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Cornellians‘Shocked’ After Marathon Blasts By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor
DAVID L. RYAN / THE BOSTON GLOBE
Scene of the explosions | Emergency responders hurry to tend to injured runners and spectators
In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings Monday, three Cornell runners recalled the terror they felt as they learned of the explosions, struggled to find family members and hurried to leave the city. The blasts, which occurred near the finish line of the iconic race shortly before 3 p.m. Monday, killed at least three people and wounded at least 144, according to the Associated Press. At least 10 individuals affiliated with Cornell were registered to run the marathon, according to the Boston Athletic Association’s website. When she heard the first of multiple explosions near the finish line, Anne Elise Creamer ’13, a member of the Cornell Running Club, thought the noise was thunder, or the sound of urban construction. “We didn’t think much of it, especially because I was so excited about finishing the race,” Creamer said. “We had no idea what had happened.” See MARATHON page 4
after two bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon on Monday.
Prof.Logevall Wins Pulitzer Prize for Book on Vietnam War By SARAH CUTLER Sun Staff Writer
Prof. Fredrik Logevall, history, was “stunned” when he learned Monday that he had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. “It was a shock to get the news,” said Logevall, who is also the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies. Logevall spent time working on the book — which was published last August — “on and off” for 10 years, he said, adding that he did a lot of travelling to research the places he
News Not So Democratic
Dr. Dominik Hangartner, methodology, London School of Economics, spoke about the effects of direct democracy on immigrant minorities Monday afternoon. | Page 3
Zachary Zahos ’15 says Bob Dylan is “a man with nothing left to prove to anybody but himself,” adding that Dylan continues to reinvent himself. | Page 9
Sports Who’s on First?
Men’s baseball lost three games and won one game against Columbia. Senior infielder Brenton Peters said “we gave it everything we had, but it just didn’t work out our way.” | Page 16
Rainy HIGH: 64 LOW: 41
By JONATHAN SWARTZ
Sun Senior Writer
Rosie, a tech startup founded by Cornell graduate students, won a $200,000 grand prize at New York State’s largest business competition last week, according to Matt Ford ’13,
Sun Staff Writer
Blowing Down Barton
Wars against France and the U.S. Logevall said his interest in Vietnam began when he was a graduate student. “I decided that I wanted to understand how the U.S. became involved in and fought this long and bloody war,” he said. “I thought initially my dissertation would be my only book, but I’ve published four books [about Vietnam].” Logevall said, however, that he is uncertain what the focus of his next book will be. “Right now, I sort of want to get away from Vietnam, but I think I might have more to say about the Vietnam War in the future,” he said. Sarah Cutler can be reached at scutler@cornellsun.com.
Slope Day to C.U.Startup Wins $200K in Competition Cost $20 for Grad Students By NIKKI LEE
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was writing about. “It’s the sort of book that requires a lot of research,” he said. “I traveled to Vietnam several times — one of the things I think is important is to be able to walk the ground about which I’m writing, to walk the battlefield … [that’s] one reason it took a long time to write.” Embers of War is a history of the early years in the Vietnam struggle, beginning at the end of World War I and examining the next 40 years in the country’s history, Logevall said. The book is a prequel to Choosing War, Logevall’s Ph.D. dissertation — which was published as a book in 2001 — about heavy U.S. involvement in Vietnam. Logevall is teaching a class this semester on the Vietnam
For the first time, graduate and professional students looking to attend Slope Day will have to pay $20 for admission to the event, the Slope Day Programming Board announced last week. The change comes as the result of long discussions between the SDPB and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly. According to a GPSA press release, the SDPB requested allocating $6 — instead of $3.07 — of each student’s activity fee to Slope Day. In return, the GPSA offered increasing the amount to $3.50 per student — a 14 percent increase — which the SDPB rejected in May 2012. Currently, $3.07 of each graduate student’s activity fee is allocated toward the SDPB, compared to $18 of each undergraduate student’s $216 activity fee. According to Slope Day Chair Yang Zhao ’13, the request to increase graduate stuSee SLOPE page 5
head of business development for Rosie. Rosie, which was created in September, is developing a web and mobile shopping platform that learns and predicts a shopper’s purchasing behavior for household goods and groceries. The team beat out the other
four finalists in the Startup Labs’ Syracuse competition to win the prize, according to Ford. “Over 100 teams applied to the [Syracuse] program, which the top five teams were named See ROSIE page 5
Natural wonders
JOY CHUA / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Visitors look at photographs Monday in the Senior Art Show for the Empire State College in Willard Straight Hall’s Art Gallery.