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Environmentalist: U.S.Can Do More Krupp calls for more oversight

By ASHLEY CHU Sun Staff Writer

Speaking to a crowd of more than one hundred at Cornell Tuesday, Fred Krupp, the longtime president of the Environmental Defense Fund, said he does not think a single state in the U.S. is adequately protecting its environment.

Through the Environmental Defense Fund, Krupp has helped corporate giants like FedEx and McDonald’s reduce their carbon footprints, advocated for greater oversight and regulation of companies’ environmental impacts and pushed for disclosure about chemicals used in fracking.

“We’re proud of [the country’s] progress, but I have to say that I cannot point to even one state that protects public health and the environment from oil and gas drilling in ways that I consider adequate,” Krupp said.

“The bottom line is we must protect individuals and families who are being harmed by these developments.

No one should have to trade their right to clean air and clean water for the sake of cheap energy.”

Krupp said natural gas has unacceptable impacts on air, water and landscapes, telling a story of a woman and son from Pennsylvania who were forced to leave their

By AKANE OTANI

A person tried to enter a residential property by posing as a maintenance technician and claiming the

“The tenants did the right thing: they asked questions and followed up with the landlord.”

University email landlord had sent him to inspect the furnace, Cornell officials warned students Tuesday.

The incident occurred Monday, according to an email the Office of Fraternities, Sororities & Independent Living sent to students.

“The tenants did the right thing: they asked questions and followed

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“We’re proud of [the country’s] progress, but I have to say that I cannot point to even one state that protects public health and the environment from oil and gas drilling in ways that I consider adequate.”

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

Fred Krupp

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homes because of toxic fume exposure.

“At EDF, we’ve been fighting to protect the air and

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up with the landlord. The landlord confirmed he had not sent anyone out to complete work on the furnace and the tenants called the police,” the email said.

The University warned students to verify the identity of people who knock on their doors before letting them enter their houses. Even if students are told ahead of time by landlords that someone will be by to inspect equipment in the property, they should exercise precaution by calling their landlords, requesting photo identification or a driver’s license and watching the person as he or she works in the house.

Additionally, students should try to keep their doors and windows locked, report suspicious behavior to police and remember to “never … put yourself or others in danger,” the email said.

Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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An “armed and dangerous” man who may have shot another man in the groin and buttocks Oct. 14 after arguing over a girl is still at large, Ithaca Police say.

Leads are fading as police continue to search for an 18-year-old, 6’0” black male with the alias Biggum, according to Jamie Williamson, public information officer for the Ithaca Police Department. On the evening of Oct. 14, Biggum allegedly shot a 21-yearold man after they had an argument over a girl — leaving the man injured and lying on the ground on South Plain Street.

The male victim was conscious when police found him, and he was transported to a trauma center for surgery. He did not provide information to police about what might have provoked the shooting.

“Without speaking to the suspect, it is impossible to know what exactly led to the shooting. We’d really like to locate [Biggum], but we’re not sure about his exact whereabouts right now,” Williamson said. “Any help the public can provide in locating him would be great.”

Biggum has tattoos on his left arm and weighs approximately 185 pounds, according to police. Police ask anyone who sees him to call the IPD. Akane Otani can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Alumnus,N.Y.Lawmaker Dies at 77

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

Former New York lawmaker and judge Stephen Gottlieb ’57 died Sunday, according to the Associated Press. Family members say Gottlieb — who was 77 — died of heart failure.

At Cornell, Gottlieb served as treasurer of the Student Council, according to a 1956 Sun article.

After he graduated, Gottlieb attended New York Law School and worked as a lawyer at the New York State Legislature. He was then electSee GOTTLIEB page 5

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LONDON (AP) — A forgetful British bridegroom who made a hoax bomb threat rather than admit he’d neglected to book the venue for his wedding was sentenced Tuesday to a year in jail.

Neil McArdle called Liverpool’s St. George’s Hall from a phone booth on his scheduled wedding day in April, claiming a bomb was due to go off in 45 minutes.

His fiancee, Amy Williams, was left standing in the street in her wedding gown while the building was evacuated.

McArdle, 36, was arrested the same day and admitted that he made the call because he had forgotten to fill out the paperwork for the wedding.

“He did say several times how embarrassed and ashamed he was and how sorry he was,” said prosecutor Derek Jones.

A judge at Liverpool Crown Court in northwest England sentenced McArdle to 12 months in jail.

Judge Norman Wright said that McArdle had frightened staff at the venue with his hoax —which came days after the Boston marathon bombings — and let down his fiancee.

“She was getting ready, expecting you were going to be man and wife and a very solemn public event in her life and you knew that was not going to take place,” the judge said. ”You did not say ‘We need to talk.’ You tried to weasel your way out by creating a bomb hoax so the wedding would not take place.”

Defense lawyer Charles Lander said McArdle and Williams are still together.

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Surfer Knocks Out Shark LIHUE, Hawaii (AP) — A 25-year-old Hawaii surfer and former boxer went toe-to-fin with a shark off Kauai and survived.

Jeff Horton was surfing Sunday morning with about 10 others near Kilauea when someone spotted a fin in the water, The Garden Island reported.

Twenty minutes later, Horton was sitting on his surfboard with his legs dangling in the water when he spotted a dark shape approaching from the left. He thought it was a stingray — dark on top, white on the bottom.

“It came flying straight toward me,” he said.

He pulled his left leg out of the water and the shark got a mouth full of surfboard. The impact knocked Horton off the board. He rolled onto the shark and grabbed a fin.

On top of the shark, holding on with one hand, he began punching as hard as he could with his other fist. He estimated he landed eight blows.

“I finally got one nice punch into the eye,” Horton said.

“I put some really good hits on it, for sure.”

When his knuckled jammed into the shark’s eye, the shark spit out the board and retreated.

Horton scrambled onto his board. With another surfer, he caught a wave and paddled toward shore. The shark briefly followed but did not attack again, he said.

After they reached shore, a tourist gave him $50 and told him to buy a bottle. Horton’s only injuries were scratches from the shark’s rough skin.

The 7-foot board, however, was left with a semi-circle imprint of the shark’s jaws. It will not go back in the water.

“I’m going to put it up on my wall,” Horton said.

He surfed again Monday at another beach.

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providing spaces for LGBT Palestinians, a lot of alQaws’s work, and what Maikey focused on in the talk, centered around Haneen Maikey, director and addressing issues of Zionist colonialism cofounder of Palestinian LGBT activist that Maikey believes must be tackled group alQaws, spoke at the Hollis E. before the group can have full conversations regarding sexuality. These issues Cornell Auditorium Tuesday.

The talk, sponsored by Students for include the definition of Palestine and Justice in Palestine, HAVEN: LGBTQ Palestinians, the phenomena of imposed borders and normalization politics, St u d e n t and the “pinkwashing” of Israel.

Union Pinkwashing, a term that refers to and the “We are not working to gay-friendly publicity that masks Women’s achieve gay rights for aspects of a society or unfavorable Resource the Palestinian gay connects to Israel because its place, C e n t e r, perceived status as being a kind of b e g a n movement.”

LGBT haven in the Middle East softwith an Maikey Haneen ens the harsh realities of Zionist colointronialism and occupation of Palestine, duction according to Maikey.

by A.D. White House visiting professor Maikey stressed that alQaws refuses to Jasbir Puar. cooperate with the Israeli government Maikey, a Palestinian native who has and any international organizations that been involved in activism since 2001, spoke on several topics regarding queer also work with Israeli LGBT groups.

“We don’t cooperate with any organiissues and sexual politics in Palestine and zation that doesn’t challenge Jewish how they connect with the greater issue supremaof colonialism. in “alQaws is a group for LGBTQ “We don’t cooperate with cy Israel,” people and activists working together she said, to dismantle the sexual agenda behind any organization that mentiondoesn’t challenge Jewish occupying Palestine,” Maikey said. ing that According to Maikey, the group supremacy in Israel.” the noronly has one and a half paid memmalizing bers, forcing it to focus on issues that Haneen Maikey p eace it finds most pressing. t a l k s Maikey said that the most immediate focus of the organization is on tack- between parties have historically been ling occupation of Palestine, rather than ineffectual, and that internal discussions exposing the state of occupation and coladvocating for gay rights.

“We are not a gay organization. We onization is the first main goal.

“We refuse to educate our colonizers,” are not working to achieve gay rights for the Palestinian gay movement. We don’t she said. think that kind of activism is sustainable, or relevant to the Palestinian conflicts,” Noah Rankin can be reached at she said.

Though Maikey’s efforts do involve nrankin@cornellsun.com.

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Cornell Law Professor Receives Email From Pope Pope Francis reflects on professor’s sermon about the presence of God during the Holocaust

By TALIA JUBAS Sun Staff Writer

Amid the spam, meeting reminders and advertisements that can fill a professor’s email inbox, Prof. Menachem Rosensaft, law, recently received an email from an unlikely source: Pope Francis.

The pope wrote to Rosensaft after the Cornell Law School professor sent him a sermon about believing in God after the Holocaust. Rosensaft had delivered the sermon in early September at the Park Avenue Synagogue, reflecting on how his parents — both Holocaust survivors — were able to draw on strength from God to survive atrocities.

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“Every year, I am forced to remember my parents in the context of a Torah reading that challenges my ability to relate to God,” he said. “How, we ask ourselves, can we believe in God in the aftermath of the [Holocaust]?”

After delivering the speech, Rosensaft said he sent the sermon out to those friends and colleagues he thought would be interested. On the encouragement of a friend, Rosensaft said, he also sent the sermon to the Pope.

“I sent it specifically to Pope Francis because I have been very impressed by his untraditionally open approach to others,” he said. “It just occurred to me that my own struggle with the attempt to reconcile God with the horrors of the Holocaust might appeal to the Pope if he ever got to read the sermon.”

In his response, the Pope lauded Rosensaft’s sermon.

“When you, with humility, are telling us where God was in that moment, I felt within me that you had transcended all possible explanations and that, after a long pilgrimage — sometimes sad, tedious or dull — you came to discover a certain logic and it is from there that you were speaking to us,” the pope wrote.

Rosensaft said he was “deeply gratified and deeply honored” by the response he received from Pope Francis.

The pope exhibited “tremendous sensitivity in relating to concerns of a Jew,” Rosensaft said.

“I was struck by the Pope’s reference to a particular biblical text, which, as it happens, almost echoes what I was trying to say,” Rosensaft said.

The reference is from a biblical narrative, in which “the prophet Elijah … is trying to find God in a very complex context,” Rosensaft said.

“It is a truly poetic way of saying that God was not in the horrors that were perpetrated but rather was in the attempts of individuals in the Nazi death and concentration camps to save or help others, and to remain human under circumstances in which it would have been all too easy to just abandon all vestiges of humanity,” Rosensaft said.

Aside from the personal gratification Rosensaft felt upon receiving the Pope’s email, he said that, “on a broader level, it is reflective of Pope Francis’ outreach to the Jewish community.”

Talia Jubas can be reached at tjubas@cornellsun.com.

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the groundwater,” Krupp said. “We’ve fought for the right of people, of neighbors, of all Americans to know exactly what chemicals are being pumped down the well shafts and what’s coming back up. More than 20 states now require some disclosure.”

Still, Krupp said “much more work needs to be done” to protect local communities and their environments.

Despite criticizing the negative environmental impacts of natural gas development, Krupp also said that he supports communities transitioning from using coal to natural gas over the short term. “[Some environmental activists] see the legitimate negative sides of these [natural gas] processes and view a detour into natural gas as delaying our transition to renewable energy,” Krupp said. “I share that concern, but I disagree with the notion that we can somehow stop natural gas development everywhere.”

In describing his stance on natural gas development, Krupp drew on the analogy of sex education.

“Some people are afraid that teaching teenagers about contraception is going to encourage them to have sex. I’m of the view that it’s going to happen anyway, so we better make sure we let them know how to do it safely. And I don’t think an abstinence-only policy is going to work with natural gas either,” he said.

Krupp emphasized, though, that he sees natural gas as the bridge between the present environmental condition and the goal of a truly clean energy system.

“While my subject today is natural gas, I don’t want anyone here today to walk away thinking that I think natural gas is the solution for the United States for climate change,” Krupp said. “If it’s done right, natural gas can play a role in slowing climate change and transitioning to a truly clean energy economy. But on its own right, it cannot get us to where we need to go. Nothing I know can substitute for zero-carbon sources like conservation, energy efficiency, wind and solar.”

David Kay, a senior extension associate in the Department of Development Sociology, said Krupp’s speech was in line with EDF’s pragmatic mindset, which sometimes draws criticism from environmentalists.

“I think [EDF] views themselves as pragmatists, [saying] ‘This is the way we see the world is. We can’t change it in ways we might wish to, so we’re going to work with what’s on the table,’” Kay said.

Kay added that he thinks it is important to continue dialogue on the issue of clean energy.

“I think that it’s an important debate and dialogue to continue strategically, if you take global warming seriously,” Kay said. “It’s a very complex set of choices. I don’t think any single entity has the perfect blueprint of how to go forward, so I think we need to continue a debate of this kind.”

Some members of the audience, though, disagreed with Krupp’s approach.

“I thought [Krupp] was very smooth, but he omitted a lot of facts about the Environmental Defense Fund,” said Tom Blecher, a local resident. “One of them [was] that in the study that he touted very highly, he neglected to mention that nine out of the 12 people in the steering committee had big oil and gas industry ties — either they were employees or lobbyists. [He also failed to mention] that the study was funded 90 percent by the oil and gas industry, and that the lead investigator was a consultant for Exxon Mobile as recently as 2012.”

Blecher said he was concerned that these oil and gas industry ties compromised the objectivity of the study. “[Krupp] omitted these things, and he said, ‘We had complete freedom to go wherever the science took us,’” Blecher said. “You know, I don't think that when you have that kind of money and influence involved, that you don't self-sensor.”

Roger Beck, another community member, agreed with Blecher’s sentiments.

“I admire [EDF’s] efforts to try and improve regulation, but I think they are a bit naive,” Beck said. “They’ve made some progress, but when the industry is so powerful and it’s proven itself to violate even wellintended regulations that they claim to support, they would be better off to push harder toward banning this kind of gas production as opposed to looking at it as a bridge fuel that will get us over the hump to [renewable energy].”

Ashley Chu can be reached at achu@cornellsun.com.

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ed to the N.Y. Assembly as a Democratic representative for Manhattan in 1968, the AP reported.

While working as a representative, Gottlieb — along with with former New York City Assemblymen Stephen Solarz and Charles Rangel — came back to the Hill Dec. 9, 1969 to hear from students on their opinions on campus unrest, abortion laws and drugs.

During that meeting, Gottlieb said he was supporting a bill brought forth by former Assemblywoman Constance Cook — who represented Ithaca — that would repeal state abortion laws.

“There are 30 legislators committed to sponsoring Assemblywoman Cook’s bill this year, as compared to three last year,” Gottlieb said in a 1969 Sun Article. He attributed this to the “well organized clamouring of women’s groups.”

Gottlieb served as an Assemblyman until 1972, after which he became a commisioner for the state Liqour Authority, according to the AP. Five years later, he also became commissioner for Crime Victims Compensation.

He was elected to be a Civil Court Judge in 1994, the AP reported, being re-elected for a second 10-year term in 2004. He retired in 2006.

Gottlieb is survived by his three daughters — Christine, Suzannah and Lindsay — his son Peter, two grandchildren and two siblings. His wife Carol died in 1996, according to the AP. Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com.

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Lawyer: Libyan Denies U.S. Terror Charges NEW YORK (AP) — An alleged al-Qaida member accused in a pair of 1998 U.S. embassy bombings maintains his innocence and was shaken by the experience of being snatched off the streets of Libya and interrogated for a week aboard an American warship, his new lawyer said Tuesday.

Abu Anas al-Libi “is upset because he was seized in front of his home at gunpoint and blindfolded, and not knowing why,” the attorney, Bernard Kleinman said following a hearing in federal court in Manhattan.

Al-Libi, also known as Nazih Abdul-Hamed al-Ruqai, was indicted more than a decade ago in the twin 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed 224 people, including a dozen Americans. He was brought to the United States last week and pleaded not guilty while being represented by two federal defenders.

Kleinman — whose clients have included Ramzi Yousef, the convicted mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bomb-

ing and another man detained at Guantanamo — said he had been retained privately to represent alLibi. The 49-year-old defendant confirmed in court through an Arabic interpreter that he wants Kleinman as his lawyer.

Kleinman declined to discuss how he was being paid following the hearing.

The government told U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Tuesday that they want to put the Libyan defendant on trial with two other men charged in the embassy bombing case, Khaled al-Fawwaz and Adel Abdul Bary.

Prosecutors also said the evidence includes 270,000 pages of documents and a voluntary, incriminating statement by the defendant.

Kaplan put off a decision on a possible joint trial, but indicated it could push such a proceeding into late next year.

The prosecution in the United States is in keeping with a disputed policy of bringing suspected al-Qaida sympathizers and operatives to civilian courts rather than military tribunals.

New N.Y. Law Supports Families Of Abused Disabled ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York can no longer prohibit families from using reports that their disabled relatives were abused in state facilities under a new law that one parent said will end intimidation of suffering families.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Tuesday signed the law that seeks to correct what stressed and grieving families have long complained about when attempting to deal with abuse and neglect of their disabled children and other relatives in state facilities.

Since 2007 under the reform act known as Jonathan’s Law, state reports of abuse and neglect were provided to families. But they were stamped “confidential — do not disclose.” That hindered families from pursuing abuse cases involving their loved ones through legal action and even to refer the case to law enforcement. Families saw that as an obstacle to removing repeat offenders.

“This type of secrecy is never good public policy,” said Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg, a Long Island Democrat who co-sponsored the bill. He recently settled a federal lawsuit alleging his disabled son Ricky, now 55, was hit and verbally abused at a Long Island

group home.

“It became personal,” Weisenberg said in an interview.

The new law was prompted in part by a series of New York Times articles that exposed allegations of widespread abuse in state facilities and what the state acknowledges was an unacceptable lack of referrals to law enforcement.

“This bill is extremely important in ending attempts by New York state and private providers from intimidating parents and legal guardians from even going to the police or an attorney with documents and that abuse or a crime was committed against their disabled loved ones,” said Michael Carey. His son, Jonathan, died in state care and Jonathan’s Law is named for him.

The bill’s many sponsors, including Sen. David Carlucci, who represents parts of Rockland and Westchester counties, stated the law “will best protect the individual and provide for swift justice of crimes against this vulnerable population,” according to the bill’s memo.

The law states the confidentiality provision was “interpreted inconsistently” and was “at odds with the legislative intent” of Jonathan’s Law.

Oprah Visits Two South African Grads Studying in N.Y. SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (AP) — Oprah Winfrey has paid a visit to two of the graduates from the celebrity’s school in South Africa who are enrolled at a private college in upstate New York.

A spokeswoman for OWN, Winfrey’s cable channel, says Tuesday that the former daytime talk-show queen was at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs on Monday to meet with two graduates from Winfrey’s Leadership

Academy for Girls. The academy, a boarding school for underprivileged South African girls, opened in 2007.

The two young women are studying at Skidmore, a liberal arts school located 165 miles north of New York City.

Christel MacLean, co-owner of The Crown Grill, tells local media outlets that Winfrey and the two students had dinner at the restaurant Monday night in a private back room.

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Nevada Boy Describes Terror Of Schoolyard Shooting

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — Students cowered in fear and pleaded for their lives as a 12year-old Nevada boy went on a schoolyard rampage with a handgun he brought from home, waving the weapon at frightened classmates and shooting a math teacher in the chest on a basketball court.

The boy opened fire Monday morning on the Sparks Middle School campus, wounding two boys and killing the teacher before he turned the gun on himself.

Washoe County School District police revealed Tuesday that the seventh-grader brought the 9mm semi-automatic Rugger handgun from his home, but authorities were still working to determine how he obtained it. The student’s parents were cooperating with authorities and could face charges in the case, police said.

Eighth-grader Angelo Ferro recalled burying his face in his hands as the boy waved the gun and threatened to shoot. Another seventh grader and Ferro's math teacher, Michael Landsberry, lay gunned down nearby.

“The whole time I was hoping Mr. L was OK, we'd all get through it, it was a bad dream,” Ferro told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

Ferro, 13, was in the schoolyard with friends when the violence erupted.

He heard a pop about 15 minutes before the morning bell rang but didn't think much of it. He then saw an injured boy clutching his wounded arm, and he watched Landsberry walk toward the gunman and take a bullet to the chest.

Unable to get inside the locked-down school, Ferro and others crouched against the building for safety but soon came faceto-face with the armed student.

Ferro didn’t know the boy but said he and other frightened classmates begged for their lives and tried to talk him out of firing.

Something distracted the student, and he didn't shoot. “He left, thank God,” Ferro said.

A series of 911 calls made from the school also reflected the terror of the situation, including an ominous report of “teacher down.”

“Can you send please send police out here,” a panicked student told a 911 dispatcher.

“There's a kid with a gun.”

Authorities say they’re withholding the shooter’s name out of respect for his family. They provided no motive for the shooting but said they've interviewed 20 or 30 witnesses and are looking into any prior connections between the victims and the shooter.

“Everybody wants to know why — that's the big question.

The answer is, we don't know right now,” Sparks Deputy Police Chief Tom Miller said. Sparks is just east of Reno and has a population of roughly 90,000.

Also Tuesday, law enforcement and school officials again lauded the actions of Landsberry, a 45year-old former Marine who tried to stop the rampage before he was killed.

“I cannot express enough appreciation for Mr. Landsberry,” Washoe County School District Superintendent Pedro Martinez said at a news conference. “He truly is a hero.”

Woman Faces Immigration Charges for Israel Bombing CHICAGO (AP) — An ArabAmerican community activist from the Chicago suburbs was arrested Tuesday on immigration charges for allegedly lying about her conviction for a deadly bombing more than 40 years ago in Israel.

Rasmieh Yousef Odeh, 66, spent a decade in an Israeli prison for her involvement in a 1969 attack that involved bombs planted at a crowded Jerusalem supermarket and a British consulate, according to a federal indictment.

Only one bomb — one of two placed at the supermarket — exploded, killing the two people and wounding several others.

Israeli authorities have said the attacks were planned by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

An Israeli military court sentenced Odeh to life in prison in 1970, but she was released 10 years later in a prisoner exchange with the Popular Front. Israel released 76 prisoners in exchange for an Israeli soldier captured in Lebanon, according to Odeh's indictment.

But U.S. authorities accuse Odeh of failing to mention her conviction and time in prison on immigration papers when she came to the U.S. from Jordan in 1995 and before she became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2004, the indictment says.

Odeh was arrested Tuesday

morning at her home in Evergreen Park, just southwest of Chicago, according to prosecutors. She moved to the Chicago area shortly after gaining citizenship in Detroit in 2004, said Khaalid Walls, a spokesman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Her defense attorney James Fennerty said Odeh has been a close friend of his for years and he never discussed her conviction in Israel or the 10 years she spent in prison.

“I never really asked her,” he said. “She’s one of the nicest people. ... She’s always caring. She's not a threat to anyone.”

Odeh works as an associate director at the Arab American Action Network, a Chicago-area nonprofit group that advocates for new immigrants and tries to combat anti-Muslim and anti-Arab prejudice, according to its director, Hatem Abudayyeh. According to the network's website, Odeh has a law degree and has worked as a lawyer. It says one of her focuses has been working with domesticviolence groups and addressing various women's issues.

“She is a leader in the community — a stalwart, an icon,” said Abudayyeh, who appeared at the Chicago federal court building to support Odeh. He added about her arrest, “It’s an escalation of attacks on our community. ... We are very, very angry.”

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Bay Area Rapid Transit workers stand on a picket line at Lake Merritt BART Station in Oakland. Transit employees have been embroiled in a dispute for months with BART management over wages, safety procedures, pensions and health benefits.

Transit Labor Clash Resolved After Deadly Accident OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — It took months of tortured talks, two strikes and the deaths of two workers for San Francisco’s transit rail workers and their employer to finally agree on a contract that got trains running again Tuesday.

The saga left commuters fuming and both sides bruised. A state lawmaker is considering introducing a bill that would ban public transit strikes, an idea seemingly anathema to a Democrat-controlled Legislature friendly to unions but perhaps a possibility because of the anger over the strike.

The tentative agreement between unions and Bay Area Rapid Transit came together quickly late Monday, just two days after a pair of transit workers were killed by a train operated by a BART employee being trained. The deaths shook both

sides and helped get them back to a negotiating table they had deserted Friday.

The accident made it “more difficult for BART management to maintain a very hard line and not accept any kind of compromise,” said John Logan, an invited observer to the bargaining sessions who is director of Labor and Employment Studies at San Francisco State University.

Logan added that the unions “did not want this strike to go on and did not see it as in their interest,” partly because the public seemed to be blaming workers rather than management for the disruption to their lives.

Commuters who had faced traffic jams, crammed buses and crowded ferries gave a collective sigh of relief as train service resumed, carrying passengers across the sprawling region.

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Fair Pay for Interns

THIS SUMMER, HIGH-PROFILE class action lawsuits brought on by unpaid interns against multiple entertainment conglomerates garnered significant attention in the media. The cases against corporations such as Conde Nast, Hearst and NBC Universal, among others, have led to the proliferation of intern advocate groups and provided fodder for the debate over the prudence of unpaid internships. Beyond the basic precept that all adults should be compensated for their work, there are moral and economic consequences to hiring students with no pay. Additionally, federal and state labor laws are surprisingly clear: Interns who perform useful work to the benefit of their employers are entitled to minimum wage pay.

One serious pitfall of the pervasive unpaid internship culture is the promulgation of class disparity. Most students in the U.S. cannot work for free; housing, living and tuition expenses do not evaporate over the summer. Students with the audacity to require pay for their work are unable to compete with their wealthier peers for coveted internships, and may find themselves at a disadvantage when entering the post-grad job market. As long as there are young people who can afford to work for free, there will be employers to hire them over their poorer counterparts. The societal duty to prevent this exploitation of cheap labor is why we have a minimum wage in the first place.

If there were proper oversight of minimum wage laws for interns, many employers in the private sector would be found in violation of labor standards. The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Dept. of Labor has explicit criteria for determining internship pay in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. An intern is entitled to minimum wage pay if the supervising employer “derives immediate advantage from the activities of the intern” or if the intern “displaces regular employees” or “performs productive work (for example, filing, performing other clerical work or assisting customers.” Employers have no incentive to expend the time and effort to train interns if they do not provide something useful in return — often the assumption of job duties that are too time-consuming or undesirable for other employees. This commonplace arrangement is not a fair trade, and it is a clear subversion of the law.

A common argument in support of unpaid internships is that they confer educational benefit and valuable work experience. Many employers have capitalized on this sentiment by offering academic credit in place of monetary compensation. But Dept. of Labor standards are clear here: While credit may be rewarded for participation in legal unpaid internships, it is not a valid alternative to pay for those internships in which an intern’s supervisor benefits. Regardless of the opportunities internships may afford students, only programs designed primarily to provide academic training are exempt from minimum wage requirements under the FLSA. Simply offering college credit in exchange for the acquisition of work experience or learned skills is insufficient to warrant exclusion.

Although the culture of unpaid internships is deep-rooted, change is imminent on this issue. On June 11, 2013, a U.S. District Court judge handed interns their first major victory, holding Fox Searchlight and Fox Entertainment Group liable for failing to pay two former interns who performed the work of regular employees. Additional similar outcomes are sure to follow. College students have been easy targets for exploitation in the job market for too long, and it is time we stand up for ourselves. Hopefully our universities will stand behind us.

G

ot me. I’m so embarrassed.How on earth did you catch my lie of a title? Doesn’t anyone knock before reading anymore?

Could it be that you’re some sort of Voodooist wizard, whose wisdom teeth necklace rattles in the presence of a lie? Do you work for the NSA and have my Google search history on file, along with a hidden-cam recording of my first time, as well as a long list of my old World of Warcraft personas?

Are you standing behind me right now?

Or did you look inside yourself, into that dank, dark internal abyss where the raw common denominators of human nature go to lurk, the place where you know deep down we are all the same? Did you see yourself there having a nice little solo game of “Pop Goes the Weasel” on a casual Thursday afternoon? Laptop within reach?

You did, didn’t you? Oh, you sly dog, you. Experience is the greatest teacher.

But don’t worry, gents and ladies.

Your secret is safe with me. I say we all adopt the modus operandi of renowned self-help guru and competitive bodybuilder Musclehead McHugh, from his book, Steroid Etiquette and I Can Too: 1. Everybody knows.

2. Nobody talks about it.

3. Everybody is fine as frickin’ rain about it.

But why all the secrecy? Come, come my friend! Take a break from that tiresome world of façade and Machiavellianism where you play the role of a confident, successful individual who mates only with others and never by hand! Here you can be honest about that loner double life you lead!

Even if you decline, I can probably still get a good reading on what gets your hands moving thanks to some fascinating data gathered by Pornhub and PornMD, two outstanding pillars of human culture. According to PornMD, the top three global pornographic searches are “teen,” “milf,” and “massage.” If you’re an 18 year old masseuse with twins, you may officially declare yourself the most coveted flesh upon the Earth.

As an Asian man, I was disappointed to see “Asian” place ninth, a full five spots behind number four ranking “hentai.” A sad day, indeed, when bright blue eyes pass over Dragon Lady for “Sailor Moon versus the Tentacular Prince.” According to a report by Pornhub on Gizmodo, this is apparently exactly what is happening in Kentucky, as “hentai” remains Kentucky’s number one pornographic

search term. Maybe side effects of fried chicken consumption include not just obesity, but hunger for anime fornication too.

But who cares if Colonel Sanders chokes his chicken to a blue and pink cat-women? We all know the human race is sick and deranged to the core, so we don’t fault people their idiosyncrasies. However, we live in an age where sex and masturbation are still swept under the rug. The first and second rules of Fight Club apply here.

Moralistic traditions compel us to at least try and maintain a modest demeanor when in public company.

Even if we don’t talk about it, our base nature remains buried under our civilized demeanors. Pornography is important because it reveals in honest, raw detail our most perverse desires. If Rule 34 has taught me anything, it’s that there are some real sickos out there. Fetishism abounds. It’s probably abounding in the guy sitting next to you. Not that I mind. As the masterful George Carlin said, some people just “like to dress up in leather Boy Scout uniforms and smash each other in the head with ball-peen hammers while they take turns blowing their cat.”

Race is huge too. What we may be too politically correct to state in words, porno acts out with vigorous aplomb. Pornography remains one of the most racialized genres known to man, where a person’s phenotype is his or her defining factor. Let’s all puff around with ethnic sensitivity by day, and conjure fornication of various colors by night. Different races entertain us in porn the way different animal exhibits do at the zoo, a physical display by exotic creatures.

The Internet allows each of us a window to strangerfucking. It has confused the minds of our youths with oiled, shaven bodies, bosomed goddesses in choreograph with Olympian men. It opens doors to the most twisted fantasies. The inevitability of accessible pornography has forever changed the meaning of sex and sculpted the subconscious of a generation. What we are left with are people with heads full of misguided sexual expectations based on race and gender role. And because our culture forbids them from expressing the full range of their complex sexuality, we are left with a masquerading moralism to cover an insatiable, base lust.

P.S. To the trolls I may lure, I will prove I am still the greatest master baiter.

David Zha is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com. The Angry Spirit Bear appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Sarah Byrne | Let It Byrne

Rachael Singer |

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Five Intro Classes More Helpful Than A Writing Seminar

W

hen I think about my freshman experience, I have to say that in the beginning, I didn’t know anything. This is probably a common state for incoming freshmen; it’s hard to know things about a place where you have just arrived. That’s what O-Week is for, right? In my personal experience, wrong. I met my orientation leader once, then never saw him again. And no matter how many times I was forced to play Two Truths and Lie with the people on my floor, I still didn’t become friends with any of them until we were all drunk enough to tolerate each other. So, I thought of a few info sessions / courses that I would have appreciated as a freshman, as well as some that I would appreciate if some of those around me would take.

1. HOW TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN “REPLY” AND “REPLY ALL”: Email is rough. No one can properly read your tone, and Gmail constantly sends me into a state of panic thinking that I forwarded a whole chain of emails to someone instead of just one. I’ve started assuming that everyone has read all of my emails, because I don’t know how to keep sneaky electronic secrets. However, I do understand one important aspect of email: the reply all button. And I am very careful about that button, as we should all be. On behalf of all of the listservs you’re a part of and group messages you’re looped in on, I beseech you: Please consider the message you’re sending; do all hundred people on the listserv need to read it? I could make a strong case that most of the time, the answer is no.

2. LAUNDRY 101: In all seriousness, this should be at least a short presentation during orientation week. As much as you might think that mechanical engineers at an Ivy League uni-

While there may not be a typical Cornellian, there are definitely at least some basic standards of intellect. versity should be able to figure out the knobs and buttons of a washing machine, this seems to not be the case. My freshman year, girls on my floor held literal laundry classes in the laundry room to teach the boys how to pour detergent into a drawer marked “detergent.”

We all need to just learn how to do laundry, if only to keep freshmen boys from using laundry as an excuse to hang out with girls. Carrying socks to the basement of a dorm does not a proper date make.

3. STUDY OF APPROPRIATE STANDING AND WALKING TECHNIQUES: I don’t want to be that person, and I’m not going to say everyone should walk faster, but can we all at least just walk on the right side of the sidewalk? And is it too much to ask for people to move when they see that they might walk into me? Last week, I had to jump into a bush to avoid getting plowed down by a girl who was texting while walking. Also, regarding standing, just less clumping would be nice.

When I want to go to the gym, I don’t want to have to weave my way through thirty freshmen who decided it would be cool to hang out in front of Helen Newman. I’m not expecting a miracle, because here at Cornell we, apparently, do what we want, but please just don’t stab me in the eye with your umbrella.

4. WHAT TO INCLUDE/NOT INCLUDE IN YOUR EMAIL SIGNATURE: This can be a very short class, with one directive. Write your name at the bottom of an email, with some sort of sign-off before it, depending on the situation. That is all. Unless you are the CEO of some international company, I really couldn't care less that you’re the president of the Blue M&M Club, or that you are the co-chair of the residential fellowship peer advisor mentorship program. Honestly, I don’t even want to know what your major is. Your name will suffice, because if we are friends I already know what you’re involved in, and if we’re not I don’t care.

5. INTRODUCTION TO FRIEND-MAKING METHODS: This would not be some stupid introduction to American culture. I’m talking about teaching people how to interact like human beings, without being completely awkward. Here’s a start: when you are surrounded by thousands of new people, and you want to make a good first impression, just remain calm. Ask people about themselves, tell people about yourself, and don’t panic. Whatever you do, don’t suggest that people tell secrets. Apparently this is some cliché established by the media, but it’s actually not super great and romantic to share your deepest secrets with people you’ve just met. I’ve heard multiple stories of people who spill their souls on day one of college, and it usually ends poorly, with maybe an embarrassing nickname tacked on as well.

When you think about it, Cornell is a relatively small, focused community. While there may not be a typical Cornellian, there are definitely at least some basic standards of intellect. All I’m asking here is for a little bit of standardization. I have a dream, that I will one day live on a campus where I don’t get emails about people wanting to leave listservs, where no one stands between the salad and sandwich lines at Terrace, and where I won’t know strangers’ deepest, darkest secrets. Together, we can achieve that world.

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

Christo Eliot |

The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight

In Defense Of Continued Exploration I

While it may be hard to see the promised myself when I became an opinion columnist that I value of something like Cornell’s would write at least one column synchrotron lab — something so with some substance to it before my obscure and arcane — it is importenure as a writer was up (this is not tant to keep in mind, that a seemactually true, but first sentences are ingly useless discovery may only be hard, and lying in my own opinion lacking the context to make it procolumn is actually pretty easy). For a foundly useful. Why should Cornell long time, though, I really did not spend so much money on this lab have much substance to write about when we can’t even see what its dis— then I overheard (read: eaves- coveries yield? The argument that dropped on) something pretty dis- “we know enough” could have been turbing. Last week, a Cornell stu- made at any number of points dent I don’t know said to their throughout history. Why should we friend, “I don’t understand why care about space? We live on earth quantum physicists get funding for and all of our problems are here on research — nothing they do ever earth, too. But, without space exploamounts to anything tangible. Don’t ration and satellites you wouldn’t have the Internet or your cell phone we know enough already?” or those embarrassing moments Pause. when you think you see a shooting Don’t we know enough already?

I don’t think the student was implying that we already know enough Without space exploration about quantum physics or that we already know and satellites you wouldn’t everything. In the grand have ... those embarrassing scheme of things, we moments when you think you know very little, and the see a shooting star but it’s student who made the actually just the government comment probably knows even less. What I spying on you. think he was getting at is that, in his mind, esoteric and curiosity-driven science star but it’s actually just the governoffers little utility in solving the ment spying on you. Without world’s very real problems. To him, Michael Faraday and his work in things like quantum physics and electromagnetism, you would be space exploration are simply black- checking Twitter by candlelight.

If you watch as many TED talks holes for scientific funding. (The beautiful irony here is that the black- as me (you shouldn’t; it’s unhealthy) hole metaphor wouldn’t even exist if then you may have come across a it were not for discoveries made in great one given by an English physicuriosity-driven science by Stephen cist named Brian Cox called, “Why Hawking.) The student would argue we need the explorers.” In this talk, that discoveries made in the realm of Cox, who works with the Large exploratory science will just become Hadron Collider at CERN, makes peer-reviewed papers for Nature or basically the same argument I’m some other scientific publication and making here — that exploratory scibe read only by academics or that ence paves the road for innovation, annoying kid who always has a and investments in curiosity-driven multi-part question for the professor science pay for themselves in the long term. He does it much better at the end of lecture.

I would make the opposite argu- than me and in a charming English ment though: It is impossible for us to accent; I do it in Helvetica and then know enough about anything. Ever. The Sun then changes it to some We don’t know what we don’t know. serif font like Times New Roman

(editor’s note: it’s Garamond). Cox mentions the U.S. Space Program and a study done in 1975 by Chase Econometrics. The study showed that fourteen dollars came back into the U.S. economy for every one dollar that was spent on Apollo 14 ... of which there were many. No, the Apollo program did not create any tangible products that could be sold for a price, but rather it paid for itself by inspiring young scientists and engineers to go out and make discoveries and inventions of their own.

(Side note: I don’t exactly how they calculated this — I’m not an econometrist.)

English chemist Humphry Davy once said, “Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose that our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete, and that there are no new worlds to conquer.” Esoteric discoveries can have large implications for the world, and it is important that now, as the world becomes increasingly jaded and disinterested with anything that doesn’t show its value immediately, exploratory science continues. At a place like Cornell, where so many brilliant minds can come together, it is paramount to see the importance of furthering human knowledge. A school like Cornell can be a petri dish for scientific curiosity (pun intended), and Cornell students can be the ones who go out and conquer those new worlds. Just as an esoteric discovery like hydrogen spectroscopy can eventually lead to transistors and basically all modern electronics, some curious Cornell student who knows that he or she doesn’t know enough could make a discovery that eventually solves the world’s very really problems.

Christo Eliot is a junior in the College of Engineering. He may be reached at celiot@cornellsun.com. The Tale of the Dingo at Midnight appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

10 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, October 23, 2013

SCIENCE

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Economics and Enology

BioEngineering

The Science of Selling Wine

By SOPHIA TIMKO Sun Contributor

COURTESY OF PROF. ANNA MANSFIELD

Science of sales | Prof. Miguel Gomez, applied economics and management, and Prof.

Anna Mansfield, enology, held training sessions across New York for tasting room employees on what information and atmosphere best sells wine.

When it comes to the best-selling wines, one might expect those with the best aromas or those that are the oldest will sell quickly. However, studies led by Prof. Miguel Gomez, applied economics and management, have shown that aromas and years are not the only aspects that drive consumerism of wine.

Gomez’ research team designed two studies to reveal which types of wines consumers want.

According to Gomez, the studies gauged customer satisfaction through surveying consumers in tasting rooms across New York. These surveys covered everything from signage to parking lot appearance.

Gomez found that it was not necessarily the quality of wine that intrigued customers, but the service level and environment of the tasting room. According to Gomez, a nice view out of a window, as well as the knowledge and friendliness of the server, are the key precursors to a satisfied customer.

“If you have a nice window with a nice view or an open space with a nice view, people are much happier than if you have them in a darker, enclosed tasting room,” Gomez said.

Wine purchases are also determined by the amount and type of information given to the customers. Gomez and his collaborators performed a three-month study, which weekly changed the type of information about the wines, that revealed consumers are more responsive to objective descriptors as opposed to subjective descriptors, according to Gomez.

COURTESY OF PROF. ANNA MANSFIELD

Wine and windows | Prof. Miguel Gomez found that a window with a nice view in a tasting room is better for selling wine than a dark tasting room. He also found that consumers prefer information on aroma and color to information on rating or year when buying wine.

Objective descriptors include technical aspects of the wine such as rating or year. Subjective descriptors are the special features of the wine such as the aroma or color.

“If you are the sommelier of the tasting rooms, having just objective descriptors makes it so that you have to interact more with the customer, allowing for a more personal connection,” Gomez said.

To apply these findings, Gomez and his collaborator, Prof. Anna Mansfield, enology, held training sessions throughout New York for tasting room employees.

According to Mansfield, tasting room employees often come from a range of backgrounds and do not often know a lot about wine.

Training sessions cover everything from the basics of enology and viticulture – especially grape growing and winemaking in New York – to sensory perception.

“Everyone is wired differently, so it’s important to be conscious of that when interacting with customers,” Mansfield said. “For a supertaster, sensitive to bitterness, red wine may be too strong, so you have to move them to a more aromatic white wine.”

The first training session was held in spring 2012 on Long Island. According to Mansfield, the sessions have been successful in teaching tasting room employees better strategies for selling wine.

Workshops have also been held in areas such as Lake Erie, the Finger Lakes and East Gardner, Pennsylvania in collaboration with Pennsylvania State University.

Since winemakers and Cornell researchers alike have found the training sessions effective, Gomez will continue to host training sessions in order to improve sales across New York.

According to Gomez, the next step is to expand the training sessions geographically.

Before this is possible, however, it is important to find out whether the consumer trends found in Gomez’s studies are unique to New York or the same everywhere. It is also important, when trying to understand customer satisfaction, to evaluate the cost of making these changes and improvements in the tasting rooms.

“We know that making customers happy increases sales, but we have much to learn about how much it costs,” Gomez said.

Gomez and Mansfield have received positive feedback from winemakers like Juan Micieli-Martinez, winemaker and general manager of Martha Clara Vineyards on Long Island, who first suggested to Mansfield that these workshops take place. Micieli-Martinez realized, from visiting other wineries, that the customer service level in other regions, like Napa, California, was at a much higher level than it was in New York.

“It’s one thing to have great wine, but we need to sell that great wine and have a well-trained staff that’s comfortable doing that,” Micieli-Martinez said.

Ithaca is located in the Finger Lakes wine region which is known for its cool climate. Riesling grapes, used to make white and sparkling wines, are a specialty of the region.

Sophia Timko can be reached at snt28@cornell.edu.

12 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, October 23, 2013

SCIENCE

Researchers Investigate How Bones Break

By JAMES GUO Sun Contributor

Instead of studying single, high-impact bone damages, as other experiments have explored in the past, Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen, mechanical and aerospace engineering, launched a focused examination on fatigue and repetitive loading in the bone, the type of stress that incurs from daily physical activity and exercise.

When a basketball player lands in a jump stop or a linebacker collides into an opposing player, stress occurs in their bones. An excessive buildup of these incidents can contribute to bone weakness, stiffness and energy loss in an athlete. These physical damages, however, begin on a smaller level. Microscopic cracks accumulate in the bones over an extended period of time leading, eventually, to a major fracture after they merge into one large break.

According to van der Meulen, stress factors occur in bones after repeated cycles of loading, a method of incurring continuous fatigue on the bone. Van der Meulen’s lab attempts to visualize damaged bone at a high resolution using synchrotron transmission x-ray microscopy. This type of imaging allows the researchers to see damage at an unprecedented nanoscale level of up to 100 times higher resolution than previous studies.

In one of van der Meulen’s experiments, small samples of sheep bone were placed into a mineral-buffered water bath to keep the bones hydrated. To induce repetitive stress on the bone, the van der Meulen team used a fixed number of 20,000 cycles of loading on the bone.

The 20,000 cycles of loading were calculated so that the bone samples would not break, but they would still have measurable traces of microscopic damage, according to van der Meulen. The bones were also stained with lead uranyl acetate, a depleted form of uranium that binds to microdamage in bones.

Garry Brock grad traveled with van der

Meulen to the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, a part of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center National Laboratory at Stanford University, to look at how the bones changed after the stress loads and staining procedures were completed. Once they gathered the images, Brock and van der Meulen spent the next few months analyzing their findings. What they discovered was unprecedented, according to van der Meulen.

Instead of detecting signs of breaking and cracks in the tissue layer of the bone, the research team observed significant staining at the smaller, cellular level.

The staining was present in microscopic cellular canals called lacunae and canaliculi and largely absent in the tissue constructs of the bone. According to van der Meulen, this finding suggested that damages to the bone begins at a smaller level than expected.

Moving forward, the van der Meulen group is interested in the long term applications of its research findings in understanding and improving the effects of certain types of osteoporosis drugs.

Osteoporosis drugs are known to change bone material properties, and, according to van der Meulen, the researchers want to further their comprehension of these changes at the nanoscale level.

“Our current goal is to examine how microdamage forms in the bones, but our long term goal is to visualize what the osteoporosis drug treatments are doing at the nanoscale,” Brock said.

Since his last project, Brock has continued to further his understanding of microscopic bone structure by exploring tomographies of trebeculae, a spongy tissue element that is found in many components of bone.

In the future, Brock said that he seeks to translate his research into clinical applications for bone damage.

James Guo can be reached at jg757@cornell.edu.

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Breaking bone | Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen, mechanical and aerospace engineering, researches the microstructural properties of bone including how daily activity affects bones.

New Device Mimics Cancer Environment

By GRACE AHN Sun Contributor

In 1761, Giovanni Morgagni of Padua laid the foundation for oncology, the study of cancer, when he performed the first autopsies relating patients’ illnesses to pathologic findings after death. Since then, an understanding of not only the body but also the cardiovascular system has become vital in the race to cure cancer.

Prof. Mingming Wu, biological and environmental engineering, B.J. Kim, a research associate at the University, and others have created a microfluidic device mimicking cancer cell metastasis, the spread of cancer, throughout the body. By reproducing the specific microenvironmental conditions in which tumour cells reproduce and proliferate, the new device will allow sci-

entists to follow the spread of tumour cells while incorporating signaling proteins such as chemokines and growth factors into the cancerous environment.

“This device recreates the process of how cancer cells flow from the primary tumor site to the secondary site and eventually will be able to determine how each set of conditions affect cancer cell movement,” Wu said.

According to Wu, knowledge of the mechanisms used by cancer cells to enter the lymphatic system and how they manipulate their microenvironment is limited. The device’s focus on the movement within this part of the circulatory system, therefore, is critical in understanding the spread of cancer.

“Tracking a cancer cell is a dynamic procedure. It’s hard to track down cancer cells in the actu-

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Manipulating a microenvironment | Prof. Mingming Wu has created a microfluidic device that mimics the spread of cancer in the body.

al body,” Kim said.

To examine the motility of cancer cells, a replication of the microenvironment conditions in which they move is important.

According to Kim, the new microfluidic device generates a threechanneled chemical environment with the outer channels acting as a source channel and a sink channel.

The inner channel embeds the cells of interest in a collagen culture.

This cell culture recreates the extracellular matrix in the body and allows scientists to observe the effect of different sets of chemicals, such as chemokines or growth factors, diffused from the source channel through the inner channel into the sink channel.

As the chemicals diffuse through the cell culture, effects on cell motility are measured using parameters such as speed, velocity and direction persistence of the cells.

According to Kim, the device is able to recreate and observe the effects of different microenvironments by varying specific conditions of chemical type and concentration.

“It is interesting to know that certain tumor types end up in specific organs — like each tumor cell has a certain destiny,” Kim said.

“For example, breast cancer usually develops into lung cancer or liver cancer but never brain cancer.

Cancer cell movement is not random and for some reason has specific destinations.”

Observing cell motility under such specifically manipulated con-

ditions also allows for a better understanding of what physiological conditions permit the mechanisms used by cancer cells to conquer other organs. It will also aid the understanding of the overall structure of cancer metastasis.

According to Kim, the biggest concern in using the device is maintaining the specific environment of the body. An environmental chamber controlling the ion levels, humidity, temperature, and pH levels to mimic those of a human body was produced in conjunction with the device to help maintain the correct microenvironment.

Inside the environmental chamber, biologists can impose a precisely controlled microenvironment on the cell and observe an accurate description of how a chemical affects tumor cell movement, according to Kim. Scientists can then distinguish between and control for unnecessary complexities within the cell environment.

“Eventually greater complexities can be added to the device in order to recreate the ideal environment of interest,” Kim said.

The fact that the device is 3-D of its most important features, however.

“Because the cell is traditionally observed on the flat culture surface, only forces from the bottom of the two-dimensional environment are felt,” Kim said. “The 3-D aspect and physiologically relevant scale of the device imposes all of the forces in the body and will therefore recre-

ate realistic cellular response in protein production and overall behavior.”

According to Kim, the new device has the capacity to mimic a real tumor environment and visualize intravasation, the process by which tumor cells leave the primary tumor and enter the lymphatic vessel. The microenvironment is able to contribute to an increasingly comprehensive database of knowledge on tumor cell migration — the key to understanding cancer metastasis.

“A tremendous interest in the behavior of stem cells has evolved, and this interest in isolating specific cell types from the whole and distinguishing subpopulations will need exact observation of cell variation,” Kim said. “This inherent cell variation in the heterogeneity of cancer cells such as motility type and others can only be accurately observed in a three dimensional environment.”

Chih-kuan Tung, a postdoctoral researcher at the University, is currently working on a diffusion-based device to further fine-tune the control of fluid flow in the microenvironment of cancer cells. According to Tung, the microfluidic device is still in the improvement phase of production and holds much promise in the future of oncological and overall microenvironment research.

Grace Ahn can be reached at gsa33@cornell.edu.

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CMJ 2013

BY PAUL BLANK Sun Staff Writer

Thursday night, I sat at in my apartment, poring over the notes for an upcoming exam.

Friday morning, I boarded a 6:40 a.m. bus to New York City, two 7-Eleven sausage, egg and cheese sandwiches tucked under my arm.

Friday night, I fingered the lace on my light blue mask aimlessly as I shook the hand of the drummer from Vampire Weekend. “Love the new album.” “Thanks, man.” Twelve hours later, I shed a tear as my face melted from a gorgeous, metallic onslaught; the guy next to me appears to be praying. Such was a smattering of my weekend covering this year’s CMJ music festival.

The highlight of ther weekend, though, had to be seeing Arcade Fire. Arcade Fire has made the theme of disconnection due to technology quite clear in the marketing rollout for its new album, Reflektor. The band’s video for the title track features apparitions with mirrors for faces and oversize heads wandering about, making caricatures of the egos that are so often expanded and fed when we plug in. In line, I had to start checking myself in a mixture of anxiety and excitement as my uncertain night waiting outside the warehouse wore on. I tried to gawk and gander at the indie rock royalty who walked through the VIP line — James Murphy, Vampire Weekend’s Chris Tomson, The National’s Bryce Dressner — and at least thought twice before pulling out my phone and snapping pictures of the band as they strolled into the venue.

When The Reflektors arrived in a limo to the warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn on Friday where they played a secret show, they emerged with cameras, snapping pictures at the fans who had been waiting in line the longest. The move seemed to criticize as well, this time poking fun at our need to document every moment of our lives by making us the spectacle. The band politely mocked us as they proceeded to set up for the show we had been standing around for hours to see.

It takes a lot of moxie for a band to poke fun at its biggest fans like that, and the group was not finished doing so. After a concert introduction from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, two performers in giant heads took the “main stage” and began playing a few drones. To our left, we began to hear some

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clutter. and in an instant the left side of the venue opened up to reveal the actual band ripping into “Reflektor.” I can’t imagine how frustrated the people who had been waiting outside since 10 a.m. must have been to find that they had a worse look at the stage than myself, who hadn’t bought a ticket in presale and was one of the last to enter the venue.

Arcade Fire performed 10 songs, all of which were new, save for “covers” of classics “Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains)” and “Neighborhood #3 (Power Out).” This was also the case when I saw the band perform at Madison Square Garden before 2010’s The Suburbs came out. The crowd’s reaction could more accurately be described as reverent than excited, as these were some of the first times the songs were being performed for an audience.

The Reflektor’s songs were groove-oriented, a trait undoubtedly influenced by James Murphy’s production. The sound fidelity was exceptional for a random warehouse — so sharp that you could tell from its lyrics that “Joan of Arc” was literally a song about Joan of Arc and that the coos that bookend “Afterlife” are strangely reminiscent of those in Lisa Loeb’s “Sixpence None the Richer.” The show was heavy on style, which was assured by the performance. The group was dressed in the same digs as their SNL performance of “Afterlife,” white suits and black make-up smudged across their eyes. They were passionate and stayed stationary, save for Regine Chassagne’s ribbon twirling in “Sprawl” and Butler’s trademark stepping onto the monitor to espouse some particularly poignant lyrics.

All of these details made for a satisfying if not dazzling performance. All the new songs had a generous thump to them, but they were not immediately epic like the highlights of Funeral or Neon Bible, with a few exceptions.

“Flashbulb Eyes” has a dubby lope to it that answers the question, “How would Arcade Fire sound with kettle drums? (Answer: Pretty freaking fantastic.) “Here Comes the Night Time” began and ended with an island rave-up so euphoric, it could only be accurately described as “reggaeton-esque.” For me, The Suburbs was a grower, and, although the new songs didn’t bring the house down, mostly due to the audience’s lack of familiarity with them, they could very well serve as effective drama in concert once

Reflektor has had a few months to worm its way into people’s brains (and hips).

When Win Butler came out an hour after the group had finished playing and everyone was still standing there waiting for an encore, I gave considerable thought to his invitation to “dance with us on the floor to this playlist we made.” I ultimately decided to head back to my friend’s apartment.

“They probably won’t come out anyway,” I reasoned.

Oh yeah, and CMJ happened. Running well into its third decade in production, the city-wide festival is a kindred spirit to Austin’s South by Southwest, but obviously spread over a much larger area. As such, it’s hard to plan going to more than a few venues a day, and chances are your favorite bands will be playing shows in different boroughs all across the city.

So, I decided to stick with the venue that had the most consistently interesting acts for my Saturday afternoon, that being Baby’s All Right in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. My main draw was the last-minute addition of Arkansas traditional doom metal outfit Pallbearer to the billing, a group whose debut, Sorrow and Extinction, was my favorite metal album of last year. Deemed by a friend as “the most depressing album I’ve ever heard,” it’s a fantastic metal album for folks who are turned off by screamed vocals and aggressive textures. Its sound is more akin to a funeral procession than a book burning.

I arrived at Baby’s All Right just as Nothing was finishing its set. The aptly named group’s unmemorable Deftones-like mixture of metal and post-punk were an appropriate transition between Pallbearer and British indie rockers Yuck, who I had just managed to miss. Pallbearer then took the stage and laid into Sorrow and Extinction’s closing track “Given to the Grave.” The song’s beautiful, crushing solos between guitarists Brett Campbell and Devin Holt created the perfect setting to absorb and reflect on life, the universe and everything (maybe shed a man tear or two). The whole show could have been those four minutes stretched

out to 45 and I would have loved it, but the group slugged through more fantastic Sorrow tracks and a new instrumental. Much like Arcade Fire, I did not leave the bar stunned by spectacle, but very, very content. So content, in fact, that I accidentally wandered into the venue’s in-house tattoo parlor and almost stuck around to get something done before the next act went on. When your performance is so entrancing that it makes a scrawny, sober hipster consider tattooing a giant “P” on his chest, you know you’re doing something right.

Next up was Nashville upstart Torres.

Singer/songwriter Mackenzie Scott took the stage clad in all black for the decidedly metallic occasion. The singer-drummer setup has become almost a cliche in recent years and, especially considering that her brand of raw storytelling has clear similarities to Alison Crutchfield’s Alabama outfit Waxahatchee, who released the excellent Cerulean Salt this year, Torres’ music can get buried under an embarrassment of riches. Luckily, Torres’ selftitled debut is scathing and confessional, taking Crutchfield’s nostalgia-fueled romanticism and crushing it under a steel-toed boot.

Her debut did not reach as many ears as its quality deserved, but she’s a talent who will get her break in due time.

Torres’ performance reflected this in a way that was — you guessed it — satisfying. The PA’s emphasis on heavy bass to accommodate the aggressive acts that came before worked tremendously in her favor, the spare drums punctuating Scott’s virulent rants like rifle shots. Throughout, she was friendly and conversational, mocking the crowd for being too drunk but thanking them after every song.

She took time away from the mic to stroll along the stage to play a few solos, at times scrambling her hands across the fretboard like an agitated St. Vincent before returning to her vivid tales of lost love. The show felt like a fitting end as I shuffled out the venue and thought about where I would be sleeping that night. A weekend remembered for the wonderful experiences surrounding the music, not necessarily the music itself. From Arcade Fire cracking wise in Brooklyn to Torres just being happy to play for some fans a few yards away from tramp stamps in the making, it was promise on different scales. Solid stuff for now, great stuff for the future.

Paul Blank is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at pblank@cornellsun.com.

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Arcade Fire

Leon T. Pearl

“Afterlife”

“If You’re Still There”

By Kaitlyn Tiffany

By Sam Bromer

By Mike Sosnick

As part of her promise to release one new song per week until the Nov. 11 release of her fourth LP, ARTPOP, Lady Gaga tweeted the link to her collaboration with R. Kelly, “Do What U Want” early Monday morning. The song is classic Gaga up front, with the singer exhibiting her muscular vocals up against an equally aggressive beat and informing the world’s fellas, “You can’t have my heart and you won’t use my mind, but do what you want with my body.”

The cover art is a full-on booty shot, and you’re supposed to inform YouTube that you’re eighteen before you can look at it. This is presumably the site’s warning that “this is something ratchety,” but in truth, Gaga is one of the few female performers who pulls off “come and get it” with total flare and a sense of empowerment. And R. Kelly, with his always-perfect vocals, seems totally into it. “I could be the drink in your cup, I could be the green in your blunt,” he all-but-croons, going on to explain how he is crazy busy with the high-life but definitely still has time for romance. Read: in-the-backof-the-club-sex. Obviously. The two don’t mesh styles perfectly and it’s noticeable, but given that each is an absolute expert of their genre, it hardly seems to matter.

Last week, Gaga tweeted that “Each song on ARTPOP was inspired by different types of adrenalin, so it’s an expression of the various rushes.” I’m not entirely sure what rush is supposed to top this genius pairing.

If high-concept disco and post-punk double albums based loosely on the Greek Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice aren’t exactly up your alley, Arcade Fire wants to change your mind.

And if “Afterlife,” the band’s latest release from forthcoming record Reflektor, is any indication, they will probably be successful.

The track is classic Arcade Fire in the sense that it completely subverts what has come before it while remaining immediately recognizable as an “Arcade Fire song.” Spearheaded by a synth loop that will be echoing in the recesses of your mind long after you press pause, “Afterlife” takes morbid themes — what happens after we die, how to survive after love is lost — and makes you want to dance to them, albeit wistfully (picture the elderly man from Up in Studio 54).

That’s not to say Butler and co. trivialize these themes: Not to be overshadowed by James Murphy’s fantastic production, “Afterlife” showcases some of the band’s most powerful songwriting in years. Lyrics like those which open the song, “Afterlife, oh my God, what an awful word / After all the breath and the dirt and the fires are burnt,” convey fear, exhaustion and religious ambivalence, while the catchy, simple chorus, “Can we work it out? / We scream and shout, ’til we work it out,” reveals the heartbreak and yearning at the core of the track.

“If You’re Still There,” the fourth finished track by Edinburguensian producer Leon T. Pearl, is a more pensive release than his earlier efforts. After signing to Method Records, an imprint started by the Surrey electronic duo Disclosure, Pearl put forth a smiley effort with “Take You to Market” in July. Now he’s getting serious with “If You’re Still There,” a track that steps between rhythms and vocals with artful choppiness. Featuring breaks and lurches ranging from the subtle to the violent in the sharp bass, shiny percussion and Pearl’s warm voice, this new cut successfully modernizes classic, late ’90s British 2Step garage through a distinct 2013 brightness. While Pearl takes obvious cues from Disclosure and other peers on Method, his attention to infectious hooks and undulating beats make his music seem more geared to gently swaying in a car than getting down on a sweaty dancefloor. “If You’re Still There” is no exception, and its calm, controlled madness will keep me occupied as I anxiously await a Leon T. Pearl album.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at ktiffany@cornellsun.com.

Sam Bromer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sbromer@cornellsun.com.

Mike Sosnick is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at msosnick@cornellsun.com.

Lady Gaga ft.

R. Kelly “Do What U Want”

The Self-Destruction of Indie Music

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arly this October, David Byrne wrote an op-ed for The Guardian about how income inequality is killing the New York creative scene. When “most of Manhattan and many parts of Brooklyn are virtual walled communities [and] pleasure domes for the rich … middle-class people can barely afford to live here anymore, so forget about emerging artists, musicians, actors, dancers, writers, journalists and small business people. Bit by bit, the resources that keep the city vibrant are being eliminated.”

He is absolutely right. New York City has always been a global city, and its stubbornly local feel fends off the domination of any single influence in its melting pot. We have always prided ourselves for leisurely walking from Chinatown to Greenwich Village and noticing little difference in between. This feeling is disappearing. We are not Chicago, where separation between communities is so clear that a lifelong resident would never set foot in certain places. We aren’t London either, where ultra-luxe condominiums tower over neighborhoods kept sinisterly empty as reserve transient playgrounds for the global ultra-wealthy. It’s not that the old New York was so great either — who doesn’t appreciate the declining crime rates of the Bloomberg years? — but income inequality should have no corroboration to culture.

Income inequality manifests in many different forms, of course — as gold-colored iPhones, universities systematically lying about need-blind admissions policies and college graduates teaching in low-income schools for two years. But income inequality especially matters, among many other art forms, in music and especially within today’s

indie music. Indie kids now are notoriously anxious and obsessed about socioeconomic status to levels not seen since the kids of punk in the late ’70s. This obsession is understandable, of course, because both groups champion anti-establishment principles. Showing or feeling wealth is a loss of legitimacy, spurring the dramas and backlash that plague artists like Vampire Weekend and Lana Del Rey. Punk rock, in its inception, didn’t have to “balance” legitimacy with selling-out because that anxiety didn’t exist until the late ’70s.

“Death or Glory,” a song from The Clash’s classic album London Calling, succinctly criticizes the changes punk rock had gone through. Anti-establishment bands became establishment sell-outs, “every gimmick hungry yob digging gold from rock n’ roll grabs the mike to tell us he’ll die before he’s sold.”

It was around this time, too, that punk rock

Kai Sam Ng You’ve Got to Be Kitsching Me began to quickly fragment into warring subgenres — new wave, no wave, post-punk, you name it — all with their own claim to punk ideology. Establishment-anxiety ate into punk, fragmenting it until it became the very thing punk was frightened of.

Establishment-anxiety will also make indie music industry eat itself alive.

Unlike punk, however, Indie music in the 2000s possessed these anxieties from the very beginning. When the Strokes’ Is This It landed in 2001 and revamped the industry into the one we know today, it encouraged big name labels to sign on indie bands and artists

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to revive genres that fell out of favor in the ’90s (disco, techno, synthpop), Brooklyn to become a brand and Pitchfork to (somehow) become an authority. But the Strokes are a curious beginning for the millennial indie music. The band members all came from very well-off backgrounds, and only came together because Julian Casablancas met them at various points in posh private schools. But somehow the band never faced the same “bunch of rich kids” backlash that Vampire Weekend did. Why? Is it because Vampire Weekend rhymes “horchata” with “aranciata” and the Strokes don’t? It makes no sense.

Establishment-anxiety is a distraction from a more fundamental and structural problem with the indie music industry: Every label seeks “talent” with potential commercial success in mind, not self-expression.

Indie labels are especially guilty of this. They are especially well-versed in soothing the establishment-anxieties of their audience by promoting bands that “started from the bottom up.” And because they are “indie labels,” they have better credence to market them-

selves as such.

Recently, twee-pop band Cults got a lot of flak for signing with Columbia instead of an independent label. Explaining why, they said, “We get more money up front. ... I feel like a lot of smaller indie labels are giving bands really bad deals and robbing them. …

All these bands are trading their cool points for cash, and [the labels are] making out like bandits.”

And this is exactly what David Byrne is talking about: It’s not that more and more bands are selling out to big corporations; it is that it is becoming almost impossible to start a band. Unless you have a lot of your parents’ money to spend, living in NYC as a creative is becoming impossible. Somehow you have to survive while maintaining your creative cred. When everybody else moves away and all we have left are the Lena Dunhams, well, then what?

Kai Sam Ng is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. You’ve Got to be Kitsching Me runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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SPORTS

Golf Ends Fall Play With Losses To Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown

OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

It’s not over till it’s over | After a disappointing fall season, the Red hopes to come back stronger in the spring.

The Cornell golf team wrapped up its fall season with losses to No. 3 Harvard, No. 5 Dartmouth and No. 7 Brown in this weekend’s Ivy Match Play at the Trump National Golf Club. The format of the match was different from the usual team-stroke play format. Instead, each school’s seven competitors faced off in singles matches with the first school to score four points taking the victory. All eight Ivies competed in the event, with Cornell finishing at the bottom behind seventh place Brown.

Last year, a 3-2 win over Harvard propelled the Red to sixth place in the Ivy Match play. Although the Red’s match was suspended by darkness, senior Zack Bosse scored the winning point with a birdie on the 24th hole of his match the next day.

Despite starting the season with a third place finish at the Cornell Invitational, the squad has struggled to pull out winning scores this season. The team finished towards the bottom of its next two tournaments with 10th and 13th place outcomes at the MacDonald Cup and Temple Invitational, respectively.

The squad also finished third at the Cornell Invitational last season, but struggled similarly through the remainder of its tournaments.

The golf team will be back on the range in April, hoping for some lower scores to end the season on a strong note.

— Compiled by Ariel Cooper

Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com.

John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

evaluate how we did in reference to that goal ... it gets our mindset in the right place.”

Underclassmen players are working together to provide scoring opportunities. gifts for seniors this weekend, Crowell said. The team will “I think that it was a very close game,” she said. “It was gather without coaches the day before the match to honor very competitive. The loss was not necessarily deserved but its seniors with presents, such as scrapbooks and personalwe didn’t capitalize on our chances. It was a disappointing ized songs. loss but [head] coach [Patrick] Farmer was really pleased According to senior captain Rachel Nichols, the team with the specific areas he wanted us to focus on.” will focus on defeating Brown despite With just three games remaining, the the celebrations.

Red aims to up its level of intensity and “The whole team wants to “We’re coming off of three Ivy add some wins to its record, according League losses and it’s our last time to Crowell. This season is the Red’s get a win for our last home playing on our home field for the strongest in several years, and the team’s game.” seniors,” she said. “The whole team win in the season opener against wants to get a win for our last home Columbia was its first Ivy League win Rachel Nichols game.” since 2010.

The end will be bittersweet, Cornell has seen major contributions Nichols said. from its nine new players with freshmen “It feels like just yesterday that we Tierney, Crowell, Dempsey Banks and Kailey Joyce start- were freshmen,” she added. “All the seasons have gone realing regularly. Banks leads the team in assists, while Joyce ly quickly and it’s kind of crazy that it's already Senior nabbed player of the game against Yale.

Day.” The Red will honor its seniors in the last home game of The celebratory nature of the weekend will hopefully the season this Sunday against Brown (7-3-1, 2-1-1 Ivy). impact the game in a positive light, Nichols said.

According to Crowell, the Red is preparing for the “If anything, it will make us come out harder and match with a number of focused, reflective exercises. stronger,” she said. “It’s unfortunate that we need to have “Farmer has been having us do some individual activi- that as a motivator, but I think that overall it will help our ties,” she said. “He’s having us take a notecard and right play.” down an affirmation — something we were going to try to do individually and focus on during the game. Then we Gina Cargas can be reached at gcargas@cornellsun.com.

Rowers Prepare for Sunday’s Princeton Chase races,” Schang said. “Wind conditions, several turns and the course of other boats make the race a challenge every single time. Dealing with those influences plays a big role in having success.

The boat came together a week before the race, and we made some good steps forward in the short time that was given to us.”

The lightweight boat that raced in the men’s lightweight eight race also

navigated the Charles River successfully.

The Red finished in sixth place, two seconds behind fifth place Harvard and 30 seconds behind first place Princeton.

The lightweight boat featured three seniors — Edward O’Neill, Ryan Pederson and Thomas Evangelista, two juniors — Chris Rogers and Andrew Hooker and four sophomores — Cameron Schultz, Will Oprea, Reid Williamson and coxswain Callie CarewMiller.

This week, both rowing teams will begin training for the Princeton Chase

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on Lake Carnegie River. Schang believes the team has plenty of potential but needs to work on consistency in order to negate the race environment.

“The boat has to work on rowing more consistently in adverse conditions and on internalizing the movements to an extent where we can row well in any environment,” he said. “This means [we have] to be even more precise and to pay attention to detail during practice.”

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ROWING

CROSS COUNTRY Smith said. “We were able to beat several schools that will bolster our chance of at large bid if we don’t get an automatic invitation.”

Although Smith was pleased with the squad’s performance, he feels that they could still do better.

“All in all, ‘mission accomplished.’ We were able to beat other teams we needed to beat,” he said. “At same time, it was not our best possible outcome. We still are looking for everyone to click on the same day. We had some personal bests, but also had some runners that didn’t feel as “It was good to see good as they how we stacked up have before in the second half. against the best of the They were not best. We ran solid, but able to do what they wanted to there are a few things do. We still we are still haven’t all clicked on the working on.” same day yet, but we are Zeb Lang looking forward to doing that. It was good to run and get that out in regular season as we move into championship season that begins in November.”

In Indiana, the Red competed at the prenationals meet against an extremely aggressive field.

“It certainly went a lot better then the larger meet we went to last year. It was an eye opening experience,” Lang said. “Five of the nation’s Top10 competed. It was good to see how we stacked up against the best of best. We ran solid, but there are a few things we are still working on. Overall we ran well and had a great experience.”

On Friday, both the men’s and women’s teams will compete in the Reif Memorial Run at home in Ithaca.

“This is always a fun meet. It is our last regular season meet of the year. This race honors John Reif who ran for Cornell in the 80’s and was tragically killed while training on bike for a triathlon,” said Lang. “[The] whole team comes out and cheers for one another. We will be holding out our Top-10 guys in [the] five-mile race. This provides an opportunity for the rest to grab [the] last two spots for the league championships.”

Syracuse’s Orange and middle distance runners will increase the competition in the 5k race, according to Lang.

“Our main competition will be Syracuse, who will also be holding out their top crew,” he said.

“This race will help us settle our last couple sports for the conference championship match. Middle distance guys who don’t run cross country will also be competition in the 5k race.”

Some of the runners will sit out of the competition to prepare for the championship season ahead, according to Smith.

“Not everyone will compete,” he said. “This is an opportunity for some to fine tune [their skills].

For others it will be last meet of the season. For the top group, this will be a weekend off to recover.”

Red to Honor Seniors in Final Game

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Cornell Will Head to Reif Memorial Run

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SPORTS

Harvard, Princeton Still Lead the Ivies Top Schools Will Face Off; Bears Head to Ithaca T he Cornell football also not fared well against its Ivy League competitors so far, getting trampled by both Yale and Harvard early on in the season.

Harvard currently sits in first place in the Ivy League standings, with Yale in fifth and Cornell trailing behind in seventh place. Next weekend the Red will begin a series of five consecutive Ivy League Games to wrap up the season, beginning with a match against Brown in Ithaca on Saturday.

Brown is currently sixth in the Ivy League, just one spot above the Red. The Bears enter the game with a 3-2 overall record and a 0-2 Ivy League record. Brown suffered losses to No. 1 Harvard and No. 2 Princeton earlier in the season. Harvard recently took down Lafayette, 35-16, in its 15th straight home victory. The Crimson has a solid 5-0 record so far this season. The team is set to face No. 2 Princeton on Saturday. If the Tigers take the win, the team will be tied with the Crimson for the top spot in the Ivy League standing.

Brown sophomore free safety Michael Walsh was named Ivy League Special Teams Player of the Week with a punt-block return in the Bears’ 39-17 loss to Princeton. This will add a competitive element to Brown’s upcoming match against Cornell. The Bears will face the Red this Saturday at 12:30 p.m. in Schoelkopf Field.

OLIVE KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Ready for a touchdown | The Red hopes to bounce back in its game against the Brown Bears on Saturday.

Looking Back Saturday, October 19

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Runners Race Across the Country, Finish Strong in Wisconsin, Indiana

By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

This weekend, the Cornell men and women’s cross country teams successfully competed in several invitationals across the country.

For the No. 15 women, the team traveled to Madison, Wis. to compete in the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational. This invitational was the most competitive race in the country this weekend and the team finished 15th out of 37 teams. In a field that consisted of seven of the nation’s Top-10 teams and 17 of the nation’s Top30, the Red was very successful. Cornell, with 464 points, was able to beat out No.17 Duke, No. 24 Boston College, No. 25 Vanderbilt, No. 26 BYU and No. 29 Texas as well as unranked Ivy League rivals Harvard and Columbia.

The men’s cross country team competed in the pre-nationals meet in Terre Haute, Ind. this past weekend. In a field comprised of nine nationally ranked

teams and five of the Top-10, the Red was able to take home 34th place with 834 points.

Both teams also sent their younger team members to the Princeton Invitational this weekend.

“I am really happy with how they did,” assistant coach Artie Smith said.

“They did a good job on an important course. This course is where the Ivy League Championships will be held, and the whole group competed hard and had some good times and places. It was a really good experience for them on the championship course, and they took advantage of good opportunity in good way.”

The women’s team finished fifth of 25 teams at Princeton, while the men took 11th place in a field of 30 teams.

“The younger guys have be doing tremendously, I am really impressed with a couple freshman and sophomores that competed at Princeton,” assistant coach Zeb Lang said. “James Gowans lead all

the Cornell guys with a time under 25 min on Princeton’s course. Sophomore Sam Baxter finished second for Cornell after coming back from injuries, which was great.”

In Wisconsin, the women had a very good showing against an extremely competitive field. Smith hopes that the competition was good preparation for the upcoming national championships.

“In a field like that, essentially a preview of the national championships, 15th is good outcome in many ways. We got to experience a meet like the championships and bolster our chances to get selected,” he said.

The women’s success bodes well for the team’s chances of getting selected for the championships.

“There are two ways of getting selected for the National Championships; one of them is to get an at large bid, which is based on your regular season record,” See CROSS COUNTRY page 18

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Ready to go | The women got a taste of nationals at the Wisconsin Adidas Invitational.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Soccer Loses Third Straight Game

Cornell falls to Yale, 1-0, in a disappointingly close match

By GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Row, row, row your boat | The men’s heavyweight rowing team finished eighth in the Head of the Charles Regatta.

ROWING

Rowers Take Eighth And Sixth at Charles

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell men’s heavyweight and lightweight rowing teams opened their 201314 seasons with Top-10 finishes at the 49th Head of the Charles Regatta this weekend.

Both teams sent one boat to the regatta in Mass. The yearly event, which usually attracts roughly 9,000 athletes and 30,000 fans annually, is the largest two-day regatta in the world and features professional boats, collegiate boats and amateur boats from across the globe.

The heavyweight team finished eighth in the championship fours men’s race and third among the collegiate rowing teams entered in the race. Washington University finished fourth, 10 seconds ahead of the Red, and Stanford University finished in third, beating the Red by

14 seconds.

Senior captain Christopher Schang said he was satisfied with the strong finish but knows the team still has a lot of work ahead of it.

“Although we are pleased with being the third collegiate crew, we are convinced that we didn’t race at our full potential and have the ability to be a lot faster in the future,” he said.

The seventh place boat for the Red featured Schang and four sophomores — Edward Benning, Gregory Davis, Michael Colella and coxswain Vikram Prasad.

Completing a successful race on a difficult course like the Charles River will give the Red confidence going forward, Schang said.

“Success at [the] Charles race is always determined by more factors than most other See ROWING page 18

The women’s soccer team extended its conference losing streak to three games this weekend, falling to Yale, 1-0, Saturday night. The Bulldogs (7-5, 2-2 Ivy) barely bested Cornell (7-5-1, 1-3 Ivy), scoring a single goal after a scramble in the box in the 49th minute.

After finishing the pre-season with a promising 5-2-1 record, the Red has faltered in Ivy League matches, winning just one of its four conference games this season. Cornell beat Columbia in its season opener before falling to Penn, 1-0, and Harvard, 7-2.

According to freshman goalkeeper Kelsey Tierney, Yale’s narrow margin over Cornell shows the team has improved since the Harvard game.

“I thought that we rebounded well coming off the loss against Harvard,” Tierney said. “It was very close and could have gone either way. I was thankful for a job well done by the defense.”

The disappointing loss to Harvard prompted the Red to focus on a number of prominent shortcomings leading up to the Yale game, according to freshman forward Ellie Crowell.

“We did much better with our possession going forward up the field,” she said. “We were more aware of our runs off the ball in the midfield and in the forward area. Instead of making these vertical runs that can get easily intercepted, we’re getting better at

making runs at angles and we’re more conscious of our spacing.”

Yale’s goal came after Tierney blocked a difficult shot from the Bulldogs’ freshman forward Geneva Decker, allowing senior midfielder Juliann Jeffrey to capitalize on a loose ball around the six-yard line.

According to Crowell, the turf field was a major challenge for the Red, despite the team having trained on turf in preparation for the match.

“The turf gave them a bit of an advantage,” she said. “But we also didn’t capitalize on our opportunities to score. ... We did

pretty well on the defensive side, with basically only one error that turned into that goal.”

Though the result was disappointing, the Red was largely satisfied with its level of play, Tierney said.

“We were good in the air and in clearing balls out of our defense, being first to the ball and winning 50/50s,” she said.

“That’s something that we stressed in practice last week, as we knew that Yale was very good on corner kicks and set plays.”

Crowell felt that the Red did See SOCCER page 18

CONNOR ARCHARD / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER

Not our turf | The Red found the turf field challenging in Saturday’s game against the the Yale Bulldogs.