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Founders of Grocery Defend Business Plan

Respond to criticism,point to food insecurity statistics in gauging demand for grocery

By PAULINA GLASS Sun Assistant News Editor

As the Student Assembly gears up to vote on whether to approve the proposal to create a store, Anabel’s Grocery, in Anabel Taylor Hall, the project’s leaders have released a plan detailing market projections for the store and estimating the magnitude of food insecurity on campus.

The plan, released on Sept. 8, details the financial blueprint for Anabel’s Grocery. The plan says Anabel’s Grocery will serve as a “healthy, inexpensive alternative” to current on-campus food options. Proponents hope to include undergraduates and graduate students in its consumer base.

The team spearheading the project — led by Matthew Stefanko ’16, S.A. vice president for finance, and Emma

Johnston ’16, S.A. executive vice president — assessed the need for more affordable food on campus by analysing the 2015 Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Student Experience and a survey sent out on social media while accounting for anecdotal evidence, according to the plan.

“We started a couple years ago with hearing anecdotal stories from administrators regarding food insecurity being a thing on campus,” Stefanko said. “It wasn’t something we knew was a problem in these early meetings, but these administrators who deal with the students gave us indication that it is a real problem to be dealt with.”

Some of the data informing the business logistics of the grocery store — including average expenditure, rate of attendance and rate of application — are based on a social media survey conducted in May 2015, according to the plan.

Public Opinion Research Center to Move to Cornell

By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Staff Writer

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, the world’s largest archive of social science data, will move from the University of Connecticut to Cornell University on Nov. 7.

“Having the Center at Cornell not only signals Cornell’s ongoing commitment to being a world class social science University, but it offers Cornell faculty and students an unprecedented opportunity to research and learn from the data,” said Prof. Peter Enns, government, the first executive director of the Roper Center at Cornell. “The Roper Center will enhance research, teaching and learning across campus.

The center has been located at the University of Connecticut since 1947, but UConn cut its

ties with the center towards the end of 2015. Cornell submitted a full proposal to host the Roper Center last November and was among three universities selected for a site visit during the application process, according to Enns.

Robert Buhrman, senior vice provost for research, said he believes the University was selected to host the center for its passion for the social sciences.

“Bringing the Roper Center to Cornell was a faculty-driven initiative that garnered enthusiastic backing from social scientists across the university and, as the result, received strong support for this transition to Cornell from three colleges, with matching support from the university,” said Buhrman in a University statement.

Once it moves to campus, See ROPER page 5

Bagel Snafu Strikes C.U. Breakfast arrives week before inauguration

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun News Editor

Tour guides and staff workers in Day Hall received a pleasant surprise last Friday when 10 trays of bagels, 15 gallons of coffee and 240 granola bars, originally intended as refreshments for President

Elizabeth Garrett’s inauguration ceremony, were prematurely delivered to campus.

The food order was scheduled to arrive for volunteers working the ceremony Friday morning but mistakenly arrived a week early, according See BAGEL page 5

The survey received responses from 149 students.

Compared to a University-reported student body of approximately 21,500 in fall 2013, this sample size represents less than one percent of Cornell students. Six percent of those respondents said they skipped meals often or very often, and 22 percent said they skipped meals occasionally.

In addition, Stefanko said the team consulted results from the spring 2015 PULSE survey, which received 4,892 responses representing approximately 35 to 40 percent of undergraduates. Stefanko said that the PULSE survey results were closely aligned with the results of the social media survey, though the PULSE survey actually reported slightly higher rates of severe food insecurity.

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Refugee crisis

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Migrants at the closed gate of a border crossing checkpoint to Hungary, which they hope to enter, in Horgos, Serbia. Hungary declared a state of crisis early Tuesday, detaining 60 migrants and threatening to prosecute those entering the country illegally.

COLA Protests Qatari Working Conditions ter in Garrett’s office Tuesday as part of COLA’s campaign titled “Weill Workers Suffers.”

"Unfortunately, the construction of Cornell’s and other campuses in Qatar has resulted in the exploitation and deaths of campus workers, an outcome that is

Qatar’s FIFA World Cup construction receive national attention.

“Now, more than ever, Cornell Seeing the crowd of Cornell has the opportunity to stand up Organization for Labor Action for the rights of its satellite cammembers walking towards pus workers,” the letter says. “Not President Elizabeth Garrett’s only can we ease the suffering of office, a Day Hall receptionist workers aiding the expanrushed to make a phone call. The approximately “Now, more than ever, Cornell has the sion of Cornell, but we can also correct Cornell’s 20 students were delivering a letter delineating opportunity to stand up for the rights of role in the unethical practices occurring in its satellite campus workers.” concerns about the Education City, thus allegedly harsh working Sundas Wiqas ’19 improving our instituconditions at Weill tion’s reputation around Cornell Medical College antithetical to our mission as a the world.” in Doha, Qatar.

On March 14, 2014, the Though Garrett was not in her university dedicated to the public International Trade Union office, Ryan Lombardi, vice presi- good,” the letter reads.

The letter alleges that the Confederation wrote a letter to dent for student and campus life, heard their demands. The University is “lending” its name the presidents of universities with activists asked for a response from globally to both human traffick- campuses in Education City, ing and forced labor, especially as Garrett by Sept. 29.

See COLA page 5 Sundas Wiqas ’19 read the let- human rights violations during

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Wedding Ring Found After 39 Years BOLTON, N.Y. (AP) — An Oklahoma man has been reunited with the wedding ring he dropped in a New York lake ne arly 40 years ago.

The Post-Star of Glens Falls reports that Jane and Jim Flynn honeymooned on Lake George in the Adirondacks after getting married in 1960. They returned to the upstate lake for summer vacations every year until 1976, when they bought property in Bolton, on the lake's western shore.

Soon afterward, Jim Flynn lost his wedding ring in the lake.

A woman from Seattle who vacations every August on property next door to the Flynns’ spotted the gold ring underwater along the shore. It had the date “2-6-60” engraved inside.

She gave it to a year-round resident who learned it belonged to Jim Flynn, who now lives in Tulsa.Police say Claude was found wearing a Laurel letterman jacket that did not belong to him. He was charged with third-degree burglary, criminal mischief and theft. He was released on $3,800 bond.

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School has Snow Day in August KEYPORT, N.J. (AP) — On a day when temperatures surged past 90 degrees in central New Jersey, an electrical problem has forced a school district to declare a snow day.

Classes were canceled Tuesday in Keyport because of a malfunctioning component at the district's elementary school.

Officials cited student safety concerns for their decision, noting the building lacked reliable power. That meant students and staff members were facing a day with no phones, Internet or fire alarms.

Keyport Superintendent Lisa Savoia tells the Asbury Park Press the district is logging the unexpected day off as a snow day, two of which are built into its school calendar.

The district’s schools will reopen on Wednesday.

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Akwe:kon’s Ansley Jemison: A Love For Lacrosse Rooted in Seneca Culture PHOTOS BY CAMERON POLLACK / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Staff Writer

Ansley Jemison, director of Akwe:kon Residence Hall, said his early years spent on the Allegheny Reservation in Western New York introduced him to the two things that would later shape his life: the Seneca culture and lacrosse.

“It was like growing up in any neighborhood,” said Jemison, who is also the current director of the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Program.

“But there was also a traditional long house that was situated in the Cold Springs area. I grew up going to ceremonies down there.”

After his father gave him his first wooden lacrosse stick, Jemison said he played lacrosse with other kids on the reservation.

“There wasn’t really a formal or a sanctioned lacrosse team at the time, but we all had lacrosse sticks and kind of played all the time,” Jemison said.

While living on the reservation, Jemison attended a public school with non-native kids from the surrounding community. There, he said he experienced a “cultural divide” in native kids’ separation from the rest of the students for their Seneca language class.

“We would get pulled out of class and we would go downstairs into the basement of the elementary school,” Jemison said. “You felt funny about getting singled out and dragged out of class.”

Jemison said he felt these experiences reflected a deeper disconnect between the school district and

the Seneca nation.

“The fact that they stuck us in the deep, dark corner of the basement kind of said something to me, in a lot of ways, about the school district’s values and how they valued the Seneca language,” Jemison said.

A move to New York City later in his childhood introduced him to many cultures beyond that of the reservation.

“It was certainly a culture shock for me,” Jemison said.

“Just in the apartment building that I lived in, there were kids from Guyana, from Russia and from Yugoslavia.”

New York City, Jemison said, served as his introduction to the world and helped him gain a deeper appreciation for cultural diversity.

“I think it really rounded me out as a person,” Jemison said. “It gave me that ability to be more understanding and accepting of other cultures.”

While Jemison lived in New York, his father worked as an artist in SoHo. There, he ran several galleries showcasing Native American art.

Jemison said spending weekends with his father introduced him to a new side of Native American life.

“Being exposed to the Native art world and seeing [these galleries], I was able to see both sides of the native world,” Jemison said.

Soon, Jemison said found himself moving with his father to Ganondagan Historic Site, a 17th century Seneca village, where his father accepted a position as the site’s first director. The move gave Jemison a chance to connect with his father and his culture.

“A huge part of my development and my growing up was him instilling a lot of the core values of the Haudenosaunee people,” Jemison said. “[At Ganondagan], I was exposed to chiefs, clan mothers, faith keepers and people who were important within the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.”

The move to Ganondagan also gave Jemison the opportunity to delve deeper into lacrosse. In the local high school, Jemison said he excelled at the sport and soon found himself winning championships.

“I was selected for the Iroquois Nationals under 19 lacrosse team,” Jemison said. “We had our first international victory as the Iroquois Nationals.”

Jemison said he later went on to play lacrosse for Syracuse University, where the team made it to the final four each of his four years.

“Arguably, we were one of the top four teams in the country,” Jemison said.

After college, Jemison moved to Taos, New Mexico. There, he explored the Southwest and studied alternative styles of building houses while working a variety of odd jobs.

“I did every sort of odd job that you could possibly do just to make ends meet,” Jemison said.

After a chance conversation with a Brazilian coworker, Jemison said he was offered the chance to teach English in Brazil — a job he held for a year.

“I didn’t speak a lick of Portuguese, I didn’t really know much about the culture and I didn’t really know what I was getting myself into,” Jemison said.

While he said he enjoyed the experience, he returned to his parent’s house after a year. Soon, new opportunities presented themselves to Jemison and he began coaching college lacrosse. He said he later became involved with the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team, eventually becoming its director.

Jemison said he is happy now that he can pursue both of his passions: helping students and coaching lacrosse at Cornell. He added that he feels especially proud of being a part of the American Indian Program.

“In a lot of ways, the American Indian Program is the benchmark for a lot of other native studies program throughout academia,” Jemison said. “They really do a lot of wonderful things for young people here at Cornell, and I just feel fortunate that I can be a part of that.”

Christopher Byrns can be reached at cbyrns@cornellsun.com.

Entrepreneurial Spaces to Open in Kennedy, C-Town Starting spring 2016, eHub will provide space for all Cornell students to collaborate, launch businesses

By RYAN HUMPHREY Sun Staff Writer

Two new entrepreneurial working spaces will open next spring — one in the Student Agencies building on College Avenue, and another in Kennedy Hall.

The spaces, which will be collectively known as eHub, comes from a partnership between Entrepreneurship at Cornell, Student Agencies Foundation and participating schools and colleges, project leaders said in a statement. Both spaces will be open to all Cornell students.

The eHub project aims to provide a “community entrepreneurship space” that provides students with “an effective environment to hatch ideas, work

together, discuss problems, get mentor- and my office, Entrepreneurship,” said ship and run actual businesses,” accord- Zach Shulman ’87, J.D. ’90, director of Entrepreneurship at Cornell. ing to an eHub press release.

“The Kennedy Hall space will include eHub’s Student Agencies location, situated on 409 College Ave., will occupy offices for Entrepreneurship at Cornell, as well as spaces for group 10,000 square feet meetings, conferences, on the second and third floors, while “Start your business here, events, classes, presentathe Kennedy Hall move on, and then before tions and open areas for dislocation will be you know it, you’re a part cussions and planning,” according to the release. approximately of the world.”

The Collegetown space 4,000 square feet, will house several existing according to the Zach Shulman ’87, J.D. ’90 organizations, including release. business accelerator proThe eHub project will cost $4.5 million, according to gram eLab, student-run company Student Agencies Inc. and POPSHOP. the press release.

Shulman spoke about the process of “The construction is being funded by donations and the operation is currently turning the idea of eHub into a reality. being funded by the participating schools “We started talking about this a cou-

ple years ago — that we didn’t have any University-wide, incubator-type space for entrepreneurship,” Shulman said. “It kind of went through an evolution of initial idea, then interest from a dean, then interest from deans of five different schools until now, where the project is materializing.”

Participating schools and colleges include the Johnson Graduate School of Management, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Engineering, School of Industrial and Labor Relations and School of Hotel Administration.

In describing eHub’s functions, Shulman compared it to Rev Ithaca Startup Works, a downtown incubator for startups. However, Schuman said See eHUB page 4

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Grocery Founders Push for Approval GROCERY

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Robert Hendricks ’17, co-director of Anabel’s Grocery, said the smaller social media survey mainly served the purpose of collecting preliminary data and generating interest.

“That survey was mainly to generate interest in the store and to start gathering information on student grocery habits,” Hendricks said. “We also asked the same question from the PULSE poll about food insecurity. The numbers were nearly identical.

However, they are nowhere near as authoritative or compelling as the PULSE data or our qualitative data, since the survey format led to bias. We knew this going in. This poll was more just to help us get our name out there and get some starting points on our product mix.”

The team considered results from both surveys to estimate food insecurity numbers across the Cornell population.

The plan estimates that 118 Cornell students are highly in need of more affordable food options and that 1,693 are in the next lower bracket of food insecure students.

In analyzing student demand, the plan then makes market projections. Of these two groups of students, the plan estimates 65 percent of those in the first group will apply to use the store and 50 percent of the second group will apply. Of the applicants, the plan estimates that 80 percent of those who apply of the first group will actually use the store, and 50 percent of the second group will.

The business plan also addresses a third sector of students — those who rarely or never skip meals — and the plan estimates that of these 11,283 students, 1,381 will end up using the store, making the total number of students accessing the store at an estimate of 1,894, or 13 percent of undergraduates enrolled at Cornell.

“We worked with a number of students and administrators and had conversations about the number who we thought would reasonably use the store,” Stefanko said of the projections.

During the debate over whether to fund the store, various community members and student publications, including The Cornell Progressive and The Cornell Review, have expressed concern

with the proposal, saying that its advocates have failed to financially justify their plan.

“Given the large amount of money involved, the source of this money and the lack of detail regarding its spending, this resolution should be voted down or tabled for further review,” Casey Breznick ’17 wrote for The Cornell Review.

However, Stefanko defended the plan, saying the PULSE survey is a sound source of statistics and that the food insecurity problem is in need of redress.

“I would encourage everyone to look at all the information out there. We recognize that it’s not a perfect method. We are students trying to make the best plan possible,” he said. “We are working with a ton of people to come up with projections and we are constantly improving and changing.”

Creators of the project are currently seeking $360,000 from the S.A. Students Helping Students Fund to cover the store’s start-up costs and initial financing, according to the business plan. Some have said this is an inappropriate source of funding as this money is earmarked to help financially needy students and should not be risked in a business venture. The store’s proponents have argued that Anabel’s Grocery will fulfil the fund’s goal of assisting students in need.

After the store receives its initial funding, the team behind the grocery store aims to raise $100,000 during a fundraising season from October 2015 through December 2016. The money will be raised through several methods that include a crowdfunding campaign, a phone-bank campaign and corporate sponsorships, according to the plan.

The S.A. initially approved a resolution to create the grocery store last April, but since President Emeritus David Skorton tabled the proposal, it must be re-approved by the S.A. before it can move forward. If the S.A. approves the resolution again, it will be submitted to President Elizabeth Garrett and the 4C committee, a standing committee responsible for approving sales, for their decisions.

Ariel Seidner and Rebecca Blair contributed reporting.

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

eHub Spaces to Open in Spring Project aims to help student entrepreneurs eHUB

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eHub will be more student-centric than Rev. “Students don’t currently use these facilities,” Shulman said. “People don’t want to go down the hill regularly so there shouldn’t be much crossover at

all.”

Shulman also stressed the importance of the project’s capacity to launch actual businesses.

“We want students to build businesses — and the more that start businesses here, the more that will stay in Ithaca after graduation, which I

think is good for the c o m m u n i t y, ” Shulman said.

“Start your business here, move on, and then before you know it you’re a part of the world.”

Ryan Humphrey can be reached at rhumphrey @cornellsun.com.

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COLA Calls For Investigation Into Qatar Conditions

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Qatar, outlining problems concerning working conditions.

“In their letter, [the ITUC] outlined some of the problems occurring on these campuses and within the larger Qatari labor system, most notably the exploitative kafala system,” COLA’s letter states. “More than two years have passed since this initial request, but the exploitation in Qatar persists.”

COLA is collaborating with students at New York University and Georgetown University in their campaign.

All three groups are working combat their own schools’ violations of workers’ rights in the Middle East, according to the COLA release.

Additionally, COLA members expressed hope that Garrett’s tenure will start with a “willingness to work alongside students and workers on these issues.”

“Right now, our relationship with the Qatari government is lending legitimacy to this exploitative migrantlabor system,” the letter reads. President [Emeritus] David Skorton was unwilling to act on our requests to address these problems. However, with your help, we can take action.”

The campaign’s ultimate goal is to end the universitytolerated abuses in Qatar, according to the release. Specific demands include an independent, third-party investigation

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of the working conditions, University commitment to respect workers’ rights to unionize and acknowledgement of labor concerns.

Ana Jimenez ’18 said she was happy with Lombardi’s expression of concern for the students’ demands.

“The vice president seemed very energetic about learning more about it,” Jimenez said. “He even said that he would come to a teach-in, so that makes us

think that the administration is open to listening to our voices as well as the voices of Qatari workers and ultimately will be on our side when it comes to labor mispractices.”

The organization will host a teach-in on Oct. 1 to raise awareness about the working conditions in Qatar.

David Ticzon can be reached at dticzon@cornellsun.com.

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Will Move to C.U. Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research director says center ‘signals strength’ of social science at University ROPER

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the Roper Center will be known informally as Roper@Center and will work with the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research, which Enns said is a key reason why Cornell was selected as Roper’s new home. CISER supports Cornell social scientists and economists in storing and accessing data collected for research.

“The combined presence of Roper@Cornell, [the Survey Research Institute] and CISER on campus signals strength for Cornell social science,” said CISER Director William Block in a statement.

In order to fund the center as well as all its initiatives, Roper will initially receive funds from individual colleges and departments, including the Office of the Vice Provost for Research, the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of

Human Ecology and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, according to Enns.

Once the center is fully transitioned, Enns said he hopes it will be integrated into various academic activities on campus, maintain and enlarge data libraries and develop data access tools for researchers and students.

Besides acting as an academic resource, the center will also offer scholarships and public service opportunities, according to

Enns.

“A major service aspect of the Roper Center is educating the public about survey research,” Enns said. “The Center is currently engaged in these efforts and we will continue and expand upon this outreach. We will also offer numerous employment and research opportunities for Cornell students and faculty.”

Samantha Acriche can be reached at sacriche@cornellsun.com.

Day Hall Inundated Five Charged in Baruch College Fraternity Hazing With Bagels,Coffee Friday and brought an entire tray and gallon of coffee home,” Continued from page 1 Kaplan said. “My apartment to John Carberry, senior director mates were pretty pleased.” of media relations.

“The bagels ended up cover“Since they are perishable ing four of my six meals over the food items, [they] could not be two days,” he added. taken back by the vendor,” Frank Sun ’16, another tour Carberry said. “The bagels and guide, said the food and bevercoffee were made available at no ages from the mistaken cost to student employees work- Wegman’s order were distributed ing in Day to the students Hall, and the and staff work“I don’t think we correct order ing at Day Hall will be deliv- wasted any bagels in Friday, with leftered as origiovers kept for the end.” nally schedtour guides uled at no w o r k i n g Frank Sun ’16 additional cost Saturday mornto Cornell.” ing.

There were around 180 “We had about two trays left bagels, estimated Michael Kaplan that we saved for breakfast for ’18, a tour guide who helped Saturday morning, because transport the bagels from Willard Saturday mornings a lot of the Straight Hall, where they were tour guides work really early,” initially delivered, to Day Hall. Sun said. “I don’t think we wastIn addition, the surplus food ed any bagels in the end.” included several varieties of coffee, grapes and cream cheese.

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POCONO SUMMIT, Pa. — Five people, including the former national president of a fraternity, have been charged in the 2013 death of a New York City college freshman during a brutal hazing ritual in Pennsylvania, police said Tuesday.

Fraternity members at Baruch College physically abused Chun “Michael” Deng, then tried to cover it up as the 19-year-old lay dying in their rented house in the Pocono Mountains, police said.

A grand jury recommended charges for 37 people in Deng’s December 2013 death.

Pocono Mountain Regional police intend to arrest suspects in waves, moving from least to most culpable, to keep the courts from being overwhelmed.

The first five suspects, including former

Pi Delta Psi President Andy Meng, were charged with hazing, conspiracy and hindering apprehension and were making arrangements Tuesday to turn themselves in.

Fraternity officials did not immediately return emails seeking comment on the charges.

“There is some measure of relief,” said the Deng family’s attorney, Douglas Fierberg, who is representing them in a lawsuit against the fraternity and some of its members. “It gives them a better indication of who was involved, what happened and who tried to cover up this death, and that's information they never had.”

Fraternity members waited an hour to take Deng to the hospital after he was blindfolded, forced to wear a heavy backpack and then repeatedly tackled

during a hazing ritual known as glass ceiling, Police Chief Chris Wagner said at a news conference.

Deng fell unconscious and was carried inside the house while fraternity members called Meng, changed Deng’s clothes and did a Google search of his symptoms.

“At this point, members began to hide paraphernalia and basically put the fraternity’s well-being over that of Michael Deng’s,” Wagner said.

Three fraternity members eventually took him to the hospital, where he died a day later.

The grand jury recommended thirddegree murder charges for the fraternity itself and five people.

Dozens of other fraternity members face less serious charges ranging from aggravated assault

to hazing.

A lawyer for fraternity member Charles Lai, who is expected to face murder charges, said he will mount a vigorous defense.

“This case is a terrible tragedy, but not all tragedies involve criminal conduct,” Jim Swetz said.

The fraternity organization could be forced to pay a fine if convicted, according to Michael Rakaczewski, assistant district attorney in Monroe County.

Deng was the last of several pledges to be hazed that weekend, going through three progressively more difficult stages that lasted about 25 minutes each, Wagner said.

It was during the last stage that Deng suffered the fatal blows, including football-style tackles in which he was “speared,” the chief said.

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here has been much handwringing belief in the importance and the presence of late over the growth in econom- of social opportunity, and a belief in legal ic inequality in the United States. fairness. If a large section of our commuSome see the growth in inequality as a nity no longer sees social opportunity as sign that society favors the fortunes of a meaningful reality for themselves or the few at the cost of the many. One ver- their children, then their stake in the sion of this view contends that in the country’s future is likely to be eroded. aftermath of the economic meltdown of One of this country’s greatest assets has 2008 financial entities have been given a been our reputation for openness and for glide path to success while ordinary being a place where immigrants, the sons Americans were left to struggle as they and daughters of working-class families, recover from lost jobs and homes. Yet and the descendants of slaves could all many thoughtful observers differ from succeed. Of course this has never been this view, suggesting that the vibrancy of entirely true. For too many years religion, the tech and financial sectors are things skin color, sex and other factors have to celebrate rather than denigrate. While served as barriers to opportunity and fairthere may be a lag in the distribution of ness. But this ideal has bridged the chasm success (as there often is in periods of between conservatives and radicals over rapid technological change), overall the the course of our country’s history. prosperity of these leading sectors bodes How does a democracy invest in the well for the country as a whole. future and solve hard problems without a Apart from this discussion about the set of shared ideals that bind the communature and meaning of economic nity together? What impact does pesinequality in the United simism about fairStates, my own interest ness and opportunity in this topic comes on political parMy own view is that have from a different conticipation? When cern — namely, what political participafor democratic impact inequality is tion declines, what communities to be likely to have on does that mean for American democracy. I sort of laws are healthy and vibrant, what do not believe in perfect passed or what sort equality. I agree with of justice is served? they need to have those who contend that What interests are shared values that the U.S. was founded served by the instituon a commitment to tions that are supbind them together. posed equality of opportunity to represent all rather than equality of of us? When social results. Indeed, for opportunity strucopportunity to be meaningful, one tures narrow and prove meaningful only would expect to see some inequality of for some segments of our community, results. Natural endowments are never what have we all lost when the talents distributed equally, but whether a society and ambitions of individuals of modest permits its members to do the most with means are never realized? How many them is the test of its social character, and incredible first generation success stories for a democracy, a test of its legitimacy.

— like those of Sonia Sotomayor, Ben Nonetheless, there are many factors Carson, Ruth Simmons, Ruth Bader that can thwart social opportunity, and Ginsburg, Colin Powell, Viola Davis or diminished social opportunity can have a Howard Schultz — will never be written dampening effect on democracy. Social if our opportunity structures are allowed opportunity depends on many things, to fray? like legal equality and fairness, educaThis Friday afternoon at 3:00 p.m. in tional structures that allow people to Bailey Hall I will be introducing an acadevelop their talents and economic and demic panel on “Democracy & social structures that make it possible for Inequality” that will be moderated by individual dreams to be realized for those Cornell President Elizabeth Garrett. The who have the savvy and determination to panel is the concluding event for the see them through. No society provides all presidential inauguration on Friday, of these things in equal measure to all September 18. The panelists include members of their communities. What leading scholars from around Cornell town you were born into, what local who have written on this topic — Prof. schools you get to attend, what year you Robert Frank, management and economgraduate and what connections and ics; Prof. Suzanne Mettler, government; opportunities your family can provide Prof. Eswar Prasad, applied economics you with all make a difference. But when and management; Prof. Nick Salvatore, the differences become too great, to the industrial and labor relations and Prof. degree that social opportunity does not Gerald Torres, law. The event is open to feel like a meaningful ideal anymore for the Cornell community, and students are large sectors of our community, we all especially encouraged to attend and parshould worry. Research suggests that eco- ticipate during the Q&A segment. It is nomic inequality has now made it much particularly appropriate that President harder for the children of working class Garrett is moderating this panel, given Americans to be successful beyond the her own scholarly work on democracy, level of their parents. And for African justice and fairness. Yet the topic of Americans, this past year has raised fresh inequality and democracy is one we concerns about their ability to be treated should all be discussing and debating, fairly by our justice and law enforcement since it matters so much for our collecsystems. Both of these issues threaten our tive future. democratic community.

My own view is that for democratic communities to be healthy and vibrant, Gretchen Ritter ’83 is the Harold Tanner Dean of the they need to have shared values that bind College of Arts and Sciences. Comments may be sent to them together. Historically in the U.S., associate-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears two of those shared values have been a periodically this semester.

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Jeremiah Grant | Gates & Ladders

Christo Eliot | Christo’s Largely Unmoderated Creative Space

The Age Of Technologic

You Know It’s Fake, Right?

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or me, the greatest invention has the power to unite diverse people — people who all are over-reliant and over-dependent on technology. It has the power to rewire our brains, or should I say, reprogram. It has the power to distract us from the past, and have us focus on the present. It has the power to endow us all with a divine power that has been all but unknown to our species. It is the power of the smartphone, mankind’s logic downloaded onto a flash drive on a portable device, ever-present in the recesses of our pocket.

“Buy it, use it, break it, fix it, Trash it, change it, melt it — upgrade it,” I was fourteen years old when I received my first smartphone. As I opened the shiny white cardboard for the first time, I remember the surreal feeling of joy. Today I fidget through my memory bank writing this article. I must painfully admit that only five years and four upgrades later, I cannot remember what the model of my first phone was. I remember the gift I received on my 11th birthday. The past is but a distant blur. My first phone was such a beautiful moment, however, trying to recall the name of my first model feels like amnesia.

“Charge it, point it, zoom it, press it, Snap it, work it, quick — erase it,” Over the summer, I attended Tech Open Air, a three-day Interdisciplinary Technology Festival in Berlin. It felt good knowing that the promise of technology had brought people together from Israel, the U.K., Germany and Japan. I was watching a group of over-reliant tech enthusiasts congregating in a retro styled bit of land surrounded by trees and a river with 19th century architecture.There were well-dressed young hipstersfrom university drinking beer, flying drones,

What is the smartphone to me? It is mankind’s greatest invention. smoking. I felt like I was back in Central Park, standing outside the Apple Store. I saw a beauty in it, although I am constantly reminded of how dependent our society has become on telecommunication and technology. For some reason I was also reminded of Ithaca.

“Write it, cut it, paste it, save it, Load it, check it, quick — rewrite it...”

It is refreshing that I can communicate my attendance at an event with a simple text, but it is disheartening when I have to shorten my opinions to 140 characters. I see every text message sent as the evaporation of every ink-dripping word written on paper ascending to a cloud that teleports it like lightning down to the screen of another.

“Touch it, bring it, obey it, watch it, Turn it, leave it, stop — format it,” What is the smartphone to me? It is mankind’s greatest invention. Over the past five years, it has granted us the power to forget many of the other past inventions man has created.

It holds the contact numbers of family members and the faces of people whose names are etched in my phone. For me, this device has become my hard drive in a sense — it contains the clutter of everyday thoughts and information. In Berlin, in the presence of people from all over the world, I felt something that connected all of us consciously and unconsciously to one another on that warm July day. As we all looked down at our screens to check for our invite tickets, I observed a singularity that erases diversity, erases the past and only allows one to focuses on the present. As the next ad for a new smartphone comes up, a new upgrade, a new model, sometimes I forget if I am listening to the voice of logic...

Or technologic.

Jeremiah Grant is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jg856@cornell.edu. Gates & Ladders appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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“Runnin’ through the 6 with my woes Countin’ money you know how it goes Pray the real live forever man Pray the fakes get exposed” — Aubrey Drake Graham

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weet! Chin! Music!” shouted my friend as he drunkenly hurled his body at a coffee table in our living room late one Saturday night last year. We had heard these words before — An homage to Shawn Michaels’s iconic finishing move from the world of professional wrestling — but typically this interjection came in the context of someone celebrating a victory in our own lives, very far from the WWE Smackdown ring. In our house, it was not uncommon for a response to the question “How was the exam?” to be nothing more than “Sweet chin music.”

Did you put a ping pong ball into your opponent’s last remaining beer pong cup?

“Sweet chin music.” She finally texted you back? Wake up the orchestra — you are a doggone winner. It is time to start playing that Sweet! Chin! Music!

I love professional wrestling. I definitely don’t love it to the point where I would pay $9.99 a month for a subscription to the WWE television network. I love it like I love my Illuminati membership card: secretly. If wrestling were a person, it would definitely be invited to join my after-work bocce ball team but probably would not score an invite to brunch the following Sunday. Few things can make me laugh harder or cause my jaw to hit the floor with quite the same force as professional wrestling.

How could you not laugh at the characters? They are 300 pound men sensationalizing their emotions and actual wrestling skills under stage names like Spanky, Virgil the Kentucky Butcher and Balls Mahoney. And who could forget when “Hell in the Cell” became “Hell on top of the Cell” and Undertaker hurled Mankind from the top of a 30 foot steel cage not once, not three times, but twice in the same match? Yet somehow, almost any time I am caught watching WWE highlights on my computer, I am hit with some variation of the same question: “You know it’s fake, right?”

Why is it fake? Professional wrestling is scripted, but so are your favorite television shows and movies. Ted Turner once called WWE CEO Vince McMahon during the organization’s earlier days and said “Vince, I’m in the wrassling business.” McMahon responded, “That’s great, Ted — I’m in the entertainment business.”

Professional wrestling is not real wrassling. There is a reason Kyle Dake ’12 was nominated for the

ESPY for best male college athlete while Andre the Giant became the subject of a Shepherd Fairey street art campaign and was featured as a supporting actor in the 1987 blockbuster The Princess Bride.

Professional wrestling is a sport only as much as Cirque du Soleil is a sport, blending physical ability with a strange and unique form of acting for the sake of entertainment. Both are fringe performance arts that leverage the performer’s ability to “act” while executing dangerous athletic and acrobatic maneuvers. In the words of my personal favorite professional wrestler Bret “The Hitman” Hart, “The real art of [it] is to never get hurt and never hurt anyone else.”

The success of professional wrestling comes from its ability and willingness to break the fourth wall, and it makes for some of the bizarrest reality television ever. Some of the moments that stand out most in

steroids and painkillers, the controversies and cover-ups in the world of professional wrestling make scandals like Deflategate look like an argument about air pressure in a football.

How many things exist that we look at one-dimensionally only to hide the real other side of things? A lot of us put on the veneer of confidence and competence at career fair at Barton Hall last week, hoping not to be exposed as relatively nervous young people who oddly don’t have it all figured out yet.

Donald Trump’s presidential campaign is definitely entertaining, but what does our infatuation with him and the attention our media gives him say about our attitude towards politics?

There might even be more to Cornell than taking the classes and getting paid upon graduation. Maybe there is a side of this place characterized by genuinity and people who are willing to lend a helping hand. Maybe the

I love professional wrestling. I definitely don’t love it to the point where I would pay $9.99 a month for a subscription to the WWE television network. I love it like I love my Illuminati membership card: secretly. the its history are the ones that deviate from the script or where select wrestlers aren’t made aware of changes in the plan for the fight. The most famous of these moments is assuredly the 1997 Montreal Screwjob. In this fight, McMahon changed the script for the fight to ensure Shawn Michaels would become the new champion before Bret “The Hitman” Hart left WWE to join Turner’s rival WCW. Hart (who literally kept a bear in his backyard to wrestle when he was growing up … Canada) was furious when the referee called the fight before he was ready to submit and decided to go off-script himself, spitting in McMahon’s face from the ring, writing W-CW repeatedly in the air with his hand and destroying the entire arena, causing thousands of very real dollars in damage.

Why anyone would try and hoodwink someone who spent his childhood wrestling bears is beyond me, but it happened, and it was crazy. McMahon never needed to treat his performers well, because like samurais and Uber drivers, professional wrestlers are independent contractors. There is real risk associated with professional wrestling, and WWE does not want to carry that liability. From underpaid wrestlers living on barely more than Spam and Miller Lite to ringside physicians letting participants use his prescription pad to prescribe themselves dangerous regimens of

only thing here we can take at face value is our cold season, and it won’t be long before we tango in the ring with Lady Winter.

So did it really matter the sweet chin music we heard that night was screamed during some classic post-CTP, 3 a.m. entertainment, body slamming a Dump & Run coffee table and did not at all resemble Shawn Michaels’s iconic and devastating high kick to the face? Did it matter that our friend was unworried that this was the same table we used to play Settlers of Catan? Did it matter that rather than smashing the table into dozens of pieces, he bounced off and hit the floor, grabbing his elbow in pain? Absolutely not.

All that mattered was the realness of the moment. Plus if he bruised his elbow badly enough, no amount of alcohol would inspire him to try and destroy our Catan table again. We let him play his sweet chin music that night because professional wrestling is a form of entertainment where we have no choice but to accept there is more to it than we might initially think.

Even though we may have convinced ourselves it is beneath us, there might be aspects of the worlds we don’t live in that deserve some merit.

Christo Eliot is a graduate student in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. Christo’s Largely Unmoderated Creative Space appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Topography

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Cornell Research Associate to Aid Effort To Remap Arctic in Face of Climate Change

Map makeover | The image on the right illustrates the resolution that is currently available for mapping many areas of the Arctic, while the image on the left shows the resolution that will be available using the WorldView satellite. According to a White House statement, the new maps will provide important climate data for scientists and policymakers.

By SARAH CROWE Sun Contributor

In effort to create high-resolution maps of the world’s polar regions for the first time, President Obama announced a White House initiative on Sept. 2 in which the ArcticDEM (Digital Elevation Mapping) team, including a Cornell research associate, will create detailed topographic maps of the entire Arctic region.

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Michael Willis, Ph.D, earth and atmospheric sciences, will be producing these maps alongside others from the University of Minnesota, Ohio State University, the National GeospacialIntelligence Agency and the National Science Foundation. The team will create comprehensive, publicly accessible maps of Alaska, the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia, Greenland and all land north of 60 degrees North latitude.

The ArcticDEM team will create the

maps by combining high-resolution satellite images using BlueWaters, the National Science Foundation’s most powerful science and engineering supercomputer. The satellites that will capture the Arctic images, called the WorldView satellites, are powerful enough to map individual houses.

“The satellites we’ll be using are contracted by the United States government for both defense and civilian needs. They have resolutions that are 30 times more detailed than most usual satellite imagery. We can get a 50 centimeter resolution, and sometimes better,” Willis said.

Willis has been studying and mapping ice sheets around the globe for the past 20 years, but he said he has never participated in a project of this size.

“I’ve worked on large areas before, but this area, the whole Arctic, is vast,” Willis said.

The size of the Arctic region “The effects of climate change is not the only are amplified in polar regions, challenge facing Willis and the so the Arctic is warming faster rest of the mapping team. than almost anywhere else ... a Although much of land north of one-degree temperature rise 60 degrees north latitude is frozen here might be a seven- or tundra, the area eight-degree rise in the Arctic.” includes boreal forests as well.

Michael Willis, Ph.D. According to Willis, the biggest challenge will be properly mapping the location of individual trees.

Bipolar researcher | “Forests are going to be difficult, Michael Willis, Ph.D., pictured because trees move,” Willis said. “Our techhere at Patriot Hills in West nique relies on correlation between Antarctica, will be part of a imagery, so when a satellite 700 kilometers government-sponsored team to above the ground takes a picture of a tree produce high-resolution maps and it shifts in the wind when the second image is taken, that creates a problem.” of the Arctic region.

According to a White House statement,

these maps will provide climate data that will allow scientists and policymakers to make informed decisions about Arctic development and land management. They will also allow scientists to more closely monitor climate change in the Arctic, a region that is more susceptible to global warming than most.

“The effects of climate change are amplified in polar regions, so the Arctic is warming faster than almost anywhere else,” Willis said. “For example, a one-degree temperature rise here might be a seven- or eight-degree rise in the Arctic. Because all of our satellite images are time-stamped, this map will provide an excellent baseline against which future measurements can be compared.”

Monitoring climate change is one of many purposes these maps will serve, as they will become publicly available on Google Earth.

“Anyone with an Internet connection in any country will be able to access this data,” Willis said.

According to the White House statement, the maps will improve ground and air transportation and promote safe recreation throughout the Arctic.

The topographic map of Alaska is scheduled to be complete by mid-2016, and the map of the entire Arctic will be complete within two to three years. While Willis may need to make a few fact checking trips to the Arctic, most of his time will be spent calibrating the satellite images from his desk at the University of North Carolina.

“I’m really grateful for this opportunity from NSF and the White House,” Willis said. This region will go from one of the worst mapped in the world to one of the best mapped. I can’t even begin to imagine what use people will get from this information.”

Sarah Crowe can be reached at soc22@cornell.edu.

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SCIENCE

The Taste of Victory: Prof.Tracks Relationship of Taste, Emotion

By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Staff Writer

apply in a real-world setting?”

Instead of artificially changing people’s moods, Dando and Corinna Noel grad wanted to analyze how emotional changes in a more natural setting might affect taste perception. The real-world setting they chose was

Can victory literally taste sweet? In a study led by Prof. Robin Dando, food sciences, people who attended Cornell Men’s Ice Hockey home games where Cornell won were more likely to report ice cream as tasting sweeter than people “When you’re unhappy, you have who attended losing games. to go for the nice tasting stuff. You The idea that our emotions may influcan’t go for something maybe a ence our taste is not little healthier, because it is not new. According to Dando, the inspiration going to taste as good for you.” for his study arose in part from previous Prof. Robin Dando findings that taste buds in some animals have receptors for serotonin, a chemical that affects mood.

“I wondered, can mood affect how we taste?” Dando said.

At first, Dando thought the question was “naïve.” Then, he came across a study from the United Kingdom that recorded taste perceptions of participants before and after they had been given antidepressants.

Lynah Rink.

“They were artificially changing To conduct the study, they gave out people’s mood and finding that people free ice cream and questionnaires at tasted things differently, which was the end of hockey games. Participants very interesting work,” Dando said. rated their perception of ice cream fla“But I wanted to know, how does this vors, along with how much they liked

them, as well as their mood. The researchers conducted their study during the 2013-2014 hockey season.

Conducting a study in the rush after a Cornell Ice Hockey game was no easy feat. “It was very hectic,” Dando said, “but there has always got to be a balance between how much

control there is in an experiment and how applicable to the real world it is.”

Dando found a consistent pattern in people’s responses. After victorious games, participants tended to rate ice cream as more sweet. After losing

Introducing Cornucopia, The Sun’s Science Podcast Prof. Susan Ashdown speaks about body-scanning technology, new potential for clothing industry Cornucopia is a biweekly podcast that covers research stories unfolding across campus. Join hosts Addison Huneycutt ’18 and Ali Jenkins ’ 18 as they dig into the juiciest discoveries they can find. In each episode, you’ll meet a researcher, chat with Addison and Ali, and hear some corny jokes. Check out the science section of The Cornell Daily Sun for biweekly updates about the latest episode.

explained the extensive applications of this technology, including virtually trying on clothes, creating firefighters’ suits, and designing athletic clothing.

“A lot of the work we do is we scan the person and then we scan the same person in clothing and patch and optimize the two scans and then merge them together,” Ashdown said. “And then you can actually measure from the outside of the body to the outside of the clothing and visualize measure fit in a way we’ve never been able to before.”

Within the next five years, Ashdown says she and her team hope these scanners will be available for consumer use.

Ashdown explains her vision for the technology: “My goal is to understand the potential of this tool and look at new ways that we can use it and look at many different ways that we can help the apparel industry and help the consumer.”

Check out the rest of the podcast at cornellsun.com/blog/category/science. For queries relating to Cornucopia, contact Ali Jenkins at ajenkins@cornellsun.com.

To listen to this week’s episode of Cornucopia, visit the Science section on cornellsun.com.

Full-body scanners may seem like inventions of the future, but have one right here at C o r n e l l University. Prof.

Susan Ashdown, fiber design and apparel design, works with her research team to conduct studies with the scanner. Using mirrors, laser lights, and computer software, Ashdown’s team creates three-dimensional avatars on the computer screen — exact replicas of the bodies they’ve scanned.

Huneycutt and Jenkins met with Professor Ashdown to chat about the innovations of the body scanner. The conversation covered everything from the origin of the body scanner to favorite measurements to mini bodies to an actual “fun scan” of the hosts (see image at left).

Throughout the discussion, Ashdown

games, they rated ice cream as more sour. These ratings also corresponded to their moods.

“As expected, people were ‘medium happy’ when [Cornell] tied, ‘very happy’ when they won, and ‘not so happy’ when they lost,” Dando said.

There was also an unexpected twist in the experiment. Participants tasted one of two ice cream flavors: salted caramel pretzel or lemon lime sorbet.

Regardless of attending a winning or losing game, participants overall reported liking the salted caramel pretzel more than the lemon lime sorbet.

Still, if they attended a winning game, they rated the lemon lime sorbet as more sweet, and if they attended a losing game, rated the lemon lime sorbet as more sour.

“The flavor that they weren’t so keen on [lemon-lime sorbet] tasted better when they won and worse when they lost,” Dando said.

The study, published in the June 2015 issue of the journal Appetite, may provide validation for the concept of emotional eating.

“When you’re unhappy, you have to go for the nice tasting stuff,” Dando said, “You can’t go for something maybe a little healthier, because it is not going to taste as good for you.”

Reem Khondakar can be reached at rkhondakar@cornell.edu.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT FREE EXPRESSION Cornell Cinema Presents: Ornette: Made in America

BY NICK SWAN Sun Contributor

Ornette: Made in America, directed by Shirley Clarke and released in 1984, takes the viewer through the life and mind of jazz artist Ornette Coleman. The film documents the talent and genius of Coleman, using methods, then new and unconventional to filmmaking, just as Ornette’s music utilized innovative, free-form concepts that defied the rules of music theory.

Ornette Coleman was born on March 9, 1930 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was musical from a young age, initially playing the tenor saxophone before switching to the alto saxophone, for which he is most widely recognized. Even as a child, Coleman challenged the structure of common chord progressions and harmonic ideas, much to the chagrin and general displeasure of his fellow performers.

According to James Clay, a musician interviewed in Made In America, “When he first started playing, people would break his instrument… When I first met him in Los Angeles, I walked into a place one Wednesday night, and the entire rhythm section got up… and left their saxophone player up there… I came to a quick conclusion that this has got to be Ornette Coleman.”

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Coleman recorded his early innovative ideas on two albums for the Contemporary label, Something Else!!!! in 1958, and Tomorrow is the Question! in 1959, which featured a quintet with no pianist, a then in a radical move, removed certain traditional harmonies that allowed Coleman and other improvisors to explore melodic ideas with less constraint.

However, Coleman’s most popular work of the 1950s was his album The Shape of Jazz to Come. When listening to this album along with the other jazz masterpieces of 1959 —Miles Davis’ Kind of Blue, John Coltrane’s Giant Steps, or the Dave Brubeck Quarte’s Time Out — anyone can easily pick out the dissonance in Coleman's work and understand why it remains today so confusing to many jazz appreciators.

In 1961, Coleman pushed the limit of his own free form with the release of Free Jazz: A Collective Improvisation. This album featured a “double quartet,” or two quartets playing simultaneously, with soloists improvising over top one another, often with contrasting keys and rhythms. It is nearly impossible to follow, but the creation itself is a revolutionary milestone in musical expression.

At the time, some reviewers instantly deemed the album a classic, a quintessential work in the free jazz genre, while other critics disregarded it as a jumbled mess of nonsense. As Coleman went on to enjoy a long and successful career, more musicians and listeners began to welcome his unique and unorthodox style, and he is now regarded as one of the great jazz masters of the 20th century. Ornette Coleman died on June 11, 2015 at the age of 85.

Ornette: Made in America is linear in a sense, but unlike other biographical documentaries, does not follow the course of Coleman’s life. Rather, the documentary begins in 1983, with the mayor of Fort Worth presenting Coleman with a key to the city and the opening and dedication of the new Caravan of Dreams performing arts center, also located in Fort Worth.

Coleman performs his 1972 composition, Skies of America, at the opening of the Caravan of Dreams center. Skies of America is primarily a symphonic piece, so Coleman performed with both his own band, Prime Time, and the Fort Worth Symphony.

Brilliantly, Clarke as the director, uses this performance as the narrator or underlying constant of the documentary, showing fragments of Skies of America as it progresses and then branching off into other interviews or discussions with Coleman and those around him.The documentary will periodically cut to shots of a young Ornette Coleman (played by an actor), at times wielding a saxophone and reacting to the world around him. Clarke also relies on imagery in many scenes to convey meaning, rather than qualitative descriptions of the events of Coleman’s career.

The film examines many of Coleman’s personal influences, such as American architect and author, Buckminster Fuller, who is widely known for popularizing the geodesic dome. On Fuller, Coleman stated, “I listened to his lecture, and I was inspired …

When he demonstrated the way his domes were put together, and how geometric they were done, it blew me away because this is how I write music … ” Like Fuller, Coleman was fascinated with the intellectual intrigue of his own field, and he sought to expand and develop this knowledge through his innovations in structure and harmony. Coleman also took an enlightening trip to Nigeria after hearing a tape of North African musicians playing together. “When I heard those tapes … I could see that for once, I would be able to play whatever passed through my heart and head without ever having to worry about whether it was right or wrong.” Coleman was at once intrigued by the high creative aptitude of the Nigerian musicians, noticing a similarity between ideas.

Ornette: Made in America successfully emulates the free nature of Ornette Coleman's music, breaking free of the constraints of conventional film making just as the musician abandoned orthodox musical practices. It serves as a profound homage to both Ornette Coleman and the freedom of expression — or, rather, the freedom of free expression.

The documentary will be shown tonight, Wednesday, Sept. 16 at Cornell Cinema at 7:15 p.m.

Nick Swan is a freshman in the college of Arts & Sciences. He can be reached at nbs52@cornellsun.com.

Intimate Sensations by Netflix: Sense8

BY CATHERINE HWANG Sun Contributor

A play on the word “sensate” (meaning “aware”), the Wachowski’s Netflix series Sense8 follows the journey of eight people scattered across the world, grappling with various life circumstances, as they find themselves suddenly mentally connected to each other. The show begins as each character experiences the same vision of a violent death of a woman named Angelica, who appears to be responsible for their sudden bond.

This violent vision is an image I dislike in television: Extremely dramatic cinematography of what appears to be a blonde damsel in distress (Angelica) sitting with two men on either side; broken bodies, bonds and buildings; implied betrayals and tense music. However, we quickly realize the two men are not even physically there — as the camerawork reveals, the men speak to Angelica in her mind’s eye, talking to her in such a way that they can’t be shut out. At the climax of this scene, Angelica blasts through her own head with a gun and dies, right after creating the mental and emotional connections that tie together the soon-to-bevery-confused eight lead characters.

The whole matter is strangely sensual and intimate when we consider that the crucial conflict of the show exists within the human mind.

Regardless of my personal tastes, it’s an attentiongrabbing introduction of what will turn into a wild ride. The audience is handed questions but no answers; implications but no clarifications. For example, who on earth is that creepy guy with glasses? Why was Angelica running from him?

On that note, who the hell is Angelica, or the man who appears to be her lover, Jonas? And what are the consequences of this connection made between our eight protagonists?

Questions are the basis for Sense8 — eight

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very different people with very different lives suddenly connected by visions and emotional bonds that they cannot understand or explain. The “sensates,” as Jonas, an older sensate from a different group of connected individuals, refers to these linked minds, are scattered across the world. Our crew is Riley, a female DJ in London; Capheus, a young driver in Nairobi working to buy AIDS medication for his mother; Sun, a businesswoman and underground boxer in Seoul; Nomi, a trans woman hacktivist based in San Francisco; Wolfgang, a German safe-cracker in organized crime; Lito, a popular actor in Mexico City; Kala, an educated woman in Mumbai preparing for her unwanted marriage; and Will, a police officer in Chicago who appears to have a traumatizing past.

True to being a series of the sci-fi genre, Sense8’s plot is riddled with illogical connections, contradictions, and loopholes. The psychic connections and abilities are vaguely defined and absurd — for example, Sun’s formidable physical abilities could not be so suddenly used by a body not conditioned for her martial arts. And of course, being a television series, one can’t help but notice how nice everyone’s homes are, or how dramatic all their lives are.

This last point is of particular interest. Every character we encounter does not lead what is perceived to be a normal life — at least by standards of our society. One is a widely popular actor involved in a three-person relationship; another is a woman having to deal with the issue of her brother’s corruption as he launders money from their father’s business; and yet another is nearly forcibly lobotomized. In fact, it almost seems that they cannot have “normal” lives, given their circumstances, and their situations are not made any simpler by the visions and feelings of the others they are inexplicably witness to.

And yet this wide range of life experiences is what makes the series so wonderfully worthy of its

rave reviews.

Between the eight characters, we see vastly different religions, moral codes, politics, sexualities, cultural values and senses of identity. One is likely to believe that if any of these people had met in reality, they would never had tried to connect with each other. But here, they do, and they subconsciously allow their “seven other selves” (as Jonas likes to say) to come to their aid at their times of need and moments of emotional vulnerability which in turn allow them to form quietly intimate bonds of trust and empathy.

Perhaps empathy is what Sense8 is really all about. The sensates share moments of weakness, intimate and sensual feelings and bursts of happiness. In a world that is so diverse and in which it is often so hard to connect with others, what the sensates have is unique and envy-worthy in that they just feel. Through linking these individuals together, the series subtly poses the question — what does it mean to be human, if you and I are so different?

The sensates explore this concept as they experience the lives of their fellow sensates. We are drawn back to the words of Jonas at the beginning: “Your lives are no longer your own.” He implies that all the sensates are now one being, one human, which in itself speaks to the possible depths of the human being as we are given layers of personhood, first in the individual sensate and then in the cluster of connected sensates. The

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bonds of the sensates can be seen as complete, irrevocable empathy for others.

In that sense, while the show revolves around eight people, it is also very much about the self and learning to love oneself through connections to others. Nomi, the sensate in San Francisco, says at one point: “The real violence, the violence I realized was unforgivable, is the violence that we do to ourselves, when we’re too afraid to be who we really are.”

The sensates all carry scars; They fight against themselves unwittingly and fail to move forward for some time. But through the series, their barriers are broken down by the bonds (albeit rather forcibly) and they both consciously and subconsciously draw inspiration and courage from each other: give and receive small bits of wisdom, sing and smoke together, and sometimes can just find a shoulder to lean on. It’s of the stuff that transcends individual and physical boundaries, and through the screen, the viewers finds themselves leaning on the protagonists just a little bit as well.

Catherine Hwang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at sh928@cornell.edu.

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speak before the class, and almost instantly jabs at the power that corporations have over our desire for frivolity; “They do it to all of us 'til we finally break and go cop a gold watch / knowing we need the cash for rent,” with a deep Jessie Weber beat buoying his voice farther forward and a blissful, if a little overused, auto tune groaning from behind it all. Slowly, the students in the class look up and begin to focus on him, until some begin to make the decision that they should discard the commodities Hopsin tells them are controlling their lives.’“It’s the Devil’s business they just reel y’all “And that’s why companies are thriving.”

Spoken by an earnest-looking young woman on in / if they say it we do it yo I’m tryna tell y’all a podium before a class of drowsy peers, this man,” he insists, before leading four of the stuscene makes for a strange intro to a rapper’s dents into an oasis filled with fog, doves, and music video but perhaps not so strange at all for auto tuning to last a lifetime. Epically empowering and honest yet familiar to the point of cliché, American producer and rapper, Hopsin.

“Fly” is one song off of his newly released this track is not his strongest from Pound album Pound Syndrome that contains all the frus- Syndrome — but that doesn’t make it anything to tration towards societal complacency he’s known avoid. for.

In the music video for “Fly,” Hopsin looks up Jessie Weber is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She with his signature white eyes as he gets ready to can be reached at jlw372@cornell.edu.

“Fly” Hopsin Funk Volume

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ne of my first musical memories is of sitting in the backseat of my dad’s car, a place where the air tasted stale and hot and comforting, listening to R.E.M.’s mandolin-driven masterpiece “Losing My Religion.” I was four when we moved to my current hometown, and I remember beginning to learn the layout of Petaluma, California as my dad drove around playing Out of Time. I loved the abrupt shifts of “Radio Song” (especially to KRS-One’s boisterous rap verse) and of course, the fantastically kid-friendly “Shiny Happy People” (a song I probably should have outgrown by now, but that gleaming guitar riff still does it for me) — but even my four-year-old ear could pick out the hit. “Losing My Religion” was melancholy, adult and was saying something absolutely real. It didn’t matter that I didn’t quite understand what that was; I felt it and believed it.

However, as it turns out, I don’t think that gap in understanding was between my childish mind and an adult one. I think it’s a gap between R.E.M. and any listener.

R.E.M., or more specifically singer and lyricist Michael Stipe, rarely communicates a clear narrative or message.

There is incredibly natural synthesis between R.E.M.’s instrumentation and the vocal delivery, but rarely a fully decipherable set of lyrics. This is not to say that Stipe is an ineffective writer. In fact, Stipe’s lyrics may be closer to the form of poetry than most rock lyricism, in their oblique refusal to define their own significance.

What is striking about Stipe’s writing is that, generally speaking, it collapses completely without the music behind it. However, with the band backing him, his words achieve a unique power, in no small part because of Stipe’s warm, somewhat nasal and beautifully flawed voice; I can think of no more moving vocal tic than the slight cracks in Stipe’s voice in

“Nightswimming.”

This makes sense; R.E.M. is famous for having been a highly democratic operation, in which all four members (drummer Bill Berry left in 1997; the other three continued on until 2011) had an equal voice in the construction of the songs, although Stipe always penned the lyrics himself. This balance is evident in their music; all four elements are remarkable in their own right, but together they just make sense in a way few bands do.

Trying to summarize what is great about R.E.M. is difficult, because there are so many different R.E.M.’s. There’s the introverted but supremely tuneful folk-rock of the early 80s, the gradually more muscular and commercial rock of the late 80s, the experimental, melancholy baroque-pop of the early 90s, whatever one calls the semi-grunge sludge of 1994’s Monster, the subdued, forgettable flailing that followed Berry’s departure, and the reinvigorated arenarock of the mid-00s, R.E.M.’s final incarnation.

Jack Jones Despite All the Amputations Which is the best R.E.M.? That question is open for debate; unlike many other bands, there is no universally accepted “greatest” R.E.M. album. Some would say debut Murmur, others might suggest the hard-rock Document, others would champion the beautifully sad Automatic for the People. (Side note: Lifes Rich Pageant is the band’s most varied and representative work, and in my opinion R.E.M.’s best entrance point. Side note two: Don’t sleep on

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the criminally underrated New Adventures in Hi-Fi).

Despite its knowing indirectness, R.E.M.’s music lacks the irony that was the pride of many alternative-rock bands that coexisted with and followed them, such as the Smiths, Pavement and Nirvana. The most fitting heir to R.E.M.’s legacy of restless experimentation might be Radiohead, except that Radiohead never put its heart on its sleeve in the unabashed way that R.E.M. does. There is an earnesty to R.E.M. that left it vulnerable to snobbish condescension. Sometimes this earnesty descends into maudlinism (“Everybody Hurts”) or cheesiness (“Stand”). Mostly, however, R.E.M.’s emotional, if not literal, directness results in profoundly moving music.

I returned to Out of Time in sixth grade, when I was investigating my parents’ C.D. collection and discovering a whole new world outside of the Pirates of the Caribbean soundtracks that had previously made up my musical diet. Out of Time’s penultimate track is a song called “Country Feedback” and is Stipe’s professed favorite R.E.M. song. I don’t think I had ever heard it before, because my

dad and I rarely got past the halfway point of the album while driving around.

“Country Feedback” was an exciting find as a sixth grader, because of its single, emphatic use of “fuck.” I found the song a bit monotonous, but I listened to it anyway solely because of that thrilling moment. Listening to it now, I have a much deeper appreciation for the song’s tense, weary depiction of a relationship nearing its end.

The end of the song finds Stipe repeating the phrase “I need this,” and I think that moment encapsulates everything I love about R.E.M. The song is about mood and image rather than narrative, and so what “this” refers to is not perfectly clear, but I can think of no delivery of a lyric that I believe in my gut more. You don’t understand or decipher R.E.M.’s music; you feel it, you believe it. In the silly and wonderful words of one of their finest songs, “I believe in coyotes / and time as an abstract … I believe.”

Jack Jones is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at jjones@cornellsun.com. Despite All the Amputations appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Alex Rios hits fourth homerun of the year to help Royals win and inch closer towards division title CLEVELAND (AP) — Kris Medlen allowed five hits over 6 1-3 innings and Alex Rios connected for a home run that launched some unintentional fireworks, leading the Kansas City Royals to a 2-0 win over the Cleveland Indians on Tuesday night.

Medlen (4-1) stifled the Indians before Royals manager Ned Yost turned things over to his top-ranked bullpen. Ryan Madson struck out two in the seventh, Wade Davis got through the eighth and Greg Holland worked around a two-on, no-out mess he created in the ninth for his 31st save.

Rios homered in the fifth inning off Josh Tomlin (5-2) for the Royals, who won for just the third time in 11 games as they close in on a probable AL Central title.

The Indians, who pulled back to .500 for just the second time since April by winning the series opener, fell to 13-6 since Aug. 25.

Rios put the Royals ahead 2-0 with two outs in the fifth by hitting his fourth homer, a shot onto the pedestrian patio in left that prompted an accidental celebration in Progressive Field. As Rios rounded first, fireworks exploded above the ballpark, a tradition usually reserved for any homer hit by an Indians player.

TV cameras caught the fireworks technician with his hands clutching his head after his quick-trigger mistake, which prompted a chorus of boos from the small crowd.

It was a hard-luck loss for Tomlin, who had won his previous five starts. The righthander gave up two runs and four hits in his

second complete game this month. After giving Rios’homer, Tomlin retired 13 of 14.

Medlen was making just his fifth start since bouncing over from the bullpen last month. The right-hander missed all of last season following Tommy John surgery.

The Royals took a 1-0 lead in the second on Perez’s RBI single after the Indians failed to catch Mike Moustaskas’foul pop behind the plate with two outs.

Catcher Yan Gomes yanked off his mask, and looked skyward but couldn’t locate the high pop, which fell untouched about 15 feet from the batter’s box as Tomlin and third baseman Giovanny Urshela helplessly looked on. Moustakas made the Indians pay by following with a double off the center-field wall and scored on Perez’s clutch hit.

The Royals entered batting .280 with two outs — 37 points higher than the major league average.

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Indians: Ace Corey Kluber has been cleared to start Thursday’s series finale against Yordano Ventura after being sidelined with a right hamstring injury. Kluber did some infield drills before Tuesday’s game and was cleared by Cleveland’s medical staff. The reigning Cy Young winner has been out since Aug. 29.

UP NEXT Royals: LHP Danny Duffy had his shortest outing this season against the Indians, who knocked him out with a four-run first inning on May 6. Duffy is allowing lefties to hit just .132 against him in his last 10 starts.

Strasburg Dominates in Victory Braves Snap 12-Game PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Stephen Strasburg gave up one hit and tied a career-best with 14 strikeouts in eight dominant innings, Bryce Harper hit two homers and the Washington Nationals beat the Philadelphia Phillies 4-0 on Tuesday night.

Strasburg (9-7) allowed only a single to Cody Asche leading off the bottom of the fifth — a hard grounder to right field. He has 27 strikeouts in his last two starts.

The hard-throwing righty struck out the side twice and fanned eight of the last 12 batters he faced. He

was still firing 96 mph fastballs in the eighth. Blake Treinen tossed a 12-3 ninth to complete the shutout.

The Nationals have won three straight, but it's seems too late to catch the NL East-leading New York Mets.

Strasburg struck out 14 one other time in his major league debut against Pittsburgh on June 8, 2010. He had 13 in 7 1-3 innings in a loss to the Mets last Wednesday. This was his longest outing since he went eight innings in a win over Arizona on Aug. 19, 2014. Strasburg has one complete

game and shutout in his career. It was against the Phillies on Aug. 11, 2013.

Harper drove one out to center field in the first for a 1-0 lead against David Buchanan (2-9). He added an RBI single in the third to make it 2-0. Harper hit an opposite-field, two-run shot to left in the eighth off Adam Loewen.

Harper finished 3 for 3 with a walk and four RBIs. He leads the NL in batting average (.338), homers (39) and runs (108).

Buchanan gave up two runs and five hits in six innings.

Losing Streak Against Jays ATLANTA (AP) — Andrelton Simmons' tiebreaking RBI single in the ninth inning snapped a 12-game home losing streak and the Atlanta Braves beat the AL East-leading Toronto Blue Jays 3-2 on Tuesday night.

Toronto began the night with a three-game lead over the New York Yankees, but the Blue Jays, despite the majors' best record since the All-Star break, have lost two straight.

The Braves ended the longest home skid in franchise history. They began the game 14-46 overall since July 8.

Aaron Sanchez (7-6) took the loss, allowing four hits, one run and striking out one in 1 1-3 innings.

Arodys Vizcaino (3-1) faced the minimum in the ninth to earn the win.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Red Sweep Top Four Spots at Jasper Invitational

By BRITTANY BIGGS

year,” Niedrach said. “We got after it early and fought through the end. Everyone did a lot of good things, but better yet, everyone had a lot to improve upon.”

Last Friday’s Brother Jasper Invitational in With such a strong start, the team is looking forRiverdale, New Jersey proved to be a successful meet ward to a meet next week in Rochester, N.Y. for the Cornell’s women’s cross country team. The “We’re happy with the step we just took but it is scoring for the meet pitted Cornell against five other still very, very early in the cross country season,” teams, including Columbia. The Red was able to win Smith said. “We have a lot of important things to in each match-up. The meet was highlighted by a work on in our training in the weeks and months to sweep of the top four in the 5K from Junior Taylor come. We also have a lot to work on in our racing. It Spillane, senior Captain Caroline Keller, sophomore was a great start but I know we’re all very eager to toe Erin McLaughlin and freshman Eve Glasergreen. the line again on Saturday for our next meet in With such an impresRochester where we’ll be able sive start, the team had a to work on lots of things to “We took advantage of a great lot to be happy about. keep getting better and more “I’m very happy with effective as racers.” opportunity to learn the nuances of the competitive efforts According to Keller, the people put forth for racing at Van Cortlandt Park.” victory won’t cause the team Cornell,” said head coach to rest on its laurels.

Artie Smith Artie Smith. “It was a “After every race our strong start to our racing coaches have us reflect on schedule and we took what we did well, and what advantage of a great opportunity to learn the nuances we can work on next time, from an individual standof racing at Van Cortlandt Park, where we’ll return on point,” Keller said. “While Friday’s meet surprised Oct. 30 for the Ivy League Heptagonal many in how well it went, there are always things Championships. “ everyone can work on. That is quite exciting because Friday’s competing athletes also expressed happi- it means that there are always ways that we can sharpness over the results from the meet. en our skills and improve as athletes.”

“I am thrilled about how the team looked at Though more success is likely on the way, Keller Friday’s meet. We took places one to four, and placed said it has always been about more than just accolades six in the top ten,” Keller said. “Many people ran very for this tight knit team. tough, worked together and showed a desire to do “The best part was celebrating our success togethsomething great this season. While this meet was an er,” Keller said. “We were all so proud of each other, excellent start to the season, we are all looking ahead from the freshman’s collegiate debuts to a senior with an eagerness to train hard, challenge ourselves returning to racing after two years of injury. We are more and improve on our racing skills in the meets to each other’s inspiration.” come.”

Fellow captain Kristen Niedrach also expressed Brittany Biggs can be reached happiness over the team’s impressive start.

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Dominant runners | The Red were victorious in every cross country matchup this weekend in New Jersey.

Find a Team and Stick With It Running Back Is Sole Captain Payoff greater for life-long fans than for bandwagoners LEWIS

enduring the horribly officiated Superbowl XL; Continued from page 16 they just get to enjoy the sight of Russell Wilson hoisting up the franchise’s first to go watch the Packers play the Dallas Lombardi Trophy. Sure, I’m lucky enough to Cowboys and since then, the motto of “Packers be living through a great era for Green Bay over everything” has been instilled within me. Packer’s football. But I also had to watch Brett But sadly, not everybody shares this same spirit. Favre throw like two billion critical intercepI still remember when LeBron decided to tions that cost us games. Sadness and loss is take his talents to South Beach in 2010. That just what comes along with being a fan, and year, my high school halls were filled with bandwagon fans get to skip over all of it. It’s Miami Heat snapbacks, James retro jerseys, and just not right, my friends.

Chris Anderson haircuts. The previous year, I Like every year, a new season of sports can guarantee you that none of this kids owned brings upon new bandwagon vacation destinaa piece of tions. The Golden State Heat merWarriors will be a prime c h a n d i s e . Bandwagon fans are the type of people destination, of course. that listen to Billboard Top 40 and like The cuteness of Riley They probably had Nickelback. Bandwagon fans own all of Curry will be enough to Lakers gear, sway bandwagoners Michael Bay’s films on Blu-Ray... or maybe a young and old, and the Boston “Big likelihood of a Golden Three” tState repeat will be shirt, or whatever else was trendy at the time. enough to convince many other championshipAnd now currently, they probably own a whole hungry fans to join Warrior nation. As Jimmy bunch of Cleveland Cavaliers stuff. Disgusting. Garoppolo pictures go virial across the Bandwagon fans are the nomads of the Twittersphere, hordes of females will sure to sports world. They are the vultures, the para- load up the bandwagon and head towards sites, and the epitome of everything that is Foxborough, Massachusetts. The fact that the wrong with society. They pick the hottest team Patriots are also the reigning champions doesn’t or player at the time, and follow them until hurt as well. Teams like the Yankees and Lakers they inevitably cool down. Then it’s on to the will always have huge bandwagon populations, next team or player. They only do what’s as their rich histories and enormous amounts of trendy and what’s popular. Bandwagon fans are mullah (mainly their enormous amounts of the type of people that listen to Billboard Top mullah) is enough to attract fans worldwide.

40 and like Nickelback. Bandwagon fans own But now my fellow sports fans, I offer you a all of Michael Bay’s films on Blu-Ray and think challenge. Pick a team to root for and stick Chipotle is actual Mexican food. with them for the rest of your lives. It will be a Why do I dislike bandwagon fans so strong- lot more fulfilling when your team finally does ly? Because they don’t have to experience the have success. Don’t be a Nickelback listening, lows that come along with being a permanent Michael Bay watching, detriment to society. Be fan of a team – just the highs. They don’t live a true fan. Hop off the bandwagon. through the “Curse of the Bambino”; they just get to gloat in the accomplishments of Big Papi Shane Lewis is a first year hot columnist. He can be contacted and Co. They don’t have to dwell in the what at slewis@cornellsun.com. Sporstradamus appears Wednesdays if’s that Seahawk’s fans had to endure after this semester.

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anybody,” Hagy said. “If people have questions, I try to answer them if I can. That’s why I try to prepare as much as possible. One of the biggest things, as a senior, is that I’ve been there and I’ve had a lot of experience in games, so I know what to expect and I know what to expect in practice for it to carry over to the games.”

Hagy said he hopes that he can help use his experiences to help some of the younger players on the squad.

“I also know that you can’t get too worked up,” Hagy said. “Sometimes, some of these younger guys that don’t have as much experience, they get worked up and they make one mistake.

the year we’re breaking through and it’s cool to be a captain and leading the team in the right direction.”

The Red coaching staff clearly views Hagy in extremely high regard.

“Luke Hagy,” head coach David Archer said,” is a really, really good football player.”

As the only captain for the offense, Hagy will take increased responsibility in making sure all personnel know what they are doing. Hagy has tried to put himself in a position to answer any question anyone on the offense has.

“I try to know as much of the offense as I can, more than just the Joon Lee can be reached at running back position, so I can help jlee@cornellsun.com.

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had fresh legs and were able to make an impact for us on Sunday. That again speaks to the depth of our team.”

The defining moment of Sunday’s contest was freshman midfielder Jessica Ritchie’s goal assisted

by Tate.

“The goal in the St. Bonaventure game was huge,” Fischer said.

“Everyone was getting pretty frustrated because we had so many chances to score and couldn’t finish them. When we finally got that goal, it was a sense of relief and a confidence boost to keep competing the rest of the game.”

Sunday’s game winner showcased a few developing themes of the 2015 season. Specifically, the Red has been

getting contributions from both underclassmen and upperclassmen veterans, showing that the team works well together and has depth as a unit.

“It’s exciting each game to see players in all grades making an impact,” Tate said. “We have great depth to our team and all four years are represented on the field.”

Fischer also explained that class year simply does not matter when the women get together as a team.

“We never think about class on the field,” Fischer said. “We're teammates. Even off the field, as seniors, we hang out with the freshmen as much as everyone else. I think Sunday’s goal was a nice example of how cohesive we are as a team.”

Keith Bollt can be reached at kb477@cornell.edu.

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Hagy Ready to Lead Offense in Final Season With Red

By JOON LEE Sun Assistant Sports Editor

When senior running back Luke Hagy got the call from Cornell as a high schooler, he hadn’t heard of the school. At that point, Hagy had already visited several Division I football camps hoping to find the right fit for his college football career, but nothing had quite clicked yet.

It didn’t take him long to realize that Cornell was the school for him.

“I knew I wanted to go into business, [a] Top-5 business school. I might as well [visit],” Hagy remembers thinking. “As soon as I came up on campus, it was one of those things, I knew.”

And now as he enters his senior year, Hagy stands as the sole captain on the offensive side for the Red. During his junior season, Hagy became the first player in Cornell history to reach 1000 rushing and receiving yards while earning second team All-Ivy honors after ranking third in the conference in rushing yards with 734 yards with six total touchdowns (four rushing, two receiving).

Hagy said he feels honored to be entering into the legacy of Cornell football captains.

“Every year, you see the different captains, I think it’s important this year, especially, because I think it’s an important year for the program,” Hagy said. “We’re building the program in the right direction and this is See FOOTBALL page 15

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Bulldozer | Luke Hagy has been a dominant back over his tenure at Cornell, consistently racking up yards between the tackles.

Jump Off the Red Extends Shutout Streak to Six Games Women come out of weekend with shutout win and scoreless draw Bandwagon T SOCCER

By KEITH BOLLT Sun Contributor

Goose eggs are apparently for sale by the half dozen at Berman Field as the Cornell women’s soccer team (4-0-2, 0-0 Ivy) extended its season-long shutout streak to six games. After a 0-0 draw against the Syracuse Orange (3-4-1, 0-0 ACC) on Friday and a 1-0 win against the St. Bonaventure Bonnies (3-3-2, 0-0 A10) Sunday, the Red has yet to be scored on.

“Spirits and overall confidence are high,” said senior co-captain Shanay Fischer. “I think we’re all on the same page about how much we can accomplish this season.”

Cornell has never beaten Syracuse in women’s soccer play and Head Coach Patrick Farmer acknowledged that the Red’s ACC opponent would be a tough challenge in an interview last week.

Fischer explained due to the Red’s expectations about level of play, the team was slow to start in Friday’s game.

“I think we started the game a little slow because we were so focused on what they were doing,” Fischer said. “Once we realized that we could play with them, we definitely raised our level and competed.”

Coach Farmer pointed to a few key moments in Friday’s match that helped the Red build confidence as the game progressed. “[We had] two good corner kicks at the 15 minute mark,” he said. “[They were] well constructed and well delivered.”

Farmer said the women’s confidence was boosted for the rest of the match after they successfully executed a play they had

been practicing all week. He also said a missed scoring opportunity by Syracuse later in the game helped further inspire the Red. “[They realized,] ‘We dodged a bullet, we’re still in the game,’” he said.

Although both Cornell and Syracuse had opportunities, neither team was able to score in overtime. Senior co-captain Charlotte Tate summed up her team's mixed feelings of tying the Orange.

“Syracuse was a great opponent for us,” Tate said. “The ACC is a very good conference and we're glad to get the opportunity to play teams in other challenging conferences. Obviously, we would have loved to come away with a win, but

were able to keep our shutout streak. The double overtime games take a toll, but we were able to keep our focus and energy for Sunday against St. Bonaventure.”

Sunday’s game against the Bonnies was played in cloudy, crisp conditions. Coach Farmer said he believes cooler temperatures helped mitigate the fatigue from a 110-minute game on Friday. Anticipating fatigue, Farmer conducted a less strenuous practice on Saturday and subbed out some starters for part of Sunday's game.

“We had a light practice on Saturday to rest our legs,” Tate said. “Those who maybe didn't play as much on Friday also

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jumped up on the sofa and yelled “Let’s GOO!,” and did my best Aaron Rodgers “Championship Belt” celebration. But after my celebration, one of my frat brothers (rush Phi Delta Theta 2015) asked me, “Dude why are you a Packers fan anyway? You’re from Texas.

Jump off the bandwagon.” Never before in my life had I been excused of being a bandwagon fan, which in my opinion, is the worst possible offense in sports. I was bamboozled.

Sports fandom should be pure and genuine, and just hearing the word bandwagon absolutely disgusts me. I’ve been a Packers fan since the day I was born. Literally, the day I was born. My dad skipped out on my mom’s delivery

Goose eggs | Through the first six games of the season, the Red have yet to lose a game or allow a goal.

his past Sunday I was lounging on the couch, sipping on my finest imported bottle of Keystone Light while I watched my beloved Packers dismantle the Bears at Soldier Field. After watching James Jones secure his second touchdown catch of the game, I

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