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Griffin Smith-Nichols ’19 dissects the intricacies of the Schwartz Center’s Waiting for Godot performance. | Page 7

According to Hebani Duggal ’18, the most trusted source in news isn’t a news network. | Page 9

The field hockey team held its two opponents scoreless over the weekend. | Page 11

Cornell Stacked Up by Dating Sites Murder Trial OkCupid,Ashley Madison,Tinder data reveal Cornellians’online dating habits Of Former C.U. Student Begins

By GABRIELLA LEE

attractive, the 12th hardest partying with the 10th highest sex drive among the top 20 U.S. News and World Report’s best universities.

If OkCupid is to be believed, “2.1 percent of Cornell stuThe rankings were calculated through algorithms based dents think the earth is bigger than the sun.” around the number of “likes” and “passes” users received Several analyses of data compiled from dating websites and through OkCupid’s Quickmatch and responses to OkCupid apps in the past two months have claimed to rank Cornell questions on social activity and sexual activity. among its peer institutions in In comparison to the other terms of attractiveness, sexual universities in OkCupid’s rankCornellians on [OkCupid] were above drive, propensity for marital ings, Cornellians on the website infidelity and numerous other average in attractiveness, their message were above average in attracattributes. their message writing writing and sex drive, but below average tiveness, Most recently, OkCupid — and sex drive, but below avera free dating website — reage in their partying habits. in their partying habits. leased a report ranking the “sex, According to OkCupid’s smarts and party habits” of the report, data was calculated U.S. News and World Report’s 2016 list of best universities. from active 18 to 24-year-old users during the 2014 to 2015 “Ithaca is gorges and Cornell students are pretty,” academic year who registered to the site using their university OkCupid reported. “Despite the hippie, progressive environ- email addresses. ment, they’re the straightest school on our list with 84.7 perData on Cornell email addresses was also analyzed folcent of Big Reds identifying as heterosexual.”

In addition, OkCupid ranked Cornell as the eighth most See DATING page 4

Sun News Editor

Charles Tan ’17 pleaded not guilty in February

By MADELINE COHEN Sun Assistant News Editor

The trial of Charles Tan ’17 — a former Cornell student who pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder charges in the February shooting of his father — began in Rochester, N.Y. Monday morning.

On Feb. 9, Tan was arrested and charged with fatally shooting his father, Liang Tan, in their Pittsford, N.Y. TAN ’17 home after deputies from Monroe County Sheriff Department found Liang Tan dead, The Sun previously reported.

Jury selection began on Monday. Once the jury is seated the first witness could be called as early as Wednesday, according to The Journal.

County Court Judge James Piampiano plans to narrow down the number of jurors to 12 and have two alternates. He estimated that the trial will take at least three weeks, according to the Birmingham Press and Sun-Bulletin.

According to ABC network affiliate 13 WHAM in Rochester, Charles Tan’s lawyer James Nobles said it will be difficult to assemble a jury for this case.

“We’re looking for jurors who, quite frankly have not been too tainted by media coverage,” Nobles said.

Last week, officials said prosecutors requested to take the jury to the crime scene as prosecutors believed it would benefit the jury members to view the scene themselves. Because this is a rare practice of Monroe County, the judge will have to rule on whether it will be allowed, according to Canandaigua-based Daily Messenger.

Nobles has stated in the past that Liang Tan was abusive to Charles Tan, his teenage brother and his mother, according to The Associated Press. At the time of Liang Tan’s death, his wife had sought to obtain an order of protection against against him.

Earlier this year, Charles Tan’s friends and classmates raised $47,308 for his defense and legal fees on the website GiveForward.

Madeline Cohen can be reached at mcohen@cornellsun.com.

COURTESY OF JULIA GREENBERG ’18

Don’t look down | Students gather this spring at the Second Dam along Six Mile Creek, where swimming is illegal.

Despite Deaths,Students Continue to Gorge Jump Many ignore gorge safety policy, find appeal in danger, shared experience

By JOSEPHINE CHU Sun Staff Writer

Despite the death of 20-year-old Eric Richardson this summer at the Second Dam — an illegal hot spot for gorge jumping — Cornellians and Ithacans continue to jump and swim in the gorges around campus.

It is prohibited to swim at the Second Dam in the Six Mile Creek.

While gorges have long been a defining feature of Cornell’s campus,

students’ propensity to swim and jump into them have also elicited safety concerns from parents and the University. In 2011, Nathaniel Rand ’12 died while swimming in one of the gorges. Following his death, the University established the Nathaniel Rand ’12 Memorial Gorge Safety Education Program to prevent further accidents.

Cornell also has a strict gorge safety policy in place. According to the Cornell University Police Department

website, jumping and swimming in the gorges is prohibited by the City of Ithaca except in designated areas that include Flat Rock and Buttermilk Falls.

Still, many students admit to having gone gorge jumping and are not deterred by the accidents over the past few years.

“I think part of the fun is the fact that it's dangerous, and most people See GORGES page 4

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$600,000 Brings Food Processing Tech to C.U. Local

Soil Contamination at Ithaca Falls a Growing Problem Since 2000, contamination of the soil at Ithaca Falls has been documented, and a report recently presented by environmentalist Walter Hang reiterates that threat to the Town of Ithaca, according to The Ithaca Journal.

The data, collected Aug. 12, asserts that there is an unsafe amount of lead in the soil.

Nine of the 40 samples collected had lead concentration exceeding the level recommended by the EPA. $4.8 million has been spent as part of cleanup efforts, according to The Journal.

Hiperbaric 55 uses pressure to treat food for pathogens, preserves taste, texture

By PAULINA GLASS Sun Assistant News Editor

Senator Michael Nozzolio (R-54th) said at a press conference Monday that $600,000 in state funds would be pledged to support an effort to develop the Hiperbaric 55, a new food processing technology, at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station, according to a University press release.

The Geneva, N.Y. campus will help to test the technology that will help preserve the taste and quality of foods for longer than previously possible, according to the release. The Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Department of Agriculture require that the process be validated before any production. If it is successful at Geneva, it will be able to be implemented throughout the country.

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National California Wildfires Force Neighborhood Evacuations Fires across the state of California have caused many people to flee from their homes, according to The New York Times. Some residents in the town of Middletown said they were ill-prepared for their departure, trying to gather important documents and pets before leaving, and sometimes losing track of family and friends.

Weekend fires in California led to an effort by nearly 11,000 firefighters to subdue 12 major wildfires that caused the displacement of 13,000 people, according to The Times.

Snowpack Levels in Sierra Nevada Lowest in Half a Millenium In California’s Sierra Nevada mountains, snow levels have reached a historic low. This has many residents worried due to the fact that melted snow accounts for one-third of all drinking water for the state, according to The New York Times.

Data collected from oak tree rings gave clues as to the rain and snowfall of the region over the last millenium. Scientists said they were worried about future levels as well.

Mississippi Professor Allegedly Shot By Colleague An American history professor at Delta State University, Ethan A. Schmidt, was shot on campus Monday. Authorities are currently searching for geography and social science education professor Shannon Lamb, who is suspected to have shot the professor and another woman 300 miles from the University, according to The New York Times.

— Compiled by Paulina Glass

The Hiperbaric 55 utilizes pressure — grant mission to advance the common good,” greater than 80,000 psi — to treat foods, Garrett said in the release. “The addition of killing pathogens like E. high-pressure processing Coli, salmonella and capability to the New York “Bringing this complex Listeria, according to the State Agricultural high-pressure processing Experiment Station in University. This is different than using heat — the cur- equipment to NYSAES is an Geneva will enable rent key element food proCornell researchers to cessing technology — extraordinary opportunity.” open new frontiers for food safety while boosting because it better preserves Sen. Michael Nozzolio (R-54th) the competitiveness of the taste, texture and nutriNew York’s food procestional value of the foods, according to Prof. Randy Worobo, food sci- sors.

Nozzolio said he believes this will be a great ence.

President Elizabeth Garrett said she valued addition to the campus and the surrounding the help of Nozzolio in acquiring the funding. area.

“Bringing this complex high-pressure pro“We sincerely appreciate Senator Nozzolio’s efforts to secure funding for this important cessing equipment to the New York State technology that resonates with Cornell’s land- Agricultural Experiment Station and to Cornell University is an extraordinary opportunity to promote innovation in Geneva and job growth for New York food processors, especially in the Finger Lakes region,” Nozzolio said in the release.

The project was funded by a public and private coalition, according to the University.

Supermarket chain Wegmans was among the private companies that offered monetary support to the initiative.

Worobo said in the release he thinks the project is popular with food producers because of its preservation of the integrity of the food.

“Producers like it because there is no quality degradation through heat or cooking, and it retains much of the fresh character and nutrition with a significantly longer shelf life,” Worobo said. “It’s rapidly being adopted across the industry for a range of refrigerated products and ready-to-eat foods, including deli meats, cheese, seafood, dips, salsas and fresh juices.”

The installation is a piece of a larger effort to update the campus’ facilities and technologies.

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Women in Computing at Cornell hosts a mentorship kickoff event for freshmen to connect with upperclassmen in Upson Hall Monday.

Paulina Glass can be reached at pglass@cornellsun.com.

Dean Emeritus of Vet College Dies at 97 years at Cornell after receiving his master’s degree, researching a vaccine for canine hepatitis Dean Emeritus of the and distemper, The Journal College of Veterinary Medicine reported. He then resigned to George Poppensiek died Sept. 8 conduct more immunological research in a highin Ithaca at the age of security federal 97. animal disease Poppensiek, who center on Plum was also a professor Island, off the emeritus of comparacoast of New tive medicine, York, before enrolled at Cornell’s assuming his posiCollege of Agriculture tion as dean of and Life Sciences but C o r n e l l ’s transferred to the Veterinary College University of PROF. POPPENSIEK in 1959.

Pennsylvania — His term as dean saw the where he completed his undergraduate degree and attended development of the Veterinary veterinary school — according Research Tower and a significant increase in research and to the University.

After earning his VMD, faculty numbers, according to Poppensiek worked as an assis- the University. In 1974, he was tant professor at the University named the first James Law of Maryland and as a veterinar- Professor of Comparative ian for the university. While he Medicine and taught for the was there, he led clinical and next 15 years. One of his most laboratory diagnosis of rabies notable classes was in foreign animal diseases — the area of during a country outbreak.

Poppensiek then spent four his expertise.

The University of years as a department head at Lederie Laboratories and Pennsylvania and Ohio State each awarded researched veterinary virus pro- University duction, according to a Poppensiek centennial medals University press release. He to acknowledge his contribureturned to Cornell in 1951 tions to veterinary education and pursued a master’s studying and research, according to The virology, pathology and bio- Journal. In 1977, he received chemistry, according to The the seventh International Veterinary Congress Prize for Ithaca Journal.

Poppensiek spent several distinguished service to veteriBy STEPHANIE YAN

Sun Staff Writer

nary science from the American Veterinary Medical Association.

After Poppensiek’s retirement in 1988, the University established an eponymous lecture series to honor his contribution to Cornell.

Provost Michael Kotlikoff, who was previously dean of the veterinary school, said he remembered Poppensiek as “the quintessential gentleman and scholar.”

“Kind and considerate of everyone, thoughtful and care-

ful in decision-making and pursuing the highest standards of science and medicine, George was responsible for so much of the reputation that the college now enjoys,” Kotlikoff said in the release.

Poppensiek is survived by his daughter and five grandchildren.

Stephanie Yan can be reached at syan@cornellsun.com.

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OkCupid Ranks C.U. Eighth Most Attractive DATING

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lowing a massive leak of information from the dating website Ashley Madison.

More than 30 gigabytes of information was hacked from Ashley Madison — which is a dating service marketed toward married people looking to have affairs — in August, according to Wired.

The information, which was released by a hacker group called the Impact Team, was released on Aug. 15 and allowed data analysts to calculate which cities had the most users seeking affairs, the percentage of accounts that were fake and even which countries had the most government officials on Ashley Madison.

According to data compiled by media site Dadaviz, 273 Ashley Madison users had registered to the site using cornell.edu email addresses — making it the highest figure among other users registered from email addresses affiliated with an elite university.

Columbia, which had the second highest number of registered users using university-affiliated email addresses, had only 167 users, over 100 users less than Cornell.

Users with a cornell.edu email address could be students, professors or alumni still using their University email accounts.

Finally, Tinder — the mobile dating app that centers around rejecting or accepting other user’s profiles by swiping left or right — released numbers on its blog in late August that ranked the “most right-swiped campuses” of 2015.

In the app, users can be matched with each other only when both interested parties “swipe right” for each other.

According to Tinder, Cornell ranks number 17 among the campuses with the most swiped right males behind Wake Forest University and above the University of Tennessee. Other Ivy League universities that ranked above Cornell included Yale University and Brown University.

Data was based on the ratio of right-swipes to left-swipes by a university’s students aged 18 to 23 in the spring of 2015, according to the blog post.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

Despite Risks,Gorge Jumping Still Popular GORGES

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Committee chair, the University commits a quarter-million dollars annually to maintain gorge trails and completed a $3 million reconstruction project of Cascadilla Gorge trail just last year.

In addition, Cornell donated a sign to the City of Ithaca to be

don’t see the risk as bad enough to stop them,” Julia Greenberg ’18 said.

According to TJ Famighetti ’17, the sheer volume of people who do it encourages people to continue.

Other students said the “I think it can be a safe, danger in gorge jumping and swimming was appeal- awesome experience if you’re ing. with the right people who “I think it’s the thrill of doing something illegal,” know where they’re going.”

Alyssa Holman ’18 said.

Stevie Ferrara ’16 “It’s the same draw with underage drinking.”

Zach Shen ’19, who recently went to the Second erected below Ithaca Falls warnDam, described the experience as ing of the dangers of swimming, “exhilarating.” according to Bittner.

In addition to finding fun in “The program’s goal is to prethe act of gorge jumping, stu- vent future tragedies by informdents also said it was an experi- ing visitors about safe and ence that they enjoyed sharing responsible use of the gorges,” with their friends.

Bittner said.

“I think it can be a safe, aweBased on data collected by some experience if you’re with Cornell’s Gorge Stewards, obserthe right people who know vations of gorge regulation violawhere they’re going and aren’t tions, such as illegal swimming under the influence,” Stevie and hiking in restricted areas, Ferrara ’16 said. have been cut in half since 2012, Due to the popularity of which indicates that the cumulagorge jumping and swimming, tive efforts have been increasingthe University has devoted sig- ly effective, according to Bittner. nificant resources to preventing accidents.

According to Todd Bittner, Josephine Chu can be reached at the University’s Gorge Safety jchu@cornellsun.com.

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NEWS BRIEFS

Educator in chief

ZACH GIBSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES

President Barack Obama greets members of the audience following a town-hall-style meeting on improving college education at North High School in Des Moines, Iowa, yesterday.

Kentucky Clerk Returns to Work After Five-Day Stint in Jail MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Kim Davis returned to work Monday for the first time since she was jailed for defying a federal court and announced that she would no longer block her deputies from issuing marriage licenses to samesex couples.

Standing at the courthouse door, the Kentucky county clerk read from a handwritten statement and explained in a quivering voice that she had been faced with a “seemingly impossible choice” between following her conscience and losing her freedom.

So she agreed to an “emergency stopgap” concession, her lawyer later said: She did not stop her deputy clerk from issuing licenses edited to remove her name, her title and her authorization. But, she said, she

had “grave concerns” that the licenses would be invalid without her blessing.

The only couple to receive a license on Monday walked into a surreal scene. Shannon and Carmen Wampler-Collins squeezed through a throng of reporters and protesters and stood at the counter, microphones bobbing above their heads.

Deputy clerk Brian Mason, who began issuing licenses when Davis was hauled to jail, worked behind a sign anointing him the “marriage license deputy.” He has issued a dozen licenses since Davis was jailed Sept. 8, eight of them to samesex couples, and has pledged to continue issuing them despite his boss’s wishes.

Hecklers shouted “coward” at him from the side of room.

Union Leaders Decry Walker Plan To Bar Federal Public Unions MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker is hoping to pull his campaign off the mat by taking on unions — a familiar foe for the Wisconsin governor — in a sweeping plan to upend pillars of organized labor nationwide.

Walker’s plan calls for eliminating unions for employees of the federal government, making all workplaces right-to-work unless individual states vote otherwise and scrapping the federal agency that oversees unfair labor practices.

Union leaders are livid. Tony Reardon, president of the National Treasury Employees Union that represents 150,000 federal workers, said Walker is “declaring a war on middle-class workers.” And Democratic presidential contender Hillary Rodham Clinton accused him of bullying union members.

One of Walker’s Republican

rivals challenged the plan, too, saying it is the wrong message for the GOP to send to unionized workers. “Instead of treating all union members like they are the enemy,” said former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, “it’s time we invite them to give some of us in our party a try.”

In an interview with The Associated Press on Monday, Walker said no one should be surprised.

“I think people would be shocked if the governor who took on big government special interests wouldn’t do it at the federal level,” Walker said by telephone as he waited to board a plane to Nevada.

In his speech spelling out his “Power to the People” proposal at a Las Vegas manufacturer, Walker said he didn't back down against union protesters in Wisconsin and he was ready for the national fight.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Vive le Schlemiel:Vartn af Godot

BY GRIFFIN SMITH-NICHOLS Sun Contributor

Samuel Beckett himself translated his original En attendant Godot into his native English; the play has since been translated and played out on stages across the globe. Despite this, that Samuel Beckett’s anticlimactic magnum opus is translated into Yiddish seems an oddly specific endeavor to undertake. As Philo-Semitic as the original author may have been, and as elementally stripped down as the plot and setting of Waiting for Godot may be, what would make a Yiddish production — as the New Yiddish Republic presented it last Thursday at the Schwartz Center during its Yiddish Theatre Festival — a relevant but unique view of this tried and true staple of absurdist theatre?

As a more sardonic familial relation of German and several Slavic tongues, Yiddish possesses the dubious honor of being a language chock-full of diminutive putdowns, which have since entered into popular discourse from their origins in urban quarters: pisher, shlepper, shlimazl, shmendrick, schmuck, shmegegge, and, most famously, schlemiel — an inept, bumbling fool. Each term has a varying degree of malice behind it, but all exemplify loser-ness — the special, hapless quality of being hopelessly out of one’s depth. This oozes from each syllable with inwardly mocking delight, should the word in question denote a head-scratching wanderer, a pretentious spewer of hot air, or a man born to be trampled upon.

Schlemiel, more so than any other of these bawdy, faintly lugubrious adjectives, could be applied with ease to David Mandelbaum’s high-pitched, irritable Estragon and to Shane Baker’s limp, pontificating Vladimir. Both hobble across the

stage in chalk-stained rags, struggle with tight boots and itchy hats and bicker amongst each other on simple details of time and place. Their moods swing from giddy camaraderie to wistful thoughts of self destruction. This is all to be expected for anyone at all familiar with the original play.

The true glory of the New Yiddish Republic’s translated version, however, lies in the immediate context that its choice of language gives it. Yiddish theater has always trod in step with the humiliation and tragedy that touched the Jewish men and women who wrote, sang and acted in its plays. The violently anti-Semitic Czarist regime in Russia banned all Yiddish theatre productions in the wake of Alexander II’s assassination by anarchists, and the countless horrors of the Holocaust included almost the complete annihilation of European Yiddish as a language and a culture. Sorrow of an inexhaustible, historical sort is Yiddish theater’s natural companion, the gaunt specter of past hatreds and prejudices that have clung to its dramatic fabric since its earliest productions.

Conventional Yiddish theatre is nevertheless not all doom and gloom; with its origins in the rowdy Purim spiel of the Middle Ages and the scatological jeux de mots contained therein, Yiddish playwrights inherited a tradition of melodrama, transvestism and lewd puns that give a Janus-like edge to every play. Leo COURTESY OF RONALD L. GLASSMAN Rosten called Yiddish “a tongue that never takes it tongue out of its cheek.” This is the world into which the schlemiel was born.

In Yiddish plays, the hardship of quotidian Jewish existence is simultaneously mocked for its excesses and treated with heartfelt gravitas in its struggle to bolster the soul of a wayward, waylaid people. It was in this spirit that Mendele Mocher Sforim, a preeminent Byelorussian-Yiddish satirist of the 19th century, could claim to call himself, “I, Mendele, whose intent it has always been to do everything in my power for my fellow Jews.”

In bluntly acknowledging its own wretchedness, the wit and pathos of Yiddish theatre becomes a normalization, a re-sacralization of a Jewish style de vie perpetually living on a knife’s edge, I.L. Peretz’s exalted, peculiarly Jewish “act of creation” so that tragedy and comedy join into tragicomedy. The schlemiel gains an air of nobility.

From this advantageous perspective, Waiting for Godot can be seen in the light of an established theatrical edition previously unconnected to it. The corpulent, clowning Pozzo, played with alternating slime and wounded poetic sensibility by Allen Lewis Rickman, drives his catatonic slave Lucky, played at wild extremes by Ilan Kwittken, like a self-aware Commedia dell’arte actor, a balance between Baroque stock character comedy and the avant-garde, a contradiction a Yiddish playwright would relish in. Vladimir and Estragon are not merely wanderers but refugees: Their comedic antics are balanced with their long backand-forth double monologue delivered in the presence of the innumerable spirits of the dead, which here attains a chilling specificity. In a desolate post-war setting, there is no question what cataclysm of death they are talking about when they describe the leaf-like rustling of perished shades. As in the original play, Godot remains a nonentity who communicates only through an ethereal, scrupulously polite peasant boy, played by Isaac Segal; in Yiddish, he becomes a just-around-the-corner means of deliverance, a perpetually tardy Messiah, the fulfillment of cherished, tattered Jewish hopes.

Didi and Gogo, schlemiels par excellences, end the play with the open-ended promise to wait once more for Godot or hang themselves. On the edge of despair, they promise each other one more confused, chaotic night: the hanging sadness is pierced by the realization that this only how Jews have lived for past millennia, praying in their misery. Maimonides’ affirmation of his religious belief could easily serve as an epigraph to New Yiddish Republic’s Vartn af Godot: “I believe with a full heart in the coming of the Messiah, and even though he may tarry, I will wait for him on any day that he may come.”

Griffin Smith-Nichols is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at gds82@cornell.edu.

Make America Great Like Big Star Again

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or a brief, beautiful moment in the days following August 8, the world believed that Donald Trump hated Pavement. There’s nothing surprising about the Donald not liking Pavement, per se, but the fact that he knows about the ’90s indie staple, cares enough to spew vitriol about their new compilation via Twitter and does so through a strange Big Star comparison came with a bit of shock. How can we trust someone who calls Stephen Malkmus a “MORON” to run our country? More importantly, how can America be made great again by a man who doesn’t appreciate the angelic beauty of “Gold Soundz?”

Heck, Pitchfork called it the number one track of the 1990s, and we all know that Pitchfork is more infallible than scripture.

But Fuckface von Clownstick (a nickname coined not so affectionately by Jon Stewart) didn’t actually tweet anything about Pavement or Big Star. Of course he didn’t.

And there’s no Mike reason he’d ever Sosnick tweet such a thing @FoxNews, unless Roger Ailes claps his flabby cheeks together to the beat of “Range Life.” It’s incredibly unlikely that Trump is familiar with the bands’ work — the only Gold Sound that Trump regularly hears is the thump of his wrinkly ass as he falls backward onto his gold-plated toilet seat.

In fact, the anti-Pavement tweet came not from the Donald, but from writer Zach Schonfeld. Schonfeld used a website that lets you craft fake tweets from celebrities’ handles, putting these words in a politician’s mouth in the same way that many half-aspiring amateur comedians and neckbearded music critics do.

For whatever reason, though, this fake tweet gained traction. In all likelihood, it’s because we’ve come to learn that the Donald could say anything at any minute. If he were to tweet tomorrow that dogs lay eggs, a critical mass of people would take him seriously. Whether they jumped to ridicule

or started picketing outside vet offices, they’d immediately believe that this thought came straight from his poorexcuse-for-hair-topped head. Calling out Pavement should be safely outside the scope of Trump’s web presence, but he’s given us no good reason to think that’s something he wouldn’t do.

As if this story wasn’t wacky enough, it hasn’t been Donald Trump’s only negative run-in with the alternative music world. Comically missing the memo on the tweet’s fallout (and also the contempt that liberally-minded folk feel toward him), he apparently played R.E.M.’s smash hit “It’s the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” at a rally. If nobody had been paying attention, this would have been innocuous enough; the song makes regular appearances at frat cookouts and bro-heavy singalongs. But it's only natural that R.E.M. are not the country’s biggest Trump supporters, having played pro-left-wing support shows in the past. Michael Stipe, never one to hold his tongue, pushed back through bandmate Mike Mills’ Twitter account, telling Trump and his people to “Go fuck yourselves” and calling his electoral effort a “moronic charade of a campaign.”

Other than the knowledge that rock artists and the Donald don’t see eye to eye, what’s the moral here? Well, the first and most obvious takeaway is that people are super gullible — and if you didn’t already know that, you’re probably one of the worst offenders. This has been true throughout human history, but we’ve reached a new frontier. The age where anyone can put words in a public figure’s mouth has arrived.

We’ve known for a while now that the Internet has ushered in an era in which we can easily take others’ words as our own. Using other people’s content is effortless; retweets, Facebook shares and Tumblr reblogs encourage us to be as much curators as creators. Despite this, true plagiarism, even

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when taken in the context of comedy’s long history of joke sharing, isn’t taken lightly — take The Fat Jew’s recent controversy, for example. And you’re a whole lot more likely to get caught.

But when the exchange goes the other way — attributing content or an opinion to someone who took no part in it — it’s uniquely scary. Even when it’s meant to be totally innocuous, like Zach Schonfeld’s fake Trump tweet, some portion of the easily convinced masses will still take it as straight from the horse’s mouth. Particularly when the falsified content is shared without context (like how the Trump tweet was shared by both Stereogum and Pavement’s own Scott Kannberg), people will believe what they read. That’s not to say that this tweet was particularly damaging to Trump’s campaign — realistically this lost him little to no favor at the polls — but a more politically pointed fake tweet could easily sink a public figure’s career.

So the next time someone shows you tweeted “proof” that Scott Walker is getting an Agnostic Front tattoo or that Lindsey Graham masturbates to Death Grips, take it with a grain of salt. Every day there’s mounting evidence that the Internet is a terrible place, so please remember, kids: Don’t believe everything you read.

Mike Sosnick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

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here is no denying that the producing beats for Jay-Z to dropping Republican Party has a deep his own multi-platinum albums. Most bench from which they will select importantly, Kanye made his money by their nominee. There are sitting senators making people happy. He produces art and former senators as well as sitting that has a positive effect on the commugovernors and former governors. Among nity. this distinguished group there are both Compared to Kanye, Trump looks seasoned political veterans and young fairly pathetic. Born to a rich real-estate stars on the rise. family, educated at private boarding Of course, given the current state of school and then at Wharton business the Republican party, it makes perfect school, Trump turned his father’s small sense that, despite the presence of so fortune to a much larger fortune by many capable, electable candidates, the building casinos and making sure that two current frontrunners in the race for whenever projects began to falter, it was the nomination are neither experienced his partners who went bankrupt rather nor electable. Indeed, according to the than himself. Trump’s projects do not latest national polls, over half of the have nearly the positive effect on the Republican party supports either retired community. His casinos serve to foster reality T.V. star Donald Trump or retired gambling addictions and the repression pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson. of the lower classes. His monstrous Neither of them has ever held public apartments in Manhattan have become office, and they both synonymous with the have a penchant for class disparities that making factually tencontinue to plague Everyone laughed uous and inflammatoNew York City. ry comments.

Donald Trump says, when Kanye No one expected “You’re fired!” Kanye announced his 2020 West Donald Trump to says “I want the have anywhere near as intentions at the VMA world to be better ... much success as he All I want is dopeAwards ceremony a ness!” Yeezus 1, has had so far, and for months the pundits 0. few weeks ago ... But Republicans have assured us that All Donald Trump I believe we should does is fire missiles in the next couple weeks he will surely and throw punches. take him more burn out. But Mr. He doesn’t know how Trump is like the to reconcile with his seriously.

Energizer bunny, and opponents, and so it’s hard to imagine instead of comprohim flaming out any time soon. In fact, mise, President Trump will lead us from his outsider campaign strategy has also disastrous standoff to disastrous standbeen put to good use by surging con- off. He is still feuding with Rosie tender Carson, who went from middling O’Donnell, who hasn’t been relevant in poll numbers to being a clear second years, because he is unable to let go of a choice. Of course neither of them will grudge. How is he supposed to make win … right? agreements with Vladimir Putin if he The prospect is too terrifying to con- can’t even make nice with the ladies on template, so I won’t waste any time The View? doing that. Instead, let us focus on the Kanye fires a lot of missiles too. He silver linings of the Trump and Carson pulled no punches when it came to success stories. These insurgents have George Bush’s relationship with the paved the way for yet another potential black community or Taylor Swift’s victopresidential candidate. This one, howev- ry over Beyoncé at the VMAs. But where er, isn’t planning to jump into the race the Donald would still be subtweeting for another four years, in 2020.

Bush and Swift a decade after the fact, Yes, I speak of the one and only Mr. Kanye has masterfully reconciled with Kanye Omari West, the greatest rockstar both. He had the guts to sit side by side of our generation. Everyone laughed with the president of the United States when Kanye announced his 2020 inten- and apologize for his comments. He had tions at the VMA Awards ceremony a the kindness to kindle a friendship with few weeks ago, and most chalked it up to Taylor and now there are rumors of a the joint he had smoked before taking collaboration in the future. Kanye the stage. But I believe we should take knows how to tear down the opposition, him more seriously. but he also knows how to mend bridges After all, we accept Donald Trump and move forward, an important quality and Ben Carson as legitimate candi- for the leader of the free world. dates. Why not Mr. West? In fact, I This whole premise seems ridiculous, believe that Kanye would be a better but is it any more so than Donald “I’ve candidate and a better president than said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, I’d be either the Donald or Dr. Carson. He is dating her” Trump or Ben “Obamacare no more ostentatious than Mr. Trump, is the worst thing since slavery” Carson? and no less experienced than Carson, Kanye is one of the greatest creative and his freestyle skills put both of them minds of our generation, he has shown to shame. incredible business acumen in the marPeople like Donald Trump because he keting of his brand and he has devoted is rich. His immense wealth has become his life to making other people’s lives a a centerpiece of his campaign, and he little bit brighter. So Donald, I’m really uses his fortune as evidence of his lead- happy for you, and Imma let you finish, ership qualities and ability to succeed. but Kanye’s gonna have one of the best Do you know who else is rich? Kanye campaigns of all time.

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ell, I’ve made it almost three weeks. Three weeks of little to no procrastination, three weeks of actually using my planner, three weeks of completing assignments well before their deadlines. I broke the streak last night, actually. Cue Hebani, fully aware she has a problem set due at midnight, doing absolutely everything but her problem set until exactly 60 minutes before the deadline.

Cue Hebani freaking out.

Even writing my column was slightly concerning this week. Writing my columns are always a bit of an interesting process — in fact, I’m pretty sure I dedicated an entire column to the weird things I do while attempting to write a couple hundred words of opinion, deep observations and self deprecation every other week sometime last semester.

This week, however, was especially a struggle. Currently (in case you’re wondering how much of a struggle this week’s writing was), it’s 3 a.m., and I’m hanging off the side of my bed with a jar of Nutella and an utter lack of shame for the amount of chocolate hazelnut spread that is on my fingers (and, by extension, my keyboard).

I tend to write about the things that are on my mind, and during what’s been one of the most hectic weeks, what’s been on my mind has been Stephen Colbert. Well, that’s not entirely true. What’s been on my mind has been the fact that I decided to watch The premiere of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert rather than work on my computer science lab due in less than 24 hours. Not that I think I made a bad decision in any way — the premiere of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert absolutely killed the competition Tuesday night. Deadline reports the late-night talk show garnered an estimated 6.6 million viewers, more

Why do media personalities like Colbert, Stewart and Oliver have more credibility in the eyes of the American public than more established news anchors like Anderson Cooper ...? than twice the number of people who tuned in to The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon.

I’ve always found there to be something very interesting about the way television hosts are perceived by the general American public, especially in comparison to other, more mainstream news media outlets.

Take Jon Stewart, for example. Many people would consider Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to be very similar, considering their target audiences and the way in which they approach certain topics on air. A couple years ago, the New York Times published a piece asking, “Is Jon Stewart the Most Trusted Man in America?” The simple answer: No, obviously not, but he, along with Colbert, and even British political commentator and television host John Oliver, form a sort of middle ground in American news media. They are considered more trusted in comparison to most other news media outlets. Even back in 2007, “Americans polled by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press were asked to name the journalist they most admired, and Mr. Stewart, the fake news anchor, came in at No. 4, tied with the real news anchors Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw of NBC, Dan Rather of CBS and Anderson Cooper of CNN.” And in a study from just a year later, when this article was published, the center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism concluded that “‘The Daily Show’ is clearly impacting American dialogue” and “getting people to think critically about the public square.”

Why this movement away from more conventional media outlets then? Why do media personalities like Colbert, Stewart and Oliver have more credibility in the eyes of the American public than more established news anchors like Anderson Cooper, Diane Sawyer and Keith Olbermann?

Personally, I believe it has a lot to do with the emotional appeal talk show hosts have that news anchors simply cannot provide. I might watch Stewart as regularly as I watch Williams, but I trust what Stewart has to say simply because he’s more real to me. His language, the way he accidentally cracks when he finds his own jokes too funny to handle and his sometimes somber demeanor when he finds himself disappointed and saddened by the day’s news. In fact, the NYT article puts it best when it reads “and [Stewart’s staff has managed to inform and entertain] in ways that straight news programs cannot: speaking truth to power in blunt, sometimes profane language, while using satire and playful looniness to ensure that their political analysis never becomes solemn or pretentious.” So yes, it’s now a couple hours closer to my lab deadline, and I still have Nutella on my keyboard (it’s actually on my monitor now too, wow, I’m talented), but I don’t have any regrets about spending my time watching Colbert’s premiere — at least not as much as I might regret it closer to prelim season.

Hebani Duggal is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hduggal@cornellsun.com. Teach Me How to Duggal appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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n opening this piece, I are a yoke that all of Europe our city upon the hill, we would like to recall a must bear. We are Atlas and shiver at the music of a dying quote. It is the motto of our weight is without reward. land, music that fills its peothe Special Air Service, the If there is any saving grace, it ple’s ears and dreams. Sacred British elite special forces is the piety to be found in and learned, we dare not unit. Generally attributed to offering salvation to these imagine the reality of an existhe founder of the SAS, people corrupted by what tence in a place where chilDavid Stirling, it has been they’ve seen. So we tell our- dren are educated by evil men.

Many people coming to used by twelve other special selves.

Through our vicarious Europe have not been forces units around the world.

It reads:“Qui audet adipisci- glimpses of the wretches dragged into migration by tur,” or “Who Dares, Wins.” arriving on Europe’s shores, the weight of a life unfulAs upturned hulls and we see simple, uneducated filled; they have been pushed drowned children wash up on people, victims of stronger over the edge by the contrathe coasts of our conscience, we are beginning to take notice of the plight Many people coming to Europe have not of refugees escaping conflict in been dragged into migration by the Syria, Afghanistan weight of a life unfulfilled; they have been and other lands.

The airwaves roil pushed over the edge by the with stories of contradiction of a country undone. crowded migrant camps and empty wooden vessels.

Humanity’s addictions — our men. To us, comfortable in diction of a country undone. old craving for the suffering our green parks and our ivory They are doctors, nurses, of others and our modern towers, they are not, and can- teachers. They are lawyers, dependence on intravenous not be, anything more than engineers, artists. In the news media — find new- questions to be answered. words of Kahlil Gibran, found power in today’s cock- Like each of history’s great “Surely he who is worthy to tail of bright lights and weary questions, their plight begs a receive his days and his solution or, at the very least, nights is worthy of all else faces.

With heightened media an explanation. So we justify from you.”

We must not receive people attention have come calls for the most morally indefensible someone — anyone — to source of our fears — the fear only to sweep them into ghetdirect the human tide break- that our flag will be used to tos beyond the city limits. Far ing upon our cliffs. E.U. bandage history once again. from it. We are being blessed member states are consider- The death of millions is with men and women who ing a mandatory quota sys- naught compared to such a will enrich our societies, if tem to more fairly share the national tragedy — a sup- only given the chance. We are burden of accepting refugees. posed dilution of national giving shelter children who will love us, if only reminded Germany and Austria recent- heritage.

Nationalism and nativism of what it is to be human. ly, briefly, opened their borIf we do not offer refuge to ders to Syrian refugees. are callous and short-sighted Hungarian deportations are ideologies. Our national the blameless, we deny ourintimidatingly reminiscent of myths are privileged above selves the sanctuary of our Nazi deportations. Europe is human life. By not providing own humanity. If we cannot at a crossroads. Moral, safer immigration routes, we offer compassion to others, human and political objec- are forcing people to dare to what hope is there for us? For tives rarely lie in the same brave the razor wire tides of is it not we who must seek the Mediterranean and the salvation? direction.

Important as these discus- sharp tongues upon its Alex Davies is a junior in the College of sions of responsibility are, shores.

Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at Safe and secured, we can- ajd253@cornell.edu. Have I Got News they seek only a remedy for a blight. The boats and trucks not conceive of a life lived For You? appears alternate Tuesdays this arriving in Italy and Hungary under gunfire and anger. In semester.

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Cornell field hockey is 2-2 after two consecutive wins this past Friday and Sunday. Not only did the team win both games, but they shut out the other teams, Sacred Heart and Monmouth, in 7-0 and 5-0 wins, respectively. After being shutout in the only other games of the season, this seems like a massive change of tide.

“It really felt like we started our season this weekend,” said junior Katy Weeks. “We still have a lot to work on, but these two wins were the confidence and motivation we needed after a rough start two weekends ago.”

Weeks scored two goals on Friday against Sacred Heart and one against Monmouth.

Sophomore Krysten Mayers scored twice during each game, while senior Marisa Seirgiej added a goal and an assist per game.

Cornell also outshot both of its opponents, outshooting the Pioneers 21-4 and the Hawks 18-10.

Weeks said the condensed preseason practice schedule led to some problems early in the season.

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Going into each game, the team tries to focus on what is ahead and not what’s in the past.

Weeks said she recalls playing Monmouth last season but stressed that every game is new and can present different challenges.

“We played a great match against Monmouth last year where we were actually behind in the first half and managed to pull out a win,” Weeks said. “I have never played Sacred Heart before.

Prior match or not, I try not to underestimate opponents. We are focused on this season, and we can't get complacent or scared based on last year's results.”

This second win against Monmouth marks head coach Donna Hornibrook’s 100th win during her time at Cornell. This is a huge landmark in her career and made this game take on even more significance.

The Red will face off against the University of Vermont for their next game this Saturday at 11 am in Burlington, VT. This will be the first of two games they play this weekend as part of UVM’s tournament. When they go, they will have two great games behind them to follow.

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defense has made strides in becoming a more cohesive unit.

He points to the experience he and his teammates have gained as a huge asset going into Saturday’s game against Bucknell.

And yet, Norris is quick to point out there definitely is room for improvement.

“We have a lot of work to do and we’re all committed to doing that work day in and day out,” Norris said. “I just look forward to working every day with these guys. The defense has been focusing on playing hard and not letting up ever.”

Norris tries to carry over the lessons he’s learned in football to his other interests. When he’s not

suited up in his helmet and pads, the 6-foot, 225-pound Norris is a waiter in Taverna Banfi, in the Statler Hotel. Like in football, Norris, a student in the School of Hotel Administration, said that you have to learn to bounce back from mistakes as a waiter. “[If ] you mess somebody’s order up, there’s new customers that come in and you can’t let the last customer affect how you treat the new one, that’s a completely different table,” Norris said.

One of the courses Norris said he has particularly enjoyed was culinary. While Norris admits that being a professional chef is not in his career plans, that hasn’t stopped him from cooking for his teammates that live with him; his

specialty is Italian food.

So whether it’s showing a

“We have a lot of work to do, and we’re all committed to doing that work day in and day out.”

Miles Norris freshman how to wrap up a running back, locking down Bucknell’s offense or making a perfect ziti, Miles Norris wants to try everything.

And there’s a pretty good chance he’ll be successful.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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FOOTBALL FULL COURT PRESS

Cooking Up a Storm:Miles Norris Is Ready to Go Junior linebacker prepared for upcoming season as one of Cornell’s leaders on and off the field

Almost there | Junior Miles Norris and the Red have five days left before kickoff against Bucknell during Homecoming.

COURTESY OF CORNELL ATHLETICS

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Miles Norris strives to try everything. On the football field, the junior inside linebacker and Red captain breaks up passes just as easily as he pressures the quarterback. In the locker room, head coach David Archer ’05 calls him a vocal leader, someone who’s committed to winning. In school, he’s taken a wide variety of courses and he’s always

looking for something else in which to get involved.

“I’m interested in trying everything,” Norris said. “A wise man once told me, ‘you know what you want to do once you’ve tried everything else and realize you don’t like it.’ I haven’t tried all that much yet, so that’s why I’m still open to trying new things.”

In his first full year as a starter, Norris had a major impact on Cornell’s defense last year. He led the team in tackles and sacks and was second in tackles for a loss. He also ranked in

the Top-10 in the Ivy League in each of those categories. In addition, he broke up a couple passes and collected fumble recovery. Include the countless times he caused a quarterback to hurry or intimidated a running back, and it’s clear Norris played a huge role in the defense last year.

As a freshman, Norris worked his way up, showing he could succeed in whatever role he was given. He played mainly special teams in the beginning of his freshman year, before earning a spot as inside linebacker later in the year.

He finished his first season on a high note, diving to block a punt in the final game of the season. The ball bounced off his hands and into the arms of one of his teammates in the endzone, giving Cornell its first lead of the night. Norris would tally a team-high six tackles, and the Red would go on to win the game.

Ten months later, in Cornell’s first game of the 2014 season, Norris continued where he left off after his freshman year, swarming Colgate’s offense, registering 13 tackles and two sacks.

“I saw the way a middle linebacker should be played: with passion, with heart, physicality, relentless effort, relentless pursuit of the football and then he came up big a lot in the red zone,” Archer told The Sun after the game. “He’s an exciting young player. … There’s a guy, when we talk about the play being influential and being an influencer of the style of play somebody can rally behind, and what he did on Saturday was something his team could feed off of.”

Despite Norris’ stellar effort, Cornell would still end up losing. This would prove to be a recurring theme throughout last year’s 1-9 campaign. The Red’s defense last year struggled, allowing the second most points per game in the conference. This year, Norris said the defense has made strides in becoming a more cohesive See NORRIS page 11

MEN’S SOCCER

Men Drop Two Games Over Weekend, Fall to 0-4

By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

Cornell men’s soccer fell just short this weekend against strong opposition at the Duquesne Invitational. The Red (0-4) battled hard in both games, falling to Cleveland State 2-1 in overtime on Friday and then to No. 12 Oregon State, this time a 2-0 defeat.

The Red was coming off of two tough losses in the first games of the season.

However according to head coach Jaro Zawislan, the athletes were positive as they headed to Pittsburgh for the invitational.

“We were looking forward to the next game because that is part of our culture here,” Zawislan said. “The next game is the most important because it is the next game on our schedule. The team during the week was staying very positive and improving everyday.”

The focus and positive atmosphere paid off as, during the week and throughout the weekend, the Red continued to improve from session to session and across games, according to Zawislan.

“It is a combination of doing the work during the training and also the video session,” Zawislan said. “We spend quite a large amount of time on Saturday watching the video of our Friday’s game, not only emphasizing the things we had to improve, but also the positive things we have done during the game and building on them.”

Despite this, in Cornell’s first game against Cleveland State, it was the Vikings who got off to the better start, scoring a

goal in the 30th minute. However, the Red responded well and, by the 60th minute, the team’s work was reward when junior forward Chris St. Germain chipped the ball through for fellow forward sophomore Jonathan Cullom, who skillfully drove it past the keeper and into the right corner.

From here the game tightened up, with both teams trading chances through to the end of the 90 minutes and into overtime.

The Red kept pushing hard, getting two chances in overtime, a Cornell foul in the 18-yard box gave the Vikings a penalty.

Cleveland State ended up scoring, giving the Vikings a 2-1 win.

“The first half was a bit more even between both team and we found ourselves down 1-0,” Zawislan said. “The team responded very well in the second half and showed character to come back from a 1-0 deficit. In overtime we thought we controlled the majority of the run of play however the game ended on a tough call. That is the game of soccer, it comes down to one or two critical moments.”

Cornell played No. 12 Oregon State on Sunday and held them scoreless for 80 minutes. Playing its first game this season against a nationally ranked opponent, the Red did an excellent job of holding Oregon State to just one shot in the first half and only 12 shots total. However, two goals after the 80th minute mark from Oregon State sealed the game 2-0 against Cornell.

“We always strive to better to be next game,” Zawislan said. “I am very proud of the progress the players made from Friday to Sunday, and we had to do it. It was

another challenging game and in the first half we not only competed but we felt we outplayed them during the first half. When you play very good opponents it comes down to one or two chances and credit to Oregon State they kept it alive based of those one or two chances.”

Cornell did have two players make the all-tournament team as St. Germain and Cullom were both rewarded for their role in Cornell’s goal against Cleveland State.

The Red will be looking to build off these

positive performances this week as it heads into its first home game of the year on Tuesday night against Binghamton.

“We need to carry that momentum that we generated this weekend,” Zawislan said. “We need to keep improving and keep building on what we have done well in the last game and on what needs improving.”

Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

DANA DANIELS / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Kick it like Cullom | Sophomore Jonathan Cullom scored in the 60th minute against Cleveland State, but it wasn’t enough to carry the Red over the Vikings.