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The Cornell men’s golf team placed sixth at the Cornell Invitational last weekend. | Page 16

City Approves C-Town Development After Years of Deliberation Grocery store to open in Collegetown

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer

After years of planning and evaluation, the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board finally approved the new multipurpose building Collegetown Crossing to begin work at a meeting on Tuesday evening.

Collegetown Crossing will be a mixed-use building project that will combine residential and commercial properties in one 8,600 square foot building See CROSSING page 4

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Crossing over | A rendering depicts Collegetown Crossing, which was approved by the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board Tuesday. It will be located at 307 College Ave.

Ginsburg’56 Discusses Her Experience at C.U.Nearly 60Years Ago

By ANNIE BUI Sun News Editor

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 spoke about her time on the Hill and religious polarization on campus in a conversation Thursday with Gretchen Ritter ’83, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at The NewYork Historical Society.

Ginsburg, a member of the Democratic Party, is a strong proponent of women’s rights and same-sex marriage. In August 2013, became the first Supreme Court justice to officiate a same-sex wedding.

During her speech, Ginsburg — who came to the University as a first-generation college student from a work-

ing-class neighborhood in Brooklyn — said she had only could have been “happenstance,” or in fact intentional.

“It could have been that whoever arranged for housing heard of Cornell through the summer camp she attended. wanted us to be comfortable, or it “I had heard about Cornell could’ve been that they wanted to from the waitresses who “I wasn’t prepared set us apart from the others,” she worked at the lodge at the for the incredible said. “But there was great chemistry summer camp,” she said. “But beauty of the place, among the seven of us [housed I wasn’t prepared for the incredible beauty of the place, especially in the fall.” together] and we have remained friends through the years.” especially in the fall and in the Ruth Bader Ginsburg ’54 Ginsburg, a member of the spring.”

Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority, also said When asked by Ritter what it was like to be a Jewish woman at Cornell 60 years ago — she “did not appreciate” the extent to which there was reliand housed with other women along the same hallway in See GINSBURG page 5 Clara Dickson Hall — Ginsburg said that this arrangement

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Profs,Businesses Address Global Food Supply Issues

By SOPHIA HO Sun Contributor

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Author Shamus Khan poke to students enrolled in Sociology 2220: Controversies in Inequalities about class structure differences and access to opportunity in Uris Hall Tuesday.

Six food industry leaders and more than 60 faculty members have partnered with the newly established Cornell Institute of Food Systems to tackle issues regarding the global food supply over the past four months.

The Cornell Institute of Food Systems Industry Partnership Programs — which launched this summer — connects a wide range of Cornell students and faculty with businesses to create interdisciplinary solutions to problems in the food industry, according to a University press release.

According to Julie Stafford, industry liaison officer for the Industry Partnership Program,

the new program seeks to utilize the skill sets of Cornellians and industry professionals to increase the safety and accessibility of the global food supply.

“The institute aims to foster solution-oriented scientific discoveries and advance technologies and strategies that will lead to a safer, more nutritious and more accessible global food supply,” Stafford said.

According to Stafford, the program was inspired by a large demand from the food industry as well as the interest of various Cornell faculty members from a wide range of academic departments — including Food Science, the Dyson School of Business and Biological and Civil See FOOD page 5

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Miami University President David Hodge has thanked People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for its offer to send safety posters after a skunk recently got its head stuck in a beer can near a fraternity house. The posters urge people to crush cans for animal safety.

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Lonely Man Makes Repeated 911 Calls HARRISON CITY, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania man has been charged with making three 911 calls to report bogus emergencies simply because he was lonely and wanted paramedics to show up.

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Penn Township police say Shaffer called Westmoreland County’s 911 center three times over about four hours on July 30 with various false complaints. The first time, Shaffer claimed he had fallen down some stairs and injured his head and neck. Paramedics say they found him intoxicated but otherwise well and calmly waiting inside his home.

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Spotify Explores C.U.Student Trends

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By AIMEE CHO Sun Senior Writer

On average, Cornell students wake up at 6:15 a.m., get five hours of sleep — less than the typical college student — and listen to pop music, a study by Spotify recently found.

Spotify, a music streaming service, analyzed the listening data for the 40 schools whose students signed up for the student discount at the highest rates last semester because “that plan appeals to students who love music,” according to Spotify’s website. The 40 schools were ranked by how many songs each student listens to — Cornell came in 14th on the list.

The study found that though the peak time for morning listenership among all 40 schools was 9:15 a.m., there were spikes at 6 and 7 a.m. for Cornell students.

“One possibility: [Cornell’s] students wake up and exercise before class more than those at other schools,” the study said.

Students have various explanations for the early average listening period.

Kevin Chan ’17 said he usually wakes up early, around 7 or 8 a.m., to do homework.

“I’m not that productive at night, so I’ll wake up in the morning to get my work done. I listen to music when I’m showering to get a jumpstart to my day,” he said.

Ashley Vincent ’17 suggested students listening in the early morning are still up studying from the night before.

“I listen to music when I study, and I stayed up until 5:30 a.m. studying yesterday,” she said.

The study also found that Cornell students sleep approximately five hours each night, significantly less than students at other universities.

Femi Adegunloye ’16 said the earliest he ever goes to bed

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is 2 a.m. and that he pulls all-nighters one to two nights a week.

“If I’m working really hard, I’ll just keep going until it’s time for class and then take a nap later,” he said.

In addition to sleeping habits, the study analyzed the types of music that students like.

Pop, dance, electronic dance music and hip hop were the most-listened to genres at Cornell, and the most popular artists were Lana Del Rey, Kanye West, Calvin Harris and Coldplay.

Cornell also ranked first out of the 40 schools in how

much students listen to acoustic and instrumental songs and came in last placewhen it came to listening to energetic, high-tempo songs. Cornellians also listened to the shortest songs out of all the students.

Nicole Edelstein ’15 said she usually listens to classical music when she is doing work.

“When I study I listen to piano quartets, which are slow and not very energetic, because it is good background music,” Edelstein said.

Aimee Cho can be reached at acho@cornellsun.com.

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Danielle Mericle discusses work at C.U.Digital Media Group,personal passion for photography publishing

By ARIELLE CRUZ Sun Senior Editor

Whether she is exploring the University’s archives for digitization projects or photographing the forest in the middle of the night, Danielle Mericle, a production coordinator for the digital media group at Cornell, said she is always inspired by the world around her.

Mericle, who has a background that blends both photography and library work, works to preserve rare and fragile media. This involves interviewing professors to find out how much Cornell media — including photographs, text and cassette recordings of famous visitors — is unique and fragile.

“It’s a pretty wide variety,” she said.

“That’s what makes it interesting, right?”

Mericle said one of her favorite parts of her job is forming relationships with professors and continuing to work with them and collaborate with them over the years.

“Its really kind if fantastic to see how their research evolves and how the library can partner with them to make it accessible broadly to the world,” she said. “It’s a really interesting process.”

The Library of Congress has stated that only five to 10 years remain before media such as VHS and cassette tapes are no longer accessible due to degradation or loss of technology.

Mericle, who has done a number of photo book projects — one focusing on an archive site in Peru, another on a herd of white deer in an upstate army depot — said she is a strong believer that photo lends itself well to the printed page. In 2006, Mericle and her husband founded their own small publishing company called A-Jump Books, which distributes across the United States and Europe.

Other subjects of the company’s photo books include decaying manuscripts she has digitized as well as those from an archaeological site and an indigenous agrarian worker’s strike.

According to Mericle, though it might not be obvious, the pieces serve as “a meditation on lessons learned and lost.”

A-Jump’s most recent book was published with the interim art department chair Michael Ashkin, who Mericle says she has admired for a long time. Last weekend, Mericle and her husband went down to a book fair at MoMA’s PS1 — a contemporary arts museum in Queens,

New York City — for the official release.

“There is a lot of great work being done out there,” Mericle said. “Its a fun community.”

Mericle said she first became interested in photography when she went to an Ed Westin exhibit in Tucson, Arizona, as a child. Though her parents were not artists, they always had cameras around, and it was not long before her and her sister picked them up and began taking photos together. According to Mericle, photography now keeps her sane. “[Cultural theorist] Susan Sontag argued that the camera separates you from the world, and I really disagree on a personal level,” she said. “It’s what connects me, what keeps me engaged, what keeps me looking.”

Mericle advises burgeoning photographers to not “take it too seriously.”

“Keep close to what’s important to you,” she said. “It’s really easy to get enveloped with the idea of the art world or what you want to do with that, that whole thing, but I think at the end of the day you should love what you do and keep close to that.”

Right now Mericle is preparing to premiere an exhibit in January for the library downtown to explore A.D. White’s cast collection. Without the need for plaster casts in classrooms, some of the casts were destroyed at the turn of the 20th century and others ended up scattered across the University, some even

serving as decorations in faculty offices, according to Mericle.

Mericle said her plan for her next book is to juxtapose pictures of these casts with pictures of the forest at night, which she is taking at her current favorite photography spot — the area between Stewart Park and Ithaca High School.

“I know that sounds all really lofty and stuff, but the bottom line is I’m out in the woods in the middle of night taking pictures and trying to see if I can make it work technically, and then what I might do with it on a visual level.”

Mericle says she has no doubt that her son, Charley — whose pictures are hung around her desk — will end up being an artist, too. Though he just entered kindergarten, Mericle says she is in awe of his already-vivid imagination.

Between Charley and her job at Cornell, Mericle said it is hard to keep up with her own photo projects and the publishing company. She says that the in-print company will be the first thing to go, but as she talks about Ashkin’s book release and traveling across the world to check out distributors, it might be hard to believe it will “go” anytime soon.

“I think I’m doing what I want to be doing now,” she said.

Arielle Cruz can be reached at acruz@cornellsun.com.

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Multi-Use Building Will Open in C-Town CROSSING

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immediately south of Ithaca Fire Station No. 9. The project will consist of a new building at 307 College Ave. — designed by architect Jagat Sharma — with 46 apartments and 96 residents, according to the project description presented to the Planning Board Tuesday.

In addition to apartments, the building will include several commercial storefronts, including a GreenStar Cooperative Market, according to Josh Lower ’05, the developer of Collegetown Crossing.

Lower said that he hopes to begin construction in spring 2015 and have the building available for apartment rentals by the 2016-17 academic year.

Lower has been presenting modified proposals for the new building since 2010, when The Sun first reported his initial request for a Board of Zoning Appeals variance to the city’s parking laws. Lower’s requests were rejected in 2013.

Without the parking variance, which would have allowed him to move forward with his project without creating 57 parking spaces on the site, Lower’s project was stalled until the Common Council approved its new form-based zoning, which removed the minimum parking requirements on the College Avenue portion of Lower’s project.

Ithacan Stephanie Hayes spoke during the public hearing in favor of Collegetown Crossing.

“This is something that would benefit this community hugely,” Hayes said. “What is proposed would actually do something for the entire community.”

Hayes added Collegetown Crossing would make her feel that she has “a place that is my home again.”

“There’s no reason to stay [in Collegetown] anymore,” she said.

“This project actually starts giving back to what was there.”

After 45 minutes of discussion, the Planning Board unanimously voted to approve the project. Lower thanked the board members for devoting their time to the project for the past four years.

“I appreciate all the time and energy that you, especially the staff, have put in over the years. I think we have a better project,” Lower said. “Thank you for all of the late hours you have put in.”

After the hearing, Prof. Garrick Blalock, applied economics and management, a member of the Planning Board, described the magnitude of “excitement” about Collegetown Crossing that he has witnessed among Cornell students.

“The level of excitement when you tell the Cornell undergraduate body that there is going to be a real grocery store in Collegetown — people are really excited about it,” Blalock said. “I think that it’s going to be an enormous addition to the character of Collegetown.”

The project site will extend across the block between College and Linden Avenue and will include a public cross-block walkway to provide a pedestrian shortcut between these two major roads.

Collegetown Crossing will also include a new heated bus shelter for TCAT passengers within the building’s College Avenue facade.

The bus shelter will be to the south of the building, next to the entrance of the GreenStar, Lower said, and will be intended to help improve TCAT passengers’ experience.

“There are a lot of people in our community that depend on our public transit,” Lower said. “Having a bus stop where people can wait in a heated, climate-controlled area is really big. We’re trying to help improve the system here, and we really want to make this nice.”

Members of the planning board expressed approval for the new heated bus shelter, which will be paid for entirely by Collegetown Crossing at no expense to TCAT. “When I was an undergrad, the principal downtown bus stop was in the Rothschild’s store,” said, John Schroeder ’74, who is also the production manager of The Sun. “This has happened in the past.

There is a history, so you’re really re-establishing part of that history.”

Daniel Keough grad said he had been involved with Collegetown Crossing for several years and was happy to see it approved.

“I was a volunteer advocate a number of years ago as the project was being proposed for the Planning Board,” Keough said. “I’m very excited that it has gone through the Planning Board phase and successfully been approved. It’s an incredible transit-oriented development and will bring better access to healthy foods in Collegetown.”

“This Collegetown Crossing project is the one that inspired me to learn about city planning and to apply to Cornell,” Keough said.

Through tears, Lower thanked his family and friends for their continuing support of the project.

“I’m really fortunate that I have this opportunity,” Lower said. “I can’t tell you how lucky I am to be able to build a bus stop, to bring a grocery store, to build this pedestrian walkway.”

Lower said that he sees an increasing “demand for walkable places and spaces where you can have things within a few blocks.”

“I think that this is just a shift in our thinking and the demands of our society,” Lower said. “I’m just trying to give the market what the market’s looking for.”

With the addition of Collegetown Crossing, Lower said he hopes to add an element of community that he feels Collegetown lacks.

“I live in Collegetown. It’s my neighborhood, and this is something that’s missing from the neighborhood,” Lower said. “I have an opportunity to provide it.”

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

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gious separation when it came time to rush fraternities and sororities during her time at Cornell.

“There were Jewish fraternities [and] Jewish sororities as well as Christian fraternities and sororities and that’s the way it was,” she said.

“I hope that has changed.”

According to Ginsburg, her passion for social justice came from a combination of the period in which she grew up and the research work she conducted under a professor at Cornell.

“I suppose that the earliest influence was growing up during World War II. … There was a red scare,” she said. “At Cornell, a professor was told that he could stay and do research but not teach because he belonged to a socialist group. I [also] had a professor for

constitutional law and I worked as his research assistant. … He wanted me to appreciate that our country was strained from its most basic values.”

Ginsburg — who was also a student of well-known novelist Vladimir Nabokov during her time at Cornell — also spoke on the influence he had on her life and work.

“Professor Nabokov changed the way I read [and] write,” she said. “Even when I’m drafting [High Court] opinions, thinking about how the word order should go, I remember him.”

When asked by Ritter if she had any words of advice to give students, Ginsburg said students should take advantage of the “diverse education” Cornell has to offer.

“Cornell is a school blessed with a feminist faculty and I would

More Than 60 Faculty Join New Food Institute FOOD

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and Environmental Engineering.

“Many challenges in the Food System are big and involve many disciplines,” Stafford said. “The institute is a place where different members of the system come together to develop new ideas and … it does not matter what discipline you actually have.”

The diversity of the experts affiliated with the program is what makes Cornell “uniquely” equipped to address these challenges, according to Stafford.

“Faculty [involved in the program] of different disciplines across the campus all share a passion for the Food System,” she said.

Faculty fellows partnered with the program are concentrating on issues within the food system that are aligned with their research interests, Stafford said.

Another faculty fellow — Prof.

Oliver Gao, civil and environmental engineering — is addressing food issues related to public health and the industry’s infrastructure.

“We are examining the environmental and economic impact of localizing food supply chains like dairy supply in Northeast U.S.,” Gao said.

According to Stafford, the institute plans to grow by attracting more partners throughout the year.

“This is a year for grow, to get

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the word out, we have really just started,” Stafford said.

Industry partners who have already signed on include food and beverage company PepsiCo, International Food Network and E. & J. Gallo Winery, one of the world’s largest producers of wine.

According to Stafford, the institute is looking toward having Industry Partnership Program members convene at the Global Summit, the annual forum held at Cornell to discuss the potential effects of advanced technologies and scientific discoveries and continuing to develop the Cornell Institute of Food Systems.

Sophia Ho can be reached at hh377@cornell.edu.

advise students to take advantage of that [as well],” she said. “I went to law school after Cornell, but I’m very glad that I didn’t specialize in pre-law or anything like that. [My advice is] don’t be concerned —

even if you’re in the engineering school, try to take advantage of a diverse education.”

The talk, which was invitationonly and took place at the NewYork Historical Society in New

York City, was attended by more than 400 people, according to a University press release.

Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun.com.

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artly due to my Irish heritage, I’m fas- another flew back from Ireland that day cinated with the British Isles. As a just to cast his ballot. Inside of every student of government, I’ve learned polling place, there was a table with the that to truly understand contemporary pol- names list staffed by two people, a stack of itics, you need more than a cursory knowl- blank ballots, a table with privacy dividers, edge of a place’s history. I’ve taken classes and a black plastic bin with a slit cut in the and independently researched the history zip-tied-shut lid. It was one of the simplest of those Isles, so when I heard about the expressions of democracy I’ve ever seen.

Scottish Independence Referendum, I Which, to me, helped make it also one knew I wanted to do more than just watch of the most powerful. Our Student it on the BBC. Thankfully, my parents Assembly can’t dream for 85 percent camknow me well enough that they weren’t pus involvement. However, the comparison totally surprised when I told them – is improper, as I can’t think of anything the although, I probably should’ve given them S.A. could be considering that compares to more than one month’s notice. a national independence vote (College of I arrived in Edinburgh on Thursday at Engineering seceding?) However, perhaps 11 a.m.; the polls had been open for four the sense of “specialness” accompanying hours already. After reminding myself that the referendum which led to more turnout people here are supposed to drive on the could be extended to the S.A., maybe by other side of the road, I went to my first cutting back on the number of meetings or polling station. On the taxi ride over, we allocating more time during them solely for drove past the Scottish Parliament. The campus-wide causes or concerns. scene was controlled chaos: News crews I’m a member of the Cornell Forensics from across the world had set up a three- Society, Cornell Democrats and Cornell story tent, traffic was slowed to a crawl and Republicans. I consume political debate, the space in the plaza outside the doors was which is why this referendum was so filled with activists, refreshing. Yes, it had some holding “Honk all the usual negative for Yes!” signs, others Besides how willing they were elements, like TV flying St. Andrew’s debates that didn’t to answer my questions even answer important Cross and the Union Jack in a sort of literal questions, accusaexpression of “Better after I explained I couldn’t vote, tions of underhanded Together.”

Police the most refreshing thing was tricks and media bias, were there, but off to etc. But on the 18th, the side and in small how willing they were to talk, people were still number, ready to enthusiastic and pardebate, joke and laugh with intervene but seeing ticipatory, and that no need to (and they day and the next I each other. were, as a Scotsman heard many people proudly reminded say that they were all me, unarmed).

Scots and would I went to four polling places that day: work together to build a better Scotland, two church halls in busy areas, plus a con- independent or not. I’ve seen many debates ference center and a primary school in areas during my two years here, and heard about less busy. Each station had one sign for many others, and it pains me to say that “Yes” and one for “No,” sometimes more. too many have fallen short of this Scottish Then — in a fantastic display of quarter example. carding — two volunteers, one from each If the debate is between the student campaign, stood outside the door with lit- body and the administration, I don’t think tle cards ready to give out. They were there there’s much mutual respect to speak of: to answer last minute questions, talk to you The administration doesn’t take the stuabout their side and get people through the dents seriously, and the students don’t recdoor. They worked in shifts, with volun- ognize that though the administration teers coming and going throughout the might publically appear monolithic, day. behind closed doors they are people who Besides how willing they were to answer debate and disagree too. And when the my questions even after I explained I debate is between different student groups, couldn’t vote, the most refreshing thing was the base assumption that all Cornellians are how willing they were to talk, debate, joke committed to open and respectful dialogue and laugh with each other. These are peo- is quite often ignored and non-extant. ple who are publically saying which side Mutual respect should only be given when they are on, sides which contain diametri- earned, yes, but it should be actively sought cally opposing viewpoints and offer very by the participants, not merely taken for different futures for Scotland, and who are granted that since they are on opposing so committed to their side that they volun- sides they’ll never agree on anything. We teered to stand in the gray cold for hours to talk about the Cornell Community all the help convince people to vote with them. time; do we really believe in it? And if so, And yet, nowhere did I see acrimony have we done anything to make it thrive? between these campaigners; I never saw My research trip to Edinburgh was an them shout at each other, or try to outdo amazing experience, one which Cornell each other in giving out cards to passersby. had a part in making happen. After witQuite often, if not for the buttons on their nessing such an amazing historical event as jackets, I could’ve assumed they were the Scottish Independence Referendum, I friends from the same campaign. felt it was my responsibility to share some These individuals helped contribute to a of it with the Cornell Community. I merely tremendous civic vibe throughout the city, hope that term means as much to my feland given the 85 percent turnout figure, it low members as it does to me. apparently was nationwide. Election officers inside the stations were ordinary citizens; many had never worked an election Michael Alter is a junior in the College of Arts and before. One voter told me it was the first Sciences. He may be reached at mca67@cornell.edu. time he’s voted since the Thatcher era; Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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OPINION

Christo Eliot | The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

Blame It On The Television Remote

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lthough by reading this column you are proving you are an extremely genteel and obviously highly evolved individual, at times things in your life will probably go wrong. Sometimes, the things going wrong will be your fault and could have been avoided if you had paused to think before acting. Maybe you decided it would be a good idea to make and post ill-advised videos on YouTube early in high school and never considered an 18 year-old, college freshman version of yourself being more than a little embarrassed when someone quotes to him — midst lady wooing — from his “Hannah Montana Rap” at a Collegetown annex . . . hypothetically speaking, of course.

It is also possible that when life goes wrong, the blame can be placed elsewhere. Pretend you are spending another Saturday night at home in your jammies — maybe by choice. This time, however, it could be much worse because USC is playing Oregon in football on TV. The only issue is you cannot find the remote. Rather than simply having a button on the actual television to change the channel, it is a seven-step pneumatic actuation process, and the instructions for use are written in Martian hieroglyphics. In that case, watching the Home Shopping Network until you eventually fall asleep is not your fault … also obviously hypothetically speaking.

Sometimes, the the arrival of a faux-turquoise belt buckle in the mail is the television’s fault. Wearing that same faux-turquoise belt buckle to a Collegetown party where you are heckled as a result of your ex-stardom, however, falls all on you.

It may seem like the high-definition television is a perfectly designed device, but when changing the channel becomes more of a challenge than swimming the English Channel, it is clear the engineers at Samsung or

If it is a problem that you are experiencing — Apple product related or otherwise — doubtlessly many other people have faced or are facing something similar.

Vizio or Panasonic could have spent a little more time doing usability testing. What’s worse is people will tend to blame themselves when they struggle to properly use an object.

Ourselves included, we live in a flawed world. Everything from your skin, to your resume, to your smartphone has room for improvement.

(Although there is a young lady I see in my sociology course whose skin is so clear, I am convinced that it is just one poreless cell.) Consider the iPhone 6, released last week. Apple is a company that prides itself on innovation and unparalleled user experience, both in terms of software and hardware. Some of the finest human factors professionals in the world collaborated to put together what they thought would be the best smartphone available. Why, then, are the speakers bottom-facing rather than user-facing? Why is there no tactile feedback to actually let the user know when the receiver is on the ear? Why is that U2 album on there? Just like you are self-conscious about the fact that sometimes you sneeze so hard that you poop in your pants a little bit, so too is the iPhone 6 worried about the many tiny things that may have been overlooked in the design process.

The Apple Watch — announced the same day as the new iPhone — aims to be a consumer product game-changer as technology and fashion collide. What did they overlook? As Cambridge philosopher John McTaggart Ellis McTaggart (real name) described in a 1908 article, every event is said to exist in the past, present and future at various points it time. Can an event exist in both the past and future? I’m afraid we either have to have our cake or eat it — not both. So yes, the biggest flaw with the Apple Watch is time is not real.

Does this mean you should not go out and spend $350 on a wristworn device you can use to automate your home’s entire lighting system? Not at all. As I said earlier, everything is flawed. The Earth-shattering realization that time is merely a human construct and does not actually exist should not be enough to stop you from waiting in line or camping out for a watch with a glass touch-screen. Just keep in mind that nothing perfect exists when the vibrating navigation commands from the device are confusing or ambiguous. If it is a problem that you are experiencing — Apple product related or otherwise — doubtlessly many other people have faced or are facing something similar.

Remember that at the end of the day, there is only one critic who you will ever have to answer to, and it’s yourself. Feel comfortable knowing sometimes it is acceptable to blame an inanimate object for your problems. Keep in mind also, though, the designers of every product you ever misuse intended for its operation to be clear, and pause to think about how your own actions could be misinterpreted by those around you before carrying them out. Most importantly, however, know that if you think you look cool wearing a faux-turquoise belt buckle, then wear the damn belt buckle.

Christo Eliot is a junior in the College of Engineering. He can be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Samantha Weisman |

A Weisman Once Said

Career Fair Stole My Heart O

n Tuesday and out, so I don’t even Young tote bag.

Wednesday of remember which comSince thief applicalast week, com- panies I spoke to until tions on CCNet are panies flocked from all I started using a new closing soon, I already over the country to pen. The logos remind made an appointment trade meaningless mer- me of my new bullshit- at the Career Office to chandise and flashy ting skill and encour- work on my new cover infographics for false age me never to give letter. If any thieving hope and generic up. gangs are looking for a résumés. Like most Perhaps my greatest new recruit, please communication majors success at the Career email me. I have referand social science and Fair was discovering a ences — and a fancy h u m a n i t y - r e l a t e d new dream career. new Accenture backmajors, I had great suc- When I got bored of pack. cess at the Career Fair. having actual conversaIf you made it Beyond being a tions with companies, I through my poor place where I could started just taking the attempt at sarcasm and learn about potential free things without to this point in the coljobs, the Career Fair asking. After obtaining umn — first of all I am really helped me hone many bags full of free impressed — but secmy skills in several merchandise, I am con- ond of all, maybe I important areas. After fident that I would actually do have a shot experiencing the chaos make an excellent at getting a job. of moving through the thief. I was able to Writing is the most aisles, I now feel move between tables unique, highly coveted extremely equipped to with ease, grabbing skills that employers push through large crowds of people without causing major I spoke to a few companies, but not as injury.

The many as some of my friends ... and I ceronly other times in my life tainly would not call it a success for me I’ve experi- — if you don’t count theft as success, enced this madness were that is. at ClubFest and Dunbar’s. whatever exciting swag were looking for at the However, I never wear I laid my eyes on, and fair, so I expect to be a business clothes to usually without the shoo-in. Sorry, once I ClubFest or Dunbar’s, people at the tables start with the sarcasm so now I know what it noticing. I think at one it’s hard to turn it off.

Clearly, I was not will be like to move point, I even became through the crowded invisible. My new skill able to take the Career streets of New York particularly came in Fair seriously. This is City in short heels and handy on the not to say that people a business suit.

Engineering and interested in business, Another skill I was Technical Skills day, consulting or big-name able to develop was where I could not be tech companies did not networking. I got to less qualified for any of have great opportunipractice speaking to the jobs they were ties at the fair, but that business executives advertising. I still man- people like me did not. with a goal in mind: aged to snag a Google While I do think it is free stuff. I trained scarf, Google socks, a important to be able to myself to have the Hulu basketball hoop, practice networking shortest, most efficient headphones, T-shirts, and learn about other like conversation possible Snapchat cupcakes, opportunities, in order to learn the various iPhone charg- many people, I was disleast about the compa- ers and several other appointed by the small nies, but still seemed useless, yet meaningful range of companies like I cared so that they objects. I say meaning- and career options prewould still offer me ful because they sented. I spoke to a few free K-cups or a high- remind me to perse- companies, but not as lighter. By the end of vere, and that when I many as some of my the fair, my conversa- feel like I have lost friends with different tions became so auto- everything, I will still aspirations, and I cermatic that I blacked have my Ernst and tainly would not call it

a success for me — if you don’t count theft as success, that is.

Several of the jobs I am interested in — many television and media positions — only hire on an asneeded basis, so I understand why they cannot take resumes or recruit people for next year right now.

However, I don’t see why there can’t be informational tables with fact and advice on jobs that are not recruiting yet, just to see what opportunities might be available and the best ways to obtain them.

I had a lot of fun running around the Career Fair eating free cupcakes and seeing what kind of cool stuff I could get, but no amount of plastic junk can replace a plan for the future or a job that I would actually enjoy. Okay, it would have to be a lot of plastic junk.

While I don’t think my job search is hopeless or that I have no future — because let’s be real, the offers from thieving gangs are about to roll in — it would be nice if Cornell offered me a bit more support. Until then, I’ll just be in my room wearing my Google socks, playing with my Hulu basketball hoop and writing cover letters for jobs that don’t even exist yet.

Samantha Weisman is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences.

She may be reached at sweisman@cornellsun.com.

A Weisman Once Said appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SCIENCE

Anesthesiology

Pathology

Weill Cornell Study Shows Anesthesia May Not Cause Long-Term Damage as Thought

By YVONNE HUANG Sun Staff Writer

A recent study out of Weill Cornell Medical College has found that a commonly-used general anesthetic may not have negative long-term effects on children and the elderly as previously thought.

Led by Jimcy Platholi, a researcher and instructor of pharmacology in anesthesiology, and Prof. Hugh Hemmings, anesthesiology, the study provides new information about the effects of isoflurane, a common inhalation anesthetic used in surgical practices.

It has been suspected that the use of anesthetics in both infants and the elderly can be detrimental due to the effects that anesthesia can have on the connections between neurons.

“Recently, concerns have arisen that anesthetic exposure early in childhood might irreversibly affect brain development during a critical period by altering synaptic plasticity and increasing brain cell death,” Hemmings said. “And that anesthetic exposure in the elderly might lead to long-term cognitive deficits.”

According to Hemmings, infants’ neurons are still developing, and neurons in the elderly are slower to regenerate, making both groups more susceptible to cognitive changes caused by anesthesia.

Isoflurane is commonly used as a general anesthetic, or part of a cocktail of different anesthetics used during major surgeries. The complete picture of how exactly isoflurane works is still being pieced together, Hemmings said. Though

it is being replaced by other anesthetics for treatment in humans, isoflurane is still widely used in veterinary medicine.

Post-surgical cognitive effects, even in adults, have been commonly observed, though in most cases the effects are not severe and any effects disappear within a reasonable time frame, Hemmings said.

Anesthesia will remain in the body and continue to exert an effect as long as its concentration is high enough.

However, such effects have not been proven to be directly caused by anesthetics alone. Painkillers are often used after major surgeries to relieve any lingering pain and may have an effect on cognition.

In addition, the anesthetic may still be present in the body even after its effects have worn off, Hemmings said. As such, when anesthesia is combined with painkillers and stress, patients can experience detrimental cognitive effects postsurgery.

According to Hemmings, the use of anesthetics in modern medicine is unavoidable, so it is necessary to fully understand any potential negative effects the drugs could have on the brain and its connections in the long term. There are some ongoing clinical studies hoping to shed more light on both the short and long-term cognitive effects of anesthetics in adult and developing brains.

As part of the study led by Platholi and Hemmings, researchers used neurons from young mice in order to study the short and long-term effects of isoflurane.

“We used hippocampal cell cultures from embryonic day 18 mice that are

grown in vitro for three weeks in order to study mature, established synapses,” Platholi said.

Hippocampal cells were studied because they are known to be responsible for converting short-term memory to long-term memory as well as encoding new memories, Platholi said.

After exposure to isoflurane, the mouse neurons showed reduced number and volume of dendritic spines. However, spines regrew once the culture was no longer exposed to isoflurane, according to Hemmings.

Dendritic spines serve as connection points between neurons and are important for memory and learning. They are considered to be plastic and will change in both number and specific connections throughout a human’s normal lifespan, according to Hemmings.

In early development, dendritic spines are eliminated and regrown at a high rate, according to Hemmings. This turnover rate stabilizes once adulthood is reached.

Changes in dendritic spine dynamics have shown considerable correlation to many neurological diseases, leading many researchers to believe that the elimination and regrowth equilibrium of dendritic spines is important in understanding these diseases, Hemmings said.

“Our finding shows that anesthetics disrupt synaptic connections in neurons by destabilizing spines, but that the spines are reformed when the anesthetic is eliminated,” Hemmings said.

“Whether the new synapses formed are the same as those before anesthetic exposure is unclear, but this effect on synapse

stability is potentially fully reversible.”

According to Hemmings, the findings suggest that dendritic spine elimination is only a temporary effect PROF. HEMMINGS of isoflurane and may not be a long-term effect.

Further studies on whether the new synapses formed are both functional and the same as prior to isoflurane exposure would support this study’s findings, Hemmings said.

It is important to note, however, that the increased cell death that results from isoflurane exposure could also cause longterm effects, according to Hemmings.

While the finding does indicate that the regeneration of dendritic spines is possible as long as isoflurane is removed, Platholi said, the underlying mechanism will need to be connected to cognitive results from the clinical studies to produce any concrete conclusions about the long-term effects of isoflurane as anesthesia.

“Future studies will determine if the spines restored after removal of isoflurane form functional synapses and what molecular mechanisms are at work to destabilize the spines initially under isoflurane,” Platholi said.

Yvonne Huang can be reached at yhuang@cornellsun.com.

COURTESY OF JIMCY PLATHOLI

Nifty neurons | This image shows dendrites, the signal-transporting parts of neurons, in green and dendritic spines in yellow. Dendritic spines serve as the contact points between dentrites and allow signals to travel between neurons. A recent study from Weill Cornell Medical College showed that while the general anesthetic isoflurane reduces the number of dendritic spines, once the anesthetic wears off the spines do return, indicating that the cognitive changes caused by isoflurane may be only temporary.

SCIENCE

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, September 24, 2014 9

Stephen Geller Published A Novel About Family

By KATHLEEN BITTER Sun Science Editor

Prof. Stephen Geller, pathology and laboratory medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, says he has always wanted to be a writer. Geller’s dream recently came true with the publication of his first novel, A Little Piece of Me, about a mother’s struggle when her son becomes ill with a rare liver disease.

“The inspiration was two things,” Geller said. “One, I’ve always wanted to be a writer, and put it off for a long time while I did other career things. And then I had the opportunity to study a liver biopsy of a child with the disease that’s depicted in the book, and I wondered about the family. What this biopsy meant for them. And that created the story.”

Geller said he spent six or seven years working on the book while working as a pathologist full time, which often meant 10- or 12-hour-long days.

“Whenever I got a break or vacation or some time off I would tease the story a bit and then when I had more time I devoted myself fully to it,” he said.

According to Geller, his experience as a pathologist gave him the background knowledge to write about disease, but ultimately he did not want the book to be difficult for a layperson to understand.

“The story is really about this young woman and the challenge of her life when her son gets sick with a rare liver disease that will most likely require a liver transplant, and how she deals with that,” Geller said.

The protagonist, Marcia Kleinman, is the daughter of a well-known concert pianist, and Geller said she uses music as an escape from the stresses of life during her son’s illness. Marcia devotes herself to learning one of Geller’s favorite pieces, Beethoven’s Appassionata sonata. “[The Appassionata] is not the most difficult of Beethoven’s sonatas to play in terms of technical demands but perhaps one of the most difficult pieces ...

in terms of the emotional demands and what it takes to make it a meaningful experience for the listener,” Geller said.

Jack of all trades | Prof. Stephen Geller, pathology and laboratory medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, recently published his first novel, about a family’s struggle when their child is diagnosed with a serious liver disease.

Geller said he enjoyed the storytelling aspect of writing creatively.

“The characters tell you what to write in a sense,” he said. “And that was great fun.”

Geller’s daughter helped him with proofreading his drafts, which was his least favorite part of novel writing, he said. “[Proofreading] was painful,” Geller said. “My daughter helped immeasurably.”

According to Geller, writing and pathology do not have much in common as careers, but his work in pathology does demand some creative energy.

“Getting a piece of tissue in a biopsy and then examining it and then interpreting is largely science nowadays, but still a little bit of art,” he said, “And how you present it to the physician can affect the way the patient is treated.”

Geller said he entered the field of pathology in part due to the influence of his professors, but also because of the communication and teaching skills that the job demands.

“People I interacted with seemed to love pathology and thrive in it,” he said. “And pathology is a field where wherever you are, whether you’re in a major medical center or in a community hospital, you’re not only a diagnostician but you’re a teacher.”

Geller said he is currently working on a new novel about a pathology department under poor leadership and how the members of the department respond.

“I think it’ll be an interesting book,” he said. “It’s about personalities and their reactions. In some ways the setting of a pathology department could have been an academic English department or a business. It could have been anything. It’s about people’s relationships when their leader lacks certain caring and humane qualities.”

Kathleen Bitter can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun.com.

10 | The Corne¬ Daily Sun | Wednesday, September 24, 2014

A&E

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Love in Stop-Motion: Mood Indigo

What’s more real than the things that occur in our imagination? Mood Indigo is a French film based on the novel L’Écume des jours by Boris Vian and opens with a quote from the book itself: “This story is entirely true, because I imagined it from one end to the other.” With clips of stop-motion animation, actions that defy the laws of physics and a lot of whimsy, Mood Indigo transcends the boundary of reality by inundating it with the fantastic, posing the question as to whether there is something extraordinary about our everyday lives. While I enjoyed the film, I wouldn’t say it quite accomplishes the feat of convincing the audience that there is power in make-believe. Visually, it’s a novelty — a refreshing departure from the mundane, but in my opinion, it wasn’t unique on every account.

If you strip Mood Indigo of everything imaginary, the plot resembles that of a typical, sappy romance movie. The leading man, Colin (Romain Duris), sets out on a mission to find what everybody but him seems to have: love. As soon as he makes this resolution, he meets Chloé (Audrey Tautou) and, of course, makes a fool out of his normally cool and composed self because she isn’t just any pretty girl, she’s the ultimate pretty girl. The rest of the movie unfolds rather swiftly: They fall in love; they marry; Chloé becomes sick; things start to look better, and then everything goes terribly wrong.

On the sideline is Colin’s best friend, Chick (Gad Elmaleh), who is too preoccupied with his own interests to propose to the woman growing increasingly impatient for the question, Alise (AÏssa MaÏga). Of course this is all mixed in with surreal inventions like a piano that spouts cocktails when played and unexplainable phenomena like rapid aging and shrinking rooms, but at the core of Mood Indigo is a story arc we’ve seen time after time. Colin loves Chloé with every fiber of his being — she’s his precious flower, beautiful and full of life, until her vivacity slowly starts to fade. Colin, though concerned, never loses hope; he does everything in his power to nudge her toward recovery, but sometimes everything we can offer just isn’t enough. Although

the far-fetched details illustrate the COURTESY OF DRAFTHOUSE FILMS importance of imagination, I didn’t get the sense that that’s what the film is about. Book-to-movie adaptations are always tricky — not having read the novel, I can’t say for sure, but I suspect that the film might have disproportionately emphasized the love story and diminished some of the other themes in the process.

Despite its somewhat underwhelming plot, Mood Indigo is an absolute marvel to watch. It’s unabashedly whimsical and silly without becoming overly self-indulgent.

Whether it’s the shot of Chloé’s knitted, beating heart or the delectable, wriggling dishes cooked by out pessimistic note. Not every film should have a happy ending Nicolas (Omar Sy), the cartoonish stop-motion animation is a by any means, but I was expecting a more lighthearted conclusubtle way of reminding the audience that the story is inherent- sion from a film that looked so fanciful in the trailer. That being ly unbelievable — they’re not trying to make said, there is a short series of drawings at the end that essentially everything look realistic. It’s fun to imagine brings us back to the idea that Colin and Chloé are part of a story outlandish possibilities, and that’s what I that will always be the same and in which their love will be eterfound so appealing about Mood Indigo. nal. Though I appreciate that little speck of optimism, I still Inhabitants of this world can in no way trav- found myself disappointed with how things wound up.

In spite of its shortcomings, I enjoyed Mood Indigo. It’d probCornell el by floating cloud-car or change clothes by simply jumping out of bed, but we can sure ably be more accurate to say I truly enjoyed the first half and Cinema see what it might be like. All you can imag- grudgingly accepted the second, but on the whole, I don’t regret ine is possible and you’ll never predict what the time I spent watching it. Mood Indigo is entirely unlike any bizarre situation will come next, which makes for a viewing expe- feature length film I’ve seen in the past few years. It fuses creative and outlandish elements with the often-exasperating redundanrience that will undoubtedly keep you awake.

Without revealing anything major, I must admit that I was cy of life and, in this respect, offers something new and exciting. very unsatisfied by the ending. As Chloé’s illness becomes Mood Indigo will be playing at Cornell Cinema on Thursday increasingly serious and every character turns desperate and desolate, the film’s remarkable colorfulness gently slips into black at 9:45 p.m., Friday at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday at 9:30 p.m. and white. This in itself was an interesting touch, but what accompanied it was, well, depressing. While I can deal with — Natalie Tsay is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can in fact, even like — poignant endings, the story finishes on a flat- be reached at ntsay@cornellsun.com.

Natalie Tsay

Life and Death: Nanoessence at Sibley Hall a second, taller pedestal, which held a speaker, hard drives and a projector transmitting a blurred, yet textured, yellow-green image on to the wall.

Often, unspoken rules exist in galleries — undisclosed, yet According to their artist statement, Paul Thomas and Kevin discernable. These codes govern how a visitor should proceed Raxworthy explore “biological phenomena of difference through an exhibition. For example, other visitors wordlessly revealed at a nano level in topographical visualizations and imply how long one should linger in front of one work or curasonic structures between life and death,” through the tors arrange pieces in a certain manner in order to suggest a Nanoessence exhibit. The exhibit successfully illuminates infini- path through the exhibit. The presentation of Nanoessence tesimal images that usually escape most peoples’ interest, but eschews such aids, displaying only one work, without an artist also seems vague, challenging and confusing. statement and in a space barely removed from Sibley Hall’s acaNanoessence is currently exhibited in the John Hartell demic and administrative activities. Except for an occasional Gallery in Sibley Dome, a small, simple space next to the Dean student or faculty member passing through from one corridor of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning’s office. After to another, I stood entirely alone in the gallery. reading Thomas and Raxworthy’s artist statement, which From Thomas and Raxworthy’s online artist statement, I described how the exhibit “allows for the user to breathe on the knew that if I breathed on the small green sculpture, a “breath model of a HaCat cell and then enter visually the projection of and moisture interface” would cause “cellular automatons start an envelope between life and death,” the simplicity of the to grow and spin.” Tentatively, I approached the shorter exhibit intrigued me. pedestal and, glancing over my shoulder into the Dean’s office, Amidst plain white walls and wooden flooring, the pedestal exhaled a deep breath over the sculpture. In the image projectin the middle of the room first attracted my attention. A wood- ed on the wall, the viewpoint abruptly dove into the topograen, flower-press-like box stood on top of the pedestal and held phies, passing through contours that decreased in opacity as a green, seemingly luminous structure, resembling a miniature they neared the viewer. A second breath of air revealed the celtopographical map. Wiring extended from the first pedestal to lular automatons, which looked like tightly winding and contorting spotted adders partially visCOURTESY OF THE COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE, ART AND PLANNING ible against the muddled background. Simultaneously, a sound similar to the pounding of ocean waves or murmuring of thunderclouds emanated from the back of the second pedestal, consisting of “c o m p a r a t i ve analysis of data between alive and

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Contributor

dead that is converted into sound files … auditory work consisting of sonic vibrations that occur at the nano level.”

Although Thomas and Raxworthy’s work, along with the work of many other contributors, represents a great amount of technical prowess and devotion, Nanoessence fails to impress.

Certainly great art can pose difficult questions, challenge the viewer’s consciousness and predispositions and leave the viewer with a feeling of disquiet. Yet after viewing Nanoessence, I did not have questions about the thesis or purpose of the work, but rather the execution.

Thomas and Raxworthy’s artist statement discussed their focus on atomic structures, usage of an Atomic Force Microscope and transmittance of atomic vibration into visual and auditory presentations. When I stood in the Hartell Gallery, however, I felt that I simply saw a dynamic, distorted image coupled with similarly perplexing and cryptic sounds, not a manifestation of the infinitesimal processes within me.

Nanoessence provided no heartbeat, no pulse, no pattern or motif through which the viewer could interpret the stimuli of the undeniably complex exhibit. Even the fascinating and imaginative “breath and moisture” interface felt disjointed from the manipulation of the images projected on to the wall of the gallery.

Perhaps the fault lies not in any aspect or construction of Nanoessence, but rather in a disconnect between the subject matter and the viewer’s consciousness. Nanoessence attempts to explore a peculiar niche — atomic interactions that, while present in the biological functioning of every viewer, rarely come under day-to-day contemplation. Unlike the palpable emotion of surrealism or the pronounced narrative of romanticism, the average viewer (myself included) simply does not possess the mental images or past experiences to interpret or connect with Nanoessence on an emotional level.

Nanoessence presents an intelligent, intellectual work that represents massive technical effort, but viewers will likely find it difficult to experience the “psychological shift in viewers' consciousness,” or “formation of an empathetic connection to be made with the work,” that Thomas and Raxworthy strove to affect.

Shay Collins is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at scollins@cornellsun.com.

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t’s ironic that a critic trying to establish simple ‘objective’ rules as a guide for critics who he thinks aren’t gifted enough to use taste and intelligence, ends up — where, actually, he began — with a theory based on mystical insight.”

I quote Pauline Kael to remind myself how ridiculous a column like this is. In 1963, the New Yorker film critic took on her contemporary Andrew Sarris, whose auteur theory, she claimed, reduced criticism to a game of readymade formulas and minutiae (i.e., “Because Howard Hawks directed this, it, by default, has value and speaks to and with his other works, inspirations, obsessions, etc.”). Kael valued her visceral response to a film over any post-viewing theoretical posturing, be it astute or not.

It is wrong to praise a film that leaves you cold just because it has neat camerawork or you find in it some interesting commentary. A good movie involves you in its stakes and in its world — even a stark, “cold” movie like Caché does such a thing. I don’t think there is one movie I’d call a masterpiece that does not, at least, bring me close to tears (Okay: Hot Fuzz is an exception). Writing about a masterpiece is so tough because to attempt to translate its effect — not its story, images or sounds, but the whole package — into words is to butcher it. Most of the time, the secret to appreciating great art is to let it be its own witness.

But, by virtue of the bell curve, most movies we watch are not masterpieces. That sacred, silent response to Vertigo gets real tiresome if

applied to all the movies. And the “Well, that sucked!” response does us little good, either, as easy and satisfying as it is to say. If we hope to be discerning consumers and reasonable thinkers, we can start by bringing to movies high, nuanced standards of evaluation (“That was good/bad because...”) and analysis (“That said [insert theme here] by...”).

There is no one way to go about this. But I know my way, so how about I list it, as if it’s fact: 1. Story is not enough. The tighter and more decisive a protagonist’s arc, the less I take it seriously. Not many agree with me, and it’s an especially contentious position to take in this golden age of “quality TV,” or serialized narrative.

Perhaps I’m suspicious of the possibility of true heroism, or else bored by it. Whatever the reason, I find most meticulously plotted movies to gloss over human qualities like doubt, fear and contemplation. A story needs to halt for quietude to set in, and that pause can be jolting when it arrives.

The A Lover’s Quarrel rapid-fire Grand with the World Budapest Hotel defines itself in its plotless moments, like when Zero dutifully recites Gustave’s poetry at dinner or when a key light switches on by the dinner table to illuminate old Zero’s crying face. A film’s worldview can click through such a throwaway gesture.

2. Cherish movement. In the end, a director’s most basic job is to make a film look interesting. Sometimes, he accomplishes this by wringing a manic energy from his actors, as Mike Leigh does, or she coasts her camera over

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objects and bodies in a sensuous way, as in the case of Claire Denis. We are watching “moving pictures,” so there better be movement within and across frames.

Movement can take its time, as it does in the little-seen 2010 western Meek’s Cutoff, where protracted dissolves morph landscapes, people and colors to hypnotizing effect. Action movies and art films alike should flow from one image to the next; if that flow breaks, it should betray a twist in the story or, better yet, a character’s psychology, not sloppy filmmaking.

3. Have fun with colors. Color cinematography may appear more “real” than black-and-white, but there is no reason filmmakers, at least fiction ones, should feel obligated to capturing doors, walls and jackets as they actually look. Two of this year’s finest thrillers, Non-Stop and A Most Wanted Man, set their moods and tell their stories through colors alone: The former’s ocean blue airplane cabin speaks to modern slickness yet brings out the disparate colors of the passengers’ skin, which fits its critique, while the latter film color codes its settings (stifling office quarters are fluorescent yellow and streets are melancholy blue) to match the perspective of Philip Seymour Hoffman’s protagonist. When a movie with the resources fails to toy with its palette, like the new Captain America, it is a

letdown indeed.

I have more items in mind (“Good movies don’t need to be P.C.”; “Sometimes, ambiguity is just bullshit”; “Anything with Dwayne Johnson is automatically great”) but I sense I am running out of space. It must be reiterated that the most important evidence of a film’s quality comes from the gut. While these parameters provide a loose system for evincing one’s enthusiasm or disapproval, they still kowtow to that initial response. It can be disheartening to know that words will always fail to do justice to the most transcendent experience, but at least most of the movies out there aren’t so perfect, and therefore leave us with plenty to quarrel about.

Zachary Zahos is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel with the World runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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“I’ve learned a lot throughout the years from previous captains … just what has worked on the team and what hasn’t,” she said. “It’s been cool to see our team develop because they’re getting better and better and more nationally competitive each year. It’s really cool to be a part of that growth.”

Three captains may seem like a lot, but since the Red has one of the largest cross country teams in the nation, it makes sense. Each captain has been able to take on her own role to form a comprehensive leadership team.

“I think it’s really great that we have three captains because we definitely all have different strengths and different things we’re really excited about and focus on,” Kellner said. “I would say I’m probably more quiet but I hope that my determination and hard work at practice or lifting and trying to plan a lifestyle that’s conducive to running well … I hope that shines through and inspires my teammates to do the same thing.”

Collard said she looks out for her teammates by making sure that they aren’t pushed beyond their limits.

“I guess I’m probably the more honest one,” she said. “I’m not afraid to tell the coach if something is going wrong or people are really sore and we shouldn’t be doing this workout.”

Phlegar sees herself as the one who pulls the team together and encourages them to stay strong even when things get a little rough.

“I kind of am a unifier of the group,” she said. “I just keep people positive throughout our tough workouts and on races when we get nervous.”

Smith said he was very impressed by how well the captains have been working together.

“It’s clear that all three of them care deeply about their teammates and they care deeply about their teammates success but also about their teammates wellbeing.”

Another benefit to having three captains is that it gives each teammate multiple people to turn to if she is struggling or needs some advice.

“Having three women with different experiences, different backgrounds, different strengths, really makes it more likely that everybody on the team has someone they can come speak to, look up to, and feel comfortable working with,” Smith said.

As upperclassmen, both Collard and Phlegar hope to be a positive influence on the freshmen.

“I really like being a captain and being able to help my teammates whether it’s with racing or just with school. Especially the freshmen … you really realize how much they look up to you,” Collard said.

“It’s been really great to positively influence [the freshmen] and kind of guide their transition to college,” Phlegar added.

Kellner also enjoys interacting with her teammates as a captain.

“One of the best parts is just being able to talk to everyone and make sure everyone’s doing okay,” she said.

Last season, the women’s team placed second behind Dartmouth at the Ivy League championship meet and 23rd at the NCAA championship. Collard, Phlegar and Kellner all have their sights set on having strong performances at both the Ivy meet and the NCAA championship this season. To illustrate their goals, the women sat down and created a poster that showed their individual goals as pieces of a puzzle that made up the overall team goal, according to Phlegar.

As coach, Smith said that his goal was for the team to simply do its best at each meet and that he relies on the captains to set the team’s own goals.

“I think these three captains recognize that this team is capable of those things and they’ve been great in reminding people that as they give their best that they want to point their talents and energies towards those things,” he said. “Having team leaders that are really pushing for everybody’s success, looking out for everybody’s well being, it’s really paramount.”

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exceptional performance his junior year, only allowing appearances. His .60 goals against average during the 2013 season is tied for the best in program history with Pflasterer’s .60 average from 2011.

Despite missing six games during that season, his phenomenal performances over the year earned him Honorable Mention All Ivy League.

Over the past four years, the Cornell goalie has cemented his role as a leader on the team and has matured as a player immensely.

“Mentally, I don’t let the little things bother me during games

anymore, which helps me stay focused,” he said.

Currently the senior has the fourth best career goals against average in Cornell history, but the seasoned keeper knows that individual accolades are bittersweet if the team does not do well.

“Every game is important for us whether its a league game or not, so we take it one game at a time and try not to look too far ahead. With that mentality we can string a few positive results together and hopefully end up in a good position to extend our season,” he said.

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com.

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“The main thing the team needs to focus on is playing the course one shot at a time,” he said. “We have a very talented team that is getting comfortable. Experience is the most important thing for our young team. As we continue to play in events the young guys will get a sense of what it is like to compete at the collegiate level. ” said Kligman.

Kligman also said he believes that if the team remains confident, the future looks bright for the program.

“As long as we stay positive and keep our same competitive attitude we have the potential to be in contention in every tournament we play in,” he said.

According to Graboyes, coming off the invitational the Red will look to Head Coach Baughn for feedback and assistance in order to refine individual skills and improve upon any weaknesses.

“Going forward the team needs to work with our coach to improve upon our weaknesses from the weekend. He can provide a unique perspective about each part of our game and help us pinpoint what we each need to focus on in practice,” he said.

Graboyes said he believes working on the short game, in particular, will be of great value to the Red in the future, “As it gets colder throughout the season, I think improving our short games will pay off tremendously when we’re in the same position again.”

In addition to turning to coach Baughn as a resource for support and guidance, Graboyes said that the players also rely on each other for constructive criticism.

“Every day players work with each other and use each other as resources to figure out what their swing or putting stroke looks like,” he said “It’s often difficult to translate what you’re feeling into what’s actually happening in your swing. We have been working in pairs or groups recently and it takes a lot of guesswork out of improvement.”

According to Graboyes, the Red should also foster a competitive spirit within the team to keep everyone motivated and constantly striving for improvement.

“The most important thing the team can do to continue to have success is continue to compete against each other,” he said. “We are a more focused team when we are not only trying to shoot lower than our playing competitors, but also our own teammates.

Expecting to have to play your best just to have your score count for the team is a great motivator, and that feeling is certainly more prevalent throughout our team this year.”

The Cornell Men’s Golf team will play in The Quechee Club Invitational, a two-day tournament in Quechee, Vt. hosted by Dartmouth next weekend.

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com

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Cornell opened the 2014 season in fine form, defeating both Siena College and Fairleigh Dickinson in the Iniara Classic. The Red hopes to extend its winning streak when it welcomes Hartwick on Wednesday.

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Tee Time | Junior Brandon Eng finished with a three-day total of 231 to tie for 26th place overall and second place among the Red.

The Cornell University men’s Golf team competed this past weekend in the Cornell Invitational at the par71 Robert Trent Jones Golf Course. The Red closed out the Invitational on Sunday with a sixth-place overall finish. Dartmouth College finished first overall, one stroke ahead of Delaware University and the University of Pennsylvania who finished tied for second.

Overall the Red finished with a total of 299 team points in the final round. With phenomenal rounds from freshmen Mike Graboyes and Christopher Troy as well as sopomore Luke Graboyes, the Red still has a lot to show for after the home event.

Despite playing in tough conditions, Senior captain Jonathan Kligman said the squad was not content with its results.

“We were disappointed by our finish. … Although the conditions were tough we were expecting to play a lot better,” he said.

Sophomore Luke Graboyes said that the team was competitive in each round, despite ultimately falling

short of a top finish.

“Our team takes away a mixture of feelings from the Cornell Invite,” he said. “We finished only eight shots out of first place even though we finished 6th overall. We played well enough to be in contention but fell just a few shots shy of one of our best finishes in the past year.”

According to Graboyes, based on strong practice results, the Red is confident in its abilities and believes it can improve upon the outcome from this weekend in future events.

“From our practice rounds we know that as a team we are capable of beating our scores from this weekend by a considerable amount,” he said. “This is a positive because if we keep improving and stay focused for all 54 holes, we have a great chance to take home our first team title in a few years.”

The Red’s roster is brimming with talent, according to Kligman, and the younger golfers just need to gain more experience playing at the competitive, collegiate level in order to reach their full potential this season.

“The main thing the team needs to focus on is playing See GOLF page 15

MEN’S SOCCER

Zagorski Will Leave Behind Lasting Legacy

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

Cornell goalkeeper Zach Zagorski has been able to make quite a name for himself despite taking over the responsibilities from one of the best goalies to ever represent the Red. The senior captain came to Ithaca in 2011, only to find then junior Rick Pflasterer holding the starting spot.

Pflasterer proceeded to earn First Team All Ivy League Honors for two straight seasons. Along the way, he went on to etch his name into the record books of Cornell Soccer, earning the second most shutouts in program history. He was also recognized for having the third lowest goals against average. So for two seasons, Zagorski was forced to watch from the sidelines, all the while keenly observing Pflasterer.

“He consistently played at

such a high level from game to at Columbia my sophomore year game, which is difficult to do as a was really special …We also had a keeper. That’s definitely some- huge group of alumni there that thing I took from watching Rick were just as excited to be a part of play and try to do it myself,” said it,” he said. the senior goalkeeper.

After the team won the 2012 Zagorski got his chance to Ivy League title and the former shine during starter, Pflasterer, his freshman had graduated, it campaign when “Winning the Ivy League was time for Pflasterer went title at Columbia my Zagorski to take down with an the reins. All of injury. Filling sophomore year was the time spent in for the veter- really special.” learning the past an keeper, he two years ended made five saves Zach Zagorski up serving him in the last game quite well, espeof the season cially when the against Dartmouth, which earned Red took to the road. him Ivy League Rookie of the “It was great to be on the road Week honors. experiencing the environment at Although the 2012 season was different schools. When we go primarily one of learning for back to those schools two years Zagorski, the Red had one of the down the road I know exactly best seasons in the program’s histo- what to expect,” he said. ry.

“Winning the Ivy League title See MEN’S SOCCER page 13

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Saving the day | Goalkeeper Zach Zagorski allowed just seven goals in 11 appearances last season to earn Honorable Mention All Ivy League honors.

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Trio of captains| Marianne Collard, Casey Phlegar and Caroline Kellner emphasize collaborative leadership this season.

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Tri-Captains Look to Bolster Red’s Success

By ARIEL COOPER Sun Senior Writer

There may be no “I” in team, but every team needs a leader. The Cornell women’s cross country team has not just one leader but three. Senior tri-captains Marianne Collard and Casey Phlegar and junior tri-captain Caroline Kellner are only just starting to get their feet wet in their leadership roles this season, but already these three women have shown that they are up to the challenge.

“I think this group of three complements each other very well in terms of the things they bring to the table,” said women’s cross country coach Artie Smith. “Each of these three women are very good examples of the value of hard work and perseverance through empathy.”

Collard, who has been on the team since her freshman year, said she has enjoyed watching the team progress each season.

See CROSS COUNTRY page 13