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The Food Recovery Network hosts a free screening of Anthony Bourdain’s documentary, Wasted: The Story of Food Waste. | Page 3

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Cornell Ranked How Do You Like Them Apples?

16th Best in U.S.

By ROCHELLE LI Sun Contributor

From carnival games to face painting, mittens to knitted crop tops and apples to mac and cheese, Apple Fest offered fun and food for everyone there.

Every fall, Apple Harvest Festival, more commonly called Apple Fest, opens in

the downtown Ithaca Commons.

From Friday to Sunday, farmers, restaurants and artisans set up booths showing the local residents what they have to offer. Free carnival games were set up for children to play.

“There’s not many things to do in Ithaca,” Klaudia Kokoska ’20 told The Sun. “[Apple Fest] gets you to the fall spirit.”

For its 36th year, Apple Fest is expected to have around 33,000 people and 120 vendors, according to Summer Keown, special events director for Downtown

Ithaca Alliance, which plans the event.

One of the most popular goods was the cider doughnuts. Even though Apple Fest officially started at 10 a.m., a line started forming in front of the booth for Littletree Orchards, a farm south of Ithaca

Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 hosted a town hall on Friday afternoon, inviting questions from community members from Tompkins and some surrounding counties. Questions mainly focused on domestic issues, including infrastructure, reproductive rights and the economy.

Ryder Kessler, Mitrano’s campaign manager, kicked off the event by energizing the group of about 25 with pointed remarks at incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.), saying that Mitrano’s campaign will not See TOWN HALL page 4

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Apple-y ever after | The 36th annual Apple Harvest Festival brings students and local residents to the downtown Ithaca Commons to enjoy the festive atmosphere, carnival games and delectable apple-themed food.

Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 Makes Appeal to College Students

By MARYAM ZAFAR Sun Staff Writer

Sitting on a bench in the Southside Community Center on Friday evening, Democratic congressional candidate Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 discussed her support of legalizing recreational marijuana, the importance of reducing the burden of student loans and how a “traumatic” childhood incident — in which her father punched a police officer — had influenced her views of law enforcement.

Mitrano — who is running against incumbent Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y.) to represent New York’s 23rd congressional district — said that students should be able to take college loans with zero percent interest rates, something she hopes she can use to gain bipartisan support.

Mitrano said she had met a woman

who regretted urging her daughter to go to college because her daughter was “swamped” with student loan debt.

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Mitrano mobilizes | Tracy Mitrano ’95 holds a town hall in Ithaca on Friday.

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Cornell is the 19th best university in the world and 11th best university in the United States, according to the World University Ranking 2019 by The Times Higher Education. Cornell is also ranked last within the Ivy League by U.S. News, taking the 16th spot on the national list.

The Times Higher Education ranks more than 1250 universities around the globe based on performance indicators reflecting what it believes to be the “core mission” of research-intensive universities: teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.

Cornell received Cornell is an overall score of 85.1 percent in ranked last the Times Higher Education group within the Ivy ranking, released League by on Wednesday. It scored 97.4 perU.S. News, cent in citations, taking the the highest score it received in a catego16th spot ry, and 36.9 percent in industry knowlon the list. edge, the lowest score it received.

U.S. News, another famous national publisher that compiles rankings on various institutions that released its rankings on Sept. 10, scored Cornell 84 out of 100, tying it with Rice University and placing it one spot behind Brown University.

According to U.S. News’ website, its national ranking focuses on academic quality, taking into account factors such as first-year student retention rate, graduation rate and strength of the faculty.

Cornell also earned 11th place — one spot behind last year’s ranking of 10th place — in the 2019 college rankings by Wall Street Journal, which was conducted in partnership with the Times Higher Education Group. The ranking, according to the group, collected “voices of about 200,000 current college students” to emphasize “how well a college will prepare students for life after graduation.”

Besides general school rankings, Cornell’s individual subjects and programs were also ranked by various publishers including the U.S. News and THE. U.S. News ranked Cornell 10th in the undergraduate business program, 9th in engineering programs and 5th in biological/agricultural programs. Times Higher Education group rated Cornell as having the world’s 14th best life sciences subjects, 16th best social sciences subjects, 20th engineering and technology programs and 25th arts and humanities subjects.

Regarding specific program ratings, Good Food Institutes placed Cornell’s plant-based meat research on the top of its ranking list of global universities for showcasing “the greatest

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Goldfischer said, noting that he did add illustrations and some comedic relief, like the ‘celebrity stoners’ section, which includes examples of celebrities who have suffered from kidDr. Evan Goldfischer M.D. ’92 spends a lot of time in his ney stones like William Shatner and Roger Moore.

Poughkeepsie operating room with a telescope in one hand “I would say it’s written on an 11th grade level, you know and a laser in the other. you want to make it accessible to everybody.” Goldfischer Over the course of his 21 year career, said. however, Goldfischer has expanded his work Goldfischer’s writing experience was beyond the operating room. In addition to grounded in his undergraduate career as a advancing the interests of independent urolohistory major at Tufts University, as well as gists across the country, he has also authored over 100 peer-reviewed articles and a book books and papers geared toward doctors published in 2017 titled Practice Management and patients, including the latest one, Even for Urology Groups.

Urologists Get Kidney Stones.

According to Goldfischer, the impetus for Goldfischer, who said he has had two kidhis first book came from a desire to help other ney stones himself, calls the experience “some urologists navigate the business side of their of the worst pain a human being could ever own practices.

GOLDFISCHER M.D. ’92 know.” His book acts as a guide for patients “Having founded my group and built my on causes, treatments and prevention for the condition, which group, I realized that not every doctor running their group has he says affects one in seven women and one in 13 men. an MBA, so I got some of the smartest people I knew who had “You’re not gonna go to Barnes & Noble and pick this run practices [to] write chapters, and we put together a 370 book up and say, ‘ahh kidney stones, this looks interesting,’” page book on how to run a urology group,” Goldfischer said.

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After a fellowship at Long Island Jewish Medical Center where he worked with Dr. Arthur Smith, ‘The Father of Endourology,’ Goldfischer developed an inclination towards kidney stone surgery and became the first practicing endourologist in the Hudson River region in 1998.

At the time, urology was undergoing a transformation that favored far less invasive surgeries that resulted in shorter recovery times for patients, according to Goldfischer.

“In the 70s and 80s, everybody was cutting everybody open, and the idea of doing the operations through telescopes was just getting going,” Goldfischer said in an interview with The Sun. As an elected member of the Large Urology Group Practice Association, Goldfischer works to advance the causes of independent urologists across the country through educational programming and political lobbying, while still finding time to see patients.

“I’ve been able to contribute to my practice and I’ve been able to contribute to my profession on a national level, and that’s been incredibly rewarding,” Goldfischer told The Sun. Matthew McGowen can be reached at mmcgowen@cornellsun.com.

Documentary Aims to Raise Student Orgs Encourage Voter Registration Awareness of Food Waste

By MIGUEL SOTO and PUNEET VELIDI Sun Staff Writer and Sun Contributor

By WINNY SUN and LeANN McDOWALL

see in terms of food — in terms of issues around food”.

Sun Staff Writer and Sun Contributor According to Liu, waste is the fault of both producers and conCornell Cinema will host a free sumers. At the producer level, waste screening on Monday of the late mainly occurs during quality control.

Anthony Bourdain’s documentary Liu said that a lot of the food availWasted! The Story of Food Waste, a able in supermarkets and on-campus project tackling food sustainability dining halls “goes through a process that aims to “change the way people of … checking whether the food buy, cook, recycle, and eat food, is good or not … to the consumer according to its website. eye.”

The screening event is a group This means that viable food like effort, involving sponsorship and “misshapen potatoes, misshapen publicity from food insecurity and carrots, misshapen apples, bruised environmentally-conscious organi- apples — those are all thrown out, zations on campus and within the or composted, hopefully,” she said.

Ithaca community, according to Cornell students also contribute Emily Liu ’21, the director of cam- to food waste at the consumer level, pus outreach for the Food Recovery according to Liu. Network.

“You’ll … see people go to dinFood Recovery Network is a stu- ing halls and then they won’t finish dent group that their food or they’ll redistributes leftgo to dining halls ... over food from and they’ll get more Okenshields and than they can eat and RPCC to people … that’s something in need in the that we can definitely community. prevent if people just Liu said that took less,” she said. students and She also added members of the that “food waste isn’t Ithaca commujust a Cornell issue. nity should “be It’s very much … a BOURDAIN mindful that what global issue.” we have — how On a national much food we have on our tables is scale, the U.S. produces a massive really a privilege” because there are quantity of food but only consumes people in Tompkins County who a portion of the total amount. don’t have that privilege.

“There’s so much production of “One in seven people in food in the U.S., but we really don’t Tompkins County, I believe, are food eat much of it … we waste 40 perinsecure,” she said. “Considering the cent of the food that we produce,” amount that we waste … we should Liu said. “That’s a pretty significant at least learn more about … how number.” food insecurity and food waste are Liu also hopes the documentary related.” will provide students with enough Feeding America reports context of the damage that food Tompkins County’s food insecurity waste causes to spur change on at at 13.5 percent, which matches Liu’s least a personal scale. estimation of one in seven people.

The screening will be “a really The Food Recovery Network and good way to open your mind to issues its sponsors hope to use the screen- that affect both the environment and ing of Wasted! as an opportunity to our communities,” she said, urging raise awareness about food waste students to come to the event. on and off campus, with Monday’s The screening is free of charge movie event being just a start. and will take place at 7 p.m. on Liu said she hopes the screening Monday at Cornell Cinema in will serve as a “good introduction Willard Straight Hall. to food waste” and the issues surWinny Sun can be reached at rounding it.

She hopes the screening will wsun@cornellsun.com. show a lot of the “behind the scenes LeAnn McDowall can be reached at that Cornell students typically don’t lm638@cornell.edu.

As midterm elections loom near on Nov. 6, various organizations across campus are mobilizing to register students to vote, emphasizing the importance of civic engagement.

The University library is providing students with New York State registration forms, stamps to mail the registration forms and sheets with frequently asked questions, according to digital humanities librarian Eliza Bettinger.

Prof. David A. Bateman, government, says that college student turnout is especially low because of the structural disadvantages that students face.

“There’s a lot of obstacles,” he said. “In general, voter registration rates amongst students is terrible, turnout is terrible.”

That doesn’t mean that college student and new voters don’t matter, according to Prof. Richard Bensel, government.

“This is a generation of voters who are being integrated into the party system … at a time when the Republicans are not offering candidates, people, personalities who are attractive, and, in some ways, the Republicans are mortgaging their future,” he said.

The Cornell Democrats, who declined to comment to The Sun, are running a registration table on Ho Plaza twice a week until the registration deadline, which is Oct. 12. They will register students Tuesday and Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

The Cornell Republicans have formed a coalition with various organizations to register students before Oct. 12, Michael Johns ’20, Cornell Republicans president, told The Sun in an email.

“At Cornell, many students live relatively insulated lives, and can’t see the impact that their elected officials are having on even this community, much less their communities at home or across the country,” Johns said. “Each voter has to make a decision to vote in November to take New York on a different path.”

Johns said the purpose of the coalition was to get people informed and registered to vote come election day.

“Contrary to popular belief, most people at

Cornell want to vote. The goal of our coalition is to provide them with the resources to make that process as easy as possible, and to ensure that they are as informed as possible come Election Day,” Johns said.

Another organization mobilizing voters is Cornell Votes, “a non-partisan student organization dedicated to getting Cornell students registered and out to vote,” according to Keelin Kelly ’20, Cornell Votes co-president.

Keelin told The Sun that busy schedules lead students to believe “they don’t have the time” to vote or to request absentee ballots. Additionally, “a few students are also just generally apathetic to the process,” Keelin said.

Alexia Heinrich ’20, co-president of Cornell Votes, said that out-of-state students are often unsure how to vote by absentee ballots or do not know that they can register to vote in New York, which prevents them from voting.

Griffin Smuts ’21, vice president of Cornell Votes, acknowledged the importance of voting, saying that voting ensures “the privileges which we enjoy today.”

“As a gay man, it is not lost on me that many of the rights which I enjoy were guaranteed to me by millions of Americans who cast their ballots in favor of my ability to love freely,” Smuts said.

To combat voter apathy, Cornell Votes is reminding students of the competitive midterm elections in Tompkins County.

“We remind [students] that regardless of what political ideology they subscribe to, there is a competitive congressional election going on in this district, where their vote can have an impact in debatably one of the most important midterm elections in this country’s history,” Keelin said.

“If everyone took a few more minutes out of their lives to vote, we would likely have much more representative governing bodies than we do now. So, register by October 12, vote on November 6, and have your voice heard,” Keelin added.

Miguel Soto can be reached at msoto@cornellsun.com.

Puneet Velidi can be reached at psv23@cornell.edu.

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potential” to advance plantbased and clean meat research which, according to GFI, might “revolutionize the food system” and help researchers tackle the world’s biggest problems in the future.

Cornell is also home to the best architecture program in the country, according to DesignIntelligence, an institute that is dedicated to “business success of architecture, engineering, construction,

and design organizations” in its annual ranking published on the Architecture Record.

Cornell has maintained the top leading position in architecture since 2011 with the exception of 2014, when it dropped to the 2nd position.

In terms of non-academic factors, U.S. News ranked Cornell as the 3rd best college for veterans. Niche, a college ranking and analysis website, scored Cornell “A+” in campus food and diversity and “A” in student life and party scene, based on public data sets and

reviews.

Cornell President Martha E. Pollack told The Sun in a previous interview that while the school ratings “do matter to the parents”, she considered them “pernicious” to some of the school’s “right” development strategies including cutting costs.

Cornell University didn’t respond immediately to a request of comment on September 28th.

Xing Gao can be reached at xgao@cornellsun.com.

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be able to “outspend” Reed, but will be able to “compete in all the media that matters.”

Reed, according to June Federal Election Commission reports, has received over $2 million and has over $1.2 million in cash on hand. Mitrano, in June, had $193,963 in receipts and less

than $8,000 in cash on hand.

Since then, Mitrano announced that her campaign has “raised in excess of $750,000,” to audience applause. The next quarterly reports will come out

later in October.

Historically, the 23rd district has been heavily Republican; out of the 11 counties, only one — Tompkins County — voted for the democrat candidate for Congress in the 2016 election.

Receiving less than half of the vote, Mitrano also lost Tompkins County in the democratic primaries in June.

Mitrano emphasized her appeal for college-aged voters, saying that she is a proponent of zero-interest student loans and cannabis reform.

“I’m for the legalization and regulation of cannabis,” said Mitrano, who publicly discussed her recreational use of marijuana and cocaine in an Insider Higher Ed blog post dated Dec. 7 2014.

However, this initiative is not listed in the formally cataloged “priorities” on her campaign website.

The Democratic nominee also took swipes at Reed and the effect of his voting record on the district.

“He sees an issue, he jumps on it … and then he never follows through on it,” Mitrano said, citing Reed’s lack of policy consistency and emphasizing a lack of follow-through on issues relating to the environment to argue that Reed is running against his own record.

Mitrano, who worked at Cornell as the director of information technology policy from 2001 to 2014, touted her experience in information technology as part of her inspiration for running for Congress, following allegations of Russian interference in the 2016.

This resonated with one audience member, who asked the candidate about technology and broadband access in surrounding counties.

“We don’t have cyber resources,” the woman said. “I have a child who needs to do homework online … I don’t have access.”

People without broadband access in modern-day society are, “by definition, marginalized in this society,” Mitrano said. “It is the role of the government to bring the proper infrastructure that the people need.”

According to Mitrano, Rep. Reed recently announced his pro-net neutrality stance, adding that Reed had done nothing to support net neutrality prior to this election season. According to the Finger Lakes Daily News, Reed began promoting net neutrality in 2017.

Ithaca and Corning, is an economic “bubble” that owes its neighbors, Mitrano said. “Let’s start to think of ourselves as one district,” saying that the resources in Ithaca, such as those relating to remediating environmental issues, would be helpful in other regions of the district.

Mitrano advocated for a single-payer system, also known as “Medicare-for-all,” saying that it would drive healthcare costs down. “Repeat after me,” Mitrano told the crowd. “A single payer system is not socialism.”

“The anti-immigrant, racist rhetoric that we have coming out of the White House is truly a profound disgrace to this country.”

Tracy Mitrano J.D. ’95 A single-payer system, according to Mitrano — who is endorsed by the Working Families Party — is favorable for small business owners because it limits costs for businesses.

Abortion and women’s reproductive rights were also discussed.

One audience member — a campaign volunteer from Tioga county — expressed concern about winning voters in a district where many are anti-abortion.

“Not one religious denomination or faith gets to dictate the laws based on their belief,” Mitrano said, advocating for “accessible” and “affordable” women’s health care.

Standing yards from a mural reading “Immigrant Rights are Human Rights,” Mitrano said the “anti-immigrant, racist rhetoric that we have coming out of the White House is truly a profound embarrassment and disgrace to this country.”

Mitrano served on the Ithaca Town Planning Board for many years. According to Mitrano, the Board has experts that could be useful for other, surrounding counties.

“I don’t expect you to agree with everything I propose,” Mitrano told the town hall. “At the end of the day, I hope that we agree on enough that you support me.”

Mitrano, the Democratic nominee, will challenge Rep. Tom Reed for the 23rd congressional district seat on November 6. Reed has held the seat since 2013, and held the 29th district seat since 2010, after which redistricting made the region fall under the 23rd district.

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.

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Re: ‘I Believe You, Brett Kavanaugh’ To the Editor: A casual stroll through the government department reveals an environment exploding with stress. Some of this, such as the stress attributed to upcoming prelims, is justified. The stress surrounding the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh and subsequent allegations is wildly misplaced.

Cornellians are rightfully distressed about the prospect that an abuser could sit on the court. However, we seem to be ignoring the disturbing and rapid decay of due process in the United States as a result of this debacle. We must grapple with the idea of what is considered enough to ruin someone’s life. Is an unproved and possibly unprovable allegation enough to destroy someone’s career and potential for having a normal life?

I ask the editor, and my Cornell community as a whole, what is to stop someone from making an allegation against you? Anyone can say you did anything at any given time in any location. How can you prove you didn’t? In most cases, such as Brett Kavanaugh’s, you simply cannot. This is why we must require some sort of standard to determine the veracity of an allegation. In court, this would be called a burden of proof.

Sexual assault is terrible. Not a single well-meaning, reasonable person would say otherwise. If evidence comes out that proves Brett Kavanaugh assaulted Dr. Ford, he should not only be removed from consideration for being on the Supreme Court, he should also be forced out of the D.C. circuit court. That being said, such evidence has not yet been presented. So far, the entire situation has been a case of he said, she said. Kavanaugh, as well as every other human being who could be in this situation, deserves much better than this.

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hile my professor unpackaged the books and distributed them around the room, I felt as if I was actually witnessing a part of history; as if this was something I would look back on years from now and say, that was me he handed a copy to. That was my professor.

Prof. Andrew Moisey, art history and visual studies, recently published The American Fraternity. This photobook places photos that Moisey took in an unnamed fraternity at the University of California, Berkeley, in the early 2000’s next to text that comes from a 60-yearold ritual manual that was found on the fraternity’s floor. Starting in 2000, Moisey documented his younger brother’s involvement in the fraternity, from initiation rituals to drunken parties to an untimely funeral.

I don’t think I can find a word to describe all the emotions I felt as I paged through the book. Some photos horrified me, others I found disturbing. But many of them filled me with a sense of sadness: one that came from having seen these things first-hand. From stories I’ve been told, and experiences I’ve witnessed myself — that’s why it hurt.

Photographs do not tell stories. They do not contain narratives or explain why things happened. They capture a moment; raw, intimate, revealing, but still hidden.

They lead us to question: who are these people? Why are they here? What are their stories? These photographs leave us with pieces we cannot fill, of stories we do not know. An unconscious woman lies on a bed, her legs spread wide. A man pukes over a trash can. A naked woman lies on top of a table while men surround her.

They all come intermingled with text from a ritual manual that does not explain the photos, yet eerily supports how these situations existed.

Moisey worked on the book for over a decade before getting it published. In light of the Brett Kavanaugh allegations, I believe the book holds more impact and power than it would have if Moisey had published it years ago. During class, he explained that he had gained consent from the people who were photographed in compromising situations — they had agreed to this. But in light of the #MeToo movement and sexual misconduct allegations that have arisen over the past few years, this book comes at a pinnacle point in our culture where we need to question the so-called “traditions” that have dictated collegiate culture, and infiltrated how lives are led and impacting others. These lessons that are learned in college do not end after graduation; they are carried out into the world.

I asked Professor Moisey what his intentions were for producing the book: he began by saying that he wanted to show where so many American leaders come from; fraternities and their construction of power is usually passed over when looking at how they reached their position, yet for decades these men of power have come from fraternities. Secondly, he wanted to make a metaphor for American ideals and behavior by putting side by side the images of what fraternity men do, and placing the oaths they took next to them. Thirdly, he wanted to create a new kind of photo book, one which was never meant to be seen but has come into being. Finally, he wanted to create a portrait of a culture in which people in the future would look back on us now and know what we were like.

And that, frankly, is horrifying.

I have many friends who are in fraternities. I have many others who are not. And I can appreciate the idea of finding brothers and allies. But what these photos show us is the danger of what happens after a line has been crossed. Photos from a funeral, which Moisey was careful not to reveal information about out of respect to the deceased’s family, shows what happens when boundaries are pushed too far; the dangers of not knowing those boundaries have been pushed until it is far too late.

Not all fraternity men act like this. Yet why are these communities consistently targeted as systems of toxic masculinity and sexual abuse? How much more evidence do we need to acknowledge that fraternities are dangerous institutions that have evolved far from maintaining ‘brotherhood’?

Jason Jeong, another opinion columnist, eloquently wrote “the institutionalization of secrecy and the expectation of indiscriminate loyalty are why fraternities will never fully evolve from the racist, classist and sexist institutions they were established to be.” These are structures that perpetuate wealth and whiteness in which the “white, male and wealthy derive the most value…but the most pernicious and threatening incidents are the regular and ignored transgressions that we never hear about because they are settled within the confines of the house.” The American Fraternity exposes this secrecy.

What happens behind the closed doors of fraternities does not stay there. Professor Moisey’s visual depiction of this shows how these behaviors and ideas transcend into the world far beyond the years of college.

Photographs do not tell stories.

They do not contain narratives or explain why things happened.

But what these photos show us is the danger of what happens after a line has been crossed.

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Pegah Moradi | All Jokes Aside

Computer Science Needs an Ethics Requirement H ere’s a frightening proposition for this recruiting season: Cornell’s computer science undergraduates are woefully underprepared for careers in tech.

Cornell’s CS undergrads are bright and technically apt.

They learn from some of the best minds in the field, and they score some of the most coveted positions in the industry. It’s not that these future developers can’t solve the problems put forth before before them. It’s that they often have no idea what the problems are in the first place.

For a long time, the prevailing Silicon Valley philosophy was best summarized in the famous Facebook creed: “Move fast and break things.”

In other words, innovate at all costs.

Mending what you broke comes way later: Silicon Valley’s approach has historically been to expeditiously develop, then try to fix up major issues like data privacy, foreign election interference, algorithmic discrimination or Nazis after disaster has already struck.

“We allow the market to rule and only in hindsight think, ‘Who did I harm? What did I miss?’” says Ji Su Yoo, a researcher at Harvard University’s Data Privacy Lab and my research supervisor from this past summer. “The dominant thinking in technical circles is that you push the law not to the moral end, but to the degree that it allows for profit or disruption.”

The prevalence of this precarious, retrospective approach to tech development inspired Yoo, alongside Harvard Prof. Latanya Sweeney, Professor of Government and Technology in Residence and the Director of the Data Privacy Lab, to develop the Tech Science program of study for undergraduates. The program, housed under Harvard’s renowned Department of Government, requires courses that specifically address the social and ethical implications of digital technology.

The Tech Science track is part of a larger movement among other high-caliber universities to set up ethics requirements and establish courses that investigate the social implications of technology. In many ways, Cornell is at the forefront of this effort: Many Cornell professors in Computing & Information Science are known both in the academy and in popular media as some of the fore-

most scholars of the social implications of digital tech. The Information Science majors in Arts & Sciences and CALS actually require students to take INFO 1200: Information Ethics, Law, and Policy, and the department offers a plethora of 3000+ level courses that can be used to fulfil major requirements.

“There’s been a real shift in the way computing is used,” notes Professor Bart Selman, Computer Science, who led a seminar on ethics and artificial intelligence with Prof. Jim Halpern, computer science, back in Spring 2017. “Software was a tool that helped companies run more efficiently, like with databases or banking systems. Those systems were ethics-neutral, but that has been shifting in the past five years.” Now, these systems can decide on whether or not you get approved for a loan, what kind of news you see, or whether a cop will patrol your block.

“A requirement could be a step in a positive direction,” says Selman.

“Whether separate courses or integrated, I really think it has to be a combination.”

Recent efforts like the AI, Policy and Practice initiative demonstrate that Cornell has the capability and the virtue to take action. And, thankfully, some CS professors have independently been integrating lectures on ethics into their courses: Profs.

Nate Foster and Michael Clarkson, computer science, for instance, have ALICIA WANG / SUN SKETCH EDITOR added lectures on ethics in CS 3110: Functional Programming and CS Put simply, info sci students are entering the tech indus- 1380: Data Science for All, respectively.

But while all CS mjors take CS 3110, not all will be taktry with a relatively robust understanding of how their algorithms and designs affect the world. Their peers in ing Professor Clarkson’s class, and certainly not all of them computer science? Not as much. will be venturing out into the technology law and ethics Actually, almost not at all: The computer science major courses in the information science department. The solution — which spans both the College of Engineering and the to this vacuum is simple: Cornell CS must incorporate some College of Arts & Sciences — currently has no ethics kind of ethics and social responsibility requirement, whether requirement. The presumption is that the void is covered it be through a separate but specialized course like INFO by distribution requirements in Arts & Sciences and “lib- 1200 or integrated into the relevant existing courses.

As a leading educator of the next generation of develeral studies” distributions in Engineering. Any remaining cracks are filled by the major’s own “external specialization” opers, Cornell has a responsibility to ensure it is producing requirement. But as I’ve written about before, these kinds young software engineers who are prepared to address the of requirements hardly support intellectual exploration, let prickly issues that come with creating digital technologies. If alone target key interdisciplinary gaps in a curriculum. we don’t, we’ll find ourselves continuing down the current The outcome is that Cornell is graduating hundreds path of unstable technocracy, where our lives are ruled by of technologists every year with hardly any understanding software with little care for how it aligns with our humanity. of the sometimes frightening social consequences of their day-to-day work. In a world without ethical developers, Pegah Moradi is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. All Jokes we all suffer, especially now that algorithms are driving key Aside runs every other Monday this semester. She can be reached at decision-making systems in our day-to-day lives. pmoradi@cornellsun.com.

Paul Russell | Russelling Feathers

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On Texting

he wiggled her fingers through a clump of hair and pursed her lips. “It’s not like that.”

“What’s it like then?”

“He’s just…”

“Don’t ask any questions, just answer his.”

When you spend your Tuesday evenings “studying” at Starbucks, you grow so accustomed to eavesdropping on these types of conversations you forget you’re doing it. This time, I sat on a high up wooden stool, following intently as a pair of friends went back and forth about proper etiquette when texting a guy who quite clearly isn’t “the one.”

You don’t need an Ivy League education to ascertain that texting is a lot more complicated than it should be. When I get a late night iMessage from a friend I can only wonder whether it’s the result of a brainstorming session with a panel of trusted advisors or a drunk whim from Hideaway. But that’s the beauty of it. We thrive on ambiguity.

Last week, I sent some friends a quick survey about their phone usage. When asked to describe their texting style when conversing with a potential love interest, many noted that they respond slowly and intermittently. When asked to describe their style when texting someone they don’t

like, the most popular answer was exactly the same: slow, intermittent answers.

This doesn’t happen by surprise, but by design. Maybe we’re all just slow texters looking for reasons not to change our ways.

But texting is more than just an opportunity to dodge the responsibility to make sense. It’s the landscape on which we build our social lives and our self image. And it’s a virtually uncorrupted medium; I get regular spam phone calls, see constant advertising on my social media feeds, fight a world of distractions in everyday in-person conversation, but in the text-o-sphere I decide who to talk to and proceed to generate content solely with them. No one else can edge their way into our conversation without our approval.

When my parents text, they make an event out of it. They don’t multitask, they don’t have other conversations, they don’t split their time between the virtual and physical worlds they simultaneously occupy. Instead, they sit, thinking through their messages and waiting for responses because for them, texting isn’t an autonomic function but a novelty that requires focus to understand and enjoy.

When you think about it, it’s odd

That’s the beauty of it. We thrive on ambiguity.

that we don’t treat texting the same way.

We have the opportunity to focus solely one the words of a friend in the most distraction-less medium known to man, but instead of cherishing this virtual alone time we make it into a distraction from our everyday lives.

After all, I can’t remember the last time I sent a “what’s up?” text and the response was “texting you.” We’ve made texting into nothing more than a nuisance that pulls us away from the exciting world around us.

Regardless of whether we multitask while doing it, texting has so altered the way we operate that it’s hard to remember the days before it. Long ago, every interaction, every conversation with a friend was a “had to be there” experience. We, ourselves, were “had to be there” experiences.

To reminisce about the dumb conversations we’d had in the past, we actually had to try to remember the past. And still we’d undoubtedly get some of it wrong and argue about who said what. Now, we can look back. Also now, we can pause our conversations and ask for advice from others right in the middle of them.

As we continue to move to a text-based society, the excuse of “I was just caught up

in the moment,” holds less and less water.

We now have more license to not just think before we speak, but to do essentially anything we want before we respond to whatever others say to us.

I know I’m rambling. What’s more, I’m rambling about a decades old medium of communication. But I think we’re in a profound time. We’re at the age where the digital natives are the ones having kids.

The tech-savvy, text-obsessed, fomo-ridden population isn’t the future of our world — we’re the present of our world. So I think it’s worth considering our attitudes toward the technologies that make us so distinct from the generations before us.

When I sat at Starbucks last week, my attention soon turned from the girls to the rest of the room.

Most students had phones on their tables, and some had iMessage windows open on their Macbooks.

“I need to get off my phone and get to work,” one said.

Don’t we all.

We’ve made texting into nothing more than a nuisance that pulls us away from the exciting world around us.

Paul Russell is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Russelling Feathers runs every other Friday this semester. He can be reached at prussell@ cornellsun.com.

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ARTS& ENTERTAINMENT Gregory Pardlo and Subverting Expectations

BY REBECCA REUNING Sun Contributor

As a writer, there are few things that make me feel grateful to be alive the way poetry does. This past Thursday, the Cornell Department of English hosted author Gregory Pardlo as the first guest in the Fall 2018 Barbara & David Zalaznick Reading Series. Pardlo’s collection, Digest, was the recipient of the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. In 2007, his first book of poetry, Totem, won the American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize. This past April, he published Air Traffic: A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood,which was named one of “17 Refreshing Books to Read This Summer” by the New York Times.

I first read Pardlo’s work several weeks ago for my creative writing class. I was enamored with his candor and the ways in which he questions what constitutes poetry through his work; however, nothing compares to the experience of hearing an author read aloud their work the way it was intended to be read. On a Thursday afternoon, in the middle of a hectic week, in the midst of a chaotic semester, Gregory Pardlo made me grateful to be alive.

In the dim lighting of the Rhodes-Rawlings Auditorium in Klarman Hall, Pardlo shared excerpts from Digest and Air Traffic, as well as several unpublished poems to an audience of professors, undergraduate and graduate students alike. He stood at the podium with a humility and openness that encouraged the audience

to embrace the emotional and intellectual response his work elicits. Speaking about his late father, Greg Sr., he candidly reflected on the flawed man who raised him without portraying himself as without faults. Pardlo’s writing depicts a strained and complex relationship with an often envious and immature father, who despite it all, Pardlo continued to seek the approval of.

This paradoxical relationship is reflected in the following lines from two separate pieces Gregory Pardlo read for us. The first comes from “Problema 4” in Digest, in which Pardlo recalls asking his father for a tattoo at the age of thirteen and the resulting realization that, in his father’s eyes, he did not “possess” his own body. Pardlo quotes his father: ‘I made you…I can un-make you, and make another one just like you.’

There were audible gasps in the audience from those who could not fathom such scathing words from a parent, accompanied by a knowing silence from those who knew exactly what it’s like. Pardlo’s next poem “Metaphor,” however, exalted his father in its final lines, concluding with “Greg Pardlo is dead. Long live Greg Pardlo.”

In this way, Pardlo continuously transitioned from criticizing to lamenting his father. His portrayal was honest and multidimensional — it did not seek to demonize or glorify, only to share his experience, and through this, urged us to question the ways in which we are complicit in the culture which breeds men like Greg Pardlo, Sr. When questioned about how he achieves such honesty and vulnerability in his work, Pardlo explained some of his process to us, his eager-to-learn audience. He spoke of learning to view himself “less as a person and more

as a character” in his writing. In working to write about himself as a character rather than a person, he hopes to remove what he calls “narcissistic attachment to self,” so that he does not attempt to hide his flaws in his writing.

Instead, Pardlo seeks to contemplate the “ways in which [he’s] complicit in the patriarchy” and hold himself equally accountable.

When I asked him how, as a writer, one gets comfortable with removing that narcissistic attachment and displaying those flaws, Pardlo laughed heartily and replied, “Lots of therapy.”

After the laughter died down, a graduate student asked Pardlo how he knows when a poem is meaningful, to which he responded, “When it subverts my expectations. When the poem ends up somewhere I wasn’t expecting. When I’ve reached that spot just beyond my comfort zone.”

While he was referring to the writing process, I cannot help but see the value of this philosophy in every facet of my life. Gregory Pardlo describes his writing as an “exploration of self-hood” and, is that not what college is for? In the past year, I have continuously pushed myself out of my comfort zone and subverted my own expectations — whether by changing majors, switching career paths or reevaluating my personal priorities. This is the time to push ourselves to do the unexpected, to take risks, to push ourselves out of our comfort zones.

Rebecca Reuning is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at rmr282@cornell.edu.

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New York Fashion Week And Political Intents

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t the recent New York Fashion Week, staff at Pyer Moss’ Spring-Summer 2019 show wore t-shirts emblazoned with the phrase, “If you didn’t know about Pyer Moss before, we forgive you.” This statement, rooted in bravado, was also prophetic, as the five year-old fashion house went on to put on what was arguably the most important show of the season. Founder and designer Kerby JeanRaymond brought NYFW crowds to Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, the previous site of one of the first African-American communities in the United States where a 40-person gospel choir sang in models who strode past 19th-century wooden framed houses, creating what Vogue reporter Chioma Nnadi called a “tableau [that] was like something out of a Kerry James Marshall painting”. In an interview with Vogue, Jean-Raymond said that he wanted to use the show to “explore what Black American leisure” looked like in the face of structural racism, where simple existence is systemically deemed threat. The result was a collection that featured beautifully structured suits, silks printed with images from visual artist Derrick Adams and vibrantly patterned athleisure from the Pyer Moss x Reeboks collaboration.

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Kerby Jean-Raymond is no stranger to the fashion show as medium and embraces experimentation with social commentary and art, having featured a short film on police brutality and a Raphael Saadiq-directed gospel choir in previous Pyer Moss shows. This show was no different featuring moments like hip-hop up-and-comer Sheck Wes sauntering down the runway in a languid pale pink suit, choir robe reminiscent gowns bearing the FUBU (legendary Queens streetwear brand For Us By Us) insignia, and culminated as a model was heralded in by the gospel choir’s exuberant rendition of “Swag Surfin” by F.L.Y (Fast Life Youngstaz) wearing a crystal-embedded flapper dress depicting Derrick Adams’ image of a black father cradling his child. This show, titled American,

Also, was joyous, vulnerable and tender, bringing together history and culture in order to be what Afropunk writer Emil Wilbekin called “an homage to solidarity, ownership and representation — undeniably celebrating Blackness, Black Joy and Black Liberation.”

Fashion has been redefining itself for a while now after coming under fire for its deeply problematic perpetuation of racism and body-shaming. With that has come more diverse representation on runways in body type and race, as well as designers who use their collections to take a political stance. However, because fashion caters to the elite and often remains aloof to reality, there is a hollowness to the $200 graphic t-shirts with political slogans, a manipulation of good intention into the capitalization on the pain of others. In an era where lazy, creatively deficient, cultural appropriation faux pas continue to betray the industry’s underlying systems of racism (Gucci’s pagoda hat? H&M’s monkey t-shirt fiasco?), Pyer Moss has quietly made a name for itself as what the New York Times’ Vanessa Friedman has deemed the “conscience of the fashion community.” Pyer Moss is part of a larger movement of diverse designers that is redefining fashion for themselves, designers who are drawing upon a different sort of collective imagination not previously shown at platforms such as fashion week. Kerby Jean-Raymond is spearheading a growing contingent of designers designing for cultural specificity.

One such design house that presses into this cultural specificity is avant-garde label CFGNY, founded by Daniel Chew and Tin Nguyen, who cultivate an aesthetic of thriftiness and practicality, creating clothing that, according to their website, embodies a “vague Asianness.” Similarly to Pyer Moss, the label explored the fashion show as a medium, employing cultural touchstones to further explore the commonalities of the Asian American experience. At their show in April, a young girl, clothed in a brown dress and flats, typical recital garb, opened the show by skipping to a piano where she performed Chopin, Mozart and Christmas songs throughout the show.

Models accessorized with rubber house slippers and shopping bags full of groceries, wore pajama-like sets in cute cartoon print, and sheer mesh dresses with protrusions of Pokemon stuffed animals sewn into them that bore a distinctly Asian silhouette — at once familiar and experimental. The label manages to exude both a coolness that I’ve never previously associated with this visual language and a tenderness that

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I have. Here, CFGNY celebrates “Asianness,” putting out clothing that combines a nostalgia and sense of identity with a healthy dose of futurism.

There’s a game I like to play when I am on Canal Street, the center of New York’s Chinatown. I call it “Chinese Grandparent or Hipster?” This game is unexpectedly successful because the venn-diagram of what the average Chinatown grandparent wears and what a hipster from the Lower East Side wears overlaps a good deal more than one would initially imagine. I’m talking bucket hats, rubber slides with socks, bootleg Louis Vuitton merchandise the possibilities are truly endless. That’s only one type of hipster, you say? The Chinese Grandparent covers the full spectrum, having worn the same grammatically-incorrect sweatshirt and neon visor for years before your current iteration of hipster paid their first visit to their neighborhood thrift shop. You call it “style” and “irony”, we call it practical.

The Chinese Grandparent/Cool Hipster dichotomy has always frustrated me as an Asian American because it perpetuates this idea that coolness is directly correlated with whiteness. That what is cheap and tacky on an immigrant elder is a style statement on a skinny white skater boy. Like most first and second generation children, my childhood was characterized by an underlying sense of embarrassment that came with the desire to fit in and not knowing how. This embarrassment usually manifests in two ways: the child either wholeheartedly embraces their culture, taking up cultural instruments and hobbies, usually guided by well-meaning parents or assimilates, repressing anything that could be identified as different.

Ultimately, no matter what path you take it can often feel alienating, a sort of loneliness that comes with being other.

In hindsight, most of this embarrassment was internalized self-hatred, a side effect of a greater structural stigma, and I really should have embraced my Hello Kitty hair clips and sandals with socks because they were really cute and useful.

But now that I’m older, wiser and more regretful of my rootlessness, I’m grateful to see fashion that reflects a wider range of realities. Because now I can say that maybe there is nothing cooler than seeing a picture of Yaeji wearing a CFGNY bodycon dress with a stuffed Charizard sewn into it.

Isabel Ling is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture and Planning. She can be reached at igl3@cornell.edu. Linguistics will run on alternate Mondays this semester.

This Year’s 10-Minute Play Festival Is Both Funny and Brutally Honest

BY OLIVIA BONO Sun Contributor

The Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts was shut down on Monday and Tuesday of this week to deal with a mold problem.

Because of this, it would be understandable if the actors of this year’s 10-Minute Play Festival were under-rehearsed, or unfamiliar with the space in which they performed, but the opposite was true. At the festival on Thursday night in the newly mold-free building, I was impressed by the range and depth of the productions. None of the plays shy away from hard topics, and I should issue a warning that the second play, Tian, gets heavy, covering sexual abuse and abortion.

The festival took place in the Black Box Theatre, a dark room in a sub-basement of the Schwartz Center. The room places all of its chairs on the same level as the performers, surrounding three out of four sides of the stage. The theme of this year’s festival was “Set: Storied by Space,” and in their focus on the space itself, almost every play explores the stage creatively.

The show started off comical with Story Bored, written by Sydney Wolfe ’20 and directed by Franklin Wang ’20. Story Bored is about a troupe of unemployed creative

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writing graduates who attempt (and fail) at teaching a gym full of high school students how to write a story. Story Bored is an excellent example of how well a goofy concept can work in 10-minute play. Maybe it was helped by the demographic of its audience — college students, many of whom have an interest in writing — but it had the audience cackling.

In an abrupt transition, next came Tian, written by Kristi Lim ’21 and directed by Lyra Liu ’19. Tian largely focuses on one girl, Tian (Sabrina Liu ’20) while religious phrases project onto a screen behind her and haunting masked figures loom on another screen above her. It was, admittedly, a little distracting to have to look to a color guide or the masks in the program every time a new mask appeared, but the play itself is a heart-wrenching story about an undocumented Chinese girl who is sexually abused and grapples with her multifaceted identity as a religious woman, an immigrant, an American and a mother.

The next play was Strangers, written by Ilana Wallenstein ’21 and directed by Janilya Baizack. This play focuses on two pairs of friends as they discuss a flurry of topics, including bisexuality and mental illness. It was both fun and honest and felt a lot like eavesdropping on a particularly interesting conversation on a bus or in a restaurant, although the ending felt abrupt and a bit hollow compared

to the rest of the scene. Despite this, the transitions between the two pairs were clever and provided a tennis-match-like back-and-forth.

The fourth play was The Forever War, written by Gloria Oladipo ’21 and directed

by Christian Nielsen ’21. It tells a story about two recently-returned soldiers, Harper (Chris Dawson, staff) and Mike (Michael Overmeer ’21) celebrating the birth of Mike’s child. It succeeds in making a point about the lack of opportunities America gives its veterans to find employment and to deal with the horrors of war, although I’m not sure it connected with the audience the same way the others did. The static staging of two characters sitting on a bench felt less dynamic than the other plays.

The fifth play was my favorite, a somewhat dark comedy called A Campfire Song, written

by Edy Kennedy ’20 and directed by Elise Smith ’19. It follows a grumpy fourth-year student (Quinn Theobald ’22) as he attempts to earn PE credit by camping with a slightly unhinged wilderness expert (Hannah Tokish ’20) with a fondness for ABBA. Both actors really stole the show with their performances, leaping over set pieces, yelling song lyrics and running into the audience. I’ll never watch Mamma Mia the same way again.

Finally was The Shirt (Civility), written by Kristen Wright, grad student, and

directed by Sam Blake, a PhD student. This ripped-from-the-headlines show follows a city councilwoman who yells at a group of Trump-supporting teenage girls. The Shirt asks its actors to interact with the audience, passing out petitions to have the fictional councilwoman, Melissa (Carley Robinson ’21), removed from office. Not wanting to inconvenience anyone, I’d picked an aisle seat in the front row, and so the militant mom Valerie (Talia Leftkowitz ’21), handed me a “Make America Great Again”-plastered clipboard. It’s no secret that Trump is everywhere: in the books we write, in the media we consume, in the jokes we tell. And yet there was something chilling about holding MAGA merch, feeling outnumbered by the MAGA ensemble. It was still in my hands during the post-performance bows. Although the show had its comedic moments, the props drove home the feeling that it was a horror play about being trapped in a society that hates rude women more than it hates sexual assault.

It was a fitting end to an evening chockfull of challenging and relevant plays. It’s definitely worth checking out in the future.

Olivia Bono is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at ojb26@ cornell.edu.

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Poet Advocates for LGBTQ+ Rights

By MAGDALENA SMITH Sun Contributor

Award-winning poet Andrea Gibson visited Cornell on Friday to read poetry grappling with LGBTQ+ oppression, identity, intersectionality, gun control and liberating society for marginalized people.

Gibson, who prefers non-gender pronouns, is a spoken-word poet and LGBTQ+ activist. Gibson runs Stay Here With Me, an “interactive, safe space offering collective support while encouraging individual healing to keep those who visit alive today, and wanting to stay alive until tomorrow.”

“I’m going to start with love before I start yelling about Trump. I’ll eventually ... yell more about Trump.”

Andrea Gibson Andrea Gibson is the inaugural winner of the Women of the World Poetry Slam, third place winner of the Individual World Poetry Slam in 2006 and 2007, and fourth place winner of the 2004 National Poetry Slam.

“I’m going to start with love before I start yelling

about Trump,” Gibson told the room at the beginning of the event. “I’ll eventually come back to more love and then yell more about Trump.”

Gibson usually doesn’t decide the order of the poems until they get on stage and “feel into what I can read authentically and honestly that night, and what I feel like the room can take in.”

“One of the only things we have control over in this life is where we put our attention. As the poet onstage, you’re being the guide of where people’s attention is going,” Gibson said. “So if we spend a lot of time in grief, then I’ll try to move the attention to a different place for a little while and then maybe come back to grief.”

Gibson’s poems, such as “Your Life,” “Orlando” and “Angels of the Get-Through,” articulated the confusion about identity, trauma and mental health issues faced by many members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Another poem, which Gibson described as “essentially a creative curse word,” was called “To The Men Catcalling My Girlfriend While I’m Walking Beside Her.” To read the rest of this article, visit cornellsun.com.

Magdalena Smith can be reached at mrs444@cornell.edu.

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which is the oldest cider doughnut vendor in Apple Fest, even before it opened.

“I grew up going to Apple Fest and managed the booth for 10 years,” said Amara Steinkraus, who runs the farm originally established by her mother in the 1970’s.

Kokoska, who also attended Apple Fest last year, was one of the many people who wanted cider doughnuts, but chose to wait in the line at Indian Creek Farm instead.

The doughnuts might have had the longest lines, but fundamental to Apple Fest is, of course, the apples. Booths sold apples by the bag or by the pound in countless varieties from “ginger gold” to “NJ109”. Each type of apple varied in its sweetness, size and color.

The festival has evolved overtime. Debbie Teeter, A.J. Teeter Farm’s 6th generation owner, noticed differences from when her farm first appeared at Apple Fest. The farm, established in 1847, has been at Apple Fest for 24 years.

“We started out and had one booth and we sold mainly vegetables,” Teeter told The Sun. “[Apple Fest] started out as an bigger opportunity for farm vendors, like the farmers market. Now it’s touristy stuff.”

Teeter doesn’t dislike the change and thinks

it’s easier now that her farm doesn’t have to focus on producing so much produce. Teeter’s booth used to sell vegetables like potatoes, tomatoes, squash and large pumpkins. Now they sell apple cider, grapes and mini pumpkins.

Beyond food and art, other organizations promoted their cause to the Ithaca and Tompkins community in stands interspersed throughout the Commons.

Cornell Cooperative Extension, which aims to educate the public about sustainability, displayed their solar panels. In the theme of Apple Fest, they demonstrated solar energy by blending apples into apple juice.

“Apple Fest is the time where the community comes together and are out here and excited to talk to each other,” said Annalise Kukor, the cooperative’s energy educator.

Apple Fest attracts people young and old looking for food, art, and time with the community.

Ithacan resident Alla Vardi has brought her three year old daughter to Apple Fest every year. Vardi gravitates towards the booths selling art and other non-food items.

“Apple Fest brings awareness to the handmade,” Vardi told The Sun. “Although the first thing [to do] is to get food.”

Rochelle Li can be reached at rl696@cornell.edu.

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“It’s not fair. It’s not just,” Mitrano said. “It’s not what the United States or higher education was supposed to be about.”

When asked about the recent turmoil regarding the Supreme Court Justice nomination, Mitrano refused to say whether Judge Brett Kavanaugh should be confirmed following the accusation of sexual assault from Christine Blasey Ford.

However, on the same note, she said that little criminal and civil action has been taken against perpetrators in the past “because of the culture that has caused women to internalize it or to disguise it or to be unwilling to share it.”

“I think that increasingly men and women, but especially women, are experiencing more fortitude and courage in sharing their experiences and not feeling alone, not feeling ashamed to talk about them,” Mitrano said.

In a 2015 blog post for Inside Higher Ed, Mitrano recalled her father’s violent confrontation with police at a golf course when she was 11 years old, which she said influenced her for many years.

Her father violated club rules, she wrote, and “clocked” a police officer in the jaw after he grabbed for her father’s wallet. The officer pulled out a gun and arrested her father, and Mitrano’s mother later bailed her father out of jail.

On police abuse and miscon-

duct, Mitrano said in Friday’s interview that she wants departments to “prioritize de-escalation, to address discrimination and bias,” even though “very little” can be done on the federal level and that any changes would have to be reviewed by the Department of Justice.

Mitrano also said that she supported legalization and of recreational cannabis. Those convicted of marijuana possession for “very, very low levels” should get “amnesty” and have their records cleared, she told The Sun. Mitrano and Reed will face off on Election Day, Nov. 6.

Maryam Zafar can be reached at mzafar@cornellsun.com.

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for the Red while Pioneer running back Jordan Meachum, who entered the contest averaging 128.7 rushing yards per game, ran for just 44 yards on 15 attempts.

“We couldn’t have scripted it better from that standpoint,” Archer said of the running game. “We thought we were in control. By the end of the first quarter, we [didn’t] know if [Sacred Heart would] ever be able to get back in it on the line of scrimmage.”

“Today’s how I pictured Cornell football for a long time,” Archer added. “Being able to just show up, run the football and we’re going to wear you out and we’re going to be explosive.”

Leading 16-3 early in the second quarter, Banks found sophomore wide receiver Eric Gallman for a 28-yard gain on third down to move into the red zone. A few plays later, the quarterback found senior tight end Oscar Boochever for another third-down touchdown. The acrobatic 12-yard reception was Boochever’s first career score and moved Banks into a tie for fourth all-time in Cornell history for touchdown passes.

“I was so proud [of] how Dalton played,” Archer said. “He played like a quarterback. He scrambled when things weren’t there, and he kept his poise and

really managed the game. And when we made downfield shots he put it on them.”

After another quick Sacred Heart punt, Coles sought to pick up where he left off after two long touchdowns in last week’s loss to Yale. The junior burst through the line of scrimmage for an 85-yard touchdown on the first play of the Red’s drive.

“It feels like a statement to our own guys ... ‘OK, let’s go. Now we have got it rolling, now it’s off the ground, don’t let it stop.’”

Head coach David Archer ’05 “I literally had to do nothing for that touchdown,” Coles said with a chuckle. “The line made a perfect hole and all I [had] to do is run as fast as I can.”

A Sacred Heart touchdown pulled the Pioneers within 19 points, 29-10, but Cornell was able to tack on yet another touchdown before halftime. A pair of third down conversions, including a 30-yard grab by junior tight end Tommy McIntyre, set up sophomore running back S.K. Howard for his first career touchdown and gave the Red a 36-10 halftime lead.

Banks’ throws of 28 and 30 yards to Gallman and McIntyre were the quarterback’s longest two down-

field completions of the season.

“We were able to run the ball well and when you do that it opens up the pass game really [nicely] and so we had a few big plays out there that we were able to make,” Banks said.

Jones grabbed his second interception of the game in the endzone as the Pioneers threatened to score late in the half, and the Red picked up right where it left off to start the third quarter. After a quick Pioneer punt, junior quarterback Mike Catanese found senior running back J.D. PicKell with a short pass on the drive’s second play, and PicKell did the rest for a 43-yard touchdown.

Senior safety D.J. Woullard forced a fumble and junior linebacker Malik Leary recovered early in the fourth quarter for the Red’s third takeaway of the game.

The Pioneers added touchdowns late in the third and fourth quarters to shrink its deficit to 19, but it was too little too late to prevent Cornell from earning its first win of the season.

Archer said the win will help his team enter a tough stretch of games with confidence. The Red hosts Harvard next weekend.

“It feels like a statement to our own guys for this year, ‘OK, let’s go. Now we have got it rolling, now it’s off the ground, don’t let it stop,’” Archer said.

Raphy Gendler can be reached at rgendler@cornellsun.com.

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League Rookie of the Year Zane Dudek accounting for just 33 yards on 13 carries. Saturday it was Sacred Heart’s Jordan Meachum gaining a mere 44 yards on 15 attempts. Entering the game, Meachum had been averaging 128.7 yards per game.

“There’s always that emphasis for our front seven to stop the run,” said junior cornerback David Jones. “It’s something we’re starting to do much better now.”

On the other side of the ball, the Red built on last week’s success in the ground game. Junior Harold Coles has emerged as the leader out of the backfield and led the way once again Saturday with 121 yards and a touchdown on just eight rushing attempts.

But joining Coles throughout the day were fellow backs Jake Derderian, S.K. Howard and J.D. PicKell — all of whom

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Stopping the run? Check, with Sacred Heart’s Jordan Meechum and his 128.7 yards rushing per game being held to just 44.

Takeaways? Check, thrice over.

“Turnovers are literally the difference [in] a game sometimes,” said junior running back Harold Coles, who rushed 121 yards with a 85-yard score. “The way that we’re able to protect the ball and the way that the defense was able to take it away from them is a momentum changer.”

The long-awaited win finally came to East Hill, and the only thing that made the smiles shine more was the glisten in the gold Turnover Time chain that finally found its way out of the box.

“Being the good Cornellian I am, I was joking that we should we just have it be a big Uris Library clock tower,” Archer said.

Zachary Silver can be reached at zsilver@cornellsun.com.

added major contributions in the victory.

Even senior quarterback Dalton Banks ran the ball seven times and scored the team’s first offensive touchdown on a seven-yard run. By the final buzzer, the team had amassed 263 rushing yards.

“Anybody that touches the ball can take it all the way,” said Coles of his fellow running backs. “That’s something not a lot of teams have, and it’s awesome to have that depth.”

In addition to the running backs, the Red’s offensive line deserves its fair share of the credit. After an up-and-down campaign last season, the veteran group has used another year of experience to grow into one of the team’s best assets. Sacred Heart showed several different looks defensively, but time and again the Cornell blockers picked up blitzes and opened up holes for the runners, making long runs look easy.

“I literally had to do nothing for that

touchdown,” Coles said of his 85-yard score in the first half. “The line made a perfect hole and all I’ve got to do is run as fast as I can.”

“Cornell should continue to shift its focus toward the ground game.”

Although the Red did have more success in the passing game Saturday than in prior weeks, throwing the ball downfield is not the answer for this team. Without a ton of true playmakers at wide receiver and an offensive line better equipped to run block than to pass protect, Cornell should continue to shift its focus toward the ground game.

Incorporating run-first junior quarterback Mike Catanese into the game plan as needed

can provide another spark as well.

Saturday went about as well as anyone could have hoped — and sure, you can call blowing out a 3-0 Sacred Heart team a statement win if you’d like. But even if the Red doesn’t take the ball away three times or have as much success in the return game, the future could be looking up.

If Cornell can establish the run and stop capable opposing rushers — of which there are many in the Ivy League — this weekend will not be the last time the Red celebrates a well-earned victory.

“Today’s how I pictured Cornell football for a long time,” said Archer. “Being able to just show up, run the football and we’re going to wear you out.”

Same time, same place, same formula next week against Harvard.

Charles Cotton can be reached at ccotton@cornellsun.com.

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Red Blows Past Sacred Heart for 1st Win of Season

By RAPHY GENDLER

FOOTBALL

Sun Assistant Sports Editor

After two weeks in which marked improvement failed to show up in the win column, Cornell football rolled over Sacred Heart, 43-24, on Saturday behind touchdowns from six different players to pick up its first win of 2018.

The Pioneers, who entered the contest 3-0 on the season, had no answer for the Red early in the game. Cornell scored 36 points in the first half — most from a Cornell team in a half this millennium — en route to the blowout victory.

“The defense was ... amazing, offense played really well too and when we put it together, I think we’re a really hard team to stop.”

Junior running back Harold Coles “It feels like we’re finally getting people to notice us,” said junior running back Harold Coles. “The defense was playing amazing, offense played really well too and when we put it together I think we’re a really hard team to stop.”

After a 45-yard field goal from junior Nickolas Null, the Cornell defense’s first takeaway of the season — and first of three in the game — was a pick-six that gave the Red a quick 10-0 lead, one it never came close to relinquishing.

Junior cornerback David Jones returned an interception 48 yards for a touchdown — Cornell’s first pick-six since 2011 — on Sacred Heart’s first drive, leading to the Red’s “Turnover Time” clock. Pioneer quarterback Kevin Duke, under pressure on a third down, lofted a pass toward the sideline, where Jones jumped the route and quickly found a path to the endzone. “[Jones is] such a spark,” said head coach David Archer ’05. “It was like, ‘I’ll go score myself, I’ll go set up another score.’ And then just guys rallied around him. But somebody has got to be the guy to start it, and he did it. He’s such a paymaker on special teams and on defense, and that just set the tone.”

After the Cornell defense forced a quick three-and-out,

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On the board | Senior quarterback Dalton Banks celebrates with teammates after his 7-yard touchdown run in the first quarter.

it was Jones once again sparking a touchdown, this time on special teams.

“The past couple of weeks I’d been fair catching a bunch of balls, but this week I had the mindset that I was going to trust the blocking and trust my teammates and try to put a good return on it and put our offense in a good position and that’s what we did,” Jones said of his 46-yard punt return, which set up the Red’s offense at the Sacred Heart 23-yard line.

The return set up a 7-yard read-option rushing score on third down by senior quarterback Dalton Banks, who went 7-for-9 passing for 90 yards and two total touchdowns in the game.

“It was a read-option play and I got the read to pull it and I kept it, and I knew I had a one-on-one matchup with a guy going into the end zone and I was like ‘this guy’s not going to stop me, I’m going to get in,’” Banks said.

The Red was 6-for-7 on third downs in the first half, and amassed 424 total yards in the game without senior running back Chris Walker, junior wide receiver Davy Lizana and junior tight end John Fitzgerald, who were all out with injuries.

Cornell rushed for 263 yards on the day compared to Sacred Heart’s 153. Four players had at least seven carries See FOOTBALL page 11

‘Turnover Time’ Finally Arrives in Sacred Heart Win Victory Shows

By ZACHARY SILVER Sun Senior Editor

The stress of failing to secure a takeaway had started to weigh on the Cornell football defense. The defense had kept two high-flying offenses in check the first two weeks but had no turnovers to show despite the program’s “All About the Ball” mantra.

That changed quickly in Saturday’s 43-24 defeat of Sacred Heart. When junior cornerback David Jones read Pioneer quarterback Kevin Duke perfectly and jumped the route for a picksix, the only thing that weighed on Jones

was the premiere of Cornell’s “Turnover Time” — a flashy gold chain with a clock that reads “TT” at each hour mark, inspired by Miami’s now-infamous Turnover Chain.

“It’s because it’s always Turnover Time,” Jones joked after the game.

Sophomore Phazione McClurge and junior Jelani Taylor were the masters behind Turnover Time, conceptualizing and making the chain in the offseason as another way to drive home the “All About the Ball” creed. It’s been sitting all season in its casing. Not anymore.

“The past two weeks we didn’t have a turnover so we were like we gotta get it

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Turnaround | After failing to get a single turnover in its past two games, Cornell’s defense finally lived up to its ‘All About the Ball’ mantra when it successfully executed a pick-six.

out this week,” Jones said.

“That thing has been cooped for two weeks,” added head coach David Archer ’05. “Now it’s out.”

Jones added another interception in the dying moments of the fist half as Sacred Heart was firing for the end zone, and senior defensive back D.J. Woullard forced a fumble in the beginning of the fourth quarter. Any feeling that Cornell had lost its turnover mojo finally subsided.

“He just really set the tone,” Archer said of Jones, who returned a punt 46 yards on the drive after the pick-six to set up another score. “That let the lines of scrimmages establish themselves … They beat us badly [in 2015, and] a lot of our guys remember that. They were freshmen that year, they had some payback on their minds.”

No turnovers for either team in Cornell’s first two games was both a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, the offense wasn’t playing recklessly. On the other, the defense wasn’t doing its part to torture opposing offenses.

“As long as they’re going to keep [not turning the ball over], we’re going to keep trying to get them the ball,” Jones said.

Archer said that Saturday was the embodiment of how he “pictured Cornell football for a long time.” Establishing the run? Check, with 263 rushing yards and three touchdowns on the ground.

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Way Foward For Football

Now that’s more like it.

Looking for its first win of the season, Cornell football got off to a great start Saturday afternoon and never looked back, dominating previously unbeaten Sacred Heart, 43-24. The Red just might have found its M.O. in the process.

Charles Cotton The Extra Point Successful football teams nearly always do two things: establish the run on offense and stop the run on defense. As the 2018 season continues to unfold, the Red is proving to be more and more capable at both.

“If we establish the run, limit the run, and don’t give it away,” said head coach David Archer ’05, “we can probably be competitive in every game.” And that’s just what happened.

Cornell faced top-tier runners in each of the last two contests and just about shut them both down. Last week, it was Yale’s reigning Ivy See VICTORY page 11