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Diversity speaker Maura Cullen spoke to Cornellians this week about a variety of diversity topics. | Page 3

Zachary Zahos ’15 reviews 2001: A Space Odyssey, which will play at Cornell Cinema this weekend. | Page 9

The men’s soccer team earned its first win during a match against Lafayette Wednesday. | Page 16

Settlement Reached Over Suicide Suit

Scholarship to be established in memory of student who jumped to death in 2010

of $1.6 to $1.8 million, according to court documents.

In a statement Thursday, the University did not comA scholarship will be estabment on how much the schollished in the memory of a stuarship would be worth and dent who jumped to his death said the exact terms of the from a bridge in 2010 as the scholarship will be released at a result of a settlement agreelater date. ment between Cornell and the “Bradley’s death was, and father of the student, accordremains a tragedy. We are ing to the University. grateful we were able to resolve Cornell said it will fund the GINSBURG ’13 this matter to everyone’s satisperpetual scholarship in memory of Bradley Ginsburg ’13, who com- faction and look forward to being able mitted suicide from the Thurston Avenue to honor Bradley’s memory with a Bridge in February 2010. The value of See SETTLEMENT page 4 the scholarship may be within the range

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Resolution | The lawsuit filed by the father of a student who jumped to his death from the Thurston Avenue Bridge has been settled, according to University officials.

C.U.to Light Up Empire State Bldg. Four S.A. Members

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

Cornell will kick off its sesquicentennial celebrations this weekend in New York City by illuminating the Empire State Building “Big Red” today.

Throughout the weekend, Cornell will hold a series of events and performances in New York City, which will begin with President David Skorton, NBC correspondent Kate Snow ’91 and the Big Red Bear lighting the Empire State Building at 2 p.m.

The weekend will continue with a The Today Show feature on Saturday morning followed later in the day by events with surprise celebrity guest

appearances, according to Charles Phlegar, vice president for alumni affairs and development. The billboards in Times Square will also be dedicated to celebrating the 150th anniversary.

“It’s going to be quite an overview of what we’ve done and where we’re headed as a university.

This will be the first of a series of events that will happen around the country, in London and Hong Kong,” Phlegar said. “There’s a lot of excitement.

It’ll be a lot of fun.”

The Cornell Glee Club will perform Cornellrelated songs at the celebrations on Saturday, according to Mike Gross ’15, alumni affairs officer for the group. Gross said the pieces will See NYC page 4

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American flags placed on the Arts Quad commemorate Sept. 11, 2001 victims on the 13th anniversary of the attacks against the United States.

Resigned Since Spring

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Since last Spring’s Student Assembly elections, four Student Assembly members have resigned — two at the end of the spring semester and two this academic year, according to Matthew Henderson ’16, vice president for internal operations for the S.A. Henderson said the S.A. plans to hold additional elections over the next two weeks to fill the vacancies.

Noah Tulsky ’16, Zak Palomino ’16, Thaddeus Talbot ’15 and Seth Lutsic ’17 have resigned for various reasons, according to Henderson.

“I think it’s good in some ways that there are additional elections coming up over the next two weeks,” Henderson said. “Usually students who are new to Cornell are the only ones who can get involved by running in the fall elections. This is because we always elect the four freshmen Reps and the one Transfer Rep in the fall.”

Kushagra Aniket ’15, director of elections for the S.A., said he thinks it is unfortunate that some members of the S.A. had to resign, saying that some had personal commitments.

“While I would have liked them to continue serving on the S.A., I support their right to make their own individual choices,” he said.

According to Henderson, for Talbot and Lutsic’s undesignated at large seats, the runners-up in last year’s elections will fill the seats.

"The top two runner-ups from the undesignated elections were interested in taking the positions vacated by Thaddeus and Seth.”

Blake Brown ’17 and Joseph Fridman ’17 have already been sworn into their positions, according to Henderson.

“While I would have liked them to continue serving on the S.A., I support their right to make thier own individual choices.”

Kushagra Aniket ’15 For the other seats, however, the S.A. did not have candidates to replace the resigning members. Henderson said the S.A. will now run elections to fill one Arts and Sciences Representative and one LGBTQ Liaison as well, “which opens up the doors to all undergraduates,” he said.

According to Henderson, the elections materials for all the positions are due Friday at noon.

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Dean: Professor Will ‘Be Missed’

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Engineering Prof. Ephrahim Garcia died Wednesday night

By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Writer

Prof. Ephrahim Garcia, mechanical and aerospace engineering, died Wednesday night.

Garcia served as director of graduate studies for aerospace engineering. During the 90s, he was an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University and owned and operated the technology company now known as Dynamic Structures and Materials.

He also was named a National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellow in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, according to a University press release.

Garcia specialized in electro-mechanical engineering based on smart materials.

According to a 1995 issue of the magazine Hispanic Engineer, Garcia was born in New York City to two Cuban immigrants. He attended the State University of New York at Buffalo’s engineering program after graduating high school as one of two Hispanic students in a class of 325.

In an email sent out to engineering students and faculty with the news of Garcia’s death, College of Engineering Dean Lance Collins recalled Garcia’s tendency to “mix it up a bit,” calling his impact on students “tremendous.”

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“[Garcia] advised three project teams, had many undergrads and mechanical engineering students in his lab, taught a popular Mechatronics class and had many Ph.D. students in his lab,” Collins said. “He also steadfastly supported aerospace in the department, and diversity causes across the college and university. He will be sore-

ly missed.”

A community support meeting took place Thursday afternoon in Hollister Hall.

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

Diversity Speaker Invited for ‘Honest and Engaging Dialogue’

By RACHEL WEBER Sun Staff Writer

During talks on Wednesdy and Thursday, diversity speaker Maura Cullen addressed multiple groups of Cornellians — including athletes, faculty and the Greek community — about a variety of discrimination issues.

According to Cullen, all people — and specifically, young adults — are guilty of making bad decisions that they would not have made on their own due to peer

pressure.

“Sometimes we make poor choices,” Cullen said. “We get in a collective energy — whether it’s with our brothers and sisters, or our teammates — and once we get on a roll, we just keep on rolling. And sometimes, we end up off the tracks.”

Cullen also said “clumping,” or the act of associating socially with people who are similar, can cause individuals to perpetuate stereotypes within certain groups.

“The basis of stereotypes is that most of us believe them,” Cullen said. “The

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Let’s talk | Maura Cullen speaks to a filled theatre in Willard Straight Hall about stereotyping and the way it affects students’ lives.

thing is, you’re smarter than that.”

In addition to diversity messages, Cullen presented warnings for students about “continuing to seek help” for eating disorders and encouraged students who are taking depression medications not to stop without consulting a professional, even if their condition seems to improve.

Cullen was brought to campus to target both staff and students, according to Julie Paige, an assistant dean of the Office of Fraternities, Sororities and Independent Living. As part of the University’s Toward New Destinations diversity initiative, the event was meant to “increase multicultural competency and bias education of staff who work in SAS,” Paige added.

“We needed someone who could reach various audiences at all different levels of diversity education,” Paige said.

The Multicultural Greek Letter Council, Panhellenic Executive Board and Interfraternity Council all supported promotional efforts for Cullen’s program, according to leaders of the organizations.

“Maura Cullen was invited to start an honest and engaging dialogue about diversity and inclusion,” said Panhellenic President Erika Whitestone ’15.

Whitestone said she believes Cullen's program will help increase communication on various topics such as race, gender, sexual orientation, class, disability, age and religion.

According to Paige and Whitestone, University groups are taking diversity initiatives to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment for Cornell students after the release of the Hurtado

Campus Climate report last year revealed the degree to which some students do not feel comfortable on campus.

“As we have seen with the Hurtado Campus Climate study, both the Greek System and the Cornell community need to specifically focus on improving diversity and inclusion,” Whitestone said.

Interfraternity Council President Cameron Pritchett ’15 said he believes diversity programming is “an essential way to encourage students to step out of their comfort zone and learn about other cultures and perspectives.”

According to Pritchett, the IFC was “very excited” to help promote Maura Cullen’s appearance at Bailey Hall, especially due to the findings of the Hurtado Report.

“It is imperative that Greek students play a substantial role in moving the University forward so that every student can feel safe at all times,” Pritchett said.

Whitestone said she hopes the program creates a more “open” environment and for participants to go back to their chapters and start discussions surrounding diversity issues.

“Diversity and inclusion will not be solved overnight, but the more people working on improving our community the better off Cornell will be,” said Whitestone, who added that Panhellenic is working to provide more “open space for conversation” in the Greek community.

Rachel Weber can be reached at rweber@cornellsun.com.

Burning Question Now that Cornell University is no longer the lowest ranked Ivy on the U.S. News and Report’s national ranking, how are you going to celebrate?

“Order ‘only the second worst’ buttons!”

— The Worst ’17 “Give Skorton a hug.”

— It’s Okay, David ’16

“Call my younger brother at Brown and tell him that I AM the smarter sibling after all.”

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guessing

chanting,

‘We’re number 7’ doesn’t sound that good, right?

— No, It Doesn’t ’16

wait, we are.”

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“You mean we didn’t beat Harvard?”

— Oh ’18

“We’re going to party like we’re better than Brown... Oh

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Ginsburg Father Four S.A. Members Leave Posts Two positions remain unfilled, according to Assembly Agrees to Settle RESIGNATIONS

Scholarship to be established in son’s memory “In every instance where design safety issues conflicted with aesthetic concerns, the scholarship in his name,” said safety concerns lost out,” he Joel Malina, vice president for wrote in a memo submitted to the court.

University Relations.

The University, however, The City of Ithaca will also put forth $100,000 as part of claimed in a court memo that the settlement, according to it could not be held liable for any student suicides from the the court records.

Bradley’s father Howard bridge because it did not have Ginsburg ’70 dropped the suit control of the bridge, which is owned by the City of Ithaca.

“Bradley Ginsburg’s death Still, Howard Ginsburg planned to could have been prevented argue that he thinks if effective means [of] suicide prevention restrictions had been measures “could have easily” been enacted present on the bridge.” sooner.

“At the end of the Howard Ginsburg ’70 day, the protection [of ] the views of the after settlement talks began gorge from the bridge were late last month and after years more important to Cornell of pursuing litigation against and the city than the preventhe University and the City of tion of suicides,” he said. “The Ithaca. He argued that Cornell result was tragic and irreand Ithaca were responsible for versible: Bradley Ginsburg’s his son’s death and sued them death could have been prevented if effective means [of ] for $180 million.

The death of Bradley restrictions had been present Ginsburg was the first of three on the bridge. But such effecstudents to commit suicide tive physical barriers were not from Ithaca bridges in the present, and no longer is he.”

Despite each of the parties spring of 2010, putting Cornell in national headlines. reaching an agreement over The string of suicides the settlement, Howard prompted the University to Ginsburg’s attorney expressed implement additional mental his disappointment because he health programs on campus said he was “intentionally” left and install temporary chain- out of settlement talks.

“I wish to express my conlink fences — which were later replaced by permanent nets — cern and distress over the on the bridges on and near court’s decision to exclude me as plaintiff ’s counsel from parCornell’s campus.

In his case, Howard ticipation in the recent teleGinsburg argued that the phonic settlement discussions Monday,” Kenneth University and the city focused on on preserving the views of the McCallion wrote in a letter to gorge rather than implement- Justice David Hurd ’59. ing suicide prevention measures during a redesign of the Thurston Avenue Bridge Tyler Alicea can be reached at me@cornellsun.com. between 2006 and 2007.

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“There were other people who ran for these seats and lost by a few votes who have taken the newly opened positions,” she said. “There is probthat these elections will be more competitive, in ably nothing that the S.A. could have done, or terms of the number of candidates, than previous should have done, to prevent these representatives years,” Henderson said. “The S.A. from choosing to resign.”

Elections Committee and our V.P. “There is probably Balik said she feels that these of P.R. has done a considerable representatives will bring fresh amount of outreach to students nothing that the S.A. perspectives to the S.A. who are new to Cornell, and also could have done.”

“I feel lucky to call them new to students that would be interestadditions to the S.A. family,” ed in either the [Arts and Sciences] Sarah Balik ’15 she said. “They have officially or LGBTQ seat.” transitioned into their seats, Voting for the upcoming elecand are ready to serve the stutions begins on Sept. 22, according to Henderson. dent body without missing a beat.”

Sarah Balik ’15, president of the S.A., said it is difficult to lose members that were dedicated and passionate, though is optimistic about the new Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun.com. members.

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Cornell to Host Events in London, Hong Kong for Sesquicentennial NYC

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include a composition by one of the club members, as well as the alma mater.

“As an organization we’re honored to be a part of this of this celebration,” Gross said. “The glee club is the oldest student-run organization — it was around when Cornell opened to students in 1868. I think it is particularly fitting that Cornell’s oldest organi-

zation will be there to usher in the new generation.”

Ross Gitlin ’15, undergraduate student trustee, also said he thinks that the celebrations will be a time for those associated with the University to think about the past as well as the future.

“The sesquicentennial provides the Cornell community the opportunity to celebrate our accomplishments of the past 150 years as well as reflect on the important work that remains to be

done over next 150 years,” Gitlin said.

According to Phlegar, sesquicentennial events will continue into next year and will take place in Washington D.C., San Francisco, London and Hong Kong, among other locations.

This year’s homecoming in October will also be themed for the sesquicentennial, Phlegar said.

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

Three Infant Bodies Found in ‘Filthy House’ BL ACKSTONE, Mass. (AP) — The bodies of three infants were found Thursday in a filthy house where four other children were removed by authorities last month, a Massachusetts prosecutor said.

A woman who lives at the home was arrested on charges related to the living conditions at the house, according to police. Prosecutors said Erika Murray, 31, would be arraigned Friday on charges including intimidation of a witness.

Worcester County District Attorney Joseph Early Jr. said authorities don’t know when or how the babies died, or their ages and genders.

No criminal charges have been filed in connection with the deaths.

Detectives investigating a case of reckless

endangerment of children found the bodies at the house in Blackstone, about 50 miles southwest of Boston on the Rhode Island line.

Investigators working in the house have been wearing hazmat suits, and are decontaminated when they leave, the prosecutor said.

“The house is filled with vermin,” Early said. “We have flies. We have bugs. We have used diapers, in some areas, as much as a foot-and-ahalf to two-feet high.

The house is in a deplorable condition.”

Early said four other children, ages 13, 10, 3 and 6 months old were removed from the house Aug. 28 after a neighbor who discovered their living conditions notified police. The prosecutor said one of the children in the house approached

the neighbor about a child who wouldn’t stop crying. Early said the 6month-old was found covered with feces lying on a bed.

The woman who was arrested was expected to remain in police custody overnight, police spokesman John Guilfoil said. It was not immediately known whether Murray has an attorney.

Marilynn Soucy, 68, who lives a few doors down from the house, said in a telephone interview she’s still in shock at the news in the neighborhood where she has lived for 35 years.

“I am so disgusted. It hasn't really registered in my head yet,” she said. “My husband and I raised seven children.

We have 11 grandchildren and two great grandchildren. I cannot

imagine hurting a child.”

She said she and her husband, Bob, had rarely seen the couple who lived in the house at least three years, or their children. She said they occasionally saw the 10-year-old, a boy, playing outside or the woman sit on her porch.

Soucy said she had never heard anyone complain about the couple. Their house, Soucy said, had been renovated extensively before they moved in.

“If we thought kids were being abused or living in squalor we would have said something,” she said.

Soucy said the only time there was commotion at the house when officials removed the children from the home.

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U.S. Congregations More Accepting of Gays

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Overall acceptance of gays and lesbians in U.S. religious congregations rose significantly between 2006 and 2012, but it declined in Catholic congregations, according to new data released Thursday.

Duke University’s National Congregations Study is derived from interviews with representatives — usually clergy — of 1,331 U.S. churches, mosques, temples, synagogues and other houses of worship.

Overall, the study found acceptance of gay and lesbian members in American congregations increased from 37 percent to 48 percent over the six-year period. Acceptance of gays and lesbians as volunteer leaders increased from 18 percent to 26 percent.

Growth was especially strong among black Protestant churches, white liberal Protestant churches and non-Christian congregations.

Carl Greene has lived through those changes as the openly gay leader of St. Mark’s Church in Chattanooga, Tennessee. St.

Mark’s is part of the United Methodist Church, whose official position is that homosexuality is incompatible with Christian teaching.

Because he is gay, Greene is not allowed to be ordained, although he is a certified lay minister and leads his church with the blessing of local Methodist authorities.

When he took over the church in 2012, it had declined to about 20 members and was on the verge of closing. Today, it has about 150 members, both gay and straight.

Greene said many people come to the church because of that diversity.

“I always hear, ‘We want our children to see the way the kingdom of God should look like,’” he said.

The study also found that acceptance of gay and lesbian members in white conservative Protestant churches increased from 16 percent to 24 percent during the period covered by the survey. Their acceptance of gay and lesbian volunteers was unchanged at 4 percent, however.

Fourth Sierra Leonean Doctor Infected With Ebola Virus FREETOWN, Sierra Leone coming weeks.

To keep up with the accelerat(AP) — Another doctor from Sierra Leone who has tested pos- ing infection rate, Liberian itive for Ebola will be evacuated Information Minister Lewis for medical treatment, an official Brown told a news conference said Thursday, making her the Thursday that the capital region first citizen of a hard-hit country alone needs 1,000 beds.

That squares with a World to be treated abroad.

Dr. Olivette Buck is the Health Organization estimate fourth Sierra Leonean doctor to from earlier this week. The U.N. contract the disease — and the health agency said the county three others all have died. where Monrovia is located curArrangements are being made to rently has only 240 beds, with send her to another country for 260 more on the way — only better treatment, said Health half of what's needed.

The tremendous fear surMinistry spokesman Sidie Yahya Tunis without specifying further. rounding the disease and the So far, only foreign health extreme measures used to conand aid workers have been evac- tain it — like the cordoning off of entire towns uated abroad for days — has for treatment “We are at war with an led to sharp from Sierra Leone and enemy that we don’t see.” criticism of Liberia’s govLiberia. The worst Ebola Finance Minister Amara Konneh ernment and even calls for outbreak in the president history also to step down. has hit Guinea, Nigeria and Senegal, But Brown urged Liberians to and has been blamed for more unite, warning that if they did than 2,200 deaths across West not, “this virus will consume all of us.”

Africa.

“We are at war with an enemy The disease is taking a particularly heavy toll on health care that we don’t see,” Finance workers, whose jobs put them at Minister Amara Konneh told high risk because Ebola is only reporters. “And we have to win transmitted through contact the war.”

But he said Liberia would be with the bodily fluids of people showing symptoms or dead bod- dependent on international ies. More than 135 health work- assistance to do so. The U.N. has ers have died in the outbreak so said at least $600 million is far, exacerbating shortages of needed to fight Ebola in West doctors and nurses in countries Africa, and already several that already had too few medical pledges have come in. The United States has spent $100 workers to begin with.

Sierra Leone and Liberia have million so far, with more been especially hard hit, and promised, and Britain has given officials have warned that both $40 million.

Microsoft co-founder Paul countries could see a surge in cases soon. Sierra Leone is Allen's foundation on Thursday expecting to uncover potentially announced a $9 million donahundreds of new cases when vol- tion to the CDC Foundation, unteers go house to house look- which raises money for the U.S. ing for the sick during a three- government’s Centers for day lockdown later this month. Disease Control and Prevention.

The World Health Organization It will be used to help set up has said Liberia could see many emergency operations centers in thousands of new cases in the West Africa.

In remembrance

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A woman shares stories Thursday about a familiy friend who lost her life in the Sept. 11 attacks. On the 13th anniversary of the attacks, New York City paused to honor the dead and pay tribute to first responders.

Afghan Recount Ordered; Karzai Nears Outright Win KABUL (AP) — A U.N.-backed commission Tuesday ordered a recount of tainted ballots from the Afghan presidential vote, saying it had “convincing evidence of fraud,” even as President Hamid Karzai for the first time surpassed the threshold needed to avoid a run-off and win re-election.

Doubts are growing about the Aug. 20 election’s credibility, a key step in U.S. and European efforts to strengthen the Afghan government and bolster declining support for the almost eight-year war against a spreading Taliban insurgency.

The U.N.-backed Electoral Complaints Commission, an independent body with the power

to investigate and nullify fraudulent votes, ordered a recount Tuesday at polling stations where it had found “clear and convincing evidence of fraud.”

That means that Karzai could still have votes taken away from him. More than 720 major fraud charges have been lodged with the complaints commission.

Daoud Ali Najafi, chief electoral officer of the Afghan-run Independent Election Commission which organized the vote, said that recounting votes could take “two months or three months,” suggesting the already overextended election is likely far from over. Officially certified results were due by late September.

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Earlier in the school year, the beloved Rulloff ’s Restaurant and Bar was closed without notice, much to the surprise and despair of alumni, employees and now-finally-21 seniors. According to one old-for-their-grade-junior, “now where will all of the 21st birthdays be celebrated?” Although we are still mourning the loss, we have been told that we need to be thinking ahead ... to the weekend when we need to unwind. For this reason, we at The Sun wanted to look to where students can go now to drink away your sorrows. So we sent our best Berry Patch reporters — most of whom are too young to have ever been to Rulloff ’s — to see where the next hot spot might be.

Chapter House: Generally known as the place for graduate students, this might be the next hot spot. With a similar, more laid-back vibe, it is a great place to hang out, eat some popcorn and sometimes listen to live music. While it’s never that crowded, our reporters have discovered that it might become overrun with newcomers.

Pixel Lounge: With a lovely seating area and large dance floor, Pixel Lounge might just take over. ... Just kidding, that would never happen.

Club Suds: The only 24-hour club in Ithaca (besides the Cocktail Lounge), where there is no last call and you can do your laundry at the same time! Club Suds is a local favorite, and it has become a watering hole for many Collegetown residents, especially those who do not have laundry in their buildings or houses. So come on in, shotgun a beer and watch the rinse cycles. But be aware, it’s BYOB (we think).

Dunbars: A Sun Editorial Board (at least, the ones who care enough to write this editorial) favorite, we are all hoping Dunbars become the cool place to be. Except, we don’t like how crowded it gets, so on second thought don’t come. Also, its already cool and we do not care about anyone who says otherwise.

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zra's Oracle welcomes inquiries from all members of the Cornell community about anything and everything related to the University. We seek out answers to campus mysteries, research rumors and investigate issues of relevance to Cornellians.

Questions can be submitted via email to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Or whisper them in the ear of the Ezra Cornell statue on the Arts Quad.

Q: I recently saw an article about Cornell’s mascot, and now I’m confused. What is the official Cornell mascot?

— Beary Confused ’14

A: With everything going on in the world today, it’s nice that some Cornellians focus on the really important things. Like university mascots.

Two weeks ago, The Sun ran a story about President Skorton’s response to Student Assembly Resolution 85, which proposed that Cornell recognize Touchdown the Bear as the official university mascot. Skorton left many Cornellians confused when he responded with, “I, and several other administrators, believe the mascot should be the big red bear, not Touchdown, the bear cub.” This statement has two problems: 1) Touchdown is the Big Red Bear; there aren’t two distinct bear mascots. And 2) campus tradition has always maintained that the bear is not an “official” mascot.

The idea of a bear mascot dates to 1915, when the Cornell University Athletic Association purchased a black bear cub to serve as mascot for the football team.

Named Touchdown, the bear was considered a good omen when the team went undefeated for the season. With Touchdown sent back home to Maine at the end of the season, new bear cub mascots were acquired in 1916, 1919 and 1939. Their exploits are well-documented in an entertaining book by alumnus John H. Foote ’74.

But despite those bear-filled years, Cornell maintains that there is no “official” mascot. Our colors are carnelian and white, our athletic teams are the “Big Red,” and nowhere in the Board of Trustees proceedings or faculty minutes is there mention of a Cornell mascot. The Student Assembly has tried to rectify the situation on at least three occasions, with resolutions in 2006, 2011 and 2014, but their pleas have fallen on deaf ears.

But what makes a mascot official anyway? The bear is proudly included on apparel and the Cornell athletics logo. Willard Straight Hall, built in 1925, has two stone bears over the entrance and wooden bears in the Memorial Room, plus the more recently created Bear’s Den campus pub. The Big Red Bears student organization on campus refers to “Touchdown the Big Red Bear” as the “Cornell mascot,” providing entertainment at countless campus events each year. Even the University mace, carried at commencement and inaugural ceremonies, includes a tiny bear at the top. And in 2015, a bronze bear statue is expected to be unveiled near Schoellkopf Field during Homecoming weekend. So it seems like the bear is as official as it’s going to be. Or perhaps President Skorton’s statement indicates a dramatic shift in University policy?

Q: With Franny’s food truck now open behind Sibley Hall, what’s the history of food trucks on campus?

— Meals on Wheels ’15 A: The opening of Franny’s on the north end of campus brings the history of Cornell dining facilities full circle. In the late nineteenth century at Cornell, one of the few places to get food on campus was a wagon behind Sibley Hall affectionately called the Sibley Dog. (The term “dog-wagon” referred to a converted vehicle used for serving food, often hot dogs.) The establishment eventually moved into an old farmhouse located east of Sibley, but was kicked out when the house was demolished in 1911 for Rand Hall’s construction. The Sibley Dog was demoted to the Sibley Pup, a temporary tent east of the foundry building behind Sibley. By the end of 1911, the Pup was given new quarters in the basement of Sibley Dome, and was called Sibley Restaurant or Sibley Cafeteria. The University took over management from the proprietors in 1915, adding it to the other Cornell-owned cafeterias at Cascadilla, Sage and Risley. The Dog was put down in fall 1921, replaced by a recreation/smoking room for engineers. The Green Dragon replaced the recreation room in spring 1968. Cornell Dining experimented with a traveling food truck in the 1970s, with a route that included Bailey Hall, West Campus and North Campus.

Today, the “dog wagon” tradition continues with Louie’s Lunch, which dates to the 1910s, and the Hot Truck, which opened in 1960.

Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Shoan Yin Cheung ’09 |

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ysteric” is usually not what comes to mind when speaking of Leon Fleisher, the American pianist and conductor.

In 1964, Fleisher lost the use of his right hand due to a condition that was later identified in the early 1990s as focal dystonia. Yet, had this occurred even a half century earlier, he could have been labeled a hysteric.

Dystonia, which now refers to a class of neurological movement disorders that cause involuntary muscle contractions, had long evaded medical classification as an illness that skates the blurry line between disorders of organic and psychogenic origins.

Dystonia first appeared in medical literature in 1911. At the time, the dominance of psychoanalytic theory in explaining psychiatric disorders, along with the lack of a known biological mechanism for dystonia, meant that many patients with dystonia were treated with psychotherapy. Since the 1950s however, advances in genetics and brain-imaging technology contributed to articulating an explanation for dystonia in biological terms. Dystonia is now a bona fide neurological disorder, and the standard treatment entails oral medications and/or BotoxTM, a muscle relaxant that ameliorates the effects of the muscles spasms.

Western biomedicine has long been insistent on maintaining a schism that separates soma from psyche. It legitimizes ailments that arise from the former and dismisses those that have no known pathological origin. In the case of dystonia, it appears that advances in medical technologies have enabled the condition to conform to biomedical expectations of disease, and our current conception of dystonia as explained by neurology comes with a treatment plan that produces quantifiable results to boot. It may seem that biomedicine has nailed this elusive disorder — at least, until the BotoxTM wears off and has to be injected again.

Where the biomechanical explanation breaks down, however, is precisely where we call biomedicine to question: How exactly does the medical establishment pin down the phenomenon of illness, and what are the repercussions of investing “the real” in the biological?

Medicine, which has trouble grappling with the unknown to the point that diseases that have no known etiological pathway are called “idiopathic,” has defined psycho-genetic diseases as those that look very similar to illnesses caused by damage to the nerves, brain or muscles, but have no traceable physical causes.

Nowadays, such slippery diseases are thought to have both organic and psychogenic factors. Throughout the 18th and especially the 19th centuries, however, the available category for understanding nervous diseases that had no pathological origin was neurosis, and hysteria was a subcategory.

We perhaps know of hysteria now as the antiquated female malady of sexual dysfunction and uncontrollable emotions popularized by Victorian fiction. For nearly 2,000 years, hysteria had occupied the Western imagination as a medical condition characterized by disturbances in the uterus (hysteria comes from the Greek word for uterus). Starting in the mid 19th century, a growing body of medical professionals began treating hysteria as a disease. As the body came to be thought of as a bounded biological unit that operated according to universal scientific law, the emerging specialties of neurology, psychiatry and gynecology all sought after biological explanations for hysteria.

Hysteria’s most famous advocate was Jean-Martin Charcot (1825-1893), the father of French neurology and Sigmund Freud’s mentor. He worked at the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris, historically known as the prison for prostitutes and a holding cell for the mentally disabled, criminally insane and the poor. While he initially thought of hysteria as a neurological disorder with hereditary characteristics, at the end of his life he believed it to be a psychological disease.

Neurosis and hysteria are no longer listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, but psychogenic diseases such as dystonia were formerly known as part of the “hysterical” diseases.

We no longer call people who suffer from psychogenic diseases hysterics, yet we can’t attribute this to a blind faith that we have eliminated quackery from modern day medicine. As we have seen, doctors genuinely believed that hysteria had an etiology. Hysteria is now generally rejected as a diagnostic category and has since been parsed into more clinical sounding psychiatric disorders, appearing in the DSM as dissociative fugue disorder, conversion disorder, or body dysmorphic disorder, among others.

In the last half of the 20th century, focal dystonia has gained a high profile through its association with musicians, writers and other creative professions that have in common the performance of repetitive movements. It has benefited from its legitimization as a biomedical phenomenon. Now a neurological disorder and not a form of hysteria, dystonia can be traceable to genes and synaptic connections in the brain. Dystonia has gained a place in biomedical literature by acquiring an organic, if imperfect, pathology. Yet, the search for somatic explanations of illness means that the mind becomes shorthand for “we don’t know,” or worst, not legitimate.

Last week, when I brought up hysteria in a class on medical sociology, my students were surprised to learn that it was once a medical category. They told me that they only knew of hysteria in the context of mass psychosis, from the term “mass hysteria.”

If you do a quick search for the “mass hysteria” on Google, you can find stories of mysterious collapses by young women in garment factories in Southeast Asia, or other strange behaviors that occur en masse. What these incidents have in common is that they happen among vulnerable populations in conditions of distress.

It has been said that the onset of focal dystonia — which is also characterized by involuntary and unexplainable actions — may be triggered by stress. Yet we don’t label the musician as the hysteric. We instead reserve that label for explaining the behavior of less illustrious sufferers, like the poorly paid female workers laboring in factories that feed the global supply chain. Not all mysterious illnesses deserve a biological explanation, it seems.

Shoan Yin Cheung graduated from the College of Arts and Sciences in 2009, and is now a graduate student studying medical anthropology in the Department of Science and Technology Studies. She can be reached at sc479@cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears on alternate Fridays this semester.

Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

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just finished my ronment. Similarly, if pletely different. I ambulatory and you go to see an couldn’t count the production medi- emergency and number of times I’ve cine rotation, which weren’t able to specif- seen surgeons in a is when we ride ically prepare for it hospital perform a around in the trucks beforehand, you non-textbook proce(or minivans) with might have to figure dure because it was the veterinarians who out how to provide the most efficient are making farm calls the highest standard way to use the matearound the area of care with atypical rials at hand. (roughly a 45 minute equipment. Or it In general, you radius all around could be something constantly have to Ithaca). Upstate New as simple as a client figure out how to York is a relatively big asking you for a med- read and react to dairy cow region so ication that you don’t every different comwe spent a lot of our carry or have run out bination of client, time with (or inside) of — can you think patient and disease cows, but also saw of something equiva- process that exists. everything ranging lent, or find a cheap, Here’s an aside to from horses to efficient way to get make it a little easier alpacas to pigs. You your client what they to understand. When know that I’m not need? All of this I was learning how to allowed to share spe- seems pretty straight- horseback ride, I used cific stories with you, but I can tell In general, you constantly have you that to figure out how to read and my experireact to every different combiences on nation of client, patient and the rotadisease process that exists. tion made me start thinking about the importance forward — obviously, to fall pretty freof innovation in vet- when you’re a travel- quently (thankfully erinary medicine. ling medical profes- for my body the falls One day during sional you should are much fewer these rounds, one of the learn to expect the days). During a fall, residents mentioned unexpected. There’s a there’s always an epithat it’s important certain romance n e p h r i n e - f u l l when you’re part of a about it all really; a moment where you field service to figure (wo)man, armed only don’t know what’s out how to use the with the contents of happening and then tools you have in cre- the truck and a brain, once you’ve landed, ative new ways. If against anything you do a reflexive you’re doing surgery nature can throw at check of all your in the field, you don’t you. body parts from head have a fancy surgery Romance aside, I to toe to figure out suite with facilities to began to realize that what hurts. In a aseptically scrub the entire field of vet- strange way, I came yourself (or your erinary medicine to enjoy this process patient) before the requires the same — not the actual surgery, and you have degree of ability to falling or the lingerto figure out how to think outside the ing pain the next day, make your bottle of box. Even with all of but that reflexive antiseptic and the the comforts of a hos- once-over is kind of water from the hose pital, every moment what veterinary medinto a similar envi- of every day is com- icine entails all the

time. It’s about constantly re-evaluating your surroundings and reading subtle cues to identify the dangers and problems that you can work to fix. Is that cat trying to bite you because she’s actually aggressive or is she just in pain, and what do you have nearby that you can use to pacify her? Did those owners really come to talk to you about their dog’s occasional sneezing or are they more worried about something else?

The degree of thought and the ability to think on your feet that are required in these situations is not much different from the scenarios I described above for the ambulatory veterinarians. In the end, the constant variety and mental stimulation combined with the relative freedom to do what you think is best is part of what makes the entire profession such an exciting one.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a fourthyear veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun .com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT 2001: A Space Odyssey at Cornell Cinema ZACHARY ZAHOS Sun Senior Writer

If you don’t believe in God, you might as well believe in the movies — where you can be God. British critic Raymond Durgnat once said something to that effect, and it’s not hard to parse what he was getting at: All movies, even the bad ones, unfold before an all-seeing crowd of voyeurs, each free to judge characters when they fail and feel responsible for their success. 2001: A Space Odyssey, which will screen at Cornell Cinema tonight and Sunday evening, pitches this thesis into the infinite vastness of space, where the all-seeing viewer does not judge or relate but sees, for the first and possibly only time, through the eyes of God. That may sound like a brooding, moralistic slog, but the genius and lasting beauty of 2001 is how light it is on its feet. For a famously accurate film that interrogates mankind’s technical progress, from the first bone-as-weapon to the spaceship that realizes our species’ ultimate Manifest Destiny, the action and ideas embedded within play like music, not polemics. Indeed, 2001 transfixes in its use of music, like when Johann Strauss II’s The Blue Danube turns a lengthy spaceship docking into a waltz, or when early hominids shriek at a black alien monolith as the discordant creepiness of György Ligeti’s “Requiem” gets under our skin. These moments are brimming with ideas — think about the spaceship’s lyrical movements compared to the hamster wheel dynamics of the astronauts — but you need not mine for meaning to get the full experience, which is to feel awe at the magnificent and fear at the unknown.

Director Stanley Kubrick, who wrote the script with Arthur C. Clarke, had a thing for symmetry and onepoint perspective, so that staring at a corridor or wormhole is to stare down its endlessness. The forced compositions betray a meticulous mind, for one, as well as a perceptive, knowing eye behind all the space politics, antagonistic A.I. systems and otherworldly encounters. When we watch astronauts David Bowman (Keir Dullea) and Frank Poole (Gary Lockwood) navigate their spaceship, we are not looking at human movement so much as automated motion through narrow, fluorescent spaces. There is no room for choice, and thus error, in the ship’s spectacular, streamlined design, and the symmetrical cinematography drives home both the efficacy and inhuman-

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ness of this advanced technology.

This explains why Bowman and Poole are utter blanks — anyone who has a bone to pick about the “bad acting” here is missing the point — and HAL 9000, the taskmanaging supercomputer on board, is genteel, wise and terribly sentient. 2001 doubles as a cautionary tale for how the human brain can only process so much knowledge, and when our species hits that prophetic “singularity,” we will kneel just as the apes at the film’s beginning did before their monolithic master. Perhaps the most novel and inspiring twist in 2001’s plot involves a certain choice (which I will not spoil, if for some reason you are still reading without having seen the movie before) Bowman makes in a dazzling red room. Bowman’s decision exercises tremendous courage and agency, but its protracted, elegiac aftermath may be one of the saddest scenes in American film. How could [insert climactic event] be such a tragedy? 2001 proposes that once humans hit a point in our applied intelligence, we entrust humanity onto technology and forfeit ours in the process.

Kubrick ejects the tension between humans and technology out the thematic airlock once the final act arrives, with its most memorable title, “Jupiter and Beyond the

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Infinite.” The events that transpire here are unforgettable, for Kubrick and special effects pioneer Douglas Trumbull discard plot in order to depict something approaching the ineffable. It’s odd how some people approach the “Star Gate” sequence as a puzzle, and are thus frustrated how it refrains from spelling out its secrets. It’s not “about” much anything, except perhaps sight itself. This acid-washed spectacle elapses over a wordless 10 minutes, and it’s worth keeping in mind the literal time of Bowman’s journey probably takes an eternity longer. This sequence and the uncanny one after approximate mankind’s final achievements, if we ever reach them, and how we will no longer just be Homo sapiens once we arrive at the other side.

Exploration has always brought with it violence and, to excuse the violence, moral hierarchies. What 2001: A Space Odyssey, an easy pick for the greatest of films, posits is that the arrogance of man sustains only by the limits of our understanding, and that when our brave rocket man clears that final hurdle, be it literal or metaphorical, the rest of us will answer not to death rays but a deafening coo.

Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com.

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Anna Brenner Adam Duritz and the Counting Crows proved they are, indeed, still alive, well, and back to good form with the release last week of their seventh studio album, Somewhere Under Wonderland. While there isn’t anything particularly fresh about the album — almost all nine of the naval gazeing tracks are familiar Duritzian meditations on remembering (or failing to remember) friends, places and lovers past (“Palisades Park,” “God of Ocean Tides”, “Elvis Went to Hollywood”, “Possibility Days”), wanting to endow yourself with significance and have everyone love you (“Earthquake Driver”) or feeling like you’ve lost yourself in fame (“Dislocation”) — much of the joy of the album is that the band still sounds … well, exactly the same as it did in the ’90s.

The album kicks off with “Palisades Park,” a nostalgic, eight-plus minute epic that features a sentimental opening trumpet riff and slow-burning verses that build into a riproaring fun-time chorus with lyrics that compare life to a theme park — a metaphor that would be cheesy if Duritz didn’t manage to make it sound so sincere. Sure, the song’s four movements — opening, verse, chorus, bridge — kind of make it sound like four songs stitched together, but

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Another favorite track is “Earthquake Driver,” the second on the album. The song is essentially an upbeat spin on “Mr. Jones,” the Counting Crows’ big single from their first album, August and Everything After, and one of their biggest commercial hits overall. Like “Mr. Jones,” “Earthquake Driver” is about the desire to be loved — in this case, about wanting to be “an earthquake driver” (i.e. somebody who shakes things up) and not “want[ing] to go home,” especially not alone, as the song’s protagonist (who, let’s be real, is most certainly Duritz himself ) is “hungry for affection” but “struggle[s] with connection.”

Besides being insanely relatable to any person striving to become somebody (a common aspiration among the college-kid crowd), the song is also incredibly catchy, with its looping guitar hook, acoustic backing, and hand-clappy chorus.

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As far as the second half of the album is concerned, “Scarecrow,” a mid-tempo jam about trying to reach a lover and stop them from leaving, is the clear standout; the rest of the album continues in much of the same fashion as the first, with plenty of memorable riffs, table-drummy backbeats, reflective lyrics and a solid side-dish of honkytonk piano. Although slower songs “God of Ocean Tides” and “Possibility Days” get a little too schmaltzy for my taste and “Cover Up the Sun” sounds, at best, like a travel diary and at worst, like a laundry list of places Duritz traveled to on a road trip underscored by a roadhouse band, they still make for a reasonably enjoyable listen.

The verdict: if you like ’90s soft-ish guitar rock with maybe a little folk and some rootsy riffs thrown in there for the hell of it, plus ultra-personal lyrics — i.e. if you like any of the Counting Crows past albums, or even if you really, really just love/d “Accidentally in Love” from the Shrek 2 soundtrack — this album definitely deserves a good listen.

Anna Brenner is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at aab242@cornell.edu.

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NATALIE TSAY Sun Contributor

Only Lovers Left Alive is dark, nontraditional and mesmerizing.

It’s a vampire movie that never utters the word “vampire.” It adheres to stereotypes without bringing them to the forefront. It’s offbeat and undoubtedly strange, but it also has lighter moments.

Only Lovers Left Alive is about two vampires named Adam (Tom Hiddleston) and Eve (Tilda Swinton). Adam, a reclusive musician ironically gaining fame for being so anonymous, never leaves his run-down house in Detroit and tries to commit suicide, an especially difficult feat for an immortal being. Meanwhile, Eve lives in Tangier and hangs out with fellow vampire Kit (John Hurt), better known in his day as the playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Adam and Eve soon find themselves briefly Only Lovers Left Alive reunited with Eve’s vivaDirected by Jim Jarmusch cious, unpredictable make you believe that they’ve lived for centuries and will younger sister, Ava (Mia live for centuries more. Adam, in the style of the typical Starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Wasikowska), for the “brooding” male, does his fair share of sulking and isolates Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska himself from society, yet he’s also charmingly responsible first time in almost a century and must deal and has a great capacity for compassion even though he is with the mess she leaves mostly contemptuous of the world. Eve, on the other behind. Unlike the hand, goes out of her way to enjoy life by soaking up standard Hollywood vampire flick, Only COURTESY OF SONY PICTURES Lovers Left Alive isn’t about plot or fancy CGI effects — it’s about two souls fated to spend eternity together and it’s done with style.

Adam and Eve are presented in a very different light than recent pop-culture vampires — yes, I’m talking about Twilight and the glamorous, glittering, good-looking Cullen clan. Though Adam and Eve are pale and have fangs, you can only discern their fangs once or twice throughout the entire film. What’s immediately noticeable is their stringy, stiff looking hair. I’m not really sure where they were going with that, but it definitely made them stand out from the humans, comically referred to as “zombies.” While Eve dresses solely in white or other light neutrals, Adam sticks to other cultures and adapting to technological advances (while Eve black or near-black colors. They both wear leather gloves (then owns an iPhone, Adam seems to be stuck in the 1970s with all of remove them in an odd, old-fashioned ritual) and because their his chunky, outdated technology). Mia Wasikowska is also a comeyes go wild when they’re hungry, sunglasses: Ray-Bans, to be spe- pelling force in the film. Her immaturity and wildly inappropriate cific. However, aesthetic touches could only do so much to create conduct provide a severe contrast to the older, wiser vampires. She the supernatural look — the rest was left to the actors themselves. is fierce, dramatic and playful, but also out of control, and Every member of the cast was phenomenal. Tom Hiddleston Wasikowska does exceedingly well in showing the audience all and Tilda Swinton appear otherworldly to begin with and their aspects of her character. striking faces are accentuated, not mitigated, by their hair and However, my biggest concern going into the movie wasn’t makeup. They took their roles and ran with them — they really whether or not the actors were capable of great performances.

Before seeing the movie, I thought the age gap between Hiddleston (33) and Swinton (53) would be disturbing, but to my surprise, I hardly minded or, for that matter, noticed. As I mentioned before, it seemed as if both had already lived several life spans — what’s 20 years to a vampire, anyway?

Another — perhaps the most — important facet of the movie is the music. The opening shot, a spinning record, lets the audience know right away that music is an essential aspect of the film. Both Adam’s soft rock-n-roll and the native Tangier music are soothing, powerful and entrancing. Only Lovers Left Alive is artistically and culturally rich, referencing countless works of literature, but the focus is really on the music. You get the sense that it’s one of the only things keeping Adam alive — the only thing, besides his love for Eve, from which he draws joy and inspiration. In this way, music acts as a sort of saving grace. The quiet moments are even more noticeable than the ones filled with song, and that’s how you know that the music is really a crucial element of the story.

While much of the film is overtly serious, there are several moments (a snarky deadpan comment from Hiddleston or the looks on the vampires’ faces after feeding) that are actually quite humorous. Combine that with an excellent cast and a fresh perspective on a tired trend and you get a thoroughly intriguing, utterly atypical vampire movie.

Only Lovers Left Alive played at Cornell Cinema last week as a part of the Cinema’s “Everything Old is New Again” series. The next installment in this series is The Eric & Mary Ross Ultimedia Experience, tonight at 7 p.m.

Natalie Tsay is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at nyt5@cornell.edu.

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ere, listen to this” I insisted to my parents, held captive in the car on the way to dinner one night over the summer. I put in Kid A and waited for the warped beauty of “Everything in its Right Place” to engage the audience.

When they instead were put off by it I flipped through a few of the other tracks, but continued to get nothing but annoyed shrugs. After trying to explain to them just how great Radiohead is, I gave in and went to radio, frustrated by my family’s poor taste.

In retrospect, their taste is not actually objectively bad — no matter how many critics exalt Kid A as an instant classic, every individual maintains the capacity to determine what they consider good music. For as many people as not, this is some sort of streamlined, consumer targeted pop. Sure, I think Imagine Dragons is boring, boilerplate stuff, but it is hard to argue with double platinum.

Similarly, while Transformers: Age of Extinction was inevitably awful, it grossed over a billion dollars. Fuck Boyhood, people want to watch computer graphics run into each other.

Subsequently, the issue that arises is how to criticize such work. What right do I have to slam a film that tens of millions of people will watch and even enjoy? And how can I proclaim a film that virtually no one actually will watch? Many critics choose to ignore this conundrum, instead subscribing to the idea that they, as critics, enjoy an unusually delicate, refined taste in entertainment. These anti-populist sentiments fail readers though, stratifying and turning the majority of poten-

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tial consumers off from considering such reviews. The consumers that do put faith in such reviews proceed to form a relatively single minded cluster that frequently takes as much pride in referencing esoteric works as actually enjoying the music. They further the divide between popular and new, sticking their noses up at anything that sees the light of radio while championing this band with a “fresh” sound which you “probably haven’t

never released 2013 album (it was available on Bandcamp for only a matter of hours before being removed) the 20th best album of the year. However, Pitchfork (and the virtually infinite internet clones that have sprung up) has approached mainstream status largely because it allows a rationalization of music.

There are simply too many albums released every week for any mortal to listen to. But via Pitchfork, I can make sure to try every album worth playing on Spotify. Such and such got an 8.2? Queue it up. 6.7?

Not so much.

While this allows me to find new artists every day, such rationalization inevitably gives away some of my ability to enjoy original thoughts. Being a relative latecomer to non-radio music, I actually had never listened to Kid A before reading Pitchfork’s “The Top 200 Albums of the 2000s” (Kid A was number 1). I expected greatness before I ever pressed play. Sometimes I cannot help but wonder: Am I actually choosing my likes and dislikes or just trying to fit in?

My aforementioned parents, of course, do not suffer from this insecurity; they just listen to whatever strikes their fancy. While I frequently remind my mother that there is no more commercialized genre than country, she never seems concerned as she sings along.

Finding new artists may be one of my favorite things, but does it really count if I only found them after reading someone else’s excited review or list? And I sometimes envy my friends who can watch a movie without checking Rotten Tomatoes beforehand. They

Calvin Patten Patten Pending heard of.”

Everyone is hurt by these attitudes.

Groupthink comes to dominate not only casual reviewers, but professional (or at least wannabe professional) ones as well. Movies like Blue is the Warmest Color enjoy instant stardom at Cannes and glide into the rest of the industry’s homes, winners before the opening credits run. Specific artists get novelty status and ride it to acclaim for years, with many critics struggling to ignore preconceived notions of what should be good.

The dead horse of this conversation, at least in regards to music, is Pitchfork, and deservedly so. It can be pretentious, verbose and not-so-subtly smug. It called Jai Paul’s

may sometimes end up forfeiting two hours, but I have to live with forfeiting my spontaneity.

Ultimately, I am certainly not advocating anyone stop reading reviews. As a means to sift through (and consider critically) the incomprehensible amount of media released daily, the unending deluge of perspectives is an asset. Still, it is important that both readers and reviewers attempt to maintain perspective when contemplating the merits of work. Our numeric scales and year end lists will always fail as a means of truly evaluating art, and no one thinks you are cool just because you gave some niche work 4.5 stars. And if you think Kid A sucks, feel free to say so — just do not argue for it by giving its Metacritic score.

Calvin Patten is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com. Patten Pending appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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Red Looks to Upperclassmen Leadership for Guidance W. SOCCER

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after it was able to shut out both opponents last weekend.

Senior midfielder and forward Kerry Schubert explained that the team is hoping to take what it did well last weekend and carry it over to the upcoming games.

“What worked for us last weekend is that we played at our own pace and didn't settle to our opponent. For this upcoming weekend, we will just need to focus on playing our game and setting a tone,” she said.

Head Coach Patrick Farmer noted that much of the team’s success last weekend — as well as any future success — comes from a strong lineup of players and the ability to substitute women when needed. He also attributed the strong gameplay to the two seniors leading the team, as well as the upperclassmen in general who set the pace for the younger players.

“The upperclassmen leadership was excellent with both captains playing full matches both days, and three juniors also leading by example,” he said. “I certainly expect that competitive spirit and leadership to be demonstrated again this weekend in our home tournament.”

Farmer also said he hopes that last week’s wins will fuel

the fire for the Red’s first home game. bit less because we have a significant number of returning “I think the confidence gained by posting two shutout players who contributed last year.” victories on the road against very different opponents and Schubert explained that coming into the tournament, on drastically different field surfaces should help us move the team’s confidence stems from a sense of familiarity and forward for our home opener and camaraderie on the field coupled with tournament this weekend,” he said. a strong preseason.

“I certainly expect that The squad has been focusing a lot “Each year, we've come into preon tempo and speed of play in its competitive spirit and season more and more prepared to practices this week, as well as group leadership to be start the season, and that was very true defense and confidence on the attack. this year as well,” she said. “I think Additionally, the team will hopefully demonstrated again this this year, everyone feels more comforthave some players returning to the weekend.” able playing with each other and knows what they [are] expected of on field after injuries sidelined them last Patrick Farmer the field.” weekend.

With high hopes and a strong start In addition, Farmer said he has to its season, the Red comes into the shifted his style of coaching this season, expecting more out of his players and setting the bar weekend with a good mentality and a drive for wins.

“I am looking forward to seeing how we have prohigher for the squad as a whole.

“I do feel that we are coaching a bit differently this year gressed in our quality of play through training this week,” than the first two here — more individual and group Farmer said. coaching and expecting the team to play at a quicker tempo in both training and matches because they are familiar now with how we do things,” he said. “I also Anna Fasman can be reached at believe that we are able to ‘train’ a bit more and ‘teach’ a afasman@cornellsun.com.

Ravens Fans Show Mixed Packers Focus on Stifling Run Game Emotions Regarding Rice BALTIMORE (AP) — Music blared from the purple bus, and Baltimore Ravens fan Racquel Bailey stood with drink in hand amid her usual tailgate buddies while making a bold fashion statement: a black, rhinestone-decorated jersey with the white No. 27.

A Ray Rice jersey.

“There’s two sides to every story,” said the 23-year-old waitress from Baltimore. “I saw the video. That’s their personal business, and it shouldn’t have affected his career. I don’t agree with domestic violence, but she’s still with him, so obviously it wasn’t that big of a deal. Everyone should just drop it.”

Ravens fans male and female,

“There’s two sides to every story. I saw the video.

That’s their personal business. ” Racquel Bailey

young and old, arrived for Thursday night’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers debating the events that have affected their team over the last few days. Their once beloved running back has been kicked off the team and banned by the NFL after a video surfaced that showed him punching his then-fiancee — and now wife — inside an Atlantic City hotel elevator.

All condemned Rice’s actions, but there was little consensus as to what his punishment should be.

The NFL did the right thing by suspending him, some said, but the Ravens shouldn’t have terminated his contract as well. Or maybe the suspension should have remained at two games, where it stood before the punch video became public.

Meanwhile, those who wore Rice jerseys were getting heckles and high-fives.

“You support a wife-beater!” one female fan yelled at male fan wearing a No. 27 about 90 minutes before kickoff.

Outside of at least one entrance, a memo explained the “Ray Rice Jersey Exchange” policy, aimed at “particularly families, women and children” who wish to exchange a Rice jersey for that of another Ravens player. The Ravens are no longer selling Rice jerseys, but at least one independent vendor had some Rice action figurines on sale next to his collection of vintage Baltimore Colts wares.

The somber nature of the Rice saga jarred with the usual merriment surrounding a night game.

The NFL Network set outside the stadium included panelists discussing serious issues on the air, while raucous fans hoping for a win over the Steelers cheered in the background.

Paul Kilduff, 65, put two pieces of duct tape over the letters “Ray R” on the back of his faded shirt so that it read “Be Nice” instead of “Ray Rice.” But the tape kept falling off, so he took off the jersey, then put it back on without the tape while uttering, “Ah, I might as well.”

“Everybody deserves a second chance,” he said, a refrain heard often in the parking lot.

This, after all, is the franchise of Ray Lewis, who was charged in a murder case in 2000 but now has a statue outside the stadium. His No. 52 remains arguably the most visible jersey among tailgaters.

But there were plenty of No. 27s, and many of them said they were deliberately making a statement.

“I took the bus here, so people were, like, ‘Good, I’m glad to see to someone out here showing support,’” said Gage Friend, 18, as he learned against the barrier by the players’ entrance. “But I’ve also seen a lot of people giving me dirty looks and people saying stuff to me like, ‘I can’t believe you’d wear that. Don’t you know what he did?’

“Yeah, I’m pretty aware of what he did. And, yes, it was awful and it was definitely a mistake on his part, but he deserves a second chance. ... People have done so much worse in this league.”

GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — The Green Bay Packers signed Julius Peppers to get to the quarterback.

To get better at that, the veteran pass rusher realizes the defense has to get better at stopping the run first.

Allowing 207 yards on the ground, which is what Green Bay gave up last week to Seattle, might not cut it against the New York Jets in the home opener Sunday.

“You’ve got to stop the run to

be able to have a chance to rush the passer, so that’s where our focus is,” Peppers said Thursday.

It sounds like a sound plan against a Jets team that ran for 212 yards in a win over Oakland last week. Chris Johnson and Chris Ivory provide a solid onetwo punch, and Geno Smith is a mobile threat at quarterback.

The Packers expect to see some read-option, just like in Seattle. What the Jets don’t immediately present is an allpurpose threat like receiver

Percy Harvin, who beat the Packers on sweeps and through the air.

Poor tackling was an issue, a problem that also hampered the Packers at times last year. This week, much of the talk in the locker room was about technique and fundamentals.

“Just basically just keep trusting our technique. Trust the defense, and it will put us in position to make plays, and we’ll be fine,” safety Morgan Burnett said.

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U.S.Moves Closer To World Finals

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Protect this net | Senior goalkeeper Zach Zagorski has only given up one goal in three games so far this season, posting two shutouts against top talents.

Red Preps for Instate Battles MEN’S SOCCER

Zagorksi said of the Louisville result.

Syracuse also sports one of as they will play No. 4 Notre the better goalkeepers in the Dame. But for Cornell, facing region. Their junior keeper Alex strong opponents has not posed Bono earned two clean sheets a problem so far as the squad last week and was named to the earned a draw on the road TopDrawerSoccer.com National against then Team of the No. 2 Week, as well as “We have to earn our Louisville.

College Soccer “We have to results every game.”

News Team of earn our results the Week. The every game we Zach Zagorski contest between play, but it these two gives us the upstate New confidence that we can hang York teams will feature two with any team in the country,” keepers who have been at the Continued from page 16

top of their games. Zagorski has only allowed one goal in the Red’s first three games.

Going into these two critical fixtures, Chodas said that the emphasis in practice will remain upon improving on previous mistakes.

“Nothing changes from the previous training, we will learn from the previous games and focus on fixing the errors. They will be tough teams, so we have to be ready to battle all over the field,” he said.

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

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Madrid awaits. Spain doesn’t.

The gold-medal matchup seemingly everyone wanted in the Basketball World Cup — maybe even some U.S. players — won’t be happening. The Spanish were upset in the quarterfinals, ending the predicted No. 1 vs. No. 2 game Sunday on Spain’s home court.

“I think that’s one of the reasons why we came over here, was to play them,” U.S. guard Derrick Rose said. “Too bad we’re not playing them and hopefully we go out there in our next game and play hard and just know that we’re there for a reason.”

The Americans held up their end, moving within a victory of repeating as world champions for the first time with a 96-68 victory over Lithuania on Thursday night.

James Harden scored all of his 16 points in the lopsided third quarter of a near carbon copy of the Americans’ quarterfinal victory over Slovenia, when he awoke from a scoreless first half to help turn a close game into a blowout.

The Americans will face France or Serbia, believing either could provide the test

that was expected from Spain.

“Obviously they’re playing there for a reason,” Harden said. “We’re not going to take anyone lightly, which we haven’t thus far.”

They will arrive as even heavier favorites after Spain’s stunning loss to France on Wednesday.

With their veteran experience and near misses against the U.S. in the last two Olympic gold-medal games, the Spanish were considered the team with the best chance — perhaps the only one — to beat the Americans.

Harden was told that forward Kenneth Faried said he’d wanted to play Spain.

“Kenneth’s crazy,” Harden said.

Some U.S. players watched the game Wednesday, while others learned the result afterward.

Talk of a U.S.-Spain final had lasted as long as the tournament, and though the Americans tried to ignore it, guard Stephen Curry acknowledged that was impossible.

“I don’t think we’re disappointed, or wished we played a certain team,” Curry said.

“We’re happy to take care of our business.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Rowland Leads Youthful Squad

By EMILY BERMAN

rounds of the Florida 3A state tournament, earning the state title in both of her final years.

“My favorite memories from high school volleyball were One weekend into her senior campaign, the Red volley- winning the Florida State Championship my junior and ball team’s only upperclassman reminded the program why senior year,” she said. “Playing in a match that important she’s more than just a graduating year to her team. comes with a lot of pressure, but it is also a lot of fun. There Continuing her ascent into the record books, libero Natasha was definitely more pressure to win my senior year because Rowland upped her total to 930 career digs, good for 10th we had won the previous year and it was my last shot as a place in program history. senior to leave with two titles.”

That the 5’6” Florida native would specialize in defense Rowland, who spent time in high school serving as a capin volleyball was a foregone conclusion. Considered short in tain for her team, stands in the odd position at Cornell of the volleyball world, Rowland said, she has being the only player with more than one always played libero. Defense is something year of collegiate volleyball experience. the Red squad extensively practices, but it “Defense is my favorite Three returning sophomores join her on is an aspect of the game that Rowland said the squad, but with seven freshmen, there part of the game.” comes instinctively. are more new faces than veteran ones.

“We definitely spend time working on “As a senior on the team, I want to help Natasha Rowland defense in practice and we also receive the freshman as much as I can,” Rowland scouting reports on player’s hitting tendensaid. “I know how difficult it can be to cies,” she said. “Defense is my favorite part make the transition to college and a D-1 of the game, though, and it comes naturally in games.” sport. It’s important that they know they have their team to Rowland was named an Honorable Mention All-Ivy dur- lean on when things get tough.” ing her junior season, in which she ranked No. 33 in the Head coach Melissa Batie-Smoose noted in the pre-seacountry with 5.06 digs per set. During the opener to her son that Rowland had stepped up as a leader on the team. senior season, last weekend’s tournament at Seton Hall, she Entering her final year at Cornell, Rowland’s experience was named to the all-tournament team for her efforts over with not just volleyball, but also the academic side of the course of the four games.

Cornell as well has lent her expertise.

“I started playing volleyball for fun when I was little “Balancing volleyball and academics has been a challenge because my parents played sand on Saturdays,” she said of throughout my time here,” Rowland said. “I wouldn’t say her sports background. “In fifth grade one of my soccer that it has gotten easier, because the school work has gotten teammates joined a team, so I joined with her. I played a lot harder. However, it has taught me time management and of sports when I was young, but I stuck with soccer until sev- other useful life skills.” enth grade and then chose volleyball as my main sport.”

Despite the twin pressures of school and sports, however, During Rowland’s pre-collegiate years, she helped lead Rowland maintains interests outside of her life as a collegiate her high school team to multiple appearances in the late athlete.

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World traveler | Senior libero Natasha Rowland studied abroad in Australia last semester.

“I love to travel,” she said. “Last semester I studied abroad in Australia and went to New Zealand after the program ended. I also went to Europe this summer and traveled to a bunch of different countries. I still have lot of places left on my bucket list.”

Emily Berman can be reached at eberman@cornellsun.com.

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with her as disgustingly cute BFFs after the match was over. She also made record amounts of money this year. Not bad, I’d say.

L.A.: I aspire to have the body of Beyoncé, the personality of Amy Poehler and the athleticism of Serena Williams. With that being said, I’m not entirely sure Serena is mortal — or if she, at the very least, played the entirety of her career off of performance enhancers. I shall not say Serena’s name in vain, but let’s #flashbackfriday to Wimbledon and her “viral illness.” She couldn’t even hit the ball. A person THAT sick doesn’t compete in a tennis match; a person THAT sick stays in bed because she already has five

Open titles in her arsenal. I don’t know, but according to the law of the land unless you’re caught with the needle in your arm, you’re innocent.

E.B.: I’m just going to go with the fact that she’s a goddess and leave it at that. As for the men, it’s not even worth mentioning the name of the winner or his opponent because we’ll forget them as soon as Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray decide to be healthy and/or play like the champions I demand they be...mostly because I don’t feel like learning the names of any new tennis players. This tournament felt less like any sort of changing of the guard for men’s tennis and more as an adorable little aberration to show that some other people do, in fact, step on the court. Even if the role of

these players is generally to be the designated drones that lose to the “Big Four.”

L.A.: I’m going to shift the focus back to Serena, where it should always be. Ms. Williams just added NYFW Designer to her resumé. It’s shoved somewhere between Olympic Gold Medalist and five time Wimbledon champ. Hey, reader (yes, singular because there’s probably only one of you and you’re most likely Emily’s dad) what’s on your resumé?

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Fall from grace | Ravens running back Ray Rice was let go from Baltimore after a second video of domestic abuse arose, this time showing Rice punching Janay Palmer.

teams are taking shape. I don’t spared my mediocre poetic know, Lindsey Vonn sneezed. The stylings in favor of a five-sentence point is, it’s that time of year rant: That Ray Rice punched his when, to a casual baseball fan, then-fiancée is sickening. That he almost anything else seems more escaped jail time is appalling. exciting than watching another That he was only suspended for baseball game. Now that summer two games at first — what, was is on its last, dying gasp and fall the initial video evidence of Rice and winter sports are gearing up, dragging his now-wife’s unconthere are, simply, more “happen- scious body out of the elevator ing” things to watch. Of course, really that inadequate? Oh wait, in reality it’s they might the time of have had the There’s nothing to say whole video year when every baseball the entire about Ray Rice that game starts to time — is hasn’t already been truly matter, disturbing. and even if said....Shape up, NFL; Shape up, casual fans NFL; shape shape up, are lost, hardup, justice justice system. core fans will system; and talk you catashape up, tonic about culture that how exactly the Yankees can grab permits such horrific acts of vioa wild card spot. lence. Give Rice the punishment he deserves.

L.A.: OK, so baseball.

L.A.: This entire situation is Everyone important and/or interesting sucks this year. Yes, band- beyond any realm of colorful wagon Yankee fans who haven’t commentary. He was wrong, he is been paying attention to the wrong, he will continue to be standings lately, that includes wrong. I don’t believe Ray Rice your beloved team. Red Sox fans has even released an apology; eager for a repeat of last year, that you’d think he would show includes us. too. Tampa Bay is remorse, especially since he is a pitiful, as are the Mets and public figure. I mean, I guess the Phillies. The Reds, Rockies and only thing we can get away with Rangers are still irrelevant. saying is R.I.P to the fantasy seasons of those who drafted Ray This Week In: Rice; hope ya didn’t put all your TMZ’s Obsession With Violent eggs in one basket. And I sincerely Elevator Videos Takes a Turn hope he’s forever banned from football.

E.B.: There’s nothing to say about Ray Rice that hasn’t already Email all prison fan mail and been said. In fact, there’s so little EmiLisa caricatures to Scott “¢to add I initially wrote out the Money” Who’sTheMan-O at whole sordid situation in limerick sports-editor@cornellsun.com form just to be “creative,” before deciding that “lewd Irish comedic poetry style” and “horrific domes- Around the Gorges appears every other Friday tic assault situation” do not happy this semester. Emily Berman and Lisa Awaitey bedfellows make. So, you all are can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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MEN’S SOCCER

Goepel Gives Red First Victory In third straight overtime match,Chodas assist seals home win

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

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CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Using your head | Senior midfielder Connor Goepel headed home the game winning goal against Lafayette in the team’s third straight overtime match.

By TUCKER MAGGIO HUCEK

a clambering in front of the net as players from both sides tried to win possession. Lafayette midfielder Ben Marks eventually won the ball and took In a rousing opening match at Berman Field, a quick shot, but Zagorksi was equal to the attempt, Cornell men’s soccer (1-1-1) got itself in the win saving the Red in the final minutes of the game. column when senior captain Conor Goepel headed Chodas attributed the victory to the team’s abilhome a goal in the second overtime period to defeat ity to play cohesively.

Lafayette (1-3-0).

“Our whole team performed offensively without In what began as a slow moving contest between compromising our defensive pressure. Everyone two well disciplined sides, the Red was able to who stepped on the field worked together and we endure and put pressure on the Lafayette defense came out with a win,” he said. and eventually broke through to After the dramatic late game find the game winner just four winner, the Red will look to capLAFAYETTE @ CORNELL minutes into the second overture the same emotions when it time period. on two local opponents, 0 1 takes Goepel’s score came after a Binghamton and Syracuse. A 1ST 2ND OT OT Final short drive to Vestal, NY on free kick was awarded to the Red Game: from 25 yards out. Senior cap- Lafayette 0 0 0 0 0 Saturday will present the Red tain Peter Chodas took the set Cornell 0 0 0 1 1 with a great chance to collect its piece and played the ball perfectsecond win of the year. ly onto the head of Goepel, who coolly nodded it Binghamton (2-3-0) is coming off of a narrow loss in. to Navy, in which the Bearcats’ defense suffered an Thanks to the late efforts of senior captain and overtime goal to the Midshipmen. goalkeeper Zach Zagorski, the Red was able to surOn Tuesday of next week the Red will travel vive regulation time and take the game to an extra north to face off with Syracuse. The Orange (4-0period for the third time in as many games this sea- 0) has started off their 2014 campaign on fire and son. Zagorski made two excellent saves as the 90 has earned the No. 20 spot in the NSCAA Coaches minutes of regulation time wound down, tallying Rankings. They face a big challenge this weekend five saves in the second half. With four and a half See M. SOCCER page 14 minutes to play, a Lafayette corner kick resulted in Sun Staff Writer

What’s Happening in Sports?

C.U.to Host Big NFL Kickoff, Serena Being Serena Red Shootout for First Home Games W WOMEN’S SOCCER

By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend, Cornell women’s soccer will host the Big Red Shootout, a series of games to take place on campus at Charles F. Berman field. The Red will start the weekend on Friday evening with a game against Virginia Military Institute and will then face Temple University on Sunday to close out the tournament.

While the Red already has a weekend of games under its belt, posting 1-0 wins against UMass and Marist College in its open-

ers, Temple remains undefeated with a 5-0 record and should pose a challenge to the squad. In addition, while VMI is 1-3 this season, they still have two more games worth of experience than the Red. Furthermore, Cornell is unfamiliar with VMI’s style of play, not having spent time watching video of the Keydets, which will leave the team having to adapt during the first few minutes of gameplay.

Despite these factors, the Red is heading into this weekend with confidence See W. SOCCER page 13

MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR

Setting the pace | Senior midfielder Kerry Schubert said that the team is working to control the tone this weekend.

e have been told this is the fourth edition of Around the Gorge, so do with that information what you will. Personally, we plan to ignore it. Mostly because we’re only, like, 50 percent sure it’s correct, and really, why bother counting? We’ve heard “fact-checking” and “journalistic integrity” are all just made-up concepts anyway.

I’m Southern?

L.A.: I’m Lisa Awaitey, and if Emily is considered a Southern Belle then I must be the Princess of Genovia. But anyway, SPORTS. This Week In: The NFL Started, Or: Sorry If You’re a Pats Fan

Emily Berman

Lisa Awaitey

Around the Gorge: Sun Sports Banter With our undying fidelity to Stephen Glass established, if pressed — say, by a Sun ethics investigation — we’d describe this column as a forum for us to say completely outlandish and sometimes inappropriately misguided blanket statements, with no repercussions whatsoever. And now, let’s discuss some things that totally, really, possibly happened in sports these past few weeks, but really days.

E.B.: I’m Emily Berman, and despite knowing the location of every European country, my allAmerican self only recently learned that Maryland is, in fact, below the Mason-Dixon line. So

L.A.: This is a great week for sports fans since football, a.k.a. the new American pastime, has finally returned. We saw the Seahawks remind us why they won the Superbowl and the Rams remind us why they did not. The Jets won a regular season game for the first time in franchise history, and people forgot that the Oakland Raiders existed. Peyton Manning reminded us that he is, indeed, all of our “daddys” and Tom Brady was pretty.

E.B.: Although Tom Brady needs to do more than remind us why he’s an UGG spokesman. The Pats lost their first season opener in 11 years, putting them in the odd

position of bottom of the AFC East.

I’m not a Pats hater, but it’s oddly fun to type that the Pats are last place in their division. I take my opportunities as they come, okay?

L.A.: Good riddance. Tom Brady literally has it all. Perfectly sculpted veneers, a model wife and he wears a fedora better than most.

E.B.: He has everything except a couple missed Super Bowl wins and about 10 too many embarrassing internet memes of him crying. Not that almost any other quarterback in the league wouldn’t jump at the chance to change lives — and teams — with Brady. I mean, come on.

This Week In: Serena, the Beyoncé of Tennis

E.B.: It’s been an exciting few weeks for tennis, as it was both the exact same as it always has been and/or a brave new world, depending on your gender. Serena (like she needs a last name) nabbed her 18th overall major title by winning her third straight U.S. Open, putting her within spitting distance of taking the record in total grand slam titles earned. She didn’t drop a set she played all tournament, she handily defeated Caroline Wozniacki in the finals, only to pick right up See AROUND THE GORGES page 15