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Ithaca Incubator Opens Doors Venture between C.U., Ithaca College, TC3 hosts four starups

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor

University administrators, local officials and entrepreneurs gathered in downtown Ithaca early Monday morning to celebrate the grand opening of “Rev: Ithaca Startup Works,” a new business incubator supported in part by Cornell.

The downtown business incubator opened its doors Monday at 314 East State St. in the Carey Building, nearly nine months after administrators of Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College — which are operating the incubator together — addressed members of the media in the con-

struction space, bare with wires hanging from the ceiling.

“Those of you who were here in January remember the bare spaces, the dangling wires,” said Tom Rochon, president of Ithaca College.

“I came in [before construction began] and almost wanted to find the real space where we would be standing.”

However, when administrators spoke of the space Monday, they lauded the work of all of the partners involved in the collaboration.

“I believe this is the first time that all three institutions have come together in supporting a visionary vision such as this,” said Carl Haynes, See INCUBATOR page 5

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A bright future | Cornell’s new solar farm will reduce carbon emissions by 0.5 percent, according to Sarah Zemanick of the Campus Sustainability Office.

Cornell Flips the Switch At Solar Farm Near Airport

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

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Rev it up | Administrators from Cornell, Ithaca College and Tompkins Cortland Community College, as well as local officials and entrepreneurs, gather for the opening of the new downtown incubator Monday.

Cornell’s Snyder Road Solar Farm — the University’s first largescale solar energy project — went live Friday, a move officials say is “key” in making Cornell a leader in sustainable energy.

The Snyder Road Solar Farm, located near the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, consists of a twomegawatt array of solar panels sprawled across 11 acres of Cornell property in the town of Lansing, according to Prof. Tobias Hanrath, chemical and biomolecular engineering, who is also a faculty fellow at Cornell’s Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future.

According to Sarah Zemanick,

sustainability management specialist at the Campus Sustainability Office, the solar farm will produce about one percent of Cornell’s electricity and reduce university carbon emissions by 0.5 percent.

“While the one percent of electricity and 0.5 percent of emissions doesn’t sound like a lot, I think it’s important,” Zemanick said.

“When you consider that Cornell uses about one-one thousandth of all the electricity in New York State, it becomes more significant.

If you put that in the context of overall electricity use in New York State and the fact that it’s the equivalent electricity of about 320 homes, that puts it in perspective.”

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Bill Gates Lecture Tickets Run Out in Less Than 30 Minutes Gates to visit campus for dedication of Gates Hall

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

The first round of tickets for Bill Gates’ talk on Oct. 1 ran out in approximately 25 minutes, according to Zander Liem ’15, president of the Mortar Board honor society.

Gates — co-founder and former chief executive officer of the Microsoft Corporation — will visit Cornell for the dedication of the Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, which serves as the new home of Computing and Information Science.

While on campus, Gates —

who was ranked by Forbes as the wealthiest person in the world from 1995 to 2007 — will give a talk at Bailey Hall titled “A Conversation: Considering the Future of Higher Education.” A question and answer session will follow his talk.

While Mortar Board is not responsible for the ticket distribution, the senior honor society is running the social media promotion and providing student staff on the day of the event, according to Liem.

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Queue up | Students line up at Willard Straight Hall Monday morning in hopes of receiving a ticket to see “A Conversation With Bill Gates: Considering the Future of Higher Education” in Bailey Hall Oct. 1.

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Cornellians Seek To Raise Awareness For Prison Reform

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Prison Education and Reform Project constructed a wooden structure meant to replicate solitary confinement on Ho Plaza Monday in order to educate students and increase student interest in the prison system.

According to PREP co-founder and co-president Garrison Lovely ’16, the display kicked off the organization’s Behind Bars Campaign, which seeks to “[protest] abuses in the New York state prison system and [lobby] for reform.”

The mock cell — which stood from 11:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. — featured facts and statistics about the U.S. prison system on the inside and matched the size of a typical solitary confinement cell in New York State, Lovely said.

According to Lovely, approximately 70 students were able to enter the cell and briefly experience solitary confinement. “[Our goal is to make the issue of solitary confinement] real and bring it home in a way that is pretty difficult to do when very few of us have a direct connection to the prison system or soli“People can visualize tary confinement,” he said. something in their heads, In addition but they can’t really to raising awareness, appreciate it until they can Lovely said he touch it, feel it ... try to hoped the event would experience it in person.” help PREP Mike Alter ’16 build its membership and use its presence on campus to later affect tangible change in the New York state prison system.

PREP programming chair Amber Aspinall ’17 said the organization was able to reach out to many students who

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Rallying for reform | Garrison Lovely ’16 discusses the Cornell Prison Education and Reform Project with students Monday afternoon on Ho Plaza.

were interested in making “serious changes to the prison system.”

“A lot of students who stopped by were shocked to find out that the most common circumstances surrounding solitary [confinement] were even legal — the fact that five months was the average term in New York or that pregnant women and teenagers could serve time in solitary,” she said.

Zachary Otterpohl ’18 said he was familiar with the issues of solitary confinement but had never experienced it firsthand.

“I’ve kind of heard how inhumane solitary confinement can be,” he said. “It’ s smaller than a dorm room.”

Mike Alter ’16, a general body member of PREP, said he had visited a jail cell before but had never been inside a solitary confinement unit. He added that he thought the visceral nature of the cell helped to generate many reactions from students.

“It’s good to get people to see what it is and get people to see an actual physical representation [of a cell],” he said. “[This is because] people can visualize something in their

heads, but they can’t really appreciate what it is unless they can touch it, feel it, live inside it or try to experience it in person.”

Lovely said that PREP hopes to continue the Behind Bars campaign and convert the interest generated by this first event into advocacy and direct lobbying efforts.

“We are probably going to do a book drive for inmates sometime this semester,” he said. “We are also looking into the feasibility of offering a four-year Cornell Prison Education degree, [as] right now it’s a two-year associates degree.”

In addition, PREP will be lobbying New York state assembly members to support the Human Alternatives to Long Term Solitary Confinement Act — which proposes a limit of solitary confinement to two weeks — according to Lovely.

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

Cornell Ranks Eighth in Teach for America Recruits

By ANDREW LORD

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Cornell contributed 41 graduates to the 2014 Teach For America corps this semester, making it a top contributing school for the seventh consecutive year, TFA announced last month.

The organization partners with communities to increase

educational opportunities for children in poverty, and recruits make a two-year commitment to teach in high-need classrooms around the country, according to a press release. This year, Cornell ranked the eighth highest contributor of TFA corps among colleges and universities of its size.

The 41 Cornellians join the most diverse group of corps in

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Knowledge is power | This year, Cornell contributed 41 graduates to the Teach for America program, compared to 60 in 2010.

the organization’s 25-year history, according to TFA. This year, 22 percent of corps identify as African American, 13 percent identify as Latino and six percent identify as Asian American or Pacific Islander.

The University is among the few in the nation to have sent graduates to the TFA corps every year since the organization’s founding in 1990, according to TFA. Katelyn Fletcher ’15 — who was accepted into the TFA corps through the early application program last year — said the organization’s mission “really resonated’ with her.

“I started learning about the [TFA] program because of its goal to help all children gain access to a quality education,” she said.

Applicants should explore the misfortunes of “educational inequality” in order to develop the passion that TFA is looking for in its recruits, according to Fletcher.

“What’s especially important is learning as much as you can about the issue before making an informed decision as to what role you can play,” she said. “This will help you find what you believe will create lasting change in our country.”

TFA recruitment officer Nick Diaz ’10 said he understands the special connection between Teach for America and Cornell.

“Teach For America is all about how you can change

America for the better through the power of education,” he said.

“And, on a campus, that is structured around both leadership and service.”

The highly selective program seeks to recruit top college graduates and professionals in the nation, according to TFA. In 2014, the organization accepted only 15 percent of more than 50,000 applicants.

Still, Diaz said he encourages Cornellians who are passionate about social justice and educational equality to apply to work for TFA. “Don’t be afraid to get off the Hill and really work with the local community,” Diaz said.

“There are endless opportunities around Ithaca to get involved and make a difference.”

Jeremy Freeman ’15, another TFA recruit, applied to the program with the intention to “spread the good word.”

Freeman said he encourages future applicants to do the same by pursuing their philanthropic interests and developing a passion for education.

“Learn to love learning and you’ll eventually want to teach,” he said.

The application process consists of an initial online application, a series of interviews and a possible “role-play” scenario such as a mock teaching lesson, according to TFA. Andrew Lord can be reached at abl87@cornell.edu..

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NTSB Investigating Delaware Crash C.U.: Solar Farm‘Significant’

NEW CASTLE, Del. (AP) — An independent federal agency is casting a wide net as it investigates the cause of a bus crash that killed two passengers and injured dozens more when it toppled over on a Delaware highway.

The National Transportation Safety Board announced Monday that it was opening an investigation into the Sunday wreck, which involved no other vehicles. State police said drugs and alcohol did not play a role.

Forty-nine passengers were on the bus as it drove onto a curved exit ramp and overturned in New Castle in northern Delaware, according to state police. The bus slid on its roof down a grass embankment and came to rest on its left side, police said.

Hua’y Chen, a 54-year-old woman from New York City, was found under the bus and pronounced dead at the scene, state police spokesman Sgt. Paul Shavack said. Idil Bahsi, a 30-year-old woman from Istanbul, Turkey, was taken to a hospital and died Sunday night.

Other passengers were taken to hospitals for injuries varying in severity. As of Monday afternoon, 20 patients were still receiving care at Christiana Hospital in Newark, with one in critical condition, according to hospital spokesman Hiran Ratnayake.

Shavack said investigators are still trying to determine the primary factor that contributed to the crash, which could include speed, driver distraction, driver fatigue and mechanical issues.

According to federal regulations, bus drivers are authorized to be on duty for up to 70 hours in an eight-day period.

State police investigators have interviewed the bus driver, 56-year-old Jinli Zhao, who was not critically injured, authorities said, because he was wearing a seat belt at the time of the crash. The vehicle, a 1996 Setra Touring Coach Bus, does not have seatbelts on passenger seats, according to a representative for the manufacturer.

National Transportation Safety Board spokesman Peter Knudson said the agency’s

investigators are looking into contributing factors relating to both the driver and the vehicle.

Knudson said NTSB investigators will also interview Zhao about his medical history and activity in the 72 hours before the wreck.

Investigators also will look into the bus company, New York-based Am United Express Incorporated, and its policies, procedures, training and management systems.

The company has been involved in one other crash over the past two years in which no one was injured, according to online records with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration.

Seventeen bus inspections and 31 inspections of drivers in the past two years resulted in one driver and one bus being taken out of service.

Ken Ng, a representative for the bus company, said Monday that he received three calls from Zhao on Sunday just after the crash, and that Zhao told him the bus had flipped over. Ng said Zhao told him he’d taken an alternative route from Washington to New York because of a traffic jam on Interstate 95.

Ng said the tour group, coordinated by E World Travel and Tour, was originally traveling with a different bus company, but the vehicle broke down near Corning, New York. Ng said he offered to tap Zhao, who had driven a group from New York to Corning earlier that day, to pick up the stranded passengers and continue the tour.

Ng said the bus likely had a data recording device aboard.

Knudson also said investigators will examine the physical environment of the crash site including weather, light and road conditions.

Shavack said he doesn’t recall any other commercial vehicle crashes occurring on this particular exit ramp in recent memory.

Authorities said the passengers were taking a three-day sightseeing tour that included Niagara Falls and Washington that began Friday in New York. The crash happened as the bus was heading back to New York.

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overall electricity use in New York State and the fact that it’s the equivalent electricity of about 320 homes, that puts it in perspective.”

The solar farm will produce the maximum amount of electricity allowed by the Public Service Commission, according to Zemanick. There are restrictions regarding how large one can build a project — like the Snyder Road Solar Farm — that uses remote net metering.

Remote net metering is a monitoring system — measuring the inputs and outputs of a solar energy source — that enabled Cornell to build the solar farm several miles off campus, Zemanick said.

One restriction on building a solar farm with remote net metering, Zemanick said, is the limit on how much energy one location is allowed to produce. An individual project is limited to two megawatts in size.

“We built the solar farm as big as we could,” she said.

A second major restriction on the solar farm is a strict limitation on how many renewable energy projects can be associated with one account. Each account — including Cornell — is only allowed to collect credit from one renewable energy project at a time, according to the Public Service Commission.

“Our campus has a 35megawatt load,” Zemanick said.

“We can’t build 16 or 17 solar farms and credit them all back to the main campus. You’re limited to only one.”

Funding for the solar farm was provided in part by a grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority.

“Finding out about the ... funding was the key to being able to move forward,” Zemanick said.

“The funding opportunity is what has made the project economically viable.”

The solar farm is Cornell’s first megawatt-scale renewable electricity generation project since 1904, when the current hydroelectric plant at Fall Creek Gorge went online, Zemanick said.

Todd Cowen, faculty director for energy at the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future, said he was “thrilled” about the new solar farm.

“I am thrilled to see this new solar farm coming online,” Cowen said.

Cowen said that the Climate Action Plan Acceleration Working Group, of which he is a member, has presented President Skorton with a report of six milestones that Cornell should strive

towards in becoming a carbonneutral campus by 2035. The construction of the solar farm, he said, is a significant step in achieving that goal.

“The Snyder Road Solar Farm represents a key piece of one of these milestones, that Cornell should secure renewable energy supplies,” Cowen said. “[It] represents one of the key reasons Cornell can and will succeed at being climate neutral by 2035 — we have an incredible facilities group that is at the forefront on sustainability.”

Hanrath added the solar farm has “great educational value” in the real-world example it will set for engineering students.

“Aside from setting a clear message about Cornell’s commitment to renewable energy, the solar farm also has great educational value,” Hanrath said. “I’ve taught a course on solar energy for several years.

Now, instead of just showing pictures of solar cell farms, we can actually take the class out to the farm and see the solar cells in action.”

KyuJung Whang, vice president for facilities services, said the completion of the solar farm is “a significant accomplishment.”

“This is the first solar farm that we have built, and so I think it’s a significant accomplishment to have completed this project.”

KyuJung Whang “This is the first solar farm that we have built, and so I think it’s a significant accomplishment to have completed this project,” Whang said. “It’s a first step towards making Cornell more sustainable, with solar and other renewable sources of energy.”

Officials said they hoped the solar farm would set a precedent for future Cornell sustainability projects.

“The Snyder Road Solar Farm suggests to me that we have an excellent chance of several more renewable projects joining our energy portfolio in the coming year,” Cowen said.

Zemanick added the University is “really excited” to see what it can accomplish through the farm.

“Hopefully this will be the first of many initiatives coming in the near future to reach our carbon neutrality goal,” he said.

Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.

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president of Tompkins Cortland Community College.

Rev, a part of the Southern Tier Innovation Hot Spot economic development program, earned its funding from the New York State Regional Economic Development Council in 2013 and is currently housing four startups.

Businesses that “graduate” from the incubator will be eligible to apply for additional benefits through the START-UP N.Y. program that provides tax-free zones for businesses that form and remain in the state.

The space — located downtown rather than on campus, meaning the property is not tax-exempt — will help benefit the local community, according to Mayor Svante Myrick ‘09, who thanked Cornell President David Skorton for pushing to have the incubator located downtown.

Myrick added that entrepreneurs working “Ithaca used to make out of the space will have things. You don’t always access to stores and restaurants in downtown Ithaca, remember that. The world which he says will help valued the things we boost the local economy.

Rochon echoched made.” sentiments Myrick’s Tom Rochon regarding the incubator, which is open to all members of the community.

“Ithaca used to make things. You don’t always remember that.

The world valued the things that we made and the result was great jobs for the people who lived in Ithaca and in this region,” Rochon said. “We still make things, but there’s a need to do so much more.”

The incubator will also house the Southern Tier Hardware Accelerator, a program that will allow for companies to create prototypes of their products, according to Tom Schryver ‘93 MBA ‘02, executive director for new venture advancement at Cornell.

Skorton said that the entrepreneurial space will help attract students, faculty and staff to the region to work at the three institutions.

“When we hire new faculty members, they often come from outside the Tompkins County region. A vibrant local economy helps us attract and retain those faculty members and their spouses and their partners,” Skorton said. “A strong economy also makes the area attractive for students and the staff members that make the institutions what they are.”

Haynes and Rochon also thanked Skorton, who they said was responsible for first arranging the joint-collaboration between the institutions. Rochon added that he thinks President Skorton’s involvement with Rev will become part of his legacy when he leaves to become the secretary of the Smithsonian Institution next year.

Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

Obama Kicks Off Campaign Against Campus Sexual Assault WASHINGTON (AP) — Amid a new focus on violence against women, President Barack Obama kicked off a starpowered campaign Friday against campus sexual assault particularly targeted at encouraging men to take a stand.

Jon Hamm of Mad Men, Kerry Washington of Scandal and NBA all-star Kevin Love are some of the familiar faces appearing in a public service announcement along with the president. The “It’s On Us” campaign encourages everyone to consider stopping sexual assault their personal responsibility and to intervene when they suspect a woman can’t or won’t consent.

With an estimated 1 in 5 college women experiencing an attack, Obama decried “the quiet tolerance of sexual assault” and called it “an affront to our basic humanity.” Research has shown most victims know their attackers, alcohol or drugs are often involved and only 12 percent of college women report the attack to police.

The Obama administration has been raising awareness of the problem this year, ahead of a midterm election in which Democrats are counting on a strong turnout by female voters.

In January, Obama launched the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault that recommended action campuses could take to protect victims. The U.S. Department of Education for the first time publicly exposed the list of colleges under federal investigation for their handling of sexual assault complaints.

The latest effort has a particular focus on reaching men on campus.

“You don’t want to be the guy who stops a friend from taking a woman home,” Obama said, while arguing it is men’s responsibility to do so.

Vice President Joe Biden was even more blunt in his message to men. “Step up!" he said. “Be responsible. Intervene. You have an obligation to make a pariah of those on campus who abuse another person."

the event filled up Willard Straight Hall’s Memorial Room Monday morning, with students sending Snapchats and photographing the ticket line — which looped around the room several times.

The WSH Resource Center began giving out tickets at 10 a.m. to students, and by approximately 10:17 a.m., those waiting in line were informed that the tickets had ran out, according to Liem. He said a second ticket distribution will begin on Sept.

25 at 10 a.m. The general public can also obtain tickets then.

Some students who were not able to obtain tickets expressed their dismay.

“I was disappointed that the tickets were sold out so quickly,” said James Dunlea ‘16. “Despite the chaos, I will definitely be up bright and early for a second chance to get a pair of tickets on Thursday morning.”

A limited number of tickets will also be available at the door on Oct. 1 when doors open at 3:30 p.m.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $26.8 million grant for the construction of the Gates building in January. 2006, the Sun previously reported. The building opened in February 2014.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

Reporter Quits Job,Reveals Pot Business Alaska ANCHORAGE, (AP) — A television reporter quit her job on live TV with a big four-letter flourish after revealing she owns a medical marijuana business and intends to press for legalization of recreational pot in Alaska.

After reporting on the Alaska Cannabis Club on Sunday night’s broadcast, KTVA’s Charlo Greene identified herself as the business’s owner.

“Everything you’ve heard is why I, the actual owner of the Alaska Cannabis Club, will be dedicating all my energy toward fighting for freedom and for fairness, which begins with legalizing marijuana here in Alaska,” she said. She then used an expletive to quit her job and

walked off-camera.

In a statement on KTVA’s website, news director Bert Rudman apologized for Greene’s “inappropriate language” and said she was terminated.

Greene is the professional name used by Charlene Egbe.

She told The Associated Press on Monday that she knew about a month ago that she would be leaving the way she did. No one else at the station knew anything about it, she said.

Alaska voters will decide in the November whether to join Washington and Colorado in decriminalizing pot.

Greene doesn’t believe the manner of her departure is

harming her cause.

“Are we talking about it, or not, because of what I did.

Period,” she said. “It always goes back to the issue.”

Greene said she always fact checked and was unbiased about the issue as a reporter.

“I’m passionate about doing my job, and at the time my job was being a journalist,” Green, 26, said.

Messages left Monday morning with Rudman wasn’t immediately returned.

Alaska business records indicate Egbe registered the Alaska Cannabis Club name on April 20, or 4-20. The number "420" has long been associated with marijuana, though its origins as shorthand for pot are unclear.

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Feminism from a Gilmore guy To the Editor: Re: “The Dawn of the Gilmore Boy,” Arts and Entertainment, Sep. 17.

When I initially encountered an article urging college males (like myself) to give the show Gilmore Girls a chance, I was excited that others saw enough comedy and virtue in the series to want to share it with the large demographic that has mostly overlooked it. While I was glad that the article pointed out the many ways in which the show is relatable to everyone, I was supremely disappointed, however, that it seemed to ignore the larger issue at hand: that men can identify with female protagonists as well.

About halfway through the article, Moser makes the point that “…Gilmore Girls is just as much about boys and men as it is about girls,” which, while true, should not be a prerequisite for male viewing. I certainly don’t think women watch male-dominated shows just to follow female sub-plots, nor should they. For one reason or another, there is a much larger stigma preventing men from openly idolizing, admiring or otherwise identifying with female characters.

A quick look at the list of the highest-grossing movies and TV shows exposes the disproportionately high saturation of male protagonists (think Harry Potter, Iron Man and Lord of the Rings, or Sons of Anarchy, Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead). As a result, girls, especially teenagers, often report that they follow shows with only supplemental female roles and that they identify with strong male protagonists.

Our question, then, should be, why is the reverse not true? Why doesn’t as large a portion of men watch Grey’s Anatomy as women watch House? And why do we never hear boys say they want to be just like Matilda when girls across the globe dream of being like The Boy Who Lived?

Girls are often forced to identify with male protagonists because it is the best alternative to being the sidekick (e.g. Hermione Granger). Meanwhile, boys never make such decisions given their monopoly on lead roles, and this is precisely the issue.

Perhaps if men were more willing to follow women protagonists, there would be more of them around.

My frustration, overall, is not with the article, but with society, and more importantly, myself. When I found myself referring to Gilmore Girls as a “guilty pleasure” and defending my enjoyment by attributing it to my mother and sister who had the show on constantly, I realized that we have a problem. No man should ever be embarrassed about liking a quality show because it stars two strong female leads, nor should we decide as a society who will enjoy a show based on the sex of the lead actor or actress.

All I ask is that on October first when Gilmore Girls finally hits Netflix, anyone who feels compelled by Rory’s and Lorelai’s stories shouldn’t feel ashamed to say so.

Christopher DeMatteo ’16

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t’s been a rough week. Usually, I man- allowed to vote, to work, to pursue an age to limit the amount of times I get education and to make the decision to run over by the TCAT to less than put their careers ahead of their family three, and this week, I’m at four, and it’s lives. We have undoubtedly made only Tuesday. I wish I could say I have the progress, but we are far from equality. drive (pun intended) to deal with the fact Feminism needs to stick around. Why? that prelims are approaching, and calculus Because even though according to the is a foreign language and I have no idea Rape, Abuse and Incest National what I’m doing here, but that’s not entire- Network every two minutes, another ly true. I do, however, have Tina Fey and American is sexually assaulted, society her words of wisdom. still asks what she was wearing to pro“Don’t waste your energy trying to voke the attack. And because while educate or change opinions. Go ‘Over! American women are free to enjoy the Under! Through!’ right to vote and and opinions will to drive, Saudi change organically Arabian women I care about what you do with are when you’re the not. And boss. Or they what you believe. To me, using because, when the won’t. Who cares? average woman the energy it would take to Do your thing and turns 60, she will don’t care if they have earned protest sexism to instead like it.” Inspired? I $450,000 less outpace people who am. Tina’s words than a man workare tucked away in condescend based on gender is ing in the same Bossypants, one of position for the what feminism in the the three books my same amount of idealistic self time. So no, femi21st century is all about. brought to college nism cannot quibecause “I can read etly fade into the during my free time.” They’re my motiva- background just yet. tion, and more recently, they’re the words There is, however, a way to be a that come to mind when I hear people feminist without pulling out statistics claim that we don’t need feminism any- every time you feel you need to defend more. Stop rolling your eyes, this isn’t yourself: just don’t care if they don’t like another piece on the importance of recog- it. It doesn’t matter if the person in front nizing gender inequality or the lack of of you is a narrow-minded jerk so long as respect towards women in rap culture or you can get over, under or through him or whatever. I don’t care if you think we need her. The energy you would waste proving more or less feminism in the future. It your worth to the person in front of you doesn’t matter to me if you even believe in is better used working towards simply feminism or not. I care about what you do being better than that person. To put it with what you believe. To me, using the more diplomatically, as Emma Watson energy it would take to protest sexism to did, “If you hate the word, it is not the instead outpace people who condescend word that matters. It is the ideas and the based on gender is what feminism in the ambitions behind it.”

21st century is all about.

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CORRECTION A Sept. 22 news story, “Cornellians Descend on New York City for Climate March,” incorrectly named one of the organizations that sponsored the Cornell trip. The Center for Transformative Action as well as the Sustainability Hub in part sponsored the trip.

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Deon Thomas |

It’s Not Me, It’s You

The Art of Constructive Criticism

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Comment of the day “Here’s Bush: ‘believe there’s an Almighty, and I believe the Almighty’s great gift to each man and woman in this world is the desire to be free. ...

It is a universal gift to the world, and people want to be free.’ So is this a theological or religious justification, or not? What’s your criteria for when such a justification becomes causal, or when it is ‘incidental?’”

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’m writing today about an art that seemingly has been long lost. Whether I am clicking on a YouTube video, Facebook status or Cornell Daily Sun article I see comments ranging from insulting to flat out offensive. I never had a reason to care about comments, which, albeit insulting, were easy to ignore. Even when people’s comments leaped from The Daily Sun website to my Daily Sun email, it never quite bothered me. However, when I spotted an article about flyers being dropped on campus alleging that one of my fellow columnists is both a “racist and a rapeapologist,” I was quickly angered and knew that I had to address this issue.

Whether or not I agree with the sentiments of my peers here at Cornell, I refuse to dumb myself down and resort to name-calling. I know someone might think that throwing a few flyers on campus attacking a figure they deem offensive to be a form of activism; however, I will take the time now to tell you that it’s actually far from it. You have resorted to sending yourself back to elementary school where oneword insults were the end-all, be-all. You are not adding to the conversation; you are not creating effective change; you are, however, refusing to respect a fellow student, which, in fact, is exactly what you seem to be accusing him of doing in the first place!

One of my biggest issues with technology these days is that there are one to many mediums to throw your opinion

Believe it or not, for every undeveloped argument or thought you have there is a well-researched and thought-provoking article online that says it better. online at whoever is willing to read it. Now, there are a plethora of opinions everywhere online that can probably all be summed up my two or three main points. My point being that Facebook may not be the best medium to create effective change in your community. If you actually want your opinion to be heard I urge you to join a media organization on campus, run for the S.A. or, if you don’t have the time, simply attend S.A. meetings and speak your mind on the events you truly care about.

There seems to be a strong sentiment that “all opinions are created equal,” whereas I would argue the opposite.

Believe it or not, for every undeveloped argument or thought you have there is a well-researched and thoughtprovoking article online that says it better. Instead of posting a rudimentary argument on Facebook about how you think the government should take on ISIS, I plead with you to either do some research and post an original wellresearched opinion on the subject. If you refuse to do such then simply post a link to a New York Times or Fox News article that has an opinion similar to yours.

I am not asking you to stop developing opinions or arguments on important topics. I am merely asking you to educate yourself before you speak your mind. More importantly, I am asking you to contain your rage long enough after reading an article to do your own research, make your own constructive argument and write your own thoughtprovoking response all before clicking the reply button online. However, even a rudimentary response online is better than resorting to name calling and painting a unfairly malicious portrait of another student. Put yourself in that student’s shoes and I assure you there is something you’ve said or written where you could find a picture of yourself on campus smiling next to the words racist or rape apologist, and when that happens remember it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com. It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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David Fischer |

Fischy Business

Don’t Cry, Humanities This is a column About the humanities You will get a job

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opefully, the mere appearance of a half-brained attempt at a haiku has scared away any STEM majors foolish enough to skim past this column’s headline. Most STEM majors are already secure in the notion that will likely receive gainful employment in their chosen career field. Whether that looks like software engineering in the Silicon Valley, financial modeling on Wall Street or any other myriad of things for which I personally have absolutely no qualifications, the path from Ivy-sprawling Ithaca to the big cities seems guaranteed. This predilection to parlay mathematical and scientific skills into certain employment is admirable.

All of that being said, as an English major, I personally don’t have the same sort of security when it comes to finding a job. Scholarly pursuits aside, there isn’t a clearcut path for the career interests for many humanities majors. Pair a job climate that almost requires a college education with ever-rising university tuitions, and the notion that post-college employment requires an immediate return on investment makes a lot of sense. For decades, soothsayers have proclaimed the death of the humanities for these exact reasons. However, somehow, the humanities have not yet died.

As a humanities practitioner, I feel it necessary to appeal now to the frequently parroted rationalization for studying history: “History teaches us about the past so we can avoid the same mistakes in the future.”

So what can Cornell’s

past relationship with the humanities tell us about our understanding of the humanities today? In their class about Cor nell’s past 75 years (the time period where they claim “Contem porary Cornell” was created), Professors Isaac Kram nick and Glenn Alt schuler (of the government and history departments, respectively) have brought to light some interesting material focusing on the relationship between the humanities and the sciences.

One particularly interesting document that Professors Kramnick and Altschuler brought to our attention was a short story from the Cornell Writer literary magazine published in 1953 called “Indian Love Call” by then-student Ronald Sukenick ’55 (who “grew up” to be a professor and

1950s, so we can assume that it’s a pretty good barometer for the attitude of at least part of the campus. The story highlights a tension between sciences and the humanities with Sybill Lumpkin (“a seriousminded girl and a Soc [Sociology] major”) and Henry Faber (an English major) discussing the scientific merit of the works of a poet. Their discussion seems more like a metaphor for the usefulness of the two disciplines rather than a simple half-intellectual discussion about poetry in the midst of an off-campus apartment party.

Another character, Emil Danzig, suggests, tonguein-cheek, that Faber’s arguments are driven primarily by “departmental jealousy, necessary for the maintenance of any healthy English depart-

I personally chose to study English because I enjoy it. I enjoy most aspects of the major (the reading, the writing) and I don’t think that I would enjoy other courses of study the same way. author). As an interesting side note, the story, and its subsequent attempted censorship by thenCornell President Deane Malott (yes, the namesake for the campus mathematics building) due to what he perceived as its “immoral” content, would prove foreshadowing for a protest several years later that boiled over into a 3,000-student riot outside Malott’s Cayuga Heights home and the termination of the University’s in loco parentis policy. Isn’t history fun?

Anyway, back to the short story relevant to this column. Sukenick sets “Indian Love Call” in an off-campus apartment at Cornell in the

ment,” an argument I found striking due to its applicability to the contemporary debate about the values of the humanities.

Danzig’s suggestion that Faber’s defense of his favorite poet (as well as the offense he subtly throws against Lumpkin’s beloved Sociology department) is predicated on a departmental jealousy, which underscores what I see as humanities departments’ constant need to justify their continued existence. Courses of study involving business or technology have a much clearer path to employment (and a higher likely starting salary) than those in art history or

classical studies. Therefore, humanities departments feel the need to stage events that inform liberal arts minded students that they’ll be able to get jobs, and highlight the impressive careers that their former students are engaged in.

However, I think that these departments are somewhat missing the point.

I personally chose to study English because I enjoy it. I enjoy most aspects of the major (the reading, the writing) and I don’t think that I would enjoy other courses of study the same way. I wouldn’t enjoy the type of work that STEM majors do (nor would I have the high-level mathematical skills to accomplish those things).

Therefore, I’m sure that I wouldn’t be chasing after those careers either way.

A quality that universities often trumpet about their humanities students is the critical thinking skills they d e v e l o p throughout the course of their education. Al though critical thinking skills sound appealing, I don’t think that they are the chief lesson to be learned from a humanities curriculum. A propensity toward taking intellectual risks is one of the most important lessons I have learned from studying the humanities at Cornell.

Risks like starting a column with a haiku or going off on “fun fact” tangents. If you’re doing what you enjoy and what makes you happy, the risks are worth it.

David Fischer is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Real Estate to Come to the Haunt Rachel Ellicott ’15 in conversation with vocalist and guitarist Martin Courtney

BY RACHEL ELLICOTT Blogs Editor

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Their self-titled debut was a Pitchfork “Best New Music” album, their 2014 sophomore album, Atlas was listed as one of the 100 best albums of the decade by the same and now the Jersey-suburbia-born, Brooklyn-bred indie rock up-and-comers are making a stop at Ithaca’s The Haunt on Sept. 30. The Cornell Daily Sun’s Rachel Ellicott ’15, blogs editor, sat down with vocalist and guitarist Martin Courtney to talk about touring, musical inspiration and boring band names.

T HE S UN : So you’ll be in Ithaca on Sept. 30. Have you ever been here before or played here before?

M ARTIN C OURTNEY: We have. I think it may have only been one time though. I can’t remember. It was a house party.

S UN : Awesome, well we’re excited to have you back then at a bigger venue than a house. How did you get that gig?

M.C.: I think we just booked ourselves. We were on tour with the band, Girls. It was like our first tour ever.

And I think we had a night off so we booked a show to make some money on the night off. That was the idea, and we happened to do it between Boston and Montreal, if that makes sense.

S UN : So where are you right now on your tour?

M.C.: I’m on a beach in New Jersey.

S UN : So what are some of your fondest musical memories with your band? Favorite performances, weirdest performances?

M.C.: Well, every time somebody asks me a question like that I feel like I blank. We’ve had a lot of really cool opportunities opening for other bands that we really love, like we got to do one of the Yo La Tengo Hanukkah shows two years ago. It ended up being the last year they ever did them, and I guess singing a song with them on stage ... that was really special and cool.

Another time we did a show with Glen Mercer from The Feelies, the lead singer of the band … and we actually covered some Feelies songs with him and he came up on stage and sang with us which was really cool.

We’ve been lucky enough to play some really neat festivals around the world in some different places. … We have a friend who books shows in Portugal, in Lisbon, and I think every time we’ve gotten to go there it’s been

really cool and really special. We really wanted to go back on this record and it just didn’t work out. It’s kind of hard to round yourself into Portugal randomly, but we’re hoping to go back at some point. I think maybe my favorite thing ever or one of them was that we got to go to Japan with our best friend band, this band Woods. We did a tour there with them and we got to travel around, and my girlfriend, now wife, came out; we had an extra week off after the shows. And that was just a really amazing trip going to Japan. It was really cool to know this band that we started as friends has brought us to really cool places around the world like New Zealand. We’ve been really lucky. ?

S UN : How did you pick your band name

M.C.: So we’ve played in bands probably since we were like 14 or something, young kids, like that’s kind of when we met. But I played in a couple bands with Alex in high school and then me, Alex and Matt were in a band together that really was just a one-off recording project where we were figuring out how to record songs by ourselves, and that was called Hey There Sexy. But Real Estate is kind of the first real band that we started together as old friends. That name came with this project. We couldn’t think of a band name for probably the first two months of being a band. I think at the time that we were starting the band, this was right after college and my parents both run a real estate company in New Jersey, I was taking classes to get my license so I could work for them and have a job in the kind of like post-college-not-knowing-what-I-wanted-to-do thing. We were all practicing at my parents’ house and we had dinner with my parents

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that night and my mom was joking around that everybody in the band should get their real estate license and then we could all work for the company and then we’d all have jobs. And then we were are like, “yeah” and we could call the band Real Estate and then we could be real estate agents by day and then have this band called Real Estate at night. That was our stupid joke and somehow it stuck and became our band name. I always thought it was a really boring band name, but somehow it stuck.

S UN : Where do you think you draw your musical influences from the most? What’s the creative process of writing a song for you?

M.C.: The process of coming up with just a chord progression or you know, the basic building blocks of a song, that usually just kind of comes straight out of me or whoever’s writing the song. I don’t think you’re really thinking about the influences until… well maybe you are in a way, I think it depends on the song. Like maybe you hear a specific song and you think, “Oh I like that chord progression; maybe I can write something that’s similar to that.” I think that happens a lot.

In terms of really bringing it together as a band and coming up with the arrangement of, you know, “the bass is going to play this and the guitar’s going to do this,” I think that’s when you’re really thinking about influences and sort of trying to draw ideas from other places. I think we get influences from all over the place; we’re definitely part of this lineage of indie rock bands from the ’80s and ’90s.

Real Estate will play at the Haunt on Sept. 30 at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are available through Dan Smalls Presents.

Rachel Ellicott is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at blogs-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Surprise, today is the autumnal equinox and it is fall in Ithaca, kids! But Libe Cafe isn’t even selling pumpkin spice lattes yet and you can only look at/photograph/call-yourgrandparents-about the fall foliage for so long before you realize that you’re a person who uses the word “foliage.” Though if you really must get into the spirit of sweater weather and nutmeg, there’s no better way to do it than with a chill, right?

Here’s a breakdown of Ithaca’s best scary stuff for fall ... and here’s publically stating that a Bill Hader Saturday Night Live host (coming October 11!) will not be positively received without a visit from Vincent Price and co.

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GONE GIRL — starts October 3 One of the most anticipated movies of fall (and one of the best film trailers I’ve ever seen), Gillian Flynn’s bestselling novel was adapted by the king of the crime thriller, David Fincher and stars Ben Affleck in his first wide release project since the Academy Awardwinning Argo. That’s not to mention a rare and (I hope) thoroughly creepy dramatic role for a postTony’s Neil Patrick Harris. And don’t be fooled by the book clubbiness of Flynn’s 300-page thriller — a laidoff entertainment writer herself, in 2012 Flynn penned a biting critique of the journalism industry, the gendered power dynamics of marriage and the American class system. There’s also murder (maybe?).

Adapting a novel with so much interior dialogue and such a fascination with the unreliable narrator seems like a bear of a chore, but Fincher has handled novel adaptations brilliantly in the past (see: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo or Zodiac) and early reviews say he’s made fidelity first priority with this one.

Is it true that “complicated is just code for ‘bitch’”?

(That’s not the tagline but it should be). A mere 10 days until we find out on the big screen, but Flynn’s page-turner will take you about six hours if you’d prefer not to wait.

AMERICAN HORROR STORY: FREAK SHOW — starts October 8 on FX Set at a dying circus in 1950s Florida, American Horror Story’s fourth season, Freak Show, has been marketed even more brilliantly than its first three — they’ve cornered the market on sleek horror and aggressive promo (see recently released vintage cast photos and the 20-some videos on the show’s Facebook). Most of the cast is made up of veterans of past seasons, including Emmy-winner Jessica Lange, Asylum superstars Sarah Paulson and Evan Peters, Coven-flop survivors Angela Bassett and Kathy Bates and … Emma Roberts, again, somehow.

Regardless of its missteps, AHS has always found a way to root out the nasty, patriotic origins of most of the distinctly American forms of horror — be that the capitalism-generated American dream(house), racially charged religious wars or the sinister history of criminalizing mental illness, femininity, homosexuality, nonwhiteness and all forms of “other.” Even when the costuming gets more attention than the plot-holes, AHS goes for the throat.

THE EXORCIST — October 30 at State Theatre Catch the 1973 classic and then go home for a postscreening viewing of Laraine Newman’s equally classic 1975 Exorcist II sketch from Saturday Night Live (“You’re a liar and a cheat and a child molester!”).

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THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI — October 30 at Sage Chapel There’s nothing more chilling than a screening at Sage, complete with the ghosts of Cornellians past (and of many failed alumni marriages, am I right?). But seriously, Sage is beautiful and the silent tale of scary sleep walking will be doubly haunting with organ accompaniment.

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TUSK — now playing at Cinemapolis

THE GUEST — now playing in wide release

The first 30 seconds of The Guest’s trailer plays like a Nicholas Sparks set-up: Young man (Dan Stevens) knocks on door of pretty lady (Sheila Kelley) with sweet-faced babies and explains the promises he made to her dead son back at the front; young man is role model for younger man (Brendan Meyer) who has no big brother now; young man is protective of (in the usual, disgustingly patriarchal ways) and “harmlessly” flirtatious with teenage daughter who is blonde (Maika Monroe). But hey, it’s directed by Adam Wingard and written by Simon Barrett. If that means nothing to you, then cool, it didn’t to me either until I Googled it. They made a little slasher story called You’re Next last year. I don’t know what I like better: The notion of Sparks finally meeting a chainsaw or the fact that Barrett and Wingard are proving that every softspot of America’s nuclear-family-clutching, veteran-fetishizing, blueeyed-beauty-trusting heart is fair game for destruction.

“The walrus is far more evolved than any man I’ve ever known. Present company included.” What do you get when you cross Justin Long with a ’70s ‘stache, an incognito Johnny Depp, the Great “Red, White But Never Blue” North and a villain (Michael Parks) who’s equal parts Captain Ahab and Buffalo Bill? Tusk, the slick/sick/ ludicrous part one of wildcard director Kevin Smith’s True North Trilogy. Not for the faint of heart, Tusk is also definitely not for the horror genre newbie — most of this scary dramedy’s laughs come from intimate knowledge of its predecessors’ tropes. Look out for provincial mockery a la Fargo, ample Silence of the Lambs satire (it puts the lotion in the basket and/or eats a raw mackerel) and …

Haley Joel Osment?

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

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SPORTS

Super Bowl 2014 Will Feature LED Lights

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — When the Super Bowl kicks off in February at University of Phoenix Stadium, there’s one thing the NFL won’t have to worry about: an extended blackout.

Ephesus Lighting of Syracuse, New York, has just completed installation of LED lighting at the venue, site of the 2015 Super Bowl. The first game played under the new lights was Sunday, when the Cardinals hosted the San Francisco 49ers.

So far, so good.

“Fantastic!” Peter Sullivan, regional vice president and general manager of the University of Phoenix Stadium, said Monday. “They were fantastic on a variety of levels. These lights are rated for super slowmotion, so the clarity and the level of light and the type of light is phenomenal.”

Ephesus chief executive officer Amy Casper says it’s the first NFL venue to illuminate a playing surface exclusively with LED lighting.

Sullivan said he had already fielded calls from another NFL team and a Major League Baseball franchise.

Only 312 Ephesus stadium fixtures were installed in the University of Phoenix Stadium. They will replace more than 780 metal halide fixtures, which have not yet been removed, and carry a 10-year warranty.

According to the company, the new lights will use just 310,000 watts of energy. The system it replaces needs 1.24 million watts, which translates to a 75% reduction in overall energy consumption.

“That’s a significant reduction for significantly more light level,” Sullivan said. “It was just phenomenal. You’ve got to make sure the TV guys are happy, and they weren’t just happy. They were way happy. It’s new at this level, but I think it came out of the box pretty well.”

Each Ephesus LED light provides nearly double the illumination of traditional metal halide lights. LED lights also provide brighter and more uniform light, which eliminates shadows on the playing surface and creates a better stage for players, fans, and those watching on highdefinition televisions.

Bills Flounder Against Chargers After Hot Start ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — After a feel-good 2-0 start, the Bills are facing their first test of adversity in preparing to open a two-game road swing at Houston this Sunday.

Buffalo was outplayed by the Chargers on both sides of the ball in a 22-10 loss Sunday.

“We’re not where we want to be,” running back C.J. Spiller said. “Obviously, you’re disappointed in the loss. But we can’t sit around all day and mope on it. We’ll look at the film today, and look at the mistakes we made.”

It might be a lengthy film session.

Buffalo’s offense had difficulty mounting much of a threat in being limited to 113 yards and five first downs through the first half. And the Bills were already trailing 20-3 before finally orchestrating a touchdown drive late in the third quarter.

The defense had its issues, too. The Chargers had two scoring drives that lasted 15 or more plays and ate up more than 7 minutes each. The Bills also allowed five completions of 20 yards or more against San Diego after giving up just one in their first two games.

Discipline was an issue, too.

Buffalo was flagged 11 times for 101 yards, with three of those penalties negating a combined 60 yards offense.

“I don’t think (the Chargers) made too many mistakes. And that’s what playoff teams do,” Spiller said. “And we have to do that to take that leap. But I think we’ll be fine.”

Now it’s up to the Bills to show they’re capable of rebounding, something they

struggled with during a 14-season playoff drought — the NFL’s longest active streak.

“You’re not going to win every game. It’s how it is,” defensive back Corey Graham said. “You’re going to have losses. You’re going to have setbacks.”

The Bills’ secondary was slow in adjusting to Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers’ willingness to throw deep passes on an afternoon when wind gusts approached 35 mph. Rivers completed two 49-yard passes to Malcom Floyd that helped set up a field goal and touchdown.

On offense, the Bills lacked rhythm.

Quarterback EJ Manuel went 23 of 39 for 238 yards and a touchdown, but completed just 7 of 21 attempts for 49 yards to his wide receivers. That included first-round pick Sammy Watkins, who was limited to two catches for 19 yards despite being targeted eight times.

One incompletion came on a critical fourth-and-3 in which Watkins was late looking for the ball, which sailed by him over the middle.

“I’m supposed to catch that ball,” Watkins said.

The one big issue the Bills have yet to address is how capable they are of overcoming deficits.

Since the start of last season, Buffalo is 0-10 in games in which it has trailed by 10 or more points.

“That’s something, obviously, we have to be able to do to be a good football team,” coach Doug Marrone said. “Is that the next step? It’s one of the steps.”

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VOLLEYBALL

Red Wins One at Syracuse Tourney

By ANNA FASMAN

games, earning a win in the third match but ultimately breaking down in the end. Wilson explained that while the chemistry and drive were there, the team fell due to some The Cornell women’s volleyball team fought hard until minor mistakes. the end, but ultimately fell to Syracuse, 3-1, on Sunday as it “We were just inconsistent throughout the match. … We wrapped up the Syracuse tournament. The tournament, let a few errors get to us and we got down. … It is hard being which took place throughout the weekend, left the Red with so young, but having the confidence to go out there and one win against the University of Albany and two losses fight for every point will come very soon,” Wilson said. against the Orange and Colgate.

Indeed, being a young team can have So far this season, Cornell stands with a its disadvantages. Wemhoff, one of seven “When we are up freshmen on the team, explained that the record of 3-6, struggling to gain traction as it progresses through the season. However, transition into college play is a tough one we are great.” despite the two losses this weekend, many of and the adjustment takes time. the players came away with record-high stats “Most of the athletes that you play are Emily Wemhoff and strong individual performances. all physically bigger and stronger than Freshmen outside hitters Maddy Sroufe you. However, I feel like our freshmen and Emily Wemhoff each posted an impressive amount of class has been extremely lucky to have a group of older teamkills at the net, combining for 31 in the win over Albany. mates that have shown us the ropes,” she said. “If there is Senior libero Natasha Rowland remained strong on defense, anything I’ve learned about adjusting to the new level of moving herself into eighth place for the most digs in Cornell play, it’s being confident in everything that you do. Don’t let history. Sophomore middle hitter Macey Wilson also had a the other team see you sweat.” substantial weekend at the net, compiling five blocks in the However, as the team moves forward and looks ahead to victory. league play — which begins this weekend in a bout with According to Wemhoff, while the team was disappointed Columbia — it remains motivated to take on every oppowith the losses this weekend, it plans to move forward with nent with effort and tenacity. Wemhoff said the Red has the confidence and remember the lessons learned in the games opportunity to shock other teams throughout the season. to come.

“We are motivated to surprise every team that will under“We walked away from the tournament knowing what estimate us because of our age and beat teams that people we need to work on to prepare for Ivy League play, which is don't expect us to,” Wilson said. “Even though we lost, we consistency and confidence. We need to have the same men- know that it wasn't because the other team was better than tality for every game and work on bringing a level of steadi- us, and we believe in our ability to play at a really high ness and calmness,” she said. “Our team is sometimes up level.” and down, but when we are up we are great.”

In the match against host Syracuse, the Red fell after four Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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ANTHONY CHEN / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Into the net | Sophomore middle hitter Macey Wilson had five blocks in the Red’s only win of the weekend against Albany.

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ple of seconds — take Peyton Manning, for example — may be able to move his offense effectively with a sub-par line protecting him. Likewise, a backup, or simply inexperienced quarterback, like the Raiders’ Derek Carr, may struggle being protected by a top o-line that has only allowed two sacks through three games. So yes, there are certainly outliers, but what a good offensive line does is turn a decent, even above-average quarterback — not the Brady’s, Brees’, etc. — into a stat-making, touchdown producing arm.

Rams third-string quarterback Austin Davis started on Sunday against the Cowboys. He wasn’t sacked once in the game. With time to sit back in the pocket and make good decisions, Davis threw for 327 yards and three touchdowns. Not taking anything away from Davis — he’s a good player — but keep in mind, he entered the season as the third-string signal caller for the Rams.

The same goes for the running back, a position that, like the quarterback, depends heavily on the offensive line in order to make big plays. And like quarterbacks, there are exceptions with running backs as well. Let’s look at Jamaal Charles and LeSean McCoy as examples. Both are speedsters who, with their shifty moves, can make anyone miss in the open field. With just a bit of space, Charles and McCoy can turn what would be a four-yard run for most backs into a 70-yard touchdown. Both are classic examples of exceptions to the offensive line/running back relationship.

Aside from the handful of exceptions, the majority of backs in the league are capable of making big plays when holes are opened by the line, making the offensive line as important, or possibly more important than the running back himself.

Only one of the fifteen top rushers in the league right now was a firstround draft pick. Rashad Jennings, who was a backup for the first four years of his career, is third in the league in yards,

and rushed for 176 on Sunday. While Jennings is now the Giants starter, and deservedly so, the point is that any NFL running back can put up big numbers behind a great offensive line. If the player holds onto the football, sees the field, and follows his blockers, running backs are really just a means of carrying the ball, while the offensive line opens holes

The importance of the offensive line cannot be overstated. for the back and prevents defenders from tackling him. Some backs are better than others, but with a great o-line, any running back — not just first rounders — has the ability to shine.

The pass-protection rankings on Footballoutsiders.com reveal the importance of offensive line play as well.

Among the top pass blocking teams are the Chargers, Bills and Texans. None of

these three teams have incredible offenses, and only the Chargers have a proven quarterback under center in Phil Rivers.

But all three teams are above .500 nevertheless. The Chargers knocked off the defending champion Seahawks last week. Likewise, the Bengals have yet to allow a sack through three games, and they are undefeated. With time to sit back in the pocket and find an open receiver, NFL quarterbacks can make the right throws, even if it isn’t Peyton Manning or Aaron Rodgers doing so.

The importance of the offensive line cannot be overstated. It is arguably the most important group of players on that side of the ball. Unless a team has a Hall of Fame-bound quarterback under center, it’s nearly impossible for an offense to achieve consistent success with below average blocking. I’m not urging you to go buy an offensive lineman’s jersey, I’m simply giving credit where credit is due.

Benjamin Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

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Barging through | Giants running back Rashad Jennings has put up strong numbers this season largely thanks to the work of his offensive line.

ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — The Detroit Lions, riding high after stuffing Aaron Rodgers and Green Bay in a 19-7 win, got a dose of bad news Monday.

Middle linebacker Stephen Tulloch will miss the remainder of the season with a torn ACL he suffered while celebrating a sack of the Packers’ star quarterback.

“Tully did indeed injure his knee and is going to need surgery,” coach Jim Caldwell said. “He’s a fighter, so expect him to rehab like he always does everything else — full go and he’ll get back soon.”

The Lions held the Packers to 223 total yards on Sunday. Tulloch suffered the injury in the first quarter, looking as though he was trying to mimic Rodgers’ famous “title belt” celebration and then falling awkwardly to the ground. He returned soon after but was unable to continue playing, spending the remainder of the game on the sidelines.

Caldwell would not speculate on exactly how the injury occurred, instead pointing to the fickle nature of the game.

“The obvious was everybody saw him go up and come down and get up limping afterward,” Caldwell said. “But often times, some of these injuries, things happen a couple plays before but maybe at a certain point in time it may be affected a little bit more than others and come to the forefront. So I’m not absolutely sure.”

Caldwell would not speculate on who will replace Tulloch, though on Sunday linebacker DeAndre Levy finished the game in Tulloch’s absence, and Tahir Whitehead was slotted into Levy’s spot. “(Whitehead) has prepared himself to play,” Raiola said. “He made a lot of plays in the preseason - he stepped in (Sunday) and made plays. Obviously losing Tully, that hurts. But like Coach Caldwell preaches - and this is not just lip sync, we’re seeing it now in action - it’s next man up. That’s not taking anything away from Tully, but it’s a matter-of-fact that he’s hurt. We mourn for him, but at the same time nobody’s going to wait for us.”

Detroit will use the remainder of this week to evaluate its options and make a decision from there.

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FIELD HOCKEY

Red Extends Streak to Four With Two Victories

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

The women’s field hockey team continued its impressive winning streak this weekend with slim victories over Penn and Holy Cross the following day. The team (5-1, 1-0 Ivy League) now sits behind only Harvard in the complete season standings.

“Although against both Penn and Holy Cross we came

out slower than ideal, we were able to stay composed and get the win,” said junior back Marisa Siergiej about this weekend's matches.

First the Red took on Penn in the Ivy League opener, with Siergiej scoring the winning goal in the 37th minute.

Cornell was leading the Quakers ten shots to two at the time of the score, but both teams were unable to capitalize on the opportunities until the Red’s breakthrough. Senior midfielder Ann DiPastina and junior midfielder Taylor

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Helping hand | Junior midfielder Taylor Standiford (above) and senior midfielder Ann DiPastina both assisted on the only goal of the game in Cornell’s 1-0 win on Saturday.

Standiford both assisted in the effort, leading to the Siergiej goal.

The Red maintained control of the game, also leading in penalties (4-2) over Penn. In the 63rd minute it appeared that an insurance goal was scored, hitting the underside of the crossbar, but it was deemed a no goal.

The Red’s success was due in part to the strength of the defense. The back half of the field allowed only five shots, just one of them on goal, protecting the narrow lead.

Freshman goalkeeper Kelly Johnson finished the game with her first collegiate shutout.

“We are most threatening when we play as a cohesive unit, and it is important that we hold onto that mentality as the season continues,” DiPastina said.

The streak continued into the next faceoff against Holy Cross. The Red controlled the game and finally freshman midfielder Gabby DePetro was able to convert a scoring opportunity into a goal in the 34th minute. The play began when Siergiej took a penalty shot, which was deflected by the Holy Cross goalie. DePetro then sent the rebound over the keeper to score the Red’s first goal.

As the second half began, freshman Krysten Mayers sifted through the Holy Cross defense before scoring for the Red, giving her team a more comfortable 2-0 lead. Holy Cross had opportunities to score, but could only finish once, netting in the 63rd minute.

“We have seen contribution from a lot of girls around the field, showing our depth,” Siergiej said.

The Red held control in shots (15-7) and penalties (6-4) in its win. It was the fourth consecutive game in which Cornell held its competitor to four corners or fewer.

Next up for the Red is the second Ivy League game of the young season, this time against Columbia on Saturday, Sept 27.

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun.com.

Appreciating Vinti,Vrabel Fall in Tough Final Matches The O-Line I

MEN’S TENNIS

By DANIELLE LETOURNEAU Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell men’s tennis team traveled to Princeton for the Ivy Invitational Tournament.

In his quarterfinal match, junior Stefan Vinti dominantly won the first set 6-1, went on to lose the second 6-2, and then battled back to win the third set in a tiebreak. After that he cruised through his semifinal to advance to the finals of his bracket.

Vinti said he felt that he played well and stuck to his game plan for the majority of those matches.

“I’ve played pretty solid tennis in most of my singles matches. I used my groundstrokes to dictate most of the points by taking the ball on the rise,” he said. “However, there were a few situations where I didn’t manage to stick to my game plan and became slightly defensive.”

Vinti was not the only Cornellian to reach the finals. Sophomore Chris Vrabel battled to the end of the Pagoda bracket after winning both his quarterfinal (6-4, 6-3) and semifinal (7-6, 6-4) matches in straight sets.

Vinti and Vrabel were unable to bring home a title, though, after hard fought final matches. After three hours of play in the finals of the second toughest draw, the Nassau Draw, Vinti lost 7-5 in the third set to Virginia Tech’s Joao Monteiro.

Despite the loss, Vinti said he believes that the preparation this fall with his teammates and coaches has translated into better, more aggressive tennis.

“During the past spring and beginning of this fall, I’ve been focusing on playing a more consistent and aggressive tennis,” he said. “This tournament I’ve stayed aggressive while executing the game patterns that I’ve been working on with [head coach] Silviu [Tanasoiu] and [assistant coach] Andrei [Daescu] in practices.”

Meanwhile, Vrabel played an intense revenge match. Last year at this same tournament he defeated Columbia’s Eric Rubin 6-5, 6-2. This year, though, Rubin got the best of Vrabel as he lost in a tiebreak in the third set. The overall score was 6-4, 3-6, 7-6.

Senior Sam Fleck reached the semifinals of the Lenz draw, but lost in two close sets (6-4, 6-4). Sophomore Dylan Brown had a marathon match in the quarterfinals of the Jadwin Draw against Columbia’s Richard Pham, but he lost 67(6), 7-6(4), 6-4.

Next weekend Cornell will travel to Philadelphia for the Penn Invitational Tournament, which will feature a similar format to the one this weekend.

The team’s hard work has paid off in singles. With continuous work and dedication, Vinti said the team hopes to improve its results in both singles and doubles.

“In tennis, weaknesses show up in matches. We’ve been working a lot on our singles training and the Ivy Plus tournament confirmed that our team is getting tougher and improving in the singles matches,” Vinti said. “On the other hand, in doubles we weren’t as sharp, so we will definitely work this week on improving the doubles aspect of our

games.”

However, Vinti said he believes that if every member of the team continues to support each other in matches the same way they did this weekend, the tournament will go well.

“As a team, we tried to compete relentlessly and help each other out in every match,” he said. “This mindset gives us the best preparation for the Penn Invitational tournament, which will take place next weekend.”

Danielle Letourneau can be reached at dletourneau@cornellsun.com.

n the National Football League, like in all professional sports leagues, the most popular players sell the most jerseys. In New England, that man is Tom Brady. In Green Bay, it’s Aaron Rodgers, and so on. While it isn’t always the quarterback, the idea makes sense: the fans support the big names, the faces of the franchise. But does the number of jersey sales necessarily equate to that player’s

Ben Shatzman Calling the Shatz

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At the net | Senior Sam Fleck reached the semifinals of his draw in the Ivy Invitational this weekend.

importance to an NFL team? In some cases, it may, but there is one group of position players that sells the least jerseys and receives the least media attention. That position is the offensive line.

The o-line is the anchor of the offense.

Comprised of five players (two tackles, two guards, one center), it is the lines’ job to protect the quarterback in pass protection, and create gaping holes for their running backs to burst through. More often than not, solid offensive line play leads to a high-scoring, winning offense.

There are exceptions to this, however, on both ends of the spectrum. An amazing quarterback who gets rid of the ball in just a couSee SHATZMAN page 15