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The Tompkins County Health Dept. says on-campus eating establishments violated state sanitation codes. | Page 3

A Cornell prof was honored by the White House for developing a public archive to share research. | Page 10

Minorities Feel Less Safe on Campus, Survey Results Show

Mark DiStefano ’16 speaks to alumni who helped make Monsters University. | Page 12

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University seeks to improve campus climate

By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor

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Racial and sexual minorities feel less safe and comfortable at Cornell than their peers, a University survey report released at the end of last month shows.

The analysis was conducted by Cornell’s Institutional Research and Planning Office and the University Diversity Council to assess campus climate, according to Cornell’s diversity website. The data was drawn from surveys conducted earlier this year on both undergraduates and post-graduates.

The undergraduate student survey showed that a larger percentage of racial minorities at Cornell felt insulted or threatened based on their social identity than white students. Forty-five percent of black students, 32 percent of Asian students and 29 percent of Hispanic students reported having felt — occasionally to very often — insulted or threatened by students based on their social identity. In comparison, 20 percent of white students said they felt that way.

The results were even more stark for sexual minorities: while 24 percent of self-identifying heterosexual students felt — occasionally to very often — insulted or threatened by other students based on their social identity, 50 percent of self-identifying lesbian, gay or bisexual students and 73 percent of self-identified queer students reported feelSee CLIMATE page 4

Derek Paxton ’14 tests out the Cornell Formula SAE Racing Team’s 2013 car at Cherry Valley, N.Y. on Tuesday in preparation for the Toronto Shoot Out next weekend.

Legacies Make Up 15% of C.U.

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer

Many people who have researched college admission statistics say that student legacies have a significant advantage in the application process, but Cornell in particular enrolls a larger percentage of legacies than its peer institutions.

According to Richard D. Kahlenberg, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation and author of Affirmative Action for the Rich: Legacy Preferences in College Admissions, being a legacy student can add the equivalent of 160 SAT

points to one’s college application. In his book, Kahlenberg says being a legacy student can largely improve one’s chances of being admitted to a top school.

Jason Locke, interim associate vice provost for enrollment, said that Cornell admissions defines a legacy candidate as “a student whose parents or grandparents — or great-, or greatgreat, etc. — hold a degree from Cornell University.”

Locke said that when two applicants are of roughly equal qualifications, children of alumni See LEGACY page 4

Police Bust Multi-County Sex Trafficking Ring in N.Y. State

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Police have busted a multicounty sex trafficking ring that preyed on women as young as 15 years old in Ithaca and other cities

in New York State, Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced Tuesday.

One man and two women were arrested in connection with the sex trafficking. Investigators say the three individuals recruited

young women to work as prostitutes — in some cases, using physical force to intimidate them, and in others, giving the women heroin, cocaine or MDMA to coerce them into working.

“There are few crimes as

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heinous as forcing women into prostitution and transporting them against their will,” Schneiderman said in a statement. “Unfortunately, this case is emblematic of the horrors of human trafficking, which is an

issue of international importance.

We must redouble our efforts to protect people forced into a horrible life from which they feel they can’t escape.”

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21-Year-Old Man Shot on W. Green Street; Police Search for Suspect

SHAILEE SHAH / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR

Ithaca residents gather at 509 Esty St. to participate in a Friends of the Library Book Sale Saturday. Proceeds of the sale will benefit the Tompkins County Public Library.

Ithaca Police are searching for an “armed and dangerous” man who they say may have shot a 21-year-old man on West Green Street Monday evening.

The suspect is an 18-year-old black male who is 6’0” tall, 185 pounds and goes by the alias “Biggum.” Police think the suspect may have been the shooter who left a 21-year-old man injured and lying on the ground at South Plain Street Monday evening.

Police initially responded to reports Monday saying there had been gunshots fired near the 400 block of West Green Street. At around 7:04 p.m., police found the

victim conscious, lying on South Plain Street with a gunshot wound, according to a statement from the Ithaca Police Department.

The victim did not provide any information to police, but IPD believes he may have been arguing with another male subject prior to being shot. The victim was transported to a trauma center, where he had to undergo surgery, according to the IPD. Police are continuing to investigate the incident. The IPD asks anyone with information about the suspect’s whereabouts to contact police.

— Compiled by Akane Otani

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Today

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Weird News

Today Solution Processing of Inorganic Semiconductors: Opportunities for Electronics and Energy Technologies 9 - 10 a.m., 165 Olin Hall

Umpteen speedy televisions perused two sheep, then umpteen tickets towed Jupiter, and Dan untangles five progressive orifices. Umpteen quixotic aardvarks annoyingly bought two Macintoshes. Umpteen bureaux tickled two extremely putrid botulisms. Paul sacrificed one lampstand, then Jupiter marries the very quixotic pawnbroker. Five purple poisons laughed, yet umpteen chrysanthemums kisses five aardvarks. Batman noisily untangles one Jabberwocky. Two Macintoshes laughed, then one extremely schizophrenic Jabberwocky drunkenly untangles two sheep, however Quark telephoned umpteen obese Jabberwockies. Five irascible botulisms slightly lamely auctioned off the subway, and five chrysanthemums easily untangles one mostly speedy Klingon. Five dogs drunkenly perused Minnesota, however the mats ran away cleverly, although one partly progressive subway quite comfortably sacrificed

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18-Foot-Long Creature Found Off of S. Calif. Coast

C.U. Music: Midday Music for Organ 12:30 - 1:15 p.m., Sage Chapel

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A marine science instructor snorkeling off the Southern California coast spotted something out of a fantasy novel: the silvery carcass of an 18-foot-long, serpent-like oarfish.

Jasmine Santana of the Catalina Island Marine Institute needed more than 15 helpers to drag the giant sea creature with eyes the size of half dollars to shore Sunday.

Staffers at the institute are calling it the discovery of a lifetime.

“We’ve never seen a fish this big,” said Mark Waddington, senior captain of the Tole Mour, CIMI’s sail training ship. “The last oarfish we saw was three feet long.”

Because oarfish dive more than 3,000 feet deep, sightings of the creatures are rare and they are largely unstudied, according to CIMI.

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Tomorrow Communicators@cornell: Monthly Meeting With Tommy Bruce Noon - 1 p.m., 102 Mann Library Origin, Evolution and Destiny Of Close-in Super Earths 4 - 5 p.m., 105 Space Sciences Building

German Groom Forgets Bride at Gas Station

Fiber Science & Apparel Design: Graduate Seminar 6 p.m., 153 Martha van Rensselaer Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Studies Film Series: “Tropical Malady” 7:30 - 8:30 p.m., Film Forum, Schwartz Center for Performing Arts

BERLIN (AP) — A German couple’s marriage got off to a rocky start when the groom forgot his bride at a highway gas station on the way home from their honeymoon, only noticing she was missing after hours had passed.

Police said Friday the couple was heading home to

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Berlin from France when the man pulled over near the central town of Bad Hersfeld late Thursday to fill up their van.

The woman had been sleeping in the back but got up — unbeknownst to the man — to use the toilets and he drove off before she returned.

Only after 2 ½ hours on the road did he notice she was gone and called police, who said she was patiently waiting.

U.S. Man Tells Judge He Is ‘Still Legally Dead’ FINDLAY, Ohio (AP) — A man who disappeared decades ago is finding out there’s no easy way to come back from the dead.

Donald Miller Jr. went to court this week to ask a county judge to reverse a 1994 ruling that declared him legally dead after he had vanished from his home eight years earlier. But the judge turned down his request, citing a three-year time limit for changing a death ruling.

Hancock County Probate Court Judge Allan Davis called it a “strange, strange situation.”

“We’ve got the obvious here. A man sitting in the courtroom, he appears to be in good health,” said Davis, who told Miller the three-year limit was clear.

“I don’t know where that leaves you, but you’re still deceased as far as the law is concerned,” the judge said.

Miller resurfaced about eight years ago and went to court so that he could get a driver’s license and reinstate his Social Security number.

NEWS

C-Town, Campus Eateries Cited For Violating Health Codes House was cited for keeping food at 60 and 61 degrees instead of the 45 degrees required during “cold holdThe Tompkins County ing,” the Ithaca Journal Health Department said 12 reported. eating establishments — In Collegetown, Stella’s including eight in the City was cited for having cooked of Ithaca — violated New or prepared foods that could York State sanitation codes have been contaminated by in September. raw foods, the Ithaca Five on-campus eating reported.

Journal establishments and one Additionally, Stella’s Collegetown eating estab- Eight eating establishments in the City of Ithaca alone workers were found hanlishment were among the dling food with their businesses that were cited were cited for violating bare hands. The food was for violating sanitation New York State sanitation discarded during inspeccodes. tion.

At Cornell, both of the codes in September.

Sticky Rice and Statler Hotel’s eating Firehouse Subs, both in establishments — Terrace downtown Ithaca, were Dining and Taverna Banfi “potentially hazardous” cited for not maintaining — were cited.

In Terrace Dining, food foods at proper tempera- enough refrigerated storage was not kept at the proper tures. Another campus space so potentially haz— Tammany ardous foods could be kept temperature for cold hold- eatery ing, while at Taverna Banfi, Coffeehouse in Risley at below 45 degrees, accordfood was not kept at the Residential College — was ing to the Ithaca Journal. proper temperature for hot cited for having its prepared holding, according to the foods potentially contami- Caroline Flax can be reached at nated by raw foods. Jansen’s cflax@cornellsun.com and Ithaca Journal.

The two eateries at Statler Dining Room at Hans Bethe twitter.com/csflax.

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Hotel were also cited in February, and management told The Sun in March that they would take precautions to improve their sanitation policies.

Fork & Gavel Cafe, recently opened by the owners of Manndible Cafe, was also cited for not keeping

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Cited | Students dine at the newly opened Fork and Gavel Cafe in the Law School. The cafe received a citation from the Tompkins County Health Department for violating sanitation codes in September.

Police Report The Wool Coat Mystery A staff member reported the theft of his or her leather and wool coat from an unsecured coat room at Day Hall on Monday, according to Cornell Police. The value of the loss was estimated to be $750.

Friday Marijuana Busts Three counts of unlawful possession of marijuana were reported on Friday last week at the Appel Commons Field, Jessup Field and Beebe Lake Stone Bridge, according to the Cornell Police.

Drunk Driving An individual was referred to Ithaca Town Court after driving while intoxicated on Sunday, according to Cornell Police.

Art Mischief An officer was dispatched to take a report regarding an artwork project that was damaged by unknown individual(s) at High Volt Lab on Sunday, according to Cornell Police.

Not-So-Private Moment An individual was referred to Ithaca City Court after Cornell Police cited him for publically urinating on University Avenue on Saturday.

— Compiled by Jinjoo Lee

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Keep it professional | Cornell’s School of Hotel Administration partnered with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore to create a four-week program.

Cornell, Singapore Univ.

Team Up to Start New Prog.

Participants will be hotel managment professionals

By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Contributor

program.

Kline said the joint program will allow professionals to learn more about their industry.

“Teaching international programs provides important experience and input regarding the international industry,” Kline said in an email.

Interest in the program has stemmed from a growing necessity in Asia for more practiced hospital-

In Spring 2014, the Cornell School of Hotel Administration will launch the new CornellNanyang Advanced Management Program in Hospitality Management, an executive program that will take place in both Ithaca and Singapore.

The main goal of the program is to facilitate an exchange of knowledge and hospitality “Teaching international strategies between industry programs provides imporexecutives and senior faculty from the hotel school and tant experience and input Nanyang Technological University’s business school, regarding the internationaccording to Tom Kline, direcal industry.” tor of executive education in the hotel school.

Tom Kline For two weeks in March, participants — mainly hotel managers based in Southeast Asia with at least seven years of ity professionals, according to hotel management experience — Nilanjen Sen, associate dean of will stay in Ithaca, working with Nanyang Executive Education at the hotel school. The participants Nanyang Business School. will then stay in Singapore from Nanyang Executive Education runs the end of June until mid-July, programs to help professionals working on Nanyang Business address challenges facing Asian School’s Yunnan campus, accord- businesses. ing to Kline.

Sen also said that, due to the Modules in Ithaca will focus on rapid rate of change in the Asian topics such as real estate, change hotel industry, there is “an increasmanagement, human resources ing demand for senior hospitality management and revenue manage- leaders with exceptional skills in ment, while the workshops in developing and managing change.”

Singapore will cover topics that Nanyang Business School is one complement the Ithaca modules, of the top business schools in Asia, ranked fourth by The Economist. Kline said he expects “Our faculty members the pairing of this leading business school with Cornell’s hotel often say they get school will broaden hospitality tremendous input from professionals’ knowledge of the industry. international “Our faculty members often participants.” say they get tremendous input from international participants Tom Kline about regional and local differences in the industry and about the business challenges the parKline said. ticipants experience in their local Kline said hotel school faculty environment,” Kline said. members will strive to “endeavor to Kline added that the virtue of provide [participants] with new this particular program lies in the knowledge and tools that enable fact that half of its content will be them to become better managers provided by Nanyang Business and leaders.”

School, giving the program “a Participants in the joint pro- Southeast Asian perspective.” gram will have a chance to take part in programs at both Nanyang Business School and the Cornell Zoe Ferguson can be reached at hotel school during the four-week znf3@cornell.edu.

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Oct.Study Will Evaluate Policies to Improve Campus Climate CLIMATE

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ing that way.

Prof. N’Dri Therese AssieLumumba, Africana studies, said she was sad but not surprised by the survey’s results.

“We bring students and faculty members here because of their past achievements and what they can contribute in the future. But to find those achievements and those potentials are overlooked or shattered by perception — it’s sad and unacceptable,” she said.

Jadey Kartikawati Huray ’14, president of Haven: The LGBTQ Student Union, echoed Assie-Lumumba’s sentiments.

“Talking to any number of people in the LGBTQ community, people have said they have experienced or heard of at least one person who has been threatened, or insulted given their perceived identity,” she said. “It shows how much we need to go forward as a community.”

Another telling difference was found in students’ perceptions of campus climate. When undergraduate students were asked how they would characterize the campus climate for a student in their own racial category, seven percent of white students and nine percent of Asian students said the campus climate was very disrespectful or moderately disrespectful for students like themselves. In comparison, 13 percent of Hispanic students, 20 percent of international students and 27 percent of black students said the campus climate was moderately disrespectful or very disrespectful for students like themselves.

Survey results also showed that both racial and sexual minorities made more effort to educate themselves about diversity.

More than 60 percent of black students and international students reported either often or very often making an effort to

educate themselves about diversity, while 59 percent of Hispanic students, 52 percent of Asian students and 44 percent of white students said they did the same.

Eighty-three percent of selfidentified queer students and 62 percent of self-identified gay, lesbian or bisexual students reported having made an effort — often to very often — to educate themselves about diversity, while 49 percent of self-identified heterosexual students said they did.

Assie-Lumumba said that these results suggest minority students feel more burden to educate themselves and others about diversity.

“Those who are threatened, who feel insulted, in addition to the burden of processing that in order to move on, have also the burden of educating others,” she said. “[Students] are not here to do that. That’s not their role, but they do it anyways.”

Nia Hall ’14, co-chair of

Black Students United, agreed, saying the burden of educating others about diversity often falls on the shoulders of minority students.

“I think oftentimes, too much of this work falls on the students and not the institution,” she said. “We desperately need more university support in educating the student body on differences, resources for our respective communities — in the form of faculty, money and space — and overall attention to each community’s specific wants and needs.”

The upcoming campus climate study will be conducted by Prof. Sylvia Hurtado, education information studies, and University of California at Los Angeles.

While the previous survey by Cornell’s Institutional Research and Planning showed how students felt, Hurtado’s study will build on the survey results and also focus on what the

University can do to improve its campus climate.

“We plan to identify areas of commonality [between different communities] and also differences across various communities to help build upon and explain previous work from surveys that many graduate and undergraduate students filled out last year. … Together, these assessments begin to provide an important benchmark for future planning and that can be aligned with campus diversity goals,” Hurtado said.

The study will involve 12 focus groups — based on various racial and ethnic, socio-economic, gender and national identities — who will be chosen randomly from the students that volunteer to take part, according to Hurtado. The results of Hurtado’s study will be released in February 2014.

Jinjoo Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Sees Increase in Freshman Legacies, Decrease in Transfer Legacies LEGACY

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will receive additional consideration. “This does not mean that every legacy applicant is admitted. Every applicant is evaluated on his or her own merits and within the context of a very large and talented applicant

pool,” Locke said in an email.

According to statistics released by Cornell, 15 percent of Cornell’s entire undergraduate population is comprised of legacy students. This figure is higher than percentages at many of Cornell’s Ivy League counterparts. For example, The Harvard Crimson reported that

legacy students account for 12to-13 percent of the undergraduate student body at Harvard.

In recent years, Locke said Cornell has seen a simultaneous increase in freshman legacies and a decrease in transfer legacies. The percentage of legacy students who arrive to Cornell as freshman has wavered

between 14 and 15 percent. The percentage of transfer legacies usually falls between nine and 11 percent.

Michael Hurwitz, a researcher at Harvard, studied the impact of legacy status on admissions at 30 colleges and found that legacy students are three times more likely to be

admitted to top schools than non-legacy students.

In his report, Hurwitz says that being the child of someone who attended a college as an undergraduate, or a “primary legacy,” gives one the greatest advantage in admissions.

See LEGACY page 5

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Police in N.Y. Break Up C.U.More Likely to Enroll Legacies Than Peers Sex-Trafficking Operation LEGACY

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Two 19-year-olds involved with the ring TRAFFICKING

like the New York Attorney General's Office and the Organized Crime Task Force will Schneiderman’s office continue to bring these groups to described the sex trafficking ring as justice."

Eric Oliver, a 30-year-old man being “brazen” to the point that the alleged ring leader called his from Syracuse and the alleged ring partners from Ithaca and leader, has been charged with two counts of Watertown jails sex traffickto give them ing, cominstructions, “With these arrests, a sexpelling even though he trafficking ring has been prostituwas warned tion, prothat his calls dismantled, and victims ... moting could be have been freed from a prostiturecorded. In forced lifestyle.” tion, rape in these phone the third calls, Oliver Joseph A. D’Amico degree and allegedly conspiracy directed his 19year-old partners to transport in the fifth degree. If convicted of prostitutes to various locations and the five felonies and one misdeeven told one of his partners to meanor charge, Oliver could give drugs to a prostitute to get her spend decades in jail.

Tirra Pate, a 19-year-old to work.

"This modern-day type of slav- woman from Syracuse, has been ery will not be tolerated in New charged with sex trafficking, proYork State. With these arrests, a moting prostitution in the third sex-trafficking ring has been dis- degree and conspiracy in the fifth mantled, and victims, some as degree. Jessica Moro, a 19-year-old young as 15 years old, have been woman from Cicero, has been freed from a forced lifestyle,” charged with promoting prostituJoseph A. D’Amico, New York tion in the second and third State Police Superintendent, said degrees and conspiracy in the fifth in a statement Tuesday. “While degree. human trafficking can be a difficult crime to detect, public awareness and the continued hard work Akane Otani can be reached at of law enforcement and agencies managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Primary legacy connections increased one’s chance of admission by 45.1 percent while secondary legacy connections — including siblings, aunts, uncles and grandparents — boosted one’s admissions probability by 13.7 percent.

According to Pamela Paul, a reporter at The New York Times, admission rates for prestigious universities can be about five times greater than their overall acceptance rate.

“Among legacy applicants for Princeton’s class of 2015,

33 percent of those offered a spot were the children of alumni. Harvard generally admits 30 percent, and Yale says it admits 20 percent to 25 percent. For all three, the overall rate is in the single digits,” Paul said.

Some highly-ranked schools, like Massachussetts Institute of Technology and California Institute of Technology, completely ignore legacy status and only consider meritocracy during their admissions process, according to Business Insider.

MIT Admissions Counselor Chris Peterson said in an MIT

Admissions blog post that he stands by his philosophy on college admissions .

“I personally would not work for a college which had legacy admissions because I am not interested in simply reproducing a multi-generational lineage of educated elite. And if anyone in our office ever advocated for a mediocre applicant on the basis of their ‘excellent pedigree,’ they would be kicked out of the committee room,” he wrote.

Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun.com.

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Report: N.Y. Plant Had Most Nuclear Violations in U.S.

NYPD Union Sues Over Law Easing Profiling Suits

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — The Indian Point power plants in the New York suburbs have been cited for more violations than any other nuclear site in the country, although 99 percent were low-risk violations, according to a federal report awaiting release.

The Government Accountability Office report, using figures from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said four of the 384 citations between 2000 and 2012 were for "higher-level" violations. Many plants around the nation have more in that category.

But no plant site had more total violations. The closest to Indian Point's total was at the Cooper plant in Brownville, Neb., which had 374 violations. Eleven of those were "higherlevel" violations, the report says.

Cooper has just one reactor, while Indian Point has two.

Lower-level violations are those considered to pose very low risk, such as improper upkeep of an electrical transformer.

Entergy Nuclear, owner of Indian Point, issued a statement saying it "has received the most regulatory scrutiny of any plant in the country." It said, "Entergy's commitment to address even minor issues and enhance safety is unrelenting."

Phillip Musegaas of the environmental group Riverkeeper, an Indian Point critic, said of the plant's violations, "Even if they're low-level violations, they're still safety violations, and the NRC does not have an effective system for tracking them. ... The people of New York should wonder why Indian Point has twice as many as any other plant in the Northeast."

NEW YORK (AP) — The city's biggest police union asked a court Tuesday to nix a law that would make it easier for people to bring racial profiling lawsuits, saying it would cast a cloud of doubt over officers' conduct.

The measure is too vague, "leaves officers to guess" what's allowed and threatens to taint the entire New York Police Department with a brush of discrimination, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association said in a lawsuit filed against the City Council. "(The law) directly threatens the lives and safety of police officers because it chills their willingness to undertake law enforcement action necessary to protect their safety," including stop and frisk, the lawsuit adds.

The City Council said it would vigorously fight the suit, which furthers a debate that moved quickly from City Hall to court after lawmakers' August vote to override Mayor Michael Bloomberg's veto. Bloomberg filed his own suit against the law last month; the Sergeants Benevolent Association, which represents 13,000 NYPD supervisors, is seeking court permission to join that lawsuit on the mayor's side.

The law, set to take effect late next month, eases some legal standards for claims that stop and frisk and other techniques were used in a biased way. Such lawsuits can seek policy changes but not money.

N.Y. Factory Activity Grows More Slowly In October WASHINGTON (AP) — Factory activity in the New York region expanded more slowly in October, a sign that the partial government shutdown may be weighing on the economy.

The Empire State manufacturing index fell to 1.5 in October from 6.3 in September, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York said Tuesday. Any reading above zero indicates expansion. Despite the decline, manufacturing in the region has grown for five straight months.

A measure of new orders rose, pointing to healthier future growth. And factories continued to add jobs, albeit at a slower pace.

The New York Fed’s regional manufacturing report will receive more attention than usual this month because it’s one of the few available measures of the economy during the shutdown, which is now in its third week. Government data, including the monthly employment report and retail sales figures, have been delayed.

The decline suggests that the budget showdown in Washington has hit manufacturers’ confidence. The New York Fed surveys about 100 manufacturing firms in the state in the first two weeks of the month to compile its index.

The report “shows some clear strains from the fiscal debacle,” said Bricklin Dwyer, an economist at BNP Paribas, in a note to clients.

But economists also pointed out that the drop could have been worse. Paul Dales, an economist at Capital Economics, said the index fell into negative territory during two previous budget battles in 2011 and 2012.

“We don’t expect to see a severe slowdown in output growth as manufacturers are benefiting from the turnaround in overseas demand,” Dales said.

Lawmakers were busy Tuesday trying to find a way to end the shutdown. They are also facing a Thursday deadline to raise the nation’s $16.7 trillion borrowing limit. Without an increase, the U.S. government is at great risk of defaulting on its debt.

U.S. NEWS BRIEFS

Purported White Supremacists Arrested In Arizona

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Two members of a notorious family that authorities say once tried to set up a whites-only nation in America were arrested this week in Arizona on federal firearms charges after a raid on a sprawling ranch netted dozens of weapons and thousands of rounds of ammunition.

Kirby Kehoe and his 37-year-old son, Cheyne, had an initial court appearance Tuesday in Flagstaff. Cheyne Kehoe’s attorney declined to discuss the case, while a lawyer for Kirby Kehoe did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Authorities received a tip that Kirby Kehoe, 65, had weapons on his 40-acre property near Ash Fork, about 140 miles north of Phoenix, said Tom Mangan, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

Agents who raided the property seized dozens of guns, including shotguns and semi-automatic rifles and pistols, according to the ATF. Kirby and Cheyne Kehoe both have previous felony convictions and are banned from possessing firearms.

The Kehoe family has been well-known to law enforcement since the 1990s when authorities say they provided weapons to various white supremacists who committed robberies across the Midwest. Authorities also said the family was involved in a plot to overthrow the federal government and establish the Aryan Peoples Republic in the Pacific Northwest.

Another son, Chevie Kehoe, is serving a life sentence in federal prison for his role in the 1996 killings of an Arkansas gun dealer, his wife and their 8-year-old daughter as part of the plot.

Ex-San Diego Mayor Filner ’63 Pleads Guilty to Three Crimes SAN DIEGO (AP) — Former San Diego Mayor Bob Filner ’63, driven from office by sexual harassment allegations, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony for putting a woman in a headlock and to lesser counts for kissing one woman and grabbing the buttocks of another.

The pleas came less than two months after the 10-term congressman defiantly said he was the victim of a lynch mob and insisted he would be vindicated of the sexual harassment claims by at least 17 women if due process was allowed to run its course.

His accusers included a retired navy admiral, a university dean and great grandmother.

Filner, however, said little on Tuesday except “guilty” when a judge read the charges against him — one count of felony false imprisonment and two counts of misdemeanor battery.

FILNER ’63 Under a plea deal, the state attorney general’s office will recommend Filner be sentenced to three months of home confinement and three years of probation. The maximum possible sentence for a false imprisonment count is three years in prison and one year for each count of battery.

Filner restrained a woman against her will at a fundraiser on March 6, applying additional force after she resisted, according to the plea agreement. Filner put her in a headlock, his attorney, Jerry Coughlan, told reporters.

He also kissed a woman without permission at a “Meet the Mayor” event on April 6 and groped another victim at a May 25 rally to clean up Fiesta Island in Mission Bay. None of the victims were identified.

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hen I packed my backpack to go home for Fall Break last Friday, I included books for three of my four classes with the intention of getting some real work done. Now I find myself, on Monday, facing a prelim and an untouched Mount Doom-sized portion of readings to accomplish for the week. But unlike Frodo, faced with his perilfraught quest to return the One Ring to the fires from whence it came, I feel content with my workload.

My contentment does not only stem from the fact that I am not a small, hole-dwelling fantasy creature inexplicably charged with transporting a nearly indestructible object — tirelessly sought after by a nigh omniscient, flaming eye on top of a perilously spiraling tower — that inevitably will fundamentally alter my value structure and personal relationships. More important to my satisfaction is that Fall Break offers a release from Cornell-related responsibilities. This liberation allowed me to pursue a few of my hobbies: I slept well into the afternoon and, I will admit, I watched at least one of the Lord of the Rings extended edition films. Although these “hobbies” are not exactly conducive to the sustained pursuit of academia, they were much needed after a tough couple of months on the Hill.

Although the only headway I’ve made in studying for my Thursday night prelim is procrastinating studying for it (maybe

The Lord of the Rings — and how we would chose to conduct ourselves in Middle Earth — may offer us some insight in how to maximize our time on the Hill.

I’ll start tomorrow when I get back to Ithaca), I feel like my studying will go much more easily after getting time off from the crushing mental grind I associate with Olin Library. I am convinced — for the sake of my heart, if nothing else — that this week I’ll only need one coffee during study sessions instead of two.

The point I’m trying to make in this Fall Break-inspired column is the importance of taking breaks. While I hope that all of you, my loyal readers, enjoyed a long weekend as relaxing as mine, the reality is that with our return to our mesa Far Above Cayuga’s Waters, it becomes much harder to take a single day off — even on weekends. However, as a sort of Fall Break resolution, I have decided that I am going to make more of an effort to get schoolwork done during the week, so that I can enjoy more of the rapidly fading daylight on the weekends.

There are far too many opportunities to enjoy autumnal Ithaca to only spend your days in Mann and your (weekend) nights in Pixel. To borrow a few things from The Sun’s ubiquitous 161 Things list, you could: #4: Go to the CornellHarvard Men’s Hockey Game and throw fish on the ice, #22: Pick apples at the Cornell orchards or, if you’re feeling particularly adventurous, #72: Take over a building.

Even Frodo, after being stabbed by a poisoned knife, sought shelter in the Elvish city of Rivendale. So whatever it takes, rather than slogging through enchanted forests, sunken bogs and soot-covered pathways without respite on your journey to Mount Doom, try to stop before you get stabbed by that poisoned knife.

While I realize that it may not be the perfect analogy (although I guess Mount Doom could be graduation), I do think that The Lord of the Rings — and how we would chose to conduct ourselves in Middle Earth — may offer us some insight in how to maximize our time on the Hill. That’s all for now; I’m off to watch The Return of the King, and then, hopefully, get some studying done.

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

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Comment of the day “Cinco de Mayo is NOT “a Mexican Independence Day,” though. It only marks the victory of a battle against the French. Also, these kinds of parties usually have other subtexts going on, not just sombreros and nachos. I know of a party a few years ago where the theme was a Mexican party. To get into the party, you had to jump over a small fence, signifying illegal immigrants. That’s downright offensive. Yet nobody who went to the party had enough of a problem with it to leave. And this is the case still.”

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Saving Affirmative Action O

n Tuesday, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, a challenge to a voter-approved amendment to the Michigan State Constitution which outlawed the use of race as a factor for university admissions.

In the coming months, the Court will determine if, under the U.S. Constitution, states are free to follow in Michigan’s path — a decision that could possibly be the largest blow to affirmative action in history.

Affirmative action remains one of the most contentious and misunderstood issues in American politics. This summer, a NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll found that just 45 percent of Americans believe affirmative action is still needed to fight racial discrimination, a record low.

Misleading questions like these often frame the way we think about affirmative action — as a kind of tool for correcting the wrongs of the past. Thus, people often argue that race does not create the same hurdle as it did 40 years ago and that there are other factors, such as

family income, that we should be focusing on instead.

But that neglects the fact that affirmative action has never in history been upheld by the Courts as a means of combating discrimination. Instead, at three times throughout history — in Bakke in 1978, Grutter in 2003, and Fisher in 2013 — the Court has found that affirmative action aids in reaching a “compelling state interest” of diversity in the classroom.

Any student will tell you that a college expe-

Which is why universities have long accepted applicants on a basis far wider than just test scores and grades.

Factors such as your hometown, your parents’ level of education and legacy are used in addition to race.

Opponents of affirmative action carry the burden of explaining why only race, and never these other factors, comes under such intense scrutiny.

The unfortunate reality is that, without affirmative action programs, universities across the country would not be

The unfortunate reality is that, without affirmative action programs, universities across the country would not be able to meet any reasonable standard of diversity. rience spans far further than academics. College is the first time most kids live on their own, move to a new place and meet people of different cultures and backgrounds. Add to that the Greek system, and the hundreds of student organizations, and you have far more than just an education.

able to meet any reasonable standard of diversity. Since Michigan did away with affirmative action in 2006, for example, black undergraduate enrollment has fallen 33 percent at the University of Michigan.

With college being such a transformative period in so many young peoples’ lives, it would be

immensely damaging for them to develop in an atmosphere so drastically different from the world that they will soon enter.

Recognizing this reality, countless institutions have come out in defense of affirmative action. Over the summer, in a separate affirmative action case, Cornell, along with Brown, Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, and UPenn filed a brief with the Court defending race-based admissions programs. They were joined by over 50 Fortune 100 companies, the Boston and New York State Bar Associations and even the National Association of Basketball Coaches.

Voices from all corners of American life are saying the same thing: We are a nation founded on and strengthened by principles of diversity, and we want that reflected in our highest institutions. In the coming weeks, the Court ought to secure that crucial value.

Jess Coleman is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. She may be reached at jkc224@cornell.edu.

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Information Science

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C.U. Professor Honored by White House

By AMIT BLUMFIELD Sun Contributor

Public sharing of research is fundamental to the advancement of science. Prof.

Paul Ginsparg Ph.D. ’81, information science and physics, took this to heart when he developed a public research sharing archive, known as arXiv. For his service to the scientific community, Ginsparg, along with 12 others, was honored by the White House as a champion of change, according to the White House. This honor is reserved for those who advocate free public sharing of text.

“Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best ideas,” Ginsparg said.

While the concept of data sharing may seem trivial, when Ginsparg developed his archive in 1991, arXiv was one of the first open access text sharing systems available to researchers.

According to Ginsparg, availability of research prior to the rise of text sharing archives was unfair. While faculty members and graduate students of prestigious schools had access to publications, less prestigious or wealthy researchers were unable to access many publications.

Specifically, in third world countries, the spread of current research was sparse, Ginsparg said.

One of Ginsparg’s inspirations for developing an open access system is the late Prof. Ken Wilson, physics. Wilson, Ginsparg's thesis advisor, was at the forefront of the development of the use of computers and computer networking for research purposes. This inspired Ginsparg to develop his own open access research system.

Today, according to Ginsparg, there are over 200,000 researchers who use arXiv on a daily basis.

"The top tier researchers around the world use the system,” Ginsparg said.

Anyone with an internet connection can obtain free access to all the research posted in the system. In order to maintain a base level of scientific rigour, however,

there are some qualifications to submit research to the system. According to Ginsparg, the arXiv system uses a set of external moderators together with various language algorithms to screen for inappropriate submisisons.

ArXiv’s success can be attributed to multiple factors, according to Ginsparg.

The fact that this system was one of the earliest of its kind played an essential role in gaining users. Media influence is also partially responsible for the success.

“When research ties into some popular meme, such as invisibility cloaks pulled from Harry Potter, or teleportation from Star Trek, many new users are referred to the arXiv system,” Ginsparg said.

One famous article involved a man who used elementary physics to get out of a speeding ticket. According to Ginsparg, the man calculated the location of the police car and determined an obscurity in the radar readings, This led a judge to throw out the case.

Although Ginsparg did not expect such an impact due to media influence, he said he was glad to see it because it meant that not all of the scientific research performed fell into an obscure niche, only to be read by a few people. According to Ginsparg, it is reassuring to researchers to know that their hard work is valued by the general public.

This data-sharing system is not only designed for the benefit of active researchers, however.

“I hope that once in a while, a high school student interested in a science field finds the arXive, becomes completely befuddled by it, but still says ‘this is cool!’ and gets inspired to learn even more about science, perhaps pursuing it as a career,” Ginsparg said.

By making the system available to everyone, Ginsparg said that he hopes to persuade younger students to become more involved in scientific fields.

Amit Blumfield can be reached at ab725@cornell.edu.

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Sharing science | Prof. Paul Ginsparg Ph.D. ’81, information science and physics, was honored by the White House for his creation of arXiv.org, a free, public, research-sharing archive.

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Less Meat Is Better for Environment

By EMMA JOHNSTON Sun Contributor

Seventy-five percent of all arable land is used to support animals other than humans. However, it takes less land to grow crops that humans can directly eat than it does to raise cattle, sheep and other animals, researchers say.

Prof. Christine Costello, University of Missouri, bioengineering, a former postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell, found that the United States could both trim its population’s waistlines and reduce its environmental impact by swapping some of its meat consumption for consumption of vegetables, milk and eggs.

According to Emily Cassidy grad, University of Minnesota, growing crops

instead of raising animals could feed as many as four billion more people.

Costello compared greenhouse gas emissions, land use and use of nitrogen in soil associated with different diet types.

These diets include the average American diet, the omnivore, diet recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture, a Demitarian diet, which reduces average meat consumption by half, a ovo-lacto vegetarian diet that includes eggs and dairy and a vegan diet.

Costello used a life-cycle analysis to measure the environmental impact, land use and nitrogen and fertilizer input necessary for each diet at all stages of production.

According to Costello, it takes 4,150 square meters of land to produce all the food for an average American adult for a

year, 3,370 square meters for the recommended omnivore and 890 square meters for the ovo-lacto vegetarian. This means that with the same amount of land required to feed the average American, almost five ovo-lacto vegetarians could be fed.

Increasing trade, however, complicates the conversation of food production, according to Costello. If a farm in the Midwest exports goods to the coastal U.S., is it fair for the Gulf States to incur the bulk of environmental damages? With problems like nitrogen pollution, should environmental harm be attributed to the exporter or the consumer?

Costello said that nitrogen pollution does not seem to be an issue because nitrogen is an invisible gas.

“Nobody’s seeing the environmental impacts; it’s a problem for another region,”

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Meat matters | Prof. Christine Costello, University of Missouri, bioengineering, a former postdoctoral researcher at Cornell, says America can reduce its environmental impact by consuming less meat.

Costello said.

Nitrogen use in farming is a doubleedged sword, it both improves yields because it is a necessary soil nutrient, but too much can cause environmental problems such as algal blooms.

“The green revolution has done amazing, great things for humanity, but now we’re dealing with the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico or groundwater with really high nitrate levels,” Costello said.

According to Costello, the average U.S. diet requires twice as much nitrogen as a vegetarian dietiet.

As a leading food producer for the world, the United States has decreased its beef consumption in recent years, but production of beef has not followed this trend because the United States exports what it does not eat to other countries.

According to the USDA, the average person in the U.S. still eats twice as much protein than is recommended, and more than half of that protein comes from meat.

According to Cassidy, this helps explain why it takes 16.1 hectares to feed a person in the U.S. but only 6.5 hectares to feed a person in India.

According to Costello, food waste in the U.S. is also a problem. Close to half of all fruits, vegetables, and dairy products, 35 percent of poultry and 20 percent of beef are wasted at the consumer level, according to the USDA. Costello advocates reducing food waste by suggesting that individuals investigate what is being grown in the first place and what implications thier food choices have for nitrogen pollution and improving health.

“Sustainability is about being where we’re maximizing human well-being, where we’re not destroying the ecosystems that we need for food and not constantly facing nutrient-related illnesses, whether malnutrition or over-nutrition,” Costello said. “I wouldn’t want to take away from the ability of a child who’s malnourished to eat something that’s really nutritious like milk or beef. That’s not sustainable.”

Emma Johnston can be reached at elj49@cornell.edu.

Researchers Find Origin of Ovarian Cancer

By SHERRI COUILLARD Sun Contributor

Ovarian cancer is infamous for being difficult to detect.

Symptoms are subtle until later stages, when treatment options are limited. Additionally, diagnosis of ovarian cancer is problematic because there is dispute in the scientific community about which cells the cancer arises from.

But Prof. Alexander Nikitin, pathology, has discovered a possible origin of epithelial ovarian cancer.

Many other cancers, such as stomach and cervical cancer, are known to originate in junctions between the layers of tissue that cover the organ, according to Nikitin.

Nikitin’s work linked these junctions to the existence of stem cell niches, areas of stem cells prone to cancer.

Nikitin and his team found a new stem cell niche in the hilum region in mice.

The hilum region is a transitional area between the ovarian surface epithelium, the tissue layer covering the ovary and the mesothelium, an inner layer of the ovary.

According to Nikitin,

researchers showed that cells in this region are more susceptible to malignant transformation when compared with other ovarian cells.

The stem cells in this region were found through expression of the protein ALDH1, which marks stem cells by attaching to them. Once the cells were labeled, they grew naturally in the mice. Nikitin was then able to see how the stem cells spread, a process called lineage tracing.

Critical tumor suppressor genes, such as p53 and Rb1, are commonly involved in human ovarian cancers.

Nikitin inactivated these two genes in both stem cells and differentiated ovarian cells, the daughter cells of stem cells.

According to Nikitin, the lab found that, after injecting both of these cell types into a mouse abdomen, stem cells formed aggressive tumors, while differentiated cells rarely formed any tumors.

“This is basically proof that stem cells are really much more cancer-prone,” Nikitin said.

After genetic profiling, Nitkin used a fluorescent protein to trace the stem cells to

the hilum region. The results showed that “stem cells at this junction can give rise to cancer, but it is also possible that there are groups of stem cells in other areas, and sometimes they also can give rise to cancer,” Nikitin said.

Nikitin’s lab is now using these results to focus on humans, looking for similar stem cell niches.

According to Nikitin, the researchers are not limiting the search to just the hilum area, but are also looking at other areas around the ovary, including the fallopian tube.

According to Nikitin, the existence of such niches in other junctions is possible in human cancers.

“In women, ovaries are separate from the uterine tube; fimbria are touching the ovary and also have junctions to the mesothelium,” Nikitin said.

For now, Nikitin said he is continuing to search for other junctions in the body where early stages of cancer could be found.

COURTESY OF PROF. ALEXANDER NIKITIN

Sherri Couillard can be reached at sec264@cornell.edu.

Sinister cells | Prof. Alexander Nikitin, pathology, has found a possible origin of epithelial ovarian cancer.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Any Monster, Any Study An interview with Pixar’s Claire Faggioli ’06

BY MARK DISTEFANO Sun Staff Writer

Recently, Sun staff writer Mark DiStefano ’16 was lucky enough to interview Claire Faggioli ’06 and Scott Clifford ’96, two employees at Pixar Animation Studios, the digital animation powerhouse that has produced such films as the Toy Story saga, Finding Nemo, Ratatouille and Up. DiStefano spoke with Faggioli and Clifford about their experiences at Pixar, working on the studio’s newest release, the summer blockbuster Monsters University. Today, we present his conversation with Faggioli. Find his talk with Clifford tomorrow, or on cornellsun.com.

THE SUN: Please talk about what your job was on Monsters University.

CLAIRE FAGGIOLI ’06: I was a production coordinator.

Every film has a different department — I was in the animation department on Monsters, coordinating with different departments to [get] the shots out on time. I was a fix coordinator; there were several fix animators on the film. All

departments — once their work is in. There may be something in the animation that causes the fur to go crazy, or something, so my job was to track that, which was especially hard on Monsters because there were so many characters.

SUN: What were some classes that stand out in your memory at Cornell, or some favorite professors or experiences you remember?

C.F.: In the film school I loved [film professor] Sabine Haenni. She was a professor who I really used to connect with and used to guide me through a lot ... especially [since] I was figuring out what I wanted to do with my degree. I loved History of American film, and I liked Avant-Garde, [as well as] other non-film classes [like] Decadence and Desire. Those classes were really fun.

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SUN: What is it like to work at Pixar — and to work on a film as highly anticipated at this?

C.F.: Pixar is so much fun; the people are amazing, there are lots of great perks, it’s beautiful. Everyone was really excited about it, everybody felt like they had a great, fun movie to work on, [even though] it had tons of challenges. We had tentacles, tons of fur; every shot had its own challenges.

SUN: What was your career path like, from graduating Cornell to working at Pixar?

C.F.: I went to grad school [at] USC, because I wasn’t sure if I wanted to go into the industry, and [USC] was situated where I could intern, but also focus on doing critical studies for my graduate degree.

While at USC I interned at production companies in LA, doing script reading and stereotypical [duties as a] Hollywood intern, grabbing lunches, it was fun to be in that environment. It was very dynamic, with a lot of things to juggle. After I graduated from USC I came back up to the Bay Area. LA wasn’t for me, I mean I’m sure I could’ve lived there if I had to, but I wanted to see if I could do something in film in the Bay Area.

I’d always loved Pixar and been really interested in their movies.

It was the summer of 2008, right before the recession, and Pixar was hiring a lot of people for Toy Story 3, and I got really lucky and started as a temp and [moved on] to being a P.A. SUN: Sounds like you did pretty well for yourself!

C.F.: I got so lucky, especially since that was the first movie I ever worked on.

SUN: I understand that the environment at Pixar is an extremely live-

“At Pixar and at Cornell too, it’s a lot of people who are really driven but who are also really fun. It’s a lot of work-hard-and-play-hard ...”

Claire Faggioli ’06 ly one marked by a lot of fun, but where people also work tremendously hard. It sounds quite similar to Cornell. Is that so?

C.F.: At Pixar and at Cornell too, it’s a lot of people who are really driven but who are also really fun. It’s a lot of workhard-and-play-hard, and the people there are 150-percent

committed to what they are doing.

SUN: As a filmmaker myself here at Cornell, my love of movies began at age seven when I was inspired by the original Monsters Inc. What sorts of films inspired you to want to work in film, and specifically to work at Pixar?

C.F.: When I went to Cornell, I always wanted to do evolutionary biology. But I always loved movies, always in high school, I was in a suburban area, so every night we’d go and see a movie, even if it was really bad. I loved The Jungle Book and Indiana Jones and then later on at Cornell I was doing evolutionary biology and I had to take an elective, so I took a critical studies class in film, and that was amazing. It was the first time I realized you could study that. Aguirre, the Wrath of God by Herzog [became] one of my favorites, and [so did] The Third Man. SUN: What advice would you give to other aspiring filmmakers at Cornell, whether they want to work in animation or live action?

C.F.: These days I think a lot of people approach degrees with the idea of, ‘What am I going to do with it and how am I going to make this a job,’ and I think that’s fine, but I think if there’s something you really want do, if you really want to make a film, don’t let anything stand in the way of that. Be proactive and be open to new things, and it’ll help you.

Mark DiStefano is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.

Swinging Singles

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Eminem

Madlib

MellowHigh

“Rap God”

“Black Widow”

“Extinguisher” Released Oct. 3

Released Oct. 14

Released Oct. 15

Call it Eminem’s “Free Bird” (or don’t): The controversial artist has just unleashed “Rap God,” a sixminute single off of his highly anticipated Marshall Mathers LP 2, out Nov. 5. Presumably, Shady wanted to let Kanye know that the hip hop game is not monothestic.

Inspired by the sounds of ’70s African rock, Madlib’s upcoming project, Rock Konducta Vol.1, is a smooth and nostalgic entry to the prolific producer’s catalogue. Catch a ride on the this hip-hop/rock/soul train as soon as possible, mon.

Snoopzila and Dam Funk “Faden Away”

James Blake x Chance the Rapper

Released Oct. 15

“Life Round Here

In case one reincarnation of Snoop wasn’t enough (see: Snoop Lion), the rapping and smoking legend is adding a new one to his roster — Snoopzilla, in honor of funkmaster Bootsy Collins, affectionately known as Bootzilla. The new, funky Snoop, will be appearing as part of 7 Day of Funk, a funk group that also includes Dam Funk ... but really, we’re all here to see snoop get funky.

Released Oct. 14 Sure, it’s not a full-on single — “Life Round Here” appeared on James Blake’s 2012 EP, Overgrown — but a track this chill, and an accompanying music video this ... well... monochromatic, deserves our utmost respect.

(Remix)”

MellowHigh, another Odd Future combination, made up of Hodgy Beats, Domo Genesis and Left Brain, goes hard on their new track “Extinguisher.” The track, replete with lyrics about weed, fisting (the man?) and bringing back hip-hop. will be on MellowHigh’s self-titled debut, out on Halloween.

Mutual Benefit “Advanced Falconry” Released Oct. 4 The new song by Mutual Benefit, “Advanced Falconry” is dreamy from the start with airy harp, light plucky guitar and wistful violin for miles.

There’s something about the juicy wonder in singer Jordan Lee’s voice that, suffice it to say, makes you want to drink it up like Kool Aid on a summer’s eve.

To stream the entire Swinging Singles playlist online, visit our Soundcloud page: http://ow.ly/oxgeO

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The Filthy, Brilliant Back Alleys of Twitter

acebook and Twitter. Say it out loud: Facebook and Twitter. Twitter and Facebook. Status updates, news feeds, retweets, social media ... There was once a time when these words had a spark of potency to them, before Buzzfeed, IPOs and the Fox News Deck. We too easily conflate Facebook with Twitter, or at least bunch them together in the same headline (“The AntiSocial Social Network???”). But while Facebook deserves censure for its ever-growing string of privacy concerns and unwavering intellectual vacuity, Twitter is too rarely celebrated for what it has revealed itself to be: A platform for a new, bizarre and brilliant form of literature.

Granted, if you just follow your friends, One Direction fans and celebrity “parody” accounts (“FillWerrell” is the worst), you have yet to leave the Facebook ghetto, or are stuck on an even more insipid avenue all your own.

Of course, many of my friends at Cornell and back home maintain honest and entertaining Twitter accounts — that goes without saying. They join the wider band of users I follow, and not the other way around. Aside from my friends’ often very earnest updates (usually about appreciating life, weather, etc., or stressing over work), I find the topical, capsuled comedy of Stephen Colbert, the metropolitan musings of Ezra Koenig, the inspiring cinephilia of Richard Brody, the gaming know-all of Jeff Gerstmann and the “weird, sexual, anti-comedy comedy” of Megan Amram.

It’s that last one that I would like to talk about. Amram’s off-kilter brand of humor caught my eye early on (I’ve had a Twitter since 2009, which is apparently a long time).

From “Anyone who doesn’t request unlimited salad and breadsticks as their last meal is an idiot” to “Guys be honest how raven am I,” her style is about one part removed from the typical stand-up one-liner, and mostly in step with the alternative comedy sensibility practiced by Zach Galifianakis, who also once teased the grammar of That’s So Raven in his set. She landed a writing gig on Parks and Recreation from the strength of her tweets, which feed off millennial references and ironic turns of phrase to appeal to a predominantly college-aged demographic.

Today, Amram still deserves to be ranked with the best of Twitter, but it is down the back alleys leading from her work where you can find the most ingenious and subversive comics on the web. An acquaintance from my early high school gaming days, @piss_wizard posts like crazy (he broached 97,000 tweets recently) on anything that passes his mind,

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World from the crappy politics of his native U.K. and the U.S. to delirious pop culture mashups like “banjo kazooey deschanel.” This mad stream-of-consciousness approach to tweeting finds seasoned practitioners in @othersome and @jitka, as well. On fleeting occasions, I have interacted with these accounts and have found them to be smart, unusually self-aware young guys (one of them is a Cornell alum) who circumvent the corporate political correctness of Twitter by trolling it with apolitical, stupidly funny non sequitirs.

“@tomhanks happy hanksgiving,” read an @othersome tweet you know he waited weeks until Thanksgiving to send, while @piss_wizard tweeted to the Pope, “@Pontifex when is half life 3 coming out.” And when the cool mode of irony doesn’t suit the occasion, a concise-though-fervent rant will do, as @jitka made clear early last year: “shut up about bacon. bacon is good but just shut up about it already please. it's just bacon. it's literally just bacon” You may notice the lack of proper capitalization, punctuation and spelling in these tweets: it’s an aesthetic requirement for this school of humor. Some bloggers have referred to this body of jokesters as “Weird Twitter,” which I guess is about the right name if you had to pick one. But while the tweets may look similarly ‘broken,’ it must be emphasized that “Weird Twitter” is a simple label for a very diverse pool of comedy. Some of these masters exclaim all-caps epiphanies (@rare_basement: IMAGINE IF JAMES JOYCE COULD SEXT) while others impart narrative poetry so subtle they should be considered [hilarious] works of art (@UtilityLimb: it's sad thinking of all the dogs in old movies that have died, but even sadder thinking of the earth we fled because of the dogs that can't”). Some make light of (and truly love) gaming culture (@wolfpupy: burn your enemies and take the gems they drop) while others prefer to riff on film or music, like @ingmarbirdman or The

Mountain Goats’ own John Darnielle, who I consider an honorary member of Weird Twitter, with his standout contribution: “When my Citizen Kane moment comes I’m pretty sure I’m gonna say ‘Nerds Rope.’” Like I said, millennial humor, even for a 46-yearold man.

Weird Twitter (not a phrase I love, but it’s easy shorthand) works so beautifully because it recognizes that the utopian pitch for Twitter, and all social networks, to make the world a more connected, knowledgeable place is B.S. Twitter secured its staying power once WalMart realized it could sell more stuff with this thing. With that acute awareness of how the Internet, and thus the 21st century, works, this ragged band of comics spews both its jaded contempt and sincere awe for the world around at or under 140 characters apiece.

Ironically, doing so has fulfilled the site’s idealistic goal and united these provocateurs as they stake out a new avant-garde form of Twitterbased comedy. Leave it to @dril — a cross between Bukowski and 4Chan and surely the greatest Twitterer today — to sum up the profound and irreverent grace of the medium: “sometimes i gaze towards the beautiful endless sky and wish that i was a bird. so that i could piss and shit out of the same hole.”

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays.

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The Red also tested a new formation with several players unaccustomed to defense on the back-line. As a result, the defensive line was less cohesive, Banks said.

“We weren’t used to playing together in the back,” she said. “I think that on top of already being down 1-0, they were coming at us really hard with high pressure. We left a lot of marks open in the back, and we let them turn the corner on us.”

The Red’s offense, however, had some things to be proud of, said Growney.

“It was really disappointing, but we had some good attacking opportunities,” she said. “There were portions where we possessed the ball and it wasn’t like they completely dominated the play.”

“We got a lot of air balls,” Banks added. “And we did manage to get two goals, which isn’t terrible.”

Banks currently leads the team with six assists this season.

With four games remaining in Ivy League play, the Red is focused on the future, Banks said. In the coming weeks, Cornell will face Yale, Brown and defending champion Princeton before closing out the season against Dartmouth.

“Since we’ve had a couple of off weekends in a row, we are really focused on trying to change that,” Banks said. “By Saturday we should have had enough time to rethink our mentality and refocus.”

Cornell will play its fourth Ivy League game against Yale in New Haven on Saturday. The Red last beat Yale in 2010, losing in overtime in 2011 and falling, 1-0, last season.

This season, the Bulldogs (6-5, 1-2 Ivy) beat Princeton in overtime in their Ivy opener before losing to both Harvard and Dartmouth.

According to Growney, this week’s practice will be crucial to the Red’s progress.

“Coach Farmer really stressed that we need to move on from Harvard,” she said. “Yale is a must-win for us this weekend and we need to focus all our efforts on learning from Harvard but still trying to forget that disappointment.”

According to Banks, overcoming the disappointment of the Harvard match will pose a significant challenge for the team going into the Yale game.

“It was obviously really disappointing, and we were not prepared to lose that badly at all this season,” she said. “We have some wins under our belts, and we need to remember that and make sure we still have confidence going into this game.”

The Red aims to up its offensive pressure against Yale, Growney said.

“If we can get our attack going early, that will be huge for us,” she said. “We have a lot of speed up top and a number of dangerous players.”

Cornell also hopes to focus on maintaining possession, a task that will become more difficult on Yale’s turf field, Growney added.

According to Banks, the team’s mindset will be key this weekend.

“We’ll be practicing really hard and making sure we’re going 100 percent in practice,” she said. “We need to make sure the 11 who will start at Yale know that we need to play our best, and we can’t have a repeat of what happened.”

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Cornell Heads Into Game Against Naval Academy SPRINT FOOTBALL Continued from page 20

offense. Throughout the first four games of the season, the Red has only produced 30 total points. The 50-point mark that the team was able to reach may be a positive indication that season may end on a good note. Last Friday’s win was Cornell’s 21st consecutive victory over the Tigers since the 1989 season.

With two games left, the Red is looking to rebound off an awful start to the 2013 season. The final record will not be over the .500 mark, but the team wants to make sure that the breakdowns it was having will not follow into next season. Even though the Tigers were an easier opponent than many other teams in the league, the Red coaching staff finds it important to build off every matchup. The huge win over Princeton is sure to be a confidence booster for the players on the Cornell squad going the last two games.

This Saturday, the Red takes on the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. at noon. The Red has not won against Navy since the 2006 season. Navy comes into the matchup with a 4-0 record and is a powerhouse in the league.

The game will surely be against a more challenging adversary, so it is an ideal test of whether last week’s performance by the Red was a real turnaround or just a clobbering of a subpar opponent.

Nikita DuBnov can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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position to upset the Crimson if it could force another punt.

However, Harvard’s backup quarterback Michael Pruneau had other ideas. After converting on a third-and-7 to keep the drive alive, Pruneau hit Cameron Brate for a 22-yard touchdown with less than three minutes to go, essentially putting the Red away.

Pruneau got the start for the Crimson after starting quarterback Connor Hempel was sidelined with an injury. The Red’s defense had trouble containing him as well, though, as Pruneau completed 23 of 29 passes for 2 touchdowns and 340 yards.

“We knew Pruneau would be the starter because of injury and I think our defense did its job to keep the game close in the fourth quarter,” Gellatly said. “That’s what we wanted to do. We gave ourselves a chance to win, and that’s all you can ask for.”

The Red’s own signal caller threw for 472 yards in the game — the most by an individual in a game against the Crimson — but it was not enough in an eventual 34-24 loss. Gellatly and Bostain also both surpassed the 100-yard receiving mark, totaling 181 and 112 yards respectively. Shapiro — who was out last weekend

with a fractured foot — came back out with a vengeance against the Crimson, catching five passes for 75 yards and a touchdown.

“Coming back for Harvard and being able to make a difference and make some big plays really felt good,” Shapiro said.

“It’s just an amazing feeling to know that everyone on my team trusts that when the ball is in the air, I’m going to come down with it.”

Now sitting at 0-2 in Ivy play, the Red has difficult road ahead.

After a nonconference matchup with Monmouth next weekend, the squad will compete in five straight Ivy games, three of which will be on the road. However, according to Gellatly, keeping up with Harvard proved that the Red is prepared for these match ups.

“I think it shows us that there is no big difference between the teams,” he said. “When we come out and play with emotion and execute we can compete with anyone, but we must do that in order to win games. It is a tough loss to take, but it was a step in the right direction for our program and gave us a lot to learn from moving forward.”

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

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Cornell Falls to Ivy Foes Harvard, Dartmouth

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

After winning two of its first three Ivy League games, the Cornell women’s volleyball team had a setback this past weekend, falling in matches with Harvard (8-6, 3-2 Ivy League) and Dartmouth (8-9, 1-4 Ivy League).

Against Harvard, Cornell (5-9, 2-3 Ivy League) dropped the first two sets and won the third, but the Crimson took the fourth set for the win, (18-25, 23-25, 2523, 16-25). Cornell jumped out to a two set lead against the Big Green, but Dartmouth stormed back for the five-set win, 25-22, 25-21, 19-25, 23-25, 13-15.

According to sophomore right side Breanna Wong, the Red was sluggish at the start of the game and failed to gain momentum early enough to win the match.

“We just started off really slow, and it took longer than it should have for us to pick up our game for the rest of the match,” she said.

According to senior outside hitter Kelly Marble, Red struggled to finish sets strongly and secure set wins.

“I think throughout this match we struggled to be consistent and take care of our business, which affected our ability to close out all the sets we dropped,” she said.

The Red improved its play in the second set against Harvard, but could not secure the win. According to Wong, Harvard’s grit made it very difficult for Cornell to come back after falling behind.

“We definitely improved and started playing a lot better in the second set, but they’re a really scrappy team so it’s hard to come back after falling behind and just all of a sudden decide that we’re going to play and be able to be successful,” Wong said.

The Red had a much better start in the match with the Green, winning the first

two sets. However, Dartmouth captured the momentum and rode it all the way to a five set win. According to Marble, Cornell lost some of the intensity that it had in the first two sets, and it failed to adequately adjust to Dartmouth’s attack.

“I don’t think we came out with the same intensity after the second set,” she said. “We needed to take care of the easy plays and also step up our passing game after Dartmouth came out and started serving more aggressively.”

According to Wong, the Dartmouth attack threw the Red off its game and turned the tide.

“Dartmouth started playing better than they had been previously, then we made a couple of mistakes,” Wong said. “It started getting hectic, and it took us a while to calm ourselves down and to be able to play composed again.”

According to Wong, the Red will look to improve its passing and defensive play in its upcoming games.

“We’re definitely working on passing and on pursuing balls on defense,” she said.

With the two losses, Cornell fell into a three-way tie for fourth place in the Ivy League. After its final non-conference game against Binghamton, the Red will continue its Ivy League schedule with two home contests against Yale and Brown this coming weekend. According to Wong, the Red is confident that it has the potential to play winning volleyball on a more consistent basis.

“There have been times this season when we’ve played very well, and in the first two sets against Dartmouth, we looked like a very confident and composed team,” she said. “I know that as much as it stinks that we lost and didn’t play well consistently, we know we can play at that high level, and we’ll keep that in mind over the next few games.”

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Ancient Eight takes the cake | Sophomore right side hitter Breanna Wong and the rest of the Cornell volleyball team lost both showdowns against Ivy League rivals Harvard and Dartmouth.

According to Marble, the key for the Red is to stay confident and use the past games as motivation to succeed in the upcoming ones.

“Staying confident is important and is exactly what we are going to do,” she said.

“This past weekend will definitely fuel us to play better tomorrow and our upcoming matches this weekend.”

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

Cornell Golf Finishes in 13th Place at Temple Invitational; Team Plays 36-Hole Course Coming straight off a 10th place finish in the Macdonald cup last weekend, Cornell golf put in a solid performance during the Temple Invitational

tournament this weekend. The Temple Invitational is played on the North Course of Philmont Country Club – a 36-hole event that took place

over fall break weekend.

Cornell finished 18th in a field of 19 last year, however, ran out winners in 2007. There were 17 teams in the field this

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FORE! | Senior Craig Esposito was a shining star for the Red in the Temple Invitational, where Cornell ended up in 13th place.

year — Cornell, Binghamton, Brown, Cincinnati, Dartmouth, Fordham, Hartford, Harvard, La Salle, Penn, Princeton, Rhode Island, Richmond, Saint Joseph's, Seton Hall, St. John's and Temple.

Cornell ended Saturday in 15th place with Hartford leading with a team score of 282.

The Red ended the day with a team score of 309.

Senior Craig Esposito was Cornell’s stand out performer leading with a 5-over-par 75.

Esposito ended the day with 11 pars, six bogeys and a birdie on the par-4 18th hole – which all Cornell golfers played as their ninth hole. Seniors Zack Bosse and Carl Schimenti both put in similarly strong performances, wrapping the day up with a 77, while freshman Luke Graboyes rounded out the score total with an 80.

The Red put in a stronger performance on Sunday, moving up two places to its final position of 13th. Esposito was again the top performer, despite his rough start, with a double-bogey on the 10th.

However, immediately got

back on track with a birdie 2 on the 11th. He made the turn at 4-over, then shot an evenpar 35 on the front nine for a second-day 74 and two-day total of 9-over 149. Esposito ended the tournament as the Red’s top finisher, coming in a tie for 39th place. Graboyes had a similarly strong performance, obtaining Cornell’s round of the day with 71 and managing to crack the top 50 of the tournament’s individual performers. All three of his bogeys came in his first seven holes. Starting with a 3 on the 17th (the course's most difficult hole on the day), Graboyes parred 10 of his final 11 holes to go with birdies on the par-4 second.

Hartford won the event, using an even-par team score of 280 in the second round to finish 15 strokes clear of secondplace St. John's. Other Ivy League teams at the event were Harvard (tied for fourth), Penn (eighth), Princeton (10th), Dartmouth (tied for 14th) and Brown (tied for 16th).

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Sprint Beats Princeton,Grabs First Win of Season

By NIKITA DuBNOV Sun Staff Writer

With the 2013 season coming to an end, the Cornell sprint football team was able to come together and put a

mark in the “W” column Friday against Princeton.

It was the first win of the season for the Red and greatly needed to turn around the slow start the team has been dealing with so far. Last week’s matchup featured two teams at the lower end of the conference — both having 0-

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Getting it done | On Senior Night, the sprint football team was able to grab a 50-19 “W” against Princeton Friday to notch the

4 records coming into the game.

Throughout the season, minuscule offense output and breakdowns on special teams have contributed to the Red’s losing record. These issues did not seem to exist last Friday as the Red clobbered Princeton at Schoellkopf Field. The game was packed with early production from Cornell, leading to a 50-19 victory and a 1-4 record. The Tigers went on to a 0-5 record and remain as the only club in the CSFL without a win this season.

The Red was able to take advantage of the early miscues by the Tigers. In the first quarter, two early fumble recoveries on Princeton’s play snaps led to scoring drives.

Furthermore, as time was running out senior quarterback Brendan Miller was able to connect with freshman Robert Pannullo for a 1-yard touchdown pass in the corner of the end zone. At the end of the first quarter, the Red was up, 21-0.

The Tigers’ offense was able to produce touchdowns in each of the following quarters, but the Red did not give in.

Sophomore running back Benjamin Herrera was a strong offensive option for the Red. Herrera rushed for 162 yards and had five receptions for 62 yards. On top of that, the sophomore back was able to run in for two midgame touchdowns — one of which was a 55-yard long rush where Herrera evaded oncoming Princeton defender with some crafty moves.

The passing game was also very successful against the Tigers. Senior Spenser Gruenenfelder, who came into the contest as one of the CSFL’s top receivers, capped off his night with two touchdowns on 68-yards of total offense.

Senior running back Nick Perez, who has been the Red’s best option as a return man, added to the outpouring of offense with a 13-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter. The Red finished the night with 404-yards of total

Red’s first victory of the season.

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Red Drops Saturday Ivy Face-Off

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

Down 27-17 with 12 minutes to go in the game against Harvard on Saturday, senior quarterback Jeff Mathews and the Red started their march up the field. First, Mathews hit senior wide receiver Grant Gellatly for a 17-yard gain, before finding senior tight end Ty Bostain and sophomore wide receiver Chris Lenz for consecutive catches, bringing the Red to into Crimson territory. Just seven yards separated Cornell from bringing the game to within one field goal, but the next play would eventually decide Cornell’s fate. On the next play,

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Bigger and better | Senior Grant Gellatly, along with junior Lucas Shapiro (right) and the rest of the team, could not close the game.

Mathews’ pass — intended for junior wide receiver Lucas Shapiro — was intercepted, and though the coaching staff argued that it had hit the ground first, the call was not overturned, and the Crimson put an abrupt end to the Red’s scoring drive.

“Jeff was scrambling, and I was running across the middle … and he tried to throw the ball across his body to me. I felt the defender coming down on the ball with me and he got there before me so I just tried to hit the ball out of his hands,” Shapiro said. “If I can’t catch it, I’ll make sure no one else does. It was a tough call, but it is what it is.”

According to Gellatly, although the call did not go the Red’s way, the play was indicative of the offense’s relentless effort on Saturday.

“Jeff tried to make a play to Lucas, who had been making big catches all game and, unfortunately, it did not go our way,” he said. “In hindsight, we should have thrown the ball away and lived to see another down, but I think our attitude that entire game was to attack and force the issue and it hurt us in that situation.”

Though hindsight may be 20/20, when looking back on this game the Red will see a slew of missed opportunities that could have tipped the scales in its favor.

“We had several opportunities in the Red zone that we failed to turn into touchdowns because of execution errors,” Gellatly said. “We cannot afford to go backwards in those situations. We have to tighten up in the red zone and execute better.”

After Mathews’ pass was intercepted in the fourth quarter, the Red’s defense came up big, forcing Harvard to punt and giving Cornell yet another opportunity at the Harvard 44-yard line.

Mathews cashed in this time, ending the drive on his own with a two-yard run into the end zone.

Down by only a field goal now with under seven minutes left in the game, the Red was in

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Crimson comes through | Freshman Dempsey Banks along with the Cornell squad fell to Harvard in a tough 7-2 game.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

The women’s soccer team fell, 7-2, to Harvard at Berman Field Saturday in its second Ivy League loss of the year. While the Red (74-1, 1-2 Ivy) matched the Crimson (7-3-2, 3-0 Ivy) in the first half, Harvard rose to a sixgoal lead in the second half before conceding any goals.

The Crimson netted its first goal in the 41st minute and the floodgates opened after halftime.

After scoring two goals in the first five minutes of the second half, Harvard soared easily to 6-0

before freshman forward Meera Marhoefer headed in her classmate Dempsey Banks’ cross. In the 87th minute, sophomore forward Caroline Growney converted senior captain Rachel Nichols’ through-ball for the Red’s second goal.

According to Banks, the Red’s play did not justify a five-goal defeat.

“We had a solid first half and for most of it we were dominating,” she said. “They had a couple good runs and passes, but we had just as many shots as they did.”