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The Great OutdoorsA new Cornell OutdoorEducation course will provideleadership training to membersof the Greek system.

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Barebones LivingThe Sun sits down withAdriana Wong ’14, who led asimple lifestyle working in arural Indian village this summer.

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ArtsMarked for FailurePatricia Kim ’14 pans therecently-released film Branded.

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SportsHigh HopesThe Big Red football teamhopes to prove victorious inthis weekend’s football gameagainst Fordham University.

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Opinion

Amid a rise in living costs in Tompkins County, Cornellemployees received between a three to 3.5-percent raise forthe last three years of their new four-year contract, whichwas approved this summer. All employees also received awage increase of 46 cents per hour during the first year of thenew contract, accordingto Jack Kaminsky, presi-dent of the UAW Local2300.

Meanwhile, the wagea full-time worker in thecounty had to earn in2011 to afford the costof living — $11.67 per hour — rose five percent from 2010,according to the Alternatives Federal Credit Union.

The University and the United Auto Workers Local 2300— the union that represents the majority of Cornell employ-ees — settled a tentative agreement on June 29, a day beforethe previous employee contract expired, according to AlanMittman ’71, director of the Office of Workforce Policy andLabor Relations.

Employees in the two lowest wage rates received slightlyhigher wage increases by percentage, Mittman said, to reflectthe fact that they are on “the lowest edge of the wage scale.”

Despite the raises, Pattie Gordinier, lead coordinator offacilities services in Cascadilla Hall, said the new contractdoes not increases wages “nearly enough” to meet employees’

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As Living Costs Soar,C.U. Staff Wages RiseAt Least 3 Percent

Marching for change | Cornell and Ithaca College students, as well as Ithaca residents, march from the Sigma Pifraternity to Day Hall on May 16 to demand the University to take responsibility to end racism.

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Univ. Defends Response to Racial Attack

Although some students say the University has notaddressed the demands made following a racial attackthat occurred on campus in the spring, some adminis-trators said they have found it difficult to do so becausethe protesters’ list of demands was unsigned.

On May 6, an individual unaffiliated with theUniversity threw beer cans and hurled epithets at blackstudents passing by the Sigma Pi fraternity. Followingthe attack, outraged protesters marched from the frater-nity to Day Hall on May 17, presenting a list of 11

demands to Kent Hubbell ’69, dean of students.The demands included calls to form an “anti-racist

joint task force,” require “all faculty and staff to under-go ongoing anti-oppression and social justice trainings”and “take responsibility to end racism and stop puttingthis responsibility on students.”

Although some students criticized the University forwhat they saw as its inadequate response, Susan Murphy’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president of student and academicservices, also stressed the importance of dialogue, sayingit would be helpful to know which students administra-

Grad School Appoints NewAsst. Dean of Student Life

Cornell’s Graduate Schoolannounced Thursday thatJanna Lamey will serve as itsnext assistant dean of studentlife.

Lamey –– currently a man-ager of the GraduateEducation Program at theCollege of VeterinaryMedicine –– will start servingin her new position on Oct. 8,according to Barbara Knuth,vice provost and dean of thegraduate school.

As assistant dean, Lameywill focus on “the big pictureof student well-being,” accord-ing to Jan Allen, associate deanfor academic and studentaffairs.

Lamey’s position has beenrestructured in light ofincreased efforts over the pastseveral years to “provide top-quality graduate and profes-sional student services,” Allensaid. Lamey will delve intoissues — such as fostering asense of graduate community,promoting social-academic

balance and aiding stress man-agement — more rigorouslythan assistant deans have beencalled to in the past.

“While the GraduateSchool focuses primarily onthe academic experiences andacademic life of the graduatestudents here, we recognizethe importance of all the areasof a graduate student’s life andexperience, whether that’ssocial or cultural,” Allen said.

Along with being responsi-ble for programming activitiesand events, launching initia-tives and serving as a liaisonduring crisis, Lamey will alsobe involved in determining theneeds of graduate and profes-sional students and obtainingfeedback from them on pro-grams already in place.

“For the first bit, I’m plan-ning on taking some time andreally diving into meeting withgraduate students and profes-sional students and findingout what their issues are,”Lamey said.

According to Lamey, meet-

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News, “New York State Official: Landlords, Students Must Be ‘Reasonable People’,”WednesdaySpeaking about the rights and obligations of tenants and landlords“All terms are negotiable … Just cross out a section and change it if it’s different for your particular circum-stance.”

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Opinion, “The Novelty of Romance,” ThursdaySpeaking about the role of romance in college relationships“I think Cornell lacks romance, and I’m not even going to prescribe that we all romance it up a little bit. …We might be happier with a little more romance, but I think we’ve all resigned ourselves to wait for the‘real world’ where everyone is nicer.”

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News, “Provost Approves Divisive Calendar,” ThursdaySpeaking about the algorithm used to create the new academic calendar“The algorithm is brought up as a solution to a lot of problems. It’s brought up as a way to reduce thestress that students have. The problem is that the algorithm doesn’t take into account things like papersand projects where you’re not in the system, and that’s a serious concern.”

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Opinion, “Eyes on the Street: The Importance of Civic Responsibility,” MondaySpeaking about the community’s responsibility in light of the recent sexual crimes on campus “If we all conducted our lives with a sense of responsibility to the place in which we live and the peoplewe live with, perhaps our communities would be stronger. Especially in the ever-transient world of col-lege, fostering a stronger civic responsibility to people who live within a space could be transformative.”

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This article is part of students’stories, a series profiling studentsacross campus.

This summer, Adriana Wong’14 traveled a few thousand milesfrom her home of Los Angeles,Ca., to Kenchanahalli, India —spending eight weeks in the ruralvillage working at a primaryhealth care center.

Wong, a pre-med studentmajoring in Spanish with aminor in global health, has beena member of the CornellUniversity Emergency MedicalService since her freshman year.Her interest in medicine led herthis summer to the SwamiVivekananda Youth MovementProgram, a program in whichstudent volunteers work toimprove the quality of healthcare in rural areas of India.

Wong spent her first twoweeks in India inthe city of

Mysore, taking classes with 18other Cornell students on genderstudies, issues in women’s healthand Indian history and culture.Afterward, students relocated tobegin working at individualhealth centers in the state ofKarnataka.

Wong’s placement was in thevillage of Kenchanahalli, whereshe was assigned togeneral practice forayurveda medicine,or traditional Indianmedicine.

A typical day inthe village was like a“9-5 job,” Wongsaid. “We wouldwake up for morn-ing yoga each dayand a bowl of sweet or savoryrice. Our offices were surround - ed by farm-land and wildlife.”

As part of her job, Wongshadowed traveling doctors whopracticed ayurvedic and allopath-ic medicine, a method of treatingdisease with remedies that treator suppress particular symptoms.

“Depending on the day, wewould go on mobile clinic ridesin the tribal communities in theforest,” Wong said. “Many ofthese indigenous communitieshave not been touched by civi-lization until 20 years ago. As aresult, they are untouched byinfluences of colonialism anddepict a very different [picture]

of what we thinkIndian life shouldbe.”

Wong said that,throughout thesummer, she sawhow important it isto bring medicine toremote villages,where people mightnot otherwise be

able to access necessary care.“The tribal communities

maintain traditional forms ofmedicine, and are not enthusias-tic about seeking medical helpwhen they need it,” Wong said.“That is why the mobile clinicrides are so important. It bringsdoctors and hospitals to them.”

Working with the tribal com-munities, Wong said, also madeher realize the importance ofbeing open-minded when work-ing with patients who want to usealternative forms of medicine.

She said she was inspired bythe doctors with whom sheworked, especially Dr. BinduBalasubramaniam, who practicesobstetrics and gynecology.

“Dr. Bindu taught me thatdoctors do much more than justcurative work,” Wong said.“They can establish social changeby educating their patients andencouraging families to getinvolved in their health care.”

Wong said living in India ini-tially proved to be an adjust-ment.

“At first, it was hard to getused to such a slow and stress-free pace of life, but then I real-ized that it is easy to live withoutthe things that you need,” shesaid. “Toilets … who needsthose?”

She also said her experienceshowed her a simpler way of liv-

ing.“I love the bucket shower.

Did you know the average 10-minute shower uses 50 gallons ofwater, but a bucket shower usestwo gallons?” Wong said.

For Wong, returning back tothe United States was “a shock.”

“I built relationships with thedoctors and immersed myself ina lifestyle abroad,” she said. “Welived on the grounds, so everynight I would go over to the doc-tor’s family for dinner, cook tra-ditional meals and play withtheir daughter.”

Through Facebook, Wongsaid she has stayed in touch withthe doctors she met inKenchanahalli. She said shehopes to return to India in thefuture.

“To be a practicing doctor inthe United States, you need tohave some kind of foreign per-spective to accept other attitudesabout medicine,” she said.

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Students’ Stories

As the Greek community continues its efforts toaddress President David Skorton’s mandate to end“pledging as we know it,” Cornell OutdoorEducation is offering a new course this year to trainGreek students to be effective leaders.

The “Cornell Student Leadership Academy: TheFraternity and Sorority Experience” — also referredto as the Greek Leadership Academy — seeks to trainofficers of Greek chapters in a variety of skills to“help them make tough decisions,” said Amy Kohut,program head and director of the Cornell Team andLeadership Center. It will also help them “create apositive environment for new members,” said COEExecutive Director Todd Miner.

According to Miner, although COE has workedwith the Greek system in the past, previous programsfocused primarily on training new members. TheGreek Leadership Academy will instead emphasizeeducating officers of Greek chapters, he said.

“In the past, we’ve worked with new members,but then it was several years before they were theirchapters’ leaders, so we lost some of the impact,”Miner said. “This will get the Greek community towhere it should be and where it will be.”

COE ran a pilot of the course in 2011, which wasmet with positive feedback from the 28 studentsfrom 14 different organizations who participated,Kohut said.

Students can earn one physical education creditfor participating in the first semester of this year’scourse, which will officially launch Oct. 15.

During the fall semester of the program, studentswill attend weekly three-hour meetings in which theywill explore topics such as group dynamics, cultureand power, according to Kohut. A professional lead-ership coach will also provide participants with one-on-one coaching, she said.

During the second half of the program in thespring, participating officers will be given the optionof taking their chapter’s new members to theHoffman Challenge Course — a Cornell-ownedropes course — for team-building activities.

“COE is an outdoor education program, but it’salso very heavy on experiential learning,” Kohut said.“We try to highly impact a couple of people in the

hopes that they’ll impact many.”Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D ’94, vice president of

student and academic services, said that theUniversity financed last year’s pilot program in fulland covered 75 percent of the cost this year.Participating Greek chapters covered the remainingcosts of the program.

Interfraternity Council President Chris Sanders’13 said that changes to the Greek system over thelast year increased the need for the University toimprove education for chapter officers.

“The program helps student leaders deal withchange to the Greek system. There was need for morerobust training,” Sanders said. “This program willarm chapter leaders with more knowledge, and mem-bers will get to know each other better. They’ll havea network of people going through the same situa-tion that they know they can rely on.”

Greek students leaders involved in the LeadershipAcademy expressed satisfaction with last year’s pilot,as well as optimism over the course’s ability to edu-cate chapter officers as they enter the new memberrecruitment period in January.

Luke Grosvenor ’14, president of the Sigma Chifraternity, spoke highly of his experience in the pilotprogram. He said he has urged other members of hischapter to take the course this year.

“I think this program will supplement Greek lead-ers’ skills, but also will change them entirely,”Grosvenor said. “A lot of Greek leaders start withouta lot of experience. I learned a lot of stuff [in the pro-gram] I had never thought of before. It was reallyeye-opening in some ways.”

Tom Hirschfeld ’13, a member of the Delta Phifraternity who was involved in the creation of thenew course, said that despite its small size, he believesthe program is a step in the right direction towardsolving key problems with Greek student leadership.

“The big problem with Greek leadership is thatit’s focused on execution, not on leadership develop-ment,” Hirschfeld said. “Cornell doesn’t do a greatjob training leaders; it just gives people leadershippositions. [Leadership Academy] is a small programin the grand scheme of things, but we’re providingleaders with the tools they need.”

Students dressed up in their best business wear to interactwith potential employers at the Career Fair on Tuesday andWednesday. If you had the resume, smarts and contacts to

land your dream job, what would it be?

“Ice-cream-taster by day, mattress-tester by night.”— Sloth ’14

“A butterfly ... or unicorn.”— Spirit Editor ’13

“Wait, The Sun isn’t a dream job?”— Delusional Editor ’13

“John Schroeder ’74.”— Suck-Up ’14

— Compiled by Jonathan Dawson

By SARAH CUTLERSun Contributor

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Members of Design Connect, a group that works on architecture pro-jects in the community, recruit students to join their organization.

If you build it, they will come

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Dean Says She’s Ready for ‘Challenge’ing individually with students and faculty for feed-back will be an ongoing and important aspect of herposition.

“It will be almost constant engagement withgraduate students,” Allen said.

Lamey has ten years of experience working withgraduate students at Cornell. Before she came to theUniversity, she also worked with professional stu-dents in the Family Medicine Residency Program atEast Carolina University in Greenville, N.C.

Lamey said her favorite part of the job “is work-ing with the students, to be honest with you.”

“It’s been really an honor to get to know themand to be able to help them along the way,” shesaid.

Lamey is a “jack of all trades” in her current posi-tion but, as assistant dean of student life, she willhave the opportunity to “hone in on student activ-ities and life,” she said.

Lamey said she will partner with other offices on

campus in order to create a “culture and environ-ment that supports graduate and professional stu-dents.”

Mitch Paine, president of the Graduate andProfessional Student Assembly, expressed enthusi-asm about Lamey’s appointment.

As the GPSA continues to look strategically atissues that affect graduate students across campus,Paine said that “we really want to work with theGraduate School.”

Paine added that the new hires of Lamey, as wellas Allen, will help set a direction for collaborationbetween the GPSA and the Graduate School. Hesaid that he is “very excited” to work with a full staffat the Graduate School.

Lamey, too, shared her “personal enthusiasm”for the future.

“I’m really committed to making this a betterplace for all,” Lamey said. “I’m looking forward toit. It’ll be a nice challenge.”

needs.“I don’t believe that they gave

us enough,” she said. “We donot even have enough of a raise[to match the] cost of living.”

Given the recession’s impacton Cornell employees,Kaminsky said wage increaseswere “probably the number oneconcern” for the union.

“During the last contract,the University was experiencinghardship due to the market col-lapse,” Kaminsky said. “Wewanted to make some groundon the wages, which we did.”

Although the union negoti-ated wage increases, Gordiniersaid that they are not sufficient.They are an important factor inwhy she does not support theterms of the new contract, shesaid.

Kaminsky, however, said that“in general, the bargaining unitmembers were pretty happyabout the contract, as the voteto ratify has shown.”

Still, the contract guaranteesthe University that employeeswill not strike, which is “differ-ent from other contracts” nego-tiated by unions across theglobe, according to GregHalkiopoulos, an employee atthe Amit Bhatia Libe Cafe.

“My opinion about thewhole contract is very negative,”he said. “Here, the workers arenot allowed to strike.”

Another change resultingfrom the negotiations is that theUniversity has extended itsemployees’ contracts, which willlast four years instead of thethree it previously covered.Kaminsky said employees’ con-tracts were extended to try toprovide them more job security.

“With not knowing what’sgoing on with the economy andthe country, we were looking fora bit of a longer contract just forsecurity,” Kaminsky said.

Mittman said that through-out the negotiations for the newcontract, negotiators also dis-cussed career development andincreased workload –– issuesthat many employees addressedin a University-wide survey in2011.

“We talked a lot about[career development] and we re-emphasized the University’scommitment to the

[Community Learning andService Partnership] program,”Mittman said, referring to aUniversity program that helpsemployees learn English,acquire computer skills and pre-pare to pass the GED test.

A sub-council representingemployees of the School ofHotel Administration alsoraised concerns about fair work-loads, Mittman said.

“[The negotiations] includedsome work on the room assign-ments for housekeepers [at theStatler Hotel] in order to try tomake that as reasonable as possi-ble given the business require-ments,” he said.

Additionally, negotiatorsagreed to give priority to formeremployees applying to newpositions at the University aftertaking a leave of absence for ashort-term disability. Whereaspreviously, if an employee hadto take a leave for more than sixmonths, he or she would losehis or her job, under the newcontract, the University willgive special consideration tosuch employees re-applying forjobs, Kaminsky said.

“What the University andthe UAW agreed to was thatpeople who lose their positionsin that way would be able toapply to the University, andbased on their past work record… be considered higher thansomeone who has had no workexperience at Cornell,”Kaminsky said.

Although the University andthe UAW settled several issuesthroughout the negotiations,the parties decided to postponedeciding how to fairly handlesummer employment forCornell employees — some ofwhom, Kaminsky said, are laidoff when there are fewer jobs inthe summer and winter.

Overall, Kaminsky andMittman agreed that the negoti-ations were “smooth” and “ingood faith.”

“We came to a fair and equi-table agreement after good faithbargaining that agreed upon bythe University and the member-ship,” Mittman said.

But according toHalkiopoulos, the contract is“too employer-friendly.”

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tors should be responding to.“If I read the list of demands, I can see what they [the

demands] are, but it’s tough to know who you’re workingwith,” Murphy said.

But Anna-Lisa Castle ’13 –– workshop co-chair forthe Women of Color Conference, which discusses issuesof gender and race –– said the list of demands was inten-tionally left anonymous “because it was a collectiveeffort.”

“We were clear about what we wanted and the peoplewho were there the day of the demonstration were notanonymous, by any means. We were unanimous,” Castlesaid.

Furthermore, in the wake of two reported sexualassaults and two bias incidents that have occurred oncampus since the incident at Sigma Pi, student leaderssaid administrators have failed to respond to any of theirdemands.

Ashley Harrington ’13, an advisory board member forthe Women’s Resource Center, said in an email that theUniversity’s response was reactive, not proactive.

“Unfortunately, it has become quite clear that theadministration takes reactive measures to save face afterbias incidents occur,” she said, referring to the variouscampus-wide discussions organized by the Universityafter the attacks.

In their list of demands, protesters also asked theUniversity to eliminate the word “diversity” from its lex-

icon and replace it with “anti-oppression.” Instead of complying with this demand, the

University, Castle said, has kept its focus on diversity,rather than anti-oppression. She said existing programs–– such as the University Diversity Council and the“Intergroup Dialogue Project” –– are not synonymouswith the creation of an “anti-oppression task force” or“anti-oppression training,” as the protesters had demand-ed.

While both the Intergroup Dialogue Project and theUniversity Diversity Council represent instances in whichthe University reacted to the bias incidents, “these pro-grams do not appear to have anything to do with thedemands we put forward,” Castle said.

But Renee Alexander ’74, associate dean of studentsand director of intercultural programs, said that it wouldbe crucial to look forward on issues rather than concen-trate on the word used to express concerns.

While “we can wordsmith all we want,” it is importantto focus on “what are we going to do to get people tochange, how do we educate people [and] how do wediminish bias and oppression,” Alexander said.

Murphy agreed, saying, “to just have that debate ofwords … I don’t think is productive.”

Alexander said she is working toward increasing dia-logue among student leaders and organizations. OnSaturday, she led the first meeting of a leadership round-table to address the incidents of racial bias and sexualassault that have occurred on campus in recent weeks.

Alexander stressed that students leaders need to devotetheir efforts to addressing the string of attacks that have

occurred on campus.“We have problems on [campus] that stretch far

beyond diversity or Greek [issues],” she said. “Look at thesexual assault problem. We don’t know if it’s one personor two people [out there], but there’s a sense of anxiety oncampus among women. So what do leaders have to sayabout that? What can we do?”

A.T. Miller, associate vice provost for academic diver-sity initiatives, who worked to organize the IntergroupDialogue Project, emphasized the importance of bringingthe community together in the wake of such incidents.

“It impacts all of us when these things happen,” hesaid.

Still, student leaders said they are hoping for moredirect action in response to the demands they drafted.

“While these initiatives are perhaps a sign of goodfaith, the limited reaction that the University has haddoes not even attempt to disturb the status quo, and itwon’t matter how much time or money Cornell spendson ‘diversity initiatives’ until they are willing to do justthat,” Castle said in an email.

Harrington agreed, saying that it is crucial for theadministration to be proactive in making changes. Theadministration must try to examine all of its workthrough an intersectional lens, she said.

“Much of the senior administration comes from aplace of social privilege, and they have failed to unpackthat,” she said.

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This week, many students roamed campus dressed in their business casual best, trying toimpress future employers at the career fair. Despite their snazzy outfits, many still seemeddistressed and exhausted. The Sun sat down with Cornell’s legendary founders Ezra Cornelland A.D. White to try and solve this troubling dilemma.

THE SUN: Hey A.D. and Ezra.EZRA CORNELL: Oh hey, lowly Sun reporter. Sorry if I seem groggy. I just can’t get

any sleep anymore with all you students keeping up at night by blasting “Call MeMaybe” from your Collegetown porches.

SUN: Sorry about that. It’s been a bit of an issue lately. Council members have beentrying to find solutions but no one really knows what to do about it. Any ideas?

EZRA: Yes, actually. When I founded Cornell, we used to put unruly Cornellians instocks in the center of the Arts Quad. If they continued to be obnoxious, we tied themto a tree and left them for the bears. Touchdown was pretty ravenous in his heyday.

A.D.: Yeah, Touchdown has really let himself go these days. Now all he does is walkaround campus high-fiving unsuspecting freshmen and skating around the ice duringhockey games looking like a fool.

SUN: Well, one of the solutions to this problem that has been proposed is movingdrinking to a place in the Ivy Room called the Bear’s Den.

EZRA: Hell yeah! That’s exactly what I am talking about. A den full of bears!Genius! Why didn’t we think of that A.D.? No Cornellian will ever embibe alcoholever again!

A.D.: Sorry to burst your bubble, Ezra. The Bear’s Den is a pub, which means thatit serves beer.

EZRA: Gah. What a joke. SUN: Speaking of a joke, how about those calendar changes? EZRA: Yawn. You aren’t doing a good job of keeping me awake here. Next question. A.D.: Whoa, Ezra. No need to be so grumpy. These are important changes.

Though in my day, we didn’t have so many breaks at all. The only breaks we got werewhen the snow piled up so high we couldn’t get out the door. Fall break?! Nonsense.

EZRA: Yeah, but look at all these Cornellians walking around like zombies. Theyneed their time off.

A.D.: They weren’t just like zombies. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen actual zombies walk-ing around campus. It tripped me out. I thought we were the only undead that roamedthis campus

EZRA: Oh, silly A.D., those aren’t the undead. Those are just Cornell students onthe way to the career fair. It happens every year. Hoards of Cornell students mindless-ly wandering up to campus to try to nail an investment banking position.

A.D.: ... where they can continue their zombie lifestyle by eating the brains of mid-dle-class Americans. I knew that’s what you had in mind when you founded Cornell,Ezra. Any person, any investment bank.

Any Person, Any Investment Bank

Ignoring the student voiceTo the Editor:Re: “Provost Approves Divisive Calendar: Markes three modifications to final plan,” Sept. 13

On Wednesday, Provost Fuchs announced to the Faculty Senate that the CalendarCommittee Recommendations, passed through the Faculty Senate last May despite sig-nificant student opposition, were accepted.

I respectfully dissent.Today, I write solely from my position as one of two undergraduate students who

were members of the University Calendar Committee. The Committee was formed inthe Fall of 2010 to “explore whether revisions to the calendar could help to alleviatestudent stress.” Funny then that the Committee ignored the overwhelming studentconsensus that the changes would do little to ameliorate, and could potentiallyincrease, student stress.

I am upset and dismayed about the changes to the Calendar. The University willreduce the study period before exams, hold exams throughout Saturday (in the past,only language exams were offered on Saturday) and has eliminated Senior Week for theClass of 2014 and beyond. The benefits to students? A two day break in February thatis placed less than a month after classes begin and the elimination of the half day ofclass that exists on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving break.

While the physical changes are a detriment to both current and future Cornellians,most significant to the decision is the lack of importance the administration andspecifically, the Committee, gave to the concerns of students. Over 2,000 studentssigned a petition decrying the changes, presidents from student groups ranging fromCornell Minds Matter (who know a thing or two about mental health), to the IFC toHillel, over 60 in total, all signed on in support against the changes.

At the end of the Spring semester, The Student Assembly, with the support of ClassCouncils, Senior Week, and many other student organizations passes Resolution 47which simply asked for the Committee to hold off the vote on the changes until thestart of the Fall semester to allow students to fully evaluate the calendar. Even thisrequest went unheeded. I fear that in order to bring the agonizingly long process to aconclusion, the Committee did not adequately attend to its original purpose of allevi-ating student stress.

Quite frankly, the Committee’s decision to proceed, even with both undergraduaterepresentatives opposed to the plan, undermines the need for any student input intothe Committee. I can imagine of no purpose, other than show, to allow students to siton the Committee while simultaneously ignoring their position.

What does it say about the administration’s decision making structure when thou-sands of students decry the changes and yet those voices are ignored? What does it sayabout the Committee when it is so focused on enacting change that they refuse toextend a multi-year process for a summer to allow for further consideration?

Time will one day heal the wound to the relationship between student leaders andthe administration that was caused by this decision. One thing, however, is certain.Although we may never know with complete certainty the effects of the calendarchanges on student mental health, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is stu-dents’ confidence in their ability to effect change and partake in a productive dialoguewith the administration.

Geoffrey Block ’14

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Ayear ago I wrote a column about problem-based learn-ing, in which I said that I thought it was a conceptual-ly brilliant teaching strategy but maybe didn’t live up

to all of the hype that surrounds it. Two semesters later, Ithink it’s time to re-evaluate.

To recap, problem-based (or case-based) learning is a strat-egy in which instead of attending lectures on a topic, studentswork together in small groups (“tutor groups”) to figure outreal medical cases and learn key concepts in the process. Thecases are divided into several pages, and we analyze one pageat a time. The first page generally introduces the patient andthe primary problem. We write down all of the facts on thewhiteboard, identify the problems, come up with possibleexplanations for why the problems are happening, think of aplan of action and identify learning issues that we need toresearch further. The next time the group meets, we spendaround an hour talking about the learning issues from the lasttime before proceeding with the case.

My complaint last year was that the amount of resourcesthat were available to us for our learning issues was over-whelming. Every book said something in a slightly differentway and I thought that it took too much time to find the“right” answer, especially when there were also lectures toreview and labs to prepare for. I think what I’ve learned overthe past year is that there is rarely a “right” answer to mostthings. There are certainly wrong ones, but beyond that thereare generally several different ways to do / learn about / cate-gorize any one thing. Looking at learning issues this way notonly makes them more fun, but also makes tutor group muchmore rewarding.

In addition to me becoming more comfortable with theprocesses, there are a handful of important differences in thetutor groups right now compared to the beginning of last year.First of all, first semester of first year is about learning normalanatomy, but not necessarily learning why things work theway they do (physiology). The end of first year and now, how-

ever, are all about physiology. Besides the fact that personallyI remember things infinitely better when I know why theywork rather than only that they work, I think problem basedlearning is much more conducive to learning mechanismsthan facts. When the case presents a cat in respiratory distress,you want to know why her lungs are doing what they’redoing, not what the structureof her lungs are. Realisticallyyou have to know the latter tounderstand the former, I’mjust saying that I feel like Iretain more information fromphysiology tutor groups thanthe anatomy ones.

Another key difference isthat in anatomy, we learnedthe same facts several times —in tutor group, in lab, in lec-ture, etc., but in physiology the lectures are sparser and tutorgroup seems to be an inherently more important part of thecurriculum. It’s a little nerve-racking because you never reallyknow to what depth you’re expected to know the material, butit’s also somewhat liberating because you’re free to go into asmuch detail as you want in order to learn something better.

We’ve also started concept mapping this time around,which is when we set aside time at the end of the case to makea large flowchart that links together all of the things that we’velearned during the case. Research suggests that concept map-ping and problem based learning are supposed to go hand inhand, but it was never something that my anatomy tutorgroup really ever did. I think it makes a big difference in help-ing to tie everything together.

I’ve been finding that when I’m in the hospital or onexternships I learn an incredible amount from specific cases.So I’ll remember for a long time what lymphoma looks likeand how it’s treated because I saw it in Shiloh the golden

retriever — I definitely retain it a lot better than just learningabout lymphoma in class (although if I were to learn about itin class after seeing Shiloh then I would be thinking aboutShiloh in class and would remember it even more). There’sstill a little bit of disconnect with this phenomenon when itcomes to tutor group cases because we never get to see what

the animals physically look like. I can’t remember all of thenames of the cases, but I can, however, remember almost allof the problems they had much more clearly than I wouldhave been able to otherwise.

So in summary, it’s taken me a year but I think I’ve finallyfigured out how to make the most out of tutor group, througha combination of a little growing up and a few inherent mod-ifications to the whole process. Either that or I’ve just been astudent for so long (wouldn’t this be 18th grade?) that I’mfinally starting to analyze learning as a process instead of justseeing school as a means to an end.

Over this past summer, Cornellabruptly announced that it willcut back on undergraduate

financial aid by lowering the ceiling ofthe loan-free income bracket from$75,000 a year to $60,000. This is thedirect result of the University deemingthe current financial aid program to beno longer “sustainable” as the expendi-ture has consistently grown annuallysince the financial aid initiative back in2008 under the tenure of Provost BiddyMartin. It could have been devastating

news for the half of the Cornell under-graduate population who were receivingneed-based grants from the University,yet fortunately, they were able to findrelief reading the “fine print” that assuredno change on current financial aids forcontinuing students.

This was a smart move on the admin-istration’s part for they probably wouldn’twant to provoke campus-wide protests.Entering students, on the other hand,may have felt some sweat trickling downtheir backs, since the new financial aidprogram may decrease their aids. For

many of us, that would mean gettingdeeper into debt, and it will take us extramonths and even years to pay off thatextra amount. Yet, can you imagine hav-ing to pay every dollar of tuition for allfour years of your undergraduate career?As a matter of fact, that’s what 80 percentof international students here at Cornelldo every semester, not getting a pennyfrom the financial aids office. And no, it’snot because our families make over$200,000 a year or have some enormousassets like the richer half of the

“American” students at Cornell who arenot eligible for any aid. Obviously someinternational students are very well-off,but most of us do not receive any aiddespite our moderate income simplybecause we made a deal with the “devil”upon our admissions to Cornell.

Most of you are probably very proudto attend this institution which advertis-es itself as open to “Any person … anystudy” and its need-blind admissions thatenables competent applications from anyfinancial background to gain admissions.Well, it turned out that it’s only half-true.While Cornell’s motto and its egalitarian

ideal is very much in practice forAmerican students or those with greencards (permanent residency). For interna-tional students, it is not need-blind, but“need-aware.” Universities throughoutthis nation have created this tricky termto lure more international applicants, butwhat this policy entails is that wheninternational applicants display anyfinancial need, the system makes thoseapplicants compete for a very limitedamount of financial aid designated forinternational students. If you are notselected as one of those few outstandingapplicants, you cannot be admitted tothe University even if your qualificationis on par with other admitted students,for the U.S. government requires a proofof sufficient finance in order to attain thestudent visa, F-1. Since you have declaredyour own lack of funding by applying forfinancial aid, we have no choice but notto grant you admissions, the Universitylikes to say.

Now, the catch is that the criteria forselecting aid recipients include geograph-ical diversity. Cornell’s undergraduateinternational student population is high-ly polarized with the two most commonnationalities comprising almost twothirds of international populations.(Korean students make up 30 percent,Chinese students make up 29 percent).Because I had no eye-catching record ofsome international Olympiad award orsuch, and without any geographicaladvantage, I could have been easilyreplaced with another Korean studentwith lot more money and perhaps, aslightly lower test score.

I do admit coming from Korea, a

highly-developed, fully democraticnation, I probably still could have attend-ed a decent institution back home,though certainly not of the same caliberas Cornell. On the other hand, for stu-dents coming from Africa, it would be lotmore challenging to find an institutionthat compares to Cornell. At the end ofthe day, however, it is not my fault thatI’m Korean. I did not choose to be bornin East Asia and put myself in an inher-ently more competitive environment.

What enables this flawed system tocontinue and has allowed universities tokeep taking advantage of internationalstudents, however, is ironically enough,our own academically-oriented EastAsian culture. Nevertheless, it should beappalling to all of us that this institutionwhich supposedly celebrates diversity ofevery form and has the single most egali-tarian motto of all higher learning insti-tutions has “strategically” targeted ourculture and has taken advantage of it.Cornell has a huge number of Asian stu-dents. Yes, it is also due to the fact thatCornell has a very renowned reputationin Asia, in some cases even higher thaninstitutions that would normally be con-sidered more prestigious than Cornell inthe U.S. Yet, the question lingers. DoesCornell really welcome Korean andChinese students or is it simply interest-ed in our money?

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The Problem With ‘Need Aware’International Admissions

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NikhitaParandekar

Hoof in Mouth

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-yearveterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She maybe reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appearsalternate Fridays this semester.

Don Oh is a junior in the College of Architecture,Art, and Planning. He may be reached at do95@cor-nell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this sem-ster.

Don Oh ’14

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Have you ever woken from a dream andfound yourself still carrying it around for therest of the day? The dream has passed, butyou carry it on the tip of your brain like someversion of yourself that could have been realbut simply slipped into oblivion as youawoke. As I left the theater after watching TheWords, I felt this itch within my brain: a con-fusion as to what was real and what wasn’t.

The film’s trailer presents a clichéd plot-line: Author Rory Jansen (Bradley Cooper)cannot get his own work published andresorts to plagiarizing the unpublished workof a man 60 years his senior. Of course, thiscomes back to bite him and heis faced with moral issues, guilt,blah, blah, blah: nothing out ofthe ordinary or too unpre-dictable. The only thing thatkept me from bolting out ofthe theater during the first hourwas the confusion nagging atme from the first scene. Theentire movie is narrated via abook reading by author Clay Hammond(Dennis Quaid). To be honest, the constantinterruption of Quaid’s irritating voice breaksthe movie’s flow and jars the audience. Thisflagrant, awkward voiceover was so bizarrethat for the first hour I kept asking myself:Where does he fit in during all of this?

As the second segment of Hammond’s

reading commences, we are introduced to thetrue author of Jansen’s book, an old,unnamed man played by Jeremy Irons. TheOld Man then proceeds to tell Jansen hisstory. A flashback introduces us to our authoras a younger man — naturally named TheYoung Man. Played by Ben Barnes, this Manbranches into the 186th plotline of the film,relaying his story through the aged version ofhimself to Jansen, whose story is thus recitedby Hammond to an audience of students andall of which is transmitted through pixels andgigabytes onto a multiplex movie screenbefore a very confused audience.

At this point, the film actually attempts tobuild substance behind this overly complexfacade. We are no longer simply dealing with

woe-is-me Jansen and his unrealistically sup-portive wife, Dora (Zoe Saldana). The post-World War II story set in Paris reverts to asofter, Technicolor-esque visual palette, final-ly bringing real issues to the table. After thefirst monotonous hour, Klugman andSternthal give us characters we actually careabout and begin to blur the line between fic-

tion and reality, characterand person. The charac-ters themselves, asauthors, begin to ques-tion the reality of theirworlds: “You have tochoose between life andfiction. The two are veryclose, but they neveractually touch,” stressesHammond.

The film lacks a mov-ing soundtrack, stand-out performances or anynoteworthy cinematog-raphy. What it does haveis a story ! in fact, it hasseveral ! and though itmay at points feel like the Inception of the lit-erary world, it speaks with a strong voice toanyone who takes the time to enjoy the arts.It asks us all where our lives end and ourworld around you. Present to demonstratethe distinction are Dora, Celia (NoraArnezeder) and Daniella (Olivia Wilde).These women represent the opposite of thefictional world: they are the real life that thethree authors have and must choose whetherto fight for. The stories of these women donot intersect, but each must look beyond theromanticism of life and face humbling con-clusions. As time passes, each character mustcome to terms with the fact that stories gobeyond the page. Finally, they are forced toconfront the choices they have made and who

they face those consequences with.The movie is not spectacular: The pacing

drags and there are no stylistic gems to writehome about. This film’s only merit is thatunlike all the other mindless drone films inthe world, it makes you think — far morethan is necessary in fact. A surgeon general’swarning should precede the opening credits.True to its attempt at sophistication, moralityand true love do not necessarily win. Thoughthe majority of the film lack depth, there is afinal message to all who try to hide away infiction: Life gets in the way, even for thosewho choose to avoid it.

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“We eat shit and shit shit.” Nothing short of poetry, this isMisha’s take on Branded’s cheerless dystopia that is its visionfor future Russia. And he has a rather excellent point. A pointthat would be even more excellent if he was referring directlyto the film itself, for that is all the film is — a vision. A god-awful, nauseating mess of what almost feels like a hallucina-tion, this film fails in all the areas that good movies succeed in.It’s shot in some truly heinous photography that relentlesslyinfects every second of the film and has us begging for evenjust a brief shot of a clear blue sky.

An explanation is in order.Branded opens in the streets of the gray, miserable gloom

that has unofficially become the portrait of Soviet Russia. Anagitated, young Misha runs down the street, presumably onhis way to board a train. We never find out, for he is struck bylightning. He is then approached by a woman, possibly partgypsy — she’s got the cloak and the nose and the gratuitouspredictions — whotells him that he willaccomplish greatthings. Because ifthere is anything thatprecipitates greatness,it is winning theunlikely odds of get-ting struck by light-ening and living to betold that consequential greatness lies ahead.

The scene shifts. We see grown-up Misha (Ed Stoppard) inthe middle of traffic, looking as strained as if he’d been dri-ving while battling severe constipation. Really, it’s just a lot ofguesswork, because the film does astonishingly little to explainMisha’s actions and circumstances. It is one of those rare filmswhere the first five minutes kindly let us know exactly what’sin store for the remaining two hours. Confusion, chaos, frus-tration, nausea and hilarity — the kind of hilarity that laughsonly at the absurdity of it all.

A blur of jumbled scenes, flimsy characters and random

shifts in screen aspect ratios make up the remain-der of an unnecessary first act. For it says too muchand communicates much too little. Just as allhopes of understanding the film seem to be lost, itstarts to fall into rhythm. Kinda. Misha, advertis-ing genius, starts an extreme makeover show star-ring the generic fat, unattractive, low self-esteem-rat-haired-pathetic excuse for a woman that suchmakeovers require. His partner is producer AbbyGibbons (Leelee Sobieski), and things quickly heatup. Why? Because the film needs him to take onthe illusion of being three-dimensional; to havean automobile make-out session that can besnipped into the movie trailer; to have him have someone totalk to, someone to be rescued by when lying unconsciouswith his ass bare to the winds on the grassy plains of a deso-late cow farm. But I digress. The reality show tanks, as heunknowingly falls victim to an elaborate scheme by a fast foodmogul on a mission to make ‘fat’ the new look.

Misha is devastated. He runs to herd cows in the wilder-ness, and Abby pops in for just long enough to tossin a hilariously uninspired line (“What are you, somesort of Buddhist?”). She leaves, he stays. He sleeps.He gets up, sees the cows, axes the red one, slopshimself with the blood, strips down, conks out onthe grass, wakes up and then all of a sudden — seesthe truth. The truth behind advertising.

For the first time, the film starts to matter. Orrather, is expected to matter. A film entitled Branded,starring familiar corporate giants (Yepple, GiantSoft,

The Burger) as villains, carries the responsibility to tell ussomething insightful about marketing and the corporateworld, and it teases up such expectations in the trailers.Expectations that are beaten down to a trough in the chaos ofthe previous acts and shattered when the film finally lets onthat it really has nothing interesting to say on the matter.

Instead, it gives us monsters. Monsters that each representsa namesake brand. Monsters that are festering Seussian carica-tures dug up from the gutter — flatulent, psychedelic globsthat hurt the eyes and retch unpleasantly as they leech off peo-ple’s materialistic desires and fight amongst each other as they

grow. It’s not really a metaphor because it’s rather too literal.It’s more of a children’s illustration, and an ugly one at that.Either the filmmakers envisioned a general room of dimwitsto be instructed in Marketing 101 with pictures, or theyhoped to cover the overwhelming emptiness of the film withflashy visuals. Either way, it’s insulting.

The irony of is that the misleading marketing villainized inthe film is the very means by which it attempts to lure an audi-ence. Movie trailers are nothing but advertisements that neednot and do not tell the truth; despite what the filmmakers maythink, we all know this. Yet, it is a sad day indeed when a filmbecomes hypocritical to its own message by being so, well,bad, when the trailer would suggest otherwise.

Unless of course, the entire film was intended to be ametaphor. A metaphor for the sad product of a capitalistworld. A world in which advertisements in all their flash andglitter promise to bring us happiness in perfume bottles, iPadsand movie tickets. A world in which the happiness is fleeting,filling us with an unquenchable void, for there is no substancein the modern material world. And as we try and fail to fightthe emptiness within, we fall into a cycle of want, need anddisappointment, increasingly falling into an inexplicabledepression that only —

Oh never mind. The movie sucks. Watch something elseon Friday night.

BY PATRICIA KIM Sun Contributor

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Marissa Tranquilli is a sophomore in the College ofArts and Sciences. She can be reached atmmt62@cornell.edu.

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BrandedDirected by Jamie Bradshaw,Aleksandr DuleraynFeaturing Ed Stoppard,Leelee Sobieski D

Branded to Fail

The WordsDirected by Brian Klugman,Lee Sternthal Featuring Bradley Cooper,Dennis Quaid and Olivia Wilde

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BY MARISSA TRANQUILLISun Contributor

Patricia Kim is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She canbe reached at pjk87@cornell.edu.

COURTESY OF ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS

Walking through Milstein Hall makesme feel like a hippie lost in a space station.Judging by Maria Park’s new exhibit inMilstein Gallery, I’m not the only one. Theexhibit, entitled Shelf Life, was created inresponse to Milstein's architecture, and it,like the rest of Milstein, is far, far away fromthe green planet that surrounds it. Shelf Lifepresents the viewer with the world of man,teetering on a sterile white shelf as it dis-members the natural world at right angles. Itis effective and it is brutal.

Upon entering the gallery, I am present-ed with four identical white shelves, one ontop of the other. The shelves hold evenlyspaced objects: balls of paint (green, white,blue), solid plastic cubes (green, white), arow of plastic LEGO trees and bushes.Everything is in order, laid out with mathe-matical precision, ready for assembly. Itbrings me back to long days spent sur-rounded by LEGO, breaking the world upinto indestructible little blocks and reassem-bling them to suit the purposes of the pre-sent game. Everything here suggests a tree.But nothing here is a tree.

On the opposite wall hangs a painting oftwo humans passing through a garden. Iconsult the gallery guide and check thematerials: acrylite on Plexiglas. I look closer.Like so much else in this gallery, this isanother reconfiguration of plastic. Little

fragments of colored plastic, arranged in aparticular way and attached to a larger pieceof transparent plastic. Plastic is a petro-chemical. That is to say, it is derived frompetroleum, which is what happens whendead plants and animals lie in the earth for along time. Derived, somewhere along theline, from an actual artist seeing actualhumans walk among actual plants, these bitsof plastic havecome a long way.We have donewith the imagehanging on thewall that which ischaracteristicallyhuman: We takethe world present-ed to us, flatten itout, smash it upinto its compo-nent parts, mold ittogether into ashape which worksfor us (a tool, a toy,a building, a workof art) and put iton the shelf. Look at it. Scratch our heads.Appreciate it.

It’s beautiful, I guess, and a certain kindof exciting, just like Milstein Hall, in its way,is exciting. We worship innovation for itsown sake, and Milstein is nothing if not aninnovative configuration of concrete, metal,plastic and glass. That dome with the plasticbubbles on it is ... cool? I’m not sure it’s quite

the hang-out spot the architects imagined itwould be, but hey, at least it’s different. Is ita beautiful building? Meh. It’s innovative,and it’s quite energy efficient, but I wouldhesitate to call that concrete labyrinth athing of beauty. Those massive slabs of con-crete, those sheets of brushed metal — theywere mountains once, sacrificed, like somuch of Planet Earth, at the altar of innova-

tion.Shelf Life sits at the heart of this bitter-

sweet monument to mankind’s LEGO-setmentality. Explicitly created as a response tothe architecture of Milstein, the galleryserves as an exaggerated parody of the build-ing’s cold, crazed modernity. The secondroom of the exhibit, like the first, is framedby sterile white shelves holding chopped up

bits of the world. Atop each shelf sits a seriesof books: Thoureau’s Walden, a number ofworks by John Muir, a guide to the trees ofNorth America. Each series of books isbookended on either side by a plastic cubecovered with abstract, fragmented jungle-scapes. The books are, of course, printed onpaper, the flattened-out-smashed-up-remolded form of the rainforests suggestedby the bookends. It’s an elegant and a horri-ble joke, these naturalists sitting on shelvesin a space-age gallery. Thoureau and Muirbecome, like me, hippies lost in a space sta-tion.

Shelf Life scares me. It does what art doesbest; it forces us to confront the paradoxesand contradictions of our lives which are sodifficult to put in words. These uniformshelves, always suggesting nature but alwaysdeeply unnatural, tell the story of PlanetEarth under the hands of innovative pri-mates, our perspectives profoundly limitedby the straight lines and cubes into which wecarve our world. They tell the joke of hang-ing nature up on a gallery wall like a freshkill.

Most of all, they ask a question. What isthe shelf life of such a world? What is theexpiration date of nature on a shelf? Andwhat will we do once the whole thing goesrancid?

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As fall approaches, so does a new season of prime-time television. How I’ve missed curling up onWednesday nights with my roommate and a bag of

PopChips, waiting for the newest episode of ModernFamily. When I don’t feel like going out, I like sitting onmy bed on sleepy Saturday nights in pajamas, and watch-ing the new episode of Saturday Night Live. Nothing curesa week of classes and work and general debauchery like acup of tea and a T.V. show guaranteed to make you smile.

Looking through the list of comedies set to hit ourcomputer screens this fall, there’s a single word that comesto mind: awkward. From Jess of New Girl to Mindy inThe Mindy Project to the show actually entitled Awkward,I keep seeing female characters who are emotionallystrong and socially awkward. These women are strangeand amazing and leading casts with top ratings. They aremuch more than the klutzy friend, they are the klutzyfemme fatales.

Whenever I hear that term, femme fatale, I think ofOld Hollywood. I think of Rita Hayworth and BarbaraStanwick — beautiful women who know what to say toa man and always happen to be in the right place at theright time. Women who have complete confidence andknow how to get whatthey want. Women whomake men fall collar overcoat-tails.

The image of this all-powerful woman in myhead used to be theJennifer Anistons, theJulia Roberts. That imageis starting to change. Thewomen that women lookup to now are Tina Fey,Amy Poehler and Zooey Deschanel — relatable, a littlequirky, and far from perfect. It seems like nowadays theprotagonist of choice is the awkward female. Last fall wemet Jess of New Girl played by Zooey Deschanel, thequeen of quirky indie naivete. A few years ago we fell in

love with Tina Fey in 30 Rock as thesocially disastrous Liz Lemon. Aftera few episodes we learned to love justabout everyone in Parks andRecreation, even the abrasive Aprilplayed by Aubrey Plaza. Women likethese women and the characters theyplay. The ones who are smart,quirky, a little odd, but somehowstill have it all, but to my suprisewe’re not the only ones noticing.

Maxim’s list of hottest women in2012 for example includes ZooeyDeschanel, Emma Stone (both are inthe Top 10), and Alyson Hannigan.Complex.com’s list mimics Maxim’sand adds Aubrey Plaza of Parks andRecreation and Alison Brie ofCommunity to the group. Don’t getme wrong, these women are veryattractive, but looking at the list Ican’t help but wonder about a few things. First, I’m won-dering if anyone in Trillium is looking over my shoulder

and judging the ran-dom girl flippingthrough Maxim’s Top100. Second, I’m won-dering how ZooeyDeschanel beat out thelikes of Sofia Vergaraand Olivia Munn.Okay Zooey is big inthe Hollywood andHulu communities thisyear along with Aubrey

Plaza and Alison Brie, but did these women really makethe list because they are the hottest or because they playcharacters that guys find attractive too? We’re talkingOlive from Easy A, the quick witted ingenue who any girlwould want to be friends with, but couldn’t get to date.

We’re talking about Alyson Hannigan of Buffy the VampireSlayer and American Pie, who was book smart but in thefirst season of Buffy stood in front of a guy she had a crushon and stared, mouth agape until he finally walked away.I can’t help but think this new mixture of confidence andawkwardness is the modern version of female confidenceand strength. These women are the new queens of televi-sion, the klutzy femme fatales. The beau gauche.

As I curl up watching T.V. in my zip-up footie pajamas,all this gives me hope. I would love to be Rita Hayworth.At the mention of her name my 93-year-old uncle stillcalls her his girlfriend. But let’s get real, that will never beme. I have at least eight bruises on my right shin just fromthe number of times I tripped over air this week. I thinkI’m fine with that. I’d rather be a Liz Lemon.

Arielle Cruz is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.Fortune Cookie Fridays appears alternate Fridays this semester.

Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts andSciences. He can be reached attmoore@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS14 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Friday, September 14, 2012

ing off the first .500 season since 2007 and projected to finishthird in the Ancient Eight — without a greatly improvedoffensive line. After surrendering 49 sacks in 2010, the menup front allowed only 30 last year and gave Mathews plenty oftime to set the Ivy single-season passing record.

“[The offensive line] has definitely been one of the biggestthings for us over the past couple of years,” Savage said. “It’sso important — protecting the QB, giving the receivers moretime in their routes [and] opening up holes for the runningbacks. It’s everything.”

The Cornell defense, meanwhile, enters the season withuncertainties that the club must address to win its first-everoutright Ivy League Championship. The Red lost arguably itsthree best, all-Ivy defensive players from 2011 in cornerbackRashad Campbell ’11, linebacker Brandon Lainhart ’11 anddefensive end Zack Imhoff ’11. The secondary is the biggestquestion mark, as the first line has combined for zero colle-giate starts and includes freshmen cornerbacks Jarrod Watson-Lewis [Oceanside, Calif.] and Kendall Brown [Carson, Calif.],whom junior middle linebacker and defensive co-captainBrett Buehler praised.

“We think this year we’ve got a lot of athletic freshmen,especially defensive backs,” said Buehler, whose 68 tackles in2011 were the most of any returning Red player. “A coupletimes last year we got beat by the deep ball. If we can shutdown the deep ball and stop the run, there shouldn’t be a teamthat can beat us.”

Austin also noted that big plays, especially between the20’s, nullified the unit’s strong red-zone defense. Despite gain-ing 407.7 yards per contest — roughly the same number theprolific Red offense produced — Cornell opponents scoredon only 67 percent of their trips inside the 20-yard line.

“[The defense] was pretty good in scoring territory, but noteverything outside of that area,” Austin said. “We’ve got toquit giving up the big plays and get teams more in third-and-long. We have to be better in first-down defense … We’ll be alittle bit more aggressive defensively and put a little more ath-leticism on the field.”

Former safeties coach Kim Dameron took over as defensivecoordinator in the offseason and implemented a simplifiedscheme to try to ease the personnel changes. Buehler believesthe new tactics will create a far more active and versatile Reddefense, particularly against the Rams, who netted 312 yardsin a 28-13 loss to Villanova last Saturday. Fordham seniorquarterback Ryan Higgins threw for 123 yards and a touch-down, while sophomore backup quarterback MichaelNebrich ran for 107 yards and a score — the second Ram sig-nal caller in history to rush for over 100 yards.

“[The new system] gives us a lot of different ways to putpressure on players from different angles — pressure comingfrom all different parts of the field,” Buehler said. “It gives usa bunch of different looks and gets in the head of the otherteam … We should put up just as good of numbers defen-sively as our offense does, especially this week.”

Senior linebacker and special teams captain MichaelHernandez also pledged that the Red defense would not letthe offensive production go unrewarded in 2012.

“I think as a team we don’t want to be too reliant on theoffense to win us games — we want to be able as a defense tohold our own,” he said. “We don’t want to be known only asa high-scoring offense, but a hard-hitting defense as well. Ithink we’re definitely going to do that, especially with the newschemes.”

Another crucial departure for the Red that cannot be over-looked was the graduation of kicker Brad Greenway ’11, whohit 13-of-15 field goals and all 36 extra points in 2011 and ledCornell in scoring four straight years. Junior John Wells willattempt to fill Greenway’s shoes, but the loss of an exception-al kicker at the Football Championship Subdivision level is abig blow that could alter the Red’s strategy when threateningto score.

Since 2007, Cornell is 4-1 in season-openers and 14-31 inall other contests. The Red hopes to continue the former trendwhen the team finally begins its 2012 campaign tomorrowafternoon. Although Cornell will not be the very last DivisionI team to kick off its season, as it has been in four of the lastnine years, the two-week lag behind most squads leaves theRed players quite eager to get going in live action.

“It’s time to play, and I think our guys are ready to play,”Austin said. “It’s a long camp [and] guys have worked hard.Just listening to them talk and the way they’re practicing, Iknow they’re anxious to just get down there and play thegame.”

Red Sets Sights on Ivy League Championship TitleFOOTBALL

Continued from page 16

Quintin Schwab can be reached at qschwab@cornellsun.com.

The women’s soccer team is waiting for its big break toturn the season around and accomplish its goal — to go overthe .500 mark. In order to do that the team needs to start cap-italizing on prime scoring opportunities, as well as adding afew notches to the ‘W’ column.

“The biggest challenge is going to be … getting that firstwin. It’s kind of hard to switch from a losing streak to a win-ning one,” said sophomore defender Sydney Cetrullo. “If wecan get on the right track, we can be good to go.”

This season has already been different for the Red (0-5).The team welcomed first-year head coach Patrick Farmer, whohas been working diligently to implement changes, not just inthe physical game play of the girls, but in the mental arena aswell.

“With our new coach, one of his main focuses has been tochange the culture of our team … [head coach PatrickFarmer] always tells us to run harder,” said junior tri-captainTori Christ. “It sounds so simple but it’s so true. If you thinkyou are working hard to a ball but you actually run that muchharder, it’s going to make a difference. He is changing the tac-tical and the physical aspects of the game too … He believesin us.”

Cornell played on Wednesday afternoon againstBinghamton at the Bearcats Sports Complex, where it suffereda 2-1 loss. The game looked promising as senior forward andtri-captain Maneesha Chitanvis scored her first goal of the sea-son; however, the Red was unable to capitalize on the initialmomentum. The team opened the second half of the game byscoring early, with Chitanvis’s goal coming in the 49th minuteto give Cornell a brief lead. Freshman forward CarolineGrowney claimed an assist off the goal — awarding her her

first collegiate point. About three minutes later, the Bearcatsstruck back with a goal off of a corner kick and in the 61stminute Binghamton capitalized again and claimed the win.

“I think that it is good that we have been outplaying ouropponents but just haven’t been able to score [enough],” saidjunior midfielder Rachel Nichols. “I think we just need tofocus on finishing and grabbing opportunities. We need tojust keep working hard as a team across the field, every singleposition.”

The Red has its season home opener at 4 p.m. on Friday atBerman Field, where it will play against Sacred HeartUniversity.

“I think that everyone is more committed, more focusedand really excited about starting over [this year],” Cetrullo

said. “They are more excited at the beginning of the seasonthan they ever were last year.”

Cornell will hit the road once again on Sunday to playagainst the LaSalle Explorers in Philadelphia, Pa.

“I think it is going to be important that we come infocused and with confidence,” Christ said. “It’s a lot of physi-cal. Being ready to go from the start to finish by playing thefull 90 minutes and staying strong the whole time.”

The team will then embark on a three-game stretch in fivedays, before it heads into the beginning of Ivy play with agame against Columbia on Sept. 21.

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HALEYVELASCO

JEFFSTEIN

QUINTINSCHWABSCHROEDER

LAURENRITTER

RUBYPERLMUTTER

ANNIENEWCOMB

ESTHERHOFFMAN

SCOTTCHIUSANO

DANIABADA

1ROUND

CORNELL AT FORDHAM

HARVARD VS SAN DIEGO

PENN AT LAFAYETTE

PRINCETON AT LEHIGH

ALABAMA AT ARKANSAS

KANSAS STATE VS NORTH TEXAS

LSU VS IDAHO

GIANTS VS BUCCANEERS

N.Y. JETS AT STEELERS

VIKINGS AT COLTS

LAST WEEK

TOTAL

CORNELL

HARVARD

PENN

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

STEELERS

COLTS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

HARVARD

LAFAYETTE

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

N.Y. JETS

COLTS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

HARVARD

PENN

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

STEELERS

VIKINGS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

SAN DIEGO

LAFAYETTE

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

N.Y. JETS

VIKINGS

0-0

0-0

FORDHAM

HARVARD

LAFAYETTE

PRINCETON

ARKANSAS

NORTH TEXAS

IDAHO

BUCCANEERS

STEELERS

COLTS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

HARVARD

PENN

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

STEELERS

VIKINGS

0-0

0-0

FORDHAM

HARVARD

PENN

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

STEELERS

VIKINGS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

HARVARD

PENN

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

STEELERS

COLTS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

SAN DIEGO

LAFAYETTE

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

NORTH TEXAS

LSU

GIANTS

N.Y. JETS

COLTS

0-0

0-0

CORNELL

SAN DIEGO

PENN

LEHIGH

ALABAMA

KANSAS STATE

LSU

GIANTS

N.Y. JETS

VIKINGS

0-0

0-0

played UVM four times in its history, withthe Catamounts winning three of thosematches. The record with the Wofford

Terriers is even smaller, with the Red onlyever playing them once. The team will bebenefit though by the fact that it is playing athome.

“Once the game starts and the stands startto fill, you’re playing for your school and your

friends and yourself and your team and itcompletely changes the dynamic and themood,” Reisert said. “It’s your time to shineand your time to prove yourself.”

There’s nothing else that the players wouldrather be doing this weekend then represent-

ing Cornell soccer, according to Haber.“Honestly, this is what we all live for,” he

said. “Our identity is Cornell soccer players.”

Farmer ChangesCulture of Team

WOMEN’S SOCCER

New approach | Under the new leadership of first-year head coach Patrick Farmer, the women’s soccer team is developing anew approach to the game, as well as redefining its overall soccer culture.

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

By HALEY VELASCOSun Assistant Sports Editor

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

Players Find Identity in Playing Soccer, Live for Love of GameM. SOCCER

Continued from page 16

Alex Gatto can be reached at agatto@cornellsun.com.

The Cornell football team looks to pick up whereit left off last year amid high expectations when theRed plays its first game ofthe 2012 season againstFordham tomorrow at 1p.m. in the Bronx, N.Y.Third-year head coachKent Austin and staff rallyseveral returning startersand 31 freshmen to JackCoffey Field for theeighth-ever meetingbetween the two clubs,which the Red hopes willbe the first chapter of ahistoric season.

Fordham, on the otherhand, aims to rebuild aftera 1-10 season, althoughthe Rams (1-1, 0-0 PatriotLeague) already matchedtheir 2011 win total with a55-0 shutout overDivision II Lock Haventwo weeks ago. Fordham’smost recent glory dayscame when currentArizona Cardinals startingquarterback John Skelton completed 802 passes for9,923 yards and 69 touchdowns — all school records— from 2006 to 2009, including a 420-yard, five-score effort in a 39-27 victory over the Red atSchoellkopf Field in Oct. 2009.

Cornell now boasts an elite quarterback itself,

reigning Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year andjunior offensive co-captain Jeff Mathews, the engineof coordinator Jeff Fela’s well-oiled offensive machine.The Red averaged 341.5 passing yards and 31.3points per game last season, including 110 in consec-

utive wins over Columbiaand Penn to end the year.Fordham has limited itsfirst two opponents toonly 77.5 passing yardsper game, but fifth-yearsenior wide receiver ShaneSavage — the Ivy leader inreceptions, yards andtouchdowns in 2011 — isconfident that the Red willbreak down the Ramsdefense and resume itshigh-scoring habit.

“We definitely want tobuild off those last twogames that we had. We’regoing to spread the ballaround and try to put upthat same type of yardage— that’s our expectation,”said Savage, who is part ofa superb trio of widereceivers along with seniorand offensive co-captainLuke Tasker and senior

Kurt Ondash. Each of the three finished with over800 receiving yards last year.

Even with Mathews’ talent and several playmakers,the Red would not be in its current position — com-

Sports 16FRIDAYSEPTEMBER 14, 2012The Corne¬ Daily Sun

C.U. Starts Season at Fordham

The field hockey team will playits first Ivy League game of the sea-son on Saturday, when it hosts Pennat midday.

The upcoming match will be anopportunity for the Red (0-4) to getits first win of the season, after atough series of mainly road gamesagainst out-of-conference oppo-nents. In recent history the serieshas been on Cornell’s side, with theRed winning five of the last sevengames against the Quakers (3-2).

Penn comes to Ithaca after hav-

ing lost two straight games toAppalachian State and Rider. TheQuakers main offensive threat con-sists of Julie Tahan, Amelia Cohenand Julie Hitti, who have 5 goals, 4goals and 3 assists, respectively. Innet, Penn is anchored by sopho-more goalie Carly Sokach. TheQuakers will be looking to have arepeat of last year's matchup, wherethey were able to defeat the Red, 1-0, in Philadelphia, Pa.

Meanwhile, the Red has spentthis week practicing hard in prepa-ration for the Ivy opener, accordingto senior co-captain PaigeMollineaux.

“We’ve been even more focusedin practices this week than before,just because it is the first Ivy game,”she said.

This will begin a period inwhich the Red will play each of itsseven Ivy foes once over the nextmonth and a half, along with sixadditional out-of-league oppo-nents. The philosophy in practicehas shifted as the team prepares forthe onslaught of games.

“We’re moving into what [headcoach Donna Hornibrook] calls‘Part B’ of the season. ‘Part A’ wasto get us ready for our Ivy play,”Mollineaux said. “We played some

pretty talented teams and nowwe're getting ready to play Ivygames.”

Such strong opposition at thebeginning of the season could proveto be exactly what the Red neededin order to have a good openingstreak of league play.

In practice, one of the biggestareas that the Red focuses on is tomake sure that the entire time ismaintaining a high level of mentalinvolvement in the face of early sea-son adversity.

“I think the biggest challengeright now has just been to makesure that everyone has stayed

focused and mentally prepared,”Mollineaux said. “In our nextgames, we don't want to forgetabout our losses, but rather notspend time focusing on the negativ-ity of losing.”

By focusing on the positive partsof the game during the losses, suchas strong communication and astaunch defense against Penn State— a game in which the NittanyLions’ high-powered offense wasonly able to score during penaltyshots instead of regular play.

Red Hosts AnnualC.U. Inaria Classic

Squad Still in Search of First Win of Season, Victory Over Penn

The men’s soccer team willplay two home games this week-end in the C.U. Inaria Classic,pitting itself against theUniversity of VermontCatamounts on Friday night andthe Wofford Terriers on Sunday atmidday. The Red — the onlyteam that is currently undefeatedin the Ivy League — has contin-ued to view the season as an indi-vidual set of games to be playedone at a time.

“The fact that we’re 4-0 isn’teven crossing our minds,” saidjunior midfielder Stephen Reisert.“We’re taking the game like we’re0-0.”

A key reason cited by Reisertfor the team’s success has been itsability to view every game one at atime and to not focus on futuresuccesses. Reisert cited the level ofintensity in practice as indicativeof this mindset; according to him,not a single player has slacked offor lost sight of each weekend’sgame, since the team began itswin streak four games ago.

“Everyone’s still working really

hard, trying to make each otherbetter,” said junior striker DanielHaber. “I think we’re all playingfor each other; it’s great to be play-ing for the guy next to you.”

Haber cited the performanceof other teams as part of the rea-son why Cornell works so hard.While in preseason it is tough tomake accurate assessments of howindividual teams are playing, asthe season goes on it becomesincreasingly easier to view a team’splaying style and the potential ofits players. As such, every gamebecomes harder to win becausethe other team has had more timeto learn and understand theopponent.

“We’re always trying to fix thethings that went wrong becausethe teams we’re playing in thefuture will have tape on us andwill be better than the teams we’veplayed in the past,” Haber said.“When the lights get turned on,it’s a battle.”

The Cornell team will nothave a great deal of informationon the teams that it is playing thisweekend. The Red has only

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Ivy League Sports WritersFootball Preseason PollThe Ivy League newspapers held

their first annual preseason football poll;each school submitted two ballots.

Team: Votes:124 (13)*106 (1)*98 (2)*7565473229

*Number of first-place votes

By QUINTIN SCHWABSun Senior Writer

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So it begins | The Cornell football team has been working hard throughout the preseason, focusing onachieving its goal – winning the Ivy League Championship outright for the first time ever.

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By SHAYAN SALAMSun Staff Writer

Shayan Salam can be reached atssalam@cornellsun.com.

By ALEX GATTOSun Staff Writer

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