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Skorton Thanks Employees at Address At last annual address to staff, Skorton discusses employee initiatives

By GABRIELLA LEE Sun Staff Writer

In his last annual address to staff, President David Skorton stressed the importance of Cornell employees to the success of the University, answered questions from staff and received the Employee Assembly Staff Appreciation Award in Bailey Hall Wednesday.

The talk — which was broadcast to each of Cornell’s campuses and sponsored by the Employee

Assembly — began with Skorton thanking staff members for their integral role in allowing Cornell to “remain very true to its founding ideals.”

During his speech, Skorton metaphorically compared Cornell’s employees to a leg on a three-legged stool.

“Cornell employees are an absolutely essential leg of this three legged stool ... that supports institutional excellence,” he said.

Skorton also stressed the importance of employee presence in shared governance, running of commencement weekends, and in the human concern staff members showed for others in the Cornell and Ithaca community.

“Cornell employees play a very important role in this very important activity through the Employee Assembly, the University Assembly on which staff members also serve and through the elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees,” he said.

Coming from a public institution of higher education, Skorton said he had a “funny preconception” of Cornell — that as a private institution, it would not have “the same kind of engaged shared governance and leadership.” However, he said he found that this was not the case upon his first attendance at an Employee Assembly meeting.

Skorton addressed various initiatives for his employees, including more effective performance reviews, more recognition of See ADDRESS page 4

Hilton Plans New ‘Canopy’ Hotel Downtown Likely Heroin Incidents

Spark Investigation

By SOFIA HU Sun Senior Writer

Three apparent heroin overdoses that occurred in Ithaca over a period of four days have sparked an investigation by the Ithaca Police Department.

The IPD is looking to see whether the same heroin source is causing the incidents and whether the heroin is laced with a foreign substance, according to police.

On Saturday, Travis Vorhis, 23, died on the 100 block of Chestnut St., according to police. Vorhis — whose body was found at approximately 12:30 p.m. on Saturday — is believed to have overdosed on heroin.

In a separate incident, a woman was found unconscious in the bathroom of a commercial business in the 200 block of South Meadow St. Monday afternoon. The person was revived with naloxone and transported to a local hospital, according to IPD Chief Jamie Williamson.

Naloxone — which was first purchased over the summer by the Ithaca Fire Department — is an opioid antagonist used to revive patients experiencing opioid overdoses, said Lt. Tommy Basher, public information officer for the IFD in a press release. The police department also trained its officers to use naloxone on Oct. 6, according to Williamson.

In a third incident on Tuesday morning, a subject died inside an apartment on the 100 block of West State St. Police said they believe that her death is due to a heroin overdose.

The Ithaca Police Department said it is waiting for the toxicology reports of the two deaths, which will determine whether a drug overdose caused the deaths.

Though investigators are also looking into whether the overdose victims used the same heroin source and whether the heroin was laced with foreign See HEROIN page 4

By ANDREW LORD

Sun Staff Writer

Despite concerns over traffic flow and parking availability in downtown Ithaca, the City Planning and Development Board progressed with plans to construct a seven-story Hilton Hotel at a meeting Tuesday.

Early plans for the site of the hotel at 320-324 East State St. —

presented before the board in May — were for a Hampton Inn. However, developers have decided to work with Hilton Hotels and Resorts to build one of the nation’s first hotels in the company’s new Canopy line.

Other hotels in the Canopy line will appear in major cities nationally and around the world such as London; Miami; Charlotte, North Carolina; and

Portland, Oregon.

The company’s Oct. 15 announcement highlights Canopy’s intentions to create a “localized” brand of hotels based on community culture.

“No two Canopy hotels will be the same, and we know that’s what our guests want,” according to the hotel’s website.

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Towering over the city | Above is a rendering of the proposed Canopy by Hilton hotel which will have an entrance on E. State St., but extend to Seneca Way and E. Seneca St.; the later two street facades are seen here.

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The 5-foot-tall bird called a rhea escaped from a farm Monday and ran onto U.S. 24 near Peru, about 80 miles north of Indianapolis. Rheas are native to South America and similar to ostriches and emus.

Corralling the bird was no easy task as it ran around a ramp between U.S. 24 and U.S. 31, state police 1st Sgt. Bob Burgess told the Kokomo Tribune.

“This thing would just all of a sudden take off like a jet,” he said. “Everybody was a little bit skeptical about grabbing ahold of it because it could kick you and it had some pretty vicious talons.”

Horse Rescued From Pool At Suburban Phoenix Home MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A horse in suburban Phoenix needed rescuing after it led itself to water and did more than just drink.

Mesa firefighters say the horse was wandering outside of its pen Saturday when the animal somehow fell into the backyard swimming pool and became stuck.

Mesa Fire Capt. Forrest Smith says firefighters, with the assistance of a veterinarian, tranquilized the horse before pulling it out using several straps.

Smith says the horse was not injured.

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Nobel Prize-winning professor talks overlap between arts and science PHOTOS BY MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN SENIOR EDITOR

By LYLLA YOUNES Sun Contributor

A writer, Holocaust survivor and a Nobel Prize winner in theoretical chemistry, Roald Hoffmann, the Frank H. T. Rhodes professor of humane letters, emeritus, said his journey to Cornell began on the other side of the globe.

Hoffmann — the son of a family of Holocaust survivors — said he spent a year of his childhood hiding with his family from the Nazi occupation in a small Ukrainian village and that the Holocaust has had a lasting impact on his life.

“I’m still scared of people in uniform — even the doorman because of what it meant during the war,” he said.

According to Hoffman, his interest in chemistry did not begin when he first arrived in the United States at the age of 11. Rather, he became immersed in the field during his undergraduate years at Columbia and graduate research at Harvard. “[I am fascinated by the] mixture of rigor with uncertainty [and] the beauty of individual facts rather than overall principles,” he said.

He explained that immigrants such as himself are pushed into being “observers,” who try to penetrate an understanding of how the world works from the outside. “[It’s] a lot like science,” Hoffmann said. “[You’re] trying to figure out what’s going on.”

Hoffmann won the Nobel Prize in 1981 — while he was working at Cornell — for his work in developing

theories about the life-cycle of chemical reactions.

However, he said the work that he was awarded the prize for was completed earlier in his life, when he was in his late 20s.

Though he said he recognizes the incredible honor

and merits of the award, Hoffmann also discussed the difficulties associated with its acceptance — namely, that many professionals look at a Prize-winner’s subsequent work more critically.

“The only people for whom the Nobel Prize is an unalloyed plus is for your mother and your university,” Hoffmann said.

Hoffmann — who has also published 10 books of poetry and three plays — said his interest in creative writing began at Columbia, where he was able to sit in

Cayuga’s Watchers Sees Large-Scale Growth

By REBECCA BLAIR Sun Staff Writer

A year after its official launch, Cayuga’s Watchers — a student-run nonprofit dedicated to reducing the harms associated with high-risk drinking — has seen large-scale growth and expansion across the Cornell community, according to Sarah Reitman ’15, president of the Watchers.

Over the past year, the Watchers have trained nearly 600 students to respond to a variety of emergencies at Cornell social gatherings, according to Reitman. “[The Watchers’] success represents an entire community working together to keep the party going, safely,” she said.

Reitman added that the Watchers have been officially present at 40 events so far.

The Watchers train Cornellians to attend social events as peer advocates who can intervene in high-risk situations, according to Reitman.

They have achieved several successes in the past year, she said.

Cayuga’s Watchers first becomes involved in an event when a host reaches out to the organization, according to Hannah James ’15, director of internal operations. She said they are then assigned to the event, where they anonymously interact with partygoers and remain alert for circumstances that may require intervention.

“Watchers are required to remain sober for the event that they are working, and they are also trained to engage in … bystander intervention techniques that are subtle but can be meaningful,” James said. “In the event of an emergent sit-

uation, they are comfortable working with the hosts to take the necessary steps that will keep partygoers safe.”

Since the Watcher’s launch last October, James said that the organization has been working to expand its operations by ensuring all members undergo comprehensive training to promote safety without disrupting an event.

“We also educate Watchers to be able to identify signs of a medical emergency and what to do if there is an emergency situation while they are working,” James said. “We teach them using practical scenarios and … make sure that they would be comfortable engaging with any individual at a social event.”

The overall response to the Watchers from the Cornell community has been overwhelmingly positive, according to Noah Liff ’15, director of external operations.

“The strength of the program in its peer-topeer nature has resonated across the Cornell community, and has allowed us to effectively develop relationships across that network,” Liff said. “We have seen support from individual fraternity and sorority members, alumni, administrators and countless other members of the Greek community.”

According to Reitman, this support has translated into quantifiable success.

“Cayuga’s Watchers seeks to promote a new social norm on the Cornell campus based on responsible behavior and safeguarding other students,” she said.

Rebecca Blair can be reached at rblair@cornellsun.com.

on humanities classes.

As both a writer and a scientist, Hoffman said he is always trying to have work published.

“I was exposed to arts and humanities in college at Columbia and it took seed. Somehow I kept reading even though I was committed to chemistry,” he said. “I didn’t try to write a poem ’till I was 40. It took me seven years to get published. But the imperative to publish was from science.”

Hoffman added that his work in chemistry has also led him to publish work in philosophy journals, saying that the fields are interdisciplinary.

“I am inherently reflective about the sciences, so I always think about why we do what we do in science,” he said.

“That has brought me into philosophy.”

Additionally, Hoffmann said he believes interdisciplinary work is important due to the overlap between the fields of art and science. “[The world is] separated in a number of ways,” he said. “We compartmentalize our lives. The arts and sciences belong together.”

According to Hoffman, his motivation for writing and chemistry comes from his natural passion for the subjects.

“I went along doing in science the next thing I wanted to do. I was not trying to cure cancer. I just did what I thought was interesting,” he said. “I never asked myself what I’m going to do next. I just did what came naturally.”

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Sherry Ge ’18, Jason Zhao ’18, Kyle Skyllingstad ’18, Emily Zhang ’18, Victoria Ip ’18 and Theo Kepler ’18 climb a tree on the Arts Quad Tuesday afternoon.

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employee achievements and a new online training program on how to give and receive feedback.

“I believe we have a better way for staff members to have their positions reviewed so that the positions descriptions actually and accurately reflect the work you do and compensate fairly,” Skorton said.

Additionally, he commended employees for their participation in furthering important issues on campus that include sexual violence, gorge safety and informa-

tion technology security, as well as for their support of the Cornellians Aiding and Responding to Employees Fund and the United Way of Tompkins County.

While Skorton said he was “very proud and happy” with the current state of the University, he acknowledged that between him leaving his post to become the next secretary of the Smithsonian Institution next year, Provost Kent Fuchs’ recent selection as the next president of the University of Florida and the retirement of Susan Murphy ’73 Ph.D. ’94, vice president for student and academic services, a time of change would come upon Cornell.

“Change, though sometimes jarring and upsetting, offers the University an opportunity to do things differently and maybe to do different things,” Skorton said.

In an answer to a staff member’s question, Skorton said he hoped that the staff would help with the continuity of leadership by giving President-Elect Elizabeth Garrett “a chance to get settled into the community” and by being “straightforward and honest about what is going on.”

Skorton also tackled the topic of divestment from fossil fuels in response to another question and said that while he

had been reticent to recommend divesting from fossil fuels to the Board of Trustees due to the barely balanced nature of the University finances, he urged employees to continue the discussion on divestment.

Concluding the address, Executive Vice Chair of the Employee Assembly BJ Siasoco ’07, presented the Employee Assembly Staff Appreciation Award to Skorton, who accepted the award to a standing ovation.

Gabriella Lee can be reached at glee@cornellsun.com.

Hotel Site Prompts Traffic Concerns Two Deaths Possibly New Hilton will be located on 300 block of East State Street HOTEL

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Scott Whitham ’90, principal at Whitham Planning and Design, said he expects a strong connection between the Canopy Hotel and the Ithaca community.

“The idea of the brand is to be a neighborhood boutique hotel,” Whitham said. “It will really be locally based so that service, food and drink in the hotel will all have a local flare.”

Whitham also discussed plans to reach out to “local artists” to help decorate the interior of the hotel in order to further foster its sense of community.

However, the proposed site of the hotel — which is to be built on two ground-level parking lots with several handicapped spaces — prompted concerns about traffic and parking among members of the board.

“If [the hotel] is taking away the only parking lot for people with possible mobility issues then that’s a problem,” said McKenzie Jones-Rounds, a member of the

planning and development board.

“I just want to be sensitive to the parties that are feeling concerned about losing the parking [spaces].”

Whitham, however, assured Rounds that this would not be a problem as plans for the hotel continue to unfold.

“As with any downtown project,” he said, “[the issue of parking] comes up. We’ll certainly

“The idea of the brand is to be a neighborhood boutique hotel.”

Scott Whitham ’90 look into [it].”

Despite the concerns, members of the board said they were satisfied with the direction of the plans.

“As a whole, I think the project is well designed,” said John Schroeder ’74, a member of the board and production manager for The Sun. Following discussion, the board updated the project

description for the hotel and passed a resolution urging the Ithaca Common Council to approve the sale of the Cityowned portion of one of the parking lots to the Ithaca Urban Renewal Agency, which in turn will sell it to the developer.

Conversation also centered around the potential construction of a 15,700 square-foot retail building located at the current site of the Wegmans Food Market parking lot on South Meadow Street.

While the parcel is owned by Wegmans itself, the board advised that discussion regarding the retail occupant of the building was not a matter for the Planning Board to determine.

The board also discussed several other development proposals, including renovations at Upson Hall on campus and the construction of a three-story apartment building at 114 Catherine St., proposed by developer Nick Lambrou in September.

Andrew Lord can be reached at alord@cornellsun.com.

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substances like fentanyl, “it is still too early to conclude this,” said IPD Chief Jamie Williamson in a press release.

These incidents come on the heels of a surge in the number of heroin overdoses in the region. According to the Upstate New York Poison Center, it was found that heroin overdoses in 12 upstate counties jumped 417 percent from 2009 to 2013.

Sofia Hu can be reached at shu@cornellsun.com.

PSU Trustees Vote Against Reopening Sandusky Report STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State’s trustees on Tuesday voted against taking a fresh look at the 2012 university-commissioned report into how the Jerry Sandusky molestation scandal was handled, disappointing many who have criticized the report as deeply flawed and unfairly damaging to the institution.

The board voted 17-9 against a resolution backed by alumni-elected trustees that would have set up a group to comb through the report and seek answers from Louis Freeh, the former FBI director who led the team that produced it.

Many alumni have been critical of the board’s handling of the aftermath of the scandal and particularly how the school treated late football coach Joe Paterno, prompting a successful trustee election effort.

“There is no downside, none at all, if we review the report,” said Bob Jubelirer, an alumni trustee — and former state senator — who joined the board this year. “This is controversial — it has damaged this university.”

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California Agency: 18.5 Million Residents’ Info Exposed

LAGUNA BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Personal information about more than 18.5 million Californians was hacked, stolen or otherwise exposed last year and as many as one-third of those people will become victims of fraud, California Attorney General Kamala Harris said Tuesday in a new report on data breaches in the nation’s biggest state.

Retailers, banks, health care providers and other organizations reported 167 different breaches in the state during 2013. That’s six times more than the 2.5 million accounts hacked in 131 breaches in 2012, and represents nearly half of the state’s 38 million residents. The alarming increase in malicious hacking and accidental leaks due to poor information security was mainly due to breaches at Target stores and Living Social, an online marketplace. Even without those two incidents, the number of customer accounts exposed by hacking, lost and stolen hard drives and accidental data leaks, jumped 35 percent last year.

As many as one third of people whose information is exposed in a data breach will subsequently suffer some kind of fraud, Harris adds in the report, citing estimates by Javelin Strategy and Research, a California firm that tracks financial industry trends.

More than half of the breaches reported in California involved malicious attempts by hackers or cyber-criminals who were determined to steal customer data, according to the report, which said “trans-national criminal organizations” appear to be responsible in many cases.

“Increasingly, highly sophisticated criminal organizations and statesponsored entities — located as far away as Russia, China and Eastern Europe — are responsible for breaches,” Harris said. The report cites one federal prosecution of an overseas hacker group. It doesn’t provide any new details on a multi-state investigation, announced earlier this year, in which officials from California and elsewhere said they were looking into Target Corp.’s response to its breach.

Feds: Engineer’s Sleepiness Caused Train Derailment NEW YORK (AP) — A sleepdeprived engineer nodded off at the controls of a commuter train just before taking a 30 mph curve at 82 mph, causing a derailment last year that killed four people and injured more than 70, federal regulators said Tuesday.

William Rockefeller’s sleepiness was due to a combination of an undiagnosed disorder — sleep apnea — and a drastic shift in his work schedule, the National Transportation Safety Board said.

It said the railroad lacked a policy to screen engineers for sleep disorders, which also contributed to the Dec. 1 crash. And it said a system that would have applied the brakes automatically would have prevented the crash.

The board also issued rulings on four other Metro-North accidents that occurred in New York and Connecticut in 2013 and

2014, repeatedly finding fault with the railroad while also noting that conditions have improved.

“We truly take to heart all the issues that have been stated,” Metro-North President Joseph Giulietti said. As an example, he said the railroad already has begun a test project on engineer sleep apnea that will be expanded.

Asked what had happened to Metro-North in recent years, Giulietti replied: “Our focus on on-time performance versus our focus on safety.”

U.S. Sen. Chuck Schumer of New York said the report revealed “a horror house of negligence resulting in injury, mayhem and death.”

“The last thing that should be on the mind of a commuter on Metro-North is whether they’re going to survive the commute,” U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut said.

Front lines

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Health workers at the Bong County International Medical Corps treatment unit near Gbarnga, Liberia. Across Liberia, a focal point of the Ebola epidemic, health officials attempting to track the disease’s spread have noticed an unexpected pattern: There are a lot fewer people being treated for Ebola than expected.

Missouri Prepares for 9th Execution of 2014 ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri officials were preparing on Tuesday to execute a man who wasn’t able to appeal his conviction in federal court because his attorneys missed a filing deadline.

Mark Christeson was scheduled to die at 12:01 a.m. CDT Wednesday for the killing of a woman and her two children in 1998.

Christeson had two appeals pending with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. One challenges the state’s planned use of a made-to-order execution drug produced by an unidentified compounding pharmacy. The other argues that he deserves the chance to appeal his case in federal courts, which is the norm for inmates sentenced to death.

Christeson would be the ninth person executed

by Missouri this year, which would equal the state record set in 1999. That could be exceeded next month, as Leon Taylor is scheduled for execution Nov. 19 for killing a gas station attendant in suburban Kansas City 20 years ago.

In addition to the court appeals, Gov. Jay Nixon was weighing a clemency request.

In Maries County, a south-central Missouri county with just 9,000 residents, there is little argument with the death sentence, prosecutor Terry Daley Schwartze said.

“No matter how anybody feels about the death penalty, you can’t find a person around here who doesn’t feel it’s the right result for this case,” Schwartze said. “It’s so very awful.”

When he was 18, Christeson and his 17-year-old cousin, Jesse Carter, came up with a plan to run away from the home outside Vichy where they were living with a relative.

On Feb. 1, 1998, Christeson and Carter took shotguns and went to a home about a half-mile away where Susan Brouk, 36, lived with her 12year-old daughter, Adrian, and 9-year-old son, Kyle.

They planned to steal Brouk’s Ford Bronco, Schwartze said.

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Increase in Graduates Who Stay in Ithaca Is Positive for Community THE ECONOMIC IMPACT REPORT RELEASED by the Office of Budget and Planning earlier this month revealed that the number of Cornell graduates staying in Ithaca and surrounding areas after graduation has nearly doubled since 2007. We at The Sun believe that this is a positive trend as it results in the further development of the University and the surrounding community.

The report states that more Cornell graduates are choosing to remain in Tompkins County to either start careers or to further their education. In 2013, 1,135 graduates stayed in Tompkins County, representing 17 percent of the graduating class. This is positive for the University because these educated young people stay in the community and help it develop further. Cornell’s status as a world class university is maintained by what the alumni do after graduation. The fact that alumni are staying at Cornell or in the surrounding area will help the University reach greater heights.

Cornell is a land grant institution and the fact that graduates want to stay helps fulfill the ideals on which the University was formed. This certainly is beneficial for the community as educated people stay and contribute back to the society they have been a part of. Initiatives like Rev: Ithaca Startup Works, which opened in September near the Ithaca Commons, and Cornell Tech are examples of how both the Ithaca community and Cornell are attracting graduates. These initiatives help with both the economic and intellectual development of the region.

We at The Sun commend the University’s efforts to attract graduates and look forward to more such initiatives. We believe that this positive trend will result in the development of both the University and the surrounding areas.

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emember learning that the Boston Tea hipsters and conformists, etc. — witness any Party caused the American Revolution? Greek rush event and you’ll understand — Or that Babe Ruth caused an 86-year with clear asymmetries in information, resultWorld Series drought for the Boston Red ing in contrived discussion. The apathetic fan Sox? And how could you forget that World will assert his worthiness in discussing sports War II ended because of Hiroshima and matters through a random statistic he overheard on ESPN that morning. They will Nagasaki?

History often times finds itself attributing reluctantly proceed in a conversation without intricate conflicts to relatively neat precipitat- substance or meaning — a ping-pong match ing factors. While wars may materialize in the of regurgitated information. To cite Jeter once immediate aftermath of a simple event, there more, this was a retirement that highlighted are usually a series of undercurrents that bring the ability of bandwagon supporters to a conflict to fruition. It’s human nature to pedantically list the years of his five champisimplify our lives and the lives of others. So onships; they solidified his legacy by attributwhen extreme strife — between countries, ing his presence on those teams to the industries, sports teams, rappers or room- Yankees success (sorry for the blasphemy).

2) A future Jeopardy appearance on the mates — occurs, popular thought shackles itself to simple answers to simple questions. horizon could justify this reservoir of facts.

But enough generalities. Take the recent “Israel-Palestine for 300. The 2014 Israel Israeli-Palestine conflict for example. On Palestinian war was caused by this event,” to June 12th this past summer, three Israeli which the answer will be, “What is the murteenagers were kidnapped and murdered der of three teenagers in the West Bank?” If while hitchhiking near a suburb of Jerusalem. you don’t see yourself rubbing shoulders with Why these kids were hitchhiking — in a con- Alex Trebek in the near future, then it might flict-ridden country whose every neighboring be time to evaluate this inclination to simplify country wish to see their demise as badly as (and hoard) the everyday.

Where does this strong preference for the Cornell Police wish to doll out noise vioaccumulating knowllations — beats me. The edge in a simplistic three were abducted and manner come from? killed. Hamas, the miliThe tendency to assign Maybe we were tary wing of Palestine, causality to important brought up to acquire initially denied involveinformation in this ment in the murders, yet events is dangerous and method.

History were accused, leading to a lessons in middle and full-fledged military conlimiting. It prevents us from high school ultimately frontation between Israel came down to knowand Palestine in the ensudigging to the root of ing the facts. Only in ing months (Hamas later releant matters; something the rigor of advanced admitted to the killings). placement courses Those who followed the that inhibits further inquiry. does one see the kind conflict watched in awe of synthesis of inforas the brutality between mation that it outside the two countries escalated to such levels that the fatalities started to the realm of fact-based learning. The further removed we get from history — and the more become just another number.

While I personally am not well versed in it becomes a series of facts — the less we the intricacies of the Israel-Palestine conflict, stand to learn from it.

We could also just plainly be hardwired to and have little authority to hypothesize the true cause of this most recent war, it would be remember stuff by using causality to simplify hard to believe that the simple precipitating the world around us. Social psychologists call force was the killing of the three boys. Even if it the attribution bias. We like to attribute this event did trigger a chain of hostile causality to things because it facilitates an easrhetoric and violence between the countries, ier understanding of complicated issues. This other conditions must have simultaneously could ultimately leads to an encyclopedia of been ideal for conflict to materialize. facts in each of our brains; it makes it difficult Nevertheless, history — and our collective to think about things in ways that are more memories — will be written as such: “The complicated than simply remembering that, 2014 Israeli-Palestine conflict was caused by for example, Steve Jobs studied calligraphy at the abduction and murder of three Israeli Reed College, which is why the Mac typeface is so unique. teenagers in the West Bank.”

Confucius once asserted, “Life is really The tendency to assign causality to important events is dangerous and limiting. It pre- simple but we insist on making it complicatvents us from digging to the root of relevant ed.” Aside from the inherent charm to this matters; something that inhibits further quote, there is a possible counterargument. inquiry. There is a certain satisfaction in We struggle to confront complexities because hoarding facts in one’s knowledge bank in a they force us to move outside of our prediscause and effect type manner. Here are two position for simplicity. Intricacies will give sources of justification for retaining this undue headaches, heated argumentation and innate ability to simplify the world into a self-doubt. But at the very least, they will spice things up. series of simple facts.

1) It provides ammunition for pseudointellectual talk in giving one the ability to Philip Susser is a junior in the College of Human establish legitimacy. There have been too Ecology. He can be reached at many conversations between casual and die- pss226@cornell.edu. An Ithaca State of Mind hard sports fans, foodies and calorie counters, appears on alternate Wednesdays this semester.

CORRECTIONS An Oct. 28 news story, “Cornell Seeks to Increase Female Hires, Retention,” stated that Yael Levitte, associate vice provost for faculty development, said that women serve in assistant and associate professorships at higher rates than men, when in fact, Levitte did not say this. Instead, Levitte said that the proportion of female assistant and associate professors is higher when compared to the proportion of full female professors. In addition, the story incorrectly stated that a policy enacted by Provost Kent Fuchs mandates that faculty meetings “must take place at optimal meeting hours.”a In fact, the policy, in an attempt to protect faculty members' personal time, requires that meetings be held between 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.

An Oct. 28 opinion column, “GLICK | The Ebola Election,” misidentified Martha Robertson ’75.

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True Detective hen I was eight years old, I found my true calling.

I began reading a series called Nancy Drew Notebooks when I was in elementary school, because the real Nancy Drew books were too grown-up for me. I was also obsessed with Mary Kate and Ashley in a perhaps lesser-known stage of their fame, postFull House but pre-successful fashion careers. Even lesser-known than those weird teen travel movies. For those of you who don’t remember, they were a mystery-solving duo, with the motto, “We’ll solve any crime by dinnertime.” If you visit my parents’ house, in the garage you could probably still find a stack of about 10 VHS tapes of their various crime-solving antics. I watched them religiously, mostly when my mom was in the shower, because I wasn’t really allowed to watch TV at other times during the day. And the conclusion I came to was that I was destined to solve crimes, to rid the world of dangerous people, like that guy who stole Santa’s naughty and nice list and switched them in the Christmas episode.

My friend Elly and I, who called each other Mary-Kate and Ashley, respectively, were walking in the woods near our house with our parents and we wandered a bit off the path, looking for bugs, as we were wont to do. Suddenly, we saw something in the dirt, something that we didn’t recognize because it was both extremely rare in the early 2000s and inappropriate for an eight year old to own: a cell phone.

There it was, just sitting in the leaves. This was the moment we had been waiting for, a chance to show off our detective skills,

To all my fellow seniors, if I hold any power at all over your thought, even in this one moment as you read this sentence, here’s a thought: You don’t have to decide the rest of your life on May 25. which had been lying dormant up to this point. We quickly went to work, looking through the phone to find any relevant information on its owner. There really wasn’t much, considering this was before the age of iPhones and all of our personal information being carried in our pockets. However, with the help of our moms’ brilliant minds, we discovered a contact labeled Mom. We called this number, she got in contact with her son, and he came all the way from his home in New York City to pick up his phone.

Upon arrival, the man (or, as I would like to call him, our first client) expressed his deep gratitude, and asked us what we would like as a reward for finding him and returning the phone. Now, remember, I was eight. Also remember that my biggest and only ambition in life at that time was to literally become Ashley Olsen.

So, we requested, as any budding detectives would, deerstalker hats. The Case of the Missing Cell Phone was solved, and I was one sartorial item closer to becoming the female Sherlock Holmes.

Unfortunately or fortunately — depending on if you are my younger self or my mother — I long ago gave up on my mysterysolving aspirations. For a while after that, I thought I wanted to be a teacher, then that I wanted to be a doctor. I still think I want to be a doctor, but I really and truly don’t know. Why is it that the closer we get to making this seemingly life-altering decision, the less sure we are about it? I think it’s the pressure to choose. To all my fellow seniors, if I hold any power at all over your thought, even in this one moment as you read this sentence, here’s a thought: You don’t have to decide the rest of your life on May 25.

It’s crazy, I know, but it just might be true. All we have to decide is our first job, our first attempt at finding what we want to do.

This might be what we end up loving and doing for the next 40 years, and if so, congratulations. But there will always be an opportunity to go back, to try something else, to abandon ship.

I’ve been pre-med, or pre-pre-med, for practically eight years.

It’s scary to think, what if I don’t go to medical school? But guess what — it’s equally scary to become a doctor just because you decided to at the end of middle school. So, to all of my friends and family who think I won’t go to medical school: You may be right. You may also be wrong. I could change my mind at any moment, because I am human and I am 21 and I can choose whatever I want to do.

And if all else fails, I still have the hat.

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

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want to talk about Hong into a passive form of expression Kong. But let’s talk about in subsequent generations. But protest first.

Hong Kong knows protest.

To some, the culture of protest Because of Hong Kong’s rocky is a familiar one. We see them on democratic development, protest campus, sometimes barefooted. has become a way of life, embedThis person may be you. But it ded deep within their cultural certainly isn’t me. identity. Massive crowds piling up Not to say that I haven’t dab- on the busy streets of Hong Kong bled in both traditional forms of are not uncommon to their politprotest (those budget boycotts ical history. Yet the current Hong though) and everyday forms of Kong protests have a new poster protest (flexitarian, anyone?). boy, a collective poster boy: the But it’s easy to get enraged over student. And the most popular issues. And for me, it’s been just student leader is a skinny 17-yearas easy to detach myself from old named Joshua Wong, leading these issues as it was to engage a group of high school firebrands myself with them. called Scholarism.

The process of disengagement Their classroom experience begins when I recognize that I can consists of tent-making, speaking never truly live out the purist, through megaphones and holding Thoreau-like essence of protest umbrellas (household symbols of that is, living and breathing the the working middle-class of Hong very issue you are protesting. It’s Kong). I asked my friend, John especially difficult to keep tabs on Yongsun Park ’16, a PAM major the issue when it is an external currently studying abroad at City one. For college students, univer- University of Hong Kong, about sities and their preoccupation with morals and ethics provide the perfect But as imperative as it is to have breeding ground of a critical vein of thinking within irony: students an educational institution, it becoming more politically and usually stops there. socially-engaged global citizens while also lacking any identifiable his experience. He said: attachment to these issues. We “Real, visceral learning takes can voraciously read news of dis- place in Central and Admiralty in aster within the African subconti- Downtown Hong Kong. While nent while we’re tucked safely roaming the streets on foot, I find away in Ithaca, finding temporary myself at the core of this movesolace in the joy of eating a hearty ment, learning much more in the Ivy Room spinner. moment than what any Hong But we signed up for some Kong history course or textbook degree of separation from the readings could teach me. The world when we agreed to attend people of Hong Kong became Cornell. In fact, I find a lot of teachers as they brought their merit in being a part of this frustrations towards the governbreeding ground (although some- ment. In this very classroom, times it can feel like a petri dish). without a single lecturer or any But far too often, campus and prelims, I am pushed to think this column space exhibit Itha- outside the boundaries of the centrism and are not at all repre- classroom.” sentative of our generation’s I envy John. My knowledge of activism. So let’s talk about our Hong Kong is limited to what I’ve friends in Hong Kong. only seen through their cinema.

The desire of the people of Although I couldn’t have asked Hong Kong to elect their own for a better entryway into Hong leaders has never been clearer Kong’s history via the marvelous than now. Although protest has cinematic lens of Wong Kar-wai always provided the youth with a and my Asian Popular Cinemas voice they didn’t have at the ballot course last semester, my thoughts boxes since the ’60s, it has grown and contemplations are still con-

fined within an institution or the black space we call the theater. I have probably thought much more (maybe too haughtily) about Jackie Chan’s bodily politics with respect to the commoditized space of Hong Kong than most people my age. But as imperative as it is to have a critical vein of thinking within an educational institution, it usually stops there. It becomes more of a matter of creating a reservoir of facts and figures rather than actively responding to learned material by way of protest.

And by protest, I don’t merely mean to reduce it to the tradition undertook by our sixties predecessors. John described, “The culture of protests,” as “not being much different from the culture of Hong Kong as a whole.” He continued to say, “Protesters conduct themselves highly, understanding that this protest shouldn’t be merely following the tropes of a radical overthrow of government. This movement also seeks to reflect the innate kindness and honor code that I have witnessed personally in my Hong Kong friends and professors at my host school. And I’ve had the privilege to witness this spirit of protest both on and off the streets.”

Okay John. We get it. Hong Kong is pretty great now (not that it’s a surprise). But there’s also something to be learned in the way these students conduct themselves both in and outside the classroom. They’re not satisfied with merely garnering intellectual capital in the library and leaving as soon as the bell rings. They take their intellectual persona with them to the streets. And this is the persona that should stitch itself into both our passive and active duties.

A huge thanks to John Yongsun Park ’16 for being the Christiane Amanpour to my column this week.

Teresa Kim is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at tkim@cornellsun.com. Her Meneutics appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Ornithology

Lab of O. Study Shows Why Birds Do Not Migrate ‘As the Crow Flies’

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Feathered friends | A recent study from the Lab of Ornithology found that when song birds migrate north in the spring, they follow looped migration routes that match the new growth of plant and insect populations.

Songbirds follow new plant growth in spring

By DOMINIC NEUGEBAUER

along rivers and mountain ranges, leading native bird species to cross vast expanses of desert during their migraThe quickest way from point A to tion. point B is “as the crow flies.” Despite It is likely that this research would the saying, however, many migratory not have been possible without the songbirds do not fly in a straight line crowd-sourced data from eBird, accordduring their long journeys in the spring ing to La Sorte. The tendency to follow and fall. ecological productivity — the amount Recent research conducted by Frank of new plant growth — has been docuLa Sorte, a research associate at the mented in herbivores, but this is the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, has found first evidence of it occurring in insectithat a number of bird species in North vores.

America tend to follow clockwise, “The reason why geese have been looped migration routes. studied is because they are large-bodied In 2013, La Sorte and his colleagues and you can place transmitters on them found that many birds follow different ... however, many of the species we were migration routes in the fall and in the observing weigh an ounce or less, makspring, but they were only partially able ing them more difficult to track,” La to explain why.

Sorte said.

“During the fall, migratory birds The findings from this study may generally stick to higher elevations and improve conservation efforts as they head directly for Central and South improve our understanding of how America, taking few detours for food,” birds use habitats across seasons. When La Sorte said. conservationists know what birds need With atmospheric data, they were at a particular time of year, they can betable to conclude that many bird species ter target their efforts. native to the eastern United States were According to La Sorte, the migration capitalizing on strong southerly tail- systems in the west are not as well winds for their flight north in the understood as they are in the east, spring. where they have been studied fairly According to La Sorte, however, it intensively. was not entirely clear why western “With the data we can look at the American species of birds were flying in entire population across basins, forests looped migration routes. They hypoth- and deserts and we can get a very comesized that, like plete representageese and deer, pertion of what is haps western bird “Many of the species we going on,” La Sorte species were folsaid. “Once we lowing a “green were observing weigh an have that broad wave” of new ounce or less, making them scale knowledge, growth of plants we can now focus and insect popula- more difficult to track.” more directly on tions. local and regional Frank La Sorte To test their questions that can theory, La Sorte be directly applied and his associates to conservation.” used eBird — an online application Additionally, these findings may help which uses crowd-sourced data gathered us better understand the effects of cliby birdwatchers to determine the time, mate change on the timing of bird date and location of particular bird migrations. species.

According to La Sorte, if the birds According to La Sorte, the researcher are not timing their movements with team examined 31 species of eastern the prevalence of tree resources, they are birds, including the Black-throated not going to be prepared for the breedBlue Warbler and Wood Rush, and 26 ing season. species of western birds, including the “Many migratory birds are at risk Rufous Hummingbird and the Lazuli with climate change because they have Bunting. fairly complex lifecycles and are migratAfter analyzing over 1.7 million ing back and forth over these large sightings from eBird and using satellites regions. With climate change, seasonal to measure the growth of vegetation, patterns of ecological productivity are they discovered that birds on both sides changing as well,” La Sorte said. “By of the United States had a strong ten- documenting these fairly important and dency to follow the emergence of green basic associations, we can begin to assess vegetation in the spring. more directly the implications of cliAccording to La Sorte, for eastern mate change based on a richer biologibird species living in the relatively con- cal understanding of how these species tinuous forests, this tight association interact with the natural environment.” with vegetation continues all summer Dominic Neugebauer can be reached at and into fall.

However, in the west, flora exists djn59@cornell.edu.

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Bye bye birdie | (From top to bottom) the Black-throated Blue Warbler, Wood Thrush, Rufous Hummingbird and Lazuli Bunting were some of the 57 species of birds whose migration patterns were studied by Frank La Sorte and his colleagues at the Lab of Ornithology.

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Two Cents: Gap Years Many people who pursue Ph.D.s in the sciences will take a “gap year” or several between their undergraduate and graduate degrees to gain more experience in their field, pay off student loans, or just decompress from the stress of undergraduate life. This week Sun Science talked with graduate students about their experiences with and reasons for taking or not taking gap years before starting graduate work. Brittiany Nkounkou grad is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science. Alise Muok grad is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Chemistry. Compiled by Kathleen Bitter, Sun Science Editor.

Did you take a gap year? Why or why not?

“No, because I had no good reason to take any gap years. I had no student loans to pay off, I was still in school mode and didn’t feel I needed a break.

Everything I’d learned through undergrad was still fresh in my mind, I was still close with those who wrote my recommendation letters, etc.”

—Nkounkou “No, I didn’t take any gap years because I knew I wanted to go to graduate school — I loved research as an undergraduate and knew that's what I wanted to do professionally. You can’t really get a job as a research leader without a graduate degree so there was no question for me.”

—Muok

If you could go back and change your decision, would you?

“Nope! If anything I wish I could go back and start my interest in science sooner. When I was an [undergraduate], I thought I wanted to do architecture. I don’t regret it because [finding] what I’m passionate about was a really good experience, but I would have had the oppurtunity to gain a lot more experience in research if I started doing science earlier.”

—Muok “No. I knew I wanted to go to grad school when I applied, and saw no reason to postpone it.”

—Nkounkou

Would you recommend prospective graduate students in your field make the same decision you did?

“I recommend that people make the decision that works best for them — it is perfectly fine to choose to take gap years or not.”

—Nkounkou “I would say if you have any doubts about graduate school, then don’t do it! Someone in my incoming graduate class left the program and I remember her saying graduate school was something she debated before she applied.”

—Muok

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O Calvin Patten “So fuck you fuckboys forever, I hope I said it politely / And that’s about the psyche of Jaime and Mikey,” Killer Mike not-sodelicately explains halfway into the opening track, “Jewels,” of Run the Jewels 2, the follow up to 2012’s surprise success Run the Jewels. As evidenced by the aforementioned rhyme (and the dozens of similar quotes that follow) RTJ2 finds Killer Mike (Michael Render) and El-P (Jaime Meline) as aggressive and bombastic as ever. Invigorated by the success and notoriety of their first album and countless festival shows, Run the Jewels is back with a vengeance, doubling down on the fuck off attitude and indelible, sophisticated production from El-P. But beneath the vitriolic veneer shines an incredibly magnificent array of hip hop sensibility, with El-P’s wordplay and Mike’s staccato, shotgun syllables blending seamlessly into an anti-authoritative anthem.

Get ready, because as the duo are bragging, threatening and mocking, they are also rapping circles around your favorite rappers.

RTJ2 is not an album unified by an obvious theme or story.

Instead, it is an attitude: Arrogant only begins to describe these dudes. That they are so likable when sneeringly offering “I'd lend a hand but they stuck in a fist and gun position” is a reflection of the gargantuan amounts of charisma both exhibit. These are dudes that you could be excited, if not comfortable, having a beer (or toke) with. Institutionally targeted sentiments do repeatedly appear, especially in Mike’s verses, but both rapper’s turn down their well known critical flows in place of head slamming aggression. Subsequently if you want some politics, you can find them, but do not come to looking for conscious rap.

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The only notable exception is the ironically bouncy “Early,” which features a focused digression on police overreach and the effect it has on communities. “Could it be that my medicine’s the evidence / For pigs to stop and frisk me when they rollin’ round on patrol?” Mike asks. He proceeds to explain how he respected “the badge,” only to be arrested and have his family assaulted, leading to a development of hatred for the police. After a powerful hook from Boots (of Beyoncé fame), El-P reminds listeners that the manipulation of truth threatens everyone. Ferguson is never explicitly mentioned, but the unsettling role of police and security relative to citizen’s rights and safety is squarely on display.

Apart from that though, the boys are almost purely dedicated on a fire and brimstone teardown of any would-be adversaries.

“Close Your Eyes” features a surprisingly effective Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against the Machine) hook and verse and is poundthe-pavement hard. “Lie Cheat Steal” picks up similarly, with ElP detailing “I chose to go guano, y'all know, kinda bat shit / The bright lights of fuckery stuck in me automatic / I’ll tea bag a piranha tank, heart barely beatin’.” Not to be outdone, Mike explains, “And I’m a mixture of MJG and the Weathermen / A revolutionary bangin’ on my adversaries / And I love Dr. King but violence might be necessary.” Like a modern day Wu-Tang, RTJ just cannot stop thinking of creative ways to threaten others.

What is interesting among the violence is the relationship with women. Neither are shy about bragging about their sexual conquests, but they do it in such a way as to humanize their partners: “You want a whore with a white dress / I want a wife in a thong” romanticizes El-P on album closer “Angel Duster.”

Meanwhile, “Love Again” features some rather explicit lyrics, including a hook comprised mainly of “dick in her mouth all day.” Not to leave the conversation one-sided though, the guys invite Gangsta Boo (of Three 6 Mafia fame) to do her own verse.

She matches them detail for detail and promptly flips the hook to “clit in his mouth all day.” Probably not going to win over too many feminists, but a male rap duo making space for the sexual pleasures of a woman is a notable change of pace for the famously misogynistic genre.

Of course, titling this tape RTJ2 invites the natural comparison: Is it better than the original? And honestly, I do not know. It is certainly damn close. Admittedly, none of the songs have grabbed me as much as “Sea Legs” or “A Christmas Fucking Miracle” did off of RTJ. But I suspect that a few of the RTJ2 tracks will separate themselves in the coming months. It is disappointing that the two did not challenge themselves more. Any song off of RTJ2 could have comfortably been slotted on RTJ. A Yeezus level revelation was not necessary, but RTJ does not need to be a one trick pony. Unfortunately, the vast majority of the song to song differentiation ends up being the product of El-P’s production, which dilutes the product as banger after banger runs together. Over 11 tracks (plus a couple bonus tracks), a breather would be nice.

Generally though, Run the Jewels 2 is a delightful, pulverizing tour de force. Hide your loved ones, Run the Jewels are free and moving in for the kill.

“feels like a victim”), Swift hit truth when she pointed out that her love life Taylor Swift has become something of a national pastime. America worries about Taylor 1989 Swift’s love life the way your great aunt Big Machine worries about yours — with no real right or obligation and with a soft spot for the nice blonde boys who have “Kennedy money.”

The lead single for 1989, “Shake it Off,” was, I’m sure you all know, not only the nastiest earsore to grind its way into your brain since “99 Bottles Kaitlyn Tiffany of Beer” but also a weird combination of white girl talky rap, culturally appropriated costuming, ludicrously terrible Two years ago, shortly after the release of Taylor Swift’s dancing and mashed-up Coke commercials (probably). The fourth album, Red — a mostly harmless, sickly-satisfying (this marketing of the album consisted of “scribbled-on” Instagramtime we were looking for you in the cipher, Jake Gyllenhaal!), esque filtered polaroids of a hipper-than-ever Swift in her tradeJoni Mitchell-meets-dubstep collection of well-produced but mark red lipstick. As far as I was concerned, as of last week, unimpressive songs — the novelist Rick Moody penned a para- Moody’s infamous tongue-lashing (don’t worry, he was literally graph that rang truer to me than anything I had been told inside murdered by some soccer moms) was set to hold up. of a church, classroom or Sephora Help Counter: “Taylor Swift And it does, in places. “Welcome to New York” is a godrepresents what makes me want to die about popular music. She awful choice for an album opener, boasting bland, hackneyed makes me want to die. ... Taylor Swift makes music about as impressions of the city in which, I kid you not, “the lights are so interesting as Olestra-based products, or Swiffers in multiple bright.” “How to Get the Girl” and “Clean” are two of the most colors, or tiered Jell-O dessert products, or milk from China that exceptionally boring pop songs in recent memory and the hook has lead in it, or home cosmetic surgery, or rectal bleaching.” for “Wildest Dream” is appropriated blatantly from Lana Del Calm down from that burn for a second.

Rey’s far-superior“Without You.” The “new” Taylor Swift, as so many publications are clamorAnd though Swift’s fifth album sees her laying off the negaing to characterize, is supposedly the “real” Taylor Swift. As in, tivity when it comes to ex-flames (which I never took issue with she’s done with country, she’s done with relationships (claiming anyway), there’s still room for her annual woman-hating track. in her Rolling Stone profile that she hasn’t been on one date Man, if there’s one thing that’s indefensible about Taylor Swift since Harry Styles nearly 18 months ago) and she’s new to the it’s her propensity to call out other women for such absurd big city and the pop music big leagues and a bob. In sum, she’s crimes as being “better known for the things that she does on made some changes to her life that I absolutely cannot bring the mattress,” or wearing “short skirts” or even just being capmyself to care about. As excruciatingly obnoxious as her tains of sports teams. “Bad Blood” is this album’s zinger, an September profile in Rolling Stone was (notable moments unofficial sequel to the stupid pseudo-forgiveness offered to include the revelation that Swift named her cat after Law and Kanye West in “Mean,” calling out none other than the only Order: SVU’s Olivia Benson and the fact that she uses Kendrick person in pop music who is perhaps more palatable and less Lamar’s “Backseat Freestyle” to calm herself down when she interesting than Taylor Swift: Katy Perry. Not to dedicate too

much space to their fairly public feud, but it culminated in Perry making a basically-not-veiled reference to Swift on Twitter, in which she referred to her as “Regina George in a sheepskin” and I lost all ability to focus on anything else for several hours.

All this said, 1989 does feature some (SOME) surprisingly great music. When the album was announced this summer, Swift explained that her first pop album was meant to be influenced by her earliest exposures to pop music — Phil Collins, Annie Lennox, Madonna in her “Like a Prayer” era. What’s more palpable is the influence of her new mainstream hipster friends — mainly Tegan & Sara, who released a daring and absurdly fun ’80s-pop throwback album of their own, Heartthrob, in 2013, and Jack Antonoff (of fun. and Bleachers and dating-Lena-Dunham fame) who co-wrote two of the best tracks on the album. Antonoff lent his help on “Out of the Woods” and “I Wish You Would,” two of the synth-ier songs that manage to combine Swift’s diaristic signature with expansive pop mantras.

“Blank Space” is Swift’s best song in years: It contains no subtleties, bragging “got a long list of ex-lovers, they’ll tell you I’m insane” and “darling, I’m a nightmare dressed like a daydream,” and “Style” (whether or not it is about Harry Styles) (Kidding, every song on the album is about Harry Styles) is a close second, featuring Swift’s brashest admission of her Purity Sue shtick, “I got that good girl faith and a tight little skirt.” This Love” is classic Taylor Swift (Hayley Williams’ favorite track!), a sweet ballad bursting with optimism that is as simultaneously nauseating and refreshing as red Kool Aid and, incidentally, the only song on the album that she wrote on her own.

That’s kind of a bummer, considering that her insistence on writing most of her own music was one of the only things I could consistently respect about Swift, but it’s also a sign of growing up — if Swift wants to make imaginative and interesting pop music, like she does with the help of Antonoff, she’s going to need to keep asking for help from people who are more talented than her. 1989 puts Swift five albums in and only just starting to mature — inexcusable, but we all know we’re going to excuse it anyway.

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Calvin Patten is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at cpatten@cornellsun.com.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at arts-editor@cornellsun.com.

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‘Grape’: Not That Kind of Rape Joke

egular readers of this paper, or regular readers of this paper on Wednesdays, will know that last week, I saw the film Fury with my friend and fellow Arts columnist Zachary Zahos ’15. I was very pleased that he admitted in writing to being my friend, something he might regret in a few years when he’s up for a Supreme Court nomination or, more likely, a job with James Cameron that does not tolerate any friendships with vocal opponents of the film Avatar.

Zach, in his column, mentioned a scene in Fury that was somewhat unexpected, and gave the movie added depth and dimension. It made me cry — an action which did not cease until the conclusion of the film. This is how Zahos described the scene: “About halfway through [Fury], the battlefield carnage halts for a 20minute interlude in an apartment that two soldiers, played by Pitt and Logan Lerman, have entered with the intent of raping the female occupants.”

I would argue that, while the description is not wrong, it’s not 100 percent accurate either. It’s less a portrayal of rape, than a much more complex and intricate exploration of what comedian Amy Schumer calls “Grape.”

In an interview last year with Terry Gross on Fresh Air, Schumer explained the concept. She said, “Most women I know that I’m close to have had a sexual experience that they were really uncomfortable [with]. If it wasn’t completely rape, it was something very similar to rape. And so I say it’s not all black and white. There’s a gray area of rape, and I call it ‘grape.’ It’s the guy you went

home with in college, and you said, ‘No,’ and then he still did it, or maybe you woke up and it was someone you were dating.”

The sex in Fury was consensual-ish. The cute German blonde girl led Logan Lerman into her bedroom and he was nice to her and he played the piano and she sang and it was all very cute and nice and he held her hand and made her feel safe.

Except that her town had just been blown up and everyone she knew except her terrified cousin in the other room had just been killed and she was petrified and didn’t speak English and felt like she had no choice, because if she didn’t sleep with Lerman willingly, he or Pitt might just do it anyway.

So it wasn’t really consensual, but it also wasn’t exactly rape. It was grape — although definitely falling closer on the rape side of the spectrum than

Julia Moser Carrot Top Confessions the every other sex scene in the average Brad Pitt flick.

Fury’s depiction of grape sets it apart from the vast sea of films and television shows that aim to tackle the issue of rape. Rape, we are used to seeing in movies and TV. We are used to watching Detectives Benson and Stabler spend 42 minutes finding the man who tackled a sequin-clad daugh-

ter of someone important on COURTESY OF NPR her way back from a party in an alleyway after her drink had been roofied. We are even somewhat used to films like Monster and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, in which female protagonists are brutally raped.

But that gray area of rape that is not black and white, where the perpetrator isn’t evil and probably someone familiar, and things are confusing and blurred, we are not used to seeing portrayed on television and in the movies, even though that is what most women experience in real life. So I give Fury high praise for its realistic representation of a difficult issue.

While dramas, like Fury, can challenge us and make us think, I am of the strong belief that comedies too can, and should, be real platforms of debate. Comedy about race and gender inequality can hold a mirror up to society, provoke us to question and protest these inequalities. So why can’t the same be true for rape, or grape?

For the second column in a row, I will now refer to Lena Dunham’s recent memoir, Not That Kind of Girl, which you all should read (and which I told my editors I would review and then never did). In it, Dunham reveals she was sexually assaulted in college. She was graped. And during a discussion in the Girls writers’ room, the story came up. One of the writers in the room said, “I just don’t see rape being funny in any situation.”

Dunham responded, “But that’s the thing … no

one knows if it’s rape. It’s, like a confusing situation that …”

She trailed off, but the point was made. Rape isn’t funny. Grape isn’t funny, except that Amy Schumer proved it can be, by first making us laugh at the juxtaposition of a bunch of oblong purple fruits and a felony, and then letting the real and more serious message of the joke sink in. So too did Louis C.K. when he couldn’t “even rape well,” in the episode “Pamela: Part I” on the most recent season of Louie.

Like any touchy subject, grape needs to be handled carefully in the media and especially in comedy. But I don’t think that means it’s impossible to do or that we shouldn’t give it the old college try.

Julia Moser is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at jmoser@cornellsun.com. Carrot Top Confessions appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Royals Aim to Overcome Deficit in Giants Series KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — In Lorenzo Cain’s view, the Kansas City Royals have a big advantage when it comes to Game 6 of the World Series.

“We’re definitely not facing Bumgarner tomorrow, so that definitely helps,” the AL Championship Series MVP said Monday.

Jake Peavy starts for the Giants on Tuesday night, with San Francisco leading the World Series 3-2 and one win from its third title in five years.

Kansas City turns to a 23year-old rookie Yordano Ventura in a rematch of Game 2 starters.

The 33-year-old Peavy is seeking his first World Series win - he didn’t get a decision for Boston in Game 3 last year - and is well aware he could get the victory in the clincher.

“I can’t imagine anything being any sweeter than that,” he said. “This is the start that you play your whole career wanting.”

Kansas City is in the same position it was in in 1985, when the Royals sent Charlie Leibrandt to the mound against St. Louis.

Kansas City won 2-1 that night on pinch-hitter Dane Iorg’s tworun single in the ninth after a blown call by first base umpire Don Denkinger, and the Royals went on to blow out the Cardinals 11-0 a day later behind Bret Saberhagen for their only title.

In the 41 previous instances the World Series was 2-2 in the best-of-seven format, the Game 5 winner has taken the title 27

times. But eight of the last 10 teams to come home trailing 3-2 swept Games 6 and 7.

“We have a lot of confidence in Ventura. We have confidence that we will win every time he takes the mound,” Royals first baseman Eric Hosmer said. “We know we can do it. We’re a confident group. But we can’t do anything without winning Game 6.

We’re excited to get back home, where we feed off the fans and that energy.”

Ventura, whose fastball averaged 98 mph this season, didn’t get a decision in the second game, allowing two runs and eight hits in 5 1-3 innings before Royals manager Ned Yost went to his hard-throwing HDH relief trio of Kelvin Herrera, Wade Davis and Greg Holland in the 7-2 victory.

“His confidence is just staggering,” Yost said. “You walk in that clubhouse, and he looks you square in the eye with that glint that says: ‘I’m ready for this.’”

Peavy, 33, took the loss in Game 2. when he gave up four runs and six hits in five inningsplus.

This is the first World Series in which four of the first five games were decided by five runs or more. The second all-wild card World Series has followed the pattern of the first in 2002. The Giants won the opener on the road, lost the next two games and won two in a row to take a 3-2 lead. San Francisco opened a 5-0 lead in Game 6 at Anaheim but lost 6-5, and the Angels won Game 7 the following night.

Free Agency Approaches KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Giants star Pablo Sandoval dug into the batter’s box in Game 5 of the World Series, peering out at Royals ace James Shields standing on the mound.

By next month, both of them could be wearing different jerseys.

San Francisco was trying to wrap up its third championship in five years when it returned to Kansas City for Game 6 on Tuesday night. But once the Fall Classic ends, the attention will shift in a matter of days to next season, and the free agency that looms for several players from both pennant winners.

“It’s the business of baseball,” Royals outfielder Josh Willingham said.

Sandoval is the biggest name looming for San Francisco, but there’s also World Series starters Jake Peavy and Ryan Vogelsong, reliever

Sergio Romo and outfielder Michael Morse.

Shields is the most critical piece in limbo for Kansas City.

Willingham and fellow outfielders Nori Aoki and Raul Ibanez also face uncertain futures. Designated hitter Billy Butler has a pricey club option for next season, so he could be hitting free agency for the first time, too.

“Everyone wants to get to free agency, to have some control over where they go and their circumstances,” Willingham said. “A lot of people think it’s only the money. The money is a big part, but there are other things, too, like playing in a place where you can win.

I’m sure Shields and the other guys will factor those in.”

Many in this year’s World Series will have no shortage of suitors.

Sandoval, the MVP of the 2012 Series, has driven his

stock up with another spectacular postseason, piling up eight hits and driving in four runs in the first five games against Kansas City.

The Giants would love to keep him hitting in AT&T Park for the next few years, but with few quality third basemen on the market, several big-budget teams such as the Boston Red Sox figure to drive up the bidding.

Then again, the Giants tend to spend lavishly on their postseason heroes.

After their 2012 title, outfielder Angel Pagan got $40 million over four years.

Last offseason, Hunter Pence inked a five-year, $90 million deal, and two-time Cy Young Award winner-turned-reliever Tim Lincecum signed a two-year, $35 million deal.

The Giants adore — and perhaps need — Sandoval as much as any of them.

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CROSS COUNTRY

Red Closes Regular Season With Annual John Rief Memorial Meet

By JACQUELYNN JONES Sun Contributor

This past Friday, the Cornell men’s and women’s cross country teams wrapped up their regular seasons as they hosted the 28th annual John Reif Memorial meet. The meet was held in honor of a former team member, John Reif, who passed in a tragic cycling accident after graduation in the mid 1980’s. Competitors met under clear skies Friday afternoon as they took to Moakley course at Cornell for the nonteam scored meet, which featured runners from Cornell, Syracuse and Cortland, as well as several post-collegiate and unattached athletes from other regional schools.

The men’s team competed in two events on Friday. The squad kicked off the event with a 5K race, which was followed by the five mile run. The Red dominated the 5k run as they took the top- eight spots and 15 of the top-20 overall. Freshman Alex Clapacs had a breakout performance, winning the race with a 16:19.40 finish. Senior Sebastian Roemer and freshman Tim Boston finished right behind him in 16:27.40 and 16:27.90, respectively.

At the same time, the Cornell women’s squad was also finding success on the course.

Red All-American Rachel Sorna ‘14 made her post-collegiate racing debut in fine fashion, taking first place in the women’s 5K with a time of 17:22.1.

Freshman Shannon Hugard also represent-

ed the Red well, leading the squad with a time of 18:20.7 for a sixth place finish. Fellow freshman Kirstin Sandreuter trailed right behind Hugard, taking seventh in 18:23.2.

Highlights also included a strong performance from sophomore Delphi Cleaveland, who overcame a hip injury to take ninth place in 18:31.1. Senior Syd Williams also had a strong showing, finishing 10th in 18:33.6, which was a 15 second course-best in her final race at the Moakley Course.

“The women have done a great job supporting one another and taking positive steps throughout the season,” said women’s head coach Artie Smith. “This is a very strong team.

Having wrapped up the regular season, the Red looks ahead to the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships, which will take place at Princeton’s West Windsor Fields on Saturday, Nov. 1. Fans can also look forward to the NCAA Northeast regionals November 14 at Von Cortlandt Park in Bronx, New York and the NCAA championships November 22 in Terre Haute, Indiana.

Smith said that she is looking forward to these meets and believes the Red’s history of success will give the squad confidence moving forward.

“The strong competitive efforts we saw from the team only bolster our confidence.”

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results from last year by nearly 30 seconds for a 12th place finish.

Young Players Could Be Men’s Rowing to Host Cayuga Invite The Stars of Tomorrow ROWING

Princeton won the race by a considerable margin, edging Yale by close to 10 seconds. The Cornell B boat finished in 16th place and the C women’s varsity four race. Halfway through it, boat rounded out the top-20, finishing the race the Red led the opposing boats by almost 14 just over a second ahead of the Dartmouth varseconds and finished sity boat. In the the race with a deciheavyweight four “The Princeton Chase is a unique sive victory, defeatrace, the Red’s varsity opportunity for us to get an immediing second place boat finished in sevate read on team speed against the Syracuse by more enth place with a time than 24 seconds. of 14:59, while the rest of the League just eight weeks Finishing right Cornell C crew placed into our season.” behind the varsity 13th. eight boat was the The women’s proChris Rogers Cornell B boat, gram will be back in which came in Princeton, New Jersey eighth place overall and second amongst all B next week as the squad takes part in the Small boats.

Boats Regatta. Both the men’s lightweight and The men’s heavyweight program had three heavyweight teams will be racing on Cayuga boats finish in the top-20. The varsity boat came Lake this weekend for a home invitational. in fourth place in the heavyweight eight, finishing at the 13:07 minute mark, about five sec- Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at onds behind third place Boston College. thucek@cornellsun.com.

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the helm of the Raptors management is Masai Ujiri, who has shown in the past how his unpredicted moves have worked out.

The only issue with Caboclo is that the Raptors are very saturated at his position. Hard work in practice and some physical and mental maturation will get the young Brazilian more minutes on the court.

5) Shabazz Napier, PG, Miami Heat

I do not have too much to say about Napier. Maybe it is because my dislike of the Big-3 era Heat is still lingering, but the quick guard was certainly able to display some great scoring ability in the preseason. Napier was a solid pick for a team reconfiguring (not rebuilding) after a stretch of glory. He has good upside and a bright future in the league.

4) Nerlens Noel, PF, Philadelphia 76ers

There is not too much love on the basketball court in the City of Brotherly Love. The Sixers look really bad. The roster looks like a random assortment of aging veterans and average youngsters looking for their path to NBA relevance. The Sixers claim to be building around two young anchors: MCW and Noel. I have not personally bought into

Carter-Williams’ long-term legitimacy despite the ridiculous numbers the point guard was able to put up last year. On the other hand, Noel has a lot more potential of being a star in the NBA. Note that he was not selected in this year’s draft. The Kentucky big man went sixth overall in the 2013 draft and sat out the season due to injury. Noel is a stud in the power forward / center position.

He stands 6’11” (plus a sweet 2-3” flat-top haircut), has a huge wingspan and is not afraid to contend on defense down low. Noel is one of the best blockers to come to the NBA in years, and he will be exciting to watch. Nonetheless, on a team as bad as the Sixers, there is a limit to how much he can succeed right off the bat.

Given a couple of years, Noel can be a star in the league. Just think of Anthony Davis’ progress since his arrival in the NBA. Noel has true talent, but even more will come with time.

That is all for this installment of my favorite rookies. Note that this is not a list of the top contenders for the ROY award. This is a list of exciting young players to look at this season, as they have a ton of potential to be the stars of tomorrow. Next week, I will release the second and final part of this list. Who will get the top three spots?

Nikita Dubnov can be reached at ndubnov@cornellsun.com.

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Thoroughbreds. As the first chukker went on, the Red tradedgoals with the Thoroughbreds, closing the chukker with aonepoint lead. Within the first few minutes of the second chukker, Winslow scored four goals to help the Red end the first with a 13-7 advantage. During the third chukker, Winslow scored another five goals, which allowed Cornell to take the chukker, 7-1. Junior Claire Stieg replaced Wicker in the fourth chukker, and the Red

continued defending its lead. The match ended with a final score of 28-10 in Cornell’s favor. Winslow had a high scoring match: she tallied a total of 17 goals while Wicker and Eldredge followed each with five goal and one pony goal.

Eldredge said that the Red’s teamwork improved after the second chukker and was a contributing factor in the squad’s win over the Thoroughbreds.

“Skidmore is always a joy to play and the game really helped our teamwork improve,” she said.

“They came out strong in the first

chukker and kept a close game, but once we found our teamwork we picked it up and ended with a win. The Skidmore girls have always been very nice and we look forward to playing at Skidmore later this semester.”

With undefeated seasons thus far, both teams are looking forward to their upcoming matches.

The men and women will both be playing against UVA in Charlottesville, Virginia next weekend.

Elani Cohen can be reached at ecohen@cornellsun.com.

Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

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POLO

Red Downs Skidmore,Remains Undefeated

By ELANI COHEN

“Overall it was a very tough game. We did not have a strong first half, but we managed to improve and turned it around,” Masias said. “Although it wasn’t our greatest game, Both the Cornell women’s and men’s polo teams toppled we showed instances of the level we are capable of playing.”

Skidmore College this past weekend at home. The women’s Pirasteh tallied nine goals, followed by Masias with squad crushed the Thoroughbreds, 28-10, while the men’s eight, Langlois with two and Karabey and Stieg each scoring team had a tighter match, taking a 21-17 win. The teams once. continue to defend their undefeated titles.

Stieg echoed Masias’ sentiments and credited Langois Seniors Hakan Kararbey and Nick and Pirasteh for getting the Red back on Stieg started the match for the Red, along track in the second half. with sophomore Ignacio Masias. Masias “We managed to “Unfortunately, we got off to a slow had a strong showing, scoring four goals improve and turned it start in the first half of the game. None of during the first, and the Red ended the around.” the starters were playing particularly well, chukker with a 5-4 advantage. The second so at half time, Alex Langlois and Kamran chukker began with a lot of back-and- Ignacio Masias Pirasteh were subbed in,” he said. “They forth play with goals from both teams. played a fantastic second half to come from However, midway into the second, the behind and win the game. Hopefully the Thoroughbreds had a six-goal scoring streak to take the lackluster play this past weekend will be out of our systems chukker, 7-1. The teams went into the second half with an as we head to UVA this Friday, which is always one of our overall score of 11-6 in Skidmore’s favor. The third chukker toughest matchups.” began with the replacement of Karabey and Stieg with The women’s team earned a decisive win against the senior Alex Langlois and freshman Kamran Pirasteh and a Thoroughbreds. Sophomore Emma Eldredge as well as quick three goals. The teams traded off a couple of goals juniors Elena Wicker and Anna Winslow were starters for until the Red scored five unanswered goals and took back its the Red. The match started with a quick three points by the lead. The Red continued its lead throughout the fourth See POLO page 15 chukker. The match ended with a final score of 21-17.

Sun Staff Writer

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Senior leadership | Senior Nick Stieg, who scored a goal in the matchup, is one of five seniors leading the squad.

NBA Rookies to Watch Red Dominates at Princeton Chase This Season and Why ROWING

By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK

Sun Staff Writer

All three Cornell rowing programs took to Lake Carnegie this past weekend to compete in the Princeton Chase, a three-mile race in Princeton, New Jersey.

The men’s lightweight eight and the women’s varsity four boat dominated the competition and finished in first place.

For the lightweight team, the Princeton Chase is valuable in allowing the Red to compare its boat’s speed against the competition, according to senior captain Chris Rogers.

“The Princeton Chase is an unique opportunity for us to get an immediate read on team speed against the rest of the league just eight weeks into our season,” he said.

Using this race as a bench-

mark, the varsity eight boat put up some solid numbers on Lake Carnegie. In the men’s varsity lightweight eights race, the Red put up a time that beat out second place finisher Yale by nearly five seconds. Other Ivy League boats trailed far behind that time, with Harvard finishing in third place and Princeton in fourth. The Tigers finished the

“The individual efforts and strong team dynamic have been super.”

Chris Rogers race over 10 seconds after the Red. Also taking part in the varsity lightweight eights race was the Cornell B boat, which finished third amongst the B boats

and the Cornell C boat that finished second amongst its respective competitors.

Rogers said that he is excited to see such high levels of teamwork so early in the season.

“So far, the individual efforts and strong team dynamic have been super, so it’s awesome to see the team’s results come through in such a big way,” he said.

The women’s freshmen eight earned a third place finish in the novice race and the women’s varsity eight boat came in 12th place overall. The second varsity eight was the sixth second varsity boat to cross the line, while the third varsity eight was the seventh third varsity boat to finish.

Following the varsity eights, the Red had a stellar showing in the women’s varsity four race.

This is the first part of a twopart series. Part Two will appear in next Wednesday’s paper.

Who are the most exciting and interesting rookies to watch this season?

The 2014-2015 NBA season started last night and there is already a lot of evidence that many rookies are on their way to illustrious careers in professional basketball. Only one player can win the Rookie of the Year award each year, but that does not mean

Nikita Dubnov

See ROWING page 15

Nik’s Knacks that others are not going to play useful roles on their respective teams and show their potential in the future. The following is the first part of my list of my seven favorite NBA rookies for this season.

7) Marcus Smart, PG, Boston Celtics

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Speed machine | The Red saw great success at the Princeton Chase this past weekend. The women’s four and the men’s lightweight eight both came in first place at the regatta.

frame to body his matchups.

Many have now compared him to Tony Allen on the defensive end of the ball. IPaired with Avery Bradley, Smart may be a part of the best defensive backcourt in the league. As a Knicks fan, I do not exactly like hearing that considering rumors of a Rajon Rondo trade continue to circulate. One of the better pieces that the Knicks can send to Boston would be Iman Shumpert, but the Celtics may be deterred from taking Shump

Smart did not do a great job of showing his talent in the NBA preseason. The rookie from Oklahoma State had trouble scoring efficiently, which was a bit of a concern for people that believed in him. Nonetheless, the 20-year-old player showed off his ability to do the essential things.

Smart distributed the ball well and played hounding defense, using all of his 6’4”, 220 pound

since they seem to be stacked with defensive guards.

6) Bruno Caboclo, SF, Toronto Raptors

This guy came out of nowhere on draft night. The Raptors spent their 1st round draft pick on a guy that nobody seemed to know. He was a random 19-yearold from Brazil. However, his 6’9” stature and freakish 7’7” wingspan was enticing when paired with his reported scoring ability. Proponents labeled him the Brazilian Kevin Durant, while critics were quick to point out when Andrea Bargnani was called the Italian Dirk Nowitzki.

This time it is different because at See DUBNOV page 15