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Facing a $3-million budget deficit, Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 addressed residents’ and city officials’ concerns about the costs of monitoring crime in Collegetown and maintaining public spaces at a meeting Monday evening.

One resident voiced her concerns about the cost of maintaining the Ithaca SWAT Team, a division of the Ithaca Police Department.

Myrick, however, said that the city is carefully monitoring the cost of maintaining the police force, adding, “the SWAT team is mostly already paid for by grants.”

Another resident proposed charging business and University dormitories for all false alarms the Ithaca Police Department is responsible for answering during the school “We want to err on the year.

In response, Myrick side of safety but not acknowledged the desire overspend.” to “keep as many officers on the street to keep Svante Myrick ’09 people safe,” saying, “we want to err on the side of safety but not overspend.”

The police department has tried to minimize its overtime — which adds to the city’s expenses — by closing its front desk durSee DEFICIT page 4

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Members of Ho-Nun-De-Kah, the College of Agriculture and Life Science’s official honor society, host a corn roast on the Ag Quad to promote the organization on Tuesday.

For Campaign,C.U.Police Will Stand At Intersections,Target Jaywalkers

By DANIELLE SOCHACZEVSKI Sun Staff Writer

Pedestrian, bicyclists and skateboarders beware: on Wednesday and Thursday, Cornell Police will be issuing tickets to those who “choose to disobey the rules of the road” during its third annual road safety campaign, according to a University press release.

In deep water | City of Ithaca Mayor Svante Myrick ’09 breaks down the city’s annual expenditures and $3 million deficit at a meeting Tuesday.

AAP Dean Outlines Vision For ‘Exciting’ Second Term

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As Kent Kleinman, dean of the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, looks forward to beginning his second term in 2013, he said he will continue

guiding AAP students in addressing pertinent challenges related to the fields of urbanization and technology.

“I think we just happen to be situated at a place that is very See KLEINMAN page 5

By LIZ CAMUTI

Josh Lower’s ’05 controversial proposal to construct a new housing complex on College Avenue cleared a major hurdle Wednesday evening as the City of Ithaca’s Planning and Development Board passed a resolution declaring that the project, with the incorporation of a number of provisions, will have no adverse impacts on the surrounding area.

The proposed six-story

building at 307 College Ave., still pending approval from the Board of Zoning Appeals, as well as further approval from the planning board, could add 103 bedrooms and a ground-level GreenStar grocery store to the area. Lower said that the city’s parking requirements — which currently require him to include 57 parking spaces for residents of the proposed building — would make his “Collegetown Crossing” project financially unfeasible.

Lower agreed to sever-

al transportation provisions adopted by the planning board in order for the zoning appeals board to consider granting him a parking variance, or an exemption from the city’s parking laws. The approval of the environmental review, which was granted by the planning board on Wednesday, was also dependent on these concessions.

Lower will have to provide tenants orientation materials that “emphasize all available alternative mobility

options, including Carshare and TCAT … [and show] where parking options are located, what their pricing is and whom to contact to secure a space,” according to the planning board.

Additionally, an addendum, in which a tenant must certify whether he or she is keeping a car in Ithaca, will be required on all leases for tenants. If so, the addendum will require him or her to document where the car is parked. Any violation of the provision will result in eviction,

Academic Do-Gooder

Prof. Angela Gonzales, development sociology, is using her research at Cornell to give back to the Hopi community. | Page 3

Barton Hall Is Not a Toilet

Maggie Henry ’14 says that although Saturday’s Avicii concert was, at times, excessive, the University should not cancel similar events in the future. | Page 7

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During the campaign, police officers stand near busy intersections and issue warnings to pedestrians who jaywalk or step out in front of vehicles and bicyclists and skateboarders who disobey traffic rules. They also distribute educational flyers and answer questions, according to the press release.

Last year, 143 tickets were issued during the

according to the planning board.

Lower will also be required to subsidize alternative transportation for the tenants. He will pay up to 25 percent of the cost for a TCAT bus pass and up to $50 in Carshare usage for any resident who becomes a Carshare member.

Lower said that the approval of the environmental review was “a major accomplishment” for the project.

Liz Camuti can be reached at lcamuti@cornellsun.com.

On Environmentalism

New York Times science writer, Andrew Revkin, shared his experiences covering environmental issues on Monday. | Page 8

Arts A Cinematic Icon

Natalia Fallas ’14 says that Danny Glover, the iconic African-American actor who visited Ithaca on Tuesday, is best described as a “citizen artist.” | Page 9

Sports Fighting Through Pain

Football center Bob Bullington did not let a broken wrist stop him from helping Cornell beat Yale on Saturday. | Page 16

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

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Umpteen speedy televisions perused two sheep, then umpteen tickets towed Jupiter, and Dan untangles five progressive orifices. Umpteen quixotic aardvarks annoyingly bought two Macintoshes. Umpteen bureaux tickled two extremely putrid botulisms. Paul sacrificed one lampstand, then Jupiter marries the very quixotic pawnbroker. Five purple poisons laughed, yet umpteen chrysanthemums kisses five aardvarks. Batman noisily untangles one Jabberwocky. Two Macintoshes laughed, then one extremely schizophrenic Jabberwocky drunkenly untangles two sheep, however Quark telephoned umpteen obese Jabberwockies. Five irascible botulisms slightly lamely auctioned off the subway, and five chrysanthemums easily untangles one mostly speedy Klingon. Five dogs drunkenly perused Minnesota, however the mats ran away cleverly, although one partly progressive subway quite comfortably sacrificed

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SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A human finger found inside a fish at Idaho’s Priest Lake has been traced to a wakeboarder who lost four fingers in an accident more than two months earlier.

Fisherman Nolan Calvin found the finger while he was cleaning the trout in early September. He put it on ice and called the Bonner County, Idaho, sheriff’s office.

The Spokesman-Review newspaper reports that detectives were able to get a fingerprint off the severed digit.

They matched it to a fingerprint card for a 31-year-old man.

Investigators learned that the man, Hans A. Galassi, lost four fingers from his left hand at the same lake June 21. His hand got caught in the towrope of a boat that was pulling him on a wakeboard.

The three other fingers have not been recovered.

Putin Tells Cabinet to Weigh Time Change Reversal

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MOSCOW (AP) — Last year, when then-President Dmitry Medvedev permanently switched Russia to summer time, most residents didn’t see sunrise until after 10 a.m. during the country’s bleak winters.

The move angered many, and Vladimir Putin promised before reclaiming the presidency in March that he would take a second look on the issue. On Tuesday, he

JORDAN, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota woman says she was shocked when her small dog began caring for an abandoned kitten, then started producing milk and nursing the fuzzy gray stray to health.

Pat Weber says the kitten was days old when her grandson found it in the family’s barn in early September in Jordan, about 40 miles southwest of Minneapolis.

She says the 2-inch-long kitten was “ice cold.” But she felt it move, so she wrapped the kitten in a warm towel.

Then it began meowing — and her 4-year-old Pekingese perked up.

The tawny pooch named Mittens began licking the kitten, who nuzzled in and began suckling. Mittens hadn’t had puppies in two years, yet she eventually began producing milk. She’s been nursing the kitten ever since.

Weber calls it a miracle.

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Putin’s statement that the Cabinet must think again whether the change was feasible dealt a humiliating blow to Medvedev.

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Univ.Controller Appointed cial officer and treasurer of the J. Craig Venter Institute, a not-for-profit organization that conducts research on genomics The University announced Monday that and infectious diseases. She has more than it has appointed a new associate vice presi- 20 years of experience working in not-forprofit research, according to the dent and University controller. press release.

Aimee Turner, who will Expressing her approval of begin serving in her position Turner’s appointment, DeStefano on Oct. 17, will be responsible said she was also appreciative of for leading the financial Anne Shapiro, who has served as accounting operations for the University controller for nearCornell, according to a ly 20 years, according to the press University press release. She release. will also be working to contin“Anne [Shapiro] leaves a legacy ue improving the user experias a leader with selfless dedication ence of Kuali, the financial TURNER to Cornell,” DeStefano said. accounting software for the Shapiro, DeStefano said, is “noted University.

“After our rigorous nationwide search, I nationally for her tax expertise, financial am very pleased that Aimee was chosen for wisdom, energy and vibrant personality. this position and confident that we have Anne is a team player, respected by anyone hired a creative and energetic leader,” who has ever worked with her.”

Joanne DeStefano, vice president for finance and chief financial officer, said in the release. Akane Otani can be reached at Turner currently serves as the chief finan- aotani@cornellsun.com.

Taking a breather

By AKANE OTANI

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Members of Alpha Phi Omega, a community service fraternity, enjoy the sunny day with a game of kick-ball on the Arts Quad Tuesday afternoon.

Four Recent Alumni Join Start-Ups Professor’s Research Through Venture for America Prog. Aids Hopi Community

mer 2014, fellows will choose whether to remain at their jobs or to start their own businesses, according to Sanders.

Participants will also compete for a $100,000 Four entrepreneurial members of the Class of 2012 are working at start-up businesses across prize to be awarded to the best-performing felthe country through a newly launched program low at the conclusion of the two-year program, that aims to bolster entrepreneurship in the according to VFA’s website.

With an acceptance rate of one percent in its U.S. The four students are fellows in the inaugur- first year, VFA is already a highly selective proal class of Venture for America, a new program gram, Sanders said.

To match each fellow with a city and a comthat places college graduates in start-ups. VFA is modeled after Teach for America, according to pany, selected graduates undergo “a mutual Chris Sanders ’13, a campus representative for selection process” with businesses, Sanders said.

“As a fellow, you are placed into an organizaVFA. While TFA promotes education in low- tion where your strengths would be most valincome communities, VFA seeks to bolster ued,” Sanders said. “You become a part of a netentrepreneurship in cities that typically struggle work — people who are interested in the same to retain talented individuals, according to things as you, people who can form your core for business later, people who are your friends Sanders.

With four of VFA’s 40 new fellows hailing and colleagues. You form connections.”

As a student in ILR, Feinstein said she inifrom Cornell, the University boasts the largest tially looked for number of students in h u m a n the program who resources posigraduated from a sin- “I was looking for something to excite tions at large gle institution. With me. I was blown away by the program.” corporate comthe ongoing developpanies for after ment of CornellNYC Edie Feinstein ’12 graduation, but Tech, the University is that entrepreexpected to become an even greater source of talent for the program, neurship “was always at the back of my mind.”

When she saw an announcement last year Sanders said.

Current VFA fellows have been placed in five about a VFA information session on campus, U.S. cities: New Orleans, La.; Las Vegas, Nev.; she decided to attend on a whim, she said. She Baltimore, Md.; Cincinnati, Ohio, and said after listening to Yang talk about the program, she was intrigued.

Providence, R.I. “I was looking for something to excite me,” Edie Feinstein ’12, a VFA fellow and a former Sun designer, said the program’s founder Feinstein said. “I was blown away by the proand president, Andrew Yang — a former corpo- gram.”

Feinstein, who was paired up with rate lawyer and alumnus of Brown University Kickboard — a company that runs an online — hopes to expand VFA to include about 100 dashboard to help teachers track students’ permore fellows and five additional cities.

Yang’s ultimate goal is to create 100,000 new formance and behavior — said her experience at jobs in the U.S. by 2025, according to the pro- her new job has been a positive one so far. She added that participating in VFA has inspired her gram’s website. to think about founding a startup of her own.

Before heading to their new jobs in cities Feinstein said that, for instance, she could across the country, all 40 fellows attended a sixweek “boot camp” at Brown this summer potentially draw from her love for food and cookdesigned to kick-start their entrepreneurial ing and possibly launch a “foodie company.”

Sara Cullen ’12, another VFA fellow workcareers, Feinstein said. Students heard from proing in New Orleans, added that the program fessional speakers and worked on projects such was a refreshing alternative to choosing a job as creating business models and helping to based on conventionality rather than interest. develop VFA’s website.

“Many people go into mainstream industry Feinstein said that speakers at the training jobs because they don’t know what they really tried to impress upon the fellows that working want to do and how they are going to apply at start-up companies involves a lot of hard their college majors to ‘real life,’” she said. “VFA work. is ultimately a way to apply what you’ve learned They told us that “it’s not always so glamin college.” orous,” she said.

After training, the fellows dispersed to their respective locations to begin their fellowships, Emma Jesch can be reached at for which they will work for two years. In sum- eaj54@cornell.edu.

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By JULIA PASCALE Sun Contributor

For Prof. Angela Gonzales, development sociology, her birthday is more than just a celebration filled with cake and presents. To celebrate her 50th on Tuesday, she embarked on a 1,539-mile bike trek from Bellingham, Wash., to Ventura, Calif., to raise money for the Hopi Cancer Assistance Fund — a cause close to her heart.

Although Gonzales — who was born on the Hopi Reservation in New Mexico — is now far away from PROF. GONZALES home, she continues to give back to her Native American community through her work at Cornell.

In 2010, Gonzales was given a five-year grant from the National Institute of Health for her project researching human papillomavirus and the Hopi community. Certain strains of HPV cause cervical cancer, which is the most common type of cancer among Hopi women.

The project is comprised of two studies: the first, already completed, explored whether or not Hopi women were getting tested for HPV. Results indicated that only about 30 percent of Hopi women were getting regularly screened for the disease, as opposed to about 70 percent of women in the United States at large, according to Gonzales.

The second study will test testing whether or not Hopi women are more likely to be screened if they can use an at-home test for HPV. “For a lot of reasons, women just aren’t going into the clinic to get screened,” Gonzales said. “So what we’re testing is the at-home HPV test, which allows women to collect samples themselves. We’re trying to find out if it’s an effective alternative.”

One student who worked on the project with Gonzales described her work as “essential.”

“The Hopi are severely underserved, and by identifying barriers to vaccination by studying them and

finding out about their particular beliefs, we can help them medically,” Ajay Kailas ’13 said.

Part of the reason cancer is such an issue for the Hopi is that Western medicine can sometimes seem to conflict with the Hopi’s traditional beliefs, Gonzales said. “[The Hopi believe] it’s through our thoughts and prayers and actions that we bring good things into our lives and bad things into our lives.

Some people feel cancer is a bad thing called into life,” Gonzales said.

“When you give voice to these things, it’s like you’re giving them a certain power. People are very cautious to talk about cancer in their family.”

As a result, she added, women are reluctant to get tested and vaccinated.

Gonzales and her team have had to get around this reluctance by finding a “culturally appropriate way” to convey information.

“Some health messages instill fear, which doesn’t necessarily compel people to take positive action. Our goal is to empower people to have control over [their] own health,” Gonzales said.

Her team conducted hands-on research and maintained close contact with the Hopi by creating surveys and focus groups, in which a small groups of people gave feedback on handouts before they were distributed to a larger group.

Jana Wilbricht ’14, who produced educational print materials for the project this summer, said, “It’s really good that we have a lot of direct contact and [that] we get a lot of feedback. Whenever I create a brochure I get a direct reaction from community representatives.”

As her birthday approaches, Gonzales says she is “nervous but excited” for the bike trip.

While she has been completing shorter trips with WomanTours — a small, all-female bicycle touring company — for the past six years, for this birthday, she wanted to do something that was “a personal milestone,” she said.

Gonzales is keeping a blog to document her progress on her bike journey.

Julia Pascale can be reached at jp852@cornell.edu.

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Debates Over C.U.’s Role Reignited CUPD: ‘Huge’ Increase DEFICIT

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ing hours in which there is the smallest likelihood of crime, according to Myrick.

Besides expressing concern about the cost of monitoring crime in Collegetown, several residents complained about insufficient street cleaning in the city.

Another issue that arose during the meeting was the cost of maintaining the city’s Newman Municipal Golf Course, located near Cayuga Lake on Route 13.

While some residents urged the mayor to sell the golf course to relieve the city of the expenses required to maintain it, Alderperson Cynthia Brock (D-1st Ward) opposed the idea.

“Public spaces are a huge resource, and making them private or selling them to break even would be ignoring the population,” Brock said.

Myrick proposed a compromise: increase the number of members using the course and allow the staff to adjust the entry rates seasonally.

Brock asked if the taxes would be raised above the current tax cap, which Myrick denied.

“At this moment, we are not inclined to override the cap; it would do more harm than good,” Myrick said.

If the city raised property taxes to the maximum level permitted by the tax cap, it would raise approximately $500,000 — a significant amount, but not enough to close the $3 million deficit, Myrick noted.

Instead, Myrick said that a solution to the city’s budget impasse must be found through both tax increases and reduced spending. He noted that he has asked city departments to explore potentially reducing the size of their personnel staff, a reversal from previous years — in which the city sought to save money by trimming salaries.

Some residents at the meeting also reignited previous debates over Cornell’s role in fiscally supporting the city.

“What are your ideas for covering the $3 million dollar deficit, other than having Cornell pay?” asked Liz Field, an Ithaca resident.

Myrick acknowledged that part of the city’s budget woes stem from the fact that Cornell inhabits 89 percent of tax-exempt land in the city but pays relatively little to the city each year.

“They contribute $1.2 million to the city, nothing in property tax to the county and only $500 thousand to the school district,” Myrick said.

Though the University provides a significant number of jobs to Ithaca residents, Myrick maintained that “creating jobs is no excuse to avoid taxes, since we have to pay police to protect the business, building fees and inspections as well.”

Myrick said he will hold five more public meetings and will submit his budget plan to Common Council by the first week of October. By the first week of November, the council must vote on a final budget plan.

Kevin Milian can be reached at kmilian@cornellsun.com.

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two-day campaign. Several students who were ticketed expressed frustration at the campaign, and one elderly man swung at CUPD officers after being cited for jaywalking.

The campaign is a timely response to what Kathy Zoner, chief of the CUPD, called a “huge” increase in traffic-related personal injuries.

Forty accidents have been reported to the police over the past two years, Zoner said. Half of these accidents, according to the press release, involved pedestrians, bicyclists and skateboarders.

So far in 2012, this ratio has increased: approximately twothirds of all traffic accidents resulting in injuries, involved pedestrians, bicyclists or skateboarders, according to the press release.

“In such accidents, the pedestrian, bicyclist or skateboarder has been frequently found to be at fault,” the press release stated.

Zoner said that CUPD has recently seen “a lot of very serious accidents that have injured people in critical ways.”

For instance, in August, a freshman was hospitalized when he lost control of his skateboard and slid through a stop sign, colliding with a garbage truck.

CUPD also works to enforce traffic rules in the interest of reducing crime. According to research, Zoner said, areas where there are high infractions of traffic laws have been shown to be related to areas that have high levels of crime.

“We have a very [active] traffic enforcement program that

helps us identify people who don’t belong on campus or who are up to no good on campus, and that helps us reduce crime,” she said.

To bolster the educational aspect of their roadway safety campaign, CUPD officers have been issuing warnings and handing out educational flyers to pedestrians, bicyclists and skateboarders since the beginning of the semester, according to the press release. Officers have been targeting commuters who disobey crossing signals or cross the road improperly, according to David Honan, deputy chief of the CUPD. CUPD will focus its efforts at the intersections of Campus Road and College Avenue, East Avenue and Tower Road, Tower Road and Garden Avenue, and Thurston Avenue and East Avenue, according to Honan.

“We have issued many warnings and distributed over 2,200 pedestrian educational flyers distributed at intersections, welcome BBQ’s, residential hall meetings and other locations,” Honan said in an email.

The annual enforcement campaign is being funded with a $2,170 highway safety grant from the New York State Governor's Traffic Safety Committee, according to the press release.

Because the campaign is being funded by the grant, CUPD will be able to conduct the campaign without diluting resources for its regular patrols or its investigations into recent bias and sexual assault incidents, according to the press release.

Danielle Sochaczevski can be reached at dsochaczevski@cornellsun.com.

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getting AAP involved in the development of the new Tech Campus in New York City. The project, he says, presents “one of the big challenges, but very exciting opportunities” for AAP students and faculty.

“Our students could acquire technical skills in the environmental area that we can’t provide here in Ithaca,” he said.

“We could attract a different kind of faculty member and different kind of student at the graduate level, and that would be wonderful for the college and not bad for Cornell.”

Kleinman hopes to provide students in Ithaca with realworld experience and research opportunities by working more closely with other disciplines in his next term.

“I want to work with others to elevate the arts to be a more complete partner at this research University, so that people who work by making or performing are seen as full scholars,” he said. “I like the notion that the Johnson Museum, AAP, the music department, media arts, and partners in CALS and Human Ecology could come together to advance the arts at Cornell.”

Lauren Avery can be reached at lavery@cornellsun.com.

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important for the immediate future. I like the fact that we can play a formative role in some of these urgent questions, like global climate change, rapid urbanization and the revolution in digital technology,” Kleinman said. “It is exciting, and it is a very good time to ask some tough questions about these challenging conditions.”

The Board of Trustees’ Executive Committee approved Kleinman’s reappointment earlier this month. His second term will begin on July 1, 2013.

Since Kleinman started serving as dean in 2008, he has been credited with overseeing the completion of a new building for the college and guiding it through the economic recession.

In August 2011, Kleinman helped oversee the completion of Milstein Hall, a 47,000 square-foot building that dramatically expanded the college’s space and upgraded its facilities.

According to Kleinman, completing Milstein was a “pressing” issue and “a priority” during his first term.

“The accreditation of our architecture program was in the balance,” Kleinman said. “We had been dinged for a number of years about the state of our facilities and it just wasn’t good enough for such a highly-ranked architecture program at such a highly-ranked college.”

After Milstein Hall was completed, Kleinman was responsible for deciding how the AAP college would be organized to fit into the space. In deciding how to lay out the space, Kleinman aimed to allow a variety of students to interact with each other, he said.

“Because we had this new building, we could move bits and pieces around and configure our facilities so that they could better serve the programs,” Kleinman said. “This is not as visible to the naked eye as Milstein Hall, but in terms of the pedagogy and the opportunity for students of different disciplines to mingle, it is very important.”

Bridging the gap between his first and second terms, Kleinman is currently working on moving AAP’s Fine Arts Library from its current space in Sibley Hall to a two-floor space in Rand Hall. According to Kleinman, the previous site was “just the wrong place environmentally, structurally and functionally.”

While Kleinman said that he is only halfway through the project, he maintained that it is a priority because of how important the library is to AAP students and faculty.

“We love books. We really use books in a very hands-on, day-to-day, intense way. Books are part of the way we teach and the way we learn, so for us, having books on site is very important,” he said. “The Fine Arts Library is a really important project to me.”

According to Kleinman, the

opening of Milstein Hall allowed AAP to convert the entire first floor of Rand Hall into 8,000 square feet of student and faculty workshops.

Before the expansion, there had only been a few hundred square feet of workable space in the building.

The reconfiguring of the college’s buildings has not only increased work space but also allowed cutting-edge technology — including welding gears and 3-D printers — to be installed in the workshops and studios, according to Kleinman.

While Kleinman said that technology is playing a greater role in AAP, he added that he wants students to have access to both traditional and digital media during his tenure.

“Our students will communicate digitally, but also visually, by making something out of basswood or paint. I always want to have both [types of media],” Kleinman said. “As important as the digital revolution is, in our disciplines, we cannot afford to give up the hand.”

During Kleinman’s term, AAP’s Bachelor of Architecture degree received re-accreditation, while a new graduate degree within the Department of Architecture was accredited for the first time. In 2011, Kleinman was also recognized by the American Institute of Architects, which awarded him the New York State Educator Honor Award.

Despite these accomplishments, Kleinman said that his first term was also defined by the effects of the national recession. Looking back on the past five years, Kleinman said that he is particularly proud of how he navigated the economic decline on the University level.

“I’m proud of the way this University has responded to national problems. I don’t think it was easy, and I think some really tough decisions were made,” Kleinman said.

Still, he said, he believes “that Cornell did an exemplary job streamlining the administrative side while minimizing the effects of the financial downturn on academics.”

“I think we’re in a stronger place because of it, because certain values were upheld,” Kleinman added.

Facing his upcoming second term as dean, Kleinman said he hopes that his focus will transition from finances back to the well-being of students and faculty members.

“Looking ahead, if we were focusing on facilities before, we’re focusing on people now, through faculty hires and student support,” Kleinman said.

“We’re looking to bring the very best students to Cornell and support them so that they can do their best work here. It’s not that we didn’t pay attention to that in the past ... but that is going to be the big focus in the future.”

According to Kleinman, a major goal for his second term is

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How Less Money = More Nudity, OR Violence Is Not The Answer, Unless ...

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the question is “What is not the answer?” But, more importantly, Jacob Kose found Luke Namer ’13 and Jen Alvarado-Ross ’13 crossbreeding Oreos and Nutter Butters over a memorial bonfire for Wilson Farms and its abundant junk food.

They debated the question everyone’s been asking since September 26, 1890, while crunching on crispetycrunchetychocolatepeanutbuttery goodness: Why did the US Mint stop producing the $1 and $3 gold coins on the same day Congress passed a law requiring coinage designs to be used for a minimum of 25 years? What stanky, improper and plain unpatriotic pics were on those coins, and is it pure coincidence the Motion Picture Association of America created the NC-17 rating on September 26, 1990,

puter (read: free porn machine) now, 12, 10, 5? — is more taboo than intensely realistic historical drama, like Schindler’s List, Apocalypse Now, The Lion King 1 and 1/2.

It makes sense, since America was founded by prudes and we’re always at war somewhere. Not that either of those facts make any sense. Hmmm.

J.A.: There were political NC-17 movies too, like Invasion of the BodySnatchers came out in the 50s and it was a commentary on McCarthyism. Aliens replacing people with dumb, conformist versions of themselves, en bee dee.

L.N.: Night of the Living Dead was all about existential despair and economic crisis. But I also think kids could be watching explicit violence from a younger age: PG-

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Editorial

Room for Debate AS THIS NOVEMBER’S ELECTION NEARS, it has become abundantly clear that one of the most contentious races for the House of Representatives is our very own — New York’s 23rd District. The district is new, the result of redistricting from the 2010 census. The contestants for the seat are Rep. Tom Reed (R-N.Y. 29) and his Democratic opponent, Tompkins County Legislator Nate Shinagawa ’05 M.A. ’09.

With a race as close as this, the importance of each vote will be magnified. It is imperative that voters do all they can to educate themselves on the positions of each candidate. The best possible forum for candidates to present contrasting opinions is a public debate. Unfortunately, Reed’s reluctance to publicly debate Shinagawa does a disservice to voters in this important election.

Several organizations, including The Sun, have attempted to coordinate debates between Shinagawa and Reed. So far, of the nine debates accepted by the Shinagawa campaign, only three were also accepted by the Reed campaign. In two other instances, both campaigns accepted, but later the Reed campaign backed out.

The three debates that were mutually agreed upon by the candidates will be hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, N.Y., the Jamestown PostJournal and WETM-TV, a television station only available to residents of Chemung, Schuyler and Steuben counties. Unfortunately, these debates all fail to reach a Tompkins County audience.

The lack of a public debate in Tompkins County is not due to a lack of organizations willing to host it. Instead, the absence of a debate is direct result of the Reed campaign’s refusal to accommodate it. For example, both candidates were invited to participate in a debate on WSYR-TV and its sister stations, that would have reached most residents of the district, including those in Tompkins County. The Shinagawa campaign accepted the offer and the Reed campaign declined it.

It is concerning is that voters in Ithaca, the second-most populous city in the district, will have no access to a congressional debate. It would be understandable if Congress was in session and Reed could not fit the debates into his schedule, but the fact that Congress is on recess for almost all of October shows the extent to which these debates take a low priority for his campaign.

In an election year that seems to rely more on personal rhetoric and less on political platforms, public debates are important for keeping the focus on what really matters. The Reed campaign is denying a large number of voters the ability to inform themselves and engage in the democratic process.

exactly 100 years later? We went through our piggy banks and put on our 3D glasses to come up with what can best be described as the truth.

Disclaimer: As always, Scrambled Eggs strives to adequately approximate what was said and who said what, but may at times mess all of that up.

LUKE NAMER: You know, honestly, most people would just google the 1890 golden dollar and $3 coin to resolve this intensely … not intense debate.

JACOB KOSE: True. But still, this chick, Morgan? She must have done something outrageous to get on these coins.

L.N.: Fo real. Think about it: back in the day, what do you think was the primary channel of propaganda? Also, her name’s not Morgan, the designer was George T. Morgan. Her name’s “Lady Liberty,” perhaps you’re acquainted with the dame?

J.K.: Yeah, she fine. But back to propaganda: instead of schooling me with your interweb knowledge — pre-technology, it’s gotta be newspapers. And I guess people looked at paper money and especially coins, since most countries were still down with the international gold standard before World War I. JEN ALVARADO-ROSS: So you’re saying all of our coins and bills have famous historical figures for propaganda, but what if George T. Morgan or one of these powerful men was seeing a woman and she demanded to be put on a coin?

J.K.: Blackmail style? Like one of Jefferson’s mistresses being all “put me and your other 50 mistresses on this coin or else I’ll tell everyone you have tiny nipples?”

J.A.: Did Jefferson have tiny nipples? I demand further documentation. I’m saying she could be terribly vain and seduce whoever’s in charge of printing coins.

L.N.: Seduction’s all well and good, but I’m not totally sure how these coins relate to extremely violent and sexual movies 100 years later. In fact, I don’t think there’s any relationship whatsoever.

J.A.: Word.

J.K.: Touché.

L.N.: But I’m down to talk about NC17 movies. What distinguishes the violence and nudity of an R-film from an NC-17 is far from clear. Plus the age is totally arbitrary.

J.K.: It’s crazy that nudity — what age do you think most kids get their first com-

13 movies have CGI battle scenes and automatic weapons, and lack the real gore and tragedy you see from bodega shoot ups and crazy white people in the mid-west. It desensitizes the American youth. The youth!

J.K.: Agreed. Seeing a movie is mental consumption potentially as harmful as smoking cigarettes or drinking, but because those are physical vices I guess the legal limit on movies is one year younger.

J.A.: I’ve never been ID’d at a movie, they just don’t care.

L.N.: Me neither, and seeing an R-rated movie was probably the first coming-ofage thrill I looked forward to as a little kid.

My older brother showed me my first horror movie when I was nine, Candyman, and I had nightmares about being stung to death by bees. Then I saw Face/Off, the one where John Travolta switches faces with Nicholas Cage to infiltrate his crime ring — I think movies are probably what gets you interested in science from a young age.

J.K.: I don’t know, maybe museums, or just walking around the park as a kid. Even Disney movies, like The Jungle Book got me into animals. Aladdin got me into dark magic and alchemy.

J.A.: But there is this element of realism, like when Jurassic Park basically recreated dinosaurs. I kinda wanted a baby triceratops. For a pet.

J.K.: Was that the first R-rated movie you ever saw? I saw American Pie with my Mom when I was like 11. It’s her favorite movie now. My parents own the box set.

L.N.: You didn’t ask your Dad? That’s strange, Kose. But who even goes to NC17 movies? If I were to go to the Lower East Side to catch an NC-17 movie I imagine a bunch of olds dudes and crackheads sitting around and jerk— J.K.: Lukas, if it’s a really scary horror movie people can seek support anywhere.

J-sayin’.

J.A.: There are other ways for old men and crackheads to support each other. Jsayin’. Also, movie ratings are stupid.

J.K.: You really don’t think there’s a connection between the $3 coin and NC17?

L.N.: Still not seeing it.

Jacob Kose is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences.

He may be reached at jkose@cornellsun.com. Scrambled Eggs appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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We’ve Got Mail I

don’t have an iPhone. I don’t have a Droid, or that Motorola thing that has a big screen. My phone is not smart, it is distinctly stupid. It holds what seems like 10 text messages at a time, has the battery life of a frozen banana and I can probably count the number of pixels in each picture it takes. The worst part about having this phone is not actually the phone itself (in fact I rather like it, but we’ll get to that later).

The worst part is every person who sees my stupid phone and feels the need to ask me why I don’t have a

playing? What if I got an important email? Every time I ask my girlfriend to check an address on her iPhone she sees this as validating her belief that a smartphone is necessary and I am living in the Stone Age. But the thing is, I do think smart phones are awesome and useful gadgets. When my girlfriend and I visited London together the GPS and Time Out London app were both extremely useful. The reason I don’t want a smartphone is not because of it, its because of me.

There is something terrifying about being constantly connected, having access to Facebook, email, YouTube, whenever I want. I have a hard enough time sitting down and reading without being distracted every two minSmell the Rosen utes by a text message, why would I then want to add the entire Internet to my list of constant distractions? I’ve probably checked my email 15 times just during the course of writing this column. Would I really want to have something as addicting as Reddit in my pocket at all times? So that even when I am on the bus, eating at a restaurant or taking a shit I can give myself the momentary and fleeting joy that the Internet delivers?

Don’t get me wrong, wasting time on the Internet is a great deal of fun, and I have gotten very good at it.

But I don’t want another device that enables my addiction to momentary euphoria even further. I stopped watching porn when I was in high school, but by the eighth time I had seen “Gangnam Style” I sud-

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smartphone. “Why don’t you conform to the lifestyle I have created for myself and have come to believe is impossible to not conform to?” they ask, unable to comprehend how I could possibly live my life the way I do. This of course is not limited to smart phones, we express dismay and disparage anybody who might have the audacity to still be using a PC or who doesn’t watch Breaking Bad. I am of course guilty of all of this as well. We are uncomfortable with others not living the way we do because we perceive it as a threat to our way of life.

How could I not need access to the Internet at all times? What if I wanted to see what time a movie was

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denly felt the need to buy new socks.

My dilemma is that the culture has already shifted against my struggle. A few weeks ago, I received an email from a professor but wasn’t near a computer until later that evening. By the time I checking it, I had already received another email asking me why I had not responded to the first. I felt like I was back in high school, when I would turn my phone on after a movie and have 10 voicemails (by the way what happened to those?) from my mom, each getting progressively angrier and more frantic asking me where I was.

Because everybody else is responding to emails instantaneously, I suddenly have to as well. Think about how long it takes for somebody not to answer your text messages before you start to get antsy. 30 seconds?

A minute? We are all complicit in creating a society where we need to be in touch at all times. But we have traded this immediate validation in exchange for stress and insecurity. We now need to be up on the most current memes, songs of the week and know that Chris Brown just got a tattoo of a battered woman on his neck. What happens when you are always connected is that you cannot be truly invested in anything else you are doing. How can you study for an exam, read a book, have a conversation when your phone is buzzing with every text, email, Facebook and Twitter update? There is no cure for any of this, it’s all too amazing, feels too good and seems to important to just evaporate. But maybe, when you have that sudden urge to check and see if you have a facebook notification, just punch yourself in the face, staple your nipples together and keep reading that book.

Dan Rosen is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture, and Planning. He may be reached at drosen@cornellsun.com. Smell the Rosen appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

When Work Hard, Play Harder Doesn’t Work

aturday night, Cornell went wild for Avicii. People jumped, people screamed, people danced.

Unfortunately, people also pushed, shrieked and screamed at each other and Cornell Concert Commission volunteers. It has taken me three days to recover from my post-CCC work hangover (speculatively, the same amount of time it has taken all of you to recover from your types of hangovers as well.) While I don’t speak for CCC as a whole, I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about what made that concert so crazy and felt I should write something about it.

I’ve been to a lot of EDM festivals and shows. Every time I have enjoyed myself, danced, met interesting people and come down a bit from my day-to-day, highstrung Cornell attitude. Dancing and cutting loose is relaxing and feels like an antidote to my usual lifestyle.

Saturday, however, was characterized by a distinct intensity that, in my years working for CCC and going to concerts, I’ve rarely seen. I’m glad that everyone had a lot of fun, but there was a marked uptick in the stress of working the show and aggressive encounters with concertgoers compared to shows past.

“Partying” or “celebrating” come with happy connotations;” “going hard” or “doing it right” makes going to concerts and parties sound like an obligation or a commitment. There was the trio of young women who angrily taunted me and other CCC people when we wouldn’t let them walk through the backstage area. There was the mystery individual who defecated on the bleachers. For these and many, many others, “revelry” or “exuberance” or any one of those happy terms did not seem like the name of the game. People shoving freshmen ticket takers, throwing things at performers, screaming at peers and basically rioting outside the Statler weren’t having a good time. They were on their way to have a good time, and they were pissed about any and all obstacles that might slow them down. I interacted with hundreds of Cornellians over four hours, and the level of disrespect and rudeness was way out of proportion with what I’ve seen at previous shows.

When I’ve discussed this column with friends, many have dismissed the intensity of Saturday night’s experience by saying it’s typical to EDM shows and college kids nationwide. But they also concur that while fun, it was exhausting and at times they felt weary. Fueled by a full day of Homecoming festivities and drinking, people here burned their candles down to the nub in the first major party weekend of many this year.

Another explanation is that it’s just fun to celebrate at a show and on a holiday weekend. But this, I think we have to agree, is not just celebration, or just fun. Many people at the show were full on raging — partying as hard as they could. We’re Cornell students; I don’t think we can just accept the negative impacts of going so hard as incidental or “worth it,” particularly when partying a bit less hard is an option that we could choose and still have fun.

So how to explain Saturday? Electronic dance music?

EDM is the disco for our generation. It’s party music, here and everywhere. I understand that consumption of alcohol and drugs comes with the scene, or the culture, or the movement — however you want to characterize EDM’s influence over Generation Y. But if music concerts, EDM included, are a human body, “party enhancers” are a hand or an arm — a single limb, for some very important, but not a vital organ. Music is the underlying current that makes people so excited to participate, to dance and shout. The sounds are inherently fun to move to. Avicii might play party music, but it wasn’t his vibe or his music independently that made people so frenetic.

So, was it substance-fueled? I think that, within reason, consumption of drugs and alcohol is not only typical but good for people our age for two reasons: 1) It is fun and 2) It provides people with the opportunity to take risks at an age where they need to learn their own boundaries and how to take ownership of their own persons. There are, according to my straw survey of acquaintances and University research, plenty of examples of rational and responsible consumption of alcohol. Not all of the nearly 5,000 people in Barton on Saturday were under the influence; not all of the behavior that I witnessed can be attributed to substance consumption.

The behavior people engaged in at the Avicii concert was not due exclusively to EDM, nor was it due exclusively to drugs and alcohol. This weekend gave me the opportunity to stand on the opposite side of the fence, where frankly the aggression, violence and intensity with which people were intent on raging scared me. This

urgency and determination to go hard was enough for me to back off from people yelling about getting backstage or to the front of the bathroom line to avoid being slapped.

I’m left to conclude that Cornellians either feel entitled or obliged to party as hard as they possibly can. The term “work hard, play hard” definitely applies to this campus. We do everything to a high level, and since our occupations are our academics, there’s little distinction between working hard on work and working hard at other aspects of life. This third factor is what made

Maggie Henry Get Over Yourself Saturday night’s show something of a madhouse. It’s incredibly important for us to have time to blow off steam, and the fewer opportunities we have, the more driven we are going to be to reach the heights of possibility each time.

In other words, for any University officials reading this: The answer is absolutely NOT to cancel concerts, parties and events sponsored by campus organizations. If anything, the lack of freedom of control over our own social lives is probably what fuels the explosion of energy and wild behavior when we have the opportunity. The increase in control and rules coincides with the uptick in intensity that many working the show observed.

Sponsoring events on campus like concerts and shows and allowing other events to happen gives choice and opportunity to us students. At Avicii, there was oversight, there were EMTs and there were peer students like myself to paint a portrait for everyone else a few days later. Youth will be youth; let it happen, and help it happen safely.

Maggie Henry is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She may be reached at mhenry@cornellsun.com. Get Over Yourself appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Environmentalism

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New York Times Environmental Journalist Speaks at C.U.

Andrew Revkin discusses fracking, climate change and blogging

By SHAUNTLE BARLEY Sun Senior Writer

Andrew Revkin, New York Times science and environmental journalist and blogger, spoke to a crowded Milstein Hall Auditorium on Monday, September 24 about his experiences covering environmental issues for a nonscientific audience.

As a Times reporter from 1995-2009, Revkin wrote about environmental issues covering areas from the Amazon to the Arctic, and now as an environmental blogger at DotEarth he addresses the problems facing the world in the next fifty years as its human population increases to 9 billion people. In his talk, entitled “Important Science in an Urgent Age,” he spoke to Cornell students and Ithaca residents about his views as an opinion blogger on climate change and hydraulic fracturing. His lecture was a part of the Atkinson Center’s “Outside Voices” speaker series, which spotlights multiple viewpoints on sustainability issues.

A Conversation on Climate Change Much of Revkin’s journalistic work has dealt with environmental issues related to climate change. He said climate change is a complex topic and most of its effects are uncertain. Since scientists can not be sure of how much ocean levels will increase in the next hundred years or of how rainfall patterns may change, climate change is challenging to write about, and it is difficult to determine how people should properly prepare themselves for its consequences.

In addition to climate change difficulties, Revkin also spoke about the challenges involved with climate change mitigation efforts. He said that people take an incorrect approach to climate change by often viewing its causes as being less urgent than many of its effects. People devote most of their energy to fixing problems that arise as a result of climate change because these issues involve pressing matters like human

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Climate conversation | Andrew Revkin, New York Times environmental blogger, speaks for the Atkinson Center’s ‘Outside Voices’ speaker series. health and can be fixed immediately.

He gave the example that climate change has made it possible for malaria carrying mosquitoes to increase their geographic range — which has led to increased outbreaks of malaria in human populations. The root of the problem is greenhouse gas emissions that alter ecological relationships by creating climate changes.

According to Revkin, since this problem does not have a quick solution, people are more likely to focus on fixing problems of health care availability instead, which are more direct, less expensive and offer easier solutions to preventing illness.

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Bio-blogger | Andrew Revkin has covered natural resources, the environment, climate change and sustainability on his New York Times blog Dot Earth since 2007.

Revkin’s Views on Fracking Revkin also spoke about his opinion on hydraulic fracturing, which he said are different from most environmental journalists like Bill McKibben. According to Revkin, the hydraulic fracturing method of natural gas extraction, although known for emitting methane into the atmosphere, produces miniscule emissions when compared with the carbon pollution produced by the rest of the world. He also said that the benefits of using natural gas in place of conventional oil outweigh the risks in terms of carbon emissions. Therefore, from a global perspective, hydrofracking is not a primary concern that people should have when figuring out ways to mitigate climate change, he said.

Instead, he said that people should do their best to make hydrofracking as clean as possible, in terms of methane leakage and water chemical regulation. He said that the shale is a valuable resource that should be harnessed — if it can be done so correctly.

Revkin also said that he acknowledges the need for revision in current hydrofracking methods before they are implemented in New York State.

He shifted his focus onto broader examples of climate change mitigation. Although China is rapidly increasing its use of sustainable energy, the country is doing so while still relying primarily on coal for its energy needs. America, he said, needs to use transitional energy sources because it cannot currently fill its energy needs using only sustainable sources, and thus would still be primarily dependent on coal and oil. It would be best for America to move away from conventional energy sources by increasing reliance on natural gas, a cleaner fuel source, and build upon that with renewable resources, he said.

“The challenge here is that there’s no easy tradeoff,” Revkin said. There will never be a perfect, clean energy source, there are going to be negative aspects associated with every form of energy. He also said that banning hydrofracking altogether eliminates the possibility for a discussion to improve the process so that it becomes something that could be beneficial.

If New York State were to switch to hydrofracking, Revkin said that now would

be a smart time. The urgency to find cheap energy has, for the time being, passed. Since New Yorkers don’t need to rush into anything it will be easier to make more informed decisions. Gas prices are currently low and will remain to be low for a few years, he said. The states also seen the negative impacts that hydrofracking has had in other states and are prepared to ensure that this does not happen again.

Insight on Science Reporting And Environmental Blogging During his talk, Revkin also addressed the challenges facing science journalism.

One reason that Revkin said that he switched from being a news reporter to an opinion blogger was that science news reporting does not provide enough background for the non-scientific public to fully understand the complex issues that the world faces today. Revkin said that with news coming from numerous places like the Internet, science journalists would only be more reputable than other news sources if they provide a scientific framework, which he feels many do not.

As a blogger, Revkin said that he is able to provide a scientific platform for his readers through his own voice. He can also lead his readers to other news sites where they can find further information on topics that he covers like resource utilization, population increase, the consumption question and the issue of decreasing biodiversity.

“We’re more in harms’ way than ever, even though we’re safer than ever,” Revkin said, referring to issues such as crop insurance and healthcare which are both topics he said on his blog are created to protect people from the negative impacts of climate change. With population growth at its current rate however, people have been urbanizing in areas of geologic unrest and areas prone to natural disasters.

Revkin said that the main challenge as a science writer is to bridge the gap between scientists and the public because the dangers that are present in the world today are dangers that should be understood by everyone.

Shauntle Barley can be reached at sbarley@cornellsun.edu.

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Lauren Emberson grad Finds Why Cell Phone Conversations Annoy Us

By RAQUEL SGHIATTI Sun Contributor

ates participate in various attentiondemanding tasks while listening to different types of conversations, either halfalogues or full conversations.

Participants performed worse when they heard one half of a conversation compared to both halves of the conversation or silence.

Emberson also performed a controlled study, in which the same speech files were used, but the speech was filtered so that participants could not hear the content of the speech.

She said that these sounds where similar to hearing someone speaking underwater or the indiscernible sounds made by adults in Charlie Brown. In this case, Emberson found that the halfalogue was not distracting. She and her team concluded that in order for people to be distracted by halfalogues, they have to understand the speech used in the conversation.

From her results, which were first published in Psychological Science in 2010, Emberson and her co-authors

Is it okay to ask someone in a coffee shop chatting on a cell phone to leave? Maybe so. That’s because according to Lauren Emberson grad, psychology, cell phone conversations can impair the cognitive performance of people around them. In her research, Emberson has found that overhearing a cell phone conversation is far more distracting than overhearing two people in conversation.

“It’s significantly distracting and it’s actually affecting others’ ability to do what they want to do,” Emberson said.

She found through her research that when people overhear a cell phone conversations it is like they are only hearing half of a conversation — a “halfalogue” as she called it.

Emberson said that while people are in conversation, the brain of the person doing the listening is not in the moment.

Rather, it is trying to predict “Your brain is reflexively focusing on [the what the other phone conversation], orienting towards it person is going to say next. Since and possibly processing it more deeply and outside listeners that is what makes it more distracting.” can only hear half of the con- Lauren Emberson grad versation, the content of halfalogues is much less predictable than Prof. Michael Goldstein, psychology, have received a lot of media attention. normal two-person conversations.

“People were very interested in this The unpredictability of halfalogues involuntarily engages outside listeners’ result. It confirms a lot of people’s suspicions that cell phones are distractbrain and lodges their attention.

“It means you’re less able to tune ing, and irritating in their environthe conversation out. Your brain is ment,” said Emberson.

According to Emberson, it is not reflexively focusing on it, orientating towards it and possibly processing it that people talk more loudly on cell more deeply and that is what makes it phones; halfalogues are distracting because they tap into basic cognitive more distracting,” Emberson said.

In conducting her research, mechanisms that are used constantly Emberson had Cornell undergradu- in daily life. In general, unpredictable

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Phone conversationalist | Lauren Emberson, grad, researches the distractions caused by listening to cell phone conversations.

elements in the environment cause more brain activity and attract more attention from perceptual, learning and memory systems within the brain, she said.

Emberson and her team are now testing the effects that overhearing cell phone conversations have on driving performance. She is looking at replicating the effect in a driving simulator to see if overhearing cell phone conversations has an effect on how people break or stay in the lanes while on the road. She said that at this point there is not enough sufficient data to support this hypothesis.

Her recommendation is that drivers should be weary of passengers talking on their cell phones because they may be adding extra distractions.

Raquel Sghiatti can be reached at ras596@cornell.edu.

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Dropped call | For the outside listener, phone conversations create distracting “halfalogues” that draw the listener’s attention more so than two-person conversations because the listener cannot easily predict what the other person is going to say.

University of Pennsylvania astronomers have reported that their Dark Energy Camera — the most powerful camera ever made capable of catching light from over 100,000 galaxies — has received its first glimpse of ancient starlight. The cosmic light rays traveled from a distant galaxy some eight billion light years away, according to the researchers.

The first starlight represents a new era in space exploration research and may help answer the question as to whether the universe is expanding slowly due to gravity or rather accelerating. The next steps for the Dark Energy Camera are to create detailed color images of one-eighth of the sky, which is thought to contain over 300 million galaxies, 100,000 galaxy clusters and 4,000 supernovae.

Researchers at Princeton University have discovered the evolutionary basis behind group formation and movement in animals by using a video game designed for predatory fish. In their paper, published in the journal Science, the team reported that collective motion in schools of fish evolved as a finely tuned defense system against predation. The researchers would project images of prey onto a screen in front of the predatory fish. The prey projections would cycle through three different formations. The scientists analyzed how the predator reacted to the formations and found that it hesitated longest before approaching the fish that grouped together as opposed to prey that were swimming apart from each other. Although previous researchers had looked at the mechanisms behind defensive animal formations, the work done by the scientists provides additional variables that make it easier to understand the direct link between selfdefense and group movement.

Computer scientists at Brown University have taken high-speed computers and programmed them to identify simple sketches of objects — with some difficulty. Although the task may seem easy for a computer capable of conducting over a million calculations in a second, the computers could only correctly identify the quick-sketches of rabbits and cats with 56 percent accuracy, which is less proficient than human viewers at 73 percent. According to the researchers, the computers they programedhad ‘semantic understanding’ of the abstract sketches, which are reminiscent of kindergarten drawings.

With further programing the researchers say that their computers will close the gap between their sketch recognition skills and a human’s ability to recognize sketches. The scientists’ research was presented last month at a computer programing conference called SIGGRAPH. The researchers plan on using the program to develop new sketch-based interfaces and search applications.

Columbia University engineers have teamed up with PepsiCo to create a new carbon footprint calculating software that measures the amount of carbon pollution produced by various products. Their research, published online in The Journal of Industrial Ecology, used a life-cycle analysis to judge the environmental impacts of products like Tropicana orange juice to create a database of over 1,137 individual PepsiCo products. Before this study, life-cycle analyses were conducted manually on a product-by-product basis — a time consuming and expensive process. But now the engineers have developed a tool that mines company data and provides environmental information on their products’ carbon footprints — providing carbon emission data instantaneously. The researchers plan to continue improving the algorithms in their software to create up-to-date environmental impact data.

At Dartmouth College, researchers are combining medicine with jewelry by creating bracelets and amulets that act as mobile health devices. The fashionable devices are health monitors that can provide diagnoses for people and physicians. The group of computer scientists made the mobile health systems specifically for patients with chronic diseases and other medical concerns. Some of the jewelry has Bluetooth capability, enabling it to communicate with other mobile health devices on the patient, which can be used to update the patient’s electronic medical records system. The mobile medical jewelry can link up different medical devices on the patient. This means the jewlery can collect electrocardiogram signals from a heart monitor, obtain glucose readings from a glucose meter and monitor insulin pumps to produce insulin injections. The researchers are currently looking at more ways to create mobile medical systems out of the jewlery.

— Complied by Nicholas St. Fleur ’13

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Danny Glover, Citizen Artist

BY NATALIA FALLAS Sun Staff Writer

Whether it be his famous line as Murdoch, “I’m too old for this shit” or flapping his arms to show that he believes in the angels, Danny Glover has proven to be an iconic African-American film star. But there is more to Glover beyond his work on stage and screen. Glover, in fact, has led quite a remarkable life as an activist and philanthropist around the globe. Championing workers’ and human rights, Glover has used his status to help propel these causes forward and enact change. On Tuesday, courtesy of Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Glover had the chance to speak with the Cornell and Ithaca community on his activism and film careers through the years.

The common question on many minds was how Glover even came to work with unions and workers. We see the usual celebrity partnerships with the UN and other worldwide organizations on the issue of basic human rights. Not too often do we see those working on changing the face of workers’ rights in our own country.

But when one is born to two postal workers in San Francisco and surrounded by unions and social demonstrations, the seeds of social consciousness and involvement are planted in one’s being. Such is the case for Danny Glover.

His intense admiration and respect for his parents — he called his father “the most beautiful man” he has ever met — seems to have led to his activism in honor of them. As a student at San Francisco State University and member of the the Black Student Union, he led protests that culminated in the creation of an Ethnic Studies

department in 1969, similar to the Africana Studies department here at Cornell.

And even after becoming a popular film actor, Glover never lost his activist roots. He mentioned his interest in spreading democracy and establishing acceptable working conditions. But rather than separating his life into two realms, Glover has made the effort of integrating the two as much as possible. He believes that “arts comes out of public space and movement of ideas.” Therefore, by producing documentaries that cater to different plights whether it be the war on drugs, the climate debt, arms sales, or the relationship between Paul Robeson and Albert Einstein, he realizes his goal of shifting the discourse on these subjects. It is not only a means of spreading awareness through a certain medium, but it has also allowed him to focus on which side of an issue he is on.

It also does not hurt to have the leverage he possesses as a movie star.

He recalled wanting to make The Saint of Fort Washington, at a time when the movie studio wanted to make Lethal Weapon 3. Knowing full well that the studio was not willing to let him go, he made a deal to do the film while also getting that last push to finally bring the other film to cinematic fruition. With some other films, he has struggled more. For example, his latest project, Toussaint, has been in the works for 30 years. The film is to be centered on the leader of a slave rebellion that ultimately engendered the Haitian Revolution. He aims to tell a human story of the good and the bad, and of someone who brought about change. This is a story Glover must be all too familiar with.

Glover also imparted advice to current students on how to get involved in social justice. He acknowledged that the choices he has made are personal and he cannot advise

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others to follow in the same suit. Rather, he espouses the mantra of becoming “architects of our own rescue.” And judging by his myriad accomplishments and current projects, it seems as though he has orchestrated his own means of rescue that fulfills his activist needs. As one member of the audience asked, is Danny Glover then “an actor who does activism on the side, or an activist who acts on the side?” Well, the man could not have answered more eloquently or concisely than, “I consider myself a citizen artist.” And that ladies and gentlemen, is the best way you can articulate who and what Danny Glover is.

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

Unresolved Artbreak

BY LUBABAH CHOWDHURY Sun Staff Writer

What is it about music, that wordless art form that is beyond language and logic, that moves us? Why does “Rhapsody in Blue” instantly liven up your day, while Beethoven’s “Emperor Suite” causes almost painful nostalgia?

And what could its connection be with poetry, another form of expression that is intensely personal and profound?

Artbreak: Strings and Sonnets, a performance at the Johnson Museum that premiered this past Sunday, attempted to answer these questions through both poetry and music.

Though the musical performance was powerful, it was rather baffling as to how it was connected to the poetry, which ranged from the competent to the contrived.

However, Artbreak’s most significant shortcoming was the choice of venue. The Hirsh Lecture Lobby is perfectly suited to small class lectures, but it proves to be rather uncomfortable when filled with 26 string players, 15 poets and 50 to 60 audience members. A larger room would have not only provided all spectators with a seat, but would also have allowed the string players to perform without worrying about elbowing their fellow players in

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the eye.

It takes courage to perform in front of an audience, courage that can easily warp into anxiety when the audience members spend more time glaring at whoever last left the room rather than focusing on the performance. Another setback was the inadequate sound system; it was hard to comment on the poetry itself, as much of it was inaudible, but the quality seemed to vary widely. Many seemed to have to do with music or sound only superficially, preferring to deal with other subjects

such as nature or war. Sounds were briefly mentioned in metaphors and similes, but never were dealt with as subject matter.

Clearly, it is unfair to dictate what poets should write about … unless they are meant to read their poetry at an event that was meant to the relationship between poetry and music. The majority of the poems were good, if not great; none really shone either in terms of lyric mastery. One

the room, however, were unsuited to the highly technical sixteenth-note passages that became a slurry mush in the small space. However, Vivaldi’s “Spring” section from his well-known “Four Seasons” was still as lovely as ever, with its cheery, sunshine-filled opening movement, the raindrenched “Largo” and the lush and moody “Allegro Pastoral.” The balance between the soloist and the violinists could have been better in the “Largo,” but overall the performance was thoroughly enjoyable. However, Astor Piazzolla’s “Primavere Portena,” a Latinized DARWIN CHAN / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER take on Vivaldi’s work, received quite a lot of poetry that was meant to reveal the link applause, and rightly so. The passionate between two forms of self-expression performance from every single one of the merely revealed in itself in some cases, and players rendered a wonderful piece absolutely magical. disgusted and offended in others.

In the end, perhaps passion is what But where the poetry was unsuccessful, the music rose to the occasion. While it connects music and poetry. Or perhaps it was difficult to hear the readings, the is their inherently personal and introspecCornell Chamber Orchestra’s sound tive nature. Or maybe one has to delve seemed barely contained by the four walls. into songs to solve this riddle, as they can Felix Mendelssohn’s “Octet in E-flat be seen as the marriage between music and Major” was exhilarating in its exhausting poetry. energy that would suddenly dissipate into a melancholic largo. The sweet arpeggiated tune morphed from an invigorated Lubabah Chowdhury is a junior in the College of sound of joy to the most heartbreaking Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at lchowdsob from the first violin. The acoustics in hury@cornellsun.com. or two seemed to heavily rely on shock value, leading to disconcerted laughter within the audience. Expected performance behavior was a far cry from reality:

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ou can retrace the steps, but not the experiences or the revelations. It is a pity, for that is all we desire as we stumble doggedly after the footsteps of the greats. We read the same lines, walk the same walks, stare at the same oceans and kick at the same sands. We’re waiting, hoping for the desired revelations and insights that never come. Experiences truly become our own when they refuse to conform to our expectations.

It must be so, for Patience (After Sebald) to exist. In the film, admirers, friends and students of Sebald trace his meditative walk through Suffolk, England that is his novel, The Rings of Saturn — a genre-defying novel that is based on various historic places that Sebald visits. And instead of finding his experiences, they find their own. They discuss the author, his novel, the locations, themes, history and other cursory tangents, in a dialogue smeared with perspective and personal insight that lend color to what is otherwise a colorless film.

I mean colorless in the literal sense: the film is black and white.

The shots carry the same texture and emotion as the images in the novel, which Sebald produced by taking photocopies of photocopies of photocopies. Edges are thwacked and dulled into submission until they are reduced to flickering grains that bleed from one shot to the next, in a manner that is as hypnotic as the voice that

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accompanies them. And if these shots have a particular order, then it follows the order that thoughts follow in a long walk. They meander.

From silk worms to herring, from a walk in the forest to a lonely drive along an empty street. As we travel, excerpts from the novel (narrated by Jonathan Pryce) and the voices of Sebald’s various admirers weave in from one scene to the next, in a tone of depth and intelligence.

To put it crudely, the film is but an academic slide show dedicated to a venerated author. It works, because the author is so eloquent, the subjects so thoughtful, the screen so unobtrusive and the music so sparse and delicate. Had the film been nothing but a reading of The Rings of Saturn accompanied with images of the book’s various locations, then that would have Cornell worked too, indeed it Cinema and does when it acts as such. In the opening, we hear Sebald’s beautiful prose — as a train whistles on screen and birds twitter off screen. It’s charming and melancholic, rather soothing in its bare simplicity.

For reasons I cannot exactly explain, I

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also found the scene rather touching. I say this with the full expectation it will not be so for others. Such is the nature of the film. It is a collection of personal thoughts and reflections, and some of the moments will be meaningful; others as dry as an academic lecture. Revelations will be personal, the foundation of what the subject describes as the “fundamental mismatch between the footstepper and footsteppee.”

A film built on the fundamental mismatch between the footsteps of an author and the footsteppee of his admirers invites the suggestion that it is essential to read the book prior to viewing the film. I hold the adamant opinion that a film be able to stand on its own two feet regardless of its literary lineage, and Patience (After Sebald)

does this full well.

“It was customary in a home where there had been a death, to drape black mourning ribbons over all the mirrors and all canvasses depicting landscapes, so that the soul, as it left the body, would not be distracted on its final journey, either by a reflection of itself or by a lost glimpse of the land now being lost forever.”

Imagine hearing these lines for the first time in the soothing voice of Pryce, as the film slowly reels out of a haunting overview of the criss-cross path of Sebald’s walk. An academic film that allows ignorance on the subject to enrich the experience. It’s quite something.

Patricia Kim is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. She can be reached at pjk87@cornell.edu.

The War Games People Play D

iamonds are hunks of carbon. They are not forever.

They are not rare. They are not even a girl’s best friend. We think of them as a luxury item instead of common shiny rocks because De Beers, the company that holds the diamond monopoly, wages one of the most successful ad campaigns in history. Even if you knew all this, chances are you have or will have a wedding ring that has a diamond on it — because others still believe in the power of the diamond.

De Beers is so successful because they can do two things that many others can’t: generate self-perpetuating consumer enthusiasm and silence critics. They can get every single romantic comedy to emphasize the importance of diamonds without having people feel guilty about buying diamonds from conflict-ridden places. A few companies have been able to replicate the first: Apple, for instance, gets product evangelists without even having to pay for them.

But not even Apple can match De Beers in silencing critics: look at the debacle around Foxconn. De Beers handles criticism through obscurity (notice how Blood Diamond never mentions that there’s a diamond monopoly?), but one organization has bested De Beers in that field of silencing criticism by openly obscuring it instead of itself. The American military, not surprisingly, is also the only organization whose marketing strategy is more successful than De Beers’.

I’m not talking about the cable news pundits arguing for the War in Iraq or Congress passing resolutions to honor the troops, but rather the permeation of the military into pop culture. Some of us played with little green soldiers and G.I. Joes when we were kids, but most of us jumped right into video games instead. Call of Duty, Battlefield, Counter Strike, and Medal of Honor are the most obviously “American” games, but Halo and Gears of War are basically the same too — albeit with aliens. You are always in the heat of conflict. You are always in the right and strictly professional, occasionally giving off the cool one-liner. The enemy is always evil — and the remedy is always death in your hands.

Some will argue that that’s the point — shooter video games should entertain, and using these tactics do a great job of entertaining. But think about the beginning to Call of Duty: Black Ops. It’s an adrenaline pumping gunfire fight

where you command an operation to assassiZANDER ABRANOWICZ / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR nate Fidel Castro, until you realize that you don’t even have to shoot in order to advance.

A situation that was supposed to inflate egos was actually heavily scripted: it is a simulacra of assassinating Fidel Castro. As shooters get more realistic graphics and historical context, it ironically becomes harder to make war entertaining. In order to get the cinematic bravado and patriotism that characterizes these video games, it must be a replication of reality only in form, not substance. The game must become a selective simulation of war for a society that selectively loves it. Any more realistic, and it hits an uncanny valley where war becomes too real to be fun.

Granted, everybody knows that the games we’re playing aren’t the real deal. In real life, ammo pickups aren’t everywhere, you don’t magically recover within seconds, and there is a lot more paperwork. But in the end we are still left in a nationalistic afterglow of how honorable they are, which help games sell and raise inter- expectations, but because they have to keep the traumas to est for potential recruits but do nothing other than harm themselves; they have to bottle it up and act like the stoic the soldiers they glorify. Images of valor, honor, and patri- tough guys that we expect.

Such nationalistic kitsch is unfair and selfish. It sanitizes otic duty prepare beginner soldiers for a hard fall in expectations. Soldiers already jaded with these ideals have to war into something that it is not, while expecting soldiers to deal with living up to them when they go home. They pick up and mask the parts we don’t want to see. It sends a can’t honestly retell their experiences when they go back mixed message that their job is both amazing and shameful home. They can’t talk about lying in an uncomfortable at the same time. It ultimately tells them that we don’t want position for hours shooting randomly at people they can’t to listen to what they think.

If we want to change anything, we have to demystify see, or being forced to stay at their post per and devalorize the images of war that we see. Let’s stop protocol even if they making up scripted crap and treat the job of a soldier as a hear a fellow unit cry job, albeit a very dangerous and tiring, but yes, an honorable and appreciated job. Let’s talk about the existential for help.

A lot has been writ- fatigue and attrition in addition to the parts we see in video ten defending such games. Let’s openly embrace all the jobs a serviceperson games by saying that has, instead of making them lead double lives of loyalty You’ve Got to Be they lose their enter- and doubt.

Kitsching Me In the meantime, we should focus on all these things tainment value if they become more realistic. instead of whether we can make trees destructible. I’m lookNobody wants to buy a ing at you, Battlefield 3. game where dead women and children are commonplace, much less have to kill them. But soldiers do have to deal with such horrors, and even more has been written about Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Industrial and Labor the desensitization, the PTSD, and the drug use that is ram- Relations. He can be reached at kng@cornellsun.com. You’ve Got To pant. It doesn’t only stem from soldiers’ own unrealistic Be Kitsching Me appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

Kai Sam Ng

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

ACROSS 1 Stir-fry additive 4 [frog lands in pond] 8 Remote control battery 14 Baba of folklore 15 Bindle carrier 16 “Zip your lip!”

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DOWN 1 “The Balcony” painter 2 Insult 3 Cookies with a bite 4 Chi preceder 5 Solitary sorts 6 Beyond zaftig 7 Baudelaire, par exemple 8 Evaluates 9 Quark’s locale 10 Global networking pioneer 11 Girl in a pasture 12 Gossipy Smith 13 OCS grads, usually 19 “__ Rosenkavalier” 21 Bed or home ending 24 “Over here!”

26 Reader with a sensitive screen 27 Modern site of Mesopotamia 28 Keeps after taxes 31 Like Big Ben 33 Big chunk of Eur. 34 Framed work

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Puzzle #52311

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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Referees Outrage D.C.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The embarrassing NFL referee saga and the disputed call that gave the Seattle Seahawks a victory over the Green Bay Packers on Monday night has reached the campaign for the White House, with President Barack Obama deeming it "terrible" and declaring it was time to get regular officiating crews back on the job.

"I've been saying for months we've got to get our refs back," Obama said as he returned to the White House from an appearance before the United Nations. In a tweet that went out under his initials, Obama said: "NFL fans on both sides of the aisle hope the refs' lockout is settled soon."

In a rare moment of agreement with Obama, presidential rival Mitt Romney and GOP running mate Paul Ryan, a Wisconsin native, also said it was time to bring back the "real refs." The NFL locked out the officials in June after their contract expired. The league has been using replacement officials, who have come under increasing criticism over the way they handled some games.

"I sure would like to see some experienced referees, with NFL experience, come back on to the NFL playing fields," Romney said in an interview with CNN. Ryan added a partisan note, using the referee imbroglio to make a case for kicking the president out of office.

"It reminds me of President Obama and the economy," Ryan said in Cincinnati. "If you can't get it right, it's time to get out. I half think that these refs work part-time for the Obama administration in the budget office. ... They're trying to pick the winners and losers, and they don't even do that very well."

Seattle won 14-12 over Green Bay after referees ruled a Seattle receiver caught the ball amid a pile of bodies in the end zone on the game's last play. The NFL conceded that a Seattle penalty in the course of the play went uncalled and cost the Packers the victory, but the league upheld the catch itself and the Seahawks' victory. Legions of football fans watched the play and the referees' call in disbelief, and buzzed about it all day Tuesday.

Typically, Obama, a diehard Chicago Bears enthusiast, is not one to wish the rival Green Bay Packers well.

But besides being an avid sports fan, Obama recently has redoubled efforts to win in the Packer's home state of Wisconsin. His campaign recently started airing ads in the state and Obama held a rally Saturday in Milwaukee, his first visit to the state since February.

White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that Obama watched the Monday night game and "thinks there was a real problem with that call."

"He said that what happened in that game is why both sides need to come together, resolve their differences so that the regular refs can get back on the field so we can start focusing on a game that so many of us love rather than debating whether or not a game was won or lost because of a bad call," Carney said.

Obama said in a phone interview Tuesday with The Des Moines Register that he doesn't blame the replacement refs.

"They've been put in a tough situation," the president said. "But the fact is this is a fast, tough game to control. And it doesn't make sense to me for a league that's been so successful not to want to put their very best out there."

Pirates Take Down Mets NEW YORK (AP) — Pedro Alvarez hit his 30th homer and drove in four runs, leading Wandy Rodriguez and the Pittsburgh Pirates over the Mets 10-6 on Tuesday night, ending New York's four-game winning streak.

Pittsburgh avoided elimination in the playoff race. The Pirates posted their 76th victory, the team's most since 1999 when they won 78.

David Wright homered and added a two-run single, tying the Mets' career record of 1,418 hits set by Ed Kranepool. Justin Turner and Wright connected in the first inning for the team's first set of consecutive home runs this season.

Alvarez hit a three-run shot that made it 4-0 in the first inning. He's plenty familiar with New York — he was a prep star in the city, and his sister previously worked for the Mets.

Alvarez drew a bases-loaded walk in the fifth, helping the Pirates win for just the sixth time in 24 games. Tied for the NL Central lead a week after the All-Star game, Pittsburgh (76-78) has faded to seventh place in the wild-card standings.

Garrett Jones hit his 25th

homer and drove in three runs for the Pirates.

Rodriguez (12-13) recovered from rocky first and left in the seventh with a 7-3 lead.

The Pirates backed their pitchers with several nice defensive plays. Center fielder Andrew McCutchen bumped into the padded wall after a catch, Jones rushed in from right field for a tumbling grab and shortstop Clint Barmes charged a slow grounder for an out.

McCutchen went 1 for 3 with two walks and is hitting .336.

Harrison later scored on an error by Turner at second base.

Turner was involved in a play in the third that prompted arguments from both managers. He reached on a throwing error by Harrison from second base, made a brief turn toward second and casually returned to first.

Pirates manager Clint Hurdle contended first baseman Gaby Sanchez tagged Turner before he got back to first and, after all four umpires huddled and called him out.

Mets manager Terry Collins then disputed the call with three umps, to no avail.

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SPORTS

Daniel Haber Receives Ivy Player of the Week For Third Time For the third time in the past month, junior forward Daniel Haber was awarded the men’s soccer Player of the Week for the Ivy League, which he shared with Penn’s Stephen Baker. The two all-stars will face off when Penn comes to the hill on Saturday for both team’s Ivy opener.

Haber was named the Ivy League’s Player of the Week after Week 1 and Week 2 of this season and was given the honor twice last season. He was also named to the College Soccer News National Team of the Week this week and earned a spot on that team after the first week of the season as well.

During victories for the Red last week, Haber scored four goals and had two assists.

For the year he has 11 goals total and leads the league in goals and points at 26. On Wednesday night against Binghamton, Haber grabbed two goals and an assist in the game.

In Saturday’s matchup against St. Joseph’s, he picked up a pair of points in four minutes to come back and steal the game.

The Red also moved up to No. 29 as a team in the College Soccer News National Poll.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

Men’s soccer

MICHELLE FRALING / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Last night, the Red defeated Hartwick, 4-1, on Berman Field after dominating the majority of the game — all but 21 seconds of the match was lead by the Cornell. Junior forward Daniel Haber, senior forward Tyler Regan and sophomore midfielder Atticus DeProspo all scored in the matchup — with Haber grabbing two of the four and DeProspo scoring for the first time in his collegiate career. Cornell is now 8-0 for the season and hopes to continue its streak into the game against Penn on Saturday.

Mathews, Hagy Collect Ivy League Awards After Homecoming Showdown Junior quarterback Jeff Mathews was named Ivy League co-Offensive Player of the Week and freshman running back Luke Hagy won his first award for Rookie of the Week.

Thanks to the two and the rest of the squad, the Red crushed Yale, 456, during the Homecoming showdown this past weekend. Cornell had its largest margin of victory in a series that dates back to 1946 and rushed 482 yards offensively.

In addition to his fifth Ivy honor while with the Red, Mathews had a great showing against Yale completing 29-of-39 passes for 340 yards with four touchdowns and an impressive zero interceptions. He also matched a school record by finishing his fourth straight 300-yard passing game and the eighth in his overall career. Mathews also moved up to third in on the school’s career passing yardage list with 5,964 yards.

Rookie Hagy had his own good showing on Saturday as he racked up 157 yards and two touchdowns. He also had 21 carries for 88 yards on the ground and became the first Red rushed to score two touchdowns since 2010.

Cornell will play away against Bucknell this Saturday to continue striving for an excellent rest of the season.

— Compiled by Haley Velasco

WrestleMania: Not Your Grandma’s Television I

feel like one of the misconceptions about being Sports Editor for The Sun is that I have this innate understanding of every sport. While I would like to think that I have a basic working knowledge of most of the sports I cover — or at least the ones I have to edit — I must admit that I am no sports wizard.

Last week I had to watch WrestleMania for one of my classes. My professor wanted me to analyze what I saw and apply what we were learning in lecture to see if violent television was related to aggressive behavior in boys.

Looking at the assignment, I figured it was simple enough — watch 30 minutes of wrestling, then comment on what I saw. However, WrestleMania is not your

WrestleMania led me to begin thinking about different sports that I really just don’t know much about. Rounding out the Top-5, in no particular order, are: cricket, synchronized swimming, handball, squash (read: sorry Rishi...) and NASCAR. Over the summer, I watched synchronized swimming during the Olympics (funny story: it was the only Olympic event I watched). While my mom and I joked that the swimmers looked like rainbow-clad mermaids, I could appreciate the hours of training the teams put in. I might not understand what it takes to be a synchronized swimmer, but I have great respect for those athletes.

Personally, I have nothing against the

Lauren Ritter Five For Fighting

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Continuing the magic | Jeff Mathews and Luke Hagy both received awards this week after having outstanding perfromances in the game against Yale.

grandma’s television.

Staring at my computer, I saw was an artistic spectacle of spandex, overt masculinity and Flo Rida. When I think about wrestling, I think about singlets and Friedman Wrestling Center, not oily men in mankinis hitting each other with chairs. While the assignment only called for me to watch for a half hour, I sat there and watched well over an hour’s worth, including John Cena put a hurting on Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. It was like roadkill. I couldn’t look away.

While I was fascinated by what I was seeing, I didn’t really have any idea of what was actually going on. To me it seems like a perfectly choreographed dance rather than a real fight. But, it’s not fair for me to judge someone for liking a sport that I’m not a huge fan of.

Pondering the popularity of

sports that I don’t follow or understand.

I think that half the battle of getting into following a sport is understanding what is going on on the field, ice, court or what have you.

Cornell has given me a great education in sports over the past three years — introducing me to soccer and crew, furthering my love for hockey and teaching me what a chukker is in polo. However, while my athletic horizons have expanded, I still think that there is a lot more for me to learn if I want to be a worldly sports connoisseur — starting with baseball. Anyone on the Cornell baseball team want to sit down and explain it to me?

Lauren Ritter can be reached at sportseditor@cornellsun.com.

Sports

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

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FOOTBALL

Bullington Helps C.U. Defeat Yale Despite Injury

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

When 273-pound center Bob Bullington ran onto the field for the first offensive set on Saturday, he was carrying a little more weight than usual. From a distance, it looked as though he and quarterback Jeff Mathews might have both been wearing the playbook on their right arms; but really Bullington was sporting a white cast that extended to his elbow, and he was snapping with his left hand.

The cast was covering Bullington’s broken right wrist, which he had surgery on four weeks ago. The injury happened at the team’s first practice in pads, when Bullington blocked back on one of his teammates and felt soreness in his wrist right away.

“I didn’t think it was anything serious at first, but I got it taped up and the trainers said it might be something more,” Bullington said.

He went to get x-rays and saw that the bone in his wrist had shifted, meaning that he would need surgery. Bullington bounced back though, and was able to start practicing again soon after the surgery. However, as a center, the use of his right hand for snapping was extremely important. “[Right after the surgery] I wasn’t able to hit so during practice I took snaps left handed,” Bullington said.

He was cleared to play in the Red’s first game of the season against Fordham, but the constant contact on the offensive line did take a toll. He couldn’t practice as much with the team leading up to homecoming, and was forced to watch film and take extra care of his wrist that week.

Fellow senior offensive lineman JC Tretter, who has also played through injuries in the past, understood the difficult position his center was in.

“Obviously you’re not 100% during games, but what people don’t really realize is that you can’t practice most of the week so you’re not getting the same reps everyone else is,” he said. “So during the game all your reps have to be mental reps, so it’s a lot tougher to come into a game in that situation.”

But as a senior captain, Bullington was not going to be kept out of his last homecoming, something that Tretter gave

XIAOYUE GUO / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

Pushing through | Senior center Bob Bullington pushed through a broken right wrist to help the Red achieve its victory over Yale in the Homecoming game this past weekend, despite not being able to really practice beforehand.

him a lot of respect for.

“It definitely picked us up,” he said. “Knowing that he was willing to do anything to be out there in the trenches means so much to us as offensive lineman because we really need him out there.”

Bullington helped his team to a 45-6 rout of Yale, giving his quarterback snaps that he could handle, allowing Mathews to throw for 340 yards and four touchdowns.

“This week my hand was beat up so I was a little out of practice, but Jeff just kept telling me not to worry about the snap, that I was doing fine,” Bullington said. “So it didn’t really affect him too much which is really the most important thing.”

As for the pain in his wrist, Bullington knew it was there, but was able to keep it out of his head.

“During the game you can’t feel is as much because you’re running on adrenaline,” he said. “But sometimes I’m compensating a little with my elbow so I can feel a lot of pain after practice.”

Though Tretter has battled through knee problems during his time with the Red, he was still impressed with Bullington because of the nature of his injury.

“I couldn’t even fathom playing without one of my

hands,” he said. “It just shows Bob’s heart and determination.”

But for Bullington, not being on the field never even crossed his mind.

“Injuries happen and I’ve played through them before,” he said. “I just love being out there, I like being able to make the calls.”

His fellow offensive linemen are glad that he is. For a position with the ever-important job of protecting the quarterback, it is not insignificant when one of them goes down with an injury. According to Bullington, it is not always easy to patch up a hole in the line when an experienced player has to stay out of the lineup.

“We’ve had a lot of experience out there together, now I know what’s going to happen on certain plays, and it would be hard to remold the camaraderie we have created,” he said.

With or without a cast, Bullington will be on the field this weekend to face Bucknell; it will take more than a switch of the hands to keep him from serving up perfect snaps to his quarterback.

Scott Chiusano can be reached at schiusano@cornellsun.com.

MEN’S TENNIS

Venkat Iyer Strives for Continued Ivy Excellence

By OLIVIA WITTELS Sun Staff Writer

Junior Venkat Iyer is undoubtedly a respected member of the men’s tennis team. Not only is he one of the Red’s strongest athletes — last season, he was the squad’s predominant

No. 1 singles player — but his commitment to academics at Cornell is also commendable; The Red placed Iyer on the Ivy League’s Spring 2012 All-Ivy Academic team, an honor that recognizes only ten athletes (five male and five female) from each school.

MONICA SUH / SUN CONTRIBUTOR

Working hard | Junior Venkat Iyer continues to work hard both on and off the court to try and take back the Ivy League title that the Red won in 2011.

Iyer is also ranked in the top 100 in the country by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association and seventh in the Northeast Region — a feat head coach Silviu Tanasoiu attests to Venkat’s intense desire to succeed. “[Venkat is] constantly striving for excellence. He’s been the most consistent guy on our squad,” Tanasoiu said. “As far as his work ethic … nothing was able to take him away from the sport and from working, and maintaining a great fitness level as well. He embodies the epitome of what a student athlete should be — just a great work ethic, fantastic time management, and a great passion for the game of tennis.”

Iyer’s teammate, sophomore Kyle Berman, also praised Venkat’s commitment.

“I think he works really hard and acts as a role model to everyone on the team,” said Berman.

“He puts in a lot of effort during every practice.”

Iyer stressed that above all his focus is centered upon one thing — recapturing the Ivy League Title that the Red won in 2011.

“It’s very simple, we want to win the Ivy Title … That’s our one and only goal,” Iyer said. “In terms of little goals, like staying healthy ... it’s important, but it all really corresponds to winning that Ivy Title. We work our butts off every day to make sure that we’ll end up on top.”

“He’s set on some very high goals and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to achieve them,” confirmed Tanasoiu. “I feel privileged to have the opportunity to work with someone like him.

There are very few guys of his caliber that you see in college tennis that have the mindset that he has ... I feel very lucky to have him as part of our team and I’m sure his teammates feel the same.”

Iyer’s hardworking demeanor was evident when asked how the team stays match-ready despite not having an official competi-

tion for another two weeks — up next for the Red is the Columbia Invitational on Oct. 5.

“That’s an easy question to answer. We put in a lot of hours in the practice court,” Iyer said.

“It’s beneficial to have those weekends where we spend a lot of time competing against each other ... before truly competing on the tournament stage …

When we play tournaments we can really come out totally fresh and ready to go.”

“Besides a lot of technical adjustments that we need to make … we’re trying to implement as many matches as possible,” added Tanasoiu. “We’ve played quite a few sets this past week and we’re expecting to play just as much, if not more, these upcoming two weeks. We play on a daily basis, and that’s one of the ways that we’ll try to keep the competitive spirit intact until we have an official competition.”

Olivia Wittels can be reached at owittels@cornellsun.com.