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Kim’13 allegedly entered apts.of several women

Sept. 28. Further investigation revealed Kim as a suspect in the crimes, IPD reported.

Kim was arraigned in the City A Cornell junior has been accused of breaking into the of Ithaca Court. He was released apartments of multiple female pending further court action, students at 312 College Ave., according to police.

Police are investigating according to a statement released Tuesday by the Ithaca Police whether Kim was involved in a series of similar incidents reportDepartment.

Jinsoo Kim ’14 was arrested by ed in the spring, according to the Ithaca Police Department Dave Honan, deputy chief of Monday in connection with the CUPD. The complaints were filed by alleged incidents, which reportresidents of different apartments edly date back as far as April.

On April 1, IPD responded to at 312 College Ave. All reported a call for trespassing at 312 an Asian male entering apartCollege Ave. The suspect, ments occupied by female residescribed as an Asian male, fled dents, according to IPD. One such incident occurred at “What students at 312 College 2:45 a.m. on May 4, when an Asian Ave. ... can do is ... [lock] their male entered the doors and windows.” unlocked apartment of two female stuDeputy Chief Dave Honan dents. Once inside, he confronted one when confronted by a resident of resident, who was awake in her the apartment he was attempting room and ordered the male to leave the apartment, according to to enter, according to IPD. On Sept. 30, the IPD received IPD. The suspect then returned to a trespassing complaint at 312 College Ave. in relation to an See TRESPASSING page 5 incident that had occurred on

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Students dance in the lobby of Mann Library Tuesday in order to attract customers to a bake sale held that afternoon.

Cornell-NYC Tech Partners With U.S. Department of Commerce

By EMMA COURT Sun Senior Writer

As a result of a partnership between the University and the U.S. Department of Commerce, Cornell-NYC Tech students will have access to federal resources to support entrepreneurship, according to an announcement made by President David Skorton on Tuesday.

As part of the partnership, USPTO staff member Sue Purvis will support technology entrepre-

neurship both at the tech campus and in the greater New York region. She will help tech campus students start businesses by helping them navigate the patent process and work with the commerce department, according to Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the tech campus. “[The partnership is] to assist people in getting connected to the right resources in the federal gov-

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Hot potatoes | A fire Tuesday at the State Street Diner will likely close the eatery for an extended period of time, according to the Ithaca Fire Department.

Fire Shuts Down‘Iconic’ Diner

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

A fire at the State Street Diner on Tuesday

afternoon will likely shut down business at the historic community fixture for an extended period of time, according to the

Ithaca Fire Department.

The fire was reported at approximately 4:40 See FIRE page 4

A news article in The Sun Friday provided an inaccurate representation of Police Chief Kathy Zoner’s response to the recent string of reported sexual crimes on and around campus.

The story, titled “Cornell Police: Sexual Crimes Surge Is Result of Increase in Reporting,” stated that Zoner believes the series of recent sexual assaults this semester “does not reflect an upswing in the occurrence of sexual crimes but rather an increase in the number of victims who have reported them.” There were two major factual inaccuracies in this sentence, which became the premise of the story, its headline and subsequent columns published in The Sun. For one, Zoner was not speaking solely about the recent sexual crimes reported this semester because she believed she was being questioned about crime statistics over a yearlong period. More importantly, Zoner did not say, as quoted, that there has been no actual increase in sexual crimes.

In saying that more people are reporting sexual crimes, Zoner was referring to a recent Justice Department survey that indicated that many more victims of sexual assault are reporting these crimes than they did in previous years.

Zoner said this statement had no direct reference to the sexual assaults reported this semester and was not meant to imply that there has been no upswing in recent sexual assaults reported on our campus.

“As a result of these errors, the article implies that Cornell University Police are complacent, leaving Cornellians to protect themselves,” Zoner said. “But as I explained … we also take each case seriously; we have good leads and are actively investigating them. We expanded nighttime patrols. We are meeting with concerned community members in groups and individually, surveying lighting with community input and researching placement of additional deterrence and investigative technology such as cameras and access control. Your readers should know all of this. If nothing else, it may restore some peace of mind.”

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News What Class Is That For?

Pornographic videos of a woman masturbating at what appears to be Cornell libraries surface. | Page 5

News Gorge Away

A new restaurant off the Commons opens. | Page 3

Science Shoot for the Moon

The Sun reviews the Sagan Planet Walk — the longest exhibit in the world. | Page 10

Arts Tearing Me Apart!

Jason Goldberg ’14 reviews The Room. | Page 13

Sports Have It Ord-way

Christine Ordway, co-captain of the women’s tennis team, talks tennis and team spirit. | Page 20

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Today Laboratory for Elementary-Particle Physics: Particle Theory 2 p.m. - 3 p.m., 401 Physical Sciences Building

Weird News

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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Dog Survives Ride in Car’s Grille From Mass. to R.I.

Cornell Prison Education Program Spring 2013 T.A./Teaching Information Session 4:30 - 5:30 p.m., 165 McGraw Hall The Obama Presidency: Between the Middle East and Muslim Africa 4:30 p.m., Multipurpose Room Africana Studies and Research Center Ithaca Airport Art Sow Reception 5 - 8 p.m., Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport

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TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — Authorities say a dog survived an 11-mile ride from Massachusetts to Rhode Island at speeds as high as 50 mph after it was hit by a sedan and became wedged into the grille.

East Providence Animal Control supervisor William Muggle says the female poodle mix ran in front of the car in Taunton on Sept. 20. The driver slammed on the brakes but didn’t see the dog and continued driving.

Muggle tells the Taunton Daily Gazette that it wasn’t until the driver reached East Providence, R.I., that another motorist pointed out the dog.

The driver went to the police station, where animal control officials freed the fluffy white pooch. The dog suffered a concussion and possibly a minor bladder rupture.

Authorities are trying to find its owner.

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PAGO PAGO, American Samoa (AP) — Two corrections officers at American Samoa’s only jail are suspected of letting inmates leave to go on beer and food runs.

Officers Fiti Aina and Rocky Tua were charged this week with aiding the escape of a prisoner, permitting escape and public servant acceding to corruption.

A police search at Territorial Correctional Facility in July turned up beer in an inmate’s cell.

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Police say that while trying to find out how it got there, they learned the officers were sending inmates unsupervised to a nearby store. One inmate allowed out is serving 40 months for assaulting another man with a machete.

Court documents say an inmate told investigators he bought beer for another inmate and chips and cookies for Tua. Aina and Tua were each held on $10,000 bail.

In Sweden, Man Does Time For Convict Friend STOCKHOLM (AP) — A man convicted of smuggling in Sweden outwitted his jailers by sneaking in a friend to serve most of his yearlong sentence, prison officials said Friday.

The identity of the false convict was discovered only when he’d been released on probation after serving about two-thirds of his friend’s sentence “sometime in 2008 or 2009,” Elisabeth Lager of Sweden’s Prison and Probation Service said.

Lager said the in-lieu convict came to serve the sentence with a false ID — a driving license in the name of the smuggler friend but with his photograph. She declined to name either man or give more details about the switch.

An international arrest warrant was issued for the real convict earlier this year, Lager said, but declined to comment on why it took police more than three years after the switch was discovered to issue the warrant. It was not clear if the smuggler’s friend would be punished for misleading prison authorities and assuming a false identity.

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Gorgers Whets Appetite of Local ‘Foodies’

By DARA LEVY Sun Contributor

“Gorgers” — the title conjures up people eating so much food that they will not have to eat again for some time. However, brothers Barton and Matthew Diamond, owners of the new Gorgers Subs restaurant one block west of the Ithaca Commons, hope their menu keeps customers coming back soon for more.

The restaurant opened on Aug. 23 at 116 W. State St. after the Prize Diner, which previously occupied the space, burned down in January 2011.

The brothers had been working since March to restore what was a “pretty bad interior,” according to Barton.

Matthew said the renovations included adding a bathroom for customers because the previous arrangement of the space required customers to walk through the kitchen to access the bathroom.

“It was a lot of work; basically, we had a blank slate to work with because the restaurant was only a sub floor and dry wall, which took a long time to renovate,” Matthew said.

Gorgers offers two eating challenges to those looking to test their taste buds and their stomachs.

To beat the “Inferno Challenge,” customers must finish the spicy Caribbean Fire sandwich and then go three minutes without drinking water. To complete the “Gorgers Challenge,” diners must eat an entire 26-inch piece of flatbread in one sitting.

Anyone who completes either challenge does not have to pay for the sub, receives a free T-shirt and gets his or her picture on Gorgers’ wall.

“We try to play on the ‘Gorgers’ name,” Barton said.

“You get a ton of food for seven dollars.”

Gorgers’ menu includes more than 15 subs and flatbread sandwiches, as well as several salads, soups and sides.

According to the brothers, some of the best sandwiches

include the Chicken Margherita, the Coconut Shrimp and the Bahn Mi — a pulled pork and vegetable sandwich.

Jehiel Oliver grad, a self-described “foodie,” said that he went to Gorgers because he likes to try new types of food.

Oliver described the food as “quick, convenient and tasty.”

The brothers make all of the restaurant’s bread and sauces from scratch. They live on an eight-acre plot in Greene, N.Y., where they grow their own sweet and hot peppers, basil, tomatoes and cucumbers. Matthew said that, in the future, he hopes to grow even more food for the restaurant.

Barton added that the bread is never more than a day old, “so everything is always fresh.”

Martha Haile, who has tried the Chicken Margarita and Caribbean Fire sandwiches, said that “the taste of the bread was really great and stood out.”

Barton is the only brother to have any prior experience in the restaurant business, having worked at a café while studying in Hawaii. Gorgers’ menu — which includes Chimichurri — was influenced by Barton’s time in Hawaii, he said.

The Cabernet Steak sandwich and the Chardonnay Bleu Cheese dressing are both made from Red Newt wines, which are made by the Diamonds’ cousin, Brandon Seager.

According to Matthew, the brothers plan to expand the menu by adding one or two seasonal items, such as Squash Pumpkin Ginger soup, while keeping the core menu.

According to Matthew, the biggest struggle has been trying to get customers to come from the Commons and Cornell’s campus. The restaurant has tried to combat this problem by staying open late on Fridays and Saturdays for bar crowds.

However, Matthew said that the restaurant has exceeded expectations so far, selling 30 to 50 subs per day.

Although the brothers’ say that their menu is global, their mission is not.

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Master chef | Matthew Diamond makes a sandwich at Gorgers, a new restaurant located west of the Ithaca Commons.

“We weren’t sure how much we’d sell right off the bat because we’re independently owned,” Matthew said.

“Without a national presence, it is hard to initially generate a lot of attention.”

Dara Levy can be reached at drl97@cornell.edu.

Lighting, Music Can Curtail Eating, Cornell Study Finds

By RACHEL WEBER Sun Contributor

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Students play mini-golf on the Arts Quad during a fundraiser organized by Alpha Chi Omega, Pi Kappa Phi and Sigma Alpha Mu to raise money for various philanthropic causes.

Trespassing on College Avenue

The Cornell University Police Department assisted the Ithaca Police Department in a case involving reports of criminal trespassing on College Avenue at about 4:44 a.m. CUPD officers also assisted IPD with an additional case of reported criminal trespassing at 7 a.m. on Sunday.

Petit Larceny at the Cornell Store

Cornell Police said Eric A. Zelko of Chapel Hill, N.C., was referred to the Ithaca City Court for petit larcency at The Cornell Store. The incident occurred at about 1:48 p.m. on Monday, according to a CUPD police report.

Petit Larceny at Libe

An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator for petit larceny in the Amit Bhatia Libe Cafe on Monday at about 6:55 p.m., according to a CUPD police report.

Unlawful Possession of Alcohol at Hughes Hall Parking Area

An individual was referred to the Judicial Administrator for unlawful possession of alcohol in the Hughes Hall parking area at about 1:51 a.m. on Monday, according to a police report.

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Changes in lighting and music can cause people to eat 18 percent less food than they usually do, according to a recent study conducted by researchers in the Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management’s Food and Brand Lab. The study showed a marked decrease in overeating when customers dined in a fast food restaurant with a relaxed ambience, softer lighting and calmer music than when they ate at a typical fast food restaurant with bright lighting and fast music.

The findings of the study –– which was conducted by Prof. Brian Wansink, marketing, and Dr. Koert van Ittersum of the Georgia Institute of Technology –– were published online in the journal Psychological Reports earlier this year.

The study argues that contrary to the popular notion that warm lighting and a relaxed atmosphere will make people linger longer and thus consume more, a gentle ambience causes customers to order the same amount of food –– but eat less of what they ordered.

According to Wansink, changes in the atmosphere of a fast food restaurant greatly cut down on mindless eating –– which is a goal of many of the Food and Brand Lab’s studies on “transformational solutions that can improve eating,” he said.

The Food and Brand Lab’s study transformed a Hardee’s fast food restaurant into two separate dining rooms, with one room modeling a typical fast food environment and the other modified to have a relaxing “fine dining” atmosphere. The scientists then analyzed the dining habits of the patrons by time spent eating, caloric quantity of food consumed and satisfaction with their meal.

In addition to decreasing diners’ intake from an average of 949 calories to 775, diners who ate with softened lighting and music reported enjoying their meal more than

those who ate in the typical fast food setting.

“In the more relaxed atmosphere, people eat slower, so satiation kicks in sooner. This makes people stop eating sooner, so they overeat less,” van Ittersum said. “These restaurants blast music at the tables and use red lights, so people chow down and go on their way. When you hammer food down your throat, your body doesn’t register how much food is enough, and so you go beyond the point you need for normal levels of satiation. We suspect slowing down the consumption process is a big way to cut down on overeating.”

Emily Balcome ’16 agreed that the study’s conclusion seems logical.

“This study makes sense because in the regular atmosphere of a fast food restaurant, it’s not as comfortable and not as pleasant … I want to eat quickly, fill myself up and leave,” Balcome said. “In the more comfortable atmosphere, I would feel more relaxed, talking to the people I’m sitting with, and wouldn’t feel the need to stuff myself and get up and leave right away.”

Van Ittersum said the results of the study could affect the way the fast food industry operates.

“There are very few downsides to creating this atmosphere,” he said. “People still order the same food and spend the same amount of money, but they enjoy the food better and leave the restaurant happier.”

Wansick echoed this sentiment, saying the study has already caused some restaurants to alter their practice.

“Smart restaurants and fast food companies we have contacted have said they will change some of their music to make it softer,” Wansick said. “There are a lot of winwin profitable that restaurants, packaged goods manufacturers and the food industry can make us healthy while also making more money. That is a win-win way that industry can help fight obesity.”

Rachel Weber can be reached at rlw285@cornell.edu.

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Tuesday, according to the IFD. As of Tuesday afternoon, no injuries were reported.

Tom Parsons ’82, chief of the IFD, said that approximately 24 firefighters were called in to fight the fire. When the responders arrived on the scene, they saw flames rising from the roof of the diner, he said.

Firefighters evacuated people eating at the diner, which is open for business 24 hours a day. Together, it took 20 to 25 minutes for the firefighters to get the fire under control,, Parsons said.

Passersby said that the street was closed down as emergency responders fought the fire at the diner.

“At this point, there are no injuries yet,” Parsons said. “We have no idea what the cause of the fire is yet, but the fire investigation team will look into it.”

The State Street Diner is likely to be closed for “quite a while” because of extensive damage to the attic of the building, Parsons said.

“We have a fire like this every few months or so, but this was a big fire,” he added.

The owner of the State Street Diner declined to comment.

News of the fire shocked both local business owners and Ithaca residents, who described the State Street diner –– which opened in 1936 –– as being inextricably tied to memories of late night food runs and hearty conversation.

Julia Pergolini, owner of Waffle Frolic, said she was deeply saddened by the fire.

“It’s crazy … I mean, it really is devastating. Your heart goes out to them,” Pergolini said.

She said that hearing about the fire was all the more distressing because of the rich history of the diner — which she described as being a local fixture.

“There is so much history already preserved in that place ...

The way it is and the way it was is sort of how so many people remember it,” Pergolini said. “I mean, any image of State Street you’ll see from way back, [the diner] is the one thing that’s unchanged.”

Apart from being a “symbol of State Street,” the diner is a haven of sorts — “one of the last meeting places” in the era of the Internet, where local residents can gather to converse, said Amanda Morrell, an employee at Waffle Frolic.

“You can recognize anyone in there,” Morrell said.

Pergolini agreed, saying that, for some Ithaca residents, the State Street Diner is inseparable from their nightly routines.

“I can’t say that my immediate life will be affected by this, but there are some people who would be absolutely devastated,” she said. “I think it’s a part of people’s routines — especially for men who are out there night after night playing cards.”

The diner has not only attracted devotees among Ithaca residents, though. It has also, for decades, been a watering hole for Cornellians, one professor said.

“Generations of students have rhapsodized on late nights at the State Street Diner,” Prof. Isaac Kramnick, government, said.

“It’s iconic.”

The diner is also an artifact of sorts of American culture, said Prof. Andrew Carmichael, physics, the State University of New York at Cortland.

“There is really something uniquely American about [these diners]. I think the State Street Diner was the only one of that kind in Ithaca with that unique style,” Carmichael said. “It was a very affordable and a good place to go with that iconic sort of interior.”

Recalling a vintage photograph of the diner that hung on the wall of the restaurant, Carmichael mourned the destruction of the fire.

“It’s a shame that [the photograph] is [probably] no longer there,” he said.

Kyle Butler, an employee at Short Stop Deli, struggled to come up with words to describe the meaning of the diner.

Having grown up in Ithaca and paid homage to the diner countless times, he said the eatery is a staple of the city itself.

“It’s a landmark of this town — the regulars and the townies know what the State Street Diner is, and they’ll go and tell people who visit here that if they want to get the best diner food, they would recommend the State Street Diner,” Butler said.

Adding that he hopes the diner will be re-opened soon, Butler shared his memories of the diner.

“The State Street diner was a good place to go and get breakfast, and now it’s like no more — no more blueberry pancakes,” he said.

Utsav Rai and Jeff Stein contributed reporting to this article.

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

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NYCTech Partnership to Create‘Two-Way Street’ With Commerce Dept.

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ernment [and] to assist commercialization in navigating the patent process, small business loans and grants, trademark types of issues — essentially all the resources the commerce department has for people starting businesses,” Huttenlocher said.

The partnership is the first of its kind that the commerce department has made, according to the press release. Through the partnership, the department will be able to obtain feedback about the role it should be playing in the quickly growing field of technology, according to Huttenlocher.

“It will start a dialogue between the commerce department and the tech campus so the government can learn more about tech innovation and be more informed as it creates programs,” Huttenlocher said.

Huttenlocher said the partnership between the tech campus and the Commerce Department will work as a

“two-way street.”

“One example is we plan to convene a symposium looking at software patents, which is a very controversial area,” Huttenlocher said. “This is exactly what an academic campus should be doing: getting together experts on controversial issues, having discussions about different viewpoints [and] helping educate and expose people in relevant agencies in government as to what the issues are.”

Leaders of the commerce department and the Patent Office initiated the partnership with Cornell and will be providing the resources for the venture, according to Huttenlocher. The partnership is considered a pilot program and may be replicated elsewhere, depending on the success of the venture at the tech campus.

The partnership illustrates the key role partnerships with outside organizations will play in the development of the tech campus, Huttenlocher said, adding that tech campus administrators have always viewed

the involvement of multiple groups –– including academia, government, the business community and the non-profit sector –– as crucial to the tech campus’ success.

Huttenlocher pointed to last month’s addition of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and former computer science professor and entrepreneur Irwin Jacobs to the tech campus’ advisory board as an example of the formative role different sectors will play in the tech campus.

Purvis –– who is the innovation and outreach coordinator for the USPTO –– will serve as a liaison between the federal government and the tech campus, according to Huttenlocher. She is based at the tech campus’ temporary headquarters in Chelsea and will move to the Roosevelt Island campus when it is completed.

Purvis told The Sun that she has worked with the Patent Office since 1998, formerly serving as the advisor to the under-secretary for the deputy director of the office.

At Cornell, Purvis said she will not be examining patent applications or issuing patents; but instead familiarizing and assisting students with the patent process.

“The Department of Commerce is made up of a lot of different agencies, and many of them have tools startups can use to help their business,” Purvis said. “I’m going to be a resource they can go to [to] ask questions; I’m going to point them in the direction that will be of assistance to them.

If the students have any questions about intellectual property, I can help them out."

The specific role the resource center will play in terms of intellectual property on the CornellNYC Tech campus is hard to predict, Huttenlocher said.

“It’s going to be something that is really up to students and faculty as they start to do their research and educational projects,” Huttenlocher said.

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

Univ.Official Calls Porn Video Filmed in Carpenter Hall ‘Very Sick’ Please Recycle This Paper

By AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor

To the amusement of some students and the disgust of University officials, three pornographic videos of a woman masturbating in what appears to be Cornell libraries have caught the eye of readers on forums and national media outlets alike.

Claudia Wheatley, director of press relations, described the first video that was released as being “very sick.”

“When I was a kid, my mother said some people will do anything for attention, and 60 years later, I’m still amazed by how low people will go,” Wheatley said.

The first video, which was uploaded onto a porn website, initially made the rounds on Ezra Hub — an online forum for Cornell students — when a person with the alias “mash-agl;hgdaslhk” shared the link to the video on Monday.

“This video is clearly filmed in Carpenter [Hall]. You can go to that exact spot and look around,” the user said,

adding, “even the chairs are the same as in the video.”

The person, perhaps anticipating the reaction of other Cornellians in the hours to come, expressed confusion at how blatantly public the masturbatory act was.

“My question is, what the poppycock?

She’s facing a window (the one by the bike racks) and it’s broad daylight. And at one point, you can see people behind her studying,” the person wrote on the forum.

Soon after, two more videos of the woman masturbating — this time, at the Cornell Law Library — surfaced on Ezra Hub. Wheatley said that she has not contacted the person who uploaded the video — or its star, who Gawker identified as “Cameron Knight,” an amateur model from Syracuse, N.Y. “I don’t know what was going on there … If that’s the kind of attention she was looking for, I guess she got it,” Wheatley said.

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

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the living room, where he found the second female resident asleep. He then touched her “inappropriately” until she “yelled at him and he fled the apartment,” according to IPD. Meredith Mitnick ’14, who lives in an apartment at 312 College Ave., said she found the incidents to be “terrible and scary.”

Though Mitnick said residents must swipe a card to gain entry to the apartment complex, she often sees students who do not live at 312 College Ave. “piggyback” behind residents at entrances.

“I think the building is safe,” Mitnick said. “But this shows how important it is to lock doors.”

In the wake of the incidents, CUPD urged students, including residents of 312 College Ave., to consider increased personal safety measures.

“What students at 312 College Ave. and any other residence can do is improve their personal safety measures such as locking their doors and windows,” Honan said.

“You can also help the police by immediately calling 911 if you see anything suspicious.”

Honan added that IPD and CUPD will be working together to investigate the incidents.

“This is just one example of the regular collaboration between [IPD and CUPD] in order to investigate and ultimately make arrests for crimes that affect our community,” Honan said.

Anyone with information related to the investigation is urged to call IPD at 607-272-3245 or CUPD at 607-2551113.

Let us keep you informed.

The Corne¬ Daily Sun Kerry Close can be reached at kclose@cornellsun.com.

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U.S. Begins Flying Home Deported Mexicans

SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. government began flying Mexican deportees home on Tuesday in a two-month experiment aimed at relieving Mexican border cities overwhelmed by large numbers of people ordered to leave the United States, some who fall prey to criminal gangs.

The flights will run twice a week from El Paso, Texas, to Mexico City until Nov. 29, at which time both governments will evaluate the results and decide whether to continue. The first flight left Tuesday with 131 Mexicans aboard.

The flights are not voluntary, unlike a previous effort from 2004 to 2011 to deport Mexicans arrested by the Border Patrol during Arizona’s deadly summer heat. The U.S. government will pay for the flights, and the Mexican government will pay to return people from Mexico City to their hometowns.

Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary said late Tuesday that more than 2,400 passengers will be flown to Mexico City during the next two months. Mexicans from the country’s northern border states are not eligible.

The experiment comes as Mexican cities along the U.S. border are grappling with large numbers of deportees who have no roots, few job prospects and sometimes limited Spanish. Many are deported to cities that are among the hardest hit by organized crime in Mexico, particularly across the border from Texas in the state of Tamaulipas.

“The newly repatriated, often with no means to return home, are susceptible to becoming part of criminal organizations as a means of survival,” Gustavo Mohar, Mexico’s interior undersecretary for population, migration and religious affairs, said in a statement released by ICE. ICE Director John Morton said the flights “will better ensure that individuals repatriated to Mexico are removed in circumstances that are safe and controlled.”

ICE, which is managing the flights, said passengers will include Mexicans with criminal convictions in the United States and those who don’t have any. They will be taken from throughout the United States to a processing center in Chaparral, N.M., before being put on flights at El Paso International Airport.

President Barack Obama’s administration has made migrants with criminal convictions a top priority among the roughly 400,000 people of all nationalities who are deported each year. The Department of Homeland Security said nearly half of the 293,966 Mexicans deported in its last fiscal year had criminal convictions in the United States.

The policy has fueled concern in Mexican cities along the U.S. border that deportees are being victimized, turn to petty crime or are recruited by criminal gangs. In February, Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and Mexican Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire announced plans for a pilot program, which was to begin April 1, but negotiations delayed the start until Tuesday. Homeland Security officials said the time was needed considering the complexities and logistics of the effort.

The Border Patrol will not participate in the flights, which is called the Interior Repatriation Initiative, said ICE spokeswoman Nicole Navas.

Under a previous effort, some Mexicans who were arrested by the Border Patrol in Arizona’s stifling summer heat were offered a free flight to Mexico City, but they could refuse. The Mexican Interior Repatriation Program flights carried 125,164 passengers at a cost of $90.6 million from 2004 to 2011, or an average of $724 for each passenger, according to ICE.

Pa. Judge Blocks Photo ID Rule For Election Day HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania voters won’t have to show photo identification to cast ballots on Election Day, a judge said Tuesday in a ruling on the state’s controversial voter ID law that could help President Barack Obama in a presidential battleground state.

Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson delayed Pennsylvania’s voter ID requirement from taking effect this election, saying he wasn’t sure the state had made it possible for voters to easily get IDs before Nov. 6.

“I am still not convinced ... that there will be no voter disenfranchisement” if the law took effect immediately, Simpson wrote.

Republican Gov. Tom Corbett, who had championed the law, said he was leaning against an appeal of the decision, which was widely viewed to favor Obama in Pennsylvania, one of the nation’s biggest Electoral College prizes. Obama has been leading in recent polls over Republican nominee Mitt Romney.

Pennsylvania’s 6-month-old law, among the nation’s toughest, has sparked a debate over voting rights ahead of the presidential election.

About a dozen primarily Republican-controlled states have toughened voter ID laws since the 2008 presidential election. But states with the toughest rules going into effect — including Kansas and Tennessee — aren’t battleground states, making their impact on the presidential election unclear.

One civil rights lawyer said the decision cemented the principle that a photo ID law can’t disenfranchise voters. Opponents had said young adults, minorities, the elderly, poor and disabled would find it harder to cast ballots.

“The effect of the decision in Pennsylvania is not just theoretically, can voters get ID, but actually, can they get ID,” said Jon M. Greenbaum, chief counsel of The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.

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Barn dance

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Attendees at the Prairie Festival dance late into the night in a barn in Salina, Kan. The annual Prairie Festival features lectures, walking tours and musical performances focused on climate change and sustainability.

Illegal Immigrant in Florida Fights for Law Llicense TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida man’s bid to become the first illegal immigrant to obtain a law license in the United States met skepticism Tuesday from most of the state’s Supreme Court justices.

Jose Godinez-Samperio came to the U.S. with his parents on visitors’ visas when he was 9 years old, but the family never returned to Mexico. He graduated from New College in Florida, earned a law degree from Florida State University and passed the state bar exam last year.

“He’s somebody who has done everything he’s supposed to do. He complied with every rule,” Godinez-Samperio’s attorney and former American Bar Association president Talbot “Sandy” D’Alemberte, said after the hearing.

Godinez-Samperio’s case is one of a few across the country. Illegal immigrants in New York and California also want to practice law there.

The Board of Bar Examiners in Florida found no reason to deny the 25-year-old Godinez-Samperio a license but asked the state’s high court for guidance, said the board’s lawyer, Robert Blythe.

“It’s not really about this applicant,” Blythe said.

“It’s a broader question.”

Justice Barbara Pariente compared GodinezSamperio’s status to someone who doesn’t pay federal income tax.

“The board would never recommend that person for admission to the practice of law,” Pariente said.

Later, though, she suggested the court could temporarily license Godinez-Samperio. The seven jus-

tices questioned lawyers about the possibility of a limited license that would let Godinez-Samperio do free legal work and discussed delaying their decision to see if he obtains a work permit under a policy President Barack Obama announced in June.

“Somebody’s trying to make it a — literally — a federal case, but we’re talking about one person right now out of thousands every year,” Pariente said.

Obama issued a directive to protect immigrants who are 30 or younger and entered the country illegally as children. It exempts them from deportation and offers temporary work permits and Social Security cards for those who apply. It does not provide a path to citizenship.

Pariente said Obama’s policy “may or may not continue” if the Democratic president is defeated in November. Republican challenger Mitt Romney said Tuesday he would honor the temporary work permits under Obama’s policy while promising comprehensive immigration reform before the twoyear visas expire.

Godinez-Samperio said the election may decide his future.

“The voters need to take into account that the president they elect is going to make a lot of these policy changes,” he said. “And Mitt Romney has been a failure at being clear on his immigration position.”

The Florida justices are appointed by the governor and up for retention votes every six years. Three are on the ballot this year and are opposed by the GOP, a break from a typically nonpartisan election.

Labor Standoffs Silence Orchestras in Minn., Indy MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Minnesota Orchestra was called the world’s greatest not long ago, welcome recognition for musicians outside a top cultural center. Now its members are locked out of Orchestra Hall, stuck in the same kind of labor-management battle recently afflicting teachers and football referees.

Across the country, symphony and chamber orchestra executives have cited flat ticket sales and slumping private support as they seek major pay concessions from musicians, who warn about a loss of talent and reputation. In Minneapolis, the Minnesota Orchestra has already cancelled concerts through Nov. 25 as negotiators argue over a proposal to trim the average musicians’ salary by $46,000 a year.

A similar standoff is underway across the Mississippi River at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra has canceled the first month of its season in a labor impasse, and labor troubles are also rumbling at orchestras in Richmond, Va., Jacksonville, Fla., and San Antonio, Texas.

“It breaks my heart,” said Christal Steele, a violinist and assistant concertmaster in Indianapolis, where she and fellow musicians have gone without pay and benefits for almost a month. “This is my 40th season, and in that time, I have seen nothing but this orchestra rise in quality and in stature. Now in one fell swoop, they’re trying to erase the last 30 years.”

Last week, musicians and management at the symphony orchestras in both Chicago and Atlanta reached new contracts after contentious negotiations. Atlanta’s musicians went without pay for a month before accepting $5.2 million in compensation cuts over two years, plus reductions in their ranks. The Chicago deal came after a two-day strike that forced the cancellations of the season’s first Saturday night show, with musicians wrangling salary increases but agreeing to pay higher health care costs.

“It’s shaking up a lot of organizations right now,” said Drew McManus, a Chicago-based consultant to orchestras and other arts organizations. “This world of orchestras is one that’s always been defined by well-established strata — the best orchestras in the country, the second tier and so on — and that is very much in flux at the moment.”

The Minnesota Orchestra has seen its reputation grow in recent years under conductor Osmo Vanska. The Finnish-born Vanska has become something of a celebrity in a state that treasures its Scandinavian heritage, and he’s won international acclaim for pushing the orchestra to new heights.

After seeing the Minnesota Orchestra play at Carnegie Hall in 2010, The New Yorker’s classical music critic Alex Ross wrote that they “sounded, to my ears, like the greatest orchestra in the world.”

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In Defense of Reality

Independent Since 1880 130TH EDITORIAL BOARD JUAN FORRER ’13 Editor in Chief

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or six years, I’ve been involved in student governance at Cornell. Seniors, this means I’ve dedicated myself to improving the student experience since you entered junior year of high school. Freshmen, this means I was having conversations with Cornell administrators about how to make Cornell a more welcoming community when you were still in middle school. During all my tenure, I have never witnessed such disingenuous, ill-conceived and malicious attacks on the Cornell administration as “Scorpions X” waged two weeks ago.

(The group known as “Scorpions

against my response. The same man who was viciously derided and tastelessly mocked in the email impersonating him, told me I was only partially right. He told me that students can improve culture on campus, but that the administration also must continue to do even more. Do these words signify someone who has given up on ensuring student well-being?

Let us examine some additional facts. When protesters showed up outside of Day Hall two weeks ago, advocating for the administration to do more to address safety concerns on campus, were they dismissed? No, they sat down with David Skorton

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Educating the World Through MOOCs IN A FORUM ON THURSDAY, professors debated whether Cornell should join its peer universities in offering MOOCs, or massive open online courses — a trend taking off in the world of higher education. MOOCs have great potential to make education more accessible to everyone, regardless of resources or level of education. Cornell should join its fellow institutions in spreading its resources and providing free opportunities to access academia.

According to The New York Times, only 30 percent of Americans over the age of 25 have a bachelor’s degree. Potentially adding to the paucity of college graduates, the cost of a college education is often exorbitant and continues to rise relative to inflation, making it inaccessible to many.

With a public education system plagued by many complex issues, creating alternative means of academic enrichment is necessary. MOOCs are a means through which education can be spread. Information is being shared in more ways than ever and to an unprecedented degree. Between the vast amounts of articles and publications available online and projects like TED, access to information is changing immensely. Cornell should not isolate itself from this growing trend. Instead, Cornell has an opportunity to join and further shape a movement that is rapidly gaining momentum. If Cornell wishes to remain part of the relevant dialogue in education, introducing MOOCs will be invaluable.

It is not just Cornell’s position as a leader in academia in question. The University also has an incredible opportunity to perform a public service; above all, MOOCs serve to enrich the world population by spreading education. Education benefits not only the individual but also society, and Cornell should maintain its historical dedication to bettering society by educating the individual. Using MOOCs, Cornell can do this on a much larger scale than ever before.

While some may worry that MOOCs devalue a college degree, MOOCs could not replace the traditional university, where students gain personal feedback, can enroll in small courses and develop personal relationships with professors and other students. The communal nature of a college campus is almost impossible to recreate through the Internet. MOOCs simply allow more people to engage with higher education and the information and philosophies of professors that are shaping their respective fields. We hope that the University will take this tremendous opportunity and join the growing number of Universities offering MOOCs.

X” published a mock edition of The Sun called “The Cornell Nightly Moon” on Friday, September 21, which they intermingled with copies of The Sun in distribution stands.

This anonymous group also has been credited with impersonating President David Skorton in an email sent to campus leaders that criticized the approach of Cornell’s administration to handling campus safety concerns.)

Perhaps I benefit from having studied at institutions other than Cornell that did not strive as hard as Cornell has to demonstrate genuine care for the needs and interests expressed by its students. I continue, year after year, to dedicate countless hours to serving as a student leader at Cornell because I KNOW that our administration cares deeply about our students. Yes, this academic year has seen several unfortunate instances that compromised the safety of our campus community. Yes, every decent human being should be appalled at these occurrences, should want the villainous perpetrators brought to justice and should want to ensure that similar events cannot and will not continue to occur. And yes, President David Skorton and his staff are working non-stop to address these concerns and to improve the campus climate.

President Skorton personally asked me, as an elected student leader tasked with representing all 20,000 students at Cornell, what I thought of the allegations raised about safety on campus. I responded that I thought people such as those involved with Scorpions X might simply be ignorant of all the good work happening at Cornell to address safety concerns. I then offered my belief that the best way to address concerns of campus climate is through grassroots efforts by students themselves. I asserted that the administration is not the entity that will change culture on campus; this is a task for students. Yet, President Skorton pushed back

and members of his senior staff to explain their concerns. Was the president’s and the senior staff ’s approach then to refer this matter to a University committee so that it would be addressed through the normal channels at some future juncture? No, the president and his staff considered the issue of such paramount importance that they chose to continue dialogue directly with the concerned students and to work on solutions to the issue themselves. What about the members of Scorpions X; has the administration met with them? Well, maybe, but because this group chooses simply to complain under a veil of secrecy, the administration does not know who they are; therefore, the administration cannot constructively enter into dialogue with them.

The vitriolic rhetoric employed about campus safety concerns needs to end. Our administration has made enormous strides to ensure our safety and has committed to continuing dialogue with students until the remaining issues are resolved. I too, as a student leader and member of the leadership team at Cornell, am willing to speak with any concerned students.

Finally, to members of Scorpions X, perhaps we could discuss your concerns at two o’clock in the morning in a dark alley in Collegetown, clothed in trench coats, collars pulled up and sporting sunglasses. That way, we could remain anonymous. Wait, why does this scenario sound uncannily akin to the back-street drug deals I witnessed in Atlantic City, N.J., last week? It is because only criminals need to hide under “Nightly” cover.

The truth speaks for itself; let it (and its speakers) reside in the light.

Darrick Nighthawk Evensen is a graduate student in the Department of Natural Resources and the graduate student-elected trustee. He may be reached at dte6@cornell.edu. Trustee Viewpoint appears alternate Tuesdays this semester.

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Redefining the Cornell Weekend T

he national media hasn’t been very kind to Cornell’s social scene as of late. Following the Avicii Homecoming concert, several blogs highlighted the extent to which students took their celebrations. And last week, a New York Times article featured Collegetown as an example of how social media has helped hasten the decline of the college bar scene.

Both the coverage of the Avicii concert and the Times article critique the social priorities of our generation of college students, to the point where we tend to dismiss such criticism as out of touch. Upon further reflection, however, I’ve come to realize that it’s students who are missing the bigger picture. In our haste to party and socialize with the same rigor we pursue our academics and extracurricular activities, we miss out on opportunities to relax and truly unwind. Our weekend activities, instead of functioning as productive outlets for stress, create more pressure and contribute to an unhealthy campus environment.

It goes without saying that the more egregious activities of Cornellians at the Avicii concert were objectionable. The “highlights” of the concert as reported by Business Insider were six hospitalizations, public defecation, rampant substance abuse and a forcible touching on line to enter. Such coverage obscures the fact that the vast majority of attendees, myself included, had plenty of fun without embarrassing or endangering ourselves or others.

It’s still alarming, though, that there were enough students willing to be so reckless at a University-sponsored, oncampus event. The lack of respect shown Cornell Concert Commission volunteers and the facilities was simply inexcusable. It’s great to have fun, and by all means lose inhibitions somewhat in the process, but a line was clearly crossed at the concert. Reprehensible public behavior, such as the assault of a woman and the decision to relieve oneself on bleachers, does little to show the University that we are mature decision-makers who can be trusted to be socially responsible partners for programming.

In the New York Times article, Courtney Rubin articulated the potential negative impact of social media on our college bar scene, and social life by extension. Her interviews and reporting paint a picture of a Cornell populated by conceited, binge-drinking social climbers who ignore opportunities to meet new people and instead pursue getting drunk and “hooking up” with the right people as easily and cheaply as possible. In this narrative, bars are romanticized as forgone havens for safe drinking and comfortable conversation.

Anyone who has been to a Collegetown bar recently can easily and rightfully take issue with this depiction; bar owners have only themselves to blame, not Facebook, for stale

atmospheres and lack of innovation.

The fact that Cornell’s bars aren’t enticing doesn’t mean that our typical weekends are any better. The compulsive need to pre-determine the people we see and only see them in a considerable state of intoxication undermines, in my opinion, the utility of the weekend. All week long, we work long hours and labor tirelessly in pursuit of perfection in our studies, clubs and other activities. Weekends present the ideal opportunity for a much-needed social outlet.

Understandably, students deserve a break from the marathon that so defines our Cornell experience. It should be apparent, however, that we can’t drink and roll our way off the treadmill. By choosing to ignore new opportunities to socialize and in reaching states of inhibition that preclude any chance of healthy conversation, we ignore our problems and tension that build during the week. Such negative stressors come back harder than hangovers every Sunday morning.

If our weekends don’t afford us the opportunity to unwind and recover, what purpose do they serve? The assumption that to have fun one must inebriate as much as possible and “hook up” or otherwise make the night memorable incentivizes conformity to behavior that many of us individually find distasteful. The degree to which we inevitably pursue the seemingly popular weekend of perfect debauchery leads to the destructive behavior epitomized by the Avicii concert and the impulsive Saturday night scrambling from pregame to pregame and bar to bar to “hook up.”

It doesn’t look fun to the outside world, and it isn’t fun for many of us on the inside.

I by no means aim to intimate that if it was socially acceptable we’d want to spend our weekends playing Scrabble with Denise Cassaro (which, I’m sure, can be enjoyable for some people). Rather, my conversations with a cross-section of campus have led me to conclude that a silent majority of Cornellians would prefer to spend weekend nights relaxing safely, responsibly and in pursuit of healthy, consensual friendships and relationships, “hook up” or not.

For this reason, the Collegetown bars as described in the Times article and University programming like CCC concerts sound so appealing when done right. Media outlets cannot fathom why we don’t take advantage of such oppor-

tunities safely — their stigmatization of the Cornell community stems from the assumption that such institutions operate as advertised, and students are misguided for abusing or rejecting opportunities for less wholesome activities and with counter-productive aims. Of course, as Cornellians, we know this isn’t the case.

Ultimately, many outside the Cornell community fail to recognize that students are not merely to blame for the depraved state of our social livelihood. It falls on bar owners and programmers to innovate in light of new trends and

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technologies just as much as it falls on students to induce a cultural change on campus. Some beneficial changes, such as lowering the drinking age and keeping bars open later, are exogenous.

But Cornellians and Collegetown businesses have plenty of opportunities to work within the system and respond to the need for places to drink and relax responsibly on weekends. If bar owners work with students and create unique places where we want to spend time, perhaps business will recover. Similarly, it’s promising that the University is creating programming that is more in line with our preferences, such as the Avicii concert and the Campus Pub. Encouraging and respectfully utilizing, as opposed to marginalizing, the right kinds of campus programming will make it stronger and more popular. Take note, bar owners and campus organizations: If you build it, we will come.

With the right incentives, the silent majority of Cornellians who just want to have fun will come out of the shadows and abandon recklessness in favor of activities more becoming of the Cornell community.

Jon Weinberg is a senior in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations. He may be reached at jweinberg@cornellsun.com. In Focus appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

On the Jewish Question “P

osing as Professor, Cornell Alumnus Slams Jewish Student’s Religion in Email.”

What?

When I first read the above headline — published in The Sun on September 21 — I was confused, bewildered and, admittedly, a bit outraged. Furthermore, especially after reading the email that alumnus Brian Mick ’10 sent under the guise of Prof. Bruce Monger, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, to a freshman student, I was angered that an alumnus of

year for, you need to get your priorities in order.” Mick has since denounced the sentiments that were contained in his email and in his comments published in The Sun so I will refrain from thoroughly lambasting him. However, his initial email brings up the very interesting question of the role of religion in an academic setting.

I will admit that I practice a very relaxed form of Judaism. Much like a stereotypical American Jew (at least like the ones who I have interacted with) my

David Fischer Fischy Business the University that I love would bill an indictment of my religion as having a “little fun” and as “a little bit of trolling” (Mick’s words published in The Sun, not mine.)

Mick went on in the same Sun article: The email “underlies a serious issue with religion and academia today. We need to not make allowances for people based on their religion. Everyone can have their own religion, but when it comes to academia, which you’re paying $50,000 a

religious life is not hugely important to my everyday life. Every year I attend a handful of Shabbat services, I learned a Torah portion for my Bar Mitzvah and my family and I celebrate the age-old tradition of Chinese food and a movie on Christmas day. However, the two events on the Hebrew calendar that I treat with reverence are contained in the 10-day stretch referred to as the High Holidays. These two holiest of days are called Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur,

and if you ask any Jew on which days he values his faith most, he will likely respond with these two days.

Practitioners of Judaism are typically referred to as Jews first and their own nationality second. Although the Jews are a disparate and scant people who number only around 0.2 percent of the world’s population, many scholars argue that the umbrella term “Jewish” defines an ethnic group, not simply the faith of a devotee. Indeed, although Jews come in all shapes and spiritual sizes (from hasidic to Westchester housewife), we all share the same ancestral traditions (and hopefully the same self-deprecating sense of humor). It is with this established reverence for these shared age-old traditions in mind that I proceed with the rest of this column.

From the perspective of a Cornell student, it seems to me that the University is secular to a point where religion is shunned, rather than celebrated. And by that I mean that being a Jew when the High Holy Days fall during the first wave of preliminary examinations absolutely stinks. There is really no other word for it (actually there several unpublishable words).

One of my friends decided to cancel his bus ticket home to Pennsylvania for Rosh Hashanah because one of his professors refused to move a prelim for him on the grounds that he would technically be back in time to take it. The exam was on a Wednesday morning and he

would have returned to Ithaca late the day before and the professor apparently compared his plight to people getting home late from going to a football game.

Seems absolutely reasonable (where before you read self-deprecating humor, read here disgusted sarcasm.)

Here is the fact of the matter, at least how I see it: Jews make up 22 percent of the Cornell population, according to Cornell Hillel. That is 22 percent of the student body that the University ignores when they pretend that there is nothing sacred about these two days. It is 22 percent that the University disrespects when a faculty member compares a hallowed celebration to a football game.

This year, Yom Kippur fell on a Wednesday and, since I have four classes on Wednesdays, I decided that I would not attend services. However, a key aspect of Yom Kippur is the fast and with the fast comes the commitment to reflect on your previous year and on ways that you may live better in the upcoming 354 days (a lunar year). As I sat in class, I could not help but reflect on what I was missing, on how my father was attending services alone this year and about how I was sitting in lecture, focusing more on spirituality than Economics.

David Fischer is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may be reached at dfischer@cornellsun.com. Fischy Business appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Sagan Planet Walk Expands to Hawaii 5,000-mile planet display becomes longest exhibition in the world

By SHERRI COUILLARD Sun Staff Writer

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Did you know you can walk from the Sun to Pluto in about 15 minutes?

By going on the Sagan Planet Walk, sponsored by Ithaca’s Sciencenter, a walk through the solar system is as simple as a quick stroll through the Commons. Along the trail there are stations set up to represent the planets. Each station features a representation of the celestial body at an exact 1 to 5-billion scale. The exhibit puts the massiveness of the cosmos into perspective, scaling the planets down to a few millimeters and the distances between them to nearly a mile.

Until this year, the walk concluded with the Pluto station located at the Sciencenter but as of Sept. 28, the exhibition now ends at a station that features the sun’s closest neighboring star Alpha Centauri, some 5,000 miles away in Hawaii. This addition makes the Sagan Planet Walk the longest exhibit in the world.

History of the Walk The Sagan Planet Walk, named in memory of late Cornell professor and worldrenowned astronomer Carl Sagan, was started in 1997 to educate the public about the solar system. In 1995, the exhibit was first designed at the Sciencenter as an attempt to portray the immensity of the solar system within Ithaca’s boundaries. This goal was achieved by scaling down the distance from the sun to Pluto by 5-billion times into a 1200-meter walk.

Monoliths symbolizing each planet are scattered between the Commons and the Sciencenter at distances representative of the space between the actual planets. Each stone is decorated with the planet’s astronomical symbol. The size of the planet is shown in relation to the sun through a small glass window on the stone. Each station also has

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Cosmic climb | The Sagan Planet Walk, named after astronomist and Cornell Prof. Carl Sagan is a 1:5-billion scale representation of the solar system featured in downtown Ithaca.

several photos from NASA along with facts about the planet.

In 2006, the Sciencenter added a free online audio tour of the walk led by Cornell alumnus Bill Nye, the Science Guy. Hawaiian Expansion On Sept. 28, the Alpha Centauri station, representing the sun's closest star, was officially added to the Sagan Planet Walk exhibition. The monolith representing Alpha Centauri is located at the ‘Imiloa Astronomy Center at the University of Hawaii.

Over the past two years, the Sciencenter

has worked with NASA, Cornell University, and the University of Hawaii to create and fund this project. A large sculpture made of volcanic stone represents the star, and several plaques surrounding the area describe the star’s significance. These same signs have been duplicated in the Sciencenter.

Pace the Space To commemorate the extension, the public participated in a Hawaiian-themed walk on September 29. Several families with children attended; most of them dressed in Hawaiian print shirts and leis. Greg Sloan, senior research associate, astronomy, led the

walk. Sloan provided general information and some trivia about each planet along the way.

The walk started at the sun station in the Ithaca Commons, and then continued outward toward the planets and asteroid belt.

The asteroid belt station features a 40-kilogram, touchable meteorite, which was added in 2009.

At the Jupiter station, Sloan said that if the planet had 70 times more mass, it could be considered a star due to the intense heat in its core. Arthur Samplaski from the Cornell Astrological Society said that by December, Jupiter and its moons will be visible from the observatory, which is free to the public every clear Friday night.

Sloan was joined by Peter Thomas, another senior research associate in the astronomy department, who is heavily involved in the Cassini mission. This project is focused on a robotic spacecraft that was sent to examine Saturn in 2004, and will continue until 2017. The mission has provided a great deal of information about the dynamics of Saturn’s rings and moons.

Sloan said that Cassini has shown that the function of Saturn’s shepherd moons, which are the moons that orbit near a planet’s rings, is to “keep the edges of the rings nice and sharp.” Thomas further explained that Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, is the only one in the solar system with a noticeable atmosphere and lakes on its surface.

At the Uranus station, Sloan explained that Cornell astronomers actually discovered the rings around the planet: they noticed that a star blinked five times on both sides of the planet in a perfectly symmetric manner, implying that Uranus had rings.

The last station in the Ithaca portion of the exhibit was for Pluto. Though it is no longer considered a planet, Pluto is labeled a “dwarf planet,” like Ceres, which is located in the inner solar system.

“The main reason Pluto is still there is because it is locked in resonance with Neptune; their orbits overlap, like a wonderful dance,” said Sloan.

The walk ends with Alpha Centauri, which can be classified as a “triple star” because it is a cluster of two Sun-like stars and a red dwarf star. In the back of the Sciencenter, there is a large photo of the new station in Hawaii as well as several panels describing Alpha Centauri.

Sherri Couillard can be reached at bhackett@cornellsun.com.

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Solar aloha | (Left) A map of the Ithaca Sagan Planet Walk which stretches from the Commons to the Sciencenter. (Middle) On Sept. 28 the exhibit was extended to include an Alpha Centauri station located in Hawaii. The new addition makes the planet walk 5,000 miles from end to end. (Right) A 40-kilogram asteroid marks the asteroid belt station.

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2012 Drought Brings Sweeter Apples and Wine Grapes Amidst Lower Crop Yields, Profs Say all varieties will be sweeter this year, from Macintosh to Sun Staff Writer Honeycrisp.

Although the drought may New York State is the country’s second-largest apple-produc- enhance some of the apple’s flaing state and third-largest wine vor, it still brings agricultural producer, turning out an average problems. This year’s drought of 29.5 million bushels of apples was so severe that it required and 40 million gallons of wine apple growers to create irrigation annually. Summer 2012 brought systems to bring water to the with it one of the worst crops.

“You can handle a certain droughts in recent history. In late July, 92.1 percent of New amount of drought, but what you York was classified as “abnor- don’t want is to be at the point mally dry” by the U.S. Drought where it stresses the plant,” Monitor and 33.25 percent was Brown said.

While a lack of water does classified as “drought - moderate.” The drought had an impact improve the flavor of a fruit, too on New York State’s agriculture, little water will prevent growth of but according to Cornell profes- the fruit itself and the plant as a sors the resulting apple and wine whole will be unhealthy. Much grape crops are not what one like Cornell students, fruit-bearing plants benefit from a little bit would expect. of stress, but break down under too much.

Droughts and Apples Additionally, with higher temApples have had a tough year, between this summer’s drought peratures came new obstacles for and some damaging frosts early apple growers.

“We’re seeing problems that in the growing season. But we haven’t seen before, such as sun“When there’s a drought ... the burn of apples,” said. clusters are better exposed to Brown The higher the sun and that results in temperatures have apple disimproved flavors and aromas.” caused eases that formerly existed only in the Prof. Justine Vanden Heuvel south to appear in northern orchards according to Prof. Susan Brown, as well. Brown recommended associate chair of the horticulture that those interested in picking department, it’s going to be a apples this year get out early.

“If you normally pick apples great year for apple quality. That’s because, as it turns out, fruit trees in late October you might want respond well to some dryness. to consider doing it in early Brown said that the lack of water October,” she said.

Some orchards may have helps concentrate the cellular contents that give apples their fla- smaller yields this year depending on how well they fared the frost, vor.

“If there’s a big period of rain, the drought and any diseases. As things taste kind of watery,” she for next year, there should be a bumper crop of apples. said.

“When you have a small crop, Apple trees absorb large amounts of rain and when there the tree will set more fruit buds is too much rain, the water will [the next year] because it’s kind end up in the cells of the apples, of on vacation this year. And so diluting the acids and sugars that next year, it’s going to come out give them their flavor. But when in glory with more apples,” there isn’t much rainfall, the con- Brown said. She anticipates havcentration of flavors within each ing to thin out the apples next apple is higher, making them year to avoid damage to the taste better and sweeter. Apples of trees.

By KATHLEEN BITTER

COURTESY OF PROF. JUSTINE VANDEN HEUVEL

Apple droughts | Cornell Orchards farm managers work on their apple trees during the summer’s drought.

Effects on Wine Grapes Similar to apples, wine grapes taste better because of the lack of water, according to Cornell horticulturists.

“The quality of the grapes this year is fantastic. The drought has not been that much of an issue because we got some rain when we needed it,” said Prof. Justine Vanden Heuvel, horticulture, who specializes in viticulture.

“When there’s a drought, it tends to hold back the vegetative growth of the vine so that the clusters are better exposed to the

sun and that results in improved flavors and aromas.”

The drought also ensures a high concentration of flavors within each grape, she said.

According to Heuvel, the deviation from normal New York weather conditions is an opportunity for viticulturists to make wines like Rieslings that are a little different from their normal style of wines.

“Usually our Rieslings [in the Finger Lakes] are known for what many winemakers would call ‘minerality,’ as well as their acidi-

ty. So people who are interested in making that style, which is what we normally make, have harvested already. People who are interested in making a different style than normal, with lower acidity, have the possibility of letting their fruit hang out a little bit longer this year so that the acids will go down.”

Wines from this year’s grapes will not start appearing on the market until next year, so wine growers have not yet reached a final consensus on the quality of wine that will come out of the drought. Much of it depends on the actual fermenting process.

White wines will begin appearing on the market next year and red wines the year after.

The Impact on Crop Yields Overall crop yields this year will be smaller. Grape vines and apple trees didn’t have the water to be able to produce large amounts of fruit, but the amount of rain was right to give a great quality product without harming the health of the plant. That said, the difference in yields should not greatly affect prices.

Despite the challenging weather this summer, New York State apples and wine are looking to have a good year, so be sure to get out to local orchards in the next couple weeks and local wineries in the next couple years to get a taste of New York agriculture and 2012’s fantastic crops.

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Dry vines | Orchard worker, Joe Young, attends to the apples in the Cornell Orchards during a summer of intense drought that lowered crop yield.

Kathleen Bitter can be reached at kbitter@cornellsun.com.

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In music, there is a specific cultural niche for artists whose influence goes far beyond their record sales or name recognition (i.e. Woody Guthrie). Rarely do films ever achieve this omnipresence, but Gillo Pontecorvo’s The Battle of Algiers certainly has. One doesn’t have to look far to see that current cinema is a Battle of Algiers lovefest. In Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino underscores Hugo Stiglitz’s escape with the music written by Pontecorvo and Ennio Morricone. In The Town, Ben Affleck nods to the classic with robbers dressed in nun habits, in place of Algiers’ burqas. If you buy the Criterion Collection DVD, you can watch Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Steven Soderbergh speak to the film’s impact on their own movies. Ever since its release, countless filmmakers have looked to Pontecorvo’s use of in media res, hybrid documentary style and subversive political commentary.

Thankfully Cornell Cinema is giving Algiers its due and screening the film tomorrow and Friday. If you aren’t planning on seeing it for your own enjoyment, there are plenty of different classes with professors who would advise you see it. That is because the film can be analyzed from multiple perspectives, as Algiers does not navigate a typical narrative structure. In solidarity with the ‘Third Cinema’ movement by Solanas and Getino, which sought to create a revolutionary anticolonialist/capitalist narrative specific to ‘third world’ movies, Algiers has no main character and rids itself of the typical Hollywood three-act structure.

Instead, the film’s protagonist is its cause. The struggle of the Algerian War of Independence drives the plot forward.

The film begins in Algiers in 1954, a city divided by

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a wealthy European quarter for the French bourgeois and a shanty Casbah for the native Algerian Arabs.

Slowly, racial and political tensions boil. The Arabs’ FLN, or National Liberation Front, begins to commit random outbursts of violence against the French police and gentry, seeking to pressure the French out of Algeria. The French retaliate, bringing in their best soldiers from the French Resistance and Indochinese occupations.

The new junta serves as an investigative unit to root out FLN radicals and quell Cornell popular rebellion.

At this point, the film Cinema begins to articulate an uncanny resemblance to many wars of western imperialism, specifically America’s tenure in Iraq. The French government fabricates a threat to sway support for its occupational presence and an excuse to bypass UN action.

The military begins to use brutal torture methods to choke out information on FLN members. They begin to grey the grounds for a right to Free Trial.

Loudspeakers in the Casbah communicate France’s intention to establish a more humane government for the Arab population.

In response, the Algerian nationalists create a provisional vigilante government that establishes rules for its people. When they bar alcohol consumption, local schoolboys beat up a drunkard. Since drugs indicate a lack of dedication to the movement, FLN members stamp out marijuana use. In revenge for French injustices, the FLN coordinates a bombing of innocent French citizens. The film’s portrayal of the National Front is so intricate that it was rumored that the Black Panthers and IRA screened the movie for study.

Ironically, the movie takes influence from France’s New Wave cinema. The narration, overlapping dialogue,

Henry Staley

references to Jean-Paul Sartre, documentary footage and action in public settings (you almost think you can see Jason Bourne) calls to mind Jean-Luc Godard. The film bears his influence but fashions itself more like a docudrama. With a mixture of multiple sympathetic characters and interspersed newsreels, the movie runs like a John Dos Passos novel.

Although its style is unique and inimitable, the frequent large-scale action and jarring suspense will grip and even shock modern audiences.

In response to the Arab Spring, there almost seems a need for The Battle of Algiers, Part Two. Recent struggles point out the bleak reality of the governments that supplanted the colonialist powers brought down in the film. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan further accentuate the timeless message and anti-imperialist zeal. In the movie, the French high command frequently references the need to sway popular will in favor of violent reprisal. They justify these acts by emphasizing the unbelievable ruthlessness of the other side. It is probably accurate, as history proves power-mongers love to create reason to reciprocate. With the sinking of the USS Maine in SpanishAmerican War and talk of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq, the U.S. government has certainly exhausted the tactic. Likewise, in Algiers, before every just Algerian attack on the military, the French commit a horrible unjust atrocity. The Battle of Algiers proves, whether capitalist or non-capitalist narrative structure, documentary or depiction, film is just like war and politics. All serve as sophisticated games, see-sawed by pathos points, for the purpose of moral persuasion.

The Battle of Algiers plays at Cornell Cinema Thursday at 7 p.m. and Friday at 7:15 p.m. Prof. Sabine Haenni, performing and media arts, will introduce Thursday’s screening.

Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at hds56@cornell.edu.

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Last Friday, the new Cornell start-up website FlicStart.com featured a screening at Cinemapolis of the hilariously bad 2003 cult classic The Room. I was lucky enough to score a ticket for the event, and it was a night at the movies like I have never experienced in my life.

The Room — starring, written and directed by Tommy Wiseau — is known as the Citizen Kane of bad movies.

Made with no artistic ability and no comprehension of the way that humans communicate, the film is so bad that it goes back to being brilliant. Wiseau might be one of the worst filmmakers to ever touch a camera, and his acting might be even more pathetic, as his accent and appearance that could only be described as alien prevents him from making even one of his lines sound human.

Though one might wonder who in his or her right mind would produce such a bad film, Wiseau, in typical weirdo fashion, independently funded The Room with profits raised on selling leather jackets from Japan.

If you could call it a “plot,” The Room’s story goes as follows: Lisa (Juliette Daniel) is engaged to Johnny (Wiseau), a successful businessman who deeply loves and supports his future wife. Lisa, however, is falling out of love with Johnny, and begins a secret affair with his best friend, Mark (Greg Sestero). While this is all happening, Lisa and Johnny are considering adopting a man-

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child/drug-addict named Denny (Philip Haldiman) and Lisa’s mom, Claudette (Carolyn Minott), is diagnosed with breast cancer but then seems to forget this happened in all the scenes following her reveal. It honestly doesn’t make a lick of sense.

The plot holes, inconsistencies and strange technical choices make the movie worth visiting as a stoner comedy. Here are just a few of my favorite examples: • A psychologist is replaced by a different actor halfway through the movie without anyone noting the change.

• Denny is confronted by a gang-member for drug money without any explanation and then the subplot is completely abandoned.

• The same exact sex scene is used twice in the first 30 minutes, as if Wiseau thought his viewers were dumb enough to not realize he duplicated the same shots, camera angles, everything.

• Wiseau adds long establishing shots of San Francisco about every 10 minutes in the film, just in case we forgot where the movie was taking place.

The audience, mostly consisting of film fanatics and hipsters, was actively engaged throughout the movie, making it an almost Rocky Horror Picture Show-type viewing experience. Plastic spoons were thrown at the screen whenever the camera showed a photograph of a metal spoon sitting on the living room table for no apparent reason. When characters randomly started throwing a football in a scene, two young men in the audience start-

ed playing their own game of catch across the theater.

The audience howled together every time someone referenced the disgusting Lisa as “beautiful” or “gorgeous.” It was the perfect film for this type of communal watching experience.

The successful screening was the first for the new start-up, Flicstart.com. Founded by Cornell students and launched only two weeks ago, Flicstart allows any person to demand a screening of any movie in their local theaters, and as long as he or she can guarantee an audience for the film through pre-sales, Flictstart will work with the respective theater to put on the show. The screening for The Room sold 94 tickets online in pre-sales, reaching far beyond the site’s founders’ expectations for a first event. The business model allows for the audience, the theater and the start-up to be very happy at the end of the day.

“We help Cinemapolis bring the audience and we just do simple revenue sharing with the theater,” said Paul Yang ’12, head of the design and technical aspects of Flicstart. “They help us, and we help them.”

Yang hopes that the success of The Room is a positive bellwether of Flicstart’s long-term prosperity and is eager to continue and expand the company’s goals and allow people to see the movies they want to see, even with a not-too-subtle dose of irony.

Jason Goldberg is a junior in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences. He can be reached at jgoldberg@cornellsun.com.

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s art for everyone? The question arose as I debated the merits of Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, The Master, with friends after seeing it for a second time Friday. Zach Siegel ’15 admitted something along the lines of, “It is hard for me to see movies as art because of how much effort it requires.” Many face this impasse, and justifiably so. For all the Oscar-caliber acting and striking images in The Master, the movie does not entertain in a typical sense. To walk away with a substantial opinion of the film, you must choose to deconstruct what you see and hear — and try to glean some meaning from it all. With that choice comes the freedom to call it good or bad, “amazing” (The New York Times’ A.O. Scott) or a “muddlement” (Roger Ebert).

Inexorable stereotypes enter the public consciousness when, instead, moviegoers should give this conflict a fresh take. These sayings, jokes and insults usually define audiences as either brainless pleasure-seekers or elitist contrarians with some inferiority complex. The latter ridiculed Transformers, and vice versa for The Tree of Life. People certainly fit into these groups, but those who straddle both stand to gain the most from art.

Critics are not immune to the thrills of Indiana Jones, the sentiments of Babe or the laughs of Tropic Thunder. If engaging a critical mind robbed sensational pleasures, there would be more to lose than gain in the long run. Yet there remains a unique satisfaction in looking inward, in trying to comprehend why we react the way we do. Considering we often fail to find answers on our own, we have to look beyond our gut emotional

reaction — i.e. examine a thoughtful film’s composition — to reach within.

Film criticism requires some education and even more inertia. Not all movies deserve the same attention, so it is best to acquaint yourself with the established classics like Citizen Kane and Psycho and read why they are so acclaimed. Take the words from great critics as truth — for the beginning. You learn to question another’s praise or panning when the evidence you collect from a viewing does not match what he or she describes. You can even take offense if a film’s message rubs you the wrong way.

Analyzing a film can intrude on the emotional experience of it, at first. Any initial stress from clashing cognitive and sensational brain activity does indeed dull over time, as the processes merge and work in tandem, automatic and ever-improving.

Hollywood, obsessed with box office and bankable stars, has perpetuated the stigma that film serves no purpose other than mass entertainment. It is an unfortunate conclusion, as no art form has carried more importance or power over the last century. My English teacher in high

Zachary Zahos A Lover’s Quarrel With the World school taught a packed film class.

Despite hopes many held for an easy A, we approached each film like a literary text, identifying image motifs, camera angles and countless other techniques. It was not easy at first — some neural rewiring was necessary. But just as learning more words allows you to connect

with your feelings in more tangible ways, grasping a shot’s inherent meaning connects you to the film’s greater purpose, in turn inspiring your own thoughts.

Art house staples such as Mulholland Dr. or 8 ½ present endless depths for study, but the more accessible palette provides plenty of its own. Modern filmmakers have heeded the words of the great critic Andrew Sarris, who in 1967 observed that his colleagues were “demanding that there should be more fun in art, and more art in fun.” We know Jaws is awesome, but what if the shark is not the enemy? With less than 10 minutes of screen time afforded to the animal, what does the film have to say about humans? As The Joker in The Dark Knight, Heath Ledger cemented his legendary status and chilled audiences to the bone. How do we translate his presence into concrete language? That unforgettable silent shot where he shakes his head out of a police car window could lend some clues. The visual metaphor of a dog is there for the taking; we now have proof when we cite his “animalistic energy.” And how is Walter White so badass in Breaking Bad (the most filmic television show yet)?

His actions speak for themselves, but note the handheld tracking shot into White after he sneers “Stay out of my territory” to some amateur meth dealers. The director pulls these strings to make your stomach sink, and we know how and why.

This all applies to negative criticism, of course. It is not enough to just call The Hangover Part II “bad” and expect anyone to listen. Expose its blatant self-plagiarism in using the same structure, music cues and shot composition as its predecessor. You won’t stop millions of dollars from flowing in, but you will make a substantiated argument and reaffirm (or even redefine) your own ideology.

Perhaps this mental engagement depends on your awareness of not only

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the screen but of yourself. Concern, too.

Great movies can touch some nerve you’ve never felt or evoke a memory too powerful for words. Do you want to investigate further as to why it did these things? Well, you must first learn how, and this education is unending. Visceral revelations await. “If each person realized how distinct and unique he or she is, well, then, art would become normal everyday expression,” the experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage once said. Care about what you watch and it may care about you, to a startling degree.

Zachary Zahos is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences. He can be reached at arts-and-entertainment-editor@cornellsun.com. A Lover’s Quarrel With the World runs alternate Wednesdays this semester.

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Davis Homers Again; Orioles Edge Rays1-0 Baltimore overcomes club-record 15 strikeouts

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Chris Davis homered for the sixth straight game and the Baltimore Orioles overcame a club-record 15 strikeouts by Tampa Bay pitcher James Shields to beat the Rays 1-0 Tuesday night, pushing the AL East race to the final day of the season.

Baltimore began the night one game behind the first-place New York Yankees, who were tied with Boston in the ninth inning.

Orioles rookie Miguel Gonzalez (9-4) limited the Rays to two singles over 6 1-3 innings. The right-hander walked two and struck out seven before manager Buck Showalter turned the game over to the bullpen.

Davis joined Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson as the only Baltimore players to homer in six consecutive games, connecting off Shields (1510) in the fourth. The Orioles managed only one other hit — Nate McLouth’s sixth-inning single — in Shields’ 19th career complete game and third this season.

The Orioles, guaranteed at least a wild-card spot, clinched their first playoff berth in 15 years late Sunday.

The Rays won the opener of the three-game series Monday night to extend a late surge that kept them in contention for the second AL wild card, but they were eliminated from postseason contention when the Oakland Athletics beat Texas a few hours later to assure themselves a trip to the postseason.

Brian Matusz replaced Gonzalez after the starter struck out Jeff Keppinger to begin the seventh. Darren O’Day worked the eighth for the Orioles, and Jim Johnson finished the two-hitter for his major league-leading 51st save.

Gonzalez pitched seven scoreless innings in his only previous start at Tropicana Field on Aug. 5, but was not involved in the decision in a game the Orioles won 1-0 in 10 innings. He limited the Rays to two hits and four walks in that outing and was even tougher on them this time.

Evan Longoria singled leading off the second against the right-hander.

B.J. Upton drew a leadoff walk in the fourth and was stranded at second when Longoria flied out and Keppinger struck out. Chris Gimenez opened the sixth with Tampa Bay’s second hit, and Gonzalez walked Ben Zobrist with two outs before fanning Longoria to end the threat.

Shields was just as impressive, retiring nine in a row before giving up Davis’ 33rd homer. The right-hander whiffed seven of the last nine batters he faced to finish with a flourish.

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League Provides Networking Help LEAGUE

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school or into the professional workforce.

“There is a professional gap that athletes are faced with based on the amount of time that we can’t put towards our careers because we are trying to balance our academics and ... getting on the field to play our sports,” Savage said.

One of the biggest problems that athletes struggle with is not having enough information or experience to put on their resumes, Savage explained.

According to Tandy, research has shown that student-athletes do not match up to their non-athlete peers when it comes to internship or work experience. So, the pair decided to develop the League as a means of helping their teammates to not only develop the skills necessary to succeed in business, but also to locate possible internship opportunities.

“The League of Extraordinary Athletes is a career preparation program exclusively for student athletes at Cornell,” Tandy said.

“The mission is to educate them and guide them through preparation and helping them increase the number of internships they get after they get their degree.”

There are many services that Cornell offers to help students, such as resume building or learning how to give an elevator pitch, but locating them can sometimes be difficult for athletes, according to Tandy. So, the League is working to make it easier for athletes to access the available services.

“Cornell already has so many resources because it is such a big school,” Tandy said. “What [the League is] doing is taking them and making them available to the athletes. [The services are] there, they just aren’t organized.”

The website for the League will allow athletes to log in, create profiles tailored to their interests and connect with alumni and companies looking to recruit young tal-

ent.

“We’ve been working with a lot of companies that recently have started fall recruiting to tailor their recruiting events for the athletes,” Savage said.

Now other student-athletes on campus are joining the two seniors to get the League moving forward.

As the duo grew the League, they created a League Council of representatives from all of the sports teams. Together the members are working to organize and plan career preparation and networking events.

“Through the League Council, we have at least one representative from each team at Cornell, men's and women's, who can spread the word from our meetings to their teams,” said senior Max Martinez, a member of the football team, as well as the Director of Marketing for the League. “Their job is to communicate with their teams and get them to sign up and check out the site. Without the League Council, nothing would be possible.”

Senior Meagan Berry, the representative from the women’s rowing team, wanted to get involved as soon as she found out about the group. “[The League of Extraordinary Athletes is] going to be a great opportunity for the athletic community at Cornell to come together and make sure our teammates will be successful in their time after Cornell,” she said. “There's nothing like being on a varsity team, but we do miss out on career building workshops and company information sessions.

Now student-athletes will be able to develop their careers while competing, instead of having to choose one or the other.”

Savage and Tandy hope to have the League website up and running for athletes to use in the upcoming weeks, as almost two years of planning and hard work is coming to life.

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Ordway Draws Inspiration From Coaches,Pros TENNIS

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“Being captain with [O’Neil] is obviously an awesome experience,” Ordway said. “I think we balance each other well.”

This close relationship is also beneficial for the whole team.

“They have been besties since twelve’s,” Young said. “They are still really good friends, which is awesome because that helps the team dynamic even more.”

Ordway talked about how being a part of the Red has boosted her tennis skills over the past four years.

“College tennis is obviously a lot different than junior tennis, where you are only playing for yourself,” she said. “It’s real-

ly cool being on a team, and I [along with everyone else have] improved tremendously. Fitness wise I think I am in better shape now then ever before. The coaches are really good with strategy and really helped me compete on a higher level than I was in high school. I’ve seen a huge improvement in myself.” “[Ordway] has definitely improved,” Young added.

“Because of all her hard work and commitment, she continues to improve every year.”

Aside from her coaches and teammates at Cornell, Ordway also draws inspiration from some of the pros.

“I guess I have always looked up to Kim Clijsters, just because I have so much respect for the way she plays,” she said. “She is always so focused and so determined. She has the

best attitude of any player I have ever seen — winning or losing, she always fights her hardest.”

As the freshmen new to the team adjust to collegiate tennis, they have Ordway to turn to, as both a leader and a friend.

“Christine definitely treats the freshmen as friends: she is someone for them to talk to and at the same time, someone for them to look up to,” Young said. “She is not just an authoritative figure. Because she is such an easy person to talk to, the freshmen feel at ease when they’re around her. They feel comfortable speaking up, which is great.”

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

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including Leon Hall, Nate Clements, Jason Allen and firstround pick Dre Kirkpatrick.

When they finally get healthy, their defense should become one of the best in the league.

The Texans thought last year was their year; they finally made the playoffs and had a lot of momentum, but then Matt Schaub got injured and rookie quarterback T.J. Yates could not carry them to a championship.

This year, Schaub is healthy, Andre Johnson and Arian Foster are back and the offense looks great. Even better is the defense; even though they lost Mario Williams to the Bills, J.J. Watt has developed into seemingly the best pass rusher in the league, already recording 7.5 sacks through 4 games. Their linebacker core is led by Pro Bowler Brian Cushing and their cornerbacks, highlighted by Johnathan Joseph and Kareem Jackson, are playing great. If Schaub doesn’t get injured, the sky is the limit for the Texans.

Out of all the teams in the

league, the Falcons might be the most poised to break out and finally win in the postseason. The team has been good in the past and hasn’t added any players, but something this year just … feels different. There’s a difference when you watch the Bills put up 40 points and when the Patriots do. For the Bills, it’s a feel good story and feels like a result of good play and luck. For the Pats, it feels like a workmanlike effort, all the players knowing what they’re doing and simply executing. The Falcons made the jump from the Bill to the Pats this year.

This weekend’s game against the Panthers was a perfect example.

The old Falcons would have body language saying the game was over, but they came in with a quiet confidence, and they managed to win the game. If they can continue playing with an attitude of simply knowing they should win, they will finally become a real contender in the playoffs.

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

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C.U. Prepares for Battle Against Black Knights Army, Cornell head into Friday night match with undefeated records

By SKYLER DALE Sun Contributor

The sprint football team has won as many games in 2012 as it won in all of 2011— defeating Penn, Franklin Pierce and Princeton in the month of September.

One reason for the Red’s most recent success is an increase in the players’ game-day experience.

“We started quite a few freshman last year,” said coach Bart Guccia, explaining that the team suffered in “key situations.”

A second reason for Cornell’s success lies in something much harder to explain — luck.

“We’ve been pretty fortunate actually. [We’re] getting a lot of breaks,” said coach Terry Cullen.

Cullen —who has coached sprint football since he was a graduate student at Cornell — has spent the last few seasons fulfilling more of a manager role, while Guccia takes charge of on-field coaching.

The Red has won each game this season by a small margin, with only one touchdown a game separating an imperfect record in 2011 from a perfect one in 2012.

The Red’s biggest test so far, and perhaps of the season, will be on Friday when the team hits the road to take on Army, who has been averaging 53 points a game.

Understanding how the Black Knights play, Guccia has

a game plan for how to prepare for the contest.

“We have to watch a lot of tape,” he explained. “[Army does something] very similar to what Oregon does,” Guccia said, describing Army’s “no-huddle” offense, as well as the team’s knack for executing what the coach called “more wide receiver screens than [he has] seen in a while.”

Despite boasting a threatening resume, Cornell has remained competitive against Army in past meetings.

“Last year … we were up 10-0 on them,” Guccia said.

However, the Red was unable to fend the Black Knights off for the rest of the game, finishing 41-16.

Junior punter/kicker John Rodriguez scored a 29-yard field goal as junior Brendan Miller and senior Spenser Gruenenfelder completed a 37-yard touchdown to give the Red the 10-point lead late in the first quarter.

Army responded by scoring three consecutive touchdowns early in the third quarter, but Cornell was able to stage a brief comeback. Miller found Tim Bruhn ’12 for a 23-yard touchdown, bringing the Red within five points; however, Army staved off any further comeback attempts — recording three more touchdowns for the win.

Skyler Dale can be reached at sports@cornellsun.com.

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Senior forward Tyler Regan was named Ivy League Player of the Week after giving his strongest offensive performance of the season against Penn on Sept. 29.

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Miller time | Junior Brendan Miller contributed to both touchdowns in last year’s battle against the Black Knights.

Cornell Men’s Hockey Ranked No. 6 In U.S. College Hockey Online Preseason Poll US College Hockey Online released its preseason men’s hockey poll on Oct. 1 on USCHO.com. Notably, Cornell made its way to the Top-10 list this year. For the Division I men’s preseason poll, the USCHO website has 50 voters. Amongst these 50 voters are 28 coaches from across the conference and 22 beat writers and sports professionals from all over the country. The poll puts Cornell at the No. 6 spot — the highest the team has gotten in the past few years. In front of the Red are defending champion Boston College in first, followed by Minnesota and Michigan, who the Red beat in the NCAA tournament last year, and then North Dakota and Union.

In the ECAC, Cornell is predicted to have an extremely strong showing this year. On Sept. 26, ECAC coaches and media voted Cornell in second in the prediction polls, just behind Union in both rankings.

Additionally, just two days before that on Sept. 24, the first USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine poll ranked the Red sixth.

— Compiled by Dani Abada

If you could own any NFL team, who would it be and why?

“GMEN. No explanation needed.” — New York Fangirl ’14 “The Eagles. Got to support my team.” — Philly Phanatic ’15 “Carolina Panthers because they’re my favorite team and they could certainly use a 21st century mind for that role.” — Southern Gent ’14 “The Giants — so I could get box seats for life.” — True Blue ’14 “Packers — they are the best! Obviously.” — Cheesy Girl ’13 “The Jets, but only if it were 1969.” Wishful Thinker ’14 “The Bears. That way I can get away with saying ‘RAWR’ all the time.” — Sassy Girl ’13 LAUREN RITTER / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

“I know nothing about sports ...” — Bookworm ’14 — Compiled by Lauren Ritter

Continuing the magic | The men’s hockey team finished last year with a 19-9-7 overall record — something with the team looks to improve on in its 2012-13 campaign.

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NFL Playoff Spots Ordway Talks Tennis,Cornell Locked Down Red enters second season with Ordway leading team on the court

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n a league that preaches parity, the NFL has done a poor job of spreading the wealth recently. As exciting as the season is, in past years, you could pretty much lockdown six or seven of the 12 playoff spots before the season even started. For example, the Patriots have made the playoffs in nine of the last 11 years, the Steelers six of the last eight, the Giants five of the last seven and before last season, the Colts made 11 of 12 playoffs.

These four teams have combined for eight of the last 11 Super Bowls.

However, this season may finally be the changing of the guard; many of the usual suspects are facing a variety of issues, while many teams that were always on the brink of besting these powerhouses may finally have the firepower to do so.

The most noticeable collapse of a formerly great team is the 0-4 Saints. The

offense doesn’t have the big-play ability they had last year or at least haven’t found it yet. They may be able to regain their explosiveness when Greg Jennings returns from injury, but they’ll need it if they want to continue their dominant run.

The Steelers are another team that has seemingly lost a step this year. The Steelers’ calling card has always been defense, but this year it has not been as dominant as we’re used to.

A big reason for this is the absence of Troy Polamalu due to injury. Polamalu is getting older and the defense is not what we’re used to if he is out or not at 100%. Additionally, the Steelers’ running game has completely disappeared with Mendenhall’s ACL injury, ranking 31st in the league with 65 rushing yards a game. His two backups Isaac Redman and Jonathan Dwyer are averaging 2.3 and 2.9 yards,

Albert Liao Playing the Field Saints had the most tumultuous summer in recent memory — it involved legal cases, year-long suspensions and throwing an interim interim head coach into the fire. Although the impact of Sean Payton would have made a huge difference (at least in my opinion), the truth is that they will never be elite again without improving their dreadful defense.

Their cornerbacks are decent enough, but their linebackers and defensive line are aging and seemingly losing talent by the second. Jon Vilma is injured, Scott Shanle is much too old and the defensive line cannot stop the rush (teams average 187 yards on the ground against the Saints, worst in the league) or develop a pass rush (just six sacks on the year).

The Packers have also shown some signs of slowing down. Last year, the Packers were dominant because their offense was so explosive; they would come out to an early lead and Clay Matthew and the defense could just attack the quarterback in passing situations. This year, their

respectively. Roethlisberger is playing as well as he ever has, but the Steelers are not a team built on an explosive offense that can come back in any game. Their game plan for the last ten years has been to beat up the opponent on defense and with the running game and they will need to fix both to contend again.

Not only are the top teams falling off, but some teams seem to have finally made the jump to serious contender. After being rocked by Baltimore in their first game, the Bengals have won three straight and looked great doing so.

Andy Dalton looks like a legitimate starter, A.J. Green may be the best receiver in the NFL and BenJarvus Green-Ellis is doing his job wearing down the defense while gaining some yards. On the defensive side, they have a lot of potential as they have recorded 17 sacks, the most in the league. They’ve given up a lot of points thus far, but that’s due to several injuries to key members of the defensive backfield, See LIAO page 18

By DANI ABADA Sun Assistant Sports Editor

An important part of any team is its leaders. Senior Christine Ordway is serving as co-captain of the women’s tennis team for a second year this season.

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Late bloomer | Senior co-captain Christine Ordway start-

Ordway, originally Falmouth, Maine, started playing tennis at a slightly older age than most of her teammates and competitors.

“I guess I started playing a little late,” she said. “I was around 11. I went to tennis camp for two weeks — my parents kind of forced me to go — and I ended up really, really liking it. I came home and told my parents I wanted to play more tennis. They were pretty thrilled, so they got me signed up for lessons and it went from there.”

After years of hard work, she made it through juniors and proved herself eligible for collegiate play. Ordway says the decision to play for Cornell was not a difficult one.

“I remember I took my official visit here in early September and I met the team, saw the campus and got a feel for the school. I knew almost right away this was where I wanted to go. I loved the team, I really loved the coaching staff, so it kind of just fit into place.”

Ordway discussed how her love for the team has only grown stronger since she has been here.

“They are my closest friends at school,” she said. “We’ve been really lucky … I couldn’t ask for better [teammates].”

Junior Ryann Young echoed the same sentiment.

“It’s Christine’s second year as our captain, so we all feel close to her. She has definitely been a role model for the past two years,” she said. “She’s someone that all of us look up to. She works really hard, has a is positive attitude and is really supportive.”

Being a captain of the team for the past year has been a formative part of her time at Cornell.

“It’s been such an honor,” Ordway said. “I really feel pretty lucky that everyone supported me and wanted me to do this. There isn’t a group I would rather do this for.

Everyone works really hard, [practices] and competes really hard every day, so it has been pretty easy for me …

Hopefully I’m doing well.”

Ordway serves as a co-captain alongside senior Sarah O’Neil.

ed playing tennis at age 11 — later than most of her peers.

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FOOTBALL

Duo Creates Unique Opportunity

By LAUREN RITTER Sun Sports Editor

Fifth-year seniors Shane Savage and Nick Tandy are making the most of their Cornell experiences.

Spending almost all of their time together, the two best friends are not only teammates, classmates and roommates, but most recently they have become business partners — developing a small start-up with their fellow student-athletes in mind.

Savage and Tandy have created an online network — dubbed “The League of Extraordinary Athletes” — for Cornell’s student-athletes to connect and learn career preparation skills that will help them after their time is done on the Hill. According to Savage, he and Tandy have always been the go-tos on the football team for resume help and advice — especially after joining a group called Management Leadership for Tomorrow. However, the players admit that they weren’t experts from the start.

“My resumes were terrible,” he said. “Nick laughed at my first cover letter, but his was even worse. We’re now like professionals trying to help everyone, but we definitely went through our phase of learning the process the wrong way.”

According to Tandy, the idea for the League resulted not only from

helping other players on the team develop their resumes, but after he developed a marking plan for CALS Student Services for one of his classes. He said he wanted to find a way to incorporate student-athletes into the equation.

Helping student-athletes learn how to network and develop the skills necessary for starting a career after college are not new ideas for members of the football team, according to Savage.

“With the old coaching staff

[before head coach Kent Austin took over,] there was a program that we did in the spring over a weekend,” he said. “All these alumni came back and did mini-career prep just for the football team.”

Building off that idea, Savage and Tandy brainstormed ways to expand the program so that other studentathletes could benefit from having alumni support when looking to take the next step — either to graduate See LEAGUE page 17

COURTESY OF MAX MARTINEZ

Think tank | Seniors Shane Savage and Nick Tandy have spent the better part of two years developing “The League of Extraordinary Athletes.”