The health and safety of Ithaca’s firefight- ers, police officers and citizens will be imper- iled if Common Council approves Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 proposed budget for 2013, dozens of officers said at a public meet- ing Tuesday. Myrick’s proposed budget — which will reduce the number of firefighters by four and the number of police officers by about nine — was met by an intense backlash at the meeting. With the number of emergency calls soaring, Ithaca Fire Department Lieutenant Tom Deis said the cuts could decimate the department. “Firefighters will be put in a position to choose between [protecting] our safety and [protecting] the safety of the people we serve — please do not put us in a position to have to choose,” Deis said, noting that firefighters will continue to put the safety of civilians first. “Cutting us lower than our current levels will have serious ramifications.” Deis added that the department recognizes the precariousness of the city’s budget crisis. Should Common Council approve Myrick’s budget in November, the safety of an already strained police force is also at stake, several offi- cers said. Kevin Slattery, an IPD officer and who has lived in Ithaca for more than 30 years, begged Vol. 129, No. 35 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 ITHACA, NEW YORK The Corne¬ Daily Sun INDEPENDENT SINCE 1880 16 Pages – Free Police line-up | Police officers and firefighters protest Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 proposed budget, which would cut the number of employees in the Ithaca police and fire departments, at a City Hall meeting Tuesday. Photographs of former Ithaca mayors look on in the background. FIONA MODRAK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER Showers HIGH: 63 LOW: 37 Lights, Camera, Action Two Cornell alumni started Flicstart, a company that brings films of the viewers’ choice to movie theaters. | Page 3 News Extraterrestrial Life? The Mars Curiosity Rover has found evidence that water once existed on the red planet, a Cornell astronomy professor says. | Page 7 Science Weather Brief Wondrous Life of Love The Sun reviews Junot Díaz’s M.F.A. ’95 latest series of short stories. | Page 11 Sports End of a Winning Streak The Cornell football team fell to undefeated Harvard over the weekend. | Page 16 The Road to Employment Dan Rosen ’13 weighs the bene- fits and downsides of taking a job that one is not passionate about after graduation. | Page 9 Opinion Arts See BUDGET page 4 Fireghters, Police: Kill This Budget Of cers say mayor’s plan would hurt emergency response By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor and AKANE OTANI Sun News Editor Political debate | Misha Checkovich ’13 and Stephen Smith, candidates for the Fourth Ward Common Council seat, field questions at a public forum Tuesday. CHRIS PHARE / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER The two candidates for the Collegetown seat on Ithaca’s Common Council –– Democrat Stephen Smith and Republican Misha Checkovich ’13 –– sparred on their visions for Collegetown and the city’s current budget deficit at a debate Tuesday. The forum –– co-sponsored by the Collegetown Neighborhood Coucil and The Cornell Daily Sun –– will be the only event of its kind held in the race for the Fourth Ward seat before the Nov. 6 election. However, of the 19 questions asked at the forum, Checkovich declined to answer four, saying she would provide responses to the questions in a press release at a later date. One question Checkovich did not answer was about the Collegetown Crossing project, Josh Lower’s ’05 proposed hous- Fleeing from police, an 18- year-old allegedly struck two cars, almost hit a police officer and then attempted to escape into a Collegetown house early Friday morning before he was caught and arrested on drug and reckless driving charges, the Ithaca Police Department said. Police said Timothy Spann was reportedly found with an eighth of an ounce of crack cocaine after a wild ride through Collegetown that began shortly after midnight. Bail for his release from Tompkins County Jail has been posted at $50,000. Initially, police attempted to stop Spann for a routine traffic violation before he reportedly sped off “at an excessive rate” — setting off a chain of events that would later culminate in his arrest, police said. “The vehicle was followed throughout the East Hill area of the city [before it] struck an Ithaca Police vehicle that was stopped on a side street han- dling an unrelated matter,” police said in a statement released Friday afternoon. Before Spann reportedly hit the police car, an officer was forced to jump out of the way to avoid being struck, the state- ment said. Despite this, Spann kept driving, apparently still hopeful he could escape, according to the police report. JEEVAN GYAWALI / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER After her wedding on campus Sunday, a bride at the top of McGraw Clocktower throws her bouquet of roses. Catch the bouquet After Wild Chase Through C-Town, Teen Arrested on Cocaine Charges By JEFF STEIN Sun Managing Editor See CHASE page 6 Candidates for Fourth Ward Tackle Collegetown Issues By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer See FORUM page 6
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The health and safety of Ithaca’s firefight-ers, police officers and citizens will be imper-iled if Common Council approves MayorSvante Myrick’s ’09 proposed budget for2013, dozens of officers said at a public meet-ing Tuesday.
Myrick’s proposed budget — which will
reduce the number of firefighters by four andthe number of police officers by about nine —was met by an intense backlash at the meeting.With the number of emergency calls soaring,Ithaca Fire Department Lieutenant Tom Deissaid the cuts could decimate the department.
“Firefighters will be put in a position tochoose between [protecting] our safety and[protecting] the safety of the people we serve —please do not put us in a position to have tochoose,” Deis said, noting that firefighters willcontinue to put the safety of civilians first.
“Cutting us lower than our current levels willhave serious ramifications.”
Deis added that the department recognizesthe precariousness of the city’s budget crisis.
Should Common Council approve Myrick’sbudget in November, the safety of an alreadystrained police force is also at stake, several offi-cers said.
Kevin Slattery, an IPD officer and who haslived in Ithaca for more than 30 years, begged
Vol. 129, No. 35 WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10, 2012 ! ITHACA, NEW YORK
The Corne¬ Daily SunINDEPENDENT SINCE 1880
16 Pages – Free
Police line-up | Police officers and firefighters protest Mayor Svante Myrick’s ’09 proposed budget, which would cut the number of employees in the Ithacapolice and fire departments, at a City Hall meeting Tuesday. Photographs of former Ithaca mayors look on in the background.
FIONA MODRAK / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
ShowersHIGH: 63 LOW: 37
Lights, Camera, ActionTwo Cornell alumni startedFlicstart, a company that bringsfilms of the viewers’ choice tomovie theaters.
| Page 3
News
Extraterrestrial Life?The Mars Curiosity Rover hasfound evidence that water onceexisted on the red planet, aCornell astronomy professorsays.
| Page 7
Science
Weather
Brief Wondrous Life of LoveThe Sun reviews Junot Díaz’sM.F.A. ’95 latest series of shortstories.
| Page 11
SportsEnd of a Winning StreakThe Cornell football team fellto undefeated Harvard over theweekend.
| Page 16
The Road to EmploymentDan Rosen ’13 weighs the bene-fits and downsides of taking ajob that one is not passionateabout after graduation.
| Page 9
Opinion
Arts
See BUDGET page 4
Fire!ghters, Police: Kill This BudgetOf!cers say mayor’s plan would hurt emergency responseBy JEFF STEINSun Managing Editorand AKANE OTANISun News Editor
Political debate | Misha Checkovich ’13 and Stephen Smith, candidates forthe Fourth Ward Common Council seat, field questions at a public forum Tuesday.
CHRIS PHARE / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The two candidates for theCollegetown seat on Ithaca’sCommon Council –– DemocratStephen Smith and RepublicanMisha Checkovich ’13 –– sparredon their visions for Collegetownand the city’s current budgetdeficit at a debate Tuesday.
The forum –– co-sponsoredby the CollegetownNeighborhood Coucil and TheCornell Daily Sun –– will be the
only event of its kind held in therace for the Fourth Ward seatbefore the Nov. 6 election.However, of the 19 questionsasked at the forum, Checkovichdeclined to answer four, sayingshe would provide responses tothe questions in a press release ata later date.
One question Checkovich didnot answer was about theCollegetown Crossing project,Josh Lower’s ’05 proposed hous-
Fleeing from police, an 18-year-old allegedly struck twocars, almost hit a police officerand then attempted to escapeinto a Collegetown house earlyFriday morning before he wascaught and arrested on drugand reckless driving charges,the Ithaca Police Departmentsaid.
Police said Timothy Spannwas reportedly found with aneighth of an ounce of crackcocaine after a wild ridethrough Collegetown thatbegan shortly after midnight.Bail for his release fromTompkins County Jail has beenposted at $50,000.
Initially, police attempted tostop Spann for a routine trafficviolation before he reportedlysped off “at an excessive rate”— setting off a chain of eventsthat would later culminate inhis arrest, police said.
“The vehicle was followedthroughout the East Hill area ofthe city [before it] struck anIthaca Police vehicle that wasstopped on a side street han-dling an unrelated matter,”police said in a statementreleased Friday afternoon.
Before Spann reportedly hitthe police car, an officer wasforced to jump out of the wayto avoid being struck, the state-ment said. Despite this, Spann
kept driving, apparently stillhopeful he could escape,according to the police report.
JEEVAN GYAWALI / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
After her wedding on campus Sunday, a bride at the top ofMcGraw Clocktower throws her bouquet of roses.
Catch the bouquet
After Wild Chase Through C-Town,Teen Arrested on Cocaine ChargesBy JEFF STEINSun Managing Editor
See CHASE page 6
Candidates for Fourth WardTackle Collegetown IssuesBy KEVIN MILIANSun Staff Writer
See FORUM page 6
Editor in Chief Juan Forrer ’13
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Umpteen speedy televisions perused two sheep, then umpteen tickets towed Jupiter, and Dan untangles five progres-sive orifices. Umpteen quixotic aardvarks annoyingly bought two Macintoshes. Umpteen bureaux tickled twoextremely putrid botulisms. Paul sacrificed one lampstand, then Jupiter marries the very quixotic pawnbroker. Fivepurple poisons laughed, yet umpteen chrysanthemums kisses five aardvarks. Batman noisily untangles oneJabberwocky. Two Macintoshes laughed, then one extremely schizophrenic Jabberwocky drunkenly untangles twosheep, however Quark telephoned umpteen obese Jabberwockies. Five irascible botulisms slightly lamely auctionedoff the subway, and five chrysanthemums easily untangles one mostly speedy Klingon. Five dogs drunkenly perusedMinnesota, however the mats ran away cleverly, although one partly progressive subway quite comfortably sacrificed
Weird Newsof the Week
Man’s Roach-Eating DeathRaises Question: Why?
MIAMI (AP) — As a Florida medical examiner triesto determine how 32-year-old Edward Archbold diedafter eating insects during a contest to win a snake, peo-ple around the country are asking: Why?
Why would anyone eat a live cockroach? Why did hedie when several others in the contest ate the same bugswithout incident? What inspired Archbold — who wasdescribed by the snake store owner as “the life of theparty” — to shovel handfuls of crickets, worms and cock-roaches into his mouth?
While eating bugs is normal in many parts of theworld, the practice is taboo in the U.S. and many west-ern countries.
Man Tries to Rob BankOf $1 in Prison Bid
NORTHERN CAMBRIA, Pa. (AP) — A mantried to rob a Pennsylvania bank of $1 because he hopedto be sent to a federal prison nearby, police said.
Jeffrey McMullen, a 50-year-old regular customer ofan AmeriServ bank in the western Pennsylvania town ofNorthern Cambria, handed notes to two tellers Fridaydemanding a dollar, according to a police complaintreported by The Tribune-Democrat of Johnstown.
The tellers thought it was a joke, police said. He thenspoke with a new accounts employee and repeated hewas robbing the bank for a buck.
Police say McMullen apparently wanted to be prose-cuted federally so he could be taken to a prison in cen-tral Pennsylvania. Police could not immediately saywhy.
McMullen awaits a preliminary hearing, and courtrecords didn’t list an attorney. Under terms set by aNorthern Cambria district judge, he must undergo amental evaluation and post $50,000 bail in order to winrelease from jail.
One note given to tellers said, “FBI custody. Preferbly(sic) Loretto Pa. No press. Seal all files,” according to thecomplaint. Police took that to be a request thatMcMullen hoped authorities would not publicize hiscase. The other said, “Federal bank robbery. Please handover $1.00.”
World Champs Win MaineWife-Carrying Contest
NEWRY, Maine (AP) — A Finnish couple hasadded to their victories by taking first place in theNorth American Wife Carrying Championship atMaine’s Sunday River ski resort.
Taisto Miettinen and Kristina Haapanen traveledfrom Helsinki, Finland — where they won the WorldWife Carrying Championship — for Saturday's con-test. The Sun Journal reports that the couple finishedwith a time of 52.58 seconds on a course that includeshurdles, sand traps and a water hole.
The winners receive the woman’s weight in beerand five times her weight in cash.
This article is part of students’ sto-ries, a series profiling students acrosscampus.
After spending a year abroad inSweden, Anna-Lisa Castle ’14 tookthe University by storm her sopho-more year, becoming a studentleader and campus activist in groupssuch as KyotoNOW! and theWomen’s Resource Center.
After winning a scholarship fromThe Swedish Institute, a govern-ment agency that aims to spreadinterest in Sweden’s culture, Castle,who had just finished her freshmanyear at Cornell, seized the opportu-nity to move to Sweden. During heryear abroad, she taught Swedish toimmigrants and English to Swedishadults.
Though she initially planned tostay in the country for only onesemester, Castle was offered anextension of her scholarship andchose to remain at theInstitute to continue teach-ing and to study Swedish lit-erature.
“It was a really greatexperience,” Castle said. “Imade some great friends.”
When Castle returnedfrom Sweden in the summerof 2011, she began workingin Chicago, Ill., with thePublic Interest Network, an organi-zation that supports groups thathope to generate social change.
“I loved it,” she said. “I love thepeople I was with. It was this greatcommunity of active and politicallyengaged people.”
It was in part because of thePublic Interest Network that Castlediscovered her passion for activism,she said.
When she returned to campus forher sophomore year, Castle searchedfor an outlet for activism — andfound KyotoNOW!, an organizationthat fights for “climate justice.”
In her work with KyotoNOW!,Castle, who is the organization’s co-president, has helped organizedemonstrations against hydraulicfracturing, or “fracking” — amethod by which petroleum andnatural gases are removed from theEarth.
Her work with KyotoNOW! hastaken her beyond Cornell’s campus,too. Castle said she helped organizebuses for students to travel from
Ithaca to Washington, D.C., to par-ticipate in a protest against the con-troversial Keystone XL Pipeline –– aproposed extension of a pipelinethat carries oil from Canada to theUnited States. The pipeline’s exten-sion has been hotly debated becausesome people believe it will negative-ly impact the environment and theeconomy.
Castle has also demonstrated herpassion for the environment on apolicy level. She is in the process ofstarting a campaign to encourage theUniversity to limit its use of fossilfuels as energy sources in campusbuildings.
“Essentially, we’re going after theendowment and working to makingsure that Cornell is investing respon-sibly … but if we really want tochange the way we impact thingsthat are bigger than just campus, weneed to look at the way we investour … endowment,” Castle said.
When Castle is not fighting forenvironmental causes, she also vol-
unteers for theWomen’s ResourceCenter, a campus orga-nization devoted toeducation and activismaround women’srights.
As part of her workat the center, Castle ––along with members ofthe International
Women’s Day committee –– orga-nized a tribute to Wangari MutaMaathai, a Kenyan environmentaland political activist who died inSeptember 2011.
Castle said that one of the mostmemorable moments she has experi-enced as a campus activist was help-ing to lead a demonstration ofapproximately 150 people protest-ing what she called the administra-tion’s inadequate response to a racialattack near the Sigma Pi fraternity inMay.
“My favorite moment was seeingthe turnout and the string of contin-uous action,” Castle said.
She stressed the importance ofgetting involved on campus andstanding up for one’s personalbeliefs.
“Get involved sooner rather thanlater … Find the things that youreally love and do that,” she said.
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OLIVER KLIEWE / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
The Cornell Law School is undergoing extensive construction as part of a project that will cost between$55 to $60 million to expand and renovate its facilities.
Under constructionCASTLE ’14
Grads Change Moviegoing Experience
Three Cornell alumnirecently combined their busi-ness smarts and love for the bigscreen in their new startup,Flicstart –– a venture theypromise will shake up themovie theater industry.
Flicstart “empowers movielovers to demand screenings ofany content” at their local the-ater, according to Jeff Cloetingh’12, co-founder and CEO ofthe company.
Movie-lovers can askFlicstart to bring screeningsranging from feature films tosports tournaments or concertsto their local movie theater,according to Cloetingh.
“If you get enough people tojoin — say, 60 people — [thescreening] happens,” Cloetinghsaid.
When someone expressesinterest in an event and “joins”it on Flicstart’swebsite, he or shereserves a ticket,according toC l o e t i n g h .However, “if theevent doesn’t getenough people, itdoesn’t happen,and you don’thave to pay,” Cloetingh said.
Flicstart.com connects themovie lover with the movie the-ater through its online service.It ultimately solves a two-partproblem — filling empty seatsat the cinema by allowing view-ers while permitting them tocustomize what is playing onthe big screen, according toCloetingh.
Currently, Flicstart is run bya three-person team; Cloetinghand Andrew Schoen ’12 co-founded the startup in June,and Paul Yang ’12 joined thecompany as the ChiefTechnology Officer over thesummer.
On Sept. 28, the companysuccessfully screened its firstfilm — “The Room,” a cultcomedy classic — atCinemapolis. The show pre-sold 94 tickets, and sold about a
dozen more at the door, accord-ing to Schoen.
“It was amazing, and theturnout exceeded our expecta-tions for Flicstart,” Schoen said.“It proved the concept ––proved that there was a demandfor this kind of service.”
The idea behind Flicstartwas inspired by a class thatCloetingh and Schoen tooktogether at Cornell’s JohnsonGraduate School ofManagement.
“For any new business,entrepreneurs often start bylooking for problems,” Schoensaid. “We discovered a massiveproblem in the movie theaterindustry.”
Typically, movie theatersonly fill 15 percent of theirseats, according to Schoen.Theater revenue has droppedwhile theater expenses have not.
“We asked ourselves, ‘Howcan we fix this?’” he said.
With the rise of Netflix and
other online streaming services,people visit the cinema becausethey are looking for a uniqueexperience, Schoen said.
“When people go to seemovies, they go because theirfriends are going, or they gobecause they can’t access thecontent any other way, or theygo because it’s the premiere ofone of their favorite movies,”Schoen said. “People go becausethey want the experience. It’sgotta be different than watch-ing on your computer, it’s gottabe social, it's gotta be epic.”
Cloetingh said that becausetheaters have increasingly shift-ed from using large, expensive,heavy film reels to digitally pro-jecting content, it is now easierfor theaters to screen a widervariety of movies.
“It gives a voice to the peo-ple — if enough people want it,
they can now get it,” Cloetinghsaid.
Schoen said that, ultimately,Flicstart will revitalize themovie industry by giving theviewers a say in what theywatch. It creates a win-win situ-ation, he said: theaters will fillmore seats, and viewers, so far,have said they are satisfied.
Mayda Dorak ’13, whorequested that Flicstart bring“The Room” to Cinemapolis,said that when she heard aboutthe company’s concept throughYang, one of her friends, shethought it was “too good to betrue.”
“It’s a genuinely fantasticidea and a brilliant opportuni-ty,” she said. “It’s not very oftenyou get to have an active role incustomizing a service as a con-sumer.”
Another student, GenaTopper ’16, said that she wouldprobably start using Flicstart tocreate screening events if the
company can showmovies that she likes.
“They shouldmake people aware ofhow easy it is [to useFlicstart],” Toppersaid.
For bothCloetingh andSchoen, the journey to
Flicstart’s first event atCinemapolis was full of lessons.
Schoen said that he learnedthat entrepreneurs, who areresponsible for running multi-ple aspects of their business,need to “do everything well.”
“You have to have a foot inevery door,” he said. “If youwant to be a founder of a com-pany, you need to have a bal-anced aptitude.”
Despite the success ofFlicstart’s first event, Schoensaid that he does not considerthe startup a “done deal.”
“The best entrepreneurs arenever satisfied,” Schoen said. “Ican’t wait to see [Flicstart] growregionally and nationally.”
Alumni startup allows on-demand movie screenings at theatersBy EMMA JESCHSun Contributor
Emma Jeschcan be reached at [email protected].
Ashley Chacon can be reached at [email protected].
After Spending a Year in Sweden, Castle ’14 Becomes C.U. Activist
Petit LarcenyCornell police took a report Thursday from a student regarding
the theft of an unsecured Trek Navigator bicycle from the Alice CookHouse Bike Room. The bicycle is valued at $600, according toCUPD.
Unlawful Marijuana PossessionCornell police referred an individual to the Judicial Administrator
Thursday for unlawful possession of marijuana. The marijuana wasfound in Mary Donlon Hall, according to CUPD.
Grand Theft AutoCornell Police dispatched an officer to take a report Friday from a
staff member regarding the theft of a blue sport jacket while on a bustrip to New York City. The jacket is valued at $1,000, according toCUPD.
— Compiled by Kerry Close
By ASHLEY CHACONSun Contributor
“People go because they want theexperience. It’s gotta be differentthan watching your computer, it’sgotta be social, it’s gotta be epic.”Andrew Schoen ’12
NEWS4 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Wednesday, October 10, 2012
Myrick ’09 DefendsProposed Budget Cutsthe council to stop the mayor’sbudget.
“We are at our bare minimumright now,” Slattery said. “The bot-tom line is there are no more areasin which we can make cuts.”
Under Myrick’s plan, the firedepartment would lose two fire-fighters and see the closure of itsfire prevention bureau, whichwould in turn transfer the respon-sibility for fire inspections to thebuilding department. Additionally,two vacancies in the fire depart-ment would go unfilled.
Meanwhile, Myrick’s budgetproposes the elimination of nineand a quarter positions in thepolice department. Myrick notedthat none of these cuts — which hesaid would save the city more thana million dollars — would comefrom layoffs.
While recognizing the potentialseverity of the cuts, Myrick defend-ed his proposed budget, assertingthat public safety is “still our num-ber one expenditure by a longshot.”
The city faces a $3 million bud-get deficit, and Myrick stressed thatin closing the gap he is seekingboth revenue increases — throughhigher property taxes and othermeasures — and reduced expendi-tures. He emphasized that he tookthe concerns raised by city resi-dents and officials into considera-tion when making what hedescribed as a “very painful bud-get.”
“Everything you have told meweighs heavily on my conscience,”Myrick said. “I tried to be honestabout the fact that with multimil-lion dollar deficits occurring eachyear, pain could only be deferredfor so long.”
Although recognizing that thecity “needs more officers, not less,”Myrick said that the costs of main-taining the fire and police depart-ments have skyrocketed over theyears, increasing by $4 and $5 mil-lion, respectively, from 12 yearsago.
“We can’t … we can’t afford theamount of personnel that wehave,” Myrick said. “I don’t thinkwe can.”
Yet Myrick’s defense seemed tofall on deaf ears, as officials saidthat firefighters and police officersare already stretched thin in pro-tecting the city.
IPD Lieutenant VinceMonticello said that “calls are upmore than I’ve ever seen in my 30years at the police department.”
Whereas in 1990, the IPDreceived 14,000 calls for help, in2011, it received more than21,000, he said.
Officer Slattery added that of allthe tools a police officer has,“whether it be our pepper spray orour baton … the most importantone we have is our fellow officer.”
Cutting the police departmentwhen “all we have is each other”would put officers’ lives in danger,Slattery said.
Myrick’s move to transfer theresponsibility of conducting fireinspections to the building depart-ment also drew ire among residentsand officials.
Frances Weissman, a city resi-dent of more than 30 years,
expressed skepticism that the movewould benefit the city, saying per-sonnel in the building departmentwill “inevitably miss dangerousconditions and circumstances” thatthose in IFD would have caught.
Myrick, however, said thattransferring the responsibility forconducting fire inspections to thebuilding department will allow thecity to simplify the inspectionprocess.
“These are people who inspectbuildings for a living and have fordecades — they know everythingthere is to know about buildings,”Myrick said in an interviewTuesday. He added that membersof the building department haveassured him that they can handlethe increase in requests.
Yet firefighters maintained thatit is still beneficial to have theirofficers conducting fire inspec-tions, noting that the knowledgegained during these checks oftenproves valuable during fires andemergencies.
Myrick, however, maintainedthat it is unlikely that the firefight-er who did the inspection will alsohappen to respond to a call at thatspecific building. Even if this is thecase occasionally, he said, a stream-lined inspection process willimprove all city departments.
Still, other residents expressedconcern that their safety will beimperiled by a decrease in policeofficers on the streets and firefight-ers responding to emergency calls.
Decrying the cuts, Weissmansaid, “I fear this budget … is theprice of a potential tragedy.”
City residents are alreadyunable to access the police depart-ment for help on weekends, saidFay Gougakis, a city resident.
Heeding city residents’ con-cerns but stressing the necessity ofthe budget cuts he has proposed,Myrick said that the cuts do notonly touch the IPD and IFD.
Nine vacancies will also gounfulfilled in the Department ofPublic Works, and funding for thecity’s department of building andits department of informationtechnology — among others —also stand to be slashed in whatMyrick described as “extremely dif-ficult choices” made to rein in amultimillion dollar deficit.
He added that his budget curbsthe city’s recent dramatic escalationin property taxes. While recentbudgets raised taxes by as much asnine and six percent, Myrick’s bud-get raises taxes by approximatelytwo percent.
Unlike a national income tax,he said, taxes imposed by the Cityof Ithaca disproportionately hurtmiddle and low income residents.
“I really have a passion for thepeople who are struggling to get by… raising taxes will hurt those peo-ple the most,” he said.
With city rules mandating thatCommon Council vote on a finalversion of the budget by the firstweek of November, AlderpersonJ.R. Clairborne (D-2nd Ward) saidthat council members face a formi-dable task in the next few weeks.
“I hope we can find some kindof middle ground solution … butwe definitely have our work cut outfor us,” he said.
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Candidates Disagree on C-TownDevelopment Plans, City Budget
Teen Also Charged With FleeingPolice Of!cer, Property Damage
ing complex on 307 CollegeAve.
But Smith, who is currentlyserving as as an interim replace-ment for the Fourth Ward seat,touted the plan’s benefits, not-ing that “it brings needed thingsto the area.”
“The fact that it brings a gro-cery store is great,” he said.
Though she did not allude tothe Collegetown Crossing,Checkovich, a member of theCornell Republicans, empha-sized her commitment toencouraging more businesses toset up shop in Collegetown.
“I really want to address theempty storefronts,” she said.“Collegetown is prime real-estate for retail, but [if it is]empty, it deprives the city of atax base.”
At the debate, Checkovichalso declined to answer ques-tions about the mayor’s han-dling of a discrimination lawsuitagainst the Ithaca PoliceDepartment, the hotly contest-ed and recently rejectedCollegetown Plan — whichwould have set new zoning reg-ulations for developers — andMayor Carolyn Peterson’s han-dling of the Jungle, a homelessencampment in Ithaca. For allthese questions, she deferred toa press release slated for releaselater in the week.
Smith, meanwhile, alsodeclined to answer the questionabout Peterson’s handling of theJungle residents at the debate.
At the debate, he also pro-posed a solution to the increas-ingly early Collegetown housingrush.
“I think a two-month wait-ing period between the start ofthe lease and the showing ofapartments would be enough,”Smith said.
Checkovich said the cityshould not dictate when land-lords can begin showing apart-ments because doing so “won’tchange anything.”
The candidates also spokeabout the merits and drawbacksof the current budget plan thatMayor Svante Myrick ’09 isproposing for the 2013 FiscalYear.
“The core city function is to
provide city health, so the planshould not fire policemen andfiremen,” Checkovich said. “Weneed to bring in more tax bases,more jobs to make the city cof-fers flow.”
Smith praised Myrick’s planas economical for the city.
“I think [Myrick] is makingthe city more efficient,” he said.“He’s done a great job withtransparency in the govern-ment, and with the budget,we’ll be borrowing a lot lessmoney than other years.”
The candidates alsoexpressed their views about thecity’s involvement in the suicideprevention nets currently beingconstructed at or under sevencommunity bridges. Some ofthe nets are being built onCornell’s property, but othersare being placed on city ownedbridges.
“It’s Cornell’s problem,”Checkovich said. “In their mis-sion statement, they say theyhave to take care of their stu-dents and their needs, and itshould not be a burden for thecity.”
Smith said that, given thelocation of some of the nets, thecity may have the duty to pro-vide financial assistance to theproject. Although theUniversity has agreed to pay forupkeep and maintenance on allbridges for at least five years, theterms of this agreement will berevisited.
“Cornell can afford the pro-ject, but some of the nets aregoing to go in city property, andseeing how students are resi-dents of the city during theirtime here, I think the cityshould contribute,” Smith said.
In the wake of former FourthWard Alderperson EddieRooker’s ’09 vacating his seatone year before the end of histerm to attend New YorkUniversity Law School, bothcandidates promised to, if elect-ed, remain in Ithaca for at leastthe duration of their terms.
“[I] will definitely stay forthe long haul,” Checkovichsaid. “I want to see Ithaca devel-op into a powerhouse city ofupstate New York.”
Spann “continued driving recklessly through a heavily congestedCollegetown area” before striking another car, police said. Spann thenreportedly ran out of his car before police apprehended him toward theback of the Collegetown house, located on the 300 block of CollegeAvenue, that he ran into.
No injuries have been reported in connection with the incident,police said.
In addition to the drug and reckless driving charges, Spann facestwo counts of leaving the scene of a property damage accident and onecount of fleeing a police officer, the police statement said.
This is not the first time Spann has seen legal action. This summer,he was charged with driving while intoxicated and unlicensed opera-tion of a vehicle, The Ithaca Journal reported in June.
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NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory landedCuriosity, the latest Mars rover, on the sur-face of Mars on Aug. 6. Although the roverhas yet to start the research central to itsmission, after two months on the RedPlanet it has already found some new evi-dence for the existence of water on Earth’splanetary cousin.
Finding Fluvial ConglomeratesAccording to Prof. Steve Squyres ’81,
astronomy, the Mars rover Curiosity foundevidence of ancient flowing water on thesurface of Mars last month. What makesCuriosity’s finding different from previousfindings of water on Mars is the type ofrock from which the rover obtained its evi-dence, as well as the implications of thefinding.
Curiosity discovered a piece of fluvialconglomerate, a substance synthesized froma river. The bed of a rapidly flowing streamhas pebbles and other stones rounded bythe water and sand. When these materialssolidify into a rock, they form a fluvial con-glomerate. Scientists do not need to per-form intensive analysis to identify this typeof stone; the examination from Mars forinstance, was done entirely with cameras.
“It’s a form of rock that’s so distinctive.You just need eyes to see this in the field,”Squyres said.
The most identifiable characteristic of afluvial conglomerate is the range of grainsizes in the rock.
“If you see a bunch of different grainsizes all jumbled together, it means thatthere was a very high-energy process takingplace,” Squyres said. “Only strong flowingwater will produce a rock made of roundedpebbles.”
Significance of the StreamsAlthough Curiosity has found evidence
of water on Mars, it is not the first evidencescientists have discovered on the RedPlanet. Direct evidence of water on the sur-face of Mars was first found in 1972 by theMariner 9 space orbiter, which took pic-tures of riverbeds and canyons. Morerecently, the Spirit and Opportunity roversfound evidence of water in Martian stonesin 2004. Squyres explained that the discov-ery of the fluvial conglomerate by Curiositywas a new form of evidence for a processscientists already know occurred on Mars.
“It’s not a surprise, but it’s cool to see,”Squyres said. “This is a cool thing and wehappened to come across it in the firstmonth of the mission.” Squyres is theChairman of the NASA advisory Counciland Principal Investigator for the MarsExploration Rovers.
The primary focus of the Curiosity rovermission is to assess whether Mars has everoffered conditions favorable for microbiallife. To accomplish this goal, Curiosity hasan arsenal of advanced tools at its disposal.
Detective ToolsMany instruments on the Curiosity
rover set it apart from its predecessors. Thenew sampling system on Curiosity allows itto drill into rock and extract powdered sam-ples. This system allows the rover to thenplace the extracted rock into the rover forchemical analysis. Two important instru-ments are used to conduct the analysis.
The first is SAM, or Sample Analysis atMars. SAM is a system of instruments thatcan detect organic molecules at extremelylow concentrations. This aids scientists indetermining whether or not the environ-ment on Mars is, or was, suitable for micro-
bial life. The second instrument is CheMin,short for Chemistry and Mineralogy. Thisinstrument uses X-ray powder diffraction todetermine, with high precision, the miner-als present in rock samples. Data fromCheMin is useful in the search for biosigna-tures — indicators that the environmentwas habitable in the past.
ChemCam, or the Chemical Camerainstrument, is a tool that allows scientists tofire a laser at a rock from a few meters away.The energy from the laser turns atoms fromthe rock into plasma, which scientists cananalyze and use to determine the rock’s con-stituent elements.
“This instrument is used as a survey. You
can shoot a series of rocks with the laser toget a rough idea of the elements present,”Squyres said.
A complementary tool to ChemCam isAPXS, or the Alpha Particle X-RaySpectrometer. APXS is an instrument locat-ed at the end of Curiosity’s robotic arm.This tool will be used to interpret the min-erals that compose Martian rocks and helpselect materials for other instruments tosample.
“If you see something that stands out[from ChemCam], you can use [APXS] toget more specific information,” Squyressaid.
The advanced technology aboard the
Curiosity rover is currently in the checkoutphase.
“It takes a long time to get good at this.Curiosity is a very complicated rover,”Squyres said.
Ground Zero: The Gale Crater
Gale, a crater on the surface of Mars, isthe primary location of interest for theCuriosity mission. The crater contains athick sequence of layered sedimentaryrocks, which preserve detailed informationabout what conditions were like when theywere laid down. According to Squyres, thesedimentary rock layers are particularlyimportant to scientists.
“A geologist can look down into theIthaca gorges and see the layered rocks,” hesaid. “From these rocks, we know that mil-lions of years ago Ithaca was under a shallowsea. We can find fossils in Ithaca to provethis. We don’t expect to find fossils on Mars,but with basic training and tools we canread the rocks and the story they tell.”
Gale appeared to have a large amount ofvaluable information for scientists involvedin the mission. Using spectrometers, scien-tists determined that the rocks in Gale con-tained clay minerals, which form in thepresence of water. Because water is an essen-tial component of life, Gale became the tar-get location for the Curiosity expedition.
Although Curiosity has already landedwithin Gale, it is not yet at the stack of sed-imentary rocks that scientists want to study.
“We need to drive kilometers before weget to the interesting stuff,” Squyres said.Because scientists are still in the engineer-ing checkout phase of the mission, it maybe some time before new discoveries aremade.
“You don’t know when the discoverieswill come. It will take years, maybe.”Squyres said. “Geology is like a forensic sci-ence and a geologist is like a detective look-ing for clues among the rocks.” he said.
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SCIENCEAstronomy
By NICOLAS RAMOSSun Staff Writer
Related rocks | Top: A comparison of Martian gravel fragments with Earth rocks leftbehind by streams. Bottom: Three possible water sites and Curiosity’s path to Glenelg.
Curiosity Finds Evidence of Ancient Water
COURTESY OF NASA
Martian waterway | A topographic image shows different elevations within the Gale crater, indicating where water may have flowed in the past. COURTESY OF NASA
Mars rover just getting started, says Prof. Steve Squyres ’81
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Jacob Kose found Evan Fairbrother ’12and Ben Dreier ’11 trying to build a
grand piano out of tuxedos in the base-ment of Bloomingdales. They debated thequestion everyone’s been asking sinceOctober 10, 1886, while trying to builda piano bench out of 800 bowties: Whatdid dudes used to wear to parties beforethe first tuxedo was worn to an autumnball at Tuxedo Park, New York? We wentthrough our wardrobes to come up withwhat can best be described as the truth.
Disclaimer: As always, ScrambledEggs strives to adequately approximatewhat was said and who said what, butmay at times mess all of that up.
JACOB KOSE: It’s definitely muchharder to document the evolution ofmen’s clothing than women’s clothing.Like, corsets, garters, going comman-do, I know how and why all of thathappened. But when and where trendsin men’s clothing happened I have noidea.
BEN DREIER: I feel like guys stilldecked themselves out way back whenthough, you know—
EVAN FAIRBROTHER: Just thinkabout colonial accessories, like GeorgeWashington’s wooden teeth.
J.K.: Are those more or less thugthan Kanye’s diamond teeth? I feel likeKanye’s teeth are accessories cause hecan call up a dentist anytime and be all“These shiny rocks don’t taste goodanymore, can I have my teeth backnow?” but G-dub was wearing hiswood for good.
E.F.: What about those big gray wigsthey used to wear for balls and festiveoccasions? I think party attire and Ithink big gray wigs.
B.D.: Nothing says “take me hometonight” like a pile of someone else’sstanky old hair. I still can’t think ofwhat was going on in the late 19th cen-tury that the tuxedo evolved andchanged the history of mankind.
J.K.: I think it’s interesting that1886 is close to the invention of thephotograph, which was maybe the firstmodern technological art form. Maybetuxedos got big when black and whiteportraits were all that and a bag ofchips. But I guess there were pianos forhundreds of years before that … no oneseems to borrow fashion ideas frominstruments though.
Evan snores loudly, pretending to havefallen asleep on account of Jacob’s histori-cal meanderings and his use of the phrase“all that and a bag of chips.”
B.D.: Here’s an idea: You put a girlin a red dress on a piano and that’s art.You put a guy in a tuxedo on a pianoand that’s art. A tuxedo can’t make a
man sexy, but a sexy man in a tuxedo— theres nothing better.
J.K.: Can I quote you on that?B.D.: Mmhm.J.K.: To be fair though, I think a
tuxedo isn’t necessarily the best thing aman could wear, just the safest.Speaking of, I’m not sure if I’ve evergotten down and dangerous in a tux.
B.D.: Hmmm I have to think. I firstwore a tux for my 10th grade choir.Pretty risque. But yeah, a really nicelycut suit could work better, I love mycharcoal suit.
J.K.: I’d go a dashing gray with aslim black tie and white shirt. I don’tknow if I’ve ever gotten dangerous in asuit either … yeah never mind, I defi-nitely have. There were just so manybar and bat mitzvahs in seventh grade.
Evan has actually fallen asleep, his eyesscrunched close and head cocked straightin the air like a man possessed by hissneeze. He has never worn a tuxedo andfeels sad, neglected even, by the sartorial
conversation.
J.K.: In all seriousness though, I’dhave to say I’d prefer to party in thenude, then a tux or a suit, then maybea pool.
B.D.: So birthday suit, suit, bathingsuit? I respect that.
J.K.: You know, I own a maroon,navy and gold velour suit? I wentthrough a phase where I was really sym-pathetic for this kid in my grade whowas going through a ghetto phase.Would you wear one of those?
B.D.: That’s definitely out there.Not as bad as denim though. I’d ratherdo anything before wearing all denim.
J.K.: How about patent leather?Like red patent leather, no shirt overjeans and a jean jacket.
B.D.: I mean, not fire truck red orcandy cane red but crimson, sure.
Evan snores in agreement then wakesup and looks at his phone.
E.F.: Oh. Jackie’s at Wegman’s andshe asked me if I want anything and Isaid maybe some chicken noodle suit.You guys suck.
B.D.: That’s awesome.E.F.: I’m just kidding, you guys are
cool. Plus I learned something today: Atuxedo can’t make a man sexy, butthere’s nothing better than a sexy manin a tuxedo. I feel wiser than I’ve beenin years, maybe ever.
Oh, You Fancy, Huh?
Jacob Kose is a senior in the College of Arts andSciences. He may be reached [email protected]. Scrambled Eggs ap pearsalternate Wednesdays this semester.
Jacob Kose
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Apathetic coverage of an active campusTo the Editor:Re: “Cornell Campus Politicos View Presidential Debate With Criticism, Snark andCheetos,” News, Oct. 4
I have been confused recently about the nature of The Sun’s reporting on on-campus political activity. In the wake of the article bemoaning a lack of visiblepolitical activism on campus, recent reporting has displayed an odd anti-campuspolitico slant. In recent weeks, we have hosted events and made over 1,500 calls infavor of democratic congressional candidates, and in a recent voter registration rally(with the help of other campus politicos) registered over 350 of our fellow studentsto vote. I can understand that there is a lot going on on-campus, and so that ourphone banking efforts have received no mention in The Sun and that our voter reg-istration efforts have merited only a picture is understandable, or at least it was.
Today I picked up the paper to see a front page article in which a laid backdebate-watching social gathering was portrayed as a gathering of contemptuous,smirking, snarky, sarcastic smart-mouths, in a front page article no less. At thispoint, I have to ask, what can a campus politico possibly do to gain favorable cov-erage from your publication? Perhaps instead we should have watched the debate ina state of dignified stoicism? Perhaps then the headline would read, “CampusPoliticos View Debate with Apathy, Detached Resignation.” If registering over 350students to vote in a day merits merely a picture, but some jokes at a party (wherepeople generally try to have a good time and make each other laugh) are deemedworthy of a front page, full length article, it seems that The Sun is more concernedwith controversy and ridicule than with actually encouraging and fostering a cultureof robust political engagement on campus. Perhaps next time The Sun looks to crycrocodile tears about the lack of political engagement on campus, it should look atthe role it itself plays in ignoring or else ridiculing campus political life.
Dalton Vieira ’14
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SUBMIT LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Forget the fact that our generation has the moststudent loan debt of any other, which severelylimits and deters new college grads from taking
risks once they graduate. And don’t think about howthe job market is absolutely horrendous and will notreturn to normal rates for at least a few years.Apparently when we graduate we are supposed to finda job. This is something I have theoretically knownfor a while, but it is only now, with every person Iknow hounding me about what I am going to do
when I graduate, that it has really sunk in. Every daythat passes by of my senior year is another day that Ihaven’t figured out what I am going to do when Igraduate and another day closer to supposedly doingwhat I haven’t decided to do. It’s exhausting andstressful, but mostly it is absolutely terrifying. Becausethe question of what I want do when I graduateinevitably leads to the question of “What do I want todo with my life?” and that is a question that I try toavoid like the plague.
While I know that whatever I decide to do when Igraduate is not necessarily what I will do for the restof my life, I am reaching the point where I am nolonger preparing for the rest of my life, but actuallystarting to live it. And so yes, I can hopscotch fromjob to job, from career to career in my 20s and maybeeven in my 30s. But each superfluous job or sidetrackcould be viewed as less time spent progressing inwhatever career I end up in. And so the sooner Idecide on something, theoretically the better.
To me it isutterly preposter-ous that a 20-some-thing is supposedto decide what hewill do for the restof his existence. Ireject it out ofhand. Why would50-year-old mewant to be stuckdoing somethingthat lazy, ignorant
but devastatingly handsome 21-year-old me decidedon? I made decisions a week ago that I already regret,how am I supposed to expect to be the same in 30 of40 years? Past me will often make decisions withoutthinking about how it will affect future me. These canrange from things as trivial as leaving a paper to thenight before or eating a chipotle burrito with extrabeans to as consequential as choosing which college toattend. Either way I am at the mercy of my formerself. We are, after all, selfish beings and the victims of
our selfishness can often be ourselves. But this is in the end the society we have all
bought into. We did all of the usual school things:worked hard, got good grades, went to a good collegeand are apparently expected to continue on that tra-jectory to some sort of career. Once we finish ourcareer, whatever it might be, we either look back uponit happily, feeling that whatever we did was worth-while or we spend the rest of our adult diapered daysregretting our past decisions. But that’s it. We can’ttake it back, can’t do it over or learn from our lessonsand try again. As much as I hate the idiocy that comeswith “YOLO,” perhaps there is some truth to it. Evenmore so than death, I am absolutely terrified of reach-ing old age and coming to the realization that the pathI went down was the wrong one.
Maybe I am not as fortunate as some of my peerswho have come into college knowing their path,knowing what they were going to do with their livesfor years. And perhaps I am to blame for my indeci-siveness and lack of initiative. But never before have Ibeen faced with a decision that could be a permanentfixture in the rest of my life. What happens if 10 yearsinto my career path I suddenly feel like I have madethe wrong decision? What happens when it is too lateto do something else? Soon I will be hurtling myselfdown a road that could be the wrong one, that couldmake me spend the rest of my life in abject misery.Wish me luck.
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A Job’s, a Job’s, a Job
Dan Rosen
Smell the Rosen
Dan Rosen is a senior in the College of Art, Architecture, andPlanning. He may be reached at [email protected]. Smell theRosen ap pears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
On Sept. 24, President Skorton andGlenn Altschuler, Vice President ofUniversity Relations co-authored
Forbes article entitled, “Fracking: A Role forUniversities.” In this piece, the authors insistthat hydraulic fracturing has swept the nationand globe, and is imminent in New York.They argue that “we cannot put this genieback in the bottle,” the most we can do isensure that we do our homework and that allnecessary precautions are taken. In order toavoid “public perceptions that lobbyists willinfluence policies and that the foxes are
guarding the henhouse,” Skorton andAltschuler argue that government and indus-try should turn to universities (READ:Cornell), and pay them to conduct unbiasedresearch. Universities, they say, have “a com-mitment to and reputation for rigor andobjectivity in research.” As evidence for theirargument, they vaguely refer to two Cornellstudies that reached opposite conclusionsconcerning the relative impacts of fracking onclimate change. They fail to mention, as onecommentator pointed out, that the studyconducted by Robert Howarth, which foundthat methane leaks from fracking would havea larger impact on climate change than burn-ing coal, was consistent with EPA estimatesfor methane emissions and the other was not.
In their article, Skorton and Altschulerrefer to a Washington Post column entitled
“Fracking is too important to foul up” byanother high-power duo, NYC MayorMichael Bloomberg and George P. Mitchell,“philanthropist and hydrofracking pioneer.”The Cornell tag team seems to have drawn itsinspiration from Bloomberg and Mitchell’sargument, which endorses fracking but recog-nizes that there are bases to cover and moneyto be made first. Skorton and Altschuler high-light the following statement from theBloomberg-Mitchell piece, “each of our foun-dations will support organizations that seek towork with states and industries to develop
common-sense regulations that will protectthe environment — and ensure that theindustry can thrive.” Isn’t part of the researchprocess meant to determine whether or notthose two things can happen simultaneously?What if “objective” university research revealsthat protecting the environment and frackingour Earth are mutually exclusive? It seemsthat the results of the hypothetical objectiveresearch have already been decided.
Aside from the assumption that fracking ishere to stay, perhaps the most disturbingassertion in the article was that universitiesproduce thorough, “objective” research. Howthen, could the two Cornell fracking-climatestudies yield opposing results? While I’m nota scientist and do not pretend to be, I wouldventure to guess that at some point in eachstudy, different decisions were made on what
variables to use and how to measure them.And that’s where things get messy. Science isnever unbiased; it is a study of the physicaland natural world through observation andexperimentation. However, we cannot pre-tend that the observer is without certain pre-dispositions or that experiments can be con-ducted without making critical decisionsalong the way, which are, of course, informedby the biases we all hold. We must ask our-selves, then, how would those critical choicesvary if the science, and scientists, were indus-try-funded?
We can look to history to help illustratethe relationship between university research,government and industry. Research for theManhattan Project, which ended in the cata-strophic bombings of Hiroshima andNagasaki, began at a few universities, primar-ily Columbia, University of Chicago and UCBerkeley. Additionally, in the 1970’s, US offi-cials in Chile conspired with TheodoreSchultz, Chair of the Economics Departmentat University of Chicago, to send the best andbrightest minds of Chile to the University ofChicago to study liberal economics. Morespecifically, these men who came to be knownas “The Chicago Boys,” were meant to derailthe outstanding progress of developmental-ism in Chile, which was considered a threat toAmerican-style capitalism. After the CIA-assisted coup of ’73, the Chicago School’sideas became the basis for Pinochet’s eco-nomic policy and essential to maintaining hisrepressive regime.
Albert Einstein did not drop the bomband Milton Freidman did not orchestratemass killings in Chile, but these are just twoexamples of how university work can be used,(mis)guided and manipulated by governmentand special interests to detrimental ends.Even if the science is good, the math is exact-ly right and we come as close as we can to
objective study, we must remember thatresearch doesn’t happen in a vacuum, thereare always consequences.
But then we come back to that word,“objective.” A more recent, perhaps more rel-evant example of university-industrial-gov-ernment relations can be found in JenniferWashburn’s 2010 report, “Big Oil Goes toCollege: An Analysis of 10 ResearchCollaboration Contracts between LeadingEnergy Companies and Major U.S.Universities.” With the economy as it is, andthe future of government-issued energyresearch subsidies clouded by uncertainty inthe face of the election, universities are left toturn to the private sector for funding. Thereport highlights some concerning trends inresearch contracts; to name a few: None ofthe research contracts in the study required animpartial peer review process, energy compa-nies controlled research proposal selectionand in most cases, Big Oil maintained “exclu-sive commercial rights to academic findings.”Unchecked, handpicked, privately ownedresearch does not sound very objective to me.This is how corporate sponsorship works;there is always a give and take. What are wewilling to sacrifice for a piece of thehydrofracking pie?
Skorton and Altschuler’s Forbes piecereads as a bid for funding in exchange forresults that the industry — and its high-power allies — would find favorable. Do wewant to be part of the justification process fora method of natural gas extraction that threat-ens to poison our water, clutter our countryroads and contribute hugely to climatechange? And if so, what’s our price?
Fracking: There Is No Objective Role
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On Saturday, Sept. 29, Punch Brothers came toIthaca and performed at The State Theatre. NoamPikelny, who plays banjo, spoke to The Sun over thephone. He talked about banjos, his band and Ithaca.
THE SUN: Have you ever been to Ithaca?NOAM PIKELNY: I have never been … It was
quite a nice place. I wish every town had a theaterlike that. It’s a beautiful sounding room, greatcrowd.
SUN: Did you guys make it to AppleFest?N.P.: I wandered around the streets a little bit,
during the day.
SUN: How did you start playing banjo? N.P.: I started playing banjo when I was eight
years old, and my brother was playing mandolin. Igrew up in Chicago, and [when] my brother …heard a bluegrass band he kind of got bitten by thebluegrass bug. … I wanted to try that out … Mymom suggested the banjo so that we could playmusic with each other. So I went and rented a banjowith my family on my ninth birthday and went tothe Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago. Ireally fell in love with the instrument and bluegrassmusic.
SUN: I was reading another interview you didwith Fretboard Journal, and you were talking abouthaving, essentially, the heaviest banjo ever. Is thatstill what you play?
N.P.: Yeah, I play a 1941 Gibson banjo, and thestyle is called Top-Tension; and it is one of theheaviest banjos that Gibson ever made, and thedeepest pitch. They were adding more metal to it,at that time. It was post-Great Depression, soeverybody was trying to come up with some way toan edge on the competition. And, back then inthose days, they used skin for the head of the banjo… the hide of a cow or a goat. … So on the banjoI have a way to adjust that head really easily becauseit would fluctuate so much with the temperature.
SUN: In interviews about your solo album Beatthe Devil and Carry a Rail, you spoke about wanti-ng to do a solo album after playing with PunchBrothers and how your playing had changed. How
has Punch Brothers changed your solo music?N.P.: They’ve had a pretty profound impact on
everybody — both on a micro and macro level …Our first foray as a band, our first piece of music,was this piece called “The Blind Leading the Blind”— a piece that Thile had written that really forcedall of us to break out of our current comfort level asfar we were able to do on instruments. It was sucha technical challenge for each of us that we reallyhad to expand our individual toolboxes as far ashow we played the instru-ment. With Thile, I washaving to try to accom-plish things on the banjothat I hadn’t really comeacross in my investigationswith the banjo. … Thilenot being a banjo player… I’d always been veryinquisitive on the instru-ment but when you getsomeone new, especially aguy like Thile, writingmusic for these instru-ments, it’s inevitable thatyou … kind of push theboundaries and challengeyourself.
So, what was interest-ing to me was that theprogress that I’ve made onthe instrument individual-ly is … what wasn’t verybluegrassy, or very muchremoved in some waysfrom the bluegrass tradi-tion … which I had grownup with, and that my play-ing had emerged from … I was very much surprisedthat my explorations with the band really ended uptransforming my playing regardless of the genre orstyle. My solo record is an opportunity to kind ofshowcase myself more in the traditional realm.
SUN: To promote the album, you did a Funny orDie video. It was very funny, and premised on theidea that it would be your vocal debut. The gag isthat your singing is just terrible. Is there any truthto that? Do you sing at all?
N.P.: I sing every now and then with the band.There are a few songs that we have … There’s asong on the new record, called “Don’t Get Married
Without Me” … I sang bass on a couple of songs onHow To Grow a Woman From the Ground, one beingThe Strokes cover, “Heart in a Cage,” and anotherone, “If the Sea was Whiskey.” So I do sing a littlebit, just depending on how many parts there are. Ihave a very limited range.
SUN: How did you decide to make the video? Itwas really funny.
N.P.: Yeah right. Every time a record comes outthese days there has to be somekind of online content … One ofthe things that people turn to arethese kind of electronic press kits. Alot of them are very much the same;they sit down and talk about therecord and their experience … Wewere looking for a way to somehowget the word out, and found thiskind of crazy construct. We wantedit to be something that was a littlebit of a farce, and my brother gotthe idea of, “Well maybe we shouldpretend that this is supposed to beyour vocal debut.” A lot of friendswere very generous to participate …and then Funny or Die got involved… It was a very fun opportunity; itwas very surreal.
SUN: Recently, Punch Brothersalso made a documentary, How toGrow a Band. How was it like beingfilmed for that, how do you feelabout how the movie turned out?
N.P.: I really enjoyed the experi-ence … It seems like really longtime, it was a really long time ago.
It was three, almost four years ago that he was trav-elling with us … It’s a cool snapshot of the band inthe early days. It’s a unique push backwards … It’shard to watch a movie where you’re the subject ofit, and the band is the subject of it. It’s an interest-ing experience … There are moments in it whenyou become sentimental about the time that wasgoing on … it was a special time, and I’m glad wewere able to capture some of it.
Ruby Perlmutter is a senior in the College of Arts and Sciences. Shecan be reached at [email protected].
BY RUBY PERLMUTTERSun Associate Editor
How to Grow a BandThe Sun talks to Noam Pikelny of Punch Brothers
PHOTOS BY SHAILEE SHAH / SUN SENIOR PHOTOGRAPHER
“I’m not a bad guy. I’m like everybody else: weak, full ofmistakes, but basically good.”
This introduction to Junot Díaz’s, M.F.A. ’95, secondcollection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her, couldbe considered the thesis of the work. Díaz’s voice has alwaysbeen a unique combination of gruesome, aggressive andgraceful. What you think you’re reading is a series of horri-ble things done by horrible people. By the end, however, youare startlingly aware that the abuses Díaz’s characters heap onthose they love are the by-products of distinctly universalhuman failings. Newsweek has described Díaz as one with“the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of apoet.” Indeed, Díaz reaches standards of honesty and forth-rightness that can only be described as journalistic. His voiceis a far cry from the traditional interpretation of “poetic,”though — it’s fast and aggressive, often angry. It’s English,but also Spanish; it’s an American story, and a Dominicanstory, too; as much as this book is about romantic relation-ships, it is about familial ones, as well as the overlap between.Díaz has a lot to say in a mere 200 pages and, to get it allout, he has no choice but to forgo restraint.
Díaz made a mark on the literary world with his widely-acclaimed first collection of stories, Drown, in 1996 and hisfirst novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which wonthe Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2008. The boy Yuníor nar-rates several of the stories in Drown and appears again in full-force as an adolescent and adult to narrate the majority ofthe stories in This is How You Lose Her. It is irresponsible atthis point to pretend that Yuníor is anything but Díaz’s ownconsciousness, as he represents the strongest, most consistentand by far the most tortured voice of every story he appearsin. The recurring character Rafa, Yuníor’s brother, is a haunt-ing one — cruel and dispassionate, “a monster,” but ulti-mately a brother, a hero and Yuníor’s one role model whenit comes to love, for better or for worse.
Largely, it’s for worse. Every story in this collection isabout love gone or going wrong. Any statement of emotionhas a qualifier, and almost every story with a male narratorinvolves infidelity. These narrator are painfully aware of theirown deficiencies. The first story of the collection, “The Sun,the Moon, the Stars,” is not about the way that cheating candamage a relationship, but rather how a lack of dedication tosaving it in the aftermath can destroy it completely. “Ourrelationship wasn’t the sun, the moon and the stars, but itwasn’t bullshit either,” is the narrator’s evaluation of losingthe battle to keep the woman he loves. “All we have to do istry,” he says. But the story ends before that can happen.
The story “Flaca” is an eight-page love letter. But notadmittedly so. “It was sort of like love, wasn’t it?” asks thenarrator, in characteristic hesitation. This story is aboutnothing other than that quickly-encapsulated uncertainty.The deficiencies are within and the excuse is, “That’s themost we can hope for. Nothing thrown, nothing said that wemight remember for years. You don’t want to let go, butdon’t want to be hurt either. It’s not a great place to be butwhat can I tell you?” It can be frustrating, this constant apa-thy in the face of something so important. And initially, thecultural dissonance that rings throughout Díaz’s work is notespecially relatable to a variety of readers. But in truth, theseare not stories of cultural or socioeconomic or politicalentrapment — only stories of being trapped in general. Theproblems and hang-ups that destroy Díaz’s characters aren’tdreamt up at all, but things we all suffer from. Insecuritiesand fear and hesitation and blind stupidity derail all of us,and with his brutal depictions and carefully gruesome prose,Díaz constructs a window for us to find ourselves in hisexperience.
The shortest story in the collection is also one of the mostpowerful and the one from which the collection takes itstitle. “Alma” is a simple story, one of cheating — like mostin this book — and it is a theme which would get old if itwasn’t confronted from so many different angles. “Alma”introduces the angle of self-incrimination. Díaz’s narrators
record theirsins in let-ters, diariesand pho-tographs andhide themthere — butnot well.And this,Díaz says, “ishow you loseher.” Asmuch aswriting mayserve toincriminateits creator, itretains dualityin its power as a release. The longest and most autobio-graphic story of the book, “The Cheater’s Guide to Love,” isa summary of the five years following the demise of a rela-tionship. The peace from this story doesn’t come from somesort of resolution with the people that have been hurt. Itadmits that this is sometimes impossible. The journals thatrevealed the infidelity are mailed to the narrator. In thinly-veiled metafiction, the accompanying note reads, “DearYuníor, for your next book.” The narrator begins the workin earnest, saying, “In the months that follow you bend tothe work, because it feels like hope, like grace — and becauseyou know in your lying cheater’s heart that sometimes a startis all you get.” This is How You Lose Her leaves us with thefeeling which is exactly that, a start. It’s something “likegrace,” in that it recognizes love and family as a divine, unde-served gift, and it makes some sort of tentative avowal tomove toward appreciating it instead of losing it.
Ihave to confess: Although critics haveuniversally lambasted the TLC realityTV series Here Comes Honey Boo Boo, I
love the show. I have no idea why I love it so much.
Maybe it was because I already fell in lovewith the family when that Toddlers andTiaras segment featuring six-year-old AlanaThompson first appeared on YouTube.Toddlers and Tiaras is itself horrific, showingthe inner world of child beauty pageantsand how parents would do absolutely any-thing (like plastic surgery) to have theirdaughters win. In that ultra-competitiveenvironment, Alana shone. “Those othergirls must be crazy if they think they’regonna beat ME HONEY BOO BOOCHILD!” And although she didn’t winagainst those mini-plastics, her eccentricitywon my heart. She seemed really sincereabout beating the other girls, but it didn’tsound malicious or dramatized in the wayreality TV normally is. She was just being anormal six-year-old pepped for a competi-tion, and if she didn’t win, then it was okay(supposedly because she didn’t show herbelly to the judges).
It wasn’t untilHere Comes HoneyBoo Boo came outthat we knew moreabout Honey BooBoo and her mother,June (“Mama”).Mama has threeother daughters, allwith different men,though HBB’s father(“Sugar Bear”) has been with the family foreight years now. They live in rural McIntyre,Georgia, next to a busy railroad. Mama Beardropped out of high school after she waspregnant with her first child and obsesseswith couponing (“It’s even better than sex”).She believes that farting at least 10 times aday helps lose weight.
People have responded to the show intwo ways. The first reaction is to the familyitself as trashy rednecks and “everything thatis wrong with America.” The title card loud-ly features Mama’s flatulence. They eatcheese puffs for breakfast. In the pilot, theygo to the Redneck Games to bob for pigsnouts and play in mud pits. In the entireshow, their dialogue is supplemented withsubtitles because their speech is so unintelli-gible. For these haters, the show is such atrainwreck that it’s impossible to look away.
These criticisms say more about the crit-ics than the family themselves. Here arespectators, typically 18-30-year-olds fromupper-middle class families, putting othersdown to make themselves feel better. “Theirshotgun shack lies virtually on the railroadtracks,” one critic writes. “Southern Pacificbrakemen could grab a bottle of go-go juiceas they pass through without leaning out ofthe train.” The star of the Lifetime realityTV show Dance Moms, Abby Lee Miller,told TMZ about how she herself needs tolose weight before saying that at least shewasn’t as bad as HBB. Cheap.
The second criticizes TLC for exploitingthe family for malicious amusement. This ismuch more warranted: TLC was paying thefamily $4,000 per episode, compared to$25,000 for the Duggars in 18 Kids andCounting (another TLC reality show).TLC’s condescending editing is alsoextremely uncomfortable: At one point they
visit a dumpster to salvage things, beforecutting to HBB innocently whispering thatall of her sister’s clothes were from thedumpster. She says that sweetly just likeevery other six-year-old would do whentelling a secret they shouldn’t — yet TLCclearly wants you to giggle at her because ofthe family’s poverty.
That’s a real shame, because, despite theirfaults, they are the best thing to happen tokitschy reality TV — they dump the script-ed crap for some genuinely human positiveinteraction. Mama might have had two kidsby 17, but she has a sharp wit and an amaz-ingly positive and pragmatic outlook on life(one that we cynics fantasize for). Casuallymentioning her chins, Mama says that shedoesn’t care because “beauty comes from theinside,” before saying that she would like tolose a hundred pounds in support of her sec-ond daughter’s diet. They even weigh them-selves on camera, which takes a lot of confi-dence and self-esteem given society’s imagesof body weight.
TLC, hit with those well-deserved accu-sations of exploitation, recently offeredthem a bigger house, to which they refused(“Keeping it real,” as CNN described). Andalthough Mama refuses to marry Sugar Bear(even though he’s asked many times), all herdaughters try to push her into marriage, say-ing that he’s like the father they never had.Sugar Bear himself dresses up as Santa Clausin July to solicit canned donations for theless fortunate and claims that family alwayscomes first.
Perhaps the moment that really solidifiedthis show’s value was when Sugar Bear gaveHBB a pet pig to cheer her up after losing apageant. HBB immediately took to the petpig with painted toenails, changing “Glitzy”from a boy pig to a girl pig so “he could bea little gay.” When her older sister(“Chubbs”) pointed out that the pig wasprobably not gay, she pointedly retorts “Hecan if he wants to. You can’t tell that pig
what to do.” As hard as TLC may try to slap that red-
neck trash stereotype that we Northernersenjoy, the family always worms their wayout of it to prove them and its critics wrong.So I only have one response to the haterswho need a little self-esteem boost: Get overyourselves, because they definitely have. Yes,the go-go juice is really, really bad, but atleast unlike other pageant moms, Mamawants HBB to be the first in their family togo to college. Besides, the family doesn’t careabout your criticism. Absent TLC, absentreality TV and absent us as an audience, theThompsons will just keep doing what theydo. If schadenfreude is unavoidable andpeople demand reality TV, I want to seemore things that bond than divide (RealHousewives of NJ, anyone?). Seriously, morepower to them.
Kai Sam Ng is a junior in the School of Industrialand Labor Relations. He can be reached [email protected]. You’ve Got To Be KitschingMe appears alternate Wednesdays this semester.
BY KAITLYN TIFFANYSun Contributor
You’ve Got to BeKitsching Me
Kai Sam Ng
All Honey, No Boo Boo
ZANDER ABRANOWICZ / SUN STAFF ILLUSTRATOR
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Something Like Grace
Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences. She can be reached at [email protected].
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Cornell in the first half contained Scales,the leading rusher in the Ivies in 2012, butthe senior broke loose after the break to fin-ish with 106 yards and a score on 21 carries.The Red defenders could not generate muchpressure on Chapple despite the Crimsonplaying two backup offensive linemen, andwhen they did, the nimble signal caller scur-ried away, finishing with 53 rushing yardsand a touchdown on nine attempts whileavoiding a sack.
“You’ve got to give credit to the offensiveline,” Chapple said. “I haven’t been touchedin a few games [and] the amount of successwe’re running the football with is somethingthat’s very hard to defend.”
Harvard, meanwhile, sacked Mathewsfour times and hit him often to ensure theCrimson’s seventh straight win over Cornell.Mathews never fully got into a rhythm as hefinished 20-of-41 passing, his lowest incom-pletion percentage since he posted the samenumbers 51 weeks ago at Colgate.
“Harvard has probably been most consis-tently the best defensive line we go againstevery year,” Tretter said. “They’re a talentedgroup of guys [and] they’ve always been
good. We got themsometimes, they got usother times. We’ve justgot to do better.”
The Red must alsofigure out why its offen-sive execution in bigmoments has disap-peared this season.Cornell converted onlytwo-of-13 third downsagainst the Crimson,including one-of-six onthird-and-5 or shorter.Austin said at least someof the misfiring was dueto Harvard’s suffocating pass defense.
“Their secondary shut down most of ourreceivers most of the game — that’s the bot-tom line,” the third-year coach said. “Ourproduction on first and second down needsto go way up. We’re not very good right nowoffensively in scoring territory. We’ve got toget to the bottom of that.”
A bad omen for Cornell’s receiving corpsis the apparent limitations of fifth-yearsenior Shane Savage’s injured leg. The Ivy’striple-crown winner from 2011 gave it a goafter missing all but the first series of the sea-son opener on Sept. 15, but he didn’t look
even close to 100 percent healthy. Savagecouldn’t come down with a Mathews hurl ingarbage time as multiple defenders hit himto end his streak of 31 consecutive gameswith a reception, second best in programhistory.
Still, the group posted decent results.Tasker finished with eight catches for 87yards and the Red’s only touchdown of thegame. Gellatly added 111 yards on six recep-tions, while Hagy shook off the fumble totally 25 rushing and 77 receiving yards.
The Red returns home to wrap up itsnon-conference schedule on Saturday at
12:30 p.m. versus Monmouth in the first-ever meeting between the schools. While thelopsided loss to the Ivy favorite was disap-pointing and may have dented Cornell’s titlehopes, the club has no choice but to moveforward.
“Our team will be defined by what we dothese next six games,” Tretter said. “It will benice to get back in front of the Schoellkopfcrowd. We’ll refocus this week. We’re going tocome out with fire and we’ll be ready to go.”
least the basics of the Core 4 —football, basketball, baseball andhockey. If you can understand thegeneral flow of play, then youshould be able to follow along withyour friends. Most of my guyfriends say that they are impressedby a girl who understands the gistof a game that they are watchingtogether, so take note, ladies —knowledge really is power. Use it toyour advantage.
2. Pledge Your AllegianceWhile knowing the basics of a
sport is helpful, following specificteams is even better. Being able toname certain key players or recall afew stats about a team is usuallyenough to make a good impressionin a conversation. However, bewarned that you may encounteranother fan who questions why yousupport your team or tries toengage you in a conversation thatgoes beyond the depth of theWikipedia page you read.
You don't need to become anexpert, but it's good to knowenough about a team — especiallya successful team — so that peopledon't assume you are bandwago-ning. Successful teams are popularfor a reason, but it's better to saythat the team is good because it
won MLS Cup recently rather thanbecause David Beckham has a nicerump.
3. The Art of ChirpingThe final way to blend into our
sports-obsessed culture is to learnhow to properly chirp. No, I don'tmean make bird noises. Instead,I'm referring to the witty (or not sowitty) banter and smack-talk thathas become an integral part of mostsporting events.
If you want to learn the bestcomebacks and chirps first hand,then I would suggest making dis-missive comments about yourfriends' teams and seeing how theyrespond. While this method mayseem questionable, it will provideresults. Proceed with caution. Ilearned a great deal about chirpinglast year during the Flyers-PenguinsPlayoff series. Friendships arethrown to the wayside when achance to play (or have one's teamplay) for Lord Stanley's Cup is onthe line.
So, ladies, there you have it.These tips are not going to turn youinto a bleacher creature, but myhope is that you'll enjoy watchingsports just a little more than youdid before and be more accepted bythe sports fanatics in your lives.
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Lauren Ritter can be reached [email protected].
Knowledge, Allegiance andChirping Lead to Success
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The Cornell sprint football team fell to Army this past weekend, 38-14, while on the road at Shea Stadium.This loss was the first of the season for the Red, while Army walked away still undefeated for the season.
Sprint footballCornell PracticesTo Achieve BetterFuture Outcomes
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This past weekend, the tie against Harvardseems to follow a trend with the Red versusCrimson matchups ending in a tie — the teamstied last season, 2-2, on Oct. 8 at Berman.
“The fact that we tied them last year was abig thing for us. We wanted to at least get apoint off of them again,” said Keroack.“Having the confidence after our Lafayettegame was also a big factor.”
This year’s draw was thanks to a goal fromKeroack in the 75thminute, for the onlyCornell goal of theentire game.
“I was more sur-prised than any-thing. I hardly sawit go into the netwhen I headed it in.I thought it was surely going over,” saidKeroack. “I just threw my hands up.”
The goal was executed off of a corner kick inthe second half by Chitanvis, which Keroackcapitalized on with a header 15 yards from goal.The goal for Keroack was her first since her sec-ond showing during her freshman season whenshe scored twice over Delaware State on Sept. 5,2010.
“Mary has been playing really well in train-ing and then has been a little up and down insome of the matches. But she came into thismatch and played really hard. She was in a greatplace for the corner kick and then had a reallyintelligent header,” said Farmer. “It was a reallygood goal and a deserving reward for the workthat she has put in.”
Chitanvis’ assist also gives her points in thelast three games for the Red and puts her in atie with Hompe for the scoring lead at 10points apiece.
“I think that scoring some goals on Tuesdaynight gave them some more confidence. Wedidn’t play especially well the first half [againstHarvard], but the second half we picked it up,played pretty well and came from behind toscore that goal,” Farmer said.
The game also gave Christ an opportunity toshow her stuff for the Red with a career-high 10saves. The only shot missed was one at the two-minute mark where Harvard turned a bouncingpass at 10 yards into its solo goal for the game.Harvard’s goalie Bethany Kanten saw a lot lessaction than Christ with only two shots on goalfrom Cornell — the goal from Keroack out ofthe two shots attempted throughout play.
“[Christ] played very well in the last game
… I think that she did well, [she] punched afew out. She is very brave and things in crowdsand stuff, she done very well with [that] … Shehas been very good through all three Ivy gamesand with Lafayette,” said Farmer.
Hoping to build off its current momentum,Cornell will continue the Ivy part of the sea-sonthis Saturday when it goes up against Yale at4 p.m. on Berman Field.
“It’s Ivy League season … these are extreme-ly important games for us ... Just building con-fidence, keeping things moving and stayingpositive for the rest of the season [is the goal],”
said Keroack.Then the Red
will continue with atrip to Brown thenext weekend andwill finish off thefall with gamesagainst Ivy foesPrinceton and
Dartmouth.“I think a lot of it for us is confidence and I
think that it is building after the last twogames. Yale significantly outplayed them lastyear. So for this weekend it is to get them toplay a little different, a little more defensivelyand a little faster play to matchup with Yale …Believing that they can and coming frombehind against Harvard should give them someconfidence [for this weekend],” added Farmer.
The Cornell field hockey team hasextended its winning streak to four straightgames — after facing both Colgate andGeorgetown on the road. The Red (5-6, 2-1 Ivy League) defeated the Raiders, 3-2, onWednesday and then travelled to CollegePark, Md. to defeat the Hoyas, 3-1.
The game against Colgate was played onthe road for Cornell, but just in nearbyHamilton, NY. The Red converted its firstfew penalty corner chances — with the firsttwo being scored by freshman MarisaSiergiej with assists from junior HannahBalleza and freshman Taylor Standifordrespectively. Balleza then proceeded toscore the third goal, putting the ball into thenet off of a rebound near the goal. However,the Raiders were determined to put up afight, and proceeded to score two goalswithin the last 12 minutes of play. JadeDennett and Lauren Dittman were thescorers for the Raiders. Colgate was able tooutshoot the Red, 18-9, but Cornell was
the victor due to the tremendous work ofgoal keeper Carolyn Horner, who recordedseven saves in the second half alone.
The Red then travelled to WashingtonD.C. for a dinner hosted by the FieldHockey Alumni for family and friends ofthe team. The following day, the team trav-elled to the University of Maryland to facethe Georgetown Hoyas. Three differentCornell players were able to notch a goal —with Balleza, Siergiej, and junior BrittanyThompson each scoring. Additionally,Siergiej and Standiford each recorded anassist for Cornell. Thompson was able todraw first blood — scoring 28 seconds intothe game to give the Red an early lead.Georgetown was able to equalize, scoring itsonly goal of the contest when senior AnnieWilson scored off of a rebound. The Redscored its next two goals unanswered to fin-ish off the game. Again the Red was out-shot, 11-8, but managed to come up withthe win, relying on the presence of Hornerand smart decision making on the field.
As a result of an impressive performancesduring the last two games, Balleza and
Siergiej received honors as the Ivy LeaguePlayer of the Week and the latter Ivy LeagueRookie of the Week. This is the first timethat two Cornell athletes swept the awardssince 1995. The Red will look to these play-ers to continue their impressive playthroughout the last six games of the season.
The Red will head back on the road andtravel to Harvard next Saturday to face theCrimson (3-8, 1-2). This will be the fourthIvy League contest of the year for the Redand a win would give the team a 3-1 record.The Crimson are led offensively by sopho-more Noel Painter who spearheads theoffense with four goals so far on the season.Another Crimson sophomore Caitlin Rea isthe playmaker for Harvard — she leads theteam with four assists this season. The teamis also anchored by senior goalkeeperCynthia Tassopoulos who has played innine of the eleven total games for Harvardso far.
The team is coached by Tjerk vanHerwaarden, who is in his first season ofholding the reins for Harvard but comes tothe Crimson with past experience.
Herwaarden helped the University ofMaryland Terrapins win five national titlesin the seven years he spent there.
The Red will then come back to Ithacafor a matchup against the DavidsonWildcats. The visitors are led on offense bysenior Finley Amato, who leads the teamwith 10 goals. The creative player to watchis freshman midfielder Melissa Funsten whohas recorded six assists on the season. Ingoal for the Wildcats is senior Sarah Fisher,who has played in all 12 games for theWildcats this season.
If the Red can pull off two more victo-ries in these next two games, it will elevatethe team to a winning record for the firsttime this season. At 7-6 and 3-1 in the IvyLeague, the Red will be in a prime positionto finish off the season with a strong record.Cornell has played with unmatched tenaci-ty in its last four games and will continuethis mentality in practice and hopefully ingames.
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32
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By SHAYAN SALAMSun Staff Writer
Sophomore midfielder Conor Goepel helped the Red last night with a goalto take down Colgate, 3-1. The victory gave Cornell it’s 11th win of the sea-son, which tied the program record for wins recorded in a single season.
Men’s soccer
Cornell Extends Winning Streak to Four Straight Games
W. SOCCERContinued from page 16
Haley Velasco can be reached [email protected].
Red Hopes to Build on Last TwoGames for Positive Season End
“I think that a lot of it for us isconfidence and I think that is buildingafter the last two games”Patrick Farmer
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Things are looking up for theRed after this past week of playincluding both an Ivy game and anon-conference showing. After a 4-1win against Lafayette on Tuesday,Cornell (1-10-1, 0-2-1 Ivy League)went on the road to tie the defend-ing Ivy League Champion Harvard,1-1, after two periods of overtime.
The 4-1 win against Lafayetteended the 14 game losing streak that
the Red has been fighting to breaksince the early onset of the season.
The first goal of the game camefrom senior forward MoonieMancho with 40 seconds left in thefirst half to even the playing fieldafter an early Lafayette advantage.The Red returned to the second halfand scored three more goals — twofrom senior forward ManeeshaChitanvis and one from senior for-ward Xandra Hompe — within nineminutes of play to take the victoryfor Cornell. Hompe also racked up
three assists in the game as well toadd to the tally.
The game against Lafayette wasthe first collegiate victory for juniorgoalkeeper Tori Christ in 45 minutesof play.
“[The success was from] a littlemore determination in the secondhalf. Mostly I think we finishedmore of our chances that game thansome other games,” said head coachPatrick Farmer talking about theteam’s first win. “We certainly pos-sessed the ball and played a little bet-ter, but we haven’t been playingbadly. We just haven’t been finishingthings off very well.”
The game against Lafayette wasthe first time that the Red scoredfour goals in a game since Sept. 5,2010 against Delaware State —where it beat the Hornets, 7-0.
Hompe also became the firstCornellian to pick up three assists ina game since 1991 — with theaccomplishment only occurringthree times previously in 1983, 1987and 1991.
“I think we have really cometogether as a team, it took us a littlebit but we are definitely doing somethings that are working … and weare just really starting to cometogether and it’s great,” said juniormidfielder Mary Keroack.
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She shoots, she scores | Junior midfielder Mary Keroack came up big thispast weekend scoring the only goal against Harvard to secure the tie for Cornell.
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Cornell Falls AgainstUndefeated Harvard
When Red junior safety Brian Gee cor-ralled a deflected third-quarter pass for hisfirst career interception, it looked like theCornell football team might have turnedwhat was heading towards laugher into anailbiter. But Harvard (4-0, 2-0 Ivy) provedit is still the class of the Ivy League by book-ending two 21-0 scoring streaks in a criticalearly-season conference matchup to runaway with a 45-13 victory on Saturday after-noon in Cambridge, Mass. — its 13th winin a row.
Cornell (2-2, 1-1) received the openingkickoff like it has in all four games, butsenior wide receiver Kurt Ondash continueda season-long team and individual bugabooby dropping a pass on first down and fresh-man running back Luke Hagy fumbled onthird down for the Red’s second opening-drive cough up of the year.
Just 15 minutes of play later, Harvardjunior wide receiver Andrew Berg becamethe fourth-everCrimson play-er to recordthree receivingtouchdowns ina game — thefirst two bybeating Redfreshman cornerback Kendall Brown to theback of the end zone. Berg’s 15-yard catch inthe first minute of the second quarter vault-ed the hosts to a 21-0 cushion as Harvardsenior quarterback Colton Chapple com-
pleted his first 12 passes. The Red offensecountered those possessions with threepunts.
“One drive is not going to kill you,you’ve got to stay in there,” said Cornell lefttackle J.C. Tretter. “But we [started] pilingup three and outs. You can’t do that — youneed to gain some momentum right away.”
The defending Ivy Champs kept theearly punch until junior wide receiver RickyZorn dropped a third-down pass in the endzone and junior kicker David Mothandermissed wide right on the resulting 30-yardfield goal attempt with 10:44 remaininguntil halftime.
Cornell junior quarterback and offensiveco-captain Jeff Mathews then put the Redon the board with three straight completions— a 44-yard beauty to Hagy, a 19-yard postroute to junior wide receiver Grant Gellatlyand a three-yard touchdown toss to seniorwide receiver and special teams co-captainLuke Tasker.
The Red defense stepped up to force con-secutive three-and-outs, and Mathews and
the receiversled anotherscoring drive.But this time a12-yard loss ona double-reverse trickplay forced the
squad to settle for a 25-yard field goal fromjunior kicker John Wells and a 21-10 half-time deficit.
Mathews recorded a Cornell-recordninth career 300-yard game and moved into
second all-time for career yardage, but thecompetitive gunslinger is not in a mood torejoice.
“I didn’t make enough plays today,” the2011 Ivy League Offensive Player of the Yearsaid. “We had guys open and I didn’t makeenough throws. We didn’t respond welltoday and I think a lot of that’s on my shoul-ders.”
On a warm and sunny day with strongwinds, Cornell played solid defense in themiddle two quarters with the breeze inHarvard’s face. The Red and Crimson trad-ed field goals in the third for a 24-13 score,but when the teams again switched sides, thetop-ranked offense in the Ancient Eightblew through the visitors in the final frame.Harvard gained 70 percent of its passingyards and scored 35 of its 45 points with thewind.
With 12:53 to go, Zorn fought to snatcha 24-yard touchdown pass over Brown,whom Chapple targeted all game long, tostretch the Crimson lead to 31-13 and addthe straw that broke the camel’s back.
“Cornell is playing a lot of young guys inthe secondary,” said Chapple, who improvedto 10-0 as a starter with a 362-yard, four-score passing performance. “We knew that’ssomething we can exploit. Having the play-makers on the outside, it’s just a greatmatchup all around.”
“They made a lot more plays than wedid,” added Cornell head coach KentAustin. “Their receivers made some greatcatches. [When] the ball was thrown up,there [were] many times it was either guy’sball and [Harvard] made the play and wedidn’t. Give some credit to them.”
During a long-shot comeback attempt,Mathews threw his second and third inter-ceptions of the season, leading to two moreCrimson scores — a six-yard touchdownrun by senior tailback Treavor Scales and afour-yard scoring sprint from Chapple. Thelatter came on a fourth-and-goal that put anexclamation point on a convincing 45-13triumph.
Pushing forward | Senior wide receiver Luke Tasker made eight catches for 87yards, including a touchdown, in Cornell’s loss to Ivy foe Harvard.
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FOOTBALL
By QUINTIN SWCHWABSun Senior Writer
“We had guys open and I didn’tmake enough throws.”Jeff Mathews
Red Beats Lafayette; Ties HarvardWOMEN’S SOCCER
By HALEY VELASCOSun Assistant Sports Editor
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were addicted to basketball.A visit to Brosquad’s apart-ment was not complete with-out watching at least onegame, with all of the guyssimultaneously yelling (some -times incoherently, nooffense) at the little men run-ning across the screen. WhileI usually had fun spendingtime with the guys, I’m not ahuge NBA fan, so I wouldoccasionally get lost in their
conversations. I wanted to bemore active in what the guysspent 85 percent of theirtime talking about, so I didwhat any smart girl would do— I googled basketball.
You don’t have to be anexpert to enjoy watching agame; however, a little bit ofknowledge isn’t a bad thing.I recommend learning at
There are plenty offemale sports fans inthe world. However,
this column is not for them.This column is for all thewomen out there who mightnot know the differencebetween a grand slam and aslam dunk, but have people intheir lives that are sports fans.Ladies, listen up — I’ve got afew suggestions for survivingin a sports-centric world.
1. Know the GameHalf the battle of enjoying
a game, in person or on tele-vision, is understanding whatis happening in front of you.Therefore, having a boyfriendor guy friends who have agreat love for sports, whileyou do not share their enthu-siasm or passion, can berough.
I had a group of guyfriends my junior year that
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