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CUPD: Leads Slow GreenStar Signs Lease in C-Town Final approval of market will be decided by co-op’s full membership In Investigation Of Reported Rape

By CHRISTA NIANIATUS

Sun Staff Writer

By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor

Three weeks after a rape was reported on campus, investigators continue to gather information for the case but have neither made an arrest nor publicly updated their initial description of the suspect.

“We’re still gathering leads, though they’ve slowed down recently,” said Kathy Zoner, chief of the Cornell University Police Department. “We don’t have anybody identified at this point for any [public] release.”

On Sept. 2, a female was walking down the stairs leading to the south side of the suspension bridge, north of the Arts Quad, when she was reportedly accosted and raped, police said. She said she was grabbed from behind by an unknown male who forced her to have sexual intercourse, according to police. After the reported crime, the suspect fled north across the suspension bridge, according to CUPD. Zoner added that police may have new information about another incident on Sept. 2 — a reported forcible touching in the Hughes parking lot.

“Some of our leads … indicate that there was a small group of college-age females that may have witnessed that incident,” Zoner said. “We continue to encourage anyone who may have witnessed any of the crimes to call the Cornell University police.”

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

Following months of debate over the feasibility of opening a grocery store in Collegetown, GreenStar Cooperative Market’s Board of Directors has signed a 20-year lease to open a branch at 307 College Ave. The market will occupy the ground floor of developer Josh Lower’s ’05 proposed apartment complex at the site, pending the approval of the cooperative’s full membership in November.

In a statement to the City of Ithaca Planning and Development Board on Sept. 11, Brandon Kane, general manager of GreenStar Cooperative Market Inc., reaffirmed the company’s commitment to Lower’s “Collegetown Crossing” project and urged its timely approval.

“The purpose behind the statement is to reinforce our support so that the planning board could make a decision and move it forward to the board of zoning appeals,” Kane said. “We have a time limit to get this built and occupy it within a certain time range that makes it affordable and feasible for us.”

Lower has provided GreenStar with significant financial incentives that will support market’s success at 307 College Ave., according to Kane.

Due to the financial incentives Lower is offering GreenStar the “co-op will be saving approximately $1 [million] to 1.5 million in occupancy expenses over the 20-year term of the agreed-upon lease,” Kane said in his statement to the board.

Pending city approval, Lower plans to demolish the site’s current building and remake the area into a highly trafficked “pedestrian arcade,” filled with storefronts along a pedestrian passageway that would connect College and Linden Avenues. The upper floors would provide additional residential units to the Collegetown community, according to Lower.

Approval of the project has been delayed due to the developer’s request for variances on — or exemptions from — parking requirements under current zoning laws.

“In the current project there are roughly 113 beds and existing zoning law requires 57 parking spaces and four loading spaces. Currently, there is a deficiency of three loading spaces being offered and no parking,” said John Schroeder ’74, a member of the planning board and The Sun’s production manager.

Lower said he has been “trying to come up with a plan See GREENSTAR page 5

COURTESY OF THE CITY OF ITHACA

Collegetown Crossing | A rendering shows the proposed site of a new apartment complex and GreenStar grocery store.

Court Hearing in Desdunes’13 After Fleeing Nazis, Civil Suit Delayed Until October Prof Was Leading

By DAVID MARTEN Sun Senior Editor

A court hearing originally scheduled for Thursday to decide whether the University must hand over documents related to the death of George Desdunes ’13 in February 2011 has been delayed until October.

Desdunes, a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, died on Feb. 25, 2011 after a fraternity hazing ritual.

His mother, Marie Lourdes Andre, is suing the national SAE fraternity and at least 15 former brothers, seeking at least $25 million in damages. She contends See SAE page 4

Global proportions

COURTESY OF THE ESTATE OF R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER AND STANFORD UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Cornell students build a prototype of Buckminster Fuller’s Geoscope on the roof of Rand Hall in 1952. See p. 8 for an interview with Sam Green, the director of a live documentary about Fuller.

Female Academic

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

Having fled from the Nazis as a child and pursued a career in academia when few female scientists walked the hallways of universities, Prof.

Emeritus Ruth Schwartz, nutritional sciences, was remembered as a woman of courage and intellect at her funeral Monday.

Schwartz died on Sept. 19 after a car she was riding in — also carrying her partner, Prof.

Emeritus Seymour Smidt, economics and finance — was hit by another car driving down Route 13. She was 88 years old.

Much of Schwartz’s life was remembered Monday afternoon by her long-time friend, Prof.

Sharon Kay Obendorf Ph.D. ’76, fiber science and apparel design, senior associate dean for research and graduate education.

Schwartz was born on Oct. 9, 1924, in Berlin, Germany, according to Obendorf. All too abruptly, her childhood seemingly came to an end: In the 1930s, Hitler rose to power, and Schwartz’s Ukranian father was deported to Czechoslovakia. He was later shot by a border guard. In 1939, at the age of 14, Schwartz fled for her life — escaping the Nazis by boarding a Kindertransport train to London.

See SCHWARTZ page 4

News Happy Birthday, COE

As Cornell Outdoor Education celebrates its 40th anniversary, the program’s leaders reflect on the history of its creation. | Page 3

Opinion Tough Times

Kirat Singh ’14 discusses the global financial problems currently facing the international community. | Page 7

Opinion Outside the Box

Deon Thomas ’15 encourages students to step outside of their comfort zones when meeting people at Cornell. | Page 7

Arts Bringing It Home

Peter Jacobs ’13 discusses the implications of Homeland’s shocking awards sweep at the Emmys on Sunday. | Page 9

Sports Hard-Won Victory

Men’s soccer defeated St. Joseph’s 3-2 on Saturday. | Page 16

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Roy and Ida

Today

By Sam Miller ’13 Roy wearing green with nubbed rubber feet; Ida, first grader, plaid and plaited. Mom and Dad had Ida right away and almost spoiled her, with “too much love.” But three years later Roy came along and they found a way to distribute it better. Then they were a family of two, two, two, and two, with lots of Mom plus Roy and Dad plus Ida; Mom and Dad, occasionally, but all the time there was Roy and Ida. For as long as Roy could remember there had been the Lake house. Ida knew there were houses before it.

Those houses were damp and painted like the Dentist’s office. They belonged to other people. Their beds were stiff blanketed and the pillows crunched under-head because, Ida told Roy, they were stuffed with crickets.

Those houses came with thousand piece puzzles, at least one big, dried up conch shell, and old books, with potato chip pages. Every floor, even up and down the stairs, was covered in the same corn kernel carpet that Roy and Ida knew liked to pick at using their fingernails in their basement at home.

The Lake house on the other hand was what Dad called an investment. Its floors were wooden, its steps made of stone and “cast-iron,” and replacing the corn kernels were oriental rugs. Other features included: mosquito candles, fireplace, narrow roof, narrow halls.

And at night, in the air, instead of sea gulls there were bats. In the water, a dock and a motorboat. Winters at the Lake house were long and thick; summers, pale and green. The sand by the lake was like mashed sweet potatoes, which was disturbing to Ida; delightful for Roy. Mom would come outside when it was sunny in a onepiece bathing suit. Dad got his shotgun out of the closet, once, to shoot at a bear that was on the front porch.

Outside the house, nature was dense. Ida, 12, and Roy, 7, planned to make a fortune off that place. As far as Ida knew, no one had documented any of their

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particular lake or woods, and so she took it upon herself. Roy was cameraman.

“Stop moving it up and down,” said Ida, mid-take.

“It’s nodding,” said Roy. “It’s agreeing with what you said about the mushrooms.”

“Jesus Christ, Roy.” Ida signaled ‘cut.’ She crashed through the underbrush and cupped her hands over Roy’s and showed him how to train focus on a spot. “Steady, OK? Don’t even breathe too much. It’s up to the audience whether or not they agree with what I’m saying.” Roy frowned and Ida crashed back into the shot.

“What if they don’t?”

“Of course they will.”

“But what if?”

Ida glared from under her eyelids. “OK, Roy. 3, 2, 1, action!”

Sometimes Ida would bring the camera out in a canoe with a girl who lived next door. She was older and came to the lake only periodically, when her family “dragged her along.”

“Ida’s only friends with her because she has a boat,” Roy confided in Mom one day when Ida was 13 and he was 8.

Roy stood at the front window, peering out at Ida in the yard, while Mom skinned potatoes into the trash. Roy’s grandmother had put the TV on in the living room and then fallen asleep in front of it. Roy thought about how he was not allowed to go on the canoe trips. “I’ll show you the footage after,” Ida had told him as she plugged her neck into a life jacket.

“You let Ida have her friend to herself,” said Mom. “I do, I didn’t even bother them once today.” Roy wandered into the kitchen.

“But,” he concluded, “it’s not fair.”

“Oh, Roy, it’s fair. How about you help with dinner?

Would you like to set the table for me?”

“No,” said Roy. “OK,” Mom said, “but do it anyway.”

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COE: ‘An Oasis of Madness Amidst a Pompous’Univ.

By TYLER ALICEA Sun Contributor

Forty years ago, David Morrissey Moriah ’72 was determined to get his fellow classmates out from behind their books and into the woods.

“I would found an oasis of madness amidst a pompous academic institution that takes itself far too seriously,” Moriah said.

Today, as Cornell Outdoor Education — the product of Moriah’s vision — celebrates its 40th anniversary, COE Executive Director Todd Miner said the program has exceeded that dream and possibly more.

“I think that in size, equipment and resources, the student leaders from 40 years ago would not recognize the program," Miner said.

Although COE offers services that were not available when the program began in 1972, such as an outfitting and rental service, a team and leadership center, two climbing walls and more, Miner says that the spirit of the program has not changed.

“We still teach experientially,” Miner said about the program’s spirit. “It is all about the experience.”

Miner said that the most important parts of COE’s identity are its “connection to the environment” and the fact that it is taught by student leaders.

The program was founded by approximately 25 under“I would found an oasis of madness graduate instructors, who taught participants various amidst a pompous academic instituion skills in leadership and outdoor activities. Today, COE has that takes itself far too seriously.” more than 150 student instrucDavid Morrissey Moriah ’72 tors, according to Miner.

As the program grew, student leaders wanted more opportunities for leadership and outdoor training — resulting in the creation of more physical education classes to cater to these needs, Miner said.

Cornell’s location gives students unique chances to explore the outdoors through classes such as caving or tree climbing, according to Miner. In addition, the University offers various “soft adventure” options such as outdoor yoga and backcountry cooking, he said.

Charlotte Ambrozek ’13, a COE instructor, said she believes that Cornell’s outdoor education program is unique compared to those at other universities.

“I don’t think that any [other program] is as comprehensive as the one we have here,” she said.

In August, Cornell placed fifth on Outside Magazine’s list of the “Top 25 Colleges for Outside Readers.” The magazine cited Cornell’s location, “impressive array” of outdoor education activities and its Outdoor Odyssey program.

Outdoor Odyssey — a pre-orientation program that sends incoming freshmen on outdoor adventure trips — gives new students the chance to get the “inside scoop” on

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Reaching new heights | Cornell Outdoor Education tree climbing instructors contruct two new tree platforms at the Hoffman Challenge Course.

life at Cornell from undergraduate leaders, Miner said.

Laura Kennedy ’13, an Outdoor Odyssey coordinator, said that the program allows students to connect with their peers and meet upperclassmen before starting their first semester at Cornell.

“The community provides networks between people who would not meet otherwise,” Kennedy said.

As COE continues to evolve, so does their message.

In recent years, the program has begun to work alongside Gannett Health Services to promote wellness by offering programs to help relieve student stress, Miner said.

For instance, COE now offers outdoor activities for students to unwind during exams week.

"If the students don't get off the quad or out of Collegetown, Cornell is doing them a disservice,” Miner said.

Kennedy added that outdoor education gives students an opportunity to escape from academic rigor year-round. “[Outdoor education] provides people an outlet to get outdoors and challenge themselves,” she said.

Miner attributed the longevity of the program to “student passion” — as well as to generous donations from alumni and continued support from the University.

In the future, he said, COE hopes to expand by continuing to work with the University and by reaching out to other student groups to collaborate on getting more students outdoors.

“I think its something that should be available to everyone,” Ambrozek said.

Tyler Alicea can be reached at tra37@cornell.edu.

Profs Advance 3-D Printing Software, Create Virtual Characters

By KRITIKA OBEROI Sun Contributor

While 3-D printing might sound futuristic, researchers say it may soon be a common household practice. Advancing the field of 3D printing to new plateaus, Prof.

Doug James, computer science,

and colleagues have developed a program that can create physical 3D models of virtual characters.

The team — which included James, Moritz Bächer, Harvard University, Prof. Hanspeter Pfister, Harvard University, and Prof.

Bernd Bickel, Technische Universität Berlin — focused on

how to improve software to enable scientists to create layered, threedimensional models, usually out of plastic.

Previously, 3-D printers were limited to creating rigid objects, such as cubes, according to James.

But now, the researchers have built models that can move just like

Prepping for powder

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The Ski and Snowboard Club creates chalk advertisements Monday afternoon for its first meeting of the semester on Ho Plaza.

characters do in the virtual world, from the video game Spore. James said his favorite figure so far is a he said.

“One of the bottlenecks to the character from the game called application of 3-D printing is the Grumpy.

Such printers are becoming relative lack for design software for generating complex printable increasingly common in various objects. James’ approach to auto- fields, from education to industry matically generating printable, — and they will become housearticulated figures is a good exam- hold items in the near future, ple of what future computer-aided according to James.

“Eventually, you'll be able to design tools will look like,” said Prof. Hod Lipson, mechanical and pick them up from your local store,” he said. aerospace engineering.

James said that 3-D printers are The printer can be thought of as “an automatic toy generation rapidly dropping in price — and tool,” James said.

According to him, children will soon “Eventually, you’ll be able to pick be able to create them up from your local store.” their own virtual Doug James characters and print them out to that some can now be purchased create toys.

3-D printers identify their for under $1,000. A number of models as patterns of minute cubes large-scale 3-D printing facilities so small that they cannot be distin- also offer their services on the guished by the human eye, James Internet, he added.

Debarghya Das ’15, a computsaid, adding that they “print” their products using a technique to cre- er science major, called 3-D printate an outline called a “skinned ing “technology’s next big thing.”

“Companies like Makerbot mesh.” The skinned mesh provides the basic outline of the model, and have come up with 3-D printing the printer builds it according to file sharing now. Can you imagine being able to send your friend that the layout, James said.

He said the new means of mea- rare screwdriver he needed from suring the mesh allows the printers halfway across the world?” Das to create interactive and moveable said. “The concept of being able to joints for characters that are similar make anything you need right from home is mind-blowing.” to those of human beings.

The researchers have printed out a few models with the new Kritika Oberoi can be reached at software, including characters ko273@cornell.edu.

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Friends, Faculty Say Professor Was ‘Courageous,’ Kind SCHWARTZ

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Rabbi Scott Glass, who officiated the funeral, said that he did not think most parents of Jewish children believed the Kindertransport mission — which moved Jewish children into British foster homes before the beginning of World War II — “was anything but a temporary arrangement.”

Yet for Schwartz, “as for so many others, she would never see her parents — or most of her family — ever again,” Glass said.

In fact, Glass said, it was 20 years before Schwartz discovered that her brother was still alive.

“One friend called her courageous. In reflecting on the path that her life took, I’d say one had to be courageous to have been able to navigate it as well as Ruth did,” Glass said.

The political turmoil Schwartz witnessed in her early years made her an adult who was “always interested in what was happening in the world,” Obendorf said.

“I think when you think about her young days, you would understand … why she cared about politics,” Obendorf added.

Schwartz ultimately made it safely to London, where she found the support of a foster family, as well as friends, who encouraged her to pursue her budding interest in science.

Although Schwartz studied chemistry, physiology and nutrition as an undergraduate and graduate student, she struggled to find a teaching position at a British university after graduation, Obendorf said. But, refusing to give up her ambition, in 1963 Schwartz left for America.

Schwartz taught at a few universities before she came to Cornell in 1970 — at “a time when the [College of Human Ecology] was changing,” Obendorf said.

“This was the transition from [the College of] Home Economics to the College of Human Ecology,” Obendorf said. “Ruth Schwartz was one of the scientists who was hired to increase our research mission in the College of Human Ecology and transform us into the research and teaching college that you would think of today.”

According to Prof. Virginia Utermohlen, human nutrition, who met Schwartz at the University when their offices shared a hallway, Schwartz helped found the Department of Nutritional Sciences in 1974.

Obendorf added that Schwartz’s grounding in science led her to teach graduate students in several fields, ranging from nutritional sciences to environmental toxicology to international development.

Another chapter of Schwartz’s life began when, in 2002, she met — and began dating — Prof. Emeritus Smidt.

Schwartz, Glass said, “helped give [Smidt] a new lease on life, and seemed to make him very happy.”

“Many people took great joy in seeing how good their relationship was for each of them and both of them, making the events of last Wednesday that much more tragic,” Glass said.

Smidt, who drove the car Schwartz was riding in Wednesday, was airlifted to Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., for treatment. He is still recovering from his injuries, according to Glass.

“We hope for [Smidt]’s speedy recovery and hope that Ruth is now in peace,” Glass said.

Akane Otani can be reached at aotani@cornellsun.com.

SAE Hearing Moved to Oct. SAE

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that the incident exemplifies a broader culture of recklessness at SAE that is inherently “deadly.”

The hearing was originally scheduled for Thursday in Brooklyn, where Andre lives. However, it was delayed until Oct. 25.

At the hearing next month, Judge Karen Rothenberg will decide whether to allow a subpoena filed earlier this month by Andre’s lawyers that would require Cornell to hand over any information related to the fraternity’s “knowledge of the extreme and dangerous — in fact, deadly — hazing that the individual defendants and defendant New York Alpha chapter were engaging in,” according to the lawsuit. The documents have become a key source of contention in the civil lawsuit.

The 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. It would also require the University to hand over all disciplinary records against SAE and any correspondence between the University and the fraternity about hazing.

Those documents, however, may never be admitted into evidence. The defense has argued that they fall under the Family See SAE page 5

NEWS

Debates Over Parking Delay C-Town Crossing GREENSTAR

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that makes as many people happy as possible,” but that a financially feasible building plan must be reached before the project can move forward.

“On a 60-foot wide property, it’s just not possible to provide the parking,” Lower said. “If we had a larger property we could fit it on, we’d already have the project approval.”

At a meeting in April 2012, the planning board requested a study be conducted to determine the percentage of Collegetown residents that have cars in Ithaca. According to Schroeder, the study found that Lower’s proposed apartments would only result in the need to accommodate approximately 19 additional cars — a number that could be reduced to 13 with the potential provision of free bus passes and Ithaca Carshare credits to residents, according to the study.

The city is considering these transportation options so that Lower can proceed with the project as planned, Schroeder said.

“My expectation is that the planning board will approve the full environmental assessment so long as it meets what we discussed at our last meeting,” Schroeder said. From there, he said, the project would go to the Board of Zoning Appeals, which would consider requested variances.

While some residents are attempting to push the project forward quickly, citing the need for a full-service grocer in Collegetown, Common Council member Graham Kerslick (D-4th Ward) said that, considering the weight of the board’s responsibility, there has been no undue delay.

“I do know the board is being pressured, but their job is to make sure they consider all the impacts. This is not an insignificant project,” Kerslick said.

He added that in light of the significant transportation concessions being requested by the developer, it is reasonable for the city to expect something in return.

“To begin with, the building should be very well built, high quality and have the appropriate mechanics,” Kerslick said. “The board raised some good questions about providing more space for pedestrians by proposing the building [be] set back a bit more … They’re looking for anything the developers can do to provide the necessary amenities for pedestrian traffic.”

Despite its complications, the potential benefits of this project for the community are not lost on the planning board, according to Schroeder.

He said the addition of residential units and retail space would be a step in the right direction — and particularly, an upgrade from the two-story building that currently stands at 307 College Ave. “Frankly, it’s just an ugly building, and a clear prime development site in Collegetown,” Schroeder said.

Lower said he hopes that Collegetown Crossing will not only be convenient for students living in Collegetown, but will also foster a sense of community in the area.

“We’re just trying to bring some excitement back to the 300 block of Collegetown,” Lower said.

Christa Nianiatus can be reached at cnianiatus@cornellsun.com.

Disclosure May Violate FERPA SAE

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Educational Rights and Privacy Act, a federal law that protects students’ educational records, and thus cannot be handed over to the court. “[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, disagreed in recently filed court documents.

“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.

David Marten can be reached at dmarten@cornellsun.com.

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Voting where it counts To the Editor: Re: “Voting at Home, in Ithaca,” Opinion, Sept. 19 As a sophomore here at Cornell, and someone who has recently registered to vote (absentee I might add), it was interesting to read about the dilemma of registering here at Cornell, or back at home. I am from Soldotna, Alaska, a small town two and a half hours away from Anchorage. I wholeheartedly agree that voting becomes more convoluted and confusing the farther away from your hometown you are, however, I still could not bring myself to sever my ties with my state and register to vote here in Ithaca, my home for only a mere four years.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I agree that Cornellians should be involved and active in the surrounding area, not just the campus. Even so, registering to vote, though a simple process, can make for complicated residence issues back home. Though the issues and the candidates’ motives are not immediately apparent when college students are far from home, being able to participate in your own hometown election and make a difference to your own community is a big deal. Being able to vote for my mayor, and my school district is something I take pride in. For me, an Alaskan who receives a Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) each year, any proof of absence from the state for an extended period of time, including registering to vote in a different state, will keep an Alaskan resident from receiving their PFD for the year.

As you can see, I obviously have a problem with not receiving the “free” money my state provides. The only solution to this would be for college students to be able to register in two towns at once, without government issues. What needs to be established are separate town, state and national voting systems which would allow students to vote in their own home elections the presidential elections, and the community elections of their college. Not only would a new system benefit students, but citizens who have dual residencies for the winter and summer as well.

Madelynn Tice ’15

by Laura Miller

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What is authentic progress?

To the Editor: Re: “The Hypocrisy of Scorpions X,” Opinion, Sept. 24 Scorpions X, an anonymous “anti-oppression” group on campus, recently published 1,000 copies of their satirical spin on The Sun, “The Cornell Nightly Moon,” and intermingled them in The Sun’s carrels in time for homecoming. Among the couple dozen or so polemical pieces which allege widespread and institutional oppressive polices at Cornell, one in particular, “Gay Student Leaders Blind to LGBT Struggles …” shows just how out of touch Scorpions X is with the campus. Could LGBT leaders really be ignorant of gay — i.e. their own — struggles? Obviously, no, but when LGBT leaders assert the “radical” opinion that Cornell can be a friendly place, the Scorpions X are driven to senseless polemic in trying to maintain that Cornell is universally oppressive.

In remaining anonymous, the Scorpions X aim be more than a group of individuals and represent the minorities who lack a voice. But when they blatantly ignore the very minorities they aim to represent, they discredit themselves and bring scorn to the minorities who sensibly aim for authentic progress.

Gabriel Mahan ’13

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CORRECTION Monday’s Arts & Entertainment article, “Avicii Levels Barton,” incorrectly stated that Avicii is 5 ft. 4 inches tall. This information, however, was based on an unreliable source and could not be verified.

Due to an editing error, a news story Monday, “‘Grander Experience’ Draws More Cornell Alumni to Homecoming 2012,” incorrectly stated the sex of Terry Hahn, director of affinity programs. Hahn is a woman, not a man.

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Mandatory Problems W

hile the unfortunate episodes of violence in parts of North Africa, the Middle East and South Asia dominated news headlines, September also saw financial bureaucrats across the globe make notable moves to arrest sagging economic activity. The increasingly central role being played by appointed bureaucrats, most notably central bankers, is no coincidence. With elected finance ministers unable to coordinate and pass consistent recovery policies, greater responsibility for fixing unemployment and slow growth is falling on monetary authorities. The statutory autonomy of these bureaucrats allows them to circumvent stalled legislatures. Not only is it unsurprising, this trend is cause for concern.

The first major policy announcement came from Europe in early September.

European Central Bank Chief Mario Draghi announced a plan that would allow the ECB to buy an unlimited number of bonds from governments with troubled finances. This would keep their borrowing costs from spiraling.

Unsurprisingly, this facility comes with several strings attached — countries that want to borrow from the ECB in this manner will have to first enter strenuous austerity regimes and request direct assistance from other member states. His announcement had an immediate effect on the market, with Spanish and Italian 10-year bond yields falling to their lowest in months. The bond yield is the price that governments have to pay to borrow money (in this case, 10 years) and its reduction makes it easier for them to stay solvent.

The United States acted next on September 13 when the Federal Reserve announced a third round of Quantitative Easing. Termed “QE 3” for being the third installment of this novel technique, it

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allows the Fed to spend $40 billion a month on buying bonds and mortgage backed securities until mid-2015.

Increased demand for mortgage backed securities is expected to directly reduce mortgage costs for Americans, increasing demand for homes and boosting housing prices. Housing prices, in turn, are expected to directly increase consumer spending by increasing average household wealth.

The Fed’s most recent announcement also differed from earlier QE attempts in one important regard. Chairman Ben Bernanke gave an indication that he would be willing to tolerate (within reason) an inflation rate higher than the earlier target of two percent if reducing unemployment warranted it.

Central banks in India and Japan, too, took steps to increase economic activity by increasing the availability of money. The Reserve Bank of India reduced two key rates that Indian banks have to abide by, one that mandates the amount of money commercial banks must invest in Indian government bonds and the other that mandates the amount of money commercial banks must keep parked with the RBI. By reducing these rates, the RBI hopes to increase the amount of money being lent to consumers in order to boost economic activity. The Bank of Japan’s announcement came only three days after Mr. Bernanke’s and it too announced a plan that would see it spend 10 trillion Yen (US$126 billion) on bonds including those issued by the Japanese government.

This increasing reliance on monetary machinations to steer the world out of economic stagnation is troublesome for numerous reasons. The first is a problem of principle. An increasing amount of economic policy is being formulated by unelected bureaucrats who do not directly answer to voters. The issue here is not that central bankers are manipulating rates and

yields without the interference of elected officials. Removing unnecessary political interference is essential, by most accounts in economics and political science, to the proper functioning of macroeconomic policy. The problem is that while conducting their monetary policy, some of the Central Banks are simultaneously redefining their mandates. The ECB’s policy

absence of any indication that they would be solved, the crisis is being aggravated. In the case of the European Union, there is no clear message emerging to explain how growth will return to Spain and Italy.

Their 10-year yields are likely to rise yet again. In India, attempts by the government to push through reforms to boost foreign investment and reduce its massive

Kirat Singh Evaluating the Discontents moves are a prime candidate here. Created with the mandate of controlling inflation, there is now widespread concern among sections of the German establishment that the ECB will be fuelling inflation in Europe’s laggard countries. Again, whether or not this policy of the ECB is prudent is a separate question, the first question is whether this is the ECB’s problem to solve.

A reasonable response to my first criticism is that perhaps there is no time to debate a new constitution for the ECB while the Euro trembles along a precipice.

In other words, if the ECB’s actions are needed to save the Euro, that should be done first and all other matters can be sorted out later. This too, however, does not seem to be the case. This forms the basis of my second criticism. By acting in an environment where there is shockingly little initiative on the part of the respective governments of each of the central banks, these monetary measures are not solving the root problems. Worse still, in the

fuel subsidy bill have been met with strikes and the resignations of ministers. If those attempts at reform fail, the increase in money supply by the central bank there will only serve to stoke already high inflation.

As for the United States, any positive impact from QE 3 might end up being negated by possible automatic spending cuts at the end of the year as well as the termination of the Bush-era tax cuts. That is not an argument for QE 3 to not have taken place but a wish for monetary and fiscal policies that worked with, not against each other. Then, perhaps, these beleaguered bureaucrats would not have to redefine their job descriptions in an attempt to merely remain solvent.

Kirat Singh is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at ksingh@cornellsun.com. Evaluating the Discontents appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

Musical Chairs

his week during class I realized something quite vexing. What I noticed was a problem that was surprising in two different ways.

Firstly, it was shocking because it took me until now to diagnose it as a problem and secondly, at Cornell in 21st century it should not be a problem. I am speaking of the near segregation in the classrooms at Cornell. In the several classes I am in, students of the

chose to select Cornell’s as its number one motto on its first annual “Top 10 Motto List.” This caused Tommy Bruce, Vice President for University Communications at Cornell, to state, “Cornell University students come from all walks of life, all income levels, races, religions and lifestyles. They come from all corners of the globe to study archaeology, biology, botany, government, music, physics — subjects too nu merous to mention here.”

These hopes and praises of It’s Not Me, the University go to show how It’s You en tirely tragic it is when any one student refuses to leave their own “realm.”

In my opinion, the most appealing factor of any college is the array of unique experiences that can be had there. One of the most dynamic aspects of Cornell is the diversity and the plethora of organizations and events that it provides. However, if you refuse to leave the realm that you have imprisoned yourself within, these experiences are beyond your reach. I’m not sure about how you feel but as far as I am concerned this school costs far too much to waste any opportunities. We must also consider how lucky we are to have access to such a variety of opportunities. Not too many years ago, many of us wouldn’t have had this chance. At another college, many of us would still not be able to have such flexibility. Even back home some of us are presented with very limited resources and

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same race seem to stick together. Now there is nothing wrong with having friends that resemble oneself, however something about this situation strikes me the wrong way.

As an African-American male it bothered me that there seemed to be a barrier between my own race and others. With a troubled mind I tweeted soon after “It irks me when all the black people in class sit together, I came to Cornell to expand my horizons not to define them ...”

Although I tweeted that without much thought, I received a lot of feedback from my followers.

This spurred me to think about the topic much further. I realized the irony of this situation when I remembered that this institution was designed to be a place where “any person can find instruction in any study.” Further, in 2007 Motto magazine

diversity.

Another far more practical reason that this problem needs to be solved has to do with life after Cornell. As we all know, typical Cornellians are extremely concerned about their future. More often than not, one’s workplace will have a diverse array of people from different backgrounds. If one cannot sit next to a diverse array of persons in an academic environment then his or her full-time job will be a rude awakening. College, in theory, is “real-world practice,” it’s the first time when you have to deal with others, manage your time, and do many other things on your own.The real difference is that in the “real-world” the stakes are much higher. This is why college must be taken seriously. If you don’t put yourself in certain positions during “practice” you will have no idea how to manage these situations when much more is at stake.

I believe that far too many people are enclosed within their own comfort zones. I believe that the biggest impact can be made, in your life and others, if you simply decide to broaden your horizons. A small step you can make is to play musical chairs and simply decide to sit with a different group of people every week. Classes aren’t too terribly long and only a few people at Cornell are unbearable so take your chances. If you decide that you would rather stick to your ways and go about living your life within your limitations that is your prerogative. However, when you look upon your days at Cornell and realize how many opportunities were squandered just remember it’s not me, it’s you.

Deon Thomas is a sophomore in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at dthomas@cornellsun.com.

It’s Not Me, It’s You appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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BY DANYOUNG KIM Sun Contributor

Sam Green, an Academy Award-nominated documentary filmmaker, will present his newest “live documentary,” The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller, at Cornell Cinema Saturday night alongside rock band Yo La Tengo. The Sun spoke over the phone with Green about the “live documentary” experience, journalism’s decline, The Weather Underground’s Bill Ayers and the magic of Cornell Cinema.

THE SUN: A lot of your documentaries have this reporting, journalistic element to them. Would you consider yourself a journalist or a filmmaker now?

SAM GREEN: Well it’s funny because when I tell people I went to journalism school, they sometimes say, “Oh, are you sad that you’re not still doing journalism?” I’ve always been taken aback by that because I do think I’m doing journalism — I mean, I’m not a daily newspaper reporter, but I’m still using all the tools I learned about research, trying to be accurate and fair, interviewing people … trying to get to the bottom of things and being curious about the world. ... I still use all that, so I consider what I do with documentaries, with the kind of documentary film I make, art journalism.

SUN: You do a lot of live documentaries as opposed to recorded ones. What do you think a live documentary brings to the art that a standard one wouldn’t be able to?

S.G.: Well, a lot of things. I have made a lot of traditional documentaries, and I’m still making [them]. I made this documentary about [the language] Esperanto recently. I got into making these live documentaries a couple years ago, and I love doing them. I’m very enthralled by the form for a lot of different reasons.

One is that if you’re a filmmaker these days, you have to expect that people are going to watch your movies on their phones or on their laptops while they’re checking their e-mails. I watched a movie last night ... on Netflix Instant, and I fell asleep in the middle of it. It’s a great movie, but I ... shuttled forward towards the end of the movie … It’s not the same experience and I’m not being judgmental about it. The Internet is great and it’s great to be able to watch anything you want anytime, whenever you want, but [for] the movies I make, I really like the experience, the kind of theatrical sort of experience, going somewhere to see it with strangers in a room. The lights go down, you turn off your phone, and you give yourself over to this experience.

That to me is very powerful, so I wanted to make something that would hang on to that, that would keep people watching things in that context.

So the great thing with live documentaries is that is what they are: You can’t download it later, you can’t get it on Netflix Instant, you can’t see it on YouTube, you got to go. I think

that that makes it more special, and especially with this latest one I’m doing, [The Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller], with the band Yo La Tengo. They’re a great band, and many people know them and are fans, so you go and see them live, too — it’s more of a special event. If you’re just watching a regular movie these days, it’s sort of like ho-hum in a way.

SUN: And you’ve had a lot of success with the traditional documentary, too, like The Weather Underground. Were you surprised when you were nominated for the Academy Awards given the topic of the film?

S.G.: Yeah, I was definitely surprised by that. When I started making that movie — a movie about a group of young people who tried to violently overthrow the U.S. government — I thought, maybe some actors might be interested and maybe some baby boomers, but not a lot more than that. So the movie was much more of a hit than I thought. I mean, a ‘hit’ is a relative thing, but still, I didn’t think it would become such a widely-seen movie, [or be] nominated for Academy Award ... It was especially great because it’s the kind of thing where my grandmother understands that that’s a big deal.

Everybody understands, whereas before people are like, “You make documentary films? Oh yeah, you know, whatever.” But people say, “You’re nominated for the Academy Award?”

Almost anybody can [understand that].

SUN: Did you receive any press attention in 2008 when former Weather Underground member Bill Ayers was a subject of concern for Barack Obama and his presidential campaign?

S.G.: Oh yeah, a lot actually. Through the process of making the movie, we became friends with him. I like Bill a lot, and I felt really sorry for him. I saw him at a certain point and I said, “How is it going?” And he said, “Terrible!” What people don’t realize is that if Fox News vilifies you, you COURTESY OF FRED BLOCHER, KANSAS CITY STAR will receive a tsunami of death threats, so he was getting death threats all the time from crazy people out there … When all that was happening, I got a lot of offers to go on Nightline and stuff like that, but we didn’t want to engage with it.

In a way, the only way to take the air out of a nonissue like that is to not engage with it, so we didn’t do any press.

Although, Fox News started using parts of my movie ... They didn’t even put a title [over the footage], so we had to get a lawyer to get them to stop doing that … it was pretty stupid, that whole thing.

SUN: So for Buckminster Fuller, what first drew you to him?

S.G.: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was doing an exhibit about him, and as part of this exhibit, they asked me to make a live documentary … They mentioned that his papers are at Stanford University, and his papers are this enormous collection of papers — the biggest collection of any person ever. So I started to go down to Stanford and look through the papers; the more I looked the more interesting [he seemed]. I really felt like he was a fasClockwise from top: Director Sam Green; Green and band Yo La Tengo presenting The cinating character, just as a person, [as] this super complex, interesting guy [with Love Song of R. Buckminster Fuller at San Francisco; and Fuller, circa 1978. incredibly radical ideas]. He was in the ’20s and ’30s and ’40s talking about susCOURTESY OF CHARLIE VILLYARD tainability and resources, so he’s way, way ahead of his time, but the funny thing is now he’s so correct! His message about doing more with less, fairly distributing resources — these are really apt things right now.

SUN: So to touch back on journalism, do you have any opinions about the nature of the media today?

S.G.: I probably think the same thing that most other people think, which is, it’s a terrible time for journalism. Many people probably think it’s a great time for journalism because anybody can set up a website, go online, and report about [his or her] community, and in some ways that’s true. But a hundred citizen-journalists, I don’t think, are

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a substitute for one truly kick-ass, experienced, real reporter. I think that a real, healthy independent press is hugely important to our society and our democracy, and I think that the market has totally undermined that, and journalism is in the toilet because of that. To me, it’s sort of heartbreaking. Sure, there are … still a lot of great newspapers and radio reporters, but I think the press is definitely wounded, and I think that our crappy politics are a reflection of that.

SUN: Is there anyone you have in mind that you would want to make a film about in the future?

S.G.: That’s a good question. I’ve always wanted to make a movie about the oldest person in the world. The oldest person in the world changes pretty regularly because you know, they all die. But there’s always somebody walking around, or sometimes lying around, who’s been around longer than anybody else on the planet, and that to me is very interesting. I think right now it’s a woman who lives in Georgia who’s 112 years old. I don’t know if that’s going to be the project I rush out and make, but I’ve always wanted to do something about that.

SUN: So you choose your projects spontaneously?

Whenever an idea comes up, you pursue it?

S.G.: No, I have always had things I’m interested in ...

Right now, I’m interested in trees. I’m reading books about trees, and I like trees these days. So far, I don’t think it’s going to last that long. Something comes up, things that get under my skin and almost become an obsession. That to me is important because a film is hard to make, it takes a long time, so you have to be obsessed with something in order to stick with it and make something out of it. It can’t just be a passing interest.

SUN: I think that wraps it up. Did you have anything else you wanted to say?

S.G.: No. I’m very excited to come back to Cornell. I’ve showed two other movies there, and this might be just totally extraneous for you, but I’m not sure if students there realize what a fantastic institution and resource Cornell Cinema is.

Filmmakers from all over the world know Cornell Cinema and admire the programming there. Years ago, there were organizations like Cornell Cinema at universities all over the country, and over time, they’ve gone away, because of VCRs and DVDs and now the Internet. The idea is like, “You can see anything online,” but it’s not really true, and there’s also that thing about the cinematic experience. It’s very different to see a movie in a theater than it is to watch it online. So Cornell Cinema is still around … and I personally am thrilled to screen something there and to come back. I really admire and respect the organization and the curation, and I know many other filmmakers out there who feel the same way.

Danyoung Kim is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences.

She can be reached at dak257@cornell.edu.

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Securing the Shadow, Finding the Words

BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Contributor

Claudia Emerson, the 2006 Pulitzer Prize-winning poet of Late Wife, was introduced by her former student Prof.

Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, English, at Hollis E. Cornell Auditorium Thursday afternoon. Van Clief-Stefanon described Emerson as one of her “favorite people in the world,” “smart, joyful, open, quick to laugh and quick to share.” Emerson helped Van Clief-Stefanon cope with the sexual assault she experienced in her freshman year of college and release her pain through art. This was the tone of the reading — full-disclosure. Nothing was off-limits, and Van Clief-Stefanon thanked Emerson for creating a safe space for her when she was coming into her own as an artist. She referred to her as, quite simply, “a real poet” who is providing the key service of a “Southern narrative relevant to the world at large.”

Emerson’s most recent book of poetry, Secure the Shadow, takes its name from the Southern tradition of making daguerreotypes — simple, high-contrast, black and white photos — of deceased family members.

Emerson’s efforts have a similar sense of conservation, as made apparent by the first poem she read, “Late April House Fire along Interstate 81.” In a lilting Southern accent, Emerson opened the floodgate — the inspiration for this poem is the sight of a house fire just days after her brother’s diagnosis with advanced colon cancer. The poem is a landscape portrait of a house that has been consumed by flames but still retains its structure for this brief moment in which Emerson views it: “But this was anguish not yet grief. And so I slowed but did not stop to watch someone else’s tragedy burnt past this brief, nearly beautiful suspension that changes nothing.”

Her second poem detailed the discovery of the East Coast’s largest uranium deposit underneath her hometown in the 1950s. It describes a fire much less literal than the

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first, but a hundred-fold more destructive — “The worry that cancer simply ran in families had been replaced by suspicion of a greater cause: the massive vein of uranium.”

Emerson recalled the helplessness of the church ladies and neighborhood mothers to protect themselves and their families, attributing their belief in “predestined sacrifice” to this inexplicable curse and wondering where to put the blame for the existence of such a deceptive source of death.

“The houses on the street where I grew up marked with its slow plague — patient, insatiable — not one passed over.”

Equally poignant were Emerson’s poems about her father in the final dementia-haunted year of his life, her cousin returned from Vietnam with throat cancer caused

by Napalm and the local radiologist on the rare day he has had “the unusual pleasure to say all day, becoming beautiful and absolute, the nothing here at all.”

These are poems about death. But more importantly, Emerson’s devotion to black-and-white “documentary photography” and fascination with radiology underscore how these are poems also about the disorienting discontinuity and vague anguish of life.

The last portion of Emerson’s reading was as-of-yet unpublished works from her next collection, The Opposite House. One was the story of her ex mother-in-law and the baby she lost 60 years ago, never seeing or naming it, but forever asserting that the undertaker’s wife had called it the “prettiest baby in the world.” Another was about a friend of her mother’s who will often call and beg to be told that she is still alive: “Some nights her house convinces her she’s already dead.” Emerson presented her last poem with the disclaimer that it was written during her own personal struggle this past summer with the same cancer that took her brother’s life. She warned the audience that cancer showed her an anger she never knew she had, saying her “maternal streak has turned into a fissure that’s closing and you’d better not fall in.” These poems were jagged fragments of experience and shockingly painful pieces of the human order. They served as a proclamation of disillusionment with standard notions of time and memory.

“There’s a fine line between what’s personal and what’s private,” Emerson stated in response to a student question about the fact that this is her first collection that can be characterized as “confessional poetry.” It was “exhausting,” she said, to write these poems, because “if you resist them, they haunt you.”

These poems are personal experience laced with universal emotions — feelings of grief and mourning, love and tenderness, blame and guilt, belief and doubt. Emerson both believes in and doubts her own ability to record the spirit of those she has loved. She wonders aloud if it is courage or denial that leads people to attempt to commit these things, so very impossible to articulate, to tangible and shared memory. In the end, she decides it is best to move forward. To “secure the shadow” is to cement reality, to tie us to time, but most importantly — to boldly declare the significance of our own existence.

Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. She can be reached at krt38@cornell.edu.

Drama in the Homeland W

hen the winners were announced at Sunday’s 64th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, sometimes there were yawns and sometimes there was shock, but rarely was there anything in between. Of the 26 statues given out Sunday night, most seemed to either reinforce the domination of a particular program or radically rewrite the power structure of a television genre. I want to discuss a case of the latter: Homeland, and the drama of Drama.

But first, some important points to recap the former, so people can understand the continual praise the Emmys like to heap upon certain shows. This year, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart won the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series for the 10th consecutive year, while Modern Family won Emmys in every category for which it was nominated. This included second wins for Eric Stonestreet and Julie Bowen in Supporting Actor and Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively, as well as a third consecutive win in Outstanding Comedy Series, which Modern Family has won every year it has been on air. All in all, according to The Atlantic, 19 of the 26 awards went to recipients who had previously won.

I think Stewart said it best when he accepted his award: “Years from now, when the Earth is just a burning husk, and aliens visit, they will find a box of these, and they will know just how predictable these fucking things can be.”

This was supposed to be the narrative for the Drama awards. Two major categories, Lead Actor in a Drama Series and Outstanding Drama Series, have been dominated the past several years by television’s anointed “important” programs. Coming into Sunday’s show, Bryan Cranston had

won Lead Actor every year he was nominated for his role as Walter White in Breaking Bad (three times), and Mad Men had taken home the award for Drama Series every year it was nominated (four times). Something to note: Both Cranston and Mad Men have been nominated in these categories every year they have been on air, so basically, they have never not won.

The smart money this year was on the trend continuing, with Cranston grabbing a fourth statue for Breaking Bad’s grittiest season and Mad Men taking its fifth for yet another set of standout episodes. If the critics were to be trusted, the only thing that might change these two shows’ fortunes was the other. Mad Men’s Jon Hamm has never won an Emmy for his role as Don Draper, and he is certainly deserving, and the same people who thought this was Breaking Bad’s grittiest work also deemed it some of the show’s best. It was anyone’s game, if he happened to be on AMC. Enter Homeland. The CIA counter-terrorism drama is on Showtime, a network that, before Sunday night, had never won a

Peter Jacobs Big Talk Drama Emmy. While Claire Danes’ bipolar CIA officer was the lock of the night in Lead Actress in a Drama Series, anything else would just be a cherry on top as the show heads into its second season this weekend.

I’ve been a fan of Homeland since I binge watched the 12-episode first season over two

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days last spring, and I was pulling for a win.

But, I had to be realistic: There was no way Homeland was going to top what are more and more frequently being cemented as two of the greatest television shows of all time.

Spoiler alert: It did. Much like Cornell did to Yale the day before, Homeland plowed through the competition. Its pilot episode locked up the first statue of the night in Writing for a Drama Series, and if you haven’t yet watched it, make time to this week. It’s worth it. While this was surprising, as it beat out three episodes of Mad Men and one from the increasingly popular and acclaimed Downton Abbey, no one was prepared for what came next. Damien Lewis, a British actor who plays an American Marine potentially turned to Al-Qaeda after eight years in captivity, came out of nowhere to top Cranston and Hamm, and won an Emmy for Lead Actor in a Drama Series.

After Danes received her preordained award for Lead Actress, there was a glimmer of hope: Could this happen? Could Homeland win Outstanding Drama Series for what was a pretty perfect premiere season?

Spoiler alert II: It did. Without exaggerating, in just one night, Homeland established itself as the best show on television.

Not only did it stop two unstoppable juggernaut winning streaks, it won Drama

awards for writing, lead actor and actress and overall series. Regardless of who it beat, that’s impressive. Add in that we’re currently in what some consider a “Golden Age” of television dramas, and it’s all the more extraordinary that Homeland topped these four major categories. Final count for Breaking Bad: One win out of seven nominations (Outstanding Supporting Actor for Aaron Paul). For Mad Men: Zero out of 17 nominations.

Awards don’t mean everything, or according to some people, anything at all. If you don’t like the faceless voting process of the Emmys, take it from a fan: Homeland is enjoyable, smart and constantly shifting. It’s also probably the best show since Battlestar Galactica to accurately portray the tensions and fears of a post-9/11 America. It remains to be seen if Homeland’s brilliant first season was a fluke, but I think we’ll find that its new role as top drama is only going to solidify as the program moves into season two.

Either way, come Sunday night, I’ll be watching Showtime.

Peter Jacobs is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at pjacobs@cornellsun.com. Big Talk appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Puzzle #567

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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Vikings Hand 49ers Syracuse’s Head Coach Marrone First Loss of Season Takes Blame for Team Woes With 24-13 Victory

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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — While Randy Moss was short-arming throws his way over the middle and shying away from contact, Christian Ponder was throwing darts and fearlessly sprinting through the teeth of San Francisco’s ferocious defense.

In one afternoon, Minnesota Vikings fans may have finally started moving on from the electric receiver that once revived the franchise in favor of a charismatic young quarterback who is trying to do the same nearly 15 years later.

Ponder threw for 198 yards and two touchdowns, and ran for another score to lead the Vikings to a convincing 24-13 victory over Moss and the previously-undefeated 49ers on Sunday.

“The more plays I get, the more film I watch, it slows down and I just feel so much more comfortable in what I’m doing,” said Ponder, who completed 21 of 35 passes and still hasn't thrown an interception this season. “And it helps when the players around you are playing so well.”

Kyle Rudolph caught both TD passes, Percy Harvin had nine catches for 89 yards and the rebuilding Vikings defense forced three turnovers by a 49ers team that has been historically good at taking care of the ball. It all added up to perhaps the most unlikely victory of the week, a seven-point underdog that has finished dead last in the NFC North for two straight seasons dominating a team many tabbed as the class of the conference after impressive victories over Green Bay and Detroit.

“Guys are trying to knock us off,” 49ers linebacker NaVorro Bowman said. “So we need to be prepared for it and fight every game.”

One week after losing at Indianapolis, the Vikings (2-1) came out more determined, focusing enough to not let some glaring mistakes from the replacement officiating crew even get in their way.

Twice in a six-play span, the 49ers were allowed to withdraw a called timeout to challenge a play instead. The first one was reversed, a fumble by Toby Gerhart given to the 49ers after video review.

“There were some head-scratchers, there's no question about it,” Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said. “But just proud of our guys. We talked about this during the week, of not getting caught up in anything other than just playing the next play.”

Alex Smith was 24 for 35 for 204 yards with one touchdown and one interception, a poorly thrown pass late in the fourth quarter that landed in rookie Josh Robinson’s arms and snapped a string of 249 straight attempts without an interception.

The 49ers fell behind early when Ponder zipped a beauty of a pass off his back foot on fourth-and-goal from the 1 to Rudolph for the touchdown. San Francisco’s offense committed three turnovers in the fourth quarter and safety Donte Whitner dropped an interception that could have gone for a touchdown.

“I dropped the ball,” Whitner said. “My hands are terrible.”

Moss’ hands, and his blazing speed, made him an instant sensation when the Vikings drafted him in 1998. One of the most popular players in team history, he was largely responsible for a sellout streak at the Metrodome that began his rookie season and didn't end until the opener this year.

Moss was cheered when he was announced before the game, but he managed just three catches for 27 yards, a far cry from the force he used to be in purple. He dropped the first pass thrown his way, drawing a few audible laughs from a Minnesota crowd that has adored him no matter his transgressions on the field or off, including a disastrous second stint here in 2010.

“I want to thank the Vikings fans for the love,” Moss said. “I really appreciate the love that they give, and we just didn't pull it through today.”

They’re redirecting that love Ponder's way now. The mobile quarterback rolled away from pressure all afternoon and blew the roof off the place in the second quarter when he tucked the ball and sprinted right up the middle, streaking past Whitner and lunging into the end zone for a 23-yard TD run that gave the Vikings a 143 lead.

And just when the 49ers threatened, pulling to 17-13 on a TD from Smith to Vernon Davis, Ponder directed a 12-play, 86-yard scoring drive that included a brilliant, one-handed catch from Rudolph for a 2-yard TD. “It was huge for this team, and I know for him it was a huge accomplishment” to go excel against one of the best defenses in the league, Harvin said. “So to go out there and have a complete game builds confidence.”

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP) — Four games into his fourth season at Syracuse, coach Doug Marrone is staring at the prospect of another losing campaign, and he’s not shy about placing the blame on the head guy.

“Realistically, I’ve been here for four years now,” Marrone said Monday on the weekly Big East teleconference. “I have to do a better job. The outcome of what’s going on in the program is not satisfactory for the standards that I have.”

The Orange (1-3) is exactly where it didn’t want to be — coping with a loss heading into a bye week.

On paper, things don’t seem so bad. Syracuse has outgained its four opponents by 520 yards, run 63 more plays, and holds nearly a 2-1 margin in passing yards (1,367 to 725). The Orange also has a 48.5 percent conversion rate on third down while holding opponents to 36.4 percent.

All those positives disappeared on Saturday night in a lackluster 17-10 loss at Minnesota (4-0). The team that had slugged it out in competitive losses to Northwestern and then-No. 2 Southern California and rallied past FCS power Stony Brook never appeared, committing four turnovers and 10 penalties — four of them false starts. That erased any chance of gaining an important victory.

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Team Looks Ahead to USTA Tourney After Weekend Losses, Cornell will travel to NYC to face tough competition in early October W. TENNIS

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Stevens said. “She did very well in the semis, she played three very good sets … [it was a] great showing for her.

It’s great to see how well she can play, great to see her come back from so many first set losses.”

Frazier was able to defeat her opponent, Alex Ion of Penn, but later fell to Amos in the finals of the Flight B Singles.

“Lauren [Frazier] played great — I think she had a breakthrough tournament,” Stevens said. “She had some excellent wins over some very good players from Penn and other schools. She had a new game plan going into this tournament based on results from the past weekend and last season, and she performed very well. Her results were very good and extremely promising.”

“I definitely gained some confidence for the upcoming season,” Frazier said. “Now that we saw how the competition will be, I think we all feel better about going forward into the next tournament, which is ECACs two weekends from now.”

An important aspect about the past weekend is that the Red saw a lot of Ivy League opponents.

“We definitely get a measure of the opponent and how we need to practice, how we need to train to beat certain other players on the teams that we will probably be matched up with in the spring,” Frazier said. “If we do badly against them in the fall we work harder, if we are right up there with them it gives us a lot of confidence and we’re happy. It’s good to not go into the spring season blind.”

Stevens agreed that exposure to Ivy foes in the fall is important for the team.

“It was great for the women on the team to get to see what the competition is like,” he said. “Yale was there, Penn, Columbia … Yale is ranked 25 or 26 in the country right now. [It] shows the girls what the competition will be like in the spring and how hard you have to work to get to that level.”

The Leary Invitational was played outdoors — this can affect a team’s play, but according to Ordway, did

not phase the Red. “I’d say it was pretty windy outside and everyone definitely picked up the pace playing outdoors,” she said. “It’s great to see because it’s something we have been working on. Transitioning between indoor and outdoor tennis is pretty difficult. Everyone has been playing pretty well, so that I was pretty happy about that.”

Cornell has some time to rest before facing its next competition, which will be the USTA Collegiate Invitational on Oct. 6-8 in New York.

“In two weeks we are playing the tournament in Flushing Meadows,” Ordway said. “Almost all of the Ivies go, so it is another great opportunity to play against teams that we are going to be seeing a lot of in the spring and that we want to compare ourselves to.

Everyone is looking forward to it, we are obviously going to be preparing a lot in these next two weeks and getting ready for that.”

The USTA tournament is held at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center, where the US Open is played every year.

“It’s definitely a cool tournament because we get to play on the courts where all the pros play that you see on TV,” Ordway said. “The tournament has a unique atmosphere because of that.”

Although the team has a break from competing this weekend, it does not have a break from practicing.

“We’ll be practicing this weekend, but we are off from competition for the next week and a half, so we will be suring up things that showed up as weaknesses this weekend,” Stevens said. “Tennis is a team sport but it is also incredibly individualized, so each player has their own things to work on … We will be working on that with all of them this next week to get their games ready for next weekend because the competition will be great in New York as well, but that’s what we’re looking forward to. The better the competition, the more they get tested and the better they get.”

Dani Abada can be reached at dabada@cornellsun.com.

Red Focuses on Future W. SOCCER

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including a pair of second-half offerings from freshman Caroline Growney and another shot from senior Maneesha Chitanvis.

Sunday’s game did not result in a positive outcome for the Red, as it lost, 2-1, to Niagara. Junior forward Alysse Godino scored the first goal of her collegiate career, while Christ made six saves; however, the

er Rachel Nichols got a shot off a corner kick that was stopped.

Niagara broke through for the game’s first goal with 23:40 left. After the Red answered with Godino’s goal, it had a couple of opportunities to take the lead; however, it was still unable to put the pieces together to capitalize on any of them. The winning goal came when Niagara found some space on the left, beat a defender and lofted a pass to the far post to convert into an

“We have to focus on each game and getting better and improving.”

Clara Gallagher Red was unable to pull it together to grab the win.

Niagara snagged the winning goal with 4.3 seconds remaining in the game.

The scoreless first half featured a solid save by Christ in the 15th minute, when she palmed a shot from the Purple Eagles up and over the crossbar.

Cornell threatened several times, with senior midfielder Hannah Labadie heading the ball from about 15 yards, which led to a diving save in the 22nd minute. About 10 minutes later, junior midfield-

uncontested header.

“The results we have been getting are upsetting,” Gallagher said. “A lot of the games have been very close and the other team happened to get the better half of everything, but we now have to focus on the Ivy League. We have to focus on each game and getting better and improving.”

Cornell returns to its Ivy League portion of play on Friday against Penn at home.

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

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FIELD HOCKEY

Red Drops Weekend Play to Columbia, Rutgers

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Coming off an encouraging win against Penn in its first game of conference play, the field hockey team was hoping to establish winning consistency this past weekend in contests against Columbia and Rutgers. However, the Red fell short in both contests — losing to Columbia, 2-1, and falling to Rutgers the following day, 4-3. The losses left the team with a feeling of disappointment and an awareness that the two losses were missed opportunities.

“We were really hoping to win both of these games, so the way it turned out was really disappointing,” said junior forward Hannah Balleza.

The Red found itself playing from behind for most of the match with the Lions, after Columbia took advantage of two Cornell penalties to jump out to a 2-0 first-half lead.

According to senior back Paige Mollineaux, the deficit made “Although it wasn’t a conference game, it was disappointwinning the game more difficult, the Red failed to take ing especially because we came out and played the best first advantage of the opportunities it had to tie the game. half that we’ve played so far this season,” she explained.

“It was hard playing from behind,” she said. “Those two According to Mollineaux, the team failed to maintain its goals really hurt us. Then we came back and got a goal, but aggressive play in the second half, which allowed the Scarlet we couldn’t capitalize on our opportunities at the end of the Knights to erase Cornell’s first half lead and ultimately win. game.”

They took control of the Against the Scarlet Knights “We have hot and cold moments game’s momentum when they the following day, the Red got one goal, and carried that came out strong — ending the throughout the game.” momentum through the rest of first half with a 3-1 lead. the game.

However, Rutgers tied the Hannah Balleza “We were up two goals, but game with two quick goals in our mentality changed in the the span of two minutes early in the second half. The game second half,” she said. We weren’t playing as aggressive as we went to overtime, and Rutgers netted the game-winner. This were in the first half. We kind of sat back, and played a very game was particularly frustrating for the Red, despite it defensive game, and they were able to score. When they being a non-conference game, according to Mollineaux. scored one goal, it gave them momentum which helped them score again. ” Moving forward, the Red will look to improve its play before upcoming matches against Yale and Sienna. While there are multiple areas it needs to improve on, the Red will especially focus on consistently maintaining control of the ball, according to Mollineaux.

“We need to work on our possession of the ball,” she said.

“We definitely need to be stronger on the ball but we also need to be smarter with the passing, and stronger with receiving- making sure that the person who the pass is intended for steps up and takes that pass. We gave the ball away too many times this past weekend, and you can’t win a game if you don’t have possession of the ball.”

According to Balleza, the team needs to focus on its overall consistency.

“We have hot and cold moments throughout the game,” she said. “Sometimes we’re really playing well together, then we’re not playing well at all, and we kind of go back and forth. We need to have better consistency,” she explained.

According to Mollineaux, the team is motivated to win its next couple of games, especially in its next game against Yale.

“We can learn from our previous games, but we can’t dwell on the past,” she said. “We are a much better team than the past two games showed, so we are motivated to move forward and beat Yale in our next game.”

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Hot and cold, yes and no | According to junior forward Hannah Balleza, the Red experienced hot and cold moments throughout the games against Columbia and Rutgers, and, despite moments of playing well as a unit, needs to imrpove its consistency.

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

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for us,” said junior midfielder Stephen Reisert.

With another notch in the wins colDespite a rather rough first half, Haber umn, the Red is looking forward to the found himself at the center of attention by future, as it will host the Hartwick Hawks the beginning of the second. At the start of (2-2-2) on Tuesday night at 7 p.m. Cornell the second half, the Toronto-native scored is focusing on pressuring the ball and his 10th and 11th goals of the season. In working hard to get back to the basics, the 47th minute, junior midfielder Ben which Chodas says is important for Williams sent Haber a solid feed. Haber improving.

“We need to come out strong and realsprinted up to the Hawks’ defensive line in front of all of St. Joseph’s defenders, before ly focused and on top of our game,” beating the netminder for a goal that he Reisert echoed. “Like [Zawislan] always says, we need to keep on building on and shot off low and to the left.

“We weren’t quite as sharp as we usual- improving each game. We need to come out with ly are [in the intensity first], but once “We need to come out strong and really and come the second out sharp half came focused and on top of our game. Like and just around and we [Zawislan] always says, we need to keep come out a felt a sense of urgency, we all on building on and improving each game.” little bit m o r e came out fly- Stephen Reisert focused ing and put than we the pieces did [against St. Joseph’s] and we’ll be great. together,” Haber said.

Haber set another piece in place under I think we have a lot of potential this seatwo minutes later, when he scored on a son, but it really comes down to execution penalty kick at 48:30. In scoring his 11th and focusing on each game.”

According to Zawislan, his players have goal of the season, the junior striker earned his 50th career point with the Red. As of continued to grow and mature through Sept. 16, Haber led the national Division I each game, which is evident in the individcharts in goals per game (1.4) and points uals’ efforts on the field. Gaining the most recognition for his contributions this seaper game (3.2).

In the 72nd minute, the Hawks out- son has been Haber, who was named Ivy played senior goalie Rick Pflasterer once League Player of the Week this week — more, equalizing the game, 2-2. However, marking the third time he has received the despite a quick set-back, the Red was back honor in the past four weeks. However, on top less than three minutes later when despite the media attention, Haber does not focus on records, but rather on Goepel headed the ball into the net.

“Fighting back and dealing with adver- improving for the next opponent.

“His full focus in on the next game and sity in the first half and coming back and coming out with the win was really huge doing the best he can to help the team to Continued from page 16

get a ‘W’ in the next game,” Zawislan said.

“That’s what every player’s attitude is in the locker room is … We will continue to stay focused.”

This extreme focus and determination to achieve a positive result has brought the Red to where it currently stands in the season. Cornell is the only undefeated and untied team in the Ivy League — boasting a 7-0 record, which the program has not been seen since 1974. The Red has also scored at least one goal in 23 consecutive games — extending its own team record by one. Records such as these are meant to be broken, Zawislan says; however, championships and trips to the national tournament are permanent parts of programs —

ones that Cornell is continually working to achieve.

Yet, despite the accolades that the team and individual players have received throughout the season, one thing will always be certain.

“We have to start from a 0-0 game and be mentally ready, as we’ve always been this season, to step on the field and earn the result, earn the first goal of the game and earn the positive result of the game,” Zawislan said. “We cannot get into any area of complacency or feeling too comfortable.”

Lauren Ritter can be reached at sports-editor@cornellsun.com.

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Holy Haber | Junior striker Daniel Haber scored his 11th goal of the season on Saturday.

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Cornell Defeats Hawks in Hard Fought Battle

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

A light rain was not enough to hold back the Red, as it squeaked past the St. Joseph’s Hawks and clinched a 3-2 victory on Saturday afternoon at Berman Field. Junior striker Daniel Haber proved to be a dangerous threat on the field, putting the Red on the board with two goals; however, it was sophomore midfielder Conor Goepel who notched the game-winner and secured the victory with just over 15 minutes left in play.

For the second time this season, the No. 24 Red tried to reclaim control of the game after finding itself in a 1-0 deficit. The Hawks (2-5) exploded on the field as soon as the first whistle blew, with junior midfielder Pat McGlynn netting the first goal of the game at 6:38. The Red (7-0) struggled to put pressure on St. Joseph’s defense for the rest of the half, leaving the score 1-0 in favor of the Hawks at the end of 45 minutes.

“We knew [the Hawks] were going to be a scrappy team and they fought hard,” Haber said. “I think we had a couple of unlucky bounces off of their goals … We were just upset with ourselves for giving them those opportunities. We really felt like we didn’t play as well as we could have or should have.”

According to head coach Jaro Zawislan, allowing the St. Joseph’s players too much space and too much time on the ball contributed to the Red’s rocky first-half performance.

However, at the beginning of the second half, the Red looked like it had reignited the fire in its eyes as Cornell players took to the field.

“In the second time, we did much better from the beginning with regard to closing down the space and minimizing the amount of time the St. Joseph’s players had on the ball,”

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Fighting through adversity | Junior midfielder Stephen Reisert attributed Saturday’s hard-fought win against St. Joseph’s to fighting back after going down by one goal and dealing with adversity on the field.

Zawislan said.

The Red outshot the Hawks, 30-11; however St. Joseph’s back line and goalie managed to keep Cornell at bay for most of the contest.

“I think our whole team as a group, we came out a little

lackadaisical [in the first half,]” said sophomore right midfielder Peter Chodas. “But, we picked it up and pulled out a win, so we are all happy.”

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WOMEN’S TENNIS

Ordway, Tanenbaum Upset Penn

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The women’s tennis team traveled to Philadelphia, Pa. last weekend to compete in the Cissie Leary Invitational, hosted by Penn.

“This past weekend was very good,” said head coach Mike Stevens. “The competition was very strong and our girls really did well ... against the good competition. So it’s definitely a good weekend and very promising for us as far as the rest of the year [is concerned].”

The Red had a solid performance on Friday, the first day, as five singles players and all four doubles pairs made it to the round of 16.

“We had a lot of people win some matches — it was a pretty good weekend for us,” said senior cocaptain Christine Ordway. “It’s a big tournament because there’s a lot of other Ivy League schools playing in it, so it gives us a good sense of where we’re at right now in comparison to our main competition

for the spring. I thought overall we did pretty well.”

Ordway and freshman Dena Tanenbaum beat Penn’s Julianna Rodin and Sol Eskenazi — an incredible upset, as the Penn duo is ranked No. 35 in the nation and was seeded first in the tournament.

“Dena had a very good showing in doubles,” Stevens said. “Her and her partner Christine [Ordway] upset their doubles opponents who are nationally ranked, which is very good for them. They did very well.”

On Saturday, junior Ryann Young was eliminated in the quarterfinals while freshman Laila Judeh and sophomore Lauren Frazier advanced to the semifinals. Sunday, Judeh — who, up until Sunday, was 60 for the season — forced a third set before falling to Yale’s Courtney Amos.

“Judeh did very well, she made it to the semifinals of the B Flight off several three-set match wins, which definitely helped get her mentally tougher,” See W. TENNIS page 14

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No dice | Senior Maneesha Chitanvis attempted to fire off a shot on goal against Columbia on Friday, but came up empty-handed.

WOMEN’S SOCCER

Farmer Talks to Team About ‘Being Fierce’

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

TINA CHOU / SUN FILE PHOTO

Shut down | Senior Christine Ordway (above) combined efforts with freshman Dena Tanenbaum to beat Penn.

This weekend was still a rough pair for the Red, as it lost 1-0 to Columbia in its Ivy opener and 2-1 on Sunday to Niagara.

“We need to change our pace of play and the amount of possessions and that we keep going up the field. Mostly just coming out with fury,” said sophomore defender Clara Gallagher. “[Head coach Patrick

Farmer] talked to us about being fierce. ‘There will be no survivors’ is our motto. We have to come out with vengeance at the beginning of each half.”

In the game against the Lions on Friday, Cornell junior goalie Tori Christ made three saves in her eighth start of the season, letting only one through. Cornell forced Columbia's Grace Redmon to make four saves for her shutout, See W. SOCCER page 14