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Cornell Records At Crux of Debate In SAE Civil Suit

Everybody dance now

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

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Attracting hundreds of spectators, a flash mob directed by the BreakFree hip-hop group gathered on Ho Plaza Friday afternoon to dance to “Gangnam Style” by the rapper Psy.

Evidence about Sigma Alpha Epsilon must be pried from Cornell’s vaults to help prove that the fraternity’s “deadly” culture of hazing led to the death of her son, the mother of George Desdunes ’13 said in court papers submitted by her lawyer this week.

A pending subpoena would put before the court all existing Office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs records related to SAE hazing violations from the last several years, all recent police and medical calls related to the fraternity and all “photographs or videotapes of any SAE fraternity event or initiation” owned

by Cornell. The subpoena would also require Cornell to hand over all disciplinary records against SAE and See SUBPOENA page 5

Citing Labor Abuses, Cornell Severs Contract With Adidas

By SARAH SASSOON Sun Staff Writer

Cornell became the first university to sever its business contract with retail giant Adidas because of recent allegations of labor abuses.

President David Skorton sent a letter to Adidas Team, Inc., on Thursday, stating that due to the company’s refusal to give severance pay to the 2,800 workers it displaced

News Almost Legal

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute, a non-profit database that provides legal information to the public, turns 20 this year. | Page 3

News California Dreaming

The University is expanding its presence on the West Coast to reach out to the more than 29,000 alumni in the region. | Page 3

Opinion Better Together

Nicholas Kaasik law makes his debut as The Sun’s public editor, giving The Sun props for its quote-checking policy and questioning some of its other decisions. | Page 6

Arts Don’t Cry Me a River

Julia Moser ’15 shares why she picks Jesse Eisenberg over Justin Timberlake. | Page 11

Sports Win Some, Lose Some

The Red’s football team suffered a heartbreaking loss to Fordham this weekend. | Page 16

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upon the 2011 closing of one of its Indonesian factories, the University will terminate its contract with the company, effective Oct. 1.

“We believe that severance is a basic worker’s right as are a living wage, freedom of association and safe working conditions,” Skorton said in the letter.

Karen Li ’15 –– a member of the Cornell Licensing Oversight Committee, which was formed in 2010 to ensure that companies the University does business with

uphold workplace standards –– said that she was pleased

by Skorton’s letter.

On Sept. 6, the LOC recommended to Skorton that the University cease business with Adidas altogether. Li said that Cornell’s termination of the contract signals that the University is committed to taking a stance on the issue of labor rights.

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Going Platinum: New HumEc Bldg.

Earns Top Rating For Sustainability

By YIDAN XU Sun Contributor

The Human Ecology Building recently became the first on campus to receive LEED Platinum certification — the highest possible ranking a building can receive for environmentally-friendly design.

LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is an initiative created by the U.S. Green Building Council to promote sustainable building development. The council’s rating system, according to its website, awards points to buildings according to factors such as their energy efficiency, innovative design and reduction of carbon emissions.

To become LEED-certified, a building must earn at least 26 points on a 69-point scale.

Buildings that earn higher scores can be classified as Silver, Gold or Platinum buildings. The LEED Platinum rating –– which requires at least 52 points –– is the highest possible level of achievement.

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Not just a pretty face | The Human Ecology Building, which opened last fall, earned top marks from the U.S. Green Building Council for its sustainable design.

The Human Ecology Building was awarded 53 points, according to Kyu-Jung Whang, vice president for facilities services. Additionally, it earned high marks for being developed on a sustainable site, limiting energy use and emissions and ensuring indoor environmental quality.

Whang also said the building was developed with the goal of significantly decreasing water and energy usage.

“The building is designed to use 32.2-percent less ... water [that is safe for consumption] and 46.6-percent less energy,” he said.

Erin Moore, project associate of utilities energy management, said the building demonstrates an ongoing effort by the University to promote sustainable design.

“This is a great achievement for Cornell University,” Moore said. “A LEED Platinum certification showcases Cornell’s commitment to energy conservation and sustainability.”

Designed by Gruzen Samton Architects, the Human Ecology Building incorporates a wide range of sustainable strategies and design feaSee SUSTAINABILITY page 4

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Legal Information Institute Celebrates 20th Anniversary Online legal database hopes to become financially self-sustaining in next several years, director says

By NOAH RANKIN Sun Contributor

Cornell’s Legal Information Institute –– a major forerunner in the realm of the Internet, law organization and free access of information –– is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.

The LII was founded in 1992 by Prof.

Emeritus Peter Martin ’61, law, and Thomas Bruce, who became its director.

The database has been using web technology to provide information about the law to the public in ways that even now can be “expanded almost infinitely,” Bruce said.

“The vision we had back in ’92 was that, given the changes that were occurring in digital technology like communication and information exchange, law schools ought not just to be receivers of legal information products ... but they ought to be a place where ... new ways of distributing legal information could be developed,” Martin said.

Since the web was a new means of communication at the time of LII’s creation –– it was among the first 30 websites developed in the world –– Bruce said Cornell Law School had “a lot of room to play, and [saw] nobody else playing.”

“Web technology really just opened up a lot of opportunities for a law school to be a locus for a kind of creative [and] technical activity that had just never existed before,” Bruce said.

The LII attracts visitors for both its immense library of re-published legal material and its original editorial content, including the legal encyclopedia Wex and the student-powered LII Supreme Court Bulletin, according to Bruce.

It runs on an annual budget of $900,000, earning back slightly more than half its cost every year. Bruce’s goal is for the database to become self-sustaining within two or three years.

About 80 percent of the site’s total traffic comes from visits to pages housing primary legal information about the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and decisions of the Supreme Court, according to Bruce.

“The thing we’re proudest of at the moment is the Code of Federal

Regulations, which we came out with a little less than a year ago,” Bruce said.

Though there are other collections of information on the Code of Federal Regulation on the web, the LII streamlines the research process by including features like the ability to rotate images and link to corss-references, which other sites lack, according to Bruce.

“We’ve resisted doing flashy stuff in favor of doing things that are one step ahead of the rest of the market. That’s why, despite the fact that there are about a kazillion places to get the U.S. code on the Net, everybody uses us,” Bruce said.

The LII’s success has led to many organizations from other countries modeling themselves after it; over 20 other sites are named after the LII. However, those organizations have remained solely publishing operations, according to Bruce. In contrast, the original LII has kept a focus on complementing material that has already been published.

“There are days where I think that the result has been that we don’t fit comfortably into either category,” Bruce said of the LII’s “hybrid approach.”

“You feel like you have your feet on two icebergs,” he said. “That, in some ways, is what accounts for our longevity.”

The database’s first editorial component was created in 1993 in the form of a legal dictionary and encyclopedia called Wex. Originally a successor to a series of topical pages, overseen by co-founder Martin, Wex was “migrated” to a wiki format in order to allow others to contribute information to it, according to associate LII director Sara Frug. “[Wex] was created out of the work of students and volunteers from a private author pool,” Frug said. “Over time, we’ve had a couple of concentrated efforts.

When the Enron story broke, students looked around and realized we don’t have a separate umbrella page for white-collar crime, and so they built something that pulled together an overview of that subject area.”

The LII Supreme Court Bulletin — another feature of the LII — was launched in 1996. Over time, the bulletin developed to include prospective analyses of cases as

well as case summaries. Law students publish these previews a few weeks in advance of the arguments, according to Frug.

“Every year, the students follow all of the cases and they explain what the story of the case was, what the political and economic implications of the case might be, and they provide a plain-language explanation of the legal issues involved in the case,” Frug said. “This is an opportunity for [law students] to get more experience writing for the kinds of people who will be their clients.”

The bulletin gets about 22,000 email subscriptions and a further 16,000 from its presence in the Federal Bar Association magazine, The Federal Lawyer, according to Bruce. As a result, LII material goes out to all members of the Federal Bar, all Federal judges and all members of Congress.

But Bruce said the LII does not simply attract the two “types of people” one would expect: people in legal professions or people in some sort of legal trouble.

Instead, where the site has found its “voice” is through those who use law for an outside professional or industrial purpose.

From hospitals and the police to dry cleaners and fish companies, all sorts of

professionals frequent the site, according to Bruce and Frug.

“The professional audience that is not lawyers is just a huge factor for us,” Bruce said. “It plays into everything we think about from design through the tone of what gets written.”

Bruce also said it is important that people who are potentially in distress should be able to easily obtain answers to their simple legal questions.

“Very often, the things that people must do are not necessarily the things that are in the black letter law,” Bruce said.

“One of the things that I think we’ve done not a terrific job of here — because it’s the hardest job there is — is to tie together what we have by way of publishable legal information with knowledge of how the process works, in a way that would actually allow people to take care of themselves.”

However much things change, the main goals of the LII remain the same, Martin said.

“We try to be the best nonprofit portal site,” he said. “You come to us for law.”

Noah Rankin can be reached at nar59@cornell.edu.

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Univ.Ramps Up Efforts to Connect With West Coast Alumni

By DANIEL COHANPOUR Sun Contributor

In response to growing demand, Cornell has begun to increase efforts to connect with its more than 29,000 alumni on the West Coast.

The University’s West Coast presence is second only to its Northeastern presence,

according to a University press release.

Additionally, 13.5-percent of the Class of 2016 hails from the West Coast — a 1.1percent increase from the percentage of West Coast students in the Class of 2015, according to the press release.

“The timing is right and we have been working with volunteer leaders out on the West Coast for a long time in order to

Chalk it up to the competition

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Ariel Aicher ’13, a competitor for Homecoming Champion 2012, works on a chalk drawing on Ho Plaza as part of the competition Sunday.

understand what their needs are,” said Richard Banks ’72, vice president of the Division of Alumni Affairs and Development. “There are demands from them to increase programming out there.

We are trying to be responsive to that need.”

Banks said that, through the initiative, the University will increase the number of professionals and faculty working in California, Alaska and Hawaii, as well as British Columbia, Canada.

“We’ve had people out there for a while, but we haven’t had as many,” he said. “We’ve increased the number of … employees working on the West Coast in efforts to bring on permanent engagement [with West Coast residents].”

Banks said the project has received positive responses from both alumni along the West Coast and University trustees.

“They are very pleased with the fact that we are enlisting more resident professionals to work on our behalf,” he said.

One specific program designed to increase the University’s presence on the West Coast is Cornell Silicon Valley, Banks said. Created in 2000, CSV was developed by the Office of Alumni Affairs and Development to allow Cornellians in the San Francisco Bay Area to lend their time and expertise to Cornell by speaking at professional development and networking events to audiences of Cornell alumni and

parents.

Ashley Binter ’97, associate director of CSV, said she is enthusiastic about efforts to increase Cornell’s West Coast presence.

“There will be more support for the over 12,000 Cornell alumni, parents and friends in the Bay Area,” she said. “The expansion is phenomenal because it will bring more visibility of the University to the Bay Area and throughout the West Coast and it will strengthen the region’s relationship with [Cornell].”

The University has also hired full-time employees in Southern California and Seattle to help expand Cornell’s presence, Binter said.

Hannah Lee ’15 of California lauded the initiative, citing the necessity of connecting with Cornellians on the West Coast.

“These efforts are really wonderful,” she said. “This new initiative to further bring Cornell to the West Coast is very much needed and will increase our representation.”

Banks said the expansion’s prospects seem positive thus far.

“For now, the increased West Coast focus will provide avenues for furthering relations between Cornell alumni, family and friends and the institution,” Banks said.

Daniel Cohanpour can be reached at dc743@cornell.edu.

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Skorton Hopes Adidas Will Lead in ‘Rectifying’ Problems ADIDAS

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“I’m really happy that President Skorton listened to students, faculty and professors after a year and a half of campaigning,” she said.

In addition to ending the business contract with Adidas, Skorton also announced Friday that the University will officially become a part of the Designated Suppliers Program.

The program — administered by an independent labor rights monitoring organization, the Workers Rights Consortium — requires University licensees to buy apparel from supplier factories that are “in compliance with their obligation to respect the rights of their employees,” DSP’s website states.

The program also requires colleges that participate to ensure that the companies that design their apparel do so in factories that pay a “living wage” and “maintain long-term relationships with suppliers” according to DSP’s website.

“The University has been a leader in advocating for worker rights and we see this as a significant step in eliminating sweatshop conditions from collegiate supply chains,” Skorton said in a University press release.

As far as is known, Cornell is the second university to officially join DSP, Li said. Rutgers University, the first school to join DSP, became a member of the group a few months ago.

Cornell expressed its support for DSP’s principles in 2006, but did not officially join the organization because it was “fraught with logistical and legal programs,” according to Mike Powers, licensing director of University Communications and chair of the LOC. It was not until December 2011 that the U.S.

Department of Justice announced that it had reviewed the program and found that there were no antitrust issues with the program. That is when joining the program became a viable plan for Cornell, Powers said.

Cornell’s contract with Adidas was a licensing contract, which gave the company the right to produce and sell apparel that bore the University logo in retail stores and online. But the effects of the University severing ties with Adidas may not be visible on campus, since no Adidas products are currently being sold at the Cornell store, according to Patricia Ann Wynn, director of the Cornell Store.

Wynn said that, at the Cornell Store, “we fully support the decision [to sever ties with Adidas].”

“For many years, we have worked closely with the University and student groups on these issues,” she added.

The end of Cornell’s relationship with Adidas will also not have an economic impact on Cornell, Powers said, adding, “it won’t cost the University anything — but it does call attention to [Adidas’] stance on the severance issue and their refusal to budge on it.”

Li said that, as of Sunday evening, there has been no response from Adidas.

Among brands that are sold in the Cornell Store –– including Russell Athletic, Under Armour, Champion and Nike –– Russell Athletic and Nike have been accused of similar labor rights violations in the past, according to Powers.

The University announced that it was ending its contract with Russell Athletic in February 2009, when the company abruptly closed its Honduran factory reportedly because its workers attempted to unionize. In November of that year, however, Russell announced that it would begin

complying with the University’s labor standards and rehire the 1,200 workers it fired, according to a University press release.

Cornell later re-signed the Russell contract. Since then, the company has been one of the University’s prominent business partners, according to Powers.

“We like to reward [Russell] with even more business due to the way they’re doing things now,” Powers said. He said the Cornell Store now buys clothing from Russell Athletics to sell on campus.

Similarly, in 2010, the University threatened not to renew its contract with Nike when it failed to pay severance to workers in its shut down Honduran factories. When Nike paid its fired employees, the University renewed that contract as well.

To reach an agreement with Adidas, Cornell must communicate and negotitate with the company, Powers said.

“It’s going to require an incredible amount of cooperation between the licensees and the [University],” Powers said. “Universities have to acknowledge the business realities that the companies face and the companies have to have to acknowledge our goals in a worker rights’ agreement.”

Skorton said he hopes cutting Cornell’s contract with Adidas will serve as a sign to the company that it must change its ways and take responsibility for its workers.

“We sincerely hope Adidas, as an industry leader, will acknowledge this need and assume a leadership role in rectifying the problems,” Skorton said in his letter. “When that happens, we will be happy to consider re-establishing our relationship.”

Sarah Sassoon can be reached at ssassoon@cornellsun.com.

Human Ecology Bldg.Is First Platinum LEED Rating for C.U. SUSTAINABILITY Continued from page 1

tures that are reflected in its platinum LEED rating.

The building was made from materials that serve to improve the indoor air quality for its occupants. Its glass facade allows for “daylight harvesting” to absorb

natural light to be used in place of electricity, according to Whang.

Additionally, Whang said recycling was a priority during the building’s construction, as more

than 1,050 tons of waste from construction were diverted from disposal in landfills through recycling and reuse.

“We have diverted 75 percent of on-site generated construction waste from landfill, 33 percent of total building materials content have been manufactured using recycled materials and 23 percent of the materials have been produced within 500 miles of the site,” he said.

Ted Boscia, assistant director of communications at the human ecology college, said the building will soon install a feature to help keep track of the building’s energy usage.

“One exciting feature is the real-time system for monitoring the building’s energy use that will soon be connected to an online dashboard accessible to all,” Boscia said. “It has great potential to be used by building occupants to attempt to lower their energy use and by professors and students in facilities design and management to study the building’s efficiency.”

The human ecology college has attained high LEED certifications in the past. Among its other LEED-certified projects is its renovations of the east wing of Martha Van Rensselaer Hall, which earned a LEED Gold certification earlier this year, according to a University press release.

Boscia said the college remains committed to sustainability. Its

floor-by-floor overhaul of MVR, scheduled for completion in 2015, is targeting another LEED Gold certification, according to a University press release.

According to Moore, the University is committed to constructing more environmentallyfriendly buildings on campus in the future. The Green Building Oversight Committee –– which works to achieve the University’s green building standards –– has drafted requirements that require all construction projects costing more than $5 million to attain at least a silver LEED certification.

“These projects must achieve a minimum 30-percent energy savings compared to the baseline established by … the national standard for energy-efficient buildings,” Moore said.

Whang echoed Moore’s sentiments, expressing hope that the University will continue to focus on sustainable design.

“This is our first LEED Platinum certified building, but it will not be our last,” he said in a University press release. “Cornell's commitment to sustainability extends to every level of leadership at the University. This platinum rating is the culmination of planning and effort by people all across campus who have been committed to this outcome for many years.”

Yidan Xu can be reached at yx265@cornell.edu.

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Mother of Desdunes’13 Files for Cornell Evidence in Civil Suit SUBPOENA

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any correspondence between the University and the fraternity about hazing.

Marie Lourdes Andre, Desdunes’ mother, is suing the national SAE fraternity and at least 15 former brothers, seeking at least $25 million in damages. Her son died on Feb. 25, 2011, after a fraternity hazing ritual — an incident that Andre says exemplifies a broader culture of recklessness at SAE. Although Andre says that Cornell’s records could provide proof of a hazardous environment at SAE, they may not see the light of day. Asking Judge Karen Rothenberg to “quash” the subpoena, the defendants in the case have insisted that the requested documents are immaterial to the case and cannot be released under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law that protects students’ educational records. “[Andre’s] counsel entirely ignores the limitations to be placed on the subpoena under [FERPA],” Dara Rosenbaum, the lawyer of a former SAE member, stated in court documents filed this summer. The “disclosure … would constitute a violation of [the defendant’s] rights and must be prevented.”

William Friedlander, Andre’s lawyer, disagrees.

“Contrary to the portrait painted in defendant’s motion, the subpoena does not seek unqualified access to individual students’ educational records, but only information relevant to the conditions and circumstances surrounding and leading to George’s death,” Friedlander said in recently submitted court documents.

The disagreement over the disclosure of Cornell’s records has emerged as a key source of contention in the civil lawsuit. Three former SAE pledges were acquitted in a separate, criminal trial in June.

Familiar by now to close observers of the litigation over Desdunes’ death is the disagreement over what happened on that February night more than a year ago.

Andre holds that the death of her son was the “direct and proximate result of the defendants’ negligence.” She emphasizes that Desdunes was forced to consume vodka and pixie stix after he was blindfolded and bound with zip ties.

The defendants, meanwhile, have maintained that Desdunes was an eager participant in the binge drinking

that preceded his death, adding that he had been seen drinking prior to the hazing ritual. They hold that Judge Judith Rossiter J.D. ’86, who oversaw the criminal case, put to rest the claim that the pledges were responsible for Desdunes’ death.

“The court determined, without reservation or equivocation, that these young men are innocent. They did not haze George Desdunes or cause his death,” Ray Schlather J.D. ’76, the attorney for defendant Max Haskin ’14, told The Sun in June.

But the fight over the Cornell records marks a new battleground not addressed in the criminal trial: How systemic was hazing at SAE? How much did the national SAE chapter know about prior alleged transgressions? And did the leadership of the SAE chapter have reason to believe, prior to Desdunes’ death, that the chapter’s members could be at

“This request seeks information that is directly related to defendant SAE’s knowledge of the extreme and dangerous ... hazing.”

William Friedlander risk?

In making their cases over the confidential Cornell documents, both sides show much of how they plan to construct their arguments responding to these questions.

Noting that several clauses in the subpoena limit its scope to records relevant to “the cause and circumstances of the death of George Desdunes,” Andre’s lawyer says the request is of direct relevance to the case.

“Contrary to [the] defendant’s … motion, the subpoena is not a ‘fishing expedition.’ Indeed, the specific request to which [the defendant] applies such an inappropriate phrase is the correspondence between Cornell and SAE, a defendant in this action, concerning allegations of hazing,” Friedlander says in his motion to advance the subpoena.

“This request seeks information that is directly related to defendant SAE’s knowledge of the extreme and dangerous — in fact, deadly — hazing” that SAE members were involved in.

Friedlander’s argument appears to be buttressed by a letter sent from the University to one of the defendant’s

lawyers in June, outlining why it plans on honoring Andre’s request.

“Cornell, as custodian, is obligated to comply with a lawfully issued subpoena … and I am aware of no defects in this subpoena,” the letter, by Associate University Counsel Valerie Dorn, states.

Still, Dorn adds that, in response to the defendants’ concerns, Cornell will “thoroughly review the records and redact privileged, confidential, nonresponsive information.”

But Dorn’s guarantee is not enough to ensure that the reputations of the defendants will not be indelibly scarred

by Cornell’s records, their lawyers say. Their argument fits a consistent narrative put forth by the lawyers for the pledges and former SAE brothers since Andre’s lawsuit was announced: that the brothers have been wrongly scapegoated — by both the media and the University — for a death they did not cause.

The subpoena would lead to “Cornell University’s production of irrelevant, personal information about [the defendant that] would cause undue embarrassment, undue hardship and undue prejudice,” Rosenbaum says in one of her filed statements.

While the contents of the documents remain to be seen, they could provide a trove of new information regarding the practices of SAE. The subpoena also requests that Cornell hand over all “training or instructional materials provided or made available to SAE …. concerning hazing, risk-management, student initiation requirements, fraternity house safety and the provision, use or misuse of alcohol,” as well as all “notes of meetings attended by University personnel and any representative of SAE concerning hazing.”

And not all the requested documents are about SAE’s past.

A separate part of the subpoena, for example, asks for all “photographs or videotapes or the like showing Desdunes, any member of SAE or any pledge of SAE entering or leaving Cornell University Campus Townhouse Apartment B3 or the Sigma Alpha Epsilon chapter house between 1 a.m. and 7 a.m. … including those recorded from security cameras.”

Jeff Stein can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun.com.

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I see my role as the new Public Editor to serve as a reader’s advocate, to raise and voice concerns on behalf of the readership and to help the Sun be more responsive to these concerns.

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Editorial

Keeping Collegetown Landlords in Check

WHEN THE CLASS OF 2012 GRADUATED, its members took with them the last remaining memories of Green Café in its prime. The former upscale eatery closed in the Spring 2010, when this year’s senior class was still waiting in line for Mongolian barbeque on North Campus. Since then, the one-story commercial space on the corner of College Avenue and Dryden Road has sat prominently, and awkwardly, empty.

Sadly, the tale of 330 College Ave. is commonplace in Collegetown. Empty storefronts litter the main drags of Dryden Road, College Avenue and Eddy Street. Let’s be clear: Turnover is normal. Commercial space remaining empty for several years is tragic.

And there’s one common denominator: a landlord named Jason Fane. His leasing company’s signs are so omnipresent that they have become an iconic piece of Collegetown’s landscape: bright yellow and purple “Ithaca Renting” letters on a black background. When a leasing company has better branding than its constantly changing tenants, there might be something wrong.

What is the problem? Some accuse Ithaca Renting of charging impossibly high rents. Fane denies this, claiming that his prices are comparable to nearby properties.

However, consistent prices are not the same as reasonable ones. If Collegetown landlords continue with this greedy race-to-the-top, we’ll be left with a ghost town rather than a vibrant neighborhood.

Fane has a history of keeping his properties vacant and letting them deteriorate.

Another of his prominent holdings, the Masonic Temple on Cayuga Street and Seneca Street, has been largely unused for more than a decade. In 1974, some of Fane’s tenants even went on “strike,” withholding rent due to what they claimed were unsatisfactory living conditions.

Several proposals have been put forth, but none that address the issue directly enough. Regardless of the Collegetown Vision Plan, moves to classify Collegetown as a Business Improvement District and interest from the University, our neighborhood will not be able to thrive until the city imposes reasonable regulations on landlords. Empty storefronts represent untapped potential for taxes and employment.

Although Fane appears able to afford keeping these spaces vacant, it is to the detriment of the community. Ithaca is not powerless to solve this ongoing problem.

Incentivising lower rents in order to attract new businesses, or aiding potential retail tenants would deter landlords from waiting indefinitely for the high-paying tenants that are unlikely to come. Filling the rapidly increasing empty spaces in Collegetown would lead toward a renewal of Collegetown culture for the benefit of businesses and students alike.

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value intelligent, informative and meaningful journalism and I took the role of Public Editor to contribute in some small way to the good work being done at The Sun. This coming year reader feedback will be particularly important. The Sun is expanding its web presence and multimedia offerings. Your thoughts on changes being made and content being added are crucial to improving and advancing this 132year-old newspaper through such a transformative period in journalism.

Your contributions, be it through online comments, emails or letters to the editor are an invaluable part of this process. You can also email me at public-editor@cornellsun.com with your thoughts.

With introductions out of the way, I’d like to discuss a few issues that have come up this year: USE OF THE WORD “ALLEGEDLY” “Allegedly” is probably the wrong word to refer to a report regarding a crime victim. The Sun’s coverage of the recent reported rape on campus ran with the headline “Female Allegedly Raped Near Suspension Bridge Sunday Morning.” The Cornell Police email used the term “rape reported.” Whatever the real meaning or equivalence between the two terms may be, the online commentators to the article raise a valid and important point — “allegedly” in a newspaper article about crime is more appropriately used to refer to the perpetrator and not the victim.

“Allegedly” is also unnecessarily and inappropriately incredulous given the circumstances. Using words such as

author may not receive reader responses and others may have trouble finding the writers’ article online.

Double checking this information to allow this direct feedback is a small but important step in continuing to better the quality of The Sun. KUDOS ON QUOTE CHECKING The Sun recently enacted a policy generally requiring reporters to email quotes from interviews to the interviewee for confirmation prior to publication. Misquoting someone in a printed edition of a newspaper read by so many is potentially a major embarrassment for both the misquoted interviewee and The Sun. Further, a later correction only partially rectifies the mistake. This policy change to prevent such mishaps from going to print at all is a good step towards increasing the professionalism of the newspaper. Good work.

I encourage you to share comments and concerns about the Sun by emailing me at public-editor@cornellsun.com. I also appreciate any feedback now or in the future on how I’m fulfilling my role and what else you would like to see from your Public Editor. I look forward to a good year.

Nicholas Kaasik is a second-year law student at Cornell Law School. He assigns and edits submissions for Barely Legal. He may be reached at public-editor@cornellsun.com.

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CORRECTION A news story Friday, “As Living Costs Soar, New Contract Gives Cornell Staff At Least 3-Percent Raise,” incorrectly stated that a majority of Cornell employees belong to UAW Local 2300. In fact, the majority of Cornell's unionized employees belong to the union.

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OPINION

Come On, Mitt ... Seriously?

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hanks to Labor Day, and its celebration of moneygrubbing union goons, it has been a month since I last was able to write Plain Hokum.

In looking back on the last month, I thought now might be a good time to finally reflect on the name of my column.

“Plain Hokum” comes from a Harry Truman quote that I am particularly fond of.

I am sure most of my readers are familiar with a large swath of President Truman’s most famous quotes, but for those few of you who are largely unacquainted with our 33rd President, I will provide the full context: “It's plain hokum.

are given money to buy private insurance on a private market.

Ryan also sat on the Bowles-Simpson committee … and voted against the eventual proposal.

The GM plant Ryan admonished the President for failing to save closed while President Bush was in office. In response to the announcement that the plant would close, Ryan showed his free-market, small-government conservative principles by quickly voting for a federal bailout of the auto industry in response to the plant closing.

It was a marathon of misdirection by the Vice Presidential nominee, a performance almost as impressive as the marathon time Congressman Ryan lied about posting during a radio interview a week after the convention.

Plain Following Ryan’s Hokum speech was the man himself — Governor Mitt Romney. There was one particular line that struck me in his speech.

Romney looked out over the convention and proclaimed, “President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet,” pausing as the room broke out in laughter, then he delivered the punch line, “My promise is to help you and your family.”

I sat back in my chair, looked at my friend Adam, and as if Romney was standing before me said to the T.V. “Come on, Mitt … seriously?”

2012 has been the hottest year on record, each of the past 15 months has seen above-average temperatures — something that has never happened before and nine of the 10 hottest years on record have all happened in the past decade.

In light of all this, the official position of the Republican nominee for President is that dealing with climate change is at odds with “help[ing] you and your family.”

Ugh. That about takes us up to the last week.

The past week has seen the Muslim world up in arms in protest of a film depicting Muhammad in an incredibly disrespectful way.

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If you can’t convince ’em, confuse ’em. It’s an old political trick. But this time it won’t work.”

For those of you not conversant in the vernacular of the day, “hokum” pretty much means “garbage” or “bull excrement.”

Over the past month there has been an almost absurd amount of hokum being thrown around, and the GOP candidate, as well as his running mate, are doing their absolute best to make Harry’s quote as relevant as possible. The past month proves that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are actually attempting to “confuse ’em” all the way to the White House.

I will start at the GOP convention, specifically Congressman Ryan’s speech. In the speech, Ryan argued that the stimulus was a complete waste of government funds, the greatest threat to Medicare was a second Obama administration, the President was solely responsible for the failure of the Bowles-Simpson proposed budget plan and the President failed to keep open a GM plant he promised to save four years ago.

The truth, in order: Ryan is the architect of a plan to end Medicare as we know it and turn it into a voucher program — where seniors

In response to the film, radicals stormed the U.S. embassy in Egypt and a consulate in Libya. Before the actual attacks began, and without approval from the Obama administration, an embassy worker tweeted a statement condemning the film. As an angry crowd gathered outside the embassy, one can hardly blame the worker for attempting to placate the crowd, but even in doing so the worker paid homage to the “universal right to free speech” of Americans — condemning the film but not the right of the filmmaker to produce it.

As the dust settled and word came back that four Americans had lost their lives in the attack in Libya, Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment shamelessly pounced.

Romney released a statement condemning the Obama Administration’s “sympathiz[ing] with those who waged the attacks.”

In 1980, President Jimmy Carter ordered a secret military operation in an attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

The mission failed, and resulted in the deaths of eight Americans. When faced with the opportunity to attack Carter, the Republican candidate for President at the time, Ronald Reagan, issued the following statement: “This is the time for us as a nation and a people to stand united.”

The difference in the two candidate’s statements highlights the frighteningly radical nature of the Romney campaign. It used to be there were no politics to be had when Americans were under attack abroad. But given Romney’s behavior over the past few weeks, what else could we have expected?

Governor Mitt Romney used to be considered a sometimes overly-careful, technocratic, moderate Republican.

Over the past few weeks, we have been given the opportunity to see who candidate Mitt Romney is. He’s a man who will say anything to get elected, regardless of how true or appropriate it is.

Perhaps Romney’s pollster Neil Newhouse summed up his campaign’s ethos best when he remarked that they are “not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers.”

Sadly enough, that might be the most honest assertion the GOP nominee’s campaign has made so far.

Noah Karr-Kaitin is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at nkarrkaitin@cornellsun.com. Plain Hokum appears alternate Mondays this semester.

On the Anniversary of 9/11, The American Flag Is Raised and Stomped On Worldwide L

ate Monday night, I was filling out paperwork and hastily tapped my mousepad to check the date. It was just past midnight, and when I picked up my pen, my hand hovered above the form because I did not want to date it 9/11/2012. The start of every year of middle school, high school and college for me has marked another year of living in the post-9/11 era for my generation.

Around the world, Millennials (roughly those born between 1978 and 2000, ranging from those who were college seniors on 9/11 to newborns) have also been deeply impacted by events such as the global financial crisis and the advent of social media, so I wondered if “9/11 generation” was too foreboding and Americentric a term.

Then, the nation woke up Wednesday morning to news that our ambassador to Libya and three of his staff were killed during protests in Benghazi the night before. I swiftly decided that on that Tuesday morning exactly a decade and a year ago, the whole world was ushered into an era in which the aftereffects of 9/11 have been prevailing and persistent.

What was jarring to me in the images from protests across the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa and South Asia, which were ignited by an anti-Muslim movie trailer made in the U.S., was seeing the American flag defaced, trampled on, burned and shredded. As intelligence sur-

faced that the murders may have been planned, it was clear that the date was not lost on protesters. One young man in Indonesia held a hand-written sign with the message “O AMERICA REMEMBER 9/11, JIHAD AGAINST CHRISTIAN EXTREMIST.” The day before, I had seen a flurry of miniature flags arrayed on the Arts Quad in remembrance of 9/11.These flags were not brandished in the shaking hands of spiteful demonstrators but planted staidly on a picturesque lawn, to be regarded with requisite reverence from afar. Yet, the sight of these flags troubled me as well.

As I passed the temporary memorial (no doubt only permitted for one day due to the bureaucratic Use of University Property process), “Never Forget” echoed in my head. The phrase had been popping up on my newsfeed and Twitter feed all day, often attached to a picture of an American flag or the Freedom Tower.

These two images of unity and resilience are uplifting for they have the lightness and fullness of a balloon, but as visual memorials, they fail to carry the weight of the losses endured on the that day and in the intervening years.

By the numbers, the lives of 3,000 Americans were lost on 9/11, and the lives of 6,572 U.S. service members have been lost in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom. The mourned fallen rest atop a cascade of oth-

ers – the families, the wounded in military uniforms and plainclothes and the witnesses to violent acts of terrorism and anti-terrorism – who are all also victims of the War on Terror and of 9/11.

the War on Terror actually looks, smells or feels like comes from slideshows, video footage and, sometimes, Hollywood depictions, not personal experience. That is, of course, unless you were on the

Jing Jin Ringing True This summer when I watched The Dark Knight Rises, I shifted uncomfortably in my seat as tanks rolled through Gotham City, which is transparently modeled on New York. After visiting London and Berlin, where the damage from World War II bombing is still visible on buildings and statues, I became aware of the literalness of our wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

I know I risk being accused by Romney and his ilk for sympathizing with our enemies, but I remain disturbed by my sensory remove from U.S. operations that are not only killing terrorists but also Iraqis, Afghanis and Pakistanis, and not only leveling terrorist headquarters but also residential homes.

What most Millenials knows of how

ground in Iraq, Afghanistan or even New York City. The mountains of rubble and the carnage of bodies charred, crushed and splattered at Ground Zero is the only parcel of the War on Terror landscape that Americans can claim.

If we were to more insistently remember what New York City concretely looked, smelled and felt like on the day the war essentially began, then we would have a better idea of the kinds of landscapes our military has been creating in far-flung countries for the past decade.

Jing Jin is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at jingjin@cornellsun.com. Ringing True appears alternate Mondays this semester.

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Das Politically Correct

BY JAMES RAINIS Sun Senior Editor

First, a polite suggestion to the planners involved in the construction of Ithaca College: Next time you build a college campus, don’t: 1. Reuse names for different buildings, as nobody is going to find a place called “Emerson Suites” if the little square labeled “Emerson” on the Campus Map is not it. 2. Build a campus without any sort of gridded construction or suitable built-in guideline to help newcomers out; it’s unfriendly to anyone without an education in the finer points of Cartography and Navigation, two fields that have long been forced into uselessness thanks to satellites and iPhones. Seriously guys, build something that is both aesthetically pleasing AND functional.

Now, back to your regular programming.

After negotiating the uninviting terrain of Ithaca College and finally discovering the apparently clandestine location of Emerson Suites, I arrived just in time to wait. The Das Racist concert was running late, which was a surprise to nobody familiar with the goofy, reference-saturated rap this Queens trio — Himanshu “Heems” Suri, Victor “Kool A.D.” Vazquez and hypeman Ashok “Dapwell” Kondabolu — peddles. In fact, thorough investigations of the band’s lyrics reveal a staggering lack of themes relating to punctuality.

When the doors finally opened, the crowd was forced to eat its vegetables: a local rapper guilty of the rarely committed sin of not self-promoting enough for me to ever catch his name. Donning sunglasses and accompanied by way too many hypemen, he did little to win over the audience (best insult: “That’s not Das Racist! Das Politically Correct!”), despite his reassurances that he was here to drink, party and do what he wanted. Something about the last part,

I’m not sure what, seemed disingenuous here (probably the part where the cops took his hypeman’s lighter away).

The opener served as a reminder of why Das Racist is so vital and refreshing in modern hip-hop: The three provide comic relief to all those overly serious, earnest-sounding rappers who act as if they are already their Patron-swilling heroes, with beat selection as vanilla (think sampling Young Money beats) as possible. Everything about Heems, Kool A.D. and Dapwell seemed tossed-off, whether it was the projector showing 1980s footage of New York subways that

charm of the original recordings. “Who’s That? Brooown!” opened the proceedings, a not-so-subtle meditation on race, but not really, because it really is just a launching pad for a great joke about the UPS slogan. The busy, Bollywoodsoundtrack sampling “Michael Jackson” incited a damned mosh pit, with fists and voices rising to the nonsensical mantra, “Michael Jackson! A million dollars! You feel me?”

Closer “Rainbow in the Dark” is the group’s best song, highlighting Heems’ and Kool A.D.’s jocular interplay, verbal dexterity and ability to cram dozens of quotables (“The Internet told me that that’s called love; I’m on the Internet ‘cause I’m an Internet thug”) into just 16 bars at SEYOUN KIM / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER a time. Crowd members joined in on their favorite references and even bit on a false stop.

After a bizarre vocal sample, the band awkwardly abandoned the stage, never to return.

Thus we encountered that ever-pertinent issue: the one where the band doesn’t play its hit song.

While the crowd broke into an impromptu rendition of the trio’s cult-building “Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell,” Das Racist did not.

Back in 2010, they pulled this same stunt on Appel Commons, much to the dismay of Cornell’s surprisingly numerous alt-rap fans.

Perhaps, after all the over-intellectualization (one Pitchfork writer described it as “Harold and Kumar existentialism”) of what is undeniably just a joke track, Heems and company are just tired of it. Or maybe, after killing it for 40 minutes, they had just plain run out of steam. Regardless, it left the show without a clear climax. Rather than served as their set, Heems strumming his microphone along bringing down the house with “Combination,” the show to guitar samples or the ridiculous “Slayer!” chants they led. ended like the most awkward of sexual encounters: quickly It all seemed like one big inside joke. and wordlessly. Given Das Racist’s sense of humor, though, Luckily, they’re fairly friendly about letting you in on it. I’m sure it was intentional.

While they were undoubtedly out of it (take a guess), they got the crowd excited enough to throw up devil horns and deliv- James Rainis is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life ered performances that lost none of the tongue-in-cheek Sciences. He can be reached at jrainis@cornellsun.com.

Saturday Night a Cappella Fever

BY NATALIA FALLAS Sun Staff Writer

Bailey Hall was all abuzz Saturday night for the Sixth Annual a Cappella United concert. Featuring all the 12 prominent a cappella groups on campus and donating all proceeds to the United Way of Tompkins County, the concert attracted students and parents alike to cheer on friends, their favorite groups or to just enjoy their favorite top 40 hits in one place. Surely, some even came to check off #94 on the 161 Things list: go to an a cappella concert. And what better way to check it off the list than going to A Cappella United? Not only are you enjoying some of Cornell’s finest singing some great songs, but you are also servicing the greater community. Knowing that, there’s a warm feeling that stirs up inside — or it could be all of those shots from your pregame. Yes, it is customary to find a slew of inebriated students at an a cappella concert; they are easy to locate. They cheer their friends the loudest or sometimes believe that they are part of the show and dance and sing along in their seats. One way or another, you’re bound to be entertained.

But let’s get back to the performances of the night. Hearsay, The Class Notes, Last Call, The Key Elements, The Hangovers, The Chordials and Nothing But Treble all comprised Act One. Hearsay started off the concert with Jet’s rocking staple “Are You Gonna Be My Girl?” followed by a

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slower song to finish the set. The Class Notes definitely brought class. Their vocals all coalesced together smoothly and their lead vocalist was flawless on Jason Mraz’s “I Won’t Give Up.” Last Call brought the energy and entertainment with “Stereo Hearts” and “Keep Your Hands To Yourself.” Even with a slip-up on “Stereo Hearts,” the group prevailed and pulled off a lively and fantastic set, leaving the stage with hearty applause and whistles. Another crowd favorite was The Hangovers’ original “You Got a C” to the tune of “Under the Sea.” It is certainly an experience that most students can relate to, and a Disney tune pleases the kid in all of us — childhood memories with a side of self-deprecation proved a winning combo.

Then, the Chordials came on with a lukewarm take on “The Cave.” They captured the crowd with their following song, led by an amazing performance by their second soloist who sang beautifully with so much soul. The closing of Act One with Nothing but Treble was also lackluster.

Their rendition of Heart’s “Alone” was great, but their added vocalist during the chorus detracted from the overall song instead of enhancing it. Yet overall, Act One was made up of several solid performances, keeping the excitement high for the second act.

Unfortunately, Act Two failed to deliver on that level. Act Two was made up of groups After Eight, The Touchtones, Absolute, CallbaXX and Cayuga’s Waiters.

Both After Eight and The Touchtones

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struggled with one of the songs in their sets but still managed to bring it together.

Absolute had a weak performance to Monica’s “Angel of Mine” and lacked a strong group dynamic that is usually shared by the groups. The CallbaXX’s version of Sara Bareilles’ “Gonna Get Over You” was commendable, except the mic was a little too close during the high notes.

The pitch was just a little too loud for comfort, hurting some listeners’ ears. And lastly, Cayuga’s Waiters closed the show with two of its own songs, including a wonderful rendition of Dave Matthews’ “Grey Street.” Their vocals and charisma helped end the show on a high note once more.

Even with a few mishaps here and there, all of the groups performing did an excellent job bringing relevant music to a new light. Their impressive talents in beat-boxing and creating the music themselves on stage without instruments also deserves its

own praise. It cannot be easy to create the background music just right, as they do, that makes one feel as if he or she is listening to the original song. It is also equally impressive that the groups were able to include their newest members as well, considering the short time period from auditions to this first, all-out performance.

Nerves were certainly present, but never did a group look completely out of its element. In other words, if you didn’t make it to A Cappella United this year, I would definitely suggest not missing out again next year. Everyone needs to find that one Cornell a cappella group to follow and root for. Oh, and don’t forget: You come for the music and stay for the hilarious antics of fellow audience audience members.

Natalia Fallas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be contacted at nfallas@cornellsun.com.

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Bringing Down The House: Tia Fuller and Her Angelic Warriors

BY TYRAN GRILLO Sun Staff Writer

Tia Fuller brings it all to the table. As a composer, bandleader, teacher and touring member of Beyoncé’s all-female band, the Colorado-born saxophonist wears many hats.

Drawing on her experiences growing up in a musical household, Fuller shared the stage for the first time in a revamped quartet with her sister and pianist Shamie Royston, bassist Mimi Jones and drummer Terri Lyne Carrington. Feel free to take a walk down the gender road if you like, but you’ll have to do it alone. I’d rather step off that beaten way and just listen, for in the swelter of the moment their bodies were catalysts for a spontaneity blind to such things. For this kickoff to the Cornell Concert Series 2012-13 season, Fuller and company wore this energy like a smile: that is to say, beamingly.

Our leader took to the stage with soprano slung forward, following its inertia into the deep end of “Angelic Warrior,” the title cut off her new joint (due out Sept. 25 on Mack Avenue). Sporting a pair of high heels with enough sparkle to make Dorothy jealous, she and her robust tone cut through

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s a member of the Cornell University Program Board (CUPB), sometimes I get to do incredible things like hang out with lesser-known comedians such as Mike Lawrence, who opened for John Oliver when he performed in Bailey Hall last weekend. After the show, the CUPB-ites were treated to a couple of minutes with Oliver, who graciously agreed to take some pictures with us. I decided to hang back and, though I didn’t get an amazing new profile picture, found myself in a discussion with Lawrence that started with Zach Galifianakis, somehow got to pedophilia and then to The Social Network.

Lawrence commented that Sean Parker is lucky he gets to brag that Justin Timberlake played him in the movie, to which I responded, “And Zuckerberg too! I love Jesse Eisenberg.” Lawrence then said something along the lines of, “The fact that you are more attracted to Jesse Eisenberg than Justin Timberlake renews a hope in me I thought was long dead.” I laughed, and shortly thereafter we all dispersed, but I continued to think about that last comment for some time.

To me there is no question that I would see an Eisenberg as a romantic lead over a Timberlake. Part of what makes a good male romantic protagonist is the ability to imagine oneself with the character outside the film. If Justin Timberlake were to walk up to me and say, “You are beautiful and amazing, would you like to go to dinner?” I think I would say, “Justin, I am flattered, but

the grime of a tiring week with the power of dawn. This prime groove found Royston flying, while Jones rocked the house like a cradle on fire over comparably blazing timekeeping from Carrington. The latter proved to be a shining star of the set. A protégé of Jack DeJohnette and legend in her own right, Carrington carries a style that is palpable, organic and rich with color. She was her own 5-hour Energy, finding all the room she needed to bring her solos to bear across every tune (a rarity in some jazz settings, which only swing the spotlight a drummer’s way for the finale). The same went for all in what amounted to a truly democratic sound.

Ever the acrobat, Fuller switched over to her mainstay alto for “Descend to Barbados.” Here Royston’s pianism cascaded like the waters of the song’s namesake, leaving Jones to wring out an ocean’s worth of intimacy, heavy as the sky at midnight. Waters of a different kind reflected Fuller’s selflessness in “Katrina’s Prayer,” drawing us into a prayerful mood before “Ebb and Flow” brought on a catharsis in funk. If Jones’ syncopations were life in all its obstacles, then Royston (here tripping the keys electric) and Fuller showed us perseverance in spite of inertia. Combining the polish of a studio session with the raw immediacy of the most in-your-face

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venues, the band rolled on through a smattering of midtempo tunes to “Royston Rumble,” a clear winner that culminated in some enthralling crosstalk between reed and sticks.

Instrumentalists, we may concede, are storytellers whose challenge is to draw connections between themselves and listeners in the absence of words. Yet these four formidable fashionistas had plenty of key words to share in their celebration of honor, of life and of the divine in all of us. It was also a celebration of family, a point brought home as Tia welcomed her father Fred Fuller to the stage. The bassist brought a fluid sound to bear on his “Watergate Blues,” putting a timely cap on an evening brimming with rhythm and soul.

There was not one pretentious star to be found in its galaxy, but only endearing music making, straight from their hearts to ours. The old with the new, the light with the shadow, the meek with the strong: These the angelic warrior embodies to the fullest, recognizing that creation is never one-sided. It was a message to carry forth as we wandered back into the world, leaving not just on a high note, but also on high.

Tyran Grillo is a graduate student in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at tgrillo@cornellsun.com.

The Eisenbergs you are too good a dancer for me.” I might be in the minority here, but I know I am not alone. My friend Mollie’s deepest darkest fantasy is that Jesse Eisenberg will hold her hand and tell her she is a cool person (mine is that Jason Segel will laugh at something I say and then ask me to go to Yogurtland with him).

To get a better understanding of what exactly it is that women can find so appealing about these awkward, sixpack-less fellows as screen heroes, I decided to isolate the qualities these men share. I started by identifying as many Eisenbergs as possible. It includes the Geeks of Freaks and Geeks, Simon Bird on the British TV show The Inbetweeners, Anthony Michael Hall in any John Hughes movie, Michael Cera in Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Arrested Development, Chris O’Dowd in Bridesmaids, Topher Grace in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, Aaron Johnson in Kick-Ass, Arthur Darvill in Doctor Who and Jason Segel in Forgetting Sarah

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What I found is that the most important factor in making these dorks captivating leads is context. It’s the story and the character that make us overlook the

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fact that they are not Jon Hamm or Channing Tatum. This makes them more relatable, too. It is easy to imagine these characters outside their films, while the popularity and ‘brand’ of a Timberlake keeps him in front of a camera at all hours. In addition, they are all nice. All Jesse Eisenberg wants from Emma Stone in Zombieland is to push her hair behind her ear. And they are all funny. That is definitely the quality which Eisenbergs can hold above Timberlakes’ heads and brag about. Being able to make a girl laugh gives a man a lot of power.

Lastly, all these men have some confidence issues. They have all been rejected or betrayed by skinny blondes like Kristen Bell as Sarah Marshall. This saddens me, because there are Mila Kunises and Emma Stones who, not only don’t care about Segel’s and Eisenberg’s lack of defined biceps, but find their goofy smiles endearing. Most of the women I know would much rather identify themselves as a Stone than a Sarah Marshall

(though in real life, I love Kristen Bell).

I had a lovely time talking to Lawrence, but I am surprised that he assumed all women would want to see a Timberlake over an Eisenberg. I’m almost offended that I was placed into the same category as Marshall. If there are multiple categories of men, like Eisenbergs and Timberlakes, there should also be multiple categories for women. I am no Marshall.

It isn’t just me and Mollie who enjoy this type of male lead, and I hope that those men who identify with Eisenberg take comfort in knowing that there are 113,892 people who “like” Jesse Eisenberg on Facebook. We would all choose an Eisenberg in our movies over a Timberlake any day.

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

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“It really showed the character that we have,” Miller said about the game. “In the first game of the season, we’re going to have a bunch of mistakes and I think the fact that we were able to buckle down and overcome them really showed the type of character the team has.”

“I think just the fact that the game went to six overtimes and we came out on top shows how hard we were willing to work and shows the commitment we have to winning,” said senior captain and defensive lineman Will Edmonds. “There were a lot of things that we didn’t do right, but our heads and our hearts were in the game which is a really good sign.”

The game took both a physical and emotional toll on the players, as there was pressure on every single play in the six overtimes.

“There were a few times in the overtimes where neither team scored any points,” said senior captain and wide receiver Abe Mellinger. “That was probably the most stressful just because at that point, we knew we just needed a field goal to win and when we didn’t score any points, we knew they only needed a field goal.”

Another huge factor in the game was the weather; the rainy conditions made life more difficult on the offensive side of the ball for both team.

"The rain [made the game] very difficult, especially because we rely on passing the ball,” Mellinger said. “We were having trouble making connections; the ball was very, very slick and until the rain ebbed at the end, both teams had a lot of trouble getting stuff going, so it was a very defensive game for sure.”

“For the defense, [the rain] didn’t affect us as much, since we didn’t really have to carry the ball,” Edmonds said. “In a sense, it helped us; we forced two fumbles, we recovered one and we had three interceptions. The rain was an asset to us; we didn’t let it affect us [negatively] at all.”

Despite the rain making things difficult, the offense came up with some big plays, especially by Mellinger. He caught a 24-yard pass to set up the 1-yard touchdown run by Miller in the last overtime.

“I didn’t even know what happened; I thought it was intercepted at first. He actually ended up catching it one-handed,” Miller said of the catch. “He caught it, rolled to the ground, and the Penn defender …

“The rain [made the game] very difficult, especially because we rely on passing.”

Abe Mellinger was holding on [to it as well], but we [still had control]. I threw the ball behind him a little and it wasn’t my best throw, but he has a knack for making big plays. Mellinger’s certainly a very valuable asset to have and makes me look a lot better.”

Although he finished with 8 catches for 102 yards and two touchdowns, Mellinger was not pleased with his performance before the overtimes started.

“I had a terrible game and was very frustrated for most of the game,” Mellinger explained. “I think before the last drive, I only had one or two catches and had quite a few drops. I was trying to get my head in the right place … so I took my gloves off, relaxed a little bit and things started happening ... We made quite a few connections [in overtime] and I knew Miller was working hard and he knew what we needed to do. He ran the ball a lot, and [overall] had a very, very good game and I was just finishing the job on my end.”

The offensive line and running backs also had great games, allowing the passing game to perform.

“The offensive line was tremendous,” Miller praised. “Towards the end of the game, when Penn started bringing eight guys – we usually only have six in protection – we were able to still get enough time despite the eight rushers. I was really impressed by the way the offensive line played and they’re a solid group of guys and very trustworthy.”

“I’m giving a lot of credit to the offensive line for lasting that long,” Mellinger praised.”We ran the ball a lot and the offensive line did phenomenal. [sophomore lineman] Bennett Winters did really well, played center most of the game, and [sophomore lineman] Nico Neugebauer also played well. As a core, all five of them really did well. “[As for] the running backs, [junior running back] Nick Perez and [freshman running back] Ben Herrera ran the ball really well.

[Sophomore running back] Jake Michaels did very well in blocking … he was picking up a lot of pressure off the outside and the middle, and gave Miller the extra time to get the ball out there.”

On the other side of the ball, the entire defense played well as a unit and was able to partially contain Penn star wide receiver Whit Shaw, who pulled in 6 catches for 115 yards.

“On the defensive side, it was an all-around effort, there was no one key player,” Edmonds said. “When the big plays happened, it was because everybody did their job and everybody did it to the best of their ability. Going through six overtimes is definitely a team effort.”

Although the Red was glad to win its season opener, it knows that there are many things to improve on.

“We really executed well, but we have so much to improve upon, especially with consistency; we need to stop dropping passes, messing up formations, and just run what we need to run,” Mellinger assessed.

Albert Liao can be reached at aliao@cornellsun.com.

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left hand in the game — suffered an injury on third down.

“Our center went out the play before,” Austin said. “We were going to go for it, but then I thought, at a critical play at that time with a brand new center, it [was] too risky. Trying to get [10] yards to get a first down — I just didn’t want to risk it. I thought we’d punt it deep and try to play defense.”

The Red defense couldn’t execute Austin’s plan, however, as it didn’t have an answer for Koonce.

The agile tailback ran seven consecutive times for 56 yards and, aided by a couple of personal foul penalties, essentially iced the game with 54 seconds left on a 10-yard jolt into the end zone, wrapping up his 31-carry, 176-yard, two-score game.

Cornell then moved the ball downfield like it had all game, but it took too long. By the time Mathews found junior receiver Grant Gellatly for a neat 19-yard over-the-shoulder touchdown, the clock had expired, establishing the final score, a 3427 Fordham victory.

Even though Gellatly’s score was in vain, the converted tailback had a phenomenal debut at receiver, racking up 181 yards on 10 receptions after recording 106 and eight, respectively, in the 2011 season-ending win over Penn. He displayed

his running back skills by routinely shedding tacklers and finding his way to the first down marker, joining Tasker and senior wide receiver Kurt Ondash (10 catches, 92 yards) as a trio of Red passcatchers who each tallied double-digit receptions.

“We knew at the end of last year that Grant was going to be a really productive player for us,” Austin said. “He’s got some explosiveness and some quickness that we’re lacking at times. And [he has] the ability to do things in traffic and he’s got great hands and the ability to get up-field. He’ll be a great weapon for us this year.”

With Yale set to visit Ithaca on Saturday at 1 p.m. for Cornell’s nationally televised Homecoming contest and its first League battle, the Red is already trying to get the tough defeat out of its rear-view mirror. “[The second half ] was really disappointing but it’s kind of like a measuring stick for us,” Laird said. “We came out and just saw where we were as a team … The effort [and] the intensity is all there.”

“We’re not going to dwell on this,” Tasker added. “We made some plays that made it look like we hadn’t played a game yet. We need to come out there this week and have three great practices and get ready to play because we’re excited.”

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C.U. Has Strong Showing

By JUAN CARLOS TOLEDO Sun Staff Writer

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Running for the hills | Sophomore Ben Potts grabbed his second win for the Red in the 8K with a time of 25:08.6.

The season is now in full swing for the men’s and women’s cross country teams.

Over the weekend, both teams scored a perfect 15 points en route to victories at the Yellowjacket Invitational at the University of Rochester.

The men’s team competed in a field of 24 teams, where the Red took eight of the top ten places in the race including the top five. The women’s team competed in a field of 23 teams, and took the top nine places.

Women’s cross country coach Artie Smith ’96 said that the number and quality of competing schools were good for the Red’s competitive nature.

“It was a competitive field,” he said. “It was great to see that we were able to take the top nine places in the race against some of the top Division 3 schools in the country.”

Men’s cross country coach Zeb Lang ’03 was pleased with his team’s use of its packrunning strategy to win the overall meet.

“The Red executed its pack-running strategy to perfection and ran together until the final 150 meters,” he said. “A sprint to the finish line ensued to protect the perfect score from the eventual sixthplace finisher from a different school.”

In the 8K race, the Red was once again led by sophomore Ben Potts, completing the race in a time of 25:08.6. Potts has now won his second race to start off the season.

Rounding out the top five were senior Nick Wade (25:09.1), junior Andrew

Herring (25:10.8), junior Max Groves (25:11.0), and senior Adam Trofa (25:11.2).

Smith spoke about how his runners used the race to try out new running strategies, and was pleased with the results.

“I was very pleased with how it played out,” he said. “It was how people competed. One of the goals was to finish the race a lot better than we started. People used the meet to try out some new strategies in the race. I thought it played out really well.”

Junior Rachel Sorna was the stand out competitor for the women’s team, winning the 6K course in a time of 20:47.3.

According to Smith, it was Sorna’s first collegiate victory.

“It was the first time [Rachel Sorna] won a collegiate race,” he said. “I was very pleased with how she raced. She tried out some new strategies in the race and she did very well.”

Rounding out the top five for the Red were senior co-captain Katie Kellner (20:51.3), junior Emmy Shearer (21:02.4), junior Devin McMahon (21:05.8), and freshman Caroline Kellner (21:20.6).

The women’s team, taking the top nine spots, showed how many strong runners can be fielded in any race. Smith pointed to the Red’s depth as being one of its biggest strengths.

“I’m very pleased with our depth, and how dedicated our runners have been so far.”

Juan Carlos Toledo can be reached at jtoledo@cornellsun.com.

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ondary and Higgins delivered a fine rainbow pass that went for 63 yards to the Cornell 15-yard line. Koonce burst up the right sideline to score on the next play, although the Red maintained its lead, 14-12, when Laird picked off the two-point conversion.

“We struggled a little bit in the second half stopping the run,” Austin said. “We gave up big plays again. [The defense] did get us turnovers — that was a real positive. I thought that [we] played well in the first half and kept [Fordham] out of the end zone. But [we] just didn’t hold up in the second half.”

Cornell couldn’t catch a break on its next possession when the

Austin said. “When you play freshmen corners, they’re going to get picked on a little bit. And he needs to grow, like all of our players.”

After converting three third downs, Mathews tossed a 13yard touchdown to Jesse Heon, the junior wide receiver’s second career catch, with 2:44 to play in the half. On the ensuing drive, Hernandez smacked Koonce for a big loss on third-and-2, forcing a punt and sending the visitors to the locker room with a 7-6 lead despite Tasker’s cough-up and a missed 27-yard field goal attempt from junior kicker John Wells.

Cornell junior safety Kevin Laird record- “We struggled a little bit in the ed the first intercep- second half stopping the run.” tion of his career on a Higgins throw into Kent Austin triple coverage on the first play of the second half, but the Rams forced the referees initially called pass interRed into a three-and-out. The ference on third-and-10 but next time Mathews got his then determined the Mathewshands on the ball, though, he to-Tasker attempt uncatchable. completed five-of-six passes and The Red punted, and on thirdmarched the team on an eight- and-8 for the Rams, the Cornell play, 78-yard drive, culminating defensive line flushed Higgins with the signal caller’s fourth out of the pocket and barely career rushing touchdown on a missed a sack as the QB’s desperone-yard push midway through ation throw landed in Wetzel’s the third quarter. The lead grew arms for a 14-yard gain to the to 14-6, but Fordham soon Cornell 38. Two plays later, broke through and wore down Higgins hit freshman receiver the Cornell defense with several Sam Ajala for a 35-yard touchbig plays, which haunted the down over the middle and a Red unit all of last season. two-point conversion that handOn second down of the next ed Fordham back the lead, 20drive, Ram senior receiver Brian 14, with 2:56 left in the quarter.

Wetzel beat the Cornell secNext, the Red picked up

three first downs and appeared on its way to wrestling back the advantage, but a false start and a sack of Mathews stalled the drive and Wells’ 50-yard field goal attempt fell well short. Cornell converted only one-of-seven third downs after halftime while the Rams succeeded on five-ofsix.

“We didn’t do a great job on third downs,” Tasker said. “They were giving us man coverage for the majority of our downs, but third downs especially. We needed to be better at beating their man coverage. Even some of the short ones we missed on — some of the third-and-twos.

That’s something we’re going to have to work on for next week.”

On the first play after Wells’ long try, Higgins completed a 47-yard bomb to senior wide receiver Greg Wilson. The Red stuffed Koonce on a few plays before Wetzel caught a short pass on thirdand-12 and soared untouched behind a parade of blockers for a 23-yard score, extending the Fordham lead, 27-14, with 12 minutes left in the game. Weztel finished with eight receptions for 153 yards and the pivotal touchdown.

But Cornell wouldn’t go away quietly. Matthews again hit on five-of-six throws, including a gorgeous 40-yard loft to Tasker for a touchdown with 9:37 to play, cutting the deficit to 2721. On the fourth play of Fordham’s next possession, Laird came down with a deflected Higgins pass for his second

interception of the day, a turnover that had all of Jack Coffey Field holding its breath for what Mathews would do with the opportunity.

“The interceptions were actually just a product of the defense,” Laird said. “[On] the second one, [sophomore linebacker] Andrew Nelson made a great break on the ball and tipped it up. And it just so happened to tip in my direction, so I got under it and came down with it.”

Mathews started with a fouryard completion to Tasker to the

Rams 44, but Fordham junior linebacker Jake Rodriques then bull-rushed the Ivy record-holder for a sack and 10-yard loss.

After Mathews got six of the yards back on another throw to Tasker, Austin called timeout and elected to punt the ball on fourth-and-10 from just over midfield with 4:56 remaining, partly because senior center and offensive co-captain Bob Bullington — who had already broken his right wrist during the week and was snapping with his See FOOTBALL page 14

Weekend Recap WOMEN’S SOCCER (9/14) SACRED HEART CORNELL Game: Sacred Heart Cornell

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Cornell Falls to Fordham in Season Opener

By QUINTIN SCHWAB Sun Senior Writer

After 10 months of waiting and anticipating, the Cornell football team ended up on the short side of its 2012 seasonopener in a classic game of inches, falling to Fordham in the Bronx, 34-27. Rams senior quarterback Ryan Higgins threw for 281 yards and two touchdowns, senior running back Carlton Koonce danced and pranced his way to 176 yards and two scores on the ground and Fordham (2-1, 0-0 Patriot League) made a few more timely plays than the Red (0-1, 00 Ivy League) to get back above .500 in front of 6,087 fans.

Cornell junior quarterback and offensive co-captain Jeff

Mathews, the 2011 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Year, completed 38-of-56 passes for 489 yards and three touchdowns without much production from the Ancient Eight’s best wide receiver — fifth-year senior Shane Savage, who was bothered by a lower leg injury and sat out most of the game. In his last three outings, Mathews has thrown for 1,558 yards and 13 touchdowns with only one interception, but there is no need to remind third-year head coach Kent Austin.

“I don’t really care what he throws for to be honest with you,” Austin said. “I just want to win the football game. And that’s all [Jeff] cares about. Jeff’s a great player. He gives us a chance. He makes me and the rest of our staff better coach-

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Fight to the finish | Cornell opened its season this past weekend away at Fordham where the team lost, 34-27, against the

es.”

Despite gaining 518 yards of total offense, Mathews and company stuttered out of the gate and couldn’t quite come back at the end. Senior wide receiver and special teams co-captain Luke Tasker hauled in an eight-yard reception on the first play from scrimmage but fumbled immediately afterwards when hit by Rams junior cornerback Ian Williams, leading to a 30-yard field goal from senior kicker Patrick Murray and a 3-0 lead for the hosts.

Tasker also fumbled the opening kickoff of last season’s finale at Penn, but he rebounded well in both games, finishing with 10 catches for 177 yards and a touchdown in this one.

“It’s tough,” Tasker said. “It wasn’t the first fumble of my career, but it’s a terrible way to start “It wasn’t my first fumble your team off [on] the first play of the of my career, but it’s a whole season,” terrible way to start” Tasker said. “I let [the game] get too Luke Tasker big. I tried to make something happen after I caught that ball when the first thing on my mind should’ve been ball security … But honestly it wasn’t me bouncing back, it was the guys telling me to keep my head up and to keep going on.”

The Red defense yielded only one more 29-yard Murray field goal to the no-huddle Ram attack in the first half that increased the lead, 6-0, following Fordham’s longest drive of 12 plays and 68 yards. Hard-hitting senior linebacker and special teams co-captain Michael Hernandez laid out punishment on Fordham players four times before intermission.

The young Red secondary also held its own for two quarters, including freshman cornerback Jarrod Watson-Lewis, who finished with a team-high nine tackles, broke up a long firsthalf would-be completion and drilled Higgins for Cornell’s only sack. “[Watson-Lewis] is going to be a very good player,”

Rams. The team hopes to be able to turn around the start of the season when it goes up against Yale for a homecoming showdown.

VOLLEYBALL

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SPRINT FOOTBALL

Red Splits Two Matches C.U.Grabs Dramatic Win At Temple Tournament

By ALBERT LIAO

Sun Staff Writer

By SCOTT ECKL

hot with an 8-2 advantage and cruised to victory, 25-13, to clinch the win.

Saturday evening was a different The women’s volleyball team fin- story as the Red lost to the host Owls ished the final weekend before Ivy in straight sets to drop their seventh League play with a split in the Temple match of the season. D’Epagnier had Tournament. The Red (2-7) defeated another solid performance recording Central Connecticut State, 3-1, one block to equal six total blocks on Saturday morning and lost in the tour- the day earning her the Best Blocker nament final to Temple in straight Award for the tournament. Marble sets. Cornell begins Ivy League play had two aces earning her the tournament’s Best Server Award.

Red split two games in the Temple Cornell begins the most imporTournament, before continuing onto Ivy tant part of its League play next weekend. schedule next weekend as it matches up next Saturday in New York City against Columbia in New York City. against rival Columbia.

The women dropped both matches The Red earned its second victory against the Lions last year, but hold an on the young season early Saturday in impressive 46-8 advantage in the alllarge part to junior middle blocker time series against the Ivy League foe.

Rachel D’Epagnier and her team-lead- The Lions have fared better than the ing .542 hitting percentage. Junior Red in the preseason posting a 5-4 captain Kelly Marble led Cornell with record against non-conference oppo16 kills, just ahead of freshman nents so the matchup over the weekBreanna Wong’s 15. end should be an interesting one.

The Red won the first two sets relatively easy, but lost the third set 25- Scott Eckl can be reached at 23. In the fourth set, Cornell came out seckl@cornellsun.com.

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The Cornell sprint football was willing to go to great lengths to win its season opener against Penn this past Friday, but not even the team imagined it would take a nearly two-hour rain delay, six overtimes and five total hours to get the win. The Red (1-0) outlasted the Quakers

(0-1), winning 42-34 on a one-yard touchdown run by junior captain and quarterback Brendan Miller – who finished with 241 passing yards and 60 rushing yards – in the sixth overtime.

Although the team had nowhere near a flawless game, the captains were very proud of the heart and effort the team displayed.

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Despite the elements | The Red took the matchup against the Quakers, 42-34, on Friday despite six overtimes and a two-hour rain delay.