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The Corne¬ Daily Sun Vol. 130, No. 41
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 2013
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ITHACA, NEW YORK
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Cornell students and staff present in a TED talk-style event about their campus sustainability work. | Page 3
Calvin Patton ’16 reviews Poliça’s latest album, Shulasmith.
Atticus DeProspo ’15 will appear on MTV’s True Life ion the episode “True Life: I’m a Gay Athlete.” | Page 16
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Gannett: One in Four Students Face Seasonal Disorder By SOFIA HU Sun Contributor
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Sign the petition | Two members of the Ithaca community present a petition signed by about 30 other Ithacans in favor of preserving the Ithaca community gardens to the City Administration Committee Wednesday.
City Continues Mulling Gardens’Fate
Over a year after community gardens’sale debated,future still uncertain
By ANUSHKA MEHROTRA Sun Staff Writer
Though the future of the Ithaca community gardens is still up in the air more than a year after the sale of its space was first considered, one thing is sure: the city will devote at least a dollar of funding to help it if the gardens must relocate from their current parcel of land, alongside Route 13. The decision was made at a City Administration Committee meeting Wednesday evening, where local
representatives and community members debated the value of the gardens to the community, as well as the importance of keeping the gardens in their current home in Carpenter Business Park. The gardens are run by Project Growing Hope, a non-profit organization that has been leasing the 2.25 acres for the gardens from the city at an annual rate of a dollar. “Lower income households are able to raise their See GARDENS page 5
Google Glass‘Explorer’Hits Classroom By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor
For the last couple months, Prof. Cynthia Johnston Turner, music, has sported a $1,500 accessory everywhere from GreenStar Cooperative Market to Lincoln Hall: Google Glass. The professor and director of C.U. Winds won a contest spon-
sored by Google this summer to become one of 8,000 “Google Glass Explorers” testing out the product. Part camera, touchpad and microphone, the augmented-reality glasses — still in beta stage — have allowed Turner to see “an 110 percent improvement” in how she teaches students to conduct, she said. “When I first got it, I thought,
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Glassy-eyed | Prof. Cynthia Johnston Turner, music, spoke at Balch Hall Wednesday about her experiences with Google Glass.
‘Wow … I don’t even know if I want to put it on,’” Turner said at an event at Balch Hall Wednesday evening. “But this semester, I’ve been able to give students immediate feedback on their conducting with Google Glass, and that alone has been fantastic.” Before Google Glass, Turner had to set up a video camera in the back of her classroom, film her students in conducting lab moving and then upload the video to Blackboard so her students could receive feedback about their work. “It’d take a good hour to hourand-a-half,” she said. With Google Glass, however, Turner has the ability to film anything in her frame of sight. Asking Tyler Ehrlich ’14, a student who has helped her apply Google Glass to her teaching, to begin conducting in 4/4 time, Turner showed the audience Wednesday how she can take videos without needing bulky equipment or tripods. “Let’s say Tyler had extraneous See GLASS page 4
Ithaca may be “gorges,” but it does have its share of dreary days. The approaching winter could cause as many as one in four college students to experience seasonal affective disorder, commonly known as the winter blues, according to Gannett officials. SAD is defined as “a mild depression brought on by a decrease in exposure to sunlight as autumn deepens,” according to Gannett Health Services’ website. People suffering from this mood disorder experience depressive symptoms, including increased lethargy, difficulty waking up in the morning and concentrating on tasks and increased craving for carbohydrate-rich food, according to the website. Gannett estimates that “nearly 25 percent of all college students across the United States suffer from the winter blues, and this percentage increases at higher latitudes or more cloudy areas, such as the Ithaca region,” according to its website. Cornellians experiencing SAD display a wide range in the severity of their symptoms, according to Gregory Eells, director of Counseling and Psychological Services at Gannett. “In terms of people experiencing mood fluctuations, there’s a full continuum,” Eells said. “I think it can go from more like winter blues to more serious emotional mood consequences that are very similar to depression.” SAD may be caused by unstable levels of melatonin, a hormone produced during sleep, and serotonin, a neurotransmitter that contributes to feelings of happiness, Eells said. According to Eells, determining who is most at risk is See SAD page 4
Cyclist Injured in Accident In Downtown Ithaca A male cyclist riding down East Seneca Street Wednesday afternoon slammed into the back of a parked Verizon truck, receiving several injuries and needing to be flown out for medical treatment. The accident occurred shortly before 3 p.m., when the man — riding west — crashed into the truck near the Hilton Garden Inn, according to a press release from the Ithaca Police Department. The Ithaca Police Department, Bangs Ambulance and Ithaca Fire Rescue came to the area near the hotel and found the man had sustained injuries to his head and lower leg area. Emergency responders set up a landing zone at Titus Flats, and a helicopter flew the man out to Guthrie Robert Packer Hospital in Sayre, Pa., according to the Ithaca Fire Department. As of Wednesday evening, the man remained in “fair condition,” IPD said in the press release. Ithaca Police are investigating the accident. — Compiled by Akane Otani