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Following Saturday’s streak-ending 1-0 victory over Princeton, the men’s soccer team (4-6-3, 1-3-1 Ivy) will hit the road today, visiting Oneonta in a 3 p.m. affair. The Red Dragons (4-8-3, 1-2-1 ASC) have also struggled mightily this season, having not recorded a win since Sept. 28. Saturday, the Red broke its own extended winless streak, eeking out a 1-0 win over the Tigers. Sophomore Peter Lynch scored the game’s lone goal late in the second half while junior goalkeeper Nate Dunlap saved six in picking up his first career shutout. “After not winning for over a month, you tend to forget how to do it,” said head coach Bryan Scales. “The guys had to relearn it Saturday night. It was a very good win for them. This is another chance for us to go out and try again.” Despite riding the relatively hot hand, Scales anticipates that a one-goal game — such as the one the Red won last season on Berman Field — is a distinct possibility today. “It’s always a real battle,” Scales said of the series with the cross-state rival. “Especially a game that’s mid-week, three o’clock, it’s not going to be a great atmosphere. The guys are going to have to generate their own atmosphere for this game and concentrate on the job at hand.” Last year, the Red beat Oneonta 2-1, as junior Kaj Hackinen scored the game winning goal. Dunlap recorded the win in his only start of the season. “It will be a one-goal game again,” predicted Scales. The Red Dragons are led by senior forward Ryan Rummery, whose four goals and 50 shots lead the team. Junior goalkeeper Jack Potter has recorded three shutouts on the year, making 62 saves. Entering the final four games of the season, the Red will hope to continue to create scoring chances and finally begin to capitalize on them. “One of the areas that we’ve been someone deficient in has been finishing off our chances,” said Scales. “Eventually you begin to finish off your chances as the guys become more comfortable in front of the goal, and we’ve not quite gotten there.” Lineup changes are again a possibility following exemplary performances by Dunlap in goal and by Lynch and junior Matt Blumenstyk at midfield against Princeton. Dunlap will start his third straight game, as he gets an extended look going into next season. Scales also expects to try out players at different positions again today. “We’ll keep looking at everybody, and everybody’s going in the same direction,” he said. Archived article by Owen Bochner
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The “Asian Literary Caravan” rolled into Cornell this Saturday, bringing with it three authors who discussed their identities as writers, as Asian Americans, and as Asian American writers. The Caravan consisted of Ed Lin, Helen Yum, and Bushra Rehman, who read selections from their works and fielded questions from the audience about their experiences. Sponsorship Co-sponsored by the Cornell Chinese Students Association (CSA), the Korean Students Association (KSA) and the Han Korean student newsletter, the event was held in the Robert Purcell Community Center Auditorium. Members of these organizations made up much of the audience that had several dozen people. The co-sponsors worked together with the New York City based Asian American Writers Workshop (AAWW) — a research center for readers and writers of Asian American literature — to bring the panel of writers to Cornell. Each panelist focused on the manifestations of Asian American culture in the written and spoken word. They discussed issues such as feminism, sexual abuse, prejudice and community within an Asian American context. “I’m interested in testing boundaries,” said Lin, a Chinese American, explaining his attitude towards conforming to Asian American stereotypes of conservatism. Lin’s excerpt from his newly released book, Waylaid, showed Lin’s attempts to overcome these boundaries through the use of the written word. Excerpt “I was about 12 years old when I knew I had to get laid soon,” Lin said as he began reading the excerpt. Rehman spoke about her contributions to the debunking of Asian American stereotypes. “There are a lot of Asians who live radical lives. [I’m trying to] give an example of another way you can live,” Rehman said. She also talked about the racism that faces many Asian Americans today, especially Pakistani Americans like herself. “You take racism in, and you start to feel that way about yourself,” Rehman said. Co-editor of Colonize This, a book in which women of color write about feminism, Rehman expresses the importance of people of color uniting and becoming empowered through the acceptance of their own identity. Adrian Leung, representative of the AAWW, added his own opinion on the creation of the Asian American “identity.” “We all experience the same things — the way non-Asians treat us. [They] see you just as another Asian person,” Leung said. He also summarized many of the audiences’ contributions concerning the different aspects of the Asian American identity: “We control Asian American identity. We don’t have to conform to it, we are it,” Leung said. A common sentiment expressed by both panelists and audience members was feeling pressure to conform to the identities imposed upon this generation of Asian Americans by outside stereotypes and by the expectations of their parents. Yum, a Korean American social worker who writes poetry, explained how the very act of becoming a social worker went against her parents’ expectations. Her work with, and writings about, sexually abused children was disconcerting, perhaps even embarrassing to her parents, she said. She added, however, that, “I wouldn’t speak about problems if I didn’t think the community could deal with it.” Many audience members questioned the nature of the Asian American community. In response to this query, Rehman said, “Community is just about one person at a time.” One person can also be a member of a number of different communities, Yum said. The important thing is that “you find your own identity,” and balance the time devoted to friends in each of the communities to which you belong, Yum added. The ability to find individual identity among the oppressive pressures that create certain expectations for Asian Americans, however, seems to be no easy task according to many Asian American students. “I see them [the panelists] as being harbingers, in the sense that I was taught to make money, and they’re following their true passion,” KSA President Dan Keh ’03 said. Confirming Keh’s ideas, Rehman explained the difficulties she had in telling her parents that she did not want to become a doctor. But “you can be an artist and be successful,” she said. Event organizer and CSA political chair Juliana Au ’04 reflected on the dialogues exchanged throughout the event. “I’m really glad this event happened. [The authors] addressed things not in the comfort zone,” Au said. In her closing remarks, Yum spoke of her overall mentality of approaching writing as an Asian American. “I just try to write and I trust that it is Asian American because I am,” she said.Archived article by Liz Goulding