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The Building Dashboard, a website showing real-time energy usage, complements sustainability efforts. | Page 3

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The volleyball team swept Columbia for the first time since 2008. | Page 16

Endowment Grows 11.4 Percent

Rate shows improvement over Fiscal Year 2012

By CAROLINE FLAX Sun News Editor

$5.8 billion. However, for the second year in a row, Cornell has seen the second-lowest endowment return in the Ivy League, just edging out Harvard’s 11.3-percent return, according to the Harvard Crimson.

After seeing its endowment returns dip last year, the University announced Monday that it saw an 11.4 percent return in its endowment in Fiscal Year 2013. The results mark a strong comeback for Cornell, which Cornell’s endowment has posted a 0.14 percent return grown to $5.7 billion, up on its endowment in Fiscal from $5.2 billion. Year 2012. Before that, the University had seen doubledigit growth in fiscal years A.J. Edward, chief investment 2010 and 2011. With this year’s growth, officer, said in a University press Cornell’s endowment has grown release that the “robust” return to $5.7 billion, up from $5.2 bil- on Cornell’s endowment is prilion last year, according to a marily due to positive returns in University press releas. This year’s domestic and international pubresults also put Cornell within lic equity markets, as well as prisight of its pre-recession high of vate partnerships.

IVY LEAGUE ENDOWMENT RETURNS 2013

“This year, we took advantage of some select opportunities in Europe and the United States, as well as across emerging markets and our natural resources portfolio,” Edwards said in the press release. The University of Pennsylvania leads the Ivy League in endowment returns with 14.4 percent, according to the Daily Pennsylvanian. In second place, Brown University saw an endowment return of 12.6 percent, according to a Brown University press release. Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton and Columbia reported returns of 12.5, 12.1, 11.7 and 11.5 percent respectively. Edwards said the growth in Cornell’s returns will keep the endowment — also known as the University’s long term investments — resilient. “The [long term investment] is positioned both to weather the continued uncertain economic outlook and to benefit from opportunities that may arise from time to time,” Edwards said in the press release. “We remain focused on maintaining a generally healthy liquidity position within the [long term investment], allowing it to comfortably meet the projected needs of the University, while at the same time taking advantage of our long-term investment horizon.”

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City of Ithaca Reps Debate Budget By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Senior Writer

The Common Council deliberated various ways of raising revenue for the City of Ithaca at a meeting Tuesday. While city officials say they recognized the need to increase revenue, they faced tough choices regarding what programs and governmentfunded positions should be included or cut from the current budget to meet the government tax cap. Some Common Council members, including Mayor Svante Myrick ’09, pro-

posed that the city capitalize on Ithaca’s natural beauty. Myrick suggested to charge non-

residents a small fee to enter parks and enforce this by asking park goers simple questions

like, “Do you live in Ithaca?” He said this See REVENUE page 5

ALICE PHAM / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Brainstorming | Common council members shared ideas on how the city might raise revenue Tuesday.

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Students from the LGBTQ community expressed outrage after members of the Big Red Bears Club allegedly said the mascot must act like a “heterosexual male.”

‘Big Red Bear’ Role Outrages Students By JINJOO LEE Sun News Editor

Last month, Samuel Naimi ’16 attended tryouts for the Big Red Bears Club, which recruits volunteers to be the Big Red Bear, Cornell’s mascot. But what club members said at the tryouts soon made Naimi, who prefers to go by the pronoun “they,” realize they might not fit the role. The Big Red Bear must always act like a “heterosexual man” and “approach only women,” one of the members of the Big Red Bear Club said at the meeting, according to Naimi. The members were explaining what the mascots can and cannot do in costume, which included restrictions such as not holding babies, according to Naimi. The comment that the mascot must act like a “heterosexual man” made them feel “extremely uncomfortable,” Naimi said. “They’re supposed to be representing the diverse Cornell community.” The Big Red Bears Club neither denied nor confirmed that the incident occurred. The club released a statement saying it “by no means sets a standard for gender or mannerisms of the bear.” At the same time, it cannot assure that the comments did not take place. “We cannot control the words of all our members in their individual discussions of the bear,” the statement read. The club will ensure that similar comments will not be made in the future, according to the statement. “We take this type of accusation very seriously and will be looking into the incident to ensure that if it did indeed occur, a similar one will not happen in the future,” the statement said. Naimi, however, said the situation escalated as the meetings progressed. After the comment about the bear’s heterosexual role was made, Naimi said they told a friend that they felt uncomSee BEAR page 5

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One family was forced to move a birthday party indoors after the strong smell overwhelmed the festivity, Irwindale City Attorney Fred Galante told the Los Angeles Times. Huy Fong initially cooperated with the city, but talks broke down last week after company representatives denied there was an odor problem, saying their employees worked in similar olfactory settings without complaint, Galante said. The city, which is about 20 miles east of downtown Los Angeles, is seeking temporary closure of the factory until Huy Fong submits a plan to minimize the smell. “If they fix it and the odor problems stop, we don’t need this order; but so far the odor complaints continue,” Galante said. An after-hours call to the company was not immediately returned. Huy Fong’s green-capped chili bottles are hugely popular and are a fixture at restaurants around the world. The first Sriracha Festival held in downtown Los Angeles over the weekend drew hundreds of fans. The condiment’s creator, David Tran, was there sporting a T-shirt that said “I put Sriracha on my Sriracha.” The company had operated out of two buildings in nearby Rosemead since the late 1980s until it opened large factory in Irwindale this year. All of the chili needed for producing the year’s sauce is processed and stored between September and December.

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New Website,‘Building Dashboard’ Will Monitor Campus Sustainability

Quad, according to the press release. The Dashboard was also instrumental in the Campus Conservation Nationals competition early this year, in Building Dashboard, a Cornell website that provides which residence halls competed to reduce electricity and “real-time utility data” on campus buildings, has proven water consumption, according to Bakker. The website’s visuals “added an element of healthy to be an effective tool for sustainability-directed efforts, competition,” said Bakker, who participated in the according to students. The website — which includes data on electricity, competition while living in the Ecology House. “We heating and cooling for 50 campus buildings — was witnessed a 12.7-percent reduction in energy use for our building after only a few weeks.” created by Lanny Joyce, director of The site’s interactive components Energy Management, and Erin Moore, “I’m not sure that it will are viewed as “motivational” and as outreach coordinator for Energy Management, according to a University reach students outside “providing transparency” in the area of sustainability, according to Breann press release. Next fiscal year, the of an academic Liebermann ’14, president of Take University aims to track the energy setting.” Back the Tap. usage of 97 campus buidings, according On its homepage, the Building to the press release. Alicia Leitgeb Dashboard also displays its live Twitter The site features bar charts depicting feed, as well as a live discussion board the consumption and reduction efforts of individual residence halls and academic facilities at asking visitors to share how they reduce their carbon the Univerisity. It also displays badge and trophy icons footprints. Responses feature reports of efforts on behalf next to the reduction percentages to rank the efforts of of the Cornell community to “walk or ride the bus to class,” as well as “urg[ing] tenants to use composting the buildings. “Being able to see energy-use data displayed in color- bins.” As of Tuesday, the Twitter account had 1,502 followful bar graphs with different conversion features [for dollars and CO2] makes the numbers feel more real,” ers. Its tweets promote participation in Cornell and said Alexa Bakker ’15, outreach coordinator for Take Ithaca community events such as “Campus Back the Tap. “[Building Dashboard] is a really effective Sustainability Day,” “GreenStar Community Projects” tool for illustrating that our actions can have a signifi- and a forum “about coordinated deer management within Tompkins County.” cant effect on campus energy use.” But spreading information to the entire campus The Dashboard has been used in sustainability competitions throughout campus such as “Think Big, Live community is still a challenge, according to Alicia Green,” an energy and waste reduction campaign that Leitgeb ’14, coordinator for Sustainability Hub. Some students have discussed the Dashboard in some will take place among the buildings in the Engineering By EMMA QUIGLEY

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Reduce, reuse, recycle | Linna Li ’15 talks to students on Ho Plaza Tuesday for Campus Sustainability Day.

of their Cornell classes, according to Leitgeb, who learned about the site in one of her courses. “I’m not sure that it will reach students outside of an academic setting,” Leitgeb said. “While [Building Dashboard] might catch the attention of students in environmental science, the average history major probably wouldn’t give it a second thought.” Emma Quigley can be reached at equigley@cornellsun.com.

Ithaca Org.Houses, Protects Exiled Writers Ithaca City of Asylum receives $10,000 grant from Park Foundation By ERIC OLBERMANN Sun Contributor

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Leah Noecker ’15 talks to a representative recruiting at the Hotel School’s Career Day Tuesday in the Beck Center.

Police Report Who Are You?

Unknown individuals in Ives Hall were reported last Wednesday for criminally impersonating various people on a survey, according to the Cornell University Police Department. Unauthorized Poster

An officer was dispatched to address an unauthorized banner postered between Sage Hall and Day Hall Saturday morning, according to the CUPD. Drinking Up

Six students were referred to the Judicial Adminstrator for unlawful possession of alcohol, according to CUPD. –– Compiled by Tyler Alicea

and bakeries. ... I can take my dog for a walk in the beautiful parks and, of course, the gorges,” she said. “Ithaca has that enchanting college town feel without the pomposity and arrogance.” Samarasinghe’s life in America did not start in Ithaca, however. She found it very difficult to find work in the U.S., and though she was able to find fellowships at Harvard University and

Sonali Samarasinghe’s husband, Lasantha Wickramatunga, who was a vocal opponent of the Sri Lankan government, was shot on his way to work in 2009. Samarasinghe, a journalist, was receiving death threats and feared for her life. She fled the country the year her husband was shot. Three years later, she found herself in I t h a c a , “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a where she has been great idea.’ ... If there were hosted by ever a great city for an exiled the Ithaca City of writer, it would be Ithaca.” Asylum, an Bridget Meeds organization that protects writers whose lives, the City University of writings, cultures or lan- New York, those were only guages are in danger in temporary positions. their home countries. According to Samarasinghe, a Sri Samarasinghe, she was Lankan journalist who is contacted by ICOA just the fifth writer hosted by when she needed help the Ithaca City of Asylum, is most. currently a Scholar in “When the ICOA Residence at Ithaca offered me this position, I College. She was the edi- had already been out of tor-in-chief of the Sri work for nearly a year, livLankan newspaper The ing in a basement and in Morning Leader, but left dire straights,” she said. after being threatened by Since coming to Ithaca the government. in 2012, Samarasinghe has Samarasinghe said she worked at Ithaca College, found Ithaca to be which she says has been “a “exquisite and charming.” wonderful opportunity.” “I love the restaurants Adjusting to American

culture was difficult, she said. But she considers ICOA to be her “family in Ithaca.” “Because of ICOA and its very sensitive and individualized approach to their writers, we have been able to easily integrate and make new friends and start life afresh,” Samarasinghe said. “It is really one of the hardest things to do –– to navigate a new culture, a different way of doing things –– even little things like a left hand drive car and driving on the right side of the road or having to ditch the metric system.” ICOA, which is part of the Center for Transformative Action — an educational non-profit organization affiliated with Cornell — is a nonprofit that receives funding from various sources, including The Park Foundation. Earlier this month, the organization announced it would be receiving a $10,000 grant from the Park Foundation. “The Park Foundation gave us our very first seed grant,” said Bridget Meeds, chair of the ICOA board and a senior individual giving associate at the University. “They were our first supporter and our most loyal supporter.” Meeds founded the organization in 2001 with

Prof. Anne-Emmanuelle Berger, french literature. Meeds said she got the idea when she saw a USA Today article about a city of asylum being started in Las Vegas. “I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a great idea,’” she said. “If there were ever a great city for an exiled writer, it would be Ithaca.” Writers are recommended to ICOA by the International City of Refuge Network, which vets them to make sure they are deserving of asylum, according to Samarasinghe. Once a writer is selected and comes to Ithaca, ICOA serves as a support group for their professional and personal lives, according to its website. “Ithaca City of Asylum provides housing assistance and provides friendly faces to help with starting over,” Meeds said. “We help them make professional connections in the Ithaca community and we’ve been known to even move furniture.” Meeds said Samarasinghe’s term will be expiring this year, and ICOA is currently searching for a new writer to come in the spring. Eric Olbermann can be reached at edo26@cornell.edu.

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Univ.Endowment Returns Second Lowest of Ivy League ENDOWMENT

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According to the University press release, Cornell’s endowment has had a return of 10.2 percent annualized over three years and 8.2 percent over 10 years. These returns outpace the Consumer Price Index, which has grown at 2.4 percent annually over the past 10 years. Caroline Flax can be reached at cflax@cornellsun.com.

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Bears’Alleged Comments Were ‘Offensive,’ Students Say BEARS

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fortable and that they wanted to leave. However, it was not until a member of the Big Red Bears Club made another intolerant statement that Naimi said they were promted to leave. “Only during Filthy/Gorgeous is the bear not a straight male,” one of the members said, eliciting laughter from the audience, according to Naimi. Naimi said they felt “marginalized, not being allowed to represent [their] identity.” The comment trivialized identities of the LGBTQ community, Naimi said. “It’s as if our identities are not serious, as if our identities are jokes and not part of the norm,” Naimi said. Naimi, a facilitator at CU Gay-Straight Alliance, discussed the incident at one a the GSA meetings following the event.

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could be way to generate “honor system revenue,” even if that revenue is only “six or nine dollars a year.” Alderperson Chris Proux (D5th Ward) recommended leasing concession stands to local businesses so the City can profit from businesses without putting forward any of its own capital. Such businesses would include those that rent kayaks, canoes and other items that could enhance visitors’ park experiences. Ithaca currently does not generate any revenues from park operations, according to Allen Green, former Ithaca Youth Bureau director. While Green acknowledged that parks could be a source of revenue, he added that it could be difficult to create a position to administer and enforce such measures. While some Common Council members agreed with the idea of taking advantage of Ithaca’s wellknown natural beauty, others such as Alderperson Jennifer Dotson (G1st Ward) were opposed to the idea. “I think it’s a tremendous asset to our city that our parks are free, open and accessible to everyone. It adds to the vibrancy, the diversity and the accessibility of our community on all different levels … I don’t think our parks is an element of our structure that we should be looking for to break even. It’s a service that we provide to our community,” Dotson said. The second major source of revenue that Common Council members reviewed at Tuesday night’s meeting was parking. Frank Nagy, who the City of Ithaca hired in July to help increase the efficiency of parking systems, said that some parking garages have been missing out on almost 65 percent of their earnings. Alexa Davis can be reached at adavis@cornellsun.com.

“I think everyone [at the GSA meeting] expressed some form of anger or expressed that they were upset,” Naimi said. Bailey Dineen ’15, who also prefers to go by the pronoun ‘they,’ said hearing about the incident left them feeling infuriated. Dineen is the vice president of HAVEN: The LGBTQ Student Union and a Sun columnist. “That just shows how Filthy/Gorgeous is taken by some students. That just says that Filthy/Gorgeous is the only place where it’s ok to be a fag,” Dineen said. “The bear putting on an act is offensive to me.” Dineen also said the incident

was “closely linked to” the “Cinco de Octubre” incident in which Cornell Athletics ran a Cinco de Mayo-themed marketing campaign that was condemned by students and administrators for being culturally insensitive. “That was also about not about normalizing racism. Here, we’re trying not to normalize heterosexism,” Dineen said. Dineen reflected on recent University survey results, which showed that 73 percent of selfidentified queer students felt — occasionally to very often — insulted or threatened by other students based on their social identity.

Dineen said not enough people understand what “uncomfortable” means for queer-identifying students. Being uncomfortable “means not acknowledging the presence of minority people or people with different ways of acting and having heteronormativity be so forceful and apparent and ubiquitous that we’re rendered invisible,” Dineen said. “That’s what those statistics felt to me.” The discomfort Naimi felt at The Big Red Bears meeting was not an experience that was out of the ordinary, Naimi said. “At Greek parties, I hear slurs about my identity, and I get called

names all the time. I’ve come home so many times feeling uncomfortable, feeling so tired.” Betrearon Tezera ’14, facilitator of Direct Action to Stop Heterosexism, said LGBTQidentifying students feel the burden of constantly having to think about what spaces on campus are safe. “Constantly finding out, ‘Okay, am I going to be safe? am I going to be understood? …’ It’s incredibly taxing to think that way everyday, all the time.” Jinjooe Lee can be reached at jinjoolee@cornellsun.com.

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Respecting,learning from and embracing difference To the Editor: This is an open letter to the Cornell community, elucidating the methods of silencing experienced by members of this “Community,” against those expressing “non-normative” genders and sexualities. We encourage increased dialogue and awareness of all instances of bias and demand members of this campus hold each other accountable for their actions and respect, learn from and embrace difference. At the recent audition for the Big Red Bears, a member of the LGBTQQIAP+ community was explicitly told that in order to represent the Cornell community as Touchdown the Bear, they (this student prefers not to use gendered pronouns) were expected to adopt the role of the stereotypically masculine, heterosexual male. This expectation is indicative of trends in the greater campus climate that normalize the vast variety of identities and bodies that inhabit our environment. To expect a queer person to abandon their identity to align with normative expectations marginalizes our community by insinuating that our experiences are not worthy of representation. The experience of being forgotten is not unfamiliar for those within the LGBTQQIAP+ community. On a daily basis we are affected by and implicated in systems of structural inequalities including heterosexism (a system in favor of opposite-sex relationships that commits bias toward those who deviate from this expectation), misogyny, heteronormativity (norms that dictate linear masculine/feminine gender expressions with male/female bodies), cisnormativity (the assumption that everyone expresses the gender that they were assigned to at birth) and other forms of systemic inequality. We confront and navigate these systems of inequality every day in order to assure our own survival. The Big Red Bears, as an organization, is perpetuating this culture that polices gender expressions, a culture that punishes and threatens those who transgress the frontiers of gender, sex and sexuality by assuring the insurance of the infallible masculine, heterosexual male. Having been alienated ourselves, we stand in solidarity with all students affected by both sensationalized and invisibilized bias. We acknowledge the connection between our experiences and the metaphorical violence afflicted when those marginalized are the ones expected to think critically and respond to these actions. Issues of heterosexism, cis-sexism, etc. are subsequently regarded as solely “queer issues,” rather than issues that demand critical thought by all members on campus. Ultimately, everyone harbors insecurities. Everyone is fighting some kind of unspoken battle. One need not assert a queer identity in order to exercise empathy; we are all familiar with the twinge of rejection, with the bodily interruptions that come with being made to feel out of place, with being misunderstood. To the Big Red Bears, then, we demand that you think critically, that you reflect and consider: Do you represent everyone in the Cornell community? When certain groups are rendered invisible within our community, how can we expect to form a representation of all students on campus? How can we endorse Touchdown the Bear as being emblematic of the Cornell experience, when clearly, only certain bodies and experiences are extended by Touchdown’s embodiment? How can we ensure that all future students will find room within such a narrowly defined “diverse community”? This is not something we expect a solution to now; rather we expect greater visibility, and for people to realize that our experience exists, that our experience is important and that our experience needs to finally be extricated from the shadows of a heteronormative, cissexist and misogynistic campus atmosphere. To the “Cornell community,” we demand acknowledgement of our experiences. We demand that you create space for our identities. This is not an assertion of a dead-end “what about me?” question of representation that plagues mainstream identity politics, but rather a critique of systems of representation as they manifest in our collegiate system. Sam Naimi ’16, facilitator of GSA Aron Tezera ’14, facilitator of DASH Anthony Santa Maria ’14, LGBT Resource Center intern Bailey Dineen ’15, vice president of Haven

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t is strange to feel like there is a need for a column that teaches the intelligent and careful members of Cornell’s student body to better perform an elementary task. Thus, I pondered this piece for weeks. Each time it came to mind again, it was due to some fresh unpleasantness I encountered while navigating campus. But, as is often the case with small slights and busy days, something would distract me from the annoyance and then it would be forgotten and this unwritten. Yesterday, however, fortune favored complaint. I had on my person the tools for writing and I was presented with an offense to pleasantness so stark that motivation was in ready supply. Arriving at Olin Café for an espresso, I reached out and opened the double door on the right. The door fully opened, I stepped forward to pass through it. Moving with speed that would shame a cheetah, a girl barely tall enough to be allowed onto a rollercoaster pushed past me and into the library. There are two appropriate approaches to this situation from her point of view. She can think either: a) This chump has opened the door for himself and I am going to take advantage of his labor, but I will ameliorate the rudeness of my parasitism with a smile and an “excuse me” or b) this chump is exhibiting chivalry which I will presently take advantage of and thank him with a larger smile and a “thank you.” Yet, this underclassman could find within herself the soul required for either possibility. Neither meeting my eye nor uttering a word, she treated me like some deterministic physical process that reliably opens doors. She paid me no more interest than one gives to gravity or friction while walking. One remembers the famous civil rights slogan: “I am a man. ” Shylock’s shouted, “If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?” In a just world, she would have presently encountered a banana peel and fallen on her yoga-panted rear. Sadly, as we all learn when we’re young, the world is not fair. Traveling our campus, one is confronted daily with apparently sane students who have no notion of how to move about the world without inconveniencing others. Ignorant of their poor performance, no sense of shame that might bring from them a verbal excuse or acknowledgment of their awkwardness arises. These silent golems of rudeness prowl about, some with faces lit by phones away from

which they cannot look, and morosely disrupt the clean movements and pleasant atmosphere of the campus. When one sees a problem, one must endeavor to produce a solution. Here is a guide on how to properly move. It would be foolish to presume that our kind readers need such advice. As they have already demonstrated their good sense by enjoying this fine paper, I will not insult them by presuming that they are ignorant of how to walk. Instead, let this be a tool for our readers to give to their less sensible friends. Perhaps the wisdom contained here will percolate through the collective consciousness of Cornell, affecting even the illiterate. Rule 1: Walk on the right. Treat yourself like a finely built automobile driving the highways of America and keep to the right. This applies to sidewalks, hallways and the entrances of buildings.The reason that the buildings on campus bear double doors is so that the door on the right can allow entry while the door on the left allows egress. Defiance of this rule is the reason so many classrooms take an eternity to empty and refill. Rule 2: When stopping to converse with a friend or to check one’s phone, move off of the sidewalk and away from entryways. This elementary bit of good sense is most often defied in those areas of our campus that are the busiest. At lunchtime in Willard Straight, one can view dozens of people struggling to get around groups in conversation at the top of the stairs leading to Okenshields and the Ivy Room. I write for the hungry masses: Get out of the way. Rule 3: When walking in a group down a hallway or sidewalk, share the space with those traveling in the opposite direction or walking faster than you. Do not walk in a horizontal line blocking the path, but rather in a group no wider than two. When walking slowly, move to the far right of the sidewalk or hallway to allow others to pass you. Ladies in absurd shoes, this means you. This is a piece about walking and good manners. This is nothing to be taken seriously. However, an atmosphere of politeness and smooth activity is a good thing to have in a city or on a campus. Daily rudeness and flagrant ignorance of one’s surroundings are enough to give any person or any student body a bad reputation. As it is, Cornell, I want to love you, but you just won’t let me. Ryan O’Hern is a graduate student in the Computer Science department. He may be reached at rohern@gmail.com. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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David Fischer | Fischy Business

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ast week, during the Trustee-Council Annual Meeting, I had the pleasure of attending a small meet-and-greet with a few trustees. The session was organized for “greek leaders” and it was fascinating to chat with a few of the influential Cornellians who shape the future direction of our alma mater. My prior perception of the Board of Trustees was that of a nebulous gathering of celestial, faceless figures in a post-fallout, arctic fortress of solitude. This gathering of contemporary luminaries, I figured, was concerned more with its own machinations than the everyday goings-on Far Above Cayuga’s Waters. Based on my discussions with fellow students over the last two and a half years about the role trustees play in our daily lives, it seems that many share my lack of understanding. However, after spending just an hour with only a fraction of the 64-person Board, I feel like it is safe to say that the trustees care about the state of diversity and inclusion, the Greek system and other salient campus issues. They are not simply shadowy figures, engaged in back-room discussions but rather real, down-to-earth people. If simply exchanging pleasantries with these extra-

Surely, greater collaboration between campus denizens and trustees would only have positive consequences. campus leaders could inspire a change in my perception of the Board, then presumably, a concerted effort on the part of the Board to connect with the campuses in Ithaca, New York City and Qatar would have an even greater effect of understanding on the student body. I encourage the Board to undertake an effort to connect with the students of these three campuses on a far more personal level. Whether this means publishing profiles of several of the trustees a month or engaging in more frequent face-to-face interactions, it could be enormously beneficial for inspiring the kinds of ambitious changes that are necessary for Cornell’s reputation as a world-class University. President Skorton’s oft-quoted and sometimesmaligned pledge to “end pledging as we know it” in the Greek system, the current state of need-blind admission and the admittance of only qualified “legacy” students are all campus policy issues that the Board should help shape. A concerted effort to increase student awareness of the actions and duties of the Board of Trustees would help affect the changes that are necessary for the continuation of Cornell’s culture of excellence. To this end, I believe that there should be a greater deal of transparency surrounding the Board’s dealings. I searched online for minutes or even agendas from their meetings but I was unable to find anything. This should change if the Board wants to connect meaningfully with the student body. Additionally, with increased student investment in these large campus issues, the Board of Trustees can also benefit from increased student involvement in policy issues. Although the position of student trustee is intended to bring a student’s perspective onto the Board, surely greater collaboration between campus denizens and trustees would only have positive consequences. A more inclusive decision making process, along with a humanized decision making force would surely ensure a greater investment in necessary and formative change. The state of higher education in this nation seems to be at a crossroads. With the ephemeral spectre of “education reform” looming over the national discourse, the presence of an active Board of Trustees is critically important to ensure that Cornell remains a leader in education. David Fischer is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Comment of the day “40 years ago a year, Cornell cost a little more than half the average annual household income ($7,000 vs. $12,000). Today it’s more than the average household income ($55,000 vs. $51,000). That’s the threat to need-blind admission. Opinion on the value of diversity doesn’t enter into it. Cornell is popular enough with relatively wealthy families that that it can charge nationally high tuition rates and transfer a significant amount of that money into financial aid. Hopefully that will continue.” jim Re: “Need-Blind Admissions Is Critical to University, Cornell Trustees Say,” News, published Oct. 28, 2013

Sam Ritholtz | Sans Pants

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F**k You, I’m a Feminist

’m sick and tired of getting asked the same question: “You’re a boy, why are you into women’s issues?” Note that I would never be called a feminist because no one would ever think to call a male a feminist. My friends, my family, my past employers have all, at one point or another, asked me this very same question with the same disbelief in my intentions. It’s not that they doubt my integrity (at least I hope not). It’s just that they don’t understand where my interest in the field comes from: Surely, women’s issues must only apply to women. In this day and age, feminism has become a polarizing, stigmatized term that conjures a very radical image of bra burning rebel rousers. I have even heard female friends of mine reject the title because they don’t wish to identify with such an outdated, confrontational movement. Now, I’ve never taken an introduction to feminist, gender, and sexuality studies class here on the Hill, but I firmly disagree with the modern connotations of this word. I don’t think that we live in a post-feminist society, I don’t think the feminist movement is no longer relevant and I don’t think every feminist comes in the same form. To me, on the most basic level, feminism is a strong belief in gender equality and a

commitment to fight against sexism, sexist exploitation and oppression. Personal forays into the work of feminist theorist, bell hooks, have taught me that there is more to the term than that basic definition — that the feminist movement has encompassed issues of race, class and sexuality. And while I do not necessarily want to turn this column into “Sam shares with you all what he learned reading the work of bell hooks,” I do wish to acknowledge the precarious place from which I write, as a

around the world is so pervasive that it is ludicrous to think that we live in a post-feminist society. Women constitute half of the world’s population, yet own only 15 percent of the world’s land and represent 17.7 percent seats in the world’s elected legislative bodies, among other jarring statistics. Yet, study after study shows that these inequalities do not only affect women — gender equality benefits everyone. Recent World Bank studies have shown that the increase in the status of women in a society is directly related to

If one looks at some of the major movements in history — abolition, civil rights, LGBT rights — each one has had an ally group that ... helped in the fight for more rights. white male with definite privilege in our society. Still, theorists like bell hooks acknowledge that there is a role for men in the feminist movement, as allies who are part of the conversation and part of the action. If one looks at some of the major movements in history — abolition, civil rights, LGBT rights — each one had an ally group that may not have been subject to the same oppression, but certainly helped in the fight for more rights. I believe this support is the role men should take in the feminist movement. The oppression of women

increases in GDP, increases in the health of a given population and decreases in the poverty level. Here at Cornell, instances of sexual violence are still far too common and underreported to believe that the fight for gender equality is finished in our own home. When the class of 2014 graduates this year, the women in our class will be making 81 cents to every dollar made by the men in our class. Now I’m not trying to lay on the guilt here, but I am trying to say that the work of the past generations is not

finished. We as a generation, both men and women together, must continue our efforts if we ever hope to see some change. The question is how can we, as males, help? To start, we can get educated on the subject matter in order to understand and identify modern day forms of sexism and oppression. We can join various programs on campus that fight for women’s rights (I’m sure the Women’s Resource Center on campus would be more than willing to point you in the right direction). And we can stop accepting the status quo. On campus this action may entail telling a friend that the girl he is with is too drunk to give consent, that his or her rape joke wasn’t funny or that his or her comment was sexist and offensive. We may not all have to identify as feminists, but we shouldn’t just leave the work and responsibility to those who do. For those who identify as feminists, however, you should shout it with pride. I’m Sam, I’m often one of the only boys in the room, I’m not okay with the state of sexist oppression in the world, and I’m a feminist. Sam Ritholtz is a senior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He may be reached at sritholtz@gmail.com. Sans Pants appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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A History Of Science By SOFIA HU Sun Contributor

WATCH THE VIDEO AT CORNELLSUN . COM Driving up Campus Road in the afternoon, you can see many varsity and club athletes practicing on Alumni Fields. But 40 feet underneath them and half a mile in circumference sits the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source. CHESS is a circular particle accelerator that produces synchrotron radiation in the form of high-intensity, high-energy xrays. These x-ray beams are instrumental for research in a wide variety of fields, including materials science, biology, and physics. The CHESS facility is connected with the Cornell Electron Storage Ring, which stores the beams of light accelerated by the synchrotron. History The Wilson Synchrotron Lab houses both CESR and CHESS. The lab is named after Robert R. Wilson, a late Prof. Emeritus of physics who is known for his work as a group leader in the Manhattan Project and for being the first director of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. In his 20 years at the Laboratory of Nuclear Studies, Wilson’s research contributed to the construction of CESR. CESR was completed in 1979 and was the highest luminosity electron-positron collider in the world during the 1990s, according to the Laboratory for Elementary Particle Physics. It was used to accelerate, store and collide electrons and positrons at speeds near the speed of light, according to Lora Hine director of educational programs at the Wilson Synchrotron Lab. CHESS itself was built in three stages over three decades. Construction began in 1979, the same year CESR was completed, on the CHESS West laboratory. This part of the synchrotron includes three beam lines, or three

different paths that particles can be accelerated along. In 1989, Cornell built CHESS East with funds from the National Institutes of Health. CHESS East added two beam lines and a biohazards containment facility. The final stage began in 1999, when CHESS built the G-line, which added more x-ray stations to the facility. In July 2006, CHESS merged with LEPP to form the Cornell Laboratory for Accelerator-based Sciences and Education. CLASSE develops and provides facilities needed for particle physics research. This summer, Prof. Sol Gruner, atomic and solid state physics, stepped down after serving as the director of CHESS for 17 years. He handed the position to Prof. Joel Brock, applied and engineering physics. Research at CHESS Since their construction, CHESS and CESR have remained state-of-the-art accelerator facilities. According to Gruner, CESR serves as both an experimental facility and a user facility. About a quarter of the reserach time for this facility is exclusively reserved for accelerator physics experiments run by Cornell faculty and students. When CESR is not dedicated to accelerator physics research, it provides the x-ray beams used in CHESS experiments. The x-ray radiation is produced by the synchrotron, and at select places, captured for experimental use. “In other facilities, this radiation would be wasted, but we capture it for user experiments at CHESS,” Hine said. CHESS is an open user facility funded by the National Science Foundation. Researchers from anywhere in the world can submit proposals to use the x-ray beams. Researchers are allowed up to 36 hours to run experiments free of charge, according to Hine. Every year, at least 400 scientists and research students conduct experiments and collect data using these x-rays, according to

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Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source

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Research ring | Completed in 1999, CHESS is a circular particle accelerator located underneath the Alumni Fields. At CHESS, high energy x-ray beams aid research in physics, biology and other fields. Gruner. About 70 percent of the people who use this service come from outside of Cornell. The researchers who come to CHESS often use the x-rays for protein crystallography. Protein crystallography involves shooting x-ray beams at crystallized proteins, according to Hine. Based on how the x-rays diffract when they hit the crystal, a crystallographer can determine the threedimensional structure of an unknown protein. This method is commonly used among biologists. According to Brock, it is especially critical in the development of antiviral drugs, since scientists must first understand the structure of viruses before drugs can be designed to effectively target them. CHESS has a long history with protein crystallography. According to Brock, from 1991 to 1993, CHESS researchers developed the x-ray detectors that are still currently used for this technique. “Detector technology that was first developed here at CHESS has resulted in detectors that have been used to collect over 60 percent of all the x-ray protein structures found in the Protein Data Bank,” Gruner said. “It’s an example of how we develop a tech-

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Controlling CHESS | Prof. Sol Gruner (left), atomic and solid state physics, recently handed his position as Director of the Cornell High Energy Synchrotron Source to Prof. Joel Brock (right), applied and engineering physics.

nology and create a new capability, and it spreads all over the world.” The Macromolecular Diffraction Facility at CHESS, also called MacCHESS, uses crystallography techniques for structural biology research, and remains a large portion of the research conducted at CHESS. According to Brock, NIH funds MacCHESS as a open user facility where scientists can solve structures of biological macromolecules and develop new tools for structural biology research.This NIH grant is separate from that provided by NSF grant, which supports CHESS. In an interdisciplinary fashion, CHESS also supports a variety of other research projects. For example, in the past few years, art historians have used the x-ray beams to scan famous artworks. These xray beams do not damage the original paintings and can determine what, if anything, is underneath the top layer of paint. Material scientists are also frequent users of CHESS facilities. Their experiments include studying the way materials such as jet plane wings degrade over time on an atomic scale in order to better predict structural failures. Researchers have also used CHESS to use supersonic beams of organic material to create efficient semiconductors. New Technology CHESS is not only dedicated to providing quality x-ray beams to researchers but also devoted to developing new technologies and techniques. “Our particular niche is developing new methods and solving hard problems. The technology we develop is very successfully transferred to other laboratories all around the world, implemented on large scales,” Brock said. “There’s a huge list of what CHESS has developed: x-ray optics, CCD detectors and better accelerators.” Numerous researchers at CHESS have been recognized for their innovative work. In 2003, Prof. Roderick MacKinnon, mol-

ecular neurobiology and biophysics, Rockefeller University, won a Nobel Prize in chemistry for his research on potassium channels. In 2009, Prof Ada Yonath, structural biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, was also awarded a Nobel Prize in chemistry for her work on the structure of ribosomes. According to Gruner, large parts of both of their research were conducted using CHESS facilities. For the past fifteen years, CHESS has also been developing an Energy Recovery Linear Accelerator that would create more powerful x-ray beams. NSF has funded Cornell with $50 million over ten years to work on prototyping this technology, according to Gruner, the former principal investigator of this project. “Before we started the project, we had a list of what we wanted to achieve and a list of what we might achieve if we were optimistic,” Brock said. “We now have a list of what we did achieve, and in all cases it surpasses the ‘optimistic’ list. It is a phenomenal success.” Future of CHESS The CHESS lab is currently in the middle of upgrading its facilities. According to Brock, the storage ring is being improved and outfitted with new x-ray equipment. The upgrades will increase the spectral brightness and flux of the x-ray beams, providing CHESS with some of the best, most powerful x-ray light in the world. “It’s going to enable our staff to push the frontier back again,” Brock said. “The most remarkable thing about this facility is the people who work here. They like nothing better than the chance to do something new and remarkable. Nothing makes them happier than telling them to ask ‘what could you do better?’” Sofia Hu can be reached at shh83@cornell.edu.

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Paige Kulling ’14 Studies DNA Repair Mechanisms YIDAN XU Sun Staff Writer

WATCH THE VIDEO AT CORNELLSUN . COM It can be a Herculean task for researchers to make successful and convincing arguments that contradict the mainstream beliefs in their fields. But Paige Kulling ’14 may be one to take up the challenge. For the past 17 months, Kulling has worked in the lab of Prof. Nelson Hairston, ecology and evolutionary biology, to examine the relationship between the expression of a photolyase gene and the historical ultraviolet radiation exposure in Daphnia, a family of freshwater zooplankton. Photolyase genes regulate photolyase enzymes, which repair DNA that has been damaged by exposure to ultraviolet radiation. According to Kulling, previous research showed that ultraviolet radiation affects the physiology of living organisms. In order to survive, organisms under radiation adapt strategies to cope with such conditions. The idea that organisms that receive high radiation doses have high capacities of repairing the resulting DNA damage fits conventional wisdom, she said. Beyond the recognition of the repair capacity, however, knowledge of the repair mechanism of Daphnia organisms is limited, Kulling said. Kulling investigated the question of whether the repairs are related to the expression of a photolyase gene or if they are due to something else.

To study possible DNA repair mechanisms, Kulling chose Daphnia, also known as the water flea, because it has a short life cycle. A short life cycle allows Kulling to replicate experiments within a relatively short period of time. In Kulling’s experiment, she exposed Daphnia to ultraviolet lamps which allowed her to control the amount of radiation the Daphnia receive. She then compared photolyase gene expression between Daphnia in high ultraviolet environments and those in low ultraviolet environments. Kulling said she was then able to determine the correlation between gene expression and the amount of repair occurring in the organisms. According to Kulling, preliminary results show that Daphnia express the photolyase gene in relatively the same amounts regardless of high or low ultraviolet exposure. “When I first did this experiment I was really shocked that there were no evident differences,” Kulling said. “Previous research has shown that Daphnia from high ultraviolet ponds repair more efficiently than Daphnia from low ultraviolet ponds. With this knowledge, you will think that the Daphnia from high ultraviolet radiation will use their repair mechanism a lot more than the Daphnia from the low.” Kulling presented her surprising findings at Evolution 2013, an academic conference on evolution held in Snowbird, Utah.

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Radiation research | Paige Kulling ’14 researches the ways in which Daphnia, a family of freshwater zooplankton also called water fleas, repair DNA that has been damaged by exposure to ultraviolet radiation.

Yidan Xu can be reached at yxu@cornellsun.com.

Prof. Adam Siepel ’94 Tracks Evolutionary Changes in Human Genome By YVONNE HUANG Sun Staff Writer

Although large projects such as the human genome project and the Encyclopedia of DNA Elements, also known as ENCODE, have sequenced and catalogued the portions of the human genome that have a known function, only the protein coding regions of the genome have been extensively studied, which make up two percent of the entire genome. Prof. Adam Siepel ’94, biological statistics and computational biology, explores evolution through genetics by using data compiled from different sources to

track the evolutionary changes in both the regulatory sequences and the protein-coding sequences of the genome. Regulatory elements include transcription factors, proteins that bind to specific sequences of DNA and the binding sites themselves. Siepel said he focuses on transcription factor binding sites because they can be easily measured. “Transcription factors are proteins that stick to the DNA, and the ones we are particularly interested in usually play a role in initiating transcription by recruiting DNA polymerase,” said Ilan Gronau, a post-doctoral researcher in Siepel’s lab. “It is a key regulatory step in turning genes on and off and in determining the levels

they are expressed.” DNA polymerases are enzymes used in DNA replication. Using ENCODE, Siepel was able to compile information about transcription factors and the evolution of regulatory sequences. “We’re interested in characterizing evolutionary patterns in very, very short sequences – eight to 10 base pairs in length,” Siepel said. Because these sequences are so short, however, there are few mutations present across broad samples of different human genomes. As a result, characterizing meaningful correlations can be difficult. “Evolution doesn’t occur in a homogeneous way. You have to accommodate for this variability

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Exploring evolution | Prof. Adam Siepel ’94, biological statistics and computational biology, uses genetic databases to uncover the evolution of transcription factors in the human genome.

across the data,” Siepel said. According to Siepel, since the collection and analyses of genomes can be a lengthy process, data was pooled from different sites, such as the Human Genome project and ENCODE. Although sequencing technology has improved greatly, however, there are still reading errors and other sources of error that happen often. Therefore, in order to have a robust conclusion, there needed to be a method to account for many potential errors. “At some point we realized the methods that we needed didn’t exist, so we developed new methods to analyze the data sets in the way we wanted,” Siepel said. With this new program, Siepel and Gronau reconstructed part of the genetic history of humans using the available data and compared it to the experimental data to prove that this new method could draw reasonable conclusions on evolutionary changes in the genome. “One of the important things is that conservation is important in evolution,” said Leonardo Arbiza, a post doctoral researcher in Siepel’s lab. According to Arbiza, if a particular sequence is found to be conserved throughout genetic history, it can be assumed that this sequence is important. Otherwise, evolution would have phased it out through survival of the fittest mechanisms, Arbiza said. If a sequence is important, there also tends to be fewer mutations in conserved binding sites because mutations in these regions of the

genome could potentially decrease overall fitness of an organism. Sequences that are conserved throughout the human genome can point to key regulatory sites where fitness depends on conservation of the encoded gene. On the other hand, a conserved mutation can then point to a favored or adaptable change in fitness, according to Arbiza. Siepel’s research not only sheds light on the human genome, but can also be applied towards the research of other genetically similar species. According to Siepel, the human genome produces 99 percent of the same proteins as chimpanzees. Siepel said that gene regulation and expression plays a huge role in differentiation on the species level. “Particularly, the morphological differences between species happen because of gene expression levels,” Siepel said. Although a lot of research has been done toward full understanding of the human genome, there is still a long way to go, especially in the non-coding part of the genome. According to Arbiza, since important areas of the genome are conserved, portions of DNA that exist but do not clearly code for anything may still be important. “In the non-coding part of the genome, there are a lot of things that we don’t understand. The idea of ‘junk DNA’ is outdated,” Arbiza said. Yvonne Huang can be reached at yhuang@cornellsun.com.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT BY CHRISTINA ZHANG Sun Staff Writer

Christina Zhang ’15 has been a resident of Risley Hall since Aug. 2012.

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his fall, Risley Hall celebrates its hundredth birthday. Opened in 1913 as a women’s dormitory, Risley is a co-ed program house dedicated to the creative and performing arts that houses 192 undergraduates. In the last few decades, Risley has evolved into a center for the campus arts scene, attracting students and artists from within and beyond the Ithaca community. Located just beyond the Thurston Avenue Bridge, the red brick “Castle on the Hill” is the oldest building on North Campus. It houses a student-run black box theater; a dining hall often termed Cornell Dining’s best-kept secret; workshops for art, ceramics, jewelery, woodworking, sewing, and other crafts, a coffee shop; a small library; a dance studio and many other facilities. Given the abundance of facilities, it might seem surprising that Risley was not originally built for the arts. In 1911, the American philanthropist Olivia Sage gave $300,000 to Cornell for the construction of a second women’s dormitory (after Sage Hall, which now houses the Johnson Graduate School of Management). Sage requested that the building be named for her mother-in-law, Prudence Risley. The architect, William Miller, had earlier designed the A.D. White House, Barnes Hall, McGraw Tower and a number of fraternities, among other buildings on and off campus. Risley was one of his later projects, designed in the Tudor Gothic style. Its floor plan is unique: throughout Risley’s four residential floors and two castle towers, no two rooms are identical in shape and size. Some feature window seats, defunct fireplaces and balconies. Before Risley became co-ed, some rooms had adjacent maids’ rooms; the largest of these have since been converted to full rooms, while others have been boarded up. The dining hall was designed at the request of Andrew Dickson White, modeled directly after the Christ Church’s dining hall at Oxford and featuring stained glass windows. Prudence Risley Hall was completed within two years and opened at the start of the 1913 school year. In addition to the dining room, it boasted a ballroom, a two-story library, lounges and kitchens and unusually lavPHOTOS BY SIMON LI / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

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The Castle On the Hill 100 Years Of Risley Hall

ish public spaces decorated by art pieces donated by A. D. White himself. In 1970, Judith Goodman ’71 and Gail Hassan ’71 developed plans for a living unit to house students interested in the arts. Risley was chosen because many of its existing facilities were easily convertible to art studios or music practice rooms. With the help of then-Associate Dean of students, Ruth Darling, Risley became an arts-themed residential college, the first of Cornell’s program houses. By March, it was accepting applications. The project was overwhelmingly well-received across campus and saw over a thousand applications in its first year, each of which was carefully reviewed by a committee of faculty members and the students who led the process. Goodman and Hassan hoped to revolutionize the traditional college living experience and build a community of dedicated and diverse individuals from all colleges and years. Today, applications to become a Risley member or the artist-in-resident are open for evaluation by all current residents, continuing a tradition of self-governance and community spirit. One of Risley’s most notable features is its system of government. Risley’s Kommittee is one of the most active hall governments on campus, and it meets every Sunday to vote on business items such as budget allocation, use of facilities, house programming and so on. Officership is partially appointed and partially elected, but meetings are open to all Risley members. The Risley Charter is available to the public for reference. Despite many amendments to it over the years, the system has changed surprisingly little as a whole, embracing both an earnest drive for creative innovation and a quirky legacy. Historically, Risley has always occupied a progressive space at Cornell, and it is proud of its series of firsts: when Risley became Cornell’s first program house in 1970, it also became its first co-ed dormitory. In 1975, it became the first to experiment with co-ed bathrooms, which have been the arrangement ever since. The only exceptions are the two single-sex hallways, nicknamed “Monks” and “Virgins.” The castle is also famous for Risley Theater, the only fully independent theater on campus. Historically, the space was a ballroom until 1974; Cornell’s physical education depart-

ment held dance classes and formal dances were also held for holidays and special occasions. In the Spring of 1974, Paul Hertzberg ’77 and Timothy Holcumb ’77 envisioned its transformation into a modern black box theater. The project was taken up enthusiastically by Risleyites, who gathered supplies over the summer and constructed the 88-seat theater within a mere 4 weeks. The theater opened in late November with a production of Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple. Today, the theater remains completely student-run, and is governed by “T-Sub,” the Risley theater sub-committee. It hosts a diverse variety of shows — including musical theater, classical plays, improv comedy — as well as studentpenned plays that are submitted for consideration on a semesterly basis.

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stepped into Risley three years ago was its vibrant colors — murals lined entire hallways from floor to ceiling, many bearing signatures from decades past.

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The first thing I noticed when I stepped into Risley three years ago was its vibrant colors — murals lined entire hallways from floor to ceiling, many bearing signatures from decades past. Since then, I have fallen in love with the Risley community, whose colors are similarly vibrant. Risley is a truly unique space, where I have been welcomed like nowhere else. We preserve and cherish our legends — from that of the ghost of Prudence Risley, who is said to haunt the castle, to the infamous and sometimes scandalous tales of Risleyite mischief from previous generations. We continue to celebrate our history and traditions with yearly programs such as Masquerave, Rocky Horror, Handel’s Messiah and Harry Potter Night, all of which bring Risley closer to the greater Ithaca community. A number of motions passed by Kommittee in recent years have raised some hell across campus, such as the decision to purchase a dance pole in 2004 and the failed attempt to erect a pirate ship playground last spring. On a more serious note, in recent months the building has taken an interest in the upkeep and restoration of its murals, sparking a series of lively debates within the community about how this should be done without compromising their original integrity. Thanks to Kommittee and the efforts of many creative, hard-working individuals who make Risley the home it is for us today, we celebrate its 100th looking not only back but also forward. The Risley Centennial Birthday Bash is scheduled for this November 21-24th, featuring a weekend of festivities. Christina Zhang is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at cmz28@cornell.edu.

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Week of Oct. 28 Released Oct. 24 The most Arcade Fire-y song on all of Reflektor, “Afterlife” proves far less jarring on first listen than the disco-esque title track. With Win Butler’s lowregister vocals and lyrics equating “afterglow” to some unattainable post-love happiness, the song should remind you of The Suburbs and its more cryptic, sappy songs like “Half Light I” and “Suburban War.” But Arcade Fire fans have long accepted that theirs is not a band known for subtlety or lyrical poetry — they’re out for our senses. With LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy as producer, “Afterlife” sashays to driving congo drums, a fat bass line and, in one of the more over-the-top flourishes in an album full of them, not one but at least two baritone saxophones. On “Afterlife,” Arcade Fire may not offer its most inspired songwriting, but it flaunts what a studio and tidy production budget can do in the sweetest possible way.

1. “CALLS,” ROBERT GLASPER FT. JILL SCOTT 2. “APOLLO,” DISCLOSURE 3. “REMURDERED,” MOGWAI 4. “JOAN OF ARC,” ARCADE FIRE 5. “FREAK, GO HOME,” DARKSIDE 6. “THE HUNT,” SYMMETRY

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here is a point in every music lover’s life when things get ugly. Dissonance, atonality and heavy, dirty subject matter assault your ears and your precious illusion that all music is supposed to sound nice and pretty and easy to dance to. It’s how you react to this challenging aesthetic that defines your relationship with music: Stick with the old for the comfort you see as its mission to provide, or sneak toward this abrasive yet alluring New? More than anyone over the past half century, Lou Reed, who passed away Sunday at the too-young age of 71 years, turned us onto this other side of music. Before him stands Schoenberg and Stravinsky, and in his wake, we have Johnny Rotten and Tom Waits. Sometimes I would rather listen to Waits than The Velvet Underground, the immortal rock band Reed fronted with John Cale, Sterling Morrison and Maureen Tucker. Hell, most of the time I’d take “Wouldn’t It Be Nice” or “Get Lucky” over the both of them. But I love Lou Reed most of all for exposing me and so many others to music’s oft-guarded potential as art, and for making that discovery so immediate, delirious and fun. It was mid-2006. My family had lived in Weston, a suburb of Fort Lauderdale, for about a year, with the three-part crescendo of Hurricanes Dennis, Katrina and Wilma still on our minds. Put it on our storm shutters, luck or my privileged naivety, but the storms didn’t bother me too much. In fact, they brought on a sort of rush, an awareness of the world’s capabilities for entropic destruction cushioned by the

sense that this awareness was always on the cusp of my knowing. In some perverse way, bearing first-hand witness to nature’s fiercest work affirmed a long-dormant feeling that the world was unpredictable and strong and violent. It was the perfect time to discover The Velvet Underground. Rolling Stone had recently republished “The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time” in book form, and for all the complaints I charge that list with today (No Pixies or Radiohead in the Top 100? No Guided by Voices at all?), it was a perfect primer for middle school me. Before I flipped to Captain Beefheart’s Trout Mask Replica,

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World what caught my eye was Andy Warhol’s taunting cover art for The Velvet Underground & Nico. “The Velvet Underground ... ‘heroin’ ... hmmm ... this does not look like it should have a banana on it.” And so the art of irony entered my life, where it has stayed. When I biked over to the library to check out this album and burn it on my dad’s computer — six stars, GTA-style — I was riding some waves, let me tell you. All that before I even listened to a song. What can I say about the music? It threw me off, at first, as the delicate xylophone from “Sunday Morning” came in and I thought, shit, this might actually be some kiddie music with a stupid banana on it. But if The Velvet Underground teaches COURTESY OF VICE

you anything, it teaches you patience: just relax, the music will sort itself out and, if it doesn’t, you better sort yourself out, man. Layers of instruments and reverb coat this psychedelic track, lulling you into comfy complacency until — DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA. Are those pianos? Really? I’ve heard of the Wall of Sound but this thing is a freight train. The aggressive opening to “I’m Waiting for the Man” throws you for a loop before Reed’s unflappable voice comes in, as he sings about the “26 dollars in my hand” to buy smack from an “always late” dealer who “wore shoes and a big straw hat.” What a delicious look at the grit of not just drugs but of the New York from Midnight Cowboy. Reed embodied in his fashion, character and art the spirit of Gotham you can’t touch today. Bless Laurie Anderson — Reed’s wife and a respected artist of her own — for sticking with him. His music felt too close for comfort, as if it violated your conceptions of how the medium that gave us Schubert’s “Ave Maria” was supposed to work. It’s lifechanging stuff. “Heroin,” the centerpiece on The Velvet Underground & Nico, slunk in and scratched at my core. Here is a song that lets melody drop in and out, fall out of sync with rhythm and just push ahead into pure chaos. It hits you in the gut with lived-in experience, with the sensations of heroin use that Reed and Cale were gracious enough to convey through music so some suburban kid can hear and feel how the other half lives (I don’t think that was their intention). Reed’s cool “Ha!” after “When the heroin is in my blood” in the last verse always haunted me the most, as I realized that this was not some P.S.A. about the ills of drugs. He let us know he enjoyed what he did, even as it ravaged him with the fury of Cale’s screeching electric viola. To rattle off a few other Reed master-

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pieces: “White Light/White Heat,” which presaged The Stooges and all of punk; “Sister Ray,” a 17-minute opus where organ solos sound like amp feedback and vice versa; “Sweet Jane,” where, out of nowhere, he sexes up the bourgeoisie; “Walk on the Wild Side,” a sparse, spacy ditty that sounds to me like what e.e. cummings would make if he was a rock star; “Satellite of Love,” where he recognizes his voice is so smooth that he pretty much just talks the lyrics, leaving David Bowie to do the belting. Then you have Berlin, a rough, sad rock opera that has long fought for recognition; Metal Machine Music, over an hour of just noise; and Lulu, his loathsome collaboration with Metallica, where you can hardly hear his voice. Lou Reed may not have been at the peak of his career when he passed but I always loved how he still managed to so relentlessly troll the scene. He was pure id, although he sure had one big ego. “It’s maybe the best thing done by anyone, ever. It could create another planetary system. I’m not joking, and I’m not being egotistical,” Reed said in regards to Lulu. What an asshole. But we nearly bought it, now didn’t we? After all, he promised nothing that he did not already deliver before. Zachary Zahos is a junior in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at zzahos@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World appears alternate Wednesdays.

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Cornell to Begin Postseason Races at Heps Championships CROSS COUNTRY Continued from page 16

competitive and fast paced race. For the women, this race will include three Top-30 nationally ranked teams. The Cornell women, ranked No. 24 in the nation, will go up against No. 23 Princeton and No. 11 Dartmouth. Harvard will also once again try to make a push back into the Top-30. On the men’s side, this race will be extremely competitive. The men must contend with the best teams in the Ivy League. This championship meet gives a well rested and refined men’s team the opportunity to show its ability to contend with and beat the best in the league. This women’s team’s intense focus will be crucial in its attempt to win the Heptagonal Championships. The runners are looking forward to the tough competition and the smaller field will work to the Red’s advantage, according to Smith. “This race will have a slightly smaller field size which works to our strengths. Our group is particularly good at racing head to head. Our runners are excited to be going head to head with peers from other Ivy League schools,” he said. “This field size will be a great strength for us. We are confident, healthy and very well prepared going into the Heptagonal Championships.” The Red looks to continue to have high levels of success throughout the championship season. The competition will be stiff, but the Red says it is prepared and determined. “This is a really competitive meet. We are ranked 24th in country, Princeton 23rd, and Dartmouth 11th. This is three teams in [the] Top-25 [and] Harvard was nationally ranked at one point during the year. We feel really good about our capabilities. This is a meet we care a lot about. It has a strong tradition and history,” Smith said. John McGrorty can be reached at jmcgrorty@cornellsun.com.

Queer Nation Calls For Olympic Boycott NEW YORK (AP) — Olympic gold medalists stood on a temporary stage in Times Square talking about training and teamwork when the chants rose up from about 50 feet away. “Homophobia has got to go!” bellowed more than a dozen protesters who unveiled a rainbow banner reading, “Don’t Buy Putin’s Lies.” The U.S. Olympic Committee set up a mini ski slope in the tourist magnet in midtown Manhattan on Tuesday to celebrate 100 days until the Sochi Games. The very public spectacle achieved its goal of attracting the attention of the throngs of passers-by. It also allowed the group Queer Nation New York to call for a U.S. boycott of the Olympics from an adjoining sidewalk. A recently enacted Russian law outlaws “propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations among minors.” That raised fears of whether it could be applied to international athletes and fans — but also broader criticism that the International Olympic Committee should pressure the host country to repeal the law. In Sochi, with IOC President Thomas Bach in attendance, President Vladimir Putin promised Monday that gay athletes and guests at the Winter Games will feel at ease. The IOC has said it received assurances from the Russian government that it will respect the Olympic Charter, which prohibits discrimination of any kind at the games. The USOC’s official stance is that it disagrees with the law but that a boycott is out of the question. The organization is seeking clarity on what will and won’t be regarded as violations of the IOC rule against using the Olympic stage to make political protests or demonstrations. Back on American soil, U.S. athletes must decide what, if anything, to say about the issue — and they’re hearing plenty of questions about it. Skier Bode Miller, never shy, was one of the few athletes willing to take a stand on the subject at the U.S. Olympic media summit last month featuring Sochi hopefuls. He called the law “absolutely embarrassing.” On Tuesday, the brief USOC presentation to open the Times Square event went on uninterrupted throughout the protest, which drew plenty of TV cameras away from the stage. The athletes’ comments still carried crisply over the loudspeakers, but they could clearly hear the chants. “As much as I’d wish that they’d wait til we weren’t speaking, their platform goes away as soon as we’re done,” gold medalist Billy Demong said later. “That’s their opportunity to get out a message that they believe in. There’s part of me that would love to not have to put up with that, and there’s part of me that totally understands it.”

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SWIMMING AND DIVING

Swimmers Take On SUNY Buffalo By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI Sun Contributor

The Cornell men and women’s swimming and diving teams returned from their scrimmage with SUNY Buffalo on Friday, confident in the strong start to their seasons. The Red also used this opportunity to fundraise, successfully raising $1,700 to support Breaststroke 4 Hope, a cause sponsored by Speedo. Both teams competed in several events, including the 200-yard medley relay, 1000-yard freestyle, 200-yard freestyle and 100-yard backstroke. The Red was exceptional throughout, considering that this was the first event of the preseason and there were several new faces competing for the first time in the college scene. Freshman Dylan Sali was particularly impressive, winning his first three collegiate races — the 100 and 200yard backstroke and the 200-yard individual medley — at times of 50.73, 1:52.57 and 1:54.81. All three races were won by impressive margins, especially the 200 yardbackstroke, which was won by a clear two seconds. Other members of the Red made good time as well. Sophomore Dani Sims touched first in the 200-yard backstroke at a time of 2:08.09. Freshman Katie Murphy won her first collegiate race at 57.85 in the 100-yard butterfly and freshman Cari Stankaitis took the gold in the 50-yard freestyle at 24.65. Freshman Currie Murch Elliot completed the freshman triumph, winning the 200-yard individual medley at 2:09.90. Senior captain Kim Jerome also won the 100-yard breaststroke at 1:07.47, three seconds short of her best time and the Cornell record. It was the diving team, however, who truly excelled in the competition, with the men claiming three of the top six positions and the women claiming all top three spots. Junior Thomas Hallowell took first place in the 1meter dive with a final score of 262.05 — his best score to date. Senior Phillip Truong came in second with a score of 244.80 and sophomore Matt McCoy finished sixth with a score of 218.33. Hallowell was pleased with the team’s emphasis on treating the meet as a warmup for what should be an

impressive season. “Overall we performed pretty well,” he said. “A lot of guys were thrown into events that they weren’t used to swimming, but there were a lot of guys who stepped up. We didn’t really prepare for this meet so overall we performed pretty well.” The meet marked Hallowell’s return from surgery, which he underwent in March, making the achievement doubly impressive. “This was my first meet back — I had surgery in March — so it felt really good to win my first,” he said. “I think it was a great result by both the men’s and women’s teams. This was absolutely a warm up. People are just starting to do this dives and it was nice to see some success this early on in the season.” Hallowell was also keen to emphasize the team’s improvement on its capabilities from last season, highlighting the extra dimension that the new recruits have brought to the team. “I think we have one new guy and two new girls, and all three bring something new to the team. At the moment, they’re all learning new dives and making steps. A couple of guys were injured for Buffalo, so the new recruits had to make the step up and they all did really well,” he said. The women’s diving team exceeded even the men, taking all three top spots. Senior Manita HerlitzFerguson blew away the competition with a score of 252.38. Freshmen Lydia Johnson and Meredith Jonker came in second and third with scores of 197.85 and 187.88, respectively. Jerome was also effusive in her praise of the team’s performance, particularly the divers. “I thought the diving performance was amazing. I’m definitely very excited to see what they have for the rest of the season and having that many people in the top is awesome,” she said. “I think the team did a good job with racing, and I think of it as a good base for our training. It was our first meet and everyone handled it pretty well. It’s a good point in our training to move forward.” She remained grounded in her review of her own performance, an event in which she holds the Cornell

Rowers Take First in Women’s Varsity Four ROWING

The Red came in eleventh place in the varsity eight race, crossing the finish line less than and 17 seconds behing the win- a second from a Top-10 finish. Despite not finishing in the ner Yale. The second varsity boat came in just 18 seconds behind Top-10, Eisermann said she was the Red’s varsity boat, giving it a happy with the result against tough competition. fifth place finish. “Although this is a lower Senior Thomas Evangelista said he was happy with the times overall placement than last year and the depth that the team we were closer to the winning time by a half percentage point showed with such results. and finished “Overall, I seventh of only think that two “It was an exciting varsity eights Top-5 finishes which was the out of the 30program first.” same result as some boats in Lily Eisermann last year.” the event speaks O n volumes about Saturday, all the depth and skill of our team,” he said. “I three programs will be back in think that our lightweight 2V action competing in the Cornell deserves some major recognition Fall Regatta, the last competifor beating over half of the varsi- tion of the fall season. The Red ty boats from the other schools will feature many of its lower boats and freshmen boats in in the event.” The women’s rowing pro- order to give them some time on gram had a successful day on the water early in the season. Lake Carnegie. The varsity four The Cornell Fall Regatta will boat managed to topple all 28 also give the teams a chance to other boats and take home a first engage in friendly rivalries withplace finish in the women’s var- in the three programs. “We will be emphasizing a lot sity four race, finishing 11 seconds ahead of second place of small boats to work on technique and as always taking our Princeton. “We were very happy to have eights out there to throw down our varsity 4 win,” senior Lily against our own heavyweight Eisermann said. “The boat had squad and those that the other only practiced together on the schools bring,” Evangelista said. water twice before the race. It was an exciting program first Tucker Maggio-Hucek can be reached at thucek@cornellsun.com. and represents our speed well.” Continued from page 16

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Head first | Senior Manita Herlitz-Ferguson took first place in the diving competition with a score of 252.38.

record. “I thought my race wasn’t bad. I was good, especially considering I had a week of training,” she said. Jerome was generally upbeat about the prospects of the team for the upcoming season. “The freshmen are awesome. Every year we have a new group come in and they have their strengths and their weaknesses,” she said. “The girls this year have filled in the spots that were left last year, and we stand a good chance of taking the Ivy League tournament.” Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at halyousefi@cornellsun.com.

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C.U. Runners Finish Regular Season at Reif Memorial Run By JOHN McGRORTY Sun Staff Writer

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Fast as lightning | Junior Corey Dowe won her race in 17:40.6, the second fastest time the course has been run.

On Friday, the Cornell men’s and women’s cross country teams competed in their last regular season meet: the Reif Memorial Run. Both teams had the opportunity to finish out their regular season on a high note and to continue to develop going into the championship portion of the season. “The Reif meet went really great. I am not surprised how fast they ran, but it was really terrific to see their huge improvements across the board,” assistant coach Artie Smith said. “We ran there the first week of the season verses Army, and people have significantly improved since then. This past weekend, we had people going a full minute faster. This shows how much progress we have made this season.” The Red succeeded despite facing increment weather, according to Smith. “It wasn’t even a very nice day, but people ran very very well,” he said. “We lined up 28 women in the race, our largest we have ever run, which was phenomenal. Furthermore, [junior] Corey Dowe won the race with a

time of 17:40.6, 42 seconds faster then her season opener and the second fastest time we have ever seen run this course.” The Reif Memorial Run gave the Red the opportunity to try out different approaches and to get one last run in as a team prior to the championship season. The Red utilized this run in order to close the regular season out in a positive way and carry the momentum forward. This weekend, the men’s and women’s cross country teams will compete at the Heptagonal Championships at Princeton University. The Heptagonal Championships are considered to be the premier championship meet for the Ivy League. Both teams say they are geared up and ready for the meet. “We feel extremely well prepared going into Princeton,” Smith said. “We feel as well prepared as any groups we have had recently, which is very good. We have had a strong focus all year on one thing — being ready for November.” On both sides, the Heptagonal Championships — commonly known as the Heps — will be an extremely

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V-Ballers Take Down Lions 3-2

Cornell will face Quakers, Tigers away next weekend By JOEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women’s volleyball team is prepared for a tough weekend ahead with games against University of Pennsylvania and Princeton. The Red has had a mixed season so far with a current record of 7-11. However, the team is coming off a strong win against Columbia l a s t week-

end. For the first time since 2008, Cornell earned a season sweep over Columbia when the Red defeated the Lions, 3-2. The match was closely contested throughout with Cornell taking the five-set victory, 26-28, 2523, 25-22, 20-25, 15-9. According to senior outside hitter and libero Sierra Young, the team sees its recent performance as a confidence booster coming into this weekend. “After the Columbia win, our team is definitely more confident,” Young said. “We are more motivated going into this week of practice and the upcoming games.” In particular, freshman outside hitter Sarah Kramer impressed and was

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Star player | Freshman Sarah Kramer was named Ivy League Rookie of the Week after the Red defeated the Lions on Saturday.

rewarded with the Ivy League Rookie of the Week award. Kramer had a storming match, finishing with with 14 kills and just three errors on 30 attempts for a .367 hitting percentage. Junior defensive specialist and libero Natasha Rowland has also had a powerful season so far and will hopefully carry the momentum into this weekend’s matches. “Everyone on the team has had their matches where they’ve shined and played well,” Young said. “However, Natasha [Rowland] has played exceptional defense the entire season.” Senior outside hitter Kelly Marble said Rowland has set some tough goals for herself for the Tigers and Quakers games.

“She’s trying to get more than 33 digs in a match this weekend,” Marble said. Cornell also come into this weekend’s matches having already played both teams, beating Princeton, 3-1, on Oct. 4 and then losing 2-3 to the Lions the next day. Young believes that this will give the Red an edge as the team now knows its oppositions’ strengths. “Both teams make low errors, and will play good defense and keep sending balls back over the net,” Young said. “We have to handle what they send back over and earn our points.” The match against Penn should be a particularly hard fought battle, as the previous encounter was very tight. Despite taking a 2-1 lead, the Red could not hold off a resurging Quakers team. “Having lost to Penn in five that is definitely motivation going into this weekend to win both matches,” Young said. “We know we are evenly matched with both teams.” Cornell supporters cam hope for an easier test against Princeton. In an early season match against the Tigers, the Red had one of its strongest performances of the season, winning 25-16, 22-25, 25-23, 2624. This weekend’s matches will take place at Princeton's Volleyball centre in Princeton, N.J. and the Palestra in Philadelphia, Pa. Joel Cooper can be reached at jcooper@cornellsun.com.

Girl power | The women’s varsity four boat took first place over 28 other boats, finishing 11 seconds ahead of Princeton.

ROWING

Red Women Dominate; Men Struggle at Princeton By TUCKER MAGGIO-HUCEK Sun Staff Writer

In the second competition of their fall season, all three Cornell rowing programs sent boats to compete in the Princeton Chase on Lake Carnegie this weekend. With only three competitions in their fall schedule, there are limited opportunities for the boats to gain experience and compete at a high level. Sunday’s Princeton Chase saw many of the Red’s boats have success while others struggled to find a rhythm. The heavyweight team, although relatively inexperienced compared to other boats in the competition, managed to hold its own and put together decent results. In the varsity heavyweight eight race, the Red’s first boat finished in sixth place, 15 seconds behind race winner Princeton, who edged out Northeastern’s first boat by a fraction of a second. Berkeley finished in third while Boston University’s second and first varsity boats rounded out the top five finishers. Sophomore Ned Benning felt that the varsity boats’ inex-

perience factored into the results. “Given the little amount of time that the boats spent practicing in race lineups and how young the varsity is this year … I think that the varsity had a respectable race against much older experienced lineups that have spent a lot more of the fall practicing in their race lineups,” he said. In the heavyweight four race, the Red’s first boat finished in fifth, edging out Northeastern’s second boat for a Top-5 spot. Despite the improvement, the team was still displeased with the results, according to Benning. “Although we were able to beat teams that we had lost to last spring, I don’t think anyone is satisfied with where we are right now,” he said. The lightweight boats showed their depth with the varsity eight and second varsity eight boats achieving Top-5 finishes in the lightweight eight race. The varsity boat finished in third, just two seconds behind second place Princeton See ROWING page 15