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No Byline Funding For MGLC Chapters By NOAH RANKIN Sun Senior Writer
Trying to get a line in the bathroom | Concertgoers at the Electric Zoo Festival, at which two people died of MDMArelated causes, dance on Randall’s Island in New York on Sept. 3.
Molly:The New‘It’ Party Drug? By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor
Editor’s note: Because both using and distributing Molly is illegal, the names of students interviewed for this article have been changed to protect their anonymity. He did it to feel ecstatic. Every two to three weeks, Jake would take Molly before going out for the night. But after one night, a bad trip rendered him nearly incapable of returning home. He abused his girlfriend. And despite sitting down with Jake to talk about the drug’s effects, Blake, a senior history major, said he was unable to convince Jake to stop. “Fuck this drug,” Blake said to The Sun. Molly, the powder form of MDMA, has polar-
ized opinions among Cornellians who have come across it. Embraced by music festival attendees for its euphoria-inducing qualities and condemned by both users and their friends, Molly was described by students who talked to The Sun as being everything from “a chill thing” to “something that can destroy your brain.” At Cornell, students surveyed by Gannett Health Services in 2010 believed as many as 60 percent of their peers had used the drug, according to Deborah Lewis, health educator at Gannett. In reality, only three percent said they had tried it. “I think the use of Molly here at Cornell is pretty rare. What we know about Cornell students is that their use of Molly tends to be less
Members of Multicultural Greek Letter Council organizations expressed concern over how they would be able to fund activities after the MGLC failed to meet deadlines to apply for byline funding. The MGLC is comprised of 14 culturally-based sororities and fraternities and coordinates programs among its organizations, members and the rest of the community at the University. This fall, MGLC executive board members did not submit an application for byline funding to the Student Assembly Finance Committee by the Sept. 13 deadline — meaning MGLC groups will go without byline funding for the next two academic years. The failure to meet SAFC deadlines arose out of “unforeseen circumstances,” according to William Jackson ’14, president of the MGLC. “The MGLC not being able to complete the application has been very unfortunate for our council,” Jackson said. Jackson said that MGLC experienced turnover in two “key executive board positions” over the summer that made meeting the funding application deadline “incredibly challenging.” According to Jackson, one of the positions that the MGLC saw turnover in was vice president of finance. The student who had been elected to the position made a sudden decision to take a year away from the University for personal reasons, according to Jackson. Even with the turnover, Geoffrey Block ’14, vice president of finance for the Student Assembly, said he was surprised that the MGLC did not turn in the application on time. Block said he had met with the organization’s executive board members twice before the application deadline. “The MGLC expressed problems that had arisen with acquiring their past financial data, but they assured me they would be able to turn in an application by the deadline,” Block said. “This is not a situation I desired, and I feel especially bad for the individual MGLC chapters who were not responsible for submitting the byline application but who will no doubt be harmed by the failure of the MGLC executive board to turn in a byline application by the dead-
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Verizon CEO Stresses Importance Of CommunicationsTechnology By TYLER ALICEA Sun Senior Writer
Communications technology will be integral to society in the future, Verizon Communications CEO Lowell C. McAdam ’76 said to more than a hundred audience members at Cornell’s Statler Hall Thursday. McAdam, who is also the chairperson of Verizon, spoke at the University’s 32nd annual Robert S. Hatfield Lecture. Each year, the University selects a Hatfield fellow from individuals representing the corporate sector to deliver the address, according to a University press release. McAdam took the audience back to
the beginnings of the information age, saying foundational technologies — including ethernet, the cell phone and Apple’s first computer, the Apple I — were being developed during his time at Cornell. The first cell phone, he said, was only available in 1983, when one could buy a cell phone from Motorola priced at $3,900 and weighing 31 ounces. “The iPhone that many of you have in your pocket today weighs about seven ounces. Anyone want to trade in for a 31-ouncer?” McAdam said. Today, technologies seem to be emerging at an even more rapid pace See VERIZON page 5
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“The future impact of the information revolution will be bigger, faster and more far reaching than anything we’ve seen today.” Lowell McAdam ’76 Tech wiz | Lowell C. McAdam ’76, chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, speaks as the 32nd Robert S. Hatfield fellow in economic education at Statler Auditorium Thursday.
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Myrick ’09 Talks City-Univ.Relations
Stewart said the University is also actively trying to improve communications with the City. “I want to let people know that we welcome Cornell and the City of Ithaca hope to continue improving their relationship and the them on campus. There’s all these wonderful communication between the two groups over things up here that people can access,” Stewart said. “We want the goal to be for people to say the years, officials said at a meeting Thursday. The meeting was organized by communica- ‘It wasn’t that bad.’” Responding to Stewart, Myrick added, tors@cornell, a network of communications experts at Cornell. The goal of communica- “We’ll put that on our bumper stickers. ‘Ithaca tors@cornell’s meetings to better connect stu- wasn’t that bad.’” Officials present at the meeting also stressed dents with the citizens of Ithaca, according to Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and Gary the importance of continuing to encourage the city and the Stewart, director of community University to conrelations for the University. nect. The dynamics of the rela- “I used to think the magic in G i n a tionship between Cornell and [communication] was the the city have been slowly speeches. If that were the way Giambattista, a campus communications improving over the decades, it worked, I would have given officer for communiStewart said. cators@cornell, said For instance, during the [a speech] a year and a half the network’s meet1969 Willard Straight Hall ings are a pivotal Takeover, the University presi- ago.” way to bridge the dent and the city’s mayor did Svante Myrick ’09 gap between the not even know each other, Ithaca community Stewart said. Since then, the city and the University have both been working and the Cornell community. “Engagement with the community is not to improve town-gown relations, he added. Now, Myrick said, whenever there is an inci- just topical — it’s what we as communicators dent concerning public safety, President David do,” she said. “We have information about the Skorton is one of the first people who calls him. research, the students, the events that are hap“I used to think the magic in [communica- pening at Cornell and we want to share those. tion] was the speeches,” Myrick said. “If that Our ‘Cornell community’ expands to the comwere the way it worked, I would have given [a munity of Ithaca because we do coexist.” speech] a year and a half ago. The truth is the way you make progress at an institutional level is by slow and steady — and sometimes slow — communication.” Joanna Gao can be reached at jg872@cornell.edu. By JOANNA GAO
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Prof. Emeritus Alison Lurie, literature, reads from her book of short stories, Women and Ghosts, Thursday.
Burning Question What does the fox say? “Foxes talk?”
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Ithaca Sees ‘Atypical’ Temperatures, Profs Say By KATE MONSON
Ithaca is not alone in experiencing the record high temperatures,” abnormal weather. With a cold spring in Zambreski said in an email. Roop Singh ’14, co-president of the the Northern Hemisphere and heat Erratic weather may seem like noth- Cornell Meteorology Club, agreed with waves travelling through Britain, China ing new to upstate New York, but the Zambreski, saying such fluctuations in and the Southwest of the United States, extreme fluctuations in weather the city temperature are not a cause for concern. this year has been marked by extreme was hit by this month were unusual for “September is a transition month for weather events, according to The New even Ithaca, according to Cornell mete- Ithaca from summer to fall, and warm York Times. orologists. Colucci said many scientists associate air masses in Last week, the temperathe south and climate change with increases in extreme ture Monday morning was “Last week’s high temcold air masses weather. However, he said he does not 40 degrees before reaching peratures were definitely from the north see a link between climate change and 72 degrees by the early f r e q u e n t l y the unusual patterns seen in Ithaca. afternoon. There was also a above the climatological “It is impossible to blame a particular replace each 30-degree variation in normals.” other, leading weather event like the temperature fluctemperatures between to large tem- tuations last week in Ithaca on climate Tuesday and Wednesday. perature fluc- change, although climate change might Zack Zambreski ’14 Such large fluctuations tuations,” he make these events more likely in the in temperature are unususaid. He added future,” he said. al, even for Ithaca, according to Prof. that people may perceive temperature Stephen Colucci, earth and atmospheric fluctuations to be larger because “people sciences. Usually, daytime and nighttime tend to have a short-term memory when Kate Monson can be reached at temperatures normally only vary by 20 it comes to weather.” kgm54@cornell.edu. degrees, according to Colucci. “Strong weather systems can circulate very warm air northward towards us, followed just a few days later by very cold air moving southward towards us,” Colucci said in an email. “This happened last week. However, such weather systems are more typical of the winter season here in Ithaca.” Echoing Colucci, Zach Zambreski ’14, co-president of the Cornell Meteorology Club, said last week's weather was atypical. “Last week’s high temperatures were definitely above the climatological normals, [which is the] 30-year average for this day for this time of year,” Zambreski said. The temperatures on Sept. 11 and 12 were 15 and 18 degrees above the normal climatological maximum temperatures for each day respectively, Zambreski said. Still, the temperatures were not record-breaking, he said. “The daily temperature ranges of [Sept.] 11 and 12 were at the high end JORDAN VARTANIAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER of the distribution of temperatures for those particular days but did not exceed Quad chilling | Cornellians enjoy the warm weather outside. Over the last week, daily tem-
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Loss of MGLC Funding Will‘Be a Struggle’ MGLC
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line.” Members of MGLC organizations expressed concern over how they would be able to continue funding their activities without byline funding. Allie Meng ’16, a member of the Alpha Kappa Delta Phi sorority — a MGLC chapter — said the MGLC’s failure to obtain byline funding would make programming even more challenging. “MGLC is already a really small community, and we really want to try to get our name out there,” Meng said. “Without funding and without the opportunity to have events, people are not going to know about us. It’s going to be a struggle.” Alice Shan ’15, president of Kappa Phi Lambda sorority, echoed Meng’s sentiments. She said byline funding is “definitely important” to Kappa Phi Lambda and its ability to fund activities, adding that she hopes her chapter will be able to secure alternative funding so it will be able to function as usual. “It definitely will be very difficult for our chapter,” Shan said. “But we’re adapting to it with a lot of other fundraising activities.” Jackson said the MGLC hopes to finance its activities through other means. “Our council is currently coming up an alternate plan for funding for all our chapter's cultural programs for the next two years,” Jackson said. “This is will be a tough learning experience that I see our council growing from.” Still, if funding comes from the SAFC, it may restrict the MGLC’s ability to fund events, according to Jackson. While byline funding gave the MGLC a set amount of money for a certain amount of years, the SAFC funding process works on a semesterly basis. Travis Apgar, associate dean of students, said in an email that he is “incredibly disappointed” with MGLC missing out on two years of byline funding. “This funding is relied on by the chapters of the [MGLC] to conduct dozens of cultural/education programs they provide to the Cornell community each year,” Apgar said in the email. “This is important programming.” The University is already looking for alternate sources of funding to “provide a bridge until the next byline cycle, but in this economically challenged environment, it will be difficult,” Apgar said. “We are also discussing how to put a structure in place that will prevent this from occurring in the future,” he added. Block also said he will work to help the MGLC find alternate means of funding. “I am personally committed to exploring all options to find avenues for funding the MGLC chapters, including both SAFC funding and other student and university funding sources,” Block said. “A strong MGLC community is a benefit to Cornell and the SA is committed to working with the MGLC over the next couple of months to explore possible funding sources for them.” Stratford Michael can be reached at wonderboy@cornellsun.com.
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Molly Use on the Rise Nationally,Data Shows MOLLY
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than even other college students,” Lewis said.
‘I Was on Someone’s Shoulders the Whole Concert’
Before attending Avicii’s concert at Cornell last year, Jackie, a senior psychology major, said she got drunk, crushed a tablet of Molly and snorted the powder with her friend. “We went to this kid’s apartment, and he suggested that we take Molly. We were really drunk, so we ended up doing it anyway,” she said. The next few hours were a blur — music pounding in Barton Hall, skimpily-clad students packing the floor, sweaty bodies pressing against each other. “I don’t remember anything except for being on someone’s shoulders the whole time I was at the concert,” Jackie said. The experience was “so fun, so euphoric” that she would not hesitate to take Molly again, Jackie said. “Molly doesn’t kill people,” she added. In fact, Molly is so harmless it should be legal, Josh, a senior computer science major, said to The Sun. “I feel better after a night of doing Molly than after a night of drinking,” he said. “You’re definitely not going to die unless you do a lot. You feel like you’re in control.” The Darker Side of Molly
Some students vehemently disagreed with their peers’ characterizations of Molly, saying they have witnessed firsthand how Molly can change people — making them irritable, paranoid or even depressed. There was Sam, a senior biology major, who said to The Sun that his childhood best friend has developed “serious differences in his personality” because he has abused Molly over the years. “You can start to see that he’s slower. He doesn’t have as much attention, he struggles with depression and he is taking SSRIs to deal with it,” Sam said. Watching his best friend slowly change over the years has been painful, Sam said. “He’s a great guy; I like him a lot. It’s really hard to deal with,” he said.
The unpredictability of Molly can also leave users “out of it for days after they’ve rolled,” Blake said. “Some of my friends have spent 72 hours acting dysfunctional, stuck on the couch and ruining relationships after taking Molly,” Blake said. The Science Behind the Drug
Gannett officials say it does not come as a surprise that Molly can leave users tired, irritable or even ill after an initial high. In the immediate aftermath of taking Molly, students face several risks: consequences from having consumed a
“People can experience depression afterwards, and sometimes, for people who use Molly pretty regularly, they can experience ongoing problems with depression and their neurotransmitter levels.” Deborah Lewis drug laced with other chemicals, dehydration or even death by overdose, Lewis said. Those susceptible to heart conditions are at even greater risk of having health complications arise from using Molly, she added. Even beyond the first few hours, Molly users have other problems to contend with, Lewis said. In the long term, Molly alters the brain’s neurotransmitter system so that mood regulation is disturbed for several days. “People can experience depression afterwards, and sometimes, for people who use Molly pretty regularly, they can experience ongoing problems with depression and their neurotransmitter levels,” Lewis said. “Back when ecstasy was used a lot in the early 90s — it was a big part of the rave scene — this became commonly known as the ‘Tuesday blues.’ I think we may be looking at the same kind of problem with Molly.” Despite researchers and doctors’ warnings, there are
Verizon CEO, Cornell Alumnus: Technology Will Change World VERIZON
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than ever before. McAdam attributed the rate at which communication technologies scale, the rapid emergence of social networks and Moore’s Law — a theory that predicts that the number of transistors on a computer chip will double every 18 months — to the growth of the communications technology market over the years. “So what does this combination of scale, connectivity and exponential change really mean? To put it simply, the future impact of the information revolution will be bigger, faster and more far reaching than anything we’ve seen today,” McAdam said. The rapid growth of communications technology is evident at Verizon, where, over the past five years, the company has invested $80 billion in bolstering its infrastructure. By 2017, mobile devices will account for more Internet traffic than wired devices, McAdam said, adding that mobile data usage has been increasing by 66 percent each year. McAdam said he believes Verizon contributed to this growth with its 4G LTE network. He added that Verizon is very committed to using technologies to benefit the world, listing examples of how his com-
pany uses technology to make advances in healthcare, energy and education. Some of the technologies that can make the world a better place are already available to the public, McAdam said. “Sometimes, all it takes is to help people make better use of the technology they already have in their pockets,” he said. For example, Verizon is working with one program that uses smartphones to remind patients when to take their medicine. Still, McAdam said he believes the future of healthcare involves biometrics, which track one’s vitals and send them over a secure Internet connection to doctors. “We think technology has the potential to drive down costs and improve outcomes for patients,” he said. “We’re working to give doctors and patients the technology tools they need to take charge of their health.” After McAdam’s lectgure, members of the audience asked questions regarding a variety of topics, including the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, net neutrality — the idea that all Internet data should be treated equally and that users should not be charged differently based on content they consume — and what McAdam’s thoughts are on the iPhone 5S. When asked about a previously top secret court order that
was published by The Guardian in June revealing the National Security Agency required Verizon to hand over data for phone records, McAdam said his company was just abiding by the law, despite his personal desire to not hand over the records. “When you’re in a business like we are, you have licenses from the government that provide certain services. Part of their right under the legislative system is to subpoena any records they want, and you have no choice but to comply with them. That’s what we’ve done,” he said. “We are the largest telecommunications provider to the United States government, and you have to do what your customer tells you.” On a lighter note, McAdam said he was honored to be selected as this year’s Hatfield fellow, despite his initial disbelief about receiving it. “When David Skorton asked me about this award, I literally turned around because I assumed that he must have been talking to someone standing behind me versus me,” he said. Previous Hatfield fellows include former Chief Executive and Chairman of Citigroup Sanford Weill ’55, former CEO of General Electric Jack Welch. Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun.com and twitter.com/tyleralicea.
signs that Molly use is on the rise nationally. From 2004 to 2009, there was a 123-percent increase in the number of emergency room visits that involved MDMA, according to the Drug Abuse Warning Network. ‘Think About What You’re Doing With Your Own Life.’
Given the risks taking any drug presents, Michael, a senior mathematics and physics major, said that, although he has taken Molly a couple times, he does not think it should be legal or widely available. “It’s illegal for a reason. If everyone did Molly every time they went to a concert, those concerts would be too crazy, and there would be too many deaths coming out of them,” Michael said. Another student went further, saying he wishes his peers would look past the hype and consider both the short-term and long-term consequences of Molly. “Think about your own safety, but even more than that, think about what you’re doing with your own life,” Blake said. “Are you making a positive change to your own self?” If a student does decide to try Molly, he or she should take steps to reduce the harm it might cause, Lewis said. “They should have a buddy with them who isn’t using it, make sure they drink water, make sure they take breaks to cool down and test that what they have is actually Molly,” Lewis said. “Take half if it’s a tablet and really give yourself an hour to an hour and a half to feel the effects before you have more, because if you’re taking something for the first time, you don’t know how the body will respond.” To Sam, there is no way to be careful with Molly. The best thing to do is to not try it, period, he said. “Don’t listen to kids that pretend they know things about Molly and tell you it's safe, because I guarantee they don’t understand a damn thing about it,” Sam said. “Consider who you are, and if you are at all proud of that, then I wouldn’t risk changing it and ruining it.”
Akane Otani can be reached at managingeditor@cornellsun.com and twitter.com/akaneotani.
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Lax Her-Bros and American Heroes This week, through the HEROIC art of whining, the HEROES in the Applied Economics and Management department HEROICALLY defended the integrity of their major against the VILLAINOUS intrusion of the new business minors. Thank god we have HEROIC AEM majors to protect the purity of their master race of HEROIC business aspirants. The VILLAINOUS Cornell masses are sure to be in for an unpleasant surprise when they realize the VILLAINOUS rigors of the AEM curriculum. We also salute the HEROES at Gannett Health Services, who are marking the VILLAINOUS persistence of a steady drug abuse rate in the win column — hey, they haven’t made it worse. These HEROES have acknowledged their inability to multitask and are HEROICALLY limiting their efforts to combat the VILLAINY of booze. Speaking of booze, the VILLAINS on the lacrosse team were discovered to be conducting off-field training of HEROIC new recruits. They (allegedly) have been VILLAINOUSLY “coercing” the squad’s HEROIC, innocent, impressionable young minds into VILLAINOUS acts of drunken debauchery. Stay strong, lax HER-BROS.
CORRECTIONS A news article that ran Sept. 19, “More Chinese Students Attend Cornell Summer Program,” originally stated that 1,000 Chinese students attended Cornell’s China-College Preparatory Program this summer. In fact, 87 students participated. A news article published Sept. 12, “Students Say Construction Near Goldwin Smith Is Disruptive,” incorrectly said construction has closed “numerous entrances and exits” to the building. In fact, the work only closed one entrance to the building. Additionally, the article said construction has closed the pathway between Lincoln Hall and Goldwin Smith. While the pathway was closed, it has been open since fall classes resumed.
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zra’s Oracle welcomes inquiries from members of the Cornell community about anything and everything related to the University. We seek out answers to campus mysteries, research rumors and investigate issues of relevance to Cornellians. Questions can be submitted via email to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Q: How many Cornellians stay in Ithaca and become townies after they graduate? — Inquiring Ithacan ’16 A: Ithaca is a wonderful place to live, so it’s no surprise that a lot of Cornellians choose to stick around after graduation (including our current mayor, Svante Myrick ’09). Many of those who don’t stay in Ithaca eventually return and settle down. As of this summer, the Ithaca area had nearly 7,800 Cornellians on record, the sixth most Cornellians out of any region in the world (the top five regions are New York City, Washington, D.C., greater Boston area, San Francisco Bay area, and northern New Jersey). Sometimes you need a few more years after you graduate to finish crossing things off the list of “161 Things Every Cornellian Should Do.” Q: Who is the elderly man in Uris Library who talks to himself? — Shy Studier ’16 A: We sent one of our sleuths to investigate this one. The gentleman declined to identify himself beyond saying that he is a member of the Ithaca community. The Cornell University Library system is open to the public, and anyone can visit the libraries and use materials, databases and resources on-site. Accessibility has been a major goal of the library since its earliest days, and Cornell had one of the first college libraries in the country to be open for extended hours and to allow students to borrow books. Q: Rumor has it that Cascadilla Hall was a psychiatric ward before it was transformed into a dorm. Is that true? — In Need of Help ’15 A: Despite the rumors, Cascadilla Hall was never used as a psychiatric ward or insane asylum. The confusion likely stems from its initial intended purpose as a water cure “sanitarium,” or medical facility for the chronically ill. The effort to construct the building was led by Samantha Nivison, the first woman to practice medicine in Tompkins County, who hoped to use Cascadilla as an educational facility for women doctors. Ezra Cornell invested in the project, but when funding ran out, he bought out the other investors and completed the construction so that Cascadilla could become the first building at Cornell University (while Morrill Hall was still under construction). Many faculty and students lived there in the early years, although President Andrew Dickson White described it as “an ill-ventilated, ill-smelling, uncomfortable, ill-looking alms house.” Q: Why are the fraternities all over the place? Other schools have a Greek Row. —Tired of Waking Up in New Parts of Campus ’15 A: Greek life has been part of Cornell since the very start, and fraternity houses followed shortly thereafter. While most fraternities were still renting rooms in downtown Ithaca, Alpha Delta Phi made the decision to purchase land and build its own fraternity house in 1878 about halfway up Buffalo Street (the red brick apartment building with a corner tower above Schuyler Place). Three factors led fraternities to move toward West Campus, mostly in the southern area: 1. Cornell began allowing fraternities to lease University land. 2. The Stewart Avenue bridge across Cascadilla Gorge was built and improved accessibility. 3. Ithaca’s trolley system eliminated substantial pedestrian traffic up Buffalo Street. When Cornell benefactress Jennie McGraw died in 1881, her mansion was sold to Chi Psi and the property was subdivided and sold to multiple fraternities, leading to construction of houses on the northern end of West Campus. As Cornell expanded across Fall Creek Gorge to north campus with Risley Hall in 1913, and then began building West Campus dormitories in 1914, more fraternities took advantage of the close proximity to students. Sororities began to move into their own houses in the late 1910s and early 1920s, mostly in the Cornell Heights area of North Campus. Q: Who made up that legend about the Ezra Cornell and A. D. White statues getting up and shaking hands if a virgin walks across the Arts Quad at midnight? — Waiting at Midnight ’15 A: As with most legends, pinpointing their exact origin is difficult, but it’s safe to say that this one has been around a long time. The A. D. White statue was dedicated in 1915, followed by Ezra Cornell’s statue in 1919 as part of Cornell’s semicentennial celebrations (delayed a year by World War I). It seems likely that some variation of the legend first began in the 1920s. The footsteps were painted on Halloween night in 1936, immortalizing the story for generations of Cornellians. A Cornell Daily Sun article from 1938 says that the painted footsteps caused “a humorous revival of a certain well known legend,” and the footsteps have continued to be repainted semi-regularly ever since. Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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OPINION
Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth
Grading Our Grading System W
ith exams coming up next week, it’s hard not to think about grades. So let’s talk about the use and role of grades in veterinary school. Several of my friends who are medical school students tell me that their curriculum is primarily some variation of pass/fail — they may get grades on exams but not for the class, or may have class rankings but not GPAs. I know that there are plenty of medical schools that do have a traditional grading system, but the pass/fail concept is one that is fairly common. To my knowledge, most veterinary schools still employ traditional grading systems. Grades in vet school at Cornell are exactly the same way as they are for undergraduate students — letter grades with pluses and minuses and the option to take certain elective classes pass/fail. I can understand the logic behind eliminating grades. Theoretically, it would cut down on competition and foster a cooperative learning atmosphere. Perhaps the idea is that if you are academically successful enough to be accepted into the program, the need to create such specific distinctions between students is no longer necessary. In the real world, a client/employer/colleague may ask what school you went to, but will not ask: “So, what was your GPA in
I don’t think the cost of eliminating grades is worth the benefits. veterinary school?” That being said, I don’t think the cost of eliminating grades is worth the benefits. Take a group of people whose entire lives thus far have been geared toward being the most academically successful that they can be, and then take away one of the main things that motivated them to do well at a time when what they are learning matters the most. There is always the notion of learning for the sake of learning. By this point, we should enjoy the journey to some extent or we wouldn’t still be here. However, this love for learning often translates into focusing only on things we care about very much, while glancing over the things that are not as interesting. So, if I want to work with horses, I’ll study what we learn about horses in exquisite detail and only skim through the information about cows. This is detrimental because not only do we have to know about all of the species to pass the national boards, but it’s dangerous to pigeonhole ourselves so early in our career — you never know where life will take you. On top of that, there are the practicalities of real life. I think we risk letting our studies fall to the wayside if some type of external importance wasn’t placed on it, especially when we’re also dealing with family drama and relationship issues and bills. So now that we’ve established that having grades is probably a good thing, how should we treat them? Some of our professors tell us not to worry about them because it doesn’t matter in the long run (to my knowledge the only time we would have to report a GPA is if applying to residency programs). But we have to worry about them — it’s in our nature. It’s the one way we can measure how well we’re absorbing the information. And this is what I think grades should be used for — as a personal measure of learning and not a way to compare ourselves to one another (which is what it often, unfortunately, became during our undergraduate careers). Knowing the means and standard deviations is unnecessary because it makes us put our learning in the context of everyone else, while instead we should be working to put our learning in the context of our personal goals and achievements. I’ve been at Cornell for more than six years now, and have found that it’s the kind of environment that breeds into its students a desire to be “the best.” What we forget all too easily, though, is that it’s much healthier and more self-fulfilling to aim for a “personal best” instead of “being better than everyone else.” Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a third-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Comment of the day “I think that the general concern many true AEM majors are expressing is that allowing more students to represent the Dyson School detracts from the specialized differentiation and strengths of the undergraduate business program here. Everybody on campus knows what the AEM program is, yet admissions allow only around 100 incoming freshman to enroll in the major ... By allowing more participants, on top of the huge inflow of transfers, we may easily get lost to the like of Wharton and others ... ” AEM Major Re: “Cornell-Wide Business Minor Concerns AEM Majors” News, published September 18, 2013
Nicholas Kaasick | Barely Legal
Pricing Out the Public Interest C
ornell Law School is expensive. We have one of the highest tuitions of any law school on earth. It’s time we begin to question whether this tuition is justified. Beyond the money, what is the social cost of our low student-faculty ratios (and low studentdean ratios, for that matter)? It’s time we examine whether we are pricing out all those potential “lawyers in the best sense” who are committed to public interest work. Why should our tuition be so high? Surely, at a not-for-profit university, we cannot be satisfied with “because it can.” The only reason our tuition could be justifiably so high has to be “because it must.” But must it? Must our Cornell seal be bronzed each year? Must there be cookies in the lobby every week? Must we be bribed to attend lectures with catered lunch? Must offcampus externships cost the same as attending class? Must a J.D. take three years? Must there be so many deans? Must there be so many other administrative staffers? Must there be so many professors? Must their salaries and benefits be so high? The answer, to at least some of these questions, may very well be yes, they must. I recognize that challenging faculty salaries and student-faculty ratios borders on sacrilege, but our outrageous tuition demands that we at least give these controversial questions a hard look. In my third year at Cornell Law, having spent a year on the Student Leadership Council, I have
not heard why our education must cost so much. The necessity of bronzing the Cornell seal and bribing students to listen to speakers doesn’t appear self-evident, to say the least. All I’ve heard in defense of our everincreasing tuition comes from an almost word-forword identical email sent out each spring which notes that tuition must rise (but not as fast as it’s rising for the undergraduates!). Something is uncompelling about such a justification for a tuition increase that by itself constitutes 80 percent of my total undergraduate yearly tuition. Something is also uncompelling about com-
(thankfully) be able to pay off our loans and begin successful careers, what of our public-interest oriented fellow students? Is it really fair to ignore the question of ever increasing tuition? I’ll submit a not-soradical suggestion for consideration. Our government should demand that law schools (and universities in general) justify their tuitions to an oversight body. If a law school’s tuition is unjustified and remedial actions aren’t sufficient, this body ought to be empowered to withdraw a school’s notfor-profit status and/or access to federal student loans. Our government
In the absence of sound government oversight of not-for-profit organizations, we must demand that some sanity be restored to our tuition planning. paring our tuition increase to the increase in the undergraduate tuition. I fear that this morallyessential question of why attending our law school must cost so much is being given, at best, a cursory examination. Why is there so little dissent from the student body? Perhaps if we are fed cookies and prestige we become grateful, unquestioning and docile? Perhaps soon-tobe Cornell J.D.s are such an unsympathetic bunch that we’re just embarrassed to ask why it costs so much? We should expect more from students trained to be “lawyers in the best sense.” While those of us heading to BigLaw will
clearly has a strong policy interest in lawyers entering the public interest. Legal representation for the indigent is woefully inadequate. The glacial pace of adjudication in criminal trials is unconscionable. Our society needs well-trained, morally-based lawyers unburdened by enormous student loans to help address these injustices. The status of the University as a notfor-profit, tax-exempt organization, is, after all, a benefit conferred and created by the state. It follows that such benefits should come with an obligation to provide education at a cost no higher than necessary. I submit that perhaps those decid-
ing what costs are truly necessary should not themselves be paid by their students’ tuitions. We’ve tried this latter approach, and it’s led to a system in which the cost of higher education is consistently double the inflation rate. Clearly, someone else should be in charge of cost control. If Cornell University objects to such oversight, we can become a for-profit institution that pays taxes and cannot access federally backed loans. I suspect the University will prefer to maintain its not-for-profit status. In the absence of sound government oversight of not-for-profit organizations, we must demand that some sanity be restored to our tuition planning. We should not accept a tuition increase until we are presented with a comprehensive plan detailing how the University plans to avoid having our tuition increase at double inflation in perpetuity. We owe this much to those wanting to enter public interest law. We owe this much to future Cornellians. We owe this much, this call for sanity, to the future of our fair alma mater. Certainly we, as students, carry no stick as large as the threat of being stripped of tax-exempt status, and our “ask” must be commensurately more modest, but surely it’s reasonable to at least demand a plan. Don’t you agree? Nicholas Kaasick is a third year law student at Cornell Law School. He may be reached at nek43@cornell.edu. Barely Legal appears monthly this semester.
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Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once. Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name. (Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Ain’t Them Bodies Saints: Not Bad, Not Saintly COURTESY OF IFC
LAURA BOLAND Sun Staff Writer
When asked what the title of his recent film, Ain’t Them Bodies Saints, means to him, director David Lowery responded, “It means that everyone, no matter who they are or what they have done, has the potential to be a good person.” And that is exactly the premise of the film — a group of decent folks who are trying to be good. Ruth Guthrie (Rooney Mara) and Bob Muldoon (Casey Affleck) are a young couple in ’70s Texas who have turned to armed robbery to make ends meet. Early in the film, the doomed lovers are involved in a shootout with the local authorities that leaves one officer wounded and one of the outlaws, Freddy (Kentucker Audley), dead. Bob is sentenced to 25 years to life in prison, but a pregnant Ruth is let go. While Ruth is busy settling into suburban life with her new daughter, Sylvie, Bob writes her letters every day about their future together. One Just as the setting has been unmoored from a specific time day, after several attempts, Bob escapes from prison and sets off and place, the characters are likewise displaced from the rest of to find Ruth, bringing with him some unsavory remnants of society. The script does little to establish why Bob and Ruth their criminal pasts. committed their crimes, which are glimpsed only briefly, or the Lowery draws on a wide array of inspirations to create the extent of their criminal histories. When a gang of rough-looking ethereal backdrop for this modern travelers come to town looking for Bob tale of star-crossed lovers: The shortly after his escape, we can only guess at Ain’t Them Bodies Saints men walk around with the guntheir connection with Bob or Freddy’s totin’ swagger of classic father, Skerritt (Keith Carradine). Directed by David Lowery Westerns, there are dusty farms Without the firm footing of history, the Starring Rooney Mara, and shady bars that look like characters create themselves through they were built during the Great myths. From the minute we meet Bob, he Casey Affleck Depression and the characters is spinning yarns about himself and about use the plain speech and plain his love for Ruth. Lowery has a knack for dress of Little House on the poetic yet natural dialogue, and Bob’s Prairie. All of these influences monologue about his escape from prison have an effect that makes one and his letters home to Ruth are the most character’s call for an ambulance enjoyable scene in the film. In the letters, feel like an anachronism. There are some strong resemblances to Bob lifts his and Ruth’s love up to transcendental heights and the work of Terrence Malick as well, particularly and obviously believes without doubt that they will be united. Ruth is much to Badlands, but at this point what vaguely poetic film has not more wary. She knows what is in the public record and in the been compared to Malick? letters Bob writes to her, but she also knows that there are pow-
erful secrets that have not been and should not be shared with other people. For all the myths and tales the characters create for one another, we see little of their inner lives. Mara and Affleck turn in solid performances, but the script never delves past the surface of the minds of these characters, despite the fact that many of them face important moral dilemmas. Will Ruth decide to abandon her safe life and run off with Bob again? Or will she stay, both for the sake of her child and because of her close relationship with Patrick Wheeler (Ben Foster)? We see the Ruth and the people around her contemplate these and other questions, but the decisions they reach are not fully explained, and sometimes they are denied the pleasure of making a decision at all. It is unsatisfying, to say the least, that the film works so hard to create the perfect mood but does not invest enough in the individuals. Ain’t Them Bodies Saints is a fine effort at capturing the wistful nostalgia and tragedy that often accompanies Bonnie and Clyde narratives, but is one that will slip quietly out of the minds of the audience as soon as they leave the theatre. Laura Boland is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lboland@cornellsun.com.
Saving the Best for Last: Before Midnight BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer
“You are the mayor of crazy town. Do you know that?” Jesse (Ethan Hawke) tells Celine (Julie Delpy) his longtime soul mate and partner for the last nine years. In Richard Linklater’s exquisite companion piece to Before Sunrise (1995) and Before Sunset (2004), it’s the silent and potentially fatal consequences of married life that take center stage. The first installment in this elegant trilogy about romance was about a young American man in his 20s who meets a lovely French woman of the same age on a train to Vienna. The two spend a night wandering around the city, discussing their philosophies on life and engaging in an extremely passionate love affair. Nine years later, they were reunited by chance in Paris. By this time, Jesse was married and had a child in the United States, and Celine had a firm career going in France. Regardless, the two rekindled their relationship and were determined to stay together. This we find out at the beginning of Midnight, where we first glimpse Jesse seeing his son Hank off from an airport in Greece. He is about to go back to the states to be with his mother, whom Jesse has divorced. The exwife is never revealed, but spoken of as a nasty, cruel woman who won’t regularly release Hank from the states to visit; meanwhile, Jesse, who feels he should be a more present figure in his son’s upcoming teen years. Celine and Jesse now live in France where they have two little twin girls. She has been offered a promotion in her government job and he is a successful author.
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During the movie, the questions that arise have to do with the sacrifices made to maintain what started out as a true-love relationship. Was it unwise for Jesse to divorce and stay with that total stranger he met on the train 20 years ago? Was it right for Celine to stay with “an American teenager” after not seeing him for nine years, during which they both had ample time to build up conceptions of each other? When they became a couple, were they doing so because they were in love with each other, or in love with the idea of each other? While I was certainly rooting for Celine and Jesse to stay together, as was everyone in the audience who yearns for true love, Before Midnight makes it clear how tough it is to earn that rite of passage. Staying with somebody 10 years after the honeymoon phase has evaporated and all the realities of the monotonous, day-to-day grind is no easy task. The first film was two people falling headover-heels in love, and the second was them deliberating whether they could be together
after time seemed to have displaced them. What makes Midnight the best of the three, is that in this film we’re seeing these lovers fight to stay together. Now in their forties, they duke it out in the most prolonged, honest and accurately written argument I have ever seen in a movie, which takes up a third of the runtime. During this eruption, all the unsaid constraints, all the ways in which these two have bent over backwards in order to be with each other, painfully come to light. The film adroitly mines the burdens and the Cornell frustration that people in lengthy relaCinema tionships put on each other. Whereas in Sunrise or Sunset it was impossible to imagine how Celine and Jesse weren’t destined for each other, in Midnight, love is no picnic for them. Other couples who appear to contribute meaningful conversation, in a departure from the other two films, help underscore this. For sincerity in writing, acting and direction, Linklater, Deply and Hawke cannot be beat. The three of them scripted the movie
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together, which was shot over just 15 days in Greece, in the summer of 2012. It is astonishing what Delpy and Hawke were able to accomplish in such a brief time — they wear their roles like second skins. As they tease each other, argue feverishly and make up, Delpy and Hawke make us believe we’re watching our parents, our best friends and, yes, ourselves and our own partners. Much of the movie is composed of long, gently-paced takes, including a shot of Jesse and Celine driving that lasts nearly 20 minutes and is all but spellbinding. Linklater is at work on one of the most honest cinematic depictions of romance ever created here, captured in steady dolly shots that continue as emotions flare up and tensions palpably ignite. His camera is never intrusive; it is invisible, making it possible for us to forget we’re watching a staged, false couple. For most Hollywood films, to examine a love affair in this way would be unthinkable. Thanks to their excellent pairing with each other and ardent refusal to do romance the corny way, Hawke, Delpy and Linklater not only continue the winning streak of the Before trilogy, but create the high point of the three. Before Midnight isn’t a somber film because it ends on a sure note of reconciliation, but its message is too mature and difficult for most films to swallow. Relationships that stretch back 10 years are nothing if not a trade-off, but hopefully for Jesse and Celine, the trade-off is still worth it. Before Midnight is showing at Cornell Cinema on Sept. 29 and Oct. 2. Mark DiStefano is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.
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The Rhetorical Question Ithaca High School graduates Sean and Kevin Lewis are the hip-hop (brother) duo Dynamic Inkline. After hitting it big this summer with the music video for their song “Our Town” — or the “Ithaca Song,” as some may think of it — they met with The Sun to talk about their music and what it’s like being start-up rappers in upstate New York.
1. THE SUN: What does Dynamic Inkline mean? SEAN LEWIS: Dynamic Inkline is basically our representation of what we’re trying to do ... because obviously you have to start from the bottom and work your way up at an incline. And how we came up with the name was we wanted something that could be like, I have my name and he has his name, but together it also stands for something else. So I’m Dynamic, he’s Inkline. But together, obviously, Dynamic Inkline works as a duo as well. 2. SUN: When and why did you guys start being a group? S.L.: It’s one of those things where we’ve both gone to college, and we were arguing with ourselves, “Do we finish school and then try to pursue it?” But, especially in hip hop and the music industry in general, it’s kind of a younger person’s game. We could have done an extra two years [at school], but then it would have been an extra two years down the road and we [would’ve] had to start [as rappers] there as opposed to being like, “You can always go back to school, but you can’t [always] start your 21 year-old, 22 year-old hip hop career.” 3. SUN: How would you describe your music? S.L.: I would describe us as East Coast hip hop and, even though most of the time we’re doing like a boom-bap, 90s, hip hop feel, I
would say that we’re just more diverse than the average hip hop artist. ... I feel like that’s what sets us apart is our diversity and our subject matter. We always try to talk about something that actually matters, some kind of substance that people can relate to, not just, “Oh we’re cool, we’re hip hop artists.” KEVIN LEWIS: Definitely just going over a diverse amount of instrumentals and then just actually telling, like he was saying, our story, as opposed to just saying, “We sell drugs ... du du du.”
4. SUN: Where have you guys gotten to perform? K.L.: Our first performance was in Florida because our oldest brother plugged us in for a show down there. It was very tiny: It was probably between 25 to 50 people. And then in town is where we’ve done a lot of our shows. We’ve performed at The Haunt, we’ve performed at the State Theater, we opened up for Cam’ron and at The Gates. 5. SUN: Since you are from here, how important is Ithaca to you? S.L.: I feel like Ithaca is just a really special place, especially for the arts and music because there is just so much going on constantly and creatively around here. ... For example, we’re opening up for [The Gunpoets] in November ... They’ve shown us that if you do it big in Ithaca, you can start branching out doing stuff here, doing stuff there and a lot more doors will open. We’ll always have love for Ithaca. ... This is our home base. This is where we’re building everything from. I feel like with that and the “Our Town” video, we kind of just wanted to put our stamp on it and be like, this is where we’re from, this is what we’re representing and kind of make a very relatable track to anyone who has ever been here, been to school here or
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just lives here right now. Definitely very important to us overall.
6. SUN: How do you divide up the work on top of your regular lives? K.L.: It’s difficult. It’s a lot of hours in a week. We both work probably 50 to 60 hours a week just trying to make money, and then for the actual music, it’s just everything on top of that — just a lot of writing in spare time after work, and before work. We usually don’t meet up unless we’re doing stuff like, “Okay we’re going to write to this beat together.” Or like, “ we need to like put this showtape together.” A lot of it is, I would say, more individual than most people would think. 7. SUN: Since ‘Our Town’ has gotten so much attention lately, what does it feel like to have a song that’s popular? K.L.: It’s definitely cool. It’s the best feeling when someone will come up to me who I ... don’t know at all and they’re just like, “Oh yah, you’re the kids in the “Our Town” video, right?” That’s just an awesome feeling. Z 95.5 absolutely killed it for us when they started giving it airplay. So that was just a huge help for the video and our success with that entire project ... but overall I’d say really nothing’s changed. It’s just a little bit of exposure which has been helpful, for sure. 8. SUN: Which of your songs is your
The Hype Beast Colossus N ew York City this summer was an exercise in patience. We waited in lines to get in lines. I finished queuing up in one just to queue up in another. Amid the disorderly single files, amid the brisk AM and sweltering PM hours (HOURS!) of pointed indirect eye contact with adjacent line buddies, there was one queue that induced FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) to the nth degree: the “Rain Room.” MoMA’s “Rain Room” was a beast of a blockbuster this summer. With tens of thousands of eager eyes visiting during its short operating period between May 12 and July 28, “Rain Room” was pretty much every sixth word out of everyone’s mouth. In the installation, the 1,000 square-foot warehouse space is in a perpetual state of downpour. As guests walk through, a five-foot halo surrounds each person for dry passage. With eight motion sensors and numerous 3-D cameras, information is constantly fed back to the controls in real time, stopping the pounding rain. Designed by little-known tech-art collective rAndom International, the “Rain Room” first became a sensation in London (where rain is, you know, like, a thing). When you spend as much time as the British do, waiting with primal anticipation for clouds to part, the success of “Rain Room” is inevitable, but initial New York critics were less ebullient in their praise. In fact, Ken Johnson of The New York Times said, “ ‘Rain Room,’ for all its entertaining ingenuity, seems little more than a gimmicky diversion.” Though the Times never recanted its statement, weeks later, at the zenith of the “Rain Room” hype-tacular, a more self-aware Times conceded to its undeniable popularity. Despite the initially tepid reviews, “Rain Room” mania has been fueled primarily by word of mouth and social media. With just one central spotlight in the otherwise black space, the installation yielded a profusion of starkly backlit Instagrams of your friends’ dramatic silhouettes, captioned with lines of raindrop emojis and humblebrag hashtags (#artsy #surreal #culture #MoMA). Please (hashtag) spare me (#forrealdoe). Not to mention, masses of Facebook friends suddenly set their defaults to these Hollywood-like kissing-in-the-rain snapshots at the “Rain Room.” The first one was cute; the twelfth one was not. But it got worse. The more the “Rain Room” caught on, the more press it received on the press it was receiving. Most of the
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favorite to perform or was your favorite to write and why? S.L.: One of my more favorite tracks of what we have released is “Represent.” It’s a track off of our Hear to Have Fun album. More or less, that’s, in one song, what we’re trying to portray for the rest of our career. In that one song, we summed up who we are, kind of a brief bio of where we’re from, what we’re doing and why we’re doing it. K.L.: For performing, my favorite is “Stop, Drop, Roll.” It’s one of those more typical club tracks, but that’s kind of why I like performing it.
9. SUN: What are you guys doing next? S.L.: We have a new project. We haven’t announced the name yet, but we’ll announce it now: It’s called The Write Brothers ... That’s going to be coming out in October. 10. SUN: Could you guys imagine ever doing Slope Day? S.L.: We actually would love to ... I feel like honestly we’re at the point where we could open up Slope Day next year. ... To my knowledge, nobody from Ithaca has ever performed at Slope Day. K.L.: Whenever they want to have us, we’re down. Meredith Joyce is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at mjoyce@cornellsun.com.
articles merely commented on the insane queues, with native New Yorkers waiting up to 13 hours with day-tripping Ohioans for a 10 minute spin inside, but by then, the hype-machine had done its work. Though I only waited an hour for my sip of the “Rain Room” KoolAid, it was long enough to start pondering the nature of these hype beasts. Why are people willing to wake up at ungodly hours to drive seven hours from Buffalo to pay the exorbitant non-suggested museum fee to wait in line for up to thirteen hours in both stifling, makeup-melting heat and actual NYC precipitation to see the “Rain NILS AXEN / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR Room?” If, after all that, you believe your extraordinary effort has been matched by an equally extraordinary experiential art exhibit, will you: A) please tell me what “art is commerce” becomes increasingly (grimly) true, museums crack you’re smoking and B) ask yourself whether your satisfac- are overlooked for independently curated “museum quality” shows in Blue Chip galleries. The revitalization of MoMA in tion is real or imagined? Is the satisfaction real, or is the satisfaction hype? Can satis- recent years, after fresh young blood invigorated the aging staff faction be directly proportional to the number of Instagram likes and distinct demarcations between departments were dismanyou receive (in which case, not breaking the 11 like threshold tled, is positive proof that institutions can be flexible and that constitutes as an utter waste of your efforts)? When things are this installations can have their own “street cred.” MoMA is using the overly hyped, I wonder how you know whether your expecta- “Rain Room’”s appeal as an experiential design in the emerging tions are truly met. After all, the situation seems not unlike wait- trend of interactive art to make the Museum accessible to every ing two hours to be seated at the newest trendy restaurant, after type of audience — never a bad thing. After MoMA’s enormous which you voraciously devour your food. Was the food that success in Marina Abramovich’s “The Artist is Present” (2011) good, or was it the combination of hype and your exponentially performance piece, the passive intake of art has become passé, increasing hunger during eclipsed by the flashier trend of interactive pieces, which engage the aforementioned wait the public by literally engaging the public. So whether you’re in line because of FOMO or YOLO or the that had you lauding its Hype Beast Colossus, know that maybe real enjoyment can attributes? There seems to always be a cognitive disso- derive from sheer expectation of enjoyment, and that maybe food nance aspect to these argu- you think tastes good because you waited in line should count as ments where effort justifica- food that actually tastes good (see: Cronut). Maybe we’re all kind tion runs rampant —“I of in it for the Instagram likes anyway and, maybe, if you could, Profanity must’ve liked the ‘Rain after affirming the world of your artsiness in your various platPrayers Room’ because I waited five forms of social media, stop by the rest of MoMA to see the reghours for it” vs. “I waited ular art where all the regular non-cool people hang out to look at five hours because I liked the ‘Rain Room.’” When this occurs, stuff that doesn’t light up when you touch it or anything. hype begets hype. As hype accrues into a giant ball, a Hype Beast Sometimes, the things that have no hype can satisfy too, and Colossus, it steamrolls passersby, collecting gullible humans to sometimes the things that have no lines really should. add to its gargantuan mass, fueled by press mentions and hashtags, propelled forever by its own momentum. Alice Wang is a junior in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. She can Regardless, “Rain Room” hype in itself is not bad. In fact, it be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears may be indicative of a new age in the art world. As the statement alternate Thursdays.
Alice Wang
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Mets’ Offense Fails To Support Niese
NEW YORK (AP) — Jonathon Niese pitched another fine ballgame Thursday. The way the New York Mets are hitting lately, that's often not enough. Madison Bumgarner struck out 10 in seven innings of four-hit ball, outdueling Niese to lead the San Francisco Giants to a 2-1 victory. Niese (7-8) threw seven solid innings for the Mets, who batted .184 while going 4-7 on their penultimate homestand. “I established all of my pitches, threw them all for strikes, got my cutter working on both sides of the plate,” Niese said. The left-hander is 4-2 with a 3.06 ERA in eight starts since returning from a rotator cuff injury Aug. 11. He has one scheduled start remaining, next Wednesday in Cincinnati. “Very impressive. He had command of all of his pitches and used them all today, and moved them all around,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. “Our focus with him for the next 10 days is to make sure he feels good to give him a good start towards his preparation for next year.” New York begins its final road trip Friday night in Philadelphia. AllStar third baseman David Wright is expected back in the lineup after missing seven weeks with a strained right hamstring. Juan Perez went 3 for 3 with an RBI single in his hometown, and the World Series champions won for the eighth time in 11 games. After taking two of three from the Mets, the Giants won't even change hotels — they remain in New York this weekend to play three interleague games at Yankee Stadium. Scores of San Francisco fans filled an otherwise empty Citi Field all series, and the Giants received a loud ovation as they walked off following the final out. “It’s nice to have a good fan base like that,” Bumgarner said. “Especially this far away, it makes it a lot of fun when they care that much about us.” With a runner on second, Javier Lopez retired pinch-hitters Lucas Duda and Anthony Recker for his first save since Sept. 11 last year. Recker struck out to end a crisp game that took 2 hours, 37 minutes. Giants closer Sergio Romo, who had a blown save the previous night, was rested after throwing 50 pitches over the past two days. New York rallied for four runs in the ninth to win 5-4 Wednesday.
Without Strong Pass Rush, Giants Search for Answers EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — If the New York Giants are going to turn things around, they better find a pass rush. The defensive line played a huge role in their run to a Super Bowl title two years ago. It slipped a little last season as New York missed the playoffs and it's been almost non-existent in the 0-2 start this year. In losses to Dallas and Denver, the Giants recorded two sacks and just eight quarterback hits. That’s well below the standard for a team that considers at least 10 quarterback hits to be the bottom of the ladder. While Dallas’ Tony Romo and Denver’s Peyton Manning have two of the quickest releases in the game, the rush needs to improve against Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers (0-2) on Sunday — or else. “That's the game plan,” defensive end Mathias Kiwanuka said Thursday. “Obviously, the production from us has not been what we wanted it to be and we are determined to get that changed.” Kiwanuka said the lack of production has not been from a lack of effort. The quick releases by Romo and Manning have prevented sacks. The Giants have had a couple of chances only to see the quarterback escape, and opponents have also been throwing shorter passes. Manning and Romo completed 66 passes for 551 yards, an average of 8.34 yards. Still, the bottom line is New York ranks No. 29 in sacks per pass play. The biggest concern is defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul. The fourth-year pro is the line’s catalyst, but he’s gotten off to a slow start after having back surgery in June to repair a disk problem. Pierre-Paul played in first two games and has one of the two sacks. However, it’s obvious he is still getting back into shape. Where he used to make quarterbacks duck every play, the pressure isn’t there now. One option might be to use explosive rookie Damontre Moore in passing situations. “I feel like I’m close,” Pierre-Paul said. “There have been times I have gotten to the quarterback. It was like a second too late. Like I said, I’m getting there. I’m getting my step up in a game. It takes time, but that’s no excuse. I’m out there and I have to do whatever it takes to win. Right now I’m not doing a good job.” Panthers coach Ron Rivera scoffed at the idea that Pierre-Paul wasn't up to speed, saying he is still a dynamic player who has to be accounted for every play. “When you game plan for a player, it’s going to be hard for that guy to make his normal plays, like he has in the past, and that’s what’s happening,” Rivera said. “People are paying him a lot of respect.”
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REBECCA SCOTT OLIVER HARRIS CHIUSANO KLIEWE
AKANE OTANI
CAMUTI
LIZ
ARIEL COOPER
MILY SCHROEDER BEERMAN
ANDY LEVINE
HALEY VELASCO
CORNELL V. BUCKNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
CORNELL
BUCKNELL
CORNELL
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BROWN V. GEORGETOWN
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GEORGETOWN
GEORGETOWN
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
GEORGETOWN
HARVARD V. SAN DIEGO
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SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO
SAN DIEGO
HARVARD
HARVARD
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HARVARD
SAN DIEGO
PRINCETON V. LEHIGH
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LEHIGH
DARTMOUTH V. BUTLER
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NOTRE DAME V. MICH. ST.
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NOTRE DAME
NOTRE DAME
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WISCONSIN V. PURDUE
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WISCONSIN
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GIANTS V. PANTHERS
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GIANTS
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JETS V. BILLS
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JETS
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JETS
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JETS
JETS
BENGALS V. PACKERS
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PACKERS
PACKERS
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BENGALS
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An Unlikely Candidate Administration Speaks Out After Men’s Lax Team Involved in Hazing Incident For NL Central Crown SUSPENSION
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year, 51 million dollar extension with Pittsburgh over the offseason, though he certainly could the age of 22, and soon became have commanded more money the Pirates’ mainstay in center with big market teams if he field. The pirates have steadily launched into the free agent marimproved since he joined the ket. In a world where almost all team, until reaching elite con- sports players seem to just go tender status this season. where the money takes them, this McCutchen is a true five-tool is a shining example of true loyalplayer, one of the most highly ty to the team that drafted enviable descriptions in baseball McCutchen out of high school scouting, and one that is often and fostered his development used erroneously to describe into one of baseball’s most excit“top” prospects that turn out to ing players. This move also be busts. The five tools are hitting bestowed upon him the uncondifor average, hitting for power, tional love of the Pirate faithful, speed, throwing who are finally ability, and excited about It’s always a feel good Pittsburgh basefielding ability. McCutchen's story to see a team rise ball again. stats show it all. I’m excited from ineptitude to He is in the to see what the playoff success. National Pirates accomLeague’s Top-3 plish, and I’m for batting averrooting for age, hits, doubles and on base them to win the NL Central. It’s percentage, as well as the Top-5 always a feel good story to see a in slugging percentage and runs team rise from ineptitude to playscored. He has stolen 27 bases. In off success, and with the Mets the field, he has terrific range still mired in their own futility, patrolling center field and his I’m open to pick another favorite arm is dangerous for any base- for the playoff contest. (Don’t runner to challenge. These stellar think I’ve forgotten what the numbers coupled with the Cardinals did the last time the Pirates’ performance have made Mets were on the brink of the McCutchen the clear favorite to world series.) win this year’s National League But even for fans of other MVP. teams in playoff contention, it’s But his value extends beyond hard not to rally behind an pure production. He is the inspiring player, who exemplifies Pirate’s captain and unanimous the best of baseball and stands leader, and its clear to everyone out for unquestioning dedication around him that has completely to his team and city. bought into this Pirates team. In this regard, his actions speak Ben Horowitz can be reached at louder than words. He signed a 6 bhorowitz@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 20
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According to Noel, the university will be working with the lacrosse team in the coming weeks to educate them on the severity of this incident. “We will work with this team intensely in the next days, weeks and months to educate them on the prob-
lematic actions and to help them identify appropriate, healthy activities in which they can bond,” Noel said. “We need our upperclassmen to model the high level behavior we demand from our student-athletes at Cornell.” Murphy stressed that only when the students themselves learn to turn their backs on hazing can it truly be eliminated.
“Work on this campus has focused on the empowerment of students in particular to refuse to promote or participate in demeaning or dangerous acts, and to intervene when they are aware of it occurring to others,” Murphy said. “Hazing must stop now.” The writers can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.
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Red Comes From Behind Again,Defeats Binghamton
Senior defenseman Jake Rinow scores first career game-winner in 76th minute, lifts squad to fourth win By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer
In an exciting match against the Binghamton Bearcats on Wednesday night, the men’s soccer team was able to come back from a one-goal deficit to win the game with a final score of 2-1. Throughout the season, the Red has found itself falling behind in earlier parts of the game, only to come back strong when it most matters to pull out the late game victory. The Bearcats have found themselves struggling somewhat at the beginning of the season with a record of 2-3-1. While
they were able to take the lead in the 51st minute of the game, Red senior defenseman Jake Kirsch scored the equalizing goal just two minutes later. Ultimately, Binghamton was unable to hold off Cornell and fell short when fellow senior captain and defenseman Jake Rinow netted the game-winning goal. This win brings the Red to a 4-0-1 record coming into this weekend’s game against Saint Joseph’s University. Head Coach Jaro Zawislan has been happy with the team’s overall performance this season, but acknowledges that the men ”still have a lot of work to do on both sides
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Let’s get it started | Senior defenseman Jake Kirsch fired up the Red’s offense with an equalizing goal in the 53rd minute, setting up the Red’s comeback victory.
of the ball” and that this comprehensive attacks going on the right side. Having approach is, “something that will continue depth on the bench is key to a team’s sucthroughout the whole season.” cess.” Rinow echoed this sentiment and also Coming off this come-from-behind touched on the need to be more aggressive win, the Red is now preparing for this from the start without falling behind. Saturday’s game against St. Joseph’s “We need to be sharper in the first half, University. The Hawks are currently 1-2-3 score early and stop putting ourselves under coming into their match against Cornell, that pressure,” he said. “It definitely moti- struggling to find the net in one of their home games against vates us, but it's never our Wofford College. plan to go down a goal.” “We need to be With such a quick However, both Rinow sharper in the first turnover rate from one and Zawislan also recoggame to the next, nize the team’s success half.” Zawislan emphasized the thus far, especially Jake Rinow importance of his team’s Wednesday night. recuperation, including Zawislan mentioned the superb overall senior leadership on the field less strenuous practices in between games, this year and emphasized the program’s consisting of a lot of review of video footage want for seniors, especially senior captains, as well as proper sleep schedules, diet, and to build on the leadership set forth in pre- overall level of fitness. Especially at a school like Cornell, it is easy to put off work and vious years. “It is important to have upperclassmen end up with poor study and eating habits. to take responsibility and ownership in this Zawislan makes sure his men are on top of program,” Zawislan said. “We expect every their work and don't leave things until the group of captains and seniors to maintain a last minute. As for the matchup with St. Joseph’s, level of leadership established by previous seniors, but to also build on it and take it to Rinow said that coming out strong early in the first half will be especially important, a higher level.” Rinow, one such captain, took note of considering how many times the Red has the talent the bench players brought into already had to play catch up this season. “St. Joes is a strong side. We will need to the game last night, as they were able to come in seamlessly and help guide the Red come out sharp on both sides of the ball so we don't go down a goal. We need to put to success. “Last night was definitely a team win. away our chances early and stay disciplined Tyler Conway stepped in after Stephen defensively for 90 minutes,” Rinow said. Reisert got injured in the first minute of the game and did very well for us,” Rinow said. Anna Fasman can be reached at “He was composed on the ball and kept our afasman@cornellsun.com.
Gellatly Steps Up, Anchors Mathews’ Young Receiving Core FOOTBALL
a couple of young guys kind of raise their games and step up and make plays.” The Red’s offensive line will not have last year’s receiving core of Luke Tasker ’13, Shane also have a new look this year. Savage ’13 and Kurt Ondash ’13 Though the line returns seniors to rely on. With only two senior Josh Grider and Brad Wagner wide receivers in Grant Gellatly and sophomore Zach Wilk, the and Jesse Heon, the coaching loss of the Green Bay Packers’ staff has been working to devel- fourth round draft pick — J.C. Tretter — will still leave a sigop the younger talent. “I think there’s a sense of nificant gap. “It would always be nice to urgency, but there’s also a patience level,” Mathews said of have a fourth round pick prohis new receiving core. “We’re tecting Jeff ’s blind side,” Archer not going to expect them to be said. “But I’m really proud right seniors right now, but we do now of the offensive line because they’re expect them to older kids that get better every day and con- “No butterflies yet, I’m sure the majority have stayed up tribute on the there might be on here this sumfield.” mer and really Gellatly — Saturday” worked hard. who had 61 David Archer ’05 They’re guys receptions last that have season and caught five touchdowns — has played a lot of games for us, we emerged as the leader of this just have to make sure we keep them healthy and happy.” young group of receivers. According to Mathews, the “It’s been a step for me,” Gellatly said. “We’re pretty fact that this group has experiyoung as a receiving core, but ence playing together will be an it’s just been about getting them important complement to the to recognize different coverages changes made to the line’s sysand learn the plays and the tem. “I think we changed our reads. … So I’ve had a bigger role in that, and in the film offensive line up a little bit as far as our system and how we’re room especially.” According to Archer, the going to call things,” he said. younger receivers have shown “Cohesively they work very well promise throughout the presea- together, so it’s going to get exciting when we get out there son. “They’re young pups back in live games and those guys are there. … After Grant and Jesse, really meshing as a unit.” The Red will take these new you’re talking about guys that all have three or more years,” he units onto the gridiron Saturday said. “We saw in the scrimmage to face a Bucknell team that it Continued from page 20
defeated, 15-10, in an away game last season. Though Cornell struggled offensively that game, it was the defense — which held the Bisons to just 286 yards of offense — that got the job done. The Bisons will have their own experienced quarterback to lead them in senior Brandon Wesley. In Bucknell’s season opening victory over Marist this year, Wesley completed 12 of 16 passes for 176 yards and two touchdowns. “They’re a good football team, especially on the offensive side,” said senior captain and safety Michael Hernandez.
“He’s been a dual threat, he can throw the ball and he can also run it, so we’re going to have to keep an eye on him pretty much the entire game.” With the big game just a day away for Archer and his squad, Archer said he has tried to keep his composure. “No butterflies yet, I’m sure there might be on Saturday,” he said. “It’s the first time in the respects of being the head coach, but it’s not the first time I’ve played a game with these kids.” This experience with and devotion to the Red players and
football program is what has given the squad the utmost confidence in their new head coach, and in the season that will kick off tomorrow. “The emotion and energy that surround our program right now is unbelievable and it’s all a credit to him,” Mathews said. “He’s doing a great job of being a great leader for everybody and really meshing with what we want to do and getting that message through to our players.” Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.
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Take down | Senior captain and inside linebacker Brett Buehler said that the Red hopes to attract a large crowd for homecoming, setting the tone for the home games that follow.
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be conscious of it. I am boisterous with my hands. Many times, I will be talking to reporters and Josh [Grider] will be behind me doing hand signals. It’s kind of fun. I guess that is something I am known for.
1. You are a senior on the football team and the starting quarterback. What has football meant to you over the last four years? I think that it is a big reason why I am here, obviously. That, along with a great education, is what drew a lot of us athletes here. I am very thankful for the opportunities that I have gotten here and it means a lot to finally get to this point where you are a senior and you have been looking up to other people for so long and now other people are looking up to you. It’s a lot of fun and I think that we are in a good spot. I think our program has grown a lot since our freshman year and I am really excited about that.
5. Josh Grider and you supposedly have a bowling rivalry, can you tell us about that? Josh and I were up here this summer and we have been for the last couple summers and we go bowling. I actually got my own bowling shoes. We are not good but we are kind of into it. It’s fun and we always go. Usually what happens is I win the first game, he will win the second game and I usually will win the third game. I
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don’t think that I have lost to him yet but it is always a good competition when we get out there. Do you guys get really competitive in the lane? A little bit. There’s a little trash talking going on. We are such good friends that it’s all fun. 6. I also heard that you are a big Taylor Swift fan. What’s your favorite song? There are so many. That’s personal and going to be nice for everyone. I am a huge Taylor Swift fan. I think that she is a great artist and off her new album, I like a lot of songs. I am not going to let you know which ones that I like. I am a big fan.
7. Where’s your favorite place to eat on campus? Why? It has got to be Mac’s. Mac’s is pretty solid. I go for their entrees a lot. Also, the pasta is pretty clutch when you are heading to practice. 8. If you could trade places and be on any women’s team at Cornell, which one would you choose? I didn’t really know hockey until I got here and now I know a couple of the girls on the team. And I have been skating a couple of times and done that. I think that’s a fun sport and I would be terrible at it. But it would be something different. It would be something that I have never
2. I hear that you have a few nicknames. I hear you got one as a freshman and a couple of the other guys call you something. I heard Jeffews? Also that Coach Howley has a nickname for you. Jeffews, that’s a Tre’ Minor original right there and that one’s pretty cool. Coach Howley called me Dave like Dave Matthews from the Dave Matthews Band. He gives everyone nicknames to remember everyone. He works with a ton of people so I got Dave for my first two and a half years. Then I realized I finally kind of made it when he stopped calling me Dave and started calling me Jeff. 3. I heard you are very close to your family, especially your sister. Can you talk about that? Yeah, definitely. My sister and I are very close. She is a quadriplegic. An awesome girl. She has just overcome so many obstacles. I really look up to her and she is awesome. She will actually be out for a couple of games this year. Anytime my family comes out, I love it. I am very fortunate to have a great family and people who support me in everything that I do and also people that I look up to in my family. Do you think that you take that inspiration onto the field? Definitely. I don’t think about it as much on game day. But I think about it in preparation and what I have to do. I understand how hard that she works to get better and that I need to put that same effort into football. 4. I heard when you do interviews, you do the same hand motions? That’s very true. Now I will
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A Cornell man | Star senior quarterback Jeff Mathews is a likely NFL draft pick and has already received numerous preseason accolades — but in his more personal moments, he is a Taylor Swift fan and an avid bowler.
done. I played basketball in high school, I did those things. Obviously, they would probably dominate me. I think that would be fun to skate around a little bit. Are you a good skater? Oh no. I can stay on my feet, but that’s about it though. 9. If you could play side by side with any pro football player, who would it be? I think that being a quarterback, I obviously can’t play with another quarterback and those are the guys that I look up to the most. I think that when you look at a guy like Calvin Johnson or someone like that, who is just phenomenal and a freak athlete who can make you look good even when you are not playing well. A guy like Jimmy Graham who is a big tight end for New Orleans, I really like too. Guys like that where you are like wow, that guy is a special player. Those guys would be fun to play with. 10. This weekend is your final homecoming game as a part of Cornell football. What is this game going to mean to you? Are you feeling sentimental? It’s really weird honestly. I think seniors before try to explain how much it means when you go into your last year and I think you don’t really understand it until you are at the point where you are like, holy cow, I really got 10 weeks left in my Cornell football career. You understand why every day is important and that you won’t get them back. Unfortunately, we don’t have that many more in the future. I think that when you look at it like that you try and make sure that you get the most of everyday that you have left. With the couple weeks left, what is your legacy? What do you want to leave behind with these guys? I think that what I have always tried to do is be a great leader and having a relationship with each guy. Obviously, it’s going to be different depending on the guys. I feel like I want to connect with everybody and people be like, I knew that guy so it’s not just hey he’s a player on our team. I want them to be like, hey, if I need to go to him, I could. As far as our team, I want to say by the time that I got here and am leaving, our senior class, that when we left, we left it a much better program than we started with. It’s a big goal of ours and has been since we got here. We are looking forward to doing that. I think that Coach Archer has done a great job so far and we are looking to follow him Haley Velasco can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Men’s Laxers Suspended for Hazing Incident
Noel: Hazing ‘antithetical to our values as a university’
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By SCOTT CHIUSANO and HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor and Sports Editor
The Cornell men’s lacrosse team was placed on temporary suspension Thursday following an alleged hazing incident on Sept. 13. “This incident involves coerced alcohol consumption by underage freshmen,” said John Carberry, director of press relations for the university. As of Thursday, the team was allowed to resume its training and practice in accordance with sanction guidelines. According to a statement made by Andy Noel, the Meakem Smith Director of Athletics and Physical Education, the team has been notified that all of the games scheduled for the fall semes“[Hazing practices] ter are cancelled pending further notice. have no place in “Hazing practices are harmful and antithetical to Cornell athletics.” our values as a university and Andy Noel our commitment to studentathletes,” Noel said. “They have no place in Cornell athletics.” As President David Skorton has taken serious steps to eliminate hazing from the Greek system, the University is taking these incidents increasingly seriously. “Under President David Skorton, Cornell University has been a strong voice against hazing and the dangerous rituals that some think are merely rites of passage,” said Susan Murphy, Vice President for Student and Academic Services. Though the most recent hazing incidents have involved members of the Greek system, Noel said that it can become a problem any time there is an abuse of power within the
Bonding gone wrong | After a hazing incident that occurred on Sept. 13, the men’s lacrosse team has been temporarily suspended and all of their games for the fall semester have been cancelled.
hierarchy of a group, even on a sports team. “I am particularly concerned with coercive traditions that abuse the power differential between new students and underclassmen,” Noel said. “Team bonding is important, and there are many ways to achieve it that don’t involve hazing.” In the wake of this incident, Murphy emphasized the importance of spreading awareness about the dangers of haz-
ing. “We are working as a community to heighten awareness, increase education, support positive team-building programs, and apply sanctions to address the dangerous situations involving hazing activities and/or use of alcohol,” Murphy said. See SUSPENSION page 16
Star Andrew McCutchen C.U. Prepares for Homecoming Is Pirates’ Buried Treasure T FOOTBALL
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here are many exciting and inspiring stories that continue to unfold as the baseball regular season nears its end. Detroit slugger Miguel Cabrera has had another fantastic season. The small-market, little known Oakland Athletics are leading the American League West, and Yasiel Puig rose from Cuban oblivion to become the star of a Dodger team
Cardinals. Building the new PNC Park in 2001 and hosting the allstar game were rare happy moments, but the Pirates inaugurated the new home with more years of mediocrity. Now, all these things have changed. The latest rebuilding has proved monumentally successful, and the Pirates are neck and neck with the Cardinals for first place in the National
Ben Horowitz Guest Column that has a commanding lead in the National League West. But no story is sweeter than that of the Pittsburgh Pirates. They haven’t made the playoffs since 1992, when they traded away the now infamous Barry Bonds. The 20 years since then have been years of futility and irrelevance, with the team seemingly in a constant “rebuilding” mode, without the money to acquire elite talent and compete with the big-market
League Central heading into the season’s final weeks. The centerpiece of that rebuilding was star center fielder Andrew McCutchen. A star high school athlete in track, football and baseball, McCutchen was the Pirates’ first round draft pick in 2005 and bypassed college in favor of the Minor Leagues. He made his major league debut just three years later at See HOROWITZ page 16
Take a walk to North campus at night and you can see the image of three Cornell football players projected onto the red-brick face of Appel. It is a sign of homecoming — the biggest home game of the year for the Red — and also the first ever game with head coach David Archer ’05 at the helm. For Archer, with a long and grueling preseason behind him, the anticipation of this game has been a long time coming. “We’re excited to finally get the chance to play,” Archer said. ‘The preseason is a great opportunity because it’s long, so we’re able to teach and do a lot of things, but there’s nothing like that first game. I’m anxious to get the ball in the air.” The Red will take the field for its first home game of the season on Saturday at 3 p.m., facing off against the Bucknell Bison. A year ago, in front of a homecoming crowd of over 15,000, the Red defeated Ivy League foe Yale, 45-6, and is hoping to attract a similarly sized crowd after that explosive offensive display. “You get a huge turnout every year and we’re hoping that setting the tone in homecoming with this big of a turnout will get fans to come back for every game this season,” said senior captain and inside linebacker Brett Buehler. While most Division I college football teams are already one or two games into their seasons, the Red players and fans have been forced to play the waiting game. According to senior captain and quarterback Jeff Mathews, this has given his team ample opportunity to prepare. “I think we’re at a good point right now,” Mathews said. “I think this is something we’ve been preparing for for a long time, really since last
season ended, so it’s good to get out here with everybody and really get in a game week mode.” Going into this first game, the Red will be sending out a very different squad on the offensive side of the ball. Though Mathews will still be a stalwart force with the ball in his hands, he will See FOOTBALL page 17
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Run this town | Senior quarterback Jeff Mathews and the Red will hit the gridiron for their first home game of the season on Saturday.