08-31-12

Versions of Academic Freedom: From Professionalism to Revolution 12:15 - 1:45 p m , 390 Myron Taylor Hall

Ken Meter Lecture Food Systems: Planning for Emergence

Abby and Howard Milstein Auditorium, Milstein Hall

What Is the Energ y Engineer’s Role In New and Existing Buildings? 12:20 - 1:10p m , 101 Phillips Hall

Small Fruit Open House 12:45 - 4:15 p m , Cornell Orchards

Clinical Rounds in Comparative Medicine 4 p.m., C2-537 Clinical Programs Center

New Students Only: Introduction to Librar y Research 4 - 5 p m , Uris Librar y

Tomorrow

Johnson Board Fellowship Training

9 a m - 6 p m , Ramin Parlor, Sage Hall

Swim Shuttle to Robert Treman State Park 11:30 am, North Campus and West Campus

Animal Feedings Noon, Cayuga Nature Center

Sp eaking ab out how she was drawn to joining the

When I actually s aw the details of what Cornell had put into its prop os al, it really felt like such an excellent match with my interests ” E strin s aid “The opp ortunity to b e part of building something that was a ver y applied and connected and entrepreneurial version of innovations was really what drew me

Prof D eb orah Estrin, the tech campus ’ f irst professor

Sp eaking ab out why cer tain movie quotes b ecame engrained in our memories

“Think ab out ‘Hasta la vista baby ’ This is something that is not commonly s aid in an English movie Combinations of words that are unusual also make quotes memorable, such as “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” which uses a word of endearment with a swear word ” Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil grad

Retired Cornell English Professor Named New York State Author

By JONATHAN DAWSON Sun Staff Writer

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Jonathan Dawson can be reached at jdawson@cornellsun com

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Alumnus Embroiled in Sexual Abuse Lawsuit Involving Prep School

By UTSAV RAI Sun Staff Writer

Scott Smith ’79 has found himself on the opposing side of his younger brother Phillip Smith in a sex abuse case involving Poly Prep Country Day School, a private school in Brooklyn, N Y

Phillip, who did not attend college and has been battling drug and alcohol abuse for many years now, is now blaming Poly Prep

In a $20 million lawsuit, Phillip and 11 others claim Philip Foglietta, who coached football at Poly Prep from 1966 to 1991, sexually abused them The lawsuit also states that Poly Prep administrators allegedly knew about the abuse and covered it up to save the reputation of the athletics program at the school

According to the lawsuit, from 1971 to 1977, Phillip Smith was abused hundreds of times by Foglietta both at Poly Prep and off-campus The athletic director, Harlow Parker, and headmaster, William M Williams, contacted Phillip Smith and his mother “ on many occasions” because of his unexpected absences and failing grades

“In response, Foglietta contacted Parker and/or Williams and told them, in words or substance, to stop harassing Smith,” the lawsuit claims

In addition to alledging that Poly Prep officials knew about the abuse but covered it up, the lawsuit claims that because of the abuse, Phillip Smith developed an addiction to pornography, became depressed and began abusing alcohol and drugs

Scott Smith, who is the chairman of the Board of Trustees at Poly Prep, has refused to take sides The school filed a motion to dismiss the case because it believes the plaintiffs waited too long from the date of the alleged abuse to file their complaint, according to The New York Daily News

Despite the school’s attempt to shut down the case, on Thursday U S District Judge Frederic Block ruled that the lawsuit would move forward

“The scheme alleged is more than just a string of isolated statements, ” Block wrote “Rather, it is a decades-long attempt to conceal the school's knowledge of Foglietta’s despicable conduct ”

Both Scott and Phillip Smith, and Kevin Mulhearn, one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs, declined to comment on the ongoing case The University’s alumni affairs office also declined to comment on the nature of Scott Smith's relationship with Cornell, citing the University’s privacy policy

According to The Daily News, Scott Smith said he was “sickened” to learn about the abuse, but felt he should stay uninvolved in his brother’s lawsuit

“The board and I agreed that I should recuse myself from our sincere efforts to resolve this matter, ” Smith said “My stomach will forever churn when I think about what my brother says happened to him and then kept inside him for so many years I continue to hope that the entire Poly community and, most of all, the victims, can begin the process of healing ”

An evidentiary hearing will be held to determine if Poly Prep intentionally hid evidence or knowledge of the abuse If the school is found to have known about the abuse but hidden it during the period the plaintiffs could have filed a complaint against it, it will not be allowed to claim that too much time has passed since the alleged abuse

The judge said that, although the lawsuit may proceed, the plaintiffs “face several hurdles” in making their case

“Each plaintiff must show that the statement about Foglietta’s lily-white reputation were false and made with knowledge of their falsity,” Block wrote

Utsav Rai can be reached at urai@cornellsun com

Prof: NY C Tech Is a ‘Chance to Create Something Brand New’

TECH PROFESSORS

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then customize customers ’ experiences

“Imagine walking into a supermarket Right now, you walk into it and all of the aisles are arranged in a one size fits all manner there’s clothes here, toiletries, maybe electronics in the back,” Belongie told The Sun “Imagine you walk into the store and it is instantly rearranged, to the point where you feel like all of the stuff you are interested in is right there It knows how tall you are and puts all the stuff at eye level that is most interesting to you ”

Manohar will be teaching “Physical Computing,” a class designed to teach students how to design electronics

“How often do you have a new campus of this magnitude being formed with the backing of Cornell and Technion and, of course, the city?”

P r o f R a j i t M o n a h a r

that interact with the environment, like sophisticated home temperature control systems As part of the course, students will design and build one such device

A professor in Cornell’s School of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Manohar has been involved in CornellNYC Tech from the time it was just a proposal in New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s highly publicized competition More recently, Manohar was a co-chair for the tech campus ’ Academic Planning Committee, which is creating a set of requirements for the degrees that will be offered at the tech campus

Manohar said he believes that the tech campus could revolutionize the way students in science, technology and math connect their work to the world “ What students learn at Cornell, real technology and science and engineering is something they don’t always realize how much impact they might be able to have, because they don’t see the problems people are facing,” Manohar said “ The tech campus is a place that will be able to have a much closer relationship with real issues that people are facing It’s a much bigger opportunity to go out and do things that’ll change the world ”

In contrast, Belongie, who teaches in California, is a more recent addition to the brains behind the tech campus He is set to teach classes for one semester before returning to UC San Diego

Belongie said his interest was piqued during last year ’ s fierce competition between several universities to win the right to build a tech campus on Roosevelt Island Although rumors in California suggested that Stanford, largely considered Cornell’s biggest competitor, would win the bid, Belongie said that he was intrigued by the

fact that Cornell ultimately won

“I felt that had Stanford won, in some sense it would suggest that Stanford would be bringing some of the Silicon Valley-style approach to New York, because that’s where Stanford has excelled traditionally; they’re such an integral part of the culture in Silicon Valley,” Belongie said “ The idea that a different university won, one that’s actually from New York State, presents a really neat opportunity to create something brand new instead of a copy of something that exists somewhere else ”

Manohar agreed that working at CornellNYC tech is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity

“ There may be a new university or a new campus being formed, but how often do you have a new campus of this magnitude being formed with the backing of universities like Cornell and Technion and, of course, the city?” Manohar said

Manohar plans to begin teaching in New York City during the spring semester He said he will tr y to alternate semesters between the tech campus and Cornell’s campus in Ithaca

He admitted that transitioning between the two cities on a semester-long basis would be difficult

Still, Manohar said, “I think it’s worth it It will be ”

Emma Court can be reached at ecourt@cornellsun com

The Corne¬ Daily Sun

Watchers Will Monitor Drinking, Reckless Behavior

ing, sexual assault and reckless behavior, Mueller said The students will blend in as regular party-goers, and will only come at the consent of the party ’ s host

they are supervising

John Mueller ’13, a member of the Watchers’ executive board, said that the Watchers are also currently recruiting students to join the program in order to comprehensively address the effects of binge-drinking

“We want to decidedly decrease the negative effects

“If tons of students, including social leaders on campus, are trained to identify dangers, more people will be responsible to respond in these risky situations,” Gitlin said

Rather than prevent drinking at parties, the Watchers could give someone a glass of water or observe party guests ’ behavior to make sure they are not being endangered by alcohol use, Mueller said

“In the end, I hope we can create a culture where it’s normal to tell someone that they should have a cup of water and skip that next shot of liquor ” J o h n M u e l l e r ’ 1 3

spawning from alcohol over-consumption,” Mueller said “Whether that involves the long term effects of drinking or the short term problems such as going to the hospital, waking up with a hangover or damage to property in Collegetown, these are simple things that can be fixed in order to make students’ college experience easier ”

Trained students will be compensated for attending parties and monitoring them for instances of alcohol poison-

“In the end, I hope we can create a culture where it’s normal to tell someone that they should have a cup of water and skip that next shot of liquor,” Mueller said “We may not all agree on what high risk drinking is, but we can all agree that we don’t want people to drink dangerously ”

Students will also be prepared to handle more serious situation According to Eric Silverberg ’14, another member of the Watchers’ executive board, the Watchers will be extensively trained in first aid and able to identify instances of alcohol abuse

However, the “Watchers” will not have authority to discipline any organization or student, Silverberg said

“They don’t work with the intent of reporting any cases

Silverberg said “As a former fraternity president, I’d wel-

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come students who are actually trained for such emergencies The sober monitors we had last year were not as attentive, because they never had any training to spot situations where students are put in harm’s way ”

Mueller said that the group will instead serve as an “ extra set of eyes and ears ” for the party ’ s host or the organization’s president Mueller said he believes both Greek and non-Greek events could benefit from the opportunity, noting the service would be completely free and voluntary for all student organizations

“It’s not like we are going to go into people’s parties and ruin their fun,” Mueller said “We’re not interfering with anyone ’ s partying We just want to make people aware of risky behaviors, to prevent it from getting to the point where you need to bring in an ambulance or call the police ”

Gitlin also said that he hopes the Cayuga’s Watchers proposal will reach on and off campus events and organizations

“We definitely want to see the plan be adopted by the Greek system, ” said Interfraternity Council President Chris Sanders ’13

Sanders, however, acknowledged that the IFC has yet to engage in a robust discussion on the extent of the Watchers’ involvement in Greek life

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HELENE BEAUCHEMIN 13 Business Manager

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Associate Editor

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Photography Editor

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Blogs Editor

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C o l u m b i a a n d Ya l e A s t h e Un i ve r s i t y b e g i n s t o s h i f t t o w a r d t h e g r a d u a l e m p l o y m e n t o f d i s t a n c e - l e a r n i n g c o u r s e s f o r s m a l l e r l a n g u a g e p ro g r a m s , h ow w i l l t h e s t u d e n t s a n d t h e p rof e s s o r s w h o t e a c h t h e c o u r s e s b e a f f e c t e d i n t h e l o n g r u n ? A s a l w a y s , C o r n e l l’s m o t t o o f “ a n y p e r s o n a n y s t u d y ” a r i s e s w h e n e ve r t h e Un i ve r s i t y m e n t i o n s t h e t e r m i n at i o n o f a n a c a d e m i c p ro g r a m St u d e n t s w i t h a n a p t i t u d e f o r f o re i g n l a n g u a g e s a re a t t r a c t e d t o C o r n e l l f o r i t s m y r i a d o f o f f e r i n g s , f r o m A r a b i c t o Z u l u Gr a d u a t e s t u d e n t s c o n d u c t i n g re s e a rc h re l y

w o rk i s d o n e f a c e - t o - f a c e o n c o m p u t e r w o rk s t a t i o n s , w i t h c o n s t a n t f e e d b a c k f ro m t h e p ro f e s s o r T h o u g h s o m e re m a i n s k e p t i c a l o f d i s t a n c e - l e a r n i n g c o u r s e s , t h e Du t c h p ro g r a m h a s p rove d i t s e l f t o b e o n t h e c u t t i n g e d g e o f e d u c a t i o n a l t e c h n o l o g y To s o m e e x t e n t , t h e p i l o t p ro g r a m h a s b e e n s u c c e s s f u l t h u s f a r d u e t o t h e s o p h i s t i c a t e d h i g h - t e c h g e a r ; h owe ve r, i t i s Ho s e a ’ s c re a t i v i t y t h a t m a g n i f i c e n tl y b r i n g s t w o c l a s s ro o m s i n t o o n e He r u n c o n ve n t i o n a l t e a c h i n g m e t h o d s a re e n h a n c e d by t h e s e e m i n g l y i n f i n i t e p o ss i b i l i t i e s t h a t t h i s s e t u p o f f e r s W h e n d i s c u s s i n g a p a r t i c u l a r c i t y, s h e c a n p u l l u p Go o g l e Ma p s a n d a n n o t a t e s p e c i f i c re g i o n s u s i n g a S M A RT B o a rd Ne w s c l i p s a n d a r t i c l e s c o v e r i n g c u r r e n t e ve n t s i n t h e Ne t h e r l a n d s a re o n l y a c l i c k a w a y St u d e n t s w o rk t o g e t h e r o n t h e w o rk s t a t i o n s t o w r i t e a n d e d i t t e x t s t o g e t h e r Ev e r y s o o f t e n t h e y p l a y P i c t i o n a r y t o p r a c t i c e v o c a b u l a r y w o rd s , u s i n g a t a b l e t t o s k e t c h a n i m a g e t h a t i s p ro j e c t e d o n t h e s c re e n s a t b o t h C o r n e l l a n d Ya l e L a s t s e m e s t e r, t h e C o r n e l l s t u d e n t s h a d t h e u n i q u e o p p o rt u n i t y t o v i s i t t h e Jo h n s o n Mu s e u m a n d g i ve a l i ve p re s e n t a t i o n a b o u t t h e a r t o f t h e Du t c h Go l d e n A g e t o Ya l e , f a c i l i t a t e d by t h e Sk y p e a p p l i c a t i o n o n a n i Pa d Fa r f ro m f e e l i n g i s o l a t e d f ro m a s e pa r a t e c l a s s ro o m h u n d re d s o f m i l e s a w a y, C o r n e l l s t u d e n t s s t i l l f e e l c o n n e c t e

You hear the term “quality of life” used a lot in veterinar y medicine because maintaining it is the primar y goal of treating patients I’ve been in vet school for over a year now and I think I’m finally star ting to wrap my head around the concept

I couldn’t tell you when I first heard somebody say “quality of life” because it’s so ingrained in ever y aspect of animal care It sounds like a no-brainer of course you would want to maintain an animal’s quality of life, why is it even wor th discussing? However, when you think about it more, it’s a concept that is exquisitely unique to veterinar y medicine In human medicine, although doctors work to alleviate the pain and suffering of their patients, for the most par t the primar y goal is to keep the person alive no matter what Terminally ill patients are kept alive even if it means that they’re bedridden and hooked up to machines assisted suicide is currently only legal in three states in the United States and a handful of European countries But in veterinar y medicine, veterinarians and owners have complete control over when they want to end the suffering of their animals

So the question becomes, how do you draw that line between treatable and in too much pain to help? For the purposes of this discussion, let’s eliminate money from the equation I know this is unrealistic and more often than not the decision to euthanize an animal boils down to how much treatment its owner can afford (which is a whole other issue), but let’s pretend that we ’ re dealing with an owner who has unlimited funds at his disposal We’ll call him George Say that George has a two-year-old golden retriever named Turk, and Turk has been hit by a car You’re the vet, and George tells you to do whatever you can to save Turk Although Turk’s injuries are severe, for tunately you ’ re able to save him after several hours in surger y followed by weeks of recover y What if Turk was 13-years-old (ver y old for a golden)? Do you tell George that the stress of surger y and the painful recover y will be too much for Turk, and that he should consider euthanizing him so that he doesn’t have to suffer?

Let’s tr y another scenario that’s even more complicated Turk has ar thritis that you ’ ve been managing with anti-

inflammator y medication However, ar thritis is a chronic, progressive disease and the medication only treats the symptoms How do you know when Turk’s pain is no longer being managed well enough and is affecting his quality of life?

You could argue that it’s all up to the owners they know the animals best and they’ll just know when it’s time There are two problems with this, though One is that it’s often hard for people to make accurate judgments when it comes to pets that they love They think that just because the animal is sleeping and eating ever ything is fine, even if it can barely walk to relieve itself I know that even I am guilty of being slightly psy-

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around and star t eating and drinking again He didn’t know that the tube of gross paste that I had squir ted into his mouth had anything to do with it; he just kne w that he felt better When a person is sick like that though, and their fever goes down enough for them to physiologically feel well enough to eat, their minds often still say “No, I’m sick, I don’t feel like acting normal ”

So it really comes down to understanding what’s normal Veterinarians have an advantage with this because after a while they see enough normal cases that they can form a baseline quality of care assessment based off of personal

anthropomorphize animals a little too much We assume that they want to be treated just like we would want to be treated ourselves, even if it means prolonging their lives when they’re clearly suffering On the flip side of this, even “clearly suffering” is hard to judge even though the basic neurological pathways are the same as in humans, we can ’ t really know if their conscious acknowledgement of pain means the same thing for them as it does for us Which brings us to the cr ux of the issue when we talk about quality of life, how do we know what that means for the animal?

One thing that I’ve come to realize about animals is that disease is much less of a psychological process for them than it is for us For example, my horse had some type of infection last year and he had a high fever When his temperature was up, he wouldn’t eat or drink and just stood listlessly in a corner of his stall Within half an hour of being medicated to bring his temperature down, he would turn

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experience People with this kind of experience have created pain scales to tr y and quantify the suffering of animals, with signs ranging from pacing to hiding to vocalizing I think that, as students, we just take these scales at face value because we know that they’re made by people significantly more knowledgeable than we are, but knowing that and understanding it are two different things In the end, the quality of care assessment is based on a combination of the owner ’ s perception of what is normal for the individual animal and the vet ’ s objectivity and knowledge of what is normal for the species in general The two par ties can work together to come up with the best possible outcome for the animal

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Films are dangerous The Irish film historian Mark Cousins recognizes this In his documentary The Story of Film: An Odyssey, he treads carefully, leading the viewer through a riot of bullets and blood The muddied battlefield, featured in the critically-acclaimed Steven Spielberg film Saving Private Ryan, is in actuality a peaceful beach Filmmaking, Cousins declares, is a lie to tell the truth ”

Urgent and cogent, Cousins’ 15-hour retelling of the history of film is part love-letter and part apostolic epistle The epic documentary is now showing in two-hour segments at the Schwartz Center as a semester-long Cornell Cinema series Cousins’ gospel is cinematic truth, and his mission is to redraw the conventional roadmap of cinema history, which is “factually inaccurate and racist by omission ” This is a strong charge, but one that Cousins passionately defends by designing what he has called, in a recent San Francisco Chronicle interview, a highly personal “tasting menu ” of landmark films

The story of film is a story of greatness, Cousins persuades us, and the only way to appreciate this greatness is to go global For too long, the spotlight has been disproportionately stolen by Hollywood and its trappings, “full of yearning, story and stardom ” Cousins begins by knocking Casablanca off its pedestal as one of the reigning film classics As Humphrey Bogart locks eyes with Ingrid Bergman to the immortal tune As Time Goes By, Cousins bluntly observes that such lush films are too romantic to be truly great

The problem with romantic films, he points out, is that they are “always in a rush ” In the real classics, there is time for the poetry of the mundane a chiming clock, a scurrying cat, a burbling kettle and a square window filled with smaller squares A good director orchestrates these details to establish the rhythm of a house, as Yasujiro Ozu demonstrates in his 1947 film Record of a Tenement Gentleman, the first of many Japanese films Cousins praises lavishly “Hollywood is not classical,” Cousins decisively concludes early in the film, “Japan is ” As a crash course in film history, The Story of Film fares well Cousins is an efficient, quick-witted teacher on whom few ironies are lost He takes pains to ensure that these ironies are not lost on his pupils, who will quickly learn to greet terms like “golden age ” with suspicion and bemusement The tour begins with the birth of film in Thomas Edison’s

New Jersey studio, and segues into the glories of the golden age of world cinema The trauma of war then takes center stage; Cousins shows how World War II both sobered film and made it more daring, culminating in the explosive maturing of cinema in the 1960s and 1970s as films like The Graduate and Taxi Driver came to fruition The 1980s saw the triumph of the multiplexes, flowering of Bollywood and the rise of the protest movies in response to T h a t c h e r i s m Another golden age arose in the 1990s, as Shinya Tsukamoto reinvented the Japanese horror film, Abbas Kiarostami reinterpreted realism in Iranian film, and the Coen brothers made flashiness fashionable

Does, and must, film have a moral purpose? Cousins suggests that it does If film is a language, then it must be wielded astutely But the world of film is populated with villains and heroes, and it is not always easy to tell one from the other The prolific director D W Griffith, master of punctum, used his talents in a “deceitful” way (Punctum, as defined by the critic Roland Barthes, is anything unplanned and natural that pricks our feelings when we watch a film ) Griffith’s The Birth of a Nation helped inspire a generation of racism

He portrayed black characters as drunk, unclean and disorderly; he cast the Ku Klux Klan as an army of light Formerly on the verge of extinction, Klan membership soared to four million in the 1920s

To borrow the words of the 13th century Latin grammarian Terentianus Maurus: according to the capabilities of the viewer, films have their destiny Adolf Hitler was so impressed by Metropolis, he reportedly made prisoners build a gargantuan ramp resembling the one in Fritz Lang’s 1927 film The futuristic German expressionist film, now

widely regarded as prophetic, was about an urban dystopia Cousins likes telling things as they are The film is at its most poignant when Cousins recites the obituaries of mistreated cinematic heroes, who like Jean Dujardin’s character in The Artist, languish after the spotlights are gone At the height of her career, the first movie star Florence Lawrence earned $80,000 She committed suicide at 48, after her career declined An unfortunate chapter in the histor y of film, defined by “hype, fame and tragedy,” had begun Early Hollywood was Fordist, a crass manufacturer of myths The studio system purged filmmaking of art A deft employer of motifs, Cousins depicts Hollywood as a shiny red bauble dangling over a cliff gaudy, mass-produced and vulnerable Directors had their dreams cut down to size by studio bosses Sitting in bland, slab-like buildings, brilliant set designers crafted exquisite landscapes Movie moguls built film palaces, where people could go to have a taste of utopia after a hard day’s work

These ironies are captured brilliantly by Cousins Cousins does not hate Hollywood He acknowledges that a lot of good has come out of the concentration of money and talent in the once lawless Californian wilderness In the 15th installment, which focuses on post-9/11 films, Cousins lauds David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive and Christopher Nolan’s Inception for their complexity Early Hollywood was also a generous employer of the highly creative but marginalized immigrants, women and Jews Prior to 1925, women penned half of Hollywood’s screenplays

Like a tourist on a museum tour, the viewer stops and stares, and the story of film is made tactile This is the dressing table at which Marilyn Monroe turned blond This is the obsessively organized desk, at which Thomas Edison dreamed up lighting devices and story ideas This is the first Lumiere camera, which enthralled the first cinemagoers in the 1890s

The story of film, Cousins reminds us, is real

Parts One and Two of The Story of Film: An Odyssey will be screened for a second time on Tuesday, September 4, at 7:15 p m at the Film Forum, Schwartz Center for the Performing Arts This Cornell Cinema series concludes on November 13

Daveen Koh is a junior in the College of Architecture, Art and Planning She can be contacted at arts-and-entertainmenteditor@cornellsun com

Sun’s Gonna Rise: Fall Music Preview

BY GINA CARGAS Sun Staff Writer

Well, kids, it’s the last day of August and that means one thing: fall is in full swing But if you ’ re anything like me, you ’ ve already lost at least half of your syllabi, and the fresh new pack of pencils you bought last week is nearing empty The room you were so determined to keep clean this year now has clothing strewn across it, and your first prelim is just on the horizon And for us music geeks, fall means another thing: festival season is over Well, never fear, as Ithaca’s autumn lineup is here to shield you from the everincreasing ennui This fall, treat yourself to one of the many exciting concerts in town

As per usual, the calendar is loaded with shows put on by the illustrious Mr Dan Smalls ’92, who is pretty much the Santa Claus of Ithaca concert promotion Dan Smalls Presents kicks off its fall season next Friday, when indie-ska rappers AER groove their way through The Haunt Opening for the Massachusetts-based bromantics are rapper Yonas, New Zealand sensation David Dallas and Captaincy, a local artist from Ithaca College Two days later, saunter on down to the State Theatre for an intimate evening with acclaimed singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter The acclaimed performer will wow you with tunes from her new album, and probably break a few hearts along the way Next up, everyone ’ s favorite (only?) Berkeley trip-hop band WHY? plays The Haunt on September 11 Known for their creative compositions and bizarre, often discomfiting lyrics, WHY? will certainly put on a unique and awesome show

Let’s take a moment of silence to honor the probably tiny population of people that are fans of both Josh Ritter and Das Racist, as the wildly different artists both play on the September15 The Ithaca College Bureau of Concerts will

welcome frenetic, self-aware hip-hop group Das Racist to Emerson Suites, while Josh Ritter’s country crooning will woo every creature within a two-block radius of the State

On September 22, we’ll celebrate the one weekend of the year Cornellians pretend to care about football with Cornell Concert Commission’s annual Homecoming concert, this year featuring Swedish producer Avicii Get ready for the same kind of drunken frat party that last year ’ s B o b show was Let’s just hope Avicii remembers to pay his tab at Level B

As we make our way into rainy October, try and ignore the feeling of impending doom that inevitably accompanies prelim season After all, what’s the point of studying when you ’ ve got approximately one trillion great shows to choose from? On the October 2, pretend you ’ re not quite so close to Canada as bluesy Southerners the North Mississippi Allstars rock The Haunt Later that week, catch comedyrapper Mike Stud the future King of Bro-dom or transcendent folk band the Great Lake Swimmers In midOctober, Dan Smalls Presents brings a trifecta of fantastic music First, The Haunt presents Zammuto, the awesome hyperactive solo project of Nick from The Books, on October 12 Next they get The Mountain Goats, the brilliant lyricist and lo-fi rocker that stunned Castaways (R I P) in 2011 Then, Cat Power will treat the State to a night of gorgeous, haunting confessionals The month rounds out with Gov’t Mule and the Indigo Girls at the State On October 27, enjoy Allman Brothers Band side project Gov’t Mule, before getting out your Birkenstocks for moody folk duo the Indigo Girls on Halloween Eve

Come November, the sun will have pretty much disappeared behind a wall of gray for the foreseeable future Regardless, Citizen Cope will show up to chant “Son’s Gonna Rise” at us, perhaps laughing as we sadly break out our mittens and jackets The very next night, the State will host Bela Fleck’s New York Banjo Summit Now, I’m not

Tourism Is Art

Amidst the bustle of modern Kyoto lies a world of vermillion Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples gilt with tarnished patinas of bronze and gold, flaking with age and the effects of the tempestuous seasons This year, I visited Kyoto at the height of summer In August, Japan is not spared from the vicious heat I could feel the land sag under the pounding of the sun ’ s rays It is said, however, that the temples of Japan offer solace for the weary traveler in all seasons, offering shade and a meditative space in which to escape the strictures of the world According to guidebooks and websites, these places are oases of calm tucked away amidst the bustle of quotidian existence

Needless to say, however, that this glimmering vision is, at times, not quite borne out by reality To step into a Buddhist temple in Kyoto is not quite the transcendent experience it is made out to be First, of course, there are the often exorbitant entrance fees Second are the crowds of tourists from all over the world, in their little flag-waving tour groups, jockeying and hustling for position at an appropriately photogenic spot where they grimace at a camera whilst chattering excitedly to themselves before being whisked away to another destination Third are the endless “ entry prohibited” signs and carefully placed barriers that shunt sightseers along a safe, well-defined route, like a dungeon crawl in some sword and sorcery RPG Lastly, the stalls at the end point selling a variety of overpriced and vaguely relevant souvenirs: temple charms, sweets and trinkets In a world like that, how is solace to be found

amidst beauty?

You see, travelling is an aesthetic experience The tourist is the visitor to the vast museum of the sightseeing destination The temples and shrines of Kyoto are art The distinction of tourism as a form of artistic appreciation is that art is often interactive; photo-taking lets the aesthete take back and isolate pieces of the art, and the freedom to explore the area lets the aesthete define his or her own, unique path of experience And the art piece itself is, of course, of the greatest importance; it is art because of its exceptional and transcendental beauty, be it a natural landscape, a building or an experience

As a form of artistic appreciation, however, sightseeing has its own dark side Art is inextricable from power and money The best art is sold for millions to the highest bidder Deciding what is good art is often not so much a democratic process, as it is decided by a cabal of self-declared experts who dictate what is worth seeing and what isn’t, by their own byzantine criteria of selection How does one decide whether the

resplendent Kinkaku-ji, a golden pavilion that appears to float over a beautiful pond, deserves to be designated a UNESCO world heritage site, when the mysterious and alluring maze of torii gate pathways that is the Fushimi Inari shrine isn’t? Having been designated sites of special beauty, they open the

entirely clear on the concept of a “banjo summit,” but anything that involves prominent banjo player Bela Fleck and, presumably, an insane number of other strummers, sounds pretty freaking fantastic For the less banjo-oriented, sit it out a few days and catch Jewish hip-hop artist Matisyahu or classic songwriter John Hiatt

Basically, the fall lineup has something for everyone From this list of shows to the dozens of others I couldn’t quite squeeze in, Ithaca’s music scene is truly amazing Sure, fall brings problem sets and papers and, worst of all, pants, but it’s rare that a city of 60,000 can boast such a thriving music culture So please, take a break from procrastinating to enjoy one of the stellar concerts Ithaca has to offer

Gina Cargas is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be contacted at gcargas@cornellsun com

floodgates to thousands of tourists, generating opportunities for economic gain through the selling of trinkets and souvenirs, and the charging of entrance fees

Finally, they make it necessar y for the immense volume of visitors to be channeled along a strictly defined path so as to avoid congestion and despoiling the attraction It becomes a self-reinforcing cycle: tourists, faced with a dearth of information, turn to guidebooks that invariably highlight the most famous and glamorized sites, generating further income flows

The worst part is that any traveler, myself included, is part of the problem These places belong to the world, and as such everyone has as much of a right as I do to see them But the act of opening up these places of beauty is to besmirch them, to turn them into less than they are, to transform the transcendent experience into one less profound The alternative limiting these attractions to a select few, whether through exorbitant fees or a draconian application process creates toll gates from which the powerful can potentially screen supplicants based on their political or economic clout That is a worse solution

Of course, one could suggest visiting these places in their off-peak seasons, or visiting less well-known temples and shrines

But that, too, is a diminishing of the experience Say what you will about aesthetic

beauty being accessible even in the most everyday places, but I believe that the unique brand of aesthetic beauty that is the holy grail of the sightseer is found less in the commonplace, but in the exceptional Otherwise, why travel when one can appreciate the everyday beauty around himself or herself? Likewise, in a place like Kyoto, where temples and gardens are placed in a hierarchy of beauty, the most beautiful, grand or transcendent experiences are almost invariably the most visited

What’s a sightseer to do? The very act of aesthetic appreciation sullies the art that is being appreciated, like an artsy version of the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle One way or another, there is no escape from this catch-22, at least in a much-visited destination like Kyoto Of course, there are pockets of wild beauty in the world that are inaccessible by the average sightseer I’ll grant you that But of course, there’s the eternal lament of the traveler: if it weren ’ t that difficult to get to, I’d be going already

Colin Chan is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be contacted at cchan@cornellsun com

Sun Sudoku Puzzle #2361

Kosher Dining Hall

Mac’s Café

Martha’s (MVR)

Mann Library

Myron Taylor Hall (Hughes Dining)

Noyes Main Lobby

Okenshields (Willard Straight Hall)

Physical Science

Baker (Goldie’s)

Plantations

Welcome Center

Libe Café

Rhodes Hall

Risley Dining

Robert Purcell Community Center (RPCC)

Sage Hall Atrium

Sibley Hall (Green Dragon Café)

Statler Hall

Stocking Hall (front lobby)

Tatkon Center

Teagle Hall

Trillium & Trillium Express

Uris Hall

Vet Center (Shurman Hall)

Willard Straight Hall Lobby

William Keeton House

Equestrian Team Talk s Talents

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Okay, well I want to talk about Naz (Behzad) she has this thing about recording videos, and so instead of recording our show rides silently, like everyone does, she does this play-by-play thing like a sports commentator And after (Coach) Chris (Mitchell) reviewed one of her videos, she wasn ’ t allowed to record for the team ever again But that doesn’t stop her because, if you ’ re ever on the bus with her, and you turn your head, it won ’ t be surprising if she has an iPhone in your face, like that happened to me once And then another person I want to talk about is AmFan (Amanda Fan) She [was] a senior and she has a talent that anyone would be jealous of because she can eat like no other, like anytime, anywhere, and anything and she won ’ t gain a pound from it

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Katie Rong, Senior in Walk,Trot

My friend and teammate Mary Beth Hannon has a really weird talent of telling us these very awkward reproduction facts that she learned about in all her vet classes? And she’ll say it at a very awkward time during team stuff and they’re all really gross and and we ’ re all like “Awww, Mary Beth!”

Renee Botelho, Sophomore in Beginner/Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter

Rachel (Ruden) and I share a love of “herping,” which totally sounds kinda suspect, I know But it’s really just going out catching frogs and salamanders and snakes, I swear! Leads to a bunch of odd nights in the cold out in the middle of nowhere, getting weird looks from people Fun times Thea has some pretty sweet knitting skills and makes all these cool hats and little animals And Maddie speaks in a British accent That has to count for something!

Amanda Sevcik, Junior in Novice

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So I would say that Emily Webster is like a cat whisperer All the cats are drawn to her Mona, our barn cat, won ’ t leave her alone and follows her around absolutely everywhere It’s like she has a special connection with them that no one else has Naz (Behzad) has really good navigational skills If we ’ re lost she'll get us anywhere We got lost in Ohio when we were going to North Carolina and she got us to North Carolina Sofia Steinberger, Sophomore in Intermediate

One of my teammates, Amanda Sevcik, really likes Volkswagen buses and every time she sees one she likes to take pictures with them Or you know, she just likes to collect pictures of them and she wants to have one one day Also, Becca Harrison and I took the same freshman writing seminar with the same professor, but at different semesters, so we like to talk about it it was a Shakespeare writing seminar and I make fun of her that she’s going to marry the TA who taught it And we like to watch Shakespeare films together and stuff like that So we ’ re both kind of Shakespeare-obsessed!

Thea Dickson, Junior in Beginner Walk, Trot, Canter

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Well, there’s Katie Rong, um, she has this telepathic connection with the TCAT bus drivers or something And she can tell you how to get to Oxley any time of the day off the top of her head Like “Oh yeah, Route so-and-so will be heading to Statler in about 8 minutes ” And she’s basically more reliable than the bus schedule That’s her talent And then there’s Charmaine also known as The Charmander whose really good at getting her car to start Like every morning she can be seen like before practice with a flashlight and the hood up fiddling around with her car And then there’s Renee (Botelho) and she’s really good at knowing when I have slept through my alarm and I owe it to her that I was awake for most practices at 6 AM

Caitlin Parrucci, Sophomore in Novice

So I think I have two First, one of our captains, Emily Kowalchik She’s like crazy superstitious and I’ve lived with her in our team house on Cook for some time For example, she wears nail polish all of the time, but on nights before our competitions you would find her freaking out about needing to take it off She won ’ t show with it, but always dominates, so it must work Maybe more of us should try Also, Thea Dickson’s nickname is “Super Thea” because she’s always doing a million things at once But, most people, even most teammates, don’t know that she participates in National Novel Writing Month every November for more years than I know So, while making it to her 15 jobs and 5:45 a m practices, she somehow finds time to write books and even sometimes go to class

Becca Harrison, Junior formerly in Novice

My roommate for the past 2 years, Alexa (Bruer), since I live with her I kind of get to see a different side of her ’Cause everybody sees like her really strong personality on the team and I don’t think anybody really knows about her secret flute-playing talent? So there was this one night when I heard music coming from her bedroom and I walked in the room and it was like midnight and she was watching this Pirates of the Caribbean video on YouTube and playing along on her flute to the music And that’s pretty much the only talent I know about anybody on my team

Brianna Boub, Senior in Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter

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C.U. Kicks O ff Its Season With The Majority of Games Away

Caroline Quentin and Amanda Symons to the team, hoping to add some depth to Cornell’s squad “

Red to Host No. 2 Tar Heels

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grabbing five goals and two assists last season

Seniors Xandra Hompe and Moonie Mancho are also forces to be reckoned with, along with the other younger members of the team, as they are all ready to make this season a winning one

Farmer added about the for wards, “ We have some ver y good options up front ”

The position of goalie is an interesting one for the 2012-13 team, as they place their faith in the hands of junior Tori Christ Christ has also been named a tri-captain and plans to lead the

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Farmer said “Her communication is great, and she knows how to maneuver her defense Tori's a great shot-stopper and is fantastic at one-onones ”

The Red will spend the beginning of its season on the road with seven out of eight games played away from the hill Ivy League play will begin with a visit to Columbia on Sept 23

Haley Velasco can be reached at hvelasco@cornellsun com

Squad Looks For ward to Ivy Play

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For this weekend’s tournament, the team looks to try out ne w things and switch up the lineups to see what works and what does not

The Ivy League play does not begin until Sept 22 when the Red plays at Columbia Despite the failures in recent years to have a strong showing in the Ivy League play, the team remains confident in

According to junior f o r w a rd H a n n a h Balleza, the Red knows that starting the season with a victor y can be a jump start to a successful year “ We’re going into it with an open mind and we know we will cert a i n l y h a v e t o w o r k hard, but to get the win w o u l d b e g re a t , ” s h e said In its home opener on Saturday, the Red will face a formidable opponent in the No 2 Ta r He e l s No r t h

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its approach and the players think it will pay off against the Ivy League teams “I feel like everyone has a shot at the Ivy League,” Reinke said “There is not a huge gap between the worst and best teams We just have to maintain our competitive mentality throughout the season in order to compete ”

Last season Yale dominated the league with a 12-2 record whereas Cornell struggled at 311 That record was under previous head coach, Sarah Bernson, who had three consecutive losing seasons

“We just have to maintain our competitive mentality throughout the season in order to compete.” K e l l y R e i n k e

B a t i e - S m o o s e owns a 81-43 overall record coaching at the Savannah College of Art & Design She also won Sun Conference Coach of the Year in 2009 when she led her team to a conference title

Scott Eckl can be reached at seckl@cornellsun com

C a r o l i n a r e a c h e d t h e national championship game last year and will certainly be a challenge for Cornell However, a c c o rd i n g t o Ba l l e z a , facing a strong opponent early in the season is a good test of how well the team is playing and where it needs to improve

“ We h a v e n ’ t r e a l l y played any teams that are that highly ranked, a n d i t w i l l d e f i n i t e l y s h ow u s w h e r e w e ’ r e a t , ” s h e s a i d

“Hopefully we will all be on the same page for t h a t g a m e a n d w i l l work hard to show that we can match up to

o w o r k o n those things in practice, because we don’t want the same things to happen in real games ” Ac c

d coordinated leadership are essential to having a successful season

“Leadership will be really important for us t h i s y e a r b e c a u s e i n order for us to do well on the field, we need people to help direct o t h e r p l a y e r s , ” s h e explained “ We have a lot of freshman who are doing really well, but they don’t have enough e x p e r

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build our confidence as a whole “ We are definitely more confident and more prepared than we were last year ”

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun com

E Q U E S T R I A N W I T H 2 1 A N S W E R S

W hich of your teammates have unu sual talent s, hobb ies or activities and what are they?

Former Sun Staff Photographer Tina Chou called up the 2011-2012 equestrian team, wanting to know more about each of its members What better way to learn more about a person than to ask her teammates, right?

Okay, um that’s hard, everybody has some really weird talents There are some weird girls on my team, including myself, I’m sure Okay so I’m gonna go ahead and start with Erika Hooker Beyond the fact that her last name is Hooker, which is pretty sweet, um she could pretty much barbecue roadkill and still make it like, you know, five-star cuisine She can barbecue better than any guy I’ve ever seen and she loves it So that’s my secret talent girl

Bronwyn Scrivens ’12, Open

Naz Behzad One of her special talents is that she is a trained assassin and has a black belt in jujitsu, but actually she’s not good at that stuff at all or tough because I beat her up all the time She’s kinda a little bit like a ninja though because her hair color is black, but another thing she’s really good at is giving super horrible random pointless advice A funny story was when we were on our way to Nationals, we actually named our GPS after her because it was confusing everyone very badly, giving bad directions kind of like how Naz gives bad advice, so we were like screaming at Naz all week even though she wasn ’ t there with us

Mary Beth Hannon, Sophomore in Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter

Well, Caroline Rusk, or “Carl” as we fondly call her, has a fascination with birdwatching, and not your run-of-the-mill look out your window and stare at some birds She actually goes on like day trips to watch birds, I guess, and did research with birds last summer I also know she has chickens at her house, so I guess day-to-day she just has an avian obsession

Emily Kowalchik, Senior in Intermediate

Well I’d like to say that as a team first, we all collectively are trendsetters We bring the Ralph Lauren look to Cornell And then I’d like to talk first about Georgi (de Rham) and say that her special skill is the consumption of peanut butter and because of all her protein consumption she’s the fastest stall cleaner ever she picks up poop really fast For Mary Beth (Hannon), I want to say that her special skill is she can get her swoll on She’s the most jacked on our team, which is surprising because she’s also a ginger, so not because she’s small, because she’s a ginger Also, I’d like to talk about Alyx (Cheng) and her special skill is that she’s really good at the downward dog position in yoga

Nazanin Behzad, Senior formerly in Intermediate Fences and Novice Flat

I’m going to talk about Caroline Rusk first I call her Carl um, her name is Carl, but I want to say how good she is at writing poetry She started her haiku career when she was only 9, but now she’s published in three different countries and actually Obama included some of her work in his inauguration speech She also illustrates her poems with My Little Pony drawings, which she actually colors herself but they’re really good Her boyfriend does a few too She uses crayon to color in the lines, but she probably does it the best out of anyone in this world And her apartment is also covered in her My Little Pony drawings, it’s not really like an activity but more of a lifestyle

Charmaine is the next biggest character, or the biggest character, on this team No, Charmaine’s the biggest character on this team She actually doubles as a full-time car mechanic, and I’m actually not lying or extrapolating on this one, she’s actually a full-time car mechanic She tried to sell her car to the team, a car salesman This is all to cover up for her Mafia background, she’s part of the Singaporean Mafia and makes numerous threats to people on the team She’s part of the Mafia and our whole team ’ s actually a little bit afraid of her She beat me up once and that’s not a joke either, she broke my knee cap so I had to take like 6 months off from riding But, I’m glad there was no permanent damage done She’s on the same assassin squad at Naz Behzad, they’re part of the Singaporean Mafia Naz is actually Singaporean but she doesn’t realize it yet Emily Webster, Senior in Open

One of my teammates has the habit of always eating dessert first Mary Beth Hannon And, she usually starts her dinner with some banana cake, vanilla ice cream, sliced bananas and butterscotch sauce

Georgiana de Rham, Sophomore in Intermediate

I wanted to talk about Zofia (Hilton) and she’s a really great baker

She makes cakeballs, which sounds kind of dirty but they’re actually delicious balls of cake covered in white chocolate or chocolate She’s also a cat whisperer Zofia also comes to practice with scratches all over her body from her cat, from practicing her cat whispering And Katie Fink is really great at calligraphy, her handwriting is impeccable She also is a pro at turning out the lights since Lights Off Cornell, and Katie has a talent for undoing bras other people’s bras, without them realizing it It’s pretty sneaky Like while they’re wearing them, without putting her hands underneath their shirt, from the outside And last I’m going to talk about Emily Webster She and I go running together and she’s always the one whose pushing me to run like Seabiscuit a very fast and motivated runner, and she ran a marathon like a week ago, so she’s training for her next one next month Caroline Rusk ’12, Open Fences and Intermediate Flat

Naz (Behzad) has some pretty special skills She’s this really great professional videographer She’s working on the documentary well, it might be more like a mockumentary, of CUET (Cornell University Equestrian Team) She’s pretty much always there, like one of those reality TV shows where the camera ’ s rolling 24/7 and you have no privacy So it’s very much more like a reality TV show than a documentary because we just don't have any privacy when she’s around But, besides the videography, she’s also a choreographer She has like these really baller dance moves and they’re very like, subtle, but she whips them out and you ’ re like “Damn, what just happened?” So that’s Naz Then I wanted to talk about Emily Webster So she’s really good at like stripping, but mostly in Mann Library I don’t know if you ’ ve been to the fourth floor, but there's actually a pole there; she spends a lot of time stripping in Mann Library But besides that, I think that for Webster, if this whole med school thing doesn’t work out for her, she would have a really great career in shoe-polishing at the airport So, at least she has that as a back-up plan And the last girl I want to talk about is Grace (Bradshaw) Grace is like a beautiful fine artist She’s so meticulous and pays so much attention to detail when she paints jumps

Emily Webster is really obsessed with safety pins, and one time, because we host our own shows twice a year and Binghamton usually brings horses because we don't have enough to host the show on our own, someone tried to take one of her safety pins and she threatened him with death if he didn’t bring them back the week after So, he brought her a box of new ones the next time we saw each other at a show Who else has weird habits? Georgi de Rham We can never find her and she’s always eating peanut butter Oh, Charmaine Tan is the Godmander Like, Charmander but God instead of Char There is a conspiracy that she’s part of the Singapore Mob Um, we ’ re all up before daybreak on a regular basis so it definitely takes a special kind of crazy to do that All the sane brain cells have kind of left us at this point Also, Naz Behzad taught us all that in the Jay-Z song, when he says “That’s Kray” it’s not crazy, it’s like The Kray Brothers and she was like really really insistent that we all get our act together Alyx Cheng, Junior in Open Flat and Fences

Okay, well Alexa (Bruer) has a very peculiar talent and that is taking her clothes off Whenever we ’ re on the bus at horse shows, she can get changed faster than anyone else on the team It’s a weird talent Who else can we talk about?

Bronwyn (Scrivens) She is strangely good at showing up in every picture that Pixel has ever posted on the Internet That’s true, actually, any team picture really, as well Yeah, she has a very strange talent of doing that She shows up in every team picture we ’ ve ever had It’s weird, you like can ’ t get rid of her, she’s like Waldo Erika Hooker, Senior in Novice Flat and Fences

Well I was going to say that an interesting hobby Erika (Hooker) has is, um, she has this strange hobby of picking up beastly-like men um, in particular, Tarzan-like men, who tend to show up in the middle of the night at the team house and climb through bedroom windows to find her at about midnight, 1 a m , 2 a m , 3 a m and I don’t know, she just has this strange fascination with men that kind of look like Tarzan and act like Tarzan So, she tries to find them wherever possible

Alexa Bruer, Senior in Intermediate

One of my teammates Thea Dickson likes to knit and write novels in her spare time I know she loves to do both of these and she actually just finished writing a novel last semester that I haven’t read yet I know she was really excited about it and I personally can ’ t wait to read it! And Amanda Fan, her unusual talent is that I’ve talked to her before and she’s never had any artistic lessons or anything and I’ve taken classes with her and when she doodles it’s amazing! Like she’s an amazing sketch artist and that’s her kind of thing she likes to do in her free time Her drawings are incredible I think her sketching is her true talent

Zofia Hilton, Senior in Advanced Walk, Trot, Canter

So this is kind of like a talent but it’s really a non-talent Emily Webster cannot cook Like, she cannot boil water, she really really cannot do anything that involves a stove She can ’ t turn her stove on Another weird one would be Zofia Hilton She’s going to be one of our captains starting next year; she makes amazing cakeballs Erika Hooker, she can clean stalls, go over an entire stall in 5 minutes and it’s an amazing talent that I would love to have Naz (Behzad) is really good at not shutting up, that was the other thing

Caroline (Rusk) is our voice of reason Oh, and the other thing about Caroline is that she basically like, she basically takes care of all of us and she keeps us from going off the loony bin Thea (Dickson) is really good at walking around like a zombie on zero hours of sleep Alyx (Cheng) and Bronwyn (Scrivens) are obviously really good at being tall Oh and the other unusual thing is that Mary Beth Hannon, she’s a redhead, and therefore she has no soul Also Georgi (de Rham) is never there Whenever you have a team thing, like a gathering or like a cheer, she’s never there, or like a picture, she’s always off somewhere else, so she’s good at disappearing That’s her talent, and she’s always in a totally legit place whenever she’s like doing it, but she’s just never there I don’t know how it happens, it’s like she just vanishes Poof, puff of smoke, don’t know how she does it

Spor ts

Red P rep ares for Challenging Weekend in D.C.

By HALEY VELASCO Sun Assistant Sports Editor

This weekend the

will consist of a pair of matchups on the road for the Red against Georgetown and George Washington First-year head coach Patrick Farmer is finally going to hit the pitch with his team; however, he is introducing new techniques to the team ’ s way of approaching playing

Squad Heads to Colo. for Tourny

By SCOTT ECKL

Staff Writer

A new era is set to begin this weekend for the volleyball team Recently hired coach, Melissa BatieSmoose, will lead her team to Colorado on Friday for a three-game tournament against Pac-10 foes Fresno State, Colorado and Northern Arizona Coming off a 5-21 season, the team looks to head in

a new direction under its new leader

“Our main goal is really to change the culture,” Bati-Smoose said “This year we are going to start focusing on the little things rather than the end results When you take care of the little things the other stuff will work itself out in the end ”

Juniors Kelly Marble and Brittany Fox and sophomore Kelly Reinke represent the three captains on the squad They too echo their coach’s call for focusing on the little things instead of winning or losing

“Practices are much more competitive and our work ethic is a lot better this year, ” Fox said “We are really focused on the journey and not as much about the end result ”

“I think we are a lot more organized this year, ” Marble said “Our coach really brings the best out of us with her more competitive and aggressive practices ”

Batie-Smoose looks to create a very competitive culture through aggressive and fast-paced practices She hopes to focus her team on scoring more points on their serve as well as maximizing touches during practices

Batie-Smoose said that she believes that the team is strong at the net, but could use a little work on defense and passing Her new change direction is being seen in the players’ new mentality

“We have a more aggressive mentality to our serves, ” Marble said “We are not just trying to get points, but we are trying to earn them ”

With only two seniors on the team the squad does lack experience on the court; however, that does not seem to be a concern, according to Fox

“Everyone is finding a leadership role on this team, ” she said “We all work off of each other’s strengths and weaknesses ”

“Not having experience will always hurt you, ” Batie-Smoose said “But, when you are taking over a program it is good to have that youth there and cre-

“We’ve asked them to play a little different than they were in the past, and they have been very adaptable so far that really makes the transition easier, Farmer said “More of the changes are on the approach and philosophy as opposed to personnel It’s about being more aggressive and not being afraid to push players forward ”

This team is looking for one thing a winning season, which the Red has not seen for the past 10 years

The defense is facing an abundance of changes this season due to the graduation and departure of three starters However, senior tri-captain Jayann Gabrio returns to the defense ready to lead, after facing a season debilitating injury in 2011 Sophomores Sydney Cetrullo, Kelly Abrams and Courtney Macdonald are also ready to fill the back line, with the additions of freshmen Charlotte Tate and Morgan Zaidel hoping to make a presence on the field

“We’ve asked them to play a little different than they were in the

“They’re lively and fast,” Farmer said “It’s fun to have kids that aren ’ t afraid to make runs They move well ”

The Red has a lot of depth in the midfield as well as the other positions Senior Hannah Labadie, junior Rachel Nichols and sophomore Claire MacManus are all returners for the midfield

“There are just a bunch of possibilities in the midfield,” Farmer said

The forwards for the Red are stacked with options as well Senior tri-captain Maneesha Chitanvis a two-time scoring leader for the Red is back for her final season after

C.U. Looks to Raise Bar, Bounce Back From 2011

By BEN HOROWITZ Sun Staff Writer

Coming off a disappointing 2011 season, the field hockey team is determined to bounce back strongly in 2012 The season begins Friday night with a road match against the Lock Haven Eagles a team that Cornell has beaten in each of their past three contests

The Red returns home the following day to face the No 2ranked North Carolina Tar Heels

Cornell is focused on raising and its level of play to achieve its goals

“ The coach has frequently used the phrase ‘raising the bar,’’

c k Pa i g e Mollineaux “What she means by that is raising the bar mentally, physically, and achieving our goal of finishing within the top three in the ivy league this year We didn’t do so well last year, and so we ’ re making strides to raise the bar all around ”