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Cornell Responds Behind the Scenes of Cornell Concerts Concert Commission budgets $170,000 for performances annually To Obama’s Plan For College Ratings By ASHLEY CHU
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Following President Barack Obama’s announcement in Binghamton, N.Y. last month to make colleges more affordable, Cornell administrators say the University is committed to its financial aid program. O b a m a’s proposed plan “I can’t imagine [the is to reform government] will devise student aid, create tuition a system in which Cornell policies and wouldn’t continue to be work to enroll more students rated as excellent.” from lowDiane Miller income backgrounds. Additionally, Obama hopes to rate colleges and universities based on their value to students, measured by criteria such as average tuition, scholarships, debt after graduation, graduation rates and earnings after graduation, according to The Washington Post. Cornell administrators say that although it is not definitive how universities will be ranked, or how much each measure will be weighted, Cornell already strives to of help its lower income stuSee OBAMA page 5
If you were the third largest byline-funded student organization on campus and had $170,000 to spend over the course of the year, how would you decide what performers to bring to campus? That’s the situation Cornell Concert Commission finds itself in year after year. The group says it has tried to be as inclusive as possible in order to bring the most democratic choices to campus. CCC receives $12 from the mandatory student activity fee of $229 Cornell undergraduates pay, according to the University’s release of the 2012-2014 allocation. The group spends about $10,000 to $20,000 on administrative expenses — items like concert insurance, data and phone lines for their office and for production in Barton Hall — and uses the remaining money, including rollover from previous years, to plan concerts for the year,
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according to Joe Scaffido, CCC Advisor. CCC does not have a set number of concerts it has each year; rather, it plans the maximum amount of performances it can given budgetary constraints, Scaffido said. “We kind of project that in a perfect world, here’s what we’d like to have,” Scaffido said. “Welcome weekend concert — love to have that every year. Homecoming concert — that’d be great if we can. And then maybe depending on what dates are available, maybe one or two Barton shows, maybe a Bailey show or two per semester.” The number of concerts CCC can organize each semester also depends on the state of the music industry, he said. “The industry could be fantastic one year where we have people calling us asking us if they can come to Cornell, or it could be a year when everybody’s going overseas and we have no concerts,” Scaffido said. “We’ve literally done three or four Barton shows in one year and could See CONCERTS page 4
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Rage | Nas, Bob Dylan, Third Eye Blind and Ke$ha are some of the performers Cornell Concert Commission has brought or invited to Cornell’s Barton Hall.
Congressional Scholar:Gridlock Result of Political Polarization By NOAH RANKIN Sun Staff Writer
Polarization in American political life has reached an all-time high, congressional scholar Thomas Mann said at a lecture in
Goldwin Smith on Monday. Mann, a Brookings Institution senior fellow and the author of It’s Even Worse Than It Looks, a book on the topic of his talk, was the first speaker in the biweekly Ethics and Public Life Fall Lecture series.
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Speak now | Thomas Mann discusses the political implications of intervention in the Syrian conflict to an audience in Goldwin Smith Monday.
Mann said the current Syrian crisis is a answer is, ‘Who are the nine percent?’ What good opportunity for political debate as are they happy about? John McCain thinks opposed to the gridlock that usually occurs they’re down to blood-relatives and staffers.” in conflict, since policiticans on both side of Mann said that political engagement and the aisle have similar thoughts on how to act civic activism in this country is in crisis as a in Syria. result. Mann then spoke about the perpetual “[Voters] have no confidence that they’re inaction and adversiarial nature of Congress acting through voting and contributing and today, a result of what he participating in various called the “tribal war” would end up lead“Congress, of course, ways between two very polaring to some desirable ized political parties. always had low ratings, outcome, and for good “Everybody talks reason,” Mann said. but reaching single about dysfunctional poliMann added that tics,” Mann said. there are three sources of digits really took “They’re talking about an dysfunction in the federal some work.” absolute lack of public government: a mismatch support for the primary of the level of internal Thomas Mann institutions of our govunification within each ernment.” major party and the adverMann added that this inaction has lead sarial nature between them, the level of parto Congress’ current lack of popularity ity between each party and the discrepancy among voters. between how polarized each party is. “Congress, of course, always had low ratAccording to Mann, the Republican ings, but reaching single digits really took party has become an insurgent outlier — some work,” Mann said. “People are rejecting institutions that have been in place amazed: ‘How could Congress be approved by only nine percent of the public?’ My See POLITICS page 4
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After Eight-Year Long Delay, Cornell Satellite Will Launch able to launch it,” Jackson said. Jackson said the team has been working on the satellite in preparation for the launch. This includAfter almost eight years of delays, a Cornell ed running “mission rehearsals,” which simulate engineering project team will finally see its work the entire mission with a MatLab program, making sure the mission will run smoothly. launched into space next week. “We have been doing a lot of prep for launch, The Cornell Satellite Team, or CUSat, designed a satellite that will help make global positioning making sure our ground stations are all functional, making sure our software is systems more precise and help okay and making sure we can with autonomous inspection, communicate with the satelaccording to Paul Jackson ’15, “It’s a really exciting time CUSat’s student project manjust because we’ve been lite,” he said. The satellite’s programager. ming was mainly developed by CUSat won funding in working on it so long and we’re going to be able to Prof. Mark Psiaki, mechanical 2007 from a competition and aerospace engineering, administered by the U.S. Air launch it.” and Shan Mohiuddin Ph.D. Force. Its design was chosen ’10. over those submitted by 11 Paul Jackson ’15 The University Nanost-4 teams from different universicompetition is the only one of ties, The Sun previously reported. By winning the competition, Jackson its kind in the United States, and none of the winners before 2007 have successfully launched their said, CUSat has its launch covered financially. The launch was initially planned for June 2008, designs, the Sun previously reported. CUSat is “highly dependent” on its numerous postponed to late 2011 to early 2012 and now has finally been set for Sept. 14, according to a sponsors, which include large firms such as General Motors, Lockheed Martin and the Boeing University press release. The organization began developing the satellite Company, as well as groups such as the Maryland design in 2005 and was picked from over 50 pro- Space Grant Consortium and the New York Space posals to compete in the final competition in Grant Consortium, according to CUSat’s website. The launch will occur at the Vandenberg Air Albuquerque, N.M. More than 200 students helped develop the project, The Sun previously Force Base, in Lompoc, Calif., according to the press release. reported. After such a long time, Jackson said it is excited for the launch. “It’s a really exciting team just because we’ve Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com. been working on it so long, and we’re going to be She can be reached on twitter at @csflax
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Ithaca Woman Steals $13,000 From SUNY Potsdam Sorority By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor
A recent Ithaca College graduate took $13,000 from her sorority at the State University of New York at Potsdam from 2011 to early 2013, police say. Clarissa K. Evenden, who received a master’s degree from Ithaca College in 2013, has
been charged with grand larceny in the third degree, according to North County Now, a news outlet. She was arraigned in the Potsdam Village Court and will return to court at a later date. Evenden, who formerly served as treasurer of her sorority while an undergraduate at SUNY Potsdam, allegedly cashed “numerous checks” that
were made out to her. She also made several transactions online with the sorority’s money, according to North County Now. Ithaca Police assisted Potsdam officers with the investigation.
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Malcolm Bilson explains to the audience the works he is performing at Anabel Taylor Chapel on Monday.
Ithaca Man Robbed on South Hill By Man Wearing Black Bandana A man was robbed on the South Hill at about 11:30 p.m. Sunday by a man wearing a black bandana over his face, according to the Ithaca Police Department. The victim was walking on South Hill Terrace, which runs off of South Cayuga Street, when a 5’10” male approached him on foot and demanded he turn over all of his property. The victim told police he gave the suspect everything he had. The male suspect then fled the area on foot, according to IPD. The suspect did not display a weapon or threaten to do so during the robbery, according to IPD. Police are investigating the incident. — Compiled by Akane Otani
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City Plans to Redo Lake Street Bridge The city will be replacing the Lake Street bridge over Fall Creek, fixing it so it will last at least 30 years, according to The Ithaca Journal, Survey Shows Smoking Still Issue Downtown, Improved on Commons According to a survey released by Ithaca’s planning and economic development committee, two-thirds of respondents said that smoking in public places is a problem with their business, and 16 percent indicated The Commons as a smoking problem area, according to The Ithaca Journal. Public Session on Forest Home Bridge Set for Thursday An informational meeting will be held at the Forest Home Chapel to discuss the implications of the bridge’s construction, set to begin this fall, according to The Ithaca Journal. Tompkins County Primary Elections Will Be Held Today The nominees for Tompkins County judge and Tompkins County second legislative district for the Democratic and Working Families parties will be determined Tuesday for the Nov. 5 general election, according to The Ithaca Journal. SONIA RYU / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Prof. Joanna Berzowska, Concordia University, gives a lecture on “Programming Materiality” on Monday, in Martha Van Rensselaer Hall.
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Students Say CCC’s Funding Mann: Polarized Parties Provides‘Big Name’Shows ‘Formula for Gridlock’ CONCERTS
approached the CCC about performing at Cornell Continued from page 1 in April, The Sun previously reported. “There are also times when we’ll get a call sayhave done more if we had the resources, and there ing, ‘This person is routing near you, and their have been other semesters when we’re struggling to tour goes near you. We have interest in playing find one show.” Cornell. Does that work for you?’” Schwartz said. The choice of who will perform at each show is Ultimately, the CCC’s general body makes that up to CCC’s general body, which includes more decision, he said. than 100 active members, accord“We vote in our executive ing to Peter Schwartz ’14, execuboard and then bring it to the “It’s not planned out tive director of the CCC. general body for the final deci“We have brainstorming sesover the year. ... It’s sion,” Schwartz said. sions at our general body meetings Students reported generally very dynamic.” where people come and write positive opinions about the names on the board or call names CCC’s concerts. Peter Schwartz ’14 out, or we have them email us,” “ [I’m] very happy with Third Schwartz said. Eye Blind and very happy with Schwartz said that the “typical way” the organi- Ke$ha. I think it’s a good combination,” Catherine zation obtains a particular performance begins with Weiss ’14 said. the group’s selections director — currently Mike Laura Fitzelle ’15 agreed that the CCC has Jessel ’14 — compiling the bands the members thrown worthwhile concerts and said she feels that would like to see. Jessel and Schwartz order the the portion of the Student Activity Fee allotted to bands in a list; then, it is up to Scaffido to contact the CCC is well warranted. the groups’ agents. “I’m not a big concert person, and I usually Whether or not a particular concert is held is don’t opt to go to them, but because it’s [at influenced by additional considerations as well, Cornell], I’m okay with it,” Fitzelle said. “But I’ve according to Schwartz. also been pretty satisfied with the people I’ve seen “We basically look at: what’s the next show we — definitely big names that you recognize and easy can get? Do we have Barton Hall? Can we use it? songs to dance to and have fun at.” Do we think that students will go to the show? Do Fitzelle added that CCC’s effort to bring artists we think we can sell tickets? How much can we to campus is “impressive.” plan to subsidize? And based on the projection of “I think they put a lot into it, and it’s pretty that show, we say, ‘Okay, can we have another con- impressive the people that [the Cornell Concert cert? What kind of concert?” he said. “So it’s not Commission] gets. It’s hard to get money for these planned out over the year that ‘Okay, we’re going kinds of things, so if you have it built in and it’s for to have this many shows,’ necessarily. It’s very the students, it should be a student fee,” she said. dynamic.” Schwartz said there are also times when agents reach out to the CCC with interest in playing at Ashley Chu can be reached Cornell. For example, Bob Dylan’s agents at achu@cornellsun.com.
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for decades, scornful of compromise and dismissal of national leadership. He said that centrifying the Republican Party is essential to restoring political efficiency. “We have an extreme right Republican Party, and a centrist left Democratic Party. The most important thing is to bring the Republican Party into the mainstream,” Mann said. According to Mann, the ideologically-based, vehemently opposed parties in American politics does not work in our bicameral system. “We have a separation of powers system, and it makes it extremely difficult for majorities to form, to retain their status and to act on the basis of their campaign and their agendas,” he said. “With these kinds of parties in our constitutional system is a formula for gridlock, inaction and political war, not policymaking.” With majorities in the houses sometimes determined only by a few seats, every piece of legislation can potentially decide who is in the majority, which brings much higher stakes into play when the parties are so polarized, Mann said. Ultimately, Mann cast the most blame for our polarized political state on the Republican party. “One of our parties, the Republican party, has become a radical insurgent in our politics,” Mann said. “They’re saying, ‘who’s a real American and who isn’t?’ It’s the new form of identity politics in many respect, and it’s really quite dangerous to democracy.” Noah Rankin can be reached at nrankin@cornellsun.com.
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Skorton: Cannot Use ‘Single Yardstick’to Compare Colleges OBAMA
“An attempt to measure with a single yardstick will run the risk of further masking the actual institutional richness and variety that is a distinction and a strength of American -dents. higher education,” Skorton said. “So the basic idea is a good According to Thomas Keane, director of financial aid for one and critical and its success will depend upon the metrics scholarships and policy analysis, Cornell enrolls one of the used.” highest percentages of Pell Grant recipients, one of the proSkorton added that some of the metrics the plan may posed measures of affordability. implement may not be effective in measuring colleges’ “Our enrollment of 17 percent Pell grant recipients is affordability. tied with Columbia for highest amongst the Ivy Schools and “These metrics are a good starting point, but they need not far behind the leaders at 22 percent,” Keane said in an to be corrected for the population entering the college,” he email. told the Post. “Using graduate earnDiane Miller, director of federal relaings as a metric of success is a bad idea tions for Cornell, echoed Keane, saying “Federal aid should be because it will predictably lead to a the University already works hard on its targeted where it’s needed narrower focus on whatever vocational financial aid policies. path is timely and topical at the “Cornell is an excellent institution by most.” expense of the liberal education that every measure, so I can’t imagine [the has been so critical to the success of government] will devise a system in President David Skorton our nation.” which Cornell wouldn’t continue to be Skorton also said that although it rated as excellent,” she said. “If you look will be difficult to dictate what kinds at the Administrations top-line message [of making college of institutions will rank highly under Obama’s plan, student more affordable], Cornell is already doing a really good job aid should be given to those who need it most. with our lowest income students.” “Federal aid should be targeted where it is needed most, President David Skorton told the Post that students based on student need and the quality of higher education should be able to have an informed choice regarding afford- delivered,” he said. “It is the definition of quality that will be ability. Having one ranking system, however, may not be the difficult.” best way to compare a variety of institutions, he said. Keane echoed Skorton, saying that for Cornell, a ranking Continued from page 1
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system would not affect how aid is distributed. “If the rankings become linked to allocations of federal student aid dollars, there could be pressure on schools to make changes. I don’t believe we would make changes for that reason alone,” he said. Aside from what the legislation and requirements might entail, Miller said that Congress is also trying to see how the budgets for all of its federal programs, aside from federal financial aid, fit together as it starts to deal with the debt ceiling in the upcoming weeks. “The question is how this is going to fit within the bigger budget picture, because as the budget gets tighter, Congress is demanding a lot more accountability from all federal programs,” she said. “It all comes down to: are we using our resources in the best possible way?” Miller added, however, that as these budget talks commence and as the affordability plan takes shape, Cornell will work to make sure Congress is still committed to providing financial aid. “Our top priority will be to make sure financial aid does not fall through the cracks and gets the attention it deserves when Congress is making the bigger budget decisions,” she said. "We want to make sure the rating system reflects the true value of a Cornell education, so when the details are published, we will weigh in on them.” Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com. Follow her on Twitter at @csflax.
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No Relief From the C-Town Housing Rush IN THE SPRING, THE CITY OF ITHACA approved an amendment to the city code with the stated purpose of slowing the increasingly problematic off-campus housing rush. Despite our strong support for a resolution to the crisis, we expressed serious doubt last semester that the amendment would ameliorate the problem in any real way. Less than two weeks into the current semester, it is already abundantly evident that our concerns have been realized. The pressure on Cornell students to snap up Collegetown leases a full year in advance has only grown, with a substantial portion of residential units already claimed. If the situation has improved, it is not apparent to us. The adopted law established a mandatory waiting period of 60 days before landlords can demand a decision from their current tenants on whether or not to renew their leases. During that time, landlords may not show residential units or enter rental agreements with other prospective tenants. All of this sounds great on paper. But as we noted last spring, the new code stipulates that landlords can initiate the 60-day waiting period as early as the first day of a lease. For tenants whose rental agreements begin in June, that supposed “breathing space” could expire before they even return from summer break. Multiple rental companies have taken advantage of that very loophole this year. Acknowledging the “mad rush of renting season,” one landlord wrote to tenants in an email that beginning in September, a “first come, first served approach” would supplant even a courtesy 24-hour warning period prior to signing to another renter. An end to this frenzy is precisely what student leaders and city officials claimed the new ordinance was designed to achieve. The law was sold as a mechanism for delaying the signing of leases in Collegetown, but there has seemingly been no such delay. Students — who are being convinced that walking out of a rental office without a signed lease will destroy their chances of securing a desirable apartment — are certainly not being given the chance to be conscious consumers. Cornellians, like any adult tenants, should have the opportunity to read leases thoroughly, ask questions and request changes, tour multiple apartments and make informed decisions about their housing situations. In turn, landlords should have the right to expect and enforce standards of maturity and respect from their renters. While the City of Ithaca must preserve the rights of rental companies to freely operate their businesses, that must be balanced with the City’s obligation to protect consumer choice. If the City’s recourse on this issue is limited by the bounds of their legal authority, perhaps Ithaca and the University should take a more active role in educating student renters of their rights as tenants prior to the “mad rush” of the fall rental season. The situation as it stands is favorable for neither landlord nor tenant, and we believe the City’s first efforts to improve the situation have come up short.
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rban violence trends have been relatively encouraging for years. Even as national murder and nonnegligent manslaughter rates dropped by half from 1993 to 2011, the proportion of murders committed in cities has fallen even faster than the national average. American cities are safer now than they have been in decades. Unfortunately, as pleasant as it would be to think that urban gun violence is a problem well on its way to a solution, the reality is much more tragic. As a Chief Keef fan with misgivings about rewarding romanticized gun violence, I would feel a tad less morally compromised if I could make myself believe that “Chi-raq” was simply a rapper’s catchy mixtape moniker. But the sad truth is that, as contrived and absurd as it may be, the nickname captures the fear that cripples violence-wracked communities in cities across the country — neighborhoods that still feel like war zones to those who live in them. Though real progress has been made in recent years in lowering Chicago’s notoriously high homicide rates, parents in some neighborhoods are still terrified of sending their children to school (This American Life did a moving piece about Harper High School in Chicago, where in the course of a single year, 29 current and former students were shot). Though the proportion of murders committed in cities has quickly fallen compared to the national average, the concentration of violence within cities is still appalling. The homicide rate for black males between the ages of 15 and 19 is slightly more than 18 times worse than the national average; in Rochester’s “Crescent” neighborhood, the homicide rate for this group is more than 65 times the national average. For perspective, if Cornell’s undergraduate student body was subjected to the same homicide rate we could expect somewhere around 70 student murders per year. Factor in the many bullets that miss or “only” wound their targets and it becomes easier to picture the paralyzing fear that destroys dangerous communities. Perhaps most startlingly of all, is how a tiny proportion of the population of violent communities actually drives the violence. Even in the nation’s most dangerous neighborhoods more than threequarters of the gun violence is committed by less than 0.3 percent of the community. What follows from the fact that such a small proportion of residents in the nation’s most dangerous neighborhoods are terrorizing their communities? That these violent kernels are irreconcilable with civilized society and need to be surgically extracted, SWAT-style, in order to rebuild the communities they’ve held captive for so long? Doesn’t America already jail more people per capita than
any other country — bar none — and more black males than any other group? (Yes). And hasn’t the “three-strikes” experiment been largely judged a failure? (Again, yes). And yet, knowing that the most dangerous neighborhoods in our most dangerous cities are being held hostage by a tiny group of violent people seeking, primarily, to hurt one another holds out the prospect of hope. It points to a possible fulcrum, a place of leverage. There are a lot of people living in violent neighborhoods who are not themselves behaving violently, and who have a tremendous stake in seeing the violence go away. It is true that citizens in these communities often feel intimidated and powerless to combat the violence. Many are reluctant to collaborate with police in the pursuit of what would appear to be their common interest: maintaining the community’s safety. Nonetheless, explicitly recognizing that vibrant, loving communities are getting crowded to the margins by an unrepresentative cohort of street thugs has proved a vital step toward discovering how even the most desperate neighborhoods can be turned around. A lot of very good work is proceeding from this central premise with the goal of making communities safer and happier. The specific strategies that have been most successful will have to wait for another column. But recognizing this fundamental truth about the way violence operates in dangerous communities has substantially altered the way criminologists, law enforcement agencies, governments and outreach workers perceive and interact with these neighborhoods. No one involved in this work believes that everything can be solved by tossing out a few bad eggs. Research shows that incarceration can be used as an agent of positive social change and neighborhood rehabilitation only if it is carefully leveraged. And it is amply clear that indiscriminate incarceration leaves the social fabric of communities in tatters. Nor do I mean to present an oversimplified binary of brutal gang-bangers and helpless model residents who exist in separate and conflicting social spaces. As can often be the case when one soberly appraises human relationships, the reality is far more nuanced and tragic than such a black and white system could describe. The bottom line is this: As research makes the sources and dynamics of violence in dangerous urban communities better understood, it is yielding potentially powerful insights into how to make dangerous communities livable again. Sam Kuhn is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at skuhn@cornellsun.com. His column appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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Ross Gitlin | Trustee Viewpoint
The Power Of Your Words
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ello everyone, my name is Ross Gitlin. I am a junior in the ILR School and I am from New York City. At the end of the last academic year, I was elected Undergraduate Student-Elected Trustee. The Undergraduate Student-Elected Trustee, and the Graduate Student-Elected Trustee, are elected by the student body to serve a two-year term on Cornell University’s Board of Trustees. The Board consists of 64 voting members and is charged with helping to shape the University’s policies now and for the future. The Student-Elected Trustees are responsible, in particular, for representing the student body — we work to bring undergraduate and graduate student concerns to the Board and, in turn, relay the business of the Board to students. Through this column, over the next two years, I aim to address important campus issues and elicit your thoughts and feedback. The first issue I want to address is one that I think is incredibly important on campus: How we, as students, interact with one another. The words and phrases that we employ on a daily basis can have a powerful impact on others. Last spring, in an effort to increase awareness about the sensitivity of language, and in partnership with the Student Assembly, the administration and numerous other student organizations, the University launched the “Know the Power of Your Words Campaign.”
The idea behind the campaign is for community members to meet and discuss words and phrases that they have found upsetting and offensive, and explain the nature of the harmful impact. The “Know the Power of Your Words Campaign” aims to raise awareness about the profound effect hurtful language can have on our friends and fellow students. The idea behind the campaign is for community members to meet and discuss words and phrases that they have found upsetting and offensive, and explain the nature of the harmful impact. The goal of the campaign is to reduce the use of hurtful language on campus, while drawing diverse communities closer together through respectful discourse. Why do I believe the “Know the Power of Your Words Campaign” is critical for Cornell? The Cornell community is incredibly diverse: The Class of 2017 is composed of students from 48 States, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and 51 nations. It also has the highest recorded number of students of color and students from a wide range of socio-economic backgrounds, who bring different perspectives and experiences to our campus. Surely, we are a campus of extraordinary diversity — a strength we are proud of — and we must ensure that every student feels comfortable and accepted as a part of our community during their years of study here. The “Know the Power of Your Words” Campaign is one important step in instilling sensitivity in our interactions with one another. In addition to the “Know the Power of Your Words” Campaign, the administration has taken other great strides to ensure that all students feel comfortable on our campus. Our University has developed a diversity planning initiative — Towards New Destinations — in addition to planning programs for new students such as “Speak About It” and “Tapestry.” These, and other resources, can be found at the Caring Community website. By investing in these initiatives, we can build deep and important relationships among diverse communities at Cornell. Over the course of the next two years, I invite you to contact me. I want to vigorously represent you in bringing your concerns and suggestions to the University administration, as well as the Board of Trustees. I look forward to meeting with you to discuss how we can do better, collectively, as a community. Additionally, you can always e-mail me at rhg68@cornell.edu; please do not hesitate to reach out. Ross Gitlin is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and the undergraduate student-elected trustee. He may be reached at rhg68@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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Comment of the day “This discussion is puerile. When these Greek turds leave Cornell and work in jobs, they will find out that they have to get things done yesterday, instead of argue about 4 or 6 weeks. Those things they will have to get done will even be constructive things, and not this bullshit barbie or he-man stuff.”
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Our Generation’s Responsibilty: Moving On From Iraq
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he blank page that greeted me as a began to write this column was more daunting than usual. I knew what I could write about: The absurdity of the Collegetown housing rush; the alarming speed with which my friends are filling out their study abroad applications; even, if desperation called, some message I derived from the Jewish High Holidays. But I realized that none of them were what I should be writing about: Syria. I know no one reads The Sun for world news; The New York Times will cover it better. And yet, as I scrolled through the most recent Opinion columns and saw no mention of the crisis in the Levant, I thought perhaps I could find something worth saying. In the past few weeks, I’ve been surprised by the far-reaching campus opposition to President Barack Obama’s proposed military strikes. Even among my right-of-center friends, the prevailing refrain on Syria resembles the rhetorical lovechild of pre-War conservative isolationism and a hippie, anti-Vietnam rally in 1968. Liberal students, who are more common on campus, have also confounded me with denunciations of President Obama’s plan, as if he were proposing we re-invade Iraq. I must ask why. All American students at Cornell have a worldview forged in the chaos of the second Iraq War. Most of us, weaned on the anti-Bush extravagan-
za that constituted the rise of Barack Obama, have an ingrained distrust of intervention in the Middle East. Our upand-coming generation sees a world in which every flexing of American might ends in nationbuilding quagmires: Iraq, Afghanistan, Vietnam. It is difficult for us to envision the world of the 1990s, when Presidents Clinton and George H.W. Bush achieved relatively neat resolutions to crises in Haiti, Bosnia and Kuwait. Before the War on
that there will be no fullscale invasion of Syria. For those of us who can, however, there is a compelling rationale in support of these strikes. For liberals who decry America’s indifference to human rights abuses, this is an opportunity to marry idealism with pragmatism. No, we cannot stop every butcher in subSaharan Africa, nor close every sweatshop in Asia, but why should an inability to stop all injustice become an argument against stopping this particularly egregious injus-
Our generation shouldn’t allow any more Iraq Wars, but we cannot pretend that we will sit back and watch the world burn. Terror plunged our foreign policy into a state of overly-aggressive paranoia, there was an emerging role for America as a tactical global hegemon. Not an America obsessed with the impossible task of reshaping entire nations while our own infrastructure crumbled, nor an America willing to commit its troops to a decade-long occupation of sovereign states. We are all tired of these versions of America. I strongly believe, however, that President Obama’s proposal is not a return to the America of the 2000s, but to the America of the 1990s. I realize not everyone can place even a modicum of faith in President Obama and his promise
tice? When his chemical weapons killed almost 500 innocent children, President Bashar al-Assad joined an unholy trinity with Saddam Hussein and Adolf Hitler. This atrocity in Syria occurred in a region whose stability is crucial to the global community. If strategy and morality collide, why should we turn the other cheek? To conservatives worried about what this conflict might become: What do you hope to gain from inaction? Lack of American support only drives Syrians into the arms of al-Qaeda linked rebels; American intervention could embolden rebels more aligned with the West. Iran has made a vassal of Assad, and al-
Qaeda is striving to establish itself as a pillar of security in the chaos of war. Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Israel stand at the mercy of this uncertainty. There are still Syrians who seek to be “the good guys;” we need to empower, not abandon, them. From our perch in Ithaca, it is easy to dismiss this debate as a symptom of imperialist overreach. But despite the war-weariness of our generation, we cannot forget that we are inheriting a country whose place as the moral and military head of the global order is still relatively undisputed. In the coming decades, we must find a way to balance our generation’s pacifistic, isolationist tendencies with our country’s international duties. Our generation shouldn’t allow any more Iraq Wars, but we cannot pretend that we will simply sit back and watch the world burn. President Obama may be offering us a template for the future use of power, and it is our responsibility as the next generation of Americans to hear him out. When he addresses the nation tonight from the East Room, I hope all of you will at least listen. Jacob Glick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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Dancing With a Cornellian
Cue the Bill Nye the Science Guy theme song to play through your inner ’90s kid mind as you read the rest of this post. As many of you have heard — or not, because no one actually pays attention to who’s on Dancing with the Stars anymore unless they’re in that 40-dead age group — beloved Cornellian, Bill Nye, will be fighting for the coveted Mirrorball trophy for the upcoming season. He will be joined by a bunch of fellow celebrities — I use the term as loosely as possible — coming from all angles of stardom. In the reality show field, we’ve got the Jersey-but-actually-from-Poughkeepsie-meatball, Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi, as well as foul-mouthed, Jack Osbourne. There are plenty of current and former television stars: Glee’s Amber Riley, King of Queens’ Leah Remini, Pretty Little Liars’ Brant Daugherty, Saved by the Bell’s Elizabeth Berkley, The Mary Tyler Moore Show’s Valerie Harper and High School Musical’s Corbin Bleu. We of course have the former NFL player staple with Keyshawn Johnson. And last, but not least, are Blue Collar Comedian, Bill Engvall and singer/actress, Christina Milian (“AM to PM” is still my jam). Current front-runners are Corbin Bleu and Christina Milian, since they technically know how to dance. We can also throw Keyshawn Johnson in the list, as NFL players have shown quite the ballroom prowess in the past (I'm looking at you, Emmitt Smith). Playing to the audience’s heartstrings will be Valerie Harper and Jack Osbourne. Harper has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and was even projected to not make it past the summer, but has obviously shown cancer who’s boss. Jack Osbourne also revealed earlier this year that he has been diagnosed with the debilitating disease, multiple sclerosis. Not that they won’t do well in their own right, but America does love to root for the underdogs. So where does that put Mr. Nye? Well, I hate to be a pessimist, but I don’t think he will make it too far in the competition. I see him definitely beating Engvall. He does have the ’90s nostalgia bankability factor working for him, as well as all of the Cornell network, which will definitely campaign for him to go as far in the competition as possible (at least, I sure hope so). Maybe he'll get to incorporate some scientific tidbits into his act. Natalia Fallas is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Read the rest of this post here: http://bit.ly/15RDvNd.
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Lean In: Female Advice From the Top MADELINE SALINAS Sun Staff Writer
working woman. Sandberg makes the task of impact the success of working women for betestablishing power and respect at work sound ter and for worse. In the book’s chapter “Make easy because, at this point in her career, she is Your Partner a Real Partner,” Sandberg faced with fewer obstacles than the average recounts the help of her husband in parenting. woman in doing so. Even though she Through the chapter “Success and acknowledges how rare her circumstances are, Likeability,” she advises women in coping Sandberg spends much of the book recount- with — not fighting — the inevitable gender ing personal stories and triumphs that are discrimination in many workplaces, crafting a hardly balanced by her outside sources, how- relatively passive strategy for women to use and feel empowered. ever numerous and intriguing. To some extent, Sandberg neglects critical Lean In neither discourages women from feeling an obligation to their family nor factors that hold women back in professional encourages them to view parenting as a sacri- leadership: namely, prevailing gender discrimfice to their career. Sandberg doesn’t force her ination. Despite her simplistic vision of social own personal or professional goals onto read- change that depends on individual readers ers; instead she appeals to die-hard feminists and women to change their behavior, she and the domestically inclined alike, incorporating them into COURTESY OF SHERYL SANDBERG the evermore popular conversation on
Following the popularity of her 2010 TED Talk and Barnard commencement address, this spring Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg keyed in on her feminist catchphrase with the release of Lean In, a book that encourages women to acknowledge the potential of their careers. Lean In was a number one national bestselling book that generated conversation regarding the unique challenges faced by working women. In it, Sandberg argues that when it comes to advancing a career, women are often their own worst enemies. By underestimating their own potential, letting leadership positions pass them by and dreaming less than their male counterparts, women limit their own futures. In Lean In, Sandberg coaches women to work past the barriers imposed on them both internally and by the influence of coworkers and family members. Interestingly, Sandberg not only promotes Lean In Lean In as a tool for women, By Sheryl but recommends her book to Sandberg men as a way of understanding and more effectively supporting the women in their families and offices. Sandberg’s perspective of the work-life bal- work-life balance. Sandberg shares the pragance is at times quite narrow. As the current matic opinion that “having it all” is a myth COO of Facebook and former Chief of Staff that young women should continue to aspire to then-U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Larry to with the understanding that the road is Summers, her opinion in the office is valued bumpy and, at times, unbalanced. While and she is afforded more authority to create maintaining a focus on the individual, Lean In flexibility in her schedule than the average grants due attention to the ways that men can
develops a strong inspirational message for young women on the brink of their success. After all, Sandberg is a business woman seeking to share personal lessons, not a selfdeclared social activist, and while she doesn’t directly address the role we should play in shaping the lives of the women around us, she
doesn’t do this by accident. Her book, rather, is a targeted message toward those most concerned with advancing the careers of women: young women themselves. Sandberg aptly titled the book’s introduction “Internalizing the Revolution,” and I couldn’t applaud this statement more. In a perfect world, gender discrimination and archaic stereotypes would not exist. However, given current circumstances where assertive women are deemed “bossy” much more often than men, and still hold a minority of professional leadership positions, society can’t expect to change these norms overnight. However, we can find strategic means of pushing ourselves and trivializing socially constructed obstacles imposed by gender differences. We can contribute more assertively at work, seek promotions with a greater sense of entitlement and foster the women around us, Sandberg argues. Lean In offers uplifting advice and intriguing personal anecdotes from one of Time’s 100 most influential people in the world and, for those reasons, it will be a successful book and an intriguing read. At times, I felt that the overall impact of boosting women’s self esteem was well developed with thorough examples of the personal barriers women create for themselves. Nonetheless, the book’s call for change through a reformed personal attitude and increased self-confidence for women could be perceived as reminiscent of the selfhelp genre. Madeline Salinas is a sophomore in the College of Arts amd Sciences. She can be reached at msalinas@cornellsun.com.
‘She’s My Person’
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here is a scene in Noah Baumbach’s latest critical darling Frances Ha in which the titular character (Greta Gerwig) explains to an uncomfortable set of guests at a dinner party what exactly it is that she wants from a relationship: “It’s that thing when you’re with someone and you love them and they know it, and they love you and you know it, but it’s a party! And you’re both talking to other people and you’re laughing and shining and you look across the room and catch each other’s eyes. But not because you’re possessive or it’s precisely sexual, but because that is your person in this life. And it’s funny and sad but only because this life will end … I sound stoned. I’m not stoned. Thanks for dinner. Bye!” She’s not talking about a male romantic partner, she’s talking about her best friend since college, Sophie (Mickey Sumner), of whom she is fond of saying, “We’re the same person. Different hair.” And when Lena Dunham talks about the “most heart-breaking moment” of her hit TV show Girls, it’s not when Marnie (Allison Williams) breaks up with her boyfriend of four years (Chris Abott) while he’s literally inside her, or when Adam (Adam Driver) spills about his too-late love for Hannah at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting — it’s the moment mid-Season Two in which Marnie and Hannah lie to each other over the phone about the fraudulently successful and happy evenings they’ve been having. Later when Hannah hears Marnie walk into her apartment she hides behind the bed and Marnie reads the words still open on her laptop: “A friendship between college girls is grander and more dramatic than any romance.” The complications of lasting female friendships are largely unexplored territory in conventional popular media — movies like Steel Magnolias, The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants are movies about friendships that are decided on at an early age, or even birth, and become the single steadfast presence in the participating women’s lives — above romantic partners, above family, above all else. Golden Girls, Sex and the City, The Mary Tyler Moore Show all depict friendships that are supposed to be the sure thing in a world where men (and occasionally careers) are the more pressing and hard-to-navigate issues. There’s a palpable nostalgia in popular culture for the type of female relationship that stands the test of time and men and hardship, and these relationships are not supposed to have the same intricacies as romantic relationships; they are sup-
posed to have the singular beauty of being 100 percent reliable. To an extent, this does represent a certain sort of truth, albeit a familiar and clichéd one, about how women have been societally set up to require friendship and social bonds more than men do. Recently however, there’s been a delightfully refreshing push to show the broader spectrum of female friendship. While complex buddy films have already seen a handful of heydays (I Love You, Man, Swingers, Sideways, hell, take it back to The Odd Couple), there has never been a surge like this, at least in mainstream cinema, of movies that are entirely devoted to friendships between women. Judd Apatow and Kristen Wiig’s critically-acclaimed and Oscar-nominated Bridesmaids (2011), Leslye Headland’s phenomenally funny Bachelorette (2012) and, to some extent, Michael McCuller’s 2004 FeyPoehler project Baby Mama, strike similar notes when it comes to the mixed bag of comedy and tragedy that surrounds the competition and jealousy occurring between female friends who are moving through early adulthood at noticeably different paces and success rates. On TV we have the lovable/loathable Hannah/Marnie duo as well as, dare I say it, the only remaining believable element on ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy — surgical resident pair Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo) and Christina Yang (Sandra Oh), who have fallen convincingly together and apart over the course of nine seasons of melodrama — and (until recently) an occasional dose of relevance from the nefarious foursome on ABC’s Desperate Housewives. (Say what you want, that final season was baller. Would your lady friends be murder accomplices for you?) In an interview with Refinery 29, Greta Gerwig talked about the importance of female friendships struggling their way into adulthood saying, “There is a place for it as long as you, like Frances, can let go of the past and still find a way to love each other and be Kaitlyn Tiffany there for each other in a more mature way — like that you can love each other as adults.” The core of Frances Ha is Gerwig’s struggle as a single, wandering, underemployed dancer meeting fierce contrast with Sumner’s relative success at Random House and committed relationship with a Wall Street broker. What Gerwig and Baumbach (co-writers for Frances Ha) attempt isn’t quite the same as the pursuit of Dunham’s in Girls — the pair’s picture of New York is quite a bit more luminous, the advice to the
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twenty-somethings is more optimistic than punitive and any real romantic plotline is completely nonexistent — but the guiding question of how to maintain a lasting friendship in the face of growing up and growing apart is the emotional tide under the plot of both works. People Frances’ age on Girls struggle romantically and occupationally, but they also struggle with entirely unmoored senses of self-worth — every one of them is declaratively self-loathing but obviously self-obsessed, they each claim support but secretly cringe at each other’s successes, and they’re constantly toeing the line of betrayal by keeping secrets with the potential to wreck each other’s worlds. These are the sorts of really important “dark” moments in friendships between women that haven’t been explicitly shared up to this point. This isn’t to say that there’s no room for the poignant stuff — Hannah flicking Jessa’s snot-rocket back across the bathtub while she cries, Frances and Sophie sharing a twin-size bed at their alma mater, the mock Nora-Ephrondeclaration-of-love between Ari Graynor and Lauren Miller at the end of For a Good Time, Call — it’s just the flip-side of the coin that makes it all the more meaningful and believable when Christina Yang stares down her fiancé and says of Meredith Grey, “She’s my person,” or when Marnie says, “Maybe you just don’t know what it feels like to be loved this much … Except by me. I love you that much” or when Frances finally has her eye-catching-across-the-room moment and says “That’s Sophie. She’s my best friend.” Rom-coms have misguided detours, and Shakespearean comedies have painful misunderstandings: Harry nearly misses midnight and Julie Delpy nearly gets off the train. It is so much better to watch people come together after you’ve seen all the ways in which they could have fallen apart. Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. Guest Space appears every Tuesday.
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Washington Takes Home Win Over New York in Blowout NEW YORK (AP) — Gio Gonzalez was inches from a no-hitter and the Washington Nationals hit five home runs Monday night, including long balls by their first two batters, in a 9-0 rout of the New York Mets. Gonzalez held the overmatched Mets hitless into the seventh before pinch-hitter Zach Lutz broke up the bid with a soft single for New York's only hit. Lutz swung at the first pitch of the inning and hit a looper that landed on the first base line, taking out a chunk of chalk well behind the bag. First baseman Adam LaRoche made a diving attempt as the ball hit the dirt, but it squirted by and into foul territory along the right field line. First base umpire John Hirschbeck correctly called it fair, and Gonzalez (10-6) paused behind the mound to stare in his direction. After that, the left-hander kept sailing along in a dominant performance. He struck out eight and walked two for his second career shutout and fourth complete game, improving to 5-0 in his last six starts against the Mets.
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Denard Span and Ryan Zimmerman hit back-toback homers to start the game. Jayson Werth and Tyler Moore also connected off Carlos Torres (3-4), roughed up by Washington for the second time in six weeks. Wilson Ramos added a three-run shot off reliever Greg Burke. Handed a huge lead, Gonzalez was in cruise control as he won his third straight start. He faced three batters more than the minimum to help the Nationals, on the fringe of the NL wild-card chase, win their third in a row and fifth in six games. Washington gave Gonzalez a two-run lead before he took the mound, hitting two homers on Torres' first eight pitches. Span’s shot to right field was his sixth career leadoff homer and first for the Nationals this season. It also extended his hitting streak to 20 games, the longest active run in the majors. Zimmerman followed with a drive to left-center for his fourth home run in three days and sixth in the last seven games.
Manchester City Football Club Welcomes Pernetti NEW YORK (AP) — Ousted Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti has been named the chief business officer of the New York City Football Club. The Major League Soccer team announced the appointment on Monday. The expansion team is a joint venture that pairs Manchester City Football Club with the New York Yankees.
Pernetti served four years as Rutgers’ athletic director before being forced to resign in April for his handling of a scandal involving basketball coach Mike Rice, who verbally abused his players. The popular Pernetti suspended and fined Rice, also forcing him to undergo anger management. University president Robert Barchi fired Rice after
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over four days and he said that people can donate to the cause online at 1037QCountry.com or, “You can meet me on the road.
We’ll have designated stops in each town we visit and folks can come out and make a gift when we arrive,” Allinger said. Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.
viewing films of the abuse four months later and then forced his athletic director to step down. Pernetti, who helped to engineer Rutgers' entrance into the Big Ten Conference next season, will bring more than 18 years of business and media experience to his new job. He will oversee all business operations for the team, which is set to start play in 2015.
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Law, policy, and security issues with information technology and the Internet at Cornell Tuesday, September 10, 2013 7:30-9pm 251 Malott Hall This open discussion forum will invite comments and questions about privacy, cybersecurity, security espionage, national security, government electronic surveillance, the NSA, and issues surrounding the Aaron Swartz and Edward Snowden cases. Associate CIO Steve Schuster will moderate. Tracy Mitrano, Director of IT Policy, and Wyman Miles, Director of the IT Security Office, will offer their insights and answer questions.
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“We will look to continue to improve as a team on both sides of the ball. Trying to be as perfect as possible on defense and finding the best combinations offensively,” Williams said. With three strong seniors leading the team and strong team play winning the first tournament of the season, the men are looking forward to improving
against Cal State Fullerton next weekend. As Williams noted, the team came out victorious but still hopes to improve this week in preparation for its first home game. “We have major goals for this season, and this weekend was a great start, but there is still a lot of work to be done,” Williams said. Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.
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Colleen McCabe scored at the top of the circle 59 minutes into the game to make it a onegoal deficit. Only 10 minutes later, freshman Stephanie
Ebersole brought the game to overtime by registering the game-tying goal off of a penalty corner shot by senior Kelly Harsh. While the Red battled hard in overtime, ultimately freshman Kiersten Cepeda connect-
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Cornell Men’s Lacrosse Hosts Banquet and Awards Honors After an undefeated Ivy League season and an NCAA run that went all the way to the semifinals before Cornell fell to Duke, the men’s lacrosse team gathered to finish out its alumni weekend with a banquet at the Statler Hotel. At the event, the team bid farewell to the Class of 2013 and welcome the newest class to the Hill. During the banquet, head coach Ben DeLuca announced that seniors Thomas Freshour and Dan Lintner, as well as juniors Connor Buczek and Matt Donovan, will lead the 2014 team into this season. DeLuca also announced that Rob Pannell ’13 was named the team’s most valuable player, while Steve Mock ’13 was the team’s offensive MVP and Jason Noble ’13 was the defensive MVP. Pannell took home the Dr. Ray Van Orman Memorial Award as well and became the first Cornell player to earn the award three times in a career. The Joe Phillip Memorial Award, which goes to the team’s offensive MVP and is given annually to the person who contributed to the overall team effort, was given to Mock. Noble snatched the Lawrence Van Buren Woodworth Memorial Award for the second year. Noble also won the The Al “Junior” Kelz - Mike Herriott Award, given to the team’s outstanding senior player. — Compiled by Haley Velasco
ed with the far post after successfully retrieving the ball from fellow freshman Megan Wenrich and snatched the win for the visiting squad. Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.
U.S. Open Champion Serena Williams’ Play Looks More Composed in 2013 though she notched No. 600 two weeks later. In fact, it was at Wimbledon this year — a quick accumulation nonetheless. She might not enter as many tournaments next season. Williams had been chasing the No. 1 ranking; now she wants to focus on the four Grand Slams, though she realizes that sometimes winning the smaller events can lead to titles in the bigger ones. Her priorities were obvious when she was asked to evaluate her 2013, with a careerhigh nine titles overall. Last year was better, Williams explained, even if she won fewer tournaments. The difference? In 2012, she captured two Grand Slam championships and an Olympic gold medal. That outweighs her two major titles of this year. Williams is particularly proud, however, of her 2013 French Open victory, her first since 2002. She likes how doubles helped her stay calm and focused the last two weeks and hopes to play in more events with sister Venus during the tour’s Asia swing in the fall.
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Burning Question If you could sit down and interview any athlete in the world, who would you choose and what would you ask them? Georgina Bloomberg. I’d ask her what sparked her love of horses, and if she’d let me go riding with her sometime! — Ariel Cooper I would interview Michael Phelps and ask if he ever gets the munchies. — Emma Court Eli Manning to ask him why he threw that interception in the fourth quarter last night. — Kerry Close Kobe Bryant. How does he stay motivated?
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I would sit down with Ryan Lochte and ask “will you marry me?” — Caroline Flax Lebron James. And I’d ask him if he understood what exactly he did to Cleveland / where he’s going next year. — John Zakour Diana Nyad. What stung more? The jellyfish or the speculation that you didn't swim all the way? — Jinjoo Lee — Compiled by Haley Velasco
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nerves of knowing she was on the verge of history. “In the third, I didn’t care,” she said. “I was just like, ‘This is what’s going to happen; this is what I’m going to do, and this is going to be the result.’” Fourteen years after her first U.S. Open title, Williams’ experience had one thing in common with her victory at age 17: She didn’t do much celebrating that night either time. In 1999, it was because she was too young. In 2013, she was too tired after two weeks of playing singles and doubles. Williams said she ordered room service, then tried to fall asleep, but wasn’t very successful at that. She feels fresh mentally and physically and is surprised on both fronts. There are a few aches and pains, but nothing that a few days of rest won’t fix. And after playing an unusually busy schedule by her standards, Williams doesn’t yet sense the need to take some time off. That’s a change from earlier in her career. She won her 500th career match at the 2012 Australian Open and insists it felt as
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NEW YORK (AP) — The Serena Williams who won the U.S. Open on Sunday didn’t flinch at any foot-fault calls. She looked very different from the player who took the court at Flushing Meadows in past years, yet exactly the same. And that is how Williams is dominating tennis as she nears her 32nd birthday. She has figured out how to play passionately and placidly all at the same time. “Even yesterday, I was still complaining. You could see that I’m throwing my hands everywhere,” Williams said Monday. “That’s just me. I’m never going to be able to change it. I just have to learn how to hold that in a little bit — but still be myself.” She unraveled in the second set, lost the first two points of the third, then mastered that tricky balancing act the rest of the way. The topranked American beat No. 2 Victoria Azarenka 7-5, 6-7 (6), 6-1 for her fifth U.S. Open title and 17th Grand Slam championship. Williams assumes that wobbly second set — when she twice failed to serve out the match — came from the
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B-Ball Welcomes Five New Freshman For 2014 Season By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
The basketball team welcomed five freshmen to the squad this season, adding depth to a roster that carries only four seniors. The Red lost six players to graduation last season, including starters Errick Peck ’13, Eitan Chemerinski ’13, Miles Asafo-Adjei ’13 and Johnathan Gray ’13. The four combined for 28.4 points per game last season, which comprised over 40 percent of the team’s total scoring of 65.8 points per game. Of the five freshmen, four are guards who will likely be developed in order to help alleviate the blow of losing two starting guards in Asafo-Adjei and Gray. “With the departure of Miles and Johnny, we are going to have to rely on some of the guard play from the freshmen,” senior forward Dwight Tarwater said. “They are also under the impression that we are counting on them as well.” Freshman guard Robert Hatter — a second-team allstate selection in Texas — was ranked the No. 3 guard in the Houston area after averaging 21 points, six rebounds and six assists per game in his senior campaign. Freshman guard Desmond Fleming, also from Texas, earned firstteam all-district and all-county honors with 12.0 points and 3.4 assists in his senior season. The final two guards — JoJo Fallas and Darryl Smith — were both all-division selections, and Smith was a member of a team that advanced to the state championship in Virginia his sophomore year. As one of the Red’s main three-point threats last season, Gray’s departure will free up space for other guards to
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Five for fighting | Junior Shonn Miller, along with the rest of the returning Cornell men’s basketball team, is welcoming five new freshman to the court this season.
step into that role. Though Asafo-Adjei only averaged 2.8 points per game, the squad relied on his speed and relentless defensive effort to pester opponents. According to Tarwater, because of this, the freshmen will have to learn the Ivy League brand of basketball fairly quickly in order to make an early impact for the Red. “I think that the freshmen will grow accustomed to the game very quickly,” he said. “With the short time that I have had with them, I can tell you that they are all very talented, and they have fantastic work ethics.” The fifth addition to the roster this year is freshman forward David Onuorah. The 6-9, 230 pound big man will be a much-needed force in the paint for a Red team that is often undersized in the Ivy League. Onuorah received honorable mention all-county honors and was an all-state selection by the Georgia Athletic Coaching Association as a senior.
With the departure of post players Chemerinski and Josh Figini ’13, sophomore forward Shonn Miller will have to carry much of the burden in the paint. Miller was the Red’s leading scorer and rebounder last year, but will need support from the rest of the frontcourt. Onuorah should provide some relief for Miller, along with junior forwards Dave LaMore and Deion Giddens, who will likely see additional time on the court this season. Understanding they will be called upon to play important roles for the Red this year, Tarwater said that he is excited to see how the freshmen will perform and develop. “I am really looking forward to being a part of these guys’ times at Cornell, and I am looking forward to seeing them grow and succeed,” he said. Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
Fan Falls From Pedestrian Co-Captains Steinberger, de Rham Overpass Before San Share Early Love of Riding Horses Francisco 49ers’ Opener EQUESTRIAN
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shine. “I won my first show back sophomore year … my first intermediate fences class. It was really exciting … I was super, super nervous and I just went in and did it and my legs were shaking after and I didn’t remember what hap-
Equestrian team junior co-captains Sofia Steinberger and Georgiana de Rham have been horse lovers from a very young age; Steinberger and de Rham began their riding careers at age six. Steinberger learned to ride at Claremont Stables, a riding “I couldn’t imagine life at academy in New York City Cornell without the team. that closed in 2007. She began competing in jumpers classes ... It’s such an important around age 13. part [of my life].” Steinberger started her career with the Red in the Sofia Steinberger intermediate division. She has since moved up to the open flat division and is one point away pened,” she said. “She killed it,” de Rham added. from moving up to open fences. De Rham also began her Steinberger’s favorite moment with the team so far was during last sea- Cornell career in the intermediate son’s Ivy League Championships at division. Before joining the team, Dartmouth College. The Red took de Rham worked as a groom and home the trophy with 37 points, competed in the Interscholastic just three points ahead of Equestrian Association — the high school equivalent of the InterPrinceton. “When we won Ivies at collegiate Horse Show Association. Dartmouth this past spring it felt De Rham has been a member of like we were really really cohesive the team since her freshman year and it was nice to win a big event and values the experience she has and bring the trophy back to had with the team so far. “It’s the most important thing Cornell … and I really felt like it started us off for [a great season] to me here,” she said. In particular, de Rham enjoys this year,” Steinberger said. The team had a difficult 2012- the camaraderie and teamwork the 2013 season, finishing third in the squad displays when hosting a region after some challenging show. Cornell typically hosts one shows. Yet, despite everything, show each semester. “Whenever we host a show here Steinberger found a moment to
at Cornell, I always feel so proud … I feel like we all come together,” de Rham said. Due to the spread of an equine virus in Oxley Equestrian Center last semester, Cornell’s spring show was cancelled. The fall show, however, was a highlight of the season for both de Rham and the team. “It was really cool [at] our show in the fall last year … we’d had a really rough start to the semester … [and] I think we won almost every single class,” de Rham said. Another strong moment for de Rham during the 2012-2013 season was her performance at the regional and zone competitions. She competed in the intermediate flat and open fences divisions at regionals and moved onto zones in open fences. During her freshman year, de Rham rode all the way to nationals and placed fifth in intermediate fences. “I had a really rough start to my sophomore year and I feel like I finally got it together by the end. It meant a lot to me,” she said. Between the ups and downs of their careers with the Red, both captains agree that the team is an important part of their lives. “I couldn’t imagine life at Cornell without the team … it’s such an important part [of my life],” Steinberger said. Ariel Cooper can be reached at acooper@cornellsun.com.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — NFL opening day excitement was tarnished with the death of one fan who fell from a pedestrian overpass outside the big game in San Francisco, and injuries to two others from falls inside the Indianapolis stadium. Early indications suggest 32-year-old Kevin Hayes of Hayward fell accidentally, San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said. “Alcohol may or may not have played a role to some varying degree, but right now, it looks like a very sad, tragic accident,” Suhr said. Hayes fell while walking with his brother on a bridge over four lanes of traffic outside the stadium, police said. Off-duty medics and police officers gave him first aid until an ambulance arrived, but authorities said he was declared dead from his injuries. “We would like to express our deepest condolences to the family during this difficult time,” 49ers spokesman Bob Lange said in an email. The death came just after kickoff in what was eventually San Francisco’s 34-28 win over Green Bay. Multiple witnesses reported that Hayes appeared to be intoxicated and having trouble walking before he fell over the rail to a sidewalk below. “It certainly marred what otherwise a very happy day for fans who know this is the last opening game we will see in Candlestick,” San Francisco Mayor Lee said. Also Sunday, a railing collapsed at the Colts game against the Raiders in Indianapolis, injuring two unidentified fans who were leaning against the barrier above a tunnel leading to Oakland’s locker room. One person was taken away on a stretcher, while another left in a wheelchair, witnesses said. After the Colts 21-17 victory, Barney Levengood, executive director of the Indiana Convention Center and Lucas Oil Stadium, issued a statement that said one of the people was released after receiving medical attention at the stadium. The other person was treated at the stadium and transported to Methodist Hospital for additional evaluation. Levengood said the second fan did not appear to be seriously injured. Fan Dalton Tinklenberg of Kokomo., Ind., told The Indianapolis Star on Monday the railing that collapsed appeared to be wobbly. Stadium officials did not immediately return phone messages and emails from The Associated Press seeking comment.
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Red Splits Two-Game Weekend With One Tie and One Win up with a header. In the second game of the tournament against The Hartwick Hawks, senior Captain Patrick With The Red on the road this week in Slogic tied the game in the 81st minute of play Oneonta for its season opener, the men’s soccer with a header set up by offensive player Stephen team split the weekend tying its first game against Reisert, a fellow senior. With only three minutes left University of Detroit Mercy on the clock in the second overand pulling out a win in double time of the game, Junior midovertime against host Hartwick. CORNELL @ DETROIT fielder Conor Goepel was able to Cornell came out of the secure the win with a final goal 1 weekend with an overall 1-0-1 1 beating Hartwick’s keeper. after record and ultimately winning Game: 1ST 2ND OT 1 OT 2 When asked about the excitthe Mayor’s Cup. Additionally, Cornell 0 0 0 1 ing win over Hartwick, Williams The Red was the only team able Detroit 1 0 0 0 said, to earn a win in a weekend “Yesterday was a great win for filled with ties. Senior captains our team and for developing our Jake Rinow on defense and Ben CORNELL @ HARTWICK character. Games like that will Williams in the midfield were 2 1 pay off for us in other game and named to the all-tournament Game: 1ST 2ND OT 1 OT 2 especially Ivy League games team. 1 0 1 0 when we must work through Cornell was able to start its Cornell 0 0 0 adversity together as a team.” game against Detroit Mercy Hartwick 1 In terms of looking forward with strong offensive play, to next week, the men are excitpulling out a goal in the 17th minute and maintaining the lead against The ed coming off their tournament win, but are “certainly not satisfied,” Williams said. Titans for 20 minutes of the first half. Junior Devon Morgan scored his first career goal, capitalizing off a cross. However, in the 37th See MEN’S SOCCER page 14 minute, Detroit Mercy was able to tie the game By ANNA FASMAN
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Clinching the cup | The men’s soccer team tied its first game on Friday against the University of Detroit Mercy and won on Sunday against Hartwick to take home the Mayor’s Cup.
Athletics Supports Walk Across County For Hungry Children By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor
The Cornell athletics staff got behind radio station Q Country morning host Chris Allinger on Monday by offering him an initial donation as he took his first step of a walk through Tompkins County. Allinger is raising funds for a program that helps kids that are at risk of going hungry over the weekend and during school hol-
“We must not allow children to go hungry.” Andy Noel idays. “We must not allow children in our county, Tompkins County, to go hungry,” said Andy Noel, Cornell Director of Athletics & Physical Education. Allinger and members of the Food Bank of the Southern Tier addressed the Cornell Athletics & Physical Education Staff, coaches and friends on Monday during a staff meeting, as the local DJ began his 103-mile walk at 10 a.m. outside of Friedman Wrestling Center.
Last year, Allinger walked across the county and raised $20,000 — enough to support the Backpack Program help feed 200 of 400 at-risk students that have been identified by school officials and counselors. “The staff at Cornell Athletics & Physical Education reached out to me right after my walk last year, very excited at the possibility of teaming up for the Backpack Program™,” Allinger said to Cornell Athletics. “I’m thrilled that this year we’re going to kick off the walk at their annual meeting.” The cost of the program is $3 a weekend per child, meaning that for each child, it only costs $120 a year. The Backpack Program, run through the Food Bank of the Southern Tier, allows school officials to place packs of easily accessible foods like energy bars and peanut butter in the backpacks of the students during recess or other activities on Friday afternoons. Students who don’t receive the extra help are not aware that the program goes on, which helps keep those in the program anonymous and confidential. Allinger’s walk will take place See ATHLETICS page 13
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Two down | Cornell dropped both matchups this past weekend, losing against Lock Haven on Friday and then to Albany on Sunday.
C.U.Loses Both Weekend Games By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell field hockey squad had a tough weekend, falling short against Lock Haven on Friday and Albany on Sunday. The contest against Albany took place at home on Marsha Dodsen Field, where the Lady Eagles clinched a 32 overtime victory over the Red. The cliff-hanger featured goals by the opposing squad with 20 seconds remaining in regulation and then again with 26 seconds remaining in overtime. The Red walked away with its first loss of the season, sliding into
a 0-1 record while improving the Lady Eagles to 2-1 on the season. While on the road, Cornell endured its second loss to Albany by a greater margin at 0-3, making them 0-2 on the
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season. The Red battled hard in the Lock Haven game and carried play the entire first half, leading in shots on goal
despite trailing in penalty corners. Although the Red couldn’t pull through the first half and entered intermission tied at 0-0, sophomore Marisa Siergiej scored on a penalty corner early in the second half to put Cornell ahead. Senior Hannah Balleza and sophomore Taylor Standiford assisted the goal. The Red quickly capitalized on the momentum and surged ahead as Katherine Stone netted the ball off a rebound save to make the game 2-0. Things quickly went downhill for the Red, however, as Lock Haven’s See FIELD HOCKEY page 14