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Students returning to campus this semester may be surprised to find some changes made to the Cornell Dining lineup, among them the closure of the West Side Express eatery and a planned opening for a new bagel shop that will replace Trillium Express

According to Karen Brown, director of marketing and communications for Cornell Auxiliary Services, Cornell Dining decided to close West Side Express located in Hans Bethe House on West Campus at the end of the spring 2014 semester due to low customer traffic

“Customer traffic was very low and it

was not a financially viable operation,” she said “The West Side Express location has been added into Jansen’s Dining Room’s back-of-house space for dining staff use ” However, Brown said customers will still be able to find some of their favorite menu items, such as sub sandwiches and melts, at Jansen’s Market in the Noyes Community Recreation Center

The space that once housed Trillium Express which served as Cornell’s primary ice cream eatery during the Stocking Hall, Dairy Plant and Dairy Bar renovations will soon be home to a new bagel shop, according to Brown “Once [those] renovations were com-

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By ANNIE BUI

Monday, September 8, 2014

Basic Data and Research Skills Workshop

9 - 10 a m , G87 Martha Van Rensselaer Hall

Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Seminar: Gareth McKinley

9 - 10 a m , 165 Olin Hall

Horticulture Seminar:

Modern Plant Hunting for Urban Plants, New Perspectives 12:20 - 1:10 p m , 404 Plant Science Building

Big Red Raas Tryout

8 - 10 p m , Barton Hall

Tomorrow

Do I Need Technology to Connect With My Students? 8:30 - 9:30 a m , B16 Day Hall

Yoga and Art for Lunch Noon - 1 p m , Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art

2014 Bartels World Affairs Fellowship Lecture: Hans Rosling, “Upgrade to a Fact-Based World View” 5 p m , Alice Statler Auditorium

Why Interfaith Leadership Matters: Religion and the Common Good in the 21st Century 7 p m , Sagel Chapel

Aikido Club Annual Demonstration 7:45 p m - 8:15 p m , Gymnastics Room, Teagle Hall

Though not as sunny as last w eek, the sun will shine inter mittently thr oughout W ith temperatur es in the 70s, do not think about putting your shor ts and sandals away yet.

Rochester Plane Crashes in Atlantic

KINGSTON, JAMAICA (AP) Shadowed by two U S fighter jets, a small plane with its windows frosted and its pilot slumped over flew a ghostly 1,700-mile journey down the Atlantic Coast and beyond Friday before finally crashing in the waters off Jamaica

Earlier, the plane’s pilot had indicated there was a problem and twice asked to descend to a lower altitude before permission was granted by an air traffic controller, according to a recording of the radio conversation Radio contact with the plane was lost a short time later

The plane carr ying a prominent real estate developer from Rochester, New York and his wife went down about 14 miles northeast of the coastal town of Port Antonio and Jamaica’s militar y dispatched two aircraft and a dive team, said Maj Basil Jarrett of the Jamaican Defense Force

“An oil slick indicating where the aircraft may have gone down has been spotted in the area where we suspect the crash took place,” Jarrett said at an early evening news conference in the capital of Kingston

No wreckage has been located, but Jarrett said searchand-rescue teams were scouring the waters for any survivors As dark fell, Jamaica suspended the search until first light Saturday A U S Coast Guard cutter is expected to join the search at that time, said Petty Officer Sabrina Laberdesque

The single-engine turboprop Socata TBM700, which took off from the Greater Rochester International Airport in New York en route to Naples, Florida, was carr ying Larr y and Jane Glazer, the couple’s son said

Rick Glazer said his parents were both licensed pilots

He said he couldn’t confirm they were killed, adding that “ we know so little ”

Larr y Glazer ran the development firm Buckingham

Properties He owned the plane he was flying and was president of the TBM Owners and Pilots Association He was active in Rochester civic affairs

“ The Glazers were innovative and generous people who were committed to revitalizing downtown Rochester and making the city they loved a better place for all,” said Gov Andrew Cuomo (D-N Y ) “I offer my deepest condolences to the Glazers’ family and friends during this difficult and tr ying time ”

The plane took off at 8:45 a m and air traffic con-

trollers were last able to contact the pilot at 10 a m , the U S Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement

The agency said it had not confirmed the number of people aboard

At 10:40 a m , two F-16 fighter jets were scrambled from a National Guard base in South Carolina to investigate, according to a statement by the North American Aerospace Defense Command Those jets handed off monitoring duties around 11:30 a m to two F-15 fighters from Homestead Air Reser ve Base in Florida

The U S jets followed the plane until it reached Cuban airspace, when they peeled off, said Preston Schlachter, a s p o k e s m a n f o

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App Development’ Offers Training for Designers

By SCOTT GARTENBERG Sun Staff Writer

Cornell App Development an organization that will educate and work with C o r n e l l s t u d e n t s t o d e ve l o p a p p s f o r Apple’s App Store is one of Cornell’s ne west star t-ups

Also known as CUAppDev, the organization aims to release at least one applic a t i o n by t h e e n d o f e ve r y s e m e s t e r, according to president Eric Appel ’16

“CUAppDev’s plan is to take a ne w app idea ever y semester from conception to completion and release a finished app on the Apple App Store at the end of the semester, ” he said “ To do that, we are forming a team of designers and developers ” Appel said he has been working on his own apps for years either in his own spare time or at summer internships and has been looking for ways to recr uit a team to aid him with his development

“ The idea came to me back [during] finals week of my freshman year, ” he said “I was thinking, ‘I wish there was a group of people I could get together with so I could star t working on some of these apps with a team ’”

Bre n d a n Nu n a n ’ 1 6 , a m e c h a n i c a l engineering major and CUAppDev’s vice president of operations, also expressed similar ambitions

“I would love to develop some kind of team that can work ver y well together,” Nunan said “I want us to act like a regular star tup company in the professional world

Nunan and Appel said they met with C o r n e l l ’ s e n g i n e e r i n g d e p a r t m e n t l a s t

semester, submitted an intent to register as an on-campus organization and were accepted this past spring

According to Appel, those who are interested in joining the team do not necessarily have to have prior experience with app development or computer science

“Our 10-week developer in training

program assumes no prior knowledge of iOS development or computer science,” he said “Upon completion of this program, trainees will have the skills necessar y to become a junior developer on our team and actually star t contributing ” Appel also said that due to the theoretical nature of the computer science curriculum, students often have to undergo months of training at tech companies u p o n g r a d u a t i o n Ho w e v e r, h e s a i d , CUAppDev aims to provide a way for students to use the knowledge they learn in the classroom and apply it practically now, so they can contribute immediately later

“Once [graduates] go [into the work f o rc e ] , t h e y s t i l l h a ve t o g o t h ro u g h months of training periods in order to the knowledge they learned at Cornell,” he said [CUAppDev] is also going to be a really cool way to get involved in a star tup environment early on ”

Appel said CUAppDev is currently recr uiting

“Employers in the tech sector look for two things: Experience and experience,” he said “ This is an awesome way for anyone on campus to gain experience in mobile app development ”

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Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun com

Chicago Theater Actress Killed by Tree

CHICAGO (AP) Molly

Glynn, an accomplished Chicago theater actress who also played a recurring role as a doctor on the TV series “Chicago Fire, ” has died after a tree toppled by a powerful storm struck her as she rode her bike in a forest park She was 46

Glynn was with her husband, Joe Foust, when the storm rolled quickly into the area, just north of Chicago, the executive director of First Folio Theatre and a close family friend, David Rice, said Sunday

“Molly was one of the most loving and generous people in the Chicago theater scene, ” he

said “She was incredibly talented incredibly versatile She could handle both comedy and the deepest darkest, dramas ”

Glynn’s husband called 911 just before 4 p m on Friday to say his wife had been injured, Cook County Sheriff ’ s Office spokeswoman Sophia Ansari said Nor thShore Evanston Hospital spokeswoman Colette Urban confirmed Glynn died Saturday

Glynn had an audition earlier in the day Friday and she and her husband had decided to go for a ride The inclement weather took them by surprise and the tree slammed into Glynn as the cou-

ple sought to ride to safety, Rice said

“It was a freak accident and a matter of being in the wrong place at the wrong time,” he said Others in the theater community in and around Chicago also expressed shock and sadness

“It is an incalculable loss,” said Michael Halberstam, the artistic director of the Glencoebased Writers Theatre “She was a loving mother and wife and everyone who met her fell in love with her ”

Glynn grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, Rice said In addition to her husband, she is also survived by two teenage sons

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Annie Bui can be reached at abui@cornellsun com

Future of Gov. Christie to Depend on Investigation

N EWA R K , N J (AP) New Jersey Gov Chris Christie (R-N J ) appears to have largely moved past the lane-closing scandal that rocked h i s a d m i n i s t r a t i o n a n d t h re a t e n e d t o d e r a i l h i s p o l i t i c a l career one year later

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largely on the outcome of the investigation by the U S A t t o r n e y i n Ne w Jersey into the lane re a l i g n m e n t s t h a t s t a r t e d a y e a r a g o Tu e s d a y o n t h e George Washington Br i d g e a n d w e re a p p a re n t l y h a t c h e d b y t h e Re p u b l i c a n g ov e r n o r ' s a i d e s a s p o l i t i c a l p a y b a c k T h a t i n c l u d e s h ow c l o s e t h e y c u t t o Christie and whether a n y n e w e v i d e n c e emerges pointing to him knowing more

about the plot earlier t h a n h e ’ s s a i d It ' s not known when, or if, indictments could come A state legislative committee has also b e e n i n v e s t i g a t i n g the allegations, while t h e Ma n h a t t a n Di s t r i c t A t t o r n e y a n d Se c

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Idaho, Nevada, Hawaii Gay Marriage Cases Go to Court

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The federal appeals court in San Francisco has already issued two significant gay rights rulings: In 2012, it struck down California’s same-sex wedding ban and this year it extended protections against discrimination to gay and lesbians

Now, three judges on the 9th U S Circuit Court of Appeals all appointed by Democrats and two of whom joined in the civil rights ruling this year are set to hear arguments Monday on gay marriage bans in Idaho, Nevada and Hawaii

The hearings come as gay marriage supporters have piled up legal victories in federal courts across the country this year, nullifying bans in more than a dozen states

On Thursday, the federal appeals cour t in Chicago rejected bans in Wisconsin and Indiana Same-sex marriage opponents, however, scored a legal victory last week when a federal judge in Louisiana upheld that state ’ s ban

“Until all 50 states get on board, it’s a legal battle

from state to state, ” said Tara Newberry, one of the plaintiffs in the Nevada case, who wants to marry her longtime partner “The map is changing But until the Supreme Court of the United States makes the determination, it’s state-by-state ”

The same day as the Chicago court ruled, 15 states that allow gay marriage and 17 that do not asked the U S Supreme Court to settle the issue once and for all

The Mormon church and four religious organizations also asked the Supreme Court to intervene The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in a statement Friday, said it joined a friend-of-the-court brief asking the high court to hear Utah’s marriage case

It was joined by The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the National Association of Evangelicals, the Ethics and Religious Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod Each teaches that marriage is between a man and a woman

California College Finds Hazing in Hiking Death

United States to Assist Georgia In Boosting Defenses

TBILISI, Georgia (AP) In the face of growing aggression by Russia, the United States and Georgia moved Sunday to expand their defense relationship including the possible sale of U S Black Hawk helicopters to the former Soviet bloc nation at the crossroads of eastern Europe and Asia

Defense Secretar y Chuck Hagel said Russian President Vladimir Putin’s move to annex the Crimea region of Ukraine has further isolated Moscow

“It has done a tremendous amount to coalesce NATO and Europe to come together recognizing what President Putin's actions have wrought, the danger that that represents to all of Europe,” Hagel said during a press conference with Georgia’s defense minister

Ukraine and Russia signed a cease-fire two days ago, but there have been explosions near the airport in Donetsk, raising concerns the agreement may be on the verge of collapse

Hagel’s meetings here come on the heels of the NATO summit in Wales where allies agreed to expand Georgia’s role as a NATO partner and reaffirm a longer-term effort to admit the former Soviet republic into the alliance

The defense minister, Irakli Alasania, said it has been painful for Georgia which also fought and lost an invasion by Russia in 2008 to see the world be unable to check Russia’s aggres-

sion About 20 percent of Georgia largely the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia is still occupied by Russia

But he said Georgia is pleased with NATO’s decision last week to make his country an expanded partner, giving it access to more allied support and services

Hagel said the U S and Georgia did not reach a final agreement on the sale of Black

“It has done a tremendous amount to coalesce NATO and Europe to come together recongizing what President Putin’s actions have wrought

Hawks, but they are discussing prices and other details

At its 2008 summit in Bucharest, Romania, then President George W Bush and other NATO leaders agreed that Ukraine and Georgia, both former Soviet republics that the Russians consider part of their “ near abroad,” would one day be admitted to the alliance

While both countries continue to work toward that goal which the U S supports there are concerns about Russia’s reaction Some nations have flatly ruled it out, saying it would heighten tensions in the region

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Eleven Hurt After Bay Area Bus Accident

RICHMOND, Calif (AP)

A commuter bus was hit by a stolen car and smashed into a San Francisco Bay area home as a mother and two small children sat inside Friday evening, sending 11 people to the hospital but none with serious injuries, police said

The driver of the stolen Honda learned he was being followed by police and sped up at about 6 p m , police told the Contra-Costa Times

The AC Transit bus tried to get out of the way but clipped the car and smashed into the side of the house, police said

A photograph from KGO-TV

showed the right front of the bus crashed through a window and overturned a couch and other furniture

“It could have been a whole lot worse ” L t A n d r e H i l l

The three people inside the home the mother, a 3-monthold baby and a 5-year-old girl were taken to a hospital with minor injuries, police Lt Andre

Hill told several media outlets

The bus missed the baby, who was sitting alone in a bouncy chair in the living room, by just a few feet

“It could have been a whole lot worse, ” Hill told the San Francisco Chronicle

Eight people from the bus including the driver were also taken to the hospital, but their injuries were not serious

Hill said police were searching for the driver of the stolen car and took a passenger, the driver’s younger brother, into custody

Richmond is located about 15 miles northeast of San Francisco

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Unhappy in Our Own Success

By now you ’ ve likely read William Deresiewicz’ indictment of elite universities called, “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League ” The New Republic article condemns both universities and the broader college preparator y/admissions process for creating student-bodies of look-alike upper-middle class high achievers hobbled by insecurities

Many response pieces have taken issue with the effete por trayal of Ivy League students as “intellectual zombies ” Others argue that criticizing universities is naïve, given how many have invested so much money to encourage diversity and alternative thinking on their campuses The New Yorker cited

D e r e s i e w i c z w i t h c o n f u s i n g t h e progress of modernity with an institutional problem in our educational system I tend to agree with most of these rebuttals and, in essence, I don’t think that sending your child to a renowned research university to learn from distinguished professors is such a bad idea. But I don’t want to waste your time arguing the point one way

The 93 on your chemistr y exam delivers a fleeting moment of happiness until you see that the kid who sits next to you scored a 95 Your summer internship seems silly compared to one friend’s foray in a Senator’s office and another’s adventures curing Ebola in Sierra Leone Cornell even begins to feel like a wash when we see Newsfeed pictures of high school buddies lounging on the Har vard green or representing Stanford at a global entrepreneurship conference. Social media only feeds our unhappiness The d e l u g e o f n e w s f r o m o u r # b l e s s e d friends feels over whelming Many of us never realize that this experience is universal

Letter to the Editor

PHOTO NIGHT DESKERS Connor Archard 15 Kelly Yang 15

EDITORS Sean Doolittle ’16 Kaitlyn Tiffany ’15

NIGHT EDITOR Arielle Cruz ’15

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NIGHT EDITORS Hamdan Al Yousefi 16 Sofia Hu 16 SPORTS EDITOR Scott

n v i c t i o n W h i l e w e f i n d n o t h i n g f u n d a m e n t a l l y i n c o r r e c t w i t h K a i r e y ’ s a r t i c l e , w e a r e f a r m o r e c o nc e r n e d w i t h t h e n u m e r o u s c a l l s f o r h i s c e n s o r s h i p I n p a r t i c u l a r, t h e r e i s a g r o wi n g c a l l f o r t h e s u s p e n s i o n o f h i s r e g u l a r c o l u m n s i n T h e Su n , w h i c h a r e u s u a l l y j o i n e d b y i n c e n d i a r y c o m m e n t s a b o u t h i s b a c k g r o u n d a n d h i s r i g h t t o a t t e n d o u r u n i v e r s i t y Ev i d e n c e o f t h e s e b l a t a n t a t t a c k s o n K a i r e y ’ s f r e e d o m o f s p e e c h c a n b e f o u n d i n c o m m e n t s o n h i s a r t i c l e o n T h e Su n ’ s w e b s i t e a s w e l l a s a c r o s s s o c i a l m e d i a a c c o u n t s l i n k i n g t o t h e a r t i c l e It i s e x t r e m e l y u n f o r t u n a t e t o w i t n e s s t h e p e r v a s i v e c e n s o r i a l i n s t i n c t s o f t h o s e c o n f r o n t e d b y o p i n i o n s a n d a r g u m e n t s c o n t r a r y t o t h e i r o w n C o r n e l l ’ s m o t t o i s “A n y p e r s o n , a n y s t u d y ” It i s n o t “ C e r t a i n p e o p l e , c e r t a i n s t u d i e s ”

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o r a n o t h e r ; w e ’ r e already students at an Ivy League university and, in any case, we’ll be lucky to get our c h i l d r e n i n t o o u r local state university in 30 years, let alone p a s t C o r n e l l’s f o u r percent 2044 acceptance rate However, D e r e s i e w i c z ’ c e n t r a l obser vation that Ivy League students lack p u r p o s e s h o u l d re sonate in our Ivy ears His harrowing characterization of the modern elite student as “anxious, timid and lost, with little intellectual curiosity and a stunted sense of purpose ” is honestly not that far from the truth Deresiewicz exhaustively criticizes the institutions for their lack of true diversity and inability to engage student’s “souls ” I would like to offer an alternate theor y for exactly why so many of us are miserable atop our ivor y towers

We don’t have to look far to realize that fractal inequality has consumed our lives I want to look at exactly what fractal inequality is and how it makes us so unhappy

At a school like ours, we are surrounded by consummate high-achievers

Nearly ever y one of us ranked among the top 10 percent of our high school class and we all scored well on standardized tests; some of us have been published in national journals, others are c o n c e r t l e ve l m u s i c i a n s , s o m e b o t h

Ignore the rankings and Andy Bernard gags: There is no dearth of talent on our campus

Yet within this culture of excellence, minute differences in levels of ‘ success ’ become exaggerated The “higher” we rise in intellectual, social and professional prestige, the more we become aware of those who are allegedly ahead of us

We b e c o m e h y p e r - c o n s c i o u s o f o u r peers ’ accomplishments and, thus, the disparity between our own achievements and theirs This is the dilemma of fractal

Thus, we are forever like children pressed against the toy store window staring at the red (Har vard Crimson maybe?) wagon we will never have As my dad presciently once said to me after a particularly rough rec basketball game, “No matter what you do, there will a l w a y s b e s o m e o n e out there better than you ” He wasn ’ t being m a l i c i o u s , b u t t

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f o rd s u s n o t h i n g more than a view of a h i g h e r p e a k , a n d beyond that an entirely new range Our satisfaction becomes transient as we meas u re o u r s u c c e s s i n l i g h t o f o t h e r ’ s accomplishments Fractal inequality breeds breath-taking insecurity

Sadly, fractal inequality also produces strikingly homogeneous undergraduate paths As we compare ourselves to others we strive to emulate their success and to do so we adopt similar career pursuits This mimicr y lets us easily take stock of how far we ’ ve progressed and where we stand relative to others Although we are uniquely talented individuals, we yearn for similar corporate jobs that promise generous compensation, a flashy lifestyle and, above all, assurance of our elevated place in the social order We expend so much effort attempting to keep up that we forget to search for what would make each of us truly happy

I don’t claim to have a complete solution to fractal inequality and I doubt anyone does However, as we begin this new school year, let’s make sure to take stock of what we ’ re doing and decide whether the outcomes for which we strive will truly make us happier

We may not be the intellectual zombies of Deresiewicz’ dystopian campuses but if we capitulate to fractal inequality, we will feel forever unfulfilled amidst a maelstrom of success

Noah Tulsky is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at nst42@cornell edu Guest Room appears periodically this semester

Eric Schulman | Schulman’s Schtick

Ali-bonkers

Over Alibaba

Farhad Manjoo ’00 wrote a column in The New York Times about Alibaba a few months ago don’t worry if you ’ ve never heard of Farhad Manjoo ’00 or Alibaba, I’ll explain Farhad Manjoo is a past editor in chief of The Daily Sun, but more importantly, the current technology columnist for The New York Times Alibaba is a bootleg Chinese copy of Amazon (Hopefully, you know about Amazon If you don’t, visit their website and thank me for making your life as a college kid infinitely better) Farhad Manjoo hopped on the Alibaba fanboy bandwagon and trashed Amazon after Alibaba filed for an initial public offering (or IPO, raising money by selling shares to the public) This is important because Alibaba’s IPO is today, and I think Farhad Manjoo is wrong about Alibaba

Farhad Manjoo thinks Alibaba’s exclusive access to China makes it better than Amazon, even though its not innovative; he is wrong Innovation is so important to e-commerce considering sending college kids cereal when they're too lazy to go to Wegman’s isn’t profitable yet Alibaba only pockets 0 5 to 1 5 percent in transaction fees for every dollar sold across its platform It might look more profitable than Amazon on paper, but unlike Amazon, it doesn’t count products sold through its platform towards revenues Business Insider estimates that more things are sold through Alibaba than Amazon and Ebay com-

bined If Alibaba counted these transactions, its margins would be less than a percent Vis-a-vis Amazon would look just as lucrative as Alibaba if it didn’t count all the physical items sold through its site towards sales revenue Alibaba needs to innovate until they figure become profitable; innovation is not overrated

On the other hand, Alibaba’s advantage in China is overrated For one thing, relying on China’s economy is a mistake China’s economy is very volatile it’s as reliable as the Port Authority bus terminal The sketchy line between government and business in China doesn’t help things If the Chinese government was a T A , then business would be that kid that the T A flirts with and grades less harshly It’s not a perfect metaphor, but you get my point; when an outsider figures out what’s going on, this arrangement will fall apart Alibaba needs to innovate The barriers keeping out new competition in ecommerce are low enough without considering how much room China’s developing economy leaves competitors; Alibaba won ’ t beat new competition if it doesn’t innovate And, growing sales within China won ’ t even matter if Alibaba doesn’t innovate to either lower costs handling business in bulk or use data from sales to exploit consumer habits Farhad Manjoo overlooks the difference between growing sales and growing profits; if Alibaba doesn’t grow profits, its access to China is not the game changer Farhad Manjoo makes it out to be

Farhad is right to doubt Amazon But, if Amazon can ’ t innovate and make growing sales lucrative while beating its competition, there is no way Alibaba can Arguably, Amazon already leverages its sales The company grew 25 percent last quarter, and a good chunk of that growth must ’ ve come from data analytics considering it didn’t come from anywhere else; they already dominate U S e-commerce and the U S economy grew sluggishly What’s more, Amazon is surrounded by innovation and Alibaba isn’t China’s tech sector is just a pirated version of the U S one Off the top of my head, the big names in Chinese tech are 58 com, Baidu and Alibaba 58 com is Craigslist; go to the page and Google translate it if you don’t speak Mandarin Baidu is Google with a different color scheme; you don’t need to speak Mandarin to realize And of course, Alibaba is just Chinese Amazon

Don’t get me wrong, I love China It has certainly graced the world with amazing food (which Appel’s dining hall proceeded to ruin) China just isn’t known for its reliable economy or innovative tech sector which is why Alibaba is really an awful company They represent all the risks of the tech sector amplified by China’s volatile economy Obviously the stock price in the coming weeks will be the judge on Alibaba, but I’m confident Farhad Manjoo is wrong

Eric Schulman is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences He may be reached at eschulman@cornellsun com Schulman’s Schtick appears alternate Mondays this semester

Billy

Lenkin | He Speaks for the Free

Israel-Palestine: This Is Not What You Think This Is

Ev e r y s e m e s t e r, a t l e a s t 2 0 p e r c e n t o f m y a c a d e m i c c o n c e n t r a t i o n a s a g ov e r nm e n t m a j o r re v o l v e s a r o u n d t h e Is r a e l i - Pa l e s t i n i a n c o n f l i c t Wi l l i t t h e n b e o u t r a g e o u s t o a s s u m e t h a t t h e Mi d d l e E a s t i s a t t h e f o re f r o n t o f t h e “ o u r w o r l d i s c r u m b l i n g t o p i e c e s ” d e b a t e ? It i s s u r p r i s i n g t o m e b e c a u s e i n t h e 1 9 3 0 s , c o l l e c t i v e p o l i t i c a l c o n s c i o u s n e s s re f u s e d t o b e l i e v e t h e Ho l o c a u s t w a s a t a n g i b l e re a l i t y i t w a s d i s m i s s e d a s a w a r c r i m e i n s t e a d o f a b a rb a r i c g e n o c i d e To d a y, p o l i t i c a l o b s e r v e r s a r e o b s e s s e d w i t h t h e Is r a e l i - Pa l e st i n i a n c o n f l i c t a n d v i e w s i t a s a n a f t e r m a t h o f h e i n o u s c r i m e s t h a t t o o k p l a c e i n Eu r o p e i n t h e y e a r s o f A n t

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w a y t o o m a n y t i m e s a n d p e a c e h a s e l u d e d t h e i r i d e n t i t y f o r t h e l o n g e s t t i m e , I w i l l b e b r a n d e d a s j u s t a n o t h e r p e r s o n w h o s u bs c r i b e s t o t h e p r i v i l e g e d We s t e r n p e r s p e c t i v e o f t h e w o r l d p r o t e c te d b y i v o r y t ow e r s T h i s i s t h e f i r s t a m o n g s e v e r a l p re d i c a m e n t s o f t h i s c o n f l i c t i t i s e i t h e r b l a c k o r w h i t e a n d b o t h s i d e s h a v e d e h u m a n i z e d t h e o t h e r It i s t r u e t h a t t h e c o n f l i c t h a s a p r o l o n g e d h i s t o r y, b u t i f w e h a rb o r a n y h o p e o f a r r i v i n g a t a s o l u t i o n , w e n e e d t o d e - l i n k w h a t i s h a p p e n i n g n ow f r o m e v e r y t h i n g t h a t h a s h a p p e n e d s i n c e 5 8 7 B C T h e s e c o n d c o m p l i c a t i o n I w o u l d s a y i s t h e e x t e n t t o w h i c h p o l i t i c a l m e d i a , a l l f o r m s o f s o c i a l n e t w o r k s a n d u n i nf o r m e d p u b l i c o p i n i o n i s o b s e s s e d w i t h t h e c o n f l i c t i n Is r a e l It i s t h e c o r n e r s t o n e o f p o l i t i c s i n t h e Mi d d l e E a s t a n d d o e s h a v e f a r - re a c h i n g re p e r c u ss i o n s , b u t t h e re a re a n u m b e r o f o t h e r c o n t e n t i o n s a c r o s s t h e w o r l d w h i c h h a v e b e e n u n d e rr e p r e s e n t e d a n d i g n o r e d I c o u l d w r i t e o u t a n e v e r l a s t i n g l i s t s p a n n i n g e v e r y re g i o n f r o m t u r b u l e n t Ve n e z u e l a , w h e re a p e r s o n i s m u rd e re d e v e r y 2 0 m i n u t e s , t o t h e R o h i n g y a Mu s l i m g e n o c i d e i n My a n m a r, t o a n e n t i re l i s t d e v o t e d j u s t t o t h e e x t e n t t o w h i c h t h e e n t i re c o n t i n e n t o f A f r i c a h a s b e e n i g n o r e d i n Bre a k i n g Ne w s It i s i m p o r t a n t t o r e m e m b e r t h a t o b s e s s i o n w i t h o n e p e rs p e c t i v e o f t h e w o r l d a n d s u bs c r i b i n g t

Aditi Bhowmick is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences She may be reached at abhowmick@cornellsun com Abstruse Musings appears alternate Mondays this semester

C-Town Proposals Introduced

Landlord Jason Fane proposes tower above height limit

Council created with the input of the community

local businesses with more customers

Two of the six proposals have been a p p r ov e d b y t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Development Board The first is a 12-bedroom addition to 140 College Ave , which is currently under construction The second proposal approved by the board Aug 26 will be the redevelopment of the Kraftees building, which will add a new retail space for the Kraftees bookstore and 40 bedrooms in a six-stor y tower

Four other proposals have yet to be

a p p r o v e d b y t h e P l a n n i n g a n d Development Board However, according t o K e r s l i c k , t h e b o a rd i s “d i l i g e n t l y ” working through the proposals

330 College Ave

At the site of the Green Café, which shut its doors more than four years ago in Fe b r u a r y 2 0 1 0 , l a n d l o r d Ja s o n Fa n e hopes to raze the building and replace it with a 12-stor y, multi-use tower

The proposed building, adjacent to Fane’s Collegetown Center on Dr yden Road, however, towers over the height requirement for its zone, according to the p ro p o s e d d o c u m

n t s At 3 3 0 C o l l e g e Ave the city limits the height of buildings to six stories, requiring Fane and the Ithaca Renting company to apply for a variance or an exemption from the zoning limitations

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“I think we ’ ve had a long and thoughtful process with a lot of public input, so that proposal, to my mind, ignored that process, which I don’t think is helpful,” Kerslick said

Kerslick added that many of the other developers have provided a “significant number of proposals that are working within [the] current zoning ”

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Collegetown Crossing has been on the Planning and Development Board’s agenda for years A variance from minimum parking requirements that would have required him to add 57 parking spaces for the residents of the building was denied by the Board of Zoning Appeals, The Sun previously repor ted

More recently, the parking is no longer a problem for most of Lower’s project

rd since the re zoning of Collegetown

Since a por tion of the project is adjacent to Linden Avenue, where it is within a different zoning district that does have a minimum parking requirement, however, Lower will either need to provide parking for that por tion of the project, or alternately bring all affected buildings up to

demand management plan, according to John Schroeder ’74, a member of the City Planning and Development Board and the production manager of The Sun

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Build it up | A rendering shows two portions of the proposed Collegetown Dryden project at the southeast corner of College Avenue and Dryden Road The first building would rise right at College and Dryden, and a second separate building would rise at the corner of Linden Avenue and Dryden Right between, as shown in the rendering, would be the Dryden South project proposed by a separate developer.

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legetown residents with more options for affordable food

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On the Club Sudz site extending up to Pixel Lounge, another six-stor y tower has b

Sharma, the building will step up the hill at 327 Eddy St to “Pixel Alley,” according to the proposals

approved, both the Club Sudz str ucture and the Pixel building would be demol-

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Tyler Alicea can be reached at managing-editor@cornellsun com

ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

BY JESSE WEISSMAN Sun Staff Writer

The Knick begins with a POV shot from its protagonist, Dr John Thacker y, the new head surgeon at Knickerbocker Hospital, played by Clive Owen He sits in a Chinatown brothel in 1900 New York City The brothel is darkly lit, doused in a haze of vice and drugs There is no doubt that the shot is beautiful (the entirety of the first season is directed by Steven Soderbergh, who has moved to television after his self-proclaimed retirement from film) However, one can ’ t help but feel that we ’ ve seen this before Thacker y, at least so far from the two episodes I’ve seen, doesn’t seem to possess many characteristics beyond being brilliant yet unlikeable and troubled When the viewer sees him inject cocaine into his body over and over again, addiction isn’t what comes to mind It’s tedium

The previous paragraph is way too harsh Actually, when the show moves beyond Thacker y, it builds a world that is legitimately interesting and nuanced Soderbergh has said that the season is supposed to be more like a ten hour film, and it shows with its world-building One of the main subplots of the show is the overtly racist Thacker y has to hire a hotshot black surgeon, Algernon Edwards, in return for the wealthy progressive family that benefacts the hospital to electrify the place The contradictions of modernity and histor y couldn’t be more plain here: A world where truly life-saving technology and surger y techniques are beginning to be implemented, but only for the select white few In fact, The Knick proves extremely adept at navigating issues of class and power In the first episode, we see Edwards being constantly mistreated and ignored by the rest of the hospital staff, which is in no way surprising, albeit hard to watch However, in the second episode, we also see how Edwards is an outcast in the black-occupied

building he lives in The tenants there, who are of a lower socio-economic class than Edwards, berate him for being “uppity” and having fancy shoes Edwards is trapped in that hopeless middle where he can ’ t please either world he occupies

The other characters are interesting as well A particular highlight is the hilarious ambulance driver

Clear y, who extorts money from

bringing patients to that particular hospital The danger in not automatically bringing someone to the nearest hospital is self-evident

One of the main ways the shows advertised itself was to see how brutal and primitive the surgeries that the doctors perform are And they are The first surgery performed, where we see a fetus and its mother die almost simultaneously, is genuinely hard to watch However, what the show did not advertise, but should have, is that the script effectively makes clear that while by our modern standards these surgeries are laughably bad, at the time they were truly daring and paved the way for modern surgery

that in its time was on the cutting edge of technology and medical innovation, it is also aided by the show’s excellent electronic score (by Cliff Martinez, who composed the brilliant soundtrack to 2011’s Drive), which somehow manages to be quietly haunting

One of the few moments where Thackery seems human, and not just another broadly outlined TV antihero, is in a flashback where he marvels at the then-head surgeon ’ s new office to dissect dead bodies The perfect combination of seriousness and joy on Owen’s face gives us an impression of a man who hopefully will come out in the later episodes of the show In fact, one of the interesting parts of the show is how it makes the viewer feel as if the show is modern, even though it takes place in 1900 While this is mostly due to the aforementioned fact that the show is exploring a world

So far most of this review has been devoted to discussing the ideas that the show explores And that’s because so far that’s mostly what it is, a show of ideas, for better or worse It is definitely true that The Knick gives the impression of a living, breathing, New York City, with various connections and areas of intrigue However, it remains to be seen whether the show will populate its interesting world with actual people, and not just characters who are vessels for interesting ideas that could be read in a sociology textbook

Jesse Weissman is a junior in the College of Arts and Sciences He can be reached at jweissman@cornellsun com

Is Orange Still the New Black?

BY HARINI KANNAN Sun Contributor

You know that look When you start saying, “Do you watch Orange is the New ” and they rudely cut you off with that glaring look of disapproval Okay, so maybe you aren ’ t surrounded by as much ambiguous negativity as I am, but whenever I mention the show, people around me either acknowledge it’s purely objective qualities and/or dismiss it as ultra-feminist rubbish The show is often cast aside because of misconceptions of its allfemale cast (as if the entertainment industry is suffering from a ubiquity of strong female characters) that bashes all men However, there are luckily enough people who willed the Netflix Gods into producing a second season to perhaps prove to doubtful audiences that Orange is the New Black is simply a show of the complex human nature

Inspired by the book Orange is the New Black: My Year in a Women’s Prison, written by Piper Kerman, Netflix released this TV show on July 11, 2013 Boasting a cast of mainly unfamiliar faces coupled with a prison plotline on a network that wasn ’ t anything terrifying like realTV or Spike TV, it was questionable whether the show would thrive Spoiler: It did Maybe Netflix is scheming a feminist conspiracy to trick audiences into

appreciating a show comprising of many female minorities, or maybe the resounding acclaim is due to the show’s unique presentation of flawed human beings

Season 1 acted almost as an introduction into the complexity of characters within the prison While the book and show seemingly revolve around the character Piper Chapman, she is far from the main character Rather, her character is used as a window into the lives of the other inmates and guards, who are arguably equally important as Piper The viewer, much like Piper, is initially overwhelmed by the gritty prison life; however, as the show deviates from Piper’s perspective and delves into the back-stories of those she encounters, we immediately see humanity in a part of a population we societally dehumanize

Orange is the New Black uniquely divulges these backstories in the aftermath of a character’s particularly strained situation in the prison The plot will smoothly transition into a flashback of that respective character often times illuminating a psychological reason for his or her transgressions One such backstory is of a recurring character who to us initially seems hostile and aggressive The story is of Janae Watson, who was the star runner of her high school Although she was presented with numerous accolades, she often felt inferior to other girls whose lack of competence somehow still won over the boys (strangely reminiscent of my life story?) However, the school lost funding for their track program and therefore she could not compete for university scholarships Feeling confused and lost, she found herself persuaded by a boy to rob a laundromat, perhaps overwhelmed by attention and desperateness for university money Unfortunately, she was the one caught and the boy escaped Flash forward to the present; the viewer gains a perspective into her unwillingness to trust others in fear of vulnerability

Season 2 structures around almost testing the relationships and environments of characters solidified in Season 1 The show introduces varying sources of tension, serving as vehicles to understanding human reactions to disruptions in harmony Through these reactions we see how the show explores ideas of betrayal, anguish, love, separation, anxiety, community and family all emotions we feel in our lives, whether you ’ re a

raging feminist or cowardly misogynist

While this is a small example in terms of the plotline, the tensions involving the character Nicky Nichols highlight this underlying theme In Season 1 we see Nicky, a recovering heroin addict, who suffered from a heart transplant due to her addiction We quickly stop ourselves from judging her past actions when we witness a flashback to her coping with a negligent mother and the absence of any father In Season 2, however, Nicky faces an internal conflict when Vee, a leader of a drug gang in the prison, gives her a pack of heroin We see Nicky’s intense struggle to restrain herself from breaking her two year sobriety, often times ready to capitulate Eventually, we see her strive to overcome desire and resort to a human inclination to find solace in family, or her prison family, at least While all viewers of Orange is the New Black aren ’ t recovering heroin addicts, we still understand the battle of resisting temptations and searching for love and consolation amongst family and friends

As I said before, the show isn’t just about women, but men, too Joe Caputo, one of the prison counselors and administrative officials, usually presents a sort of comedic relief for the audience However, if you really look into his character you see he’s a middle-aged man futilely striving for respect at work and in his social life We often see this as comedic compared to the situations of the inmates; however, many of us are in his position He represents the average person, cognizant of his averageness and struggling to reach to any sort of potential, a depressing reality for many of us So when Caputo gets promoted in the prison, we all genuinely feel the joy of personal accomplishment he hadn’t felt until now The beauty of Orange is the New Black is that it allows us to feel all the emotions of the characters, regardless of the intensity of their struggle

See, what people fail to realize is that behind these exaggerated zero-sum, male versus female binaries is a show simply of human nature, rather than of aggrandizing one sex From the glimpses of constrained, confused characters in Season 1, Season 2 unfolds these into familiar and universal narratives, offering us poignant and, above all, relatable insights into humanity itself

Harini Kannan is a freshman in the College of Arts and Sciences She can be reached at hk473@cornell edu

Arts Around Ithaca

Dead

Poets Society

7:30 p m on Monday at Cornell Cinema

Cornell Cinema will offer a free showing of Dead Poets Society in memor y of Robin Williams As John Keating, an English teacher with some pedagogical eccentricities and an excess of heart, Williams earned his second Oscar nomination and made a name for himself in drama Come celebrate/shed a tear

Kaitlyn Tiffany

The House Opens 7:30 p m on Saturday at Kitchen Theatre

During a key scene in Peter Jackson’s r e a l l y - g r e a t - a n d - I - r e f u s e - t o - a r g u ewith-you-about-it adaptation of King Kong, we find an experienced seaman, Hayes, discussing Joseph Conrad’s fitting Heart of Darkness with a young sailor, Jimmy "Why does Marlow keep going up the river? Why doesn’t he turn back?" Jimmy asks, as foreboding strings hover in the b a c k g r o u n d Hayes turns to face him

“ There’s a part of him that wants to, Jimmy,” he replies, “A part deep inside himself that sounds a warning But there’s another part that needs to know To defeat the thing which makes him afraid ”

Researching #gamergate, I have had to battle my innate fear of combing through a contentious Twitter hashtag and the idiocy of a million gamers crying out at once Like Marlow, the mysterious land that I’ve discovered perhaps it is only an extension of my own dark psyche has driven me raving mad

There is little reason to delve deeply into the specific events or resulting grievances brought to the fore by the current #gamergate fiasco All you will find is a frustrating and often sickening rabbit hole A subset of selfidentifying “ gamers ” have used the guise of “serious” protest whose legitimacy and logical clarity has yet to be really proven to express their vitriolic, outdated and deeply misogynistic ideas They have turned a dubious fight against “corruption in gaming” into a

crusade against “social justice warriors,” otherwise known as feminists who feel like women have a right to be represented more thoughtfully and commonly in video games that often subject them to commodification and violence

This misplaced anger has been ignited in its current form by two of #gamergate's main targets, indie game

d e v e l o p e r Zoe Quinn and blogger

A n i t a S a r k e e s i a n The public stances of the former and the alleged relationship drama of the latter have led to their being harassed and personally attacked online In the eyes of the movement ’ s defenders, these two represent all that is wrong with modern gaming

The controversy around Zoe Quinn started in mid-August, when her ex-boyfriend unleashed a blog post full of lurid accusations

Regardless of his intentions, which seem desperate but not purposely sinister, the post opened the argument within the gaming community that critics were guilty of “corruption ” Zoe has been called out as an example because she allegedly slept with a critic for Kotaku But, beyond the fact that that this critic never actually wrote a review of her (acclaimed) game Depression Quest, it seems incredibly naive to think that there would be no relationship between developers and writers The mark of a good critic is not his ability to remain pure from outside influence this is virtually impossible in an industry that is still built primarily around making money rather than cre-

ating art but to put forth an honest, educated and entertaining set of opinions There may be a legitimate conversation somewhere under the muck here, but it has been lost under the shrill whining of conspiracy-minded neckbeards

Sarkeesian, on the other hand, has been attacked for her Youtube series, “Feminist Frequency ” The series argues that many popular games fail women by treating them as disposable, replicable goods that can be violated with little or no consequence There is surely room for debate on the topic that she addresses, but her critics’ responses seem to reveal a deeper disagreement about the nature of gaming itself

In recent years, gaming and the act of thinking about games has transformed No longer is criticism confined to industry publications As the notion that games can be art (it can) has become more popular, and as the industry has grown spectacularly, critics have flooded toward the gaming industry in search of truth (and/or an actual paycheck) As Sarkeesian’s case shows, this has brought them into conflict with gaming aficionados whose previous taste of media coverage came during the video game controversies of the ‘90s when gaming was still considered by many to be a dangerous, juvenile and unpredictable phenomenon Stuck in a resulting mode of knee-jerk defensiveness, they argue that gaming critics should stick to analyzing games “ on their own terms ” But, as any critic will tell you, this is both impossible,

because people view the world through a specific sociopolitical and cultural lens, and irresponsible, because any widely consumed media will have effects on its consumers that matter At the end of that previously mentioned and really-great-I-swear-now-stop-botheringme-about-it King Kong scene, Jimmy looks up, knowingly, and asks, “It’s not an adventure story, is it, Mr Hayes?” Hayes sighs, and, through a clenched jaw, replies “No, Jimmy It's not ”

#Gamergate has certainly not been an adventure It’s a horror story

Williams Wins U.S. Open Title

NEW YORK (AP) A couple of months before Serena Williams capped her dominant r un to a third consecutive U S Open championship and 18th major singles title Sunday night, she sat down with coach Patrick Mouratoglou to decipher why the season had been such a str uggle by her standards

At the time, Williams was coming off a thirdround loss at Wimbledon, which followed a second-round loss at the French Open, which followed a four th-round loss at the Australian Open

and, when Grand Slam success defines a legacy, that simply wouldn’t do The quest to match Chris Ever t and Mar tina Navratilova at 18 was weighing on her

“It was definitely on my shoulders,” Williams could acknowledge after that burden was gone “It was definitely like, ‘Oh, get there Get there Get there ’”

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She kne w, of course, there was one more big event left in 2014, and a finite amount of time to turn things around before heading to Flushing Meadows In some ways star ting from scratch, Williams regrouped and stopped her mini-slump, never dropping more than three games in any set, including a 6-3, 6-3 victor y over close friend Caroline Wozniacki in Sunday’s final

“ When Serena is on her game, ” said the 10thseeded Wozniacki, who admitted she was ner vous in her second Grand Slam title match, “there’s not much we can do ” Williams matched Ever t ’ s total of six U S Opens and became the first woman to win three in a row since Ever t ’ s four-title r un from 1975-78

Wimbledon and the Australian Open, plus two at the French Open, and only three players have more Slams: Margaret Cour t with 24, Steffi Graf with 22, and Helen Wills Moody with 19

R a n k e d a n d s e e d e d No 1 , W i l l i a m s l e t Wozniacki keep things competitive for about five games but wound up compiling a hard-to-believe 29-4 edge in winners Until a cross-cour t backhand in the final game, the only winners registered by Wozniacki came on aces

When it was over, Williams dropped to her back behind the baseline, covering her hands with her face Her first major trophy also came in Ne w York, in 1999, when she was 17

This time, Williams earned $4 million, a record in tennis $3 million for the title, plus a $1 million bonus for having had the best results during the Nor th American summer hard-cour t circuit

A fe w weeks shy of her 33rd bir thday, making the American the oldest major champion since

Williams powered this way and that in her blackand-pink hightops Wozniacki is the one training for the Ne w York City Marathon, but she was tuckered out by the end

Wozniacki may as well have been an extra in this Williams highlight reel Points were directed by Williams, via ser ves that reached 120 mph (194 kph), forceful returns that backed Wozniacki into a corner when not producing outright winners, unreachable groundstrokes or the occasional volley

“From a different planet,” said Wozniacki’s father, Piotr, who also coaches her “Come on, there’s no chance ”

Yes, this was all about Williams At times, it felt as if Wozniacki were there because, well, someone needed to be on the opposite side of the net

They’ve been pals for years, and they hung out together in Miami heading to the beach, watching an NBA playoff game after both lost early at the French Open in May Wozniacki says Williams helped her get over the end of her engagement to golf star Ror y McIlroy Williams said she planned to invite Wozniacki along for Sunday night’s championship celebration

“ We’re both going to do anything possible to win the match,” said Wozniacki, a 24-year-old from Denmark who reached No 1 in the rankings in 2010, a year after losing to Kim Clijsters in the U S Open final “After the match, we ’ re friends again ”

Mouratoglou noted the obvious: It didn’t matter one bit to Williams who she was facing “ Yeah, they’re friends,” the coach said, “but on t h e o t h e r s i d e , b

friends ”

The last time she was at a major, Williams followed her early Wimbledon singles exit with an odd episode in doubles, appearing disoriented and quitting after three games because of what she called a “bug ”

“After Wimbledon, I was just so disappointed,” Williams said “I also realized I just needed to relax a little more I put a lot of pressure on myself I don’t have to put pressure on myself ” W h e n s h e m e t w i t h Mo u r a t o g l o u a f t e r

Wimbledon to discuss how to proceed, he recalled Sunday, “She coached me She told me, ‘Look, you are a guy who likes challenges I am so low You should be motivated by that ’”

Since that chat in Paris, Williams has won 19 of 20 matches and three titles

Only one number mattered to her Sunday night, though: 18

Yankees Celebrate Jeter Day

NEW YORK (AP) Kansas City players tipped their caps to Derek Jeter when the retiring New York Yankees captain walked up to the plate in the first inning Then the Royals went back to work tr ying to make some histor y of their own

Yordano Ventura pitched three-hit ball into the seventh inning, and the AL Central leaders beat the Yankees 2-0 Sunday on a pair of unearned runs for their second shutout in the three-game series

Tr ying for its first playoff berth since winning the 1985 World Series, Kansas City increased its AL Central lead to 2½ games over the second-place Tigers, who hosted San Francisco on Sunday night The Royals headed to Detroit for a three-game series that starts Monday

“ We’re playing great baseball,” manager Ned Yost said “ We’re pitching, and we ’ re playing defense and scoring runs and winning ballgames, and that’s all I can ask ”

Kansas City scored due to errors by pitcher Shane Greene in the second inning and right fielder

Carlos Beltran in the third The Royals won 1-0 Friday night on an unearned run following third baseman Chase Headley’s error and went 4-3 against the Yankees this year to take the season series for the first time since 1999

And they won on Derek Jeter Day, when many Yankees stars of the past returned for a 45-minute ceremony that also included NBA great Michael Jordan and baseball ironman Cal Ripken Jr Video messages from athletes, celebrities and even astronauts in space were shown throughout the day

“Oh, man! That was, honestly, one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, ” Royals third baseman Mike Moustakas said “Any time anyone came on that

board or anyone they announced, I got chills ” Royals pitcher Jeremy Guthrie suggested to his teammates that they tip their caps

“He was my favorite player growing up, ” Guthrie said “I was there for the final game at (the original) Yankee Stadium I was there when he recorded his 2,723rd hit that broke the hits record for the Yankees And now to be here for this I’ve seen quite a few really cool moments ”

Kansas City, which hasn’t been in first place this late in a season since 1989, hopes to give its fans a reason to celebrate this fall

Ventura (12-9) won his third straight start, leaving after a leadoff walk in the seventh his fourth of the game

“ When I was able to throw the cur ve for a strike, it really helped all of the other pitches and made for quick innings,” he said through a translator “ When the cur veball wasn ’ t getting over for a strike, that could have been the difference in the walks ” With closer Greg Holland sidelined by a strained right triceps, Aaron Crow, Kelvin Herrera and Wade Davis combined for one-hit relief

Kansas City went ahead in the second when Josh Willingham reached on an infield single near the mound, advanced on Moustakas’ single and scored with two outs when Nori Aoki hit a slow roller that Greene (4-3) threw wildly past first base Beltran dropped Alex Gordon’s easy fly leading off the third, and Gordon stole second before scoring on a single by Eric Hosmer, his first RBI since July 29

“Any way you can score runs is a good way, ” Moustakas said “It doesn’t matter how they get across as long as you ’ re scoring ”

Stone Says ‘Passion’ Trumps Hard Times

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much you talk to returners, you never really know what it's going to be like Every year you feel more integrated and more like a family By senior year, it's just such a big part of your life that you can ' t imagine having to walk away from it in November

A D : The difference is huge There has been a dramatic shift in the team mentality We are collectively more focused on our team priorities than we were freshman year

W ha t i s yo u r fa v or i t e fi eld ho c ke y m e m o r y? W hy?

A D : Our win against Dartmouth last year was a great way to end the season because it was proof that we are capable of controlling the pace of the game We were also able to end the season on a high note, which gave us confidence coming into our spring season

W ha t d o yo u w a n t t o sa y to t he fre shm e n o n th e t e am , a nd fu t u re i n co m i ng t a len t ?

K S : Especially at the start of the season when everything is new and different than what you ' re used to, it's important to always remember your passion for the game it’s inevitable that there will be hard days, so you need to keep things in perspective

A D : Freshman year is hectic, and the best thing you can do to maximize your performance in any discipline is to focus on the task at

ge? Do

K S : I'm not exactly sure what my plans are for after I graduate, but I'm hoping that wherever I end up I can find a pickup or club league to join Fortunately, we have a great alumni network we keep in close contact with, and many still play too, so maybe I'll be lucky enough to end up near some of them

A D : Field hockey has been such a significant part of my life since middle school, so it's hard to imagine myself leaving it behind While it won ' t be at the same level, I know I will continue to play through veterinar y school and afterward

Stone started 15 of the Red’s 17 games last season, scoring three goals on sixteen shots DiPastina started every game in the midfield position, scoring one goal and dishing out two assists

This may mark the beginning of the end of one chapter for the two seniors, but their final field hockey season is just beginning The Red split its opening weekend of competition, defeating Colgate, 9-0, and falling to Albany, 2-1 in a tight matchup on home turf DiPastina had three assists in the two games Check out tomorrow ’ s paper for full coverage of the weekend matchups

Lisa Awaitey can be reached at lawaitey@cornellsun com

Red Drops Close Match

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game proceeded to extra time, but neither side could penetrate the defense of the other With four minutes to go, Ricardo Velazco of Louisville managed to get a shot o f f, w h i c h w a s s t o p p e d by Zagorski

On Sunday, the Red took on another tough Midwestern foe on the road Xavier and once again the game went into an overtime period Cornell went into the game with only a one-day break from their previous game, whereas Xavier had two days

“We cannot control the schedule of the opposing team, but Xavier played their last game on Thursday, we played on Friday,” Zawislan said “ That’s not an excuse or explanation, but shows the character of the team and how well they performed ”

This time, though, Cornell could not keep its opponent off t h e s c o re b o a rd X a v i e r ’ s C o r y Brown squeaked a header past Zagorski in the 97th minute, giving the home team a dramatic victory

C h o d a s a n d Mo r g a n o n c e again provided the bulk of the offensive pressure, recording three

o f t h e t e a m ’ s f i ve s h o t s

So p h o m o re f o r w a rd D y l a n Palacio had the other two, with one of them forcing a save by Xavier goalie Eric Osswald Zagorski made four saves in

net, allowing one goal, and freshman goalkeeper Mitchell Meyer played just under 11 minutes in goal without being tested

“The team came out very well at the beginning of the game, ” Zawislan said of the performance “[ We] dominated the game and there were long stretches of the game where we would have good possession sequences ” Za w i s l a n e m p h a s i s e d t h e importance of the team ’ s performance over the final result

“We are not happy with the loss But our performance was good and we felt we deserved a d r a w a t l e a s t T h e t e a m d i d enough to earn something out of the game, ” Zawislan said “Not only did we do it, but the players proved that the team belongs at this level and can compete with anyone in this country ”

As the Red returns from its midwest tour, there are positives to be taken from the per formances, according to Zawislan

“The idea was to open the season and test ourselves against the s t ro n g e s t p o s s i b l e c o m p e t i t i o n and we did it,” Zawislan said “Louisville and Xavier are two very big sides and playing very good against them in two days, it was not only a great experience, but the team proved they can c o m p e t e w i t h a n yo n e i n t h e country ”

Hamdan Al Yousefi can be reached at hyousefi@cornellsun com

Fraser,Wells Emphasize ‘Close Bond’ Within Special Teams

SPECIAL TEAMS Continued from page 16

Watch a college football game and the kickers, punters and long snappers can be seen slightly separated from the rest of the team, focusing solely on their specific skill set

“Obviously a lot of people will say, ‘oh, they’re not real football players,’ but at the same time I t h i n k w h e n o t h e r g u y s s e e someone that has a great skill in one of those dimensions of the game, they really respect it, and I don’t feel like I’m left out of the team at all,” Fraser said Simply because their skill sets are so closely aligned, members of the special teams form a kind of fraternal bond that extends beyond the one shared by an entire football team

“ We’r e t o g e t h e r t h e e n t i r e time during practice, when we ’ re lifting, during meetings,” said f i f t h - y e a r s e n i o r p l a c e - k i c k e r John Wells “It’s just us kickers, punters and the long snappers, so we do develop a really close bond together, become really good friends, and we kind of have that special connection ”

T h e c o n n e c t i o n t h a t We l l s mentioned is especially important when two players on the football field have to rely on one another as much as the placekicker and the place-holder, or the punter and the long snapper The true beauty of a punt or an extra point attempt really lies in the minute details, which Wells described “ You have to put all your trust in those guys, because you have to have the connection from the snap to the hold, the time’s got to be right, and you ’ ve got to be able to trust the holder so that he can put the ball down in the right spot and spin it so that you can get the right kick,” Wells said “If you ’ re worried about anything or don’t have that trust with those people that’s just

going to make the whole operation not work, and that’s what leads to problems ”

With so much to think about while setting up for a kick, it is important for punters and placek i c k e r s t o b e f u l l y p

p a r e d Fraser said he goes through a strict training regiment ver y different from the one other players on the team endure He spent part of the summer in California, working with a punting coach there alongside some NFL and college players

“ The most important thing is your drop, that and following through with your leg swing and having your momentum going for ward,” Fraser said “Because even if you do have a bad drop, if you follow through all the way, it will kind of minimize the error ” At a certain point, with the help of such regimented training, Fraser acknowledged that these kicks become muscle memor y Bu

don’t ever kick in Punters and place-kickers are often asked to p

“There’s always that little bit of nervousness ” J o h n W e l l s

extreme pressure situations with the game on the line If they come through, they are hoisted up on a pedestal as the heroes If they fail, theirs is the final image sealing a defeat Take the Scott No r w o o d

Vinateris of the NFL for examp l e No

remembered for missing a 47yard field goal in Super Bowl XXV Vinateri will forever be remembered for his clutch Super B

h t h e Patriots, despite having missed a host of important ones throughout his career What it comes down to is a reliance on training and the hope that ner ves will settle as the season wears on “ There’s always that little bit of ner vousness, but it’s not a nerv o u s n e s s t o t h e p o i n t w h e r e you ’ re not going to be able to p

ness, ” Wells said “ You need a little bit of that in your stomach, because that’s really what makes you go and gives you that edge After that first kick or so it just f l

you ’ re getting into the groove of things ” K

snappers are some of the most coveted positions in the game, yet they are often snubbed or

glimpse into their world proves just how calculated and deliberate ever y movement is, and how difficult it is to perform under such pressure For Fraser and Wells, success under these conditions is starting to become second nature

“I just have to have faith in my abilities, it’s muscle memor y and you know what I’ve been here before, I’ve done it thousands of times,” Fraser said “I just have to be calm and collected and really visualize the kick before I actually kick it ”

Seasons Begin Against Top Talent

Women Travel for Non-Conference Competition

coasts this weekend to participate in the Husky/Nike Invitational in Seattle, taking on Po r t l a n d o n Fr i d a y T h

Minutemen 1-0 Princeton was no match for a difficult Rutgers squad, giving up five goals without ever finding the back of the net

Gr e e n could not come home with a win, despite holding Portland scoreless for over 50 minutes On the same day, Cornell took UMass into doub

Har vard defeated Providence 20 on Sunday, getting two goals off the foot of Margaret Purce, who also h a d f o u r s

Goalkeeper Cheta Emba made four saves in a complete game shutout effort

Brown defeated Delaware 2-1 with the help of goals from Carly Gould and Chloe Cross Cornell got its second win of the weekend when it defeated Marist Compiled by Scott Chiusano

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Red Plays No. 2 Louisville to Double OT Draw

By HAMDAN AL YOUSEFI

Sun Senior Wr ter

only four of them were on target Senior goalkeeper Zach Zagorski saved all four shots

The men ’ s soccer team kicked off its season in impressive fashion, holding No 2 Louisville to a double overtime stalemate Friday night The Red walked into a capacity crowd of 5,700 at the Dr Mark & Cindy Lynn Stadium

The game was one of two that Cornell played in the Midwest, with the Red also battling Xavier on Sunday afternoon The Cardinals are the highest ranked team in program history to face off against the Red Louisville came into the game having recorded a big win against rival Maryland

“The team has proven that it was a team effort on both sides of the ball The team has been very solid defensively,” Zawislan said “We always strive for perfection and this season we will try and work on getting better The players who came in did a very good job, a tremendous job It proved that this unit is much stronger than last year ”

“We don’t go into games to draw or lose However going into the game on Friday against the No 2 team in the country, getting a tie away from home, the first game of the season was a pretty good result,” said head coach Jaro Zawislan

With questions being asked of the defense, Cornell’s back line rose to the occasion, keeping out a Louisville attack that peppered the net with shots

The Cardinals recorded 18 shots on goal – however

The Red only managed six shots on goal, with senior captain and defender Peter Chodas and senior defender Devin Morgan hitting the target Zawislan utilized his squad to full affect, constantly rotating players to ensure that those on the pitch were not affected by fatigue Nineteen players saw game time, with Cornell making its first substitution seven minutes into the game sophomore forward Vincent Brunetti came on for sophomore forward Dylan Palacio

The score remained tied for all 90 minutes, with both sides struggling to break the deadlock The

Getting Inside the Minds Of the Special Teams Unit

By SCOTT CHIUSANO Sun Sports Edtor

A little less than a year ago, sophomore Chris Fraser was setting up for the first punt of h i s c a re e r T h e we a t h e r o n Schoellkopf that day was typical for late September rain falling in sheets against a cloudy backdrop, a wet and slippery field that made traction difficult But Fraser caught the snap without error and booted the ball 39 yards downfield, just as he had done countless times before in high school Only one thing was different

“I just didn’t realize it was happening until it was happening and the guy was running down the sideline right by me and I was like, ‘oh my god, it’s going to be such a long season, ’” Fraser said

Bucknell’s Kyle Sullivan had run the ball back for a touchdown It was the first punt Fraser had ever had returned for a touchdown in his career And he’s working to make it the last Fraser was right It was a long season filled with highs and lows for the Red, but it culminated in an Ivy League Rookie of the Year honor for Fraser, as he finished 2013 with the highest punting average in the conference It comes as little surprise that members of the special teams are often regarded as the most mysterious and elusive part of a football squad In the NFL, we see them enter the field as quickly as they exit, soon swallowed up by the other, more massive players on the sidelines

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DiPastina, Stone Talk Senior Season, Field Hockey Future

By LISA AWAITEY Sun Staff Writer

knowing that it would mark the end of their collegiate careers A bittersweet year just beginning as a memor y-filled era ends Here is what they had to say about their upcoming

D : The people I look up to as leaders have motivated people by their actions, so I tr y to approach leadership in the same way

S : Field hockey has been a huge part of my college experience and the team means ever ything to me While sometimes it has been hard having such a

allowed me and Ann to become even closer with ever yone else on the team, even more than we might have been before Ho

K S : I honestly can

believe these three seasons have gone by so quickly It’s already so hard thinking this fall is all I have left I remember freshman year