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Over 1,200 students volunteered in the student-led program Into the Streets last weekend. | Page 3

The volleyball team nabbed its first Ivy win of the season Saturday, besting Columbia 3-2. | Page 16

C.U.Seeks to Increase Female Hires,Retention Women make up 29.2 percent of faculty across Univ.

serve as assistant and associate professors rather than as full professors, according to Levitte. In fall 2013, out Cornell is making efforts to hire of 476 women professors, 22.4 permore women and increase retention cent serve as assistant professors; 35.5 for female professors, according to percent serve as associate professors; Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for and 42 percent serve as full professors. In comparison, out of 1,152 male faculty development and diversity. Last year women made up only professors, 14.8 percent serve as assis29.2 percent of all of Cornell’s tenure tant professors; 24.8 percent serve as track and tenured faculty. However, associate professors; and 60.4 percent women constituted 43.8 percent of serve as full professors. According to Levitte, women serve new faculty hires in the current academic year — which will increase the in assistant and associate professornumber of tenured women going for- ships at higher rates than men do partially because more women are graduward. ating with Ph.D.s “Our efforts to hire women are “In a decade, we’d expect and entering the academic workincreasingly sucthat the proportion of force. In the cessful and in a of decade, we’d women among all faculty College Engineering, 16.6 expect that the ... will increase.” percent of faculty proportion of are women, but women among all Yael Levitte 38 percent of faculty will thereassistant professors fore increase, as they get tenure and get promoted,” are women. “You’d expect to see more women Levitte said. This figure has already been in younger cohorts because there are increasing, albeit steadily. In 2008, also more women in the Ph.D. women made up 26.2 percent and ‘pipeline’ of the more recent hires,” 22.6 percent in 2001, according to Levitte said. However, the ‘pipeline’ of women the Cornell Factbook, which collects and publishes yearly counts about fac- with Ph.D.s to a full professorship is ulty and colleges. The Factbook “leaky” in many places, according to excludes adjunct, visiting and emeri- Prof. Marjolein van der Meulen, chair tus professors and Weill Cornell of the Department of Biomedical Medical College faculty. See FACULTY page 4 A higher proportion of women

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Coming to a halt | Last spring, Ithacans spoke out against a proposal — later withdrawn — for a large student housing complex in the Cornell Heights neighborhood (seen above in multiple views) north of Fall Creek Gorge.

City Revisits Cornell Heights Zoning By SARAH CUTLER Sun Senior Writer

In response to a petition signed by more than 900 Cornellians and Ithacans, the City of Ithaca is planning to revise its zoning plan for the Cornell Heights Historical District. The proposal for these revisions — which will likely be drafted by January — will “both protect the historic nature of the neighborhood and preserve its pastoral elements,” according to Alderperson Josephine Martell grad (D-5th). As a result of ongoing discussion with members of the Cornell Heights neighborhood north of Cornell, the Common Council has proposed restricting multi-unit dwellings to every 500 feet, decreasing the maximum story height from four to three and requiring that 50 percent of the developable lot area remain as green space, according to Martell. Preservation of the neighborhood was

called into question last spring, when CA Student Living, a part of Chicago real estate investment and development company CA Ventures, proposed a modern-style student housing complex in the neighborhood. Ithacans spoke out against the proposal at a Planning and Development Board meeting in March, citing a lack of finalized plans and concern for traffic and the character of the historic neighborhood, The Sun previously reported. The CA Student Living case “definitely triggered” this reconsideration of the neighborhood’s zoning, according to Alderperson Seph Murtagh M.A. ’04 Ph.D. ’09 (D-2nd). “Essentially, we’re trying to bring the zoning in line with the neighborhood’s characterization as a historic district,” he said. In a statement to the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission in May, Ithacan Walter Hang wrote that the proposed project See ZONING page 4

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Robertson ’75 Links Republican Reed to ‘War Against Women’ By SLOANE GRINSPOON Sun Senior Writer

In a Thursday debate, New York Democrat House candidate Martha Robertson ’75 said that republican opponent Tom Reed is a “part of the war against women,” eliciting some laughs from the audience. The televised debate, which took place in Elmira, New York, featured the two candidates battling over New York’s 23rd district’s congressional seat, which represents Chautauqua County to Tioga County and the Finger Lakes region.

The candidates were given the opportunity to ask questions of each other towards the end of the debate. Martha Robertson began her question by asserting, “Tom Reed, it seems to me you’re a part of the war against women.” The audience responded to Robertson’s remarks with groans and laughter, after which Robertson supported her claim with evidence of Reed’s supposed discrimination. “You’ve supported continued wage discrimination against women by See DEBATE page 4

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Into the Streets Overloaded With Student Volunteers By ANIKA SETHY Sun Staff Writer

Last weekend, over 1,200 students volunteered at the 23rd annual Into the Streets, a number that caused registration for the community service program to end early due to a surplus of students interested in participating in it. According to copresident Lara Keskinkaya ’15, the organizers cut short registration this year as a result of too many students signing up for too few non-profit agencies. “Every year we are stressed with not meeting agency demands for student volunteers, this year was not any different. However we managed to get 1,200 students to sign up,” Keskinkaya said. “So many, in fact, that we had to cut off registration early due to it being more than agencies could utilize.” Keskinkaya added having the event become overcrowded with student volunteers happens “every now and then.” “When we reach agency capacity, we have to close sign -ups, which is why we encourage students to sign up sooner rather than later,” she said. Students participated by volunteering for a diverse array of agencies, which they were matched with based on their areas of interest and ease of physical access, according to Keskinkaya. “[The volunteer] projects can include repainting a preschool, helping out at a book fair, helping out at Oktoberfest in the Commons, doing fall and winter landscaping maintenance or getting citizens to participate in energy consumption surveys that aim to save money and

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Giving back | Jill Gold ’17 gives two student volunteers t-shirts as part of the 2014 Into the Streets community service program Saturday.

energy through the Tompkins County ‘Get Your Greenbacks’ Program,” Keskinkaya said. Jourdan Norman ’16, copresident of the program, said that part of the mission of Into the Streets is to build a relationship between Cornell students and the community. “Into the Streets is about building relationships with the community through student involvement in public service,” Norman said. “It’s a great way to get your foot in the door to service as this is a one day commitment.” Keskinkaya added that organization of the event is also a continuous process that takes a full year to prepare.

“As soon as one year’s event ends, we start brainstorming on what went well and what we could do better for the next event. In the spring we reach out to non-profit agencies to compile our list that we will work with for the kick off day in October,” Keskinkaya said. According to Norman, this year, as in previous years, the event met great success, where “everyone’s hard work and dedication really shone through.” Anika Sethy can be reached at asethy@cornellsun.com.

Cornellians Gather to Celebrate World Food Day Agriculture Quad festival included local food vendors, documentary and faculty panel By ARIEL SEIDNER Sun Contributor

Cornellians gathered for the University’s first annual celebration of World Food Day — which featured a festival on the Agriculture Quad, documentary screenings and a faculty information panel — to create awareness about issues and reforms in the field of nutrition and food policy on Thursday and Friday. The festival on the Agriculture Quad featured various vendors, including the Farmers Market at Cornell, Cornell Vegan Society and the Cornell Food Recovery Network, according to Jessi Silverman ’17, the organizer of the event. She added that she thought the event helped raise campus awareness about issues regarding food and nutrition. “The biggest accomplishment of Cornell’s

first Food Day was making Cornellians more aware of Food Day’s existence and its purpose,” she said. “Food Day coordination brought together a lot of Cornellians who are all interested in a better food system … from different perspectives.” Each vendor in attendance gave their own interpretation of what it means to produce, consume, and advocate for food that is healthy for both human consumption and the environment. Samantha Gitlin ’17, a member of Health Nuts, a student organization that supports health, nutrition and wellness among the Cornell and Ithaca communities, said it is important to raise awareness about healthy alternatives to snacks and junk food. At the event, Health Nuts gave out free samples of healthy snack options to students to support healthier eating habits.

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Global Dignity Cornell, a new club headed by Alejandra Martinez ’16 that encourages people to lead dignified lives, sets up an informative stand on Ho Plaza Monday afternoon.

“There are so many healthy substitutions that you can make when snacking, which can be a big problem for students,” Gitlin said. HoneyRock Farm, another vendor at the event, prides itself on producing all natural and locally produced honey in dozens of flavors, and the farm’s entire proceeds are put toward helping the youth of the Ithaca community according to Sharon Hilker, coowner of the farm. “[We produce honey that is] unpasteurized, so that it retains natural properties of amino acids, minerals, vitamins, live enzymes and antioxidants that are considered essential for good health,” Hilker said. The interactive faculty panel — featuring Prof. David Levitsky, nutritional sciences; Prof. Peter Hobbs, crop and soil sciences; Prof. Dan Brown, animal science; Prof. Philip McMichael, development sociology and winner of the 2001 World Food Prize, Prof. Emeritus Per Pinstrup-Anderson, nutritional sciences — addressed various issues in global nutrition, including sustainable agriculture and food sovereignty, according to Silverman. Panel members discussed issues including sustainable plant and animal agriculture, inaction and reform among health policymakers worldwide and healthful eating to achieve wellness and avoid obesity. The event concluded with a dinner celebration at Okenshields featuring sustainable, seasonal and locally sourced food offerings prepared by Cornell Dining. The menu included sustainable and local foods such as locally grown vegetables and Cornell Apples. Rhiana Gademsky ’16, chair of the dining committee for the Student Assembly, said that the menu included many healthy ingredients. “Chef Steven Miller and Anthony Cecela created this menu to support the issue of sustainability and used a lot of local and regional items,” she said. Ariel Seidner can be reached at abs253@cornell.edu.

Local Ithaca Teenager Faces Five Years For Burglary

Blake Soboleski, 18, faces five years in prison after pleading guilty to attempted burglary in Tompkins County Court on Monday, according to The Ithaca Voice. Prosecutors say Soboleski broke into a home in the town of Ulysses on July 29 and stole a flat-screen television, weapons and beer, among other things, The Voice said. Court documents note that this is Soboleski’s second violent felony offense conviction. He was also arrested six times previously, records show, including for a felony burglary charge in Schuyler County, according to The Voice.

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Florida State Running Back Accused Of Domestic Assault

Karlos Williams, the running back of for Florida State University, is currently being investigated over charges of domestic battery, according to The New York Times. Police in Tallahassee were first notified of charges against the college football player Saturday night. Other information regarding the accusation are currently not available to the public, The Times said. Williams is 21 years old and currently enrolled as a senior in Florida State University, according to The Times. — Compiled by Anushka Mehrotra

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Robertson’75 Takes Dig at Reed Proportion of Female

Representative Reed:‘What I’m trying to do is stand for women’ DEBATE

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blocking the paycheck fairness act,” Robertson said. “You’ve voted against a woman’s right to choose, even in cases of rape and incest. You’ve voted to give employers the right to decide about their employees’ birth control. ... You’re a lawyer and a Washington politician. Please tell me, what gives you the medical expertise to make these decisions for women?” Reed responded by saying the accusations were false, calling them “political rhetoric at its worst.” “I have eight older sisters and a single mother. What I’m trying to do is stand for women,” said Reed. “When people have questions about equal

pay and there’s a discriminatory act out there, and someone’s not paying someone because of their gender, you’re darn right. They should go to jail. They should be penalized and we’re going to stand and fight for that as we have always stood and fought for equal treatment under the law.” In her rebuttal, Robertson argued that Reed’s voting history says otherwise, stating that Reed voted against the Violence Against Women Act, blocked a Paycheck Fairness bill and voted against a woman’s rights to choose. “These are your votes. If you are in favor of women, I’d love to see that in your votes,” said Robertson. Sloane Grinspoon can be reached at sgrinspoon@cornellsun.com.

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“impermissibly exceed[ed]” Ithaca’s historic design guidelines, since the proposed building footprints were significantly larger than nearby buildings’ footprints. Hang requested that the Ithaca Landmarks Preservation Commission require all new construction in Cornell Heights and other Ithaca historic districts to be neither larger nor smaller than the existing footprints of buildings on any adjoining property lot, including across any street, or any

buildings within 250 feet of the block where development is proposed in a historic district. In addition, the spring petition called for the city to enact stricter zoning laws to safeguard the area’s preservation, in addition to a moratorium on housing developments in the district until stricter laws are in place. In response, some of the changes the city is considering include increasing lot sizes for Greek life housing, lowering maximum building heights, and lowering lot coverage maximums. Though it has been a ‘rocky

road’ towards a new zoning plan — since Cornell Heights residents were opposed to a first draft of suggested zoning changes — the working team is “on a much better track this time,” Murtagh said. Though the CA Students construction proposal was withdrawn in August due to local opposition, Murtagh said it is still worth revising the zoning laws. “We’re trying to regulate all future development, not just that one project,” he said. Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.

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Engineering. “For many people, you’re around 26 or 27 when you get a Ph.D. Then you get a postdoc, which adds a couple of years and before you know it, you’re 30 and starting a job that has a tenure clock,” van der Meulen said. “For many women, that’s when they want to start family, which is why some women choose not to take an academic position.” The Factbook does not publish faculty information for individual colleges. However, according to faculty listings on each college’s web page — which may not be consistently updated — the gender ratio varies significantly depending on the college. The faculty of College of Architecture, Art and Planning is approximately 27 percent women. Similarly, the School of Hotel Administration has a faculty made up of approximately 28 percent women. Industrial Labor Relations and the College of Human Ecology boast higher percentages — approximately 37 percent and 50 percent respectively. These figures include adjunct, visiting and emeritus professors. Ensuring that women are not only hired but also promoted is important, since professors in senior positions often set the tone of the department, according to van der Meulen. “Studies have found that male voices are perceived as more authoritative than female voices reading the same material. That’s a pretty strong endorsement for thinking about the role of gender in academia,” van der Muelen said. “The leadership should know what these gender bases are and what we can do about them.” The retention of women professors is also an important area, according to Levitte. Since results of 2005 and 2010 Faculty Work Life Surveys indicated that female faculty are less satisfied with their jobs than male faculty are, the University has taken steps to address the need for a “career life balance.” In the 2010 survey, male faculty members responded that they were “very satisfied” with their jobs 7 percent more than female faculty members do, The Sun previously reported. According to Levitte, the University has adopted a tenure clock extension policy, where any faculty who has a child gets an automatic year added to their tenure clock — the number of years it takes an associate professor to become a full professor. In addition, Provost Kent Fuchs instituted a policy that aims to ensure that all faculty have the opportunity to participate in decision making processes. The policy states that faculty meetings must take place at optimal meeting hours. In the past, many departments started meetings at 4:30 p.m., which burdened professors who had child or elder care responsibilities, according to Levitte. Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

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Man Guilty of Murder In Attack on Chinese Students

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who was recorded confessing to the killings of two Chinese graduate students near the University of Southern California was convicted Monday of first-degree murder. Javier Bolden, 22, was found guilty of shooting Ming Qu and Ying Wu as they sat in a double-parked car about a mile from campus on April 11, 2012. The killings drew international interest and fueled concerns in China about the safety of students abroad. The crime spurred USC to provide more protection around campus. Parents of the students have filed a lawsuit accusing USC of misrepresenting security at the campus, where nearly one-fifth of the 38,000 students are from overseas, including 2,500 from China. USC says it has more international students than any other U.S. university. Concerns surfaced again this summer when another Chinese student was killed. The murder charges against Bolden carry special circumstances but prosecutors didn’t seek the death penalty, so he could face life in prison without the possibility of parole when he is sentenced on Nov. 17. Bolden, who was in a white shirt, vest and glasses, showed no emotion. His mother, seated in a front row of the courtroom, doubled over in her seat and sobbed. He also was convicted of attempted murder and assault with a firearm in separate shootings that occurred months earlier that wounded two men and a woman. Authorities said Bolden told a cellmate that he shot the 23-year-old engineering students. The cellmate was a police informant and secretly recorded Bolden discussing how he and a friend had planned to steal the couple’s BMW. Defense attorney Andrew Goldman said his client lied to the informant to appear tough.

CDC: New Restrictions For Those at High Ebola Rsisk NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. health officials are recommending that people who are at highest risk for coming down with Ebola avoid commercial travel or attending large public gatherings, even if they have no symptoms. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued the updated advice to state and local officials on Monday. The CDC guidance comes after the governors of New York and New Jersey announced mandatory quarantines for medical workers returning from three West African countries plagued by the worst Ebola outbreak in world history. Illinois and Maryland have announced quarantines for health workers at high risk for getting the disease, including anyone who’s touched an Ebola patient’s body fluids

without protective gear. Previously the CDC has recommended screening of travelers from West Africa and monitoring of people for three weeks after they arrive in the United States. On Monday, the CDC broke down people in the orbit of Ebola into four categories. Those at highest risk are anyone who’s had direct contact with an Ebola patient’s body fluids, including health care workers who suffer a needle-stick injury during a patient’s care. For those people who are at highest risk and asymptomatic, the CDC recommended restrictions on commercial travel or attendance at public gatherings. The guidelines were not specific about where a person should stay, but officials said they meant home or hospital isolation.

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Chris Pliszak ’17 throws a flying disc to a student on the Arts Quad Monday evening.

Hazing Trial Begins for Florida A&M Student ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Jury selection in the trial of one of the four remaining former Florida A&M University’s band members charged with felony hazing and manslaughter in the death of a drum major is set to move to a second day, while trials for three other remaining defendants have been postponed until April. Attorneys questioned 80 prospective jurors Monday at the start of the trial of 27-year-old Dante Martin. About 45 of them were held for additional questioning Tuesday. The trial began nearly three years after drum major Robert Champion died from being beaten. It is expected to last a week. Earlier Monday, Judge Renee Roche delayed the

trials for defendants Benjamin McNamee, Aaron Golson and Darryl Cearnel after their attorneys said they did not have the opportunity to question witnesses about hazing charges that were added to the case. All four have pleaded not guilty in the death of Champion, of Decatur, Georgia. He died from what authorities say was a hazing ritual in November 2011. His death has shined a spotlight on a hazing ritual at FAMU known as “crossing Bus C,” and caused the band — which had played at the Super Bowl and before U.S. presidents — to be suspended for more than a year. It also contributed to the resignation of the university’s president.

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Upholding Fair Labor Standards for All ON OCT. 17, THE UNIVERSITY ANNOUNCED that it severed its relations with backpack and apparel manufacturer JanSport due to concerns over worker safety conditions in Bangladesh. Cornellians have protested the University’s ties with companies that support sweatshop labor, and it is great to see student actions followed by a University decision. We at The Sun commend the University for supporting student action and moving towards safer working conditions for all. In February, the University ended its partnership with all companies that refused to sign the Accord on Fire in Building Safety, which looks to improve worker and factory safety in Bangladesh. The Accord mandates that factory safety inspections occur and that companies publicly report the findings. However, JanSport was exempt from Cornell’s stipulations originally because it did not directly do business in Bangladesh. Therefore, in April, student activists demanded Cornell cease its operations with companies who had not signed the Accord, specifically JanSport. The rally on Ho Plaza consisted of protesters hanging a banner of t-shirts with hundreds of signatures at the entrance at the Cornell Store. This banner was then delivered to President David Skorton to emphasize that the University should cut ties with all companies that did not meet the labor standards in Bangladesh. Then, in May, President Skorton threatened VF Corporation, JanSport’s parent company, in a letter saying that the University would end its affiliation if the company did not sign the Accord by Sept. 30. VF Corporation chose to not sign the Accord, but still has the chance to renew a Cornell partnership if the company adheres to the required standards. It is important that the University is enforcing its policies and holding all companies to the same standards. Cornell has previously cut ties with companies, such as Nike in 2010 and Adidas in 2012, that had poor working practices in place. We hope this is just another step to ensure that the University is supporting this stance on fair labor standards. Furthermore, taking a public stance on the issue is a huge step towards global change in worker’s rights. Fourteen other universities have also ended relations with VF Corporation; BusinessWeek estimates that these lost deals have cost the company $4 million already, about .33 percent of its net income. The University should continue to actively respond to student activism and should continue to take public stances on important global issues. We believe that as a leader in education surrounding labor Cornell has a responsibility to encourage others to uphold proper labor standards.

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he Class of 2018 is our University’s succeed both inside and outside the classmost diverse class yet. Fifty-one room. percent of the class is female, 42 Today, Cornell maintains a steadfast percent identify as students of color and 10 commitment to promoting diversity and percent are international students hailing inclusion, as well as providing support serfrom countries across the globe. As Cornell vices in an effort to improve the health and becomes increasingly diverse, however, it is well-being of our community. The admincrucial that we continue to reflect upon istration, students, staff and faculty are our progress and ask ourselves: What are working diligently daily to address these we doing to ensure that every person feels pressing issues. Whether it be at 626 supported on our campus? Thurston: The Center for Intercultural One way in which we measure how Dialogue through their Breaking Bread supported each student feels is through the Program or the Intergroup Dialogue Perceptions of Undergraduate Life and Project, which bring people together to Student Experiences Survey. Every other discuss issues across difference; at Gannett spring semester, the PULSE survey asks Health Services through their Let’s Talk students to describe themselves on the program that provides informal walk-in basis of gender, sexual orientation, race hours with health professionals across camand citizenship, disability status, religious pus or inside Willard Straight Hall affiliation, political views and socio-eco- through various student-led programs, nomic background. We learn from a 2013 including Empathy, Assistance and report by Cornell Institutional Research Referral Service and Minds Matter, we are and Planning that continuously seekbased on the ing new ways to results of our latest advance the sucWe all know a friend, a PULSE survey, cess of every stuclassmate or have experienced dent. “students who identify with hisStill, as a unichallenges ourselves, which torically less repreversity communisented groups ty, in my opinion, further informs us of the have more negawe need to do importance of this work. We all more. It is critical tive perceptions of the climate for for us to continue need to participate in the diversity [when to assess our compared to] their progress in this conversation. peers.” important area of Such percepstudent life. tions can, in turn, affect the health and Though there’s no easy answer, by gatherwell-being of our friends and classmates, ing opinions and collaborating with one and may impact academic and personal another, we can move towards a solution success. For example, in the 2013 PULSE that works best for our campus. We all survey, students were asked: “During the know a friend, a classmate or have experilast year, how many times were you unable enced challenges ourselves, which further to function academically (e.g., missing informs us of the importance of this work. classes, unable to study or complete home- We all need to participate in this conversawork) for at least a week due to depression, tion. With this in mind, I will be hosting a stress or anxiety?” In reviewing answers series of meetings throughout the next based on race and citizenship, 33 percent semester with various student organizaof white respondents answered that they tions to encourage dialogue and to learn were unable to function academically for at more. least one week due to depression, stress or I am seeking input from every student. anxiety, compared to 51 percent of under- I am eager to hear your thoughts and sugrepresented minorities and 49 percent of gestions about what we could be doing international respondents. better. What policies or programs do you This is a problem we need to address. feel ought to be established to further We must continue to analyze the implica- advance our goals? tions behind these statistics in order to maximize each student’s capacity to excel academically. We can begin to alleviate these mental health discrepancies, togeth- Ross Gitlin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Relations and the undergraduate student-elected er, through developing an even more inclu- Labor trustee. He may be reached at rhg68@cornell.edu. sive and supportive campus, as every stu- Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this dent should have an equal opportunity to semester.

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Comment of the day Check Your‘Check David Zha | The Angry Spirit Bear

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Your Privilege’ Privilege

“How the hell does an enormous breach of ethics and academic integrity committed over an extended period of time while in a faculty position not pertain to her position at Cornell? Fire her.”

GL Re: “Cornell Staff Member Implicated in University of North Carolina Bogus Class Scandal,” News published October 25, 2014

here are people out there who absolve themselves of a deep-seated white guilt by crusading against white privilege in social settings.

Allow me to explain why this is bullshit. When some douchebag cracks a joke about affirmative action and you decide to be a hero by telling him loudly to check his privilege in front of a crowd of disinterested minority students you’re hoping to impress, you too are playing into America’s racial superstructure. Sure, the douchebag crossed a line and treaded on the toes of the politically correct. He might even have managed to offend some of the thinner-skinned. So you strike with, “Check your privilege.” But, you have just acknowledged and validated his higher socio-racial position. Plus, you dignified his trolling with a serious response. “Check your privilege” is a way for gender studies majors hiding their comfortable upper middle-class backgrounds to feel like they are accomplishing some real social progress from the affluent confines of high society. It’s the net equivalent of “Liking” things on the Internet. Smoking pot, making picket signs, proselytizing against shaving and hating daddy who pays your tuition by being a television studio executive might be a good start towards inner peace, but that doesn’t mean “Check your privilege” is going to save your moonbeam-colored behind from looking like you live on Majority Avenue. Nowadays, there are people who think it’s cool to be underprivileged, and this whole white guilt thing has become young, rich Caucasians’ vain attempt at finding a place amongst the colored. The biggest paradox of the white privilege phenomenon to me is that it promotes looking at the world in racial terms. You are criticizing someone’s opinion (and often times merely crude jest) by highlighting their ethos.

No, you do not owe me something. You will never be able to pay off that enormously intangible racial debt of blood we somehow both gained awareness of. A) That’s racist, and B) assuming privilege based on phenotype opens a whole new portal of racial … what’s the term … “intersectionalities” (right, that’s the word) that can be just as assumptuous and misinterpretive as traditional ones. But worst of all is this: “Check your privilege” actually reinforces the idea of white superiority. A chubby, flustered, feminist once “stuck up” for me when my white friend made a joke about my Chinese heritage. She dropped the “privilege” line. The gesture was cute, but I felt patronized. Did I need this person to defend me as she seemed to believe? “Check your privilege” suggests that white people, regardless of their true socioeconomic origins, are on a social tier so intrinsically higher than everyone else that they themselves need to consciously reign in their identity for being “too well-off.” No, you do not owe me something. You will never be able to pay off that enormously intangible racial debt of blood we somehow both gained awareness of. No, I do not want your handouts of pity. Dear guilty white people, the crusade you are waging against white privilege feels like an attempt at reparation for the “White Man’s Burden.” But a similar idea of white exceptionalism drives it; you’re extending your burden in a way. You realize your social justice warpath still has a white-savior complex? Not all minorities are trapped in an unlivable underclass needing you to drag them out, only those left over from what your great granddaddy did. Besides, telling a white person to check their privilege doesn’t really accomplish anything for the minority besides a fleeting sense of gratification in the soundproof corners of packed third-round interview cocktail parties. We will still have to work harder and be smarter about navigating the treacherous social American ladder. Nothing is equalized. Only emotions are satisfied. Progressive white America sees itself as a champion of desperate minorities, incapable and hungry for their aid. I decided this dangling olive branch is just another form of the system’s ability to co-opt individuals. Acceptance of this new social context still means accepting the racial superstructure. I propose we burn it all to the ground. To do that is easy: just let go of the past. Honestly, it’s not all on white people to repair the damage their ancestors caused, because that’s frankly impossible. Keeping privilege around perpetuates race though. If we want to live in a truly raceless society, it’s on minorities to be bigger and forgive the crimes of the past. Those crimes happened in an outdated framework for humanity, one based in primitive and shallow skin-tone differentiation. It’s on minorities to take up the white man’s sin as their own, if we are to truly view each other as one species. But that’ll never happen. David Zha is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dzha@cornellsun.com. The Angry Spirit Bear appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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The Ebola Election

o one talks about elec- in the groundswell of a presidentions anymore. That’s not tial race. For freshmen and sophoto say that no one’s talk- mores, that race is yet to come. ing about the news; in fact, there But midterm elections, especially have been few times during my this one, seem to be all about prior three years at Cornell when voter-turnout drives in faraway our campus has been so utterly states where neither candidate preoccupied with current events. seems very eloquent or very But those conversations, by and admirable. Of course CNN is pedlarge, are dominated by fear-mon- dling narratives of rising gering buzzwords: namely, ebola caliphates and unstoppable disand ISIS. As our nation careens ease; those apocalyptic scenarios towards election day, our televi- are much more engaging than sion sets remain transfixed on anything embattled Senator Mark quarantine sites and execution Udall (D-Colo.) has said. And of videos. This is, of course, sympto- course The Sun — when faced matic of a national tendency with a congressional race between towards hysteria, as so aptly Tom Reed and Martha Robinson described by David Fischer ’15 in ’75 that is looking increasingly his column last week. But there is like a footnote in the political hissomething more sinister about tory of 2014 — would rather dishaving these two threats — look- cuss Tompkins County’s ebola ing more and more each day as if preparedness. Yes, the elections they were lifted from the scripts of seem that boring. But they aren’t. Not since 2004 B-list thriller movies — move to the forefront of the news cycle in — before any of us were likely the days before the 2014 paying attention — have we seen so many elections still within the midterms. Though Congress has done a margin of error. And yet the phenomenal job of convincing media cannot tear itself away the American people that it is immobile and irrelevant, we Republican challengers have taken this cannot afford to overblown press coverage as proof of let ourselves gross governmental incompetence: believe that our national destiny President Obama isn’t just bad — he’s now lies in the apocalypitically bad. hands of the Ron Klain (the new “ebola cazar”) and the pilots from the disasters it has blown out dropping bombs, once more, over of proportion. Disaster, chaos, the Iraqi deserts. Our campus tragedy: it all seems apolitical, as has, in large part, fallen for it. the nation huddles together as the The Cornell Republicans are world burns, but the ceaseless hosting the ousted congressional coverage of these developments firebrand, Allen West, to lead on have very political consequences. American foreign policy in the This election is now about fear. 21st century, and the first word The threats that we see now in the event title is “ISIS.” In arrayed against our nation seem so October, The Sun has given more daunting they are almost fictionink to the University’s ebola pre- al, and Republican challengers paredness than to issues of finan- have taken this overblown press cial aid, sexual assault or even coverage as proof of gross governchanges to University administra- mental incompetence: President tion. It is so tempting to seize Obama isn’t just bad — he’s these headlines and dismiss the apocalyptically bad. And, unlike upcoming elections as self-per- in 2010, this media-enabled exagpetuating political noise, but we geration of the President’s failings should not let the next week pass does not result in a debate on polwithout recognizing that what icy (2010 was the year of happens in seven days’ time will Obamacare). Now, this hysteria probably be of more historical has lent credence to a narrative consequence than the location of that seeks to destroy public trust in government and swap in politithe next U.S. ebola case. Why? For half the student cians who fail to see why the pubbody, this will be our second elec- lic should trust the government in tion at Cornell; in November the first place. Obama’s messed up 2012, we had our moment in the on ebola, so let’s re-elect a senator sun, as college students caught up who has voted repeatedly to cut

public health funding. Obama’s messed up on ISIS, so let’s elect an isolationist who would see the Middle East tear itself apart so long as we still have oil. The cognitive dissonance between Americans’ fears and the seemingly natural political reactions to those fears is more apparent than ever before. So what can we do? All of us — whether we’re waiting for a second round interview at Goldman or protesting University policy on Ho Plaza — should want this election to be about issues. The fates of ISIS and ebola most probably do not hinge on whether Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is a sour minority leader or a slightly-less-sour majority leader in the Senate, but the economic agenda laid out before the American people most certainly does. If races continue to tilt towards Republican candidates, a conservative Congress could spend the next two years piling up bills for President Obama to veto. And then, instead of staying the “Party of No,” the GOP can swagger into 2016, pointing to the failed, utopian economic initiatives that Democrats have refused to endorse, promising to enact them as soon as their man (as opposed to “their woman”) moves into the White House. For the first time in over a decade, a Congress entirely controlled by Republicans would have a positive responsibility to articulate a vision to the American people, rather than simply reject the visions proposed by their left-of-center rivals. For the first time, Republican politicians would have the chance to pass laws, which would — even if they are never signed — reach the Oval Office desk. That is a thrilling (if somewhat terrifying) possibility, and whether or not it will still come to pass is still very much in doubt. We should pay attention. And if Republican candidates would rather talk about ebola than their legislative agenda, we ought to call them out. That might be a way to win, but it’s no way to govern. Jacob Glick is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at jglick@cornellsun.com. Glickin’ It appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT From Comic Book to Screen in 40 Minutes or Less BY MARISSA TRANQUILLI Sun Staff Writer

We, as a society, are on superhero overload. This shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. And while Marvel is dominating the big screen box office, DC is quite confidently taking over the world of television. This fall brought the return of Arrow (starting off super intense and working its way up from there), the premiere of The Flash (crossing over into the same world as Arrow) and Gotham (which every Nolan fan is peeing their pants about). But, truth be told, the comic-book-to-live-action television transition that I am most excited about is Constantine. Not necessarily as mainstream as Superman or Batman, Constantine is based on the comic, Hellblazer. If you haven’t read the comic or watched the 2005 movie of the same name, starring Keanu Reeves, here is a bit of a background on the show: Constantine is the story of John Constantine (Matt Ryan), a chain-smoking, slightly hostile, British exorcist who’s been damned to hell and spends his days hunting the creatures of the underworld. His character embodies everything that we, as a society, look for in our leading men: “Deflect[ing] emotions with humor. The kind of weird humor that makes me wonder if you’re a sociopath.” Think Sherlock Holmes and Tony Stark — we like our heroes scarred and with a bit of snark at their disposal. Constantine is a quasi-British Supernatural — however Hellblazer came first and hopefully the show won’t be as sexist as Supernatural. The pilot begins with John undergoing electric shock treatment in a mental institution, which he informs us via voiceover that he checked himself into voluntarily. Cue expositional conversation with therapist giving us the background for his issues and enter demon possessing a girl to leave a nice friendly message in red paint on a wall covered in insects: “LIV DIE.” Now that we are firmly established in this screwed up version of reality, enter Liv (Lucy Griffiths), our current leading lady who seems perfectly normal, apart from the invisible things trying to kill her.

Thus we have our first episode: As Liv discovers who John Constantine is and finds her place in this world of demons and spirits, we learn about the world of the show. First, a list of quick complaints about the pilot episode. It was … rushed. They crammed a lot of exposition into 40 minutes of television viewing. We met too many people and experienced too many locations without a moment to catch our bearings. Each minute gives a new revelation about a character’s motivations or special talents and even the awesome base of operations revealed its secrets in too quick of a succession. I don’t feel I had time to enjoy the action or appre- COURTESY OF NBC ciate the punch lines because I was being whipped away into a new facet of a character or nuance of the new world. But, as long as this issue is confined to comics, smoking is a large part of the character of John Constantine. It doesn’t glorify or romanticize smoking: Keanu Reeve’s the pilot, this should be a great television show. On that note, there were many things I loved about this show. Constantine would have died of lung cancer were it not for the The stylization of the world, appearance of the demonic creatures meddlesome Devil. Executives of the show, however, have made the and dark attitudes of all of the characters clicked into place nice- decision to remove the actual act of smoking from the character. I ly. In fact, it is the casting and effects that surround the demons didn’t notice this as taking away from Constantine when I viewed and spirit world that I enjoyed most about the pilot. I’m not sold the pilot, however. The character is still a smoker: In a bar scene he on Liz as a character, but seeing as the actress left the show after is seen putting out a cigarette and he always carries a lighter. The the pilot episode and the female protagonist is now Zed persona and implications behind his smoking habit have a presence (Angélica Celaya), this is a non-issue. Ryan looks amazing as on the show, so as long as they continue to slip in references to his Constantine. Some of his acting moments feel a bit forced or smoking habit, I’m sure the fans can be kept at bay. All in all, the pilot episode neither increased nor decreased my awkward, but he is slowly clicking into the role, something I look forward to seeing the rest of the season. There are a handful of excitement for the show. It was, essentially, a 40-minute long Easter Eggs for the comically inclined, giving nods to characters trailer for things to come. It was lengthy exposition for what is such as Zatanna and The Atom. The most obvious egg, howev- visually shaping up to be an amazing TV show. I’ll reserve my er, is the inclusion of Doctor Fate’s helmet. It’s not hard to miss true judgment for a few more episodes, but as of right now I am (Liv picks it up). Anyone who watched Smallville will attest to eagerly awaiting the new episodes and will continue to force my the fact the Doctor Fate translates amazingly to television and has friends to watch them with me. the potential to be an awesome character on this show. Some critics have taken issue with the show’s inability to have Marissa Tranquilli is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She Constantine smoke on screen. If you’ve seen the movie or read the can be reached at mtranquilli@cornellsun.com.

The Mineola Twins: A Trip Through Time BY ANITA ALUR Sun Staff Writer

Centered around a dramatic, competitive set of twins, Myra and Myrna, and their developing identities through one of the nation’s most tumultuous periods, The Mineola Twins grapples with the ever-changing landscape for gender, sexuality and political rights from 1960 to 1980. The Department of Performing and Media Arts’ production of The Mineola Twins, an original play by Cornell alumna and Pulitzer Prize winner Paula Vogel, MFA ’76, opened last weekend in the Schwartz Center (if you missed it, there are shows this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m., as well as a 2:00 p.m. Saturday matinee). I was immediately brought into a new world upon entering the Flexible Theatre: The stage was full of stacked file cabinets and behind them played hits from the various eras of the show. Throughout the play, characters and stagehands drew items from the cabinets, making them serve whatever purposes the scenes demanded. As time and location changed, crewmembers dispersed small props among the stage to suggest the new atmosphere. They moved curtains and replaced chairs with beds and tables. The stage was a malleable surface, and I enjoyed watching it transform over the course of the play. The lighting and sound effects were impressive. As Myra and Myrna listened to the voices in their heads, the theatre boomed with echoes of their innermost thoughts. Before every scene, the two FBI agents, played by Jeffrey Ly ’16 and Irving Torres ’18, approached microphones on either end of the stage and described the section ahead. They spoke in unison with reverberant effects on their voices, and these transitions came to life in unique ways. To add to the historical drama of the piece, the production team included air raid sirens in the first few scenes. One of the play’s distinctive features was its small cast. While the script is full of characters, director, Professor Beth Milles, performing and media arts, decided to double up all of her cast members. This choice made the show stagger

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COURTESY OF THE SCHWARTZ CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS slightly; I found myself needing a few moments to feel convinced of an actor’s new identity. Nonetheless, it was compelling, especially in the case of Myra and Myrna. These girls, both played by Siobhan Brandman ’17, were visibly alike but differed in costumes, attitudes and beliefs. Brandman effectively conveyed these distinct individuals, and I was impressed with her ability to transition in both physical attire and manner of speaking from scene to scene. Part of what made this play so fascinating was the growing similarities between the twins. As the play progressed, I began to see these twins as two sides of the very same coin. They tried to escape from each other in every way possible but routinely found themselves behaving in the very same ways. Comically, the twins’ each have sons, both played by Christian Kelly ’16. These sons end up resembling their aunts more than their mothers, giving the play an interesting Pulitzer Prize winner, playwright, and Cornell alumnae Paula Vogel, MFA ’76, strain of irony. The production discussed an array of opin- with David Savran, Ph.D. '78, Associate Professor Sara Warner, performing ions, but I appreciated how it showed extremes and media arts and Department Chair Amy Villarejo, performing and media. rather than moderate perspectives. Rather than taking a specific side, the show adopted a caricatured out- The scene changes were especially long to allow the actors to look on political beliefs and ideologies during the time peri- change outfits, and this damaged the play’s cohesion. Myra od. Myra and her nephew, Kenny, represent the liberal, left- and Myrna, as central figures, constantly changed places on ist views of the ’70s and ’80s: Myra is a lesbian and believes stage. While this might have succeeded in a film, theatricalin women’s rights and freedoms, while her sister, Myrna, has ly, this made the show go on a bit longer than necessary. The Mineola Twins is a daring piece that brought me a much more conservative outlook. Their varied opinions back in time in a unique way. I enjoyed its comedy and skillwere dramatized to the point of comedy. While I was impressed by many of the individual ele- ful acting, and I give credit to the director for making bold ments of the play, the overall show was a bit lackluster. The choices throughout. The Mineola Twins will be performed at the Schwartz script, while intensively comical, consisted almost exclusively of one-liners. Scenes dragged on in attempt to gain the Center for the Performing Arts this Friday at 7:30 p.m. and most laughter possible, and this slowed the drama of the Saturday at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Tickets are available at production. I missed moments of sincerity between the schwartztickets.com for $11 for members of the Cornell comcharacters, and I longed for more emotional vulnerability. munity at $13 for the general public. Myra and Myrna were eccentric but lacked a certain sense of humanity and empathy. The decision to double-cast every Anita Alur is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She character in the show proved to be bold but overly arduous: can be reached at aalur@cornellsun.com.

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Ithaca Ballet: A Fun Double Feature of Classics BY NATALIE TSAY Sun Staff Writer

As someone who danced ballet for almost 16 years, I was constantly asked during senior year if I’d be dancing in college. When I answered with a hesitant “No,” almost everybody said, “Well you’ll miss it, won’t you?” So far I haven’t been longing to slip (well, more like cram) my pointe shoes back on, but seeing Ithaca Ballet’s performance of “The Pied Piper of Hamelin” and “Alice in Wonderland” did remind me how fun it can be to be on stage. The show began with “The Pied Piper of Hamelin.” Legend has it that in the late 13th century, 130 children went missing from the German town of Hamelin and were never found. Ithaca Ballet’s take, based primarily on folklore surrounding the mystery, went something like this: The Mayor of Hamelin forces the townspeople — mostly women because, hey, it’s ballet — to build a clock tower; rats appear and hinder construction, and the Mayor promises the Pied Piper money if he can rid the town of the pests with his music. He can, and so the town rejoices and dances when he does so, The Mayor fails to pay the promised price, and the Pied Piper lures the children of the village into the mountains as revenge. “Pied Piper” was a very bare production. The costumes were plain, but they fit the ballet. The sets were not extravagant, but I wouldn’t expect that from a small town, not-for-profit company comprised mostly of high school students. The choreography was good — perhaps a bit repetitive, but definitely befitting the folksy theme. The dancing, on the other hand, was not particularly strong; it seemed that the biggest struggle for the dancers was unison. More work on synchronizing arms, heads and feet could’ve done loads for the performance. Dance-wise, the short pas de deux with Ayla Naghsh and Trenton Loughlin was the most enjoyable. With pretty lines, unwavering expression and fluid port de bras, Naghsh seemed entirely at ease and made the steps look effortless. The rest of the cast, while not as strong technically, did great in terms of stage presence. Ballet pantomime isn’t easy to pull off — you usually end up feeling ridiculous attempting to tell a

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story using a limited number of gestures and without speaking. Despite the challenge, everybody’s acting, especially the Mayor’s, was clear and believable. Even while standing in the background, the dancers stayed in character, which allowed the ballet to become a full-fledged show, not just a recital. After the intermission came “Alice in Wonderland,” featuring a story much more well known than that of the Pied Piper. The show included all of the major players: Alice, her sister, the Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts and many others. The story played out mostly as expected, but the most interesting part was the end: Instead of admonishing Alice for dozing off (as in the 1951 Disney animated classic), Alice’s sister also sees the White Rabbit and the rest of the Wonderland crew (closer to the nebulous ending of Lewis Carroll’s original Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, 1865). The ballet concluded with the sister’s pursuit of the characters, hinting at a whole new adventure. I always found the Disney ending slightly disappointing; Ithaca Ballet’s version ended on a much more playful and, well, wonderful note. Hands-down, the most impressive parts of “Alice” were the sets. Featuring a giant, intricately painted tree and a forest full of fluorescent mushrooms, the backdrops prompted audible “oohs” and “ahs” from both children and adults in the audience. The simplicity of the costumes worked in Alice and her sister’s cases, but not as much for the other characters. Many of the masks worn by the cast were comically creepy — just a sideways glance from the Cheshire Cat elicited laughs — or too simplelooking. However, the dancing was a step up from “Pied Piper” since “Alice” consisted mostly of short solos or duets. Instead of worrying about unity, each character had their moment in the

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spotlight, and that’s often more enjoyable to both watch and perform. Between the kooky costumes and distinct, timeless characters, “Alice in Wonderland” was very fun for the cast and audience alike. While Ithaca Ballet didn’t necessarily astound me with technique, I found the dancers’ love for performing evident and contagious. They put on a good show — one that children in particular were bound to enjoy. It reminded me of all the time I spent onstage, and while I’m still not itching to take a ballet class at the moment, I do remember and miss the thrill of performing. Natalie Tsay is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at nyt5@cornell.edu.

This Week in Think-Piece Crime: Dicks

here is a pretty specific subset of human beings who read The New Inquiry on a daily basis. I’m not sure of all of the parameters, but at least some of them are trend-chasing, perpetual unpaid-publishing-internshiphaving, college-publication-editing, poser-ish, hack-iness (me). If Slate is where the think-piece has gone to be slowly euthanized (they still do weekly Mad Men recaps, and the Dear Prudence advice column is the most-read piece on the daily), Jezebel is where the think-piece has gone to get sloppy with its politics (is it just me, or did they used to talk about feminism?) and The American Reader is where the think-piece goes to shame you for not keeping up with your coursework (seriously, if you haven’t read the requisite Joyce, Woolf and Fellini film, you can’t read anything on the whole damn site), then the The New Inquiry is where the think-piece has gone to have its second family in Germany that no one finds out about until there are Nazi artifacts in the will. Read: This is the think-piece on crack (and schnitzel). Disdain about the overabundance of think pieces is particularly palpable in the age of online journalism, but it’s not actually a new thing. This May, Slate’s (go figure) David Haglund, wrote a think-piece on think-pieces (yeah, my brain hurts too) in which he first agreed with the trollish satirical Twitter account @ProfJeffJarvis’ statement, “Newton’s law 2014: for every thinkpiece, there will be an equal and opposite thinkpiece [sic],” and then continued on to point out that The Nation’s Paul W. Ward wrote a column in 1936 entitled “Think Pieces,” in which he more or less coined the term, citing a specific sort of “thumb-sucking” journalism, “dispatches that in major part are the product of the reporters’ communion with their own imaginative souls,” that crops up when “the springs of factual news [are] all but dried up.” In 1937, famed Methodist and okay journalist Paul Hutchinson weighed in similarly, and a buzz word was born. The think-piece steadily gained a reputation

for being the type of writing which postures as journalism but is truly just a way of treading water, re-treading old material, until something requiring genuine reportage comes around. These days, it’s more likely to be either a watery and self-important assertion of an opinion that everyone already has, or an overly-intellectual and contrived combination of topics that truly have nothing to do with each other (see the time I tried to relate Kanye West to mid-’90s literary movements in 4,000 words). But the biggest think-piece criminal doesn’t fit into either of those categories. Helpfully, The New Inquiry provides a column on the right-hand side of its home page which hyperlinks from the weirdest possible pull-quotes to the article that they come from. Here’s a sample of today’s fare: “A sensation of anachronistic ‘old fashioned’ swine sex,” “overindulgent self-awareness is endemic to artin-general” and “Christopher Nolan’s dark and

dicks; a dick can be something you are, something you have, and/or something you receive … Dicks are famous objects of longing, and being a famous object of longing can turn you into a dick.” “This Week in Art Crime: Dicks Edition” is more or less a listicle, briefly describing acts of vandalism around the world which involve the the addition of penises to public art work. E.g. A statue of a devil with a more-than-life-size penis was taken down by police in Vancouver but voted back up by Internet activists who are probably terrible people; a Banksy painting of an elderly woman staring at a vase was turned into a Banksy-plus-one painting of an elderly woman staring at a dick; a person who publicly displayed posters covered in actual Grindr messages in Berlin was asked to stop being a dick and exposing other people for cruising for dick. “Dicks Mixtape” is pretty self-explanatory. First, an Inquiry freelancer pens these sensitive lines about the lost-art-beauty of mixtapes: “The best mixes are childish and hopeful. Runways, runaways. They’ll reach for you in the middle of the night.” (Damn that’s tender). Second, she quotes Bernadette Mayer (duh). Third, she lists 30 songs that are about dicks, or just “sex and power” or “walking home alone at night” or cities, or something. I mean, Tegan and Sara’s “Nineteen” is on there, which is an amazing little ballad that is, I think, about virginity loss, but is definitely not about penis. “How to Build a Dick” is a decent piece attacking “born-this-way gender biology.” It is not an unnecessary or irrelevant piece, but its argumentation veers so far from the accessible, with assertions such as “the idea that the body exists objectively is false,” “identification of anatomy with gender … relies on the residual power the idealized forms of genitals have in our imagination” and the arbitrary dubbing of gender biology as “a violent logic,” as to render its

Guest Room Kaitlyn Tiffany gritty reboot of the Gilmore Girls [sic].” The pull-quotes seem to serve no real purpose except for conveying the publication’s arbitrary hipness, the sense of aloof quirkiness which “cool” publications all over the web pay (or more often, don’t pay) Millennials with Hannah Horvath’s Twitter-friendly “quippy voice” to create for them. In keeping, this week, The New Inquiry had three features, selected from its Issue 33, Dicks, listed on its home page. The Editor’s Note for this issue asks “What even is a dick, anyway? A dick can be made of the material of a penis or a clitoris but not all penises and clitorises are

argument useless outside the realm of academics, think-piece whores like myself and people who are already largely on board with a 21st century understanding of gender and body politics. In short, the author either doesn’t understand how to write for the public, or isn’t trying to — the nasty, selfish underbelly of writers who tackle contemporary issues for personal gain. Famed journalist, philosopher and education reformer John Dewey expressed in 1927, in his book, The Public and its Problems, what he believed to be the main responsibility of journalism. It was a rebuttal to Walter Lippman’s 1922 Public Opinion, which constructed a model of journalism in which information provided by experts, elites and professional agencies was simplified for the mass consumption of the public. Dewey argued that the public was not so receptive as Lippman would demand — they wanted the power to process the world themselves. Journalism, then, was to be the unfiltered reportage of information to active citizens who would then engage in conversation about consequences, choices and possible actions until the “audience” as journalism knew it would end — ”Till the Great Society is converted into a Great Community” and all knowledge would be processed and reprocessed collaboratively in the public sphere, without the medium of traditional reporter-style journalism. The New Inquiry’s think-pieces are a gesture at this, and then a bastardization. If the thinkpiece and the discussion board were the unavoidable evils, side-effects of a more informed, more vocal and more participatory public, the substance-free slacker listicles and the overly-intellectual, near classist essay are the far more insidious evidence of a journalist pool that wants things either bulleted for ease or overwrought for self-importance and cares little about its audience. Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com. Guest Room runs Tuesdays this semester.

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to many. It can be easy to forget that athletes — people we see so often on television, and people we look up to — are people too: baseball is simply an occupation. The loss of life at such a young age is an unspeakable tragedy no matter the person, and I am overcome with sadness for all who knew Oscar Taveras on a personal level. Those who did know Taveras, like his teammates and his manager Mike Matheny, had only great things to say about the young man. His positive characteristics were evident through watching the television: the way he celebrated when a teammate hit a home run, the way he greeted the player with his contagious smile, the way his teammates celebrated his postseason home run, and so on. It was clear that Taveras was a guy who took baseball seriously and a person people wanted to be around. Mike Matheny said that the Cardinals “… loved Oscar, and Oscar loved us.”

The same day the Taveras was killed, the fifth game of the World Series was taking place in San Francisco. Giants’ catcher Buster Posey summed up the situation perfectly following the game: “I heard about it in the fourth and had a sinking feeling in my gut. My first thought though was, this game is not that important.” Baseball lost a rising superstar, but the world lost a 22-year-old man and his 18-year-old girlfriend. It is not just about Oscar Taveras the athlete; it is about Oscar Taveras the person. We will never know how Oscar Taveras’ potential would have played out in the majors. I am happy to have been able to catch a brief glimpse of a player’s career that was cut way too short. It is comforting to know that with his curtain call in the NLCS, Oscar Taveras was able to say goodbye to the fans of St. Louis, and baseball fans around the world. I will never forget you, Oscar Taveras. Ben Shatzman can be reached at bshatzman@cornellsun.com.

Syracuse Coach Assesses Upcoming Season SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Jim Boeheim goes into his 39th year as head coach at Syracuse with lots of new faces and the usual firm resolve to make something happen when it counts most. “I think our biggest challenge is that we lost our three leading scorers two years in a row now, and we lost our best defensive player coming off the bench,” said Boeheim, who has 948 career victories and turns 70 in November. “Huge losses, the most that we’ve had in a

while. But we have a couple starters back, we have experience at guard, we have experience inside, and we’ve got a lot of young guys who are going to get an opportunity to prove themselves.” Last season began with 31 straight wins — six in the preseason and a school-record 25 to open the regular season — that vaulted the Orange to No. 1 in the nation. Hope for a second straight trip to the Final Four ended with a thud, though, in the third round of

the NCAA tournament when the Orange offense stalled against Dayton in a 55-53 loss, their sixth setback in nine games. The untimely swoon left them at 28-6. The Orange lost an awful lot from that team: leading scorer C.J. Fair and inside defender Baye Moussa Keita exhausted their eligibility, and standout point guard Tyler Ennis and forward Jerami Grant left for the NBA. Out with the old. In with the new.

FLORHAM PARK, N.J. (AP) — John Idzik blames himself for the mess that has become the New York Jets’ season. No, the general manager isn’t happy with the job he has done. And, no, this isn’t what he envisioned in his second year in charge of the franchise. “There are no excuses: My performance to date is unsatisfactory,” Idzik said Monday during his annual state-of-the team address. “It’s a direct reflection of our record.” At 1-7, the Jets are mired in a seven-game skid that has some fans and media calling for wholesale changes. Idzik understands the frustration and he empathizes with a fan base that hasn’t seen its team reach the Super Bowl since 1969. “It’s gut-wrenching,” he said, struggling to find words for the team’s start. “It’s brutal. You feel like you’ve been punched in the face. It’s painful.” Idzik opened with a 19-minute statement during which he raised his voice at times, rambled through other moments while talking about the players’ resilience and highlighting stats, and appeared uncharacteristically emotional before taking any questions from reporters. While he took accountability for the lousy start, Idzik didn’t offer many concrete answers on how the team would turn things around. “Ultimately, I’m responsible for the performance of our team, the product that we put on the field,” he said. “That lies with me. The buck stops here.” Idzik said the team’s struggles are “very personal for me,” and alluded to the fact that his father John Sr. was the team’s offensive coordinator in the late 1970s. “The Jets are my team,” he said. “The Jets are our team.” He praised coach Rex Ryan as the team’s leader, saying he spends more time with him than his own family. “Our commitment extends to Rex Ryan and our coaching staff,” he said. “The last time I checked, all the traits that make Rex Ryan our leader, our head coach, are still intact. He’s an excellent football mind. He’s a teacher, he’s a coach, he’s a motivator, he’s a mentor.” But Idzik also wouldn’t commit to keeping Ryan as his coach for the final two months of the season or beyond — saying it'’s not the Jets’ policy to evaluate jobs in season.

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MEN’S ICE HOCKEY

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Weekend wins | The Red earned two 3-2 wins this weekend, one against the Under-18 National Team Development Program and one against Carleton University.

Icers Skate Away With Wins in Both Exhibition Games By SYDNEY ALTSCHULER Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The Cornell men’s hockey team played in two exhibition games to ready for the 2014-15 season. The Red played host to the U.S National Team Development Program’s Under-18 team and Carleton University. Last season, the Red skated away with a 17-105 record, but missed an at-large berth in the NCAA tournament. The squad came in fourth place in the ECAC Hockey regular season standings to advance to the league’s championship but ultimately lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Union. Returning 12 of its top 14 scorers from last season, the squad looks to be in solid shape to make another run at the championship title. In the exhibition against U.S. NTDP U-18s this past Friday, Cornell came out on top with a 3-2 victory. Senior forward Joel Lowry scored the game-winning goal with 6:38 left on the clock. Sophomore goaltender Mitch Gillam was instrumental for the Red, making 26 saves on the day. Additionally, Cornell’s NTDP alumni contributed to each of the Red’s goals. Freshman forward Jared Fiegl scored one and added an assist, and senior forward Cole Bardreau assisted Lowry on the winner. The victory lifts the squad to 19-1-3 in exhibitions since 2000. The Red then had its final exhibition of the season when the squad matched up against Carleton the following day. Cornell was victorious again, triumphing over the visitors with a final score of 3-2, the same as the day before. Highlights included senior defenseman Joakim Ryan and freshman forward Jared Fiegl scoring goals just 20 seconds apart in the second period to edge out Carleton for the win. Freshman goaltender Hayden Stewart also had a strong showing with 24 saves, including a key stop with his blocker on a Carleton breakaway with less than eight minutes left on the clock in the third period. Cornell advances to 20-1-3 in exhibitions since 2000 and looks forward to beginning the regular season next weekend with a pair of matches against Omaha of the National Collegiate Hockey Conference at home. The first game will be held Friday at 7 p.m, followed by a rematch on Saturday at the same time. Sydney Altschuler can be reached at saltschuler@cornellsun.com.

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would mean a lot for the team, which had struggled before this weekend to pull out a league win. However, after the victory over the Lions, Phelps believes that such a feat is possible. “I absolutely believe we have the capability to beat any team we play in the Ivies. This might have been our first win, but I know there will be several more these [next] couple of weeks,”

she said. After a successful set of games this weekend, Phelps believes confidence and motivation will carry the team through these next couple of weeks. “I think we’ve gained some confidence that will be key in beating some of the other Ivy League teams,” she said. “Now that we know we can do it, we have so much to fight for.” Anna Fasman can be reached at afasman@cornellsun.com.

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Late Score Sinks Red By ADAM BRONFIN Sun Staff Writer

With 36 seconds remaining in Friday’s game, Post running back Joseph Lynch carried the ball two yards into the end zone to put the Eagles up 17-14 over the Red. The score would be enough for Post (3-2) to drop Cornell to 2-4. It was a back-and-forth affair all day, with Cornell quarterback Rob Pannullo opening the scoring with a nine-yard pass to Logan Stevenson early in the first quarter. After forcing a three-and-out, the Red capitalized on good field position and marched 53 yards down the field for the score. On the ensuing Post possession, the Eagles made their way deep into Cornell territory thanks to Lynch, who ran for on 36 yards on eight carries. Eventually, however, the Red’s defense came up big and stopped Lynch behind the line of scrimmage on a key third and goal at the three yard line. The Eagles missed the field goal. On Cornell’s second possession, Pannullo completed a pass to Jonathan Roth for a gain of 61 yards, bringing the Red to the Eagles’ 16 yard line. Roth would finish as Cornell’s leading receiver of the night, catching five balls for a season-high of 101 yards. In the next few plays, the offense was unable to continue the momentum and sophomore kicker Mike Hobson missed a 40-yard field goal.

After Cornell’s opening drive, the Red’s offense was held scoreless until Pannullo found Trevor Marrero in the end zone with 10 minutes to go in the fourth quarter to put Cornell up, 14-10. Coming off a career day against Navy (6-0), Pannullo found some success in the air against Post’s secondary, completing 14 of his 26 passes for 184 yards. The Eagles were able to intercept him twice, both picks coming at critical moments of the game. Pannullo’s first interception of the day became an opportunity in favor of the Eagles. Up by four with less than three minutes to go in the game, Pannullo was picked off on Cornell’s 42 yard line. The Eagles took advantage and scored the go-ahead touchdown with 36 seconds left to play. On the possession that followed, the Red faced a fourth and 15, but Pannullo used his legs to gain 20 yards on the ground. All in all, he ran for 79 yards on 19 carries to finish as the game’s leading rusher. On the very next play, Pannullo was intercepted on his final toss of the night, effectively ending the game. Coming off a strong offensive performance against the stymieing Navy defense, the Red amassed 373 yards of offense, more than 50 yards above its season average. Despite this, Cornell had its second smallest point total of the year. Cornell was able to get in the red zone on six separate drives.

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On the run | Quarterback Rob Pannullo ran 19 times for 79 yards during Friday’s game against Post to conclude the game as the leading pass rusher.

However, it only came away with points on two occasions, a rate well below its season average of 75 percent. Furthermore, Hobson missed all three of his attempted fields goals. There were struggles on defense as well. Throughout the season Cornell has been shaky at defending the pass. The Red remains last in the Collegiate Sprint Football League in passing defense, giving up 230 yards in the air per contest. Post quarterback Greg Volpe passed for 266 yards on 28 passes. He connected with Jay’Len Mahan on a 91 yard pass in the third quarter to give Post a three point lead. Mahan, who scored off a 91 yard kick

return in last year’s victory over Cornell, led all receivers with 121 yards. But in other aspects of defense, Cornell showed improvement. The Red was strong on third down defense, illustrated by the Eagles’ one of 11 third down conversion success rate. Going into the game, the Red had allowed opponents to convert on third downs at a rate of percent. Cornell will welcome Mansfield next Friday at 7:00 p.m. at Schoelkopf Field for its final game of the season. Adam Bronfin can be reached at abronfin@cornellsun.com.

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C.U.Takes Down Ranked Opponent By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

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Triumph of the underdogs | The Red defeated No. 20 Maine this weekend, its first win over a ranked opponent since beating No. 19 Syracuse in 2007.

The field hockey team faced off against Brown and No. 20 Maine this weekend in two thrilling matches. The Red took home a 30 victory over Brown to stay atop the Ivy League standings in a tie with Princeton. The Red then set its sights towards the last regular season match, defeating Maine, 32, to mark the first time in almost

seven years that the Red defeated a ranked opponent. The game versus Brown was quite a showing for junior Marisa Siergiej, who walked away with a pair of goals, scoring the gamewinner two minutes into the match. The goal came off of a team penalty; a shot by Siergiej took it to the back of the net. The second half began with another Siergiej goal, whose 13 on the season is one goal away from the

school record for goals in a single season. Sophomore Katy Weeks joined the action just shy of the 54th minute, scoring another goal for the Red, taking the lead to three. Cornell showed its dominance, leading in shots (13-7) and edging Brown in penalties (6-5), all while freshman goalie Kelly Johnson kept the net empty, logging her second shutout of the season. Following the Brown game, the Red headed to Albany to face No. 20 Maine on neutral territory. The contest ended with a 3-2 Cornell victory, as the Red improved to 10-4 (4-1 Ivy League) on the season. Maine started and ended strong, scoring in the first four and last three minutes of the matchup; however, the Red’s consistency proved to be vital scoring three in between Maine’s bookend goals. Cornell had the advantage in shots (10-4) and shots on goal (87) while Maine tallied more penalties (4-1). The Black Bears took the board first, but an answer by freshman Katie Carlson in the 16th minute was the equalizer. Soon after freshman Krysten Mayers maneuvered past the defense and scored a second goal for the Red. Mayers returned in the 49th minute, this time with help from junior Taylor Standiford, to score another and cushion the Red’s lead. Maine sent another to the back of the goal in the last minutes, but the added pressure was too late. Next up for the Red is an Ivy League face-off on Saturday at Marsha Dodson Field versus Princeton, who is tied with Cornell for first place in the Ivy League. Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun.com.

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ith sparkling 3-0 conference records, Harvard and Dartmouth sit atop the Ivy League standings in a tie for first place. Yale and Princeton sit in a tie for third, Brown and Penn in a tie for fourth and, bringing up the rear, the winless Cornell and Columbia squads sit in seventh. Brown earned its first Ivy win this season with a 4216 win against Cornell this weekend. The Bears took a lead in the first quarter and never lost it, building to a 21-2 lead at the half. Cornell scored in the final four minutes to cut the 42-9 score to 42-16. Harvard trashed Princeton by an even larger margin, dropping the Tigers, 49-7. Crimson senior quarterback Conner Hempel posted a career-high 382 yards in his return to the lineup, while Harvard’s head coach earned his 100th career Ivy win. Dartmouth bested Columbia, 27-7, in the third Ivy match of the weekend. The Green beat the Lions in New York City to spoil Columbia’s homecoming game. Columbia has now lost 17 straight games. RILEY YUAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER Yale and Penn met up in another Ivy Battle of the best | Harvard and league battle, with the Bulldogs trotting Dartmouth, the only teams left undeaway with a 43-21 victory. Yale senior wide feated in league play, will face off receiver Deon Randall, the nation’s leader in against each other this weekend. receptions per game, grabbed his 196th career catch to become the school’s new career receptions leader. — Compiled by Emily Berman

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n May 31, in his second at bat in his MLB debut, Oscar Taveras hit a home run. The homer did not come as a surprise to Cardinals fans. Widely regarded as a top prospect in all of baseball, it was only a matter of time before the Cardinals found a place for the 22-year-old outfielder on their roster. May 31 marked a fitting beginning of what was to be a legendary baseball career. And then two weeks ago, in Game 2 of the NLCS versus the Giants, Taveras stepped to the plate as a pinch hitter in the seventh inning, with the Cardinals trailing by one run. Again, Taveras delivered, launching a solo home run into the right field seats of

C.U.earns wins in fourth and fifth sets for dramatic win over Lions By ANNA FASMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

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C.U. Fails to Find Net in Ivy Loss to Brown By OLIVIA MATTYASOVSZKY

In its last travel game of the season, the Red drove six hours to Providence, Rhode Island, for an Ivy League matchup against Brown University this past weekend. Going into the match Cornell was 1-3 in-conference

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match-up against the Lions this season after a 3-1 loss in September.

game, sophomore setter Alyssa Phelps attributes a lot of this weekend’s success to the squad’s confidence in being at home. “We’re finally learning that playing at home is such an advantage,” she said. “Understandably, there were some nerves at our first couple of home games, but now we're so excited to be at home. We practice on that court everyday and we understand how the ball moves so there is definitely a home court advantage.” Hopefully, this confidence carries over into the next four league games at home. Cornell is currently seated in last place in the league, with Columbia, Brown and Penn tied for fifth right above it. Winning the next few Ivy games at home

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Down by two in the fifth set, the women’s volleyball kicked it into high gear on Saturday and managed to pull out the win thanks to some key plays made by the squad, especially by freshman hitter Maddy Sroufe, senior libero Natasha Rowland and sophomore middle hitter Macey Wilson. With another Columbia point meaning a loss for the Red, the team stood ready to receive the serve from Columbia’s Cassie Wes. After a successful start to the play, Sroufe put in the final kill that would bring Cornell back in the game. With precise and composed serving for Rowland, Sroufe put in a few more kills alongside freshman hitter Emily Wemhoff, who earned a point as well. With only two points until the win, Wilson put in the last two kills, securing victory for the Red. Cornell, now 4-14 and 1-7 in Ivy play, earned its first league victory of the season against the Lions (7-10, 3-5) this weekend. After the Red snagged the first set by seven points, Columbia was able to come back in the next two sets with wins, leaving the Red down by one and dangerously close to another loss. However, in the two final sets, the team was able to bounce back and fight for the overall win. Not only was this match the first home game in two weeks, but it was also the volleyball team’s annual Dig Pink game. The Red invited its fans to come to the match sporting pink and donate to the Side-Out Foundation, an organization that unites volleyball players and coaches to work together in furthering research and awareness for the fight against breast cancer. After nine consecutive losses, the team was able to come back to its home court and play a different game than the one it had been playing earlier this month. With an especially large and supportive crowd due to the special nature of the

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and 7-7 overall, keeping its season at .500 before facing Brown. Its opponent was coming in with a less impressive record, 0-2-2 in the Ivy League, and 5-6-3 overall. Despite the seemingly uneven matchup for this season, Cornell has not beaten Brown since 2008. This past Sunday, Brown once again pulled away from the Big Red and won with a score of 2-0. “[The team] focused on finding the second target with our penetrating passing,” senior co-captain Claire MacManus said. “Also expecting Brown to be physical with us and not letting that affect our play.” Shots were not the problem for Cornell; the Red had 11 shots, five of them on goal. That kept them competitive with Brown’s 12 shots, six of them on goal. Brown’s first point came from Mikela Waldman 22 minutes into the first half on a pass from teammate Allie Reilly. Cornell had a chance to tie it up with a shot from Meera Dheer soon after, but the ball hit the crossbar and Brown regained possession. At the 36 minute mark Brown scored again, and kept the score at 2-0 for the rest of the game. Cornell’s next attempt came from junior Charlotte Tate in the second half, but Brown goalie Mallory Yant stopped the shot with a diving save. Though the Red’s home field is real

grass here at Cornell, the Brown facility is artificial turf. Despite this difference, Claire MacManus said the surface was not the issue. “I think at this point the turf wasn’t a factor for us. Eight out of nine of our away games were on turf, this being our ninth one, and we practiced on turf on Saturday. We had been doing pretty well on turf and that wasn’t a main consideration in our preparation. We didn’t capitalize on our opportunities and Brown did.” Cornell did have a host of opportunities. MacManus led the team with three shots, one of them on goal. Freshman Tess Pullano and junior Charlotte Tate all had shots on goal as well. The Red also had more corner kicks than its opponent, but couldn’t follow through on the five opportunities. All the stats for the match are neck and neck. The Big Red had 10 fouls, while Brown, a notoriously aggressive team, had 12. Yant had five saves compared to Tierney’s four, and Cornell only had one less of both shots and shots on goal. The Red has a chance to improve its Ivy record with matches against Penn and Dartmouth on deck for the next two weekends. Olivia Mattyasovszky can be reached at omattyasovszky@cornellsun.com.

Busch Stadium. The exuberant fans cheered for a curtain call, which Taveras accepted. Waving his helmet in the air was Oscar Taveras’ way of introducing himself to the loyal St. Louis Cardinals fans. But on Sunday, in his native Dominican Republic, Oscar Taveras and his girlfriend passed away in a car accident. He was just 22years-old. Conditions were poor when Taveras’ 2014 Chevrolet Camaro veered off of the highway, crashed, and reportedly killed the two instantly. The promise of a rising star ended forever — far, far too soon. The people of St. Louis live for their Cardinals. They breathe baseball. My father, a St. Louis native, was raised a diehard Cardinals fan, and he raised me the same way that my grandfather raised him. My father grew up watching Stan Musial lead the Redbirds to multiple titles. I watched Albert Pujols do the same. And I had dreams of my children and I watching Oscar Taveras follow in the footsteps of the Cardinal greats. Taveras’ potential was such that dreams of him being the “next Pujols” seemed realistic. For several years Taveras was rated as not just the Cardinals’ top prospect, but among the top in all of baseball. He dominated in the minor leagues, and by the time he was calledup in May, he was hitting .325 in AAA Memphis. He was a natural hitter with a smooth swing. No matter the potential, it is only a rare few – the Mike Trouts, the Bryce Harpers – who make it to the majors at such a young age. And even so, for Cards’ fans, Taveras’ call-up felt long overdue. Yes, he was only 22, but there was so much hype for three years, and Cards’ fans wanted to see their rising star immediately. The team traded rightfielder Allen Craig to the Red Sox, seemingly to open a spot for Taveras. Although he hit just .239 in his rookie season, Taveras showed flashes of brilliance, and created memories that will last forever in St. Louis – and in the entire baseball world. But his death leaves the unanswered question as to what could have been. While baseball lost a budding superstar, the Taveras family lost a loved one. His parents lost a son; his best friends lost a best friend. While Oscar Taveras was a stellar baseball player to most, he was just a regular guy See SHATZMAN page 12