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Witness AccountGregory Wyler ’12 testifies tothe events of the pledging ritu-al that preceeded the death ofGeorge Desdunes ’13.

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RainHIGH: 79 LOW: 50

NewsDay in CourtA judge denies the defenseteam’s motion to dismiss thecriminal case against three for-mer SAE pledges.

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News

New Orleans, I Love YouDeborah Liu ’13 explains whyher first trip to New Orleansthis summer instilled in her alove for the southern city.

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Opinion

Weather

ArtsIt’s ElectricSarah Angell ’13 reflects on herexperience at the 2012 ElectricForest music festival inMichigan in June.

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SportsBig LeaguesFormer Cornell baseball starBrian Billigen ’12 gets picked upas a free agent by the ArizonaDiamondbacks.

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Party fall | A student wades through the pile of rubble that was the front porch of aCollegetown house before it collapsed during a party at the house Sunday night.

LIZ CAMUTI / SUN CITY EDITOR

Construction Begins on First Bridge Net

A previous version of this article first appeared on cornellsun.com onJune 27.

Three former Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledges were acquitted of crim-inal charges in connection with the death of George Desdunes ’13,who died after a hazing ritual in February 2011, a Tompkins Countyjudge ruled on June 26.

Max Haskin ’14, Ben Mann ’14 and Edward Williams ’14 werecharged with first-degree hazing and first-degree unlawfully dealing

with a child. Theyhad been awaitingthe verdict sincethe four-day trialconcluded onMay 24.

During thetrial, Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 heard evidence from both the dis-trict attorney and the SAE pledges’ defense team on the events of themorning of Desdunes’ death on Feb. 25, 2011. She ruled on June 26that the pledges were not guilty, according to Ray Schlather J.D. ’76, adefense attorney in the case.

"The court determined, without reservation or equivocation, thatthese young men are innocent. They did not haze George Desdunes orcause his death," Schlather said.

In May 2011, Haskin, Mann and Williams were indicted by a grandjury on misdemeanor charges of first-degree hazing and first-degree

Party Interrupted by Porch Collapse

Stone Arch Bridge | Construction workers on site Monday at the Stone Arch Bridge, which overlooks theCascadilla gorge, begin installing a net aimed at deterring student suicides.

DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI / SUN NEWS WRITER

After two years of contentious debate over howto best deter suicide and prevent accidents inIthaca’s renowned gorges, construction beganMonday on the first of seven nets set to be installed

under and around campus and city bridges.University architects began Monday by working

on a net under the Stone Arch Bridge on CollegeAvenue, which crosses the Cascadilla gorge to con-nect Collegetown to campus. Once the net is

By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKISun Staff Writer

When the tenants of208 Williams Streetmoved into their newlyrenovated house thisweek, they never expect-ed that despite the layersof new plaster and coatsof fresh paint, theirCollegetown residencewas about to crumblebeneath them.

But on Sunday night,during a party at thehouse, the porch, whichhad been left untouchedduring the summer reno-vations, collapsed in onitself, leaving party-goersin a pit of rubble.

Most walked awayunscathed or with minorinjuries, but flying beercans and screeching stu-dents — many of whomescaped through win-

dows, which became theonly means of exit fromthe house — led to ascene of chaos inCollegetown.

While the tenants didnot wish to publicalyexpress their concerns,the house was inspectedtwo weeks ago after therenovations were com-pleted and was approved

Broken beer bottlesline the streets likeconfetti. Garbagebecomes indistin-guishable from thesidewalk surroundingit. And a porch col-lapses on itself in themiddle of a party.

Welcome home.Thousands of stu-

dents returned toCollegetown thisweekend, transform-ing the idyllic serenityof an Ithaca summerinto a hotbed ofdrunken mayhem.And while this picturemay offer a comfortingfamiliarity for studentsreturning to oldstomping grounds andcherished friends, forothers — namely, thehundreds of Ithacanswho call Collegetowntheir home year-round— the scarcely tamed

debauchery representssomething differententirely.

Take, for instance,Common Councilmember GrahamKerslick (D-4thWard), a 58 year oldwho lives at OrchardPlace, in the heart ofCollegetown. Kerslickwrote to Cornell offi-cials on Monday tolament the “appallingstate” of his neighbor-hood.

“Many streets,including CollegeAve., Cook St. andCatherine St., werecovered with plasticcups, beer cans, bro-ken glass and othergarbage,” Kerslicksaid. “In many years ofresidence in the area, Idon’t recall such wide-spread and blatant dis-regard for the commu-nity.”

C-Town: ‘A ReallyDisgusting andUninviting Scene’By JEFF STEINSun Managing Editor

See C-TOWN page 6

SAE Pledges AcquittedOf Criminal Charges

By LIZ CAMUTISun City Editor

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See PORCH page 6

By KERRY CLOSESun News Editorand REBECCA HARRISSun News Editor

See Page 5 for news storiesdescribing two of the daysof the SAE pledges’ trial

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unlawfully dealing with a child, inconnection with Desdunes’ death.They all pleaded not guilty. Afourth person under the age of 19was also charged, but the recordsare sealed due to the person’s age.

Haskin, Mann and Williamsleft campus about a month afterDesdunes died and were no longerenrolled at Cornell when charges

were filed, according to TompkinsCounty District Attorney GwenWilkinson.

Some descriptions ofDesdunes’ death portrayed hisinvolvement in the pledging eventas non-voluntary. In a separate,$25 million wrongful death law-suit filed in civil court, Desdunes’mother, Marie Lourdes Andre,alleges that the pledges “compelled[Desdunes] to consume alcoholuntil he lost consciousness,” and

that, in addition to the zip ties andduct tape, a “noose” was tiedaround Desdunes’ neck so tightlythat it left “ligature marks.”

Rossiter cleared the pledges ofall charges, but the Cornell chap-ter of the SAE fraternity, whichfaced the same misdemeanorcharges the four individual defen-dants did, was found guilty onboth counts and faces a fine ofabout $12,000. The chapter, aseparate entity from the national

fraternity, was disbanded whenthe University revoked recogni-tion and was not represented bycounsel during the trial.

Although the criminal case hasconcluded, the wrongful deathsuit filed in June 2011 by Andre,Desdunes’ mother, is still pendingin the State Supreme Court inBrooklyn, where Andre lives. Thesuit names the national fraternityas well as 20 former SAE brothersand pledges as defendants, accord-ing to court documents.

In May, after the trial, Rossitersaid she hoped the pledges wouldlearn a lesson from the tragedy ofDesdunes’ death.

“Even college boys who areengaging in what they hope isgood fun are subject to the same

rules of time and death as anyoneelse,” she said. “If nothing else, Ihope they take that from thisexperience.”

Schlather, the defense attorney,added that “there are no winnersin this tragedy.”

“The family of GeorgeDesdunes has lost a son, and theseyoung pledges were unnecessarilyscapegoated, and their lives havebeen irreparably damaged,”Schlather said.

Nonetheless, one defendantappeared to declare victory afterhis acquittal. “#WEWON,” BenMann ’14 posted on Twitter a fewhours after Rossiter’s ruling.

secured under the bridge, theblack, vertical fence currentlyin place will be taken down,according to Gilbert Delgado,University architect.

“We are still doing somepreliminary preparation workbut today is the first day ofphysical construction,”Delgado said.

After three Cornell stu-dents committed suicide offthe bridges in early 2010,temporary chain-link fenceswere erected on severalbridges that overlook thegorges on campus. The tem-porary fences were replaced inthe summer of 2010 with thecurrent black fences.

After months of publicdialogue over the most effec-tive way to prevent gorge sui-cides, in December 2011, theCity of Ithaca CommonCouncil voted to approve theUniversity’s proposal to installnets under three city bridges.The city’s planning boardgave its approval for barrierson the four bridges owned bythe University and on thethree city bridges alsoapproved by the CommonCouncil, allowing the projectto proceed.

Nets are set to be installedunder six bridges: the StoneArch Bridge, Trolley Bridge,Thurston Avenue Bridge,both bridges on StewartAvenue and the Beebe DamBridge. Netting will be con-structed around the Suspen -sion Bridge, according toDelgado.

Common Council mem-ber Ellen McCollister ’78 (D-3rd Ward) who voted againstthe nets in December, said atthe time that bridge barriersfail to address the mentalhealth factors that are the rootcause of the suicides.

Still, McCollister saidMonday she acknowledges

that Cornell and the cityworked together in “a goodfaith effort” to come to anagreement on a solution tothe growing problem. Shenoted Monday that Cornellwill finance the project for thefirst decade, alleviating thefinancial burden the con-struction of the nets wouldotherwise place on the city.

“Cornell has agreed that itwill be paying for the nets forthe first 10 years. The citycannot absorb the extra cost,”McCollister said.

In previous meetingsthroughout 2010 and 2011,Common Council membershave said that the nets, inaddition to serving as a safetymeasure against both suicidesand accidental deaths, will bean aesthetic improvementfrom the current fencing.

“The netting is less intru-sive, so that’s a good thing,but it’s still a barrier,”McCollister said. “My con-cern as a policy maker will beto see if the nets make anydifference in reducing theoverall suicide rate.”

Celia Muoser, president ofCornell Minds Matter, saidthe student-run mental healthorganization supports thebridge nets as one componentof the University’s efforts toimprove improve studentmental health.

Several workers were onsite at the Stone Arch BridgeMonday afternoon.According to John Pritchard,a worker on site, the crewspent the day drilling theholes for the cables that willhold up the net under thebridge.

As of this week, traffic willnot be obstructed on CollegeAvenue as a result of the con-struction, according toDelgado.

SAE Fraternity Pledges Continue to Face Civil SuitSAE VERDICT

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A previous version of this article first appeared on cornell-sun.com on May 22.

In the early hours of Feb. 25, 2011, after he was boundby zip ties and blindfolded, fed vodka, pixie sticks and straw-berry syrup, and forced to sing “Seasons of Love” from“Rent,” Gregory Wyler ’12 turned to George Desdunes ’13and asked, “Are you alright? Can you hear me?”

“I thought [Desdunes] was okay because I’d seen himpass out numerous times,” Wyler recalled May 22 as he gavetestimony at the criminal trial of Max Haskin ’14, BenMann ’14 and Edward Williams ’14, three former membersof Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity charged with first-degreehazing and first-degree unlawfully dealing with a child.

Wyler turned out to be wrong. Several hours after themock kidnapping, during which Haskin, Mann andWilliams allegedly gave Wyler and Desdunes alcohol,Desdunes was found unresponsive on a couch at SAE. Hedied at Cayuga Medical Center later that day.

The other SAE brother kidnapped that night, Wyler gavea painstakingly detailed account of the evening, though thepassage of time and the circumstances of the night — cloud-ed by booze and blindfolds — posed challenges to certainty.

While cross-examining Wyler, Haskin’s lawyer RaymondSchlather J.D. ’76 sought to portray the kidnapping as nomore than “play-acting,” a “drama” in which any participantcould break character and end the performance. Much ofWyler’s testimony seemed to support that interpretation.

Wyler agreed, for instance, that the brothers who hadbeen reverse-kidnapped by the pledges were supposed tothen contact other SAE brothers for help. According to thescript as dictated by the tradition of the event, brotherswould then arrive at the mock-kidnapping and end it,Schlather said.

Wyler said he attempted to set this course of events inmotion by sending a text message to another SAE brother.That brother was apparently busy, and while it is impossibleto know what would have happened had he been available,Schlather said Desdunes, in fact, opposed the intervention.

“You were seated right next to George Desdunes in thetown house, and after you [sent the text], you said, in sub-stance, ‘I just summoned help,’” Schlather said, addressingWyler. “And George then, realizing that your phone had

been used ... actually scolded the pledges for not removingyour phone before you made that text. Isn’t that right?”Wyler agreed.

Schlather used this and other parts of Wyler’s testimonyto buttress his argument that Desdunes was a willing partic-ipant in the mock kidnapping.

For instance, Wyler said that after vomiting twice heasked that he no longer be made to drink. The pledgesreportedly agreed to stop making Wyler drink at that point,and apparently did the same when, shortly afterwards,Desdunes asked them to stop.

“As soon as [Desdunes] said he had had enough theystopped for him as well?” Schlather asked. Wyler said yes.

Before the defense was called to cross-examine the wit-ness, Assistant District Attorney Andrew Bonavia had Wylerrecount the precise chain of events of the night. Heexpressed frustration with Wyler’s answers on several occa-sions, at one point asking Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 totreat Wyler as a “hostile witness” given his purported inabil-ity to remember the evening.

“Judge, this is now the fourth member of this fraternitythat we’ve tried to ask questions of that say they don’tremember,” Bonavia said. “The forgetfulness is evasive; theseare college-aged students and they have no memory of theevents of this evening.”

Bonavia argued that alcohol, fraternity culture and thereckless actions of the SAE pledges directly led to Desdunes’death, according to The Ithaca Journal. That account mir-rors the one asserted in the brief filed by Marie LourdesAndre, Desdunes’ mother, in June. Andre’s suit, which seeks$25 million in damages, alleges that pledges “compelled[Desdunes] to consume alcohol until he lost consciousness.”

“As a direct and proximate result of SAE defendants’ neg-ligence, [Desdunes] endured great mental and physical suf-fering until he died,” the suit states.

But in line with his defense briefs, Schlather claimedDesdunes was a heavy drinker, known as “blackout George.”Wyler admitted he had heard the nickname and said he hadseen Desdunes pass out on several prior occasions, even afterbeing able to stand and talk moments before.

On the morning of the pledging ritual, Desdunes wasable to get out of the vehicle at the SAE house with the assis-tance of the pledges and, Wyler recalled, seemed okay whenhe saw him at the house library. Schlather argued that this,in conjunction with Desdunes’ reputation as a heavy

drinker, gave the pledges reason to believe Desdunes did notneed medical attention upon his return to the fraternity.

Desdunes’ drinking habits were further corroborated bytestimony provided to police and recently obtained by TheSun. Though the name of the person making the statementis redacted, he says in the document that he is the SAEbrother “in charge of rituals that involve initiation.”

“[Desdunes] would be someone that you would check onin a bar, for example, if he was keeled over, you want to makesure he was ok. He’s ‘Black Out’ George; it’s what he does.He’s been known to sleep walk before after drinking; he’speed on another brother’s door; he’s peed on a brother’s PS3system and in his own bed after drinking as well,” the per-son states. “I almost expected to hear that George would bein the ER from drinking too much.”

A previous version of this article firstappeared on cornellsun.com on May 23.

As the third day of the criminal trial ofthree former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraterni-ty pledges unfolded on May 23, thedefense urged the judge to close the case,battering the prosecution for providinginsufficient evidence that the pledges whoallegedly fed George Desdunes ’13 alcoholbefore he died caused or could have fore-seen Desdunes’ death.

Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86 deniedthe request to dismiss the case, saying the1965 legal precedent the defense raised,People v. Lenti, was dated and neitherinvalidated evidence nor showed the pros-ecution had failed to prove beyond reason-

able doubt the pledges’ guilt.Asking Rossiter to dismiss the charges

of first-degree hazing and unlawfully deal-ing with a child, Raymond Schlather J.D.’76, who represents Max Haskin ’14, dis-agreed with the prosecution’s argumentthat the three former SAE pledges, Haskin,Ben Mann ’14 and Edward Williams ’14,caused or could have reasonably foreseenDesdunes’ death.

Desdunes, Schlather said, had told afriend he suspected he had walking pneu-monia on Feb. 24, 2011, and filled pre-

scriptions for azithromycin, patanol andmeclizine at Gannett Health Services theday before he died. That friend later testi-fied that “‘what I knew was not readilyapparent to the rest of the world because Ilived with this guy,’” Schlather said.

Schlather cast doubt that the pledgeswere aware of Desdunes’ poor health andcould have foreseen the effects of mixingalcohol with medications Desdunes mayhave consumed prior to the kidnapping.Pointing to the pathology report — whichstated that Desdunes had swollen glandsand congestion at the time of his death —Schlather argued that illness may haveplayed a role in Desdunes’ death.

“The evidence the prosecution has pro-vided with respect to the cause of deathshows that there are causes [of Desdunes’death] other than what happened in the

one-hour period inside thetownhouse,” Schlather said.Citing Desdunes’ pathologyreport, he read, “the cause ofdeath is acute respiratoryfailure secondary to acuteethanol toxicity.”

But Assistant DistrictAttorney Andrew Bonavia insisted thatDesdunes died of acute ethanol toxicity,not from illness.

“He didn’t die because he had swollenglands,” Bonavia said.

Schlather, however, had a differentreading of the report.

“On its face, it says that [Desdunes]died because he had respiratory failure andthere was a lot of alcohol in his body. Thequestion you have before you, judge, iswhere did the alcohol come from?”Schlather said, asserting that the pledges

had not fed Desdunes the alcohol that ulti-mately killed him.

Pushing his point, Schlather said theamount of alcohol the pledges allegedly fedDesdunes at the kidnapping event —which Jon Blechman, Mann’s lawyer,argued could have been fake — was notlethal. Calling former SAE brother KyleMorton ’12 to the stand, the defensesought to bolster its argument thatDesdunes had consumed large amounts ofalcohol before the event even begun.

In the half-hour Morton estimated heand Desdunes were in his room around 10p.m. on Feb. 24, 2011, Morton said theydrank whiskey — “Jack Daniels or Jameson.”

“How were you consuming thatwhiskey?” Schlather asked.

“Straight out of the cup,” Morton replied.Prodding further, Schlather asked,

“And how much did Mr. Desdunes con-sume?”

“We both finished our cups,” Mortonsaid, estimating that the cup, typical of a“traditional beer pong cup” SAE brothersused, contained nine ounces of alcohol.

The drink, by the defense’s estimations,was just one of several Desdunes hadbefore the kidnapping. Desdunes con-sumed between five and seven drinkssometime between 11 and 11:30 p.m. onFeb. 24, 2011, Schlather said. But each ofthese drinks, he said, contained at leastthree ounces of alcohol, meaning whenDesdunes “walked out of the fraternityaround midnight, he had consumed evenmore alcohol than was readily evident.”

“A shot is not one ounce of alcohol. Ashot at SAE is three ounces of alcohol,”Schlather said, pointing to a photograph ofa shot glass found at SAE.

Bonavia disagreed with Schlather’s cal-culations, suggesting they were flawed.Furthermore, Bonavia said, Desdunes“didn’t appear intoxicated” and had notrouble calling for a ride to return to theSAE fraternity from Collegetown prior tobeing kidnapped by the pledges.

“Do we believe that he would havepassed away if he had gone home? That’swhere this kidnapping comes into play,”Bonavia said.

By the time Desdunes was returned tothe SAE fraternity, Bonavia said, he wasslumped over the shoulders of the pledgesand was in such a condition that Wylerand the pledges “knew he was so bad offthat what might happen to him — whatactually happened to him — could occur.”

The two sides also sparred over whetherDesdunes had consented to participate inthe kidnapping event that led to his death.

“Whether a person who is hazed con-sents to that activity — I protest that,”Bonavia said.

Regardless of the testimonies of Wyleror the pledges, Bonavia, citing a case set-tled in 2010, said that there is no questionas to whether or not hazing is consensual.The very nature of hazing, he said, meansthat it is forced.

“Consent is not a valid defense. Itwould be completely illogical to say hazingdoesn’t apply where the victim — the per-son who suffers physical injury, or in thiscase, dies — consents,” Bonavia said.“That’s what hazing is ... There’s a reasonwhy it’s illegal.”

Fmr. SAE Brother Testifies in Trial

Judge Denies Motion to Dismiss Case Against SAE Pledges

SAE | Brothers were evicted from the fraternity house afterthe University revoked its recognition in February 2011.

LAUREN BIGALOW / SUN FILE PHOTO

Wyler ’12 was kidnapped alongside Desdunes ’13 the night of pledging deathBy JEFF STEINSun Managing Editor

Jeff Stein can be reached at [email protected].

“A shot is not one ounce of alcohol. Ashot at SAE is three ounces of alcohol.”Raymond Schlather J.D. ’76

Akane Otani can be reached at [email protected].

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by the building department,according to the staff at PamJohnston Apartments, whichowns the building. However,there was no maximum occupan-cy posted for the porch anywhereon the premises, nor any men-tion of it in the lease the tenantssigned last semester, according tolandlord Pam Johnston.

Johnston said eyewitnessesreported to her that there weremore than 50 people on theporch.

“The porch failed because ofover-trafficking — it was notmeant for 50 people to stand on

it,” Johnston said. “I spoke topeople from the building depart-ment who told me that this isvery common.”

Johnston was orginially told10 people were on the porch, butwas led to believe this numberwas significantly higher afterrecieving reports from other resi-dents on Williams Street, shesaid.

“We got a message on ouranswering machine saying therewas about 10 people on theporch and no one was hurt butno one called our 24-hour emer-gency service and we didn’t knowabout the incident until themorning,” Johnston said. “Wehave now looked at the numbers,

since it was an absolute mysteryto us how 10 people could col-lapse a porch, and now know itwas many more than 10.”

While representatives fromPam Johnston Apartments saidthat there has not been a conver-sation about the price of therepair, they said they assumedthe landlord would be responsi-ble for replacing the porch.

“I’m assuming we’ll take careof it,” said Jeff Baker, a represen-tative from Pam JohnstonApartments. “We couldn’t docu-ment or prove whose fault itwas.”

Kerslick’s frustrations werewidely echoed by other perma-nent residents of the area.

“This is one of the worststarts to the semester I’ve seen,”Common Council memberEllen McCollister ’78 (D-3rdWard) said in an interview withThe Sun Monday. “It’s not justthe crowds but the constantbeer pong games, the cups, thelitter everywhere, the shouting,hooting, hollering — it’s a real-ly disgusting and uninvitingscene when Cornell is supposedto be the cream of the crop.”

McCollister added that theseverity of the problem of bingedrinking has been “ratchetingup over the years.”

“Maybe it’s a sense of enti-tlement? It does seem to be agenerational shift,” McCollister

said. She acknowledged, how-ever, that Collegetown livingarrangements can be substan-dard and stressed that no oneparty was to blame forCollegetown’s current state.

“We have to get away fromfinger-pointing ... this is com-munity building we need to dotogether. We have a real oppor-tunity to make Collegetown amuch better place for all of us,”McCollister said. “So it wasvery discouraging to get such abad start.”

The Ithaca PoliceDepartment’s daily activity logillustrates her point.

On Friday, police broke up aparty in Collegetown at about11:30 p.m. Five minutes later,police responded to a com-plaint from a caller unable toget out of her parking spot “dueto a large gathering of collegeage subjects.” Officers dispersedthe crowd of about 70 beforeresponding to at least threeadditional noise complaints,four reports of alcohol overdos-es and nearly a dozen open con-tainer violations — all inCollegetown.

As more students returnedon Saturday, the list ofCollegetown infractionsappeared to continue unabated,although exact figures areunknown. Shortly after mid-night, officers responded toreports of a highly intoxicatedfemale at Collegetown Bagels.Another intoxicated female washospitalized on Dryden Roadat 1 a.m. Police responded to areport of a third intoxicatedfemale whose two male friends

were trying, apparently in vain,to get her home.

There was also one maleindividual who police sawjumping up and down on avehicle at the intersection ofEddy Street and Dryden Road.“Through further investigation,said vehicle was found to befriend’s who did not want topursue charges,” the policereport notes.

Cornell administrators havemade a concerted effort toreduce binge drinking acrosscampus. The Universityannounced at a conference inJanuary that it aims to achieve a25-percent reduction in the rateof binge drinking. According toa report cited by the University,61 percent of first-year studentsinvolved in the Greek systemengage in high-risk drinking.

Eric Silverberg ’14, a mem-ber of the Collegetown

Neighborhood Council, saidfor that sort of change to occur,students must change theirhabits.

“The only way to resolvethis issue is that students needto take responsibility,”Silverberg said.

Ed Mosley, who works atJoyce’s Cleaning Service andspends his days cleaning up theaftermath of Collegetown par-ties, said business has neverbeen better.

“You can’t even fathom theparties we’ve seen,” Mosleysaid, citing one incident inwhich the stickiness of the floorled him to inadvertently stepout of his shoes. He also saidthat when students know acleaning service is coming, theyoften simply throw a towel overa pool of vomit rather thancleaning it up — leaving thehard work for others.

Mosely added that his clean-ing service has stopped givingits rates out over the phone —waiting to survey the scope ofthe destruction before decidingupon a fair price.

“Sometimes you see twokegs of beer that are sittingthere making a pool. You go inthere to sweep but the tobaccofrom the blunt is still sticking tothe floor because of the liquorthat is spilt there,” Mosley said.“You couldn’t use an ashtray ora garbage [can]?”

Liz Camuti and JonathanDawson contributed reporting tothis article.

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Incoming freshmen, welcome to Ithaca.I wish I could use this space to give afew friendly pieces of advice regarding

the perils and delights of the journeybefore you. Time is brief, however, andright now, you need to hear a few facts onthe war currently being fought acrossAmerica, and Ithaca’s place in that war.

This summer, which some havedubbed the Summer of Solidarity, sawunprecedented acts of grassroots non-vio-lent resistance across the country againstthe coal, oil and natural gas industries. For

a long time now, these industries havebeen at war with the people of this landand with the land itself. The New Yorkfront of this ongoing war is very likelygoing to escalate in the next few weeks,and I write this column in part to try tolay out what the front lines can look likewhen the people show the solidarity andstrength to stand up and fight back.

I use the word war quite deliberately indescribing the fossil fuel industry’s rela-tionship to the people and to the planet. Ihope my reasons for doing so will becomeclear as I highlight just a few of the count-less non-violent actions taken by a widespectrum of Americans over the course ofthe Summer of Solidarity.

On July 28, warriors in West Virginiaworking with the Radical Action forMountain People’s Survival campaignwalked onto the Hobet coal mine, thelargest Mountaintop Removal site inAppalachia, and shut it down with severallock-downs to mining equipment and one

tree-sit.The Hobet Mine blockade was only

one of many battles fought throughoutthe Summer of Solidarity by the people ofAppalachia against the process ofMountaintop Removal. MountaintopRemoval quite literally obliterates moun-tain ecologies and poisons the air andwater of whoever and whatever lives near-by. The blasts used in MountaintopRemoval in Appalachia over one week areequivalent in destructive force to theatomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in

1945, according to the documentary TheLast Mountain. The people of Appalachialive in a war zone, and they are fightingfor their survival.

Meanwhile, warriors in Texas attendedtrainings in non-violent direct action, inpreparation for blockades against the con-struction of the Keystone XL Pipeline. Assome of you may remember, a massivegrassroots civil disobedience campaignpreviously pressured Obama into rejectingTransCanada’s permit for the portion ofthe pipeline crossing the border intoCanada. Since then, however, Obama hasbowed to industry, and construction onthe Texas portions of the pipeline beganon August 16. The many warriors resistingthe construction ranged from environ-mentalists, aware that tar sands oil extrac-tion is three times dirtier than conven-tional oil, to Tea Party Conservatives, out-raged at a foreign corporation’s efforts tomuscle its way onto the property ofunconsenting landowners. In oil as in

coal, the industry is at war both with thepeople and with the land.

Warriors in New York, Pennsylvaniaand Ohio, fighting on a different front ofthe same war, spent this summer fightinghydraulic fracturing. Hydraulic fracturing,or fracking, is a method of extracting nat-ural gas by pumping a cocktail of sand,water and chemicals into the earth at highpressure, thus fracturing shale formationsand releasing natural gas.

Advocates of fracking will tell you thatthe cement casing lining the well preventsany contamination of the groundwaterduring the fracking process. What theywon’t tell you is that 6 percent of all wellcasings fail immediately upon beinginstalled, and 50 percent fail over the firstthirty years of the well’s life. When casingsfail, the groundwater is contaminatedwith toxic fracking chemicalsandmethane. The resulting water is not onlypoisonous to all life (crops, livestock,humans, etc.): It is often flammable.

Groundwater contamination is onlythe tip of the iceberg. The fracking processreleases 40-60 percent more methane thanconventional gas drilling, according toresearch by Cornell professors RobertHowarth and Anthony Ingraffea. Naturalgas obtained by fracking is thus at least asbad as coal and oil in terms of its effectson climate change. In a testimony he gavebefore Congress in May, Howarth citedcases of major local air pollution, acuteozone pollution and massive contamina-tion of the drinking water supply, andargued that much more research is neededon the health risks and environmentalrisks of fracking.

While groups like the Ithaca-basedPhysicians Scientists & Engineers forHealthy Energy have been working topublicize the dangers inherent to theprocess of fracking, members of affectedcommunities already all too familiar withthose dangers have been rising up andmaking their own voices heard. Just a fewexamples: On July 8, Earth First! activists

blockaded an active fracking site inPennsylvania’s Moshannon State Forestand shut it down. On the 28th, over 5,000warriors gathered at the Stop the FrackAttack in Washington, D.C., the first evernational rally against fracking. Mostrecently, and closest to home, on August11, a group of warriors from across NewYork and Pennsylvania, myself and manyother Ithacans included, blockaded theNortheast Regional Headquarters ofSchlumberger, shutting down operationsfor the day.

Until now, New York State has had amoratorium on fracking, pending furtherresearch. Governor Cuomo is due to makea decision on whether to lift the moratori-um by the end of the month. Over 1,700New Yorkers have already signed a pledgeto resist fracking with the sort of non-vio-lent direct action we’ve been seeing acrossthe country all through the Summer ofSolidarity. On August 25-27, we willdescend on Albany for an event entitledDon’t Frack New York, one last reminderto Cuomo of the mass insurrection he willhave on his hands if he tries to frack NewYork.

The war which is waging all acrossAmerica, the war against climate change,against water and air contamination,against ecosystem devastation, against cor-porate exploitation of the rural poor, iscoming to our back yard, whether we likeit or not. Members of the Cornell andIthaca communities have been on thefront lines all summer. We are organized,we are peaceful, and we are really, reallypissed off. If you are ready to stand in sol-idarity with the warriors I have describedabove and the countless others I lacked thespace to mention, I hope to see you inAlbany this weekend.

Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts andSciences. He may be reached at [email protected]. What Even Is All This?appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Cuomo’s War

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What Even Is All This?

Iknew New Orleans existed beforethis summer, but only from aneighth grade memory of the media

frenzy that followed the worst hurricanein 40 years. And the first emotion I feltwhen reading a placement email frommy company was fear. From the SanFrancisco Bay Area, Southern Louisianawas about eight degrees of latitude andabout ninety degrees of culture out ofmy comfort zone. It didn’t help that myparents busied themselves looking upcrime statistics for the area where Iwanted to live and warning me to nevergo out after dark.

I pulled up a map, and from NewMexico to Virginia I saw a terrifyingblack hole of unfamiliarity. (Oh, andTexas). But, I had no real say in thematter if I wanted to be employed forthe summer, so I booked a flight andmade sure I had sunscreen.

And then, and then ...! From settingfoot on the ground and breathing myfirst lungful of the summertime saunaLouisiana calls “the air,” I think it tookabout three weeks for me to start dread-ing the day I had to leave. Some citiesseem to exist just because enough peo-ple decide to live there. Some cities existfor the dogged pursuit of “culture.” Andsome cities, some cities are fueled pure-ly by a happy-drunk love for life andeach other.

Okay, I’m doing my very best to notmake this into 700 words of EVERY-ONE GO VISIT NEW ORLEANSBECAUSE IT’S AN AMAZINGPLACE, but it’s hard. Here, take thisappropriately generic moral-of-the-arti-cle right now so I can keep talking.Jump in, with minimum hesitation,when given the chance to experiencenew things in a big way. I never knewthat my heart had a space shaped exact-ly like Frenchmen Street until I was lis-tening to a jazz band at two in themorning. And, given a choice back inMay, I would have passed up an over-flowing double handful of joy in favorof playing it safe and staying closer tohome. I’ve always been a conservativeperson, with at least minor tunnelvision about what I want and how Iwant to get it. But suddenly, there’s a lotmore ways to be happy than I thought.

It’s not necessarily about the restau-rants that turned me into a seafoodsnob, or the feeling of watching duelingfireworks barges on the MississippiRiver. It’s not completely about thesight of thirty parking spots filled withnothing but pickup trucks, predictablyempty on Friday. It’s not even about laxopen container laws, craft beer andbeing carded twice the entire summer.

Maybe a part of it is that I had a jobthat I loved and that my boss bought

me steel toed leather shoes. And I knowfor certain that a part of it was in everymorning, when I walked into a controlroom full of blue-collar Louisiana menwho called me “sweetheart” and refusedto let me open a door for myself.Around 45 minutes into my first day, Ipacked the overzealous feminist in meinto a little box and contented myself

with falling in love with every one ofthem. Most of them have never both-ered to go to college — not that they letit keep them from keeping the plantchurning out tons of product per daywith some of the best reliability recordsin the industry.

It’s somewhere there in the way theytalk, the slow and easy drawl of peoplewith nothing to prove. (Punctuatedwith the inexplicable placement ofoccasional Creole French). That, andthe curious heartbeat of a confidently

blue city in a red state. It’s in the finestof porch cultures and strangers wavingfrom the streetcar. It’s the debaucheryof Bourbon Street in a city that’s stillcarved into parishes originated by theCatholic Church. It’s country boys whosay “alligator season” with a completelystraight face and think nothing of it.It’s fried food in a city unobsessed with

the debonair, and the warm spirit ofpeople who are exactly where they wantto be.

New Orleans, you’ve been good tome. But if I hadn’t left, I could nevercome back.

Deborah Liu is a senior in the College ofEngineering. She may be reached at [email protected]. First World Problemappears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Is This the Real Life?

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Come for our free home-cooked Shabbat dinner, orfor a Torah class. Call for information about Judaism,or just to talk.

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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

Mr. Gnu Travis Dandro

Up to My Nipples by William Moore ’12 and Jesse Simons grad

I Am Going to Be Small by Jeffrey Brown

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Stanley Gardner16 Maryland athlete,

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This article first appeared on cornellsun.com on July14.

From the nervous anticipation and sweaty late-nightantics to the sweet, blissful afterglow and knowing lookthat accompanies it, a girl never forgets her first.

Her first music festival, that is. Now, this meansmusic festival in the purist, Woodstock sense of theterm. While those all-day festivals in big cities, com-plete with stunning views of skyscrapers and the luxuryof a cold shower and plush bed at the end of the daymay be good fun, they comprise the metaphoricalequivalent of the “just the tip” mentality. In order toreally go all the way, one must venture past the limita-tions of personal hygiene, recommended sleep sched-ules and, well, most other necessary precursors for aperson’s sanity and truly take the plunge. I’m talkingabout a bona fide on-site camping, middle-of-nowhere,at the mercy of the elements, weekend-long music fes-tival. Once you enter you either come out aghast at thesmell of hippies or become a believer for life. I’m of thelatter variety.

Rothbury Music Festival was my first, back in 2009. Set in the idyllic Double JJ Ranch in westernMichigan, Rothbury seemed like a dream from abygone era — I watched the Dead play “ScarletBegonias” as a naked couple gallivanted through thecrowd and experienced countless moments of goodwilland genuine human solidarity. Sadly, Rothbury wascancelled the fol-lowing year due tofinancial and sched-uling issues, and Iwas understandablycrushed. The godsare good though,and no event asamazing asRothbury couldstay on hiatus fortoo long. The festi-val returned in2011, this timewith a new name,Electric Forest, butwith the same corevalues of its predecessor. Fast forward to 2012 and thereI was, backpack full of glitter and glow sticks, ready formore.

Gates opened early on the morning of June 28 wel-coming the caravans of excited festival-goers eager toget the party started. Setting up camp in the swelteringheat was a sweaty affair for the over 20,000 in atten-

dance, but the excitement in the air was tangible andkept spirits high. Israeli hellraiser Borgore started theevening off right on the Ranch Arena stage, unleashinga filthy dubstep-heavy set upon the all-too-ready crowd.Navigating from his original songs, including thedelightfully naughty “Ice Cream”, to remixes of FluxPavilion andKaskade tracks,Borgore ended theset with his spin onBenny Benassi’smegahit “Cinema.”As the sun began toset, WolfgangGartner took to thestage, bringing theforest to life with hisspecial blend ofe l e c t r o - h o u s e .Flashing lightspierced the navy skyas glow sticks raineddown, the crowdmoving as onegreat, jumping mass to hits such as “Illmerica” and“Space Junk.” After catching the tail end of EOTO’salways on-point set on the Sherwood Court Stage (andfeasting my eyes on their insane 3D Lotus Flower lightshow), I was disappointed to find that GhostlandObservatory’s sound system was seriously glitching.Although they remedied the sound issues about tenminutes in, something still seemed a bit off, so I retired

to my tent to catchsome much-neededsleep.

Day Two passed ina dazzling blur, asmost days at a festivaldo. I spent the after-noon exploring theopulent wonders ofSherwood Forest, theheart of Electric Forestin more ways thanone. Set in the middleof the festival site withstages at each end,Sherwood Forest is atrue delight for the

senses. With interactive art and music installationsintricately woven into the trees, jaw-dropping light dis-plays forming a neon canopy above, and stilt walkers,jugglers, mimes and other circus performers seen atevery turn, it was easy to curl up in one of the forest’shundreds of hammocks and feel transported to anotherworld. Almost as much a part of Rothbury as the forest

itself, beloved jam band and Electric Forest hosts TheString Cheese Incident played the first of threemarathon sets on Friday, the perfect way to get thenight started. Up and coming dubstep artistsMinnesota, Paper Diamond and Zeds Dead each puton fantastic performances on Friday, with Paper

Diamond’s hip-hopand dub-laced setproving to be one ofmy favorites of theweekend.

The crowdsseemed to growexponentially in sizeon Saturday, withexcited two-dayticket holders head-ing to the forest indroves. Brooklyn-born songstressSantigold’s earlyevening set provideda welcome change inmore ways than one.

One of the only female performers at Electric Forest,Santigold’s easy charm, outlandish outfits and full bandcomplete with two endlessly fly back-up dancers werean impressive display of what commanding a stage trulymeans. Performing classic hits as well as songs from herbrand new album, Santigold enchanted the audiencewith perfect renditions of “L.E.S. Artistes”,“Big Mouth”and “Unstoppable”. Following her at the Ranch Arenastage, String Cheese’s second show was a pure joy — agiant LED puppet troupe, circus performers and mas-sive inflatables and flags brought out the child in every-one. Next, crazed Swedish duo Dada Life put on anoth-er weekend favorite, dousing the crowd in their charac-teristic bananas and champagne at the Tripolee Stage.Throwing down with bangers such as “Kick Out theEpic Motherfucker” and a mind-boggling Knife Partyremix, Dada’s show was as high energy as it gets. 12thPlanet and STS9 also performed notable sets, withMajor Lazer playing until the close.

With a plane to catch on Monday, I sadly had toleave the forest early on Sunday before the music began.Covered in dust and tired to the bone, the forest hadtaken nearly everything out of me. Reflecting back onthe four days of constant elation and the immeasurablewealth of all that I had seen and heard, the forest hadalso given me so much more. A girl never forgets herfirst, and I left Electric Forest’s gates knowing that thisfestival would be a force in my life for many years tocome.

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Electric Forest 2012:Unadulterated Bliss

It’s not unusual for the Olympics to see its share of dra-matic comeback stories: The U.S. judo player formerlyabused by her coach who went on to win gold; the

British runner diagnosed with potentially fatal blood clotsearlier in the year who made it to the 1,500 meter finals; theRussian volleyball team that came back after lagging two setsbehind to take the gold from Brazil.

But who would have thought one of the biggest come-back stories would be the animated GIF?

First introduced in 1987, the GIF (Graphic InterchangeFormat) is a low quality animated image. According toForbes contributor Matt Miller, the GIF was widely used onthe early web in the ’90s, only to fade away due to the pop-ularity of embedded video in the early 2000s. Althoughembedded video appeared to seal GIF’s fate, it began a mod-erate recovery over the past few years, especially on graphics-oriented social media sites like Tumblr.

Even with these slight gains over the past few years, noone could have expected the GIF’s “giant coming out party”during the Olympics, as the Nieman Journalism Lab pro-claimed the GIF’s surge in popularity. Suddenly, GIFs wereeverywhere. They were on Buzzfeed, capturing the plight ofthe South Korean fencer who refused to accept defeat, orhighlighting “the 25 most absurd moments of the openingceremonies.” They were on The Atlantic Wire, explainingthe intricacies of a gym-nastics move, and inBusiness Insider, pokingfun at Rafalca, theRomneys’ horse.

So why are these lowquality animated imagesfrom the ‘80s making acomeback, especiallysince we now have thetechnology for high resolution images and embedded videos?

The GIF seems to occupy a curious space between videoand photography with noted advantages over the two.Unlike a still photograph, the moving GIF is more enter-taining while offering a narrative structure and context thephotograph lacks. At the same time, by boiling a sequenceof video down to its most crucial frames, the GIF gets to its

point faster than video. Most importantly, the GIF is spe-

cific to the Internet in a way that pho-tography and video are not. Both pho-tography and video existed before theInternet, continue to function outsideof the web and, consequently, havefallen prey to the web’s limitations.When confronted with the flow of theweb, photography can seem still andarchaic. Likewise, the web’s hypertex-tuality — the way we click from onething to the next in a nonlinear fash-ion and go back and forth betweenpages — makes video’s linearity bor-ing, its definite beginning and endingunfolding too slowly for an audienceused to clicking from one thing to thenext and, above all, retrieving infor-mation quickly. This problem is com-pounded by how long video takes toload and the time it takes to move its large file size.

In contrast, the GIF takes advantage of the Internet as amedium while adapting to its specific limitations. For onething, the GIF seems to know the needs of an Internet audi-

ence. With an infinite amount of informa-tion a few clicks away (the consequence ofwhich is an ever-shrinking attention span),we can watch our GIF instantly, get thehighlights and move on. The GIF is theCliffNotes of video. Additionally, its smallfile size makes it easy to share, takingadvantage of perhaps the Internet’s chiefattraction: connectivity. Moreover, whilethe linear video seems poorly suited for a

host as interactive and hypertextual as the Internet, the GIFloops. It is cyclical, not linear. We can begin watching it atany moment, and, because it loops so quickly, we can get asense of the pattern of things.

The GIF takes advantage of the Internet as a medium inanother respect — by appropriating video footage that’salready been shared. Some have argued that each GIF is a

new, separate artwork from the artwork it appropriates. In asense, the GIF treats video as a kind of readymade. Theartistry is what’s done to that existing footage to make theGIF: how it’s bared down to its essential elements, whatenvironment it’s placed in, what text (if any) accompanies it.However, GIFs often toe a thin line between appropriationand plagiarism. For the most part, this has not yet been anissue because few people are making money from GIFs.However, Miller writes that more and more people are beingpaid to make GIFs for advertisements.

The GIF takes advantage of the Internet as a medium ina way few artistic forms have. However, for the GIF to betaken seriously as an artistic medium, it will have to contendwith the specific consequences of the web. Plagiarism, pira-cy and pay are not new issues to art on the Internet, but theyhave yet to be addressed satisfactorily. As an Internet-specif-ic medium, the GIF is uniquely situated to do just that —and that’s a comeback story.

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The sad and untimely death of TonyScott, a director who continually raised thebar for blockbusters since the early 1980s,will confuse his fans for years and thoseclosest to him for even longer. The NewYork Times reported that Scott jumpedfrom the Vincent Thomas Bridge over LosAngeles Harbor at about 12:30 local timeSunday afternoon. Authorities have founda suicide note and all signs point to such aconclusion.

I did not know the man but those whodid, colleagues like director Duncan Jones(Source Code) and actor David Krumholtz(Numb3rs), took to Twitter and describedhim as a “warm,” “lovely” and “rambunc-tious cinematic spirit.” Tony Scott’s deathsaddens those of us who enjoyed his pro-lific output of quality entertainment.Stranger yet, his final choice stands at oddswith the optimistic energy consistentthroughout his work.

His older brother, Ridley, claims iconstatus for cinematic heavies like Alien,Gladiator and Blade Runner. Tony’s fil-mography commanded less critical acclaimbut reeled in equal if not, by some mea-surements, greater commercial success. TopGun, his biggest hit, ruled 1986, cement-ing Tom Cruise as an official movie starand spawning an immortal quote — “I feelthe need … the need for speed!” —

scrawled on vintage T-shirts and the mostsuccessful racing video game franchise inthe world. The phrase “crowd-pleasingblockbuster” that we now bestow uponwitty and slickly choreographed summerfare like The Avengers and The AmazingSpider-Man was in large part defined byScott’s work.

Many obituaries yesterday started with‘Top Gun Director’ in the headline, whichmakes sense since it made the most moneyof Scott’s films and occupies a [ratherlarge] spot on the ’80s pop culture tapes-try. College-age observers (very likely you)have little connection with Top Gun,Scott’s other Tom Cruise flick, Days ofThunder, The Last Boy Scout or evenBeverly Hills Cop II. Most of us can recallhis kinetic output since the late ’90s, withBrad Pitt in Spy Game, Keira Knightley inDomino and Will Smith in Enemy of theState. Denzel Washington was clearlyScott’s go-to actor; the pair honed a for-mula with Washington as the conflictedbut always sympathetic lead against Scott’sstunning set pieces and steady firepower.See Crimson Tide, Man on Fire, Deja Vu,Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 and Unstoppable.They told thrilling stories with humancharacters and boasted Hollywood’s great-est action scenes.

True Romance will likely solidify asScott’s most memorable accomplishment.While one of his least profitable movies,the 1993 crime film is constantly revisited

because of its script, written by a youngQuentin Tarantino, hot off the heels ofReservoir Dogs. I watched it for the firsttime this summer and was struck by howScott molded the violent screenplay with agenuine sincerity absent from Tarantino’sdarkly ironic films. There are two famousbedroom brawls — one, a fistfightbetween Patricia Arquette and JamesGandolfini, and, two, a full-scale shootoutbetween basically the entire cast. Theyeach cut shot-after-shot with that effortlesslogic natural to Scott while affectivelyreflecting on all the human carnage. Shotsof colleagues, friends and lovers bleedingnext to each other — whether physically soor effectively through cross-cutting —punctuate the destruction and convey atinge of loss that adds a third dimension tothe zany bloodfest. It is not a stretch tothink of Scott as a romantic; he threw hismany characters into such extreme circum-stances and always ended on a happy note,as if to assure us no evil can vanquish good.

So the necessity to reflect on his life, atthis time and under these circumstances,shocks me still. Suicide is the most person-al decision one can make, so no one willever know the extent of torment that drovehim to that bridge. Why would we wantto, anyway? Scott already won the respectof his colleagues and millions of moviego-ers. It is safe to consider Tony Scott one ofthe great masters of his craft; the otherswho come to mind are Steven Spielberg

(Indiana Jones), James Cameron(Terminator), John McTiernan (Die Hard)and John Woo (Face/Off). They createentertainment with the intent of pleasingthe audience. Clarity of subject and tech-nical precision rule every shot. And, forScott at least, there was a heart beatingbeneath it all.

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award in college soccer andSlogic is the only Ivy Leagueathlete who has earned a spoton the list. As a defender, Slogictallied eight points on the sea-son with three goals and twoassists.

The squad had its best sea-son of conference play since1995, totaling 12 points in Ivymatchups. The Red also had astretch of 13 games without aloss — the longest streak in theteam’s history. Senior goalkeep-er Rick Pflasterer — who ledthe Ivy League with a goalsagainst average of .598 —returns to anchor a Red defensewhich led the conference with13 goals allowed.

The Red has also secured astrong recruiting class made upof six freshmen — featuringfour midfielders, one defenderand one forward. ForwardGregory Antognoli — the No.94-ranked soccer recruit in thecountry according toCollegeSoccerNews.com —will strengthen the Red’s attackthis season. Aside from playingfor a select SuperElite squadwhich traveled to Europe,Antognoli was also the onlyhigh school player on the rosterof the USL PremierDevelopment League’s FresnoFuego.

Antognoli will be joined bymidfielders Max Brashear, BenFeldman, Simba Meki andSanath Shettigar. Brashear —the No. 106 recruit in thecountry — and Shettigar wereboth chosen to attend the USSoccer Market TrainingCenters. Feldman and Mekiwere captains of their respectivehigh school and club teams.

Skyler Erickson, the sixthfreshman on the roster, willhelp to bolster an already strongRed defense. Erickson was thecaptain of the Colorado Rushin the USSF DevelopmentAcademy and scored the game-winning goal in the derby gameagainst the Colorado Rapids.

With a sophomore andjunior heavy team, the Redseniors will lead a squad mixedwith old and new faces. The2012 season will kick off inCalifornia on Aug. 31 withgames against Cal StateFullerton and LoyolaMarymount. The Red thenreturns to Ithaca on Sept. 9 fora matchup with Buffalo. Thesquad will also host the CUInaria Classic this year, where itwill take on Vermont andWofford on Sept. 14 and 16,respectively. Ivy play starts onSept. 29 at Berman Field wherethe Red will take on Penn.

looked good on paper and churned out a dis-appointing 8-8 season, but with theseupgrades and the ability to work through thepreseason, the Eagles look to be in a betterplace and will hopefully be able to ride themomentum they gained at the end of last yearafter going 4-1.

I think the Giants will come in secondplace in the division due to some deficiencieson their team, the biggest of which is theiroffensive line. The Eagles, Cowboys andRedskins were first, seventh and tenth in sacktotals last year with 50, 42 and 41 sacks,respectively. The weakness of the offensive linewill also be evident in the Giants’ runninggame. With newly drafted running backDavid Wilson and oft-injured running backAhmad Bradshaw, this weak offensive lineshould impede both aspects of the offense andwill be tested early and often. Not to mentionthe fact that the Giants have the toughestschedule in the NFL and it seems unlikely that

they will be able to win the division.I’m predicting that the Cowboys will come

in third this year. Although Tony Romo isalways criticized, I do not think that he isentirely the problem. Although he is inconsis-tent late in games and is not an elite quarter-back, I think the lack of a running game andthe Cowboys’ awful passing defense last yearwere the major reasons for their late seasoncollapse. Although they upgraded their passingdefense with Brandon Carr and by draftingMorris Claiborne, their lack of a bona fidesafety is still a problem.

The fact that the Cowboys’ offensive line isweak — in addition to up and comer TyronSmith — will allow Tony Romo to be shakenand lose confidence. This weakness will alsodiminish Demarco Murray’s effectiveness espe-cially since he is coming back from an ankleinjury. Pair that up with Dez Bryant’s recentissues, Jason Witten’s recent spleen injury andthe lack of a solid third receiver and I do notthink that they will be able to pull it togetherto make a run at the NFC east.

Not surprisingly, I’m predicting the

Redskins will come in last. However, they dohave a ton of upsides, starting with the draft-ing of Robert Griffen III. He is an incredibleathlete and leader. He is smart, fast and has acannon for an arm. The only knocks on himare his size and his durability, which are validconcerns in the NFL. However, if he can stayhealthy, it looks like he is poised to be a topquarterback in the league. His wide receivingcorps is not impressive, but I am sure the teamwill address that in future drafts to accommo-date him. Also with rising stars on defensesuch as Brian Orakpo and Ryan Kerrigan, Ithink they have the ability to become more ofa threat. For now, though, they do not lookoverly imposing and will experience somegrowing pains.

This is still only the preseason and like theEagles last season, these picks could fail to liveup to the hype, but I’m looking forward togreat competition in a continuously toughdivision.

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C.U. Adds Talented Assistants to Coaching Staffs

Lang Trades Volunteer Position for Assistant Coaching Role

De Heus Prepares to Focus on FowardsFeatherstone Adds International FlairTo Field Hockey’s Coaching Roster

Vande Berg Will Guide Middle Hitters Dalrymple Returns to Alma Mater, Shares Pitching Prowess

Brusilovsky Shares Expertise With Foilists

On June 14, field hockeyhead coach DonnaHornibrook made anannouncement that GavinFeatherstone would assumethe role as assistant coach forthe Red.

“I am very pleased toannounce theaddition of GavinFeatherstone toour coachingstaff,” Hornibrooksaid in a state-ment. “He is aworld class coachwith an outstand-ing pedigree andan impressivetrack record of success every-where he has been. I fullyanticipate that he will make atremendous impact on theCornell field hockey pro-gram.”

Featherstone comes toCornell from his alma mater,England’s DurhamUniversity, where he held ahead coaching position forboth the men’s and women’sfield hockey teams. In sixyears as the head of thewomen’s program, the teamwon three National ClubLeague titles in four trips tothe finals, while the menearned recognition as a highlycompetitive squad as well.

As a former Olympiccoach for both the UnitedStates (1984) and SouthAfrica (1996), Featherstone’scoaching résumé contains awealth of experience. With324 international matches tohis name, he was the youngestcoach to ever take a field

hockey team to the Olympicswhen he coached the UnitedStates in 1984. Featherstonealso led England’s men’s andwomen’s U21 World Cupsteams as head coach.

In addition to a wealth ofcoaching experience on an

international level,Featherstone is anauthority in manyaspects of thegame. He has pro-duced 20 DVDs toteach strategiesand principles offield hockey,which have beendistributed to over

25 countries around theworld and endorsed by theInternational HockeyFederation (FIH).Additionally, Featherstonehas conducted seminars host-ed by the FIH that aim tobreakdown and improve over-all game performance.

Featherstone received aBachelors of Arts degree fromDurham in 1975, where hewas captain of the first fieldhockey club in theUniversity’s history. He laterbecame the President of theDurham University AthleticUnion and continued on toplay for the BritishUniversities Team andEngland’s national program,where he served as team cap-tain and competed in boththe World and EuropeanCups. Featherstone alsoearned a PostgraduateCertificate of Education fromOxford University in 1976.

On Aug. 17, Nathan Taylor, the George E. Heekin’29 Head Coach of Men’s Track & Field and CrossCountry, named Zeb Lang as an assistant coach for bothteams. Lang will act as a guide for the middle-distanceand long-distance runners for the cross country and

track and field teams.A familiar face to people asso-

ciated with the two programs,Lang spent the past four yearsworking with the Red. He was avolunteer assistant coach from2009-2012, and he also volun-teered at Cornell during the2003-2004 school year.

“I embrace this opportunity tocoach the team that has given me

so much,” Lang said. “I'm so thankful to Coach NathanTaylor for giving me this tremendous opportunity andI'm eternally grateful to former coach Robert Johnsonand John Kellogg for mentoring me in all aspects ofcoaching over the past several years.”

Lang attended Cornell as an undergraduate andgraduated in 2003 with a degree in economics. Duringhis time on the hill, Lang ran cross country for all fouryear and earned a varsity letter as a senior, as well as com-

peted in the 2002 Heptagonal Championships and2002 Northeast Regional Championships. That sameyear Lang was a member of the squad which won IC4ACross Country Championship for the first time since1921. He also competed for the track team, participat-ing in long-distance events and helping the Red with theHeps Championship his senior year.

After graduating, Lang spent a year working forCornell and volunteering as an assistant for the crosscountry and track programs. After taking a five-yearbreak and working in Colorado, Lang returned toCornell in 2009 and completed his MBA through theJohnson Graduate School of Management in 2011.

Within the past two years, Lang has helped numer-ous runners improve their overall times. He worked withtwo runners in 2011 who earned a berth in the NCAAoutdoor championships — one of which earned an All-American finish in the 10,000 meters. Lang also helpedto guide four sub-30-minute 10,000-meter runners,nine 5,000-meter runners who clocked in 14:30 orfaster, six 1,500-meter runners who finished in 3:50 orless and five 800-meter runners who ran 1:51 or better.

The cross country team will officially kick off the2012 season with a tri-meet against Army andBinghamton on Sept. 7 in West Point, N.Y.

On Aug. 16, Melissa Batie-Smoose, the Wendy Schaenen '79Head Coach Of Volleyball,announced that Trudy VandeBerg would be joining the coach-ing staff for the 2012 season,where she will take charge ofinstructing the squad’smiddle hitters.

“I am excited toadd Trudy Vande Bergto my coaching staff,”Batie-Smoose said.“We are extremely for-tunate to have Trudyjoin our program. Shehas over 10 years ofDivision I coachingexperience, is one of the bestrecruiters in the country, and willhelp us tremendously in thegym.”

Vande Berg comes to Cornellafter spending the past four sea-sons with the Iowa StateCyclones, where she served as anassistant coach and recruitingcoordinator. She worked at Dukein the same capacity for four yearsprior to joining the Cyclones.While at ISU, Vande Berg helpedguide the Cyclones to the NCAAElite Eight a year ago, as well as aprestigious ranking in the nationfor its recruitment class. Duringher stint at Duke, she led the BlueDevils to the NCAA tournamenteach year and coached them to

Atlantic Coast Conference titlesin 2006 and 2008.

Before joining the coachingstaff at Duke, Vande Berg spenttime at Wisconsin and NorthFlorida, as well as a few teams onthe club circuit — including the

Milwaukee Chapter ofthe Starlings, a volley-ball club for under-privileged student-athletes.

A Waupun, Wisc.native, Vande Bergearned a degree inhealth care adminis-tration at Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 1999,

where she played volleyball forthe Panthers all four years. She ledthe team in attack percentageeach season and set programrecords for blocks in a match andblocks in a career. She still ranksin the Top-10 for career blocks(3rd — 403), kills (6th — 1,148)and attack percentage (7th —.263). Vande Berg was a first-team All-horizon League selec-tion during her senior season.

The Red will begin its fall2012 campaign under Batie-Smoose and Vande Berg by par-ticipating in the University ofColorado tournament on Aug. 31and Sept. 1 against Fresno State,UC-Boulder and NorthernArizona.

Dayna Smith, the Rebecca Quinn Morgan ’60 Head Coach ofWomen’s Basketball, announced on Aug. 14 that Daan de Heus wouldbe joining the coaching staff for the 2012-2013 season. De Heus will pri-marily focus his time on working with the forwards, assisting with gameday scouting and helping to increase the program’s recruiting efforts.

Hailing from the Netherlands, de Heus played for the Dutch nation-al youth basketball teams before continuing on to be an assistant coachfor the Netherlands at the 2009 high school basketball world champi-onships, which were held in Istanbul, Turkey. De Heus served as the headcoach for a variety of youth and senior basketball teams from 2005-2011— winning two championship titles at the U16 and U18 level.

De Heus earned a degree in international business and administrationfrom the University of Tilburg in 2010 before graduating from IthacaCollege in 2012 with a master’s degree in sports management.

Under the coaching leadership of Smith and de Heus, the women’sbasketball team will officially begin its season away against Colgate onNov. 9, before returning home to Newman Arena to face off againstFordham on Nov. 11.

Returning to her roots, two-time Ivy League Pitcher of theYear and former Red tri-captainElizabeth Dalrymple ’11 hasaccepted a position as assistantcoach for the Cornell softballteam. Dick Blood, the Jan RockZubrow ’77 Head Coach ofSoftball, made the announce-ment on Aug. 1.

Dalrymple returns to heralma mater, where she will workclosely with the pitchers, as theRed attempts to claim its fifthconsecutive Ivy League SouthernDivision title. She was the eighthplayer in Cornell program histo-

ry to earn first-team All-Ivy hon-ors three times, and she ranksfifth all-time with 63wins. Dalrymple alsoholds multipleCornell career records— including strikeoutmark (651), secondlowest opponent bat-ting average (.223),fourth lowest ERA(1.96), fifth in saves(4) and career games(66) and third in shutouts (17).She ranks in the Top-7 all-time inthe Ivy League for all of thosecategories in the Ivy League’s pro-

gram history.While playing for the Red,

Dalrymple earnedrecognition for herhard work on themound. She was atwo-time CapitalO n e / C o S I D AAcademic All-District selection, aswell as an NFCA All-District selection as ajunior. During her

senior year, Dalrymple was hon-ored as Cornell’s Charles H.Moore Outstanding SeniorVarsity Athlete.

On June 16, head coachIryna Dolgikh announced thatworld-class fencer OlegBrusilovsky will join the fencingteam’s staff as an assistant coachfor the upcoming season.

“I am convinced thatCoach Brusilovsky joining ourstaff will not only help developour fencers’ skills even further,but will also solidify our pro-gram improvements, teamdynamics in training, disci-pline and help us in achievinghigher national standings inthe very near future,” Dolgikhsaid.

Brusilovsky was a championin the Soviet Union as well as afive-time Ukrainian NationalChampion competing in foil inthe 80’s.

For the past seven years,Brusilovsky has worked at theAcademy of Westchester wherehe has trained multiple nationalfencing champions. Adding tohis already impressive resume,Brusilovsky also previouslyworked as the foil coach at theBlade Fencing Club in NewYork City where he trained twomembers of the United Statesnational foil team.

Game day | The women’s basketballteam season will commence on Nov. 9.

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Foil fencers | Last year three foilistsqualified for the NCAA championships.

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Saying goodbye | With the departure of seniors Will Ogden (pictured above), Chase Aaronson, Jimmy Lannon,Scott Caldwell and Kyle Parsons, the Red will be a sophomore and junior heavy squad this season.

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Winning the Division:Preseason PredictionsFor the Tough NFC East

Freshman Class ContributesDepth, Adds Talent to Roster

Billigen Picked Up as Free Agent by DiamondbacksAfter one of the most

historic seasons thatCornell baseball has everhad in its 143-year exis-tence, center fielder BrianBilligen ’12 signed withthe ArizonaDiamondbacks organiza-tion for the 2012-2013

season.Billigen was passed over

in the MLB's 2012 First-Year Player Draft duringthe first week of June,which meant that hischances of being signedwere slim as he became afree agent. However,shortly after Billigen waspicked up to start trainingfor Phoenix with the hopesthat he would be a stand-

out for theDiamondbacks, just likehe was for the Red. Only amonth later Billigen waspromoted from theDiamondbacks' Rookie-level squad to the Class-ASouth Bend Silver Hawksafter being an offensiveleader.

For his career with theRed, Billigen was a crucial

part of the success that theteam had, especially in its2012 season — includingits first league title since1977 and its second-everappearance in the NCAAtournament.

“It was a great yearobviously. We met some ofour goals almost everygame. Every game that weplayed came down to thewire,” said senior Brenton

Peters. “We had a seasonthat people aren’t going toforget for a long time.”

Personally, Billigen ledCornell in batting average(.361), triples (3), stolenbases (13) and RBI (40),leading to his second All-Ivy Second Team selection.His career totals rank inthe top 10 in program his-tory in numerous cate-

gories, includingtotal bases (295,second), homeruns (20, T-third), triples(14, T-third),slugging percent-age (.561,fourth), battingaverage (.337,sixth), stolen

bases (38, sixth), hits (177,sixth) and RBI (106, sev-enth).

“He is a good friend ofmine and absolutelydeserves it. He put in a lotof work, is really talentedand I am really happy forhim,” Peters said.

Finally hiss time | After battling an injury and leading the Red to an Ivy championship lastseason, outfielder Brian Billigen ’12 signed with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

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Being the completely unbiased Philadelphia fan that I am, Iam predicting that the Eagles will reclaim the NFC Eastthrone after a disappointing regular season for the entire

division — I know the Giants won the Super Bowl, but I don’t wantto talk about it. After a season of enduring the “Dream Team” and itsnightmare of a season, the Eagles made quality acquisitions during theoff-season to offset some major flaws.

One of the largest holes in the Eagles’ defense was their opponents’ability to run up the middle. Last year the Eagles gave up 4.9 yardsper attempt — ranking them second to last in the NFL. Theyaddressed this by getting Demeco Ryans, a middle linebacker from

the Texans, for an absolute steal, as well as Fletcher Cox, a defensivetackle from Mississippi, both of whom will help to plug up the mid-dle. However, the concern that Ryan might not return to the level thathe played at before the Achilles tendon issue should be minimalbecause he would still constitute an upgrade from the committee ofMLBs they offered last year.

Also by getting rid of Asante Samuel, despite getting terriblereturns for him, the Eagles can go back to the press coverage that bothNnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie are better at.Adding Brandon Boykins, a cornerback from Georgia, through thedraft provides a potential slot corner and kick returner who can takesome of the responsibility from Desean Jackson. Last year the Eagles

After getting off to a hot start with three straightwins in Ivy play, the men’s soccer team had a disap-pointing finish to 2011 with three ties and one lossin its last four games. Going into its final matchagainst Columbia, the Red still had hopes of win-ning its first Ivy Championship since 1995 afterBrown and Dartmouth tied earlier in the day.

However, a 1-1 tie with the Lions left them just onegoal shy of an Ivy title.

Coming off a season marked with success, theRed returns three seniors and two of its top threeleaders in points — juniors Patrick Slogic andDaniel Haber. Slogic, who earned All-Ivy honorslast year, has made the 2012 Hermann TrophyWatch List. The Trophy is the highest individual

By SCOTT CHIUSANOSun Assistant Sports Editor

By HALEY VELASCOSun Assistant Sports Editor

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“He is a good friend of mine andabsolutely deserves it. He put in a lot ofwork, is really talented and I am reallyhappy for him.”Brenton Peters

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