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Fences | Following a string of suicides in 2010, the University installed metal fences around bridges on and near campus. The fences were later replaced with nets under the bridges.

in late August, the trial has once again been rescheduled to October.

Howard Ginsburg ’70 — who sued Cornell and the city for millions of dollars after his son Bradley Ginsburg’s ’13 death in February 2010 — will have until Monday to respond to the University and city’s settlement offer.

In the lawsuit, Howard Ginsburg argues that the See TRIAL page 4

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Student jumped to death from Thurston Avenue Bridge in 2010

By TYLER ALICEA

A lawsuit against Cornell and the City of Ithaca filed by the father of a student who jumped to his death from the Thurston Avenue Bridge in 2010 has been postponed.

The trial was originally set to begin Aug. 12 and was postponed to begin Monday, according to court documents. However, after settlement talks began

Teatime Eatery Opens Doors on College Avenue Starting today, Teatime — a new Collegetown eatery specializing in yogurt, tea and salad — will open its doors to Cornellians and other members of the Ithaca community.

Like it’s location’s predecessor, Yogurt Crazy, Teatime will offer self-serve frozen yogurt. The dining spot has a wide variety of yogurt flavors — including classics like chocolate and vanilla as well as more unique flavors such as taro and cheesecake — according Victor Cheung, the store’s owner.

Cheung said he hopes the new eatery, located on College Avenue, will become a popular hangout for Cornell students.

“We are looking forward ... that Teatime will become a popular place for the Cornellian to hangout,” he said.

Similar to Collegetown Bagels, Teatime customers will have loyalty cards, where they can receive their tenth drinks free, Cheung said.

He added that he hopes Teatime’s eclectic, healthy cuisine and convenient location will create a “relaxing” atmosphere for students. “[We want] to provide healthy drink and food and a relaxing environment to the customers,” Cheung said.

Teatime will also serve a various flavors of hot and iced tea as well as smoothies, according to the menu. Customers have the option of adding tapioca pearl, pop bubbles and jellies to their tea.

Customers who choose to drink tea can customize their ice and sweetness levels. The restaurant will feature five different ice options and four sugar options, according to the menu.

— Compiled by Anushka Mehrotra

By ALISHA FOSTER Sun Staff Writer

President David Skorton and Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for Student and Academic Services, addressed various student concerns — including tuition increase and sexual violence — at Thursday’s Student Assembly meeting.

During the meeting, Skorton said the University had “a whole team” working on preventing sexual violence on college campus.

According to Skorton, Senator Claire McCaskill (D-N.Y.) invited Cornell Police Chief Kathy Zoner to a roundtable discussion in June. He added that the discussion emphasized the importance of victims coming forward about assault.

“Sometimes it’s very hard to come forward in this area,” he said. “Sometimes the person involved might be a friend. I need to work on hearing these issues more.”

According to Murphy, a new requirement that every incoming student and staff member be educated about sexual assault will likely be implemented in the next year.

She also said a discussion needs to happen on campus about what consent means.

Trial Over Suicide Postponed Sun Managing Editor

Univ.OfficialsTalk Sexual Assault,Tuition At Assembly Meeting

‘The Fonz’ to Address Cornellians This Month

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

Henry Winkler — an actor best known for his portrayal of Arthur Fonzarelli on the American television sitcom Happy Days — will speak at Cornell Sept. 17, Cornell Hillel announced Thursday.

Winkler rose to fame with his role on the long-running sitcom, Happy Days, which ran from 1974 to 1984.

He won two consecutive Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series during the show’s run.

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Winkler has also appeared in shows such as NBC’s Parks and Recreation and Up All Night, as well as Netflix’s highly-acclaimed Arrested Development as defense lawyer Barry Zuckerkorn.

Rachel Minton ’15, executive vice president of Cornell Hillel, said one reason the organization decided to bring Winkler to Cornell was due to his “long-lasting” and “extremely diverse” presence in the world of entertainment.

“He is an icon to many for his humor, and especially his talent,” she said. “As a veteran of the entertainment world, Hillel feels he has a lot to offer us ambitious Cornell students, who can relate to Winkler either through his direct profession or

through the many roles he has assumed over the years.”

Minton — who is also chair of the Hillel Major Speaker Series Committee — said she hoped Winkler will impart on the audience what role Judaism plays in his both his personal life and career.

“We can't wait to hear what values and lessons he learned and abides by in his daily life as a comic and an

actor,” she said. “We hope that the audience will learn, laugh and enjoy Winkler's time on the hill.”

The event will be free and more details — including the location and time — are to follow, according to Minton.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com

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C.U.Students Use App to‘Yak,’Gossip

Yik Yak app enables Cornell community to anonymously create,view posts

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Staff Writer

Cornellians say Yik Yak — the social media app that allows users to anonymously create and view posts — is maintaining a strong presence around campus as a gossip medium, despite national concerns about its use for cyberbullying.

Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington — who graduated from South Carolina’s Furman College in 2013 — said in an interview with The Sun that the app is “the virtual version of a city’s central plaza or campus bulletin board.”

“Until now college students haven’t had a way to communicate with their whole campus,” Droll and Buffington said.

“An alternative to other social “Here [at Cornell], most of apps, Yik Yak the yaks are witty and not provides a highly local forum for mean to individual people.” anyone to post Micaela Elliott ’17 about events or news in their immediate area.”

Posts on Yik Yak — called “yaks” — are anonymous and visible only to other users within 1.5 miles of the poster, according to Droll and Buffington.

Some Cornellians say that college users take advantage of the app to post gossip and negative comments about their peers, especially those involved the Greek system, according to Kyra Visnick ’17.

Visnick said she thinks the app is used primarily as a “gossip medium” that targets certain campus groups.

“Yik Yak started out as a pretty harmless, funny app, but as it gained popularity, it started to pinpoint certain people and became a way to target different groups or organizations on campus,” Visnick said.

She added that a lot of the content on the app consists of

Greek organizations criticizing one another.

“Most of the content on Yik Yak now is different Greek organizations pointing out why other [fraternities] or sororities are worse than they are,” Visnick added.

Michaela Elliott ’17 said she thinks that the amount of gossip on Yik Yak has decreased this school year.

“I feel like more people talked trash about the Greek system on it last year than they do this year,” she said.

Elliott added that she believes Cornell’s yaks are witty, in comparison to those from her hometown.

“Where I am from, people trash talk specific people all the time [on Yik Yak,] which isn’t funny,” Elliott said. “Here [at Cornell], most of the yaks are witty and not mean to individual people.”

Instead of personal attacks, most posts are “just funny stuff that people are Cornell can relate to,” Elliott said.

One post from Thursday afternoon read, “After a rough freshman year and debating whether I should transfer or not, I’m glad I stayed in Cornell.”

Cameron Pritchett ’15, president of the Cornell Interfraternity Council said the large social influence of the Greek system comes with responsibility, with regards to using the app.

“Fortunately or unfortunately, the Greek system is often a vehicle to popularize ideas and concepts across the entire campus,” Pritchett said.

Additionally, founders Droll and Buffington emphasized the local focus of the app. Though the app is not the only anonymous social sharing app, it is “unique” for its potential to communicate with people locally.

“Yik Yak is the social messaging app for hyper-local engagement,” said Droll and Buffington. According to the founders, the app provides users with “an avenue to engage” with social communities in their immediate vicinity.

Students at high schools and colleges across the country have been using Yik Yak since its launch in November.

The app drew attention recently when a student at Emory and Henry College posted a death threat directed

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Riding the yak | The Yik Yak app lets users on the Cornell campus view, upvote and downvote local posts — and peek on posts from other colleges across the country.

towards freshman students on the app late Tuesday night.

The student, Charles Wygal, surrendered himself to authorities on Wednesday, according to News 5 WCYB. Wygal has been charged with a misdemeanor for using a computer to harass or threaten another person and could face up to a year behind bar — raising national concerns about the apps use for cyberbullying, according to WCYB. Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

Students: New Food Truck Becomes Popular Lunch Destination

By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer

Franny’s — the newest food truck at Cornell — has already proved to be popular on-campus

dining destination, according to Bethany Larson ’14, manager of the truck.

The truck — located near Milstein Hall — opened on Aug. 18 and began serving an influx of

new customers once the fall term started, according to Larson. She added Franny’s receives the highest amount of traffic during the lunch hour.

“During lunch we always have a

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Food truck frenzy | Jordan Mercado, who works at Franny’s food truck, serves a Vietnamese iced coffee to students near Milstein Hall Thursday.

huge rush. [Business] is good,” she said. “We usually run out of quite a few things.”

The food truck serves a wide variety of dishes with an asian flair, including an Indian-inspired dosadilla, a Korean rice bowl, a Thai noodle bowl and Vietnamese iced coffee.

The truck is open from 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. with a break during the middle of the day, Larson said.

She added the reason for this break is because Franny’s is still trying to organize themselves.

“We’re still trying to get situated and work through a few things,” she said. “For instance, transportation [is] a little bit difficult with the East Avenue [construction].”

Larson went on to explain that the truck has been in the works for about three years and was designed and built by architecture students.

At first, the plan was to have a Mexican themed truck, but this plan was abandoned and Statler was asked to help.

“At the last minute, [the architecture students] asked Statler to run the truck and come up with a menu. The theme is a Pan-Asian and Mexican fusion,” Larson said.

“For example, the Dosa-Dilla is a cross between a dosa and a quesadilla; it’s actually one of the favorites here.”

Yang Liu grad said she was content with the quality of the food.

“I’m pretty satisfied with the service, and they’re very fast,” she said. “I wouldn’t say they’re very delicious, but for a food truck, they’re okay.”

However, Liu also said that the menu lacked diversity, saying she was disappointed with the amount of food available.

“They could do something to improve the variety of the menu,” she said. “And actually, my three friends also wanted rice bowls, and they’re already out — it’s only 6 pm.”

Liu added that she believes the food truck with be particularly popular amongst architecture students as a result of its location near Milstein Hall.

“This is good for community planning because this food truck can attract a lot of student from Sibley and other buildings to come eat here,” Liu added.

Anika Sethy can be reached at asethy@cornellsun.com.

Burning Question How did you celebrate Beyoncé’s birthday?

“Eating Insomnia Cookies, doing my French homework and listening to Single Ladies.”

— Definitely Single ’17

“I lost my wallet and got J.A.’ed. Unlike Beyoncé, it was not a fabulous day.”

— Somber Sally ’16

“Being amazing.”

— Always Amazing ’18 “I went to bed at 4 a.m. and missed my first class. It was a pretty average day for being

the annivrsary of the birth of such an unaverage woman.”

— Crazy in Love ’16 “I did a problem set in the library and woke up in a

puddle of drool.”

— Engineer Probs ’15 — Compiled by Ashley Collis-Burgess

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Murphy: C.U. Needs To Address Consent ASSEMBLY

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“Is consent yes, or is consent the absence of no?” Murphy said.

“I think we have a lot of work to do as a community to address that.”

At the meeting, Skorton added leaders in higher education have not done enough to curtail large tuition increases in higher education. For the 2014-15 academic year, tuition for most undergraduates increased by 3.26 percent.

“We’ve failed to get [the tuition level] where it needs to be,” he said. “[At Cornell], we’re continuing to use a high-tuition, high-aid model, and continuing to raise and reallocate funds very aggressively for student financial aid.

Despite the University’s progress with increasing financial aid with tuition increases, Skorton said there is still much room for

improvement.

“We’re better than we used to be, but still not good enough,” Skorton said.

Skorton and Murphy were also questioned by students about the high price of living off-campus and whether more undergraduate housing options would come available in the next few years.”

In response, Murphy said that the administration is planning to focus its funds on improving the quality of graduate student housing.

“The University is not in a position to take on additional borrowing,” she said. “Our most pressing need is the replacement of the Maplewood residences for graduate students. Those residences need to come down in the next 12 to 18 months.”

Alisha Foster can be reached at afoster@cornellsun.com.

Settlement Possible Over 2010 Gorge Suicide Lawsuit TRIAL

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responsible parties focused on aesthetics rather than suicide prevention when renovating the Thurston Avenue Bridge in 2006 and 2007.

Cornell and the city said they sought to address safety concerns when redesigning the bridge, according to court papers.

Howard Ginsburg, however, argues that the University and the city focused too much on preserving the gorge’s landscape and “did nothing to achieve [the] goal” of adding suicide prevention measures.

“In every instance where design safety issues conflicted with aesthetic concerns, the safety concerns lost out,” Howard Ginsburg said in a memo submitted to the court.

Still, both Cornell and the City of Ithaca contend that the bridge lacked horizontal footholds that could have allowed for easier climbing and was not in “dangerous and defective condition,” according to court documents. “[Howard Ginsburg] has the burden of proving … that a suicide from the reconstructed Thurston Avenue Bridge was reasonably foreseeable,” says a court memo submitted by the University.

The city adds in its submitted trial memo that in 2002 — when the planning for the bridge’s redesign began — and at the time of Bradley Ginsburg’s suicide in 2010, neither state nor federal regulations or standards requiring suicide prevention measures existed. As a result, the city says it was not negligent in the death of Bradley Ginsburg.

The University claims that it cannot be held liable for any harm caused by the bridge

because it does not control the structure, which is owned and maintained by the City of Ithaca. Howard Ginsburg argues that Cornell had “extensive control and influence” over the Thurston Avenue Bridge, an assertion the University disputes.

Ultimately, the suicides were “inevitable,” according to Howard Ginsburg, who argues Cornell and the city should have taken measures to prevent them.

Between 1990 and 2010, 27 individuals committed suicide on or near Cornell’s campus, The Sun previously reported. The University made national headlines after three students — the first of whom was Bradley Ginsburg — committed suicide from Ithaca bridges.

Following the string of deaths, the University increased the number of mental health programs on campus and installed temporary chainlink fences — and later permanent nets — on the bridges around Cornell’s campus.

Howard Ginsburg, however, said in his memo to the court that he thinks suicide prevention measures “could have easily” been enacted sooner.

“At the end of the day, the protection [of ] the views of the gorge from the bridge were more important to Cornell and the city than the prevention of suicides,” he said. “The result was tragic and irreversible: Bradley Ginsburg’s death could have been prevented if effective means restrictions had been present on the bridge. But such effective physical barriers were not present, and no longer is he.”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Hillary Clinton Talks Climate Change U.S.Gov’t Launches

Ferguson Investigation

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department launched a broad investigation Thursday into the police department in Ferguson, Missouri, following the shooting last month of an unarmed black 18-year-old by a white police officer.

The investigation, which is separate from an existing federal probe into the Aug. 9 shooting of Michel Brown, will look for patterns of discrimination within the predominantly white department and focus on how officers use force, search and arrest suspects, and treat inmates at the city jail. The police department said it welcomed the investigation.

In announcing the action, Attorney General Eric Holder, who visited the St. Louis suburb two weeks ago, said he heard repeated concerns from community members about general police practices and a lack of diversity on the police force. That experience influenced the decision to seek a wide-ranging probe into the department, he said.

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the U.S. should become what she called the world’s 21st-century clean energy superpower, during remarks resembling both a campaign speech and a call to action at the annual National Clean Energy Summit in Las Vegas.

Clinton cast the threat of global climate change as real, and “the most consequential, urgent, sweeping collection of challenges” faced by the nation and the world.

“The data is unforgiving,” the former New York senator and first lady said to a standing room crowd of more than 800 people at a Las Vegas Strip resort. “No matter what the deniers try to assert. Sea levels are rising. Ice caps are melting. Storms, droughts and wildfires are wreaking havoc.”

“The threat is real but so is the opportunity,” she said.

Clinton, widely considered a leading Democratic candidate for president, used her

speech to plug her book, “Hard Choices,” and the work of the Clinton Climate Initiative arm of a foundation founded in 2005 by her husband, former President Bill Clinton.

She also segued into the topic of the day at the seventh annual green energy conference hosted by U.S. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid.

Clinton credited northern Nevada’s selection for a $5 billion Tesla automobile battery plant to the emergence of Nevada as a leader in solar, wind and geothermal energy projects.

She also cited a quote by Robert Lang, director of Brookings Mountain West, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, comparing the promised investment in the Tesla plant near Reno to the importance of the 1930s Hoover Dam project on the Colorado River east of Las Vegas.

“Nevada was competitive because it had already invested in green energy, solar, geothermal and wind,” Clinton said.

Comedian Joan Rivers Dies at Age 81 States Ask Supreme Court Joan Rivers, the raucous, peer-in-comedy Don Rickles.

“Knowing her, working with acid-tongued comedian who crashed the male-dominated her and enjoying the fun times realm of late-night talk shows of life with her was special. She and turned Hollywood red car- will always be in our hearts,” pets into danger zones for badly Rickles said in a statement.

Under the immobile, plastic dressed celebrities, died surgery-crafted veneer that Thursday. She was 81.

Rivers died at Mount Sinai became Joan Rivers’ unapologetic Hospital in New York, sur- trademark as she aged, her wit remained as rounded by vibrantly raw family and close “My mother’s greatest and unruly as friends, daughwhen she first ter Melissa joy in life was to make broke her way Rivers said. She people laugh.” into a comedy was hospitalized Melissa Rivers world belongAug. 28 after ing largely to going into carmen. diac arrest in a In a 2010 Late Show interdoctor’s office following a rouDavid Letterman tine procedure. The New York view, state health department is inves- broached the plastic surgery issue: “You don’t look exactly tigating the circumstances.

“My mother’s greatest joy in like the Joan Rivers I used to life was to make people laugh,” know.” Rivers didn’t flinch.

“Our business is so youthful.

Melissa Rivers said. “Although that is difficult to do right now, ... You do little tweaks, and I I know her final wish would be think if a woman wants to look that we return to laughing good, or a man, do it,” she said.

“It’s not about anybody else.” soon.”

Fashion and acting were the Upon hearing of her death, reaction poured out from early dreams of the woman who dozens of notables, ranging grew up as a self-described from Israeli Prime Minister “fatty,” but it was humor that Benjamin Netanyahu to Rivers’ paid the bills and ultimately

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made Rivers a star. She refused to cede the spotlight as the decades passed, working vigorously until her death.

“I have never wanted to be a day less than I am,” she said in a 2013 interview with The Associated Press. “People say, ‘I wish I were 30 again.’ Nahhh!

I’m very happy here. It’s great.

It gets better and better. And then, of course, we die,” she quipped.

Rivers was a scrapper, rebuilding her career and life after a failed attempt to make it as a late-night host was followed closely by her husband’s suicide.

Rivers’ style was hard-driving from the start and her material only got sharper. She was ready to slam anyone. A favored target was Elizabeth Taylor’s weight (“her favorite food is seconds”), but the comedian kept current with verbal assaults on Miley Cyrus and other newcomers.

With her raspy voice and brash New York accent, Rivers turned the red carpet of the Oscars, Emmys and Golden Globes into a stalking ground for E! Entertainment, where she first began working in 1994.

To Make Gay Marriage Decision

BOSTON (AP) — Thirtytwo states that either allow gay marriage or have banned it asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday to settle the issue once and for all.

Fifteen states that allow gay marriage, led by Massachusetts, filed a brief asking the justices to take up three cases from Virginia, Utah and Oklahoma and overturn bans. And 17 other states, led by Colorado, that have banned the practice asked the court to hear cases from Utah and Oklahoma to clear up a “morass” of lawsuits, but didn’t urge the court to rule one way or another.

The filing came as a threejudge panel of the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago ruled that same-sex marriage bans in Wisconsin and Indiana are unconstitutional. The unanimous decision Thursday criticized the justifications both states gave, several times singling out the argument that marriage between a man and a woman is tradition. There are, the court noted, good and bad traditions.

The experience of

Massachusetts — the first state to legalize gay marriage — shows that allowing same-sex couples to wed has only benefited families and strengthened the institution of marriage, said Attorney General Martha Coakley.

“Laws that bar same-sex couples from marrying are discriminatory and unconstitutional,” she said. “The time has come for this critical issue to be resolved.”

Massachusetts was joined by California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Vermont, and Washington.

Colorado’s brief argued that the definition of marriage faces legal challenges only the Supreme Court can resolve, and that without a Supreme Court decision, states defending bans could be liable for huge legal bills from future lawsuits if they are overturned. It was written by Daniel D. Domenico, the state’s solicitor general, and Michael Lee Francisco, assistant solicitor general.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Doctor Who at 50: Is It Still the Same Broom?

MARISSA TRANQUILLI Sun Staff Writer

Another day, another Doctor. That is how the saying goes, isn’t it? Over across the ocean in his funny little blue box, our wonderful Doctor has died once more, this time on a planet called Trensalore.

Last Christmas we got to see Peter Capaldi, the thirteenth Doctor (if we count the War Doctor), take up the mantle. At the time, of course, the only thing we knew about him was that he did not like the color of his kidneys. On August 23, the mad man in a blue box returned. Inside a dinosaur. Later, he climbed inside a dalek. I’m already sensing a pattern. I’m getting ahead of myself, however. The first episode of a new Doctor is crucial. With Christopher Eccelston we were treated to an disinterested Doctor, marching about with purpose. Tennant gave us his “very Arthur Dent” entrance: Saving the world in a bathrobe, full of quips and Lion King references. Matt Smith, in his debut, crashed the TARDIS, demonstrated a new level of physical comedy (e.g. throwing a plate of bread and butter out the door like a Frisbee) and selected his first glorious bow tie.

Peter Capaldi came tumbling out of the TARDIS rattling off the names of the seven dwarfs and hitting on a Tyrannosaurus rex. He was also confused by the concept of “bedroom.” As with Tennant’s appearance, the writers placed the new Doctor among a cast of preestablished characters to stabilize the audience. In this case: Clara (his current companion), Madame Vastra (a female homo reptilia living in Victorian London), her wife Jenny and Strax (the Sontarian comedic relief). The giant dinosaur marching around the Thames is killed quickly upon her entrance to London leading us to the villain of the episode, a cyborg harvesting humans to power itself and its ship. Very Girl in the Fireplace — in fact the ships are sister ships.

The Doctor’s inability to remember Madame Pompadour and his experiences upon the ship are a source of amusement for fans who recall the fabulous episode where Tennant jumped a horse through a mirror.

First, the great things about the series premiere. Peter Capaldi, as a seasoned actor, seems to already be seizing the role. He is lending the Doctor more of a cranky and confused persona than the past two actors. His performance and persona is a departure from Matt Smith’s high energy, quirky alien. As much as I adore Matt Smith, Capaldi is a refreshing new Doctor, he is bringing some of the old school Doctor back, departing from the younger crazier Doctors as of late.

Cold and running free in an alleyway, the Doctor contemplates

his new face and asks the hobo he finds among the bins, “Have you seen this face before?” Peter Capaldi, of course, has already been a supporting character on an earlier episode of Doctor Who. In The Fires of Pompeii, Capaldi played the head of the family whom the Doctor interacts with (he purchased the TARDIS from a vendor) and is saved from the volcano. Now, Moffat isn’t ignoring this fact. He is using the fact that Capaldi has already been on the show, suggesting that the Doctor imitated a person from his past in his regeneration in order to tell himself something. This is, hopefully, going to be a plot point that comes up again.

The internal reflection continues, making the main villain of the episode a metaphor for the show itself. The creature continues to rebuild itself, replacing both human and robotic parts. During their final confrontation, the Doctor confronts the cyborg demanding, “Question: You take a broom, you replace the handle and then later, you replace the brush. And you do that over and over again.

Is it still the same broom? Answer: No, of course it isn’t, but you can still sweep the floor, which is not strictly relevant. Skip that last part.” While this is an apt question to ask of the robot, it is also an apt question to ask of the show: It has been 50 years since the first Doctor. Every few series he changes his face and personality. In between, his companions come and go. Even the TARDIS itself, the one true constant, changes its “desktop” every once and a while.

This episode is demanding of itself whether or not it is, in fact, the same show featuring an old man alien and his granddaughter with a spaceship stashed in a junkyard.

Now, for some of the problems with the new episode. Moffat is a hit or miss writer. Some days, he crafts the most beautiful mindbogglingly horrifying episodes you could possibly imagine. For example, Blink. “The Angels Have The Phonebox” — I still have that on a t-shirt. Yet, as of late, Moffat has a tendency to have fabulous ideas and not see them to their fruition. The events on Tresalore felt rushed and off-putting. Matt Smith’s final goodbye was amazing and heart-breaking, however. This first episode seemed to one of Moffat’s misses. First, he is so used to writing for Matt Smith, he seems to be having trouble completely abandoning that crazed dialogue. Some of Capaldi’s dialogue in the series premiere felt like it wasn’t meant for this Doctor. Capaldi handled it well, but, if this Doctor is going to succeed, Moffat needs to adjust his writing style.

My biggest problem, however, was how much the episode tried to convince us that Capaldi is going to be a good Doctor. Over and

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over again the episode there was a giant neon sign saying, ‘LOOK— he’s not that old. He’s cool too!’ He climbed out a window, rode a horse, and jumped in a lake. They even resorted to having Matt Smith make a cameo and essentially say, “Hey—this is still me. This Doctor and I are the same character. You should keep watching.” If you are one of the fair weather fans who only watch for the young Doctors like Tennant and Smith you shouldn’t be watching the show anyway. Moffat didn’t need to pander to that brand of fan.

Matt Smith’s Doctor had a beautiful end. They should have let him rest in peace, not dragged him back for a crappy cameo.

The second episode, aired last Saturday, gives me more confidence in the new series. Capaldi seemed settled in his role as Doctor and, now that the whole Doctor/Clara coupling has officially been nixed, a new potential boyfriend for Clara has been introduced: Danny Pink. Plus, the conflict and rejection of the soldier character in this episode is setting up a nice dichotomy between Danny and the Doctor. I sense an awesome new companion in the works.

And finally, the psycho-bitch lady with the tea. Who is she? Why does she keep hanging out with dead people? And why does she think that the Doctor is her boyfriend?

Series Eight, ladies and gentlemen, who’s ready for the next adventure? *Cue new Intro song* Marissa Tranquilli is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at mtranquilli2@cornellsun.com.

‘Bed Buddies’ and Body Bags: The ‘#fAtalfinale’ sons one or two, called back with implied significance that most viewers can’t possibly claim to remember, we’re on the tenth alleged reveal of the mysterious “A” (Noel, Lucas, Mona, Toby, Melissa, The “#fAtalfinale” has come and gone and it was fatal — as Sasha, Ezra, Paige, Mrs. DiLaurentis, Allison … did I miss any?) promised! — but it wasn’t one bit of fun. We’re expected to latch and Aria and Ezra have declared and undeclared their sickening onto yet another lead on who the real “A” might be — Alison statutory-rape love for each other too many times to count.

(Sasha Pieterse), again (she was the original bet, remember?) — Perhaps the most interesting thing the show tried to do with its we’re expected to believe that she’s not just a mean girl but a “full- last few episodes was create a dichotomy between Rosewood’s often on socio” and that she assembled her friend group based on what corrupt, apparently uneducated police force and Spencer’s (Troian personality traits she lacked and they symbolized (“the loyal one, Bellisario) fresh-out-of-the-Academy boyfriend, Toby (Keegan the admiring one, the smart one, the compassionate one”), so as to Allen). I don’t know, something about America’s complicated relamost effectively fuck with them and most mind-blowingly, we’re tionship to the police, or whatever. To be honest, I’ve always felt expected to be shocked when the one person (Janel Parrish) who that the police in this show would be a lot less unfriendly if they has the evidence that could unravel the mystery and end the series were included in some of the girls’ vigilante police work. meets her untimely death at the hands of a hooded, shadowy, noThis all comes after a season of disappointing, after-school-speface. cial sub-plots (Hanna is an alcoholic for ... three episodes? Spencer It’s a tangled web Marlene King has woven, and even for the is a drug addict for four?), unnecessary swapping and un-swapping profoundly dedicated it has become a little too much to keep track of sex partners (“bed buddies,” as Mona calls them) who have no of — this season saw random characters, unmentioned since sea- personality or plot-related purpose and ridiculous reminders that these girls have been in high school, hunted by a COURTESY OF ABC FAMILY creep in a sweatshirt forever (their Senior year talk of SATs and college admissions has been going on for three seasons).

The fall of Pretty Little Liars smarts because it has been an interesting, complicated and beautifullyorchestrated suspense/horror series. In January 2013, The Atlantic credited it with “reinventing the slasher” with a “slow, deep tension,” and in January 2014 the same lauded it again for destroying the insidious “mean girl” trope by “remind[ing] viewers that there’s overlapping territory between ‘mean girls’ and ‘nice girls’ — and that cliques aren’t always forces for evil.”

I don’t want to say that earnest advocacy for the merit of a television show directed primarily at the female 13-24 demographic constitutes putting one’s neck KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts & Entertainment Editor

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on the line for a publication like The Atlantic … but you know, it does (the injustice of which is a topic for another day).

Pretty Little Liars was a complicated whodunit, a rare instance of appointment television in the era of torrent and DVR and a prolonged horror story that involved none of the gratuitous sex (or more importantly, objectification), needless gore or head-spinning body count of the cheeseball scary movies that these teen viewers have to duck into after buying a Monsters University ticket. Obvious comparisons were to Twin Peaks and Desperate Housewives, not to any of PLL’s pandering semi-soap ABC Family peers. I used to say that I only watched this show to keep up with trends in nail polish and alternative legwear. And I used to be kidding!

What happened to the perfect reinvention of genre fiction for a new generation? What happened to Troian Bellisario’s Emmy?

Why did the failure of Ravenswood mean that we had to get Tyler Blackburn back as a whiny do-nothing drunk?

Just some a handful of the questions that will inevitably be dragged out over 100 more episodes of mediocre telivision.

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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great character is an interpretation of its author. It is a representation of the author’s most fascinating qualities, placed in a situation that showcases these qualities, for better or worse. It is the reassembling of the id, the ego and the superego, screaming out from pen to paper, insecure and begging the world for acceptance.

Last semester, I took a screenwriting course.

The first exercises we were assigned asked us to create characters — sympathetic, interesting, unique. Characters that the audience would want to know about.

I exclusively wrote about myself.

One day, we were given a prompt that did not allow me to write about the gun-slinging, toothpick-chewing, hyper-cynical cowboyninja-assassin that lays dormant in the depths of my soul.

“I want you to write a protagonist who is your polar opposite.”

It is one thing to write a character who is a product of yourself. That kind of introspection is relatively easy and rewarding. What do I like about myself? What don’t I like about myself?

How can I focus on these to make an interesting character?

Toss that in the oven real quick, and we’ve got something to work with.

But considering what you aren’t — that is a whole different beast.

How do you approach that character? What aspects of your inner self to you choose to counter? Which really make you, you? How do you feel about that character? Is he your archnemesis? Or your evil twin?

At the core of my being, who am I, and what is the exact opposite of that?

For starters, mine was a girl.

The character I wrote was the most shallow,

adding real emotional depth to the characters, rather than a fleeting instance of interaction?

If I had to guess, I would say maybe half.

And when only a quarter of a boy’s media exposure includes a strong, complex, independent female character with significant screen time, it makes sense that male writers would have trouble writing a female character.

(Or maybe I’m just a bad writer. But at least you’re still reading, right?)

Last April, Aaron Sorkin faced criticism for his response to a question about the disparity of male and female roles. In his rambling response (ironic coming from a guy whose characters are almost always painfully quick and witty), he basically concluded that when it comes to scripts with multidimensional, interesting female leads, “there just needs to be more.”

In Hollywood, roughly 90 percent of writers are male. These men grow up in a media world where 90 percent of what they are exposed to are male perspectives.

Now imagine we lived in a vacuum, where all writers wrote male and female driven scripts at an equal rate (twist — they don’t). Would it really be surprising that the female half of the scripts written by men who are so rarely exposed to complex, dynamic Needell in a female characters are, well, bad?

Crapstack I argue that the fact that female characters are so underrepresented in the tation by asking three questions: Does the film 1) media is, to an extent, an issue that is causing itself.

Perhaps it is the current lack of female leads have at least two named female characters? If so, do they 2) speak to each other 3) about some- that is preventing our male viewers from really thing other than a man? A film that can check off understanding the intricacies of a female perspective — in reality and in the media. these three boxes passes the Bechdel test.

Because of this ignorance, men are not writIn a database of over 5,000 films, only 55 percent of them satisfy all three requirements. How ing good scripts with female leads, and these bad many of these do you think pass the test while scripts are not being made.

two-dimensional and stereotypical one I wrote the entire semester. But it was not for a lack of effort. I really did try to make her into a complex and fascinating character.

And to be clear, the problem at this point was not that this character was supposed to be my polar opposite. No, despite my existential crisis (imagine John Malkovich in the Malkovich Portal), it was something else from the get-go.

The problem was that I hadn’t the slightest clue how to write a female character. What does she think? What does she do? What are her hobbies? Where are her priorities?

You have to wonder how many male writers have run into this very same problem. How many have tried to write a script with a female lead that was just was not very good — not because it had a female lead, but because the writer was simply too ignorant to write a good one?

I’m sure many of you have heard of the Bechdel Test. Inspired by a comic strip written by Alison Bechdel, it tests films for gender represen-

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This lack of compelling female leads from male writers is then preventing female leads from becoming more prominent in the media, starting the vicious cycle all over again.

So, how do we solve the issue? Well it starts with the statistic I mentioned earlier — that 90 percent of writers are men. The first step is changing the industry culture and getting more women involved in writing, character creation, etc. Hopefully the success and fame of talented female writers such as Tina Fey, Diablo Cody, Jennifer Westfeldt, Nora Ephron, will convince potentially-sometimes-maybe sexist film executives to give more female writers a real shot shot.

Another good sign is that many female-driven scripts seem to be “bridging the gap” between interests. Look at the wild commercial success of neck-breaking, check-banking actionfilms with female leads, such as The Hunger Games. It seems that we are slowly, yet surely, straying away from the idea of “chick flicks” and are finally getting more female-driven scripts that appeal to both sexes.

Are women becoming more drawn to the high-paced and explosion-laced films that traditionally have sated the appetite of men? Are men becoming more willing to seek out these films, in spite of (or because of) the novel female lead? Or a little bit of both? And is this action genre the first baby step toward making men appreciate interesting/complicated/strong leading ladies?

Maybe. I sure hope so.

Let me think on it a bit, and I’ll get back to you once I find that needle in the crapstack.

Evan Needell is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at ejn38@cornell.edu. Needell in a Crapstack runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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The struggle is real.

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A Psychological Perspective On Crime Against Women in India

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mid empty talk of empowerment of women, rapes have become a routine affair in India, with women being regularly targeted.

If on the one hand it is “honor killing” against girls seeking to assert their independence in their personal lives, on the other it is the wanton outrage of modesty with no counter-action from the state or the society at large. Instances of women resisting rape and then getting disfigured with their nose, hands or other body parts chopped are not few and far between. Some are reported but a large majority goes unnoticed.

Women’s safety remains a pressing issue in India. Far from decreasing, reported rapes and physical violence against women is on the rise. Given the sheer number of sexual violence cases, there seems little point in denying that it has become a deep-rooted and pervasive problem.

A steep decline in the quality of governance, proportionate rise in public inertia and self-centered attitude or simple indifference of the public has made matters worse for women. But what is the reason behind such a significant increase? Most blame sexual repression, while others think rural-to-urban migration is the culprit. Both are equally significant reasons. India is in the middle of the largest migration in history from rural to urban. This rapid shift has led to a major cultural chaos.

India is undergoing the rapid breakdown of its age-old caste system and of traditional social mores. Interestingly, sociologists claim that the new India is undergoing a sexual revolution of sorts, where an entire generation of educated women now have a say in who they marry and what they choose to do with their lives. In the long run, this kind of social change is positive and welcomed; in the short run, it has led to uncertainty about the boundaries between class and gender and created the space for sexual violence, solely because the concept of what it means to be a man in India is also changing, bringing in its wake expressions of sexual violence wrapped with feelings of displacement and powerlessness.

To add the icing on the cake, India’s male-female ratio is one of the highest in the world. The systemic brutality against females has, over a period, led to an imbalance in the male-female ratio (877 women against 1,000 men). High male-to-female ratios have historically been correlated with an increase in the rate of violence. In China, a skewed malefemale ratio led to higher rates of crime, including sexual crime, against women. The thinking is that young, unmarried males lack the stable social bonds that keep them from committing violent crimes. These low-status young adult males often play a crucial role in instigating violence within societies.

In India, too, sociologists have found a strong connection between male-female ratios and the increase in violent crime rates. Traditionally, whenever women outnumber men, there is a shift in the values towards liberalism. On the flipside, when there is an excess of men, marriage is generally revered and values remain conservative. Quite simply put, when men, who traditionally have had more power in society, have more women to choose from, they are more able to set the rules for women’s behavior. This trend is not new but can trace its roots to ancient times where Athens had a shortage of women due to female infanticide and neglect. By contrast, Sparta had a shortage of men, since boys were removed from their families at an early age to receive military training.

It so occurred that girls in Spartan society were educated, and Spartan women could own and inherit property. By the fourth century, Spartan women controlled about 40 percent of their city-state’s land and property. In contrast, Athenian women controlled no property at all.

This is not good news for the modern Indian woman, for whom the biggest challenge today, is remaining safe in her own country. It is strange that, in a country where women have historically been exalted and portrayed in hyperbole terms in religious texts and literature, women should remain prisoners of time, traditions, political games and the rising consumerist tradition. There is no “safe haven” for the Indian woman even though she may be a city-based working woman or an uneducated village woman working in the fields. Across the country, female infanticide and sex-selective abortions continue to rise with daily news items of heinous sexual crimes taking place almost every other day.

Fortunately, new economic, educational and political opportunities have created the conditions for a growing number of women’s rights activists to raise the issues, either as part of the media, administration and political structures or as civil society activists. While this activism has led to some progress, and there is hope for more, the first step towards tackling such a large domestic problem like this is to acknowledge how big it really is.

For Indian women to thrive, the entire perspective of Indian men towards their women has to change.

Amrapalli Satpathy is an LLM student at Cornell Law School. She may be reached at ats222@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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My Forken Opinion

Ferguson and the Conservative Media

arlier this past Wilson. After being hit a cials who were legally month, unarmed second time, Brown fell attempting to collect African-American to his knees about 35 grazing fees 20 years past teenager Michael Brown feet from the police due — were met with a was shot dead in the vehicle. Multiple wit- militia of armed proteststreets of Ferguson, nesses state this is when ers, Sean Hannity called Missouri. The following Brown raised his hands Bundy a “hero” and his weeks erupted with in the air and yelled, “I armed supporters were Ferguson citizens filling don’t have a gun, stop “patriots.” the streets, protesting shooting.” The shots This “hero” publicly the death of Brown at didn’t stop and Michael stated he didn’t recogthe gun of a white police Brown died on the nize the authority of the officer. While the initial street.

United States governshooting and subseThe official autopsy ment and questioned, quent protests unmis- suggests the shots were “are they (Africantakably presented an not fired at close range, Americans) better off as issue with race relations as no gunpowder was slaves, picking cotton in Ferguson, the hypo- present on Brown’s and having a family life critical reaction from body. In an authenticat- and doing things, or are traditionally conserva- ed recording of the they better off under tive media outlets exem- shooting, six shots can government subsidy?” plifies a larger domestic be heard being fired, folThe “patriots” at this issue with race. lowed by a brief pause protest include former On August 9, officer and then four more Arizona sheriff Richard Darren Wilson stopped shots.

Mack, who told Fox Brown, along with his Last week, Bill News, “We were actualfriend Dorian Johnson, O’Reilly stated on his ly strategizing to put all as they were walking in Fox News television the women up at the the street. Unbeknownst program that he front. If they’re going to to Wilson, Brown had returned from his vaca- start killing people, I’m allegedly committed a tion early, as he was, sorry, but to show the shoplifting crime a few minutes prior to his being stopped. What The incident in Ferguson speaks to a transpired next greater problem regarding the implicitly is the cause of discriminatory remarks spewed by much controversy.

According of the conservative media. to Wilson, Brown or Johnson pushed him “furious about how the world how ruthless these back into his police shooting death of 18- people are, women vehicle, grappling for his year-old Michael Brown needed to be the first firearm, resulting in one is being reported and ones shot. I’m sorry, that shot being fired into the how various people are sounds horrible. I would cabin. Brown then reacting to it.” O’Reilly have put my own wife or began to run down the goes on to claim that daughters there.” Other street, at which point although a federal inves- “patriots” include marWilson fired multiple tigation had been ried couple Jerad and shots at the fleeing opened in regards to the Amanda Miller, who teenagers, killing shooting, rioting and months after spending Brown. looting still continued, time at Cliven Bundy’s Dorian Johnson and as “these people don’t ranch, killed two police other eyewitnesses offer want peace.” officers and a bystander a different narrative.

The incident in in Las Vegas.

Johnson claims that the Ferguson speaks to a These are the people officer told the two to greater problem regard- reigning in an out of “get the f*** on the side- ing the implicitly dis- control federal governwalk,” and, when they criminatory remarks ment. These are the peorefused, told Brown, spewed by much of the ple that want justice.

“I’m gonna shoot you.” conservative media. Not the protestors in At this point, Brown When Fox News cov- Ferguson. Those are the was hit by a single bullet ered the Cliven Bundy rioters. They are the and was able to flee standoff earlier this year looters. down the street amid — which resulted when Never mind that continuous fire from federal government offi- multiple witnesses,

including Washington Post columnist Wesley Lowery, reported that Ferguson citizens were the ones protecting community storefronts from looters as the police watched on.

Never mind that the police didn’t only arrest two journalists and spray tear gas at an Al Jazeera America team, but also fired canisters of tear gas, along with rubber bullets, into the streets of Ferguson.

Never mind that the Ferguson Police Department has a history of racial profiling — in 2009, Ferguson police arrested the wrong man and then violently beat him when he asked for a sleeping mat. They then proceeded to charge that man with property damage because he bled on their uniforms.

Ferguson protestors were met with violence simply for being on the street past midn i g h t .

Imagine if the citizens of Ferguson armed themselves, as those supporting Cliven Bundy did, before they stood in front of the militarized police force. Would they have been heralded as heroes and patriots?

It’s time conservative media realizes that pointing a firearm at a federal official isn’t acceptable because you’re white and protesting the shooting of an unarmed teenager by a police officer isn’t wrong because you’re black.

Jake Forken is a junior in the College of Human Ecology.

He may be reached at jrf285@cornell.edu.

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his defensive duties.

According to Morgan, a major emphasis for the Red this preseason was staying tight on defense and figuring out the dynamic of the back line.

“The biggest team focus of the preseason has been team positioning on defense. The moment we lose the ball, we immediately recover to get possession back for our side and create as many goal-scoring opportunities as possible,” he said.

This weekend’s competitions should provide plenty of new challenges for the Red as the team

faces off against two consistent soccer powerhouses. The midfielders and defenders will bear a heavy load shutting down Louisville’s efficient attack. Pressing the center of the field will be key to the Red’s success this weekend.

“Preventing Louisville and Xavier to play through the middle of the field will be essential to our success as a team,” Morgan said. “We will be relying heavily on our central and outside midfielders to squeeze to the center of the field and neutralize these attacks before they can weave balls into their strikers.”

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Women to Play UMass, Marist in Opening Contests WOMEN’S SOCCER Continued from page 12

although each player is versatile and can play each position. The freshmen are an imperative addition to the team due to the loss of six seniors who graduated last spring.

“We’re all really excited about our upcoming games against UMass and Marist. We’ve been training really hard during preseason and it will be rewarding to see it pay off,” said senior forward and midfielder Kerry Schubert. “The back to back games will be a test of our fitness and overall competitive attitude, but these are things we’ve really

focused on in the past two weeks and will likely be a tough game. and everyone is excited to get the Nonetheless, the Red is determined to keep the Red Foxes season started.” from notching a win.

T h e “If we can control Red will those first match jitbe play- “I really feel we have ters that our oppoi n g the potential for a nents have already a g a i n s t positive weekend.” dealt with I really feel UMass in we have the potential its first Patrick Farmer for a positive weekend game of and start to our camthe season, but since the Minutemen paign,” Farmer said. “I believe have already played several we will be competitive in both games, the Red is at a slight dis- matches and will have a real advantage. However, Cornell is chance of gaining a positive confident in its ability and drive result in both matches.” to win.

Cornell’s match against Elani Cohen can be reached at Marist will follow shortly after ecohen@cornellsun.com.

Chiusano Reminisces About His Love for the Mets and the Game CHIUSANO

Continued from page 12

in fact, go seven innings, allowing just one earned run before handing the ball over to a bullpen that can only be characterized as falling somewhere between a circus act and a horror movie.

Of course Vic Black gave up a solo home run that turned out to be the deciding factor.

The Mets put together a rare late-inning rally, spurred by a Travis d’Arnaud home run in the ninth that got them within one. I am going to give a quick real time recap of this inning, just to try, even microcosmically, to explain the anguish that comes with being a Mets fan.

Matt Den Dekker follows up with a single to center and things are looking up. The few fans in the stadium are starting to get excited, and my friends and I

stop torturing Jimmy.

Juan Lagares then attempts a bunt and pops it up. One out.

Wilmer Flores hits a single that would have

in baseball. Do not leave third on a ground ball to the left of the shortstop.

Den Dekker decides to toss that rule into the first row of the stands and gets thrown out at home.

The Mets might not be Two outs. amazin’, but the game C u r t i s G r anderson still is. comes to the plate. He has been chatty with scored Den Dekker, had us the whole game, he been moved over on coming up to the netthe bunt, but we’ll take ting at the edge of the what we can get consid- batter’s box, even taking ering there are runners a selfie with my friend. on first and third and What better storyline one out. Eric Young than the amicable pinch runs and steals Grandy coming through second. Wow. This is a in the ninth. baseball team. Second Rule number two in and third with one out, baseball. Do not swing a sac fly ties it, a single at a first pitch off speed wins it and we can go unless you are going to home satisfied that the crush it. Granderson Mets won a virtually swings. Maybe the flash meaningless game. of the camera from that But wait. selfie messed with his Eric Campbell hits a vision, or maybe he just ground ball to third chose to ignore rule base. Rule number one number two. Either way,

the result was a weak ground ball to the pitcher. Game over.

I do not carry a couch pillow with me to Citi Field, but it was certainly a pillow-throwing moment. I left the game with no stray foul balls, with a ketchup stain on my shorts and a picture of us in the first row with Jimmy hovering in the background. When the seven train pulled out of the station that night, the lights of the stadium were dimming, the street lights in Flushing were just turning on and the hordes of people packed so tightly together that their elbows brushing up against one another talked Bartolo, baseball and nothing more. The Mets might not be amazin’, but the game still is.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at sportseditor@cornellsun.com.

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Red Looking to Take Down Foes During Openers

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

Cornell men’s soccer will begin its 2014 season on Friday, taking on No. 2 Louisville (1-0) in Kentucky. The squad will then make the short trip north to Xavier University (0-2) in Ohio where it will play its second game of the season on Sunday. The pair of games this weekend will present an early challenge for the Red, as both opponents have participated multiple times in the NCAA Tournament.

Senior defender Devin Morgan explained that even though the season is still early, the team is prepared for the challenge.

“The team is ready to compete with anybody in the country and is looking forward to the battles against No. 2 ranked Louisville and Xavier,” he said.

Friday night’s contest with Louisville will be a tough matchup for the Red. The Cardinals began their season with a 1-0 defeat of then No. 2 ranked Maryland and subsequently jumped 12 spots in the NSCAA rankings. In addition, ACC head coaches voted for the Cardinals as the favorite to win the conference in 2014.

Louisville’s star player is sophomore midfielder Andrew Brody, whose goal last week earned him ACC Player of the Week honors. Brody, according to the website Top

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Kicking back | Senior Peter Chodas will be one of the returning players and leaders of the deffensive line this season after Patrick Slogic ’14 graduated last spring.

Drawer Soccer, is rated as one of the best players in college soccer.

Xavier has had a bit of a slower start to its 2014 campaign, dropping its first two competitions. A 4-0 loss to then No. 21 Wisconsin was the first time since 2009 that the Musketeers suffered such a lopsided defeat. After seeing a class of nine seniors graduate last spring, the squad has been rebuilding with what College Soccer News ranked the 26th best recruiting class in the nation. Xavier is not to be taken lightly however, as its program has a history of success. Since 2005 the Musketeers have a .643

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Striking first | The women’s soccer team hopes to have a strong weekend of opening games again UMass and Marist.

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winning percentage, which puts them in the Top 15 nationally for overall winning percentage.

The Red also looks to some new faces to fill the hole in its defense that 2013 Ivy League Defensive Player of the Year Patrick Slogic ’14 has left after graduating last year.

Senior Peter Chodas, who was a regular in the 2013 teams starting eleven, will help to lead the back line. Morgan, who made the move from forward to defense this offseason in order to bolster the back line, will help Chodas in

Heartbreak Ball

can remember so distinctly exactly where I was eight years ago when Carlos Beltran’s knees buckled with the impact of an Adam Wainwright curveball. It looked as though some invisible force had come up behind Beltran and kicked him in the back of the knee, making him fold like a cheap beach chair.

Bases loaded, game seven, NLCS, the best hitter in the Mets lineup at the plate and

ally feeling the urge to chuck a pillow (or sometimes a brick) at the screen. Since 2006, the Mets have not made the playoffs and have only finished over .500 twice — one of those being the 2007 collapse of which we shall not speak.

Beltran, Jose Reyes, R.A. Dickey and Johan Santana have come and gone. David Wright’s contract extension gave us fans some momentary solace, but with a .265 batting

Cornell to Travel for Weekend of Games

By ELANI COHEN Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s soccer team is looking forward to beginning its upcoming season this Friday against the University of Massachusetts, followed by a Sunday game against Marist. Although the team is about two and a half weeks and several matches behind in training compared to both opponents, the Red is confident in its ability to be victorious in both games.

Said head coach Patrick Farmer, “I believe the team and the coaching staff are looking forward to the upcoming open-

ing matches with a view that a solid weekend will provide a very good springboard to a strong season performance.”

Since last season, in which the Red ended with 7-8-1 record, nine freshmen have been added to the roster. From the tough preseason training sessions, it looks as if the freshmen will make a great impact on the team’s overall performance. They also will be playing a variation of positions, which will help the team improve in all areas. The Red added five forwards, three midfielders and two defenders, See W. SOCCER page 11

See M. SOCCER page 11

were playing the Nationals (so a win was not looking likely), but the grand (or should I say round) Bartolo Colon was pitching and my excitement over seeing him in person was probably on par with the prospect of free Buffalo chicken rolls in the clubhouse.

He lumbered out to the mound in the first inning as he always does, shorter and more rotund than even I

Scott Chiusano Who’s on First he could not even foul that pitch off. I was watching the game with my mom (my father had gone to sleep hours before, muttering something about how he couldn’t wait until baseball season was over so he could watch real television again) and I threw a pillow at the TV, somehow expecting it to all go away.

Instead I had to watch the Cardinals players dog pile Adam Wainwright, shielding my eyes until my mom finally got up to shut it off.

Since then, I have not had the pleasure of watching many Mets games without continu-

average right now and only eight home runs, it seems that Wright is floundering alongside the rest of the franchise he is trying to help build — a franchise that is destined to continue its eternal run on the hamster wheel unless the youth in the organization finally pan out.

I went to my first Mets game of the season towards the end of the summer. My friend had tickets two rows behind the Mets batter’s box, where the food is free and Jimmy the ball boy can hear every one of your desperate ploys for a foul ball. They

expected, but with a heavy swagger that only a man of his girth could carry. And I respect the hell out of him (steroid suspension aside), because he is 41 years old, 5’11”, 285 pounds, massively out of shape, and I do not think there is a player in the league with more confidence.

It may at times be unwarranted, but you cannot fault the 19-year veteran when he gives you seven solid innings of work without breaking a sweat.

In this game he did, See CHIUSANO page 11