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Students, Profs Ask Skorton to Sever Adidas Contract
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Cornell’s Licensing Oversight Committee voted Thursday to recommend that President David Skorton sever the University’s athletic apparel contract with Adidas, citing labor abuses the company allegedly committed in 2011. Adidas, along with Nike and the Dallas Cowboys, had been manufacturing logo-bearing apparel for Cornell at PT Kizone, a factory in Tangerang, Indonesia. When the factory closed in the spring of 2011, nearly 3,000 workers were left without severance pay — amounting to at least $3.3 million in payments withheld, according to a report published in May 2011 by the Workers Right Consortium, an independent labor rights monitoring organization with which Cornell “[Adidas’] actions violate our is affiliated. The Code of Conduct; the next step is report alleges ... to cut the contract.” that Adidas alone owes $1.8 Sweatfree Cornell Coalition million in severance to its former workers. “Adidas has denied that they were producing in the factory at the time of closure despite evidence … that proved otherwise,” the Sweatfree Cornell Coalition said in a statement Thursday. “The LOC has already determined that the company’s actions violate our Code of Conduct; the next step is for the President to cut the contract with Adidas.” While Nike and the Dallas Cowboys have since paid their workers the money they owed them, Adidas has refused to claim responsibility for its severance obligations, according to Scott Nova, executive director of the WRC. See ADIDAS page 4
News Cracking Chestnut Hill
Ithaca Police arrests two men in connection with a 2011 murder. | Page 3
A June 7 architectural rendering shows the proposed redesign of the Ithaca Commons, which will feature a broad central pedestrian corridor paved in ochre and tan colors and flanked by amenity strips for trees, planting beds and both fixed and moveable seating.
Police: More Violent Crimes Reported By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer
Three reported sexual assaults on Sunday represent a fraction of a larger danger to students, according to Cornell police. “It seems that violent crimes are on the rise or violent crimes are being reported more often,” said Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Department, said in a presentation to the Student Assembly on
Thursday. “What we get reported to us is barely touching the surface of what goes on on this campus.” CUPD receives few reports of rapes, and those that are reported are not always included in crime emails, alert according to Zoner. But the events of last weekZONER end caused an “ongoing and imminent danger,” to
By HARRISON OKIN
Doctor D.J.
Congressional candidate Nate Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 engaged a group
of students in a questionand-answer session Thursday evening. Shinagawa, 28, said his young age allows him to better relate to many of
Cornell’s students. He vowed that if elected, he would work in Congress to develop solutions to students’ problems. He also encouraged
Opinion To Betch or Not to Betch
Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo ’13 argues that Cornell is the mecca of betches. | Page 7
Arts Puppet Power
The Sun reviews an Indonesian puppet show. | Page 9
Sports Prepped and Ready
Men’s soccer prepares to take on Lafayette this weekend. | Page 16
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Cornell Democrats host Congressional candidate to discuss issues facing students Sun Staff Writer
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the Cornell community, Zoner said, and thus necessitated a timely warning to the public. Zoner said that due to the narrow window of time in which Sunday’s crimes occurred, CUPD is investigating whether any of the three were committed by the same perpetrator. “The case is still very, very active. We do have a number of good leads and are looking forward to a positive resolution [of the case],” she said. In the meantime, the University is
Shinagawa ’05 Tells Students to Pursue Local Office
News Afrika Bambaataa will become a Visiting Scholar at Cornell this year. | Page 3
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Repeat after me | Nate Shinagawa ’05, a Congressional candidate running to represent the 23rd district, fielded questions from students at a Q&A Thursday.
students to get involved with local politics themselves. “Students spend nine months living in Ithaca. They develop a vested interest in the community, and they are affected by local politics,” Shinagawa said. “You should not only go register and vote here, but run for office here too. You can really have an influence.” Shinagawa — who is running against Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) in New York State’s 23rd district, which includes Tompkins County — responded to students’ queries while attempting to energize his youth supporters at the event, organized by the Cornell Democrats. “When I attended Cornell, it was a dark time to be a Democrat. We lost
who we were and what our voice was,” said Shinagawa, who would become the nation’s youngest Congressman if elected. “Democrats need to stand up for the middle class, and for fairness and opportunity in the 21st century.” The candidate reminisced at his time as a stuat dent Cornell. Shinagawa said his favorite course was Environmental Conservation with Prof. Timothy Fayhey. During an energetic discussion Thursday, he emphasized the need for education and student loan reform, both in New York State and across the U.S. Evoking an issue cruSee SHINAGAWA page 4
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Today C.U. Jazz: Vincent Herring Masterclass 10 - 11 a.m., B20 Lincoln Hall Reading by Author Gary Shteyngart 3 p.m., Schwartz Auditorium, Rockefeller Hall Dining With Diverse Minds: My Suicide Attempt and Road to Recovery 5:30 - 7:30 p.m., Memorial Room, Willard Straight Hall Piel Morena Dance Company 7:30 p.m., Kiplinger Theatre, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts
News, “At Cornell, Former Chilean President Advocates Women’s Rights,” Wednesday Speaking about the importance of gender equality and women’s empowerment “The historic and persistent marginalization and discrimination is not sustainable. It’s not just hurting women. It’s hurting all of us.” Michelle Bachelet, former president of Chile
News, “Tompkins County Representatives Push Fracking Ban,” Wednesday Speaking about pushing for a ban on fracking “We’ve made tremendous headway in New York in educating lawmakers. But there is fracking going on in at least 31 other states. It’s a federal issue. Even if we ban it in New York, it’s not enough.” Martha Robertson, chair of the Tompkins County Legislature
For Students Only: Mad Men at the Museum 8 - 11 p.m., Johnson Museum of Art
Opinion, “Our Monsters, Our Men,” Tuesday Speaking about the three sexual assaults reported on Sunday “To portray rapists as something aberrant, something completely divorced from what you and I do at parties or in bars, is both cowardly and disempowering. When we see those “Forcible Touching Incident” emails in our inboxes, we need to take some responsibility for the men we create.”
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Kaufman Institute for the Study of Continents: 2012 Symposium 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., 2146 Snee Hall Dale Corson Memorial: A Celebration of His Life 10:30 a.m., Sage Chapel Let’s Move! Family Hike at Cornell Plantations 2 - 5 p.m., Nevin Welcome Center, Cornell Plantations
Opinion, “Uncle Ezra, Bring Back the Frat,” Thursday Speaking about the lack of alternative late-night programming to fraternity parties “If the University insists on prohibiting freshmen from attending Greek events (even the safe ones), it is imperative that they provide new outlets for students to take a break, meet new people and maybe even dance. And no, I don’t believe adding one concert to the Cornell Concert Commission’s lineup is sufficient.” Hannah Deixler ’13
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Two Men Arrested In Connection With Ithaca Murder in 2011 By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer
Ithaca police arrested a man Thursday in connection with the murder of Francisco “Rico” Santiago. Gary Lowe was apprehended after several months of ongoing investigation into Santiago’s death Dec. 1, 2011 at Chestnut Hill Apartments. Police received a tip in March 2012 that helped them identify what they said was the motive behind the crime. A “drug related robbery ... resulted in the murder of Santiago,” according to an IPD press release. On Dec. 1, 2011, at approximately 12:08 a.m., IPD responded to a shooting at the K building of Chestnut Hill Apartments, located approximately 10 minutes from campus. Police discovered the victim, Santiago, in apartment K-22 with a single gun shot wound to the torso, according to the press release. Santiago was subsequently pronounced dead at Cayuga Medical Center. During the initial investigation, it was purported that Santiago was selling narcotics in Ithaca, according to the police report. At the time of his murder, he had been living in Ithaca for several months, making routine trips back to New York City to obtain drugs, according to the IPD. Judge John Rowley authorized arrest warrants for Lowe and Lawrence Beauford Thursday, both for sec-
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Fransisco Santiago sustained a fatal gunshot wound to the back at the Chestnut Hill Apartments, pictured above, in Dec. 2011.
ond-degree murder. Lowe was arraigned and sent to the Tompkins County Jail without bail Thursday afternoon. Beauford was already in detention by the New York State Department of Corrections in connection with another crime, police said. Chief of Ithaca Police Edward Vallely praised cooperation between the Tompkins County District Attorney’s Office, the New York State Police, the Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department, the Village of Groton Police Department, the City of Cortland Police Department and the Cortland County Sheriff ’s
Department. “I’m proud of the collaborative efforts of local law enforcement working together to investigate and solve this homicide,” Vallely said in a statement. “Solving crimes of violence is a priority for the Ithaca Police Department. Perpetrators of violent crime in the City of Ithaca will be aggressively pursued and brought before the courts.” Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun.com.
Afrika Bambaataa,‘Hip-Hop Pioneer’ Named Visting Scholar at C.U. By SHANE DUNAU Sun Staff Writer
Afrika Bambaataa, known as the “Godfather of hip-hop,” has been appointed as a visiting scholar at Cornell for a three-year term. He wil work under the wing of the University Library’s Hip Hop Collection — the largest collection of hiphop archives in the U.S, according to Prof. Steve Pond, chair of the music department. “This is your favorite D.J.’s favorite D.J. If he’s not already someone you hold in your own fandom, someone who you revere already very much looks up to Bambaataa,” said Ben Ortiz, assistant curator of the University’s Hip Hop Collection. Bambaataa’s appointment is the first appointment of a hip hop pioneer and legend to the faculty of a major university, according to Ortiz. “The idea of a pioneer like Bam[baataa] coming to an institution like Cornell is groundbreaking. Bam has been a force for change, a force for cultural revolution for [more than] 40 years,” said Rich Medina ’92, a member of the Hip Hop Collection’s
Cornell to speak at a conference honoring advisory board and himself a D.J. Bambaataa is credited for coining the the Hip Hop Collection’s acquisition of the term hip-hop — a name he said he devised bulk of its artifacts, according to Pond. Bambaataa has continued to visit based on how people would react when they first listened to the new genre of Cornell regularly. In April 2011, he gave a guest lecture for a hip-hop class co-taught music. “When you heard [the music] and got by Prof. Pond. “It was terrific. People really wanted to understanding the beat, you really heard hear what he and saw e v e r y b o d y “This is an opportunity to ... prove to the had to say,” Pond said. “He hippin’ and world that hip hop is as important to was very willing hoppin,’ “ to stand for B a m b a a t a a Americana as baseball.” questions and said in an give everyone i n t e r v i e w Rich Medina ’92 the benefit of his with The Sun. Medina said that Bambaataa’s appoint- knowledge. It was a very good exchange.” Bambaataa will be on campus for a few ment as a visiting scholar is a way for Cornell to “pay homage to an enormous days at a time throughout his term as visiting scholar. piece of hip hop.” “Cornell will be his academic home “This is an opportunity to destroy stereotypes and prove to the world that hip away from home for the next three years,” hop is as important to Americana as base- Pond said. Although Bambaataa’s schedule is not ball,” he said. The University’s relationship with yet finalized, Pond said that Bambaataa Bambaataa began to develop in Fall 2008, and the Hip Hop Collection’s Advisory when Bambaataa made his first trip to Board are planning at least one extracurric-
ular event. “We are currently planning for him to do a D.J. set,” Pond said. According to Pond, Bambaataa is eager to contribute, not only on, but also off campus. “He’s very interested in spending some time connecting with Ithaca, not only Cornell but the Ithaca community,” Pond said. “We will be having him visit the South Side Community Center downtown again,” Oritz said. Nearly 40 years ago, before he launched his hip-hop career, Bambaataa was a leader of a powerful gang in the Bronx, N.Y., called the Black Spades, according to Ortiz. “The pivotal moment is him shifting gears from violent gang life to peaceful crew life,” Ortiz said. “He created an organization called the Universal Zulu Nation, the mantra of which is ‘peace, unity, love and havin’ fun.’” Shane Dunau can be reached at sdunau@cornellsun.com.
Study: LGBT Students’ Unhappiness Not Tied to Sexual Orientation Afrika Bambaataa is coming to Cornell as a Visting Scholar this year.
Researchers say non-conformity has greater effect on well-being
If you could hire anyone, alive or dead, as a faculty member who would it be?
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“Jack Black because anyone who can turn a cellist into an electric guitar player must be a God of Rock.” — Too Cool for School ’15 “George Bush. I haven’t heard from him in a while and I want to see what he really thinks.” — Politico ’14 “Adam Sandler. He could teach a class on Judaism or holidays. It’s so much fun-akkah to learn about Hanukkah.” — Shabbat Shalom ’14 — Compiled by Jinjoo Lee
By MOLLY BRODERICK
Straight students who do not conform to societal gender norms are just as likely to be depressed as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transexual youths who also do not conform to the norms, according to a study conducted at the College of Human Ecology’s Sex and Gender Laboratory. The study pointed to nonconformity as having a greater impact than sexual orientation on students’ psychological well-being — debunking the long-standing belief that sexual orientation is the primary cause of unhappiness among LGBT youth, according to Gerulf Rieger, a post-doctoral associate in the Sex and Gender Lab and
one of the authors of the report. “The important part of this study is that the findings are also true for straight people,” Rieger said. Although the study found a correlation between sexual orientation and unhappiness, Rieger said that when sexuality was compared alongside nonconformity, it became apparent that it was the latter that actually corresponded to an individual’s wellbeing. “In no analysis was sexual orientation [directly] related to a measure of well-being,” according to the report. The survey, administered in 2008 to 230 female and 245 male seniors from a high school in upstate New York, posed questions to determine students’ sexual orientation, evaluate
their psychological health and measure how closely they conform to societal gender norms. Those surveyed were asked to rate how closely their interests matched certain gendered statements, such as “working on cars” or “going clothes shopping,” according to the study. “I think the paramount thing is that LGBTQ people feel comfortable in their community,” Dean Iwaoka ’13, LGBTQ representative to the Student Assembly, said, commenting on the lab’s findings. “If science is going to help that and bring about understanding to the community, then it is a positive influence.” Molly Broderick can be reached at meb382@cornell.edu.
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University Improves Students Urge Univ.to Cut Ties With Adidas Cornell could be first university to terminate its Adidas contract Lighting, Surveillance ADIDAS
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taking further measures to enhance safety on campus. She said Cornell police have increased their presence on campus by adding staff and upping their patrols, as well as improving the availability of blue light escorts. Lighting at the on-campus locations where the incidents occurred — the Hughes parking lot and the stairs leading down to the south side of the Suspension Bridge — has been improved, Zoner said. Two new blue light phones have also been approved for installation along the Fall Creek gorge trail, she said, and approval for additional phones at two other locations is pending. Use of blue light phones has increased since Sunday, according to Zoner, who said about one or two students are calling for escorts each night. At Thursday’s meeting, Geoffrey Block ’14, S.A. representative atlarge, asked Chief Zoner whether she thought students should be permitted to carry weapons of self-defense, such as pepper spray. Zoner replied that her personal opinion on pepper spray is that it requires training for effective use and, even then, “doesn’t really work.” In an email sent to the entire student body Thursday, President David Skorton said the victims of the recent assaults are receiving support from University staff. He urged members of the Cornell community to report any incidents of violence that they witness or experience. “We urge members of our community… to work together toward a culture where sexual violence and intolerance are unacceptable,” Skorton said in the email. Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochaczevski@cornellsun.com.
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Karen Li ’15, president of Cornell United Against Sweatshops and a member of the LOC, said student activists on campus have joined forces in response to the alleged Adidas abuses, leading to the LOC’s decision Thursday to send a recommendation to Skorton. “The president must assess the situation and proceed how he sees fit,” said Mike Powers, director of University licensing Communications and chair of the LOC. If Cornell terminates its contract with Adidas, it would be the first university in the U.S. to do so because of labor rights violations, according to Casey Sweeney ’13, a member of the LOC. The LOC’s code of conduct states that companies under contract with the University must adhere to the local labor laws in place where their factories are located. According to Li, Adidas violated Indonesian labor laws by denying workers at its factory severance pay. “It is a blatant violation [of the LOC’s code of conduct] that [Adidas] is still refusing to pay the workers after over a year,” Li said. The LOC was first created in Spring 2010, when Nike was accused of withholding severance pay from former workers of Honduran factories
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it had closed, The Sun reported at the time. The LOC recommended that the University suspend its contract with Nike until the company agreed to pay the workers — which it ultimately did. “Cornell is once again being a leader in upholding workers’ rights in the world, as we did with Nike,” Li said. Regardless of the effect cutting ties would have on Adidas, Li said that the LOC’s main priority is the workers and their labor rights. “We have a very small contract with Adidas . . . The fact still remains that they violated our code of conduct at a pretty egregious level. It’s our priority to see that we do not maintain a business relationship with such a company,” she said. Nova added that Adidas’ failure to pay its workers is perpetuating a culture of violating labor rights. “It’s important to note that these are real people we’re talking about, people with families,” he said. “There are permanent consequences here.” “Cornell is really going to work hard to help companies realize that there is a responsibility here,” Powers added.
cially important to Cornell students, the candidate recalled a waitress he met in Jamestown, N.Y., who had a bachelor’s and a master’s degree, but was forced to work as a waitress because she was so burdened by debt. “This is the plight that college students face,” Shinagawa said. “How many of you are going to have to graduate with tens of thousands of dollars in debt?” Shinagawa said he supports President Obama’s current jobs plan, which allocates billions of dollars to infrastructure spending in schools, including technology
improvements such as new computers and projectors. Shinagawa said he hopes to focus on improving education starting at the public school level. “Most candidates will tell us that the most important issue is jobs, jobs, jobs. But in my district, there are many job openings, especially in manufacturing,” Shinagawa said. “But the real issue is that we don’t have quality people to fill those positions. We need to invest in job training and community colleges to help workers go into many fields that require additional preparation.” Shinagawa also tackled issues such as hydrofracking and carbon
taxes that have been heavily debated in New York over the last few years. He said he vigorously opposes hydrofracking — a controversial practice in which chemicals are injected into the ground at high pressures to extract natural gas — because he said that even industry leaders acknowledge that the process is not safe and can lead to contamination of water supplies. Shinagawa said after the event that he welcomed the opportunity to take a wide range of tough questions. “Wow, this was one of the deepest discussions on the issues that I’ve had on the campaign trail. That is definitely a testament to the high-quality caliber of Cornell students,” Shinagawa told The Sun. “Several people mentioned that they liked how honest I was, and even if they didn’t agree with my viewpoints, they appreciated that I was willing to say it.” Misha Checkovich ’13, a student who attended Thursday’s forum and identified herself as a Republican, said that while Shinagawa was “speaking to the Cornell Democrats, he was respectful of everyone’s concerns.” “He knew what our perspectives were and what kind of philosophies we came from, which was very thoughtful of him,” she said. Harrison Okin can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com.
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Syria’s Rebels Struggle To Tame Assad’s Air Power
MAREA, Syria (AP) — Lt. Col. Maan al-Mansour’s mission is to capture the Syrian air base where he once served. The 22-year air force veteran, who defected in June to the rebellion, led an attack by hundreds of fighters on the Kuwiras military airport last week. In a fierce battle, they hammered the base with mortar fire and rocket-propelled grenades for four hours, nearly overrunning it until they were driven back by sustained strafing and bombing by jet fighters. Al-Mansour says he’s determined to try again. Syria’s rebels have turned to a new tactic of attacking bases, trying to stop the jets and attack helicopters that have wreaked devastation on their fighters and civilians in the battleground city of Aleppo and the nearby countryside. “We are going to destroy the place that causes all this destruction,” alMansour said. “The pilots inside are my friends and I like them, but they are on the wrong side, they destroy buildings with the innocent and children inside, so when I attack the airport, I think of them.” Rebels drove the Syrian army out of the countryside north of Aleppo long ago and claim to control more than two-thirds of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, where they have battled to a standstill the regime forces trying for more than a month to uproot them. But the military is turning increasingly to its largely unchallenged air power, using its aircraft to strike in Aleppo and throughout the small towns that dot the rebel-held areas to the north. The growing reliance suggests the regime is trying to spare its elite troops of the Republican Guard and the Fourth Armored Division, which have borne the brunt of past year and a half of fighting, according to Maplecroft, a British-based risk analysis company. “The Syrian military is becoming increasingly concerned that its superiority in terms of numbers and firepower belies significant weaknesses such as troop fatigue, growing defections, and a lack of experience in irregular warfare,” it said in a recent briefing. Rebels claim to have shot down a few aircraft, but they admit there is little to do about the threat from above — so they are moving against the source. The leader of the rebel brigade doing most of the fighting in Aleppo announced Tuesday that air bases would be the new target for their forces. “We control the ground in Aleppo but the regime has the air force and controls the air,” Abdul Qadir Saleh, the field commander of the Tawhid Brigade, told journalists in Istanbul. “We will solve this by destroying airports and air bases.” Driving through the green fields of corn and olive orchards of Aleppo province, life almost seems to have returned to normal with farmers riding tractors and children playing soldier in the dusty streets of the small towns under the scorching summer sun. But every town has piles of rubble where buildings were pulverized from the air. The airstrikes have sent hundreds of thousands fleeing for the dubious safety of the Turkish border.
French Alps Slayings: Child Found 8 Hours Later ANNECY, France (AP) — French authorities struggled Thursday to explain why no one found a 4-year-old girl for eight hours at a blood-strewn crime scene as she huddled in a car under the skirt of a corpse — apparently her dead mother or grandmother. The stunning discovery Thursday of the girl, apparently unharmed, heightened the drama around a mysterious shooting rampage in the French Alps that left four adults dead and a 7-year-old girl hospitalized after being shot and brutally beaten. The reason for the slayings remained unclear a day after a cyclist came across the corpses in a wooded area near the mountain village of Chevaline. It took on increasingly international ramifications, with links emerging Thursday tying the slain family to Britain, Iraq and Sweden. Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said investigators were searching for possible perpetrators and studying all possibilities, including a score-settling attack or simply that the family was “in the wrong place at the wrong time.” The bodies of a man and two women were found shot to death in a BMW and the body of an unrelated male French cyclist was found on the ground nearby. Maillaud described a methodical killing, with three victims shot in the head. The two girls, who police said were sisters, were put under police care. The prosecutor warned there may still be a killer or killers on the loose seeking to “get rid of” witnesses to the “scene of immense savagery.” At a news conference, authorities tried to explain how the 4-yearold went unnoticed. “The girl was found totally immobile in fact on the floor of the vehicle, behind the front passenger-side seat, under the legs — under the skirt — of one of the women who were killed, around a large travel bag, totally invisible and silent, which explains why no one saw her before,” Maillaud said. Maillaud said the car was registered to a British man born in Baghdad in 1962. He said the man, who had moved to Britain in 2002, and his family had been vacationing in France since August, camping on nearby Lake Annecy. The driver was identified by the Sipa news agency as Saad al Hilli, a resident of a London suburb. The al Hilli’s camper caravan was covered in red police tape Thursday. A British retiree in the neighboring campsite said he was considering leaving after seeing the taped-up caravan, and hearing what had happened to the family that slept in it earlier this week.
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Market Milestone: U.S. Stocks Return to Late 2007 Level NEW YORK (AP) — The last time the stock market was this high, the Great Recession had just started, and stocks were pointed toward a headlong descent. But on Thursday, the Dow Jones industrial average hit its highest mark since December 2007, and the Standard & Poor’s 500 index soared to its highest level since January 2008 in a rally that marked a milestone: American stocks have come almost all the way back. A long-anticipated plan to support struggling countries in the European Union provided the necessary jolt, and the gains were extraordinarily broad. All but 13 stocks in the S&P index were up. European markets surged, too. “There’s just a sea of green,” said JJ Kinahan, TD Ameritrade’s chief derivatives strategist. “It’s pretty fun.” At the start of 2008, the U.S. economy was already a month into recession, though most people scarcely knew it at the time. The S&P had recently hit an all-time high, and the unemployment rate was 5 percent, compared with the current 8.3 percent. Then, in March 2008, the investment bank Bear Stearns collapsed under the weight of bad mortgage bets, and investors began to sell. In September, the full financial crisis took hold as Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, banks stopped lending to each other and investors began dumping stocks in earnest. By March 2009, the S&P had dropped 57 percent from its high to hit a 12-year low of 676. Since then, the index has been on an impressive if often bumpy climb. Helping to power it was unprecedented support from the Federal Reserve, which critics say has reignited a dangerous gambling spirit among professional investors, and record profits at big U.S. companies. Although stocks have rebounded, the broader economy is still lagging. But Barry Knapp, head of U.S. equity strategy at Barclays Capital, said stocks tend to anticipate the future economy rather than reflecting current conditions. So the signs are good. “It can be a misleading forecasting tool, but sometimes it’s telling you something significant,” he said. “It’s entirely possible the stock market is telling us that there is a better economic environment out there.” So could the rally help President Obama? A number of recent studies have connected a rising stock market to improved odds of re-election for the incumbent president. Since 1900, when the S&P 500 has posted gains from July to October in an election year, voters returned the sitting president to the White House 80 percent of the time, according to a study by S&P Capital IQ. But no modern president has faced re-election when unemployment was so high. President Jimmy Carter was bounced from office in 1980 when unemployment was 7.5 percent. If you started off 2008 by putting $10,000 in the S&P 500, the benchmark for most stock funds, you would now have $10,600, thanks to dividends. That’s assuming you could stomach the ride. Your initial investment fell to $9,840 six
months later, then plunged to $6,300 by the following January. Starting in 2010, companies began generating higher and higher profits despite an anemic U.S. economic recovery. In fact, companies in the S&P 500 increased net income by double-digit percentages over eight quarters in a row through the end of last year — a stretch that has surprised even Wall Street stock analysts, who are normally criticized for being too optimistic. The way companies achieved that is familiar to any of the millions of Americans who’ve lost a job in recent years: Businesses cut workers, used technology to run more efficiently, slashed spending and squeezed remaining staff. Sales to faster-growing countries in Asia also helped. Companies in the S&P 500 now generate 30 percent of their sales from overseas, Knapp said. The market's rise did hit a few roadblocks, however, most notably in the summer of 2011, when Congress was squabbling over raising debt limits and fear was mounting that the U.S. could be headed into another recession. Over one four-day stretch in August, the Dow rose or fell by 400 points each day, the first time that has happened. The S&P 500 ended flat for 2011. Then earnings rose again this year, fears over European debt crisis receded and stocks soared again. For the first three months of 2012, the Dow was up 8 percent and the S&P 12 percent, in each case the best start since the great bull market of the 1990s. The question now is whether big companies can continue to post record profits. The immediate outlook has no shortage of potential obstacles. The U.S. economy grew a tepid annual rate of 1.7 percent in the April-June period, less than half the pace of late last year. Big overseas economies, like Brazil’s and China’s, are slowing. And many countries in the 17-nation eurozone are in recession. On Thursday, the chief economist of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development said he expects even powerhouse Germany to fall into recession by the end of the year. As if that’s not bad enough, the dollar has strengthened against major currencies recently. That makes U.S. products sold in foreign currencies more expensive, cutting into overseas revenue. Thursday’s rally got momentum after the president of the European Central Bank unveiled a new program to buy government bonds from the region’s struggling countries with the aim of lowering their borrowing costs. Mario Draghi said the program will have no set limit on how much it can buy. That was just what investors needed to hear. The S&P 500 index jumped 28.68 points to 1,432.12. The Dow Jones industrial average surged 244.52 points to 13,292. The Nasdaq composite index also reach a milestone, gaining 66.54 points to close at 3,135.81, its highest level in 12 years.
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Time to Find Solutions: Taking Action Against Sexual Assault T
his past Sunday, three separate sexual assaults were reported to the Cornell University Police Department. Our thoughts are, first and foremost, in support of the survivors of these incidents. When events like these occur, it changes the lives of the survivor, their loved ones and also the community they are a part of. It is dangerous to believe that sexual violence at Cornell occurs sporadically; chances are you know someone who is a survivor of sexual violence. Rape doesn’t only occur in dark alleyways. In many instances of sexual assault on college campuses,
Sunday is the general attitude toward the assaults. It is not a subject to make jokes about and it certainly isn’t something to take lightly. It is one of the most traumatic events that can happen to someone, man or woman. Until we can start to intelligently and compassionately talk about the subject, then there is no hope of changing the environments that allow rape to occur. It is time for students to actively and articulately voice their opinions to the administration about the safety needs of our community. At the same time, we must be diligent in finding solutions. Programs like the Cayuga’s Watchers Initiative, put
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The Real Heroes and Villains
It’s been a pretty rough week. First, the VILLAINOUS MTV cancelled the HEROIC Jersey Shore. We were temporarily comforted by the talk of Vinny Guadagnino HEROICALLY enrolling at Cornell, but it was just a rumor, as was talk of the VILLAINOUS Justin Bieber enrolling. Luckily, Snookie had a HEROIC baby, so another generation of Jersey Shorers lives on (Class of 2034?). Despite our disappointment, Biebs not coming was probably for the best. He likely would have been VILLAINOUSLY crammed in a forced quintuplet or lounge turned dorm room. We all know he needs his beauty sleep to maintain that HEROIC coiffure. Fortunately, we can all drown our sorrows at the HEROIC Bear’s Den, which opened this Wednesday. With a new watering hole on campus, maybe the lonely graduate students will be less VILLAINOUS when grading our papers. But still, with HEROIC one dollar drafts at The Big Red Barn, we think grad life looks pretty sweet. Meanwhile, VILLAINOUS undergrads have trashed Collegetown, upset by the new lack of pizza. But it’s OK: CTP is HEROICALLY reopening. Cayuga’s Watchers will also start roaming around Collegetown, keeping an eye on the goings on. We can’t decide if this will be HEROIC or VILLAINOUS, but it sure is creepy. All this activity in Collegetown will probably lead to a lot of business for the HEROIC new tattoo shop. We can’t wait to see how many people have YOLO tattooed on their wrist by year’s end. Speaking of living only once, a bunch of HEROIC student activists worked to organize a “Don’t Frack New York” rally against VILLAINOUS hydrofracking. These movers and shakers were able to collect 3,000 signatures in three weeks to send to Cuomo to petition against fracking in New York. But what side of HEROES and VILLAINS will Cuomo come out on? Yet another student was HEROIC this week. A descendant of Ezra Cornell saved an injured woman after a dangerous gorge jump. The gorges can sometimes pose a VILLAINOUS threat, good thing we have to take that HEROIC swimming test. Maybe after news of all these HEROIC students, Vinny and Biebs will finally change their minds.
perpetrators are also acquaintances. Coercion may take place on a dance floor or under the influence of alcohol or controlled substances. Sexual violence can happen between strangers, acquaintances and even in close relationships. This past year, the Judicial Administrator heard a record number of sexual assault cases. The incidents last Sunday are another reminder of the significance of this problem. We are only aware of a small fraction of the overall number of incidents Cornell, leaving a larger number of unreported sexual assaults. Our best defense against sexual assault is twofold; while administrators ensure that students are safe and protected on campus, students must engage in meaningful dialogue about what constitutes consent. We cannot assume that Cornell’s status as an Ivy League institution protects us from violent crime. This false belief must be eliminated with increased safety precautions and programs, which will help students feel safe on campus and in Collegetown. Education and honest conversations about the issue of sexual assault on our campus are necessary if we seek to ameliorate this terrible problem. The worst and most dangerous thing about what happened on
forward by S.A. President Adam Gitlin, are perfect examples of how students can have an active part in keeping our community safe. Maybe it is time for the administration to put forward concrete plans in educating all incoming and current students about sexual assault. Students can and should be the first line of defense. All of us deserve to give consent to whomever we CHOOSE to have sex with, and each and every one of us deserves to say no. Until we respect the person whom we are sleeping with, then the potential for unsatisfactory, and even unwanted, sexual encounters will still occur. It’s a problem that affects everyone, so let’s make everyone part of the solution. Geoffrey Block ’13, Rachael Blummenthal ’13, Shuangyi Hou ’13, Allie Riggs ’13 and Bidgette Wunder ’14 contributed writing to this piece.
Leah Salgado graduated in 2012 from the College of Arts and Sciences. She works in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She may be reached at les236@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.
CORRECTION A news story Wednesday, “Work for Cornell Chemistry Class ‘Exhausting’ for Prof., Too,” contained several errors. It inaccurately quoted Prof. Barbara Baird Ph.D. ’79, chemistry, as saying coordinating the logistics of the class, CHEM 2070, is almost impossible. In fact, she said it was a challenging, but manageable, task. The article also misquoted Prof. Hector Abruña, chemistry, as saying he is not eager to relive the process of teaching the class. In fact, Abruña did not say this. Additionally, the story incorrectly stated both the number of students taught by the chemistry department and the number of students allowed to enroll in lab sections for CHEM 2070. In fact, the department teaches 6,000 students per year, not 2,500, and each lab section can have 22 students, not 20.
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Cornell’s Very Own Paris Hiltons And Kim Kardashians
bout a month ago, many Cornellians on Facebook began to share a blog post titled “Betches Love This College: Cornell University.” Naturally, my interest in posts related to campus culture such as this one compelled me to read the interesting piece, which basically describes our university from the eyes of a “betch.” Many of you may not
in any study. Cornell may have zero presidents of the United States, but heck, we even have the founding betches, or as they call themselves, the “Head Betches.” These Head Betches are like some type of prophets and, through their blog, they spread their word to betches around the world. In this manner, they lead “the uninformed mass-
Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo I Respectfully Dissent know the term “betch,” but do not worry, because as the blog explains “you definitely know the girl.” Why should you know the girl? Well, because Cornell is the mecca of betches. We have a massive variety of betches: from tall to small; from the United States to any other part of the world; and from old to young. This of course, is just to name a few categories, because the truth is that Cornell’s betches are more diverse than our entire student body taken as a whole. Ezra Cornell would certainly be proud to know that, in the institution he founded, a betch could be found getting instruction
es to enlightenment and self-actualization” in relation to the betch movement. What a noble cause to undertake! To be the president of the United States, you just need to have a rich father that went to Yale. However, to lead a group of betches, you need two things. First, “your awesomeness and grandeur [has to be] bestowed upon you by all the powerful forces in the universe.” Second, and most importantly, you need a lot of spare time. I suppose the Head Betches’ minds are so complex and mysterious that their thoughts cannot be conveyed in a human language without being corrupted. I
believe this is the case because their definition of what is a betch is not actually a definition, but rather a 320-word text that describes characteristics that a betch must have. My favorite is the first one: A betch “has everything figured out.” You may ask yourself, what is everything? Well, according to the Head Betches’ sacred scriptures, everything ranges from “never waiting in line at a club or a bar” to wearing “the best clothes and … pulling off risqué, cool outfits without looking like a whore, or Lady Gaga.” You know, really important stuff that only a worthy group of people can accomplish. I appreciated the Head Betches’ post about Cornell because it offers a detailed account of our University’s culture, as interpreted by a betch. The poor Head Betches probably never wrote more than 500 words for an essay during their college careers. However, they were able to write an extensive 2,300 word text that talks about making out with hot lacrosse dads on the lacrosse weekend and Skorton ruining their high with condolence emails. But you know what people say, it is easier to write something when you actually enjoy the topic. Based on the piece, it is not hard to guess where the Head Betches’ priorities lie. To the betches out there reading this, you may think that I am a hater for writing this, but I am not. I swear. I am actually a lover. I love all of you because you
are fun and a great source of entertainment. As mentioned in the blog, a betch’s life is “like an episode of The Hills, always involving some sort of drama.” Although GDI’s will probably cure cancer in the future, and (hopefully) solve the nation’s economic challenges, the truth is that they are boring. You girls, on the other hand, are fun and interesting. Why watch Gossip Girl on Netflix when I can see you guys live? I remember like yesterday a crude cold Friday night that I went to eat at CTP, a.k.a. the Meat Market. As I was sitting at the table, I heard something that sounded like liquid dripping onto the floor. When I looked, a betch was so drunk that she literally started peeing on the floor without realizing it. It made my semester. I like to think of you betches as Cornell’s very own Paris Hiltons and Kim Kardashians. This is certainly a job that not a lot of people can do, but you girls pull it off, somehow. And that is something that I find very respectable. For that, I thank you. But, please, do not say that “betchiness is about gaining success in a man’s world, while still being hot and fun and envied;” it is not. If you really want to do that, then stop being betch. Abdiel Ortiz-Carrasquillo is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at aortiz@cornellsun.com. I Respectfully Dissent appears alternate Fridays this semester.
Textbooks Too Expensive? How the Supreme Court Might Make It Worse C
hances are that this semester you paid hundreds of dollars for textbooks and related materials. Depending on an upcoming ruling from the Supreme Court, the prices you pay for these materials might get even worse. Supap Kirtsaeng, who received a mathematics degree from Cornell, was studying for his Ph.D in California when he thought of an ingenious way to make money: selling Thai textbooks to American college students. In countries like Thailand, American publishers sell cheaper copies of American textbooks, essentially lowering their profit margins on each textbook in order to sell them to students in poorer countries. These foreign textbooks are exactly the same as American textbooks in terms of content, except that they are sometimes made with cheaper materials. Because the price difference between American and Thai textbooks can be large, there’s significant money to be made in selling these cheaper textbooks to American students. Accordingly, Kirtsaeng had friends in Thailand mail him cheap Thaiedition textbooks, which he sold to students on eBay for insanely cheap prices. Predictably, Kirtsaeng’s profits made textbook publishers like Wiley angry — after all, Kirtsaeng was cutting into their geographically segregated business model. Thus, Wiley sued Kirtsaeng in 2008. So far, Wiley has won. The New York District Court and the Court of Appeals both held that Kirtsaeng violated copyright by selling Thai edition textbooks in America. In doing so, both courts held that Kirtsaeng could not avail himself to the “first sale doctrine” — a doctrine which allows consumers to re-sell copyrighted or trademarked products that they have legally purchased from a copyright / trademark holder without being in violation of copyright. According to those courts, the first sale doctrine only applies to goods sold within the U.S. — meaning that no-one can import and sell a copyrighted / trademarked good intended only for foreign audiences without the permission of the copyright / trademark owner. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Kirtsaeng’s case next month. The idea that the first sale doctrine only covers prod-
ucts “intended” to be sold in America should worry you a great deal. After all, global price discrimination allows companies to make their products arbitrarily more expensive in America, and importers like Kirtsaeng made those products much cheaper than they would have been otherwise. Take, for example, Costco. Costco, like Kirtsaeng, buys products from the “gray market” — that is, they buy genuine goods sold cheaply in foreign countries intended only for foreign consumers. Costco then sells those gray market goods in America for cheaper than the companies sell them. Costco used to do this with a variety of luxury goods, including Omega watches — at least, until Omega sued them in 2007, using substantially the same legal arguments as Wiley. There’s a reason why big names like Costco are involved in the gray market: countless companies’ price discriminate. Companies like Levi’s make a lot of their profit selling jeans that cost $30 in America for $150 in Japan. A lot of other American clothiers — including the Gap, Ralph Lauren and Nike — do the exact same thing, principally because their clothing has taken on a uniquely fashionable status on the streets of Tokyo. Naturally, many Japanese companies have similar business models: Japanese companies often sell Japanese-made clothing to American fashionistas for up to two times the price it goes for in Haraujuku or Shibuya. There are legitimate reasons why companies may want to regionally segregate prices. Because demand for products varies wildly depending on location, if companies are allowed to control the importation of their products, companies can adjust regional prices to meet local demand and to accommodate for shipping expenses. Moreover, if companies like Costco continue to import cheaper versions of manufacturers’ goods from
foreign countries, manufacturers may globally inflate prices in order to guarantee a certain level of profitability from their goods, and this could hurt poorer consumers. There are also some industries that have unique problems that are solved by global import limitations, regardless of the prices affixed to the products. For example, in Russia, movie studios often sell strippeddown “R5” DVD editions of movies currently in American theaters because Russian consumers almost always pirate (and thus do not pay for) movies unless they are available for purchase immediately at release. In other words, through import control, movie studios can tailor their sales strategy to meet the unique market issues — and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Kirk Sigmon Barely Legal What will happen if the Supreme Court holds that Kirtsaeng cannot avail himself to the first sale doctrine? Companies will be given free reign to price segregate all they want, for both good and for bad. Textbook manufacturers could potentially sell a book in Thailand for $1 and in America for $1,000, and there is little you could do about it. Let’s just hope that the Supreme Court remembers that even they were students once.
Kirk Sigmun is a third-year law student at Cornell Law School. He may be reached at kas468@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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BY KATHERINE CARRENO Sun Staff Writer
When we think of puppet shows, we often think of children’s entertainment — humorous and endearing visual narratives with some cleverly disguised moral in the hope that our children will become well-rounded citizens. For me, shadow puppets bring to mind the tried and tested tactics for making your kids “Go the fuck to sleep!” (narration by Samuel L. Jackson not needed) or providing some form of entertainment when the power goes out, especially if that’s a regular occurrence (fond memories of Grandma’s house in the Dominican Republic). So I was surprised to learn that shadow puppetry has been practiced for centuries. The earliest references to this ancient art form have been found on Central Javanese stone inscriptions from the early 10th century, according to Elizabeth Emrich grad, history of art. Emrich was instrumental in the curation of Shadowlands: Arjuna’s Meditative Journey at the Johnson Museum. Here, you will find many colorful and unique representations of this Indonesian tale adapted from the Mahabharata, the famous Hindu epic. The exhibition was curated by students from the Shadowplay seminar taught by Prof. Kaja McGowan, history of art. The ornately decorated Javanese and Balinese puppets are early to mid-20th century examples of the Indonesian art form of shadow puppetry or wayang. The puppets are made of cured water buffalo hide and horn by dalang, puppeteers who have received training in the art of wayang from a very young age. They are shaped and p a i n t e d according to each character’s wanda, the aesthetic conventions of the character they are meant to portray — often deities and demigods of the local Javanese or Balinese folklore. Paper-thin and two-dimensional, the puppets resemble meticulously detailed stencils. At first glance, their slender and bony frames almost rekindle
childhood nightmares. The imagined silhouette would be something with a slightly hunched back and slitted eyes — vaguely human in shape, but exuding a sinister aura. However, on a closer look, you will appreciate the infinitesimal details that the craftsman probably agonized over for hours. Delicate filigree cut-out patterns adorn their garb and prove instrumental in the real visual delight of shadow play. The puppets are so thin it’s a wonder they don’t tear at the puppet master’s slightest manipulation of a limb. Their colors of black, white, gold and red are vital in understanding the characters’ representation. A white puppet possess youth, beauty and inexperience. A black-faced puppet indicates the maturity and coveted wisdom attained through many hours of meditation and spiritual connection. A gold puppet exudes the regality and esteem often associated with the black face of spiritual maturity. Representations of Arjuna’s Meditative Journey from Balinese and Javanese culture also include the mediums of embroidered story cloths and paintings that feature recognizably human depictions of Arjuna and the accompanying characters. They also seem to involve more creative license as the colors used like pink, green, yellow, orange and purple contrast with the common earth tones used in painting the puppets. As for the famous epic, Arjuna’s story is one of spiritual resolve, temptation and filial piety. He embarks on a meditational quest, hoping to gain the enlightenment needed to defeat a rival family. Whilst meditating, he is seduced by seven celestial nymphs. Keeping his resolve, Arjuna continues to meditate. He awakens to defend the most beautiful nymph from the lust of an evil titan, succeeds and is rewarded by
being allowed to marry all of the celestial nymphs, and yes, this includes seven times the wedding rites. His sojourn in “paradise” is short, however, as Arjuna decides that he must get back to his earthly family and the responsibilities in that realm. Sounds like a lot to process for your average puppet show? As Emrich explains, these traditional narratives involve characters that the Javanese and Balinese know from childhood, and this appeal extends into adulthood as the narratives evolve in their context and maturity, just as real life becomes more and more hectic, “They’re complicated stories, and the layers of complexity in character interactions become more nuanced as you rack up more of your own life experiences.” It’s almost as if the stories grow up with you. In this cultural context, the stories and characters are never very far away from one’s life. Wayang shows are usually performed in rural areas to mark important religious and social events such as births and marriages. Traditional shows run all night and are accompanied by live music. The show itself is a multi-dimensional experience, as Emrich explains, “The way the puppets are carved and decorated is actually quite important for the puppet show, especially when they are seen from the shadow side. Light is stationed behind the puppets, and then the … dalang manipulates them in front of a translucent screen, so that all you see are the shadow outlines of the figures. The filigree becomes a lace shadow, which is pretty amazing looking. The painted decoration on the puppets is important for the audience watching from the puppeteer’s side, so that they don’t see the shadows, but rather the puppets themselves.” Wayang is enjoyed by all social classes but at the wedding of a wealthy person, formal guests may be invited to sit on the shadow side of the show. I left the exhibit wondering what a wayang show would look like, ultimately deciding that I’d like to be on the puppeteer’s side, viewing the puppets in their true, vibrantly painted forms. I just couldn’t imagine my childhood shadow puppet bunny on such complex a meditative journey. It just wouldn’t feel right. Katherine Carreno is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted kcarreno@cornellsun.com.
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Satirical Shteyngart Sure to Delight BY ALICE WANG Sun Staff Writer
The way Gary Shteyngart predicts the future in his black comedy dystopian novel, Super Sad True Love Story, we’ll all die clutching our iPhone-like “apparats” in a post-literate world, genitalia visible through our trendy transparent Onionskin jeans. What a way to go. If Brave New World and any one of George Saunders’ short stories had a baby, Super Sad would be its love child. Witty, facetious and eerily plausible, Super Sad True Love Story has won over many critics, and today, Shytengart is coming to Cornell to let his work win you over too. The always amusing, best-selling author will read excerpts from his third and latest novel, Super Sad True Love Story. Any zany Russian dude who hobnobs with Anthony Bourdain and extols the virtues of carnivorism should be universally fascinating in my book. Our mutual admiration for Shanghainese soup dumplings was enough to have me swooning, but the man’s got an entire iPhone app intended to semi-stalk him and his work. If my brief correspondence with him is any indication of the riotous time to be had today, then for once I can vouch an academia-sponsored event might take precedence over that Friday afternoon pre-debauchery nap. See for yourself. THE SUN: In past literary readings, you’ve been known to really go for it. The whole song and dance bit. Multiple heavy accents. Will you be doing that today? GARY SHTEYNGART: Of course. You’ll really get your money’s worth. SUN: In Super Sad True Love Story, you create this dystopian New York consumed by media and retail. What part of that world do you believe is truly possible and what part was simply for the sake of satire? G.S.: It’s not just possible, lots of it is already here. OK
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Cupid has a function that allows you to scope out hotties in the same bar you’re in. There are transparent jeans on the way. Basically, I’m like a prophet of two months from now. A very minor Nostradamus. SUN: In the novel, you seem to make some funny jabs at some political topics, such as America’s dependence on Chinese loans and America’s eagerness to engage in warfare. How important are these issues to you in real life? G.S.: I’m pretty dependent on Chinese loans myself, but I’m not all too eager to engage in warfare given that I’m 5’6” on a good day and weigh 135 pounds. SUN: In your trailer for Super Sad, you seem to play a kind of Borat-type character, this fumbling immigrant capitalizing on the literary world’s pretensions for your own financial gain. It’s satirical for sure and particularly effective in a reverse psychology kind of way. Did you come up with the premise? How did you get James Franco and Jeffrey Eugenides on board to cameo? Was it difficult to get it produced as something that might confuse readers new to your style? G.S.: Hey, 237,000 hits, right? Though most of them for Mr. Franco, who was a student of mine [at Columbia University], and Jeffrey E. is a friend. One of the themes of Super Sad is illiteracy and I thought, hey, what if I was a writer who never learned how to read? SUN: Many of your works, especially Super Sad True Love Story, seem equal parts sad and equal parts funny. Why is that? Are you equal parts sad and equal parts funny? G.S.: I’m mostly sad with a little bit of funny in real life. Imagine bitter kale topped with a maraschino cherry. SUN: What’s the difference between you after your first novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, and you now? G.S.: Hair loss. Lots and lots of hair loss. SUN: Who are your crushes? G.S.: I have a literary crush on Margaret Atwood. SUN: Besides your working writing beloved book blurbs
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(of which an entire Tumblr is dedicated to their pithiness), is there a new novel on the horizon? G.S.: Because the average life expectancy of a Russian man is 56, I have started to work on my memoirs. SUN: You’ve mentioned to me you almost went to Cornell three times in your life. As a prospective undergraduate, why did you apply to the hotel school of all places? G.S.: Hospitality is my middle name! I’ve always wanted to say, “Welcome to the Dubuque Holiday Inn. My name is Gary Shteyngart and “ll be assisting you with check-in today.” Oh, god, why did I become a writer? Gary Shteyngart will speak at Schwartz Auditorium in Rockefeller Hall at 3 p.m. today. Alice Wang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at awang@cornellsun.com.
2009 Strikes Back
h, I remember 2009. Perhaps nostalgia is getting the best of me here, but it was a very good year, especially for music. Animal Collective gave us the brilliant Merriweather Post Pavilion, Dirty Projectors put out the singular Bitte Orca, The xx delivered its sexy self-titled debut, Grizzly Bear pumped out the meticulously crafted Veckatimest and Japandroids reminded us that ragged rock and roll could still be a lot of fun with Post-Nothing (this is not to forget excellent releases from Phoenix, St. Vincent, Raekwon and Real Estate, among scores of others). As a budding young music fan, it was a time for expansion, openmindedness and, of course, excellent concerts. It was the first time I truly felt that the time we were experiencing was musically important; that some incredible things were going on and I could be a part of it. So, overall, it was a kickass time to be a high school music nerd. 2012’s release list, though, was eerily familiar. Bands whose best work had been released in 2009 were coming back with a vengeance. Hiatuses had ended and it seemed like we were due for another crop of grand releases that pushed boundaries and changed the musical landscape as we knew it. Consider this something of a progress report, giving a succinct then and now for 2009’s premier acts and releases. We’ll see which groups aged like a fine wine and which aged more like, say, two percent milk. BAND: Animal Collective. THEN: Merriweather Post Pavilion was released on January 6, 2009. Even so, it was immediately dubbed by the blogosphere as the album of the year. This was far from unwarranted: Merriweather was a masterstroke, a meditation on familial themes combined with sonic exploration amidst beautifully reverberating drums and vocals. It evoked comparisons to Pet Sounds and featured perhaps the greatest song ever written about the joys of home ownership, “My Girls.” Moments of quiet were followed by chaotically cathartic tracks like “Brothersport.” It was Animal
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Collective expanding on the pop mastery they had shown only in glimpses before; it was phenomenal. NOW: Astute readers of The Sun’s Art and Entertainment section know exactly how I feel about Centipede Hz, but, for those who missed it, here’s a brief summary: loud, noisy, busy, meandering and, ultimately, underwhelming. Gone are the danceable jams that made Merriweather so transcendent. Instead, we got overcrowded sound collages that will still be super fun to take drugs to (if you’re into that) in a live setting. BAND: Dirty Projectors. THEN: Following an experimental release where songwriter and musical director Dave Longstreth attempted to recreate Black Flag’s epochal hardcore release Rise Above from memory (admittedly a very, very challenging listen), Bitte Orca was an unexpected stroke of genius from Dirty Projectors. Combining West African rhythms, Jimmy Page guitar leads and dense-as-hell vocal harmonies, it was a unique synthesis that garnered comparisons to everyone from Talking Heads to Beyonce. While Bitte Orca avoided easy categorization, it still offered some easily digestible hits. “Stillness is the Move,” propelled by a star turn by vocalist Angel Deradoorian, was the perennial favorite, inviting booties to shake verily, and “Two Doves” was the tender ballad that reminded us
James Rainis Getting Heinous that, oh yeah, Dave Longstreth is classically trained. NOW: Swing Lo Magellan does not disappoint whatsoever. The songwriting and performance is decidedly looser, but this allows songs like “Offspring Are Blank” and “Swing Lo Magellan” to breathe. There are still the requi-
site left turns, but Longstreth and company essentially refine and relax their unique sound and methodology. It’s a refreshing release that features plenty of Longstreth’s guitar acrobatics and compositional cleverness without getting overly ambitious. Take note, Animal Collective. BAND: The xx. THEN: Sparse and delicate, xx was notable for how damn sexy it sounded. Songs like “VCR” sounded like really great pillow talk: somewhat vague (“you just know, you just do”) and delivered with a sense of longing that convinced most of us that vocalists Romy Madley-Croft and Oliver Sims were banging (unfortunately for indie rock tabloids, they aren’t and aren’t likely to start anytime soon). Jamie xx’s production emphasized space and economy (Who needs two guitar lines when there could be one? Why can’t two quarter-notes on a hi-hat be a suitable fill?). Every track felt measured in the best way possible, allowing the entire record to boil over with an almost unstated emotional (and sexual) tension. NOW: Given Jamie xx’s excellent solo and remix work, Coexist ran the risk of becoming the Jamie xx show. Luckily for fans of xx’s sensual vocal interplay, Jamie once again eases on the throttle and allows for the romantic leads to do their thing. Lyrically, they seem to be focusing a little more on L-O-V-E rather than getting freaky, so it takes a little bit of the sex and danger out of the proceedings. It’s still impeccably crafted and, after only a couple of listens, has already begun to grow on me. BAND: Grizzly Bear. THEN: Veckatimest was a very good record that was pushed over the top by what can only be described as impeccable production. Snares rattled, guitar strings buzzed and pianos sounded as if they were being pounded next to your head. Ed Droste and Daniel Rossen traded vocal turns on songs padded with gorgeous string arrangements contributed by none other than indie’s favorite contemporary composer Nico Muhly. A triumph of design and execution, this was indie pop taken to its intellectual extreme.
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NOW: Shields, Grizzly Bear’s follow-up to Veckatimest, has, unfortunately, yet to be released, but preview singles “Sleeping Ute” and “Yet Again” hint at greater psychedelic overtones and a little bit more drive, giving us all reason to get excited for the upcoming weeks. Veckatimest with more rock? Yes, please. BAND: Japandroids. THEN: Post-Nothing was the scrappy little album that could. Despite its seeming brevity (just eight songs?) and sparse instrumentation (“Just guitar and drums? What is this White Stripes shit?”), it was an excessively charming debut that stood out because of its shagginess and its penchant for not over-intellectualizing things. Instead of lyrics, these guys had repetitious mantras that embraced youthful topics like leaving town, sunshine girls and staying “crazy forever.” In a year where critical darlings were pushing boundaries, it was invigorating to hear something so simple and wonderful. NOW: Celebration Rock is a statement of intent, a grand rock album in an era where we usually make fun of grand rock albums. “Nights of Wine and Roses” is the soundtrack to that first shotgunned beer, “Younger Us” is an ode to prolonging immaturity and “Adrenaline Nightshift” is a memorial to every night out ever. An album about being on the cusp of adulthood and not yet having anything to live for, Celebration Rock is what you should be listening to right now. Right. Now. James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com. Getting Heinous appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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ACROSS 1 Musician Ocasek et al. 5 See 15-Across 9 Cavaradossi’s love 14 When some deadlocks are resolved, briefly 15 With 5-Across, barely 16 Racing venue near Windsor Castle 17 Inferior swim? 19 Quick trip 20 Ran out of patience 21 Column affording views 23 Shirt size: Abbr. 24 Novelist Glyn 26 Impertinent camera movement? 29 Shoved off 31 Cried 32 Half a tuba sound 34 Oafs 35 Burly Green Bay gridder? 40 Split 42 Calypso cousin 43 Shackle 46 Kind of offer that saves time 52 Canine telling bad jokes? 54 Over 55 “He’s mine, __ am his”: “Coriolanus” 56 “Get __”: 1967 Esquires hit 58 GPS precursor 59 Critical 62 Suspicious wartime sight? 64 Wonderland cake words 65 Urgent letters 66 Behold, to Caesar 67 “Golf Begins at Forty” author 68 Asian holidays 69 Starting point DOWN 1 Megabucks
2 Sniff 3 Make the cut together? 4 Oktoberfest souvenirs 5 Dawn rival 6 Menu choice 7 Receipts, e.g. 8 High-strung sorts 9 New Jersey casino, with “The” 10 Mama bear, in Madrid 11 Henry Moore, e.g. 12 Joined a line, in a way 13 Shows up 18 Old congregating locale 22 “Like, no kidding!” 25 Scream 27 Prepare to fire 28 Noel 30 Powell’s “The Thin Man” co-star 33 Gitmo guards
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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)
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Dallas Cowboys Outplay N.Y.Giants, Run Away With 24-17 Victory want that mentality to leave it all out there.” DeMarco Murray rushed for 129 yards and the defense sacked Eli Manning three times. For Ogletree, the night was a special homecoming. “I felt really good when I woke up this morning, I had great meetings, got to go see my brother,” said Ogletree, who grew up in the New York borough of Queens. “Really good vibes today.” When the Cowboys were threatened late — a spot in which they often have folded against the Giants — Romo hit Ogletree for 15 yards on third down to clinch it. That gave Ogletree 114 yards on eight catches; he had 25 receptions for 294 yards and no scores entering the game. “I’m close to home, so it’s a good feeling,” Ogletree said. “But Dallas is my home now.” On his 40-yard TD, Ogletree broke free by thoroughly fooling New York’s top cornerback, Corey Webster to start the second half — the kind of big play the Cowboys couldn’t make enough of in that Jan. 1 showdown that ended their season. And they got another huge play from Murray, who broke two tackles in the backfield, scooted down the right sideline for 48
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yards, and set up Dan Bailey’s 33-yard field goal for a 17-10 lead through three quarters. After Manning connected with former Cowboys tight end Martellus Bennett for a 9-yard touchdown with 2:36 remaining, Dallas never gave the ball back. “Take a bite out of humble pie, that’s basically what it is,” Giants coach Tom Coughlin said. “It brings you right back down to earth.” Ahmad Bradshaw, scored on a 10-yard run for New York after receiver Domenik Hixon made a spectacular leaping grab for 39 yards over two defenders. Romo hit Bryant in stride over Webster down the right sideline for a 38-yard gain on third down in the second quarter. Two plays later, he sidestepped the pass rush and lobbed to a wide-open Ogletree for a 10-yard score that made it 7-3 at halftime. “We’re judged by winning and losing,”Romo said. “So the best thing was going on the road and getting a win. Not only a win, but it was against a division rival and obviously against the world champs. I don't know how many times teams go in and beat them in that first game of the year. It's a tough atmosphere, a tough game. Our team grinded it out and did good.”
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becoming the first NFL champion to lose the now-traditional midweek kickoff game in its nine-year existence. “I don't think we played up to our potential at all,” defensive end Osi Umenyiora said. “Obviously they were prepared and they fought, and all the credit in the world goes to that team. They played a very good game today.” And the field officials did their part. It was feared they would be a big factor with the league’s lockout of the regulars. But there were no controversies, no blatant mistakes or rampant confusion. “No problems, just as we said there wouldn't be,” league executive Ray Anderson said at halftime. Nothing changed in the second half. Many Cowboys credited Witten’s presence with lifting their spirits and their performance. “Sometimes you don't care about yourself, you go out and play for the guys,” DeMarcus Ware said. “It was emotional. We were all behind him when he said he would play.” Witten, who had two catches for 10 yards, didn’t think it was such a big deal. “I think and hope every other player on our team would do the same thing,” he said. “At this point in your career, you
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since we have been there so I think that is the ultimate one to try and reach. I think that the one that you put on top of that is finishing in the top half of the Ivy League,” Farmer said. In addition to a new coach, the makeup of the team looks drastically different this year than it did last season. With an influx of new talent in the form of 10 new freshmen and the return of many talented upperclassmen, including senior tricaptains Maneesha Chitanvis and Jayann Gabrio and junior tri-captain Tori Christ, the Red seems prepared to take on the compe-
tition that lie ahead and hopefully succeed. “I think that Jayann Gabrio, senior captain, central defender, will be an important piece in the back. She also adds some offense to that, she scored a goal on a free kick … I think that she will be an important piece back there,” Farmer said. “I also think that Maneesha Chitanvis up front will be important. She has very good footwork and is shooting the ball well right now … And then Rachel Nichols in the midfield. She is a skillful, little, creative player.” The new coaching staff, the new dynamic freshmen and the more experienced returning players seem ready to approach this season dif-
ferently than has ever been done before. “I think that some of it is a change of culture for them. I think they need to somehow get out of the mindset that they are struggling to win games and stuff. Not on purpose, I think I do things really differently than the previous coach,” Farmer said. “It seems like up until yesterday there was a lot of teaching and not much training … We have had to approach it as an educational exercise for a while and that is sort of where we focus our stuff.”
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Rockin’ the red | Senior goaltender Rick Pflasterer said that fan support is an important factor in how a team performs on the field.
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Changing culture | Head coach Patrick Farmer said that the Red has been spending the majority of its time focusing on teaching aspects of the game, rather than technical training.
“Every player individually knows that they need to take care of their own piece of the puzzle and keep improving day to day,” he said. “I expect us to be better on Friday than we were last Sunday.” On Sunday, the Red will have its home opener, playing against Buffalo. Cornell has tried to remain focused on its Friday game though, making sure to do all it can to beat Lafayette. “It’s always huge to get a big home crowd, but for this weekend we’re just worried about Friday right now,” Pflasterer said. “Lafayette does get some fans out to their games, so playing out on the road is always tough.”
What Plasterer said is indicative of something the team is ready to admit: fan presence at games plays an important factor in the team’s performance on the field. According to Williams, the team hopes that its home opener on Sunday includes a large turnout amongst Cornell soccer fans. “It brings additional energy that you don’t always feel on the road,” Williams said. “It’s nice to play in front of people you know.” The Red will play Lafayette this Friday at Oaks Stadium in Easton, Pa. and then return home for a game against Buffalo on Sunday at Berman Field. Alex Gatto can be reached at agatto@cornellsun.com.
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CROSS COUNTRY
Red Kicks Off 2012 Season In Tri-Meet By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer
After a summer’s worth of training, the men’s and women’s cross country teams are set to commence their season with a threeway meet with Army and Binghamton today at West Point. Senior co-captain Katie Kellner was more than pleased with how hard the runner have been conditioning themselves up to this point. “[Training has] been tremendous,” she said. “We’ve done big, difficult workouts as a team. We went out a couple miles outside of Ithaca and did 1.5 mile repeats, and it looked great.” According to men’s cross country assistant coach Zeb Lang ’03, his team trained hard all summer and is now making a transition from its summer workout regimen to preparing for its first race. “A lot of our top guys were running anywhere between 100 and 115 miles per week during the summer,” he said. “We’re starting to transition from some of the base training we did over the summer now into race mode.” Women’s cross country head coach Artie Smith ’96 spoke about starting the season against Army, describing the tradition dating back to before his days running for Cornell. “We’ve begun our season with Army since before I was a student here,” he said.
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Get on their level | Under head coach Artie Smith, the women’s cross country team is entering the 2012 season ranked No. 30 in the nation. “We’ve added Binghamton as a new school — it’s a three-way meet.” According Kellner, the opening meet of the season offers an opportunity to evaluate where the team is coming out of the summer. “The first meet is always important to see where everyone is,” she said. “It gives us a sense of where we’ll be for the rest of the season.” Lang said that he is especially excited at the prospect of seeing where the newest members to the team are. “It’s going to give me a great opportunity to evaluate some of my freshmen,” he said. “We’ve got a strong class of newcomers.”
For Kellner, the meet offers her the opportunity to return to the competitive racing that she said she loves to take part in. “[I’m looking forward to] being able to race again,” she said. “I love racing, and I’m looking forward to have this chance to work out kinks before some more serious and competitive meets.” Both the men’s and women’s teams have the potential to be very competitive this year. The women’s team enters the season with the No. 30-overall ranking nationwide. According to Smith, the women are looking forward to the entire season. “This group has high aspirations this season,” he said. “They were very successful
last year and are doing a very good job of taking confidence from last year and looking ahead. They want to be very competitive nationally.” Lang, one of the newest additions to the Red’s coaching staff, expressed how excited he is about starting the season, as well as the opportunity to coach for his Alma Mater. “I’m really pumped about this team,” he said. “This is a special opportunity. I ran for Cornell and have graduated, and now to have the opportunity to come back and coach is just amazing.” Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.
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C.U.Will Play Penn State for First Time in Program History By SHAYAN SALAM Sun Staff Writer
This Sunday the field hockey team will travel to University Park, Pa. to face Penn State in a big, early season test. The Red (0-3) will be looking to get its first win of the season against the No. 8-ranked Nittany Lions (3-1). The Red recently suffered a couple of one-goal losses at the
hands of Lock Haven and Bucknell. Sunday would mark the first time that the Red and Penn State have faced off in history. A against the Nittany Lions would give the Red a win over its highest ranked opponent in program history. On Wednesday the Red suffered a narrow 2-1 defeat at Bucknell, in which the opposition scored a pair of late goals in order to claim the victory. Despite a
strong presence by the Red during certain periods of the game, the Bison managed to control some crucial parts of the match. Despite the loss, one performance that the Red could rally behind was junior cocaptain Carolyn Horner's game in net. Even though Bucknell scored two goals, Horner saved 10 other shots on goal. Her stalwart attitude in goal will come in
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handy on Sunday when the Red attempts to contain the Nittany Lions' offensive threats. Penn State is coming off a Big 10 tournament championship this past year and will be led on the attack by senior forward Kelsey Amy. By spearheading victories over Old Dominion and Virginia, Amy earned accolades as a Big Ten Offensive Player of the Week. The Nittany Lions will be anchored by senior goalkeeper Ayla Halus. Matching her classmate Amy, Halus nabbed the Big Ten Defensive Player of the Week award after some strong performances last week. Penn State was ranked ninth in a preseason poll and faces a challenging schedule this year with 5 scheduled opponents being ranked top 10 teams during the preseason. In order to prepare for the Penn State threat and hone the team’s focus for the game, the Red will turn to its four captains. Senior forward Kat DiPastina, as well as her senior co-captains, midfielder Genevieve Collins and defender Paige Mollineaux will look to rally the team in the outfield, while Horner will need to give a strong performance in net and serve as an on-field general from the back line. All four players bring a variety of talent and character to the table and serve as leaders on a team. The hard work that the players have been putting into their practices this year has not shown on paper yet; however, Sunday will be an opportunity to add a notch to the wins column. The game will start at 2 p.m. at the Penn State Field Hockey Complex. Shayan Salam can be reached at ssalam@cornellsun.com.
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Red Prepares to Face Off Against Lafayette, Buffalo By ALEX GATTO Sun Staff Writer
After winning the first two games of its season in California last weekend, Cornell (2-0-0) has its sights set on the its game against Lafayette tonight. The Red is hoping to pick up another “W” this weekend to boost its record to three wins and zero losses — a starting season record the Red has not repeated since 2007. “As the results showed last weekend, we are exactly where we need to be for Friday’s game,” said head coach Jaro Zawislan. “The most important thing for us though is to keep improving through the whole season.” According to Zawislan, schools in the Ivy League generally start their soccer seasons a few weeks later than most other out-of-conference schools do. This puts the Red at a slight disadvantage against out-of-conference teams in terms of fitness and tactical preparation, which Zawislan pointed out has not been much of a factor in the Red’s performance against out-of-conference teams. “It’s very important for our players to come in and hit the ground running by creating a very solid physical foundation, and credit to our players, they’ve done that,” he said. “We felt like we were in the best position to be able to catch up with the rest of the country.” The team is itching to continue its success this weekend against Lafayette, working hard in practice to prepare both physically and mentally for tonight’s game. Cornell
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Making moves | Junior striker Daniel Haber has contributed greatly to Cornell’s scoring efforts in the first two games of the season, claiming three of the four goals the Red has recorded thus far.
and Lafayette have played against each other since 1987, with Lafayette emerging as the dominant team by winning 5 out of 9 encounters with Cornell. “In previous years [Lafayette] has been a tough opponent, but we’re looking to come out strong and continue playing our brand of soccer,” said senior goalkeeper Rick Pflasterer. “Last year we didn’t start nearly as strong, so we’re looking to keep the season rolling.” The Red works hard in practice to find a winning formula, which is something junior defensive midfielder Ben Williams said the team plans to continue using. “What we’re doing, what we’re practicing as a team is
successful and we’ll just continue on with it,” he said. “The next game for us is a big one.” The Red is closing in on a long-held school record. If the team scores goals in its next three games, then this year’s team would tie the school record of 21 consecutive games with at least one goal scored. That record, set in the 1970 and 1971 seasons, has stood for over 40 years. According to Zawislan, the secret to Cornell’s success comes from the dedication of his players to improving all aspects of their game. See M. SOCCER page 14
Shannon McHugh ’12 Joins Lehigh Coaching Staff
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Fancy feet | According to first-year head coach Patrick Farmer, senior tri-captain Maneesha Chitanvis will play an important role in the front of the field, highlighting her solid footwork and shooting abilities.
WOMEN’S SOCCER
Squad Looks for First Win of 2012 Season
By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The Red will head on the road for the weekend to match up against Colgate today and the University of Albany on Sunday. Last season, while at home, Cornell lost to Colgate in a shutout, 0-3, early on in the season. The team will also face off against the Albany in a competition that has not occurred between the two schools since 2006. “I think that the focus for me is
that we are the land grant school. I think that we need to be doing a number of different things. We need to be doing well in the Ivy League, in the region. But first of all I think we need to be doing well in our state,” said first-year head coach Patrick Farmer. “Colgate is just a traditional, geographical, sort of similar institution, or they think they are similar anyway … I think its always a big traditional game … How [the team] responds from losing on Monday and then playing again on Friday will
show a lot about them if they changed the culture from last year.” This season, Cornell started off with an early pair of losses against Georgetown and George Washington over the holiday weekend. The team hopes to turn the season around and grab its first winning record in the last 10 years. “The ultimate goal for us, if you are doing it record wise, is to try and be at .500. It has been a long time See W. SOCCER page 14
On Thursday morn- in 2011. “I am really excited to ing, Lehigh women’s lacrosse head coach Jill join the staff at Lehigh,” Redfern announced the McHugh told Lehigh hiring of former Red Sports.com. “I want to midfielder and co-cap- thank [Redfern] and tain Shannon McHugh [associate coach Kelley ’12 as an assistant coach Putnam Necioglu] for for the Mountain such a great opportunity. I look forward to helping Hawks. “We are proud to wel- the program reach its full come [McHugh] to our potential. I admire the Lehigh program,” Redfern athletes for their comtold LehighSports.com. mitment to athletics as “She is an enthusiastic, well as academics.” McHugh will bring bright young coach as well as a focused com- her leadership experience, as well petitor. She as prowess on will be a terthe field, to rific role Lehigh’s promodel for gram, where our studentshe will athletes on spend the and off the ma jority of field.” her time Mc Hu g h working with was a domit h e nating force McHUGH ’12 Mountain during her time in Ithaca, starting in Hawks’ goalkeepers and the midfield for all four midfielders. After workyears for the Red. She ing as a lacrosse office graduated holding re - assistant last spring, cords for seventh-most McHugh also gained draw controls (92) and experience with recruitshots on goal (138) in ing software, helping to program history, as well plan practices, ordering as tying for eighth-most equipment and planning game-winning goals (4). team travel. McHugh earned 2012 Second-Team All-Ivy — Compiled by honors, as well as an AllLauren Ritter Ivy Honorable Mention