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Vol. 129, No. 49 TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2012 ! ITHACA, NEW YORK
The Corne¬ Daily SunINDEPENDENT SINCE 1880
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StormyHIGH: 55 LOW: 39
Bracing for the StormAs several Collegetown businesses lost power Monday,landlords encouraged their tenants to take personal safetymeasures during the storm.
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News
BustedAn Ithaca resident was arrestedand arraigned Friday forallegedly possessing illegalweapons and controlled substances.
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News
Weather
Poetic JusticeThe Sun reviews Irish poetSeamus Heaney’s emotionalreading on campus Thursday.
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Sports
HeartbreakerCornell sprint football suffereda close loss to Post Universityon Friday.
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Warning SignTom Moore ’14 urges studentsto use Hurricane Sandy as alearning experience to treat theenvironment with more care inthe future.
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Opinion
Arts
Anticipating that Hurricane Sandy will bringhigh-speed winds to the area, City of Ithaca MayorSvante Myrick ’09 recommended that motorists,
cyclists and pedestrians avoid “unnecessary travel”after 9 p.m. as a safety precaution.
“Due to high and sustained winds I am officiallyrecommending that no one travel on city streetsunnecessarily after 9 p.m. tonight,” Myrick said onhis Facebook page Monday night. “Unless you
This story was written by Joseph Niczky, Caroline Flax and AkaneOtani.
As Hurricane Sandy begins ripping through upstate New York,Cornell is bracing for heavy rain and windy conditions.
But as of Monday evening, a University official said she did notthink Cornell would shut down operations Tuesday.
“We’re still monitoring the situation and seeing if it warrants clo-sure … but as of now, it appears as if it won’t be necessary,” saidClaudia Wheatley, director of press relations for the University.
Wheatley acknowledged that because it was relatively early in theevening, “a lot could happen” before Tuesday morning. TheUniversity’s weather experts will continue to monitor the storm’scondition throughout the night, she added.
Although Cornell plans on staying open throughout the week,Wheatley said the University is “keenly aware” that many of itsemployees commute to campus from “all over central New York andeven Pennsylvania.” Accordingly, should the University decide toclose, it will announce its decision as early as possible — “possiblyeven [at] dawn,” Wheatley said.
Cornell Dining has also taken precautions to ensure Cornell hasenough food to last four days without deliveries, according to KarenBrown, director of marketing and communications for CampusLife.
“If we had to feed everyone on campus for a number of days, wecould, even if we don’t have power,” she said. “Any person who reg-ularly eats on campus we can feed; that’s staff, that’s faculty, anyonewho regularly eats on campus.”
Cornell Dining did not need to make special plans for HurricaneSandy because emergency plans have been in place for years, Brownsaid.
“Cornell Dining is always prepared,” she said. “We store what wecan to feed for four days.”
However, the storm will result in some dining services being dis-
Calm before the storm | Students walk across the Engineering Quadin the rain on Monday, before Hurricane Sandy is set to arrive Tuesday.
ALEX FANG / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
Cornell will remain open;dining prepared for crisis
Ithacans, Jungle residents ready for ‘superstorm’
By SUN STAFF
While students spend fouryears on the Hill workingtoward their degrees, their fam-ilies may spend almost as muchtime trying to find a place tostay for their children’s gradua-tion weekend.
The scramble to book hotelrooms for CommencementWeekend can lead families tostay in Cornell’s residence halls,to rent local residents’ homes orto book hotels as far away asJohnson City or Syracuse inorder to attend to graduation,several representatives fromlocal hotels said.
Some parents who “findthemselves in tight spots” trytheir luck through a lottery sys-tem at several hotels. In a typicalapplication, hotels ask forpatrons’ contact information,which is entered into a randomdrawing that determines whowill be able to book a room,according to Jason Humphrey,sales coordinator at theHomewood Suites.
Although hotels that use thelottery system provide parentswith an equal — albeit random— opportunity to reserve
rooms, merely submitting anapplication does not guaranteethat one will be able to book aroom, Humphrey said.
For instance, Hampton Innreceives more than 300 applica-tions a year in its lottery fortheir 66 available rooms,according to Amy Magdon,general manager for TheHampton Inn. Because there isso much demand for Ithaca’slimited supply of hotels, manyguests are turned away.
Even though Cornell boastsits own hotel on campus, TheStatler Hotel is reserved forUniversity Trustees during grad-uation weekend and is not opento the general public, accordingto Richard Adie, general man-ager of The Statler.
However, Cornell providesaccomodations for any familieswilling to stay in dorms.
“Everyone who participatesin the [dorm] lottery is able toreserve accommodations fortheir guests,” according toCornell’s commencement web-site.
Parents who are willing totravel farther away from campusand do not want to grapple with
By EMMA JESCHSun Contributor
See GRADUATION page 4
See CORNELL page 5
Storm brewing | A man wades through flood waters that accumulated in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn onMonday night. The worst of the major Northeast storm was expected to hit Ithaca at about 10 p.m. Monday.
ROBERT STOLARIK / THE NEW YORK TIMES
By JEFF STEINSun Managing Editorand LIZ CAMUTISun City Editor
See CITY page 4
Parents Scramble to Find HotelsYears Before Graduation Weekend
Ithaca Warned as Sandy Arrives
Editor in Chief Juan Forrer ’13
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Tomorrow
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
TodayI’m gonna show youuuu how great I am.I watched this one motivational video on YouTube
repeatedly this weekend. Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our
deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.Sometimes you need an epic soundtrack to your life.
Sometimes you have to convince yourself that you’re thehero in the movie, that you’re the lone underdog defy-ing the odds, vanquishing your enemies, achieving eter-nal glory. Here is the story of a small part of my journeythrough the treachery of my own Middle Earth, myodyssey, my personal Holy Grail: trying to get into med-ical school.
Nothing’s going to hit as hard as life. Life was hit-ting hard for me. Uncertainty about my future in med-ical school weighed heavier everyday as rejection emailsdotted my inbox. Was it time to wave a flag and beginchanneling my energies into finding a plan B? I logical-ly thought so - but I didn’t and couldn’t invest in areplacement endeavor. The flames inside that fueled myambitions to become a renowned surgeon who’d makethe biggest mark on the world could not die quietly.100% Rejection—a statistic everyone can measure youby. I began to fall hard into a depression like I’ve neverfelt before, a depression I could only feel from suddenlyhaving my mountain snatched from underneath me.The thought of giving up my once-clear goal was sick-ening. Falling is fine; you can get back up. But being lostis much more frightening.
I explained my situation to advisors all within oneday – barely any interviews, mostly rejections, but stillquite a few schools to hear from. I was greeted with deeplooks of sympathy, looks they’ve clearly flashed to manya rejected student. They each were suggesting, in theirown way, that I give up, “for now at least.” “Consideranother path,” or if I had to, wait at least two years.
I simply refused to believe that this could be true. Whatif I just went to these admissions offices? What if I justshowed my face and demanded to be seen? “I think youshould do it.” And so there it was, the only glimmer ofhope, coming from a newly hired advisor. I decided to grabit and hold on for dear life.
This was Wednesday. Suddenly I felt gripped, afflicted,the dying embers within me fanned into a gigantic, raging
fire. Two cities, five schools, five days, no advanced notice.Was it possible? Like any Cornell student, I was running alow-grade fever, severely sleep deprived, and scheduled fora full weekend of work at the restaurant. Suddenly though,nothing mattered. My Halls cough drop wrapper said it all- Bet on yourself. It was time to push in all my chips, buybus tickets, call out of work, compose letters of interest,and get down to research. Without a moment to breatheand barely time to pack, I found myself in a smelly Subaruwith Chris, a fellow anxious, journeying applicant, throt-tling off to a school in Long Island during the first snow-storm in many weeks. Just our luck.
Obstacle #1 - Getting gas at 3 AM is difficult. Obstacle #2 - Driving in a blizzard is scary. Obstacle #3 - Drinking canned double shot espresso on
an empty stomach makes you want to vomit your brainsout.
Obstacle #4 - Being sick and tired at the same timedoesn’t help. This is fucking crazy, I couldn’t help butthink. Someone please remind me that this is a good idea.The desire to sleep and the danger of the icy roads over-whelmed us, as our snow-unequipped vehicle slid by athree-car accident. We pulled over somewhere in the mid-dle of New York state, snowflakes flying, sometime around4:45 AM.
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By Tammy Su ’12
Students can send poetry and fictionsubmissions to [email protected].
Following a lengthy narcotics investigation,Ithaca resident MbusiNtombela was arrestedand arraigned Fridayfor allegedly possessingillegal weapons andcontrolled substances,according to a reportreleased by the IthacaPolice Department.
Investigating poten-tial illegal distribution of drugs, IPD issued a searchwarrant for 202 Fourth St. for marijuana andcocaine on Friday. The search yielded not only mar-ijuana and cocaine, but also counterfeit money andseveral illegal weapons, police said.
Ntombela, 40, was arrested on one count ofcriminal possession of a controlled substance in the
third degree and two counts of criminal possessionof a weapon in the third degree. He has not beencharged in connection with the counterfeit currency,according to IPD.
After his arraign-ment in the City ofIthaca Court on Friday,Ntombela remains inthe Tompkins CountyJail on $20,000 cashbail of Tuesday, accord-ing to IPD.
IPD conducted theinvestigation with the
Tompkins County Sheriff ’s Department, the IPDSWAT Team and the Tompkins County DistrictAttorney’s Office. Police did not release any addi-tional details as the investigation is ongoing.
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3 NEWS
C-Town ResidentsPrepare for WrathOf Hurricane Sandy
By MANU RATHORESun Senior Writer
Manu Rathore can be reached at [email protected].
Criminal objects | Ithaca resident Mbusi Ntombela was arrested Friday for possession of illegal weapons andcontrolled substances (above), which were reportedly confiscated from his home, according to police.
COURTESY OF THE ITHACA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Ithaca Resident Arrested for PossessionOf Illegal Weapons, Controlled Substances
Caroline Flax can be reachedat [email protected].
After his arraignment in the City ofIthaca Court on Friday, Ntombelaremains in the Tompkins County Jailon $20,000 cash bail as of Tuesday.
The University of Pennsylvania canceledclasses and shut down all University operationsfor Monday and Tuesday, The DailyPennsylvanian reported. Additionally, allbuildings and libraries on Penn’s campus willbe closed until Wednesday.
Brown UPenn
Columbia University cancelled classesMonday as 40 mile-per-hour winds approachedMorningside Heights, according to TheColumbia Daily Spectator. Other University ser-vices will remain open on a limited basis, TheSpectator reported.
Princeton University cancelled classesMonday and Tuesday in the wake ofHurricane Sandy, according to The DailyPrincetonian. The University will decideTuesday at noon whether it will reopen “criti-cal campus functions” on Tuesday, ThePrincetonian reported.
Columbia
Princeton
After Gov. John Lynch (D-N.H.) declared astate of emergency in New Hampshire,Dartmouth College cancelled 3 p.m. classesand closed all libraries at 4 p.m, TheDartmouth reported.
For the first time in 34 years, Yale Universitycancelled all classes and extracurricular activitieson Monday, according to The Yale Daily News.The University will likely issue a curfew for stu-dents encouraging them to remain in their dor-mitories on Tuesday, The Daily News reported.
Dartmouth
Yale
At Brown University, classes were canceledand administrative offices were shut downMonday, The Brown Daily Herald reported. Thestudent newspaper also announced that it wouldnot publish an edition for Oct. 30 due to theinclement weather.
Hurricane Sandy Edition
— Compiled by Kerry Close and Akane Otani
Several Collegetown businesses and thousands of Ithaca resi-dents suffered power outages Monday afternoon as landlordswarned their tenants to take all necessary precautions to protectthemselves from the effects of Hurricane Sandy.
Although he did not send any “special alerts,” NickLambrou, a landlord at Lambrou Real Estate, said he encour-aged his tenants to take precautions during the storm.
“We rely on the Tompkins County’s announcements and thelocal government’s measures … though we are also encouragingtenants to make sure that their windows are tightly shut,” hesaid.
Cheryl Beach, a realtor at Avramis Real Estate, said shechecked on houses over the weekend before the storm was set tohit Ithaca.
“We checked stuff over the weekend and made sure thateverything was in working order,” she said. “We have also takencare of garbage so that everything is not flying around.”
Lambrou added that he also checked for potential sources ofwater leakage into buildings.
“We have a couple of buildings that have emergency smokehatches up on the roof,” he said. “Our primary measure was tomake sure that these smoke hatches were sealed. We don’t wantthem to pop open and the water to come pouring in.”
High speed winds, however, remained the primary concernfor most landlords.
“What concerns me about this storm is not even the waterbut the wind,” Lambrou said. “The wind will cause power out-ages. The buildings are strong, but the power outages can be aproblem.”
In an email, Pam Johnston Apartments warned tenants notto use their stoves if their houses lose power. They also said thatif a houses loses power, staff would come by to shut off all gasappliances.
Mayda Dorak ’13, who lives on College Avenue, said she isalso concerned about losing power due to the storm. She hasshut all her windows in preparation for the arrival of HurricaneSandy.
“The wind might cause trees [to] fall, but there is not muchthat I can do about that,” she said.
Alex Cheng ’15, a resident of Dryden Road, said he was con-cerned about possible power outages.
“I think it’s going to be pretty bad. I came back from classes
and witnessed a power outage on the block from [CollegetownBagels] to Stella’s,” he said. “Everything is down right there. Iexpect that it will happen to my apartment sometime soon.”
In addition to CTB and Stella’s, 7-Eleven lost power at about3:30 p.m. Monday.
Henry Wells ’14 witnessed what looked like a power lineexploding as he went on a run through Collegetown Mondayevening.
“I was running down near the intersection of Maple Avenueand Dryden Avenue and there was a brief yellow flash and aloud bang [from a power line box],” he said. “There was nodamage spotted, but I heard later that CTB had lost power, sothat could have been why.”
Most say the worst of the storm is yet to come. “I have stocked up on toilet paper and frozen food,” he said.
“We have just had a taste of what the hurricane is going to belike. We are yet to see the real Sandy.”
Though Ithaca has “made it through major snowstorms” and“24 hours of snow” in the past, Lambrou said that theapproaching Hurricane Sandy poses a unique threat to the city.
“It’s powerful and now it’s coming here,” he said. “We havenever had such a situation before. I have never faced such a sit-uation before.”
“What concerns me about this storm is noteven the water but the wind. The wind willcause power outages.”Nick Lambrou
Landlords fear the possibility of poweroutages caused by high-speed winds
By CAROLINE FLAXSun Senior Writer
“If one person goes through arough time, we’ll all gathertogether and try to help eachother — that’s the way it’salways been in the Jungle,”Schehr said. Otherwise, he said,each Jungle resident agreed toensure that his own tent is pre-pared for the storm.
Schehr said the only reasonthe residents might leave is ifthe rain causes a nearby creek tooverflow into their tents.
“We’re all staying throughthis,” Schehr said. “We’re ani-mals, we know how to survive— it’s not like we haven’t beenhere before.”
Still, not all the Jungle resi-dents were staying for the night.As the rain began to batter thetarp above his tent, a Jungle res-ident known as “Tattoo” wasleaving to stay with a friend inEnfield — and taking his dog
Digger with him.“I don’t want a fucking tree
to fall on my head … I’ve seen ithappen before, too,” saidTattoo, who has lived in theJungle for three years.
Mayor Svante Myrick ’09said that the city is recommend-ing that the Jungle residentstake cover in a local shelter.Still, he said there were no planscurrently for any “forced evacu-ations.”
Meanwhile, Schehr said thatthe Jungle residents might bebetter off in their tents thanthose up the hill.
“We got chairs: that’s it. Wedon’t have shit laying around;we don’t have electricity; wedon’t have nothing to worryabout,” he said. “The less mate-rialistic you are, the less youhave to prepare.”
CITYContinued from page 1
The Sun’s News Department can bereached at [email protected].
Jungle Residents Stay Put
NEWS4 THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, October 30, 2012
the lottery system have turned to hotels in the surrounding Ithacaarea.
During graduation weekend last year, the family of HallieMitnick ’12 stayed at the Watkins Glen Harbor Hotel — an hour’sdrive away from Cornell’s campus.
Though the hotel was far away from campus, the experience wasnot “too bad,” said Jane Mitnick, Hallie’s mother.
“It provides a breather. It’s nice to get away from all of the hus-tle and bustle of graduation,” she added.
Although the Mitnicks did not look for hotels close to Ithaca forgraduation weekend, Jane Mitnick said that trying to find a placecloser to Ithaca would have been difficult.
“There’s not a lot of choice,” she said. “It’s a scramble.”Mitnick added that, while it would be nice if Cornell could do
more to help families with finding hotel rooms, it is not realistic forthe University to coordinate accommodations for everyone.
“It would be nice if they helped families find places to stay, butit is an impossible task because there are so many people,” she said.
Families who do not get a room through the hotel lottery sys-tems but want to stay close to campus sometimes turn to renting anIthaca resident’s house for the weekend.
Sallie and Norm Pure have rented out their Ithaca home fivetimes during graduation weekend to families who want to stay inthe area but were not able to obtain a spot in a hotel’s lottery sys-tem. Renting a whole house can often cost less than booking mul-tiple hotel rooms, especially if the whole family comes to Ithaca,according to Sallie Pure.
“It actually ends up costing less to lease a house than to rent acouple of hotel rooms. Plus, they have the comforts of a house likeaccess to a kitchen,” Pure said.
Graduation weekend is the only time of the year when hotels arecompletely full, according to Pure.
“It’s a tricky conundrum,” Pure said. “I personally think thatIthaca cannot sustain a larger number of hotels, but as long as fam-ilies [in the Ithaca area] are out there and willing to rent, we canhelp the families of graduates. ”
With Ithaca’s hotel market changing, however, the shortages inrooms over graduation weekend may become less of a problem,according to Richard Adie, general manager of The Statler.
“There’s a new Marriott [hotel] opening downtown that likelywon’t affect graduation 2013, but it will be done for 2014,” Adiesaid. “There’s also a Fairfield Inn on Elmira Road being built whichwill probably will be done in time for freshman orientation 2013.The Holiday Inn is also making renovations to add more rooms.”
In particular, the renovations to the Holiday Inn on SouthCayuga Street will create a 10-story tower with 115 new rooms,according to Hart Hotels, which owns the Holiday Inn. Althoughthese hotel changes will not affect the Class of 2013’s graduation,they may slowly start to make a difference in hotel bookings nextsummer, according to Adie.
“At the very least, changes will be visible by freshmen orientationnext year,” Adie said.
City Residents Rent Out Homes for Graduation
GRADUATIONContinued from page 1
Emma Jesch can be reached at [email protected].
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5NEWS
www.cornellsun.comrupted. After Tioga County issued a state of emergency on Monday,Cornell Dining decided to close eight dining halls on Tuesday, includ-ing Risley Dining, Cascadeli and several other a la carte locations.
“A lot of our employees live in Tioga County, so if they can’t get here,we can’t open at full strength,” Brown said.
Additionally, because of the adverse weather, a regularly scheduleddelivery for food that would have arrived Tuesday morning will notarrive until Wednesday, according to Brown.
Anticipating power outages across the East Coast, Cornell anddozens of other universities have also extended their deadlines for earlyapplications.
All Cornell hopefuls will have until midnight on Nov. 5 to submittheir application, including forms and recommendations sent by theirschool, according to the University’s undergraduate admissions office’swebsite. Previously, the University’s deadline for early decision appli-cants was Nov. 1.
“Because of Hurricane Sandy, the [admissions office] anticipates thatthere will be power outages all over the northeast in the next couple ofthe days. We know it will be very hard for students to get anything doneon time, yet alone an application for college,” Wheatley said.
On North Campus, freshmen expressed concern about how a poweroutage might affect their daily routine, according to Hannah McGough’15, a resident advisor in Townhouse E8 and designer for The Sun.
“[One] common concern is eating. As townhouse residents, [my res-idents] are more accustomed to cooking their own meals because theyhave kitchens. They’re particularly curious about special dining hallhours and accommodations,” she said.
Townhouse residents also received an email from their ResidentialHall Director telling students how to prepare for the storm, accordingto McGough. The email warned residents to close all windows anddoors.
“If we get a lot of rain (highly likely) –– please make sure to watchout for leaks,” the email read.
Meanwhile, students have been frequenting local stores to stock upon food and other supplies to for the storm.
Romney Badman, manager of Collegetown’s 7-Eleven, said the storehas seen an increase in customers the past few days.
“It hasn’t been extreme… [but] we’ve been busier the past few days,but you figure Halloween could also have something to do with it,” shesaid. “Batteries have been the big thing, some ready-to-eat items, likecans of ravioli.”
Peng Tian ’13 said she purchased a week’s worth of food for herselfand her roommates.
“In order to prepare for the hurricane, I’m actually getting a lot ofpotatoes since I have meat at home,” she said. “Even if nothing happens,I can still use the food to cook for something else. I’m not trying to stocktoo much food.”
Christina Hanco ’15 stocked up on food in case the heavy rain pre-vents her from venturing outside.
“I just want to get some food because I don’t live close to any dininghalls and I don’t want to go outside if it gets bad,” she said.
However, despite stocking up, Hanco and Tian were not overly con-cerned with the storm.
“I don’t think it will last that long,” Hanco said. “It seems like it’smoving pretty quickly.”
Tian hopes the hurricane will serve as a short break from schoolwork.
“I’m not really worried about the hurricane. I, myself, have neverseen a hurricane in my entire life, so I don’t know what it looks like,”she said. “Basically, I’m just planning to stay home, relax from school alittle bit.”
Campus PreparesFor Massive Storm
CORNELLContinued from page 1
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THIS TERM, THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT may decide whether ornot race is an appropriate factor to consider when admitting students to a university. Thecase, Fisher v. University of Texas, was brought by a young woman who was denied accep-tance to the university and believes it was because she is white.
Cornell, along with several other colleges, submitted an amicus brief in the case arguingthat the court should reject Fisher’s challenge and should allow race to continue to be con-sidered as one part of a holistic admissions decision process. The Sun commends theUniversity for submitting the brief and hopes the Court rules in favor of Texas. Race is animportant part of many Americans’ identities and is a factor in shaping one’s world view.An inability to grasp this reflects a greater inability to understand the world beyond ourcampus.
As the brief said, Cornell has recognized the “profound importance of a diverse studentbody — including racial diversity — for their educational missions.” Cornell prepares stu-dents for life after college not only by requiring individualized tests and papers, but alsothrough collaborative projects and engaging class discussions. The dynamic this type ofenvironment creates allows students to discuss, listen and learn from each other.
To that point, Cornell argued that, “one aspect of the mission of many universities istraining future citizens and leaders for a heterogeneous society, and that diversity is vital tothat objective.” Opponents of affirmative action, and we recognize there are many, eitherfail to acknowledge or disagree that this aspect of higher education is a crucial part of a uni-versity’s mission.
A Cornell without affirmative action would be a vastly different place. For example,when a 1996 decision briefly outlawed race-based affirmative action at the University ofTexas at Austin, the number of African-American students there fell by 40 percent. Wecould expect to see a similar result at Cornell.
Without affirmative action, the composition of Cornell would no longer resemble thecomposition of the world beyond our walls. For example, the state of California prohibitsusing race as a factor in admissions decisions, and the composition of the University ofCalifornia, Berkeley is largely out of synch with that of the state from which nearly 90 per-cent of its students come. Forty percent of Californians are white, six percent are African-American, 14 percent are Asian and 39 percent are Hispanic. At Berkley, four percent ofstudents are African-American, 43 percent are Asian, 13 percent are Hispanic, and 33 per-cent are white. While Berkeley’s student body might reflect who had the best grades or SATscores in high school, it does not reflect the world it’s preparing its students to live in.
Cornell claims in the amicus brief that it seeks to provide students with “the most rig-orous, stimulating, and enriching educational environment, in which ideas are tested anddebated from every perspective,” and continuing to “allow educational institutions to struc-ture admissions programs that take account of race and ethnicity as single factors within ahighly individualized, holistic review process” is integral to their mission.
We wholeheartedly agree.
Defending DiversityEditorial
Outrageous for a causeTo the Editor:Re: “Disturbed and Unmoved,” Opinion, Oct. 23
I am writing in response to Kirat Singh’s Oct. 23 editorial, “Disturbed andUnmoved.” I appreciate and share the desire to try to reach people with literary argu-ments. Sadly, informative books like Silent Spring became cultural touchstones in the’60s, but today’s hits are racier diversions like Fifty Shades of Grey. For better or worse,society changes, and unless social movements present issues in a way that grabs the cur-rent mainstream, they will die off. Anyone who visits PETA.org can see that most ofwhat we do takes a serious approach, but it’s the more provocative campaigns that grabthe public’s attention.
A few years ago when I was invited to speak on PETA activism at a Harvard course,the professor and I decided that the best way to illustrate PETA’s tactics would be tostage a demonstration before class and invite students to join in. So a co-ed gaggle andI held a “bed-in” in Harvard Square, where we stripped down to our skivvies and wield-ed signs proclaiming, “Fur Out—Love In,” from a makeshift bed. The event (and theresulting arrests for indecent exposure) drew loads of onlookers and garnered nationalmedia attention, and the students learned that a little strategic exhibitionism can enablea handful of activists with no budget to reach millions. A month later, PETA held a“serious” demonstration at Harvard to show students the contrasting reactions that weget. Activists and I gathered at the same location and time as for the mattress melee,only we were fully clothed and carrying posters showing animals on fur farms and man-gled in traps. Our news release met with a chorus of snores from the media. When peo-ple looked at our signs, most quickly averted their gaze, strode faster and refused to takea leaflet. It’s not that they weren’t sympathetic — they just didn’t want their hectic daydarkened with grim reality.
Animal rights is a consumer movement more than a political one, so PETA’s aim isto reach the largest number of consumers possible, not just an intellectual niche. We tryto make our actions colorful and controversial in order to grab headlines and spread themessage of kindness to animals to people around the world. And, as we’ve found afterdecades of attempting to promote our serious investigations and legal cases, nothinggets attention like nudity and celebrity. It’s simply the way the world is today, so wedon’t fight it; we’re too busy fighting animal abuse.
Dan Mathews, senior vice president of campaignsPETA
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DON’T JUST SIT THERE.WRITE SOMETHING.
THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7OPINION
At the time of writing, Hurricane Sandy has alreadyclaimed 67 lives on its way through the Caribbean.Sandy is scheduled to make landfall sometime on
Monday night, bringing hurricane-force winds to a hugeswath of the East Coast. Writing an opinion column onthe heels, or, in this case, in the midst of such a traumaticevent is always a troubling experience for me. Hurricane-force winds extend 175 miles in each direction fromHurricane Sandy’s eye. It is very, very big, and I am very,very small.
Any observation I make on Hurricane Sandy is neces-sarily made from a place of privilege, in that I am not fac-ing the brunt of the storm myself, and, even if I were, I
have the resources at my disposal to take safety precau-tions that were most likely not available to the 51 Haitiansalready killed by this storm. My position as an essentiallysafe observer gives me serious pause before writing on thisdisaster, a disaster which is, for so many, deeply personal.
However, even as every major news outlet tells me thatthis “Frankenstorm” is a freak of nature, voices from themargins suggest that Hurricane Sandy is a symptomatic,rather than an aberrant, storm. As Bill McKibben writesfor The Daily Beast, “[Hurricanes are] born, as theyalways have been, when a tropical wave launches off theAfrican coast and heads out into the open ocean. Butwhen that ocean is hot — and at the moment sea surfacetemperatures off the Northeast are five degrees higher thannormal — a storm like Sandy can lurch north longer andstronger, drawing huge quantities of moisture into its
clouds, and then dumping them ashore.”The strange warmth of the North Atlantic has some-
thing to do with so-called acts of nature, but it also has agreat deal to do with acts of humanity. It has to do withthe single-minded profit-seeking of the fossil-fuel indus-try. It has to do with ever-increasing greenhouse gas emis-sions, primarily by the nations best equipped to deal withthe consequences we’re feeling right now, and not byisland nations like Haiti with the most to lose. It has to dowith the inaction of politicians like Obama and Romney,from whose campaigns any mention of climate change hasbeen conspicuously absent. The only discussion of energypolicy has consisted of the two of them competing as to
who has been the mostfriendly to the explorationof new oil and gas reserves.
As Dan Lashof wrote forEcoWatch, “Just like theunprecedented droughts,flooding and heat we allexperienced this year,storms like HurricaneSandy is what global warm-ing looks like. This is thenew normal.”
It is not insignificant,though, to see this analysis made in a news source explic-itly tailored toward an environmentalist audience, and notin the New York Times or on CNN. Faced with the trau-ma of the storm of the century, most mainstream reportersand commentators keep the blame firmly on the shouldersof Mother Nature. Making arguments about our ownindirect complicity in traumatic events is indeed uncom-fortable work, in part because such arguments can bepainfully misconstrued as a sort of victim-blaming. Andadmittedly, attribution in cases like these is always a bit ofa sketchy science. We may never be able to look at aweather event like Hurricane Sandy and say, unequivocal-ly, This is a result of global warming, and without anthro-pogenic climate change, this weather event would not havehappened. If we ever do get to that point, it will be far toolate to do anything about it.
Those reservations aside, I take this sort of analysis tobe precisely my role as an opinion columnist: to addressand attempt to make sense of the traumatic and theuncomfortable as it relates to the reader, and thus toempower the reader to effect change. I take structuralanalysis of disaster to be empowering, rather than victim-blaming, work. I also take the moment of the disaster tobe precisely the moment for such analytical work, howev-er painful it may be.
If Hurricane Sandy were an isolated incident, it wouldbe nothing but an occasion to buckle down and mourn.But it isn’t. Hurricane Sandy is what climate change lookslike. As such, it is an occasion not only for keeping eachother safe and for mourning the dead, but also for attack-ing, with renewed vigor, the structural problems that havealready raised global temperatures one degree Celsius, ashift which NASA climatologist James Hansen claims hasdramatically increased the chances of extreme weatherevents.
Our new relationship with the Earth is such that eachnew disaster is a new call to action. Hurricane Sandy haseverything to do with the Earth First! activists whose treevillage blockade in Texas has been standing in the way ofthe Keystone XL pipeline for over a month now. Closer tohome, KyotoNOW! has recently launched a campaign tourge Cornell to divest from fossil fuels by 2020. And ifelectoral politics are your thing, I take both Romney andObama to be profoundly unconscionable choices for any-one interested in leaving an inhabitable planet for the nextgeneration. Personally, I’ll be voting for Green Party can-didate Jill Stein.
There was a time when extreme weather events werethe ultimate examples of disasters completely beyondhuman control. For better or for worse, that time haspassed. If Hurricane Sandy freaks you out, you need tostart fighting like hell against the very human forces thatpromise only worse to come.
Tom Moore is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences. He may bereached at [email protected]. What Even Is All This? appearsalternate Tuesdays this semester.
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What Even Is All This?
If the press releases from the Universityare to be believed, we’re building aRoosevelt Island campus in New York
City. It will cost well over a billion dollarsto build and feature an enormous lilypadof solar panels.
The campus will be the birthplace ofnew and innovative technologies that willmake our society greener, healthier andhappier. It will inspire innovation and col-laborative thinking with awe-inspiringviews of the East River and wide openspaces for collaboration. It will manage toartificially develop, in less than 30 years,the Eastern copycat of the valley thatbrought us the transistor, the microproces-sor and the modern Internet.
I don’t get it, for one main reason. Inall the visions and all the plans, somethingsticks out. Dramatically. NYC Tech has nonew wet lab space.
If students affiliated with NYC Techwant to build, implement or study a tech-nology that’s going to live outside of acomputer, they will have to take advantageof the famous collaboration with WeillCornell Medical College and cross theEast River. Anyone who has ever had tocarry a lab sample for more than one flightof stairs will recognize that this will be anenormous pain. The ordeal of gettingacross the river aside, anyone who makesthe trek is going to have to compete witha bevy of M.D.s and Ph.D.s who havetheir own agendas to complete and theirown experiments to run. And no one ismore territorial than scientists who thinkthey’re going to lose lab space.
I say this somewhat jokingly, but thepoint I’m trying to make is dead seri-ous.“Technology and Applied Sciences” isa vague phrase, and it can mean a lot ofthings. As far as I can tell, the vision forthis campus has picked the most cramped
and shortsighted definition. If you thinkthis campus is going to benefit engineers,think again. The College of Engineering isa big school. This campus is going to ben-efit a very specific subset of engineers.
If you’re the kind of engineer whowants to write some nifty computer pro-grams with your MacBook while “shoot-ing the technological breeze,” you’re gold-en. But, if you want to mix the contents oftwo beakers together in the name of sci-ence then you’re S.O.L. The Tech campusis not interested in you. Can we justreview that concept for a sec? A glitteringnew campus (with half a million squarefeet of open space) promises to be a meccaof science and technology without actual-ly providing any space to do science ordevelop new technologies.*
Am I wrong in saying that this campusis built solely for the benefit of a fieldwhose poster child is Mark Zuckerberg? Orto notice that the strongest spokespersonthat the Greatest City on Earth could con-jure up to comment when we firstannounced this campus was the hoodied-and-sneakered founder of tumblr?
I don’t mean to say that Facebook andtumblr and the rest of insta-crowdsourcedsocial media cloud 2.0 technology aren’tnecessarily powerful or worthwhile prod-ucts. I get it. There’s a lot of money to bemade and interesting things to noticeabout human behavior, especially when acritical mass of people are carrying iOSdevices. But I start taking issue when theUniversity that I love commits 30 years, areputation and colossal amounts of moneyto climbing into someone else’s bandwag-on.
Cornell has a strong tradition of bridg-ing the gap between theory and science.Many, many small companies have hadtheir roots in our academic departments,
and a healthy number of them have beenquite successful. But a healthy numberhave also required wet lab space, and labspace can be hard to get. Building a newcampus that explicitly ignores ourstrengths in the fundamental sciences anddisregards our past successes, in favor ofchasing the glitter of someone else’s repu-tation, is just the tiniest bit shortsighted.
The Tech campus has admirable ele-ments to its vision. Lowering the barrierto entry for an entrepreneur with a sound
premise to jump in is a good thing.Providing an industrial as well as an acad-emic advisor from day one is bound tomake someone’s education more powerful.But in what universe is an entire campusin Manhattan necessary to hack togetherprojects?
The field that this Tech campus bene-fits enjoys the lowest possible barrier toentry for building stuff. All that’s requiredis a couple hundred dollars’ worth of com-puting power, a good Internet connection,and the healthy entrepreneurial delusionthat your work has the power to changethe world. And thats the point. This Techcampus isn’t serving a need that requires… well, Cornell. It serves the need ofsomeone who’s panicked that they’re get-ting left behind.
Of the universities that put in a bid tobuild Silicon Valley East, a small universi-ty with more than triple our endowment,and the architects of the original, wouldhave been the obvious choice. But itended up being us instead for a variety ofreasons, and key among those reasons wasthat our plan was the most ambitious. Iwas delighted when this campus wasannounced. I thought it made a statementabout Cornell’s abilities and our determi-nation. I thought it would nurture and
develop the talents of our Ithaca campus.I thought it would provide opportunitiesthat would foster a widespread culturalchange towards our idea of success and thepower of an education.
I just didn’t think that it would leaveme out.
*quibble over the definition of “technolo-gy” as much as you want, I will not cede thatwriting an app is on par with anything thatrequires a fume hood.
Deborah Liu is a senior in the College ofEngineering. She may be reached [email protected]. First World Problemappears alternate Tuesdays this semester.
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LEFT HALF, CLOCKWISEFROM TOP LEFT: Kerry Close’14 as the Hilary Clinton meme;Juan Forrer ’13, David Marten ’14,James Rainis ’14, Patricio Martinez’13, and Zach Zahos ’15 as theband, One Direction; Jeff Stein ’13,Maggie Henry ’14, Patricio Martinez ’13, Zach Zahos ’15,Liz Camuti ’14, Juan Forrer ’13,David Marten ’14, Dani Abada ’14,and James Rainis ’14 as the cast of Arrested Development; DavidMarten ’14 and Nick St. Fleur ’13as Governor Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama.
RIGHT HALF, CLOCKWISEFROM TOP LEFT: Daveen Koh’14, Hank Bao ’14, and AkaneOtani ’14 reenact the GangnamStyle video; Scott Chiusano ’14,Nick St. Fleur ’13, Dani Abada’14, Jeff Stein ’13, Hank Bao ’14,Haley Velasco ’15, and Lauren Ritter ’13 portray the 2012 NHLlockout; Rebecca Harris ’14, Maggie Henry ’14 and EstherHoffman ’13 embody ‘Pussy Riot.’
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Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney began hisvisit to Cornell with the Eamon McEneaney memorialreading last Thursday at Schwartz Auditorium inRockefeller Hall. Prof. Ishion Hutchinson, English,opened the session by relating an anecdote about aColgate University professor who was starstruck and ner-vous as he introduced the visiting poet William ButlerYeats. The Colgate professor, who spoke of Yeats as theauthor of several great works, was later embarrassed to dis-cover that none of these works were actually Yeats’. Thiserror, Hutchinson claimed,was actually less devastatingthan it seemed. Poets likeYeats and Heaney — widelyperceived as the two mostimportant Irish poets of alltime — represent a “suspen-sion between the archaic andthe modern.” Poets of theircaliber, he argued, are livingand breathing creators ofposterity, molded by all ofthe great works of their pre-decessors. Our job, as thenext generation, he said, is to“speak of what we know andtestify of what we see.”
Heaney began with a pas-sage from his Beowulf trans-lation and a commentary onthe timelessness of the text.The chosen passage startswith the line: “Then a pow-erful demon, a prowlerthrough the dark, nursed ahard grievance.” Heaney’s message was foreboding:Remember never to feel safe. Here, the thread of a histor-ical narrative was ever-present. While Heaney is oftenthought of as the quintessential Irish poet, mining thelives of the often-overlooked island for the prospect ofsomething universal, the poems he chose on Thursdaygranted weight to Prof. Hutchinson’s words about the poetas a continuation of history. Heaney read “A Sofa in theForties,” a poem about a child’s game of turning a livingroom sofa into a train — an activity based on the BBCseries Riders of the Range. Of the unintended juxtapositionof his childhood train with those of Auschwitz, he said,“We enter history in ignorance. You live long enough andthen you realize what you are doing.”
The context for “Sunlight,” Heaney’s ode to his homeat Mossbawn, was a 1940s Ireland where the British wareffort was omnipresent. Lines like the closing one of thispoem — “And here is love like a tinsmith’s scoop sunk pastits gleam in the meal-bin” — deftly sum up the impor-tance of Heaney’s work. Everyday life and love were whatHeaney cherished in Ireland at a time when the rest of theworld was collapsing. Should we presume to be vessels ofhistory, all we have to do is simply record our own.
“Casualty” is an outlier in Heaney’s body of work. It isan overtly political poem, written in memory of LouisO’Neill, who was killed during the infamous 1972 eventsof Bloody Sunday. This is where Heaney’s historical narra-
tive came to the forefront, as the poem alter-nates between humanizing descriptions ofO’Neill and graphic accounts of the bomb-ing and tensions in Ireland. The poem asksof O’Neill, “How culpable was he?” andwonders if everyone who was killed onBloody Sunday might be intrinsically inno-cent, if war is perhaps a force beyond themental conception of individual men. Thefinal line of the poem is “Question meagain,” a note on the individual’s inability topass judgment on the events he witnesses.The poem is often compared in theme toYeats’ “Easter 1916,” which treats politicalturmoil in a similar fashion, asking only aseries of unanswerable questions and refer-encing associational guilt.
On Friday morning, what was billed as a“Question & Answer Session” with Heaneyturned out to be an intimate continuation ofThursday’s reading. Heaney started the ses-sion by reading his most widely-recognizedpoem, “Digging.” He told the audience that“Digging” was the “first poem in which Ireally felt like I was making my own kind of
noise.” The contrast between a pen and a spade is moreapt than we may have realized, he disclosed, as Irish tribalwriting was considered “not an activity, but a task,” muchlike any other necessary labor. The task at hand was toengage in the creative act of digging up whatever is thereand then “letting it do the work for you.” After he read thepoem, he remarked in a near whisper, “That was 1964. Iguess I was still pretty innocent then.” It was not untilafter the readings of “Man and Boy,” a requested favorite,and “North,” a discussion of writings of dissonance, thatsomeone got up the courage to ask:
“What did you mean by ‘you were innocent?’ Whatdoes it mean to be a corrupted poet?”
Heaney’s first response was laughter. Presumably, he
only felt the weight of his words once they were thrownback at him. But to be a “corrupted poet,” he finally said,is to become aware that you are a “poet” at all. The birthof a poet is “hopeful and panicky” and “open and inno-cent,” but the priority will shift to making things “wittyand closed off and perfect.” This innocence is somethingto be valued despite its imperfections, as it allows us towrite things with “a sense of danger,” Heaney advised.This issue resurfaced when a student asked Heaney abouthow he weighs the consequences that truth can bringagainst that dedication to openness, referencing a poemabout Heaney’s father, “Follower.” Heaney identified a linein the poem and then said, “Talking of innocence, whatI’d probably do nowadays is just stop there.” His advice toaspiring writers was to get rid of their sense of a moralhigh ground and capture effectively by creating a “com-merce between temperament and the times we live in.”
The reading he did from a series of his poems, StationIsland, was prefaced with a heavy political contextualiza-tion. But Heaney stated afterwards, “I didn’t identify theman at the door, it would have been unjust. Stay in thesolitude of an artistic area. But there are times …” And hetrailed off.
Prof. Hutchinson asked if anyone had a suggestion forthe final reading. It had been only 35 minutes, but wewere allegedly running short on time. Someone wanted tohear the third sonnet from “The Clearances,” a series ofeight sonnets that Heaney wrote after his mother’s deathin 1984. He recited the sonnet from memory. At first, thepoem is about peeling potatoes. Then the poem meditateson Catholic Mass and final absolutions before tackling themetallic imagery of war and the warmth of home. “TheClearances” is distinctly Irish, but also distinctly human.Although my frustration with Heaney’s pandering jokesand grumble-slurred sentences had been overpowering atpoints throughout the events of the last 24 hours, thispoem brought me back to my senses. Here we were,glimpsing the archaic works of William Butler Yeats, inthe presence of a genuine and not-yet-archaic vessel of thelast century, the one that we ourselves had not quite beenparticipants of. Here we were, a collection of the newly“hopeful and panicky,” asking eager questions and hang-ing on words in hopes of gleaning a shred of wisdom onhow to confront the new generation which is wholly oursto record. And as I shuffled slowly and regretfully out ofthe room, unable to even whisper a “Thank you,” I putaside fear of judgment to take a last, uncomfortably longover-the-shoulder look at those elbow pads and that whitehair — for posterity’s sake.
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BY KAITLYN TIFFANY Sun Contributor
Kaitlyn Tiffany is a sophomore in the College of Agriculture and LifeSciences. She can be reached at [email protected].
Poet Seamus HeaneyChallenges Students
To Write Their Own History
Prof. Ishion Hutchinson, English, introducesSeamus Heaney last Thursday.
The TaskAt Hand
Ever thought that choosing just the right 140characters for your latest tweet was something ofan art form?
Twitter agrees with you. From Nov. 28 to Dec. 2,Twitter will hold its first “Twitter Fiction Festival.”According to Twitter's blog, this “virtual storytellingcelebration” will feature “creative experiments in story-telling from authors around the world.” Everyone isinvited to submit a proposal, and Twitter plans toannounce the selected authors and festival agenda Nov.19.
This is not Twitter’s first foray into fiction. In 2009,Alexandere Acimen and Emmet Rensin launchedTwitterature, a project that boiled down 80 of the great-est works of Western fiction to a few tweets a piece.Think Cliffnotes on drugs written with text messageabbreviations. (A sample from Hamlet: “WTF ISPOLONIUS DOING BEHIND THE CURTAIN???”).Similar experiments have been done with the Bible(@biblesummary summarizes whole Bible chapters insingle tweets) and Ulysses (a group of Joyce fans boiledevery eight pages down to a single tweet). What they allhave in common is summarization and immediacy.Long, difficult books are simplified and condensed,making them immediately more accessible to contem-porary or less educated audi-ences. Although these arenoteworthy first experiments,they do not use Twitter as aliterary medium. The tweetsare meant as summaries, notas stand-alone literature.
The Guardian has takenthings a step further. InOctober, they challenged 21well-known writers to compose 140 character stories.These attempts resemble flash fiction, very short fictionof just a few hundred words. Because of their brevity,many of these stories hint or suggest conflict rather thanfully delineate plot and characters. Ian Rankin’s tweet isan especially good example: “I opened the door to ourflat and you were standing there, cleaver raised.Somehow you’d found out about the photos. My jaw hit
the floor.” In just 140 characters,the tweet accomplishes much ofwhat an entire short story does.There are characters, although wedon't know who they are. There isconflict, although we are not sure ofits specifics. There is setting,although it is not fully detailed.Already, we can guess at the rela-tionship between the two charactersand fill in some backstory about theproblematic photos. While this isreally good flash fiction, it’s notTwitter fiction. These pieces couldvery easily appear in print and notbe read any differently. Although they limit their wordsa little more stringently than most flash fiction, the sto-ries do not fully engage Twitter as a time-based, interac-tive medium.
A couple writers have moved beyond summarizationand flash fiction. This past May, Jennifer Egan (whowrote Visit from the Goon Squad) tweeted an entire shortstory through The New Yorker’s Twitter account. Thetweets for “Black Box,” a science fiction story about aspy living in the Mediterranean, were released a minute
at a time, an hour a day, for tendays straight. Unlike the previ-ous examples, Egan's story didnot confine itself to a singletweet and therefore falls outsidethe realm of flash fiction.Instead, it was fully-fleshed outand time-based. The delaybetween released segmentsslowed down the read, putting it
in the same arena as serial fiction and television pro-grams. While the story successfully explored Twitter asa time-based medium for reading, it did not explore itas a time-based medium for writing. Egan’s tweets wereall written beforehand. She was not composing them asshe went along, nor was her narrative interspersed withreal-time tweets from followers.
In her critique of “Black Box,” BuzzFeed’s Anne
Trubek claims that Egan’s story left out some of the keyelements of Twitter such as scrolling backwards,responding to other tweets and unrelated tweets pop-ping up. As Trubek rightly points out, Egan’s story does-n’t take advantage of Twitter as an interactive medium,only as a serial one.
However, there are a few authors who have done so.In “Small Fates,” Cole crafts stories around short newsclippings, what he has called “news of the weird” and“strange little things.” Given Twitter’s importance as ajournalistic medium, Cole’s stories seem to havematched form with content. There’s also Dan Sinker’shilariously profane fake Twitter account,@MayorEmanuel, which satirized Rahm Emanuel'smayoral campaign. The fake account, which attracted awide following for the five months it ran, took advan-tage of Twitter as a tool for self-promotion as well as forsocial activism and critique.
I think there’s more to explore. Come November 28,I hope to see writers not just writing for Twitter butwriting with Twitter, crafting their stories in 140 char-acters at a time, opening themselves up to the improvi-sation and interactivity of the form.
Greener on theOther Side
Emily Greenberg
Emily Greenberg is a senior in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences &Art, Architecture and Planning. She can be contacted at [email protected]. Greener on the Other Side appears alternateTuesdays.
Twitter Fiction
If you walk through the Arts Quad, you are manytimes more likely to see a Jimi Hendrix or GratefulDead shirt than you are to see a t-shirt advertisingalmost any contemporary act. How does the currentmusic industry cope with this favoritism and the great-ness of music from the late ’60s and early ’70s? Someseem to reply, “Just live those days as long as possible.”This seems to be the solution Gov’t Mule, an experi-mental blues band, applies. The group put on a showSaturday night at the State Theatre and presented an actthat was essentially a comforting haze of sounds,rhythms and lyrics echoing the ’60s.
This presentation aligned with the ethos of thecrowd, populated with many who spent their adoles-cence during the blossoming of psychedelic rock.Bearded boomers, bikers and bluesmen filled the ornateRenaissance-style theater that turns 84 this year. The lis-teners received a set list so similar to one possible in theAge of Aquarius that their nostalgia drives were defi-nitely satisfied. The loudest audience response cameduring Mule’s elaborate, whining rendition of TheBeatles’ “I Want You (She’s So Heavy)” and a
reggae/raga slow-down of The Steve Miller Band classic“The Joker.” For attendees largely in the reflection stageof their lives, looking back at their youth and identify-ing with the lyrics was an obvious, sentimental hit.
The set list also covered “She Said, She Said” and“Tomorrow Never Knows,” both by The Beatles; “Don’tStep on the Grass, Sam,” a ’60s pro-marijuana legaliza-tion hit from Steppenwolf; “Higher Ground” by StevieWonder; the end of Led Zeppelin’s “Black Dog” and asong Led Zeppelin seemingly plagiarized: “How ManyMore Years” by Howlin’ Wolf (sound like Zeppelin’s“How Many More Times” at all?).
The original songs from Mule bore the same influ-ences. “Streamline Woman,” one of its most successfulhits, has a clear Grateful Dead semblance (check outThe Dead’s “Easy Wind”). Much of the lyrics reflectedthemes of the blues and countercultural generations,not to mention the band’s name: Gov’t Mule, an allu-sion to our obsequity to the “man.” This thumbing ofthe nose at authority was a rallying cry of the ’60s thatis often subject to parody today.
The easiest comparison for Gov’t Mule is to theAllman Brothers. Mule’s late cofounder and bass gui-tarist, Allen Woody, was a member of the Brothers afterthey reunited in 1989. In his tenure with the Brothers,Allen played with guitarist Warren Haynes, future
cofounder of Gov’t Mule and associated member of PhilLesh’s Further, the post-Jerry Garcia incarnation of theGrateful Dead. Mule still plays many tunes by theAllman Brothers, Led Zeppelin and Grateful Dead andattracts a following left over from the deaths and disen-gagements of many of these bands. In order to maintaina sound quality comparable to these former acts, theirwebsite claims that they are “one of the hardest workingbands in rock history.”
Gov’t Mule’s deficit of originality is definitelybridged by its incredible technical dexterity. The open-er — The Lee Boys, a Parliament Funkadelic and TajMahal mashup — suggests that these bands are out toservice an audience who doesn’t want change. Eventhough the band was relatively stationary on stage andthe audience members were forcibly stationary in theirseats, the energy of the music sustained interest. The’60s and ’70s were an incredible Renaissance of arts,culture and passion that was so impressive that it war-rants a lengthy afterlife. You may call these concertswakes of waning genres or just plain irrelevant, but cel-ebrating the past is much more successful and plausiblethan celebrating the future.
Henry Staley is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences. Hecan be reached at [email protected].
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I Am Going to Be Small by Jeffrey Brown
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36 for just 158 yards and thereceiving corps was led by seniorwide receiver SpenserGruenenfelder, who caught sixballs for 62 yards. However, thebiggest issue with the Red’soffense was its lack of a runninggame, as it carried the ball 21times for negative-five yards.
“We didn’t run the ball muchjust because of how the gameplayed out,” Miller said. "Wereally couldn’t get anything going… It’s just unfortunate that wehad to be so one-dimensional inour offense.”
Overall, Miller was disap-pointed in the Red’s offensiveshowing.
“The last two games, it’s pret-ty inexcusable with all the talentthat we have [to score just ninepoints in two games],” he said.“You can’t really ask the defensefor much more, holding them totwo field goals, especially whenPost is as athletic as they are.”
Post’s offense was led byBoose, who completed eight of13 passes for 94 yards and carriedthe ball 23 times for 132 yards
and the game-winning touch-down. The Red was impressedwith his play, but did a great jobcontaining him.
“[Boose] is a great athlete andhas good pocket presence,”Edmonds said. “We were able toget to him a few times — [seniordefensive end] Chris Leyen had afew good hits and [senior line-backer] Jim Barger had a nicesack on him, but when he saw ahole, he would take it and he wasreally good at breaking tackles …We did a really good job holdingdown a really solid quarterback.”
The defense recorded fivesacks, led by junior linebackerKyle Higgins, who recorded twosacks and five tackles, and hadtwo interceptions, one by juniordefensive back Riley Scott andthe other by Monahan. Overall,the entire defense played well,according to Edmonds.
“It was a solid team effort,” hesaid. “I highlighted a few people,but everybody made great plays,especially the defensive line; theystepped up. They had sacks and afew good tackles. The defensivebacks also had great coveragethroughout the night.”
Looking ahead, the team hasone game left on its scheduleagainst Mansfield and plans togive it its all to finish the seasonoff on a high note.
“We’re moving on from ourloss and we realize there’s onegame in our season left,”Edmonds said. “We’re playing ateam we haven’t lost to before [inMansfield] and we will put allour efforts into winning nextweek.”
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-tend. One-two-three certainlyexceeded all kinds of expecta-tions.”
The women’s team finishedwith a score of 31 points, wellahead of second place
Princeton’s 91 points to winCornell’s sixth Heps champi-onship. Kellner won her firstever individual Heps title, withjunior teammates Emily Shearerfinishing in second, and RachelSorna finishing in third.
Cornell’s next finisher wasjunior Devin McMahon finish-ing 10th overall, and roundingout Cornell’s top five was fresh-man Caroline Kellner who fin-ished fifteenth overall.
The men’s team finished witha score of 83 points, which wasgood enough for fourthplace.The Red’s top finisher wassenior Nick Wade in ninth place,followed by junior Max Grovesin 11th place, senior Brett Kellyin 15th place, Matt McCollughin 20th place, and junior JohnSchilkowsky finishing 61st over-all.
According to Smith, Kellner’sfirst place finish was not onlyspecial for her and for the team,but was also a testament to her asan athlete.
“To do it in the way that shedid it, one of the best thingsabout coaching her is that she’sfearless,” he said. “She likes toget out and rock n’ roll in theraces, she ran her style of racetoday and she did a really goodjob with it. It was really fun towatch.”
X-COUNTRYContinued from page 16
Kellner HasA First PlaceHeps Finish
Juan Carlos Toledo can be reachedat [email protected].
SPORTS THE CORNELL DAILY SUN | Tuesday, October 30, 2012 15
Now that tryouts are over and practice has been underway for a few weeks, the equestri-an team is ready to kick off its season. For some riders this will be their first season with thesquad, while for others it will be their last. Before the season began, the seniors took sometime to reflect on their experience with the Red and discuss their hopes for their final sea-son.
Not every rider comes to the team with previous experience. Because the IntercollegiateHorse Show Association divides shows into different levels, or divisions, the squad alwayslooks for riders that come from different backgrounds — from those who rode competitivelyin high school to ones who have never sat on a horse. The riders with no experience tend tofind learning to ride on a competitive team very rewarding.
“I came to the team with no riding experience so for me it actually … Gave me thechance I always wanted … To ride horses," said senior tri-captain Zofia Hilton. "I’ve doneso many things that I never thought I would. I got on a horse for the first time. I went toa horse show for the first time. Being on the team has taught me so much. I never expect-ed to go from no experience to being able [to go to] nationals [my sophomore year]. For
me that was abig thingbecause I neverexpected to getthere and learnas much as Idid.”
Senior KatieRong also came to the team with no previous experience. However, the squad has become abig part of her life at Cornell.
“Equestrian comes first when describing myself,” she said. Outside of college athletics, it is quite unusual for riders to compete in teams.
Equestrian is typically an individual sport; the only teamwork involved is the partnershipbetween the horse and the rider. For the riders who do have previous experience, the chanceto be part of a team adds a new dimension to the sport and teaches its members many valu-able lessons.
“I always hated teamwork in classes but then I worked with the whole team and it wasreally fun getting things done … You learn how to work together,” Rong said.
Even for those who have rode all their lives, the experience of being on a collegiate teamis completely unique. Senior tri-captain Emily Webster, for example, joined the team with alot of experience.
“The team [has] completely changed my time here at Cornell,” she said. “It’s not some-thing that I knew I wanted to do … I didn’t realize the commitment it was. I’d never beenon a sports team. I didn’t realize what I was coming into when I joined. We spend so muchtime together … we laugh and we cry together … it’s become so much more than the rid-ing. I’ve learned a lot about who I am from being on the team.”
For senior tri-captain Emily Kowalchik and senior Erika Hooker, the squad providedthem with a group of girls who share their passion for horses.
“The team is a great group of girls,” Hooker said. “We cycle through girls every year …But we’re always girls that love riding horses and we’ll wake up at five in the morning for itand I appreciate that.”
“I was glad that I was involved with [the team] just because it gave me a group to be apart of right away,” Kowalchik added. “I think my transition as a freshman was made wayeasier because I was part of the team.”
Kowalchik added that the squad has become more and more tight knit over the years.“We’re a closer group of girls than we ever were when we came in as freshmen and I think
as seniors we take a lot of pride in that,” she said.As for the upcoming season, the seniors are determined to make this one count. Overall,
the riders are confident in the team’s chances of making it all the way to nationals. “I think that this season we have the best shot at nationals that we’ve ever had and that’s
really exciting for my senior year,” Hooker said.Although the squad received a new coach this year, it is confident that head coach Todd
Karn will only increase the team’s chances of making it to the top. “I don’t want to leave this team … But the team is in good hands,” Webster said. “[Coach
Karn’s] past [experience] as a judge is really helping us get to this new level where we canraise our bar even higher and do even better than we have [previously] done. I only see anupward trend for this team in terms of competitiveness.”
“I really think we have a chance at nationals,” Rong added. In addition to getting to nationals, some of the riders have their own personal goals for
the season. If a rider earns enough points during the show season, she can move up to com-pete in a higher division. This is one of Rong’s goals for the season, which include “gettingto zones and nationals, pretty much pointing out [of my division] and competing in walktrot canter.”
Still, the main focus is on nationals.“I think that we have the potential this year to make it to nationals … We have that skill
and that determination … I think it’s incredibly possible,” Hilton said. “Personally, I justwant to have the best season I’ve ever had.”
The first show was a double header held at RIT this past weekend. The Red had a greatstart to the season. On the first day the team came in third place overall, beaten by Alfred insecond and Ithaca College in first. The squad rallied on the second day and finished in firstplace. Freshman Elizabeth Drake won both of her novice classes on the second day and wasthe high point rider. Kowalchik earned the ribbon for reserve high point rider with a firstand second place in her open division classes. According to Webster, the Red hopes to con-tinue this upward trend.
“I don’t have any personal goals for myself but I think as a team we’re so close to makingit to nationals and with a little bit of luck and a lot of work I really feel like this could be ouryear,” she said.
This past weekend the Cornell field hockey team splita pair of home games at Marsha Dodson Field. OnSaturday, the Red (8-8,3-3) lost 5-0 to the No. 2 rankedPrinceton Tigers (14-1,6-0) and then came out strong thenext day to defeat the Holy Cross Crusaders (2-15) 4-0.
Going into Saturday’s game, the Red had known thewhole season that Princeton would be a tough opponentin the Ivy League. Princeton was roaring the whole gameas it put 18 of its 25 shots on target while the Red onlymanaged five overall shots. The Tigers scored two goals offof penalty corners before halftime, and then scored onemore goal midway through the second half, before notch-ing a late pair of goals to make the score 5-0.
“It was a tough loss — we were fighting hard the wholegame but unfortunately fell behind and let in too manysecond half goals,” said senior captain Genevieve Collins.
Even though the score was one sided, the Red was ableto limit national point scoring leader Kathleen Sharkley tojust one goal. Additionally, given that 25 were taken by
the Tigers, junior goalie Carolyn Horner was impressive ingoal, and managed to make five saves in one-on-one situ-ations that a less talented keeper would have let in.
On Sunday, the Red returned to the field to face a Holy
Cross team that had almost the exact opposite record asthe Tigers. Cornell got off to a slow start, but builtmomentum quickly through the game, which resulted ina 4-0 victory over the Crusaders.
“We were able to get back to playing our game andworking together as a team,” Collins said.
The goals were scored by juniors Brittany Thompsonand Hannah Balleza, freshman Marisa Siergiej and sopho-more Ann DiPastina. Thompson drew first blood as shescored off a rebound in the 14th minute to start the Redoff on the right foot. Balleza scored the final goal and indoing so scored her 14th goal of the season, tying theCornell single season record for goals scored.
Next weekend the Red will play its final regular seasongame at home against Dartmouth. Additionally, the Redwill honor its senior players during the pregame cere-monies.
Smells like team spirit | All of the team’s seniors describe how much they enjoy being onthe team, and how it has enhanced their time at Cornell.
ESTHER HOFFMAN / SUN PHOTOGRAPHY EDITOR
Equestrian Seniors Re!ectOn Their Meaningful TimeSpent as Part of the Team
EQUESTRIAN
By ARIEL COOPER Sun Staff Writer
Ariel Cooper can be reached at [email protected].
“It’s become so much more than the riding. I’velearned a lot about who I am from being on the team.”Emily Webster
Red Splits Weekend With Princeton Defeat and Holy Cross VictoryBy SHAYAN SALAMSun Staff Writer
“It was a tough loss — we werefighting hard the whole game butunfortunately fell behind and let in toomany second half goals.”Genevieve Collins
Shayan Salam can be reached at [email protected].
FIELD HOCKEY
Sports 16TUESDAYOCTOBER 30, 2012The Corne¬ Daily Sun
After a magical six-overtime victory in the first game oftheir season, the Cornell sprint football team (3-3) ran outof overtime magic as they lost against Post (4-2), 13-6, thispast Friday.
The Red had a chance to put the game away in regula-tion, when sophomore defensive back Michael Monahanhad an acrobatic interception to give the ball back to theoffense in the red zone with the scored tied, 6-6, and withless than two minutes remaining.
“We should have probably scored a touchdown [on thatlast] possession,” said junior captain and quarterbackBrendan Miller. “After he had the big interception, we had acouple of chances and just couldn’t capitalize.”
Miller completed two passes to get a first down and aftera Post encroachment penalty, junior placekicker JohnRodriguez had a 26-yard field goal attempt to win the game.However, the attempt was wide left, putting the game intoovertime. Despite missing his last kick, Rodriguez made twoearlier in the game, including one from 46 yards out -- thereason the Red was in this game, according to Miller.
“John Rodriguez played great for most of the season andit’s nice to have a kicker who can make a 48 yard field goal,”Miller said. “He’s the reason we’ve been in most of the gamesthis year and he’s definitely one of our strongest playersthroughout the season.”
In overtime, the Red won the coin toss and chose to playdefense first. Post freshman quarterback Shawn Boose ran
the ball four straight times to set them up at the one-yardline and he snuck it in to score a touchdown. Cornell’soffense did not have as much success as Post, as Miller wassacked on the first play. They eventually had a fourth-and-1to convert, but after a false start, a pass from Miller wentthrough the hands of junior wide receiver Joseph Martin,ending the game.
“We didn’t finish; we had a few opportunities to win thegame, but we just couldn’t finish,” said senior captain anddefensive end Will Edmonds. “There were just a bunch of
small things that we could have done to beat Post. They …Got a touchdown [in overtime], and we couldn’t turnaround and get a touchdown ourselves.”
One reason why Cornell’s offense struggled was theabsence of senior wide receiver Abe Mellinger due to aninjured hamstring. He leads the team in catches, receivingyards and touchdowns. Without Mellinger, Miller went 22-
Clear eyes, full heart | Junior co-captain and quarterback Brendan Miller and the rest of the Cornell offense were unable tocapitalize on their opportunites and score so that the team could win.
MICHELLE FRALING / SUN STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER
The women’s cross country team is—for the secondyear in a row—celebrating a Heps championship crown.The Red traveled to West Windsor Fields in Princeton,NJ to take on the best of the Ivy League in what was asuccessful defense of the Heps title for the women’s team.
The men’s team managed to claim fourth place, astrong improvement from last year’s fifth place finish.
Senior co-captain Katie Kellner spoke on what itmeant to be able to come back and repeat as Heps cham-pions.
“To come back and show the Ivy League again thatwe’re meant to be up there; we’re meant to be champions,and it’s a good league this year so it shows that we’re oneof the best in the country.”
The women’s team was the first team since Princetonin 2008 to achieve a first-second-third finish, whichaccording to Kellner was a surprise even to her as shecrossed the finish line.
“When I crossed the finish line and saw [RachelSorna] and [Emily Shearer] there I was just so excited,”she said. “I knew the Brown girls were close and I can’teven put into words how excited I was to see them crossright behind me.”
Women’s cross country coach Artie Smith ’96 has hadhigh expectations of his team all season, especially withhow they’ve performed, but his team’s finish this pastweekend exceeded even his expectations.
“We’ve had such a tremendous season but we knowwhat a tough league this is,” he said. “We knew we weregoing to be competing against some terrific people. Wewanted to give a great effort and have a chance to con-
Saturday night, Cornell fell to Princeton in its secondto last matchup of the season at home. The Red lost to theTigers, 5-1, as Princeton put away three goals to finish thefirst half.
The goal for Cornell came from freshman midfielder
Jenna Cantor but it wasn’t enough to grab the victory forthe Red. With 19 minutes remaining, Cantor grabbed theopportunity to score off of a corner kick after bouncing offmultiple bodies in the box. Princeton’s goalie tried to grabit but it got loose, went to Cantor and she capitalized onthe opportunity.
Cornell (1-13-1, 0-5-1 Ivy) played a good first 10minutes, holding the Tigers without a shot on goal. Butafter that, Princeton (11-3-1, 6-0) scored three goals in18 minutes proving why it’s the top team of the IvyLeague.
The first goal for Princeton came from a corner kick byRachel Sheey to Lynessa McGee who headed it in at the13th minute. The second one for the Tigers was at the 16-minute mark where Lauren Lazon fed a ball to Jen Hoywho found Jessica Haley in the center of the box. Twominutes later, Lazo got a goal of her own when she took apass from Guzman in the left side of the box. Lazo cutback inside and chipped the ball over Cornell junior goalieTori Christ.
Christ made a leaping save on a shot by Emily Sura —she jumped high to snag the ball out of midair and keepthe score at 3-0 going into the half.
Princeton got a fourth goal seven minutes into the sec-ond half when Lazo cut into the penalty area, beat adefender and put the ball far post past Christ. Princeton'sfinal score was a free kick from Haley on the outside of thepenalty area.
Cornell will finish off its season this coming weekendwith a matchup against Dartmouth at 3 p.m. at BermanField. Dartmouth beat Harvard, 2-0, in its last home gameon Sunday.
The Green also had sophomore forward Tasha Wilkinspick up her first career Ivy League Player of the Week thisweek after scoring the two goals to take home the win —the third player for the Green to be awarded player of theweek. Dartmouth is on a six game winning streak as ittravels to face Cornell in the last game of the season forboth teams.
— Compiled by Haley Velasco
Women’s Soccer Falls to PrincetonIn Second-to-Last Game of Season
Young and fresh | Freshman midfielder Jenna Cantorscored Cornell’s only goal of the day, as the Red fell 5-1against Princeton this past weekend.
MICHELLE FELDMAN / SUN CONTRIBUTOR
Women Win HepsChampionshipBy JUAN CARLOS TOLEDOSun Staff Writer
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CROSS COUNTRY
SPRINT FOOTBALL
Red Offense Cannot Convert; Team Falls to PostDefense holds back speedyPost offense, forces OT, butC.U.unable to pull through
By ALBERT LIAOSun Staff Writer
See SPRINT page 13
