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Students Stress Vigilance After Sexual Attacks By REBECCA FRIEDMAN Sun Staff Writer
Board considered the project, which, if approved, would add 67 townhouses near the University off of Route 79. Cornell has agreed to sell the land on which the townhouses would be built — 10 acres between Strawberry Hill Road and Harwick Drive — to the project’s developers, accord-
After a string of sexual assaults were reported on and near Cornell’s campus, many students say they have a heightened fear of walking alone at night and feel a greater need for being vigilant around campus. In a series of interviews with The Sun, several students said that the string of reported assaults has shaken the Cornell community — and caused them to change their behavior. “I think it really has made an impact on everyone,” Ben Chartock ’14 said. “The frequency and seriousness [of the events] hit closer to home than it ever has before.” Since the reported attacks, Chartock wonders if the police he sees on campus are there because of another attack, he said.
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Greenways vision | Developers want to build a complex of 67 townhouses, pictured above, off of Route 79 for Cornell employees.
Town Mulls Housing Plan for C.U.Staff By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer
A plan to build affordable housing for Cornell employees is generating concerns from residents who live near the proposed site. At a meeting Oct. 2, the Town of Ithaca’s Planning
After Arrest,Kim’14 No Longer C.U.Student; Court Date Set By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer
As of Tuesday, Jinsoo Kim ’14 — who was arrested on Oct. 1 in connection with a break-in at 312 College Ave. — was no longer enrolled as a student at Cornell,
News Must Be the Money
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management saw a 17-percent increase in applications this year. | Page 3
Opinion Lay Off the Malarkey
Jon Weinberg ’13 urges Cornellians attending Howard Dean and Rick Santorum’s debate to use the event as a chance to reflect instead of fixating on choosing a “winner.”
according to the University Registrar. Kim is scheduled to next appear in court on Nov. 16, according to an official at the City of Ithaca Court. Kim, 23, was arrested by the Ithaca Police Department after a trespassing complaint on Sept. 28. He was arraigned by the
Kathy Zoner said Cornell Police has no information about Kim’s current whereabouts. “This is the Ithaca Police Department’s case, though [CUPD] does indeed have a See KIM page 4
The Battle of Bailey: Santorum v.Dean Draws Near By NOAH TULSKY Sun Contributor
As Howard Dean (D-Vt.) and Rick Santorum (R-Penn.) prepare to debate at Bailey Hall Thursday, campus politicos expressed hopes the two will steer students’ attention away from theatrics and toward JOSH HANER / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Science Holy Particle!
Cornell scientists sounded off on why scientists’ discovery of the Higgs Boson — coined the “God particle” — represnts a breakthrough in physics. | Page 8
Sports Not Horsing Around
The men and women’s polo teams are optimistic as they prepare to face UVA. | Page 16
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City of Ithaca Court and served an order of protection — an order issued by a court “to limit the behavior of someone who harms or threatens to harm another person,” according to the New York State Unified Court System. In an email Tuesday, CUPD Chief
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discussion of political issues. Dean, a former governor and a Democratic presidential candidate in 2004, and Santorum, a former senator of Pennsylvania who ran for president in 2012, will debate each other at an event organized by the Cornell Republicans and the Cornell Democrats. The theme of the debate is “The Role of Government in Free Society.” Student politicos said they hope that the debate will increase political awareness on campus as Election Day approaches. “I expect both Senator Santorum and Governor Dean will be engaging and informative,” said Jessica Reif ’14, chair of the Cornell Republicans. “The goal of our event is to spark political discussion leading up to the election.” Echoing Reif’s sentiments, Jessie Palmer ’13, president of the Cornell Democrats, said the two organizations selected Dean and Santorum for the debate because they felt that the politicians would be able to spar well together. “One of the reasons why we felt these two politicians would be good at debating each other is that [they] have debated each other in the past and have a good working relationship with each other,” Palmer said. Given the fiery and often theatrical nature of political debates, Jevan Hutson ’16, a member of the Cornell Forensics Society, said he hopes Dean and Santorum will focus their attention on discussing the
role of government, rather than launching personal attacks against one another. Hutson said that political debates differ from most debates because they are often won by rhetoric, instead of by the substance of debaters’ arguments. Because Dean and See DEBATE page 4 RUTH FREMSON / THE NEW YORK TIMES
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Science and Literature Through The Centuries: A Panel Discussion 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., 258 Goldwin Smith Hall Richard Meier Lecture 5:15 - 7:00 p.m., Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall Oktoberfest Dinner 5:30 - 8:30 p.m., Robert Purcell Marketplace Eatery, Robert Purcell Community Center
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Beating Trend, Johnson Receives More Applicants recruiting staff and send them abroad to “target areas,” which include Europe, India and the Middle East. “This year, we have a micro-target Though applications to business school have steadily declined nationwide, approach to recruiting that will help the Cornell’s Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate Johnson increase brand awareness and tarSchool of Management is reporting that it get quality students,” Sneva said. “We has seen its first increase in applications recruit very strategically in specific markets to extend our reach [and have] discussions since 2008. “We had an increase of over 17 percent about why people should consider the in applications last year,” said Christine M.B.A.” Within the Johnson School, faculty and Sneva, director of admissions and financial aid. “In 2008, most business schools saw a alumni play an active role in student high in applications, and for the following recruitment, Sneva said. For instance, she said, faculty may travthree years, there had been a steady decline in applications. We were happy to see the el around the country to give lectures, while alumni may sponsor events for increase.” Sneva said that in recent years, the potential students in 20 to 25 different Johnson admissions staff has increased its cities around the country. In India, she recruitment efforts around the country. said, the Johnson School tries to connect Additionally, representatives from the with potential applicants online — asking Johnson School often travel with represen- them, for instance, to send in questions tatives from peer institutions — including about admissions through Twitter. Nora Hansanugrum grad –– who works Berkeley, Michigan, Duke, Yale and NYU w i t h — to recruit Admissions students. “The one thing that stood out with Ambassadors, a “Standing group of together and Johnson is that they ‘walk the talk.’” Johnson School hearing from students that the different Nora Hansanugrum grad reaches out to schools potential appliallows a candidate to personally identify the differences cants –– emphasized the importance of and helps them decide where they really urging prospective students to visit the want to go,” Sneva said. “It helps candi- Johnson School. “The one thing that stood out with dates look at us.” The Johnson School’s admissions staff Johnson is that they ‘walk the talk,’” has also worked to identify high-perform- Hansanugrum said. “Every school talks ing students from around the world, about collaboration, but at Johnson, you according to Sneva. She also said that the actually see it. It’s important to build real Johnson School plans to hire additional connections — see yourself being friends
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with these people, and being able to learn and work with them.” Prospective students can use the Johnson School’s website to plan visits on which they can go on walking tours of the campus, attend social events such as coffee chats and happy hours and speak with particular students who share their interests. “Having someone to confide in –– about careers, curriculum, even just the move to a different part of the country –– is so important,” Hansanugrum said. Both the admissions staff and Johnson students said the school’s strong alumni ties and collaborative feel are crucial to attracting students. “Johnson has always prided itself on being a smaller, more collaborative school,” Chris Beutel grad said. “Students applying here know they have an advantage in alumni connections. Any business school you go to, you can learn, but being able to build those connections is essential.” Hansanugrum said she was drawn to the program’s flexibility, which allows her
to take classes outside the Johnson in the Hotel School and the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. “[Johnson] offers a more diverse M.B.A.,” Hansanugrum said. “It’s not just the traditional finance and consulting track.” Sneva echoed her sentiments. “There are some schools that may be more well-known for finance or marketing. Johnson is very general management; it can cover a broad range but provide specific skill sets pertinent to a variety of industries,” Sneva said. Still, both the students and admissions staff agreed that Johnson’s strongest feature is its students. “It’s always been community. The location lends itself to be a family-type of atmosphere. It’s not an urban or commuter environment –– for students, their life is here in Ithaca, here at Cornell,” Sneva said. Sarah Meyers can be reached at smeyers@cornellsun.com.
Prof:West Nile Virus May Rise in N.Y. Disease has not spread to Tompkins County, C.U. officials say By ANDREW LEE Sun Contributor
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Graffiti, misspelling the name of Republican presidential nominee Gov. Mitt Romney, graces the entrance of Mann Library.
Criminal Possession of a Weapon
A staff member reported to the Cornell Police Department that he found a pistol in the Lab of Ornithology Thursday. The identity of the owner of the gun is unknown, according to CUPD. Grand Larceny
The Cornell Police Department took a report of a stolen Canon EOS 7 DSLR camera in Rand Hall. The camera is valued at $2,810, according to CUPD. Public Urination and Unlawful Possession of Alcohol
The Cornell Police Department arrested a student after he publicly urinated and was found in possession of alcohol near Hughes Hall Saturday. — Compiled by Harrison Okin
A Cornell professor who studies diseases carried by mosquitoes is warning that this year’s unusually warm summer may be causing an uptick in cases of West Nile Virus in New York State. The number of cases of West Nile — a disease which can cause high fever, coma and even death in humans — that have been reported to the state so far this year is unprecedented, according to Sharon Dittman, associate director of community relations at Gannett Health Services. “The number of cases reported so far in 2012 is the highest number of West Nile diseases reported to the Center for Disease Control through this point in the year since West Nile was first detected in the United States,” Dittman said. Warmer climates speed up the development of West Nile Virus in mosquitoes, which may explain the recent spike in cases of the disease in the U.S., said Prof. Laura Harrington, entomology. Harrington added that she believes the increase in cases will persist in the coming months.
“We are likely only at the beginning of a significant upward trajectory in human cases [of West Nile virus],” Harrington said. Of the 2,636 cases of the disease reported 2012, 29 were from New York State, according to Harrington. Although the New York State Department of Health has reported several cases in Syracuse and other areas in Central New York, the disease has so far not reached the Ithaca area, Dittman said. “There have been no reports of people ill with West Nile Virus in Tompkins [County] or immediately surrounding counties,” she said. Dittman cautioned against panicking about the disease, saying that only a small percentage of mosquitoes that carry the virus are able to transmit the disease. Among those who get bit by an infected mosquito, only 20 percent develop serious symptoms, according to Dittman. Additionally, just one in 150 of infected people — most of them over the age of 50 — develop more serious cases of the disease, she said. “It’s important to keep West Nile virus in perspective,” Dittman added.
Harrington expressed concerns about how effectively public health officials have been able to prevent the disease from spreading. She said that traps used by public health departments to capture possibly disease-infected mosquitoes usually only catch 10 to 15 of the 63 different species of mosquitoes found in New York. “Many of the species out there are not being monitored or collected,” she said. More than 40 species of mosquitoes and 120 species of birds nationwide can transmit West Nile virus, Harrington said. Because West Nile virus has no vaccine or known treatment, it is important that people in areas that are heavily populated by mosquitoes take precautions such as using insect repellent, she said. Dittman encouraged anyone who has questions or concerns about symptoms to talk to a health care provider, adding that Gannett urges members of the Cornell community to learn more how to prevent West Nile Virus. Andrew Lee can be reached at al726@cornell.edu.
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Kim’14 Will Appear in Court in November Students Hope Debate Will Provide KIM
been accused of — a violation. In the past, the University did not consider trespassing on private property a violation, but Grant a vested interest,” she said. said that the provision about private properZoner said CUPD is, however, “still work- ties was added to the code in the spring of ing on any connections Kim might or might 2012. not have to other reported crimes.” Although the J.A. does not have jurisdicPolice say the trespassing incident for tion over all incidents that occur off campus, which Kim was arrested followed a string of it reserves the right to review incidents that similar events dating back to April involving occurred in privately-owned property if they an Asian male are considered “serie n t e r i n g “[CUPD is] still working on any ous” violations, Collegetown according to Grant. a p a r t m e n t s connections Kim might or might not Additionally, as occupied by have to other reported crimes.” long as the alleged female residents, perpetrator was according to Kathy Zoner enrolled at the IPD’s press University at the release. time of the incident A case like Kim’s would be reviewed by the and has not yet graduated, the J.A. may Office of the Judicial Administrator if the investigate the case, according to Grant. victim decides to file a complaint within the The University Registrar said it is unable campus disciplinary system, according to to disclose further information about Kim Judicial Administrator Mary Beth Grant J.D. due to the nature of the incident and the ’88. Due to confidentiality rules, Grant could Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act not specifically comment on whether or not –– federal legislation that protects the privathe J.A. is investigating Kim’s case. cy of students’ educational records. The Campus Code considers entering or using “University or private property or facil- Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached ities without authorization” — what Kim has at dsochaczevski@cornellsun.com. Continued from page 1
Discussion of ‘Legitimate’ Issues DEBATE
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Santorum’s debate will have little bearing on the electoral landscape, however, Hutson said he hopes that they will focus on the topics they are asked to discuss. “I’m hoping for a legitimate, substantive debate, seeing as though … it isn’t an election, [so] nothing is really riding on it,” he said. As the debate approaches, Reif and Palmer said they expect that Dean and Santorum will focus on their respective political parties’ stances on the economy. Palmer added that she hopes Dean and Santorum will square off on the issue of health care on Thursday. “I hope that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, will be discussed, as both debaters have raised concerns about this legislation,” Palmer said.
Reif said she hopes Santorum will discuss issues, such as the economy, that are relevant to college students. Palmer expressed hope that Dean and Santorum will bring “honest and stimulating discourse” to the table, “as both candidates enjoy debating issues rather than partisan agendas.” “I’m eager to see both address the community, as each debater has a strong personality and drive to engage with the public,” she said. Hutson, however, said he is skeptical of how civil the two politicians, who he said each have “very strong” beliefs, will be toward each other. “It could honestly be a giant mess of a debate, because they are very passionate people,” Hutson said. “I don’t know if they’re going to be cordial; they don’t have to play nice. Honestly, I want to bring popcorn.” Noah Tulsky can be reached at nst42@cornellsun.edu.
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ding to the developer’s letter to the planning board. Additionally, the developer, Greenways at Eastwood Commons, has agreed to let Cornell sell the townhouses to its employees before any of the units are made available for sale to the general public, according to the project’s sketch plan. Although prices for the project have not been set yet, each housing unit will likely be sold for about $200,000, according to Paul Mazzarella, executive director of Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. Although Andre Perez Jr., lead coordinator for housekeeping at
the University, said providing housing for employees close to Cornell is “a damn good idea,” he said the housing units would likely be too expensive for employees to buy. “They would sell off a house [for $200,00] to an employee? Not good. Who is going to pay 200 grand for a house?” he said, adding, “We don’t make that kind of money.” Adding to criticism of the project, several residents of Belle Sherman — the neighborhood surrounding the proposed development — expressed several concerns about the project and its potential to exacerbate traffic in the area. Seventy-three of the area’s residents signed a letter addressed to Cornell saying that,
although they think the project is “laudable,” they want to ensure that the project is designed to avoid hurting “the character of our adjacent city neighborhood.” Residents believe that the effect of future residents driving “to and from Cornell, Collegetown and downtown, to and from work, shopping, recreation and children’s activities would amount to hundreds of daily trips through our neighborhood,” according to the letter. The traffic would not be compatible with Eastwood Avenue, the road leading to Woodcrest Avenue servicing the neighborhood: a “narrow residential street” that often has cars parked on both sides of the streets at day and night, the letter said. Because
there is sometimes only 11 feet of space between cars that are parked on either side of the street, residents said they believe the road would not be able to serve the additional traffic the development would attract. As a compromise, the residents asked in the letter that the developers block off access from the housing project to Eastwood Avenue, suggesting developers instead connect the project to Honness Lane and Harwick Road. “We only wish Cornell well, and ask in return only that Cornell accommodate our legitimate concerns,” the letter said. At a planning board meeting in October, other residents, like Tom Reimers, expressed concerns
that the project will worsenthe neighborhood’s natural life. It may eliminate the open space where deer currently roam about the neighborhood, he said. Christa Bissell, who lives on Pine Tree Road, near the proposed site of the project. urged the planning board to require the developers to provide bus passes to future residents. The housing project has been in development since Fall 2010, when the University issued a proposal to the board asking its members to develop plans for the project, according to a letter developers sent to the board. Cornell has agreed to sell the land to developers at a price significantly below market value, according to John Ciminelli, senior vice president of LP Ciminelli Construction, the group that would build the apartments. Developers estimate that the project will take five years to complete, according to the letter they sent to the planning board. To keep the cost of the units low without sacrificing the quality of housing, Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services will give developers subsidies for construction costs, making a third of the housing units affordable. Additionally, the agency has agreed to offer low-cost financing to homeowners. To help keep the housing units affordable in the long term, developers are discussing the possibility of capping the percentage by which the townhouses’ value can increase over time, developers said at an Oct 2. planning board meeting. This would help reduce the cost of housing for future tenants if the townhouses are resold, they said. The housing project is expected to receive LEED certification — a rating of a how environmentally friendly a building’s design is — of gold or better, according to Scott Reynolds, director for real estate housing at Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services. Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun.com.
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“These questions that wouldn’t have popped into my mind before are more apparent,” he said. On Sept. 2, two forcible touchings were reported — one in Collegetown and the other in the parking lot near Hughes Dining. Within hours of these incidents, an attempted rape was reported near the suspension bridge north of the Arts Quad. Then, on Sept. 27, an attempted rape was reported near the trolley bridge connecting the engineering quad and Oak Avenue. For some students, the reports of the sexual attacks have both served as a reminder to be alert when walking around on campus at night and left them feeling less secure about their safety. “I would say that I am a little more cautious than before,” Angela Moe ’14 said. “Overall … I feel less safe.” Melanie Larkins ’14 said she now thinks twice about previously commonplace activities like walking to and from the library at night. “I definitely think about walking home alone more,” Larkins said. “I’m a little bit more wary about going to the library at night because I don’t want to have to walk back alone.” While the reported attacks have created anxiety among upperclassmen, it has also alarmed some freshmen — who, amid the campus’ heightened preoccupation with safety, have expressed fears about their security. Allison Rotteveel ’14, a resident advisor in Mary Donlon Hall, said she has overheard conversations among residents who now feel the need to use the buddy system when walking home from the library at night. Some freshmen, she said, have received pepper spray in the mail from worried parents. “It’s nerve-wracking for freshmen coming into the atmosphere,” Rotteveel said, adding that, since the attacks, she has tried to help advise students wondering how to safely navigate their way around campus. In the aftermath of the attacks, some students say they have a heightened sense of personal responsibility for being vigilant when walking around campus, especially at night. “As individuals, we each have the responsibility to take certain precautions to prevent these kinds of events from occurring,” Ariel Rokito ’15 said. Reflecting on the attacks, Ben Dreier ’15 said he thinks that there are not always enough police officers around campus at night to encourage students to take safety precautions like using the Blue Light system. As a result, he said, “sometimes, I think that students’ intentions to walk safely are outweighed by their want to go somewhere immediately.” Others, like Chartock, said they have been left with a stronger sense of the importance of looking out for their friends’ safety. “When I’m walking with people, I’ll be a little more insistent on walking a friend of mine home so that there are two people walking together,” Chartock said. Pamela Leo ’14 agreed that the string of reported attacks has served as a potent reminder of the possibility of becoming the victim of a sexual assault. “The fact that there is an increase in reporting [of sexual assaults] puts it more in my mind that these things happen a lot,” she said. Rebecca Friedman can be reached at rfriedman@cornellsun.com.
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n Monday, Cornell Minds Matter and ALANA teamed up with BSU, CAPSU and Ordinary People to host Dining with Diverse Leaders, an event “devoted to collaboration and enacting pragmatic social change on campus.” The roughly 140 students, faculty and staff were divided among 16 tables for group discussions. Opening presentations from Ordinary People and Associate Vice Provost A.T. Miller set the context for discussions, followed by the guests at each table introducing themselves. After I mentioned that I was
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the student-elected trustee, the student to my left asked, “If you serve on the Board, why is there such a lack of student input?” There is nothing like a question about why you are failing at your job to jolt you awake. There are two campus problems underlined by his question. The first is that on many issues there could be much more student input. When I campaigned, I argued that every University committee that addresses the student experience should have students on it. We have certainly come close: The four gorge safety committees, the University Diversity Council and the RARE committee have all had student members. However, some committees have only involved students after decisions are made, and we need to keep working to ensure that student voices have a role in proactively designing student policies. The second (perhaps smaller) campus problem highlighted is the lack of information about opportunities for students to get involved. While there are often events in which students can have an important role, there will be a plethora of them next week which deserve to be highlighted. Next Wednesday, the Cornell Trustees and University Council will make their annual joint trip to Ithaca to discuss the future of Cornell. Last year, this meeting was marked with much pomp and circumstance, as our sesquicentennial celebration was officially started. This year, there will be another banquet in Barton Hall, to further memorialize the past 147 years of our history. However, the main purpose of the meetings is not to look backward. There will be a number of important issues discussed where students and student life will take the forefront. The first event is on Wednesday night, where 15 graduate and undergraduate student leaders, chosen by graduate student trustee Darrick Evensen and me, will be sharing desserts with the trustees. The event is an informal session during which students discuss whatever they like. In past meetings, trustees have expressed a desire to hear directly from students,
Greek system have impacted student behavior. Thursday night will feature two events directly for students. First, there will be a Cornell NYC Tech event involving many Cornellians — including current students — who helped us win. Students helped design the proposal, organize support and publicize the University’s strengths. Students have continued their involvement in the project, with a few even spending this past summer in New York City working on the first steps in its development. Afterward, there will be a Diversity Networking Reception open to students and interested trustees. Friday will feature at least four more events. First, breakfasts centered around athletics and internationalization, along with other topics, will give trustees and council members an opportunity to discuss specific aspects of student life. Concurrently, the task force on student, faculty and staff diversity will meet to review the Towards New Destinations framework and hear about the specific plans that the colleges, academic units and other administrative structures have submitted to improve composition, engagement, inclusion and achievement in terms of diversity. That afternoon the full Board will meet, followed by a TGIF reception in the Big Red Barn that is open to any graduate students who want to share a beer with the trustees. The number of Board events in which students can get involved and in which students’ issues are the primary focus has been growing for a few years, thanks to the help of many interested trustees. Of course, there is no way that every campus issue can be condensed and solved in one weekend of discussions. Yet the trustees know that the solution to every student issue — whether that is campus safety, Greek life, diversity or another — will be more effective if students are part of designing the solution. Alex Bores is the undergraduate student-elected trustee and a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at awb78@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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OPINION
Taking Politics Out of the Arena I
n the midst of an election year, there is no shortage of debates to be had on campus, locally and nationally. Many Cornellians have been viewing the Presidential debates with great interest and eagerly await tomorrow’s debate between Rick Santorum and Howard Dean. In viewing and partaking in such discourse, we often find ourselves rooting for a candidate or set of positions to the point where the debates become sporting events of sorts. Unfortunately, we rarely stop and consider whether this emphasis is misplaced and counterproductive. As students in an academic setting, we have a responsibility to instead promote discourse, discussion and learning in ways the general public has all but forgotten this elections season. We can start tomorrow in Bailey Hall. It’s hard not to be disappointed by the current public discourse surrounding the Presidential and Vice Presidential debates. The overwhelming focus remains on which candidate “won” by best articulating their standard rhetoric and rebutting that of the other candidate. Further attention is paid to image, gesticulation, expression and conveyed attitude. When the substance of a candidate’s assertion is indeed discussed, it’s usually in relation to the statement’s questionable validity. In many respects, we actually expect the candidates to flub the truth with the goal of “winning” on a point. Only sporadically do we pause during a debate and discuss the relative merits of points presented. Of course, a large part of the problem is the debates themselves. Candidates are fully aware that there is no standard of accountability for their statements, and make little effort to be honest, direct and substantive. Instead, they go on the attack. The American public knowingly tunes into what can only be described as theatre, for its entertainment value. For most of us, there isn’t even a semblance of knowledge or intellectual value ascertained from the series of debates this October. At Cornell, discussions surrounding the election thankfully haven’t revolved around political theatre. Nevertheless, the underlying adversarial tone of the debates permeates. Sun coverage has highlighted predictably partisan reactions to the debates on campus. We, like mostly everyone else, go into the debates and election rooting for our candidate of choice and, sometimes more intensely, against the other candidate.
I myself have succumbed to this tendency, as noted by my tweet on the front page of last Friday’s Sun. Seeing my words printed next to a Democratic donkey not only reinforced my aversion to Twitter but also alerted me to the fact that the competitive environment surrounding the election has precluded valuable discussions from taking place. I had been following the election not with the aim of learning about the country and its needs, but instead with the objective of winning, whatever implication it had. I continue to wonder what we aim to get out of the debates, both those of the candidates and the ones we have surrounding the election. Surely, it isn’t new information or a better understanding of the nuances of issues or platforms. Instead, I fear the debates manifest our competitive instincts, not just those of the candidates. I find myself watching my TV this elections season much as I watch Cornell hockey games from the first row of Section B. The competitive attitude serves me well in Lynah but not the polling booth. The stakes are far higher for me as an American citizen than as a hockey fan this fall, and thus the election deserves a more sophisticated, objective attitude on my part, and yours too. It would be far more productive to use properly conducted debates as conduits for productive discussion. A good model is Cornell Hillel’s Ask Big Questions initiative, for which I am a fellow. The aim of Ask Big Questions is to bring diverse groups of students together to answer questions which everyone can answer and has a stake in, with the hope that participants learn about themselves and others. In order to facilitate conversations, the other fellows and I use “objects” such as videos, pictures and short literary pieces to stimulate reactions and productive dialogue. If Presidential debates were conducted with a modicum of respect and presented as forums for earnest dia-
logue, they could function as objects for discussions on values, convictions and viewpoints. While they have so far failed to serve this purpose, perhaps tomorrow’s oncampus debate between Rick Santorum and Howard Dean will. Dean and Santorum are friends, and while representing very different political persuasions, they have little to gain from dishonesty or deception, as there is little at stake for them. So, I anticipate this debate will offer more in the way of substance than our
Jon Weinberg In Focus
Presidential and Vice Presidential ones have this October. I highly encourage all Cornellians attending tomorrow’s debate to treat it as a small opportunity to show what political debates and discussions should represent to the American public. Don’t go in with the intention of supporting one of the two men, or with a closed mind. Instead of cheering or jeering, spend your time thinking. Treat the debate as an object for a discussion on more critical, “big” questions. Don’t think of Dean or Santorum as “winning;” only you can win or lose, contingent on whether you gained something in the way of perspective. And in future elections, we as the American public can win by demanding accountability on the part of candidates and treating their statements not as entertainment but the subject of valuable discussion. And that’s not malarkey.
Jon Weinberg is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jweinberg@cornellsun.com. In Focus appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
Baumgartner and Barack L
ast Sunday afternoon, while many Cornellians were recovering from their respective hangovers and studying for the second wave of prelims, 43-year old Austrian daredevil Felix Baumgartner was free falling from the edge of space for science in order to be the first person to shatter the sound barrier in freefall. And it seems to me that the majority of the population was not watching. Let me repeat, a man who (when out of his space-suit) looks like a cross
historically minded friend. I was hard at work in a seventh floor Olin Library conference room with a few friends, studying for a prelim that I have this week. Seizing the opportunity for procrastination, I gleefully yelled out that a man was about to freefall from the edge of space. My friends, as eager as I for a distraction, rushed over to my computer to see the live stream on YouTube of Baumgartner’s ascent. I imagined that this excitement was how my parents had felt as they huddled around television
David Fischer Fischy Business between David Beckham and Daniel Craig, sat in a capsule for over two hours while a giant balloon towed him 24.5 miles away from the surface. Once that man was close enough to the vacuum of outer space he voluntarily climbed out of his pod and stood, overlooking the blue sphere of Earth. Then he jumped and spiraled back down to Earth. Personally, I had not even heard about Baumgartner’s attempt at history until an hour before he launched from the capsule at which time I received a mass text message from a clearly more
screens in their crowded living rooms while they watched Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins approach the Moon. However, the excitement soon began to fade as we realized that Baumgartner still needed to gain a significant amount of altitude before he would be ready to jump. We grudgingly returned to our homework assignments until we heard that he was finally about to fall back to Earth. We were jittery with anticipation for the freefall. As he stepped out of the metal egg and looked across the azure
expanse of Earth in front of him, I felt a moment of transcendence and inspiration that rivaled that of a religious awakening. Finally, after an eternity, Felix Baumgartner swan dove off the diving board and began his plummet to Earth. The first minute of freefall was divine. Watching the rapid acceleration of Baumgartner, we decided that we had never seen a more magnificent thing streamed over YouTube (and if I had been there to witness his descent live, it would have been one of my favorite sights of all time.) However, after this initial minute, my friends’ attention started to taper off. Finally, Baumgartner pulled his parachute and his descent immediately slowed after four minutes and 19 seconds of falling towards Earth. Immediately a notification flashed across the screen that Baumgartner had not broken the record for longest freefall (four minutes 36 seconds) set by Joe Kittinger in 1960. Although Baumgartner’s main aim was to break the sound barrier (a feat that he accomplished) and not to break this record my friends felt immediately cheated that he had not achieved this ultimate goal. Muttering, “oh well, that was ok I guess,” and “time to get back to studying for organic chemistry, glad that wasted so much time,” they returned to their studying without reflecting on the truly amazing experience that they had seen. That attitude of seeing something spectacular and then returning to what you were doing completely unaffected is
an attitude that pervades throughout high school and college students. These moments of childlike glee over small and large instances in our everyday lives are often not present anymore. They have been replaced by jaded japes and cynical criticisms and we seldom stop to ponder on how a man even decides to free fall from the edge of outer space. I see a similar phenomenon happening with how young adults view the 2012 United States Presidential election. In 2008 a young Illinois senator electrified a majority of the American populace with his masterful rhetorical skills allowing adults to reclaim the ephemeral sensation of childlike glee described above. However, in 2012 that same man, now the 44th President of the United States of America, has grayed hair, large bags under his eyes and the ferocious debate skills of a tranquilized lemur. After four long years of governing this nation, the President has lost some of the ability to feel the same childhood glee that, when channeled, allowed him to win the Presidency in the first place. And so, I entreat you, Mr. President, if you still possess it, to let some of that adolescent ferocity fly. Channel the electric energy of childhood and you will reenergize the supporters who rushed to voting locales in droves to elect in you the first place.
David Fischer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
8 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, October 17, 2012
Physics
Mathematics
Neurobiology
Two Cents: The Higgs Boson By SARAH COHEN SHAUNTLE BARLEY Sun Staff Writer and Sun Senior Writer
CERN researchers announced to the world on July 4 that with their Large Hadron Collider they had finally found the Holy Grail of physics—the elusive Higgs Boson, an elementary particle capable of adding mass to matter. But what does the finding mean for the field of physics? What exactly is the so-called “God-Particle” and how does its discovery bring scientists closer to understanding the universe? This week in Science, we turn to Cornell physicists and particle scientists to explain the Higgs Boson discovery and why this half-century long search is a crowning achievement in physics. Check out the full responses at cornellsun.com/section/science What other alternative theories are there besides the Standard Model?
Most of the alternative theories don’t replace the standard model but instead extend it. If you want to replace it your new theory has to also pass the many tests we have already subjected it to, since the standard model has passed all those tests. Some theories that extend the standard model are ones like Supersymmetry (which predicts that each known partner has a new super-partner that goes with it), extra dimensions (a theory which posits that there are additional space-like dimensions in addition to the three we know and love) and string theories (which try to connect gravity with the other forces that are in the standard model.) There are many more, but these are some of the more popular ones. –– Prof. Peter Wittich, elementary particle physics
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What is the Higgs-Boson exactly, and why is it important? PROF. WITTICH
PROF. RYD
The Scottish physicist Peter Higgs postulated that particles are fundamentally massless, as predicted by the Standard Model, but appear effectively massive due to interactions with an all-penetrating field that fills all of space. The interaction with this so-called Higgs field slows down the motion of the elementary particles mimicking the behavior of a massive particle. A crude analogy for this effect is to think of a ping-pong ball that is being dragged in honey: due to the viscous force of the honey (the analog of the Higgs field) one might think that the ping-pong ball is actually abnormally heavy: it moves more slowly and behaves as if it were much more massive due to the interaction with the medium. This is what we call the Higgs mechanism: the all-penetrating Higgs field generates masses for the elementary particles. The main importance of the discovery is that it verifies the picture we have developed over the past fifty years for how particles acquire masses, and also suggests that the all-penetrating Higgs field originates from a single weakly interacting elementary scalar field much like in the original proposal of Higgs. ––– Prof. Csaba Csaki, elementary particle physics
The Standard Model (SM) is a proven theory, just like any other theory that we call proven, like quantum mechanics or electromagnetism. The S.M. passed many tests and it describes nature amazingly well. So, why are we talking about alternatives? In fact, we are talking about extensions, not alternatives. An extension is something more general than what we have now, but it is not a replacement. Let me give a trivial example: “Cows in N.Y. State have four legs” is for sure a good theory, but one may like to extend it by saying: “Cows have four legs.” This new theory is also correct and it extends the original correct theory. You may ask: why did one even have to make the first theory? The answer is that if you never left N.Y. State, you would just make the first theory. But if you decided to leave and explore the world beyond N.Y. State, you would find that the first theory can be extended. So this is where we are. We have a great theory and we have many reasons to think it is just part of a more fundamental one, and we are searching for these other theories. We are now working with energies we did not have before, so we can finally “explore outside N.Y. State” and we hope to find a more fundamental theory. –– Prof. Yuval Grossman, theoretical physics
Why is the Higgs Boson reffered to as the “God Particle”?
PROF. GROSSMAN
Physicists actually almost never call this particle the “God particle” — we call it the Higgs boson. It is mostly the journalists who called it the “God particle.” The term was originally coined by Nobel laureate Leon Lederman in a popular science book. The justification for the name is that this is the particle that (loosely speaking) controls the mass of all other particles. –– Prof. Csaba Csaki, elementary particle physics
Why was the Higgs Boson so difficult to find? COURTESY OF CERN
Since it is the interaction of the all-penetrating Higgs field that is responsible for the elementary particle masses, it turns out that the interaction strength of the Higgs boson to other particles is fixed by particles’ masses — the lighter the particle the weaker the interaction. Ordinary matter consists of very light particles, so the probability of actually producing a Higgs boson is extremely small. For example, at the LHC, only one in about every ten trillion events will actually contain a Higgs boson. In order to discover the Higgs, one first has to collide many tens of trillions of protons, and then be able to sift through all the data. But this is not all: the Higgs is a very short-lived particle and will decay almost instantaneously. Thus, instead of directly observing the Higgs one has to look for its decay products. It turns out that the most common decay products of the Higgs are actually hard to distinguish from other events with no Higgs bosons in them, and the type of Higgs decays that one can use most reliably are very rare. –– Prof. Csaba Csaki, elementary particle physics What is the Standard Model?
The Standard Model of particle physics is one of the most fundamental theories of physics we have. It answers two of the most basic questions about nature: 1) What is matter made from? and 2) What are the forces, or interactions, between the matter particles? ––– Prof. Anders Ryd, elementary particle physics The ‘Standard model’ embodies our understanding of what are the most fundamental, smallest building blocks of matter and how they interact with one another. In the model we can classify particles as either matter particles or force particles. The matter particles are further subdivided into quarks (the things that neutrons and protons are made of) and leptons (things like electrons and neutrinos.) The force particles include the photon (it's responsible for the electromagnetic force), the W and Z bosons (they are responsible for radioactive decay, among other things) and the gluon (carrier of the strong force, which binds the quarks together inside nuclei.) In addition to these particles there is a Higgs particle (also known as the Higgs Boson). It is in interactions with it that the particles become massive. ––– Prof. Peter Wittich, elementary particle physics
How does the discovery of the Higgs Boson affect these other theories?
Well, your new theory better predict a Higgs-like particle –– otherwise, it just doesn’t work. There are some theories that have been ruled out by the discovery of the new particle. For instance, one called “technicolor” tried to be just like the standard model, but without a Higgs particle. We can say that it’s pretty likely that this theory has been ruled out. Otherwise, most of the new theories can accommodate this discovery because many people were assuming that the Higgs would be discovered. –– Prof. Peter Wittich, elementary particle physics What is next for particle physics?
An important goal for particle physics, and the LHC in particular, is to record more data to allow more detailed studies of the Higgs Boson’s properties. Among other things this involves measuring more of the decay modes of the Higgs. At the observed mass of about 125 GeV, or about 133 proton masses, we have access to many different decays of the Higgs. The discovery was made in the final state where the Higgs decayed to two photons or two Z bosons. The Standard Model Higgs is also expect to decays to a pair of W^+W^- bosons and pairs of quarks and lepton. More data is required to establish these decay modes of the Higgs. But confirmation of these decays at the expected rate would solidify the interpretation of the newly discovered boson as the Higgs. –– Prof. Anders Ryd, elementary particle physics
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SCIENCE
Wijaya ’15, Chua ’14 and Lin ’15 Win International Mathematics Contest With Leaf Predicting By Jessica Harvey Sun Staff Writer
It was David and Goliath as a Cornell team of engineers beat more than 3,600 mathematics majors from around the world to become national champions in the International Mathematical Contest in Modeling (IMCM) 2012 this past spring. Alvin Wijaya ’15, electrical and computing engineering, Dennis Chua ’14, chemical engineering, and Jessie Lin ’15, electrical and computing engineering, used their programming skills to win the Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Award with their software pro-
COURTESY OF ALVIN WIJAYA ’15
Plant predictions | Dennis Chua ’14 explains his teams probability program for predicting the amount of leaves on a tree.
gram that simulates the growth of tree leaves based on sunlight patterns and calculates their masses. Using MATLAB, a mathematical programming software, Wijaya, Chua, and Lin designed a program that would have real life application to scientists around the world. According to the team, their software will help researchers approximate two things: the most-likely leaf shape for a given tree in a given region, and the total mass of all the leaves in that tree. By using the team’s software, researchers no longer have to physically go to a tree to categorize and count each of its leaves. Instead they can simply use the modeling system to approximate the information needed. According to Lin, the process of creating, designing, and implementing a modeling software program was difficult, but rewarding. “We racked our brains to come up with an implementable model that was reliable and flexible at the same time,” Lin said. “We began with a basic model that was built mainly on probability and then expanded it to take into account the geometry of the tree, the region of growth, and the season.” The predicted leaf shape and mass numbers that come from their software are precise, according to Wijaya. He said that the team crosschecked their results with real data and found it to be accurate and applicable for scientists. The team said they were thrilled with not only the accuracy and real life application of their program, but also with their success at the IMCM. Their competition — juniors and seniors majoring in mathematics — was intimidating, according to Wijaya, so winning was a pleasant surprise for them. Historically, he said, the winning projects had primary foundation in mathematics, but their model mostly relied on programming skills and a simulation idea,
COURTESY OF ALVIN WIJAYA ’15
Mathletes | Alvin Wijaya ’15 and Dennis Chua ’14 were awarded the Mathematical Association of America Award in Spring of 2012 and they represented Cornell at MathFest2012.
rather than pure math knowledge. “Going into the competition, we thought our design was pretty simple, but it turns out that we did it quite well. We went there without any hope of winning, but then we won it. It was mind-blowing,” said Wijaya “My favorite part was writing the program for our rigorous models.” Chua said. “I ended up writing over 4000 lines of code over four practically sleepless nights. It was all worth it when we ran both models at the end and they produced highly corroborative results.” According to Chua, the team had only four days to perform everything, including the design of the software program and the paper writing portion. The team said working together as a unit was crucial. “Dennis was our main software programmer and came up with the idea of
using a fractal-based model,” Wijaya said. “I was the online researcher and the mathematical analyst and came up with the idea of a 3-D fractal-based model, and Jessie was the mathematics formulator and came up with the idea of time-based simulation model.” The team said that they hope to extend their software beyond tree leaves and into various other types of plants across the world in various regions and climates. Wijaya said he was proud of his team’s accomplishment. “If you’re a freshman, don’t be afraid to try projects like this. You can do it,” he said, Wijaya and Chua also presented their award-winning software at MathFest 2012, the largest annual mathematics conference, in August in Madison, Wisconsin. Jessica Harvey can be reached at jharvey@cornell.edu.
Just Say ‘Know!’: Prof. Harris-Warrick Discusses The Effects of Drugs on Brain By LISA GIBSON
The first frenzy of papers and prelims hit campus these past few weeks, and perhaps you were one of the many students downing coffee or caffeinated energy drinks to help stay awake at 3am in the library. But amid the cramming of Punnett squares, Newman projections and Schrödinger solutions, there was a fury of other biological activities taking place in your brain caused by the caffeine in your drinks. Prof. Ron Harris-Warrick, neurobiology and behavior and professor of BioNB 3920 Drugs on the Brain, spoke about the effects that drugs and stimulants such as caffeine have on the brain at an event held in Willard Straight, hosted by Cornell Minds Matter, an organization that supports mental health education. While most people don’t think of caffeine as they think of cocaine and other drugs, caffeine’s addictive properties are similar from a biological perspective. Dopamine, a neurotransmitter, is released in your brain as part of the reward pathway
Harris-Warrick spoke about a number of different drugs in his presentation. Alcohol is a legal drug, “Knowledge is strength. Intelligient and most decisions are made based on knowing adults have tried it at consequences of behavior.” least once in their lives. In Prof. Harris-Warrick moderation alcohol usudopamine signal is a learning ally does not cause problems, he signal: it detects rewards and said. Some individuals become attaches value to objects and addicted, but most do not. The behaviors by activating the difference is due to genetics. reward system, Harris-Warrick Some people are predisposed to said. alcohol addiction, so in underHarris-Warrick also spoke of standing the drug’s affect on a the importance of knowing person it is important to know what happens in the brain when that person’s family history. drugs are involved. Cocaine is Other drugs, like nicotine, the best understood model, he are more addictive, he said. said. It hijacks the dopamine About one third of all smokers reward system by directly acti- become addicted to nicotine. vating it and bypassing normal Another example he spoke perceptual senses like taste buds about was ecstasy. Ecstasy is or sugar sensors. By bypassing sometimes called the love drug the senses cocaine enhances the or hug drug because it often release of dopamine so that tak- enhances empathy in the user. ing the drug is perceived as It has more psychological highly rewarding. The reward is effects that most other drugs associated with cues, behaviors and produces a long lasting loss or surroundings associated with of the mood regulating neurotaking the drug. Cues are often transmitter serotonin function the first steps for many that lead in the brain, from which the to addiction. brain may never fully recover.
to expectations. If the stimulus is better than expected signals to release dopamine are sent. The
Sun Staff Writer
COURTESY OF PROF. JULIUS LUCKS
Neuro notes | Prof. HarrisWarrick teaches about how drugs interact with the brain.
when caffeinated coffee is consumed. The neurotransmitter is a chemical signal that is passed from neuron to neuron across a synapse, the point of communication between two neurons. All drugs that produce mood and perception changes affect the brain’s dopamine reward system by affecting the chemical conversation between nerve cells at synapses, Harris-Warrick said. This holds true for drinking coffee inside the library or smoking cigarettes outside the pub. The reward pathway registers values of rewards compared
Abusing ecstasy may cause depression and decreased cognitive ability. Even though addiction occurs in the same way for all psychoactive drugs, it is important not to group all drugs as the same because the consequences and effects on life are different, said Harris-Warrick. “Knowledge is strength,” he said. “It helps you make intelligent decisions. Intelligent decisions are made based on knowing consequences of behavior.” Drugs have a powerful effect on the brain, because it changes the brain’s biochemistry and treatment for drug addiction is not merely stopping the act of using the drug. There is no single method of treatment; a battery of treatments like medical treatment, psychiatric therapy, and social therapy. may be necessary to help. Harris-Warrick said however, that the most important aid in overcoming drug abuse is a supportive environment. It is also important to recognize the role of friends in recognizing when someone needs help and in supporting someone. Lisa Gibson can be reached at lgibson@cornellsun.com.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT
Off the Road MORGAN GREENE / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
BY DAVEEN KOH Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor
“Somewhere along the line I knew there’d be girls, visions, everything; somewhere along the line the pearl would be handed to me.” Jack Kerouac was right. Unabashedly optimistic and slightly sinister, the freewheeling road trip has certainly earned its mystique and romance. Biophysicist and photographer Thibault Roland post grad, might agree, “I rented a car, and took every road heading toward the ocean.” That was the extent of Roland’s plan when he set off for Newfoundland, Canada, in pursuit of good subjects to photograph. An arduous but awesome 20 days and 5,000 km later, Roland returns to Mann Gallery with Terra Nova, a raging and racing photography travelogue that still manages to be impeccably poised. Roland accentuates the much-celebrated glory of the road trip by giving “Aftermath,” his photograph of a long and winding highway, its full color in a gallery of mostly monochrome prints. The violet sky has been shattered. The road takes on a richer purple and the yellow and white painted lines make their vivid mark on the highway. The pylons, apparently everlasting, have poles like crosses — making this scene some kind of Golgotha ... You stop yourself because you’re most definitely over-reading “Aftermath.” The scene is probably just the product of an inconvenient storm. But there are too many colors and symbols to reconcile. And the feelings evoked are too preposterous. This rush that pulls you into the picture, sets a vortex of thoughts into motion, is precisely what makes the picture so incisive, intrusive almost. Otherworldliness and opposition are not lost on Roland, a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute. In his exhibition at Mann Gallery this past spring, Timescapes, the prize-winning photographer presented ethereal and elegant black-and-white pictures of Cornell and its environs. Terra Nova is an equally meditative but far more strident selection, perhaps because Roland takes on the new role of awestruck stranger. Roland’s compositions realize Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic world in which everything, including language, has broken down and given way to ash and darkness. Some of McCarthy’s lines in his novel The Road make for incisive descriptions of Roland’s work, “Dark of the invisible moon. The nights now only slightly less black.“ Roland’s Terra Nova doesn’t exactly resemble Ed Ruscha’s deadpan Twentysix Gasoline Stations, a book containing photographs of 26 gas stations, each labelled with its brand and
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location. In contrast, Roland’s Brave New World is devoid of any of the staples of the drive-in society that blossomed with the Interstate Highway Act of 1956. But the two photographers’ works have a lot in common. There is a lot of art is in the concept and composition of the scenes. Their photographs are critical of the medium; each picture does not claim to tell an objective truth, but rather honestly documents the subject depicted. Every choice made, from the angle to frame, is part of a unique, limited narrative — the history of a moment. The intimacy of Roland’s pictures is as carefully orchestrated as Ruscha’s detachment. When Roland finds a suitable subject, he tries to get as close to the subject as possible, patiently retaking the photograph or altering its parameters
until he achieves the picture he has composed in his mind. Most, if not all of his pictures are long exposures, between 30 seconds and three minutes a photograph. The process is as grueling as it sounds. On average, Roland estimates that he takes 30 minutes to capture each photograph. If weather conditions are less than ideal, he returns to the scene for another attempt. Roland’s very precise work manages to be miniscule and epic at the same time. He stands on the shoulders of giants. He looks over their shoulders, and invites us to do the same. In “Ice Giants,” the marbled sky is placid but contentious. Horizontality dominates, imposing its leaden gaze on this scene of oppositions. Long, black slabs of land stretch from the right into the gauzy sea. They look like fortresses and yet, incredibly, they seem to float. Dark dashes are streaked across the right half the sky. In contrast, the left half of the scene is awash with light. Two radiant mounds of ice, mystically enveloped by mist, lie peacefully in the distance.
The light-dark opposition is, of course, rich in symbolism. But it is perhaps enough just to stop and stare; it is enough to let the scene, and its possibilities of symbolism, arrest you. The pitfalls of today’s impossibly fast-paced life been lamented to death by a multitude of iPhone users. But that doesn’t make putting prescribed panaceas to practice — giving yourself over to serendipity for an instant — any less powerful. There’s a lot of play in Terra Nova. Let’s tessellate, Roland seems to suggest. “Twins” appears to be a close up of “Repetition,” framed four pictures away. In both works, boats glide into a circle of light (In “Opening,” Roland similarly uses a spotlight to frame the striking protagonist, a gap between two seemingly convergent land masses). Like stately geese possessed of lives that are fully their own, the boats slice purposefully ahead. Blurred in motion (probably due to Roland’s long range exposure technique) their ends look like the wings briskly flicked by a paintbrush. “When Rock Meets Ice” comically re-imagines the interactions between the elements of a landscape. On thickly snow-covered ground, a rock and ice slab meet. The objects, already made stark by their bold color, form a horizontal line demarcating the top quarter of the picture. They look like halfembarrassed friends who bump into each other at the grocery store. Opposition returns, this time with optical illusion, in “Breaking Waves.” The solid sky makes for a unified upper half of the picture, but the lower half, occupied by craggy rocks and burbling water, is undeniably fragmented. The turbulent reflection of clouds in the water makes it hard to distinguish between land and sky. It’s almost as if someone copied the upper half of the scene and stirred it, which makes sense in a Salvador Dali-esque world where everything melts and swans reflect elephants in ponds. Allowing the landscape to present itself to you can be weird or wonderful, but nothing short of all consuming, as Terra Nova shows. It’s worth going on and off the road to find out, as Roland did. And so did Kerouac, who recounts in On the Road, “I woke up as the sun was reddening and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn’t know who I was — I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel …” Terra Nova will be on display at Mann Gallery, on the second floor of Mann Library, till October 28. Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com.
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Dada Life The Rules of Dada So Much Dada
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Dada Life fans are some of the most insane people you will see at a concert, and they won’t let anyone or anything get in the way of their raging to ridiculous amounts of bass. Many come to shows dressed in banana suits, a nod to the band’s emblem of champagne and bananas. The band matches this energy, throwing giant inflatable champagne bottles and bananas into the crowd, and smashing bananas against their heads. At the last Dada Life show I attended, Stefan sprayed the crowd with a bottle of champagne just as the bass dropped. Despite the alcohol burning my eyes, I continued to jump, sweat and mosh with the other crazed fans. Dada? No, not the the avant-garde artistic movement, but electro-house duo Olle Corneer and Stefan Engblom, better known as Dada Life. They have been on tour non-stop for the past three years, mostly in Europe and North America, putting in late night studio hours to crank out tracks in between shows. On Tuesday, the group released The Rules of Dada, their much-anticipated second full length album. Filled with grimy, energetic tracks, this album is the culmination of years of hit
singles and fan-building. The duo began making music in 2006, but didn’t gain mass notoriety until their first album Just Do the Dada. From there they went on a rampage of singles, starting with “Cookies with a Smile,” many of which appear on their latest album. The new album starts off with the band’s most recent single, “Feed the Dada,” which uses catchy vocals to command you to feed your inner Dada. After a sweet build up their signature crackly electromelodic bass comes in to bring the ruckus for the drop. The album contains past singles like the track “Happy Violence” with vocals from NERVO. The happy, highpitched, horn-appropriated synth makes you whistle its simple melody, while a rolling bassline gives the track the violence its title implies. “Happy Violence” evokes the theme of Dada Life — being high on happiness. “Rolling Stones T-Shirt” is an epic track featuring subdued vocals bathed in reverb, leading up to a drop with a plethora of wild, bassy sounds. Their lyrics capture the essence of a Las Vegas pool party: “Let’s go play in the water / you can borrow my
Rolling Stones T-Shirt / happy drunk in the afternoon / don’t take it off.” With an incredible remix by Cazzette, this track is sure to get any party, pool or otherwise, going strong. One other familiar track on the album is “Kick Out the Epic Motherfucker,” a track whose title might come close to capturing the passionate fervor of the song. A simple roll from one note to the other creates the tension in this song that builds to a drop that has been played and admired by D.J.s across all genres. The constant snare creates a pulsing beat, amplified by the whirling synths increasing in pitch to a breakdown of a haunting, distant whistle noise. This catchy segment leads into an immense drop, with its two note oscillation and incredible amounts of bass. “So Young So High” is a serious contender for a fan favorite. The track’s funloving nature perfectly sums up the attitude of Dada Life fans — intoxicated kids looking for an infectiously riotous release and finding it in the wild bass and crazy environment of the band’s shows. The distorted, computerized voice which repeats, “So young, so high,” is accompanied by swell-
placed snares building up to an addictive drop that again uses that signature crackly, electro-melodic bass and a touch of syncopated silence. The lyrics come back in “Feeling young and feeling high / we will never ever come down.” The song is perfect for the crux of the duo’s show when they are almost about to close but need one last impressive track to both unify the crowd and raise the energy levels to an alltime high. But it’s the band’s vocals that has propelled Dada Life to the top of the charts, as they realized that the American segment of the electronic market craves something to hum or sing over their bass injected tracks. “So Young So High” is a sublime culmination of an album which is party themed and captures the imaginations and ears of a generation of young electronic music fans. If you like the music of this genuine Swedish duo, catch them on tour as they are constantly traversing the US spreading their mantra of champagne and bananas. Zachary Reisler is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zreisler@cornellsun.com.
Celebrity Takeover: 2012 Election Edition
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f you want to see your favorite celebrities this fall, you years ago. Celebrities have become living and breathing don’t have to change the channel to E!. CNN will do. SuperPacs, who acquired their massive amounts of capital, From the Party Conventions to YouTube campaigns, the not through the Koch Brothers, but through their ability to upper echelons of the Hollywood stardom-sphere are plug- hit a high D flat or internalize the subtle nuance of a Gus Van ging for their preferred White House occupant. San period piece. The celebrity-politician relationship has long been a closAlong with having dollars for days, these actors and artists er circuit, with each new election cycle marked by the glossy can sell a candidate’s brand better than the copywriters at parade of fame-on-fame rallies, concerts and caviar-laminat- Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce. Be it a character, an image or ed black-tie dinners. Excluding the celebrity endorsements a product, celebrities make their livelihoods as salespeople. that co-star unoccupied wooden chairs, it’s hard to deny the So if a celebrity can convince us to buy Neutrogena and positives superstars have brought to White House hopefuls. Yoplait Light in 30 seconds, reason has it he or she can conThe rise of the celebrity endorsement went hand-in-hand vince us that Candidate A isn’t a tax-happy socialist or that with the rise of the film industry. Early stars of the silver Candidate B isn’t a soulless private equity tycoon with the screen like Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford helped heart of Mr. Burns and the backbone of Smitters. They have Warren G. Harding jitterbug his way passed James M. Cox ethos from their celebrity and pathos from being performers. in the election of 1920. And during the airtight JFK-Nixon Logos be damned. Thus, when a slumping Obama is lookcampaign of 1960, photo-ops with Sinatra and the Rat Pack ing to keep Ohio leaning light blue, the first person his team solidified the idea that Kennedy was “cool,” particularly in sends to the Buckeye State is not an economist, it’s Bruce contrast to the perpetually sweaty brow of Tricky Dick. Springsteen, a lifelong rocker who didn’t have time to comThis year we have Clooney, Springsteen and Longoria for plete a government major during his half semester at Ocean Team Obama while Jeff Foxworthy, Kid Rock and yes, Mr. County College. Eastwood battling for Mitt. Even Big Bird and Jenna While Obama benefits from the appeal of Chris Rock Jameson are getting in on the action, campaign-wise, with and Romney taps on the stardom of Kid Rock, it’s less clear our favorite talking canary pictured in a pro-Obama T.V. that celebrities gain anything, at least professionally, from spot, while our favorite alliterated porn star has voiced her making their political opinions public. Michael Jordan used affinity for the to say he would never endorse Romney / Ryan ticket. candidates because “Republicans (Jameson’s endorsing buy shoes too.” An endorsement quote: “When you’re would make consumers view rich, you want a Jordan as a liberal, not as an Republican in office.”) unstoppable basketball machine. With the swell of popThe Jordan “brand” — apparel, Guest ulist movements over commercials, Space Jam movie — Room the past four years, were profitable for what he reprebetween the occupying sented on the court, not off it. and the tea partying, The same is true for celebrities one might think members from each end of the ideological outside of sports. As a liberal, I have trouble with more than spectrum would be turned off by the political gospel of the just the curve when watching Clint Eastwood’s most recent celebrity. film. For how can I not let Eastwood’s infamous convention For both the struggling liberal urbanite and the conserv- speech muddle a connection to his character? I find it even ative Joe and Jane six-pack from Midwest, USA could be harder to watch Scarlett Johansson’s character in Hitchcock rebuking the political appeals of the distant villa-owning and not revert back to the person who made the fiery DNC celebrity millionaires; their decadent fantasy lives so far speech. removed from post-Recession realities. Yet this is not the case. Movies rely on the viewer believing that for two and a half Celebrities are in as much demand today as they were four hours, Tom Hanks doesn’t exist; only Forrest Gump. So
Brian Gordon
when a comment or endorsement references a polarizing contemporary issue, like a presidential election, the actor becomes more real than the characters he or she portrays on the screen, no matter if the viewers agree or disagree with the comments. Let musicians, actors and athletes all have a podium from which to be heard. And if they’re willing to risk professional success for personal beliefs, than more power should go to them. But to preserve the purest form of a fictional character, an actor needs to be as apolitical as possible. In real life, celebrities are best seen and not heard. Brian Gordon is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at bgordon@cornellsun.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.
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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis
ACROSS 1 Hip-hop fan 5 Les __-Unis 10 Olympian’s goal 14 Smidgen 15 Chevy Blazer, now 16 Orchestral wind 17 *One to four inches per day, for bamboo 19 Endorse, in a way 20 Rice-__ 21 Toga party costume 23 Take part in a 1920s fad 26 Like a prof. emeritus 27 Big pitcher 28 *Noted scythe bearer 33 Lowly laborer 34 Goody two shoes 35 *1973 Thomas Pynchon novel 41 Concerning the ears 42 Japanese noodle 43 *Wrestling style that forbids holds below the waist 46 First responders, briefly 50 Cyclotron input 51 Meeting 53 Eleanor Rigby, for one 57 Snorer’s problem, perhaps 58 Hops drier 59 *Pearl Jam genre 62 Attend to, as a job opening 63 Come out with 64 Wrath, in a hymn title 65 “South Park” cocreator Parker 66 Nonlethal weapon 67 Recipe amts. DOWN 1 Oaf 2 Take for a time 3 “Becket” star 4 No page-turner 5 Ordinal suffix
6 Roofer’s goo 7 Obsessed fictional captain 8 For the full nine months 9 Garden apparatus 10 Dad-blasted 11 Drama award 12 Theater section 13 It might be pounded out 18 “True dat,” quaintly 22 Do more than listen 24 “__ Around”: Beach Boys hit 25 “Iliad” setting 29 “Recapping ...” 30 Pint seller 31 Old Japanese capital 32 Remote button 33 Test showings 35 Silence 36 Robot play 37 “Now We __ Six”: Milne 38 Thoughtless way to stare 39 Nutritional figs. 40 First-class
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53 Like fuzzy slippers 54 Poker holding 55 Cruise destination 56 Wearying routines 60 Once known as 61 Canine warning that the answers to starred clues have in common, initially
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a “huge recruiting [opportunity]” for Cornell. The majority of all collegiate schools that have rowing teams will attend in an event where, “everybody wants to be seen in a positive light,” according to Kennet. All three coaches agree that planning and practice go into a successful performance at the Head of Charles. Gehman discusses the need for, “Lineup changes and switches to fine tune the people … in the boat,” while Kennet explains that “power is going to make the biggest difference,” and Kerber looks for, “opportunities to make [the team] faster and more efficient.” Health will also play a role in the teams’ success come Sunday. Gehman and Kennet explain that, “a good night’s rest,” can go a long way. By “maximizing the work [they] do at practice,” “taking care of [themselves],” and “getting enough sleep,” explains Gehman, the rowing teams will be in the best shape to succeed in the Head of Charles regatta. Skyler Dale can be reached at sdale@cornellsun.com.
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Just about a quarter of the way through Ivy League play, the Ancient Eight remains very much up for grabs. Three teams — Harvard, Princeton and Penn — stand at the top of the conference with 2-0 records, while Cornell and Dartmouth are right behind at 1-1. This weekend — with all eight teams back in Ivy play — is sure to be an exciting one with two first place teams battling it out to see who will remain undefeated. Harvard Crimson (5-0, 2-0 Ivy League)
Though the Crimson sits in a tie for first place in the league, it remains the favorite as it is the only undefeated team overall. This weekend Harvard will head to Princeton to try to retain that perfect record. The squad’s last Ivy win came against Cornell, when it defeated the Red, 45-13, on the back of quarterback Colton Chapple, who completed 24 of 36 passes for four touchdowns and 362 yards. He connected with wide receiver Andrew Berg for three of those passing touchdowns. Treavor Scales — who also scored a touchdown against the Red — leads the running game for the Crimson with seven touchdowns in only five games so far this season. Princeton Tigers (3-2, 2-0)
The Tigers may have two losses overall, but it came by a total of four points in the first two games of the season. Since then, the squad has been dominant — outscoring its opponent 87-20 in the last three games. This impressive point differential is in large part thanks to the defense. Senior defensive lineman Caraun Reid was just named Ivy League Defensive Player of the Week for his performance in the shutout of Brown. Reid had six total tackles — four for loss — and 2.5 sacks in the game. He is third in the Ivy League in tackles. Freshman cornerback Anthony Gaffney has also given the squad a boost defensively. He picked up his second Ivy Rookie of the Week honor after recording his conference high third interception against Columbia. Reid and Gaffney will need to continue this defensive prowess in order to give Harvard a scare this weekend. Penn Quakers (2-3, 2-0)
It took a game-winning fourth quarter drive to bump Penn over Columbia last weekend, but the Quakers can now breathe a sigh of relief that it is still undefeated in the conference. Penn has lost all three of its non-conference games, but its defense has since come alive. After starting the first two games of the season off without a sack, the Quakers have recorded ten in the last three games. Penn’s senior quarterback Billy Ragone has been a standout for the squad thus far. His 34 pass attempts against Columbia gave him a 58% career passing percentage — fourth best in the history of Penn quarterbacks. The Quakers will take on a struggling Yale team this weekend, and will likely move to 3-0 in the league unless the Bulldogs can pull their first upset of the season. Dartmouth Big Green (3-2, 1-1)
Sitting in a tie for second in the conference, the Green has been a surprise this season with the help of young sophomore quarterback Alex Park. Park only saw action in two games his freshman season, but has proven his worth as a starter this year, leading the Green to three wins in its first five games. Park has completed at least 70 percent of his passes in two different contests — the first Dartmouth quarterback to do so since 1983. He is also second in the league in passing efficiency and 23rd nationally. Junior Dominick Pierre has battled injuries to lead the running game with five touchdowns. The Green will take on Columbia this weekend in N.Y. Brown Bears (3-2, 0-2)
Probably the toughest portion of the Bears’ schedule has come and gone. Brown’s first two Ivy games were against top contenders Harvard and Princeton respectively. Although they put up 31 points against Harvard, the defense could not contain Colton Chapple and the Crimson offense, which scored 45. On the contrary, the Bears’ offense failed when it was shutout by Princeton last weekend. Brown will have to be especially efficient in both aspects this Saturday against Cornell — another tough challenger in the league. The Bears will need the tandem of senior quarterback Patrick Donnelly and senior wide receiver Tellef Lundevall to come up big this weekend. Columbia Lions (1-4, 0-2)
The Lions’ only victory this season came in a low scoring 10-9 victory over Marist. The squad has dropped four straight since then, and has not scored more than 20 points in a game thus far. The offense has only connected for five total touchdowns — three on the ground and two in the air. Taking on a tough Dartmouth team, the Lions have tough work ahead this weekend at home. Yale Bulldogs (1-4, 0-2)
Lack of an experienced quarterback has caught up to the Bulldogs in the early part of the season. In two Ivy games Yale has allowed 89 points and scored only twenty. Freshman quarterback Eric Williams has struggled with the ball in his hands, throwing twice as many interceptions as touchdowns in his first five starts at the collegiate level. It only gets worse for the Bulldogs from here on out, as the team has yet to face three of the top teams — including Harvard and Princeton. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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POLO
Cornell Heads to Face Defending Champion UVA By SHAYAN SALAM Sun Staff Writer
Propelled by victories in its first matches over the weekend, the women and men’s polo teams head to Charlottesville, VA to take on defending national champions UVA on Friday and Saturday. The Cavaliers defeated both Red teams in last season’s national tournament. The women’s team enters next week’s rematch after a resounding 37-1 win over UMass in its season opener. Starting for the Red were captains junior Kailey Eldredge and senior Ali Hoffman, with freshman Devin Cox filling in the third spot for the first chukker and fellow freshman Anna Winslow trading with Cox for the second chukker. The Red shutout the Minutemen, 8-0, in the first chukker and dominated the second chukker to go up 20-1 at halftime. Juniors Mariah Lavitt and Beth LeBow replaced Hoffman and Kailey Eldredge for the second half, while Cox and Winslow traded off again for the third and fourth chukkers. The freshmen duo led the team in scoring, with Cox tallying eight and Winslow posting nine. Head coach David Eldredge ’81 said he was pleased with how Cox and Winslow played. “I’m very happy with their production and the way they’re fitting,” he said. “It’s definitely a process moving forward that we’re hoping to get this production out of them on a consistent basis. They seem to be feeding off of the success of Kailey and Ali, who really know how to set the table.” He added that he’s planning to watch players in practice to determine who will play in the third spot against UVA, but that it might be a gametime decision. According to Kailey Eldredge, next weekend’s match could be more of a challenge for the new players due to differences between Oxley Equestrian center and UVA’s arena. “UVA’s arena is a little bit bigger than Oxley so that’s some-
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On the road again | Both the men and women’s teams will head on the road to play defending national champions UVA. thing we have to adjust to,” she said. “Ali and I have played at the arena enough times now that we’re fairly used to it, but it’s something that newer players will have to get used to.” The men’s team credits an unfamiliar arena as one of the reasons last week’s match-up at Skidmore was closer than expected. After crushing the Thoroughbreds, 44-0, last season, the Red eked out a 19-17 win after trailing for the first three chukkers. Despite struggling with the size and surface of Skidmore’s new arena, senior captain Branden Van Loon said the difficult game was good practice for the upcoming face-off against the Cavaliers. “I think even though the playing styles are very different and the arenas are very different, in order to be successful in the Skidmore arena we had to adopt a similar mentality that we’ll have to for the Virginia arena,” he said. “We weren’t really able to handle and finesse the ball which is the same kind of thing.” The men’s team hopes for a strong showing against UVA, who defeated the Red, 28-10, in the national semifinals in April. The Red returns the core of its squad while UVA lost
two of three starters due to graduation. “[We] have a whole lot better outlook than we did last year,” David Eldredge said. “Retaining the same men’s team, now we’ve got all the facts. It’s just a matter of establishing ourselves and bringing us to a level where we need to be to play against them.” The Cavalier’s women team returns two out of three starters from last season and is filling the final starting spot with last season’s alternate. UVA topped Cornell, 17-13, in the national championship game last season after the Red’s surprise appearance in the finals, but Kailey Eldredge said the team is focusing on the new year ahead. She added that improved depth and better competition in practices helps the team prepare for challenging games. “I think we have a more even team this year,” she said. “No matter what we’re going to have three strong players out on the field and I think that’s going to be a big advantage.” Shayan Salam can be reached at ssalam@cornellsun.com.
ROWING
C.U. Brings Home Three Medals
By SKYLER DALE Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell rowing teams combined for three medals at the Head of Genesee race this past Friday. The men’s heavyweight team finished second and fourth picking up the silver medal against Brown with a head race time of 15:15.70 and a sprint time of 4:26.64 for a score of 28:35.73. The women’s team finished second and third in the race against Syracuse, Buffalo, Cansius, and Duquense for both the silver and bronze medals with head race times of 17:17.47 and 17:57.41 and sprint times of 05:01.67 and 05:07.35 for scores of 32:22.48 and 33:19.76. The lightweight team finished fourth and sixth failing to score any medals, but achieving what Coach Chris Kerber calls, “ [a] solid post fall break performance.” Both the men’s heavyweight and women’s teams finished head races within 15 seconds of first place against Brown and Syracuse respectively. While women’s head coach Hilary Gehman admits, “[she] would have liked to have won,” she recognizes that the race was, “a good place to start.” As with most fall rowing races, weather turned out to be an important factor in the teams’ performances.
“We got there, it was 20 something degrees, [and] we had to warm up – it’s not easy being outside when its cold like that,” says coach of the heavyweight team Todd Kennet. Gehman, however, adds that while the conditions were, “not ideal,” they were, “out there for everyone,” not just Cornell. She claims that “If [the team] lets [the weather] affect them, it will affect them, but if they don’t … it’s not a big deal.”
All three teams will compete in the massive Head of Charles race this Sunday in Boston. Kennet describes the race as, “one of the largest sporting events in the world,” a scene which includes, “[shutting] down part of the city so that streets can be used as walkways.” He also emphasizes the breadth of the event, which includes teams of all levels, appearances by Olympians, and See ROWING page 14
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Row, row, row your boat | Both the men and women’s rowing teams took home a combined three medals at the Head of Genesee this past Friday.
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Red Beats Wildcats; Taylor Standiford Named Ivy Rookie of the Week This week the Red took down the Davidson Wildcats, 2-1, on Monday in an away matchup. The two Cornell goals came in the first nine minutes of play thanks to junior forward Hannah Balleza and senior forward Kat DiPastina. Junior goalkeeper Carolyn Horner also made six saves for the day to help the Red take home the victory. The win for the team puts its overall season record to 7-6 and places Cornell in second place in the conference with a 3-1 Ivy record. Additionally, freshman midfielder Taylor Standiford was honored as the Ivy League Rookie of the Week this week. In last week’s matchup against Harvard, Standiford was a key player in the 4-0 victory against the Crimson scoring two of the four goals, including the game winnner. This Ivy League recognition for Standiford adds to the total season count for the Red, as this is the third straight week that a Cornell player has won an award. Freshman back Marisa Siergiej, Balleza and Horner also were recognized. — Compiled by Haley Velasco