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Robertson’75 Sees Setback After Dems Pull Funding DCCC to use the party’s resources in other instances “where the party has a higher likelihood of winning.”

Robertson — who has served on the Tompkins County Congressional candidate and Tompkins County legislator Legislature since 2002 and acted as its chair between 2010 Martha Robertson ’75 faces a campaign setback after the and 2013 — announced her congressional campaign last Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee April, The Sun previously reported. Robertson was encouraged to run in this year’s election by Nate announced that it has pulled television advertisShinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09 after he determined that ing funding from her campaign, according to leghe was unable to run due to family obligations. islative news publication Roll Call.

Shinagawa ran for a seat to represent New The DCCC was planning to spend $465,000 York’s 23rd congressional back in 2012 — the on television ads for Robertson, The Ithaca same position Robertson is currently vying for Journal reported Tuesday. The committee is also — but lost the race to Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), canceling airtime buys in several other congreswho Robertson is seeking to unseat. He lost the sional districts around the country in states such race to Reed by a slim margin of four points, as California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, New York despite also not receiving DCCC funding. and Pennsylvania.

ROBERTSON ’75 New York’s 23rd congressional district The funding cuts from the DCCC signals that the party does not “see a path to victory” for the candidates, encompasses portions of the Southern Tier, including Ithaca, according to Roll Call. These cuts will now enable the Elmira and Corning.

By ANNIE BUI

Sun News Editor

In September 2013, Robertson said she was running a “winnable” race in an address to the Cornell Democrats, The Sun previously reported.

In the address, Robertson also spoke on issues she said she believed were most pressing, among them bolstering jobs and economic development, protecting Medicare and Social Security programs and improving the quality of education.

Seth Stein, Robertson’s campaign spokesman, said her campaign has been working to project her views and message to the public.

“Martha is focused solely on having a conversation with the voters of the 23rd District,” Stein told The Ithaca Journal. “Her message of protecting the middle class, creating jobs and advocating for working families is resonating with people. Congressman Tom Reed, on the other hand, has shown he is not on the side of working families, instead representing the special interests that fund his campaign.”

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

S.A. Aims to Brighten Slope

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Resolution proposes to increase lighting, safety

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Dark nights walking from the library and down Libe Slope may not be as dark anymore if the Student Assembly passes a new resolution.

The resolution — which proposes repaving and adding lighting to a portion of the walkway below McGraw Hall leading to West Avenue — is currently being deliberated by the S.A. Currently, the walkway is “pitch black” at night and could physically harm students,

according to David Vakili ’16, the Arts and Sciences representative for the S.A. and one of the sponsors of the resolution.

“The low visibility on top of Libe Slope’s steepness and black ice during the winter create a dangerous commute for those walking towards West,” Vakili said.

Due to trees that line the walkway, light is partially blocked on the portion of the path, which also contains several potholes. In contrast, other walkways on the See SLOPE page 4

Ithaca to Power One-Third Of Gov’t With Solar Panels

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Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 listens to concerns from Ithaca Commons merchants during a meeting Thursday morning regarding the Commons construction and its impact on businesses.

Tompkins County and the City of Ithaca announced last month that they plan to install over 8,000 solar panels in the city, which will power approximately one-third of city and government operations in Ithaca.

The 2.4 million-watt generating solar panels will be constructed near the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, according to Tompkins County. The City of Ithaca will purchase the electricity and will benefit from the solar energy through a reduction in energy costs.

According to a press release, the Ithaca project is funded largely through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, with company SolarCity contracted to

install the panels and run the solar power system.

SolarCity is America’s largest solar power provider, according to its website. The company harvests energy from the sun through solar panels, “revolutionizing the way energy is delivered by giving customers a cleaner, more affordable alternative to their monthly utility bill.”

“The project will help the City of Ithaca meet its energy use and greenhouse gas reduction goals,” Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 said in the release.

According to Myrick, the City intends to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in government operations by 20 percent by 2016 and 80 percent by 2050.

The new development of solar panels in Ithaca comes on the heels See SOLAR page 4

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Quotes of the Week News, “President-Elect Garrett Talks Cornell Campus Issues,” Monday Speaking about her standpoint on issues of sexual assault and violence “I believe we cannot tolerate sexual violence, assault, intimidation or harassment on our campuses. That is fundamentally incompatible with the university environment. As a community, we have to be very clear that such behavior is unacceptable, and that has been my position since I became provost [of the University of Southern California].

President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett News, “Cornell Launches $150 Million Public Engagement Plan,” Tuesday Speaking about how the 10-year initiative will transform education at the University “Community-engaged learning is a specific kind of experiential learning, one in which students, faculty and staff collaborate with diverse stakeholders in communities to address the pressing social problems and issues that plague us all.”

President David Skorton Opinion, “Any Person, Any Study, But Not Just Any Woman,” Wednesday Speaking about how others address Elizabeth Garrett’s appointment as Cornell’s first woman president “[Elizabeth] Garrett’s appointment makes me proud to be a Cornell woman ... Nonetheless, the fact that she is a woman should not overshadow her other achievements or be the only reason we should look forward to her term.”

Samantha Weisman ’15 News, “Professors Remember Cornell Graduate Student,” Thursday Speaking about Taylan Cihan grad, who died Wednesday morning “His vision of the intersection of technology with sound art promised to enlarge the musical world for all of us, and thus his loss is both a personal blow and an artistic one.”

Prof. Steven Stucky, music

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President of Int’l Criminal Court Speaks About Preventing Crime

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Contributor

Speaking Thursday as part of the Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker series, Judge Sang-Hyun Song JSD ’70, president of the International Criminal Court, told Cornellians about the ICC’s efforts to prevent atrocities before they occur.

Song, the second president of the court, spoke about the tools the ICC utilizes and the obstacles it faces in trying to stop international criminals before they commit the acts that can bring them before the ICC. These efforts, Song argues, are what differentiate the ICC from other international tribunals.

“The ICC is different from … temporary [international] institutions in one crucial aspect,” said Song, 72. “It is not just dealing with crimes of the past.”

The ICC’s reputation alone can help it to deter potential criminals, according to Song.

“Where the threat of imminent

atrocities appears, announcing publicly that the ICC is following the situation can be a powerful tool,” Song said. “It puts leaders on notice.”

He further explained that the announcement of ICC action can prompt authorities to investigate a potential human rights violation, which he said is an effective way for the ICC to aid local and national governments.

According to Song, because the ICC lacks a police force or military presence, it is important for governments to be involved with any ICC decision that affects their jurisdictions. Furthermore, Song says, this mutually dependent relationship helps countries — as well as the ICC — grow stronger.

“Research suggests that countries that have held leaders accountable for crimes have come away stronger,” he said.

Song also emphasized the ICC’s efforts to bring victims into the process of judicial administration beyond being witnesses in trials and to make them actual

“actors in the proceedings.”

The ICC has also created a fund for victims’ reparations, which is “unprecedented” in the international community, according to Song.

“The fund empowers victims to become key stakeholders in the pursuit of … justice,” he said.

The ICC’s influence has grown over the course of its 12-year history, according to Song. It began operating in July 2002 following the 1998 Rome Statute treaty, which was first proposed in the United Nations.

Song said many expected that it would take “ages” for the treaty to be ratified. However, it was adopted by the requisite 60 nations three years later, and by 2003, over half of the world’s sovereign states had signed on, according to Song.

However, Song said that many of the world’s most powerful political states — including the United States — have yet to sign the Rome Statute. Still, he said that the United States cooperates with

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International law | Judge Sang-Hyun Song JSD ’70, president of the International Criminal Court, speaks at the Foreign Policy Distinguished Speaker Series Thursday.

the ICC on a “case-by-case” basis.

Song also said he recognizes that the international community’s efforts to maintain peace extend far past the operation of a single tribunal.

“International criminal justice will always be only one piece in [a] much larger puzzle of protecting human rights,” he said.

Song said he was motivated to fight for international justice in part to his own experience growing up in the midst of the Korean War. The “highly traumatic experiences” he went through, he said, left a “permanent mark” on him.

“I devoted my life to the search for justice and improvement of society through ... law,” he said.

Song said his position in the ICC gives him the ability to not only adjudicate crimes, but also to help stop them before they happen. This, Song said, is integral to the ICC’s purpose: to protect human rights.

“The connection between peace and justice is well established,” he said. “They reinforce each other.”

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

Yale Researchers Studying Ebola Will Remain in Liberia

By THE YALE DAILY NEWS

NEW HAVEN, Conn.

— The two public health graduate students researching Ebola in Liberia since Sept. 16 will remain there for the foreseeable future.

The researchers, who were supposed to return to New Haven this past Saturday, have been advising the Liberian Ministry of Health on computer systems that monitor and model the Ebola outbreak, according to a Thursday email from Yale School of Public Health Dean Paul Cleary. Last Thursday, Cleary announced in an email to the YSPH community that the researchers were scheduled to return to the United States on Oct. 4. But in a Monday email to the

News, Yale Medicine and Health Sciences spokesperson Karen Peart said that the graduate students are still in Liberia.

Peart said no specific return date has been determined but Yale officials are in regular contact with the students. She did not say why the researchers did not return as originally scheduled.

“We want to reiterate that the students will continue to follow all [Centers for Disease Control] travel guidelines to assure their safety and that of their colleagues at Yale and of the public,” Peart said in a Monday email to the News.

Peart would not disclose the names of the students.

As of Cleary’s Thursday email, the students were

planning to sequester clothing.

In the possibility of an themselves for 21 days — the incubation period for Ebola outbreak, Yale’s Ebola — following their emergency preparedness group, in conjunction return to the U.S. Yale Health Director with Yale Health, has a Paul Genecin said the condition of an individual return- “We want to reiterate that ing from an epid e m i c - s t r i c k e n the students will continue country determines to follow all [Center for where they are q u a r a n t i n e d . Disease Control] travel Patients who have been exposed to the guidelines.” virus or lived in areas where the Karen Peart virus is prevalent, but have no symptoms, will often be plan for epidemics and sequestered in their home, outbreak, Genecin said. he said. Meanwhile, he He added that there is a added, those who are tremendous amount of known to be infected will communication within be put in isolation at a the University, as well as hospital and cared for by with the Centers for doctors wearing protective Disease Control and city

and state health officials.

“I think that saying that the world is safe isn’t quite right,” Genecin said.

“Saying that we are prepared to deal rationally and appropriately in a guideline-driven way is a better way to put it.”

Audrey Odom, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis’s Center for Global Health and Infectious Diseases, said people should remember that Ebola is difficult to contract compared to most diseases.

Though Odom said it is not unlikely that a hospital worker will contract Ebola from a patient in the U.S., she does not think it will reach epidemic proportions.

Yale School of Medicine professor of epi-

demiology Gerald Friedland said Yale and New Haven are prepared to accommodate the medical situations of the two YSPH students when they return. He added that Yale-New Haven Hospital has devoted a significant amount of energy to prepare for the possibility of a patient with Ebola, similar to hospitals in larger cities, by disseminating information and holding educational conferences.

Friedland said public health officials have to balance the need to protect researchers’ individual rights with the need to protect public safety. He added that patients must be isolated in the most humane way possible.

This story appeared in The Yale Daily News Tuesday.

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S.A. Aims to Increase Slope Safety Panels Will Be Located

Slope said improvements to the walkway are “much needed.”

“It’s so sketchy at night. I almost ran into a deer Slope are better lit, due to the lights near the once,” Mary Nattakom ’17 said. “You have to use your phone as a flashlight so you don’t trip.”

Johnson Museum and West Campus, Vakili said.

Allessandra DiCorato ’15 Syed Ali Khan ’15, minorisaid that while she was “glad” ty representative for the S.A., “You have to use your to see the S.A. consider paving said he co-sponsored the resothe road, the walkway gave her lution to “start the conversa- phone as a flashlight so a chance to notice the nature tion” with administrators you don’t trip.” on campus. about the problem.

“It has always been a little “With the creation of the Mary Nattakom ’17 tricky to come home late from Sesquicentennial Grove on the studying because of the holes northeastern side of the slope, in the pavement,” DiCorato it would be a great time to improve the lighting and pathway on the north- said. “But I’m not exactly ecstatic either, because western side,” Ali Khan said. “Facilities that poorly lit spot used to give me the chance to Management has been very receptive to student notice things like deer and skunks and trees. It always felt like I was coming home through a piece suggestions.”

According to Ali Khan, this resolution is “just of wilderness.” the starting point” for infrastructure improvement projects.

Sofia Hu can be reached Students living in housing at the bottom of the at shu@cornellsun.com.

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U.S.-Led Coalition Airstrikes Hit Islamic State MURSITPINAR, Turkey (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition intensified its aerial bombardment of Islamic State positions Thursday in the Syrian border town of Kobani as the extremist group fought street battles with Kurdish forces and reportedly rushed in reinforcements.

The battle for the town near the frontier with Turkey has emerged as a major early test for the air campaign aimed at rolling back and eventually destroying the extremist group.

It has also strained ties between Washington and Ankara over the long-term U.S. strategy in Syria. On Thursday, the U.S. special envoy for the coalition, retired Marine Gen. John Allen, and NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg were in Turkey to press the country to join military operations.

Turkish officials have said that while they do not want Kobani to fall, they will not take on a greater role until the coalition outlines a

broader strategy that also includes attacking Syrian President Bashar Assad, who is best positioned to benefit from any rollback of the Islamic State group.

But attacking Assad's regime “is not the focus of our international coalition and not the focus of our efforts by the United States,” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said.

Psaki said Allen and Turkish officials discussed ways to advance the effort against the Islamic State group and said a joint military planning team will visit Ankara early next week.

“Both sides also agreed that we will continue a dynamic and deepening bilateral consultation process across the multiple lines of effort against ISIL, including military support, countering foreign fighters, counter-finance, humanitarian assistance, and delegitimizing ISIL”s messaging and rhetoric,” she said using and acronym for the Islamic State

group.

Turkey also has called for the creation of a buffer zone inside Syria to secure the border, but the White House and Pentagon said Wednesday the U.S. is not considering that option. Such a zone would be costly and complex to enforce.

U.S. officials said Thursday the U.S. is largely talking to Turkey about other things it could do besides inserting ground forces into the fight: allowing U.S. and coalition aircraft to fly over Turkish territory; allowing its air base in Incirlik, some 100 miles from the Syrian border, to be used by U.S. or coalition planes or for logistics and training; and equipping moderate Syrian opposition forces fighting to topple Assad.

The officials were not authorized to discuss meetings underway between U.S. and Turkish officials in Ankara and requested anonymity.

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continue to work across campuses, sectors, and continents to meet the needs of society,” President David Skorton said.

“Our Climate Action Plan builds on the progress we’ve already made and prepares us to do what the future demands: strive for climate neutrality,

of Cornell’s Snyder Road solar farm — the University’s first large-scale solar initiative — going live Sept. 19.

Cornell’s solar farm, also located near the Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport, is expected to produce 1 percent of the “The project will help the University’s electricity City of Ithaca meet its and will subsequently reduce the University’s energy use and greenhouse carbon emissions by 0.5 gas reduction goals.” percent.

Cornell, like the City Svante Myrick ’09 of Ithaca, plans to reduce its carbon footprint, aiming to eliminate carbon emissions by 2050 for the innovate, and lead the way to a Ithaca campus. The plans for cleaner, safer, more stable achieving this reduction in car- world.” bon emissions are highlighted in Cornell’s Climate Action Plan.

Sloane Grinspoon can be reached “It is imperative that Cornell at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

Months After Ferguson, Death Of 18-Year-Old Sparks Anger Vonderrit Myers killed by police officer ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two months after a Ferguson officer killed Michael Brown, setting off intense national debate about law enforcement treatment of minorities, the shooting death of another black 18-year-old by police in nearby St. Louis has reignited anger among activists already planning weekend protests.

Police say Vonderrit D. Myers was shot Wednesday after he opened fire on a white, off-duty

officer, but Myers’ parents say he was unarmed. Some activists and lawmakers say Myers was targeted because he was black and are asking the Justice Department — which has opened a civil rights investigation into the death of Brown, who was unarmed — to investigate his shooting.

“This here was racial profiling turned deadly,” said state Sen. Jamilah Nasheed, a St. Louis Democrat.

The shooting happened as activists and other protesters from around the country prepared for four days of rallies, marches and protests over the Brown shooting.

Organizers say the events, which start Friday and include a march Saturday in downtown St. Louis, have taken on added urgency.

“This is a racial powder keg,” said Jerryl Christmas, a St. Louis attorney who was among more than 20 black leaders who joined Nasheed at a news conference Thursday outside police headquarters. “All this is going to do is escalate the situation.”

Brown’s Aug. 9 death spurred weeks of unrest in Ferguson and the rest of the St. Louis area. A state grand jury is deciding whether the officer who shot him, Darren Wilson, will face charges.

Police say Myers was both armed and aggressive, using a stolen 9 mm gun to shoot at the officer.

Syreeta Myers said her son was holding a sandwich, not a gun.

“Police lie. They lied about Michael Brown, too,” she told The Associated Press by phone Thursday.

About 200 people gathered Thursday night for a quiet candlelight remembrance at the sight where Vonderrit Myers was shot.

Later, protesters shut down a major street.

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Mexican Police Arrest Drug Cartel Leader and Bodyguard

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal police arrested alleged Juarez drug cartel leader Vicente Carrillo Fuentes in the northern city of Torreon on Thursday, Mexican officials announced.

After investigators narrowed Carrillo Fuentes’ whereabouts to a neighborhood of Torreon, he was taken into custody at a traffic checkpoint without a shot being fired, National Security Commissioner Monte Alejandro Rubido said.

Attorney General Jesus Murillo Karam called the arrest “a capture of great importance.”

A suspected bodyguard was also detained.

Carrillo Fuentes, 51, purportedly heads the cartel founded by his late brother, Amado Carrillo Fuentes, and both the U.S. and Mexico had million-dollar rewards for his arrest.

Better known as “The Viceroy” or “The General,” he took over control of the Juarez drug cartel after his brother Amado, nicknamed “The Lord of the Skies,” died in 1997 in a botched cosmetic surgery. Amado got his nickname by flying planeloads of drugs into the United States.

It was the second capture of a major drug lord in as many weeks.

Mexican authorities nabbed Hector Beltran Leyva as he ate fish tacos in a seafood restaurant in central Mexico on Oct. 1.

The back-to-back arrests come as Mexico’s federal government is under international pressure over the forced disappearance of 43 students by police and a possible massacre of 22 suspected gang members by soldiers. Everyone from outraged Mexicans to the United Nations is demanding justice and accountability in the two cases.

“I think it’s a little bit because of the pressure,” Samuel Gonzalez, Mexico’s former top anti-drug prosecutor, said of the sudden demise of long-time capos. “This is to say they’re doing a lot of work.”

The Pena Nieto administration has captured a string of high-profile capos since taking office nearly two years ago, the biggest of them being the arrest last February of Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the elusive boss of the Sinaloa cartel.

Carrillo Fuentes, who like many top drug lords was from Sinaloa state, had a $5 million reward on his head from U.S. authorities and $2.2 million in Mexico. He faces a forty-six count indictment in Texas, charging him with, among other things, trafficking in cocaine and marijuana, money laundering and murder in furtherance of a continuing criminal enterprise, according to the U.S. State Department.

The Drug Enforcement Administration congratulated Mexico for Carrillo Fuentes’ capture.

“Carrillo Fuentes ... facilitated murder and violence in Mexico while fueling addiction in the United States and across the world,” DEA Administrator Michele M. Leonhart said in a statement.

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Clinton, Christie Endorse Candidates in Pa. Race WAYNE, Pa. (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie made dueling pitches Thursday in Pennsylvania’s race for governor, appealing to voters in a state that could factor into potential 2016 presidential campaigns.

Clinton implored Pennsylvania Democrats to back Tom Wolf ’s gubernatorial campaign in large numbers, warning against complacency despite his large lead in the polls against Republican Gov. Tom Corbett.

“You never know what can happen in an election,” she said.

Without mentioning the polls, Christie gave a nod to the size of the task of changing voters’ minds and asked the GOP faithful to volunteer an hour a day doing just that.

“If you do that, you’re going to be part of making history,” Christie said.

The governor’s race served as a backdrop for Clinton and Christie, who secured exposure in a state likely to be an important trophy in any 2016 party nomination or general election contest. Both have been filling their schedules with appearances around the country for gubernatorial and Senate candidates on the ballot this fall.

Clinton is working on drumming up support among female voters while Christie has traveled to about three dozen states as head of the Republican Governors Association, raising millions for the group. Both expect to make a decision on a potential White House bid around the beginning of 2015.

European Airports Continue to Screen for Ebola CASABLANCA, Morocco (AP) — After seven months in Ebola-stricken Liberia, Vijay Kumar was getting his temperature scanned Thursday at the airport by medical crews in blue gowns and masks — one of dozens who relied on Royal Air Maroc’s continuing flights to West Africa.

“Of course we are all scared,” the cellphone worker said, as he and dozens of passengers made their way through the international airport in Casablanca, Morocco. But “we really appreciate their procedures, it’s a good system.”

He was finally heading home to Chennai, India, relieved that there were still flights operating, after British Airways and Emirates suspended travel to the outbreak countries. Airlines from Morocco, France and Belgium are still flying in and out of West Africa, encouraged by the World Health Organization, because stopping would keep out needed aid workers and supplies — and wouldn’t necessarily halt the spread of the disease.

It can take up to 21 days before a person infected with Ebola starts to show symptoms that

can be found in airport screening tests. During that period, an individual carrying Ebola can get a flight to anywhere in the world and fall ill later — as happened with a Liberian man who developed Ebola and died in the U.S. this week.

Departing passengers in Africa are being screened. U.S. officials said they will soon start screening arrivals from the affected countries.

European governments so far have held off, even though it’s conceded infected passengers could arrive undetected. If someone gets sick in Europe, they are hoping to focus on quick response in advanced isolation wards like the one at Frankfurt, Germany’s University Clinic — not far from its international airport.

As a major hub for travel to West Africa, Casablanca airport functions as a gateway to the rest of the world. Thursday morning’s arrivals board included flights from the Ebola-hit cities of Monrovia, Liberia and Freetown, Sierra Leone, among others. Besides Royal Air Maroc, Air France and Brussels Air also still fly to and from West Africa.

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PREPPING FOR HOMECOMING

While many students have already left campus for Fall Break, we at The Sun are thinking ahead towards the festivities of next weekend: Homecoming. Yes, Homecoming is still another week away, but like the Boy Scouts, we are always prepared. With alums descending on campus and the University bringing out all of the stops — fireworks show, anyone? — students will need longer than the three days after Fall Break to mentally prepare themselves. So we sent our best Berry Patch reporters — at least, the ones who are still on campus — to see what students are doing in advance of Homecoming weekend.

Cleaning: For those who are having houseguests, or alumni who are crashing on their couches, cleaning is a must. Whether its that couch, the bathroom or your laundry, it all needs to get taken care of before guests arrive. Especially since many of us are children of Cornellians, it’s only natural for parents to come back and relive their Cornell days.

So at the very least, clean your apartment/house/dorm for your parents. Unless you don’t care what your guests and parents think, to which we say: You do you.

Doing Homework: Despite being in the middle of prelim season, there will be no time during the weekend to study or do anything else related to school work. So start working now, you’ll thank us later.

Amping Up Your School Spirit: We may not be a typical rah-rah school, but there are certain times where the Cornell Pride is strong: Hockey season, Graduation and, of course, Homecoming. Hit up the Cornell Store while you still can and practice your cheers because this is the one day a year where we pretend to be like a real state school.

Learning How Football Works: For those who do not know, the Homecoming game is football, so study up so you can know what it means when its the first down. Or second. Or fourth.

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Questions can be submitted via email to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Or whisper them in the ear of the Ezra Cornell statue on the Arts Quad.

Q: We know that a February break was added to the calendar last year, but when was fall break added?

— Already Left Town ’15

A: We know that no one is reading today’s issue of The Sun since most students have already fled Ithaca for fall break, but we’ll answer this question anyway. In the midst of the particularly gray and dismal fall of 1977, approximately 500 students marched across campus at midnight to demand a week’s vacation. (The protest is perhaps best remembered for its chant: “We will stay and freeze our asses until Frank Rhodes cancels classes.”) The following year, as part of a University-wide effort to examine mental health and academic pressure, a committee recommended changes to the university calendar, resulting in an “optional” one-day break in October 1978 that few faculty actually observed.

After considerable debate, including a proposal to take a full week off at Thanksgiving, a two-day break in October was instituted in 1979 and is now a welcome respite as the mid-semester prelims pile up.

Q: Last week, Cornell announced its Elizabeth Garrett as its first women president.

What leadership roles have women held in Cornell’s administration?

— President Garrett Fan Club ’15 A: Despite Cornell leading the Ivy League in the admittance of women students, our alma mater has trailed some of our peers in other respects. Perhaps the highest ranking woman in leadership at Cornell has been Carolyn A. “Biddy” Martin, who served as our first and only female provost from 2000 to 2008. Laurie Glimcher became the first woman to serve as Cornell’s provost of medical affairs and dean of its medical school in 2012. In 1976, Constance A. Cook ’41, JD ’43 became Cornell’s first woman vice president, serving as vice president for land grant affairs until 1980.

Cornell first appointed women to full professorships in 1911, when the leaders of the Department of Home Economics (Human Ecology’s predecessor, formerly housed in the College of Agriculture) Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose were promoted. A resolution from the faculty is particularly telling of the general sentiment at the time: “Resolved, That the University Faculty, while not favoring in general the appointment of women to professorships, interpose no objection to their appointment in the Department of Home Economics in the College of Agriculture.” Cornell has yet to elect a woman as chair of its board of trustees, and many individuals colleges have not yet been led by female deans.

Q: What’s the story behind the tradition of Homecoming?

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— Nostalgic Alumnus ’14

A: Cornell’s Homecoming tradition dates back to November 13, 1920, when 2,000 alumni returned to campus to celebrate a "New York State Cornell Day" as a kick-off to a state-wide Cornell Endowment Fund campaign. With typically dreary Ithaca weather, the weekend featured a buffet luncheon with performances by the University Band and Glee Club, a football game against Columbia (a 34-7 victory) and an evening lecture on the “political situation in the Far East.” The next year, the second annual celebration of New York Cornellians was part of a week of activities that included the inauguration of President Livingston Farrand, the laying of the cornerstone of Baker Laboratory and the semi-centennial of the College of Architecture.

However, the first official “Autumn Alumni Homecoming” was held on November 4, 1922. The success of the previous two years convinced Cornell to encourage all Cornellians to return for a football game each fall. The weekend was combined with the 35th anniversary celebration of the Cornell Law School, and this first annual Homecoming football game was a 56-to-0 trouncing of Columbia.

Interest and attendance at Homecoming has fluctuated over the years, but a renewed focus by the University in recent years has substantially expanded programming. Attempts to increase student involvement included a parade of student organizations in 2009 and 2010. A Cornell Concert Commission show was added to the weekend in 2011, and a fireworks and laser light show added in 2012. Five years ago, it seemed like few students were even aware of when Homecoming was, but that situation seems to have changed for the better. This year, with Homecoming combined with the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting for a special sesquicentennial kick-off, next weekend will likely be particularly crowded on campus.

Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.

CORRECTIONS An Oct. 9 news story, “Franck Onambélé ‘14 Completes Fundraising Campaign for Installation of Water Pump in African Village,” incorrectly stated that Onambélé was born in Oyak, Cameroon. In addition, the story incorrectly said he moved to Canada in 2005. In fact, he moved there in 2007.

An Oct. 9 news story, “Cornell Partakes in Program to Minimize Substance Abuse,” incorrectly said Cayuga’s Watchers was the result of a National College Improvement Program. In fact, Cayuga’s Watchers was created by students and is student-run. In addition, the story also misspelled Associate Director of Gannett Health Services Gregory Eells’ last name.

THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Friday, October 10, 2014 7

OPINION

Tony Sun |

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Shakespeare for Medical Students

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oetry, like many of the Arts, becomes an intriguing phenomenon if we stop to ask why it existed and why it continues to exist. Why do amateur and professional poets continue to write, and why do they attract readers?

Why do individuals from all walks of life — from the instrument dealer in my hometown to numerous presidents of our country — make time to read Shakespeare, the essential English poet-playwright? A poem or play does not protect or heal us; it does not provide basic needs for survival. Yet poetry and drama continue to be, for many people, an important part of their lives. Do medical students and doctors also fall into this category of people who consider poetry to be important in their lives? Yes and no, and I want to use this article to explore more of the “yes” side through two brief stories.

Last Friday morning, before small group sessions, I selected and read one passage from Hamlet; reading in the morning, I should mention, is part of my daily routine. Here is the passage: “What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals — and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?”

Speak to any so-called professional literary critic about these passages and you will undoubtedly learn about the “theoretical” approaches that can be applied to understand these passages. But that is not my goal, and I follow Harold Bloom in believing that the only useful critical method is the Self, or our own experiences. How we feel and think at a particular moment should influence our readings of Shakespeare more than any pre-described critical method, such as deconstruction, new historicism or post-colonialism. Again, one does not (and should not) need to have any exposure to “literary theory” to gain value from reading Shakespeare’s texts. Our fresh, individual responses to Shakespeare, colored by our daily activities, is what I believe to be most illuminating and interesting.

My small group session discussed a cancer case that Friday morning and I remember asking myself: What would a cancer patient get out of reading Hamlet’s speech? Will the patient take that speech literally or ironically, as Hamlet seems to have intended? How do I, as a physician, gain a clearer view of a cancer patient through Hamlet’s speech? A cancer patient who might be confronting death will have different thoughts than me, and understanding his or her thought processes would be vital if I were the physician. I may not understand problems like pain or fear as well as a patient because I’m not going through the same problems, but reading Shakespeare and sensitizing myself to those issues through language can help in better understanding a patient.

In this manner, our individual experiences are colored by Shakespeare’s texts, and, conversely, Shakespeare’s texts are also colored by our life experiences. I remember feeling optimistic on Friday morning about my scheduled presentation, and so I read what Hamlet said with less irony than what Hamlet perhaps intended — that is to say: “What a piece of work is a man!” Man is an impressive creation, and I mean this seriously, not ironically as Hamlet likely felt. By imagining these fantasy scenarios, I am engaging in how the scene and dialogue happens, rather than just what happens. How Hamlet says something tells us as much, if not more, than what he says. This skill can be generalized to reading other scenarios that we encounter, whether that be a puzzling patient or an elusive scientific problem.

My second story is about a patient I met at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.

There, cerebral palsy patients worked with volunteers as part of a sports rehabilitation program. I recall one session when my patient, Ben, was feeling uncomfortable, and he mentioned I could spend that day working with someone else.

I reassured Ben that I still wanted to be with him that day, and that we could talk about his busier schoolwork instead of playing basketball. Ben had started high school six months ago, and he mentioned that he enjoyed English class.

This prompted me to ask whether he liked poetry, which was answered with an immediate “Yes!” I then began reciting a popular Robert Frost poem that I had recently re-read: “The woods are lovely, dark and deep / But I have promises to keep.” Ben completed the poem: “And miles to go before I sleep, / And miles to go before I sleep.” Both Ben and I have “miles to go” to reach our goals, as different as those goals may be, and Robert Frost’s language wonderfully captures our mutual feelings. Many of us have “miles to go” to reach goals — one does not have to have a prior interest in Robert Frost’s poems to gain value from this and other poems. Poetry crystallizes feelings in language, and the endless varieties of poems offer us the language to better describe and understand the endless varieties of feelings that patients might feel.

For Ben and me, poetry does more than just crystallize feelings in language; poetry gives us aesthetic pleasure, much like good music or good art. With more exposure to texts, anyone can develop an ear for good prose and verse. “Good” is certainly subjective, even within one individual, and I find that my appreciation of Shakespeare depends on what I do and how I feel while reading him.

Virginia Woolf, for instance, likes to read Shakespeare after she finishes her writing. In one diary entry dated April 13, 1930, she wrote: “I read Shakespeare directly [after] I have finished writing. When my mind is agape and red-hot. Then it is astonishing. I never yet knew how amazing his stretch and speed and word coining power is, until I felt it utterly outpace and outrace my own, seeming to start equal and then I see him draw ahead and do things I could not in my wildest tumult and utmost press of mind imagine.”

Hearing that, I had better wrap up this article and get back to reading my Shakespeare.

Tony Sun is a first-year MD-PhD student at Weill Cornell/Sloan-Kettering/Rockefeller University. He may be reached at tos2014@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester..

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Comment of the day “All Cornellians surely experience construction annoyances all over the campus because some building is constantly being constructed or renovated. If we can make our peace with that, why can’t the same be said for the Commons?” pjl35 Re: “EDITORIAL: End the Commons Construction Delays,” News, published October 8, 2014

Nikhita Parandekar | Hoof in Mouth

Rolling With the Punches

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ost of us fourth year years out of school are the veterinary students most important in terms of are facing (or have developing clinical skills, so already dealt with) a serious many people complete internlife decision right about now ships even if they’re not inter— to apply for an internship ested in specializing in order or not? To explain this, I’ll to be more competent general start with a brief description practitioners. That being said, of the veterinary hierarchy. if you can find a job where After passing board exams and you have a good mentor, then graduating from veterinary it might be just as valuable to school, you are legally licensed you as an internship would to be practicing veterinarians have been. Unfortunately, the — the equivalent of human decision to do an internship general practitioners. If you generally has to be done soonwant to have more specialized er in your career rather than training, then you can apply later — years ago it was comfor an internship, which is a mon for people to practice for year of intensive immersion in a few years and then go a field you are interested in. straight into a residency, but For example, there are equine the trend lately seems to be to internships and small animal go straight from vet school to internships. After completing an internship and then resian internship, due to the dency. intense nature of the program, Some people already know you are ideally equipped with that they want to specialize — significantly more experience they’ve fallen (and stayed) in and knowledge. You could go love with a specific area of vetout into the world armed with erinary medicine and are your new skills, or you could ready to start on that path. A decide to get even more serious and Some people already know complete a re s i d e n c y. that they want to specialize Residencies — they’ve fallen (and are usually stayed) in love with a around specific area of veterinary three years long and medicine and are ready to encompass start on that path. everything from ophthalmology to large animal surgery. At the lucky few have jobs set up end of your residency, you already in practices that take another set of board they’ve spent time with exams and then if you pass throughout the years. For the them become a licensed spe- rest of us, there are a few faccialist, with extra fancy letters tors to weigh into the deciafter your name and ideally a sion. The first is finances — higher salary when you find a interns make next to nothing job. After your residency, you (in 2013, the median intern can either enter private prac- salary for academic interntice as a specialist or continue ships was around $25,000, it down a path to get a PhD and might be a little higher for enter academia. So, to sum- some private practices), and marize, you have vet students when you’re graduating from who can either pursue being vet school with significant general practitioners or go the debt (around $150,000) you route of being interns, resi- need to have enough income dents and, ultimately, special- to start paying off your loans. ists.

An internship might not be Internship applications are financially possible. The secdue soon (soon is relative ond is location — would you depending on what kind of move anywhere around the internship you’re thinking country for your internship? It about), which is why I’m writ- is only one year, after all, and ing about this now. I’ve heard most people do not end up statistics that the first two practicing where they com-

pleted their internship, but moving around the country every year is not an easy task.

The last one I can think of is priorities — do you want to have some semblance of a work/life balance after you graduate, or are you willing to sacrifice that for another year?

First year associates don’t often have the best schedules but most of the time they are at least marginally less allencompassing than an intern’s schedule. And then there’s always the elephant in the room — what if you decide you want an internship and apply and then don’t get one?

So these are the things that a lot of us have been thinking about in the relatively recent past and into the future. The anxiety associated with the process is not one that I think I’ve ever experienced or witnessed before. That being said, I try to keep in the back of my mind that most of the veterinarians I know don’t have stories that go “I wanted to be a small anim a l internist in a university setting so I did an internship and residency and went into academia.”

A lot of the time, it’s more along the lines of “I really wanted to work with cats so I did an internship but then I found that I liked dogs too so I applied for residencies and I happened to get one and then I started this project that was interesting and decided I wanted to go into academia instead of private practice.” So maybe, once we’ve thought circles around everything and think we’ve come to a decision, what we really have to learn to do is roll with the punches.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a fourth-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com.

Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Life in Jupiter: We Are All Freaks

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Arts and Entertainment Editor

Welcome to Jupiter, Florida, 1952. After months of genuinely scary and NSF-Facebook viral marketing, the fourth installment of Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk’s Emmy-nominated horror anthology American Horror Story, Freak Show, has finally seen the light of day. Or, so to speak: After last year’s disappointingly tame and plot-hole-riddled Coven, Freak Show’s Wednesday night premiere was a decided return to American Horror Story’s darkly daring Asylum (a study in 1960s criminalization of homosexuality and femininity set in a New England asylum) heyday.

Freak Show does what AHS does best: Preys on specifically American fears, fascinations and popular culture.

Out of the gate we are thrust into 1950s Americana — the milkman is at the door and the fact that yesterday’s milk is still on the porch is cause for concern. He steps timidly into the poorly-lit home, calling out the familiar resident’s name and, after finding her lifeless on the living room floor, proceeds upstairs with a bat to find the perpetrator (would your UPS guy do this for you?). Off-camera, he catches a glimpse of the show’s first monster and it’s his stomach-churning scream that snaps us to rapt attention — it’s time for some freaks.

Freak Show has them in scads, obviously — from Kathy Bates’ intriguing and fierce (and schizophrenically accented) bearded lady to Sarah Paulson’s siamese twin sisters, Bette and Dot (one with a homicidal affection for Singin’ in the Rain, the other with a soft-spot for doe-eyed carnies) to a nefarious and web-fingered Evan Peters who makes spare cash as an oddity at housewives’ sex parties (you heard me). This is to say nothing of the freaks’ leader, Elsa Mars, played by a never-better Jessica Lange (if she won the Emmy for Coven, what can she win for this? A MacArthur Genius Award?). All we know about Elsa is that she is a German national; she used to be a small-time cabaret singer in pre-war Berlin; she “survived the Stasi,” and she is now desperate to fill seats at her lessthan-lauded “Cabinet of Curiosities” show.

The cast also includes the actual smallest woman in the world, Jyoti Amge, a casting decision which it is hard to form definite feelings about. On one hand, there is an undoubted aura

of exploitation when you ask someone to stand, as COURTESY OF FX themselves, amongst people who are only “freaks” due to the addition of heavy makeup, prosthetics and fictionalized stories of oppression. On the other hand, Amge has given many articulate and grateful interviews in which she has stated quite firmly: “People like me might be small in stature, but they can also act. Regular people should not underestimate people who are small.” In any case, the casting makes Elsa’s mid-premiere speech in defense of freak shows especially affecting and morally confusing.

The proximal plotline of a downright terrifying homicidal clown named “Twisty,” played by John Carroll Lynch, is light on the exposition and heavy on the allusion: Twisty’s first murder goes down almost identically to the first murder in the 2007 The knock-out scene of the episode and the best I’ve seen on modern classic, Zodiac, starting with two pretty white teenagers say sex-stuff to each other on a picnic blanket and ending with the television since “Ozymandias” — Lange’s cover of David Bowie’s girl laying cheek-to-grass and watching her date be stabbed repeat- 1971 “Life on Mars.” Elsa Mars takes the stage with her freaks edly to death with much bravado. Aside from the fact that this ref- performing in the background, wearing the same bright blue eyeerence lets me feel like a cool guy who knows subtle film references shadow and periwinkle suit as Bowie — though her greasy makeand that John Carroll Lynch also played the Zodiac killer (OMG, up seeps notably into every wrinkle and her suit is ill-fitting and lol for days), it appears to be the start of what might be an amaz- dirty — and delivers a heartbreaking rendition of the seminal ing homage to slasher cinema. Stylized slasher cinema, that is, as anthem of weirdness. “The freakiest show,” it turns out, is the part of AHS’ “thing” is sleek, seductive violence that deliberately desperate Mars, who weeps openly when the spotlight shuts and ostensibly rips off every other gorey American nightmare down, who admits haltingly to Bates’ Ethel Darling afterwards we’ve watched and pretended not to enjoy. Not for nothing, AHS that she is still hoping to become a star and who unlaces a pair of is the only current television show, excepting perhaps Orange is the prosthetic legs before getting into bed in the closing scene.

If you needed any more reasons to tune in next week: We New Black, which takes it upon itself to deal with the dicey realihaven’t even met Angela Bassett’s three-boobed woman yet, it has ties of America’s past and present societal atrocities.

The details of what part Elsa Mars played in Nazi Germany is been confirmed that Lange will cover a Lana Del Rey ballad a compelling secret to keep. As one of history’s few clear-cut evils sometime this season (you can submit your guess on the FX weband a precious rare example of when the United States was truly the site if that’s something you’re into), Neil Patrick Harris’ guest arc hero, there is no bad guy for whom we reserve more joyous vitriol was just confirmed (!!!) and potentially something was done than a Nazi. Similarly, however, a good woman in wartime about the ridiculously awful sound-mixing after I wrote that Germany is as near to the paragon of courage as a trope can get. We complaint letter about not being able to hear Jessica’s sultry whisare not given an easy paradigm inside which to judge Elsa, making per over that lame-o score. her, in just one episode, Lange’s most intriguing character yet (forgive me if I didn’t buy Sister Jude’s sudden conversion to civil rights Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life activist/flower child/surrogate grandma-aunt/Nora Ephron).

Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

The Good Person of Setzuan at Ithaca College

BY SHAY COLLINS Sun Staff Writer

Ithaca College’s production of The Good Person of Setzuan feels stuck between an exuberant, playful comedy and a dismal drama.

Many of the play’s experimental features detract from its moral consideration: How to be a “good person.” Conversely, many mundane scenes prevent the play from maintaining a surreal, vibrant atmosphere.

Written by the German Bertolt Brecht and adapted by Tonyaward winner Tony Kushner, The Good Person of Setzuan focuses the theme of morality, while also including commentary on Marxism and feminism. Norm Johnson, a professor of movement and scene study at Ithaca College for 25 years, gave the fantastical and exuberant aspects of The Good Person of Setzuan a front seat and crafted an exciting, colorful play. With only 16 cast members, Johnson filled the stage with energy, humor, and activity, though often at the cost of the play’s message.

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The Good Person of Setzuan focuses on the gods’ search for a single good person in the Chinese province of Setzuan. The gods find a candidate in Shen Te (junior, Kyra Leeds), a kind-hearted, morally-conscious prostitute and reward her with a thousand silver coins. The generous gift, however, invites a host of other characters, all of whom hope to somehow benefit from Shen Te’s wealth.

The play then explodes into a flurry of activity — a failed marriage, Shen Te’s invention of a fake cousin, a successful tobaccosorting industry.

The most effective parts of the play, however, occur in strippeddown scenes, featuring only a few characters and a simple message.

The water-seller Wang’s (Evan Arbour, a senior at Ithaca College) simple song about his inability to find buyers in the rain beautifully reveals his desperation, cynicism and futility. Shen Te’s confession to the gods in an emptied courtroom better explains the difficulty trouble of being a good person than all of the scenes of her busily weighing demands from the other townspeople.

Unfortunately, such scenes compose the majority of The Good Person of Setzuan. Multiple scenes served only to evidence the moral quandary that Shen Te faced regarding whether to kick acquaintances out of her tobacco shop or not, to a point of repetitiveness.

Furthermore, much of the world play and symbolism of the play fell flat. Characters cracked jokes about Shen Te, a prostitute, “never saying no,” and “easily giving it up,” enough times that the joke felt played out and contrived. In one scene, Shen Te comforts Yang Sun (Michael Sullivan, a junior), who feels despondent about his inability to find work as a pilot, by telling a story about how she had a pet crane with a broken wing that also could not fly. The story about the crane felt emblematic of the show as a whole — largely favoring obvious and extreme scenes over subtlety.

Characters introduce interesting dramaturgical devices only to desert them for the rest of the play. As viewers entered the theatre, actor Eric Shaum, grad, asked people to write down the names of “good people” with chalk on to his sandwich board. I loved the creativity of this element, and its engagement of the audience, but the sandwich board then sat off to a side of the stage for the rest of the show.

A few actors stood out for their nuanced or humorous perfor-

mances. Notably, Evan Arbour’s performance as Wang effectively conveyed his shame and, often physical, pain of trying to succeed in an economically and morally poor city. Kyra Leeds presented a powerful performance of Shen Te and her alter-ego, Shui Ta — a fabricated cousin. Leeds’ transformation from Shen Te to Shui Ta, aided only by a pair of glasses, top hat, and overcoat, felt so complete that I forgot that the same actress portrayed both characters.

Although secondary characters, grad student Matt Ryan’s, performance as the barber Shu Fu and sophomore Paul Hogan’s performance as the grandfather provided enjoyable comic relief in a complex and confusing show. Although passionately portrayed, many of the other characters presented as so unwaveringly greedy and reprehensible that they blended into one scheming mass.

Many of the other dramatic aspects of The Good Person of Setzuan, however, perfectly fit with the crowded, raucous atmosphere. Containing original compositions and arrangements by musical director Joel Gelpe, the score jilted and bounced along, conveying the everyday misbehavior and ostentatiousness of the fictional Setzuan’s residents.

Costume designer Ashlynne Abraham produced an amazing wardrobe for the cast. Abraham, a senior, fitted all characters with eclectic and flamboyant costumes while still maintaining their individual looks. Even while sporting tropical print shorts, Shu Fu still looked distinguished in his leather jacket and spats. An enormous, hodge-podge overcoat alone transformed Shen Te from a shy, well-meaning prostitute to a powerful business mogul.

In the end, the strength of Ithaca College’s production of The Good Person of Setzuan does not come from a strong conveyance of the complexities of being a “good person.” Rather, viewers will enjoy the play the most if they focus on the excellence of the score, the uniqueness of its experimental elements and the beauty of the costuming.

The Good Person of Setzuan has three shows remaining in its run, including evening shows at 8:00 p.m. tonight and tomorrow night and a matinee show tomorrow at 2:00 p.m.

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

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You never know what you’re going to get with music videos. A happy-go-lucky song might have a dark video while a heavy metal song might have a light video. Mikky Ekko’s “Smile” is a mix of both in terms of lyrics and music video. The beginning utilizes a technique that has become common for music videos — the flickering of images that foreshadow the journey of the video. The video combines both daytime and nighttime images which beautifully reflect the alternating gloomy and carefree tones of the song itself.

Beyond the time of day, director Sarah Chatfield (who has directed videos for Lily Allen and Kelly Rowland) cleverly uses light to portray the tug-of-war between the positive and negative in Ekko’s lyrics. One standstill moment is a frame in which Ekko sits in a dark room but a square of light finds him. Yet another visual manifestation of the pull of the song is the mix of reverse and forward action. Though another technique that has been done time and time again, the actual shots are so aesthetically pleasing that it’s challenging to view them through a cynical lense. When just listening to the tempo of “Smile,” it can be mistaken as an average pop song. However, the lyrics reveal the deepness of Ekko’s message. Give the music video an honest watch and give it the same chance.

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— Sydney Lester

Sydney Lester is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She can be reached at skl77@cornell.edu.

In a new and incredibly tantalizing combination, 17 year-old songstress Lorde teams up with the producers of the hotly awaited Hunger Games film, Mockingjay Pt. 1, for the upcoming soundtrack. Lorde released the single “Yellow Flicker Beat” on September 30 in an effort to further entice not only her own fans, but also those of the popular movie franchise. She begins her deep brooding tune with what seems like a description of the “Girl on Fire” turned “Mockingjay.” In a forceful hum: “I’m a princess cut from marble, smoother than a storm / and the scars that mark my body, they’re silver and gold.” Emerging suddenly from the haunting croon of Lorde’s initial poetry, the song detonates into a blazing and brilliant set of pop-synth rhythms in a way that perfectly encapsulates the inner fire of defiant heroine Katniss Everdeen.

In a July interview with Rolling Stone, Lorde speaks of the album-curating process, stating, “The soundtrack for such an anticipated film was a challenge, but I jumped at the chance. The cast and story are an inspiration for all musicians … and being privy to a different creative process has been a unique experience. I think the soundtrack is definitely going to surprise people.”

While Lorde’s upcoming album has yet to declare an official release date, Mockingjay Pt. 1 will crash into theaters on November 21. In “Yellow Flicker Beat’s” parting lyrics, listeners get a taste of Lorde’s dark allure as well as the foreboding nature of one of the next Hunger Games installments — “I got my fingers laced together and I made a little prison,” Lorde purrs, “I’m locking up everyone who ever laid a finger on me.”

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— Madeline Day

Madeline Day is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at mzd4@cornell.edu.

In Defense of ‘Swimming Pools’ and Rust Cohle

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he formation of narratives in cultural critiques related to generational changes affecting entire mediums is a dangerous approach.

I was reminded of this by several stories in the past weeks; notably Evan Needell ’15’s October 3 column in The Cornell Daily Sun “"Oh! Sweet Nuthin’, Don’t Mean Nuthin’ At All," Anita Alur ’17’s September 29 guest column for the Sun, “Tangled up in Auto-Tune” and A.O. Scott’s September 11 New York Times Magazine piece, “The Death of Adulthood in American Culture.” Each piece takes liberties and shortcuts in developing narratives that support the author’s gripe with modern culture — Needell identifies a lack of storytelling in music; Alur targets a loss of musicality and Scott, with a professional critic’s caution, explores the loss of “patriarchs” across a variety of media.

Alur and Needell’s pieces can largely be considered together, as they share similar theses and rely on similar arguments, centered on a very nostalgic remembrance for older music. They also make some of the same mistakes, with failures to define and limit the scope of their narratives resulting in perilously weak commentaries. I feel that the juxtaposition between old and new is constructed in a way that is significantly more black and white than fair- like most things, generational growth in culture exists in shades of grey. This binary classifying gives way to a narrative formation that is reflective of the self-fulfilling nature of bad sports journalismKobe is clutch because I remember a few big

shots, forget about what the stats say.

Similarly, if we sift through a 40 year catalogue and compare it directly to music released within the last year, proclaiming that history’s musicians were more artistic and had more meaningful songs is redundant.

I find the idea that something is inherently better because of some archaic standard to be upsetting and too elitist for a thorough analysis. As a fan of hip hop, this is something I frequently encounter, especially in conversations about artists like Waka Flocka Flame. Waka is certainly not for everyone, but the blanket refusal of many culture enthusiasts to acknowledge that he has made significant contributions to music is really upsetting to me. Similarly, you do not need to love music that is being made currently, but rejecting it as without value is flawed.

A.O. S c o t t’s piece only briefly Patten mentions music, Pending focusing more on television, film, literature and even American History in his discussion. He quickly springboards from a discussion of Don Draper’s anticipated death into a tale of the death of Great Men (my semi-ironic words) from a “post-patriarchal” American Culture.

He identifies the “Death of Adulthood” as the reduction of adult men in the arts, based on

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everything from literature (largely dominated by females and young adult novels) to the unending stream of bro-comedies that find the actors reverting to “childish” behavior.

Scott’s argument does rely largely on a very selected interpretation of what is “Adulthood.” For example, after designating “Tony [Soprano], Walter [White] and Don [Draper] as the last of the patriarchs,” he quickly dispenses the men of House of Cards and True Detective by calling them “angryman, antihero dramas that too many critics reflexively identify as quality television.”

In general however, Scott is careful to never come to too strong a conclusion. While an admitted sense of loss runs throughout the piece, it is notably vacant of any of the sweeping generalizations that characterize The Sun pieces. This allows him to form a stronger critique (or at least one without gaping holes), but it also leads to a lack of fulfillment. You may disagree with Scott’s narrative, but you still read the entire piece anticipating a firm ending; he refuses to deliver. At least Needell and Alur have the gumption to make an assessment.

All three pieces suffer from another similar, overarching issue: Have we not been here before? Complaining about modern music is a pastime that certainly extends back to the

Beatles (and probably well before!). Scott’s piece may seem more original, but cruder versions where a less politically correct reviewer frets about the direction of society with a previously underprivileged group having more input are as old as America itself.

“Adulthood” is certainly better developed and more nuanced than that, but it still is permeated by a nostalgia for a very specific type of character: the patriarchal male.

To me, this is the point where even the most concise of generational narrative, especially with culture, breaks down. History has shown us that it is almost impossible to understand what is happening in real time, generation to generation. Our recency bias is too strong, out interpretations too disturbed by minor changes. Generation after generation of conservative gatekeepers have critiqued culture and youth for their failures, only to be proven wrong as culture realigns or society adjusts. Ultimately, regardless of your qualifications, making value judgments on the direction of a growing generation is a fool’s errand.

Calvin Patten is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com. Patten Pending runs alternate Fridays this semester.

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Coming off of its first loss of the season at the hands of Penn, the Red (6-3-1) is looking to rebound this Saturday when it travels to Cambridge to face the Harvard Crimson (6-3-0). The Crimson is currently riding a six game winning streak after dropping its first three games.

Against Penn, the Red dominated the game throughout, winning the shot differential, 12-8, and maintaining the majority of possession. The defense did its job as well, holding the high-powered Quaker offense to just two shots on goal. Senior captain Devin Morgan continued to make plays on the back line, including a goalsaving tackle on Penn forward Duke Lacroix. Ultimately, it was a free kick goal scored by Penn midfielder Forrest Clancy in the 35th minute that proved to be the game winner for the Quakers.

“We had more chances and played well, but Penn still was able to come out on top,” said captain Devin Morgan. “When we have that many chances on goal, we have to score.”

The Red will look to make that breakthrough this Saturday against Harvard. The Crimson had a rough start to the season, dropping its first three games by a collective score of 6-2. Since then, the team has rattled off six straight victories, scoring 17 goals in the process. Most recently, the men defeated Yale by a score of 1-0 to open their Ivy League campaign.

Harvard is averaging 19.4 shots per game, and has scored 19 goals in its nine games. It is also a deep team, with a variety of players at all positions. Against Yale, the Crimson had eight different players get a shot off, while also going eight players deep on the bench rotation.

The matchup will be the Red back line against the high powered offense of the Crimson.

The Red defense has been a valuable asset. Anchored by senior captain Peter Chodas and Morgan, it has continued to make plays both on the back line and when it pushes into the offensive third. Chodas recorded the most shot attempts for the Red against Penn with three, while Morgan, prior to the Penn game, was coming off of two games in which he registered the game winning goal.

“Our objective is still to win the Ivy League. Moving forward we have to maintain our focus and capitalize when given the opportunity,” Morgan said. “We will continue to improve, and will be ready to go against Harvard.”

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“We did not want to start the way we did, but there is plenty of the Ivy League season to play,” he said.

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positive mindset it needs to return to Schoellkopf for homecoming weekend.

After an 0-3 start and a 51-13 “We expect to win,” said senior shellacking by Yale last weekend, co-captain and wide receiver Lucas the football team will not get a Shapiro. “I think those are our reprieve when it heads to expectations going into every Cambridge this weekend to face game; we are confident in our abiloff against the defending ities, in each other, and Ivy League champs. in our game plan.”

Football Harvard has run Harvard’s highthrough the competition powered offense feain two of its first three Cornell tures two capable wins, scoring a combined quarterbacks who have 75 points against Holy combined for a 75 Cross and Georgetown. percent completion The Crimson, who boasts rate so far this the seavs. the second best offense son. Junior Scott and the top-ranked Hosch has seen the defense in the Ivy League, majority of the snaps, will propose a challenge throwing for 617 yards on both fronts to a and two touchdowns.

Harvard Cornell team that has The real sparkplug struggled with defending of the offense, though, Saturday, 1 p.m. the pass and finding the has been senior runCambridge, Mass. end zone through the first ning back Andrew three games.

Casten. With seven “Every week is a battle touchdowns, he is tied and this game will be nothing less for first in the conference and his than that,” said fifth-year senior 325 yards on the ground is good co-captain and defensive lineman for second. The Red’s defense will Justin Harris. “Harvard is a great need to focus in on limiting team and we match up well with Casten’s yards in order to stay in them and we are excited about the the game. chance to play our best game yet “Casten is off to a great start but and take down the defending we know that our game plan will champs.” be to shut him down,” Harris said.

Winning is certainly on the “Stopping the run game starts at minds of the Red. A victory over the point of attack, the line of Harvard would put the Red in the scrimmage. Therefore our defenSun Sports Editor

sive line is going to dominate the line of scrimmage.”

As far as the Red’s offense goes, though, it has been a struggle to put points on the scoreboard.

Cornell ranks second to last in the conference in total offense and dead last in pass offense. Junior quarterback James Few was 6-for15 with a touchdown in his first start back, after some shoulder soreness last weekend.

“We did a great job last week not hurting ourselves with penalties, but we still had too many mental mistakes, whether that be reads, or block assignments or finding the right gap,” Shapiro said. “We are definitely focusing on fine-tuning those points this week.”

Shapiro and junior running back Luke Hagy have provided the bulk of the offense, but sophomore wide receiver Collin Shaw has been a welcomed surprise this year as well. He is leading the team with 11 catches for 131 yards on the season.

“Collin is a great young player.

He is only a sophomore and he has a lot of potential,” Shapiro said.

“He is becoming a leader within the offense, both on the field and in the meeting rooms. … He is definitely a playmaker on the offensive side of the ball and someone that we look to get the ball to.”

The two teams on opposite rungs of the Ivy League ladder will

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Touching down | Junior running back Luke Hagy has helped to anchor the Red’s offense this season.

face off at 1 p.m. on Saturday in a nationally televised game on Fox College Sports. While the Red comes in without a win to speak of, Shapiro said the team can gain motivation from the fans at home.

“In a sense we are coming in as an underdog. No one expects us to win after our performance against Yale, so it is a little more motiva-

tion,” he said. “The game against Harvard is also somewhat of a rivalry. It’s always a fun game when you get to go into someone else’s stadium, in front of their fans, in the midst of an undefeated season and have the chance to beat them.”

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

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CORNELL V. HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

CORNELL

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

HARVARD

DARTMOUTH V. YALE

YALE

DARTMOUTH

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

YALE

PENN V. FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

FORDHAM

PENN

FORDHAM

AUBURN V. MISSISSIPPI STATE

AUBURN

AUBURN

MISSISSIPPI

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

AUBURN

GEORGIA TECH V. DUKE

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

GEORGIA T,

OREGON V. UCLA

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

OREGON

PATRIOTS V. BILLS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

PATRIOTS

BEARS V. FALCONS

BEARS

BEARS

BEARS

FALCONS

BEARS

FALCONS

BEARS

FALCONS

BEARS

FALCONS

SEAHAWKS V. COWBOYS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

SEAHAWKS

COWBOYS

SEAHAWKS

GIANTS V. EAGLES

GIANTS

EAGLES

EAGLES

GIANTS

GIANTS

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

EAGLES

LAST WEEK

6-4

5-5

7-3

6-4

5-5

7-3

5-5

5-5

9-1

6-4

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18-12

20-10

20-10

17-3

19-11

21-9

20-10

18-12

18-12

22-8