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Sudden Closure of Rulloff’s Bar Shocks Workers,Cornellians

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

Though Labor Day was a time of welcome relaxation for many Cornellians, it quickly became a day of anxiety for employees at one of Collegetown’s most popular establishments.

During what was believed by most to be a normal beginning-ofsemester meeting for Rulloff ’s Restaurant and Bar, employees were notified Monday that the establishment— a staple in the Collegetown market since 1977 — was to shut its doors that same day.

According to acting bar manager Kevin Andersen, the news was See RULLOFF’S page 4

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All closed up | Employees, students and alumni alike were saddened to hear that Rulloff’s Restaurant and Bar — located at 411 College Ave. — shut its doors Monday after serving Collegetown since 1977.

Skorton Gives Final Welcome Address Burglary, Assault President talks C.U. sesquicentennial, national events

which occurs on April 27. These Sun News Editor events will occur in various places around the world to reflect In a welcome message to the Cornell’s diverse presence in variUniversity, President David ous communities, according to Skorton.

Skorton said The celebration will Cornellians should begin Sept. 13 in New reflect on recent York City — the home national events and of many Cornell alumhonor the school’s herni — with a “fascinatitage in light of the this ing” musical perforyear’s sesquicentennial mance at the Jazz at celebration.

Lincoln Center, Skorton encourSkorton said. aged Cornellians to SKORTON He added that attend various special events commemorating the Cornellians can further celebrate University’s sesquicentennial, the school’s history during

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Charter Weekend, which will take place from April 24 to 27.

“The weekend, which commemorates the signing of the charter that created Cornell, will include panel discussions, literary readings, musical performances, and films,” Skorton said in his message.

Alumni and students can bring the sesquicentennial celebration to Ithaca during October’s homecoming weekend — which features a football game against a rival college as well as a several events to promote campus spirit See SKORTON page 4

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By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun News Editor

Two residents of a Catherine Street apartment at reported a burglary — with one resident possibly facing several broken bones after a subsequent assault — in Collegetown early Sunday morning, according to police.

A male resident and his roommate were inside their apartment at 109 Catherine St. when they heard their front door opening at

approximately 3:00 a.m., police said. Upon examination, the two men discovered several male subjects leaving their apartment with a computer that belonged to one of the residents.

One resident chased the burglars and — upon catching up with them nearly a block away — was punched in the face, police said. The perpetrators then reportedly fled the scene.

The victim who was See CATHERINE page 5

Sophomore Designs New App For Creating Class Schedule

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Members of Design-Build-Fly, a student-run project team, distribute quartercards outside Duffield Hall Tuesday.

Cornell students looking to plan their future schedules will have the option to use a new mobile application to organize their courseload.

CUAgenda, which launched last month, is a free app created by Dennis Fedorko ’17 for Cornell students that acts as a mobile alternative to online services such as Schedulizer and

Chequerd.

The app — which became available for download on iTunes Aug. 17 — allows students to scroll through courses and add them to their schedules. Schedules can be viewed on a weekly or daily basis and students can add other appointments or events to their daily schedules, according to Fedorko, who is also a designer for The Sun. “Cornell students can basically do anything that

they could in Schedulizer or Chequerd, but on their phones and with greater reliability,” he said.

This reliability, according to Fedorko, comes from the fact that CUAgenda operates offline and therefore cannot crash due to high traffic.

“Every other app crashes,” he said. “The day before course enroll, I would be sitting in front of my computer, See AGENDA page 4

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New Late Night Eatery, Gorger’s Taco Shack, Opens on Ithaca Commons eaters leaving nearby bars, according Shreder.

“With all the bars nearby, the busiCornellians can satisfy their late- ness is going to be potentially really night cravings at Ithaca’s newest com- great,” Shreder said. “We’ll be adding fort-food eatery — Gorgers Taco Shack and rotating new menus — we could — which opened last Friday on the [potentially] have a list of three or four different tacos at one time.”

Ithaca Commons.

Shreder added that he does anticipate The owners of Gorgers Subs, Matt significant competiand Barton tion from nearby Diamond, decided to Mexican restaurants open the new Mexican restaurant “We’ve been so popular, on and near the Commons, such as after seeing success and people have been Agava and Viva with their sub shop Taqueria.

— which opened two asking for more than “It’s not even a years ago — accordcompetition — I ing to Matt Shreder, just subs and soups.” think that we’ll coexmanager of Gorgers.

Matt Shreder ist pretty well,” he “We’ve been so said. “They have popular, and people more of a sit-down have been asking for more than just subs and soups,” he said. business. We have a [grab-and-go] The new Mexican restaurant — place.”

For its opening week, the Taco Shack which will serve different types of tacos on a daily basis — will be open until 3 has served two varieties of pulled chicka.m. every day, catering to late-night en tacos and two varieties of pulled

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Tasty tacos | Matt and Barton Diamond — co-owners of Gorgers Subs — opened a new Taco restaurant called Gorgers Taco Shack in the Ithaca Commons Friday.

pork, according the restaurant’s Facebook page. Vegetarians have the option of eating meatless taco with pinto beans.

Toppings for the tacos include pineapple mint salsa, smoked paprika mayo and garlic chili lime.

The Taco Shack’s daily specialty tacos — Tacos del Dia — showcase different ingredients, including pulled pork with plum sauce, scallions and sesame seeds, according to Gorgers. Tacos are priced at $2.50 each or three for $7.

Cornell students said they were excited about the convenience of the Taco Shack.

“I would say that this is a step in the right direction,” Bella Sobalvarro ’17 said. “I’m really happy about it. I would absolutely go there, even at two o’clock in the morning.”

Other students said they were especially happy to have more options for Mexican food in particular in Ithaca.

“I’m excited about it,” said Jackie Horn ’16. “Ithaca needs a Mexican place that’s more casual than Viva or Agava.”

Anushka Mehrotra contributed reporting to this story.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

Student Files Discrimination Lawsuit Against Columbia NEW YORK (U-WIRE) — A Columbia Ph.D. student and former congressional candidate has filed a federal complaint and lawsuit against the University for alleged disability discrimination after he was suspended in August.

Theo Milonopoulos, a political science Ph.D. student, filed a complaint with theUnited States Department of Education and a lawsuit in the Southern District Court of New York in August, saying that the University discriminated against his mental health conditions by putting him on forced medical leave and barring him from Columbia property.

The claims come as Milonopoulos prepares for a separate Sept. 4 court appearence for two felony charges brought against him in June for incidents on the

University of California, Los Angeles campus—which he said was the official reason cited for his suspension.

“I’m so annoyed that they waited until the eleventh hour,” Milonopoulos said in an interview with Spectator. “I’m trying to get reinstated before classes start next week, I don’t have time to convince an attorney to take on my case when I can do it my self.”

In the lawsuit, Milonopoulos recounts struggling with anxiety and depression after enrolling at Columbia in the fall of 2012. As a result, he said he underwent regular clinical treatment with clinicians at Counseling and Psychological Services throughout his time at the University.

According to the lawsuit, Milonopoulos experienced “para-

lyzing fear” in January 2014 that the political science department would kick him out because of his counseling treatment, after which department and CPS officials requested Milonopoulos take a University-approved medical leave for the spring semester.

In May, Milonopoulos notified Columbia that he would return to his hometown of Los Angeles to run for the 33rd Congressional District seat as a write-in candidate, the lawsuit says.

While campaigning on the University of California, Los Angeles campus, Milonopoulos encountered a preacher, Dean Saxton, who started harassing him on Bruin Walk, according to the lawsuit. When campus police did not intervene, Milonopoulos went to the office of Chancellor Gene

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Students order various types of Asian food — including Vietnamese, Indian, Korean and Thai dishes — at Franny’s Foodtruck, which opened this year, behind Sibley Hall Tuesday.

Block where he was arrested by campus police for refusing to leave.

Milonopoulos was arrested a second time when he returned to the office the next day, the Daily Bruin reported.

According to the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Milonopoulos is charged with two counts of using threats or violent force to resist police and one count of interfering with employees of a public agency.

Milonopoulos, who is still in California, said in a press release on Aug. 21 that he received a letter from Columbia’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs Andrea Solomon informing him that he was suspended and “now considered persona non grata on all Columbia University property” after he “made threatening statements to harm members of the UCLA community.”

The letter is part of Milonopoulos’ secondary charges against Columbia. It says that Solomon’s “abrasive tone” caused him “severe emotional distress.”

When the Columbia administration was contacted for comment, Director of Communications for Community and Civic Initiatives Victoria Benitez said, “FERPAprevents us from commenting on the academic and disciplinary records of individuals.”

Now, Milonopoulos said he’s had difficulty obtaining the correct information about how he can return to Columbia.

“The Dean’s office at the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences has given me chronic misinformation about the conditions that I’m required to fulfill as part of my reinstatement,” Milonopoulos said in an interview with Spectator, mentioning conflicting information that he said he received in regards to finishing incompletes that he took for sever-

al courses.

In the lawsuit against Columbia, Milonopoulos “alleges that senior administrators in the Office of the Dean in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences engaged in professional misconduct that appears to be motivated by a latent bias against known and perceived mental health conditions on the part of the Plaintiff in an effort to avoid potential liability that might arise in allowing Plaintiff to remain enrolled and re-enroll at Columbia University.”

According to Milonopoulos, Columbia has allowed him to put off the University disciplinary process until his criminal case is complete. He also said the he is unable to afford a flight to New York due to the discontinuation of his graduate fellowship as a result of his suspension.

Milonopoulos said that if he were to undergo Columbia’s judicial process, he could be forced to incriminate himself for the events in California.

“The only way to have both of those disciplinary actions reversed is to subject myself to a process that would involve me incriminating myself,” Milonopoulos said.

Milonopoulos said that the pressure to return to New York and go through the disciplinary process so he can re-enroll will make him more likely to agree to a plea deal for his charges in Los Angeles.

Milonopoulos hopes to return to Columbia eventually, as his congressional run was not very successful. After joining the race as a write-in candidate because he missed the ballot deadline, he came in last place in June’s election with just a single vote—which was not his own, since he was in jail on the day of the election.

A version of this story was published in The Columbia Spectator Tuesday.

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delivered by one of the part-owners of Rulloff ’s and was received with “outrage” from employees.

“People were angry. Some of the servers have kids, and this was their job,” Andersen said. “There was someone who quit their old full-time job to work at Rulloff ’s like a month ago. They were reliant on this, just as I was.”

Mike Clark, a former Rulloff ’s employee, said that while it is unfortunate that the bar’s owners are selling the space, it is not surprising due to the lack of contact the owners traditionally had with the restaurant.

“Everybody handles their own business differently. I feel like people who work there knew that the owners were absent anyhow, and it was bound to happen any time,” he said. “There [have] been past experiences where things weren’t paid, the owners didn’t send the checks, so it could have happened any time, I feel like.”

Andersen agreed that the bar’s owners — three of whom live in California — had a very small presence at the establishment, largely operating through email for financial authorizations.

“I think maybe in the three years I’ve worked there, I’ve met that particular owner maybe four times. The

owners were not involved in the day to day things,” he said.

Andersen said he hopes a potential buyer of the space — which was listed for sale with an asking price of $395,000 Monday on the Pyramid Brokerage Company’s website — will consider hiring back as many previous employees as possible.

“I would come back in a heartbeat,” Andersen said.

“It’s more than a job or just a place for me. It’s my identity, it’s my home and a lot of people feel that way.

Reaching back out to my previous staff, under new ownership I think most of them would definitely come back.

They know how to run everything; it would be a great thing.”

Many Cornellians, students and alumni alike, have lamented the closing of the restaurant over the past few days.

Lea Bonnefoy ’15 said she ate dinner at Rulloff ’s Sunday, the day before the restaurant and bar closed.

“I was looking forward to enjoying my senior year going there more often,” she said.

Nick Parisi ’14 recalled his first Cornell dinner at Rulloff ’s, and said he was saddened that such an icon for the University had closed up shop.

“When you think of Cornell you think of Rulloff ’s,”

Parisi said. “That’s what all the alumni go to, it’s kind of your rite of passage if you go to Cornell. That being gone takes away a big portion of the nightlife scene.”

Parisi said he believes the next owners of the space should try to get student feedback when setting up the place for business and not change the general atmosphere too drastically.

“That’s where they get all their money from; students that are there,” he said. “[The next owners should] try to keep it as an establishment where students can go out and have fun and see their classmates.”

For Andersen, Rulloff ’s was more than just an establishment; it was his entire connection to Ithaca.

“I lived in Ithaca for three years. I’ve worked at Rulloff ’s for three years. The only real reason I’ve stayed in Ithaca is because of this job,” he said. “I made a name for myself in this town. Without Rulloff ’s, my identity is gone … I feel like a stranger in this town now.”

Jeffrey Mayer, a part-owner of Rulloff ’s was not able to be reached on Tuesday. Student Agencies, a student-run company that manages the Rulloff ’s space, declined to comment Tuesday.

Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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and make sure everything is good and all of the scheduling websites would be down.”

The app comes with all of the course information for the next semester upon being downloaded, so there are no delays, Fedorko added.

Approximately 2,000 students have downloaded the app, which has a five star rating on iTunes, according to Fedorko. While CUAgenda is currently only available for iOS, he said an Android version is in the works.

Fedorko added he decided to create the app — despite having no prior iPhone coding experience — because he wanted to apply the skills he was learning as a computer science major to make something that students could use.

“I knew absolutely zero coding for iOS,” he said.

“So, I taught myself how to do all of that.”

While there are advertisements on the free app, users can pay $1.99 for an ad-free version. Fredorko said income from the app goes toward improving its functionality and that he is not seeking a profit from CUAgenda.

“I’m not really profiting off of it — I just want

people to use it and enjoy it,” he said.

Terrill Jones ’17 , a CUAgenda user, said the “best part” of the app is its accessibility.

“Early in the semester when in still trying to figure out my schedule and where to go for class, it’s handy to be able to pull out my phone to see my next class without having to pull out a printed schedule,” Jones said.

Paul DeLucia ’17 also said he uses the app due to its convenience in helping locate classes.

“I found the app to be especially useful on the first day of classes when I had to locate the room number of one of my classes,” he said.

While Fedorko said that there are no plans yet to expand CUAgenda to other colleges, Nathan Lauderback ’17, who transferred to Cornell, said he believes this system would have been helpful at his last college.

“I am a transfer student and the previous institution I attended had nothing like CUAgenda,” Lauderback said. “...you had to search the web looking for scheduler websites that had the information that CUAgenda has.”

Eric Oberman can be reached at eoberman@cornellsun.com.

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— Skorton said.

Skorton also discussed his vision for the future of the University. In March, he announced that he will leave the University June 2015 to take a position as the secretary of the Smithsonian.

He said Cornell will attempt to address various “issues” over the school year, including accelerating the University’s plan to become carbon neutral, increasing the faculty diversity and developing research initiatives in its tech campus on Roosevelt Island — which is scheduled to open in 2017.

“As we move forward, I am confident that Cornell will remain

true to our founding principles and extend our impact as a worldclass university with an egalitarian soul,” Skorton said.

However, Skorton did not limit his message to subjects that directly affect the University. He

“I am confident that Cornell will remain true to our founding principles.”

President David Skorton also spoke about political events that have recently impacted the entire nation, domestically and nationally.

“The continuing tensions in the Middle East … remind us all of the importance of recognizing the value of each person’s opinion and perspective,” Skorton said.

“In the wake of events in Ferguson, [Missouri], we all need to reflect on our attitudes regarding race.”

He also addressed sexual assault, which has recently become a major concern at campuses across the country — including Cornell — in light of Obama’s decision in April to create a task force against collegiate sexual violence.

“Sexual assault and violence on college campuses is gaining new and appropriate visibility in Washington, and, thanks to the efforts of many individuals and groups, we are accelerating our efforts to address it at Cornell,” he said.

Skorton emphasized that his message was not directed solely towards Cornell students, but to anyone who has a tie to the University.

“Whether you’re a student, faculty or staff member in Ithaca, New York City or elsewhere, I hope that you had a good summer,” Skorton said.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

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Attorney: Detroit Needs Debt Plan to Survive

DETROIT (AP) — The plan to restructure billions of dollars in debt is the vehicle the Motor City needs to free up funds to provide services to residents and allow the city to survive, one of Detroit’s attorneys told the federal judge at the helm of the historic bankruptcy trial, which started Tuesday.

Bruce Bennett said during his opening statement before federal Judge Steven Rhodes that Detroit has operated in distressed conditions for so long that it requires vast amounts of investment.

“Detroit won’t survive or recover until this is done,” said Bennett, an attorney with the Jones Day law firm that was hired to help the city through the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.

Tuesday was the first in what’s likely to be a number of days in which lawyers from the city and other creditors will debate the city’s debt, the rights of its creditors and what is allowable under bankruptcy law. Dozens of witnesses are expected to be called.

Detroit wants to cut $12 billion in unsecured debt to about $5 billion through its plan of adjustment that has to be approved by Rhodes. The plan’s architect, state-appointed emer-

gency manager Kevyn Orr, guided Chrysler through its bankruptcy.

Most creditors, including more than 30,000 retirees and city employees, have endorsed the plan of adjustment. The strongest opposition is coming from New York-based Syncora Guarantee, who has said its claims with the city are about $400 million.

Syncora and some other creditors have pushed for the city to look into the sale of assets, including city-owned pieces in the Detroit Institute of Arts.

But Bennett said under state law, city assets cannot be sold to satisfy creditor demands.

That should have been a “powerful warning to every potential lender and insurer not to lend money to a Michigan municipality based on the expectation that a creditor can compel the sale of an asset,” he said.

The threat to artwork also prompted the creation of the socalled Grand Bargain — commitments from the state, major corporations, foundations and others to donate more than $800 million over 20 years meant to soften cuts to city pensions while placing pieces in the DIA into a trust and out of the reach of debtor demands.

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assaulted was transported to a local hospital, where he was treated for potential broken facial bones, police said.

Both victims described the subjects as black males — two wearing tank-tops and one wearing a t-shirt — police said.

The Cornell University

Police Department issued a crime alert Tuesday evening after IPD released a press release regarding Sunday’s incident.

The Ithaca Police Department urges anyone with relevant information about the suspects to contact them at (607) 272-9973.

Anushka Mehrotra can be reached at amehrotra@cornellsun.com.

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Lawyer Says Family of Girl With Uzi Is Devastated PHOENIX (AP) — An attorney for the parents of a 9-year-old girl who accidentally killed an Arizona shooting range instructor with an Uzi said Tuesday the family is devastated by the tragedy that occurred on a brief excursion during a vacation.

The statement came as investigators released police reports and 911 recordings involving the Aug. 25 shooting of instructor Charles Vacca at the Last Stop range in White Hills, Arizona, about 60 miles south of Las Vegas.

The police reports name the child’s parents as Alex Gen and Alison MacLachlan and don't list the couple’s hometown.

New Jersey-based lawyer Kevin Walsh said the family “prayed day and night that [Vacca] would survive his injury, and they continue to pray for his family during this terribly difficult time.”

The police reports say that immediately after the shooting, the girl said she felt the gun was too much for her and had hurt her shoulder.

Her family members were focused on the girl because they thought she was injured by the gun’s

recoil and didn’t immediately realize that Vacca had been shot until one of his colleagues ran over to him, the reports state.

The shooting set off a powerful debate over youngsters and guns, with many people wondering what sort of parents would let a child handle a submachine gun. However, neither the reports nor the statement by Walsh explains why the parents let the girl take the Uzi. The family had taken a shuttle from Las Vegas to the range. After arriving, the girl, her parents, sister and brother took a monster truck ride before heading to the shooting range.

The girl’s father was the first one in the party to handle a weapon. After he fired shots, Vacca instructed the girl on how to shoot the gun, showed her a shooting stance and helped her fire a few rounds, according to the reports.

He then stepped back and let her hold the Uzi by herself. She fired the gun, and its recoil wrenched the Uzi upward, killing Vacca with a shot to the head, the reports state.

Death of Teen Whose Body Burned Was Random INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 15-year-old Indianapolis girl whose burned body was found over the weekend was likely abducted and killed by someone she didn’t know, police and family members said Tuesday.

Dominique Allen's death was a homicide resulting from asphyxiation, Marion County Chief Deputy Coroner Alfarena Ballew ruled Tuesday. A man walking his dog found Allen’s body in his backyard on the city’s near northwest side Sunday, police said.

One of Allen’s sisters, Shenika Poindexter, issued a stern warning to whoever was responsible dur-

ing a news conference Tuesday at the site where Allen’s body was found. A small makeshift wooden cross was placed next to scorch marks in the grass, and decorated with flowers and stuffed animals.

“I don’t know why you had to do this. Whatever you do, wherever you go, justice is going to be served, in this life or the next. I don’t care, they will hunt you until you die. ... She did not deserve this, she did not deserve this, she was 15 years old,” Poindexter said between tears.

Poindexter said her sister wasn’t the type to talk to strangers or get in a car with someone she didn’t know. The victim had been

staying with another sister, Mareeka Allen, and was last seen on the sister’s porch about 4 a.m.

Sunday.

Mareeka Allen said the crime was a “careless random act,” and a detective investigating the case agreed.

“At this time, we believe it was random,” Indianapolis Metro Police Detective Marcus Kennedy said, adding that Dominique Allen was dead before her body was burned.

Detectives are combing registered sex offenders for possible leads and checking for reported runaways in case there are other victims.

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A Call for Cornell to Pay Its Fair Share to TCAT LAST WEEK, THE TOMPKINS CONSOLIDATED AREA TRANSIT Board of Directors passed a resolution asking the University to increase its subsidy to the transit system in order to address a $740,000 budget shortfall this year. Though President David Skorton said in May that he would keep the bus passes, he added — in a response to a University Assembly resolution — that the University could not find any additional funds to increase the subsidy. As a part-owner of TCAT, the University pays a $2.6 million bulk fare every year for the transit needs of the Cornell community. However, this bulk fare has not increased in line with the increase in Cornell-associated ridership, effectively shortchanging TCAT of $500,000 of expected revenue. We at The Sun believe that the University should pay its fair share to run this vital transit and that the University should work with TCAT to help address its budget shortfall.

According to the TCAT resolution, the University agreed to subsidize fares paid with a Cornell ID at $1 per ride in 2010. Due to the increase in ridership — but no matching increase in subsidy — the effective subsidy is now $0.86 per ride. The resolution asks that the University return to subsidizing rides at $1 per ride. According to data provided by TCAT, Cornell ridership was approximately 71 percent of total TCAT ridership.

However, it also important to note that the Cornell bulk fares account for 20 percent of total TCAT revenue. This disparity is contributing to TCAT’s financial distress.

The resolution was also passed at a time when the University’s commitment to TCAT has been called into question. The administration has chosen not to increase the subsidy even though it was expected to do so when Skorton agreed to keep free bus passes for first-year students in response to U.A. and Student Assembly resolutions. The administration’s decision to keep the passes to appease students and faculty without increasing its subsidy was an underhanded way for the University to avoid paying its fair share.

Although the University is the major supplier of riders for TCAT, it is necessary for the University to step up and make sure that TCAT continues to be an option for Cornell and the Ithaca community.

We at The Sun believe it is time that the University starts funding TCAT in an equitable manner. Cornell can create a solution within its budget restraints that would allow TCAT to continue to operate in the same manner as it is now. TCAT is a critical system, and by putting it in fiscal distress, the University is doing a disservice to all members of our community.

An Ithaca State of Mind

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hen I learned I would be join- I found myself enjoying this respite from ing The Daily Sun as an opin- the stronghold of my iPhone. Not only ion columnist (I’d like to think were these day-long breaks needed, but that I was a “walk-on”), I pondered over they brought to light the unhealthy relawhat the theme of my column would be. tionship I had with technology. Removing Should I be the sports opinion columnist? myself from my phone for hours at a time No, who would want to read about what allowed me to experience these natural some Policy Analysis and Management wonders firsthand, without the nagging major has to say about Derek Jeter’s retire- influence of social media. I found myself ment — it would be too limiting. Maybe quickly embracing the absence of a I could be the sex advice columnist? Well, human footprint and appreciating the lets just say I’m not Dr. Ruth and leave it value of a crater that has bewildered genat that. What about the political colum- eration after generation. nist? No, the only time I followed a politIn 1908, Teddy Roosevelt delivered a ical story to its completion was during the speech in front of the canyon, emphasizEdward Snowden fiasco last year. And, to ing that the beauty of the canyon should be honest, I only committed to the story be preserved for generations to come, for its water-cooler-talk potential during without the influence of developers — the my finance internship. So here’s what I presence of the canyon should remain a decided. My column would be about symbol of mother nature and keep us in “nothing.” Just like Seinfeld, I plan on touch with the world we live in. Although bringing “nothing” to the table. I may not developers may remain a constant threat be as staunch as George Costanza in my to the integrity of the canyon, our addiccommitment to nothing — and may tion to remaining connected is a new, eventually talk about something. But I additional hazard in the appreciation of will approach this our physical enviforum as a way of ronments. Social transforming the and our Our addictions to our phones are media nothingness of relationships everyday experinot only unhealthy, but they are with staying conences — things we to the also fundamentally changing the nected become so easily world not only accustomed to — way we interact with one anoth- infringes upon into something abilities to er. The basis of many forms of our meaningful; maybe appreciate natura lesson (who social media — and their under- al beauties such knows, maybe this the Grand lying communicative values — is as could become a life Canyon, but narcissistic. advice column). So things as simple here we go: as a conversation When I actually with a friend or learned I would be a columnist this semes- family member. Our phones have become ter, I was on vacation with my family in a crutch for stimulation in nearly any sitthe Grand Canyon and other national uation. parks out west. I remembered vividly I may be a hypocrite. I did take a couwhen my parents proposed that’s where ple pictures of the expansive canyons and we would be spending the last week before post them on various forms of social I headed back to Ithaca — I was originally media once I did receive service. not sold. This was way too cliché. I knew Nevertheless, this relapse only served to what the canyons looked like already and reinforce my beliefs. Our addictions to was not all that geared up to have some our phones are not only unhealthy, but hokey “hike and bike” trip after a summer they are also fundamentally changing the of work. I thought that, as a family, we way we interact with one another. The were past the point of embarking on such basis of many forms of social media — a cut and dry vacation as the Grand and their underlying communicative valCanyon. I vaguely remembered those out- ues — is narcissistic. Quite often, we are dated family vacation movies — kids in not sharing pictures with one another to the back of the minivan scheming with enjoy at face value, but to underscore the one another and Chevy Chase in the front superiority of one’s everyday experiences. of the van whipping out corny dad jokes, My food is better, my job is better, my oblivious to the maturation of his chil- friends are better — me, me, me. The dren. Who travels domestically nowadays word “selfie” is enough to prove this anyways? I much rather have quality fam- point. Why take picture with the lens ily time in a Buddhist temple in Myanmar pointing out towards the world, when I than suffer through a three-hour hike can point it towards the most important through the buggy American wilderness. I entity in the world. Much of our actions could just envision the picture of me today are derived not for our personal alongside a toothless, happy Zen Master pleasure, but the potential for future satisin Southeast Asia making for a great faction in how others view our activities.

Snapchat story. This was the one hyped- Our yard stick for social worth nowadays up annual family vacation and we were is likes, retweets and Snapchat story views. bringing it back to the basics. Taking it So what should we do to confront this out of the old American family playbook. iPhone complex? There’s such an overI eventually obliged and we flew into whelming wave of social pressure to conLas Vegas, spending the night in the over- tinue to Sepia all your photos for later whelmingly Mormon town of St. George, uploading or snapchat all your friends Utah — the idea of Mormons was so upon a celebrity sighting. Maybe it could abstract to me that when I saw the Book be as simple as shutting your phone off for of Mormon on my night table in the 20 minutes, resisting the temptation to hotel, I was pretty thrown off. Maybe it reload your email and looking out towards was because the only association I had the canyons. with Mormonism was The Book of Mormon. Eventually we reached the Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human canyons — Zion, Bryce and the Grand.

Ecology. He can be reached at The spotty cell phone service in our pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind cabins was unsettling. As the days went on appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Teresa Kim | Proverbially Speaking

Rachael Singer | ISIS

Our Dickensian Delusions

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time-lapse of the last five months at Cornell would reveal this: Crowds of black caps and gowns traversing to and from each ceremonial event, a three-month idyllic period that characterizes an Ithacan summer and mobs of concerned parents with moving boxes and their hyperactive adolescent children wishing they would leave them already. This is merely a bird’s eye view of the ebb and flow of our migratory student population. Yet taking this view also points to the fleeting nature of our school’s social constructs and the philosophies we carry concerning them. As a new generation of people leave, another generation replaces them.

This phenomena of social transition is best voiced by a transcription of an oration I came across last semester. I was studying at King’s College London and the oration I stumbled upon was a commencement address delivered by C.S. Lewis for KCL’s graduating class of 1944. The address is titled “The Inner Ring.” Here, Lewis seeks to not conform to the tropes of a middle-aged moralist lecturing a younger generation on the vice of contemporary political issues or philosophical ideals. Instead, he simply gives advice on the nature of reality:

Sarah Byrne |

The Best Years Of Your Life

“I believe that in all men’s lives at certain periods, and in many men’s lives at all periods between infancy and extreme old age, one of the most dominant elements is the desire to be inside the local Ring and the terror of being left outside.”

In other words, the inner ring is the metaphoric exclusivity that we seek to be inside. People outside are constantly trying to get into this inner ring. They are everywhere. They are in our schools, our workplaces and our governments.

And they draw the borders that define the hierarchies that loom over us, dictating our place, identity and value in society.

This is not to say that all inner rings are inherently evil. It is mostly a matter of the measure of expectation we place on attaining membership in these inner rings. Take our school for example. Admission into Cornell automatically

I admit it is difficult at Cornell to abolish one’s self from the inner ring lifestyle. We are rewarded for our ability to weave complex, first-person narratives. makes one a member of the inner ring we call the Ivy League. The student comes to Cornell only to find an overwhelming number of more inner rings.

Therefore, one’s identity on campus is limited to the inner rings that one is a part of. And so begins a long journey of trial-and-error of entering these inner rings. But this isn’t the only journey you can take.

The key, I think, to a worthwhile and profitable experience here is finding assurance in the inner ring that is yourself.

When travelling through Europe last semester, I began to finally notice the almost immeasurable discrepancy between who I was on paper and who I was really was on a global spectrum. Underneath the Pantheon in Rome or in front of the Rosetta stone, my intellectual steam engines came to a halt. I was helpless. I felt small. If there was anything I learned from travelling alone, it was how to be silent.

Throughout Europe, the stereotype of the lone, American traveller is prevalent. They are everywhere. And their prevalence only speaks to the desire of the many Americans who wish to escape the inner rings that constitute our social landscape. Because at the very core of the American institution is the capitalist glorification of self-made wealth and success. These ideals infiltrate our psyches from our conception, and we begin to adhere to them unconsciously. So when thrown into a context I was unfamiliar with, like mainland Europe, I, like many Americans before me, was refreshed to navigate my way through different European societies without having the demand that I be “interesting.” Because really, no one cared if I attended Cornell or had an amazing internship waiting for me.

I admit it is difficult at Cornell to abolish one’s self from the inner ring lifestyle. We are rewarded for our ability to weave complex, first-person narratives. Inner rings are plentiful and we desire to enter them. And an interesting story is required at entrance. It is how we were first offered admission and how we survive on campus. Our lifestyle here is constantly supplemented by questions like how are day was and what we plan on doing today or in the future.

There is an underlying demand that we have an interesting, competent story.

And without even knowing it, we conform to the stories that we like to tell to others.

This method of storytelling reaches further back than one would care to believe. I can personally trace this back to my juvenile obsession with Victorian fiction and later on, my high school English curriculum. Dickens, to be precise.

Is it safe for me to say that neither Pip nor Oliver ever rid themselves of both their gnawing sense of insecurity? For them, their lives meant one of two extremes: that of extreme wealth or poverty and that of otherworldly, moral purity or corruption. Many, however, fall in between.

Studying in London, I was mostly unseen despite the usual head nod that acknowledged by American-ness. But what became important to me was how to be unseen and still feel accepted. So now that I’m back, I’m going to try some new things — to not have a lengthy answer for everything and to not justify my existence by the inner ring standard.

Teresa Kim is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tyejookim@gmail.com. Proverbially Speaking appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Let It Byrne

ear freshmen,

Welcome. Judging by your general activities and attitudes, which I’ve observed extensively through many visits to Helen Newman, you are mostly enjoying college so far, and a lot of you even think Cornell is super fun.

It’s really cute.

soon as I describe the reasons I don’t like it here, 100 percent of people nod in agreement and sympathize with my cause.

Objectively, it’s hard to convince a nonCornellian that “making great friends!” and “learning to work hard!” outweigh sleeping four hours total in one week, or having to trek to class when the temperature is 30 degrees below zero.

After all, they say, don’t most American college students work

we are in this insane, extreme stress environment. Here, we don’t make friends out of convenience; we make them to escape these four years with our souls intact.

Over the summer, I was talking to some of my high school friends, most of whom attend small local colleges. One person, who I didn’t know that well, asked me how I felt about Cornell. I gave one of my standard “Yes, but...” responses, but,

Dear upperclassmen, Hello again. Based on my inability to get a table in Olin last Tu e s d a y (the first day of classes), you are At Cornell, even my casual friends under no know more about me than my such illubest friends in high school sions. I find it hard to because we are in this insane, believe that extreme stress environment. every year at this time I’m somehow already hard? Can’t you make for some reason, this behind on readings, friends pretty much bothered him. “You go but it is some comfort anywhere? to Cornell. Did you to know that we all If someone is ask- think it would be are. This does lead to ing these questions, easy?!” he responded. the question of why so they don’t understand. To this, quite frankly, many readings are Cornell is one of the I thought, yes. I did beings assigned, and weirdest places I’ve expect it to be easy, why we all pretend we ever been, and I mean because I thought that have done them all, that in the best possi- things were easy for but that’s a separate ble way. I am a crazy, me; that was who I issue. neurotic person, but was. And maybe the When people ask somehow, I’m still less reason we bond so me if I like Cornell, crazy and not as neu- closely here is that it’s getting harder and rotic as the majority of deep down, we all harder for me to say people here. This is thought that. Despite yes without some sort not at all an insult; all the assurances that of qualifier. Yes, but you are my people! we would no longer be I’ve never worked so Most of my friends the smartest person in hard in my life. Yes, who go to other class, we all secretly but I’ve already cried schools go to a party thought we would be. four times today, and with their friends, or And you know what? one of them was in go out to dinner with Some of us are. class. Yes, and I espe- their friends. At Congratulations to cially love walking a Cornell, even my those people. But mile uphill to class. casual friends know what I’ve learned from Honestly, I usually more about me than Cornell through my just say no, because it’s my best friends in closest friends is that, so much easier; as high school, because believe it or not, we all

have worth that stems not from our SAT scores or job offers, but from just ourselves.

Who is the first person you cried to about your life falling apart? When you dramatically failed at something for the first time, who showed up at your apartment with ice cream? Who told you honestly that your skirt was too short before you left the house? My bet is that all of these people are your Cornell people. In an envir o n m e n t where everything is speeding past us and prelims are speeding toward us, our friends are there beside us, holding us as tightly as possible as we hurtle straight for the rest of our lives.

Dear freshmen, Don’t be discouraged. All such advice will prove to be useless to you, because you inevitably will be discouraged. Don’t be discouraged by that.

Just know that it’s okay, and that life as you know it is not coming to an end. Or maybe it is. Either way, enjoy the journey.

All my love, Sarah

Sarah Byrne is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

Engineering

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Food Science

Sang Min Han ’15 Studies Radio and Sound Waves

By JAMES GUO

COURTESY OF SANG MIN HAN ’15

Sun Staff Writer

Sang Min Han ’15, an electrical and computer engineering major and applied mathematics minor, has research experience in signal processing dating back to his high school years. He is also a member of the Hunter R. Rawlings III Cornell Presidential Scholars Student Advisory Board.

Originally from Seoul, South Korea, Han moved to and grew up in Northern Virginia, where he attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology. Through a summer internship program encouraged by the school, he worked at the U.S. Naval Research Lab (NRL) over summer and winter breaks while a high school student.

According to Han, his NRL project investigated the interaction between plasma particles and radio waves in the upper atmosphere. Plasma is a state of matter that is formed when gas particles become electrically charged. At NRL, Han said he developed an interest in signal processing and worked with a team of electrical engineers.

“My positive research experience at NRL influenced me to apply as an ECE major to Cornell University,” Han said.

Han said he continues to do research at NRL during his summer and winter breaks.

Han joined the lab of Prof. David Hysell, earth and atmospheric sciences, in fall of 2011. Through his involvement with Hysell’s research, Han had the opportunity to travel to Alaska and Peru to conduct research.

Han traveled to Alaska during the summer of 2012 as a participant with the Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science Summer School, where he said he conducted experi-

International intern | During the summer of 2013, Sang Min Han ’15 conducted research at the Jicamarca Radio Observatory in Peru. ments with the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP), which researches techniques for radio communications in the upper atmosphere, and programmed codes to process signal data obtained from HAARP. During the summer of 2013, Han trav-

COURTESY OF SANG MIN HAN ’15

Radio wave research | During the summer of 2012, Sang Min Han ’15 attended the Polar Aeronomy and Radio Science Summer School in Alaska.

eled to Peru as a student of the Jicamarca Radio Observatory International Research Experience Program. The Jicamarca Radio Observatory also studies the way radio waves behave in the upper atmosphere.

“My project was to develop and implement ... processing codes for the main radar signal processing software of Jicamarca Radio Observatory,” Han said.

Han also became involved with an interdisciplinary research project at the intersection of neurobiology, signal processing and applied mathematics at the end of fall 2011.

According to Han, this project became the focal point of his research efforts at Cornell. Working with Prof. Andrew Bass, neurobiology and behavior, Prof. Bruce Land, electrical and computer engineering, and Aaron Rice, a post-doctoral research associate in neurobiology and behavior, Han studies complex acoustic signals in vertebrate vocalization by developing a mathematical model of toadfish vocalization.

“Toadfish, the model organism used to study complex vertebrate vocalization, vibrates its two swim bladders, which are connected by a tendon,” Han said.

Han’s project established a mathematical model that mimics the dynamic sound patterns produced by these sound-generating fish. In order to have the computer model better resemble the sound-generating mechanism employed by the toadfish, Han said he built an optimizer that minimizes the difference between the model-generated and the empirically recorded toadfish sounds.

Ultimately, Han said his attempt at building the model was a success.

“The computer generated sounds closely resembled the actual sounds produced by the toadfish,” he said.

Han said there are many potential applications of this optimized mathematical model. From the standpoint of evolutionary biology, the model can be used to better

understand how complex vertebrate communications evolved amongst closely related species. The model may also be helpful in predicting the effects of certain nerve damages on vocal cords, Han said.

“By participating in undergraduate research, I learned to solve open-ended problems and had the opportunity to build close relationships with professors who became my mentors,” Han said.

Aside from doing research on and off campus, Han is active in student organizations that facilitate research opportunities for his peers. For the past three years, he has served on the Executive Board of the Cornell Undergraduate Research Board (CURB), a student-led organization that runs the spring research symposium every year.

Han is also the former Editor-in-Chief of The Research Paper (TRP), an undergraduate research magazine that features student researchers and their work.

This year, he is the president of the Kappa Chapter of Eta Kappa Nu, Cornell’s Electrical and Computer Engineering honor society, and also the treasurer of Cornell IEEE, Cornell’s student branch of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

“Through CURB, [the Presidential Research Scholars] and TRP, I had the chance to meet excellent undergraduate researchers on campus and learned about interesting research in different disciplines, including those in the humanities and social sciences,” Han said.

As Han enters his final year at Cornell, he said he aims to finish writing about his research project with Bass, Land and Rice.

Han said he plans to start graduate school shortly after graduating, where he intends to pursue research pertaining to signal processing, optimization or information theory.

James Guo can be reached at jguo@cornellsun.com.

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SCIENCE

Pregnancy Cravings for Clay, Paper, Ice Found to Be Linked to Low Iron Levels, Study Finds

By SOMRITA BANERJEE Sun Staff Writer

Pregnant women are eating couch stuffing, baking soda, ice, toilet paper and other non-food items — but why? In a recent study, Cornell researchers attempted to answer this puzzle, fidning that this active craving and consumption behavior, known as Pica, is linked to low iron levels.

The study examined the progress of 158 pregnant teenagers, ranging from ages 13 to 18, in Rochester, New York, during the course of their pregnancies. The researchers assessed maternal iron status using hemoglobin and other indicators throughout the women’s pregnancies.

The researchers also periodically asked the adolescents whether they engaged in any Pica behavior during their pregnancies.

Among these teens, the overall prevalence of Pica was 46 percent. Additionally, those with lower iron levels tended to have higher levels of Pica.

“In general, this is not a calorically deficient population, and many of the adolescents studied were overweight or obese even before pregnancy,” said Prof.

Kimberly O’Brien, nutritional sciences. “However, many of these teens are iron deficient. About 30 percent are anemic, and a quarter of their babies at birth are anemic.”

There are three possible explanations for this association between Pica behavior and iron deficiency, according to Sera Young, a research scientist in nutritional sciences.

The first hypothesis suggests that a deficiency in iron or another micronutrient might somehow trigger these cravings through imbalances in brain chemistry.

Alternatively, Young said, consumption of the nonfood items could cause iron and other micronutrients to be absorbed less readily by the body, causing an iron deficiency. This theory suggests that items act like a sponge, taking in the micronutrients and therefore preventing its proper usage in the necessary tissues.

“If you think about a clay mask on your face, for example, that will draw out the toxins,” Young said. “So you’d think that [eating items like clay] would also cause some of these micronutrients to be absorbed less readily than they would be without the presence of clay.”

The third explanation is that there is an unknown fac-

Myelin is a nerve coating that allows signals to propator causing the observation, according to Young.

“Everyone was surprised that the prevalence [of Pica] gate quickly through the nervous system, and iron defiwas this high. Nearly half of these adolescents engaged in ciency has been shown to deplete myelin, according to some Pica behavior,” Young said. “Pica is often thought of O’Brien.

Iron deficiency decreases the amount of myelin on the as something exotic, and yet this is happening literally in auditory nerve, so anemic and iron deficient babies take our own backyard.” longer to respond to sounds than babies with Anemia and iron deficiency have consesufficient iron levels. quences beyond just Pica, according to Babies born to mothers who O’Brien. exhibited Pica were more likely to “There are many brain have delayed responses to audienzymes that are dependent on tory cues, which showed that iron,” O’Brien said. “When these mothers tend to pass you don’t have sufficient anemia and other conseintakes of these minerals quences of lower iron such as iron, the body levels on to their chilneeds to prioritize their dren. use which can comproFor the mothers, mise key functions in some of the effects of some tissues.” iron deficiency may In addition, pregdisappear after giving nant adolescents are at birth, according to an even greater risk for Young. iron deficiency than “I’ve done Pica adult women, accordresearch in East Africa, ing to Young. and often times women “They’re putting a tell me, ‘When the baby lot of demands on their left me, my craving left bodies,” O’Brien said. me,’” Young said.

“Adolescents are still In the future, the growing, and pregnancy DONNA researchers said they hope is cutting into that ALBERICO / THE NEW YORK TIMES that Pica will be acknowl[growth] window by edged as a public health almost a full year.”

Insufficient iron pre- Iron ladies | A study of 158 pregnant teenagers found that women issue, and that physicians will ask patients whether natally can also have who were craving non-food items were also deficient in iron, they engage in the behavmajor repercussions for which could affect the health of their children. ior. the newborns.

“These cravings are very real,” Young said. “There’s a “There’s a growing amount of data indicating that if you aren’t sufficient in iron, this may have adverse conse- lot of shame surrounding this behavior, and I hope that quences on brain development, some of which have been when others hear how common it is they’ll feel more comfortable opening up.” linked to permanent learning deficits,” O’Brien said.

In order to test the effects of a mother’s iron deficiency on the function of an infant nervous system, the research team tested the amount of myelin on the auditory nerve Somrita Banerjee can be reached at sbanerjee@cornellsun.com. by looking at infants’ hearing abilities.

C.U. Prof Finds Coffee May Prevent Retinal Degradation

By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Science Editor

Good news for caffeine addicts: a Cornellled study indicates that drinking coffee may prevent degradation of the retina caused by eye stress and ageing.

According to Prof. Chang Lee, food science, a co-author of the study, areas of the body with high rates of metabolic activity produce a high number of reactive oxygen species, or ROS. When there is a buildup of ROS they can damage the DNA and proteins

in a cell and lead to cell death. If these cells are neurons, ROS buildup can lead to neurodegeneration.

The body produces some antioxidants on its own in order to prevent ROS from causing damage, but with age or extra stress on a certain area the antioxidants available may not be enough to keep up with ROS, according to Lee. Damage caused by ROS and a shortage of antioxidants has been shown to lead to neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease, Lee said.

COURTESY OF PROF. CHANG LEE, FOOD SCIENCE

Beneficial beverage | According to Prof. Chang Lee, food science, about 20 percent of chlorogenic acid in coffee is absorbed through the small intestine and the other 80 percent is broken down by gut bacterie into metabolites that are then absorbed. Lee found that both chlorogenic acid and its component metabolites were beneficial for long-term eye health.

Eyesight requires a large amount of metabolic activity, according to Lee, so the researchers were interested in looking at how the antioxidants known to be present in coffee can affect the degeneration of the retina due to stress and age.

“When we take a look at statistics of the last few years, more and more people are having problems with retinal degeneration,” Lee said. “Two reasons: One is the aging population, and the second is that most of us spend lots of time in front of a computer or iPhone.”

The specific antioxidant compound that Lee and Holim Jang grad studied is chlorogenic acid, or CGA. CGA has been shown to have antioxidant properties in previous studies, according to Lee, and when they performed in vitro studies of the effects of CGA on brain tissue they found that it prevented neurodegeneration.

The next step was to look at the effects of CGA in vivo, on living mice. Lee and Jang found that mice that had CGA injected directly into their eyes as well as mice that had been fed a coffee extract had less retinal degeneration than mice that were not treated.

They also showed that in the mice that were receiving the CGA orally through a coffee extract, the CGA was being absorbed through the intestine and making its way up to the retina where it was working as an antioxidant, Lee said.

According to Lee, however, only 10 to 20 percent of CGA is absorbed directly by the digestive tract and circulated through the body. The other 80 percent is broken down by bacteria in the gut into smaller molecules that are then absorbed.

“We also checked whether these compounds have the same activity,” Lee said.

The researchers found that not only do the smaller molecules have the same antioxidant effect on the retina, they also can get into the retina by way of the circulation system in order to act. “[The compounds] can reach the retina.

That is a critical part,” Lee said.

Lee and Jang presented their latest findings on the beneficial effects of the CGAderived compounds at a meeting of the American Chemical Society last month.

“I have been working on so-called functional foods for the last 20 years,” Lee said.

“My interest is in the field of bioactive phytochemicals in fruits and vegetables, beverages, herbs, and so on.”

Jang was interested in studying coffee because of its known antioxidant content, Lee said.

Lee said the next step is to look at humans and how their bodies circulate and respond to the CGA in coffee.

If the human studies continue to show support for the antioxidant effects of coffee, Lee said, CGA may be used in the future as a component of eye drops to prevent retinal degeneration.

For now, according to Lee, drinking three to five cups of coffee a day is best for getting the most health benefits, but he warns not to drink too much.

“Antioxidants sometimes become pro-oxidants” in high doses and can cause more harm than good, he said.

Overall, Lee recommends coffee consumption in moderation.

“Anything in our life, moderation is the best policy to have,” he said.

Kathleen Bitter can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 24-Hour Playfest: Six Plays, Four Burglars, Three Cats, Two Truths, One Lie, Half a Beyoncé Track ... at the Schwartz Center

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

The 24-Hour Playfest has a simple and daunting premise: Create and stage a play in less than 24 hours. Sponsored by the Department of Performing and Media Arts and organized by Jillian Holch ’16, the Playfest brought together over 60 students to stage manage, write, direct and act in six original plays. The theme of the festival, “Restart” and the twist, “Magic,” were announced to all participants on the evening of Friday, August 29 at 7 p.m. The writers then had 12 hours to come up with a script, incorporating the theme and the twist and explicitly forbidden from filling time with monologue. At 7 a.m. the plays were cast and directors and stage managers were distributed and at 7 p.m. on Saturday, 150

seats were filled at the Schwartz Center.

The structure of the Playfest is more conducive to showing off the chops of actors than it is of either writers or directors, and the homogeneity of the play’s tones meant that comedic actors shone brighter than those with background in drama. Loose, quirky scripts meant that loose, quirky performers who could pull off physical comedy, prolonged and sloppily-penned bits and riffing/ad-libbing during patches of forgotten lines drew most of the audience’s love and laughter.

Not one of the plays even pretended to be wellwritten, which had the strange effect of making this

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a far more fun and interesting compilation of short works than, say, last year’s 10-Minute Playfest, which was a jumble of selfserious/hackneyed plots, characters and moodlighting. Right out of the gate, Yusong Liu’s Two Lies and a Truth surprised with it’s narrative coherence, stellar performances by Alex Quilty ’15 and Elise Czuchna ’18 and it’s sweet, simple, funny, 10-minute story. Best joke of the night goes to Liu’s script as well, for advertising a fake lesbian-cowboy movie called Scissor Mountain.

Anna Alison Brenner ’16 penned a ludicrous (and ludicrously funny) Twilight Zone-inspired tale-oflearning-to-drive rife with pop culture references ranging from Taylor Swift to Tennessee Williams to Little Red Riding Hood. Directed by Chandler Waggoner ’15, the play, Run!, starred Leia Hauck de Olivera’16 as a nervous teen driver with an exceptionally elastic face and Sean Doolittle ’16, Sun Arts & Entertainment Editor, as an overbearing (Bronx?) dad with a stellar Rod Serling impression.

The Great Gonzo, written by Evan Needel ’15, Sun Arts & Entertainment Columnist, and directed by Olivia Krebs ’15 featured a family of redneck bank-robbers, the bumbling

patriarch of which (Adam Gianforte ’15), attempts to hire a magician who he hopes can help make them “disappear” before the Feds catch up. Emily Staebell ’16 appeared as the smartphone-addicted teen daughter who had blown their cover by posting selfies to Instagram with a caption reading “#dirty money,” and delivered all of her lines with dripping disdain and perfect heavy-lidded eyerolls. Seriously, I all-but-believed that she was my high school freshman baby sister.

As for Sam Morrison ’17’s All Pussy, No Story, the title is apt — meta conventions such as a narrator who walks out on the play, jokes about how the audi-

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ence “paid good money” for this free show and the (albeit enjoyable) crutch of using Beyoncé’s “***Flawless” to introduce the main characters weren’t enough to hold attention. The three cats who star in the play stumble around, burning through their nine lives and having a three-way, complete with (way, way too many) vocal sound effects.

Red Rover, Red Rover, Send Jade Over! had plot and pacing problems as well, but a hilariously-written batch of recognizable video games characters who interacted as well with the audience as they did with each other essentially made up for the narrative lack.

Michael White ’17 as an over-the-top and drug-tripping Mario and Arthur Egitto ’16 as a voiceless PacMan with an inexplicable obsession with grapes stole most of the show’s spotlight.

The clear stand-out of the evening was Jacob Potashnick ’15’s Noir, a Law & Order meets Raymond Chandler neo-noir/forensics satire.

Directed by Claire Stack ’15 and commanded by the performance of Jessica Evans ’15 as one half of the crime-fighting team, Detectives Reese (Alec Newport ’18) and Tart, Noir was as good as slapstick gets and as minimally pretentious as metafiction can be. I’m still unclear on whether the crossdressing bit was meant as a jab at the patriarchal gender antics that go on in the crime genre or if it was just poor taste — wasn’t funny when Bugs Bunny did it, wasn’t funny when Zayne Malik did it, not funny now — but it was an otherwise flawless and fun production.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Perception vs. Reality

James Casebere: Scales and Dimensions SAM SCHIRVAR Sun Contributor

Scales and Dimensions hosts photographs and models from James Casebere’s Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County, NY), Hallway, Spanish Bath, Tunnel, and Vaulted Corridor in John Hartell and Olive Tjaden Galleries.

Casebere’s work consists of miniature photography of scenes ranging from quiet suburban neighborhoods to empty dark hallways.

Casebere stands with contemporaries like Laurie Simmons, Albert Napolean Wildner and Christopher Boffoli, whose photography blurs the line between craft art (think Uncle Joe’s Civil War model) and the fine arts. These artists toy with the human perception of scale and proportions to simulate eerily recognizable settings built at an impossible size.

Not only is Scales and Dimensions a compliment to the artist’s creativity but also his tech-

nical ability as a constructor of miniatures and a photographer. Casebere’s work here is multifaceted; it requires him to carefully compose models and lay out the scenes that he wants to create. Then, Casebere masterfully bends light and shadow to create the perception of a certain state of environment: a waning afternoon sun, or the dark, lonely and quiet night. The exhibition in John Hartell Gallery contains the models used for some of Casebere’s photography, giving further insight into the artist’s creative process. This juxtaposition also questions our perception of reality: Casebere uses photography, a medium perceived as capturing the “truth” to present us with manufactured and inherently untrue environments. Through Scales and Dimensions, Casebere demonstrates how the nature of truth in the photograph is fully reliant on the intention and perception of the photographer.

In Landscape with Houses (Dutchess County,

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NY) Casebere’s work evokes feeling of emptiness, and an uncomfortable state of inhumanity. The commonplace and familiar suburban scenes are dotted with small displays of entropy: The bricks spilled on a driveway, the bikes leaning against a fence. These elements suggest some form of human presence, as if these neighborhoods were only suddenly deserted. However, the environment of the photographs is intentionally constructed, and the fact that the models are present with the photographs breaks any unconscious illusion of reality for the viewer. It’s similar to the “Uncanny Valley” in robotics, Masahiro Mori’s hypothesis that humans are instinctually revulsed when a robot is close to appearing like a human, but not exactly.

Casebere’s depictions of American Suburbia are haunting because they are close to the real thing, but lack the element of humanity, commenting on the vacuity that exists in these non-communities.

The work in Olive Tjaden Gallery contains exhibitions with similar themes.

The sober and empty spaces of Vaulted Corridor and Tunnel are punctuated by the directed presence or absence of light.

The lit doorway is an invitation for the viewer to explore, and the dark entryway arouses curiosity. These spaces educe a somber loneliness, commenting on the contrast between our own lifetimes and the lifetimes of the spaces we create, which will go on living after we are gone.

This feeling of abandonment that is only exaggerated by the water filling the forgotten room in in “Yellow Hallway #2, 2001”. The water bends the light and distorts the geometric form of the space, presenting the frail nature of our built environment, and the values of our society that architecture represents. How

strong is our perception of reality if it can be completely altered by a small addition? Just add water.

Although less political than Casebere’s depictions of large institutions (notably “Prison Cell with Skylight, 1993”), the work in Scales and Dimensions still asks potent questions about the fabricated nature of our built environment. Like many other artists whose depictions of the Suburb connects with a growing discontent with the idea of the American Dream, Casebere’s work literally provides a different perspective on the architecture and urbanism that surrounds us. He warns us about the danger that comes with intentionally constructing such fragile and empty communities, communities where the humanity is increasingly lacking.

Scales and Dimensions will be on exhibition until September 15th in the John Hartell Gallery in Sibley Dome and the Olive Tjaden Gallery in Tjaden Hall open Monday through Friday, 9:00am - 4:00pm. The artist's talk is scheduled for 5:15pm, Monday, September 15 in Milstein Auditorium.

Sam Schirvar is a freshman in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. He can be reached at sws222@cornell.edu.

Fighting Trolls ‘IRL’

f you live in a moss-covered hovel in the middle of the woods with no cell phone service and, god forbid, dial-up internet, you may not have heard that nude photos of Jennifer Lawrence and a smorgasbord of other female celebrities were leaked this weekend.

Those of you with a reliable internet connection will have undoubtedly had the opportunity to view said photos, in addition to the barrage of articles explaining why we should not view them.

Reasons to resist the click span f r o m respecting the privacy of the women whose personal property was stolen, to analogies between this violation of privacy and rape.

I am in total agreement that we should all be outraged on behalf of JLaw, Kate Upton, Kirsten Dunst and the rest of the women whose privacy was grossly violated.

No one should view these sexy photos because it’s just depressing.

It’s not depressing just because Jennifer Lawrence is actually really skinny sans photoshop and Kate Upton really does only need clothing for warmth, which is just making me want to put more clothes on (is it fall yet?) — it’s depressing because this incident is an unfortunate reminder that internet

trolls are real people.

Anyone who has spent time on the comments section of a YouTube video or even of some Cornell Daily Sun articles will have seen some form of sexism or racism or a fusion of the two combined with a stubborn rejection of grammatical convention. It’s really easy to roll one’s eyes at these comments and altogether ignore that they exist.

These “trolls” are just the price we pay for free speech. But occasionally, we can ignore no longer.

On August 11, Jezebel.com (if you are unfaCarrot Top miliar, Jezebel describes itself as Confessions a “Home of Shiny Happy Ladies”) could ignore no longer and posted an article entitled, “We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It.” The article explains that Jezebel, which is owned by Gawker, is constantly inundated with violent and pornographic gifs in the comments section. No matter how many times these comments are deleted and IP addresses blocked, the gifs keep on coming and dealing with it is “like playing whack-amole with a sociopathic Hydra.” Since August 11, Gawker has re-introduced the pending comment system which seems to have effectively curtailed the problem.

While I applaud Jezebel for their elo-

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quent and much needed open letter to Gawker, and Gawker’s response, when I read the letter, I was infuriated that there was even a need for its existence.

I know and understand that moderating comments and rolling one’s eyes at internet trolls is the only feasible way to deal with that level of ignorance and dickishness on such a large scale. But behind the “sociopathic hydra” is a real person. And that infuriates me more.

It infuriates me that there are COURTESY OF JEZEBEL.COM real people who don’t see the necessity of spelling out “y-o-u” erty seems to be having much of an effect, as and who take pleasure causing shock and even more hacked nude celebrity photos offense. I am frustrated, overwhelmed and were released Tuesday. I don’t have a solution can only roll my eyes so often before I gen- for how to deal with these jerks which is why uinely fear that my eyeballs will get stuck in this incident is so depressing to me, in addithat position and have to deal with the cen- tion to the knowledge that I will never look tral problem: Dismissing trolls doesn’t seem as good naked as Jennifer Lawrence. to be working.

That being said, I do think it’s important I think the first step is calling “trolls” to acknowledge that trolls are people too. what they actually are: Jerks (my grandmoth- Their existence reminds us that kindness er reads this column so I’ll refrain from using (and grammar) are important and it a more graphic description). They are not behooves us to demonstrate that on the mythological monsters living under bridges internet and in our lives. scaring baby goats away, but actual real peoSo rather than fighting the trolls, just do ple who are mean and ignorant (and some- all you can do to avoid becoming one, on the times violent, as proved by Elliot Roger). Internet and IRL. And I don’t feel like tolerating them anymore.

Julia Moser is a senior in the College of Arts and However, I’m not sure what the alterna- Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornelltive is. No amount of articles expressing out- sun.com. Carrot Top Confessions appears alterrage at the disgusting theft of personal prop- nate Wednesdays this semester.

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Rawn Adjusts Style of Play, Transitions to Slot Receiver SPRINT FOOTBALL Continued from page 16

of offense utilized by the sprint program, “the offense that the sprint team runs is a no huddle spread offense that is completely predicated on visual signals in order to communicate specific plays and routes.”

But as they say, practice makes perfect. Rawn said he is confident that he will be successful in college ball after he settles into his new role.

“I anticipate the transition from high school to college to be tough initially, but like anything else there is a learning curve and I think once I get past the initial transition to the new offense I will be able to have a positive impact on the field,” he said.

Junior Brent Weissman, who had a relationship with Rawn before he joined the Red, praised the freshman’s work ethic.

“Ian is always excited to play the game. I knew Ian before he came to Cornell and he is just as determined on the field as he is off the field,” Weissman said.

The Red believes Rawn will be instrumental for

the Red in the near future, according to Weissman.

“We foresee Ian playing a huge role on the team very soon,” he said.

According to Rawn, the squad’s intense pre-season training has given him the opportunity to learn the ropes of his new position.

“Preseason training is going really well. … I am starting to learn the offense and pick up the subtleties of playing receiver in this league,” he said.

“Practice has been slightly more rigorous in that day one of the official practices was close to full contact, whereas in high school, we would transition from just helmets to shoulder pads and then to full contact.”

Weissman echoed Rawn’s sentiments regarding the challenges of taking on a new position and a new style of play, but emphasized that the rising star is making steady progress.

“It’s tough to come in as a new guy and learn a totally new position and system, but he’s picking it up really well,” Weissman said.

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

Monfils Reaches Quarterfinals, Faces Federer for Spot in Semis NEW YORK (AP) -- Gael Monfils follows his own rules.

The guy does things on a tennis court no one else has - or can. Just search his name on YouTube and watch any of many video clips showcasing his speed and agility; start with the parallel-to-theground, a-few-feet-in-the-air dive at this year’s French Open.

He sips soda during breaks in his matches, raising the can in a toast to his agent.

He is currently without any coach at all, in an era when some players have two.

What Monfils has never done, despite all his talent — and in some cases, because he has appeared to value style over substance right there on court, in the middle of a point, preferring the spectacular to the sufficient — is reach a Grand Slam final.

He took a step closer Tuesday at the U.S. Open during a surprisingly matter-of-fact 7-5, 7-6 (6), 7-5 victory in the fourth round over No. 7-seeded Grigor Dimitrov, a man considered one of the sport’s up-and-comers.

There is a narrative building around the 20thseeded Monfils’ success so far this year at Flushing Meadows, where he hasn’t dropped a set en route to reaching the quarterfinals for the first time since 2010: He has matured, is playing more carefully, more seriously.

The Frenchman, who will face Roger Federer for a spot in the semifinals, rejected that notion after Tuesday’s win.

“I’m the same. So I will say I’m a bit more lucky than I was maybe sometime in the past. I think I haven’t changed a lot, to be honest. I haven’t changed a lot,” Monfils said. “I just play maybe solid today, but I’m still the same.”

As if to prove that, there was the unusual sequence in the second set. Trailing 40-love as Dimitrov served, Monfils stood halfway between the baseline and the service line to receive, and then casually and halfheartedly flicked a return long to lose the game. He walked to the changeover to a chorus of boos from the spectators in Arthur Ashe Stadium, plopped down for the break, chucked a towel at the adjacent chair and started barking something toward his guest box in the stands.

Asked about that afterward, Monfils said he was angry at himself at that moment and just wanted to get that game over with.

“I was like, just serve, because obviously I give you the game. So it’s OK,” he said. “It’s nothing against anyone. I was upset.”

Monfils’ lone Grand Slam semifinal appearance came at the 2008 French Open, when he lost to Federer, part of a 2-7 career mark against the 17-

time major champion.

Federer advanced to the U.S. Open quarterfinals for the 10th time in 11 years by eliminating 17th-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4, 6-3, 6-2 Tuesday night. Federer won the point on 35 of 52 trips to the net.

The other quarterfinal matchup on that half of the draw will be No. 6 Tomas Berdych against No. 14 Marin Cilic. Berdych beat 20-year-old Dominic Thiem 6-1, 6-2, 6-4; Cilic was a 5-7, 76 (3), 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 winner against No. 26 Gilles Simon, who was treated for a back problem early on.

In women’s quarterfinal action Tuesday, 39thranked Peng Shuai of China ended the precocious run of 17-year-old Belinda Belic of Switzerland 62, 6-1. Peng’s next opponent will be No. 10 Caroline Wozniacki or No. 13 Sara Errani, who met Tuesday night.

Peng, 28, advanced to her first Grand Slam semifinal in the 37th major tournament of her career; only five women took longer to get to the final four at one of the sport’s top four events.

Her voice choking with emotion during an oncourt interview, Peng said she had pondered giving up professional tennis in the past, but “my coach, my parents - they always tell me to try to keep going and never ever, give up.”

In the afternoon, with the temperature topping 90 degrees (32 Celsius) and the humidity at about 50 percent, Monfils and Dimitrov appeared sluggish at times.

“Where should I begin?” said Dimitrov, a Wimbledon semifinalist in July. “Just a bad match for me.”

A key moment came in the second-set tiebreaker, when Dimitrov went ahead 6-4. On the first set point, Dimitrov nearly lost his balance as he shanked a forehand off Monfils’ mediocre drop shot.

“One of the worst drop shots I ever hit,” Monfils said, grinning, “and he hit a frame.”

On the second, a 13-stroke exchange, Dimitrov dropped a backhand into the net.

That was part of four-point run for Monfils thanks to miscues by his opponent. While Monfils essentially kept the ball in play, taking some pace off and pushing shots over the net, Dimitrov sailed forehands long to end the set.

“He defended when he had to,” Dimitrov said.

“But if you think about it, I did a lot of unforced errors.”

What mattered in the end, of course, was who won, something that has not always seemed to matter to Monfils.

“For me, tennis is a sport, you know,” he said.

“It’s not a job, you know. It’s a sport.”

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Cornell Squad Will Face In-State Rival Colgate In Season Opener, Looks to Start Season Strong

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell field hockey team heads to Colgate for a thrilling season opener this Friday, September 5 against its in-state rival.

The Red has a 24-14-4 (.619) record for alltime season openers and edges Colgate in the series with an all-time 20-19-3 record.

At the last meeting against the Raiders, Cornell walked away with 3-2 victory at home. Sophomore Katy Weeks was instru-

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Starting fresh | Junior captain Taylor Standiford, along with senior assistant captain Ann DiPastina, looks to be a dominating presence in the midfield this season.

mental for the Red, scoring two for Cornell. Weeks, junior Katie Garrity and sophomore However, the win was tough, with Georgia Lord in the front half, and Siergiej, Colgate pulling ahead twice, forcing Cornell Stone and junior Stephanie Eggertson on to equalize and regain momentum on the defense.

After Friday’s opener, the Red will return offensive end. The first goal came from Elly Plappert ’14, who tipped in a shot from cur- to Marsha Dodson field to face Albany. The Great Danes lead the rent junior Marisa Red with a 4-3 record, Minutes Siergiej. defeating Cornell 3-0 at later, the Red found “After looking at how hard the last matchup. itself trailing. Plappert everyone has been working Despite a solid perforhelped tie the game mance from Cornell, the once more, this time this preason, I am really Red played a formidable with an assist to excited for this seasson.” opponent in Albany, Weeks. The Plappertwith goalie Carolyn Weeks duo was able Katherine Stone ’15 Horner ’14 recording a to score again to secure a win for personal best of 15 saves Cornell. in the loss. The Great Looking ahead to the season opener, the Danes recorded almost 30 shots while the squad is optimistic about putting that first Red was held to only three.

W on the board coming off a rigorous preAfter the season and home opener this season, according to senior Katherine Stone. week, the Red heads to Lehigh on Friday, “After looking at how hard everyone has September 12 and will then make a quick been working this preseason, I am really turnover with a game just two days later excited for this season,” she said. against Delaware.

Returners will be looked at to make an immediate impact on the field: junior captain Taylor Standiford and assistant captain Lisa Awaitey can be reached at senior Ann DiPastina in the midfield, lawaitey@cornellsun.com.

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Melly, too, references past difficulties with injuries as fuel for his fire this season.

“I still have some unfinished business to take care of on the course,” Melly said. “I want to finish in the Top-15 at Heps and be in the top-three every race, but cross country is such a hard sport to tie to any one metric, so really I just want to contribute as best I can to our team’s success.”

Melly, who first attempted track in eighth grade, said it was not until his junior year of high school that things really clicked for him as a runner.

“As it became a larger and larger part of my life, I fell more and more in love with the sport,” he said. “It’s been an amazing journey, and I’ve accomplished athletic feats in college I would never have dared to aspire to as a high schooler, let alone when I first started running.”

Phillips said he also had a slow

start to running, but has now moved forward in leaps and bounds thanks to key people in his life and his own love for running.

“Running is absolutely my passion. I think the fact that I love running is part of how I got to where I am today — while most people hate going for a little jog, I relish the chance to go on a long run,” Phillips said.

He added, “If I had to choose a song to describe my running career, it would be ‘Started from the Bottom’ by Drake.” “I was by far the slowest kid on the team freshman year of college, and sometimes I look back and I’m surprised I wasn’t cut … but with the support of my teammates and some really great — and very understanding — coaches, I started training smarter and better and got to where I needed to be.”

Phillips elaborated on the people in his life who impacted him the most, noting that he has been lucky enough to train under talented coaches in both high school

and college.

“The biggest reason that I have gotten here is the people that have been a part of my running life. … I was blessed with fantastic high school coaches, which allowed me to run in college, and I was again blessed with only the best for college coaches,” he said. “Zeb’s passion is unlike that of anyone I’ve seen, especially after a few cans of Mountain Dew, and Coach Nathan Taylor is an incredible source of inspiration. … And my teammates are not just my teammates, but they are my best friends — we spend all of our waking hours together.”

Potts also expressed excitement about the hard-working nature of the Red and shared a positive outlook regarding the squad’s prospects going forward.

“The team we have this year is an exciting one to lead. …

Previous iterations of the team may have had more raw talent but what makes these guys great is the way they go about their business,” Potts said. “From

practice to competition to their daily lives, I’ve never met a group of guys more deliberate and pragmatic about their improvement in the sport.”

Essential to making these strides forward is a commitment to taking care of the little things, according to Phillips, and even more central is the desire to lay it on the line for the team.

“You can only run so much without getting hurt, so our guys are doing everything they can to get stronger and more flexible, which will help us train harder and better. … We are doing drills, core, or lifting almost every day, so that they can go the "extra mile" of running — quite literally — without getting hurt,” Phillips said. We are all very passionate about not only running, but about the team, and are willing to do anything for each other — that’s huge.”

As a captain, Phillips knows that with great power comes great responsibility, and he plans to lead his team in a holistic and

effective way.

“There has been somewhat of a culture change on the team during the senior class’ time here, with more of an emphasis on the things like drills, sleep, and healthier lifestyles. … For the past few years, we have certainly played a part in driving this culture forward, but now, as seniors, we have a much heavier hand in creating that culture, and making it the norm,” Phillips said. “Most of our teammates are on the same page, and our job is more to bring the freshmen into the fold right away so they know what to expect from us, what we expect from them, and how to enjoy themselves without compromising their performance.”

While nothing is for certain, it is clear that with Melly, Phillips and Potts taking the reigns this season, the Red will be well led and groomed for greatness.

Anna Johnson can be reached at ajohnson@cornellsun.com.

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-bratory fist pump when recording an out. Many opponents argued that his actions were rude and unsportsmanlike, to which Valverde responded by saying that it was all about his own intensity and how he plays the game.

Intensity is a big part of the average closer’s game.

Opposing batters are especially desperate and focused in late innings, and the intimidation factor is a great tool to get inside the head of a hitter. Players like

Craig Kimbrel and Jonathan Papelbon are known for their unnervingly intense stares prior to their pitches. TV cameras always tend to capture the right angle of the closers’ stares as they look towards home plate. The looks are pure intimidation and mimic those of a wild animal ready to attack.

Unfortunately, sometimes this intensity can carry over away from the game.

On the field, closers throw hard, work fast and get the job done. However, there have been several incidents that show that the

intense personalities of closers sometimes transcend the field. During his tenure with the New York

and injured all due to this incident.

When closers contain this intensity and channel it

Intensity is a big part of the average closer’s game ... the intimidation factor is a great tool to get inside the head of a hitter.

Mets, Francisco Rodriguez notoriously brought his frustration off of the field and assaulted his girlfriend's father after a loss at Citi Field. The star closer was arrested, suspended

strictly for competitive purposes on the field, however, it can make all the difference. As unsportsmanlike as many closers’ actions can be, going that extra mile can be instrumental in a

sport where the mental game is just as important as the physical game. The position carries huge responsibility. A closer has the weight of his team’s performance on his shoulders.

Mistakes in the last moments of a close game are costly., Perhaps it takes somebody who may have a screw loose to take on this responsiblity. That is why it is reasonably fine for closers to exude an air of confidence that sometimes comes with wild antics and theatrical characters.

At the end of the day, it makes the game more inter-

esting. Baseball closers are showmen. If they can get under the other team’s skin, they add heat to the rivalry, and a fierce rivalry only adds to the game. The unconventional personalities that have come to define closer roles in baseball have my support, and it will always be interesting to see who will come up with the next wild celebration, outrageous hairstyle, or intense staredown.

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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Red Triple Threat: Melly,Phillips, Potts Take the Reins This Season

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Staff Writer

This year, the men of Cornell cross country will be led by a powerhouse trio of senior captains: David Melly, Jonathan Phillips and Benjamin Potts aim to bolster the Red’s success this season with their high-energy leadership styles and wealth of experience on the track. The strong returners have already set the bar high for their teammates and for themselves.

“Our team goals are pretty similar to last year’s,” Phillips said. “We want to get top-four at Heps and we want to go to NCAA Nationals.”

According to Phillips, the key to achieving this goal will be staying motivated at all times — an attitude the co-captain already believes to be evident among the group.

“It won’t be easy to make it to Nationals because we have a very competitive region, but watching the day-today fire of some of my teammates, I know that we can do it,” he said. “We are a very driven group.”

Also vital to realizing these goals will be the team’s breadth, according to Melly.

“Our greatest strength is our depth, and we need to try to use that strength to improve our performance in areas where we’ve been weaker — namely, team strategy and packing up in races,” Melly said. “We want the spread of times from our top man to our fifth man to be small —

hopefully under 15 seconds or so — because we are the type of team that finds success when we work together as a pack, rather than relying on one or two standouts.”

One of the biggest challenges the Red faces in securing this depth is the threat of injuries.

“In my time as a Cornell athlete, I’ve been fortunate enough to have a number of successful seasons but more recently, several defined by injury and illness,” Potts said.

“In my last year as an individual, I intend, as all runners do, to improve every week, stay healthy and when the crucial meets come, perform at my best once again.

Phillips also felt the sting of injury last year and plans to help the team stop the wave before it starts this season.

“We had four guys who did not compete for the majority of the season due to injury, including our three captains, and several others — myself included — that did not compete or finish at regionals due to injury,” Phillips said.

“Our team was remarkably resilient — every time someone got hurt, someone new stepped up. … But we definitely want to avoid that, and so a lot of people have been focusing on injury prevention more than before.”

Phillips cited the team’s new dedication to injury prevention as a positive reminder to take care of himself and train with a big picture mentality.

“I’ve definitely been more cautious than last year and more willing to take a day off of running to cross train, and I know I’m not alone in that. … But our team as a whole

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Strong leadership | Co-captain Jonathan Phillips is dedicated to making injury prevention a priority this season in hopes of making it to the NCAA Nationals this season.

has been more focused on getting stronger and more flexible, which does wonders for injury prevention,” Phillips said.

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MLB Closers Bring Intensity Rawn Brings Red Bright Future And Some Crazy Antics,Too SPRINT FOOTBALL

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Though the squad may have lost some great players in the class of 2014, the Cornell Sprint Football team is stacked with enough young talent to make a promising run for the League title.

COURTESY OF IAN RAWN

Young talent | Ian Rawn, a freshman on the squad with great potential, looks to make an immediate impact on the field for Cornell this season.

When it comes to these boy wonders, one name in particular comes to mind: Ian Rawn. While the freshman walks in the footsteps of giants such as former star cap-

tains Brendan Miller and Kyle Higgins, his raw talent and experience make him a promising successor as he looks to make an immediate impact on the field this season.

This season will mark Rawn’s 10th year playing football. He played flag football for three years prior to transitioning to tackle at Byram Hills High School in Armonk, N.Y. Rawn is a versatile player, having played a variety of positions including running back, cornerback and returner for Byram. He was a valuable asset to the Bobcats, tallying the most touchdowns on the team his junior year.

“My greatest achievement from my high school career was leading the team in touchdowns during my junior season despite only starting three games towards the end of the year,” Rawn said.

Rawn must learn to play a new position this season as he takes on the role of slot receiver for the Red. He says he is excited to make the transition and hopes to get on the board for the Red right from the start, “I am looking forward to getting in the game and making a positive impact for the team. I am eager to be playing a new position in a new offense and hope that I will get the chance to make my mark early on.”

This season will push Rawn to adjust his style of play in more ways than one; Not only will he be playing a new position but he will also need to adapt to the fastpaced offensive style seen in Sprint.

“I think the biggest challenge for me will be mastering the offense as it is a much more complex and up tempo offense than I am used to. I am also playing a different position, which is another adjustment,” he said.

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he save statistic in baseball started being recorded in the 1960’s as a simple way to judge the effectiveness of late-inning relievers in close games. As the measure began to be more widely used, so did the role of a specific player on each team wrapping up a victory on the mound in the ninth inning. Once referred to as the stopper or the fireman, the closer can now be found on every professional baseball roster as the reliever who shuts the door

bration and outlandish acts. While it is common that a post-homerun bat flip may easily get some blood boiling on the opposing team, the post-save shenanigans of many MLB closers do not seem to be taken as seriously.

Fernando Rodney of the Mariners has his famous bow-and-arrow routine.

Former Giants closer Brian Wilson, the same player who donned his trademarked lumberjack beard and wore a spandex bodysuit to the ESPYs during

Nikita Dubnov Guest Room on the opponent’s hope for victory.

The average example of the modern closer is not so average at all. The position has come to be defined by a certain archetype. Closers tend to have an attitude that is unconventional compared to that of the average professional baseball player. Certainly, many closers in today’s game act skillfully and simply get their jobs done. However, more often than not, the position seems to attract wild personalities and interesting characters. Baseball closers are generally some blend of professionals, showmen and crazy people.

In a sport that has so many unwritten rules, baseball gives closers some leeway when it comes to excessive cele-

his tenure in San Francisco, has his two arms forcefully crossed to the sky idiosyncrasy. And most recently, there is the Mets Jenrry Mejia’s addition of a sumo stomp to end games. These moves are certainly a slap in the face for the losing team, but nobody storms the field in protest.

A couple of years ago, several MLB players commented on the antics of Jose Valverde. The then Detroit Tigers closer was known for his wild behavior on the mound. Valverde would not wait for the save to be complete, as he was known to exude an irrational yell on certain pitches and perform a celeSee DUBNOV page 15