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By TYLER ALICEA Sun Managing Editor
A Cornell employee who previously worked at the University of North Carolina was allegedly involved in a scandal involving thousands of students taking illegitimate classes over nearly two decades. Cynthia Reynolds — who is currently the academic programs coordinator in the School of Applied and Engineering Physics — is “If these guys’ papers are being implicated for her involvement in a scandal where thousands not in ... I would expect of students, many of whom were D’s or C’s at best. Most athletes, took illegitimate “paper classes,” where students would only need better than that.” have to write a paper that would
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Madison Stevens ’18 peruses varieties of honey at the Food Day celebration on the Agriculture Quad Thursday.
Rising Number of Graduates Choose to Stay in Ithaca By ZOE FERGUSON Sun Senior Writer
The number of Cornell graduates who stay in Ithaca after graduation — either for further degrees or careers — has nearly doubled since 2007, according to the Economic Impact Report released by the Office of Budget and Planning earlier this month. Thirty-eight percent of the Class of 2013 from the Ithaca campus remained in New York State, according to the report. Of these, 1,135 alumni — 17 percent — stayed in Tompkins County. This number represents almost twice as many as the members of the graduating class of 2007 who chose to stay in Ithaca. In addition, 14 percent of international students stay in Ithaca post-graduation, The Sun previously reported. According to the report, Cornell has acted as a buffer for Ithaca and Tompkins County against the national
recession since 2008. Joel Malina, vice president of university relations, said Cornell’s positive relationship with the Tompkins County economy is “instructive” for other universities across the country. “I think it can instruct other states and other locali-
“It can instruct other states ... that an institute of higher education [can] be an element of a recovery or insulation.” Joel Malina ties that an institute of higher education — a major research University — can be an element of a recovery or insulation from economic disruption,” Malina said. “I think it speaks to the ability of a large, vibrant insti-
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Going viral | Dr. Janet CorsonRickert, associate vice president for campus health, speaks about taking precautions against the Ebola virus at 626 Thurston Ave. Thursday.
tution such as Cornell to provide that insulation.” Malina also emphasized the report’s implications of a productive relationship between the University and the local community, both in the social and economic spheres. “The Cornell education will never be limited, going forward, to just a classroom setting,” Malina said. Instead, he said, there is an “important connection” with residents of Tompkins County and New York State in general. Gary Stewart, director of community relations, said the report is an important resource to consult in sharing the story of the relationship between Ithaca and Cornell. “I was thrilled we could do this project,” Stewart said. “It’s a good resource for not just Cornell, but for See ITHACA page 4
Gannett: University ‘Proactive’in Educating Community About Ebola By ANDREW LEE Sun Staff Writer
Dr. Janet Corson-Rikert, associate vice president for campus health and director of Gannett Health Services, said Gannett has been taking a “proactive” approach to educating the Cornell community about the ebola virus at the Center for Intercultural Dialogue Thursday. Gannett faculty members are trained to follow strict protocol to minimize the risk of infection in the event the Ebola virus arrives at Cornell, according to Corson-Rikert. “While we have limited facilities on campus
to care for a person with Ebola, Gannett staff members are following protocols established by leading medical and health organizations in order safely screen people for possible Ebola risk and connect them to higher levels of care should that be necessary,” Corson-Rikert said. She added that Gannett has been working hard to keep up-to-date information about the Ebola outbreak, the low risk to the general public and Cornell initiatives to protect the community. “As part of a national public health network, we are taking pains to make sure we See EBOLA page 5
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Quotes of the Week News, “At Final State of University Address, Skorton Talks Cornell’s Challenges,” Monday Speaking about the importance of making the cost of a college education affordable “In addition to continuing our robust program of need-based financial aid, we need to work to attenuate the rate of rise of tuition by controlling the costs of operating this University.” . President David Skorton News, “At Friday Rally, Cornellians Urge Trustees to Divest,” Tuesday Speaking about the need for the University to fully divest its endoment from the fossil fuel industry “It’s time to push for full divestment from fossil fuels to being our endowment in line with this mission. Issuing a publicly disclosed, independent feasibility study on divestment impact by the end of the calendar year would be a great step towards this goal.” Cole Norgaarden ’17 Opinion, “Back to Basics,” Wednesday Speaking about how it is okay to not venture out of one’s comfort zone “While getting a plain bagel might seem lame or boring to some, to me it represents comfort and reliability. And it may be silly, but when faced with a risk, every now and then, sticking with your version of a bagel and cream cheese might be all you really need.” Samantha Weisman ’15 News, “Student Remembered for Contributions to Jewish Community,” Thursday Speaking about the ways in which Ilan Rasooly ’15 reached out to others in his community “He wasn’t just a president — he wanted to engage people in our Jewish community, especially prospective students and parents by contacting new students and transfers and making sure they felt welcome. He felt very responsible for how the community was running.” Nicole Barel ’16
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‘Bit of News’Keeps Students Updated
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Students have a new way to stay informed with “Bit of News” — a daily, Cornellian-developed service that summarizes news content and sends to one’s email inbox. Xiao Xu ’15, founder and chief executive officer of Bit of News, said he created the service to help students keep up with the news in a “quick and painless manner.” “In August 2013, I thought to myself, ‘It would be great if someone summarized the news every day and sent it to me,’” said Xu, who is a computer science major. According to Xu, he and Curtis Wang ’16 — who is head of business development for Bit of News — research the the most important daily news from leading publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal before they send a summarized list of news to subscribers around 7:30 a.m. Xu said that with the service, users will be able to “consistently read” about the most important news stories happening that day. “I think this is a great time for a company like Bit of News,” Xu said. “The traditional newspaper industry is dying, but I do not think the interest in news is decreasing.” Xu also emphasized that one of Bit of News’ goals is to bring out the daily consistency of the old-fashioned newspaper in an email format. In its initial stages, Bit of News was only available to Ivy League students, according to Xu. Focusing on a small piece of the market allowed the team to perfect the service while ensuring that there was a sizeable subscription base of highly motivated students, he said. “It started out just being open to Ivy League students,” Xu said. “But we were receiving a lot of emails from other college students who wanted to join Bit of News, too.” Xu added that there are many professionals in the fields
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Former Hawaii Governor Linda Lingle speaks to Cornellians on the state’s transition to increased clean energy usage and the roles of the political and corporate sectors in improving public policy on clean energy at Warren Hall Thursday.
of finance and technology who are also subscribed to Bit of News. Bit of News — which has over 2.1 million reads and about 20,000 subscribers to date — is trying to expand to colleges and areas that have a dense market, according to Wang. The service already has college ambassadors who are spreading the word about Bit of News at universities such as Columbia University and Virginia Tech. “We want to hit 100,000 subscribers by January,” Wang said. “We are really focused on growth at the moment, not making money.”
Xu and Wang — who said they are excited about the future of Bit of News — also said they are working tirelessly to expand the service so that it can reach as many college students as possible. “My academics has taken a hit, but it is fine because I am doing something that I really love,” Xu said. “College students should subscribe to Bit of News if they have no time to read the news like me, but don’t want to seem ignorant.” Scott Gartenberg can be reached at sgartenberg@cornellsun.com.
Sorority Hosts First-Ever‘Pink Week’for Breast Cancer Awareness By SAMANTHA ACRICHE Sun Contributor
This week, the Alpha Epsilon Phi sorority hosted its first-ever “Pink Week” — a week-long series of fundraising events in an effort to promote breast cancer awareness and support their national philanthropy, Sharshret. Lauren Goldman ’16, vice president of philanthropy, said the idea arose when she came in contact with other Alpha Epsilon Phi chapters and saw that many held their own versions of Pink Week. Looking at these other Pink Weeks and online for event ideas, she said she wanted to put a twist on what was already out there. “Since this is the first year, we can see which ideas most made an impact and were the most enjoyable to participate in,” Goldman said. “The events that underperform and do not work for our chapter can be changed in the future until we find a
suitable combination.” Goldman said she began preparing and coordinating for the weeklong event as early as July. The series of events began Sunday with a Pink 5K Run, according to Goldman. Participants dressed in pink apparel and ran with pink balloons, hats and feather boas. The next sponsored event was Bra Pong, held Monday on Ho Plaza, Goldman said. “I discovered the idea of Bra Pong when I was researching fun breast cancer-themed events,” Goldman said. “I liked the creativity and uniqueness of this idea and thought that it was a fundraiser idea many people have not seen yet would make it stand out.” Kimberly Bernstein ’15, a member of the sorority, said she “loved” the event not only because it raised a substantial amount of donations for their philanthropy, but also because it “directly correlated” with the cause they are supporting. “Using actual bras in our event was a
very tangible way to associate college students with breast cancer awareness,” she said. Wednesday’s event was a Smart Yogurt Fundraiser at both the Elmira Road and Ithaca Mall locations, according to the event’s Facebook page. Pink Week concluded with a “Jewelerry” Sale on Thursday and a Collegetown Grilled Cheese Fundraiser on Friday. Members of the sorority said that so far, the turnout at events have been “very successful.” “I think Pink Week has been a very successful philanthropy event,” Sabrina Perlman ’15 said. “Each of the events so far have gotten a lot of support from sisters and from other members of the Cornell community.” Due to the great response and number of attendees, Goldman said the sorority has raised a substantial amount of money for their national philanthropy.
“Through the 5K, Bra Pong and online donations, we have successfully raised over half our goal,” she said. In past years, the sorority held individual philanthropy events, which did not have as big of an impact on students, according to Bernstein. “I believe creating an entire week of breast cancer awareness gives us even more opportunities to talk about our cause and encourage our fellow students to support Sharsheret,” Bernstein said. Manuela Rios ’16, vice president of operations, said she hopes that students will gain more knowledge and understanding of the cause through the sorority’s efforts. “I hope that they will gain an insight on the dangers of breast cancer and thus donate to fund further research,” she said. Samantha Acriche can be reached at spa39@cornell.edu.
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Report:38 Percent of Class of 2013 Remained in NYS First 10 years following graduation are most important for alumni generating revenue for New York State ALUMNI
as they establish their personal and professional lives. These young alumni also contribute to the economy in another important way — through their talents and the community at large. It helps frame what the realities knowledge — helping fuel innovation and entrepreneurare in a very pragmatic light.” ship in New York State.” Stewart added that the report’s focus on quantifiable Malina said he thinks a greater alumni presence is bendata makes it especially valuable. eficial to the local community. “We’re glad we have this now as a resource so that when “I think it adds to the richness of the community to people ask questions, we have something handy,” he said. have people who aren’t just living here because it’s the “We can point to real data and get town their parents chose for them,” beyond sound bites.” Malina said. “This is, over the long Young alumni are consistently “Sometimes graduates feel term, part of what will ensure that more likely to stay local in the years pressure to move on and go Tompkins County remains this following their graduation, according vibrant surprise in the middle of the to the report. After that, they tend to elsewhere, but there’s a state.” leave the state until the number living vibrant community here Malina added that the increased in New York “levels off ” to a steady beyond Cornell.” numbers of Cornell alumni choosing rate. to live local speak to a high quality of Minakshi Amundsen, director of Corey Earle ’07 life in Ithaca. capital budget and integrated planning “I think these numbers are a testain Cornell’s Division of Budget and ment to what the entire county is Planning, said lumni impact on the local area decreases able to provide in terms of quality of life,” he said. “This with the age of the graduates. is going to become a part of the state which, because of “I think as the alumni graduate, they tend to have a the focus on higher education, will always be a fountain of greater presence in the county,” Amundsen said. “As they greater opportunity.” age gracefully, there is a smaller presence.” Amundsen said that the increased alumni retention According to the report, “the farther alumni are from rate is consistent with Ezra Cornell’s original goals in their graduating year, the more likely they are to live out- founding the University. side New York State.” “When Cornell was founded, Ezra Cornell very much The report said that the first 10 years after graduation wanted the students to be a part of the community and are the most important to alumni for creating revenue for have that living in the community be a part of their eduNew York State. cation,” Amundsen said. “In that first decade after graduation,” the report said, Though Malina said the larger population of alumni “alumni become active consumers in the state’s economy staying in Ithaca is “great,” he added that keeping graduContinued from page 1
ates local is not a priority for Cornell. “We start from the premise of it being important that, during the years a student will be at Cornell, we enable them to be a fully engaged citizen of the community,” Malina said. “As to what they do afterwards, it’s wonderful if they stay, but if they move to Tioga County and do great things there, that’s good too. We’re not going to be deemed a failure if people leave New York.” Malina also said that the new Engaged Cornell initiative and its initial gift of $50 million from the Einhorn Family Charitable Trust is promising for future engagement between the University and the surrounding area. “[The initiative is] really about ensuring over the next number of years that every student who graduates from Cornell has, as part of his or her education, actual handson, inside the community engagement experience,” he said. “I think we’ll see enormous increases in opportunities for students and faculty to engage directly with local organizations, local leaders and, importantly, the people.” Corey Earle ’07, associate director of student programs in the Office of Alumni Affairs, said he thinks the increased rate of Cornell alumni remaining local is “great.” “As a young alumnus who chose to stay in Ithaca after graduation, I think it’s great to see Cornellians remaining in the area,” Earle said. “Sometimes graduates feel pressure to move on and go elsewhere, but there’s a vibrant community here beyond Cornell.” Earle added that the city of Ithaca has many valuable career opportunities for recent Cornell graduates. “Ithaca is a wonderful place to live and work,” he said. “Just ask Mayor Svante Myrick ’09.” Zoe Ferguson can be reached at zferguson@cornellsun.com.
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would only have to write a paper that would receive a high grade regardless of the content. A report released Wednesday followed an eight-monthlong investigation conducted by former federal prosecutor Kenneth Wainstein, who was hired by UNC. Investigators found that Reynolds pushed athletes into taking classes in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies, which housed the paper classes. “In football, for example, [Reynolds] and her staff sent [Departmental Administrator Deborah] Crowder lists of players to be enrolled in paper classes each term, and in some cases apparently even indicated for Crowder the grade or grade range the player would need to earn in the class to maintain eligibility,” the report stated. The report added that Crowder ignored the grade suggestions from Reynolds, “knowing full well that she [Crowder] would award any student who submitted a paper with a fairly high grade.” Following the retirement of Crowder in 2009, Reynolds and her colleagues “were also painfully aware that Crowder’s retirement would require the whole football program to adjust to a new reality of having to meet academic requirements with real academic work,” according to the report. “Ms. Crowder is retiring at the end of July … If these guys’ papers are not in … I would expect D’s or C’s at best. Most need better than that,” she wrote in an email to a colleague. Reynolds — who served as a member of the academic support program for student athletes between 2002 and 2012 — was one employee who refused to cooperate with the investigation, which the Wainstein said he “regretted” in
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the report because she was a “critical witness to [the] investigation.” In April, investigators emailed Reynolds regarding her time at Chapel Hill, but she refused to comment, according to the report. “I am now almost four years removed from my last appointment at UNC and not inclined to revisit my experiences at this time,” she wrote in an email to the investigators. After future attempts to reach out to Reynolds, she threatened to take legal action against the investigators. “On May 21, 2014, we received a letter from Reynolds’ attorney stating that any further attempts by Cadwalader to contact Reynolds would be ‘construed as harassment and reported to the police accordingly,’” the report stated. Although Cornell encouraged Reynolds to be involved in
the investigation, she refused, according to Joel Malina, vice president for University relations, who added that the matter is between Reynolds and the University of North Carolina. “Whatever information Ms. Reynolds may have pertinent to this inquiry relates to her prior employment at the University of North Carolina and does not pertain to her position at Cornell,” Malina said in a statement. “Although Cornell offered Ms. Reynolds paid release time to speak with Mr. Wainstein if she chose to do so, this was her decision to make. Cornell has had no involvement — previously or currently — in the matter, and, as such, has no additional comment.” Reynolds could not be reached for comment Thursday. Tyler Alicea can be reached at me@cornellsun.com.
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have protocols in place for identifying anyone who is traveling to the U.S. — specifically to Cornell — from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone, the three countries in West Africa experiencing an Ebola epidemic,” she said. “The goal is to assess their risk of exposure to the virus … and ensure early intervention for those who develop dis-
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ease.” The University requires students, faculty, and staff to consult with Gannett staff if they have recently traveled to a country in West Africa that has been affected by the virus, she added. “Our biggest challenge has been trying to manage the community’s misperceptions about the potential risk of infection,” Corson-Rikert said. “There are mixed messages out there that need to be clarified To be clear, the risk to Cornell community
members continues to be very low.” Gannett has also been reaching out to the broader Ithaca community to ensure safety in light of the global outbreak, she said. “We have been working routinely with the local health department and local hospitals, which makes it a lot easier to coordinate a response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa, which has been more urban in character,” Corson-Rikert said.
However, Corson-Rikert stressed that the risk of infection remained very low for members of the Cornell community. “One of the things we need to think about as a community is in what ways we can help clarify and educate folks about where there is risk and where there isn’t,” she said. Andrew Lee can be reached at alee@cornellsun.com.
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A: Most Cornellians quickly realize that the scariest thing about Cornell is the prelims. Popular Halloween traditions like costumes and trick or treating didn’t catch on until the early twentieth century, around 50 years after Cornell’s founding. The first classes at Cornell celebrated “Gate Eve” in late October, when unruly students would pillage the town by stealing signs, gates and fences. Halloween celebrations often focused on vandalism and pranks, leading to occasional student suspensions. President Andrew Dickson White even felt it necessary to give an address to all students on the issue in October 1884: “In regard to any attempt to make yourselves immortal or famous by some college prank, remember you are here as men — as long as you consider yourselves as such you will be so considered.” Some notable Halloween pranks in the early years included moving the zoology professor’s pet bear from the basement of McGraw Hall to the University chapel, which was located on the third floor of Morrill Hall at the time. The bear was then replaced with a cow in its cage. In 1882, students destroyed a wooden bridge over a small ravine on the south side of campus, making the trek to class challenging. In 1927, a foolish Halloween prankster greased the trolley tracks, sending a trolley car careening from Collegetown to downtown where it crashed into another trolley and injured three people. The two most famous Halloween incidents in Cornell history have become permanent parts of campus culture. On Halloween night in 1936, the footprints between the Ezra Cornell and A. D. White statues on the Arts Quad were first painted. The Cornell Alumni News noted the incident with amusement, adding that “how the two got back to their pedestals is not revealed.” The footprints, which purportedly immortalized a well-known campus legend, have been repainted regularly ever since. More recently, the infamous clocktower pumpkin appeared on the tower’s peak a few days before Halloween in October 1997, remaining there for months of speculation until the University intervened to remove it in March 1998. Current Halloween traditions are a bit more benign than the pranks of early years. Don’t miss the orange jack-o-lantern glow coming from the McGraw Tower clock faces as you climb all 161 steps for the 50th annual Halloween concert next Friday. Stop by Sage Chapel on Thursday for the annual Halloween Organ Extravaganza, which will accompany a showing of the 1920 silent horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Or visit Risley Hall tomorrow for the annual MasqueRAVE.
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Q: What’s the best Cornell ghost story? — Collegetown Ghoul ’15 A: This column addressed a few popular campus ghosts last year, but we left out perhaps the most famous of the local apparitions: Edward H. Rulloff. He’s even more relevant now, given that his namesake bar and restaurant has now passed into the afterlife as well (may it rest in peace). The story of “rogue scholar” Rulloff has been told many times. A talented local linguist and philologist, Rulloff was accused of a variety of crimes, including the murder of his wife and child. After a number of brief prison sentences, he eventually was sentenced to death for murdering a Binghamton shopkeeper, leading to his execution in 1871 in the last public hanging in New York. In his last newspaper interview, Rulloff created the ghostly legend that has lasted to this day: “You cannot kill an unquiet spirit, and I know that my impending death will not mean the end of Rulloff. In the dead of night, walking along Cayuga Street, you will sense my presence. When you wake to a sudden chill, I will be in the room. And when you find yourself alone at the lake shore, gazing at gray Cayuga, know that I was cut short and your ancestors killed me.” Both Rulloff and his allegedly murdered wife are rumored to haunt the shores of Cayuga Lake and streets of Ithaca. Send your Cornell ghost stories to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Curious about Cornelliana? Looking for Cornell lore behind a legend? Submit your questions to ezrasoracle@cornellsun.com. Ezra’s Oracle appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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ersonal fitness trackers — love them or hate them, they are popping up everywhere. From wearables on the wrist, to belt clips, to sensors embedded in our cellphones, it seems that electronics increasingly want to know us at a more intimate level. While this allows for an unprecedented amount of information about our movements, vitals and sleep patterns, it is unclear how this information will actually affect our daily lives. In this column, I will take a look at the technologies currently available and weigh the pros and cons of the quantified self. Fitness tracking devices can be roughly segregated into two categories: 1) Clips and wristbands that track the users steps, distance, altitude and sleep cycle and 2) Smartwatches that track activity plus synchronize with the user’s phone to glean additional information such as emails, phone calls and make payments. As a whole, adoption rates of personal fitness trackers have grown by nearly 500 percent in the past year. This constitutes 3.3 million devices sold between April 2013 and March 2014, with revenues from fitness trackers expected to exceed $1 billion by the end of 2014. This may sound impressive, but compared to other portable devices such as smartphones this number is quite small. For example Motorola, which holds only four percent of the U.S. smartphone market, sold 4.8 million handsets for the year. This means out of all the people you know who have a Motorola device, there are even fewer who have a personal fitness tracker. Regardless, the fitness tracker market is growing and will only continue to expand as new devices hit the market. The leading line of fitness clips and wristbands is Fitbit (accounting for 67 percent of sales), with Jawbone (18 percent) and Nike (11 percent) a distant second and third. Market shares are expected to shift as larger companies like Apple enter the ring with their respective smartwatches, which may offer added value to consumers. Indeed, a study conducted by the Consumer Electronics Association indicates that the largest barrier for adoption of fitness trackers is questioning the need to continuously monitor one’s activity, a fear that could be alleviated by compounding fitness tracking with many of the other functions offered by smartwatches. So this brings us to the main question: Why should we monitor our activity in the first place? Let’s face it, most of us would like to exercise more than we currently do. Fitness trackers provide motivation through quantifying and displaying exercise trends, as well as setting milestones and making sure they are reached. Want to lose five pounds? Your fitness tracker can track your weight and offer suggestions in terms of calorie intake and exercise duration to help you reach your goal. Fitbit will even send notifications as cumulative distances such as 3,000 miles (distance to run across America) are reached. Competitions can also be set up amongst friends. It is small reinforcements like this that can insure New Year’s resolutions are fulfilled. Beyond exercise, fitness trackers also monitor sleep quality and resting heart rate. However, this is just about the extent of their usefulness currently. There are other features on the horizon, though. In a pilot study completed at Stanford University, pediatric patients with type 1 diabetes tracked their blood sugar using Apple HealthKit, which was then sent directly to their physicians for monitoring. Their physician could then analyze blood sugar trends and the frequency of hypoglycemia to make decisions on how to better intervene to maintain blood sugar levels. Physicians then had the ability to communicate their assessments to patients directly through the app. By streamlining blood glucose monitoring and patient-physician interaction, several hurdles that adversely affect patient quality of life are overcome. If innovations like this are any indication, it may not be long before fitness trackers move from a purely recreational device into the healthcare space. Yet the potential for third party access raises a range of privacy concerns. Currently, any data gathered by fitness trackers is stored on that company’s servers. This means your name, height, weight, times you exercise and how long you sleep are not as private as you may think. Reassuringly, Apple restricts all apps that share information with HealthKit from selling any health information or utilizing health data for purposes other than providing health and fitness services. Fitbit states that they will never sell data that could be linked back to the user. However this does not exclude selling de-identified or aggregated data such as trends for marketing and promotional use. This also does not restrict fitness trackers from adding ‘services’ in the future based on personal information. For example, suggesting places to rehydrate during your daily run. It is also not a stretch to imagine activity, weight and sleep quality being adapted for personalized product suggestions as well. It remains to be seen whether this kind of advertising will be regarded as useful or invasive. In an age of big data, it seems natural that technology would progress to quantifying our biometrics as well. However, the devices currently available only offer a superficial glimpse into our activity. As additional sensors are added, such as blood pressure and glucose monitors, the utility of fitness trackers will undoubtedly increase. This, combined with physician access, will take fitness trackers from novelty into the realm of preventative medicine. Moving forward, it will be important to insure that the biometric data being gathered is kept private and only used in ways that will positively affect the wearer. We live in a time of unprecedented access to information about ourselves as well as the world around us. Fitness trackers add another layer of depth to this equation, but still have a long way to go. Alec Stranaham is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at Weill Cornell graduate school. He may be reached at als2064@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester..
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hen I was 16 years that dogs play a role in disease old, I read Richard transmission. The presence of Preston’s The Hot antibodies just means that the Zone in one day straight. I dogs were exposed to the remember being simultane- virus, it does not mean that ously in awe and terrified, and the virus itself was able to there are passages from that actively replicate in the dog. book that have stuck with me So far, there have been no to this day. The Hot Zone is reports of dogs or cats becomabout the origins of the Ebola ing sick from the virus and no virus, and every time I read pieces of the virus itself (viral about Ebola in the news these antigen or DNA) have been days I feel a little bit of a chill isolated from dogs or cats. down my spine. A large part To review basic disease of me was reluctant to con- transmission — Ebola is tribute to the media hype — I transmitted by direct contact find it a little disheartening with the blood or bodily fluids that the U.S. media is focus- (or objects that have been ing on a disease that has contaminated by these subalready killed thousands of stances) of an infected person people in West Africa during to the mucous membranes the current outbreak only (eyes, nose, mouth, etc.) of an because it has finally entered uninfected person. In Africa, the United States. That being there have been reports of it said, I think there’s also a lot of conI hope that I haven’t lost flicting i n f o r m a - you in the technicalities yet, tion out but I think that the highly there about technical nature of this Ebola and pets and explanation is the reason would like to share a why there’s so much confusion about it in the media. veterinar y (student’s) standpoint with you, gathered from also being transmitted by peoresearch and discussion with ple handling infected “bush professors. meat,” contact with infected Recently in Spain, the fruit bats (bats in the United regional government of States have not been shown to Madrid euthanized a dog that be associated with the disease) belonged to a woman affected and contact with infected priwith the Ebola virus, which mates (monkeys and apes). raised a host of questions The dogs that were docuabout dogs and their ability to mented as having antibodies contract and spread the virus. to Ebola probably developed Many news sources reference a them after eating the infected paper that was published in meat of non-human primates, 2005 that documented that infected fruit bats or human dogs in Gabon, Africa, had bodily fluids. Again, the prescirculating antibodies to the ence of antibodies only indivirus during an Ebola out- cates that the dogs were break, and suggested that they exposed to the disease at some could possibly play a role in point, not that they were transmission of disease. actively infected by it. In However, these dogs were not order to use antibodies to documented to have shown show that the dogs were actusymptoms of illness and also ally infected, two samples since that time there have would have to be taken roughbeen several additional Ebola ly two to three weeks apart, outbreaks with no evidence and a significant increase in
antibody titer (or number) in the second sample or presence of antibody in the second sample with absence of antibody in the first sample would have to be documented — to my knowledge a study like this has not been conducted. I hope I haven’t lost you in the technicalities yet, but I think that the highly technical nature of this explanation is the reason why there’s so much confusion about it in the media. In summary, dogs and cats (and many other domestic species with the exception of pigs) are currently thought to not become infected with the Ebola virus, although they can develop antibodies after being exposed to it. This means that we do not think that they can directly transmit the disease themselves. The proper protocol if a pet were to be exposed to the bodily fluids of an infected person (which is the only way they would be exposed to the virus in the United States) would be to contact local public health officials and veterinarians who would be able to devise a plan to quarantine and monitor the animal if they decided it was necessary. There are no commercially available “Ebola tests,” so the involvement of professionals is essential. Clearly, there is still a lot that is not known about the disease and its transmission — if you’re interested in updates about Ebola and pets I would recommend referencing the CDC’s website. Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a fourth-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT What’s in a War Movie? BY JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Staff Writer
In Fury, Brad Pitt once again plays a Nazi-killing macho man whose self-confidence is his defining trait. However, unlike in Inglourious Basterds, the deaths in this film aren’t for laughs or cinematic revisionism. They’re to show war at its most base and horrifying sense: innards, intestines, heads vaporized by tank fire. What is perhaps best about Fury is its serious attention to detail when it comes to these grisly matters. We hear the whirring as turrets turn; we feel and see the absolute grayness of the war-torn German countryside. A particularly haunting image is when Pitt’s tank rolls over a body that has clearly been rolled over so many times that it basically has been flattened into the mud. The film also goes beyond just a depiction of general war, for its tank scenes feel wonderfully specific and give the viewer the intense feelings of claustrophobia and camaraderie that come from being in these compact, beautiful killing machines. The main plot of the film follows Pitt’s character, Don Collier (nicknamed “Wardaddy”), as he leads a tank crew into the last American advance through Nazi Germany. It is often mentioned that the Americans are clearly going to win, but that Hitler out of desperation has waged total war, refusing to surrender and using every last woman and child to fight an already-lost war. When the gunner dies at the beginning of the film, the innocent Norman (Logan Lerman) who has just been transferred from being a typist, is the gunner’s replacement. Lerman’s character, and his moral (de)evolution as Pitt brutalizes him and teaches him how to wage war, is certainly clichéd. And the various characters in the crew are clichéd as well: Shia LaBeouf is a Bible-quoting enigma; Jon Bernthal is a pure brute, etc. But the film is very effective at extracting mindfulness from these seemingly mindless scenes or characters. When the Americans capture a German who surrenders and pleads for them not to kill him because he has a family, and Collier forces Norman to shoot the man, we know we’ve seen this before. But its uncompromising real-
ness, and refusal to adopt the air of “isn’t this just awful,” makes the scene extremely effective. Perhaps the most interesting scene in the film, and the one that least conventionally belongs to a “war movie,” occurs in the middle when the American battalion takes over a small German town. Pitt and Lerman’s characters barge into an apartment where two women are hiding. They ask that food be made for them and Norman flirts with the younger, pretty one. The possiFury bility of sexual assault permeates the air, and while we know Norman’s reluctance Directed by David Ayer to harm, it is much less clear for Collier. Starring Brad Pitt, Logan The scene excellently portrays the immense power men have over women Lerman, Shia LaBeouf in these situations. When the other drunken soldiers barge in, and make the COURTESY OF COLUMBIA PICTURES scene more threatening, we feel the tendiers decide to stay and fight the sion between civilization and savagery. Germans, as if they’re a sports team But even this is a simplistic reading of massively down in a game but is going the scene. The ease of being brutal in to keep trying anyway for glory. these scenarios is tempting, especially for Moreover, all the innovative filmmaking soldiers who have been going through years of hell. And both the used for the battle scenes is also lost (a scene where the tank takes soldiers and women here are victims of larger forces. But it doeson a German Tiger task is the battle highlight of the film). Gone n’t change that one side has the power, and there is a correct are the shots where we follow the churning of the threading of choice to be made. the truck’s tires and the shots where we see the gunners’ extremeAs you can probably tell, I really liked Fury, which makes the ly limited POV perspectives. Now we’re treated to the crew just finale of the film more disappointing than it would have been if firing machine guns like Rambo. the previous stuff hadn’t been so good. Without giving much However, the last scene doesn’t negate Fury’s overall excelaway, the film ends in a “last stand” type battle, with the crew lence. Nothing new will be learned from seeing this film; you fighting an entire S.S. battalion from inside their broken down already know that war sucks in your brain. But Fury hits you in tank. While this choice is not inherently indefensible, the logic your gut and soul. behind it is. The film before this moment had given an ultra-realistic (or at least certainly uncompromising, I know nothing about what war is like) and thoughtful depiction of war. But it Jesse Weissman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can throws it all away so there can be a big moment where the sol- be reached at jweissman@cornellsun.com.
Lonely Planet at Kitchen Theatre BY ANNA BRENNER Sun Staff Writer
Ask any Cornell student to namedrop a show about AIDS in the ’90s, and the first one that probably comes to mind is RENT, or perhaps Angels in America — or, if they’re theatrically inclined (or just really into HBO movies), then they might even mention Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. But Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet? Probably not so much — at least, not within the 18-22 year-old demographic. Which begs the question: Why? While the AIDS epidemic is far from over — a 2011 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimated that over 1,155,792 people in the United States alone have been diagnosed with AIDS, and, in 2012, the World Health Organization found that there are approximately 35.3 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide — it does, somehow, seem to feel like a thing of the past. After all, the real “crisis” part of the AIDS crisis — when nobody knew what this mysterious disease was, or how to prevent or mitigate it — happened in the ’80s and ’90s, either just before, or right at the same time as, most of us college students were born. And, of course, since we’re all lucky enough to be attending an Ivy League university, it is unlikely that many of us have any firsthand, or even secondhand, experience with HIV/AIDS. So why would the Kitchen Theatre choose to produce Lonely Planet, an existentialist AIDS drama — heavily influenced by Ianesco’s The Chairs — which follows two gay men in an unspecified American city as they attempt to cope with the epidemic and memorialize their friends who have succumbed to the disease by taking in chairs owned by all who passed away? Granted, Ithaca’s theatre-going demographic is a bit older — at least half of the people in the audience seemed to be over the age of 50 (although that might be attributed to the fact that I saw a Sunday matinee)
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— and Director Rachel Lampert, who is also the Kitchen’s Artistic Director, lived through the crisis’ worst years and lost friends to the disease herself. But I wondered if — and, in fact, hoped that — the play would provide some insight to the people who weren’t around so as to not only have a better understanding of what happened in the past, but also to connect Jody and Carl’s struggles to those suffering from AIDS right now, in the present day. And the production did — sort of. Both Jody (Nat DeWolf) and Carl (Karl Gregory) are clearly affected by the crisis, but they respond in different ways: Jody, by attempting to avoid the epidemic by shutting himself into his map store; Carl, by attempting to immortalize those lost in the epidemic by continuously bringing chairs into the map store. So although Carl is still sheltering himself from the disease by seeking refuge in the store, he at least chooses to confront the reality of the deaths. While it was interesting to watch a play so predicated on two different people’s reactions to crisis, and how those different reactions affect their conversations about themselves and the world around them — a concept made tangible by the abundance of maps of varying sizes, shapes, and styles hung on the metal pipes representing the walls of the store in Kent Goetz’s gorgeous set — and I did get a sense of the emotional and psychological toll it must’ve taken on people, I couldCOURTESY OF KITCHEN THEATRE n’t fully grasp why the play was relevant right here, in Ithaca, New York, right now, in 2014. The production seemed firmly rooted in the early ’90s, from Jody’s oldschool cash register, to Carl’s ’90s jeans-and-jean-shirt outfit. This, in and of itself, is not a problem; The Normal Heart, for example, is entirely rooted in history and in the exploration and presentation of events surrounding the AIDS crisis and movement for protection and, ideally, a cure. But, somehow, I still found myself questioning what the point of the piece was — that is, beyond an illustration of the sense of helplessness and desire to escape during the crisis. This feeling that the piece lacked a “point,” or desired end goal
can be attributed to the fact that there was little interpersonal conflict written into the script. Sure, Lonely Planet presents conflict in the sense of Man vs. Society (Jody and Carl are fighting against the AIDS epidemic), as well as Man vs. Himself (they feel the need to both escape from and cope with disaster), but almost no tension between one man and the other, which made the play prone to long, rambling discussions about the meaning of life, particularly in Act I, stagnating the little plot that actually existed (pretty much the only thing of note that actually happens when Jody finds a chair in his shop at top of show). Act II fared better, with a much-needed dose of action occurring in Carl’s attempt to get Jody to leave the store and go get tested. While there is nothing inherently wrong about writing a play that is heavily based on the discussions between characters, I did wonder if there was a directorial way to make those conversations more active, rather than a wash of dialogue. Which brings me to the acting and direction. While Gregory and DeWolf both seemed to inhabit their characters with honesty, I never really felt a sense of their friendship — just how close they are, how much they mean to one another — until Act II, which could, in part, also explain the dialogue’s seeming pointlessness. And, although, again, part of the distance in their relationship can be attributed to the script — Carl seems to come out of nowhere as this odd, charismatic man who’s stuck a chair in Jody’s store, rather than as one of Jody’s best friends — the issue also appeared to be one of chemistry. Since the play is so based on dialogue and character, and is so bereft of much in the way of a traditional plot, it truly is up to the actors and the director to create an interesting, believable relationship that makes the audience invest in their banter, and, thus, in the show itself. Ultimately, although the Kitchen’s production of Lonely Planet did provide me with a better sense of the AIDS crisis and the response within the gay community, I left the show feeling like I had seen something interesting, but not particularly emotionally evocative — and it is precisely that emotional evocativeness that makes audiences love shows such as RENT, Angels in America, and even The Normal Heart, thereby allowing them to continue to be relevant 20 years after the heat of the crisis. In that respect, Lonely Planet was a lot of talk, and almost no action. Anna Brenner is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at abrenner@cornellsun.com.
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Apocalypse Now at Cornell Cinema COURTESY OF UNITED ARTISTS
Everybody knows the sequence of “Ride of the Valkyries” interlaced with the helicopters soaring in like hornets against the rising sun, and the thick jungle in a big green bushel underneath. Everybody knows the infamous “I love the smell of napalm in the morning” quip. Apocalypse Now, quite possibly the best film ever made about the Vietnam War, has permeated the culture, cinematic and pop, even for those who have never seen it. Those who have seen it know that it is a war film on the grandest scale, a film that takes the American conflict to the scope of The Iliad, and that it plays this week at Cornell Cinema in its extended version. Apocalypse Now: Redux is an over three-hour venture and every minute is hallucinatory. The project’s origins go something like this: John Milius, co-writer of the film, was looking to adapt an exemplar of literature, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, notoriously unfilmable and impossible to be
translated properly to the screen. Milius claims O rson Wells tried to crack it and couldn’t, no one quite could. Then came the idea of exchanging the novel’s depiction of African suffering at the hands of European colonialism, for Vietnamese suffering at the hands of American imperialism, and transplanting it from the Congo river into southeast Asia. Apocalypse Now is one unreliable narrator’s witness account of the cruelty and indeed the pleasure inherent in the human subjugation of warfare. The only way he escapes the carnage is by coming to embody it in full. When we first meet Captain Willard (Martin Sheen), he has gone insane already: Strung out in terror, bleeding and screaming, helicopters whirring around his head in a virtuoso display of editing by Walter Murch, he intones, “I wanted a mission ... and for my sins they gave me one. Brought it up to my hotel room like room service.” Not long after, his superiors assign him a classified and very simple task: Travel up the Nung river into Cambodia, and locate rogue Special Forces colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando) whose methods have become ... unsound. Locate the colonel and terminate him, with extreme prejudice. This mission never exists, nor will it ever exist.
Willard takes the mission. (What else was he going to do?) He is given an escort by four other infantrymen on the boat up the Nung river: Chef (Frederic Forrest), Chief (Albert Hall), Lance (Sam Bottoms) and Mr. Clean (a 17-year-old Lawrence Fischburne). Along the way, they meet a crazed lieutenant colonel (Robert Duvall), who is also a surfing enthusiast and who clears out a beach for his men to catch the perfect waves by dropping tremendous amounts of napalm. Then he delivers his famous line. Machine guns are fired, bombs are dropped, spears are thrown, body counts are racked up, raiding and pillaging ensue. And yet, we are strangely transfixed. What Willard sees going up the river, photographed so gorgeously by the master cinematographer Vittorio Storaro, has a positive poetry to it that, no matter how dark it is, draws us in with its assured grandeur. Francis Ford Coppola, who pushed the film through one of the most troubled productions in cinema history, has a knack for that kind of genius. The reason we revere The Godfather so much is because of the unparalleled stature of Don Vito Corleone, and because he’s not just a ruthless mafioso — he’s also a loving father. Apocalypse Now, with its roots in Conrad and epic poetry, achieves the same height of operatic splendor, more overtly than The Godfather films, which have a quieter, more burnished tone. By the time Willard reaches Kurtz, he has almost become the same incarnation of violence that Kurtz himself is. And in order to carry out his mission, Willard — in an ending that was invented by Cornell Coppola at the last minute--will have to take up his mantle. The Cinema climax is a haunting crescendo set to The Doors’ “The End,” that shakes you to your core and dares to look directly into the darkest depths of the human psyche. It serves as the perfect encapsulation of Coppola’s masterful ode to darkness.
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Mark DiStefano is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at mdistefano@cornellsun.com.
White-Washing the Rap Game Business T wo notable events in the rap business happened on Tuesday: Mac Miller got signed for a reported 10 million dollars and Chief Keef got dropped from Interscope. Neither move is really surprising, but both are representative of a contradictory system which often fails to reward the artists that shake the foundations of the genre. Keef, from Englewood, Chicago, catapulted to fame in early 2012 (he was 16), behind a rapturous stream of songs on YouTube, including “I Don’t Like.” “I Don’t Like” quickly got remixed by Kanye West as one of the first tracks off of Cruel Summer, contributing to Keef ’s rising profile. This rapid success resulted in two things: A national stage for the Chicago-based Drill music and a six-million-dollar deal for Chief Keef with Interscope. The Interscope deal also included provisions for Keef to run his own label, the since discontinued Glory Boyz Entertainment. Keef ’s raps bordered fantasy with death; simultaneously a representation of the fictional narratives of rap and the horrors of life in an urban, povertystricken area. While certainly inspired by the music of Atlanta stalwarts like Waka Flocka Flame and Gucci Mane, Chief Keef reached something different with early mixtapes like Back From the Dead. Keef removed the humor from the songs, leaving a nihilistic darkness over the shiny, trap and Lux Luger influenced production of Young Chop. That the rapper using “bang bang” as
his adlib was a 16 year-old who would later lose a cousin and a stepbrother to gun violence only made the tape’s cruelty more authentic — Keef was not a poser trying to get street cred, but a teenage kid growing up in one of the toughest neighborhoods in America. Of course, it was largely his presence in such neighborhoods that contributed to Keef ’s souring relationship with Interscope. He has always been dogged by legal problems, with charges ranging from driving 110 in a 55, to
Miller hit it big, with his mixtape K.I.D.S generating huge traffic and a sellout tour. Despite his mixtape’s success, it was largely a joke — most people that seriously listen to hip hop classified it as unironic frat rap made by a kid. Nonetheless, Mac Miller and Rostrom Records capitalized on the stardom, with his first album, Blue Slide Park released in 2011 and selling over 350,000 records despite very mixed reviews. After a steady stream of criticism, Miller was not content to continue selling tasteless records to white middle schoolers. Following the release of Blue Slide Park, he started buddying up with many of the most lauded artists of his generation, including Earl Sweatshirt, Kendrick Lamar and Jay Electronica. Despite having to spend some time in rehab, he worked incessantly, both as a rapper and as a producer (he produces as Larry Fisherman). His follow up album was the much improved Watching Movies with the Sound Off. Largely self-produced, it features many of his newfound rap friends and some much more grown up themes. Its greatest weakness comes from the fact that the new sound is only a vaguely disguised rip off: Mac has obviously transformed his sound to satisfy the critics who so thoroughly panned him previously. While less successful commercially, Watching Movies still sold well over
Calvin Patten Patten Pending heroin distribution, to assault with a firearm on a police officer. Coupled with trips to court ordered rehab, Keef ’s focus on music has been inconsistent at best, and his relationship with Interscope deteriorated. With a lack of production and relatively poor sales (his much hyped debut album Finally Rich only sold about 150,000 records), Interscope had enough and dropped him, despite the scheduled release of Back From the Dead 2 for the end of the month. Mac Miller started out largely similar to Chief Keef: He made mixtapes and shared them with his friends and with the Internet. In 2010, at 17,
150,000 records, despite lacking a hit single. I suspect it further dedicated many of his core fans, allowing him to tour successfully for months on end. Coupled with his MTV show, Mac Miller and the Most Dope Family, he is a clear bet for a record company: a known product with a known fan base and a consistent path to record sales. Warner paying Mac 10 million dollars is just good business. I must admit though that the economics of the whole thing makes me sad. For a summer, Chief Keef captured the rap industry. He helped remind America (albeit somewhat indirectly) of a social pandemic and exposed many dilettantes to a new sound propagated by some of the most creative artists rap has to offer. Barring a midcareer revelation, Mac Miller will never make any such contribution — at most he will recycle such sounds to his mainstream audience full of white kids with disposable income. If I sound a little bitter and cynical, I guess it is because I am — the white washing of hip hop propagated, knowingly or not, by inferior artists like Macklemore and especially Iggy Azelea is not a new thing (Vanilla Ice, anyone?). And while Mac Miller likely has no such aims, it is hard to say that Warner and the industry as a whole does not. Calvin Patten is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com. Patten Pending runs alternate Fridays this semester.
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Cornell’s Defense First in the League M. SOCCER
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generate chances through its tight defense. Senior goalkeeper Zach Zagorski has maintained a clean sheet in nine games so far this year, which is a new Cornell program record. He has high praise for the defensive unit with whom he is working. “These are team records we are setting. The back line has come together so well this season and its been great to see them be so effective up to this point,” Zagorski said. Zagorski also noted that the entire Cornell squad deserves credit for its ability to keep constant pressure on its opponents. “We play good team defense. From the forwards on back, we try to keep constant pressure on our opponents, and it’s been great to play with such a solid back line,” he said. Despite having the second highest overall winning percentage in the league, the Red still sit in seventh place. After beating Yale, the squad has built its confidence heading into Saturday. It will look to return from Providence with a victory, hopefully carrying that momentum throughout the remainder of the Ivy League season. Amir Patel can be reached at ap644@cornell.edu.
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where only a single paper was required, and it usually received an A or B. According to the report and The Times, “counselors in the Academic Support Program for Student Athletes explicitly told [the two employees] what grades students needed to ‘remain academically or athletically eligible.’” An email from the academic counselor for the women’s basketball team to Deborah Crowder — one of the employees in question — read: “Yes, a D will be fine; that’s all she needs…Thanks for whatever you can do.” The story is dripping with irony — counselor, Jan Boxill, is currently the director of the UNC’s Parr Center for Ethics. North Carolina is certainly not the only school involved in this kind of shady business. Schools across the country have subtle ways of helping their athletes get by, even through classes with a stigma of being perennially easy (take a class that has garnered the infamous name “Rocks for Jocks” as an example). This doesn’t seem to be the problem, though. Every college student looks for a shortcut at some point in their four years; this isn’t just limited to student-athletes. A premed student forced to take a humanities course tends to look for an easy one. An English major forced to take a science class might find him or herself in “Rocks for Jocks” as well. A line needs to be drawn somewhere, though, and that starts in the relationships between an academic counselor and a professor (or in the UNC case, an administrator). Once a studentathlete’s academic counselor begins contacting a professor or administrator, something has gone wrong. There should be no interchange between the two, because their jobs are inherently separate. These counselors should be helping student-athletes pick classes. They should be helping them to manage their schedules. They should be telling them when it’s necessary to go speak with their professors. And professors — as most do — should have enough integrity in the subject they are teaching not to entertain
the idea of an academic counselor meddling in the progress of one of their students. Much like Cornell, North Carolina is a university of high academic standing. Cornell’s football coach, a former player who graduated in 2005 and worked for Teach For America after college, has stressed from his first press conferences that the student in student-athlete comes first. The Sun’s sports section featured last year’s men’s track and field captains, all of them engineers. Two female runners were named Marshall Scholars last spring. Many of our teams boast collective GPAs well above 3.0. Though there are most certainly exceptions to this, it seems like our athletic program is cultivating the right atmosphere in which student-athletes can and are expected to thrive academically. So what is preventing UNC, also a prestigious university, from doing the same? UNC and some of its counterparts like Duke, Notre Dame and Wisconsin, despite being strong academic schools, are still factories for players trying to make it professionally. These athletic programs generate important revenue for the school, so if athletes can’t keep up academically to remain eligible, that revenue takes a hit. With a school like UNC, that for years has been a contender for that championship, it’s inevitable that the team will gather a cultish following from both students and administrators. Crowder was an avid UNC basketball fan and, according to CNN, “she would sometimes miss work after a loss.” Clearly the line between fan and administrator was blurred for Ms. Crowder. This sort of intermingling becomes possible at universities where athletics transcend simple school spirit and border on an obsessive drive to be the best. Maybe when the NCAA figures out how collegiate athletes on the brink of professional careers fit into an actual college setting, schools like UNC can put the student back in student-athlete. Scott Chiusano is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at sportseditor@cornellsun.com Who’s on First appears alternate Fridays this semester.
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Red Hopes to Snag Second Ivy Win
By AMIR PATEL Sun Staff Writer
After securing a well fought-for victory against Yale this past week, Cornell (8-4-1) looks to move back into league contention this Saturday with a midseason showdown at Brown (3-4-5). The win against Yale was the Red’s first in the Ivy League. The game winner against Yale came, once again, at the foot of Conor Goepel, who now has six goals so far this season. The Red played a technically sound game, with players in constant motion and the ball moving flu-
idly around the field. This allowed the team to generate chances throughout the game, including one from freshman Jonathan Cullom that resulted in a one-on-one opportunity with the goalie in the 38th minute. Cullom’s shot was saved by Yale goalkeeper Blake Brown, but it was yet another example of a strong transition play generated by the Red defense. The sequence was started by a long pass from senior defender Peter Chodas, who has played a pivotal role on both defense and offense for the Red this season. Chodas, who also leads the team in
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Kicking back | Senior captain and defender Peter Chodas has been an integral player
Student Or Athlete?
assists and is second only to Goepel in shots, has proven to be an all-around asset to the Red. His ability to be successful on each side of the field gives the Red yet another playmaker to rely on. However, at his core, Chodas is still a defender, and has praise for the Red’s over all defensive ability. “Defense is a crucial part of our game. As a team, we do a great job of condensing the field and maintaining pressure. We have also been able to generate positive offense by creating chances off of turnovers,” he said. Saturday’s showdown in Providence will be a matchup of the Ivy League’s two top defensive units. The Red leads the league in both goals allowed (six) and shutouts (nine). Brown remains in second in both categories, with 13 goals allowed and five shutouts. Furthermore, both teams sit in the middle of the pack for the league when it comes to offensive production. Despite a lack of top tier offensive ability, Brown still fields an energetic team, with freshman defender Louis Zingas. Last week, the newcomer was named the Ivy League Rookie of the Week, helping the Bears secure double overtime ties against Harvard and Boston College. Along with Zingas, junior Jack Gorab has registered a point in four straight games for the Bears, who haven’t won since the game against Columbia during the first week of the league season. The Red is looking to continue to play tough soccer on the back line and
on both the offensive and defensive sides of the game.
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he University of North Carolina is in the news again. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that “two employees in the university’s AfroAmerican studies department presided over what was essentially a ‘shadow curriculum’ designed to help struggling students — many of them Tar Heel athletes — stay afloat.”
Scott Chiusano Who’s on First These accusations originally surfaced three years ago, but the report that came out on Wednesday gave detailed information about the scandal, including the fact that this was all happening from 1993-2011 without anyone doing anything about it. The NCAA initially decided that the scandal was far removed from the athletics program, but it has now “reopened an investigation into the matter,” according to the Times. Essentially, the two employees involved created fake classes designed to help struggling athletes get by. They were widely acknowledged on campus as “paper classes,” See CHIUSANO page 15
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CORNELL V. BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
CORNELL
CORNELL
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
BROWN
CORNELL
BROWN
HARVARD V. PRINCETON
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
HARVARD
DARTMOUTH V. COLUMBIA
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
DARTMOUTH
USC V. UTAH
UTAH
UTAH
UTAH
USC
USC
USC
USC
USC
USC
UTAH
LSU V. OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
OLE MISS
AUBURN V. SOUTH CAROLINA
AUBURN
AUBURN
CAROLINA
AUBURN
AUBURN
AUBURN
AUBURN
AUBURN
AUBURN
AUBURN
EAGLES V. CARDINALS
EAGLES
EAGLES
EAGLES
EAGLES
CARDINALS
EAGLES
EAGLES
CARDINALS
EAGLES
CARDINALS
RAMS V. CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
CHIEFS
RAMS
CHIEFS
RAVENS V. BENGALS
BENGALS
RAVENS
BENGALS
RAVENS
RAVENS
RAVENS
RAVENS
RAVENS
RAVENS
BENGALS
SEAHAWKS V. PANTHERS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
SEAHAWKS
LAST WEEK
8-2
7-3
5-5
5-5
8-2
7-3
6-4
7-3
6-4
6-4
TOTAL
31-19
34-16
32-18
25-25
32-18
33-17
32-18
30-20
30-20
33-17