura was the frst in her family to go to college and after planting roots in Ithaca.

whom she stills hears from, during their transformational time in college. Many of her initiatives continue to bene f t students, such as her creation of the ILR Peer Mentor program that continues to assist frst-years and transfers more than ten years later.

Council. I have full faith in such a kind person who truly sees the City of Ithaca as a harmonious place where full time resi dents and students can create, live, work, dream, learn and play. Laura is the steady hand city government needs.

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Patrick J. Mehler is a senior in the School of In dustrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at pmehler@cornellsun.com. Te Mehl-Man Delivers runs alternate Mondays this semester.

Disclaimer: Tis opinion column sole ly and exclusively consists of my point of view and does not refect any organiza tions or institutions that I work for or am employed by, including but not limited to Te Cornell Daily Sun, Cornell University or Cornell Votes.

For those who have decided to vote in Ithaca, all city residents will have at least ten races to vote on in the Nov. 8 election.

Between an incredibly tight Congressional and State Senate race in our district, much energy has been direct ed toward the larger races on the ballot. However, the special election to serve a one-year term as the Mayor of Ithaca may bypass voters’ priority list.

After working with Acting Mayor Laura Lewis for the past year on the Ithaca Common Council, I wholeheart

She has signifcantly contributed to Ithaca’s success for over 40 years while both of her sons attended public school here and went to Ithaca College. No other candidate for mayor has cemented as strong of a tie to this place and its edu cational institutions than Lewis.

Before entering public service, Laura worked at Cornell ILR for many years and retired as the Director of ILR’s Ofce

Prior to and since her profession al retirement, Laura has actively been involved in the broader Ithaca communi ty. Laura has served as the board chair of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services and serves as the current board chair of TCAT. Her dedication to this communi ty is the true embodiment of service.

After successfully running for Common Council in 2017, Laura won reelection in 2019 to represent Ithaca’s Fifth Ward, including much of North Campus, Cornell Heights and Fall Creek. While her legislative and budget ary accomplishments remain profoundly successful and have been covered in other letters of support and news stories, I believe Laura’s dedication to Ithaca and all of its residents illuminates her as the best choice for representing the city’s needs.

Laura’s demonstrated commitment to public service, her career in student sup port and her extensive record of fghting for all Ithacans highlight her as Ithaca’s most qualifed candidate for mayor. In addition to the mayor’s race, Ithacans will decide on whether to adopt a city manager system of government; should this much-needed referendum pass, the transition to a city manager will need a cooperative and committed mayor with institutional knowledge — all qualities that Laura possesses.

Regardless of who you vote for or where you live, every Cornellian should act upon their civic duty to vote in the upcoming election on Nov. 8.

For those in Ithaca and the rest of New York State, in-person early voting is ongoing and as of this article’s publi cation, the voter registration deadline has past, absentee ballots must be postmarked soon and in-person election day voting will see polling sites open from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.

of Student Services. At Cornell, Lewis helped thousands of students, some of

Finally, Laura has been not only an incredible colleague but a dear friend, providing guidance and mentorship to me throughout my time on the Common

Regardless of your political leanings, where you will be voting, how you will be voting and who you might be voting for, my unwavering opinion in this column and all my other publications remains steadfast: vote

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Julia Poggi is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at jcp337@cornell.edu. Te Outbox runs every other Sunday this semester.

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Regardless of who you vote for or where you live, every Cornellian should act upon their civic duty to vote in the upcoming election on Nov. 8.

After working with Acting Mayor Laura Lewis for the past year on the Ithaca Common Council, I wholeheartedly endorse and support her candidacy for this special term.

Compared to my other classes, the agriculture curriculum offers a very different version of college than I believe most Cornell students experience.

I believe that every student, from classics majors to computer science ones, should enroll in at least one niche agriculture class.

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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the num bers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wiki pedia.org/wiki/ Sudoku)

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by Jameson Wang proved costly against the Tigers Football Routed by Princeton

By GRAYSON RUHL Sun Asisstant Sports Editor

Football was on the road for the second straight week this Saturday, traveling to New Jersey to take on Princeton. Seeking its first five-win sea son since 2011, the Red was unable to put competitive drives together against Princeton’s vaunted defense, falling, 35-9.

Cornell (4-3, 1-3 Ivy) entered the contest having secured its first Ivy League win of the season against Brown last Saturday. Playing without start ing sophomore running back Eddie Tillman, the Red faced a tall task against Princeton’s No. 2 ranked run defense.

Princeton (7-0, 4-0 Ivy) had its big gest win of the season last week, rout ing Harvard 37-10 in Cambridge. The Tigers is seeking its first undefeated season since 2018.

The Red started the game on offense, but a quick three-and-out gave the ball back to Princeton. The Tigers put together a drive into Cornell territo ry before stalling at the 29-yard line. Opting to attempt a field goal, the Red’s special teams unit stepped up, blocking the kick.

Two turnovers in Princeton territory were killer for the Red, with the first coming on its second drive. Mixing the pass and the rush, Cornell was able to work the ball down to a goal-to-go

opportunity. After failing to punch it in on first or second down, sophomore quarterback Jameson Wang threw into triple coverage, getting picked off in the back of the endzone.

The Cornell defense stood strong against Princeton’s high-flying offense.

Sophomore lineman Muhammad-Ali Kobo had his biggest game of the year, recording two sacks. The first set up a punt on Princeton’s second drive.

Wang’s second interception came on the ensuing drive, fol lowing a good-look ing 20-yard pass to senior wide receiv er Thomas Glover.

It set the Tigers up with favorable field position at its own 47.

It took 18 minutes for either team to get on the board. The connection of quarterback Blake Stenstrom to wide receiver Andrei Iosivas proved deadly all day. The two linked up on a 26-yard pass, followed shortly after by a 15-yard touchdown pass. The Red was able to block the extra point attempt, but the Tigers had the lead, 6-0.

Cornell struggled to generate offense throughout the game, going three-andout following the Princeton touchdown. Getting the ball back, it was once again Stenstrom to Iosivas for six, this time for 36-yards on a deep post. The Red

struggled to cover the speedy Iosivas one-on-one all day, and after a failed two-point attempt, Princeton led, 12-0.

It took until the final seconds of the half for Cornell to get its first points. Powered by a 27 yard rush from Wang, the Red was able to knock a 42-yard field goal through as time expired. Cornell went into the locker room trailing, 12-3.

The second half began with promise for the Red, as the defense was able to force a stop. This was short-lived, howev er, as disaster struck on the punt. Glover muffed the fair catch, and the Tigers pounced on it to set up an immediate goal-to-go opportunity.

Three players later, it was Stenstrom taking it himself on an option play. The Tigers extended its lead to 19-3.

Sensing the mounting urgency, the Red put together its best drive of the game – a 16-play, 81-yard campaign. Relying almost exclusively on the rush, Cornell worked the ball down inside the 10-yard line. On second-and-goal, Wang rolled to his right and fired a strike to the front corner of the endzone to junior wide receiver Nicholas Laboy.

What could have been a momentum builder was stunted on the two-point attempt. Wang was intercepted in the

endzone, setting up a 100-yard return for the Tigers, stealing the two points back. Princeton retained a two posses sion lead, 21-9.

Cornell appeared to have some momentum in the fourth quarter, forc ing a Princeton punt on the following drive. Wang was able to complete a 19-yard pass to junior wide receiver Will Kenner, but on his next pass, he tossed his third interception.

Set up with a short field, the Tigers looked to put the game after reach. The Red’s defense forced Princeton to a fourth down, but on fourth-and-three from the Cornell 16, Stenstrom com pleted a 15-yard pass to A.J. Barber.

One play later, Ryan Butler put the nail in the coffin with a one-yard touchdown rush. The Tigers held a commanding 28-9 lead with just under nine minutes remaining.

It only got uglier for Cornell in gar bage time. After driving down to the Princeton 25, the Tigers made a house call, picking off Wang for the fourth time and returning it all the way back for six. The Princeton lead widened to 35-9, the eventual final score.

The Red returns home next weekend to take on Penn (6-1, 3-1 Ivy) at 1 p.m. on Saturday. The game will be available on ESPN+.

Cornell falls to Princeton | The Red, seen here against Lehigh, has lost four straight against Princeton. Its last win came on Oct. 28, 2017, a 29-28 win.

Grayson

AARON SNYDER / SUN SPORTS EDITOR