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After many students reported difficulties with the new version of the Common Application, Cornell announced Friday that it has extended its regular decision deadline by one week and expanded application platforms to include the Universal College Application.

The extension, which moved the regular decision deadline to Jan. 9, 2014, applies to all application materials, including recommendations and the required interviews for the School of Hotel Administration and the College of Architecture, Art and Planning.

Since the Common App began accepting applications for the 2013-14 application season, high school students have complained of many

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New Council Works to Prevent Sexual Violence in Ithaca

By ANNIE BUI Sun Staff Writer

Following a string of sexual assaults in Fall 2012, faculty, staff and students have been working to explore strategies to prevent sexual violence and support survivors.

The Council on Sexual Violence Prevention, which was established by President David Skorton in September,

consists of more than 40 members, in addition to representatives from the local community. The first meeting, which aimed to identify key issues and concerns, as well as priorities for the upcoming year, took place last month, according to Nina Cummings M.S. ’92, a health educator and Cornell’s victim advocate.

“Because it was the first meeting, this was just a brainstorm,“ Cummings said.

“Some of the things discussed was the role of social media in promulgating a culture of bias, oppression and gender discrimination, the question of new student programming, and the role of faculty and staff and how they need to be sensitive to students who may disclose.”

Narda Terrones ’14, women’s liason at-large representative for the Student Assembly, said that although nothing has been finalized yet, many different ideas

were brought up during the meeting. “[We discussed] the background of why this council came to be, the efforts done in previous years to have a group working specifically towards sexual assault prevention, and the expectations that we have for this council,” Terrones said.

Members of the council will convene See COUNCIL page 5

Weisbrod ’65 Leads NYC Mayoral Transition Team Weisbrod began his career in city government in the 1970s, when he led an effort to As New York City Mayor- revive and revitalize Times Elect Bill de Blasio prepares to Square. Back then, Times take office at the start of 2014, Square was often described as Carl Weisbrod seedy — ’65 will be part known for sex of the transi- “We’re going through a shops and tion team that period of change now p r o s t i t u t e s will help select rather than the in the city.” and structure bright lights the staff for de and Broadway Carl Weisbrod ’65 Blasio’s adminshows it is istration. known for Weisbrod, who has worked today. in New York City politics for Weisbrod’s original job was decades and served under sev- to clean up the prostitution eral mayors, will co-chair de industry in the area around Blasio’s team alongside Jennifer Times Square, The New York Jones Austin, a lawyer and city administrator.

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Students Should Invest Early,Professors Say

By TREVOR OSGOOD Sun Contributor

Investing is not just for professionals.

With the cost of tuition ever on the rise, students looking for new ways to earn supplemental income may want to consider investing in the stock market today, business professors and financiers say.

Although students generally do not think about starting to invest while they are still in college, if they start investing early, they can expect higher returns in the years to come, according to Prof. Richard Marin ’75 MBA ’76, asset management.

“Nobody at a young age generally thinks that they need to start thinking about retirement,” he said. “The earlier you start, the far better position you are in by virtue of being ready for retirement and the less money you need to put in later on.”

If students invest as undergraduates, they could benefit from monetary returns spanning a 50-year-long investment cycle, according to Marin, who is also the former chairman and CEO of Deutsche Asset Management, as well as the faculty advisor for the Cornell Investment Club.

“In a five-percent return environment and over a long life cycle of retirement, 15 percent or less of your retirement income is based on the money you put in,”

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he said. “85 percent is based on how well you invest and therefore compound your savings. The earlier you put it in, the better.”

Since they are unlikely to have the experience of seasoned investors, students should be cautious of the high transaction fees associated with having an actively managed portfolio that involves frequent trading, Marin said.

“What students need to realize is that unless they truly want to make a hobby out of investing and put in a great deal of research time, they should be investing in index funds because they’re lower in cost,” he said. “The transaction and management fees on index investing is far lower than when actively managing a portfolio using products like fixed income, equities or even mutual funds.”

Standard & Poor’s 500’s performance is a significant resource for new investors, as the index captures the market value of 500 large companies. The S&P 500 is expected to rise significantly in the near future, signaling higher returns for investors in the market, according to David Kostin, chief equity strategist at Goldman Sachs.

“We are raising our S&P 500 dividend estimates and index return forecasts for 2013 through 2015. We expect [the] S&P 500 index will rise by five percent from the current level to 1750 by year-end 2013,” Kostin said in a report published by Goldman Sachs in May. As predicted by Kostin’s team, the S&P 500 closed at 1,798 as of Friday. Kostin said that the S&P 500 will “advance by nine percent to 1900 in 2013, and climb by 10 percent to 2100 in 2015.”

When assessing investments, it helps to be mindful of sectors because one can capture the growth of emerging markets and growth sectors through exchange-traded funds, according to Jean-Pierre Lacombe ’89 M.Eng. ’90, chief of Global Markets & Strategy at the International Finance Corporation.

“In terms of sector, banking, which enjoyed a relative over performance when compared to other sectors over the past years, may underperform as slower growth and higher rates will increase non-performing loans and thus affect profitability,” he said.

Imprecise knowledge of factors affecting equity pricing and associated transaction costs “make it very hard to suggest [that] you can beat the market,” Marin said.

“The very strong empirical argument here is that very few active managers beat the index. And you have far more liquidity with an index fund or exchange traded fund and can get out quickly if your views of the market changes. It has been proven that people cost themselves a tremendous amount of money when they try to time the market,” he said. “Only invest in what you know, and if you don’t know, then index.”

Even though historically, investors have focused on equity-to-fixed income portfolio ratios, the investment climate is changing for investors today, with people getting returns from income and from capital appreciation, according to Marin.

“Historically, people have said, ‘take all your risks when you’re young and have a portfolio more heavily weighted toward equities and more on fixed income when you’re older because there’s less risk,’” he said. “[Today, people are] debunking two ideas with retirement investing — the first idea is people need to stop thinking about capital appreciation over income … and [start] thinking about total return.”

The second notion that investors have debunked is that people should invest aggressively from the beginning, Marin writes in his book, Global Pension Crisis: Unfunded Liabilities and How We Can Fill the Gap, which addresses issues surrounding the pension industry.

“Using sequence of returns risk, in most cycles, you will actually do better by starting off investing less aggressively and increasing your aggressiveness in equity as you grow older,” he said. “Do 20 percent or 30 percent stocks in your early years and move it up by one percent per year.”

There are many geographical advantages of diversifying a portfolio through investing in both developing and emerging markets, according to Lacombe.

“On the positive side, developed market growth is improving, which should bid up emerging market equities. [In] particular, the non-commodity exporters like Korea, Taiwan, and China,” he said. “On the negative side, we may be witnessing a curtailing of flows to emerging markets as investors favor other asset classes — the market sentiment around the emerging market story has become less positive.”

Trevor Osgood can be reached at tjo64@cornell.edu.

C.U.Students Pitch Startups, Brainstorm Ideas at 3DS

By SCOTT GARTENBERG Sun Contributor

This weekend, aspiring Cornell entrepreneurs gathered at Sage Hall for the third annual 3-Day Startup, popularly known as 3DS. Students attending the event came from a variety of academic backgrounds and had the opportunity to present, learn about and get involved with business ideas.

“It’s a snapshot of what entrepreneurship feels like,” said Gizem Sakalli ’14, head organizer of this year’s event.

“You form a team, you pitch an idea [to participants who can join your team] and present the idea to venture capitalists.”

While the event culminates with presentations to experienced entrepreneurs who have the option of investing in the startup ideas, the main objective of 3DS is not to raise funds, according to Sakalli.

“This is educational. The main purpose of this event is learning by doing,” Sakalli said. “We have 35 to 40 participants who come together the first day and brainstorm. People choose whatever team they are interested in working on, which is how it is in the real world.”

Sakalli said that 3DS invited mentors to help students form ideas and

pitches for startups.

Sohan Jain ’12, who started 3DS at Cornell in 2011 and came back to campus this weekend to attend the event, said the event is intended to give participants real-world experience in entrepreneurship without the risks that are traditionally attached to startups.

“You don’t want to build a product, spend a year developing it, bring it to market and find that there’s no product or market fit,” Jain said. “In three days, you can actually validate your idea and talk to customers to prove that what you are working on is something people want. That’s one of the mottos of 3DS.” After the first day, the participants were divided into six or seven groups, with each group having a designated leader. Over the weekend, Rahul Shah ’16 pitched and expanded Speare, a startup whose mission is to help news and media companies engage with their customers by intelligently summarizing and tracking topics that are important to the user.

“Each story can be followed through time. I might want to track that story, but there’s currently no mechanism for you or me to do that,” Shah said.

“We’re creating a mechanism that allows people to follow news stories

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Collaborating ideas | Teams discuss ideas and work on potential startup ideas during the 3-Day Startup in Sage Hall on Saturday.

through time.”

Hussam Abu-Libdeh grad is another entrepreneur in the process of building a startup. His idea for a startup, Snowball, hopes to provide a degree of organization to the events in people’s lives.

“It’s kind of like Facebook for the future,” Abu-Libdeh said. “People describe their intents to do something in the near future, and [with Snowball], you can check out what people are about to do and set to join them or not.”

Sakalli noted that 3Ds is also intended to help students cultivate relationships with industry mentors, as well as to find fellow students to partner with.

“Mentors are not only here this weekend,” Sakalli says. “They are here for life. 3DS is a great opportunity to [meet] people who can help you down the road.”

Abu-Libdeh said that he was most impressed with the insight experts were able to provide in an around-the-clock fashion. The energy and enthusiasm of the participants makes it a fun, productive atmosphere, he added.

“I really appreciate the advice I got from real technical founders,” AbuLibdeh said. “This is something amazing. I definitely benefitted from it.”

Scott Gartenberg can be reached at sg722@cornell.edu.

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phone calls from prospective students and was not able to download freshman applications, delaying admissions by about a month, according to Jason Locke, interim associate vice provost for enrollment.

“Cornell is committed to the success of the Common Application,” Locke said in a University press release. “Since its founding, the Common Application has promoted a holistic selection process and has helped to broaden access to higher education. However, in this critical moment, we feel a sense of urgency and responsibility to offer students and counselors another pathway for submitting an admissions application.”

The UCA — which has seen its member college network decrease by 37 institutions since 2010, according to The New York Times — was launched in 2007 by ApplicationsOnline, the former tech provider for the Common Application’s online service. When their contract was not renewed, Applica tionsOnline decided to create its own, “better” college application service, according to Joshua Reiter, president of Applications Online, in an interview with Education Week.

There are a few differences between the UCA and the Common Application, such as the potential for students using the UCA to include links to online content. Some students submit YouTube videos, websites, social-networking pages and news articles as a part of

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“I’m going to stay with the Common App because my application is already complete. ... My essay is already written to answer the question specific to the Common App.” Alyssa Smiley admissions offices for review,” Reiter said to Education Week.

Other deviations between the

two applications are differences in section requirements and phrasing. The UCA suggests that student essays are a maximum of 500 words; however, the Common Application requires essays to have a minimum of 250 words.

Despite slow upload times and other technical malfunctions, some first-year and transfer applicants, like Alyssa Smiley, a senior at Great Neck South High School, have decided to continue using the Common Application instead of switching to the UCA. Using the Common Application, Smiley said she “stayed up until two in the morning” to submit her applications due to malfunctions. She said uploads took up to eight hours to complete.

“I don’t know many people

who have used [the UCA] because everyone was pretty much done with their Common App when schools said they would start accepting the Universal College App,” Smiley said.

Although many schools have started to accept the UCA, Smiley will continue to use the Common App because she has already filled out most of her application on Common App. “I only have to fill out the supplemental questions, and my essay is already written to answer the question specific to the Common App,” she added.

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Weisbrod’65 to Help de Blasio Choose New Staff Members WEISBROD

At their first public appearance Sunday, Weisbrod and Jones Austin did not reveal much about upcoming hiring announcements — particularly the appointTimes reported. However, he soon realized that ment of a new police commissioner, according to beyond law enforcement, economic redevelopment Politicker. would be a key factor in changing the area.

Weisbrod and Jones Austin also emphasized that de Weisbrod was also influential in the economic Blasio was very involved in all major transition decidevelopment of the city when, in the sions, Politicker reported.

1990s, under the administration of “The City of New York is a “Our goal is to get this right. And Mayor David Dinkins, he became there’s obviously a whole lot that we big and complex place have to both absorb and digest. So the founding president of the New York State Economic Development and we want to be able that involves looking at personnel, it Corporation. Weisbrod first met de looking at policy, it incomes to do it as best we can.” involves Blasio while they were working for looking at our financial situation. It Dinkins, according to the New York involves a whole host, across the Carl Weisbrod ’65 Times. board,” Weisbrod said Sunday at his Weisbrod told the New York Times first public appearance since being that, as co-chair of de Blasio’s transition team, he will appointed. “The City of New York is a big and comhelp the Mayor-Elect choose talented individuals to plex place and we want to be able to do it as best we work with. can.”

“We’re going through a period of change now in Weisbrod is a partner at HR&A Advisors, a real the city, and one change that’s really taking place is a estate and economic consulting firm, and a director of generational change,” Weisbrod said to the Times. three government authorities — the Lower Manhattan “There’s really a need to bring in a new wave of people Development Corporation, the Trust for Governors who I hope will spend a good long time in the gov- Island and the Convention Center Development ernment and help it not only through the de Blasio Corporation. administration for the next eight years, but beyond Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com. and beyond and beyond.”

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into one of three committees or workgroups as needed during the meetings, each with its own specific agenda and objectives.

The committees and workgroups focus on strategic planning, research and evaluation, and education and outreach, according to a document outlining the council’s goals that was issued by the University.

Cummings added that these workgroups will be establishing long-term goals, as well as short-term goals and projects.

“The workgroups will be establishing long term goals to really see a cultural shift on campus around gender discrimination and sexual violence and the causes of sexual violence,” Cummings said. “But to get there, each group will identify projects and ‘deliverables’ that we hope will start in the spring, and then depending on which group, will continue going and be a foundation to build upon.”

Cummings said she believes bringing together a diverse group of minds will speak to

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many populations on campus.

“The advantage is that it will provide many eyes and ears to help identify the key issues and concerns, as well as the gaps in education programming and prevention,” Cummings said.

“We have a large, diverse campus out there, and that was part of the goal to bring so many people together.”

The council is not the first time a group of people from all across campus has come together to address issues regarding sexual violence, Cummings said.

“Cornell has a longstanding history of addressing sexual violence on campus. … [The council] is new for now, and our hope is that it will reinvigorate and provide institutional support for sexual violence prevention, but it is certainly not the first time that Cornell has [done such a thing],” Cummings said.

According to Cummings, when the group Cornell Advocates for Rape Education was first established in 1984, sexual assault was not even mentioned in the Campus

Code of Conduct.

“CARE was responsible for much of what we now take for granted on campus,” Cummings said. “[Things such as] policies, brochures, [and] campus codes were made possible by efforts by faculty members in the early days.”

Along with establishing the Council on Sexual Violence Prevention, the University has also revised Policy 6.4 in August, which “delineate[s] the procedures for investigating reports of sexual harassment and assault allegations … provid[ing] a thorough investigation and opportunity for both parties to be fully heard in a fair and neutral way,” according to a University press release.

Supporters of the revised policy said the change would ease the testimony process for victims by allowing them to write their testimony instead of standing at a hearing. However, opponents cautioned that the change might compromise the rights of the accused.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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Eradicating gender inequality with a gender equal solution To the Editor: Re: “Newsflash: Women Aren’t Safe on Campus,” Opinion, Nov. 18

As board members of the Women’s Resource Center, we were deeply concerned after reading Deon’s Thomas’ Nov. 18 opinion column, “Newsflash: Women Aren’t Safe on Campus.” The article proposes that the solution to men’s aggressive and disrespectful behavior toward women is for women to withhold sex.

However, placing the responsibility for change on one gender is a dangerous breeding ground for victim blaming. We must instead identify and understand why gender biased behaviors exist in the first place and call upon all genders to change the “deep-rooted” culture that Thomas refers to.

When a woman is “instructed” to forgo consensual sex (a right everyone is entitled to) and chooses to not abide, blame will be placed on her actions and the actions of all women. It could be argued that if a woman was sexually assaulted or raped, it was her fault because her female counterparts had not stopped having sex. This perpetuates our society’s far too prevalent pattern of victim-blaming in which blame is placed on the victims rather than on the perpetrators of sexual violence. The solution of stopping sex does what solutions in the past have attempted to do — make the victim the responsible party instead of the perpetrators.

Dismantling our society’s issues concerning sexual violence is not an easy task, as the roots of the problem are extremely complex. It isn’t that women don’t want respect or that all men want sex; it is the reality that there are many factors that play into gender equality such as socioeconomic status, upbringing (i.e. childhood abuse), power and dominance.

What we, as students, can do to strive towards a safer and more equal space is to bring these types of discussions to the forefront with people of all genders, strive towards addressing micro-aggression in our daily lives, and explain to those around us the concept and necessity of consent if they think otherwise. This is not a problem that can be resolved with a simple fix; it is a problem that needs to be addressed by taking constructive steps toward a solution that caters to everyone’s well-being.

If we want to effectively change the culture, then it’s not you, it’s not me, it’s all of us.

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Entrepretrolls: The Scourge of The Startup Bubble I

recently went to an entrepreneurship event hosted at Cornell that brought together students with entrepreneurial interests and alumni who have launched or are involved with startups. It was a scene typical of industry events at Cornell — hip people from the engineering and business schools wearing casual attire and discussing technology over coffee. The motivation behind hosting the event was honorable — to connect like-minded engineers and marketing gurus in an effort to maximize the potential of aspiring Cornell-based startups. People often have great ideas but don’t have the skills or resources to execute them, so venues like this can help to bring them together.

However, what I saw when I got there was an infestation. The place was teeming with my greatest peeve: Entrepretrolls.

I arrived a little late but they were already in full form, working the room with their free-flowing buzzwords and unquestionable charm. They were everywhere, going from circle to circle introducing themselves, not as students and fresh minds interested in entrepreneurship, but as seasoned technologists who know all there is to know about realizing an idea and launching a startup. I could sense the rank superficiality in the air. When I started my PhD in 2010, entrepretrolls didn’t seem to exist. But today, they love being in public. You’ll probably find yourself within a few feet of these types several times a day.

These swindlers come in various forms. A typical species is the economics student who “just thought of the most powerful, novel idea last week,” has “a surefire avenue to monetization” and just needs a programmer “hungry for a stimulating challenge” to sign on as CTO. Another is the sophomore who wants to launch a “venture fund aimed at identifying and investing in the most groundbreaking new-wave projects” along with two other “highly passionate” underclassmen, and who “would love to hear more about your idea.” Then there’s the PhD in chemistry who is “a passionate academic devoted to the study of bucky-balls” but suddenly decides he wants to “make a practical impact on the

world” by consulting for a biotech investment firm. It can be irritating to talk to someone with a very specialized background outside of technology who all of a sudden has taken a deep interest in starting a company or becoming a venture capitalist.

Entrepretrolls are growing in number, fast. It’s not just at Cornell, of course. There is an entire society of these wine-sipping, Warby Parkerwearing urbanites with beautifully slicked hair and wardrobes of plaid trolling every in-vogue American city from Williamsburg to the Mission.

Everyone knows it: Entrepreneurship is in style. It’s been fueled by the success of a few big names, the vast number of recently launched startups, the growth in popularity of smartphones and techblogs and the increased money pumped into venture capital.

Sadly, all of this has led to the spread of entrepretrolling. We must beware of them. They give real entrepreneurs a very bad name.

Launching a startup is a serious vocation from which many people make real money. The last three times we had excessive numbers of people jumping on business trends, we witnessed a financial collapse. The proliferation of entrepretolls indicates that same will happen to entrepreneurship, again.

The remedy is obvious. Instead of riding the surface of the startup community, entrepretrolls should spend their time doing something meaningful. If you truly have a meaningful idea and want to take the risk of devoting yourself to it and developing it further, it’s fine to attend tech meetups to seek help in launching a startup. However, people who are skimming entrepreneurship and presenting themselves as experts just so that they can say they were the co-founder of a meaningless failed startup are wasting everybody’s time and inflating the startup bubble. If people continue spouting such nonsense, the bubble will burst, dramatically.

Dipayan Ghosh is a PhD candidate at Cornell University in electrical engineering and conducts research for the NSF on information economics and privacy. He can be reached at dpg65@cornell.edu.

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Aditi Bhowmick | Abtruse Musings

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hen Groucho Marx claimed sardonically that a belladonna in Venezuela “got her good looks from her father, he’s a plastic surgeon,” I doubt anyone was offended or found the comment particularly unusual. After all, Venezuelan retail stores have found a new secret to profit maximization — they have made their mannequins more bootylicious! Mannequin makers in Venezuela sculpt and carve because the benchmark for beauty in perfection never ceases to ascend. The breasts keep getting larger and the waists tinier until they disappear and the mannequin collapses like wickerwork. Meanwhile, the Venezuelan woman is beginning to mirror the mannequin — a little nose job here, some fat reduction there and the process never really stops. They are beguiled by the concept of boosting their confidence by improving how they look on the outside, but they actually end up pushing themselves deeper into an abyss of depression. Obviously, body image is a big deal in Venezuela. It is also a big deal at Cornell, and not necessarily only for women.

We’re not in a deranged frenzy of stretching our legs, narrowing our midsections and enhancing and reducing every body part we can possibly think of just yet. Nevertheless, we’re spending large portions of our time thinking about how to look like we stepped out of the cloud-palace above Mount Olympus. We spend small fortunes on trying to perfect a

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You pretty much look like you’ve always looked — it’s your own eye that gauges those peaks and falls in your appearance. constructed image of ourselves we have in our minds. Replace your expensive products with confidence and you’re better off. If you’re terrific to be around, no one will really care if you show up at a party wearing the same thing you wore last weekend and the weekend before that. The only person who is so bothered and caught up is you. Here’s a simple experiment I urge you to carry out — spend a day avoiding the vicious mirror. I promise you the day will seem less exacting.

To those around you, you pretty much look like you’ve always looked — it’s your own eye that gauges these peaks and falls in your appearance. If we learn to love what we see in the mirror everyday, we’ll surpass the combined beauty of all former Miss Venezuelas. Becoming the best versions of ourselves doesn’t mean tweaking our dimensions at all. One needs to lose weight only when it is medically necessary for him or her to do so. As for sexual attraction — it consists of a number of things apart from the clothes you’re wearing and the size of your muffin top. Ask men and women alike: The way someone talks, walks, what he or she talks about, how sociable a person is, all of that figures into a person’s sexual profile way more than how straight, long, sharp or stubby a person’s nose is.

Body image is essentially a two-fold concept. It encompasses how one perceives the aesthetics and sexual attractiveness of his or her own body and how social institutions prescribe an ideal body image. Since I am addressing social institutions, I might as well take this moment to state that TotalFratMove.com is a product of the most thick-headed, half-witted and imbecilic minds of our generation. This website is, for lack of a better word, simply dumb. Therefore, ladies at Cornell, if any of you derive your ideas about body image from websites such as these, you have serious issues.

But since these hideous social platforms will always exist (because the world has its imperfections), the way to tackle body image is from the inside out.

It is true that happier girls are the prettiest and, more importantly, that happy girls eat. Stop living on granola bars if you don’t like them. Do not detest yourself for indulging in a lavish meal. The secret to happiness at Cornell is food, sleep and friends.

I urge the men of the world to collaborate in this struggle against negative body image and help the beautiful women around them realize that they are just that: beautiful. Ladies, return the favor because both men and women are trying to stay afloat on this struggle boat. Finally, nothing is sexier than confidence. If you’re actually looking to improve your social presence, start feeling confident in your own skin instead of wishing you were in someone else’s.

Aditi Bhowmick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun.com. Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester.

Fear and Loathing

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hen I first arrived at home, I managed to land an internCornell, I thought I’d ship in DC at C-SPAN, despite the made it. Coming from fact that I had no background in community college, the pomp and television. I worked on the founder circumstance of the Ivy League and chairman of the network’s made me feel as though every possi- interview program, following a ble door of opportunity had been manic producer around the buildthrown wide open. Meticulously, I ing all day as we pulled tapes for began mapping out the courses and clips and did research on the guest internships and experiences that for the week. In other words, it was would prepare me for a top doctor- perfect. The excitement I felt headal program. Or perhaps law school. ing into the office each morning, Or business school. The glittering with the Capitol building looming a array of grad school information few hundred yards away, was a sessions and employer Q & As heady buzz. seemed to be laid out like a festive spread.

If it was prestigious, I drooled over it. The Ambition is paying to have your suit only difficulty dry cleaned while exhibiting seemed to be choosing which Perfect symptoms of vitamin deficiency Future™ was right because you can’t afford anything for me.

Soon enough, other than pasta for dinner. complications began to arise that threw a wrench in my delusions. My GPA Since the position didn’t pay I wasn’t high enough to write an hon- had to live cheap, which meant ors thesis. The firm I had planned renting a bed in a hundred-year old, on interning with couldn’t hire me. two-bedroom Victorian with nearly I returned to my hometown in sub- a dozen residents. People crammed urban California, defeated. A few in everywhere they could, with one weeks later I learned that, thanks to guy paying reduced rent for a cot in a financial snafu, I wouldn’t have the bathroom. My first morning at the money to go back to school in the house I woke up just before the fall. dawn and turned on the light in the I watched all the precious futures kitchen to discover a swarm of I had coveted slip right through my cockroaches, each at least the size of fingers. I wanted to cut my losses my thumb. It was a far cry from and run away. Maybe a ship would West Campus. But what the house let me on as a galley cook, or a hos- lacked in luxury it made up for in tel in Albania would let me work the character of its residents. We the counter, or a clan of wandering were all young and driven, eager to Bedouin would take me in as one of work high-profile internships that their own. I spent hours daydream- paid nothing. Even Bathroom Man ing I was anyone but who I was: an worked for Nancy Pelosi. imperfect résumé.

On election night, I went to a Yet, sometimes failure can be pub on the Hill with a few friends fortuitous. In my scramble for an to watch the world’s most expensive escape from the mediocrity of life at popularity contest. After it was over

we walked a dozen blocks to the White House and milled about with the rallying crowd under occasional clouds of marijuana smoke. I ended up being out after the Metro shut down, and being penniless, was forced to walk four miles back to Arlington in the wee hours of the morning only so I could go to work a few hours later. And yet, I was not bitter, and though my feet ached in my worn-out Oxfords and my tie hung slack around my neck, I was possessed with a fire for life that I had never experienced.

When I stepped onto Cornell’s campus, I was seduced by the grandeur of it all. I thought the world owed me something because I had a venerable institution vouching for my smarts, but ambition is a lot more than tacking a Yale Law School admissions flyer to your bulletin board. Ambition is getting coffee at the office because you aren’t good for anything else when you start. Ambition is paying to have your suit dry cleaned while exhibiting symptoms of vitamin deficiency because you can’t afford anything other than pasta for dinner. Ambition is fighting off the roaches with a wooden spoon while you make your breakfast. It isn’t often very sexy, but in the brief moments of respite you’re afforded, you come to realize that the point isn’t just the end goal: The struggle itself for something you crave can be fun as hell.

Zach Pierce is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at zpierce@cornellsun.com. Fear and Loathing appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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ARTS ENTERTAINMENT Two Lives,One Stage A Lie of the Mind at the Schwartz Center

MADELINE SALINAS Sun Staff Writer

Full of deep symbolism, powerful emotion and commanding acting, A Lie of the Mind opened Friday at the Schwartz Center. Directed by Jesse Turk ’14, PMA, The 1985 play by Sam Shepard follows husband and wife Jake and Beth as they retreat to their respective families following a physically abusive relationship.

Thereafter, the work follows the couple as they cope with crippling mental illness.

The play, whose story is told by alternating between two different families that occupy the stage simultaneously, opens with Jake (Rudy Gerson ’14) calling his brother to report the death of his wife, Beth (Sarah Coffey ’16). In this call, he admits that over the past few years, their relationship had been marred by brutal abuse and hostility. Opposite Jake, on the other side of the stage, Beth lies in a hospital bed in bandages, recovering from bruises and

brain damage that has left her unable to walk or express complete thoughts, but not killed by Jake’s abuse. Jake is taken to his childhood home to be monitored by his mother and sister, where he again falsely proclaims Beth dead. Meanwhile, Beth returns home with her parents and brother, where she begins to recover. As she improves physically, Beth becomes more and more mentally unstable — and, as her commentary proves, begins to resent her family.

Staged in the Schwartz’s Flex Theatre, the set for the play is simple but effective in tying together the performance. The subtly patterned backdrop fades into two designs on the floor that compartmentalize the homes of Jake and Beth. Each scene alternates between these two adjacent sets.

Visually, the stage creates a powerful juxtaposition of the couple’s families as they approach the trauma of their children: While one attempts attentive nurturing, the other copes with trauma through structured rehabilitation and denial. Fluidly

shifting from one side to the next, the blocking quite literally emphasizes the common ground between Beth and Jake, as they assume central positions to speak of their emotional scars and struggle to gather memories.

In A Lie of the Mind, Shepard utilizes strong symbolism and intriguing literary parallels. Under Turk’s direction, the performance incorporates these effectively.

While Jake sifts through the memorabilia of his father, he comes across an American flag — commemorating his time in service. Later, the flag trails behind him as a cape on his distraught journey across the country to find his brother and Beth, an image that conveys the link between himself and his father, to whom the flag had previously belonged. In A Lie of the Mind the identities of the characters ar constantly shifted--Jake taking ownership of the abusive nature of his father, and Beth, eventually taking on the apathy in her marriage that once led Jake to abuse and neglect toward her.

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Ultimately, the acting comes across as natural, though the emotional intensity of the production could have been more effectively maintained. At times, the comic relief written into the script is overemphasized — at one point, heated dialogue is paused entirely, which disrupts the natural buildup of tension between the characters.

However, the actors — especially in lead roles — have a commanding stage presence that captures and holds the audience’s attention through the confusion of streams of consciousness and disconnected thoughts. Coffey excellently portrays Beth’s brain damage, making her condition apparent without overdoing it. In the second act, she smoothly progresses to recovery and, with it, regains a charmingly subtle sense of humor.

The final scene of the production is especially intriguing and brings out the strongest acting in the play. Jake’s family, Lorraine and Sally (Melanie Dreyer-Lude, PMA and Katelyn Pippy ’15), are left alone at his house and, as the two most sane characters, converse intimately and naturally.

This turns out to be a perfect juxtaposition to the other side of the stage, as Jake appears in Beth’s home and each character is overwhelmed by their own troubles. The dazed lack of reaction between any of the characters in the final scene is the most powerful portrayal of dysfunction in the performance, exuding the chaotic disconnect within each family and between the couple. The play, centered around the suspended relationship of Beth and Jake, culminates with a mere glance, without dialogue or recognition, between the couple, symbolizing the resolution, through dissolution, of their marriage.

Ultimately, the deep symbolism written in A Lie of the Mind makes for a powerful performance and the emotional development of the characters was conveyed well.

The depth, however, is stronger in some scenes than others. It is intriguing, even overwhelming, and showcases superb student talents.

A Lie of the Mind is a part of the guest director series this fall at the Schwartz Center. performances are scheduled through Nov. 23.

Madeline Salinas is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun.com.

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Chick Flicks?

Arts In Defense of RomComs Around A Town

couple weeks ago, a heterosexual male friend of mine confided in me one of his deepest darkest secrets. He looked around to make sure no one else was listening before leaning forward and, in a hushed tone, telling me that he enjoyed watching romantic comedies.

I have a wealth of anecdotal evidence that, although many men balk at the idea of seeing a film starring Emily Blunt, they secretly find a great deal of pleasure in the witty banter, the beautifully decorated homes and the happy endings. Just last weekend I dragged a different heterosexual male friend of mine to go see About Time at the mall — only convincing him to go because I said we’d stop at Target and he needed shampoo. He begrudgingly confessed to having enjoyed the experience, and last night asked me to recommend a movie he could watch in a similar vein. I suggested Love Actually, which I was appalled to discover he has never seen.

For too long, romantic comedies have been dismissed as “chick flicks.” They are scoffed at by film aficionados who believe that anyone watching them who isn’t a 14 year-old girl with Mrs. Channing Tatum doodled all over her diary or a stayat-home mom wearing an ugly Christmas sweater non-ironically has something wrong with them.

I won’t impugn my reputation by claiming that all romcoms are great films, but that doesn’t mean that the entire genre is devoid of merit. Silver Linings Playbook, which last year was nominated for seven Oscars and for which Jennifer Lawrence won for Best Actress, is basically a romantic comedy. Let me amend that statement: it is a romantic comedy. The only reason it received so much critical attention was because it happened to be a particularly well-done romantic comedy and it featured a plotline about mental illnesses, which allowed people to tell themselves it was more than just a romcom. At its core, though, it came right back down to the same idea: “boy gets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl back.”

Yes, most romantic comedies are formulaic. Yes, we all know how they are going to end. But the same can be said of action films or superhero movies. No matter how artsy Dark Knight is, there was never any doubt that Batman would face challenges, overcome them and then save a lot of people from dying. Dark Knight also falls into the same genre a s Transformers.

Yet, for some reason, we don’t roll our Carrot Top eyes when Confessions someone says they like superhero movies. I say, “some reason,” knowing full well the reason that the reason is each genre’s target demographic. This is an annoying fact relating to the place of women in our society, which I don’t feel I have to elaborate on.

Anyway, I’ve gotten sidetracked. Many men are ashamed to watch romantic comedies because they feel it isn’t masculine and because romcoms are theoretically made for women. As I’ve already mentioned, many romantic comedies are just good films. And, though romcoms may be made for women, the majority of romcoms are, like most films, made by men. Love Actually and About Time were written by the same man, who also wrote Notting Hill and Bridget Jones’ Diary: Richard Curtis.

As an experiment, I asked my friend who I’m sitting next to as I write this column to name a romantic comedy off the top of her head. She picked Definitely Maybe. I checked, and sure enough, written and directed by a man named Adam Brooks, who also wrote the sequel to Bridget Jones’ Diary and French Kiss (my favorite ’90s Meg Ryan movie.) The more you IMDb romantic comedies and click on movies in the “More Like This” category, the more you begin to realize that almost no romantic comedies are written or directed by women.

So if anything, it should be women who are ashamed to enjoy romantic comedies, as they tend to be men’s ideas of what women and relationships should be like. Basically what I’m saying is that it’s silly for a man, or anyone, to act like enjoying Legally Blonde is akin to storing corpses under your bed or having an affair with a married person. You should, on the other hand, be ashamed if you like Transformers. That is something you should never admit, no matter how hushed your tones.

Julia Moser

Julia Moser is a junior in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Gunpoets with Dynamic Inkline at 8:00 p.m. on Friday at The Haunt

Centrally Isolated Film Festival

First screening at 7:00 p.m. on Friday at Schwartz Center A haven for student art and production, the Schwartz Center is preparing to host the Centrally Isolated Film Festival this weekend. Including submissions from various Cornell student film makers and an appearance by Will Gluck, director of Easy A and Friends With Benefits, there should be enough cinematic events to please any cinephile in attendance.

Back in October, the Sun spoke to Ithaca High School grads (and siblings) Sean and Kevin Lewis of Dynamic Inkline about their music and Upstate New York’s burgeoning rap scene. Now, this dynamic duo is returning to where it all began, opening for fellow Ithaca natives and the Gunpoets. With the talent on display, it’s clear that Ithaca’s bastion of talent is far larger than it may seem.

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SPORTS

Philadelphia Secures Victory Over Washington in Home Competition PHILADELPHIA (AP) — For the Philadelphia Eagles to go worst-to-first in the NFC East, they had to win at home.

Bye-bye, losing streak.

Nick Foles threw for 298 yards and spun free for a touchdown, LeSean McCoy ran for two scores and the Eagles snapped a 10-game losing skid at Lincoln Financial Field with a 24-16 victory over the Washington Redskins on Sunday.

A year after finishing 4-12 under Andy Reid, Chip Kelly had guided his Eagles (6-5) to the division lead. They’re a half-game ahead of idle Dallas (5-5).

The defending division champion Redskins rallied in the fourth quarter but fell short, dropping to 3-7.

“I don’t look at it globally,” Kelly said. “We have five games in December and we put ourselves in position where those games are meaningful. We’ll see where we’re at Dec. 29.”

The Eagles hadn’t won at home in 413 days since defeating the New York Giants on Sept. 30, 2012. They’ll enter their bye week on a threegame winning streak, having turned things around after consecutive home losses last month.

“Not one person on this team was defeated,” Foles said. “Everybody in our locker room believed we can win and if you feel that way, it’s something special. We have to keep the momentum going.”

Down 24-0 in the fourth quarter, the Redskins rallied behind Robert Griffin III’s TD passes of 62 yards to Darrel Young and 41 yards to Aldrick Robinson and both 2-point conversions.

RG3 then drove the Redskins to the Eagles 18 before his pass off his back foot was intercepted by Brandon Boykin in the end zone.

“I was trying to throw the ball in the back of the end zone,” he said. “It didn’t get to where I wanted it to go. Obviously I was on my heels.

Something I can definitely learn from.”

Foles didn’t throw any TD passes after tossing 10 in the past two games. But he still hasn’t thrown an interception this year, extending his streak to 199 passes without a pick. Foles tied an NFL record with seven TD passes in a win at Oakland two weeks ago and followed it with three more in a victory at Green Bay.

McCoy finished with 77 yards rushing and 73 receiving. He leads the NFL with 1,009 yards on the ground. Foles had a career-best 47 yards rushing.

“We’re all playing as one,” McCoy said.

“Earlier in the year, the offense was playing good and defense wasn’t or defense was playing good and offense wasn’t. Now we’re clicking.

The Redskins started their last drive at their 4 with 3:26 left after a 70-yard punt by Donnie Jones. Griffin completed a 28-yard pass to Santana Moss on third-and-25 and Washington eventually moved to the 18 before the pick.

Griffin was 17 of 35 for 264 yards and ran for 44 yards.

“Took us until the fourth quarter to make a couple plays,” Redskins coach Mike Shanahan said. “We had our opportunity at the end. Just couldn’t take advantage of it.”

A 33-27 win at Washington in the season opener kick-started the Kelly Era and raised expectations in what was supposed to be a rebuilding year. The Eagles lost the next three games before winning five of seven. Foles replaced an injured Michael Vick in the first half of a victory at the Giants on Oct. 6, and has led the Eagles to a 4-1 record since.

The Redskins couldn’t generate much offense until Griffin connected with Young after scrambling early in the fourth quarter. He hit Nick Williams on the conversion.

Robinson made a nice adjustment to catch Griffin’s underthrown deep pass for the next score, and RG3 dived in from the 2 for the conversion.

But Washington couldn’t complete the comeback.

Foles ran in from the 4 for a 7-0 lead, even showing some athleticism with a spin move after getting hit at the 2 and then reaching for the end zone. A 49-yard pass to McCoy set up the score.

One play after Brent Celek turned a tight-end screen pass into a 42-yard gain, McCoy ran in untouched from the 1.

The Redskins drove to the Eagles 8 before Griffin was sacked by Connor Barwin and fumbled. The ball popped straight up and was recovered by Fletcher Cox.

Manning Leads Giants Over Packers EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants are back in the playoff hunt and the Green Bay Packers are falling out of it without Aaron Rodgers.

Defensive end Jason PierrePaul scored on a spectacular, leaping 24-yard fourth-quarter interception return and the resurgent Giants won their fourth game in a row with a 2713 victory over the slumping and injured-riddled Packers on Sunday.

Eli Manning threw a 26yard touchdown pass to Rueben Randle, and Brandon Jacobs added a 1-yard run as the Giants (4-6) handed the Packers (5-5) their third straight loss, their longest skid since a five-game losing streak near the end of 2008.

Two of the three losses have come with former NFL MVP Rodgers sidelined with a broken collarbone.

While Scott Tolzien played well at times in his first NFL start, the Giants intercepted him three times, setting up 10 points. Pierre-Paul's pick early in the fourth quarter gave New York a 14-point lead.

The winning streak following a 0-6 start improbably has moved the Giants within 1½ games of first-place Phila -

delphia (6-5) in the weak NFC East. They are a game behind second-place and idle Dallas (55), which will play here next Sunday.

The Packers, who got a 1yard TD run by Eddie Lacy and two field goals by Mason Crosby, including a 57-yarder, fell a game behind Chicago and Detroit in the NFC North.

Tolzien finished 24 of 34 for 339 yards and no touchdowns.

The Giants never trailed, but they never put the Packers away until the interception by PierrePaul, who was questionable all week after injuring a shoulder against Oakland last week. He didn't practice until Friday and his status was uncertain until the inactives were announced just before the game.

Pierre-Paul didn't do much until the fourth quarter with New York clinging to a 20-13 lead.

On a first and 10 from the Packers 30, Tolzien, who was a practice squad player until a couple of week ago, dropped back, turned to his left and tried to throw a quick out. PierrePaul, who has struggled this season after back surgery in June, jumped, snagged the pass and dashed all alone to the end zone.

The Giants had the better of the play in the first half, hold-

ing the ball for almost 20 minutes. They jumped to a 10-0 lead on Manning's 26-yard touchdown pass to Randle and Josh Brown's 40-yard field goal.

The touchdown reception was Randle's sixth in the last six games, and he set it up with a 32-yard punt return.

Manning finished 25 of 35 for 279 yard and an interception.

A 30-yard pass to Victor Cruz, who had eight catches for 110 yards, and a 5-yard run by Jacobs on a fourth-and-1 at the Packers 36 set up the field goal.

Tolzien threw passes of 25 yards to Jordy Nelson and 45 yards to James Jones on consecutive plays to set up a 24-yard field goal by Crosby on the next series.

The Giants mismanaged the clock at the end of the first half, with a three-and-out series that started with an incomplete pass.

Taking over at their own 37 with no timeouts, Tolzien hit on passes of 9 yards to Jarrett Boykin and 15 yards to Nelson, setting up Crosby for a 57-yard field goal on the final play.

It was a yard shy of his Packers' record and it was the longest against the Giants.

Brett Conway of Washington kicked a 55-yard against them in 2001.

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SPORTS

Cornell Men’s Basketball Defeated by Louisville in Away Face-Off After putting a scare into a Top-10 NCAA team in Syracuse last weekend, the Red travelled to Louisville, hoping to do the same against the defending NCAA champions.

However, the Cardinals were unfazed on their home court, defeating the red handily, 99-54.

Louisville started off the scoring with a layup by Wayne Blackshear on their first possession. Cornell answered, though, with a dunk by freshman forward David Onuorah, marking the third time the freshman has started off the Red’s scoring so far this season. However, the 2-2 tie was as close as the squad would get all night. Louisville went on a 20-0 run after that before senior guard Jake Matthews finally got the Red back on the scoreboard with a three-pointer.

The Cardinals never really let up, going into the locker room leading 53-14. The Red had scoring opportunities, but it was just unable to convert, and giving the Cardinals additional chances by turning the ball over did not help the team’s cause.

Louisville scored 20 points off Cornell turnovers in the first half, while the Red scored only one. The Red’s forwards were also outmuscled down low

by Louisville’s formidable big men in Chane Behanen and Montrezl Harrell. In the first half, the Cardinals scored 30 points in the paint compared to the Red’s six, and Harrell and Behanen combined for 27 rebounds, eight of them offensive. Blackshear led both teams in scoring with 20, and Luke Hancock chipped in with 12 points in just 14 minutes of play.

The Red’s offense, on the other hand, was stagnant throughout,

Cornell Hosts Brown, Yale MEN’S ICE HOCKEY Continued from page 16

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Tough times | The Cornell men’s basketball squad suffered a tough loss against the Cardinals.

shooting 29 percent from the field and 25 percent from beyond the arc.

Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler led the squad with 10 points and eight rebounds, but he was an uncharacteristic 0-5 from three and 4-17 from the field. One of the Red’s go-to players on the offensive end in Devin Cherry was also held scoreless by Louisville’s active guards. Sophomore guard Robert Mischler had six points, connecting on both three-pointers he

took, and senior forward Dwight Tarwater had nine points and was three-for-five from beyond the arc, but they seemed to be the only Red players to get hot. The rest of the team shot a dismal two-of-21 from three.

The Red will take on Colgate in a mid-week game on the road Wednesday, still in search of its first win. Last year, Cornell defeated the Raiders 70-63 at home.

— Compiled by Scott Chiusano

its first five-on-four of the evening and took full advantage. Ferlin crossed to junior forward Joel Lowry, who converted from the left circle to net the Red’s first goal just five-and-a-half minutes into the first.

Power plays became the story early, with St. Lawrence striking back on one of its own. Senior forward Greg Carey, the nation’s leading goal-scorer last season with 28, gave the Saints something to cheer about with a shot that ricocheted off the post and snuck past senior goaltender Andy Iles.

The score knotted at 1-1, captain and junior forward John McCarron wrestled the puck away from a St. Lawrence defender and passed it out to senior forward Dustin Mowrey, who dealt to Lowry for the Red’s second goal — the third power play goal of the night and coming less than a minute after Carey’s strike. From there, the floodgates opened and the Red raced down the ice for a Ferlin goal and a 3-1 lead — and a benching of SLU’s starting goalie. Freshman forward Jeff Kubiak joined the party with a strong shot of his own from the slot, but was denied what would have been his first career score for the Red by the new St. Lawrence goalie. McCarron cleaned up from close range to extend Cornell’s lead to 4-1, all coming in the first 15 minutes of action.

The Saints and the Red traded scores in the second and third periods, respectively, with Ferlin netting his second of the night to put the game out of reach. Ferlin and Lowry — who lead the team with five goals apiece — each earned two on the night.

“You knew getting off the bus today that we were ready to play,” head coach Mike Schafer ‘86 said following the game. “It was a real good win for us. ” The 5-2 victory in Canton was a fitting conso-

“You knew getting off the bus today that we were ready to play.”

Mike Schafer ’86

Red Prepares to Face Quakers in Final Game For last game of 2013 season, Red travels to play Penn FOOTBALL

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Red; aside from the field goal, he was perfect on all three extra point opportunities.

The Lions answered with a field goal of their own, leaving the score tied at three at the end of the first. The Red was forced to punt on the first possession of the second quarter, but a big pass-breakup by sophomore defensive back Jarrod Watson Lewis gave the ball back to Cornell. On the ensuing drive, Few showed bursts of brilliance, but also inexperience. He was sacked twice on the drive, but both times was able to regain field position, once with a ten-yard run of his own, and the second time by handing it off to senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly, who carried the ball to the one-yard line. The Red was stopped on its first chance, but the second time Few muscled his way through Columbia’s defensive line for the first touchdown of the day, putting Cornell up 10-3 with two minutes left in the half.

Columbia started its own drive down the field, but was forced to settle for a field goal as time expired, making the score 10-6 at halftime.

Both teams were forced to punt on their first drives coming out of the locker room, but when the Red got the ball back, it went on the attack once again. Gellatly started the drive off with a run down Columbia’s sideline.

Few handed the ball off twice more to Gellatly and once to sophomore running back Luke Hagy to bring Cornell within the 20. Few then found sophomore wide receiver Ben Rogers in the corner of the end-zone for a 16-yard touchdown pass, the first of Rogers’ burgeoning career.

The defense took over from that point forward, only allowing Columbia to connect on one more field goal. Senior inside linebacker Brett Buehler had nine tackles and a half-sack, while sophomore defensive lineman Debo Sodeke had a pair of sacks. Sophomore corner back Twan Terrell also had an interception early in the fourth quarter, setting the stage for the Red’s final score, a seven-yard touchdown pass from Few to senior tight end Ty Bostain.

Though Rogers and Bostain ended two of the Red’s three touchdown drives, it was largely the work of Gellatly and Hagy that got the offense in scoring position. Gellatly led the team with nine receptions for 136 yards, and ran for another 38. Hagy ran the ball 25 times for a gain of 73 yards.

“Grant and Luke are both tough football players,” Few said. “They are two of the best athletes in the Ivy League, and we knew we had to get the football in their hands. They made some phenomenal plays today and protected the football.”

Saturday was Gellatly’s ninth career 100-yard game, the second most of

any Red player. He also became just the fourth receiver in school history to surpass 1,000 yards in a season. It was a storybook ending to Gellatly’s career, as well as the rest of the Red’s 22 seniors, who were able to go out with a win in their final game on Schoellkopf field.

“They gave so much to this program over their four years,” Few said of the seniors. “They showed us the right way to do things and how to work hard every day. It was great to honor them with a victory in their last game on Schoellkopf.”

Two years still remain in front of Few, though, who will likely be the starting quarterback come 2014. It will be a new era for Cornell football, one that will not have the towering presence of Mathews to lead it.

According to Few, though, the legacy that Mathews left behind, one of confidence, of learning and of leading, will ensure that presence is not forgotten.

“Jeff has been a big brother to me these past two years. He has taught me more on and off the field than I could ever thank him for,” Few said. “He’s shown me how to be a leader and, really, how to be a man. Jeff has given his heart to this university and this team, and I hope that the way I played today honored his career in some small way.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

lation following the previous night’s disappointing finish at Clarkson. The Golden Knights scored on the opening shift to take a 1-0 lead, and outshot the Red 26-11 on the evening. The deficit was nothing new for the team, which has been outshot or evenly shot every game this season and has continued to rely on quality scoring opportunities.

Down 2-0 in the second junior defenseman Joakim Ryan gave the Red one of those opportunities on a hard shot that deflected off the Clarkson goalie and after a few more shots was finally put in by McCarron.

A Ferlin score with less than eight minutes to go capped a Cornell comeback, but a bad break in the game’s closing minute would leave the icers shaking their heads. Clarkson scooped up a deflection off an official and — after an initial Iles save — scored on the rebound to take a 3-2 lead with just 37 seconds left. The loss was the culmination of what was at the time a four-game winless skid for the Red. “I was disappointed in our preparation [Friday],” Schafer said at the end of the weekend action. “Every coach knows it. Every team knows it. It’s about focusing your body and mind before you get here and how bad you want to play.”

Although Schafer had hoped to come out of the Clarkson game with points to show for it in the ECAC standings, he acknowledged it was still huge to “get that two points [against St. Lawrence] knowing that they’re a good hockey team, to put us back to 2-3-1 with some opportunities now with Brown, Yale and [Niagara] at home in the next three.”

With the Red’s four-game road trip in the books, the team is ready to return to campus.

“Four of our next five are at home and one’s at MSG so we got through a real tough stretch here on the road,” Schafer said. “So it’s going to be exciting to get back to Lynah in front of our crowd.”

Chris Mills can be reached at cmills@cornellsun.com.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Women Secure Bid to NCAA Championships

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend the men and women’s Cross Country teams competed in the NCAA Northeast Regional meet at Van Cortlandt Park in New York. Both the men and women were successful with top 10 finishes.

The men’s team finished ninth out of a field of 37 teams with a final score of 326 points. The men were ranked 10th in the region prior to this race and were able to exceed that ranking and finish in ninth.

The women — ranked 23rd nationally — finished fourth overall. The women’s team also has received an at large bid to the NCAA national championships in Terre Haute, Ind. on Nov. 23rd.

“We were very “I’m very pleased that this happy with our team performance. group was able to get back The team compet- to the stage that is the ed with real confidence and we NCAA Championships.” asserted ourselves very well from the Artie Smith very beginning of the race. I thought it was our best team performance of the season so far,” assistant coach Artie Smith said. “Co-captains Rachel Sorna and Emmy Shearer were absolutely terrific in their final Regional meet, both placing in the top 10 in a loaded field. They became just the fourth and fifth Cornell women to place in the top 10 in this race in the past 15 years, and we’ve had some outstanding runners in that time-frame.”

The Red was also able to be successful because of its tremendous depth throughout this season.

“After them, we had strong performances across the board.

We needed good races from everyone and we got that,” Smith said. “Devin McMahon had her best race of the year, Liz Simpson was outstanding again and Caroline Kellner ran a very determined race as our fifth scorer, made all the more impressive since it was only her third race of the year since she

missed all of September and most of October with injury. I thought sophomores Claire DeVoe and Kristen Niedrach competed very well in their first Regional meet.”

The Red looks to continue the success going into the NCAA National Championship, Smith said.

“Some of the keys with the NCAA meet include keeping one’s composure and to continue to focus on the things that got you to the meet in first place and to trust those capabilities.

We’ve dealt with a lot of adversity this season across our entire line-up and our runners have been forced to demonstrate that composure all season long, so they are certainly ready in that regard,” Smith said. “If we can also continue to focus on running our races the right way and to compete well, we will do great.”

The Red looks to continue to focus on performing in the coming weeks and to have outstanding results at Nationals.

“Every year is different and every year presents different challenges and opportunities. I’m very pleased that this group was able to get back to the stage that is the NCAA Championships, as it takes a great deal of commitment and determination and represents achievement of the highest order in our sport,” Smith said.

On the men’s side, the Red closed the season with a strong ninth place finish in the NCAA Regional meet. The Red ran in the meet without the senior runners in order help facilitate the development of their younger athletes and to gain the necessary experience to have even more success for the team going forward.

“We ran a solid race. ... Sophomore Brian Eimstad was only six places away from All-Region honors and only nine seconds away from qualifying for the NCAA Championships.

Junior David Melly was our 11th-best man at our first meet in September and ended the season as our 2nd-best man,” assistant coach Zebulon Lang said. “Sophomore Ty Kawalec has improved dramatically over the last year. Freshman Mark Tedder has contributed greatly since setting foot on campus.

We didn’t have any seniors at this meet. Our youth brigade oriented its compass for the future of Cornell men’s crosscountry.”

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Best of the best | Senior co-captains Emily Shearer (above) and Rachel Sorna had strong times this weekend and helped the rest of the Red squad advance to Nationals.

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

FOOTBALL

Gridders Grab First Ivy Win

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Red rallies | Junior forward Brian Ferlin helped the Red take down St. Lawrence Saturday.

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Icers Take Down St.Lawrence Ferlin said. “I think we’ve been playing hard but we haven’t been playing as hard as we’d like at times. I think tonight we just came [out with] energy and we were playThe Red offense is clicking again.

After scoring only five goals in the ing our systems well, and instead of having a couple of guys ready to team’s previous four I think we had the games, the men’s icers “I think we’ve been go, whole team ready to go put up the same amount tonight. So it definitely a single contest en route playing hard.” feels good to come, play to a 5-2 drubbing of hard and get the win.”

No. 17 St. Lawrence (6Brian Ferlin The Red entered the 4-2, 2-2-2 ECAC) weekend as one of the Saturday evening. No. 19 Cornell (4-3-1, 2-3-1) had been com- nation’s top teams in power play efficiency. ing off of a narrow defeat to No. 11 Following an early interference call against Clarkson (10-3-1, 4-2-0), 3-2, in the a St. Lawrence defender, Cornell received Friday night game.

See MEN’S ICE HOCKEY page 15 “It feels good,” junior forward Brian

By CHRIS MILLS Sun Staff Writer

For the Red’s seniors, Saturday’s game against Columbia was a final opportunity to pick up an Ivy League win on Schoellkopf. For the underclassmen, it was a chance to stand out and point the future of the Cornell football program in the right direction.

Both wishes came true this weekend, as a combination of youth and experience gave the Red a 249 victory, allowing them to reclaim the Empire State Bowl Trophy.

It was a long time coming for head coach David Archer ’05 and his team, who had played five Ivy League games before this one without notching a win. And with senior quarterback Jeff Mathews sidelined with an injury, the road to a victory seemed a lot bumpier.

However, sophomore quarterback James Few slipped into the starting role seamlessly, giving fans a glimpse of the future of the program. According to Few, the boost into the starting role Saturday did

not effect his nerves.

“I prepare every week as if I am starting because I know I could be only one play away from taking over,” Few said. “As Jeff’s backup, I obviously never want to see him injured, but at the same time I’m always ready.”

In the Red’s first offensive drive of the game, it was clear that Few was at the helm of the offense.

Though a characteristical-

ly pass-heavy offense with Mathews in the lineup, Cornell turned to the running game on Saturday, gaining yardage on the ground on the first three plays of the drive, eventually culminating in a 40-yard field goal by freshman Joe Pierik. The young placekicker was another sign of good things to come for the See FOOTBALL page 15

OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Football fighting | Senior Grant Gellatly helped Cornell secure its first Ivy League win Saturday against Columbia.