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Lindsey Williams ’22 shares her experiences on the front lines of Cornell’s COVID-19 testing program. | Page 3

Columnist Cecilia Lu ’22 writes that our Tiktok addiction is no longer at risk.

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Campus Code of Conduct Revision Still Unfinished Ongoing since early 2019; University Counsel targets a September release

Caution | Seating areas in Mann Library have been closed off, in an effort to encourage social distancing.

Face Coverings, Hand Sanitizer And Silence: A New Campus Reality

By MADELINE ROSENBERG

“There was a lot more comradery between staff and students, like a ‘Hey how’s it going!’” Buchanan said Monday. “I miss the students singing and dancing in line. It’s a lot different from what it used to be. It’s just odd.”

With few in-person classes and a fraction of open study spaces, campus

Straight from the Market is closed.

The living room area remains busy, filled with plexiglass and masked testing site workers and students.

The pop music was still playing Buchanan said he it misses the downstairs in Willard Straight Hall popcorn, along with the students Monday evening, but few students that used to fundraise upstairs, selling were dining inside Okenshields to Krispy Kreme donuts and promoting sing along. clubs. Now, the Resource At Cornell’s only Center remains gated off. central campus dinSitting outside the ing hall, known for its “You have to go out of your way Physical Sciences Building early 2000s hits playTuesday afternoon, Kyle list and smiling staff, to see people now. It’s hard to Chrystal ’21 said he only the crowds of students comes to campus when it that once swiped in put in the effort to see people.” feels convenient — either have been reduced to a for his in-person chemistrickle. The eatery went Lexie Handlin ’23 try lab or to spend some from serving about Big Red Bucks at Trillium.

2,000 students a day to But the campus experience about 350, according feels emptier and quieter, to Troy Buchanan, the is quieter than usual — and students he said, and he misses running into Okenshields dining manager. his friends during the rush between Now, after a few slow weeks, and staff are feeling it.

Along with many of the once-bus- classes.

Okenshields temporarily closed “I miss casual interactions,” said Wednesday. Cornell did not respond tling campus common spaces, Willard to a request for comment on Straight Hall remains empty — there’s Lexie Handlin ’23, waiting with Okenshields’ sudden shuttering by the no popcorn popping at the Resource Chrystal before their lab. “You have to Center. The Ivy Room is closed. time of publication.

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By OLIVIA CIPPERMAN and SEAN O’CONNELL Sun Staff Writer and Sun News Editor

The Judicial Administrator pushed for a shift to “a preponderance of the evidence,” which means that the evidence presented convinces the judicial hearing panel that there is a greater than 50 percent chance that their charges are true.

The current standard of proof required of the J.A. is

After nearly two years of deliberation, Cornell’s code of conduct revision process remains incomplete. Neither a code draft nor a fall revision timeline have appeared, despite assertions by University law“One of the big criticisms yers in May. University [in the spring] was that the Counsel aims to have a draft process was rushed.” of the code — which governs Marissa O’Gara Cornell’s internal judicial proceedings and every student, staff “clear and convincing evior faculty member involved in dence,” which means that evithem — done by the end of dence makes the charges “highSeptember, according to John ly and substantially more likely Carberry, a University spokes- to be true than untrue.” person.

A compromise was ultiThe Codes and Judicial mately reached within the Committee of the University CJC: “Preponderance” would Assembly began a process to be used during “administrative revise the code in January 2019 boards,” which would deter— internal disagreements hin- mine less-grave sanctions like dered the process. Over a year decision making classes, while later, a draft was then submit- “clear and convincing” would ted to the University Assembly be used for hearings, which in April 2020. decide on severe code violation Concerns about the code cases that can lead to suspenrevolved around the standard of sion or expulsion. The draft proof needed to find the accused guilty in judicial proceedings: See CODE page 2

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Two Years Later, Code of Conduct Revision Process Still Ongoing Kenney, a third-year law student and a member of the CJC. The counsel planned to release its proposal for public comment by the end of August, but since Cornell spent the summer preparing to reopen campus in the fall, the revision process faced delays once again. .

The code is not anticipated to have any major changes from the original CJC version; a further review of the federal regulations

“One of the big criticisms [in the Spring] was that the process Continued from page 1 was rushed, and it wasn’t commuwas then sent to the U.A. for nicated broadly enough, and folks approval in early May. weren’t given enough time to actuThe flashpoint occurred when ally weigh in,” said Marissa O’Gara, President Martha E. Pollack who is a third-year law student, rebuffed the CJC draft in a May CJC member and Judicial Codes 8 email to the U.A., calling the Counselor. revisions of the Cornell code of conA last-minute amendment to the duct “not congruent” with federal U.A. code revision resolution on Title IX regulations and suggesting May 12 ensured that the counsel that the modification be placed in had to show its final revisions to the the hands of the University assembly before sending Counsel — Cornell’s lawthem to the Board of “Cornell will be recommending that the Trustees. However, both yers.

According to Pollack, the U.A. and CJC are the new federal regulations standard of proof for code violations be currently operating in a would require that “all stulimited fashion. determined by the community.” dent conduct proceedings This means that any are handled in a fundamendraft of the code created John Carberry tally congruent fashion and by the counsel must go utilizing the same burden through the U.A. before of proof.” confirmed that Title IX and other the University accepts it As a result, However, under the new Title judicial proceedings could be held the final code will not be approved IX guidelines, universities can to different standards of proof. until Oct. 10, the date given by choose between “preponderance” “Counsel will be recommend- Howarth for the assembly’s next and “clear and convincing” for the ing that the standard of proof for meeting. standard of proof for judicial pro- code violations be determined by “It’s very important for the govceedings in Title IX cases. the community, not Counsel,” ernance process to get underway By the end of May, the counsel Carberry wrote. and to put measures into place had taken control of all code reviProf. Robert Howarth, ecology that genuinely call for full campus sions, pushing the CJC and U.A. and environmental biology, chair public comment periods that will to the background. Members of the of the U.A., said that the counsel enable us to have a real democratCJC were upset with this decision. would open their composite code ic participation,” wrote Prof. Risa “Delegating away authority of to public comment, likely through Lieberwitz, labor and employment a document which is within the an open meeting and a post on its law, a CJC member. purview of the University Assembly website. to the campus administrators was Some CJC members were opti- Olivia Cipperman can be reached a complete deviation from shared mistic about their work, despite all at ocipperman@cornellsun.com. governance and all shared gover- of the delays the code had already Sean O’Connell can be reached at nance stands for,” said Logan suffered. soconnell@cornellsun.com.

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A Student’s Perspective on COVID-19 Front Lines

To keep campus open, student staffers work at forefront of Cornell’s testing program

By FAITH FISHER Sun Staff Writer

Every week, Cornell collects over 30,000 nasal swabs from Cornell students, faculty and staff as part of its COVID-19 surveillance program. Critical to this effort are the student employees that make up a large number of testers.

Lindsey Williams ’22, a student “collection staffer” — the workers behind the clear screen — shared her experiences on the front lines of Cornell’s COVID-19 response.

Initially, Williams was concerned that the role might jeopardize her health, though the University reassured her that safety was its top concern.

On the job, collection staff were provided with an abundance of personal protective equipment, including masks, face shields and hand sanitizer.

“When I was interviewing, the management I talked to compared it to working at a restaurant,” Williams said. “If you were a waiter, you would have people in front of you eating and talking, all while not wearing masks. So honestly, this feels safer than that.”

Once she was hired in early August, Williams had to complete a training session before

she could start work as a collection staffer. The training session touched upon PPE use, medical ethics and the proper way to guide and collect nasal swabs.

As collection staffers, Williams and her colleagues have a number of responsibilities. In addition to guiding the swab process and collecting samples, student workers greet the thousands of students, verify their information and direct them to a testing station.

Student collection staffers serve a crucial role as part of a much broader, intricate testing system. Behind the tens of thousands of tests administered each week are workers who transport the tubes from testing sites to the laboratory and workers in the laboratory who generate the results.

As the semester has progressed, the testing process has become more efficient: Waiting times for tests have diminished, alleviating the frantic stress that once plagued many collection staffers.

“Especially in the beginning, it was overwhelming when the lines would get really long,” Williams said. “I felt a lot of pressure to go really fast to get through the line, but now I feel like we have it under control.”

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Lined up | Students wait for their twice-weekly COVID-19 testing at Robert Purcell Community Center.

But a challenge that lin- only confusing on our end, role in this massive undertakgers for collection workers but confusing for the people ing to keep campus open. is adapting to the constant who come in and get tested.

“I like knowing that I am changes made to the testing But that is something that is doing something active and and collection procedures. bound to happen as you try important to keep Cornell and “One thing that I have to make [testing] better and the Ithaca community safe.” found from being on the back faster.”

WIlliams said. end of it is that things are conTamara Kamis ‘22 contribWilliams has been pleased stantly changing — the way with the Cornell community’s uted to reporting. we do registration, the way commitment to the surveilwe have people hand us the lance testing protocol, and she Faith Fisher can be reached at swab,” Williams said. “It’s not felt fortunate to play an active ffisher@cornellsun.com.

Hotel School Restaurant Class Students Return to a Campus Goes Virtual for Fall Semester Filled With Face Coverings,

By GABRIELLE GONZALEZ Sun Staff Writer

For students in the School of Hotel Administration, taking HADM 3350: Restaurant Management is a rite of passage. Students spend hours in the kitchen crafting a multiple-course meal, taking orders and mixing drinks in order to bring their ideas to life.

However, the pandemic has completely uprooted the way the class is run this semester. Not only has the kitchen shifted to takeout-only, but Statler chefs and course instructors are the only ones allowed inside The Establishment restaurant.

Students now have to create their menu at home and supervise their night through surveillance cameras in the kitchen. However, they must still take into account the conditions in the kitchen.

“You have to think about the operations of the kitchen,” said Lana Wolf ’21.

“You can’t plan a menu of all fried food because the fryer will be full and you won’t be able to keep up with orders.”

This year, however, students also have to choose takeout containers and think

about how to plate food in a ly comes up for your big Establishment week and you takeout format.

“You really have to sell get to see all of your friends the experience because it is eating your food and it’s to-go,” Wolf said. “The dish- such a fun experience, so it’s es are going to be the same kind of a bummer I don’t get quality but they’re gonna that,” Wolf said. “I had been be the same price too, and planning this for a year and you’re not going to be sitting a half. I’m looking on the at a table with friends getting bright side right now, I still the Establishment experience, so that’s “Our students are being going to be a challenge.” asked to adapt exactly like While there is a every other restaurant standing menu for operator out there.” the semester, each team of three designs Prof. Alex Susskind an appetizer and an entree as the specials menu on their given night. Usually, students also get to do something and see create a specialty cocktail to my meals come to life.”

However, in an email to go with their theme, but are unable to do so this semester The Sun, Prof. Alex Susskind, due to the contactless take- operations, technology and information management, out format.

The Establishment is usu- remained convinced that the ally open Monday through virtual format is just as valuThursday nights, but is also able for the students. open for Friday lunch this “Our students are being semester for the first time. asked to adapt exactly like The virtual setup of the every other restaurant operclass brings conflicting emo- ator out there,” Susskind tions to seniors like Wolf, wrote. “This is as real world considering that it has been as it gets for them.” a tradition for SHA upperclassmen for the past eight Gabrielle Gonzalez can be reached at years.

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go out of your way to see people now. It’s hard to put in the effort to see people.”

Studying and eating isn’t spontaneous anymore, either. Want to enter the Cornell Store? Swipe in and enter through the back entrance. Want dining hall food? Make a reservation.

Want to enter a library?

Show the library attendant your reservation number.

Signs reminding students to make these reservations and mask up remain pasted and planted across campus, from the doors of empty academic buildings to TCAT bus stops. Posters remind students who enter designated study rooms: always physical distance. Sanitize shared equipment. Cover your mouth. No eating.

In Gates Hall, a lobby television screen posts Cornell public health reminders: “Fact,” the screen reads for a moment before flipping to another

message, “Cloth masks can prevent you from inhaling the virus and can prevent you from exhaling the virus to others.”

Gimme Coffee remains gated off and closed. The chairs and tables are gone.

The pastry case sits empty.

The fridge is partially stocked with Ginger Beer and Saratoga water.

Even common campus spaces that allow students to wander around campus feel slower and quieter. Masked students Zoom from Temple of Zeus, but there’s no chatter, no espresso machines whirring, no ceramic mugs clinking or metal trays laying around. Instead of lunches and office hours, students sit in pairs or alone.

Now, bottles of disinfectant and boxes of paper towels sit on the trash bins that used to hold used mugs and trays. Instead of indistinct chatter, students study and Zoom into class listening to clanging computer keys, footsteps, turning notebook pages,

zippering backpacks and squeaky sneakers.

Sophia Jeon ’21 said she used to spend a lot of her days in Klarman Hall. But now, between her four in-person classes, she said she’s spending less time there and more time outside.

“Zeus is just so quiet,” Jeon said. “It’s too quiet.”

And Olin Library? It’s open, but Jeon said she prefers not to go: “It’s not the same with Libe being closed.”

But with limited on-campus study spaces and online classes, Jeon said she finds students operating at a slower pace, lounging under trees and relaxing on the slope.

“I see more people zoning out, being more present, more introspective, as opposed to being on the go and going to the next class and meeting,” Jeon said.

Madeline Rosenberg can be reached at mrosenberg@cornellsun. com.

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CTB Sells Nostalgia, Not Bagels

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very Cornell applicant is guided around our campus and force-fed endless stories about the institution that is Collegetown Bagels. CTB has a pervasive presence throughout the entire Ithaca area and is undoubtedly a part of Cornell’s culture. I can’t blame students for loving the restaurant where they have fond memories of late nights and early mornings, but

the worship of this shop’s bagels has gotten out of hand. Students will often rave about their food, so I’ve written this article to analyze CTB separate from our collective nostalgia and bring us back to reality.

You may think I’m just a grumpy New Jersyian that is just looking to be a contrarian, while I sulk and dream of a grease-laden taylor ham egg and cheese, and you may be right. Despite the fact I possess a bagel bias endemic to people from the New York

Metro area, that does not take away from the fact that CTB’s main business relies on pedaling a product that relies on sentimentality, and not pure quality. In short, people don’t buy these bagels for their outstanding taste or texture, but to relieve the experiences that they’ve had at CTB. This opinion was only backed up during my interviews with many customers MELANIE METZ / universally rebuking SUN STAFF WRITER the texture, flavor and overall quality of their bagels. One student CTB are gaunt and lose their trially produced bagel that lost described them most eloquently structure once you start eating its final dregs of character when as “Bread formed into the shape them. On the other hand, a the original establishment was of a bagel,” and another as “a quality local shop has a bagel demolished. small, sad, overpriced lump.” that’s puffy, golden-brown and The lackluster bagel itself is CTB’s subpar quality really is complete with a shiny lustre enough of a disappointment, shows in its namesake but CTB’s breakfast bagels that consisoptions are laughtently fail to impress able. I distinctly I just want to set the record straight. and pale in compariremember my exciteson to any local bagel ment as I walked Many people I’ve spoken to feel that shop in New Jersey into CTB for the or New York City. first time as a newly the worship of this institution has For example, on my minted freshman and last trip to their new ordered the Brooklyn covered up critical flaws.

Collegetown locasandwich — CTB’s tion, I tried their take on a bacon, egg Pizza Bagel. The dish and cheese. You can was covered in a metallic sauce and a full-bodied chew. To see only imagine my disappointment with a slice of cheese that rolled this disparity in quality, just rip when I found that the Brooklyn over a gummy, soggy bagel like open a CTB bagel and compare breakfast sandwich is a disrespect a muddy, windburnt mound of the desert-dry innards of it to the to the namesake borough. The snow that sat decaying in the steamy inside of a quality bagel. flaccid bacon, rubbery cheddar grey Ithaca sun. The bagels at CTB offers a pedestrian, indus- and a square steamed egg makes airplane food look like it just left a Michelin star kitchen. The robotic egg that looked like it was poured out of a carton was a repulsive excuse for a breakfast food and still ruins CTB’s wraps and sandwiches to this day- I am consistently baffled that CTB manages to have a ravingly loyal fanbase while any local bagel shop in my hometown could blow it out of the water. The bad breakfast offerings are inexcusable for such an iconic Ithaca brand like CTB and really points to how its declining quality and loss of character have only accelerated since its old location has shut down.

CTB does certain things well, their coffee is fine, their sandIthaca NY 14850 • 607-273-1030 wiches and lunch offerings are Call-in’s Welcome until 10:30pm perfectly edible and few places are as good a meet-up spot for friends across our campus than CTB. I just wanted to set the record straight. Many people I’ve spoken to feel that the worship of this institution has covered up critical flaws. Taking off our rose tinted glasses, we see that there are a plethora of problems ranging from low quality offerings to its loss of identity that its Collegetown comeback failed to fix.

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Gabe Schiffer is a Sophomore in the ILR School. He can be reached jgs269@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT The Un-Banning of TikTok A

fter a sine wave of decisions, changes and modifications etc ... Tiktok remains a part of our shaky future. In August, Trump signed an executive order that would have effectively forced TikTok to end business in the U.S. As with most Trumpian agenda, however, there were alterations that immediately followed: He extended the executive order deadline by 45 days; he stated that an acquisition prerequisite was being a “very American” company; TikTok filed a lawsuit; most recently, a deal was made with Oracle — to which Trump gave “[his] blessing;” Tik Tok is foreseeably here to stay.

About a year ago, I downloaded TikTok on a whim

Cecilia Lu Breathing Room and semi-ironically made an account; two months later, I was grappling with the withdrawal of having deleted the app — a necessary “cleanse” to prepare myself for the upcoming semester.

I hesitate at my inclination to qualify my time on TikTok as “short,” because, when I had the app — mostly over winter break — I was fully invested. I grew up against a backdrop of Vine compilations and weird strains of Internet humor — it didn’t take long for TikTok to latch on to the type of content that would keep me scrolling. Each “like” crystallized an algorithmic understanding of my taste, while my “For

You Page” churned out content recommendations that got better, funnier and quirkier as I went. It was a dark, endless loop of curation that I unconsciously contrib-

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uted to just by watching, laughing and liking.

The months following my “quitting,” the success of this self-curation loop seemed to have created affinity groups en masse. My crafty friends sent me bead necklace tutorials from DIYTok. Other friends were a part of ChristmasTok, while the more nostalgic ones launched into PercyJacksonTok and GleeTok. Despite no longer having direct access to the app, I found myself watching Avatar TikTok compilations on Youtube to relive my obsession with the show. I was struck by the simultaneous flourishing of all these TikTok communities — they seemed even more robust than the existence of Subreddits (but I also question my ability to make this comparison, having used Reddit so infrequently that I forgot my password long ago).

Very recently, I found out that these niche communities were categorized as a part of Alt TikTok, which members take pride in being a part of — and distinguishing themselves from Straight TikTok, which is dominated by brand-name influencers and dance crazes — in other words, mainstream.

In my digital media class, we were assigned with creating a visual identity for a word. One student chose “praxis.” During crit, they explained, following a mildly apologetic smile, that they’d wound up on a side of TikTok inhabited by political-theory reading, vaguely Communist high schoolers who parodied the word so much that it stuck. This, I learned, was a prime example of one of the facets of Alt TikTok. I think I partially earmarked this example because I forgot how versatile people’s intention and purpose for being on TikTok could be. While a lot of content is manufactured as entertainment, other videos aim to be lite-advocacy, teaching skills, spreading ideas or organizing causes. As a user, my FYP was filled with Aaron Hull before he dated Emma Chamberlain and other nonsensical laugh trap stunts — in other words, I was on TikTok to access a humor so absurd that I could dissociate from my present. Thinking back to my time on TikTok, I wonder if these sub-communities were yet to grow rampant or if I was so deeply embedded in one that I just couldn’t see beyond.

I think that was part of my urgency with trying to remove myself from the app. Good things have certainly sprung from TikTok — whether you see it as the embarrassment of Trump’s Tulsa rally or the inspiration of watching someone sew a dress from scratch — but so have the sinister parts of its nature. Many point to the app’s addictive design, but for me, it’s the high potential of losing myself in a TikTok reality.

Ironically enough, TikTok teens seem to be reading

(and promoting) Baudrillard — if he were alive, I’m sure that the overflow of content and things to dissect would send him reeling. But sadly, Baudrillard is no longer here to process TikTok’s cultural implications; we are both stuck and graced with the burden, whether on his behalf or for our own sanity.

Cecilia Lu is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at zcl5@cornell.edu. Breathing Room runs alternate Thursdays this semester.

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Everyone Should Sleep With Their Friends

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verything is sex to me.

My best friend who sleeps over at my place every other weekend definitely wants to fuck me … I think. Or is the way we look at each other and touch each other purely platonic? I’m pretty sure all besties grind on each other and cuddle up at night. And maybe I’m reading too deeply into the sexy snaps we send back and forth.

I mean … I wouldn’t be surprised.

When it comes to thinking people want to sleep with me, my track record isn’t the best. I’ve been wrong before. But to me, everything is sex. My brain can’t help but to create a blanket of sexual tension in nearly every relationship that I have, it’s a default setting. Maybe it’s a way of keeping my life interesting, or maybe it’s just my internal desire of wanting to be sexually sought-after that makes me think this way. Either way it tends to get me into trouble. The feelings that ensue always seem to disrupt my emotional stability. Those feelings that you thought you healed from slyly come back time and time again. I’ve written about putting those feelings aside in the past … hell sometimes, when I’m in my bag, I take a glance at the articles I’ve written to help me move the fuck on. But nothing really prepared me for what happened last weekend. The boy that can do no wrong in my eyes slept over. He was in my bed for the whole night. Him and my best friend. But the strangest thing about it? … I didn’t feel anything.

Although one can argue that my romantic feelings for him have yet to subside, I will say that the night was dreamlike — sleeping on our sides with him as the little spoon, him holding my arm tightly to his tummy as if it were his first child that he would protect with his life. I almost wanted to cry. Even as the big spoon I felt as if I were the little one being watched over and safeguarded.

But this night, no matter how intimate it seems, doesn’t change the fact that we are friends. Only friends. In fact, he has a whole girlfriend who quite literally gave him her blessing to sleep over with me and my bestie.

Anyways … the point is that all three of us slept together and that was it. No sex. No involuntary tingling sensations from my body. I didn’t even sense any sexual tension; it was just two women and one man in a bed sleeping together soundly, and I liked it.

We spent the night drinking, spinning, and frolicking around Ithaca. We watched clips of The Office, and we chased each other around for no reason. The night lasted forever, and when we finally fell I was in the middle, my two friends on each side of me, my best friend’s leg locked tightly around mine and my arm draped around my other friend’s body. In that moment, and even in the morning after, I understood that not every situation has to be sexual — you can straight up just sleep with your friends with no insinuations, no benefits. I recommend that, in fact.

Everybody should sleep with their friends!

Train yourself to hug, kiss and sleep with people without binding each action to eroticism. Send nudes. Live a little.

It helps to see things through a non-sexual lens. You no longer believe that the compliment that you have “nice hair” means that he’s still into you, and you don’t think that a smile is an invitation to sleep with her. It’s worth changing your perspective, it may not only help the healing process of being in contact with your former lovers, but also your future love interests.

The embarrassment that comes in tandem with wrongly assuming someone wants to make out with you subsides, because all of sudden everything means nothing. The “signs” aren’t signs at all. And you can go to sleep in peace as you develop the superpower to separate friends from your possible lovers as easily as you can tell the difference between night and day.

Train yourself to hug, kiss and sleep with people without binding each action to eroticism.

HELEN HU / FORMER SUN GRAPHICS EDITOR

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LUGUBRIOUS DEFENSTRATION Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki/ Sudoku)

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Storied rivalry | Cornell’s rivalry with Dartmouth reaches back to 1900 and has featured iconic contests such as the “Fifth Down Game.”

Inside the Cornell-Dartmouth Football Rivalry

The Green holds lead in overall series, 61-41-1, and has shown recent edge over the Red

By LUKE PICHINI Sun Assistant Sports Editor

As a member of the Ivy League, Cornell football has natural rivalries with its fellow conference foes, but Dartmouth has proven itself as one of the Red’s toughest competitors, especially in recent years.

The all-time series, which kicked off in 1900, has Dartmouth leading, 61-41-1. In addition, the rivalry currently stands as the second-longest uninterrupted series, as the teams have met every year since 1919.

The Green holds the overall edge in the series, and this has been evident in the past

decade when Dartmouth rattled off 10 straight victories over the Red from 2009 to 2018. This dominance has come under longtime head coach Buddy Teevens, who also guided the team to two Ivy League titles, including a shared championship with Yale in 2019.

Last year, though, the Red snapped the Green’s winning streak in a shocking fashion. Dartmouth, which entered the contest with a perfect 8-0 record and a No. 11 national ranking, fell to Cornell at home, 20-17.

Prior to that matchup, Cornell stumbled in with a 2-6 record and had experienced heartbreaking one-point losses to both Penn and Colgate. A 30.5-point underdog, the Red contained an explosive

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Upset alert | Cornell spoiled Dartmouth’s perfect season in 2019.

That streak came to an end in a wild Dartmouth offense that was averaging over manner. In a low-scoring contest, the Green 35 points per game.

“I’m really proud of our team and our held a 3-0 lead in the fourth quarter, and staff — we’ve had an adversity-filled year,” a last-minute drive by Cornell wound up said head coach David Archer ’05 after deciding the game.

After navigating the the game. “We played in ball to the Green’s sixsome really close games “We could be the most yard line, the Red moved where we felt we should have won. I told them, dangerous team because further toward the end zone by reaching the ‘It takes a really special we didn’t have anything one-yard line on three group of people to not downs. On fourth down, let that affect you going to lose.”

Cornell was penalized forward.’” for delay of game, movWhile the Green was David Archer ’05 ing the ball back to the aiming to clinch an Ivy six-yard line. Afterward, League title that day, Cornell’s dream of a conference title had reserve halfback Walt “Pop” Scholl attemptalready ended weeks ago. At that point, the ed a pass that fell incomplete in the end Red was looking to play spoiler and perhaps zone.

At that point, Cornell should have move up the conference standings, which it accomplished with a fourth-place tie at the turned the ball over on downs, but referee Red Friesell spotted the ball back on the sixend of the season.

“We talked about how they had literally yard line, mistakenly believing that it was everything to lose — they had just played now fourth down. With this “fifth down,” two enormous, emotional games,” Archer Scholl found wide receiver William Murphy said. “I don’t think Dartmouth circled the to score the game-winning touchdown.

The error was uncovered after officials Cornell game on their calendar … We could be the most dangerous team because reviewed the game film. Guided by players, coaches, the athletic director, and even the we didn’t have anything to lose.”

From 1980 to 2008, the Red and the University president, the Red sent a teleGreen largely alternated in the series. gram in which it voluntarily forfeited the Before then, Dartmouth enjoyed a dom- game. Dartmouth accepted the forfeit, and inant stretch winning 22 of 24 matchups the contest was credited as a 3-0 victory for between 1955 and 1978. During the first the Green.

38 matchups, Cornell claimed victory in While no subsequent games between 21 games.

Cornell and Dartmouth have achieved that The most notable iteration of the rivalry level of notoriety, the rivalry remains fierce, came in 1940, a contest that went down in and the Red may have new life in the series infamy as the “Fifth Down Game.” Cornell, after its massive upset last year. which clinched its fifth national championship the year before, came into the game Luke Pichini can be reached at lpichini@cornellsun.com. having won 18 straight tilts.