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Reed relies more heavily on PACs
By MATT ROSENSPIRE Sun Senior Writer
In a race that could decide which party controls the House of Representatives, the Republican incumbent, Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y. 29), continues to outraise Nathan Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09, but only by a narrow margin, according to financial disclosures released Wednesday by the Federal Election Commission. As of September 29, As of Sept. 29, Reed has raised Reed has a total of $1.87 million to raised a total of $1.87 milShinagawa’s $639,019. lion. In comparison, Federal Elections Commission Shinagawa has r a i s e d $639,019. Reed’s largest source of donations continues to be political action committees, which comprise 54.6 percent of all contributions to his campaign. Though the proportion of PAC money received by Shinagawa’s has increased as well, from 8.6 percent to 12.6 percent, his largest source of contributions continues to be individuals donating more than $200, which account for 60.4 percent of his haul. See CONGRESS page 5
C.U. Leads at World’s Largest Ferris Wheel By OLIVIA DANG Sun Contributor
As the University ramps up its efforts in New York City, researchers in the Johnson Graduate School of Management have joined the trend — serving as the leaders of the design team responsible for creating a multimedia exhibition on Staten Island at the base of what will soon be the world’s largest Ferris wheel. The New York Wheel is expected to be a state-of-
the-art attraction and include a restaurant, a theater and several multimedia exhibitions on innovation, alternative energy and New York City history. The Johnson School’s Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise will lead the development of an exhibition on the influence private sector business has on global sustainability and entrepreneurship. Prof. Mark Milstein, clinical professor of management and organizations at the Johnson School
SNL Star to Perform in Statler Auditorium By REBECCA HARRIS Sun News Editor
Cornell will welcome yet another Saturday Night Live comedian to campus Nov. 4, when actor Jay Pharoah performs in Statler Auditorium, the Cornell University Program Board announced Wednesday. Pharoah, born Jared Farrow, is best known for his stand-up comedy routines and impressions of celebrities including President Barack Obama, Will Smith, Eddie PHAROAH Murphy, Denzel Washington and Kanye West. He also plays the recurring role of school principal Daniel Frye on SNL.
In the SNL season premiere Sept. 15, Pharoah made his debut as the show’s new Obama for the 2012 election season. He replaced SNL veteran Fred Armisen, who had played Obama on the show since 2008. Pharoah will round out a trifecta of recent performances at Cornell by SNL stars. Comedians Seth Meyers and Kenan Thompson performed stand-up routines at Bailey Hall, in March and April, respectively. Tajwar Mazhar ’13, executive chair of CUPB, said the organization was not specifically seeking another SNL star to perform on campus when it selected Pharoah. “It wasn’t something on purpose. We were looking at a few options, but he seemed like the most popular,” she said. “It’s not something intentional, but [SNL] is one of the few mainstream showcases for comedic talent.” Pharoah, 25, is now in his third season of
SNL after joining the cast at the start of the show’s 36th season in 2010. He began his career performing at local comedy clubs, and his past experience includes sketch comedy series “Charlie Murphy’s Crash Comedy” and BET’s “One Mic Stand.” Pharoah will perform a stand-up routine and showcase his celebrity impressions Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in Statler Auditorium. “He does really good [impressions]. His Obama and his Denzel Washington are kind of incredible,” Mazhar said. “Apparently his Kanye West is really good too.” General admission tickets to the show will be sold at $10. Tickets will be available for purchase Oct. 23 at cornellconcerts.com. Rebecca Harris can be reached at rharris@cornellsun.com.
By LIANNE BORNFELD
On the heels of the second round of presidential debates between incumbent President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Doug Usher M.A. ’97, Ph.D. ’99, a pollster and expert on U.S. elections discussed polling, the current campaign climate and voter sentiments in
Malott Hall Wednesday evening. Usher is the founder of the Purple Poll, a monthly analysis of the swing-state electorate, and has been cited by Fox News, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, Politico and numerous other news outlets. As managing partner of the research division of Purple Strategies, a bipartisan public affairs firm, he provides See POLLSTER page 4
News Striking a Balance
Cornell Graduate students with children and families struggle to manage home life and their full course loads. | Page 3
Opinion Popping the Bubble
Katerina Athanasiou ’13 urges Cornell students to leave campus and explore the surrounding areas of the city during autumn. | Page 9
Dining Sexy and Sustainable
Austin Buben ’14 stresses the importance of eating sustainablly produced food in the area and beyond. | Page 12
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Pollster: Campaign Money Is‘Crack’ for Pres. Candidates Sun Staff Writer
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Not So Tame After All
The Sun reviews Tame Impala’s new record, Lonerism — an album about isolation, loneliness and being lost in your own head. | Page 9
Sports Starting Strong
Men’s Hockey will open their season in Boston this weekend where they’ll take on the B.U. Terriers. | Page 24
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Another Usher’s confessions | Cornell alumnus and Washington, D.C., pollster Doug Usher ’97 speaks about the 2012 presidential election.
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Grad Students With Kids Struggle to Find Balance at C.U.
By NIKKI LEE Sun Staff Writer
As the mother in a household comprised of two graduate students, a toddler and a 14 week-old baby, Alice Beban grad said she constantly struggles to “compartmentalize” the different parts of her life. Beban, a thirdyear Ph.D. student whose husband works at the University and is pursuing a Cornell masters degree this year, has lived in Hasbrouck Apartments since she arrived at the University. “When you’re with [your family], you want to have fun, but you can’t help thinking about work,” Beban said. “From 5 to 7:30 p.m., I try to just think about the kids.” Graduate students at Cornell vary by age and lifestyle, from recent undergraduates to married parents. Seventynine percent of graduate and professional students are in their 20s, 18 percent in their 30s and three percent are in their 40s or older, according to Elizabeth Ellis, communications director for the Graduate School. While all graduate students face a rigorous course load, those with children must contend with the additional responsibility of raising a family. For some residents of Hasbrouck — an apartment complex that primarily houses graduate students with children — help has come in the form of finding a niche in the Cornell community. Rumela Sen grad has lived in Hasbrouck for three years. Sen, a fourth-year Ph.D. student, said she does most of her work at night, from the time her 6-monthold daughter falls asleep at 8 p.m. until around 2:30 a.m.
the next morning. Before coming to Cornell, Sen moved from India to a Philadelphia suburb, where she “met deer, rabbits and sparrows, but few people,” she said. In Hasbrouck, however, her life is different: “You know your neighbors, you see them every day. It’s more like you’re integrated into a neighborhood. It makes you feel that you belong somewhere, that you belong to a place.” Hasbrouck offers several family-oriented programs — such as Panda Bears, a group of mothers and children who meet up to talk or play — each week. The community also has six graduate community advisers, including Beban and Sen, who plan additional programming for residents. To the stay-at-home spouses of graduate students with children in Hasbrouck, these programs can be especially important and provide an opportunity to meet new people and keep themselves busy during difficult times. “In the beginning, we were always fighting. It was very hard for him and us,” Miao Shian Hsieh said of her and her husband, a Ph.D. student. “Now, it is much better. Little by little, it is getting better.” The stress and isolation associated with the dual responsibility of being a parent and a student can often create tension in a relationship, Beban said. In addition to caring for their families and spouses, students must worry about maintaining a full course load to finish their graduate programs within the time allotted by their funding packages. To help alleviate this stress for parents, Cornell offers a parental accommodation policy to help graduate teaching assistants “balance academic and research responsibil-
Fostering the people
ities with parenting demands,” according to the University’s website. The option allows students to take leave from their teaching assistant duties, with or without pay depending on the circumstances, length of time away and demonstrated financial need, according to Sen. However, Beban said University-provided childcare services are more expensive than many graduate students can afford. Depending on the number of children, the costs of childcare may drain the majority of the stipends graduate students receive for research or T.A. work. Although Cornell does offer subsidies for childcare, there are some, including Sen, who do not qualify. Both parents must be full-time students or employees to be considered for a subsidy, after which financial need is assessed, according to Sen. Sen said she can only afford babysitters and nannies because her husband works. Still, Beban said that the University has generally made an effort to accommodate graduate students with families — offering lactation rooms in buildings across campus, for instance. Despite the struggles of balancing marriage, parenthood and work with the pressure of a competitive academic program at Cornell, Beban, Hsieh and Sen all said that they are happy in their situations. On having their first child just as they were transitioning from New Zealand to Ithaca, Beban said, “We knew it was the wrong time to have a kid, but we loved each other, and it felt right. We’ve never regretted it.” Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun.com.
Chinese Librarians Travel to Ithaca For Internship With Cornell Library By DARA LEVY Sun Contributor
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Students on Ho Plaza Wednesday advertise People’s School on the Arts Quad, a teach-in event to be held Thursday.
A computer science course offered for free online by Harvard University in conjunction with edX, a nonprofit virtual learning initiative, was one of two classes to go live Monday. It’s enrollment has surpassed 30,000, The Harvard Crimson reported. Various organizations at Brown University are now working on the last details of a revised proposal that will provide genderneutral housing for incoming freshmen, according to The Brown Daily Herald. Proponents of gender-neutral housing created a website to explain the proposal to parents of incoming first-years. Based on the findings of a university survey, students at Yale University were divided on whether the next president of the university should hold a Yale degree. Forty-two percent of students said yes, while 56 percent responded that it is “not important,” The Yale Daily News reported. — Compiled by Liz Camuti
ods. Xin Li, associate University librarian for central library operations, added that the participants might also train librarians from other countries in collection preservation techniques. “If we can help a few countries that have the biggest collections and train them to train [librarians in] other countries, we are having a huge impact for the well-being of [library collections in] the future,” Li said. Li added that the recent emphasis on online resources has siphoned focus away from the
The Cornell Library’s Department of Preservation and Conservation will host library staff from four different Chinese academic libraries to teach them about western book binding preservation techniques. Beginning in November, two staff members from each of four institutions — Renmin University Library, Peking University Library, Tsinghua University Library and the China Agricultural University Library — will participate in the program. “In the past, networking beyond borders Funded by a $180,000 grant from the was not possible. Now, education and Henry Luce Foundation, a New York State non-profit that provides educational research are really global activities.” grants, the eight interns will visit Cornell for six-week periods of instruction by Xin Li Cornell librarians over the course of the preservation of physical books. 2012-13 academic year. “With the digital age, more and more [physiOver the course of their time at Cornell, interns will study the historical evolution of cal resources] are disappearing,” she said, emphabooks and learn techniques for repairing bindings sizing the importance of continued conservation on western books, caring for library collections, of tactile collections. The program will continue with a second properly displaying library exhibits, preserving component that will take place over the 2013-14 collections in the event of a disaster and more. Although the librarians are familiar with the academic year: The Cornell Library’s preexisting preservation of rare Chinese books, they are gen- online preservation tutorial, written in 2000, will erally less well-trained in the conservation of be brought up to date and modernized with western books, which use a different type of book videos and interactive options, Eden said. It will binding, according to Barbara Berger Eden, also be translated into Chinese. Li said the program is indicative of the ways in director of preservation for the Cornell Library. “We’re very adept at safe exhibition practices which technology now allows libraries throughwhere we do no harm to the original objects, and out the world to network with one another better after conducting a needs assessment [study] in than ever before. “In the past, networking beyond borders was China I observed that Cornell could share its not possible. Now, education and research are expertise in this area,” Eden said. The internship is similar to a program the really global activities,” Li said. Li noted that establishing networks with other library hosted in the mid-1990s in collaboration libraries expands access to content and assistance with libraries in Southeast Asia, Eden said. “The department has a commitment of train- for Cornell students and faculty. She said she ing and education done locally, regionally, hopes that one day Asian libraries could recipronationally and internationally. Our mission is to cate by teaching American library staff how to better repair and preserve the bindings on eastcontinue this type of training,” she said. Eden said she hopes that the Chinese libraries ern-made books. “[Exchange programs] are a way to continue that send staff members to participate in building relationships by giving something to Cornell’s internship program will subsequently develop comprehensive preservation programs them that they need, and in return they will help for their collections. She added that she would us get what we need,” Li said. also like to see the interns follow a “train the trainers” model — that participants will use what they learn at Cornell to help other libraries in Dara Levy can be reached at China similarly improve their preservation meth- drl97@cornell.edu.
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analysis of political trends and public opinion. “When it comes to presidential politics, there’s two things I say: The very worst thing if you want to understand American politics is to follow a presidential campaign, and the second thing is everybody likes a good train wreck,” Usher said. Campaigns are “completely unpredictable” in regard to what bumps will occur along the proverbial campaign trail, but they can be very predictable in their outcomes through polls and political analysis, according to Usher. Citing Clint Eastwood’s exchange with an imaginary Obama at the Republican National Convention in August, Romney’s remarks about the 47 percent of Americans who he says don’t pay income taxes and Romney’s statement that he would defund public television — leading to a social media storm of support for Big Bird — Usher said such sensational moments remind us that campaigns are “strange.” “They call [campaign season] the silly season,” Usher said. The unpredictability in the presidential election is mounting due to the onslaught of ever-increasing quantities of campaign money that can influence the election, according to Usher. “Political money is crack. And people that go into politics are addicts. Campaign finance laws help them get crack. Better yet, redistricting laws help them choose their dealers,” he said. Despite surprises along the campaign trail, Usher said candidates’ strategies going into the 2012 election are fairly predictable. Romney needed to solidify his Republican base and focus on the economic weaknesses the country faced under the Obama administration, while the president’s strategy included attacking Romney on a regular schedule in addition to solidifying his Democratic base, Usher said. “[Obama] was definitely dealt a harder hand,” he said, describing Obama’s approach through much of the campaign as waiting for Romney to
misstep. But he noted that this strategy, in which a candidate seeks to develop an unflattering caricature of an opponent, left Obama vulnerable to the possibility that Romney would not appear as that character in the public eye. “I think what was so dramatic about the first debate was that we had months of Romney [refusing to release tax returns and criticizing the 47 percent] and that the guy that showed up on debate night was not that person at all,” Usher said. “Romney was not the character of the 47 percent video, and Obama didn’t come prepared.” Noting marginal fluctuations in polling following both the vice presidential and the second presidential debate, in addition to the nature of the undecided voter — ever waiting for “someone to talk to me” — Usher added that campaigns only provide an impetus for limited change. “Campaigns aren’t great for changing hearts and minds. Campaigns are great for directing hearts and directing minds,” he said. Such is the nature of positive or negative results at the polls: Campaign staff will try to spin negative poll results in a way that reduces its impact to prevent a downward spiral, according to Usher. Talk of the inaccuracies of polling typically arises when negative polls suggest that a campaign is beginning to sour, he said. “The only poll that matters is on Election Day” is another such dismissive pronouncement that may indicate that a campaign is “losing,” Usher said. Still, polls can provide insight into various factors throughout a campaign cycle, he said. In part due to polling — and pollsters like himself — Usher said that margins of victory in elections have grown increasingly narrow over the years. “Campaigns are sort of like a football game where there’s no scoreboard. There’s no referee and everybody’s watching … Polling when it’s done right is a lot more than what the score is, it’s the strategy used to win,” Usher said. Lianne Bornfeld can be reached at lbornfeld@cornellsun.com.
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and director of the Center for Sustainable Global Enterprise, said that the center will work to create a high-tech, state-of-the-art exhibition on innovation and sustainability to showcase a range of topics, including green building and design, next-generation green materials, low- and no-carbon energy technologies and geo-engineering. The New York Wheel project will also provide a number of opportunities for Johnson School students, Milstein said. “The intention is to provide the intellectual leadership that will determine the focus and content of the expo. It is also our vision to offer an educational component that will include experiential learning opportunities for students at Cornell,” he said. Involvement in the project will also give the Johnson School increased name recognition, according to Rich Marin ’75 MBA ’76, president and CEO of New York Wheel, LLC. “[The New York Wheel] is a way for the Johnson School to receive as much visibility in New York City as the CornellNYC Tech campus,” Marin said. “The Johnson School’s knowledge of sustainability and commercialization can be applied to a grand real life project, instead of just private research.” In 2014, New York Wheel, LLC will begin construction, on the northeastern side of Staten Island, of what will be New York City’s first observation wheel. The wheel will stand at 630 feet, equivalent to an approximately 60-story building, and will accommodate up to 1,440 visitors per ride, according to a University statement. The wheel will have 36 compartments, each of which will carry up to 40 passengers, according to the statement. Visitors will be treated to views of Lower and Midtown Manhattan, the Statue of Liberty and the New York Harbor for the duration of each ride. The wheel will be accessible via the Staten Island Ferry and has the potential to draw a high volume of visitors, according to leaders involved in the project. “With over four million visitors and an additional one billion social media impressions expected each year, the New York Wheel offers an unprecedented opportunity to influence how people understand what the private sector is doing to solve some of the world’s most pressing problems,” Johnson School Dean Soumitra Dutta told The Sun. New York Wheel developers hope the center will achieve LEED Platinum certification, the highest rating awarded for sustainable construction, Marin said. In addition to the sustainability exhibition, which will be housed in the new attraction’s 100,000-squarefoot terminal building, there will be significant open green space around the base of the wheel. “The space can incorporate stormwater capture methods, a green rooftop the length of three football fields to oxygenate the environment and wind and solar energy harvesters,” Marin said. Marin added that the attraction may be able to grow and produce food to serve at the center’s proposed eateries. “The green rooftop is an example of organic urban farming in a controlled manner, which could even be used to support the attraction’s restaurants and food services,” he said. Marin said the New York Wheel is scheduled to launch with a grand opening on New Year’s Eve at the start of 2015. Olivia Dang can be reached at oyd2@cornell.edu.
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These numbers, however, do not tell the entire story of the campaign. Reed, as the incumbent, has been fundraising since his election in 2010. The $1.87 million figure therefore takes into account all funds his campaign has raised since Dec. 31, 2010. Shinagawa began his campaign in March 2012. In the most recent quarter, Reed outraised Shinagawa by just more than $100,000, with Reed bringing in $424,025 and Shinagawa $319,379, according to FEC disclosures. This development may help Shinagawa receive financial support from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which has labeled the election an “emerging race” — one in which a Democratic candidate has made the election increasingly competitive. According to Shinagawa, his campaign has raised “a significant amount more” than other emerging races. Additionally, comparing the large percentage of contributions to Shinagawa that come from individual donations — 84.1 percent of his total — to Reed’s 39.2 percent may not capture the full complexity of the race’s fundraising. Shinagawa has raised $537,590 from individuals, while Reed’s $734,058 from individuals is more than Shinagawa
has raised altogether. Shinagawa only surpasses Reed in donations under $200, which comprise 23.7 percent of his total with $151,307 raised, compared to Reed, who is at 3.7 percent with $68,953 for the same threshold. In terms of spending, Reed leads by a significant margin. In the past quarter, Reed has spent $447,141 on what the FEC terms “operating expenditures.” This figure is almost tiwce the $241,540 Shinagawa has spent. Not all of Reed’s spending, however, has been within the district. Reed has given significant amounts of money to other political campaigns as well. In June, for instance, his campaign donated $8,000 to five different congressional campaigns. Of them, only one was a New York candidate; the other donations were made to candidates in West Virginia, Rhode Island, Tennessee and Arizona, according to FEC documents. Such transfers between candidates are not rare. Shinagawa, indeed, has received two: $1,000 from Friends of Maurice Hinchey and $1,000 from Mike Honda for Congressional Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D) is the retiring incumbent representative for the defunct N.Y. 22nd District, which included Ithaca before redistricting. Rep. Mike Honda is from California. Reed is aided in spending by the substantial war chest he had amassed by June. He began this quarter with $833,729
on hand and, despite $424,000 in spending, still has $810,114 on hand going into the general election. Shinagawa ended the quarter with $177,974 in cash on hand. Such spending has led to media efforts by both campaigns that depict starkly different views. An ad on Shinagawa’s campaign website, for example, portrays the race as a referendum on “rebuilding the middle class” and making the economy “work for everyone” — playing upon accusations that Tom Reed would cut taxes for the wealthy and reward companies that ship American jobs overseas. The ad is shot in black and white until Shinagawa appears, endorsing the message and saying that he “choose[s] the middle class.” An ad on Reed’s website strikes a noticeably different tone, opening with a shot of Reed and his family. Reed narrates the ad, during which he tells viewers that, “as a husband and father, I worry about the future for your kids and mine,” because, he says, “factories are closing [and] unemployment continues at record levels.” Reed’s prescription for the future is less regulation, tackling the national debt and imposing no new taxes. Matthew Rosenspire can be reached at mrosenspire@cornellsun.com.
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Hawaii, N.Y. Woman to Be Elevated to Sainthood HONOLULU (AP) — In life, Mother Marianne Cope was known for her strength and kindness, battling bureaucrats in Hawaii as she led a group of fellow Franciscan nuns to care for leprosy patients in the islands. And since her death 100 years ago, she has been credited with helping cure two people. On Sunday, Mother Marianne will be declared a saint, with the Vatican formally recognizing what her supporters have long believed in their hearts: She is in heaven and that through her intercession two people were miraculously cured of ailments that should have killed them. At the ceremony presided over by Pope Benedict XVI, the church will also canonize six others, including Kateri Tekakwitha, a 17th-century Mohawk Indian who spent most of her life in what is now upstate New York. Bishop Larry Silva of the Honolulu diocese said the church canonizes people so adherents can be inspired by their example to go to heaven and become saints themselves.
“Our ultimate goal is to be in heaven and we know the journey there is not always easy. So we need role models, people who can inspire us through by their lives to do the same,” he said. The event comes nearly a century after Mother Marianne’s 1918 death at Kalaupapa, an isolated peninsula on Molokai Island where Hawaii governments forcibly exiled leprosy patients for decades. Mother Marianne heard the call to come to Hawaii from New York state in 1883 when she was 45. She was the only religious leader in the U.S. and Europe — of 50 asked — who agreed to a request by Hawaii’s king and queen to come to the islands to help leprosy patients. At the time, there was widespread fear of the disfiguring disease, which can cause skin lesions, mangled fingers and toes and lead to blindness. The Hawaiian kingdom began exiling patients to Kalaupapa in 1866 to control the disease, a policy that remained in place until a century later even though new drugs in the 1940s made it curable.
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Nielsen: 65.6 Million Watch Second Debate NEW YORK (AP) — With an estimated 65.6 million viewers, the television audience for the second presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican Mitt Romney was smaller than the first — but only slightly. The Nielsen company said 67 million people watched the first debate a week earlier. Tuesday’s town hall style debate at Hofstra University was still seen by more than any of Obama’s three debates with John McCain in 2008, and had more viewers than any second presidential debate since 1992. It was shown live on 10 television networks, with the Spanish-speaking Univision and Telemundo airing it on tape delay. The audience was likely larger when viewing on tablets and other computers is considered, but Nielsen does not have those measurements. NBC had 13.8 million viewers, more than any other network, with ABC second at 12.5 million, Nielsen said. Fox News Channel’s audience of 11.1 million viewers narrowly missed becoming that network’s most-watched telecast ever. The Joe Biden-Sarah Palin debate in 2008 holds that distinction. CBS had 8.9 million viewers for the debate, CNN had 5.6 million, MSNBC had 4.9 million and the Fox broadcast network had 4.6 million, Nielsen said. The season’s final debate, moderated by Bob Schieffer, will be held next week.
Meningitis Outbreak Deaths Rise to 19 NEW YORK (AP) — Four more people have died in the national meningitis outbreak, bringing the death toll to 19, health officials said Wednesday. The deaths are among the 247 people in 15 states sickened in the outbreak. They all received shots of an apparently contaminated steroid medication made by a Massachusetts specialty pharmacy. Most of the patients contracted a rare fungal form of meningitis, after getting the shots for back pain over the past few months. Two developed infections from joint injections. Of the latest deaths, two were in Tennessee and one each was reported in Florida and in Virginia, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Wednesday. That brings deaths to eight in Tennessee; three in Florida and Michigan, two in Indiana and Virginia, and one in Maryland. Test results so far show infections with three kinds of fungus, most of them a form of black mold, the CDC said. Of 42 patients, 40 were infected with Exserohilum fungus. The others were infected with Aspergillus or Cladosporium. All are treated with the same anti-fungal medications. Three lots of the suspect steroid were recalled last month by the New England Compounding Center of Framingham, Mass. All the illnesses have been traced to one of those lots. Food and Drug Administration officials last week said they found fungus in 50 vials of the preservative-free steroid called methylprednisolone acetate. However, they have not said what kind of fungus they detected. On Monday, FDA officials said they are investigating two more drugs made by New England Compounding — another steroid and a solution used during heart surgery. Initially, the FDA said two heart transplant patients who got the heart solution developed fungal infections but later said one case involved a solution made by another company. They also have cautioned there could be other explanations for the infections.
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Feds Seek Eight Years For Ex-Goldman Director in N.Y.
NEW YORK (AP) — The government says a former Goldman Sachs board member convicted in New York of insider trading charges should serve at least eight years in prison. Written arguments were filed in Manhattan federal court Wednesday over the fate of Rajat Gupta (rahj-AHT’ GOOP’-tah). The former board member for Goldman and Procter & Gamble Co. faces sentencing Oct. 24. Gupta is from India. He was convicted in an insider trading case that resulted in convictions for two dozen other people, including a one-time billionaire hedge fund founder from Sri Lanka. The government says a prison term between eight years and 10 years is necessary to reflect the seriousness of the crimes and deter others. Gupta’s lawyers want him spared time behind bars. They say leniency is necessary for a man whose life is defined by helping others.
N.Y. Man Held on No Bail In Broadway Show’s Demise NEW YORK (AP) — A former stockbroker charged with defrauding a fledgling Broadway production was held without bail Wednesday after a prosecutor called him a “considerable threat” to the community. Mark Hotton, who faces wire fraud charges and accusations that he ruined the finances for the $12 million Broadway adaption of the psychological thriller “Rebecca” with false promises from phantom investors in an elaborate fraud, did not speak as he made his first appearance in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Hotton, who lost his stockbroker’s license last year, was read his rights by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gabriel Gorenstein, who also described the charges against him during a proceeding that lasted several minutes. If convicted, Hotton, 46, could face up to 40 years in prison. When the judge asked about bail, Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Diskant launched into an argument for Hotton’s detention pending trial, calling him “a risk of flight and a considerable threat to the community.” Defense lawyer Gerald Shargel cut off the argument, saying he consented to Hotton’s detention until he could prepare his own arguments for bail. Outside court, Shargel said he was still reviewing the case against Hotton, who’s from West Islip, east of New York. “Accusations are flying all over the place, but I don’t find the evidence compelling,” Shargel said. It was the second court appearance this week for Hotton, who appeared in federal court in Central Islip after his arrest on Monday. Charged in several plots, he was ordered detained after the government said he was a flight risk. Prosecutors say Hotton lived large, enjoying waterfront property and pleasure boats, as he was swindling investors nationwide of $15 million with a web of shell companies, paying customers small dividends while he spent the rest of the money. They said Hotton was charged in the “Rebecca” case after he claimed he could raise $4 million to cover a shortfall in the play’s budget. In return for $15,000 in fees and commissions and an additional $18,000 advance against his 8 percent commission, Hotton claimed he had secured money from four overseas investors, including a man named Paul Adams, the government said. Later, Hotton notified producers that Adams had died from malaria following a trip to Africa, prosecutors said. But there’s no evidence Adams existed, they said.
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Man Held in NYC Plot to Blow Up Federal Reserve NEW YORK (AP) — A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in Manhattan, authorities said. Before trying to carry out the alleged terrorism plot, Quazi Mohammad Rezwanul Ahsan Nafis went to a warehouse to help assemble a 1,000pound bomb using inert material, according to a criminal complaint. He also asked an undercover agent to videotape him saying, “We will not stop until we attain victory or martyrdom,” the complaint said. Agents grabbed the 21-year-old Nafis — armed with a cellphone he believed was rigged as a detonator — after he made several attempts to blow up the bomb inside a vehicle parked next to the Federal Reserve, the complaint said. Authorities emphasized that the plot never posed an actual risk. However, they claimed the case demonstrated the value of using sting operations to neutralize young extremists eager to harm Americans. “Attempting to destroy a landmark building and kill or maim untold numbers of innocent bystanders is about as serious as the imagination can conjure,” said Mary Galligan, acting head of the FBI’s New York office. “The defendant faces appropriately severe consequences.” Nafis appeared in federal court in Brooklyn to face charges of attempting to use a weapon of mass destruction and attempting to provide material support to al-Qaida. Wearing a brown T-shirt and black jeans, he was ordered held without bail and did not enter a plea. His defense attorney had no comment outside court. The defendant had sought assurances from an undercover agent posing as an al-Qaida contact that the terrorist group would support the operation. “The thing that I want to do ask you about is that, the thing I’m doing, it’s under al-Qaida?” he was recorded saying during a meeting in bugged hotel room in Queens, according to the com-
plaint. In a September meeting in the same hotel room, Nafis “confirmed he was ready to kill himself during the course of the attack, but indicated he wanted to return to Bangladesh to see his family one last time to set his affairs in order,” the complaint said. But there was no allegation that Nafis actually received training or direction from the terrorist group. Prosecutors say Nafis traveled to the U.S. on a student visa in January to carry out an attack. In July, he contacted a confidential informant, telling him he wanted to form a terror cell, the criminal complaint said. Nafis was living in Queens. In further conversations, authorities said Nafis proposed several spots for his attack, including the New York Stock Exchange — and that in a written letter taking responsibility for the Federal Reserve job he was about to carry out, he said he wanted to “destroy America.” Other communications took place through Facebook, the complaint said. A Twitter account with the suspect’s name and photo had six followers and two messages and was linked to a Facebook page that had been taken down. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the case is one more reminder that New York remains a target: “New York continues to be very much in the mind frame of terrorism. This individual came here with the express purpose of committing a terrorist attack, he was motivated by al-Qaida. We see this threat as being with us for a long time to come.” Kelly said security is always a precaution and there are about a thousand officers in the counterterrorism division. He didn’t specify if any additional measures were being taken. The bank, located at 33 Liberty St., is one of 12 branches around the country that, along with the Board of Governors in Washington, make up the Federal Reserve System that serves as the central bank of the United States. It sets interest rates.
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look at the crime fighters themselves. It comes down to spandex versus rock hard shells. Not exactly the toughest matchup in the world to pick. Ninja Turtle action figures are more durable than the actual Power Rangers. Plus, the Ninja Turtles had katanas, nunchuks, the Sai and a bo staff that all needed skill and tact. What did the Power Rangers have? The Zords — gigantic, clunky, glittery, less-cool versions of Optimus Prime. The Zords would be appropriate if the Power Rangers were going through their midlife crises, but come on. They’re supposed to be kids. And how practical is a four-story robot anyway? I saw The Last Crusade. Indiana Jones took out a Panzer tank by clogging the cannon with a rock, and Indiana Jones was a middle-aged archaeology professor. I can’t say for sure what a band of four Kung Fu-trained Ninja Turtles would do to the Megazord, but I imagine it
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Finding a civil solution To the Editor: Re: “Ithaca Neighborhood Where Police Officer Was Shot Is ‘Besieged’ by Drugs, Crime, Residents Say,” News, Oct. 16 Thank you for the well-told, but tragic story of West Village Apartment residents. I did not even know the place existed and Stein’s story did an outstanding job conveying the desperation felt by people who live there. The residents, too poor to move, trapped by the violence. Ex-felons, some undoubtedly trying to start a new life, trapped by the “paucity of job opportunities.” And the city trapped by its inability to commit the necessary human service and public safety resources. The mayor is correct to call for the property owners to step up, but increased private security and more thorough rental screenings are only part of the equation. I would hate to see the majority of good residents caught in a corporate-sponsored effort at privatized justice, urban renewal and publicity. A comprehensive solution needs to be broader and driven by civil society. Problems should not simply be pushed out of the West Village Apartments and shuffled to another part of the city or county. George Homsy grad
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I watched a lot of T.V. as a kid — an absolutely unhealthy amount — and I am convinced the programming I absorbed like a sponge molded me into the well-adjusted and charming (read: sarcastic and awkward) person that I am today. So when a friend of mine recently asked me which was superior: the Power Rangers or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Did he actually ask me this? No, but I can read body language pretty well, and I know he wanted to.), I simply could not understand how anybody can be uncertain of which Saturday morning superhero group is dominant. Although the issue has (for some strange reason) been largely passed over in this year’s presidential election, let me put the debate to bed here. The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are in a league of their own compared to the lowly Power Rangers, and the reasons for chelonian (adj. of or pertaining to turtles) superiority are many. First, it is important to remember that these programs ran in the 90s. The Power Rangers from our television screens grew up. The Power Rangers are now among the worst things on earth — Former. Child. Actors. The cartoon Ninja Turtles on the other hand, will remain unchanged and untainted by time. (I refuse to accept that Kevin Munroe TMNT piece of garbage as a real thing.) So, while the Red Ranger is trying to get a spot on TMZ by punching Chris Kattan right in the face in front of New York’s third hottest potato-famine themed nightclub (simply called “TOT”), Michelangelo, Donatello, Raphael and Leonardo will forever be the pinnacles of evolution. The Ninja Turtles were giant, bipedal, talking reptiles. They learned Kung Fu from a sewer rat and could handle a variety of weapons with ease. They are essentially Darwin’s wet dream. Secondly, let’s just take a superficial
would involve dismantling said machine in a show of pyrotechnic and acrobatic spectacles that would register an eight on seismographs thousands of miles away. Moreover, the Turtles were original and not derivative of anything else. The Power Rangers, on the other hand, literally stole fight sequences from a former Japanese television series called Super Sentai. I was always taught to support originality and creativity. Well, what is more creative: a bunch of giant, walking, crime-fighting turtles or some teenagers in suits that literally steal all of their fight moves from some T.V. program in Japan? Finally, let’s take a look at the nomenclature of these groups. The Ninja Turtles are named after four of the most profoundly influential artists of all time: Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo Buonarroti and Donatello, all masters in their field. What are the Power Rangers named after? Colors. The irony is almost too much. What do artists do with colors? The Ninja Turtles would LITERALLY smear the canvas with the Power Rangers. Whoop there it is. The Turtles gave me trust in Darwin, taught me to value skill over technology, fostered originality and creativity and gave me an appreciation of fine art. The Power Rangers just gave me a headache. So if you ever find yourself in a situation where you’re debating a friend over which Saturday morning superheroes are superior: remember, that if he or she says anything but the Ninja Turtles, you probably shouldn’t be friends with that person at all.
Christo Eliot is a sophomore in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
CORRECTION A news story Wednesday, “Students Stress Vigilance After Sexual Assaults,” incorrectly described a reported attack on Sept. 2. It was reported as a rape, not an attempted rape.
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esterday morning, I walked downtown for my Physical Planning course. Though we typically meet in Sibley, we were having class at the Commons so that we could analyze the site. I was particularly nervous that I’d be late, as usual, since I’d only left my house with 15 minutes to spare. Surprisingly, I found myself approaching the Aurora Street Collegetown Bagels with enough time to snag a raspberry bagel. The walk is not as far as it seems. In the hour and a half duration of our visit, my professor broke down the Commons into its smaller physical elements — the soft paneling of the playground, the apartments above storefronts and movable chairs in the plaza’s center. I took time to examine the small elements that make up a place I’ve been countless times. When I worked at Tompkins County Cooperative Extension two summers ago, I was alarmed to discover that one of my co-workers, as a rising senior, had never come downtown before. I couldn’t quite wrap my mind around the concept of never leaving campus, or never having the desire to explore past the confines of the 14853. Unfortunately, this phenomenon is more popular than one might expect. There is a stigma about Cornell students and their disinterest in engaging with the town we live in. When we talk about “where we go to school,” often we speak about upstate New York as a general concept, or about Cornell as an institution. Why is it that we “go to Cornell” for four years, and not live in Ithaca for four years? Coming downtown, whether for shopping, relaxation or employment, expands one’s scope of this place
and could potentially add an entirely new element to the Cornell experience. Often, students lament about stress and the “Cornell bubble.” We are extraordinarily lucky. We live in an incredibly rich place with a ton to offer. No, it isn’t Boston or New York City or Los Angeles. We have a town with a vibrant local food scene with more restaurants per capita than any other U.S. city, beautiful natural areas and ample live music. It’s more than just Apple Fest or the Farmers Market. While I would never discount the power of a breakfast burrito or deliciousness of Purity’s apple crisp à la mode, this place, our town, is rich with culture and opportunities far past the obvious. Few other towns have their own currency system, Ithaca Hours, which promotes stimulating the local economy and bartering services. There’s the Public Service Center’s Community Work-Study program, which allows students to intern downtown while using their work-study money. There are a number of hidden book store gems, like Dewitt Mall’s The Bookery, the historic Buffalo Street Books or Autumn Leaves. There are constant celebrations — free live music on the Commons all summer and into the fall and events like Streets Alive, that close down 10 city blocks for recreation.
This weekend is the Collegetown Fair and Into the Streets, which both promote service and integration of town and gown. Let this be a start to something bigger. Stop by the Friends of the Library Book Sale this weekend. Take a stroll through Fall Creek or visit a local orchard. Autumn is my favorite season, especially here. Look around! The fall foliage is breathtaking and local agriculture is in the midst of fall harvest. Get off the hill
Katerina Athanasiou Kat’s Cradle and get into this place. In high school, many of us ran around clocking community service hours and extracurricular activities. Why don’t we make a more ambitious commitment, as a student body, to Ithaca?
Katerina Athanasiou is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture, and planning. She may be reacched at kathanasiou@cornellsun.com. Kat’s Cradle runs alternate Thursdays this semester.
That’s My Seat! What Kind of Olin Kid Are You? I
t’s that time of year again. The leaves are changing color, winter coats are making their debuts and Cornell students are hibernating in the library, drowning under weeks of work that never got done. The first half of the semester has caught up with us. Last night after plopping my backpack on a desk in Olin (I was lucky enough to
Amit Bhatia, as it were) is all about the scene. There are those who can always be found there, those who schmooze and linger and those who try to have important group meetings but end up getting carried away in conversation. For most, however, Libe Café serves merely as a break from all that is terrible: The problem set, the midterm paper or the 30 page study guide.
Hannah Deixler Shades of Grey snag a seat at 8:00 p.m. after some aggressive lurking), I looked around and realized that Olin Library, especially around this time of year, is a social psychology experiment or science fiction novel waiting to happen. Social roles are assumed as soon as those (confusing and really heavy) glass doors are opened, and entirely unique social etiquette rules are followed. This is true of all 15 libraries on campus; however, I think Olin groupies form a sort of cult, and thus deserve 700 words all to themselves. Olin kids — you know who are — identify as such, but are, at the same time, very diverse. Allow me to explain. First, there are the Libe Café kids. Anyone who “studies” in Libe Café is fooling themselves into thinking that they are effectively managing their time. Libe (or
We walk in, grab our coffee and enviously admire those who are parked at a table catching up with a friend. Next are the first-floor types. These kids know they can’t get away with hanging in Libe, but also need a few scheduled people-watching breaks in order to be most productive. The trick, of course, is landing a seat. First-floor types lurk, poach and save seats like it’s an Olympic sport. And during finals, first-floorers know that, even with strategic planning, every seat is taken by 9:30 a.m. Then there’s Kroch, or Asia. These are first-floor types who either got to Olin late (read: rookies), or are bothered by the commotion and noise of the librarians at the information desk. Kroch is also a good bet for anyone who lacks self-control, as
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cell phone service miraculously disconnects as soon as you step foot inside. Basement hooligans don’t need the fancy desks of Mann, nor proper lighting or outlets to get it done. They came to Olin to cram for their prelim tomorrow, and they aren’t happy about it. They also like sounding hardcore and saying “I’m camping out in the basement of Olin,” as it sounds particularly pathetic (incidentally, that’s a conversation for the coffee line: competition over who has more work and whose life sucks more). However, the basement can, during prelim season, get thirdfloor of Mann scene-y, so newbies beware. Stacks kids are ambitious, hard working and require limited or no social interaction to make it through. They like the silent, secluded, even creepy atmosphere on the top floors of the place, and don’t come up for air until every PowerPoint slide has been memorized. Buzzing iPhones and loud music that is audible from your neighbor’s headphones are strictly prohibited in the stacks. In short, stacks kids are the marathoners amongst us and shouldn’t be threatened. Next there’s the floater. The girl who comes in, wanders through the first floor, fails to find an empty seat (duh, it’s 1:00 p.m. on a Sunday) and sheepishly leaves, not knowing all of Olin’s secrets. Most likely, the floater ends up across the way in Uris. Finally, there’s the outsider. I don’t mean the Olin virgin (they’re either a floater or too intimidated to come in), I mean the kids who hang out outside on the steps, either on the phone or smoking
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a cigarette — or often both. The smoking outsider has taken a break from the grind and is more often than not wearing plaid. The on-the-phone outsider is either a) crying to her mom about how stressed she is about her Psych 101 prelim or b) taking an urgent call that simply couldn’t wait until the (long) walk home. Outsiders need their space and, like stacks kids, shouldn’t be messed with. So, there you have it. Olin Library is as socially divided as your high school lunchroom or Trillium at 1:25. However, while your place of study says a lot about you, your habits while studying may tell more. Last night I had to leave my prime real estate on the first floor (yes, I’m that type) and do the-oh-so-dreaded deed of studying from home, because the boy next to me was LOL-ing — obnoxiously and far too often — at the movie he had downloaded. Yes, he was in the library during the throws of prelims watching a movie. For pleasure. The snacker, the cougher and the loud typist are coming out of the woodwork during the intensity of prelim season. And worse than that, they’re stealing your seat as you read this. So, fellow territorial Olin kids, I warn you: Now, more than ever, be cautious when entering that-which-weassume-is-ours. Boundaries are being crossed and there’s no telling when it will be controlled.
Hannah Deixler is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at hdeixler@cornellsun.com. Shades of Grey appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Tame Impala Lonerism Modular
AJames Rainis Modern psychedelic records are a lot of things. Of Montreal’s Kevin Barnes melded The Beatles with Philly soul to concoct his own patented brand of depressed sex jams; Super Furry Animals mimicked David Bowie’s space rock excursions; and Australian upstarts Pond paid tribute to psychedelia’s golden age, aping Cream’s heavy riffage and Robert Plant’s shrieks of womb-envy with equal aplomb, while throwing in some flute-playing to please the nine people who were really missing Jethro Tull (don’t worry, Tull fans — one of them is my dad). But one thing these records aren’t is, well, modern. At their best, they come off as wink-filled revivalism; at its worst, they’re a pastiche of what was once a sound at the forefront of sonic experimentation. While Animal Collective’s adventurous soundscapes indisputably carry psychedelia’s torch, it seems that we were missing a forwardlooking group that still believed in the infinite possibilities of guitars, effects pedals and amps turned up to 11. Tame Impala seeks to rectify this with its sophomore effort, Lonerism. The brainchild of Kevin Parker, who played almost every instrument in the studio, the album is a sonic stunner: synths whirl, guitar phasers whoosh and the bass is fuzzed out as all hell. And the drums? Gosh, the drums just sound wonderful; distorted snares cut through the warm guitar tones with amazing clarity. Producer Dave
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Paul Blank Imagine, if you will, a Radiohead that consistently releases an album every two years. Imagine if Radiohead shifted toward a new sound with each release that always threatened the band’s original fan base, yet always ended up garnering new, appreciative fans in the process. Now imagine if Radiohead was a progressive black metal band. Congratulations, you now have some perspective on the opinion the global metal community has on Norwegian quintet Enslaved. It’s always strange talking about metal music of this sort as an American, because the U.S. is notorious for shunning metal artists critically as well as commercially. Most Americans, metal fans included, probably couldn’t tell you who Enslaved is, although the band has been consistently releasing acclaimed aggressive music for nearly 20 years. With maybe the exception of new albums by American bands Converge and Between the Buried and Me,
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Enslaved’s 12th album, RIITIIR, may be the most anticipated metal album of the year. They are one of those bands that critics say, “If they had stopped in ____, their legacies would be set,” except that year would be, like, 2003. And yet the band has continued to release challenging music, and RIITIIR is no exception. RIITIIR is more musically elaborate than its predecessor, 2010’s also excellent Axioma Ethica Odini. At over an hour long, it is the longest Enslaved album to date. The music here isn’t so much distinct from song-to-song as it is with every four measures, as every few seconds introduces a new idea. RIITIIR’s tracks, often exceeding the seven-minute mark, blend into one another to the point where I question where one song ends and another begins if I’m not listening closely. The first respite on the album comes with the title track, five songs in. By then, the album has been reeling for 35 minutes. This density can be quite imposing,
even to longtime Enslaved fans. But, if you stay patient, RIITIIR’s overflowing creativity can be a great treat. “Death in the Eyes of Dawn” drastically shifts from an emotive guitar solo to a rockabilly riff, like a satanist stumbling into a square dance. “Materal” is led by Cato Bekkevoid’s off-kilter drum pattern, creating just enough rhythmic incongruity to keep you engaged. Enslaved shifts between the acoustic flourishes of folk metal, the intricate axework of progressive metal and the blastbeats of black metal with the ease of professionals. At a certain point, I became so enthralled with the group’s seemingly unlimited inspiration, I began to anticipate each new measure, just to find out what the band would blindside me with next. There are moments where Enslaved’s ambition overreaches. “Storm of Memories” begins with a sonic reversal, placing the guitars and drums in the background and Grutle Kjellson’s bass and Herbrand Larsen’s electronic tex-
tures in the foreground. While it is interesting, it feels more like a rote experiment than good music. Final track “Forsaken” is a little too concerned with its unsettling piano melody, creating more of a meandering closer than a decisive one. And, of course, if screams in music repulse you, RIITIIR will be a riddled with hurdles to overcome. Nevertheless, if you are looking for something outside of your comfort zone, check out RIITIIR, but I would first suggest listening to the more melodic Axioma Ethica Odini. And, if that’s a little bit too steep for you, there’s always Metallica or Deep Purple or The Ramones or that heavy metal lover song off the latest Lady Gaga album. No matter how far down the chain you start, just make sure you find your way back to RIITIIR. You won’t regret it. Paul Blank is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at prb77@cornell.edu.
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If you’ve ever wondered what BBC’s Planet Earth would look like with humans and buildings, Samsara is the closest thing. The film creates a brand of geographic Dadaism that documents hundreds of locations (25 countries total), ethnic groups and commodities, taking equal focus at the mundane and the phenomenal. The Vatican, the Pyramids, Mecca, Hagia Sophia are flanked by tattoos, sex dolls, embalmed corpses, strippers, prison choreographers and junkyards. The choice of juxtaposition is the most noticeable communication of message (Hurricane Katrina decay cuts to Versailles in ironic collocate), but, otherwise, the film’s purpose is as clouded as the volcanic ash mantles that open and close the film. I’m unclear of what to tell you as a reviewer: A movie with no characters, narrative, dialogue or consistent setting leaves little for analysis. But what does it present for the viewer? I can answer that by saying, despite the common narrative elements the film shuns, I do not regret the 99 minutes I spent watching it. It is beautiful and entertains by maintaining that beauty for its duration. The film’s splendor is afforded by its 70mm photography (Samsara did it before The Master, but I can see both contending for a Cinematography Oscar) and audio, which includes a score by Marcello De Francisci, the roars of clashing natural forces and a few tracks from Alberto Iglesias’ The Constant Gardener soundtrack. But beneath the score and cinematography, the real power derives from this collage’s sense of cosmic infinity. From the blank stares of the
gun-strapped American family to the Geisha suffocated in paint, the film’s arresting focus brings the humans out from beneath their retinas, embarrassed at their clothing and background tapestries, their buried nature horribly unadjusted to their nurture in a plastic civilization. This illustration of the unity in diversity is one of the threading paradoxes of the film, which director Ron Fricke named after the Sanskrit term for “cyclical existence.” This emphasis on cycles is maybe one of the few themes that organizes this random pastiche of visuals. The film begins and ends with the same shots and phenomena that emphasize rebirth (i.e. volcanoes) and traditions of regeneration (i.e. Tibetan salt drawings which are destroyed and mixed after completion). All suggest the all-conquering washing away of nature. Even though the film is random and unique, it certainly bears influCornell ences. When Fricke catatribal Africans Cinema logues with painful ear gauges before cutting to Los Angeles citizens pummeling on bike treadmills, he highlights the universality of humanity in light of cultural dissimilarities. Fricke is almost making a 2012 Leaves of Grass, studying the universality of the world, not America, as in Whitman’s case. Whitman places prostitutes and presidents in dialogue, whereas Fricke situates members of different religions face-to-face. All are different lights in an equalizing material constellation.
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Fricke cited his childhood viewing of 2001: A Space Odyssey as a life-changing experience and the film quite obviously shadows Kubrick's style. The score’s thundering bravado has the same elan as Richard Strauss’ “Also Sprach Tharathustra” in 2001. Further, the famous jump-cut from the ape using a bone as a weapon to the floating spacecraft is reenacted at multiple points throughout. Kubrick juxtaposed the change in different time periods. Here, Fricke juxtaposes the differences in geographic locations. Instead of barbarism to civilization, Fricke cuts from life (i.e. dancing children) to death (i.e. embalmed corpses). On Tuesday, photographer Robert Gaskins visited Cornell and called such images (in such order) “decay porn.” Fricke contrasts the flotsam leftover from Hurricane Katrina with shots of rich, ostentatious French cathedrals and Versailles. Our civilization treats these places with unequal value, but Fricke’s camera does not. This zigzagging between opposing subjects creates a gorgeous dizzying effect on the eyes, and some critics have censured this film, considering it aesthetic beauty without meaningful subtext. I kind of enjoyed not being inundated with a message. Fricke only hints at stances on global warming, economic imperialism and third/first-world inequality. He doesn’t ask very much with a prejudiced perspective and instead lets the viewer passively absorb this film and the world’s majesty. After all, Samsara and the cycles of the earth are inevitable, and underneath their powers, we are merely passive and left to observe in awe. Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at hds56@cornell.edu.
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hen I create a playlist, it’s a labor of love. There’s just something about the way a perfectly paired tune so carefully juxtaposes a scene, whether in my own life or on screen, that satisfies some strange part of me that can’t otherwise be reached. Think “Stuck in the Middle with You” during Michael Madsen’s carving session in Reservoir Dogs. Think Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” as Ewan McGregor trips on the stankest smack in Trainspotting. Think of the impermeable melancholy Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” imposes on The Graduate. None of my song pairings are remotely comparable in their gravity to any of these timeless examples, unless you count the profound meaning behind blasting Spice Girls every morning as I brushed my teeth in the first grade — I did like to spit out the foam at the end of every “Really really wanna zigazig ah,” if that counts. To this day, I can’t listen to that song without tasting Spearmint Colgate Cavity Protection in my mouth, forever conditioned like Pavlov’s dog to never disassociate the two. And so, my most personal playlist is comprised of all my retired traveling songs, music played so often during certain adventures and occasions that listening to them, even in the dark, frigid cave that is the Stacks, just takes me right back. It’s that sting of nostalgia that just hurts so good. Here are the songs that do just that: “FALL IN LOVE” BY D’BANJ FT. YEMI SAX When I was 16, I kind of just took off to Ghana by myself and settled in the beach town of Cape Coast for the summer. It started just as a whim, like some pre-quarter life crisis to “find myself” or some existential shit I sold to my parents to fund my wanderlust. I swear this was somehow the only song being played anywhere, like some inescapable social experiment to force-feed us a summer anthem. I felt like Zoolander,
being primed with “Relax” to kill the Prime Minister of Malaysia. I ended up liking “Fall in Love” so much I asked some tiny music shack guy to burn me a copy of it; he labeled the scratch disk: “Hip Pop Mosquito Park Mohits, for my sweet potato.” I even started asking the cabbies and bartenders and locals what the weird Ghanaian slang in the lyrics mean (“My sugar banana / As I don get you ebe say I make hammer”). I mostly got a lot of rumbling laughter in response. Whatever it means, the beat off this track is ridiculously infectious and Yemi Sax, the vocalist in the chorus, has a honeyed voice uncannily like a favorite ’00s throwback of mine, Ashanti. “CALYPSO GOLD” BY PRINCETON A year later, I was in Kenya, on safari with some random international social workers. On 6 a.m. ‘game drives,’ freezing, half-dead and chasing trails of wildebeests on the Maasai Mara, I’d play “Calypso Gold,” since the only thing you can stomach at such an ungodly hour is some charming synth-pop. The rest of
Alice Wang Profanity Prayers the album is replete with adorable dreaminess, with several tracks sounding like some melodic vignette Zooey Deschanel might write with Joseph Gordon-Levitt (complete with the doowop finger snaps). “Calypso” has just enough upkick in the tempo to gently wake up a cranky traveler in a chiming tropical reverie. However, mornings were the only time I got control of the speakers, as the couple from Oklahoma in my jeep would blast The Lion King soundtrack in the afternoons and our safari guide (whose life story is more or less the plot from The Jungle Book) exclusively played
that Dolly Parton/Kenny Rogers duet, “Islands in the Stream.” “YOU NEVER CAN TELL” BY CHUCK BERRY Don’t ask me why, but Chuck Berry was the only artist that played during the twoweek period I confined myself in a Starbucks to complete my college admissions applications. To this day listening to his twangy ’50s rock and roll makes me feel like I’m clicking “Save Changes” on the Common App, arguably the bleakest period of my high school career. “DREAM A LITTLE DREAM OF ME” BY THE MAMAS & THE PAPAS Although the Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald versions of “Dream” are obvious classics, there’s something about the unshakable, sorrowful lullaby quality in The Mamas & The Papas’ version that soothes me into a state of cool calm. It’s the perfect easy listening to pump while reclined in the white sand of Nha Trang’s beaches, a coastal city in Vietnam. Its sounds of wan longing and old timey hypnosis go surprisingly well with the rhythmic lapping of waves over the shore. Even now, playing this song puts me in a near catatonic state instantly. “DRUMMER” BY COCONUT RECORDS Crashing in a cheap Palm Springs motel before the start of Coachella, my friend and I would float in the pool, spinning fantasies about the celebrities we’d meet on Indio’s hallowed grounds. Strangely, when “Drummer” came on, we mutually decided that we’d kill to meet Jason Schwartzman, the frontman of Coconut Records. This had more to do with the revelation that Schwartzman is the autobiographical subject of “Drummer,” hitting us at the third margarita that he was “the drummer in a band that you’ve heard of” (as the former drummer of Phantom Planet), and less to do with the actual desire to meet him — though my friend does have a thing for guys with mus-
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taches holding babies. “ANIMAL” BY COCOROSIE Cocorosie is a pretty divisive group. Its cult status, to some, seems contrived, and the alien affectations the two girls adopt on their vocals seem more try-hard than charming to some. It’s true — sometimes Cocorosie is guilty of experimentation for experimentation’s sake, but hey, I got a ticket to a show day-of for just 10 euros. I mostly went to see the historical venue, the famous Paradiso concert-club in Amsterdam. Shockingly, the rather intimate performance was less of that “weird voice thing they do” and more folksy and soulful resonance. The band played to crowd favorites, with much of its earlier stuff like “Animal” and “Rainbowarriors” rather than the muddy, exploratory fare of its most recent studio album, Grey Oceans. Alice Wang is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at awang@cornellsun.com. Profanity Prayers appears alternate Thursdays this semester.
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What turns you on? The first thing that comes to mind probably isn’t a thick, fleshy carrot pulled straight from a bed of moist, loose soil (unless you’re really freaky). I, on the other hand, I have long been in bed with sustainability. My hope is to seduce you into a relationship of your own with my recommendations on how you can eat and live more sustainably. Disclaimer: I am by all means not a vegetarian nor an extreme tree-hugger. I don’t even own a pair of Birkenstocks. What I am is an aspiring chef and student of agriculture greatly concerned by the health of our nation and food system. I live to cook and feed people healthy, sexy and delicious food. Sustainability holds promise that others and I can keep doing this into my future. GO NAKED That is, strive to eat and cook as much produce that is locally sourced and grown environmentally responsible as possible. What does that mean? Well it doesn’t always mean Certified Organic. Organic certification is expensive for farmers (and in turn for consumers). The reality is that there is a variety of responsible pest and soil management practices that do not necessarily have a negative impact on our environment and health but that are prohibited in organic production. The best tasting ingredients are locally sourced and come from healthy soils. The Ithaca Farmers Market and the Farmers Market at Cornell on the Ag Quad every Thursday are my some of my favorite places to go naked. Test this for yourself, the next time you have the chance to taste a locally and environmentally
responsible grown tomato (you’ll have to wait a few seasons now) compare it to the taste of a conventional tomato off the grocery store shelf, picked green, and ripened on its trek to you. I promise an epiphany. OPEN UP That is, educate yourself on the subject so that you can make smart and sustainable dining decisions. So much of the opposition to sustainability comes from a lack of understanding and education on the subject. Those who just see the bottom line are often turned off by the idea and shun it as just a trend. Don’t be one of those people. There are a variety of resources out there; tons of books, publications and research that can help you get head. Some I personally recommend are What to Eat by Marion Nestle, the Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health at New York University, Food Matters by Mark Bittman, the acclaimed journalist and true expert on the topic and Food, Farming, and Faith written by Cornell’s very own professor Gary Fick. MASTICATE IN PUBLIC And support your communities’ sustainable food service establishments! Restaurants and food service operations across the nation have made sustainability one of their core values. This is especially prevalent in Ithaca’s dining scene. From Cornell Dining to Stella’s in Collegetown, there is a vast range of eateries that source sustainably. Caveat emptor, however. Because “farm-to-table” food is such a trend, many restaurants use it as a marketing tool to attract conscious consumers and charge a premium when they may not be upholding the value and truly sourcing local, environmentally responsible grown ingredients. My
ever-growing population, the concern is whether or not we will be able to produce enough food to sustain into the future. Do your part and at every meal make sure your eyes aren’t bigger than your stomach. Think about all the energy and effort that goes into every bite, throwing it away puts all this to waste. Yes, you can compost your scraps but we can’t necessarily feed that to starving populations. SPREAD THE LOVE I like to think of sustainability as a religion: There are believers, nonbelievers and those who don’t care. But there is only one solution to this: Spread the word and strive to make a difference. I know you
may think to yourself, “I am one person; I am not going to singlehandedly make a change.” You are wrong. Think of brilliant and inspiring people such as Alice Waters, the New Jersey native who pioneered California cuisine and The Slow Food movement in Berkley, California and across the United States or J.I. Rodale, the New York City native who, with incredible foresight, left the city for the farm land of Pennsylvania and founded the Rodale Institute in 1947, one of today’s leading organization in sustainability research and education. Austin Buben can be reached at abuben@cornellsun.com.
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Red Looks to Extend Streak Against Brown By SHAYAN SALAM Sun Staff Writer
The Cornell field hockey team will travel to Providence, R.I. this weekend to take on Brown in the hopes of continuing its recent success. The Red (7-6, 3-1 Ivy League) is on a sixgame winning streak and will try to extend that against the Bears (3-9, 0-4) on Saturday at noon at the Brown Field Hockey Arena. After beginning the season with four straight losses and nearing the halfway point with a record of 1-6, the Red has reversed its fortunes completely, Cornell roaring past teams with 6 straight victories most vs. recently marked by a 4-0 victory o v e r Harvard, Brown and a 2-1 victory over non-conferSaturday, 12 p.m. ence foe Providence, R.I. Davidson. “It was a challenge set for us, [to win the rest of our games] and so we took it on and tried to really get focused for our games and now we have a good shot at winning the Ivy League,” said senior captain Paige Mollineaux. According to Mollineaux, the team has worked out its struggles from the beginning of the season in practice, and has been able to translate that hard work into game situations. “I think that we’ve taken what
we’ve been told to do at the beginning of the season and we’ve really been able to put what we’re learning in practice into our games,” she said. Freshman midfielder Taylor Standiford has played a large part in helping the team to its winning ways. Most recently, Standiford was recognized for her two goal performance in the squad’s 4-0 win over the Harvard Crimson last weekend with the Ivy League Rookie of the Week Honor. “Our freshman this year have really stepped up. Both Marisa Siergiej and Standiford have been able to score two goals in two of our games,” Mollineaux said The Bears have a young but talented team. The attack is led by sophomore forwards Meghan O’Donnell and Clayton Christus as well as by freshman forward Hannah Rogers. The team is anchored by sophomore goalkeeper Shannon McSweeney. The Bears are coached by Jill Reeve, a former U.S. Olympian and 12-year field hockey National Team member. It is Reeve’s first season coaching the Brown program and she has a wealth of playing experience to fall back on in order to try and guide the youthful team. A win over Brown would tie the squad’s team-best win streak of seven games in 2009. Should Princeton also lose this weekend, a win for the Red would put the team in a tie for first place in the Ivy League with three conference games remaining in the season. Shayan Salam can be reached at ssalam@cornellsun.com.
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Turning the page | Senior captain Paige Mollineaux hopes that the improvements her team has made recently will help them to a seventh straight win.
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Oh captain, my captain | Yankees captain and shortstop Derek Jeter will need four to five months to completely recover from his broken ankle.
Jeter to Undergo Left Ankle Surgery DETROIT (AP) — Derek Jeter will have surgery on his broken left ankle, and the New York Yankees say the star shortstop could need four to five months to completely recover. The Yankees said Wednesday that Jeter will be operated on Saturday by Dr. Robert Anderson in Charlotte, N.C. The timetable the team announced means Jeter likely would be ready to return sometime between the start of spring training in mid-February and late spring training in midMarch. General manager Brian Cashman called that a conservative estimate and left open the possibility that Jeter could come back sooner. Jeter had scans Sunday, which confirmed the fracture, and he saw Anderson on Tuesday. “There’s no new information,” Cashman said. “Nothing seemed worse than what our team doctors saw.” Jeter has not accompanied the Yankees in Detroit. Jeter, the Yankees’ 38-yearold captain, broke his ankle Saturday in the 12th inning of the AL championship series opener against Detroit while trying to field a ground ball.
Cashman said the four-tofive month timetable represents when Jeter would be fully ready to come back and play in a game. “My understanding is that it’s possible he will be ready earlier than that timeframe,” Cashman said. But it is best to at least put out there four, five months as a safer bet.” New York trailed the Tigers 3-0 in the series heading into Wednesday night's game. Jeter is the latest of the team's longtime stars to go down with an injury. Mariano Rivera was lost for the season in May when he hurt his knee during batting practice. This is the first time since 1981 the Yankees are playing in the postseason without both Jeter and Rivera. This wasn’t the first time Jeter had recent trouble with his left leg. Manager Joe Girardi pulled him from a game at Boston on Sept. 12 because of what Jeter said was a sprained ankle. Jeter was a designated hitter for the next four games. Jeter fouled a ball off his left foot in Game 3 of the division series, again was taken out early, and was at DH the next day before returning to shortstop.
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Volleyball Team Plays for a Cause Saturday Against Columbia With the first half of Ivy League play now finished, the Red (6-12, 2-5 Ivy League) will host Columbia (8-8, 3-4) this Saturday at 2 p.m. to kick off the homestretch of the 2012 season. The team will also be selling t-shirts and wristbands to raise money for Side-Out Foundation’s Dig Pink National Breast Cancer Awareness Rally.
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At the net | Senior middle blocker Rachel D’Epagnier had five kills last time against the Lions.
In the Red’s first meeting with Columbia on Sept. 22, the Lions came away with the sweep in three sets despite the efforts of freshman outside hitter Breanna Wong and senior middle blocker Rachel D’Epagnier. In her Ivy League debut, Wong had a team high 13 kills, and D’Epagnier chipped in with five kills of her own for a .455 hitting percentage. Coming off a 3-2 win over Dartmouth at home Cornell last weekend, the Red hopes to continue its dominance in Newman Arena, where the squad is 4-2 so far this season. The Lions vs. come to Ithaca having lost four of their last five games and putting their conference record to below .500 for the first time this seaColumbia son. They are led by Heather Braunagel, who is Saturday, 2 p.m. first in the conference in Newman Arena kills and is 22nd in the nation in hitting percentage at .394. Assisting her at the net is Megan Gaughn, who is averaging a team-high 2.31 kills and 2.37 digs per set. The first time the two teams met, the tandem of Braunagel and Gaughn combined for 14 kills. D’Epagnier, Wong and junior outside hitter Kelly Marble will lead the attack for the Red. Marble leads the team in kills with 204 and is sixth in the Ivy League in kills per set with 2.91. After the match this weekend against the Lions, the Red will face every other Ivy League team one more time, finishing the season with two straight games at Newman Arena. — Compiled by Scott Chiusano
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OK?’ Riley wakes up and doesn’t even think there was a crash. He’s wondering why we’re stopped and why we’re not home yet for Halloween. And we have to explain to him that we almost just died while he was sleeping. We almost just flipped over the guardrail and this kid was sleeping the whole time and is mad because we’re not back at Cornell yet for Halloween. 10) Which other Cornell team do you like to hang out with the most? All of them. All of the girls teams. I know you practice next to the women’s field hockey team. How does that work out? I mean, we get a little distracted sometimes. When we’re next to them, I know I’m not paying attention to Coach. There’s a couple of us that are just looking at the field hockey team, not paying attention. Hopefully they’re doing the same thing. Katie Schubauer can be reached at kschubauer@cornellsun.com. Ten Questions appears every Wednesday.
Dwyane Wade, numbers 7 and 8 respectively, I honestly couldn’t understand why someone would believe that today, Dwyane Wade is a better overall player than Kevin Love. I have a lot of platonic love for Kevin Love, as I personally believe that he’s one of the elite players in the NBA today. Love embodies everything that an outstanding power forward should, and is even able to do things better than others around him. Let’s start the “Love Kevin Love” conversation with something that every elite power forward should be able to do, which many current power forwards don’t seem to do anymore — rebound. For his career to date — four seasons — Kevin Love has averaged 12.0 Rebounds Per Game, with a career high of 15.2 RPG during the 2010-2011 season, in which he started every game that he played. In a game against the Knicks, he brought down 31 boards. Just try to picture that stat line. For his career, Amar’e Stoudemire has only averaged 8.8 RPG. Kevin Love is a guy who doesn’t mind doing the dirty work when he has to, which is something that super stars should be able to do. Additionally, Kevin Love has offensive abilities that fulfill a wide spectrum of positions, from shoot-
ing guard to center. If you look at his game on offense, he is fundamentally sound and has a range of shots that span the entire floor. Not only does he have the ability to play in the low post, he can get you an offensive rebound for a put back, he has a mid-range jump shot, a long range jump shot, and oh ya, he can shoot threes alongside the best sharp shooters in the league. Let’s keep in mind here that he plays power forward, and he has offensive skills like this. If you want some evidence, he just so happens to be the 2012 Three-Point Shootout Champion. I’ll give you a moment to internalize that. All right, that’s long enough. Think about that. It wasn’t Ray Allen, or Kevin Durant, or Mike Miller, or Kyle Korver. No, the top threepoint shooter last season was Kevin Love. Kevin Love is also one of the hardest-working individuals in the NBA today. When he entered the league four years ago, his offensive abilities were limited to the low post, with a shot that he was unable to get off against more athletic defenders. His mid-range and beyond game was nonexistent. While adjusting to the NBA game, he’s been able to tremendously improve the range from which he can attack you offensively. To improve his athleticism and get into better shape, Love dropped 15 pounds during the off-season before the 2011-2012 season,
allowing him to take on the heaviest of minutes in what was a nonstop year after the short lockout. I suppose some of his appeal is lost on the fact that he is not, by any means, a flashy player. Honestly, his highlight reel is not going to feature gravity-defying dunks or wild, seemingly impossible Kobe Bryant-esque shots. When it comes to the wow factor, Kevin Love is definitely not the most exciting guy to watch on the court. However, this does not change the fact that last season, not only did he establish his athleticism, but he was also able to score the best the NBA has to offer, while rebounding with the likes of Dwight Howard. Kevin Love plays with sound fundamentals and, more importantly, efficiency. Plain and simple, Kevin Love deserves to be the 7th best player in the NBA today, bar none. If you don’t agree, then clearly you do not watch enough basketball, or maybe your personal bias is clouding your thought process. If you look at both the tangibles and intangibles of what makes a player great, Kevin Love fits in where he is, ahead of the 493 guys behind him, and behind the 6 players ahead of him. Come on now; why not show Kevin a little love? Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com. Showtime at the Forum appears alternate Wednesdays.
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Ten Questions Columnist Katie Schubauer caught up with senior Derek (Mo) Saddler to talk about his nicknames, his lucky shirt, his love for Animal Planet and his affinity for trash talking. 1) Mo, you are a senior on the sprint football team. What has sprint football meant to you over the course of your college career? Well, I started playing sprint last year but I got hurt like two practices in. I broke my foot in a captain’s practice. I was soft. But I stayed on the team and I love it. I would say it definitely keeps you focused. I played sports all throughout high school and pretty much all my life and when I came here I stopped playing sports. Sprint offered me the opportunity to get back into that team environment. And this year, I can’t explain how much it’s meant to me to be back on the team. Who is your favorite teammate? I mean, I like everybody on the team, but I guess [junior defensive back] Riley [Scott]. Riley is the one who got me into playing sprint in the first place. I’m always with him. I room with him every time we go on trips and we get along really well. Can you describe your relationship with Assistant Coach Fred Rothman? Rothman’s a funny guy. He’s real quiet but all of a sudden he’ll start talking about these weird stories and he’ll go off on these weird tangents. Actually we all gave him the nickname Eeyore because he kind of mopes around all the time and he’ll mutter under his breath if he doesn’t like something, and he just seems like Eeyore. It fits him perfectly. But he’s a real nice guy. I like him a lot. Can you please describe your contributions to the team last year? Well last year, I didn’t do anything on the field per se because I was hurt, but I still played a vital role on the team. I’m always joking around and making fun of people. I like to keep the team environment lively. There’s got to be someone to joke around on the team and lighten up the practices. Why haven’t you gotten any interceptions yet this year? I haven’t gotten any interceptions yet this year because the other teams aren’t throwing the ball at me because they’re scared. That’s what it is. That’s why Riley got an interception. But Riley can’t talk because the only reason Riley got an interception is because they throw the ball at him because he’s fat and slow. But hey, he looks good. 2) Your real name is Derek, but everyone calls you Mo. Where did that nickname originate? Umm….I don’t know if I want to tell you. I might lose my credibility (laughing). When I was a baby, my parents put me in a little hood—like a little furry hood and I looked like a little Eskimo so they called me ‘Baby Mo Mo.’ And I didn’t want to be known as ‘Mo Mo’ so it kind of grew into ‘Mo.’ Do you have any other nicknames? I have a lot of other nicknames. Stromile is one. I don’t want to elaborate too much on that one, but I’ll just say it’s a guy everybody loves but doesn’t want to hang out with sometimes. It originated over Spring Break in Punta Cana if you know what I mean. I’ve had a lot of nicknames throughout my life, but right now in college its pretty much Mo and Stromile.
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What about your nickname, Reggie? This is probably the dumbest nickname. Someone somehow thought Reggie Rocket was the black guy on [the TV show] Rocket Power. There were no black people on Rocket Power.I don’t need to explain the rest but you can thank [teammate] David Duber for that one. 3) You are from a small town outside of Boston. What was it like being the star quarterback of your high school team? It was nice. I definitely enjoyed a lot of perks. This one time, I got pulled over for speeding and instead of getting a ticket, they recognized that I was the quarterback for the high school team and it got me out of the ticket. That’s how big of a joke my tiny town was. Everybody knew who I was. My graduating class was only 100 people. But yeah it was good. Is it true you still keep a highlight tape of your high school plays? 100%. I have it here, actually. I have it here because everybody doesn’t believe me that I actually played football in high school. You have to have proof. Your dad is a cop in Boston, right? Big Dave—yup. Apparently, he gets you a lot of free stuff from being a cop. Is that true? It’s unbelievable. I swear to God my dad is a dirty cop (laughing). I’m just kidding. But like we went to Punta Cana and I got this party pass. It was supposed to be like $250 — I got it for free because my dad knew someone. I have gotten so many free things throughout my life. Let’s say new Jordans come out. My dad gets them before they come out because he somehow has a “connection.” I don’t know what it is, but somehow he always gets stuff for free or gets a discount on it no matter what it is; a car, new sneakers, whatever. He’s probably a dirty cop (laughing). I don’t know.
shirt — probably a lot of people have seen it before — with a special phrase on it. I don’t want to say it helps me with the ladies, but it sometimes gets the ball rolling. Other times not so much. There are some funny pictures of me freshmen year wearing it. Random people would just come up and ask to take a picture with me because I was wearing that shirt. I want to thank [my friend] Michael Lieberman for that. He’s the one that gave me the shirt. He couldn’t quite pull it off the way I do. Can you please talk about your illegitimate son, Andre? (Laughing) Andre 3000! That’s my boy. It’s Coach Guccia’s grandson who looks exactly like me: same skin color, he has the same shoes as me. The only thing that’s wrong is his teeth are real messed up. So we’re waiting on the blood work to come back to see if he’s actually my child. It’s pretty conceivable that he could actually be my child. 6) Would you say that you are good at trash talking? Definitely. It’s a talent I have; pushing people’s buttons. On the field, I’m always doing that. That’s another part I’ve had on the team. Whenever someone tries to make fun of me, they’ll soon wish they hadn’t. It’s just something I’m really good at. Who has more swag: Riley Scott, Ben Greenberg, or “Bug”? Ben Greenberg has more swag than both those two combined. Riley has zero swag so he contributes nothing. Actually, he has ‘Swag Deficit.’
7) Although you are a big football star, word has it you aspire to be the LSU’s Honey Badger mascot. Is that true? (Laughing) What? I don’t aspire to be that. I mean, I’m just saying I try to be that on this team. You know because I try to make plays all the time, I like to be active a lot on defense, try to make plays. I try to lighten people up. I’m just trying to be that guy that’s always loud and getting people going. That’s what I would say about that one. 8) What are your thoughts on mentoring teammate Malcolm McKinney? I am Malcolm’s older brother I would like to say. I like to teach him the ways of football. He’s not there yet, but he’s learning—learning fast. He’s like my little brother even though he was my TA. It’s kind of funny. I need help from him on my homework, but I teach him a lot on the football field. He’s my football boy. 9) Can you please explain the bus crash you were in? Oh my gosh. This story is crazy. So we we’re all on the bus on the way back from Army or Penn. I think it might have been a Halloween game. It was snowing out and all of a sudden we crash and hit the side [rail]. Everyone else is freaking out yelling. Riley is passed out against the window sleeping. We crash and everyone’s like ‘are you See SADDLER page 22
4) Can you describe your TV habits? I always get made fun of because of my TV habits. My friend, Adel, came home one time and it was probably like 4 o’clock in the morning. And there I was just casually watching TV like there was nothing weird about it. I watch TV a lot before I go to sleep. I watch weird channels, too. If you don’t know ‘Lizard Lick Towing,’ you don’t know good TV. I love watching Discovery Channel and Animal Planet—I always get made fun of for that, but sometimes you just got to watch a cheetah run around. I don’t think it’s that weird, but a lot of people think my animal shows are weird. What about the pawn show you like to watch? Oh, ‘Pawn Stars?’ That’s not even a weird show! I don’t know why people make such a big deal of that. It’s not weird at all. But yeah, I’ve seen a lot of episodes of ‘Pawn Stars’ because it’s always on when I’m going to sleep and I enjoy watching it. 5) Would you say you are a ladies man? Uhhhh … I wouldn’t say I’m a ladies man. I wouldn’t say I’m not a ladies man either. But, I mean, obviously I’m good with words. What would the ladies think of your favorite t-shirt? Well my mom wouldn’t like it probably. But it’s legendary. It’s a bright pink
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Mo money, mo problems | Sprint football player Derek (Mo) Saddler got his nickname when his parents dressed him up like an Eskimo and called him “Baby Mo Mo.”
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MacManus, Nichols Lead Improvement at Midfield By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor
This season has been a tough one for the Red. After a 14 game losing streak, the team was finally able to break through and finish what it started with a win against Lafayette and a tie against defending Ivy champion Harvard over fall break. The season’s theme for the team has been the obstacle of adjusting to tough competition both Ivy and nonconference and the challenge to finish 90 minutes of game play. Despite its struggles, the team has seen improvement in some places — especially in the midfield. “As the season has gone along, I think the midfield has improved the most,” said head coach Patrick Farmer. “At the beginning, we were allowing people to go side-to-side too much [and] penetrating through there.” Farmer has been really influential in changing the core foundation of the team and has focused on changing the way that the girls attack the ball in the center — all through intense training sessions and a lot of
hard work. The change in core values for the midfielders might have taken the team some time to get used to, but the differences can been seen when looking at more recent game play. Also, after the graduation of a substantial part of last season’s team and the addition of a fairly large recruiting class, the midfield seems prepared to pick things up. “I think that Claire MacManus, most of the players would say, has probably been the best player of the year – [being the] steadiest player [and] the most consistent - from the center midfield. I think that she has really come along,” said Farmer. The sophomore midfielder MacManus has been a crucial part of the Red’s central game. Not only has she commanded the field at the center midfield position, but she also scored a goal this season in the game on Sept. 14 against Sacred Heart – where the Red lost, 2-1, against the Pioneers. “[Junior midfielder] Rachel Nichols has gotten better [too],” Farmer said. “I think
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Starting in the middle | According to head coach Patrick Farmer, junior midfielder Rachel Nichols is a large part of why the Red’s midfield has improved so much this season.
we have had good improvement in the middle of the field and it has been a factor in keeping our goals down for the past few games.” Nichols has also had two assists to date for the Red — one during the Sept 1 game at Georgetown for sophomore forward Jaclyn Katz’s goal and the other for junior forward Alysse Godino’s goal on Sept 23 against Niagara. Despite the bundle of losses the Red has had, the team has kept the score close in a handful of those matchups – losing by one
Red Heads to Boston for Season Opener Fresh off two exhibition Four are buzzing. Over the games, the No. 2-ranked past three seasons, Cornell Cornell women’s hockey has developed into a nationteam is preparing to begin al powerhouse, consistently its official season this week- ranking in the Top-10 of end. The Red will hit the the country. The Red has road to play against familiar claimed the ECAC Hockey foe, Boston University on regular season crown for the Saturday night and Sunday last three years, as well as the afternoon. Cornell (0-0-0) ECAC Hockey tournament faced off against the No. 3 title for 2010 and 2011. Terriers (4-0-0) The team’s 13 three times last seareturners will Cornell son — winning look to comevery contest and bine forces with bringing the teams’ eight new overall series to 3freshmen to fill 1-1 in favor of the the void left by vs. Red. the five graduLast time the ated seniors two powerhouse from 2011teams met on 2012 — the March 10, a trip to Boston University most winthe Frozen Four ningest class in was on the line for program histoSaturday, 7 p.m. the Red. In the ry. Boston, Mass. longest game in Joining program history, Rougeau as Cornell beat the Terriers 8-7 team leaders are senior in triple overtime. Senior defenseman Laura Fortino defenseman and captain and junior defenseman Lauriane Rougeau scored Alyssa Gagliardi. Fortino the game-winner with just has been Rougeau’s blue 10 seconds remaining on line partner since freshman the clock in a one-on-three year, as the pair has become play. Rougeau’s goal earned one of the most talked her the No. 3 on ESPN about defensemen combiSportsCenter’s Top 10 the nations in the league over next morning. Last year also the past three seasons. marked the Red’s third con- Fortino has been named to secutive appearance in the the ECAC Hockey and Ivy Frozen Four. League first teams for the While the Red has yet to past three years and was a play a regular season game, Patty Kazmaier Top-10 expectations are already Finalist for the past two high for the program, as years. Last year she finished rumors of a projected with 30 assists, making her fourth trip to the Frozen Cornell’s top scoring
defenseman. Gagliardi was an ECAC Hockey AllRookie Team member in 2011, and she has stepped into a role of one of the most reliable defensemen on the squad. Her final goal last year was the only score Cornell managed in the NCAA Frozen Four against Minnesota — the eventual national champion. With three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances in the past three years under their belts, Boston University has established itself as a
consistent, competitive program in the Northeast under eighth year head coach Brian durocher. Sarah Lefort and MariePhilip Poulin lead the team on offense, while Kerrin Sperry is guarding the net with a 1.88 goals against average. Cornell will have little rest, as the team returns to Lynah Rink on Tuesday night to host the St. Lawrence Saints. — Compiled by Lauren Ritter
goal in six of their 14 defeats. With the addition of head coach Patrick Farmer to the coaching staff, the team has fundamentally changed the way that the program works and the expectations for success are a bit different than before. “I think we asked them to play a little differently in the midfield than they had in the past. So I think that has taken them a little while to be acclimated to,” said Farmer. Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.
NBA Rankings: Show Some Love E very year when the annual ESPN NBA player rankings are released, Twitter lights up with every random Joe Shmoe who believes that he is the world’s utmost authority on what makes an elite NBA player. What these people fail to realize is that if they eliminate their personal bias and stop using the player ratings on NBA 2K13, they really have no idea what they’re talking about. Based on my own research, the fact that I live, breathe, and eat the NBA, and a touch of my own personal arrogance, I feel that I have the authority to comment on the legitimacy of these rankings. Also, this column is my platform for speaking my sports-loving mind. Therefore, I will proceed to make my point. Let’s be real; we really only care about the
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Three’s company | The trio of seniors Lauriane Rougeau, Laura Fortino and junior Alyssa Gagliardi will battle for a third ECAC Tournament Title.
Top-25 or so players on this list. I mean, I’m fairly certain that no one is crying over their preferred source of social media about the fact that Shan Foster is number 498 on the list. If you are, please Google underwater basket weaving and find a new hobby. For the most part, every year, ESPN gets it right. Even though I have a personal, deep-seeded hatred for LeBron James, I will readily acknowledge that statistically and physically he is one of the best players in the league. As are Kevin Durant, Dwight Howard, Chris Paul, Derrick Rose, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Love, Dwyane Wade, Russell Westbrook, and rounding out the top 10, Deron Williams. After a spirited debate on a Facebook status about these rankings regarding Kevin Love and See TOLEDO page 22