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Today Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution 12:15 - 1:45 p.m., 390 Myron Taylor Hall Ken Meter Lecture Food Systems: Planning for Emergence Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall What Is the Energy Engineer’s Role In New and Existing Buildings?

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News, “Deborah Estrin Named First CornellNYC Tech Professor,” Thursday Speaking about how she was drawn to joining the tech campus’ faculty “When I actually saw the details of what Cornell had put into its proposal, it really felt like such an excellent match with my interests,” Estrin said. “The opportunity to be part of building something that was a very applied and connected and entrepreneurial version of innovations ... was really what drew me.”

Prof. Deborah Estrin, the tech campus’ first professor

News, “Cornell's Response to Racial Attack Good First Step, Minority Organizations Say” Friday Speaking about how the University needs to change its response to racial attacks at Cornell “Having more people of color in the Greek system is not going to solve the problem. Diversity means you can be white, Asian and black in the same room. It doesn’t mean anti-racism.”

Ashley Harrington ’13

Small Fruit Open House 12:45 - 4:15 p.m., Cornell Orchards Clinical Rounds in Comparative Medicine 4 p.m., C2-537 Clinical Programs Center New Students Only: Introduction to Library Research 4 - 5 p.m., Uris Library

Tomorrow Johnson Board Fellowship Training 9 a.m. - 6 p.m., Ramin Parlor, Sage Hall Swim Shuttle to Robert Treman State Park 11:30 am, North Campus and West Campus Animal Feedings Noon, Cayuga Nature Center

Science, “‘You Can’t Handle the Truth!’ The Science Behind Memorable Movie Quotes,” Wednesday Speaking about why certain movie quotes became engrained in our memories “Think about ‘Hasta la vista, baby.’ This is something that is not commonly said in an English movie ...

Combinations of words that are unusual also make quotes memorable, such as “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” which uses a word of endearment with a swear word.”

Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil grad Arts, “Never Hide: Pop Art Deals With Difference” Thursday Speaking about the difficulty of coping with culture shock “Never hide. I still have to tell myself that everyday. Always err on the side of kindness (or chance or hope or whatever you wish to call it) because you never know how hard someone else is trying, even after 129 failed attempts. I can tell you that it is worth the trouble. You might even save a life.”

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Provost Kent Fuchs speaks to students at 626 Thurston Ave.’s diversity lunch Thursday. Fuchs, a Cornell administrator and ordained minister, was the first of Thurston’s weekly luncheon speakers.

Retired Cornell English Professor Named New York State Author

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cated readers,” Lurie said in a University press release.

Lurie has written about a wide variety of topics, including “marital strife, domestic disorder and academic absurdity” William Kennedy, executive director of the NYS Writers Institute stated in a press release. Many of her works were “comedies of manners of our time but with a deeply human strain,” he said.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo named Prof. Emeritus Alison Lurie, English, the 2012-14 New York State Author on Wednesday.

Authors selected for this post inspire and advance creative writing through public readings in New York State, according to a University press release.

Previous authors selected for this post have included Kurt “She is a superior prose stylist with a wickedly Vonnegut Jr. ’44. satirical talent.”

Lurie was a professor in the Department of English William Kennedy from 1968 to 1988. She beat out other distinguished authors, such as Dave Eggers, author of A “She is a superior prose stylist with a Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, and wickedly satirical talent,” Kennedy added.

Lorrie Moore M.F.A. ’82 for the prestigious Cuomo said that Lurie and Marie Howe, title. the newly appointed State Poet, “represent the She has written 10 fiction books, including rich talent and diversity that New York has to Foreign Affairs, published in 1984, for which offer.” she received the Pulitzer Prize. Although most “Both of them have inspired New Yorkers of her work is fiction, she has also written chil- all across the state, and their works are major dren’s books and nonfiction works analyzing assets to us all. They are truly deserving of this the magnitude of children’s literature and its honor, and hopefully their great work will now relation to global literacy and culture. reach a new and even wider audience,” Cuomo “I am delighted and honored by this award said. from the state where I have spent most of my life, a state that has been the home of so many Jonathan Dawson can be reached at great writers as well as enthusiastic and dedi- jdawson@cornellsun.com.

Scott Smith ’79 has found himself on the opposing side of his younger brother Phillip Smith in a sex abuse case involving Poly Prep Country Day School, a private school in Brooklyn, N.Y. Phillip, who did not attend college and has been battling drug and alcohol abuse for many years now, is now blaming Poly Prep.

In a $20 million lawsuit, Phillip and 11 others claim Philip Foglietta, who coached football at Poly Prep from 1966 to 1991, sexually abused them. The lawsuit also states that Poly Prep administrators allegedly knew about the abuse and covered it up to save the reputation of the athletics program at the school.

According to the lawsuit, from 1971 to 1977, Phillip Smith was abused hundreds of times by Foglietta both at Poly Prep and off-campus. The athletic director, Harlow Parker, and headmaster, William M. Williams, contacted Phillip Smith and his mother “on many occasions” because of his unexpected absences and failing grades.

“In response, Foglietta contacted Parker and/or Williams and told them, in words or substance, to stop harassing Smith,” the lawsuit claims.

In addition to alledging that Poly Prep officials knew about the abuse but covered it up, the lawsuit claims that because of the abuse, Phillip Smith developed an addiction to pornography, became depressed and began abusing alcohol and drugs.

Scott Smith, who is the chairman of the Board of Trustees at Poly Prep, has refused to take sides. The school filed a motion to dismiss the case because it believes the plaintiffs waited too long from the date of the alleged abuse to file their complaint, according to The New York Daily News.

Despite the school’s attempt to shut down the case, on Thursday U.S. District Judge Frederic Block ruled SCOTT SMITH ’79 that the lawsuit would move forward.

“The scheme alleged is more than just a string of isolated statements,” Block wrote. “Rather, it is a decades-long attempt to conceal the school's knowledge of Foglietta’s despicable conduct.”

Both Scott and Phillip Smith, and Kevin Mulhearn, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, declined to comment on the ongoing case. The University’s alumni affairs office also declined to comment on the nature of Scott Smith's relationship with Cornell, citing the University’s privacy policy.

According to The Daily News, Scott Smith said he was “sickened” to learn about the abuse, but felt he should stay uninvolved in his brother’s lawsuit.

“The board and I agreed that I should recuse myself from our sincere efforts to resolve this matter,” Smith said. “My stomach will forever churn when I think about what my brother says happened to him and then kept inside him for so many years. I continue to hope that the entire Poly community and, most of all, the victims, can begin the process of healing.”

An evidentiary hearing will be held to determine if Poly Prep intentionally hid evidence or knowledge of the abuse. If the school is found to have known about the abuse but hidden it during the period the plaintiffs could have filed a complaint against it, it will not be allowed to claim that too much time has passed since the alleged abuse.

The judge said that, although the lawsuit may proceed, the plaintiffs “face several hurdles” in making their case.

“Each plaintiff must show that the statement about Foglietta’s lily-white reputation were false and made with knowledge of their falsity,” Block wrote.

Utsav Rai can be reached at urai@cornellsun.com.

Alumna Named Chief Marketing Officer of Yahoo ’85, Kathy Savitt founder and chief executive officer of social commerce website Lockerz, has been named the new chief marketing officer of Yahoo, the Web giant announced on Monday.

Savitt is the most senior executive hired by newlyinstalled CEO Marissa Mayer, who is looking to transform Yahoo to compete with Facebook and Google. As CMO, Savitt will be responsible for all of Yahoo’s marketing and worldwide, branding according to CNET News.

“Yahoo is at an impor-

tant and unique inflection point in its storied history,” Savitt said in a press release.

“I believe passionately in Yahoo’s ability to inspire and delight users, partners and advertisers around the world and am excited to join Marissa in defining Yahoo’s next chapter.”

A history and government double major during her time at Cornell, Savitt served as executive vice president and CMO of American Eagle Outfitters and as a vice president of Amazon.com before she founded Lockerz, according to Fox Business. Lockerz,

with more than 45 million users, focuses on selling products to men and women between the ages of 13 and 30, according to CNET News.

“We are very excited to welcome Kathy to Yahoo,” Mayer said in a press release. “Her extensive experience in building and refining well-loved consumer brands Amazon, like American Eagle Outfitters and Lockerz will be incredibly valuable as we define Yahoo’s future.”

— Compiled by David Marten

Tickets for Swedish D.J. Avicii’s Homecoming Weekend show sold out faster than any other show in Cornell Concert Commission’s history. The roughly 4,800 tickets were all sold in just 35 minutes.

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“Tickets went on sale at 9 a.m. Enough said. I don’t even get out of bed until noon most days.”

— Already Sleep Deprived ’13 “Ohhh sometimes, I get a good feeling ... yeah. I get a feeling that I never, never, never had before ... no no.”

— Pumped for the Show ’14 “As if I need one. Two words: Press. Passes. ” — Discerning Arts Editor ’14 — Compiled by Jonathan Dawson

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Prof: NYC Tech Is a ‘Chance to Create Something Brand New’ then customize customers’ experiences.

“Imagine walking into a supermarket. Right now, you walk into it and all of the aisles are arranged in a one size fits all manner — there’s clothes here, toiletries, maybe electronics in the back,” Belongie told The Sun. “Imagine you walk into the store and it is instantly rearranged, to the point where you feel like all of the stuff you are interested in is right there. It knows how tall you are and puts all the stuff at eye level that is most interesting to you.”

Manohar will be teaching “Physical Computing,” a class designed to teach students how to design electronics

“How often do you have a new campus of this magnitude being formed with the backing of ... Cornell and Technion and, of course, the city?”

Prof. Rajit Monahar that interact with the environment, like sophisticated home temperature control systems. As part of the course, students will design and build one such device.

A professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Manohar has been involved in CornellNYC Tech from the time it was just a proposal in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s highly publicized competition. More recently, Manohar was a co-chair for the tech campus’ Academic Planning Committee, which is creating a set of requirements for the degrees that will be offered at the tech campus.

Manohar said he believes that the tech campus could revolutionize the way students in science, technology and math connect their work to the world.

“What students learn at Cornell, real technology and science and engineering ... is something they don’t always realize how much impact they might be able to have, because they don’t see the problems people are facing,” Manohar said. “The tech campus is a place that will be able to have a much closer relationship with real issues that people are facing. It’s a much bigger opportunity to go out and do things that’ll change the world.”

In contrast, Belongie, who teaches in California, is a more recent addition to the brains behind the tech campus. He is set to teach classes for one semester before returning to UC San Diego.

Belongie said his interest was piqued during last year’s fierce competition between several universities to win the right to build a tech campus on Roosevelt Island.

Although rumors in California suggested that Stanford, largely considered Cornell’s biggest competitor, would win the bid, Belongie said that he was intrigued by the

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fact that Cornell ultimately won.

“I felt that had Stanford won, in some sense it would suggest that Stanford would be bringing some of the Silicon Valley-style approach to New York, because that’s where Stanford has excelled traditionally; they’re such an integral part of the culture in Silicon Valley,” Belongie said. “The idea that a different university won, one that’s actually from New York State, presents a really neat opportunity to create something brand new instead of a copy of something that exists somewhere else.”

Manohar agreed that working at CornellNYC tech is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

“There may be a new university or a new campus being formed, but how often do you have a new campus of this magnitude being formed with the backing of universities like Cornell and Technion and, of course, the city?” Manohar said.

Manohar plans to begin teaching in New York City during the spring semester. He said he will try to alternate semesters between the tech campus and Cornell’s campus in Ithaca.

He admitted that transitioning between the two cities on a semester-long basis would be difficult.

Still, Manohar said, “I think it’s worth it. It will be.”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun.com.

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Watchers Will Monitor Drinking, Reckless Behavior WATCHERS

ing, sexual assault and reckless behavior, Mueller said. The students will blend in as regular party-goers, and will only come at the consent of the party’s host. they are supervising.

“If tons of students, including social leaders on campus, John Mueller ’13, a member of the Watchers’ executive are trained to identify dangers, more people will be responboard, said that the Watchers are also currently recruiting sible to respond in these risky situations,” Gitlin said. students to join the program in order to comprehensively Rather than prevent drinking at parties, the Watchers address the effects of binge-drinking. could give someone a glass of water or observe party guests’ “We want to decidedly decrease the negative effects behavior to make sure they are not being endangered by alcohol use, Mueller said.

“In the end, I hope we can create a culture where it’s normal to tell someone that “In the end, I hope we can create a culture where they should have a cup of water and skip it’s normal to tell someone that they should have a that next shot of liquor,” Mueller said. “We may not all agree on what high risk drinking cup of water and skip that next shot of liquor.” is, but we can all agree that we don’t want people to drink dangerously.”

John Mueller ’13 Students will also be prepared to handle more serious situation. According to Eric spawning from alcohol over-consumption,” Mueller said. Silverberg ’14, another member of the Watchers’ executive “Whether that involves the long term effects of drinking or board, the Watchers will be extensively trained in first aid the short term problems such as going to the hospital, wak- and able to identify instances of alcohol abuse. ing up with a hangover or damage to property in However, the “Watchers” will not have authority to disCollegetown, these are simple things that can be fixed in cipline any organization or student, Silverberg said. order to make students’ college experience easier.”

“They don’t work with the intent of reporting any cases.

Trained students will be compensated for attending par- There wouldn’t be any disciplinary repercussions,” ties and monitoring them for instances of alcohol poison- Silverberg said. “As a former fraternity president, I’d welContinued from page 1

come students who are actually trained for such emergencies. The sober monitors we had last year were not as attentive, because they never had any training to spot situations where students are put in harm’s way.”

Mueller said that the group will instead serve as an “extra set of eyes and ears” for the party’s host or the organization’s president. Mueller said he believes both Greek and non-Greek events could benefit from the opportunity, noting the service would be completely free and voluntary for all student organizations.

“It’s not like we are going to go into people’s parties and ruin their fun,” Mueller said. “We’re not interfering with anyone’s partying. We just want to make people aware of risky behaviors, to prevent it from getting to the point where you need to bring in an ambulance or call the police.”

Gitlin also said that he hopes the Cayuga’s Watchers proposal will reach on and off campus events and organizations.

“We definitely want to see the plan be adopted by the Greek system,” said Interfraternity Council President Chris Sanders ’13.

Sanders, however, acknowledged that the IFC has yet to engage in a robust discussion on the extent of the Watchers’ involvement in Greek life.

Harrison Okin can be reached at hokin@cornellsun.com.

Beck ’42 Had ‘Charm That Would Light Up a Room’ BECK

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in the hotel industry. In 1973, he founded the Master of Professional Studies program, which later became the Master of Management in Hospitality, and launched the hotel school’s executive education program.

According to both current and former faculty, Beck had a profound impact on those he came into contact with during his time as dean.

“He had personally — and he instilled in the school — a high level of expectation of excellence,” said Prof.

Emeritus Neal Geller ’64, hotel administration, who was named the first Robert A. Beck Professor of Hospitality Financial Management. “It made me really proud to be the first Robert A. Beck professor.”

Beck’s influence extended to the hotel school’s curriculum of which he expanded the scope to give students both an interdisciplinary and international research focus. He also integrated technology into the curriculum by incorporating classes on computing and by hiring faculty members with engineering backgrounds.

“He took a technical and managerial approach to hotel management. He had a strong belief in that. There were five of us on the faculty who were Cornell engineers, and he liked engineers for the way we thought and the way we talked,” said Prof. Emeritus Richard Moore ’67, hotel administration, whom Beck hired.

Beck established research partner-

the program ... He was very proactive on the gender basis.”

Despite his numerous projects both at Cornell and abroad, Beck was known for spending much of his time interacting with hotel school students, both during daily coffee hours and down time between classes.

“He certainly had stature, but he was friendly and he “He certainly had stature, but he was tried to make it a point that he was accessible to friendly and he tried to make it a point students. He had an open that he was accessible to students.” door policy,” Moore said.

“There was a chemistry Prof. Emeritus Richard Moore ’67 class that was taught nearby, and students would in terms of the professionalism of the come back from that class and pass the faculty and the international stature of dean’s office. He always made sure that the school,” said Prof. Emeritus Richard he was out in the hall at that time, Penner ’68, hotel administration, who working on the bulletin board or just was hired during Beck’s tenure. “He was standing there, so that students would also interested in faculty doing research, see him and he could say hello to but he made sure that teaching was still them.”

According to faculty, Beck was also a their foremost [concern].”

During his tenure, undergraduate dignified and authoritative leader. He enrollment in the hotel school doubled. expected professionalism from his According to Dean Michael Johnson, peers, but was also known for his sense under Beck’s direction, the school par- of humor and friendliness, faculty said.

“I was a former architect, and one ticularly increased female involvement in hospitality at a time when the field day, I wore a brown leather jacket and a brown turtleneck, and I believe he said was dominated by males.

“The hotel industry was a very male- to me, ‘My, you look like an architect dominated industry. The perception today,’” Penner said. “He mostly wore was that you took a 14-year-old young ties and was a pretty old-school guy man, made him a bellhop in a hotel, who liked people to dress up to teach, and over time he became a general man- but he was a great guy.”

Johnson, the dean, said that he will ager in a hotel,” Johnson said. “Dean Beck was the one who really started most remember Beck for his charming growing the number of women on the demeanor and his humor, which faculty and the number of women in endured into his old age. ships in Latin America and France, including a joint masters program between several French universities and the hotel school, from 1979 until 2004.

Beck also sent several Cornell professors, many of whom were on sabbatical leave, to teach there.

“He did a lot to improve the faculty

Once, Johnson said, he, Beck and some alumni were eating lunch. Beck was 89 years old and used a walker.

“While we were eating lunch, he saw two 78-year-old ladies eating lunch all by themselves. Beck, in all of his charm, went with his walker and made a beeline for these two ladies and asked, ‘what are two beautiful ladies like you doing all alone at a place like this?’”

Johnson said. “He made their day. He just had a charm that would light up a room.”

Beck’s legacy at Cornell continues in the form of the Robert A. Beck ’42 Scholarship Fund, which was founded in his honor in 1984 to provide scholarships to undergraduates in the hotel school.

In 1961, Beck, then 41, was the youngest member of the faculty when he was appointed the hotel school’s second dean and H.B. Meek’s successor by Cornell President Deane Malott.

Faculty say that his impact on the school was immediate.

“I have great admiration for him. He was a great orator, and he commanded respect, but he was not dictatorial,” Moore, the professor hired by Beck, said. “I am amazed because we have had deans, and we’ve had three or four deans since him, but people always speak about ‘the Dean’ with a capital D, and that was [Beck].”

Beck is survived by three daughters, two sons-in-law, seven grandchildren, and his extended family.

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ith the rapid rise of modern technologies, it’s not surprising that we’re finally starting to catch up with our technology. Cell phones gave us the first viable means of portable communication; now, onetouch access to the global network jostles along in our back pockets.

Facebook brought us just one click away from a new “friend,” whether it be the cute guy sitting across the room in Econ or a long-lost cousin living halfway across the world. Skype took us one step further, providing the intimacy of a face-to-face conversation at the convenience of two people miles apart.

Our ever-growing world is rapidly shrinking.

So why not bring this technology

Cornell and Yale. Last semester, the Cornell students had the unique opportunity to visit the Johnson Museum and give a live presentation about the art of the Dutch Golden Age to Yale, facilitated by the Skype application on an iPad. Far from feeling isolated from a separate classroom hundreds of miles away, Cornell students still feel connected to the professor and their Yale classmates.

Hosea makes semesterly visits to Cornell to see her students in person and holds a special mandatory office hours on Skype every few weeks to simply check in with the students and see how they are doing.

However, distance learning is not without its downfalls. Technology,

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into the modern-day classroom? The Dutch distance learning program between Cornell University and Yale University does just that. Cornell students learning Dutch participate in group activities, give presentations and converse with their professors in classroom G05 of the Language Resource Center. The catch? Their professor and their Yale classmates are 261 miles away, broadcasting from Yale’s Center for Language Study.

Due to the University’s economic woes, the College of Arts and Sciences made the decision to cut the Dutch program, which ended after Spring 2011. As a result, Dutch lecturer Chrissy Hosea made the transition from one Ivy League to another and established the inaugural Dutch Studies Program at Yale University in Fall 2011. Current Dutch students, however, still have the chance to participate in a distance-learning pilot program, in which classes taught by Hosea at Yale are transmitted to Cornell without rupturing the simultaneity and interaction of a traditional setup. Hosea and her students communicate with each other via a configuration of cameras, microphones and a large video screen. Group work is done face-to-face on computer workstations, with constant feedback from the professor.

Though some remain skeptical of distance-learning courses, the Dutch program has proved itself to be on the cutting edge of educational technology.

To some extent, the pilot program has been successful thus far due to the sophisticated high-tech gear; however, it is Hosea’s creativity that magnificently brings two classrooms into one. Her unconventional teaching methods are enhanced by the seemingly infinite possibilities that this setup offers. When discussing a particular city, she can pull up Google Maps and annotate specific regions using a SMART Board. News clips and articles covering current events in the Netherlands are only a click away. Students work together on the workstations to write and edit texts together. Every so often they play Pictionary to practice vocabulary words, using a tablet to sketch an image that is projected on the screens at both

though amazing in its capacity, is not always reliable, and can be limited by external — and often uncontrollable — factors. Video and audio connections between Yale and Cornell are sometimes disrupted by a malfunctioning audio system or an exceptionally poor Internet connection, which takes precious minutes away from productive class time. Lesson plans and activities will occasionally fall through, leaving Hosea and her technology specialist and assistant to quickly come up with an alternative. Beyond the classroom, Yale and Cornell run on different academic calendars and have discrepancies between official class times. In order for the continued success of a program like Dutch, preparation and communication between the two institutions is key.

Although this distance-learning experience leaves students feeling confident in their language abilities, there also remains the question of the limits of distance learning for the Cornell and its proposed consortium with Columbia and Yale. As the University begins to shift toward the gradual employment of distance-learning courses for smaller language programs, how will the students — and the professors who teach the courses — be affected in the long run?

As always, Cornell’s motto of “any person ... any study” arises whenever the University mentions the termination of an academic program. Students with an aptitude for foreign languages are attracted to Cornell for its myriad of offerings, from Arabic to Zulu.

Graduate students conducting research rely on tutelage from professors in these departments to read primary texts.

Heritage speakers develop a cultural identity by formally studying their mother tongue.

Thankfully, the Dutch program lives on through airwaves and soundbites.

Distance learning has officially arrived; how well can it bridge the gap?

Moniek van Rheenen is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at mjv63@cornell.edu. Guest Room appears periodically this semester.

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ou hear the term “quality of life” used a lot in veterinary medicine because maintaining it is the primary goal of treating patients. I’ve been in vet school for over a year now and I think I’m finally starting to wrap my head around the concept.

I couldn’t tell you when I first heard somebody say “quality of life” because it’s so ingrained in every aspect of animal care. It sounds like a no-brainer — of course you would want to maintain an animal’s quality of life, why is it even worth discussing? However, when you think about it more, it’s a concept that is exquisitely unique to veterinary medicine. In human medicine, although doctors work to alleviate the pain and suffering of their patients, for the most part the primary goal is to keep the person alive no matter what. Terminally ill patients are kept alive even if it means that they’re bedridden and hooked up to machines — assisted suicide is currently only legal in three states in the United States and a handful of European countries. But in veterinary medicine, veterinarians and owners have complete control over when they want to end the suffering of their animals.

So the question becomes, how do you draw that line between treatable and in too much pain to help? For the purposes of this discussion, let’s eliminate money from the equation. I know this is unrealistic and more often than not the decision to euthanize an animal boils down to how much treatment its owner can afford (which is a whole other issue), but let’s pretend that we’re dealing with an owner who has unlimited funds at his disposal. We’ll call him George. Say that George has a two-year-old golden retriever named Turk, and Turk has been hit by a car. You’re the vet, and George tells you to do whatever you can to save Turk. Although Turk’s injuries are severe, fortunately you’re able to save him after several hours in surgery followed by weeks of recovery. What if Turk was 13-years-old (very old for a golden)? Do you tell George that the stress of surgery and the painful recovery will be too much for Turk, and that he should consider euthanizing him so that he doesn’t have to suffer?

Let’s try another scenario that’s even more complicated.

Turk has arthritis that you’ve been managing with anti-

inflammatory medication. However, arthritis is a chronic, progressive disease and the medication only treats the symptoms. How do you know when Turk’s pain is no longer being managed well enough and is affecting his quality of life?

You could argue that it’s all up to the owners — they know the animals best and they’ll just know when it’s time.

There are two problems with this, though. One is that it’s often hard for people to make accurate judgments when it comes to pets that they love. They think that just because the animal is sleeping and eating everything is fine, even if it can barely walk to relieve itself. I know that even I am guilty of being slightly psychotic and unreasonable when it comes to my animals, though technically I should know better. So I know that often it takes an outside eye to point out facts that the owner is missing.

The other problem is that as humans, we tend to anthropomorphize animals a little too much. We assume that they want to be treated just like we would want to be treated ourselves, even if it means prolonging their lives when they’re clearly suffering. On the flip side of this, even “clearly suffering” is hard to judge — even though the basic neurological pathways are the same as in humans, we can’t really know if their conscious acknowledgement of pain means the same thing for them as it does for us. Which brings us to the crux of the issue — when we talk about quality of life, how do we know what that means for the animal?

One thing that I’ve come to realize about animals is that disease is much less of a psychological process for them than it is for us. For example, my horse had some type of infection last year and he had a high fever. When his temperature was up, he wouldn’t eat or drink and just stood listlessly in a corner of his stall. Within half an hour of being medicated to bring his temperature down, he would turn

around and start eating and drinking again. He didn’t know that the tube of gross paste that I had squirted into his mouth had anything to do with it; he just knew that he felt better. When a person is sick like that though, and their fever goes down enough for them to physiologically feel well enough to eat, their minds often still say “No, I’m sick, I don’t feel like acting normal.”

So it really comes down to understanding what’s normal. Veterinarians have an advantage with this because after a while they see enough normal cases that they can form a baseline quality of care assessment based off of personal

Nikhita Parandekar Hoof in Mouth experience. People with this kind of experience have created pain scales to try and quantify the suffering of animals, with signs ranging from pacing to hiding to vocalizing. I think that, as students, we just take these scales at face value because we know that they’re made by people significantly more knowledgeable than we are, but knowing that and understanding it are two different things. In the end, the quality of care assessment is based on a combination of the owner’s perception of what is normal for the individual animal and the vet’s objectivity and knowledge of what is normal for the species in general. The two parties can work together to come up with the best possible outcome for the animal.

Nikhita Parandekar graduated from Cornell in 2011 and is a first-year veterinary student in the Cornell College of Veterinary Medicine. She may be reached at nparandekar@cornellsun.com. Hoof in Mouth appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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his past year saw a substantial amount of media coverage regarding Cornell’s bid to build a tech campus in New York City, far away from its main campus in Ithaca, N.Y. With the success behind us and the campaign fervor now fully ebbed, a new spotlight was recently cast on Cornell’s already-established N.Y.C. campus — Weill Cornell Medical College.

For those of you who decided to tune into network television this summer, you

familiar with Cornell’s small, but equally important, other campus.

Despite the century-old existence of two separate Cornell University campuses, the relationship between both sites remains all but unknown to most, even within the Cornell community. In fact, when I was an undergrad up on the Hill, very few of my friends had even heard of the N.Y.C. campus, and none of them had ever been there, myself included.

Similarly, only about 10 percent of my

David Roy ’08 What’s Up, Doc? may have noticed a new doctor show on T.V. Fortunately, this was anything but the well-worn doctor dramas of the past 15 years. Through laughs, tears and occasional grimaces, millions tuned in to watch ABC’s newest medical documentary, N.Y. Med. Set in the busy hallways of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Cornell’s main teaching affiliate, every foible and forte was featured for all to see, as students and faculty worked together to bring world-class medical care to the diverse patient population of New York. In a span of eight short weeks, millions of Americans became

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current med school classmates have ever set foot on the Ithaca campus — the 10 percent who studied there as undergraduates.

As many med students can attest, this interesting geographical configuration leads to repeated clarifications with family and new friends alike. The confusion magnified when the name was changed to “Weill Cornell” a decade ago,to reflect Sandy Weill’s generous financial contribution to the college. In all fairness, it has taken me several years to fully understand the unique nature of WCMC and how it fits into the larger University structure. I can understand

how current undergraduates might be a bit curious about their peers a couple hundred miles south.

Cornell University’s medical college was originally established in 1898 and composed of a pre-clinical curriculum in Ithaca (Stimson Hall) and a clinical hands-on component in New York City.

Within a decade or so, the early coursework on the main campus was phased out and the N.Y.C. campus took over all responsibility for training future Cornell doctors. By 1927, Cornell had partnered with New York Hospital, its clinical affiliate, and soon the Upper East Side campus was made permanent. Today, Weill Cornell functions as a semi-autonomous unit, with its own Board of Overseers that is most analogous to the University’s Board of Trustees. Following a hospital merger between Cornell’s New York Hospital and Columbia’s Presbyterian (NewYork-Presbyterian) in 1998, the school’s prestige and prowess have continued to grow.

Despite cross-collaborations between faculty from both campuses, as well as coordinated administrative planning, the student bodies rarely interact. Except for the Cornell-operated bus service, there are few meaningful connections that are visible to students. Due to this fundamental disconnect, this column was created with the goal of bridging the gap between both locations while offering relevant — and free — health-related information for members of the main campus community. Of course, this is not a substitute for a medical opinion

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from a licensed professional. Regardless, the need for clear and concise summaries of complex medical issues is growing, and we would like to help satisfy this craving for greater transparency from the medical profession.

In the past few years, we have published articles on a broad range of topics ranging from global health initiatives to tips as a first-responder. We’ve informed readers on the dangers of combination O.T.C. medications as well as the myriad ways to get sick when kissing. This upcoming year should be just as informative and fun. It is our hope that these articles can prove useful on a personal level and also serve to initiate discourse on important contemporary health issues and related policy.

Starting today, a new article will be published every two weeks, each from a different member of the WCMC community. Of note, this conduit serves to connect both campuses, with information ideally travelling in both directions.

So, please don’t hesitate to contact the writer if there are any comments or concerns. Good luck this semester and stay healthy!

David Roy ’08 is a post-MS3 medical student at Weill Cornell Medical College and an HHMI Advanced Medical Research Fellow at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. He also coordinates the What’s Up, Doc? column this semester. He may be reached at dmr2002@med.cornell.edu. What’s Up, Doc? appears alternate Fridays this semester.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT BEYOND HYPE, FAME AND TRAGEDY

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BY DAVEEN KOH Sun Arts and Entertainment Editor

Films are dangerous. The Irish film historian Mark Cousins recognizes this. In his documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, he treads carefully, leading the viewer through a riot of bullets and blood. The muddied battlefield, featured in the critically-acclaimed Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan, is in actuality a peaceful beach. Filmmaking, Cousins declares, is “a lie to tell the truth.”

Urgent and cogent, Cousins’ 15-hour retelling of the history of film is part love-letter and part apostolic epistle. The epic documentary is now showing in two-hour segments at the Schwartz Center as a semester-long Cornell Cinema series.

Cousins’ gospel is cinematic truth, and his mission is to redraw the conventional roadmap of cinema history, which is “factually inaccurate and racist by omission.” This is a strong charge, but one that Cousins passionately defends by designing what he has called, in a recent San Francisco Chronicle interview, a highly personal “tasting menu” of landmark films.

The story of film is a story of greatness, Cousins persuades us, and the only way to appreciate this greatness is to go global. For too long, the spotlight has been disproportionately stolen by Hollywood and its trappings, “full of yearning, story and stardom.” Cousins begins by knocking Casablanca off its pedestal as one of the reigning film classics. As Humphrey Bogart locks eyes with Ingrid Bergman to the immortal tune As Time Goes By, Cousins bluntly observes that such lush films are too romantic to be truly great.

The problem with romantic films, he points out, is that they are “always in a rush.” In the real classics, there is time for the poetry of the mundane — a chiming clock, a scurrying cat, a burbling kettle and a square window filled with smaller squares. A good director orchestrates these details to establish the rhythm of a house, as Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates in his 1947 film Record of a Tenement Gentleman, the first of many Japanese films Cousins praises lavishly.

“Hollywood is not classical,” Cousins decisively concludes early in the film, “Japan is.”

As a crash course in film history, The Story of Film fares well.

Cousins is an efficient, quick-witted teacher on whom few ironies are lost. He takes pains to ensure that these ironies are not lost on his pupils, who will quickly learn to greet terms like “golden age” with suspicion and bemusement.

The tour begins with the birth of film in Thomas Edison’s

New Jersey studio, and segues into the glories of the golden age of world cinema. The trauma of war then takes center stage; Cousins shows how World War II both sobered film and made it more daring, culminating in the explosive maturing of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s as films like The Graduate and Taxi Driver came to fruition.

The 1980s saw the triumph of the multiplexes, flowering of Bollywood and the rise of the protest movies in response to Thatcherism.

Another golden age arose in the 1990s, as Shinya Tsukamoto reinvented the Japanese horror film, Abbas Kiarostami reinterpreted realism in Iranian film, and the Coen brothers made flashiness fashionable.

Does, and must, film have a moral purpose? Cousins suggests that it does. If film is a language, then it must be wielded astutely. But the world of film is populated with villains and heroes, and it is not always easy to tell one from the other.

The prolific director D.W. Griffith, master of punctum, used his talents in a “deceitful” way. (Punctum, as defined by the critic Roland Barthes, is anything unplanned and natural that pricks our feelings when we watch a film.) Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation helped inspire a generation of racism.

He portrayed black characters as drunk, unclean and disorderly; he cast the Ku Klux Klan as an army of light. Formerly on the verge of extinction, Klan membership soared to four million in the 1920s.

To borrow the words of the 13th century Latin grammarian Terentianus Maurus: according to the capabilities of the viewer, films have their destiny. Adolf Hitler was so impressed by Metropolis, he reportedly made prisoners build a gargantuan ramp resembling the one in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film. The futuristic German expressionist film, now

widely regarded as prophetic, was about an urban dystopia.

Cousins likes telling things as they are. The film is at its most poignant when Cousins recites the obituaries of mistreated cinematic heroes, who like Jean Dujardin’s character in The Artist, languish after the spotlights are gone. At the height of her career, the first movie star Florence Lawrence earned $80,000. She committed suicide at 48, after her career declined. An unfortunate chapter in the history of film, defined by “hype, fame and tragedy,” had begun.

Early Hollywood was Fordist, a crass manufacturer of myths. The studio system purged filmmaking of art. A deft employer of motifs, Cousins depicts Hollywood as a shiny red bauble dangling over a cliff — gaudy, mass-produced and vulnerable.

Directors had their dreams cut down to size by studio bosses. Sitting in bland, slab-like buildings, brilliant set designers crafted exquisite landscapes. Movie moguls built film palaces, where people could go to have a taste of utopia after a hard day’s work.

These ironies are captured brilliantly by Cousins.

Cousins does not hate Hollywood. He acknowledges that a lot of good has come out of the concentration of money and talent in the once lawless Californian wilderness. In the 15th installment, which focuses on post-9/11 films, Cousins lauds David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Christopher Nolan’s Inception for their complexity. Early Hollywood was also a generous employer of the highly creative but marginalized immigrants, women and Jews. Prior to 1925, women penned half of Hollywood’s screenplays.

Like a tourist on a museum tour, the viewer stops and stares, and the story of film is made tactile. This is the dressing table at which Marilyn Monroe turned blond. This is the obsessively organized desk, at which Thomas Edison dreamed up lighting devices and story ideas. This is the first Lumiere camera, which enthralled the first cinemagoers in the 1890s.

The story of film, Cousins reminds us, is real.

Parts One and Two of The Story of Film: An Odyssey will be screened for a second time on Tuesday, September 4, at 7:15 p.m. at the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts. This Cornell Cinema series concludes on November 13.

Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning. She can be contacted at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun.com.

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Sun’s Gonna Rise: Fall Music Preview

BY GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

Well, kids, it’s the last day of August and that means one thing: fall is in full swing. But if you’re anything like me, you’ve already lost at least half of your syllabi, and the fresh new pack of pencils you bought last week is nearing empty.

The room you were so determined to keep clean this year now has clothing strewn across it, and your first prelim is just on the horizon. And for us music geeks, fall means another thing: festival season is over. Well, never fear, as Ithaca’s autumn lineup is here to shield you from the everincreasing ennui. This fall, treat yourself to one of the many exciting concerts in town.

As per usual, the calendar is loaded with shows put on by the illustrious Mr. Dan Smalls ’92, who is pretty much the Santa Claus of Ithaca concert promotion. Dan Smalls Presents kicks off its fall season next Friday, when indie-ska rappers AER groove their way through The Haunt.

Opening for the Massachusetts-based bromantics are rapper Yonas, New Zealand sensation David Dallas and Captaincy, a local artist from Ithaca College. Two days later, saunter on down to the State Theatre for an intimate evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter. The acclaimed performer will wow you with tunes from her new album, and probably break a few hearts along the way. Next up, everyone’s favorite (only?) Berkeley trip-hop band WHY? plays The Haunt on September 11. Known for their creative compositions and bizarre, often discomfiting lyrics, WHY? will certainly put on a unique — and awesome — show.

Let’s take a moment of silence to honor the probably tiny population of people that are fans of both Josh Ritter and Das Racist, as the wildly different artists both play on the September15. The Ithaca College Bureau of Concerts will

welcome frenetic, self-aware hip-hop group Das Racist to Emerson Suites, while Josh Ritter’s country crooning will woo every creature within a two-block radius of the State.

On September 22, we’ll celebrate the one weekend of the year Cornellians pretend to care about football with Cornell Concert Commission’s annual Homecoming concert, this year featuring Swedish producer Avicii. Get ready for the same kind of drunken frat party that last year’s B.o.b. show was. Let’s just hope Avicii remembers to pay his tab at Level B. As we make our way into rainy October, try and ignore the feeling of impending doom that inevitably accompanies prelim season. After all, what’s the point of studying when you’ve got approximately one trillion great shows to choose from? On the October 2, pretend you’re not quite so close to Canada as bluesy Southerners the North Mississippi Allstars rock The Haunt. Later that week, catch comedyrapper Mike Stud — the future King of Bro-dom — or transcendent folk band the Great Lake Swimmers. In midOctober, Dan Smalls Presents brings a trifecta of fantastic music. First, The Haunt presents Zammuto, the awesome hyperactive solo project of Nick from The Books, on October 12. Next they get The Mountain Goats, the brilliant lyricist and lo-fi rocker that stunned Castaways (R.I.P) in 2011. Then, Cat Power will treat the State to a night of gorgeous, haunting confessionals. The month rounds out with Gov’t Mule and the Indigo Girls at the State. On October 27, enjoy Allman Brothers Band side project Gov’t Mule, before getting out your Birkenstocks for moody folk duo the Indigo Girls on Halloween Eve. Come November, the sun will have pretty much disappeared behind a wall of gray for the foreseeable future.

Regardless, Citizen Cope will show up to chant “Son’s Gonna Rise” at us, perhaps laughing as we sadly break out our mittens and jackets. The very next night, the State will host Bela Fleck’s New York Banjo Summit. Now, I’m not

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entirely clear on the concept of a “banjo summit,” but anything that involves prominent banjo player Bela Fleck and, presumably, an insane number of other strummers, sounds pretty freaking fantastic. For the less banjo-oriented, sit it out a few days and catch Jewish hip-hop artist Matisyahu or classic songwriter John Hiatt.

Basically, the fall lineup has something for everyone.

From this list of shows to the dozens of others I couldn’t quite squeeze in, Ithaca’s music scene is truly amazing. Sure, fall brings problem sets and papers and, worst of all, pants, but it’s rare that a city of 60,000 can boast such a thriving music culture. So please, take a break from procrastinating to enjoy one of the stellar concerts Ithaca has to offer.

Gina Cargas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be contacted at gcargas@cornellsun.com.

Tourism Is Art A

midst the bustle of modern Kyoto lies a world of vermillion Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples gilt with tarnished patinas of bronze and gold, flaking with age and the effects of the tempestuous seasons. This year, I visited Kyoto at the height of summer. In August, Japan is not spared from the vicious heat. I could feel the land sag under the pounding of the sun’s rays. It is said, however, that the temples of Japan offer solace for the weary traveler in all seasons, offering shade and a meditative space in which to escape the strictures of the world. According to guidebooks and websites, these places are oases of calm tucked away amidst the bustle of quotidian existence.

Needless to say, however, that this glimmering vision is, at times, not quite borne out by reality. To step into a Buddhist temple in Kyoto is not quite the transcendent experience it is made out to be. First, of course, there are the often exorbitant entrance fees. Second are the crowds of tourists from all over the world, in their little flag-waving tour groups, jockeying and hustling for position at an appropriately photogenic spot where they grimace at a camera whilst chattering excitedly to themselves before being whisked away to another destination. Third are the endless “entry prohibited” signs and carefully placed barriers that shunt sightseers along a safe, well-defined route, like a dungeon crawl in some sword and sorcery RPG. Lastly, the stalls at the end point selling a variety of overpriced and vaguely relevant souvenirs: temple charms, sweets and trinkets. In a world like that, how is solace to be found

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amidst beauty?

You see, travelling is an aesthetic experience. The tourist is the visitor to the vast museum of the sightseeing destination. The temples and shrines of Kyoto are art. The distinction of tourism as a form of artistic appreciation is that art is often interactive; photo-taking lets the aesthete take back and isolate pieces of the art, and the freedom to explore the area lets the aesthete define his or her own, unique path of experience. And the art piece itself is, of course, of the greatest importance; it is art because of its exceptional and transcendental beauty, be it a natural landscape, a building or an experience.

As a form of artistic appreciation, however, sightseeing has its own dark side. Art is inextricable from power and money. The best art is sold for millions to the highest bidder. Deciding what is good art is often not so much a democratic process, as it is decided by a cabal of self-declared experts who dictate what is worth seeing and what isn’t, by their own byzantine criteria of selection. How does one decide whether the

Colin Chan Armchair Aesthetics resplendent Kinkaku-ji, a golden pavilion that appears to float over a beautiful pond, deserves to be designated a UNESCO world heritage site, when the mysterious and alluring maze of torii gate pathways that is the Fushimi Inari shrine isn’t? Having been designated sites of special beauty, they open the

floodgates to thousands of tourists, generating opportunities for economic gain through the selling of trinkets and souvenirs, and the charging of entrance fees.

Finally, they make it necessary for the immense volume of visitors to be channeled along a strictly defined path so as to avoid congestion and despoiling the attraction. It becomes a self-reinforcing cycle: tourists, faced with a dearth of information, turn to guidebooks that invariably highlight the most famous and glamorized sites, generating further income flows.

The worst part is that any traveler, myself included, is part of the problem. These places belong to the world, and as such everyone has as much of a right as I do to see them. But the act of opening up these places of beauty is to besmirch them, to turn them into less than they are, to transform the transcendent experience into one less profound.

The alternative — limiting these attractions to a select few, whether through exorbitant fees or a draconian application process — creates toll gates from which the powerful can potentially screen supplicants based on their political or economic clout. That is a worse solution.

Of course, one could suggest visiting these places in their off-peak seasons, or visiting less well-known temples and shrines.

But that, too, is a diminishing of the experience. Say what you will about aesthetic

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beauty being accessible even in the most everyday places, but I believe that the unique brand of aesthetic beauty that is the holy grail of the sightseer is found less in the commonplace, but in the exceptional.

Otherwise, why travel when one can appreciate the everyday beauty around himself or herself? Likewise, in a place like Kyoto, where temples and gardens are placed in a hierarchy of beauty, the most beautiful, grand or transcendent experiences are almost invariably the most visited.

What’s a sightseer to do? The very act of aesthetic appreciation sullies the art that is being appreciated, like an artsy version of the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle. One way or another, there is no escape from this catch-22, at least in a much-visited destination like Kyoto. Of course, there are pockets of wild beauty in the world that are inaccessible by the average sightseer. I’ll grant you that. But of course, there’s the eternal lament of the traveler: if it weren’t that difficult to get to, I’d be going already.

Colin Chan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be contacted at cchan@cornellsun.com.

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Los Angeles Times Daily Crossword Puzzle Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

ACROSS 1 With 70-Across, what you’d likely have if you said this puzzle’s four longest answers 5 Concerning 9 Frequent settler 13 Online “Seems to me ...”

14 Mother of Judah 15 After-school treat 16 Weeded carelessly?

19 __ glance 20 Dote on 21 Stop from spreading 23 Short 25 Arctic diver 27 Jurist in ’90s news 28 Editor’s rejection of a tribute?

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9 “I’m such an idiot!”

10 “Topaz” novelist 11 Conscious 12 Simultaneously 17 Summer Olympics equipment 18 Hard to debate 22 They might swing 24 Chased away 26 __-El: Superman’s birth name 29 Canadian Thanksgiving mo.

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32 Leave 35 Figure on the ice 36 Placekicker’s target 37 Produce prolifically 39 Answer to a prob.

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43 Clock-setting std.

45 Almost half a glass?

47 Per 48 Microscopic alga 49 ESPN effect 53 Staggering 54 Went (with) 56 “Why not” 58 Give 59 Wasn’t guessing 60 Country runners: Abbr.

63 Hot air 64 Corner key

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Puzzle #2361

Fill in the empty cells, one number in each, so that each column, row, and region contains the numbers 1-9 exactly once.

Each number in the solution therefore occurs only once in each of the three “directions,” hence the “single numbers” implied by the puzzle’s name.

(Rules from wikipedia.org/wiki /Sudoku)

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Okay, well I want to talk about Naz (Behzad) ... she has this thing about recording videos, and so instead of recording our show rides silently, like everyone does, she does this play-by-play thing — like a sports commentator. And after (Coach) Chris (Mitchell) reviewed one of her videos, she wasn’t allowed to record for the team ever again. But that doesn’t stop her because, if you’re ever on the bus with her, and you turn your head, it won’t be surprising if she has an iPhone in your face, like that happened to me once. And then another person I want to talk about is AmFan (Amanda Fan). She [was] a senior and she has a talent that anyone would be jealous of because she can eat like no other, like anytime, anywhere, and anything — and she won’t gain a pound from it.

— Katie Rong, Senior in Walk,Trot My friend and teammate Mary Beth Hannon has a really weird talent of telling us these very awkward reproduction facts that she learned about in all her vet classes? And she’ll say it at a very awkward time during team stuff and they’re all really gross and and we’re all like “Awww, Mary Beth!”

— Renee Botelho, Sophomore in Beginner/Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter Rachel (Ruden) and I share a love of “herping,” which totally sounds kinda ... suspect, I know. But it’s really just going out catching frogs and salamanders and snakes, I swear! Leads to a bunch of odd nights in the cold out in the middle of nowhere, getting weird looks from people. Fun times. Thea has some pretty sweet knitting skills and makes all these cool hats and little animals. And Maddie speaks in a British accent. That has to count for something!

— Amanda Sevcik, Junior in Novice So I would say that Emily Webster is like a cat whisperer. All the cats are drawn to her.

Mona, our barn cat, won’t leave her alone and follows her around absolutely everywhere.

It’s like she has a special connection with them that no one else has ... Naz (Behzad) has really good navigational skills. If we’re lost she'll get us anywhere. We got lost in Ohio when we were going to North Carolina and she got us to North Carolina.

— Sofia Steinberger, Sophomore in Intermediate One of my teammates, Amanda Sevcik, really likes Volkswagen buses and ... every time she sees one she likes to take pictures with them. Or ... you know, she just likes to collect pictures of them and she wants to have one one day ... Also, Becca Harrison and I took the same freshman writing seminar with the same professor, but at different semesters, so we like to talk about it — it was a Shakespeare writing seminar — and I make fun of her that she’s going to marry the TA who taught it. And we like to watch Shakespeare films together and stuff like that. So we’re both kind of Shakespeare-obsessed!

— Thea Dickson, Junior in Beginner Walk, Trot, Canter Well, there’s Katie Rong, um, she has this telepathic connection with the TCAT bus drivers ... or something. And she can tell you how to get to Oxley any time of the day off the top of her head. Like “Oh yeah, Route so-and-so will be heading to Statler in about 8 minutes.” And she’s basically more reliable than the bus schedule. That’s her talent. And then there’s Charmaine — also known as The Charmander — whose really good at getting her car to start. Like every morning she can be seen like before practice with a flashlight and the hood up fiddling around with her car ... And then there’s Renee (Botelho) and she’s really good at knowing when I have slept through my alarm and I owe it to her that I was awake for most practices at 6 AM. — Caitlin Parrucci, Sophomore in Novice So I think I have two. First, one of our captains, Emily Kowalchik. She’s like crazy superstitious and I’ve lived with her in our team house on Cook for some time. For example, she wears nail polish all of the time, but on nights before our competitions you would find her freaking out about needing to take it off. She won’t show with it, but always dominates, so it must work. Maybe more of us should try. Also, Thea Dickson’s nickname is “Super Thea” because she’s always doing a million things at once. But, most people, even most teammates, don’t know that she participates in National Novel Writing Month every November for more years than I know. So, while making it to her 15 jobs and 5:45 a.m. practices, she somehow finds time to write books and even sometimes go to class.

— Becca Harrison, Junior formerly in Novice My roommate for the past 2 years, Alexa (Bruer), since I live with her I kind of get to see a different side of her. ’Cause everybody sees like her really strong personality on the team and I don’t think anybody really knows about her secret flute-playing talent? So there was this one night when I heard music coming from her bedroom and I walked in the room and it was like midnight and she was watching this Pirates of the Caribbean video on YouTube and playing along on her flute to the music. And that’s pretty much the only talent I know about anybody on my team.

— Brianna Boub, Senior in Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter Tina Chou can be reached at tchou@cornellsun.com.

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C.U. Kicks Off Its Season With Red to Host No.2 Tar Heels The Majority of Games Away F. HOCKEY

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grabbing five goals and two assists last season.

Seniors Xandra Hompe and Moonie Mancho are also forces to be reckoned with, along with the other younger members of the team, as they are all ready to make this season a winning one.

Farmer added about the forwards, “We have some very good options up front.”

The position of goalie is an interesting one for the 2012-13 team, as they place their faith in the hands of junior Tori Christ. Christ has also been named a tri-captain and plans to lead the team. The Red also welcomed freshmen

Caroline Quentin and Amanda Symons to the team, hoping to add some depth to Cornell’s squad. “[Christ is] a good, confident keeper,” Farmer said. “Her communication is great, and she knows how to maneuver her defense. Tori's a great shot-stopper and is fantastic at one-onones.”

The Red will spend the beginning of its season on the road with seven out of eight games played away from the hill. Ivy League play will begin with a visit to Columbia on Sept. 23.

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun.com.

Squad Looks Forward to Ivy Play its approach and the players think it will pay off against the Ivy League teams.

“I feel like everyone has a shot at the Ivy League,” Reinke said. “There is not a huge gap

Last season Yale dominated the league with a 12-2 record whereas Cornell struggled at 3ate the culture that you want.”

11. That record was under preFor this weekend’s tournavious head coach, Sarah ment, the team looks to try out Bernson, who had three consecnew things and utive losing seasons. switch up the line- “We just have to maintain our competiBatie-Smoose ups to see what owns a 81-43 overall works and what tive mentality throughout the season in record coaching at order to compete.” does not. the Savannah College The Ivy League of Art & Design. She play does not Kelly Reinke also won Sun begin until Sept.

Conference Coach of 22 when the Red plays at between the worst and best the Year in 2009 when she led Columbia. Despite the failures teams. We just have to maintain her team to a conference title. in recent years to have a strong our competitive mentality showing in the Ivy League play, throughout the season in order Scott Eckl can be reached at the team remains confident in to compete.” seckl@cornellsun.com.

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According to junior forward Hannah Balleza, the Red knows that starting the season with a victory can be a jump start to a successful year.

“We’re going into it with an open mind and we know we will certainly have to work hard, but to get the win would be great,” she said.

In its home opener on Saturday, the Red will face a formidable opponent in the No.2 Tar Heels.

North Carolina reached the national championship game last year and will certainly be a challenge for Cornell. However, according to Balleza, facing a strong opponent early in the season is a good test of how well the team is playing and where it needs to improve.

“We haven’t really played any teams that are that highly ranked, and it will definitely show us where we’re at,” she said.

“Hopefully we will all be on the same page for that game and will work hard to show that we can match up to

them. It should be an interesting game for sure.”

Cornell has already played pre-season games in preparation for the season.

According to Mollineaux, the team identified its weaknesses in those matches and has worked to correct them in preparation for tonight’s game.

“We learned where we were breaking down and where we needed to improve,” she said.

“We learned that we needed to work on those things in practice, because we don’t want the same things to happen in real games.”

According to Balleza, strong and coordinated leadership are essential to having a successful season.

“Leadership will be really important for us this year because in order for us to do well on the field, we need people to help direct other players,” she explained. “We have a lot of freshman who are doing really well, but they don’t have enough experience to always knowing where to go on the field, so leadership there is really important.

The Red has made tactical adjustments in order to improve its play, according to Balleza.

“Last year was a little more disconnected, but now we’re playing four defenders, three midfielders, 2 strikers, and one flow player,” she said. “Its a shift from the way we played last year, and so far its been working pretty well.

Cornell has a new assistant coach this season, who made the team’s preparation challenging, but educational.

According to Mollineaux, he has instilled confidence in individual players and in the team as a whole.

“Our new assistant coach is tough, but we’re also learning a lot,” she said. “He really emphasizes that each of us should work on our strengths, so just being confident in knowing what are strengths are as individual players will help build our confidence as a whole. “We are definitely more confident and more prepared than we were last year.”

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun.com.

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Former Sun Staff Photographer Tina Chou called up the 2011-2012 equestrian team, wanting to know more about each of its members. What better way to learn more about a person than to ask her teammates, right?

Okay, um that’s hard, everybody has some really weird talents.

There are some weird girls on my team, including myself, I’m sure.

Okay so I’m gonna go ahead and start with Erika Hooker. Beyond the fact that her last name is Hooker, which is pretty sweet, um ... she could pretty much barbecue roadkill and still make it like, you know, five-star cuisine. She can barbecue better than any guy I’ve ever seen and she loves it. So that’s my secret talent girl.

—Bronwyn Scrivens ’12, Open Naz Behzad … One of her special talents is that she is a trained assassin and has a black belt in jujitsu, but actually she’s not good at that stuff at all or tough because I beat her up all the time. She’s kinda a little bit like a ninja though because her hair color is black, but another thing she’s really good at is giving super horrible random pointless advice. A funny story was when we were on our way to Nationals, we actually named our GPS after her because it was confusing everyone very badly, giving bad directions kind of like how Naz gives bad advice, so we were like screaming at Naz all week even though she wasn’t there with us.

— Mary Beth Hannon, Sophomore in Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter Well, Caroline Rusk, or “Carl” as we fondly call her, has a fascination with birdwatching, and not your run-of-the-mill look out your window and stare at some birds. She actually goes on like day trips to watch birds, I guess, and did research with birds last summer. I also know she has chickens at her house, so I guess day-to-day she just has an avian obsession.

— Emily Kowalchik, Senior in Intermediate Well I’d like to say that as a team first, we all collectively are trendsetters. We bring the Ralph Lauren look to Cornell. And then I’d like to talk first about Georgi (de Rham) and say that her special skill is the consumption of peanut butter and because of all her protein consumption she’s the fastest stall cleaner ever … she picks up poop really fast. For Mary Beth (Hannon), I want to say that her special skill is she can get her swoll on. She’s the most jacked on our team, which is surprising because she’s also a ginger, so not because she’s small, because she’s a ginger. Also, I’d like to talk about Alyx (Cheng) and her special skill is that she’s really good at the downward dog position in yoga.

— Nazanin Behzad, Senior formerly in Intermediate Fences and Novice Flat I’m going to talk about Caroline Rusk first. I call her Carl — um, her name is Carl, but I want to say how good she is at writing poetry. She started her haiku career when she was only 9, but now she’s published in three different countries and actually Obama included some of her work in his inauguration speech. She also illustrates her poems with My Little Pony drawings, which she actually colors herself but they’re really good. Her boyfriend does a few too. She uses crayon to color in the lines, but she probably does it the best out of anyone in this world. And her apartment is also covered in her My Little Pony drawings, it’s not really like an activity but more of a lifestyle.

Charmaine is the next biggest character, or the biggest character, on this team. No, Charmaine’s the biggest character on this team. She actually doubles as a full-time car mechanic, and I’m actually not lying or extrapolating on this one, she’s actually a full-time car mechanic.

She tried to sell her car to the team, a car salesman. This is all to cover up for her Mafia background, she’s part of the Singaporean Mafia and makes numerous threats to people on the team … She’s part of the Mafia and our whole team’s actually a little bit afraid of her. She beat me up once and that’s not a joke either, she broke my knee cap so I had to take like 6 months off from riding. But, I’m glad there was no permanent damage done. She’s on the same assassin squad at Naz Behzad, they’re part of the Singaporean Mafia. Naz is actually Singaporean but she doesn’t realize it yet.

— Emily Webster, Senior in Open One of my teammates has the habit of always eating dessert first — Mary Beth Hannon. And, she usually starts her dinner with some banana cake, vanilla ice cream, sliced bananas and butterscotch sauce.

— Georgiana de Rham, Sophomore in Intermediate I wanted to talk about Zofia (Hilton) and she’s a really great baker.

She makes cakeballs, which sounds kind of dirty but they’re actually delicious balls of cake covered in white chocolate or chocolate. She’s also a cat whisperer. Zofia also comes to practice with scratches all over her body from her cat, from practicing her cat whispering. And Katie Fink is really great at calligraphy, her handwriting is impeccable. She also is a pro at turning out the lights since Lights Off Cornell, and Katie has a talent for undoing bras — other people’s bras, without them realizing it. It’s pretty sneaky. Like while they’re wearing them, without putting her hands underneath their shirt, from the outside. And last I’m going to talk about Emily Webster.

She and I go running together and she’s always the one whose pushing me to run like Seabiscuit — a very fast and motivated runner, and she ran a marathon like a week ago, so she’s training for her next one next month.

— Caroline Rusk ’12, Open Fences and Intermediate Flat

Naz (Behzad) has some pretty special skills. She’s this really great professional videographer. She’s working on the documentary — well, it might be more like a mockumentary, of CUET (Cornell University Equestrian Team). She’s pretty much always there, like one of those reality TV shows where the camera’s rolling 24/7 and you have no privacy… So it’s very much more like a reality TV show than a documentary because we just don't have any privacy when she’s around. But, besides the videography, she’s also a choreographer. She has like these really baller dance moves and they’re very like, subtle, but she whips them out and you’re like “Damn, what just happened?” So that’s Naz. Then I wanted to talk about Emily Webster. So she’s really good at like stripping, but mostly in Mann Library. I don’t know if you’ve been to the fourth floor, but there's actually a pole there; she spends a lot of time stripping in Mann Library. But besides that, I think that for Webster, if this whole med school thing doesn’t work out for her, she would have a really great career in shoe-polishing at the airport. So, at least she has that as a back-up plan. And the last girl I want to talk about is Grace (Bradshaw). Grace is like a beautiful fine artist. She’s so meticulous and pays so much attention to detail when she paints jumps.

— Katie Fink ’12, Open Emily Webster is really obsessed with safety pins, and one time, because we host our own shows twice a year and Binghamton usually brings horses because we don't have enough to host the show on our own, … someone tried to take one of her safety pins and she threatened him with death if he didn’t bring them back the week after. So, he brought her a box of new ones the next time we saw each other at a show … Who else has weird habits? … Georgi de Rham. We can never find her and she’s always eating peanut butter.

Oh, Charmaine Tan is the Godmander. Like, Charmander but God instead of Char. There is a conspiracy that she’s part of the Singapore Mob … Um, we’re all up before daybreak on a regular basis so it definitely takes a special kind of crazy to do that. All the sane brain cells have kind of left us at this point … Also, Naz Behzad taught us all that in the Jay-Z song, when he says “That’s Kray” it’s not crazy, it’s like The Kray Brothers and she was like really really insistent that we all get our act together.

— Alyx Cheng, Junior in Open Flat and Fences Okay, well Alexa (Bruer) has a very peculiar talent … and that is taking her clothes off.

Whenever we’re on the bus at horse shows, she can get changed faster than anyone else on the team. It’s a weird talent … Who else can we talk about?

Bronwyn (Scrivens). She is strangely good at showing up in every picture that Pixel has ever posted on the Internet … That’s true, actually, any team picture really, as well. Yeah, she has a very strange talent of doing that. She shows up in every team picture we’ve ever had. It’s weird, you like can’t get rid of her, she’s like Waldo …

— Erika Hooker, Senior in Novice Flat and Fences Well I was going to say that an interesting hobby Erika (Hooker) has is, um, she has this strange hobby of picking up beastly-like men … um, in particular, Tarzan-like men, who tend to show up in the middle of the night at the team house and climb through bedroom windows to find her at about midnight, 1 a.m., 2 a.m., 3 a.m. and … I don’t know, she just has this strange fascination with men that kind of look like Tarzan and act like Tarzan. So, she tries to find them wherever possible.

— Alexa Bruer, Senior in Intermediate One of my teammates Thea Dickson likes to knit and write novels in her spare time. I know she loves to do both of these and she actually just finished writing a novel last semester that I haven’t read yet. I know she was really excited about it and I personally can’t wait to read it! And Amanda Fan, her unusual talent is that … I’ve talked to her before and she’s never had any artistic lessons or anything and I’ve taken classes with her and when she doodles … it’s amazing! Like she’s an amazing sketch artist and that’s her kind of thing she likes to do in her free time. Her drawings are incredible. I think her sketching is her true talent.

— Zofia Hilton, Senior in Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter So this is kind of like a talent but it’s really a non-talent — Emily Webster cannot cook. Like, she cannot boil water, she really really cannot do anything that involves a stove. She can’t turn her stove on. Another weird one would be Zofia Hilton. She’s going to be one of our captains starting next year; she makes amazing cakeballs. Erika Hooker, she can clean stalls, go over an entire stall in 5 minutes and it’s an amazing talent that I would love to have. Naz (Behzad) is really good at not shutting up, that was the other thing.

Caroline (Rusk) is our voice of reason. Oh, and the other thing about Caroline is that she basically like, she basically takes care of all of us and she keeps us from going off the loony bin. Thea (Dickson) is really good at walking around like a zombie on zero hours of sleep. Alyx (Cheng) and Bronwyn (Scrivens) are obviously really good at being tall … Oh and the other unusual thing is that Mary Beth Hannon, she’s a redhead, and therefore she has no soul. Also Georgi (de Rham) is never there. Whenever you have a team thing, like a gathering or like a cheer, she’s never there, or like a picture, she’s always off somewhere else, so she’s good at disappearing. That’s her talent, and she’s always in a totally legit place whenever she’s like doing it, but she’s just never there. I don’t know how it happens, it’s like she just vanishes. Poof, puff of smoke, don’t know how she does it.

— Charmaine Tan ’12, Beginner Walk, Trot, Canter

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WOMEN’S SOCCER

Red Prepares for Challenging Weekend in D.C.

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend the women’s soccer team will take to the field for the first time during the 2012 season. The schedule

will consist of a pair of matchups on the road for the Red against Georgetown and George Washington. First-year head coach Patrick Farmer is finally going to hit the pitch with his team; however, he is introducing new techniques to the team’s way of approaching playing.

“We’ve asked them to play a little different than they were in the past, and they have been very adaptable so far — that really makes the transition easier,” Farmer said. “More of the changes are on the approach and philosophy as opposed to personnel. It’s about being more aggressive and not being afraid to push players forward.”

This team is looking for one thing — a winning season, which the Red has not seen for the past 10 years.

The defense is facing an abundance of changes this season due to the graduation and departure of three starters.

However, senior tri-captain Jayann Gabrio returns to the defense ready to lead, after facing a season debilitating injury in 2011. Sophomores Sydney Cetrullo, Kelly Abrams and Courtney Macdonald are also ready to fill the back line, with the additions of freshmen Charlotte Tate and Morgan Zaidel hoping to make a presence on the field.

“We’ve asked them to play a little different than they were in the past.”

Patrick Farmer

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Pushing forward | According to head coach Patrick Farmer, his philosophy for his team to achieve success is to be more

“They’re lively and fast,” Farmer said. “It’s fun to have kids that aren’t afraid to make runs. They move well.”

The Red has a lot of depth in the midfield as well as the other positions. Senior Hannah Labadie, junior Rachel Nichols and sophomore Claire MacManus are all returners for the midfield.

“There are just a bunch of possibilities in the midfield,” Farmer said.

The forwards for the Red are stacked with options as well. Senior tri-captain Maneesha Chitanvis — a two-time scoring leader for the Red — is back for her final season after

aggressive and unafraid to push themselves forward as they transition into a new season.

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FIELD HOCKEY

VOLLEYBALL

Squad Heads to Colo. for Tourny C.U. Looks to Raise Bar,

By SCOTT ECKL Sun Staff Writer

A new era is set to begin this weekend for the volleyball team. Recently hired coach, Melissa BatieSmoose, will lead her team to Colorado on Friday for a three-game tournament against Pac-10 foes Fresno State, Colorado and Northern Arizona.

Coming off a 5-21 season, the team looks to head in

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Underage thinking | With only two seniors on the squad, the underclassmen will need to step into leadership positions and learn how to play to each other’s strengths.

a new direction under its new leader.

“Our main goal is really to change the culture,” Bati-Smoose said. “This year we are going to start focusing on the little things rather than the end results. When you take care of the little things the other stuff will work itself out in the end.”

Juniors Kelly Marble and Brittany Fox and sophomore Kelly Reinke represent the three captains on the squad. They too echo their coach’s call for focusing on the little things instead of winning or losing.

“Practices are much more competitive and our work ethic is a lot better this year,” Fox said. “We are really focused on the journey and not as much about the end result.”

“I think we are a lot more organized this year,” Marble said. “Our coach really brings the best out of us with her more competitive and aggressive practices.”

Batie-Smoose looks to create a very competitive culture through aggressive and fast-paced practices.

She hopes to focus her team on scoring more points on their serve as well as maximizing touches during practices.

Batie-Smoose said that she believes that the team is strong at the net, but could use a little work on defense and passing. Her new change direction is being seen in the players’ new mentality.

“We have a more aggressive mentality to our serves,” Marble said. “We are not just trying to get points, but we are trying to earn them.”

With only two seniors on the team the squad does lack experience on the court; however, that does not seem to be a concern, according to Fox. “Everyone is finding a leadership role on this team,” she said. “We all work off of each other’s strengths and weaknesses.”

“Not having experience will always hurt you,” Batie-Smoose said. “But, when you are taking over a program it is good to have that youth there and creSee VOLLEYBALL page 14

Bounce Back From 2011

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a disappointing 2011 season, the field hockey team is determined to bounce back strongly in 2012. The season begins Friday night with a road match against the Lock Haven Eagles — a team that Cornell has beaten in each of their past three contests.

The Red returns home the following day to face the No.2ranked North Carolina Tar Heels in the first-ever matchup between the two squads.

Heading into these games, Cornell is focused on raising and its level of play to achieve its goals.

“The coach has frequently used the phrase ‘raising the bar,’’ said senior back Paige Mollineaux. “What she means by that is raising the bar mentally, physically, and achieving our goal of finishing within the top three in the ivy league this year.

We didn’t do so well last year, and so we’re making strides to raise the bar all around.”

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Shoot for success | According to junior Hannah Belleza, the key to success on the field is strong and coordinated leadership.