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Cornelli ans ‘Sho cked’

Af t er Marat hon B l a st s

By AKANE OTANI Sun Managing Editor

In the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings Monday, three Cornell runners recalled the terror they felt as they learned of the explosions, struggled to find family members and hurried to leave the city

The blasts, which occurred near the finish line of the iconic race shortly before 3 p m Monday, killed at least three people and wounded at least 144, according to the Associated Press At least 10 individuals affiliated with Cornell were registered to run the marathon, according to the Boston Athletic Association’s website

When she heard the first of multiple explosions near the finish line, Anne Elise Creamer ’13, a member of the Cornell Running Club, thought the noise was thunder, or the sound of urban construction

“We didn’t think much of it, especially because I was so excited about finishing the race, ” Creamer said “We had no idea what had happened ”

Prof. Logevall Wins Pulit zer Prize for Book on Vietnam War

By SARAH CUTLER Sun Staff Writer

Prof Fredrik Logevall, history, was “stunned” when he learned Monday that he had been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam

“It was a shock to get the news, ” said Logevall, who is also the director of the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies

Logevall spent time working on the book which was published last August “ on and off ” for 10 years, he said, adding that he did a lot of travelling to research the places he

was writing about

“It’s the sort of book that requires a lot of research,” he said “I traveled to Vietnam several times one of the things I think is important is to be able to walk the ground about which I’m writing, to walk the battlefield [that’s] one reason it took a long time to write ”

Embers of War is a history of the early years in the Vietnam struggle, beginning at the end of World War I and examining the next 40 years in the country ’ s history, Logevall said The book is a prequel to Choosing War, Logevall’s Ph D dissertation which was published as a book in 2001 about heavy U S involvement in Vietnam

Logevall is teaching a class this semester on the Vietnam

Slope Day to Cost $20 for Grad Students

By NIKKI LEE Sun Staff Writer

For the first time, graduate and professional students looking to attend Slope Day will have to pay $20 for admission to the event, the Slope Day Programming Board announced last week

The change comes as the result of long discussions between the SDPB and the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly According to a GPSA press release, the SDPB requested allocating $6 instead of $3 07 of each student’s activity fee to Slope Day In return, the GPSA offered increasing the amount to $3 50 per student a 14 percent increase which the SDPB rejected in May 2012

Currently, $3 07 of each graduate student’s activity fee is allocated toward the SDPB, compared to $18 of each undergraduate student’s $216 activity fee According to Slope Day Chair Yang Zhao ’13, the request to increase graduate stu-

Wars against France and the U S Logevall said his interest in Vietnam began when he was a graduate student

“I decided that I wanted to understand how the U S became involved in and fought this long and bloody war, ” he said “I thought initially my dissertation would be my only book, but I’ve published four books [about Vietnam] ” Logevall said, however, that he is uncertain what the focus of his next book will be

“Right now, I sort of want to get away from Vietnam, but I think I might have more to say about the Vietnam War in the future,” he said

C.U. Startup Wins $200K in Competition

By JONATHAN SWARTZ Sun Senior Writer

Rosie, a tech startup founded by Cornell graduate students, won a $200,000 grand prize at New York State’s largest business competition last week, according to Matt Ford ’13, head of business development for Rosie Rosie, which was created in September, is developing a web and mobile shopping platform that learns and predicts a shopper ’ s purchasing behavior for household goods and groceries

The team beat out the other four finalists in the Startup Labs’ Syracuse competition to win the prize, according to Ford

“Over 100 teams applied to the [Syracuse] program, which the top five teams were named

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Visiting Prof Talk s About Political Shift

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By JORDAN JACKSON Sun Contributor

Prof Leslie Gates, sociology, Binghamton University, spoke at Cornell Monday about the relationship between corporate power and politics in Mexico and Venezuela Gates said that with the exception of some regions, there has been a broad shift characterized by both the emergence of an electoral process and its opposition to neoliberalism toward the political left in Latin America

Gates said she is dissatisfied with some of the proposed reasons for this ideological shift in Latin America

“Some argue that people elected leftist [politicians] because they were frustrated with their political institutions and their leaders They sought political change, but not necessarily change in the economy or change in the policies,”

Gates said “Others argue that the rise to the left really represents a reaction to neoliberalism and frustration with the economic situation of their country a desire to change the course of economic policy more specifically ”

Referencing her studies on Mexico’s turn toward neoliberalism and Venezuela’s turn against it, Gates said she is seeking to highlight the relationship between corporate power and politics understanding how personal ties between the corporate world and the economic elite influence politics

“It is the politicization of business, more specifically the concern regarding the increased power of corporations in the

society This helps to boost the chances of the left in Latin America This is something that can help us explain the general tilt to the left,” Gates said

In her new book, Electing Chavez: The Business of AntiNeoliberal Politics, Gates proposes how the ties between corporations and politics led to the election of Hugo Chavez, Venezuela’s first anti-neoliberal president

Gates’ book also notes how Chavez was able to win the support of elite business leaders According to Gates, this connection between corporate leaders and politics has

spurred the ideological, anti-neoliberal shift to the left in Venezuela

“This argument offers a rationale for the overall tilt to the left in that the structural changes in the underlying power structure of society associated in neo-liberalism resulted in greater cynicism regarding business power a key factor in predicting left victories,” Gates said

Jordan Jackson can be reached at jcj65@cornell edu

D irect D emocracy Could Hurt Minor ities

By KEVIN MILIAN Sun Staff Writer

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Fear, S adness After Race

It was not until Creamer saw an unusually high number of security guards positioned at a parking garage that she began to think something was amiss

“That’s when we got a call from a family member, who said, ‘ Turn on the radio ’ We got in the car, and they said there had been a bomb, that two people had died and that a bunch of people had been sent to the hospital,” Creamer said “I was shocked Really shocked ”

Having just completed her first Boston Marathon, Creamer said she was flooded with a mixture of emotions as she began driving back to Ithaca The pride she felt in completing the historic race was soon overshadowed by sadness, as she began hearing grisly details of injured runners and spectators emerge on the radio

“I wanted to think that no one had died I wanted to stay positive But it just kept hitting you and hitting you with these facts that so many people were injured, that people had died,” Creamer said “I just felt my heart pounding ”

Like Creamer, Gilly Leshed, a visiting professor in the Department of Information Science, said she has been grappling with “ very mixed feelings” in the aftermath of the explosions

“On one hand, I was happy to run the race, and on the other, I was so devastated with what happened I feel very, very sorry for the people who were injured, the people who died in the explosion,” Leshed said Looking back on the afternoon’s events, Leshed said a day that ultimately ended in tragedy began like any other Boston Marathon race

“It was a holiday in Boston Patriots’ Day and there were the usual marathon celebrations There were thousands of runners and people were cheering from both sides as I crossed the finish line,” she said Just five minutes after crossing the line, however, Leshed then walking toward the baggage-collection point said she heard a huge boom

“I turned around and saw smoke at the finish line People were just shocked,” she said, recalling how she was about 200 yards away from the finish line “Then there was another explosion, and at that point, I just wanted to get to my baggage, find my phone and call my family [to] tell them I [was] okay ”

Within minutes, Leshed said, the scene became chaotic Cell phone lines became “ very slow” as runners, friends and family tried to contact each other, Leshed said

Leshed said she was fortunate she was able to locate her family who had come to Boston to watch her run and leave the city quickly As they left the city, however, they saw the chaos unfolding before them, with emergency responders racing to the scene of the explosions and family members trying to locate each other

“It was all police cars, ambulances and fire engines running around like crazy, and we were just listening to the news like everyone else,” Leshed said

Like Leshed and Creamer, John Colson grad also learned of much of the explosion through the radio while returning to Ithaca But Colson who completed the marathon more than an hour before the first explosion occurred said he had no idea what had happened until he was already driving out of Boston

Suddenly, he saw he had accumulated more than 15 text messages and six voicemails in the span of a minute, Colson said

“Most of them were saying, ‘Are you okay?’ but at the end of the marathon, that's still [a] natural question to ask,” he said

It was not until he turned on the radio that he realized there had been multiple explosions near the finish line of the race he had just finished At one point, listening to the news reports of the explosions, Colson said he had to pull over and stop his car to compose himself

“There's a lot of build-up, a lot of excitement and the entire day is supposed to be a really celebratory event So many people are cheering, and there were all these legendary places you ran by I can think about those and picture all of them but all I can think about now is how I hope other people are okay,” Colson said

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Grad Students Lament Fees

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students’ activity fee contributions to $6 per person was “ an effort to bring the GPSA’s funding in line with what the undergraduate student population was paying per person ”

“Our goal is to reach an equitable level of contribution from both undergrads and grads, not to raise the greatest total amount, ” Zhao said Countering Zhao, GPSA

President Mitch Paine grad said the GPSA’s offer to increase funding for Slope Day was the most generous proposal it made to any byline-funded group

Furthermore, he said the GPSA felt its offer was appropriate given the relatively low number of graduate students who usually attend Slope Day In 2011, about 25 percent of graduate students were in attendance and less than 10 percent stayed for more than an hour, according to Paine Chavez Carter grad said he believes that although the newly implemented fees change will likely not affect graduate students’ attendance at Slope Day, the resolution “feels purposefully segregating” to many graduate students

“From what was explained to me, Slope Day's mission is for everyone graduate students, undergraduates, staff, faculty to get together for a day without

the barriers of titles,” he said “Its that one day when the entire Cornell community comes out Its an event facilitated just for that purpose ”

Zhao, however, said that he does not think the new fee will affect graduate students’ attendance and inclusion in Slope Day

“I do not think that this resolution will exclude graduate and professional students from the event Slope Day has and always will be a community event enjoyed by all Cornellians, regardless of their academic status, ” Zhao said

According to Kemberli Sargent grad, the price will influence her decision to attend Slope Day activities this year

“While I was on the fence before, as I think many graduate students are, I will definitely not pay that much to go this year, ” Sargent said “The price certainly feels a bit exclusionary for graduate students, and we are already segregated enough in most instances ”

Paine added, that the change could make Slope Day an increasingly undergraduate-focused event

Shiau-Yun Chen grad echoed Paine, saying, “It kind of suggests that undergraduates are the center of the University ”

Nikki Lee can be reached at nlee@cornellsun com

Student Start-Up Wins P rize

ROSIE

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finalists,” he said “We then competed over 22 days in Syracuse for a $150,000 investment, as well as $50,000 in marketing and branding services from Eric Mower + Associates ”

According to Jonathan Ambrose grad, co-founder and chief operating officer for Rosie, the $200,000 will be used to accelerate the company ’ s growth, develop its technology and marketing team and engage additional retail partners “ The win really motivates everyone to work that much harder to build a great product,” Ambrose said “ The funding enables us to invest in our team and bring on our first employees, as well as to invest in our technology and build the next generation of our software platform ” Ford said the funding will help improve Rosie’s marketing tactics, allow Rosie to hire its first two employees and bring the app to a larger part of New York State

“As we scale

upwards, we want to be recognized nationally,” Ford said “So, we want to make our branding really crisp and strong so people will recognize [Rosie] We want Rosie to be the face of predictive shopping as we begin to scale nationally ” Ford said that Rosie stood apart from its competitors because it appealed to a larger number of customers than the other proposals

“ The grocer y industr y in the United States is over 500 billion dollars a year So, we were going after a chunk of that, and the other companies in the finals were vying for much smaller markets,” Ford said “I think the judges found that appealing

” Ambrose said that through its support ser vices, Student Agencies eLab Cornell’s business accelerator for entrepreneurs has helped Rosie continue to grow and develop as a company

“From advice on strategic decisions to providing office space and introductions to other networking and entrepreneurial events, [Cornell] has

been a terrific resource, ” Ambrose said The competition’s host, Startup Labs, is an international investment fund which aims to reinvent the traditional incubation process by co-investing with local investors early on in new startup companies, according to the company ’ s website

According to Ford, Startup Labs organizes various programs across the globe to provide early investments, mentorship and technical support to entrepreneurs to help validate their team and business model to later stage investors In addition to Rosie, two of the competition’s finalists also developed tech software: one was a mobile app allowing consumers to order food and drinks at live events without leaving their seats and the other was a platform that automates the processing of applications from tenants for apartments, according to a press release from Startup Labs

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz @cornellsun com

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Editorial

Put an End to the C-Town Housing Rush

THIS PAST FALL, WE SAW STUDENTS CAMPING OUT on a sidewalk in Collegetown not for hockey tickets, but to sign leases on preferred off-campus houses and apartments By mid-October, some landlords had filled nearly every unit for the following academic year The City of Ithaca’s decision Wednesday to consider a proposal that seeks to ameliorate this serious problem, then, should inspire hope that our officials are taking these concerns seriously However, there seem to be too many fatal flaws in the proposed legislation for this to be the case

The proposal the city will consider suggests amending city code to create a minimum 60-day notice period landlords must give tenants before taking any of three actions: requiring a lease renewal; showing the residence to other prospective renters; or entering a lease agreement with future tenants There are obvious weaknesses in the proposal that could deprive the amendment of its intended power

The proposal maintains that “notice can be given at any time during the lease period, beginning at the start date of the lease ” For the myriad residences whose lease terms begin during the summer, landlords would still be able to begin signing new lease agreements during the first week of classes

Additionally, the proposal stipulates that the wait period “will not be required if landlord and tenant mutually agree that they waive this requirement ” This exemption leaves far too much potential for abuse By simply requiring prospective tenants to waive their right to the 60-day notification period in order to sign a lease, landlords could continue to hold hostage students who are under immense pressure to secure housing

As it stands, the amendment would have no teeth with which to create the “breathing space ” that the proposal claims to seek Ithaca must work to implement policies that would be effective in easing the burden the Collegetown housing rush places on students Limited the time prior to signing a lease hinders mutual exchange of information between landlords and tenants that would allow each party to make an informed decision Students who are unsure of what their desired living situation will be a full year in advance are pressured by a move-it-or-lose-it mentality to rush into rental agreements with roommates and landlords with whom they might not be fully comfortable

The city and relevant Cornell student groups must ensure that any new policy intended to improve the Collegetown housing crisis is armed with safeguards against landlord evasion If the gaping loopholes in this legislation are not closed, it will do little to curtail Collegetown landlords’ ability to manipulate their tenants

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BASEBALL Continued from page 16

For number two on Sunday, Columbia snatched another win from the Red In the third inning, the Lions finally capitalized and scored three to take the lead These three runs ended Cornell senior pitcher Zach McCulley’s 15 game scoreless streak Cornell responded at the top of five with two but Columbia responded with another to make the score, 4-2, at the end of the inning To finish the eighth, Columbia snatched an additional run to take a 5-2 victory

Cornell will return to nonleague play today with a doubleheader scheduled at Siena College

The Red will also return to Ancient Eight competition by hosting Penn for four games this weekend

“We set a plan to get to 30 wins

We are taking every game seriously Siena is going to be taken just as seriously as a game against Dartmouth in a weekend series I expect a high intensity game where everyone is giving it 100 percent, ” Peters said “When we go to Penn, we should have a little momentum going into the weekend and try to get all four from them ”

Haley Velasco can be reached at sportseditor@cornellsun com

Three S eniors S ay Farewell to the Hill

GYMNASTICS Continued from page 16

Archer said “I was first up on beam in the individual finals out of everyone and I was extremely nervous, but I ended up hitting probably the best beam routine I’ve done in my college career When I stuck my dismount, I was just so excited hit my last beam routine ever When I later went on to hit my floor routine, I was extremely happy to have had the opportunity to finished out my career with two solid routines ”

Archer capped off her Cornell career with two Top-10 finishing, placing seventh on beam with a 9 750 and 10th on floor with a 9 700 Also progressing to the final round was senior tri-captain Sarah Hein On Friday afternoon, Hein earned her second consecutive All-America honor on vault with a 9 750 finish Sunday marked Hein’s first time competing in the USAG finals

“It was an amazing experience competing in event finals for the first time in my career, ” Hein said “On vault in finals, unlike in a normal team competition, the gymnast has to perform two vaults instead of the usual one I had the opportunity to compete

against some amazing vaulters, including former olympians, so I was honored to earn a spot in the final competition ” Sunday marked the last time that both Archer and Hein would compete on the collegiate circuit

“As a senior, this last round of competition was my last chance to perform a gymnastics routine,” Hein said “And since, like most gymnasts, I’ve been doing gymnastics since I was five years old, it was a pretty big deal It meant so much to me to have my whole team and my family there cheering me on, that it didn’t really matter the outcome of the competition ”

According to Hein, competing in the finals was a very emotional experience

“One image that will stay with me forever is looking up into the stands after landing my last competitive vault and seeing my whole team and family standing on their feet cheering for me, ” Hein said “Needless to say, I kind of lost it, and burst into tears at that point ”

Rounding out the three gymnasts representing the Red in the finals was junior Melanie Jorgensen In 2011, Jorgensen was named the national champion on the uneven

bars On Sunday, she finished with a 9 800, which was good for a second place tie, placing her 050 behind Penn’s Kristen Strausbaugh in first with 9 850

“We are all so proud of Melanie Jorgensen for placing second in a very competitive uneven bars individual finals competition,” Archer said

The Red will be losing three seniors when Archer, Hein and tri-captain Ashley Maher graduate in a few weeks; however, the junior class is ready to step up and fill the leadership positions for the rest of the team Archer’s advice to her underclass an teammates is to appreciate their time at Cornell

“Treasure every second you have with your teammates and at Cornell in general,” she explained “Before you know it, you’ll be counting down the days until graduation and you won ’ t be ready to leave Good or bad, every experience makes your overall time spent at Cornell some of the best and most unique years of your life Thank you all for making my last years of gymnastics the best ”

Lauren Ritter can be reached at lritter@cornellsun com

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By ANNA FASMAN Sun Staff Writer

Once again, the Cornell women ’ s softball team found it splitting its games this weekend against Columbia University So far this season, the Red has been able to maintain a record of 6-6 in league play, splitting games against Dartmouth and Harvard, sweeping Brown and losing to Yale This past weekend, Cornell started its first two games off strongly, winning both on Saturday and bringing up its record to 16-16 However, the Red fell short on Sunday, losing both games

In the first game on Saturday afternoon, the women found themselves behind by one run heading into the last inning of the game At the bottom of the sixth, the Lions were able to pull ahead of Cornell after a three-run succession and maintained a lead for the first time all game However, the Red was able to pull out the win, scoring three times in the seventh inning with help from junior Christina Villalon, senior Kristen Towne and freshman Michiko McGivney The team ended the game with a final score of 7-5

In game two, Cornell took an early lead scoring two runs in the third inning Freshman Meg Parker pitched her first career game and didn’t give up any walks within her six innings on the mound With a final four runs in the seventh inning, the women

were able to come out with their second win of the day, beating Columbia with an impressive score of 6-0

However, Cornell was unable to perform as well in the second day of play against Columbia In the third game of the weekend, Cornell took an early lead of 2-0 within the first inning of the game; however, thanks to errors made in the field, the Liond were able to answer the Red and tie the game in the bottom of the first Within the next inning, Columbia was able to pull ahead by one run and maintain its small lead for the remainder of the game Despite the loss, pitcher Alyson Onyon ’14 only gave up one hit in the last four innings, keeping the score close Game two proved to be just as disappointing with the Lions scoring six runs in a hard-fought third inning Columbia was able to assure the win with a final run in fourth inning leaving the Red struggling to find a place on the board The game ended with a score of 7-0 as Columbia swept day two of the Ivy set

This week, the women will head to Albany for a set of midweek games and then will face Ivy League opponent University of Pennsylvania, who currently stand in first place in league play

Anna Fasman can be reached at

Diamondmen Fall in Three of Four Against Columbia

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Sports Editor

This past weekend, the Red faced the Lions in a four game, two-day Ivy League showdown in New York City Cornell won one game and lost the other three in a tough weekend away from the Hill

“It didn’t go our way obviously We lost three out of four ,and that’s the first series in a long time that we lost [like that] since Princeton last year It’s kind of tough to deal

with,” senior infielder Brenton Peters said “They are a very challenging team, and we gave everything we had It just didn’t work out our way, but we still have two more weekends to go There is a possibility that we could end up in first, so we have to see what happens ”

In the first game, Columbia took down Cornell in an 81 loss For the Lions, Alex Black was the superstar as he went 2-for-3 for the day with a run-scoring double in the third and a solo homer in the fifth to help Columbia close out the day Cornell only got four hits in the game and could not

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“The weekend didn’t go too well since we went one and three As an offense we couldn’t really get too much going We just couldn’t really string anything together It was tough,” junior Chris Cruz said “I think it was a slump It happens in baseball ”

For the second game of Saturday, Columbia shutout Cornell, 5-0 In the first three innings, the Lions grabbed four runs in the first three Unfortunately for the Red the offense could not get the ball rolling and Columbia snagged a six-hit shutout Senior Brenton Peters and junior Tom D’Alessandro were both 2-for-4 for the game, while sophomore J D Whetsel and junior Ryan Plantier grabbed the other hits

“There are times when you go through a slump and it just seemed like nothing was going our team ’ s way offensively You have to deal with that In baseball, it happens,” Peters said “Baseball is a game of success and failures It is how you deal with failures that determines your team We have to figure out what we were doing wrong at the plate and fix our approaches ”

In the first game on Sunday, Cornell was able to snag a “W” from Columbia by one run in an extra inning In the first inning, the Red grabbed three to start it off Columbia answered with three in the fourth and then an extra one in the fifth The Red followed with another run in the seventh to tie it up at four In the extra inning, sophomore Kevin Tatum hit a single out to right and after senior pinch runner Forrest Crawford came in and stole second on a wild pitch, there was a duck for the Red to hit in After a strikeout, freshman Elliot Lowell knocked one out into left, which gave Crawford the chance to score and secure the win for Cornell

“That game was interesting We got out to a three nothing lead and then they came back We kind of went back and forth a little bit,” Peters said “At the end of the game, Tatum got on and the coaches decided to pinch run for him with Forrest Crawford Then freshman Lowell got up to plate and he got the run It was big ”

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