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Facing Expulsion, Frat Set to Appeal Cornell’s Decision

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By EMMA COURT

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Lisa Moore, guest pianist, plays pieces by composer Martin Bresnick at an event hosted by C.U. Music in Sage Chapel on Saturday.

The Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity will be appealing the University’s decision to revoke its recognition after it allegedly failed to call for help when two students consumed too much alcohol.

The incident, which occurred on Aug. 30-31, involved “underage and excessive alcohol consumption,” according to the University. Fraternity brothers not only did not call for emergency medical help but also tried to impede police from assisting, the University said in a press release. Ultimately, friends of the students who were transported called for help.

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C.U.Dairy Ice Cream Students Honor Black Solidarity Day Returning Jan.2014 More than 50 students gather to reflect on future of black Americans

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cussions — rather than a formal speech-driven event — to create a more comfortable and open setting for students to express their opinions, said Nia Hall ’14, co-president of

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After the original Dairy Bar and Dairy Plant on Tower Road were demolished in 2010 as part of the Stocking Hall renovation project, Cornellians were left without the “We get up to 10 taste of ice cream calls or emails a made on their own week asking when campus.

However, the the ice cream will long wait is drawing be available.” to a close.

Marking Black Solidarity Day, more than 50 Cornellians gathered in the Ivy Room Friday to reflect on the state, goals and future of the Hashtag BBCU | Students used Twitter to black community in America. express their feelings about what it means to Black Solidarity Day originatbe black at Cornell. ed in 1969 with the purpose of bringing the black community together to foster discussion of the challenges faced by black men and women. Members of the community do not attend work or school and try to avoid spending money on the day as a symbolic gesture of the significance of black men and women in the country’s economy.

As part of the day’s celebrations, Black Students United encouraged community members to take part in informal dis-

Jason Huck

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Black Students United.

“The structure of Cornell has to have everything planned –– lecture, class discussion. It doesn’t give students the opportunity to speak their opinions fully. We wanted to give our community a Black Solidarity chance to speak their Day originated in mind in an 1969 with the open setting purpose of bringwithout all ing the black the formalities,” Hall community said. together.

Attendees discussed not only problems facing the black community but also what black men and women can do to move forward.

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Cornell Official Dies in New York City

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

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Ice cream land | Students will get to taste Cornell Dairy ice cream beginning in January.

Donald Tobias, the executive director of the Cornell’s Cooperative Extension office in New York City, died Friday at the age of 68.

At 1:37 p.m. Friday, Tobias jumped in front of a train in Manhattan, officers from the New York Police Department said.

Paramedics pronounced Tobias dead

at the scene.

University officials expressed their condolences to Tobias’ friends and family.

“Don carried with him every day the spirit of the land-grant mission and worked to make individuals’ lives better every day. Our hearts go out to Brenda, his wife and member of our Cornell family,” President David Skorton said in a statement Saturday.

University resources: Members of the Cornell community seeking support can call Gannett Health Services’ Counseling and Psychological Services (607-255-5155), EARS’ peer counselors (607-255-3277), the Faculty Staff Assistance Program (607-2552673) or find additional resources at http://caringcommunity.cornell.edu.

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Importance of Business Fraternities: Myth or Reality?

By JONATHAN KWEE Sun Staff Writer

Cornellians split on their opinions of the campus’ four professional business fraternities, with some espousing the value of the groups’ networking opportunities and others calling the groups unnecessary.

The presidents of Cornell’s four business fraternities — Alpha Kappa Psi, Delta Sigma Pi, Phi Gamma Nu and Pi Sigma Epsilon — said in a joint statement that the fraternities are designed to “provide resources for enhancing the educational experience of students pursuing careers in business.” Joining a professional business fraternity offers numerous benefits, including “intensive mentorship by senior members, [the chance to polish] professional and interpersonal skills and access to strong alumni networks,” the fraternity presidents said in a joint statement.

Yet some business-oriented students have not bought into the idea of pre-professional fraternities, calling them unnecessary and even superficial.

Michael Chan ’14, who will be working at Goldman Sachs after graduation, said other organizations on campus can help students network and enter the industry of their choice. Business fraternities “are not the only way to enter those industries,” he said.

“Ultimately, it’s about building your own personal network and meeting new people,”

member processes” the fraternity presidents Chan added.

Nicholas Hosseini ’14 echoed Chan’s sen- mentioned, saying they suffer from a lack of timent, saying that while business fraternities transparency.

“I feel like the decisions behind these can definitely help students gain access to jobs in the consulting or banking industries, processes are sometimes very biased,” Chan membership in such groups “is not ‘make or said. “People generally have a feeling of who they want to take before the whole process break’ in any way.”

Hosseini, who is not a member of a busi- starts. It’s not about picking the smartest perness fraternity, will be working as an invest- son or the most capable person, but it’s about picking the person that you work best with.” ment banker at Lazard after graduation.

However, the recruitment processes for “I do feel disadvantaged in networking, but there are definitely ways to network suc- the organizations are governed by their cessfully without having been in a business national chapters and seek a diverse group of students, according to the fraternity,” he said. presidents of the business Presidents of business “There are definitely fraternities. fraternities, however, said ways to network “We are collectively that the biggest benefits of successfully without committed to seeking a joining a business fraternidiverse group of students, ty are not just learning having been in a who demonstrate a strong job-specific skills but also business fraternity.” passion for business, eagermeeting new people. ness for personal and pro“While the opportuniNicholas Hosseini ’14 fessional growth, and the ty for personal and profes‘pay it forward’ mentality sional growth is alluring, what our members truly come to cherish are that is crucial to the aggregate success of our the enduring friendships and sense of com- membership,” they said.

Chan said that, although business fratermunity that we foster,” they said.

The presidents said these strong friend- nities “do provide a useful network,” memships are “a natural byproduct of our com- bership to a business fraternity is by no means mitment to our new member processes, phil- “a requirement” for those who are interested anthropic endeavors and brotherhood in finance. “[There are other organizations one can events.”

Yet some students criticized the very “new join, and] they all lead to the same place,” he

said. “There are other people out there who also want to go into finance who you can network with as well.”

Hosseini echoed Chan’s sentiments, saying he believes that membership in a business fraternity can only take you so far. The contacts a business fraternity may give someone could help land someone an interview, but from there, every individual is on a level playing ground, he said.

“You might get lucky and have a senior member interviewing you who was part of your business fraternity, but at that point they probably have a stronger devotion to the company. They’re not going to take someone who they feel is not well qualified just because they were their fraternity brothers,” he said.

Business fraternities, however, point to their job placement records as proof of how valuable the networks and skills they provide are to members.

“The brothers of Alpha Kappa Psi have a strong track record of securing the most sought-out internships and full-time jobs across a wide array of industries,” Alpha Kappa Psi says on its website. Its members have gone onto jobs at Google, J.P. Morgan, NBC, Bloomberg and other major companies.

Jonathan Kwee can be reached at jkwee@cornellsun.com.

Venture Capitalists Embrace Risk,Alumnus Says

By ARSHAM MEMARZADEH Sun Contributor

Venture capitalists who have taken chances on budding startups have helped launch today’s most prominent companies, including Google, Apple Inc. and Microsoft.

Despite such success stories, many people do not

“Typical debt investors aren’t willing to take on that risk — it’s not in their profile, [unlike venture capitalists].”

Andrew Schoen ’12 quite understand how the venture capital industry operates or why it exists, according to Andrew Schoen ’12, a former analyst at Blackstone’s Structured Mergers & Acquisitions group.

Schoen, who is an incoming associate at New Enterprise Associates, one of the largest venture capital firms in the world, said venture capital exists because there are no other investors who are willing to take on such

high risk with their decide if they want appealing one to work Schoen said, money. Those who are active or passive money in, interested in the high- and target venture cap- describing the typical risk, high-return game italists accordingly,” day as a venture capiof venture capital Schoen said. “Active talist as being one filled believe that their money isn’t more with meetings with money will pay off, giv- expensive generally, but startups’ executives, brand reading tech news, siting them higher prestigious, returns than they name money from ting in on investment would have earned companies like Sequoia committee meetings with typical investments, Schoen added.

“Typical debt investors aren’t willing to take on that risk — it’s not in their profile, and they don’t have the expertise or knowledge to properly invest and realize those returns,” he said.

Startups generally offer anywhere from 20 to 35 percent of equity in their company in exchange for a capital investment, according to Schoen.

Unlike traditional investors, venture capitalists sometimes assume an active role in their portfolio companies’ operations. Some venture capitalists take positions on the boards of their companies, aid with companies’ strategy-making and even sometimes help find companies office space, according to Schoen.

Other venture capitals There are six stages of venture capital financing that corview themselves as pas- respond to the three stages of a company’s growth. sive investors who provide only monetary Capital, Accel Partners and attending networkand New Enterprise ing events. assistance, he added.

Unlike his former “ E n t r e p r e n e u r s Associates can be.” seeking funding should The industry is an job as a mergers and

acquisitions analyst, “venture capital does not require one to sit in front of an Excel model for five hours on end or spend an extra three hours formatting on PowerPoint,” Schoen said.

“Nevertheless, it is quite difficult to join the industry,” Schoen said. Only $30 billion of venture-backed capital flows into domestic startups annually. The industry is also small, made up of around 4,000 people.

There is no traditional path into the venture capital industry either. Schoen said his first real exposure to the industry came through helping build the Cornell Venture Capital Club.

“That’s how I got to know top firms in the industry.

Through working on small projects, I was able to develop fairly close working relationships with numerous venture capitalists,” he said.

“The industry is so small that it doesn’t take a lot for a person to build a reputation and have common connections.”

Other than joining Cornell Venture Capital Club, Schoen said that he recommends that those interested in venture capital

do at least one of the following: work in the tech industry, join a startup or get an engineering degree along with some type of business-related degree.

Schoen said that for aspiring entrepreneurs, “the best way to succeed is to focus on your team, have a good product and make sure you’re serving a market need.”

“Get the best team of people possible to develop a product that is as valuable and impactful in an area where there is significant need,” he said. “Potential customers must really benefit from your product or service.”

Venture capitalists tend to like companies they define as “painkillers” — companies that solve a problem — rather than “vitamins,” companies that consult on existing problems as an added convenience, according to Schoen.

“If you have a pain, you’ll be willing to seek a painkiller for a higher price than if you were doing fine and someone offered an option to do a little better,” he said.

Arsham Memarzadeh can be reached at am2342@cornell.edu.

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Cornellians and visitors alike will finally be able to taste Cornell Dairy ice cream on Jan.14, its planned release date, according to a University press release.

“We get up to 10 calls or emails a week asking when the ice cream is going to be available,” said Jason Huck, general manager of dairy operations.

According to Huck, production of Cornell Dairy ice cream began in October, months in advance of the expected release date.

“We made our first production run back in October of vanilla ice cream, which is the easiest to produce. We started there, then moved into chocolate and then various other flavors like cookie dough, cookies and cream, mint chocolate chip and Kahlua fudge,” Huck said. “There will be lots of new ice cream flavors coming, but at the moment, we’re just getting an inventory up of our base flavors to prepare for the oncoming surge. We’re building up an inventory of close to 10,000 gallons.”

Other flavors in production include Bavarian Raspberry Fudge, a “fan favorite,” and Triple Play Chocolate, which will begin production Wednesday, according to Huck.

Huck also said Cornell Dairy is currently collaborating with student leaders from the sophomore and junior classes, who will get the opportunity to have their ice cream produced in the dairy plant.

“We’re working with the classes of 2015 and 2016 right now to develop their class flavor, and we’ll produce it in the coming semester,” Huck said. “Once the recipe is finalized and the flavor [is] named, the Dairy Plant will produce the special ice cream and retail it through the Dairy Bar scoop shop.”

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and Technology of Foods,” are currently developing new ice cream flavors which will be judged by a panelist of ice cream experts and connoisseurs, according to Huck. The winning flavor will be produced by the dairy plant in the spring.

Huck said that among the renovations made to Stocking Hall, the biggest change is that visitors will be able to experience their ice cream being made up close from either the dairy observation gallery or walkway on Tower Road.

“What’s exciting is that if you’ve been to the facility, you’ll see that our ice cream production occurs right in front of the big window on Tower Road,” Huck said. “We’re always sure to keep spoons on hand to offer some to visitors behind the glass.”

Students expressed enthusiasm as the expected release date of Cornell Dairy ice cream inches nearer.

“As a sophomore who has never had the opportunity to experience Cornell Dairy ice cream, I am extremely excited for the deliciousness,” Mary Gibbs ’16 said.

Niajee Washington ’14 echoed Gibbs’ sentiment.

“It’s really exciting to have Cornell [Dairy] ice cream again on campus. I love supporting Cornell in any way I can, and this way in particular is an especially yummy one,” Washington said.

For Jayne Zurek ’16, who is a Sun designer, the return of Cornell Dairy ice cream marks the return of her childhood.

“I remember Cornell Dairy ice cream at my mom’s reunions when I was a child and have been anxiously waiting for Stocking Hall to open back up so I can have some again as a student,” Zurek said.

“The renovation seems worth it, though. I just can’t wait for the ice cream!”

In its appeal, the fraternity will have to meet with Susan Murphy ’73 PhD ’94, vice president for student and academic services, who is responsible for any review board appeals. Travis Apgar, associate dean of students, said that he wants the appeals process to take place “as swiftly as possible.”

As a result of losing recognition, DKE will not allowed to identify itself with Cornell, participate in bodies like the Interfraternity Council or recruit new members for at least three years, the University said Friday.

Additionally, DKE’s house will be closed down at the end of the

fall semester.

Although the University is still looking into what will happen with DKE’s physical house, it will likely be used as some type of residence hall, according to Apgar.

This is not the first time DKE was disciplined by the University. In November 2012, the chapter was placed on provisional recognition — conditional recognition during which the chapter is eligible for the benefits of full recognition — due to an “alcohol-related incident and a history of similar infractions over the past several years,” according to a University press release.

Apgar said while a loss of recognition could have been

possible without DKE’s provisional status, their standing “played a key role in the decision.”

The chapter was found accountable for the incident during a Greek Judicial Board hearing before standing before a university Review Board, which decided the terms of the chapter’s sanctioning. DKE had the opportunity to respond, during which it presented its new policies and shared how it has usednational DKE resources, according to Apgar.

Emma Court and Dara Levy can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

Students Take to Twitter, Express Pride SOLIDARITY

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“It is not enough to show up only when things go wrong. … 90 percent of our students graduate, but are the people happy?” said Student Assembly President Ulysses Smith ’14, who attended the event.

Students also reflected on the impact of their

“The solidarity with the #BB__ movement across the country is incredible! ” Black Students United race on the community online, taking to Twitter with the hashtag #BBCU to share what they think

“Being Black at Cornell University” means.

“The solidarity with the #BB___ movement across the country is incredible! The Black experience is beautiful,” Black Students United tweeted Friday.

The hashtag movement leading up to Black Solidarity Day was first launched by the University of

Michigan’s chapter of Black Students United, which asked students to share their “unique experiences of being black at Michigan,” according to The Michigan Daily.

Frank Menz can be reached at frm36@cornellsun.com.

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U.S. Weighs In On North Korean Meth Dealing

Nuclear talks

NEW YORK (AP) — An international drug trafficker was caught on tape this year making a “Breaking Bad”-worthy boast about his ability to provide the U.S. market with mass quantities of methamphetamine — not blue, but still potent and from a unique source.

“We have the NK product,” he said, according to court papers.

“It’s only us who can get it from NK.” By “NK,” he meant North Korea, where U.S. authorities say meth production and trafficking present an emerging threat that's been illuminated by a case brought in federal court in Manhattan against a tattooed motorcycle gang leader, two Brits named Stammers and Shackels, and two other expatriates also operating in Southeast Asia.

The five men were snared in a sting operation involving undercover Drug Enforcement Administration operatives, identified in the papers only as confidential sources, who posed as buyers in a fake plot to distribute the meth in New York City.

In Pyongyang, a spokesman for North Korean’s foreign ministry responded last week with a sharply worded statement saying the country strictly forbids drug manufacturing drug smuggling. It called the case “another politically motivated puerile charade” spread by “the Western reptile media.”

But experts on North Korea say signs of a steady output of meth there — and the potential for global distribution — is very real.

Oklahoma Shooting Leaves Four Dead, One Wounded

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President Barack Obama prepares to talk about an agreement that would temporarily halt Iran’s nuclear program at the White House in Washington on Saturday night.

Sequestration Budget Cuts Force Military Training Adjustments FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. (AP) — The skies above Shaw Air Force Base in central South Carolina and the fields across Fort Campbell on the TennesseeKentucky line have been a bit quieter in recent months.

Budget cuts to the military have forced installations around the country to alter training exercises and daily routines to save money. For airmen and pilots, that means fewer flights.

For soldiers and Marines, it means fewer drills or delaying them until a deployment nears.

The automatic budget cuts, known as sequestration, come as the military is in the midst of a drawdown in Afghanistan and shrinking its overall size.

The Army has retooled training regimens to focus on soldiers deploying to Afghanistan and

Korea — those who will be in hostile areas soonest, said George Wright, a civilian Army spokesman in Washington. The Army curtailed training to smaller units of eight to 14 soldiers each —the squad level — for 80 percent of the fighting force in fiscal year 2013 and canceled seven Brigade Combat Team training center rotations.

In cases where only part of a brigade is deploying from Fort Campbell, some soldiers are being pushed into field training while others are held back until their departure date draws nearer, spokesman Bob Jenkins said.

“That way, we’re able to meet the requirements for the people being trained for deployment and make sure they had all the things that were required,” Jenkins said. “If people were

supposed to go out and shoot 500 rounds one day, they went out and fired 500 rounds. That didn’t change.”

The 77th Fighter Squadron, one of three that make up the 20th Fighter Wing at Shaw, was told to stand down in April after it returned from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. It was one of several groups in the 9th Air Force ordered to idle jets for weeks in response to the automatic budget cuts.

Col. Clark Quinn, the F-16 wing’s vice commander, said the pilots were given the vacation time they would have normally taken and then put into ground training, such as on computer simulators. It gave them a chance to rest, and polish up some of their technical skills, he said.

Storm Threatens Thanksgiving Travel (AP) — A large storm already blamed for at least eight deaths in the West slogged through Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico and other parts of the Southwest on Sunday, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations as it slowly churned east ahead of Thanksgiving.

After the storm plows through the Southwest, meteorologists expect the Arctic mass to head south and east, threatening plans for Tuesday and Wednesday as people hit the roads and airports for some of the busiest travel days of the year.

More than 300 flights were cancelled at Dallas-Fort Worth

International Airport, representing about one-third of the scheduled departures, and a spokeswoman said deicing equipment had been prepared as officials planned for the worst in a flurry of conference calls and meetings.

“It’s certainly going to be a travel impact as we see the first few people making their way for Thanksgiving,” National Weather Service meteorologist Tom Bradshaw said.

The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for chunks of North Texas from noon Sunday until midday Monday.

Parts of Oklahoma are also

under a winter storm warning, while an advisory has been issued for other parts of the state. A mix of rain and sleet began falling north of Dallas on Interstate 35 by midday Sunday, and areas of southwestern Oklahoma woke up to several inches of snow.

Some elevated overpasses had icy surfaces, but Bradshaw said the worst weather could be expected between 3 a.m. and 9 a.m., possibly snarling morning rush hour.

Several inches of snow fell overnight in Altus in far southwestern Oklahoma, said Damaris Machabo, a receptionist at a Holiday Inn motel.

TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Four people were killed and a fifth person was hospitalized after being shot in a Tulsa residence, police said Sunday.

The victims were shot by a lone gunman at close range Saturday night, police said. The Tulsa World reports that officers are looking for a suspect.

Police said a shooting involving multiple victims was reported to authorities about 7 p.m. Investigators said the home had been the scene of several drug arrests.

Officers arrived to find two people dead, a man and a woman both between 30 and 40 years old, responders said. A second woman, who appeared to be in her 50s, was pronounced dead at a hospital, said Kelli Bruer, EMSA spokeswoman.

Sgt. Dave Walker of the Tulsa Police Department told television station KOTV that the fourth victim was a woman in her 50s.

Officials said a fifth person was hospitalized in serious condition.

Capt. Dave Roberts said the investigation had yet to reveal a motive. There is an indication that the suspect might have known the victims.

“We have someone who said they heard a vehicle leave rapidly after the shooting happened and so we believe he left in a vehicle,”Roberts said.

Officers who arrived on the scene found a back door open. The victims did not initially answer police who called to them from the doorway, but the officers soon heard sounds of distress and entered a converted garage area, Roberts said.

More people were in another part of the house at the time of the shooting, he said. They remained at the scene and were cooperating with police.

Bruer said medics also evaluated an uninjured child at the home.

Police said the home had been the scene of several drug arrests within the last year, including at least five occasions where officers were called to the location.

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Ariel Smilowitz | Why You Should Care

International Days: How Effective Are They?

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n Nov. 17, NGOs, governmental institutions and organizations from around the world recognized World Prematurity Day in an attempt to raise awareness about premature birth and how it can be prevented. Two days later, the United Nations and others observed World Toilet Day, an “international day of action” that aims to draw attention to global sanitation challenges. Today is International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and in keeping with the trend, Dec. 1 is World AIDS Day. However, in light of all of these recent international days, it is worth asking how effective these days truly are.

Are they actually impactful? Do they successfully raise awareness of high-profile issues that people around the world face on a daily basis?

These dates have been internationally recognized for years, along with multiple events and observances throughout the year.

These include World Population Day, International Day of the Girl Child, World Mental Health Day and World Cancer Day, among others. As of right now, the UN observes a total of 118 international days each year; this month, a total of 14 international days are being recognized, and this week two days — International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women and International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People — will be observed around the world.

Typically, each international day is accompanied by a set of fact sheets, brochures, websites, videos, messages, blogs and events, all of which are meant to provide people with background informa-

However, although these events and observances have occured for years, even decades, how many of them are reaching students on college campuses? tion about each global issue. Each day is supposed to provide a platform for people to raise their voice about a certain issue, a forum to exchange thoughts and ideas about the origins of a problem and its possible solutions. It can also act as a rallying point for people to come together and translate their words and thoughts into action. Last week, in honor of World Toilet Day, the city of San Francisco decorated toilets and put them on display as part of a public art installation; this public display is a representation of the fact that about 2.5 billion people around the world do not have access to clean and private toilets. In addition, this public display of a private fixture coincided with efforts to raise awareness about a project to convert retired MUNI buses into mobile showers for the city’s homeless population.

San Francisco’s display is just one of the many events that take place every year in conjunction with these international days.

However, although these events and observances have occurred for years, even decades, how many of them are reaching students on college campuses? Our University does recognize some of these days.

For example, in conjunction with today’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, people around the world are also celebrating the 16 Days Campaign of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence from Nov. 25 through Dec. 10. As a part of the campaign, Cornell Law School’s Avon Global Center for Women and Justice plans to write a blog post for each of the 16 days to highlight different topics related to gender-based violence.

Although the Avon Center’s blog is one great example of student and university-based activism in support of these international days, is writing a blog enough to truly be engage students at Cornell? Do our professors ever start their lectures with an announcement about World Health Day or International Widows’ Day, provide some background information and then allow for a brief discussion of the issue? Even if they did, how impactful and meaningful would the day then become? Would anything change?

The answers to these questions are complicated and unclear.

However, as we move into this next week, it may be worth it to ponder these questions and the effectiveness of these international days, and to think about what more our University can bring to the table in order to raise awareness about the most acute and compelling problems that we as a society face today.

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

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Do Something Different

o all the seniors considering what lies ahead: My name is Neha, I am a proud graduate of the Class of 2013 and I’m writing to ask that when it comes to your post-graduation plans, you consider doing something different. A year ago, the Cornell bubble was telling me I essentially had one of four options: banking, consulting, technology or grad school. There were a few unique choices out there (I distinctly remember a job having to do with sharks on CCNet), but those four options were “it” and anything else was just too out of the box to really be buzzworthy. In May, our Cornell bubble burst and into the “real world” we fell.

Unlike many of my classmates headed to New York City after graduation, I boarded a plane to Accra, Ghana, to intern at a mobile agricultural tech startup for six months. I had no idea what I was getting myself into; in the weeks leading up to graduation, most people referred to my upcoming plans as “doing something in Africa.” The factors leading to my decision were pretty generic: I had some time between graduating and starting my job (in consulting no less!), I knew I wanted to travel and I knew that having just graduated college, I was dead broke with no chance of a postgraduation romp through Europe. Instead of resigning myself to

months at home, I decided to take the opportunity to do something different.

Up until this point, Cornell’s alumni network had been pretty useless for me: I’d attended a networking event for Cornell women, reunion events for a few organizations I was involved with and I’d even cold-emailed a few alumni whose career paths I admired.

Reaching out got me nowhere and I felt more frustrated with every attempt. But the network redeemed itself when I happened upon an on-campus presentation by a recent graduate from my major in which he described a similar dilemma to my own and

started my job hunt senior year, I felt woefully unprepared to present myself as an able potential employee. Seriously. I don’t know how to quality assurance test a software application. I don’t know how to write up a complete business strategy with a financial model. I don’t even know how to balance a budget (I really should have taken that Personal Finance course…). The fact that a company was really excited to have me was a huge surprise. They wanted me to spread the culture of “entrepreneurship” — which is relatively abundant at Cornell, but a somewhat foreign concept in Accra — to my co-workers.

In the insane rat race seniors put themselves through for postgraduation plans, we often lose sight of the big picture. how he solved it for himself. I approached him after the presentation and he graciously put me in touch with a few relevant contacts. Soon after, I had accepted a shortterm stint in Ghana with a stipend that just covered my plane ticket and living costs.

What surprised me most about the process wasn’t that the college alumni network actually works (though, believe me, that was surprising), but rather that this startup I was going to work for was really excited to have me. When I first

They wanted me to share the ways in which I fleshed out concepts and broke down problems.

They were willing to house me, pay me and train me, for skills that seemed standard among my peers. In the insane rat race seniors put themselves through for post-graduation plans, we often lose sight of the big picture. But I promise you, in that big picture not only can we go toe-to-toe with the world’s best and brightest, we actually have important skills to share.

As I near the end of

my time here in Accra, I can’t even imagine going back to start work in the city. Throughout the summer, I saw Facebook photos of Manhattan brunches, San Francisco farmers’ markets and med school white-coat ceremonies. I felt pangs of jealousy and mild FOMO because they had friends to support them, relatively familiar surroundings and the ability to buy Kraft macaroni & cheese. But as I grew into a life 5,000 miles away, I slowly let that all go. To be working at a company that has placed me far beyond cultural and social familiarity is the greatest decision I could have made. It’s been indescribably impactful, and I want more Cornellians to experience that.

I know our cynical 22-year-old minds quickly discard the idea that “everything will work out.” As Cornellians, we have Plans A through F. But things sure work out a hell of a lot better than the Cornell bubble leads us to believe. Sometimes, it just requires us to seek out opportunities beyond the ones that stare us right in the face. I encourage you to pop the bubble and do something different.

Neha Shah ’13 is a graduate from the College of Arts and Sciences and currently works as a product manager for Esoko. She may be reached at nss57@cornell.edu. Guest Room runs periodically this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Let the Sun Shine In! Hair Comes to Risley Theatre

BY EMILY KLING Sun Staff Writer

This past weekend, the ‘Age of Aquarius’ was resurrected for students crammed into Risley’s sold out production of Hair. Over the course of the performance, directed by Tori Dahl, flowers, weed, LBJ, LSD, Vietnam and free love filled the room and brought the audience back to the 1960s.

Hair originally debuted in 1967, and despite being squarely placed in a specific era, it continues to be a powerhouse musical today. The musical centers around a hippie-tribe with a myriad of characters whose personalities shine through in solos and dance numbers. The show lacks a coherent plot, but the most clear storyline revolves around Claude (Elliott Casparian), the only tribe-member that is seen with his parents and at home. Claude must decide whether or not he is going to burn his draft card (which he appears increasingly hesitant to do), or follow his parent’s wishes — to enlist and fight in the Vietnam War.

What becomes evident in Hair is that it is not just a clear-cut celebration of the counterculture it depicts.

In his role as Claude, Elliott Casparian really connects with the audience. Despite the ‘freelove’ tribe mentality, it becomes clear throughout the musical that Claude has more emotional feelings for the character Sheila played

by Lauren Hunt. As proven in her solo, “Easy to be Hard,” about Sheila’s unrequited love for another tribe member, Berger (Teddy Billings), she had one of Hair’s more notably strong and beautiful voices.

What becomes evident in Hair is that it is not just a clear-cut celebration of the counterculture it depicts. Many of the characters express dissatisfaction at unrequited love (including the two examples

mentioned earlier) that seems inevitable with the tribe’s emphasis on ‘free love’. All the while, the kids of Hair are sweet, friendly, playful and enraptured within the context of their real struggle against the American government and older generations. This is where the rest of the Tribe comes in. The scenery of the play is, at least relative to other musicals, unadorned — it boasts only a few carpets and flower

baskets in the background. Instead, the tribe becomes a sort of active scenery. As the backdrop to the musical numbers, the tribe members play around

with each other, smoke, joke and kiss, which all greatly contribute to the overwhelming free-spiritedness of the musical. It honestly looked like every member of the tribe was having the time of their life which was incredibly infectious for the audience.

Others that deserve some recognition include Sean Doolittle, who played Woof; Teddy Billings, who played Berger; Emily Walker, who played the very pregnant Jeanie; Tré Calhoun, who played Hudson and Jillian Holch who played Claude’s mother. If I could, I would list everyone in that musical as they all did an incredible job.

One scene I feel obligated to mention for its historical significance is the one in which all of the tribe members, with the exception of Claude, get naked.

Historically, this has been a scene of much controversy. Many productions have even removed it — which I would argue is a greater perversion than any nude-scene, but I suppose that is a different story. I think Tori Dahl did a great job not only in his execution of the scene (and the entire musical, for that matter), but also for even including it. The scene, wherein tribe members sang “Where Do I Go?” while exposed, with the slight concealment of protestsigns, remained true to the musical as well as to the students performing and audience watching.

Additionally, the song itself, as with all of the others, was great – it jumped back and forth between fun and serious tones, addressing both historical context and greater themes of the human condition. Credit goes to Geoff Peterson, the music director as well as the conductor for the orchestra.

The last moments of the play embody what it is all about. As the tribe sings the famous “The Flesh Failures (Let the Sunshine In)” they bring audience members up to dance with them on stage. Throughout the play the tribe interacted with the audience, bringing them into their tribe and struggle. Hair is fun, hopeful, and poignant all at the same time. Risley put on a fantastic production — and it is no surprise that every night was sold out.

Emily Kling is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ekling@conellsun.com.

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“GET A JOB” At the Schwartz Center, Will Gluck ’93 Tells It Like It Is

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Staff Writer

Last Saturday afternoon at the Schwartz Center Film Forum, director and screenwriter Will Gluck ’93 answered close to two hours of student questions about the film industry and life after Cornell. Best known for directing and writing films such as Easy A (2010) and Friends with Benefits (2011), as well as producing the current NBC comedy The Michael J. Fox Show, Gluck answered obligatory questions about working with Justin Timberlake and his 2009 teen comedy Fired Up! (“Don’t ever mention that movie again”) and provided extensive advice for students looking to make a career in Hollywood.

“It’s very easy to get your first job,” he told an audience consisting mostly of performing and media arts majors — and it is “so easy to tell who’s good.”

Once your foot’s in the door, he advised, you have to pick what you like to do and “run like crazy to that. Even if you’re offered a promotion and a lot more money, if it’s not something you want to do, don’t do it.”

A lot of the talk felt like a movieworld gossip dish, as Gluck bashed the ego behind the Writer’s Strike of 2009, explained some of his hang-ups with actor “processes” and outlined how a director can end up in “movie jail.”

While the Writer’s Strike was ostensibly about fair payment for digital downloads, Gluck asserted that digital download information was “highly proprietary and insanely expensive. You’ll

never get that information from Netflix, not even from iTunes. Go home to your parents and get respect.” The term “movie jail” is one apparently applied to directors who have worn out their welcome in Hollywood and are in something of a timeout. The example Gluck gave was M. Night Shyamalan, saying, “He’s a fraud. He made The Sixth Sense, which was a phenomenon, and then he made, what? Signs, Unbreakable, After Earth? He’s in movie jail. Go smoke up or whatever you guys do, look at IMDB, and you can tell when a director has been put in movie jail. It’ll be a string of movies and then just nothing.”

Gluck joked that Easy A and Friends with Benefits had earned him a couple of “freebies” in this vein, which transitioned into his discussion about his current project, a remake of Annie starring Jamie Foxx, Cameron Diaz and Oscarnominated Beasts of the Southern Wild actress Quvenshané Wallis. “Worst-case scenario,” he said, “if it’s the worst piece of garbage ever put on film, it’ll still be a hit. Because it’s Annie.” Remakes are a tricky business, especially when trying to provide a contemporary context for a familiarly dated story, but Gluck seemed unafraid of the challenge, saying, “Why remake anything? Everyone here knew Annie; even the dudes in here know all the songs. It’s a story about family and it’s a story about socioeconomic disadvantages. Those are two things that are never going to go away.” The remake will feature eight songs from the original and three completely new songs done by Sia, and Gluck noted that he took heavy advantage of the connections of producer, Jay-Z. Nobody asked if he was wor-

ried about the kitsch-connotations of a Jay-Z producer credit and his “invite my buddies” mentality about soundtrack, a choice which was fairly costly in Baz Luhrman’s The Great Gatsby (2013) remake.

Gluck also talked extensively about ongoing changes in the movie industry, noting that “Hollywood is falling apart” and explaining how the shift to consuming media online has facilitated a trend of making “fewer, bigger movies” — or, only the ones that studios know people will pay to see in theaters. To prove this point, he asked, “Who is going to see the new Hunger Games this weekend?” These statements prompted the obvious questions about the independent realm and democratization of film-making, of which Gluck was fairly encouraging but warned, “Just remember, content is still going to be king.” Moreover, he further hazarded any kind of reliance on Netflix, saying, “They’re a great model. But they don’t want to hear a pitch; they just want to hear who’s in it. They can type a few names into a computer and know immediately if people are going to watch it.”

With the somewhat disheartening Hollywood-constraints discussion taken care of, students began wandering into more personal territory, asking Gluck what types of movies he would make if he were allowed to do whatever he wanted. Gluck admitted that he was working on getting a couple of smaller pet-projects green-lighted and offered up that his dream TV program would be a show about 1800’s lottery winners. “Just imagine, it’s the same thing that it is today, except you start with a long shot of a guy in an ascot chopping trees.” He said he

was excited about Annie and was enjoying the process but that his strong suit and preference lies in smaller comedies because big dance scenes and extended action sequences are “more math, less fun — you can’t come up with ideas in the moment. I much prefer scenes where it’s just two people talking about themselves and you can try stuff.”

The talk wrapped up with some parting advice for aspiring film majors, with Gluck stating “I don’t really believe in film school that much at all. Get a job on a TV show. People would rather hire someone they know.” Further, he advised, “If you get a job that’s terrible you get out that day.” It’s hard to climb the ranks and you have to work for it, but it’s “really, really easy to tell who’s good, I can’t say this enough.” Once you’re where you want to be, it’s one of the most fun jobs in the world: “I’ve never said ‘Thank God it’s Friday’ in my life.”

His parting shot? “Cornell had nothing to do with this. That’s what I’m going to leave you with. GET A JOB.” Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

Coming to Terms With‘It’ I

’m still a bit drunk from last night. There’s a soothing buzzing echoing in my head.

In a few hours this buzz will be replaced by the sound of a lawnmower going over a field of hard acorns and kittens. It was not always like this. While the freshman Me could shake off a previous night’s consumption with an Odwalla smoothie and a quick scamper around Beebe Lake, the senior Brian will lie in bed with the shades drawn, watching Friday Night Lights episodes until the sun sets. Harsher hangovers are a sign that I’m getting older. There are others too. My friends now have spare tires for stomachs.

My hair now finds its way into the shower drain. I’ve started enjoying sitcoms on CBS. For many, the fact that famous people are now younger than they are is a particularly difficult sign of aging to process. This week’s most anticipated album release came from Jake Bugg, age 19. Lorde was born in 1996, a year many seniors may faintly remember. The idea that more and more famous people are younger is very weird to experience. I realize that sentence isn’t the most poignant analysis but I’ve been thinking about this for a while now and “weird” is the best I’ve come up with.

Watching ESPN highlights of freshmen basketball phenoms going for 30 is weird. Listening to Earl Sweatshirt rap or a 19-year-old actress get interviewed on the Daily Show is weird.

There’s a sort of melancholy to watching these people achieve a level of artistic and athletic success. It’s a final affirmation that

your wild fantasies about performing at Bonnaroo or taking charge in the Final Four are never going to happen. Even though I’ve never held a guitar pick in my life and my basketball career stalled at the J.V. level, watching Jake Bugg and Jabari Parker do what they do leaves me with a tinge of regret.

There’s a little more regret when you experience people your age or younger succeeding in fields you always sort of wish you’d pursued. I like comedy and I like to write. There might be some lamenting on my part once the cast members of SNL start having post1992 birth dates. If only things had gone differently. If only I’d applied to be a theater major at NYU instead of an Industrial and Labor Relations major at Cornell, then maybe I could be working in the SNL writer’s room instead of a cubicle in an HR

Brian Gordon Run it Back department. When people are older than you, there remains the possibility that their success is a byproduct of their extra years on this earth. But once the excuse of time is gone, you more definitively realize those dreams are not to be.

Another sort of scary thing about getting

old is how staying with “it” becomes more of a challenge.

“It” is a cultural concept. As Grandpa Abe Simpson explains to a teenage Homer, “I used to be with it, but then they changed what "it" was.

Now, what I'm with ‘isn't it,’ and what's "it" seems weird and scary to me. It’ll happen to you.” I won’t pretend I am, or have ever been fully with “it,” but as an Arts columnist I feel I can at least recognize what “it” is. But “it” is in a continual state of motion. Once real life starts, time to keep up with “it” diminishes. Days are eaten up by commutes, work, kids, wifey, girlfriend and mistresses. There’s less time to scan through Rotten Tomatoes, Rolling Stone and Tumblrs when TPS reports are due on the boss’s desk at 11 and little Billy has pinkeye again.

The more famous people begin being younger than you, the more you are reminded that you are no longer the future, but instead somewhere between the present and the past. And what feeling is more irrelevant than the past? For while we all love grandma and grandpa and the hard candies they provide, in more than one way they are but a novelty to the rest of society’s daily functions. Unless Johnny Knoxville plays them, old people are yesterday’s news. As Homer says to Grandpa Simpson in another episode “Aw, Dad. You’ve done a lot of great things, but you’re a

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very old man now, and old people are useless.”

Once we lose a firm grasp on “it” I fear we become the old people at family gatherings who sit in the corner and make inane Andy Rooney-like comments about the current state of society. Grapefruits aren’t as good as they used to be. Do we really need iPhones and iPads? When did $ become a letter? Pull up your pants, sport. I give you all permission to euthanize me if I ever get to that point. But the thing is, I likely will. I think we all might get to that point if we’re lucky. So maybe the answer is to embrace losing “it” and stock up on the best hard candies so our grandchildren still visit us sometimes.

Those are all my thoughts on the matter.

I’m going to go throw up now. Go East Dillon Lions!

Brian Gordon is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Run it Back appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Steelers Take Down Browns Expensive Nets Lose Their Fifth CLEVELAND (AP) — Their horrendous start has long been forgotten, erased with an equally unexpected turnaround.

The Steelers are in contention, right back where they belong. The playoffs are possible.

Ben Roethlisberger threw touchdown passes to Antonio Brown and Emmanuel Sanders and beat Cleveland for the 16th time as Pittsburgh, which opened the season with four straight losses, pushed deeper into the postseason picture with a 27-11 win over the Browns on Sunday.

The Steelers (5-6) have climbed back with a one-game-at-a-time philosophy that they’re not about to abandon.

‘I’m not looking around,’ Roethlisberger said, quickly dismissing any postseason speculation. ‘It’s all about focus.

This game is over now. That’s all we can control.’

Roethlisberger connected on a 41-yard TD pass to Brown in the first half, and hit Sanders on a 4-yarder in the third quarter for the Steelers, who only have a few days to get ready for a Thanksgiving game at Baltimore — a matchup that didn’t look as if it would be very meaningful a few weeks back.

Roethlisberger finished 22 of 34 for 217 yards and improved to 16-1 against the Browns (4-7), who have lost five of six and seen a promising season turn into yet another miserable one.

An Ohio native, Roethlisberger relishes beating a team from his home state.

‘It’s homecoming, you know, a home game,’ he said. ‘So it does feel good.’

The Browns (4-7) lost starting quarterback Jason Campbell to a concussion in the third quarter when he was sacked by cornerback William Gay. Campbell was struck in the helmet by Gay and his head snapped back and banged the turf. He spent several

moments flat on his back in the middle of the field, a symbolic moment for the Browns, who were smashed again by their AFC North rival.

In his first season, Browns coach Rob Chudzinski has cycled through three starting quarterback because of injuries. He had to play Brandon Weeden again and may have to start the beleaguered second-year QB next week against Jacksonville.

Weeden got booed when he came off the bench and things got tougher for him in the fourth, when Gay intercepted his pass and returned it 21 yards for a TD, giving the Steelers a 27-3 lead.

‘You’ve just go to laugh at it,’ Weeden said of the booing.

One bright spot for Cleveland was wide receiver Josh Gordon. He tied a team record with 14 receptions and set a club mark with 237 yards.

After losing to Minnesota on Sept. 29, the Steelers looked old, slow and a shell of themselves. Things didn’t look any better when they gave up 55 points and 610 yards to New England earlier this month.

But with three straight wins, they’re where they usually are when the schedule moves toward December.

‘When we were 0-4, we knew we couldn’t get four straight wins in one week,’ said rookie running back Le’Veon Bell, who gained 80 yards. ‘We had to chip away at it and take it one game at a time. Now we’re 5-6, so we’re just going to keep grinding and grinding.’

The Steelers have turned one of the NFL’s best rivalries into a laughable, onesided affair, going 25-5 against the Browns since 1999.

Campbell’s scary injury has Cleveland’s season on a familiar slide. He was leveled on the blind-side blitz by Gay, who came in untouched and dislodged the ball.

Straight,Succumbing to Pistons NEW YORK (AP) — They are the NBA’s most expensive team, filled with All-Stars and the belief they can contend for a championship.

Here’s what else the Brooklyn Nets are at the moment: a last-place disappointment.

‘Tough times right now,’ forward Kevin Garnett said.

They got tougher Sunday, when reserve Rodney Stuckey scored a season-high 27 points in the Detroit Pistons’ 10997 victory that sent the Nets to a fifth straight loss and sole possession of the Atlantic Division basement.

The Nets, with their enormous payroll and enormous expectations, fell to 3-10, a half-game behind the New York Knicks, and were hearing boos at Barclays Center in the second half.

‘The ball’s just bouncing the opponent’s way right now and we’ve just got to stay together,’ coach Jason Kidd said.

Greg Monroe had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Pistons, who bounced back from con-

secutive losses to Atlanta.

Brandon Jennings added 14 points and 10 assists, making all 10 free throws to make up for a 2-for-10 shooting performance.

‘Road wins are hard to get and any time you get a road win it’s huge,’ Pistons coach Maurice Cheeks said.

Joe Johnson made eight 3-pointers and scored a season-high 34 points, but the shorthanded Nets couldn’t overcome another cold night from Paul Pierce and Garnett, who were a combined 7 for 22.

Pierce finished with 19 points, but was 5 of 13 after making his last two when the game was long since decided.

Garnett shot 2 of 9 for four points.

The Nets again played without starters Brook Lopez and Deron Williams, who have sprained left ankles, and top reserves Andrei Kirilenko (back spasms) and Jason Terry (bruised left knee).

‘It’s tough when look at the record, 3-10, 3-11, whatever our record is, and know we’ve dug our-

selves quite a big hole, no matter if we’ve got the injuries or not,’ Pierce said. ‘We still feel like we’re talented enough to win these type of games.’

They played a strong first half but were undone again by a miserable third quarter, as they have in all 10 losses.

The Nets had been outscored by 77 points (8.6 per game) in the third quarters of their first nine losses and they were even worse in this one, getting clobbered 34-15.

‘We have to be worst team in the league when it comes to third quarters and that’s not acceptable,’ Garnett said.

Leading by seven at halftime, Brooklyn needed less than 4 minutes to fall behind by four after Detroit came out of the locker room with a 15-4 spurt. Then, leading by one midway through the period, the Pistons outscored the Nets 17-6 to close the quarter and take a 78-66 advantage to the fourth.

Stuckey kept the Nets at bay from there, scoring 17 in the fourth.

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Men’s Ice Hockey Takes Down Bulldogs, Bears T his past weekend, thanks to a power play goal in the first period from junior forward Brian Ferlin, the Red took down defending champion Yale in a 2-1 showdown at Lynah. Cornell also swept Brown in a 5-1 take down on Friday. The Red will wrap up its trio of home games with a showdown against Niagara on Tuesday before heading to Madison Square Garden on Saturday for a big time game against Boston University.

As for the other ECAC competitors, Colgate snatched a 3-1 win over Brown Saturday thanks to 38 total saves from the Raider’s rookie goalie Charlie Finn. Colgate looks to Dec. 7 where it will face the Red for its next matchup.

Quinnipiac took down Princeton in a 3-0 game on Friday but the Tigers came back and took the 4-3 game against the Bobcats Saturday to even out the weekend. St. Lawrence and Rochester also had double game weekends, each winning one apiece.

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Winning both | The Cornell men’s ice hockey team won both weekend games against Yale and Brown.

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he Cornell women’s ice hockey team got a break this weekend after coming off of a 4-2 win over Dartmouth on Nov. 16.

Freshman forward Hanna Bunton was also named the ECAC Rookie of the Week last week — her second honor so far

this season.

Friday was all about Boston University falling to Harvard, 31, St. Lawrence and Quinnipiac tying at 1-1 and Clarkson crushing Princeton, 7-0.

Saturday’s play ended with Clarkson taking home a 3-0 win over Quinnipiac. St. Lawrence

end’s play, despite the Bulldog’s junior goalie Jaimie Leonoff making 48 saves against the Gophers. The Bulldogs will face off againast UConn on Nov. 29.

stole a 4-1 win over Princeton thanks to a game-winning goal from senior co-captain Mel Desrochers. St. Lawrence is back in action against Mercyhurst for a duo of games Tuesday and Wednesday.

Yale fell to Minnesota, 4-1, Sunday to finish out the week-

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

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A day off | The Cornell women’s ice hockey team got a break this weekend after a 4-2 win over the Green.

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his own and all the seniors’ careers didn’t end on such a sour note.

“Penn made some good plays, too, but ultimately it came down to Tre’ blocking that kick, and that’s unbelievable,” Mathews said. “He went out and pretty much won us the game.”

“That win shows just how much fight this senior class has,” Minor said. “Of course the season didn’t go as we wanted it to, but with how much we really fought, it shows how much we really wanted this program to be successful. Even after we dropped seven games in a row, we still were able to fight and overcome all the adversity and win the last two for not only ourselves but for the program itself.”

Mathews completed 33-of-47 passes for 467 yards, four touchdowns and two interceptions. The 467 yards was just the sixth-highest number of his career and brought his total at Cornell to 11,284 yards, as well as 72 touchdowns.

Mathews also rushed for his ninth career touchdown to give the Red a 35-21 advantage in the fourth quarter.

Just like in Cornell’s 48-38 win in the 2011 season finale on Franklin Field — when Mathews amassed a career-high and Ivy record 548 yards — three Red players surpassed 100 yards receiving Saturday. Senior receiver Grant Gellatly caught 11 passes for 179 yards and Cornell’s first touchdown of the game in the second quarter. Junior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro hauled in 10 recep-

tions for 164 yards and the visitors’ second score, while Hagy added 10 catches for 114 yards and two touchdowns.

“Our guys were just making plays,” Mathew said. “Grant had a huge day catching a lot of short passes and running after the catch, and he had a couple down the field. Also, [Shapiro] caught a bunch of good balls down the field. And then Hagy and the backfield were awesome again. We were really just focusing on getting the ball to our playmakers and they did the rest.”

But the Red knew it was not just going to run away with an easy victory. Penn staged an impressive comeback and fell inches short, as the Quakers had a week before when trimming a 380 deficit to 38-30 before ultimately falling at Harvard by that score.

“The Penn offense is very versatile, and they’re very physical up front,” Minor said. And they’re just really, really gritty — a neversay-die bunch. They’re very resilient and they fight all the way to the end.”

Minor tallied three tackles, the essential game-ending block and his first career interception in the second quarter. Sophomore cornerback Michael Turner added a second Cornell pick in the fourth quarter to get the ball back right after Mathews’ first interception.

In a complete team effort, no Red defender recorded more tackles than freshman linebacker Miles Norris’ six. Senior linebacker Brett Buehler chipped in five stops to finish the season with 103 and his career with 256.

It certainly was the perfect ending for the Cornell football Class

of 2014. After investing four years of time, energy and patience, the seniors now have a strong finish to their careers to hang their hat on.

“After losing seven straight games, it was like, ‘Alright, we’re not going to remember the team that just kind of limped out of here,’” Mathews said. “We want to make sure that regardless of what our situation is, we’re going to fight until the end. That’s what our team is about, that’s what our group of guys is about and we did that. We won on Senior Day and then were able to go down to Franklin Field and win there, so that’s how I think this group should be remembered — as a bunch of fighters.”

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Red Falls to Siena in Tight Contest

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Though second-half struggles have plagued the men’s basketball team through the first five games of the season, Friday night’s home matchup against Siena would prove differently. In fact, the Red outscored its opponent in the final twenty minutes for the first time all season. However, an offensive rebound and put back in the paint with seven seconds left on the clock was what sunk the squad this weekend, as Siena escaped Newman arena with a 71-70 victory, handing Cornell its sixth consecutive loss.

Before Friday night’s game against the Saints, head coach Bill Courtney highlighted how important rebounding would be in keeping his team in the game.

“We have to rebound the basketball against those guys who will be going to the glass hard,” he said. “If we get those things done, we will be okay.”

And though the Red did outrebound its opponent, it took only one slip-up at a crucial moment to reverse the squad’s fortunes. Siena’s big-man Imoh Silas was difficult to contain all night, as he led the Saints with 17 points and 14 rebounds, seven of them offensive. The final one came off a missed layup in the paint by Marquis Wright, and Silas was able to convert. Now trailing by one, the Red still had seven seconds and the ball in its hands for a last second shot, but senior forward Dwight Tarwater’s three-pointer at the buzzer was off the mark.

Tarwater led the Red’s effort on Friday, recording his second double-double of the year with 12 points and a career-high 13 rebounds. Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler was once again the main source of offense for the team, scoring a game-high 25 points on an impressive 11-of-19 shooting from the field. Junior guard

Devin Cherry also had 17 points and four assists, but he fouled out of the game with four minutes left on the clock. Fouls plagued the Red throughout the physical contest, as there were 53 total called in the game.

Freshman guard Robert Hatter also fouled out with eight minutes left in the game, meaning both of the Red’s main ball handlers were confined to the bench down the stretch.

Though the Red came out on the losing end, Friday’s night’s game was a definite improvement in terms of second half play. Cornell outscored the Saints 33-28 in the second half, including a 19-3 run out of the locker room spurred by Cressler and Cherry. However, according to Courtney, offensive production in the second period has only been half the story.

“It’s our defense more than anything that has caused us problems in the second half,” he said.

In that regard, the Red also saw significant improvements. Cornell forced Siena to cough the ball up five times in the second half, compared to three in the first, and was able to capitalize on those opportunities, scoring eight points off turnovers in the final twenty minutes. After disappointing losses to Syracuse and Binghamton where the Red held significant leads in the first half, this stat-line can only be looked at as a sign of good things to come.

The Red will look to build off these strides tonight against Radford, in its second straight home matchup.

The Highlanders visit Ithaca with a 3-1 record so far, including, most recently, a 69-63 victory over Binghamton. Cornell will once again be faced with a challenge in the paint, as Radford’s biggest threat comes from 6-4 junior Javonte Green, who is averaging 16.8 points and 7.3 rebounds so far this season.

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Another one bites the dust | Sophomore guard Nolan Cressler and the rest of the Red squad could not close the game against Siena with a “W.”

29, kicking off a weekend road trip with a visit to Western Michigan before facing off against former BigEast powerhouse Notre Dame in South Bend.

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

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was made possible because people stepped up and fill shoes. We were able to do better then ranks and the poll people thought we would do which was remarkable. The theme of this season has been lots of different people stepping up and scoring for us, and we saw that yesterday. The team is very happy and as was I as the coach.”

Having competed in last year’s NCAA Championships, the Red made this meet the priority of the season. After finding out that it was picked for an at-large bid, the pressure of making the national championships was off.

“Having been extremely tremendous throughout the season, Rachel Sorna finished 14th place overall, which put a Cornell runner on the medal stand. This is her second All–American season in cross-country and her fourth 4th including her performances in track. Rachel’s performance is the highest finish of any Cornell runner since 1992. Her performance was truly awesome. This performance as an individual was truly a mark of a tremendous season for the team as a whole,” Smith said.

The Cornell women’s cross country team had a very strong season.

“We feel really great about our season. We got better every meet. We always wanted to be at our best in November, which is what happened.

We had a great Heps, an awesome meet at our regional met to qualify, and then we went out and exceeded all expectations at NCAA National Championships,” Smith said. “To go out and exceed all expectations and compete well was tremendous. The season has built and each week has gotten better. We handled all adversity and curve balls; we handled all pressure this year having been nationally ranked all season.”

Finally, the Red also received another fantastic recognition while at the N a t i o n a l Championships.

“It was a really great experience being at the national meet. Each year the NCAA has a banquet for each sport at their respective championship.

At this banquet the NCAA gives out an award titled the elite 89.

This award is given to athlete at the championship with highest grade point average,” Smith said. “Devin McMahon received this award and had the highest GPA of any athlete at this National Championship.”

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

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-ments, noting that the Red needs to look ahead past the win over Yale.

“We’re happy with the win and I think guys are definitely building more confidence, but we’ve got to move onto the next game,” he said. “The next game is right around the corner on Tuesday, so we’ve got to come out and get a big win.”

The Red held onto the 10 advantage in the Yale match from Ferlin’s goal through the remainder first period, relying on senior goaltender Andy Iles to make several excellent saves in the closing half of the period. The Red came close to a second goal in the final four minutes of the frame, as Ferlin and sophomore forward Christian Hilbrich came into the offensive zone in a two-on-one, but Hilbrich couldn’t get a handle on the final pass.

The Red notched the second tally barely over a minute into the second period, though, using a power play carried over from the end of the first to wear down the Bulldog players on the ice. After a long possession in the offensive zone even after play had returned to even strength, junior defenseman Joakim Ryan released a slap shot that Lyon stopped with his pads.

With Lyon out of position, junior forward Joel Lowry, who had been skating around the slot, flicked in the rebound for the 2-0 advantage.

Yale scored its only goal six minutes later, slamming home a rebound while Iles was flayed out on the ice after saving the initial shot.

Yale had several good opportunities in the third period as well, including a more than minute-long six-onfive at the end of the game, but were unable to convert and the Red skated away with the win.

“They’re definitely a

“When we play our best hockey, we can compete with anyone.”

Brian Ferlin quality opponent, they’re well-coached and they’ve got a lot of good players, but at the same time, so do we,” Ferlin said. “We believe in the locker room [that] when we’re playing our best hockey, we can compete with anyone in the country.”

The previous night’s matchup against the unranked Bears (3-5-1, 1-41) saw the return of junior top-line center and assistant captain Cole Bardreau, who added a goal and two assists in his first game back since October. With Bardreau back in the line-up, Lowry moved from center back to his normal position of left wing and junior captain John McCarron completed the line at right wing.

Bardreau, who said it “feels awesome” to be back on the ice, attributes his success to his teammates, noting that

the passing and communication in his line was a strong point during the game.

“Me and my linemates were clicking — Joel Lowry and John McCarron there — obviously we’ve been playing since the start of the year and I’ve been kind of practicing for two weeks,” he said. “Chemistry is just really going well, we’re finding each other when we need to and [for] my points I didn’t really do anything — they did it for me, so it was pretty easy. They make it fun.”

With the Red down early in the first against Brown after giving up a penalty shot goal — the second penalty shot goal and third penalty shot opportunity of the season the Red has allowed — Bardreau set up the equalizing tally to get the Red back in the game.

Skating down the right wall into the corner, Bardraeu sent the puck behind him to freshman defenseman Patrick McCarron.

Freshman Brown goalie Tyler Steel made the save on McCarron’s shot from the point, but freshman forward Matt Buckles lifted a backhand into the top corner of the net while still down for his first collegiate goal.

The Red freshmen continued to assert their presence in the game, with freshman forward Eric Freschi notching his first two collegiate goals as well.

Freschi’s first goal came from a deflection off his skate that slid under Steel and he netted his second goal with under a minute

left to play in the game.

“Every game I think we get a little better, and it’s starting to come together,” Freschi said.

The game was held up for nearly 20 minutes in the third period after a clearing attempt from the Red defensive zone shattered a piece of glass protecting the Cornell penalty box. The Red came out sluggish after the break, but managed to hold off the Brown offense and killed any hope of a Brown comeback with an empty net goal followed by Freschi’s even strength goal with Steel back in the net.

“We lost the momentum,” Schafer said of the Red’s play after the delay. “I think these guys just lost focus going back in our own zone, picking up guys, clearing the puck from our own zone. The details aspect kind of got lost in our own game there for a while, until they pulled their goalie, then we got really focused … It was funny how as soon as the goalie came out, we kind of refocused.”

The Red has only a few days to recover from the weekend’s play before hitting the ice at Lynah again on Tuesday for a face-off with Niagara University.

Four days after the Niagara game, the Red returns to Madison Square Garden for its fourth Red Hot Hockey battle with Boston University. Cornell trails in the series 0-2-1, earning a tie in 2009 while falling in the 2009 and 2011 matches.

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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FOOTBALL

Red Slides Past Penn for Final Win of 2013 Season

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Senior Writer

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Pushing past Penn | Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews finished his final game with the Red with a 42-41 win over Penn.

Red senior linebacker Tre’ Minor made the play that every senior dreams of making on his or her final collegiate outing. Minor blocked a potential game-tying point-after attempt with just over a minute to play and Cornell held off Penn, 42-41, on Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia, Pa. to finish the season with two wins in a row.

In a game of wild momentum swings, Red senior quarterback Jeff Mathews threw an interception to Penn senior defensive back Sam Chwarzynski with Cornell (3-7, 2-5 Ivy League) holding onto a seven-point lead and trying to run out the clock. Chwarzynski returned the pick 39 yards for a touchdown and it appeared that the Quakers (4-6, 34) would send the game into overtime.

Minor said not so fast. The senior who has consistently improved and logged 144 career tackles broke through the Penn offensive line and leapt up to get a hand on the extra point boot. The Red recovered an onsides kick, knelt twice and secured back-to-back wins to end the 2013 campaign like the team did in 2011.

“I was telling Jeff all game, “I’ve got your back, the defense has your back,’” Minor said. “We’ve been working on our special teams all year, we schemed and came up with a great play call and we executed it.”

It was Minor’s third career blocked kick and Cornell’s

sixth block of a punt or kick this season.

The Red nearly relinquished a 21-point lead in half of the fourth quarter after scoring 35 unanswered points to dig out of a 14-0 hole. Mathews connected with sophomore running back Luke Hagy for an eight-yard touchdown with 7:47 to play to build a 42-21 lead, but Penn freshman backup quarterback Alex Torgersen then sparked an improbable rally.

Torgersen hit sophomore wide receiver Cameron Countryman from 45 yards out less than a minute later. Then, after a short Red possession, the freshman found senior wide receiver Ty Taylor for a 28-yard score to pull the Quakers within 42-35 with fewer than three minutes remaining.

On the ensuing series, Mathews committed the big mistake that could have ruined another impressive passing performance against Penn. Facing third-and-18 from its own 46, Cornell called a screen pass, but the Ivy’s all-time leading passer was hurried and tossed the ball into Chwarzynski’s gut.

“It was a roll out and I was trying to get it over the linebacker and when he jumped I kind of pump faked to … hold the ball a little bit,” Mathews said. “I got hit from behind as I was throwing it so it kind of ended up going right into his stomach which was unfortunate. He made a good play and ran it back.”

Luckily Minor was determined to make sure Mathews’ See FOOTBALL page 8

MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

Icers Take Down Yale, Brown The Red secures two wins this weekend in tough games

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

It didn’t take long for the men’s ice hockey team to prove why it has the top power play in the nation.

Just six and a half minutes into the first period against defending national champion No. 9 Yale (52-2, 3-1-2) and only four seconds into its first power play, the No. 18 Red (6-3-1, 4-3-1) took the lead against the Bulldogs after junior forward Brian Ferlin’s shot from the top of the left circle sailed past shielded freshman Yale

goalie Alex Lyon. It was Ferlin’s third goal in three games and the Red’s sixth man-advantage goal in four games.

“Brian at this time last year started to get going a little bit too,” head coach Mike Schafer ’86 said of Ferlin’s recent production. “I think he’s got off to a good start, he’s playing with confidence … it’s the first step and Brian’s getting better all the time.”

Saturday night’s 2-1 win against the Bulldogs marked the Red’s third straight win after taking down Brown in a 5-1 decision on Friday and then-No. 17 St.

Lawrence in a 5-2 rout last weekend. The victories against Brown and Yale additionally marked the Red’s first league weekend sweep and its first general weekend sweep since the opening weekend against Nebraska-Omaha.

“It was a good step in the right direction,” Schafer said. “You get two wins this weekend, you give up two goals; it’s a start in the right direction and getting things going, but that’s all it is and I think our guys understand that.”

Ferlin echoed his coach’s sentiSee MEN’S ICE HOCKEY page 15

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Running Red | Senior Rachel Sorna finished 14th in a heat of 250 runners at Nationals.

CROSS COUNTRY

Women Finish 23rd At NCAA Nationals

By JOHN MCGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

BRIAN STERN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Third time’s the charm | Junior forward Brian Ferlin scored his third goal in three consecutive games.

On Saturday, the women’s cross country team competed in the NCAA National Championships in Terre Haute, Ind. The Red ranked 24th nationally prior to the National Championships finished 23rd overall, with a final score of 570 points.

Furthermore, the Red was lead by an outstanding finish from senior Rachel Sorna who finished 14th overall in a field of over 250 runners.

The Red had a strong showing and was able to finish higher than its regular season ranking. The women’s cross country team finished off its 2013 season with an incredi-

bly impressive finish at the NCAA National Championships.

“The team feels great about their performance at the NCAA National Championships. This meet is an extremely hard a atmosphere, caliber and intensity of the meet is very high. It is hard to expect all seven runners to race well, and that’s rare, however all seven Cornell runners raced extremely well,” assistant coach Artie Smith said.

“Going in we were ranked 24th, and we finished 23rd.

We exceeded expectations.

This is even more remarkable because our number two runners was not running. This See CROSS COUNTRY page 15