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S chumer to Forge Cornell, Gov t.Ties

Pledges to help C.U. become site of rst dair y food safety center

By ALEXA DAVIS Sun Staff Writer

During a tour Tuesday of Cornell’s Stocking Hall, the new home to a food science facility and the reopened Dair y Bar, Senator Chuck Schumer (D-N Y ) pledged to help Cornell become the site of the nation’s first dair y food safety center

Schumer, who hopes to urge the federal government to bolster its partnerships with the University, said a dair y food safety center would provide a platform for an upstate N Y dair y and food region initiative: a project that would stimulate growth in dair y and food industries in the state

Schumer, joined by Cornell administrators, local elected officials, faculty and dair y industr y par tners, said such an establishment would bring Cornell’s research to a national stage, increase the amount of funding received by the University and create new economic opportunities within the state

Ithaca would be an ideal location for a national dair y food safety center because both Cornell and upstate New York have a reputation for being leaders in the dair y industr y, according

to Schumer

The recent $105 million renovation of Stocking Hall, coupled with strong industr y support for dair y programming from companies like Wegmans, are only two of many qualities that make Cornell’s dair y program unparalleled by programs at other universities, Schumer said

“Dair y safety is a ver y

County Judge Hopefuls Make

Their Case

Just one week before the Democratic primar y election for Tompkins County Judge, candidates including two Cornell alumni and the defense attorney in the criminal trial of three former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity pledges spoke about their qualifications at a public forum at Tuesday

The four candidates are Pamela Bleiwas ’87, Joe Cassidy, Kelly Damm and Seth Peacock J D ’01

The elected judge will ser ve for 10 years and act as a magistrate for county, surrogate and family cour ts, according to a press release from the

Tompkins County Public Librar y Kay Sharp, president of the Tompkins County League of Women Voters which is a sponsor of the event moderated the forum, which took place at the Tompkins County Public Librar y Bleiwas, who has been practicing law for 22 years, said her experience which she said is nine years longer than other candidates makes her an ideal candidate for the job She added that family court is her specialty Peacock, who moved to Tompkins County to attend Cornell Law School, said he wants to be a

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U S c i t i z e n s a n d f o r e i g n n a t i o n a l s Despite the concerns civil liber ties organizations, politicians and journalists have raised over the NSA’s surveillance program, University officials said

students and community members are safe using their Cornellaffiliated Gmail accounts

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“Our enterprise contract prohibits data mining except for i n t e

indexing –– a function that all users appreciate when they look for specific emails,” she said “Also, while a student is at Cornell, advertisements are not “Our enterprise contract prohibits data mining except for internal purposes such as indexing ”

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UMass Students Feast On 15,000-Pound Fruit Salad

AMHERST, Mass (AP) In what’s become an annual tradition, the University of Massachusetts celebrated the star t of the ne w academic year with a delicious, healthy, record-breaking dish

About 500 students and staff at the Amherst campus on Monday sliced, diced, pitted and peeled 150 varieties of fr uit to create a salad weighing more than 15,000 pounds The salad was mixed in a 15-foot diameter swimming pool

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It included 20 varieties of apples weighing more than 3,600 pounds; 19 varieties of melon weighing more than 2,500 pounds; peaches; bananas; oranges; berries; and more exotic fr uits including quince, passion fr uit and rambutan

A Guinness World Records representative cer tified the record

UMass in recent years has star ted the semester with record-breaking seafood ste ws and stir fries

LONDON (AP) Motorists may want to think twice about parking in front of the half-built London skyscraper known as the Walkie-Talkie

That’s because the glare off the skin of the ne w building is so intense that at least one Jaguar owner says it caused par t of his vehicle to melt

And that’s not all: Locals say the building’s heat also burned a hole in the welcome mat of a barber shop across the street

“ We were working and just saw the smoke coming out of the carpet, ” said shop owner Ali Akay “ This is a health and safety issue They should have looked into this before they built it ”

Similar problems have plagued other modern buildings, including in Los Angeles, when neighbors of the Fr

repor ted heat buildups that required corrective measures

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University of cial says new dean likely to start this July

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The Cornell University Police reported at least four incidents of unlawful possession of alcohol on the Arts Quad on Saturday

Larceny on West

An officer was dispatched to take a report from a student whose backpack and MacBook laptop were taken

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Over the weekend, CUPD reported instances of unlawful possession of alcohol in three different North Campus Dorms:

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Org s. Make Cases For Byline Funding

By DARA LEVY Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell Forensics Society will be eligible to apply for byline funding for the 2014-2016 cycle, the Student Assembly

Spor ts Council, however, was denied eligibility leading members to express disappointment with the decision

Byline funding eligibility means that the Forensics Society, along with 30 currently byline-funded student organizations, will be able to apply to the Student Assembly’s appropriations committee for a direct allocation of the student activity fee something ever y undergraduate pays to suppor t student programming Being deemed eligible for byline funding is the first step in becoming a byline-funded organization, according to Geoffrey Block ’14, vice president of finance for the S A

In order to be eligible for byline funding, student organizations must prove they meet cer tain requirements mainly that they benefit the entire undergraduate Cornell community and allow equal access to their activities to all students

The appropriations committee expressed concern in a repor t published Monday about the Forensics Society’s limited ability to bring students to competitive tournaments but unanimously approved the society for funding on the basis that its public debates promote conversation about controversial issues on campus The committee also applauded the Forensics Society’s effor ts to work with other groups on campus ranging from the Cornell University Police Depar tment to the Board of Tr ustees for its public debates

With byline funding, the Forensics Society plans to increase the number of public events it holds each semester on campus while improving the quality of speakers and by being able to afford security for its more controversial debates, according to Kirat Singh ’14, president of the Cornell Forensics Society Singh said that the Forensics Society is looking for ward to having an oppor tunity to fur ther engage Cornell through public debates

“Speech and debate are critical components of a healthy intellectual community,” Singh said

The Club Spor ts Council was denied funding with a vote of 6-7 because the appropriations committee found that the council which it said only engages athletes did not benefit all undergraduate students, according to the committee’s eligibility repor t However, some committee members said in the repor t that they thought the council’s large membership of about 1,000 students and its goal to expand by creating ne w spor ts teams allowed it to meet the eligibility requirements

Ashley Benson grad, president of the Club Spor ts Council, said the council was disappointed by the appropriations committee’s decision

“It is a big setback towards suppor ting and improving club spor ts on campus, ” Benson said “As the second largest community of students on campus, CSC club spor t athletes represent Cornell across the countr y, defeating varsity programs and winning championships with little or no coaching suppor t ”

Council would be able to create more oppor tunities for athletes, lower its membership dues and improve athletic fields on campus

In its appeal, the Cornell Spor ts Council plans to emphasize club spor ts ’ accessibility and benefits to the entire undergraduate population and stress the interactions between the council and other student organizations, according to Benson

The Cornell Spor ts Council said on Monday that they would be appealing their eligibility decision in front of the entire Student Assembly on Thursday An organization needs a twothirds vote by the general body of the S A to override a decision presented by the appropriations committee

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I-ves Got to Trespass

Judicial Administrator after being found trespassing at Ives Hall Saturday

Unlawful Urinations

Two individuals were referred to the Judicial Administrator after they publicly urinated one on Ho Plaza and another on College Avenue

Compiled by Caroline Flax

Decisions, decisions

S en. Hopes to Bolster C.U. Research

serious issue,” Schumer said “The number of people who get ill and die from food safety products is declining, particularly from products produced in America I believe that it is time we have a national one-stop-shop for dairy farmers to turn to when it comes to accessing top notch information, resources and training when it comes to safety ”

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The creation of a dairy food safety center would not only improve the health of dairy consumers, but also the health of New York’s economy, according to both Schumer and University officials

Kathryn Boor, dean of College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, said the dairy industry which was responsible for about $2 6 billion in revenue in 2012 and thousands of jobs in New York State is the backbone of state ’ s agricultural industry

“Based on estimates from Cornell, jobs in the dairy industry have a multiplier of 5 6, suggesting that the 8,000 jobs in dairy manufacturing in New York create approximately 45,000 additional jobs in surrounding communities that support or augment the industry as a whole,” Boor said in a proposed outline of the Cornell University dairy food safety center distributed at the event

If Cornell becomes the site of the first national

dairy food safety center and Ithaca gains the ability to produce top-notch dairy products with an exceptional safety record, upstate New York may be able to break into export markets, Boor said Access to such export markets, she added, would create another 500 jobs over five years This expansion of the economy would also stimulate job growth in lab and field services, dairy research and development and the production of food safety equipment and supplies

Before officials begin planning the construction of a national dairy food safety center in Ithaca, Schumer must convince both the United States Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration to forge an alliance with Cornell for dairy and food safety research

Schumer said that another challenge associated with the plan to create a national dairy food safety center is obtaining qualified labor He expects that changes in immigration reform, which he has worked with other Senators to devise, will be a solution to this problem

Officials could not confirm an exact number for how much the project is estimated to cost, but assured that it would not be higher than “ tens of millions ”

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allowed in the enterprise Gmail system ”

In April 2009, the University’s legal contract office signed a contract with Google to transition all students to the Google Apps Education Edition Gmail servers, or Cornell’s “Cmail,” according to Mitrano Mitrano said that, when signing the contract with Google, the University needed to be certain that its enterprise contract provided all the foundational rights and privileges to students under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, which protects a student’s education record

According to Mitrano, although the University’s Google Apps and Gmail systems are protected from Google’s data mining, Google and the University are nonetheless subject to disclose information when presented with government search warrants

“Cornell and Google alike are subject to NSA letters, warrants under the electronic communications privacy act or Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and subpoenas,” Mitrano said “Essentially, there is no difference in terms of legal process for Cornell or Google as recipient of those legal papers ”

Mitrano said that a distinction between consumer privacy and privacy under the Fourth Amendment needs to be made to understand Google’s data mining practices

According to Mitrano, under the Fourth Amendment, the government needs a search warrant with probable cause to search a person ’ s private property However, in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks on Sept 11, 2001, former president George W Bush enacted the USA Patriot Act, increasing the ability of law enforcement to search email and telephonic communications

“People are confused Most people don’t have enough information to think through the distinction between fourth amendment surveillance and consumer privacy Everyone is talking about these issues and are curious because they don’t understand how [privacy laws] function,” Mitrano said

According to Google, under its typical consumer privacy policy, Google collects and analyze large amounts of its users ’ email data Gmail users should assume that any electronic correspondence that is passed through Google’s servers can be accessed and used for an

array of options, such as for selling advertisements to customers, according to the court brief Google submitted

“Just as a sender of a letter to a business colleague cannot be surprised that the recipient's assistant opens the letter, people who use web-based email today cannot be surprised if their emails are processed by the recipient's [email provider] in the course of delivery, ” the motion states

Mitrano, however, said she is confident that Google will protect Cornell students from excessive government surveillance

“Google has a good track record with respect to protecting users ’ mail against government surveillance and has always been at the forefront of fighting for Fourth Amendment rights for its users, ” Mitrano said

According to Wyman Miles, director of Information Technologies Security, email generally does not have the safeguards to make it an appropriate vehicle for sensitive communications

“It's just much too porous and open, ” he said “There are training and awareness issues around the handling of e-mail, such as what not to forward, risks of mailing lists, use of the BCC field [and] ease of forged communications that greatly increase the likelihood of unsafe information handling practices

” Justin Schindler ’15 said that most students do not think about email privacy when writing emails

“Email privacy is like avoiding getting mono You know that you need to pay attention to its risks, but most of the reflection is done in hindsight, after harm has already been done,” he said Mono, or mononucleosis, is a virus that is spread by saliva and close contact and causes symptoms such as fever, sore throat and swollen lymph nodes, according to the National Institute of Health

Michael Patashnik ’16 said during the social networking age, facts about people are easily accessible to anyone willing to pay and said that factor will not change even if people completely removed themselves from digital society

“I have no reason to think that some company that has my complete biography will use it to hurt me It's much more likely they'll try to use it to sell me something ” Patashnik said “That said, maybe you should forsake your email and use pen and paper instead for your next love letter ”

Jonathan Swartz can be reached at jswartz@cornellsun com

S AE D efense Attorney

Runs for County Judge

JUDGES

judge who helps “ teenagers who [have] made a mistake” and those “struggling with addiction ”

Peacock also said he wants to focus on “innovation and humility” and discussed various ideas, including creating a youth court that would allow fellow peers of a young person accused of a crime to ser ve on the jur y for his or her case Peacock added that he wishes to remain humble if elected to the magistrate so that he can

c o n t i n u e t o f u l l y u n d e r s t a n d arguments from both sides

Damm said that she has been practicing law in the county for 14 years and said she is the only candidate to have been president of both of the Tompkins County Bar Association and the Finger Lakes Women’s Bar Association

She said she believes these ties to the community will help her if she is elected judge

“It is important to have the

c o m m u n i t y t i e s , c o m m u n i t y action and have community support when running for county court, ” she said Damm was also the defense

a t t o r n e y f o r m e m b e r s o f

Cornell’s former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity in the 2011 hazing case involving the events

l e a d i n g u p t o t h e d e a t h o f

George Desdunes ’13

Cassidy said that he has “significant experience in all of the fields” that a county judge would handle He said that he has been

endorsed by 46 local lawyers When asked whether or not such endorsements were ethical, he said that they were not only a p p r o p r i a t e , b u t a l s

aged

“Lawyers are in the best position in the community to evaluate judges,” Cassidy said

Bleiwas, however, said that while such an endorsement is not unethical, she does not believe it is appropriate She said that she did not want any attorneys to expect favors, which is why she did not solicit donations during her campaign

At the forum, all of the candidates threw their support behind alternative solutions to incarceration Cassidy said that such alter-

when people are sent back to jail after they are already released and said that he has experience

incarceration

All four candidates added that they hope Cornellians vote in the upcoming primar y Peacock said that he wanted to expand the role of county

b’s involvement in the community

He said that inviting local students on field trips to the court could be a way to “ expose people to what [he does] in the legal world ”

Tyler Alicea can be reached at talicea@cornellsun com

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ello everyone, welcome back to the Hill! My name is David Fischer I’m a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences and when I was 12 years and 11 months old I became a man

For all of you who haven’t attended these middle-school frat party equivalents, a typical, modern Bar or Bat Mitzvah is broken up into two very different components The first consists of a service led by the lucky 13-year-old, complete with an excerpt from the Torah (a scroll written entirely in Biblical Hebrew) that must be read and discussed by said 13-year-old The s e c

extravaganza consists of a party in which the newly christened man or woman awkwardly lights candles, greets half-remembered relatives and stands on the opposite side of the dance floor from members of the opposite sex Essentially, the entire thing, in all of it awkwardness, is the manifestation of middle school crammed into one day

So, after that gripping summary of a typical Bar or Bat Mitzvah, you may be wondering why I would write about mine in my first column of the school year Well, even years after my Jewish coming-of-age, I find myself still gleaning important life lessons from my ceremony lessons that continue to shape me today

Throughout high school I would never divulge the theme of my Bar Mitzvah to my friends Frankly, it didn’t come up in conve r s a t i o n t h a t o f t e n ( f o r s o m e re a s o n

“What was your Bar Mitzvah Theme?” isn’t a popular conversation starter) and I was also a bit embarrassed about it However, Cornell community: I feel comfortable enough with all of you to confess that the theme of my Bar Mitzvah party was “Harry

Potter ” A “magician” named “Merdwyn” presided over the festivities Everyone in attendance was seated at four long tables and sorted into the four Hogwarts houses

Like I said, it was the manifestation of my middle school years you can maybe see why I didn’t mention it during high school

The Bar Mitzvah years were clearly one of the more awkward phases in my life I don’t think even the harshest Sun website trolls can argue with that (in fact, I’m sure it will be great fodder for comments on future columns) However, these years were instrumental in my transition into the (mostly) socially-adjusted person that I aspire to be today

Freshmen, I can bet that for the two short weeks that you ’ ve been in the lovely “City” of Ithaca, New York, you have had more than 18 people encourage you to become involved on campus I would argue that isn’t the most important thing that you should be focusing on While you are in the midst of this oasis of activity, I charge you to not only remember your past but also to embrace it There was no reason that I needed to relate the tale of my faux coming-of-age I could just pretend that I had a “Sports” or an “Around the World” themed Bar Mitzvah, but my love of the Harry Potter series (which is still going strong, by the way) has shaped my interests in inexplicable ways So, freshmen: Don’t forget who you are and why you ’ re here and you’ll have the best four years of your life

Rebecca John | Mushroom Rage

Rethinking

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Matt Hudson | Red in the Face

Through the Rear view Mirror

Ih a d a m o m e n t t o myself in a Spanish g r ov e o f No r w a y

Maples, when even the b i rd s a n d c r i c k e t s

s e e m e d t o l e a v e m e alone, a foreigner passing through unfamiliar woods The fog against my face was like a forest of silk curtains, and the world was heavy, damp

a n d s i l e n t Si n c e t h e

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t h r o u g h Sp a i n f r o m southern France some three weeks prior, I had never felt so naked, so coldly scrutinized Even the leaf-strewn ground

s e e m e d h e s i t a n t t o a n s w e r m y f o o t s t e p s , and as if that quietness

s o m e h ow t w i s t e d a dimmer switch, I began

t o m i s s e v e r y t h i n g

Re r u n s o f Fa m i l y

Matters in the midday television slump, those red pagodas on Chinese takeout boxes, the cicad a c h o r u s r e h e a r s i n g nightly in the shrinking marsh beyond my backyard; I saw tiny fragm e n t s o f h o m e , l i k e objects vanishing in a

r e a r v i e w m i r r o r A n d now I see, with a gentle n u d g e f r o m a Po l i s h poet, how wise the auto manufacturers were in a l w a y s p r i n t i n g t h a t subtle phrase: “Objects i n m i r r o r a r e c l o s e r

t h a n t h e y a p p e a r ” Adam Zagajewski wrote a rather Spartan fourline poem on the closeness of faraway things, entitled “Auto Mirror ” It c a m e t o m e m i dspeech at my brother’s w e d d i n g a c o u p l e o f weeks ago, and it keeps coming back to me on occasion for reasons I do not know It follows: I saw in the rear view mirror suddenly, T h e b u l k o f t h e Beauvais Cathedral Great things dwell in small ones

For a moment C h a n c e s a r e s l i m t h a t Z a g a j e w s k i w a s s e c r e t l y r e f e r r i n g t o Steve Urkel and cartons of Lo Mein, but here’s the point, as I choose to see it: The things we seem to leave behind a r e , m u c h l i k e t h e p o e m i t s e l f, l a r g e r, deeper and closer than they appear Ma y b e a n t i q u e

b a z a a r s a n d n i c k n a c k

s h o p s h a v e i t r i g h t “ Trinkets to treasures ” is a genuinely awful slog a n , b u t i t s e e m s t o a p p r o a c h a s o r t o f masked truth that belies the whole business of b u y i n g a r t i f a c t s C h i p p e d m a t r y o s h k a d o l l s a n d c o b w e b b e d

The supreme importance of a day to a lifetime is, however oddly, analogou to a single proton in an atom

Miles Davis vinyls sit dormant and collecting d u s t , b u t e v e n w h e n a b a n d o n e d t h e y s t i l l boast a small hand in having shaped and cult u r e d t h e i r ow n e r s Me m o r y g i v e s t h e m traces of meaning, their s i g n i f i c a n c e f o l l ow i n g l o n g a f t e r b e i n g l e f t b e h i n d , p e r h a p s e v e n outliving us And that’s just it: We’re all impossible calculations of the m o m e n t s a n d t h i n g s we ve had and known Add Dragonball Z to the power of cranapple juice, divide by cushion fort, multiply by parenthesized stargazing and S c o o b y Do o s l i p p e r s , ad infinitum But who can possibly account for the importance of each of those tiny nothings? It takes a larger picture,

a view of the end product A glimpse in a mirror The stone and glass used in Beauvais were inconsequential before t h e a r c h i t e c t s a n d laborers brought them together, but their sum became a wonder And in belonging to a great something, each pane a n d c h i s e l e d b l o c k b e c a m e , i n a s t r a n g e way, a treasure

The surface area of t h e h u m a n s p i r i t i s measured in wars and handpicked blueberries, in things incredibly vast a n d a t o m i c a l l y s m a l l T h a t m o m e n t i n t h e Spanish forest was one of incompleteness; separation from those little things left me feeling

dr y and withering like a

Following that vein further, we find something a bit broader The supreme importance of a day to a lifetime is, however oddly, analogous to a single proton in an atom It is incalculably small, but its absence changes ever ything And just as the w o r l d r e s t s o n t h e shoulders of the suba t o m i c , s o t o o

moments Standing at maybe five or six feet tall, people are dwarfed by the scope and scale o

l d a r o u n d them Yet from those tiny frames have come d e s i g n s a n d m a s t e rworks grand enough to drop jaws and color the sky Did you know that l i g h t p o l l u t i o n h

has ever known? Great things dwell in us, and

t r e e s t r i p p e d o f i t s roots In essence, I am n o t h i n g w i t h o u t t h e unseen things “Nature” a n d “ n u r t u r e ” s u f f e r f r o m ov e r u s e i n t h e h u m a n d e v e l o p m e n t lexicon, but the latter i s , a s I s e e i t n ow, almost entirely made up of scraps of fluff and s t a n d a l o n e n o n s e n s e Am I really the blacks h e e p l ov e c h i l d o f Gr ov e r a n d a j a r o f p e a n u t b u t t e r ? No t entirely, but I’d hardly b e t h e s a m e w i t h o u t t h e m Re l e v a n t l y, t h e c e n t r a l c o n f l i c t o f Fr a n k l i n S c h a f f n e r ’ s 1978 sci-fi film, “ The B oy s f r o m Br a z i l , ” i n v o l v e s a s e c r e t t e s t t u b e a r m y o f Hi t l e r c l o n e s e n g i n e e r e d b y Au s c h w i t z p h y s i c i a n and SS officer Joseph Mengele Each replica is a child raised in conditions identical to the o r i g i n a l ( a c o d d l i n g m o t h e r, a n a b u s i v e father who dies when t h e b oy i s f o u r t e e n ) The premise is shakier than a house of cards caught in a windstorm, a n d t h a t i s p r e c i s e l y because it is impossible t o r e c r e a t e s o m e o n e ’ s entire existence There a re s i m p l y t o o m a n y intangibles, too many b r i e f a n d i n f l u e n t i a l moments Individuality c a n n o t e x i s t w i t h o u t them

SCIENCE

A History Of Science

By SARAH COHEN Sun Science Editor

This past summer, the Department of Plant Biology officially celebrated its centennial The department, however, has been an important part of Cornell for more than 100 years, professors said

A Brief History

The depar tment ’ s histor y stretches back to even before 1865, the year Cornell was founded “Andrew D White bought the materials for our depar tment before we had a department,” Edward Cobb ’73 said “He bought us botanical models and charts and all these things in Europe before the university opened in 1868 ”

In October 1868, botany, the former name of the plant biology department, was one of the first classes taught at the University When the University first split into colleges in the early 1900s, the department of botany, according to Cobb, was moved into the College of Arts and Sciences

In 1913, one hundred years ago,a second depar tment of botany opened in the College of Agriculture The depar tment today is located only within the College of Agriculture, although some faculty remain in the College of Arts and Sciences

In the 1960s, the department of botany was moved into the division of biological sciences

For the next few decades, its name changed several times as it moved around within the division until the modern department of plant biology was created in 1999 In that year, according to Cobb, the department was combined with the Bailey Hortorium, an academic unit that studies plant taxonomy and evolution

Famous Members Of Plant Biology

The department of plant biology boasts many famous pupils and professors David Starr Jordan M S ’1872, the first president of Stanford University, was also the first student to graduate

One Hundred Years Of Plant Biology

with a degree in plant biology at Cornell, according to Cobb Frederick Coville ’1887, the man who domesticated the blueberr y; Jane Datcher, the first African American women to receive an advanced degree from Cornell, and David Fletcher Hoy ’1891, M S ’1893, for whom Hoy Field is named are a few other notable students of plant biology at Cornell Hoy is also the “Davy” in “Give my Regards to Davy,” Cornell’s fight song, Cobb said Cornellians who made landmark contributions to American plant biology also include 24 members of the U S National Academy of Sciences, 19 Presidents of the Botanical Society of America, and four Nobel Laureates, according to Prof Lee B Kass, plant biology

One of the Nobel Laureates was botanist Barbara McClintock ’23, M S ’25, Ph D ’27

According to Kass, McClintock won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1983 for her work with transposable elements in maize

Transposable elements, also called jumping genes, are genes

that change position on a chromosome Unlike other genes, their position is not static This ability to move can alter the expression of other genes on the same chromosome

The pioneering research McClintock conducted while at Cornell laid the foundation for her later Nobel Prize winning work at the Depar tment of Genetics, Carnegie Institution of Washington, Long Island, N Y

Plant Biology in 2013

Currently, the department of plant biology includes evolution of plants, systematics of plants, proteomics of plants, plant chemistry, plant development, plant molecular biology and plant physiology, according to Prof William Crepet, chair of the Department of Plant Biology

The Depar tment of Plant Biology is also associated with the Boyce Thompson Institute and the Robert W Holley Center for Agriculture and Health of the U S Department of Agriculture

According to Crepet, members of those institutions are appointed in the department as adjunct faculty

“That is the only way they can

have graduate students, and it is the mechanism for them to have undergraduates doing research in their lab,” Crepet said “ We expect them to teach and participate in the intellectual environment as well ”

Faculty in plant biology advise plant sciences majors and general biology majors including premedical students in both the College of Agriculture and the College of Ar ts and Sciences

According to Crepet, faculty teach many general biology classes, including core biological sciences courses, in addition to courses for non-majors alongside courses in plant biology

At this time, several universities around the country are contracting their plant biology departments or merging them with other departments, according to Cobb However, at Cornell, the department, ranked third in the country, continues to grow

In the Future

In some ways, the plant biology department has stayed the same over the years Professors still use the original models purchased by White to teach intro-

ductory classes

According to Prof Adrienne Roeder, plant biology, the fundamental questions of plant science such as how plants grow and develop, how plants evolve and how plants interact with their environment have also stayed the same over the years

However, according to Roeder, the next 100 years of plant biology are difficult to predict “If we can foresee what will come in the next 100 years, then we have absolutely failed,” Roeder said “One hundred years ago, we didn’t have antibiotics, we didn’t have computers or cell phones I expect advances that are beyond our current imagination ”

Going for ward, the department of plant science will soon be joined by other plant departments at Cornell to create the School of Plant Science within the College of Agriculture, according to Crepet This new School will include the plant biology, plant pathology, plant breeding, crops and soils and horticulture departments

Sarah Cohen can be reached at science-editor@cornellsun com

Prof. Ulrich Wiesner Creates World’s Smallest Drug Deliver y Par ticles

By SRINITYA ARASANIPALAI Sun Staff Writer

Treating diseases such as cancer can be difficult for patients due to the toxicity of the medicines they must take Prof Ulrich Wiesner, materials science and engineering, has taken steps toward resolving this problem by creating the world’s smallest drug delivery particles

Wiesner’s specialized par ticles, called Cornell dots, or C-dots, avoid the toxic side effects caused by larger drug delivery particles because larger particles must be removed by the liver instead of the kidneys According to Wiesner, particles cleared by the liver can take weeks or even months to clear from the body, while waste removal through the kidneys can reduce exposure to the toxic drugs to around six hours

C-dots are under 10 nanometers in diameter, about 10,000 times smaller than the average thickness of a single strand of human

hair, and can therefore be removed through the kidneys instead of the liver, Wiesner said According to Wiesner, C-dots have a silica shell that encapsulates dye molecules The dye molecules make the particles fluoresce allowing them to also be used for imaging tumor sites during surgery to allow for a more precise removal of the tumor According to Wiesner, current imaging techniques like MRI, CT and PET scans are expensive, and the size of the equipment prevents them from being used in the operation room

To use C-dots for drug delivery, the team started by attaching the drug to the surface of the particle’s shell But they encountered problems because the chemotherapeutic drugs are hydrophobic, water fearing, and tended to aggregate into larger particles in the body and go directly to the liver instead of the tumor site This defeated the original purpose of the C-dots

“This is when we hit upon this idea to

generate particles as the first-generation Cdots but have a pore made in the core of the particle to tuck away the hydrophobic drug,” Wiesner said

The second generation of C-dots are called mesoporous Cornell dots, or mC-dots, added a pore in the middle which gives them the additional capability of carrying drugs

Although the original synthesis of these new particles took almost two years, Wiesner and Kai Ma grad can now produce the particles in one week

Wiesner and his collaborators seek to use these mC-dots to both image and supply drugs to cancerous tumor sites

To get the mC-dots to attack the tumor site, organic molecules like peptides or fractions of antibodies are attached onto the particles’ surface These organic molecules can be tumor specific and tend to stick to the tumor surface or even locations within the tumor

Some current chemotherapy drugs are

taken orally These drugs make their way to the tumor site after being diffused from the digestive system into the bloodstream These drugs, however, can also diffuse to other parts of the body causing unwanted side effects According to Wiesner, the advantage of using mC-dots as the drug deliverer would be that the mC-dots would either attack the tumor site or get excreted from the body with no major side effects

Wiesner’s lab is currently in the process of verifying if the drugs can be introduced in the pore of the mC-dots They are also checking for any differences in the behavior of these particles in the body due to the addition of the drugs

Although this preliminary work with Cdots shows promise, Wiesner said there is a long way to go before the particles can be regularly used in cancer treatments

Srinitya Arasanipalai can be reached at sarasanipalai@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Way, Way Back When We Were Young

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Directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash

Starring Liam James, Steve Carell, Toni Colette

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Cults’ newest single, which will soon be followed by their latest LP, Static, is decidedly darker than selections from their first release no more going outside for this New York pop duo

This woozy, disconcer ting, and decidedly anti-par ty anthem finds M I A in classic for m Just as subversive as ever, this track works as a new wave jangle or as something more off-putting

White Poppy, a severely underrated (and, judging from its name and psychedelic sound, severely under the influence) solo project out of British Columbia, takes indie’s ‘60s fetishism a step fur ther with this new single

Sept 2

After conquering a high school cheerleading squad and rinsing the blood off their shoes, noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells bought a couple of neon ’80s guitars and took to the studio Hear the result at your own risk

Based on that time she passed out while gardening, Cour tney Bar nett’s “Avant Gardener” finds the songwriter, in her own words, weaving “an altruistic tale of allergies and suburban asphyxiation ” We dare say she’s succeeded

McCar tney deftly manages to weave old and new here, with help from Mark Ronson, whose backing track helps make this silly little love song feel so familiar that you may think that you’ve heard it before But it’s all “New,” and is an exciting marker of things to come

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Hollywood’s Super ( Violent) Heroes

No phenomenon fascinates me more than violence, and no medium of art enthralls me more than film, so I am, naturally, ver y interested in violent films That is not to say I like bloody, gory

m ov i e s yo u r Ho s t e l ’ s a n d Hu m a n Centipede s In fact, I really loathe that kind of queasy, exploitative fare, but not as much as the modern model of the Hollywood blockbuster, with its far more troubling, almost subliminal degree of violence that needs to stop now

If you saw Man of Steel, Iron Man 3, Star Trek Into Darkness, White House Down, World War Z or The Wolverine over the summer, you might have an idea as to what I’m getting at Former Indiewire critic Matt Singer called it this summer ’ s crop of movies’ “PG-13 Problem,” while other critics, from Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan to The New York Times’ Manohla Dargis, decried the stain of 9/11 on this year ’ s action movies The

s a n i t a t i o n o f v i olence and the evocation of 21st century terrorism go handin-hand look at Man of Steel At the e n d o f t h a t f i l m ,

Su p e r m a n a n d

13 rating Bring the whole family

These “implied deaths” to borrow Matt Singer’s phrase have no emotional impact on me, no matter how long I think about it That’s the problem When the loss of life in a movie boils down to unquantifiable statistics and Joseph Stalin references, we are losing something Man of Steel was especially awful, but even the half-decent offerings from the summer staged similar b l o o d l e s s b l o o d b a t h s : K h a n r a z i n g Sa n Francisco with the U S S Enterprise in Star Trek Into Darkness; Tony Stark, in a borderline patriotic display, ordering all 42 of his suits to kill the Extremis mutants in Iron Man 3; the side of a plane blowing open mid-flight, sending all the zombies on-board flying out like rag dolls in World War Z At least World War Z showed these zombies hurtling toward their death, though the decision to end all trailers of the film with

Ge n e r a l Zo d f a c e off for like 30 minutes and take down about half of Metropolis with them, totaling, according to Watson Technical Consulting, around $750 billion in property damage and 129,000 civilian deaths That’s more than 9/11 right there closer to Hiroshima But the real problem is that all this death goes unacknowledged under Zack Snyder’s direct i o n Wi t h o u t t h e d i s f i g u re m e n t s a n d falling, flailing bodies such destr uction entails, or even a reflective moment where Superman acknowledges the losses he partially caused, Man of Steel earns a cozy PG-

this shot a spot reserved for a blockbuster’s “ money shot” suggests a more c a l l o u s , “ Do e s n ’ t t h a t l o o k a we s o m e ? ! ” intent The budgets for these large-scale flicks has ballooned year after year, with m o re m o n e y d e d i c a t e d t o c o n s t a n t l y improving special effects technology These filmmakers want to make sure you see what they are paying for, and almost all have come to the conclusion that the best approach is to kill a hell of a lot of (fictional) people, in the coolest way possible We have arrived at a very depressing place, where incomprehensi-

ble massacres serve as nothing more than set dressing

For all the trash talk hurled at The Lone Ranger, some of i t d e s e r ve d , I w i l l defend its grotesque, o f f - t h e - w a l l s c e n e where the bad guy stabs a dude in his sternum, carves out his hear t and proceeds to eat it It was definitely at odds, tonally, with the rest of its Disney production, but at least it shook me, inspiring a WTF or two, even if director Gore Verbinski concealed the real gore off-screen I do not care if filmmakers think violence is an inherent fact of life or a horrible disturbance in the otherwise positive human experience, but they have to provoke us with it and, most importantly, comment on its existence

Of all Hollywood movies this summer, I cannot think of any that truly justified its use of violence Rely on the independents, then, to bring brains and a sense of morality to the cinema, perhaps none more than Fruitvale Station With Oscar Grant, a 23year-old who was killed by a BART police officer in the early hours of New Years Day, 2009, as its protagonist, this film dodges the gangsta scenery that Hollywood loves to trot out whenever a young African-American male assumes a lead role Instead, directorwriter Ryan Coogler lets us live with Oscar for his final 24 hours He plays with his daughter; loves his girlfriend, despite their fights; cooks for his mother’s birthday; lies to his family about losing his job Oscar is like anyone else, with flaws to spare Coogler stages a harrowing, protracted sequence at the end, when Oscar is shot and grasping for life, that communicates a painful message: No one deserves this The chaos descends

from nowhere, ensnaring him and his loved ones in a pain that Coogler captures through shaky cam and agonizing close-ups The death of one man is a tragedy, indeed Fruitvale Station reportedly cost somewhere around $1 million in production expenses that’s like a day’s worth of Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine protein supplements After watching Lawrence of Arabia this past Sunday at Cornell Cinema, I long for the challenging, mature spectacles Hollywood so rarely produces anymore In that 1962 epic, cinematographer Freddie Young fills the screen with legendary shots of Middle Eastern landscapes and architecture Yet director David Lean balances all that with some wrenching close-ups of Peter O’Toole’s face as he, as T E Lawrence, hesitates and then orders the massacre “No prisoners!” of hundreds of fleeing Turkish soldiers It’s one of the most disturbing things you’ll ever see, because Lean forces you to think about, and literally look at, the blood on this man ’ s hands he’s the hero, for god’s sake, of this whole movie! But I guess he was no superhero, who don’t got the time for that sissy bullshit

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It ali an Women Make Wave s at U.S. O p en

NEW YORK (AP) Italian tennis fans can count on a celebration almost every day at the U S Open

The women from Italy have, once again, infiltrated a Grand Slam draw, and for the second straight year, at least one is guaranteed a spot in the semifinals at Flushing Meadows

Flavia Pennetta defeated Simona Halep 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Monday to set up an all-Italian quarterfinal against her friend, 10th-seeded Roberta Vinci, who beat who else? Italian Camilia Giorgi in another fourthround match

“It’s going to be nice for us because one of us is going to have the chance to be in the semifinal,” Pennetta said “In the other way, it’s always not easy to play with your friend ”

Nobody’s dealing with that feeling more these days than Vinci Her match against Pennetta, a showdown between 30-somethings who have known each other since they were 8, will be her third straight match against another Italian Pennetta, meanwhile, knocked out fourth-seeded Sara Errani of Italy in the second round

With five of the six Italians clustered in one quarter of the draw, there were three all-Italian matches over a five-day period, with the fourth coming later this week in the quarterfinal

Giorgi, a 21-year-old who is ranked 136th, made a surprise visit into the second week by knocking off No 6 Caroline Wozniacki on her way to the fourth round

“I always thought I could do it, reach this level,” Giorgi said “So it’s not like the victor y over Wozniacki surprised me I had been waiting for that ”

Vinci celebrated her win over Giorgi with a huge fist pump not so much, she said, because she relished beating someone from her own country, but because she knew her opponent was swinging freely, playing with nothing to lose

Four years ago, Vinci played the role of the underdog, while Pennetta was at the head of the Italian tennis renaissance the first woman from that country to reach the top 10 Now, Pennetta is on the comeback from a wrist injury that sent her down the rankings She’s in her fourth U S Open quarterfinal She had partnered on and off in doubles with Vinci, when Vinci was still upand-coming

“I got better I matured I was maybe a little more insecure, a little more resigned” to being behind Pennetta in singles, Vinci said “When we were together, she was the stronger one, the singles player I felt like more of a doubles specialist And now, I’ve grown, gotten more mature, and I’m aware of my strengths ”

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FLORHAM PARK, N J (AP) Geno Smith is ready to go

Rex Ryan and the New York Jets are waiting to announce a starting quarterback for their season opener, but all signs are pointing to Smith being under center against Tampa Bay

“If my chance is Sunday, I’m going to go out there with the intent to lead my team to victory and that’s just the way it is,” Smith said Monday

“I’m always going to play like that, be aggressive I’m never going to hesitate, never going to shy away from anything and just go out there and play ball ”

Sounds like the confidence of an NFL starting quarterback

Mark Sanchez, who appeared in good shape to win the job in preseason, did not practice while recovering from a right shoulder injury that could keep him sidelined a few weeks

Neither Sanchez nor Ryan would acknowledge whether the quarterback was even able to throw at any point during practice

Sanchez insists his shoulder is “getting better every day,” and hopes to be ready “ soon ”

Still, the Jets signed veteran Brady Quinn on Monday as insurance in case Sanchez is sidelined for a while Ryan, though, dismissed the notion that Sanchez could be headed for season-ending injured reserve

“ That’s certainly not what we ’ re looking at right now, ” Ryan said

But it seems a longshot for him to be able to play against the Buccaneers That means Smith would get the call even if many who watched him this summer think perhaps he’s still a bit raw

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off in a classic Manning-Brady

m a t c h u p i n t h e e n d o f Nov e m b e r In a n N F C Championship rematch on Dec 23, the Falcons and 49ers will meet in a game that could have serious playoff implications On

O c t 2 0 , t h e C o l t s f a c e t h e Broncos in a golden opportunity for the Colts to assert a renewed elite status post-Manning, this t i m e u n d e r t h e l e a d e r s h i p o f

Andrew Luck

T h e C o l t s ’ L u c k , t h e

Redskins’ Robert Griffin III and the Seahawks’ Russell Wilson are all entering their sophomore seasons after terrific rookie campaigns All three highly talented quarterbacks lead their respective

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teams to surprise playoff berths in 2012 Will they elevate to even greater success this year or suffer from a classic sophomore slump? Will a new class of impressive r o o k i e q u a

stage? There are also familiar stor ylines It’s make it or break it in Dallas, again Michael Vick has a new head coach and offensive coordinator to help him lead the E

Falcons are sure to be in the playoff picture And Joe Flacco, fresh off a Super Bowl Championship and a new contract extension, is

Ravens team to a repeat championship run

“As a quarterback, you’ve got to have a short memor y. You can’t let what happens in the past affect you in the future.”

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“Physically, I think I’ve always been ready,” Smith said “I think I have some things that, which is the reason why they drafted me here, to bring some of that stuff to the table

“But I think mentally I’ve grown a lot My grasp of the offense is to the point where I know I can get out there and execute and be out there and leading this offense and leading this team

“At this point, I'm ready for it ”

The Jets certainly hope so The last time everyone saw Smith on the field was during a disappointing performance against the Giants in Week 3 of the preseason when the rookie threw three interceptions and took a safety when he stepped out of the back of the end zone

Most of that came against the Giants’ starting defense, and his struggles that night were an indication that he might not be ready to start in the NFL

“Well, it’s easy to move past a game like that,” Smith said “As a quarterback, you ’ ve got to have a short memory You can ’ t let what happens in the past affect you in the future I took it as a learning experience, another stepping stone in my career, and was able to move on from it pretty easily ”

Smith’s sprained right ankle is coming along, to the point he said it’s getting close to 100 percent, although still needs treatment He has noticed an improvement in his throwing as the ankle has healed

“It’s night and day,” he said “Leading up to the injury, I was spinning the ball pretty good and then I got injured You can never really tell how much it affects you until you don’t have it anymore ”

Meanwhile, Sanchez spent the 30-minute window of practice the media were allowed to watch on a stationary bike He also changed his clothes away from his locker, so it’s uncertain how much mobility he has in his right arm

“I’m not going to get into the rehab process, ” Sanchez said “Just know that it’s getting better every day ” Sanchez appeared a bit frustrated, his answers short at times, especially in regards to the injury, which he shed no light on

He wouldn’t speculate whether he could be out for a month, repeating that he’s “day to day,” and insisted he’s not worried about potentially losing his starting job or even his roster spot

“There’s a lot of factors that go into all those type of things,” Ryan said, “but if Mark’s healthy, then, yes, I would say he would be part of this football team ”

Watch out for some sleeper teams, who may exceed expecta-

and Detroit are all on my radar t

They have been on the brink of playoff spots for a while, and any one of them could break out with a deep playoff run Coach Sean Payton is back with Drew Brees and the Saints, ready to reignite their power ful passing offense and return to the playoffs

But not all stories are as pleasa n

y released from the Patriots roster because his chronic inconsistency in the passing game failed to i

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moments of success raised expec-

tations beyond his actual capabilities, Tebow is now without a team, with no obvious suitors in sight Aaron Hernandez’s suspected murder charge certainly reflects poorly on the NFL and its players Matt Russell, directly under John Elway in the Broncos hierarchy, was arrested along with fell ow Br o n c o s e xe c u t i v e To m Heckert for driving under the influence of alcohol earlier in the offseason We all hope that players and team staff will be on their best behaviour throughout this season No cheating, no off-thefield crime

Enough of the negative The thrilling football fun of the 2013 season will culminate in Super Bowl 48 at Metlife Stadium in New Jersey, the first time a super

bowl will be played in an outd o o r, c o l d w e a t h e r, s t a d i u m

Assuming the notorious meadowlands wind doesn’t combine with various forms of precipitation to inhibit the players’ ability to play at their best, it should be a memorable contest Hosting the game in New York will lift t h e g a m e s ’ n a t i o n w i d e a n d worldwide appeal to new heights, in addition to the increased revenue that the NFL will gain by holding it near one of America’s biggest cities But before then, we’ll have five months of highly entertaining football action The players and fans are ready to go It’s kick-off time!

Ben Horowitz can be reached at bhorowitz@cornellsun com

D av i d Bu rke Jo in s R ed a s A ssi st a nt Co a ch T hi s S ea son

By EMILY BERMAN Sun Assistant Sports Editor

The men ’ s heavyweight crew program just increased its roster with the addition of new assistant coach David Burke Burke, who comes to the Red with five years of coaching experience following his own collegiate rowing career at Northeastern University, joined the Cornell program in August Burke spent this past year as head coach at St Joseph’s Collegiate Institute, where he led the team to multiple medals at the New

Other than baseball, professional sports fans have had little to watch over the past three months NFL coaches and executives have spent over six months scouting and drafting, signing and releasing Now that the lazy summer days are ending, the long-awaited beginning of the NFL’s regular season is less than a week away, and football fans have much to be excited for

A Week Two matchup between Eli Manning’s Giants and Peyton Manning’s Broncos should be an epic contest It will be the first time the two brothers, both elite NFL quarterbacks, will face each other in an NFL game Eli has two Super Bowl rings compared to Peyton’s one, but this

certainly does not indicate that Eli has nothing to prove Many NFL commentators look at the raw stats and conclude that Peyton is the better quarterback (As a heavily biased Giants fan I’d take the guy who twice beat Tom Brady to win it all ) However, Eli leading the Giants to victory over the Broncos could change many minds on how to correctly rank the Manning brothers The Packers and the 49ers start the season off with a bang in a Week One contest between two NFC heavyweights The 49ers and Seahawks will play two tough contests to assert control over the NFC West The Broncos and Patriots will face

York State Championships Prior to his time at St Joseph’s, Burke ser ved as an assistant coach at Northeastern for four seasons

Burke said the chance to work with such a high level of coaching was one of the reasons he was attracted to the Cornell program

“The opportunity to work with gifted coaches on the collegiate level, on the heavyweight men ’ s, lightweight men ’ s and women ’ s coaching staffs was a huge draw,” he said “I know that the time and effort each of them put into the day-to-day operations of running highly successful, highly competitive teams is something they take

pride in I look forward to helping add to that collective mentality ”

During his own collegiate career, Burke served as a coxswain for the Huskies In his sophomore season, he led the second varsity eight to a sixth-place finish at the IRA National Championships For the upcoming Cornell season, Burke said that the Red’s ultimate goal is a first-place finish at the prestigious IRA Championships

“With a number of other strong programs across the country, that goal is always difficult, for any team, ” he said “With a ‘ team first’ philosophy, and dedicated student-athletes and coaches, the goal is attainable, but there is a no replacement for hard work ”

In addition to his coxswain background in collegiate rowing, Burke credits his education at Northeastern as an influence on his coaching

“I like to think I am as practical as I can be when coaching,” he said “I’m not sure if I have a coaching style, but understanding the little things, as well as being able to multitask and be organized, is important I’d like to

C.U. Hopes for New Successes in 2013

By DEEYA BAJAJ Sun Staff Writer

The Cornell women ’ s cross country team was ranked No 10 in a national 2013 preseason poll conducted by the U S Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association The association also ranked Cornell No 2 in the preseason ranking for the Nor theast region Last November, the team placed third in the NCAA Regional Championship

“While I am certainly very pleased that the team has garnered National recognition and that other people have noticed the talent in the team, rankings are based on a person ’ s opinion; what matters is the team ’ performance in the upcoming weeks and months,” assistant coach Arthur Cameron Smith said

The Red’s 2012 preseason ranking was No 30 Last season held many successes for the team, culminating with a No 13 ranking at the NCAA Championship in Terre Haute, Indiana

“I can ’ t really compare this year ’ s team with last year ’ s team as it’s a completely different group; even the girls who are returning are different in the sense that they have had the summer to train We are definitely in a very different place compared to the year before,” Smith said “I think it’s important to not look at past victories or other teams ’ performances but to continually work on getting better, and this group did a really good job of keeping themselves fit over the summer ”

The squad will start its 2013 season against Army on Sept 13 at the Moakley course in Ithaca

“The team is excited to get started We don’t run against Army regularly so

we don’t know what to expect in terms of the other team, but I think it’s a good way to start the season, ” Smith said “The meet is smaller and so more intimate and will be a good transition from hard training to racing competitively

The season will only proceed to get more and more competitive so this meet is a great way to bring it in ”