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Elliott Brood's Ambassador

By | March 2, 2006

Leave it to a few Canadians to capture the dark and dusty ethos of the rural American south. Casey Laforet, Mark Sasso, and Stephen Pitkin have created suitably brooding melodies in their album, Ambassador. Judging from their website the group has a creepy morbid streak. According to legend the band name, Elliott Brood, originated from a senseless murder in which the assailant comments, as he is shoveling his victim into a shallow grave, “So long Mr. Elliott Brood, and thanks for the songs.” Still the careworn twanging of the banjo and guitar almost made me reconsider that generic statement “I like everything except country.” That was until I heard their tune “Jackson,” which laments the Confederates’ retreat in the Battle of Jackson, 1863. Apparently the battle was a huge blow to the morale of Confederated Army, as the song expresses with doleful sighs. These musicians are completely misguided in their choice of ballad. The seeming nostalgia for the Confederate South that “Jackson” seeks to create is offensive.

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Although it earned a solid victory in its opening weekend of the regular season, the No. 8 Cornell men’s lacrosse team (1-0) will surely have an extremely difficult task tomorrow afternoon, when it faces No. 12 Notre Dame (0-1) in Lisle, Ill.
The Red is coming off a momentum-building, 16-3, win last weekend against local rival Binghamton at Schoellkopf Field. Cornell received an eight-goal performance by junior attack David Mitchell and a four-goal, two-assist showing by senior attack Derek Haswell. While the Red dominated the Bearcats in all aspects of the game last Saturday, Cornell head coach Jeff Tambroni is expecting a tough match up for his team tomorrow.
Tambroni said that he was pleased with his squad’s preparation in practice for the Fighting Irish and hopes this energy level will transfer to the game.
“There’s an urgency about our opponent, about playing a team like Notre Dame in Chicago. It’s exciting,” Tambroni said. “This is an opportunity for us to find out who we are. Notre Dame is going to be an extremely formidable opponent and we also know we have to play very well to have success.”
Notre Dame is coming off a season opening 8-4 win over No. 14 Penn State last weekend. In the defensive battle, the Fighting Irish had two goals each by Ryan Hoff and Peter Christman and are headed by second-team All-American Pat Walsh.
Tambroni, who watched the game, said that he was surprised by the low scoreline, but expects Notre Dame’s defense to play tough against the Red’s attacking trio of Mitchell, Haswell and junior Eric Pittard.
“This week, I know they were at the game last weekend, so I know they’ll have a good idea of [our strengths] and I’m sure they’ll have a game plan accordingly,” Tambroni said. “It’s just going to be a matter of seeing if our guys can do what they do and do it well.”
Protecting the Fighting Irish goal is sophomore goalie Joey Kemp, who was the 2005 Great Western Lacrosse League Rookie of the Year and lead the nation with a .652 save percentage.
Kemp made 13 saves against the Nittany Lions last weekend.
On the defensive side for the Red, the team was not tested too much during its game against the Bearcats.
The starting defensive unit, which is led by a relatively inexperienced trio of senior Mike Pisco, junior Mitch Belisle and sophomore Danny Nathan, did well according to Tambroni. However, Walsh – who scored 21 goals and notched 22 assists last season – along with the rest of the Fighting Irish will prove to be a stern test.
“I think [our defensive unit has] been really good,” Tambroni said.
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By March 3, 2006

Although an Ivy League title has eluded the men’s basketball team for yet another season, the Red has no difficulty finding motivation as it heads into its final weekend of competition for the 2005-06 season with a final trip to Harvard (12-13, 4-8 Ivy) tonight and Dartmouth (5-20, 3-9) tomorrow.
A second consecutive winning record in the Ancient Eight will be on the line for Cornell (11-15, 6-6) this weekend. While this may seem a small feat to some, head coach Steve Donahue believes it is another step towards the ultimate goal of conference champion.
“It’s a great opportunity to have another winning season in the Ivy League,” he said. “Back-to-back winning seasons hasn’t happened [for Cornell] since 1987-88. It would be a tremendous accomplishment for our program as we try to build a championship team.”
The Red will need to work against all the habits it has developed over the course of the season to bring a winning record back to the East Hill.
Cornell has yet to sweep a season series against an Ivy League opponent, but could reverse that trend by adding wins this weekend to a 63-47 win over the Green on Feb. 3 and a hard-fought, 79-77, victory against the Crimson on Feb. 4. Games outside the friendly confines of Newman Arena have also been a weak spot for the Red, which is 7-5 on its home court but 3-10 on the road this season.
“Our guys just try to do the best they can,” Donahue said. “It’s not like they’re trying to match a perfect season; we’re just trying to compete and do our best each time.”
For Donahue there are no major changes his team needs to make, but instead, minor alterations.
“I think when you go on the road you really have to do the little things well,” Donahue said. “You have to expect they’re going to shoot the ball well at home.