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Cornell TCAT Payments ToIncrease by $1.25M

Annual payments to rise gradually over three years

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Cornell will increase its payment to the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit by $1.25 million over the next three years, President David Skorton said in a letter to TCAT released Monday.

The announcement follows months of student activism in support of TCAT and comes as a compromise after Skorton said in May that Cornell could not subsidize TCAT further to address its $740,000 deficit.

The University currently pays the organization $2.6 million annually for rides made with Cornell IDs, amounting to a $0.83 per ride subsidy.

In order to increase this number, the

University will pay TCAT an extra $250,000 in the 2016 fiscal year, with additional increases of $125,000 for both the 2017 and 2018 fiscal years, Skorton said, bringing the annual payment to $3.1 million by 2018.

Payment amounts after 2018 will be determined by a memorandum of understanding that the University hopes to sign with the TCAT Board of Directors, according to Skorton.

According to Alderperson Seph Murtagh (D-2nd Ward), who is also TCAT’s board secretary and treasurer, the MOU will create a “sustainable funding model” that ties Cornell’s payments to the cost of student ridership.

The additional payments, however, may not be enough for the University to reach

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Making my way downtown | Annual payments to TCAT after fiscal year 2018 will be determined by a memorandum of understanding, according to President David Skorton.

the $1 per ride figure originally requested by the TCAT Board of Directors during its Aug. 28 meeting.

From 2008 to 2013, Cornell ridership increased by 31.5 percent from approximately 2.4 million to 3.13 million rides, according to TCAT. If Cornell ridership

Fuchs Finalist for Univ.

Of Florida Presidency

— which currently accounts for 71 percent of all TCAT ridership — continues to increase, the added $500,000 by fiscal year 2018 will not bring Cornell’s payments to $1 per ride made.

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$3.2 billion

Amount generated by Cornell in economic activity in the State of New York during fiscal year 2013.

Selection will be announced Wednesday

By ANNIE BUI

addressed to family and friends of the university. Both assemblies were open to the public.

Provost Kent Fuchs has been Fuchs and McLaughlin will named one of two contenders also meet with the University of to become the 12th president of Florida’s Board of Trustees the University of Florida, Wednesday morning, according according to Steven Scott, chair to Scott. The meeting will be of the University of Florida followed by finalist interviews President Search conducted at the Committee. university’s Emerson If selected, Fuchs Alumni Hall and will head a research the selection of the institution with an president-elect, enrollment of more which will be than 50,000 stuannounced at a dents, 4,200 fullpress conference time faculty memlater in the day. bers and an annual Fuchs’ career at revenue of approxiCornell has spanned FUCHS mately $4.4 billion. more than a decade, The University of according to his Florida boasts 16 colleges, two biography. He has served as the academic health centers, the University’s provost since Institute of Food and January 2009 and previously Agricultural Sciences and more served as the Joseph Silbert than 150 research centers and Dean of Engineering from 2002 institutes. to 2008.

Fuchs, along with competiAs provost, Fuchs serves as tor David McLaughlin — Cornell’s chief academic officer provost of New York University and chief operations officer, — attended faculty and campus according to the University. His community assemblies Monday night, Scott said in the letter See FUCHS page 5 Sun News Editor

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Economic engine | According to a report released by the Division of Budget and Planning, the University’s economic impact on the State of New York has increased since the 2009 fiscal year.

Report: Univ.Generates Over $3B for NYS

By SUN STAFF

Cornell generated more than $3.2 billion in economic activity in the State of New York through its employment, purchasing and construction expenditures during the 2013 fiscal year, according to a report released by the University Tuesday.

The report, created by the Division of Budget and Planning, claims that the University’s economic impact

has increased since the 2009 fiscal year — the last time a similar analysis was conducted.

The authors of the report analyzed both Cornell’s direct and indirect impact on different economies, measuring factors including expenditures and spending by its employees.

In Tompkins County, where 60 percent of Cornell’s jobs are held, the University generated $1.2 billion in economic activity during fiscal

year 2013, according to the report.

“Cornell continues to be a leading economic engine for the state,” said Joel Malina, vice president for University relations, in a statement. “As we celebrate the University’s sesquicentennial, we are re-committed to Cornell's long-standing, multidimensional relationship with New York, not only as one of the See REPORT page 5

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Brian and Susan Trost bought the $450,000 home overlooking two golf holes at Whitmoor Country Club in Weldon Spring in October 2007 and soon afterward started seeing brown recluse spiders everywhere, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. Once when showering, Susan Trost dodged a spider as it fell from the ceiling and washed down the drain.

Parrot Missing for Years Returns Speaking Spanish TORRANCE, Calif. (AP) — A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner — and the bird now speaks Spanish.

The reunion was brought about by a Southern California veterinarian who mistook Nigel, an African gray parrot, for her own missing bird, the Daily Breeze reported Sunday.

Teresa Micco tracked Nigel's microchip to Darren Chick, a Brit who lives in Torrance.

“I introduced myself and said, ‘Have you lost a bird?’”

Micco told the newspaper. “He initially said, ‘No.’ But he thought I meant recently.”

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Startup Aims to Improve Online Sharing

Feel it in the air

Cornellians evaluate marketing options, plans to expand Daapr platform

By CHRISTOPHER BYRNS Sun Contributor

The social media startup company Daapr — cofounded

by Cornellians Alex Meyers ’15 and Aaron Schifrin ’14 in April 2013 — has grown beyond its initial testing phase and has begun marketing its platform to a broader audience in efforts to spread a “new way to personalize the online experience.”

According to Schifrin, Daapr’s chief executive officer, the company’s aim is to change the culture around reading and sharing content on the internet. Daapr’s website is an aggregator that allows users to select from a list of interests to determine “Daapr is a collaborative effort the content displayed on amongst a diverse group of their profiles and also idenCornell students. ... The key tifies others is that each individual brings with similar a unique perspective and interests to follow. skillset to the table.”

Meyers Alex Meyers ’15 and Schifrin said they saw problems with existing social media and thought of Daapr as a way to create an improved social media platform. They also said they noticed a stigma of sharing content on existing social media platforms, where people felt too uncomfortable to share content or engage in discussion, and a dispersal of content across a large number of social media platforms.

“Social media is disaggregating,” Schifrin said. “People are [increasingly] turning to single function platforms where they know they have an audience for a particular type of content.”

According to the cofounders, Daapr seeks to create an environment where users feel more comfortable to share content because they share it with friends and people of

similar interests. Through this environment, the creators said they hope that the platform — which targets “the TED Talk watcher” — will foster deeper and more meaningful discussions.

“At this point, our user base is primarily composed of intellectually engaged college students and young professionals,” Schifrin said.

Currently, the developers are evaluating feedback from users to improve the startup’s website experience and are testing to see if the systems can handle a larger user base.

Schifrin said that challenges exist in trying to make the platform appeal to a large audience, but that the student community at Cornell provides an “ideal” essential test market because of the variety of different majors across students and a desire for communication across disciplines.

“Cornell is an ideal community to test and begin growing a platform like this,” Schifrin said.

According to the developers, Daapr took its present shape in Sept. 2013, when the developers switched to programming with Ruby on Rails. Since then, they have assembled a team of Cornell students who work on Daapr.

“Daapr is a collaborative effort amongst a diverse group of Cornell students,” said Meyers, who is Daapr’s chief technology officer. “Some team members work on building the site, others design and market the platform. The key is that each individual brings a unique perspective and skillset to the table that helps to grow the product and the team."

The POPSHOP — a collaborative student-run workplace in Collegetown — has also been an invaluable resource in creating Daapr, according to the developers. At the POPSHOP, the team meets at least twice a week to plan the next sprint cycle and to write code.

According to the developers, the POPSHOP also provides an “open” environment where the Daapr programmers can discuss ideas with other programmers and broaden their perspectives.

“The POPSHOP has been critical for Daapr in both

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creating a convenient and open working environment for the team,” Meyers said. “[Additionally, it] foster[s] a community of young entrepreneurs that work and grow together."

In addition, the developers said they are fortunate to have access to the eLab through Cornell.

“Cornell makes a real effort to give student entrepreneurs everything they need to succeed,” Schifrin said.

Christopher Byrns can be reached at ecb222@cornellsun.com.

Prof Works to Increase Virtual Teaching Initiatives

By MATTHEW MARON Sun Contributor

Prof. Sheryl Kimes, hotel administration — the University’s fourth annual Menschel Fellow — said she is seeking to increase virtual teaching initiatives and online collaboration opportunities for students at Cornell.

Kimes, who was named as the 2014-15 Menschel Scholar by Cornell’s Center for Teaching Excellence at the beginning of the semester, said each fellow works on a specific project to enhance undergraduate education at Cornell.

For her project, Kimes said she plans to create programs that will implement virtual collaboration and virtual teaching at the University.

“Cornell has a big push for internalization,” she said. “You may do a semester abroad but some students cannot [because] they do not have the money or have the time to go abroad. What I want to do is [figure out] how you can create something where students can have a virtual international experience.”

Through virtual lectures over video conferencing software from professors in other countries or from students collaborating with non-profits in less developed countries, Kimes said she feels that Cornellians have much to gain by utilizing virtual teaching and collaboration technology.

“All of you are going to end up working in some sort of a virtual team in your future,” she said. “Whether [it is] working with people around the country, or …

Crumpets on the quad

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Paul Jackson ’15, Jesse Garcia ’16, Julian Whitman ’15 and Alex Schord ’16 of the marching and pep bands play Crumpets, a game that involves a ball and plastic wiffle bats.

working with people around the world, it’s very important to learn how to do that.”

Kimes — who said students should be introduced to virtual interaction — also said she anticipates that most students will end up working in virtual environments in the next 10 to 15 years.

Kimes said she hopes that all Cornell professors will be able to integrate virtual collaboration into their classrooms.

“I want to come up with a replicable approach to [virtual teaching and collaboration] so that anyone on campus can do something like this,” she said. “How do you go about selecting another school to work with, what type of technology do you use [and] how do you get [pilot programs] going?,” she said.

In addition to publicly-available software such as Skype, Kimes said she plans to use technology such as Cisco’s WebEx and service called Zoom to help students collaborate with each other.

Over her teaching career, Kimes said she had the opportunity to work internationally. In 2008, she taught a course in Singapore as part of a joint master’s degree program with Nanyang Technological University.

“I was in Singapore so I taught [the course] from there and I had students here [in Ithaca],” she said. “The students here had no professor in the room besides me on the screen.”

Though she was thousands of miles away in Singapore, Kimes said she was still able to virtually interact with her students in Ithaca.

When asked if she thought virtual teaching could detract from the teaching experience, Kimes said she has found an increased amount of participation in virtual classrooms than in regular classes.

“The level of participation was much higher in terms of the quality,” she said.

Matthew Maron can be reached at mlm378@cornell.edu.

Local South Hill Neighbors On Alert as Coyote Sightings Increase

Coyote attacks on small pets have increased in frequency on South Hill over the last couple of years, with coyote presence reaching an all-time high in the last few months, according to The Ithaca Times.

Cornell Wildlife Specialist Paul Curtis said that the increased presence is due to a change in coyote behavior rather than an increase in their population.

Ithaca Beer Expansion Gets Green Light

The town of Ithaca Planning Board has approved expansion plans for Ithaca Beer Company, located off of Route 13. The plan proposes a 23,800 square-foot addition, which would allow the brewery to triple its production, according to The Ithaca Times.

National Alaska Holds Its First Known Gay Marriage

A magistrate in Barrow, Alaska — the nation’s northernmost community, and one that cannot be reached by road — has performed what is believed to be the state’s first gay marriage ceremony days ahead of schedule after a federal judge struck down the state’s ban, according to The Associated Press.

— Compiled by Talia Jubas

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Annual TCAT Payment to Reach $3.1 Million by 2018 TCAT

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In his letter, Skorton said the University’s contributions alone cannot help the bus service achieve a long-term, sustainable solution.

TCAT will need to conduct a “comprehensive review” of its operations and “any potential sources of funding” — including revenues from Tompkins County’s mortgage recording tax — Skorton said.

Skorton has also asked Cornell’s Transportation Services to establish a task force that will help the administration identify ways to create a sustainable funding model.

This task force will include students, who have recently launched several protests against the University’s initial decision to not increase its TCAT payments, according to Skorton.

Murtagh said he was “really glad” about the University’s decision.

“A lot of work went into this on behalf of multiple parties, and I understand it wasn’t an easy decision to make,” Murtagh said. “I believe our hope is to get the MOU hammered out quickly, within the next few months, so that the MOU is in place at the start of TCAT’s next fiscal year.”

TCAT General Manager Joe Turcotte said he thanks Skorton for his “commitment to help maintaining the excellent level of service” that TCAT provides.

“We applaud both President Skorton as well as a delegation of our board members … for all sitting down together to figure out ways to help us maintain what has been a highly successful transit operation,” Turcotte said. “We believe [Skorton’s] suggestion to create a task force made up of a broad representation of the University is a great step in the right direction.”

According to Frank Howells, a TCAT bus driver and unit negotiating chair for the United Auto Workers, the Cornell student body “made [the annual payment increase] happen.”

“The students helped move the issue forward through their outspoken determination,” Howells said.

In a statement from the Save the Pass Coalition, a group of students and organizations concerned with TCAT funding, Allison Lapehn ’17 said the group was “wary to start celebrating” the decision.

“Although we are pleased that President Skorton has started to make funding the TCAT bus system a priority, the statements released were very vague,” Laphen said. “We from Save the Pass Coalition would like to see an explicit commitment to funding the TCAT bus system that will be sustainable for the long term.”

Daniel Marshall ’15, a member of the Coalition, agreed, adding that he thought Skorton’s announcement is not “the end of this struggle” for students or TCAT workers.

“Until Cornell has made a binding commitment to pay a costneutral amount per ride in the future and TCAT Management has pledged to use that increase in funds to fairly compensate workers for their labor, the situation hasn’t changed,” Marshall said.

“Piecemeal reforms are better than nothing, but it is important to reiterate that only a systemic change in the way that Cornell relates to its workers and local community will solve the problems at hand.”

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

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Provost May Leave Report Outlines C.U.’s Contributions To Head U.of Florida REPORT

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FUCHS

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duties include planning and budgeting for the University, tenure and promotion of faculty and overseeing academic and research initiatives.

The University of Florida’s Board of Trustees authorized the creation of the president search committee this spring. The university’s current president, Bernie Machen, will serve the remainder of his term through the end of 2014.

The search process is the second attempt to replace Machen as president. In 2013, Machen said he would retire but decided to stay at the university days before a successor was chosen, according to The Associated Press.

The University of Florida is offering an annual compensation of anywhere between $950,000 and $1.25 million and is currently building a $5 million mansion to house the new president, according to The Associated Press.

Cornell confirmed Monday afternoon that Fuchs is listed as an applicant on the University of Florida’s presidential search website.

Florida-based firm Greenwood/Asher & Associates, Inc. is assisting the University of Florida’s Board in Trustees in their presidential search.

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

CDC: Government Could Have Done More on Ebola FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The nation’s top disease-fighting agency acknowledged Tuesday that federal health experts failed to do all they should have done to prevent Ebola from spreading from a Liberian man who died last week in Texas to the nurse who treated him.

The stark admission from the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention came as the World Health Organization projected the pace of infections accelerating in West Africa — to as many as 10,000 new cases a week within two months.

Agency Director Tom Frieden outlined a series of steps designed to stop the spread of the disease in

the United States, including increased training for health care workers and changes at the Texas hospital where the virus was diagnosed to minimize the risk of more infections.

A total of 76 people at the hospital might have had exposure to Thomas Eric Duncan, and all of them are being monitored for fever and other symptoms daily, Frieden said.

That figure confirmed an Associated Press report on Monday that Pham was among about 70 hospital staffers who were involved in Duncan’s care after he was hospitalized, based on medical records provided by Duncan’s family.

10 largest private-sector employers in the state, but through the ongoing fulfillment of its landgrant mission of service, engagement and the betterment of society.”

The report comes on the heels of City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 and other local leaders calling for the University to increase its direct payments to local municipalities. Cornell’s voluntary contributions to the city are outlined in a memorandum of understanding that was written in 1995 and amended in 2003.

Cornell paid over $5 million in taxes to surrounding areas, including $1.59 million to the City of Ithaca, according to the report. In addition, the University voluntarily contributed $5.6 million to organizations in the community, including the Ithaca City School District and the Tompkins Consolidated Area Transit.

Student and Visitor Spending

Students at Cornell’s Ithaca campus spent approximately $203 million on rent, food, books and supplies, health and personal care and health insurance in the 2013 fiscal year, according to the report. Over half of the University’s undergraduates and 85 percent of graduate and professional students live offcampus, contributing to the local economy through rent payments

and purchases from local businesses.

Of the $203 million, students spent $48.3 million alone on food services.

The report also stated that the economic impact of tourism in the Ithaca area pertaining to Cornell-related activity is “significant.” Each visitor spends an average of $214 a day on expenses such as lodging, food and drink, transportation and entertainment.

The main sources of visitors coming to Cornell was attendance at athletic events, campus tours for prospective students, commencement and alumni reunion, according to the report.

Construction Spending

According to the report, Cornell’s Ithaca campus generated $132 million in construction spending for the 2013 fiscal year.

Of that amount, $119 million was generated in New York State, with $95.4 million in Central New York.

Major projects that have been initiated over the past few years have been the Stocking Hall expansion and renovation for the Department of Food Sciences; the construction of Bill and Melinda Gates Hall, the new home of Computing and Information Science; expansions at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and the Cornell Law School; and Klarman Hall, a new building for the humanities on the Arts Quad.

Construction fees provide a

source of revenue for local municipalities, according to the report.

Of the $132 million spent on construction on the Ithaca campus, $46.6 million — or 35 percent — went to contractors located in other counties near campus. $44.4 million, or 34 percent, went to contractors in other Central New York locations.

Only $4.4 million of construction spending went toward contractors located in Tompkins County.

Outside Ithaca And Tompkins County

The Cornell Cooperative Extension produced $450 million in economic activity throughout New York State during the 2013 fiscal year.

In addition, volunteers for the Cooperative Extension participated in 1.1 million hours of community work, benefitting 1.4 million individuals, according to the report.

In New York City, Weill Cornell Medical College paid $639,000 in local taxes during the 2013 fiscal year, according to the report. Cornell Tech, which is currently located in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, was not included in the report because of its size.

Tyler Alicea, Annie Bui, Noah Rankin and Sofia Hu contributed reporting to this story.

The Sun’s news department can be reached at news@cornellsun.com.

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he Jack-O-Lantern — Dartmouth’s have limits, and the returns we get to creative preeminent school humor magazine thought is, in fact, decreasing. Dr. Seuss, the — is a publication that, like The Sun, The Mindy Project and all the creativity that has a ton of history. Wikipedia, the definitive they represent, must be able to give this ecojudge of any noteworthy noun, lists some nomic principle a run for its money.

Many things are linked to creativity — pretty incredible people who have written for the magazine over the course of its 106-year scientific research, music, the latest touchhistory. One of the principal writers of down dance, etc. Sensibly, creative thought Animal House, Chris Miller, cracked his first and production builds on pre-existing inforjokes in the Lantern. Mindy Kaling, known mation. We do not create the same television for her portrayal of Kelly Kapoor on The shows year after year, or make the same scienOffice — the squeaky, Indian, back-of-the- tific discoveries. Rather, we build upon what office-makeout, woman-child — wrote for we know and what has existed in the past. In the magazine too. Theodore Geisel was even the case of scientific knowledge, the first disthe Editor in Chief during the roaring ’20s. coveries were, for lack of better terms, pretty Who is this man you may ask? To answer this awesome. Aristotle, Newton and Galileo question, I begin with a story. One prohibi- rocked the world in their abilities to decontion-era night, Geisel and his buddies were struct physical phenomenon into patterned caught drinking gin in a dorm room. Seeing observations.

But has the production of science, an as Dartmouth was, and still is, a learned institution with little tolerance for youthful arguably creative output, diminished in its debauchery, Geisel was promptly punished, output in recent history, as would be suggestand his duties as editor for the magazine were ed by economic theory? Some would say yes. relinquished. But, being a bold and cunning The selective inhibition of a protein may young man, Geisel evaded this discipline by seem exceedingly trivial compared to the thecontinuing to publish his work under his ory of gravity. But, as knowledge accumulates mother’s maiden name, Seuss. The rest is his- through seemingly inconsequential discoveries, it can ultimatetory. ly lead towards In my mind, I something so prowould imagine the I would imagine the rhyme found and impactrhyme probably went something like probably went something like this: ful that it rivals the “first units of outthis: Me and my Me and my friends, were drinking put.” These small can friends, were one night. / The dean walked in, discoveries eventually build drinking one night. and gave us a fright! / He shouted towards something that can compete The dean and he pouted, he jumped and in value with the walked in, and answer to why gave us a fright! bumped. / We got in trouble, it’s apples fall from He shouted easy to see. / But when push trees. Could a cure and he pouted, he for all cancerous jumped and comes to shove, he could not growth be as bumped. groundbreaking as We got in deep outsmart me! the theory of gravtrouble, it’s easy to ity? see.

Creative output could be a unique examBut when push came to shove, he ple of something that is not enslaved to the could not outsmart me!

It’s ironic to think that this influential theory of scarcity. More importantly, it is children’s author was at one point in his life, something that flourishes even when, under a writer for the Lantern and a frat boy (the conventional thought, we might be in a subSigma Phi Epsilon fraternity) at Dartmouth. optimal situation. A 2009 MIT economic Like a freshman with a hidden bottle of review proved that under situations in which vodka in their Donlon closet, Dr. Seuss and we are constrained by resource limitations, we his shenanigans prove that the times haven’t thrive in terms of creativity. After the 2008 changed. But as incongruous as this specific recession, employees of companies in a finanstory may be with his professional work, we’ll cial bind were forced to utilize the right sides always know Seuss as a boundlessly imagina- of their brain; they found their creative juices tive writer. Known as the penman of The Cat flowing like never before. A relatively new in the Hat, originator of The Grinch charac- field of innovation economics is trying to ter, and inventor of the term “nerd” (thanks tackle these questions and develop a new Wikipedia), Dr. Seuss’ whimsical mind has framework that emphasizes the role of creativity and innovation in growth. So maybe permeated throughout American culture.

What would have become of the world if economics won’t be the villain for long.

The value of creativity and its unique Geisel had submitted to “Dean Wormer” after his drinking incident, called it a day and nature can be a justification for higher educaended his affiliation with the Jack-O- tion, and, perhaps just as importantly, a wellLantern? A world without green eggs and rounded education. Intellectualism provides ham? Where Thing 1 and Thing 2 are no the foundation for creative thought, and a longer ubiquitous Halloween costumes? multifaceted perspective allows problems to While this thought experiment is provoking, be attacked from multiple fronts. Engineers and admittedly a little arbitrary, Dr. Seuss’s — who panic at the thought of a reading unique capability for charting new imagina- assignment like a teenager discovering a pimtive territory shows the power of creativity ple on their forehead on prom night — have much to gain from expanding their frontiers and its limitless nature.

Creativity is a universal superpower, giv- of thought beyond linear algebra and C++. In ing the mind the ability to be stretched like a an era of super-specialization, there are piece of Silly Putty. Creative thought some- undoubtedly pressures to keep one’s head times defies what we think is true in the down and focus on a given area of expertise. world. But just as Peter Pan had Captain While creativity and innovation is quite easy Hook, every heroic figure, or entity, must to romanticize, a limited perspective — have a villain. In the case of creativity, the vil- absent of any creativity — will ultimately lead lain is economics. The root of this economic to the dreaded diminishing returns. Flexible nemesis is the idea of diminishing returns. thinking and a Seussical, Lantern-esque For each increment of effort put into some- approach will allow us to hurdle over the limthing, less is produced. A fundamental com- itations we may confront in life, and embrace ponent of economics — the study of not hav- the creative. ing enough stuff — this theory is quite powerful and frustratingly futile.

Creativity, the emblem of unrestrained Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human thought, is being directly opposed by the Ecology. He can be reached at snotty, intellectual jargon of economics. pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind Creativity, diminishing returns argues, does appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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OPINION

Teresa Kim |

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Comment Finding of the day A Fair Formula Her Meneutics

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aving a younger sibling means that you will eventually be confronted with the task to proofread his or her essays for college admission. And with this task comes the inevitable introspection process that ensues from revisiting your own Common App essays.

Mind you, as a senior, I’ve already been doing my fair share of introspection (mostly in the form of writing resumes). But confronting your 16-year-old self opens a whole ‘nother can of worms. Here’s an excerpt from my essay for admission in 2010: “We will never know what greatness could have emerged from the group of people left behind. But I want to know.”

Besides the fact that I was clearly vulnerable to the overly dramatic style of writing that many teenagers like to write their juvenile prose in (too much Shakespeare and Tumblr reblogs of inspirational quotes with sunset backgrounds can do that to you), I have found comfort in the fact that one sentence still resonates with myself almost five years later, that is, my interest in history, specifically that of film and literature.

But that’s it: only one sentence in an essay with a 2,000 character limit.

And I can’t disregard the lengthy context in which this singular sentence finds itself. With the help of many marketable metaphors, my 16-year-old self continues to write about how life-changing Event A and Event B led her to her intention to enter law school upon graduating from college. In fact, 16-yearold Teresa insists that there is no other way for her to accomplish Life Goal No. 1 if she did not go to law school.

I wonder if 16-year-old me knew how strong the winds of fate could be, landing me in the Comparative Literature and Film department at Cornell and how completely content I would be in these departments, well on my way to not going to law school.

And of all the places on campus, I write this column in the newly constructed wing of Cornell Law School while watching prospective students and

Don’t fall into the trap of believing who you are on paper. Yes, sell yourself. But you don’t have to tire over trying to make yourself matter in a sea of thousands of applicants. their families traverse the courtyard with looks of awe and confusion. The campus itself is dripping with history. Murals and ivy adorn the walls at every corner. And above me stands a portrait of a well-suited, white male I know absolutely nothing about, besides the probable fact that he financially endowed the school generously enough to be able to hold a portrait in Myron Taylor Hall.

I wonder if he knew that the Law School would add a stylish, glass exterior to the school’s brick foundation all these years later. I wonder if he knew that a female president would one day preside over the school. I wonder if the future he envisioned extended beyond the next five years. Because mine certainly didn’t.

So with this, I write a letter to my little brother: Dear B, I’m inclined to make this letter a woeful description of today’s admission process. But I won’t. The topic of college admission reformation is exhausted and you would do better to heed some practical advice.

The nature of the admission process remains the same as it was for me four years back (and it doesn’t seem like it will change much in the future). They want you to sound like a hot commodity and be slick while you do it.

Committees — although they popularizing the idea that they don’t — still prioritize numerical stats over other pieces of personal data in your application.

But it seems like you’ve got your numbers down, so now it’s time to write your essays.

Like your application, your essays should make you look like a shiny gem that your potential school would want to collect. Yes, the process very much makes you feel belittled and will be one of the few instances in your life when you will be objectified as a male. But more on that later (if you aren’t already tired of my gender rants at home).

While writing your essay, think twice about how you envision yourself to be in the future. When I was writing my essays, I made myself to believe that I was a ruthlessly acquiescent to recognized modes of success (MBA, medical school, law school, etc.) and ignorant to other forms of success — that is, finding friends you can shamelessly watch reality bridal shows with or making a perfect latte.

The whole admission process forces you to take on a personality that is determinedly rigid to win. And sadly, this is the same mindset that most students enter university with. Even more so for Ivy League students.

Don’t fall into the trap of believing who you are on paper. Yes, sell yourself.

But you don’t have to tire over trying to make yourself matter in a sea of thousands of applicants. Even if it isn’t to the the folks at Cambridge, you already matter without condensing yourself into an Ivy league admission formula. So adhere to the formula — but don’t believe in it.

Your overly dramatic sister, Teresa Teresa Kim is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tkim@cornellsun.com. Her Meneutics appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

“Cornell has been accused of many many evils, but encouraging vehicular traffic is not one of them. The A and B parking lots are specifically designed to discourage employees from driving on campus—there are TCAT shuttles to those lots all day long, and employees can use them for free. An on-campus parking permit is really just a hunting license with no guarantee of success. The challenges faced by students who want to bring a car to Ithaca are legendary.”

CollegeTownie Re: “Cornellians March in TCAT Teach-In,” News published October 7, 2014

Sarah Byrne |

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Let It Byrne

On Having A Favorite Book

y dog, if he were a Every year for my birthday, person, would be the my dad buys me the number of type of person who books correspondent to the constantly laughs really loudly years I’ve been alive. I have two in a group situation so that giant bookshelves in my room, everyone will look at him. He full of these novels marking my would have asthma, but refuse years of life. I have books in to go to the doctor because it piles on the floor, too many to “only hurts when he breathes.” fit on the shelves. I learned to He would love hiking but hate read when I was two, and I’ve “exercising.” He would hang read hundreds, maybe even up posters of the Rolling thousands of books since. I’ve Stones on his wall and pretend spent way too large a portion not to know new bands. of my life reading to be considHonestly though, I would ered a healthy, normal person. probably still love him if I But when people ask me, “what knew him as a human, because is your favorite book?” I freeze. he would be exactly the type of Of course, this is not unusual boisterous, just-rude-enough- for me, that I would awkwardto-still-be-cute person I could ly not know what to say when grow to love. someone asks me a question.

My sister starts every con- This is for a different reason: versation with, “ w h a t ’s y o u r It is her litmus test for the world f a v o r i t e — if someone will care about her m ov i e ? ” answers instead of focusing on Or at l e a s t their own — and it is hardly most of ever passed. them.

The others she starts with a similar It’s because I know, like my sisquestion — like favorite book ter, that they are asking to gain — but movies are her thing, so an insight into who I am — she judges people deeply based whether I’m a crazy lunatic on their movie preference. It is (never trust anyone whose deceptively difficult to answer favorite book is American these types of questions, these Psycho) or a romantic (likewise declarations of preference for with anything by Nicholas this or that. In second grade, I Sparks). knew exactly what my favorite There are some types of food was, my favorite toy, my people who you know you’ll best friend. Between then and just get along with. For examnow, I’ve lost some of that cer- ple, I am inherently likely to tainty, but my sister hasn’t. She befriend anyone whose favorite forges ahead, forcing people to band is the Beatles, or who will make decisions, because she is admit that they still like High the type of person that will not School Musical. But then there take no for an answer, will not are other types of people, peotake discomfort for an excuse ple who laugh too loudly to and does not care how “awk- draw attention to themselves, ward” other people think she who probably haven’t read a is. She is always ready with her book in the past two years, favorites, always waiting to who hate exercise. These peoanswer, but never asked. It is ple, more often than not, turn her litmus test for the world — out to be those who I love the if someone will care about her most. So, when someone asks answers instead of focusing on me what my favorite book is, I their own — and it is hardly cannot answer. I am afraid they ever passed. will put me into a box, either

potential friend or out of the running, based on one answer to one simple question.

I freak out when asked about my favorites because I can’t take the pressure. So, to everyone who has asked, is wondering or will ask about my favorite book, I will tell you. I hate to admit it, and I really don’t want to say this one first, but I read it and I really liked it: The Fault in Our Stars. I don’t want to be just a typical girl, so look, I also like scary, manly books: Into Thin Air. Don’t think I only read sensationalized, media-driven true-life accounts, though! I also like deep, thoughtful, literary books: Great Expectations. But don’t think I only read books because they are capital-G Great, so I also like books for common people, and I’ve recently read a few good ones: Gone Girl. But are you asking about favorite book right now in this moment or favorite book of all time? Because quite honestly, I can’t ever say that my favorite book of all time is anything other than Harry Potter.

As you can imagine, this spiel doesn’t usually go exceedingly well for me, especially the Harry Potter part. In fact, it usually has the opposite of the intended effect: Instead of preventing the asker from prematurely judging me, he or she judges me instantly based on the fact that I have approximately 1,000 favorite books and am talking their ear off at a party where they probably just wanted to drink beer and yell along to pop songs. To which I say, you asked.

Sarah Byrne is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She be reached at sbyrne@cornellsun.com. Let It Byrne appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SPORTS

Red Evens Record With Massive Win Over Tiger Squad SPRINT

Continued from page 16

passes. In the second quarter, Royster hit Dan Ferguson with a 25yard touchdown strike. The score was Royster’s first of the season.

Cornell really showed its strength in the rushing game. Six different Red players rushed for double digit yards and together the team amassed 219 yards, averaging 3.8 yards per rush. Junior Benjamin Herrera led the charge and accounted for 83 yards on 11 carries, all of those in the first half. Junior Benjamin Pham took over the role of running back and added 39 yards and a touchdown. The Red now average 177 yards on the ground per game, good for second in the CSFL. After dominating the Tigers in the first two quarters, the Red took its foot off the gas and eased up offensively. After taking a 48-0 lead, Cornell rarely threw the ball. Senior running back Jensen Cheong was the primary ball carrier and rushed 20 times in the second half.

He scored Cornell’s single touchdown after halftime, a play that was the result of a forced fumble deep in Princeton territory.

“I think we played really hard from beginning to the end regardless of the scoreboard.” Cheong said, whose touchdown today was the first of his career. “It was great to see everyone out there focused and executing.”

After allowing a season high of 218 yards to Army last week and 181 yards to Penn the week before, the Red stepped up their defensive intensity and held the Tigers to just seven yards rushing on 27 attempts. Cornell’s swarming defense also had three sacks and 12 total tackles for loss.

The stellar performance snaps a two-game losing streak and brings Cornell to .500, fourth place in the CSFL. Princeton continues its losing streak that dates back to 1999.

On Saturday, Cornell will welcome undefeated Navy to Schoellkopf Field. The game will be part of Homecoming Weekend.

Adam Bronfin can be reached at amb537@cornell.edu.

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SCIENCE

Horticulture

Behavioral Ecology

Prof. Chris Watkins Keeps Apples Fresh, Heads CCE

By CAMILLE WANG Sun Staff Writer

Nowadays, one can walk into the local Wegmans to find dozens of Honeycrisp apples piled in boxes, enticing shoppers with its red-golden skin and sweet, juicy flavor. One may also find delicious Cornell-bred varieties such as the Snapdragon and Rubyfrost, which were released last year. Prof. Chris Watkins, horticulture, studies new and innovative ways of maintaining the flavor and texture of the new apples that consumers love so much.

While his work spans many fruits and vegetables, Watkins said he primarily focuses his research on improving the maintenance and storage of apples, primarily due to the size of the New York apple industry.

Honeycrisp apples, for example, have many issues in their delivery to consumers – they are hard to grow, have many storage issues, and are sensitive to browning, Watkins said. But the consumers have spoken, and thus it is up to the growers and researchers such as Watkins to provide the quality buyers are looking for, he said.

Currently, Watkins and his team work in two labs — one at the Cornell Orchards and one “basic” lab that works on the molecular level. According to Watkins, some of his ongoing projects involve working with the industry to improve storage quality. For instance, many apple growers are using technologies such as SmartFresh, a controlled atmosphere storage method, to maintain freshness through the market chain.

“We’ve been working on a new technology called SmartFresh, which stops the action of ethylene, a ripening hormone ... for apples. It’s what makes them soft and lose their quality,” Watkins said. “[SmartFresh] is a gas that is supplied to the fruit when it’s put in storage, and it stops the ethylene from binding to the cell membrane.”

While SmartFresh is useful, the methodology for different apple varieties differs, prompting Watkins to work closely with the growers to optimize the technology.

“Some types of disorders are improved by SmartFresh, and some are worsened, depending on the variety” Watkins said. “What we’ve had to do as an industry is to develop different handling protocols that will minimize any risk of injury taken place ... our role is working with the northeast apple industry to ensure that we get the best benefits of the technology.”

Another current project focuses on a new technology called Dynamic Controlled Atmosphere.

Controlled atmosphere storage involves lowering the oxygen levels and increasing the carbon dioxide levels, effectively putting the apple to “sleep” by lowering its metabolism. DCA takes this method to the next level — it tracks the apple’s stress levels by measuring the chlorophyll fluorescence activity. “[With DCA], we can take oxygen levels of the apple down to very, very low concentrations. When we see stress in the fruit, we bring the oxygen level up very slightly. So we’re right at the critical level where you

ABHISHEK SHAH / SUN FILE PHOTO

Happy fruit | Honeycrisp apples, for sale in the Cornell Orchards’ retail store, are more difficult to grow and more sensitive to browning, according to Prof. Chris Watkins, horticulture. Watkins researches ways to improve apple storage methods.

can maintain the quality of that fruit even better than before,” Watkins said.

Other projects involve examining the genetic and metabolic changes behind fruit disorders, according to Watkins. The projects can help develop prediction techniques that will tell growers whether a line of fruit will be susceptible to certain diseases.

“This is especially important as we’re trying to move away from chemical storage,” Watkins said.

“The more we understand the metabolism behind the disorders, the more we can use ‘precision agriculture’ to make very intelligent decisions on when fruits should go to market.”

Watkins said his research impacts not only the consumers’ satisfaction levels, but also “community vitality.” In developing the farm industry, economic growth increases as a result — farmers, workers and supermarkets have more profit.

“If we don’t have strong, profitable farms, we don’t have communities ... what’s really exciting in the last several years is the growing recognition by many consumers that agriculture is a vital part of the community — the growth of the local foods movement has resulted in more people wanting to know where their

MATT HINTSA / SUN FILE PHOTO

Around we go | Apples are processed at Cornell Orchards. Prof. Chris Watkins, horticulture, researches new methods of storing apples for longer periods. Apples can be kept fresh over long periods by slowing their metabolism down to prevent overripening, according to Watkins. This is done in environments with a carefully controlled atmosphere.

food comes from,” Watkins said.

In addition to his role as a researcher, Watkins also currently serves as the Director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, a program that has a presence in every county in New York. The program consists of extension agents who act as educators, and work closely with a community in respect to agriculture, nutrition and economic development. Student interns also work on projects over the summer to improve the wellness of communities. The New York State Cooperative Extension is unique in that most of its funding comes from counties. In other universities, the extension funding comes almost solely from federal and state support, Watkins said.

“Here, we have a strong partnership between the federal funding, the state funding and the county.

That means to change and adapt to the future we really have to do that as a team,” Watkins said.

An example of how the cooperative extension program works is forming coalitions of educators that come together for industries that are specific to a region. For instance, extension agents whose regions are particularly strong in apple agriculture may form a team that would extend their research work to multiple counties.

Already, the cooperative extension has several agriculture teams that are doing so, and they have been effective in “showing through demonstration ... how effective we can be in addressing the problems of the future,” Watkins said.

As for agriculture in the future, Watkins said he sees “positive energy” on both ends of the scale, from smaller local farms that produce organic products, to large operations with hundreds of acres.

“In the past these two groups have not looked at each other as complementary ... [but] there’s room for all types of agriculture in New York,” Watkins said.

Ultimately, Watkins said he hopes to use his position as a researcher and as a leader of the Cooperative Extension to continue to maintain and improve the quality of New York resources, especially in the apple industry.

“I think in New York we grow the best Honeycrisp apples anywhere in the United States,” Watkins said.

“So we should take advantage of that.”

Camille Wang can be reached at cwang@cornellsun.com.

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SCIENCE

Trisha Basu ’15 Studies Moth Circadian Rhythms

By SARAH COHEN Sun Senior Writer

Trisha Basu ’15 is studying how the Circadian rhythms of two species of moths may affect their behavior as pollinators. In the lab of Prof. Robert Raguso, neurobiology and behavior, Basu examines insect-plant pollination models. The symbiotic relationship between flowering plants and their pollinators is sometimes correlated with the circadian rhythms of the pollinator.

Circadian rhythms are internal biological clocks that regulate processes in an organism including metabolism and internal body temperature. Often set by external cues such as sunlightdarkness cycles, circadian rhythms can cause jet lag or other sleep disorders when disturbed. Some flowers open only at night because their pollinators’ rhythms cause them to be nocturnal, Basu said.

Basu is specifically looking at Manduca sexta, the Carolina sphinx moth, and Hyles lineata, the hummingbird moth.

According to Basu, the Carolina sphinx moth is a common model organism in scientific experiments due to its large size, short life span, and easily accessible nervous system. Both it and the hummingbird moth are found throughout the United States but have different foraging patterns.

The Carolina sphinx moth is mostly

active at night while the hummingbird moth has erratic foraging patterns — it has been found foraging for flower nectar at all times of the day and night, pollinating the flowers it visits.

Although the Carolina sphinx moth is assumed to be nocturnal, this has never been confirmed with a behavioral study.

Basu said she is attempting t o COURTESY OF TRISHA BASU ’15

confirm this presupposed behavior and discover if it is related to an internal circadian rhythm or only on external cues. She is also examining the previously unstudied hummingbird moth to see if it has an internal clock and what that might be.

Model moths | Trisha Basu ’15 studies the circadian rhythms of the Carolina sphinx moth, which appears to be nocturnal. The moth is used as a model organism for scientific experiments because of its large size, short life span, and easily accessible nervous system, Basu said.

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“It is a naïve moth when it Basu hatches,” said.

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T h e moths are trained for two days on a cycle of 16 hours of light and eight hours of darkness, according to Basu.

Once the moths are trained, they are placed in individual incubators where they are filmed for another 48 hours. Some control cages follow the same cycle to which the moths were trained. Others are either all light or all dark.

The oversaturation or absence of the “daytime” light cue allows Basu to determine

if the moths have a circadian rhythm. If they do, they should continue to follow the pattern to which they were conditioned regardless of a change in environment, said Basu.

Thus far, Basu’s preliminary results have found the Carolina sphinx moth to have a potential internal clock in the absence of daylight, but they show a lack of activity during an extended period of light. This supports Basu’s hypothesis that those moths are, in fact, nocturnal. However, it also shows that the moths, while they may have an internal clock, are also highly affected by external light cues.

In contrast, Basu said, the hummingbird moth shows no retention of an internal clock. However, the hummingbird moth did increase activity during shifts from day to light or vice versa.

According to Basu, the next step in this research will be to follow up on this behavioral pattern of the hummingbird moth that appears to be solely reliant on external stimuli.

According to Basu, studying moth circadian rhythms is important because hawk moths are pollinators for many types of flowering plants and because they are model organisms for similar human characteristics.

“If we have a basic understanding of how these insects are affected, we can possibly produce a model that can explain how we are affected by the same external cues,” Basu said.

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

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A&E

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Whipped Up for Whiplash

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Whiplash, winner of the Grand Jury Prize and the Audience Award at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, is a virtuosic mediation on what happens when an artist goes too far with his craft. It is by turns exhilarating and punishing, far and away the most intense film of the year and certain stretches of it are downright painful to watch. I expected a leisurely paced indie drama, but a case could be made that this is one of the most violent movies of 2014 — on a psychological level. Razor sharp editing, wicked fast whip pans and tour de force performances from Miles Teller and a volcanic J.K. Simmons add up to an experience that leaves you drained and exhausted and yes, whiplashed, by the time it crashes off its last downbeat.

The amount of raw horsepower behind this three million dollar indie film is staggering. It may succeed on the strength of sheer brute force, but it is a pulsating, pummeling ride you are grateful for, and as intense as it is, when it was over, I wanted to see it again. I had to wait an hour first to let the images clear my head, and only then did the film’s subtlety and grace become clear. It was not only the way the movie hurdles at breakneck speed that made me eager for a second viewing, but how adroitly it expresses the delicate, more precise beats. There is no fat on this film — it’s a lean, mean machine.

Miles Teller plays Andy Neyman, a jazz student at an elite New York music school with a drive to succeed that surpasses obsessive and borders on self-destructive. It’s here that the film plays out its most interesting drama. It’s a person-versus-person conflict, sure, but think of it more as a story of man warring against instrument. And of course what he’s really whaling on with the sticks is his own sense of self-worth. In a performance that rests mostly on articulating through the physical act of dominating the drums, Teller is a revelation, even more than he was in The Spectacular Now. This is not a dialogue-driven performance; this is mostly a kid at his drum set, bashing and crashing himself to Kingdom Come. But what you see is nothing short of profound. When Andy gets on that stool and starts banging that

drum set until his skin frays and COURTESY OF SONY PICTURE CLASSICS blood runs down his fists, he’s taking a severe beating at his own hands.

Of course, that’s almost entirely due to the monstrous force presiding over his musical ear, a sadistic, anal-retentive music teacher played

by J.K. Simmons in a performance that recalls R. Lee Ermey’s Gunnery Sergeant Hartman from Full Metal Jacket. Simmons is Fletcher, a terrifying, scabrous taskmaster, who doles out psychological and physical abuse to his students in an attempt to push them past Whiplash their breaking points, to a place Directed by Damien Chazelle Simmons. where he believes Starring Miles Teller, The tension hanging in the air is thick genius is born. When enough for a knife to cut, and writer-director he doesn’t spew J.K. Simmons Damien Chazelle orchestrates it with such bravuinvective, he likes to ra tenacity, matching split-second shots to music talk about a jazz cues so precisely, that you are left reeling from the maestro who was impact. In only his second directorial effort, supposedly created Chazelle demonstrates the exact kind of prodiwhen a music ingious artistry, with cinema instead of music, that structor lobbed a cymbal at a student’s head. The movie is as ruthless as he is, some- all the students in the film crush themselves striving for.

How far are you willing to push yourself to achieve greatness? times even getting enamored with the brutality he inflicts, but When do you pass the point of no return for this goal, where you damn if it isn’t powerful.

The same is true of J.K. Simmons, who deserves an Oscar nod abandon your humanity? To Simmons’ Faustian figure, no distance for the role that could define the great character actor’s career. He is too far. That’s dangerous thinking, and Whiplash forces you to is a towering inferno, a borderline psychopath who displays bare- make some tough decisions about what kind of toll that takes on ly a trace of empathy. This is the man who sold his soul to the your body and your spirit. This film is not for the faint of heart, devil in exchange for musical genius, and now there’s hardly any but for those who endure the pain, there is a hell of a lot to gain. human feeling on his gnarled face. Which makes things real exciting when they start to heat up during the film’s third act show- Mark DiStefano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He down, a drum face-off and epic clash of wills between Teller and can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

With the onset of crashing, club-style music in today’s popular culture it is getting increasingly rare to see a music video that tells a story rather than simply displaying a drunken, partying stupor. Alesso’s newly-released music video for his hit single “Heroes (We Could Be),” featuring upcoming Swedish pop singer Tove Lo, tells the tale of several supernaturally-gifted children escaping from a guarded lab facility. Tove Lo’s captivating vocals draw in listeners and viewers as a perfect foreground to Alesso’s powerful and uplifting instrumental. Fitting with the theme of the lyrics, Alesso makes a cameo appearance in his video posing as the hero to rescue the imprisoned youth. In all, the video’s sleek and polished finish seamlessly encapsulates Alesso’s music, proving further that the new track of the up-and-coming artist is sure to be a chart topper.

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

Usually when you hear of artists’ albums changing, you think of the classic mainstream-ization and pop-ization of unique sounding artists in which both their sound and lyrics become tragically equivalent to a Disney show theme song. However with Marina and the Diamonds, the changes between albums are so abrupt and polarized that it is hard to denote it as part of that money-making scheme.

Marina’s last album, Electra Heart, left us with a vibe of female empowerment. In songs like “Power & Control,” “Sex Yeah,” and “Homewrecker,” Marina emphasized the acceptability of female dominance and female sexuality, both of which are subtly devalued or discouraged in society.

So when I heard “FROOT” for the first time, I was taken aback. While Marina’s classic indie-electro pop sound remains constant, the lyrics of “FROOT” seem to boast a message jarringly different from that of Electra Heart. “FROOT” portrays a very different female, one who is dependent on the love and care of a man for both her well-being and her happiness.

I can easily, and ignorantly, jump down Marina’s throat for single-handedly regressing the feminist movement. However, doing so would neglect an important theme Marina is weaving throughout her albums. Each of her albums takes on a different persona: The heartbroken and disillusioned, the powerful and now the male-dependent woman, respectively. Each persona presents a side of a woman, including what she thinks of herself and what society thinks of her. When the themes of each album are juxtaposed, we see Marina breaks down notions of female two-dimensionality, and reconstructs true complexity.

Harini Kannan is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at hk473@cornell.edu.

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he claimed her 19 yearold fiancé lives in Costa Mesa, California, and works in a bait shop,” In Touch reported last week. The magazine detailed an exclusive interview with Amanda Bynes in which she alleges she is engaged to a 19 yearold named Caleb.

The article was written with so much skepticism, it was almost as if the writer was trying to convey through subtext just how crazy Amanda Bynes seemed in their exclusive interview. For example: “The 28 year-old told In Touch

to children when we should.

Dunham’s story was particularly poignant to me, as someone who often felt like my voice didn’t matter as a younger sibling, perpetually increasing my volume to get attention (though I never had anything quite so serious to say).

And there was Amanda Bynes, in 1996, at the age of 10, doing stand-up at the Laugh Factory and demanding to be heard by the adults in the audience. And she was good at it too! Frankly, 10 year-old Amanda Bynes was better at standup than many adults I have seen d o i n g stand-up c o m e d y.

There is a video on YouTube — which I highly recCarrot Top ommend Confessions viewing — in which Weekly exclusively that she not she jokes that she doesn’t know only has a 19 year-old boyfriend what her grades are in school named Caleb, but also that they’re because her teacher just wrote engaged! Her claim comes days “Daughter of the Devil” on her after her arrest on DUI charges in report card. “Is that good?” said 10 California and a return to the con- year-old Amanda Bynes to uproarcerning behavior that caused her to ious laughter. spend months under medical care.”

When I watched Amanda Bynes In the first sentence, In Touch is on All That and The Amanda Show trying to be true to itself and report as a child, it was like being told a celebrity engagement, and then that it was okay to be precocious, in the second sentence, they’re say- that kids have something to say, ing “SHE IS NUTS, WE ARE that children, and girls, can be JUST REPORTING WHAT SHE funny and deserve the chance to be SAID, WE DON’T ACTUALLY heard.

BELIEVE IT, OKAY?” Amanda Bynes certainly isn’t This strange announcement the first grown up child actor to came days before her string of have whatever kind of breakdown tweets describing how her father she is having now, and in my super had allegedly abused her as a child, unprofessional opinion, I think a which she then retracted claiming, lot of that must have to do with the “My dad never did any of those type of parent who pushes their kid things [sic] The microchip in my into fame (i.e. Dina Lohan.) brain made me say those things but And there is hope — just look he’s the one that ordered them to at Drew Barrymore. Her childhood microchip me.” included a role in E.T., but also a The actress has requested that ton of alcohol, drug abuse and no one call her “crazy or insane rehab. And now, she is a UN because that’s a joke,” so out of Ambassador Against Hunger and respect for one of my childhood generally a great person and role models and personal heroes, I actress. will refrain from addressing her I guess what I struggle with is, current mental status, but just say how do we as a society have child that it deeply saddens me. actors, who I think are important Amanda Bynes, when I was lit- and necessary for children, and tle, was more than just an enter- then also make sure they are taken tainer. She was a young girl, prov- care of, when they were obviously ing that she had a right to be heard. not the ones who called the agent Children — especially girls — and booked the audition? I’m sure are often told what they say doesn’t some parents of child actors do matter, that they should be quiet, take care of their kids, but for the that they’re being precocious / Amanda Byneses and the Lindsay annoying / obnoxious etc. … and Lohans of the world, I think we their opinions are dismissed by need to take some responsibility, as adults. part of the problem. We are enterIn Lena Dunham’s book, Not tained by these people, inspired by That Kind of Girl, she describes an them, and then laugh at them and incident as a young girl in which call them crazy when they suffer. her teacher said something inapFor all of In Touch Weekly’s propriate to her. She told her par- skepticism, I do hope that Amanda ents and the teacher was fired. But Bynes is really engaged to a hot 19 then, when describing the incident year-old and that she is happy. to another adult, he told her to be careful because that was a really Moser is a senior in the College serious accusation to make. Julia of Arts and Sciences. She can be Dunham describes feeling ashamed reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. for saying something and then goes Carrot Top Confessions appears on to say how often we don’t listen alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Justin Harris forced two turnovers, reigning in an interception in the game’s first play from scrimmage and knocking the football loose for a fumble. Senior safety Rush Imhotep picked off Crimson quarterback Scott Hosch and later pounced on a fumble forced by junior linebacker J.J. Fives. Senior cornerback Michael Turner also forced a fumble.

The performance against Harvard could serve as a jumping off point for the defense from here on out.

“We definitely played more as unit than we have in the past couple of games. We played a more consistent game,” Harris said. “The first half was probably the best half of football that we’ve played defensively in all five season that I’ve been here. The whole defensive line, linebackers, defensive backs playing together and flying to the ball. We found the ball and created turnovers throughout the whole game. We now see that we’re capable of doing that and we can’t have any letdown. We put those numbers up and we expect that each week from here on out.”

Archer does not de-emphasize the value of winning given the team’s struggles in the early part of the season. Despite the team’s four-game losing streak to start the season, Archer said that seeing his team fight back is an encouraging sign.

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A wild throw by reliever Randy Choate on a bunt allowed Brandon Crawford to score the winning run in the bottom of the 10th inning, lifting the San Francisco Giants over the St. Louis Cardinals 5-4 on Tuesday for a 2-1 lead in the NL Championship Series.

Crawford drew an eight-pitch walk from Choate to begin the inning, ending a stretch of 16 straight Giants retired since Tim Hudson’s two-out single in the fourth. After failing on two sacrifice attempts, Juan Perez singled to bring up Gregor Blanco.

Blanco fouled off a bunt try, too, but then pushed one to the left side of the mound and the left-handed Choate's sidearmed throw sailed past lunging second baseman Kolten Wong, who was covering first base.

“We don’t do anything easy,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. “We might have got a little lucky there with Perez when he couldn’t get a bunt down and he gets a base hit. But Blanco laid down a beauty. ... I don’t know if that’s luck as much as great bunt, great speed to put pressure on them.”

Randal Grichuk tied it with a solo homer in the seventh that chased Hudson.

Game 4 in the best-of-seven series is Wednesday night, with Ryan Vogelsong pitching for the Giants against fellow righty Shelby Miller.

This walkoff win came 12 years to the day after Kenny Lofton’s single in the ninth inning ended the 2002 NLCS against the Cardinals and sent the Giants to the World Series.

Playing without injured catcher Yadier Molina, the Cardinals had their chances.

They squandered Wong's double in the second before he delivered a wind-aided, two-run triple in the fourth.

Javier Lopez got the first two outs of the 10th before Jon Jay's single, just the third hit by a lefthanded batter against Lopez since he joined San Francisco in 2010. Two of those are by Jay this series.

Sergio Romo entered and retired Matt Holliday on a fullcount grounder to third that Pablo Sandoval snared and fired to first.

Molina, nursing a strained left oblique sustained in Game 2 Sunday, began warming up Trevor Rosenthal in the bullpen in the ninth but never played.

A.J. Pierzynski went hitless in four at-bats starting in Molina's place for St. Louis' first postseason games back at AT&T Park since losing Games 6 and 7 of the 2012 NLCS, which it had led 31. San Francisco went on to capture its second World Series title in three years.

Journeyman Travis Ishikawa hit a three-run double in the first to stake Hudson to a 4-0 lead in his first postseason start beyond the division series in a 16-year career.

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Despite Deadlocked First Half,C.U.Falls to Harvard ing with soreness from an undisclosed shoulder injury. He completed 14 of 22 passes for 140 yards, a touchdown and an With a little over three minutes left in interception. Senior wide wideout Lucas Saturday’s game, freshman quarterback Shapiro caught three passes for 32 yards.

“Harvard is one of the top-ranked Jake Jatis flung the football 26 yards downfield towards sophomore wide receiver defenses in the league. I’m not sure Collin Shaw, who stood alone in the where exactly, but they’re up there and Harvard University endzone. With the they are very good,” head coach David nearest Crimson defender a good 10 feet Archer ’05 told media in Boston. “We are playing a lot of away, Shaw nonchalantly caught the ball for the “You have to look at it young guys on offense and with a freshman Red’s first touchdown of and say, what can we do quarterback. You have to the game. take that into account. to grow?”

What usually follows a Their effort was trementouchdown is a celebraDavid Archer ’05 dous.” tion of a score, but for The Red’s seven-point Shaw and the Cornell football team, there was nothing to cele- offensive output continues a trend of brate, as the wideout seemingly shrugged struggle for Archer’s offense. On the seaof relief. The score capped off a day when son, Cornell is averaging 9.75 points per the Red failed to generate much of any- game, averaging 82.8 rushing yards and thing offensively. As a team, Cornell gen- 134.25 passing yards and has scored five erated 175 yards of total offense, 35 yard touchdowns in four games. While the on the ground and 140 yards through the team has had success when in the red zone (83.3 percent success rate in the red zone), air.

Jatis started his third straight game the team has made only six trips past the under center in place of injured junior opponent’s 20-yard line.

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prominent roles in Archer’s newly implemented offense, the Cornell offense is going through growing pains. Archer, however, points to Jatis as evidence of growth within the unit.

“There is pressure when you have a freshman quarterback, no matter who you play,” Archer said. “They take everybody’s best shot because of the standard Tim Murphy set. It’s pressure, but you have to look at it and say, what can we do to grow?

What can our freshman quarterback handle and lets keep stretching him and growing him as best we can, week by week.

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could see him growing up during the game. We need to score, but at the same time, we need to grow and mature the quarterback.”

The Cornell defense proved to be a bright spot on a relatively gloomy day.

Sophomore linebacker Miles Norris, who leads the Red with 42 total tackles, 15 more than the second-most defensive player, recorded a game-high 15 tackles with two for a loss and a sack.

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Cornell’s Ivy League dreams look to be fading following a loss to Harvard on Saturday afternoon. The loss marks the team’s second consecutive defeat in the Ivy League following its 1-0 loss to 2013 champions Penn last weekend, although the team picked up a non-conference win against Colgate on Tuesday night.

In a tightly contested game, Harvard forward Hiroki Kobayashi’s lone goal in the 47th minute separated the team at the end of the 90 minutes.

Kobayashi took advantage of a lapse in the Red’s defense to get behind and get on the end of a rebounded shot from Harvard’s Christian Sady.

“Harvard got a couple lucky bounces for their goal.

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the ball on defensive set pieces,” said senior defender and co-captain Devin Morgan. “We gave Harvard too many opportunities in the attacking third to whip balls into the box.”

In what was clearly a tempered affair, the game ended with 32 fouls – 22 of them coming from Harvard – and five yellow cards as well as a sending off for Cornell.

Cornell went into the game with the best overall defense amongst Ivy teams, having conceded only six goals, while senior goalkeeper Zack Zagorski leads the Ivy save percentage with .857. The best defense in the Ivy League was set against one of the most dangerous teams offensively, with the Crimson having recorded 19 goals throughout the course of the season.

The Harvard attack got into gear quickly, with Zagorski forced into a save 30 seconds into the game, parrying away a header from Harvard’s Mark Ashby.

Cornell’s rigid defense remained steadfast, limiting Harvard to five shots — none on target — in the first half.

However, a lack of concentration two minutes into the second half led to the goal that won Harvard the game.

“This wasn’t our best defensive performance as a team,” Morgan said. “The only chances Harvard had were on our own defensive errors.”

The Red continued pressing after going one down, registering five shots in the second half, with sophomore forward Sebastian Scales forcing the Harvard goalkeeper into a save late on in the game. However, Cornell could not score the much needed goal.

A sending off for Cornell in the 78th minute reduced the Red to 10 men, effectively ending all hopes of a comeback.

Cornell will continue its Ivy campaign against Yale on Saturday, the first of five games that will determine how the Red finishes its season.

“We don’t have total control over our Ivy League destiny anymore. Fortunately, we have control over the next five games and will put our entire effort into beating Yale this Saturday,” Morgan said. “We have to be more dangerous on set pieces and in open play to get results during Ivy League play.”

Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at hyousefi@cornellsun.com.

With Blowout Win

By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer

From start to finish, the Cornell Red dominated the hapless Princeton Tigers.

Five separate players rushed for touchdowns as the Red (2-2) trounced the Tigers (0-3) by a score of 550 on Saturday. Cornell, coming off a pair of big losses, was able to jump to a huge lead early and never looked back. This was the 16th consecutive time that the Red has trumped the Tigers.

Cornell scored a touchdown in each of its first five possessions, and seven of its first eight. At the half, the score was 48-0. After benching most of its starters, the Red tacked on one more touchdown in the fourth quarter. The margin of victory was the Red’s largest since before 2001.

Cornell set the tone of the game early with a 56-yard drive that culminated in a rushing touchdown from sophomore quarterback Rob Pannullo. The entire drive was five plays and lasted just a minute and 36 seconds.

On the ensuing Princeton drive, the Red’s defense came up big, stopping the Tigers on fourth down at the Princeton 40 yard line.

Cornell would capitalize off the short field and score its second touchdown of the game. The rest of the first half was much of the same.

The next five straight possessions for the Tigers were three-and-outs and Princeton quickly found itself in a deep hole as Cornell continued to find the end zone with ease.

Princeton quarterback Chad Cowden passed 48 times, completing just 17 of those for 145 yards. He was forced into several mistakes as Cornell intercepted him four times. The Red now ranks first in interceptions in the Collegiate Sprint Football League. Wide receiver Ahmen Musse led the Tigers with 60 receiving yards.

Cornell’s passing game might not have been as prolific, but it was much more efficient. Princeton averaged three yards per attempt compared with Cornell’s average of 12.7. Pannullo completed all five of his passes, including a 14-yard touchdown pass to Trevor Marrero in the first quarter. Backup quarterback Karriem Royster also saw play time and completed two of his four attempted See SPRINT page 8