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City Deliberating Over New Noise Violation Policy

Women’s soccer hosted the Big Red Shootout for the first time since 1995. | Page 16

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By NOAH RANKIN Sun City Editor

Ithaca officials have proposed an amendment to the city’s noise ordinance that intends to categorize permissible noise levels on an objective decibel basis and to give officers increased flexibility when responding to complaints.

Deliberations over the proposed changes — which also include new property definitions, new standards for the Commons and city parks and new regulations for unamplified human voices and motor vehicles — began in February 2013, The Sun previously reported.

According to Alderperson Seph Murtagh M.A. ’04 Ph.D. ’09 (D-2nd Ward), the proposed amendment is intended to supplement the current rules, in which people can be penalized for complaints regarding “unreasonable” noise levels.

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Public Health Major Now Offered

By JONATHAN LOBEL Sun Senior Writer

In response to high student demand for an education in public and global health, the University is now offering a new major in Global and Public Health Sciences through the College of Human Ecology.

Demand for the global health minor has more than doubled in two years, rising from 31 participants in 2008 to 80 participants in 2010, according to the original proposal for the major. There are also roughly 30 student organizations on campus focused on global and public health.

“We have a lot of students that are inter-

ested in health but the programs that were available in terms of formalized majors weren’t really focused in the areas of public health or global health,” said Prof. Robert Parker, nutritional sciences.

Moreover, the proposal — which was written by faculty from the Division of Nutritional Sciences — stressed the national need for an increase in the number of public health professionals.

Prof. Patrick Stover, nutritional sciences, added that the GPHS major will focus on topics in population health, unlike other similar majors which focus on “individual See HEALTH page 5

Dead 20-Year-Old Found In Creek Near Walmart A dead body was found in the creek near an access road behind Walmart Tuesday.

According to the Ithaca Police Department, the to road leads from Elmira Road and Fairgrounds Memorial Parkway. Personnel from the Ithaca Fire Department and Bangs Ambulance were at the scene to provide assistance.

The victim — whose name has not yet been released as of Tuesday evening — was described as a medium-skinned black male who was

approximately 20 years old, six feet two inches tall and 270 pounds, police said.

Preliminary investigations concluded that there does not appear to be any foul play involved, police said.

An autopsy and toxicology examination will be completed at a regional hospital.

Anyone that observed the victim after Sept. 15 is encouraged to contact the Ithaca Police Department.

— Compiled by Talia Jubas

Novelist, September 11Witness Reflects on Victims of Attacks

By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer

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Reflections | Novelist R.C. Mulchahy, gives a talk Monday about his novel One From Two based on his account of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the United States.

Author R.C. Mulcahy spoke Monday about his novel One From Two, which serves as a personal reflection about the events that transpired on Sept. 11, 2001, during a lecture Monday.

Mulcahy witnessed the attack on the World Trade Center from the top floor of the Newport Financial Center office tower in Jersey City, New Jersey, that morning. Mulcahy said that since

the event, he has reflected on the victims of the attacks in great depth.

“Over time I absorbed the facts of the historical event and I thought about those who perished and how they suffered through senseless and random violence,” he said. “They were simply at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

According to Mulcahy, the book is a “rebuilding novel,” which combines the story of the “construction, collapse and revitalization” of the World Trade Center

along with the personal struggles of the main characters.

“The symbolic analogy of the Twin Towers and other plot lines were assembled with the help of many experts,” he said.

Mulcahy began work on the novel in 2005, spending the next two years visiting experts at various universities including Harvard, Princeton, Stanford and Oxford. By the end of 2007, he said, the novel’s plot was See 9/11 page 5

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California Nudist Camp Accused of Stealing Water LOS GATOS, Calif. (AP) — Officials in Northern California are accusing a nudist resort of stealing water during the state’s historic drought.

The San Jose Mercury News reports that rangers with the Midpeninsula Open Space District descended on Lupin Lodge near Los Gatos on Thursday, saying the clothing-optional resort was illegally taking water from a nearby upstream waterfall.

The resort’s owners say they are entitled to use the waterfall, which they need to keep their water tank full in case of a fire and to top off their pool for both skinny-dipping and as a backup water source for a fire.

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Intruder Caught Cooking Corn ROCKLAND, Mass. (AP) — Massachusetts police have arrested a man they say broke into a home and cooked himself a snack.

Rockland police officers responded to a home at about 1:40 a.m. Wednesday after getting a call from the homeowner.

Lt. Nick Zeoli tells The Enterprise of Brockton the homeowner woke up to a loud bang from the kitchen.

When the resident went to investigate, he found an intruder cooking corn on the cob on the stove. He told the intruder to leave, and the two men briefly scuffled.

Police arrested 69-year-old John Dalton and charged him with breaking and entering with intent to commit a felony and assault and battery. Police say Dalton, who was “clearly intoxicated,” forced his way inside through a side door.

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At Panel, Faculty Talk Engagement In C.U. Humanities

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By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Five professors from various disciplines in the humanities discussed how faculty can reach out and engage students to study the humanities during a panel discussion Tuesday afternoon.

Each panelist shared what attracts students to courses in the humanities and highlighted the importance of interdisciplinary integration during the panel hosted by Cornell’s Center for Teaching Excellence.

Prof. Aaron Sachs, history — who also acted as the panel’s moderator — opened the discussion saying the goal of the discussion was to provide some specific and practical insights from professors on how to attract students to the humanities disciplines.

“The humanities add ways of seeing,” Sachs said. “If you are richly immersed in the humanities, you will see all different kinds of layers as you go through life.”

Prof. Cheryl Finley, visual studies, said that in her experience, using technology like Instagram helps engage and excite her students in her Visual Studies 2000: Introduction to Visual Studies course.

“Because of things like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, students are already highly adept at reading images,” she said. “We have students present [Instagram] feeds in class at different points throughout the semester.”

Prof. Stacey Langwick, anthropology, said that because many Cornellians view their education as instrumental to finding a career, she stresses the practical skills that her students can gain by studying the humanities.

“Our student body [takes] a highly professionalized, competitive stance,” she said. “Making that transition to [perceiving the humanities as] something that they can do for their future is a bigger jump.”

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Listen up | Prof. Steven Pond, music; Prof. Cheryl Finley, visual studies; Prof. Aaron Sachs, history; Prof. Dagmawi Woubshet, English; and Prof. Stacey Langwick, anthropology, discuss how faculty can engage students to study the humanities Tuesday.

Langwick added that humanities professors need to take a leap to help students “imagine themselves … creating a life they want with humanities degrees,” she said.

Langwick said she believes that exposing students to humanities graduates who are successfully employed with a variety of careers could help expose students to the various opportunities.

Like Langwick, Prof. Steven Pond, music, emphasized the importance of sharing stories of successful graduates of the humanities to students by sharing his own daughter’s success as a project manager at Intel after majoring in the humanities. “[My daughter’s] initial decision to [study] American studies started her on the pathway to the exact job she has today — she could not have predicted that,” he said.

“The way that American studies, and by extension all of the humanities, prepares people for the larger world is … that it gives them larger skills that they can then convert on the ground.”

Prof. Dagmawi Woubshet, English, said it is important to underline to students the civic role that humanities has in the world.

“I find it important to create a classroom environment where students can be open and vulnerable enough to question deeply held assumptions,” he said.

Woubshet added that he believes that the humanities can give students the critical thinking skills to lead a moral life outside of the classroom and “thaw out the hierarchy” between student and professor within the classroom.

“I try to remind myself that I am a student in the classroom too, so that by the end of the semester I am also walking away with new reading skills … and a new perspective,” he said.

The panel — which was directed toward faculty in the humanities — attracted about 20 professors.

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun.com.

Students’ Stories Marisa Sergi ’15 wins title of Miss New York Collegiate America; says anti-bullying campaign drew her to compete in pageant

By REBECCA BLAIR

the title of Miss New York in the pageant world. She to help her look her best for Collegiate America this sum- began competing on the local public appearances.

“I would not be as successmer after a competitive inter- level just a couple of years Marisa Sergi ’15, a viticul- view process involving 50 ago, and Miss Collegiate ful as I am without so much ture and enology major in the other college students from America will be her first support,” Sergi said. national competition.

According to Sergi, she College of Agriculture and around the state. will comAccording Life Sciences and the newlyplete two crowned winner of the Miss to Sergi, she volunteer New York Collegiate America will particiactivities or pageant, said a “big factor” pate in three p u b l i c that drew her to compete in categories — appearances the pageant was its anti-bul- fun fashion, a month as evening gown lying campaign. part of her Sergi, who is responsible and interview duties. This for promoting the pageant’s — in the m o n t h , anti-bullying platform — hopes of winSergi will the Building Respect and Values ning volunteer for Everyone, or BRAVE — grand prize, for a prosaid she now wants to help w h i c h gram for a school-aged children over- includes school-aged come their personal chal- $ 1 0 , 0 0 0 children at lenges because she dealt with s c h o l a r s h i p the Cornell and a trip to similar issues growing up.

COURTESY OF MARISA SERGI Plantations “The reason I competed is Europe.

“I’m most Not just a pretty face | Marisa Sergi ’15 will compete for the title of and a readbecause I really resonated a-thon at for Miss Collegiate America next summer. with the platform,” Sergi excited t h e said. “When people think of e v e n i n g This transition into the Tompkins County Library. beauty pageants they think of gown,” she said. “I really love pageant world has been facil“I’m really grateful to be aesthetics … but inner beau- classic fashion.”

Unlike many other contes- itated by a lot of support given the opportunity to ty is more important than tants, however, Sergi said she from her friends, family and affect change,” she said. outer beauty.”

Even with the new time Sergi won does not have a long history community, according to Sergi. Local vendors have commitment, Sergi said she even donated dresses, jewelry is planning for a future career Know someone remarkable? Send your suggestion and hair and make-up time outside the pageant circuit. to managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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She is currently marketing her own wine label, Red Head, which started as her capstone project for her major and which now has distribution contracts with two Ohio grocery chains.

Though she did not definitively say that this summer’s pageant will be her last, she said she is excited to make her mark in the wine world.

“I’ve been building my brand for two years now,” she said. “I’m really focused on my wine brand.”

However, for the next eight months, Sergi said she will remain dedicated to her responsibilities as a BRAVE representative and focused on the challenges she will face in Orlando.

“I’m just going to be myself and work really hard,” she said. “I’m nervous, but it’s a good [kind of ] nervous.”

She will compete for the title of Miss Collegiate America in Orlando, Florida, in June and July 2015.

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rfb239@cornell.edu.

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Proposed Changes to Target Downtown Noise Conflicts NOISE

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“The way that our ordinance is currently written, it says that noises are prohibited that are unreasonable at the distance of 25 feet,” Murtagh said. “For most of the cases, that works and gives officers a certain amount of flexibility.

We were running into this problem where there’d be ongoing conflicts between commercial establishments like bars and restaurants and residents that live nearby.”

According to Murtagh, the previous ordinance covered approximately 90 percent of cases effectively. The proposed changes would primarily target conflicts that occur around commercial establishments on and near the Commons, and will likely have a lesser effect in places like Collegetown, he said.

“There are always noise complaints in Collegetown. In general, our current noise ordinance is pretty good for resolving those situations,” Murtagh said.

“The main driver for a lot of these changes is actually downtown. It’s really been complaints that have come from bars and restaurants more on the edge of residential neighborhoods.”

According to Murtagh, though measuring noise levels is “not an exact science,” the city hired Eric Zwerling, director of the Rutgers Noise Technical Assistance Center, to conduct sound tests around Ithaca. According to previous Sun reports, Zwerling also engaged over 100 community members in a forum over sound policy in October 2013.

“We thought that it would be good to create a more objective standard in the ordinance,” Murtagh said.

Murtagh said two main factors affect-

ed the development of the permissible amendment. According to Murtagh, the sound levels. Standards found in other most important change is the introducmunicipalities, as well as an “ears-on-the- tion of decibel standards, and they are ground sense of what really intended to give Ithaca will tolerate.” “There are always noise officers a “flexible tool” Zwerling also created the when dealing with comcomplaints in proposed change that plaints, especially those Collegetown.” includes human voice that result from nightcomplaints. after-night conflicts Seph Murtagh “[Zwerling] came up downtown. with that provision “Essentially what specifically to address the problem where this would do is give the responding offipeople might be walking through, in a cer the option to use a decibel meter if residential area, where people might be they felt that that piece of equipment sleeping, screaming at the top of their would be useful given the situation,” lungs,” Murtagh said. “In general, if Murtagh said. “The last thing that we you’re having a conversation, even a loud want to do with this is mandate that conversation, it’s not going to be plainly every single noise offense in the City audible at 100 feet, which is the standard requires a decibel meter.” that he came up with.”

The penalties listed in the noise ordi- Noah Rankin can be reached at nance would not change as a result of the nrankin@cornellsun.com.

Obama Declares Ebola Global Threat Doctor to Provide Medical WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama declared Tuesday that the Ebola epidemic in West Africa could threaten security around the world, and he ordered 3,000 U.S. military personnel to the region in emergency aid muscle for a crisis spiraling out of control.

The question was whether the aid would be enough and was coming in time. An ominous World Health Organization forecast said that with so many people now

spreading the virus, the number of Ebola cases could start doubling every three weeks.

“If the outbreak is not stopped now, we could be looking at hundreds of thousands of people affected, with profound economic, political and security implications for all of us,” Obama said Tuesday after briefings in Atlanta with doctors and officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Emory University.

Obama called on other countries to join in quickly supplying

more health workers, equipment and money. By day’s end the administration asked Congress to shift another $500 million in Pentagon money to the effort, meaning the U.S. could end up devoting $1 billion to contain the outbreak.

“It’s a potential threat to global security if these countries break down,” Obama said, speaking of the hardest-hit nations of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea. At least 2,400 people have died, with Liberia bearing the brunt.

Update onToronto Mayor

Ford has been hospitalized since last Wed. TORONTO (AP) — A doctor will provide a medical update on controversial Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s tumor on Wednesday, Ford’s brother said.

The mayor has been hospitalized since last Wednesday with a tumor in his abdomen. Biopsy results were expected to take a week.

Ford withdrew his re-election bid Friday as he seeks treatment, dramatically ending a campaign he had doggedly pursued despite a stint in rehab and calls for him to quit amid drug and alcohol scandals.

Ford’s brother, city councilor Doug Ford, said outside the hospital on Tuesday that a doctor will provide an update Wednesday at about 5 p.m. local time.

“It’s extremely tough right now.

Our family is strong, Rob is strong and with all the support of the people that’s what keeps us going,” Doug Ford said. “He’s having a tough go of it right now.”

The mayor complained of stomach pain while he had breakfast with Doug last week and checked himself into hospital. Rob Ford has previously said that he was hospitalized in 2009 for a tumor on his appendix, leading to its removal along with part of his colon. Doug Ford Sr., the mayor’s farther, died of colon cancer in 2006.

Ford, 45, became an international celebrity last year when the Toronto Star and the U.S. website Gawker reported the existence of a video apparently showing the mayor inhaling from a crack pipe.

He denied the existence of the video for months but finally admitted to using crack in a “drunken stupor” after police announced they had obtained it.

When reports emerged this year of a second video showing him apparently smoking crack, Ford entered rehab for two months and returned to work and campaigning in June.

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Population Health Focus of New Major Author:Tragedies Can HEALTH

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health.” “[Although] the [Division of Nutritional Sciences] currently administers a major in nutrition, human biology, health and society and a concentration in nutrition through the biological sciences major, these majors all focus on individual health and serve students interested in careers focused on human health,” Stover said. “The GPHS major focuses on population health and has course requirements in epidemiology and statistics.”

The major will also require a mandatory experiential learning component that will provide students with an opportunity to apply knowledge learned in the classroom to a real-world environment, according to the major’s website.

Parker said the experiential learning component will not only enhance students’ individual learning experience, but will also shape students into competitive applicants for advanced programs in public health. Students will have the opportunity to fulfill this requirement on- or off-campus, or in an international field setting in places such as Tanzania and the Dominican Republic.

Parker added that the major will culminate in a capstone course titled “Explorations in Global and Public Health.”

“Both the classroom experi-

ence and the active learning experience [through the experiential learning requirement] all come together [in this course],” he said. “It provides a forum to relate classroom and field or research experiences and brings everything together.”

Parker said, however, that the

“The GPHS major focuses on population health and has course requirements in epidemiology and statistics.”

Prof. Patrick Stover

expansion of the major will depend on whether the University will have sufficient resources to accommodate more students. Both the amount of experiential learning opportunities and the capacity of the capstone course would have to be increased to maintain a high quality program for more students.

Post-graduation, students majoring in GPHS will be prepared to pursue either an entrylevel job in public health or a

more advanced degree, Parker said.

“We are interested in training students that are going to become leaders,” he said.

The proposal for the major was finally approved this spring after a four-year application process which began in 2010, according to Stover. The approval process for a new major requires approval at four levels — the department or division, the college within the University, the State University of New York and the New York State Department of Education.

Due to the course sequence required for the GPHS major, it will only be available to freshmen who began attending the University for the 2014-15 school year, according to Parker.

To date, 15 freshmen have declared a major in Global and Public Health Sciences. He added that transfer students will not be admitted to the major until the University evaluates the success of the current course sequence.

“We are putting a lot of effort on developing a meaningful freshman experience,” he said.

According to Stover, CHE will recruit for and advertise the new major for the next school year.

Parker, however, said it may take until the fall of 2016 for the major to be offered through CALS. Jonathan Lobel can be reached at jlobel@cornellsun.com.

Happen‘at Any Time’ 9/11

question. Over the last week or so, I have gone from ruling it out to saying there is a complete and he spent the small possibility,” he said. “It next few years revising the is a big time commitment storylines. and personal sacrifice because “I initially had no interest I am not the only one is in writing a book. I felt like I impacted, so is my family.” stood in a large, overcrowded In his closing comments, room with very talented peo- Mulcahy asked the audience ple,” Mulchay said. “I felt to take advantage of their very insecure and full of good fortune and to give doubt. I thought, ‘Why am I back to society. here? I don’t belong.’”

“If you have good health However, feeling obligated and life has been kind to to honor those lost, Mulcahy you,” Mulcahy said, “please said he eventually overcame continue to develop a sense his initial doubts and began of obligation to those that to work on the novel in face challenges.” earnest.

According to Mulcahy, the “Tragedies of chance can novel is dedicated to those really devaswho lost tate people, “[Those who died] were their lives on p h y s i c a l l y simply at the wrong place Sept.

11, and emo2001. Out of at the wrong time.” tionally, and respect for they can the lives lost, R.C. Mulcahy happen at he added, a any time,” decision was he said. “That is why I use made in 2010 to donate profthe World Trade Center as an its from book sales to Macklis analogy in the novel to say, Lab, a medical research facili‘listen this can happen to ty at Harvard University. anyone so we really have to The event was hosted by do our best to look out for the Cornell English Club, each other.’”

Cornell Current and Phi Mulcahy said he was hesi- Kappa Psi. tant when asked if he had plans to write another novel. Andrew Lee can be reached at “That is a very difficult alee@cornellsun.com.

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United Student Body: Moving Forward FOLLOWING SUGGESTIONS FROM VARIOUS STUDENT GROUPS, United Student Body — a Student Assembly initiative to promote diversity in student organizations — has undergone several changes this semester. These include less stringent rules, making it easier for student groups to adopt more concrete diversity initiatives. We at The Sun believe that the changes to the USB implementation are a step in the right direction and will help student organizations better adopt these policies.

United Student Body was designed in light of President David Skorton’s fall 2011 vow in “Toward New Destinations” to increase diversity in all aspects of the University. The United Student’s Body was created in spring 2013 following S.A. Resolution 45: Fostering a United Student Body. It covered byline funded and SAFC Performance tier groups, and the Diversity Inclusion Plan consisted of complicated paperwork from both the organizations and the S.A. In The Sun last week, Shivang Tayal ’16, vice president of Diversity and Inclusion and International Liaison for the S.A. said some student leaders thought the previous implementation of USB was too subjective, making it difficult for groups to imagine more specific plans. By including these changes, the S.A. has worked to alleviate some of the complications that arose with implementing USB. These changes include reducing the number of Diversity Inclusion Plan items that must be listed by each group, as well as creating a task force under Student Assembly Committee for Inclusion and Diversity Initiatives to evaluate the DIPs in face-to-face meetings with group leaders. We believe that these meetings are a positive addition to the plan implementation, and will allow the S.A. to express its expectations more effectively and student groups to voice their concerns more freely.

Though this seems like a positive step towards ensuring diversity, we still harbor some concerns about USB. The DIPs appear to be an overarching policy, which might not be feasible for all groups on campus. As USB enters its second year, we are optimistic about the changes that have been introduced. However, we also hope that the S.A. will continue to examine and revise USB moving forward.

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here are pluses and minuses to applications. And the positive reinforcegoing to a school like Cornell — ment we received from our abilities to where the drive of the student market ourselves provided a model for body both motivates us to raise our collec- future success. We used our advantages as tive academic bar and inhibits our free- pawns, craftily making each move like a dom to take chances in the pursuit of suc- young Bobby Fischer. For many of us, our cess. I have always enjoyed being chal- advantages came from wealth. For others, lenged in my classes and feeling at the end it might have come from a niché skill or of the semester that I have legitimately experience. Regardless of how we got to learned something. But after my sopho- where we are through this advantage, our more year, I had a strong feeling that I was experiences and interactions with one still missing something in my college another are currently reinforcing a danexperience. There definitely must be more gerous perspective: that learning and eduto these formidable four years than just cation is rooted in its ability to provide organic chemistry mechanisms and future success. It has become too difficult Collegetown annexes. Maybe I should go to free ourselves from the tangible satisfacabroad, I thought. tion of job offers and grades and seek out With plans to eventually go to medical the intangible gratification of life experischool, moving to another country for a ences and knowledge. semester was a delicate subject — in the So is this part of me justified in my back of my mind there is always a laundry thought? That I should take the safe route list of requirements to fill, deadlines to and stick with the plan? Is this model for meet and tests to take. Going abroad success legitimately rewarding? A decision would only complicate my meticulously to go abroad would create a lot of uncerplanned schedule. I deliberated whether tainty about the future. But I think that abandoning this sort of uncerCornell and packtainty can be ing my luggage to and Temporarily leaving the security healthy experience the could potentially hyped Eurotrip result a groundof my pre-professional track would be worth it, ing experience. goes against everything I have Maybe with hopes of findI will ing myself in a new been instructed to do as an Ivy learn things I area, free to never anticipated League student. The driven explore whatever it in taking this is I wanted to route. Maybe I’ll nature of Cornell students explore. In this people and creates a certain way of viewing meet frustratingly visit places that the academic experience. intense period of will shape who I introspection, I am for the better. produced every In choosing to possible permutation of my schedule that stay put, I would be a fool for avoiding the could facilitate a term abroad. I contem- thrill of the unknown. But on the other plated nearly every country in the globe as hand, my “life is like a box of chocolates” a possible option, from Nepal to Buenos argument may be flawed. Maybe I’m eager Aires. I felt like there were two mini-me’s, to go abroad merely as an opportunity to each camped out on a shoulder for the flee from the collective anxieties of the summer, incessantly explaining to me why Cornell campus. Going abroad could just I should or shouldn’t leave the country. be disguised hedonism, devoid of any This self-inflicted source of stress was semblance of intellectual stimulation. The seemingly unnecessary — a product of my fact that the abroad experience has New York City-borne neurotic tendencies. become so deeply intertwined with the Nevertheless, the more I fretted over this modern collegiate experience could be a global nightmare, the more I began to colossal academic scam — an excuse to view it as a broader dilemma than what it take a semester-long vacation and enroll was at face value. I began to think that my in faux classes. The true college experience reluctance to go abroad stemmed from my could be right at one’s feet at Cornell if Ivy League environment. they avoid succumbing to the pressures of Temporarily leaving the security of my perfection. pre-professional track goes against everyWhile study abroad may not be as conthing I have been instructed to do as an tentious for other students, everybody Ivy League student. The driven nature of faces similar dilemmas on a daily basis.

Cornell students creates a certain way of The paths that we choose to take in the viewing the academic experience. four years that we’re here are important — Frequently, I find myself being too ask any alumni. Often times, it is too easy focused on the next step and in the to be safe and choose what we feel is the process, missing what’s around me. Where most pragmatic option. Although it may did the past two years of college go? be hard to imagine, the decisions we make It’s fairly obvious that we all want to be in college set the precedent for how we successful. As the recent New Republic choose to live our adult lives. In the time Ivy League expose noted, we are apparent- that we’re here, we should set aside our ly so accustomed to success that we devel- egos and question why we make our op a deeply entrenched and debilitating respective life choices. It’s important to fear of not only failure, but also the idea always keep perspective and ask yourself of being imperfect. Imperfection is unset- why you are truly choosing to commit tling and failure is unfathomable. This is your time and energy to something. If you our tragic flaw. Our compulsions for suc- choose to spend it on something you cess, and the resulting clouding of acade- believe in, something you’re passionate mic purpose, is akin to baseball’s steroid- about or even something you’re unsure of, era emphasis on individual statistics — then you stand to gain a lot here — or home runs, strikeouts, wins, etc. — and there. devaluation of the integrity of the game.

To put it in economic terms, we got to Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human where we are today through a competitive Ecology. He can be reached at advantage in our abilities to game the sys- pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind tem. We knew how to approach college appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Teresa Kim |

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Proverbially Speaking

Rachael Singer | Happy Birthday to Me

Her Magesty’s Ship:Résumé

esume in hand, I reluctantly sought after my professor who I believed would lend me useful advice on how to edit it. I was reluctant, not because I was putting my resume (that was rather lacking for a senior) under the scrutiny of someone I looked up to, but because I had no desire whatsoever to pursue a white-collared job in the first place. I have always felt comfortable with the idea of going to graduate school to continue my studies — living the “life of the mind” as some would call it.

Up until a week ago, the chit-chat of the implications of going to the Career Fair and what to expect from the fair amongst my friends flew over my head. As the week before the Career Fair turned into days, my friends began to notice my aloof attitude towards the idea of starting a corporate job come graduation and suggested, “Teresa, you know, you should at least try going to the Career Fair.”

And that statement somehow landed me in front of my professor who began to peruse through my resume with a highlighter in hand. She gave my resume back to me. Thankfully, there wasn’t a large X through my paper. There were, however, small circles around the many verbs in the descriptions of my work experience. I asked her what the circles were for, and she responded with a series of questions: “Teresa, did you lead the development of a rehabilitation program in India or helped lead the development of it?” “Did you develop the business strategies for project X or assist with the development of these strategies?” “Did you deal directly with the school administration in finessing educational curriculums or supplement the finessing of a curriculum that was already in the process of being finalized?” After going through all of her suggested amendments, she told me, “I’ve realized that you Americans have a tendency of taking something and making it your own in your resumes.”

My initial hesitation to ask her for advice was met with the above statement that pointed to the reality of our usurpative nature. I — or who I am on polished, resume paper — was a reflection of that nature. Although I thought I knew myself to give credit where credit was due, I began to realize that I was not the manifestation of the humility I thought I encompassed. In fact, I was

After going through all of her suggested amendments, she told me, “I’ve realized that you Americans have a tendency of taking something and making it your own on your resumes.” the “American” I feared I would be.

I had a similarly unpleasant revelation dawn upon me a seven months ago when I visited the British Museum of History. There are only a few moments in my life where I can aptly recount leaving a museum or any academic venue with a guttural feeling of disappointment — this was one of them. The trail through the first floor of the museum begins with an exhibit of Egyptian sarcophaguses, goes through a hallway of Babylonian murals and ends with a collection of the remnants of Greco-Roman sculptures. The more floors a visitor gained, the more exotic the artifacts became (Arabic, Chinese, Indian, etc).

This was not a “British” museum. If we were being politically correct, the museum was more or less a cave of stolen goods.

The British Museum of History in and of itself is impressive to say the very least. And the reason for its global popularity is due to the indubitable fact that there is no collection as vast and all-encompassing like it in the world. Yet when I came out of the museum and looked up at the monumental pillars pointing to the marble inscription “British Museum of History,” I felt as if the significance of every single stone and statue within the building was reduced to items without stories. It was almost as if I was to sign off on what was clearly a Rembrandt masterpiece, detrimentally diminishing the worth and identity of the piece.

The experience of visiting the museum felt oddly comparable to that of going up and down an escalator in a department store or taking a day-trip to the zoo, watching items or animals become simplified under one brand name.

In his book, About Looking, prominent art critic John Berger recounts his experience of visiting a zoo from his influential chapter “Why Look at Animals?”: “You are looking at something that has been rendered absolutely marginal. ...The reduction of the animal, which has a theoretical as well as economic history, is part of the same process as that by which men have been reduced to isolated productive and consuming units.”

This observation by Berger has remained an interdisciplinary discussion because of its ability to lend itself to how we obtain and commodify animals, historical objects and, ultimately, knowledge. I am certainly not the first to voice my disagreement with the museum keeping items collected by British colonialists through the ages. I find much merit in the dispersing of knowledge via museum spaces. Yet, what we should remember from this is how we continue to marginalize those who have contributed to our success thus far. No matter how many wars have taken place or how much tea has been sunk into the harbor, the sheer fact of the matter is is that we unnoticingly hearken back to our imperialistic roots: taking things that don’t belong to us.

So as you start dispersing your resumes, remember to acknowledge those who have helped you create the content for your resume in the first place.

Don’t Sir Francis Drake your resume. It’s likely that every single letter, font size and paragraph indent can find its thanks in someone.

Teresa Kim is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tk359@cornell.edu. Proverbially Speaking appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Sarah Byrne |

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What Are the Odds?

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ight now, I’m As a biology stu- people, and we can sitting in the dent, in classes like change and grow. endlessly stim- statistics, I watch my Actors rise to the ulating and fascinat- peers struggle to put occasion. We cast an ing course known as numbers to situations, actor on faith and, statistics. And the pro- to calculate the odds more often than not, fessor is talking about they will get into med they become the right the probability of suc- school or the odds person for the role. cess. Even though she they can maintain a We take a chance on only means “success” 4.0 if they decide to the opportunity; we in the statistical sense, take linear algebra surrender to the odds, a random classifica- instead of Calc 2. because they are so tion assigned to (in Numbers are comfort- helplessly out of our this case) a coin com- ing in these situations: favor that we can do ing up heads, it made We see that if we have nothing but throw up me consider the prob- a certain GPA and a our hands in defeat. ability of success. certain MCAT score, And miraculously, If you closely con- we have a fairly low, things work out. sider the choices you though frighteningly If you had asked make on a daily basis, existent, chance of me four years ago my guess is that close to all of those choices are Last year, someone asked me what made based my motto was, and I stole my on some sort of response from my best friend, who probability would kill me if I took full credit for assessment: this: In the end, it either gets Odds that a boy of a cer- done or it doesn’t. tain level of attractiveness will ask being rejected from what my personal you out. Odds that every medical school motto was, I would you can get at least the in the country. If we have said something mean on the prelim don’t succeed, it’s easy annoying, because I without studying all to point to the num- was 17 years old, and night. Odds you’ll fall bers and say, “There. who even has a motto asleep in class if you That’s why.” at 17? Only annoying don’t drink a tripleLast week, I was people. Last year, shot latte. Our brains sitting in my direct- someone asked me are constantly com- ing class, talking what my motto was, puting a vast array of about casting for the- and I stole my variables to produce atre. In the audition response from my these odds, which we room, people are best friend, who interpret as “feelings.” often cast based on would kill me if I If you have a bad feel- nothing more than a took full credit for ing about something, feeling the director this: In the end, it your brain is telling has that a certain per- either gets done or it you — based on your son is right for a cer- doesn’t. When it past and the odds it tain role. Sometimes, comes down to it, the has observed — that obviously, the direc- most we can do is the odds are against tor’s feeling is wrong hope for the best. you. You cannot beat (see Michael Cera’s There is a chance, the odds. The odds are upcoming Broadway however small, that your master. Odds- debut). But, in my someone wildly more wise, your life is one experience, even in attractive than you big game, and the college theatre, some- will ask you out. That odds are hardly ever in thing magical hap- you will be that kid your favor. pens, because we are who gets 100 percent

on the prelim. That you’ll be able to stay awake without coffee because your professor gives a really interesting lecture that day.

My high school English teacher always used to say that whatever you choose becomes your first choice. Or, as I like to say, this is your life now. Once you make a choice, the consequences of that choice occur. And, in the end, it doesn’t particularly matter what the odds were. We hear a lot of talk about “beating the odds” to succeed, but do we ever really beat them? It seems to me that we play into the odds, we embrace them and so they embrace us, and we learn to live with the real world results, no matter the stats.

So anyway, I’m sitting in my stats class.

I’m not paying attention, because I’m writing this column. The professor is talking about probability, and I’m thinking that the probability I pass this prelim next week is pretty high, because someone just asked what an integral was.

But I guess there’s always a chance I won’t. It’s a crazy world out there.

Sarah Byrne is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

Astronomy

Food Science

Computer Science

Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger Seeks Life on Other Worlds

By REEM KHONDAKAR Sun Staff Writer

Are we alone in the universe? The question has captivated humans for thousands of years. Yet only now are the tools necessary to answer that question becoming available, according to new faculty member Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger, astronomy.

Kaltenegger came to Cornell in July after working at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany and the Harvard Center for Astrophysics. She has been appointed Director of Cornell’s new Institute for Pale Blue Dots, dedicated to the investigation of life outside our solar system. The Institute, named in honor of a well known phrase of Cornell’s own Prof.

Carl Sagan, is expected to open in 2015, according to Kaltenegger.

To date, there have been no official findings of life outside our solar system.

According to Kaltenegger, one of the major challenges in the search for life is the sheer distance between our Sun and the next star.

“If you shrink our solar system to the size of a cookie, then the next star is two football fields away,” she said. “So we’re not talking about satellites going and landing there. What we really need is something that life breathed in and out, that leaves a fingerprint in the planet’s atmosphere.”

Whatever molecules are breathed in or out by life forms would presumably accumulate in their atmosphere. These “signatures of life,” Kaltenegger said, are oxygen and another gas — most likely methane, one of the simplest organic molecules that can be produced by life.

Analysis of extraterrestrial atmospheres is the main focus of Kaltenegger’s research.

By finding what molecules make up the atmosphere of planets outside our solar system, scientists can determine whether life may exist on that planet. Crucial to this search, however, is asking how the data received from telescopes may change based on the geology of that planet.

“For instance, let us say the [planet] had way more volcanos, would you still be able to pick up signatures of life or would they be covered up by the background of volcanic gases?” Kaltenegger said.

Kaltenegger said she uses uses a technique called spectral analysis to model, and in the near future, find what molecules make up the atmosphere of small rocky

that molecules are absorbing that “red” wavelength of light.

“If you know what wavelength, what color of light the energy is missing in, you can tell what chemicals there are in the atmosphere, even though they are cosmic football fields away,” Kaltenegger said.

While current technology only allows her to investigate the atmosphere of planets

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The final frontier | Prof. Lisa Kaltenegger, astronomy, is developing models that will assist the next generation of space telescopes with finding evidence of life on other planets.

planets outside our solar system. These molecules absorb light from their nearest sun in the same way molecules in Earth’s atmosphere absorb light from our sun.

Each molecule absorbs at characteristic wavelengths of light.

Telescopes detect this light from the planet’s atmosphere and then split it, much like a prism, into various “colors” that can be deciphered through spectral analysis, Kaltenegger said. Diminished energy in the “red” wavelength, for instance, would mean

too large to be “Earth-like,” Kaltenegger said the next generation of telescopes will allow her and her team to analyze the atmospheres of planets closer to Earth’s size. According to Kaltenegger, one of the new telescopes is the James Webb Space Telescope, expected to launch in 2018 and replace the current Hubble Space Telescope.

“Once Hubble comes down and the James Webb Space Telescope goes up in 2018, that will be the first time that we

have a mission to sample planets around the closest stars for signatures of life,” Kaltenegger said. “We only have a couple years to prepare as best we can for this mission, and we want the best strategy in place.”

Much of Kaltenegger’s current work focuses on creating atmospheric models that will serve as a an essential reference tool once the actual search begins. This “planetary spectral database,” Kaltenegger said, will allow her and her team to compare newfound data to their models.

“There is a lot of preparatory physical work before you can tell these telescopes how long they have to stare and what they have to do to not miss signatures of life,” Kaltenegger said.

The significance of this search reaches far beyond just answering the question of whether life outside our solar system exists, according to Kaltenegger — it also brings up questions about the future of our planet.

“If we could find other Earths out there, we could possibly piece together a story about how Earths are born, and how they die. We would be able for the first time to get a glimpse into our planets future,” Kaltenegger said.

For now, the expectation is that the next generation of telescopes will be able to capture enough light to find other Earth-like planets. Given that every other star in the universe is known to have another planet, the number of planets outside our system is, as Kaltenegger said, “astonishing.”

“It has been more than 2,000 years since the question came up of whether we are alone in the universe, and for the first time in history we have the tools to answer it,” Kaltenegger said. “We may have to wait another five or 10 years, but it would amazing to go out at night and spot the stars with other worlds like Jupiters and maybe even other Earths up on the firmament.”

Reem Khondakar can be reached at rkhondakar@cornellsun.com.

Study Shows Action Movies Make You Eat More

By SARAH COHEN Sun Senior Writer

Snacking on a bowl of popcorn, chips or grapes is a musthave when sitting down to watch a movie or your favorite TV show. But Aner Tal, a research associate in the Food and Brand Lab, has found a connection between watching engaging television and eating more food.

“We try to identify mindless eating traps; Situations in life that can lead people to mindlessly eat more or chose food that they shouldn’t and then offer easy fixes for them,” Tal said.

According to Tal, much of the inspiration for this type of research comes out of personal experience. In general, he said, we know that TV is distracting and that distractions can lead to people eating more food, but this research focused on whether different types of content could also affect eating habits.

To study this, Tal took 94 undergraduate students and split them into three groups. One

group watched 20 minutes of The Island, a 2005 thriller directed by Michael Bay, while a second group watched 20 minutes of the Charlie Rose Show, a talk show “that is fairly laid-back; no chair throwing or anything,” Tal said. A third group watched 20 minutes of The Island without sound.

During this 20 minute period, students were given four types of easily accessible snacks to choose from: carrots, grapes, M&Ms and cookies.

The researchers found that, across the board, people ate more when they watched dynamic television, even when it was without sound, than slower content such as a talk show. No difference between the quantity of healthy versus unhealthy food eaten was found, however, Tal said.

According to Tal, this research has led to several further questions which are now being explored in both the Food and Brand Lab and the Food and Brand Lab research seminar for

undergraduate students.

For example, if engaged audiences ate more of any snack in front of them, could they be tricked into eating healthier if only healthier snacks, such as vegetables, were in front of them.

“It would be a way to swallow the medicine without noticing it,” Tal said.

Another way to avoid eating more, Tal said, is to not have an entire bag or box of snacks when watching TV, but to rather control the portion you put in front of you before you start eating.

“Even small obstacles in the way can stop mindless eating,” he said.

The Food and Brand lab is also looking into how this realization may play a part in other distracting content such as online or interactive content, according to Tal. Facebook, Twitter or even just texting friends involves the same level of distraction as engaging television, but such content also requires active, not passive

engagement. Tal said he will look into how such a slight difference may affect mindless eating.

This research was published in The Journal of the American

Medical Association: Internal Medicine.

Sarah Cohen can be reached at scohen@cornellsun.com.

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Cinematic snacking | Aner Tal, a research associate in the Food and Brand Lab, found that watching action movies can lead to overeating.

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SCIENCE

Prof. Erik Andersen Designs Games That Help You Learn

By SHIRA POLAN Sun Staff Writer

When Prof. Erik Andersen, computer science, began working at Cornell a few weeks ago, he hit the ground running, immediately diving into his research.

Andersen, who received his Ph.D. at the University of Washington this past year, investigates potential applications of video games in an educational setting.

“My research is in trying to make interactive learning experiences as effective and engaging as possible, both for creating educational video games that try to teach things in fun ways and get huge numbers of players,” Andersen said.

According to Andersen, these future educational games could help students in a wide variety of subjects, including foreign language, reading comprehension and mathematics. In addition, analyzing the way in which participants play these games could provide insight into how students approach problems.

“If we could understand what students are thinking while approaching problems, we can more easily provide help that’s specific to each individual student,” he said.

One example of these user-specific educational games is one of Andersen’s current projects, a foreign language-based video game.

“My dream is to have a game that simulates being immersed in a foreign country,” Andersen said. “The player would interact and converse [with] characters in a different language. Unlike the way you would learn a language at Cornell, ... which is great but is not as fully immersive as actually visiting the

country, we would try to simulate natural language learning via a video game.”

Andersen said he attributes his interest in using video games to improve language skills to his undergraduate career, where he double-majored in computer science and linguistics at the University of North Carolina.

By two weeks into the semester, Andersen said he has already recruited a number of graduate and undergraduate stu-

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Learning is fun | Prof. Eric Andersen, computer science, studies ways to make video games that are also educational. dents to help design his game.

“One question that we are looking at is how, when a person says something wrong, because they, for example, had a misunderstanding about grammar, we can devise a way for a computer to detect that,” Andersen said. “Then we could provide some form of intervention for that student based upon this misunderstanding ... I want the game to change based on the mistakes the student makes.”

Andersen said he hopes to use the students’ potential success with the game as a tool to improve education techniques beyond the subject of language.

“Hopefully we’ll be able to show that changing the game based upon their individual understanding of the language is actually more effective than just giving everybody the same curriculum,” Andersen said.

While he has just begun working on this game concept, Andersen said he has already considered the complicated technical aspects of the game design.

“We could potentially model vocabulary knowledge by making a list of words in a language and for each word there would be a probability that this person would understand it,” he said. “The computer could then calculate which word the player needs more practice with. The more sophisticated and trickier part is trying to model reasoning — we need to find a way to understand from the context why the player came to the answer he or she gave.”

In addition to conducting research, Andersen teaches a course in the computer science department on analytics-driven game design. The class, according to Andersen, is a project-based course where teams of four to six students work together to create a new video game. The groups consist of a mix of programmers and artists, many of whom have little to no experience in computer science, Andersen said.

“The one thing that makes this class different from other video game design classes taught at Cornell is that there’s a real world component to the class,” Andersen said.

“The students make the games in Flash and then they are going to release them online

through popular flash game websites that actually get a lot of traffic. Then they have to look at that data and determine which parts of the games are working well and which ones aren’t and then fix it.”

According to Andersen, this rigorous analysis of game play mirrors the way that the video game industry is beginning to use data from millions of players to find problems with their products and improve them.

In addition to using player data, Andersen said he has other ideas for analyzing the success of a game.

“From a research perspective, I’ve looked at how can we visualize how a hundred people are playing a particular level of the game and that gives us a way to identify problems with the games by inferring how people think,” he said.

Andersen said his experiences teaching Cornell students this semester have been positive.

“I’m really amazed by the students so far,” he said. “We just had a session where the students were supposed to present their ideas and critique the ideas of their peers.

The kids were so passionate, and it’s great working with people who care so much.”

On his new position at Cornell, Andersen said, “I never imagined that I’d get to do research on video games. When I was an undergrad, I liked video games but I don’t think anyone was taking me seriously on an academic perspective. I think that perspective has changed somewhat, where I can actually have a job where I get to teach and make video games.”

Shira Polan can be reached at spolan@cornellsun.com.

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A&E

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Sundance Short Films on Tour

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

This weekend, Cornell Cinema will be screening eight 2014 Sundance Shorts, chosen this year from a roster of over 50 narrative, documentary and animated short films that debuted at the festival in January. Don’t worry, I watched them all for you so that you know which ones you can text/play Candy Crush during and which ones you should pay rapt attention to: Afronauts (U.S.), directed and written by Frances Bodomo, is … pretty. It’s gorgeous shot after gorgeous shot of the “inspired by true events” story of the Zambia Space Academy, circa 1969. Community members grapple with belief and disbelief as Matha prepares for her big space voyage and it’s unclear of how this backyard rocketbuilding and astronaut training could have been a genuine attempt at space travel (the big training scene is the astronaut rolling down a hill in a barrel). But the black and white cinematography and the mystical/mythical quality afforded to its leading lady, Matha (Diandra Forrest), make it a riveting watch and an interesting piece of perspective on how sublime space travel must have seemed before it was an accepted reality.

The Cut (Canada), directed and written by Geneviève Dulude-Decelles is a bottle scene between a father and daughter, in the moment when daughter opts to accept an invitation to a sleepover over spending the pre-planned weekend with her divorced father. The beauty is in the details — watching the pair come together through the intimacy of child giving parent a haircut in the kitchen and then drift apart as we see the lone father put the thawing chicken for the evening meal back into the freezer. I can’t say that this film offers much that we haven’t seen before or that we don’t know intuitively, but it’s a nicely directed moment and a poignant one as well.

Ben Berman’s I’m a Mitzvah (U.S.), written by Berman and Josh Cohen, starts with the absurdist and initially promising premise of a young man (Ben Schwartz, of Jean Ralphio fame) stuck overnight in rural Mexico with his best friend’s corpse. Unwilling and unable (due to the horrified telephone shrieks of the departed’s hysterically crying mother) to leave the coffin at the airport, the protagonist is forced to book it a bed in his hotel room. The film proceeds nonsensically from there, with Schwartz taking the coffin out on the town and then to the beach for a midnight swim and tryst with a Mexican woman who speaks no English, but understands most of his for no apparent reason (aside from convenience). In all, it’s a bad Dave Eggers story, an unfortunate swing-and-a-miss for Schwartz, who looks like yet another Millennial actor feeder fish for the indie film industry (because yes, it’s an industry) monster. Graceful moments on his part don’t make up for the fashionably poor lighting and cheesy music or for the precious plot.

I Think This Is the Closest to How the Footage Looked (Israel), directed by Yuval Hameiri and Michal Vaknin, from the documentary category, is a DIY attempt to recreate a lost video of one man’s last day with his mother. The pleading melancholy of the voiceover paired with the deliberately crummy quality of the video equipment and the household goods used to represent unavailable human actors makes it heartbreaking, but not altogether genuine.

There’s a little bit of pander to this found-objects shtick, regardless of how real the catch in your throat is when the COURTESY OF MOSHEL FILMS

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one second of real footage jumps in and out COURTESY OF BEN BERMAN of focus in the film’s last seconds.

Love. Love. Love.(Russia), directed by Sandhya Daisy Sundaram follows the various stages of love, all through the eyes of working class Russian women. While interview-style faux-documentaries about love are not new ground in American mainstream (see Paper Hearts, When Harry Met Sally, He’s Just Not That Into You), there is still something to be said for this attempts at genuine documentary on the subject in incredibly specific context. These women say interesting and moving things, seemingly without cue. “Some loafer made up the tale that love exists on Earth. Out of laziness or boredom, people believe it and live,” is the opening line, spoken softly by a middle-aged woman who lines up a row of nesting dolls in a shop window.

MeTube: August Sings Carmen “Habanera” (Austria), written and directed by Daniel Moshel is essentially a music video: Andy COURTESY OF BRETT WEINER Kaufman meets LSD. The “MeTube” video is ostensibly a parody/homage to YouTube and its grab basket of talented and grossly untalented contributors and features a man signing George Bizet`s “Habanera” from Carmen while his background morphs and becomes increasingly surreal. A man with a ball-gag in his mouth plays pianos as various dancers, elderly women and American Horror Story rubber men wander in and out. Reserving feelings on this one for when they escape repression. In the meantime, if you enjoy it, I suggest checking out Spring Hill Spider Party’s “Escalator.”

Brett Weiner’s Verbatim (U.S.) is essentially a staged reading of an actual deposition filed with the south and her insistence that false enlightenment was the Supreme Court of Ohio — a comedy of the mundane surest way for a soul to be undone. While O’Connor’s which shows a drably mustachioed lawyer becoming foreshadowing of doom comes in the form of a backwards increasingly frustrated with a witness’ (who is essentially grandmother flipping her lid over a tabloid’s coverage of a 30 Rock’s J.D. Lutz) refusal to acknowledge that he under- highway serial killer, McGowan’s is far more sinister — stands what a photocopier is. As dull as it sounds, it’s even Dawn, a sheltered teen eager for romance, reads articles in duller, and some inexplicably sidesplitting. The joke here Tattler about the importance of being an “easygoing gal” is of the same style which made The Office the only com- and always saying yes. Dated reference? Probably not, conedy from the last decade that will stand the test of time — sidering the Seventeen and CosmoGirl flashbacks that the humor that comes from the realization that you do most heterosexual women in the audience will have. I’d say the O’Connor tie-in and poodle skirt motif were cloying, know people that stupid.

Dawn (U.S.), the best of the bunch, which starts with but for the perfectly crafted moment of realized doom, aesthetic hints at yet another dark-side-of-suburbia post- borrowed from the moment when O’Connor’s “Misfit” Lynch bore, morphs into a ultra-stylized but excruciating- comes out of the woods wearing the family patriarch’s ly-slowly-terrifying horror story, in the vein of Flannery shirt: “Let’s trade dresses,” is a weird line upon which to O’Connor’s classic short story, “A Good Man is Hard to feel your stomach drop, but it is as effective as that goddess Find.” Director Rose McGowan and screenwriters M.A. of Gothicism could ever have hoped.

The Sundance Film Festival Shorts on Tour will be playFortin and Joshua John Miller originally intended to do a direct adaption of the story, and saw the rights pulled out ing at Cornell Cinema on Friday at 9:30 p.m., Saturday at from under them at the last minute — but the references 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 7:00 p.m. are obvious to any viewer with even a cursory knowledge of O’Connor’s ’60s Southern grotesque, her disdain for Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life the moral ineptitude of white men and women in the rural Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

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We Take Our Fun Very Seriously Studio mk27 at Milstein Hall area. Four French beach chairs face a cement wall as the five films loop during gallery hours: Cat Film, directed by Lea van Steen and Through the lens of a bumbling maid, an Marcio Kogan. The opening shot of the film immensely displeased homeowner and a vari- focuses on Kamylo, a poofy Himalayan cat ety of other narrators, We Take Our Fun Very sleeping contentedly on a pink chair bedecked Seriously reveals Studio mk27’s brilliant archi- with giant stuffed animals. Kamylo soon rouses tecture in its simplest, most natural form — his or herself to patrol and note the actions of the homes where people, and one inquisitive the house’s residents. A wooden ledge jutting Himalayan cat, live. out from the second story provides a suitable Led by Marcio Kogan, Studio mk27 con- catwalk for Kamylo to spy upon her or his sists of 23 architects who, according to their cohabitants. Through Kamylo’s eyes, we learn artist statement for We Take Our Fun Very how fun it is to explore a masterfully designed Seriously, prioritize “formal simplicity and house — the interplay of home and nature, the attention to the details and finishing elements.” trees growing through patio to the second floor, Studio mk27 appears to operate on two princi- the dazzling dancing of light between glass ples: collaboration and perfection. Kogan him- walls. Kamylo encounters plush carpeting self works on every project and buildings under paw and realizes the confusion and designed by Studio mk27 often credit two or excitement of happening upon hidden rooms more architects. with genuine surprise.

The division between the outer world and Modern Living, directed by Lea van the artistic world in Milstein Hall’s Bibliowicz Steen and Marcio Kogan. The next film, a Family Gallery is nearly unnoticeable as two stated homage to Richard Paulick’s Bauhaus heavy black curtains cordon off the viewing film Neues Wohnen, uses a ’50s aesthetic to emphasize the playfulness of Kogan’s architecture.

Narrated by Brazilian voice actor Phil Miler, and featuring Lulu Pavarin as both an industrious maid and dignified homeowner, Modern Living extolls the space-age details of Kogan’s structure. The film portrays house’s stunning details as a point of mockery, MARCIO AND GABRIEL KOGAN AT MILSTEIN AUDITORIUM an exemplar of the COURTESY OF THE COLLEGE OF ART, ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING frivolities of modSHAY COLLINS Sun Contributor

ernist architecture. To demonstrate the importance of the crushed stone floor of the wine cellar, for example, Pavarin drops a vintage Chateau Margaux thrice, each time with exaggerated sheepishness. Whenever Pavarin darts off screen with the central vacuum cleaner or a feather duster, she is sure to quickly pop back out on the other side of an inlaid window.

Studio SC, directed by Pedro Kok and Gabriel Kogan. The third film in the series opens with an image of ants scurrying over a lichen-laden tree. Studio SC, a Sao Paolo photography studio, appears alien at first glance, outfitted with perforated metal folded onto itself. Massive steel pillars and a slowly whirring turbine starkly contrast against the saturated greenness of the Brazilian flora. A door, seemingly sentient, slides away into the wall; the camera cuts to the artful silhouette of a shimmering tree framed against the tight lines of the studio’s exterior. Matte black photography frames, massive flashes, and an expansive row of computers fill the studio’s interior. The film briefly focuses on the vividness of a curved red chair against the grey and tan wood paneling, and we return once more to the ants, now scavenging across a rock pit.

This Was Not My Dream, directed by Pedro Kok and Gabriel Kogan. As the title states, the narrator of This Was Not My Dream (Stephane Cornicard) dreamed not of a modernist home, but a classical project — “the symbol of permanence, something with history.”

His disgust with clean-cut, modernist architecture, his ex-wife Suzana and the dreaded architects grows stronger with every widescreen shot of the beautiful Casa Redux. Ana Paula Motta’s performance as Suzana is sensual in the tactile sense of the word — we see her massaging the wooden coffee tables or slowly turning the carefully placed glass bottles. Kogan’s beliefs seem subtly presented when the ex-husband states, “They think that the house should defy

everyday life, teaching me how I should live.”

In the end, we see the narrator’s hands (really the hands of Eduardo Glycerio) drafting his ideal home, with “pediments and ornamented columns.”

Cube House, directed by Gabriel Kogan and Pedro Kok. Cube House, the final, and briefest, film of the exhibition largely eschews stated narrative, focusing instead on the scientific, almost horrific appearance of mk27’s buildings. The opening shot focuses on the fuzzy texture of a thick, irregular carpet. Shot entirely in gray scale, a pulsating, distorted bass line and shrieking saxophone transform every image from the beautiful to the terrifying – huge leaves trembling under some unseen force, the sudden backlighting of a row of cabinets. Rather than humorously ridiculing mk27’s architecture like This Was Not My Dream, Cube House proves that even framed by intense lighting and an unnerving score, mk27’s work still stuns.

Studio mk27 and director of photography Cleisson Vidal blur the lines between fine art and functionality, home and monument, and between work and play. On the back wall of the gallery, the curator mounted architectural models of the five structures — Toblerone House, Casa P, Studio SC, Casa Redux, and Casa Cubo. Viewing the small, white models and remembering the hilarious, vibrant films reveals the power of We Take Our Fun Very Seriously — presenting architecture as a fullbodied, compelling narrative.

We Take Our Fun Very Seriously will be on display Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the Bibliowicz Family Gallery in Milstein Hall until September 26.

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at smc377@cornell.edu.

The Dawn of the Gilmore Boy O

n the evening of May 17, 2007, at 14 years old, I stood screaming at the television set in the breakfast room because coverage of a wildfire in California had interrupted the series finale of Gilmore Girls. This was the days before Hulu and we did not have a DVR (because the deal had been that we’d get one if my sister got an A in AP Bio … ), so I think my priorities were pretty much in check.

It was recently announced, to the glee of millions of mainly women, that Gilmore Girls will be coming to Netflix on October 1, a fact unbeknownst to me when I purchased the first four seasons of Gilmore Girls in July on Amazon.

I was initially peeved by this unnecessary monetary expense (or rather the unnecessary reprimand from my mother for using her Amazon account). However I am now pleased to have been reacquainted with the program prior to its imminent wide release.

Now, I am well equipped to explain to those of you less fortunate souls who grew up without the pleasure of watching Melissa McCarthy make zucchini soup and mushroom risotto, why you should watch it come October 1 — especially to any boys who felt there was nothing for them in a show with “girls” in the title.

Some quick background info: Gilmore Girls aired from 2000 to 2007 on the WB (20002006) and the CW (2006-2007). It follows Lorelai Gilmore (Parenthood’s Lauren Graham) and her teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel of Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants fame and a recent stint on Mad Men), who Lorelai had at the age of 16, as well as a cornucopia of quirky friends and relatives in the small town of Stars

Hollow, Connecticut.

Included among the large and diverse cast is the klutzy and injury-prone chef Sookie St. James (McCarthy pre-Bridesmaids), the grumpy diner-owner and keeper of the coffee, Luke Danes (Scott Patterson) and Lorelai’s WASP-y and uptight parents (Kelly Bishop and Edward Herrmann) — although if we’re real here, the Gilmores use far too many Yiddish words for it to be believable they’re of Mayflower stock.

Despite the title, Gilmore Girls is just as much about boys and men as it is about girls.

Though the mother-daughter relationship is central to the plot, but it’s much less about their gender than it is about parent-child communication, friendship and trust.

Rory is a girl with boy problems, but she’s also a teenager struggling to find her place in a

sibilities that come with adulthood.

Not only do these two women face problems that have nothing to do with the fact they are women, the men of Stars Hollow are fleshed out three-dimensional characters who face their own dilemmas — which admittedly many shows of this genre do not do (Charmed, Dawson’s Creek etc…).

Luke Danes is a fully rounded character in his own right and cannot simply be dismissed as a love interest for Lorelai, though their COURTESY OF WARNER BROTHERS chemistry is wonderful (Spoiler alert: It takes them until the last episode of Season 4 to finally acknowledge it). or read Pride and Prejudice until their ninth He appears in every episode and has his own grade English teacher assigned it.

Those are both wonderful works of film and plotlines that involve other women, his Renaissance Faire literature that on the surface appear to be about vendor sister and her leather women’s experiences, but actually offer a much jacket-clad son Jess (Milo more thorough commentary on human relaVentimiglia) as well as daily spats tionships in general that appeals to members of all genders. Gilmore Girls does that exceedingly with town busybodies.

Gilmore Girls also has an well in addition to being entertaining and Carrot Top added depth because it is multi- funny.

So, boys, it’s okay that you were too busy generational. Not only do we see Confessions Rory, her parents and grandpar- sticking things up your nose and playing with ents, but her great-grandmother your Gameboy Color in 2002 to notice that new school where she feels alienated due to her and the parents of her schoolmates who are your sisters and mothers and grandmothers social class and dealing with the pressures of get- older than Lorelai as they didn’t all have their were watching one of the best television shows of all time. Soon you will have your chance to ting into college (something maybe you guys children at 16. can relate to).

It is understandable that, between the years become a Gilmore Boy. Likewise, though Lorelai is a woman with 2000 and 2007 when Gilmore Girls was on tele- Julia Moser is a senior in the College of Arts and men problems, she is also a young adult grap- vision, many boys my age felt the show had Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellpling with the expectations of her parents, her nothing to offer them — in the same way that sun.com. Carrot Top Confessions appears alterown passions and the daily realities and respon- they probably didn’t see Mean Girls in theaters nate Wednesdays this semester.

Julia Moser

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PHOENIX (AP) — Mark Trumbo’s bat put a dent in San Francisco’s NL West hopes.

Wade Miley’s left arm didn’t do the Giants any favors either.

Trumbo hit a grand slam off Ryan Vogelsong, Miley pitched seven effective innings and the Giants dropped further behind in the NL West with a 6-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks Monday night.

Joaquin Arias had three hits and Buster Posey a run-scoring single for the Giants, who dropped four games behind the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NL West.

“They scored all three runs with two outs,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “We had a couple of pretty good opportunities, but couldn’t get it close enough to put a little more pressure on them.”

A pair of losses to the Dodgers over the weekend “He’s kind of hitting his hurt San Francisco’s NL West chances, but the stride lately, swining the Giants were still in control of the NL wild card, enterbat much better, more ing Monday’s game three comfortable.” games up on Pittsburgh for the top spot.

Kirk Gibson What the Giants couldn’t afford was a letdown in a three-game series at Chase Field, where they had won 16 of 22 games and six straight series since 2012.

The start of this series against the struggling Diamondbacks didn’t go so well.

Miley (8-11) bounced back from his shortest outing of the season by slowing down his mechanics, allowing one run.

Trumbo started Arizona’s homestand strong and kept it going against the Giants, hitting his ninth homer off Vogelsong (8-11) in the third inning and a run-scoring single off Juan Gutierrez in the seventh.

Trumbo has six hits and nine RBIs the past three games.

“He’s kind of hitting his stride lately, swinging the bat much better, more comfortable,” Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said of Trumbo.

Vogelsong pitched 6 2-3 scoreless innings against the Diamondbacks his last outing, but was in trouble by the third in his 30th start of the season. The Diamondbacks loaded the bases against him and Trumbo cashed in, ending a 120 at-bat homerless streak by lifting his second career grand slam just over the wall in right.

Arizona loaded the bases again in the sixth against Vogelsong, but Javier Lopez ended the threat by inducing a groundout on his first pitch.

Vogelsong allowed four runs and six hits with four walks and five strikeouts.

It was a bad inning; it wasn’t very good,” Vogelsong said.

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They proved it again on Monday night.

Foles threw a tying touchdown pass with 3:25 to go, and then set up Cody Parkey for the winning 36-yard field goal as time expired, lifting Philadelphia to a 30-27 win at the Indianapolis Colts.

Sproles had seven receptions for 152 yards to go along with a touchdown run as the Eagles (20) won their first game on the road for the sixth consecutive season. Philadelphia, which stormed back from a 17-0 halftime deficit to beat Jacksonville 34-17 in Week 1, also became the fourth team in the last 30 years to win consecutive games in which it trailed by 14 or more points in the 2nd half, according to STATS. “He’s just a special player,” coach Chip Kelly said, praising Sproles for his role in the primetime comeback. “The first day we had him it was, ‘How many different ways can we find ways to get him the football?’ He’s

just a dynamic football player.”

Philadelphia’s latest rally came against the defending AFC South champs, against a team that had never lost back-to-back regular-season games with Andrew Luck at quarterback.

The Colts (0-2) led 17-6 at halftime, but committed two costly turnovers in the second half that the Eagles turned into 14 second-half points.

Foles was 21 of 37 for 331 yards with one touchdown — a 6-yard pass to Jeremy Maclin with 3:25 to go that tied it at 27.

McCoy ran 20 times for 79 yards and scored Philadelphia’s first touchdown of the night with 4:32 left in the third quarter.

The Eagles appeared to be in trouble when Indianapolis was driving with a 27-20 lead in the fourth. But Luck’s short pass intended for T.Y. Hilton with 5:08 to go was intercepted by Malcolm Jenkins.

Two plays later, McCoy was stopped for a loss but LaRon Landry was called for a questionable horse-collar tackle.

Sproles then took a swing pass for a 51-yard gain to the 6, and Foles found Maclin for the tying score.

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ishing skills to net from close range. Then, only 93 seconds later, Growney converted after a post-corner kick scramble, to give the Red a 4-0 advantage.

Cornell finished off its run with a long range effort from freshman defender and midfielder Kaylee Fitzgerald who, having seen the VMI keeper off her line, sent the ball flying into the net from 40 yards out.

According to Banks, it was Cornell’s increased tempo that led to such high scoring.

“We worked on a lot of combo play in our attacking third, which everyone got to see in the second half of our game against VMI when some of that play amounted to four goals,” she said. “It was great to see a number of people score this weekend and I think with more practice, we will continue making strides as a team.”

The win was Cornell’s third of the season, and sophomore goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney recorded her third shutout of the season even though she did not need to make any saves.

However, on Sunday, it was the Red who were guilty of a slow start after Temple raced to a 1-0 lead after only eight minutes. This was the first goal Cornell had conceded all season.

The women responded quickly and were level by the 23rd minute. Crowell crossed the ball in from the right-hand side, and Senior forward Kerry Schubert pounced on it, heading the ball in from 15 yards out.

The game was then in deadlock until second over-time when, with just two minutes remaining, Temple served the ball across the goal and jumped on it to steal the win and the tournament for Temple.

Despite the tight finish, Cornell had three representatives on the all tournament team,

including Growney, Crowell and junior defender Charlotte Tate.

The Red will continue to work on improving its tempo in training this week, with a focus on tight and quick defense in the last third of the field.

“This following week we will be working on decision making in the final third of the field. We want to be able to make the final pass that will split the opposing team’s defense and lead to a goalscoring opportunity,” said Crowell. “If we can make smarter decisions in the attacking third, we will greatly increased the amount of opportunities we have to put the ball in the back of the net.”

Cornell is back in action next Friday at home against University of Buffalo before it travels to Binghamton University on Sunday.

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

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good teams from great teams.”

Morris elaborated on the complexities of the position.

He said, “It’s a challenging position because it is dynamic between the skilled aspect of being a pass catcher, ball carrier and blocker on the outside of the field.”

According to Roth, who switched to wide receiver after playing quarterback in the beginning of his Cornell career, the Red has been working hard in the preseason to lay the foundation for success, beginning with positive results against Franklin Pierce on Saturday.

“We set the tone right off the bat,” he said. “Practices have been fast paced to simulate game situations. We hope to transfer this intensity on Saturday against Franklin Pierce.”

Despite falling to the Ravens in a tight contest last year, Marrero shared a positive outlook regarding the season opener.

“We’re looking forward to the matchup. After a close loss in the Allegiance Bowl last year, we have them for our season opener on Saturday,” he said. “Every day in practice we have been working on our execution and are excited to play.”

Win or lose, representing the Red has shaped many of these players’ Cornell experiences both on and

off the field. Marrero said that playing for Cornell allowed him to fulfill his passion for football while gaining valuable time management skills that carry over in the classroom.

“Playing sprint football at Cornell has allowed me to pursue my athletic goals while balancing a busy school schedule,” he said. “The nature of the sport, being weightrestricted football, teaches me discipline and forces me to manage your time efficiently.”

Roth also said that playing sprint football has had a profound impact on his college experience, enabling him to learn from fellow teammates who he respects.

“Playing sprint football at Cornell has been a defining college experience,” he said. “I have learned a lot from my teammates in how they conduct themselves on the field, in the classroom and on campus. Because of them, every week I feel proud to put on my jersey.”

Sophomore Logan Stevenson echoed Roth and Marrero’s sentiments, adding that he is grateful to be a part of the Cornell sprint football legacy.

“Sprint football is a huge time commitment,” he said. “Being part of such an awesome tradition — and being surrounded by successful and knowledgeable people — is a humbling experience.”

Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

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Joanna Novakovic ’03 Joins Red Coaching Staff

By ANNA JOHNSON Sun Staff Writer

This fall, seasoned rider and new team coach Joanna Novakovic ‘03 will lead Cornell’s equestrian women, an endeavor she plans to undertake with special effort towards channeling existing team motivation and taking the Big Red to new heights.

As a four-time United States Equestrian Federation national champion, Novakovic knows a thing or two about riding. Though she is new to team coaching, the United States Hunter Jumper Association certified trainer joins the Cornell women with plenty of practice in individual coaching and plans to use this to the program’s advantage.

“I am very excited to be coaching a team for the first time. … I’ve had lots of experience coaching individual riders, but the team aspect is something I’ve always been interested in, but never had

before.” Novakovic said. “This year, we’re trying a new practice format where the riders will receive more individualized instruction, and I am hoping that this will allow me to make each rider the best and most competitive they can be.”

According to Novakovic, the team already possesses dedication and motivation, and she hopes to harness and grow this existing foundation for the good of the team through tenacity and a fresh approach.

“I hope to be a strong leader for the team in the coming year and hope to bring the program to new heights through hard work and innovation,” Novakovic said. “I’ve only been with the team for a couple of weeks, but I can already see the motivation and team spirit they possess. … All of the girls are very committed to representing Cornell and to bringing home glory to the Red.” As the team gets back in the saddle for the season to come, coach Novakovic is

Getting pulped The men’s soccer team fell to Syracuse last night, 3-0. The last time the two teams met, the Orange ended Cornell’s run in the 2012 NCAA tournament.

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thinking ahead to both short-term and long-term goals and sets the bar high for the team and for herself. In addition, she strives to have the best care for the horses of the equestrian team.

“Our goal is always Nationals, but each show is an opportunity to improve and to perform at the absolute best,”

Novakovic said. “I look forward to seeing the team succeed and will commit myself to not only having the best riders around, but also to having top notch horse care and development.”

Anna Johnson can be reached at ajohnson@cornellsun.com.

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dominance in basketball. Every team would have an enforcer and a rivalry, and that is what made games exciting. In today’s NBA, the traditional big man player is hard to find. With a propensity for flagrant fouls called on physical contact and verbal abuse by players, the players that would have at one point been responsible for doing the dirty work in the paint and intimidating opponents are now being heralded as bullies.

DeMarcus Cousins is one of the most statistically talented centers in the NBA today. However, his numerous infractions with opposing teams and inconsistent temperament has put a blemish on his young career, a blemish that would not have existed 20 years ago.

In the MLB, numerous recent rule additions have changed the game and created an inconsistent environment of play. Most notably are the new collision rules. Rule 7.13 is the home plate collision rule that states that catchers should no longer block the plate prematurely and runners should avoid contact. Despite their dangerous nature, home plate collisions have always been a part of the game of baseball. The rule has already affected the MLB. In a late July contest between the Reds and the Marlins, Rule 7.13 was used to overturn an interaction at the plate, leaving the Marlins livid about the lateinning, game-changing call.

This rule has specifically been called the Buster Posey rule, after the promising young catcher had to miss the majority of the 2011 season because of a fractured leg sustained in a home plate collision. Many new rules are being inspired by specific injuries to star athletes.

More recently, Paul George’s leg fracture has inspired basketball to change the position of the hoop stations in an effort to

avoid repeat injuries. Changes to equipment and equipment placement are good measures to help athletes stay uninjured.

However, when it comes to physical contact between players, there should not be so many limiting regulations.

As advertising has taken a greater precedent in the sports world, the softening of the games has occurred to make sure that professional sports appeal to all viewers and violence is not promoted. In a way, these changes are just putting censorship on the game.

There is a reason why videos history by taking away these titled “Best NFL Hits” and important elements that we all love to see in “ T h e games.

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sports involve contact and unfortunately in some cases, injuries. That is the way sports have always been played.

Regulations slow down the game and limit rivalry. As a lifelong sports fan, I hope that the current trend of creating rules to soften the play of sports in the United States comes to a screeching halt very soon.

Nikita Dubnov is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He can be contacted at ndubnov@cornellsun.com. Nik’s Knacks appears every Wednesday this semester.

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SPRINT FOOTBALL

Red Wide Receivers to Be Key for Upcoming Season Wideouts becoming increasingly important to the game

By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Just as a strong emphasis on the passing game in the NFL has given way to an increase in talented wide receivers in recent years, so too has this shift been seen in the Collegiate Sprint Football League. Rule makers have altered the game dramatically over the decades, and the changes they have championed, in recent years in particular, have led to the prolific era of passing seen today. With offenses sending passing numbers to the roof, Cornell’s sprint football wideouts have taken on instrumental roles on the field. Carrying a lot of responsibility on their shoulders, the Red’s group of wide receivers is a diverse and strongwilled bunch, determined to make its mark this season.

Despite picking up sprint football for the first time at Cornell, many of the

upperclassmen wideouts have proven to be fast learners under Coach Terry Cullen and have become strong leaders for the Red. Junior Trevor Marrero, for example, has just two years of playing time under his belt, as he instead pursued basketball and lacrosse at Phillips Exeter Academy. In contrast, senior wide receiver Jonathan Roth brings a wealth of experience to the squad, having played football since elementary school.

Their different backgrounds reflect the wide range of experience these players have as a group. Regardless of experience prior to Cornell, since suiting up for the Red, the upperclassmen have all stepped up and lead by example.

“Wideouts are led by experienced upperclassmen in Trevor Marrero and John Roth,” said senior wide receiver Alec Morris.

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Blocking off | The Red’s group of wide receivers is a diverse group of players, each having different football experience, ranging from years of play to just one or two years with the sport.

that requires players to master a variety of skills. They must be agile and quick-minded and the best wide receivers are those who can predict changes in the landscape around them and adapt accordingly.

Further, wide receivers must have a strong sense of space and always look for holes in the defensive zones. Ultimately, wideouts have a simple yet highly important job — running the optimal route, blocking defenders and getting open in the right

place at the right time.

Roth explained that the Red is focusing on blocking in particular in the preseason.

“To put it simply, the WR’s main goal is to catch the ball and block on run plays.

This year during practice we have spent a lot of time focusing on blocking. It’s the small things like this that differentiate See FOOTBALL page 14

The Softening Women Host Big Red Shootout Of Sports O WOMEN’S SOCCER

By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

The women’s soccer team had mixed results this weekend at the inaugural Big Red Shootout, easing to a 5-0 victory on Friday over Virginia Military Institute before just falling short in second overtime to Temple University, 21, on Sunday.

The Big Red Shootout was the first time that Cornell hosted a women’s soccer tournament since 1995. With St. Bonaventure University participating as the fourth team in the tournament, the overall victory was decided by total number of points, with three points given for winning a game, one for drawing and none for losing. The Red finished the tournament tied in second place with St. Bonaventure, but were

given second place over the Bonnies due to the fact that they scored more goals over the weekend.

After a strong opening weekend the week before, Cornell hit training hard and, according to sophomore midfielder Elizabeth Crowell, focused on upping the Red’s tempo on the field while also improving defensively.

“This week in training, we focused on raising our speed of play. The goal is that each player should always be able to play the ball in two touch. We just want to move the ball faster,” she said.

“The second thing we worked on is to be more aware of our teammates on defense. Our defensive tactic is not to mark man-toman, but to be aware of where your teammates are in the field, and to be ready to cover them as

they go to defend.”

Cornell’s showed improvements in both these areas from the start of the tournament, playing with intensity and pace. As a result, the team was quickly rewarded against VMI when, 11 minutes into the game, sophomore forward Dempsey Banks broke down the left wing before crossing to junior forward Caroline Growney in the area.

Growrney then offloaded to sophomore forward Meera Marhoefer to score her first goal of the season.

The Red held this margin until halftime, but a flurry of three goals in seven minutes sealed the win later on. The first two of these goals were scored by Crowell, who showed great fin-

n Sunday night, I sat down with a couple of buddies to watch the Bears take on the 49ers in San Francisco. I was following some players that were on my fantasy team and was excited to see a game full of excitement and action. As a whole, the game did not disappoint. But one thing was glaringly obvious — there were way too many play stoppages called.

With a flag being thrown almost every other play, it seemed like the referees saw just as much action in the game as the players did.

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about the adoption of such rules. Chicago Bears running back Matt Forte expressed his disapproval of the rule around running backs saying, “Wow so they really passed that rule ... last time I checked football was a contact sport. Calling bank now to set up my lowering the boom fund.”

The other issue with the new safety rules is that they are not consistent at every level.

Many football experts have pointed out that Jadeveon Clowney’s highlight backfield fumble recovery against Michigan at the NCAA level

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Kicking back | Sophomore Elizabeth Crowell helped the Red to victory on Friday, scoring two of the five goals in Cornell’s game against Virginia Military Institute.

Over the course of the last few years, the NFL has adopted many controversial rules to protect players from injuries.

Now, NFL referees have to pay attention to very specific rules that can really be called either way. Some of these newsworthy rules include a rule banning unnecessary contact with a receiver after five yards and a rule for running backs disallowing them to use their helmets while trucking through defenders.

Players around the league have had varying opinions

would have simply been overturned as a penalty in the NFL. This is a perfect example of how safety rules are making the game unreliable, soft and less exciting. This shift is happening across a variety of sports.

After incidents such as the infamous Malice at the Palace brawl, the NBA has also begun to take measures to make the game less physical. The Jordan era was a time of physical See DUBNOV page 15